Ahem, you can use it, as long as you remember to ASK PERMISSION FIRST. The canadian guy (Bob Dean, I think his name was) was passing himself off as J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, as some sort of odd marketing stunt to get people to listen to the Media Ecology CDs...despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the Church of the SubGenius, and preached an odd doctrine that was largely at odds with...well, everything.
What Dean did with Media Ecology was the equivalent of putting GPL'ed software in a commercial release and ignoring the GPL. Very bad thing... -- "HORSE."
Alright, Slack doesn't come up on/. very often, but...am I the only one who thinks it'd be excruciatingly cool to have a Dobbshead logo for Slack posts? I was so disappointed by the generic tux logo on this one... -- "HORSE."
Re:Now that MTV has lowered the IQ level a bit...
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Bahahaha, well, I didn't know it was on, but I do know that even if I had I wouldn't have turned off Powerpuff Girls to watch it. That show r0x0rs, or something like that. Powerpuff Girls are 1337! Buttercup is my favorite!
hooray for gratuitously silly posts... -- "HORSE."
Since the mindcraft tests were done, it's clear that NT is better than Linux at serving huge amounts of static pages. That said, is there anything NT's good for other than hosting porno sites? -- "HORSE."
I deeply dislike this term. When one calls a suit[1] a suit, one isn't accusing the suit in question of/wearing/ a suit, one is instead accusing em[2] of 'suitish behaviour[3]'. As long as it acts like a suit, a suit's still a suit even if it's buck naked.
[1]: Trivia: This word appears *seven* times in this post! Eight if you count "suitish"! [2]: Spivak enhanced! Woohoo! [3]: It may be less efficient, but I'm of the opinion that this word looks much better with the UK-english 'u' in. Comments anyone?
Um, alright, this is just a check, I'm being absolutely serious when I ask this, is it a common libertarian position that governments should not be able to revoke corporate charters? How about issue them? What is the standard libertarian position on corporate charters, anyway?
Actually, this sounds a good deal bigger than TMI, which AFAIK was barely anything at all. But it's nowhere near the size of chernobyl, that's for sure... -- "HORSE."
mmm...well, all things considered I'd have to say that it's been pretty well demonstrated (in Afghanistan and Vietnam, among other places...) that people with assault rifles and sams/can/ beat ultra-expensive super-modern weapondry... -- "HORSE."
So I don't see how any AI system can outwrite a human. People can think, computers can't. Its really simple. Writing is something can comes from the soul.
heh, I'm sure you know Alan Turing's reply to that argument... -- "HORSE."
The company has some special way of preventing its employees from talking. We know Paul Allen has a huge cable/communications empire; does he have any major investments in radio astronomy?
Blast! I had to go and spend my last moderator point before I read this...feh. Well, just pretend it's Score: 2 (Funny), cause it should be. At the very least.
While I always find these types of advances amazing, isn't anybody else concerned about the possible implications? They mentioned, ever so briefly, in the article the hope that someday something like this could be used in the human body to do things such as clean out our veins, etc. This may be unrealistic right now, but is it impossible? I'm not sure I want to imagine a world where tiny motors can run through my body, doing what somebody else wants them to do. Frightening.
Oh, you think tiny motors don't *already* run through your veins? Just those tiny motors are biological, not mechanical, and we call them bacteria. Oh, and a lot of them aren't half as friendly as most nanotech motors would be... -- "HORSE."
Heh, yep, willing suspension of disbelief is the name of the game, at least for that part of the movie. Not to say that the movie didn't completely kick ass or anything, cause it did...
anyway, the bit where Morpheus is going "The AI are using humans for power, yadda yadda yadda", I've found the best thing to do in that bit is to pretend he's saying "The AI are using human brains for processing power". I dunno, that at least makes a little bit of sense. -- "HORSE."
For a more well thought out take on Apple's comeback (among other things), I suggest Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", which, although not perfect, and slightly out of date, is infinitely more clueful (and readable) than this latest piece of Katz's. Does anyone have an URL for ItBWtCL that still works? The http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginn ing_print.html link seems to be busted.
Feh. And generally I like Katz's posts. This one was really lacking, though. -- "HORSE."
Yes, the moderators should try reading from bottom to top whenever moderating, and setting their settings to a chronological order. This is what I usually do.
In the last/. story IRT moderation there was a semi-lengthy thread about having/. display threads in random order, rather than chronological. This seemed to me to be an awfully good idea, since it would help spread out the moderation points, plus it would get rid of the 'first post!' nonsense. Has there been any further discussion on anything like that? -- "HORSE."
Re:bah. I hate warcraft. I still prefer dune2 :-)
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For example on dune2 I kept getting my butt kicked by rocket turrets until I examined the range of my missle tanks and relized if I took just one tank out of the range of the turret then I could capture the base. Details like this are not in dune2000 and warcraft.
You are so smoking crack, dude. Firstly, all the Blizzard RTSes have things EXACTLY LIKE THIS. In WCII, catapults/ballistae fire one square farther than cannon towers, in Starcraft Reavers fire one square farther than bunkers/photon cannons, etc.
Second, um, I played Dune II Back In The Day myself, and I don't see what you're going on about. The game had no balance whatsoever, the AI was...how can I describe it? It was obviously a collection of very simple scripts, basically it sent out a preset group of units to your home base at x minute intervals. It didn't even pretend to react to the environment. IIRC some guy from Westwood actually said as much once in an interview.
Anyway, Dune II had no multiplayer mode...that's just retarded. RTSes only work multiplayer. Really. If I was even ruder than I am, I'd probably say that the reason you don't like modern RTSes is that you're too dim/lazy to actually figure out the strategy. Especially Starcraft...
All you do is make a huge legion of men that are bigger then the enemies and take over. Duh. Thats too easy and thoughtless! Even a 7 year old can figure that out. IT seems todays games judge players by how fast they hit buttons on controllers like Mortal Combat and street fighter2 or how quick you can build tanks like Command and conquer.
how could you possibly say that Starcraft solely consisted of amassing a larger army than your opponent, then throwing it at him? Have you ever played Starcraft multiplayer? At all? I suggest you go to your favourite search engine and search for "zileas" (minus quotes, natch). I'm pretty sure he's got a strategy page up, he is unbelievably dangerous with small groups of units.
...not to say that there's not problems with modern RTSes, of course. I really don't like the trend of making true 3-d RTSes, IMO strategy games work best 2-d...of course, that just might be my old video card talking, so don't mind me =) -- "HORSE."
No no no, he's not saying that at all. He's saying "rat out" the people who aren't really going to get into trouble, and *protect* the people who would. It's kinda an invasion-of-privacy triage setup.
Level 1: People who won't get in trouble...it's safe to let the bosses have their way with them Level 2: People who would get in trouble...do everything possible to protect them Level 3: People who should get in trouble...tell the FBI they've been downloading kiddy-pr0n
Re: mechanical replacement neurons YA reason to hope the Nanotech Revolution[tm] gets here soon...
Re: head transplants Am I the only one who thinks that the only way this'd be feasible is if a stock of brainless clone bodies were grown?
Oh yeah, and given head transplants, how close are we to being able to revive cryonically frozen people? Not at all closer? A little bit closer? What? -- "HORSE."
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What Dean did with Media Ecology was the equivalent of putting GPL'ed software in a commercial release and ignoring the GPL. Very bad thing...
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Alright, Slack doesn't come up on /. very often, but...am I the only one who thinks it'd be excruciatingly cool to have a Dobbshead logo for Slack posts? I was so disappointed by the generic tux logo on this one...
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hooray for gratuitously silly posts...
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Since the mindcraft tests were done, it's clear that NT is better than Linux at serving huge amounts of static pages. That said, is there anything NT's good for other than hosting porno sites?
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I deeply dislike this term. When one calls a suit[1] a suit, one isn't accusing the suit in question of /wearing/ a suit, one is instead accusing em[2] of 'suitish behaviour[3]'. As long as it acts like a suit, a suit's still a suit even if it's buck naked.
[1]: Trivia: This word appears *seven* times in this post! Eight if you count "suitish"!
[2]: Spivak enhanced! Woohoo!
[3]: It may be less efficient, but I'm of the opinion that this word looks much better with the UK-english 'u' in. Comments anyone?
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From Rob:
You're never gonna believe it: a chip that will emulate the x86.
From Kish:
Dear god (bet you'd never hear an atheist say that, eh? =P), I really hope that Rob was being sarcastic when he said that..
and finally, from Stack:
I think it's pretty clear that he was. Just because he can't spel veri we'll doesnt meen hes brane-damudged, aftir oll...
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Actually, this sounds a good deal bigger than TMI, which AFAIK was barely anything at all. But it's nowhere near the size of chernobyl, that's for sure...
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mmm...well, all things considered I'd have to say that it's been pretty well demonstrated (in Afghanistan and Vietnam, among other places...) that people with assault rifles and sams /can/ beat ultra-expensive super-modern weapondry...
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heh, I'm sure you know Alan Turing's reply to that argument...
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Blast! I had to go and spend my last moderator point before I read this...feh. Well, just pretend it's Score: 2 (Funny), cause it should be. At the very least.
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Ah geez, a joyce freak. Didn't we spray for those last week? Oh well, time to call the exterminator again...
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Sentence fragments. Damn good device.
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Oh, you think tiny motors don't *already* run through your veins? Just those tiny motors are biological, not mechanical, and we call them bacteria. Oh, and a lot of them aren't half as friendly as most nanotech motors would be...
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anyway, the bit where Morpheus is going "The AI are using humans for power, yadda yadda yadda", I've found the best thing to do in that bit is to pretend he's saying "The AI are using human brains for processing power". I dunno, that at least makes a little bit of sense.
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Feh. And generally I like Katz's posts. This one was really lacking, though.
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You are so smoking crack, dude. Firstly, all the Blizzard RTSes have things EXACTLY LIKE THIS. In WCII, catapults/ballistae fire one square farther than cannon towers, in Starcraft Reavers fire one square farther than bunkers/photon cannons, etc.
Second, um, I played Dune II Back In The Day myself, and I don't see what you're going on about. The game had no balance whatsoever, the AI was...how can I describe it? It was obviously a collection of very simple scripts, basically it sent out a preset group of units to your home base at x minute intervals. It didn't even pretend to react to the environment. IIRC some guy from Westwood actually said as much once in an interview.
Anyway, Dune II had no multiplayer mode...that's just retarded. RTSes only work multiplayer. Really. If I was even ruder than I am, I'd probably say that the reason you don't like modern RTSes is that you're too dim/lazy to actually figure out the strategy. Especially Starcraft...
how could you possibly say that Starcraft solely consisted of amassing a larger army than your opponent, then throwing it at him? Have you ever played Starcraft multiplayer? At all? I suggest you go to your favourite search engine and search for "zileas" (minus quotes, natch). I'm pretty sure he's got a strategy page up, he is unbelievably dangerous with small groups of units.--
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Not first, by any measure. IIRC Martin Van Buren was considerably below five feet tall, like four foot four or something like that.
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Level 1: People who won't get in trouble...it's safe to let the bosses have their way with them
Level 2: People who would get in trouble...do everything possible to protect them
Level 3: People who should get in trouble...tell the FBI they've been downloading kiddy-pr0n
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YA reason to hope the Nanotech Revolution[tm] gets here soon...
Re: head transplants
Am I the only one who thinks that the only way this'd be feasible is if a stock of brainless clone bodies were grown?
Oh yeah, and given head transplants, how close are we to being able to revive cryonically frozen people? Not at all closer? A little bit closer? What?
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My, what an interesting and compelling argument. I wonder if you'd like to repeat it non-anonymously...
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