I not in CA, I'm in NY, but a programmer all the same. Yes I've bought my 4 yo son every electronic toy in the store, and he's addicted to computers just like me.
He had a problem with speech not too long ago. Nothing drastic, but he would tend to slur a couple words in the middle of long sentances. We had a speech therapist visit once a week for a couple months. She decided he must be autistic. She went on to explain that they (phsycologists) are finding that there are several levels of autism. I asked to see the criteria for determining autism. I was expecting to find some scientific process for testing. What she handed me was a booklet similar to this, with all the criteria used to judge a child.
For those of you that follow the link, you can see how subjective and innacurate the evaluation is. Basically, if you are not considered "Perfect" based on some arbitrary set of standards, then you must be autistic. Based on that test, probably 80% of the/. population could be considered autistic.
I truly doubt there is an increase in autism, just an increase in the number of children they are diagnosing as autistic. I never believed or trusted in psychologist in the first place. This just reassures me that they are as bad as lawyers, only caring about getting more clients and more money than actually helping anyone with real problems.
Go to your local HVAC contractor and ask him what to do!!
I say this for two reasons:
1.) They're qualified to tell you a correct answer. Who the hell knows if your talking to a physicist or a 16 year old dropout on slashdot.
2.) Nobody really cares what you do with your home heating, and most people will see this submission as bragging and not much more. Put a fan in your window for all anybody cares. Since when in this type of stuff so important that it needs the attention of a couple hundred thousand geeks.
Somewhat cool. It's not inventive though. Asking people for copies of their old logs so they can add them to their logs just isn't that creative. And what are you really going to lookup that's been posted more than 5 years ago? Aside from helping out college research papers, it's pointless.
What, nobody has come up with an interesting hack for using a Lego Mindstorm Kit and some Perl scripts to automatically load, rip, and encode the CDs? Geez, this crowd is getting lazy.
Why is it that government officials aren't paid based on performance, like the rest of us are? If you give the greedy bastards the option of either being an idiot and making $100,000 per year, or being halfway intelligent and making $250,000, which do you think they'd choose.
This reminds me of that official that said masturbation should be taught in the schools. I believe she exceeded the red line on the stupidity gauge and got fired.
If we build a large reflector that encompasses half the earth, with pivot points on the poles, we could turn it to face away from the sun when we all want it to be dark and turn it toward the sun when we want it to be light. Then the entire planet would be affected at once. That seems more feasible. I'll make out an invoice for Germany tomorrow. Let them foot the bill for their anti-porn measures.
It's a car. You want to be a motorhead, go get a 70's chevy and do whatever you want to it.
Personally I really don't consider buying an off the shelf add-on kit to be hacking. Hacking is something creative that hasn't been done before. Only the original person to hack something is creative, everybody else that performs the same hack is just a script kiddie, er, a wrench kiddie or whatever the automotive equivalent would be.
If you're just going to complain about a product you didn't research further than the outside packaging, then too bad. Nobody said all car parts are compatible. Auto companies are allowed to create their own devices that don't work well with others.
I've lost count. Can anybody remind me how many stupid Ask Slashdot articles have been posted in the last month?
I considered programming a hobby at first. I failed a few classes every year throughout high school because I devoted more time to programming that those classes. Now I do it for a living.
I wouldn't call myself addicted. It's something I like to do. I would do it 24 hours a day if I could, but that damn human need to sleep thing gets in the way. If it burns me out, I'll find something else I like to do.
Some people get bored with everything eventually. I went through a stage where I was "addicted" to sex. About 3 times a day with my girlfriend for several months. The novelty wore off and I moved on to other activities. Once you run out of things you want to do in the real world, then all that's left is fantasy worlds. Games provide that. Or they at least provide us with a safe way to perform tasks that we really wouldn't want to do in real life.
The article refers to 1000 EQ Widows. Let me rant for a minute about this. They must be spending too much time online themselves in order to find sites like that. Also, I'm so damn sick of every girl thinking that we need to spend every minute together in order to have a relationship. Hell, the poor guys probably got sick of cuddling for hours on end while watching Titanic.
So why cares about this besides some overprotective soccer mom concerned about how she's going to look in front of her parenting commitees when they find out her kid would rather playing "games" instead of taking part in wholesome activities like football, where the object is to run face first into a member of the opposing team in order to knock him down.
Why must it be that all 6 billion people are expected to be exactly the same when viewed through the eyes of a psychologist. These are people who make their living by judging others by their own standards instead of any scientifically proven formulas. They're the same ones that will contradict themselves by saying that you have a "syndrome" if you aren't the same as other's in your peer group, but turn around and criticize you for doing whatever your friends do. Fuck em.
Wow, I need to go let some steam of in a good game of GTA.
I just noticed that www.cicuitcity.com (CircuitCity misspelled) goes to Best Buy's website. That's gotta be a new low for an already crapping retail chain.
It's only wasteful if the problems outweigh the usefullness of the software being used. Would (pick any company that uses computers) be MORE or EQUALLY profitable if they didn't use those systems. If they spent 100 hours per year dealing with problems, would it only take 100 hours to perform the task without computers?
Computers in general help the economy, bugs keep the software makers and IT depts working. If everything was perfect, would there be a need for IT or a future for software companies?
Tonka Toys don't meet those first two requirements. They also aren't self propelled flying machines with lots of highly intricate and mission-critical electronics inside.
So if one of these robots can handle my 4 year old jumping up and down on it, and then tossing it out the second story window onto the sidewalk, then I'd consider it durable.
Haven't they had enough problems controlling fairly large machines on that planet? Making a flying robot that flaps it's wings really fast to fly doesn't sound too reasonable. Maybe I have my planets wrong, but doesn't Mars experience some major storms every year. How much wind would it take to blow these things into a rock and smash them into tiny little pieces.
Cars KILL people when they crash. I haven't heard of anybody dying from a crashed server. Maybe an admin has gone and killed somebody because of it but I think that would be it.
I think it could actually be argued that crappy software helps the economy since software is not regulated by the government. That way, you have LOTS of companies paying lots of people to either fix problems, or create a new product that works better. It's called competition, and it's been occuring for hundreds of years before Microsoft came into existence. It's just taking longer to weed things out than in other industries.
Safety takes a long time for the auto industry to implement though. But then again, they have a fixed platform to develop for (laws of physics). For them it's like developing a console game. The console isn't going to change so you don't have to plan for too many unknown variables. Obviously a PC has a great deal of unknown variables that have to be dealt with.
But maybe we can fix one of the biggest social problems ever, which would be the type of thinking that everything is somebodies fault. It's the eye for an eye philosophy, but not quite as literal, and adapted for a capitalist society. Sometimes an accident is just an accident, a mistake is a mistake. It wasn't planned, it wasn't intentional, it just happened due to variables. Until we are all replaced by androids, humans will continue to make mistakes. That's life, expect it to happen again. Even androids would make a mistake. Mistakes happen when not all the variables are taken into consideration. Key variables can be forgotten, or maybe they weren't even known about in the development process.
How many of you have found a serious bug in some software that COULD erase your work or cause all sorts of problems? ow many of you simply accepted the existence of the bug and didn't perform the necessary actions to trigger it?
Maybe this shouldn't be a standard. The whole idea behind this is to make YOUR information PUBLIC. Ideally it should only be accessible by you, but we all know how hacking works.
Why isn't anybody creating some free software so you can setup your own server for yourself or your company. It just needs to be a little server, with SSL and some basic security measures (no buffer overflows).
The whole idea is you'd have access to information from multiple locations. We all know the original MS ideas behind why they want to implement this, and it's not to make our lives easier. These other corporate entities simply see how they can make money off this and they also know there is more money to make if they can usurp power from MS instead of joining them.
Honestly, what about these services would make your life easier? Answer that question, there's YOUR solution, most likely it's the solution for MANY people, so write the software that meets YOUR needs. Make it open source and/or free and let many people benefit. I'm sure one cable modem connection could more than handle the load of a mid-size company looking up contact information.
Isn't latency included in a throughput calculation? Wouldn't the throughput in your example actually be measured as 5 exabytes per 3 days, since you wouldn't actually be receiving 34 GB/s in San Francisco, it would just be all at once.
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Maybe silicon valley has a high number of psychologists that need to pay their rent and all the dot-bomb survivors are almost over their woes?
Or maybe the numbers were fudged to prove sombodies point. It's not the first time that's been done.
I not in CA, I'm in NY, but a programmer all the same. Yes I've bought my 4 yo son every electronic toy in the store, and he's addicted to computers just like me.
/. population could be considered autistic.
He had a problem with speech not too long ago. Nothing drastic, but he would tend to slur a couple words in the middle of long sentances. We had a speech therapist visit once a week for a couple months. She decided he must be autistic. She went on to explain that they (phsycologists) are finding that there are several levels of autism. I asked to see the criteria for determining autism. I was expecting to find some scientific process for testing. What she handed me was a booklet similar to this, with all the criteria used to judge a child.
For those of you that follow the link, you can see how subjective and innacurate the evaluation is. Basically, if you are not considered "Perfect" based on some arbitrary set of standards, then you must be autistic. Based on that test, probably 80% of the
I truly doubt there is an increase in autism, just an increase in the number of children they are diagnosing as autistic. I never believed or trusted in psychologist in the first place. This just reassures me that they are as bad as lawyers, only caring about getting more clients and more money than actually helping anyone with real problems.
I have a good answer for them.
Go to your local HVAC contractor and ask him what to do!!
I say this for two reasons:
1.) They're qualified to tell you a correct answer. Who the hell knows if your talking to a physicist or a 16 year old dropout on slashdot.
2.) Nobody really cares what you do with your home heating, and most people will see this submission as bragging and not much more. Put a fan in your window for all anybody cares. Since when in this type of stuff so important that it needs the attention of a couple hundred thousand geeks.
NASA would surely be in charge of it and they never miss.
If you post, and nobody reads your post, was it really worth posting in the first place?
Somewhat cool. It's not inventive though. Asking people for copies of their old logs so they can add them to their logs just isn't that creative. And what are you really going to lookup that's been posted more than 5 years ago? Aside from helping out college research papers, it's pointless.
It's /. not ./
What, nobody has come up with an interesting hack for using a Lego Mindstorm Kit and some Perl scripts to automatically load, rip, and encode the CDs? Geez, this crowd is getting lazy.
Why is it that government officials aren't paid based on performance, like the rest of us are? If you give the greedy bastards the option of either being an idiot and making $100,000 per year, or being halfway intelligent and making $250,000, which do you think they'd choose.
This reminds me of that official that said masturbation should be taught in the schools. I believe she exceeded the red line on the stupidity gauge and got fired.
If we build a large reflector that encompasses half the earth, with pivot points on the poles, we could turn it to face away from the sun when we all want it to be dark and turn it toward the sun when we want it to be light. Then the entire planet would be affected at once. That seems more feasible. I'll make out an invoice for Germany tomorrow. Let them foot the bill for their anti-porn measures.
It's a car. You want to be a motorhead, go get a 70's chevy and do whatever you want to it.
Personally I really don't consider buying an off the shelf add-on kit to be hacking. Hacking is something creative that hasn't been done before. Only the original person to hack something is creative, everybody else that performs the same hack is just a script kiddie, er, a wrench kiddie or whatever the automotive equivalent would be.
If you're just going to complain about a product you didn't research further than the outside packaging, then too bad. Nobody said all car parts are compatible. Auto companies are allowed to create their own devices that don't work well with others.
I've lost count. Can anybody remind me how many stupid Ask Slashdot articles have been posted in the last month?
If you chat while fragging, is that enough communication?
I read most of the article.
I considered programming a hobby at first. I failed a few classes every year throughout high school because I devoted more time to programming that those classes. Now I do it for a living.
I wouldn't call myself addicted. It's something I like to do. I would do it 24 hours a day if I could, but that damn human need to sleep thing gets in the way. If it burns me out, I'll find something else I like to do.
Some people get bored with everything eventually. I went through a stage where I was "addicted" to sex. About 3 times a day with my girlfriend for several months. The novelty wore off and I moved on to other activities. Once you run out of things you want to do in the real world, then all that's left is fantasy worlds. Games provide that. Or they at least provide us with a safe way to perform tasks that we really wouldn't want to do in real life.
The article refers to 1000 EQ Widows. Let me rant for a minute about this. They must be spending too much time online themselves in order to find sites like that. Also, I'm so damn sick of every girl thinking that we need to spend every minute together in order to have a relationship. Hell, the poor guys probably got sick of cuddling for hours on end while watching Titanic.
So why cares about this besides some overprotective soccer mom concerned about how she's going to look in front of her parenting commitees when they find out her kid would rather playing "games" instead of taking part in wholesome activities like football, where the object is to run face first into a member of the opposing team in order to knock him down.
Why must it be that all 6 billion people are expected to be exactly the same when viewed through the eyes of a psychologist. These are people who make their living by judging others by their own standards instead of any scientifically proven formulas. They're the same ones that will contradict themselves by saying that you have a "syndrome" if you aren't the same as other's in your peer group, but turn around and criticize you for doing whatever your friends do. Fuck em.
Wow, I need to go let some steam of in a good game of GTA.
Before it was called an "addiction" is was called a "hobby".
1.37% of Slashdot posters actually read the articles
Why does everybody still have airport security on their brain still? Think if this can be used in medicine.
No more exploratory surgery. Quickly detect cancer growths.
It's the damn Unix admins that have the violent tendencies
I just noticed that www.cicuitcity.com (CircuitCity misspelled) goes to Best Buy's website. That's gotta be a new low for an already crapping retail chain.
It's only wasteful if the problems outweigh the usefullness of the software being used. Would (pick any company that uses computers) be MORE or EQUALLY profitable if they didn't use those systems. If they spent 100 hours per year dealing with problems, would it only take 100 hours to perform the task without computers?
Computers in general help the economy, bugs keep the software makers and IT depts working. If everything was perfect, would there be a need for IT or a future for software companies?
Tonka Toys don't meet those first two requirements. They also aren't self propelled flying machines with lots of highly intricate and mission-critical electronics inside.
So if one of these robots can handle my 4 year old jumping up and down on it, and then tossing it out the second story window onto the sidewalk, then I'd consider it durable.
Haven't they had enough problems controlling fairly large machines on that planet? Making a flying robot that flaps it's wings really fast to fly doesn't sound too reasonable. Maybe I have my planets wrong, but doesn't Mars experience some major storms every year. How much wind would it take to blow these things into a rock and smash them into tiny little pieces.
Cars KILL people when they crash. I haven't heard of anybody dying from a crashed server. Maybe an admin has gone and killed somebody because of it but I think that would be it.
I think it could actually be argued that crappy software helps the economy since software is not regulated by the government. That way, you have LOTS of companies paying lots of people to either fix problems, or create a new product that works better. It's called competition, and it's been occuring for hundreds of years before Microsoft came into existence. It's just taking longer to weed things out than in other industries.
Safety takes a long time for the auto industry to implement though. But then again, they have a fixed platform to develop for (laws of physics). For them it's like developing a console game. The console isn't going to change so you don't have to plan for too many unknown variables. Obviously a PC has a great deal of unknown variables that have to be dealt with.
But maybe we can fix one of the biggest social problems ever, which would be the type of thinking that everything is somebodies fault. It's the eye for an eye philosophy, but not quite as literal, and adapted for a capitalist society. Sometimes an accident is just an accident, a mistake is a mistake. It wasn't planned, it wasn't intentional, it just happened due to variables. Until we are all replaced by androids, humans will continue to make mistakes. That's life, expect it to happen again. Even androids would make a mistake. Mistakes happen when not all the variables are taken into consideration. Key variables can be forgotten, or maybe they weren't even known about in the development process.
How many of you have found a serious bug in some software that COULD erase your work or cause all sorts of problems? ow many of you simply accepted the existence of the bug and didn't perform the necessary actions to trigger it?
Maybe this shouldn't be a standard. The whole idea behind this is to make YOUR information PUBLIC. Ideally it should only be accessible by you, but we all know how hacking works.
Why isn't anybody creating some free software so you can setup your own server for yourself or your company. It just needs to be a little server, with SSL and some basic security measures (no buffer overflows).
The whole idea is you'd have access to information from multiple locations. We all know the original MS ideas behind why they want to implement this, and it's not to make our lives easier. These other corporate entities simply see how they can make money off this and they also know there is more money to make if they can usurp power from MS instead of joining them.
Honestly, what about these services would make your life easier? Answer that question, there's YOUR solution, most likely it's the solution for MANY people, so write the software that meets YOUR needs. Make it open source and/or free and let many people benefit. I'm sure one cable modem connection could more than handle the load of a mid-size company looking up contact information.
Isn't latency included in a throughput calculation? Wouldn't the throughput in your example actually be measured as 5 exabytes per 3 days, since you wouldn't actually be receiving 34 GB/s in San Francisco, it would just be all at once.