Yet another case of popular media predicting actual science.
Seriously, I think there was at least one James Bond ("Never Say Never"?) with this theme as well as one in which eyes were carried around in plastic baggies to break security. I think the big part of this was the "ick" factor to create audience buzz.
I have a Win (various), Mac, Linux and Chromebook devices which I install OS (as well as browser) previews on to test my software on and hopefully give me a bit of runway to report a problem in an upcoming release. As a few others have noted, my primary (development) systems have stable versions of the OSes in which I review all updates and only install security patches.
If somebody is so irresponsible and so chained to the idea of being on the bleeding edge that you put previews on your primary machines, then I wouldn't trust you with my company's software.
Who is this "We" that were wondering in the question? Why would you think that serious professionals (or even semi-serious hackers) would do such a, frankly stupid, thing?
If you haven't been to a doctor in 15 years - how do you know you are "in better health today than I ever was before"?
I'm very suspicious about the claim that you are maintaining 350lbs on a 1,500 calorie a day diet. With any kind of exercise, you should be losing weight, not maintaining it. Maybe if you were eating 1,500 calories a meal, three times a day you would be maintaining that weight.
I'm happy you feel good - but at 350lbs and not losing weight on what should be minimal caloric input, I suspect that you should be seriously thinking about swallowing a bit of humble pie and going for a much delayed doctor's appointment.
After all, you don't want those relatives of yours spilling drinks and cigarette ashes into your coffin.
To the/. powers that be, could you please update your systems so submitters can copy and paste with a reasonable expectation that characters like double quotes (") don't get mangled? At the very least, downgrade your editor system so these issues can be seen before the item is released?
Isn't this supposed to be the premier site for âoepropellerheadsâ? I think that it is long past when annoyance this should have been fixed.
The article reminded me of "The House on the Hill" in which statistical outliers (ie immortals) are organized and living parallel to mainstream society over the ages.
Maybe we're starting to see an increase in the number of outliers?
Would it be: - Humphrey Bogart - Elliot Gould - Robert Mitchum - Dick Powell - James Garner - Robert Montgomery - James Caan - George Montgomery - I think there's another couple or three actors that also have played the Mr. Chandler's detective.
Not to take away Mr. Takei's performance as "Sulu" in ST:TOS, but it's a role and when another actor performs it they should be allowed to put their own spin on it. That goes for the writers, the director and the producers.
I guess you could argue that the creator has the final say, but apparently Mr. Takei approach Gene Roddenberry about making Sulu gay and he refused saying that he was pushing too many buttons already and didn't want the show to get cancelled.
Unfortunately, Mr. Roddenberry is dead and the franchise has been moved onto others who have different ideas about the characters.
Slashdot is an interesting community. People are generally at a much higher than the average poster/board but you still get a lot of anger when somebody challenges other people's world views.
"Flamebait"? I'm surprised at the number of posters that are "enthusiastic" about gun ownership rights and their responses to the various posts. Maybe somebody who considers my root post flamebait can explain why.
When I saw the "Paid for in part by the NRA", I wondered if somehow NRA funds were used in the video.
With how extreme the NRA and the people involved with it are, I wonder if somebody got a grant from the NRA for the video by somebody who wasn't bright enough to recognize that it was a parody. As I noted elsewhere in this thread, positions taken by the NRA are really not out of line with the one in this video - find the right manager within the NRA, with the right line of bullshit to go with this and I'm sure this idiot would say "Fuck yeah, minorities in urban cores need to defend themselves more than anybody else in the country."
If that's the case, then I'm sure that's why the NRA jumped on this with both feet (in lead boots) and squashed it as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. The DCMA reasoning is probably to avoid the embarrassment of having to disclose that they actually paid for the video.
I suspect the "dumb laws" comment, which was out of character for a video of this type (although I'm sure in line with the NRA's thinking), was put in so that people would know it's a parody. This video demonstrates the extreme positions and statements that go beyond the ridiculous that illustrates the NRA's fear mentality (their fear that their sales will dry up while selling fear to the people).
I'm sure the NRA longs for the '80s, when a president (Reagan) could be shot and there was so much fear of them that nobody said "boo" about how John Hinkley (somebody under psychiatric care and was on anti-depressants and tranquilizers) was able to get weapons with the express purpose of killing the president to make Jodie Foster notice him.
Now, people are starting to question the position of the NRA that *anybody* regardless of who they are should be able to procure guns and the NRA and their supporters (which Mr. Trump is a good example of someone who hurts their cause in the attempt to show that he is on their side) which leads them to make more and more extreme statements and videos like this one (which is interesting to watch) see less extreme and not much of a parody of the NRAs own videos and published statements.
I always imagined that dinosaurs, as part of an ecosystem, were fairly well adapted to their environment. After the "extinction event", which significantly changed the environment and lead to their extinction would also result in the elimination of many species (both flora and fauna).
What I found interesting that is hinted at in the TFA (and had not thought about) was the creation/availability of niches for surviving species to take over and evolve into.
I would be quite interested in finding out if there are any fossil remains of mammals and how they fit into the ecosystem with dinosaurs before the big one hit. Other than cockroaches, I suspect that the Earth's inhabitants were wildly different and the different creatures inhabited different parts of the food chain would be very different from the ones that inhabited it after the meteor strike.
Hopefully this research will result in more study being taken in the world of 60+ million years ago.
Most cancers occur in later (post childbearing) years? This is according to the American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org/acs/grou...
I think it's always good to look at an problem from different perspectives and while thinking of cancer as an evolutionary protection against passing down defective genes is interesting, I'm not sure that it's a valid hypothesis.
What has been done to port Perl to very small devices as a tool to create test applications? I'm doing some control work right now and testing/characterizing devices and peripherals with the results generating a set of csv data on the console that is copy and pasted into Excel.
I am really asking about small 32bit devices (with floating point units) - Cortex M4 specifically. I don't think a port could be created for an 8bit processor like the AVR.
Manu Saadia, the writer of the article, clearly has not read a lot of late '40s, 1950s or even early 60's science fiction.
In the books of the early nuclear age, it's not unusual to read about individuals and organizations having control over nuclear weapons or "radioactive energies" that are derived from them. Along with Heinlein (don't forget Johnny Rico carried nuclear weapons in "Starship Troopers"), Frederick Pohl, A.E. van Vogt, Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper and others all wrote stories about various organizations (governmental and otherwise) building, storing and using nuclear weapons. A lot of these authors have stories that would be considered appalling in their use of nuclear weapons when read through today's eyes - in them, they generally are seen as part of an arsenal, very efficient compared to other weapons, but not see with the same feeling of horror that we have now.
To be fair, a number of the authors of the time (notably Asimov, Clarke and Bradbury) saw nuclear weapons as being world/civilization/life enders and wrote stories with these themes at the same time.
I've been greatly annoyed by a number of issues which haven't been fixed (a big one for me is the inability to simply delete/free up no longer used com ports using Device Manager). Network set up for laptops which are moved around to different locations (and will be used with different WiFis) is something which doesn't work as well as with Win7 and Win8. And, there is the bullshit with having to install "WIndows 10" versions of software which works fine under WinXP, Win7 & Win8.
The upgrade process for Win10 seems broken at best with some upgrades being put in regardless of the desires of the users while others need to be explicitly allowed - but Microsoft should know this because they're tracking everything done on Win10 anyways.
I think McDonalds in Canada have a pretty good solution - and judging by the lines in front of them (instead of the person taking orders), I'm not the only one.
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Yet another case of popular media predicting actual science.
Seriously, I think there was at least one James Bond ("Never Say Never"?) with this theme as well as one in which eyes were carried around in plastic baggies to break security. I think the big part of this was the "ick" factor to create audience buzz.
It took me four reloads to get to the page.
As for his home theatre? Meh.
That's nothing - I'm going to watch it twice!
I have a Win (various), Mac, Linux and Chromebook devices which I install OS (as well as browser) previews on to test my software on and hopefully give me a bit of runway to report a problem in an upcoming release. As a few others have noted, my primary (development) systems have stable versions of the OSes in which I review all updates and only install security patches.
If somebody is so irresponsible and so chained to the idea of being on the bleeding edge that you put previews on your primary machines, then I wouldn't trust you with my company's software.
Who is this "We" that were wondering in the question? Why would you think that serious professionals (or even semi-serious hackers) would do such a, frankly stupid, thing?
As always, we appreciate the time taken to respond to the questions and you're insight into the life, the universe and everything.
If you haven't been to a doctor in 15 years - how do you know you are "in better health today than I ever was before"?
I'm very suspicious about the claim that you are maintaining 350lbs on a 1,500 calorie a day diet. With any kind of exercise, you should be losing weight, not maintaining it. Maybe if you were eating 1,500 calories a meal, three times a day you would be maintaining that weight.
I'm happy you feel good - but at 350lbs and not losing weight on what should be minimal caloric input, I suspect that you should be seriously thinking about swallowing a bit of humble pie and going for a much delayed doctor's appointment.
After all, you don't want those relatives of yours spilling drinks and cigarette ashes into your coffin.
Aren't we at the point where enough is enough?
To the /. powers that be, could you please update your systems so submitters can copy and paste with a reasonable expectation that characters like double quotes (") don't get mangled? At the very least, downgrade your editor system so these issues can be seen before the item is released?
Isn't this supposed to be the premier site for âoepropellerheadsâ? I think that it is long past when annoyance this should have been fixed.
The article reminded me of "The House on the Hill" in which statistical outliers (ie immortals) are organized and living parallel to mainstream society over the ages.
Maybe we're starting to see an increase in the number of outliers?
Of course, you could point out a number of inconsistencies going back to the original series that are just as large.
Maybe this is a function of, let me think of a word for it, "fiction".
It's not real so we can try out different ideas.
Would it be:
- Humphrey Bogart
- Elliot Gould
- Robert Mitchum
- Dick Powell
- James Garner
- Robert Montgomery
- James Caan
- George Montgomery
- I think there's another couple or three actors that also have played the Mr. Chandler's detective.
Not to take away Mr. Takei's performance as "Sulu" in ST:TOS, but it's a role and when another actor performs it they should be allowed to put their own spin on it. That goes for the writers, the director and the producers.
I guess you could argue that the creator has the final say, but apparently Mr. Takei approach Gene Roddenberry about making Sulu gay and he refused saying that he was pushing too many buttons already and didn't want the show to get cancelled.
Unfortunately, Mr. Roddenberry is dead and the franchise has been moved onto others who have different ideas about the characters.
Personally, I think that's a good thing.
I daresay that was the first "reboot" and it set the bar for terrible.
Can I sue M$ for all the time I spent making sure Win10 *wouldn't* be put on my Windows 7 development machines?
Thanx for your comments.
Slashdot is an interesting community. People are generally at a much higher than the average poster/board but you still get a lot of anger when somebody challenges other people's world views.
"Flamebait"? I'm surprised at the number of posters that are "enthusiastic" about gun ownership rights and their responses to the various posts. Maybe somebody who considers my root post flamebait can explain why.
When I saw the "Paid for in part by the NRA", I wondered if somehow NRA funds were used in the video.
With how extreme the NRA and the people involved with it are, I wonder if somebody got a grant from the NRA for the video by somebody who wasn't bright enough to recognize that it was a parody. As I noted elsewhere in this thread, positions taken by the NRA are really not out of line with the one in this video - find the right manager within the NRA, with the right line of bullshit to go with this and I'm sure this idiot would say "Fuck yeah, minorities in urban cores need to defend themselves more than anybody else in the country."
If that's the case, then I'm sure that's why the NRA jumped on this with both feet (in lead boots) and squashed it as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. The DCMA reasoning is probably to avoid the embarrassment of having to disclose that they actually paid for the video.
I suspect the "dumb laws" comment, which was out of character for a video of this type (although I'm sure in line with the NRA's thinking), was put in so that people would know it's a parody. This video demonstrates the extreme positions and statements that go beyond the ridiculous that illustrates the NRA's fear mentality (their fear that their sales will dry up while selling fear to the people).
I'm sure the NRA longs for the '80s, when a president (Reagan) could be shot and there was so much fear of them that nobody said "boo" about how John Hinkley (somebody under psychiatric care and was on anti-depressants and tranquilizers) was able to get weapons with the express purpose of killing the president to make Jodie Foster notice him.
Now, people are starting to question the position of the NRA that *anybody* regardless of who they are should be able to procure guns and the NRA and their supporters (which Mr. Trump is a good example of someone who hurts their cause in the attempt to show that he is on their side) which leads them to make more and more extreme statements and videos like this one (which is interesting to watch) see less extreme and not much of a parody of the NRAs own videos and published statements.
I always imagined that dinosaurs, as part of an ecosystem, were fairly well adapted to their environment. After the "extinction event", which significantly changed the environment and lead to their extinction would also result in the elimination of many species (both flora and fauna).
What I found interesting that is hinted at in the TFA (and had not thought about) was the creation/availability of niches for surviving species to take over and evolve into.
I would be quite interested in finding out if there are any fossil remains of mammals and how they fit into the ecosystem with dinosaurs before the big one hit. Other than cockroaches, I suspect that the Earth's inhabitants were wildly different and the different creatures inhabited different parts of the food chain would be very different from the ones that inhabited it after the meteor strike.
Hopefully this research will result in more study being taken in the world of 60+ million years ago.
Most cancers occur in later (post childbearing) years? This is according to the American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org/acs/grou...
I think it's always good to look at an problem from different perspectives and while thinking of cancer as an evolutionary protection against passing down defective genes is interesting, I'm not sure that it's a valid hypothesis.
Yes it does.
Thank you
HI Larry
What has been done to port Perl to very small devices as a tool to create test applications? I'm doing some control work right now and testing/characterizing devices and peripherals with the results generating a set of csv data on the console that is copy and pasted into Excel.
I am really asking about small 32bit devices (with floating point units) - Cortex M4 specifically. I don't think a port could be created for an 8bit processor like the AVR.
Thanx!
I wonder where they'll store the request?
That'll learn 'em.
If you weren't AC, I'd mod you up, but I'm not sure if it's Funny or Insightful.
Manu Saadia, the writer of the article, clearly has not read a lot of late '40s, 1950s or even early 60's science fiction.
In the books of the early nuclear age, it's not unusual to read about individuals and organizations having control over nuclear weapons or "radioactive energies" that are derived from them. Along with Heinlein (don't forget Johnny Rico carried nuclear weapons in "Starship Troopers"), Frederick Pohl, A.E. van Vogt, Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper and others all wrote stories about various organizations (governmental and otherwise) building, storing and using nuclear weapons. A lot of these authors have stories that would be considered appalling in their use of nuclear weapons when read through today's eyes - in them, they generally are seen as part of an arsenal, very efficient compared to other weapons, but not see with the same feeling of horror that we have now.
To be fair, a number of the authors of the time (notably Asimov, Clarke and Bradbury) saw nuclear weapons as being world/civilization/life enders and wrote stories with these themes at the same time.
I've been greatly annoyed by a number of issues which haven't been fixed (a big one for me is the inability to simply delete/free up no longer used com ports using Device Manager). Network set up for laptops which are moved around to different locations (and will be used with different WiFis) is something which doesn't work as well as with Win7 and Win8. And, there is the bullshit with having to install "WIndows 10" versions of software which works fine under WinXP, Win7 & Win8.
The upgrade process for Win10 seems broken at best with some upgrades being put in regardless of the desires of the users while others need to be explicitly allowed - but Microsoft should know this because they're tracking everything done on Win10 anyways.
I think McDonalds in Canada have a pretty good solution - and judging by the lines in front of them (instead of the person taking orders), I'm not the only one.