With the world in financial crisis, two wars, and our civil liberties gone down the tubes, isn't it time for a charismatic leader with dreams rather than Joe from accounting?
When did we become so cynical that we believed nothing would change? I suppose there were people said the same thing when FDR was elected.
When did we become a nation of "that's too hard" instead of "yes we can"?
Personally, I just used the electric ammo in the chemical gun and you could kill them without ever getting touched by mindlessly holding down MB1 until it died.
Before that, the electric ammo for the shotgun did the job quite nicely too.
Maybe I'm a little too smart for my own good, but I thought the whole point of good weapons was to beat bosses. You use the wrench to kill peons.
Pre-Civil war, when one referred to the US, it was in the form of "The United States are...." After the Civil War, it became "The United States is...." so it seems we thought of the states as sovereign entities, much like the "city states" of Greece. The word "state" itself, actually originally refers to a sovereign entity (e.g. "Secretary of State", "state sponsored terrorism") whereas a province is a dependent subdivision.
Timestamps let me know when a file was modified, but what if I want to know when line 64 of foobar.cpp returns 1 now where it used to (or so I thought) return 0? I can look at the timestamp, but that just tells me the last time the whole file was changed, not a specific function. Sure, I could go and look back at different tars of the files to see when it was changed, but that still never answers the question of why.
Also, going back to foobar.cpp, let's say (this is an actual example from today at work), one programmer is working on the data access part of the foo object, and another is working on the graphics part. He uploads foobar.cpp via ftp, and then I upload mine, clobbering his changes.
A real revision control system, by contrast, sees we both changed the file, and merges the code so that 80% of the time, it "just works". In the case of the other 20%, it lets me know there's a problem and shows me precisely where we differ.
Again, if you work on a team concurrently working on the same set of files, I've never heard of anyone wanting to use anything else -- because it's precisely the problem the tool was designed to solve.
You've obviously never worked on a programming team.
The best reason to use CVS or Git is the situation where multiple programmers are touching the same file(s) at once and you need to both commit. Also, the blame tool on SVN lets you easily tell when any given line of the code was added and why (see the commit message). The SVN repository I work on professionally has well over 25K commits...try managing that with a bunch of copies and text files!
(I've done the versioned tarballs for a project I worked on alone...never again!)
One involves teams of 11 players trying to put a round object in a net. The lag is great, the play is free and wonderfully balanced, the motion controls are light-years ahead of the best wii games, and the only cost is for the round object. It also has been shown by various scientific studies to increase longevity, energy level, and unlike halo, the elite players tend to have no problems getting laid. This game is known in most of the world as "football".
Or if you're into strategy, you could try a couple of war sims that are all the rage these days. Both have a couple of free implementation available from GNU or they can be played with a friend. Both Chess and Go are sure to be with us longer than Starcraft.
[T]here is no benevolent god (for no such god would reward nasty characters with so much talent)....
And on the 8th day, God created hell;)
The principle purpose of any afterlife/rebirth in any religion I'm aware of (Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism etc) is for divine justice to be served, since human justice has failed to be just. Voltaire famously argued without that threat of divine retribution after death, there would be no reason to follow morality. So there's a reason your selfish compatriots aren't suffering yet if there is a god.
Not that I agree with any of the above. And I'm also possibly off-topic. But hey, it's/.
The person blowing up the world doesn't believe that they are in fact doing so. For them, it would be death or performing a science experiment -- the classic "cake or death" moment. But I doubt these threats are credible.
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Patriotism(n) -- The conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Anyone finished the game?
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I've got to the space stage and even got to the end of the evolution meter on it, but there doesn't seem to be any end to it other than the shiny medal flashing on the stage. Has anyone managed to get a completion that was rumored for the "hardcore"? Somehow I think it has something to do with the "go to the center of the galaxy and find the grox" -- which I did only the mission never was marked as complete.
That CD copy protection doesn't even work. The game gets pirated before it's released!
That's exactly why stardock doesn't use this approach;)
Stardock's games don't require the CD in the drive, have a one-time serial number to enter, and, like steam, if you want to log into your account, you can download any game you've ever bought -- but unlike steam, you don't have to be online to play or even have the online component installed if you don't want. And you can just copy any CD they've ever released with the most generic CD copier. There's none of this secureROM BS where there's a bad sector on the CD.
More than any other company I can that exists, I think Brad's company embodies the ethics reforms we hear here on slashdot all the time. But unlike these arm-chair philosophers, they're out there creating multi-million dollar selling games.
I seriously doubt that humans were holding on to each other for lifetimes before the dawn of religions.
I suppose since male and females of about the same age being buried together would be the only evidence left and since ceremonial burial is an indicator of religion, you certainly couldn't be proven wrong.
But what about the word "romantic" which has its roots in "Rome". I can't think of too many Greco-Roman gods known for monogamy....
Awesome! Removes my any/all anti-virus programs, wordperfect, and google toolbar? Golly gee wiz, it's a wonder they don't install this on every machine!
But if these people don't vote, who will vote for them?
Voter turnout is historically the lowest for middle and lower income people, so if the well-to-do merely vote their pocket books and can dupe enough other people through flag-waving, we could easily get another Gilded age.
Leaving Iraq won't reduce terrorism for the simple reason you can't un-break an egg.
A few years ago we decided to support a country fighting against those "commies" by sending troops money etc. with promises we'd help them rebuild. After they won, we had no use for them, so we pulled out leaving them devastated and poor. The religious right in the country preyed on their new-found hatred of the broken American promise...and the Taliban was born from our former allies whom we left standing at the alter.
I was against the war in Iraq before it started. But there's an old slogan "You break it, you buy it" -- and we broke Iraq. To me, the only correct policy in Iraq involves a stable government at least not as bad as the one we deposed. Or else we repeat history.
But not breaking the egg in the first place? That's a different argument all together and one not addressed by your criticisms.
I think we're mostly coming from the same page. I'm not as familiar with his record on civil liberties, but googling ACLU ranking managed to show me a ranking of 86% which is somewhere around 6th tied with Ted Kennedy.
I don't know why you have to classify a competent professional diplomat as a scumbag -- I'm sure he defers to experts in the areas he doesn't understand (Tech law) just as I hope Obama defers to him in the case of international disputes -- it's just that his experts aren't very good. As VP, I'm sure Obama will defer to him on those areas and probably follow his own judgement in the other cases -- that's why he won.
I don't know who gave us the idea that it's better that our foreign policy leaders don't know the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite (as McCain does), but didn't we just have 8 years of that? Didn't Clinton's team of experienced politicians actually do pretty well when it came to world affairs compared to Dubya?
I don't know...I guess I figured the presidency is something like 60% domestic, 40% international and for a guy who lacks the relationships with foreign leaders, I feel like he can at least get the 40%.
And one of the most striking experiences of my political existence was listening to Biden deliver a speech only days after 9/11. I was a member of the Green party at that point as well as a college labor rights group. We'd made signs talking about how we were paying the Afghanistan government over $1 billion a year to stop drugs. We figured, being a senator, he'd just forget to mention it. Instead, he gave a 10 minute lecture on how the state of things came to be, including the billions in funding.
Biden is the chair of the foreign relations committee and was the chair of the judiciary committee. Look at this guy's votes and actions on women's rights, gitmo, FISAA, the US's role in the UN, and Bosnia. And he knows more about these than the senator in charge of commerce knows about "tubes".
Biden's first and foremost a diplomat (a strong internationalist...not a "coalition of the willing" kind of guy) and defender of civil rights/liberties -- Jesse Jackson even went on record saying his "clean" comment regarding Obama didn't make him a racist because of his strong leadership on the issue in the past. He's not well educated on tech law, but -- be honest -- how many of you could tell me who the president of Georgia was before this recent fiasco? Biden knows him on a first-name basis. Because that's his job and I dare say he does it well.
As a geek, tech is important, but isn't foreign policy and the US standing in the world more important this election? If you had a choice between hiring an expert in one or the other this election, which would you choose?
I use them all the time. And I fill them out with information of a fictional character.
Say, I'll put my name as Bilbo Baggains (actually using Brado Bompkins or something similar) and my hometown as "The Shire" and "bacon" as my favorite food. This lets me use unique information and track it. So if a site emails me and says "Hey Bilbo, you just won a new car!" I can tell you who exactly sold my email address.
The birth of collaborative technologies like pagerank and wikipedia shows us that given enough eyes, someone has already sorted through the shit for us.
That being said, those eyes may not have the best taste or have encountered a given obscure issue.
Slashdot Mirror
With the world in financial crisis, two wars, and our civil liberties gone down the tubes, isn't it time for a charismatic leader with dreams rather than Joe from accounting?
When did we become so cynical that we believed nothing would change? I suppose there were people said the same thing when FDR was elected.
When did we become a nation of "that's too hard" instead of "yes we can"?
Wow. Hyperbole anyone? Last I checked we are not:
1. Whipping the authors ...but if that does sound appealing to you, visit my new paysite: whippedbookers.com (NSFW!)
2. Raping the authors
I thought the big daddies were too easy.
Personally, I just used the electric ammo in the chemical gun and you could kill them without ever getting touched by mindlessly holding down MB1 until it died.
Before that, the electric ammo for the shotgun did the job quite nicely too.
Maybe I'm a little too smart for my own good, but I thought the whole point of good weapons was to beat bosses. You use the wrench to kill peons.
In Soviet Russia, the gov't pwns Microsoft;)
Pre-Civil war, when one referred to the US, it was in the form of "The United States are...." After the Civil War, it became "The United States is...." so it seems we thought of the states as sovereign entities, much like the "city states" of Greece. The word "state" itself, actually originally refers to a sovereign entity (e.g. "Secretary of State", "state sponsored terrorism") whereas a province is a dependent subdivision.
Timestamps let me know when a file was modified, but what if I want to know when line 64 of foobar.cpp returns 1 now where it used to (or so I thought) return 0? I can look at the timestamp, but that just tells me the last time the whole file was changed, not a specific function. Sure, I could go and look back at different tars of the files to see when it was changed, but that still never answers the question of why.
Also, going back to foobar.cpp, let's say (this is an actual example from today at work), one programmer is working on the data access part of the foo object, and another is working on the graphics part. He uploads foobar.cpp via ftp, and then I upload mine, clobbering his changes.
A real revision control system, by contrast, sees we both changed the file, and merges the code so that 80% of the time, it "just works". In the case of the other 20%, it lets me know there's a problem and shows me precisely where we differ.
Again, if you work on a team concurrently working on the same set of files, I've never heard of anyone wanting to use anything else -- because it's precisely the problem the tool was designed to solve.
You've obviously never worked on a programming team.
The best reason to use CVS or Git is the situation where multiple programmers are touching the same file(s) at once and you need to both commit. Also, the blame tool on SVN lets you easily tell when any given line of the code was added and why (see the commit message). The SVN repository I work on professionally has well over 25K commits...try managing that with a bunch of copies and text files!
(I've done the versioned tarballs for a project I worked on alone...never again!)
I have a couple of games to recommend.
One involves teams of 11 players trying to put a round object in a net. The lag is great, the play is free and wonderfully balanced, the motion controls are light-years ahead of the best wii games, and the only cost is for the round object. It also has been shown by various scientific studies to increase longevity, energy level, and unlike halo, the elite players tend to have no problems getting laid. This game is known in most of the world as "football".
Or if you're into strategy, you could try a couple of war sims that are all the rage these days. Both have a couple of free implementation available from GNU or they can be played with a friend. Both Chess and Go are sure to be with us longer than Starcraft.
Oh wait. You wanted video games?
"Pants are still optional, but recommended for you." ~ CmdrTaco's Sig
I thought it had something to do his sig in a way I couldn't quite understand. Thanks for clearing that up Brit folk! I feel rather daft now.
In cash, because they sue the track operators and get a huge class action lawsuit settled out of court for a bajillion dollars.
[T]here is no benevolent god (for no such god would reward nasty characters with so much talent)....
And on the 8th day, God created hell;)
The principle purpose of any afterlife/rebirth in any religion I'm aware of (Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism etc) is for divine justice to be served, since human justice has failed to be just. Voltaire famously argued without that threat of divine retribution after death, there would be no reason to follow morality. So there's a reason your selfish compatriots aren't suffering yet if there is a god.
Not that I agree with any of the above. And I'm also possibly off-topic. But hey, it's /.
The person blowing up the world doesn't believe that they are in fact doing so. For them, it would be death or performing a science experiment -- the classic "cake or death" moment. But I doubt these threats are credible.
--
RE: Your sig
Patriotism(n) -- The conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I've got to the space stage and even got to the end of the evolution meter on it, but there doesn't seem to be any end to it other than the shiny medal flashing on the stage. Has anyone managed to get a completion that was rumored for the "hardcore"? Somehow I think it has something to do with the "go to the center of the galaxy and find the grox" -- which I did only the mission never was marked as complete.
That CD copy protection doesn't even work. The game gets pirated before it's released!
That's exactly why stardock doesn't use this approach;)
Stardock's games don't require the CD in the drive, have a one-time serial number to enter, and, like steam, if you want to log into your account, you can download any game you've ever bought -- but unlike steam, you don't have to be online to play or even have the online component installed if you don't want. And you can just copy any CD they've ever released with the most generic CD copier. There's none of this secureROM BS where there's a bad sector on the CD.
More than any other company I can that exists, I think Brad's company embodies the ethics reforms we hear here on slashdot all the time. But unlike these arm-chair philosophers, they're out there creating multi-million dollar selling games.
"I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." --Voltaire (Letters, 1770)
I seriously doubt that humans were holding on to each other for lifetimes before the dawn of religions.
I suppose since male and females of about the same age being buried together would be the only evidence left and since ceremonial burial is an indicator of religion, you certainly couldn't be proven wrong.
But what about the word "romantic" which has its roots in "Rome". I can't think of too many Greco-Roman gods known for monogamy....
Awesome! Removes my any/all anti-virus programs, wordperfect, and google toolbar? Golly gee wiz, it's a wonder they don't install this on every machine!
But if these people don't vote, who will vote for them?
Voter turnout is historically the lowest for middle and lower income people, so if the well-to-do merely vote their pocket books and can dupe enough other people through flag-waving, we could easily get another Gilded age.
Oh wait...it's already here?
Leaving Iraq won't reduce terrorism for the simple reason you can't un-break an egg.
A few years ago we decided to support a country fighting against those "commies" by sending troops money etc. with promises we'd help them rebuild. After they won, we had no use for them, so we pulled out leaving them devastated and poor. The religious right in the country preyed on their new-found hatred of the broken American promise...and the Taliban was born from our former allies whom we left standing at the alter.
I was against the war in Iraq before it started. But there's an old slogan "You break it, you buy it" -- and we broke Iraq. To me, the only correct policy in Iraq involves a stable government at least not as bad as the one we deposed. Or else we repeat history.
But not breaking the egg in the first place? That's a different argument all together and one not addressed by your criticisms.
I think we're mostly coming from the same page. I'm not as familiar with his record on civil liberties, but googling ACLU ranking managed to show me a ranking of 86% which is somewhere around 6th tied with Ted Kennedy.
I don't know why you have to classify a competent professional diplomat as a scumbag -- I'm sure he defers to experts in the areas he doesn't understand (Tech law) just as I hope Obama defers to him in the case of international disputes -- it's just that his experts aren't very good. As VP, I'm sure Obama will defer to him on those areas and probably follow his own judgement in the other cases -- that's why he won.
I don't know who gave us the idea that it's better that our foreign policy leaders don't know the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite (as McCain does), but didn't we just have 8 years of that? Didn't Clinton's team of experienced politicians actually do pretty well when it came to world affairs compared to Dubya?
I don't know...I guess I figured the presidency is something like 60% domestic, 40% international and for a guy who lacks the relationships with foreign leaders, I feel like he can at least get the 40%.
And one of the most striking experiences of my political existence was listening to Biden deliver a speech only days after 9/11. I was a member of the Green party at that point as well as a college labor rights group. We'd made signs talking about how we were paying the Afghanistan government over $1 billion a year to stop drugs. We figured, being a senator, he'd just forget to mention it. Instead, he gave a 10 minute lecture on how the state of things came to be, including the billions in funding.
Biden is the chair of the foreign relations committee and was the chair of the judiciary committee. Look at this guy's votes and actions on women's rights, gitmo, FISAA, the US's role in the UN, and Bosnia. And he knows more about these than the senator in charge of commerce knows about "tubes".
Biden's first and foremost a diplomat (a strong internationalist...not a "coalition of the willing" kind of guy) and defender of civil rights/liberties -- Jesse Jackson even went on record saying his "clean" comment regarding Obama didn't make him a racist because of his strong leadership on the issue in the past. He's not well educated on tech law, but -- be honest -- how many of you could tell me who the president of Georgia was before this recent fiasco? Biden knows him on a first-name basis. Because that's his job and I dare say he does it well.
As a geek, tech is important, but isn't foreign policy and the US standing in the world more important this election? If you had a choice between hiring an expert in one or the other this election, which would you choose?
I use them all the time. And I fill them out with information of a fictional character.
Say, I'll put my name as Bilbo Baggains (actually using Brado Bompkins or something similar) and my hometown as "The Shire" and "bacon" as my favorite food. This lets me use unique information and track it. So if a site emails me and says "Hey Bilbo, you just won a new car!" I can tell you who exactly sold my email address.
So the article summary starts with:
How extraverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses
And ends with:
Moreover, these impressions contained some degree of validity....but not for extraversion
So the only example in the summary is wrong. And you can tell by reading the summary. Bravo.
The birth of collaborative technologies like pagerank and wikipedia shows us that given enough eyes, someone has already sorted through the shit for us.
That being said, those eyes may not have the best taste or have encountered a given obscure issue.
Anyone have a mirror?