I think the most painful game playing experience had to be the "Decathalon" game on Atari (or if your parents had to be different, Colecovision). There was one race on there, I don't remember if it was 5K, 10K, or what, but you had to keep vigorously rocking the controller back and forth continuously for several minutes. I realize that most slashdotters can handle those types of hand motions with ease now, but as a little kid it was tough!
Maybe the poster is actually a Chinese official looking for holes in their set up? The first thing I thought when reading this was if someone did know a good way around the censorship, would posting it on the internet really be a smart thing to do?
There is this thing called a 'camera' that can be used to capture video, and word on the street is that not only independent studios, but even individuals can use these to create movies.
And are all these independent and foreign studios going to expect to be paid? Or do they just live off the adoration of their fans and the smug knowledge that they aren't corporate tools?
The problem is the downloaders wouldn't ordinarily buy it.
Sure they wouldn't ordinarily buy it because they can get it for free. This argument sounds like a major cop-out to me. I am inclined to think that if they couldn't get ANY movies off of the net, then they would probably pay to go see, rent, or buy a movie once in a while. This argument might be analogous to sneaking into a movie theater without paying. Nobody loses anything as long as the theater wasn't going to fill up anyway and you weren't planning on seeing the movie otherwise, right? I am sure that the manager of any movie theater, concert, or sporting event would find that argument very convincing.
This is something they are offering their customers. The crap could be easily removed by not installing it in the first place and instead downloading Firefox directly.
Should we stop providing something that helps underprivileged russian children learning IT?
It's not exactly vaccine or food, but aren't we doing something good here?
You are right. Training the poor and under privileged on IT is truly altruistic. Once they gain some skills, your job can be shipped over there to be done for workers getting a couple dollars a day.
First off in regards to the big tax write off, it's not like he is saving any more money in taxes than he is giving away. A tax deduction is not the same thing as a tax credit. With like $30 billion in assets it is hard to see why he would give a flip about taxes anyways, but then again seem people can never have enough.
Your second paragraph seems to contradict itself. If it isn't from his personal account then how is he saving loads of taxes? If he donated the money to start the foundation, why does it matter if this donation comes from the foundation or his "personal" account anyway?
"I've probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I've had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It's a political problem. The problems are sociopolitical. The problems are unions."
- Steve Jobs, WIRED interview, 1996
What? Every slashdotter knows that computers all by themselves can provide clean drinking water, cure malaria, stimulate crippled economies, while giving your mouth a clean minty feeling. They can also teach children better than any human teacher and even if that child only learns how to use the computer itself, he will be well-prepared for a job that will eventually be shipped overseas. This "Steve Jobs" guy doesn't know crap.
Personally, I don't ever use bug spray. I let the mosquitos bite. Most of my family has developed a tolerance to mosquito bites so that they don't really itch anymore (mosquito bites itch basically because of an allergic reaction to chemicals that the mosquitos secrete and leave on your skin).
I hope you don't live in an area where West Nile Virus is a concern.
Yeah, birds can live at lower oxygen levels because they fly at altitude on a regular basis.
How often do you see birds flying at more than like 1000 ft? Your average sparrow or such probably sees less elevation change on a daily basis than someone working on the 50th floor in an office building. I really don't see that kind of altitude difference resulting in any significant adaptation.
Remember that Saddam really wasn't a nice guy, and I think the America's approval rating shortly after his fall was over 95%.
I am curious amongst what group did "America" have a 95+% approval rating with? The Bush administration?
Iraq had lots of time to hide and WMDs they may have had. Or maybe they never really had any at all at it was just a collassal mistake.
The fact that we have failed to find any WMD pretty much makes whether they existed or not irrelevent in terms of the justification for the war. If he never had them, then it was all a big mistake. If he hid them well, then probably someone knows where they are and they are probably not our friends. If they were smuggled into Syria/Jordan/Iran then obviously we have nothing to worry about since they are all such good friends of ours. However you slice it the WMD were either not there or we failed to secure them.
And most of those deaths came from terrorist attacks after the fall of Saddam. President Bush said he wanted to take the war to the terrorists, and in that he's been successful. Every car bomb that blows up a police station in Basra is a car bomb that won't blow up a police station in Chicago, Atlanta, or Denver.
Indeed, it was a major miscalculation by the administration in not planning for this phase of the war. Despite what Rummy said we could have waited until our troops were properly equipped before attacking.
Your statement about the car bombs is utter BS. It is way easier to bomb a convoy in Iraq given the general lack of security and availability of ordnance than it would be on US soil. The people making these attacks in Iraq probably couldn't even afford the plane ticket to get to the US. I am sure that Osama would love to see daily bombings in the US taking out hundreds of civilians rather than a handful of soldiers.
There is a difference between "duh" and "doh". "Duh" is generally directed at someone else to point out an obvious mistake, such as not knowing the difference between "duh" and "doh". When you realize that you yourself have made such a mistake (or say accidently reboot the server, drop a bowling ball on your foot, etc.), you exclaim "doh!" in frustrated recognition.
Let's practice:
Me: "'Duh' and 'doh' are not the same thing, duh!"
I agree. I like to sit down in the morning with my coffee and bowl of cereal and read the paper. My wife isn't going to let me leave the laptop running on the kitchen table all of the time, but se will bring the paper in when she takes the dog out, so the paper involves much less "boot up" time.
I do check the news on the web occasionally for any important breaking news, but rarely is there anything that affects me so directly that it couldn't wait until the next day. I also enjoy the intellectually superior feeling I get when reading the local letters to the editor. The newspaper is also a much better medium for reading while sitting in the bathro^H^H^H^H^H^H car.
Whoops! A little quick with the enter button on my first try.
It might only slightly shift it, but for a planet far far away, that slight shift might be enough to cause a ELE on the planet that the comet might now ultamitely hit.
Or we may alter the trajectory such that it now avoids a collision. The spared aliens, appreciating our act of mercy, will decide to not invade our planet and steal out precious bodily fluids.
It might only slightly shift it, but for a planet far far away, that slight shift might be enough to cause a ELE on the planet that the comet might now ultamitely hit.
That is not completely accurate. The National Research Coucil released a study today that concluded that perchlorate levels 20 times higher than those proposed by the EPA would be safe. While the EPA will probably increase its proposed limits due to this study, it is unlikely that it will be 20 times higher. As interesting side note, an article on WebMD on this story had the headline "Panel: Rocket Fuel Chemical in Water Is Safe", so drink up!
Then you get what you deserve, I'd say. Somehow I greatly doubt that Tillamock Cheese and North Plains Lettuce purchased in Beaverton at the farmer's market are contaminated.
Unless there happened to be a private or military perchlorate manufacturing or storage facility nearby that was dumping or letting this stuff leak into the ground or surface water. It's not like they have only been finding this stuff at Cape Canaveral or something.
I've found doing exercise after work helps me get to sleep later that night. Also sex is great for just before you want to get to sleep, very relaxing, but that's tougher to obtain, heh.
I have found that exercise right after work is ok, but anything later than 8 or so will tend to keep me up. I read something recently that exercising in the morning, rather than the evening, is actually better for getting a good night's sleep.
I find your second suggestion to work well also, but you have to find a partner who is having trouble sleeping as well. Or maybe find a sleep doctor to prescribe it "See honey, it says right here, 'Take two per night, right before bedtime.'"
I would suspicion that thyroid function might come into play.
My father had Grave's disease, i.e. over-active thyroid, and he found that in addition to weight loss he was sleeping less. Your body may need more sleep, but when your metabolism is saying "go,go,go" at the same time, it is difficult to get it. He would feel exhausted during the day, but not be able to sleep at night.
Mankind got by for countless milennia before this whole concept of "paying for music" started....
Destroy the music industry, and music will survive. Indeed, it would probably do a bit better. Folk Festivals of late have devolved into drunk people covering the Beatles.
Ah, the old "today's music is crap that's not worth paying for, but I gotta steal it anyways" argument. Way to rationalize.
There certainly are some musicians out there who play just for the love of music, but the ones who sell their music probably do so with the expectation of getting paid. If you don't want to pay for it, then by all means go find some free music. Taking something that someone else produced with the expectation of payment, no matter how crappy you might think it is, is still stealing.
The sales tax idea also opens up a whole can of worms when considering money that people have already saved away when the switch is made. Money saved in taxable accounts has already been taxed as income and now if they withdraw and spend it, it will get taxed again. Traditional IRAs could be taxed upon spending since income tax was never paid on those, but what about Roth IRAs? The contributions were taxed as income, but any interest or capital appreciation was not. I am sure there are other issues that would come up during the transition as well.
Hitler thought his armies and his works (esp. with regard to the Jews) were holy, and killed in God's name. Or, at least, that's what he claimed he thought.
Hitler may have been anti-Jew, but I don't think he was for any religion other than the worship of Hitler himself.
Big Bang Cosmology? Isn't that like when Homer made that makeup gun?
No, that was Big Bang Cosmetology. Not to be confused with Big Bang Cometology, i.e. when Bart discovered the comet that threatened to destroy Springfield.
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I think the most painful game playing experience had to be the "Decathalon" game on Atari (or if your parents had to be different, Colecovision). There was one race on there, I don't remember if it was 5K, 10K, or what, but you had to keep vigorously rocking the controller back and forth continuously for several minutes. I realize that most slashdotters can handle those types of hand motions with ease now, but as a little kid it was tough!
Maybe the poster is actually a Chinese official looking for holes in their set up? The first thing I thought when reading this was if someone did know a good way around the censorship, would posting it on the internet really be a smart thing to do?
And are all these independent and foreign studios going to expect to be paid? Or do they just live off the adoration of their fans and the smug knowledge that they aren't corporate tools?
Sure they wouldn't ordinarily buy it because they can get it for free. This argument sounds like a major cop-out to me. I am inclined to think that if they couldn't get ANY movies off of the net, then they would probably pay to go see, rent, or buy a movie once in a while. This argument might be analogous to sneaking into a movie theater without paying. Nobody loses anything as long as the theater wasn't going to fill up anyway and you weren't planning on seeing the movie otherwise, right? I am sure that the manager of any movie theater, concert, or sporting event would find that argument very convincing.
This is something they are offering their customers. The crap could be easily removed by not installing it in the first place and instead downloading Firefox directly.
You are right. Training the poor and under privileged on IT is truly altruistic. Once they gain some skills, your job can be shipped over there to be done for workers getting a couple dollars a day.
Your second paragraph seems to contradict itself. If it isn't from his personal account then how is he saving loads of taxes? If he donated the money to start the foundation, why does it matter if this donation comes from the foundation or his "personal" account anyway?
What? Every slashdotter knows that computers all by themselves can provide clean drinking water, cure malaria, stimulate crippled economies, while giving your mouth a clean minty feeling. They can also teach children better than any human teacher and even if that child only learns how to use the computer itself, he will be well-prepared for a job that will eventually be shipped overseas. This "Steve Jobs" guy doesn't know crap.
Reading slashdot while noticing every grammar and spelling error would be a painful exercise indeed.
I hope you don't live in an area where West Nile Virus is a concern.
How often do you see birds flying at more than like 1000 ft? Your average sparrow or such probably sees less elevation change on a daily basis than someone working on the 50th floor in an office building. I really don't see that kind of altitude difference resulting in any significant adaptation.
I am curious amongst what group did "America" have a 95+% approval rating with? The Bush administration?
Iraq had lots of time to hide and WMDs they may have had. Or maybe they never really had any at all at it was just a collassal mistake.
The fact that we have failed to find any WMD pretty much makes whether they existed or not irrelevent in terms of the justification for the war. If he never had them, then it was all a big mistake. If he hid them well, then probably someone knows where they are and they are probably not our friends. If they were smuggled into Syria/Jordan/Iran then obviously we have nothing to worry about since they are all such good friends of ours. However you slice it the WMD were either not there or we failed to secure them.
And most of those deaths came from terrorist attacks after the fall of Saddam. President Bush said he wanted to take the war to the terrorists, and in that he's been successful. Every car bomb that blows up a police station in Basra is a car bomb that won't blow up a police station in Chicago, Atlanta, or Denver.
Indeed, it was a major miscalculation by the administration in not planning for this phase of the war. Despite what Rummy said we could have waited until our troops were properly equipped before attacking.
Your statement about the car bombs is utter BS. It is way easier to bomb a convoy in Iraq given the general lack of security and availability of ordnance than it would be on US soil. The people making these attacks in Iraq probably couldn't even afford the plane ticket to get to the US. I am sure that Osama would love to see daily bombings in the US taking out hundreds of civilians rather than a handful of soldiers.
Let's practice:
Me: "'Duh' and 'doh' are not the same thing, duh!"
You: "Doh!"
I do check the news on the web occasionally for any important breaking news, but rarely is there anything that affects me so directly that it couldn't wait until the next day. I also enjoy the intellectually superior feeling I get when reading the local letters to the editor. The newspaper is also a much better medium for reading while sitting in the bathro^H^H^H^H^H^H car.
It might only slightly shift it, but for a planet far far away, that slight shift might be enough to cause a ELE on the planet that the comet might now ultamitely hit.
Or we may alter the trajectory such that it now avoids a collision. The spared aliens, appreciating our act of mercy, will decide to not invade our planet and steal out precious bodily fluids.
Supposedly this mission and the movie were conceived of around the same time and the names were just coincidentally the same. Supposedly.
That is not completely accurate. The National Research Coucil released a study today that concluded that perchlorate levels 20 times higher than those proposed by the EPA would be safe. While the EPA will probably increase its proposed limits due to this study, it is unlikely that it will be 20 times higher. As interesting side note, an article on WebMD on this story had the headline "Panel: Rocket Fuel Chemical in Water Is Safe", so drink up!
Unless there happened to be a private or military perchlorate manufacturing or storage facility nearby that was dumping or letting this stuff leak into the ground or surface water. It's not like they have only been finding this stuff at Cape Canaveral or something.
I have found that exercise right after work is ok, but anything later than 8 or so will tend to keep me up. I read something recently that exercising in the morning, rather than the evening, is actually better for getting a good night's sleep.
I find your second suggestion to work well also, but you have to find a partner who is having trouble sleeping as well. Or maybe find a sleep doctor to prescribe it "See honey, it says right here, 'Take two per night, right before bedtime.'"
My father had Grave's disease, i.e. over-active thyroid, and he found that in addition to weight loss he was sleeping less. Your body may need more sleep, but when your metabolism is saying "go,go,go" at the same time, it is difficult to get it. He would feel exhausted during the day, but not be able to sleep at night.
Destroy the music industry, and music will survive. Indeed, it would probably do a bit better. Folk Festivals of late have devolved into drunk people covering the Beatles.
Ah, the old "today's music is crap that's not worth paying for, but I gotta steal it anyways" argument. Way to rationalize.
There certainly are some musicians out there who play just for the love of music, but the ones who sell their music probably do so with the expectation of getting paid. If you don't want to pay for it, then by all means go find some free music. Taking something that someone else produced with the expectation of payment, no matter how crappy you might think it is, is still stealing.
The sales tax idea also opens up a whole can of worms when considering money that people have already saved away when the switch is made. Money saved in taxable accounts has already been taxed as income and now if they withdraw and spend it, it will get taxed again. Traditional IRAs could be taxed upon spending since income tax was never paid on those, but what about Roth IRAs? The contributions were taxed as income, but any interest or capital appreciation was not. I am sure there are other issues that would come up during the transition as well.
Hitler may have been anti-Jew, but I don't think he was for any religion other than the worship of Hitler himself.
No, that was Big Bang Cosmetology. Not to be confused with Big Bang Cometology, i.e. when Bart discovered the comet that threatened to destroy Springfield.