Did you say voting history? Are you serious? Are Americans really that dumb that they'd let someone's voting history be available?
I thought African democracies were a farce, but jeez... Imagine if 40 years ago some American decided to vote communist. He'd probably be tared and feathered...
FYI - Tibet was only recognized as 'independant' by the British government for a few years. No one else has ever recognized an independant Tibet.
There's plenty of cases of better-recognized 'nations' then Tibet that are being held hostage within a larger nation...
Anyway, the whole idea of nations is so passe...
Expand your mind.
It's not as simple as a farmer building a web-page and all of a suddent turning big profits. It's about the fact that a 12-year old reads about a new chemical process on the web, and his fresh young mind comes up with a way to slightly improve that. Then make that happen a few million times. Things get cheaper to do. Things get easier to do. Life gets more complicated, but on the whole the world becomes a better place.
Right now everyone is excited about the internet for its own sake. It is mostly used to feed itself. But as time goes on (I'm talking decades or centuries), this will help the world for real.
History teaches that the improvement of standards of living is indirectly but positively related to the speed and effectiveness of communication. I firmly believe that the telegraph was the greatest invention of all time - even ahead of the plow...
I guess the average age of slashdot workers is quite high, because I'm seeing a litany of "no one wants to hire older workers". Well let me tell you, that's total bullshit.
Having recently graduated, I went through the job-search phase. I have several years of experience (I'm not talking about *hitty co-ops, I'm talking real design work). Here's what I got:
"We don't hire new grads."
"You're asking a lot for someone with no experience."
"We don't want to hire overseas for someone who just graduated."
I've been working off and on for the last 5-6 years here and there, and I've actually seen much more preferential treatment towards older employees - regardless of experience.
Try to tell me that a 35-year old new grad with 2 years of design experience will make the same as a 22-year old new grad with 2 years of design experience. Then bitch about how no one will hire gray hairs.
Next time I see someone's parked car with their headlights left on, I'll do them a favour and smash the headlights - it saves them from a dead battery!
I think that at this point in the development of civilisation and technology in general, evolution is barely going to affect the way we turn out. We'll change ourselves much faster then evolution could.
Two points:
1) Canada is just another state. Nice of you to lob it in with Wisconsin like that.
2) If you're using "become:" then you're doing something wrong. It's like casting in C++.
This is interesting, because the impression that I got was that the Japanese invasion of China was basically initiated at the Lieutenant level, and was only rubber-stamped due to the overwhelming approval of the public.
Why Space is Necessary - 1) Survival of the species. #1 potential cause of extinction is disease. Thus, we must send humans off into space, and far away, so that if Earth is wiped out, Humans continue. 2) Because we have to go there eventually. Best to get started as soon as possible, because there are so many things that experience can teach us. When we're faced with a real NEED for space in a few million years, having been there for a few million years instead of having been there for a few centuries will make all the difference.
Because multiplayer game-life is short, and the bonds of trust which hold society together (having been developed over countless generations, and still under development) do not have time to evolve within the few months that a multiplayer game is really active. The concept Trust is complicated and takes thousands of years to develop - it's not like a story where the heroine trusts the hero just because his name is Hiro Protagonist. Why don't any of the local Chapters have a copy of Snow Crash?
Then how would I phone my friends to figure out where they're sitting at the beginning of the movie? Maybe they should just blanket when the movie starts...
I write music for fun. I write code for money. I enjoy doing both, but I would never write music for money, and I have never written code for fun. But maybe that's just me. Open-sourcers write code for fun, not for profit.
I think people seem to be missing the point. "Gated-community" is just market FUD. Of COURSE when a company buys software they'll want the source code. Because most of the time the code is buggy, and the buyer doesn't have time to let the seller figure that out - they're gonna fix it themselves. And once they do that, they're gonna tell the seller about the bug, and about the fix. Because when the next 'patch' of the product is shipped, the buyer will want that bug fixed. Really it boils down to free configuration management of the software that's been bought, plus the extra day or week that's gained by fixing it yourself. And in most cases, that makes it worth the labour.
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Did you say voting history? Are you serious? Are Americans really that dumb that they'd let someone's voting history be available? I thought African democracies were a farce, but jeez... Imagine if 40 years ago some American decided to vote communist. He'd probably be tared and feathered...
What if @Home terminated your service because you were black?
FYI - Tibet was only recognized as 'independant' by the British government for a few years. No one else has ever recognized an independant Tibet. There's plenty of cases of better-recognized 'nations' then Tibet that are being held hostage within a larger nation... Anyway, the whole idea of nations is so passe...
Expand your mind. It's not as simple as a farmer building a web-page and all of a suddent turning big profits. It's about the fact that a 12-year old reads about a new chemical process on the web, and his fresh young mind comes up with a way to slightly improve that. Then make that happen a few million times. Things get cheaper to do. Things get easier to do. Life gets more complicated, but on the whole the world becomes a better place. Right now everyone is excited about the internet for its own sake. It is mostly used to feed itself. But as time goes on (I'm talking decades or centuries), this will help the world for real. History teaches that the improvement of standards of living is indirectly but positively related to the speed and effectiveness of communication. I firmly believe that the telegraph was the greatest invention of all time - even ahead of the plow...
I guess the average age of slashdot workers is quite high, because I'm seeing a litany of "no one wants to hire older workers". Well let me tell you, that's total bullshit. Having recently graduated, I went through the job-search phase. I have several years of experience (I'm not talking about *hitty co-ops, I'm talking real design work). Here's what I got: "We don't hire new grads." "You're asking a lot for someone with no experience." "We don't want to hire overseas for someone who just graduated." I've been working off and on for the last 5-6 years here and there, and I've actually seen much more preferential treatment towards older employees - regardless of experience. Try to tell me that a 35-year old new grad with 2 years of design experience will make the same as a 22-year old new grad with 2 years of design experience. Then bitch about how no one will hire gray hairs.
Next time I see someone's parked car with their headlights left on, I'll do them a favour and smash the headlights - it saves them from a dead battery!
I think that at this point in the development of civilisation and technology in general, evolution is barely going to affect the way we turn out. We'll change ourselves much faster then evolution could.
If I wear a shirt that says "I'm with stupid", does that make me guilty of linking?
Two points: 1) Canada is just another state. Nice of you to lob it in with Wisconsin like that. 2) If you're using "become:" then you're doing something wrong. It's like casting in C++.
This is interesting, because the impression that I got was that the Japanese invasion of China was basically initiated at the Lieutenant level, and was only rubber-stamped due to the overwhelming approval of the public.
Read difference: "Sell" "Free"
In america, is being a Communist still illegal?
Why Space is Necessary - 1) Survival of the species. #1 potential cause of extinction is disease. Thus, we must send humans off into space, and far away, so that if Earth is wiped out, Humans continue. 2) Because we have to go there eventually. Best to get started as soon as possible, because there are so many things that experience can teach us. When we're faced with a real NEED for space in a few million years, having been there for a few million years instead of having been there for a few centuries will make all the difference.
Because multiplayer game-life is short, and the bonds of trust which hold society together (having been developed over countless generations, and still under development) do not have time to evolve within the few months that a multiplayer game is really active. The concept Trust is complicated and takes thousands of years to develop - it's not like a story where the heroine trusts the hero just because his name is Hiro Protagonist. Why don't any of the local Chapters have a copy of Snow Crash?
British Columbia is in Canada, not Britain.
Then how would I phone my friends to figure out where they're sitting at the beginning of the movie? Maybe they should just blanket when the movie starts...
I write music for fun. I write code for money. I enjoy doing both, but I would never write music for money, and I have never written code for fun. But maybe that's just me. Open-sourcers write code for fun, not for profit.
If the Eva's could have big power cords, why can't we?
Why do we need to find a 'muscle-like' substance? Why not use a muscle? Clone, graft, hook up some electrodes et voila! Your own Schwartzanaggerbot.
I think people seem to be missing the point. "Gated-community" is just market FUD. Of COURSE when a company buys software they'll want the source code. Because most of the time the code is buggy, and the buyer doesn't have time to let the seller figure that out - they're gonna fix it themselves. And once they do that, they're gonna tell the seller about the bug, and about the fix. Because when the next 'patch' of the product is shipped, the buyer will want that bug fixed. Really it boils down to free configuration management of the software that's been bought, plus the extra day or week that's gained by fixing it yourself. And in most cases, that makes it worth the labour.
Hell, half the wars you lost you won't even admit. Remember 1812? And then a lot of Americaans still like to think of Vietnam as a "tie"...