I am studying environmental engineering and let me assure you of one thing: We are not taught to "roll-back the industrial age". We are taught to "make industrial age an also-responsible age".
Actually, Nissan's system is much better than Toyota's automatic-parallel-parking, because all of these technologies will come in handy all the time, and not only while parallel parking. Imagine playing Grand Theft Auto with future trajectory projected:)
Yeah it was the same with me... I tried looking into the source code of the post but couldn't find it... may be I should have looked over the comments section:)
PS: Someone modded me "overrated" even though I had no moderation (except the karma bonus). Gotta love the moderators:D
That's interesting. I have never been around a place where people kill birds because they find them annoying. Right now I am in Germany and one thing that I could tell within days after coming here, and so did my parents and friends, that there are no birds around! Very weird because I am used to listening to all kinds of birds chirping all day long:)
Yeah, but crows are annoying creatures. May be what you can do, instead of killing, is to look out for some kind of food source and remove it, or use loud play-guns which fire crackers... do it once or twice, and they will stop hanging around your home.
Your arrogance is unprecedented. Can you show any study which shows strong correlation between prosperity and human rights? On the other hand there is a well accepted (and debated) theory that shows an inverse relationship between women literacy and development (income per capita). Democracy/capitalism were born at after Renaissance and French revolution, both had nothing to do with Women rights (women in Britain were still in their home playing piano a 100 years ago). Adding capitalism their was a nice stunt you played there.
Once again I say, problems occur when you don't have money. But who cares, since baseless arrogance is the point of your post, and I definitely add no usefulness in it. So go ahead and bask in your ignorance.
So you say. Why, then, is there such a strong correlation between prosperity and {democracy, capitalism, egalitarianism, human rights} today? Maybe I have cause-and-effect reversed, but either way: It doesn't bode well for modern Islamic societies.
And what about the history?
No, do you? Read what I wrote again: "Any system that claims a monopoly on truth and mandates severe punishment for those who question the system cannot produce scientific progress."
I don't know of any society which claims a monopoly on truth but does not mandate punishment for those who say otherwise. (If you don't see it today, it is only because they are in minority.)
The rest of your post adds even less usefulness to the discussion, so I won't bother with it.
Islamic societies are horribly backward in terms of economic and scientific development. It doesn't require a genius to figure out why: A society that takes away rights from 50% of its population cannot prosper. Societies that oppress women are invariably under-developed, strife-riven and backward.
The notion of being forward, developed is not new. This is not the only "golden time" humanity had (although I would prefer this one than any other, simply because I was born in this one). People have been happy/happier, societies have been developing WITH at least Mathematics being studied/applied/researched upon without any problem whatsoever.
On the other hand, idea of gender equality is a new one. Yeah that's right! Prosperity has NOTHING to do with human rights (also a new idea).
Societies prosper when they are stable. Stability has nothing to do with human rights. For example, slavery did not just stop after French revolution, but science still prospered. Stability has only one thing to do: social cooperation. That happens when people are focused on what they have to do. So we had society like India where more than 50% people were living a short life of insect while a bunch of people did enormous research in astronomy and mathematics. Or Arab, where things were preserved and cared for when others were sleeping in Dark Age. Or NOW, when people doing scientific research do not make more than a 0.5% of society. The problem with any individual country in middle Asia (irrespective of religion) is poverty and lack of resources (and no, Arab is not "in general" rich. It has got a bunch of people who are rich, and for all the rest of them, everything is expensive. Those who have been to Saudi Arabia or know someone from their will know that most of the work-force in SA comes from other countries which are poorer.
Management 101: In a situation of unrest in team, find something common. (So in a foreign land, Chinese hang around with Chinese even when they don't know each other).
Something similar could have been applied, but it cannot be because in a world of Globalization, it has hard to get people agreed on any thing. (For example, consider a future where NO one has ever heard of democracy. In such future, Myanmar is a stable prospering state if it is self-sustaining. A person who comes up with the idea of democracy will be laughed upon.)
This leads to the other conclusion: when you cannot hold your towel because the wind is too strong, shut the window! In other terms, concentrate on "Islamic brotherhood" as being a common ground and shut the developments in non-Islamic world as alien.
So repeat once again, Prosperity has NOTHING TO DO WITH human rights.
Any system that proclaims a monopoly on truth and mandates severe punishments for those who question the system cannot produce scientific progress.
But we are standing on shoulder of those giant which were burned when they said what they said, isn't it? Do you see the logical fallacy in your argument? It is called Begging the Question
Any society that produces riots in response to satirical cartoons cannot progress in the modern world.
Any person who dies cannot live. Remember, the reason a person cannot live is because he is not living.
What? Poison? You are trying to justify! THE PERSON CANNOT LIVE BECAUSE HE IS NOT LIVING!
Any society that always blames outsiders for its troubles will forever wallow in its own backwardness.
Sorry if I sounded arrogant. It wasn't my intentions, my intentions was good (- Eminem):)
For -2 offtopic modding, we have got meta-moderating. But I really have no problem with people modding stuff because they do not understand (I give +interesting to such posts myself). But I have seen too many posts with +5 Funny and also intersting, like a "gesture". I believe that there are too many posts which are informative/interesting/insightful but won't be modded up while people with excellent karma get charity.
Come on, there is just nothing else I can say to this kind of thinking.
(Yes, I also get to be moderator. And when there is even one guy complaining about wrong mods, it means some one is having trouble following the mod-system, and that means it is broken. So, people, worry about your own karma please!)
The main point of the post was the use of BitTorrent and it being verboten, and had nothing to do with government. My computer was confiscated under the rules of University.
* And the whole talk was in English:) * It's been more than a year since I came to Germany. * The machine has been returned today to me. With that I was given a paper which says: "use of... facility for personal purposes is not allowed"
Some of the gems of talk: "... I never install any program for bittorrent on MY machines, you are not allowed to install anything by yourself." (upon learning Opera has bittorrent capabilities) "... this is a democratic country... people work very hard to acheive things.... this is not India or China... copyright infringement is 5 years of jail, so is the use of nuclear weapons..."
Everything is within rules. Everything is true.
The point is the use of BitTorrent for completely normal activity led to such hassle. It was ON-Topic. You misunderstood it and went to such lengths to prove how Germany is not Nazi. I have nothing against rules. I have everything against any rule that is bound to be broken (like copying DVDs and CDs).
**************** The faith you have in your system may not be unfounded. Just know one thing though: rights are for citizens. I am a sceintific worker and a student, with limited visa. And if I piss off any person, I WILL get deported, have no doubts. It is not like I have much money or other resources to fight myself through system, for good cause or bad.
The main point of the post was the use of BitTorrent and it being verboten, and had nothing to do with government. My computer was confiscated under the rules of University.
* And the whole talk was in English:) * It's been more than a year since I came to Germany. * The machine has been returned today.
Some of the gems of talk: "... I never install any program for bittorrent no MY machines, you are not allowed to install anything by yourself." (upon learning it Opera has bittorrent capabilities) "... this is a democratic country... people work very hard to acheive things.... this is not India or China..."
The faith you have in your system may not be unfounded. Just know one thing though: rights are for citizens. I am a sceintific worker and a student, with limited visa. And if I piss off any person, I WILL get deported, have no doubts. It is not like I have much money or other resources to fight myself through system, for good cause or bad.
I am not working at top-secret something, and I have signed a contract which says, all the sceintific work I do at my place belongs to my place. I don't think that is an NDA, and I will discuss it when I add it to my resume.
And I am not accussing anyone of anything. I told you what happened. May be the guy telling me was being a jerk. May be the guy telling him something was a jerk. I don't know! I shared my experience. You are free to neglect it.
I am not trolling. The information I gave is true. And yes, my English skills are poor:( That is why I am in Germany and not in USA (GRE was too tough for me... but one day I will prepare for it and hopefully do better).
But point out the grammatical mistakes. There is never a bad time to learn mistakes. (I am serious, as I was while posting previous comment.)
Heh... I am in Stuttgart (Deutschland!) and yesterday my computer was confiscated because I downloaded OpenOffice 2.3 using BitTorrent.
I use opera and I did... my system administrator is very competent but unfortunately he didn't know how to disable torrent capabilities system-wide. They (some long word referring to teh-main-network-monitoring-team) caught the port being used for downloading.
Bad things happen:) I had around 6-7 GB of sceintific work but my machine is right now "frozen" and my professor cannot use it for the conference in Paris this monday. I had to hear "scheiße" uncountable times before he left my room in hurry.
Late evening I was told that my activities are being monitored (and will be). I didn't dare asking for how long. I hate those Turkish people who were caught making bombs. They ruin it for everyone! People try to convince me a number of times how "foreign" is better, but to tell you the truth, I miss having cheap un-monitored broadband connection of India than clean roads, train on-time and other expensive luxuries I do not use or care.
That assumes the superior AI cares about its own existence, which is not necessarily the case.
I can totally see this. The superior AI, when created, will be the FIRST and the ONLY ONE in the whole world. This loneliness will cause it to get frustrated and then commit suicide.
A law should be passed to forbid making of smarter-than-man robots before the first one is annihilated. A second law should be death penalty for anyone who lets such machines open an online forum.
All that is being said is, when presenting some conservative settings, why it presents a hardcoded value and not, say, 80% of the available memory?
It is a fact that when presented with default values with terms like "Tile cache size", 99% of users will click it away in fear of changing the "default" behaviour. It is unreasonable to expect users to know this value.
Presenting a dialog box with values that are not sanely determined for your system as default on first-run only amplifies the problem.
Slashdot Mirror
I am studying environmental engineering and let me assure you of one thing: We are not taught to "roll-back the industrial age". We are taught to "make industrial age an also-responsible age".
Actually, Nissan's system is much better than Toyota's automatic-parallel-parking, because all of these technologies will come in handy all the time, and not only while parallel parking. Imagine playing Grand Theft Auto with future trajectory projected :)
The FLV link worked, did you try that? (look for the other reply i have got). You can play it in mplayer.
Yeah it was the same with me... I tried looking into the source code of the post but couldn't find it... may be I should have looked over the comments section :)
:D
PS: Someone modded me "overrated" even though I had no moderation (except the karma bonus). Gotta love the moderators
Ah! Thanks a lot.
Am I the only one who is unable to view the video? I know that it is not blocked... have they removed it?
That's interesting. I have never been around a place where people kill birds because they find them annoying. Right now I am in Germany and one thing that I could tell within days after coming here, and so did my parents and friends, that there are no birds around! Very weird because I am used to listening to all kinds of birds chirping all day long :)
Yeah, but crows are annoying creatures. May be what you can do, instead of killing, is to look out for some kind of food source and remove it, or use loud play-guns which fire crackers... do it once or twice, and they will stop hanging around your home.
You can help remove the tags by adding "!" sign before the tags. So, I tagged the story as "!linuxbites !linuxisinsecure !linuxsucks"
Your arrogance is unprecedented. Can you show any study which shows strong correlation between prosperity and human rights? On the other hand there is a well accepted (and debated) theory that shows an inverse relationship between women literacy and development (income per capita). Democracy/capitalism were born at after Renaissance and French revolution, both had nothing to do with Women rights (women in Britain were still in their home playing piano a 100 years ago). Adding capitalism their was a nice stunt you played there.
Once again I say, problems occur when you don't have money. But who cares, since baseless arrogance is the point of your post, and I definitely add no usefulness in it. So go ahead and bask in your ignorance.
And what about the history?
I don't know of any society which claims a monopoly on truth but does not mandate punishment for those who say otherwise. (If you don't see it today, it is only because they are in minority.)Thanks for the information.
I am not proficient at German but I think "Wir speichern nicht" means "We save not" or we don't save.
Corrections?
The notion of being forward, developed is not new. This is not the only "golden time" humanity had (although I would prefer this one than any other, simply because I was born in this one). People have been happy/happier, societies have been developing WITH at least Mathematics being studied/applied/researched upon without any problem whatsoever.
On the other hand, idea of gender equality is a new one. Yeah that's right! Prosperity has NOTHING to do with human rights (also a new idea).
Societies prosper when they are stable. Stability has nothing to do with human rights. For example, slavery did not just stop after French revolution, but science still prospered. Stability has only one thing to do: social cooperation. That happens when people are focused on what they have to do. So we had society like India where more than 50% people were living a short life of insect while a bunch of people did enormous research in astronomy and mathematics. Or Arab, where things were preserved and cared for when others were sleeping in Dark Age. Or NOW, when people doing scientific research do not make more than a 0.5% of society. The problem with any individual country in middle Asia (irrespective of religion) is poverty and lack of resources (and no, Arab is not "in general" rich. It has got a bunch of people who are rich, and for all the rest of them, everything is expensive. Those who have been to Saudi Arabia or know someone from their will know that most of the work-force in SA comes from other countries which are poorer.
Management 101: In a situation of unrest in team, find something common. (So in a foreign land, Chinese hang around with Chinese even when they don't know each other).
Something similar could have been applied, but it cannot be because in a world of Globalization, it has hard to get people agreed on any thing. (For example, consider a future where NO one has ever heard of democracy. In such future, Myanmar is a stable prospering state if it is self-sustaining. A person who comes up with the idea of democracy will be laughed upon.)
This leads to the other conclusion: when you cannot hold your towel because the wind is too strong, shut the window!
In other terms, concentrate on "Islamic brotherhood" as being a common ground and shut the developments in non-Islamic world as alien.
That's all what is happening. The book in TFA is nothing new, you can buy material saying the conclusion on every street if you are in a Islamic country (barring Turkey, but see here: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9867269 )
So repeat once again, Prosperity has NOTHING TO DO WITH human rights.
But we are standing on shoulder of those giant which were burned when they said what they said, isn't it? Do you see the logical fallacy in your argument? It is called Begging the Question
Any person who dies cannot live. Remember, the reason a person cannot live is because he is not living.
What? Poison? You are trying to justify! THE PERSON CANNOT LIVE BECAUSE HE IS NOT LIVING!
Just to add as a side note: Arabic numerals were discovered in India, from where Arabs learned it.
Not stealing credit here, though. India was a conservative place where knowledge was only within certain castes.
Sorry if I sounded arrogant. It wasn't my intentions, my intentions was good (- Eminem) :)
For -2 offtopic modding, we have got meta-moderating. But I really have no problem with people modding stuff because they do not understand (I give +interesting to such posts myself). But I have seen too many posts with +5 Funny and also intersting, like a "gesture". I believe that there are too many posts which are informative/interesting/insightful but won't be modded up while people with excellent karma get charity.
Then those moderators are idiots!
Come on, there is just nothing else I can say to this kind of thinking.
(Yes, I also get to be moderator. And when there is even one guy complaining about wrong mods, it means some one is having trouble following the mod-system, and that means it is broken. So, people, worry about your own karma please!)
The main point of the post was the use of BitTorrent and it being verboten, and had nothing to do with government. My computer was confiscated under the rules of University.
:) ... facility for personal purposes is not allowed"
* And the whole talk was in English
* It's been more than a year since I came to Germany.
* The machine has been returned today to me. With that I was given a paper which says: "use of
Some of the gems of talk: "... I never install any program for bittorrent on MY machines, you are not allowed to install anything by yourself." (upon learning Opera has bittorrent capabilities) "... this is a democratic country... people work very hard to acheive things.... this is not India or China... copyright infringement is 5 years of jail, so is the use of nuclear weapons..."
Everything is within rules. Everything is true.
The point is the use of BitTorrent for completely normal activity led to such hassle. It was ON-Topic. You misunderstood it and went to such lengths to prove how Germany is not Nazi. I have nothing against rules. I have everything against any rule that is bound to be broken (like copying DVDs and CDs).
****************
The faith you have in your system may not be unfounded. Just know one thing though: rights are for citizens. I am a sceintific worker and a student, with limited visa. And if I piss off any person, I WILL get deported, have no doubts. It is not like I have much money or other resources to fight myself through system, for good cause or bad.
The main point of the post was the use of BitTorrent and it being verboten, and had nothing to do with government. My computer was confiscated under the rules of University.
:)
* And the whole talk was in English
* It's been more than a year since I came to Germany.
* The machine has been returned today.
Some of the gems of talk: "... I never install any program for bittorrent no MY machines, you are not allowed to install anything by yourself." (upon learning it Opera has bittorrent capabilities) "... this is a democratic country... people work very hard to acheive things.... this is not India or China..."
The faith you have in your system may not be unfounded. Just know one thing though: rights are for citizens. I am a sceintific worker and a student, with limited visa. And if I piss off any person, I WILL get deported, have no doubts. It is not like I have much money or other resources to fight myself through system, for good cause or bad.
I am not working at top-secret something, and I have signed a contract which says, all the sceintific work I do at my place belongs to my place. I don't think that is an NDA, and I will discuss it when I add it to my resume.
And I am not accussing anyone of anything. I told you what happened. May be the guy telling me was being a jerk. May be the guy telling him something was a jerk. I don't know! I shared my experience. You are free to neglect it.
That is the whole point of the post. In other words, no warez.
I am not trolling. The information I gave is true. And yes, my English skills are poor :( That is why I am in Germany and not in USA (GRE was too tough for me... but one day I will prepare for it and hopefully do better).
But point out the grammatical mistakes. There is never a bad time to learn mistakes. (I am serious, as I was while posting previous comment.)
Heh... I am in Stuttgart (Deutschland!) and yesterday my computer was confiscated because I downloaded OpenOffice 2.3 using BitTorrent.
:) I had around 6-7 GB of sceintific work but my machine is right now "frozen" and my professor cannot use it for the conference in Paris this monday. I had to hear "scheiße" uncountable times before he left my room in hurry.
I use opera and I did... my system administrator is very competent but unfortunately he didn't know how to disable torrent capabilities system-wide. They (some long word referring to teh-main-network-monitoring-team) caught the port being used for downloading.
Bad things happen
Late evening I was told that my activities are being monitored (and will be). I didn't dare asking for how long. I hate those Turkish people who were caught making bombs. They ruin it for everyone! People try to convince me a number of times how "foreign" is better, but to tell you the truth, I miss having cheap un-monitored broadband connection of India than clean roads, train on-time and other expensive luxuries I do not use or care.
That is why I hope KOffice is a better bet. OO is a mess.
:)
Now if KOffice was gplv3, it would have been PERFECT
to the real world.
pawned by piracy, or should I call, theft of emails?
I can totally see this. The superior AI, when created, will be the FIRST and the ONLY ONE in the whole world. This loneliness will cause it to get frustrated and then commit suicide.
A law should be passed to forbid making of smarter-than-man robots before the first one is annihilated. A second law should be death penalty for anyone who lets such machines open an online forum.
All that is being said is, when presenting some conservative settings, why it presents a hardcoded value and not, say, 80% of the available memory?
It is a fact that when presented with default values with terms like "Tile cache size", 99% of users will click it away in fear of changing the "default" behaviour. It is unreasonable to expect users to know this value.
Presenting a dialog box with values that are not sanely determined for your system as default on first-run only amplifies the problem.