Science is not merely the realm for scientists to ask questions, they're merely the ones determined, talented, or able enough to put action to them. Everyone else in a society is also allowed to ask questions that the scientists can try to answer and that they must answer to. That society includes the "religious/moral types".
It might have been prudent to cite one or two examples "of the reverse", when you asked for one of religious restraint in action for good. Nevertheless, I have none for either side. Rather, I say that I've found that history and especially the idle historian better remember the fantastically bad events than the quietly good ones. I myself am also an idle historian.
And morality... do you scoff at all moral guidence in science or merely that from religion? Especially if it is the former, I hope you are neither a doctor mucking about with my insides nor a scientist mucking about with the Universe. Moral guidence, whether direct by personal belief, or indirect by considering the questions they raise, is what keeps us from destroying ourselves personally, publically, and scientifically.
I think you dance around this point: Why does the world have to be complex? People... most people... will buy into the world they live in if they know of nothing outside it. Especially before the ubiquity of movies and radios, amongst those living in remote locations, living lives assigned more or less by community(farms, villages, etc), few broke the mold, or left to become adventurers and explorers.
If you are born to the simulation, and are told that nothing is outside of it(or that a big hairy monster will gobble you up as you fall off the edge), you will have little reason to test your boundries. Then all that's needed is a big hairy monster or two to guard the border and chomp any poor slob with too much imagination and not enough fear of the unknown.... I certainly hope none of the simulators are reading that.
That's the part Intel didn't reveal. They figured the story would send some fun lovin' folks into a frenzy looking for the glitch, but since they didn't tell them the glitch requires being connected to the internet, and following the keys with delete.
Your "they suck" line, though. That is dead on. I don't put all the blame on Disney... there's simply too much to go around. On second thought, they end up with most of the blame anyway.
Thanks to a string of successful animated features, and widespread popular nostalgia, Disney gained a stranglehold on American animation. Then they decided to drink beer on their sofas until they fell unconscious and use their drool to divinate new shows. Hell, I grew up on their shows... Ducktales, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Tailspin and the like. But they got the industry and then they forgot that they were supposed to do something with it.
None of the other studios did anything about it either. There was the occasional gem, several of the Spielberg branded group, but most all of those were weekday afternoon fare. Shows like Animaniacs take more awareness than can be called upon early in the morning, and shows like Batman get the violent tag that's so talked about in the comments already.
Then Disney started their "One Saturday Morning" thing, for which they created multiple bad shows, as well as appropriating(and/or adaptaing) some good ones and making them bad.... I really wish they'd put out some good work in-house work again.
It ain't just Hollywood... as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Importance of Beiing Earnest:
Cecily: I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Rather more seriously, the "happy/sad ending? that automatically sucks!" attitude really chaps my ass. I respect storytellers for not tacking on a happy or sad ending just for the hell of it... just to satisfy the masses that may only see it if it has an uplifting happy ending, or an important sad ending. Deus ex machina to achieve either end has killed more good stories that I care to count. Not to mention that the very idea is total crap. I've felt uplifted by sad endings, and found some of those "hollywood crap happy endings" to be very important.
Except with morse code, I believe, you have to find the right frequency. Not much of a problem, but likely harder to find than a little light strobing across the street. Then there's the rather obvious quote from the article
On the other hand, bad weather, or anything that might block the light's path, can cause slowdowns or power failures.
"File transfer failed: Code 75(flock of seagulls)"
Wouldn't it be easier and more accurate to just wait for the next script kiddie infiltration and subsequent publication? Isn't that how Microsoft's future is usually revealed?
Yeah, the SciFi channel seems to have an extremely efficient crap detector right now... except they seem to have forgotten that they're supposed to avoid the crap.
Two of the shows I've seen ads for that are coming up on the channel(Tremors and Scare Tactics) both look like crap as well. Is it a boycott if you just don't want to watch?
It would certainly be nice to. However, aside from the obvious funding differences(adjusted, of course) the newer satellites are also built differently... much like buildings erected hundreds of years ago were built differently than modern buildings. The farther back you go, the less sophisticated the buildings tended to be. The buildings built to last back then were done through brute force.(much, I'd imagine, like Pioneer 10 versus more contemporary satellites)
"You're going to screw up. A lot. So don't worry about it. Just take it when it comes and learn from it. Also- you're reasonably smart and reasonably talented. Do what embarrasses you, show off your talents and your smarts. Win or lose, you'll feel better about yourself for having tried. And if those around you give you shit for it, find new people to be around."
I'm only 20, and only recently coming to some personal realizations that are truly life-altering, and, I think, improving. Whether by bearing witness or by being told, lessons can only be imparted when the recipient is willing to accept and to process the information. "Be self-confident" is meaningless until you know what it truly is to be confident. Even then, hearing the message is not enough to grok it.
"Oh, and one more thing, 12 year old self: get into this thread on slashdot earlier."
Cells and growing things within the body occasionally go haywire. Appart from the whole "what does it eat" issue, what happens when the bacteria decides to get really super productive with buildin' your brain? Do you enter into an "old lady who swallowed a fly" syndrome, and start sucking down counter bacteria, or do you get really smart before you get really screwed?
Objects not quite around the corner may be closer than they appear. Technological progress is going faster and faster. I don't think this is as far off as the post implies. Hell, we've got Borg rats, how far off can this really be?
*honk*
Re:Helping with the death of weblogging.
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To a certain extent, nothing is written anywhere that is not wanted by the author to be read. Even if that want is very small at the back of the author's mind.
Most diaries are not written not by the author to the author, but by the author to some variable entity. Sometimes that entity is a lost parent. Sometimes it's a soulmate they've yet to meet. Sometimes it's just an invisible friend named "diary."
A weblog does about the same thing with little additional effort. Author sits, opens blogging interface, writes. The only major difference is the type of physical motion involved. The difference between a diary writer and a columnist is the same as that between a personal blogger and a more ambitious one. A personal blogger writes about all the little shit and joys of his daily life, and at most invites his close friends and family in to share himself. An ambitious blogger will cover those little shits and joys only so far as they tie into some kind of bigger issue they think people will find important.
That, however, is painting both types of bloggers in a very dim light. Truly, the blog is the greatest democratizer created to date. Anyone can pick up their own personal megaphone, and shout out to the masses, in a town square without physical limits. They don't even have to have anything to say. Plus, you aren't forced to listen if you don't want to. You just go to one of the large parts of the square that the megaphone doesn't reach. Democratic all around.
The post that spurred all this discussion could be called flamebait... but ironic is more fun. "Free clue: No one gives a damn about you, or your thoughts." It being a comment in a community or out of one doesn't matter- either way it's still an expression of his thoughts. Ironic indeed.
Thought provoking, however, sounds like a better mod point to use.
Slashdot Mirror
... you start calling the moon, "Luna," in idle conversation.
Come to think of it... the moon is one place where I wouldn't mind living close to work.
*honks*
Yup, DDoSing, hacking, EMP blasting, or just staticing it all to hell.
"Walking internet cafes with laser blasters brought down by ragtag group with sticks and stones, and a freak electrical storm"
*honk*
Dodging the godwin's law sidetrack...
Science is not merely the realm for scientists to ask questions, they're merely the ones determined, talented, or able enough to put action to them. Everyone else in a society is also allowed to ask questions that the scientists can try to answer and that they must answer to. That society includes the "religious/moral types".
It might have been prudent to cite one or two examples "of the reverse", when you asked for one of religious restraint in action for good. Nevertheless, I have none for either side. Rather, I say that I've found that history and especially the idle historian better remember the fantastically bad events than the quietly good ones. I myself am also an idle historian.
And morality... do you scoff at all moral guidence in science or merely that from religion? Especially if it is the former, I hope you are neither a doctor mucking about with my insides nor a scientist mucking about with the Universe. Moral guidence, whether direct by personal belief, or indirect by considering the questions they raise, is what keeps us from destroying ourselves personally, publically, and scientifically.
*honken quip about karma going up or down*
I think you dance around this point: Why does the world have to be complex? People... most people... will buy into the world they live in if they know of nothing outside it. Especially before the ubiquity of movies and radios, amongst those living in remote locations, living lives assigned more or less by community(farms, villages, etc), few broke the mold, or left to become adventurers and explorers.
... I certainly hope none of the simulators are reading that.
If you are born to the simulation, and are told that nothing is outside of it(or that a big hairy monster will gobble you up as you fall off the edge), you will have little reason to test your boundries. Then all that's needed is a big hairy monster or two to guard the border and chomp any poor slob with too much imagination and not enough fear of the unknown.
*honk*
Brings a whole new meaning to "Calgary Flames".
*honk*
That's the part Intel didn't reveal. They figured the story would send some fun lovin' folks into a frenzy looking for the glitch, but since they didn't tell them the glitch requires being connected to the internet, and following the keys with delete.
Having a cat named Mr. Chubbikins helps too.
*honk*
Johnny Quest? Ugh!
... I really wish they'd put out some good work in-house work again.
Your "they suck" line, though. That is dead on. I don't put all the blame on Disney... there's simply too much to go around. On second thought, they end up with most of the blame anyway.
Thanks to a string of successful animated features, and widespread popular nostalgia, Disney gained a stranglehold on American animation. Then they decided to drink beer on their sofas until they fell unconscious and use their drool to divinate new shows. Hell, I grew up on their shows... Ducktales, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Tailspin and the like. But they got the industry and then they forgot that they were supposed to do something with it.
None of the other studios did anything about it either. There was the occasional gem, several of the Spielberg branded group, but most all of those were weekday afternoon fare. Shows like Animaniacs take more awareness than can be called upon early in the morning, and shows like Batman get the violent tag that's so talked about in the comments already.
Then Disney started their "One Saturday Morning" thing, for which they created multiple bad shows, as well as appropriating(and/or adaptaing) some good ones and making them bad.
*honk*
Just look here.
There's always a webcomic refrence. Always.
*honk*
is the acrronym of the day now DRTFS?(where the first word is a negative conjunction and the last a word referring to a cohesive set of paragraphs)
*honk*
Rather more seriously, the "happy/sad ending? that automatically sucks!" attitude really chaps my ass. I respect storytellers for not tacking on a happy or sad ending just for the hell of it... just to satisfy the masses that may only see it if it has an uplifting happy ending, or an important sad ending. Deus ex machina to achieve either end has killed more good stories that I care to count. Not to mention that the very idea is total crap. I've felt uplifted by sad endings, and found some of those "hollywood crap happy endings" to be very important.
*honk*
If you fine the people who advertise improperly, only the people who advertise properly will have spam!
Or something like that. Or is it the cruminals?
*honk*
Hundreds of years of military tradition, and now this?
Did they get their asses handed to them in a war, or something?
*honk*
In Minnesota, they cook them.
"The heat produced by the engine keeps the manure cooking, and the excess warms the barn's concrete floors."
*honk*
In Soviet Russia... ... water and sewage board pays you!
Or is that Communist China?
Except with morse code, I believe, you have to find the right frequency. Not much of a problem, but likely harder to find than a little light strobing across the street. Then there's the rather obvious quote from the article
On the other hand, bad weather, or anything that might block the light's path, can cause slowdowns or power failures.
"File transfer failed: Code 75(flock of seagulls)"
*honk*
Wouldn't it be easier and more accurate to just wait for the next script kiddie infiltration and subsequent publication? Isn't that how Microsoft's future is usually revealed?
*honk*
Too much spam, and I've been up too long.
*bows head in shame* Yeah... I saw it too. Or perhaps, "It's twue! It's twue!"
*honk*
Yeah, the SciFi channel seems to have an extremely efficient crap detector right now... except they seem to have forgotten that they're supposed to avoid the crap.
Two of the shows I've seen ads for that are coming up on the channel(Tremors and Scare Tactics) both look like crap as well. Is it a boycott if you just don't want to watch?
*honk*
It would certainly be nice to. However, aside from the obvious funding differences(adjusted, of course) the newer satellites are also built differently... much like buildings erected hundreds of years ago were built differently than modern buildings. The farther back you go, the less sophisticated the buildings tended to be. The buildings built to last back then were done through brute force.(much, I'd imagine, like Pioneer 10 versus more contemporary satellites)
More effort, but more consistant results.
*honk*
Fifty years after the structure is discovered, we're making plans to play Doom 3 on it.
Can someone get the little Mozilla beast icon to eat the little Bill Gates beast icon and put us out of our grief?
*consoles self in reality distortion field*
*honk*
my ideas on advice are pretty similar to yours.
"You're going to screw up. A lot. So don't worry about it. Just take it when it comes and learn from it. Also- you're reasonably smart and reasonably talented. Do what embarrasses you, show off your talents and your smarts. Win or lose, you'll feel better about yourself for having tried. And if those around you give you shit for it, find new people to be around."
I'm only 20, and only recently coming to some personal realizations that are truly life-altering, and, I think, improving. Whether by bearing witness or by being told, lessons can only be imparted when the recipient is willing to accept and to process the information. "Be self-confident" is meaningless until you know what it truly is to be confident. Even then, hearing the message is not enough to grok it.
"Oh, and one more thing, 12 year old self: get into this thread on slashdot earlier."
*honk*
Two thoughts struck me reading that news post-
Cells and growing things within the body occasionally go haywire. Appart from the whole "what does it eat" issue, what happens when the bacteria decides to get really super productive with buildin' your brain? Do you enter into an "old lady who swallowed a fly" syndrome, and start sucking down counter bacteria, or do you get really smart before you get really screwed?
Objects not quite around the corner may be closer than they appear. Technological progress is going faster and faster. I don't think this is as far off as the post implies. Hell, we've got Borg rats, how far off can this really be?
*honk*
To a certain extent, nothing is written anywhere that is not wanted by the author to be read. Even if that want is very small at the back of the author's mind.
Most diaries are not written not by the author to the author, but by the author to some variable entity. Sometimes that entity is a lost parent. Sometimes it's a soulmate they've yet to meet. Sometimes it's just an invisible friend named "diary."
A weblog does about the same thing with little additional effort. Author sits, opens blogging interface, writes. The only major difference is the type of physical motion involved. The difference between a diary writer and a columnist is the same as that between a personal blogger and a more ambitious one. A personal blogger writes about all the little shit and joys of his daily life, and at most invites his close friends and family in to share himself. An ambitious blogger will cover those little shits and joys only so far as they tie into some kind of bigger issue they think people will find important.
That, however, is painting both types of bloggers in a very dim light. Truly, the blog is the greatest democratizer created to date. Anyone can pick up their own personal megaphone, and shout out to the masses, in a town square without physical limits. They don't even have to have anything to say. Plus, you aren't forced to listen if you don't want to. You just go to one of the large parts of the square that the megaphone doesn't reach. Democratic all around.
The post that spurred all this discussion could be called flamebait... but ironic is more fun. "Free clue: No one gives a damn about you, or your thoughts." It being a comment in a community or out of one doesn't matter- either way it's still an expression of his thoughts. Ironic indeed.
Thought provoking, however, sounds like a better mod point to use.
*honk*
The fashionable building, that is.
"Does this make my delivery bay look fat?"
*honk*