Actually, before well into the 20th century, people did routinely starve in the western world--particularly in rural and isolated areas like in the U.S. and Australia. But, either way, the point is that our food yields have kept up with our explosive population growth. That wouldn't have been possible without the much-decried advances in pesticides and GM that everyone seems to be so upset about today. A world of organic-only farming is going to be a world where a LOT of people are going to be starving.
Last time I looked into it, the IR dongles didn't allow access to all the controls of the standard remote and looked pretty ugly and hacked. And didn't Sony remove the USB ports from their newer models (which the dongles need)?
It's a hacked solution to a problem that should never have been a problem, if Sony weren't so Sony when it comes to slapping on proprietary and complicated implementations of things which have become standardized on everything other platform.
Oh no, of course you haven't. Because, thanks to GM crops and pesticides and the vastly improved crop yields they've provided, food today is plentiful in the developed world.
Yeah, we should ban evil pesticides! Down with evil chemicals and modern GM farming! Organic all the way!
Now, all we have to do is figure out how to feed 7 billion people using old-fashioned organic farming that could barely feed 1.5 billion people in the 19th century. Let's see, there are about 10 million people in NYC alone. No problem, a few rooftop gardens should about cover it.
Or maybe we could just convince 6 billion people to commit suicide for the cause. Hippies, you go first.
What's basically wrong with SWTOR is that everyone really just wanted KOTOR3.
I wish I could mod you to +3.2*10^32 Insightful As A God. They could have made a decent profit with KOTOR 3. Instead they got greedy and decided to go for the WoW bucks. They screwed over the console owners who helped make KOTOR 1 and 2 so successful. They tried to milk the franchise. And they forgot that they aren't Blizzard. And they got burned--and deservedly so.
What are you talking about? SWTOR was a huge success! Why, just last week they increased their player base by 20%, when a family of 4 brothers in Illinois joined all at once. That's 20% a week growth, man!! At that rate, they'll overtake WoW in no time.
Dropped features? I've been pretty impressed with the development happening on the PS3 lately. One thing that is near magical about it is the capability of true stereoscopic 3D, unlike the competition that ruined 3D, if you buy Sony 7 or 8 series TV with the active 3D, combine that with PS3 games like Super Star Dust HD (seriously wow!) or MotorStorm Pacific Rift 3D to see what I mean. Also if you are a photographer, the new photo app is awesome, you can control the view with that analog sticks, I mean fluid zoom and pan into your photo albums using the wireless controller, you can view 3D photos also. And there is another interesting feature that I've found, only my PS3 can play and handle1080p / 60fps high-bitrate footage plus Dolby Digital without any problem, even my Sandy Bridge laptop can't really play that without frame drops full screen.
Either that was a long way to go for sarcasm (and I respect that) or you work for Sony (probably in the PR department, since even most of their senior staff couldn't say that with a straight face). Either way, good show.
Most of the time, I take the position as well. But I've also learned there are certain hot-button topics where you can get really fucked up if you don't support the crowd.
It's does seem to have gotten better over the years on some stuff. Nowadays, for example, you can get away with mild criticism of Linux and Apple (and even some MS support). There was a time when you would have been crucified for even the slightest insinuation that Linux may not be the greatest goddamned OS mankind had ever conceived (or the suggestion that Apple products may be overpriced for what they offer). Android, Apple's walled garden, Bill Gates' charity work, and the continuing stagnation of the Linux desktop market have softened that a bit and allowed for some criticism. But there are still some topics where you have to watch yourself if you don't want your karma going off a cliff like Lindsay Lohan on a bender.
It's also the only way to keep your karma from going in the toilet if you post something that goes against the prevailing wisdom (and we NEED those kind of posters on topics where groupthink tends to set in).
Digg, the classic case of taking something that works--and then killing it by getting greedy. Kevin Rose and the investors went from "Let's aim for moderate success" to "WE'RE GOING TO ALL BE BILLIONAIRES!!!" to "Hey, anyone pay the power bill this month?" in record time.
I think "OMG Boring!" would be more accurate. Looking at Dice's news site is like walking into a Baskin-Robbins and finding only vanilla, being served by a butt-ugly clerk.
All too often, "standards" means pushing positive "stories" about advertisers, censoring any content from the public that might offend said advertisers, and generally turning your site into a boring shitfest that no traditional/. user would be caught dead on if Peter Jackson himself came down from geek heaven and offered them them a prop sword from LotR and a handjob in exchange for staying.
You'll know there's real trouble when they actually start censoring comments, instead of just allowing users to mod them. The day that Natalie Portman sex jokes, a racist comment claiming Apple is being run by "a bunch of niggers," or a good old-fashioned flamefest is replaced on/. with a bunch of "This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations" boilerplate is the day a lot of us leave Slashdot for good. Here's to hoping that day never comes.
A conservative would want things to stay the same, to oppose human change for good or bad solely because its a human change, would want to conserve natural resources, be a "good steward of Gods creation" or whatever religious claim floats their boat of preserving the status quo.
What you're describing is Conservationism, not Conservatism.
Mann was part of the earlier email controversy. So Cuccinelli, while no doubt political grandstanding for *his* own benefit, didn't just pull Mann's name out of a hat. There was at least some evidence from that earlier case that Mann may have been *ahem* "exaggerating" certain claims for his own benefit.
Now, how much of this is politics and personal aggrandizement on either side is up for debate of course.
A *lot* of people suspect that Domscheit-Berg is an intelligence plant. He spent most of his time at Wikileaks trying to sabotage the operation. He was apparently trying to identify contributors while he was their. And then he participated in an obvious effort to discredit Assange after he left.
What's more OpenLeaks was/is planning to refuse Tor submissions, going instead with their own "secure" software (which they refuse to release the source code for openly). Smells a lot like a honeypot to me. I seriously doubt any submission will ever make it to a newspaper. But I do suspect the police/FBI/CIA will make it to the door of anyone submitting.
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Actually, before well into the 20th century, people did routinely starve in the western world--particularly in rural and isolated areas like in the U.S. and Australia. But, either way, the point is that our food yields have kept up with our explosive population growth. That wouldn't have been possible without the much-decried advances in pesticides and GM that everyone seems to be so upset about today. A world of organic-only farming is going to be a world where a LOT of people are going to be starving.
Last time I looked into it, the IR dongles didn't allow access to all the controls of the standard remote and looked pretty ugly and hacked. And didn't Sony remove the USB ports from their newer models (which the dongles need)?
It's a hacked solution to a problem that should never have been a problem, if Sony weren't so Sony when it comes to slapping on proprietary and complicated implementations of things which have become standardized on everything other platform.
Ever watched someone die of cancer?
Ever watched someone starve to death?
Oh no, of course you haven't. Because, thanks to GM crops and pesticides and the vastly improved crop yields they've provided, food today is plentiful in the developed world.
Actually the economically advantaged are the ones buying the organic everything.
FTFY.
Yeah, we should ban evil pesticides! Down with evil chemicals and modern GM farming! Organic all the way!
Now, all we have to do is figure out how to feed 7 billion people using old-fashioned organic farming that could barely feed 1.5 billion people in the 19th century. Let's see, there are about 10 million people in NYC alone. No problem, a few rooftop gardens should about cover it.
Or maybe we could just convince 6 billion people to commit suicide for the cause. Hippies, you go first.
What's basically wrong with SWTOR is that everyone really just wanted KOTOR3.
I wish I could mod you to +3.2*10^32 Insightful As A God. They could have made a decent profit with KOTOR 3. Instead they got greedy and decided to go for the WoW bucks. They screwed over the console owners who helped make KOTOR 1 and 2 so successful. They tried to milk the franchise. And they forgot that they aren't Blizzard. And they got burned--and deservedly so.
Good riddance, assholes.
What are you talking about? SWTOR was a huge success! Why, just last week they increased their player base by 20%, when a family of 4 brothers in Illinois joined all at once. That's 20% a week growth, man!! At that rate, they'll overtake WoW in no time.
Dropped features? I've been pretty impressed with the development happening on the PS3 lately. One thing that is near magical about it is the capability of true stereoscopic 3D, unlike the competition that ruined 3D, if you buy Sony 7 or 8 series TV with the active 3D, combine that with PS3 games like Super Star Dust HD (seriously wow!) or MotorStorm Pacific Rift 3D to see what I mean. Also if you are a photographer, the new photo app is awesome, you can control the view with that analog sticks, I mean fluid zoom and pan into your photo albums using the wireless controller, you can view 3D photos also. And there is another interesting feature that I've found, only my PS3 can play and handle1080p / 60fps high-bitrate footage plus Dolby Digital without any problem, even my Sandy Bridge laptop can't really play that without frame drops full screen.
Either that was a long way to go for sarcasm (and I respect that) or you work for Sony (probably in the PR department, since even most of their senior staff couldn't say that with a straight face). Either way, good show.
How about an IR remote input so I can control it with my universal remote instead of a separate, piece-of-shit, non-backlit turd of a Sony remote?
Our penises are #1! All others are #2 or lower! Tremble before them, everyone else!
That's because this project is green on the outside and in the red on the inside.
Keep the sword.
Most of the time, I take the position as well. But I've also learned there are certain hot-button topics where you can get really fucked up if you don't support the crowd.
It's does seem to have gotten better over the years on some stuff. Nowadays, for example, you can get away with mild criticism of Linux and Apple (and even some MS support). There was a time when you would have been crucified for even the slightest insinuation that Linux may not be the greatest goddamned OS mankind had ever conceived (or the suggestion that Apple products may be overpriced for what they offer). Android, Apple's walled garden, Bill Gates' charity work, and the continuing stagnation of the Linux desktop market have softened that a bit and allowed for some criticism. But there are still some topics where you have to watch yourself if you don't want your karma going off a cliff like Lindsay Lohan on a bender.
I once saw my karma go from excellent to good in just one thread. And I wasn't even taking that radical a position.
It's also the only way to keep your karma from going in the toilet if you post something that goes against the prevailing wisdom (and we NEED those kind of posters on topics where groupthink tends to set in).
Can't wait to see an "Apple fucking sucks!" comment with a "Would you like to know more about working at Apple?" ad.
Digg, the classic case of taking something that works--and then killing it by getting greedy. Kevin Rose and the investors went from "Let's aim for moderate success" to "WE'RE GOING TO ALL BE BILLIONAIRES!!!" to "Hey, anyone pay the power bill this month?" in record time.
I think "OMG Boring!" would be more accurate. Looking at Dice's news site is like walking into a Baskin-Robbins and finding only vanilla, being served by a butt-ugly clerk.
All too often, "standards" means pushing positive "stories" about advertisers, censoring any content from the public that might offend said advertisers, and generally turning your site into a boring shitfest that no traditional /. user would be caught dead on if Peter Jackson himself came down from geek heaven and offered them them a prop sword from LotR and a handjob in exchange for staying.
while you're busily shredding documents or while you're issuing cyanide capsules
I think you just described a typical day at Yahoo.
You'll know there's real trouble when they actually start censoring comments, instead of just allowing users to mod them. The day that Natalie Portman sex jokes, a racist comment claiming Apple is being run by "a bunch of niggers," or a good old-fashioned flamefest is replaced on /. with a bunch of "This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations" boilerplate is the day a lot of us leave Slashdot for good. Here's to hoping that day never comes.
A conservative would want things to stay the same, to oppose human change for good or bad solely because its a human change, would want to conserve natural resources, be a "good steward of Gods creation" or whatever religious claim floats their boat of preserving the status quo.
What you're describing is Conservationism, not Conservatism.
Mann was part of the earlier email controversy. So Cuccinelli, while no doubt political grandstanding for *his* own benefit, didn't just pull Mann's name out of a hat. There was at least some evidence from that earlier case that Mann may have been *ahem* "exaggerating" certain claims for his own benefit.
Now, how much of this is politics and personal aggrandizement on either side is up for debate of course.
It seems that the people running the infrastructure really believe in this wind energy.
The big government grants they're getting to build said infrastructure probably contributes significantly to their enthusiasm.
A *lot* of people suspect that Domscheit-Berg is an intelligence plant. He spent most of his time at Wikileaks trying to sabotage the operation. He was apparently trying to identify contributors while he was their. And then he participated in an obvious effort to discredit Assange after he left.
What's more OpenLeaks was/is planning to refuse Tor submissions, going instead with their own "secure" software (which they refuse to release the source code for openly). Smells a lot like a honeypot to me. I seriously doubt any submission will ever make it to a newspaper. But I do suspect the police/FBI/CIA will make it to the door of anyone submitting.