Well, China has a standing army of about 3.4 million people (+1.2 million reserve). And 823,286,135 people fit for military service. According to Wikipedia. They may not have as good weapons, but they have much better brains.
And in case of an emergency... No country in the world can stop over 800 million people!;)
That’s because Pixar avoids the uncanny valley like hell. And they are right to do so. Pixar could already go practically 100% on making realistic humans. But that tiny bit missing would make it a very creepy experience. Which perhaps works if it’s supposed to be a monster in a horror movie. But not in your typical Pixar movie.;)
I agree, that we are past “realism” as an ideal. Nowadays, it’s like art: You try to create a style. Its own “realism”. Like Finding Nemo, which at first had so much realism, that it creeped people out. Then they changed the whole style to something less realistic, and more fitting. Which worked nicely.
I am a game designer. And you know which games I personally like to play most? Small innovative (flash) games and the like! (Think kongregate.com.)
It sees that big budget games tend to go all aesthetics and technology. But small games go more in the direction of good gameplay (mechanics).
I wish people would not forget, that it’s all four (story, gameplay, aesthetics, and technology) that are relevant. And the quality of a game, is all those things, multiplied with each other. (With story having the biggest factor, but the others being not much less relevant.) They have to support each other.
We should rather use DNS for phone numbers, and then allow something like: phone:cowboyneal@slashdot.org Similar to “mailto:”. Or one of ^(phone|voip):(//)?(cowboyneal@slashdot\.org|slashdot\.org/~cowboyneal/?)$
By the way: Why are URLs (URIs) so inconsistent? I guess the voip and @ version is the cleanest one. But I’m not sure about the point of the “//”.
Your argument is invalid, since it was 100% and absolutely clear that people would never have “died like flies”. Simply because swine flu is less bad than normal flu, and hence you normally don’t die from it. The rest was a bag of deliberate lies. You could have had swine flu, and think you just had a mild case of normal flu. Everybody in government knew that it was pretty much harmless. And far from a “pandemic”. Much less a deadly one.
Also, how on earth do you use up 18 million doses on 9 million people??
I know you probably did not intend to, but: Please don’t give anyone the impression, that more airport “security” (think TSA), like not getting those things past security, would be of any help in preventing this.:)
What I wonder is, how they got that original airport access ID in the first place, to be able to clone it? I guess just walking past a security guy outside the building should suffice, right?:)
Things that, from what I know about the typical EA manager character, should fit them: - Weapon dealer / Warlord: Fueling wars by selling weapons to both sides, just to make money. - Pharma industry: Getting school children on hard drugs sold as medicine, just to make money. - Competition for Monsanto: genetically engineer slowly killing plants and make the whole world plant and eat them, just to make money. - Music industry: Artist extortion and media reproduction, just to make money......Oh, wait!
Good luck going back to 150% your previous weight in about... 3 weeks!;)
Ok, on a more serious note: Congratulations!:) But I really hope you know, that for it to last, your diet change has to last just as long. So no “I eat different until I’m thin, and then I start eating ‘normal’ again”. But I guess this is obvious for everyone who does not read those “lifestyle magazines” with their never-working “diets”.:) Also consider, that the biggest cause for overweight, is not the lack of knowledge of how to eat right, but that food is used like a drug: As a replacement for other mental problems. (Like stress at work.)
Seriously, how was the whole thing not a giant FUD machine to make money?
projected winter deaths of 65,000 have been downgraded to 1,000, and new cases are decreasing
Oh boy... Why not from 20 million to... about five!;) Way to over-hype.
And the best thing is, that it’s less bad than normal flu. I may have even had it, and not notice that it was the swine variant. In that case I now vaccinated myself for free. With my hyper-advanced protection system, called... the immune system.;)
I tried TagFS. And I found the main problem is, that the tagging is way too much work, to get to the level of tagging I want.
Also I avoid XFS, since it keeps huge amounts of (log?) data in RAM. So on a power failure, it’s goodbye data. XFS is for servers with battery backup. Not for normal home computers.
I also tried JFS, and I got corruption with it. So I avoid it too.
I wish I could use ZFS... especially the scrubbing functionality.
There’s a giant problem with this: - You are not going to inspect every JavaScript you want to allow. - Which means that you only might know what it does, when you enabled it. Which makes the whole exercise kind of pointless.
An example is a MySpace or YouTube XSS script. Those sites are not usable without JS. So you enable it. But they are also the sites that are targeted the most. And that’s the problem.
Does NoScript have a automatically updated white-list? And if yes, who decides what gets in there?
All in all, it sounds very much like a half-assed illusion of a solution. Unfortunately.:/
Man, these are the moments, where I am proud to be human. There may be much evil going on. But sometimes we just seem to switch to another mode. Where we work together and act for the good of us all.
Maybe we humans just have too comfortable lives. Cavemen were small groups who had to work in that mode, to survive. Like the Hadza for example. I’m of course not saying that I want more catastrophes. Just more of that outside-normal-rules teamwork. We would already be much further in evolution...
Nature does not care for your view of what is ridiculous. Have you thought that they were a status symbol too, when we were still running around naked and not really upright?
Maybe there simply was no need to get them inside the body. From an evolutionary perspective.
It’s a nice big key. That is why it’s mapped on Mod3 in the German NEO layout. (Caps Lock is still available by pressing the right Mod3 key when the left one is pressed.)
The more important question is: How does he think he will meet enough women at all, when he’s sitting in his basement, doing Drake equations?
The simplest rule to meeting the right woman: Meet as many women as possible! Obvious, isn’t it? Yet nobody actually does it. Instead people usually search the Internet for help.
He’s not really shining a nice light on himself. More like a loser who fails at women, and uses some ridiculous “explanation” to justify why he’s not a failure. (Not saying that he is, though.)
I also noticed that normal comment trolling now went down, while moderation trolling rose strongly. But I still wonder if someone could trick the system, or if the mod points will soon be burned away...
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Well, China has a standing army of about 3.4 million people (+1.2 million reserve). And 823,286,135 people fit for military service. According to Wikipedia.
They may not have as good weapons, but they have much better brains.
And in case of an emergency... No country in the world can stop over 800 million people! ;)
That’s because Pixar avoids the uncanny valley like hell. And they are right to do so. ;)
Pixar could already go practically 100% on making realistic humans. But that tiny bit missing would make it a very creepy experience. Which perhaps works if it’s supposed to be a monster in a horror movie. But not in your typical Pixar movie.
I agree, that we are past “realism” as an ideal.
Nowadays, it’s like art: You try to create a style. Its own “realism”.
Like Finding Nemo, which at first had so much realism, that it creeped people out. Then they changed the whole style to something less realistic, and more fitting. Which worked nicely.
I’ll make a bold statement:
I am a game designer. And you know which games I personally like to play most?
Small innovative (flash) games and the like! (Think kongregate.com.)
It sees that big budget games tend to go all aesthetics and technology.
But small games go more in the direction of good gameplay (mechanics).
I wish people would not forget, that it’s all four (story, gameplay, aesthetics, and technology) that are relevant.
And the quality of a game, is all those things, multiplied with each other. (With story having the biggest factor, but the others being not much less relevant.)
They have to support each other.
We should rather use DNS for phone numbers, and then allow something like:
phone:cowboyneal@slashdot.org
Similar to “mailto:”.
Or one of
^(phone|voip):(//)?(cowboyneal@slashdot\.org|slashdot\.org/~cowboyneal/?)$
By the way: Why are URLs (URIs) so inconsistent?
I guess the voip and @ version is the cleanest one. But I’m not sure about the point of the “//”.
Your argument is invalid, since it was 100% and absolutely clear that people would never have “died like flies”. Simply because swine flu is less bad than normal flu, and hence you normally don’t die from it. The rest was a bag of deliberate lies. You could have had swine flu, and think you just had a mild case of normal flu.
Everybody in government knew that it was pretty much harmless. And far from a “pandemic”. Much less a deadly one.
Also, how on earth do you use up 18 million doses on 9 million people??
I know you probably did not intend to, but: :)
Please don’t give anyone the impression, that more airport “security” (think TSA), like not getting those things past security, would be of any help in preventing this.
What I wonder is, how they got that original airport access ID in the first place, to be able to clone it? :)
I guess just walking past a security guy outside the building should suffice, right?
Things that, from what I know about the typical EA manager character, should fit them: ...Oh, wait!
- Weapon dealer / Warlord: Fueling wars by selling weapons to both sides, just to make money.
- Pharma industry: Getting school children on hard drugs sold as medicine, just to make money.
- Competition for Monsanto: genetically engineer slowly killing plants and make the whole world plant and eat them, just to make money.
- Music industry: Artist extortion and media reproduction, just to make money...
Good luck going back to 150% your previous weight in about... 3 weeks! ;)
Ok, on a more serious note: Congratulations! :) :)
But I really hope you know, that for it to last, your diet change has to last just as long.
So no “I eat different until I’m thin, and then I start eating ‘normal’ again”.
But I guess this is obvious for everyone who does not read those “lifestyle magazines” with their never-working “diets”.
Also consider, that the biggest cause for overweight, is not the lack of knowledge of how to eat right, but that food is used like a drug: As a replacement for other mental problems. (Like stress at work.)
How is it not obvious that the governments were the primary target? The people were just used to generate the usual “loud retards” pressure. ;)
With swine flu fad fading in the UK
Seriously, how was the whole thing not a giant FUD machine to make money?
projected winter deaths of 65,000 have been downgraded to 1,000, and new cases are decreasing
Oh boy... Why not from 20 million to... about five! ;)
Way to over-hype.
And the best thing is, that it’s less bad than normal flu. I may have even had it, and not notice that it was the swine variant. ;)
In that case I now vaccinated myself for free. With my hyper-advanced protection system, called... the immune system.
I tried TagFS. And I found the main problem is, that the tagging is way too much work, to get to the level of tagging I want.
Also I avoid XFS, since it keeps huge amounts of (log?) data in RAM. So on a power failure, it’s goodbye data.
XFS is for servers with battery backup. Not for normal home computers.
I also tried JFS, and I got corruption with it. So I avoid it too.
I wish I could use ZFS... especially the scrubbing functionality.
There’s a giant problem with this:
- You are not going to inspect every JavaScript you want to allow.
- Which means that you only might know what it does, when you enabled it.
Which makes the whole exercise kind of pointless.
An example is a MySpace or YouTube XSS script. Those sites are not usable without JS. So you enable it. But they are also the sites that are targeted the most. And that’s the problem.
Does NoScript have a automatically updated white-list? And if yes, who decides what gets in there?
All in all, it sounds very much like a half-assed illusion of a solution. Unfortunately. :/
Man, these are the moments, where I am proud to be human. There may be much evil going on. But sometimes we just seem to switch to another mode. Where we work together and act for the good of us all.
Maybe we humans just have too comfortable lives. Cavemen were small groups who had to work in that mode, to survive.
Like the Hadza for example.
I’m of course not saying that I want more catastrophes. Just more of that outside-normal-rules teamwork.
We would already be much further in evolution...
Nature does not care for your view of what is ridiculous. Have you thought that they were a status symbol too, when we were still running around naked and not really upright?
Maybe there simply was no need to get them inside the body. From an evolutionary perspective.
I really wonder why it’s not the default key to invoke printing, in all applications. If that does not make sense, then I don’t know...
It’s a nice big key.
That is why it’s mapped on Mod3 in the German NEO layout.
(Caps Lock is still available by pressing the right Mod3 key when the left one is pressed.)
Wikipedia has a nice mnemonic device: :)
Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring.
Or “BUSIER” bacwkwards.
At least here that’s the case. So there really is no advantage or point to removing it.
How about we re-purpose that key to a generic KVM switch button?
Which is every pathogen’s wet dream.
What could possibly go wrong...?
Interesting, how you felt the need to mention that there is nothing wrong with it. Suggests you have to assure yourself. ;)
The more important question is: How does he think he will meet enough women at all, when he’s sitting in his basement, doing Drake equations?
The simplest rule to meeting the right woman: Meet as many women as possible!
Obvious, isn’t it? Yet nobody actually does it. Instead people usually search the Internet for help.
He’s not really shining a nice light on himself. More like a loser who fails at women, and uses some ridiculous “explanation” to justify why he’s not a failure. (Not saying that he is, though.)
I know exactly why he’s not getting a girlfriend. It’s very simple, once you get it. Unfortunately a real (nearly scientific) explanation takes 24 hours of video time, since it’s so hard to put it into words.
Hmm, or am I wrong?
I only can find this one: http://xkcd.com/384/
I also noticed that normal comment trolling now went down, while moderation trolling rose strongly. But I still wonder if someone could trick the system, or if the mod points will soon be burned away...
Since when is HTTP(S) “everything”? Maybe for those who have never seen something else than HTML and webapps.
Just set up VPN-like connections. Or think it to the end, and use a Darknet by default. ;)