I also often take the longest path through a level just to pick up the free stuff, design, jokes or extra riddles that may be there. I avoid the straight-forward solution because I know it is a path I will not return from to check out the other stuff.
Of course, it gets kind of pointless to carry those 40 antipoisons around till after the final showdown..
Of course, people should have checked out the door and the window, but only if the game offers them ways to switch off turrets, or avoid them - but in this case you usually get a hint, for example you see the lever through a bulletproof glass window, or some NPC tells you about it.
I hate the idea too, but I saw only one story of it, I kind of liked how they depicted the scientist observing pokemons in the wild - he sounded quite like a real scientist or at least wildlife watching tv report. So maybe kids actually can learn something from the non-core parts of the comics.
Ok this means I can switch off comment cutting in my preferences, but what about the a separate page for "one more line" symptom if i leave it on ? Halving the part of the comment shown while it exceeds comment length would treat this nicely.
I guess noone hears this, but could someone please fix this insane cutting off of comments such that you have to load the full comment to read just the one more final line of it ?
I suggest that, when comments reach the cut off limit, at least 50% is placed onto the page showing the rest of the comment, this saves even more room on the main post list and makes clicking the "Read the rest of the comment" link worthwhile..
Morally, almost nothing is always wrong morally - you can always make up a situation where it is not. Also draft can be rejected in some countries if you are willing to pay some penalty, so you still have a choice, it is just a harder one.
Practically, the old have had years to learn martial arts, learn team tactics in FPS games and learn about where not to be on a battlefield. And they have had the chance to place their votes very often so as to prevent a war.
You are right that an old person who doesn't want to be drafted is far more likely to be successful in dodging a draft, simply by using his position of authority and age to get the young ones drafted.
Usually, the drafted are expected to exact terrible revenge for being drafted on their enemies on the battlefield.
(That I can turn around your arguments so easily maybe means that it is hard to argue consistently both from a moral and practical viewpoint)
I think you need someone to fund such a project, someone who likes to fund weird stuff like George Soros.
You could make it a normal company which would licence out the patents to its contributors for free, but you could add a rule to give away licenses for open source projects too.
The reason is you really need to create more than one such patent, is that you are working with borderline acceptable patents which have a high chance of being rejected and requiring attention(fees) in court, and also one patent is not enough to be annoying. (cf. EOLAS vs M$)
EMail me or reply if you ever found such a patent hunting venture;-)
I even have found the right web site name for it its "geniusideas", I think the domain is for sale.
Powerful or wealthy people today can already choose to invest into research into longevity.
Don't you think people like the Pope or Queen Mom have very good advisors already ? I once looked at the homepage of some rich american family who is hosting funds for other rich families(1) and they do have in fact some medical research foundation.
Making this kind of research public increases the chances that some of it will trickle down into the normal population.
IMHO, this kind of research should not be focused just on living longer, but on the quality of life. One should be able to work longer years and have fun longer years. Spending more time in a home for the elderly just isn't going to cut it.(2)
And another point, draft and military service should be required from the old not the young.
(1) I forgot the name it is probably among my 1000s of bookmarks, makes me wonder how many bookmarks you could collect in a longer lifespan.
(2) Unless, of course, I can read my beloved slashdot every day.
Yea, show her that "popular" internet game Empire, I mean the text networked version, not the flashy stuff that you kids know.. heck even C&C is 3D now.. . The text interface to Empire is so annoying that your Mom simply will have to learn programming and write her own client.. probably in Python and Tk.;-)
Suppose they had some scheme to detect spam which involved taking the equivalent of a vector product with known "spam" emails (and doubling the score if "Nigerian" was in it), then it might take quite some time to filter all of it. And they might be sharing some files over network to slow it down. And they might use triple filters/servers for filtering spam, their homebrewn filter, and viruses.
I find your rant against the ManyWorldsInpretation of QuantumTheory funny, since someone already said that MWI is consistent with other theories, so your argument amounts to this: "Quantum theory does not make sense".
Welcome to the club. Not quite what you intended.
To put it simply, to get the probable results, you need under QT all states to exist, even the unlikely ones.
You could try to amend this by stating that there is some magic rule causing quantum collapse/measurements, for example you could have a theory which states sharply decreasing quantum effects for large masses, below what the theory predicts.
But I think you would break most of the math that way. And the math is neat. So to make things make sense the way you want it, you need to introduce something akin to epicycles. Doesn't mean your theory is invalid, it just isn't neat.
While the term "screw up natural selection" is not very accurate (cf. "non-nuclear weapons"), what happens is that evolution and improvement for our species will be halted, but only until we embrace genetic engineering and machine intelligence.
As scary and immoral this might seem today, this is what must happen when medicine approaches perfection.
Actually evolution does not equal improvement, since unused facilities deteriorate, but lets just pretend for ourselves that it does mean improvement.
Which brings the discussion back to underdeveloped countries like many of the muslim countries. Unfortunately in many countries the fact that you don't need to have as many kids to survive into the next generation and to bet against the odds (which are improved by medicine and ambulances) hasn't made an effect on birth rates.
In fact I don't even know for sure why birth rates are low in industrial countries, IMHO the stress put on people by the state of a capital driven society, esp. on women to earn money, may be a reason. Or maybe all the people willing to take risks got themselves killed during the World Wars.
You only need the top 5% of the population of the western countries to own the worlds capital, what is the purpose of the rest ?
So while we have Civilization, will we profit from it ?
If you want to experience shared library hell under linux, just rpm -update glibc-new.rpm --force;-)
Impossible to cure, at least for me. There are various files changed and the old versions are not around anymore, the version of glibc.rpm that the distributor shipped tell me about a conflict when I try to --freshen files. All the files changed have to match.
Now, before you tell me, let me say this: using --force is considered bad practice under linux, but is standard procedure for windows.
The following are just random thoughts, please stop reading here unless you got lots of time. ---------
I knew that "force" is bad, but I figured if it told me there was a conflict in only one file, I could try it and would only break one or two applications. Wrong. Well, first rpm died, then I somehow fixed that, right now vi dies. Lots of stuff still works.
I've been advised to just re-install, but I've already tweaked the distro in some places, because the default didn't understand that I used my cd-burner as an (install-from) cdrom, and I'm not sure the new install will treat my ext3 and reiserFs nicely. Or maybe if I build glibc myself, will the configure/install be smart enough to understand my system ? Or should I just re-compile vi and every program that I need ? Well at least there is the option to do this with free source.
It would be nice to have an rpm --undo command, which reminds me that it would be nice to be able to tell your unzip to remove the files it just has unpacked.
That the platform is not supported is not a good reason, because the question is: Is the platform being used ?
So you want to reproduce the platform exactly in order to be able to support it; If you have people and source code to work with, you might for example get USB support running on NT, or support for even newer devices.
You could do this for fun, to be able to use old software or for software archeology.
Ever tried running vmware under ReactOS running linux running Wine running CoLinux ?
Marketing is not the reason patches from Microsoft often comes as a package, and the last time they bundled patches they offered an explanation for doing so.
There are perfectly normal reasons for this:
All vulnerabilites affect one program(i.e. IE)
The vulnerabilities are spread over several related files.
The development process has continued and using a set of new versions is preferable to figuring out how to patch every single version of these files.
Linux and MS patch numbers cannot be compared since Linux patches often address problems which are
hard to exploit(found by the mayn-eyes code review possible in an open source environment).
fix problems related to the (multi-user) privilege system which is still new in Windows, unused and unprobed (usually runs in single user mode) (basically permissions problems under Windows are considered to be the problem of the administrator, not the OS). I have never heared of anyone trying privilege escalation under Windows, my guess is nobody is interested or one doesn't need it.
problems in programs that don't usually come with a Windows OS, or which are rarely used in windows (DNS, sendmail).
Well you could say windows is safer because he doesn't have a console/remote administration to toy with.
When in Nano Age, you would come to understand that closed source is evil in nanotech age, where everything could be made for free, but 95% of the populace doesn't earn any money to pay for the licenses because they are not designers and programmers and you are not allowed to program your nanomatter yourself because the DMCA forbids you to do it.
Welcome to global globalization. Where you don't own the house, but the house owns you.
Slashdot Mirror
(Identifying code by its programming practices)
A: Look at this ! This must be code from 2004 !
B: But what is this ? Isn't this a string buffer overflow ?
A: Duh. I guess it must be new code after all.
I also often take the longest path through a level just to pick up the free stuff, design, jokes or extra riddles that may be there. I avoid the straight-forward solution because I know it is a path I will not return from to check out the other stuff.
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Of course, it gets kind of pointless to carry those 40 antipoisons around till after the final showdown
Of course, people should have checked out the door and the window, but only if the game offers them ways to switch off turrets, or avoid them - but in this case you usually get a hint, for example you see the lever through a bulletproof glass window, or some NPC tells you about it.
I hate the idea too, but I saw only one story of it, I kind of liked how they depicted the scientist observing pokemons in the wild - he sounded quite like a real scientist or at least wildlife watching tv report. So maybe kids actually can learn something from the non-core parts of the comics.
This explains the size of their emails:
make_email.php: <?php echo $message; include (basename($PHP_SELF) ); ?>
A very good parent post. You should forward a copy of it to all of your friends by email.
Ok this means I can switch off comment cutting in my preferences, but what about the a separate page for "one more line" symptom if i leave it on ? Halving the part of the comment shown while it exceeds comment length would treat this nicely.
I guess noone hears this, but could someone please fix this insane cutting off of comments such that you have to load the full comment to read just the one more final line of it ?
..
I suggest that, when comments reach the cut off limit, at least 50% is placed onto the page showing the rest of the comment, this saves even more room on the main post list and makes clicking the "Read the rest of the comment" link worthwhile
Morally, almost nothing is always wrong morally - you can always make up a situation where it is not. Also draft can be rejected in some countries if you are willing to pay some penalty, so you still have a choice, it is just a harder one.
Practically, the old have had years to learn martial arts, learn team tactics in FPS games and learn about where not to be on a battlefield.
And they have had the chance to place their votes very often so as to prevent a war.
You are right that an old person who doesn't want to be drafted is far more likely to be successful in dodging a draft, simply by using his position of authority and age to get the young ones drafted.
Usually, the drafted are expected to exact terrible revenge for being drafted on their enemies on the battlefield.
(That I can turn around your arguments so easily maybe means that it is hard to argue consistently both from a moral and practical viewpoint)
I think you need someone to fund such a project, someone who likes to fund weird stuff like George Soros.
;-)
You could make it a normal company which would licence out the patents to its contributors for free, but you could add a rule to give away licenses for open source projects too.
The reason is you really need to create more than one such patent, is that you are working with borderline acceptable patents which have a high chance of being rejected and requiring attention(fees) in court, and also one patent is not enough to be annoying. (cf. EOLAS vs M$)
EMail me or reply if you ever found such a patent hunting venture
I even have found the right web site name for it its "geniusideas", I think the domain is for sale.
Don't you think people like the Pope or Queen Mom have very good advisors already ? I once looked at the homepage of some rich american family who is hosting funds for other rich families(1) and they do have in fact some medical research foundation.
Making this kind of research public increases the chances that some of it will trickle down into the normal population.
IMHO, this kind of research should not be focused just on living longer, but on the quality of life. One should be able to work longer years and have fun longer years. Spending more time in a home for the elderly just isn't going to cut it.(2)
And another point, draft and military service should be required from the old not the young.
(1) I forgot the name it is probably among my 1000s of bookmarks, makes me wonder how many bookmarks you could collect in a longer lifespan.
(2) Unless, of course, I can read my beloved slashdot every day.
Yea, show her that "popular" internet game Empire, I mean the text networked version, not the flashy stuff that you kids know .. heck even C&C is 3D now .. . The text interface to Empire is so annoying that your Mom simply will have to learn programming and write her own client .. probably in Python and Tk. ;-)
The answer is c) Port it to the hurd
:-)
What else could be more funny than running a WindowsNT emulator on a GNU/GNU Kernel
Now if I could figure out how to make the HURD provide the NT kernel functions, this post would make sense.
Suppose they had some scheme to detect spam which involved taking the equivalent of a vector product with known "spam" emails (and doubling the score if "Nigerian" was in it), then it might take quite some time to filter all of it. And they might be sharing some files over network to slow it down. And they might use triple filters/servers for filtering spam, their homebrewn filter, and viruses.
Install cygwin to get the full power of "rm".
Of course it is always wise to have backups when you try out programs and commands you know nothing about.
Install cygwin to get the full power of "rm".
Of course it is always wise to have backups if you tried out programs and commands you know nothing about.
Just do rm -rf /.
I find your rant against the ManyWorldsInpretation of QuantumTheory funny, since someone already said that MWI is consistent with other theories, so your argument amounts to this: "Quantum theory does not make sense".
Welcome to the club. Not quite what you intended.
To put it simply, to get the probable results, you need under QT all states to exist, even the unlikely ones.
You could try to amend this by stating that there is some magic rule causing quantum collapse/measurements, for example you could have a theory which states sharply decreasing quantum effects for large masses, below what the theory predicts.
But I think you would break most of the math that way. And the math is neat. So to make things make sense the way you want it, you need to introduce something akin to epicycles. Doesn't mean your theory is invalid, it just isn't neat.
Highlander at everything2.com
While the term "screw up natural selection" is not very accurate (cf. "non-nuclear weapons"), what happens is that evolution and improvement for our species will be halted, but only until we embrace genetic engineering and machine intelligence.
As scary and immoral this might seem today, this is what must happen when medicine approaches perfection.
Actually evolution does not equal improvement, since unused facilities deteriorate, but lets just pretend for ourselves that it does mean improvement.
Nonviolence, Gandhi ..
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You are on the right track, everyone should stop and refuse to use the internet now to protest again controlling the internet in China.
They will get what they deserve when they no longer can read our comments on
Which brings the discussion back to underdeveloped countries like many of the muslim countries. Unfortunately in many countries the fact that you don't need to have as many kids to survive into the next generation and to bet against the odds (which are improved by medicine and ambulances) hasn't made an effect on birth rates.
In fact I don't even know for sure why birth rates are low in industrial countries, IMHO the stress put on people by the state of a capital driven society, esp. on women to earn money, may be a reason. Or maybe all the people willing to take risks got themselves killed during the World Wars.
You only need the top 5% of the population of the western countries to own the worlds capital, what is the purpose of the rest ?
So while we have Civilization, will we profit from it ?
If you want to experience shared library hell under linux, just ;-)
rpm -update glibc-new.rpm --force
Impossible to cure, at least for me.
There are various files changed and the old versions are not around anymore, the version of glibc.rpm that the distributor shipped tell me about a conflict when I try to --freshen files.
All the files changed have to match.
Now, before you tell me, let me say this: using --force is considered bad practice under linux, but is standard procedure for windows.
The following are just random thoughts, please stop reading here unless you got lots of time.
---------
I knew that "force" is bad, but I figured if it told me there was a conflict in only one file, I could try it and would only break one or two applications. Wrong. Well, first rpm died, then I somehow fixed that, right now vi dies. Lots of stuff still works.
I've been advised to just re-install, but I've already tweaked the distro in some places, because the default didn't understand that I used my cd-burner as an (install-from) cdrom, and I'm not sure the new install will treat my ext3 and reiserFs nicely. Or maybe if I build glibc myself, will the configure/install be smart enough to understand my system ?
Or should I just re-compile vi and every program that I need ? Well at least there is the option to do this with free source.
It would be nice to have an rpm --undo command, which reminds me that it would be nice to be able to tell your unzip to remove the files it just has unpacked.
That the platform is not supported is not a good reason, because the question is: Is the platform being used ?
So you want to reproduce the platform exactly in order to be able to support it; If you have people and source code to work with, you might for example get USB support running on NT, or support for even newer devices.
You could do this for fun, to be able to use old software or for software archeology.
Ever tried running vmware under ReactOS running linux running Wine running CoLinux ?
There are perfectly normal reasons for this:
Linux and MS patch numbers cannot be compared since Linux patches often address problems which are
- hard to exploit(found by the mayn-eyes code review possible in an open source environment).
- fix problems related to the (multi-user) privilege system which is still new in Windows, unused and unprobed (usually runs in single user mode) (basically permissions problems under Windows are considered to be the problem of the administrator, not the OS). I have never heared of anyone trying privilege escalation under Windows, my guess is nobody is interested or one doesn't need it.
- problems in programs that don't usually come with a Windows OS, or which are rarely used in windows (DNS, sendmail).
Well you could say windows is safer because he doesn't have a console/remote administration to toy with.Just use the mozilla composer, then load the page and do save as text ;-)
When in Nano Age, you would come to understand that closed source is evil in nanotech age, where everything could be made for free, but 95% of the populace doesn't earn any money to pay for the licenses because they are not designers and programmers and you are not allowed to program your nanomatter yourself because the DMCA forbids you to do it.
Welcome to global globalization.
Where you don't own the house, but the house owns you.