Why is life a contest? How are we on a different team than the Chinese and Indians? I don't exactly feel any urge to "beat" them. Nor do I feel obligated to.
Suppose Sony actually gets the patent granted. How would this change the experience more than having it not pantented? With it not pantented anyone can add this. And even if it were patented, why would every P2P program all of a sudden be required to have this feature?
Resnet also had that annoying 500MB/week limit. (At least, that's what it was when I was there). I remember once downloading Cygwin to try it out. My bandwidth was throttled for quite a while after that, causing me much grief, since I had the "hard" assignment from CS251 to do, and it was too cold to walk to the MC.:P
Hrm. The editors can't recognize that an article is a dupe of one submitted two days ago, but they can recognize that an article is related to one posted a year ago? Weird.:P
Grrr. I forgot that/. doesn't autoformat by default. This should be more clear:
Ever hear of survival of the fittest? If someone is weak enough to not be able to see without glasses to the point where he can't hunt for his food and starves, maybe it's a good thing he doesn't reproduce.
This is such a bullshit argument. Part of what makes us human is our ability to use technology to overcome our limitations. If we go and throw that away for "survival of the fittest", then we are throwing away many potential great minds, etc. I'm sure a good portion of the people who have made scientific advances in our socieity would not have survived in a hunter-gatherer society. What about geeks who got beat-up on the play-ground by bullies? I've seen people get kicked repeated in the testicles during such episodes. Should they not reproduce solely becayse they are too docile to fight back/too weak?
Oh, and incidently, I don't know if I'm infertile; I've never tried to reproduce. I'm not at the point in my life.
Ever hear of survival of the fittest? If someone is weak enough to not be able to see without glasses to the point where he can't hunt for his food and starves, maybe it's a good thing he doesn't reproduce.
This is such a bullshit argument. Part of what makes us human is our ability to use technology to overcome our limitations. If we go and throw that away for "survival of the fittest", then we are throwing away many potential great minds, etc. I'm sure a good portion of the people who have made scientific advances in our socieity would not have survived in a hunter-gatherer society.
What about geeks who got beat-up on the play-ground by bullies? I've seen people get kicked repeated in the testicles during such episodes. Should they not reproduce solely becayse they are too docile to fight back/too weak?
Oh, and incidently, I don't know if I'm infertile; I've never tried to reproduce. I'm not at the point in my life.
Yeah, I agree with you there; it is quite a lot. From what I can gather it's debug output. But, then, you shouldn't have debug output turned on when releasing.
Yes it is. However, it is usually possible to keep inflation to a minimum via fiscal and economic policy. Notice the Canadian and American governments' raising of interest rates in the past few years. They are cooling off the economy to try and a keep a lid on inflation.
So that means that the mosquitoes are about 0.1% bigger than average... Wow. North Americans must be pretty dangerous, then, if 0.1% larger in weight makes one "Super"
Does it really make them that much happier if they are willing to forgo it simply to save some money? Perhaps the people who are resigning never really got anything from the church in the first place.
That sort of compression does not work well with binary formats. The data is too random; huffman compression, LZW and similar algorithms rely on patterns within the file.
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Well, is the level of education of their society as high as ours yet?
You will reap the advancement of overall human technology that comes from having a very populous nation being educated.
Why is life a contest? How are we on a different team than the Chinese and Indians? I don't exactly feel any urge to "beat" them. Nor do I feel obligated to.
Try doing it on the hardware with interrupt handling turned off.
I guess that Spider Robinson truly groks Heinlein... Has anyone checked his corpse lately?
49 is a great number! It's a perfect square.
Suppose Sony actually gets the patent granted. How would this change the experience more than having it not pantented? With it not pantented anyone can add this. And even if it were patented, why would every P2P program all of a sudden be required to have this feature?
Well, time to test out the CSC's new torrenting capabilities.
Did I say 251? lol. I meant 241. 251 was a joke. (The "hard" one being assignment 5, btw)
Resnet also had that annoying 500MB/week limit. (At least, that's what it was when I was there). I remember once downloading Cygwin to try it out. My bandwidth was throttled for quite a while after that, causing me much grief, since I had the "hard" assignment from CS251 to do, and it was too cold to walk to the MC. :P
I was just listening to that song... REALLY WEIRD.
Augh. Did Tom come right out of the "blogsphere"? He's an official representative of Myspace; the least he could do is capitalize.
Hrm. The editors can't recognize that an article is a dupe of one submitted two days ago, but they can recognize that an article is related to one posted a year ago? Weird. :P
Grrr. I forgot that /. doesn't autoformat by default. This should be more clear:
Ever hear of survival of the fittest? If someone is weak enough to not be able to see without glasses to the point where he can't hunt for his food and starves, maybe it's a good thing he doesn't reproduce.
This is such a bullshit argument. Part of what makes us human is our ability to use technology to overcome our limitations. If we go and throw that away for "survival of the fittest", then we are throwing away many potential great minds, etc. I'm sure a good portion of the people who have made scientific advances in our socieity would not have survived in a hunter-gatherer society. What about geeks who got beat-up on the play-ground by bullies? I've seen people get kicked repeated in the testicles during such episodes. Should they not reproduce solely becayse they are too docile to fight back/too weak?
Oh, and incidently, I don't know if I'm infertile; I've never tried to reproduce. I'm not at the point in my life.
Ever hear of survival of the fittest? If someone is weak enough to not be able to see without glasses to the point where he can't hunt for his food and starves, maybe it's a good thing he doesn't reproduce. This is such a bullshit argument. Part of what makes us human is our ability to use technology to overcome our limitations. If we go and throw that away for "survival of the fittest", then we are throwing away many potential great minds, etc. I'm sure a good portion of the people who have made scientific advances in our socieity would not have survived in a hunter-gatherer society. What about geeks who got beat-up on the play-ground by bullies? I've seen people get kicked repeated in the testicles during such episodes. Should they not reproduce solely becayse they are too docile to fight back/too weak? Oh, and incidently, I don't know if I'm infertile; I've never tried to reproduce. I'm not at the point in my life.
There's some pretty bad reasons it doesn't. Like, say, getting nailed in the nuts a tad too many times while playing soccer.
Yeah, I agree with you there; it is quite a lot. From what I can gather it's debug output. But, then, you shouldn't have debug output turned on when releasing.
You're joking, right?
Yes it is. However, it is usually possible to keep inflation to a minimum via fiscal and economic policy. Notice the Canadian and American governments' raising of interest rates in the past few years. They are cooling off the economy to try and a keep a lid on inflation.
So that means that the mosquitoes are about 0.1% bigger than average... Wow. North Americans must be pretty dangerous, then, if 0.1% larger in weight makes one "Super"
Errr, I mean how much larger is x + 3 microgram mosquito. (I.e. what is x)
How much larger is a 3 microgram mosquito? I think a percentage would be slightly more informative, or at least the weight of a "normal" mosquito.
I wish I had some modpoints to mod you up informative. :P
Does it really make them that much happier if they are willing to forgo it simply to save some money? Perhaps the people who are resigning never really got anything from the church in the first place.
That sort of compression does not work well with binary formats. The data is too random; huffman compression, LZW and similar algorithms rely on patterns within the file.