In defense of America, sex is much more of a temptation than violence is. 99.9% of kids won't commit murder regardless of what movies they watch, but 99.9% of them will make stupid decisions at some point regarding sex.
They also did that before there were movies. The only way to prevent it is to educate them about it. But I get the impression that some Americans are even more afraid of kids making smart decisions about sex.
I don't know where you live, but in Canada, they'll let fuck go as long as it isn't used in a sexual manner.
On Dutch TV and radio you can say whatever you like, as long as it isn't the name of a commercial product outside of a commercial break.
I'm only very slightly kidding here. They're more lenient about it now, but in the late '80s, brand names had to be (and were) bleeped out. And whenever someone accidentally mentioned a brand name on live TV, he quickly had to name all competing brands, or the station would be fined. (Some people still do that occasionally.)
That's quite a different standard than the US, I imagine.
IPv6... still a limit, who cares if it's 10 or 10,000 years in the future
2^128 addresses, or 2^52 addresses for every observable star in the known universe. Compared to 2^32 for IPv4.
IPv6 may well not be the last protocol on the web, but it won't be for lack of addresses.
If I understand you correctly, it's only about a million times more. While a lot, I can still see us running out. For the 2^52 addresses we can use for our solar system, at least. The others have soe catching-up to do, I imagine.
I guess that's why you want military advisers for. The president needs only his intelligence and common sense to take the right decision of the choices that have been put before him. One person cannot know ALL of military, economics, education, healthcare and so on.
Besides, at this point the US needs an economist in charge more than it needs a soldier.
Now imagine 50 million baby boomers with similar level of non-expertise trying to use a PC-based machine when they've never (or rarely) used a PC. You're going to have all kinds of mistakes, and the user will SWEAR that it was the machine's fault, rather than admit they don't know what they are doing.
And that's the problem here: using a voting system that lots of voters don't understand. Voting needs to be reliable, trustworthy and easy to understand, and that's why electronic voting machines are never going to be good enough. You need well-designed paper ballots that can be checked, counted, recounted, etc.
Voting is too important to leave to flaky electronics, buggy (closed) software and a blind trust in whoever is in control of this system.
I'd say it's a threat to the ongoing development of open source. "If I write this now, then no-one will ever pay me for it. If I don't write it, someone will pay me to write it for them."
I think you need to read up on the difference between free as in speech and free as in beer. Lots of open source software is paid for. And people are more likely to pay someone who has good credentials for writing good, reliable code. Like respected open source committers.
So if you don't write it out, they might pay someone else to write it later. If you do write it now, they might pay you to improve it, or to write something else that's related.
I just installed 8.10 half an hour ago. It loaded up first time and even detected my monitors 1680x1050 resolution. Then a popup told me that I can use nvidia restricted proprietary drivers to improve performance. I clicked it, it installed the latest (177) drivers and told me to restart. I did.
Now X is broken and I'm going to re-install all over again.
I had the same thing with 8.04 and ATI restricted drivers. I think it's the restricted drivers, or the way Ubuntu handles them, that sucks.
I wonder who the money goes to, though... In the case of Fallout 1 and 2, certainly not the developer, since Black Isle is long gone. So.. whoever hold distribution rights now, is that sill Interplay or did they sell everything to Bethesda? My point being, if your rationale for paying for games is supporting the devs, then buying some of these classics may not do that at all.
Could be. Supporting the devs is probably best done by buying within a year of release. But by buying you might still give a signal that there's a demand for this kind of game.
I'm pretty surprised that they managed to get all these out on the start. I expected one or two good games, but whoa, Descent? Earthworm Jim? Fallout? Gothic? MDK? Operation Flashpoint? Shogo?
Fallout 1 and 2 are particularly nicely times with the release of FO3. Lots of people will want to play the originals again.
It's like I died and got zombified in the better part of the 90's!
They don't have Baldur's Gate and Torment yet, but I hope they soon will.
Actually Intelligent Design simply stipulates that the universe was created by an intelligent being (say, God) in some state not equivalent to total chaos and/or guided by that benefactor through its existence to keep things running smoothly.
As far as I understand, ID is about evolution, not cosmology, and the main argument is that particular aspects of life cannot possibly have been evolved in the way the theory of evolution describes.
ID's problem is that that claim is impossible to prove and many aspects of it have already been disproven.
There's a difference in literary terms between "hard science fiction" and "soft science fiction". Star Trek falls under the category of "hard science fiction", as does almost everything by Isaac Asimov.
Star Trek hard SF? Really? I wasn't aware hard SF was such a meaningless term. Star Trek may not be quite as far off the space opera end as Star Wars or Lensman, but it's far from hard SF.
It pretends to be, I'll grant you that, but it's all meaningless technobabble.
For hard SF, look at Asimov, indeed. Clarke too, and quite a number of things by Larry Niven and dozens of other authors, but not at Star Trek.
LMFAO. Haha. Better make it 20 billino. Good luck finding anyone who can write code and is willing to work for 75k a year.
Get real. Where does the department of labor get these stats?
Starting salaries for Java developers is 75k with absolutely no experience in the midwest.
Then programmers are really underpaid in Netherland. I definitely do have experience, I live in the biggest and one of the most expensive cities in the country (more jobs than houses) but I still make less than $75k (and this new rise of the dollar isn't helping).
Ofcourse I could be making more money if I didn't constantly choose to work for open source companies, but even my best job offer so far would have been less than $75k.
The only place where I've seen that kind of salaries for my qualifications is in the financial sector (and I kinda suspect they won't be offering quite that much anymore either).
And there's where you're wrong. No one considers anyone in government their "betters" here.:)
And if you think there's been a lack of criticism during this whole process, you must have been living under a rock...
I don't know where you were around that time, but I heard/read a lot of stuff about Americans who considered it unpatriotic and supportive of the terrorists to criticise.
De Tocqueville is dead, but I only offered him up as an example of how the attitude of the author in TFA has been pervasive in European "intellectuals" for a long, long time. Honestly I *like* de Tocqueville, but that doesn't mean he didn't have his faults.
I'm not an expert on de Tocqueville, but I thought he was even one of the sources of inspiration to the American founding fathers.
But God forbid you actually research something when you can work in an anti-US jab instead!
I wasn't the one who started jabbing here.
Except that's not his attitude. His attitude is that only "professionals" should be producing content, and that "amateurs" producing content is destructive. He thinks everyone having a voice is a bad thing... Which is the kind of European attitude that led to the creation of the US.
That's over 200 years ago! Get your head into the 21st century, man. That authoritarian Europeliberal US relationship has long since turned around.
Absolute tosh. I have no idea what GUI you use, but I've never seen such an issue with TortoiseSVN or the command line tools, and we regularly commit hundreds of files at a time.
I suspect that something is up with your svn server.
No, it's the client. We had this problem with Subclipse, but not with Subversive (while using the same SVN server).
Slashdot Mirror
In defense of America, sex is much more of a temptation than violence is. 99.9% of kids won't commit murder regardless of what movies they watch, but 99.9% of them will make stupid decisions at some point regarding sex.
They also did that before there were movies. The only way to prevent it is to educate them about it. But I get the impression that some Americans are even more afraid of kids making smart decisions about sex.
Man, that's some good writing! Loved the song, but I've never seen those lyrics written out like that. And it's still true too.
Exactly what I came in here to say. I thought they gave up playing videos and became the Jackass channel sometime in the mid-90's.
That was 10 years ago. In the meantime they've changed into the dating show channel.
I don't know where you live, but in Canada, they'll let fuck go as long as it isn't used in a sexual manner.
On Dutch TV and radio you can say whatever you like, as long as it isn't the name of a commercial product outside of a commercial break.
I'm only very slightly kidding here. They're more lenient about it now, but in the late '80s, brand names had to be (and were) bleeped out. And whenever someone accidentally mentioned a brand name on live TV, he quickly had to name all competing brands, or the station would be fined. (Some people still do that occasionally.)
That's quite a different standard than the US, I imagine.
Well, to be fair, the evil only comes from the "extinguish" phase,
Extending in your own private way is a step towards extinguishing. Particularly with open standards.
Erm. You don't. And it isn't. It's hugely and exponentially much more than that.
<whisper>
Psst. Check the numbers again. There's humor hidden in there.
</whisper>
IPv6 ... still a limit, who cares if it's 10 or 10,000 years in the future
2^128 addresses, or 2^52 addresses for every observable star in the known universe. Compared to 2^32 for IPv4.
IPv6 may well not be the last protocol on the web, but it won't be for lack of addresses.
If I understand you correctly, it's only about a million times more. While a lot, I can still see us running out. For the 2^52 addresses we can use for our solar system, at least. The others have soe catching-up to do, I imagine.
If someone wanted to screw with an election via the machines, they wouldn't do it in WV.
If someone wanted to screw with an election and only has influence over the machines in WV, then he would do it there.
I guess that's why you want military advisers for. The president needs only his intelligence and common sense to take the right decision of the choices that have been put before him. One person cannot know ALL of military, economics, education, healthcare and so on.
Besides, at this point the US needs an economist in charge more than it needs a soldier.
Now imagine 50 million baby boomers with similar level of non-expertise trying to use a PC-based machine when they've never (or rarely) used a PC. You're going to have all kinds of mistakes, and the user will SWEAR that it was the machine's fault, rather than admit they don't know what they are doing.
And that's the problem here: using a voting system that lots of voters don't understand. Voting needs to be reliable, trustworthy and easy to understand, and that's why electronic voting machines are never going to be good enough. You need well-designed paper ballots that can be checked, counted, recounted, etc.
Voting is too important to leave to flaky electronics, buggy (closed) software and a blind trust in whoever is in control of this system.
I'd say it's a threat to the ongoing development of open source. "If I write this now, then no-one will ever pay me for it. If I don't write it, someone will pay me to write it for them."
I think you need to read up on the difference between free as in speech and free as in beer. Lots of open source software is paid for. And people are more likely to pay someone who has good credentials for writing good, reliable code. Like respected open source committers.
So if you don't write it out, they might pay someone else to write it later. If you do write it now, they might pay you to improve it, or to write something else that's related.
I just installed 8.10 half an hour ago. It loaded up first time and even detected my monitors 1680x1050 resolution. Then a popup told me that I can use nvidia restricted proprietary drivers to improve performance. I clicked it, it installed the latest (177) drivers and told me to restart. I did.
Now X is broken and I'm going to re-install all over again.
I had the same thing with 8.04 and ATI restricted drivers. I think it's the restricted drivers, or the way Ubuntu handles them, that sucks.
On the other hand why is the color of cars sold not evenly distributed? It tends to bias to a certain color?
And why does that color have to be silver grey?
In most cultures, brown is associated with shit, scat, gay sex, etc.
Really? I never had any particular color association with gay sex. But perhaps that's because I'm not so involved in that sort of thing.
But seriously, I always was perplexed by brown Ubuntu background.
Is it really brown? I thought it was some hip shade of orange.
I wonder who the money goes to, though... In the case of Fallout 1 and 2, certainly not the developer, since Black Isle is long gone. So.. whoever hold distribution rights now, is that sill Interplay or did they sell everything to Bethesda? My point being, if your rationale for paying for games is supporting the devs, then buying some of these classics may not do that at all.
Could be. Supporting the devs is probably best done by buying within a year of release. But by buying you might still give a signal that there's a demand for this kind of game.
I'm pretty surprised that they managed to get all these out on the start. I expected one or two good games, but whoa, Descent? Earthworm Jim? Fallout? Gothic? MDK? Operation Flashpoint? Shogo?
Fallout 1 and 2 are particularly nicely times with the release of FO3. Lots of people will want to play the originals again.
It's like I died and got zombified in the better part of the 90's!
They don't have Baldur's Gate and Torment yet, but I hope they soon will.
A good selection and a good price ($6 each). The one question remaining is, what platform do they require?
You mean: does it run on linux?
That's what I'd like to know too, actually.
Actually Intelligent Design simply stipulates that the universe was created by an intelligent being (say, God) in some state not equivalent to total chaos and/or guided by that benefactor through its existence to keep things running smoothly.
As far as I understand, ID is about evolution, not cosmology, and the main argument is that particular aspects of life cannot possibly have been evolved in the way the theory of evolution describes.
ID's problem is that that claim is impossible to prove and many aspects of it have already been disproven.
I'm still waiting for these evolutionary scientists to realise Spore is just a game and Flintstones was a damn cartoon.
Thing is, EA claims Spore is about evolution, and some creationists claim stone age humans really did live with dinosaurs.
There's a difference in literary terms between "hard science fiction" and "soft science fiction". Star Trek falls under the category of "hard science fiction", as does almost everything by Isaac Asimov.
Star Trek hard SF? Really? I wasn't aware hard SF was such a meaningless term. Star Trek may not be quite as far off the space opera end as Star Wars or Lensman, but it's far from hard SF.
It pretends to be, I'll grant you that, but it's all meaningless technobabble.
For hard SF, look at Asimov, indeed. Clarke too, and quite a number of things by Larry Niven and dozens of other authors, but not at Star Trek.
LMFAO. Haha. Better make it 20 billino. Good luck finding anyone who can write code and is willing to work for 75k a year.
Get real. Where does the department of labor get these stats?
Starting salaries for Java developers is 75k with absolutely no experience in the midwest.
Then programmers are really underpaid in Netherland. I definitely do have experience, I live in the biggest and one of the most expensive cities in the country (more jobs than houses) but I still make less than $75k (and this new rise of the dollar isn't helping).
Ofcourse I could be making more money if I didn't constantly choose to work for open source companies, but even my best job offer so far would have been less than $75k.
The only place where I've seen that kind of salaries for my qualifications is in the financial sector (and I kinda suspect they won't be offering quite that much anymore either).
And there's where you're wrong. No one considers anyone in government their "betters" here. :)
And if you think there's been a lack of criticism during this whole process, you must have been living under a rock...
I don't know where you were around that time, but I heard/read a lot of stuff about Americans who considered it unpatriotic and supportive of the terrorists to criticise.
De Tocqueville is dead, but I only offered him up as an example of how the attitude of the author in TFA has been pervasive in European "intellectuals" for a long, long time. Honestly I *like* de Tocqueville, but that doesn't mean he didn't have his faults.
I'm not an expert on de Tocqueville, but I thought he was even one of the sources of inspiration to the American founding fathers.
They too were an elite, you know?
But God forbid you actually research something when you can work in an anti-US jab instead!
I wasn't the one who started jabbing here.
Except that's not his attitude. His attitude is that only "professionals" should be producing content, and that "amateurs" producing content is destructive. He thinks everyone having a voice is a bad thing... Which is the kind of European attitude that led to the creation of the US.
That's over 200 years ago! Get your head into the 21st century, man. That authoritarian Europeliberal US relationship has long since turned around.
Absolute tosh. I have no idea what GUI you use, but I've never seen such an issue with TortoiseSVN or the command line tools, and we regularly commit hundreds of files at a time.
I suspect that something is up with your svn server.
No, it's the client. We had this problem with Subclipse, but not with Subversive (while using the same SVN server).