Yes, well, it's a problem with the slashcode. If you'll just leave your username, password, full name, address, and social security number in a reply below, we'll address this problem as soon as we can.
Signed, A totally legitimate slashdot developer, I promise.
Aren't we already being sniveling hipsters who don't like Debian's successor, Ubuntu, for being too mainstream already? Or have I lost track of the linux pulse at some point?
While I can understand residual anger at the profession of the person who did that to you, it's not actually the case that doctors are malicious or generally ignorant.
I really do hope we're past the point that any major governments are populated with people that view AIDS as a "gay plague", because otherwise, I can easily see petty local leaders using this research to arrest sick people and charge them with murder.
The point is that such prognostications turned out to be wrong. Don't get me wrong, I think bitcoins are stupid, but that doesn't make them lacking monetary value to other people.
The idea of having a concrete and photographically provable identity is less than a century old. There was a time when leaving town, changing your name, and never speaking to anyone you knew again would effectively erase you(fame or infamy aside).
Nowadays, you need paperwork proving who you are to move into a new place. And those with the will can identify you uniquely by your genes.
Basic social introspection is trivially useful, and is used for more effective governance, as long as politics don't interfere.
It does sometimes? I'm not sure how much quantification you're wanting here. Not every job in government is inherently political.
Also: word to the wise, we can fly, in spite of gravity. Because good designs can work around known forces. You seem to be taking a very 1 dimensional perspective on this.
That's just an argument from personal incredulity, and you know it. Basic social introspection is trivially useful, and is used for more effective governance, as long as politics don't interfere. Understanding recidivism rates, for example, is an incredibly basic tool of a healthy legal system. Societies that apply data-driven understanding of how people work to their governance make for better places to live.
I'm not saying all social sciences are useful, but if that were the threshold, you'd have to prove all software is useful too.
Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about. Post doctoral research in social sciences(which don't typically fall under STEM, in spite of that "science" there) tends to be informative and useful. Graduate level history has a ton still to uncover. I could see your argument applied to thinks like art of philosophy, but I don't really agree.
If anything the T part of STEM(and that's where my job is) is among the most suited areas for associates degree.
"I think X is mostly bullshit therefor X isn't really useful" isn't a good approach to academia.
Those two problems are quite distinct. Menu->Ribbon is a transition from power user focus to broader usability. If you're a power user who likes quick access to known items, a menu is faster and more powerful. If you're baffled by what everything means on this big, complicated piece of software, a ribbon lets you look around for the icon that "looks right"(but it takes up more screen real estate, frequently requires digging or modification for highly situational tools, and is visually cluttered).
Not all usability improvements apply to all users, and being annoyed that a developer focuses some other class of users besides yourself is ok.
Of course, we've railed against this here on slashdot in the past. Because it was abused to silence dissenters. The plague of unilateral unread contracts and contract-like-legal-entities are putting people under thousands if not tens of thousands of stipulations they don't even know about.
I don't like spammers, and I wish they'd burn forever, but these laws make me extraordinarily wary. I read somewhere that if every agreed-to-EULA was analyzed and explained properly by a lawyer, it would take far, far more than 24 man-hours per lawyer in the world per day to do. That's just a symptom that something is terribly, terribly broken.
I can't find any data to corroborate your claim. In fact, it looks like the federal government of the U.S. didn't start tracking vehicular deaths until the late 1990s, as far as all the sources I checked indicate.
The true communists were never in government. Just like any idealists who actually strive to live their ideals, going into governance is seen as at best an unwanted duty and the first step towards compromise. The opportunists like Mao had no such qualms.
Well, yes and no. The genetic drift measurements we use depend on a relatively consistent rate of selection. A few generations in a hyper-extreme environment, with lots of territory and niches to gain, and lots of extinction potential might happen at a substantially faster and less predictable rate. Especially since extreme environments have been shown to affect mutation rate.
1. Don't be dumb, it'd be bones if anything. 2. Bogus religious related "finds"(that duplicate previous bogus religious related finds) happen basically every few months.
Well, honestly, contacts shouldn't ever be something done in bulk like this anyways. The idea that a contract could be "Standardized" is silly. It is clearly not the result of a mutual discussion and agreement, but instead is an imposition by one party on the other.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, well, it's a problem with the slashcode. If you'll just leave your username, password, full name, address, and social security number in a reply below, we'll address this problem as soon as we can.
Signed,
A totally legitimate slashdot developer, I promise.
Yeah, I know that. But unknowingly doing so can still be a target for the bigots out there.
Aren't we already being sniveling hipsters who don't like Debian's successor, Ubuntu, for being too mainstream already? Or have I lost track of the linux pulse at some point?
While I can understand residual anger at the profession of the person who did that to you, it's not actually the case that doctors are malicious or generally ignorant.
I really do hope we're past the point that any major governments are populated with people that view AIDS as a "gay plague", because otherwise, I can easily see petty local leaders using this research to arrest sick people and charge them with murder.
The point is that such prognostications turned out to be wrong. Don't get me wrong, I think bitcoins are stupid, but that doesn't make them lacking monetary value to other people.
The idea of having a concrete and photographically provable identity is less than a century old. There was a time when leaving town, changing your name, and never speaking to anyone you knew again would effectively erase you(fame or infamy aside).
Nowadays, you need paperwork proving who you are to move into a new place. And those with the will can identify you uniquely by your genes.
Basic social introspection is trivially useful, and is used for more effective governance, as long as politics don't interfere.
It does sometimes? I'm not sure how much quantification you're wanting here. Not every job in government is inherently political.
Also: word to the wise, we can fly, in spite of gravity. Because good designs can work around known forces. You seem to be taking a very 1 dimensional perspective on this.
Oh, okay. I'm sure your anonymous screed against non-specific individuals in a field is totally a valid criticism of the field in general.
That's just an argument from personal incredulity, and you know it. Basic social introspection is trivially useful, and is used for more effective governance, as long as politics don't interfere. Understanding recidivism rates, for example, is an incredibly basic tool of a healthy legal system. Societies that apply data-driven understanding of how people work to their governance make for better places to live.
I'm not saying all social sciences are useful, but if that were the threshold, you'd have to prove all software is useful too.
But then who's going to move you to open floor layouts to "improve collaboration"?
Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about. Post doctoral research in social sciences(which don't typically fall under STEM, in spite of that "science" there) tends to be informative and useful. Graduate level history has a ton still to uncover. I could see your argument applied to thinks like art of philosophy, but I don't really agree.
If anything the T part of STEM(and that's where my job is) is among the most suited areas for associates degree.
"I think X is mostly bullshit therefor X isn't really useful" isn't a good approach to academia.
If it helps, corporate software is absolutely just as terrible.
Those two problems are quite distinct. Menu->Ribbon is a transition from power user focus to broader usability. If you're a power user who likes quick access to known items, a menu is faster and more powerful. If you're baffled by what everything means on this big, complicated piece of software, a ribbon lets you look around for the icon that "looks right"(but it takes up more screen real estate, frequently requires digging or modification for highly situational tools, and is visually cluttered).
Not all usability improvements apply to all users, and being annoyed that a developer focuses some other class of users besides yourself is ok.
Of course, we've railed against this here on slashdot in the past. Because it was abused to silence dissenters. The plague of unilateral unread contracts and contract-like-legal-entities are putting people under thousands if not tens of thousands of stipulations they don't even know about.
I don't like spammers, and I wish they'd burn forever, but these laws make me extraordinarily wary. I read somewhere that if every agreed-to-EULA was analyzed and explained properly by a lawyer, it would take far, far more than 24 man-hours per lawyer in the world per day to do. That's just a symptom that something is terribly, terribly broken.
Informative. A++++ would debate again.
I can't find any data to corroborate your claim. In fact, it looks like the federal government of the U.S. didn't start tracking vehicular deaths until the late 1990s, as far as all the sources I checked indicate.
Can you back up what you said?
The true communists were never in government. Just like any idealists who actually strive to live their ideals, going into governance is seen as at best an unwanted duty and the first step towards compromise. The opportunists like Mao had no such qualms.
Well, yes and no. The genetic drift measurements we use depend on a relatively consistent rate of selection. A few generations in a hyper-extreme environment, with lots of territory and niches to gain, and lots of extinction potential might happen at a substantially faster and less predictable rate. Especially since extreme environments have been shown to affect mutation rate.
1. Don't be dumb, it'd be bones if anything.
2. Bogus religious related "finds"(that duplicate previous bogus religious related finds) happen basically every few months.
Naw, it was just taken by a divine wind.
Lazy developers who don't add permissions to their built executable "just in case"?
Is it zero? Can we be legitimately concerned about indefinite human unemployment and the long-term phasing out of capitalism yet?
Well, honestly, contacts shouldn't ever be something done in bulk like this anyways. The idea that a contract could be "Standardized" is silly. It is clearly not the result of a mutual discussion and agreement, but instead is an imposition by one party on the other.
That solves what problem, exactly?