Ok, normally I don't feed the trolls but I've got nothing better to do while my code compiles:
One of the most profound insights into the nature of human existence was the Milgram Experiment [wikipedia.org]. Basically, most people don't have an internal moral compass: they don't have any inherent aversion to inflicting pain, suffering, and death on others.
Wrong. Even though the participants in the Milgram experiment complied, they all raised questions about it. Clearly they recognized it as wrong - the findings only say that we, as a species, will submit to authority, NOT that we lack a moral compass.
They simply weren't as popular as "conventional" aircraft. I would suspect part would be due to the difference in manufacturing cost, and some to do with customer faith. "I know an airplane with wings and a tail can fly. Why should I believe something like that can?".
Actually the lack of popularity for flying wings has nothing to do with either of those - it's because it's a VERY hard design to stabilize and control.
I'm sorry, sir, but I simply CANNOT read your post without appending -
My phone just rings. I know it sounds crazy, but some people (OK maybe just me) actually prefer their phones to ring like - well, phones. I don't want to hear the latest hit R&B jingle or other such shit. I want to know that my phone is ringing. And sometimes, when I feel wild, I'll change to a slightly different ring tone that sounds like a different phone.
If people who are stupid enough to pay for musical ringtones get sued, I say thats just fine with me. I never liked the music that most people play as ringtones anyways. If they start getting fined and sued maybe those people will think twice before turning their phones into random top40 samplers.
Now get off my lawn!
today's video games are basically engineered to be time wasters. There's no real intellectual challenge to them, nothing to be learned.
You're totally right. There are absolutely no video games out there that require any thought whatsoever.
There's more to the gaming world than Halo and GTA (not that there's anything wrong with them, I enjoy both of those series, I just happen to like other games as well).
That way I'd still get DRM-free organic vision with one eye, would not have floaters (I'll pass on the floater EULA) and would be able to see my co-workers in their underwear with my left one.
Sir, I'm gonna need to ask for your geek card. No/.er should be working in any kind of business where that's a good thing.
Every other time it has simply been an obstacle to bottom-up design, by forcing me to make a lot of decisions about the structure of my code before most of it had actually been written.
Perish the thought! Surely this is some sort of horrible joke. THINKING before you code? I've never heard of such a preposterous notion! Do you have blueprints before you start building a house? NEVER! You grab your tools and start hammering away, trusting in nothing more than the almighty FSM to guide your hands in such a way as to have everything fit together when you're done! Why plan things out when you can just wing it and pray, right?
Really? A salesperson who works on commission recommended you buy the much more expensive product rather than the cheap one? Gadzooks! That sounds almost *gasp* unethical! And from a salesman! They are usually the bastion of ethics and morals.
Oddly enough, there ARE decent salespeople out there. A few months back I went to Fry's to get an HDMI cable - they had two available, a 6' cable for $20 and a 6' cable for $50. I asked the salesman if there was any difference, and he told me flat out "None at all. For digital signals, the quality's identical. All you're paying for is the brand."
It was one of the VERY few times I found a salesman who didn't try to upsell me. Creeped me the fuck out.
It's humble beginnings were brilliantly designed to propogate information, provide a powerful environment for collaboration, and provide an extensible virtual universe for spreading and preserving human thought, and projects of discovery.
Do you really need all those big words to say "distribute porn" ?
My friend was about to call her, but I noticed that her email address was some sort of obfuscated leet-speak, and after staring at it for a moment I realized it was her bra size + some other personality attributes. I decifered it and did a google search only to find some prom pictures that would make a porn star blush.
Sir, I find this story to be completely outrageous and unbelievable, and I will not be convinced of its veracity until you provide me with said e-mail address for... uh... independent research and verification.
It's certainly not a "religion". Not that you don't have a right not to believe in it; you are certainly free to believe whatever you want, no matter how overwhelming the evidence that is presented to you.
Global warming isn't called a religion due to a lack of evidence, it's due to the zeal and (perceived) fanaticism of the followers. Anyone who tries to question whether global warming is man-made, anyone who presents alternate theories or viewpoints, is immediately shot down as a lunatic. That's not science. Science welcomes debate and challenges.
Yeah, but the cost of these "disposable" drones has been rocketing up. I think they're better also, up to the point where we're spending 100M on them each. Then it's officially crazy.
*sigh* $100 million each?
Not quite. More like $8 million.
Wikipedia: your friend in not looking stupid since 2001.
Yeah, God forbid we should expect someone on a committee that deals with communications to understand one of (if not the) most important methods of communication currently in use.
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One of the most profound insights into the nature of human existence was the Milgram Experiment [wikipedia.org]. Basically, most people don't have an internal moral compass: they don't have any inherent aversion to inflicting pain, suffering, and death on others.
Wrong. Even though the participants in the Milgram experiment complied, they all raised questions about it. Clearly they recognized it as wrong - the findings only say that we, as a species, will submit to authority, NOT that we lack a moral compass.
They're called "pockets", and many articles of clothing have them.
Not if he's using LISP he doesn't.
They simply weren't as popular as "conventional" aircraft. I would suspect part would be due to the difference in manufacturing cost, and some to do with customer faith. "I know an airplane with wings and a tail can fly. Why should I believe something like that can?".
Actually the lack of popularity for flying wings has nothing to do with either of those - it's because it's a VERY hard design to stabilize and control.
My phone just rings. I know it sounds crazy, but some people (OK maybe just me) actually prefer their phones to ring like - well, phones. I don't want to hear the latest hit R&B jingle or other such shit. I want to know that my phone is ringing. And sometimes, when I feel wild, I'll change to a slightly different ring tone that sounds like a different phone. If people who are stupid enough to pay for musical ringtones get sued, I say thats just fine with me. I never liked the music that most people play as ringtones anyways. If they start getting fined and sued maybe those people will think twice before turning their phones into random top40 samplers. Now get off my lawn!
today's video games are basically engineered to be time wasters. There's no real intellectual challenge to them, nothing to be learned.
You're totally right. There are absolutely no video games out there that require any thought whatsoever.
There's more to the gaming world than Halo and GTA (not that there's anything wrong with them, I enjoy both of those series, I just happen to like other games as well).
That way I'd still get DRM-free organic vision with one eye, would not have floaters (I'll pass on the floater EULA) and would be able to see my co-workers in their underwear with my left one.
Sir, I'm gonna need to ask for your geek card. No /.er should be working in any kind of business where that's a good thing.
Every other time it has simply been an obstacle to bottom-up design, by forcing me to make a lot of decisions about the structure of my code before most of it had actually been written.
Perish the thought! Surely this is some sort of horrible joke. THINKING before you code? I've never heard of such a preposterous notion! Do you have blueprints before you start building a house? NEVER! You grab your tools and start hammering away, trusting in nothing more than the almighty FSM to guide your hands in such a way as to have everything fit together when you're done! Why plan things out when you can just wing it and pray, right?
Yeah, now that you mention it browsers are like emacs - you can do all sorts of wonderful things, but you still need a good text editor. *ducks*
Only on /. would that get modded informative. I love the intertubes.
Really? A salesperson who works on commission recommended you buy the much more expensive product rather than the cheap one? Gadzooks! That sounds almost *gasp* unethical! And from a salesman! They are usually the bastion of ethics and morals.
Oddly enough, there ARE decent salespeople out there. A few months back I went to Fry's to get an HDMI cable - they had two available, a 6' cable for $20 and a 6' cable for $50. I asked the salesman if there was any difference, and he told me flat out "None at all. For digital signals, the quality's identical. All you're paying for is the brand."
It was one of the VERY few times I found a salesman who didn't try to upsell me. Creeped me the fuck out.
"Scientist successfully places human brain in Ape"
It's already been done
It's humble beginnings were brilliantly designed to propogate information, provide a powerful environment for collaboration, and provide an extensible virtual universe for spreading and preserving human thought, and projects of discovery.
Do you really need all those big words to say "distribute porn" ?
Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion,
Damn straight! That's what text-editor flame-wars are for.
EMACS FOREVER!
My friend was about to call her, but I noticed that her email address was some sort of obfuscated leet-speak, and after staring at it for a moment I realized it was her bra size + some other personality attributes. I decifered it and did a google search only to find some prom pictures that would make a porn star blush.
Sir, I find this story to be completely outrageous and unbelievable, and I will not be convinced of its veracity until you provide me with said e-mail address for... uh... independent research and verification.
What worries me far more is that in the picture accompanying that article, the computers are quite obviously running Windows.
It's certainly not a "religion". Not that you don't have a right not to believe in it; you are certainly free to believe whatever you want, no matter how overwhelming the evidence that is presented to you.
Global warming isn't called a religion due to a lack of evidence, it's due to the zeal and (perceived) fanaticism of the followers. Anyone who tries to question whether global warming is man-made, anyone who presents alternate theories or viewpoints, is immediately shot down as a lunatic. That's not science. Science welcomes debate and challenges.
Yeah, but the cost of these "disposable" drones has been rocketing up. I think they're better also, up to the point where we're spending 100M on them each. Then it's officially crazy.
*sigh*
$100 million each? Not quite. More like $8 million.
Wikipedia: your friend in not looking stupid since 2001.
but what's Apple afraid of, that their handset rumored to have an elitist following has an even more elitist inner "circle o' jerks"?
Did anyone else read this, miss the "o'", and still think it made perfect sense?
Like in, Blizzard has the rights to your firstborn male, with a side dish of Fava beans?
They would ask for that, except that 90% of all WoW players are never going to get laid, so why bother?
for the first time in my life, I can honestly say "Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for COBOL!"
/employed at a California state-run institution of higher learning.
Any software that's on the CVE gets removed from your list of approved software.
Have fun finding an OS that isn't on there.
Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX, they're all on there somewhere.
Nonesense.
It was a perfectly cromulent word, the use of which embiggens us all.
Yeah, God forbid we should expect someone on a committee that deals with communications to understand one of (if not the) most important methods of communication currently in use.
Walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the worm^H^H^H^H government?