Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens didn't make any secrets about his political views. If there were personally damaging revelations in there (criminal or moral confession) I could see insisting it only be published after his death. But 100 years later?
I assume he wanted to wait to publish until AFTER the Lost series finale. Nobody wants to compete with that.
Don't forget that Slashdot is also home to a large number of unemployable malcontents who don't like copyright either because they don't like paying for music.
I'm pretty sure I remember coming across a news piece that said exactly this a good 10-20 years ago. The only thing I got out of this article is the word "halfalogue". Specifically, I added it to the List of Words I Must Never Utter. It sounds too much like Heffalump to ever be spoken in polite conversation. It joins other worthy contenders such as irregardless, paradigm, and "the cloud".
We still say "don't touch that dial", "turn down the volume", "dial the phone". Hell, we even say "rewind" when we mean we're seeking backwards in a DVD.
In 50 years I look forward to being a grump saying "get off my lawn" when I really mean "get off that 2x2 slab of concrete I use for my barbeque."
I use the garage door remote to get into the house.
I learned not to do this one the hard way. When the power goes out, your garage remote is no longer functional. After that, every keychain I have with a car key has a copy of the house key. Those are the only two keys I carry on a regular basis however. The other keys I have stay on a separate keychain that only comes out when needed.
Even if the fMRI lie detectors were allowed, you'd still be relying on those 12 angry men to determine guilt or innocence. fMRI results would lull them into a false sense of certainty, giving them yet one more reason to shut off their brain entirely.
"The machine says he's lying, so he must be lying. Who cares about the rest of the evidence?"
This would be particularly bad in the he-said-she-said types of cases, where there isn't much other evidence besides personal testimony.
Have you seen Speed? Impossible car jumps, improbable explosions
The car stunts performed in movies are just as much a lie as the computer bits. They're carefully crafted stunts performed with the aid of well timed explosions, specially rigged cars and sets, and professionally trained drivers (or remote control rigs) that then still take dozens of takes before they get the one that worked correctly on film.
My wife has the same problem. She has a horrible time understanding what someone is saying unless it's in a standard American accent or perhaps Canadian. Southern accents, British accents, Irish accents, Australian, Indian might as well be unintelligible to her. And face it, no one can understand the Scots. We have to crank up the volume on TV when watching Top Gear or Dr. Who, and I still have to translate for her.
If Google voice recognition works as well as my wife's voice recognition, that's still pretty good.
Hehe. I get what you're saying, but you can actually make good money with a physics degree--you just won't necessarily be working in Physics.
A lot of physics grads will get jobs in engineering, software, finance, medicine. You get a fantastically strong background in math and science fundamentals that qualifies you for a lot of careers--particularly if they involve statistics and data analysis. I ended up in EE, a friend work(ed)? at a hedge fund doing risk analysis, others did go on to research working at places like SLAC and Super-K and still others that went into cross-disciplinary sciences doing materials research and the like. And there are never enough physics grad students, so you can often get free graduate tuition plus a research/teaching stipend if you'd prefer to stay in academia.
I picked physics because of the flexibility. I enjoyed it and wasn't locking myself into a particular career path yet. I considered EE, CS, and even some liberal arts majors, but decided on physics since it would give me a wide range of options when I graduated.
The job market is flooded right NOW. What new college students forget is to think about the job market when they graduate. Fresh out of school, you have no experience to make you stand out from the rest of the applicants. Your GPA and any relevant projects/research will be all a potential employer has to base their decision on. To get a job in that kind of market you can't just be good, you have to be the best (or the best interviewee at least). So before you get a degree in game design because you: - Like games - Like art - Like computers - Think it will be fun - Think it will be easy Stop. Think it over. Are you THAT passionate about the field that you're willing to deal with potentially long stretches of job hunting and depressed wages from the glut of available workers? Are you good enough at it to even get that?
I got my degree in Physics, but took a few CS classes along the way. I was always struck by how many of the other students in my classes didn't seem to particularly like programming and weren't particularly good at it. Many seemed to be there because "they liked computers" and/or "there's money in computers" failing to notice the hundreds of other students next to them doing the same thing, who would eventually be looking for the same jobs.
After my first year in the program, I never saw that in my Physics classes.
The job market will be flooded with applicants in a few years. If you're going to college soon and want a job afterward, for love of god, pick a different path. It'll be just like CS was in the early 00's.
Or follow your dreams, or whatever. You can always work at Starbucks after you graduate.
Sim City 2000 was first released in 1993. Infocom text adventures is even older. Homeworld is the most recent one you list--it was released in 1999. Manuals used to be useful. They haven't been for a long time. You can find better information on the internet for the more complex games. For what it's worth, the only FPS I've actually played through is Call of Duty 4. I don't really get into those games. I much prefer strategy or simulation games.
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Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens didn't make any secrets about his political views. If there were personally damaging revelations in there (criminal or moral confession) I could see insisting it only be published after his death. But 100 years later?
I assume he wanted to wait to publish until AFTER the Lost series finale. Nobody wants to compete with that.
Not if you use The Cloud.
Don't forget that Slashdot is also home to a large number of unemployable malcontents who don't like copyright either because they don't like paying for music.
At least the Lameness Filter error message passes the lameness filter.
I'm pretty sure I remember coming across a news piece that said exactly this a good 10-20 years ago. The only thing I got out of this article is the word "halfalogue". Specifically, I added it to the List of Words I Must Never Utter. It sounds too much like Heffalump to ever be spoken in polite conversation. It joins other worthy contenders such as irregardless, paradigm, and "the cloud".
We still say "don't touch that dial", "turn down the volume", "dial the phone". Hell, we even say "rewind" when we mean we're seeking backwards in a DVD.
In 50 years I look forward to being a grump saying "get off my lawn" when I really mean "get off that 2x2 slab of concrete I use for my barbeque."
DENIC macht frei?
Hey, you've got some good ideas! Interested in writing legislation for the State of Arizona? You'd fit right in 'round here :)
Well, technically, since the riots happened in LA, they really were a day at the beach. I'm sure they were no picnic though!
Careful. You might get him so mad that he'll have a buffer overflow and then core dump.
I use the garage door remote to get into the house.
I learned not to do this one the hard way. When the power goes out, your garage remote is no longer functional. After that, every keychain I have with a car key has a copy of the house key. Those are the only two keys I carry on a regular basis however. The other keys I have stay on a separate keychain that only comes out when needed.
A useful "don't cut humans" test would be something that distinguishes a human from, say, the side of pork I WANT my robot to cut up.
Exactly. There are power tools that have this feature. They will cut wood, but will stop the blade if it detects cutting flesh.
Even if the fMRI lie detectors were allowed, you'd still be relying on those 12 angry men to determine guilt or innocence. fMRI results would lull them into a false sense of certainty, giving them yet one more reason to shut off their brain entirely.
"The machine says he's lying, so he must be lying. Who cares about the rest of the evidence?"
This would be particularly bad in the he-said-she-said types of cases, where there isn't much other evidence besides personal testimony.
Perhaps this article was submitted via Comcast, and since Slashdot isn't a "preferred site", it took a couple of days to make it to the mainpage.
Have you seen Speed? Impossible car jumps, improbable explosions
The car stunts performed in movies are just as much a lie as the computer bits. They're carefully crafted stunts performed with the aid of well timed explosions, specially rigged cars and sets, and professionally trained drivers (or remote control rigs) that then still take dozens of takes before they get the one that worked correctly on film.
My wife has the same problem. She has a horrible time understanding what someone is saying unless it's in a standard American accent or perhaps Canadian. Southern accents, British accents, Irish accents, Australian, Indian might as well be unintelligible to her. And face it, no one can understand the Scots. We have to crank up the volume on TV when watching Top Gear or Dr. Who, and I still have to translate for her.
If Google voice recognition works as well as my wife's voice recognition, that's still pretty good.
The cynic in me wants to say that an honest person is someone who hasn't been caught lying yet.
The banks and credit card companies would dig up sell our dead grandmothers for hamburger seasoning
Oh good lord! So you mean there actually was a Mrs. Dash?
We, as a species, have a record of doing the difficult, if not impossible, and often by accident. I, too, would like some of the AC's popcorn.
She probably won't anytime soon, because I'm betting her parents had her vaccinated.
Hehe. I get what you're saying, but you can actually make good money with a physics degree--you just won't necessarily be working in Physics.
A lot of physics grads will get jobs in engineering, software, finance, medicine. You get a fantastically strong background in math and science fundamentals that qualifies you for a lot of careers--particularly if they involve statistics and data analysis. I ended up in EE, a friend work(ed)? at a hedge fund doing risk analysis, others did go on to research working at places like SLAC and Super-K and still others that went into cross-disciplinary sciences doing materials research and the like. And there are never enough physics grad students, so you can often get free graduate tuition plus a research/teaching stipend if you'd prefer to stay in academia.
I picked physics because of the flexibility. I enjoyed it and wasn't locking myself into a particular career path yet. I considered EE, CS, and even some liberal arts majors, but decided on physics since it would give me a wide range of options when I graduated.
The job market is flooded right NOW. What new college students forget is to think about the job market when they graduate. Fresh out of school, you have no experience to make you stand out from the rest of the applicants. Your GPA and any relevant projects/research will be all a potential employer has to base their decision on. To get a job in that kind of market you can't just be good, you have to be the best (or the best interviewee at least). So before you get a degree in game design because you:
- Like games
- Like art
- Like computers
- Think it will be fun
- Think it will be easy
Stop. Think it over. Are you THAT passionate about the field that you're willing to deal with potentially long stretches of job hunting and depressed wages from the glut of available workers? Are you good enough at it to even get that?
I got my degree in Physics, but took a few CS classes along the way. I was always struck by how many of the other students in my classes didn't seem to particularly like programming and weren't particularly good at it. Many seemed to be there because "they liked computers" and/or "there's money in computers" failing to notice the hundreds of other students next to them doing the same thing, who would eventually be looking for the same jobs.
After my first year in the program, I never saw that in my Physics classes.
The job market will be flooded with applicants in a few years. If you're going to college soon and want a job afterward, for love of god, pick a different path. It'll be just like CS was in the early 00's.
Or follow your dreams, or whatever. You can always work at Starbucks after you graduate.
You must have worked for Diebold ;)
Sim City 2000 was first released in 1993. Infocom text adventures is even older. Homeworld is the most recent one you list--it was released in 1999. Manuals used to be useful. They haven't been for a long time. You can find better information on the internet for the more complex games. For what it's worth, the only FPS I've actually played through is Call of Duty 4. I don't really get into those games. I much prefer strategy or simulation games.