They operate on the same reality, under the same laws of physics and logic, as we do. If they are succesfull enough to reach the stars, then their psychology must conform to those laws; and that makes it similar to ours.
Consider 5 people that want to travel from X yo Y. They all operate under the same laws of physics and logic. One walks there, one skips, one does the crab-walk, one takes a bike and the other tries just staring at the destination and therefore never reaches it.
The path that life on Earth took to civilization is obviously a successful one. Your supposition that it is the only path to reach civilization is unsubstantiated supposition.
Comparing clock speed in one processor to the clock speed in another processor has never been completely accurate in estimating actual system speed (example: Compare a 10 MHz 8088 to a 10 MHz 80286 and you'll find the latter is FAR faster).
Today, it's even more ludicrous to say that a 500 MHz processor is "about an eighth the processor" of a dual-core 1.83 GHz processor. Clock speed is only one factor (of many) that determines actual speed. Simple comparisons of clock speed only make the comparer look simple.
You are a serious piece of work. I've seen at least three +4 modded comments from you in this story that all use the same basic tactic. i.e. Exaggerating the police reaction and making an inane obviously correct statement that has no applicability to the story. Take this sentence:
The cops certainly are NOT supposed to draw their weapons down on you for your lack of speaking to them, or cooperating with them.
You're right. Drawing guns on someone just for not speaking or cooperating is ridiculous. However, wearing home-made electronics with wires and a battery sticking out of your black hooded sweatshirt at the airport while holding PLAY-DOH in your hand and then failing to respond when asked what the hell you're doing is a completely different matter.
Then let's add the fact that she walked up to a security person to ask about an arriving flight. She was obviously looking to make a scene, otherwise she would've used the electronic screens that are EVERYWHERE in an airport that show when arriving flights are arriving.
I'm rarely on the side of police in these situations, but she was looking for trouble, and got it. Congratulations, dork-girl.
In the current Iraq war, you're free to sit on your lazy ass and mouth off about the laziness and greed of other people.
I respectfully submit you need to do a little more research and think about this a little more. If the WW II generation was not the greatest generation, history could have been very different. They rose to the challenge of their time. Other people might not have been able to do it. I doubt my generation could.
I think the above shows your level of "I've tried using visual studio tools", so I don't see the need to go further (in fact I didn't read any further);-)
Apparently 5 minutes in the IDE is all GP needed to discover he didn't like it. I actually read the whole post and the entire thing was filled with things that were easily correctable, like what you pointed out.
When I first tried tabbed browsing, I honestly didn't like it. I first tried giving it a shot in Firefox and then in IE when IE7 came out. Now I use Firefox 2 throughout the day (except when I'm debugging in VS2005) and I wouldn't want to live without tabs.
As a practical matter any code of interest can run on ISS but rather less can run on Apache and less again on LAMP.
Despite being able to run any code of interest as you say, I would think that the market share of sites running on the International Space Station is quite a bit lower than that running on Internet Information Server.
Could someone claim in court that they thought it would be ok to violate Microsoft's patents, since they apparently have announced that they don't plan on enforcing some of their patents?
You can selectively enforce a patent. You may not selectively enforce a trademark.
patents are more important to the little guy than the big guy. Without patents, if I as a little person invent something, there is nothing to stop Microsoft or IBM or some GE from copying my invention.
Patents have two purposes:
1. Defensive: Have enough patents, if someone sues you for violating a patent, sue them back for violating one of yours.
2. Offensive: Keep a competitor out of the market by suing them.
Neither of these help the little guy for one simple fact - he's unable to compete with the lawyers of the big guy. If the little guy has a rock-solid patent and the big guy steals his invention, the little guy's only recourse is to sue the big guy at millions of dollars in expenses. The only problem is that the little guy doesn't have millions of dollars and years to fight it out in court.
If you want a tip, here's something a read in a book by a Norwegian memory world champion
I've memorized pi to 110 digits past the decimal point - 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 798214808651. That's from memory and with no tricks.
I have gotten to the point that I have no doubt whatsoever that I could fairly easily memorize it to thousands of digits without using any such mnemonics or other tricks. I just choose not to put the effort into it. Although, I will say that practicing for such "frivolous" things has improved my memory in many ways. For instance, I have every credit card that I own (five) memorized including numbers, expiration, CVV2 and toll free customer service numbers. Makes it much easier to order things online!
I'm convinced that I'm not special. Anyone is capable of doing it, it just takes work. My 2 year old son has memorized dozens of books that I've read to him and even if I don't read one to him for months, he still remembers it. I don't think 2 year olds are special either - I just think he hasn't been taught that memorizing things is hard yet so he naturally does it.
Everyone's brain is capable of more than we give it credit for, it's only our laziness that makes us rely on calculators, PDAs, etc.
This is just a ploy to get lower pricing from Microsoft. Dell used to do this all the time with Intel... Every year or so they'd threaten to start buying AMD chips. Then Intel would give them lower pricing and it never happened... oops, wait a minute... never mind.
I think over time I've just gotten more bitter about people who ignore what I say.
I think that's a common trait among computer people. I struggled with the same thing for a long time. The resolution for me was that I had to come to a realization that people aren't computers and that they weren't actually ignoring me. For example, when something annoys me about a computer process, I write a script or program using a precise language and the computer then reacts in a precise way. The problem is then behind me. With people, language itself is imprecise and further their interpretation of an imprecise language will fluctuate from hour to hour and day to day. It's frustrating to people who are not used to such things.
The problem is exacerbated by computer-type people attempting to add precision to a language that people expect to not always be precise. In your example, using the term "Next Week" has a precise meaning but in common informal use it has multiple imprecise meanings. The person was looking for a clarification to see if your "Next Week" meant the precise definition or if you were perhaps using it incorrectly.
I say with sincerity that you're obviously of above average intelligence; I suggest you read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. I think you would actually "get it".
There are two big problems with CFLs. One is that they do not work with dimmers. We have a number of lamps which are controlled by dimmers. These are especially valuable in connection with watching movies.
Someone please mod parent down. There is an amazing amount of misinformation going on in the comments to this story. To prove the quote above wrong, just search for dimmable cfl:
I'm surprised that on Slashdot of all places people would be so against a new technology. I can't think of any other explanation as to why people would be so quick to spread misinformation about technologies they obviously know nothing about.
CFLs could make a significant positive difference. A lot of people believe in them. If you're going to rag on them, at least do basic fact checking first. To lend some credence to the whining going on here, they're not perfect for every situation. But I find it hard to believe that they aren't appropriate for at least one or two sockets in every home.
The doctors don't squeeze. Investors/shareholders (through HMOs and for-profit healthcare companies) squeeze.
There's at least one more link in the chain that you're referring to... Don't forget the attorneys that launch frivolous lawsuits against the doctors and insurance companies to extract windfalls for clients and take 40%.
This isn't a reign of terror. The purges of Stalin would classify as a reign of terror. The French Revolution would classify as a reign of terror. This classifies as merely harassment. I understand that the poster wants to bring up how loathsome the actions of the RIAA are, but exaggeration merely turns people off.
This isn't nuclear. The bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki would classify as nuclear. The generation of electricity via fission would classify as nuclear. This classifies merely as exageration. I understand that the poster wants to bring up how annoying it is to use hyperbole, but using hyperbole to do so merely turns people off.
The promise of SOA says that you won't have to do this. If you believe in that promise then anyone that develops projects in the future will create them in discrete elements that are accessible as a web service. If you want to start a new development project, just utilize those services that you need and ignore the ones you don't. Because the functionality is encapsulated (and therefore, written, debugged and tested) within the service you're good to go.
I see application projects in the future acting like glue that holds many services like this together and makes them more than the sum of their parts.
The analogy is actually pretty apt. You have a group of people that basically run the world - "The West" (in this case, non-Apple users) and a downtrodden ragtag group of extremely proud people convinced that their way is better - "The Islamist Fascists" (in this case, Apple users).
It's very common for them to lash out at everyone because of their true feelings of inferiority and lack of understanding as to why everyone doesn't see the world like they do.
Case in point - I'll be modded -9 Troll in about 30 seconds as every Mac user with mod points steps on their own mother to mod be down.
But, the point is, *we don't know* "how market forces would net out in either situation".
We've had a net neutral Internet for 30 years. I think we know how it's going to net out in that situation. We also know what its effects on the consumer will be. We've all been experiencing them for years! Your insistence that its effects are unknown is just laughable and only serves fearmongers that want to make everyone believe things would be rosier if everyone's ISP got to filter/throttle whatever content provider didn't double-pay them.
Kindly don't take my lack of a reply to your next trolling as anything other than disinterest in you.
Because, since it's inception, no ISP has seriously considered the idea of charging content distributors an extra fee for using their wires. Thus, we have no idea how this will pan out.
Does it make sense now?
I invite you to re-read the grandparent comment, my reply and then your reply. If you do, and you catch what you missed the first time, consider it an opportunity for introspection. Because what you missed is that grandparent comment claimed that net neutrality and non-net neutrality were on equal footing and there was no way to determine how either of them turned out.
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They operate on the same reality, under the same laws of physics and logic, as we do. If they are succesfull enough to reach the stars, then their psychology must conform to those laws; and that makes it similar to ours.
Consider 5 people that want to travel from X yo Y. They all operate under the same laws of physics and logic. One walks there, one skips, one does the crab-walk, one takes a bike and the other tries just staring at the destination and therefore never reaches it.
The path that life on Earth took to civilization is obviously a successful one. Your supposition that it is the only path to reach civilization is unsubstantiated supposition.
Comparing clock speed in one processor to the clock speed in another processor has never been completely accurate in estimating actual system speed (example: Compare a 10 MHz 8088 to a 10 MHz 80286 and you'll find the latter is FAR faster).
Today, it's even more ludicrous to say that a 500 MHz processor is "about an eighth the processor" of a dual-core 1.83 GHz processor. Clock speed is only one factor (of many) that determines actual speed. Simple comparisons of clock speed only make the comparer look simple.
You are a serious piece of work. I've seen at least three +4 modded comments from you in this story that all use the same basic tactic. i.e. Exaggerating the police reaction and making an inane obviously correct statement that has no applicability to the story. Take this sentence:
The cops certainly are NOT supposed to draw their weapons down on you for your lack of speaking to them, or cooperating with them.
You're right. Drawing guns on someone just for not speaking or cooperating is ridiculous. However, wearing home-made electronics with wires and a battery sticking out of your black hooded sweatshirt at the airport while holding PLAY-DOH in your hand and then failing to respond when asked what the hell you're doing is a completely different matter.
Then let's add the fact that she walked up to a security person to ask about an arriving flight. She was obviously looking to make a scene, otherwise she would've used the electronic screens that are EVERYWHERE in an airport that show when arriving flights are arriving.
I'm rarely on the side of police in these situations, but she was looking for trouble, and got it. Congratulations, dork-girl.
In WW II, everyone sacrificed for the war effort.
In the current Iraq war, you're free to sit on your lazy ass and mouth off about the laziness and greed of other people.
I respectfully submit you need to do a little more research and think about this a little more. If the WW II generation was not the greatest generation, history could have been very different. They rose to the challenge of their time. Other people might not have been able to do it. I doubt my generation could.
I think the above shows your level of "I've tried using visual studio tools", so I don't see the need to go further (in fact I didn't read any further) ;-)
Apparently 5 minutes in the IDE is all GP needed to discover he didn't like it. I actually read the whole post and the entire thing was filled with things that were easily correctable, like what you pointed out.
When I first tried tabbed browsing, I honestly didn't like it. I first tried giving it a shot in Firefox and then in IE when IE7 came out. Now I use Firefox 2 throughout the day (except when I'm debugging in VS2005) and I wouldn't want to live without tabs.
Some people fear change.
As a practical matter any code of interest can run on ISS but rather less can run on Apache and less again on LAMP.
Despite being able to run any code of interest as you say, I would think that the market share of sites running on the International Space Station is quite a bit lower than that running on Internet Information Server.
Could someone claim in court that they thought it would be ok to violate Microsoft's patents, since they apparently have announced that they don't plan on enforcing some of their patents?
You can selectively enforce a patent. You may not selectively enforce a trademark.
Grammer and spelling kids, grammer and spelling.
Ha-ha!
That's why I performed the ultimate protest and never signed up with them in the first place.
I'm glad this situation validates my accidental act of protest.
Can everyone please just stop suing everyone?
I am so sick of lawyers.
patents are more important to the little guy than the big guy. Without patents, if I as a little person invent something, there is nothing to stop Microsoft or IBM or some GE from copying my invention.
Patents have two purposes:
1. Defensive: Have enough patents, if someone sues you for violating a patent, sue them back for violating one of yours.
2. Offensive: Keep a competitor out of the market by suing them.
Neither of these help the little guy for one simple fact - he's unable to compete with the lawyers of the big guy. If the little guy has a rock-solid patent and the big guy steals his invention, the little guy's only recourse is to sue the big guy at millions of dollars in expenses. The only problem is that the little guy doesn't have millions of dollars and years to fight it out in court.
If you want a tip, here's something a read in a book by a Norwegian memory world champion
5 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 798214808651. That's from memory and with no tricks.
I've memorized pi to 110 digits past the decimal point - 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937
I have gotten to the point that I have no doubt whatsoever that I could fairly easily memorize it to thousands of digits without using any such mnemonics or other tricks. I just choose not to put the effort into it. Although, I will say that practicing for such "frivolous" things has improved my memory in many ways. For instance, I have every credit card that I own (five) memorized including numbers, expiration, CVV2 and toll free customer service numbers. Makes it much easier to order things online!
I'm convinced that I'm not special. Anyone is capable of doing it, it just takes work. My 2 year old son has memorized dozens of books that I've read to him and even if I don't read one to him for months, he still remembers it. I don't think 2 year olds are special either - I just think he hasn't been taught that memorizing things is hard yet so he naturally does it.
Everyone's brain is capable of more than we give it credit for, it's only our laziness that makes us rely on calculators, PDAs, etc.
This is just a ploy to get lower pricing from Microsoft. Dell used to do this all the time with Intel... Every year or so they'd threaten to start buying AMD chips. Then Intel would give them lower pricing and it never happened... oops, wait a minute... never mind.
I think over time I've just gotten more bitter about people who ignore what I say.
I think that's a common trait among computer people. I struggled with the same thing for a long time. The resolution for me was that I had to come to a realization that people aren't computers and that they weren't actually ignoring me. For example, when something annoys me about a computer process, I write a script or program using a precise language and the computer then reacts in a precise way. The problem is then behind me. With people, language itself is imprecise and further their interpretation of an imprecise language will fluctuate from hour to hour and day to day. It's frustrating to people who are not used to such things.
The problem is exacerbated by computer-type people attempting to add precision to a language that people expect to not always be precise. In your example, using the term "Next Week" has a precise meaning but in common informal use it has multiple imprecise meanings. The person was looking for a clarification to see if your "Next Week" meant the precise definition or if you were perhaps using it incorrectly.
I say with sincerity that you're obviously of above average intelligence; I suggest you read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. I think you would actually "get it".
I actually think you have some solid ideas, but man you come across as a pompous ass. I hope for your sake you're not like this in real life.
There are two big problems with CFLs. One is that they do not work with dimmers. We have a number of lamps which are controlled by dimmers. These are especially valuable in connection with watching movies.
Someone please mod parent down. There is an amazing amount of misinformation going on in the comments to this story. To prove the quote above wrong, just search for dimmable cfl:
dimmable cfl
I'm surprised that on Slashdot of all places people would be so against a new technology. I can't think of any other explanation as to why people would be so quick to spread misinformation about technologies they obviously know nothing about.
CFLs could make a significant positive difference. A lot of people believe in them. If you're going to rag on them, at least do basic fact checking first. To lend some credence to the whining going on here, they're not perfect for every situation. But I find it hard to believe that they aren't appropriate for at least one or two sockets in every home.
Technically, it's not "a unique defense." Pacenza is the plaintiff, not the defendant.
Going on the offense by becoming a Plaintiff is a unique defense against his firing.
The doctors don't squeeze. Investors/shareholders (through HMOs and for-profit healthcare companies) squeeze.
There's at least one more link in the chain that you're referring to... Don't forget the attorneys that launch frivolous lawsuits against the doctors and insurance companies to extract windfalls for clients and take 40%.
This isn't a reign of terror. The purges of Stalin would classify as a reign of terror. The French Revolution would classify as a reign of terror. This classifies as merely harassment. I understand that the poster wants to bring up how loathsome the actions of the RIAA are, but exaggeration merely turns people off.
This isn't nuclear. The bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki would classify as nuclear. The generation of electricity via fission would classify as nuclear. This classifies merely as exageration. I understand that the poster wants to bring up how annoying it is to use hyperbole, but using hyperbole to do so merely turns people off.
The promise of SOA says that you won't have to do this. If you believe in that promise then anyone that develops projects in the future will create them in discrete elements that are accessible as a web service. If you want to start a new development project, just utilize those services that you need and ignore the ones you don't. Because the functionality is encapsulated (and therefore, written, debugged and tested) within the service you're good to go.
I see application projects in the future acting like glue that holds many services like this together and makes them more than the sum of their parts.
It's interesting that anyone that says "per say" when they mean "per se" feels comfortable in calling anyone else a "Dumb @ss".
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/perse.html
The most important goal in any modern country should be to insure civil liberties.
Oh crap! I forgot to insure my civil liberties. I better go get a quote at GEICO.
I just saved a ton of money on my Civil Liberty Insurance! That should ensure that I'll always have them.
The analogy is actually pretty apt. You have a group of people that basically run the world - "The West" (in this case, non-Apple users) and a downtrodden ragtag group of extremely proud people convinced that their way is better - "The Islamist Fascists" (in this case, Apple users).
It's very common for them to lash out at everyone because of their true feelings of inferiority and lack of understanding as to why everyone doesn't see the world like they do.
Case in point - I'll be modded -9 Troll in about 30 seconds as every Mac user with mod points steps on their own mother to mod be down.
Do you ever give up? You're wrong.
But, the point is, *we don't know* "how market forces would net out in either situation".
We've had a net neutral Internet for 30 years. I think we know how it's going to net out in that situation. We also know what its effects on the consumer will be. We've all been experiencing them for years! Your insistence that its effects are unknown is just laughable and only serves fearmongers that want to make everyone believe things would be rosier if everyone's ISP got to filter/throttle whatever content provider didn't double-pay them.
Kindly don't take my lack of a reply to your next trolling as anything other than disinterest in you.
Because, since it's inception, no ISP has seriously considered the idea of charging content distributors an extra fee for using their wires. Thus, we have no idea how this will pan out. Does it make sense now?
I invite you to re-read the grandparent comment, my reply and then your reply. If you do, and you catch what you missed the first time, consider it an opportunity for introspection. Because what you missed is that grandparent comment claimed that net neutrality and non-net neutrality were on equal footing and there was no way to determine how either of them turned out.
Does that make sense now?