This is assuming mass ignorance, and information is begging to be free. I would pay $150 for a given flight, perhaps. However if I know the person next to me paid $130, I would not.
You've given me an interesting idea for a new website. Instead of looking up the price for X, how about looking up how much someone else paid for X? If I lost a $20 out of my wallet, that's no big deal; it's my fault. But if going home for Christmas costs me $20 more than someone else paid then I'm seeking an alternative route. That's the way I am. It may be a flaw, but I see accepting the deal as violating my morals. I won't help thieves.
You're close. Remember, these are SPACESHIPS! The boxes are where they keep the gravity. If they took the boxes off, the thing would just float up into space. They'll take the boxes off when they're done.
I don't really buy into the "owning stock means controlling company" philosophy that our laws currently support. When I look at my portfolio, I view my shares as educated bets. I am betting that the company will do better. If it doesn't, it's MY FAULT for investing in it.
No matter how much money I invest in a company, it won't automatically make me wiser about the industry, or more familiar with the internal culture. My opinion doesn't somehow become valid, and weighted by how much money I've put on dog #4. It's one thing to try to make money. It's another to blame someone else when YOU mess up.
Is there some kind of special listing when a company wants to be publicly traded to raise capital, but abstain from somehow being responsible for paying damages if things go wrong?
/wants to sue dog #4 for abandoning its fiduciary responsibility
I prefer to rip the bacteria off with running water but for people who want to actually kill them off why not just use straight 100% bleach. Wash them this way every day five times a day. I guarantee within a year you will have no dirty hands to complain about.
Is slashdot going to turn into Obama propaganda like digg and other sites too? The Obama campaign is looking for people with server and programming experience. Big deal. Er.. what? I thought slashdot was a Ron Paul propaganda machine (or whoever is the most libertarian in any particular election). I chalk this one up to slow-news-day.
I don't think the parent was suggesting that humans aren't hypocritical dumbasses. That said, I do like my steak medium-rare.
We make the decision every day as to what deserves to live and die in the animal kingdom. Being a part of the animal kingdom means that we are not above that, unless there is really no logic behind it. If the argument is intelligence, I submit that a one-year-old pig is more sentient than a one-year-old baby (humans develop more slowly), and would therefore have a stronger "right" to live. If the argument is potential intelligence, then what of mentally handicapped?
Not making an argument, this is just what goes through my head. Again, I like my steak medium rare.
I forgot to mention in my previous message that it's high time/. give up on the hip youtube linkage. Most of us read this shit at work and save the media filled garbage for a setting that allows for lots of bad audio and questionable content on the screen.
For years, if the boss walks by and sees/. on the screen, it's^H^H^H^Hits no big deal. If the boss comes by and sees two guys pressing buttons hardwired into a shitty synth, he won't be thinking I am staying up to date on the latest geek news that is pertinent, such as security articles, the latest drive technology and such.
But go ahead, if you want to turn this into fark and end up eventually blocked by the nanny proxies, keep at it. /pet peeve
Not only is it hard, but you can get it into quite a weird state. At one point I started writing down which monitor was up after each boot, and what was being displayed. I could then sit there control-alt-backspacing and it would proceed to give me some permutation of suck. Eventually I'd get both monitors on, both getting their respective desktop environments, but it took 10 X resets at the worst.
Now everything just works. I owe it all to disabling twin view AND xinerama.
Computers and the logic that runs them is complex and brittle, thus why it is important that developers understand a lower-level language like C++.
...and several previous generations of programmes roll over in their graves at the thought that C++ is a "lower-level language".
The thing is, C++ is huge. Just to have a solid working knowledge of the core language, you need to master whole rafts of things that have nothing whatsoever to do with the low-level operation of the machine, because even the core is a labyrinth of obscure corner cases that make language lawyers drool, and which, if expressed in pseudo-code, would be a bunch of gigantic switch statements with a couple dozen levels of ifs nested inside each case. Now, add the STL on top of that, and add common third-party bits like Boost on top of that, and you're left with a monstrosity. To really understand programming at a lower level, you need at best only a small subset of C++, and unfortunately for C++ that subset is properly called "C".
The way that I see it, C++ isn't really higher level than C. C code is one jump from assembly. Raw assembly can be put into C/C++ at the will of the programmer. Directives can also be put in by the programmer that influence the assembly that gets generated. If you don't understand assembly, you really can't do C/C++ well. Therefore, it's a low level language. Compare this to say, Visual Basic, where I haven't the foggiest idea how things get turned into assembly. I haven't seen any evidence that knowing will help.
To me, C++ isn't STL. C++ is polymorphism. Vtables. C++ is multi-inheritance from interfaces (classes containing only pure virtual functions). C++ allows the user to program their class members functions in C, or use extensions to the C language.
That's just how I like to look at it. Not trying to be iron clad, just throwing some stuff out there.
Okay let me try. Situation, and how the communication works.
Situation 1: There's a real interest in a friendship, although there is no kind of physical attraction. The other person seems genuinely fun to be around
Female: Smiles at him, looks straight into his eyes so that he knows that she is not at all afraid of scaring him off and is therefore NOT looking for a serious relationship. However, she picks up conversation to learn about his interests to be able to propose things they can do together for fun.
Male: Asks "Wanna get drunk and play Smash Bros?"
Situation 2: There's a strong physical attraction and interest in pursuing a serious relationship.
Female: Gazes deeply into his eyes to give the impression that she is lost in him. This will provide an excellent "how-we-met" story for their kids. She tries to act interested in his interests because she wants to also be interesting to him.
Male: Asks "Wanna get drunk and play Smash Bros?" with an ulterior motive.
Interesting. You believe that since the argument is made that this really isn't a large amount of bandwidth for a content provider, that the burden of monetary support for said bandwidth is shifted from the party who purchases and uses it to the person making the argument.
Are you NUTS? People would type "my-indie-band" and hit SEARCH. Or maybe "I'm feeling lucky". In either case, you'll be the squatter. The situation you describe is SO 2005.
Amen. Look, some people aren't good at math, some people are really good but I believe the vast majority of people are better than they think they are. Perhaps I am naive, but I believe anyone struggling to learn any math topic can master it given proper instruction.
Obviously we have a major issue with resources in the US. So few people want to be teachers at least partially because we pay them as if they are scum. When I was learning calculus, I found it fascinating. To help myself, I taught others. I've given informal lessons to people a few years younger to forty years older. It works. We all learned, and it wasn't terribly difficult for anyone.
Given the state of our schools, or perhaps regardless of the state of our schools, we ought to be our children's primary math teacher and logic teacher, especially in the youngest years. I think that math learning has a sort of momentum where confidence is key.
I haven't had a kid yet. If I do, I'll try my best to help out in education, most especially in reading and math. I find the inability of someone to grasp the concept of something as simple as integration to be impossible. I hope I don't make the kid cry. *SMACK* you dumbass.
With unrestricted games, it's the "griefers" who suffer no consequence for their actions. The original MUDs used to have a little bit of built-in protection for this that dynamically rated players at good and evil, and this was used to keep players out of certain areas. However, most of the areas had no restrictions, which frustrated those who didn't like PvP. A long-term casual player wants to be Good, spends a lot of time, then gets offed by a griefer or a band of griefers, and is thus reset at a great loss to that player. A griefer doesn't care about the game, but about causing misery to other people, so getting killed and reset every now and then doesn't matter. They're sociopaths. Having "leaders" won't matter without some type of justice system and enforcement.
If there were a game that allowed PvP but also allowed players to jail and execute the in-game characters, that might be better, assuming you could actually ban the real person. But, disallowing PvP is just so much simpler.
People don't like real life. That's why there are games. And if the games start emulating the harshness of real life, people will stop playing those games.
This is largely the same in eve-online. Bad people get rated bad, and as they get rated bad, they are required to go to lower and lower security areas. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the game and its riches are located in these areas. Griefers sit on the border of the high security and low security areas. While the massive explosions are spectacular, there is much you can lose in eve.
The other type of griefer is the trickster. Again, because the game is just a bit too open, you can raid other people's private missions, which is created in a special place just for them. If that player attempts to defend his/her loot, the police come because they are in high security space. If they are in low security space, the griefer just plain opens fire on the player. In eve, you need to fit your ship and in general there are two styles of fitting: PvP and PvE. The player's ship, having a PvE setup, can be destroyed quickly by a MUCH less sophisticated foe.
Now the general response I see is "Do it in a gang/team, strength in numbers." Well the whole point of having freedom in a game is letting someone play how they want. Maybe they want to do their missions alone?
5. 2008 Information. Almost every electric product now contains one or several microchips that are responsible for things from making sure your toast doesn't burn to making sure the wheels on your car don't lock over ice. Communication is now possible with individuals in other countries through the Internet, allowing for mostly uncensored and unmonitored global communication on a personal or institutional level. Corporations are no longer married to specific countries and spread their influence globally, abiding by the laws and moralities of each jurisdiction with which they interact.
Now we could through in stuff about quantum theory, nanostructures, etc, but we haven't realized products from this yet so we can wait until 2058 for that one.
Or places where the road is assembled from strips of concrete where the joints between the strips aren't quite lined up with the lanes (I've seen humans who can't figure those out, hell, the first time I ever saw that type of road construction was as a kid when I was in a merge lane on an overpass where the actual lane stripes had long since worn off, and I thought I was supposed to be following the black lines diagonally across the bridge until I nearly rammed someone).
I really really hate these things. You just know that in one lane, your tire falls directly on the crease. You also know one day they'll remove the pavement in one lane, and remove the shoulder on the other side. The result? You have to drive for miles on a sharp 90 degree drop off directly in the middle of two tires. Sometimes you get to change lanes, sometimes there's too much traffic.
I don't know if that's actually bad for tires, but I don't get encouraged.
Hey I agree I think flash is a horrible way to implement what's supposed to be a website. Then again, it makes since for youtube. Flash games are fun too. I don't think I ever claimed to want to use flash for anything other than fun things.:-)
If all open source developers had your attitude, we all wouldn't even have something like a amd64 open source distribution.
I'm not an open source developer, so that's not a fair comparison. I actually did try to help out in a few before but found the politics to be distasteful. My comment about gnash wasn't fair. Gnash is the best thing I've found for amd64. However, it doesn't deserve the pedestal that I've seen people put it on.
Again, my apologies to any gnash developers. It's just not usable yet.
Here I am in amd64... can I have an integrated flash player that WORKS please? Gnash is utter crap (arg please don't say contribute, I haven't the time to do anything but work and flame on slashdot). I don't want to make a chroot 32 environment / install every 32 bit library in existence...
Does anyone in my situation have a suggestion? I've also tried broken firefox add-ons, including: Magic's Video - Downloader, Media Pirate - The Video Downloader, and Video Download. I can watch about 1/3 of youtube videos. 1/3 don't work at all, and 1/3 only show the first frame. I haven't seen one interactive flash that works. Some flash completely freezes up firefox. Maybe I'd have luck with a different browser:P
Woah I detect much hate in your post! (please forgive my out-of-order reply)
2. I'm a cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy. What can be done to prevent the horror of being pulled over by the KGB? Would it be reasonable to issue "radiology patient" tags, like they issue handicapped tags for the handicapped?
Slow down there buddy. These aren't cops in ticket writing mode, and it's not fair to compare even THOSE corrupt cops with the KGB. If you're driving down the interstate hot, what would you like them to do? So far it looks like the options are A) Pull you over and ask you what's up, or B) ignore the positive reading. Is civic duty so lost that when someone appears to be a nuclear bomb we feel that no explanation is at all warranted!?
1. I'm remodeling my house. I go down to Home Despot/Slowes and buy a dozen smoke detectors. Would I get pulled over for being a suspected terrorist? (sic)
Given the general attitude in YOUR post I hope you are. I don't trust YOU with anything now. On the subject of smoke detectors, I guess you mean ionizing detectors (as oppose to optical) which contain americium. A quick check shows they use 0.2 milligrams of americium-241. I must assume what you're asking is that if you have enough some detectors in your car with enough americium to create a dirty bomb, will you be labeled a terrorist. Well assuming to need at least 1 oz of the stuff to make a remotely effective dirty bomb, you'll require 141,748 smoke detectors in your car, not a dozen. I hope you get put on SOME sort of list for the load.
I am no sheeple, but I won't defend the idiocy of your post. sigh... now someone will point out the idiocy in my post...
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Really? Don't most toilets use 1 gal + per flush? I imagine a family of four could easily use that much water on toilet use alone..
Well call me Dr. Evil. Comcast assures me that my connection is umlimited.
This is assuming mass ignorance, and information is begging to be free. I would pay $150 for a given flight, perhaps. However if I know the person next to me paid $130, I would not.
You've given me an interesting idea for a new website. Instead of looking up the price for X, how about looking up how much someone else paid for X? If I lost a $20 out of my wallet, that's no big deal; it's my fault. But if going home for Christmas costs me $20 more than someone else paid then I'm seeking an alternative route. That's the way I am. It may be a flaw, but I see accepting the deal as violating my morals. I won't help thieves.
You're close. Remember, these are SPACESHIPS! The boxes are where they keep the gravity. If they took the boxes off, the thing would just float up into space. They'll take the boxes off when they're done.
I don't really buy into the "owning stock means controlling company" philosophy that our laws currently support. When I look at my portfolio, I view my shares as educated bets. I am betting that the company will do better. If it doesn't, it's MY FAULT for investing in it.
/wants to sue dog #4 for abandoning its fiduciary responsibility
No matter how much money I invest in a company, it won't automatically make me wiser about the industry, or more familiar with the internal culture. My opinion doesn't somehow become valid, and weighted by how much money I've put on dog #4. It's one thing to try to make money. It's another to blame someone else when YOU mess up.
Is there some kind of special listing when a company wants to be publicly traded to raise capital, but abstain from somehow being responsible for paying damages if things go wrong?
I prefer to rip the bacteria off with running water but for people who want to actually kill them off why not just use straight 100% bleach. Wash them this way every day five times a day. I guarantee within a year you will have no dirty hands to complain about.
I don't think the parent was suggesting that humans aren't hypocritical dumbasses. That said, I do like my steak medium-rare.
We make the decision every day as to what deserves to live and die in the animal kingdom. Being a part of the animal kingdom means that we are not above that, unless there is really no logic behind it. If the argument is intelligence, I submit that a one-year-old pig is more sentient than a one-year-old baby (humans develop more slowly), and would therefore have a stronger "right" to live. If the argument is potential intelligence, then what of mentally handicapped?
Not making an argument, this is just what goes through my head. Again, I like my steak medium rare.
Not only is it hard, but you can get it into quite a weird state. At one point I started writing down which monitor was up after each boot, and what was being displayed. I could then sit there control-alt-backspacing and it would proceed to give me some permutation of suck. Eventually I'd get both monitors on, both getting their respective desktop environments, but it took 10 X resets at the worst.
Now everything just works. I owe it all to disabling twin view AND xinerama.
Judging by your nick, you aren't representative of everyone. Just anyone who happens to read this message.
...and several previous generations of programmes roll over in their graves at the thought that C++ is a "lower-level language".
The thing is, C++ is huge. Just to have a solid working knowledge of the core language, you need to master whole rafts of things that have nothing whatsoever to do with the low-level operation of the machine, because even the core is a labyrinth of obscure corner cases that make language lawyers drool, and which, if expressed in pseudo-code, would be a bunch of gigantic switch statements with a couple dozen levels of ifs nested inside each case. Now, add the STL on top of that, and add common third-party bits like Boost on top of that, and you're left with a monstrosity. To really understand programming at a lower level, you need at best only a small subset of C++, and unfortunately for C++ that subset is properly called "C".
The way that I see it, C++ isn't really higher level than C. C code is one jump from assembly. Raw assembly can be put into C/C++ at the will of the programmer. Directives can also be put in by the programmer that influence the assembly that gets generated. If you don't understand assembly, you really can't do C/C++ well. Therefore, it's a low level language. Compare this to say, Visual Basic, where I haven't the foggiest idea how things get turned into assembly. I haven't seen any evidence that knowing will help.To me, C++ isn't STL. C++ is polymorphism. Vtables. C++ is multi-inheritance from interfaces (classes containing only pure virtual functions). C++ allows the user to program their class members functions in C, or use extensions to the C language.
That's just how I like to look at it. Not trying to be iron clad, just throwing some stuff out there.
How YOU do'n?
Okay let me try. Situation, and how the communication works.
Situation 1: There's a real interest in a friendship, although there is no kind of physical attraction. The other person seems genuinely fun to be around
Female: Smiles at him, looks straight into his eyes so that he knows that she is not at all afraid of scaring him off and is therefore NOT looking for a serious relationship. However, she picks up conversation to learn about his interests to be able to propose things they can do together for fun.
Male: Asks "Wanna get drunk and play Smash Bros?"
Situation 2: There's a strong physical attraction and interest in pursuing a serious relationship.
Female: Gazes deeply into his eyes to give the impression that she is lost in him. This will provide an excellent "how-we-met" story for their kids. She tries to act interested in his interests because she wants to also be interesting to him.
Male: Asks "Wanna get drunk and play Smash Bros?" with an ulterior motive.
In conclusion, we're all idiots.
So you want to foot the bill? How nice of you!
Interesting. You believe that since the argument is made that this really isn't a large amount of bandwidth for a content provider, that the burden of monetary support for said bandwidth is shifted from the party who purchases and uses it to the person making the argument.
*Looks at fallacy list*
Oh here it is. The technical term is "Stupidity".
Are you NUTS? People would type "my-indie-band" and hit SEARCH. Or maybe "I'm feeling lucky". In either case, you'll be the squatter. The situation you describe is SO 2005.
Amen. Look, some people aren't good at math, some people are really good but I believe the vast majority of people are better than they think they are. Perhaps I am naive, but I believe anyone struggling to learn any math topic can master it given proper instruction.
Obviously we have a major issue with resources in the US. So few people want to be teachers at least partially because we pay them as if they are scum. When I was learning calculus, I found it fascinating. To help myself, I taught others. I've given informal lessons to people a few years younger to forty years older. It works. We all learned, and it wasn't terribly difficult for anyone.
Given the state of our schools, or perhaps regardless of the state of our schools, we ought to be our children's primary math teacher and logic teacher, especially in the youngest years. I think that math learning has a sort of momentum where confidence is key.
I haven't had a kid yet. If I do, I'll try my best to help out in education, most especially in reading and math. I find the inability of someone to grasp the concept of something as simple as integration to be impossible. I hope I don't make the kid cry. *SMACK* you dumbass.
With unrestricted games, it's the "griefers" who suffer no consequence for their actions. The original MUDs used to have a little bit of built-in protection for this that dynamically rated players at good and evil, and this was used to keep players out of certain areas. However, most of the areas had no restrictions, which frustrated those who didn't like PvP. A long-term casual player wants to be Good, spends a lot of time, then gets offed by a griefer or a band of griefers, and is thus reset at a great loss to that player. A griefer doesn't care about the game, but about causing misery to other people, so getting killed and reset every now and then doesn't matter. They're sociopaths. Having "leaders" won't matter without some type of justice system and enforcement. If there were a game that allowed PvP but also allowed players to jail and execute the in-game characters, that might be better, assuming you could actually ban the real person. But, disallowing PvP is just so much simpler. People don't like real life. That's why there are games. And if the games start emulating the harshness of real life, people will stop playing those games.
This is largely the same in eve-online. Bad people get rated bad, and as they get rated bad, they are required to go to lower and lower security areas. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the game and its riches are located in these areas. Griefers sit on the border of the high security and low security areas. While the massive explosions are spectacular, there is much you can lose in eve.
The other type of griefer is the trickster. Again, because the game is just a bit too open, you can raid other people's private missions, which is created in a special place just for them. If that player attempts to defend his/her loot, the police come because they are in high security space. If they are in low security space, the griefer just plain opens fire on the player. In eve, you need to fit your ship and in general there are two styles of fitting: PvP and PvE. The player's ship, having a PvE setup, can be destroyed quickly by a MUCH less sophisticated foe.
Now the general response I see is "Do it in a gang/team, strength in numbers." Well the whole point of having freedom in a game is letting someone play how they want. Maybe they want to do their missions alone?
try again
5. 2008 Information. Almost every electric product now contains one or several microchips that are responsible for things from making sure your toast doesn't burn to making sure the wheels on your car don't lock over ice. Communication is now possible with individuals in other countries through the Internet, allowing for mostly uncensored and unmonitored global communication on a personal or institutional level. Corporations are no longer married to specific countries and spread their influence globally, abiding by the laws and moralities of each jurisdiction with which they interact.
Now we could through in stuff about quantum theory, nanostructures, etc, but we haven't realized products from this yet so we can wait until 2058 for that one.
Or places where the road is assembled from strips of concrete where the joints between the strips aren't quite lined up with the lanes (I've seen humans who can't figure those out, hell, the first time I ever saw that type of road construction was as a kid when I was in a merge lane on an overpass where the actual lane stripes had long since worn off, and I thought I was supposed to be following the black lines diagonally across the bridge until I nearly rammed someone).
I really really hate these things. You just know that in one lane, your tire falls directly on the crease. You also know one day they'll remove the pavement in one lane, and remove the shoulder on the other side. The result? You have to drive for miles on a sharp 90 degree drop off directly in the middle of two tires. Sometimes you get to change lanes, sometimes there's too much traffic.
I don't know if that's actually bad for tires, but I don't get encouraged.
Hey I agree I think flash is a horrible way to implement what's supposed to be a website. Then again, it makes since for youtube. Flash games are fun too. I don't think I ever claimed to want to use flash for anything other than fun things. :-)
Your comments are well taken, but..
If all open source developers had your attitude, we all wouldn't even have something like a amd64 open source distribution.
I'm not an open source developer, so that's not a fair comparison. I actually did try to help out in a few before but found the politics to be distasteful. My comment about gnash wasn't fair. Gnash is the best thing I've found for amd64. However, it doesn't deserve the pedestal that I've seen people put it on.
Again, my apologies to any gnash developers. It's just not usable yet.
Here I am in amd64... can I have an integrated flash player that WORKS please? Gnash is utter crap (arg please don't say contribute, I haven't the time to do anything but work and flame on slashdot). I don't want to make a chroot 32 environment / install every 32 bit library in existence...
:P
Does anyone in my situation have a suggestion? I've also tried broken firefox add-ons, including: Magic's Video - Downloader, Media Pirate - The Video Downloader, and Video Download. I can watch about 1/3 of youtube videos. 1/3 don't work at all, and 1/3 only show the first frame. I haven't seen one interactive flash that works. Some flash completely freezes up firefox. Maybe I'd have luck with a different browser
Woah I detect much hate in your post! (please forgive my out-of-order reply)
2. I'm a cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy. What can be done to prevent the horror of being pulled over by the KGB? Would it be reasonable to issue "radiology patient" tags, like they issue handicapped tags for the handicapped?
Slow down there buddy. These aren't cops in ticket writing mode, and it's not fair to compare even THOSE corrupt cops with the KGB. If you're driving down the interstate hot, what would you like them to do? So far it looks like the options are A) Pull you over and ask you what's up, or B) ignore the positive reading. Is civic duty so lost that when someone appears to be a nuclear bomb we feel that no explanation is at all warranted!?
1. I'm remodeling my house. I go down to Home Despot/Slowes and buy a dozen smoke detectors. Would I get pulled over for being a suspected terrorist? (sic)
Given the general attitude in YOUR post I hope you are. I don't trust YOU with anything now. On the subject of smoke detectors, I guess you mean ionizing detectors (as oppose to optical) which contain americium. A quick check shows they use 0.2 milligrams of americium-241. I must assume what you're asking is that if you have enough some detectors in your car with enough americium to create a dirty bomb, will you be labeled a terrorist. Well assuming to need at least 1 oz of the stuff to make a remotely effective dirty bomb, you'll require 141,748 smoke detectors in your car, not a dozen. I hope you get put on SOME sort of list for the load.
I am no sheeple, but I won't defend the idiocy of your post. sigh... now someone will point out the idiocy in my post...