You dress for the occasion and the setting. Sticking out like a sore thumb in your pleated khakis at the club is going to make you look like a tool, its not going to impress anyone. Ripped jeans and a t-shirt at a nice restaurant or lounge would give the impression of a slob or again, a tool. Its more about not appearing clueless than conforming to some rigid "this is what I wear because its who I am" self imposed dress code.
You're doomed until you learn how to be at least a little bit of a jerk. The rules don't make sense, but they are the rules. Why are geeks willing to put up with all kinds of esoteric rule systems but then complain when they have to deal with this one? Its a predictable set of responses based on an expected stimulus. If you want a certain output, you need to provide the correct input. You can be a jerk to get your foot in the door, then let Mr. Nice Guy take over. They'll be even happier you did. Manipulative, sure, but if you think that everyone isn't constantly manipulating everyone else you're wrong.
Nailed it. You'd stick out like a sore thumb in SF in khakis. As I've seen it, its pretty much jeans or a suit. Otherwise you might as well show up with a red and black checkered shirt and a hat with flaps on the ears. DC on the other hand...
Just curious - are there any projects currently running on regular wifi devices that would be "supercharged" once this took off? Like if 5000 people in a 20 mile radius installed these devices is the software out there to build them into an adhoc mesh network anyone could hook into?
Well, at least there's no stupid Walmart sales policy or M rating or whatever to prevent you from slaughtering children or dogs. That part is at least awesome, but I see what you mean about the grinding.
Everyone is always so ready to cry 'shill'. Lets take a look at this objective article, just by picking out any old quote:
"Robert Louis Kemp takes these tools and in this, one of his series of publications, Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics -The General Theory of Relativity becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men."
Sounds like an unbiased view to me. I'm pretty sure though the author should have gone with a snappier name. From the review, it sounds like this could reasonably just been called "Bible 2: Holier Than Thou".
If you're that particular about your homepage, why not just craft one locally that comes up when you first start your browser, or one you can link to instead of google? Then it can forward the info onto the search box.
Also who goes to the front page to do a search? The only time I really ever visit it is when I hear about the doodles or whatever. Just use the search bar in the browser!
Well then paperbacks aren't going to live up to your exacting standards. Why complain about the $10 a year when you need to buy the hardback large print format for everything - we're talking >$20 at release minimum.
It really depends on the author I think. If you look at Tolkien's work, the narrative almost takes a back seat to his unbelievably (and pretty much unmatched) detailed history, language, lore set forth for the universe. I think going through and re-reading LOTR via a setup like this would be a much different experience.
If only we had a way of taking everyone's 60 lb 5 foot high towers and making them "on the go". "On the go" computing! Has a nice ring to it. One day soon (doesn't it always seem like the cool stuff is 5-10 years out) I think we'll have computers in smaller formats, ones dedicated for things such as this. I'm envisioning something in the form factor of a legal pad or something, or a large book if you need a keyboard. Oh well - at least I can get paged now and respond from the nearest convenient pay phone instead of always hovering around a phone for important calls. What'll they think of next!
approach to fighting space junk. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Junkers can easily use it to create more space junk ( ) Space stations and other legitimate space uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force space dumps ( ) It will stop space junk for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of space will not put up with it ( ) NASA will not put up with it ( ) The space police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from space junkers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many space users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Space junkers don't care about other junk in their junk ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for space ( ) Launches in foreign countries ( ) Difficulty of searching for tiny junk in all of space ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing investment in space ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all space junk collection policies ( ) Extreme profitability of space junk ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with space junkers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of space junkers themselves ( ) Fuel costs that are unaffected by space junk ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) We should be able to talk about space Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve missles ( ) Countermeasures should not involve more junk ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending things to space should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your space garbage company? ( ) Incompatiblity with space licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) I don't want the government cleaning up space ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
No, I think you are the troll. I'm haven't done a whole lot with C# (I've kept up with it every time they release something new out of curiosity) but saying that "syntactic sugar rots productivity" is a completely unfounded statement. Its simply a tool, and I could show you gnarly Java code and beautiful C and vice versa. Any framework that does a specific job and makes describing and implementing the "meat" of a program that much easier is a plus in my book. So if there are well documented and well used features in.NET that eliminate redundant and unnecessary code from a project, thus making refactoring or changing easier, that somehow increases maintenance costs?
Its funny because in the 70's all the interviews Lucas gave talked about wanting to do an updated space serial, and then by the 90's he was talking about how he did it to reinvent mythology and stuff. That was the full line of BS they gave at the Smithsonian when they had the exhibit there.
Depends on the age. Never underestimate the biological clock's ability to make a lady settle. Think of this like an interactive trawl of facebook/myspace. You are evaluating them on looks but you can take into account hygiene and get answers to questions like "do you have a job/car/boat" etc. This way you can skip a bad first date altogether if there are any "dealbreakers." You know, when you get to a point where you say "no way man" but you still have to finish dinner/coffee with the person - wouldn't it be nice for a bell to go off and you can run away?
Don't bother. Just sent mine back, those things are POS. The community for the ReadyNAS lines is much much better, and its actively encouraged that the servers are used to run additional packages instead of having to "reopen" your box everytime you upgrade the flash. I wish I had known about this before I bought, maybe I can save you some hassle!
One thing I've always thought about is that once they've created a super intelligence - i.e. something that's smarter than human and therefore smarter than its creators (and I guess implies sentience, though maybe I'm wrong on that) - they then tell it "Mr. AI, you're alive! We'd like you to go build something smarter than yourself so we can turn you off and replace you with version 2.0" it would quite likely laugh and go watch TV or something. I guess you could program in a "motivation" for doing something, but wouldn't an AI smarter than us be able to reprogram itself, especially if its task is to program a new AI.
And the fact they don't even need a court order to issue one. And as with any power granted without oversite, it will be abused. Trust them to do their job, but don't trust them.
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You dress for the occasion and the setting. Sticking out like a sore thumb in your pleated khakis at the club is going to make you look like a tool, its not going to impress anyone. Ripped jeans and a t-shirt at a nice restaurant or lounge would give the impression of a slob or again, a tool. Its more about not appearing clueless than conforming to some rigid "this is what I wear because its who I am" self imposed dress code.
You're doomed until you learn how to be at least a little bit of a jerk. The rules don't make sense, but they are the rules. Why are geeks willing to put up with all kinds of esoteric rule systems but then complain when they have to deal with this one? Its a predictable set of responses based on an expected stimulus. If you want a certain output, you need to provide the correct input. You can be a jerk to get your foot in the door, then let Mr. Nice Guy take over. They'll be even happier you did. Manipulative, sure, but if you think that everyone isn't constantly manipulating everyone else you're wrong.
Nailed it. You'd stick out like a sore thumb in SF in khakis. As I've seen it, its pretty much jeans or a suit. Otherwise you might as well show up with a red and black checkered shirt and a hat with flaps on the ears. DC on the other hand...
Just curious - are there any projects currently running on regular wifi devices that would be "supercharged" once this took off? Like if 5000 people in a 20 mile radius installed these devices is the software out there to build them into an adhoc mesh network anyone could hook into?
But it DID cost him $50 to make the baby!
Well, at least there's no stupid Walmart sales policy or M rating or whatever to prevent you from slaughtering children or dogs. That part is at least awesome, but I see what you mean about the grinding.
That is awesome. Did they release a DVD with multiple angle support or something that would let you see the other choices?
Everyone is always so ready to cry 'shill'. Lets take a look at this objective article, just by picking out any old quote:
"Robert Louis Kemp takes these tools and in this, one of his series of publications, Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics -The General Theory of Relativity becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men."
Sounds like an unbiased view to me. I'm pretty sure though the author should have gone with a snappier name. From the review, it sounds like this could reasonably just been called "Bible 2: Holier Than Thou".
I don't have mod points but I do have karma to burn. How the hell can facts be marked trolling?
ok, I will. Ahem, "conservative whiny techy"
If you're that particular about your homepage, why not just craft one locally that comes up when you first start your browser, or one you can link to instead of google? Then it can forward the info onto the search box.
Also who goes to the front page to do a search? The only time I really ever visit it is when I hear about the doodles or whatever. Just use the search bar in the browser!
Well then paperbacks aren't going to live up to your exacting standards. Why complain about the $10 a year when you need to buy the hardback large print format for everything - we're talking >$20 at release minimum.
It really depends on the author I think. If you look at Tolkien's work, the narrative almost takes a back seat to his unbelievably (and pretty much unmatched) detailed history, language, lore set forth for the universe. I think going through and re-reading LOTR via a setup like this would be a much different experience.
Ananthem and the Baroque cycle both had extensive endings that seemed to tie up most of the loose ends. What was your problem there?
If only we had a way of taking everyone's 60 lb 5 foot high towers and making them "on the go". "On the go" computing! Has a nice ring to it. One day soon (doesn't it always seem like the cool stuff is 5-10 years out) I think we'll have computers in smaller formats, ones dedicated for things such as this. I'm envisioning something in the form factor of a legal pad or something, or a large book if you need a keyboard. Oh well - at least I can get paged now and respond from the nearest convenient pay phone instead of always hovering around a phone for important calls. What'll they think of next!
Hi there! Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting space junk. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Junkers can easily use it to create more space junk
( ) Space stations and other legitimate space uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force space dumps
( ) It will stop space junk for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of space will not put up with it
( ) NASA will not put up with it
( ) The space police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from space junkers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many space users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Space junkers don't care about other junk in their junk
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for space
( ) Launches in foreign countries
( ) Difficulty of searching for tiny junk in all of space
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing investment in space
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all space junk collection policies
( ) Extreme profitability of space junk
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with space junkers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of space junkers themselves
( ) Fuel costs that are unaffected by space junk
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) We should be able to talk about space Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve missles
( ) Countermeasures should not involve more junk
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending things to space should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your space garbage company?
( ) Incompatiblity with space licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) I don't want the government cleaning up space
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
No, I think you are the troll. I'm haven't done a whole lot with C# (I've kept up with it every time they release something new out of curiosity) but saying that "syntactic sugar rots productivity" is a completely unfounded statement. Its simply a tool, and I could show you gnarly Java code and beautiful C and vice versa. Any framework that does a specific job and makes describing and implementing the "meat" of a program that much easier is a plus in my book. So if there are well documented and well used features in .NET that eliminate redundant and unnecessary code from a project, thus making refactoring or changing easier, that somehow increases maintenance costs?
Its funny because in the 70's all the interviews Lucas gave talked about wanting to do an updated space serial, and then by the 90's he was talking about how he did it to reinvent mythology and stuff. That was the full line of BS they gave at the Smithsonian when they had the exhibit there.
Wait...we're still doing that one?
Depends on the age. Never underestimate the biological clock's ability to make a lady settle. Think of this like an interactive trawl of facebook/myspace. You are evaluating them on looks but you can take into account hygiene and get answers to questions like "do you have a job/car/boat" etc. This way you can skip a bad first date altogether if there are any "dealbreakers." You know, when you get to a point where you say "no way man" but you still have to finish dinner/coffee with the person - wouldn't it be nice for a bell to go off and you can run away?
Don't bother. Just sent mine back, those things are POS. The community for the ReadyNAS lines is much much better, and its actively encouraged that the servers are used to run additional packages instead of having to "reopen" your box everytime you upgrade the flash. I wish I had known about this before I bought, maybe I can save you some hassle!
Most homes have wireless these days so its surprising this doesn't as well.
One thing I've always thought about is that once they've created a super intelligence - i.e. something that's smarter than human and therefore smarter than its creators (and I guess implies sentience, though maybe I'm wrong on that) - they then tell it "Mr. AI, you're alive! We'd like you to go build something smarter than yourself so we can turn you off and replace you with version 2.0" it would quite likely laugh and go watch TV or something. I guess you could program in a "motivation" for doing something, but wouldn't an AI smarter than us be able to reprogram itself, especially if its task is to program a new AI.
If I guy broke into my house and put a gun to my head and said "Say I'm hear legally when the cops show up" I'd probably say he was there legally.
And the fact they don't even need a court order to issue one. And as with any power granted without oversite, it will be abused. Trust them to do their job, but don't trust them.
Sigh. Apparently he sided with the rebels too:
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/battle_hoth/