Maybe behead those evil corporation owners? Take their wealth and spread it around to all the rednecks so they can buy a lifetime supply of Hamms and gold plating for their trailers? Go ahead, you do that to anyone that's wealthy and powerful. While you're deciding who gets what money why don't you go ahead and test everyone's physical and mental capacity and assign them careers. Socialism rocks. Check out the USSR.
You're either A) just wanting to bitch. B) one of the rednecks. C) jealous. or D) a jealous redneck just wanting to bitch.
All one sided complaints and no solutions makes Jack a dull retard.
Amen. I see no evidence that any other species makes decisions based on long-term goals or the well being of other species. Im sure if any other species had the means and opportunity to extend themselves to every part of the earth even if it meant the destuction of other creatures they would.
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Jesus Christ, Slashdot is like the Engadget-Repost-Site. Like every 3rd article is from Engadget and now they're making articles about Engadgets new sub-sites.
To be clear... At least in my state the state drivers manual says,
"You should have your license or permit with you at all times while driving. If you are arrested for not having your non-commercial drivers license with you, you will not be penalized if you can produce your license or permit in court or show that it was valid at the time."
So it sounds like, yes you can technically be arrested for not carrying your license, but no, ultimately it isn't a crime for not having one and you won't face any charges assuming you have one just didn't have it on you. Personally, I never carry my license and I've been stopped before. The police can look up your record if you just tell them your license number, which is what they've done for me and never "arrested me".
0.0000000000000214/nucleotide/generation multiply that by 3 billion nucleotides in a human
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0.0000642
70 year lifespan = 365 70-day cycles.
(so 0.0000642 x 365)
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0.0243433
1 (person) divided by 0.0243433
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4.1
So 1 mutation every 4 peoples entire lives, with a "most of the time it does nothing at all", sure doesnt look like a lot of evolution just whizzing past us to me...
Of course I'm just computing numbers without fact checking and maybe missing something.
Oh sure. Manufacture an insect that lives to get high on opium. What do we do when it takes over the lands and starts wiping out humans? Each little bug will be able to take a dozen rounds of 9 milli's to the chest and keep coming at you!
I agree, its like back when I used to play EQ and read EQ related forums. Everyone was always posting links to this website that did daily video game comics. I read like 40 in a row one day and not one was funny. Not even slightly. They were all like,
"Did you see that dragon?"
"Yeah, he sure was big!"
"Bwahahahah!"
So either I'm getting old, or what people find funny has really changed lately. I think some people laugh at anything put in a comic strip. They think, "Woah, Im a geek, and thats geeky stuff, and it's in bright colors, that's hilarious! Finally someone understands me!"
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For the same reason if the presidential position was a popularity contest and you voted for the guy that got 49.5% of the national vote, your vote wouldn't count for crap either.
Like they say in Highlander. "There can be only one."
In addition, (and stop me if you've heard this one), we dont live in a democracy. We live in a Republic. If you want a democracy you're in the wrong country.
Finally, it only takes a little wisdom to see that without the electoral college the candidates would live their campaign in NY and CA and ignore everyone else (probably even your state). They'd never have to listen to the bible belt, the mountain region, or anyone else. You sure that's what you want? Imagine having 10 children, but only listening to 1 because he's the strongest and smartest, so he's all that matters right?
The president is the president of the entire country that makes up the United States, not of a few key cities on each border.
No the real trick is what your friend is doing. You should do the same thing. Find someone willing to buy your 1 year old hardware every year and put that money into a new top end video card. Once youre past the first purchas, with them always subsidizing your next purchase, you're getting a nicer card for the same cost:)
Yes! Thank you! I saw this URL on Slashdot a while back, loved it, lost it, couldn't find it again with google from memory. Was trying like Mega-Radio, etc. I decided I'd probably just never see the site again, and here you post it.
Thanks again, and everyone else should look at it. Quality artists there.
The internet isn't magic. Nor is it some kind of cosmic quirk we aren't prepared yet to deal with. The invention and advancement of the internet only brought to fruition "perfect* communication". That's all the internet is. A method to communicate among points (people, devices, etc) perfectly. That seems to me an undeniable, fundamental and primal function of our species and reality. I can find no fault in this ability. Transferring and duplicating information from point A to point B in a timely and completely accurate manor seems like one of the most solid building blocks of our advancement as a species. As important as the fire and the wheel.
Any side effect that comes from it, such as business models that come crashing down, are in the wrong. Just like the wheel and fire brought about a complete reevaluation of the priorities and methodologies of everyday life and society, so too must the internet. It's not an easy pill to swallow because money, jobs, and a whole lot of "institution" is behind the status quo, but in the end it must give way to the basic premise and results of the internet. Anything it's perpendicular to must disperse and reorganize (or not).
* by perfect, I mean exact (exact transfer, exact replication, etc).
I really wish Apple would develop OSX for PC hardware and sell it. Financial reasons for them NOT doing it aside I think it'd really put a dent in the Microsoft Windows Monopoly.
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or fired all their user interface designers.
I always thought the whole CONCEPT of a Windowing system / GUI was to provide a single, stable, cohesive "standard" to which all applications adhere. By doing so you've obligated the end user to learn the functions of a widget and application only once. Each new application learning cycle builds on the knowledge of the previous ones.
Think back to Windows NT 4.0, as it's *maybe* _one of_ the best examples. During that time, most every application used the same look at feel (as in, identically), even Windows Media Player. The launch mechanism for most every application found its home in the Start Menu -> Program Files folder, and so on. OSX, (though my time spent with OSX is limited so far) seems to also build on this paradigm. Clean, but most importantly cohesive.
But as the years have gone by, instead of refining this basic concept, subjecting users to minimal UI enhancements, but rather continually refining the model, the development cycles have gone completely the other way. Its a [geek] feature war and a designer war. Applications (like Media Player on Windows) deviate horrifically from the solid foundation of UI standards with a glowing trainwreck of 3D buttons and glass bevels plastered all over custom window framing. (I love the insanity that ensues when you move between full mode and windowed mode, that spawns another window with just an icon in it, someone get me a revolver.) While a "Media Player" can possibly (barely) be argued for a "custom experience", its spilling over into everything else. DVD ripping software, the entire Office suite, even Macromedia Flash uses a zillion windows with their own fucked up grips and icons.
But now, it's moving into the desktop. The actual UI. Everyone (again, except maybe OSX so far, and based only on what I've seen) is to blame. Windows and Linux both. Longhorn is a god awful nightmare of confusing combinations of task and event driven models. Checkboxes by each filename in Windows Explorer? Redundant clocks and taskbars? Wizards and dummy-versions of everything like the (currently in XP) Control Panel that can be in classic mode or the new re-organized gay-mode. The implications are exponential learning curves and nightmare support models "Click Start -> Control Panel -> Network Settings... you dont have that? Hmm, oh wait you're in gay-mode for the Control Panel, okay well first click Classic Mode on the sidebar, THEN start over." . Linux distros have their craptasic methodology of installing every useless thing they can (X-Eyes anyone?) by default and the "Start Menu" clones of KDE and Gnome are a maze of "Start -> Settings -> System, Start -> System -> Preferences, Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Settings." with redundancy and gray deliniations of whats where.
I dont know, when I see applications putting icons to launch them in
Start -> Programs -> MyApplication
Start Menu's commonly used bubbling app list
Start Menu's Pin-to list
Icons on the desktop
Quicklaunch icons on the quicklaunch toolbar
Mini-icons in the tray
Icons on taskbars of other apps (like editing a webpage with Word icon inside of IEs toolbar)
And being able to launch fucking Age of Empires from MSN Messenger (at least you used to be able to, I dont know if you still can, I stopped running it.)
It makes me want to hang everyone thats in charge of this bullshit. Windows needs to quit providing more wizards, carnival buttons, redundant ways to do the same task and per-application custom UIs and Linux needs to stop ripping off everything every other OS does and sticking it all together into a disorganized mess.
* Prediction: As soon as Longhorn comes out with its secondary taskbar littered with useless widgets like picture slideshows and analog clocks (like OSX is doing now I believe too), no matter how bad of an idea it is to start with, all major window managers in Linux will have one too. It's the, "What! They have something we don't have?! Who cares if it sucks, IMPLEMENT IT!" mentality.
"While the thought of using.Net to program Lego Mindstorms may not be palatable..."
Man what's with the bias against.NET. Oh it's not "worthy" of controlling Lego Mindstorms?
OH NOS! OMGZ, I R NOT HAX0RING MY LEGOS NLESS ITZ IN ASS3MBL3R..NET BAD K PLZ THX! D0WN WIT MICRO$OFT!!!!111!1!
Seems to me.NET is a good idea, so good in fact it's ripped off by Mono. A solid intelligable foundation library of objects, inter language, cross platform compatability. C# is a very enjoyable language to work in for some of us (personal preference). There's always the/.'ers with monkeys on their backs that insist its one huge elaborate Microsoft bait and switch to lock everyone into the Microsoft Evil Empire, but it seems to me theres a ton of positives as well, ECMA standardization, dozens of.NET capable languages now, and the MONO project is a great thing (that is a direct result, like it or not, of.NET being born). So whats with all this "oh nos, its Microsoft, so I shall not dirty my hands of complimenting it! Must bash in every post ever!".
Open your minds like you open your source and you might learn something, like some tools are good for some jobs, other tools for other jobs. Not everything that comes from MS is evil and not everything that comes from OSS is good.
Seems to me the government would shoot themselves in the foot ruling that an ISP is responsible for, and thus required to monitor everything that passes through its gateways. I think once the average person got the impression that every click, (intentional or accidental), every email they send or receive, etc are scrutinized by some law enforcement huddled in a van outside their house the desire for products with encryption built in and average-user easy (unlike what exists now) will climb.
So then the government winds up with the average citizen PGP encrypting everything and their little Carnivore system is as useful as a clicking Zip-Drive. The sooner the better if you ask me.
Okay, can we quit with the "take the high road", "don't be childish" posts. Yes, we all know thats the right thing to do, and after the first 50 it's plenty redundant so quit posting it.
Now lets get on with funny ways people have, or have wanted to leave their jobs. Something interesting to read instead of 500 obvious "Do the right thing" posts.
Yeah - and as soon as you have this sort of facility available, the terrorists dont even have to hijack the plane itself......
Yea I knew someone would make this argument but it's pretty weak. NOTHING is secure, but a ground facility has the capacity to be a lot safer with a lot more "rings of security" than a jet cabin door.
Two, I think they should let the airlines set policies for themselves. Consumers can pick the cheap airline that doesn't screen, or the more expensive one that does.
Yea that's a tough one. On the one hand I can understand consumer choice of how "violated" your privacy is to fly on an airline. On the other hand it's the federal goverment's concern when someone obtains control over the jet and crashes it into public, private and governmental buildings killing thousands. If the airline implements these requirements, then their passengers are free of the search requirement.
Since the government [theoretically] is only concerned when control leaves the airline and enters into the terrorist hands (because at that point the jet becomes a weapon), I'd prefer to see some requirements put in place that completely remove control of the jet from anyone on board and puts it in the hands of a security group on the ground as soon as there are any questionable issues on-board. Some manner in which the plane cannot be flown by terrorists as the control over the aircraft leaves as soon as its taken over.
Now that doesnt prevent someone from blowing up a jet in air, but hey, at least the damage is probably going to be a lot smaller if that happens as opposed to ramming it into the WTC.
Besides, we have Air Marshalls on jets still right? right?:/
Why packet writing to CDRW's STILL isn't nativly supported by most major OS's is beyond me. CDRW media is dirt cheap, and 400 times bigger than a floppy but making the average user go through extra clicks and disconnecting the ideas of "dropping onto a disk" and "writing TO the disk" is just the stupidest thing.
CDRW's should have been drag and drop write/erase like any other media since day one, and if they couldnt do it on day one, then day two. But this is what, year 5? It's why ZipDrives, even at their insane failure rates and price per meg are still popular with many people, because they've performed the miracle of "being able to drag and drop and erase from it". What's so hard about making that happen with Windows/Linux even at the very lowest level (as in, from a command line, safe mode, whatever).
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Maybe behead those evil corporation owners? Take their wealth and spread it around to all the rednecks so they can buy a lifetime supply of Hamms and gold plating for their trailers? Go ahead, you do that to anyone that's wealthy and powerful. While you're deciding who gets what money why don't you go ahead and test everyone's physical and mental capacity and assign them careers. Socialism rocks. Check out the USSR.
You're either A) just wanting to bitch. B) one of the rednecks. C) jealous. or D) a jealous redneck just wanting to bitch.
All one sided complaints and no solutions makes Jack a dull retard.
Amen. I see no evidence that any other species makes decisions based on long-term goals or the well being of other species. Im sure if any other species had the means and opportunity to extend themselves to every part of the earth even if it meant the destuction of other creatures they would.
Jesus Christ, Slashdot is like the Engadget-Repost-Site. Like every 3rd article is from Engadget and now they're making articles about Engadgets new sub-sites.
"You should have your license or permit with you at all times while driving. If you are arrested for not having your non-commercial drivers license with you, you will not be penalized if you can produce your license or permit in court or show that it was valid at the time."
So it sounds like, yes you can technically be arrested for not carrying your license, but no, ultimately it isn't a crime for not having one and you won't face any charges assuming you have one just didn't have it on you. Personally, I never carry my license and I've been stopped before. The police can look up your record if you just tell them your license number, which is what they've done for me and never "arrested me".
0.0000000000000214/nucleotide/generation
multiply that by 3 billion nucleotides in a human
------------------
0.0000642
70 year lifespan = 365 70-day cycles.
(so 0.0000642 x 365)
------------------
0.0243433
1 (person) divided by 0.0243433
------------------
4.1
So 1 mutation every 4 peoples entire lives, with a "most of the time it does nothing at all", sure doesnt look like a lot of evolution just whizzing past us to me...
Of course I'm just computing numbers without fact checking and maybe missing something.
Oh sure. Manufacture an insect that lives to get high on opium. What do we do when it takes over the lands and starts wiping out humans? Each little bug will be able to take a dozen rounds of 9 milli's to the chest and keep coming at you!
"Did you see that dragon?"
"Yeah, he sure was big!"
"Bwahahahah!"
So either I'm getting old, or what people find funny has really changed lately. I think some people laugh at anything put in a comic strip. They think, "Woah, Im a geek, and thats geeky stuff, and it's in bright colors, that's hilarious! Finally someone understands me!"
Free the heavy-breather prank-callers from prison! They are the key to our future! Do it for the children! If we don't the terrorist have already won!
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Like they say in Highlander. "There can be only one."
In addition, (and stop me if you've heard this one), we dont live in a democracy. We live in a Republic. If you want a democracy you're in the wrong country.
Finally, it only takes a little wisdom to see that without the electoral college the candidates would live their campaign in NY and CA and ignore everyone else (probably even your state). They'd never have to listen to the bible belt, the mountain region, or anyone else. You sure that's what you want? Imagine having 10 children, but only listening to 1 because he's the strongest and smartest, so he's all that matters right?
The president is the president of the entire country that makes up the United States, not of a few key cities on each border.
No the real trick is what your friend is doing. You should do the same thing. Find someone willing to buy your 1 year old hardware every year and put that money into a new top end video card. Once youre past the first purchas, with them always subsidizing your next purchase, you're getting a nicer card for the same cost :)
- Steve Martin, "The Jerk"
Time to sign up for an @something.ru or the like.
Thanks again, and everyone else should look at it. Quality artists there.
Any side effect that comes from it, such as business models that come crashing down, are in the wrong. Just like the wheel and fire brought about a complete reevaluation of the priorities and methodologies of everyday life and society, so too must the internet. It's not an easy pill to swallow because money, jobs, and a whole lot of "institution" is behind the status quo, but in the end it must give way to the basic premise and results of the internet. Anything it's perpendicular to must disperse and reorganize (or not).
* by perfect, I mean exact (exact transfer, exact replication, etc).
I really wish Apple would develop OSX for PC hardware and sell it. Financial reasons for them NOT doing it aside I think it'd really put a dent in the Microsoft Windows Monopoly.
I always thought the whole CONCEPT of a Windowing system / GUI was to provide a single, stable, cohesive "standard" to which all applications adhere. By doing so you've obligated the end user to learn the functions of a widget and application only once. Each new application learning cycle builds on the knowledge of the previous ones.
Think back to Windows NT 4.0, as it's *maybe* _one of_ the best examples. During that time, most every application used the same look at feel (as in, identically), even Windows Media Player. The launch mechanism for most every application found its home in the Start Menu -> Program Files folder, and so on. OSX, (though my time spent with OSX is limited so far) seems to also build on this paradigm. Clean, but most importantly cohesive.
But as the years have gone by, instead of refining this basic concept, subjecting users to minimal UI enhancements, but rather continually refining the model, the development cycles have gone completely the other way. Its a [geek] feature war and a designer war. Applications (like Media Player on Windows) deviate horrifically from the solid foundation of UI standards with a glowing trainwreck of 3D buttons and glass bevels plastered all over custom window framing. (I love the insanity that ensues when you move between full mode and windowed mode, that spawns another window with just an icon in it, someone get me a revolver.) While a "Media Player" can possibly (barely) be argued for a "custom experience", its spilling over into everything else. DVD ripping software, the entire Office suite, even Macromedia Flash uses a zillion windows with their own fucked up grips and icons.
But now, it's moving into the desktop. The actual UI. Everyone (again, except maybe OSX so far, and based only on what I've seen) is to blame. Windows and Linux both. Longhorn is a god awful nightmare of confusing combinations of task and event driven models. Checkboxes by each filename in Windows Explorer? Redundant clocks and taskbars? Wizards and dummy-versions of everything like the (currently in XP) Control Panel that can be in classic mode or the new re-organized gay-mode. The implications are exponential learning curves and nightmare support models "Click Start -> Control Panel -> Network Settings... you dont have that? Hmm, oh wait you're in gay-mode for the Control Panel, okay well first click Classic Mode on the sidebar, THEN start over." . Linux distros have their craptasic methodology of installing every useless thing they can (X-Eyes anyone?) by default and the "Start Menu" clones of KDE and Gnome are a maze of "Start -> Settings -> System, Start -> System -> Preferences, Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Settings." with redundancy and gray deliniations of whats where.
I dont know, when I see applications putting icons to launch them in
- Start -> Programs -> MyApplication
- Start Menu's commonly used bubbling app list
- Start Menu's Pin-to list
- Icons on the desktop
- Quicklaunch icons on the quicklaunch toolbar
- Mini-icons in the tray
- Icons on taskbars of other apps (like editing a webpage with Word icon inside of IEs toolbar)
- And being able to launch fucking Age of Empires from MSN Messenger (at least you used to be able to, I dont know if you still can, I stopped running it.)
It makes me want to hang everyone thats in charge of this bullshit. Windows needs to quit providing more wizards, carnival buttons, redundant ways to do the same task and per-application custom UIs and Linux needs to stop ripping off everything every other OS does and sticking it all together into a disorganized mess.* Prediction: As soon as Longhorn comes out with its secondary taskbar littered with useless widgets like picture slideshows and analog clocks (like OSX is doing now I believe too), no matter how bad of an idea it is to start with, all major window managers in Linux will have one too. It's the, "What! They have something we don't have?! Who cares if it sucks, IMPLEMENT IT!" mentality.
Does AMD plan on pricing dual-core 64's in the "power-user / gamer" realm, or up into the high-dollar server realm?
Man what's with the bias against .NET. Oh it's not "worthy" of controlling Lego Mindstorms?
OH NOS! OMGZ, I R NOT HAX0RING MY LEGOS NLESS ITZ IN ASS3MBL3R. .NET BAD K PLZ THX! D0WN WIT MICRO$OFT!!!!111!1!
Seems to me .NET is a good idea, so good in fact it's ripped off by Mono. A solid intelligable foundation library of objects, inter language, cross platform compatability. C# is a very enjoyable language to work in for some of us (personal preference). There's always the /.'ers with monkeys on their backs that insist its one huge elaborate Microsoft bait and switch to lock everyone into the Microsoft Evil Empire, but it seems to me theres a ton of positives as well, ECMA standardization, dozens of .NET capable languages now, and the MONO project is a great thing (that is a direct result, like it or not, of .NET being born). So whats with all this "oh nos, its Microsoft, so I shall not dirty my hands of complimenting it! Must bash in every post ever!".
Open your minds like you open your source and you might learn something, like some tools are good for some jobs, other tools for other jobs. Not everything that comes from MS is evil and not everything that comes from OSS is good.
Flame away.
If North Korean mutants take gold in every event, it was probably a nuclear explosion.
So then the government winds up with the average citizen PGP encrypting everything and their little Carnivore system is as useful as a clicking Zip-Drive. The sooner the better if you ask me.
Now lets get on with funny ways people have, or have wanted to leave their jobs. Something interesting to read instead of 500 obvious "Do the right thing" posts.
Yea I knew someone would make this argument but it's pretty weak. NOTHING is secure, but a ground facility has the capacity to be a lot safer with a lot more "rings of security" than a jet cabin door.
Yea that's a tough one. On the one hand I can understand consumer choice of how "violated" your privacy is to fly on an airline. On the other hand it's the federal goverment's concern when someone obtains control over the jet and crashes it into public, private and governmental buildings killing thousands. If the airline implements these requirements, then their passengers are free of the search requirement.
Since the government [theoretically] is only concerned when control leaves the airline and enters into the terrorist hands (because at that point the jet becomes a weapon), I'd prefer to see some requirements put in place that completely remove control of the jet from anyone on board and puts it in the hands of a security group on the ground as soon as there are any questionable issues on-board. Some manner in which the plane cannot be flown by terrorists as the control over the aircraft leaves as soon as its taken over.
Now that doesnt prevent someone from blowing up a jet in air, but hey, at least the damage is probably going to be a lot smaller if that happens as opposed to ramming it into the WTC.
Besides, we have Air Marshalls on jets still right? right? :/
CDRW's should have been drag and drop write/erase like any other media since day one, and if they couldnt do it on day one, then day two. But this is what, year 5? It's why ZipDrives, even at their insane failure rates and price per meg are still popular with many people, because they've performed the miracle of "being able to drag and drop and erase from it". What's so hard about making that happen with Windows/Linux even at the very lowest level (as in, from a command line, safe mode, whatever).