You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear -- "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I think he is saying limit your criticism to the aspects of design that the artist has concerned himself with. Picasso is not above criticism, but it is pointless to say he draws like a child when you have seen his draftsman like early work.
Neil Postman thinks that is in fact how we won the world. The idea is that IQ maxed out about 10K-20K years ago when we were loosing 80% of our 18-20 year old males to big cat predation (all those numbers are vague memories from the book). Those who were left alive kicked ass. It is also an explanation for why 18-20 year old males are pathologically incapable of realizing the consequences of their actions.
Yes war is bad, but letting teenagers kill themselves off in large numbers in spectacular ways can be good unless you live on St. Kilda. Either way this is why I think we need to release large predators into suburban neighborhoods.
Hmmm sounds like Demon's Souls. A modern, pretty, & real game where getting to your body is part of a pain fun balance. Also with each completion that game re-starts and is much more difficult.
There is a de-leveling trick with a NPC in that game that allows you to re-spec your character. I hadn't slept in too long and started the process before completing a necessary hurdle. The end result was I had to play a level that is pretty much only a spiral staircase about 200 times with a horribly under powered character with no spells. There was much lamentation. Upshot is sometimes it is MUCH better to just die and start over, pride is a terrible thing.
If you like games that don't pander to bitches check it out on PS3 or wait till Dark Souls comes out in October. Atlas makes cool games see Shadow of the Colossus as well.
The only challenge to Skype is me shorting M$ stock for wasting a couple billion on a money loosing and totally generic software company. Balmer you stupid fucking moron. There is nothing about Skype anymore but momentum. The Gizmo5 --> Google Voice is so much more usefully, flexible and interesting.
The half-life of things that you don't use everyday is vanishingly short. Hell the half-life of and engineering degree is something like 3 years. Just because you happen to be able to memorize a coded system doesn't mean that the VAST majority of even technical people will. Learning styles are dramatically different, the ability for people to think that everyone should see the world the same way that they do is infinite. Also remember that a huge portion of the brain is devoted to visual processing, why rely on a system that creates an end product by cramming it down into the corpus callosum and rebuilding it on the other side of the brain. It is like employing an art director because you like his design sense then asking him to compose his images using a Litebright. WYSIWYG is fucking awesome, people who break things that work to milk customers are ass-clowns.
In Rainbows End the Army rains down networking nodes on a site that they want to control. I have been talking about doing this as a 501c. Make off the shelf Meraki style nodes with a mix and match of bands. E.g. 900mHz backbone and 802.11b/g with every 10th or so with a satellite uplink. Make them cheap enough to carpet bomb out of a b52. Give them a solar panel or a easy connect to a car battery or a 110/220. When ever someone tries to "turn off the internet" just drop a new one. The peer to peer cell phone also has a hand in this a Motorola f4 style phone or even a Belkin Skype phone could be dropped at the same time. TerraNet was already covered on/. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/2007/09/peer-to-peer-mobile-phones-by-terranet.html
Also my only assumption was the 90% of the people here have no fucking clue what one over the natural log of seven really means and really do believe that at 30 minutes the glass is half full, the rest is just an illustration of that point not a real model of population.
Watch the video. Population grows due to all "good" aspects of civilization. Population declines because of all "bad" aspect of civilization except education and birth control. The point is population will decline and we can either choose how that occurs or have it happen by events outside of our control. To quote old Gozer the Gozarian "choose and perish." I want to choose educated women and condoms but I worry the the four horsemen will take the day.
[In response to this question by Bill Moyers: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?] "It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (17 October 1988); transcript (page 6) - audio (20:12)
No we are stupid because we don't understand basic math. Exponential growth or really ANY growth is unsustainable by definition. Got a test tube? Put some yeast and sugar in it and see what happens. Does it expand forever? Why do you think we can avoid the laws of biology and physics? Because you're a idiot.
Imagine a test tube filled with sugar and water. It represents all the resources and space on earth. Or just think of the earth, it works either way.
Now place one bacteria in the test tube. For the sake of the though experiment we will say that the bacteria doubles every minute and at 60 minutes the test tube will be full of bacteria and all space and resources are exhausted. Here's the question.... at how many minutes is the tube 1/2 full? Wait... wait... if you thought 30 minutes you're not smart enough to be involved in any type of conversation relating to math. The answer is 59. 1/2 full at 59 minutes. So how many bacteria look around a 1/16 full and realize that they are well and truly fucked? Not you obviously. Even if we invent a quantum earth duplicator and make 3 more earths, at 61 the second earth is exhausted and at 62 all four are. Your basic math illiteracy is the real reason you think that we are all ok.
The depth of your wrongness is staggering. Math is not racist.
# On January 19, 2038, the Unix Time Stamp will cease to work due to a 32-bit overflow. Before this moment millions of applications will need to either adopt a new convention for time stamps or be migrated to 64-bit systems.[8]
We do have the Unix clock. Made me laugh my ass of when there was a slashdot poll for when to switch to 64bit and it left out the option for the date when the clock exceeds 32 bits.
...also two Detroit senators make sure no one else can import cars to the US without crossing a high ass bar. Its cheaper to buy a senator than to build a better business model.
Slashdot Mirror
You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I think he is saying limit your criticism to the aspects of design that the artist has concerned himself with. Picasso is not above criticism, but it is pointless to say he draws like a child when you have seen his draftsman like early work.
Neil Postman thinks that is in fact how we won the world. The idea is that IQ maxed out about 10K-20K years ago when we were loosing 80% of our 18-20 year old males to big cat predation (all those numbers are vague memories from the book). Those who were left alive kicked ass. It is also an explanation for why 18-20 year old males are pathologically incapable of realizing the consequences of their actions.
Yes war is bad, but letting teenagers kill themselves off in large numbers in spectacular ways can be good unless you live on St. Kilda. Either way this is why I think we need to release large predators into suburban neighborhoods.
Hmmm sounds like Demon's Souls. A modern, pretty, & real game where getting to your body is part of a pain fun balance. Also with each completion that game re-starts and is much more difficult.
There is a de-leveling trick with a NPC in that game that allows you to re-spec your character. I hadn't slept in too long and started the process before completing a necessary hurdle. The end result was I had to play a level that is pretty much only a spiral staircase about 200 times with a horribly under powered character with no spells. There was much lamentation. Upshot is sometimes it is MUCH better to just die and start over, pride is a terrible thing.
If you like games that don't pander to bitches check it out on PS3 or wait till Dark Souls comes out in October. Atlas makes cool games see Shadow of the Colossus as well.
No shit. Shills are deep on slashdot.shill.org these days.
Send that fuck a bill for Iraq while you're at it.
The only challenge to Skype is me shorting M$ stock for wasting a couple billion on a money loosing and totally generic software company. Balmer you stupid fucking moron. There is nothing about Skype anymore but momentum. The Gizmo5 --> Google Voice is so much more usefully, flexible and interesting.
The half-life of things that you don't use everyday is vanishingly short. Hell the half-life of and engineering degree is something like 3 years. Just because you happen to be able to memorize a coded system doesn't mean that the VAST majority of even technical people will. Learning styles are dramatically different, the ability for people to think that everyone should see the world the same way that they do is infinite. Also remember that a huge portion of the brain is devoted to visual processing, why rely on a system that creates an end product by cramming it down into the corpus callosum and rebuilding it on the other side of the brain. It is like employing an art director because you like his design sense then asking him to compose his images using a Litebright. WYSIWYG is fucking awesome, people who break things that work to milk customers are ass-clowns.
In Rainbows End the Army rains down networking nodes on a site that they want to control. I have been talking about doing this as a 501c. Make off the shelf Meraki style nodes with a mix and match of bands. E.g. 900mHz backbone and 802.11b/g with every 10th or so with a satellite uplink. Make them cheap enough to carpet bomb out of a b52. Give them a solar panel or a easy connect to a car battery or a 110/220. When ever someone tries to "turn off the internet" just drop a new one. The peer to peer cell phone also has a hand in this a Motorola f4 style phone or even a Belkin Skype phone could be dropped at the same time. TerraNet was already covered on /. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/2007/09/peer-to-peer-mobile-phones-by-terranet.html
His two ass-clown sons need a place to rest their no-nos.
Also my only assumption was the 90% of the people here have no fucking clue what one over the natural log of seven really means and really do believe that at 30 minutes the glass is half full, the rest is just an illustration of that point not a real model of population.
Watch the video. Population grows due to all "good" aspects of civilization. Population declines because of all "bad" aspect of civilization except education and birth control. The point is population will decline and we can either choose how that occurs or have it happen by events outside of our control. To quote old Gozer the Gozarian "choose and perish." I want to choose educated women and condoms but I worry the the four horsemen will take the day.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2223172&cid=36383204
[In response to this question by Bill Moyers: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?] "It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Interview by Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas (17 October 1988); transcript (page 6) - audio (20:12)
No we are stupid because we don't understand basic math. Exponential growth or really ANY growth is unsustainable by definition. Got a test tube? Put some yeast and sugar in it and see what happens. Does it expand forever? Why do you think we can avoid the laws of biology and physics? Because you're a idiot.
Think of it this way....
Imagine a test tube filled with sugar and water. It represents all the resources and space on earth. Or just think of the earth, it works either way.
Now place one bacteria in the test tube. For the sake of the though experiment we will say that the bacteria doubles every minute and at 60 minutes the test tube will be full of bacteria and all space and resources are exhausted. Here's the question.... at how many minutes is the tube 1/2 full? Wait... wait... if you thought 30 minutes you're not smart enough to be involved in any type of conversation relating to math. The answer is 59. 1/2 full at 59 minutes. So how many bacteria look around a 1/16 full and realize that they are well and truly fucked? Not you obviously. Even if we invent a quantum earth duplicator and make 3 more earths, at 61 the second earth is exhausted and at 62 all four are. Your basic math illiteracy is the real reason you think that we are all ok.
The depth of your wrongness is staggering. Math is not racist.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=video&cd=1&ved=0CDYQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DF-QA2rkpBSY&ei=IC3wTb3oO4GisAO239yuDg&usg=AFQjCNHmFV-da9Oy6becHtac7KffjWsTsQ&sig2=hocy8suakk6IR0w5233hFg
is this black hat or revenge for the removal of install other os?
# On January 19, 2038, the Unix Time Stamp will cease to work due to a 32-bit overflow. Before this moment millions of applications will need to either adopt a new convention for time stamps or be migrated to 64-bit systems.[8]
We do have the Unix clock. Made me laugh my ass of when there was a slashdot poll for when to switch to 64bit and it left out the option for the date when the clock exceeds 32 bits.
Ahhh the ass fucking the Reagans gave us just keeps going.
I want Toyota Landcruiser pickup. I can't import it even as a exempt farm vehicle. Why?
Still a different standard. Tried to import a Audi A4, it would have needed 20,000 US in parts and labor to be legal.
...also two Detroit senators make sure no one else can import cars to the US without crossing a high ass bar. Its cheaper to buy a senator than to build a better business model.
His stupid wife couldn't bake her recipes if car companies had to use metric robots.