Having a billion plus dollars of cash infusion should be even more of a reason for Java to take up more Open Source Development and support this nicely flowering community of adept programmers, testers and beneficiaries. However, a sneaky Dogbert spy might infiltrate the contract Sun signed, causing Sun to breach contract if they support Open Source (Microsoft likely didn't do this but it would not surprise me at all if they did, because I've never known Bill Gates to part with any money without getting something in return). Time will indeed tell if this settlement spells doom for Sun's human capitol, although if I'm right about Dogbert, then it likely will result in some really rich seedling startups being formed in wake of Sun's slow demise.
> When I was at G4, The Viewers were the last thing on management's mind. There were some executives who actually had a great deal of contempt for "those stupid gamers."
Games publishers seek to secure games that gamers will want by getting the dev houses in their pocket (under johnny-gets-screwed contracts written by Dogbert); the game dev management seek to secure publishers with fat wallets and build the games that they think will achive this (not games that are actually innovative); designers seek to get licenses to make games with franchises like Hulk, Star Trek (hehe sorry "The Boy" but it had to be said!), or D&D, or Spiderman instead of making up their own cool shit; game devs seek jobs in good studios (with benefits and great reps), oh and they actually often *hate* making games for a living (they just like slacking and *playing* games, more than doing any real work or QC); games ship full of bugs as a result of this scheme.
Gamers are becomming disillusioned as a result! The whole thing is going to start shrinking soon, but not before a few titles ship that are actually worth the money (because not all game devs are inept or threatened by their publishers daily, so there is HOPE).
It *should* be: publishers wish to please gamers; game dev management seek to please dev staff; dev staff seek to create innovative and fun games to please their niche: (read: niche, not the masses at large)...
Yes, some studios do handle things this way, but even with good titles, you get problems because of the reality of the gaming business.
... is going to end up like Nazi Germany and The Roman Empire, if they keep going against the UN. This weaponizing of space is clearly in violation of this UN treaty; and Slashdot missed this? I for one recommend Mr Rumsfeld step down from his administrative duties at Slashdot! And this could be the start of the next cold war. *sigh*
Sure the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) has a low-orbit only kill-vehicle now, but how long before it has an Electron Beam Device that can annihilate a person playing golf or taking a shower (possibly with company)?
> I could just as easily argue that because stars shed death-dealing energy (that high energy radiation is killer without an atmosphere to protect you, you know) as a systemic fundamtal therefore ecosystems are much smaller than human perception currently understands. This is just as much a false leap of logic as your statement. You seem to want to imbue photons from the sun with feel good concepts like "life giving energy," and then extend that concept without backing to cover the entire universe.
I would then turn to you and say that the Sun and the Earth coexist as one complete ecosystem, and that because we are alive, therefore so is the Sun, and just because the protons and neutrons share the nucleus, does not mean that electrons are off in another atom; they coexist.
Without certain conditions, the Sun would not provide us with life, but under those conditions, the Sun would simply change it's relationship and that change is part of life, as death is part of your life now.
Science is not dissimilar to philosophy; it takes root in it.
> The phrase life on earth includes us, you can't be superior to yourself.
If you are, you are human; ask anyone with Botox in Hollywood and they would tell you they are definitely better than you think they are. That's part of our illusion as people, that we can line up entire species of animals and grind them into food, that we can empty the lakes of fish, and reap the wheat fields to feed our masses.
This is central to being human, and therefore I'm suggesting it's a good way of life, and necessary. If it weren't necessary, it would not be that way, would it?
> That phrase makes absolutely no sense....
I'm saying we have to work out our problems as a species and planet before we can meet enlightened beings; that we will likely meet corrupt beings as we are seemingly corrupt as of right now, still reeling from years of war and global strife. The comment about oil and water separating is to illustrate that we would be attracting the wrong crowd currently, if we did attract some kind of alien species, if such a species exists.
I'm a subscriber, but I never put my subscriber bonus because I learned early on that most ppl hate anyone who can see the story before the unwashed masses do. IF that includes you, please forgive me.:)
But sincerely, I do enjoy supporting Slashdot by paying them directly instead of viewing ads. I just wish they would get rid of all the ads for subscribers because there are likely enough of uss to split the difference, right? Or maybe one per day only? Yes I am aware I could crank up my browsing ad blocking to anything I want, but going over the minimum would result in my having no views left in short order. They should just do a timed subscription (monthly/yearly). I'd pay good coin for that. I'd also pay good coin if it means some admin who likes me would post my stories!:-)
> but for approx $1600 US, I would expect built in GPS as well.
And for $1.6k, I would expect that I could whip it at a wall and catch it, without any damage whatsoever. That way if I was running and it fell out of my pocket, I wouldn't trigger a reset, or cause my HD to break from jarring... and with this new one if it landed in a puddle, I'd be whistling about it (scared, but sure), unlike that guy on the commercial who checked his notebook.
Life is energy, yes, but life as we know it, as organic/functional systems reaching out to live, moving the earth or growing, is life that I'm talking about and just because these things do not exist in our current perceptions, dos not rule them out; it simply means we'll have to look harder to find them.
I think that humanity's problem is that we can't perceive life other than likeness to ourselves. We see microbes because we consist of these kinds of elements. We view ourselves as being superior to life on Earth, so what makes it beneficial for intelligent extraterrestrial life to take up residence with us, or even poke their tentacles out from behind the rocks they are hiding?
We have a long way to go before we ever meet enlightened lifeforms; and yet not as long before we meet completely corrupt ones. Because oil and water separate, do they not? Yoda says so.:-)
Yes, that is exactly what I mean. We must be careful if we want our data to be accurate; or else we lose any useful control groups. That's science; and philosophy that baby steps are faster than giant leaps.
To not try is to become extinct; to try is to fail; to simply do it correctly is the fine line that humanity's destiny straddles; for you know not what is down there, or what our effects will have on it.
> No way of knowing doesn't turn a currently probable "no" into a definate "yes".
By going and looking, we shed our life and therefore life does exist wherever we go. Humans carry life everywhere; it's our blessing (in terms of survival) and our curse (in terms of disease).
Humility also rules that if we believe one thing, the opposite must be true in some form or another. Borderline wackiness, but still humility is funny that way.:-)
Scott Adams would predict that minutes would never have been added in the first place if Dogbert was somehow involved. Shaving them off only makes the company look guilty; but if they never existed... **WAAAAG** !!!
I think my point was that life as we know it is ever-changing. A hundred years ago, which is but the bredth of a gnat's hair in terms of the duration of the universe, we would have argued that life on Mars was impossible, because Mars is in the sky and too close to the Sun; that life on other planets was like a fairly tale told by idiots and story-tellers.
Less than a few hundred years ago, we burned people who we deemed to be witches.
Our behaviour is so inconsistent throughout history, that we have to admit that life exists on the Sun, because we know it does not.
Scientifically, our classification of life has to adapt to understand the universe, as we are but a very miniscule part of it. As time passes, we will find life in places we never thought to look, and that is simply probability, not theoretical; it's bound to happen. We exist, so should all else. dolo666 addendum: I think therefore I am; I think therefore they are.
You suggest, it seems, that the universe is its own ecosystem, and that we are so miniscule, how could we ever have any kind of impact on the great scheme of things, and how could we possibly have anything to do with the final thoughts or sequences of this total universe. You suggest that this greater ecosystem will continue to exist for billions of years after humanity, which seems very feasible considering how young we are as a species.
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Drink enough sake and you become excellent karate fighter too! :-)
Having a billion plus dollars of cash infusion should be even more of a reason for Java to take up more Open Source Development and support this nicely flowering community of adept programmers, testers and beneficiaries. However, a sneaky Dogbert spy might infiltrate the contract Sun signed, causing Sun to breach contract if they support Open Source (Microsoft likely didn't do this but it would not surprise me at all if they did, because I've never known Bill Gates to part with any money without getting something in return). Time will indeed tell if this settlement spells doom for Sun's human capitol, although if I'm right about Dogbert, then it likely will result in some really rich seedling startups being formed in wake of Sun's slow demise.
Shut up pudge, :-) hehehehehehe.
... I type in random characters in Google and hit "I feel Lucky".
Jerry Springer.
> When I was at G4, The Viewers were the last thing on management's mind. There were some executives who actually had a great deal of contempt for "those stupid gamers."
Games publishers seek to secure games that gamers will want by getting the dev houses in their pocket (under johnny-gets-screwed contracts written by Dogbert); the game dev management seek to secure publishers with fat wallets and build the games that they think will achive this (not games that are actually innovative); designers seek to get licenses to make games with franchises like Hulk, Star Trek (hehe sorry "The Boy" but it had to be said!), or D&D, or Spiderman instead of making up their own cool shit; game devs seek jobs in good studios (with benefits and great reps), oh and they actually often *hate* making games for a living (they just like slacking and *playing* games, more than doing any real work or QC); games ship full of bugs as a result of this scheme.
Gamers are becomming disillusioned as a result! The whole thing is going to start shrinking soon, but not before a few titles ship that are actually worth the money (because not all game devs are inept or threatened by their publishers daily, so there is HOPE).
It *should* be: publishers wish to please gamers; game dev management seek to please dev staff; dev staff seek to create innovative and fun games to please their niche: (read: niche, not the masses at large)...
Yes, some studios do handle things this way, but even with good titles, you get problems because of the reality of the gaming business.
> They'd investigate for 3 years, and come back and say that they saw nothing wrong there.
if(WMDs == 0) $US = 'fullashit';
You might be right! :-)
Clearly a clever tin-foil-hat joke! Good on ya!! :-)
... is going to end up like Nazi Germany and The Roman Empire, if they keep going against the UN. This weaponizing of space is clearly in violation of this UN treaty; and Slashdot missed this? I for one recommend Mr Rumsfeld step down from his administrative duties at Slashdot! And this could be the start of the next cold war. *sigh*
Sure the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) has a low-orbit only kill-vehicle now, but how long before it has an Electron Beam Device that can annihilate a person playing golf or taking a shower (possibly with company)?
Me and my karma have been only Positive, Good, Excellent, and back to Positive lately; too many posts today I guess... hehe. :-)
I must steal this Electron Beam Device you speak of, so that I may destroy Spiderman forever!!!
> I could just as easily argue that because stars shed death-dealing energy (that high energy radiation is killer without an atmosphere to protect you, you know) as a systemic fundamtal therefore ecosystems are much smaller than human perception currently understands. This is just as much a false leap of logic as your statement. You seem to want to imbue photons from the sun with feel good concepts like "life giving energy," and then extend that concept without backing to cover the entire universe.
I would then turn to you and say that the Sun and the Earth coexist as one complete ecosystem, and that because we are alive, therefore so is the Sun, and just because the protons and neutrons share the nucleus, does not mean that electrons are off in another atom; they coexist.
Without certain conditions, the Sun would not provide us with life, but under those conditions, the Sun would simply change it's relationship and that change is part of life, as death is part of your life now.
Science is not dissimilar to philosophy; it takes root in it.
addict!
> The phrase life on earth includes us, you can't be superior to yourself.
If you are, you are human; ask anyone with Botox in Hollywood and they would tell you they are definitely better than you think they are. That's part of our illusion as people, that we can line up entire species of animals and grind them into food, that we can empty the lakes of fish, and reap the wheat fields to feed our masses.
This is central to being human, and therefore I'm suggesting it's a good way of life, and necessary. If it weren't necessary, it would not be that way, would it?
> That phrase makes absolutely no sense....
I'm saying we have to work out our problems as a species and planet before we can meet enlightened beings; that we will likely meet corrupt beings as we are seemingly corrupt as of right now, still reeling from years of war and global strife. The comment about oil and water separating is to illustrate that we would be attracting the wrong crowd currently, if we did attract some kind of alien species, if such a species exists.
I'm a subscriber, but I never put my subscriber bonus because I learned early on that most ppl hate anyone who can see the story before the unwashed masses do. IF that includes you, please forgive me. :)
:-)
But sincerely, I do enjoy supporting Slashdot by paying them directly instead of viewing ads. I just wish they would get rid of all the ads for subscribers because there are likely enough of uss to split the difference, right? Or maybe one per day only? Yes I am aware I could crank up my browsing ad blocking to anything I want, but going over the minimum would result in my having no views left in short order. They should just do a timed subscription (monthly/yearly). I'd pay good coin for that. I'd also pay good coin if it means some admin who likes me would post my stories!
I've had 3 posted, but many rejected.
> but for approx $1600 US, I would expect built in GPS as well.
And for $1.6k, I would expect that I could whip it at a wall and catch it, without any damage whatsoever. That way if I was running and it fell out of my pocket, I wouldn't trigger a reset, or cause my HD to break from jarring... and with this new one if it landed in a puddle, I'd be whistling about it (scared, but sure), unlike that guy on the commercial who checked his notebook.
Life is energy, yes, but life as we know it, as organic/functional systems reaching out to live, moving the earth or growing, is life that I'm talking about and just because these things do not exist in our current perceptions, dos not rule them out; it simply means we'll have to look harder to find them.
:-)
I think that humanity's problem is that we can't perceive life other than likeness to ourselves. We see microbes because we consist of these kinds of elements. We view ourselves as being superior to life on Earth, so what makes it beneficial for intelligent extraterrestrial life to take up residence with us, or even poke their tentacles out from behind the rocks they are hiding?
We have a long way to go before we ever meet enlightened lifeforms; and yet not as long before we meet completely corrupt ones. Because oil and water separate, do they not? Yoda says so.
Yes, that is exactly what I mean. We must be careful if we want our data to be accurate; or else we lose any useful control groups. That's science; and philosophy that baby steps are faster than giant leaps.
:-)
To not try is to become extinct; to try is to fail; to simply do it correctly is the fine line that humanity's destiny straddles; for you know not what is down there, or what our effects will have on it.
Maybe nothing, maybe we'll tip the world over?
... doesn't make it wrong, sirrah.
Debate with me if you choose; you are silly not to.
> No way of knowing doesn't turn a currently probable "no" into a definate "yes".
:-)
By going and looking, we shed our life and therefore life does exist wherever we go. Humans carry life everywhere; it's our blessing (in terms of survival) and our curse (in terms of disease).
Humility also rules that if we believe one thing, the opposite must be true in some form or another. Borderline wackiness, but still humility is funny that way.
Scott Adams would predict that minutes would never have been added in the first place if Dogbert was somehow involved. Shaving them off only makes the company look guilty; but if they never existed... **WAAAAG** !!!
I think my point was that life as we know it is ever-changing. A hundred years ago, which is but the bredth of a gnat's hair in terms of the duration of the universe, we would have argued that life on Mars was impossible, because Mars is in the sky and too close to the Sun; that life on other planets was like a fairly tale told by idiots and story-tellers.
Less than a few hundred years ago, we burned people who we deemed to be witches.
Our behaviour is so inconsistent throughout history, that we have to admit that life exists on the Sun, because we know it does not.
Scientifically, our classification of life has to adapt to understand the universe, as we are but a very miniscule part of it. As time passes, we will find life in places we never thought to look, and that is simply probability, not theoretical; it's bound to happen. We exist, so should all else. dolo666 addendum: I think therefore I am; I think therefore they are.
COOOOOOL. :-)
You suggest, it seems, that the universe is its own ecosystem, and that we are so miniscule, how could we ever have any kind of impact on the great scheme of things, and how could we possibly have anything to do with the final thoughts or sequences of this total universe. You suggest that this greater ecosystem will continue to exist for billions of years after humanity, which seems very feasible considering how young we are as a species.