The answer to this question is irrelevant. The real question is "Is Ogg Vorbis gaining consumer acceptance?" It doesn't matter if the music industry thinks Ogg Vorbis is good, as long as consumers aren't using it.
You would think that is how it should work but (un?)fortunately it doesn't. If a ogg is going to be accepted by the consumer that means the industry has to support it first because they control the vast majority of the infrastructure used to play music. Consumers other than us geeks aren't going to use ogg unless the big media players allow you to play it and rip to it and it becomes available in download services. I can say I never even heard of ACC until the Apple Music Store. Industry leads and the consumers may or may not choose to follow, that's how it works.
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hmm, whats to stop anyone making one of these things and kitting it out with an explosive or biological warhead? can radars pick these things out as being targets without seagulls etc. raising false alarms?
What's to stop anyone from making weapons out of half a dozen other simple things, the fact is it doesn't take more then about a minute to think of a ton of ways to do some serious damage if you really wanted too. In the end trying to specifically thwart each possible type of attack is bound to fail, the only real solution is to try and take away peoples motives for attacking you otherwise you're just waiting for something to happen.
That being said this admittadly does have potential to do more damage then many other alternatives if for no other reason then it allows for a more easily anonymous and somewhat large scale attack then a lot of other things I can think of at the moment.
Yahoo currently hosts a press release from SCO that basically calls for IBM to "move away from the GPL"." Lycoris tries to dodge the flood of idiocy from Utah. Another non-programmer has seen SCO's presentation, and without attempting to verify the facts through his own research, reported on it. One reader buys a SCO license. SCO justifies their continuing illegal distribution of the Linux kernel.
I must say I'm VERY DISAPOINTED in SCO, I mean I had my hopes all up for some completely insane claims suing the moon and announcing they were sending hitmen after linux users instead all I get is "whaa whaa IBM should move away from GPL, whaa we don't care about GPL". Com'on SCO you're letting me down where's the fireworks, where's the pizzaz lets get some action here!!
Hopefully this is just the precursor like their ""Disapointment " with Red Hat before the licenses were released. Geez some companies are just no fun anymore:(
the threat to the republic posed by getting in trouble reading dirty comic books.
Yeah no harm in not letting people read types of literature because we don't like its content. Hey I seem to recall To Kill A Mocking Bird has been disliked by a lot of people (better not let any people read that one either). All those people critisising the government too, I mean that's even more disruptive then dirty comic books! This is VERY disturbing both the story and your non-reaction to it. Please try to recognize when your rights are evaporating before it's too late.
This is awesome news! Not only from the fact that IBM is getting in on the action with a countersuit but every time someone takes a shot back at SCO you know SCO comes out with some bizarre claim/lawsuit to trump it! When Redhat sued SCO decided to start selling licenses for everybody who used linux, when SuSE joined in they went after the US government!!! Now that IBM is countersuing them just try to imagine what we're going to see from SCO in the next couple days. Sue the Catholic curch? Sue everybody who is running linux in a RIAA style attack? I mean I can't even imagine what they'll do.
Okay here's my idea, get a press pass and get some film from the press conference, add a laugh track and we'll have a sitcom good enough to fund linux development for the next 10 years!
Here's my proposal, we get a press pass and put a in there camera the next time SCO holds a press conference. We then add a laugh track and sell it as a sitcom, we'll make enough money to buy SCO out!!
Then again that's probably just what the board of directors wanted in the first place... aww heck if nothing else it will be enough money to put out a hit on them!
Think of it this way, do something bad get punished and despised, do something good and you get rewarded and thanked. Nobody said that they suddenly loved Disney because of this one action but I don't see why we should be mad at them for it!
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Want to burn calories while sitting in front of your computer at work? How about shedding those extra pounds while powering your TV at the same time?
This way people will get an increased metabolism (since some of your sugars are being converted into energy for non-local entities), and they will be able to reduce the number of batteries and other power sources needed.
Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls. That would be the killer app.
This could be both a good thing and a bad thing. Firstly it will obviously save lives due to the pure fact of weight loss but will it replace exercise? I've done a lot of running this summer, partially it was to lose about 15 pounds I put on over classes. Now even with those extra 15 pounds I was not what anybody would classify as fat but I was out of shape and found the extra weight was slowing me down. Either way I haven't lost all that extra weight but I don't really care as I have really improved my conditioning (though not to the level of the previous summer when I did a fair amount of running as well). Either way my concern is that this will take away these peoples major stimulus for exercise by making them feel healthy with their smaller cross-section when they are in just as bad shape as before except for a reduced risk of heart disease and maybe fewer joint problems. Also if you consider anorexics(sp?!?) already what will happen when they can do it much more easily and conveniently with one of these devices/technologies I can see this as a huge problem when people run their bodies energy supplies into the ground with the touch of a dial in the pursuit of a pencil thin waist and end up starving to death while on a seemingly healthy diet.
Grandparent (obviously) meant Bush got more votes in Florida. Which he did, according to three legal vote counts.
Although if you take into account the horrid design of the ballots more people intended to vote for Gore then Bush but they ended up voting for someone else instead and that's why Bush won.
Why do philosophers try so hard to identify the unique "humaness" of our species when it's such a simple thing...? Humans are animals that had human parents, and no amount of postulation or terminology will make a cat or a machine into a human.
The question is meaningless now since we havn't reached that point but we may in the future.
Are you still human if you have an artificial limb? What if you have an artificial body, what if you eventually have your brain replaced by a computer? Are you still human, not a single partical that makes you up was grown in a human but your conciousness is unchanged.
Lets look at this human parents thing, what if we genetically engineered apes that were compatible enough with humans to produce valid offspring? Would they be human? What about someone cloned, they could arguably not have parents, or perhaps someone not cloned but assembled out of different human genes, what about a creature with only a few human genes for intelligence and the rest are from a dog? Is this super-intelligent dog human, does it deserve additional rights? In the future these questions will be important so we might as well get a jump on them now.
A few hundred years ago if we had got these IP issues firmly settled (or stuck with what we had) perhaps we wouldn't be having all these problems now. And in a few hundred more we may have worse problems with these questions.
More than that consider the causes that caused you to vote and who you voted for in the first place. There are only so many factors involved and millions of voters, therefore it stands to reason there are a whole lot of other people who feel exactly the same as I do. Now consider that if I feel inclined to actually vote for candidate X then the chances are that a whole lot of other people feel precisely the same way as I do and since I voted for X they did to, by this reasoning my one vote is now thousands. Sure it might be a bit of a stretch but I'm sure you can see the logic and it's a great incentive to vote
Elections are at basis of democracy it is essential that elections are done properly and fairly or you quickly end up with nothing but a facade, that this has occured it frankly terrifying considering the electoral process may of already been subverted in any number of countries using these systems without anybody being the wiser. If it turns out that they were willfully negligent in designing the system or even worse knew about and ignored the flaws for 5 years they should be charged with treason by every country they've sold to and if they aren't dealt with very harshly I will be rightfully suspicious...
Remember, the visible universe is growing by a lightyear every year as light is just hitting us from very distant stars.:)
Not quite, remember the universe started from a central point with the big bang including those very distant stars. Also nothing can travel faster than the speed of light therefore we theoretically could see the entire universe given a strong enough telescope though much of what we see at the distant edge will be very young (it's still possible that there are stars currently outside the current radius of what we can see if they're expanding at almost the speed of light but we can watch them or their ancestors drift out there and they won't pop up).
Unless of course the big bang opened massive worm holes and sprouted up universes all over the place, then the light from them could be meeting us eventually and just pop out of nowhere...
Check out Drumheller Lots of Dinosaur fossils and some cool landforms. The rockies are also really nice scenery (Banff and Jasper are the big tourist places there). You can also check out Vancouver and Toronto and see all the big american movies being made;)
Com'on Canadian./ers give this guy some good suggestions or them yankees will have him convinced we all live in igloos up here!
I urge everyone to buy one of these anti-litigation licenses, so that we can all file a class action lawsuit when it's proven that they don't have any rights to code within Linux.
If it's proven they don't have rights to the code in linux that means that they didn't settle or get bought out by IBM and nistead lost in court, in that case there won't be anything left of SCO and definatly nothing for you to collect on in a lawsuit. No reason to help them by giving them any money now.
You know, people like Sosa make this really difficult. DirecTV is doing something unethical, I believe. People are getting wrongfully accused in my opinion. But Sosa just rolled over and paid out $3500. These people are a problem because they help a bad system to stay bad. It makes it terribly difficult for me to have sympathy for someone who has such a lack of conviction, such a failed sense of justice. They don't care. Should we?
I don't know, it would be nice if they did fight and I hope a few of them do, and win, but I don't feel they've done something wrong if they just give in. It's a huge committment and risk to fight a corporation, and who says he's even very aware or concerned about the issues we're concerned about and why should he fight and risk his livelyhood for our cause. Our support of someone shouldn't be withheld if they don't choose to become a martyr, of course we should give them extra support if they do but if they don't we should support them anyways if we feel that what they did was right and the what the company did was wrong.
What do you think about a maturing Evolution that goes its own way and leaves the Outlook-like interface behind?"
Not much since the site is/.ed though I'm hoping it will be nice:) My main concern is whether they'll get any kind of automatic address completion like there is in Eudora or the Mozilla address bar, contacts are nice but a bit of a pain to set up and they're still not as nice as autocompletion.
Since when did making scientific contributions or other great feats of intellect ever help attract women? Almost invariably, women are most attracted to physical attributes of a man, and to rather negative personality traits (women like jerks). If intellectualism were a draw for women, there wouldn't be all these stereotypes about geeks not getting laid.
Women like someone who can provide for them, it's just instinct, that means sucess, true in the past this mostly meant physical prowess but it also means besting your opponent, if you are in an intellectual arena then the women will be attracted to a certain extent to the men who demonstrate their intelligence not the tough guys who never get an opportunity to show off their athleticism.
If intellectualism were a draw for women, there wouldn't be all these stereotypes about geeks not getting laid.
That's more due to opportunity, geeks don't tend to work around a lot of women which is a very convenient meeting place. I don't believe it has anything to do with geekyness other then lack of exposure to sufficient numbers of women. Finally it doesn't really matter if it does help attract women that's still the root cause of the competitive urge, successful or not it's just instinct.
Being married--and raising children--is hard work.
Most recognized genuses have the luxury of working with little to no distraction. When you have a wife, financial trouble, and screaming children, it's rather hard to plumb the secrets of the universe.
That's not the reason. We work hard because we're competitive, and we're most competitive when we're looking for a mate whether or not it's intentional. When they get a wife (or a husband) they just lost a major motivation which is showing off to the opposite sex by making everyone around you look like an intellectual midget. Plus it reassigns your priorities so that work is now just something to do and your wife and children becmoe your true passion.
That being said could a great scientist continue to make great contributions after they're married by keeping the need to impress the opposite sex by fooling around?
"I see your latest paper got quite a good reception... Are you having an affair!!!"
What is wrong with meeting people at lan parties?!
Or BBS gatherings. Or Chess clubs. or any other perceived geek gathering place?
There is nothing wrong with it. You just dismiss it because it isn't the way that you would meet people.
Science Fiction conventions, and model airplanes, tis the life for I!
I think what he meant is there is a difference between the LAN parties and what you mentioned. Now I could easily be wrong as I've actually never been to a LAN party and I'm sure it can be a great social gathering for the majority of people but those people aren't the ones we're talking about. The people we're talking about are the ones who are truly anti-social and will continue to exclude themselves from social contact at the LAN parties, nevertheless they will still use it as justification for fulfilling some sort of quota for going out and having human contact. It's not that LAN parties are anti-social but if your an anti-social person it's easier to be anti-social at a LAN party then at another type of gathering just because the computer is right there as an objective waiting to be played and you can ignore the people around you thinking that their mere physical proximity.means you're being social.
Your comment started out all right in the beginning but then you started to lose me.
As far as "Eastern" values and morality are concerned - Thailand, and Bangkok specifically, is guilty of being one of the largest Child Prostitution regions in the world. Government Censorship in Thailand is even a bigger joke than morals and responsibility in the Clinton Administration in the U.S.A. - they may say that they censor certain things in Thailand, but the government there nearly looks the other way when it comes to Child Prostitution.
Well others have mentioned that this is really decreasing
The sex trade in Japan is just as rampant as it has ever been, and the Japanese Government enacts useless laws to try to "manage" the sex industry instead of actually limiting it. "Eastern" values are a joke, because they try to make things look lovely and clean on the outside, while one looks deeper the depravety one finds in Eastern society's under-belly is more horrendous than anything found in the "West" - more magazines and films are made in Eastern countries that deal with bestiality, mutilation and other bizarre sexual practices (including "Snuff-films") than any other region in the world.
I don't really like those but all the sex stuff kind of comes down to culture. I'm not sure what a well "managed" sex industry is but hopefully it's a lot safer for the prostitutes than it is in north america. Recently in edmonton a prostitute was almosted murdered and barely managed to escape sustaining some severe injuries in the process. When asked if she would continue working the streets she said yes, that she worked exotic dancing, escort service, prostitution, the money was good and she was a sex industry worker. She's probably unusual and may not being entirely honest but for her wouldn't it be better to regulate the industry so she could work without fear of being murdered? On a similar note who cares what they like in their magazines, if they don't hurt anybody it comes down to their cultural beliefs, maybe they'd find your kids actions to be less then desirable as well.
Radical elements in Eastern relgions (Radical Islamic Jihadists) brought death to over 5,000 innocent people from many nations in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. Radical Islamic Jihadists want an Islamic World - if needed, by force or extermination of "infidels".
Unfortunatly I'm not totally familiar with that part of the world but I get the feeling we just switched cultures... Either way there are just as radical elements in christianity, the only difference is they don't feel they have to become terrorists to impose their views on others or protect their culture anymore, hey how many black people were killed in the US if you go back over 100 years, how many are killed nowadays because of self-serving actions by western governments? Be careful how you throw around the label of immoral and bad values, you might not like where it lands when you change you perspective.
Oh and for the record, I don't take illicit drugs or drink alcohol, they don't swear, they don't sneak peeks at porn either and I like to think of myself as very conscientious(sp) and considerate but that tends to be a relative measure.
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The answer to this question is irrelevant. The real question is "Is Ogg Vorbis gaining consumer acceptance?" It doesn't matter if the music industry thinks Ogg Vorbis is good, as long as consumers aren't using it.
You would think that is how it should work but (un?)fortunately it doesn't. If a ogg is going to be accepted by the consumer that means the industry has to support it first because they control the vast majority of the infrastructure used to play music. Consumers other than us geeks aren't going to use ogg unless the big media players allow you to play it and rip to it and it becomes available in download services. I can say I never even heard of ACC until the Apple Music Store. Industry leads and the consumers may or may not choose to follow, that's how it works.
hmm, whats to stop anyone making one of these things and kitting it out with an explosive or biological warhead? can radars pick these things out as being targets without seagulls etc. raising false alarms?
What's to stop anyone from making weapons out of half a dozen other simple things, the fact is it doesn't take more then about a minute to think of a ton of ways to do some serious damage if you really wanted too. In the end trying to specifically thwart each possible type of attack is bound to fail, the only real solution is to try and take away peoples motives for attacking you otherwise you're just waiting for something to happen.
That being said this admittadly does have potential to do more damage then many other alternatives if for no other reason then it allows for a more easily anonymous and somewhat large scale attack then a lot of other things I can think of at the moment.
Yahoo currently hosts a press release from SCO that basically calls for IBM to "move away from the GPL"." Lycoris tries to dodge the flood of idiocy from Utah. Another non-programmer has seen SCO's presentation, and without attempting to verify the facts through his own research, reported on it. One reader buys a SCO license. SCO justifies their continuing illegal distribution of the Linux kernel.
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I must say I'm VERY DISAPOINTED in SCO, I mean I had my hopes all up for some completely insane claims suing the moon and announcing they were sending hitmen after linux users instead all I get is "whaa whaa IBM should move away from GPL, whaa we don't care about GPL". Com'on SCO you're letting me down where's the fireworks, where's the pizzaz lets get some action here!!
Hopefully this is just the precursor like their ""Disapointment " with Red Hat before the licenses were released. Geez some companies are just no fun anymore
life
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Unfortunatly you then ended up here with the rest of us and lost the item!
the threat to the republic posed by getting in trouble reading dirty comic books.
Yeah no harm in not letting people read types of literature because we don't like its content. Hey I seem to recall To Kill A Mocking Bird has been disliked by a lot of people (better not let any people read that one either). All those people critisising the government too, I mean that's even more disruptive then dirty comic books! This is VERY disturbing both the story and your non-reaction to it. Please try to recognize when your rights are evaporating before it's too late.
This is awesome news! Not only from the fact that IBM is getting in on the action with a countersuit but every time someone takes a shot back at SCO you know SCO comes out with some bizarre claim/lawsuit to trump it! When Redhat sued SCO decided to start selling licenses for everybody who used linux, when SuSE joined in they went after the US government!!! Now that IBM is countersuing them just try to imagine what we're going to see from SCO in the next couple days. Sue the Catholic curch? Sue everybody who is running linux in a RIAA style attack? I mean I can't even imagine what they'll do.
Okay here's my idea, get a press pass and get some film from the press conference, add a laugh track and we'll have a sitcom good enough to fund linux development for the next 10 years!
Here's my proposal, we get a press pass and put a in there camera the next time SCO holds a press conference. We then add a laugh track and sell it as a sitcom, we'll make enough money to buy SCO out!!
Then again that's probably just what the board of directors wanted in the first place... aww heck if nothing else it will be enough money to put out a hit on them!
Port Halo to GC and then we'll talk.
If Halo gets ported to GC I'd be too busy watching out for flying pigs to talk.
Disney helps Linux, so Disney is not Evil ??
Think of it this way, do something bad get punished and despised, do something good and you get rewarded and thanked. Nobody said that they suddenly loved Disney because of this one action but I don't see why we should be mad at them for it!
Want to burn calories while sitting in front of your computer at work? How about shedding those extra pounds while powering your TV at the same time?
This way people will get an increased metabolism (since some of your sugars are being converted into energy for non-local entities), and they will be able to reduce the number of batteries and other power sources needed.
Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls. That would be the killer app.
This could be both a good thing and a bad thing. Firstly it will obviously save lives due to the pure fact of weight loss but will it replace exercise? I've done a lot of running this summer, partially it was to lose about 15 pounds I put on over classes. Now even with those extra 15 pounds I was not what anybody would classify as fat but I was out of shape and found the extra weight was slowing me down. Either way I haven't lost all that extra weight but I don't really care as I have really improved my conditioning (though not to the level of the previous summer when I did a fair amount of running as well). Either way my concern is that this will take away these peoples major stimulus for exercise by making them feel healthy with their smaller cross-section when they are in just as bad shape as before except for a reduced risk of heart disease and maybe fewer joint problems. Also if you consider anorexics(sp?!?) already what will happen when they can do it much more easily and conveniently with one of these devices/technologies I can see this as a huge problem when people run their bodies energy supplies into the ground with the touch of a dial in the pursuit of a pencil thin waist and end up starving to death while on a seemingly healthy diet.
Grandparent (obviously) meant Bush got more votes in Florida. Which he did, according to three legal vote counts.
Although if you take into account the horrid design of the ballots more people intended to vote for Gore then Bush but they ended up voting for someone else instead and that's why Bush won.
Why do philosophers try so hard to identify the unique "humaness" of our species when it's such a simple thing...? Humans are animals that had human parents, and no amount of postulation or terminology will make a cat or a machine into a human.
The question is meaningless now since we havn't reached that point but we may in the future.
Are you still human if you have an artificial limb? What if you have an artificial body, what if you eventually have your brain replaced by a computer? Are you still human, not a single partical that makes you up was grown in a human but your conciousness is unchanged.
Lets look at this human parents thing, what if we genetically engineered apes that were compatible enough with humans to produce valid offspring? Would they be human? What about someone cloned, they could arguably not have parents, or perhaps someone not cloned but assembled out of different human genes, what about a creature with only a few human genes for intelligence and the rest are from a dog? Is this super-intelligent dog human, does it deserve additional rights? In the future these questions will be important so we might as well get a jump on them now.
A few hundred years ago if we had got these IP issues firmly settled (or stuck with what we had) perhaps we wouldn't be having all these problems now. And in a few hundred more we may have worse problems with these questions.
More than that consider the causes that caused you to vote and who you voted for in the first place. There are only so many factors involved and millions of voters, therefore it stands to reason there are a whole lot of other people who feel exactly the same as I do. Now consider that if I feel inclined to actually vote for candidate X then the chances are that a whole lot of other people feel precisely the same way as I do and since I voted for X they did to, by this reasoning my one vote is now thousands. Sure it might be a bit of a stretch but I'm sure you can see the logic and it's a great incentive to vote
Elections are at basis of democracy it is essential that elections are done properly and fairly or you quickly end up with nothing but a facade, that this has occured it frankly terrifying considering the electoral process may of already been subverted in any number of countries using these systems without anybody being the wiser. If it turns out that they were willfully negligent in designing the system or even worse knew about and ignored the flaws for 5 years they should be charged with treason by every country they've sold to and if they aren't dealt with very harshly I will be rightfully suspicious...
Remember, the visible universe is growing by a lightyear every year as light is just hitting us from very distant stars. :)
Not quite, remember the universe started from a central point with the big bang including those very distant stars. Also nothing can travel faster than the speed of light therefore we theoretically could see the entire universe given a strong enough telescope though much of what we see at the distant edge will be very young (it's still possible that there are stars currently outside the current radius of what we can see if they're expanding at almost the speed of light but we can watch them or their ancestors drift out there and they won't pop up).
Unless of course the big bang opened massive worm holes and sprouted up universes all over the place, then the light from them could be meeting us eventually and just pop out of nowhere...
Check out Drumheller Lots of Dinosaur fossils and some cool landforms. The rockies are also really nice scenery (Banff and Jasper are the big tourist places there). You can also check out Vancouver and Toronto and see all the big american movies being made;)
./ers give this guy some good suggestions or them yankees will have him convinced we all live in igloos up here!
Com'on Canadian
I urge everyone to buy one of these anti-litigation licenses, so that we can all file a class action lawsuit when it's proven that they don't have any rights to code within Linux.
If it's proven they don't have rights to the code in linux that means that they didn't settle or get bought out by IBM and nistead lost in court, in that case there won't be anything left of SCO and definatly nothing for you to collect on in a lawsuit. No reason to help them by giving them any money now.
You know, people like Sosa make this really difficult. DirecTV is doing something unethical, I believe. People are getting wrongfully accused in my opinion. But Sosa just rolled over and paid out $3500. These people are a problem because they help a bad system to stay bad. It makes it terribly difficult for me to have sympathy for someone who has such a lack of conviction, such a failed sense of justice. They don't care. Should we?
I don't know, it would be nice if they did fight and I hope a few of them do, and win, but I don't feel they've done something wrong if they just give in. It's a huge committment and risk to fight a corporation, and who says he's even very aware or concerned about the issues we're concerned about and why should he fight and risk his livelyhood for our cause. Our support of someone shouldn't be withheld if they don't choose to become a martyr, of course we should give them extra support if they do but if they don't we should support them anyways if we feel that what they did was right and the what the company did was wrong.
Because software has bugs. That's what software is for.
Hmm, and all this time I thought software was for doing work, silly me!
What do you think about a maturing Evolution that goes its own way and leaves the Outlook-like interface behind?"
/.ed though I'm hoping it will be nice :) My main concern is whether they'll get any kind of automatic address completion like there is in Eudora or the Mozilla address bar, contacts are nice but a bit of a pain to set up and they're still not as nice as autocompletion.
Not much since the site is
Since when did making scientific contributions or other great feats of intellect ever help attract women? Almost invariably, women are most attracted to physical attributes of a man, and to rather negative personality traits (women like jerks). If intellectualism were a draw for women, there wouldn't be all these stereotypes about geeks not getting laid.
Women like someone who can provide for them, it's just instinct, that means sucess, true in the past this mostly meant physical prowess but it also means besting your opponent, if you are in an intellectual arena then the women will be attracted to a certain extent to the men who demonstrate their intelligence not the tough guys who never get an opportunity to show off their athleticism.
If intellectualism were a draw for women, there wouldn't be all these stereotypes about geeks not getting laid.
That's more due to opportunity, geeks don't tend to work around a lot of women which is a very convenient meeting place. I don't believe it has anything to do with geekyness other then lack of exposure to sufficient numbers of women. Finally it doesn't really matter if it does help attract women that's still the root cause of the competitive urge, successful or not it's just instinct.
Being married--and raising children--is hard work.
Most recognized genuses have the luxury of working with little to no distraction. When you have a wife, financial trouble, and screaming children, it's rather hard to plumb the secrets of the universe.
That's not the reason. We work hard because we're competitive, and we're most competitive when we're looking for a mate whether or not it's intentional. When they get a wife (or a husband) they just lost a major motivation which is showing off to the opposite sex by making everyone around you look like an intellectual midget. Plus it reassigns your priorities so that work is now just something to do and your wife and children becmoe your true passion.
That being said could a great scientist continue to make great contributions after they're married by keeping the need to impress the opposite sex by fooling around?
"I see your latest paper got quite a good reception...
Are you having an affair!!!"
Oh well, is Tesco still going to use them?
I read that as
Oh well, is Taco still going to use them?
and thought, damm Kathleen has him on a short leash!
What is wrong with meeting people at lan parties?!
Or BBS gatherings. Or Chess clubs. or any other perceived geek gathering place?
There is nothing wrong with it. You just dismiss it because it isn't the way that you would meet people.
Science Fiction conventions, and model airplanes, tis the life for I!
I think what he meant is there is a difference between the LAN parties and what you mentioned. Now I could easily be wrong as I've actually never been to a LAN party and I'm sure it can be a great social gathering for the majority of people but those people aren't the ones we're talking about. The people we're talking about are the ones who are truly anti-social and will continue to exclude themselves from social contact at the LAN parties, nevertheless they will still use it as justification for fulfilling some sort of quota for going out and having human contact. It's not that LAN parties are anti-social but if your an anti-social person it's easier to be anti-social at a LAN party then at another type of gathering just because the computer is right there as an objective waiting to be played and you can ignore the people around you thinking that their mere physical proximity.means you're being social.
Your comment started out all right in the beginning but then you started to lose me.
As far as "Eastern" values and morality are concerned - Thailand, and Bangkok specifically, is guilty of being one of the largest Child Prostitution regions in the world. Government Censorship in Thailand is even a bigger joke than morals and responsibility in the Clinton Administration in the U.S.A. - they may say that they censor certain things in Thailand, but the government there nearly looks the other way when it comes to Child Prostitution.
Well others have mentioned that this is really decreasing
The sex trade in Japan is just as rampant as it has ever been, and the Japanese Government enacts useless laws to try to "manage" the sex industry instead of actually limiting it. "Eastern" values are a joke, because they try to make things look lovely and clean on the outside, while one looks deeper the depravety one finds in Eastern society's under-belly is more horrendous than anything found in the "West" - more magazines and films are made in Eastern countries that deal with bestiality, mutilation and other bizarre sexual practices (including "Snuff-films") than any other region in the world.
I don't really like those but all the sex stuff kind of comes down to culture. I'm not sure what a well "managed" sex industry is but hopefully it's a lot safer for the prostitutes than it is in north america. Recently in edmonton a prostitute was almosted murdered and barely managed to escape sustaining some severe injuries in the process. When asked if she would continue working the streets she said yes, that she worked exotic dancing, escort service, prostitution, the money was good and she was a sex industry worker. She's probably unusual and may not being entirely honest but for her wouldn't it be better to regulate the industry so she could work without fear of being murdered? On a similar note who cares what they like in their magazines, if they don't hurt anybody it comes down to their cultural beliefs, maybe they'd find your kids actions to be less then desirable as well.
Radical elements in Eastern relgions (Radical Islamic Jihadists) brought death to over 5,000 innocent people from many nations in New York on Sept. 11th, 2001. Radical Islamic Jihadists want an Islamic World - if needed, by force or extermination of "infidels".
Unfortunatly I'm not totally familiar with that part of the world but I get the feeling we just switched cultures... Either way there are just as radical elements in christianity, the only difference is they don't feel they have to become terrorists to impose their views on others or protect their culture anymore, hey how many black people were killed in the US if you go back over 100 years, how many are killed nowadays because of self-serving actions by western governments? Be careful how you throw around the label of immoral and bad values, you might not like where it lands when you change you perspective.
Oh and for the record, I don't take illicit drugs or drink alcohol, they don't swear, they don't sneak peeks at porn either and I like to think of myself as very conscientious(sp) and considerate but that tends to be a relative measure.