Science shouldn't be an intra-nation dick measuring competition, it should be about advancing knowledge. I personally don't care where these things get built so long as they get built.
That's bullshit. Exit polls are as near to perfect as you can get. Worldwide and for recorded history so far. It makes no sense that just during the 2004 election, statistics takes a 180 turn and then turns right back again.
That's not entirely true. Tolkien was a genius and his mythos is without peer. Some of his prose was outstanding, but in patches, it's pretty clear from the Lord of The Rings that JRRT was not a practiced novellist. Some of the LOTR really stinks. (Disclaimer: I love LOTR)
I'm not an American. I am gob-smacked at the head-in-the-sand attitude being displayed by Republican supporters on Slashdot.
From the article:
"According to the exit poll, Kerry should have received sixty-seven percent of the vote in this precinct. Yet the certified tally gave him only thirty-eight percent. The statistical odds against such a variance are just shy of one in 3 billion."
This is something to be VERY concerned about, not to be brushed aside with some facile quip.
The article also mentions the fact that the Democrats don't seem to be pushing the issue of electorial fraud, which rather puts the lie to all the posters claiming that this is about Democrats not accepting defeat. The reality is, that had this election been held in a third world country, we would all be decrying it as a case of clear electorial tampering and demanding a fresh election with neutral observers in place.
When you fail to care whether the electorial process was tampered with, you fail to care about democracy at all. What's more important? GW winning or democracy itself? To me, that's a no brainer, but clearly that's not the case for many of the Republican supporters here and as a member of TheRestOfTheWorld, that's a real worry for me. You need to sort your priorities out.
The cameras currently just make it easy to record crime and catch criminals. The loudspeakers mean they'll now be able to inform a criminal that they are being recorded. That could be the difference between maintaining the life of an assualt victim and merely picking up the body afterward. Given that the cameras are already there, this is a useful addition - it might actually reduce crime.
The *only* real issue is the price, and that will come down. Here in NZ, the PS2 launched at over NZ$1000, it's now a couple of hundred bucks. The same will happen for the PS3. The PS2 was a huge success and the PS3 will be as well.
*I* certainly won't buy one at launch prices, but I know that plenty of other people will, and eventually the price will drop to where I can afford it.
OS/2 will never be open sourced. AFAIK, Microsoft holds copyrights to some of that code.
...which is exactly the same problem Sun had with OS'ing Solaris. They *paid* to get the encumbered stuff rewritten in order to release it. They're doing the same with Java.
The fact that you claim that IBM outshines Sun re: open source and got modded Insightful shows how fucked up the Slashdot crowd's anti-Sun bias is. That's laughable.
Sun has been contributing to open source for a VERY long time and has a huge number of notable OS contributions.
NFS RPC OpenOffice Solaris Glassfish Netbeans UltraSparc design Java coming...
Sun also contributes to GNOME, Mozilla, X.org and Perl. Sun contributed heavily to RedHat.
And given that Solaris and Java both contribute Sun's 'crown jewels', this criticism of Sun is utter BS. IBM do NOTHING like that in OSing their most important software (AIX, anyone?)
Compatibility has got absolutely nothing to do with it you great newbie muppet. If you don't understand Keep It Simple, then I pity people who have to work with you.
I agree that he has stuggled a little with his current crop of games, but I'd rather have a world in which people still bother to try something new. God help us people try to please only people like yourself who just want another "average shooter". Then we'd end up with an industry cranking out the same old shite time and time again with narry a new idea in sight. Hang on...
Well, given that the code is *already* availble, it's clearly not any of the straw-man options you've raised. Typical/. when FUD like that gets modded as Insightful. You know, a few facts don't ACTUALLY hurt a discussion.
Oh for christ's sake, everyone KNOWS that operator overloading is just syntactic sugar. Who the fuck do you think you're enlightening with that gem of insight?
The objection to operator overloading is made on the grounds of code simplicity and readibility, not because of any issues with byte code.
Fable is ONE game from the half a dozen genuine world-class games that Molyneux created. P.M. has a proven track record of creating world first games so don't piss all over his name just because you didn't like one of his games.
You utter moron. Molyneux has a string of hits prior to B&W and Fable - all of which are better than those two games IMO. The world of games was not invented in the last five years - there really IS a history farther back than that.
This sounds to me very much like when some people say that the concept of a war crime is rubbish because anything goes in war. Frankly, after WWII, people decided that some things just *don't* get justified by war (rape, killing civilians, torture etc...). It's similar with "justified" wars versus "Just" war. If you only care about what a mob feel justified doing then you may as well say anything goes - and that's just not somewhere that we should be going.
Personally I think that Just war theory is highly applicable to modern conflict and not at all academic. Gulf War 1 and WWII were both Just wars. Afghanistan was not at all Just (and IraqII not for the stated reasons, but potentially just for other reasons). If we can't distinguish between when it is and isn't appropriate to apply military hardware to cause death of other humans on a massive scale, don't you think that we've given up something of our humanity?
The thing is, we do have to wage wars sometimes and that means that many people - often innocent people - will die. The thought that we should do so with such a cavalier attitude that anything that some hack news agency whips up hysteria about is worth killing people for, disgusts me. If we must kill other people, then by all that makes us worthwhile to exist at all, surely we should only venture to do so when we are sure that we have no other alternatives and that we have reasonable cause to do so?
When you consider the number of people who believe that Iraq had WMDs simply because of the number of times that lie was repeated by the media, then it ought to become clear that preserving and revering the distinction between "justified by the mob" and "Just War" is incredibly important.
In WHAT way was Afghanistan justified??? Did Aghanistan attack the US when I wasn't looking? If you mean 'a justified war' in the conventional sense of 'in accordance with Just War theory' then you're completely and utterly wrong.
That said, I agree with your point that sometimes war is required (although I disagree that WWI was an example, and I'd assert that the recent Iraq and Israeli conflicts utterly fail to meet Just War requirements)
That's a fair point. That said, there are (and have been for some time) GC'rs for C although I'm not sure how they perform. Objective C will presumably be in the position of being able to use either the GC'r or allocation on the stack - possibly a nice 'best of both worlds' proposition?
Dude! It's a polemic:o) Did you *really* expect to find 101 *deep technical* reasons why Java is better than.NET? I mean, C# is a copy of Java after all:o)
It's tongue-in-cheek. You get subtlety, don't you?
That said, there's at least 99 really good reasons why Java is better than.NET in that list.
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Science shouldn't be an intra-nation dick measuring competition, it should be about advancing knowledge. I personally don't care where these things get built so long as they get built.
That is exactly what I was saying. What did you think that post was about?
That's bullshit. Exit polls are as near to perfect as you can get. Worldwide and for recorded history so far. It makes no sense that just during the 2004 election, statistics takes a 180 turn and then turns right back again.
Remove your head from the sand.
Sure, he hates allegory, but LOTR is clearly allegorical. Go figure.
That's not entirely true. Tolkien was a genius and his mythos is without peer. Some of his prose was outstanding, but in patches, it's pretty clear from the Lord of The Rings that JRRT was not a practiced novellist. Some of the LOTR really stinks. (Disclaimer: I love LOTR)
I'm not an American. I am gob-smacked at the head-in-the-sand attitude being displayed by Republican supporters on Slashdot.
From the article:
"According to the exit poll, Kerry should have received sixty-seven percent of the vote in this precinct. Yet the certified tally gave him only thirty-eight percent. The statistical odds against such a variance are just shy of one in 3 billion."
This is something to be VERY concerned about, not to be brushed aside with some facile quip.
The article also mentions the fact that the Democrats don't seem to be pushing the issue of electorial fraud, which rather puts the lie to all the posters claiming that this is about Democrats not accepting defeat. The reality is, that had this election been held in a third world country, we would all be decrying it as a case of clear electorial tampering and demanding a fresh election with neutral observers in place.
When you fail to care whether the electorial process was tampered with, you fail to care about democracy at all. What's more important? GW winning or democracy itself? To me, that's a no brainer, but clearly that's not the case for many of the Republican supporters here and as a member of TheRestOfTheWorld, that's a real worry for me. You need to sort your priorities out.
Both Iceland and Great Britain, off the top of my head. What is it with the US education system?
The cameras currently just make it easy to record crime and catch criminals. The loudspeakers mean they'll now be able to inform a criminal that they are being recorded. That could be the difference between maintaining the life of an assualt victim and merely picking up the body afterward. Given that the cameras are already there, this is a useful addition - it might actually reduce crime.
/. is truely sad.
The paranoia level on
The *only* real issue is the price, and that will come down. Here in NZ, the PS2 launched at over NZ$1000, it's now a couple of hundred bucks. The same will happen for the PS3. The PS2 was a huge success and the PS3 will be as well.
*I* certainly won't buy one at launch prices, but I know that plenty of other people will, and eventually the price will drop to where I can afford it.
IBM are being utter hypocrites.
The fact that you claim that IBM outshines Sun re: open source and got modded Insightful shows how fucked up the Slashdot crowd's anti-Sun bias is. That's laughable.
Sun has been contributing to open source for a VERY long time and has a huge number of notable OS contributions.
NFS
RPC
OpenOffice
Solaris
Glassfish
Netbeans
UltraSparc design
Java coming...
Sun also contributes to GNOME, Mozilla, X.org and Perl. Sun contributed heavily to RedHat.
And given that Solaris and Java both contribute Sun's 'crown jewels', this criticism of Sun is utter BS. IBM do NOTHING like that in OSing their most important software (AIX, anyone?)
You Slashbot MORONS, get a FUCKING CLUE.
Compatibility has got absolutely nothing to do with it you great newbie muppet. If you don't understand Keep It Simple, then I pity people who have to work with you.
"The Movies" was a success, above average and made this decade. Any other strawmwen to raise?
I agree that he has stuggled a little with his current crop of games, but I'd rather have a world in which people still bother to try something new. God help us people try to please only people like yourself who just want another "average shooter". Then we'd end up with an industry cranking out the same old shite time and time again with narry a new idea in sight. Hang on...
Well, given that the code is *already* availble, it's clearly not any of the straw-man options you've raised. Typical /. when FUD like that gets modded as Insightful. You know, a few facts don't ACTUALLY hurt a discussion.
Oh for christ's sake, everyone KNOWS that operator overloading is just syntactic sugar. Who the fuck do you think you're enlightening with that gem of insight?
The objection to operator overloading is made on the grounds of code simplicity and readibility, not because of any issues with byte code.
Fable is ONE game from the half a dozen genuine world-class games that Molyneux created. P.M. has a proven track record of creating world first games so don't piss all over his name just because you didn't like one of his games.
You utter moron. Molyneux has a string of hits prior to B&W and Fable - all of which are better than those two games IMO. The world of games was not invented in the last five years - there really IS a history farther back than that.
This sounds to me very much like when some people say that the concept of a war crime is rubbish because anything goes in war. Frankly, after WWII, people decided that some things just *don't* get justified by war (rape, killing civilians, torture etc...). It's similar with "justified" wars versus "Just" war. If you only care about what a mob feel justified doing then you may as well say anything goes - and that's just not somewhere that we should be going.
Personally I think that Just war theory is highly applicable to modern conflict and not at all academic. Gulf War 1 and WWII were both Just wars. Afghanistan was not at all Just (and IraqII not for the stated reasons, but potentially just for other reasons). If we can't distinguish between when it is and isn't appropriate to apply military hardware to cause death of other humans on a massive scale, don't you think that we've given up something of our humanity?
The thing is, we do have to wage wars sometimes and that means that many people - often innocent people - will die. The thought that we should do so with such a cavalier attitude that anything that some hack news agency whips up hysteria about is worth killing people for, disgusts me. If we must kill other people, then by all that makes us worthwhile to exist at all, surely we should only venture to do so when we are sure that we have no other alternatives and that we have reasonable cause to do so?
When you consider the number of people who believe that Iraq had WMDs simply because of the number of times that lie was repeated by the media, then it ought to become clear that preserving and revering the distinction between "justified by the mob" and "Just War" is incredibly important.
I think the problem is that /. is peopled by pre-pubescent morons who can't deal with issues that don't display a cardboard cutout level of simplicity.
Fuck, I knew Budda was a Soviet Stooge. Thanks for exposing this gross injustice haunting history!
WTF?!?!?!
In WHAT way was Afghanistan justified??? Did Aghanistan attack the US when I wasn't looking? If you mean 'a justified war' in the conventional sense of 'in accordance with Just War theory' then you're completely and utterly wrong.
That said, I agree with your point that sometimes war is required (although I disagree that WWI was an example, and I'd assert that the recent Iraq and Israeli conflicts utterly fail to meet Just War requirements)
Oh FFS, the Slashdot article refers to a "US Plan" as well - is Slashdot suddenly anti-American too?
Get a grip.
That's a fair point. That said, there are (and have been for some time) GC'rs for C although I'm not sure how they perform. Objective C will presumably be in the position of being able to use either the GC'r or allocation on the stack - possibly a nice 'best of both worlds' proposition?
Dude! It's a polemic :o) Did you *really* expect to find 101 *deep technical* reasons why Java is better than .NET? I mean, C# is a copy of Java after all :o)
.NET in that list.
It's tongue-in-cheek. You get subtlety, don't you?
That said, there's at least 99 really good reasons why Java is better than