I'm not particularly up to scratch on high-end physics, either, but you're very much thinking in the right direction, I'd say: proof that a current theory holds it's ground, means you can start looking at the theoretical possibilities that flow from that theory as rather more likely to be possible, which will cause more attention to indeed go towards them, some of which in turn will eventually lead to me zapping to work instead of being stuck in traffic, so to speak.
All knowledge is potentially useful. Sometimes the methods used to obtain it are objectionable (Dr Mengele, for example), but knowledge in itself is always a good thing.
A rock is gone once you throw it, whilst a nice big stick stays in your hand no matter how many times you use it to whack something.
That is, until it breaks, of course; or in the case of open source, until you try to hit fire with it - at which point it, too catches fire and burns you if you're not paying attention.
Yes, there is no point to life whatsoever, but life itself. No species has any purpose other than continuing it's existence. Such is life, and I fail to see the dissonance.
I CAN see how people can want that not to be true, however, and how that leads to people setting "higher" goals for themselves than merely eating, fucking and sleeping. In simpler times, religion made the worship of random higher beings that purpose. In more enlightened times, mankind has started to make knowledge and understanding of all that is that goal; and I personally prefer the latter one - it at least offers the long-term possibility of advancement, improved lifespan and quality of life to the species as a whole.
I'm a PS3 owner. On a purely intellectual level, I agree: they're fucking around, taking things away that I got when I bought the thing, forcing updates down my throat regardless of wether I want/need them or not, et cetera.
On a simplistic gamer level, though, none of their decisions has impacted me, at all. I never planned on running Linux on it - would be fun, but hardly useful to me; I buy the games I play so I don't care about pirates risking bans, and it's simply a pretty good toy all things considered. Maybe a looser approach to homebrew might give me some more enjoyment still, but in general I'm quite happy with it.
Those two points of view are in a precarious balance, and I honestly don't know wether or not a PS4 will enter my home, if it appears. All the shit Sony pulls impacts mostly hackers who want to do different things to the console than what Sony intended - a right that admittedly should be held sacred - and the egos of some random top execs who get their rocks off on the idea that they are in control. All in all, small transgressions with little impact, but which might eventually cause rather larger consequences if said egofuckers get some actual power on their hands, like, say, moving into politics.
I *want* to say I'll never buy another Sony product, but I can't. I honestly don't know if I ever will.
Hell, even if I vow to never do so, corporate politics and management may change, too, over the years.
One may assume the older guys at least got some nookie and generic intimacy out of it; whereas this "online girlfriend" might not even be female for all the sap knows.
Some people are way too much into the whole "our love is pure" crap that hollywood and the religious shovel around wholesale. Nothing wrong with nookie, it's a wholesome, not to mention necessary part of a good relationship and of life in general.
I don't know if that's an actual rumour or if you're kidding, but that would probably work very well, as would leaving a simple CD with some interesting label around.
Autorun is one of the major culprits in such a scheme, although people would probably click on random innocently-named executeables, too. Guess I should try that sometime.
The one thing I don't fully understand, though, is why Zuckerberg is constantly trying to erode people's privacy and get all the information public, then - wouldn't the information he has on people be worth more if it's on friends-only profiles ?
While the lack of proper drivers (or postscript emulation, for that matter) is the printer manufacturers' fault, I have to say that as their neighbour I wasn't aware that german officials did their administration in Cyrillic. The rest of the country seems to do just fine using the Roman alphabet.
Back in the second half of the nineties, my employer was on Banyan Vines groupware. Three-pronged email adresses (individual@group@company), which happily supported *@*@*. Yes, wildcards in an email address. Took them until probably '97 or '98 to figure out that it would be a good idea to disable that for the common luser, too. Many a kittens-for-sale mail was bounced around, including plenty of reply-alls, and apparently everyone in charge just took this in stride without ever questioning how that could happen.
I fully agree that a not-yet-released device can't very well hold a top selling position; but I was also under the impression that MS releases mostly numbers for devices shipped as opposed to sold to consumers, so it's a bit hard to say where they stand. Safe bet that there's at least a few junkies out there who bought one, though.
Political opinions are what runs a democracy - it is the people in the street, talking about what goes on in the state and what should be done about it. Silencing that free and open debate, as is apparently the custom in the United States, is the death of democracy and the advent of belittling leaders who 'know what is best for the people'.
Welcome to your willing subservitude to the new tyrants.
Ooo, non-RIAA labels. So, remind me again, why have I been geographically discriminated against again? I hadn't discovered Pandora for very long before they got MAFIAA-handled into kicking non-US users, but I *liked* it. I might well have subscribed. Glad I didn't, though, since the RIAA seems able to dictate that I can't even listen to music that is in no way associated with them.
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For a moment, just a moment, there, I read "the Black Gate of Amarok".
Don't make me laugh like that. I just spit coffee all over my desk.
Hah, no, you're right, it isn't.
Back then it was about one man trying to do the best for his people.
These days it's about forcing others into what you think is right, regardless of what they think about that.
A major difference, indeed.
5) Don't use computers ?
I'm not particularly up to scratch on high-end physics, either, but you're very much thinking in the right direction, I'd say: proof that a current theory holds it's ground, means you can start looking at the theoretical possibilities that flow from that theory as rather more likely to be possible, which will cause more attention to indeed go towards them, some of which in turn will eventually lead to me zapping to work instead of being stuck in traffic, so to speak.
All knowledge is potentially useful. Sometimes the methods used to obtain it are objectionable (Dr Mengele, for example), but knowledge in itself is always a good thing.
You're seeing that quite wrong, I'm afraid.
A rock is gone once you throw it, whilst a nice big stick stays in your hand no matter how many times you use it to whack something.
That is, until it breaks, of course; or in the case of open source, until you try to hit fire with it - at which point it, too catches fire and burns you if you're not paying attention.
Should be amusing, at the very least.
Yes, there is no point to life whatsoever, but life itself. No species has any purpose other than continuing it's existence. Such is life, and I fail to see the dissonance.
I CAN see how people can want that not to be true, however, and how that leads to people setting "higher" goals for themselves than merely eating, fucking and sleeping. In simpler times, religion made the worship of random higher beings that purpose. In more enlightened times, mankind has started to make knowledge and understanding of all that is that goal; and I personally prefer the latter one - it at least offers the long-term possibility of advancement, improved lifespan and quality of life to the species as a whole.
Why will I hunt you down and torture you for weeks before allowing you to die ? Well, God wants it that way, it's the simplest explanation.
It's pretty obvious, but for people like you Occam really should have specified that he meant the simplest reasonable explanation.
I'm a PS3 owner. On a purely intellectual level, I agree: they're fucking around, taking things away that I got when I bought the thing, forcing updates down my throat regardless of wether I want/need them or not, et cetera.
On a simplistic gamer level, though, none of their decisions has impacted me, at all. I never planned on running Linux on it - would be fun, but hardly useful to me; I buy the games I play so I don't care about pirates risking bans, and it's simply a pretty good toy all things considered. Maybe a looser approach to homebrew might give me some more enjoyment still, but in general I'm quite happy with it.
Those two points of view are in a precarious balance, and I honestly don't know wether or not a PS4 will enter my home, if it appears. All the shit Sony pulls impacts mostly hackers who want to do different things to the console than what Sony intended - a right that admittedly should be held sacred - and the egos of some random top execs who get their rocks off on the idea that they are in control. All in all, small transgressions with little impact, but which might eventually cause rather larger consequences if said egofuckers get some actual power on their hands, like, say, moving into politics.
I *want* to say I'll never buy another Sony product, but I can't. I honestly don't know if I ever will.
Hell, even if I vow to never do so, corporate politics and management may change, too, over the years.
One may assume the older guys at least got some nookie and generic intimacy out of it; whereas this "online girlfriend" might not even be female for all the sap knows.
Some people are way too much into the whole "our love is pure" crap that hollywood and the religious shovel around wholesale. Nothing wrong with nookie, it's a wholesome, not to mention necessary part of a good relationship and of life in general.
> but it's a text-based format, it can't be incredibly difficult
Here, have some OOXML.
I don't know if that's an actual rumour or if you're kidding, but that would probably work very well, as would leaving a simple CD with some interesting label around.
Autorun is one of the major culprits in such a scheme, although people would probably click on random innocently-named executeables, too. Guess I should try that sometime.
The one thing I don't fully understand, though, is why Zuckerberg is constantly trying to erode people's privacy and get all the information public, then - wouldn't the information he has on people be worth more if it's on friends-only profiles ?
Yes, well, given that I'm a neighbour, the germans all seem a bit foreign to me :-p
While the lack of proper drivers (or postscript emulation, for that matter) is the printer manufacturers' fault, I have to say that as their neighbour I wasn't aware that german officials did their administration in Cyrillic. The rest of the country seems to do just fine using the Roman alphabet.
Back in the second half of the nineties, my employer was on Banyan Vines groupware. Three-pronged email adresses (individual@group@company), which happily supported *@*@*. Yes, wildcards in an email address. Took them until probably '97 or '98 to figure out that it would be a good idea to disable that for the common luser, too. Many a kittens-for-sale mail was bounced around, including plenty of reply-alls, and apparently everyone in charge just took this in stride without ever questioning how that could happen.
The studies are obviously wrong.
Who could possibly believe such low numbers ?
I used to work for Skynet (no, really :-p) and believe you me, it wasn't what the movie made of it.
Hey, 23 more seconds of DiCaprio drowning is worth something, mate.
I suspect and assume OEMs get cash-per-install for the third-party bloatware.
I fully agree that a not-yet-released device can't very well hold a top selling position; but I was also under the impression that MS releases mostly numbers for devices shipped as opposed to sold to consumers, so it's a bit hard to say where they stand. Safe bet that there's at least a few junkies out there who bought one, though.
Agreed. And which particular system has major difficulties coming back online after an event? Oh, wait, right, the one they have now.
And you can still move the mouse without melting the CPU ?
Political opinions are what runs a democracy - it is the people in the street, talking about what goes on in the state and what should be done about it. Silencing that free and open debate, as is apparently the custom in the United States, is the death of democracy and the advent of belittling leaders who 'know what is best for the people'.
Welcome to your willing subservitude to the new tyrants.
Ooo, non-RIAA labels. So, remind me again, why have I been geographically discriminated against again? I hadn't discovered Pandora for very long before they got MAFIAA-handled into kicking non-US users, but I *liked* it. I might well have subscribed. Glad I didn't, though, since the RIAA seems able to dictate that I can't even listen to music that is in no way associated with them.