The linked page describes the bug as a crash also. I think its one of those 'the use of your browser service could be disrupted for 10 seconds while Firefox restarts' sort of DOS attacks.
I remeber reading in a newspaper about a survey here in the UK which found that the cities that suffered the most illness were also the ones where the highest proportion of people drove to places instead of walking or using public transport.
As I'm pretty sure any American city would top even the most car-centric British city, maybe there is a link bettween car use and illness.
Since when has it been unacceptable for young men to "smoke marijuana and drink alcohol"?
How many young men have actually never smoked marijuana and drunken alcohol before?...It's called having a life (my apologies to most here then:) ).
My father (who is always reminding me of the dangers of abusing these two substances) admits it was the same when he was young also.
The relgious conservatives need to jump forward several hundred years, get with the times and realise America isn't a few colonies full of relgious wackos anymore.
This is self-obvious really, such ideology is a fundamental principle of Capitalism.
Take the situation in the USA. Trillions of dollars is being spent on roads and oil pipelines, often predominantly for wealthy corporations (with government grants increasing) while the Health service is falling to pieces especially for the moderately-poor (and having even more government funding cut).
The idea is of course that in the long run this will allow for even better Health Services (and all the rest) in the future although this is subject to A LOT of debate by a lot of clever people with good points for both sides of the argument.
But the simple fact is - Corporate interests nearly always take preference in a capitalist democratic system. So it is silly to look at one small specific part of the system and blame them for not wanting to receive government help to make profit even if it is at the expense of everyone else. We just have to hope that profit means they produce something of value in the future.
No, just relevant information. Headlines equating specifics of astronomical discoveries to fast-food meals is way too much dumbing-down for me.
But then why should I bother learning about science when Discovery Channel is showing another brain-dead documentory rephrasing the same 3 misleading facts 500 times for an hour, with a 3D animation repeated every 30 secounds to prevent viewers from daring to use even a small amount of imagniation.
What the hell does a "super-sized rocky planet" mean?
I really hate the way Discovery channel always takes information and adjusts it purely for their largest target audience - extremely overweight, couch potatoes who dislike going for more than 5 minutes without seeing the words "super-size".
On that rationale, why are the tens of thousands of redneck bars where high-school and no-school dropouts meet and mate causing further damage to the gene pool allowed?
Take into account that a large proportion of these are incestual relationships and I think it becomes clear that in order to save the human race it is urgently necessary to nuke the whole of rural South-West USA!
"Anytime you start talking about intelligence it is crucial to recognize the tremendous role that environment has on the individual. Even if I granted that IQ tests were able to measure intelligence, (I don't,) I could not argue that two equally intelligent people from different cultures would have the same score."
I think this is the problem. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no universal "intelligence" co-efficient which can be higher in one person and lower in another, due to genetic or otherwise. Intelligence can be sub-divided into X number of categories (common examples being: Common-Sense, Creativity and Analytical Ability) but it is still far more complex than easily measurable characteristics like each person's genetic value for hair-color, height or metabolism etc.
Wouldn't it be even cooler if people could spectate on games like Counter-strike and the Quake series. How about allowing different spectating camera angles e.g.: follow player and free flying. They could even place a small top-down map in the corner to show the players position relative to enemies and teammates!
Hope no-one has thought of this already else prior art might invalidate any patents.
For such a traditionally innovative game though, starting off in a dungeon and spending the first bit of the game underground is extremely unoriginal. Why is it that so many modern fantasy RPGs start the player in an underground dungeon where it is necessary to navigate numerous monster filled tunnels to get to the surface, can't anyone think of anything else?
One thing I always wonder is how on earth do the respective captors reach their dungeons without constantly having to battle giant bats and rats etc.? And wouldn't a simple staircase coupled with a door and a good padlock be easier and more secure?
Hell will freeze over before Australians start allowing their kids to learn about ID in science lessons. Having lived in the country for several years I have, thankfully, found it to be one of the most secular countries on earth.
Evangelical Christians are outnumbered by evangelical Atheists and this makes common sense a lot more prevalent than in countries like the US where the Christians are the noisy ones.
Thankfully in the UK though, lawyers are strictly divided into two groups: Barristers and Solicitors (and they can only be one). Barristers (who are strictly licensed and are all self-employed) talk in court and Solicitors deal with people/companies on an ongoing basis.
This means that in theory the scope (supposedly) isn't quite there for law firms (which put simplistically, don't actually speak or get money in court) to profit from the sort of scandalous, long running, no-one wins but the lawyers style "senseless squabbles" synonymous with the US legal system.
In reality of course the UK system doesn't always stop such cases, mainly because if there is one thing lawyers are good at, it's making money...and because about 80% of the past centuries Prime Ministers were originally Barristers before getting into politics.
Uh right, so I can just go to the Fox website and start watching last weeks episode of The Simpsons?
I don't know what on earth you are talking about but if it's about those rip-off pay-per-view schemes for selected TV programs offered by the US networks (paying to view a free-to-air TV program!!!) then I'd rather go down to the local CD shop and buy the real thing.
At least the BBC actually make their content downloadable. How many of the worlds other major TV operators/content producers actually make their content avaiable in any form?
"Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels."
I don't believe what I'm reading! Since when have Microsoft been interested in transparancy and openness. This is the same company that calls Open Source Softare an evil communist cancer. The same company which held secret dodgy meetings with the Republican administration which saw the US government change its mind from wanting to split up the company to wanting to give it a light slap on the wrist.
And now they want transparancy. Talk about double standards!
Well, for starters I would liked to have seen George Bush try and get back in power if he hadn't managed to scare the whole country into thinking all 300 million people were going to be killed by evil terrorists if they didn't re-elect him. I don't think the US economy would have had its remarkable turnaround either when it should have gone into recession (like half of Europe did or verged on) after the dot-com crash.
I live in the UK where the government did also try to tell us time and time again how all 60 million of us were going to be killed by evil terrorists. The UK happened to be one of the few other countries who avoided recession (or verging on it). They also got themselves re-elected by scaring everyone into thinking the opposition party would start to dismantle the free national health system.
Maybe for the USA it would be more correct to say "Its the President's job to keep the public scared..." due to Senators as you say being more interested in their own constituancy.
Do remeber though, just as the threat of being fired will often get an individual putting that little bit more effort in, there is nothing like a good war or disaster to get general worker productivity shooting up through the roof (as happened in Word War 2, especially in Russia. My god did they build tanks quickly).
"I mean, sure, we'll probably never see nuclear aircraft or trains."
In france, 80% of electricity come from nuclear power, they also have one of the most extensive and electisied railway (railroads if your American) networks in the world. Therefor most of their many trains are effectivly nuclear trains. Sure, the reactor isn't actually onboard the train but what difference has it made? A bit more infastructure maybe, still far less overall cost per passanger mile than a modern highway.
More to the point, how well technology has progressed compared to predictions, depends entirely on what predictions you use. There have been countless predictions made in teh past, its incorrect to lump them together as societies 'prediction of the time'. Taking your example of computers, some people may have said they would do more by now, but a lot of people said they would be able to do far less.
I mean the end of Moore's law has been forcast by many since the early 80s, even now the field is well and truly split as to whether Moore's law will still apply in 10 years time. It would therefor be incorrect in 10 or 20 years to look back with hindsight and say "everyone thought Moores law would hold" or "everyone thought Moores law would fail", which is what is being said about predictions made in the 50s.
I always laugh at how they calculate these so called "losses". Its ridiculous how they try to imply everyone who's ever watched a pirated movie would have otherwise gone and brought the premium special gold edition boxed DVD at full, first day of release price.
Beyond the various riot incidents and other clashes, have you any evidence of any such executions?...beyond the typical properganderous hearsay published by whichever involved side? Because if you do I'm pretty the Nothern Ireland police would like to hear about it so they can send the relevant people to jail for a long, long time.
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The linked page describes the bug as a crash also. I think its one of those 'the use of your browser service could be disrupted for 10 seconds while Firefox restarts' sort of DOS attacks.
I remeber reading in a newspaper about a survey here in the UK which found that the cities that suffered the most illness were also the ones where the highest proportion of people drove to places instead of walking or using public transport.
As I'm pretty sure any American city would top even the most car-centric British city, maybe there is a link bettween car use and illness.
Well Good!
Nakedness is evil, it is unnatural and the work of the devil.
Hasn't Church taught you anything?
Since when has it been unacceptable for young men to "smoke marijuana and drink alcohol"?
...It's called having a life (my apologies to most here then :) ).
How many young men have actually never smoked marijuana and drunken alcohol before?
My father (who is always reminding me of the dangers of abusing these two substances) admits it was the same when he was young also.
The relgious conservatives need to jump forward several hundred years, get with the times and realise America isn't a few colonies full of relgious wackos anymore.
I just tried the new alpha release with the test you mention.
It almost works, but not quite unfortunatly, A couple of lines are out of place.
Still, it is far closer than say Internet Explorer 6.
This is self-obvious really, such ideology is a fundamental principle of Capitalism.
Take the situation in the USA. Trillions of dollars is being spent on roads and oil pipelines, often predominantly for wealthy corporations (with government grants increasing) while the Health service is falling to pieces especially for the moderately-poor (and having even more government funding cut).
The idea is of course that in the long run this will allow for even better Health Services (and all the rest) in the future although this is subject to A LOT of debate by a lot of clever people with good points for both sides of the argument.
But the simple fact is - Corporate interests nearly always take preference in a capitalist democratic system. So it is silly to look at one small specific part of the system and blame them for not wanting to receive government help to make profit even if it is at the expense of everyone else. We just have to hope that profit means they produce something of value in the future.
No, just relevant information. Headlines equating specifics of astronomical discoveries to fast-food meals is way too much dumbing-down for me.
But then why should I bother learning about science when Discovery Channel is showing another brain-dead documentory rephrasing the same 3 misleading facts 500 times for an hour, with a 3D animation repeated every 30 secounds to prevent viewers from daring to use even a small amount of imagniation.
What the hell does a "super-sized rocky planet" mean?
I really hate the way Discovery channel always takes information and adjusts it purely for their largest target audience - extremely overweight, couch potatoes who dislike going for more than 5 minutes without seeing the words "super-size".
On that rationale, why are the tens of thousands of redneck bars where high-school and no-school dropouts meet and mate causing further damage to the gene pool allowed?
Take into account that a large proportion of these are incestual relationships and I think it becomes clear that in order to save the human race it is urgently necessary to nuke the whole of rural South-West USA!
"Anytime you start talking about intelligence it is crucial to recognize the tremendous role that environment has on the individual. Even if I granted that IQ tests were able to measure intelligence, (I don't,) I could not argue that two equally intelligent people from different cultures would have the same score."
I think this is the problem. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no universal "intelligence" co-efficient which can be higher in one person and lower in another, due to genetic or otherwise. Intelligence can be sub-divided into X number of categories (common examples being: Common-Sense, Creativity and Analytical Ability) but it is still far more complex than easily measurable characteristics like each person's genetic value for hair-color, height or metabolism etc.
Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?
We could call it the Linux Standards Base or something like that.
Wouldn't it be even cooler if people could spectate on games like Counter-strike and the Quake series. How about allowing different spectating camera angles e.g.: follow player and free flying. They could even place a small top-down map in the corner to show the players position relative to enemies and teammates!
Hope no-one has thought of this already else prior art might invalidate any patents.
Oh, I'm sure ExxonMobil and all President Bush's other oil sponsors will be so upset.
Oh can't wait. This game looks really cool.
For such a traditionally innovative game though, starting off in a dungeon and spending the first bit of the game underground is extremely unoriginal. Why is it that so many modern fantasy RPGs start the player in an underground dungeon where it is necessary to navigate numerous monster filled tunnels to get to the surface, can't anyone think of anything else?
One thing I always wonder is how on earth do the respective captors reach their dungeons without constantly having to battle giant bats and rats etc.? And wouldn't a simple staircase coupled with a door and a good padlock be easier and more secure?
Hell will freeze over before Australians start allowing their kids to learn about ID in science lessons. Having lived in the country for several years I have, thankfully, found it to be one of the most secular countries on earth.
Evangelical Christians are outnumbered by evangelical Atheists and this makes common sense a lot more prevalent than in countries like the US where the Christians are the noisy ones.
Thankfully in the UK though, lawyers are strictly divided into two groups: Barristers and Solicitors (and they can only be one). Barristers (who are strictly licensed and are all self-employed) talk in court and Solicitors deal with people/companies on an ongoing basis.
...and because about 80% of the past centuries Prime Ministers were originally Barristers before getting into politics.
This means that in theory the scope (supposedly) isn't quite there for law firms (which put simplistically, don't actually speak or get money in court) to profit from the sort of scandalous, long running, no-one wins but the lawyers style "senseless squabbles" synonymous with the US legal system.
In reality of course the UK system doesn't always stop such cases, mainly because if there is one thing lawyers are good at, it's making money
Uh right, so I can just go to the Fox website and start watching last weeks episode of The Simpsons?
I don't know what on earth you are talking about but if it's about those rip-off pay-per-view schemes for selected TV programs offered by the US networks (paying to view a free-to-air TV program!!!) then I'd rather go down to the local CD shop and buy the real thing.
At least the BBC actually make their content downloadable. How many of the worlds other major TV operators/content producers actually make their content avaiable in any form?
"Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels."
I don't believe what I'm reading! Since when have Microsoft been interested in transparancy and openness. This is the same company that calls Open Source Softare an evil communist cancer. The same company which held secret dodgy meetings with the Republican administration which saw the US government change its mind from wanting to split up the company to wanting to give it a light slap on the wrist.
And now they want transparancy. Talk about double standards!
Oh OK, thanks for pointing all that out to me
Well, for starters I would liked to have seen George Bush try and get back in power if he hadn't managed to scare the whole country into thinking all 300 million people were going to be killed by evil terrorists if they didn't re-elect him. I don't think the US economy would have had its remarkable turnaround either when it should have gone into recession (like half of Europe did or verged on) after the dot-com crash.
I live in the UK where the government did also try to tell us time and time again how all 60 million of us were going to be killed by evil terrorists. The UK happened to be one of the few other countries who avoided recession (or verging on it). They also got themselves re-elected by scaring everyone into thinking the opposition party would start to dismantle the free national health system.
Maybe for the USA it would be more correct to say "Its the President's job to keep the public scared..." due to Senators as you say being more interested in their own constituancy.
Do remeber though, just as the threat of being fired will often get an individual putting that little bit more effort in, there is nothing like a good war or disaster to get general worker productivity shooting up through the roof (as happened in Word War 2, especially in Russia. My god did they build tanks quickly).
Good points.
"I mean, sure, we'll probably never see nuclear aircraft or trains."
In france, 80% of electricity come from nuclear power, they also have one of the most extensive and electisied railway (railroads if your American) networks in the world. Therefor most of their many trains are effectivly nuclear trains. Sure, the reactor isn't actually onboard the train but what difference has it made? A bit more infastructure maybe, still far less overall cost per passanger mile than a modern highway.
More to the point, how well technology has progressed compared to predictions, depends entirely on what predictions you use. There have been countless predictions made in teh past, its incorrect to lump them together as societies 'prediction of the time'. Taking your example of computers, some people may have said they would do more by now, but a lot of people said they would be able to do far less.
I mean the end of Moore's law has been forcast by many since the early 80s, even now the field is well and truly split as to whether Moore's law will still apply in 10 years time. It would therefor be incorrect in 10 or 20 years to look back with hindsight and say "everyone thought Moores law would hold" or "everyone thought Moores law would fail", which is what is being said about predictions made in the 50s.
I always laugh at how they calculate these so called "losses". Its ridiculous how they try to imply everyone who's ever watched a pirated movie would have otherwise gone and brought the premium special gold edition boxed DVD at full, first day of release price.
Beyond the various riot incidents and other clashes, have you any evidence of any such executions? ...beyond the typical properganderous hearsay published by whichever involved side? Because if you do I'm pretty the Nothern Ireland police would like to hear about it so they can send the relevant people to jail for a long, long time.