Uh, no. it's risk analysis... choices are weighted.
the opportunity cost of giving up a few cpu cycles for something that may save you life later is not high and therefore this decision is weighted more heavily than say abstaining from sexual intercourse to avoid disease and possibly death.
don't they teach this stuff anymore? decision trees, risk analysis diagrams?
let's be careful of what we call flaws. Mutations drive evolution and are what strenghtens "our species as a whole" by giving enough variance to allow different individuals to survive in different conditions/environments. You call these mutations or differences flaws because they are abnormalties, but let's consider how DNA works. Many mutations will have multiple effects and can influence genes downstream (like a frameshift). This means that apparant flaws could be byproducts of what may prove to be useful mutations and that our intervention is the only means to allow these otherwise fatal mutations to exist and add variance and thusly strength to our global presence.
it's to fool them into thinking it's a purse! They know that women will pay ridiculous amounts of money for purses.
seriously though... this is only going to be discouraging to women in the long run when they get frustrated with how terrible this thing is going to work. The common demoninator among epson inkjets is that they all get clogged heads very easily, eat ink at alarming rates, and are very non-user friendly when it comes to cartridge changing. I've been impressed by their print quality, but I've seen enough epsons to know that they are consistently a pain in the ass.
Yeah, I have trouble believing that/. editors could not locate a less biased posting containing the same link. This post has really crossed the line from biased to plain old inaccurate. The article does not make mention of our contaminated ocean, and especially does not imply that that the people developing this melting probe are responsible for this unrelated issue. It's about as arbitrary and nasty as starting off with, "after killing thousands of innocents in Hiroshima,..."
Thats exactly what I started thinking when I read this article.
I have a sharp mobilon running CE 2.0 that I waited too long to sell (worthless now). Do you have any suggestions or pointers on doing this? I could just open it fully to 180 degrees, but then I would need a disproportionaly sized frame. The way to go seems like disconnecting the screen from the base and placing the base behind the screen. However, I'm a little nervous about disconnecting the screen (I just can't get over the original price of this thing). Anyone have a schematic/ done this before?
It has a network card in it too; what I'd really like to do is be able to upload new pics to a directory and never have to take this off the wall.
what are you talking about? There is a huge overlap between the occult interstellar sci-fi wackos who include an interplanetary cultural viewpoint in everything they do and the Springer crowd. I think Springer has probably had more Raeliens on his show and in his audience than anyone else.
Anyway, the previous poster was correct, a dot in some haze holds about as much impact as the ascii jokes posted here (not to say that either is completely devoid of impact, but since we all already know how far earth is from mars, and the relative limits of the imaging technology being used, it isn't too difficult to conjure up the image of a dot in your head). Would a hazy version of the mona lisa hold any impact for you from a mile away?
it's to catch and punish the people responsible for committing the crimes. I suppose that, in its own way, this process does help to deter some crime; but don't be fooled, we don't do it as a deterrent. We do it as revenge, we do it so that the family of a rape victim can rest easy at night knowing that the asshole responsible is rotting away in a prison cell somewhere.
No that is not why we do it. Despite our attempts to appear sympathetic, we don't really give a damn about the family of a rape victim we don't know, and we probably don't know the story very well -- perhaps the rapist was wrongly accussed. What we care quite a lot about is ourselves and our own families, and we would like to think that punishing someone guilty of assualting another will deter that person and hopefully others from doing something similar to us or our families.
Herein lies the scary part of justice. The masses want a symbol of deterrance, a hangman, and are often willing to settle for "close enough" rather than proven guilty with hard evidence. Our legal system may be built to attempt to minimize mistakes, but it begs the question of whether the sacrafice of one innocent may be utilitarian in acting as a detterant for 100s of would be offenders.
What the hell? Since when did this become "news for middleaged businessmen that remind everyone of their fathers?"
This guy is embracing the spirit of nerdom by doing something that non-nerds would consider a waste of time and money.
Today his apartment complex, tommorrow his city!
A lot of great people in the tech world get their education and ideas from what may have started as seemingly wasteful iconoclastic exploits.
In no civilized society is free taken to automatically mean with no restrictions. Most of us live as "free" individuals in "free" countries. Many of us have "free" checking accounts a few of which may have even come with a "free" gun. However, restrictions must and do exist for all of these freedoms.
While you could argue that free software need not suffer from restrictions of use, it is foolish to ever presume that free should inherently incorporate a lack of restrictions. In fact, modern consumerism has taught us that the term "free" should elict the immediate response "what's the catch?"
Rather, one of the shortcomings of Americans is that they fail to put their mouth where their money is.
The hypocricy you speak of could also stem from a misplaced guilt about free market capitalism.
If cheap foreign labor and outsourcing work to lower costs and bring more goods to consumers faster, must we feel guilty and shameful for utilizing it?
I'm not oblivious to the downside of the outsourcing situation. It's just that there is perfectly sound financial logic behind such a move, and it seems out of place to feel guilty for making such lucrative decisions.
And tracking people is a great way to detect crime.
However, these may not be the BEST solutions considering the sacrafices and even risks they entail.
You'd be a lot safer person if you never left your house but is that how you want to live? If yes, do you think it is right that others should be told or foreced to live that way for their own protection?
huh? Are you suggesting that people are going to start snapping these puppies off to steal the wireless routers? There's enough cameras pointed on you in England to make this a really foolish move.
If you are implying that the network could be compromised by one of these snaping off; I'm sure there would be some redundancy.
why would the equipment be expensive? It certainly wouldn't cost more than a streetlight. Plus only the antenna would need to be on the streetlight itself, the rest could be buried underground.
This sounds like a place to rub a little anthrax.. well except for the fact that it would be targeting non-US citizens.
Seriously though, how many people will touch this same couple of cm of space within the same day, one right after another. I hope they have considered a way to keep this surface sterile - perhaps a UV backlight or something. Otherwise this sounds like an international virus hub.
listen, I believe in radical reform of copyright laws and empowering artists with the right to distribute music as freely as they choose, and I also believe that in the end this will lead to better music and happier consumers...
but free as in beer? It is obvious that this town of yours is not in the US. Such a bar relies on the kind of puritan moral guilt that is held perhaps solely by the employees of disney world and maybe the ammish (but probably not) in this country.
ps. will you ship me some growlers? I swear I'll send you some cash in return -- just as soon as I can stop rotfl!
Can you please explain? I fail to see the point you are trying to make here. This sounds as arbitrary as stating "That includes the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on fruits, vegetables, and other produce." to me.
Surely you aren't suggesting that these things would go away if we moved to credit and only credit based monetary transactions.
The mods seem to believe you have something informative here; I regret to admit that I am missing it.
This and making them dependent on a certain dietary suplement to prevent any more immediate disturbances outside of a controlled environment. It seems that niether of these steps were taken which is extremely surprising since both would benefit the company by making consumers dependent on them for fish and fish food.
samuel@bcgreen.com is obviously a spammer.
He's like "hey you guys, I've got this great idea. why don't we 'fight' spam by verifying our email addresses with spammers. It's going to be so awesome, c'mon guys!"
sure.. samuel@bcgreen.com, and we'll meet you at the ninth hole at nine p.m. m'kay
most spam points to a website, and this suppossed "solution" is a futile self sacrafice that is not attractive enough for sufficient numbers to participate in. The result-- more spam for those few nobel foolish souls that attempt this strategy. And yes, it definitely is possible to receive more spam than you are right now.
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Uh, no. it's risk analysis... choices are weighted.
the opportunity cost of giving up a few cpu cycles for something that may save you life later is not high and therefore this decision is weighted more heavily than say abstaining from sexual intercourse to avoid disease and possibly death.
don't they teach this stuff anymore? decision trees, risk analysis diagrams?
let's be careful of what we call flaws. Mutations drive evolution and are what strenghtens "our species as a whole" by giving enough variance to allow different individuals to survive in different conditions/environments. You call these mutations or differences flaws because they are abnormalties, but let's consider how DNA works. Many mutations will have multiple effects and can influence genes downstream (like a frameshift). This means that apparant flaws could be byproducts of what may prove to be useful mutations and that our intervention is the only means to allow these otherwise fatal mutations to exist and add variance and thusly strength to our global presence.
it's to fool them into thinking it's a purse! They know that women will pay ridiculous amounts of money for purses.
seriously though... this is only going to be discouraging to women in the long run when they get frustrated with how terrible this thing is going to work. The common demoninator among epson inkjets is that they all get clogged heads very easily, eat ink at alarming rates, and are very non-user friendly when it comes to cartridge changing. I've been impressed by their print quality, but I've seen enough epsons to know that they are consistently a pain in the ass.
Yeah, I have trouble believing that /. editors could not locate a less biased posting containing the same link. This post has really crossed the line from biased to plain old inaccurate. The article does not make mention of our contaminated ocean, and especially does not imply that that the people developing this melting probe are responsible for this unrelated issue. It's about as arbitrary and nasty as starting off with, "after killing thousands of innocents in Hiroshima,..."
Thats exactly what I started thinking when I read this article.
I have a sharp mobilon running CE 2.0 that I waited too long to sell (worthless now). Do you have any suggestions or pointers on doing this? I could just open it fully to 180 degrees, but then I would need a disproportionaly sized frame. The way to go seems like disconnecting the screen from the base and placing the base behind the screen. However, I'm a little nervous about disconnecting the screen (I just can't get over the original price of this thing). Anyone have a schematic/ done this before?
It has a network card in it too; what I'd really like to do is be able to upload new pics to a directory and never have to take this off the wall.
what are you talking about? There is a huge overlap between the occult interstellar sci-fi wackos who include an interplanetary cultural viewpoint in everything they do and the Springer crowd. I think Springer has probably had more Raeliens on his show and in his audience than anyone else.
Anyway, the previous poster was correct, a dot in some haze holds about as much impact as the ascii jokes posted here (not to say that either is completely devoid of impact, but since we all already know how far earth is from mars, and the relative limits of the imaging technology being used, it isn't too difficult to conjure up the image of a dot in your head). Would a hazy version of the mona lisa hold any impact for you from a mile away?
You better believe it can.
Huh, that's interesting.. I guess it would just be a waste of their server space if they made a "slashdot" category.
it's to catch and punish the people responsible for committing the crimes. I suppose that, in its own way, this process does help to deter some crime; but don't be fooled, we don't do it as a deterrent. We do it as revenge, we do it so that the family of a rape victim can rest easy at night knowing that the asshole responsible is rotting away in a prison cell somewhere.
No that is not why we do it. Despite our attempts to appear sympathetic, we don't really give a damn about the family of a rape victim we don't know, and we probably don't know the story very well -- perhaps the rapist was wrongly accussed. What we care quite a lot about is ourselves and our own families, and we would like to think that punishing someone guilty of assualting another will deter that person and hopefully others from doing something similar to us or our families.
Herein lies the scary part of justice. The masses want a symbol of deterrance, a hangman, and are often willing to settle for "close enough" rather than proven guilty with hard evidence. Our legal system may be built to attempt to minimize mistakes, but it begs the question of whether the sacrafice of one innocent may be utilitarian in acting as a detterant for 100s of would be offenders.
no you mean your $45 printer which consumes $4000 worth of HP ink each year.
What the hell? Since when did this become "news for middleaged businessmen that remind everyone of their fathers?"
This guy is embracing the spirit of nerdom by doing something that non-nerds would consider a waste of time and money.
Today his apartment complex, tommorrow his city!
A lot of great people in the tech world get their education and ideas from what may have started as seemingly wasteful iconoclastic exploits.
In no civilized society is free taken to automatically mean with no restrictions. Most of us live as "free" individuals in "free" countries. Many of us have "free" checking accounts a few of which may have even come with a "free" gun. However, restrictions must and do exist for all of these freedoms.
While you could argue that free software need not suffer from restrictions of use, it is foolish to ever presume that free should inherently incorporate a lack of restrictions. In fact, modern consumerism has taught us that the term "free" should elict the immediate response "what's the catch?"
how about: "if you're an illiterate fool post to slashdot-- or become a /. editor"
This description is especially atrocious.
Rather, one of the shortcomings of Americans is that they fail to put their mouth where their money is.
The hypocricy you speak of could also stem from a misplaced guilt about free market capitalism.
If cheap foreign labor and outsourcing work to lower costs and bring more goods to consumers faster, must we feel guilty and shameful for utilizing it?
I'm not oblivious to the downside of the outsourcing situation. It's just that there is perfectly sound financial logic behind such a move, and it seems out of place to feel guilty for making such lucrative decisions.
it seems Bill's looks an awful lot like my windows desktop.
true, there is lore of this unconfirmed rumor, but saying that "it's very possible" defies probability.
by an exageration of the same magnitude I could very possibly wake up next to nat. portman in the morning after such a dream.
And tracking people is a great way to detect crime.
However, these may not be the BEST solutions considering the sacrafices and even risks they entail.
You'd be a lot safer person if you never left your house but is that how you want to live? If yes, do you think it is right that others should be told or foreced to live that way for their own protection?
huh? Are you suggesting that people are going to start snapping these puppies off to steal the wireless routers? There's enough cameras pointed on you in England to make this a really foolish move.
If you are implying that the network could be compromised by one of these snaping off; I'm sure there would be some redundancy.
why would the equipment be expensive? It certainly wouldn't cost more than a streetlight. Plus only the antenna would need to be on the streetlight itself, the rest could be buried underground.
This sounds like a place to rub a little anthrax.. well except for the fact that it would be targeting non-US citizens.
Seriously though, how many people will touch this same couple of cm of space within the same day, one right after another. I hope they have considered a way to keep this surface sterile - perhaps a UV backlight or something. Otherwise this sounds like an international virus hub.
listen, I believe in radical reform of copyright laws and empowering artists with the right to distribute music as freely as they choose, and I also believe that in the end this will lead to better music and happier consumers...
but free as in beer? It is obvious that this town of yours is not in the US. Such a bar relies on the kind of puritan moral guilt that is held perhaps solely by the employees of disney world and maybe the ammish (but probably not) in this country.
ps. will you ship me some growlers? I swear I'll send you some cash in return -- just as soon as I can stop rotfl!
indeed, in many areas it is considered extraordinarily uncouth to be short.
Can you please explain? I fail to see the point you are trying to make here. This sounds as arbitrary as stating "That includes the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on fruits, vegetables, and other produce." to me.
Surely you aren't suggesting that these things would go away if we moved to credit and only credit based monetary transactions.
The mods seem to believe you have something informative here; I regret to admit that I am missing it.
This and making them dependent on a certain dietary suplement to prevent any more immediate disturbances outside of a controlled environment. It seems that niether of these steps were taken which is extremely surprising since both would benefit the company by making consumers dependent on them for fish and fish food.
A better image is available here.
samuel@bcgreen.com is obviously a spammer.
He's like "hey you guys, I've got this great idea. why don't we 'fight' spam by verifying our email addresses with spammers. It's going to be so awesome, c'mon guys!"
sure.. samuel@bcgreen.com, and we'll meet you at the ninth hole at nine p.m. m'kay
most spam points to a website, and this suppossed "solution" is a futile self sacrafice that is not attractive enough for sufficient numbers to participate in. The result-- more spam for those few nobel foolish souls that attempt this strategy. And yes, it definitely is possible to receive more spam than you are right now.