Why does everyone talk about the freakin' AI? The game is so sluggish that it's unplayable at resolutions higher than 640x800 on a dual-core, 2 ghz machine with 2 gigs of ram. It's based on a game from the mid-90s, when 33 mhz was a mid-level machine...
it is human, then those other considerations are irrelevant, because it becomes a question of "are we willing to commit infanticide"
Absolutely correct. Which is why the position of pro-life, "except in cases of rape and incest" is an incomprehensible position. Since when is "having a crappy dad" not only capital offense, but one that doesn't even need a trial. Corruption of blood was one of the things we fought the British over.
There is a lot of overlap between the "don't kill babies" and "don't kill prisoners" camps that I just wanted to make sure was not being cast aside in order to discredit one side of the argument.
Indeed. Unless it's a union ploy and it really does work.
In which case, $250k per square mile doesn't really seem that bad to me, though, assuming it's the one-time installation fee and not a yearly operational cost. That's 640 acres, and at Chicago's population density of 12k per square mile means the system only costs $20 per "covered" resident.
Received $3,000 worth in welfare? Once you get a steady job you are taxed until you can pay back that $3K you "borrowed" from the government.
State CompTroller: What can we do to encourage people to leave welfare?
Darkness404: Oh, I know, how a bout we sock 'em with a big debt the instant they can kinda get free of it!
I'm all for people paying back welfare if they don't need it, but there should at least be some kind of grace period before we start nosing around asking "where is my money" like a gold-toothed loan shark. After a period on welfare, I can't imagine the first job out of the gate is going to be all that great, compensation wise, that there is money to spare. Let 'em move up the ladder a bit first. I mean, just getting off welfare benefits those of us who are paying for it, even if it never gets paid back.
Step 1: Eliminate corporate taxes. (and as another commenter opined, eliminate the ludicrous notion of corporate person-hood while you're at it)
I dunno, I think that the idea of a way to limit liability to your investment into a company is a good thing, as it lets people quantify their risks somewhat upon incorporating. This shouldn't be free however, there ought to be a price on top of taxes, and that price should be related to the risk the government (or perhaps a private insurer) is underwriting against your company's failure.
Corporations do need to have a certain amount of "personhood" however. They need to be able to hold assets, otherwise you get the situation where you're always at risk of the guy you designated as the "asset holder" running away with important pieces of the company. That personhood and limited liability should not, however, extend to shielding executives from criminal liability, and perhaps should also not shield shareholders from civil responsibility for real damages in the event such occur.
Find an approach to doing math that makes it enjoyable for you. One thing that helped me a lot was getting a large whiteboard. I find I enjoy doing math more pacing back in front of a board and whatever else comes along with doing work on a board rather than a piece of lined paper. Chalk would have been better.
I disagree on chalk, but only because I have the visual acuity to see the dust floating on the air, the finkckyness to be unable to stop imagining that breathing the dust I can see would be harmful, and juuust enough sensitivity to high-pitched scraping sounds that every stroke is torture to me. If you get a good chalk-board (real slate, btw, or one of the expensive synthetics. paint just doesn't cut it. It takes a lot of effort to find a good chalk board.) some of that is mitigated.
Otherwise, markers are better. They dry out quicker, but if you care for them they're just as easy to see, allow multiple, vivid, colors, and have a significantly lower coefficient of friction across the board (so you can write more stuff in the same amount of time. Or just bigger stuff.)
More importantly, you can get a good quality marker board for cheap. By cheap, I'm talking $12 for a four foot by eight foot rectangle from the local big-box home supply store. One cut free if you live in a small location. Just get a plain white tile board panel and mount it anywhere you care to. It's a little harder to clean the first couple of times but after that the standard fuzzy styrofoam markerboard eraser will work fine. Considering the same size board from staples would, if I'm extrapolating correctly) cost about $450, I'd say it's a pretty reasonable compromise.
The gospels don't have anything at all to say specifically about abortion. You have to extrapolate from "first principles" based on other things that are in there, so it comes down to the two main camps:
Abortion is the destruction of a mass of cells that aren't a person. It's no more a murder than popping a zit is murder. The reason doesn't really matter.
It's the deliberate killing of a human being in his/her most defenseless state. The reason doesn't really matter here, either.
The Gospels do have things to say about capital punishment—definitely don't do it over something petty like adultery (John 8:3-11), and probably don't do it ever, as well as soldiering (Luke 3:14, al though the soldiers described sound more like what we would call, "police")
Anyway,
So if anyone missed anything it's you - that in a democracy you simply cannot please all the people all the time. If it's not your turn to be pleased well, just get over it already
is all kinds of wrong. In a Democracy (or a Republic — but with democratically elected representatives, as the US was originally envisioned), if you're the party that the majority is displeasing, you're supposed to shout it from the rooftops, make eloquent speeches, or just plain buy as much ad time as you can afford. Things never change without enough people clamoring for it.
Further, the whole point of a Republic is to temper Democracy. Sometimes, "Majority Rule" is "three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." Representatives are supposed to protect minorities, at least a little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ which the kindle can access from anywhere. It's the actual, factual, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy in every way except for the name and the missing words, "Don't Panic."
I don't know what their motivations are, but a (recent perhaps?) problem is that the "wall of separation between church and state" is often used as a cudgel with which the state makes demands upon the religious that are contrary to their beliefs.
For instance, when the public option finally starts using public money to fund abortions (it'll take all of what, five minutes for the executive order to be rescinded or overturned?) what are you going to do about the people who believe abortions are, literally, murder? People who were merely vociferous before about living in a society that permitted murders to take place might feel a lot more strongly about becoming accessories to it by virtue of funding it.
Yet, while the state rolls onward, their needs will not be considered. The wall of separation now means that the state can do what it wants irrespective of religious concerns, including requiring the religious to defile themselves.
This board's motivations may be more sinister than that, but the issue remains that the state goes too far in "ignoring" religion, so they have this sentiment to feed upon. It's not at all unlike the way the certain administrations "don't ever want a crisis to go to waste."
If you look at the causes of distracted driving accidents, cell phones (even texting) are way down on the list. Orders of magnitude more dangerous is eating or consuming a beverage (non-alchy) while driving. We should go for the percentages and start with the thing that will be the most benefit rather than the thing that will be the least benefit, but is politically unpopular enough that no one will object to its ban.
Agreed. Copyright definitely should not be abolished. It should just be short enough that the generation in their twenties when a work comes out do not expire before its copyright does. And definitely short enough that their grandkids do not expire before its copyright does.
Yes, now what if, instead of looking at the thermometer, we each separately asked a shady looking character who claimed to have a thermometer in paper bag. That'd be independent measurements of the same thing, for sure!
Good point. But the "spreadsheet technology" might. I'm sure it works, wonkily well, with 50k people and unknown hundreds of films. But how many pirates are there? If it's less than 65,536 total pirates, then maybe piracy isn't that big of a problem, globally.
If Windows was truly perfect, then we could consider "Operating Systems" to be a solved problem. We wouldn't need a fifty billion dollar software company any more, we'd just need someone to print bits on a polycarbonate cylinder and/or transmit them over glass tubes.
* It's gotta get out the door and capitalism treats low quality as a PR problem, instead of a people problem.
At first I thought this was an indictment of capitalism, but then I strained to think of an economic system that treats it differently and realized that you can claim to think of low quality as a "people problem" if the users are the people who are the problem...
Adding to the list at one end while popping things off the list at the other end does not lead to "less confusion." There has never been 100% 2^10n prefixes. Further computer people should know all about the dangers of overloading operators. It's usually better not to.
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31 people, but billions of gut bacteria...
Why does everyone talk about the freakin' AI? The game is so sluggish that it's unplayable at resolutions higher than 640x800 on a dual-core, 2 ghz machine with 2 gigs of ram. It's based on a game from the mid-90s, when 33 mhz was a mid-level machine...
it is human, then those other considerations are irrelevant, because it becomes a question of "are we willing to commit infanticide"
Absolutely correct. Which is why the position of pro-life, "except in cases of rape and incest" is an incomprehensible position. Since when is "having a crappy dad" not only capital offense, but one that doesn't even need a trial. Corruption of blood was one of the things we fought the British over.
There is a lot of overlap between the "don't kill babies" and "don't kill prisoners" camps that I just wanted to make sure was not being cast aside in order to discredit one side of the argument.
You seem to be using a different measure of "not even close" than most people.
Canada: 75 dBpeople
LA: 72 dBpeople.
That's less than 3 dB difference. That's pretty close.
Indeed. Unless it's a union ploy and it really does work.
In which case, $250k per square mile doesn't really seem that bad to me, though, assuming it's the one-time installation fee and not a yearly operational cost. That's 640 acres, and at Chicago's population density of 12k per square mile means the system only costs $20 per "covered" resident.
Received $3,000 worth in welfare? Once you get a steady job you are taxed until you can pay back that $3K you "borrowed" from the government.
State CompTroller: What can we do to encourage people to leave welfare?
Darkness404: Oh, I know, how a bout we sock 'em with a big debt the instant they can kinda get free of it!
I'm all for people paying back welfare if they don't need it, but there should at least be some kind of grace period before we start nosing around asking "where is my money" like a gold-toothed loan shark. After a period on welfare, I can't imagine the first job out of the gate is going to be all that great, compensation wise, that there is money to spare. Let 'em move up the ladder a bit first. I mean, just getting off welfare benefits those of us who are paying for it, even if it never gets paid back.
Step 1: Eliminate corporate taxes. (and as another commenter opined, eliminate the ludicrous notion of corporate person-hood while you're at it)
I dunno, I think that the idea of a way to limit liability to your investment into a company is a good thing, as it lets people quantify their risks somewhat upon incorporating. This shouldn't be free however, there ought to be a price on top of taxes, and that price should be related to the risk the government (or perhaps a private insurer) is underwriting against your company's failure.
Corporations do need to have a certain amount of "personhood" however. They need to be able to hold assets, otherwise you get the situation where you're always at risk of the guy you designated as the "asset holder" running away with important pieces of the company. That personhood and limited liability should not, however, extend to shielding executives from criminal liability, and perhaps should also not shield shareholders from civil responsibility for real damages in the event such occur.
Find an approach to doing math that makes it enjoyable for you. One thing that helped me a lot was getting a large whiteboard. I find I enjoy doing math more pacing back in front of a board and whatever else comes along with doing work on a board rather than a piece of lined paper. Chalk would have been better.
I disagree on chalk, but only because I have the visual acuity to see the dust floating on the air, the finkckyness to be unable to stop imagining that breathing the dust I can see would be harmful, and juuust enough sensitivity to high-pitched scraping sounds that every stroke is torture to me. If you get a good chalk-board (real slate, btw, or one of the expensive synthetics. paint just doesn't cut it. It takes a lot of effort to find a good chalk board.) some of that is mitigated.
Otherwise, markers are better. They dry out quicker, but if you care for them they're just as easy to see, allow multiple, vivid, colors, and have a significantly lower coefficient of friction across the board (so you can write more stuff in the same amount of time. Or just bigger stuff.)
More importantly, you can get a good quality marker board for cheap. By cheap, I'm talking $12 for a four foot by eight foot rectangle from the local big-box home supply store. One cut free if you live in a small location. Just get a plain white tile board panel and mount it anywhere you care to. It's a little harder to clean the first couple of times but after that the standard fuzzy styrofoam markerboard eraser will work fine. Considering the same size board from staples would, if I'm extrapolating correctly) cost about $450, I'd say it's a pretty reasonable compromise.
Hmm..
The gospels don't have anything at all to say specifically about abortion. You have to extrapolate from "first principles" based on other things that are in there, so it comes down to the two main camps:
The Gospels do have things to say about capital punishment—definitely don't do it over something petty like adultery (John 8:3-11), and probably don't do it ever, as well as soldiering (Luke 3:14, al though the soldiers described sound more like what we would call, "police")
Anyway,
So if anyone missed anything it's you - that in a democracy you simply cannot please all the people all the time. If it's not your turn to be pleased well, just get over it already
is all kinds of wrong. In a Democracy (or a Republic — but with democratically elected representatives, as the US was originally envisioned), if you're the party that the majority is displeasing, you're supposed to shout it from the rooftops, make eloquent speeches, or just plain buy as much ad time as you can afford. Things never change without enough people clamoring for it.
Further, the whole point of a Republic is to temper Democracy. Sometimes, "Majority Rule" is "three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." Representatives are supposed to protect minorities, at least a little.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/ which the kindle can access from anywhere. It's the actual, factual, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy in every way except for the name and the missing words, "Don't Panic."
It's odd, yes, because I hardly hear the same complaints about tax dollars going towards capital punishment.
Yes, and they're from the same people. Did you think pro-life just meant babies?
I don't know what their motivations are, but a (recent perhaps?) problem is that the "wall of separation between church and state" is often used as a cudgel with which the state makes demands upon the religious that are contrary to their beliefs.
For instance, when the public option finally starts using public money to fund abortions (it'll take all of what, five minutes for the executive order to be rescinded or overturned?) what are you going to do about the people who believe abortions are, literally, murder? People who were merely vociferous before about living in a society that permitted murders to take place might feel a lot more strongly about becoming accessories to it by virtue of funding it.
Yet, while the state rolls onward, their needs will not be considered. The wall of separation now means that the state can do what it wants irrespective of religious concerns, including requiring the religious to defile themselves.
This board's motivations may be more sinister than that, but the issue remains that the state goes too far in "ignoring" religion, so they have this sentiment to feed upon. It's not at all unlike the way the certain administrations "don't ever want a crisis to go to waste."
Your point being? In 10 years since I started using it, I still don't know all the Vi commands and Emacs is so daunting I never even attempted it.
If you look at the causes of distracted driving accidents, cell phones (even texting) are way down on the list. Orders of magnitude more dangerous is eating or consuming a beverage (non-alchy) while driving. We should go for the percentages and start with the thing that will be the most benefit rather than the thing that will be the least benefit, but is politically unpopular enough that no one will object to its ban.
How many of those problems are really Toyota problems and not one of:
Come up with a way to sift those and other incidences of driver error out of the numbers and then you got something to talk about.
Agreed. Copyright definitely should not be abolished. It should just be short enough that the generation in their twenties when a work comes out do not expire before its copyright does. And definitely short enough that their grandkids do not expire before its copyright does.
Yes, now what if, instead of looking at the thermometer, we each separately asked a shady looking character who claimed to have a thermometer in paper bag. That'd be independent measurements of the same thing, for sure!
Good point. But the "spreadsheet technology" might. I'm sure it works, wonkily well, with 50k people and unknown hundreds of films. But how many pirates are there? If it's less than 65,536 total pirates, then maybe piracy isn't that big of a problem, globally.
I hate to break it to you, but we haven't had a republic since 1913.
Are you in one of the non-US, english-speaking countries that reads slashdot?
I mean, he did the best he could. Do you really think someone else would have come up with a better screen play from the same source material?
If Windows was truly perfect, then we could consider "Operating Systems" to be a solved problem. We wouldn't need a fifty billion dollar software company any more, we'd just need someone to print bits on a polycarbonate cylinder and/or transmit them over glass tubes.
Bah, stupid submit button right next to the continue editing button.
$cat <<endhere >hw.c
> int main()
> {
> printf("Hello, world");
> return 0;
> }
> endhere
$gcc -o hw hw.c
w.c: In function ‘main’:
hw.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’
$cat hw.c
int main() {
printf("Hello, world");
return 0;
}
THEEND
* It's gotta get out the door and capitalism treats low quality as a PR problem, instead of a people problem.
At first I thought this was an indictment of capitalism, but then I strained to think of an economic system that treats it differently and realized that you can claim to think of low quality as a "people problem" if the users are the people who are the problem...
Adding to the list at one end while popping things off the list at the other end does not lead to "less confusion." There has never been 100% 2^10n prefixes. Further computer people should know all about the dangers of overloading operators. It's usually better not to.