The last time I heard about the boy scouts in the news was when the troop leaders were sodomizing the boys, or something like that.
So why did I get an even bigger shudder when I read the headline for this story?
It's one thing to say "that's bad" when talking about child molestation, because it is. It's virtually a universally-accepted tenet of society: don't fuck the children.
It's a completely different thing when we're talking about a "moral" value that most people give two shits about, i.e. piracy. Even worse to support when the key figures behind the curtain include the MPAA. I don't doubt for a second that the RIAA is in on it too.
They're cheating! Hiding behind a cute little bunny rabbit or teddy bear, if you will. "Boy Scouts are honest, and they're on our side" HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARGUMENT.
But when the system won't play a BlueRay disk and they can't figure out why (and it's happened twice before) I think a lot of folks are going to shrug and say "Well, I guess I'll stick with DVDs"
I concur. Somehow I get the feeling this is going to be a slightly bigger hurdle for Joe User than the last time when he tried playing a DVD in a standalone CD player.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. In four years, either Blu-ray or HD-DVD (probably the latter for Microsoft) will most likely be somewhat standardized. We'll have cross-media devices, so having both formats would probably not be an issue. But I digress. Both formats pack incredible amounts of data on each disc. If there is one thing that truly is obvious, it will be high quality, uncompressed audio. As the GPUs advance, we'll start seeing more lighting effects (and maybe even those high-contrast displays will be a bit cheaper and more readily available) as well as increased pixel count (HD-only output perhaps?) and smoother models. Expect a physics processor, too.
Unless Verizon's FIOS completely sweeps the country, I just can't rationalize *downloading* games that actually tax the processing elements inside the next Xbox.
I found it kind of amazing that you felt blatant racism was an acceptable things to espouse, and it seemed worth chastising such antisocial behaviour.
No, I'm afraid that the causality seemed pretty clear. You were indicating that the presence of hispanic people is something bad, and that you were moving away to escape it. The phrase "more than I care to count" has pretty clear connotations of distaste.
There are a lot of things that fall into that category of uncountable. Please, forgive me if I'm lazy.
It's tough for you to take the position of extreme tolerance when the entire point of your first comment was to convey your intolerance for latino people.
I'm a big fan of being tolerant of most things other than intolerance. So I don't have a problem with nambla, but I do have a problem with the kkk.
Where is the intolerance? You may choose to interpret my words however you wish. I know what I said and I know what I meant when I said it. However, if there's any intolerance, it's on your part. You're the one who "called me out" accusing me of being racist. Like I said before, your intolerance in the form of a very troll (looking to stir some shit up) comment was what started this thread in the first place. You could have chosen to ignore me and let it go. But you didn't; it was the same reasoning I took when responding to you - hey, maybe I can educate this fool so that there will be one less dickhead in the world.
Grow up, pal. If there's anything I learned, it's that my laziness cannot overcome the ignorance of people like you. I do not wish to waste any more time or energy on you.
And really -- homosexual pedophiles over racists? You really do have issues.
fair enough. wrong choice of wording. substitute "allowed to" with "shouldn't" and you get the same basic connotation as i had intended.
either way, this is exactly the reason why i had replied to your troll comment in the first place. because it was troll, and 1) didn't warrant saying on your part, and 2) had absolutely nothing to do with what i was saying. avoiding the argument in favor of attacking my character as "horrifically ignorant and offensive" (i.e. racist), as it were, even though there wasn't much of a thesis in the contents of my original post, save for (paraphrasing) "there are a shitload of hispanics where i live."
perhaps i had implied that i've had it with all the hispanics down here (one could read more into it and deduce that i'm tired of seeing all these damn illegals running around). or maybe i miss pennsylvania (pittsburgh and philadelphia) and would like to move back for reasons unmentioned.
i pride myself in being an american. i live in a country where that word means, "hey come on over, this party is the shit!" i'm tolerant of lots of different things. this is an evolutionary process that finally after 200 years as a country, people recognize diversity. throughout the course of american history, we went from radicals (we're different from europe) to traditionalists (we must teach our children some values so they can live like we do) to moderates (relaxed and groovy) to reformed and yadda yadda yadda to liberals (hooray diversity). so rather than live in a modern world with an outdated worldview, i choose to live with a modern worldview.
i'm tolerant of others, and so should you. that's pretty much the only requirement we have as americans these days. i don't mind that the kkk exists. i don't mind that there's a group called the north american man-boy love association (nambla). as long as you don't come knockin on my door, we're cool. so if i choose to be generally racist (which could be implied from my original post), it ain't got a thing to do with you, so why comment? is there something about me you wish to change because you're concerned about my well-being?
i don't care if some people hate me. whoops, sorry if i offended you. grow some thicker skin. matter of fact, grow up. learn to adapt. that's what i'd tell them. you don't have to like it, just deal with it; that's the only thing expected of you as an american. unfortunately there exist those who don't. who can't. i don't know, that's life. they're people i have to deal with, and guess what? i'm doing my part as an american. i've adapted to it. i don't care, and i move on. simple as that.
so to answer your question, yes-- i do think that racism should be considered socially and morally acceptable. my right to hate your guts does not infringe on your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; you have exactly the same right to hate me back.
Define a unit of work to be x amount of man-hours required to complete the job, in this case, to develop a piece of software.
R&D Cost = The cost of producing that unit of work includes your workers' salaries plus the cost of the equipment needed to produce that work.
Your startup and Microsoft have competing products that have identical functionality. Even if both companies spend the same amount on R&D, since Microsoft's user base is greater (i.e. more units sold), Microsoft is able to charge less per unit in order to recoup costs.
Therefore, a larger user base is needed to equalize the cost differential between your product and theirs.
Sounds to me like they can't keep up with the big boys on this one. Not too many companies can compete in the all-facets-of-the-internet game like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Amazon is just sticking to what it does best.
On a side note, I haven't been keeping up with Amazon in the news for the past few years... has it turned a profit yet?
seriously (or am i?), they must be working on a web-app version of it, just like their spreadsheet and calendar thingies. god forbid a vector drawing program written in ajax...
it runs off dc motors, which are incredibly quiet. if you heard anything within 75 feet of it, it might be the large wing slicing through the air.
and uavs in theater still fly at altitudes one wouldn't be crazy in attempting to shoot at. such aircraft include the rq-7b shadow, which you can hear long before you can see it.
keep in mind the frame rate of the video camera. of course you're going to see it on film. run it through a high-speed and then extrapolate down to actual human-visible frame rates, and you'll see what i mean.
just like you can always see individual blades of a helicopter in flight in the movies, or that automobile commercial technique where the wheels appear to be spinning backwards.
I can only speculate, but it seems to me that nowadays any high-profile tech firm will have their employees sign NDAs. In addition, if they were using corporate email, why the hell shouldn't the boss be allowed to spy on their conversations? It seems to me that he would have a very vested interest in the discourse of others, especially when trade secrets or insider-only communication is involved.
If their links actually went to the original news story instead of a "buffer" page with a link to the full story, it would make life a bit easier. One less click to deal with. None of the news items I've clicked on actually had any pertinent information on them... only a short rewrite of the title it seems.
you apparently don't understand the level of abstraction that topic modeling operates within. it doesn't matter what language it's written in; rtfa - it's about the relationship of words to each other.
It's a sad thing the parent post isn't modded up for fucking insightfulness. Just goes to demonstrate the elitist bias of the majority of Slashdot users.
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In the US, that sort of thing would be labeled fascist. What are their rights, anyway? Do they even have any?
And how do they expect to enforce this?
The last time I heard about the boy scouts in the news was when the troop leaders were sodomizing the boys, or something like that.
So why did I get an even bigger shudder when I read the headline for this story?
It's one thing to say "that's bad" when talking about child molestation, because it is. It's virtually a universally-accepted tenet of society: don't fuck the children.
It's a completely different thing when we're talking about a "moral" value that most people give two shits about, i.e. piracy. Even worse to support when the key figures behind the curtain include the MPAA. I don't doubt for a second that the RIAA is in on it too.
They're cheating! Hiding behind a cute little bunny rabbit or teddy bear, if you will. "Boy Scouts are honest, and they're on our side" HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARGUMENT.
Fucking campers.
sorry about your internet bandwidth limitations. i feel for ya, bro.
I concur. Somehow I get the feeling this is going to be a slightly bigger hurdle for Joe User than the last time when he tried playing a DVD in a standalone CD player.
In addition to its game-playing...ness, note how its release coincided with the saturation of the PC market with Windows XP Media Center.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. In four years, either Blu-ray or HD-DVD (probably the latter for Microsoft) will most likely be somewhat standardized. We'll have cross-media devices, so having both formats would probably not be an issue. But I digress. Both formats pack incredible amounts of data on each disc. If there is one thing that truly is obvious, it will be high quality, uncompressed audio. As the GPUs advance, we'll start seeing more lighting effects (and maybe even those high-contrast displays will be a bit cheaper and more readily available) as well as increased pixel count (HD-only output perhaps?) and smoother models. Expect a physics processor, too.
Unless Verizon's FIOS completely sweeps the country, I just can't rationalize *downloading* games that actually tax the processing elements inside the next Xbox.
just think, if you're using a laptop-based translator to converse with an iraqi, then he's probably been deemed safe, or he's well under guard.
call the kettle black yourself.
howsabout we leave the politics out of the INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY forum and instead discuss the merits or the hurdles facing this new technology.
and you make it sound so simple. geez, why didn't i think of that?
Sadly, this is the way it's always been. Flash it up, then worry about securing it.
Where is the intolerance? You may choose to interpret my words however you wish. I know what I said and I know what I meant when I said it. However, if there's any intolerance, it's on your part. You're the one who "called me out" accusing me of being racist. Like I said before, your intolerance in the form of a very troll (looking to stir some shit up) comment was what started this thread in the first place. You could have chosen to ignore me and let it go. But you didn't; it was the same reasoning I took when responding to you - hey, maybe I can educate this fool so that there will be one less dickhead in the world.
Grow up, pal. If there's anything I learned, it's that my laziness cannot overcome the ignorance of people like you. I do not wish to waste any more time or energy on you.
And really -- homosexual pedophiles over racists? You really do have issues.
fair enough. wrong choice of wording. substitute "allowed to" with "shouldn't" and you get the same basic connotation as i had intended.
either way, this is exactly the reason why i had replied to your troll comment in the first place. because it was troll, and 1) didn't warrant saying on your part, and 2) had absolutely nothing to do with what i was saying. avoiding the argument in favor of attacking my character as "horrifically ignorant and offensive" (i.e. racist), as it were, even though there wasn't much of a thesis in the contents of my original post, save for (paraphrasing) "there are a shitload of hispanics where i live."
perhaps i had implied that i've had it with all the hispanics down here (one could read more into it and deduce that i'm tired of seeing all these damn illegals running around). or maybe i miss pennsylvania (pittsburgh and philadelphia) and would like to move back for reasons unmentioned.
i pride myself in being an american. i live in a country where that word means, "hey come on over, this party is the shit!" i'm tolerant of lots of different things. this is an evolutionary process that finally after 200 years as a country, people recognize diversity. throughout the course of american history, we went from radicals (we're different from europe) to traditionalists (we must teach our children some values so they can live like we do) to moderates (relaxed and groovy) to reformed and yadda yadda yadda to liberals (hooray diversity). so rather than live in a modern world with an outdated worldview, i choose to live with a modern worldview.
i'm tolerant of others, and so should you. that's pretty much the only requirement we have as americans these days. i don't mind that the kkk exists. i don't mind that there's a group called the north american man-boy love association (nambla). as long as you don't come knockin on my door, we're cool. so if i choose to be generally racist (which could be implied from my original post), it ain't got a thing to do with you, so why comment? is there something about me you wish to change because you're concerned about my well-being?
i don't care if some people hate me. whoops, sorry if i offended you. grow some thicker skin. matter of fact, grow up. learn to adapt. that's what i'd tell them. you don't have to like it, just deal with it; that's the only thing expected of you as an american. unfortunately there exist those who don't. who can't. i don't know, that's life. they're people i have to deal with, and guess what? i'm doing my part as an american. i've adapted to it. i don't care, and i move on. simple as that.
so to answer your question, yes-- i do think that racism should be considered socially and morally acceptable. my right to hate your guts does not infringe on your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; you have exactly the same right to hate me back.
Are you saying I'm not allowed to be (hypothetically) racist? What part of the world are you from that you do not have basic freedom of speech?
Define a unit of work to be x amount of man-hours required to complete the job, in this case, to develop a piece of software.
R&D Cost = The cost of producing that unit of work includes your workers' salaries plus the cost of the equipment needed to produce that work.
Your startup and Microsoft have competing products that have identical functionality. Even if both companies spend the same amount on R&D, since Microsoft's user base is greater (i.e. more units sold), Microsoft is able to charge less per unit in order to recoup costs.
Therefore, a larger user base is needed to equalize the cost differential between your product and theirs.
Does this answer your question?
i quite agree. sierra vista, az, has more hispanics than i care to count. i'm moving back to pgh (or philly) as soon as i can.
Sounds to me like they can't keep up with the big boys on this one. Not too many companies can compete in the all-facets-of-the-internet game like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Amazon is just sticking to what it does best.
On a side note, I haven't been keeping up with Amazon in the news for the past few years... has it turned a profit yet?
What ever happened to "it just plain works"?
seriously (or am i?), they must be working on a web-app version of it, just like their spreadsheet and calendar thingies. god forbid a vector drawing program written in ajax...
it runs off dc motors, which are incredibly quiet. if you heard anything within 75 feet of it, it might be the large wing slicing through the air.
and uavs in theater still fly at altitudes one wouldn't be crazy in attempting to shoot at. such aircraft include the rq-7b shadow, which you can hear long before you can see it.
keep in mind the frame rate of the video camera. of course you're going to see it on film. run it through a high-speed and then extrapolate down to actual human-visible frame rates, and you'll see what i mean.
just like you can always see individual blades of a helicopter in flight in the movies, or that automobile commercial technique where the wheels appear to be spinning backwards.
actually, a payload (camera) designed for high-speed capture and post-processing would probably hit the million-dollar mark quite easily.
I can only speculate, but it seems to me that nowadays any high-profile tech firm will have their employees sign NDAs. In addition, if they were using corporate email, why the hell shouldn't the boss be allowed to spy on their conversations? It seems to me that he would have a very vested interest in the discourse of others, especially when trade secrets or insider-only communication is involved.
If their links actually went to the original news story instead of a "buffer" page with a link to the full story, it would make life a bit easier. One less click to deal with. None of the news items I've clicked on actually had any pertinent information on them... only a short rewrite of the title it seems.
GPS satellites are not geostationary. At any point in time there should be 5 satellites within range/LOS, regardless of where you live.
you apparently don't understand the level of abstraction that topic modeling operates within. it doesn't matter what language it's written in; rtfa - it's about the relationship of words to each other.
It's a sad thing the parent post isn't modded up for fucking insightfulness. Just goes to demonstrate the elitist bias of the majority of Slashdot users.