Hmmmm...seeing this a lot recently. First post plays devil's advocate and makes a stupid statement, immediately gets smacked down by a dozen other posters.
Is this a subversive way to get rebuttals out there right at the top of the comments so we don't waste our time with 20 similar morons all the way down the page?
Fair enough, but it was the article that was linked to on/., not the paper. A quick article stating that humans used to be prey is hardly "news for nerds" - hardly "news" at all. Especially an article that reads as if this should be a surprise.
I learned far more about the evidence by reading the comments (your own included) here, not the article.
In conclusion, original comment went too far in ridiculing the article's conclusion, you went too far in suggesting he didn't understand the article, and I'm going too far by continuing this debate:)
No, parent was right. Anyone who hadn't realized that humans evolved from prey is a moron. Look at the creatures that live in packs/tribes/gaggles/herds versus those that live isolated lives. See a pattern? Who tends to be predator, who tends to be prey?
When I read articles like this, I get very disappointed that they had to be written in the first place.
True binary mode is damn hard to read fast- the BCD version is much easier.
True, but to me the geek-factor of a true binary clock is much higher - and I tells ya - you don't buy a binary clock if you're worried about how easy it is to read:)
It was a gift from the wife though, so I'm not about to send it back.
The show didn't get much of an audience, but I liked it.
Just two years ago, when it was being filmed, the idea of a small device that connects to a network and hacks it for you was considered the stuff of high-tech fiction.
Also, make sure the bloody thing doesn't actually *display* in base 10.
I was very disappointed when I opened my binary clock and found that each base-10 digit was represented in binary, so 35 would be 0011 0101, rather than 100011, as it should be.
Sorry to take a minute part of your insightful post and nitpick on that, but I have to defend GTA. It's a *good game*. It's not buggy, it's got a *huge* amount of content, and it's simply fun to play. You might not like the subject matter, but if you compare GTA to any of the other lowest-common-denominator games out there, you'll find there's a reason it's on top.
And *buggy*. I'm pretty sure that even after the most recent patch, it still leaks memory like a seive. It feels like it's an unfinished university project, not a polished game. I have to accept the fact that it's going to crash every few turns in the 1900s if I want to finish a game.
In a game, the programmers may have very little need to talk to customers, if they're designing engine internals and the like. The game designer is the one who will be the most intense "user" of this engine. When designing UI elements, though, perhaps it's better to look at customer suggestions first, since they're the ones who will ultimately have to live with your system.
In this case, "doing business" means having a customer of theirs visit your website (or use some other internet service from you). Your website could appear slow as molasses if you don't have the "make my website go faster" package with the ISP of every single person who visits your website.
So no, you don't have a choice about "doing business" with that ISP.
...and while everyone talks about slowing down, one clever soul is going to stop. Stop time, that is. For good. Going against everything known (and nine-tenths of everything that remains unknown), a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world's first truly accurate clock. It falls to History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd to find the timepiece and stop it before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time - as we know it - will stop. And then the trouble will really begin...
It does not beg the question. Stop misusing language, you fool! And if you bring up that old saw about "modern usage", you're just towing the party line.
Nope. If I were offered $5 million to hack a rival company, and the chances of being caught were 50/50 (a very high chance for cybercrime), 6 months in jail wouldn't give me any pause (morals aside).
If I would be in jail for 20 years or life, I'd be a lot more likely to turn it down.
The chances of being caught will affect the amount of crime, but it works best in tandem with punishment that makes the crime not worthwhile.
Now I don't have any proof, but my impression has always been that there are two factors to consider:
The level of punishment
The chances of being caught
Both of these must be high to see a significant reduction in crime. The problem is that a lot of people ignore the second factor. If one criminal is caught for every thousand, then there is next to no reason to stop committing the crime. This is why speeding tickets will never work - the laws are simply not enforced.
So hopefully this is the start of some real policework in tracking down these extortionists and brining them to justice. If a high enough percentage are caught, then you'll start seeing the difference between 6 months probation and 20 years in a FPMITA prison.
To whatever marketing consultant posed this question - the parent gets it in a nutshell one you need to read. I block flashing/moving ads. I block large ads. I don't go quite so far as to block ads that don't fit the colour scheme, but I just might start.
For ad designers - many ads only make it to the viewer's brain after 20 or 30 page hits. I was on/. for a year before I decided to check out one of those thinkgeek ads (and glad I finally did). If you get blocked, you won't have that chance, even if you get them to look over at "that damned flashy thing" the first time it loads. It's just another annoying ad of many. On sites like this especially - where viewers are coming day after day, month after month - you will want to design many different ads promoting different aspects of your business/product. Only after a proper gestation period will the viewers begin to consider the product.
For site owners - don't alienate customers with your ads. It doesn't even need to be said that the flying-across-the-screen-close- now-or-I-block-the-article ads are a disservice to your customers. I (and others here) have stopped going to entire websites specifically because of their ads that are designed to get around the blocker-of-the-day. Ad-blockers aren't the root of the problem - the sheer disrespect for the page viewers is.
Another quick note for advertisers - I *always* de-animate my gifs, so make sure all your info is on the first frame. Even better, don't animate - you risk blockage.
Where I worked, they kept us in a tiny box next to the hazardous waste bin in the bathroom - all 26 of us. Our boss had Tourrettes, and would shoot off an old hunting rifle whenever he got "in a mood". Every day we'd get to work at 3am, punch ourselves in the face until closing, then clean the hazardous waste bin with our teeth.
An' yet who woulda thought, all these years later, we'd be in a large plush office drinking Chateau de Chassilier, ay Gessiah?
For basic, basic information, why not engrave it on a medic-alert-type bracelet? That way if you're ever rendered unconscious (or god-forbid, dead), at least you're identifiable.
You know you have a choice of candidates by voting in primaries, right? There are good Democratic candidates. There are good Republic candidates. The trouble is separating them from the run-of-the-mill politicians.
Voting in primaries can be more important than voting in a general election. Your vote counts more (less voters), and you have a chance to make the race between a good candidate and a bad one - as opposed to two bad ones. If the primaries are a failure, then the election can't go well.
But if a candidate with some actual principles makes it through the primaries, you can't take that away from him, and it can take years to chip away at his idealism to the point where he's just another politician.
Imagine a very smart, very horny, very manipulative person.
Now imaging that all of these traits are dominant, so children are likely to be smart, horny, and able to get what they want.
Eventually, these genes will be prevalent in the human race - and could eventually be in every single human being. That's not random, that's very directed, and very selected.
Evolution is not *just* the survival of an individual. It's even not *just* the ability of an individual to reproduce. You can have a society where everyone gets to have sex, but where at least one partner has a certain trait. It doesn't matter that no one is left out, that trait is now a permanent part of the human landscape.
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Hmmmm...seeing this a lot recently. First post plays devil's advocate and makes a stupid statement, immediately gets smacked down by a dozen other posters.
Is this a subversive way to get rebuttals out there right at the top of the comments so we don't waste our time with 20 similar morons all the way down the page?
"But....All the kids are punching Timmy in the face"
Fair enough, but it was the article that was linked to on /., not the paper. A quick article stating that humans used to be prey is hardly "news for nerds" - hardly "news" at all. Especially an article that reads as if this should be a surprise.
:)
I learned far more about the evidence by reading the comments (your own included) here, not the article.
In conclusion, original comment went too far in ridiculing the article's conclusion, you went too far in suggesting he didn't understand the article, and I'm going too far by continuing this debate
No, parent was right. Anyone who hadn't realized that humans evolved from prey is a moron. Look at the creatures that live in packs/tribes/gaggles/herds versus those that live isolated lives. See a pattern? Who tends to be predator, who tends to be prey?
When I read articles like this, I get very disappointed that they had to be written in the first place.
True binary mode is damn hard to read fast- the BCD version is much easier.
:)
True, but to me the geek-factor of a true binary clock is much higher - and I tells ya - you don't buy a binary clock if you're worried about how easy it is to read
It was a gift from the wife though, so I'm not about to send it back.
The show didn't get much of an audience, but I liked it.
Just two years ago, when it was being filmed, the idea of a small device that connects to a network and hacks it for you was considered the stuff of high-tech fiction.
And now, here we are.
I'm ready to go to Gamma now.
Also, make sure the bloody thing doesn't actually *display* in base 10.
I was very disappointed when I opened my binary clock and found that each base-10 digit was represented in binary, so 35 would be 0011 0101, rather than 100011, as it should be.
Sorry to take a minute part of your insightful post and nitpick on that, but I have to defend GTA. It's a *good game*. It's not buggy, it's got a *huge* amount of content, and it's simply fun to play. You might not like the subject matter, but if you compare GTA to any of the other lowest-common-denominator games out there, you'll find there's a reason it's on top.
And *buggy*. I'm pretty sure that even after the most recent patch, it still leaks memory like a seive. It feels like it's an unfinished university project, not a polished game. I have to accept the fact that it's going to crash every few turns in the 1900s if I want to finish a game.
Righto - gotta go wash up.
There's only a market for about 5 MMOGs worldwide.
In a game, the programmers may have very little need to talk to customers, if they're designing engine internals and the like. The game designer is the one who will be the most intense "user" of this engine. When designing UI elements, though, perhaps it's better to look at customer suggestions first, since they're the ones who will ultimately have to live with your system.
In this case, "doing business" means having a customer of theirs visit your website (or use some other internet service from you). Your website could appear slow as molasses if you don't have the "make my website go faster" package with the ISP of every single person who visits your website.
So no, you don't have a choice about "doing business" with that ISP.
...and while everyone talks about slowing down, one clever soul is going to stop. Stop time, that is. For good. Going against everything known (and nine-tenths of everything that remains unknown), a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world's first truly accurate clock. It falls to History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd to find the timepiece and stop it before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time - as we know it - will stop. And then the trouble will really begin...
- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Irregardless of you're misunderstanding me, your making the write decision, as you can loose alot of time caring about opinions on /.
It does not beg the question. Stop misusing language, you fool! And if you bring up that old saw about "modern usage", you're just towing the party line.
Nope. If I were offered $5 million to hack a rival company, and the chances of being caught were 50/50 (a very high chance for cybercrime), 6 months in jail wouldn't give me any pause (morals aside).
If I would be in jail for 20 years or life, I'd be a lot more likely to turn it down.
The chances of being caught will affect the amount of crime, but it works best in tandem with punishment that makes the crime not worthwhile.
Both of these must be high to see a significant reduction in crime. The problem is that a lot of people ignore the second factor. If one criminal is caught for every thousand, then there is next to no reason to stop committing the crime. This is why speeding tickets will never work - the laws are simply not enforced.
So hopefully this is the start of some real policework in tracking down these extortionists and brining them to justice. If a high enough percentage are caught, then you'll start seeing the difference between 6 months probation and 20 years in a FPMITA prison.
To whatever marketing consultant posed this question - the parent gets it in a nutshell one you need to read. I block flashing/moving ads. I block large ads. I don't go quite so far as to block ads that don't fit the colour scheme, but I just might start.
/. for a year before I decided to check out one of those thinkgeek ads (and glad I finally did). If you get blocked, you won't have that chance, even if you get them to look over at "that damned flashy thing" the first time it loads. It's just another annoying ad of many. On sites like this especially - where viewers are coming day after day, month after month - you will want to design many different ads promoting different aspects of your business/product. Only after a proper gestation period will the viewers begin to consider the product.
For ad designers - many ads only make it to the viewer's brain after 20 or 30 page hits. I was on
For site owners - don't alienate customers with your ads. It doesn't even need to be said that the flying-across-the-screen-close- now-or-I-block-the-article ads are a disservice to your customers. I (and others here) have stopped going to entire websites specifically because of their ads that are designed to get around the blocker-of-the-day. Ad-blockers aren't the root of the problem - the sheer disrespect for the page viewers is.
Another quick note for advertisers - I *always* de-animate my gifs, so make sure all your info is on the first frame. Even better, don't animate - you risk blockage.
Where I worked, they kept us in a tiny box next to the hazardous waste bin in the bathroom - all 26 of us. Our boss had Tourrettes, and would shoot off an old hunting rifle whenever he got "in a mood". Every day we'd get to work at 3am, punch ourselves in the face until closing, then clean the hazardous waste bin with our teeth.
An' yet who woulda thought, all these years later, we'd be in a large plush office drinking Chateau de Chassilier, ay Gessiah?
For basic, basic information, why not engrave it on a medic-alert-type bracelet? That way if you're ever rendered unconscious (or god-forbid, dead), at least you're identifiable.
There's always senate/congress/state primaries n/t
You know you have a choice of candidates by voting in primaries, right? There are good Democratic candidates. There are good Republic candidates. The trouble is separating them from the run-of-the-mill politicians.
Voting in primaries can be more important than voting in a general election. Your vote counts more (less voters), and you have a chance to make the race between a good candidate and a bad one - as opposed to two bad ones. If the primaries are a failure, then the election can't go well.
But if a candidate with some actual principles makes it through the primaries, you can't take that away from him, and it can take years to chip away at his idealism to the point where he's just another politician.
I just tried typing "huge organ" into Google and I actually *got* info on pipe organs.
Yeah, sure - nice try at getting me fired!
While you're at it, try searching for "huge throbbing members" - I just got the mailing list for "6'5 Teenage Heartthrobs".
Imagine a very smart, very horny, very manipulative person.
Now imaging that all of these traits are dominant, so children are likely to be smart, horny, and able to get what they want.
Eventually, these genes will be prevalent in the human race - and could eventually be in every single human being. That's not random, that's very directed, and very selected.
Evolution is not *just* the survival of an individual. It's even not *just* the ability of an individual to reproduce. You can have a society where everyone gets to have sex, but where at least one partner has a certain trait. It doesn't matter that no one is left out, that trait is now a permanent part of the human landscape.