Precisely! My place of work is in the throes of equal opportunities policies that are simply insane. I appreciate the need to remove any lingering subconcious biases in the minds of those who conduct interviews, but not giving a job to someone because they're not in an under-filled denomination is pure discrimination
"sorry, we have too many white people, try again next week"
Honestly, these things are no more relevant than being left-handed.
Disclaimer: We don't work with members of the public who might have prejudices that affect the ability of, say, black disabled gay women to do the job effectively.
I'd rather have it turn into DNF than have a mediocre "Oh. " game, like doom 3. We all know from the trailers that it's going to kick ass, but will playing it really be as fun as we think? They're trying to make sure it is.
if I had the points I'd mod you up, Douglas Adams is the most brilliant writer I've ever read. It was on his advice in a letter in The Salmon Of Doubt that I finally tried Earl Grey tea. And that rarely happpens to me.
What oil crisis? The one the war was supposed to end? The one that happens when a pissed off non-american nation suddenly realises that it has something America needs, and starts giggling? The one that'll be ended with antarctic drilling, once you get those pesky liberals out of the way?
I'm sick to death of oil crisis this and reduce dependancy on foreign oil that, who gives a flying fuck?
No, you're partially wrong. for students, yes, tablets are useless. for artists, tablets are a godsend. Try drawing with a mouse. then try drawing with a paper and pen/crayons/charcoal. now try it with a wacom tablet and photoshop.
Hear hear, I got my first computer from a family friend, my parents were clueless. After the first 2 or 3 times I called him up he just gave me a windows reinstall disk and said to DIY, so I did.
And when the time comes for me to hand off some POS pentium 2's to my own little cousins, they'll all be linux'd.
This is the same thing I see over and over again parroted by all kinds of people... "the FBI won't raid me and steal^Wconfiscate all my computers if I don't do anything wrong" is just bullshit.
The books are being pirated just like movies and music - the costs are too high to buy it legitimately, but for no reason other than to swell the fat pockets of the professors/printers, or the RIAA/MPAA. It's got to the point when a large number of people think that theft of a copyrighted work is less morally objectionable than the way in which this copyrighted work is being pointlessly exploited. The blame rests with both sides, the consumers for doing this in the first place, and the corporations for forcing them.
Yeah, and that reminds me, there's this horrific new danger-chemical being given to children, it's made from hydrogen, the most flammable gas in existence, and oxygen, the pure essense of burning, I mean the safety implications are enormous! stop DHMO now!
Sorry, but no. You can't just add up speeds of light to make stuff go faster, read up on special relativity. Yes, certain quantum effects can happen in two places at the same time, seemingly due to faster than light communications, but no information can be transmitted by this way. I mean it.
I could be wrong, but I don't think there's any way to detect if a particle is still entangled without disentangling it, since the observation affects the particle. THe only way to use entanglement to transmit information is the way these people did, by imposing conditions on one particle and _knowing in advance_ to observe the other particle just afterwards.
Information cannot go faster than light.
Actually, I might be wrong, since time travel isn't actually impossible, but noone's observed it yet, I think there's all kinds of horrible physics about it. It's called "closed timelike curves" nowadays, so they can still get funded for time travel research:)
Exactly... Most consumers focus on the one feature that drives the market and is pushed out of proportion to real usefulness, to adopt a "bigger than yours" approach (Case in point: celerons. if AMD came out with a chip that ran at 4 GHz but was shit everywhere else, and found a major supplier, they'd dominate the market overnight).
Gmail took the two-pronged approach to rope people in initially with the large space, but got them completely astounded by the awesome interface.
No, the communications would still go at the speed of light. this is non-negotiable.
Also, I don't think reusable particles would be a problem, if you had a gram or so of entangled helium or something, that'd be about 10^20 bits... of course, it'd be hard to get them in the right order...
Reusing the particles is also non-negotiable. Once disentangled, only touching the particles together again in a specific manner would entangle them.
Note: when I say non-negotiable, I mean it. It is not possible. At all. In any way. It's not a very small non-zero probability, it's a probability of Precisely Zero. With infinite zeros after it. Ok?
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Why bother with the win32 filesystem API? this is the perfect opportunity to end all non-microsoft approved software running on windows.
Precisely! My place of work is in the throes of equal opportunities policies that are simply insane. I appreciate the need to remove any lingering subconcious biases in the minds of those who conduct interviews, but not giving a job to someone because they're not in an under-filled denomination is pure discrimination
"sorry, we have too many white people, try again next week"
Honestly, these things are no more relevant than being left-handed.
Disclaimer: We don't work with members of the public who might have prejudices that affect the ability of, say, black disabled gay women to do the job effectively.
I'd rather have it turn into DNF than have a mediocre "Oh. " game, like doom 3. We all know from the trailers that it's going to kick ass, but will playing it really be as fun as we think? They're trying to make sure it is.
if I had the points I'd mod you up, Douglas Adams is the most brilliant writer I've ever read. It was on his advice in a letter in The Salmon Of Doubt that I finally tried Earl Grey tea. And that rarely happpens to me.
God Speed Douglas Adams, and peace be with you.
Pff, I don't care, I'm European!
Hmm, I never knew that. That's kinda lame.
What oil crisis? The one the war was supposed to end? The one that happens when a pissed off non-american nation suddenly realises that it has something America needs, and starts giggling? The one that'll be ended with antarctic drilling, once you get those pesky liberals out of the way?
I'm sick to death of oil crisis this and reduce dependancy on foreign oil that, who gives a flying fuck?
What I want to see is a story about the flying cars they promised us!
That's pretty cool. I wonder how the heat tolerances for diamond will be like, I know it's a damn good thermal conductor.
but is it free as in beer?
So... Jupiter is made of Flainian Pobble Beads?
No, you're partially wrong. for students, yes, tablets are useless. for artists, tablets are a godsend. Try drawing with a mouse. then try drawing with a paper and pen/crayons/charcoal. now try it with a wacom tablet and photoshop.
Hear hear, I got my first computer from a family friend, my parents were clueless. After the first 2 or 3 times I called him up he just gave me a windows reinstall disk and said to DIY, so I did.
And when the time comes for me to hand off some POS pentium 2's to my own little cousins, they'll all be linux'd.
What? where? muh? That's just stupid.
Informative? Good God, what kinda moderators do we have, slashdot read - oh, never mind.
This is the same thing I see over and over again parroted by all kinds of people... "the FBI won't raid me and steal^Wconfiscate all my computers if I don't do anything wrong" is just bullshit.
The books are being pirated just like movies and music - the costs are too high to buy it legitimately, but for no reason other than to swell the fat pockets of the professors/printers, or the RIAA/MPAA. It's got to the point when a large number of people think that theft of a copyrighted work is less morally objectionable than the way in which this copyrighted work is being pointlessly exploited.
The blame rests with both sides, the consumers for doing this in the first place, and the corporations for forcing them.
Most. Awesome. Post. Ever. and on-topic.
More to the point, you keep shitting on thier dog instead.
Yeah, and that reminds me, there's this horrific new danger-chemical being given to children, it's made from hydrogen, the most flammable gas in existence, and oxygen, the pure essense of burning, I mean the safety implications are enormous! stop DHMO now!
Gah, stupid HTML formatting
I VOTE FOR MANDATORY PREVIEWING!
blah blah blah fuck you slashdot, if my post seems like yelling then it'll get modded down, you insensetive clods,
Sorry, but no. You can't just add up speeds of light to make stuff go faster, read up on special relativity. Yes, certain quantum effects can happen in two places at the same time, seemingly due to faster than light communications, but no information can be transmitted by this way. I mean it. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's any way to detect if a particle is still entangled without disentangling it, since the observation affects the particle. THe only way to use entanglement to transmit information is the way these people did, by imposing conditions on one particle and _knowing in advance_ to observe the other particle just afterwards. Information cannot go faster than light. Actually, I might be wrong, since time travel isn't actually impossible, but noone's observed it yet, I think there's all kinds of horrible physics about it. It's called "closed timelike curves" nowadays, so they can still get funded for time travel research :)
Hmm, trolls are silicon-based, right? so a base 4 counting system makes sense, kinda.
Exactly... Most consumers focus on the one feature that drives the market and is pushed out of proportion to real usefulness, to adopt a "bigger than yours" approach (Case in point: celerons. if AMD came out with a chip that ran at 4 GHz but was shit everywhere else, and found a major supplier, they'd dominate the market overnight).
Gmail took the two-pronged approach to rope people in initially with the large space, but got them completely astounded by the awesome interface.
It's all in German!
No, the communications would still go at the speed of light. this is non-negotiable.
... of course, it'd be hard to get them in the right order...
Also, I don't think reusable particles would be a problem, if you had a gram or so of entangled helium or something, that'd be about 10^20 bits
Reusing the particles is also non-negotiable. Once disentangled, only touching the particles together again in a specific manner would entangle them.
Note: when I say non-negotiable, I mean it. It is not possible. At all. In any way. It's not a very small non-zero probability, it's a probability of Precisely Zero. With infinite zeros after it. Ok?