How does it suck compared to Android? I can run almost all Android apps just fine on my BB Passport, so I get both what Android has to offer, and BlackBerry.
But, but... muh "sunny ways"! Trudeau kept saying that! Oh, wait, he stole that phrase from Wilfrid Laurier, one of Canada's greatest statesmen (Trudeau himself, on the other hand, we can just hope isn't one of the worst)
Just limit their ability to mod the same poster to a couple times per mod session
This is already the case -- you can mod someone up to three times per mod session, and any further mods of that user don't change post scores (while still using up your mod points).
In any case, I disagree with such a limit, because there are many persistent trolls and posters with an axe to grind. An example (of the latter) is mdsolar, who has over the last few years submitted numerous anti-nuclear energy stories, then within the associated discussions bashes everyone who supports nuclear energy, with personal insults, false and misleading "facts", and worse. While moderators do punish various posts of his, he counters that by sheer volume. Limiting moderation against individuals limits the only corrective action one can take against such posters.
I usually read philosophy, physics, and information theory, but I'd say the most illuminating books on consciousness, and the ones that presents the most plausible mechanisms, most backed by significant neurological evidence, are from the famous neurologist Antonio Damasio. The most recent one is "Self Comes to Mind", but if your local library doesn't have a copy, the older "The Feeling of What Happens" is also very highly recommended. It helps that he's not just brilliant, but also a great writer.
>when he was young
And just when I thought, as I was reading through your message, that you might end up scoring a bulls eye... The arrow flew by so close, yet landed far off the mark.
>life-long
>on/.
say wat
BS. Revolution has become impossible. The system has become loaded with too many protective features and corrective feedback loops that will prevent it. The masses are distracted and pacified by entertainment, social media, marketing, indoctrinating education, and coming soon, fully immersive virtual reality (I'd also add genetic engineering for the long term). On the other side, even in the US you have an army that's been ready to fire on citizens without restraint for decades (see Kent State shootings for proof). Any qualms that you expect some of the soldiers might have doing so will become ever less an issue as automation of war progresses unabated. Your prediction is not only a false dichotomy, but the two options are not even plausible. By far the most likely outcome is that advanced AI and robotics will make poor people obsolete (and by that I mean everyone except the top few hundred thousand to few million in the world), and a best case final outcome is something along the lines of the bad ending in Marshall Brain's Manna.
Ah, the sort of ludicrously narrow reading that is a common tell of the Slashdot autist.
These are incompatible in the sense that one cannot be putting forth all of them together without significant cognitive dissonance. You're thinking of incompatibility on a purely logical level, ignoring everything else, including intent, the very different type of argument each one represents, and the overall frame of conversation. The truth value of each of those statements is completely irrelevant in that context. Of course, this is just another post in your history on this site that exemplifies aspects of your psychology that are invisible to you but painfully obvious to a neurotypical reader.
Now, I don't hate autists and, though it's difficult to empathize with those whose own empathy is as impaired as in individuals suffering from psychopathy (albeit the impairment in the former being the cognitive aspects of empathy and in the latter the affective aspects), I at least have a level of pity for them. The exception that grinds my gears is those few representatives of that population who, like miniature pit bulls bite into one's pant leg and "lock" their jaws, refusing to let go while thinking they've actually caught flesh.
Let's see how long you're going to hold on.
I couldn't choose between multiple possible replies to your silly post, so I'll list a few:
- There's no explicit claim he's an authority
- Your comment implies your reasoning is fallacious because you appeal to authority
- Hawking has at least some authority over and above the general public by virtue of being a thinker and a genius, regardless of his specific formal training — which, by t way, does not mean he is uninformed about the topic in question
- You're just another hater, because here's this guy, who has retained control of only a few tiny muscles in his body, yet is so much more successful, respected, and popular than you
Confirmed for troll by stating a bald faced lie about well-established facts. Men have 1.4x the death ratio of women, and it's higher in all major health-related categories except Alzheimers. Source: http://www.health.harvard.edu/...
Look at figure 22 in http://www.bridgelux.com/sites... Far better than CFL/HID/etc. and good enough for the average home/commercial user, but not good enough for artists/museums/stuff on display where color is critical (i.e. clothing). Also, note that their high CRI bulbs are only at a low color temperature that's only suitable for low intensity lighting.
Nice image -- doesn't show the spectrum as a graph in an attempt to try to hide the flaws -- yet it still reveals a nasty spike in the blue end. I just gotta love all the anonymous coward replies you've made to my post, you shill.
break a series of encrypted emails held on Blackberrys modified by Canadian firm Phantom Secure
Conclusion: (a) don't get phones modified by a shady third party with government connections, and (b) don't take Slashdot summaries at face value (but we never learn that one, do we)
I hate LEDs. Their color rendering index is usually below 90, with the fanciest available at 93 -- still quite terrible if you care that colors of objects from clothes to decorations to paintings look anything like they do under sunlight. There's not going to be much improvement on this parameter as well, because the uneven spectrum LEDs emit, regardless of overall color temperature (what white point they're matched to) makes it impossible to filter effectively. Incandescents, on the other hand, have a smooth blackbody spectrum that's very easy to filter, and high end incandescent bulbs can be matched to duplicate solar spectrum.
Yet LED technology is nowhere near addressing the shitty color reproduction you get from objects lit by LEDs because these light sources continue to have a very uneven spectrum: http://i.stack.imgur.com/lkyXG.... Incandescents, on the other hand, have a blackbody spectrum which is smooth and thus easy to filter. There are incandescents targeted to photographers, galleries, and museums that match the sun's spectrum almost exactly (at your chosen whitepoint color temperature -- human perception of color is not absolute but depends on overall intensity of the light, so typical indoors lighting scenarios you want a lower color temperature because the light intensity is nowhere near solar and matching solar will make things seem too blue): https://www.solux.net/images/s...
Do you often find that some things are obvious to you but others just don't understand? Of course, the most effective trolls are the ones that actually believe what they're purveying. Uncle Al in the newsgroups comes to mind...
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I agree with GP's post with the exception of allowing people to moderate posts under the same story as they are posting. That's inviting abuse.
This post makes me worried, since I can't tell if it's socially acceptable to find that joke funny, or one needs to be a sperglord to do so
How does it suck compared to Android? I can run almost all Android apps just fine on my BB Passport, so I get both what Android has to offer, and BlackBerry.
Tory/Communist...ultra far right
So they went "ultra far right" and therefore they're "communist".
Mod parent down for cretinous imbecility.
But, but... muh "sunny ways"! Trudeau kept saying that! Oh, wait, he stole that phrase from Wilfrid Laurier, one of Canada's greatest statesmen (Trudeau himself, on the other hand, we can just hope isn't one of the worst)
They'll maintain it for their government contracts. Obama is still using a BlackBerry, and so was a CIA guy I met during my travels.
Just limit their ability to mod the same poster to a couple times per mod session
This is already the case -- you can mod someone up to three times per mod session, and any further mods of that user don't change post scores (while still using up your mod points).
In any case, I disagree with such a limit, because there are many persistent trolls and posters with an axe to grind. An example (of the latter) is mdsolar, who has over the last few years submitted numerous anti-nuclear energy stories, then within the associated discussions bashes everyone who supports nuclear energy, with personal insults, false and misleading "facts", and worse. While moderators do punish various posts of his, he counters that by sheer volume. Limiting moderation against individuals limits the only corrective action one can take against such posters.
I usually read philosophy, physics, and information theory, but I'd say the most illuminating books on consciousness, and the ones that presents the most plausible mechanisms, most backed by significant neurological evidence, are from the famous neurologist Antonio Damasio. The most recent one is "Self Comes to Mind", but if your local library doesn't have a copy, the older "The Feeling of What Happens" is also very highly recommended. It helps that he's not just brilliant, but also a great writer.
I prefer reading stuff by Sachs
Did you intend to reference Oliver Sacks?
>when he was young /.
And just when I thought, as I was reading through your message, that you might end up scoring a bulls eye... The arrow flew by so close, yet landed far off the mark.
>life-long
>on
say wat
>sincerity
>trolling
You can't have it both ways -- it's one or the other (at least if one subscribes to the original definition).
BS. Revolution has become impossible. The system has become loaded with too many protective features and corrective feedback loops that will prevent it. The masses are distracted and pacified by entertainment, social media, marketing, indoctrinating education, and coming soon, fully immersive virtual reality (I'd also add genetic engineering for the long term). On the other side, even in the US you have an army that's been ready to fire on citizens without restraint for decades (see Kent State shootings for proof). Any qualms that you expect some of the soldiers might have doing so will become ever less an issue as automation of war progresses unabated. Your prediction is not only a false dichotomy, but the two options are not even plausible. By far the most likely outcome is that advanced AI and robotics will make poor people obsolete (and by that I mean everyone except the top few hundred thousand to few million in the world), and a best case final outcome is something along the lines of the bad ending in Marshall Brain's Manna .
Ah, the sort of ludicrously narrow reading that is a common tell of the Slashdot autist.
These are incompatible in the sense that one cannot be putting forth all of them together without significant cognitive dissonance. You're thinking of incompatibility on a purely logical level, ignoring everything else, including intent, the very different type of argument each one represents, and the overall frame of conversation. The truth value of each of those statements is completely irrelevant in that context. Of course, this is just another post in your history on this site that exemplifies aspects of your psychology that are invisible to you but painfully obvious to a neurotypical reader.
Now, I don't hate autists and, though it's difficult to empathize with those whose own empathy is as impaired as in individuals suffering from psychopathy (albeit the impairment in the former being the cognitive aspects of empathy and in the latter the affective aspects), I at least have a level of pity for them. The exception that grinds my gears is those few representatives of that population who, like miniature pit bulls bite into one's pant leg and "lock" their jaws, refusing to let go while thinking they've actually caught flesh.
Let's see how long you're going to hold on.
Whoosh!
Way to miss the point -- the list of replies I listed are mutually incompatible (ergo, I listed them separately).
I'm still waiting for a reference to a respected dictionary.
I couldn't choose between multiple possible replies to your silly post, so I'll list a few:
- There's no explicit claim he's an authority
- Your comment implies your reasoning is fallacious because you appeal to authority
- Hawking has at least some authority over and above the general public by virtue of being a thinker and a genius, regardless of his specific formal training — which, by t way, does not mean he is uninformed about the topic in question
- You're just another hater, because here's this guy, who has retained control of only a few tiny muscles in his body, yet is so much more successful, respected, and popular than you
oh nevermind they corrected it.
Too bad you can't edit your post to correct it, splitting the non-word "nevermind" into the proper "never mind".
men's general health overall is so good
Confirmed for troll by stating a bald faced lie about well-established facts. Men have 1.4x the death ratio of women, and it's higher in all major health-related categories except Alzheimers. Source: http://www.health.harvard.edu/...
Look at figure 22 in http://www.bridgelux.com/sites...
Far better than CFL/HID/etc. and good enough for the average home/commercial user, but not good enough for artists/museums/stuff on display where color is critical (i.e. clothing). Also, note that their high CRI bulbs are only at a low color temperature that's only suitable for low intensity lighting.
CRI is only guaranteed to 90 according to the SPEC sheet http://api.icentera.com/v2/get...
Nice image -- doesn't show the spectrum as a graph in an attempt to try to hide the flaws -- yet it still reveals a nasty spike in the blue end. I just gotta love all the anonymous coward replies you've made to my post, you shill.
break a series of encrypted emails held on Blackberrys modified by Canadian firm Phantom Secure
Conclusion: (a) don't get phones modified by a shady third party with government connections, and (b) don't take Slashdot summaries at face value (but we never learn that one, do we)
I hate LEDs. Their color rendering index is usually below 90, with the fanciest available at 93 -- still quite terrible if you care that colors of objects from clothes to decorations to paintings look anything like they do under sunlight. There's not going to be much improvement on this parameter as well, because the uneven spectrum LEDs emit, regardless of overall color temperature (what white point they're matched to) makes it impossible to filter effectively. Incandescents, on the other hand, have a smooth blackbody spectrum that's very easy to filter, and high end incandescent bulbs can be matched to duplicate solar spectrum.
Yet LED technology is nowhere near addressing the shitty color reproduction you get from objects lit by LEDs because these light sources continue to have a very uneven spectrum: http://i.stack.imgur.com/lkyXG.... Incandescents, on the other hand, have a blackbody spectrum which is smooth and thus easy to filter. There are incandescents targeted to photographers, galleries, and museums that match the sun's spectrum almost exactly (at your chosen whitepoint color temperature -- human perception of color is not absolute but depends on overall intensity of the light, so typical indoors lighting scenarios you want a lower color temperature because the light intensity is nowhere near solar and matching solar will make things seem too blue): https://www.solux.net/images/s...
Do you often find that some things are obvious to you but others just don't understand? Of course, the most effective trolls are the ones that actually believe what they're purveying. Uncle Al in the newsgroups comes to mind...