While gold is certainly useful, these uses aren't really attractive to most consumers of money ( who have little use for soft, ductile metal ). So while I agree to a point, if you want the currency to be centered around something that is intrinsicly valuable and limited in supply, you'd need to skulk around a little more to find a good candidate. I can't think of one that works well off the top of my head.
Save space on his binary? What year is this? I think I might be the only person on Slashdot right now directly affected by this, and that's because 1, some of my programs have PPC Assembly inside and 2, I just submitted an article on taking apart PPC executables to see how they work. Even then, I think it'll be a long, long time before I feel the touch of this announcement.
This is a sacrifice I will willingly make in exchange for better laptop performance.
Agreed. Diamonds are the greatest shell game of the modern era, and a triumph of marketing. DeBeers is a genuine illegal cartel, and up until they settled an anti-trust over industrial diamonds in 2004, had great difficulties acting directly in the U.S.
I supplied the visa codes relevant to my argument. You have still not provided a visa code or the name of your supposed program. If you think it's rude that I don't blindly accept your fabrications, then so be it.
Does this help at all? Physicians have been able to practice on the H-1B since 1990. Check out Miscellaneous Technical Immigration and Naturalization Amendments, 1991.
I agree, computer science is already an oversaturated field and promoting more CS majors to come and flood the market does not sound like a very good idea.
I did CS because I enjoy the subject area, not because I wanted to land "phat loot", or even a CS job ( although that's the way it worked out ). Surely I'm not the only one?
I want to like Safari. But why are the documents generated by XSL transformations in 2.0/RSS so frickin' slow? Firefox does the transform and has the generated document onscreen almost instantly, and all is well. In Safari, it lags like the dickens.
I wonder if I can write a plug in for the WoW interface s.t. I can implement speech to text locally...(prolly not though, I'm a poor to middling coder)
It's middling hard to send information from WoW to the outside world, and almost impossible to send it the other way, with the exception of pictures, iirc. I tried to put 'current playlist' into wTunes when I started writing it, and it was a trail of tears.
Text. Typing. It's a very RPG-ish thing. Voicechat is not. I don't want to know that the beefy warrior I'm partying with through the mountains is actually some dinky thirteen year old kid with a retainer. I don't want to know that the really hot night elf with the long legs and the quiver full of hard, stiff arrows is really a 45 year old guy with a speech impedement.
You may enjoy this, on the subject of voice chat in RPGS: "Not Yet, You Fools", by Richard A Bartle. This is an extablished part of the literature, not sure why nobody seems to have linked it yet.
I seem to recall Sony suggesting that in the future, all of your "standalone consumer devices" will be networked via ip over powerloop or something. The idea being that the Cell in your kettle and fridge can kick processing power to the PS3 in the living room.
If the problem was indeed unsolvable, then nobody in the set of exam students would have been able to solve it correctly either.
As the purpose of university exams since the invention of the grading curve is largely to sort the students by some semi-abstract form of academic capability, there really was no deleterious effect from you losing that mark.
what scientific studies show that alcohol makes you violent? when i'm drunk, i don't get violent.
I'm going to start off with an ad-hominem, because it's just too good to pass up: Judging from your abuse of lower case letters, when you get drunk, you come here and post on slashdot. Here's a nice summary of 41 scientific studies! But it's from the NIH, so they obviously don't know what they're talking about.
marijuana is harmless. it doesn't cause addiction, it doesn't cause death, and when used properly in THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME, you affect no one but yourself. there are no known deaths related to marijuana.
I'm in favour of legalising marijuana, but you live in fantasy land if you think it's harmless. It's full of carcinogens ( like pretty much anything else you burn, really ), and the American Heart Association presented a study ( non journal though, so whatever ) during their March 2000 conference that said it represented a fivefold risk factor for cardiac arrest in the first hour after use for older users ( about twice the risk entailed by sex for sedentary individuals ). These are not the only medical questions surrounding cannabis at the moment, some bad, some good. Don't make the mistake of dishonestly portraying it as 'safer than sugar doughnuts' ( as one particularly retarded pothead has attempted to do in my presence. )
If there was ever a slashdot post that deserved to be preserved long after the rest had blown to ashes, that was it.
utlemming, if you're a U.S. citizen, I urge you to please put this on paper and take it to your representative. The rest of you should as well, regardless of your political views - this use of riders is systematically being used to stifle opposition on both sides of the political fence, it is a tacit statement of the unworthiness of the rider, and it is dishonest and cynical.
It is time the decisions of legislatures worldwide were left to stand or fall on their own merits, instead of who their drafters can buddy up with.
Wolves and other large predators. Read his comment, please!
Wolves have been driven to near extinction in a great chunk of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Nobody likes living with large predators on their doorstep, and for that reason, they've been trapped and hunted to a shadow of original population levels.
Yes, we caused the problem, but our options right now to fix it are as follows: reintroduce high end predators to areas now contested for use with humans ( I favour this approach, and some places like the Algonquin Park have a blanket ban of wolf hunting, but not all agree ) or manually cull deer, etc, numbers. It's really that simple.
Of course, yes, the ecosystem will eventually rebalance to a new, diversity-poor, deer-heavy state if we do nothing - just as it has for 'so many millions of years' - but I like the ecosystem we have now, and I'd like to see steps to see it preserved.
so even though many sysadmins count on such things
Bzzt. If you depend on such things, you should have your badge revoked. Setuid on scripts is a horrible hack, because the execution mechanism of shell scripts allows users to tinker with the internals of the suid resource.
Slashdot Mirror
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Did this just slip out, or what?
-- YLFI
Holy shit, do I have some bad news for them about 2005.
YLFIWhile gold is certainly useful, these uses aren't really attractive to most consumers of money ( who have little use for soft, ductile metal ). So while I agree to a point, if you want the currency to be centered around something that is intrinsicly valuable and limited in supply, you'd need to skulk around a little more to find a good candidate. I can't think of one that works well off the top of my head.
Why do people keep saying this? If you read the Universal Binary Whitepaper that went up yesterday, it says, emphatically, no open firmware.
Save space on his binary? What year is this? I think I might be the only person on Slashdot right now directly affected by this, and that's because 1, some of my programs have PPC Assembly inside and 2, I just submitted an article on taking apart PPC executables to see how they work. Even then, I think it'll be a long, long time before I feel the touch of this announcement.
This is a sacrifice I will willingly make in exchange for better laptop performance.
YLFIAgreed. Diamonds are the greatest shell game of the modern era, and a triumph of marketing. DeBeers is a genuine illegal cartel, and up until they settled an anti-trust over industrial diamonds in 2004, had great difficulties acting directly in the U.S.
I don't even live in your country. I just happened past the thread and thought I'd throw it in.
YLFIDoes this help at all? Physicians have been able to practice on the H-1B since 1990. Check out Miscellaneous Technical Immigration and Naturalization Amendments, 1991.
I did CS because I enjoy the subject area, not because I wanted to land "phat loot", or even a CS job ( although that's the way it worked out ). Surely I'm not the only one?
-- YLFII want to like Safari. But why are the documents generated by XSL transformations in 2.0/RSS so frickin' slow? Firefox does the transform and has the generated document onscreen almost instantly, and all is well. In Safari, it lags like the dickens.
-- YLFIIt's middling hard to send information from WoW to the outside world, and almost impossible to send it the other way, with the exception of pictures, iirc. I tried to put 'current playlist' into wTunes when I started writing it, and it was a trail of tears.
-- YLFIYeah, I always suspected the Rust and Sun belts were some kind of ridiculous troll myth. ( Idiot ).
-- YLFIYou may enjoy this, on the subject of voice chat in RPGS: "Not Yet, You Fools", by Richard A Bartle. This is an extablished part of the literature, not sure why nobody seems to have linked it yet.
I seem to recall Sony suggesting that in the future, all of your "standalone consumer devices" will be networked via ip over powerloop or something. The idea being that the Cell in your kettle and fridge can kick processing power to the PS3 in the living room.
Would you call Art Spiegelman "just a comic book writer" for Maus? I don't read comics as a rule, but I read Moore's "Watchmen", and it kicked my ass.
-- YLFIIf the problem was indeed unsolvable, then nobody in the set of exam students would have been able to solve it correctly either.
As the purpose of university exams since the invention of the grading curve is largely to sort the students by some semi-abstract form of academic capability, there really was no deleterious effect from you losing that mark.
YLFI
That would be me. I can come over and sit in front of your computer if you like, but you have to buy the popcorn.
YLFII'm going to start off with an ad-hominem, because it's just too good to pass up: Judging from your abuse of lower case letters, when you get drunk, you come here and post on slashdot. Here's a nice summary of 41 scientific studies! But it's from the NIH, so they obviously don't know what they're talking about.
marijuana is harmless. it doesn't cause addiction, it doesn't cause death, and when used properly in THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME, you affect no one but yourself. there are no known deaths related to marijuana.I'm in favour of legalising marijuana, but you live in fantasy land if you think it's harmless. It's full of carcinogens ( like pretty much anything else you burn, really ), and the American Heart Association presented a study ( non journal though, so whatever ) during their March 2000 conference that said it represented a fivefold risk factor for cardiac arrest in the first hour after use for older users ( about twice the risk entailed by sex for sedentary individuals ). These are not the only medical questions surrounding cannabis at the moment, some bad, some good. Don't make the mistake of dishonestly portraying it as 'safer than sugar doughnuts' ( as one particularly retarded pothead has attempted to do in my presence. )
Regards,YLFI
If there was ever a slashdot post that deserved to be preserved long after the rest had blown to ashes, that was it.
utlemming, if you're a U.S. citizen, I urge you to please put this on paper and take it to your representative. The rest of you should as well, regardless of your political views - this use of riders is systematically being used to stifle opposition on both sides of the political fence, it is a tacit statement of the unworthiness of the rider, and it is dishonest and cynical.
It is time the decisions of legislatures worldwide were left to stand or fall on their own merits, instead of who their drafters can buddy up with.
YLFIWolves and other large predators. Read his comment, please!
Wolves have been driven to near extinction in a great chunk of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Nobody likes living with large predators on their doorstep, and for that reason, they've been trapped and hunted to a shadow of original population levels.
Yes, we caused the problem, but our options right now to fix it are as follows: reintroduce high end predators to areas now contested for use with humans ( I favour this approach, and some places like the Algonquin Park have a blanket ban of wolf hunting, but not all agree ) or manually cull deer, etc, numbers. It's really that simple.
Of course, yes, the ecosystem will eventually rebalance to a new, diversity-poor, deer-heavy state if we do nothing - just as it has for 'so many millions of years' - but I like the ecosystem we have now, and I'd like to see steps to see it preserved.
-- YLFI
Hell no. While the robots are grooming your body hair, I'll be over at your house, looking through your stuff.
Sosumi.
Gawd, I was sitting there parsing it as 1024kg, it's time to go home.
YLFIBzzt. If you depend on such things, you should have your badge revoked. Setuid on scripts is a horrible hack, because the execution mechanism of shell scripts allows users to tinker with the internals of the suid resource.
This should never, ever, ever be allowed.
Further, if memory serves, it's actually syntactic sugar for objc_msgSend( object, "methodcall:", parameter );
Of course, if you actually use it that way outside the debugger, I hear Steve Jobs personally flies to your house and takes your Mac away from you.
YLFI