> I got for my MacBook Pro was a Thunderbolt-Ethernet converter
I have one too but I'm trying to cut down on cords since I occasionally need to use the ThunderBird-to-FireWire adaptor to access older external drives with 10.7 and 10.8.
Fuck man, I _still_ have my Apple//e and Apple//c but seriously I don't see the purpose of cluttering up new computers with stuff you never use.
When I upgraded from my old Phenom II X4 955BE to my i7 4770K @ 4.1 GHz I didn't bother with a DVD Burner / Blu-Ray drive. I would rather have something with minimal parts, and is ultra quiet that isn't wasting power.
When I upgraded the MacBook Pro not have a DVD burner or hard-wired ethernet port feels a little weird too, but I realized... there is a time to hold onto old tech, but most of the time I have to ask:
Either we are consistent, or we quickly slide down that slippery slope of banning X, Y, Z.
At what points does it stop?
Do we ban hentai, futanari, computer-generated / Computer-Graphics child porn, etc., etc.?? Who decides?? Why should we pretend that person _A_ morals are the ones everyone has to follow??
America was founded upon the principle of open toleration. "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend the right for you to say it."
If you don't want to watch images or videos that you find offensive, here is a novel idea, don't watch them.
The correct solution is tag videos, much like movies already do, so people have an IDEA of what to expect. I already skip NSFW emails, pictures, videos. I don't have the right to stop others from watching that and don't pretend to. I may not like what they see but guess what -- I don't have to. I only need to tolerate their choices as long as it effecting others negatively.
Censorship isn't the solution. In/. we allow people to post -- groupthink just moderates them down so they are less visible. Why? Because of one little fact:
As it was already pointed out on reddit.com//r/gamedev... Dong Nguyen got extremely lucky with Flappy Bird. The game is cheesy but it has focused game design making it a "good" game.
Of course everyone will be watching if he can replicate his success with Swing Copters. The controls aren't that great but everyone is waiting to see how it will do.
Trolling? No, just another game dev trying to follow up on his success. Just like Notch "failed" at his "Scrolls" project.
For the cops on the front lines of the War on Drugs, the federal government's fixation with marijuana was deeply perplexing. As they saw it, the problem wasn't pot but the drug-related violence that accompanied cocaine and other hard drugs. After the crack epidemic in the late 1980s, police commissioners around the country, like Lee Brown in Houston, began adding more officers and developing computer mapping to target neighborhoods where crime was on the rise. The crime rate dropped. But by the mid-1990s, police in some cities were beginning to realize there was a certain level that they couldn't get crime below. Mass jailings weren't doing the trick: Only fifteen percent of those convicted of federal drug crimes were actual traffickers; the rest were nothing but street-level dealers and mules, who could always be replaced.
Police in Boston, concerned about violence between youth drug gangs, turned for assistance to a group of academics. Among them was a Harvard criminologist named David Kennedy. Working together, the academics and members of the department's anti-gang unit came up with what Kennedy calls a "quirky" strategy and convinced senior police commanders to give it a try. The result, which began in 1995, was the Boston Gun Project, a collaborative effort among ministers and community leaders and the police to try to break the link between the drug trade and violent crime. First, the project tracked a particular drug-dealing gang, mapping out its membership and operations in detail. Then, in an effort called Operation Ceasefire, the dealers were called into a meeting with preachers and parents and social-service providers, and offered a deal: Stop the violence, or the police will crack down with a vengeance. "We know the seventeen guys you run with," the gangbangers were told. "If anyone in your group shoots somebody, we'll arrest every last one of you." The project also extended drug treatment and other assistance to anyone who wanted it.
The effort worked: The rates of homicide and violence among young men in Boston dropped by two-thirds. Drug dealing didn't stop -- "people continued what they were doing," Kennedy concedes, "but they put their guns down." As Kennedy reflected on the success of the Boston project, which ran for five years, he wondered if he had discovered a deeper truth about drug-related violence. If the murders weren't a necessary component of the drug trade -- if it was possible to separate the two -- perhaps cities could find a way to reduce the violence, even if they could do nothing about the drugs.
In 2001, Kennedy got a call from the mayor of San Francisco that gave him a chance to examine his theories in a new setting. The city had experienced a recent spike in its murder rate, much of it caused by an ongoing feud between two drug-dealing gangs -- Big Block and West Mob -- that had resulted in dozens of murders over the years. Could Kennedy, the mayor asked, help police figure out how to stop the killings?
Kennedy flew out to San Francisco and met with police. But as he researched the history of the violence, it seemed to confirm his findings in Boston. Though both Big Block and West Mob were involved in dealing drugs, the shootings were not really drug-related -- the two groups occupied different territories and were not battling over turf. "The feud had started over who would perform next at a neighborhood rap event," says Kennedy, now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "They had been killing each other ever sinc
> Is it that there is a biological difference that guides men and women to different career choices, or is there some social prodding that causes men and women to self regulate?
You do realize the answer is not mutually exclusive, right?
Men != Women for biological and social reasons. Film at 11.
And your medical degree is _where_ again?? It is always amazing how someone is an armchair expert on someone they have never even met but I guess it is easier to look like a fool then to learn the facts.
Your first mistake is assuming the Mind == Brain. That is incorrect. The mind doesn't depend the physical.
A poor analogy would be:
* Brain = Hardware * Mind = Software
Your second mistake is assuming that it is not possible to transfer your mind. My wife channels other consciousness for a short time. The point is, whatever consciousness is (or isn't), consciousness is NOT physical as Peter Russell correctly points out in his The Primacy of Consciousness
Your third mistake is assuming you consciousness dies when the body dies. This is also incomplete. Your mind is not confined, nor defined by, the limits of space or time.
If you have ever had an OBE you would understand these fundamentals about the mind.
Slashdot Mirror
... means just asking to get hacked due to not keeping up-to-date with patches.
This is the '90's anymore.
> I got for my MacBook Pro was a Thunderbolt-Ethernet converter
I have one too but I'm trying to cut down on cords since I occasionally need to use the ThunderBird-to-FireWire adaptor to access older external drives with 10.7 and 10.8.
... the cesspool of the internet?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...
http://gawker.com/5693962/4cha...
> It's software, mores specifically OS software...
That's not the entire picture:
* Hardware
* Software
* User Experience
These days these 3 things are indeed similar.
> Everyone copies everyone from now until forever...
As Steve Jobs used to say paraphrasing Pablo Picasso:
Considering Minecraft has been out for 3 years and they have sold 54+ million copies it is about time they addressed some of the performance issues!
Have to agree.
But then again I had more fun removing the copy protection from SimCity 1 then playing the game, so *shrug*.
PS4 and XBone are _already_ x86 so not sure if you are being serious, sarcastic, or cynical.
Are you referring to their abysmal 1.6 GHz clock speed?
> Failure to full exploit SMP in 2014 is a fine reason to avoid a given game as far as I'm concerned.
That's a crappy reason. You'll miss out on Path of Exile, Minecraft, and Terraria, all which are excellent games.
Fuck man, I _still_ have my Apple //e and Apple //c but seriously I don't see the purpose of cluttering up new computers with stuff you never use.
When I upgraded from my old Phenom II X4 955BE to my i7 4770K @ 4.1 GHz I didn't bother with a DVD Burner / Blu-Ray drive. I would rather have something with minimal parts, and is ultra quiet that isn't wasting power.
When I upgraded the MacBook Pro not have a DVD burner or hard-wired ethernet port feels a little weird too, but I realized ... there is a time to hold onto old tech, but most of the time I have to ask:
Why?
No you aren't biased -- it is the average. Ubuntu tends to be used by those new to Linux. :-/ Ubuntu LTS is decent.
At least they _are_ using OS as opposed to Windows.
The experienced sysadmins would be using OpenBSD. Hell even something such as FreeNas.
The only people making excuses are those that:
want Authority without Accountability.
n/t
Making excuses for X never works.
Either we are consistent, or we quickly slide down that slippery slope of banning X, Y, Z.
At what points does it stop?
Do we ban hentai, futanari, computer-generated / Computer-Graphics child porn, etc., etc.?? Who decides?? Why should we pretend that person _A_ morals are the ones everyone has to follow??
America was founded upon the principle of open toleration. "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend the right for you to say it."
If you don't want to watch images or videos that you find offensive, here is a novel idea, don't watch them.
The correct solution is tag videos, much like movies already do, so people have an IDEA of what to expect. I already skip NSFW emails, pictures, videos. I don't have the right to stop others from watching that and don't pretend to. I may not like what they see but guess what -- I don't have to. I only need to tolerate their choices as long as it effecting others negatively.
Censorship isn't the solution. In /. we allow people to post -- groupthink just moderates them down so they are less visible. Why? Because of one little fact:
ALL man-made laws are RELATIVE.
--
"Only cowards censor."
Excellent analysis. Spot on.
That's because Microsoft doesn't have a fucking clue about UI -- how to design a good consistent UI. They half-ass everything.
Not that Apple is (much) better, but at least the Apple System Preferences has been consistent from OXS 10.1 .. 10.9.
Edit: Or Notch's "0x10c" ... or whatever Notch is working on these days ...
"Game tuning" is always an on-going process. Witness Blizzard with WoW, and Star Control 2, GGG wtih Path of Exile, etc.
This is a non-story ...
As it was already pointed out on reddit.com//r/gamedev ... Dong Nguyen got extremely lucky with Flappy Bird. The game is cheesy but it has focused game design making it a "good" game.
Of course everyone will be watching if he can replicate his success with Swing Copters. The controls aren't that great but everyone is waiting to see how it will do.
Trolling? No, just another game dev trying to follow up on his success. Just like Notch "failed" at his "Scrolls" project.
Indeed!
"Name & Shame" is definitely one way to go about this. It has been used successfully. See:
7. THE HARVARD MAN
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Hiding the truth is not the solution -- it is the _problem_.
Many geeks care about censorship.
> Is it that there is a biological difference that guides men and women to different career choices, or is there some social prodding that causes men and women to self regulate?
You do realize the answer is not mutually exclusive, right?
Men != Women for biological and social reasons. Film at 11.
... distributed across a multiple heterogeneous platforms.
No he's not. He _knows_ _nothing_ about the facts. She _already_ has been checked by several doctors.
Only those completely ignorant about channeling claim it is some sort of "medical condition"
Indeed.
The name you are looking for is:
Streisand effect
And your medical degree is _where_ again?? It is always amazing how someone is an armchair expert on someone they have never even met but I guess it is easier to look like a fool then to learn the facts.
Your first mistake is assuming the Mind == Brain. That is incorrect. The mind doesn't depend the physical.
A poor analogy would be:
* Brain = Hardware
* Mind = Software
Your second mistake is assuming that it is not possible to transfer your mind. My wife channels other consciousness for a short time. The point is, whatever consciousness is (or isn't), consciousness is NOT physical as Peter Russell correctly points out in his The Primacy of Consciousness
Your third mistake is assuming you consciousness dies when the body dies. This is also incomplete. Your mind is not confined, nor defined by, the limits of space or time.
If you have ever had an OBE you would understand these fundamentals about the mind.
Hehe. /oblg Fool of a Took
That's ok ... just add this entry :-)
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