It isn't a new game, but 'Return to Zork' was the the first true multimedia computer game I'd ever played. I remember how the graphics and sound had me spell bound.
Calculating by hand is what you should be doing until you start getting into some fairly advanced mathematics at university. I'm in third comp. sci., having completed 7 mathematics courses, and it is only very rarely that I've actually had to use my calculator.
Doing calculations by hand forces you to actually know how to compute stuff.
While that may all be true, the 'american' has indeed (d)evolved to indicate someone living in the U.S. So please stop insulting us Canadians by grouping us as americans.
Reminds me more of University. I just finished a software systems development course that consists of term length 4 person group project. I had one team who never showed, did barely any work, and the one piece of work he did do was plagiarized. To top it off, he managed to show for our demonstration despite intentionally not being told of the location or place. I wonder if he realizes that the professor will be taking his portion of the marks and reallocating them.
A second member of the group was reasonably intelligent and did the work assigned to him, however, he had absolutely no initiative or ability to make decisions for himself. So of course it was up to the third member and myself to get the majority of the work.
Overall though it was the best course I've taken yet.
Thanks for the info. I kindof wish my intro OS course was more like that, but another part of me is glad it wasn't. One of the other courses I had been taking concurrently was a software systems development, which is an extremely time intensive group (4 people) group project. Made doubly time intensive by the fact that our 4 person group functioned more like 2.5.
Spent more time on work for that course than the othr 4 put together. Incredibly fun though.
What year of University was this? Undergrad? Grad? Was it a group project?. My 3rd year undergrad intro to OS course was nothing like that. Mainly just stuff like modifying the scheduler in Linux and fooling around with semaphores.
There was one civilian (a teacher I believe) who went into into space. Well, I suppose at least a part of the way, seeing as how the Challenger just happened to explode en route.
Perhaps parts of a civilian have made it into space.
Actually, Canada is doing just fine fiscally. We've had balanced budgets for a few years now, and are racking up fairly large multi-billion dollar surpluses. Paying down the large mountain of previously acquired debt is another matter, however it is being done slowly. For every little bit knocked of the deficit the federal government has more cash to spend on social programs.
Define having troubles. All the troubles are caused by politicians adovcating tax cuts. The Ontario government recently granted and across the board $200 dollar tax cut. For most people that is a nice present, but not significant. On the other hand it represented a billion or two dollars in lost health/education/enivronmental/infrastructure spending.
You have yet to prove that the study was indeed biased. No, the study does not apply to 100% of people on the face of the earth. Your little analogy of the person reading the SE does not prove the irrelevance of the study, it merely shows that there is an exception to the general conlusion. I know someone at a startup company who rarely gets more than couple of hours sleep a night. That person claims to be unaffected by lack of sleep, yet whenever he gets a full nights sleep he remarks about how much clearer he think.
As a side note, there are some people who are able to perform amazing mathematical calculations in their heads; stuff like 365,365,365,365,365,365 X 365,365,365,365,365,365. Most people would need a calculator to get a result, however, a select few do not. That does not mean that calculators are useless, it just there are exceptions to the human norm. It is similar for this study. There may be a statistically small portion of the population for whom the study fails, however, that doesn't mean that the study is biased or inaccurate.
One further note, if you are have as intelligent as you so elegantly stated, then why aren't you able to get your work done within normal business hours.
So who's to blame? Ourselves? Of course not, it's society's fault for having larger expectations in this day and age. But how did society get this way?
The evil capitalists trying to make a quick buck of the masses.
It's very uncapitalistic to give a company like DeCode a monopoly on a research treasure
Actually, it's very capitalistic. It is the concentration of wealth (future though it may be) into the hands of a large profit-minded corporation.
The entire point of the corporation (in turn the entire basis of capitalism) is to generate as much wealth as possible for its shareholders. Since a monopoly is the utmost wealth generating mechanism, it should be the ultimate goal of goal of any corporation. Any saying otherwise is not a true capitalist, and has at least a little dose of the communist ideal in them.
Please tell me that not all geeks are blind to common sense
Common sense is a highly subjective thing. Interesting if someone believes in what you believe in they've become knowledgable enough about history and society to draw their own conclusions, but if they do not hold your beliefs they're blindly follow propaganda
I don't expect all people to agree with me, and I certainly don't agree with all people out there, but if someone presents a point of view contradictory to my own with the intended goal of trying to persuade me then they better support their point of view.
Saying "Nazis were evil. Nazis advocated gun control. Therefore gun is evil." is highly illogical point of view. Clearly a point of view expressed by someone to ignorant to grasp the greate scope of the picture and realize that although while the Nazi regime was inherently evil, that doesn't transitively imply that everything the Nazis did was evil.
Saying that gun control/registration infringes on your 'god given' rights as an American is not supporting your point of view. Expressing why gun control infringes on your rights, expressing how gun control effects your freedom, is supporting your point of view. I have yet to see any opponent of gun control take that route though.
And why do people feel obliged to include that damn Jefferson quote in their signatures. Here's a new one:
"People who trade a little freedom for a little safety get both and deserve both" Now, why would Jefferson's quote have more validity than mine?
This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future
Just because the Nazis brought about the holocaust does not mean that every thing they did has been tainted by evil. It might be my imagination, but I do believe that German streets are safer than Amerian streets. Both before and after the war.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall
And the purpose of this quote is? This quote isn't about supressing citizens, it is about suppressing people you have conquered. There's a great deal of difference between the two. In the same way, Japan was denied a military establishment immediately after WW2 in order to prevent future reprisals and conflict with the U.S.
Using this quote is pure folly. It is not unique to the Nazis, and believing in the sense the quote makes does not make one a Nazi. As the quote says, it is merely _common sense_ that any halfway intelligent conquerer knows how to use.
Please tell me that not all geeks are blind to common sense, and that at least some are knowledgable enough about history and society to draw their own conclusions and not blindly follow propaganda. I know there's some, but after reading Slashdot for a while I'm really getting worried.
How true. When the czars were in power Russia was a second class nation, the intellectual backwater of Europe. The Communists took Russia and made it into a powerhouse of production, education, science and culture. It wasn't a 'first-rate' country in terms of standard of living, but it was a vast improvement. Since 1991 the capitalists have once again taken Russia down into the abyss.
And capitalist economies have never had shortages? How many times have farmers in the U.S./Canada burned crops or poured milk down the drain in order to reduce supply and increase prices. At the same time as people are starving (a la Great Depression). Political corruption is what caused the problems in Soviet Russia. Not communism, but corruption; the two are not mutually inclusive.
While it is true to say the conditions in Soviet Russia were worse than the Western countries, please do note that the conditions were much, much worse before the Communists took over. In the 70 years that the Communists were in power the Russian economy grow faster the Western economies, and the standard of living increased faster. Russia didn't catch up, but they made definite progress relative to the Western countries.
My, aren't we feeling witty today. Flying in a plane is perfectly safe, the poster never denied that. What the poster did suggest is that if people started commuting daily via personal flying devices (PYDs) then the risks of accidents would be much greater. Airline aircraft undergo expensive maintainence checks/repair work after each flight by trained mechanics. A PYD perform be like a car, and nobody does a complete maintainence check on their car every time they take it out. PYDs will face mechanical problems that plague cars, such as failure, stalling, a flat tire (broken fan?. However, when your car stalls you can usually safely manage to get it off the road and out off harms way. When your PYD stalls at 300 feet you are quite fucked. That is why flying a PYD is more dangerous than driving, and that is why a number of people will refrain from it.
What gets me, is the uptight nature of these folks. Arghh... Here's a quote from BI's website: "Making the Internet Better for Business." Yup. That's exactly what we need!
That is precisely what we need. Something has to pay to build major internet backbones, broadband access, technology R&D. Your $20 a month ISP fees aren't going to pay for that entirely.
And lets extend your logic a bit further:
i) People of European descent have no claim on North American Land
ii) The Isrealis have no right in Palestine
iii) The Turks have no right to Istanbul
All land has changed hands at some point in time, but that doesn't give the original inhabitants automatic rights to get it back.
Slashdot Mirror
It isn't a new game, but 'Return to Zork' was the the first true multimedia computer game I'd ever played. I remember how the graphics and sound had me spell bound.
Unlike Scheme/LISP, Java has an intuitive,
Are you saying that Scheme is unintuitive? It might just be me, but I love scheme, it's so simple and seems natural.
Prolog on the other hand is a language that deserves to be lost in obscurity.
The B-2 stealth bomber, which can't fly in the rain.
So a traditionally made, hand-crafted B2 would have problems flying in the rain like the machine made B2 does?
Calculating by hand is what you should be doing until you start getting into some fairly advanced mathematics at university. I'm in third comp. sci., having completed 7 mathematics courses, and it is only very rarely that I've actually had to use my calculator.
Doing calculations by hand forces you to actually know how to compute stuff.
Try reading the article.
It isn't a matter of reading the article, the bloody twit couldn't even understand the title.
(my $2.00 (since i wrote so much (hmm am i allowed to put a comma inside a comma (oh well...))))
A comma inside a comma? Did we flunk our grade 5 grammar class?
While that may all be true, the 'american' has indeed (d)evolved to indicate someone living in the U.S. So please stop insulting us Canadians by grouping us as americans.
Remind you of Highschool?
Reminds me more of University. I just finished a software systems development course that consists of term length 4 person group project. I had one team who never showed, did barely any work, and the one piece of work he did do was plagiarized. To top it off, he managed to show for our demonstration despite intentionally not being told of the location or place. I wonder if he realizes that the professor will be taking his portion of the marks and reallocating them.
A second member of the group was reasonably intelligent and did the work assigned to him, however, he had absolutely no initiative or ability to make decisions for himself. So of course it was up to the third member and myself to get the majority of the work.
Overall though it was the best course I've taken yet.
Thanks for the info. I kindof wish my intro OS course was more like that, but another part of me is glad it wasn't. One of the other courses I had been taking concurrently was a software systems development, which is an extremely time intensive group (4 people) group project. Made doubly time intensive by the fact that our 4 person group functioned more like 2.5.
Spent more time on work for that course than the othr 4 put together. Incredibly fun though.
What year of University was this? Undergrad? Grad? Was it a group project?. My 3rd year undergrad intro to OS course was nothing like that. Mainly just stuff like modifying the scheduler in Linux and fooling around with semaphores.
There was one civilian (a teacher I believe) who went into into space. Well, I suppose at least a part of the way, seeing as how the Challenger just happened to explode en route.
Perhaps parts of a civilian have made it into space.
Actually, Canada is doing just fine fiscally. We've had balanced budgets for a few years now, and are racking up fairly large multi-billion dollar surpluses. Paying down the large mountain of previously acquired debt is another matter, however it is being done slowly. For every little bit knocked of the deficit the federal government has more cash to spend on social programs.
Define having troubles. All the troubles are caused by politicians adovcating tax cuts. The Ontario government recently granted and across the board $200 dollar tax cut. For most people that is a nice present, but not significant. On the other hand it represented a billion or two dollars in lost health/education/enivronmental/infrastructure spending.
YAY! Finally a fellow Comrade in the Revolution!
70% Bush?? I thought the whole mess is ocurring because the count is 50-50?
You have yet to prove that the study was indeed biased. No, the study does not apply to 100% of people on the face of the earth. Your little analogy of the person reading the SE does not prove the irrelevance of the study, it merely shows that there is an exception to the general conlusion. I know someone at a startup company who rarely gets more than couple of hours sleep a night. That person claims to be unaffected by lack of sleep, yet whenever he gets a full nights sleep he remarks about how much clearer he think.
As a side note, there are some people who are able to perform amazing mathematical calculations in their heads; stuff like 365,365,365,365,365,365 X 365,365,365,365,365,365. Most people would need a calculator to get a result, however, a select few do not. That does not mean that calculators are useless, it just there are exceptions to the human norm. It is similar for this study. There may be a statistically small portion of the population for whom the study fails, however, that doesn't mean that the study is biased or inaccurate.
One further note, if you are have as intelligent as you so elegantly stated, then why aren't you able to get your work done within normal business hours.
So who's to blame? Ourselves? Of course not, it's society's fault for having larger expectations in this day and age. But how did society get this way?
The evil capitalists trying to make a quick buck of the masses.
It's very uncapitalistic to give a company like DeCode a monopoly on a research treasure
Actually, it's very capitalistic. It is the concentration of wealth (future though it may be) into the hands of a large profit-minded corporation.
The entire point of the corporation (in turn the entire basis of capitalism) is to generate as much wealth as possible for its shareholders. Since a monopoly is the utmost wealth generating mechanism, it should be the ultimate goal of goal of any corporation. Any saying otherwise is not a true capitalist, and has at least a little dose of the communist ideal in them.
Please tell me that not all geeks are blind to common sense Common sense is a highly subjective thing. Interesting if someone believes in what you believe in they've become knowledgable enough about history and society to draw their own conclusions, but if they do not hold your beliefs they're blindly follow propaganda
I don't expect all people to agree with me, and I certainly don't agree with all people out there, but if someone presents a point of view contradictory to my own with the intended goal of trying to persuade me then they better support their point of view.
Saying "Nazis were evil. Nazis advocated gun control. Therefore gun is evil." is highly illogical point of view. Clearly a point of view expressed by someone to ignorant to grasp the greate scope of the picture and realize that although while the Nazi regime was inherently evil, that doesn't transitively imply that everything the Nazis did was evil.
Saying that gun control/registration infringes on your 'god given' rights as an American is not supporting your point of view. Expressing why gun control infringes on your rights, expressing how gun control effects your freedom, is supporting your point of view. I have yet to see any opponent of gun control take that route though.
And why do people feel obliged to include that damn Jefferson quote in their signatures. Here's a new one:
"People who trade a little freedom for a little safety get both and deserve both"
Now, why would Jefferson's quote have more validity than mine?
would they do if 1 million hackers turned themselves in?
It's called the death penalty.
This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future
Just because the Nazis brought about the holocaust does not mean that every thing they did has been tainted by evil. It might be my imagination, but I do believe that German streets are safer than Amerian streets. Both before and after the war.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall And the purpose of this quote is? This quote isn't about supressing citizens, it is about suppressing people you have conquered. There's a great deal of difference between the two. In the same way, Japan was denied a military establishment immediately after WW2 in order to prevent future reprisals and conflict with the U.S.
Using this quote is pure folly. It is not unique to the Nazis, and believing in the sense the quote makes does not make one a Nazi. As the quote says, it is merely _common sense_ that any halfway intelligent conquerer knows how to use.
Please tell me that not all geeks are blind to common sense, and that at least some are knowledgable enough about history and society to draw their own conclusions and not blindly follow propaganda. I know there's some, but after reading Slashdot for a while I'm really getting worried.
How true. When the czars were in power Russia was a second class nation, the intellectual backwater of Europe. The Communists took Russia and made it into a powerhouse of production, education, science and culture. It wasn't a 'first-rate' country in terms of standard of living, but it was a vast improvement. Since 1991 the capitalists have once again taken Russia down into the abyss.
And capitalist economies have never had shortages? How many times have farmers in the U.S./Canada burned crops or poured milk down the drain in order to reduce supply and increase prices. At the same time as people are starving (a la Great Depression). Political corruption is what caused the problems in Soviet Russia. Not communism, but corruption; the two are not mutually inclusive.
While it is true to say the conditions in Soviet Russia were worse than the Western countries, please do note that the conditions were much, much worse before the Communists took over. In the 70 years that the Communists were in power the Russian economy grow faster the Western economies, and the standard of living increased faster. Russia didn't catch up, but they made definite progress relative to the Western countries.
My, aren't we feeling witty today. Flying in a plane is perfectly safe, the poster never denied that. What the poster did suggest is that if people started commuting daily via personal flying devices (PYDs) then the risks of accidents would be much greater. Airline aircraft undergo expensive maintainence checks/repair work after each flight by trained mechanics. A PYD perform be like a car, and nobody does a complete maintainence check on their car every time they take it out. PYDs will face mechanical problems that plague cars, such as failure, stalling, a flat tire (broken fan?. However, when your car stalls you can usually safely manage to get it off the road and out off harms way. When your PYD stalls at 300 feet you are quite fucked. That is why flying a PYD is more dangerous than driving, and that is why a number of people will refrain from it.
What gets me, is the uptight nature of these folks. Arghh... Here's a quote from BI's website: "Making the Internet Better for Business." Yup. That's exactly what we need!
That is precisely what we need. Something has to pay to build major internet backbones, broadband access, technology R&D. Your $20 a month ISP fees aren't going to pay for that entirely.
And lets extend your logic a bit further: i) People of European descent have no claim on North American Land ii) The Isrealis have no right in Palestine iii) The Turks have no right to Istanbul All land has changed hands at some point in time, but that doesn't give the original inhabitants automatic rights to get it back.