You do what you need to do, people. Don't exercise your tiny little grey cells. You don't need to learn anything new. You don't need to stretch yourselves or make yourselves better. Just leave it all in our hands. That's better. Go back to sleep now.
Are you kidding? More like "once again, your opinion of Rob Enderle will drop to an even lower all-time low".
Use that search bar up top and see what the collective Slashdot has had to say regarding Rob Enderle in the past. I refer you, specifically, to the "Ferrari laptop", "Linux Geeks", "Microsoft Apologizes" and "SCO" incidents, for example.
I'd say "for fuck's sake", but I wouldn't want anybody thinking I said "for Enderle's sake".
I'm completely happy to agree with virtually every opinion I've scanned here so far.
But my question is: what are they really going to do with this information? I mean... current population estimate of the U.S. is 313.32x10^6. I don't feel that living in a completely different country on roughly the other side of the world protects me entirely.... but what are they gonna DO? Arrest EVERYBODY in the world? Jerk off to some crazy panopticon fantasy they have? Enforce slave labour to put together armies and workforces when it's time to invade Mars? I mean, what?
I take your point; except I think the scale slides back to "fucking bastard" away from "fucking awesome" precisely because according to History, he heeded those calls from the Dark Side.
Just because you have mad skillz doesn't make you Good when you use your powers for evil.
He would've won, if he hadn't been such a bastard for the first 45 years of his life (or at least from when he started coding school systems to put him into classes with more girls until he finally released most of his executive power from Microsoft).
There are so many concepts nowadays, which could be taught to our "oh, the poor kids, won't somebody teach them real IT concepts, we need more girls as IT students" children, through some clever presentation.
We could Reboot or TRON so many things. I'd hoped the new TRON movie would try to be clever about things. The British SF magazine whose reviewer labelled the new movie's director as having no balls was right on the money, though - a closed system that hailed from the 1980s (and still ran, no less?). In an era with the Internet, Wi-Fi, virtual machines...
... 7.0 started locking up (consistently, 100% of the time) within 2 minutes on a workplace VirtualBox VM (under the same distribution I run at home). And I need a browser with a pop-up window due to the way our workplace allows access to the outside world.
8.0 didn't fix the lockup and started rendering text-fields in black so I've had to remove that from home.
My partner said she hated the black text fields so I took us back to the 6.0 still archived in/usr/lib. In the workplace VM I went back to 3.6.24.
On the up side, I can check 9.0 by the time I get a coffee and 10.0 probably by the time I finish my news read.
On the down sides, they'll probably both be broken too. I don't know if I can make the jump to Chrome or something else, I've been there since the Netscape days, damnit.
The fruit Eve & Adam were not to eat was from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In other words, it is not for humankind to judge good and evil.
According to the bible, we're not allowed to know about good and evil. Which a) is pretty shoddy and b) how did this suddenly turn into being about "judging"?
Which kind of leaves most of the theologians barking up the tree they were told not to. Judgment of others, of the good and evil in others, according to Jehovah, is itself the original sin.
Don't you mean "disobedience to Jehovah"?
The God of Job is not to be judged for his acts.
Why not?
Those who do pass judgment against others claiming the authority of Jehovah are truly deep into the territory of falseness.
What about those who think the whole story of Jehovah is a shoddily-written piece of nonsensical D-grade fiction?
If I were not a Jehovahist, abstaining from judging others as evil, I would judge them that.
... you mean, like you did just there?
Seriously, they have embraced Satan and eaten the fruit.
... Satan, the Lucifer, the Light-Bringer, the one who stood up to The God who keeps humanity down? ... wow. You almost make me wish the whole thing wasn't a poorly written, inconsistent fantasy like "Twilight" or the Harry Potter stuff.(*)
*: to all the HP fans about to downmod me into oblivion - I waited 20 years for the TRON sequel and the Green Lantern movies to come out. Broke my heart that they were badly written too. To all the Twilight fans - well, I really couldn't care less without surgical intervention.
There's a third side you've missed - the people who see the bible as having so much contradictory nonsense in it, we'd have to be a pack of mindless, attention-deficit-ridden intellectual-children to treat it as anything more than an historical and sociological curiosity.
Have I seen where it's led us? Communication satellites in space. The computer you're using to read this text. Vaccines and medical treatments so we don't die in childbirth or by the age of 30. (I don't drink myself, but) Wines and beers invented a couple of thousand years before Creationists claim our planet even existed.
The lesson of biblical history is that if you believe and act according to this stuff, you won't have much of a history. Nor, perhaps, do you deserve to.
Sorry, are you saying that your bible isn't the direct, unambiguous word of your god and other people need to add things and spin it so it comes out sounding better?
Let us not forget also - the LateArthurDent's analysis, while quite right, misses the part where the serpent says that your god's words are untrue and THEN your god's admitting everything the serpent said.
Y'all might wanna go back and do some careful reading yourself.
A "literal interpretation of Genesis" tells the reader that God lied to Adam and Eve; punished them for disobedience; and then chose to throw them out because their disobedience had made them more like God, so they had to be prevented from living forever and becoming even more like God.
(Chapters 2 and 3, if you want to cross-check that for yourself.)
You really sure you want Genesis to be literally interpretable? Because it makes your God out to be evil, selfish and kinda insecure.
Huh. Very clearly, I need to do a re-pricing. The last time was several years ago.
Of course, the other problem is that I'm in Australia. The pharmacies here just don't stock it. Bad enough I'd have to import it, but a few years ago Piracetam was put on our Prescribed list.
I'd have to convince a doctor to put me on a prescription for it. Seeing as I'm already diabetic and have slightly high blood pressure, it's not looking great.
IT is more than just knowing how to kick a piece of hardware. If he's taken aback at a standard IT policy, then he doesn't know it. On top of that, there's the whole issue of being "taken aback" at a standard policy and the emotional implications of that anyway.
In other words, as everybody you're criticising here already knows - he doesn't know what he's doing and is being arrogant to the people who do.
Bad news: I'm afraid there's only one post in this locality that's really coming off as pompous. Sorry.
Reality check: there are more bodies than ME installations; the bodies keep going (or at least supporting the brain) in all but the most severe of crashes; the bodies have self-repair mechanisms.
I'd also like to think I can stay alive long enough to get on the Kurzweil boat.
And there's a reason MS-DOS is hardly used even in electrical engineering labs anymore (although, when I was studying electrical engineering around '93 we DID have a CP/M machine).
You neglect to mention that TSRs (which were fun to code once you got the hang of interrupts) still ran in Real Mode, consumed precious Base Memory, left memory unprotected and were all DEPRECATED in FAVOUR of multitasking operating systems.
You go ahead and run your autonomic biological processes over DOS. I'll just leave a process here waiting until you have a page fault and emergency transport to a hospital.
b) Multi-task is a fake unless you have multiple cores or CPUs.
c) In humans especially, conscious multi-tasking is detrimental to overall performance. What would happen if your single-core single-user machine, analogising to a person, hangs on one of your tasks? Your heart and lungs seize up.
d) You mis-spell in the same post calling me a "tard".
Mods: please don't bother modding the parent down any further. Their life must be hell enough as it is, apparently.
Disturbingly true. The only exception I can think of round my way is that they used to sell 1.25L bottles of Jolt with different labelling for "Trucker's Pack", "Student's Pack", etc..
Various good-for-the-brain vitamins and supplements by the same companies who make muscle-building compounds like Musashi used to sell them. For about six months before they mysteriously vanished from the catalogues and shelves.
Yeah; but I try pricing it every few years. Especially since I got a mortgage, the price has stayed out of reach.
As well as its general ongoing expense, Piracetam requires an "attack dose", a large "kickstarter". I estimated, last time I looked at this, the first couple of weeks' supply would be about $400.
Like I said: mortgage. I'm still trying to save up for this year's FSF, Humanity+, Linux Foundation memberships.
On the other hand, I did read somewhere that a large (but keep it non-fatal) amount of caffeine all at once is supposedly temporarily equivalent to some of the Best Of Class nootropics anyway.
a) See post above, "Those who haven't read TFA...". It already IS drugs.
b) Caffeine doesn't work forever. It works partially by blocking adenosine receptors (which stops you getting sleepy-bye-bye). The brain responds by growing more adenosine receptors and the sleepy creeps in anyway.
c) Increasing doses of caffeine does more damage to more bits of you anyway.
I say this with approximately 433mg of caffeine in my bloodstream right this minute (according to the caffeine-tracking spreadsheet I maintain). So: a switchable brain-accelerator that does nothing but stimulate naturally- and locally-produced neurotransmitters.
... seem to be missing the parts where it says that the (yes, electrical) stimulation is stimulating neurotransmitters; and that any actual pain-effect is being countered by anaesthesia.
And I'm amazed that, all these comments in, we get "I for one welcome our super-intelligent rat overlords" but haven't yet got a "where do I sign up?". Man, when we were back in undergrad before USB was invented(*), we all wanted RS232 sockets near the bases of our skulls.
Sir, you are congratulating me for, what is effectively a silly almost-obsession on my part. I just find too much enthusiasm on this topic; I should be grateful it doesn't make me dysfunctional in this society. You are most gracious.
I should also point out that you're right regarding Flynn's principle; having experienced what a "free and open" system should be like, he would design such a system - to the point where the Programs don't even have to respond to User requests. I think you're entirely right.
What this means though is that I too am also entirely right - Kitsis and Horowitz screwed up. The TRON-Sector website supposedly has, posted in one of its forum pages, an e-mail interview with Bonnie MacBird - original writer of the TRON story... which was then "polished" by Lisberger, Haas and others. Apparently, if it's true, MacBird's story was much more thorough in working through the story logic.
If someone like MacBird (who interviewed, then eventually MARRIED an actual programmer) had written Legacy, she almost certainly would've gotten the whole damn thing MUCH more right.
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You do what you need to do, people. Don't exercise your tiny little grey cells. You don't need to learn anything new. You don't need to stretch yourselves or make yourselves better. Just leave it all in our hands. That's better. Go back to sleep now.
Are you kidding? More like "once again, your opinion of Rob Enderle will drop to an even lower all-time low".
Use that search bar up top and see what the collective Slashdot has had to say regarding Rob Enderle in the past. I refer you, specifically, to the "Ferrari laptop", "Linux Geeks", "Microsoft Apologizes" and "SCO" incidents, for example.
I'd say "for fuck's sake", but I wouldn't want anybody thinking I said "for Enderle's sake".
I'm completely happy to agree with virtually every opinion I've scanned here so far. But my question is: what are they really going to do with this information? I mean... current population estimate of the U.S. is 313.32x10^6. I don't feel that living in a completely different country on roughly the other side of the world protects me entirely. ... but what are they gonna DO? Arrest EVERYBODY in the world? Jerk off to some crazy panopticon fantasy they have? Enforce slave labour to put together armies and workforces when it's time to invade Mars? I mean, what?
I take your point; except I think the scale slides back to "fucking bastard" away from "fucking awesome" precisely because according to History, he heeded those calls from the Dark Side. Just because you have mad skillz doesn't make you Good when you use your powers for evil.
He would've won, if he hadn't been such a bastard for the first 45 years of his life (or at least from when he started coding school systems to put him into classes with more girls until he finally released most of his executive power from Microsoft).
There are so many concepts nowadays, which could be taught to our "oh, the poor kids, won't somebody teach them real IT concepts, we need more girls as IT students" children, through some clever presentation.
We could Reboot or TRON so many things. I'd hoped the new TRON movie would try to be clever about things. The British SF magazine whose reviewer labelled the new movie's director as having no balls was right on the money, though - a closed system that hailed from the 1980s (and still ran, no less?). In an era with the Internet, Wi-Fi, virtual machines...
Sigh.
... 7.0 started locking up (consistently, 100% of the time) within 2 minutes on a workplace VirtualBox VM (under the same distribution I run at home). And I need a browser with a pop-up window due to the way our workplace allows access to the outside world.
/usr/lib. In the workplace VM I went back to 3.6.24.
8.0 didn't fix the lockup and started rendering text-fields in black so I've had to remove that from home.
My partner said she hated the black text fields so I took us back to the 6.0 still archived in
On the up side, I can check 9.0 by the time I get a coffee and 10.0 probably by the time I finish my news read.
On the down sides, they'll probably both be broken too. I don't know if I can make the jump to Chrome or something else, I've been there since the Netscape days, damnit.
The fruit Eve & Adam were not to eat was from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In other words, it is not for humankind to judge good and evil.
According to the bible, we're not allowed to know about good and evil. Which a) is pretty shoddy and b) how did this suddenly turn into being about "judging"?
Which kind of leaves most of the theologians barking up the tree they were told not to. Judgment of others, of the good and evil in others, according to Jehovah, is itself the original sin.
Don't you mean "disobedience to Jehovah"?
The God of Job is not to be judged for his acts.
Why not?
Those who do pass judgment against others claiming the authority of Jehovah are truly deep into the territory of falseness.
What about those who think the whole story of Jehovah is a shoddily-written piece of nonsensical D-grade fiction?
If I were not a Jehovahist, abstaining from judging others as evil, I would judge them that.
Seriously, they have embraced Satan and eaten the fruit.
*: to all the HP fans about to downmod me into oblivion - I waited 20 years for the TRON sequel and the Green Lantern movies to come out. Broke my heart that they were badly written too. To all the Twilight fans - well, I really couldn't care less without surgical intervention.
There's a third side you've missed - the people who see the bible as having so much contradictory nonsense in it, we'd have to be a pack of mindless, attention-deficit-ridden intellectual-children to treat it as anything more than an historical and sociological curiosity.
Have I seen where it's led us? Communication satellites in space. The computer you're using to read this text. Vaccines and medical treatments so we don't die in childbirth or by the age of 30. (I don't drink myself, but) Wines and beers invented a couple of thousand years before Creationists claim our planet even existed.
The lesson of biblical history is that if you believe and act according to this stuff, you won't have much of a history. Nor, perhaps, do you deserve to.
Sorry, are you saying that your bible isn't the direct, unambiguous word of your god and other people need to add things and spin it so it comes out sounding better?
Let us not forget also - the LateArthurDent's analysis, while quite right, misses the part where the serpent says that your god's words are untrue and THEN your god's admitting everything the serpent said.
Y'all might wanna go back and do some careful reading yourself.
... but before the first post, there must've been an article for him to respond to.
... but, a God you would want to love, worship and sing hosannas to forevermore after you die?
A "literal interpretation of Genesis" tells the reader that God lied to Adam and Eve; punished them for disobedience; and then chose to throw them out because their disobedience had made them more like God, so they had to be prevented from living forever and becoming even more like God.
(Chapters 2 and 3, if you want to cross-check that for yourself.)
You really sure you want Genesis to be literally interpretable? Because it makes your God out to be evil, selfish and kinda insecure.
Huh. Very clearly, I need to do a re-pricing. The last time was several years ago.
Of course, the other problem is that I'm in Australia. The pharmacies here just don't stock it. Bad enough I'd have to import it, but a few years ago Piracetam was put on our Prescribed list.
I'd have to convince a doctor to put me on a prescription for it. Seeing as I'm already diabetic and have slightly high blood pressure, it's not looking great.
IT is more than just knowing how to kick a piece of hardware. If he's taken aback at a standard IT policy, then he doesn't know it. On top of that, there's the whole issue of being "taken aback" at a standard policy and the emotional implications of that anyway.
In other words, as everybody you're criticising here already knows - he doesn't know what he's doing and is being arrogant to the people who do.
Bad news: I'm afraid there's only one post in this locality that's really coming off as pompous. Sorry.
Reality check: there are more bodies than ME installations; the bodies keep going (or at least supporting the brain) in all but the most severe of crashes; the bodies have self-repair mechanisms.
I'd also like to think I can stay alive long enough to get on the Kurzweil boat.
And there's a reason MS-DOS is hardly used even in electrical engineering labs anymore (although, when I was studying electrical engineering around '93 we DID have a CP/M machine).
You neglect to mention that TSRs (which were fun to code once you got the hang of interrupts) still ran in Real Mode, consumed precious Base Memory, left memory unprotected and were all DEPRECATED in FAVOUR of multitasking operating systems.
You go ahead and run your autonomic biological processes over DOS. I'll just leave a process here waiting until you have a page fault and emergency transport to a hospital.
640k should be enough for any body?
a) Multi-user is a subset of multi-task.
b) Multi-task is a fake unless you have multiple cores or CPUs.
c) In humans especially, conscious multi-tasking is detrimental to overall performance. What would happen if your single-core single-user machine, analogising to a person, hangs on one of your tasks? Your heart and lungs seize up.
d) You mis-spell in the same post calling me a "tard".
Mods: please don't bother modding the parent down any further. Their life must be hell enough as it is, apparently.
Disturbingly true. The only exception I can think of round my way is that they used to sell 1.25L bottles of Jolt with different labelling for "Trucker's Pack", "Student's Pack", etc..
Various good-for-the-brain vitamins and supplements by the same companies who make muscle-building compounds like Musashi used to sell them. For about six months before they mysteriously vanished from the catalogues and shelves.
Yeah; but I try pricing it every few years. Especially since I got a mortgage, the price has stayed out of reach.
As well as its general ongoing expense, Piracetam requires an "attack dose", a large "kickstarter". I estimated, last time I looked at this, the first couple of weeks' supply would be about $400.
Like I said: mortgage. I'm still trying to save up for this year's FSF, Humanity+, Linux Foundation memberships.
On the other hand, I did read somewhere that a large (but keep it non-fatal) amount of caffeine all at once is supposedly temporarily equivalent to some of the Best Of Class nootropics anyway.
a) You mean "multiple personality disorder", not schizophrenia. JFWI.
b) For your sake, I hope it is. Otherwise, the minute you start trying to chew gum, your heart and lungs are going to seize up.
Surely you don't run "apps" as root, do you?
a) See post above, "Those who haven't read TFA...". It already IS drugs.
b) Caffeine doesn't work forever. It works partially by blocking adenosine receptors (which stops you getting sleepy-bye-bye). The brain responds by growing more adenosine receptors and the sleepy creeps in anyway.
c) Increasing doses of caffeine does more damage to more bits of you anyway.
I say this with approximately 433mg of caffeine in my bloodstream right this minute (according to the caffeine-tracking spreadsheet I maintain). So: a switchable brain-accelerator that does nothing but stimulate naturally- and locally-produced neurotransmitters.
Screw Farmville. Kurzweilville, here I come.
... seem to be missing the parts where it says that the (yes, electrical) stimulation is stimulating neurotransmitters; and that any actual pain-effect is being countered by anaesthesia.
And I'm amazed that, all these comments in, we get "I for one welcome our super-intelligent rat overlords" but haven't yet got a "where do I sign up?". Man, when we were back in undergrad before USB was invented(*), we all wanted RS232 sockets near the bases of our skulls.
(*): Yes. You can all get off my lawn.
Sir, you are congratulating me for, what is effectively a silly almost-obsession on my part. I just find too much enthusiasm on this topic; I should be grateful it doesn't make me dysfunctional in this society. You are most gracious.
I should also point out that you're right regarding Flynn's principle; having experienced what a "free and open" system should be like, he would design such a system - to the point where the Programs don't even have to respond to User requests. I think you're entirely right.
What this means though is that I too am also entirely right - Kitsis and Horowitz screwed up. The TRON-Sector website supposedly has, posted in one of its forum pages, an e-mail interview with Bonnie MacBird - original writer of the TRON story... which was then "polished" by Lisberger, Haas and others. Apparently, if it's true, MacBird's story was much more thorough in working through the story logic.
If someone like MacBird (who interviewed, then eventually MARRIED an actual programmer) had written Legacy, she almost certainly would've gotten the whole damn thing MUCH more right.
My hat, sir; it is tipped to you.