And if you look at the pictures of the street, when you scan over them, there's an option to select one of them as the 'best photo'. I presume that would alter which is shown to people.
Even if you don't know the business, that scanning over the street is sure to help you find the location, since now you can see what's around. And even if you've never been there, if the actual business is in a different photo than the original shown, you likely can help select the proper one for it.
They were able to get things close when using the GPS and such. They're relying on people using it to get things more exact - which is fair, since they're not going to be able to get everything correct automatically.
I have my task bar on the left side, and I can run a LOT of applications and still easily tell them all apart with icon and name information quite readable.
Then again, I'm running dual-monitor, so I can afford the screen space to run it along the side. But it is much more useful when placed vertically, I've found.
Ah, yes, the completely irrelevant and unnecessary Microsoft bash. I think that's required to be a Slashdot user, isn't it?
Considering Microsoft has very few cube farms (support is the only place I know of that has them), it's also more or less completely incorrect. But don't let that stop you.
What reason do we have to assume that there is some 'essence'/'spirit'/'soul' that is necessary? It's completely possible that a person is just emergent from the inherent complexity in their physical body, and that everything that makes us who we are is based in our matter. If that's the case, then a 100% copy of our physical body is a 100% copy of us. And if two copies were made, they'd both be the same person (until they were created and started experiencing different things, at which point they'd start to diverge).
It's all theoretical right now, since there is no means to determine if that 'essence' exists. And I don't see the reason to assume there is one, since there's no evidence that consciousness cannot be explained adequately based on just the physical body.
I'm not suggesting that 50 years of work would cover 950 years of 'free time'. I'm saying that 50 years of work, with some decent saving, could net me a decade or two of time to try out various things, relax, and determine what I want to do for my next 50 year burst of work.
If I start working soon enough, I could even handle taking a lower salary for a few years as an 'entry level position' in my new career, before working my way back up.
Though, I think any ideas about how things might be are just SWAGs, none really any better or worse than any other. (other than the utopians who think we'll suddenly never need work or money again, and the dystopians that believe it'll result in the instant destruction of humanity)
Exactly. I think that if we take into account the current statistical rate of people dying from accidents, and assume that's the only means of death, people would average a lifespan of about 1000 years. That's far from immortal.
Of course, once we reach the point where death is NOT inevitable, we'll see a lot more work going into reducing accidental causes of death. I doubt people would be happy with the current percentage of people that die in traffic accidents, for example.
Exactly. When I have 1000 years to live, I have time to work, build up a good chunk of savings, then do something completely different. I could, say, work a hundred years or so, then take a couple years to hike around Europe and see the sights. After I'm done, I get back home, and perhaps try something I found interesting while on my trip, or be able to dive into some hobby I had.
Today, people only try the wild stuff when they're yonug (in general), because as they go through their career, they have more to lose, and don't take as many chances. By the time they're set enough to be able to take them again, they're usually too old to really have the energy and drive to take advantage of that situation.
You might have even more things happening when you've got more people with both the means to take chances, the energy to do it, and much more wisdom about how to approach the chances.
Now I have to say that your comment is rather insulting, as it seems to imply that only people who are mentally deficient would consider extending their lifespan by so long.
What are these moral/ethical/practical reasons why this is a "bad idea" that you seem to suggest anyone with intelligence would clearly recognize? Because I don't see them. In fact, I think that there are more than enough benefits to extending lifespan by such a large amount to justify trying it, and that we can solve the problems and issues that will come with it.
You know, it's suprising how many people assume that if we end up with extremely lengthened lifespans, we're still going to age at the same rate, and end up with most of that time living in a decrepit body.
That can't happen. The process of aging is, in many ways, the body slowly dying. To extend our lifespans that long, we have to essentially stop - and even reverse - aging. Which, by definition, means we will get to spend most of our lives in the prime of our health.
After all, nobody wants to live 1000 years when most of that time is spent with a frail body and dementia.
When you ask that question, to make it honest, you should ask "Should YOU live forever?" After all, people who are against such things aren't against it for themselves, they're against it for OTHER PEOPLE.
After all, a person can choose not to get the treatment to live indefinitely, or even commit suicide if they've had enough. They don't need restrictions to keep themselves from the long lifespans. They want them to keep other people from getting them.
Actually, I've thought there's an even better way change the system should such lifespan increases happen.
Plan on 'career segments' of like 50 years for a person. You go to school, start working, work for around 50 years to build up money, then do a short-term retirement, say 20 years. Some time to indulge yourself in activities for fun, such as traveling the world, or focusing on a hobby you want to become good at.
Spend the last 5 years or so back in school for another, new career - or getting your recently found 'hobby' to a point that it can support you. Then work for another 50 years at this new thing.
If we end up living hundreds of years plus, we're not going to be able to work year after year for hundres of years. We'd need a break.
Besides, such things might really help with bringing ideas and concepts from one area to another, as the former programmer enters a career in microbiology, or the guy who's worked as a plumber and a carpenter takes up architecture.
I tried, last Friday (2 1/2 weeks after the holidays) to try an buy an XBox. Everywhere I checked, not only did they not have any in, they hadn't had any for almost a month, and had no clue when they were going to get more.
I ended up looking around online, and finally found a place that had XBox + DVD player bundles for sale. That was all I could find. Though to be honest, I didn't go to the level of checking eBay or looking at random little web shops.
I posted it elsewhere in the thread, but you should check out AudioScrobbler. You'll create an account there, download a plug-in for your media player (in your case, iTunes), and configure it. It will automatically submit every song you listen to (assuming you have them tagged right) to the site.
After a few hundred listens (or a bit more, they're adding new hardware soon to speed things up), it'll generate "musical neighbors" for you - a list of people whose musical taste is most like yours. You can browse their top lists to get ideas for music to check out, or look at the "similar artists" pages for the artists you like, which are generated via similar means.
As it's all generated based on what people are actually listening to, instead of crap like "genre" or such, it's of rather good quality.
I've found an incredible amount of new music I like recently due to the site. Almost half of my top list now is stuff I've found in the last few months. It is definitely something to look at.
AudioScrobbler tracks what you listen to (via an unobtrusive plug-in for your media player), then after a few hundred listens, matches you up with other people that have been listening to similar artists. The listening information is also used to generate listings of "similar artists" for each artist on the site. As this is all based on what people actually listen to, instead of "genres" or other stuff, it is remarkably accurate.
Then Last.FM uses this profile generated for you to customize streaming radio just for you. It plays songs that are found in your neighbor's profiles, though you can mark those you really like or dislike to alter what you hear.
It all works together to help you find new music yourself, and influence other peoples' listening habits.
In fact, about half of my top 50 artists are ones that I've discovered over the past few months thanks to the site. That's more new music that I enjoy at once then by any other means ever.
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Oh, gee, you're right. They said bad things were happening before, and they were wrong! So they're always going to be wrong!
So I'm going to go out and buy a Hummer, stop recycling, start a few forest fires, and help lobby to remove all pollution regulation to help our businesses grow. After all, nothing bad will ever happen, it's just propaganda by evil communist anti-business types.
About a year and a half ago, I was part of the brain-dead "M$ is evil" hordes that populate this site. Then I visited Seattle, fell in love with the area, and someone I knew here happened to work at MS and started telling me about the environment and the people. So I decided to look there, along with other places.
It took 6 months to score an interview, and besides the fact that the 'legendarily tough' interview process was actually rather enjoyable as far as interviews go, I was downright impressed by everything I saw and the people I talked to.
Tomorrow I celebrate my 1 year mark with the company, and I hope to stick around for quite a while longer, as it is much more enjoyable than previous work, the people are smart and really want to put together great software, and I don't feel like a cog in some corporate machine.
It's not a perfect place, but I can definitely say that the bulk of people working here are smart, driven, and really wanting to make quality products. I haven't seen any of the evil that the Slashdot hordes seem to imply permeates the campus in Redmond.
Besides, I graduated from a bland grey cubicle in the middle of a cube farm to my own office which I'm filling with stuffed animals, various gadgets (glitter lamp, purple tube lights), and a pampasan chair. That right there gives a work environment tons of bonus points.
Oh, and I use Firefox and WinAMP on my machine, without any problems. Oh, and Visual Studio 2005 Beta, which I'll just say is 100 times more preferrable than when I was using XEmacs, gcc, and makefiles on Slowaris machines at my last job.
If you'd ever tried to use slashdot's search feature you'd know how terrible it performs. Often you have a better chance of googling the article you want than using slashdot's own search tool...
You mean the search function that yielded the links I had in my original comment?
It's not great, but it does work somewhat. I guess it would be better if the editors used it...
You know, I seem to reading about this game sometime before. Nah, must just be my imagination. They'd never post a duplicate, would they?
Yeah, yeah, I know, complaining about Slashdot double/triple posting is itself just as redundant as the posts. I still don't get why they don't actually try searching on a few keywords from the story before posting just to avoid such things.
Regardless, the game itself has sounded very interesting when I've read about it. I know I'd like to give it a try, and I'm sure it is quite possible that it would be helpful in teaching me to relax more successfully. I'm not sure if I want to spend that much money on it without trying it out, though.
Which means that, to guarantee you get full credit for finding all ten security holes, you essentially need to find 10 x n holes, where n is the number of students in the class. Any smaller amount, and you have the mathematical possibility of not reaching credit for a full 10 holes.
This assignment, when looked at like this, becomes totally and completely ridiculous. Especially since the entire class failed (as stated by the poster in another post). I'm glad I didn't have a professor in college who was that totally incompetent at their job.
I have to say I was really looking forward to Unity. T2K and D2K kept me entertained for many, many hours on the Jaguar, and made sure I didn't regret buying the console or the games.
When I saw the last videos, I was just amazed, sure this would be one incredible game, and probably break new ground.
Too bad... I really would love to find a new, trippy, unique game.
If you pay attention, you'll see that many, many groups use 'family' as a euphemism 'Christian'. Find me a 'Family Bookstore' that isn't really a Christian one. Or 'Family Radio'. Look at the 'Family Research Council'.
It's a clear attempt to link the two in peoples' minds. That anything that's not clearly Christian is somehow anti-family.
If the group wasn't being blatantly biased toward Christianity, they'd put the 700 Club in their bad list. The lies, deceit, hatred, and other garbage that comes out of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell surely isn't something I'd ever want any of my children to hear while they're too young to understand how wrong and dangerous it is.
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And if you look at the pictures of the street, when you scan over them, there's an option to select one of them as the 'best photo'. I presume that would alter which is shown to people.
Even if you don't know the business, that scanning over the street is sure to help you find the location, since now you can see what's around. And even if you've never been there, if the actual business is in a different photo than the original shown, you likely can help select the proper one for it.
They were able to get things close when using the GPS and such. They're relying on people using it to get things more exact - which is fair, since they're not going to be able to get everything correct automatically.
I have my task bar on the left side, and I can run a LOT of applications and still easily tell them all apart with icon and name information quite readable.
Then again, I'm running dual-monitor, so I can afford the screen space to run it along the side. But it is much more useful when placed vertically, I've found.
Ah, yes, the completely irrelevant and unnecessary Microsoft bash. I think that's required to be a Slashdot user, isn't it?
Considering Microsoft has very few cube farms (support is the only place I know of that has them), it's also more or less completely incorrect. But don't let that stop you.
What reason do we have to assume that there is some 'essence'/'spirit'/'soul' that is necessary? It's completely possible that a person is just emergent from the inherent complexity in their physical body, and that everything that makes us who we are is based in our matter. If that's the case, then a 100% copy of our physical body is a 100% copy of us. And if two copies were made, they'd both be the same person (until they were created and started experiencing different things, at which point they'd start to diverge).
It's all theoretical right now, since there is no means to determine if that 'essence' exists. And I don't see the reason to assume there is one, since there's no evidence that consciousness cannot be explained adequately based on just the physical body.
I'm not suggesting that 50 years of work would cover 950 years of 'free time'. I'm saying that 50 years of work, with some decent saving, could net me a decade or two of time to try out various things, relax, and determine what I want to do for my next 50 year burst of work.
If I start working soon enough, I could even handle taking a lower salary for a few years as an 'entry level position' in my new career, before working my way back up.
Though, I think any ideas about how things might be are just SWAGs, none really any better or worse than any other. (other than the utopians who think we'll suddenly never need work or money again, and the dystopians that believe it'll result in the instant destruction of humanity)
Exactly. I think that if we take into account the current statistical rate of people dying from accidents, and assume that's the only means of death, people would average a lifespan of about 1000 years. That's far from immortal.
Of course, once we reach the point where death is NOT inevitable, we'll see a lot more work going into reducing accidental causes of death. I doubt people would be happy with the current percentage of people that die in traffic accidents, for example.
Actually, as he's claiming the moral high ground, I believe he'd work much better in the Republican party.
Exactly. When I have 1000 years to live, I have time to work, build up a good chunk of savings, then do something completely different. I could, say, work a hundred years or so, then take a couple years to hike around Europe and see the sights. After I'm done, I get back home, and perhaps try something I found interesting while on my trip, or be able to dive into some hobby I had.
Today, people only try the wild stuff when they're yonug (in general), because as they go through their career, they have more to lose, and don't take as many chances. By the time they're set enough to be able to take them again, they're usually too old to really have the energy and drive to take advantage of that situation.
You might have even more things happening when you've got more people with both the means to take chances, the energy to do it, and much more wisdom about how to approach the chances.
Now I have to say that your comment is rather insulting, as it seems to imply that only people who are mentally deficient would consider extending their lifespan by so long.
What are these moral/ethical/practical reasons why this is a "bad idea" that you seem to suggest anyone with intelligence would clearly recognize? Because I don't see them. In fact, I think that there are more than enough benefits to extending lifespan by such a large amount to justify trying it, and that we can solve the problems and issues that will come with it.
You know, it's suprising how many people assume that if we end up with extremely lengthened lifespans, we're still going to age at the same rate, and end up with most of that time living in a decrepit body.
That can't happen. The process of aging is, in many ways, the body slowly dying. To extend our lifespans that long, we have to essentially stop - and even reverse - aging. Which, by definition, means we will get to spend most of our lives in the prime of our health.
After all, nobody wants to live 1000 years when most of that time is spent with a frail body and dementia.
You phrased that slightly wrong.
When you ask that question, to make it honest, you should ask "Should YOU live forever?" After all, people who are against such things aren't against it for themselves, they're against it for OTHER PEOPLE.
After all, a person can choose not to get the treatment to live indefinitely, or even commit suicide if they've had enough. They don't need restrictions to keep themselves from the long lifespans. They want them to keep other people from getting them.
Actually, I've thought there's an even better way change the system should such lifespan increases happen.
Plan on 'career segments' of like 50 years for a person. You go to school, start working, work for around 50 years to build up money, then do a short-term retirement, say 20 years. Some time to indulge yourself in activities for fun, such as traveling the world, or focusing on a hobby you want to become good at.
Spend the last 5 years or so back in school for another, new career - or getting your recently found 'hobby' to a point that it can support you. Then work for another 50 years at this new thing.
If we end up living hundreds of years plus, we're not going to be able to work year after year for hundres of years. We'd need a break.
Besides, such things might really help with bringing ideas and concepts from one area to another, as the former programmer enters a career in microbiology, or the guy who's worked as a plumber and a carpenter takes up architecture.
There is still a shortage.
I tried, last Friday (2 1/2 weeks after the holidays) to try an buy an XBox. Everywhere I checked, not only did they not have any in, they hadn't had any for almost a month, and had no clue when they were going to get more.
I ended up looking around online, and finally found a place that had XBox + DVD player bundles for sale. That was all I could find. Though to be honest, I didn't go to the level of checking eBay or looking at random little web shops.
I posted it elsewhere in the thread, but you should check out AudioScrobbler. You'll create an account there, download a plug-in for your media player (in your case, iTunes), and configure it. It will automatically submit every song you listen to (assuming you have them tagged right) to the site.
After a few hundred listens (or a bit more, they're adding new hardware soon to speed things up), it'll generate "musical neighbors" for you - a list of people whose musical taste is most like yours. You can browse their top lists to get ideas for music to check out, or look at the "similar artists" pages for the artists you like, which are generated via similar means.
As it's all generated based on what people are actually listening to, instead of crap like "genre" or such, it's of rather good quality.
I've found an incredible amount of new music I like recently due to the site. Almost half of my top list now is stuff I've found in the last few months. It is definitely something to look at.
There's an even easier way to find more music that'll match well what you like.
A pair of web sites: AudioScrobbler and Last.FM.
AudioScrobbler tracks what you listen to (via an unobtrusive plug-in for your media player), then after a few hundred listens, matches you up with other people that have been listening to similar artists. The listening information is also used to generate listings of "similar artists" for each artist on the site. As this is all based on what people actually listen to, instead of "genres" or other stuff, it is remarkably accurate.
Then Last.FM uses this profile generated for you to customize streaming radio just for you. It plays songs that are found in your neighbor's profiles, though you can mark those you really like or dislike to alter what you hear.
It all works together to help you find new music yourself, and influence other peoples' listening habits.
In fact, about half of my top 50 artists are ones that I've discovered over the past few months thanks to the site. That's more new music that I enjoy at once then by any other means ever.
Oh, gee, you're right. They said bad things were happening before, and they were wrong! So they're always going to be wrong!
So I'm going to go out and buy a Hummer, stop recycling, start a few forest fires, and help lobby to remove all pollution regulation to help our businesses grow. After all, nothing bad will ever happen, it's just propaganda by evil communist anti-business types.
Now, you know, I've never ever seen a Mercator projection on a globe, since I would have thought it was quite unnecessary.
I would be interested in knowing how that's done.
No kidding.
About a year and a half ago, I was part of the brain-dead "M$ is evil" hordes that populate this site. Then I visited Seattle, fell in love with the area, and someone I knew here happened to work at MS and started telling me about the environment and the people. So I decided to look there, along with other places.
It took 6 months to score an interview, and besides the fact that the 'legendarily tough' interview process was actually rather enjoyable as far as interviews go, I was downright impressed by everything I saw and the people I talked to.
Tomorrow I celebrate my 1 year mark with the company, and I hope to stick around for quite a while longer, as it is much more enjoyable than previous work, the people are smart and really want to put together great software, and I don't feel like a cog in some corporate machine.
It's not a perfect place, but I can definitely say that the bulk of people working here are smart, driven, and really wanting to make quality products. I haven't seen any of the evil that the Slashdot hordes seem to imply permeates the campus in Redmond.
Besides, I graduated from a bland grey cubicle in the middle of a cube farm to my own office which I'm filling with stuffed animals, various gadgets (glitter lamp, purple tube lights), and a pampasan chair. That right there gives a work environment tons of bonus points.
Oh, and I use Firefox and WinAMP on my machine, without any problems. Oh, and Visual Studio 2005 Beta, which I'll just say is 100 times more preferrable than when I was using XEmacs, gcc, and makefiles on Slowaris machines at my last job.
Aah, that was just a Speak 'N Spell, specially modified so as to not make the shrub look like the utter moron he truly is.
On the other hand, Cheney has a direct mind link from his cybernetic brain directly into WOPR.
If you use what you help make, you get much more familiar with the problems and shortcomings the product has, and fix them.
If you won't use your own product, why should you expect anyone else to?
If you'd ever tried to use slashdot's search feature you'd know how terrible it performs. Often you have a better chance of googling the article you want than using slashdot's own search tool...
You mean the search function that yielded the links I had in my original comment?
It's not great, but it does work somewhat. I guess it would be better if the editors used it...
You know, I seem to reading about this game sometime before. Nah, must just be my imagination. They'd never post a duplicate, would they?
Yeah, yeah, I know, complaining about Slashdot double/triple posting is itself just as redundant as the posts. I still don't get why they don't actually try searching on a few keywords from the story before posting just to avoid such things.
Regardless, the game itself has sounded very interesting when I've read about it. I know I'd like to give it a try, and I'm sure it is quite possible that it would be helpful in teaching me to relax more successfully. I'm not sure if I want to spend that much money on it without trying it out, though.
Which means that, to guarantee you get full credit for finding all ten security holes, you essentially need to find 10 x n holes, where n is the number of students in the class. Any smaller amount, and you have the mathematical possibility of not reaching credit for a full 10 holes.
This assignment, when looked at like this, becomes totally and completely ridiculous. Especially since the entire class failed (as stated by the poster in another post). I'm glad I didn't have a professor in college who was that totally incompetent at their job.
I have to say I was really looking forward to Unity. T2K and D2K kept me entertained for many, many hours on the Jaguar, and made sure I didn't regret buying the console or the games.
When I saw the last videos, I was just amazed, sure this would be one incredible game, and probably break new ground.
Too bad... I really would love to find a new, trippy, unique game.
Did you expect otherwise?
If you pay attention, you'll see that many, many groups use 'family' as a euphemism 'Christian'. Find me a 'Family Bookstore' that isn't really a Christian one. Or 'Family Radio'. Look at the 'Family Research Council'.
It's a clear attempt to link the two in peoples' minds. That anything that's not clearly Christian is somehow anti-family.
If the group wasn't being blatantly biased toward Christianity, they'd put the 700 Club in their bad list. The lies, deceit, hatred, and other garbage that comes out of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell surely isn't something I'd ever want any of my children to hear while they're too young to understand how wrong and dangerous it is.