I don't see why you want to find a balance. Minds are diverse. Why do you want to find the perfect game, with graphics for everyone, with perfect ramp-up of difficulty, with perfect final stages, with perfect everything for everyone? At the pace games are designed today I guess you can only come up with a blockbuster by sheer luck. Google interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto. The amount of work that went into his games is too great for the average developer. I enjoy Sokoban, it teases me. It would make no money in today's Angry Birds world but that is of no consequence. I still enjoy it, so please make the games you want to see, someone will like them.
I'd say you got a fulfilling experience in the later years because of the meaningful application of the material. That feel of knowing more than the bare minumun is something a cultured mind enjoys: knowing the context, making connections, being involved, discussing with the teacher or your peers is much more enjoyable than rote repetition.
> Online, you can put additional content, have links that go to the exact point in the video where a question is answered, break up the video into topics so that students can spend more time on topics that are most relevant to them. You can also have more interactive tools and such.
How interesting is this, good sir. Or, you could use this new thing that everyone likes better because it's superior. It's called writing. Good writing is even better.
Click on the spanish link at the end of the linked article and translate it. They haven't even begun. They are in the boasting phase. Also, they are dropping a ridiculously incestuous 'Linux of Extremadura' distribution, also done only to suck in public money and boast about 'putting extremadura in the world tech map'.
Oh, how do you love your dystopian futures. Do you think they make you cool or would be funny? How about this: all the devices we need get smaller and spend less power all the time. There are already energy efficient homes that cost three times as a shitty regular one and can generate all the electricity needed including heating/cooling. They are in Germany and everywhere you care to look. Beginning your working life with the intention of retiring in 20 years will be possible in the first world. It is possible now if you are not afraid of what your neighbours think (you already smell bad, don't you?). But seriously, personal power and efficiency will bring a revolution many cannot begin to imagine. The only other thing you need is food and information. So you can choose to become a wage slave, no matter how good you are, or you can alter your priorities and work towards self-enhancement during the best years of your life instead of hoping to 'have fun' when you retire and your coronaries are screaming little insults to you in their insult-rich coronary language. I envision a future where corporations will be smaller and financial independence will be normal. It is possible now if you want to take control of your life. Many are afraid of it, though.
I'm spanish. I'm truly sick of the fearmongering this sorry excuse for a technology website keeps spewing. In this particular case the summary is wrong and retarded, the 'articles' it cites are retarded and there's nothing to see here. The Sinde law will not be 'implemented', there is no such thing as 'implementing' a law. This is only ridiculous. Maybe it makes some sense to information-deprived shit-overloaded US-centric morons who read this website and go ZOMG the sky, it is fellings, it's the end I tell ya!
There has been a change of government in Spain. The incoming idiots want to make a statement. That is all. There have been tens of lawsuits where the only websites closed where the ones who profited, if only by having google ads, from their pages. And the closed sprout again with same content under a different name, with no ads, in a couple of hours, case closed. If there are no ads the page is considered not for profit and spanish courts have never considered P2P any more illegal than lending a magazine. I wish the fucking stupidity about this would go away. But I digress.
In Spain there is still due process for everything. We don't have a MAFIAA, we have a smallish group of whiny artsy retards who get 50% of the budget of any 'spanish' (read ingrown, incestuous, embarrasing shit that should never cross our borders) movie from our taxes. One of the linked articles say that Spain has 'emerged' as a 'safe-haven' for 'piracy'. It didn't emerge, the legal standing of lending things you own has always been the same and it was legal to copy a Phillips Cassette in the 50s and it's legal to make a torrent of a movie today if you own it. What was punishable by death was to use Fe-grade cassettes. But still. Spain is also not a 'safe-haven' for piracy, but same story: we have rights across Europe and we like it that way. Where is The Pirate Bay hosted? Several places now. Has it been closed? Not that I know, just as not one of the small pages in Spain will not be closed as long as they steer clear of making any profit off sharing.
The natural state of the art industry (an oxymoron in itself) is small, very small. Prices are too high for the crap that's selling and it's okay, only kids (or underdeveloped adults) with too much money on their hands buy said crap. I myself stick to music that was written some centuries ago. Yesterday I had some silly fun out of IBNIZ, give it a try, with a week of practice anyone capable of understanding some assembler concepts like stacks and basic bit wrangling can churn a trance track every 4 hours.
I'm spanish. I'm truly sick of the fearmongering this sorry excuse for a technology website keeps spewing. In this particular case the summary is wrong and retarded, the 'articles' it cites are retarded and there's nothing to see here. The Sinde law will not be 'implemented', there is no such thing as 'implementing' a law. This is only ridiculous. Maybe it makes some sense to information-deprived shit-overloaded US-centric morons who read this website and go ZOMG the sky, it is fellings, it's the end I tell ya!
There has been a change of government in Spain. The incoming idiots want to make a statement. That is all. There have been tens of lawsuits where the only websites closed where the ones who profited, if only by having google ads, from their pages. And the closed sprout again with same content under a different name, with no ads, in a couple of hours, case closed. If there are no ads the page is considered not for profit and spanish courts have never considered P2P any more illegal than lending a magazine. I wish the fucking stupidity about this would go away. But I digress.
In Spain there is still due process for everything. We don't have a MAFIAA, we have a smallish group of whiny artsy retards who get 50% of the budget of any 'spanish' (read ingrown, incestuous, embarrasing shit that should never cross our borders) movie from our taxes. One of the linked articles say that Spain has 'emerged' as a 'safe-haven' for 'piracy'. It didn't emerge, the legal standing of lending things you own has always been the same and it was legal to copy a Phillips Cassette in the 50s and it's legal to make a torrent of a movie today if you own it. What was punishable by death was to use Fe-grade cassettes. But still. Spain is also not a 'safe-haven' for piracy, but same story: we have rights across Europe and we like it that way. Where is The Pirate Bay hosted? Several places now. Has it been closed? Not that I know, just as not one of the small pages in Spain will not be closed as long as they steer clear of making any profit off sharing.
The natural state of the art industry (an oxymoron in itself) is small, very small. Prices are too high for the crap that's selling and it's okay, only kids (or underdeveloped adults) with too much money on their hands buy said crap. I myself stick to music that was written some centuries ago. Yesterday I had some silly fun out of IBNIZ, give it a try, with a week of practice anyone capable of understanding some assembler concepts like stacks and basic bit wrangling can churn a trance track every 4 hours.
According to a recent breakthrough called 'math' 314,000 patents in a year gives me 1,000 patents per day.
Can we put an end to crappy slashjournalism?, or citation needed. Not commenting on the quality of the patents. I don't care. I want to see sources in these 'news'.
I second this. The non-scientific output of these persons is usually breathtaking. Don't forget Einstein's "The world as I see it" and other writings by him. Also, if I can get my hands on letters by notable people, usually addressed to other scientists or philosophers, it's one of my deepest pleasures, seeing the man behind some tall figure.
For fiction I won't get into the SciFi/Fantasy dichotomy but will just mention Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin, two contemporary geniuses. PKD + Heinlein + Frank Herbert %LESSTHAN% Ursula because I like her wonderfully adventurous and coherent stories and human portraits better than the more plain, space-opera-y setups, which brings me to the best: Dostoievsky, Tolstoi, who didn't experiment like Ursula but went higher in portraying the human soul in humble letters. True artists, I think.
Philosophy: Everything. Currently I'm in love with Schopenhauer.
I have never looked into the middle ages and don't know whether there's much to look at. I get horribly bored by religious slant of the time.
The past is full of marvels, from Aristotle: Ethics, Rhetoric, wonderfully naive and full of nice wisdom, onwards.
For quick breaths of fresh air, just google any scientist or philosopher's quotes. Kierkegaard, Feynman, the list is enormous. I usually do this at the office. I am then reassured of the good in the human species.
> a smaller buffer introduces less latency than a large one
> a smaller RETARDED buffer introduces less latency than a largeR one
FTFY
More to the point: FUH FUH BAHFAH BAD, WAT DO. SUBMARINE SKNKING, ALARMS A-WAILIN' SO SCARED!!ONEELEVEN
How about abandoning this sorry state of scare reporting and taking a scientific view for once? You know, like, measuring things? Where does the problem happen? Under what circumstances? Test your assumptions, be honest? Oh, I know, screw that, this is IT, we run around in flames and then order something from Cisco. Protip: retards don't run core routers and queue management and traffic control are these new things now, but don't just tell anyone, only l33t h4x0rs now about them.
You were modded flamebait and might as well have been 'sheeple'. Trust your leadr, you say? Sheesh, when will you grow up.
There is at least another option: that law enforcement is transparent. It works very well in northern Europe.
And I don't want to hear your feeble excuse for staying sheepish while repeating to yourself that it's for your own good: national security. Ah, that could be invoked once in a year realistically but every week? You might want to connect up your brain if you still can do that.
Your options reek of 'just don't bother me with philosophy as long as the cops catch the bad guys'. A mature society is more complicated than what you want to think to feel good but it's the only way out of the deadlock of stupidity and irresponsibility. And then there are still problems. How does that make you feel?
That 'something' is control. At the risk of sounding RMS-ish I remind you that there are ways to make your computer do exactly what you want. I feel perfectly comfortable leaving a PDF open for weeks, whether it's Sartre's 'Nausea' or 'Samba by Example'; they stay where they are while I do other things, and they are there when I want to start reading again and they will close when I click the close button. It takes preparation, a correct mindset, UPSes, the correct OS, good practices and some discipline but the computer can be made a critical resource and not a shaky thing where you only perform a fraction of the work you could do because your mind is fearing interruptions from takes-your-freedom-away-OSes, popups, stupid questions about optimizing shit, timeouts and multiple other annoyances. When there are no external annoyances and you have freedom to really dedicate time to one thing the mind appreciates it and works much better than before.
Awww but good news, sir! We already have that technology! It's called 'web pages'
I hope you enjoy rainbow colored separators... in your books. This time, they are animated and sponsored.
'Content engineer' at B&N: Wait! I'm having another idea, I'm full of ideas today, does the Kindle 2015 UltraFire Kitty Edition play MIDI? (checks checks) Yess! Christmas bonus secured...
First post is rated 5 insightful and parent is at 4 insightful. Many more comments share the same view of 'bend down and take it like a grown up woman'. Does that phrase ring any bells? From two weeks ago? From the deranged mother yelling at her daughter to take the judge's sadistic beating 'like a grown up woman'?
Many north americans are so fucked up in the head that when someone speaks about people's rights they automatically feel the yank in the corporate chain and jump up to yell 'right? what rights? (north american corporation) has rights too!!'
It's sad when a society founded on fighting oppression gets infinitely more of what it was (or so it thought) ready to leave behind. North americans are censoring themselves so effectively that what I see in this story makes me feel like reading 1984. When I read the english that people devoted to truth use (take as an obvious example scientists like Einstein and Feynman, their private letters of their professional output), compared to the abysmal excuse for a language I see on TV, websites and elsewhere including here, the tortured convolutions people want to pass for truth or fact, the petty arguments, the banality, I think of the exact relationship between language and thought, and can only conclude that there's only shit inside many people's heads. You can say, like any junkie, that you can quit it any time, but it has become second nature. I see time and again that north americans cannot react anymore than fucked-up people in South America or Africa, used as you have become, to the corporate shafting and erosion of your rights. A quote from Kierkegaard says that people die to defend so-called freedom of speech while willingly forgoing freedom of thought. Again the close link between speech and thought.
That's a sad state when you could aspire to a better world and have lived in the time of such giants as the ones mentioned, and many more. Only humans, yes, they also had to wipe their ass when going to the bathroom, but they strived for more than you, that's for sure.
When someone speaks a sane idea, like the Icelandic MP, you corporate rats should hide and try to reflect on what you have made of your lives.
It's amazing to me that so many idiots (tech-savvy idiots, that is) went to support this insanity. dotCRAP is the Java Microsoft could not have but they still pushed it with all of their might exactly the way a spoiled child wants something even when it doesn't make sense anymore. Now they can trash all of that and wait for their Ma$ter to devise a new idiocy to work on.
Mono has its uses after all: it keeps idiots off relevant FOSS projects.
I'm tired of my house being robbed but I want to leave my keys in the lock. We have to do something. I'm tired of kids driving my car but I want to leave the windows down and the keys in the ignition. We have to do something. I'm tired of my doctor misdiagnosing me but I refuse to know anything about my body, I refuse to eat healthily, I don't like to exercise. I drink and smoke like there's no tomorrow. We have to do something. I'm tired of politicians stealing money and behaving irresponsibly but I refuse to learn law, know what's going on, build a community and exercise sovereignity. We have to do something. I'm tired of everyone being a shallow idiot but I enjoy watching shows about people stupider than me, I'm in love with my iDevice and refuse to pay attention for more than 10 seconds. We have to do something. I'm tired of thinking that we have to do something. We have to do something.
Star Wars is an steaming pile of crummy stereotypes, awful storytelling, horrible character development and who knows what else if I cared to pay any more attention. The three movies feel like Lucas was kicking a rotten dog around pretending it was alive and moving by itself; the characters do what's dramatically needed for each moment with flamboyant disregard to the slightest consistency. I liked it when I was a young girl. Leia is cool and outspoken. Vader and his cocoon and his evil deeds are... or were... interesting. R2 is always conveniently rolling on a patch of flat ground, never mind that everyone else is climbing a sand dune or negotiating rocks... come on. Some bits of cool dialogue here and there but it's mainly nonsense. I can't bear to watch them anymore. Why is it that they have strong AI in the form of C3PO and the rebels have to pilot the X-wings themselves? Guided bombs anyone? Spaceballs is actually better than Star Wars.
If anyone wants it (I don't see it torrented anymore, I might be wrong), I have the pre-special edition laserdisc rips of the first three movies, in all their fuzzy glory, where Han shoots first and Vader doesn't yell 'Nooooo' when he trows the emperor down, etc. I keep them to mortify the spirit of GL forever.
the assumption of everyone in the 50-70s that information can be extracted from natural language in textual form is false. Thus an AI can never be built this way. Everyone overlooked the fact that a brain communicates much more than words, hoping the deluge of non-verbal meanings that occur in even the simplest interactions would be unimportant. Those grant harvesters, like Minsky, were trumpeting that AI could be solved classically, taking it apart and solving simpler puzzles, then putting them back together. Cargo cult physics. When we say anything, for example, 'this is good', there is so much context missing to begin to decode the meaning that the mind boggles at the thought.
Until we don't know the language of DNA and how it makes a brain and a brain creates a mind, there is no hope to understand intelligence. This problem doesn't allow shortcuts. Shorcut it and you end up with a dumb ruleset, or a dumb fuzzy inferencer, or a dumb neural network, or a combination of dumb things that don't add up to intelligence. Our mind is adjustable everywhere, there seem not to be any set points, everything is tunable, everything influences everything else. It's a diabolically wonderful machine that cannot be taken apart and put back together.
The TT has to be understood in context: it was created when people didn't know computers existed, thus no one expected anything else at the other end of the teletype than another human, so it had to be a human. It's dishonest just as IBM's Watson is also a publicity stunt, a step in the wrong direction. It can only parse ecyclopedias quicker than humans but every question that needed an inference that was not in Watson's memory before, it could not answer or the answer was nonsensical.
The US of A was a wonderful country in the 60s. They could not manage wealth and now they are a failed country. Politically it's a disgusting circus if you watch it from abroad. Economically it's a trainwreck that's only buying more misery for the next 100 years. Socially it's a disaster of inequality and injustice.
Don't expect it to collapse next week or in a decade; even the banana republics it has been destroying for the last 50 years don't collapse quickly, they take decades but the US is not on a path to recovery. The industrial energy use is unsustainable even for the next 10 years, the lowest hanging fruit has been outsourced years ago and today we are in a world where only high tech industries bring good margins (1). The inequality of wealth and education among people is also unsustainable and will only weigh down on any recovery because lack of education only allows short-term thinking. Corruption (called 'lobbying') is also unsustainable because it perpetuates inequality and unequal access to power.
Americans are finding the hard way that following a fixed credo gets you in a corner very quickly, just like any fundamentalist cults knows. In dynamic systems parlance, one cannot increase or pin any resource for any significant period, even if those resources are seemingly inexhaustible, like ideas. Ideas are free but quite dangerous if they are wrong.
The USA are a industrially, politically and socially failed country that will never raise again to 80s levels (not even think of '00) because the debt cannot be repaid. The debt per capita is 50,000 US$ and maybe only 10% of people have that in their bank account; 0-0.5% of people would pay it out of their own money and 90% of people couldn't pay even if they wanted. Of course, no one is expected to pay national debt out of personal money but it's indicative nonetheless because corporations are smuggling as much profits as possible abroad so the money only can come from taxes that people can't escape and they represent only a fraction of personal income, so it's unsustainable again. Academically USA still holds water. It won't lose territory like Spain or Denmark, or be attacked but considering the 3e8 population I don't think shedding some people and land would be such a bad idea. The US is still managed through systems that don't look at efficiency but at money flow. The next decade will be interesting. When their auto industry was being destroyed by Japan they did not react by building better cars, they bought the japanese ones. When outsourcing was only good for CEOs pockets they did not react. Now that China owns what Japan left unturned, they are also not reacting. Only social and industrial measures that would shake the country forever into something unrecognizable could put it back on track, never to outpace its natural growth rate again, but looking at its childish policy over the years, it will only happen too late and at great expense and inequality, once more.
(1) admittedly, the sex industry doesn't follow this pattern
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I don't see why you want to find a balance. Minds are diverse. Why do you want to find the perfect game, with graphics for everyone, with perfect ramp-up of difficulty, with perfect final stages, with perfect everything for everyone? At the pace games are designed today I guess you can only come up with a blockbuster by sheer luck. Google interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto. The amount of work that went into his games is too great for the average developer. I enjoy Sokoban, it teases me. It would make no money in today's Angry Birds world but that is of no consequence. I still enjoy it, so please make the games you want to see, someone will like them.
I'd say you got a fulfilling experience in the later years because of the meaningful application of the material. That feel of knowing more than the bare minumun is something a cultured mind enjoys: knowing the context, making connections, being involved, discussing with the teacher or your peers is much more enjoyable than rote repetition.
You may like this: http://www.amazon.com/Feel-Bad-Education-Contrarian-Children-Schooling/dp/0807001406/
> Online, you can put additional content, have links that go to the exact point in the video where a question is answered, break up the video into topics so that students can spend more time on topics that are most relevant to them. You can also have more interactive tools and such.
How interesting is this, good sir. Or, you could use this new thing that everyone likes better because it's superior. It's called writing. Good writing is even better.
Click on the spanish link at the end of the linked article and translate it. They haven't even begun. They are in the boasting phase. Also, they are dropping a ridiculously incestuous 'Linux of Extremadura' distribution, also done only to suck in public money and boast about 'putting extremadura in the world tech map'.
Oh, how do you love your dystopian futures. Do you think they make you cool or would be funny? How about this: all the devices we need get smaller and spend less power all the time. There are already energy efficient homes that cost three times as a shitty regular one and can generate all the electricity needed including heating/cooling. They are in Germany and everywhere you care to look. Beginning your working life with the intention of retiring in 20 years will be possible in the first world. It is possible now if you are not afraid of what your neighbours think (you already smell bad, don't you?). But seriously, personal power and efficiency will bring a revolution many cannot begin to imagine. The only other thing you need is food and information. So you can choose to become a wage slave, no matter how good you are, or you can alter your priorities and work towards self-enhancement during the best years of your life instead of hoping to 'have fun' when you retire and your coronaries are screaming little insults to you in their insult-rich coronary language. I envision a future where corporations will be smaller and financial independence will be normal. It is possible now if you want to take control of your life. Many are afraid of it, though.
I'm spanish. I'm truly sick of the fearmongering this sorry excuse for a technology website keeps spewing. In this particular case the summary is wrong and retarded, the 'articles' it cites are retarded and there's nothing to see here. The Sinde law will not be 'implemented', there is no such thing as 'implementing' a law. This is only ridiculous. Maybe it makes some sense to information-deprived shit-overloaded US-centric morons who read this website and go ZOMG the sky, it is fellings, it's the end I tell ya!
There has been a change of government in Spain. The incoming idiots want to make a statement. That is all. There have been tens of lawsuits where the only websites closed where the ones who profited, if only by having google ads, from their pages. And the closed sprout again with same content under a different name, with no ads, in a couple of hours, case closed. If there are no ads the page is considered not for profit and spanish courts have never considered P2P any more illegal than lending a magazine. I wish the fucking stupidity about this would go away. But I digress.
In Spain there is still due process for everything. We don't have a MAFIAA, we have a smallish group of whiny artsy retards who get 50% of the budget of any 'spanish' (read ingrown, incestuous, embarrasing shit that should never cross our borders) movie from our taxes. One of the linked articles say that Spain has 'emerged' as a 'safe-haven' for 'piracy'. It didn't emerge, the legal standing of lending things you own has always been the same and it was legal to copy a Phillips Cassette in the 50s and it's legal to make a torrent of a movie today if you own it. What was punishable by death was to use Fe-grade cassettes. But still. Spain is also not a 'safe-haven' for piracy, but same story: we have rights across Europe and we like it that way. Where is The Pirate Bay hosted? Several places now. Has it been closed? Not that I know, just as not one of the small pages in Spain will not be closed as long as they steer clear of making any profit off sharing.
The natural state of the art industry (an oxymoron in itself) is small, very small. Prices are too high for the crap that's selling and it's okay, only kids (or underdeveloped adults) with too much money on their hands buy said crap. I myself stick to music that was written some centuries ago. Yesterday I had some silly fun out of IBNIZ, give it a try, with a week of practice anyone capable of understanding some assembler concepts like stacks and basic bit wrangling can churn a trance track every 4 hours.
I'm spanish. I'm truly sick of the fearmongering this sorry excuse for a technology website keeps spewing. In this particular case the summary is wrong and retarded, the 'articles' it cites are retarded and there's nothing to see here. The Sinde law will not be 'implemented', there is no such thing as 'implementing' a law. This is only ridiculous. Maybe it makes some sense to information-deprived shit-overloaded US-centric morons who read this website and go ZOMG the sky, it is fellings, it's the end I tell ya!
There has been a change of government in Spain. The incoming idiots want to make a statement. That is all. There have been tens of lawsuits where the only websites closed where the ones who profited, if only by having google ads, from their pages. And the closed sprout again with same content under a different name, with no ads, in a couple of hours, case closed. If there are no ads the page is considered not for profit and spanish courts have never considered P2P any more illegal than lending a magazine. I wish the fucking stupidity about this would go away. But I digress.
In Spain there is still due process for everything. We don't have a MAFIAA, we have a smallish group of whiny artsy retards who get 50% of the budget of any 'spanish' (read ingrown, incestuous, embarrasing shit that should never cross our borders) movie from our taxes. One of the linked articles say that Spain has 'emerged' as a 'safe-haven' for 'piracy'. It didn't emerge, the legal standing of lending things you own has always been the same and it was legal to copy a Phillips Cassette in the 50s and it's legal to make a torrent of a movie today if you own it. What was punishable by death was to use Fe-grade cassettes. But still. Spain is also not a 'safe-haven' for piracy, but same story: we have rights across Europe and we like it that way. Where is The Pirate Bay hosted? Several places now. Has it been closed? Not that I know, just as not one of the small pages in Spain will not be closed as long as they steer clear of making any profit off sharing.
The natural state of the art industry (an oxymoron in itself) is small, very small. Prices are too high for the crap that's selling and it's okay, only kids (or underdeveloped adults) with too much money on their hands buy said crap. I myself stick to music that was written some centuries ago. Yesterday I had some silly fun out of IBNIZ, give it a try, with a week of practice anyone capable of understanding some assembler concepts like stacks and basic bit wrangling can churn a trance track every 4 hours.
According to a recent breakthrough called 'math' 314,000 patents in a year gives me 1,000 patents per day.
Can we put an end to crappy slashjournalism?, or citation needed. Not commenting on the quality of the patents. I don't care. I want to see sources in these 'news'.
I second this. The non-scientific output of these persons is usually breathtaking. Don't forget Einstein's "The world as I see it" and other writings by him. Also, if I can get my hands on letters by notable people, usually addressed to other scientists or philosophers, it's one of my deepest pleasures, seeing the man behind some tall figure.
For fiction I won't get into the SciFi/Fantasy dichotomy but will just mention Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin, two contemporary geniuses. PKD + Heinlein + Frank Herbert %LESSTHAN% Ursula because I like her wonderfully adventurous and coherent stories and human portraits better than the more plain, space-opera-y setups, which brings me to the best: Dostoievsky, Tolstoi, who didn't experiment like Ursula but went higher in portraying the human soul in humble letters. True artists, I think.
Philosophy: Everything. Currently I'm in love with Schopenhauer.
I have never looked into the middle ages and don't know whether there's much to look at. I get horribly bored by religious slant of the time.
The past is full of marvels, from Aristotle: Ethics, Rhetoric, wonderfully naive and full of nice wisdom, onwards.
For quick breaths of fresh air, just google any scientist or philosopher's quotes. Kierkegaard, Feynman, the list is enormous. I usually do this at the office. I am then reassured of the good in the human species.
Excuse me but no: stupidity is infinite and here you can see the difference between renewable and infinite:
http://greenecon.net/understanding-the-cost-of-solar-energy/energy_economics.html
> a smaller buffer introduces less latency than a large one
> a smaller RETARDED buffer introduces less latency than a largeR one
FTFY
More to the point: FUH FUH BAHFAH BAD, WAT DO. SUBMARINE SKNKING, ALARMS A-WAILIN' SO SCARED!!ONEELEVEN
How about abandoning this sorry state of scare reporting and taking a scientific view for once? You know, like, measuring things? Where does the problem happen? Under what circumstances? Test your assumptions, be honest? Oh, I know, screw that, this is IT, we run around in flames and then order something from Cisco. Protip: retards don't run core routers and queue management and traffic control are these new things now, but don't just tell anyone, only l33t h4x0rs now about them.
tldr: shut up.
somewhat 4channing b/c this rubbish deserves it.
You were modded flamebait and might as well have been 'sheeple'. Trust your leadr, you say? Sheesh, when will you grow up.
There is at least another option: that law enforcement is transparent. It works very well in northern Europe.
And I don't want to hear your feeble excuse for staying sheepish while repeating to yourself that it's for your own good: national security. Ah, that could be invoked once in a year realistically but every week? You might want to connect up your brain if you still can do that.
Your options reek of 'just don't bother me with philosophy as long as the cops catch the bad guys'. A mature society is more complicated than what you want to think to feel good but it's the only way out of the deadlock of stupidity and irresponsibility. And then there are still problems. How does that make you feel?
That 'something' is control. At the risk of sounding RMS-ish I remind you that there are ways to make your computer do exactly what you want. I feel perfectly comfortable leaving a PDF open for weeks, whether it's Sartre's 'Nausea' or 'Samba by Example'; they stay where they are while I do other things, and they are there when I want to start reading again and they will close when I click the close button. It takes preparation, a correct mindset, UPSes, the correct OS, good practices and some discipline but the computer can be made a critical resource and not a shaky thing where you only perform a fraction of the work you could do because your mind is fearing interruptions from takes-your-freedom-away-OSes, popups, stupid questions about optimizing shit, timeouts and multiple other annoyances. When there are no external annoyances and you have freedom to really dedicate time to one thing the mind appreciates it and works much better than before.
Awww but good news, sir! We already have that technology! It's called 'web pages'
I hope you enjoy rainbow colored separators... in your books. This time, they are animated and sponsored.
'Content engineer' at B&N: Wait! I'm having another idea, I'm full of ideas today, does the Kindle 2015 UltraFire Kitty Edition play MIDI? (checks checks) Yess! Christmas bonus secured...
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My god. It's full of retards.
First post is rated 5 insightful and parent is at 4 insightful. Many more comments share the same view of 'bend down and take it like a grown up woman'. Does that phrase ring any bells? From two weeks ago? From the deranged mother yelling at her daughter to take the judge's sadistic beating 'like a grown up woman'?
Many north americans are so fucked up in the head that when someone speaks about people's rights they automatically feel the yank in the corporate chain and jump up to yell 'right? what rights? (north american corporation) has rights too!!'
It's sad when a society founded on fighting oppression gets infinitely more of what it was (or so it thought) ready to leave behind. North americans are censoring themselves so effectively that what I see in this story makes me feel like reading 1984. When I read the english that people devoted to truth use (take as an obvious example scientists like Einstein and Feynman, their private letters of their professional output), compared to the abysmal excuse for a language I see on TV, websites and elsewhere including here, the tortured convolutions people want to pass for truth or fact, the petty arguments, the banality, I think of the exact relationship between language and thought, and can only conclude that there's only shit inside many people's heads. You can say, like any junkie, that you can quit it any time, but it has become second nature. I see time and again that north americans cannot react anymore than fucked-up people in South America or Africa, used as you have become, to the corporate shafting and erosion of your rights. A quote from Kierkegaard says that people die to defend so-called freedom of speech while willingly forgoing freedom of thought. Again the close link between speech and thought.
That's a sad state when you could aspire to a better world and have lived in the time of such giants as the ones mentioned, and many more. Only humans, yes, they also had to wipe their ass when going to the bathroom, but they strived for more than you, that's for sure.
When someone speaks a sane idea, like the Icelandic MP, you corporate rats should hide and try to reflect on what you have made of your lives.
> It also has features that ZFS lacks. It crashes.
FTFY
It's amazing to me that so many idiots (tech-savvy idiots, that is) went to support this insanity. dotCRAP is the Java Microsoft could not have but they still pushed it with all of their might exactly the way a spoiled child wants something even when it doesn't make sense anymore. Now they can trash all of that and wait for their Ma$ter to devise a new idiocy to work on.
Mono has its uses after all: it keeps idiots off relevant FOSS projects.
> perl -e 'print "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" '
Amateur
$ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
What's your problem, stupidity and laziness hasn't changed enough either.
I'm tired of my house being robbed but I want to leave my keys in the lock. We have to do something.
I'm tired of kids driving my car but I want to leave the windows down and the keys in the ignition. We have to do something.
I'm tired of my doctor misdiagnosing me but I refuse to know anything about my body, I refuse to eat healthily, I don't like to exercise. I drink and smoke like there's no tomorrow. We have to do something.
I'm tired of politicians stealing money and behaving irresponsibly but I refuse to learn law, know what's going on, build a community and exercise sovereignity. We have to do something.
I'm tired of everyone being a shallow idiot but I enjoy watching shows about people stupider than me, I'm in love with my iDevice and refuse to pay attention for more than 10 seconds. We have to do something.
I'm tired of thinking that we have to do something. We have to do something.
Star Wars is an steaming pile of crummy stereotypes, awful storytelling, horrible character development and who knows what else if I cared to pay any more attention. The three movies feel like Lucas was kicking a rotten dog around pretending it was alive and moving by itself; the characters do what's dramatically needed for each moment with flamboyant disregard to the slightest consistency. I liked it when I was a young girl. Leia is cool and outspoken. Vader and his cocoon and his evil deeds are... or were... interesting. R2 is always conveniently rolling on a patch of flat ground, never mind that everyone else is climbing a sand dune or negotiating rocks... come on. Some bits of cool dialogue here and there but it's mainly nonsense. I can't bear to watch them anymore. Why is it that they have strong AI in the form of C3PO and the rebels have to pilot the X-wings themselves? Guided bombs anyone? Spaceballs is actually better than Star Wars.
If anyone wants it (I don't see it torrented anymore, I might be wrong), I have the pre-special edition laserdisc rips of the first three movies, in all their fuzzy glory, where Han shoots first and Vader doesn't yell 'Nooooo' when he trows the emperor down, etc. I keep them to mortify the spirit of GL forever.
the assumption of everyone in the 50-70s that information can be extracted from natural language in textual form is false. Thus an AI can never be built this way. Everyone overlooked the fact that a brain communicates much more than words, hoping the deluge of non-verbal meanings that occur in even the simplest interactions would be unimportant. Those grant harvesters, like Minsky, were trumpeting that AI could be solved classically, taking it apart and solving simpler puzzles, then putting them back together. Cargo cult physics. When we say anything, for example, 'this is good', there is so much context missing to begin to decode the meaning that the mind boggles at the thought.
Until we don't know the language of DNA and how it makes a brain and a brain creates a mind, there is no hope to understand intelligence. This problem doesn't allow shortcuts. Shorcut it and you end up with a dumb ruleset, or a dumb fuzzy inferencer, or a dumb neural network, or a combination of dumb things that don't add up to intelligence. Our mind is adjustable everywhere, there seem not to be any set points, everything is tunable, everything influences everything else. It's a diabolically wonderful machine that cannot be taken apart and put back together.
The TT has to be understood in context: it was created when people didn't know computers existed, thus no one expected anything else at the other end of the teletype than another human, so it had to be a human. It's dishonest just as IBM's Watson is also a publicity stunt, a step in the wrong direction. It can only parse ecyclopedias quicker than humans but every question that needed an inference that was not in Watson's memory before, it could not answer or the answer was nonsensical.
The US of A was a wonderful country in the 60s. They could not manage wealth and now they are a failed country. Politically it's a disgusting circus if you watch it from abroad. Economically it's a trainwreck that's only buying more misery for the next 100 years. Socially it's a disaster of inequality and injustice.
Don't expect it to collapse next week or in a decade; even the banana republics it has been destroying for the last 50 years don't collapse quickly, they take decades but the US is not on a path to recovery. The industrial energy use is unsustainable even for the next 10 years, the lowest hanging fruit has been outsourced years ago and today we are in a world where only high tech industries bring good margins (1). The inequality of wealth and education among people is also unsustainable and will only weigh down on any recovery because lack of education only allows short-term thinking. Corruption (called 'lobbying') is also unsustainable because it perpetuates inequality and unequal access to power.
Americans are finding the hard way that following a fixed credo gets you in a corner very quickly, just like any fundamentalist cults knows. In dynamic systems parlance, one cannot increase or pin any resource for any significant period, even if those resources are seemingly inexhaustible, like ideas. Ideas are free but quite dangerous if they are wrong.
The USA are a industrially, politically and socially failed country that will never raise again to 80s levels (not even think of '00) because the debt cannot be repaid. The debt per capita is 50,000 US$ and maybe only 10% of people have that in their bank account; 0-0.5% of people would pay it out of their own money and 90% of people couldn't pay even if they wanted. Of course, no one is expected to pay national debt out of personal money but it's indicative nonetheless because corporations are smuggling as much profits as possible abroad so the money only can come from taxes that people can't escape and they represent only a fraction of personal income, so it's unsustainable again. Academically USA still holds water. It won't lose territory like Spain or Denmark, or be attacked but considering the 3e8 population I don't think shedding some people and land would be such a bad idea. The US is still managed through systems that don't look at efficiency but at money flow. The next decade will be interesting. When their auto industry was being destroyed by Japan they did not react by building better cars, they bought the japanese ones. When outsourcing was only good for CEOs pockets they did not react. Now that China owns what Japan left unturned, they are also not reacting. Only social and industrial measures that would shake the country forever into something unrecognizable could put it back on track, never to outpace its natural growth rate again, but looking at its childish policy over the years, it will only happen too late and at great expense and inequality, once more.
(1) admittedly, the sex industry doesn't follow this pattern
I don't know your age or how tangled you are in the mess. But google "computing across america".