Steering a car with 30 minutes delay would indeed be really hard. I think that's why they rejected the steering wheel as a mechanism for controlling the probe and used computers and maths and stuff instead.
That's what they want you to believe, but it's a Japanese probe - behind that camera is a crowd of 600 Japanese teenagers holding up their camera-phones.
Athought if regulations were put in place cost of software would rise.
The cost of software would rise, but the need for upgrades and the costs of dealing with errors would fall. Whether we'd get a net benefit depends on the nature of the regulation. I think in the absence of a fair market we need either liability or regulation. Liability for the developers themselves though? I note he wasn't suggesting personal liability for CEOs of security firms or personal liability for ex-White House advisers. What flawed policies and pieces of legislation did he advise on that he's willing to be held liable for? The costs of flawed legislation are far higher than those of flawed software.
I'm not talking specifically about 'computer stuff', I'm talking about abstraction in general. 'People' just don't do it. 'People' don't think in terms of subheadings, they think in terms of bold type.
10.0.0.0/8 is reserved for private use not for use on the open internet.;)
Every fucking time. Every single fucking time. If there's one thing that pisses me off about the ability of the internet to to reach a global audience it's that it guarantees you'll reach yet another smartass who feels the need to explain your fucking jokes. Well fuck you smartass globalite, you're exactly the kind of fuckwit that makes the rest of us think that the Nazis has the right idea but the wrong selection algorithm. Oh aren't you the clever one, pointing out the completely fucking obvious. Well I fucking hate you for it.
And no, the fucking winking smiley doesn't make it all OK, you fucking cunt. I hope you die.
I don't think you can combine Vi and Latex and make it easy to use. People have to learn to think about what they are doing to use something like Latex, which as far as I can tell most people fail to do. It's not hard, but it requires some thought. 'Normal' people just don't systemize like geeks. I'm not sure they systemize at all. Machines can do what geeks want; but normal people want products, not machines. They don't want content-management systems, they want a blog. They don't want file sharing, they want music-on-demand. They may be stupid, but Microsoft knows how to give them what they want. And Bill is richer than either of us.
You just get an ISP that is multi-homed, let them work it out. I find it amazing that there are apparently large ISPs getting all their bandwidth from one place.
38.0.0.0/8 Class A is Cogent/PSI... how much bigger than being an entire Class A (and then some?!) does one have to be to be considered [ahem] "equal"?
I tried to get Level 3 to peer with my Class A (10.0.0.0/8) and they wouldn't, they fucked me like they fucked Cogent. Now I can't get to any sites at all. These bastards are ruining the intarweb.
That's an estimate of manufacturing cost, which comes out at 50% of the retail price. There are of course other overheads Apple incurr - design, support, fixed costs etc. I bet they are making a tidy profit on each one, but I suspect it's closer to 25% than 50%. But hell, if people will pay that much then more power to Apple. I don't get it myself, I prefer Sony's music players now you're not forced to use their crappy proprietary formats on them. OLED displays are way sexier than a clickwheel.
You forget that people participating in this usually have their personalities and mental health destroyed so they can participate in this shit.
I'd like to see the evidence you have to make the assertion that "people participating in this usually have their personalities and mental health destroyed so they can participate". And I mean evidence. Not single examples (which I'm sure exist), not amateur psychology, not your preconceptions about what rational people will and will not do, but evidence that it's usual.
This is just like some pedophile telling: "Look! He's smiling, he's enjoying it! It's not that bad after all".
Children can never give their consent to take part in pornography, consent is not theirs to give while they are still children. Adults on the other hand both can and do. Are all the people who go to S&M clubs forced into it too? Like it or not, people enjoy doing weird stuff. Stuff involving pain, excrement and people they aren't married to. Let them get on with it. If it freaks you out that's your problem.
Sexual Deviant: one so insecure and repressed about their own sexuality that they must impose their twisted views on others.
What's more perverse: having a woman shit in your mouth or dedicating your life to seeking out women shitting in mens' mouths (something you would could never come across by accident) just so you can tell them not to do it?
If it takes the client down your client is broken. If it appears that the client has frozen and this is surprising to you, then you haven't read 'man nfs'. You can configure how it deals with lost connections, in particular I suggest you look at the 'soft' and 'intr' options.
Did anyone else find it ironic that, by having their PR professionals handle the questions instead of the engineers, the interview resulted in terrible PR for Blizzard?
Do you wear an unbifurcated garment? I'm tempted, but I really don't have the legs for it. I'm not sure the industrial city in the North of England in which I live is quite ready for it either, but frankly that's a plus.
They aren't doing it to further the sum of human knowledge, they are doing it to get rich.
This does not, in any way, conflict with the copyright laws of the United States of America. It is of absolutely no consequence to the law whether someone's intented result of doing research that makes fair use of a copyrighted work is "to further the sum of human knowledge" or to be the wealthiest fool in North America.
17 USC, Section 107:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (my emphasis)
I think I was wrong earlier to suggest that Google might be able to argue that provision if their research was pure research. I doubt you could argue anything Google does is 'for nonprofit educational purposes'.
If it appears that I am straw-manning, then that points out how stupid the whole argument is. Where do you suppose we get 9 million barrels of gasoline per day? By growing plants, of course? What powers the tractors that plow the ground, the trucks that transport it, the barges that haul it? Right now, anyway, it's good ol' hydrocarbons, pumped out of the ground. There is no infrastructure in place to make that much ethanol, bio-diesel, and soy-oil.
The tractors run on diesel from underground till there is enough biodiesel to power them. If there is no infrastructure we need to build it, we built the infrastructure we have now. How is all that not blindingly obvious? Your argument seems to be that we can't do it overnight so there is no point working towards it.
It'll take decades. It'll be gradual. A good proportion of the infrastructure will be replaced in the next 10,20,50 years anyway. You don't have to take the cars off the road, knock down houses and re-train the workforce. You wait for them to reach the end of their natural lives and use superior replacements. Give tax breaks to more energy efficient cars. Mandate superior insulation and ventilation in new homes. It's not remotely as painful or expensive as you make out, but you have to start some time. The rest of the world has already started.
I know that you want me to say "Yes, jack up the price of oil and make those soccer moms pay!"...but I wish to point out the general ignorance of the US public. They will vote for whoever allows them to maintain their SUV-driving lifestyle, plain and simple. Perhaps when rappers cruise around in diamond-encrusted Honda Insights, the attitude will change.
I have no solution to the agressively individualistic 'society' in the US. Perhaps when the rest of the world is further along with cleaning up its act and the US is still fucking up the planet unabated economic or military sanctions will be necessarry.
It seems to me that implicit in the article is the suggestion that we are defined by what we buy. That's absurd. What does it matter if I only listen to Techno and my neighbour only listens to Jazz? He still lives next door, we breathe the same air, drive on the same roads and have the same elected representatives. That's what creates social cohesion, not all listening to the only radio station in town and being brainwashed into buying Britney albums as a result.
Even in the activities we have total choice over we are all members of a number of different groups. I'm a robotics geek, a physicist, a cricket fan, an electronica fan, a motorsports fan, and I fit in a dozen other categories too. Within each category recommendation engines work well enough. But through being a cricket fan I meet people who aren't robotics geeks and who aren't physicists and who don't like electronica. Through these people I get to hear about jazz and soccer and knitting and all the other things they don't have in common with me.
If there's ever a a service which recommends every aspect of your life, from what to eat for breakfast to where to live and what job to have I might worry. Till then I can be pretty sure all the people I'll meet are multi-facted individuals and will have something new to teach me - even if our record collections are identical.
Well, yes, just turning off the gas pumps would cause economic chaos. But that's a straw man, nobody rational is suggesting doing such a thing.
It's not about hydrocarbons, it's about releasing hydrocarbons into the atmosphere which had previously been locked away underground. You can still fill your SUV up with gas, just make the gas from plants instead.
Not as much as ones on physics, no. Physics knowlege was useful though, I'm not sure I'd have been able to maintain brain state though paragraphs so riddled with with ((asides) and definitions) had I not first got my head around simpler things, like M-Theory.
Slashdot Mirror
(c)rap. That's clever. No, really, it is. Novel too.
Not everyone thinks you're stupid.
Steering a car with 30 minutes delay would indeed be really hard. I think that's why they rejected the steering wheel as a mechanism for controlling the probe and used computers and maths and stuff instead.
That's what they want you to believe, but it's a Japanese probe - behind that camera is a crowd of 600 Japanese teenagers holding up their camera-phones.
Why charge kids more for sex?
The cost of software would rise, but the need for upgrades and the costs of dealing with errors would fall. Whether we'd get a net benefit depends on the nature of the regulation. I think in the absence of a fair market we need either liability or regulation. Liability for the developers themselves though? I note he wasn't suggesting personal liability for CEOs of security firms or personal liability for ex-White House advisers. What flawed policies and pieces of legislation did he advise on that he's willing to be held liable for? The costs of flawed legislation are far higher than those of flawed software.
I'm not talking specifically about 'computer stuff', I'm talking about abstraction in general. 'People' just don't do it. 'People' don't think in terms of subheadings, they think in terms of bold type.
Every fucking time. Every single fucking time. If there's one thing that pisses me off about the ability of the internet to to reach a global audience it's that it guarantees you'll reach yet another smartass who feels the need to explain your fucking jokes. Well fuck you smartass globalite, you're exactly the kind of fuckwit that makes the rest of us think that the Nazis has the right idea but the wrong selection algorithm. Oh aren't you the clever one, pointing out the completely fucking obvious. Well I fucking hate you for it.
And no, the fucking winking smiley doesn't make it all OK, you fucking cunt. I hope you die.
If you want to play that game, you must show that it was worse than it could have been.
I don't think you can combine Vi and Latex and make it easy to use. People have to learn to think about what they are doing to use something like Latex, which as far as I can tell most people fail to do. It's not hard, but it requires some thought. 'Normal' people just don't systemize like geeks. I'm not sure they systemize at all. Machines can do what geeks want; but normal people want products, not machines. They don't want content-management systems, they want a blog. They don't want file sharing, they want music-on-demand. They may be stupid, but Microsoft knows how to give them what they want. And Bill is richer than either of us.
You just get an ISP that is multi-homed, let them work it out. I find it amazing that there are apparently large ISPs getting all their bandwidth from one place.
I tried to get Level 3 to peer with my Class A (10.0.0.0/8) and they wouldn't, they fucked me like they fucked Cogent. Now I can't get to any sites at all. These bastards are ruining the intarweb.
Yeah, someone really should get round to inventing email.
That's an estimate of manufacturing cost, which comes out at 50% of the retail price. There are of course other overheads Apple incurr - design, support, fixed costs etc. I bet they are making a tidy profit on each one, but I suspect it's closer to 25% than 50%. But hell, if people will pay that much then more power to Apple. I don't get it myself, I prefer Sony's music players now you're not forced to use their crappy proprietary formats on them. OLED displays are way sexier than a clickwheel.
I'd like to see the evidence you have to make the assertion that "people participating in this usually have their personalities and mental health destroyed so they can participate". And I mean evidence. Not single examples (which I'm sure exist), not amateur psychology, not your preconceptions about what rational people will and will not do, but evidence that it's usual.
Children can never give their consent to take part in pornography, consent is not theirs to give while they are still children. Adults on the other hand both can and do. Are all the people who go to S&M clubs forced into it too? Like it or not, people enjoy doing weird stuff. Stuff involving pain, excrement and people they aren't married to. Let them get on with it. If it freaks you out that's your problem.
Sexual Deviant: one so insecure and repressed about their own sexuality that they must impose their twisted views on others.
What's more perverse: having a woman shit in your mouth or dedicating your life to seeking out women shitting in mens' mouths (something you would could never come across by accident) just so you can tell them not to do it?
If it takes the client down your client is broken. If it appears that the client has frozen and this is surprising to you, then you haven't read 'man nfs'. You can configure how it deals with lost connections, in particular I suggest you look at the 'soft' and 'intr' options.
No.
In other news: the chicken didn't really cross the road.
Do you wear an unbifurcated garment? I'm tempted, but I really don't have the legs for it. I'm not sure the industrial city in the North of England in which I live is quite ready for it either, but frankly that's a plus.
17 USC, Section 107:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (my emphasis)
I think I was wrong earlier to suggest that Google might be able to argue that provision if their research was pure research. I doubt you could argue anything Google does is 'for nonprofit educational purposes'.
The tractors run on diesel from underground till there is enough biodiesel to power them. If there is no infrastructure we need to build it, we built the infrastructure we have now. How is all that not blindingly obvious? Your argument seems to be that we can't do it overnight so there is no point working towards it.
It'll take decades. It'll be gradual. A good proportion of the infrastructure will be replaced in the next 10,20,50 years anyway. You don't have to take the cars off the road, knock down houses and re-train the workforce. You wait for them to reach the end of their natural lives and use superior replacements. Give tax breaks to more energy efficient cars. Mandate superior insulation and ventilation in new homes. It's not remotely as painful or expensive as you make out, but you have to start some time. The rest of the world has already started.
I have no solution to the agressively individualistic 'society' in the US. Perhaps when the rest of the world is further along with cleaning up its act and the US is still fucking up the planet unabated economic or military sanctions will be necessarry.
It seems to me that implicit in the article is the suggestion that we are defined by what we buy. That's absurd. What does it matter if I only listen to Techno and my neighbour only listens to Jazz? He still lives next door, we breathe the same air, drive on the same roads and have the same elected representatives. That's what creates social cohesion, not all listening to the only radio station in town and being brainwashed into buying Britney albums as a result.
Even in the activities we have total choice over we are all members of a number of different groups. I'm a robotics geek, a physicist, a cricket fan, an electronica fan, a motorsports fan, and I fit in a dozen other categories too. Within each category recommendation engines work well enough. But through being a cricket fan I meet people who aren't robotics geeks and who aren't physicists and who don't like electronica. Through these people I get to hear about jazz and soccer and knitting and all the other things they don't have in common with me.
If there's ever a a service which recommends every aspect of your life, from what to eat for breakfast to where to live and what job to have I might worry. Till then I can be pretty sure all the people I'll meet are multi-facted individuals and will have something new to teach me - even if our record collections are identical.
Well, yes, just turning off the gas pumps would cause economic chaos. But that's a straw man, nobody rational is suggesting doing such a thing.
It's not about hydrocarbons, it's about releasing hydrocarbons into the atmosphere which had previously been locked away underground. You can still fill your SUV up with gas, just make the gas from plants instead.
Not as much as ones on physics, no. Physics knowlege was useful though, I'm not sure I'd have been able to maintain brain state though paragraphs so riddled with with ((asides) and definitions) had I not first got my head around simpler things, like M-Theory.