1) IPv6 is not going to last forever. 2) The internet is connected to the rest of the world.
That is, even though this doesn't directly affect the internet, in the long term it does, because if Lucasfilms can get away with this offline, they can get away with it online too.
A city is not a business. The goal of a business is to make money. The goal of a government is to serve the people. (Of course, in practice the government might acquire greedy people who wish to control the government for their own personal profits, but that's not what's supposed to happen.)
As a result, businesses will try to have their profit margins as large as possible, whereas governments should not, because serving the people is their end goal, not making money off of their services.
No, Go requires just as much logic and just as much knowledge of prior games. Heck, there's even a name for when there's a series of moves which are expected to be played in certain kinds of situations. (Joseki.) Yes, there's a certain amount of "intuition," (although it's discouraged) but that's just because Go's format makes it a lot easier for people to analyzing using their graphical pattern recognition.
None really. The main benefit of Hikarunix is that because it's a "Neat Linux Hack," it gives Go, the best game evahr, a good excuse to be on the front page of Slashdot.
Technichally, it's not for the good of the hive, it's for the good of the genes. Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. And maybe "The Blind Watchmaker" just for the heck of it.
No, many people have proposed that putting it on the ocean would be better. Especially because a space elevator must be on the Equator, and the Equator is mostly ocean.
You have to remember that space elevators are mostly supported from the top, not the bottom. Don't imagine a tower which goes up to the heavens, imagine a rope hanging from a sattelite.
Oh wow. I had absolutely no idea that there was once a comedy group named after the Python programming language. And in 1969! Those cats were ahead of their time.
Yes, there are several errors in that population zero bit, which are almost certainly intentional. In order to properly play around with infinity, one must follow the rules of Calculus. But as Douglas Adams wisely knew, Calculus is not funny, and all jokes in the field are at best derivative. Thusly, it was integral to his success as a writer to stick to Algebra.
Verbing is an acceptable practice in linguistics, and it's a different sort of thing from what Dubya does. Dubya's linguistic oddities make him sound stupid. "Architected" merely sounds pretentious and buzzwordy.
No, morality is, in its simplest possible state, a map to the reals. (Although I suspect the math gets even more complicated than that.) Every action has a certain degree of goodness to it. For example, stealing is bad, but it's better than murder. So if stealing can prevent a murder, you should do so.
Boolean rule-based morality is useful because it's very easy to understand and spread to others (memes) but I don't think it's the true nature of right and wrong.
That's not Webster's Dictionary. That's just another cheapass website which tries to make money by taking Wikipedia's content and jamming some ads on it. And webster-dictionary has the added quality of trying to rip off the good name of the real Webster's dictionary
(I'm pretty sure Webster's Dictionary's trademark has long since passed into a more nebulous place.)
Firstly, Paul Graham is both a geek and a nerd. But more importantly, in its purest form, nerd-dom is nothing more than socially maladjusted intellectualism. His essay is talking about how essays are a great way to think about ideas. Therefore, his essay is nerdy, therefore, it's appropriate to talk about it on Slashdot.
The difference between the popular vote in Florida was within the margin of error for the election proccess. As a result, the entire election was a crapshoot.
One of many reasons why the current state of the Electoral College is dumb as nails.
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Serial Experiments Lain taught me two things.
1) IPv6 is not going to last forever.
2) The internet is connected to the rest of the world.
That is, even though this doesn't directly affect the internet, in the long term it does, because if Lucasfilms can get away with this offline, they can get away with it online too.
A city is not a business. The goal of a business is to make money. The goal of a government is to serve the people. (Of course, in practice the government might acquire greedy people who wish to control the government for their own personal profits, but that's not what's supposed to happen.)
As a result, businesses will try to have their profit margins as large as possible, whereas governments should not, because serving the people is their end goal, not making money off of their services.
No, Go requires just as much logic and just as much knowledge of prior games. Heck, there's even a name for when there's a series of moves which are expected to be played in certain kinds of situations. (Joseki.) Yes, there's a certain amount of "intuition," (although it's discouraged) but that's just because Go's format makes it a lot easier for people to analyzing using their graphical pattern recognition.
None really. The main benefit of Hikarunix is that because it's a "Neat Linux Hack," it gives Go, the best game evahr, a good excuse to be on the front page of Slashdot.
Well... online Go. Just hook this baby up to KGS or IGS and you've got an assload of Go players waiting for someone else to play with.
"Another Player" can be hard to find, since Go isn't terribly popular and a fairly decent player can thoroughly trounce a beginner.
Technichally, it's not for the good of the hive, it's for the good of the genes. Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. And maybe "The Blind Watchmaker" just for the heck of it.
No, many people have proposed that putting it on the ocean would be better. Especially because a space elevator must be on the Equator, and the Equator is mostly ocean.
You have to remember that space elevators are mostly supported from the top, not the bottom. Don't imagine a tower which goes up to the heavens, imagine a rope hanging from a sattelite.
Oh wow. I had absolutely no idea that there was once a comedy group named after the Python programming language. And in 1969! Those cats were ahead of their time.
To reply to most people who replied to you:
Yes, there are several errors in that population zero bit, which are almost certainly intentional. In order to properly play around with infinity, one must follow the rules of Calculus. But as Douglas Adams wisely knew, Calculus is not funny, and all jokes in the field are at best derivative. Thusly, it was integral to his success as a writer to stick to Algebra.
Verbing is an acceptable practice in linguistics, and it's a different sort of thing from what Dubya does. Dubya's linguistic oddities make him sound stupid. "Architected" merely sounds pretentious and buzzwordy.
Which is a stupid ad, because no sane person would ever want to keep the phone number 8675309. It's the sort of thing you want to get rid of.
Uh... 16th amendment.
How fitting. Agrajag being played by a dead person.
No, morality is, in its simplest possible state, a map to the reals. (Although I suspect the math gets even more complicated than that.) Every action has a certain degree of goodness to it. For example, stealing is bad, but it's better than murder. So if stealing can prevent a murder, you should do so.
Boolean rule-based morality is useful because it's very easy to understand and spread to others (memes) but I don't think it's the true nature of right and wrong.
I originally typed nigger, but I thought saying n-word would be funnier.
The Expanded Universe has given the explanation that Greedo is a stupid loser who has no fucking idea how to be a bounty hunter.
Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to.
Now someone hurry up and rate this Insightful!
Just because it's legal and moral doesn't mean it's not lame. But it's nice to hear that Fact-index sends money back to Wikipedia.
The Gay N-word Association of America. It's a group of trolls named after a cheesy series of posts concerning the organization.
That's not Webster's Dictionary. That's just another cheapass website which tries to make money by taking Wikipedia's content and jamming some ads on it. And webster-dictionary has the added quality of trying to rip off the good name of the real Webster's dictionary
(I'm pretty sure Webster's Dictionary's trademark has long since passed into a more nebulous place.)
Depends on how they score it. Maybe if you say "yes," it barely moves your score, but if you say "no" it changes your score by a lot.
They really should open up their scoring system. That would settle this once and for all.
Firstly, Paul Graham is both a geek and a nerd. But more importantly, in its purest form, nerd-dom is nothing more than socially maladjusted intellectualism. His essay is talking about how essays are a great way to think about ideas. Therefore, his essay is nerdy, therefore, it's appropriate to talk about it on Slashdot.
Public education isn't about trusting the nanny state to raise your kids, it's about not trusting other parents to raise their kids.
The difference between the popular vote in Florida was within the margin of error for the election proccess. As a result, the entire election was a crapshoot.
One of many reasons why the current state of the Electoral College is dumb as nails.
But not this one.