If you want to be a superhuman, just eat right and exercise regularly. You will be ahead of most Americans...
I, for one, am extremely apathetic about the whole issue. So we genetically enhance ourselves. So what. It's not like the rich haven't had the benefit of wealth in eons gone by. We've been enhancing ourselves since we learned to communicate. Clothing, shelter, implements, the internet...it all enhances us one way or another, and/again/ the rich have the benefit. The issue shouldn't be our fascination with every new invention making us "just too godlike"...the issue should be how to level the playing field so EVERYBODY has food, shelter, clothing, and when/if it becomes a necessity, genetic enhancement.
I'm sure Grog was saying to the other cave people "HEYYYY...hold on here...this whiz-bang 'fire' stuff is really cool...but don't you think this is making us just a/little/ too godlike? I mean, now we can/burn/ ourselves...or set the forest on fire!".
Does this vision look like Terminator 2 to anybody?
We already have all sorts of awful self-replicating killers - viruses, bacteria, etc. But somehow we've kept them down. We also have all sorts of lethal and massively destructive human-made weapons, and again, we've been able to avert a global holocaust by common sense. I doubt we will see self-replicating self-healing self-aware robots running all over and causing havoc. However, if the day does come, the last sentence of the article seems to intimate that Sun will be there with its own robot-killing-robot product.
Correct. This is another popular fiction about Native Americans. They didn't go around scalping anybody...at least not until they learned it from the Europeans.
"Indian cultures warred on each other with great ferocity. Indian agriculture resembled closely what we refer to as "strip farming".
One word: Bullshit. Europeans came over to the Americas and astonishedly proclaimed how backwards and ridiculous native american farmers were for being so gentile with their land. Native americans did not even have plows! The Iroquois (6 nations) civilization was built upon a highly efficient and organized method of farming, of a scale virtually unparalleled in history. Only now, with "modern" agricultural science are we realizing how truly _sustainable_ and efficient Indian agriculture, like mound farming is, in comparision to the traditional "rip up the earth and move on" approach.
Native civilizations did have wars, but in many cases that was part of thier/culture/. In any case, the wars they had were certainly not of the "wipe you off the face of the earth because you are a savage and we like your land" scale.
"In other words, they were real people with as many faults and warts as their European invaders, who were simply better armed."
Yes, like the fault of trusting Europeans and being savagely slaughtered and wiped out while being lied in the face to. I guess they deserved what they got, right?
"Please folks, don't get your image of native Americans from John Wayne films."
Really, I think/you/ shouldn't get your ideas about native americans from westerns. How about getting clued in...read "Custer Died For Your Sins", or, why not just talk to a Native American...that is if you can find some left.
And don't forget to go see "City of Gold" in which a couple of happy-go-lucky spanish explorers wipe out an entire civilization of native people with comic hyjinks in their greed for a city made out of pure gold.
Does anybody remember using Norton Disk utilities to create a "pruned" directory tree that existed as an isolated island in the filesystem so that it could be manually "chdir"ed to? That was cool:)
Unfortunately, if you pick your browsers like your politicians, yours would censor all un-American, un-Christian material so as not to soil your soul, and require that you fit into its moral mold.
I believe they use a field for which there is no specified use.
This simply means that only W2K can talk Kerberos with W2K servers. It doesn't mean W2K cannot talk to other OSes. The other implementations will just disregard the field. However, if you are attempting to integrate any other systems with W2K server, you are SOL, and apparently Microsoft wants to force you to buy W2K.
Hmm...so does this mean my OLE.dll version 1.0 and my OLE.dll version 5.0 will be conveniently munged for me? Or are they actually doing a binary comparison on file operations? And I assume this change will mean that Win2k++ will come with yet another file system, say...LARD64?
As far as I can tell this scheme relies on checksums of the static content of web pages to find the correct web page. So what does this do to dynamically generated content?
Also, somebody else mentioned that they had a project on SourceForge which was basically like the Web, but in a completely distributed manner. This makes a lot more sense to me. The notion that my bits must cross a continent to retrieve data on a certain TOPIC seems a bit archaic. I shouldn't know or care where the data of the topic is stored...I just want it. Also, having a distributed web like this, as the person suggests, will make it a lot harder to invade privacy or censor material.
I've been subscribed to the QuakeForge list for quite a while. QuakeForge was one of the very first projects (apparently along with QuakeLives) that was started when Carmack released the source. These [QuakeForge] guys have their heads on straight, have already made and applied many patches, bugfixes, and have plans to redesign, modularize, secure, and add features to the codebase whilst still maintaining backwards compatibility, and portability to a very large range of systems. So that's my plug for QuakeForge (www.quakeforge.net, and also on SourceForge - hence the name).
On the other hand, QuakeLives, from what I can tell, is a guy and whomever he could attract throwing up a quick project to be k3wl quake c0ders. Many on the QuakeForge project demanded that source be available from QuakeLives, some even going so far as to complain about this outfit to Carmack (really, the guy just wanted to do what was best...he doesn't need the community running crying to him to solve its problems), it really is a matter of principle. A rogue project can't just take the GPLed product of Id software's hard work, and then give out new binaries and keep the goodies to itself. That is really against the philosophy of the community, and a snub to all the legitimate Quake source groups who are trying to build an infrastructure for working/together/,/sharing/ fixes/patches/ideas instead of hoarding.
I agree...there should be some small place in which comments on Slashdot are on-topic. Doesn't even have to be its own section. Maybe just some flat list of posts. Something where people can point out what sucks or is broken, or what is cool, or things that need to be done, etc., and not get moderated down for being offtopic. I think talk about Slashdot, as long as it isn't flaming or trolling is always somewhat on topic.
Bill Bradley's site seems a bit deeper on the detail (although still not as boringly technical as some of us would like...there are numbers though;)
"Bradley on the Issues" http://www.billbradley.com/bin/article.pl?path=0 60100/1 (hope that url leads to the right place)
It seems to me, all things being equal, Bradley is canonically the stronger candidate. He has a coherent vision and a plan, something that Gore doesn't seem to have, and is removed from the whole Clinton mess. Unfortunately it seems that Gore has the greater mindshare, and Bill Bradley (like McCain) has an uphill battle against his party's establishment. It's rather unfortunate. We've already lived with Gore for eight years...I'm sure he's a great guy, but it wouldn't hurt to get someone a bit fresher, with somewhat new ideas in office.
Oh yeah, BillBradley.com apparently runs on SunOS, if that matters.
I tend to agree. Last time propaganda was brought up I noted how garish some of the backgrounds were. Some are very interesting, but are terrible as backgrounds. A background shouldn't draw your eye...it should be subdued. The eyecandy is just too garish and distracting.
Yes, except your _car_ is in direct competition with their car. A _theme_ or skin is not in direct competition with the Mac OS. In your example, what if you took some other car, and painted it up and made additions to it so it/looked/ like a VW, effectively "skinning" the car? Could VW sue you? I sure hope not. If you have model airplanes should airplane companies sue you?
Competitors are already starting projects to one-up Intel's new encrypted display technology. One company, noting that users can still simply print their screen or otherwise capture the decrypted image, has started developing a computer-eye interface by which the image is transferred by a wire into each eye ball, and is not decrypted until immediately before projecting it onto the cornea. Noting that consumers will easily circumevent this by tapping the eye nerves, or hooking the wires to black-market eyeballs and redirecting the impulses, another company has started plans for a completely secure, information-to-brain point-to-point tunneling protocol (itb-pptp), enforcing copy protection. Special wires connecting all senses to the brain will encrypt those senses and, via a small decryption algorithm planted in the brain, decrypt them on demand. Copyrighted material will never be stored in unencrypted form. The company's spokesperson had no comment when asked their opinion on whether introducing such a technology would spawn seedy hack-parlors by which patients have their brain hacked ('lobotomized') so that they can illegally retain copyrighted information.
Agreed! I think the Simpson are still going strong. In a world of instant pop-culture, backstreet boys, britney spears, yoyos and pokemon, it's good to see something familiar still kicking ass. Simpsons is a cultural icon. I think Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy (the earlier episodes especially), and That 70s Show are the few redeeming things left on tv.
Can somebody post an example of literate programming? It sounds interesting. Is it anything like Sun's JavaDoc standard? It sounds much more verbose and functional than JavaDoc, though.
I'm not justifying it, but from what I've read, heard, and watched on PBS, Japan had absolutely no intention to surrender in any way, and was prepared to fight tooth and nail the whole way. Japan needed a wake up call. It needed to realize that there WERE very real consequences of refusing to surrender, that hit home hard. That the Allies would not stand to drag the war on and incur more and more fatalities to come to the eventually inevitable conclusion of Japanese defeat. I don't think we even really knew for sure if the bombs would actually work. Japan could have at any time said "You know what, this sucks, we're going to lose anyway, we give up", but they stalwartly refused to and all indications were that they were going to make this as nasty and drawn out as they could.
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The only movie that sounds as hokey as this Mission to Mars movie is Armaggeddon. Man, that was the hokiest thing on earth.
If you want to be a superhuman, just eat right and exercise regularly. You will be ahead of most Americans...
/again/ the rich have the benefit. The issue shouldn't be our fascination with every new invention making us "just too godlike"...the issue should be how to level the playing field so EVERYBODY has food, shelter, clothing, and when/if it becomes a necessity, genetic enhancement.
/little/ too godlike? I mean, now we can /burn/ ourselves...or set the forest on fire!".
I, for one, am extremely apathetic about the whole issue. So we genetically enhance ourselves. So what. It's not like the rich haven't had the benefit of wealth in eons gone by. We've been enhancing ourselves since we learned to communicate. Clothing, shelter, implements, the internet...it all enhances us one way or another, and
I'm sure Grog was saying to the other cave people "HEYYYY...hold on here...this whiz-bang 'fire' stuff is really cool...but don't you think this is making us just a
*Yawn*
Does this vision look like Terminator 2 to anybody?
We already have all sorts of awful self-replicating killers - viruses, bacteria, etc. But somehow we've kept them down. We also have all sorts of lethal and massively destructive human-made weapons, and again, we've been able to avert a global holocaust by common sense. I doubt we will see self-replicating self-healing self-aware robots running all over and causing havoc. However, if the day does come, the last sentence of the article seems to intimate that Sun will be there with its own robot-killing-robot product.
Correct. This is another popular fiction about Native Americans. They didn't go around scalping anybody...at least not until they learned it from the Europeans.
This is utter and complete claptrap.
/culture/. In any case, the wars they had were certainly not of the "wipe you off the face of the earth because you are a savage and we like your land" scale.
/you/ shouldn't get your ideas about native americans from westerns. How about getting clued in...read "Custer Died For Your Sins", or, why not just talk to a Native American...that is if you can find some left.
"Indian cultures warred on each other with great ferocity. Indian agriculture resembled closely what we refer to as "strip farming".
One word: Bullshit.
Europeans came over to the Americas and astonishedly proclaimed how backwards and ridiculous native american farmers were for being so gentile with their land. Native americans did not even have plows! The Iroquois (6 nations) civilization was built upon a highly efficient and organized method of farming, of a scale virtually unparalleled in history. Only now, with "modern" agricultural science are we realizing how truly _sustainable_ and efficient Indian agriculture, like mound farming is, in comparision to the traditional "rip up the earth and move on" approach.
Native civilizations did have wars, but in many cases that was part of thier
"In other words, they were real people with as many faults and warts as their European invaders, who were simply better armed."
Yes, like the fault of trusting Europeans and being savagely slaughtered and wiped out while being lied in the face to. I guess they deserved what they got, right?
"Please folks, don't get your image of native Americans from John Wayne films."
Really, I think
And don't forget to go see "City of Gold" in which a couple of happy-go-lucky spanish explorers wipe out an entire civilization of native people with comic hyjinks in their greed for a city made out of pure gold.
I could swear this is a repeat...this must've been posted before...yawn...
Does anybody remember using Norton Disk utilities to create a "pruned" directory tree that existed as an isolated island in the filesystem so that it could be manually "chdir"ed to? That was cool :)
Unfortunately, if you pick your browsers like your politicians, yours would censor all un-American, un-Christian material so as not to soil your soul, and require that you fit into its moral mold.
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I believe they use a field for which there is no specified use.
This simply means that only W2K can talk Kerberos with W2K servers. It doesn't mean W2K cannot talk to other OSes. The other implementations will just disregard the field. However, if you are attempting to integrate any other systems with W2K server, you are SOL, and apparently Microsoft wants to force you to buy W2K.
Hmm...so does this mean my OLE.dll version 1.0 and my OLE.dll version 5.0 will be conveniently munged for me? Or are they actually doing a binary comparison on file operations? And I assume this change will mean that Win2k++ will come with yet another file system, say...LARD64?
As far as I can tell this scheme relies on checksums of the static content of web pages to find the correct web page. So what does this do to dynamically generated content?
Also, somebody else mentioned that they had a project on SourceForge which was basically like the Web, but in a completely distributed manner. This makes a lot more sense to me. The notion that my bits must cross a continent to retrieve data on a certain TOPIC seems a bit archaic. I shouldn't know or care where the data of the topic is stored...I just want it. Also, having a distributed web like this, as the person suggests, will make it a lot harder to invade privacy or censor material.
I don't get it. The page looks normal to me. What should I be looking for?
I've been subscribed to the QuakeForge list for quite a while. QuakeForge was one of the very first projects (apparently along with QuakeLives) that was started when Carmack released the source. These [QuakeForge] guys have their heads on straight, have already made and applied many patches, bugfixes, and have plans to redesign, modularize, secure, and add features to the codebase whilst still maintaining backwards compatibility, and portability to a very large range of systems. So that's my plug for QuakeForge (www.quakeforge.net, and also on SourceForge - hence the name).
/together/, /sharing/ fixes/patches/ideas instead of hoarding.
On the other hand, QuakeLives, from what I can tell, is a guy and whomever he could attract throwing up a quick project to be k3wl quake c0ders. Many on the QuakeForge project demanded that source be available from QuakeLives, some even going so far as to complain about this outfit to Carmack (really, the guy just wanted to do what was best...he doesn't need the community running crying to him to solve its problems), it really is a matter of principle. A rogue project can't just take the GPLed product of Id software's hard work, and then give out new binaries and keep the goodies to itself. That is really against the philosophy of the community, and a snub to all the legitimate Quake source groups who are trying to build an infrastructure for working
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...will be tomorrow's headline I'm sure.
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I agree...there should be some small place in which comments on Slashdot are on-topic. Doesn't even have to be its own section. Maybe just some flat list of posts. Something where people can point out what sucks or is broken, or what is cool, or things that need to be done, etc., and not get moderated down for being offtopic. I think talk about Slashdot, as long as it isn't flaming or trolling is always somewhat on topic.
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Bill Bradley's site seems a bit deeper on the detail (although still not as boringly technical as some of us would like...there are numbers though
"Bradley on the Issues"
http://www.billbradley.com/bin/article.pl?path=
(hope that url leads to the right place)
It seems to me, all things being equal, Bradley is canonically the stronger candidate. He has a coherent vision and a plan, something that Gore doesn't seem to have, and is removed from the whole Clinton mess. Unfortunately it seems that Gore has the greater mindshare, and Bill Bradley (like McCain) has an uphill battle against his party's establishment. It's rather unfortunate. We've already lived with Gore for eight years...I'm sure he's a great guy, but it wouldn't hurt to get someone a bit fresher, with somewhat new ideas in office.
Oh yeah, BillBradley.com apparently runs on SunOS, if that matters.
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I tend to agree. Last time propaganda was brought up I noted how garish some of the backgrounds were. Some are very interesting, but are terrible as backgrounds. A background shouldn't draw your eye...it should be subdued. The eyecandy is just too garish and distracting.
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"The point is not to provide the consumer a service."
That is the point of all business. Sure this copy protection my have other applications, but don't try to stuff it down the consumers' throats.
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Yes, except your _car_ is in direct competition with their car. A _theme_ or skin is not in direct competition with the Mac OS. In your example, what if you took some other car, and painted it up and made additions to it so it /looked/ like a VW, effectively "skinning" the car? Could VW sue you? I sure hope not. If you have model airplanes should airplane companies sue you?
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Competitors are already starting projects to one-up Intel's new encrypted display technology. One company, noting that users can still simply print their screen or otherwise capture the decrypted image, has started developing a computer-eye interface by which the image is transferred by a wire into each eye ball, and is not decrypted until immediately before projecting it onto the cornea. Noting that consumers will easily circumevent this by tapping the eye nerves, or hooking the wires to black-market eyeballs and redirecting the impulses, another company has started plans for a completely secure, information-to-brain point-to-point tunneling protocol (itb-pptp), enforcing copy protection. Special wires connecting all senses to the brain will encrypt those senses and, via a small decryption algorithm planted in the brain, decrypt them on demand. Copyrighted material will never be stored in unencrypted form. The company's spokesperson had no comment when asked their opinion on whether introducing such a technology would spawn seedy hack-parlors by which patients have their brain hacked ('lobotomized') so that they can illegally retain copyrighted information.
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Agreed! I think the Simpson are still going strong. In a world of instant pop-culture, backstreet boys, britney spears, yoyos and pokemon, it's good to see something familiar still kicking ass. Simpsons is a cultural icon. I think Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy (the earlier episodes especially), and That 70s Show are the few redeeming things left on tv.
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Conan O'Brien wrote for Simpsons? I never knew that! That kicks ass! I love that guy!
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Can somebody post an example of literate programming? It sounds interesting. Is it anything like Sun's JavaDoc standard? It sounds much more verbose and functional than JavaDoc, though.
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nah...we need something like the Symbionese Liberation Army.
The "Hacker Liberation Army" I guess.
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I'm not justifying it, but from what I've read, heard, and watched on PBS, Japan had absolutely no intention to surrender in any way, and was prepared to fight tooth and nail the whole way. Japan needed a wake up call. It needed to realize that there WERE very real consequences of refusing to surrender, that hit home hard. That the Allies would not stand to drag the war on and incur more and more fatalities to come to the eventually inevitable conclusion of Japanese defeat. I don't think we even really knew for sure if the bombs would actually work. Japan could have at any time said "You know what, this sucks, we're going to lose anyway, we give up", but they stalwartly refused to and all indications were that they were going to make this as nasty and drawn out as they could.
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