The story goes.... What, Bush is at lead! (Reload) What, Bush is still at lead! (Reload) Bush is still at lead, fsck! (Reload) Fsck! (Reload) Fsck! Fsck! (Reload)
The reason why graphical environments (such as TV video games, movies, etc) do this well is the easiness of absorbing them. Brain does not need to do a lot of processing because it is already thinking visually and graphical environments provide visual information. On the other hand text based environments or rather non graphical environments, force the brain to come up on its own with visual representations for the story or concepts it is trying to understand. There in lies the reason why watching TV/movies is not as effective as consuming the same information through different media or means. Basically if bombarded constantly with easy to process visual information the brain will dull out and will have a lot harder time being imaginative or creative when there is a need.
But there is also another aspect - interactive part. Telling your child stories and let him 'choose the way' is the most primitive way of interactive story telling and most beneficial for the child. Things being interactive make things more fun and are appealing to us since we get to control and have input. In the world of computers a different way to have an interactive story would be a MUD type of environment. This world would be predetermined but if done well could still be fun and very beneficial for the brain. I think that MUDs are at this moment underestimated for their value. Even though the computers have now enough processing power to create visual environments does not mean our brains have no need to do this processing anymore. I think our creativeness and our very ability to think well could be at stake.
I for one am going to wait for the first lan party, er lan war between Us Army and Swedish military. I wonder which is going to be better American Army or Battelfield 1942.
Real war is so old school and out of date anyways.
I've just had an idea - fraggin defence contractor!
And if you are going that far, mind as well build the real matrix.
Ok, if you are reading things literally, sure it can be stated that Bush Admin. never said that there was a link between Saddam and 911.
But how can you not imply it when it was many times stated that there was a strong link between Osama's organization and Saddam?
I am rather surprised that the same people who are indifferent to the link between US Gov. and Israeli brutal Palestinian policy feel very strongly to talk about Saddam's and Osama's connections. (not to say that you specifically were) US support is actively used to kill Palestinians and Saddam's support was used to kill Jews and Americans.
So I guess it comes down to what you mean when you say 'link'.
Debian has done the right thing and more power to them in that regard.
Perhaps I am not seeing all the possible pitfalls (in which case would you point them out), but wouldn't a response challenge type of system help much better with spam?
This would enable users be much more protective (and involved) about their mailboxes and what's allowed in there.
Would this silver bullet the spam problem? Most likely not at first, and definately not completely just because there are people who actually like to receive spam (believe it or not). But this at least will put users in charge of the mailbox who want to be in charge. And that's what i think is important anyways.
In the long run there is no way to get rid of spam because sending spam is almost free. Even 14-year old can do it, and as long as it is that easy it will be a problem and i don't believe a different or better protocol would make the problem dissapear.
But on the brighter note UK is sueing the websites who are responsible for spam and that's what i think initally needs to happen in US also, but watch, it will not (happen) because 'we can't hurt the business'.
I once had an encrypted 160 gig lvm (logical volumes) with all sorts of goodies on it. Unfortunately the order of the disks was 4 gig, 4 gig + the bigger disk. When removing the two 4 gig disks the partition info was lost somehow and the lvm didn't come back on. But Very fortunately when I recreated the partition the data was still there and all intact.
It was more or less a cardiovascular exercise.
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Hey, if it doesn't work donate them to Afganistan. Given the familiarity with certain drugs in that culture, like in Berkeley, the new assembly hacking culture is bound to spring up. Little something for the kids.
The electricity part could be a problem, though.
Hmm...
If your strategy is built entirely on FUD and keeping the facts secret...
I think Darl and his Utah cooperatives have learned this trick from just watching tv (and fast). Come on guys, just little while ago (less than a year?) the Bush Party said that they HAD evidence of WMDs in Iraq. And that the conlusive evidence was couple of phone conversations and sattellite pictures with absolutely nothing on them. No wonder UN didn't believe them.
Fortunately Darl does not have military on his side, but come to think of it, Bush as Darl's fellow Republican might turn the blind eye (in terms of SEC and legal fluff) to this case.
In fact, this pretty much might happen because Bush's little history with Enron and other Oil companies. (Thought: wasn't this Iraq thing blown up after the Enron scandal?)
So, Darl can't be blamed for imitating the tactics of our overlords, can he?
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What, Bush is at lead!
(Reload)
What, Bush is still at lead!
(Reload)
Bush is still at lead, fsck!
(Reload)
Fsck!
(Reload)
Fsck! Fsck!
(Reload)
yeah you do.
when the left-thinking people or center-thinking people talk it's incomprehensible.
The reason why graphical environments (such as TV video games, movies, etc) do this well is the easiness of absorbing them. Brain does not need to do a lot of processing because it is already thinking visually and graphical environments provide visual information.
On the other hand text based environments or rather non graphical environments, force the brain to come up on its own with visual representations for the story or concepts it is trying to understand. There in lies the reason why watching TV/movies is not as effective as consuming the same information through different media or means. Basically if bombarded constantly with easy to process visual information the brain will dull out and will have a lot harder time being imaginative or creative when there is a need.
But there is also another aspect - interactive part. Telling your child stories and let him 'choose the way' is the most primitive way of interactive story telling and most beneficial for the child. Things being interactive make things more fun and are appealing to us since we get to control and have input.
In the world of computers a different way to have an interactive story would be a MUD type of environment. This world would be predetermined but if done well could still be fun and very beneficial for the brain. I think that MUDs are at this moment underestimated for their value.
Even though the computers have now enough processing power to create visual environments does not mean our brains have no need to do this processing anymore. I think our creativeness and our very ability to think well could be at stake.
I for one am going to wait for the first lan party, er lan war between Us Army and Swedish military. I wonder which is going to be better American Army or Battelfield 1942.
Real war is so old school and out of date anyways.
I've just had an idea - fraggin defence contractor!
And if you are going that far, mind as well build the real matrix.
Ok, if you are reading things literally, sure it can be stated that Bush Admin. never said that there was a link between Saddam and 911.
But how can you not imply it when it was many times stated that there was a strong link between Osama's organization and Saddam?
I am rather surprised that the same people who are indifferent to the link between US Gov. and Israeli brutal Palestinian policy feel very strongly to talk about Saddam's and Osama's connections. (not to say that you specifically were)
US support is actively used to kill Palestinians and Saddam's support was used to kill Jews and Americans.
So I guess it comes down to what you mean when you say 'link'.
Debian has done the right thing and more power to them in that regard.
Perhaps I am not seeing all the possible pitfalls (in which case would you point them out), but wouldn't a response challenge type of system help much better with spam?
This would enable users be much more protective (and involved) about their mailboxes and what's allowed in there.
Would this silver bullet the spam problem? Most likely not at first, and definately not completely just because there are people who actually like to receive spam (believe it or not). But this at least will put users in charge of the mailbox who want to be in charge. And that's what i think is important anyways.
In the long run there is no way to get rid of spam because sending spam is almost free. Even 14-year old can do it, and as long as it is that easy it will be a problem and i don't believe a different or better protocol would make the problem dissapear.
But on the brighter note UK is sueing the websites who are responsible for spam and that's what i think initally needs to happen in US also, but watch, it will not (happen) because 'we can't hurt the business'.
I once had an encrypted 160 gig lvm (logical volumes) with all sorts of goodies on it. Unfortunately the order of the disks was 4 gig, 4 gig + the bigger disk. When removing the two 4 gig disks the partition info was lost somehow and the lvm didn't come back on.
But Very fortunately when I recreated the partition the data was still there and all intact.
It was more or less a cardiovascular exercise.
Hey, if it doesn't work donate them to Afganistan.
Given the familiarity with certain drugs in that culture, like in Berkeley, the new assembly hacking culture is bound to spring up. Little something for the kids.
The electricity part could be a problem, though.
Cheers
Hmm... If your strategy is built entirely on FUD and keeping the facts secret... I think Darl and his Utah cooperatives have learned this trick from just watching tv (and fast). Come on guys, just little while ago (less than a year?) the Bush Party said that they HAD evidence of WMDs in Iraq. And that the conlusive evidence was couple of phone conversations and sattellite pictures with absolutely nothing on them. No wonder UN didn't believe them. Fortunately Darl does not have military on his side, but come to think of it, Bush as Darl's fellow Republican might turn the blind eye (in terms of SEC and legal fluff) to this case. In fact, this pretty much might happen because Bush's little history with Enron and other Oil companies. (Thought: wasn't this Iraq thing blown up after the Enron scandal?) So, Darl can't be blamed for imitating the tactics of our overlords, can he?