dear god, please don't quote the Washington Times
on
Reining in Google
·
· Score: 1
The Washington Times is a famously polemic newspaper that's owned by and is something of a mouthpiece for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon - that's right, the crackpot Moonies.
They're a cult, guys. And not the kind that is really really into a science fiction show. Should they be a source we listen to for Google criticism?
Not just because I was thinking the same thing, though - but because you have to think of culture in monetary terms, because that's how the producers treat it. There's not much call these days for soap operas done on cuneiform, but it's not because it's an outmoded communicative medium - it's because people wouldn't buy it. However, there's huge bank to be had in reworking already-filmed-&-paid-for pieces that maybe a few more collectors will buy.
(Not sure about the drug company analogy though honestly.)
First they're ahead of the US on stem cell research because of the bloviating Christian Right (and our blowhard president who kowtows to them), and now if they give up the stranglehold of MS they'll be way ahead of the US on IT costs...
Tell me more about these mystical creatures who don't spend their time on the internet, and who still play that game called "First Life"... Do they ride unicorns? Do they know Santa Claus?
I won't pick apart your spelling or grammar, but since you took a swipe at my dumb joke (my best humor! dude!) I will pick apart the sense and tone of your post, which was modded... insightful?!
Jokes about different languages being "messed up grammatically" or just wrong, or the (very old and not really relevant anymore) jokes about German's reallylongwordsthatneverend are lame.
...these jokes are really boring after the 1000th time reading them.
Gah, no they're not. First of all, the slashdot-standard joke is ALWAYS funny (check the mod points), and applied to this execrable machine translation in a new, topical way it's even better, whether or not your Mr.-Data-intoned response took issue.
Cause, you know, having studied sette lingue eppure le linguistiche come studente, that's the FIRST time I've heard the Twain quote, or the "I only know enough [n] to get laid, BARR HUHHARRR!!!11*snort*" joke. Seriously, you should go on Vaudeville with those lines. Killer! Oh and thanks for the soapbox imagery - how else would we have known you were offering an opinion?
Your post wasn't insightful.
All right, that's enough pointless-wasted-time being a Slashdork. Allow me to use the forum for good instead of evil, though, and allow my own geek moment -
[Spoken languages] aren't that different than learning another computer language,*
I wonder actually whether there is a difference. When you study linguistics and then you attack a new language, I think you realize that you're not going to become fluent in the language or have a ton of time to devote to it, so you tend to fail to learn vocabulary and instead focus on grammar rules. So you can conjugate verbs really well, for example, but you only know a few verbs. Anyone care to comment on how learning a computer language could compare to that?
*sic. Switching of compared item from noun to gerund phrase in original.
With the help of one on "Alfven waves" of based plasma propulsion the thrust of a rocket can be drastically reduced increased, at the same time the fuel consumption, so the idea.
In das Soviet-Russeland, der Rocketfuelconsumption reduces increases YOU! So.
*1950's housewife* Why, I never knew I could throw away everything in my house, every day, and get fresh, new things! And it seems every product works this way. My family will never be happier. Thanks, capitalism!
"Can you hammer a six inch nail through a board with your penis?"
"Not right now"
"A girl's got to have her standards"
Re:Will Civ 4 be written with the gloves off?
on
Ask Sid Meier
·
· Score: 1
I was wondering something similar.
What if any are the possibilities of exploring the solutions to real-world problems via a sim game, while keeping it interesting to play? Because if it becomes too simulatory to engage me, you might as well design an aquarium...
Now there's an idea - Sid, what do you think about designing something that would let us mod the biosphere, genetics, sociobiology, or other aspects of the natural world?
Well, he may not ALLOW them to be made - but I'm going to continue with the tradition of suck-ass filmmaking, and with my handheld camera, abandoned child's doll and scummy toilet tank, I'll film the first three and affectionately re-title them "FATHER, MIRROR, FATHER, MIRROR."
Oh, Republicans are as manipulative towards the gays as anyone else is. And honestly, support is a kind of manipulation, even if it's well meant. It IS a business; to survive, it must manipulate. *shrug*
You can argue any and all points about this you want, but from the viewpoint of an uppity faggot, sometimes all it looks like to me is: you are with us or you are against us. You have the balls of an adult or you're a simpering coward.
In reduced circumstances like these, that's all it boils down to. You can argue finer point when there are less important things on the line.
I'll pick apart your belief structures when they mean discrimination with impunity towards me and everyone I know. Not to mention social license to beat the shit out of me and my friends.
Fuck that and fuck everyone you're making cowardly excuses for.
No, it leads us to blame the most proximate, obvious person: the perpetrator. Natural selection was ultimately responsible, but you can't prosecute an unconscious, impersonal causal mechanism.
Just stop blaming "society" and the parents and everything else, fer chrissake. You can't take back what happened, so the next best thing is punishing the person who was flying the airplane into the building.
What if it wasn't the way the kid was raised, nor the *highly* dubious influence of the game, nor his school nor his teachers nor his friends nor his religion nor his country nor "society at large"?
What if it's just because this kid found himself in the middle of a situation where he could use violence, and his genetic endowment (like that of MOST males ages teen-thru-29) offered his mind violence as an option? And he took it?
What if it's no one's fault but natural selection?
I could tell in 2 secs Gladwell had already peaked
on
Blink
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Just a few words into the review I could tell that Gladwell had already peaked with his earlier work. Great, so our neurology makes split-second decisions... Wow, well, cool.
Doesn't compare to the star-nosed mole, who strikes me as two notes cooler by the fact it overclocks its own brain:
"The pace of the star-nosed mole's feeding is so fast that it is approaching the maximum speed at which its nervous system can process information."
More revelations worthy of a New Yorker article just make me yawn. And, more evidence of my, um, correct opinion is corroborated here, in Black Table's "believe the hype?" review.
"For quality assurance, your call may be monitored, quantified, duly mocked among coworkers, used in training courses as an example of a psycho user, or outright ignored."
Slashdot Mirror
They're a cult, guys. And not the kind that is really really into a science fiction show. Should they be a source we listen to for Google criticism?
Not just because I was thinking the same thing, though - but because you have to think of culture in monetary terms, because that's how the producers treat it. There's not much call these days for soap operas done on cuneiform, but it's not because it's an outmoded communicative medium - it's because people wouldn't buy it. However, there's huge bank to be had in reworking already-filmed-&-paid-for pieces that maybe a few more collectors will buy. (Not sure about the drug company analogy though honestly.)
Good thing they make sucky movies!
Tell me more about these mystical creatures who don't spend their time on the internet, and who still play that game called "First Life"... Do they ride unicorns? Do they know Santa Claus?
Yep, that's all I have to say.
Jokes about different languages being "messed up grammatically" or just wrong, or the (very old and not really relevant anymore) jokes about German's reallylongwordsthatneverend are lame.
...these jokes are really boring after the 1000th time reading them.
Gah, no they're not. First of all, the slashdot-standard joke is ALWAYS funny (check the mod points), and applied to this execrable machine translation in a new, topical way it's even better, whether or not your Mr.-Data-intoned response took issue.
Cause, you know, having studied sette lingue eppure le linguistiche come studente, that's the FIRST time I've heard the Twain quote, or the "I only know enough [n] to get laid, BARR HUHHARRR!!!11*snort*" joke. Seriously, you should go on Vaudeville with those lines. Killer! Oh and thanks for the soapbox imagery - how else would we have known you were offering an opinion?
Your post wasn't insightful.
All right, that's enough pointless-wasted-time being a Slashdork. Allow me to use the forum for good instead of evil, though, and allow my own geek moment -
[Spoken languages] aren't that different than learning another computer language,*
I wonder actually whether there is a difference. When you study linguistics and then you attack a new language, I think you realize that you're not going to become fluent in the language or have a ton of time to devote to it, so you tend to fail to learn vocabulary and instead focus on grammar rules. So you can conjugate verbs really well, for example, but you only know a few verbs. Anyone care to comment on how learning a computer language could compare to that?
*sic. Switching of compared item from noun to gerund phrase in original.
I knew breasts would make it into this posting somehow.
With the help of one on "Alfven waves" of based plasma propulsion the thrust of a rocket can be drastically reduced increased, at the same time the fuel consumption, so the idea.
In das Soviet-Russeland, der Rocketfuelconsumption reduces increases YOU! So.
*1950's housewife* Why, I never knew I could throw away everything in my house, every day, and get fresh, new things! And it seems every product works this way. My family will never be happier. Thanks, capitalism!
Guh, that's because it's far from being my favorite MOVIE... but hey, thanks for the assist
Serenity, though? Ass kickery. So many flavors of goodness: "T'weren't been nothin between my nethers but was run on batteries..."
"Not right now"
"A girl's got to have her standards"
I was wondering something similar. What if any are the possibilities of exploring the solutions to real-world problems via a sim game, while keeping it interesting to play? Because if it becomes too simulatory to engage me, you might as well design an aquarium... Now there's an idea - Sid, what do you think about designing something that would let us mod the biosphere, genetics, sociobiology, or other aspects of the natural world?
Well, he may not ALLOW them to be made - but I'm going to continue with the tradition of suck-ass filmmaking, and with my handheld camera, abandoned child's doll and scummy toilet tank, I'll film the first three and affectionately re-title them "FATHER, MIRROR, FATHER, MIRROR."
Oh, Republicans are as manipulative towards the gays as anyone else is. And honestly, support is a kind of manipulation, even if it's well meant. It IS a business; to survive, it must manipulate. *shrug*
http://www.bigmusclebears.com
Nope, I won't undergo some fucked-up religious therapy so that I can live a bland, sexless existence with a wife that I don't really care for.
Yes, the rest of you - those of you who are in the wrong and use cowardly means to disguise that - you need to change. Not me.
In reduced circumstances like these, that's all it boils down to. You can argue finer point when there are less important things on the line.
Fuck that and fuck everyone you're making cowardly excuses for.
Obligatory quote from evolutionary psych courses: Just because it happens in nature doesn't mean it should happen in human society. "Is is not ought."
Because if there's one thing that humans are better at than computers, it's performing large numbers of repeated steps. Flawlessly.
No, it leads us to blame the most proximate, obvious person: the perpetrator. Natural selection was ultimately responsible, but you can't prosecute an unconscious, impersonal causal mechanism.
Just stop blaming "society" and the parents and everything else, fer chrissake. You can't take back what happened, so the next best thing is punishing the person who was flying the airplane into the building.
What if it's just because this kid found himself in the middle of a situation where he could use violence, and his genetic endowment (like that of MOST males ages teen-thru-29) offered his mind violence as an option? And he took it?
What if it's no one's fault but natural selection?
Doesn't compare to the star-nosed mole, who strikes me as two notes cooler by the fact it overclocks its own brain:
"The pace of the star-nosed mole's feeding is so fast that it is approaching the maximum speed at which its nervous system can process information."
More revelations worthy of a New Yorker article just make me yawn. And, more evidence of my, um, correct opinion is corroborated here, in Black Table's "believe the hype?" review.
"For quality assurance, your call may be monitored, quantified, duly mocked among coworkers, used in training courses as an example of a psycho user, or outright ignored."