Would the Japanense who dislike Americas for the atmoic bomb ever get over it?
Death solves many problem including this one.
Perhaps if human life was eternal, we would be less inclined to drop atomic bombs. In a strange sort of way, I think the value of life becomes more important when people live forever. Kill someone now and you take away 60 years, kill someone in the future and you have stolen an eternity.
I consider a 100+ word message at the bottom of an email spam. Most emails are a sentence or two. What the hell do I need another 100+ words tacked on the end for?
Even more annoying is one I've seen that's html based. It has a pretty little gif border, pointers, and big company logo attached. So when my friend send me an email saying, `are you coming to the party on Saturday?' the whole email is 10k in size.
Well, this is something I wonder about and hope that a more qualified person on slashdot could provide an answer to. Is there any such thing as a naturally ambidextrous or left/right handed person? I'm asking because so many of the things people do with their hand are practiced skills. For example I'm right handed and thus have always shaved with my right hand. But if I were to try and shave using my left hand would my left-handed shaving be any better than the first time I tried to shave with my right hand?
I'm just curious because I have an Aunt who says she's ambidextrous, but I think it's because when she learns something new, she makes an effort to learn it with both hands. IE, when she learned to play tennis, she switched hands every few hits. Also, for my [shameless plug] London Journal[/shameless plug] I usually write the entries out long hand first. But after a few pages my right hand gets tired. Because I didn't want to stop, I decided to learn to write with my left hand as well so I could alternate hands on each page.
I just wonder if handedness is the result of the fact than it takes less energy and effort to make one one hand a specialist that is required to make two.
George Lucas is on the board. It will be a damn shame if Jar-Jar somehow works his was into an exhibit titled anything but The Worst Mistake in Sci-Fi History
The real reason to become a member is the invitations to the exclusive members-only events. Just think of all the hot chicks who'll be there... or perhaps not.
... there is a _lot_ of high-quality music out there that is not shackled by the RIAA.
This is very true, however, I have trouble finding sorting the good from the bad. For example, creative commons has a CD of free music called Copy Me, Remix Me which has some really good stuff. But where to go from here? There needs to be a webpage that can do some amazon.com style preference aggregating to help me find new free music that I like based on my past preferences.
does anyone have recommendations for better ways to read these files?
On an old palm pilot or in the notes folder on an ipod. I found that it's the backlight of a computer screen (and on the new palms) that is what hurts my eyes when trying to read.
I guess this doesn't make a lot of sense to me until such time as these games start to be shown on TV, where rounds can be surrounded by ads and what have you.
Of course, this might be an interesting direction for games to go in. Unreal Tournament 2004 isn't too exciting to watch unless you're actually playing in it, so what types of games would do well on tv?
But then -- bam! -- psycho city:
Another area that I find fascinating is the potential for people to do "useful" things in games. Could gamers solve potentially large problems by the fractal differential of the quantum encoding of their movements in a game of Doom? Will games move so far into the realm of virtual lives that people physically do work there?
Wouldn't that just be years ago? A light-year is a measure of distance, not time. It's like saying 'I can see three inches into the past.' The only reason I can think of to say this is if you also want to indicate how far away the event was when it happened.
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Would the Japanense who dislike Americas for the atmoic bomb ever get over it? Death solves many problem including this one.
Perhaps if human life was eternal, we would be less inclined to drop atomic bombs. In a strange sort of way, I think the value of life becomes more important when people live forever. Kill someone now and you take away 60 years, kill someone in the future and you have stolen an eternity.
-Colin
I consider a 100+ word message at the bottom of an email spam. Most emails are a sentence or two. What the hell do I need another 100+ words tacked on the end for?
Even more annoying is one I've seen that's html based. It has a pretty little gif border, pointers, and big company logo attached. So when my friend send me an email saying, `are you coming to the party on Saturday?' the whole email is 10k in size.
All paid for by telephone rate-payers. That would be you.
Not since I'm unemployed and live in Europe, you insensitive clod.
And true ambidexterity is rare.
Well, this is something I wonder about and hope that a more qualified person on slashdot could provide an answer to. Is there any such thing as a naturally ambidextrous or left/right handed person? I'm asking because so many of the things people do with their hand are practiced skills. For example I'm right handed and thus have always shaved with my right hand. But if I were to try and shave using my left hand would my left-handed shaving be any better than the first time I tried to shave with my right hand?
I'm just curious because I have an Aunt who says she's ambidextrous, but I think it's because when she learns something new, she makes an effort to learn it with both hands. IE, when she learned to play tennis, she switched hands every few hits. Also, for my [shameless plug] London Journal[/shameless plug] I usually write the entries out long hand first. But after a few pages my right hand gets tired. Because I didn't want to stop, I decided to learn to write with my left hand as well so I could alternate hands on each page.
I just wonder if handedness is the result of the fact than it takes less energy and effort to make one one hand a specialist that is required to make two.
We prefer to be called Electronic-Americans.
What about the Robots who don't live in America?
-Colin
"Atom" ($1*6.022*10^-23)
George Lucas is on the board. It will be a damn shame if Jar-Jar somehow works his was into an exhibit titled anything but The Worst Mistake in Sci-Fi History
-Colin
The real reason to become a member is the invitations to the exclusive members-only events. Just think of all the hot chicks who'll be there... or perhaps not.
-Colin
Giving away CPU cycles so that a multi-million dollar company can improve its product is a wholly different thing.
People pay to wear shirt that advertise mult-million dollar companies. : (
-Colin
We will never "run out" of anything. It will simply become unaffordable for almost everyone.
I'm sorry, but if it unaffordable for almost everyone that is, from a practical standpoint, the same thing as running out.
-Colin
What they say (paraphrased) is that it should not be used in situations where lives would be on the line.
I can't think of a bigger system that puts more lives on the line than a government.
-Colin
I could hear the whooosh! sound at the April 1st joke flew right over your head.
-Colin
This is very true, however, I have trouble finding sorting the good from the bad. For example, creative commons has a CD of free music called Copy Me, Remix Me which has some really good stuff. But where to go from here? There needs to be a webpage that can do some amazon.com style preference aggregating to help me find new free music that I like based on my past preferences.
-Colin
Indeed. Hell, the HTML editor is the only thing I use Mozilla for.
-Colin
God can 'save' you
Moderation: -1 Fairy tale
-Colin
does anyone have recommendations for better ways to read these files?
On an old palm pilot or in the notes folder on an ipod. I found that it's the backlight of a computer screen (and on the new palms) that is what hurts my eyes when trying to read.
-Colin
Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
Slovakia
On a personal note, I was in Prague last year, and it's really a beautiful city. Dirt cheap too.
all is needed is a leak and everyone can do it...
That's what the Anonymous Coward button is for.
-Colin
Moore's prominent presence in the news brings to light some serious questions, such as 'Can't he at least try to look presentable?
-Colin
I'm sure we'd all love to see Captain James Tiberius Kirk again, right?
No.
-Colin
Perhaps I should refer you to the earlier slashdot story on schizophrenia? Your post starts off nice and sane:
I guess this doesn't make a lot of sense to me until such time as these games start to be shown on TV, where rounds can be surrounded by ads and what have you.
Of course, this might be an interesting direction for games to go in. Unreal Tournament 2004 isn't too exciting to watch unless you're actually playing in it, so what types of games would do well on tv?
But then -- bam! -- psycho city:
Another area that I find fascinating is the potential for people to do "useful" things in games. Could gamers solve potentially large problems by the fractal differential of the quantum encoding of their movements in a game of Doom? Will games move so far into the realm of virtual lives that people physically do work there?
Colin
Mr. Lim, who trains 10 hours a day
How on earth does he avoid repetitive stress injuries?
-Colin
Still, no OSX version : (
light-years ago
Wouldn't that just be years ago? A light-year is a measure of distance, not time. It's like saying 'I can see three inches into the past.' The only reason I can think of to say this is if you also want to indicate how far away the event was when it happened.
-Colin