It's 50/50 chemical/psychological addiction with smokers, and probably 10/90 with over-eaters (just guessing). If you can't train your brain to eat less & excersize more - like how the smoker has to kick the habitual part of 5min smoke breaks - then yeah, I guess you'd call that a chemical problem eh? A greedy hypothalumus and genes or something.
I would rather die at 65 on a full stumach than at 80 feeling hungry.
Heh. That's the smoker's rationalization too.:)
Before I quit, I'd say to people, "I'd rather die happy and cancerous at 50 than live to 75 depressed and dopamine-deprived." I still believe that, but I quit for other reasons: other people, and my bank account (>$5/pack!).
Don't be too hard on the misguided ubergeek; doing things the hard way is a badge of honor (and job security) for 'em. It's like some kind of perverted mental work ethic.
It's also kind of like how when I was a kid, my grandpa would be proud to have us all dig a ditch with shovels rather than use the Caterpiller backhoe that was sitting on the property.
If you've invested lots of time in 'Hard', then 'Easy' earns contempt from bitter people.
Hey, it's THE Robert "Matrioska" Bradbury. Read all your stuff.
Question: In order for a Matrioshka Brain to move (slowly), wouldn't it have to cut out a large section of its shell in order to use the other half of the shell as a solar sail? And, if these Brains are as common as you claim they may be (to account for the missing Dark Matter), shouldn't we be detecting the ass-end of at least a few of these movers?
Oh, and what if the section of brain to be removed doesn't want to 'die', even if it is supposed to be smart enough to know that it's for the overall good of the hive to find a new star?:)
(btw, when loading your Dyson Shell page I'm being asked authenticate twice (with login message: "ETI DOCUMENTS"). The page still loads, but it's annoying.)
You missed an alternative: Like many others, I now use JavaScript to render my email address in the client browser from obfuscated html source, and even if the client doesn't handle JavaScript, the obfuscated plaintext version gets spit out as well.
Of course, I'll have to ditch the JavaScript the day that the spammers finally javascript-enable their spambot webcrawlers.
For the cached webpage to remain dynamic it would only need to carry with it the logic needed to connect to the remote source database, or databases, if the protocol allowed for the DBs to also be somewhat distributed (& syncronized).
Oh, you mean those giant anthropomorphic orbitals of the far future that assume sentient life will still exist in an old-fashioned humanoid form requiring gravity, atmosphere, day/night cycles, etc.? Pfft.
RingWorlds are ultimately just as unbelievable as conventional spaceships are... unless... unless you can suspend your disbelief by pretending transhumanism is "Crazy Talk", and that spam-in-a-can is the way things will always be and SHOULD be. Yeeeehaw spacecowboys.:)
It's like whispering to your nearest neighbor vs a broadcast shout to everyone in the area, and if your neighbor isn't directly wired, he should in turn route your message further along an overlapping mesh of other wireless nodes.
I've changed my mind, and I'd like to buy some advertising on your fine site. That's ``1,000,000 hits per day from 10,000 unique IP addresses'' in high quality traffic!
All the anonymous whiners above (hi hello.jpg) just goes to show that BitTorrent isn't the ideal P2P when you can still slashdot a tracker site, since it needs to serve a webpage PLUS a complete.torrent file. But, I guess BitTorrent is ideal if what you're aiming for is your own little island of P2P to control where the users generate all the content for you (can you believe that torrentse.cx is actually trying to charge 10 bucks for access to their forums(?!):)
eDonkey and Gnutella, on the other hand, have the right idea: they don't have a central point of failure encoded in their URI's - they use a file hash and decentralized hubs, which doesn't DEPEND on any one linksite like sharereactor.com or sharelive.com being able to handle the load.
Anyway, I just find it funny how BitTorrent is enabling a new breed of P2P site that will become victims of their own success (the problem p2p is supposed to eliminate!).
After working on crappy Viewsonic CRT's all day...
I don't know why you think ViewSonic exclusively sells 'crappy' shadowmask-based monitors, but just a FYI: they also sell monitors with the prettier aperature grilles.
e.g. I've got a flat, crisp & bright ViewSonic PF790 at home.
Yup. You either buy the game to get a unique CD-key, or you limit yourself to playing on a very small subset of - usually identifiable - hacked game servers which skip the step of validating your common "warez CD-key" with the master keyserver(s).
Reading all sides helps you come closer to reality.
Indeed.
CNN reports that "Iraq still controls airport" in what Al Sahaf called a "slaughter", but Al Jazeerah actually reports a bodycount of 200-300 US soldiers killed fighting over the airport.
What can I conclude? That the airport is still being fought over, and that the bodycount is higher than CNN's int("slaughter")==0 and less than the number the Iraqi's would exagerate.
But the U.S. is imposing righteous FREEDOM, not hate, so what's the problem with our bombing mission (a pun)? I mean, c'mon, don't the Iraqi's Deserve A Break Today(tm) too?
Everyone knows that Good and Evil is black and white, and that might makes right.
BitTorrent is great for recent and popular distribution, but eMule is [slow and] steady, so I'm sharing all the RedHat 9 ISO's on that network instead (with upload priority set to 'release').
Slashdot doesn't like ed2k links, so here they are in plaintext for copy/pasting (remember to remove the spaces/. adds in the MD4 hash):
This Iraq thing is about much more than Oil -- it's about relieving military blueballs & testing new toys (~10 years); it's about defense contractors; it's about Bush's re-election & revenge for Daddy; it's about moving attention away from the economy; it's about the U.S. securing a permanent presence in the middle east; it's about Saddam's nonexistant WMD; it's about the paranoid non-link between Iraqi "raghads" and Al Quada's jihad; it's about government demonstrating their superpower (use it or lose it!); it's about the media cashing in on jingoism & fear;...
You missed a big reason: sequels are low risk, so people sneer at the greedy studios for going for the easy dollar, because they're taking "advantage" of "sheeple behavior."
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Heh. That's the smoker's rationalization too. :)
Before I quit, I'd say to people, "I'd rather die happy and cancerous at 50 than live to 75 depressed and dopamine-deprived." I still believe that, but I quit for other reasons: other people, and my bank account (>$5/pack!).
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It's also kind of like how when I was a kid, my grandpa would be proud to have us all dig a ditch with shovels rather than use the Caterpiller backhoe that was sitting on the property.
If you've invested lots of time in 'Hard', then 'Easy' earns contempt from bitter people.
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One problem: why/where are you going to get enough fuel to make the Sun redundant?
A star contains most of a solar systems mass, so might as well use it.
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Question: In order for a Matrioshka Brain to move (slowly), wouldn't it have to cut out a large section of its shell in order to use the other half of the shell as a solar sail? And, if these Brains are as common as you claim they may be (to account for the missing Dark Matter), shouldn't we be detecting the ass-end of at least a few of these movers?
Oh, and what if the section of brain to be removed doesn't want to 'die', even if it is supposed to be smart enough to know that it's for the overall good of the hive to find a new star? :)
(btw, when loading your Dyson Shell page I'm being asked authenticate twice (with login message: "ETI DOCUMENTS"). The page still loads, but it's annoying.)
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Of course, I'll have to ditch the JavaScript the day that the spammers finally javascript-enable their spambot webcrawlers.
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Oh, you mean those giant anthropomorphic orbitals of the far future that assume sentient life will still exist in an old-fashioned humanoid form requiring gravity, atmosphere, day/night cycles, etc.? Pfft.
RingWorlds are ultimately just as unbelievable as conventional spaceships are... unless... unless you can suspend your disbelief by pretending transhumanism is "Crazy Talk", and that spam-in-a-can is the way things will always be and SHOULD be. Yeeeehaw spacecowboys. :)
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It's like whispering to your nearest neighbor vs a broadcast shout to everyone in the area, and if your neighbor isn't directly wired, he should in turn route your message further along an overlapping mesh of other wireless nodes.
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I've changed my mind, and I'd like to buy some advertising on your fine site. That's ``1,000,000 hits per day from 10,000 unique IP addresses'' in high quality traffic!
Wannabe loser.
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eDonkey and Gnutella, on the other hand, have the right idea: they don't have a central point of failure encoded in their URI's - they use a file hash and decentralized hubs, which doesn't DEPEND on any one linksite like sharereactor.com or sharelive.com being able to handle the load.
Anyway, I just find it funny how BitTorrent is enabling a new breed of P2P site that will become victims of their own success (the problem p2p is supposed to eliminate!).
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I don't know why you think ViewSonic exclusively sells 'crappy' shadowmask-based monitors, but just a FYI: they also sell monitors with the prettier aperature grilles.
e.g. I've got a flat, crisp & bright ViewSonic PF790 at home.
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Very effective, if online only.
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They also subscribe to the intuitively linear view of progress, rather than the (double) exponential rate.
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You posted the EXACT same spoiler the last time this subject came up, but it only got modded up to 3 then.
Didn't think anyone would notice?
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Indeed.
CNN reports that "Iraq still controls airport" in what Al Sahaf called a "slaughter", but Al Jazeerah actually reports a bodycount of 200-300 US soldiers killed fighting over the airport.
What can I conclude? That the airport is still being fought over, and that the bodycount is higher than CNN's int("slaughter")==0 and less than the number the Iraqi's would exagerate.
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Not really, or... not until Wifi hardware is mesh-capable out-of-the-box.
As it is, you have to count on the AP you're directly connected to, to be wired to the net at large, since it's not smart enough to be a relay.
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Everyone knows that Good and Evil is black and white, and that might makes right.
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BitTorrent is great for recent and popular distribution, but eMule is [slow and] steady, so I'm sharing all the RedHat 9 ISO's on that network instead (with upload priority set to 'release').
Slashdot doesn't like ed2k links, so here they are in plaintext for copy/pasting (remember to remove the spaces /. adds in the MD4 hash):
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"People will be talking about this for years!" *rubs hands together*
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The twin towers could easily be added back in with FX, and I'd welcome it!
I'm not some squemish girl who breaks into tears upon seeing those once great buildings.
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Me think they're clever and not overdone at all.
Slashdot races to the bottom to meet me, and makes me happy so I click on banner.
*drooool*...*fart*.
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