Well, it could be scary, or it could be very helpful. Current lie dector tests rely on your nervous reactions to questions and answers. First they ask control questions, such as "What is your name?" or "Where are you from?" and then they ask the real ones.
On most people, "Did you rape [insert name here]?" will get a much different response than "What was your dog's name?" However, if you could read their sub-vocal patterns, you would be better able to tell who is practicing a lie before saying it.
Well, Hawking has a muscle disorder. Exactly what is involved in ALS is beyond me, whether it's just the muscles or if it's a problem with the nerves getting the signals to the muscles. If the problem is the formor, it may save him a lot of typing. If it's the latter, it would be of no use.
As unpopular as the idea may be, Microsoft has already done this. They produced and marketed the Xbox, openly acknowledging that it would not turn a profit for a long time (years, not months). In fact, they do this with a lot of stuff, considering that Office and Windows are the only two products that turn a profit at MS.
Wasn't that one of their goals? Kill the feeling of safety, security, and common sense to the point that we give up what makes our country the "land of the free?"
Even though the above pargraph was most of what was preached after 9/11, and we all said, in a somewhat collective voice, "We won't let it happen," it still did, and it's still happening.
This is more than the music industry saying we copy their cds, this is more than sco saying they are going to file another law suit, this is more than the microsoft monopoly. This is what you can and can't do, and it is justified that the government gets more attention now, but not the kind it wants.
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I dunno, if I'm to believe all those ads I see here on slashdot, the TCO for windows is less than linux. Because, you know, 7-11 is a company I'd look to for my technology purchase information.
To start with, you forgot to note that the journal entries were not my own, just those of an informed resident of the UK.
I agree that the BBCBias website sounds more like whining than anything else. They have good reasons for it, but there are much better ways of going about getting something done, or at the very least there are better ways of saying it. I simply pointed it out as evidence that they do have a bias, like it or not.
Oh, and that TV license paid by the households? That is a required fee (where by fee I mean tax) that all houses must pay; it doesn't matter if they have a TV or not. If there is cable running to the building, the "fee" must be paid.
The BBC is government ordained. They are paid for whether they promote something or not. You are right about that; they have nothing to gain, but they also have nothing to lose. They are paid for no matter what. They can essentially say whatever they want about anybody they want, and not get their funding cut. They don't have to be fair or tell both sides of a story, they don't have to worry about getting anybody upset. If you want evidence of this, see their comments about Tony Blair/GWB.
Let's set a stage here. You are fighting with me, and we each have an army. You capture some of my spies who have been planting bombs in your local hangouts, and we keep fighting in public places getting nothing accomplished and getting bystanders killed. You and I have a meeting and agree to a cease-fire, but I add in a clause that says I can begin fighting again at any time until you release my spies. Then a reporter comes in and says you are being unfair to me because you won't agree to this wonderful peacekeeping agreement. That's why the BBC was kicked out.
And to answer your question, Al Jazeera is another news reporting agency that has its side of the story. Somewhere in between that and whatever Israeli tv is playing is the truth.
Check out BBC... These people aren't being controlled via advertisers, not political pressure.
Not quite. The BBC is completely funded by the British taxpa.. er.. government. Also, although they claim to have no (political) bias, they are very much left-wing.
I don't know about the others, but it's usually a good idea to read all and find a happy medium. The extremists will always exaggerate to their end of things (for example, look back to the "RIAA vs Realistic Math" thing); learning how to estimate the truth is the hard part.
Dunno about you, but I haven't seen one here since I spent $5 several months ago. Or any other for that matter. You'd be pretty amazed at how long it takes to view 1000 slashdot pages.
Now, I know pre-order dates don't mean much of anything, since a certain other game was pushed back another month just days before the release, but at two months, we should have Doom 3 by the end of the year...
Maybe it doesn't need to be said, but that was really pointless.
They cut all but one of the ads out of the article and although they had a popup, everybody should have some kind of free popup blocker by now, so nobody can complain about that. There are no pictures on the main article, so nobody can complain about them not being on the slashdot version (not that you can post article pictures on slashdot anyway). They made a slashdot version of the article so their site doesn't get slashdotted. There is no subscription required for vieing the article, slashdot version or not.
but I have a friend that can beat the crap out of me
I have one of those too, but he was(is?) the best CS player in PA, and one of the best in the country.
I routinely get cd keys banned from servers for cheating in CS and Battlefield, which is why I have stopped playing on public servers. I don't cheat though, and it gets rather annoying.
Because of that, I have stopped playing FPS games altogether except for World War II Online, which is an amazing game, other than the fact that most of the people that play for the allies are complete idiots. (No, really. A friend and I defended one city nearly by ourselves from hoards of panzer tanks(up to 5 at once sitting next to each other defending themselves and attacking, I killed them all as an infantry guy), infantry and planes for about 3 days. We go to our respective jobs and come back to see that the city is gone)
Anyway, lanning is the only way to play games anymore.
Funny, but that's all I see in trade shows / street festivals etc in a huge (several hundred mile) radius of where I live. And so far, I have not seen one decent painting. Sure, they all paint good (well, most of them do), but they don't seem to paint good subjects. Every friggin' person has to paint a barn or house covered in snow with some birds around it.
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Now, a sculptor I could see as being poor. I never see them. Except ice sculptors, and they have plenty of business in their field, but the field is limited to those who are really, really good at it.
I just realized how there was absolutly no reason for me to type any of this, but I'm going to post it anyway.
Quoth another poster, "computer-generated playlists"
Because those playlists are generated in-house, and factor in which songs a label is paying more to push into rotation and other such revinue-based decisions.
And, by the way, I said nothing about the whole schedule, only the TRL top 10s, which is information I got directly from a CC press release bragging about how their technology helps people hear what they want (them) to hear.
But hey, I'm just guessing/don't know what I'm talking about/whatever else. My bad.
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Well, it could be scary, or it could be very helpful. Current lie dector tests rely on your nervous reactions to questions and answers. First they ask control questions, such as "What is your name?" or "Where are you from?" and then they ask the real ones.
On most people, "Did you rape [insert name here]?" will get a much different response than "What was your dog's name?" However, if you could read their sub-vocal patterns, you would be better able to tell who is practicing a lie before saying it.
Seems more helpful than scary to me.
Well, Hawking has a muscle disorder. Exactly what is involved in ALS is beyond me, whether it's just the muscles or if it's a problem with the nerves getting the signals to the muscles. If the problem is the formor, it may save him a lot of typing. If it's the latter, it would be of no use.
As unpopular as the idea may be, Microsoft has already done this. They produced and marketed the Xbox, openly acknowledging that it would not turn a profit for a long time (years, not months). In fact, they do this with a lot of stuff, considering that Office and Windows are the only two products that turn a profit at MS.
as little of your own energy as possible
Now this sounds like the average slashdotter's kind of martial arts!
no, troopers just sucked.
I believe you mean Starship Troopers.
And the writers for both had the same implants, but for the writing instead of the acting.
Somebody forgot to check the geek's survival store.
Just look how "Lindows" Has had to change it's website to l---ws.com in several European countries
I believe you mean lin---s.com
Wasn't that one of their goals? Kill the feeling of safety, security, and common sense to the point that we give up what makes our country the "land of the free?"
Even though the above pargraph was most of what was preached after 9/11, and we all said, in a somewhat collective voice, "We won't let it happen," it still did, and it's still happening.
This is more than the music industry saying we copy their cds, this is more than sco saying they are going to file another law suit, this is more than the microsoft monopoly. This is what you can and can't do, and it is justified that the government gets more attention now, but not the kind it wants.
</offtopic>
I dunno, if I'm to believe all those ads I see here on slashdot, the TCO for windows is less than linux. Because, you know, 7-11 is a company I'd look to for my technology purchase information.
Is there some sort of contest for the most hated corporation going on between Microsoft, SCO, and Verisign?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the new and improved Axis of Evil.
bah, mod me stupid. I was thinking atx while reading/typing itx.
My favorite use for those mini-itx boards is making a nice shuttle xpc. Cheap, fast gaming computers that are quite portable as well.
The only problem I've found so far is they ony come with nvidia onboard graphics, but that's what the agp slot is for.
But just think... they'd never see it coming. :-p
To start with, you forgot to note that the journal entries were not my own, just those of an informed resident of the UK.
I agree that the BBCBias website sounds more like whining than anything else. They have good reasons for it, but there are much better ways of going about getting something done, or at the very least there are better ways of saying it. I simply pointed it out as evidence that they do have a bias, like it or not.
Oh, and that TV license paid by the households? That is a required fee (where by fee I mean tax) that all houses must pay; it doesn't matter if they have a TV or not. If there is cable running to the building, the "fee" must be paid.
The BBC is government ordained. They are paid for whether they promote something or not. You are right about that; they have nothing to gain, but they also have nothing to lose. They are paid for no matter what. They can essentially say whatever they want about anybody they want, and not get their funding cut. They don't have to be fair or tell both sides of a story, they don't have to worry about getting anybody upset. If you want evidence of this, see their comments about Tony Blair/GWB.
Let's set a stage here. You are fighting with me, and we each have an army. You capture some of my spies who have been planting bombs in your local hangouts, and we keep fighting in public places getting nothing accomplished and getting bystanders killed. You and I have a meeting and agree to a cease-fire, but I add in a clause that says I can begin fighting again at any time until you release my spies. Then a reporter comes in and says you are being unfair to me because you won't agree to this wonderful peacekeeping agreement. That's why the BBC was kicked out.
And to answer your question, Al Jazeera is another news reporting agency that has its side of the story. Somewhere in between that and whatever Israeli tv is playing is the truth.
Check out BBC... These people aren't being controlled via advertisers, not political pressure.
Not quite. The BBC is completely funded by the British taxpa.. er.. government. Also, although they claim to have no (political) bias, they are very much left-wing.
I don't know about the others, but it's usually a good idea to read all and find a happy medium. The extremists will always exaggerate to their end of things (for example, look back to the "RIAA vs Realistic Math" thing); learning how to estimate the truth is the hard part.
Dunno about you, but I haven't seen one here since I spent $5 several months ago. Or any other for that matter. You'd be pretty amazed at how long it takes to view 1000 slashdot pages.
Doom 3 on 4/15/04
Duke Nukem Forever on 11/24/04
Now, I know pre-order dates don't mean much of anything, since a certain other game was pushed back another month just days before the release, but at two months, we should have Doom 3 by the end of the year...
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Maybe it doesn't need to be said, but that was really pointless.
They cut all but one of the ads out of the article and although they had a popup, everybody should have some kind of free popup blocker by now, so nobody can complain about that. There are no pictures on the main article, so nobody can complain about them not being on the slashdot version (not that you can post article pictures on slashdot anyway). They made a slashdot version of the article so their site doesn't get slashdotted. There is no subscription required for vieing the article, slashdot version or not.
Refresh my memory... what was the point?
but I have a friend that can beat the crap out of me
I have one of those too, but he was(is?) the best CS player in PA, and one of the best in the country.
I routinely get cd keys banned from servers for cheating in CS and Battlefield, which is why I have stopped playing on public servers. I don't cheat though, and it gets rather annoying.
Because of that, I have stopped playing FPS games altogether except for World War II Online, which is an amazing game, other than the fact that most of the people that play for the allies are complete idiots. (No, really. A friend and I defended one city nearly by ourselves from hoards of panzer tanks(up to 5 at once sitting next to each other defending themselves and attacking, I killed them all as an infantry guy), infantry and planes for about 3 days. We go to our respective jobs and come back to see that the city is gone)
Anyway, lanning is the only way to play games anymore.
heh, that would be a good idea. I wish I had thought of it first instead of looking like an idiot for a couple of hours.
just testing my new sig, thanks for thinking of it for me :-)
stupid 120 char limit though, I had to cut some of it out.
Haven't these guys ever played DOOM?
If you will remember correctly, that doesn't happen until we put stuff on mars... oh.
But a painter,
Funny, but that's all I see in trade shows / street festivals etc in a huge (several hundred mile) radius of where I live. And so far, I have not seen one decent painting. Sure, they all paint good (well, most of them do), but they don't seem to paint good subjects. Every friggin' person has to paint a barn or house covered in snow with some birds around it.
</rant>
Now, a sculptor I could see as being poor. I never see them. Except ice sculptors, and they have plenty of business in their field, but the field is limited to those who are really, really good at it.
I just realized how there was absolutly no reason for me to type any of this, but I'm going to post it anyway.
Quoth another poster, "computer-generated playlists"
Because those playlists are generated in-house, and factor in which songs a label is paying more to push into rotation and other such revinue-based decisions.
And, by the way, I said nothing about the whole schedule, only the TRL top 10s, which is information I got directly from a CC press release bragging about how their technology helps people hear what they want (them) to hear.
But hey, I'm just guessing/don't know what I'm talking about/whatever else. My bad.