If you read the transcript you'd already have the answer. There are people in the future who are transhuman and have DNI but there are also everyone else who chooses not to.
If you're of the opinion that we'll only find "life as we know it" on an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star in the habitable zone, then we haven't really got any data on how common their configuration is, so its a complete mystery how many civilizations like ours there are out there. Of course, if you're of the opinion that "as we know it" really isn't that important, then that's not entirely relevant.
Why does everyone assume this? Do I sound like an American?
I've had people say they assume I'm an American in response to posts where I've spelt words "behaviour" and "colour" and "learnt" and "spelt" and rather than infer that I might not be an American, they assume I must be a young American.
The vast majority of people on this planet are not Americans (let alone seppos). There's less than 300 million of ya. Stop assuming everyone is one of you.
Oh, and if you really must know, I'm an Australian.
Umm.. how exactly is kids being interested in politics a good thing?
Maybe I'm just old, but when I was a kid, we left grown up matters like politics to the adults. Being that children can't vote, and no-one cares about their political opinions, doesn't this survey say that they're basically worried about things they have no control over? Isn't that the definition of stress?
Faux is a French word used to describe something made to resemble something else. The original French word means false, fake, imitation or artificial. In the decorating industry faux painting is a surface design technique employing a variety of products and methods to resemble something else.
Of course, you knew that already.
Who gives a shit how the french pronounce it. As if English has ever respected the accent of the language it borrows words from.
And that video has been universally decried as an obvious fake as the person in the video only looks similar to Osama bin Laden if you're a white American who thinks all Arabs look alike.
Evidence has just been presented that Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11.. that's what this story is about.. and yet you persist in repeating the fiction we've been fed for the last 7 years - for which there has never been presented the slightest bit of evidence (except "trust us").
I wish someone had just assassinated that fucker...
Instead you re-elected him because Faux News said his opponent looked French.
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For sure. I've had two types of managers:
* ex-programmers, who don't do any actual management, they just expect the team to run itself. * guys who went to business school.
They don't know shit about programming but they keep note of who is working on what and when they said they would get it done, how reliable their estimates are and, as a result of all that, how much work the team can actually get done before a given deadline. They then negotiate with the rest of the company to keep us from getting every bullshit little proto-feature dumped on our plate for the next release.
Ask a 3 year old about the last time daddy took them for a ride in the car. You'll get a long gramatical sentence about where they went and what they did. That's language. To claim that humans dont have a unique place in the evolutionary tree due to a trained animal act that manages to replace grunts with hand movements is just laughable and these 'researchers' know it.
Exactly. Doing something half-assed for free is often worse than not doing it all.
Look, that might be your opinion, but frankly I'm happy to have something for free instead of nothing, and you berating these generous contributors for not living up to your expectations has a negative effect on me getting something, whereas you being quiet has no effect on you getting nothing. So kindly stop berating them.
Making your personal project into a FOSS one doesn't come burdened with many responsibilities, but it does carry one: to act reasonably on behalf of your users, and that includes acting upon their suggestions --- yes, even some of the whiny ones because where there is smoke there is also usually fire. Putting yourself beyond criticism and beyond appeal for change is not a responsible attitude, and defending the unresponsive developer and/or his bad practice is itself the height of irresponsibility to the users of a project.
Yeah man, they owe us for doing all that work and giving it away for free. They have to listen to every whining asshole or they're just being irresponsible.
You're an ungrateful asshole and I sincerely hope you take this opportunity to never use Free Software again.
Both DR and TA had turrets that you could use to build kill zones. No matter how many troops rush into the kill zone they won't make it out. Setting up kill zones to trap your opponent and driving them into them is strategy and it balances the tank rush "strategy". Fanbois of Starcraft are unaware of all this as all they've ever done is play the same game over and over in the same way: the tank rush.
That's very apt as most free beer I get is shit (or at least not my preferred beer).
Unfortunately there's nothing to you can do to make shit beer better (except drink more of it) and that's the exact opposite of Free Software (although "drinking more" seems to be what many advocates suggest).
I wasn't advocating TBS over RTS. I was just saying that Starcraft was one of the RTS games that failed balance the game to prevent tank rushes. Dark Reign, Total Annihilation, and plenty other games didn't fall into the same trap. The tank rush is not some basic necessity of the RTS experience, it's a bug that must be avoided.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/9/15/
Yeah, you just have to pay for food.
Here, in Australia, the government will pay you to go to university, and provide assistance with rent (most students live off-campus).
The tuition is an interest free loan, which you pay back through your taxes once you've graduated and have got a job.
If you read the transcript you'd already have the answer. There are people in the future who are transhuman and have DNI but there are also everyone else who chooses not to.
http://www.quantumg.net/eeepc.txt
There's 10 years from lab to product.. at least.
If you're of the opinion that we'll only find "life as we know it" on an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star in the habitable zone, then we haven't really got any data on how common their configuration is, so its a complete mystery how many civilizations like ours there are out there. Of course, if you're of the opinion that "as we know it" really isn't that important, then that's not entirely relevant.
Oh, and here's my exoplanet rant that I post every time one of these stories hits Slashdot.
I assume American
Why does everyone assume this? Do I sound like an American?
I've had people say they assume I'm an American in response to posts where I've spelt words "behaviour" and "colour" and "learnt" and "spelt" and rather than infer that I might not be an American, they assume I must be a young American.
The vast majority of people on this planet are not Americans (let alone seppos). There's less than 300 million of ya. Stop assuming everyone is one of you.
Oh, and if you really must know, I'm an Australian.
Umm.. how exactly is kids being interested in politics a good thing?
Maybe I'm just old, but when I was a kid, we left grown up matters like politics to the adults. Being that children can't vote, and no-one cares about their political opinions, doesn't this survey say that they're basically worried about things they have no control over? Isn't that the definition of stress?
hehe, they ship. That's what makes them different to EA.
Faux is a French word used to describe something made to resemble something else. The original French word means false, fake, imitation or artificial. In the decorating industry faux painting is a surface design technique employing a variety of products and methods to resemble something else.
Of course, you knew that already.
Who gives a shit how the french pronounce it. As if English has ever respected the accent of the language it borrows words from.
You can't "own" property, man. :)
huh? Even the CIA said it was faked.
Anyone with eyes can tell it is faked. The guy looks nothing like Osama bin Laden.
And that video has been universally decried as an obvious fake as the person in the video only looks similar to Osama bin Laden if you're a white American who thinks all Arabs look alike.
Evidence has just been presented that Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11.. that's what this story is about.. and yet you persist in repeating the fiction we've been fed for the last 7 years - for which there has never been presented the slightest bit of evidence (except "trust us").
I wish someone had just assassinated that fucker...
Instead you re-elected him because Faux News said his opponent looked French.
For sure. I've had two types of managers:
* ex-programmers, who don't do any actual management, they just expect the team to run itself.
* guys who went to business school.
They don't know shit about programming but they keep note of who is working on what and when they said they would get it done, how reliable their estimates are and, as a result of all that, how much work the team can actually get done before a given deadline. They then negotiate with the rest of the company to keep us from getting every bullshit little proto-feature dumped on our plate for the next release.
Ask a 3 year old about the last time daddy took them for a ride in the car. You'll get a long gramatical sentence about where they went and what they did. That's language. To claim that humans dont have a unique place in the evolutionary tree due to a trained animal act that manages to replace grunts with hand movements is just laughable and these 'researchers' know it.
Exactly. Doing something half-assed for free is often worse than not doing it all.
Look, that might be your opinion, but frankly I'm happy to have something for free instead of nothing, and you berating these generous contributors for not living up to your expectations has a negative effect on me getting something, whereas you being quiet has no effect on you getting nothing. So kindly stop berating them.
Making your personal project into a FOSS one doesn't come burdened with many responsibilities, but it does carry one: to act reasonably on behalf of your users, and that includes acting upon their suggestions --- yes, even some of the whiny ones because where there is smoke there is also usually fire. Putting yourself beyond criticism and beyond appeal for change is not a responsible attitude, and defending the unresponsive developer and/or his bad practice is itself the height of irresponsibility to the users of a project.
Yeah man, they owe us for doing all that work and giving it away for free. They have to listen to every whining asshole or they're just being irresponsible.
You're an ungrateful asshole and I sincerely hope you take this opportunity to never use Free Software again.
Are there any specific examples where you were providing constructive feedback and got an asshole? Cause it has never happened to me.
Maybe you should lay off the crack.
I believe that was called "tracking" and one who did tracking was called a "tracker".
Both DR and TA had turrets that you could use to build kill zones. No matter how many troops rush into the kill zone they won't make it out. Setting up kill zones to trap your opponent and driving them into them is strategy and it balances the tank rush "strategy". Fanbois of Starcraft are unaware of all this as all they've ever done is play the same game over and over in the same way: the tank rush.
That's very apt as most free beer I get is shit (or at least not my preferred beer).
Unfortunately there's nothing to you can do to make shit beer better (except drink more of it) and that's the exact opposite of Free Software (although "drinking more" seems to be what many advocates suggest).
So thank you for the apt analogy!
Reading comprehension fail.
I wasn't advocating TBS over RTS. I was just saying that Starcraft was one of the RTS games that failed balance the game to prevent tank rushes. Dark Reign, Total Annihilation, and plenty other games didn't fall into the same trap. The tank rush is not some basic necessity of the RTS experience, it's a bug that must be avoided.