I think you're missing the point, which is that the GP would rather die in a global climate catastrophe than live in a world without freedom. I applaud her/him for this sentiment.
OTOH, if the OS is reporting GiB, then it ought to say GiB, not GB. Reporting that a "10 GB" (written on the box) hard disk has "9.3 GB" of space is confusing and misleading. If your definition of correctness in notation is adherence to internationally accepted standards for notation, then it is also incorrect. If you RTFA, then you will find that Ubuntu 10.10 is requiring that all applications either report "10GB" or "9.3 GiB", but not "9.3 GB" or "10 GiB". This is, in fact, a switch to correct and less misleading behavior. Whether or not it is more or less confusing may be a different matter.
Kind of like asking $sexual_preference people if they would like to be cured? Or perhaps asking $skin_colour people if they would like to be cured? Perhaps the "problem" is identifying colour blindness as a defect that needs a cure and trying to make all humans meet some baseline or be classified as defective.
Sure. We can ask all the straight people if they would like to be "cured" to gay, and vice versa. We can ask all the Egyptians if they would like to be "cured" to Mongolian, the Samoans if they would like to be "cured" to Polish, the Welsh if they would like to be "cured" to French. If we have the capability to do these things, then why should we not offer to do them? Let the advertisers phrase things however they like. I fail to see that this would in fact cause any harm.
We can already "cure" men to women and vice versa. Do you think that we should have kept that cat in the bag?
Furthermore, if you stupid bleeding hearts deny me the only chance I'll ever have to properly see a rainbow, I will never forgive you. There is much beauty in the world that I cannot currently perceive. Who are you that you would dare deny me that?
Your judgement that they are irresponsible does not necessarily give you the right to force them to act against what they perceive to be their best wishes. Of course, this bill appears to grant you that right. So much for liberty and the pursuit of happiness! And now life is no longer a right, it's a mandate.
Oh yes. There are certainly no offensive crazies, absolutely none at all, in . I'm not a Tea Partier, but this is really a non-issue in the big picture, in my opinion.
Better if you could remove data mobility from the equation. If somebody leaves their laptop in an unlocked office or a box of hard disks in the back seat of their car, it's quite likely to get stolen. So, knowing that that sort of thing will happen, it seems to make sense to force all sensitive data to be stored on physically and cyberly(just woke up, can't think of the proper word here, nurrrr) secured file servers.
It might be interesting to see how many control points you would need to distort the maps (along a spline or something) and get quite close to accurate.
Another possibility would be a really high resolution digital camera. My wife (historical linguist) has dealt some with manuscripts, and that was their method of digitizing them for further study. OTOH, she's not a museum curator or archivist; they probably have even better methods. If you want to do it right, talk to a curator or archivist of some sort. They deal with much more fragile and much more valuable documents on a regular basis.
I don't have any good ideas to contribute about the geocoding, unfortunately.
Or, of course, you could just throw out the crude attempt to classify people based on their crimes, and classify based on psychological evaluation. What you really want is a list of sociopaths, whether they be the blue collar flavor who flip out and kill somebody, or the white collar flavor who can keep their inhumanity in check long enough to make it through business school and do some real damage...
You should read David Brin's book Sundiver. It is set in a society that has this system. His portrayal of it seems reasonable (although "seems reasonable" and "is correct" are two very different beasts, I know), and is definitely not something I want to live in the middle of. I'd vote against this proposal.
Regardless of whether or not he deserved this, it is not a correct application of US laws (to the best of my understanding; IANAL). If he has committed a particular act which caused harm, then he should be sued separately. You don't get to just randomly include extra people after the fact as defendants in a lawsuit.
Yes, what he did was really arrogant and stupid, and he probably deserves even more punishment than Joel Tenenbaum deserves (which is probably not actually very much), but this is not the right way to go about punishing him. Hence the comment that the rich make the rules, which does seem to be applicable here.
Wow, that's one hell of an extrapolation. Bashes Microsoft and loves Linux, therefore is barely human. I'd love to see your chain of reasoning there, because I expect it is a wonder to behold.
I do love Linux, and I do think that Microsoft has done more harm than good (although I recognize that there is no way to objectively measure and verify this). In fact, I consider myself a slashdotter, even by your definition, since I feel that I share more of the slashdot ethos than the minimal bit you've described. OTOH, I have a very active social life, I enjoy a variety of forms of music and art, and I'm pretty sure that I can recognize and understand basic human truths at least as well as you.
I'm not certain, but I suspect that this is an instance of a relatively new field called "mesoscale physics". This deals with systems on scales between the atomic or single molecule level and the thermodynamic level. Quantum effects are significant, but not as dominant as in atomic (and smaller) physics, but you don't have the advantage of having enough particles to use average statistical behaviour in place of a complete description (ie no thermodynamic limit). It is very very difficult, and it is only recently that we have the tools to begin tackling these sorts of problems. We had one faculty member working on this in my department, but she has recently departed for another university.
Yes, clearly the e-ink industry has enough money and cares enough to pay hundreds of people to post on slashdot and dozens of other sites supporting their gadgets. This obviously makes enormously more sense than the hypothesis that people tend to form and express their own opinions, just as you have done here. You don't care about e-ink or any claimed utility thereof. Great. That's fine. So when people talk about e-ink, just ignore them, and make your decision based on the factors that you do care about. However, you should realize that nobody here really cares about your opinion enough to stop expressing their own, whether you call it FUD or not.
Perhaps a more productive thing to do would be to say "I don't feel that e-ink really adds any value in my case. If anyone else feels likewise, let's have a thread here discussing the relative merits of devices on which one could read an ebook quite independently of the display technology.". Then you might actually gain some information that would be useful to you (that is, if you are actually interested in said information and not just whining so you can see your words on the internet).
So, how about it? For owlnation's sake, if anyone reading this doesn't feel that e-ink is valuable to them, but is still interested in ebook readers, let's have a discussion about them here.
Well, no. Racism is a belief in the superiority of one race over another. What you are talking about is racial discrimination. Crude jokes at the expense of a particular racial group are quite frequently a manifestation of racism, and a particularly insidious one at that.
It is very easy to say "Come on man, it's just a joke. Can't you take a joke?", and thereby dismiss both the real racism that inspired the joke and the hurt that it causes. Furthermore, as humor has the effect of forging or solidifying a bond between those who share it, if the source of that bond is recognized shared racism, the joke will have the effect of encouraging and strengthening racism.
Of course, the original poster's joke is not really a racist one, since people-born-in-the-south is not a racial group, strictly speaking. However, it seems logical (although seems logical !always= correct) that "racism" is really a special case of disdain for a non self-selecting group (such as people of a certain race, people with a certain hair color, people born in a particular place, etc). So perhaps we should disapprove of the OP's joke on those grounds.
OTOH, one might view the OP's joke as a joke at the expense of those sharing a particular culture, rather than those born in a particular place. This is a much grayer area, (again, so it seems to me) as one does have a choice to display or not to display the outward signs of any particular culture one chooses. That is, a cultural grouping is at least partially a self-selected grouping.
OK, enough rambling on as if I were some sort of sociologist...
Ok, put that egg white in a 1 Watt (not a typical 1000 Watt) microwave. See just how quickly it heats up. Now put the egg white near the magnetron of the 1 Watt microwave (after removing it from its metal reflecting box, I mean). Now it absorbs a small fraction of that 1 Watt, and gets hot even slower.
In short, cook an egg white using an unmodified cell phone, then get back to me.
I suppose you are right. Presumably this was taken into account in the design, but we've reached the limits of my detailed understanding already:( so I don't know.
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I think you're missing the point, which is that the GP would rather die in a global climate catastrophe than live in a world without freedom. I applaud her/him for this sentiment.
In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches YOU!
OTOH, if the OS is reporting GiB, then it ought to say GiB, not GB. Reporting that a "10 GB" (written on the box) hard disk has "9.3 GB" of space is confusing and misleading. If your definition of correctness in notation is adherence to internationally accepted standards for notation, then it is also incorrect. If you RTFA, then you will find that Ubuntu 10.10 is requiring that all applications either report "10GB" or "9.3 GiB", but not "9.3 GB" or "10 GiB". This is, in fact, a switch to correct and less misleading behavior. Whether or not it is more or less confusing may be a different matter.
Kind of like asking $sexual_preference people if they would like to be cured? Or perhaps asking $skin_colour people if they would like to be cured? Perhaps the "problem" is identifying colour blindness as a defect that needs a cure and trying to make all humans meet some baseline or be classified as defective.
Sure. We can ask all the straight people if they would like to be "cured" to gay, and vice versa. We can ask all the Egyptians if they would like to be "cured" to Mongolian, the Samoans if they would like to be "cured" to Polish, the Welsh if they would like to be "cured" to French. If we have the capability to do these things, then why should we not offer to do them? Let the advertisers phrase things however they like. I fail to see that this would in fact cause any harm.
We can already "cure" men to women and vice versa. Do you think that we should have kept that cat in the bag?
Furthermore, if you stupid bleeding hearts deny me the only chance I'll ever have to properly see a rainbow, I will never forgive you. There is much beauty in the world that I cannot currently perceive. Who are you that you would dare deny me that?
Your judgement that they are irresponsible does not necessarily give you the right to force them to act against what they perceive to be their best wishes. Of course, this bill appears to grant you that right. So much for liberty and the pursuit of happiness! And now life is no longer a right, it's a mandate.
Oh yes. There are certainly no offensive crazies, absolutely none at all, in . I'm not a Tea Partier, but this is really a non-issue in the big picture, in my opinion.
Some people confuse two of the A's in AAA.
Oh yeah, I get Americans and Automobiles mixed up all the time.
Better if you could remove data mobility from the equation. If somebody leaves their laptop in an unlocked office or a box of hard disks in the back seat of their car, it's quite likely to get stolen. So, knowing that that sort of thing will happen, it seems to make sense to force all sensitive data to be stored on physically and cyberly(just woke up, can't think of the proper word here, nurrrr) secured file servers.
It might be interesting to see how many control points you would need to distort the maps (along a spline or something) and get quite close to accurate.
Another possibility would be a really high resolution digital camera. My wife (historical linguist) has dealt some with manuscripts, and that was their method of digitizing them for further study. OTOH, she's not a museum curator or archivist; they probably have even better methods. If you want to do it right, talk to a curator or archivist of some sort. They deal with much more fragile and much more valuable documents on a regular basis.
I don't have any good ideas to contribute about the geocoding, unfortunately.
10 I started with GW-BASIC, and now IF my colleagues need some programming help, THEN I am the GOTO guy.
An even lesser known fact is that most oil companies work for the conspiracy nuts to fund their conspiracy websites with blood money from Iraq. /geese
I torture quarks for a living. I'll get my Ph.D. writing about how it sounds when they scream. Does this make me a bad person?
Or, of course, you could just throw out the crude attempt to classify people based on their crimes, and classify based on psychological evaluation. What you really want is a list of sociopaths, whether they be the blue collar flavor who flip out and kill somebody, or the white collar flavor who can keep their inhumanity in check long enough to make it through business school and do some real damage...
You should read David Brin's book Sundiver. It is set in a society that has this system. His portrayal of it seems reasonable (although "seems reasonable" and "is correct" are two very different beasts, I know), and is definitely not something I want to live in the middle of. I'd vote against this proposal.
Regardless of whether or not he deserved this, it is not a correct application of US laws (to the best of my understanding; IANAL). If he has committed a particular act which caused harm, then he should be sued separately. You don't get to just randomly include extra people after the fact as defendants in a lawsuit.
Yes, what he did was really arrogant and stupid, and he probably deserves even more punishment than Joel Tenenbaum deserves (which is probably not actually very much), but this is not the right way to go about punishing him. Hence the comment that the rich make the rules, which does seem to be applicable here.
Wow, that's one hell of an extrapolation. Bashes Microsoft and loves Linux, therefore is barely human. I'd love to see your chain of reasoning there, because I expect it is a wonder to behold.
I do love Linux, and I do think that Microsoft has done more harm than good (although I recognize that there is no way to objectively measure and verify this). In fact, I consider myself a slashdotter, even by your definition, since I feel that I share more of the slashdot ethos than the minimal bit you've described. OTOH, I have a very active social life, I enjoy a variety of forms of music and art, and I'm pretty sure that I can recognize and understand basic human truths at least as well as you.
Plus, I have a wife. :)
I'm not certain, but I suspect that this is an instance of a relatively new field called "mesoscale physics". This deals with systems on scales between the atomic or single molecule level and the thermodynamic level. Quantum effects are significant, but not as dominant as in atomic (and smaller) physics, but you don't have the advantage of having enough particles to use average statistical behaviour in place of a complete description (ie no thermodynamic limit). It is very very difficult, and it is only recently that we have the tools to begin tackling these sorts of problems. We had one faculty member working on this in my department, but she has recently departed for another university.
Since when does "free will" mean the same thing as "no consequences"?
any advanced interaction feature
Tallest: It's not stupid, it's advanced!
Couldn't resist.
If the bank views your fingerprint as a unique identifier for you, then yes.
You'd also find that you had trouble from the 27 kilo-Kelvin blackbody radiation that the 2.728 Kelvin CMBR would get blueshifted into.
Yes, clearly the e-ink industry has enough money and cares enough to pay hundreds of people to post on slashdot and dozens of other sites supporting their gadgets. This obviously makes enormously more sense than the hypothesis that people tend to form and express their own opinions, just as you have done here. You don't care about e-ink or any claimed utility thereof. Great. That's fine. So when people talk about e-ink, just ignore them, and make your decision based on the factors that you do care about. However, you should realize that nobody here really cares about your opinion enough to stop expressing their own, whether you call it FUD or not.
Perhaps a more productive thing to do would be to say "I don't feel that e-ink really adds any value in my case. If anyone else feels likewise, let's have a thread here discussing the relative merits of devices on which one could read an ebook quite independently of the display technology.". Then you might actually gain some information that would be useful to you (that is, if you are actually interested in said information and not just whining so you can see your words on the internet).
So, how about it? For owlnation's sake, if anyone reading this doesn't feel that e-ink is valuable to them, but is still interested in ebook readers, let's have a discussion about them here.
Well, no. Racism is a belief in the superiority of one race over another. What you are talking about is racial discrimination. Crude jokes at the expense of a particular racial group are quite frequently a manifestation of racism, and a particularly insidious one at that.
It is very easy to say "Come on man, it's just a joke. Can't you take a joke?", and thereby dismiss both the real racism that inspired the joke and the hurt that it causes. Furthermore, as humor has the effect of forging or solidifying a bond between those who share it, if the source of that bond is recognized shared racism, the joke will have the effect of encouraging and strengthening racism.
Of course, the original poster's joke is not really a racist one, since people-born-in-the-south is not a racial group, strictly speaking. However, it seems logical (although seems logical !always= correct) that "racism" is really a special case of disdain for a non self-selecting group (such as people of a certain race, people with a certain hair color, people born in a particular place, etc). So perhaps we should disapprove of the OP's joke on those grounds.
OTOH, one might view the OP's joke as a joke at the expense of those sharing a particular culture, rather than those born in a particular place. This is a much grayer area, (again, so it seems to me) as one does have a choice to display or not to display the outward signs of any particular culture one chooses. That is, a cultural grouping is at least partially a self-selected grouping.
OK, enough rambling on as if I were some sort of sociologist...
In short, cook an egg white using an unmodified cell phone, then get back to me.
I suppose you are right. Presumably this was taken into account in the design, but we've reached the limits of my detailed understanding already :( so I don't know.