If you have a college-aged daughter, by Slashdot standards you *are* a geezer.
I think the defining characteristic of the younger generation now is two-fold: 1) They all seem to wear headphones when walking between classes 2) The vast range of social to anti-social is far greater than any generation before them, and there are more individuals on the extremes.
US Centric, but: High school kids can't really be broken up into EMO, Goth, Sk8rs, Preps, and Jocks anymore. None of the defining characteristics seem to apply to any single kid. At the same time, they all espouse a certain conformity and know next to nothing about US law. This is compounded by the fact that they all *think* they know it. Many of them don't understand the concept that government used to be a constantly changing and always evolving concept. They think of morals in terms of laws. For example, I had a conversation with someone about welfare for New Orleans the other day. They couldn't grasp the concept of *not* rebuilding an area that is prone to have future flooding problems. They were certain that it would be nothing but cold-hearted to provide anything but a reconstruction of the original area. When I proposed splitting 100 billion (half the 200 billion) and cutting it directly into checks and giving it to Katrina victims, I was told I was callous and not being very considerate of the culture of the area.
I don't know about you, but I *NEVER* remember it being okay to speak with authority about something I knew so little about. This same individual thought that New Orleans was the capital of Louisiana. How far and uneducated our kids have become. What better time to educate them about obvious things such as this!
Hopefully one day that bureaucracy will wake up and realize it.
If this would have been a comment on here about NASA, it's almost a certainity it would have been modded -1 within minutes. I know I, and several others have tried to talk about the ills of NASA being such a bureaucracy, but our comments get ignored.
Teachers get paid "teh suck". Public education in this country (US-centric, sorry) was hijacked by the federal government so now all the money that used to be available for actual teachers now goes to federal bureaucrats that try to maintain teaching quality from state-to-state and unionized secretaries that have had their job for the last 60 years.
So you get school superintendents that get paid 70k, school principals that get paid 50k, and teachers that get paid 20-30k. A dual-teaching-income house in the Midwest runs anywhere from 40k-60k. Yes, that's with BOTH husband and wife working.
I had no idea Slashdot had this many Nintendo fanbois. Is there any reason only the pro-Nintendo articles are getting voted up?
I'm surprised someone can make a comment that a remote wand is going to be better for FPS's. Why not a remote mouse? I've yet to see anyone improve on this technology without requiring recharging times every two hours.
Has anyone even taken into consideration how long these devices will hold a charge or how often batteries would need to be replaced? Somehow I doubt Nintendo has made great strides in battery power and usage.
Granted, it does look cool, but it looks as if Nintendo will be positioning themselves as the console for "active" gamers. If I wanted to entertain myself while flicking my wrist around,... well...
Yes, I RTFA and didn't see it. I know enough about MIMO to know that it's great, but until we've come up with a way to comfortably blanket the world in a massive wireless network, bandwidth isn't a big deal.
IMHO, 802.11s is where the funding should be. It is right now for the most part, but more could be spent.
I'm disturbed by the number of otherwise intelligent atheist evolutionists that are falling for creationist trolls. You're all biting it hook, line, and sinker. Even the mods.
How would you like your boss to lie to a future employer that you got fired for drug abuse or for having kiddie porn?
This is a really horrible example. If I was interviewing for a position and someone said that about a potential hire, I'd either ask the applicant about it, or look up the information myself.
90% of employers know that animosity may exist between employees and former employers. It's why very few even bother contacting former employers, and instead do background checks.
I'm as disappointed every time a pro-ID poster promotes his view on slashdot.
Name once that an ID proponent made a comment on a NON-ID related story here on Slashdot. You can't. Yet the examples of atheists posting jokes about how "dumb" ID is on articles not even related to the debate are so easy to find because they are +5 modded all over the place.
I don't even like ID and I find it ridiculous that far left radical atheists have hijacked/.
Slashdot seems to have turned into some radical leftist-atheistic-anti-religion website, even on articles having little to do with religion, all the comments are about it. WTF? Attacking ID seems to be the new way to get +5, Insightful on your comments, excuse me if I think that's a little sad.
It's like religion (or lack thereof) and politics even dominates a site intended to be about technology. If I wanted to hear your comments about how Christianity is destroying the world, I'd view Kuro5hin.org. In fact, I find it likely that if/. has went to hell, it means K5 is probably getting better again. Time to find out.
I'd be interested in how things like BitTorrent and ISPs using software to cache P2P traffic has helped in this regard. The amount of bandwidth that might have been otherwise used may have increased, but due to slimmer protocols and better distribution methods, the amount of traffic may have appeared to have grown at a slower rate.
Hell, even Ronald Reagan is starting to rotate a bit.
True story, in an interview with Reason, Reagan took the following stances (these are direct quotes): 1. "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." 2. "If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." 3. "I disagree completely when government says that because of the number of head injuries from accidents with motorcycles that he should be forced to wear a helmet. I happen to think he's stupid if he rides a motorcycle without a helmet, but that's one of our sacred rights-to be stupid." 4. "I also think our greatest threat today comes from government's involvement in things that are not government's proper province. And in those things government has a magnificent record of failure." 5. "But, we start with those legitimate areas and then we go on and regulations just keep spreading like spores of a fungus until we find that they literally are taking away the rights of management to make business decisions with regard to their competition." 6. "I know of one particular drug firm, which just a few years ago, could license a drug with some 70 pages of supporting data. Today it takes that same company 73,000 pages for an additional drug. I know that there's been about a 60 percent drop in the development of new drugs in this country." 7. "You know, the Federal Government could have done it differently if the Federal Government did not at the same time want control." 8. " If you're going to have a tax the people should know what the tax is and the government should be able to tell them without the people having to go to the expense of figuring it out themselves." 9. "Well, government's only weapons are force and coercion and that's why we shouldn't let it get out of hand. And that's what the founding fathers had in mind with the Constitution, that you don't let it get out of hand." 10. "If they really want to put a referendum on the ballot, why don't they go out and say to the people, do you want to change this and make it so that a simple majority can increase that tax or do you want to make it that it requires a two-thirds majority of the legislature to change any tax?" 11. "Look-you've got a legislature that takes two-thirds to pass the budget, it takes two-thirds to pass an appropriation bill, a spending bill-so why shouldn't it take a two-thirds majority to say whether you're going to raise the taxes." 12. "But they are fools in thinking that business somehow is getting a special break. Who pays the business tax anyway? We do! You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes. And if they can't be passed on to the customer in the price of the product as a cost of operation, business goes out of business." 13. "So they'll tax business and the price of the product will go up and the people will blame the storekeeper for the rise in the price of the product, not recognizing that all he's doing is passing on to them a hidden sales tax." 14. "If people need any more concrete explanation of this, start with the staff of life, a loaf of bread. The simplest thing; the poorest man must have it. Well, there are 151 taxes now in the price of a loaf of bread-it accounts for more than half the cost of a loaf of bread. It begins with the first tax, on the farmer that raised the wheat. Any simpleton can understand that if that farmer cannot get enough money for his wheat, to pay the property tax on his farm, he can't be a farmer. He loses his farm. And so it is with the fellow who pays a driver's license and a gasoline tax to drive the truckload of wheat to the mill, the miller who has to pay everything from social security tax, business license, everything else. He has to make his living over and above those costs. So they all wind up in that loaf of bread. Now an egg isn't far behind and nobody had to make that. There's a hundred taxes in an egg by the time it gets to market and you know the chicken didn't put them there!"
Ditto on the character twists. Firefly is the only space series I know of where the crew could mutiny in nearly any episode and it would totally fit in with the plot.
And not to ruin the plot, but one of the characters makes a huge mistake, gets caught, and the issue only partially gets resolved at the end of the season. There is a specific episode where respect is gained, but you're always left to wonder when the whole situation is going to break down.
There's also a crew member whose presence with them is completely questionable and, to me anyway, is almost certainly spying on them for their "enemies".
Abiogenesis is impossible. You cannot create life from non-life. If you could, then creationism wouldn't be a joke. And for that matter, neither would be macroevolution.
Does this mean that, as a developer, if I create content that a user uses, then I take that content away, I am held liable for "stealing"?
Why does NCSoft not have any say in this matter?
IMHO, I know some of you get pissy about MMORPG farming and the physically-handicapped who play these games for a living (making money on Ebay and IGE), but isn't this a case where the comment, "It's just a game!" is pertinent?
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If you have a college-aged daughter, by Slashdot standards you *are* a geezer.
I think the defining characteristic of the younger generation now is two-fold:
1) They all seem to wear headphones when walking between classes
2) The vast range of social to anti-social is far greater than any generation before them, and there are more individuals on the extremes.
US Centric, but:
High school kids can't really be broken up into EMO, Goth, Sk8rs, Preps, and Jocks anymore. None of the defining characteristics seem to apply to any single kid. At the same time, they all espouse a certain conformity and know next to nothing about US law. This is compounded by the fact that they all *think* they know it. Many of them don't understand the concept that government used to be a constantly changing and always evolving concept. They think of morals in terms of laws. For example, I had a conversation with someone about welfare for New Orleans the other day. They couldn't grasp the concept of *not* rebuilding an area that is prone to have future flooding problems. They were certain that it would be nothing but cold-hearted to provide anything but a reconstruction of the original area. When I proposed splitting 100 billion (half the 200 billion) and cutting it directly into checks and giving it to Katrina victims, I was told I was callous and not being very considerate of the culture of the area.
I don't know about you, but I *NEVER* remember it being okay to speak with authority about something I knew so little about. This same individual thought that New Orleans was the capital of Louisiana. How far and uneducated our kids have become. What better time to educate them about obvious things such as this!
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Hopefully one day that bureaucracy will wake up and realize it.
If this would have been a comment on here about NASA, it's almost a certainity it would have been modded -1 within minutes. I know I, and several others have tried to talk about the ills of NASA being such a bureaucracy, but our comments get ignored.
Dr Siemionow told Associated Press: "You want to choose patients who are really disfigured, not someone who has a little scar."
I nominate this guy.
Wait a minute.
You let your users install extensions?
What's to say they won't install a vulnerable IE extension?
Teachers get paid "teh suck". Public education in this country (US-centric, sorry) was hijacked by the federal government so now all the money that used to be available for actual teachers now goes to federal bureaucrats that try to maintain teaching quality from state-to-state and unionized secretaries that have had their job for the last 60 years.
So you get school superintendents that get paid 70k, school principals that get paid 50k, and teachers that get paid 20-30k. A dual-teaching-income house in the Midwest runs anywhere from 40k-60k. Yes, that's with BOTH husband and wife working.
I guess if you *love* teaching...
I had no idea Slashdot had this many Nintendo fanbois. Is there any reason only the pro-Nintendo articles are getting voted up?
... well...
I'm surprised someone can make a comment that a remote wand is going to be better for FPS's. Why not a remote mouse? I've yet to see anyone improve on this technology without requiring recharging times every two hours.
Has anyone even taken into consideration how long these devices will hold a charge or how often batteries would need to be replaced? Somehow I doubt Nintendo has made great strides in battery power and usage.
Granted, it does look cool, but it looks as if Nintendo will be positioning themselves as the console for "active" gamers. If I wanted to entertain myself while flicking my wrist around,
and the distance is... ?
Yes, I RTFA and didn't see it. I know enough about MIMO to know that it's great, but until we've come up with a way to comfortably blanket the world in a massive wireless network, bandwidth isn't a big deal.
IMHO, 802.11s is where the funding should be. It is right now for the most part, but more could be spent.
For more info on the available protocols:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11
I guess all the macro viruses that existed on the Macintosh in the late 80s don't count, hunh?
I like how everyone on here berates him for how he responded.
Seriously, what you *you* do? Be polite for the sake of professionalism or make a fun joke out of the whole thing that you can tell for years to come?
I'm disturbed by the number of otherwise intelligent atheist evolutionists that are falling for creationist trolls. You're all biting it hook, line, and sinker. Even the mods.
How would you like your boss to lie to a future employer that you got fired for drug abuse or for having kiddie porn?
This is a really horrible example. If I was interviewing for a position and someone said that about a potential hire, I'd either ask the applicant about it, or look up the information myself.
90% of employers know that animosity may exist between employees and former employers. It's why very few even bother contacting former employers, and instead do background checks.
'The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people.'
I beg to differ.
Hurting someone else's feelings is my spaghetti-god-given right.
I'm as disappointed every time a pro-ID poster promotes his view on slashdot.
/.
Name once that an ID proponent made a comment on a NON-ID related story here on Slashdot. You can't. Yet the examples of atheists posting jokes about how "dumb" ID is on articles not even related to the debate are so easy to find because they are +5 modded all over the place.
I don't even like ID and I find it ridiculous that far left radical atheists have hijacked
By all means, falsify abiogenesis. It's required for the religion of atheism to have its basis in macro-evolution.
Oh, and btw, I'm not an ID or creationist proponent, I just hate evolution with the same vigor you despise ID.
Slashdot seems to have turned into some radical leftist-atheistic-anti-religion website, even on articles having little to do with religion, all the comments are about it. WTF? Attacking ID seems to be the new way to get +5, Insightful on your comments, excuse me if I think that's a little sad.
/. has went to hell, it means K5 is probably getting better again. Time to find out.
It's like religion (or lack thereof) and politics even dominates a site intended to be about technology. If I wanted to hear your comments about how Christianity is destroying the world, I'd view Kuro5hin.org. In fact, I find it likely that if
Tell the truth, you downloaded the latest Brittany Spears album didn't you?
No. I did not. That is the truth. Any additional questions?
I'd be interested in how things like BitTorrent and ISPs using software to cache P2P traffic has helped in this regard. The amount of bandwidth that might have been otherwise used may have increased, but due to slimmer protocols and better distribution methods, the amount of traffic may have appeared to have grown at a slower rate.
Hell, even Ronald Reagan is starting to rotate a bit.
True story, in an interview with Reason, Reagan took the following stances (these are direct quotes):
1. "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves."
2. "If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."
3. "I disagree completely when government says that because of the number of head injuries from accidents with motorcycles that he should be forced to wear a helmet. I happen to think he's stupid if he rides a motorcycle without a helmet, but that's one of our sacred rights-to be stupid."
4. "I also think our greatest threat today comes from government's involvement in things that are not government's proper province. And in those things government has a magnificent record of failure."
5. "But, we start with those legitimate areas and then we go on and regulations just keep spreading like spores of a fungus until we find that they literally are taking away the rights of management to make business decisions with regard to their competition."
6. "I know of one particular drug firm, which just a few years ago, could license a drug with some 70 pages of supporting data. Today it takes that same company 73,000 pages for an additional drug. I know that there's been about a 60 percent drop in the development of new drugs in this country."
7. "You know, the Federal Government could have done it differently if the Federal Government did not at the same time want control."
8. " If you're going to have a tax the people should know what the tax is and the government should be able to tell them without the people having to go to the expense of figuring it out themselves."
9. "Well, government's only weapons are force and coercion and that's why we shouldn't let it get out of hand. And that's what the founding fathers had in mind with the Constitution, that you don't let it get out of hand."
10. "If they really want to put a referendum on the ballot, why don't they go out and say to the people, do you want to change this and make it so that a simple majority can increase that tax or do you want to make it that it requires a two-thirds majority of the legislature to change any tax?"
11. "Look-you've got a legislature that takes two-thirds to pass the budget, it takes two-thirds to pass an appropriation bill, a spending bill-so why shouldn't it take a two-thirds majority to say whether you're going to raise the taxes."
12. "But they are fools in thinking that business somehow is getting a special break. Who pays the business tax anyway? We do! You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes. And if they can't be passed on to the customer in the price of the product as a cost of operation, business goes out of business."
13. "So they'll tax business and the price of the product will go up and the people will blame the storekeeper for the rise in the price of the product, not recognizing that all he's doing is passing on to them a hidden sales tax."
14. "If people need any more concrete explanation of this, start with the staff of life, a loaf of bread. The simplest thing; the poorest man must have it. Well, there are 151 taxes now in the price of a loaf of bread-it accounts for more than half the cost of a loaf of bread. It begins with the first tax, on the farmer that raised the wheat. Any simpleton can understand that if that farmer cannot get enough money for his wheat, to pay the property tax on his farm, he can't be a farmer. He loses his farm. And so it is with the fellow who pays a driver's license and a gasoline tax to drive the truckload of wheat to the mill, the miller who has to pay everything from social security tax, business license, everything else. He has to make his living over and above those costs. So they all wind up in that loaf of bread. Now an egg isn't far behind and nobody had to make that. There's a hundred taxes in an egg by the time it gets to market and you know the chicken didn't put them there!"
Source: July 1975 - Reason magazine
http://reason.com/7507/int_reagan.shtml
Real life is never a sub-par Hollywood blockbuster movie.
Real men use paragraphs.
Can I come work for you? :)
Ditto on the character twists. Firefly is the only space series I know of where the crew could mutiny in nearly any episode and it would totally fit in with the plot.
And not to ruin the plot, but one of the characters makes a huge mistake, gets caught, and the issue only partially gets resolved at the end of the season. There is a specific episode where respect is gained, but you're always left to wonder when the whole situation is going to break down.
There's also a crew member whose presence with them is completely questionable and, to me anyway, is almost certainly spying on them for their "enemies".
Abiogenesis is impossible. You cannot create life from non-life. If you could, then creationism wouldn't be a joke. And for that matter, neither would be macroevolution.
Does this mean that, as a developer, if I create content that a user uses, then I take that content away, I am held liable for "stealing"?
Why does NCSoft not have any say in this matter?
IMHO, I know some of you get pissy about MMORPG farming and the physically-handicapped who play these games for a living (making money on Ebay and IGE), but isn't this a case where the comment, "It's just a game!" is pertinent?