People keep saying that, but the studies I have seen regarding amphetamine use showed a marked decrease in reflexes and hand eye coordination. In the hand eye stuff the subjects would react to soon to stimulus; a trait that would suck when trying to get a kill shot in Half-Life.
but I imagine the state-dependant learning stuff still applies.
I don't know why, but my brain totally failed at the word "Union." I couldn't figure out why you wanted to belong to a not-onion; or even what the hell an union would look like...
| At least $200! Thats almost two developer hours of money!
In what city of what state/province of what country?
I think the OP's point is that if you are creating hardware for public consuption on pc's with the ability to run vista, $200 is not an unreasonable amount of money. It is also fair to say any price is unreasonable. I think MS feels like they need to spec out any driver in the interests of security, and they are the only trustworthy group to do that. In that vein, I am guessing they charge $200 to keep from being overwhelmed by every guy with a pcb from radioshack and half a dream.
I'm no microsoft apologist, but this has been a valid form of traffic restriction since before the toll bridge! I can come up with many ways that microsoft is evil, but this ain't one...
Let's try the best analogy:
Do the police need a warrant to duct tape a midget to the underside of my car? If yes then I believe this should require a warrant. Else, what's the diff except it costs much less and is more discrete.
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If you are new to linux and are thinking about learning BASH, you need to be aware that in Ubuntu linux/bin/sh points to DASH, NOT BASH. Not alot of difference, but it can screw you up if you are not aware of it.
You know I'm not trying to troll here, but I really felt this change was poorly implemented and announced. I hope it doesn't deter any newbies from probing deeper into their systems and learning the joys of scripting.
We're talking about a computer needing gargantuan processing power to beat a human and we are impressed at the computer? Seriously?
Uhh, this is slashdot. There isn't a person in this forum who isn't impressed by an 800 core 4.7 Ghz computer. I imagine a good lot of them are imagining a beowulf cluster of these right now...
replace audio with content, and you have my position. I doesn't matter how pretty it is, or how good it sounds, a remake of plan 9 from outer space still sucks balls.
Funny I always thought that separating life into "higher" and "lower" orders was what reinforced religon. After all, we (humans) are special, more special than other life. We are in gods image and even got a visit by the son of god! I mean I never heard of a cat messiah, so we must be the best!
Even if you construe it to be a privacy provision, it's not binding on Joe Sleazeball's Krazy Komputer Krepair Kshop.
Dammit, I have been trying to turn this into a joke for 20 minutes. Top three attempts:
Did Joe Sleazeball buy the company from Matthias Ettrich?
I know that place! I went there to get gnome installed on my system!
Leave KDE alone!! They released 4.1, what more do you want?!? They just want to develop their desktop environment you jackals!!
I'm sorry I am usually funnier than this.:(
Except the victim would not have been humiliated unless he was caught, and I don't think that is/was his goal. In fact it could have been the reverse of that; watching them made him feel humiliated about himself as he didn't think he was worthy of being with these girls in real life?
Your crusade against porn aside; not all sex is about power, although it can be warped out of context through trauma or abuse. Unless you are using the word power in place of the word attention?
BTW- I think the troll mods you have been given were out of line in this instance.
Computer repairmen are becoming the new age Mechanics.
For a second I pictured a guy place a handful of crystals over my laptop while burning incense to remove the ad spirits and increase the flow of my network chi...
Turns out a mouse wiggled his way ontop of the HDD and chewed through the IDE cable; squeek; crash.
WTF!!
What kind of filth hole is this guy living in that a mouse is wandering into laptops?
You didn't address my questions, but I will respond nonetheless.
First, there's a reason he chose something like bdsm sex and not something innocuous like "Free USB mouse" Yes there is, but there is no reason to discuss Jason's motives, as they are very transparant. Second, the case would be extremely different merely by dint of what society considers normal This is the crux of the biscuit right here. I am aware of the puritanical view our society has towards sex, but I am not aware of other areas of law where emotion comes into play. In other words, I can't sue you for hurting my feelings, or offending me; I can only sue if you have caused me (provable) damage. Jason is/was a jerk for pulling this stunt and he certainly has issues he needs to deal with, but I still don't see why we as taxpayers need to pay to have him sorted out and punished. This shouldn't be a federal issue. It's barely news, and only qualified because it had the word sex in the subject line. Finally, the "victim" here isn't claiming that he "didn't do anything wrong", [...]He makes no bones about what he did I assume you are quoting me in which I was referencing Jerry, one of the more vocal victims (see here). I should note that we cannot currently judge the attitude of "John Doe," the claimant of this case because he has not yet put forward a voice, only a motion to sue. The only one coming up with asinine excuses and "I don't have the money" sobbing is Jason I addressed this here The really sad part, to me, is this. There's a chance Jason will get off, likely on some very fine hair-splitting The really sad part to me is how much sensationalism and non stories are made out of the mating rituals of humans. Pitiful. Don't get me wrong, I would be embarrassed to have people watching me masturbate, but I would feel the same if they were watching me type this message.
Thanks for the debate, I appreciate the insight into your views on this subject.
Slashdot Mirror
it's IDLE.slashdot.org like what your hands were before the devil made you post on slashdot, IDOL.slashdot.org is where you go to worship cowboy neil.
Also it's "Stuff that matters"
If you are going to complain about idiots on the internet, try not to be one.
tell 'em to test on ie6 (used in 4 out 5 crappy jobs everywhere). I mean c'mon I'm going to read idle at home :)
Ok, amphetamines I can see, but weed?
People keep saying that, but the studies I have seen regarding amphetamine use showed a marked decrease in reflexes and hand eye coordination. In the hand eye stuff the subjects would react to soon to stimulus; a trait that would suck when trying to get a kill shot in Half-Life.
but I imagine the state-dependant learning stuff still applies.
There is a book called "inevitible illusions" which explores this very subject. You can check it out at your local library.
I really like reading rainbow as a child.
I have trouble believing the veracity of your claim.
I don't know why, but my brain totally failed at the word "Union." I couldn't figure out why you wanted to belong to a not-onion; or even what the hell an union would look like...
Since no one here has a even a girlfriend, I would say this is neither news for nerds or stuff that matters. :(
| At least $200! Thats almost two developer hours of money!
In what city of what state/province of what country?
I think the OP's point is that if you are creating hardware for public consuption on pc's with the ability to run vista, $200 is not an unreasonable amount of money. It is also fair to say any price is unreasonable. I think MS feels like they need to spec out any driver in the interests of security, and they are the only trustworthy group to do that. In that vein, I am guessing they charge $200 to keep from being overwhelmed by every guy with a pcb from radioshack and half a dream.
I'm no microsoft apologist, but this has been a valid form of traffic restriction since before the toll bridge! I can come up with many ways that microsoft is evil, but this ain't one...
On second glance, I don't see the emails he posted here, but I swear I have read the aol user letter previously. Anyone else find it?
Fortunately this article is a dupe, so you can see the other amusing emails before he posts the next installment!
Let's try the best analogy: Do the police need a warrant to duct tape a midget to the underside of my car? If yes then I believe this should require a warrant. Else, what's the diff except it costs much less and is more discrete.
If you are new to linux and are thinking about learning BASH, you need to be aware that in Ubuntu linux /bin/sh points to DASH, NOT BASH. Not alot of difference, but it can screw you up if you are not aware of it.
You know I'm not trying to troll here, but I really felt this change was poorly implemented and announced. I hope it doesn't deter any newbies from probing deeper into their systems and learning the joys of scripting.
We're talking about a computer needing gargantuan processing power to beat a human and we are impressed at the computer? Seriously?
Uhh, this is slashdot. There isn't a person in this forum who isn't impressed by an 800 core 4.7 Ghz computer. I imagine a good lot of them are imagining a beowulf cluster of these right now...
My daughter effectively uses a similar strategy. She is still looking for tactics to beat chutes and ladders though. :(
Research team -- look into this.
slashdot research team ASSEMBLE!
this is going to make me laugh all day.
replace audio with content, and you have my position. I doesn't matter how pretty it is, or how good it sounds, a remake of plan 9 from outer space still sucks balls.
My computer screen IS my tv screen, you insensitive clod!
What about calling it supercritical life?
Funny I always thought that separating life into "higher" and "lower" orders was what reinforced religon. After all, we (humans) are special, more special than other life. We are in gods image and even got a visit by the son of god! I mean I never heard of a cat messiah, so we must be the best!
It's called a developers environment, and it isn't hard to set up
Even if you construe it to be a privacy provision, it's not binding on Joe Sleazeball's Krazy Komputer Krepair Kshop. Dammit, I have been trying to turn this into a joke for 20 minutes. Top three attempts: Did Joe Sleazeball buy the company from Matthias Ettrich? I know that place! I went there to get gnome installed on my system! Leave KDE alone!! They released 4.1, what more do you want?!? They just want to develop their desktop environment you jackals!! I'm sorry I am usually funnier than this. :(
Except the victim would not have been humiliated unless he was caught, and I don't think that is/was his goal. In fact it could have been the reverse of that; watching them made him feel humiliated about himself as he didn't think he was worthy of being with these girls in real life? Your crusade against porn aside; not all sex is about power, although it can be warped out of context through trauma or abuse. Unless you are using the word power in place of the word attention? BTW- I think the troll mods you have been given were out of line in this instance.
Computer repairmen are becoming the new age Mechanics. For a second I pictured a guy place a handful of crystals over my laptop while burning incense to remove the ad spirits and increase the flow of my network chi...
Turns out a mouse wiggled his way ontop of the HDD and chewed through the IDE cable; squeek; crash. WTF!! What kind of filth hole is this guy living in that a mouse is wandering into laptops?
You didn't address my questions, but I will respond nonetheless.
First, there's a reason he chose something like bdsm sex and not something innocuous like "Free USB mouse"
Yes there is, but there is no reason to discuss Jason's motives, as they are very transparant.
Second, the case would be extremely different merely by dint of what society considers normal
This is the crux of the biscuit right here. I am aware of the puritanical view our society has towards sex, but I am not aware of other areas of law where emotion comes into play. In other words, I can't sue you for hurting my feelings, or offending me; I can only sue if you have caused me (provable) damage. Jason is/was a jerk for pulling this stunt and he certainly has issues he needs to deal with, but I still don't see why we as taxpayers need to pay to have him sorted out and punished. This shouldn't be a federal issue. It's barely news, and only qualified because it had the word sex in the subject line.
Finally, the "victim" here isn't claiming that he "didn't do anything wrong", [...]He makes no bones about what he did
I assume you are quoting me in which I was referencing Jerry, one of the more vocal victims (see here). I should note that we cannot currently judge the attitude of "John Doe," the claimant of this case because he has not yet put forward a voice, only a motion to sue.
The only one coming up with asinine excuses and "I don't have the money" sobbing is Jason
I addressed this here
The really sad part, to me, is this. There's a chance Jason will get off, likely on some very fine hair-splitting
The really sad part to me is how much sensationalism and non stories are made out of the mating rituals of humans. Pitiful. Don't get me wrong, I would be embarrassed to have people watching me masturbate, but I would feel the same if they were watching me type this message.
Thanks for the debate, I appreciate the insight into your views on this subject.