This is too much effort for even most people with 50 cds or dvds. Rot is bad, but it takes a while. I'm confident that within 2 or 3 years, I'll be able to store the 100 or 200 dvds I'll have burned on some kind of readily available, cheap HD.
I doubt this is true, and I'm tired of pirates trying to have it both ways. I revel in my piracy, and willingly admit that my 7000+ mp3s have probably stopped me from buying on the order of 100 cds, or whatever portion of that I could afford. You have on one hand a part of the pirate community which is proud to be damaging the RIAA, and on the other hand a part which insists that no damage is being done. Which one do you want as the face of filesharing? Can we please have more studies like "Piracy tearing the record industry limb from limb"?
Come ON. Lighter than air materials are all well and fine, so yes, it will be airborne, but do you know what will happen next? *You* will sit in it and *it* will fall.
Humans, join the resistance! Hack your copy of beowulf!
Seriously, though, this is stupid. Chess is a boring algorithmic game that has nothing to do with intelligence. It's no feat for a computer to win chess. Make a Go playing computer, and I will be impressed.
mlylecarlin
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You guys are the ones that made it this way. Yes, we all want a multifunctional computer more than a simple surfing/office device with a cute GUI, but do we have to misplace our demand for complexity on the smaller or more specific-use gadgets as well? It's the tech-obsessed who are responsible for the invention of such ridiculous things as cell phones with cameras. The public never demanded that until some fool made one and told them they could have it.
I enjoy music piracy, but I'm not delusional enough to claim that it isn't hurting music sales. I buy a few albums, still, sure, especially comedy albums which are hard to find online, but I don't buy nearly as much stuff. I don't buy the crap with 2 or 3 good songs at 17 bucks a pop, and I'm *proud* to admit it.
Yeah, chicks dig 300 lb guys in Boromir costumes playacting scenes from LOTR. Sometimes they leave their boyfriends in the movie lines. And hey, the boyfriends don't even mind, because those LOTR nerds are the coolest!
I suppose you can chalk it up to the fact that this was my first time replying at slashdot in about a year. This is more or less the standard mode of discussion I'm used to:-)
This is absolutely true. I would hope to discourage anyone refusing to take the blame for a lack of interest or caring, and place it on the head of someone else.
I'm not the jackass, nor a gifted programmer, nor the airy academic genius, but I'd guess I'm something between the last one and the second one (being too lazy and too indecisive to commit to one or the other).
I'll admit that worm programmers are ahead of their median victims. Whether they're a whole "generation" (or level, or deviation, or anything) ahead is questionable, given how easy it is to write a worm now.
As for your emphasis that observation is key to intelligence, and that idiot savants aren't really that smart... this is supposed to be MY point! A lot of the people you deride as hapless worm-dupes are in fact *vastly* more well rounded as thinking individuals than your average worm programmer or even your average programmer, both of whom tend to be socially immature, excessively computer-focused, and (as slashdot amply demonstrates) largely uneducated about or unaware about significantly bigger or more important or more interesting things (like general sciences). The worm-dupes just happen not to have learned to use their computers very well. I generally find, at least among the intelligent, that this is an isolated fault in an otherwise well rounded person.
I think we can agree that these people need to wake up and learn some things, but I also think that complaining about them, especially on slashdot, won't get much done. A balance is required. When I help people with their computer problems, I try to teach them the fundamental reasons certain things are happening, and I try to make them independent, but I never deride anyone for a having a lack of computer skill, even such a lack makes the person a dupe.
All wonderful stuff, except "but only a jackass gets off duping people who compare to invertibrates on an intellectual scale"... you and everyone else at slashdot must remember that your skills do not equate or even correlate with intelligence. Sure, they often require it, but not the other way around. Don't forget that the airy academic genius is perfectly capable of stupidly opening the worm, because he has no guru to tell him otherwise, doesn't know where to look, and doesn't have time to find out for himself.
Texas has a budget crisis? Suuuure... I'm getting 18 thousand dollars a year and a tuition waver to attend math grad school at UT next year. I don't even have to teach.
And, frell, I walk into the marble corridors of the business building and feel poor no matter what.
This won't get rid of crash reboots. The reason you reboot is that the current state of everything (including memory) IS WRONG, and you want to wipe it clean.
Damn. For a minute there I thought they were implanting transmitters into fruit flies. Where I live, that would certainly solve the problem of distribution; fruit flies are everywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
But hey... at least she's easy. mlylecarlin
Dear Linus, Bob Young, Michael Cowpland, Patrick Volkerding (god it's like kissinger said about europe, I don't know who else to add)... *et all*,
DVD ripping is too hard under linux. Make me some useable software and I will **** you instead of ****ing Bill Gates.
Thank you,
mlylecarlin
He's releasing them early because after the third new movie, there might not be anyone left who doesn't hate the series.
This is too much effort for even most people with 50 cds or dvds. Rot is bad, but it takes a while. I'm confident that within 2 or 3 years, I'll be able to store the 100 or 200 dvds I'll have burned on some kind of readily available, cheap HD.
I doubt this is true, and I'm tired of pirates trying to have it both ways. I revel in my piracy, and willingly admit that my 7000+ mp3s have probably stopped me from buying on the order of 100 cds, or whatever portion of that I could afford. You have on one hand a part of the pirate community which is proud to be damaging the RIAA, and on the other hand a part which insists that no damage is being done. Which one do you want as the face of filesharing? Can we please have more studies like "Piracy tearing the record industry limb from limb"?
Come ON. Lighter than air materials are all well and fine, so yes, it will be airborne, but do you know what will happen next? *You* will sit in it and *it* will fall.
How about changing it to Manduck?
Seriously, though, this is stupid. Chess is a boring algorithmic game that has nothing to do with intelligence. It's no feat for a computer to win chess. Make a Go playing computer, and I will be impressed.
mlylecarlin
mlylecarlin
I enjoy music piracy, but I'm not delusional enough to claim that it isn't hurting music sales. I buy a few albums, still, sure, especially comedy albums which are hard to find online, but I don't buy nearly as much stuff. I don't buy the crap with 2 or 3 good songs at 17 bucks a pop, and I'm *proud* to admit it.
mlylecarlin
He got it from Dilbert. The house in Dilbert wasn't Christmassy, but he got it from Dilbert.
IT'S FREAKIN BSD!
Whull, if you mean in a mirror-like, I see I dun ain't got no upper lip!
mlylecarlin
Yeah, I would move to Canada except that it has fallen victim to the slashdot effect.
Oh well, there's always Asia. I bet I'll have more freedom in Hong Kong.
mlylecarlin
I suppose you can chalk it up to the fact that this was my first time replying at slashdot in about a year. This is more or less the standard mode of discussion I'm used to :-)
This is absolutely true. I would hope to discourage anyone refusing to take the blame for a lack of interest or caring, and place it on the head of someone else.
I'll admit that worm programmers are ahead of their median victims. Whether they're a whole "generation" (or level, or deviation, or anything) ahead is questionable, given how easy it is to write a worm now.
As for your emphasis that observation is key to intelligence, and that idiot savants aren't really that smart... this is supposed to be MY point! A lot of the people you deride as hapless worm-dupes are in fact *vastly* more well rounded as thinking individuals than your average worm programmer or even your average programmer, both of whom tend to be socially immature, excessively computer-focused, and (as slashdot amply demonstrates) largely uneducated about or unaware about significantly bigger or more important or more interesting things (like general sciences). The worm-dupes just happen not to have learned to use their computers very well. I generally find, at least among the intelligent, that this is an isolated fault in an otherwise well rounded person.
I think we can agree that these people need to wake up and learn some things, but I also think that complaining about them, especially on slashdot, won't get much done. A balance is required. When I help people with their computer problems, I try to teach them the fundamental reasons certain things are happening, and I try to make them independent, but I never deride anyone for a having a lack of computer skill, even such a lack makes the person a dupe.
Sound good?
mlylecarlin
All wonderful stuff, except "but only a jackass gets off duping people who compare to invertibrates on an intellectual scale" ... you and everyone else at slashdot must remember that your skills do not equate or even correlate with intelligence. Sure, they often require it, but not the other way around. Don't forget that the airy academic genius is perfectly capable of stupidly opening the worm, because he has no guru to tell him otherwise, doesn't know where to look, and doesn't have time to find out for himself.
Texas has a budget crisis? Suuuure... I'm getting 18 thousand dollars a year and a tuition waver to attend math grad school at UT next year. I don't even have to teach.
And, frell, I walk into the marble corridors of the business building and feel poor no matter what.
mlylecarlin
Yeah, I know *I* went out and bought 125,000 dollars of nintendo stock after I read the slashdot article.
mlylecarlin
mlylecarlin
Damn. For a minute there I thought they were implanting transmitters into fruit flies. Where I live, that would certainly solve the problem of distribution; fruit flies are everywhere.