Okay new example: Probiotic yogurt contains bacteria, and bacteria is (always?) cloned.
Can we stick to the actual, relevant issues? Like meat pumped full of hormones that may or may not be bioactive in humans? Pesticides that we know cause disease? Don't get sidetracked!
I'd legalize marijuana, and retroactively free (literally) millions of non-violent "criminals" from the justice system.
I'd also push for the draft, so that all you people who supported invading iraq can help clean up the mess you've made. Using the savings from the prison system, and the marijuana tax, I'd send 300,000 more troops over to properly secure the situation./Canadian
I dunno... having bought all these game companies in order to build up the 360's installed base, and having succeeded, doesn't it make sense now to sell them off and recoup their costs? They'll still make games for the 360... 3rd parties go to where the gamers are. The PS3 is barely a threat at this juncture, and Wii isn't raking it in for 3rd parties either.
MS way very agressive early on in aquiring these companies, and it has paid off. Sony would do well to follow their example.
I suppose, if you don't mind not having games to play. I bought a 360 and the HD drive at the same time over a year ago, and while i'm disappointed that HD-DVD seems to have lost, I did rent a lot of high-def movies in the past year. The $200 is at least mostly justified. AND I got to play some sweet-ass games that weren't available on the PS3.
In a year or so i'll be picking up a PS3, and then the ol' HD-DVD drive can go in a closet.
I'd recommend reading Christopher Hitchens' new book "God is not Great" for more detail, but here goes:
Credulity (or gullability, if you'd like) was probably evolutionarily beneficial because belief, in itself, can have positive health implications (ie the placebo effect). Individuals who "believe" tend to recover from disease more than people who don't. What you believe in doesn't seem to matter.
This was fine and good during most of our civilization's childhood, because frankly we didn't know anything about anything. But in the modern age, when science has far more beautiful, predicive and elegant explainations, we need to feed that desire to "believe" with analysis of facts. It is harder, for sure, but more rewarding. Religion knows it is being phased out slowly, and therefore fights science and free thought every step of the way.
Social cues are eliminated in the double- part of double-blind. The implementor has no idea if he is providing an actual working cell phone, or the placebo, to the test subject.
I think this is important news even for the typical slashdot reader (doesn't use IE, isn't a web developer) because it means that webpages are going to look better now. Web developers who only target IE will no longer build pages that look funny in Firefox, because IE8 will finally render things correctly. Great stuff!
I'm on Safari (Mac) right now... here's hoping they add a download manager too, and maybe support for the XML/HTML mime type (proper XHTML support).
- And they added extra protections for those formats that impact any ordinary things you're doing in the mean time.
specific example?
- Do you not remember winmodems at all?
Yup, Actually what i was thinking of when I said "most ". Didn't know about that ACPI thing. Generally though, most hardware still works in linux. Surprisingly so, considering the size of the user base. Kudos to open source developers everywhere!
- It's deliberate. That's what's so galling.
I agree with you. I get the impression you think i'm a MS apologist. I'm not. This is the main reason I prefer my MacBook.
Media Center is still fucking slick though. I primarily just use my Vista Ultimate box as a media server for my 360, for Visual Studio, and for games. If I didn't make use of those 4GB RAM, i'd probably consider dropping Vista for XP (there is no XP x64 with Media Center).
In this specific case the cracker would have to create a functioning tarball that WHEN COMPRESSED had the exact correct MD5 signature. Next to impossible, i'd say.
They DID break it, causing it to be many times slower when communicating over CIFS version 1. This is fixed (un-crippled?) in vista SP1, so it will be back to XP speed soon enough.
My problem with it is that, unlike capital investment, scalping produces nothing. It simply transfers wealth from a person who earned it, to someone else. So these people are metaphorically leaches on the economy. If I buy stock in a company, I'm investing in their development. Seems very different to me.
And yes, I am against enron-style energy speculation. Call me a commie if you want. Why don't these people do something to actually contribute?
Well I can't say I like it, but I do use it, so i'll bite:
This DRM complaint thing - what's the deal? Vista doesn't prevent you from doing anything XP will let you do. They added the ability to play restricted formats, which simply isn't included at all in XP. If you don't like HD-DVD playback, then don't use it! It's not like MS could have offered it without DRM (and not been sued to high hell). I can still rip DVDs and CDs with aplomb.
Its true, but as an IT professional I need to stay current on MS technology, or risk unemployment. At home I use Linux and OSX primarily, though I do play the occasional game on Vista. Hardware though? I don't think Windows restricts your hardware options too much... most stuff works on other OSes too.
Yeah Windows is pricey at retail, but OEM copies aren't that bad (similar to OSX pricing). I agree, though. I got my copy through our MSDN subscription of course so it doesn't apply to me.
Their standards (un-) support is extremely frustrating, probably my #1 complaint. Also why I have to keep a Windows machine around - to find out how to get everything else to work with it. Did you know they broke CIFS again in Vista/Server 2008? Yup.
I use Linux because it's so functional, OSX because its enjoyable, and Windows because I have to.
The absence of proof is not proof of absence. I agree with that statement. But the absence of evidence does provide limited evidence for absence. Every time you find a white seagull, the probability of black seagulls existing grows more remote. But finding a white seagull does not PROVE that black seagulls don't exist. Dig?
Anyhow on this topic I tend to think that we haven't gathered nearly enough evidence one way or the other to come to any sort of conclusion, and I fully support SETI as one of the most important scientific endeavors in history, regardless of what it does or does not find.
I'm not convinced this is speculation, so much as plain-ol' scalping. With the exception of real estate, all of those things are purchased for the sole purpose of investment. Domain names are actually USED for something useful, so trading them like stock reduces the usefulness of the WWW (in my opinion - I also think scalping Wiis and concert tickets on eBay should be illegal).
No proof (how could that ever be proven?) but lots of evidence... we haven't found any yet! Its like saying we haven't found any proof there aren't black seagulls. We find evidence that there aren't any, every time we fail to find one. But we'll never be sure.
Having said that, I still think civilizations are out there, but i expect we'll find ruins long before we find living specimens. They probably pop into existence briefly and then annihilate themselves within a few thousand years, which is, in cosmic time frames, almost like never existing at all.
This is true... the CANDU reactor uses the coolant (heavy water) as the moderator in the reaction... so if the coolant leaks out, the reaction stops. A Chernobyl-style supercritical meltdown is therefore impossible.
I've noticed that shutting down seems to be more reliable (as an aside, why is this a problem with EVERY SINGLE NEW OS Microsoft releases, for at least the first year? How hard is shutting down???).
File copies are faster (as in, they work properly now. Yay?).
My Hauppauge TV tuner still doesn't work with 4 GB of RAM (x64 edition). I have to set it to 3GB max in msconfig. Hauppauge says this is a vista driver model issue, but clearly it still isn't fixed.
Still slow as molasses.
I bought a Macbook back in the spring, and find myself pretty much only using the Vista box now as a media center server (Media center is still pretty damn cool). I'm usually pretty patient with MS, but Vista is clearly a useless upgrade thus far - I can't even use the 4GB of RAM! Might as well roll back to Media Center 2005.
Thats twice now that you've failed to provide a counter-argument (beyond calling me names - which doesn't qualify). We don't have to do either? Pray tell, what is the solution to providing our base-line energy needs then? One of the posters above detailed the downsides to most "clean" alternatives quite nicely, so I won't repeat them for you here.
It means some other (large) company can take the design, improve it, release a product based on it without paying huge fees, and then contribute their changes back to the public domain. So no, it doesn't help joe user, but it does help industry players save on R&D, which is still a good thing.
This is a great example of a knee-jerk anti-nuclear response, completely devoid of any facts, data or evidence to support the position. We don't have anywhere to store the carbon we're releasing now! At least there will be thousands of times less waste with reactors.
We're now at the point where, no matter what solution we come up with, we HAVE to worry about the waste. Up until now we've been worried about nuclear waste, but happily ignored the carbon. No longer feasible! Nuclear is far from perfect, but it is sooo much cleaner and safer than coal it isn't even funny.
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Okay new example: Probiotic yogurt contains bacteria, and bacteria is (always?) cloned.
Can we stick to the actual, relevant issues? Like meat pumped full of hormones that may or may not be bioactive in humans? Pesticides that we know cause disease? Don't get sidetracked!
I'd legalize marijuana, and retroactively free (literally) millions of non-violent "criminals" from the justice system.
/Canadian
I'd also push for the draft, so that all you people who supported invading iraq can help clean up the mess you've made. Using the savings from the prison system, and the marijuana tax, I'd send 300,000 more troops over to properly secure the situation.
You've confused "sweet-ass games" with "sweet ass-games". Amazing how the mind sees and hears what it wants to.
I dunno... having bought all these game companies in order to build up the 360's installed base, and having succeeded, doesn't it make sense now to sell them off and recoup their costs? They'll still make games for the 360... 3rd parties go to where the gamers are. The PS3 is barely a threat at this juncture, and Wii isn't raking it in for 3rd parties either.
MS way very agressive early on in aquiring these companies, and it has paid off. Sony would do well to follow their example.
I suppose, if you don't mind not having games to play. I bought a 360 and the HD drive at the same time over a year ago, and while i'm disappointed that HD-DVD seems to have lost, I did rent a lot of high-def movies in the past year. The $200 is at least mostly justified. AND I got to play some sweet-ass games that weren't available on the PS3.
In a year or so i'll be picking up a PS3, and then the ol' HD-DVD drive can go in a closet.
I'd recommend reading Christopher Hitchens' new book "God is not Great" for more detail, but here goes:
Credulity (or gullability, if you'd like) was probably evolutionarily beneficial because belief, in itself, can have positive health implications (ie the placebo effect). Individuals who "believe" tend to recover from disease more than people who don't. What you believe in doesn't seem to matter.
This was fine and good during most of our civilization's childhood, because frankly we didn't know anything about anything. But in the modern age, when science has far more beautiful, predicive and elegant explainations, we need to feed that desire to "believe" with analysis of facts. It is harder, for sure, but more rewarding. Religion knows it is being phased out slowly, and therefore fights science and free thought every step of the way.
Social cues are eliminated in the double- part of double-blind. The implementor has no idea if he is providing an actual working cell phone, or the placebo, to the test subject.
shipping now? all of them. What 32-bit chips are still being sold today?
I think this is important news even for the typical slashdot reader (doesn't use IE, isn't a web developer) because it means that webpages are going to look better now. Web developers who only target IE will no longer build pages that look funny in Firefox, because IE8 will finally render things correctly. Great stuff!
I'm on Safari (Mac) right now... here's hoping they add a download manager too, and maybe support for the XML/HTML mime type (proper XHTML support).
Woooooo! This is awsome!
But now i'm worried about this whole HTML5 clusterfuck submarining XHTML2, and thus the posibility of using a sane declarative language in the future.
- And they added extra protections for those formats that impact any ordinary things you're doing in the mean time.
specific example?
- Do you not remember winmodems at all?
Yup, Actually what i was thinking of when I said "most ". Didn't know about that ACPI thing. Generally though, most hardware still works in linux. Surprisingly so, considering the size of the user base. Kudos to open source developers everywhere!
- It's deliberate. That's what's so galling.
I agree with you. I get the impression you think i'm a MS apologist. I'm not. This is the main reason I prefer my MacBook.
Media Center is still fucking slick though. I primarily just use my Vista Ultimate box as a media server for my 360, for Visual Studio, and for games. If I didn't make use of those 4GB RAM, i'd probably consider dropping Vista for XP (there is no XP x64 with Media Center).
In this specific case the cracker would have to create a functioning tarball that WHEN COMPRESSED had the exact correct MD5 signature. Next to impossible, i'd say.
They DID break it, causing it to be many times slower when communicating over CIFS version 1. This is fixed (un-crippled?) in vista SP1, so it will be back to XP speed soon enough.
Seriously though - irritating.
My problem with it is that, unlike capital investment, scalping produces nothing. It simply transfers wealth from a person who earned it, to someone else. So these people are metaphorically leaches on the economy. If I buy stock in a company, I'm investing in their development. Seems very different to me.
And yes, I am against enron-style energy speculation. Call me a commie if you want. Why don't these people do something to actually contribute?
Well I can't say I like it, but I do use it, so i'll bite:
This DRM complaint thing - what's the deal? Vista doesn't prevent you from doing anything XP will let you do. They added the ability to play restricted formats, which simply isn't included at all in XP. If you don't like HD-DVD playback, then don't use it! It's not like MS could have offered it without DRM (and not been sued to high hell). I can still rip DVDs and CDs with aplomb.
Its true, but as an IT professional I need to stay current on MS technology, or risk unemployment. At home I use Linux and OSX primarily, though I do play the occasional game on Vista. Hardware though? I don't think Windows restricts your hardware options too much... most stuff works on other OSes too.
Yeah Windows is pricey at retail, but OEM copies aren't that bad (similar to OSX pricing). I agree, though. I got my copy through our MSDN subscription of course so it doesn't apply to me.
Their standards (un-) support is extremely frustrating, probably my #1 complaint. Also why I have to keep a Windows machine around - to find out how to get everything else to work with it. Did you know they broke CIFS again in Vista/Server 2008? Yup.
I use Linux because it's so functional, OSX because its enjoyable, and Windows because I have to.
The absence of proof is not proof of absence. I agree with that statement. But the absence of evidence does provide limited evidence for absence. Every time you find a white seagull, the probability of black seagulls existing grows more remote. But finding a white seagull does not PROVE that black seagulls don't exist. Dig?
Anyhow on this topic I tend to think that we haven't gathered nearly enough evidence one way or the other to come to any sort of conclusion, and I fully support SETI as one of the most important scientific endeavors in history, regardless of what it does or does not find.
I'm not convinced this is speculation, so much as plain-ol' scalping. With the exception of real estate, all of those things are purchased for the sole purpose of investment. Domain names are actually USED for something useful, so trading them like stock reduces the usefulness of the WWW (in my opinion - I also think scalping Wiis and concert tickets on eBay should be illegal).
No proof (how could that ever be proven?) but lots of evidence... we haven't found any yet! Its like saying we haven't found any proof there aren't black seagulls. We find evidence that there aren't any, every time we fail to find one. But we'll never be sure.
Having said that, I still think civilizations are out there, but i expect we'll find ruins long before we find living specimens. They probably pop into existence briefly and then annihilate themselves within a few thousand years, which is, in cosmic time frames, almost like never existing at all.
And furthermore, XP x64 edition is actually based off Server 2003's codebase.
This is true... the CANDU reactor uses the coolant (heavy water) as the moderator in the reaction... so if the coolant leaks out, the reaction stops. A Chernobyl-style supercritical meltdown is therefore impossible.
I've noticed that shutting down seems to be more reliable (as an aside, why is this a problem with EVERY SINGLE NEW OS Microsoft releases, for at least the first year? How hard is shutting down???).
File copies are faster (as in, they work properly now. Yay?).
My Hauppauge TV tuner still doesn't work with 4 GB of RAM (x64 edition). I have to set it to 3GB max in msconfig. Hauppauge says this is a vista driver model issue, but clearly it still isn't fixed.
Still slow as molasses.
I bought a Macbook back in the spring, and find myself pretty much only using the Vista box now as a media center server (Media center is still pretty damn cool). I'm usually pretty patient with MS, but Vista is clearly a useless upgrade thus far - I can't even use the 4GB of RAM! Might as well roll back to Media Center 2005.
Thats twice now that you've failed to provide a counter-argument (beyond calling me names - which doesn't qualify). We don't have to do either? Pray tell, what is the solution to providing our base-line energy needs then? One of the posters above detailed the downsides to most "clean" alternatives quite nicely, so I won't repeat them for you here.
It means some other (large) company can take the design, improve it, release a product based on it without paying huge fees, and then contribute their changes back to the public domain. So no, it doesn't help joe user, but it does help industry players save on R&D, which is still a good thing.
This is a great example of a knee-jerk anti-nuclear response, completely devoid of any facts, data or evidence to support the position. We don't have anywhere to store the carbon we're releasing now! At least there will be thousands of times less waste with reactors.
We're now at the point where, no matter what solution we come up with, we HAVE to worry about the waste. Up until now we've been worried about nuclear waste, but happily ignored the carbon. No longer feasible! Nuclear is far from perfect, but it is sooo much cleaner and safer than coal it isn't even funny.
Actually no. I think of advertisers as being in sales.