Well prior to 1919 the modus apperendi of conquering forces was to enslave, rob, and kill the populance. Rape their women etc.
This would still work for the U.S. and I'm sure that some members of their government are pissed that their people won't accept it.
If the current method of warfare continues to fail we may see a resurgence of rape and pillage warfare.
Usually when America destroys a country (See last 50-60 wars in South America) they do it by at least pretending to support insurgents and then installing a puppet government, unfortunately everyone's seen it too many times before and Saddam was quite popular in Iraq. These wars have traditionally been for the "benefit" of the citizenry (I.E. the wealthy who can get their perspective on TV and stand to gain from a capitalist system). The Iraq war in contrast was at least in parts defensive and opportunistic (oil, Not selling oil in Euros, region control etc.) those types of wars are open to the old style of warfare. America acting as though they are the world's superpower has largely let their citizens believe that by attacking any country they are bullying them and therefore they need to use kid gloves, what we'll likely see after the Iraq was is America with it's tail between it's legs for a while. Unfortunately it won't actually affect their power and will likely increase recruitment in their army, and the next time they do something the kid gloves will be off.
Am I the only one who would be much more optimistic about this project if the U.S. wasn't involved?
Considering that this project will be given out essentially for free, (Fusion is difficult to make weapons with correct?) not owned by the DOD, the U.S. has a history of being reluctant to contribue to such projects.
Also the U.S. government is largely in the pocket of big oil and wouldn't be particually happy if their economy was affected by this advance?
I've been thinking of this actually, if you designed a filesystem based on a linked list system and had a HD technology that could write more than 50Tb then you would never need to delete anything.
Think tiny dots on a piece of paper, how many billions of dots do you think you could fit on a pad of legal fullscap?
HD tech is really slow, perhaps removing the nescessity to erase it would remove the limiting factor.
I don't disagree with anything you said, however I must point out that individual to individual communication cannot really create the same kind of social context that a madium such as literature can.
If 1337sp34k was simply a series of new words that wouldn't bother me but it's confusion with phone IM speak (okthxbai) means that it is largely a replacement language, my only fear is that the reason people need to replace their original language is because they can't find the time to use Dictionaries or Thesauruses.
While this may initially sound far fetched it seems obvious when overlaid with the segments of the population pushing for this change in language.
Like pop culture, pop language shows every indication of accelerating, and that acceleration doesn't seem to require massive acceptance.
If you ask 100 gamers what the definition for Owned is you'll get 100 responses, the fact that we can accept this term as a means of communication means we don't feel strongly about our need to express specific concepts.
May I suggest you go read a poem by Wordsworth, any poem at all, Poems.
Now imagine trying to do that with Leetspeek.
I believe the reason people think that Leetspeak has a deeper meaning (than English)is because they rarely know the meanings of the words which they use, their formative years of learning to communicate with each other are held in a zargon which doesn't lead itself to direct expression (hence the use of swearing).
Check out some wordsworth, come back when you know what: a flower, hill, stone, or a forest is to him ok?
In some poor parts of the world an English degree means studying how to spell and speak properly.
This is exceedingly unfortunate because the true value of an appreciation of English comes from the ability to understand the nuances of a persons expressions, and in turn to control ones own nuances.
As a Comp Sci major I think the best way to explain this would be to say that it adds bandwidth to people's ability to communicate, before I became an English major I thought it would add bandwidth in the way facial expressions do. Now I understand that a true understanding of English adds more bandwidth than anything short of the original use of language.
This is difficult to explain to people who are so used to people using casual expressions and syntax and choosing topics without enough thought.
When an author puts a word on a page that is the word he has chosen and he has chosen it for a reason, he chose it instead of every other word there is.
Anyway, I'm disgusted with New Zealanders, fortunately in my country approx 50-60% of people end up going to university, and they call it university because your forced to take English.
But converting a bitmap to a procedural texture would be hella useful.
Note I'm thinking close enough technology here, obviously the bitmap cannot be entirely replicated.
Take Valve's HL2 texture from photo (W/ lightmap + reflectionmap + bumpmap) add proceedural texture to make textures manageable size (approximations of the actual textures used) = one step closer to photo to.bsp(or whatever) technology.
It sounded like he was doing it to make money for his bar but the fact that he kept being warned and continued to perform shows his love of music and his hatred of the draconian music rights industry.
Kudos! You stand in front of those lawyers little dude!
Elections currently cost several MILLION dollars which is why they moved to the 4 year method.
Really important issues such as wars are sometimes decided with something called a referendum . Which they don't have in the states because it would be "Too Expensive".
Citizens are becoming increasingly educated while at the same time feeling less inclination to vote... Why is this? Do people who voted Republican feel the weight of the lost Iraqi, Israli, and Palestinian lives? Probably not.
People like to describe the reasons for no direct democracy being the education and brilliance of the politicians who create policy ("teh tubes!") but the reality is that it was simply too difficult to do since anchient Greece and Rome.
Things like impeachments, wars, and gay marriage are such hot topics that people clearly know enough to express themselves in the voting booths.
It's time people actually had a chance to govern themselves and electronic voting is nescessary for this, Diebold is a Republican sponsored POS though:(
There are a few scary things about this, one we all learn the same language this will drastically affect the number of perspectives in the world.
While you may disagree I have a quote that can help explain one of my English Prof's said "The Most Important word in any language is representation."
Another scary thought is that people won't need to learn any form of common language, if this technology gets sufficiently advanced it could literally allow each person to have their own language which would make it FAR harder for people to relate to each other (Something which is already pretty damn difficult).
I used to be a huge proponent of Esperanto but dealing with literature and seeing how it relates to deep brain centres makes me a little more conservative about blithly changing people's native language.
Cisco Gear,
Unfortunately in about 1992 the dot.com bubble burst throwing BILLIONS of dollars of cisco gear onto the market.
Cisco was fighting hard against the second hand and auction market.
Many of the major suppliers of fake Cisco hardware got their start during this period and now are continuing to clone Cisco hardware.
Cisco hardware bought under such circumstances is almost always overkill so poor hardware running adequate software(Solaris) usually is acceptable, apparently cases are starting to show up where that hardware is failing and Cisco is getting support calls about it, of course Cisco has been supplying support on the stuff the whole time... Ouch for them.
Not an amazing performer, not a really great car but they last like 13-15 years before they start to break down.
Put ALL the design into the public domain, let African's mine metal to make cars not to sell it overseas for foreigners to make cars and ship them back.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately most countries money costs more to make than it's worth.
Since the U.S. money printers are private they'll lose money. This decision could force the U.S. to institute public sector currency production
Well prior to 1919 the modus apperendi of conquering forces was to enslave, rob, and kill the populance. Rape their women etc.
This would still work for the U.S. and I'm sure that some members of their government are pissed that their people won't accept it.
If the current method of warfare continues to fail we may see a resurgence of rape and pillage warfare.
Usually when America destroys a country (See last 50-60 wars in South America) they do it by at least pretending to support insurgents and then installing a puppet government, unfortunately everyone's seen it too many times before and Saddam was quite popular in Iraq. These wars have traditionally been for the "benefit" of the citizenry (I.E. the wealthy who can get their perspective on TV and stand to gain from a capitalist system). The Iraq war in contrast was at least in parts defensive and opportunistic (oil, Not selling oil in Euros, region control etc.) those types of wars are open to the old style of warfare. America acting as though they are the world's superpower has largely let their citizens believe that by attacking any country they are bullying them and therefore they need to use kid gloves, what we'll likely see after the Iraq was is America with it's tail between it's legs for a while. Unfortunately it won't actually affect their power and will likely increase recruitment in their army, and the next time they do something the kid gloves will be off.
Probably yes, the idea that science evolves linearly is silly beyond measure.
Some inventions that used to be increadibly useful are no longer useful and other seemingly useless ones have become increadibly useful.
Also they are delimiting this list based on a really stupid and arbitrary criteria, gender.
When you take on something this stupid it REALLY helps to have a sense of humour.
As for the Slashdot males, welcome to liberal sexism.
(Wikipedia failed me, ah irony).
Am I the only one who would be much more optimistic about this project if the U.S. wasn't involved?
Considering that this project will be given out essentially for free, (Fusion is difficult to make weapons with correct?) not owned by the DOD, the U.S. has a history of being reluctant to contribue to such projects.
Also the U.S. government is largely in the pocket of big oil and wouldn't be particually happy if their economy was affected by this advance?
I've been thinking of this actually, if you designed a filesystem based on a linked list system and had a HD technology that could write more than 50Tb then you would never need to delete anything.
Think tiny dots on a piece of paper, how many billions of dots do you think you could fit on a pad of legal fullscap?
HD tech is really slow, perhaps removing the nescessity to erase it would remove the limiting factor.
Um, I don't know where you live but in Toronto, Guelph, Montreal etc.
Pop comes in Aluminum and Milk comes in plastic, both of which are recyclable.
The beer stores glass bottle policies are because people would otherwise throw the bottles in the street risking cuts and infection... cheers.
More than half make below the median, which is quickly slipping below the poverty line... Have a nice day!
I saw, 10 round bursts, and something that looked a little to much like a 200x zoom.
And yes they look so cheerful sitting on that tripod, buried w/ a little slit they'd look like a little black dot.
And someday in America they'll look like a traffic light.
"ISS in a promotional stunt for a golf company."
Contest - Program "Canada Arm", first one to hit a ball into a stationary orbit wins!
Wow, an intelligent response.
I don't disagree with anything you said, however I must point out that individual to individual communication cannot really create the same kind of social context that a madium such as literature can.
If 1337sp34k was simply a series of new words that wouldn't bother me but it's confusion with phone IM speak (okthxbai) means that it is largely a replacement language, my only fear is that the reason people need to replace their original language is because they can't find the time to use Dictionaries or Thesauruses.
While this may initially sound far fetched it seems obvious when overlaid with the segments of the population pushing for this change in language.
Like pop culture, pop language shows every indication of accelerating, and that acceleration doesn't seem to require massive acceptance.
If you ask 100 gamers what the definition for Owned is you'll get 100 responses, the fact that we can accept this term as a means of communication means we don't feel strongly about our need to express specific concepts.
Ah yes, people who get fucked by a monopoly or artificial scarcity = morons.
May I suggest you go read a poem by Wordsworth, any poem at all, Poems .
Now imagine trying to do that with Leetspeek.
I believe the reason people think that Leetspeak has a deeper meaning (than English)is because they rarely know the meanings of the words which they use, their formative years of learning to communicate with each other are held in a zargon which doesn't lead itself to direct expression (hence the use of swearing).
Check out some wordsworth, come back when you know what: a flower, hill, stone, or a forest is to him ok?
I kant speel gud...
I am an english major.
In some poor parts of the world an English degree means studying how to spell and speak properly.
This is exceedingly unfortunate because the true value of an appreciation of English comes from the ability to understand the nuances of a persons expressions, and in turn to control ones own nuances.
As a Comp Sci major I think the best way to explain this would be to say that it adds bandwidth to people's ability to communicate, before I became an English major I thought it would add bandwidth in the way facial expressions do. Now I understand that a true understanding of English adds more bandwidth than anything short of the original use of language.
This is difficult to explain to people who are so used to people using casual expressions and syntax and choosing topics without enough thought.
When an author puts a word on a page that is the word he has chosen and he has chosen it for a reason, he chose it instead of every other word there is.
Anyway, I'm disgusted with New Zealanders, fortunately in my country approx 50-60% of people end up going to university, and they call it university because your forced to take English.
Cheers!
But converting a bitmap to a procedural texture would be hella useful.
.bsp(or whatever) technology.
Note I'm thinking close enough technology here, obviously the bitmap cannot be entirely replicated.
Take Valve's HL2 texture from photo (W/ lightmap + reflectionmap + bumpmap) add proceedural texture to make textures manageable size (approximations of the actual textures used) = one step closer to photo to
Impeach!
It sounded like he was doing it to make money for his bar but the fact that he kept being warned and continued to perform shows his love of music and his hatred of the draconian music rights industry.
Kudos! You stand in front of those lawyers little dude!
/me wants to be your GF.
Actually I'm male.
Where was I going with this?
Oh yea Free DS lite... Sugerlips!
Elections currently cost several MILLION dollars which is why they moved to the 4 year method.
:(
Really important issues such as wars are sometimes decided with something called a referendum . Which they don't have in the states because it would be "Too Expensive".
Citizens are becoming increasingly educated while at the same time feeling less inclination to vote... Why is this? Do people who voted Republican feel the weight of the lost Iraqi, Israli, and Palestinian lives? Probably not.
People like to describe the reasons for no direct democracy being the education and brilliance of the politicians who create policy ("teh tubes!") but the reality is that it was simply too difficult to do since anchient Greece and Rome.
Things like impeachments, wars, and gay marriage are such hot topics that people clearly know enough to express themselves in the voting booths.
It's time people actually had a chance to govern themselves and electronic voting is nescessary for this, Diebold is a Republican sponsored POS though
Just buy a 10 year old phone then...
Seriously if you don't like the new phones buy an old one.
This no feature thing is way less important than the not open phone problem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/137343.stm
Perhaps point it at a solar power array somewhere in the middle of the Pacific?
Or simply lower the light hitting the outside of our atmosphere and reflecting inward, perhaps 1-2% could be cut off in such a way.
All in all not as much of a problem as the chemicals causing the warming.
I am an English Major.
There are a few scary things about this, one we all learn the same language this will drastically affect the number of perspectives in the world.
While you may disagree I have a quote that can help explain one of my English Prof's said "The Most Important word in any language is representation."
Another scary thought is that people won't need to learn any form of common language, if this technology gets sufficiently advanced it could literally allow each person to have their own language which would make it FAR harder for people to relate to each other (Something which is already pretty damn difficult).
I used to be a huge proponent of Esperanto but dealing with literature and seeing how it relates to deep brain centres makes me a little more conservative about blithly changing people's native language.
The Diamond Story
Shouldn't we be suspicious of Google for getting involved so directly in politics?
Cisco Gear, Unfortunately in about 1992 the dot.com bubble burst throwing BILLIONS of dollars of cisco gear onto the market.
Cisco was fighting hard against the second hand and auction market.
Many of the major suppliers of fake Cisco hardware got their start during this period and now are continuing to clone Cisco hardware.
Cisco hardware bought under such circumstances is almost always overkill so poor hardware running adequate software(Solaris) usually is acceptable, apparently cases are starting to show up where that hardware is failing and Cisco is getting support calls about it, of course Cisco has been supplying support on the stuff the whole time... Ouch for them.
Sell a service contract, do the service.
Not an amazing performer, not a really great car but they last like 13-15 years before they start to break down.
Put ALL the design into the public domain, let African's mine metal to make cars not to sell it overseas for foreigners to make cars and ship them back.
My 2c.