We should all learn to be some kind of martial artist, so we have a nation of ninja warriors. Nobody will fuck with anybody ever again. It's infeasible. On one point, everyone can kick your ass;
Awesome idea!
One question...how do we make sure that we only train the good guys in martial arts?
Great advice! I also tried to teach my son to program, but he wasn't interested. I think the 'key' is to find something he is interested in that he has to learn to program to do it.
No you asshat, the 'key' is to find out what your child is interested in that they show aptitude at and nurture that. Attempting to force your child into some preconceived mold in order to enrich some deranged sense of proxy-succcess you get through your child's achievement is just wrong.
Your children do not necessarily enjoy the same things you do. Deal with it.
The deviation since 1960 doesn't automatically mean that the records are wrong before 1960, as the instrumental records validate a large chunk of the pre 1960 period tree ring proxy data as correct within a given error bar.
Forgive my ignorance, but then why do they not just use the instrumental records?
yes, the tree-ring data in this location diverges unexpectedly from the actual temps recorded. that is a problem to explain. but it has nothing to do with the fact that the temperatures really did continue to increase.
No, it's much worse than that. The tree-ring data diverges unexpectedly and nobody knows why.
Given that is the case, it is wrong to use this data for pre-1960 periods. On what basis can we assume that tree rings were ever an accurate predictor of temperature?
Until that question is answered, I think all studies based on tree-rings are suspect.
If you can't choose between what's wrong and what's right then there will never be discussions, there won't be advancement.
I know this may destroy your personal perception of reality, but you know, just sometimes, there are different answers to a problem...and both of them are right.
Also, sometimes, just sometimes, the guy you didn't vote for has a good idea.
Fox News fought a fight against government oppression of freedom of the press. Just like freedom of speech, I would rather idiots have the right to say their idiotic things than leave it up to the government to decide what idiotic things can be said. ...
The government should not exist to keep you happy nor to keep you from being sad/mad/whatever other emotion. If you feel a news outlet is lying to you, get your news from a different source. Trusting what ANYONE without verifying is your own damn fault.
Exactly right! And this should not only be true of news journalism, this should be extended to other industries as well...
- Is your doctor is lying to you about your tumor? Go to a different doctor! - Engineer lying about the safety of that bridge, use a different engineer! - Is your teacher lying to your children about whether the Holocaust occurred, find a different teacher!
All of these people should be allowed to make up whatever lies they feel like, cause I'd much rather have idiots have the right to say their idiotic things than leave it up to the government to decide what idiotic things can be said. Get yourself a medical/engineering/teaching/etc degree so you can verify everything anyone ever says to you. Obviously nobody should be held to any kind of professional accountability, because freedom of speech trumps all!
P.S. And because this is Slashdot, I feel the need to point out that the above post is sarcasm...
1. Forget chasing 'pirates'. This will save a lot of expensive legal bills. Cut back drastically on advertising too, as you don't need to whip people up into a frenzy to get them to theatres in the first week. 2. Make film (Citizen Kane2, The Reckoning: starring Adam Sandler or something). 3. Make a VCD cut and make unlabelled cheapo vcd's. Using the economies of scale, sell these so cheap that the guys selling pirate vcd will buy from you rather than burn their own copies. Your margin is the difference between a bulk pressed cd and a small scale burned copy. 4. Simultaneously sell the film as a download for the same price as you get for the vcd....wait a few weeks 5. Make a nicer, longer dvd cut of the film and, again, sell these so cheap that the guys selling pirate dvd will buy from you rather than burn their own copies. 6. Sell the dvd cut of the film online at the same price as the DVD wholesale price..... wait some more 7. Theatre release of film in lovely THX/35mm 8. Dvd/Bluray boxed sets with extra everything. 9. Laugh all the way to the bank (which then gambles half your money away and pays the other half to its CEO).
While I agree with the sentiment of what you posted, I'm guessing it's mostly guesswork.
The movie studios have a nearly unprecedented market research opportunity with the proliferation of pirates...but are letting it go to waste.
Here's my opinion on what needs to be done:
1) Track (or even release some of your own) pirated movies. Figure out what is most popular...what is really impacting your business: The theater cammed versions, the leaked academy awards preview DVDs, the DVD rips that come out when the DVD is released, etc.
2) Start offering competition to the items that have the most impact. Offer multiple price structures/multiple qualities. Figure out the price point at which you can make the most profit from downloaders.
3) Stop treating these people like criminals and treat them like potential customers. If the problem is as bad as the MPAA indicates, then there is a huge potential for growth here.
The movie studios keep wanting to put the genie back in the bottle. It can't be done. Apple has already shown that at a certain price point people will pay for downloadable content, even when a free alternative exists.
The big problem however, is I personally believe the pirate "problem" isn't nearly as bad as the MPAA makes it out to be. They don't offer a competing product because they know there aren't really that many potential customers out there. They just want to keep the public scared so pirating doesn't go mainstream...
SOX was meant to prevent another ENRON, but those things will happen regardless of rules - look at the collapse of organizations like FannieMae, well after SOX was in place.
Huh? Do you even have a clue what caused the collapse of Enron vs. what caused the collapse of Fannie Mae?
To use the mandatory car analogy, your argument is something like: I put winter tires on my car, but then I was t-boned at an intersection when I ran a red light. See, winter tires don't help prevent accidents!
The two scenarios were completely different. Most of what SOX requires for IT should fall under good IT practice anyways. It basically requires controls to be implemented on financial systems in order to prevent fraudulent changes to financial data.
Now I realize people at some corporations have used SOX as a big bat to force in their own pet IT projects. Or as a way of preventing any IT changes that they don't agree with, but that isn't the fault of SOX.
If people are building personal fiefdom's within corporations, they'll do so with or without some legislation to use as an excuse.
ames are not cut, they take a lot of time and money to make and companies talk about what they're making, even having to declare their status on annual returns. Just about every game is published because the investment has been made. Only a fool would believe companies would make a game, get to the end, then decide it's only going to get 3 out of 10, then scrap it.
And your evidence for this would be what?!?! Games are cancelled all the time. Many of these were cancelled WELL into production.
Only a fool would dump a bunch of money into development of a game, realize it was crap, then decide "let's spend a bunch more money on marketing and distribution that we will never recover!"
No, but I did get a Bachelor's degree in math what seems like an infinity ago....here's what I remember.
You can add infinity to the number system just fine. In doing so you would want to preserve rules of the standard number system (e.g. a+b = b+a, (ab)c = a(bc)). This has already been done. Hyperreal numbers make up a branch of mathematics called nonstandard analysis. Nonstandard analysis has been used occasionally in studies of quantum physics, but it doesn't help with the infinities.
The infinities in quantum gravity are not a math problem they are a physics problem...i.e. the infinities turn up where we know they don't exist (e.g. infinite mass, infinite energy, etc). Nonstandard analysis can be useful in working with these infinities, but not in explaining them.
You must be a good observer to be a scientist in the first place, because observation is what allows you to believe there is order in the universe, and that causality exists.
There...fixed that for you.
As to the rest of your post, complete rubbish. There is a fundamental difference between a set of observations that can be reproduced at will and faith in something we cannot detect.
The problem isn't so much with the infinities, those are perfectly allowable in math and in physics.
The gravitational pull as you approach a black hole approaches infinity The limit of the graph 1/x as x->0 is infinite.
The problem is that other theories of quantum gravity result in infinities where we do NOT observe these infinities to exist. As a simple example (quantum mechanics is beyond me, but this gives the flavor), one of the classic theories of electrostatics states that the electric field of a point charge is inversely proportionate to the square of the distance from that charge.
However, from a quantum-mechanical standpoint, and electron has no size...it is a point particle.
This causes an issue if we take both of these results together...as you approach an electron, the electric field should approach infinity.
We know that this doesn't happen, so one of the two theories must be incomplete.
Google and the internet are the anti-thesis to Big Brother. So are a populace with cameras.
This is what scares me about Google more than anything. Three important things are compared in this quote: 1) the Internet 2) Google 3) the public
One of these things is very different than the others...can you spot which? (hint...one has shareholders).
Far too often do I see people confusing Google with the internet, or believing that what's good for Google is good for us all.
They have basically accomplished what Microsoft tried 10 years ago...they are synonymous with the internet.
Sorry, maybe my tinfoil hat is too snug, but that feels very Big Brother-ish to me. They may be all "do no evil" today, but there was even a time (believe it or not) when Microsoft was a "good guy", fighting the tyranny of the evil Big Blue. Once we've given Google the keys to the internet, we may find our new Googlish overlords to be not quite as nice as we had imagined.
Yeah, um... I guess you don't know this, but the whole point of the experiment is to/get/ collisions. It's kinda how basic particle research like this is done.
The wikipedia article is a good start, but there's more info there, and there's always Google if you want to educate yourself further.:)
Yeah, um... I guess you don't know this, but there's this whole part of language called humor. It's kinda a basic part of human behavior.
The wikipedia article is a good start, but there's more info there, and there's always Google if you want to educate yourself further.:)
I type almost as fast with my iPhone as I do with my keyboard.
Sorry, but all that tells me is that you suck at using a keyboard. World records for texting have people completing a 160 character message at 40 seconds. See here and here. That works out to 48 words per minute, which is still very slow compare to even a novice touch-typist.
You will also note that the world records are continually won by people using tactile keyboards.
The only people who continually raise the issue with this are people who haven't used the product, or have and are easily frustrated. Or they're too old to learn a slightly new trick.
Wow, over-generalize much?
I could just as easily claim that the people who continually issues the iPhone keyboard are people who can actually type. Or that the the people who like the iPhone keyboard are rabid fanboi's who are so trapped in their Apple-worshiping love-fest that they can't see the obvious fact that a non-tactile keyboard is a pretty stupid way of communicating.
Exactly what misinformation was spouted? The GP post was essentially: "I would guess that a single Core2Duo/Quad or Core iX CPU is not considered SMP"
Are you arguing that the poster would NOT guess this? That seems to be a strange claim. If I post "I guess it's going to rain kittens tomorrow", this is not misinformation. This is a claim about my personal thoughts. It may be a stupid guess (as in this case), but it is information nonetheless. I was informed that the GP poster knows nothing about SMB.
When you rant about topics with no logic or justification to your ranting (which is a serious problem on the internet (I'm looking at you creationists), the fact that you were attempting to correct someone doesn't absolve you, since utilizing 15 neurons on your part would have meant 1 less stupid post in the world and countless seconds preserved by not reading it.
I propose that you sir are an internet asshole (not that this particular post means a goddamn thing, since the profound intellect of the Slashdot community has already raised you to a +4 insightful, but WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?)
Point is, misinformation is a problem. Pointing it out where it doesn't exist and acting like an overbearing jerk about it makes it worse, not better.
Now had you posted that the GP's post was a complete and utter waste of the.8 seconds it took to read it, I would agree. I have a problem with the post as it conveys practically no information, not incorrect information.
Development methodologies have nothing to do with computer science either.
Sorry for the ignorance, but is that true in university courses as well?
I have a degree in mathematics (with a few CS courses), and a technical diploma in Info. Systems. My IS courses had a very strong emphasis on methodologies and writing maintainable code. I've always assumed a CS degree would have the same, along with the CS theory.
If not, that explains some of the code I've seen written by some very bright people. Some of it (not all by any means) has been technically functional, but horrible maintenance-wise. Almost as bad as when I see code written by engineers (the "build physical stuff" kind, not the CS kind or the "drives a train" kind).
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Awesome idea!
One question...how do we make sure that we only train the good guys in martial arts?
The stupidity with hijacking also went up since people started carrying iPhones...
ooo, iPhones for everyone...that'll fix it!
No you asshat, the 'key' is to find out what your child is interested in that they show aptitude at and nurture that. Attempting to force your child into some preconceived mold in order to enrich some deranged sense of proxy-succcess you get through your child's achievement is just wrong.
Your children do not necessarily enjoy the same things you do. Deal with it.
Ahhh...that's why there are no video games based on any of the other star wars movies...lack of pod racing!
Huh? You claimed that "We won the war and the combat troops are coming home."
Well, you got it half right...the troops are coming home:
But the
war is
far from
over
But it might just be a particle of preanimate matter caught in the matrix...
But many* of those pictures are quite rude, as evidenced by the puzzle I'm just completing...OMG...what are you doing to that poor kitten?!?!?
* many as in a large number as opposed to a large percentage.
Forgive my ignorance, but then why do they not just use the instrumental records?
No, it's much worse than that. The tree-ring data diverges unexpectedly and nobody knows why.
Given that is the case, it is wrong to use this data for pre-1960 periods. On what basis can we assume that tree rings were ever an accurate predictor of temperature?
Until that question is answered, I think all studies based on tree-rings are suspect.
You feed bacon to pigs?!?! That's just wrong...on so many levels...
Alternatively I could have gone with:
I don't think you're using your bacon right....
Or:
Hey, you keep how I use my bacon out of this!
I know this may destroy your personal perception of reality, but you know, just sometimes, there are different answers to a problem...and both of them are right.
Also, sometimes, just sometimes, the guy you didn't vote for has a good idea.
Exactly right! And this should not only be true of news journalism, this should be extended to other industries as well...
- Is your doctor is lying to you about your tumor? Go to a different doctor!
- Engineer lying about the safety of that bridge, use a different engineer!
- Is your teacher lying to your children about whether the Holocaust occurred, find a different teacher!
All of these people should be allowed to make up whatever lies they feel like, cause I'd much rather have idiots have the right to say their idiotic things than leave it up to the government to decide what idiotic things can be said. Get yourself a medical/engineering/teaching/etc degree so you can verify everything anyone ever says to you. Obviously nobody should be held to any kind of professional accountability, because freedom of speech trumps all!
P.S.
And because this is Slashdot, I feel the need to point out that the above post is sarcasm...
While I agree with the sentiment of what you posted, I'm guessing it's mostly guesswork.
The movie studios have a nearly unprecedented market research opportunity with the proliferation of pirates...but are letting it go to waste.
Here's my opinion on what needs to be done:
1) Track (or even release some of your own) pirated movies. Figure out what is most popular...what is really impacting your business: The theater cammed versions, the leaked academy awards preview DVDs, the DVD rips that come out when the DVD is released, etc.
2) Start offering competition to the items that have the most impact. Offer multiple price structures/multiple qualities. Figure out the price point at which you can make the most profit from downloaders.
3) Stop treating these people like criminals and treat them like potential customers. If the problem is as bad as the MPAA indicates, then there is a huge potential for growth here.
The movie studios keep wanting to put the genie back in the bottle. It can't be done. Apple has already shown that at a certain price point people will pay for downloadable content, even when a free alternative exists.
The big problem however, is I personally believe the pirate "problem" isn't nearly as bad as the MPAA makes it out to be. They don't offer a competing product because they know there aren't really that many potential customers out there. They just want to keep the public scared so pirating doesn't go mainstream...
Huh? Do you even have a clue what caused the collapse of Enron vs. what caused the collapse of Fannie Mae?
To use the mandatory car analogy, your argument is something like:
I put winter tires on my car, but then I was t-boned at an intersection when I ran a red light. See, winter tires don't help prevent accidents!
The two scenarios were completely different. Most of what SOX requires for IT should fall under good IT practice anyways. It basically requires controls to be implemented on financial systems in order to prevent fraudulent changes to financial data.
Now I realize people at some corporations have used SOX as a big bat to force in their own pet IT projects. Or as a way of preventing any IT changes that they don't agree with, but that isn't the fault of SOX.
If people are building personal fiefdom's within corporations, they'll do so with or without some legislation to use as an excuse.
me!
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo.
Galileo, Galileo, Figaro....
And your evidence for this would be what?!?! Games are cancelled all the time. Many of these were cancelled WELL into production.
Only a fool would dump a bunch of money into development of a game, realize it was crap, then decide "let's spend a bunch more money on marketing and distribution that we will never recover!"
No, but I did get a Bachelor's degree in math what seems like an infinity ago....here's what I remember.
You can add infinity to the number system just fine. In doing so you would want to preserve rules of the standard number system (e.g. a+b = b+a, (ab)c = a(bc)).
This has already been done. Hyperreal numbers make up a branch of mathematics called nonstandard analysis.
Nonstandard analysis has been used occasionally in studies of quantum physics, but it doesn't help with the infinities.
The infinities in quantum gravity are not a math problem they are a physics problem...i.e. the infinities turn up where we know they don't exist (e.g. infinite mass, infinite energy, etc). Nonstandard analysis can be useful in working with these infinities, but not in explaining them.
There...fixed that for you.
As to the rest of your post, complete rubbish. There is a fundamental difference between a set of observations that can be reproduced at will and faith in something we cannot detect.
Science requires evidence. Faith does not.
The problem isn't so much with the infinities, those are perfectly allowable in math and in physics.
The gravitational pull as you approach a black hole approaches infinity
The limit of the graph 1/x as x->0 is infinite.
The problem is that other theories of quantum gravity result in infinities where we do NOT observe these infinities to exist. As a simple example (quantum mechanics is beyond me, but this gives the flavor), one of the classic theories of electrostatics states that the electric field of a point charge is inversely proportionate to the square of the distance from that charge.
However, from a quantum-mechanical standpoint, and electron has no size...it is a point particle.
This causes an issue if we take both of these results together...as you approach an electron, the electric field should approach infinity.
We know that this doesn't happen, so one of the two theories must be incomplete.
This is what scares me about Google more than anything. Three important things are compared in this quote:
1) the Internet
2) Google
3) the public
One of these things is very different than the others...can you spot which? (hint...one has shareholders).
Far too often do I see people confusing Google with the internet, or believing that what's good for Google is good for us all.
They have basically accomplished what Microsoft tried 10 years ago...they are synonymous with the internet.
Sorry, maybe my tinfoil hat is too snug, but that feels very Big Brother-ish to me. They may be all "do no evil" today, but there was even a time (believe it or not) when Microsoft was a "good guy", fighting the tyranny of the evil Big Blue. Once we've given Google the keys to the internet, we may find our new Googlish overlords to be not quite as nice as we had imagined.
Yeah, um... I guess you don't know this, but there's this whole part of language called humor. It's kinda a basic part of human behavior.
The wikipedia article is a good start, but there's more info there, and there's always Google if you want to educate yourself further. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
Sorry, but all that tells me is that you suck at using a keyboard. World records for texting have people completing a 160 character message at 40 seconds.
See here and here.
That works out to 48 words per minute, which is still very slow compare to even a novice touch-typist.
You will also note that the world records are continually won by people using tactile keyboards.
Wow, over-generalize much?
I could just as easily claim that the people who continually issues the iPhone keyboard are people who can actually type. Or that the the people who like the iPhone keyboard are rabid fanboi's who are so trapped in their Apple-worshiping love-fest that they can't see the obvious fact that a non-tactile keyboard is a pretty stupid way of communicating.
But of course I won't.
Exactly what misinformation was spouted? The GP post was essentially: "I would guess that a single Core2Duo/Quad or Core iX CPU is not considered SMP"
Are you arguing that the poster would NOT guess this? That seems to be a strange claim. If I post "I guess it's going to rain kittens tomorrow", this is not misinformation. This is a claim about my personal thoughts. It may be a stupid guess (as in this case), but it is information nonetheless. I was informed that the GP poster knows nothing about SMB.
When you rant about topics with no logic or justification to your ranting (which is a serious problem on the internet (I'm looking at you creationists), the fact that you were attempting to correct someone doesn't absolve you, since utilizing 15 neurons on your part would have meant 1 less stupid post in the world and countless seconds preserved by not reading it.
I propose that you sir are an internet asshole (not that this particular post means a goddamn thing, since the profound intellect of the Slashdot community has already raised you to a +4 insightful, but WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?)
Point is, misinformation is a problem. Pointing it out where it doesn't exist and acting like an overbearing jerk about it makes it worse, not better.
Now had you posted that the GP's post was a complete and utter waste of the .8 seconds it took to read it, I would agree. I have a problem with the post as it conveys practically no information, not incorrect information.
That's the average right now. There is no way that humanity will be able to maintain that average over the next 200 - 300 years.
If we attempt it, that will likely solve the growth problem right there (war, famine, disease, general Malthusian badness).
Sorry for the ignorance, but is that true in university courses as well?
I have a degree in mathematics (with a few CS courses), and a technical diploma in Info. Systems. My IS courses had a very strong emphasis on methodologies and writing maintainable code. I've always assumed a CS degree would have the same, along with the CS theory.
If not, that explains some of the code I've seen written by some very bright people. Some of it (not all by any means) has been technically functional, but horrible maintenance-wise. Almost as bad as when I see code written by engineers (the "build physical stuff" kind, not the CS kind or the "drives a train" kind).