I personally do not use household lighting to get around; all the lights stay on after dark, even in the basement. I've only very rarely bumped into or stepped on things, and that's when they've been put there by my (3-year-old) son. I've simply memorized where everything is, from the washer (which I load and set in the dark) to the chairs, tables, and various other boxes of things I tend to leave laying around (not the tidiest or most organized person, but not messy, either.)
Granted, I've got my wife turning on all the dman lights in the house, resulting in me having to chase aftre her turning them off, so maybe I've got a frugality sense, too...
Off the top of my head, if you were to enhance a processor for 3D CAD, you'd likely be able to assist 3D gaming, 3D modeling, and 3D rendering (potentially making real-time rendering somewhat closer to being obtainable). And that would be the easiest thing to do - as evidenced by the fact that MMX came about years ago. Now, I suspect any optimizations would be much more conceptally sound and utilizable.
Yes, I used to be a socialist. I used to think it was a pretty good idea before I read about the consequences of such fool-hardy utopian ideals which ignore human nature while giving powers to the state.
Marx's socialism was, in essence, mostly just social er, socialism. He didn't understand economics enough to understand how wrong his commentary on capitalism was, but that's neither here nor there - those principles have been irrefuteably proven to not work. His social commentary and beliefs are alive and well, and are leading to the death of Western culture, however.
I can only hypothesize on the matter, as I've got no first or second hand experience of such things - just what I hear about from places like Iraq.
First, you assume that all of those in the armed forces would shirk their duty to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold. Many would - it's just a pay check - but a large number would not.
Aside from that, the only thing that comes immediately to mind is political decapitation. There are a good number of people in the US who can - with ease - make 1,000 yard shots on human-sized targets. Many of them are or were military snipers or marksmen. There is a strong tradition of riflery in the US - something the Iraqis do not have. Even if your average Bubba can only hit a deer at 300 yards with his deer rifle, that's about 250 yards more than your average Iraqi could.
Against SWAT-style teams, the American 'militia' doesn't stand a chance, not one on one. But I imagine that's where asymetrical warfare comes in. Even with all the high-tech wiz-bang gadgetry our military has, it's still unable to effectively stop the Iraqi insurgents - and Iraq is only about the size of (say) North and South Dakota combined. Much of the infrastructure Another difference between Iraq and any potential 'civil war' is that the government can not realistically - from a logistics perspective - bomb, missile, and shoot up towns and cities at will to destroy insurgents when that city or town is a critical part of your own supply structure.
Do I think it would be something easily won by a US insurgency? Hell no. Do I think Americans have the mettle for such things, pragmatically speaking? No, not really. At this point I think it's merely a token, but an important one which must be maintained just in case - if, for no other reason, then personal defense against small-time tyrants such as burglars and thugs, and for other emergency utility. I have no desire to attempt withstanding against state-sponsored tyranny myself.
I hope this answers your question, and I hope you weren't just asking it out of rhetorical spite.
What it really comes down to, for me, is control and the power than comes from it - whether overt or as a byproduct of other factors. My hatred, per se, is not specific to Microsoft in this regard but I will focus on then for you in this instance.
In the case of Microsoft, I "hate" them not because of their success - which would be the closeted reason for many of those on Slashdot with socialistic leanings, who would rather see Microsoft owned by the commons - but it is, to a degree, associated and similar to that success. It is their success, combined with their near-complete domination of the software marketplace, uncooperative and monopolistic behavior, and general lack of adhersion to standards which further make things difficult for everyone else.
As a side effect of their monopolistic hold on software, they've managed to monopolize a sizeable amount of societal mindshare as well. For the most part, when someone mentions computing, people automatically think "Microsoft". Not a problem in and of itself, but when you take into light the fact that computing
Sorry, you're mistaken. If you'd demonstrated any sort of perpensity for looking things up, you'd notice that over the past 8 years the price - or rather, the inherrent value - of precious and semi-precious metals have been climing an increasingly rapid rate for (oh) the last 5+ years (I can't immediately recall). This has been particularly marked in the the last year and a half to two years.
This is mostly contributable to three factors, as near as I can tell: 1) China's increasing industrialization, modernization, and militarization 2) India's economy flourishing 3) Static, or even dwindling, supplies
I know this partially because I've researched it a bit, but also because I purchase a fairly large amount of goods with high quantities of copper and zinc - loaded firearm cartridges, which are composed of copper, brass, and lead (as well as gunpowder). Prices in this industry have gone up (I'd guess) close to 100% in the last two years, and there's been some supply problems as well.
I've also heard from those in the construction business who say it's become necessary to keep guards on construction sites, or revise the way they're constructing buildings: people are breaking into job sites and ripping out all the copper wire from partially-built buildings, something that can and does cost the contractor tens of thousands of dollars.
What you have just done is similar to (say) taking the text out of a proposed bill which would make x, y, and z illegal - all of which most people will find offensive on their own - in exclusion of the context of the rest of the bill - that the bill only applies to those (say) participating in the illicit trade of human babies (or whatever).
In other words, you're not taking it in context of the whole text.
In short, these were commands given to the Israelites at that time, usually for a specific situation - not different than a command from God saying something like, "everyone over 40 doesn't get to see the promised land" (which actually happened). That doesn't mean that everyone today is disbarred from such things, or anything like that. It was a contextual mandate - law - specific to the circumstances and culture of the time.
This is understood within Christianity as a given, particularly as the New Testament and specifically because of the 'golden rule'/'greatest commandment' make it known that the law of the old testament (which doesn't even include the whole old testament - I'm not a bible type, so I couldn't tell you if your cited information is a part of that) is to be taken into account as long as it complies with "love your neighbor as yourself". Did Christ not 'free' the adulteress when a bunch of guys wanted to stone her?
And even if you're right, and these things are applicable outside the context of that particular story in Jewish history: would not the more important thing be how the practicioners of the faith behave as a whole right now, and not what their holy writ may be interpreted to say, completely outside the mainstream or even fringe understanding? How many Christian charities are there compared to secular ones, and how differently do they perform? Quite admirably. How many Christian-on-Muslim genocides have there been in the world (under modern Christendom)? None which I can immediately think of. Let your fruits be your witness and all that, as they say.
Karl Marx and his 'desciple Marxists' (Mao, Lenin, etc.) both did and suggested a lot of vile things in the name of the ideal, but you don't see us, as a society, blasting the snot out of Marxism and suggesting it's a vile belief system - no, we're progressive as a society, and we've largely accepted the ideals of Marx throughout the West. Same basic thing.
Obviously your average Christian would find this game appalling, just like your average Muslim found the WTC attack appalling.
Which 'average Muslim' are you referring to? Are you referring to the marginal quantity of Muslims in the United States, or the average of the majority of Muslims throughout the world? Because I'm fairly certain that while the former may very well be, and probably is, true, the same can certainly not be said of the latter - as strongly suggested by the reports in a dozen or so Muslim countries of widespread celebration in the streets after the fact.
Imagine a processor with special circuitry routines which will speed up the operation of the following by a significant percent: - database servers - web servers - CAD and 3d programs (rendering)
Basically, it's not much different than MMX or any other extension to a processor. The programmers can still code for the x86 (or whatever) architecture and the same operating system, but then shortcut those instructions when the additional instructions are found to be available. Or maybe they can work it transparently so programmers don't have to do anything additional - it'll optimize on the fly (provided they can figure out how to do that). Overall, I think the software headache will be worth it to companies, as they will be able to have substantial gains in performance in the hardware department, cutting cost while gaining performance. What datacenter wouldn't love to use half as many machines to provide access to the same amount of information; what animator wouldn't love to have their workstation be able to render things at twice the speed?
I don't think it's that at all. These are the same basic people, afterall. I think the main difference between the security of myspace and corporate passwords is one thing: self-interest. People are more likely to want to protect their own passwords than they are to want to protect the password which they associate with their work-related things, and thus "the company". They've got no motivation to care about a corporate password.
It's interesting how the Democrats can't field politicians with likeable personalities while maintaining all the dogmatic political views which fall in line with the party ideal. I wonder if there's a correlation.
You're missing out on a critical part of the reason behind why things are the way they are.
In short: the Democrat party does not cater to the will of their party constituents to the level that the Republicans do because the Democrats have to wait for their constituents to "catch up" in terms of progressiveness. Progressive ideas don't tend to come from the bottom - they'll face resistance with all but those who are looking for active change - they come from the top. Conservative ideas are the contrary.
When Africa figures out how to stop being Africa and start implimenting things like grade school education, hygene, and civil behavior to catch up with what has been commonplace in the rest of the world since the early 1900s, then we can talk about properly allocating IP space.
At any rate, you odn't know local politics. It sounds like this Sturgeon was fairly well connected, at least. So that might very well have been a determining factor in why he wasn't even scrutinized, despite his practices and ethics.
They've been saying it for years. I'm thinking it's got to be kinda one of those "the earth is warming, no cooling, no warming!" type things where nobody really knows.
My theory is that 'the other guy' did it. Que bono? Who benefits? Neither the wife nor Reiser does, obviosuly, with this chain of events. If Reiser goes away for a long,long time, this 3rd guy - the guy that seduced his wife - doesn't have to worry about anything. It's the perfect setup.
I had a friend in high school who claimed one day to have dreamed the entire day's surrounding events in entirety the night before. He succeeded to freak me and others out throughout the day by saying things like, "so and so is going to come into the room any second now", "so and so is going to trip and fall in the hall" or "they're going to run out of bread for lunch today in the cafeteria shortly before it happened...
Immigration isn't even a short-term fix; it's a perceived fix, a placebo - or even a slow poison. The problem is still there in its entirety, and in all likelyhood, is being amplified by the immigration by introducing society-destroying cultural rifts.
This is only the case where immigration outpaces domestic population growth, and the immigrants are not assimilating.
John Moses Browning called, he wants the design to his 1911 year pistol trigger back... -or- Jean Luc Picard called; he wants to know why they're copying his phaser.
Not entirely. He's more correct than he probably knew he was. Germany has a terminal population problem; the only think keeping their country afloat long-term is immigration. So it's entirely plauseable that "old" people are a statistically larger percentage of the population than the younger - just as it would be the other way around in a healthy civilization.
At least one good thing can be said about such things: if the trend isn't reversed, at least their society will experience a short age of guaranteed non-agression before its departure from the face of the earth as a cultural entity.
Excuse me, but that's bullshit. It might be part of the story, but there's something very big they're missing.
I have personally experienced enough deja vu that I went through the effort to document things which might come up as deja vu - dreams and daydreams, as well as all instances of perceived deja vu. Nothing came of it for a year or so, until I went back and checked the instances: I'd actually been dreaming circumstances which occured weeks, months, or years later.
It could happen, but it probably won't. Here's why: Google's employees live better than kings.
What do I mean? They've got a vast selection of food that they could want to eat; they have fairly undisciplined day schedules; they've got no overt worldly responsibilities. And, what's most important, they can spend their days however they want working on things that interest them. They may not be golfing or doing 'leasurely' activities, but most academic types don't care for those kinds of entertainment anyway.
When you enjoy every activity of your day (well, at least 'almost') why would you throw it away to try and compete against such an environment?
- about as big as a thin hardback novel, maybe a bit longer/deeper (whatever) for the keyboard - at least 9 hours of battery life, running cool - running something as simplistic as Wince 3.0, but as accessible as the later versions (ie minimalism without compromising function) - CF, PCMCIA, USB host and client ports - any power adapter for it would be unobtrusive and lightweight (i'm thinking 'ibook') - preferably on an 'open' hardware platform so when it ceases being supported I can (say) slap linux on it and still get some increased functionality - 512M operational memory (RAM) - aside from OS ROM/flash, about 2G of flash would be more than sufficient (say a total of 3G) - it is, afterall, routinely syncing with somethign like a fileserver or desktop. you're not going to need that much data at anyone time, period. not on a device like this. - Xscale 400Mhz would/should be fast enough - audio would be niceb ut not needed at all - sceen size of around 10"-12" diagnal.
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Yep. Part of it is just memorization too, though.
I personally do not use household lighting to get around; all the lights stay on after dark, even in the basement. I've only very rarely bumped into or stepped on things, and that's when they've been put there by my (3-year-old) son. I've simply memorized where everything is, from the washer (which I load and set in the dark) to the chairs, tables, and various other boxes of things I tend to leave laying around (not the tidiest or most organized person, but not messy, either.)
Granted, I've got my wife turning on all the dman lights in the house, resulting in me having to chase aftre her turning them off, so maybe I've got a frugality sense, too...
Off the top of my head, if you were to enhance a processor for 3D CAD, you'd likely be able to assist 3D gaming, 3D modeling, and 3D rendering (potentially making real-time rendering somewhat closer to being obtainable). And that would be the easiest thing to do - as evidenced by the fact that MMX came about years ago. Now, I suspect any optimizations would be much more conceptally sound and utilizable.
Yes, I used to be a socialist. I used to think it was a pretty good idea before I read about the consequences of such fool-hardy utopian ideals which ignore human nature while giving powers to the state.
Marx's socialism was, in essence, mostly just social er, socialism. He didn't understand economics enough to understand how wrong his commentary on capitalism was, but that's neither here nor there - those principles have been irrefuteably proven to not work. His social commentary and beliefs are alive and well, and are leading to the death of Western culture, however.
I can only hypothesize on the matter, as I've got no first or second hand experience of such things - just what I hear about from places like Iraq.
First, you assume that all of those in the armed forces would shirk their duty to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold. Many would - it's just a pay check - but a large number would not.
Aside from that, the only thing that comes immediately to mind is political decapitation. There are a good number of people in the US who can - with ease - make 1,000 yard shots on human-sized targets. Many of them are or were military snipers or marksmen. There is a strong tradition of riflery in the US - something the Iraqis do not have. Even if your average Bubba can only hit a deer at 300 yards with his deer rifle, that's about 250 yards more than your average Iraqi could.
Against SWAT-style teams, the American 'militia' doesn't stand a chance, not one on one. But I imagine that's where asymetrical warfare comes in. Even with all the high-tech wiz-bang gadgetry our military has, it's still unable to effectively stop the Iraqi insurgents - and Iraq is only about the size of (say) North and South Dakota combined. Much of the infrastructure
Another difference between Iraq and any potential 'civil war' is that the government can not realistically - from a logistics perspective - bomb, missile, and shoot up towns and cities at will to destroy insurgents when that city or town is a critical part of your own supply structure.
Do I think it would be something easily won by a US insurgency? Hell no. Do I think Americans have the mettle for such things, pragmatically speaking? No, not really. At this point I think it's merely a token, but an important one which must be maintained just in case - if, for no other reason, then personal defense against small-time tyrants such as burglars and thugs, and for other emergency utility. I have no desire to attempt withstanding against state-sponsored tyranny myself.
I hope this answers your question, and I hope you weren't just asking it out of rhetorical spite.
What it really comes down to, for me, is control and the power than comes from it - whether overt or as a byproduct of other factors. My hatred, per se, is not specific to Microsoft in this regard but I will focus on then for you in this instance.
In the case of Microsoft, I "hate" them not because of their success - which would be the closeted reason for many of those on Slashdot with socialistic leanings, who would rather see Microsoft owned by the commons - but it is, to a degree, associated and similar to that success. It is their success, combined with their near-complete domination of the software marketplace, uncooperative and monopolistic behavior, and general lack of adhersion to standards which further make things difficult for everyone else.
As a side effect of their monopolistic hold on software, they've managed to monopolize a sizeable amount of societal mindshare as well. For the most part, when someone mentions computing, people automatically think "Microsoft". Not a problem in and of itself, but when you take into light the fact that computing
Sorry, you're mistaken. If you'd demonstrated any sort of perpensity for looking things up, you'd notice that over the past 8 years the price - or rather, the inherrent value - of precious and semi-precious metals have been climing an increasingly rapid rate for (oh) the last 5+ years (I can't immediately recall). This has been particularly marked in the the last year and a half to two years.
This is mostly contributable to three factors, as near as I can tell:
1) China's increasing industrialization, modernization, and militarization
2) India's economy flourishing
3) Static, or even dwindling, supplies
I know this partially because I've researched it a bit, but also because I purchase a fairly large amount of goods with high quantities of copper and zinc - loaded firearm cartridges, which are composed of copper, brass, and lead (as well as gunpowder). Prices in this industry have gone up (I'd guess) close to 100% in the last two years, and there's been some supply problems as well.
I've also heard from those in the construction business who say it's become necessary to keep guards on construction sites, or revise the way they're constructing buildings: people are breaking into job sites and ripping out all the copper wire from partially-built buildings, something that can and does cost the contractor tens of thousands of dollars.
What you have just done is similar to (say) taking the text out of a proposed bill which would make x, y, and z illegal - all of which most people will find offensive on their own - in exclusion of the context of the rest of the bill - that the bill only applies to those (say) participating in the illicit trade of human babies (or whatever).
In other words, you're not taking it in context of the whole text.
In short, these were commands given to the Israelites at that time, usually for a specific situation - not different than a command from God saying something like, "everyone over 40 doesn't get to see the promised land" (which actually happened). That doesn't mean that everyone today is disbarred from such things, or anything like that. It was a contextual mandate - law - specific to the circumstances and culture of the time.
This is understood within Christianity as a given, particularly as the New Testament and specifically because of the 'golden rule'/'greatest commandment' make it known that the law of the old testament (which doesn't even include the whole old testament - I'm not a bible type, so I couldn't tell you if your cited information is a part of that) is to be taken into account as long as it complies with "love your neighbor as yourself". Did Christ not 'free' the adulteress when a bunch of guys wanted to stone her?
And even if you're right, and these things are applicable outside the context of that particular story in Jewish history: would not the more important thing be how the practicioners of the faith behave as a whole right now, and not what their holy writ may be interpreted to say, completely outside the mainstream or even fringe understanding? How many Christian charities are there compared to secular ones, and how differently do they perform? Quite admirably. How many Christian-on-Muslim genocides have there been in the world (under modern Christendom)? None which I can immediately think of. Let your fruits be your witness and all that, as they say.
Karl Marx and his 'desciple Marxists' (Mao, Lenin, etc.) both did and suggested a lot of vile things in the name of the ideal, but you don't see us, as a society, blasting the snot out of Marxism and suggesting it's a vile belief system - no, we're progressive as a society, and we've largely accepted the ideals of Marx throughout the West. Same basic thing.
Obviously your average Christian would find this game appalling, just like your average Muslim found the WTC attack appalling.
Which 'average Muslim' are you referring to? Are you referring to the marginal quantity of Muslims in the United States, or the average of the majority of Muslims throughout the world? Because I'm fairly certain that while the former may very well be, and probably is, true, the same can certainly not be said of the latter - as strongly suggested by the reports in a dozen or so Muslim countries of widespread celebration in the streets after the fact.
Imagine a processor with special circuitry routines which will speed up the operation of the following by a significant percent:
- database servers
- web servers
- CAD and 3d programs (rendering)
Basically, it's not much different than MMX or any other extension to a processor. The programmers can still code for the x86 (or whatever) architecture and the same operating system, but then shortcut those instructions when the additional instructions are found to be available. Or maybe they can work it transparently so programmers don't have to do anything additional - it'll optimize on the fly (provided they can figure out how to do that). Overall, I think the software headache will be worth it to companies, as they will be able to have substantial gains in performance in the hardware department, cutting cost while gaining performance. What datacenter wouldn't love to use half as many machines to provide access to the same amount of information; what animator wouldn't love to have their workstation be able to render things at twice the speed?
I don't think it's that at all. These are the same basic people, afterall. I think the main difference between the security of myspace and corporate passwords is one thing: self-interest. People are more likely to want to protect their own passwords than they are to want to protect the password which they associate with their work-related things, and thus "the company". They've got no motivation to care about a corporate password.
It's interesting how the Democrats can't field politicians with likeable personalities while maintaining all the dogmatic political views which fall in line with the party ideal. I wonder if there's a correlation.
You're missing out on a critical part of the reason behind why things are the way they are.
In short: the Democrat party does not cater to the will of their party constituents to the level that the Republicans do because the Democrats have to wait for their constituents to "catch up" in terms of progressiveness. Progressive ideas don't tend to come from the bottom - they'll face resistance with all but those who are looking for active change - they come from the top. Conservative ideas are the contrary.
*bangs forehead on desk*
Thanks. I did know that, honest to doug.
When Africa figures out how to stop being Africa and start implimenting things like grade school education, hygene, and civil behavior to catch up with what has been commonplace in the rest of the world since the early 1900s, then we can talk about properly allocating IP space.
At any rate, you odn't know local politics. It sounds like this Sturgeon was fairly well connected, at least. So that might very well have been a determining factor in why he wasn't even scrutinized, despite his practices and ethics.
They've been saying it for years. I'm thinking it's got to be kinda one of those "the earth is warming, no cooling, no warming!" type things where nobody really knows.
Nope. Sturgeon killed her. I'm suspecting it's politically motivated, or at least financially.
My theory is that 'the other guy' did it. Que bono? Who benefits? Neither the wife nor Reiser does, obviosuly, with this chain of events. If Reiser goes away for a long ,long time, this 3rd guy - the guy that seduced his wife - doesn't have to worry about anything. It's the perfect setup.
I had a friend in high school who claimed one day to have dreamed the entire day's surrounding events in entirety the night before. He succeeded to freak me and others out throughout the day by saying things like, "so and so is going to come into the room any second now", "so and so is going to trip and fall in the hall" or "they're going to run out of bread for lunch today in the cafeteria shortly before it happened...
Immigration isn't even a short-term fix; it's a perceived fix, a placebo - or even a slow poison. The problem is still there in its entirety, and in all likelyhood, is being amplified by the immigration by introducing society-destroying cultural rifts.
This is only the case where immigration outpaces domestic population growth, and the immigrants are not assimilating.
Let's see here...
John Moses Browning called, he wants the design to his 1911 year pistol trigger back...
-or-
Jean Luc Picard called; he wants to know why they're copying his phaser.
Not entirely. He's more correct than he probably knew he was. Germany has a terminal population problem; the only think keeping their country afloat long-term is immigration. So it's entirely plauseable that "old" people are a statistically larger percentage of the population than the younger - just as it would be the other way around in a healthy civilization.
At least one good thing can be said about such things: if the trend isn't reversed, at least their society will experience a short age of guaranteed non-agression before its departure from the face of the earth as a cultural entity.
Excuse me, but that's bullshit. It might be part of the story, but there's something very big they're missing.
I have personally experienced enough deja vu that I went through the effort to document things which might come up as deja vu - dreams and daydreams, as well as all instances of perceived deja vu. Nothing came of it for a year or so, until I went back and checked the instances: I'd actually been dreaming circumstances which occured weeks, months, or years later.
It could happen, but it probably won't. Here's why: Google's employees live better than kings.
What do I mean? They've got a vast selection of food that they could want to eat; they have fairly undisciplined day schedules; they've got no overt worldly responsibilities. And, what's most important, they can spend their days however they want working on things that interest them. They may not be golfing or doing 'leasurely' activities, but most academic types don't care for those kinds of entertainment anyway.
When you enjoy every activity of your day (well, at least 'almost') why would you throw it away to try and compete against such an environment?
Here's a synopsis of what I'd want:
- about as big as a thin hardback novel, maybe a bit longer/deeper (whatever) for the keyboard
- at least 9 hours of battery life, running cool
- running something as simplistic as Wince 3.0, but as accessible as the later versions (ie minimalism without compromising function)
- CF, PCMCIA, USB host and client ports
- any power adapter for it would be unobtrusive and lightweight (i'm thinking 'ibook')
- preferably on an 'open' hardware platform so when it ceases being supported I can (say) slap linux on it and still get some increased functionality
- 512M operational memory (RAM)
- aside from OS ROM/flash, about 2G of flash would be more than sufficient (say a total of 3G) - it is, afterall, routinely syncing with somethign like a fileserver or desktop. you're not going to need that much data at anyone time, period. not on a device like this.
- Xscale 400Mhz would/should be fast enough
- audio would be niceb ut not needed at all
- sceen size of around 10"-12" diagnal.