Imperialist. You keep using that word.... Read up on something called history and look up some real examples of empires. You'll find there is nothing similar between our presence in Iraq as to say... that of the USSR in Afghanistan or the eastern bloc.
We did not claim Iraq as ours. If our being there is imperialism, then by your "thinking" we also conquered Europe and it is part of our empire. (Hint: we have bases in Germany, England and other nations)
One redeeming bit, one glimmer of hope that one day you might learn how to think for yourself, is the point you make about The Prince. Disbanding the army and existing gov't was incredibly stupid. Your problem is that your personal politics are causing you confuse the goal and the outcome. You're confusing the man and the message in blind partisanship. The goal of overthrowing Saddam and helping Iraq become free is a good one. That it was opposed by our supposed allies, religious zealots inside and out, by rival neighbor gov'ts, and was horribly managed on our side has nothing to do with the goals.
This is not informative. It's either a bold faced lie or unforgivable ignorance. You have no idea what socialism means, until you figure it out, you are barred from using that word.
i propose the term Psionics for mind controlled machines (attached or not). Avionics are electronics for aviation, psionics could be electronics related to the brain. Given that only D&D nerds would know of the word having any other use, we could replace the awkward phrases "mind controlled" and "mind machine interface".
Just what i need, a soccer mom who can't drive a car in two dimensions having to worry about altitude as well. If this becomes popular i'm installing a phalanx turret on my house.
Computers are vastly too flexible/powerful for the average user. It's not that users are dumb/ignorant, it's just that most people would rather just do what they want to do and then do something else. Most people don't want to learn about subnetting, or how to edit the registry or set the virtual memory. They want to watch a pr0n clip, shoot at monsters, chat with hotties and find a recipe for turkey.
HOW TO - Make a Brazillion Dollars:
Create an atari 2600 like machine with cartridges containing programs that do email, surf teh webs, word processing, media playback and video games. Make it so that the user can perform only one function at a time, like a console or C64. Have the switching occur so fast the user doesn't think of it as: load, unload, load, unload reload. When the user switches from Email to word processing, the RAM is set to 0 instantly, aside from something like the clip board. Then load in the new program. Have the most essential programs hardwired into the system. Sell ROMs of other games and apps. These products must be static, so get them right the first time.
Is such a thing harder than it sounds? i think it would serve the needs of the average Joe and Jane far better than any PC on the market.
No, it's not greed. Greed is wanting more than your fair share. You might be describing "cheap", though.
If the village apple tree produced 100 apples a year, and there were 100 villagers, it would be greedy of me to take more than one apple./.ers don't want to pay for something that has no value because they'd rather spend their money on something the can't, like an oil change. i can't get out of paying for gasoline without great difficult, but i can get a free copy of some album. Of the 60% who paid nothing, what % of them were doing it just to see if they COULD enter 0$? Personally, i would have entered 0$ just to see if they kept their promise. Next i'd enter -100$ to see if i could get the download and some extra cash. If i was a Radiohead fan, i would pay 10$, because i think that is a fair price for an album.
Let's go back to Econ 101, Day One - Supply and Demand determine Price.
Bob owns and apple tree. It produces a finite number of apples per season. He sets a price based on how many apples the tree bore, and figures in what Alan is charging for his apples and of course, how much people in the village like apples. If apples are out of favor this year, he might have to charge less. If the summer was dry, he might have to charge more. If Jeff sneaks into Bob's orchard and takes an apple, without Bob's permission or paying Bob, that's stealing. Bob has LOST something. He can't sell the stolen apple. It reduces supply, and that increases price. That's bad for everyone but Jeff (unless Jeff is caught).
Now let's say that Bob invents an apple tree that automatically creates another apple each time an apple is picked. The new apple is identical in every way to one just taken. The supply of apples is now effectively infinite. Everyone can have 100 apples a day. If Jeff takes an apple, it is no loss to Bob because Bob can still sell the apple that replaced the one Jeff took. Jeff isn't stealing, because what he took has absolutely NO VALUE.
The supply of data is infinite, yet demand is finite. Any geek worth his pocket protector knows that ANY finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds. Data is WORTHLESS. Anything that can be converted to data is WORTHLESS.
So what about poor Bob? Well, Bob can be a dick and try to charge people for his worthless apples (everyone in town knows bloody well what the supply is). Or Bob can grow a brain and change his business model. He can go into the business of charging for something that is in finite supply. He can bake the apples into a pie.
Musicians and record labels must adapt to this magic tree that makes their product worthless. Perhaps a 21st century problem deserves 21st century solutions. Sell me something i can't download and email to all my friends. Concert tickets, t-shirts, stickers, limited editions. Have every CD sold in the store come with a lottery ticket that gives me a chance to meet the band backstage. Include more tickets in the CD singles, if i buy 3 singles and the CD i have 4 chances to win.
Maybe, just maybe, there won't be as many billionaire record execs in the world. But that is a fair trade off for not having lawsuits against little girls and old ladies. Criminalizing everyone who owns a computer is not the solution. We are in a transitory stage in adapting to the internet. It is a given that such a shift is going to piss off those who profited under the old regime. There will be exploits and knee jerk reactions. Eventually, things will settle down into something everyone finds agreeable.
Consider the possibility that things might change, and that the change might actually be better for the artist AND consumer. Our current system benefits only execs, lawyers and about 10% of the artists. These new models might mean less crap on the radio. Speaking of radio, did anyone notice that radio didn't destroy the music industry? Book stores out number libraries about 10 to 1. The internet doesn't have to mean the end of the music industry, it might mean that the industry has to adapt and become something new.
i'll say right off the bat i have no idea what i'm talking about, so this idea could be really silly. So, that out of the way: Would it be possible to build floating stations/ships on/in a gas giant? What would be involved? Would it be useful? Too dangerous?
Eventually every home HAS a PC so then the market is not one of growth, but of upgrades and replacements. Superficially, this will appear to be a declining market. i built my rig almost 3 years ago. Upgrades are keeping me current. Eventually i'll break down and buy that second video card to make use of SLI. But for now, i'm good. Since i built my rig, do i count as a "lost sale" or "decline in PC sales"?
How much of his material is HIM versus his writing staff? i'm not questioning Colbert's chops. But pointing out that he is part of a team, he has people writing for him. Even stand up comedians have staff that write jokes for them. So how much of what we see is him, vs. the staff?
Would he run as himself or as his character?
If he is elected, i hope he mandates that all game mechanics become open source like d20.
This is my calculation: 1$ for a 1:1M chance to win 1M$ is a reasonable bet. When the pot is worth more in $ than the number of people playing against me, that's when i play.
Most lotteries give millions upon millions to schools. Some states would have to raise evil taxes to come up with that kind of cash. Your losing ticket contributes in some small way to making someone's dream come true. Yes, some people ruin themselves with it, but most don't. Seeing lottery tickets as an investment or a way out of debt is stupid, but that doesn't make it bad or dumb. Like you said, a buck or so a week is trivial in comparison to the potential prize.
wRt the article, now people will play those numbers and you'll have to split the prize with more people!
How about this instead. I put in a dollar, and put my SSN in the hat. They draw one of the SSNs from the hat, and they get the pot. If you put in more dollars, you get a better chance that it will be your SSN pulled. This way, no one can share your prize.
Alas, the Privacy Act would get in the way of this idea.:(
The alternative is to pretend that today is 10 Sep 01. That's not right either. We have some knee jerk over the top responses to terrorism. That's obvious, but that doesn't mean that shouldn't respond at all. If someone robs the house across the street from yours, double check the locks before you go to bed. When some jerk rapes a girl on campus, the girls should travel in groups for a while. If you have a grease fire in your kitchen, you would be wise to invest in a fire extinguisher.
There must be balance in one's response to new information. If your neighbor is robbed, building a moat might be unwarranted, but pretending crime can't happen to YOU is idiocy.
This is not a robot, it's an unmanned boat with a gun on it. My alarm clock is more of a robot than this thing. My alarm clock does it's job without human control. This system is not a robot in the same way that your car is not a robot, or the "robots" in "robot wars" are not robots.
It is a given that languages change over time. Your next amazing feat should be pointing out that water is wet. However, this change is more like using the word hot to mean cold. Comprise and compose are opposite sides of a coin. Turning comprise into compose means we lost something. This isn't correcting a flaw, nor is it a hack (y'all for a plural you, to fix what we lost when we abandoned thou). If this merger happens, we have to come up with something else to mean what comprise already covers. When comprise and compose become one word, we have to say "50 states make up the union". The shift is a byproduct of IGNORANCE, not of evolution. People don't know what the word means, so they use it incorrectly. There's nothing wrong with correcting someone. They might learn something! Otherwise, why have language classes at school? Let kids make it up as they go. Eventually, no one will be able to communicate.
It's not about living in the past, it's about resisting degeneration. Would it be so terrible if i said word X and you understood what i meant? Is it so painful to use a word correctly? It is so taxing to use the word effect when you MEAN effect(instead of impact?
Are we forgetting that the needle CHANGES the groove as it presses against it? The more times you play the vinyl the more the needle wears down the groove. Then there is the fact that every time you bump the player you're scratching the vinyl.
Let's do this: Take an album on CD and Vinyl. Rip them at maximum possible resolution (sound quality/bps). Compare them bit by bit or with an MD5 checksum. Rip, compare, rip compare a few hundred times. See how many times it takes for any change to occur. Measure the change over time.
My guess is that the CD won't change much over thousands of rips. The vinyl will change some amount every time. We could then see when the needle has destroyed any advantage it had over CD./Vinyl is a fetish
As long as she eventually or elsewhere learns to use Windows and MSO, that's fine. Windows still commands 90+% of the desktop market share. They be better off learning Windows and MSO in terms of what they will actually USE in life.
There are advantages to M$'s monopoly for the user. It means i know how to use the machines at virtually every company in the world. Macs dominate only in those industries that are still buying into the myth that macs are better for graphics and multimedia editing. Such places are few and far between.
If a kid learns a *nix, great, but they also need to know things that will be... useful. Go to a temp agency knowing only how to use macs or openoffice. They won't be able to place you.
Or at least not be in wars under republican presidents. Since that is pretty much the rule that determines if they are stupid or not. It never seems to be determined by the cause itself, but about who is ordering it, and who didn't have the power to stop or start it themselves. Or maybe we should just go isolationist again, that worked out pretty well for us... until around 7 Dec 19something or other.
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Imperialist. You keep using that word.... Read up on something called history and look up some real examples of empires. You'll find there is nothing similar between our presence in Iraq as to say... that of the USSR in Afghanistan or the eastern bloc.
We did not claim Iraq as ours. If our being there is imperialism, then by your "thinking" we also conquered Europe and it is part of our empire. (Hint: we have bases in Germany, England and other nations)
One redeeming bit, one glimmer of hope that one day you might learn how to think for yourself, is the point you make about The Prince. Disbanding the army and existing gov't was incredibly stupid. Your problem is that your personal politics are causing you confuse the goal and the outcome. You're confusing the man and the message in blind partisanship. The goal of overthrowing Saddam and helping Iraq become free is a good one. That it was opposed by our supposed allies, religious zealots inside and out, by rival neighbor gov'ts, and was horribly managed on our side has nothing to do with the goals.
Esp. stuff like BSG, right? Canceled in the middle of the first season, terrible ratings and reviews....
Velocity Girl is one of my fav bands. Is Sub Pop still producing music?
This is not informative. It's either a bold faced lie or unforgivable ignorance. You have no idea what socialism means, until you figure it out, you are barred from using that word.
i propose the term Psionics for mind controlled machines (attached or not). Avionics are electronics for aviation, psionics could be electronics related to the brain. Given that only D&D nerds would know of the word having any other use, we could replace the awkward phrases "mind controlled" and "mind machine interface".
Just what i need, a soccer mom who can't drive a car in two dimensions having to worry about altitude as well. If this becomes popular i'm installing a phalanx turret on my house.
Then you hit reset and the virus goes away.
Are viruses a problem for calculators, commodore 64's and consoles?
The simpler/dumber the system, the better.
Computers are vastly too flexible/powerful for the average user. It's not that users are dumb/ignorant, it's just that most people would rather just do what they want to do and then do something else. Most people don't want to learn about subnetting, or how to edit the registry or set the virtual memory. They want to watch a pr0n clip, shoot at monsters, chat with hotties and find a recipe for turkey.
HOW TO - Make a Brazillion Dollars:
Create an atari 2600 like machine with cartridges containing programs that do email, surf teh webs, word processing, media playback and video games. Make it so that the user can perform only one function at a time, like a console or C64. Have the switching occur so fast the user doesn't think of it as: load, unload, load, unload reload. When the user switches from Email to word processing, the RAM is set to 0 instantly, aside from something like the clip board. Then load in the new program. Have the most essential programs hardwired into the system. Sell ROMs of other games and apps. These products must be static, so get them right the first time.
Is such a thing harder than it sounds? i think it would serve the needs of the average Joe and Jane far better than any PC on the market.
Yeah, that pretty much explains religion and politics. /wishes he had mod points for you
Are you getting a kick out of these replies?
No, it's not greed. Greed is wanting more than your fair share. You might be describing "cheap", though.
/.ers don't want to pay for something that has no value because they'd rather spend their money on something the can't, like an oil change. i can't get out of paying for gasoline without great difficult, but i can get a free copy of some album. Of the 60% who paid nothing, what % of them were doing it just to see if they COULD enter 0$? Personally, i would have entered 0$ just to see if they kept their promise. Next i'd enter -100$ to see if i could get the download and some extra cash. If i was a Radiohead fan, i would pay 10$, because i think that is a fair price for an album.
If the village apple tree produced 100 apples a year, and there were 100 villagers, it would be greedy of me to take more than one apple.
Let's go back to Econ 101, Day One - Supply and Demand determine Price.
Bob owns and apple tree. It produces a finite number of apples per season. He sets a price based on how many apples the tree bore, and figures in what Alan is charging for his apples and of course, how much people in the village like apples. If apples are out of favor this year, he might have to charge less. If the summer was dry, he might have to charge more. If Jeff sneaks into Bob's orchard and takes an apple, without Bob's permission or paying Bob, that's stealing. Bob has LOST something. He can't sell the stolen apple. It reduces supply, and that increases price. That's bad for everyone but Jeff (unless Jeff is caught).
Now let's say that Bob invents an apple tree that automatically creates another apple each time an apple is picked. The new apple is identical in every way to one just taken. The supply of apples is now effectively infinite. Everyone can have 100 apples a day. If Jeff takes an apple, it is no loss to Bob because Bob can still sell the apple that replaced the one Jeff took. Jeff isn't stealing, because what he took has absolutely NO VALUE.
The supply of data is infinite, yet demand is finite. Any geek worth his pocket protector knows that ANY finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds. Data is WORTHLESS. Anything that can be converted to data is WORTHLESS.
So what about poor Bob? Well, Bob can be a dick and try to charge people for his worthless apples (everyone in town knows bloody well what the supply is). Or Bob can grow a brain and change his business model. He can go into the business of charging for something that is in finite supply. He can bake the apples into a pie.
Musicians and record labels must adapt to this magic tree that makes their product worthless. Perhaps a 21st century problem deserves 21st century solutions. Sell me something i can't download and email to all my friends. Concert tickets, t-shirts, stickers, limited editions. Have every CD sold in the store come with a lottery ticket that gives me a chance to meet the band backstage. Include more tickets in the CD singles, if i buy 3 singles and the CD i have 4 chances to win.
Maybe, just maybe, there won't be as many billionaire record execs in the world. But that is a fair trade off for not having lawsuits against little girls and old ladies. Criminalizing everyone who owns a computer is not the solution. We are in a transitory stage in adapting to the internet. It is a given that such a shift is going to piss off those who profited under the old regime. There will be exploits and knee jerk reactions. Eventually, things will settle down into something everyone finds agreeable.
Consider the possibility that things might change, and that the change might actually be better for the artist AND consumer. Our current system benefits only execs, lawyers and about 10% of the artists. These new models might mean less crap on the radio. Speaking of radio, did anyone notice that radio didn't destroy the music industry? Book stores out number libraries about 10 to 1. The internet doesn't have to mean the end of the music industry, it might mean that the industry has to adapt and become something new.
i'll say right off the bat i have no idea what i'm talking about, so this idea could be really silly. So, that out of the way: Would it be possible to build floating stations/ships on/in a gas giant? What would be involved? Would it be useful? Too dangerous?
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Informative, sure. But also Off Topic and sick in the head.
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Of the ten, ONE of them will be a linux user (who already has EVE on his PC rig [and prolly the same machine])!
i can has an MMO that doesn't require hours of endless grinding? PLEEEEEEZE!!1!
Eventually every home HAS a PC so then the market is not one of growth, but of upgrades and replacements. Superficially, this will appear to be a declining market. i built my rig almost 3 years ago. Upgrades are keeping me current. Eventually i'll break down and buy that second video card to make use of SLI. But for now, i'm good. Since i built my rig, do i count as a "lost sale" or "decline in PC sales"?
How much of his material is HIM versus his writing staff? i'm not questioning Colbert's chops. But pointing out that he is part of a team, he has people writing for him. Even stand up comedians have staff that write jokes for them. So how much of what we see is him, vs. the staff?
Would he run as himself or as his character?
If he is elected, i hope he mandates that all game mechanics become open source like d20.
This is my calculation: 1$ for a 1:1M chance to win 1M$ is a reasonable bet. When the pot is worth more in $ than the number of people playing against me, that's when i play. Most lotteries give millions upon millions to schools. Some states would have to raise evil taxes to come up with that kind of cash. Your losing ticket contributes in some small way to making someone's dream come true. Yes, some people ruin themselves with it, but most don't. Seeing lottery tickets as an investment or a way out of debt is stupid, but that doesn't make it bad or dumb. Like you said, a buck or so a week is trivial in comparison to the potential prize. wRt the article, now people will play those numbers and you'll have to split the prize with more people! How about this instead. I put in a dollar, and put my SSN in the hat. They draw one of the SSNs from the hat, and they get the pot. If you put in more dollars, you get a better chance that it will be your SSN pulled. This way, no one can share your prize. Alas, the Privacy Act would get in the way of this idea. :(
One virus. Two viruses.
The urge to say virii, is hypercorrection. Which is to say... wrong.
But don't take my word for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/plural-of-virus.html
So unless you are trying to be cute, the plural of virus is viruses.
And know you know!
This is when a stupid person, feeling personally hurt by learning, will whine about language changing over time.
The alternative is to pretend that today is 10 Sep 01. That's not right either. We have some knee jerk over the top responses to terrorism. That's obvious, but that doesn't mean that shouldn't respond at all. If someone robs the house across the street from yours, double check the locks before you go to bed. When some jerk rapes a girl on campus, the girls should travel in groups for a while. If you have a grease fire in your kitchen, you would be wise to invest in a fire extinguisher.
There must be balance in one's response to new information. If your neighbor is robbed, building a moat might be unwarranted, but pretending crime can't happen to YOU is idiocy.
This is not a robot, it's an unmanned boat with a gun on it. My alarm clock is more of a robot than this thing. My alarm clock does it's job without human control. This system is not a robot in the same way that your car is not a robot, or the "robots" in "robot wars" are not robots.
It is a given that languages change over time. Your next amazing feat should be pointing out that water is wet. However, this change is more like using the word hot to mean cold. Comprise and compose are opposite sides of a coin. Turning comprise into compose means we lost something. This isn't correcting a flaw, nor is it a hack (y'all for a plural you, to fix what we lost when we abandoned thou). If this merger happens, we have to come up with something else to mean what comprise already covers. When comprise and compose become one word, we have to say "50 states make up the union". The shift is a byproduct of IGNORANCE, not of evolution. People don't know what the word means, so they use it incorrectly. There's nothing wrong with correcting someone. They might learn something! Otherwise, why have language classes at school? Let kids make it up as they go. Eventually, no one will be able to communicate.
It's not about living in the past, it's about resisting degeneration. Would it be so terrible if i said word X and you understood what i meant? Is it so painful to use a word correctly? It is so taxing to use the word effect when you MEAN effect(instead of impact?
That and copyright infringement. i wish i had mod points for you.
Piracy is armed robbery at sea.
Are we forgetting that the needle CHANGES the groove as it presses against it? The more times you play the vinyl the more the needle wears down the groove. Then there is the fact that every time you bump the player you're scratching the vinyl.
/Vinyl is a fetish
Let's do this: Take an album on CD and Vinyl. Rip them at maximum possible resolution (sound quality/bps). Compare them bit by bit or with an MD5 checksum. Rip, compare, rip compare a few hundred times. See how many times it takes for any change to occur. Measure the change over time.
My guess is that the CD won't change much over thousands of rips. The vinyl will change some amount every time. We could then see when the needle has destroyed any advantage it had over CD.
As long as she eventually or elsewhere learns to use Windows and MSO, that's fine. Windows still commands 90+% of the desktop market share. They be better off learning Windows and MSO in terms of what they will actually USE in life.
There are advantages to M$'s monopoly for the user. It means i know how to use the machines at virtually every company in the world. Macs dominate only in those industries that are still buying into the myth that macs are better for graphics and multimedia editing. Such places are few and far between.
If a kid learns a *nix, great, but they also need to know things that will be... useful. Go to a temp agency knowing only how to use macs or openoffice. They won't be able to place you.
Or at least not be in wars under republican presidents. Since that is pretty much the rule that determines if they are stupid or not. It never seems to be determined by the cause itself, but about who is ordering it, and who didn't have the power to stop or start it themselves. Or maybe we should just go isolationist again, that worked out pretty well for us... until around 7 Dec 19something or other.