You shouldn't because statistics don't apply to individuals. You have either a 100% chance or a 0% chance of getting a particular disease, and the insurance company doesn't know which. It's like how they used to charge women less than men for auto insurance because women get in fewer accidents.
Well, except for the fact that satire, by definition, satirizes something. What the hell does this satarize? People use the word "satire" way too much, I think. This site isn't satire; it's a sick, tasteless, clasless, mindless, disgusting joke. The last time I checked, though, that's still legal.
I capitalized it because we were taking about it as an entity, the way I'd capitalize the name of a corporation if we were talking about it as well. I do believe in a certain level of environmentalism, but it stops far short of the people who call themselves environmentalists, at least out here where I live. To bring this back on topic, and to prove my point: if genetic engineering helps feed the hungry, then I'm all for it. I don't care about the bullshit sanctity of nature, and I'm certainly not above "playing god" when it comes to helping those less fortunate (which is something it probably never will be used for, but a boy can hope).
I'm not exactly a socialist either, unless by socialist you mean that I can't stand to see people starve. I'm quite comfortable with the psudeo-caste system imposed by a capitalistic society, especially since I'm far from the bottom rung, but I believe that any society at any level should start with the basic premise that nobody should be starving to death.
And, most of all, I hate when pasty-faced computer geeks, surrounded by people who have provided for them since day one and afforded them every opportunity our society has to offer sits up and crows about how natural selection is killing off these people, because they weren't good enough. I hate when people talk about how they continue to reproduce like bunnies (trying to describe them as animals so we need not have any compassion for them) when we live in a society which promotes education, birth control, safe sex and abortion. Furthermore, in these developing countries, often people must have lots of children just to help them survive. In most places, a child is a boon, because it's an extra pair of hands to work. Only here, with our child labor laws and skilled labor force, is a child a burden.
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Except that you need money to own land to grow food on, dipshit.
Your Malthusian Law argument(which was written as a justification for the wealthy class who produced nothing but at least didn't reproduce) has been torn apart by people wiser than I, so I'm not goint to bother going into it.
Well, I guess this is sufficiently off topic, isn't it. Moderators, blast us all down to oblivion.
By your definition of troll, we'd have to blacklist the vast majority of slashdot. I don't see many people getting their footnotes together before posting to slashdot, and I certainly don't see much in the way of common courtesy, let alone polite conversation.
And why should we? It's just a damn message board. I'm bothered more by people who work themselves into an over-analytical frenzy over non-issues such as whether someone uses GPL or BSD (for example), which boils down basically to a matter of opinion.
You mean, moderators don't moderate on objective principles?! Of course not. They never have. They never will. We see retarded pro-linux posts get moderated to high heaven because they're pro-linux and good, rational posts stamped into the mud because someone said something which could be construed as anti-linux and pro-microsoft. In fact, my friends and i use a bastardized form of slashdot moderation in our daily conversation.
"Argh, I'm sick of linux crashing."
"Score -1, Made an assertion that linux could possibly do anything wrong."
It ain't gonna change, either. The slashdot moderation system makes the assumption that more moderators are sane and rational than not.
By the way, if you believe more moderators are sane and rational than not, I've got some beachfront property in Arizona I'd love to sell you.
I think the real question on everyone's minds as we examine this product is obvious. Can a boost in I/O even as massive as promised by this piece of hardware actually save a poor, unwary server from the Slashdot Effect? Now *there's* a benchmark I'd like to see.
Not to mention the $5,000 price tag, if you're in a position where you have to worry about things being plugged and unplugged.
But damn, it sure does look cool. I'd almost want to buy one just to stare at it. It's the first piece of hardware I've seen in a while that hearkens back to the era of the bulkiest, most awesome piece of hardware ever, the ISA Sound Blaster 16. Those things were beasts.
Of course, I guess these things need room for all that RAM..
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That's a bullshit apologist justification attempt to allow us to sleep easier at night while people starve. These people aren't starving because they're inferior, or because of some defect, they're starving because they don't have the money that we do, because we control the means. Now, I know some people believe that the amount of money you have truly measures your worth, but that load of bullshit is for another day. Natural Selection is an analogy of artificial selection, where certain traits are bred into the species by Nature the way that we breed the fattest cows and the fastest horses. That is, if you wish to take Darwin's word for it. It relies on a scarcity of food supply.
In our case, there isn't a scarcity of food supply. As a people, we could easily provide enough food so that nobody has to grow hungry. We can easily foil what you consider to be natural selection. It's not nature killing them; it's greed, pure and simple.
I'm not asking you to personally feel guilty for it. I don't. There's very little we as individuals can do about it. However, that doesn't change the fact that any attempt to apply natural selection to human beings is not only disgusting and rude (and in many cases, racist as all get out), it just isn't true. There is no master race, and the traits which seperate the haves from the have-nots are so far removed from anything "natural" that it renders the entire argument as one big joke.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, they aren't just talking about graphical objects with textual code behind it. If they are, jesus, hasn't that already been done a million billion zillion times? Visual Basic is by no stretch of the imagination "representation-indepedent," at least, I don't think it is, but then again they never really went into much detail that I could understand (and I'm usually pretty skilled at reading technical journal type material) about what that means, anyway.
In the words of Pete Venkman, pretend for a second that I don't know anything about programming, data modeling or system architecture, and just tell me what the hell is going on.
Well, like many others, I poured over this site for some information on how this whizz-bang magic of freeing ourselves from text files is supposed to work. The excessive flurry of barely-defined buzzwords sorta makes me want to shy away from it, too. After reading everything, I can come to no conclusion about anything, save that if this ever gets finished, it would probably not be useful for much more than rapid prototyping (did I read that right, a *java* compiler?!) and the like.
"In short, Eidola is a programming language which separates a program's structure from how that structure is presented."
Maybe I'm too locked into the square, obsolete, "old-school" world of text files, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell that's supposed to mean.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but this really seems like a drastic new approach for the sake of a drastic new approach. Maybe it'll pan out and be of value to people and projects, but I'm not holding my breath. In any case, it can't hurt to try.
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Natural selection is a sick and hideous process, suitable only for unenlightened beasts who don't know any better, and we should be more civilized.
Yeah, Dawn is supposed to be exactly that, always on. The only thing is, when your character goes to sleep (a process which is not connected to when you log on or off) he will become invincible until he wakes up. They even had a little blurb about how if you take someone hostage, you better make sure to take shifts poking and prodding them to make sure they never go to sleep.:)
Funny you should mention, as it's been pointed out many times that up here on/. that there *is* a reimplementation from scratch out there. Even funnier, it's written by the same guy who did qmail.
Unlike floppies, which never lose data? A typical cd lasts a lot longer than a typical floppy, in my experience. As for the random writes, yeah.. can't do much about that.. but CDs are so cheap that it hardly seems to be much of an issue
Well, that's sort of stacking the deck, don't you think? This is slashdot. Lots of people will read/talk about *anything* one of the slashdot editors puts before them, by virtue of the fact that it's on slashdot. Slashdot gets a million billion zillion* hits a day, and I've yet to see a slashdot article go by that didn't include a half dozen people thinking one person or another should be hung, stabbed, drug out into the street and shot.
My Foot Itches
Posted by CmdrTaco on 11:09 PM February 5th, 2001
from the itchy-itchy dept.
I find that my foot itches way too much these days.
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Hey, what do you know, it's the obligatory "Is this news for nerds? Is this stuff that matters?" post. Slashdot should save people the trouble and just have an automated process tag this to each and every damn story.
Slashdot Mirror
Good idea, because god knows that Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation are far more open and accomidating than Linus Torvalds.
Oh, wait..
And so much for the Hippocratic Oath, I take it.
You shouldn't because statistics don't apply to individuals. You have either a 100% chance or a 0% chance of getting a particular disease, and the insurance company doesn't know which. It's like how they used to charge women less than men for auto insurance because women get in fewer accidents.
Really?
Well, that's pretty sick.
Guess I'd have to be a breeder.
Well, except for the fact that satire, by definition, satirizes something. What the hell does this satarize? People use the word "satire" way too much, I think. This site isn't satire; it's a sick, tasteless, clasless, mindless, disgusting joke. The last time I checked, though, that's still legal.
I capitalized it because we were taking about it as an entity, the way I'd capitalize the name of a corporation if we were talking about it as well. I do believe in a certain level of environmentalism, but it stops far short of the people who call themselves environmentalists, at least out here where I live. To bring this back on topic, and to prove my point: if genetic engineering helps feed the hungry, then I'm all for it. I don't care about the bullshit sanctity of nature, and I'm certainly not above "playing god" when it comes to helping those less fortunate (which is something it probably never will be used for, but a boy can hope).
I'm not exactly a socialist either, unless by socialist you mean that I can't stand to see people starve. I'm quite comfortable with the psudeo-caste system imposed by a capitalistic society, especially since I'm far from the bottom rung, but I believe that any society at any level should start with the basic premise that nobody should be starving to death.
And, most of all, I hate when pasty-faced computer geeks, surrounded by people who have provided for them since day one and afforded them every opportunity our society has to offer sits up and crows about how natural selection is killing off these people, because they weren't good enough. I hate when people talk about how they continue to reproduce like bunnies (trying to describe them as animals so we need not have any compassion for them) when we live in a society which promotes education, birth control, safe sex and abortion. Furthermore, in these developing countries, often people must have lots of children just to help them survive. In most places, a child is a boon, because it's an extra pair of hands to work. Only here, with our child labor laws and skilled labor force, is a child a burden.
Except that you need money to own land to grow food on, dipshit.
Your Malthusian Law argument(which was written as a justification for the wealthy class who produced nothing but at least didn't reproduce) has been torn apart by people wiser than I, so I'm not goint to bother going into it.
Well, I guess this is sufficiently off topic, isn't it. Moderators, blast us all down to oblivion.
I'm actually not an environmentalist. I believe our fellow humans come first. Way to shoot down an argument I didn't make.
...In which case you really gotta re-ask why this particular piece of hardware is such a boon.
By your definition of troll, we'd have to blacklist the vast majority of slashdot. I don't see many people getting their footnotes together before posting to slashdot, and I certainly don't see much in the way of common courtesy, let alone polite conversation.
And why should we? It's just a damn message board. I'm bothered more by people who work themselves into an over-analytical frenzy over non-issues such as whether someone uses GPL or BSD (for example), which boils down basically to a matter of opinion.
You mean, moderators don't moderate on objective principles?! Of course not. They never have. They never will. We see retarded pro-linux posts get moderated to high heaven because they're pro-linux and good, rational posts stamped into the mud because someone said something which could be construed as anti-linux and pro-microsoft. In fact, my friends and i use a bastardized form of slashdot moderation in our daily conversation.
"Argh, I'm sick of linux crashing."
"Score -1, Made an assertion that linux could possibly do anything wrong."
It ain't gonna change, either. The slashdot moderation system makes the assumption that more moderators are sane and rational than not.
By the way, if you believe more moderators are sane and rational than not, I've got some beachfront property in Arizona I'd love to sell you.
I think the real question on everyone's minds as we examine this product is obvious. Can a boost in I/O even as massive as promised by this piece of hardware actually save a poor, unwary server from the Slashdot Effect? Now *there's* a benchmark I'd like to see.
Microsoft product suspected.
Linux zealot team scrambled to liquidate target.
ETA 6 minutes.
Not to mention the $5,000 price tag, if you're in a position where you have to worry about things being plugged and unplugged.
But damn, it sure does look cool. I'd almost want to buy one just to stare at it. It's the first piece of hardware I've seen in a while that hearkens back to the era of the bulkiest, most awesome piece of hardware ever, the ISA Sound Blaster 16. Those things were beasts.
Of course, I guess these things need room for all that RAM..
That's a bullshit apologist justification attempt to allow us to sleep easier at night while people starve. These people aren't starving because they're inferior, or because of some defect, they're starving because they don't have the money that we do, because we control the means. Now, I know some people believe that the amount of money you have truly measures your worth, but that load of bullshit is for another day. Natural Selection is an analogy of artificial selection, where certain traits are bred into the species by Nature the way that we breed the fattest cows and the fastest horses. That is, if you wish to take Darwin's word for it. It relies on a scarcity of food supply.
In our case, there isn't a scarcity of food supply. As a people, we could easily provide enough food so that nobody has to grow hungry. We can easily foil what you consider to be natural selection. It's not nature killing them; it's greed, pure and simple.
I'm not asking you to personally feel guilty for it. I don't. There's very little we as individuals can do about it. However, that doesn't change the fact that any attempt to apply natural selection to human beings is not only disgusting and rude (and in many cases, racist as all get out), it just isn't true. There is no master race, and the traits which seperate the haves from the have-nots are so far removed from anything "natural" that it renders the entire argument as one big joke.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, they aren't just talking about graphical objects with textual code behind it. If they are, jesus, hasn't that already been done a million billion zillion times? Visual Basic is by no stretch of the imagination "representation-indepedent," at least, I don't think it is, but then again they never really went into much detail that I could understand (and I'm usually pretty skilled at reading technical journal type material) about what that means, anyway.
In the words of Pete Venkman, pretend for a second that I don't know anything about programming, data modeling or system architecture, and just tell me what the hell is going on.
"You never studied..."
Well, like many others, I poured over this site for some information on how this whizz-bang magic of freeing ourselves from text files is supposed to work. The excessive flurry of barely-defined buzzwords sorta makes me want to shy away from it, too. After reading everything, I can come to no conclusion about anything, save that if this ever gets finished, it would probably not be useful for much more than rapid prototyping (did I read that right, a *java* compiler?!) and the like.
"In short, Eidola is a programming language which separates a program's structure from how that structure is presented."
Maybe I'm too locked into the square, obsolete, "old-school" world of text files, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the hell that's supposed to mean.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but this really seems like a drastic new approach for the sake of a drastic new approach. Maybe it'll pan out and be of value to people and projects, but I'm not holding my breath. In any case, it can't hurt to try.
Natural selection is a sick and hideous process, suitable only for unenlightened beasts who don't know any better, and we should be more civilized.
Man, you stole my thunder.
:)
Yeah, Dawn is supposed to be exactly that, always on. The only thing is, when your character goes to sleep (a process which is not connected to when you log on or off) he will become invincible until he wakes up. They even had a little blurb about how if you take someone hostage, you better make sure to take shifts poking and prodding them to make sure they never go to sleep.
Funny you should mention, as it's been pointed out many times that up here on /. that there *is* a reimplementation from scratch out there. Even funnier, it's written by the same guy who did qmail.
Unlike floppies, which never lose data? A typical cd lasts a lot longer than a typical floppy, in my experience. As for the random writes, yeah.. can't do much about that.. but CDs are so cheap that it hardly seems to be much of an issue
Yeah, what better way to show your love for a particular editor than to stuff andover's pockets with money for a crappy shirt?
Yeah, you should probably stick with Linux for this situation. One thing Linux never had a problem with was being loaded with too much security.
Well, that's sort of stacking the deck, don't you think? This is slashdot. Lots of people will read/talk about *anything* one of the slashdot editors puts before them, by virtue of the fact that it's on slashdot. Slashdot gets a million billion zillion* hits a day, and I've yet to see a slashdot article go by that didn't include a half dozen people thinking one person or another should be hung, stabbed, drug out into the street and shot.
My Foot Itches
Posted by CmdrTaco on 11:09 PM February 5th, 2001
from the itchy-itchy dept.
I find that my foot itches way too much these days.
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(* - it's true, I counted)
Hey, what do you know, it's the obligatory "Is this news for nerds? Is this stuff that matters?" post. Slashdot should save people the trouble and just have an automated process tag this to each and every damn story.