Congratulations on having a tribe of buddies who will mod you a +5 Informative even for using ad hominem - "drunken idiot hunters" - to marginalize others and reinforce your own bias. The alleged idiocy of the hunters is not really made apparent by your remarks, but those remarks certainly make your own idiocy apparent.
I agree that what the hunters did was wrong, but not sure why you would imply they were drunken.
He was confirming and reinforcing his own bias. It's ad hominem; he was marginalizing his perceived opponents. You should know what comes next (and it did). If there's anyone who should truly be marginalized, it's people who engage in this mental tactic and delusional thinking.
Where's a bit of reasoned meta-moderation when a guy needs it, huh? My comment was anything but "offtopic", and look at the "on topic" discussion that comment generated. My comment actually benefits Slashdot and yet my reputation suffers because of one or two ill-intentioned people? This imbalance is precisely what meta-moderation is supposed to resolve, so why isn't it?
*Compiled* code has always been where that line was drawn, so an interpreter counts as part of the code. The operating system and BIOS are on the other side of that line because they truly are "generic", and since programs can be written to be platform independent.
I just knew that some contrary doofus looking for a pissing contest would trot out a comment like yours. Why don't I see the exact same foolishness from you repeated in reply to the other comments that made exactly the same point I did? Congratulations, you win the argument on a laughable Relativist technicality that no one but you takes seriously.
... because they're pretending that the many tens of thousands of lines of code in the JavaScript interpreter don't count. They do, because those 140 bytes are useless without it.
I dropped by to voice the same concern but you beat me to it. What indeed happens when one of the other monitored cars has an impulsive driver who decides in the last few seconds before the intersection to floor the accelerator?
Sorry... FAIL. This system will ONLY work if we remove humans as a variable in the equation.
... because there's no going back. No one is going to un-seduce an entire industry. Well... except for consumers refusing to buy and that doesn't seem to be happening. Jaffe was bitching to the wrong audience; if he really wanted to change this, he needs to persuade consumers of his better way.
You take the infrastructure you use to get to work every single day for granted, but the free market was NOT responsible for that. The discussion here is about comparable infrastructure. It's exactly the sort of thing that SHOULD be socialized, if I dare even use that word in your presence without causing you to pop a vein or hyperventilate.
You ought to have enough common sense to know when that tired free-market argument is a non sequitur, but you don't.
What we need is one gigantic Tesla coil the size of Mons Olympus smack in the middle of the country. We can use it to beam wireless power to every phone and small gadget in the country and get rid of them nasty batteries and use the power feed as a carrier signal for everything else. (/sarcasm)
It is the free market at work. Not enough people out there to justify building the infrastructure. Less people, less money.
There might not be enough people to justify it for the profit motives of those companies, but those motives are by nature selfish and don't give a damn about the larger socioeconomic picture. What might those few people be able to contribute to society if they actually enjoyed the same connectedness as their urban comrades?
Like the GP said, the free market has tunnel vision and doesn't fix shit.
Where did this jackass study economics? This ain't the way it works: I give you money, you give me something of equal value in return, period. His former dean and professors should fail him retroactively.
The Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks' SR-71 Blackbird was *the* aircraft designed to replace the U-2. It's sad that it can't fill that role now because of how it was used as a political bargaining chip. If Gary Powers had flown one of those, he'd be alive today because the missile simply never would have caught up with him before it ran out of fuel. If you're flying an aircraft that can't be shot down by any missile, isn't that even better than an unmanned UAV that can be shot down? Pilot or no, if the aircraft is shot down it's still a complete loss that costs big money to replace.
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Congratulations on having a tribe of buddies who will mod you a +5 Informative even for using ad hominem - "drunken idiot hunters" - to marginalize others and reinforce your own bias. The alleged idiocy of the hunters is not really made apparent by your remarks, but those remarks certainly make your own idiocy apparent.
I agree that what the hunters did was wrong, but not sure why you would imply they were drunken.
He was confirming and reinforcing his own bias. It's ad hominem; he was marginalizing his perceived opponents. You should know what comes next (and it did). If there's anyone who should truly be marginalized, it's people who engage in this mental tactic and delusional thinking.
What are laser-wielding sharks doing in space? Thank goodness they're just taking orders from NASA!
I think it's your samantic antics that are off! Off the hook, anyway. Me, I spit out nothing but pearls of wisdom and I'm not in the least bit crabby.
I suppose missals that could detect the other vessel, and guide themselves there, would make the most sense.
Did you mean mussels? In space?
Would there be equivalents of cruisers, fighters and bombers, or would it be a mix of them all?
I can't decide if that's a pleonasm or a tautology, but don't do either, okay?
Where's a bit of reasoned meta-moderation when a guy needs it, huh? My comment was anything but "offtopic", and look at the "on topic" discussion that comment generated. My comment actually benefits Slashdot and yet my reputation suffers because of one or two ill-intentioned people? This imbalance is precisely what meta-moderation is supposed to resolve, so why isn't it?
*Compiled* code has always been where that line was drawn, so an interpreter counts as part of the code. The operating system and BIOS are on the other side of that line because they truly are "generic", and since programs can be written to be platform independent.
I just knew that some contrary doofus looking for a pissing contest would trot out a comment like yours. Why don't I see the exact same foolishness from you repeated in reply to the other comments that made exactly the same point I did? Congratulations, you win the argument on a laughable Relativist technicality that no one but you takes seriously.
... because they're pretending that the many tens of thousands of lines of code in the JavaScript interpreter don't count. They do, because those 140 bytes are useless without it.
I dropped by to voice the same concern but you beat me to it. What indeed happens when one of the other monitored cars has an impulsive driver who decides in the last few seconds before the intersection to floor the accelerator?
Sorry... FAIL. This system will ONLY work if we remove humans as a variable in the equation.
... because there's no going back. No one is going to un-seduce an entire industry. Well... except for consumers refusing to buy and that doesn't seem to be happening. Jaffe was bitching to the wrong audience; if he really wanted to change this, he needs to persuade consumers of his better way.
You take the infrastructure you use to get to work every single day for granted, but the free market was NOT responsible for that. The discussion here is about comparable infrastructure. It's exactly the sort of thing that SHOULD be socialized, if I dare even use that word in your presence without causing you to pop a vein or hyperventilate.
You ought to have enough common sense to know when that tired free-market argument is a non sequitur, but you don't.
Who would want a tricorder that couldn't do spectral analysis? We're almost there!
What we need is one gigantic Tesla coil the size of Mons Olympus smack in the middle of the country. We can use it to beam wireless power to every phone and small gadget in the country and get rid of them nasty batteries and use the power feed as a carrier signal for everything else. (/sarcasm)
It is the free market at work. Not enough people out there to justify building the infrastructure. Less people, less money.
There might not be enough people to justify it for the profit motives of those companies, but those motives are by nature selfish and don't give a damn about the larger socioeconomic picture. What might those few people be able to contribute to society if they actually enjoyed the same connectedness as their urban comrades?
Like the GP said, the free market has tunnel vision and doesn't fix shit.
Haven't yet worked out how to make it visible to the naked eye, though.
That's what she said!
... reading of their "plans to merge major science bodies" sounds like more kink than I ever want in my rope.
Aren't they all? Nature of the corporate beast, really.
He's taught himself one new pitch along the way, then.
... this is us rewarding people for helping us!
Where did this jackass study economics? This ain't the way it works: I give you money, you give me something of equal value in return, period. His former dean and professors should fail him retroactively.
What a spin doctor.
16 scientists have all retired on the same day. Allegations that each of them has a secret Swiss bank account are completely without merit, they say.
Quit nitpicking at tangents. My point is the same: the plane was shot down, asset lost.
My point is the same: the plane was shot down, asset lost.
The Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks' SR-71 Blackbird was *the* aircraft designed to replace the U-2. It's sad that it can't fill that role now because of how it was used as a political bargaining chip. If Gary Powers had flown one of those, he'd be alive today because the missile simply never would have caught up with him before it ran out of fuel. If you're flying an aircraft that can't be shot down by any missile, isn't that even better than an unmanned UAV that can be shot down? Pilot or no, if the aircraft is shot down it's still a complete loss that costs big money to replace.