Word. I cant understand why people are so sad to see a show that,AT BEST, has just gotten good in its FOUTH SEASON. I dont watch it so I dont know, but lord, stop asking for more of the the same crap just because crap is what you got yesterday.
Everything you say is true but it is what you dont say that is important.
They could do what you said. COULD. They havent done what you said. Maybe they are now,i dont know i dont watch.
But why NOT start something fresh? How much time would it really take to give a good back story? if you cant do it in 6 hours, you cant do it 30 years.
Let trek rest, let trex have its winter. Spring will come again.
Try B5. Personally you will be a whole lot happier. Esp season 2-4. Some of the stuff in there is untouchable by ANY trek i have ever seen, and by few shows of ANY sort. Fresh, well thought out and EXCELLENTLY acted by some. Plus it has the advantage of being what DS9 stole from.
Most people I have talked to feel that on every point you mention about DS9, B5 had as well. Except better. Honestly. It is the one show that I try to pimp out to as many people as possible.
If you have watched second season and it did nothing for you,well to each his own. Other wise,give it a chance. I watched TNG and loved it. I tried DS9 and just lost interest. I avoided B5 because it looked stupid. When I finally caught an episode when it was late in its forth season,i felt like a fool. It is good TV.
This is why if AI is every possible (which I personally think it is) you end with a run away process until you reach the maximum IQ on whatever hardware you are running. And then look for better hardware, which leads to a higher IQ......
It also applies if you can increase human IQ in any meaningful way.
Lets just hope our new computer overlords are raised with the right morals. Unless we keep pace with them, they will do as they will.
You know,it's funny I just realize what the whole Terminator series got wrong. The mistake was trying to prevent what was going to happen: AI. The smart money would have been on going back in time and starting a FRIENDLY AI before skynet. Skynet came from the military, big surprise it started a war.
Becoming what you detest is never the right answer. If you boss and executives go for flash over function it is better to leave then to become them. It might take a while to find the place that suits you but once you do you will be happy and have no nagging doubts about yourself. Being at piece with who you are is the key.
Now with that said, i always question people that are ready to point the finger at someone else. The world is rarely that straight forward. I even doubt more people who assume that the world (and everyone in it)is out to screw them.
People often bring what happens to them on themselves. It is possible that whatever is going wrong is always beyond their control but more likely they are making poor choices. If the world keeps giving you lemons,stop ordering lemonade!
My first intent was to agree with you an mock the statement,which is a bit hyperbolic.
but is that not what has already happened? The raw power we have gained over the last 50 years has changed how we approach problems. New levels of tech change the way we approach science. No reason not to expect that it wont happen again. As others have said,"the space will change".
The idea of large companies holding the world to ransom,
Drama much? So instead of CHANGING the laws to reflect common sense/ what is best for the world, you dont use the product? That makes sense to you?
I just started listenin to Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig and it mentions how for a very long time it was assumed you owned everything above or below the ground. That is, you owned the airspace above your land hence planes could only fly there with your permision. This was quickly changed to adapt for airplanes.
IP law is an important and good aspect to modern socity but dont let other people decide how it should work. IP is for the PUBLIC good,not the private.
I suppose that trust is the real answer. But the sentence
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trust that with an update that firefox asks me to do it wont change the license in any meaning full way.
is one I am HAPPY to see. MS has no reason for my trust,they are a company and thats not their job. their job is to make money. Firefox is made by the public for the public - it IS their job for them not to screw me.
One difference that jumps right to mind is licensing.
I know the with an update that firefox asks me to do it wont change the license in any meaning full way. I have zero reassurance of this from MS. If Joe Six-pack sees his computer tell him that he needs to update, he isnt going to read the license and even if he DOES may not understand that MS has bought his soul.
Wow,this was modded insightful. Sad day on/. You could claim Interesting I suppose....and this is on topic in what way?
but lets address these insane points one at a time.
1. Totally seal the borders
Other then not being feasible from shear size(about 20,000 km of boarder), how would you afford it? Ask for donations?
2. Confiscate and auction off the properties of all employers of illegal aliens to pay the expenses of
I am going to take this to mean getting rid of the millions of people that do all the jobs Americans dont want. I am sure you and everyone else here wants to pay vastly more for any number of services, things like food, as well as screw everybody who is already doing all those jobs. Making them legal, giving them protection they deserve is a much better answer. Yes costs will rise but not as much and it vastly benefits the people who are already doing those jobs.
provide huge prize incentives for commercial development of alternatives to the fragile air transportation infrastructure
because if you throw money at a problem it always gets solved. I think the military would LOVE what you describe. I don't know why THEY havent thought of having a cheap,tough, flying transport device.
provide huge prize incentives for commercial development of small-capitalization self-sufficiency systems so that small communities if not individual households could provide their basic necessities without reliance on centralized structures
Energy,sure,do able....water? Waste? FOOD?! You want everyone to be a little space habitat, WHY!?!? So that we can be even more isolated? I suppose if there were legions of terrorist walking our streets we might need to stay indoors at all times. Did something change while I was making this post?
Tear down the prison system as unfit for human habitation and construct a new one in which none of
Yes,the prison system sucks. But for my money getting the MILLIONS of non-violent drug offenders out of the system will help fix alot towards what you mention. I am not really sure why the Homeland security would deal with this exactly but fixing the prison system would be good.
make sure that when national guardsmen come home from Iraq, trained in urban warfare and all pissed off at having been abused by the government, they at least have a job.
Well,they can get a job picking lettuce. Besides,there isnt going to be a problem. Iraq is bad but compared to Nam? PLEASE. And yet somehow there was no problem for our society. You are right thou, they do deserve jobs when they get back and should be treated with honor.
well...... nonags costs money? That doesnt sound like free. It maybe that it only cost 25 bucks for all you can grab,but still not the same as free (as in beer if that helps)
Why record the actual waveforms when they could be synthesized with a decent level of fidelity to the original?
because we can? In the "near" future it will be cheap to record everything,all the time. As I figure it it should take about a 1.5 gigs to record sound around you for a 24 hour period. That is tiny by modern hard drive standards. 5 (10) years from now that will be tiny by solid state standards.
No,space inst an issue - battery life is. Having a portable devices that can stay on 24/7 and convert sound to mp3/ogg/whatever the entire time,thats impressive.
the point is numbers this small DONT MATTER. Not to someone who is trying to get an edge. Not to someone who doesnt care what the numbers are. All that will matter is that he know 200 people who have used the drugs and never had any side effects.
"1 in 50,000? thats going to stop me? HA! It won't happen to me."
because what happened for you is rare so it isnt going to change anyone else taking the drug. Just because 1 person in a million,or even one in 100,000, had a problem isnt going to stop most people from taking a drug epically if they are taking it for an extra edge.
I have been waiting for Provigil (modafinil) to be abused for YEARS. It keeps you awake,for days at a time if you want, with what appears to be minimal side effects. Heaven help us if this every goes over the counter.
I just couldn't read your sig with out telling you how wrong you must be. I REFUSE to accept that our president can preform math of any sort with any great skill.
SS# makes identity theft so much easier. This would be the down side of of a single,simple number correlating to a single person.
Mind you,may countries have ID systems and you DO need to identify yourself at times for legal reasons. The trick is trying to build a system that is highly resistant to abuse from outside the system and from within.
The tin hat people help balance out the people that just trust their government cause they LOVE AMERICA! And really,erring on the side of caution is sounds like a better plan then just accepting whatever comes your way.
For the record, what I was talking about was highlighting TEXT,not links. There in an extension that lets you use generic text instead of a line. Basiclly lets you treat anything you higlight like a link. So for example www.slashdot.org is just text but I can highlgiht and then open in a new tab. Basically it rocks,esp when people DONT make a link on purpose.
I know that but so many people think that ads only work on OTHER people...sigh.....just like most people think they are better drivers then most people......
While it is possible that the untold billions that are spent each yet on advertising is a total waste of money, I think it is less then likely. TV ads WORK. Unpleasant but true. They might not work on you but they work on some people. The content creator have no way of telling if an ad will effect you. If they knew it wouldn't they would GLADLY spend exactly $0.00 on you.
Regardless thou, the point is that the old model assumes it will be seen by some people and effect their habits, where as all the shows I download don't have any of that still in place. This is worrisome to everybody that makes money off of the old way.
The funny part is that the NEW way is so much better for advertiser once they get a clue. They can target smaller markets then every before, know exactly how many people are watch, get more people to watch and have ads that are far better at addressing the person who is watching.
Imagine an Ad that says your first name and then talks to you about something you are looking into buying - that is going to get people to pay attention. This would be so easy to get people to WANT to do that it is a crime if it isn't being prepared for by the networks.
Last year when I used BT to download shows, I might see 100 or 200 people on at the same time. Now it is easily 5000. 2 years from now, assuming that the **AA hasn't killed everything, it could be truly huge. I just hope corporate America gets a clue.
but the speed question IS an important point and WHY it wouldn't be mentioned (going back to the great-grand parents post). It does something VERY different very well but is NOT a competiotor of BT for many reasons, speed being among them.
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Word. I cant understand why people are so sad to see a show that,AT BEST, has just gotten good in its FOUTH SEASON. I dont watch it so I dont know, but lord, stop asking for more of the the same crap just because crap is what you got yesterday.
you my good Sir are missing the point of Survivor.
It doesnt MATTER if it is fake or real. It still sucks. Just like wrestling. Not ONLY is it fake,but even if it wasnt it would still suck.
Everything you say is true but it is what you dont say that is important.
They could do what you said. COULD. They havent done what you said. Maybe they are now,i dont know i dont watch.
But why NOT start something fresh? How much time would it really take to give a good back story? if you cant do it in 6 hours, you cant do it 30 years.
Let trek rest, let trex have its winter. Spring will come again.
Try B5. Personally you will be a whole lot happier. Esp season 2-4. Some of the stuff in there is untouchable by ANY trek i have ever seen, and by few shows of ANY sort. Fresh, well thought out and EXCELLENTLY acted by some. Plus it has the advantage of being what DS9 stole from.
Most people I have talked to feel that on every point you mention about DS9, B5 had as well. Except better. Honestly. It is the one show that I try to pimp out to as many people as possible.
If you have watched second season and it did nothing for you,well to each his own. Other wise,give it a chance. I watched TNG and loved it. I tried DS9 and just lost interest. I avoided B5 because it looked stupid. When I finally caught an episode when it was late in its forth season,i felt like a fool. It is good TV.
...To my friend Singularity!
This is why if AI is every possible (which I personally think it is) you end with a run away process until you reach the maximum IQ on whatever hardware you are running. And then look for better hardware, which leads to a higher IQ......
It also applies if you can increase human IQ in any meaningful way.
Lets just hope our new computer overlords are raised with the right morals. Unless we keep pace with them, they will do as they will.
You know,it's funny I just realize what the whole Terminator series got wrong. The mistake was trying to prevent what was going to happen: AI. The smart money would have been on going back in time and starting a FRIENDLY AI before skynet. Skynet came from the military, big surprise it started a war.
oh for the love of mod points.......it is the same fuzzy thinking that confuses kilobyte with 2^10 bytes.....
i certainly hope you get modded up at least one more.....
"the only way to win is not to play"
Becoming what you detest is never the right answer. If you boss and executives go for flash over function it is better to leave then to become them. It might take a while to find the place that suits you but once you do you will be happy and have no nagging doubts about yourself. Being at piece with who you are is the key.
Now with that said, i always question people that are ready to point the finger at someone else. The world is rarely that straight forward. I even doubt more people who assume that the world (and everyone in it)is out to screw them.
People often bring what happens to them on themselves. It is possible that whatever is going wrong is always beyond their control but more likely they are making poor choices. If the world keeps giving you lemons,stop ordering lemonade!
My first intent was to agree with you an mock the statement,which is a bit hyperbolic.
but is that not what has already happened? The raw power we have gained over the last 50 years has changed how we approach problems. New levels of tech change the way we approach science. No reason not to expect that it wont happen again. As others have said,"the space will change".
wow, some AC is totally clueless or has a really dry sense of humour.
either way someone with mod points needs a clue.
Drama much? So instead of CHANGING the laws to reflect common sense/ what is best for the world, you dont use the product? That makes sense to you?
I just started listenin to Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig and it mentions how for a very long time it was assumed you owned everything above or below the ground. That is, you owned the airspace above your land hence planes could only fly there with your permision. This was quickly changed to adapt for airplanes.
IP law is an important and good aspect to modern socity but dont let other people decide how it should work. IP is for the PUBLIC good,not the private.
is one I am HAPPY to see. MS has no reason for my trust,they are a company and thats not their job. their job is to make money. Firefox is made by the public for the public - it IS their job for them not to screw me.
One difference that jumps right to mind is licensing.
I know the with an update that firefox asks me to do it wont change the license in any meaning full way. I have zero reassurance of this from MS. If Joe Six-pack sees his computer tell him that he needs to update, he isnt going to read the license and even if he DOES may not understand that MS has bought his soul.
Wow,this was modded insightful. Sad day on /. You could claim Interesting I suppose....and this is on topic in what way?
but lets address these insane points one at a time.
1. Totally seal the borders
Other then not being feasible from shear size(about 20,000 km of boarder), how would you afford it? Ask for donations?
2. Confiscate and auction off the properties of all employers of illegal aliens to pay the expenses of
I am going to take this to mean getting rid of the millions of people that do all the jobs Americans dont want. I am sure you and everyone else here wants to pay vastly more for any number of services, things like food, as well as screw everybody who is already doing all those jobs. Making them legal, giving them protection they deserve is a much better answer. Yes costs will rise but not as much and it vastly benefits the people who are already doing those jobs.
provide huge prize incentives for commercial development of alternatives to the fragile air transportation infrastructure
because if you throw money at a problem it always gets solved. I think the military would LOVE what you describe. I don't know why THEY havent thought of having a cheap,tough, flying transport device.
provide huge prize incentives for commercial development of small-capitalization self-sufficiency systems so that small communities if not individual households could provide their basic necessities without reliance on centralized structures
Energy,sure,do able....water? Waste? FOOD?! You want everyone to be a little space habitat, WHY!?!? So that we can be even more isolated? I suppose if there were legions of terrorist walking our streets we might need to stay indoors at all times. Did something change while I was making this post?
Tear down the prison system as unfit for human habitation and construct a new one in which none of
Yes,the prison system sucks. But for my money getting the MILLIONS of non-violent drug offenders out of the system will help fix alot towards what you mention. I am not really sure why the Homeland security would deal with this exactly but fixing the prison system would be good.
make sure that when national guardsmen come home from Iraq, trained in urban warfare and all pissed off at having been abused by the government, they at least have a job.
Well,they can get a job picking lettuce. Besides,there isnt going to be a problem. Iraq is bad but compared to Nam? PLEASE. And yet somehow there was no problem for our society. You are right thou, they do deserve jobs when they get back and should be treated with honor.
well...... nonags costs money? That doesnt sound like free. It maybe that it only cost 25 bucks for all you can grab,but still not the same as free (as in beer if that helps)
Why record the actual waveforms when they could be synthesized with a decent level of fidelity to the original?
because we can? In the "near" future it will be cheap to record everything,all the time. As I figure it it should take about a 1.5 gigs to record sound around you for a 24 hour period. That is tiny by modern hard drive standards. 5 (10) years from now that will be tiny by solid state standards.
No,space inst an issue - battery life is. Having a portable devices that can stay on 24/7 and convert sound to mp3/ogg/whatever the entire time,thats impressive.
the point is numbers this small DONT MATTER. Not to someone who is trying to get an edge. Not to someone who doesnt care what the numbers are. All that will matter is that he know 200 people who have used the drugs and never had any side effects.
"1 in 50,000? thats going to stop me? HA! It won't happen to me."
because what happened for you is rare so it isnt going to change anyone else taking the drug. Just because 1 person in a million,or even one in 100,000, had a problem isnt going to stop most people from taking a drug epically if they are taking it for an extra edge.
I have been waiting for Provigil (modafinil) to be abused for YEARS. It keeps you awake,for days at a time if you want, with what appears to be minimal side effects. Heaven help us if this every goes over the counter.
"Jesus, what balls. He must have a specially fitted uniform."
Hicks ROCKS
I just couldn't read your sig with out telling you how wrong you must be. I REFUSE to accept that our president can preform math of any sort with any great skill.
end-of-line
SS# makes identity theft so much easier. This would be the down side of of a single,simple number correlating to a single person.
Mind you,may countries have ID systems and you DO need to identify yourself at times for legal reasons. The trick is trying to build a system that is highly resistant to abuse from outside the system and from within.
The tin hat people help balance out the people that just trust their government cause they LOVE AMERICA! And really,erring on the side of caution is sounds like a better plan then just accepting whatever comes your way.
For the record, what I was talking about was highlighting TEXT,not links. There in an extension that lets you use generic text instead of a line. Basiclly lets you treat anything you higlight like a link. So for example www.slashdot.org is just text but I can highlgiht and then open in a new tab. Basically it rocks,esp when people DONT make a link on purpose.
....typing URLs .....like,by hand? what,everybody doesn't highling-right click-open in new tab?.....wow.....
I love firefox.
I know that but so many people think that ads only work on OTHER people...sigh.....just like most people think they are better drivers then most people......
While it is possible that the untold billions that are spent each yet on advertising is a total waste of money, I think it is less then likely. TV ads WORK. Unpleasant but true. They might not work on you but they work on some people. The content creator have no way of telling if an ad will effect you. If they knew it wouldn't they would GLADLY spend exactly $0.00 on you.
Regardless thou, the point is that the old model assumes it will be seen by some people and effect their habits, where as all the shows I download don't have any of that still in place. This is worrisome to everybody that makes money off of the old way.
The funny part is that the NEW way is so much better for advertiser once they get a clue. They can target smaller markets then every before, know exactly how many people are watch, get more people to watch and have ads that are far better at addressing the person who is watching.
Imagine an Ad that says your first name and then talks to you about something you are looking into buying - that is going to get people to pay attention. This would be so easy to get people to WANT to do that it is a crime if it isn't being prepared for by the networks.
Last year when I used BT to download shows, I might see 100 or 200 people on at the same time. Now it is easily 5000. 2 years from now, assuming that the **AA hasn't killed everything, it could be truly huge. I just hope corporate America gets a clue.
but the speed question IS an important point and WHY it wouldn't be mentioned (going back to the great-grand parents post). It does something VERY different very well but is NOT a competiotor of BT for many reasons, speed being among them.