Wow, Carl Sagan made a prediction in a field that he wasn't an expert in and he was wrong. All that example proves to me is that astronomy and astrobiology are inexact climatology.
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That wasn't his argument. His argument was that if game developers want people to stop cheating then the should enforce it with better anti-cheat technology which he then goes on to claim is futlie. He is justifying cheating by saying that game developers haven't done enough to stop it, then turns around and says, "Well, in actuality there's no way they could conceivably do enough to stop it, so my justification for cheating was actually given in bad faith."
While, he does claim to be 24, in general I agree with you, he definitely appears to think like a 12 year old. For example:
Aeropause: How many times have you been banned or suspended from gaming servers?
Schmuck5000:.... The people at Bungie are the worst. How can they complain about people like me. They should have built a anti-cheating engine in the game to prevent it. Its not my fault that modders cheat.
Aeropause:.... What advice would you give game designers to help discourage cheaters?
Schmuck5000: Give Up! There is no way to stop us. Everyone wants to cheat and we will always find a way to do it.
That's some ironclad logic there, if I've ever seen it.
He didn't ask for a definition of "anti-social behavior". In fact, he didn't ask for a definition of antisocial. He merely used antisocial in a completely unrelated context to that wikipedia article. If you'll view the definition of antisocial, you'll notice two definitions the first one corresponding to the GP's context and the second one corresponding to the wikipedia article's context. Note that dictionaries generally list the more common and generally applicable usages of words before the narrower and less common ones. Dictionary.com backs that up too.
Notice that the wikipedia article you linked to isn't even about the general concept of "antisocial", it's in several Psychology categories and links to several aricles about various pieces of legislation. It's an article discussing a jargon term and completely independant of the broader meanings associated with the word antisocial.
I thought it wasn't referring to anything in particular, but I think it should have been referring to Debian kFreeBSD. That's the clear migration path for linux users if linux goes belly up.
if elected officials are not serving the people and allowing laws which directly contravene your wishes, you are under no moral obligation to obey them.
By that reasoning, the KKK would be perfectly justified in lynching people if they were only popular enough, which they were at one time. While civil disobedience is a noble effort against many unjust laws, there are certain laws that no matter how unpopular they are, need to be there. The key is that we live in a democratic republic, not a raw democracy. Your policy is s perfect recipe for mob rule.
I make damn sure that only processes that I want running (and of course the hidden winxp dialhome software)
I don't have too much sympathy for you, you intentionally ignored the fact that everyone who has folding@home installed has explicitly explicitly done so by choice. In most configurations, it doesn't run when the computer is being used, but only when its screensaver is active. So yes, your post whining about programs "sucking up your idle cycles" seems to be pretty much just FUD that is unrelated to how the folding@home software actually works.
It's a shame their customers may have to suffer for it.
I don't know, I'd conjecture that Echostar's customers could potentially file a class action lawsuit against Echostar for fraudulently selling a service that they didn't have the rights to sell. The could probably at least sue for breach of contract and get a refund on the remainder of their service periods.
My point was that DeMorgan's laws don't apply to constructions like !real, only to conjunctions or disjunctions. The rest of my post was facetious. In fact, all of my post was facetious.
Wouldn't DeMorgan's laws imply something more like !(Un && real) => !Un || !real. Since I agree with you that the story is real, I guess this means that it must be !Un.
I don't think the disclaimer is awkwardly placed, I think the link text was chosen poorly. I think the slashdot editor was right in placing the disclaimer directly following the link (I'm assuming the editor had to do that). Whoever thought it was a good idea to say
<a href="http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/08/02/ 2210213.shtml?tid=147">why RMS isn't a DRM</a> fan
instead of
<a href="http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/08/02/ 2210213.shtml?tid=147">why RMS isn't a DRM fan</a>
So? I could quite happily surf the web in 1996 with 40 megs of RAM and a 100 MHz pentium. And believe it or not, the web hasn't changed too much since then.
Really, because pages like this one, this one, and this one seem to have relatively few images compared to their modern-day equivalents and the rest of web these days, and the ones they have seem to be much lower res. (note: I'm not claiming this is a representative sample, those are simply the first 3 companies I could think of that would have had websites in 1996.) Google's about the only major site I know of that still looks as simple as it used to. Not sure how big an impact on memory usage all those images should be, but I'd bet it's not insignificant.
I thought they were talking earlier than that, like when primates eyes were moving forward on their face to give better depth perception, and those kind of things. Just because primates have evolved due to different selective pressures since then does not exclude the article's hypothesis. In fact, the article addresses this:
Today, the only other threats faced by primates are raptors, such as eagles and hawks, and large carnivores, such as bears, large cats and wolves, but these animals evolved long after snakes did.
Furthermore, these other predators can be safely detected from a distance. For snakes, the opposite is true.
"If you see them close to you, you still have time to avoid them," Isbell said. "Primate vision is particularly good at close range."
In fact the article suggests that the social improvements that you speak of were able to evolve later only due to the jump start in brain size triggered by the snakes' selective pressure:
Once primates developed specialized vision and enlarged brains, these traits became useful for other purposes, such as social interactions in groups.
I'm pretty sure expense has nothing to do with it. If routers had to deal with variable length addresses, they'd be inherently slower than fixed length address routers. The key is that for backbone routers, these protocols are not being implemented in software on a cpu, they're implemented in custom hardware designed to handle massive throughput. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if the protocol mandated variable length addresses, the backbone router manufacturers would just ignore the protocol and design their routers with a relatively large fixed size address register, just so they could stay competitive with each other on performace.
If there is energy in empty space - then that means only one thing - the space by definition isn't empty...
To some degree that's true, but at this point it's really just splitting semantic hairs about the definition of empty. One way to view the concept of zero-point energy is that there's no such thing as empty space, even in a theoretical sense. Since it doesn't make sense to talk about "truly" empty space anymore, for convenience people then generally view the term empty as shorthand for "as empty as space could theoretically be".
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Wow, Carl Sagan made a prediction in a field that he wasn't an expert in and he was wrong. All that example proves to me is that astronomy and astrobiology are inexact climatology.
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That wasn't his argument. His argument was that if game developers want people to stop cheating then the should enforce it with better anti-cheat technology which he then goes on to claim is futlie. He is justifying cheating by saying that game developers haven't done enough to stop it, then turns around and says, "Well, in actuality there's no way they could conceivably do enough to stop it, so my justification for cheating was actually given in bad faith."
Of course not, that would just be silly. Everyone knows we need one or two to point to tubgirl and meatspin.
That's some ironclad logic there, if I've ever seen it.
I'm not sure whether that helps or hurts your argument.
He didn't ask for a definition of "anti-social behavior". In fact, he didn't ask for a definition of antisocial. He merely used antisocial in a completely unrelated context to that wikipedia article. If you'll view the definition of antisocial, you'll notice two definitions the first one corresponding to the GP's context and the second one corresponding to the wikipedia article's context. Note that dictionaries generally list the more common and generally applicable usages of words before the narrower and less common ones. Dictionary.com backs that up too.
Notice that the wikipedia article you linked to isn't even about the general concept of "antisocial", it's in several Psychology categories and links to several aricles about various pieces of legislation. It's an article discussing a jargon term and completely independant of the broader meanings associated with the word antisocial.
I thought it wasn't referring to anything in particular, but I think it should have been referring to Debian kFreeBSD. That's the clear migration path for linux users if linux goes belly up.
I don't have too much sympathy for you, you intentionally ignored the fact that everyone who has folding@home installed has explicitly explicitly done so by choice. In most configurations, it doesn't run when the computer is being used, but only when its screensaver is active. So yes, your post whining about programs "sucking up your idle cycles" seems to be pretty much just FUD that is unrelated to how the folding@home software actually works.
I have a strange suspicion that after I go RTFA, I'll be able to come back and say RTFA!
My point was that DeMorgan's laws don't apply to constructions like !real, only to conjunctions or disjunctions. The rest of my post was facetious. In fact, all of my post was facetious.
Wouldn't DeMorgan's laws imply something more like !(Un && real) => !Un || !real. Since I agree with you that the story is real, I guess this means that it must be !Un.
umm, yeah...
Now, that's not fair. Windows DirectX games aren't locked to windows APIs, they're totally portable to the xbox and xbox360.
I thought that was a repository for cataloging ancient and obvious technology.
I thought they were talking earlier than that, like when primates eyes were moving forward on their face to give better depth perception, and those kind of things. Just because primates have evolved due to different selective pressures since then does not exclude the article's hypothesis. In fact, the article addresses this:
In fact the article suggests that the social improvements that you speak of were able to evolve later only due to the jump start in brain size triggered by the snakes' selective pressure:
I'm pretty sure expense has nothing to do with it. If routers had to deal with variable length addresses, they'd be inherently slower than fixed length address routers. The key is that for backbone routers, these protocols are not being implemented in software on a cpu, they're implemented in custom hardware designed to handle massive throughput. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if the protocol mandated variable length addresses, the backbone router manufacturers would just ignore the protocol and design their routers with a relatively large fixed size address register, just so they could stay competitive with each other on performace.
hand over your geek card right now! Semprini