There have been plenty of cases of observed speciation - you could've saved yourself writing that long diatribe with its jumped conclusion by just googling first.
I don't think that was the point, nobody claimed the 'perps' shouldn't be punished (what are you mr strawman or just lack comprehension skills?) - the point was that there should also be some accountability for those who design terrible systems that anyone (e.g. terrorists or whatever) can easily take advantage of to cause harm. Seriously, this is an important point. Would you think it's OK for (say) the local nuclear power plant in your town to leave it's doors open to anyone (virtually or physically)?
Newsflash: Customers are also stakeholders. Newsflash: Customers can voice their opinion on what they think a company can do. Newsflash: Even outsiders are free to do so, that's called "free speech". Newsflash: Somebody expressing an opinion on a forum isn't "speaking for you" --- cool the fuck down, OK? You haven't told me anything new, I *KNOW* they don't give a shit and aren't obliged to do anything - duh - that's the whole point of voicing an opinion to the contrary. Oh sorry, I forgot it's not "cool" to be anything but cynically sit and think about how much things suck and just shut up and put up with it because "clever" people realise it.
Wha'evah!
It so happens I develop cross-platform C++ applications for a living and this stuff DOES affect me, it's constantly a pain dealing with Microsoft's non-standard C++, so yeah, STFU, I can not only demand whatever the hell I want from them, I'm also free to try get others on board too.
It's about BOTH. Pretending it's only about one or the other is an attempt to purport that the quality of Windows does not even enter into the equation and thus that the quality of all OS's is effectively equivalent. This is obviously false, the crappy quality of Windows most DEFINITELY has a lot to do with it too (and this is why the parent was also rightfully modded flamebait).
Gee I dunno, maybe because one is made by a bunch of people working voluntarily in their free time, while the other is a massive software corporation selling expensive "professional" development tools whose software runs on most PCs in the world and which makes billions each month. Honestly, we should demand that Microsoft behave like a company of its position *should*, not pretend that making cynical remarks suggesting we should not expect it do so is "insightful".
Nobody here seems to realise the potential for these as thin clients. I reckon businesses could save a lot of money by going somewhat back to the old days again: Buy one powerful Linux server for a bunch of users each with super-cheap almost disposable thin clients like this.
You can't actually safely 'yank' that removable drive on Windows either. You also have to first "safely remove hardware" (I've seen people lose data after yanking a USB drive out even many minutes after the last writing had finished.) It may be less likely than on say Linux, but you still have to do it, so I guess Windows isn't ready for the desktop either... unless you meant Mac is better? I don't know how Mac handles this.
Indeed that is one new thing, but there are several 'new' things in the video:
- Glowing Pigs! - Basically the first genetically modified mammals where the new gene is in every cell of the animal's body - The first genetically modified mammals where the new gene is passed on to new generations - we're directly changing and re-engineering mammalian species now, this is a huge milestone - An implanted gene that allows brand new avenues and possibilities for medical research / imaging - injected cells with glow-genes function as a biomarker - this has never been done before in this way, and opens up other interesting new possibilities - Glowing genetically modified fish - Genetically modified fish with gene 'switches' allowing fish to be used as pollution indicators - First genetically modified animals on sale to the public as pets (and thus also indirectly, likely to end up in the wild again at some point) - although we've had many other methods of modifying animals before (e.g. selective breeding), this is a whole new level, and this literally represents a new era for mankind and the planet as a whole
GP can sit in his "cynical corner" if he wants and think he's smarter by pretending there's nothing new here, but I think this is exciting in many ways.
Well, there is an important difference, in that here the extra money paid (the 'premium') *is* actually supposed to go towards making the products carbon-neutral, even if in indirect ways, you're still buying something very specific and not made-up (*except* those few cases when you're being scammed, which is what the article is about --- i.e. they're not saying offset programs mean nothing, just that people are abusing it fraudulent to sell non-offsets as if they were offsets). W.r.t. indulgence, well, I don't see that... the closest one can get is if the church ended up using some of that money to help the community, although that wasn't necessarily specifically the purpose overtly. (Actually there is at least some logic to it then, if you view it that way: Sinning may 'harm' the community, so giving money to an organisation that helps the community offsets that harm.)
It's "news" because it's "new" (thats where the word comes from).
If one feels a need to try show that one is more "clever" than those around them, who presumably naively think some news is new, one can actually easily "demonstrate" ANY news to not be "new" by twisting or distilling it into another different or more generic form that isn't new in and of itself. For example if someone wins an election and it's in the news, you can say "Let me get this straight: There was an election and someone won. why is this news ?"... see how easy that is? I swear someone pulls this lame 'not news' nonsense in virtually every slashdot thread.
It is only a child who would complain of such a minor thing--because it's only younger people that would mistake slavery, separate drinking fountains and lack of voting rights to be the moral equivalent of calling a bicycle "Hispanic" or a pig "Chinese".
[OT] True; I go further though, and say that his behaviour, which has become common amongst the 'easily offended minorities', is actually a form of *bullying*. It's a manipulative attempt at domination and subjugation of Westerners.
'Predictions of this failed before, therefore current and future predictions will fail too': This reasoning error you're exhibiting is known as 'false induction'. It's incorrect because each prediction is entirely independent, exists in a completely different context, and has no bearing on any other prediction. This should be obvious, of course. For centuries people predicted human flight, and for centuries it failed. Thus people also predicted the Wright brothers would fail. Similar story for many technologies and trends.
... that would be *helping* NSI carry out their slimy deeds, because anyone who tried to register any of those names during the next five days would be FORCED to buy it from them. Moreover any 'type-ins' would get NSI ads displayed.
Haha, yes UID 865776, I'm not exactly new here, but I'm still idealistic enough to try nudge things towards the better here;)... this is one of the few places where you can still find what passes for an intelligent conversation - well, sometimes - and I wouldn't want cocky think-they're-smart idiots to totally ruin that, they can bugger off.
The point, which very clearly went entirely over your head even though I made it very clear (and would be even clearer if you read and comprehended the articled), is that there IS no clear answer.
You could try answering the question instead of giving a snarky response... the article "discusses" it, yes, but doesn't completely clarify the issue - the bottom line is that the 5th amendment 'probably applies' (I presume only to citizens?), but I'm guessing you're likely to be subjected to a fairly rigorous police-state-like series of events if you try to refuse to give your password. If you're just a tourist and not a citizen, you're probably a lot worse off too, I'm not sure what would happen.
Yes, I thought that the 'logic' for checking suitcases was to search for physical threats such as bombs. Bits on a hard disk hardly qualify as a threat.
They've just sent a message to all their customers etc. that they can and will disable support for all those other programs people are using anytime (and even suggesting that "special tools" [sic] should be required to use those formats gives one a definite feeling that the other products you're using are on shaky ground), so customers will basically give in and realise they are better off just accepting that they should get onto the latest Microsoft products. They're basically saying "we're the *standard*", get onto our products; this apology-after-the-fact for this "mistake" (puh-lease, does anyone really think Microsoft broke a whole bunch of formats by mistake?) doesn't really reverse the damage that's already been done, so it doesn't matter - their message has been sent, and it will have the desired effect. Basically mafia-like tactics, in effect.
What you've described basically sounds like effectively the equivalent of a public company selling equity in the form of securities to raise capital to fund a solar generation plant and issue some kind of dividend after selling the electricity. In which case, yes, that exists, although that would be privatised electricity. Don't see anything wrong with that.
Not being new has nothing to do with the GP's comment or the price of eggs. The complaint regards the contemporary emphasis on creations that are completely devoid of any redeeming meaningful value and rather consist only of trash: Pure trash as an aim and end goal in itself, purposely taking the stripping of value to its limits. This has nothing to do with Macbeth, as one would be pretty hard pressed to claim that such a play has no redeeming qualities and consists solely of violence, profanity and scatological humor. Furthermore, even the toilet humour in a Shakespeare play is generally executed in a comparatively witty and intellectual way (e.g. clever puns). If you can't tell the difference between the qualities of Macbeth and, say, a creation like Cyanide and Happiness, for example, then we may indeed be in deeper trouble as a civilisation than we realise.
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There's a great new site called google.com that makes it easy to look up words you don't know.
There have been plenty of cases of observed speciation - you could've saved yourself writing that long diatribe with its jumped conclusion by just googling first.
They aren't declared, how do you they're char pointers? Looking at the context, I'd guess std::string was intended.
I don't think that was the point, nobody claimed the 'perps' shouldn't be punished (what are you mr strawman or just lack comprehension skills?) - the point was that there should also be some accountability for those who design terrible systems that anyone (e.g. terrorists or whatever) can easily take advantage of to cause harm. Seriously, this is an important point. Would you think it's OK for (say) the local nuclear power plant in your town to leave it's doors open to anyone (virtually or physically)?
Newsflash: Customers are also stakeholders. Newsflash: Customers can voice their opinion on what they think a company can do. Newsflash: Even outsiders are free to do so, that's called "free speech". Newsflash: Somebody expressing an opinion on a forum isn't "speaking for you" --- cool the fuck down, OK? You haven't told me anything new, I *KNOW* they don't give a shit and aren't obliged to do anything - duh - that's the whole point of voicing an opinion to the contrary. Oh sorry, I forgot it's not "cool" to be anything but cynically sit and think about how much things suck and just shut up and put up with it because "clever" people realise it.
Wha'evah!
It so happens I develop cross-platform C++ applications for a living and this stuff DOES affect me, it's constantly a pain dealing with Microsoft's non-standard C++, so yeah, STFU, I can not only demand whatever the hell I want from them, I'm also free to try get others on board too.
It's about BOTH. Pretending it's only about one or the other is an attempt to purport that the quality of Windows does not even enter into the equation and thus that the quality of all OS's is effectively equivalent. This is obviously false, the crappy quality of Windows most DEFINITELY has a lot to do with it too (and this is why the parent was also rightfully modded flamebait).
Gee I dunno, maybe because one is made by a bunch of people working voluntarily in their free time, while the other is a massive software corporation selling expensive "professional" development tools whose software runs on most PCs in the world and which makes billions each month. Honestly, we should demand that Microsoft behave like a company of its position *should*, not pretend that making cynical remarks suggesting we should not expect it do so is "insightful".
Nobody here seems to realise the potential for these as thin clients. I reckon businesses could save a lot of money by going somewhat back to the old days again: Buy one powerful Linux server for a bunch of users each with super-cheap almost disposable thin clients like this.
You can't actually safely 'yank' that removable drive on Windows either. You also have to first "safely remove hardware" (I've seen people lose data after yanking a USB drive out even many minutes after the last writing had finished.) It may be less likely than on say Linux, but you still have to do it, so I guess Windows isn't ready for the desktop either ... unless you meant Mac is better? I don't know how Mac handles this.
Indeed that is one new thing, but there are several 'new' things in the video:
- Glowing Pigs!
- Basically the first genetically modified mammals where the new gene is in every cell of the animal's body
- The first genetically modified mammals where the new gene is passed on to new generations - we're directly changing and re-engineering mammalian species now, this is a huge milestone
- An implanted gene that allows brand new avenues and possibilities for medical research / imaging - injected cells with glow-genes function as a biomarker - this has never been done before in this way, and opens up other interesting new possibilities
- Glowing genetically modified fish
- Genetically modified fish with gene 'switches' allowing fish to be used as pollution indicators
- First genetically modified animals on sale to the public as pets (and thus also indirectly, likely to end up in the wild again at some point) - although we've had many other methods of modifying animals before (e.g. selective breeding), this is a whole new level, and this literally represents a new era for mankind and the planet as a whole
GP can sit in his "cynical corner" if he wants and think he's smarter by pretending there's nothing new here, but I think this is exciting in many ways.
Well, there is an important difference, in that here the extra money paid (the 'premium') *is* actually supposed to go towards making the products carbon-neutral, even if in indirect ways, you're still buying something very specific and not made-up (*except* those few cases when you're being scammed, which is what the article is about --- i.e. they're not saying offset programs mean nothing, just that people are abusing it fraudulent to sell non-offsets as if they were offsets). W.r.t. indulgence, well, I don't see that ... the closest one can get is if the church ended up using some of that money to help the community, although that wasn't necessarily specifically the purpose overtly. (Actually there is at least some logic to it then, if you view it that way: Sinning may 'harm' the community, so giving money to an organisation that helps the community offsets that harm.)
It's "news" because it's "new" (thats where the word comes from).
... see how easy that is? I swear someone pulls this lame 'not news' nonsense in virtually every slashdot thread.
If one feels a need to try show that one is more "clever" than those around them, who presumably naively think some news is new, one can actually easily "demonstrate" ANY news to not be "new" by twisting or distilling it into another different or more generic form that isn't new in and of itself. For example if someone wins an election and it's in the news, you can say "Let me get this straight: There was an election and someone won. why is this news ?"
It is only a child who would complain of such a minor thing--because it's only younger people that would mistake slavery, separate drinking fountains and lack of voting rights to be the moral equivalent of calling a bicycle "Hispanic" or a pig "Chinese".
[OT] True; I go further though, and say that his behaviour, which has become common amongst the 'easily offended minorities', is actually a form of *bullying*. It's a manipulative attempt at domination and subjugation of Westerners.
*Whoosh!!*
'Predictions of this failed before, therefore current and future predictions will fail too': This reasoning error you're exhibiting is known as 'false induction'. It's incorrect because each prediction is entirely independent, exists in a completely different context, and has no bearing on any other prediction. This should be obvious, of course. For centuries people predicted human flight, and for centuries it failed. Thus people also predicted the Wright brothers would fail. Similar story for many technologies and trends.
... that would be *helping* NSI carry out their slimy deeds, because anyone who tried to register any of those names during the next five days would be FORCED to buy it from them. Moreover any 'type-ins' would get NSI ads displayed.
Yeah, typical moderator abuse ... must've been a biker moderator who took offense.
Haha, yes UID 865776, I'm not exactly new here, but I'm still idealistic enough to try nudge things towards the better here ;) ... this is one of the few places where you can still find what passes for an intelligent conversation - well, sometimes - and I wouldn't want cocky think-they're-smart idiots to totally ruin that, they can bugger off.
The point, which very clearly went entirely over your head even though I made it very clear (and would be even clearer if you read and comprehended the articled), is that there IS no clear answer.
You could try answering the question instead of giving a snarky response ... the article "discusses" it, yes, but doesn't completely clarify the issue - the bottom line is that the 5th amendment 'probably applies' (I presume only to citizens?), but I'm guessing you're likely to be subjected to a fairly rigorous police-state-like series of events if you try to refuse to give your password. If you're just a tourist and not a citizen, you're probably a lot worse off too, I'm not sure what would happen.
Yes, I thought that the 'logic' for checking suitcases was to search for physical threats such as bombs. Bits on a hard disk hardly qualify as a threat.
They've just sent a message to all their customers etc. that they can and will disable support for all those other programs people are using anytime (and even suggesting that "special tools" [sic] should be required to use those formats gives one a definite feeling that the other products you're using are on shaky ground), so customers will basically give in and realise they are better off just accepting that they should get onto the latest Microsoft products. They're basically saying "we're the *standard*", get onto our products; this apology-after-the-fact for this "mistake" (puh-lease, does anyone really think Microsoft broke a whole bunch of formats by mistake?) doesn't really reverse the damage that's already been done, so it doesn't matter - their message has been sent, and it will have the desired effect. Basically mafia-like tactics, in effect.
What you've described basically sounds like effectively the equivalent of a public company selling equity in the form of securities to raise capital to fund a solar generation plant and issue some kind of dividend after selling the electricity. In which case, yes, that exists, although that would be privatised electricity. Don't see anything wrong with that.
If you didn't notice it was part of the discussion, go back and read what you were replying to.
Not being new has nothing to do with the GP's comment or the price of eggs. The complaint regards the contemporary emphasis on creations that are completely devoid of any redeeming meaningful value and rather consist only of trash: Pure trash as an aim and end goal in itself, purposely taking the stripping of value to its limits. This has nothing to do with Macbeth, as one would be pretty hard pressed to claim that such a play has no redeeming qualities and consists solely of violence, profanity and scatological humor. Furthermore, even the toilet humour in a Shakespeare play is generally executed in a comparatively witty and intellectual way (e.g. clever puns). If you can't tell the difference between the qualities of Macbeth and, say, a creation like Cyanide and Happiness, for example, then we may indeed be in deeper trouble as a civilisation than we realise.