I have no problem openly saying to anyone using FB that he is a pathetic loser who likes to get raped in the (privacy-)ass hard and deep. Because it’s not an opinion, but a straight out fact. You can hate the messenger for your own failure of having the balls for just saying no. But that won’t make in untrue.
Especially geeks. Using FB automatically voids your geek card. Luckily, from my experience, most people here hate FB anyway. But you got to take a stand. You’re the expert. You should have the dominant reality for these things. They should follow you for guidance on IT topics. Not the other way around. Or else, are you really a expert at all? (I think you are, you just don’t allow yourself to dominate. Typical geek problem.)
The solution is simple: They won’t be cool anymore, when MS has gotten its dirty hands on it. I bet the mechs will include a R2D2-shaped “assistant robot” called “Blippy”. “I see you are getting close to overheating. So I’ll shut you down in the middle of the fight!”
Also good luck trying to get a game onto consoles, that requires a mouse, a joystick, a coolie hat, AND a keyboard! It’s part of the definition of a mech game. You can’t leave it away and still keep the gameplay. Mouse: Torso (rotate up/down and left/right) Joystick: Walking (faster/slower, strafe left/right) (The independent movement (from the torso) and strafing is the essential part!) Coolie hat: Looking around (rotate up/down and left/right) (Allows looking behind you while walking forward!) Keyboard: Weapons, navigation, communication, excess heat management, etc, etc, etc. Good luck circling your enemy while attacking, with one of those elements missing!
You mean imaginary money! Is it based on something physical with value? No. So it’s just a number, with an imaginary value attached to it. If you stop believing in it, it’s worth zero. And that is a big problem, because what happens when people stop believing in imaginary value, can be seen, every time the stock market crashes.
Also, actual money is not made out of paper. That would fall apart very quickly. It’s made out of denim fibers. In other words: dissolved jeans. And actual money is either made out of a valuable substance (gold/silver coins, etc), or is a official debt obligation note that can be exchanged for that valuable substance in any (state) bank.
That is why you always buy gold when everything goes down, and sell it when everything goes up. And this is the exact reason, Glenn Beck and his friends now try to make you buy gold. Because things are now at the bottom, going up. They tell you it’s a good investment, because it rose so dramatically. But it only rose because everything went downwards. And now it’s the gold that is going down again. So you get to keep the gold while it falls in value. In essence it’s the same thing as giving away your work for 1/7th of what you thought you got for it.
Right now, when it really goes up, it’s not dumb, to transform whatever you have, into cash. (Of course when it goes down even further, that’s a really bad idea.)
Sadly, being smart doesn’t matter if you divert from the/. group-think or mention Apple/Jobs/iAnything in any blasphemous way. See my sig for more insight.
Luckily it doesn’t matter much. It’s not about what we can access. (There is a much better interface to that, called speech!;) It’s about plain interfacing. With feedback. And in that matter, the brain can without any trouble reconfigure itself (=training/learning) to do whatever you want. It’s what you do all day long anyway.
Remember those experiments where they stuck a couple of wires in a monkey’s head, and he “magically” learned to use them to control a robotic arm... in addition to his other limbs! That’s what I mean.
If you know how a (really any) dynamic neural net works, it’s obvious. (But it gets harder with old age. Though I think there are drugs that can partially undo it. But you don’t want to mess with those, since it’s the same thing as forgetting old habits... and you may find yourself forgetting someone or how to do something important.)
I have no doubt, that you can train yourself to send any patterns of signals over those wires. And sense anything that’s coming in As long as they are below your brain’s maximum resolution (in time and space) and in the proper voltage/current range.
### eix-sync: layman -S emerge --sync egencache --repo=local --update cd/usr/local/portage/layman/kde/Documentation && sh./metadata-sync emerge --regen || echo "“emerge --regen” has returned the error status $?." eix-update eix-remote update ### update emerge -auDNtv --keep-going world # press y<enter> # Circumvent or fix a bazillion non-working packages, and run “emerge -auDNtv world” again... for a couple of times, until you got everything working or masked. haskell-updater etc-update # walk trough a ton of fils eselect news read new # Apply changes from news. ### cleanup revdep-rebuild emerge -a --depclean rm -rf/var/tmp/portage/* # cleanup stuff from those failed packages ### kernel cd/usr/src && ln -sfn linux-* linux && cd linux cp/boot/.config . make oldconfig make make modules_install make install # runs self-written installkernel script. answer questions, if they occur. reboot # Go hunt the forums and IRC for at least half an hour, to get everything that previously worked to work again, and file at least one bug on bugzilla for whatever you couldn’t fix this time. Get called an idiot or banned for trolling at least once while in your usual rage phase, because you weren’t already born with the knowledge, that from last month on, massive architectural changes are sometimes notified in overlay SVN commit messages, scrolling by and away at 50 lines a second.
Easy peasy. Who needs long-term stable platforms?
</sarcasm> (...and they wonder why I’m angry...)
P.S.: Yes, this was what I actually spent my whole last weekend with.:( Please Ubuntu, adopt Paludis!
Reality check: You don’t “know” anything about that at all. You know that when you click on there, you see something trough your eyes, that looks exactly like a display with a text in the look of a website, that states (without big logical quality) that the answer is yes. That’s about it. Same thing for the Slashdot summary, my comment, or in fact anything outside of your mind.
It’s all just a mental model held up by trust and consistency. And since trust is relative, and consistency is dependent on the already established mental model, that does not mean much for anyone else. But does it matter? Since anyone else could just as much be a product of your imagination anyway. But... *head explodes* *black hole in place of head sucks in earth* *black hole with earth in it explodes and wipes out the entire universe* . .
**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ***
I felt a great harmony in the minds, as if thousands of geeks suddenly spew caffeinated beverages on their screens and then suddenly clicked “reply”. I knew I was not the only one thinking about exactly this!;)
Not a answer, but a remark about people mentioning Occam’s Razor: It surprises me, how that came from a quote to a truthiness, without anybody ever checking or caring if it’s actually true. We’r starting to socially condition ourselves into thinking it is undoubtedly true. And no matter if it’s actually true, that is always a bad thing. Because it lets people forget the “why”s and blindly adhere to a resulting but imperfect rule, even when the results are opposite to the original intention.
I did not find any proof for either truth nor falsehood of that “rule”. And my own opinion is, that it is just plain wrong. Since events and states of nature do not care and are not in any way related to how easy it is for us to understand it, or how likely we think it is. In other words: A natural distribution curve isn’t biased towards our personal opinions.
Unfortunately, we get the feeling that it is, either way. Because either way our resulting behavior from believing in the “rule”, makes it more likely that we notice everything that proves it right. (A natural quirk of the human brain.) Which is the basis of the psychological effect known as the self-fulfilling prophecy.
So please, before you use that “rule” again... Think about actual reality and proof. Think hard. And if you can’t conclusively be sure of it, don’t use it.
First, let me get this out of the way: While Google has one of the lowest evilness per size ratio of all the big companies, they still are not exactly good as a monopoly. But that does not matter in what I want to say.
I'm saying, that it would be awesome to have 3 or 4 actually competing search engines and teams! It would also allow different people to take different directions. Thereby also freeing everyone of what he deems bad, and allowing more cool pet projects to grow big. For Google itself, it would allow it, to go into completely new territories. Because, if you created a big company, it gets split, and all four parts are doing greater than before, and still help each other out here and there, that’s still really great! You can’t argue that that is bad for us.:) Some Companies even see it as a successful business model, to never have too big units. Because mindless groupthink always is bad for everyone. (Look at our media culture and its cattle people, if you are unsure.) Even the leader.
Wait a minute... 1.5TB/d = 500,000 iTunes/d?? This would mean that iTunes has only 3MB? The size of a song... OMG, those complete retard mean MP3s!! I bet they refer to MP3 players as “iPods”... This is even dumber than not knowing the difference between $0.02 and 0.02 cent!
Well, you can work on both. Just port ZFS and other useful stuff to Linux, and then forget about it. (Or the other way around, depending on which architecture parts you deem better designed.)
And then, about 5 years later, the WinPad. Right with a “early experimental hacked together” OpenPad, which is only actually usable 5 years later, and looks and behaves exactly like the WinPad with some missing smoothness, which itself behaves exactly like the GPad and iPad only a lot more annoying and with shitloads of security holes.;)
Meanwhile in useful innovation land... nobody has ever heard of *Pads. ^^
Frankly, tab bars are just a stopgap for crappy window managers. And buttons? Sorry, but they are just horribly inefficient. because they are a very small area that you have to hit, and are usually non-self-explanatory images. Mouse gestures are a much better solution. So much, that my Firefox right now does not have any navigational buttons at all: http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/my-firefox.png (The Icons on the right are just state displayers (they highlight, when enabled), and mostly associated to sidebar panels. I can’t remember clicking on them. Too inefficient.)
P.S.: I also banished the window bar buttons you see on that screenshot. They can’t compete with being able to Win-Click anywhere on the window, to do those actions.
You must be kidding. Are you seriously arguing, that death is the worst thing that could happen to you? Oh boy. My mother used to have contact to an insane person. That person would make your life such a living hell, that you would wish to die, but couldn’t. Believe me. Death hasn’t got shit on someone dedicated enough to implant a microchip into you and drive you crazy.
This video right there is the best example of how that would turn out for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y But instead of spoons, there would be “just”words, gestures and maybe buzzing implants. And: Yes, there are people out there, who can do shit as evil as this. I’ve seen it myself. That dude even had original paper from the highest police authority in the country, AND could forge his signature! That’s how he got out of a dozen mental hospitals!
(Luckily, he’s in a closed hospital/jail right now, where he doesn’t even have the right to use a phone. [Because that’s all he needs, to get out again, and sometimes even get his nurse IN.])
Mod parent wayy up! This is excellent proof, what is the main problem with Wikipedia an the “one truth(iness)” approach of a dominant class (admins). You can’t take Wikipedia serious, until it’s a P2P system where nobody can enforce anything on anyone else.
Your last sentence was pretty stupid. Because not all Muslims are alike.
These Muslims to normal Muslims, as inquisitors from the dark ages are to normal Christians... if you can call a religious person “normal” (which is like calling someone with a disease “normal”, because half the world is infected.)
In other words: They just have their own dark ages. Which is no surprise, given the desperate situation. Stay cool, do some good, and wait until they’re out of it.
Slashdot Mirror
I have no problem openly saying to anyone using FB that he is a pathetic loser who likes to get raped in the (privacy-)ass hard and deep.
Because it’s not an opinion, but a straight out fact. You can hate the messenger for your own failure of having the balls for just saying no. But that won’t make in untrue.
Especially geeks. Using FB automatically voids your geek card.
Luckily, from my experience, most people here hate FB anyway. But you got to take a stand. You’re the expert. You should have the dominant reality for these things. They should follow you for guidance on IT topics. Not the other way around. Or else, are you really a expert at all?
(I think you are, you just don’t allow yourself to dominate. Typical geek problem.)
Nobody reads instructions.
I read them.
So you are wrong.
Q.E.D.
The innovation minister, Kim Carr, said the spacecraft will land within the 130,000 square kilometre Woomera Prohibited Area,
Man, we need an innovation minister too! Finally a minister role that I can sympathize with!
The solution is simple: They won’t be cool anymore, when MS has gotten its dirty hands on it.
I bet the mechs will include a R2D2-shaped “assistant robot” called “Blippy”.
“I see you are getting close to overheating. So I’ll shut you down in the middle of the fight!”
Also good luck trying to get a game onto consoles, that requires a mouse, a joystick, a coolie hat, AND a keyboard!
It’s part of the definition of a mech game. You can’t leave it away and still keep the gameplay.
Mouse: Torso (rotate up/down and left/right)
Joystick: Walking (faster/slower, strafe left/right) (The independent movement (from the torso) and strafing is the essential part!)
Coolie hat: Looking around (rotate up/down and left/right) (Allows looking behind you while walking forward!)
Keyboard: Weapons, navigation, communication, excess heat management, etc, etc, etc.
Good luck circling your enemy while attacking, with one of those elements missing!
You mean imaginary money!
Is it based on something physical with value? No. So it’s just a number, with an imaginary value attached to it. If you stop believing in it, it’s worth zero. And that is a big problem, because what happens when people stop believing in imaginary value, can be seen, every time the stock market crashes.
Also, actual money is not made out of paper. That would fall apart very quickly. It’s made out of denim fibers. In other words: dissolved jeans.
And actual money is either made out of a valuable substance (gold/silver coins, etc), or is a official debt obligation note that can be exchanged for that valuable substance in any (state) bank.
That is why you always buy gold when everything goes down, and sell it when everything goes up.
And this is the exact reason, Glenn Beck and his friends now try to make you buy gold. Because things are now at the bottom, going up.
They tell you it’s a good investment, because it rose so dramatically. But it only rose because everything went downwards. And now it’s the gold that is going down again. So you get to keep the gold while it falls in value.
In essence it’s the same thing as giving away your work for 1/7th of what you thought you got for it.
Right now, when it really goes up, it’s not dumb, to transform whatever you have, into cash.
(Of course when it goes down even further, that’s a really bad idea.)
Sadly, being smart doesn’t matter if you divert from the /. group-think or mention Apple/Jobs/iAnything in any blasphemous way.
See my sig for more insight.
But he did *think* for *you* to become his android. ;)
(Turned out pretty well for him, so far...)
LOL. Hey moderators! Did I blow your mind? Or did you not get it? ^^
Luckily it doesn’t matter much. It’s not about what we can access. (There is a much better interface to that, called speech! ;)
It’s about plain interfacing. With feedback. And in that matter, the brain can without any trouble reconfigure itself (=training/learning) to do whatever you want.
It’s what you do all day long anyway.
Remember those experiments where they stuck a couple of wires in a monkey’s head, and he “magically” learned to use them to control a robotic arm... in addition to his other limbs!
That’s what I mean.
If you know how a (really any) dynamic neural net works, it’s obvious. (But it gets harder with old age. Though I think there are drugs that can partially undo it. But you don’t want to mess with those, since it’s the same thing as forgetting old habits... and you may find yourself forgetting someone or how to do something important.)
I have no doubt, that you can train yourself to send any patterns of signals over those wires. And sense anything that’s coming in As long as they are below your brain’s maximum resolution (in time and space) and in the proper voltage/current range.
### eix-sync: /usr/local/portage/layman/kde/Documentation && sh ./metadata-sync /var/tmp/portage/* # cleanup stuff from those failed packages /usr/src && ln -sfn linux-* linux && cd linux /boot/.config .
layman -S
emerge --sync
egencache --repo=local --update
cd
emerge --regen || echo "“emerge --regen” has returned the error status $?."
eix-update
eix-remote update
### update
emerge -auDNtv --keep-going world # press y<enter>
# Circumvent or fix a bazillion non-working packages, and run “emerge -auDNtv world” again... for a couple of times, until you got everything working or masked.
haskell-updater
etc-update # walk trough a ton of fils
eselect news read new
# Apply changes from news.
### cleanup
revdep-rebuild
emerge -a --depclean
rm -rf
### kernel
cd
cp
make oldconfig
make
make modules_install
make install # runs self-written installkernel script. answer questions, if they occur.
reboot
# Go hunt the forums and IRC for at least half an hour, to get everything that previously worked to work again, and file at least one bug on bugzilla for whatever you couldn’t fix this time. Get called an idiot or banned for trolling at least once while in your usual rage phase, because you weren’t already born with the knowledge, that from last month on, massive architectural changes are sometimes notified in overlay SVN commit messages, scrolling by and away at 50 lines a second.
Easy peasy. Who needs long-term stable platforms?
</sarcasm> (...and they wonder why I’m angry...)
P.S.: Yes, this was what I actually spent my whole last weekend with. :( Please Ubuntu, adopt Paludis!
Reality check: You don’t “know” anything about that at all. You know that when you click on there, you see something trough your eyes, that looks exactly like a display with a text in the look of a website, that states (without big logical quality) that the answer is yes. That’s about it.
Same thing for the Slashdot summary, my comment, or in fact anything outside of your mind.
It’s all just a mental model held up by trust and consistency.
And since trust is relative, and consistency is dependent on the already established mental model, that does not mean much for anyone else. But does it matter? Since anyone else could just as much be a product of your imagination anyway.
But... *head explodes*
*black hole in place of head sucks in earth*
*black hole with earth in it explodes and wipes out the entire universe*
.
.
**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ***
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
READY.
_
I felt a great harmony in the minds, as if thousands of geeks suddenly spew caffeinated beverages on their screens and then suddenly clicked “reply”. I knew I was not the only one thinking about exactly this! ;)
Not a answer, but a remark about people mentioning Occam’s Razor:
It surprises me, how that came from a quote to a truthiness, without anybody ever checking or caring if it’s actually true. We’r starting to socially condition ourselves into thinking it is undoubtedly true. And no matter if it’s actually true, that is always a bad thing. Because it lets people forget the “why”s and blindly adhere to a resulting but imperfect rule, even when the results are opposite to the original intention.
I did not find any proof for either truth nor falsehood of that “rule”.
And my own opinion is, that it is just plain wrong. Since events and states of nature do not care and are not in any way related to how easy it is for us to understand it, or how likely we think it is. In other words: A natural distribution curve isn’t biased towards our personal opinions.
Unfortunately, we get the feeling that it is, either way. Because either way our resulting behavior from believing in the “rule”, makes it more likely that we notice everything that proves it right. (A natural quirk of the human brain.)
Which is the basis of the psychological effect known as the self-fulfilling prophecy.
So please, before you use that “rule” again... Think about actual reality and proof. Think hard. And if you can’t conclusively be sure of it, don’t use it.
First, let me get this out of the way: While Google has one of the lowest evilness per size ratio of all the big companies, they still are not exactly good as a monopoly. But that does not matter in what I want to say.
I'm saying, that it would be awesome to have 3 or 4 actually competing search engines and teams! It would also allow different people to take different directions. Thereby also freeing everyone of what he deems bad, and allowing more cool pet projects to grow big. For Google itself, it would allow it, to go into completely new territories. Because, if you created a big company, it gets split, and all four parts are doing greater than before, and still help each other out here and there, that’s still really great! :)
You can’t argue that that is bad for us.
Some Companies even see it as a successful business model, to never have too big units. Because mindless groupthink always is bad for everyone. (Look at our media culture and its cattle people, if you are unsure.) Even the leader.
Wait a minute... 1.5TB/d = 500,000 iTunes/d??
This would mean that iTunes has only 3MB? The size of a song...
OMG, those complete retard mean MP3s!!
I bet they refer to MP3 players as “iPods”...
This is even dumber than not knowing the difference between $0.02 and 0.02 cent!
Normal guy: How much do you think that chick weighs? ... Mmmhhh... chickeeenn...!
Me: About 1200g?
After knowing that the LHC has total a raw data rate of about 1 GB per second, and about 15 PB a year, nothing can impress me me that much anymore...
Well, Adobe was only bi-curious anyway, and was a bit shocked by Apple being so openly gay. ;)
Well, you can work on both. Just port ZFS and other useful stuff to Linux, and then forget about it. (Or the other way around, depending on which architecture parts you deem better designed.)
And then, about 5 years later, the WinPad. ;)
Right with a “early experimental hacked together” OpenPad, which is only actually usable 5 years later,
and looks and behaves exactly like the WinPad with some missing smoothness, which itself behaves exactly like the GPad and iPad only a lot more annoying and with shitloads of security holes.
Meanwhile in useful innovation land... nobody has ever heard of *Pads. ^^
Frankly, tab bars are just a stopgap for crappy window managers.
And buttons? Sorry, but they are just horribly inefficient. because they are a very small area that you have to hit, and are usually non-self-explanatory images.
Mouse gestures are a much better solution. So much, that my Firefox right now does not have any navigational buttons at all:
http://navid.radiantempire.com/pub/my-firefox.png
(The Icons on the right are just state displayers (they highlight, when enabled), and mostly associated to sidebar panels. I can’t remember clicking on them. Too inefficient.)
P.S.: I also banished the window bar buttons you see on that screenshot. They can’t compete with being able to Win-Click anywhere on the window, to do those actions.
Of course it can be solved with a simple algorithm. Using peripherals made for humans, of course makes it harder, but in this case not very much.
You must be kidding. Are you seriously arguing, that death is the worst thing that could happen to you?
Oh boy. My mother used to have contact to an insane person. That person would make your life such a living hell, that you would wish to die, but couldn’t.
Believe me. Death hasn’t got shit on someone dedicated enough to implant a microchip into you and drive you crazy.
This video right there is the best example of how that would turn out for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y
But instead of spoons, there would be “just”words, gestures and maybe buzzing implants.
And: Yes, there are people out there, who can do shit as evil as this. I’ve seen it myself.
That dude even had original paper from the highest police authority in the country, AND could forge his signature!
That’s how he got out of a dozen mental hospitals!
(Luckily, he’s in a closed hospital/jail right now, where he doesn’t even have the right to use a phone. [Because that’s all he needs, to get out again, and sometimes even get his nurse IN.])
Mod parent wayy up!
This is excellent proof, what is the main problem with Wikipedia an the “one truth(iness)” approach of a dominant class (admins).
You can’t take Wikipedia serious, until it’s a P2P system where nobody can enforce anything on anyone else.
Your last sentence was pretty stupid. Because not all Muslims are alike.
These Muslims to normal Muslims, as inquisitors from the dark ages are to normal Christians... if you can call a religious person “normal” (which is like calling someone with a disease “normal”, because half the world is infected.)
In other words: They just have their own dark ages.
Which is no surprise, given the desperate situation.
Stay cool, do some good, and wait until they’re out of it.