You know, for the past couple weeks I've been feeling that maybe Digg is better than Slashdot, but from today's Digg I only read a couple articles out of 15 or so. They don't seem that strong from a content perspective.
The whole controversy over deleting stories and accounts adds another perspective. Slashdot has a strong policy of not deleting anything, and this is the major reason why I still post.
Still, we could use a Third Blog where the editors actively manage the content (as Digg does) but without the anti info-age policy of deletion. Maybe Digg is "edited" in the classical sense of the word. I'm still waiting to see a blog that is edited in the modern sense, with good content promoted and bad content hidden. Slashdot attempts this, but in a decentralized way that has never worked.
I saw a report on TV a few years back about a golf ball that has 2 rows of dots, kinda like a baseball, instead of all over, and it doesn't slice at all.
So good it was immediately outlawed. Which is fine but, you have to admit, golf is a pretty artificial sport.
Give me a break. Like "Windows Server 2003" should be less of a desktop than Windows 95 was.
Granted, you made a decent point, but in response do you think Linux has these kinds of problems? And it's an even more efficient server. BSD even more so.
Yep. It defers to the idea of efficiency, which is that if you have eyes in the back of your head, and nobody attacks you, then you're wasting food supporting organs that are useless.
A pound of steak at the supermarket costs 20 minutes of labor at minimum wage. Eating flesh wasn't always so easy...
As for running, humans are the turtle. Whereas animals either lose concentration or stop due to overheating, humans have amazing long-distance stamina. 50, 60 miles is common for super marathoners. (I'd like to find out the galloping record for horses.)
Thus, I agree that mobility is a crucial human trait and should not be sacrificed. We're not sprinters though and bipedalism is probably the culprit there.
I'll summarize this kid's post because I think it's hard to read:
So here we are in the conclusion, nearly all genocides, are struggle to create some ideological state or spreading their own state to new lands.... As atheism doesn't in itself say wheather you could kill someone or not, its quite good template for creation such ideology.
That's a good point about vision, but I think what eyeglasses have revealed is that there is a recessive gene for perfect vision and a dominant gene for vision that is absolutely fine, but requires constant long-distance training.
Since nobody trains long distance vision anymore (even driving a car is weak compared to staring at a mountain range), the result is that most of us wear glasses. We are all eyeball couch potatoes. Point being, I don't think glasses have been around long enough to affect evolution. Eventually, you might be right. But today, most of us who wear glasses are genetically normal.
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If you did that, you wouldn't be able to kiss and screw at the same time. Not that everyone does, but it's certainly a nice option to have.
Your design (and the author's) wouldn't be able to run very well. According to an article in this month's Discover, humans have adapted to running so well over long distances that we compete favorably with horses.
The link is intro-only so I'll tell you the biggest advantages are sweat glands and long, springy legs. But others include shock-absorbing aspects of the head and free torso movement. Most animals need a tail for balance, but we've evolved out of that one too. I realize your design is a quadruped, but running in humans seems to involve shedding a lot of animal baggage. The fact that a human's stride is longer than a horse's is hard to believe (but documented in the article with a video camera experiment).
But hey, congratulations for beating this guy to the idea.
Windows Server 2003 was so slow I had to dump it and go back to Windows 2000. Server literally couldn't play mp3's without skipping. I used it for over a year thinking I had flaky hardware. Actually M$ dumped some kind of glue all over the insides to make Server more "stable" and this is the result. Creepy to use...the frequent skips and hangs make you wonder if the software is alive and eating/burping/sleeping every once in a while.
I also never figured out the difference between the Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. You have the option to install any of them from the same disc, prompting the obvious question, "Which one has the most features???" Wikipedia claims to know the difference, but I chose Standard more or less at random.
Microsoft's "ethical" and "customer oriented" practices are explained when you consider that Gates is a thief. Ever see a guy on the street hawking pirated CD's who was a dick to his customers? Thieves are bottom-dwellers, they make the nicest impression on as many people as possible.
This is very different from being a bully, which is to make the worst impression on people. Microsoft isn't a bully. It would call attention to their gaping lack of R&D.
Yes, I know the company spends billions of dollars. But somehow it's always the smaller, independent programmers who keep inventing things like, the web browser (Andreesen), instant messaging (MIT), network authentication (MIT), the window server (MIT), microkernels (academia), encryption (academia), type-safe objects (Sun/academia), WYSIWG (Apple), spreadsheets (Lotus), vector web (Macromedia), typesetting (Knuth), video editing (Adobe), ergonomic keyboards (not Microsoft), blogs (not Microsoft), mpeg compression (not Microsoft), p2p distribution (not Microsoft).
When you are consistently this far behind the technological curve, it comes as no surprise that you bend over backwards.
Let's not forget that Gates founded the company by purchasing CP/M on the cheap and then reselling it to IBM as DOS after Gates' friend did some cosmetic work on it over the weekend.
Gates has never been an engineer or anything less than a scoundrel. But it's an American trait to continue giving people an honest benefit of the doubt when there shouldn't BE any doubt about their intentions.
Fortunately Microsoft has always been willing to settle for second best, probably stemming from the fact that their whole corporate strategy is to steal other people's ideas. So yes, there is no conspiracy towards world domination. Just a conspiracy to leech and be the biggest parasite in the world.
As always, the smartest person is the one who figured out how companies cut product and keep the price the same. We might as well be talking about Charmin's "Less is More" commercials or a 13.5 oz. "pound" of potato chips. Or any of the various products, like margarine, soda, mp3 downloads, or even compact discs, which literally cost nothing to make, but sell at nearly the same price as their "real" conterparts (butter, juice, vinyl).
For established businesses, this is the ONLY trick in the book.
I went to Hitman.com and watched half of a trailer where a guy in a suit walks around looking like he's gonna shoot someone. Meanwhile, the ad in question is a person who was shot. Maybe I've been out of the gaming loop too long to understand why these things are not related.
Go outside on any day of the year. If you're younger than 20 then you probably don't remember the "original" weather any more than you remember cars without LCD panels. But for those of us who grew up with stable, predictable seasons, the difference of the past 10-15 years is way beyond obvious.
2) Convince me that it's due to human activity
I think when you fish out the seas, dam all the rivers, farm the bulk of the continent, run matchstick houses up and down the coasts, pave everything inbetween with asphalt, and suck all the oil out of the ground, it's fairly clear that you have the capacity to change the air temperature. What aspect of land or sea haven't we changed already?
Look, if one volcano blows up, you can throw enough soot in the air to wipe out a year's weather. You don't think 6 billion humans can collectively create that much soot? Or that we can, and somehow we're just too smart to actually do it?
Natural climate cycles is worse than an excuse, it's a canard. Of course there are natural cycles. The question is can they be overwhelmed? And the answer is that the human urge is to overwhelm everything.
3) Convince me that it *can* be 'solved' or at least reduced
Everything can be solved. In the future, you can grow crops in your backyard, bike to work, wear handmade clothing, then come inside and watch the Simpsons, download porn and buy airline tickets. By definition, removing non-essential technologies will not adversely affect your standard of living.
4) Convince me that working to 'solve' it won't make things worse like it has in the past.
debbil George Bush and that this is conveniently crowded podium from which to launch their usual attacks on him, Rumsfeld, Republicans, business, the military-industrial complex, religion, etc. etc. Call it 'convergent political evolution' rather than conspiracy, if you like. Leftists couldn't organize anything that big anyway, without fratriciding themselves (as usual) into irrelevance.
Q: What do Protestants and Catholics have in common?
A: They both think about the Pope first thing in the morning.
Point being, if you hate something enough, it makes you a "reactionary," which is to say narrow-minded. Fortunately the body of your post seems well-reasoned. So I wonder why you think eco-liberals are trying to tear you down. Too much South Park maybe?
Seriously though, look what you just wrote. You're implying that we need to work to try to make the CLIMATE static for our own comfort and convenience? Really?
The Earth will eventually kill all humans. How long we want to survive, is up to us entirely.
If the world becomes a warmer place, then it seems to me that the latitudes at which wheat can be grown would shift northward
Yet after experiencing a few recent Boston winters, I came to the conclusion that buying real estate in New England is no longer a safe investment due to climate change. Meanwhile, New York is turning into Seattle, which the boaters and beachgoers just hate. I'm curious to see how this summer goes, because three years ago was an awful rainy summer and the last two were rock solid. So it might be time to get screwed again. I already noticed way back in Boston that the new climate is running on a 2 or 3 year cycle.
Contrary to your statements, I believe global warming will cause an awful lot of people to move south instead of north. Why? I have a feeling southern US weather is a lot more stable.
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You know, for the past couple weeks I've been feeling that maybe Digg is better than Slashdot, but from today's Digg I only read a couple articles out of 15 or so. They don't seem that strong from a content perspective.
The whole controversy over deleting stories and accounts adds another perspective. Slashdot has a strong policy of not deleting anything, and this is the major reason why I still post.
Still, we could use a Third Blog where the editors actively manage the content (as Digg does) but without the anti info-age policy of deletion. Maybe Digg is "edited" in the classical sense of the word. I'm still waiting to see a blog that is edited in the modern sense, with good content promoted and bad content hidden. Slashdot attempts this, but in a decentralized way that has never worked.
I saw a report on TV a few years back about a golf ball that has 2 rows of dots, kinda like a baseball, instead of all over, and it doesn't slice at all.
So good it was immediately outlawed. Which is fine but, you have to admit, golf is a pretty artificial sport.
Give me a break. Like "Windows Server 2003" should be less of a desktop than Windows 95 was.
Granted, you made a decent point, but in response do you think Linux has these kinds of problems? And it's an even more efficient server. BSD even more so.
I agree, I think hair on the head is sun protection and hair on the genitals is physical protection and/or a visual cue towards mating.
Hair is definitely NOT pro-cooling in any way shape or form.
Yep. It defers to the idea of efficiency, which is that if you have eyes in the back of your head, and nobody attacks you, then you're wasting food supporting organs that are useless.
A pound of steak at the supermarket costs 20 minutes of labor at minimum wage. Eating flesh wasn't always so easy...
Excellent comments on the skull.
As for running, humans are the turtle. Whereas animals either lose concentration or stop due to overheating, humans have amazing long-distance stamina. 50, 60 miles is common for super marathoners. (I'd like to find out the galloping record for horses.)
Thus, I agree that mobility is a crucial human trait and should not be sacrificed. We're not sprinters though and bipedalism is probably the culprit there.
That's a good point about vision, but I think what eyeglasses have revealed is that there is a recessive gene for perfect vision and a dominant gene for vision that is absolutely fine, but requires constant long-distance training.
Since nobody trains long distance vision anymore (even driving a car is weak compared to staring at a mountain range), the result is that most of us wear glasses. We are all eyeball couch potatoes. Point being, I don't think glasses have been around long enough to affect evolution. Eventually, you might be right. But today, most of us who wear glasses are genetically normal.
If you did that, you wouldn't be able to kiss and screw at the same time. Not that everyone does, but it's certainly a nice option to have.
Agreed. In fact I worry we may see it in our lifetimes. I don't want to be small because I'm "natural."
Note: Silicone implants can be used on testicles and other parts of the body. Can't be removed tho because it's injected directly.
Awesome.
Hmm...good points. You got me thinking that humans' biggest social burdens are the increasing amount of education and our hyper sex drive.
Sex seems pretty crucial to our societal structure, so I would say, make it so that you can turn birth control on/off by eating certain foods.
Your design (and the author's) wouldn't be able to run very well. According to an article in this month's Discover, humans have adapted to running so well over long distances that we compete favorably with horses.
The link is intro-only so I'll tell you the biggest advantages are sweat glands and long, springy legs. But others include shock-absorbing aspects of the head and free torso movement. Most animals need a tail for balance, but we've evolved out of that one too. I realize your design is a quadruped, but running in humans seems to involve shedding a lot of animal baggage. The fact that a human's stride is longer than a horse's is hard to believe (but documented in the article with a video camera experiment).
But hey, congratulations for beating this guy to the idea.
Windows Server 2003 was so slow I had to dump it and go back to Windows 2000. Server literally couldn't play mp3's without skipping. I used it for over a year thinking I had flaky hardware. Actually M$ dumped some kind of glue all over the insides to make Server more "stable" and this is the result. Creepy to use...the frequent skips and hangs make you wonder if the software is alive and eating/burping/sleeping every once in a while.
I also never figured out the difference between the Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. You have the option to install any of them from the same disc, prompting the obvious question, "Which one has the most features???" Wikipedia claims to know the difference, but I chose Standard more or less at random.
Sigh. Well if you're going to bring technology into the picture then 1001 seems like less of a miracle.
Microsoft's "ethical" and "customer oriented" practices are explained when you consider that Gates is a thief. Ever see a guy on the street hawking pirated CD's who was a dick to his customers? Thieves are bottom-dwellers, they make the nicest impression on as many people as possible.
This is very different from being a bully, which is to make the worst impression on people. Microsoft isn't a bully. It would call attention to their gaping lack of R&D.
Yes, I know the company spends billions of dollars. But somehow it's always the smaller, independent programmers who keep inventing things like, the web browser (Andreesen), instant messaging (MIT), network authentication (MIT), the window server (MIT), microkernels (academia), encryption (academia), type-safe objects (Sun/academia), WYSIWG (Apple), spreadsheets (Lotus), vector web (Macromedia), typesetting (Knuth), video editing (Adobe), ergonomic keyboards (not Microsoft), blogs (not Microsoft), mpeg compression (not Microsoft), p2p distribution (not Microsoft).
When you are consistently this far behind the technological curve, it comes as no surprise that you bend over backwards.
We all ended up retiring before 30. Some with money, some without.
Let's not forget that Gates founded the company by purchasing CP/M on the cheap and then reselling it to IBM as DOS after Gates' friend did some cosmetic work on it over the weekend.
Gates has never been an engineer or anything less than a scoundrel. But it's an American trait to continue giving people an honest benefit of the doubt when there shouldn't BE any doubt about their intentions.
Fortunately Microsoft has always been willing to settle for second best, probably stemming from the fact that their whole corporate strategy is to steal other people's ideas. So yes, there is no conspiracy towards world domination. Just a conspiracy to leech and be the biggest parasite in the world.
As always, the smartest person is the one who figured out how companies cut product and keep the price the same. We might as well be talking about Charmin's "Less is More" commercials or a 13.5 oz. "pound" of potato chips. Or any of the various products, like margarine, soda, mp3 downloads, or even compact discs, which literally cost nothing to make, but sell at nearly the same price as their "real" conterparts (butter, juice, vinyl).
For established businesses, this is the ONLY trick in the book.
It's a good point that you can do it with only 1001 people but it would take longer than 9 months. Probably more like 15.
I went to Hitman.com and watched half of a trailer where a guy in a suit walks around looking like he's gonna shoot someone. Meanwhile, the ad in question is a person who was shot. Maybe I've been out of the gaming loop too long to understand why these things are not related.
Gigabit runs on CAT-6, not CAT-5
It's true, being hard of hearing isn't going to stop you from posting to Slashdot.
1) Convince me that global warming is happening
Go outside on any day of the year. If you're younger than 20 then you probably don't remember the "original" weather any more than you remember cars without LCD panels. But for those of us who grew up with stable, predictable seasons, the difference of the past 10-15 years is way beyond obvious.
2) Convince me that it's due to human activity
I think when you fish out the seas, dam all the rivers, farm the bulk of the continent, run matchstick houses up and down the coasts, pave everything inbetween with asphalt, and suck all the oil out of the ground, it's fairly clear that you have the capacity to change the air temperature. What aspect of land or sea haven't we changed already?
Look, if one volcano blows up, you can throw enough soot in the air to wipe out a year's weather. You don't think 6 billion humans can collectively create that much soot? Or that we can, and somehow we're just too smart to actually do it?
Natural climate cycles is worse than an excuse, it's a canard. Of course there are natural cycles. The question is can they be overwhelmed? And the answer is that the human urge is to overwhelm everything.
3) Convince me that it *can* be 'solved' or at least reduced
Everything can be solved. In the future, you can grow crops in your backyard, bike to work, wear handmade clothing, then come inside and watch the Simpsons, download porn and buy airline tickets. By definition, removing non-essential technologies will not adversely affect your standard of living.
4) Convince me that working to 'solve' it won't make things worse like it has in the past.
Huh? Sounds like you grew up in Stalinist Russia.
debbil George Bush and that this is conveniently crowded podium from which to launch their usual attacks on him, Rumsfeld, Republicans, business, the military-industrial complex, religion, etc. etc. Call it 'convergent political evolution' rather than conspiracy, if you like. Leftists couldn't organize anything that big anyway, without fratriciding themselves (as usual) into irrelevance.
Q: What do Protestants and Catholics have in common?
A: They both think about the Pope first thing in the morning.
Point being, if you hate something enough, it makes you a "reactionary," which is to say narrow-minded. Fortunately the body of your post seems well-reasoned. So I wonder why you think eco-liberals are trying to tear you down. Too much South Park maybe?
Seriously though, look what you just wrote. You're implying that we need to work to try to make the CLIMATE static for our own comfort and convenience? Really?
The Earth will eventually kill all humans. How long we want to survive, is up to us entirely.
If the world becomes a warmer place, then it seems to me that the latitudes at which wheat can be grown would shift northward
Yet after experiencing a few recent Boston winters, I came to the conclusion that buying real estate in New England is no longer a safe investment due to climate change. Meanwhile, New York is turning into Seattle, which the boaters and beachgoers just hate. I'm curious to see how this summer goes, because three years ago was an awful rainy summer and the last two were rock solid. So it might be time to get screwed again. I already noticed way back in Boston that the new climate is running on a 2 or 3 year cycle.
Contrary to your statements, I believe global warming will cause an awful lot of people to move south instead of north. Why? I have a feeling southern US weather is a lot more stable.