We still find new and interesting things here on Earth after a couple of million years of hominids running around. I fail to see how *anything* short of walking talking Martians would really be a shocker on Mars given how little we've covered of it.
Because of people with mod points who were still sucking on their mother's tit for sustenance when the events in question happened, and who never bothered to learn computing history.
If you cannot afford it, do not buy it. Using that as rationalization to copy software illegally is rather lame when there are excellent free alternatives.
My time is valuable, but the one time I had a problem with a company charging my card when I'd cancelled service it took about 45 seconds on the phone and one email sent to fix it. I also got reimbursed for the charge that incurred for pushing me just over my credit limit. All by being honest and using the proper channels...
Yes, it does. It just uses a different set of rules than for broadcast TV. In fact, the FCC is looking at tightening those up, and it's already in their power to do so.
That's bad advice. It's easy to file a grievance with your credit card company. Telling someone to lie when there is an easy alternative that doesn't involve dishonesty is bad, bad advice.
I have 15 megabits via FIOS. I know it's been a long time coming but it's a damn solid product. Hopefully more providers will get on the fiber bandwagon.
...not to mention other decent quality components. I'm not a huge fan, since I prefer to build most of my personal machines, but the HP Media Center PC I bought for my wife is damn soild really. So has every other HP PC I've owned over the many years. I found a much higher failure rate with Compaq personally, so maybe that's where you're getting your impression.
You *might* be correct, but I have learned to stay away from absolute statements when possible. I'm sure someone somewhere once said we would never fire came from any more than our dogs did.
Simply put, we are not capable of understanding what our human descendants or our descendant species will be able to understand. To pretend otherwise is mere hubris.
And we probably never will be able to. That is what makes discussions like this purely academic. There is no known way to prove or disprove free will. I happen to believe I have it, but I can't prove it. Maybe someday our intelligence will evolve to a point where we will be able to answer these questions.
Even if we make a machine that *seems* to exhibit free will, we won't be any closer to understanding the subject. For now these discussions and dissertations are firmly entrenched in the realm of philospophy, not science.
It's part of the propaganda for when we start invading other worlds. We'll just tell all the sheeple that there are illegal aliens on those planets that must be stopped.
In a Fascist system the State controls Corporations. Here it's the other way around most of the time. We have a Corporate Republic now, though the end result with regards to our civil liberties is the same.
You just described a handheld thin client device, which while nice for some applications is worthless in parts of the world that have limited connectivity. It's worthless for the traveller who wants to be able to work offline, for that matter.
I know girls who type at 100wpm and talk at what seems to be a hundred times that rate;)
On a more serious note, if we ever do get a high bandwidth brain-computer link, I wonder what that will do for brain development and education? While it would be nice to have the ability to download new skills (a la 'The Matrix'), I somehow think there are other limiting factors (I won't get into the need to train the rest of the nervous and muscular systems before one can say "Whoa, I know Kung Fu").
Good thinking fodder though. I'll plod my low bandwith way through it some more after I do some work.
No, we need kids who don't go getting their accounts cancelled then break the law trying to get them back. We need kids who think up positive creative solutions to problems and aren't malcontents. He *should* face criminal charges. If he was banned wrongly there are other avenues to pursue. Not punishing him would just encourage others to do the same type of thing.
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We still find new and interesting things here on Earth after a couple of million years of hominids running around. I fail to see how *anything* short of walking talking Martians would really be a shocker on Mars given how little we've covered of it.
Mods on crack again...this dude was spot on.
Because of people with mod points who were still sucking on their mother's tit for sustenance when the events in question happened, and who never bothered to learn computing history.
If you cannot afford it, do not buy it. Using that as rationalization to copy software illegally is rather lame when there are excellent free alternatives.
My time is valuable, but the one time I had a problem with a company charging my card when I'd cancelled service it took about 45 seconds on the phone and one email sent to fix it. I also got reimbursed for the charge that incurred for pushing me just over my credit limit. All by being honest and using the proper channels...
Yes, it does. It just uses a different set of rules than for broadcast TV. In fact, the FCC is looking at tightening those up, and it's already in their power to do so.
I'll bet that's because Romans weren't afraid to spank their kids when they got out of line...
That's bad advice. It's easy to file a grievance with your credit card company. Telling someone to lie when there is an easy alternative that doesn't involve dishonesty is bad, bad advice.
I have 15 megabits via FIOS. I know it's been a long time coming but it's a damn solid product. Hopefully more providers will get on the fiber bandwagon.
...not to mention other decent quality components. I'm not a huge fan, since I prefer to build most of my personal machines, but the HP Media Center PC I bought for my wife is damn soild really. So has every other HP PC I've owned over the many years. I found a much higher failure rate with Compaq personally, so maybe that's where you're getting your impression.
You *might* be correct, but I have learned to stay away from absolute statements when possible. I'm sure someone somewhere once said we would never fire came from any more than our dogs did.
Simply put, we are not capable of understanding what our human descendants or our descendant species will be able to understand. To pretend otherwise is mere hubris.
And we probably never will be able to. That is what makes discussions like this purely academic. There is no known way to prove or disprove free will. I happen to believe I have it, but I can't prove it. Maybe someday our intelligence will evolve to a point where we will be able to answer these questions.
Even if we make a machine that *seems* to exhibit free will, we won't be any closer to understanding the subject. For now these discussions and dissertations are firmly entrenched in the realm of philospophy, not science.
It's part of the propaganda for when we start invading other worlds. We'll just tell all the sheeple that there are illegal aliens on those planets that must be stopped.
About 39,000,000
They are government employees. What do you expect? Bureaucracy breeds mediocracy.
It is more like crying 'Fire' in a crowded theater. I hope they all lose their jobs and face charges if applicable.
Humans have human nature and human psychological responses. Film at 11.
Slashdot has never had a great signal to noise ratio, but it sure as hell is getting worse by the day. What a useless waste of bytes!
In a Fascist system the State controls Corporations. Here it's the other way around most of the time. We have a Corporate Republic now, though the end result with regards to our civil liberties is the same.
I submit that this kind of crippling ignorance in a story submission is...well not astonishing. What was he smoking???
You just described a handheld thin client device, which while nice for some applications is worthless in parts of the world that have limited connectivity. It's worthless for the traveller who wants to be able to work offline, for that matter.
I know girls who type at 100wpm and talk at what seems to be a hundred times that rate ;)
On a more serious note, if we ever do get a high bandwidth brain-computer link, I wonder what that will do for brain development and education? While it would be nice to have the ability to download new skills (a la 'The Matrix'), I somehow think there are other limiting factors (I won't get into the need to train the rest of the nervous and muscular systems before one can say "Whoa, I know Kung Fu").
Good thinking fodder though. I'll plod my low bandwith way through it some more after I do some work.
Now *that* is insightful. Just assuming that nobody has your code so you don't need to write secure code is bad, but sadly a common practice.
No, we need kids who don't go getting their accounts cancelled then break the law trying to get them back. We need kids who think up positive creative solutions to problems and aren't malcontents. He *should* face criminal charges. If he was banned wrongly there are other avenues to pursue. Not punishing him would just encourage others to do the same type of thing.
Actually the Vista dude would have a chaperone too.
"You are attempting to take off her bra. Cancel or Allow?"
They were fighting over a girl. I mean, c'mon, what male Mac user would even be interested in girls?? He obviously had no motivation to win.
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I'm joking, friends...lighten up