To paraphrase the famous quote: Those who would give up essential privacy to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither privacy nor safety.
Yet those that would give up any pretense of originality (let alone understanding of the words they ^C^V) can quite easily purchase a little karma. C'est la vie.
Can someone fill me in as to why Iraq is so different that people can't work in tempuratures even lower than people in So. California/Arizona/Nevada are used-to?
The job is what's different: if you're feeling like crap doing your civilian work, you can sit down and stop working or go in the shade. You probably don't even realize the number of times you've been close to a heat injury.
If you're on a mission, however, you usually can't and if you haven't prepared for it you're going to get a heat injury. Now the mission is compromised, and you have to be medevaced, exposing yourself and others to mortal danger.
This system has been used even in amateur racing for literally decades. It's called a "coolsuit" and they are neither particularly novel nor expensive. However, I would assume that this system costs a hojillion-billion dollars, because it was "developed" for the military.
The main issue is that the gear has to survive combat. Something as simple as a 3-5 second rush involves repeatedly jumping down into a prone position over whatever happens to be on the ground, rocks, sticks, whatever.
It's not the changing jargon that's really an issue. Language changes, that's just how it works.
But identity politics is a dangerous game and has far reaching impact.
The beauty of "black" and "white" is that they're two sides of a coin. By being so innocuous you tend to think *less* about race when you hear them.
But racial activists rewriting the history of Africa were busy outdoing the PR campaign that earned Greenland its name.
African American came about because activists wanted people to think about race. They had many legitimate reasons. But at this point, the movement has achieved its initial goals and while I'm sure blacks would love to get a reparations check, they'd be far better served if we could come to a larger kind of consensus.
That's hampered, in a very large part, by the divisive side-effects of identity politics, of which terms like African American are symptomatic. One thing progressives don't understand is that once progress is made, society needs to internalize it. Of course, if they understood that, they'd be conservatives...
Funny you mention that, since the efforts to produce abundant food with built in vitamins via genetic modification have been thwarted by protectionist European farmers...
At the $500 price point, you're much more likely to go for a used or refurbished laptop. Thus you're inadvertently comparing two distinct markets, each of which has different needs and priorities.
Most people that would need to hand crank a PC do not need a PC at all!
I'd like one to take with me to the field. The fact that it looks solidly built is also appealing.
Sounds like the Itanium, so I guess he should know.
That was a completely different market and died because it was dog slow...
Yeah and PDA and programmable cell phones would never sell.
The PDA boondoggle put Palm under and killed the Newton... The main thing cell phones get from a server is ring tones.
I think they call that the Save 10% off your next purchase of an Intel PC, forever locking you into our architecture plan.
You're just jealous because by teaching computer literacy in Sri Lanka, the guys at Intel are doing more for the world in a week than you ever will in your lifetime.
i wonder if powerhungry processors and the electric generators necessary to power them are the actual root of global warming.
Since the root of global warming is heat from the sun, no. But to answer the question you were trying to ask, no, they don't contribute anything like cars do.
GP: I guess there is only so much money to go around in the economy
P: You might think that, wouldn't you? But no. Spend all you want, the governments will print more. Of course, the money you have now becomes less valuable as a result, but if you think we don't have inflation by design
First: the notion that there is "only so much money." It is true that there is are only so many nominal dollars/yen/etc. However, you can make money right in your own home! Just get a piece of paper and write "IOU $5" and give it to a friend. Congratulations. You have just increased the total amount of money in the world by $5.
That is, assuming you actually intend to pay your friend back *and* your friend trusts you to do so.
Now, governments *do* need to print money. Not to cause inflation, but because without enough cash people can't do business. Your IOU only works as well as people trust you to pay it back, the five dollar IOU from the federal government is viewed as considerably more reliable.
In the case of hyperinflation you see that a government is printing tons of money and the currency is becoming devalued and make the post hoc error that printing money causes the devaluing of the currency. But what's really happening is that people are losing faith that the government is good on its debts. In wartime Germany, was it the printing of money that made people lose faith in the mark, or was it the fact that they were losing the war?
When you understand that markets are a natural means of communicating information about scarcity of resources and talent you see why the idea that someone can "design" something like inflation is false. Maybe they can significantly influence it or maybe the whole regulating thing is a farce and politicians just take credit for upswings and blame others for downswings. At any rate, the sum value of everything in the world is most directly influenced by creativity and ingenuity, not accounting tricks.
there's already a standard way of dealing with the problem (the soft hyphen, which is a defined part of the UNICODE spec)
Uh huh. You know that hyphenation has to be prioritized, right? It may be *permissible* to hyphenate at a certain place but *preferable* to hyphenate elsewhere. Compound words are a perfect example: it's better to hyphenate between the words than within the words. Please show me how you can achieve this with soft hyphens.
Anything else is just stupid linguistic imperialism.
No, it's lazy Europeans who don't want to get off their asses and do it themselves. They need it implemented and are clearly capable of doing it themselves but... don't. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
Perhaps Slashdot isn't the obvious place to discuss the evolution of grammar and how easy to learn languages tend to create cultural domination, but it is as true of computer languages as of human language.
Sure it is. You just have to be prepared to get modded down by people who are easily offended.
English happens to be an excellent language for working with computers: small alphabet, no accents (except for loanwords), and it is poorly inflected so stemming algorithms are simple. It also has, as you alluded to, very few compound words. The structure of English is a historical coincidence, and the only way someone who wasn't an anglophone could take offense to it would be if they had an inferiority complex.
A machine that actually detected lies would basically be a machine that could read human thoughts.
Deception is only half of a lie. A true lie detector would need to know the falsehood as well. But if you know what's false you know what's true, so what do you need a lie detector for?
Bush has done the most damage for us Americans internationally (using his own "language" along the way)
By "internationally" you mean "in Europe." News flash: there is a world outside our old colonial masters. Further news flash: it turns out that our old colonial masters opposed the war because they had made deals with the devil in Iraq. Among the countries throughout the world (many of which your heavily stamped passport holding friends didn't believe mattered as participants in the coalition of the willing) that still have a conscience, our standing is as high as ever.
but you and yours is the second leading reason Americans are considered brash assholes internationally (thanks for that, BTW!)
And you and yours are the reason no one can stand Californians, and why the Democrats keep losing elections.
Contrary to your belief, there is more then one culture in the world.
And contrary to your belief, smart, learned and wise people support Bush.
Here's one more reagional American-ism for you: Pop = Soda Pop = Soda = Coke.
Holy shit. We are all awed by your knowledge of fly-over country. For an encore, tell us some Fun Facts About Belgium.
Why are faceless lackeys always "toting?" I don't expect most people to know what "port arms" is, but toting makes it sound like they're carrying it like a purse.
"In our trial, 500 passengers went through the test, and then each was subjected to full traditional searches," said chief executive officer Amir Liberman. "The one person found to be planning something illegal was the one who failed our test."
I can see that they settle for nothing than the most stringent double-blind testing.
Occam's Razor simply indicates which possibility is the *most likely* to be correct.
Good grief. It doesn't *indicate* anything, or "suggest" in the manner the grandparent post used the word. It's a guideline or a rule of thumb that says, "choose the simpler possibility."
Trusting some unknown face recognition software to do "paternity tests" is a little out there.
It's no worse than tatooing something that you translated into Japanese with Babelfish. (Okay, he didn't, but only because I showed him what it looks like when you translate it *back*. He was going to, though.)
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To paraphrase the famous quote: Those who would give up essential privacy to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither privacy nor safety.
Yet those that would give up any pretense of originality (let alone understanding of the words they ^C^V) can quite easily purchase a little karma. C'est la vie.
Can someone fill me in as to why Iraq is so different that people can't work in tempuratures even lower than people in So. California/Arizona/Nevada are used-to?
The job is what's different: if you're feeling like crap doing your civilian work, you can sit down and stop working or go in the shade. You probably don't even realize the number of times you've been close to a heat injury.
If you're on a mission, however, you usually can't and if you haven't prepared for it you're going to get a heat injury. Now the mission is compromised, and you have to be medevaced, exposing yourself and others to mortal danger.
This system has been used even in amateur racing for literally decades. It's called a "coolsuit" and they are neither particularly novel nor expensive. However, I would assume that this system costs a hojillion-billion dollars, because it was "developed" for the military.
The main issue is that the gear has to survive combat. Something as simple as a 3-5 second rush involves repeatedly jumping down into a prone position over whatever happens to be on the ground, rocks, sticks, whatever.
One of the big problems with discussions on /. is the incomprehensible race to be the first to post something.
What's incomprehensible about it? People who post early get the most attention, it's even on the FAQ.
It's not the changing jargon that's really an issue. Language changes, that's just how it works.
But identity politics is a dangerous game and has far reaching impact.
The beauty of "black" and "white" is that they're two sides of a coin. By being so innocuous you tend to think *less* about race when you hear them.
But racial activists rewriting the history of Africa were busy outdoing the PR campaign that earned Greenland its name.
African American came about because activists wanted people to think about race. They had many legitimate reasons. But at this point, the movement has achieved its initial goals and while I'm sure blacks would love to get a reparations check, they'd be far better served if we could come to a larger kind of consensus.
That's hampered, in a very large part, by the divisive side-effects of identity politics, of which terms like African American are symptomatic. One thing progressives don't understand is that once progress is made, society needs to internalize it. Of course, if they understood that, they'd be conservatives...
MIT doesn't grow corn.
Funny you mention that, since the efforts to produce abundant food with built in vitamins via genetic modification have been thwarted by protectionist European farmers...
Which do you think sells more?
At the $500 price point, you're much more likely to go for a used or refurbished laptop. Thus you're inadvertently comparing two distinct markets, each of which has different needs and priorities.
Most people that would need to hand crank a PC do not need a PC at all!
I'd like one to take with me to the field. The fact that it looks solidly built is also appealing.
Sounds like the Itanium, so I guess he should know.
That was a completely different market and died because it was dog slow...
Yeah and PDA and programmable cell phones would never sell.
The PDA boondoggle put Palm under and killed the Newton... The main thing cell phones get from a server is ring tones.
I think they call that the Save 10% off your next purchase of an Intel PC, forever locking you into our architecture plan.
You're just jealous because by teaching computer literacy in Sri Lanka, the guys at Intel are doing more for the world in a week than you ever will in your lifetime.
i wonder if powerhungry processors and the electric generators necessary to power them are the actual root of global warming.
Since the root of global warming is heat from the sun, no. But to answer the question you were trying to ask, no, they don't contribute anything like cars do.
I guess no one on Fark has ever heard of Jim Moran.
GP: I guess there is only so much money to go around in the economy
P: You might think that, wouldn't you? But no. Spend all you want, the governments will print more. Of course, the money you have now becomes less valuable as a result, but if you think we don't have inflation by design
First: the notion that there is "only so much money." It is true that there is are only so many nominal dollars/yen/etc. However, you can make money right in your own home! Just get a piece of paper and write "IOU $5" and give it to a friend. Congratulations. You have just increased the total amount of money in the world by $5.
That is, assuming you actually intend to pay your friend back *and* your friend trusts you to do so.
Now, governments *do* need to print money. Not to cause inflation, but because without enough cash people can't do business. Your IOU only works as well as people trust you to pay it back, the five dollar IOU from the federal government is viewed as considerably more reliable.
In the case of hyperinflation you see that a government is printing tons of money and the currency is becoming devalued and make the post hoc error that printing money causes the devaluing of the currency. But what's really happening is that people are losing faith that the government is good on its debts. In wartime Germany, was it the printing of money that made people lose faith in the mark, or was it the fact that they were losing the war?
When you understand that markets are a natural means of communicating information about scarcity of resources and talent you see why the idea that someone can "design" something like inflation is false. Maybe they can significantly influence it or maybe the whole regulating thing is a farce and politicians just take credit for upswings and blame others for downswings. At any rate, the sum value of everything in the world is most directly influenced by creativity and ingenuity, not accounting tricks.
Since the GPL is, effectively, a EULA, it's not legally binding? So why so much fuss?
there's already a standard way of dealing with the problem (the soft hyphen, which is a defined part of the UNICODE spec)
Uh huh. You know that hyphenation has to be prioritized, right? It may be *permissible* to hyphenate at a certain place but *preferable* to hyphenate elsewhere. Compound words are a perfect example: it's better to hyphenate between the words than within the words. Please show me how you can achieve this with soft hyphens.
Anything else is just stupid linguistic imperialism.
No, it's lazy Europeans who don't want to get off their asses and do it themselves. They need it implemented and are clearly capable of doing it themselves but... don't. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
Perhaps Slashdot isn't the obvious place to discuss the evolution of grammar and how easy to learn languages tend to create cultural domination, but it is as true of computer languages as of human language.
Sure it is. You just have to be prepared to get modded down by people who are easily offended.
English happens to be an excellent language for working with computers: small alphabet, no accents (except for loanwords), and it is poorly inflected so stemming algorithms are simple. It also has, as you alluded to, very few compound words. The structure of English is a historical coincidence, and the only way someone who wasn't an anglophone could take offense to it would be if they had an inferiority complex.
It seems odd that no european has ever submitted a bug fix for this don't you think?
Not really. It would be like doing unpaid overtime.
Opera has had that for a while now.
and I say that after having been in the US Army for three years AND in Vietnam.
Sure you were.
A machine that actually detected lies would basically be a machine that could read human thoughts.
Deception is only half of a lie. A true lie detector would need to know the falsehood as well. But if you know what's false you know what's true, so what do you need a lie detector for?
Bush has done the most damage for us Americans internationally (using his own "language" along the way)
By "internationally" you mean "in Europe." News flash: there is a world outside our old colonial masters. Further news flash: it turns out that our old colonial masters opposed the war because they had made deals with the devil in Iraq. Among the countries throughout the world (many of which your heavily stamped passport holding friends didn't believe mattered as participants in the coalition of the willing) that still have a conscience, our standing is as high as ever.
but you and yours is the second leading reason Americans are considered brash assholes internationally (thanks for that, BTW!)
And you and yours are the reason no one can stand Californians, and why the Democrats keep losing elections.
Contrary to your belief, there is more then one culture in the world.
And contrary to your belief, smart, learned and wise people support Bush.
Here's one more reagional American-ism for you: Pop = Soda Pop = Soda = Coke.
Holy shit. We are all awed by your knowledge of fly-over country. For an encore, tell us some Fun Facts About Belgium.
when faced with M-16 toting guys
Why are faceless lackeys always "toting?" I don't expect most people to know what "port arms" is, but toting makes it sound like they're carrying it like a purse.
No mention of the false positive rate on this.
Not surprising since it's a fucking scam.
"In our trial, 500 passengers went through the test, and then each was subjected to full traditional searches," said chief executive officer Amir Liberman. "The one person found to be planning something illegal was the one who failed our test."
I can see that they settle for nothing than the most stringent double-blind testing.
Perhaps you can quote a few recent examples where the NoW has been incorrect?
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* The Victoria Beckham `kidnap' plot case collapses. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2957922.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2957982.stm
* Justin Timberlake's alleged sex-life ends in a libel payout. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/418
* Bobby Gillespie's alleged sex-life ends in a libel payout (although winning a case that you didn't with Kate Moss seems bad for your rock and roll reputation). http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/artist_area/primalscr
* Keith Gillespie's alleged sex-life ends in a libel payout http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/47288
* Jimmy Nail's alleged sex-life ends in a libel payout http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_r
* The Nadine Milroy-Sloane affair: my, that was good journalism. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1498573.stm
We stand corrected. Who needs the CDC when we have the paparazzi?
Occam's Razor simply indicates which possibility is the *most likely* to be correct.
Good grief. It doesn't *indicate* anything, or "suggest" in the manner the grandparent post used the word. It's a guideline or a rule of thumb that says, "choose the simpler possibility."
With the current "unsmart" lasers, what is the rate of misses right now?
About 1 in 2792.5.
have there been any dangerous or even fatal laser misses
No, it's rather more dangerous or fatal when the laser *hits*.
how much safety will this new method actually bring about?
According to a January 2003 study by the Centers for Destructive Laser Control, lots.
A lot of countries don't have access to free information, so this technology if it worked would seriously harm some of the mapping data monopolies.
I'm stumped. How is recognizing signposts going to help with cartography?
Trusting some unknown face recognition software to do "paternity tests" is a little out there.
It's no worse than tatooing something that you translated into Japanese with Babelfish. (Okay, he didn't, but only because I showed him what it looks like when you translate it *back*. He was going to, though.)