... [I never understood] WHY heroism is a necessary consequence of altriusm.
It isn't. There are plenty of ways to be altruistic without being a hero, and several ways of being heroic without being altruistic. On the whole there's a confluence, though.
Why is someone who makes a profit necessarily evil?
No, he isn't, and no-one believes so. He's just normal
If, however, you have just come up with a billion-dollar idea (like "The Web"), and decided to give it to humanity rather than extract personal gain from it. This is tantamount to donating $1.000.000.000 to the world.
In my mind, any many others this makes you a good man.
See, the difference? It's not about Good Vs Evil, it's about Normal Vs Good.
Personal experience after three weeks of heavy gaming.
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Power Strip Wainscotting! I love it! I think I'm going to redo my home office with it!
Dog knows I could use it. I love the idea, and I love the word. Wainscotting... Wainscotting... Wainscotting... sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscotting.
(Cut to the village of Wains Cotting. A woman rushes out of a house.)
Woman: We've been mentioned on the internet!
That's actually a very relevant question which hits many UFO believers right in the scrotum.
In my experience 75% are looking for "Shiny happy aliens holding hands", who will of course descend upon us soon, revealing mystical knowledge that will take us, as a species, to the next level of evolution, relieving the believer from his job at K-Mart.
The other 25% believe in horrible, scary aliens, who will of course descend upon us, wreaking havoc and mayhem and instituting a new reign of terror, relieving the believer from his job at K-Mart.
...interstellar hydrogen absorbs EM radiation in this frequency, sweeping it clear of noise. Obviously SETI feels the same way, or else they wouln't consider this signal to be "of interest".
Eh? Wouldn't that mean interstellar hydrogen would also absorb the signal? Your link would be useles, unless your signalling power was humongous, in which case... Why worry about noise?
Daul core microprocessors are not...
Daul core processors are...
It should be interesting to see just what AMD can do with both SMT and a daul core design.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Star Trek movies did the same thing, going directly from IV to VI, skipping V.
In fact, the Star Trek movies skipped all the odd numbers. The only Star Trek movies that exist have even numbers. I guess someone tried to be humorous.
[Claps hands repeatedly over ears] Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah! Sorry, did you try to say something? Blah, Blah, Blah....
A couple of posts mentioned Highlander 2, but without further explanation.
The reason that Highlander 2 is such a humongous pile of festering feces isn't that the movie as such is that bad. Yes, it's bad, but I've seen worse.
The reason is that the original movie was very nice and so the fans show up, dollar in hand, eager for a new foray into the magical world of Highlander. Only to be presented with... What?!
A movie that basically pisses all over the original story, while laughing. Inserting strange and idiotic pseudo-sci-fi "explanations" for the precense of the immortals, and even more so the precense of Sean Connery.
"We are both nutcases from the planet Zeist! Feel the Sickening!"
"Here I am, reborn for no good reason after a brutal slaying in scottish castle. Nice! Let's go shopping for clothes!"
"Look! Look!! Fear the evil hitmen from Zeist with bad-hair-day and hoover boards!
I'll stop now, before I vomit again.
Maybe this is the reason that Highlander III didn't acknowledge the events in #2, and just pretended that that movie didn't exist?...like many people like to do.
[Person1]... Highlander 2.
[Person2] 2? Highlander... "2"? I'm a big fan, and I'm pretty sure there's no such thing. They went straight from 1 to 3. For some reason.
[Person1] No, I clearly remember the ad, there was a Higlander 2...
[Person2] (Hoisting rocket launcher) NO THERE WAS NOT. YOU REMEMBER INCORRECTLY. DO YOU GET IT?! WELL, DO YOU, PUNK?
Anyone remember the first "dactyl attack" game in the arcades?
Yep. A lot of fun, and I must point out at this time that it runs of an Amiga. Just because I have an unhealthy urge to plug Amigas at every opportuniy.:-)
Once athletic skill is required for a game, don't expect that game to do well on the shelves. The reason will simbly be that it's no fun to lose
You, apparently, aren't much of a gamer. There have been so many games over the years that are very good, but super hard. I mean impossible, requiring superhuman skill.
Every time such a game appears, a small cadre of über gamers appears that has totally mastered the game. These guys have must have played the game for thousands, if not tens of thousand of hours, losing all the time. Still, they perserve, against all hope until finally they have the God-like skills needed to play the game perfectly.
If you replace the "twitch" challenge in such a game with a physical challenge, you would soon see hordes of anemic japanese kids competing in the weight lifting world championships.
So the outside world is radiating IR at your window. The outside world is conciderably larger than your building, so I would hazard a guess that an average window recieves more IR from the outside than from the inside (in summer of course).
Of course radiation from the outside will fall of with the square of the distance from the radiating surfaces, and local geometry will also play a big role. I guess I have to agree with a previous poster, just plant a tree outside.
Luckily they probably don't want access to your data either.
The NSA has proven with Echelon that they do in fact want to access your data. All data, any data, globally.
Of course, this isn't currently feasible, but hope springs eternal, and bear in mind that they will have first access not only to quantum computers, but also to all the latest, juicy advances in AI programming.
You know what? I do sound like an illogical, irate tool. Who cares? I don't steal software. I get to.
No.
Yes, you do.
I do.
Good for you.
You get to? Get to what? The South Pole? Is this a sly sex-life boast?
And no, I don't want to control your actions. I want you to control your actions. Stop stealing. Stop "insert stupid excuse for not calling it stealing here". Stop taking stuff that's not yours because you feel you should be able to. I will ignore your point of view, because...well...it's stupid, and it's wrong. And you're a thief. Nothing more to say.
I know you're on the "stealing" threadmill right now, but piracy isn't stealing, it's copyright violation. (Q: Why is that less bad? A: Well, the former entails breaking into a store, masked and toting an assault rifle. The latter means you clicked a button ín Windows.)
[I] know the difference between accept and except. Enough to know how to spell "reccomend".
Hint: if you are going to post a spelling flame, make damn sure your own post is 100% kosher. BTW, what is "edumacation"? What does "spouting about" mean?
[the exception proves the rule]
Fortunately, the word "prove" in that saying is used in an archaic sense with the meaning of "test" and the implication of "find wanting".
I always hated that saying. Finding one exception proves there can't possibly be any more?
I'm swedish, and we have that exact saying, translated very literally from english. "Undantaget bekräftar regeln". After reading your post I now realize that the proper translation (and probably the original form) is "Undantaget prövar regeln"
"Prövar" means "tests". This implies that the exception tests the rule and causes it to fail, just as you said. And of course pröva and prove are obviously related words.
I will take it upon myself to spread this wisdom to my entire nation. My workmates will probably be extremely bored by my linguistical nitpicking, and will throw small objects at me to make me stop (as always).
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You are aware that DC Dasani would probably be made by taking DC tap water, then adding extra impurities? They produce this stuff locally, you know.
It isn't. There are plenty of ways to be altruistic without being a hero, and several ways of being heroic without being altruistic. On the whole there's a confluence, though.
No, he isn't, and no-one believes so. He's just normal
If, however, you have just come up with a billion-dollar idea (like "The Web"), and decided to give it to humanity rather than extract personal gain from it. This is tantamount to donating $1.000.000.000 to the world.
In my mind, any many others this makes you a good man.
See, the difference? It's not about Good Vs Evil, it's about Normal Vs Good.
This is your brain+body normally:
Hiya master! Want to go for a stroll! Look at the shiny things! Feel the spring in your legs!
This is your brain+body on games:
Ehrm... Mmm... Wha... Coffee... Brains... Brains... Drool...
Personal experience after three weeks of heavy gaming.
Dog knows I could use it. I love the idea, and I love the word. Wainscotting ... Wainscotting ... Wainscotting ... sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscotting.
(Cut to the village of Wains Cotting. A woman rushes out of a house.) Woman: We've been mentioned on the internet!
Pretty soon my graphics card is going to do more, cost more, heat up more, be louder and use more electricity than the rest of my computer combined.
It's called a NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra./p>
What are you hoping they find?
That's actually a very relevant question which hits many UFO believers right in the scrotum.
In my experience 75% are looking for "Shiny happy aliens holding hands", who will of course descend upon us soon, revealing mystical knowledge that will take us, as a species, to the next level of evolution, relieving the believer from his job at K-Mart.
The other 25% believe in horrible, scary aliens, who will of course descend upon us, wreaking havoc and mayhem and instituting a new reign of terror, relieving the believer from his job at K-Mart.
Eh? Wouldn't that mean interstellar hydrogen would also absorb the signal? Your link would be useles, unless your signalling power was humongous, in which case... Why worry about noise?
The Four of Parts... The Eight of Processors... The Hanged System... The Processor Affinity, inverted.
The Ten of Consultants... The Two of Millions... The Meltdown...
Fate bodes ill for your server upgrade.
No, it comes in at one-and-a-half hektos. The article used two significant digits.
Please don't fuel the anti-metric trolls.
So, you grow this kind of replacement in-site. What's the problem?
The neckbone? I hear the word of the Lord!
Daul core microprocessors are not...
Daul core processors are...
It should be interesting to see just what AMD can do with both SMT and a daul core design.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is a late reply, so maybe you won't read this, but still... How about the Socket Communications SDIO Scan Card?
I'm more than familiar with color theory, thank you. What I was really reacting to whas that you said
My projector and screen setup looks very reflective to me, yet they use RGB to perform color addition.
I was just hinting that "reflective" really isn't the right word to use. What word to use? I don't know. "Non-emissive", "Ambiently lighted"...
In other words, you're telling me that my LCD projector is actually using CMY, not RGB? Gee, you could have fooled me.
In fact, the Star Trek movies skipped all the odd numbers. The only Star Trek movies that exist have even numbers. I guess someone tried to be humorous.
[Claps hands repeatedly over ears]
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah!
Sorry, did you try to say something?
Blah, Blah, Blah....
A couple of posts mentioned Highlander 2, but without further explanation.
The reason that Highlander 2 is such a humongous pile of festering feces isn't that the movie as such is that bad. Yes, it's bad, but I've seen worse.
The reason is that the original movie was very nice and so the fans show up, dollar in hand, eager for a new foray into the magical world of Highlander. Only to be presented with... What?!
A movie that basically pisses all over the original story, while laughing. Inserting strange and idiotic pseudo-sci-fi "explanations" for the precense of the immortals, and even more so the precense of Sean Connery.
"We are both nutcases from the planet Zeist! Feel the Sickening!"
"Here I am, reborn for no good reason after a brutal slaying in scottish castle. Nice! Let's go shopping for clothes!"
"Look! Look!! Fear the evil hitmen from Zeist with bad-hair-day and hoover boards!
I'll stop now, before I vomit again.
Maybe this is the reason that Highlander III didn't acknowledge the events in #2, and just pretended that that movie didn't exist? ...like many people like to do.
Yep. A lot of fun, and I must point out at this time that it runs of an Amiga. Just because I have an unhealthy urge to plug Amigas at every opportuniy. :-)
You, apparently, aren't much of a gamer. There have been so many games over the years that are very good, but super hard. I mean impossible, requiring superhuman skill.
Every time such a game appears, a small cadre of über gamers appears that has totally mastered the game. These guys have must have played the game for thousands, if not tens of thousand of hours, losing all the time. Still, they perserve, against all hope until finally they have the God-like skills needed to play the game perfectly.
If you replace the "twitch" challenge in such a game with a physical challenge, you would soon see hordes of anemic japanese kids competing in the weight lifting world championships.
Well, the block you work in is also hot.
So the outside world is radiating IR at your window. The outside world is conciderably larger than your building, so I would hazard a guess that an average window recieves more IR from the outside than from the inside (in summer of course).
Of course radiation from the outside will fall of with the square of the distance from the radiating surfaces, and local geometry will also play a big role. I guess I have to agree with a previous poster, just plant a tree outside.
... and the step after that is of course glasses that turn opaque when facing peril, thus allowing you to keep your cool.
The NSA has proven with Echelon that they do in fact want to access your data. All data, any data, globally.
Of course, this isn't currently feasible, but hope springs eternal, and bear in mind that they will have first access not only to quantum computers, but also to all the latest, juicy advances in AI programming.
Ask an ye shall recieve. Lego golf robots.
.I know you're on the "stealing" threadmill right now, but piracy isn't stealing, it's copyright violation. (Q: Why is that less bad? A: Well, the former entails breaking into a store, masked and toting an assault rifle. The latter means you clicked a button ín Windows.)
Hint: if you are going to post a spelling flame, make damn sure your own post is 100% kosher. BTW, what is "edumacation"? What does "spouting about" mean?
I always hated that saying. Finding one exception proves there can't possibly be any more?
I'm swedish, and we have that exact saying, translated very literally from english.
"Undantaget bekräftar regeln". After reading your post I now realize that the proper translation (and probably the original form) is "Undantaget prövar regeln"
"Prövar" means "tests". This implies that the exception tests the rule and causes it to fail, just as you said. And of course pröva and prove are obviously related words.
I will take it upon myself to spread this wisdom to my entire nation. My workmates will probably be extremely bored by my linguistical nitpicking, and will throw small objects at me to make me stop (as always).