It ain't like a TV show from Hollywood, where characters turn down a 2x or more increase in pay because they "like who they work with". (All the while, of course, behind the scenes negotiating for enormous pay raises with threats of leaving the job.)
Would it? If they've no financial reason to go into there, why bother?
Also, "subjecting" their population to 12 hour days of work is still better, in the eyes of the "peasants", than simply being a "peasant", or they wouldn't work in the factories and instead remain a "peasant". These "hideous" working conditions are a massive leg up over their current lives -- by their definition, which is the only one that counts.
I heartily concurr. By saying "a brain the size of a planet", he was speaking metaphorically, as if a human or other bipedal species would need a brain the size of a planet to be as smart as him.
That was back when a pound could buy an entire island. It's worth a lil' bit more than a dollar now, down what, 8-fold from the early part of this century alone?
> So I ask you, how much trade between the USA and
> third world nations is exploitive and how much is
> not? I'd say quite a bit does not give the people
> employed fair benefits and compensation. This
> prevents the third world nation from advancing its
> people to first world nation status.
Rich and Prosperous Nation, having gone through its own industrial revolution, which, in spite of pollution and miserable working conditions and low wages, greatly increased their own life expectancy, now feels guilty that other nations want, of their own free will, to go through this, and that the poor in those countries line up to work in the same, miserable conditions which, in their own view, are still much better than being a raw peasant.
All this is nothing other than a phony guilt people bring upon themselves in wealthy countries.
"Oh, lookie! More apes offering up their cave paintings to the gods. More infants saying, 'Lookee mommy at my fingerpainting!' More children fishing for compliments about their creativity in wrapping a twist tie around their finger."
I left it running for a week once, then closed it without checking what it was up to. It was up to the 500,000's the next day (I think.)
Anyhoo, presuming it was built using a library capable of arbitrarily large integers, but processing ever more slowly, one wonders if advancing computer technology could keep ahead of the curve of what it needed for resources.
That thing needs to be rewritten to operate at low priority. When it was cranking after days, the whole system (mouse aside) froze for a second or two. Only when actually shitting was it freed up. That's why I closed it.
Hmmm, I suddenly have an urge to go buy Magic The Gathering cards and hang out at the local Holiday Inn.
They have to duplicate some from every submitter out there from time to time, just to compare results to see if someone is spoofing results to gank themselves higher up the list.
Third, a system with expensive, for-profit solutions is always better than a system without solutions. One might argue a system with free/cheap solutions is better still, but not if it constantly lags farther and farther behind the first.
It makes tremendous sense as long as their society has been homogenously (?) governed for a long, long time, as seems so since they were Borglike in telepathic communication.
With no set of hackers, paid or otherwise, trying to invade the systems, they could be extremely vulnerable.
> Even if a theoretical solution to [poverty and pals] was found
Part of the problem is that there are no shortage of theoretical solutions. One could, in theory, lock people up in cages and feed them food using robots to do all the work. Not much of a life, but it works.
I think aliens would be disgusted at our ability to force others to not harm themselves by threatening them harm, especially with the clear conscience of the right wing (God said so) and the left wing (power to the people, from each...to each, etc.)
Not only that, sending this might be akin to sending the gold old-fashioned record with data on it just prior to the invention of the laser-based CD. Oh, ho! Their computer structure is at the inefficient massively parallel stage. We can tell because they think this kind of calculation is a big deal.
Actually, world's largest beer can pyramid would show we're easy-going. Better yet, world's largest pyramid record holder is now made from beer cans.
> The combined effort of many pc's joining Primenet
> in search for a new Mersenne prime may have found
> there fifth result. Among them many belonging to
>/. readers.
It's not that bad, "there" aside. Either change "result. Among" to "result, among", or add "are" between "them" and "many". Ok, if you're fussy, PC should be capitalized, and an apostrophe is ok when pluralizing an acronym.
Any child who cracks his knuckles under water knows how well sharp sounds go thru water. It sounds like the nuclear explosion analogy with a bunch of mouse traps, each with a rubber ball on it, and you throw a rubber ball in...
BTW, unlike Hollywood movies, in reality, I wouldn't wanna be underwater within miles of a gun, bomb, or dynamite going off.
I was in Europe watching when the BBC officially threw in the towel on the billion issue. Around 1991, John Major had been blabbing, using the US "billion" for some months, when the BBC just started using it that way, too. Oh, sometimes they slipped back into the x thousand millions speak, but they were using US-style billion.
10 years ago, give it up, peeps. That trivia bit is now expired. Move along, nothing to see here. Move along.
My first experience with the idiocy of television was the hacking of "The Jerk", where they changed the dog's name from "Shithead" to something mild, and also changed the name "Iron Balls McGinty" and removed Steve kicking him there.
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> Damn, man, you mean socialize? As in, hang out?
> With the users? WTF?
And me, a real programmer, hanging out with IT guys, the redheaded bastard stepchildren of the computer industry?
It ain't like a TV show from Hollywood, where characters turn down a 2x or more increase in pay because they "like who they work with". (All the while, of course, behind the scenes negotiating for enormous pay raises with threats of leaving the job.)
Would it? If they've no financial reason to go into there, why bother?
Also, "subjecting" their population to 12 hour days of work is still better, in the eyes of the "peasants", than simply being a "peasant", or they wouldn't work in the factories and instead remain a "peasant". These "hideous" working conditions are a massive leg up over their current lives -- by their definition, which is the only one that counts.
I heartily concurr. By saying "a brain the size of a planet", he was speaking metaphorically, as if a human or other bipedal species would need a brain the size of a planet to be as smart as him.
That was back when a pound could buy an entire island. It's worth a lil' bit more than a dollar now, down what, 8-fold from the early part of this century alone?
Some 10 year olds still have no sense of propriety, and believe Spiderman could beat the Hulk in a fight.
FYI, Mad TV on Fox parodied Dateline, too, complete with Jane Pauley.
> So I ask you, how much trade between the USA and
> third world nations is exploitive and how much is
> not? I'd say quite a bit does not give the people
> employed fair benefits and compensation. This
> prevents the third world nation from advancing its
> people to first world nation status.
Rich and Prosperous Nation, having gone through its own industrial revolution, which, in spite of pollution and miserable working conditions and low wages, greatly increased their own life expectancy, now feels guilty that other nations want, of their own free will, to go through this, and that the poor in those countries line up to work in the same, miserable conditions which, in their own view, are still much better than being a raw peasant.
All this is nothing other than a phony guilt people bring upon themselves in wealthy countries.
"Oh, lookie! More apes offering up their cave paintings to the gods. More infants saying, 'Lookee mommy at my fingerpainting!' More children fishing for compliments about their creativity in wrapping a twist tie around their finger."
"It would be like us going out of our way to destroy some microbes on an anthill in Afghanistan."
I left it running for a week once, then closed it without checking what it was up to. It was up to the 500,000's the next day (I think.)
Anyhoo, presuming it was built using a library capable of arbitrarily large integers, but processing ever more slowly, one wonders if advancing computer technology could keep ahead of the curve of what it needed for resources.
That thing needs to be rewritten to operate at low priority. When it was cranking after days, the whole system (mouse aside) froze for a second or two. Only when actually shitting was it freed up. That's why I closed it.
Hmmm, I suddenly have an urge to go buy Magic The Gathering cards and hang out at the local Holiday Inn.
They have to duplicate some from every submitter out there from time to time, just to compare results to see if someone is spoofing results to gank themselves higher up the list.
There was an eng'neer named Paul
Who had an octahedral ball.
He sat with great pain
And jumped right up again
And nailed himself to the wall.
Third, a system with expensive, for-profit solutions is always better than a system without solutions. One might argue a system with free/cheap solutions is better still, but not if it constantly lags farther and farther behind the first.
It makes tremendous sense as long as their society has been homogenously (?) governed for a long, long time, as seems so since they were Borglike in telepathic communication.
With no set of hackers, paid or otherwise, trying to invade the systems, they could be extremely vulnerable.
> Even if a theoretical solution to [poverty and pals] was found
Part of the problem is that there are no shortage of theoretical solutions. One could, in theory, lock people up in cages and feed them food using robots to do all the work. Not much of a life, but it works.
I think aliens would be disgusted at our ability to force others to not harm themselves by threatening them harm, especially with the clear conscience of the right wing (God said so) and the left wing (power to the people, from each...to each, etc.)
Not only that, sending this might be akin to sending the gold old-fashioned record with data on it just prior to the invention of the laser-based CD. Oh, ho! Their computer structure is at the inefficient massively parallel stage. We can tell because they think this kind of calculation is a big deal.
Actually, world's largest beer can pyramid would show we're easy-going. Better yet, world's largest pyramid record holder is now made from beer cans.
> The combined effort of many pc's joining Primenet /. readers.
> in search for a new Mersenne prime may have found
> there fifth result. Among them many belonging to
>
It's not that bad, "there" aside. Either change "result. Among" to "result, among", or add "are" between "them" and "many". Ok, if you're fussy, PC should be capitalized, and an apostrophe is ok when pluralizing an acronym.
> There are an infinite number of primes therefore
> one exists with at least 10 million digits.
Therefore an infinite number with at least 10 million digits exist...
Are Mersenne primes proven infinite, too?
And they don't check it for impurities from time to time, either, presumably.
Drumlin: Why can't science be practical? Do something for the people who, after all, are footing the bill?
Tom: Not unlike my L-band globular clusters...
Ok, so test, phase II: How many (theoretically defective) tubes must simultaneously implode before all the rest go.
In computer science, we call this a "bug".
Any child who cracks his knuckles under water knows how well sharp sounds go thru water. It sounds like the nuclear explosion analogy with a bunch of mouse traps, each with a rubber ball on it, and you throw a rubber ball in...
BTW, unlike Hollywood movies, in reality, I wouldn't wanna be underwater within miles of a gun, bomb, or dynamite going off.
I was in Europe watching when the BBC officially threw in the towel on the billion issue. Around 1991, John Major had been blabbing, using the US "billion" for some months, when the BBC just started using it that way, too. Oh, sometimes they slipped back into the x thousand millions speak, but they were using US-style billion.
10 years ago, give it up, peeps. That trivia bit is now expired. Move along, nothing to see here. Move along.
And "lemme just whip this out", too. Sheesh.
My first experience with the idiocy of television was the hacking of "The Jerk", where they changed the dog's name from "Shithead" to something mild, and also changed the name "Iron Balls McGinty" and removed Steve kicking him there.