One of the main characters in the plastic surgery show Nip/Tuck made that comment. It seems as if TFA applies said comment.
I found the beautification piece interesting, and yes, symmetry and proportion are very important. Bigger girls that are still in the right wast-hip ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio) are perceived as attractive, and the same goes for other body parts. The research in the article focuses on face symmetry, and some of the subtle before/after pictures are pretty amazing. I'll expect to see this marketed to the booming cosmetic surgery industry very quicklike.
That's a false dichotomy. Just because a person does have free will does not mean they would never make a bad choice.
Just to be clear, I was not talking about a single bad choice, or even a few. I'm talking about when its now clear to the individual that path A is not a good thing (a physically abusive relationship for example), and the person continues down path A when they admit that path A is not a good thing.
After reading the article, which does not convince me of free will (and I have yet to of read a comment in this thread that is convinced either), I also found this interesting under the free will article on wikipedia:
There is no free will in humans, bacteria, or subatomic particles.
What is guiding us to believe we have free will? Its a chemical process in our brain that we don't understand that makes us feel better. It took me months or years to get over the fact that there was no free will, but its OK by me now.
There are a number of things that humans believed for thousands of years that was simply wrong. People believed the earth was flat, the center of the universe, people are made in God's image, (I could go on and on) and all of that is simply false.
Now, I talk and act as though I have free will because it is ingrained in our culture and language, but I have yet to of read any scientific study that has any evidence that there is free will (obviously I didn't read the article yet either:), there are a number of studies to provide evidence to the opposite (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness).
Now, I am not saying that beliefs true or false have a profound effect on our behavior and even physiology, but that does not mean that there is free will.
If there were free will, then why in the world do so many people do things that are simply not in their best interest? If there were free will, why are so many people screwed up by their own "choices"?
Better yet, someone who is about to mod me down, provide a test or evidence of free will. If there were free will, I would like to enhance mine and will myself into eternal bliss.
Something like special hardware tokens are much better, but there's no infrastructure for their distribution.
USB thumbdrive, passphrase protected private key.
Once sshd can tell if a private key has a passphrase and its authorized keys can be centrally managed, then there is never a reason a user should ever type a password. Just unlock the private key locally, and you can go wherever you are already authorized to go.
I just think its so stupid that we have to type usernames and passwords all the time. The burden is backwards. Its up to the server to say yes/no, it already knows who is allowed on the system, and their capabilities (roles, authorization, whatever), all the user needs to do is say here is my ID, is it OK for me to come in?
I mean this is the way credit cards work. No password whatsoever, and I can present my card, and a purchase is made, no password ever.
Now, with password security, since they are insecure by design, then you have to change them, to ensure they are secure again, thus placing a burden on the user and sysadmins and help desk people.
I mean, I don't use a username/password to enter my $500,000 house, or to drive my $100,000 car, or to enter my workplace where there is many millions of dollars of equipment and data. Why do I have to enter a username/password just to go onto a computer that already knows I'm ok to be on the system?
I worked at a CMM 3 place, and I was not impressed with their competence in software engineering and development. I mean, they didn't even have a CMS system in place. I had to add one for myself and my code.
I really wish that one keyboard vendor would take a stand, and move that CapsLock key to a more remote part of the keyboard. It is rarely used, and often accidentally hit.
How about doing away with the thing completely.
IF AN APP NEEDS ALL CAPS, CAN'T IT BE DONE IN SOFTWARE AND NOT HARDWARE.
All of those are paid for by their respective owners, and they redirect or just display the content of the "real" TLD.
Country codes would be nice, its annoying to go to a.com and find I'm in the UK, and I'm not going to order from them.
If I want to go to a company's website, I don't type www.barnes and noble.net, I ask google for it. Also, with the typosquatting, and whatnot, typing urls is simply unsafe. I do use the URL's history. s completes to slashdot, and whatnot. Just in case you need rock hard erections go to http://www.slashdot.net/
Pseudo science or not, assholes make nice children. Because nobody wants to grow up to be an asshole like their father, so this doe seem to benefit society in the long haul.
But i agree, there was a lot of luck involved, and a but of underhanded backroom deals.
Right, luck in terms of timing, but this quote really bothers me:
"Most of our competitors were very poorly run"
The initial competitors were IBM and Apple, both are alive and well. Remember, that Microsoft got their start by buying some crap inhouse developed OS called DOS, and convinced IBM to put it on their PCs (before they even bought the software). Round two was when IBM had a deal with MS with the OS/2 project, and Microsoft completely backstabbed them with Windows 95.
I don't see the "value" in these things either. Same goes with text messaging. A coworker of mine is glued to his phone texting all the time. And he's the same age as me.
Maybe its because I'm introverted, and prefer fewer close relationships to millions of bffs that I've never met, and probably wouldn't want to.
I actually learn things here on slashdot that help me in my life. Its not just idle chit chat.
However, there is clearly a need for things like twitter, myspace, facebook, and these things, but maybe it was a fad like the elderly people that needed a 4x4 SUV to go to church and grocery store.
Well, I sasked your door permission to open by turning the handle, and when it did, since it was unlocked, I entered your house while you were gone today....
Since when does your door end up on my property or out in public property? There are laws against trespass which wikipedia says is "the criminal act of entering another person's land or property without permission of the owner or lessee". Seems a little different than having your wifi be unprotected and sitting on _my_ property.
"Stealing" WiFi is the same as stealing broadcast TV or radio.
Neither Ubuntu, nor Fedora nor SuSE specialize in anything in particular
They may not specialize, but the liklihood of a 3rd party vendor supporting a particular vendor goes RedHat EL, SuSE, Ubuntu, in that order.
Also, RedHat, my personal least favorite distro, is pretty much the only one I've used for the past 7 years because that is what my employers feel comfy with.
Mine is an SA2000:) I don't have the separate amp/preamp, and mine is like 70w/channel, I would guess they are very similar.
Mine has great features like bass/treble defeat buttons. High and low pass filter options. Some kind of magic "perfect volume" button, which I think is a peak limiter of sorts, its got the ultra cool VU meters.
I know for a fact that my tuned port speakers will blow out a lighter. I think that my speakers have like 6.5" bass drivers that can pound a room. I don't understand it. When I heard the speakers, and their detail and bass, I wasn't even in the market for such a purchase, but I was able to get them with a deal and with speaker stands.
I have a musician friend who has said that this setup could be the PA for a smaller club. He (nor I) understand how much sound can come from such small speakers.
I only wish the receiver had a remote for the volume. Its almost unusable when listening to them with commercial broadcasts. But things like Austin City limits and some of the other music stuff on MHD are nice, but I wish there were more HD content vs the chronic repeats.
I'm thinking of taking the amp apart and upgrading the RCA connectors and definitely the speaker connections.
blade server chassis that breathe fire and suck power like an SUV-- let alone the heat generation problems
Am I the only one who has seen the IBM commercial where they talk about blades fixing their heat problem?
Never understood that one. Blades may be something in the future, but I've found no use for them yet. They sound great in theory, but they do have limitations.
I think it completely depends on the person. Where I work, the easiest to communicate with all use IM. Those that don't use IM really hinder my productivity at times, when I have to wait however long for them to reply to an email, or at worst trek around the area and physically find them.
I think it also depends on the environment/type of work.
I don't think IM would help my productivity a bit. If I really need a quick yes/no answer right now, I can use that thingy called a phone or I could get off of my butt and simply ask them. The percentage of time that I need a quick yes/no vs the noise level over IM doing its thing all the time.
Also, I work in a UNIX environment where my mail is checked via my shell, and my mail is filtered. When I hit return and I get new mail, my shell says "You have new mail in mailbox X". The latency between when I'm sitting at my desk and the reply to a mail would be the same as IM, so why add another tool that is already served by another tool already?
Free Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and XBox 360
You are now foed, and I hope you leave slashdot. There is simply no need for this shit anymore. Ever since everyone got their free iPods, do they really now need free Playstation 3s, Wiis, AND XBox 360s???
The judge is just assuming that Hans will do that to reduce the sentence.
Clearly, there is more that I don't know than I do, but why would the judge make such an offer?
The judge already has a murder 1 on the guy (I think, the facts seem a little muddy now), murder 2 is a lesser sentence, and increases the liklihood that he will serve less time, better odds for parole, all of that.
My point is that this seems to be that this is a win-win for Reiser, and a lose-lose for the judge. I thought their goal in life was to imprison everyone indefinitely.
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I can choose to do something on a whim that isn't in my best interest, even when no one is prompting me to do so.
Sounds pretty random. If that is the only thing you have free will over, then your better than me.
"Beauty is Symmetry, and you have none"
One of the main characters in the plastic surgery show Nip/Tuck made that comment. It seems as if TFA applies said comment.
I found the beautification piece interesting, and yes, symmetry and proportion are very important. Bigger girls that are still in the right wast-hip ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio) are perceived as attractive, and the same goes for other body parts. The research in the article focuses on face symmetry, and some of the subtle before/after pictures are pretty amazing. I'll expect to see this marketed to the booming cosmetic surgery industry very quicklike.
That's a false dichotomy. Just because a person does have free will does not mean they would never make a bad choice.
Just to be clear, I was not talking about a single bad choice, or even a few. I'm talking about when its now clear to the individual that path A is not a good thing (a physically abusive relationship for example), and the person continues down path A when they admit that path A is not a good thing.
After reading the article, which does not convince me of free will (and I have yet to of read a comment in this thread that is convinced either), I also found this interesting under the free will article on wikipedia:
the neuroscience part of free will here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Neuroscience.
There is no free will in humans, bacteria, or subatomic particles.
What is guiding us to believe we have free will? Its a chemical process in our brain that we don't understand that makes us feel better. It took me months or years to get over the fact that there was no free will, but its OK by me now.
There are a number of things that humans believed for thousands of years that was simply wrong. People believed the earth was flat, the center of the universe, people are made in God's image, (I could go on and on) and all of that is simply false.
Now, I talk and act as though I have free will because it is ingrained in our culture and language, but I have yet to of read any scientific study that has any evidence that there is free will (obviously I didn't read the article yet either :), there are a number of studies to provide evidence to the opposite (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness).
Now, I am not saying that beliefs true or false have a profound effect on our behavior and even physiology, but that does not mean that there is free will.
If there were free will, then why in the world do so many people do things that are simply not in their best interest? If there were free will, why are so many people screwed up by their own "choices"?
Better yet, someone who is about to mod me down, provide a test or evidence of free will. If there were free will, I would like to enhance mine and will myself into eternal bliss.
Something like special hardware tokens are much better, but there's no infrastructure for their distribution.
USB thumbdrive, passphrase protected private key.
Once sshd can tell if a private key has a passphrase and its authorized keys can be centrally managed, then there is never a reason a user should ever type a password. Just unlock the private key locally, and you can go wherever you are already authorized to go.
I just think its so stupid that we have to type usernames and passwords all the time. The burden is backwards. Its up to the server to say yes/no, it already knows who is allowed on the system, and their capabilities (roles, authorization, whatever), all the user needs to do is say here is my ID, is it OK for me to come in?
I mean this is the way credit cards work. No password whatsoever, and I can present my card, and a purchase is made, no password ever.
Now, with password security, since they are insecure by design, then you have to change them, to ensure they are secure again, thus placing a burden on the user and sysadmins and help desk people.
I mean, I don't use a username/password to enter my $500,000 house, or to drive my $100,000 car, or to enter my workplace where there is many millions of dollars of equipment and data. Why do I have to enter a username/password just to go onto a computer that already knows I'm ok to be on the system?
I would think that those who are not familiar with CMM could easily think that 1 is good.
Take a look at CMM's page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model
I worked at a CMM 3 place, and I was not impressed with their competence in software engineering and development. I mean, they didn't even have a CMS system in place. I had to add one for myself and my code.
Shouldn't reply to myself, but also what about media besides images and text?
I don't mean plugins, but a standard.
What about <MATH>
I really wish that one keyboard vendor would take a stand, and move that CapsLock key to a more remote part of the keyboard. It is rarely used, and often accidentally hit.
How about doing away with the thing completely.
IF AN APP NEEDS ALL CAPS, CAN'T IT BE DONE IN SOFTWARE AND NOT HARDWARE.
Hint, if your using C, try toupper().
TLDs are pointless.
Proof:
http://slashdot.com/
http://www.google.net/
http://www.microsoft.net/
http://www.craigslist.com/
All of those are paid for by their respective owners, and they redirect or just display the content of the "real" TLD.
Country codes would be nice, its annoying to go to a .com and find I'm in the UK, and I'm not going to order from them.
If I want to go to a company's website, I don't type www.barnes and noble.net, I ask google for it. Also, with the typosquatting, and whatnot, typing urls is simply unsafe. I do use the URL's history. s completes to slashdot, and whatnot. Just in case you need rock hard erections go to http://www.slashdot.net/
that in 2008 only 50% of the planet will have a telephone.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_tel_sub-media-telephone-subscribers
Pseudo science or not, assholes make nice children. Because nobody wants to grow up to be an asshole like their father, so this doe seem to benefit society in the long haul.
But i agree, there was a lot of luck involved, and a but of underhanded backroom deals.
Right, luck in terms of timing, but this quote really bothers me:
"Most of our competitors were very poorly run"
The initial competitors were IBM and Apple, both are alive and well. Remember, that Microsoft got their start by buying some crap inhouse developed OS called DOS, and convinced IBM to put it on their PCs (before they even bought the software). Round two was when IBM had a deal with MS with the OS/2 project, and Microsoft completely backstabbed them with Windows 95.
Those were the two biggest "successes" of MS.
I don't see the "value" in these things either. Same goes with text messaging. A coworker of mine is glued to his phone texting all the time. And he's the same age as me.
Maybe its because I'm introverted, and prefer fewer close relationships to millions of bffs that I've never met, and probably wouldn't want to.
I actually learn things here on slashdot that help me in my life. Its not just idle chit chat.
However, there is clearly a need for things like twitter, myspace, facebook, and these things, but maybe it was a fad like the elderly people that needed a 4x4 SUV to go to church and grocery store.
Well, I sasked your door permission to open by turning the handle, and when it did, since it was unlocked, I entered your house while you were gone today....
Since when does your door end up on my property or out in public property? There are laws against trespass which wikipedia says is "the criminal act of entering another person's land or property without permission of the owner or lessee". Seems a little different than having your wifi be unprotected and sitting on _my_ property.
"Stealing" WiFi is the same as stealing broadcast TV or radio.
Neither Ubuntu, nor Fedora nor SuSE specialize in anything in particular
They may not specialize, but the liklihood of a 3rd party vendor supporting a particular vendor goes RedHat EL, SuSE, Ubuntu, in that order.
Also, RedHat, my personal least favorite distro, is pretty much the only one I've used for the past 7 years because that is what my employers feel comfy with.
Mine is an SA2000 :) I don't have the separate amp/preamp, and mine is like 70w/channel, I would guess they are very similar.
Mine has great features like bass/treble defeat buttons. High and low pass filter options. Some kind of magic "perfect volume" button, which I think is a peak limiter of sorts, its got the ultra cool VU meters.
I know for a fact that my tuned port speakers will blow out a lighter. I think that my speakers have like 6.5" bass drivers that can pound a room. I don't understand it. When I heard the speakers, and their detail and bass, I wasn't even in the market for such a purchase, but I was able to get them with a deal and with speaker stands.
I have a musician friend who has said that this setup could be the PA for a smaller club. He (nor I) understand how much sound can come from such small speakers.
I only wish the receiver had a remote for the volume. Its almost unusable when listening to them with commercial broadcasts. But things like Austin City limits and some of the other music stuff on MHD are nice, but I wish there were more HD content vs the chronic repeats.
I'm thinking of taking the amp apart and upgrading the RCA connectors and definitely the speaker connections.
Pretty cool find.
blade server chassis that breathe fire and suck power like an SUV-- let alone the heat generation problems
Am I the only one who has seen the IBM commercial where they talk about blades fixing their heat problem?
Never understood that one. Blades may be something in the future, but I've found no use for them yet. They sound great in theory, but they do have limitations.
Raytracing doesn't mimic how real world works. In fact it does exactly the opposite of what happens in real world.
Ever studied how the human eyeball works?
Bassackwards is an understatement.
I run my $1800 speakers (stereo pair, not 50.1 surround sound) though a Realistic 1978 integrated amp I got for $35 dollars.
Sounds great.
that would scream and yell at me until I blacked out if I ever made a mistake.
As a systems engineer today, I rarely if ever make mistakes.
So, yes, this is possible to teach these things, in "healthy dose" quanities, I have no experience with them.
I think it completely depends on the person. Where I work, the easiest to communicate with all use IM. Those that don't use IM really hinder my productivity at times, when I have to wait however long for them to reply to an email, or at worst trek around the area and physically find them.
I think it also depends on the environment/type of work.
I don't think IM would help my productivity a bit. If I really need a quick yes/no answer right now, I can use that thingy called a phone or I could get off of my butt and simply ask them. The percentage of time that I need a quick yes/no vs the noise level over IM doing its thing all the time.
Also, I work in a UNIX environment where my mail is checked via my shell, and my mail is filtered. When I hit return and I get new mail, my shell says "You have new mail in mailbox X". The latency between when I'm sitting at my desk and the reply to a mail would be the same as IM, so why add another tool that is already served by another tool already?
Free Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and XBox 360
You are now foed, and I hope you leave slashdot. There is simply no need for this shit anymore. Ever since everyone got their free iPods, do they really now need free Playstation 3s, Wiis, AND XBox 360s???
Fucking spammer.
If I'm a plumber, and don't work weekends, you don't have the right to force me to work weekends because that's what you would prefer.
Well then, I'll go to the plumber that charges less and gives me what I want, when I want it.
Deal?
The judge is just assuming that Hans will do that to reduce the sentence.
Clearly, there is more that I don't know than I do, but why would the judge make such an offer?
The judge already has a murder 1 on the guy (I think, the facts seem a little muddy now), murder 2 is a lesser sentence, and increases the liklihood that he will serve less time, better odds for parole, all of that.
My point is that this seems to be that this is a win-win for Reiser, and a lose-lose for the judge. I thought their goal in life was to imprison everyone indefinitely.