The problem with analogies is that they're like trying to tie your shoe laces with butter.
Now, if humans could choose between two different body types, one that's extremely susceptible to automated killing machines, and another that's completely immune to all forms of physical attack, and 80% of the population had chosen the weak bodies voluntarily, then you might have a point.
People don't choose to have fragile bodies, so your murderer example is completely bogus. People choose to run windows, and it's windows' fault that it's so easily exploitable.
Don't forget that either one still matches the Anonymous Acronym Abuse Association, the American Association Against Acronym Abuse, and the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms. Do you really think they want to be lumped in with the RIAA and the MPAA?
To do this properly you really need to say/\b(RI|MP)AA\b/ but you could get away with/\b.{2}AA\b/
Perhaps he is Abraham Lincoln. First he built the log house that he was born in, then he runs over his own keys with his own vehcile. A man of many talents, I should say.
Care to be more specific? Canada is "outside the US" but I can assure you that taxi drivers and "the disabled" are not the only people driving automatics here.
A theory is not a wild-assed guess. It is a comprehensive explanation for obervational and experimental data.
As my grade 7 science teacher was fond of saying, a hypothesis is an "explanation of an observation". A theory must make predictions to be useful, where a hypothesis is just an explanation, no predictions.
The problem with making an analogy between WinFS/commandline tools to cars/bikes is that cars actually exist, here, today, and are ubiquitous. WinFS is still essentially vapourware at this point.
Let's say, hypothetically, that all jobs are replaced by robots, and then everybody is unemployed. Guess what happens then? First, EVERYBODY goes on welfare. Then the government has to increase the taxes on the wealthy robot-controlling corporations in order to pay for everybody's welfare.
At that point, everybody has a basic standard of living provided to them by welfare, and the other people who want more money than that can go and be artists and sell their art for money. Simple.
Now, I know "welfare" has a bad stigma to it, but it really sounds like utopia to me. Everybody is free to have all the recreational time that they want. Everybody gets to be artists, musicians, etc. There's no need to do any work because you have everything you need to survive provided to you effectively for free (you'd still "pay" for stuff, but you'd be getting most of your money through welfare anyway).
Sure, it's an overly simplistic view, but I like it;)
You still need a cashier to count change, replace rolls of paper in the receipt printer, swipe credit cards and the like. All RFID eliminates is the need to individually scan each item on the cashier's countertop scanner, which I can say from experience is the most tedious part of the job.
Plus, they have *many* more pieces to search through, and they're easier to mix up if you're really paranoid.
If you leave even little bits left behind, then I suggest you're not paranoid enough!
I use a truly secure document destruction method. First, I rip the papers by hand into shreds (because I don't own a shredder), then I put the papers into my food processor, add some hot water, and let it blend it into pulp. Then I flush the pulp down the toilet.
Not only are there not any strips of anything left to reconstruct, but even if there was, you'd have to fetch them from the sewers to do it. Good luck!
Reminds me of the time I was reading this list of cooking ingredient alternatives (explaining what to use in place of a given ingredient if you didn't have any of the called for ingredient left). If the recipe calls for one egg, but you don't have any, then just use two egg yolks...
Oxygen and water are both very dangerous! Water, as we all know, is what people drown in! Oxygen is singlehandedly responsible for every flame that ever burned anything on the face of the planet!
Sign my petition to remove these deadly killers from the human body! Help raise awareness against these menaces to society!
I can tell you that Rhythmbox's support for automatic star ratings is horrible. In theory, it's nice to have the star rating determined by how often I choose to play a song. That way it's honest: songs I find myself playing often get rated highly, songs I often skip get rated lowly, and then instead of me having to work to tell my media player what I do and don't like, it just knows. It learns from my behavior.
The problem is that it gets into a feedback loop. In shuffle mode, it's weighted to play highly rated songs more often than low rated ones. But song ratings are determined by how often it "randomly" decides to play a song. So with a clean playlist with no ratings, it'll randomly pick songs to play, but pretty quickly you'll start to notice that some of your playlist is ranked really highly, and it just plays those songs over, and over, and over, while the other songs don't get played at all.
What I noticed is that roughly 1/4 of my library was rated very highly and it would play those songs constantly (once per day or more, usually), while the other 3/4 of my collection was rated poorly and never got played. And which songs were rated highly and which songs were rated poorly was completely randomly selected by rhythmbox itself!
Looking at my music collection, I have 6 solid days of music, and then some (2,280 songs). There were songs in my playlist that I was hearing 3 or 4 times per day, and though I did like the song, it was INFURIATING for me because I had other music that I liked that I wanted to listen to. I don't care how good a song is, I want variety more than hearing the same bloody song over and over, no matter how good it is.
So I switched to Muine. The really great thing about Muine is that when I tell it to shuffle the playlist, it will then play the entire playlist straight through, meaning I'm guaranteed to never hear the same song twice in one day. In fact, I'm guaranteed never to hear the same song twice in one week or more (6 days of music, but I'm not listening to it 24/7, so it takes probably 2 or 3 weeks for the playlist to wrap around).
The "linux has no viruses because it's too small a target" has been debunked time and again by apache, simultaneously being the most popular web server at ~61% of the market last I heard, and the least exploited (at least relative to IIS). If Apache is so popular, why isn't it attacked more than IIS?
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The problem with analogies is that they're like trying to tie your shoe laces with butter.
Now, if humans could choose between two different body types, one that's extremely susceptible to automated killing machines, and another that's completely immune to all forms of physical attack, and 80% of the population had chosen the weak bodies voluntarily, then you might have a point.
People don't choose to have fragile bodies, so your murderer example is completely bogus. People choose to run windows, and it's windows' fault that it's so easily exploitable.
Totem with the xine backend and the codecs have been able to play every file I've thrown at them, including Real audio/video formats.
The Easter Bunny gives me candy.
The solution in this case is to only carry AMD chips and then explain to customers what Intel is doing and why you're not able to carry their chips.
(disclaimer: proud owner of two Athlon XPs and no Intels newer than a P2).
Microsoft already reinvented Unix.
Let's see...
Windows/Unix... Unix is technically superior, Windows gets higher market share.
Beta/VHS... Beta had superior picture quality, VHS won out...
Neanderthals/Homo Sapiens... see where this is going?
Just because you're better doesn't mean you win. Wouldn't surprise me at all is the Neanderthals were more intelligent than us.
Don't forget that either one still matches the Anonymous Acronym Abuse Association, the American Association Against Acronym Abuse, and the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms. Do you really think they want to be lumped in with the RIAA and the MPAA?
/\b(RI|MP)AA\b/ but you could get away with /\b.{2}AA\b/
To do this properly you really need to say
They're being cock-blocked by the Film Actor's Guild.
Perhaps he is Abraham Lincoln. First he built the log house that he was born in, then he runs over his own keys with his own vehcile. A man of many talents, I should say.
Care to be more specific? Canada is "outside the US" but I can assure you that taxi drivers and "the disabled" are not the only people driving automatics here.
A theory is not a wild-assed guess. It is a comprehensive explanation for obervational and experimental data.
As my grade 7 science teacher was fond of saying, a hypothesis is an "explanation of an observation". A theory must make predictions to be useful, where a hypothesis is just an explanation, no predictions.
Just get an ACME Generator
No entry found for potatoe.
Did you mean Potator?
The problem with making an analogy between WinFS/commandline tools to cars/bikes is that cars actually exist, here, today, and are ubiquitous. WinFS is still essentially vapourware at this point.
Hey, even Josef Stalin made it in!
Nah, he's gone off it.
Let's say, hypothetically, that all jobs are replaced by robots, and then everybody is unemployed. Guess what happens then? First, EVERYBODY goes on welfare. Then the government has to increase the taxes on the wealthy robot-controlling corporations in order to pay for everybody's welfare.
;)
At that point, everybody has a basic standard of living provided to them by welfare, and the other people who want more money than that can go and be artists and sell their art for money. Simple.
Now, I know "welfare" has a bad stigma to it, but it really sounds like utopia to me. Everybody is free to have all the recreational time that they want. Everybody gets to be artists, musicians, etc. There's no need to do any work because you have everything you need to survive provided to you effectively for free (you'd still "pay" for stuff, but you'd be getting most of your money through welfare anyway).
Sure, it's an overly simplistic view, but I like it
You still need a cashier to count change, replace rolls of paper in the receipt printer, swipe credit cards and the like. All RFID eliminates is the need to individually scan each item on the cashier's countertop scanner, which I can say from experience is the most tedious part of the job.
Plus, they have *many* more pieces to search through, and they're easier to mix up if you're really paranoid.
If you leave even little bits left behind, then I suggest you're not paranoid enough!
I use a truly secure document destruction method. First, I rip the papers by hand into shreds (because I don't own a shredder), then I put the papers into my food processor, add some hot water, and let it blend it into pulp. Then I flush the pulp down the toilet.
Not only are there not any strips of anything left to reconstruct, but even if there was, you'd have to fetch them from the sewers to do it. Good luck!
Reminds me of the time I was reading this list of cooking ingredient alternatives (explaining what to use in place of a given ingredient if you didn't have any of the called for ingredient left). If the recipe calls for one egg, but you don't have any, then just use two egg yolks...
Oxygen and water are both very dangerous! Water, as we all know, is what people drown in! Oxygen is singlehandedly responsible for every flame that ever burned anything on the face of the planet!
Sign my petition to remove these deadly killers from the human body! Help raise awareness against these menaces to society!
I believe you are referring to the quality of antiunprofessionaleering
I can tell you that Rhythmbox's support for automatic star ratings is horrible. In theory, it's nice to have the star rating determined by how often I choose to play a song. That way it's honest: songs I find myself playing often get rated highly, songs I often skip get rated lowly, and then instead of me having to work to tell my media player what I do and don't like, it just knows. It learns from my behavior.
The problem is that it gets into a feedback loop. In shuffle mode, it's weighted to play highly rated songs more often than low rated ones. But song ratings are determined by how often it "randomly" decides to play a song. So with a clean playlist with no ratings, it'll randomly pick songs to play, but pretty quickly you'll start to notice that some of your playlist is ranked really highly, and it just plays those songs over, and over, and over, while the other songs don't get played at all.
What I noticed is that roughly 1/4 of my library was rated very highly and it would play those songs constantly (once per day or more, usually), while the other 3/4 of my collection was rated poorly and never got played. And which songs were rated highly and which songs were rated poorly was completely randomly selected by rhythmbox itself!
Looking at my music collection, I have 6 solid days of music, and then some (2,280 songs). There were songs in my playlist that I was hearing 3 or 4 times per day, and though I did like the song, it was INFURIATING for me because I had other music that I liked that I wanted to listen to. I don't care how good a song is, I want variety more than hearing the same bloody song over and over, no matter how good it is.
So I switched to Muine. The really great thing about Muine is that when I tell it to shuffle the playlist, it will then play the entire playlist straight through, meaning I'm guaranteed to never hear the same song twice in one day. In fact, I'm guaranteed never to hear the same song twice in one week or more (6 days of music, but I'm not listening to it 24/7, so it takes probably 2 or 3 weeks for the playlist to wrap around).
I'm sure that's what they said about oil when it was discovered.
I disagree with your #1 but I do agree with #2.
The "linux has no viruses because it's too small a target" has been debunked time and again by apache, simultaneously being the most popular web server at ~61% of the market last I heard, and the least exploited (at least relative to IIS). If Apache is so popular, why isn't it attacked more than IIS?