Actually, that tendency seems to be a characteristic of most everyone from that culture - that is, not asking for clarification, but forging ahead despite doubt or a strong possibility of misunderstanding. I am not sure what the source of the tendency is, but I have seen it over and over in my dealings with Indian development firms and individual developers - describe specs or requirements, or how some system should work, and they nod their heads quietly (actually it's more of a head-bob than a nod), go do their work, and come back four weeks later with something that is in no way what we asked for and is based on major misunderstandings about what we actually said in the first place.
The earth is hundreds of millions of years old. It was NOT invented in 7 days by some mystical being a few thousand years ago. That's a fact.
Well thank goodness that argument is over. Thank you for answering the age-old questions that humanity has wrestled with since philosophy and inquiry began. Now I have to go re-evaluate my life...
Religion is a never-ending (or, if one is religious, an eventually-ending) quest for truth. What does that have to do with ignoring fact? Just because some people cling to a disbelief in God to counter their insecurities by creating a false superiority over others doesn't mean that it's all a hoax.
Umm... last time I checked, Google is not the only entity that could give away 200M (or any substantial portion of that sum) without the accountants noticing. And Google is not the only entity that supports technological advancement. In fact, there are thousands upon thousands of such organizations and individuals. Why didn't they suggest it be the Branson Fusion Device(TM)?
The fate of the world does not rest on Canada's elections. The outcome of US presidential elections and who controls the chambers of Congress has enormous impact on every person on earth.
That's because the citizens don't want the UN to monitor the elections. Just in case you've been in your bubble too long,/. is not representative of the country as a whole.
That definitely changes my mind about paying $600 for a gaming console! Why didn't they do this from the start? The option to run F@H on my PS3 DEFINITELY makes up the 200+ difference between it and my other next-gen options.
I like how everyone reads the first sentence of my post and then submits a scathing, condescending response. FYI, it keeps going after the first sentence. It's more like a paragraph.
Also, it's just sad that you get modded down for asking everyone to respect other people's beliefs because they are different. It almost seems like... intolerant zealotry. But of course, that would never be true of such an enlightened group as this.
As much sense as the theory of evolution may make, it really is important to remember that it is still a theory, and a theory in the Oxford Dictionary meaning ("a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something"). It hasn't actually been proven, so it's not entirely fair to expect people to abandon ideas that are very central to their religious beliefs just because other people say they should. Stepping back a moment from any loaded terms like "Christian" or "Conservative" or "Fundamentalist", which many/.ers seem to associate with "stupid", "backward", "obstinate", and looking simply at religious, one would think we could all lend each other at least a modicum of respect for such a thing.
No one gets a.1% response with spam. I write web reporting software to track the success of direct mail marketing (aka real junk mail, from the postman) and a.1% response rate is considered good. And that's figuring each mail piece cost about 25 cents... with e-mail, it could be a.001% response rate and still make a profit.
I have not heard these millions. Where do they live? Certainly not in the United States, Europe or Japan. When the Japanese' eyes go big over the price of some electronic doodad, it's probably too expensive.
That's not even starting with the other hundreds of Sony gaffes, a list of which would consume pages.
Do you really expect every lawmaker to be an expert on everything?
No, but I have always wanted to believe they aren't completely retarded. My grandparents don't even own a computer and they could explain the Internet better than that. You don't have to be a mechanic to know that a car has pistons, needs gas and oil.
Actually it does prevent casual piracy. When XP first came out I bought one copy and put illegitimate ones on 5 other machines. But since WGA it's not been worth the added effort to get a non-legit copy to actually work properly.
So, no, it's not going to stop organized piracy, but it makes it just inconvenient enough for lots of individuals to just lay down the $150 or whatever it is now.
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless? I don't think the human eye is going to evolve to greater color sensitivity during HDMI's lifetime. It's one thing to have a higher quality image to downsample to, but... seriously. Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's marketshare is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Thank God. Why does it seem like if your favorite server software lost too much market share to Microsoft, you would pretty much be emasculated? Do geeks latch on to software like jocks latch on to sports teams, or what? No matter what is said, it always has to be punctuated by "but my team is the best." Sometimes OSSers have more in common with Christian Evangelicals and cheeseheads than geeks...
it is quite possible to animate different properties on different timelines by nesting movie clips. That is how many sophisticated Flash sites and animations are developed.
The first and the second are both excellent studies in slightly different information philosophies. If you imagine a spectrum of importance on which all information must fall, 0 being not at all important, and 10 being extremely important, then typically in a good design the visual accessibility of each piece of information will be proportional to the level of importance it is assigned. 10-items (headlines, etc) should be highly accessible visually.
The winning design simply shows that the designer believes all information on the slashdot page falls between a 6 and a 10. The second design has a much steeper curve - headlines are a 10, but immediately drops off into the 4-7 range. The visual accessibility curve should always be influenced by both form and function (aesthetics and purpose), but ultimately saying the design is "poor" is a purely subjective, personal view. From technical design, color theory and 2-D theory standpoints it is really quite good. Just not necessarily the best match for slashdot's function.
$30k for a talented web designer and $10k for a good copywriter is much cheaper than building a multi-tiered datacenter with redundant backbone uplinks and a 24/7 NOC.
Which, interestingly enough, is a good argument for why government monitoring of phone calls doesn't really matter - because the bottom-tier analyst pouring over call data doesn't give a shit about your veterinary appointment or the fact that your wife is having an affair (wait slashdot... uh... back to the vet thing) or anything else about your life for that matter. Or mine or anyone else's, except people who are doing something that deserves attention. And if you are doing something that makes the government feel like it needs to kick in your door and drag you away, then I do not feel sorry for you. It's a simple matter to avoid suspicion - don't do anything suspicious! If you are a good person you have nothing to fear.
How is that fucked up? It seems pretty fair to fire people for reasons such as being dicks, being stupid, being incompetent, being lazy, having "personality conflicts" with other people in the company, or maybe just demanding more than the people waiting in line for your job are asking. That's how capitalism works - you can shop for the most value for your money, and so can companies.
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Actually, that tendency seems to be a characteristic of most everyone from that culture - that is, not asking for clarification, but forging ahead despite doubt or a strong possibility of misunderstanding. I am not sure what the source of the tendency is, but I have seen it over and over in my dealings with Indian development firms and individual developers - describe specs or requirements, or how some system should work, and they nod their heads quietly (actually it's more of a head-bob than a nod), go do their work, and come back four weeks later with something that is in no way what we asked for and is based on major misunderstandings about what we actually said in the first place.
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Given that some societies have used non-Latin characters for thousands of years, is this a bit late in coming?
Those societies did not build an entire economic and social infrastructure using all 50,000 of those characters in a few decades, though.
The earth is hundreds of millions of years old. It was NOT invented in 7 days by some mystical being a few thousand years ago. That's a fact.
Well thank goodness that argument is over. Thank you for answering the age-old questions that humanity has wrestled with since philosophy and inquiry began. Now I have to go re-evaluate my life...
Religion is a never-ending (or, if one is religious, an eventually-ending) quest for truth. What does that have to do with ignoring fact? Just because some people cling to a disbelief in God to counter their insecurities by creating a false superiority over others doesn't mean that it's all a hoax.
When I read the title, I thought it was about Epic and a studio called Ancient that tanked.
Umm... last time I checked, Google is not the only entity that could give away 200M (or any substantial portion of that sum) without the accountants noticing. And Google is not the only entity that supports technological advancement. In fact, there are thousands upon thousands of such organizations and individuals. Why didn't they suggest it be the Branson Fusion Device(TM)?
Canada seems to be able to handle paper balloting
The fate of the world does not rest on Canada's elections. The outcome of US presidential elections and who controls the chambers of Congress has enormous impact on every person on earth.
That's because the citizens don't want the UN to monitor the elections. Just in case you've been in your bubble too long, /. is not representative of the country as a whole.
That definitely changes my mind about paying $600 for a gaming console! Why didn't they do this from the start? The option to run F@H on my PS3 DEFINITELY makes up the 200+ difference between it and my other next-gen options.
I like how everyone reads the first sentence of my post and then submits a scathing, condescending response. FYI, it keeps going after the first sentence. It's more like a paragraph.
Also, it's just sad that you get modded down for asking everyone to respect other people's beliefs because they are different. It almost seems like... intolerant zealotry. But of course, that would never be true of such an enlightened group as this.
As much sense as the theory of evolution may make, it really is important to remember that it is still a theory, and a theory in the Oxford Dictionary meaning ("a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something"). It hasn't actually been proven, so it's not entirely fair to expect people to abandon ideas that are very central to their religious beliefs just because other people say they should. Stepping back a moment from any loaded terms like "Christian" or "Conservative" or "Fundamentalist", which many /.ers seem to associate with "stupid", "backward", "obstinate", and looking simply at religious, one would think we could all lend each other at least a modicum of respect for such a thing.
No one gets a .1% response with spam. I write web reporting software to track the success of direct mail marketing (aka real junk mail, from the postman) and a .1% response rate is considered good. And that's figuring each mail piece cost about 25 cents... with e-mail, it could be a .001% response rate and still make a profit.
I have not heard these millions. Where do they live? Certainly not in the United States, Europe or Japan. When the Japanese' eyes go big over the price of some electronic doodad, it's probably too expensive.
That's not even starting with the other hundreds of Sony gaffes, a list of which would consume pages.
Do you really expect every lawmaker to be an expert on everything?
No, but I have always wanted to believe they aren't completely retarded. My grandparents don't even own a computer and they could explain the Internet better than that. You don't have to be a mechanic to know that a car has pistons, needs gas and oil.
It's all relative...
Actually it does prevent casual piracy. When XP first came out I bought one copy and put illegitimate ones on 5 other machines. But since WGA it's not been worth the added effort to get a non-legit copy to actually work properly.
So, no, it's not going to stop organized piracy, but it makes it just inconvenient enough for lots of individuals to just lay down the $150 or whatever it is now.
Is that really your personal experience with Arctic seed storages?
Sorry for stating the obvious, but doesn't color depths beyond what the human eye can perceive just seem really... pointless? I don't think the human eye is going to evolve to greater color sensitivity during HDMI's lifetime. It's one thing to have a higher quality image to downsample to, but... seriously. Isn't there SOMETHING the bandwidth could be used for besides information we can't use?
Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's marketshare is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Thank God. Why does it seem like if your favorite server software lost too much market share to Microsoft, you would pretty much be emasculated? Do geeks latch on to software like jocks latch on to sports teams, or what? No matter what is said, it always has to be punctuated by "but my team is the best." Sometimes OSSers have more in common with Christian Evangelicals and cheeseheads than geeks...
it is quite possible to animate different properties on different timelines by nesting movie clips. That is how many sophisticated Flash sites and animations are developed.
Markets are notoriously bad at setting prices in a truly efficient manner.
That, also, depends on your point of view.
The first and the second are both excellent studies in slightly different information philosophies. If you imagine a spectrum of importance on which all information must fall, 0 being not at all important, and 10 being extremely important, then typically in a good design the visual accessibility of each piece of information will be proportional to the level of importance it is assigned. 10-items (headlines, etc) should be highly accessible visually.
The winning design simply shows that the designer believes all information on the slashdot page falls between a 6 and a 10. The second design has a much steeper curve - headlines are a 10, but immediately drops off into the 4-7 range. The visual accessibility curve should always be influenced by both form and function (aesthetics and purpose), but ultimately saying the design is "poor" is a purely subjective, personal view. From technical design, color theory and 2-D theory standpoints it is really quite good. Just not necessarily the best match for slashdot's function.
$30k for a talented web designer and $10k for a good copywriter is much cheaper than building a multi-tiered datacenter with redundant backbone uplinks and a 24/7 NOC.
Which, interestingly enough, is a good argument for why government monitoring of phone calls doesn't really matter - because the bottom-tier analyst pouring over call data doesn't give a shit about your veterinary appointment or the fact that your wife is having an affair (wait slashdot... uh... back to the vet thing) or anything else about your life for that matter. Or mine or anyone else's, except people who are doing something that deserves attention. And if you are doing something that makes the government feel like it needs to kick in your door and drag you away, then I do not feel sorry for you. It's a simple matter to avoid suspicion - don't do anything suspicious! If you are a good person you have nothing to fear.
How is that fucked up? It seems pretty fair to fire people for reasons such as being dicks, being stupid, being incompetent, being lazy, having "personality conflicts" with other people in the company, or maybe just demanding more than the people waiting in line for your job are asking. That's how capitalism works - you can shop for the most value for your money, and so can companies.