So a bunch of ugly, dumb moralists are upset again... Good. Sex is finally being accepted by NORMAL people. You can't call people perverts just for living their lives anymore. More sex the better -- in games, movies, tv,... and real life.
IBM isn't the first to pretend they're about peace and love, not money and control. Fraud is the name of the game, and if you can do it legally, who cares if it's ethical right? This time they crossed the line and got a slap on the wrist. The damage they do with legal (false) advertizing is far more damaging to individuals and communities.
I don't advocate censorship, I'm simply saying that every organization lies, which makes everyone I know a liar.
"For safety reasons the computer, which is wired to each pad by data lines, allows only one pad to be free at a time."
5 paragraphs later:
"A further safety control: the 'gekkonaut' while in the process of climbing can only have one pad and not two or more free at a time. A chance of becoming loose and therefore falling is near to impossible."
However, a chance of being redundant is therefore great.
Don't take that as an anti-gun statement, I'm all for all sorts of firearms... But really if these companies are going to put so many limits on the use of their product, then great -- I won't buy it! I have a life, I'm not going to pay to watch entertainment that's little more than advertising and political propaganda. I'll surf the net for porn instead, or go drink at a nice bar, or maaaaaybe even read a book or a journal. Or I'll spend time at the driving range. I like guns.
Earth is our birthplace, not our prison. The purpose of humanity, if we can be said to have a purpose, is to disperse life throughout the galaxy.
That's nearly a direct quote from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, a sci-fi story about a girl who fled her gated community when it was attacked by gangs and angry mobs. The dream that kept her going specifically was for humans to "take root among the stars."
I whine about "20 years" because NOBODY can be held accountable for that long if things go wrong. Even some murderers are released in less time. What if I promised I'll build you a huge, elegant mansion to live in.. but I won't be around when it's finished- how convenient! No earth can ever be broken on big, risky projects if people aren't held accountable. With a 5 or 10 year project, at least you'll have someone to blame when bad luck, incompetence, and cowardice all come together and the mission fails.
Helping coffee growers max out their yearly profits is absolutely ridiculous. It's a nice, safe mission, isn't it? I'm sure the iron men of the old NASA would be very proud. (lol)
Why would someone kill themselves? When you're in that situation, all the "wrong" reasons make perfect sense. All you jerks who have no sympathy, you should understand at least that some people weren't born and raised like you. I almost hear people saying "good, serves him right"... Lack of sympathy says it all. You are a fascist if you feel no pity for the poor kid.
Preface: Google is by far the best search available for general, random stuff.
That said, I get frustrated by some of its quirks.
For one thing, it excludes common small words like "to" "that" "the". Those words can be important when you're searching for a specific quote, say an old song or a line from a movie that you once heard.
Google doesn't seem to understand strict, logical use of parentheses, almost like it's really searching for the characters "(...)", or even the word OR, which contradicts my first complaint!
Lastly, it's still not clear to me whether a search for "naked cheerleader" gives the same result as "naked cheerleaders". Hence, I tend to use OR and AND (+) a lot in my searches, which as I just said doesn't seem to work very well.
"I am exposed to literally hundreds of different bands and scores of styles of music that I wasn't before."
Better for the industry to buy, own, and pimp a small number of BubbleGum androids. Hoes cost money you know, do you want to put all those Indi groups on YOUR payroll? You can only consolidate so much though, then your alternative bitch becomes mainstream pop, and you have to go find a new Insane Clowne Posse to sell out and make money for you.
"Genetics are at least as complicated as the brain and we have essentially no experience with them. That approximation may offend some scientists in the field, and I don't mean for that, but look at were we are. What are there, a couple tests for genetic diseases, a kind of corn that keeps leaking into the mainstream supply and an identity test that couldn't convict OJ?"
That's all fair enough to say. However, we have been using genetics for thousands of years, doing selective cross breeding of plants and animals for all kinds of traits.
The surrounding cellular chemistry you speak of really is fun stuff - I suggest taking a developmental biology course if it interests anyone.
And I don't think the problem with convicting OJ was the DNA test - I think it was more likely developmental problems with the jurors...
Spell out the figure '1' and you get TMA-ONE. These letters, like the last nine in Frank Poole, can be rearranged to form an anagram. In this case, the anagram is "No Meat." A wooden horse has no meat on its skeletal framework."
There's as much truth to that as your average psycic reading. One can make hundreds of true, but random statements about an object, such as a horse, and surely find that some of them are anagrams toward some related idea.
Firstly, there is no justification for spelling 1 as "One". 1 means 1, and if if Mr. Kubrik really meant "one", he should have spelled it out himself.
Secondly, the Trojan Horse was NOT a skeletal framework. I suppose its wooden walls could be viewed as "meat", in fact, but this is all just nonsense... The guy's a Quack.
... Only one small reference to the environment in that whole article. I wonder if these systems will be evident when schools of dead fish start to appear on the surface.
Why not have a computer that constantly monitors all our vital signs? You'd only wear it perhaps if you live alone or are travelling. It instantly alerts the nearest emergency health center, your family, boss, and various government or corporate agencies that could benefit from your passing.
If it's not due until July, they really shouldn't have leaked it. This gives the Dark Forces a chance to make a preemptive move against them and try to prevent its release.
The guy uses an "unmarked white truck"... that could look very much like somebody stealing your car, rather than a legal reposession. Hope nobody flips out and pulls a gun on the guy.
Like a cop in a crackhouse. I have a hunch MS knows damn well that Slashdot and the nerd culture is a threat to their business, what with/.'s torrent of truth and cries for fair business. The whole Matrix thing is likely a set-up to catch us violating the license somehow.
The sad story is that some kids (including myself) go to get a CS degree simply because they play pc or video games whenever they're not doing homework. "Duh. I like playing Metal Gear. Therefore it follows that I'll enjoy programming." That was my mentality, anyway.. NOT GOOD. You have to love math and graphs and lab science to begin with. 7 years experience as an adult:
- place science first in your life (assuming that's you're 1st love and philosophy) - happiness second (ie stick to your hobbies, quit your job if you're miserible, etc..) - money is third (assuming you want to eat and maybe support a family someday)
Not that you should listen to me, for I am only One Man.
Good points there... but taking away the "save as" button would be sufficiently annoying and frustrating for that 90% of people, so they would demand to have it back or use an alternative product. If a feature is downright annoying, people won't buy it. Ooops- Then how do you explain Microsoft's marketshare? I guess 90% of people are either masochists or brainless sheep who will buy anything!
Eye halve a spelling chequer;
It came with my pea sea;
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write -
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it;
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.
- Sores Unknown
Slashdot Mirror
So a bunch of ugly, dumb moralists are upset again... Good. Sex is finally being accepted by NORMAL people. You can't call people perverts just for living their lives anymore. More sex the better -- in games, movies, tv,
IBM isn't the first to pretend they're about peace and love, not money and control. Fraud is the name of the game, and if you can do it legally, who cares if it's ethical right? This time they crossed the line and got a slap on the wrist. The damage they do with legal (false) advertizing is far more damaging to individuals and communities.
I don't advocate censorship, I'm simply saying that every organization lies, which makes everyone I know a liar.
Is he gonna finally cook up the squirl he's been sporting on his head for 20 years?
"For safety reasons the computer, which is wired to each pad by data lines, allows only one pad to be free at a time."
5 paragraphs later:
"A further safety control: the 'gekkonaut' while in the process of climbing can only have one pad and not two or more free at a time. A chance of becoming loose and therefore falling is near to impossible."
However, a chance of being redundant is therefore great.
Anyway, who needs such devices when your FINGERTIPS will do just fine: Alain Robert -- Human Spiderman
Don't take that as an anti-gun statement, I'm all for all sorts of firearms... But really if these companies are going to put so many limits on the use of their product, then great -- I won't buy it! I have a life, I'm not going to pay to watch entertainment that's little more than advertising and political propaganda. I'll surf the net for porn instead, or go drink at a nice bar, or maaaaaybe even read a book or a journal. Or I'll spend time at the driving range. I like guns.
Earth is our birthplace, not our prison. The purpose of humanity, if we can be said to have a purpose, is to disperse life throughout the galaxy.
That's nearly a direct quote from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, a sci-fi story about a girl who fled her gated community when it was attacked by gangs and angry mobs. The dream that kept her going specifically was for humans to "take root among the stars."
I whine about "20 years" because NOBODY can be held accountable for that long if things go wrong. Even some murderers are released in less time. What if I promised I'll build you a huge, elegant mansion to live in.. but I won't be around when it's finished- how convenient! No earth can ever be broken on big, risky projects if people aren't held accountable. With a 5 or 10 year project, at least you'll have someone to blame when bad luck, incompetence, and cowardice all come together and the mission fails.
Helping coffee growers max out their yearly profits is absolutely ridiculous. It's a nice, safe mission, isn't it? I'm sure the iron men of the old NASA would be very proud. (lol)
Why would someone kill themselves? When you're in that situation, all the "wrong" reasons make perfect sense. All you jerks who have no sympathy, you should understand at least that some people weren't born and raised like you. I almost hear people saying "good, serves him right"... Lack of sympathy says it all. You are a fascist if you feel no pity for the poor kid.
Preface: Google is by far the best search available for general, random stuff.
That said, I get frustrated by some of its quirks.
For one thing, it excludes common small words like "to" "that" "the". Those words can be important when you're searching for a specific quote, say an old song or a line from a movie that you once heard.
Google doesn't seem to understand strict, logical use of parentheses, almost like it's really searching for the characters "(...)", or even the word OR, which contradicts my first complaint!
Lastly, it's still not clear to me whether a search for "naked cheerleader" gives the same result as "naked cheerleaders". Hence, I tend to use OR and AND (+) a lot in my searches, which as I just said doesn't seem to work very well.
"I am exposed to literally hundreds of different bands and scores of styles of music that I wasn't before."
Better for the industry to buy, own, and pimp a small number of BubbleGum androids. Hoes cost money you know, do you want to put all those Indi groups on YOUR payroll? You can only consolidate so much though, then your alternative bitch becomes mainstream pop, and you have to go find a new Insane Clowne Posse to sell out and make money for you.
"Genetics are at least as complicated as the brain and we have essentially no experience with them. That approximation may offend some scientists in the field, and I don't mean for that, but look at were we are. What are there, a couple tests for genetic diseases, a kind of corn that keeps leaking into the mainstream supply and an identity test that couldn't convict OJ?"
That's all fair enough to say. However, we have been using genetics for thousands of years, doing selective cross breeding of plants and animals for all kinds of traits.
The surrounding cellular chemistry you speak of really is fun stuff - I suggest taking a developmental biology course if it interests anyone.
And I don't think the problem with convicting OJ was the DNA test - I think it was more likely developmental problems with the jurors...
This thread is exclusively dedicated to all Ted Turner cracks....
Spell out the figure '1' and you get TMA-ONE. These letters, like the last nine in Frank Poole, can be rearranged to form an anagram. In this case, the anagram is "No Meat." A wooden horse has no meat on its skeletal framework."
There's as much truth to that as your average psycic reading. One can make hundreds of true, but random statements about an object, such as a horse, and surely find that some of them are anagrams toward some related idea.
Firstly, there is no justification for spelling 1 as "One". 1 means 1, and if if Mr. Kubrik really meant "one", he should have spelled it out himself.
Secondly, the Trojan Horse was NOT a skeletal framework. I suppose its wooden walls could be viewed as "meat", in fact, but this is all just nonsense... The guy's a Quack.
... Only one small reference to the environment in that whole article. I wonder if these systems will be evident when schools of dead fish start to appear on the surface.
Why not have a computer that constantly monitors all our vital signs? You'd only wear it perhaps if you live alone or are travelling. It instantly alerts the nearest emergency health center, your family, boss, and various government or corporate agencies that could benefit from your passing.
If it's not due until July, they really shouldn't have leaked it. This gives the Dark Forces a chance to make a preemptive move against them and try to prevent its release.
The guy uses an "unmarked white truck"... that could look very much like somebody stealing your car, rather than a legal reposession. Hope nobody flips out and pulls a gun on the guy.
"Picosecond timing is the key to Larry Fullerton's radio pulse technology..."
Ok, now we need atomic clocks in our cell phones, no danger there.. hehe.
Genome@home
Resopnding to EVERY spam letter could very well simulate a DoS attack...
Like a cop in a crackhouse. I have a hunch MS knows damn well that Slashdot and the nerd culture is a threat to their business, what with /.'s torrent of truth and cries for fair business. The whole Matrix thing is likely a set-up to catch us violating the license somehow.
:)
Call me paranoid
The sad story is that some kids (including myself) go to get a CS degree simply because they play pc or video games whenever they're not doing homework. "Duh. I like playing Metal Gear. Therefore it follows that I'll enjoy programming." That was my mentality, anyway.. NOT GOOD. You have to love math and graphs and lab science to begin with. 7 years experience as an adult:
- place science first in your life (assuming that's you're 1st love and philosophy)
- happiness second (ie stick to your hobbies, quit your job if you're miserible, etc..)
- money is third (assuming you want to eat and maybe support a family someday)
Not that you should listen to me, for I am only One Man.
"Even a small probability multiplied by 10^22 gets pretty big."
If only common people understood such things. Be it the chance of two hydrogen atoms fusing in the sun, or the emergence of a technological world...
Good points there... but taking away the "save as" button would be sufficiently annoying and frustrating for that 90% of people, so they would demand to have it back or use an alternative product. If a feature is downright annoying, people won't buy it. Ooops- Then how do you explain Microsoft's marketshare? I guess 90% of people are either masochists or brainless sheep who will buy anything!
Eye halve a spelling chequer; It came with my pea sea; It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write - It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long, And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it; I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh, My chequer tolled me sew. - Sores Unknown
Very much like when Ben Kenobi (Obi Wan) stopped fighting and let Darth Vader kill him with the light sabre. Same exact situation really...