Clausewitz is the author of another quote quite relevant in the current context: "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
Here goes my chance of making millions by selling half a dozen books (all with a different title but practically identical contents) full of logical fallacies, incoherent sentences, and forgeries. Eh.
Before you start posting stupid "If Microsoft made cars" jokes, RTFA: Windows Automotive, by the way, does not share a network with the low-level systems of a vehicle--so a software crash won't result in, say, brake failure.
The question is, though, do we need such things in our cars? Do we really need cars equipped with "home entertainment systems," if these cars will only be used for trips to the nearest shop or driving to work?
These are not stories on ads. They are advertisements for advertisements. You see, so many people block ads on/. nowadays that it's really cutting into the revenues. It's hurting the guys that run this site, and it's hurting them bad (can't afford gin'n'tonics anymore, etc). Of course they had to do something to stop this, so they came up with this plan: post tons of articles on ads in games, until people get so used to seeing ads on their computer screens that they will start feeling nauseated when there's no ads on the screen, and turn/. ads back on.
Ahh, it saddens me to think of all the heroes that have fallen in countless D&D combats. The best warriors are routinely slaughtered, but for what purpose? What are they fihting and dying for? Gold? But what good has all this gold brought them? Had they stayed at home, they would have become good farmers or blacksmiths (or, who knows, perhaps even philosophers, searching for a better tomorrow), good husbands to their wives, good fathers to their sons and daughters. But alas, they are all gone. They have all died in this pointless war.
*wipes a tear from his face, grabs his bag'o'dice and notebook, and marches off into a distant realm*
Leaving that aside, one of the things i've found curious is how none of the three known species of vampire bats are called vampyrus or Vampyrum. Of those that are, none feed on blood. It's quite funny how far superstition can sometimes go:7
Well, a piece of art can never be devoid of any functionality: even a piece of modern sculpture can be used for something (perhaps for cracking its creator's skull). It is true, however, that a work of art is quite often thought to have lost its original function. An ornate hammer is not a hammer anymore, in the sense that noone would use it for pounding nails. Note, however, that this loss of function is completely conventional: it's not a hammer anymore because some people have agreed to see it as a piece of art, not a hammer.
Art can never exist without any constraints. In fact, it needs them to be what it is. Art always means creating something within some certain limits, whether they be physical or completely conventional, and breaking the "rules" set by these limitations. In this sense, art is always engineering and engineering is (an) art. The fact that these two things are generally not equated nowadays is just a (modern?) convention -- it is thought that art requires this "little extra something" that pure engineering isn't considered to be capable of.
What you said only applies for art as in "skill." Car design is, after all, engineering. A designer can never do anything he pleases, for he is restriced by the laws of physics, etc. It should also be taken into account that something of high aesthetic value might not always be the most functional, at least not in the pragmatic sense (see, for instance, "high fashion" clothes, or the Colani Laiglon).
The book is probably just so damn shitty (having approximately just as much quality as the cruddy review) that there was nothing else to talk about except for the plot and the dangers of electronic voting. The second part is, of course, much more worthy of mention, so it got chucked under the Politics topic. End of story.
Psst! Don't tell anyone, but the guy that wrote this review is actually a part of the conspiracy! These are not just random commas. They're part of the secret message encoded into the text!
I guess it depends on the person, and probably on the drink as well. A 0,5l bottle of Coke is usually enough to turn me into a Duracell bunny; a cup of coffee will have the same effect (coming down from there is quite painful, though). At the same time, my usual litre and a half of green tea per day doesn't have that kind of effects.
Google isn't reporting or delivering news. It is indexing those sites that do.
I think the real question is, whether what they're serving is news at all. If you do a search on "John Kerry", then most of the first page of results are either op-eds or press releases. Do these really count as news? Even though they might contain information new to me, i still wouldn't call them news, for factual information is always of secondary importance for them. It's already processed, analysed, digested.
I do realise that even news proper are already at least somewhat processed by reporters, editors, etc (and thus always represent some particular person's point of view, just like in the case of a car crash every witness has their own point of view), but they still allow me to apply my own point of view to it (what does it mean? What consequences does this even have?).
Listing "facts only" does have its own problems, though. With all this information around, it can be rather difficult to keep your eye on everything that interests you and still be able to compose a coherent picture out all those tiny fragments. All sorts of analyses do help to make this easier -- but the price is sacrificing neutrality.
Stickers? Gah. Mine's got a whole Civic stuck to it! OK, so i do need a very long cable to actually use it (most public libraries don't like it if you bring along a Civic, not even one without an engine), but at least i'm way more fashionable than any of you wannabes.
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Clausewitz is the author of another quote quite relevant in the current context: "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
...and you drink it out of a bottle (or a carton) that you just opened with the same fingers that you just used for scratching your crotch...
According to Rudyard Kipling, it was a very wise woman.
Perhaps i should remind you that the milk you're drinking right now gushed out of a cow.
Here goes my chance of making millions by selling half a dozen books (all with a different title but practically identical contents) full of logical fallacies, incoherent sentences, and forgeries. Eh.
Prove that the dotbomb was a terrorist plot (you could call it "suicide-dot-bomb") to hurt the US economy.
Eh. You were lucky then. We had none of that posh entertainment, so we just had to slug it out until we all passed out due to heavy blood loss :7
Eh. I knew you (or someone else) would say that. Yeah, it's completely fine by me :)
[Obligatory "when i was a kid, we didn't need none of that shit" reply]
The question is, though, do we need such things in our cars? Do we really need cars equipped with "home entertainment systems," if these cars will only be used for trips to the nearest shop or driving to work?
These are not stories on ads. They are advertisements for advertisements. You see, so many people block ads on /. nowadays that it's really cutting into the revenues. It's hurting the guys that run this site, and it's hurting them bad (can't afford gin'n'tonics anymore, etc). Of course they had to do something to stop this, so they came up with this plan: post tons of articles on ads in games, until people get so used to seeing ads on their computer screens that they will start feeling nauseated when there's no ads on the screen, and turn /. ads back on.
*wipes a tear from his face, grabs his bag'o'dice and notebook, and marches off into a distant realm*
Leaving that aside, one of the things i've found curious is how none of the three known species of vampire bats are called vampyrus or Vampyrum. Of those that are, none feed on blood. It's quite funny how far superstition can sometimes go :7
Shouldn't Nerdilius be the genus and Slashdotius the species, not the other way around?
"Pomo" is also the Finnish for "boss."
There's an enormous number of internets, but only one (The) Internet.
Art can never exist without any constraints. In fact, it needs them to be what it is. Art always means creating something within some certain limits, whether they be physical or completely conventional, and breaking the "rules" set by these limitations. In this sense, art is always engineering and engineering is (an) art. The fact that these two things are generally not equated nowadays is just a (modern?) convention -- it is thought that art requires this "little extra something" that pure engineering isn't considered to be capable of.
What you said only applies for art as in "skill." Car design is, after all, engineering. A designer can never do anything he pleases, for he is restriced by the laws of physics, etc. It should also be taken into account that something of high aesthetic value might not always be the most functional, at least not in the pragmatic sense (see, for instance, "high fashion" clothes, or the Colani Laiglon).
The book is probably just so damn shitty (having approximately just as much quality as the cruddy review) that there was nothing else to talk about except for the plot and the dangers of electronic voting. The second part is, of course, much more worthy of mention, so it got chucked under the Politics topic. End of story.
Psst! Don't tell anyone, but the guy that wrote this review is actually a part of the conspiracy! These are not just random commas. They're part of the secret message encoded into the text!
And you, comrade, seem to forget that the commies were the one that launched Vostok :7
I guess it depends on the person, and probably on the drink as well. A 0,5l bottle of Coke is usually enough to turn me into a Duracell bunny; a cup of coffee will have the same effect (coming down from there is quite painful, though). At the same time, my usual litre and a half of green tea per day doesn't have that kind of effects.
I guess they didn't have the patience to wait for another month until it gets cold enough outside :7
I think the real question is, whether what they're serving is news at all. If you do a search on "John Kerry", then most of the first page of results are either op-eds or press releases. Do these really count as news? Even though they might contain information new to me, i still wouldn't call them news, for factual information is always of secondary importance for them. It's already processed, analysed, digested.
I do realise that even news proper are already at least somewhat processed by reporters, editors, etc (and thus always represent some particular person's point of view, just like in the case of a car crash every witness has their own point of view), but they still allow me to apply my own point of view to it (what does it mean? What consequences does this even have?).
Listing "facts only" does have its own problems, though. With all this information around, it can be rather difficult to keep your eye on everything that interests you and still be able to compose a coherent picture out all those tiny fragments. All sorts of analyses do help to make this easier -- but the price is sacrificing neutrality.
Stickers? Gah. Mine's got a whole Civic stuck to it! OK, so i do need a very long cable to actually use it (most public libraries don't like it if you bring along a Civic, not even one without an engine), but at least i'm way more fashionable than any of you wannabes.