I think I smell an action flick here. Maybe we can send Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood on a suicide mission (please!) to nuke the iceberg before it makes landfall.
Of course, they would have to battle laser equipped sharks and a stultifying bureaucracy....
A disproportionate number of people who are obsessed with video games score high on the ASD. These aren't controversial ideas.
Causation is different, not so much for smoking and yellow fingers. Nutter's blathering aside, the real question is: Are video games harmful to people who score high on the ASD? although you might be tempted to apply that question to several other groups.
Its just plain nuts to pretend a link doesn't exist (although that hasn't stopped climate deniers), the important bit is 'what is the effect', 'how do we mitigate it', and 'how certain are we of the linkage'. The rest is for dingbats.
There was a documentary on this in the 1980s where scientists were using beams to trap ghosts. Seemed to work pretty well then, I don't know why this has taken so long.
Not for a moment did you consider the posters point, and as an added insult, followed up with more of the mud-raking s?he was trying to quell.
I was worried, for a moment, that the parent post would be taken seriously, and/. would turn into something unspeakable. But, safe to say, there are enough jackasses in to pool to keep the party going. Well Done!
I agree with you, but its worse than you say. Beyond the 'does this hardware work' problem lies a brave new world of 'does this software-as-a-service work'?
My experience is mainly no. There is wicked entrenchment in many areas - though I've noticed it most in education - that is bolstered in the rush to go back to mainframes (or clouds, as they now apparently are).
Vendor lockin loves the clouds; your data is our data, but ours is really ours and you can't see it is bad enough. That the effective portals are crappy, poorly considered, and mostly a hunk of shit is another issue. The wider issue is most of this lameass worthless software only works with some crappy MS software.
I can't really blame the cloud providers. When your MS box is unresponsive, you blame it, not the cloud.
When your Mac is unresponsive, you blame the cloud.
Why add linux clients; it just makes you look bad.
Its an interesting phrase "to run properly"; I'm sure that one day there will be a Windows that "runs properly". The real question is, can Windows 7 run properly?
Christ, you were taking this crap from ad-copy, doesn't W7 support cut+paste? We all like the new hood ornament, must you jam it down every-bodies throat?
Tough question. I seem to recall that the pre-euopean invasion population of NA may have been 20M. Even assuming they ate BigBison for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I don't suppose they could hold a candle to the 400M that currently occupy their territory. Assuming they were as ravenous carnivores as us, that would be a 20x pressure. Since this is/., feel free to explain our dietary differences as observed by what you would like the answer to be. (ps, if this is a dup, its/. f-ing up...)
Tough question. I seem to recall that the pre-euopean invasion population of NA may have been 20M. Even assuming the ate BigBison for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I don't suppose they could hold a candle to the 400M that currently occupy their territory. Assuming they were as ravenous carnivores as us, that would be a 20x pressure. Since this is/., feel free to explain our dietary differences as observed by what you would like the answer to be.
Free And Good Enough is wonderful, but what are they sacrificing? I'm not going to stand on the MS makes great stuff - I'm 25 years in this industry, and my only windows exposure is trying to repair and troubleshoot family and friends computers (damn you Apple, why didn't you get your game on 10 years earlier). Every time I'm confronted with linux distros, I'm stuck with that odd sort of feeling like when your 5 year old makes breakfast for you. It isn't about the quality of the breakfast. Here, Canada, its ass-pain because the schools have bought into weird SAS solutions, that are mainly MS focused. I guess they aren't paying attention to what Uni/College students are buying. That said, these solutions aren't half bad (nor half good), but what does it leave country X with? Sorry, we have no e-learning tools because we weren't forward looking enough to demand standards, and our pocket books can't afford the minimal requirements. It isn't a good news story. A good news story is: Country X selected Linux because it kicks ass! The rest is just kinda sad.
It is good that the final three have climbed on board; crucial question is have these shills delayed taking action for long enough to make the matter moot?
That was the strategy, well supported by fish-net-stocking scientists, and it has been extremely effective. So, is it too late?
How about trying the various companies and governments that have propped up this charade for the treason it is? I'm anti-execution, but think my heart could make room for this; particularly if 'fed to the dogs' was the means.
This kind of crap wrecks/. The quoted post was a perfect/.-ism - confident, pretentious, uneducated and wrong. Pointing out the faults takes the fun out of it.
Please stop; unacknowledged stupidity has a certain elegance.
well put. I hope it is real, even with the sad wall of cynicism I've erected around myself. I think a priority should be put on consuming that "wate fuel", just for public safety. From the light reading I've encounter, there is another nuclear waste problem - materials used for handling radioactive fuel and waste. The Straight Dope, at least, asserts that the majority of bulk radioactive waste is this sort. The highly radioactive spent fuel is, by bulk, the smaller problem. I would love a world where contaminated shoes, gloves and wrenches could be turned into electricity. I don't see that happening, and this mountain of junk is part of the legacy of the conventional nuclear industry.
Just what we need in these uncertain times, a saviour who knows the true way. I am humbled upon your knowledge that unsettled climate will only be a boon for agriculture, for I had feared that it may devastate our existing farming systems. Please, Lord Mosley, tell us more. Will the britons be blessed with tropical fruit, and the Maritimes be the new Caribbean? Will papa be home for christmas?
How much of your attention does it take to breathe?
I have heard this 1% > $1000 several times, although I have yet to hear a reputable source for this statistic. Apple doesn't give out such stats, at least as far as I can tell. Who provides this metric? Competitors marketing slides don't count.
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How will you know if its truly interesting?
Did you ever take acid? Just hearing about these things makes me want to go find some.
I think I smell an action flick here. Maybe we can send Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood on a suicide mission (please!) to nuke the iceberg before it makes landfall.
Of course, they would have to battle laser equipped sharks and a stultifying bureaucracy....
A disproportionate number of people who are obsessed with video games score high on the ASD. These aren't controversial ideas.
Causation is different, not so much for smoking and yellow fingers. Nutter's blathering aside, the real question is:
Are video games harmful to people who score high on the ASD?
although you might be tempted to apply that question to several other groups.
Its just plain nuts to pretend a link doesn't exist (although that hasn't stopped climate deniers), the important bit is 'what is the effect', 'how do we mitigate it', and 'how certain are we of the linkage'. The rest is for dingbats.
They could have named it Iceberg to really piss em off.
[ shamelessly clipped from wikipedia entry on Rhodes Scholarship ]:
Rhodes' legacy specified four standards by which applicants were to be judged:
Literary and scholastic attainments;
Energy to use one's talents to the fullest, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports;
Truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship;
Moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one's fellow beings.
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There was a documentary on this in the 1980s where scientists were using beams to trap ghosts. Seemed to work pretty well then, I don't know why this has taken so long.
and wants you to stop using its smokescreen....
You are supposed to say "Chinese" now.
Thank you for keeping slashdot great.
Not for a moment did you consider the posters point, and as an added insult, followed up with more of the mud-raking s?he was trying to quell.
I was worried, for a moment, that the parent post would be taken seriously, and /. would turn into something unspeakable. But, safe to say, there are enough jackasses in to pool to keep the party going. Well Done!
I agree with you, but its worse than you say. Beyond the 'does this hardware work' problem lies a brave new world of 'does this software-as-a-service work'?
My experience is mainly no. There is wicked entrenchment in many areas - though I've noticed it most in education - that is bolstered in the rush to go back to mainframes (or clouds, as they now apparently are).
Vendor lockin loves the clouds; your data is our data, but ours is really ours and you can't see it is bad enough. That the effective portals are crappy, poorly considered, and mostly a hunk of shit is another issue. The wider issue is most of this lameass worthless software only works with some crappy MS software.
I can't really blame the cloud providers. When your MS box is unresponsive, you blame it, not the cloud.
When your Mac is unresponsive, you blame the cloud.
Why add linux clients; it just makes you look bad.
uh, yeah, think bootp circa 1989.
Its an interesting phrase "to run properly"; I'm sure that one day there will be a Windows that "runs properly". The real question is, can Windows 7 run properly?
Christ, you were taking this crap from ad-copy, doesn't W7 support cut+paste? We all like the new hood ornament, must you jam it down every-bodies throat?
shill.
Tough question. I seem to recall that the pre-euopean invasion population of NA may have been 20M. Even assuming they ate BigBison for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I don't suppose they could hold a candle to the 400M that currently occupy their territory. /., feel free to explain our dietary differences as observed by what you would like the answer to be. /. f-ing up...)
Assuming they were as ravenous carnivores as us, that would be a 20x pressure. Since this is
(ps, if this is a dup, its
Tough question. I seem to recall that the pre-euopean invasion population of NA may have been 20M. Even assuming the ate BigBison for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I don't suppose they could hold a candle to the 400M that currently occupy their territory. /., feel free to explain our dietary differences as observed by what you would like the answer to be.
Assuming they were as ravenous carnivores as us, that would be a 20x pressure. Since this is
Free And Good Enough is wonderful, but what are they sacrificing? I'm not going to stand on the MS makes great stuff - I'm 25 years in this industry, and my only windows exposure is trying to repair and troubleshoot family and friends computers (damn you Apple, why didn't you get your game on 10 years earlier).
Every time I'm confronted with linux distros, I'm stuck with that odd sort of feeling like when your 5 year old makes breakfast for you. It isn't about the quality of the breakfast.
Here, Canada, its ass-pain because the schools have bought into weird SAS solutions, that are mainly MS focused. I guess they aren't paying attention to what Uni/College students are buying. That said, these solutions aren't half bad (nor half good), but what does it leave country X with? Sorry, we have no e-learning tools because we weren't forward looking enough to demand standards, and our pocket books can't afford the minimal requirements.
It isn't a good news story. A good news story is:
Country X selected Linux because it kicks ass!
The rest is just kinda sad.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these....
If you taped them all to the back of a monitor, you could pretend you bought an imac. cooool.
It is good that the final three have climbed on board; crucial question is have these shills delayed taking action for long enough to make the matter moot?
That was the strategy, well supported by fish-net-stocking scientists, and it has been extremely effective. So, is it too late?
How about trying the various companies and governments that have propped up this charade for the treason it is? I'm anti-execution, but think my heart could make room for this; particularly if 'fed to the dogs' was the means.
This kind of crap wrecks /. The quoted post was a perfect /.-ism - confident, pretentious, uneducated and wrong. Pointing out the faults takes the fun out of it.
Please stop; unacknowledged stupidity has a certain elegance.
Invent new meaningless titles for yourself, and for extra grins make them acronym out to something amusing.
Architect of Systems Software
Architect of Computer Interaction Design
Personal Computer Programmer
High Availability Software Head
I'm sure you can do better. There is nothing better than seeing your name and title on a contract, slide or sign and thinking, really, nobody noticed.
well put. I hope it is real, even with the sad wall of cynicism I've erected around myself.
I think a priority should be put on consuming that "wate fuel", just for public safety.
From the light reading I've encounter, there is another nuclear waste problem - materials used for handling radioactive fuel and waste. The Straight Dope, at least, asserts that the majority of bulk radioactive waste is this sort. The highly radioactive spent fuel is, by bulk, the smaller problem.
I would love a world where contaminated shoes, gloves and wrenches could be turned into electricity. I don't see that happening, and this mountain of junk is part of the legacy of the conventional nuclear industry.
Mission accomplished; can we assume you've offed yourself now.
If we keep burning everything we can get our hands on, these vast northern lands will become viable, both for living and farming.
Just what we need in these uncertain times, a saviour who knows the true way. I am humbled upon your knowledge that unsettled climate will only be a boon for agriculture, for I had feared that it may devastate our existing farming systems.
Please, Lord Mosley, tell us more. Will the britons be blessed with tropical fruit, and the Maritimes be the new Caribbean? Will papa be home for christmas?
How much of your attention does it take to breathe?
I have heard this 1% > $1000 several times, although I have yet to hear a reputable source for this statistic. Apple doesn't give out such stats, at least as far as I can tell. Who provides this metric? Competitors marketing slides don't count.
not pronto, procnto is the process manager in qnx.