the trolls, well, they're just mean-spirited nasty creatures, for the most part, and the only race i would actually call evil.
They aren't evil, they're just bloodthirsty, drugged up, and cannibalistic. Uh...okay, so maybe they are evil, but there is a good reason for it. See, trolls regenerate. They can afford to rip chunks out of each other, because it'll grow back. It's just not a big deal to them. It's fun! Their whole social and moral system is different because of that.
Imagine a soldier carrying a ton of armour, yet able to move almost as quickly as a man, yet impervious to most weapons...
Well, based on other posts, it looks like armor ain't what it used to be. But imagine a soldier carrying a hornet's nest of anime-style swarming missiles. He'd be a like a mobile squad-level point defense station.
Snow Crash aside, there are libertarians gathering in New Hampshire in an attempt to make a haven and testing ground for libertarian ideals. Join the Free State Project!
We are far from perfect, but we're not the totalitarian regime that many on the left would have you believe.
I think the common Slashdotter knows we are not in a totalitarian society, but knows we are heading to a totalitarian society, and is worried about that.
Privacy is necessary but not sufficient to stop tyrants....when you start losing your privacy that's a good indicator that someone is on their way towards tyranny.
And this is true because would-be tyrants agree with my statement above.
it seems like there are more people who go to law school and begin to practice law as a second career than there are lawyers who learn programming and become programmers as a second career. What is it about programming that accounts for the difference?
I think it has something to do with fundamental honesty and belief in rules. It seems like a lot of lawyering is finding the wriggle-room. Whereas programming is mostly eliminating wriggle-room. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, though.
It might be more likely that lawyers get paid more than programmers, so why would they want to enter that field?
This is the type of situation that the ethical guideline was established to prevent. The director would have realized that his subordinants would have delivered the eggs and should have taken stronger measures to prevent this from happening.
What, exactly, should he have done? According to the article, the subordinates went and gave false identities in order to donate! How is he supposed to prevent that?
Just because jaws drop, that does not mean it will take off. I would look at that, my jaw would drop, I would say "that's so cool," but I will not buy one. Yeah, it is cool, but it is not of use to me.
And even if I think it might be of use, it may not turn out to be all that great. Maybe I would buy it and never really take advantage of the TV feature. Which means I will replace it later with something more useful.
It was like that with the N-Gage QD. Yes, I bought one. I thought, "yeah, it would be cool to play games on the bus." What I did not know is that the game selection sucks for that. The games the N-Gage has, they are not suited for "pick up, play, and put down." I plan to replace it with something with a camera.
Slashdot Mirror
This is slashdot. We should be arguing about how slow or fast the dupes are.
Or else wondering what a Beowulf cluster of dupes would be like.
How did your systems behave?
Pretty much the same on my Mac:
> osascript -e 'date "Jan 1, 2006 11:58:59 am" - date "Dec 31, 2005 11:58:59 am"'
86400
the trolls, well, they're just mean-spirited nasty creatures, for the most part, and the only race i would actually call evil.
They aren't evil, they're just bloodthirsty, drugged up, and cannibalistic. Uh...okay, so maybe they are evil, but there is a good reason for it. See, trolls regenerate. They can afford to rip chunks out of each other, because it'll grow back. It's just not a big deal to them. It's fun! Their whole social and moral system is different because of that.
I'm not convinced that an exoskeleton will enable a footsoldier to take on a tank of the same tech level.
A foot soldier can already take on a tank. http://www.defense-update.com/products/r/rpg.htm
Imagine a soldier carrying a ton of armour, yet able to move almost as quickly as a man, yet impervious to most weapons...
Well, based on other posts, it looks like armor ain't what it used to be. But imagine a soldier carrying a hornet's nest of anime-style swarming missiles. He'd be a like a mobile squad-level point defense station.
Money can't buy happiness, but you can get a lot of happiness with things money can buy, or the results money can obtain. :)
Windows fonts suck too.
Show me anything as cool as Zapf Chancery with all exensions enabled!
Snow Crash aside, there are libertarians gathering in New Hampshire in an attempt to make a haven and testing ground for libertarian ideals. Join the Free State Project!
We are far from perfect, but we're not the totalitarian regime that many on the left would have you believe.
I think the common Slashdotter knows we are not in a totalitarian society, but knows we are heading to a totalitarian society, and is worried about that.
Having privacy isn't going to stop tyrants...
...when you start losing your privacy that's a good indicator that someone is on their way towards tyranny.
Privacy is necessary but not sufficient to stop tyrants.
And this is true because would-be tyrants agree with my statement above.
The term 'absolute' can have no modifiers.
Pff. You are thinking of the wrong word. Absolutely is an intensifier, further along the same spectrum as kinda, mostly, very, really, etc.
A variable-compression engine works by tilting?
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad idea? Road surfaces aren't uniformly flat, you know. And forget about driving in a yard or cornfield!
The compression ratio will change unexpectedly, screwing up the system.
it seems like there are more people who go to law school and begin to practice law as a second career than there are lawyers who learn programming and become programmers as a second career. What is it about programming that accounts for the difference?
I think it has something to do with fundamental honesty and belief in rules. It seems like a lot of lawyering is finding the wriggle-room. Whereas programming is mostly eliminating wriggle-room. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, though.
It might be more likely that lawyers get paid more than programmers, so why would they want to enter that field?
Just because C is best for gui development...
You can't be serious. C? Best for GUIs? Is this the same C with malloc(), free(), and no built-in thread support? Dude, it sucks for GUIs.
For GUI programming, you want a nice, functional, garbage-collected language with threading. But not Java. Java sucks worse than C for GUIs.
Yeah, me too. I really don't know why it flopped!
"Muscle geeks?"
That...is a scary concept.
Nobody can watch that much porn.
Is that a dare? You're on!
And it is only sterile for a brief time.
Who the hell is an anti-semite nowadays?!
Sex is something you can have anytime, a good gaming session needs to be enjoyed when it happens.
Pay attention, you young whippersnappers! This is either deep wisdom, hard-won through age... or the early onset of senility.
"But, but...he was supposed to change!"
This is the type of situation that the ethical guideline was established to prevent. The director would have realized that his subordinants would have delivered the eggs and should have taken stronger measures to prevent this from happening.
What, exactly, should he have done? According to the article, the subordinates went and gave false identities in order to donate! How is he supposed to prevent that?
Just because jaws drop, that does not mean it will take off. I would look at that, my jaw would drop, I would say "that's so cool," but I will not buy one. Yeah, it is cool, but it is not of use to me.
And even if I think it might be of use, it may not turn out to be all that great. Maybe I would buy it and never really take advantage of the TV feature. Which means I will replace it later with something more useful.
It was like that with the N-Gage QD. Yes, I bought one. I thought, "yeah, it would be cool to play games on the bus." What I did not know is that the game selection sucks for that. The games the N-Gage has, they are not suited for "pick up, play, and put down." I plan to replace it with something with a camera.
So, what would a single "mathematic" be?
Huh. Susie Suh don't look like a country singer, but damn me if she ain't one!
You are an evil person.
Just so you know.