Really? If you arm more GOOD people, they then can stop BAD people from doing bad things.
This statement scares me to no end. Who decides who's good and who's bad? And most certainly, define both terms for the use of this argument? They are most extremely subjective.
Good: People who are not in my home uninvited in the middle of the night. Bad: Those who are. Good: Those not raping your and my girlfriends, wives, sisters, friends. Bad: Those who have tried and or suceeded at this, or been shot trying to do so. I'm pretty sure the context of the rest of the comment was pretty clear on who I was talking about.
I don't think guns should be used lightly. But in either of the above situations, they should be used first, killing the person putting you at risk.
Guns are really not that effective against other people with guns, unless you shoot them before they draw theirs.
However a woman with a gun (and enough confidence and training to shoot it) can take down 4 grown men each twice her size no problem if she keeps at least 10-20 ft between them. As this is the EXACT situation that my once unarmed now armed friend encountered, I see that there is plenty of reason.
I, as a relatively well-built man, don't actually feel the need to carry when I go someplace, even in a bad neighborhood. If you are just robbing me, I'll happily give you whatever you want if it would actually come down to shooting you. Once I find out you aren't going to hurt me or my loved ones, I don't want to kill you.
You seem to be against using leathal force. Not just guns. I think I have set out in what situations I believe that leathal force should be used. I'm all about someone using leathal force to protect themselves though, especially women. If you would prefer your mother to be raped than for her to stab to death her assailant, then I think our conversation is over. But otherwise I think that you would agree that leathal force is appropriate sometimes, and that you just don't like some of the OTHER problems with guns.
We generally know more about ourselves than we do any other species on the planet, seems like we'd be the best candidates.
Medical researchers know just as much if not more abou thte physiology of the common rat as they do humans. You'd be surprised how much they have to learn about the damn things to be a researcher. And yes, it is worse then doing it on other anamals. Are you some sort of Vegan or something? Otherwise I'd stop looking down that nose at the world. You can live just dandy without eating them, but the medical community CAN'T do a lot of reaseach without them.
Really? If you arm more GOOD people, they then can stop BAD people from doing bad things.
I really don't care what happens to anyone who breaks into my home, and will be upset if I DON'T manage to kill the bastard. This bill won't decrease the amout criminals are armedt will only decrease the amout law abiding citizens are. Do you realize that less than 300 children a year die from guns accidents in the US. That may sound like too big of a number, but I'm more worried that there are over 89,107 FORCIBLE rapes yearly in the US (There are over 300,000 reported total rapes). Most are committed by people those women/children know, but if even 1% of that number is prevented by killing the bastard who broke into your home, I will take those child deaths EASILY, as they are over ten time less in number. 2% of those rapes involve the rapist having a firearm, where 91% of all failed rapes are stopped though self defense measures.
I will take dumb kids dying over 10 times that many women being forcibly raped. Kids can be taught not to screw with guns. We don't seem to have that stopping criminals from breaking into your home, making you feel forever after unsafe, and possibly raping your women and/or children thing down pat yet.
As a consultant, your position makes much more sense. The position of the gentleman who posted the ask slashdot however, does not seem to imply the same PR need that you have as a consultant. When you AREN'T a consultant, but just a run of the mill programmer, there are so many things (like time schedules, presence or lack of code reviews, poor design process, etc) which make many defects as much if not more the company's fault as yours.
You aren't in the real world I'm taking it? You are paid to work on the code. Not deliver a working product. Standard saleried work is a "best effort" type of affair rather than a "working product" type of affair.
Funded by DARPA = Eventual military use for this...
So what exactly is this for, remotely wardriving in Afganistan?
There is a program at known as Future Combat Systems. One of their big things right now is teleoperation technologies. They are looking at a whole school of Unmanned X Vehichles, where X is both arial and ground vehicles. At my work, we've been collaborating with the Mobile Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, turning a Hummer and some robots known as ATRVs into teleoperated bots. We have been doing this as part of the communications portion of the Future Combat Systems project, to demonstrate an IP based communications network developed by another company. Last week we drove the ATRV from New Jersey while the robot was in Atlanta. The hummer
can now be driven over telnet, and probably can be driven over a similar distance (although safty concerns make testing such things a little more difficult, and caused us not to try). We can drive any of the robots by gaming joystick from a computer on the internet, with video latency being the limiting factor. And yes, all ye Linux zelots, all the computers in the project run Linux, except an old PC-104 stack running Dos from a floppy.
One think that I have picked up is that just because DARPA is currently looking at things, it does NOT mean that they are making any of them. DARPA will from time to time fund things like this just to find out what the "Best Effort" of industry is, that way they know exactly what they CAN have made.
To get my email address, add "@mail.gatech.edu" to my slashdot ID.
I would have to say I NEVER liked pakage management. I always have performed src installs. I don't like the amount of time required to get a LFS system started, but after that, its no problem.
Still shitty as hell in 2002. I had to use it to do some data aquisition and control this spring. After about 2 months of messing with the system, one day I realized that I could do it all with commands over the GPIB bus, commands to write out to a text file, and a VBA script. I was never so happy to write VB in my life.
Its hopeless trying to debug deeply nested programs with it, and its really difficult to express some control structures clearly or at all.
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The science of the "flow" phenomena was put forth for popular culture by Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is a study of what activities do cause this state. Heart surgery(for the surgeon), coding, and rock climbing are ones that he covers in the book.
The common thread between the activites is their challenging part requring full engaguement of the person's mind, but not so challenging the person gets frustrated. When you enter the Flow state, you lose track of your sense of self, and your awareness shrinks to your problem domain.
I do this all the time. It isn't from video games. Its a pretty common phenomena. If you were
1)experiencing non-porportional growth in high school, like most guys do and 2)not doing many sports involving your kinesthetic sense (tells where your body is), you probbably were a bit klutzy due to an effect called kinesthetic displacement.
Your body gets used to what your arm feels like at a certain position. Then you grow a bit, and that feeling that you were used to is ever so inacurate. Therefore you are then slightly misjudging everything
You got used to reacting to accidents from this displacement. When your body stopped growing non-porportionally, you still have the reactions from dealing with displacement, and you also have a normal kinesthetic sense now.
And now you can catch things that are falling off a desk.
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Blender is NOT intuitive. It is GREAT to use once you have trained yourself. Pico is intuitive. Vi is great to use once you have trained yourself.
To show that you opt in, you have to sign a document linked to your public key and email address. This document should also show the agreement whereby you agree to receive their emails, and from exactly what company, and even what type of email. Then they can't fake that you signed up, and everyone encrypts their email, lowering fraud by other means as well.
--Michael
If you will notice that there is an inner wrapper on the CDs in software these days, you can show the that it is still closed and they will take the software back.
They are trying to get us all to move to getting our software via subscription. They come out and say it on the BSA site
From the BSA website:
Find out about the benefits of using ASP's. The application service provider model is the latest evolution of the way software is designed, delivered and supported. By completely removing the application from the user premises and maintaining and hosting the applications on their end, ASP's facilitate the whole licensing process.
After the first two courses here, very few classes are individual work. I, for one, am glad they put everyone through such a tough individual regimine. It means I don't get stuck with idiot partners later on.
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I'm sorry I can't seem to spell "lethal" correctly or get slashdot to format my comments as intended.
Really? If you arm more GOOD people, they then can stop BAD people from doing bad things.
This statement scares me to no end. Who decides who's good and who's bad? And most certainly, define both terms for the use of this argument? They are most extremely subjective.
Good: People who are not in my home uninvited in the middle of the night. Bad: Those who are. Good: Those not raping your and my girlfriends, wives, sisters, friends. Bad: Those who have tried and or suceeded at this, or been shot trying to do so. I'm pretty sure the context of the rest of the comment was pretty clear on who I was talking about.
I don't think guns should be used lightly. But in either of the above situations, they should be used first, killing the person putting you at risk.
Guns are really not that effective against other people with guns, unless you shoot them before they draw theirs.
However a woman with a gun (and enough confidence and training to shoot it) can take down 4 grown men each twice her size no problem if she keeps at least 10-20 ft between them. As this is the EXACT situation that my once unarmed now armed friend encountered, I see that there is plenty of reason.
I, as a relatively well-built man, don't actually feel the need to carry when I go someplace, even in a bad neighborhood. If you are just robbing me, I'll happily give you whatever you want if it would actually come down to shooting you. Once I find out you aren't going to hurt me or my loved ones, I don't want to kill you.
You seem to be against using leathal force. Not just guns. I think I have set out in what situations I believe that leathal force should be used. I'm all about someone using leathal force to protect themselves though, especially women. If you would prefer your mother to be raped than for her to stab to death her assailant, then I think our conversation is over. But otherwise I think that you would agree that leathal force is appropriate sometimes, and that you just don't like some of the OTHER problems with guns.
We generally know more about ourselves than we do any other species on the planet, seems like we'd be the best candidates.
Medical researchers know just as much if not more abou thte physiology of the common rat as they do humans. You'd be surprised how much they have to learn about the damn things to be a researcher. And yes, it is worse then doing it on other anamals. Are you some sort of Vegan or something? Otherwise I'd stop looking down that nose at the world. You can live just dandy without eating them, but the medical community CAN'T do a lot of reaseach without them.
if you arm more people, more bad things happen
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Really? If you arm more GOOD people, they then can stop BAD people from doing bad things.
I really don't care what happens to anyone who breaks into my home, and will be upset if I DON'T manage to kill the bastard. This bill won't decrease the amout criminals are armedt will only decrease the amout law abiding citizens are. Do you realize that less than 300 children a year die from guns accidents in the US. That may sound like too big of a number, but I'm more worried that there are over 89,107 FORCIBLE rapes yearly in the US (There are over 300,000 reported total rapes). Most are committed by people those women/children know, but if even 1% of that number is prevented by killing the bastard who broke into your home, I will take those child deaths EASILY, as they are over ten time less in number. 2% of those rapes involve the rapist having a firearm, where 91% of all failed rapes are stopped though self defense measures.
I will take dumb kids dying over 10 times that many women being forcibly raped. Kids can be taught not to screw with guns. We don't seem to have that stopping criminals from breaking into your home, making you feel forever after unsafe, and possibly raping your women and/or children thing down pat yet.
Sources:http://www.smartguard.net/eng/bout_5.htm,
As a consultant, your position makes much more sense. The position of the gentleman who posted the ask slashdot however, does not seem to imply the same PR need that you have as a consultant. When you AREN'T a consultant, but just a run of the mill programmer, there are so many things (like time schedules, presence or lack of code reviews, poor design process, etc) which make many defects as much if not more the company's fault as yours.
You aren't in the real world I'm taking it? You are paid to work on the code. Not deliver a working product. Standard saleried work is a "best effort" type of affair rather than a "working product" type of affair.
If you use a LCD screen, you can last much much longer.
And a link to the FCS website
Funded by DARPA = Eventual military use for this...
So what exactly is this for, remotely wardriving in Afganistan?
There is a program at known as Future Combat Systems. One of their big things right now is teleoperation technologies. They are looking at a whole school of Unmanned X Vehichles, where X is both arial and ground vehicles. At my work, we've been collaborating with the Mobile Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech, turning a Hummer and some robots known as ATRVs into teleoperated bots. We have been doing this as part of the communications portion of the Future Combat Systems project, to demonstrate an IP based communications network developed by another company. Last week we drove the ATRV from New Jersey while the robot was in Atlanta. The hummer can now be driven over telnet, and probably can be driven over a similar distance (although safty concerns make testing such things a little more difficult, and caused us not to try). We can drive any of the robots by gaming joystick from a computer on the internet, with video latency being the limiting factor. And yes, all ye Linux zelots, all the computers in the project run Linux, except an old PC-104 stack running Dos from a floppy.
One think that I have picked up is that just because DARPA is currently looking at things, it does NOT mean that they are making any of them. DARPA will from time to time fund things like this just to find out what the "Best Effort" of industry is, that way they know exactly what they CAN have made.
To get my email address, add "@mail.gatech.edu" to my slashdot ID.
I would have to say I NEVER liked pakage management. I always have performed src installs. I don't like the amount of time required to get a LFS system started, but after that, its no problem.
You're wrong. Our planet can indeed be looked at as a complex living organism built around a stone.
Not just a stone, but a stone with a warm gooey center.
Still shitty as hell in 2002. I had to use it to do some data aquisition and control this spring. After about 2 months of messing with the system, one day I realized that I could do it all with commands over the GPIB bus, commands to write out to a text file, and a VBA script. I was never so happy to write VB in my life.
Its hopeless trying to debug deeply nested programs with it, and its really difficult to express some control structures clearly or at all.
With september comes diet vanilla coke....
The science of the "flow" phenomena was put forth for popular culture by Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is a study of what activities do cause this state. Heart surgery(for the surgeon), coding, and rock climbing are ones that he covers in the book.
The common thread between the activites is their challenging part requring full engaguement of the person's mind, but not so challenging the person gets frustrated. When you enter the Flow state, you lose track of your sense of self, and your awareness shrinks to your problem domain.
I do this all the time. It isn't from video games. Its a pretty common phenomena. If you were
1)experiencing non-porportional growth in high school, like most guys do and
2)not doing many sports involving your kinesthetic sense (tells where your body is), you probbably were a bit klutzy due to an effect called kinesthetic displacement.
Your body gets used to what your arm feels like at a certain position. Then you grow a bit, and that feeling that you were used to is ever so inacurate. Therefore you are then slightly misjudging everything
You got used to reacting to accidents from this displacement. When your body stopped growing non-porportionally, you still have the reactions from dealing with displacement, and you also have a normal kinesthetic sense now.
And now you can catch things that are falling off a desk.
Blender is NOT intuitive. It is GREAT to use once you have trained yourself. Pico is intuitive. Vi is great to use once you have trained yourself.
To show that you opt in, you have to sign a document linked to your public key and email address. This document should also show the agreement whereby you agree to receive their emails, and from exactly what company, and even what type of email. Then they can't fake that you signed up, and everyone encrypts their email, lowering fraud by other means as well. --Michael
one of those sony vaios with the built in recorder for taping lectures
...then you can spend you extra time in the Gym becoming capable of carrying 100 pounds of books if you really need them...
...so he can read them on his wearable. Why don't you ask him? (Thad Starner)
The sheild on the microwave stops the band that would make your eyeballs go pop. Not 2.4 GHz.
If you will notice that there is an inner wrapper on the CDs in software these days, you can show the that it is still closed and they will take the software back.
They are trying to get us all to move to getting our software via subscription. They come out and say it on the BSA site
From the BSA website: Find out about the benefits of using ASP's. The application service provider model is the latest evolution of the way software is designed, delivered and supported. By completely removing the application from the user premises and maintaining and hosting the applications on their end, ASP's facilitate the whole licensing process.
The reason is that the topics covered on the AP test coincide with those that are taught in the java course, and not those taught in the first course.
After the first two courses here, very few classes are individual work. I, for one, am glad they put everyone through such a tough individual regimine. It means I don't get stuck with idiot partners later on.