Webster defines it as 1 a : a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) of a human being
Funny that, the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!".
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revelution comes". Curiously enough, an edition of the Webster's encyclopedia from a thousand years in the future, defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first up against the wall when the revelution came".
Disclaimer: I'm not a Linux zealot. I don't even use Linux.
But when I installed FC3 last week, the mouse certainly seemed to work ok. The three LAN cards installed themselves completely transparently at startup (in Windows I needed three seperate driver installations from three seperate cds), and the Audigy was blasting out Linkin Park as soon as I'd logged in for the first time (in Windows I was required to sit through an *hour* long driver installation, and a restart immediately afterwoulds).
In fact, the only thing I had to install was the graphics card. (Which, unfortunately, left a bit to be desired.)
As a philosopher (and a pedantic one at that), I can't help but point out there is no intrinsic way for us to know that the earth was not created in 4004 BCE. (It may, in fact, have come in to existence slightly under five minutes ago, and all the Science in the world will not be able to prove otherwise.)
That's the fault of the parents, not of the ratings.
Parents don't know any better, and percieve games to be "for kids" simply because they don't understand them. Then they get shocked and outraged that their 9-year-old's GTA:SA christmas present depicts strong violence.
(OT: My grandma walked in with a shocked face after the Star Trek episode "Contact". (The one where one of the alien (in typical hippie/Roswell fashion states "I always wanted to have sex with an alien" (meaning Riker). In very "old-lady" tone of voice, my grandma shouts, in utter horror, "Star Trek's supposed to be a children's show!" Anyway, same principle here with games.)
After missing Perseids (DAMN BRITISH WEATHER!) I really wanna see this one. Questions:
They say Dec 13th. As I write this it's 5PM, Dec 12th. They also say early morning is the best time. Do they mean early-morning Dec 13th, in 7 hours time - or early morning Dec 14th, in 31 hours time? (More likely IMO).
Secondly, I live in Somerset, UK. Will I see anything?
Damn good post. Sounds alot like a case of The Banality of Evil. (Evil people are not evil at all, but are simply good people trying to do the right thing, but are too short-sighted to see they are not, says philosopher Hannah Arendt.) Interesting perspective, thanks!
My friend's blog's comment system was defaced by linkbots once, on my own server (I provide him webspace for free). This made my slightly angry so we used a script to systematicly request images from the spam sites, like this:
http://www.freeonlinepoker.com/image.gif?STOP_SP AM MING_DJCF_SYTES_NET
We went through about 30 gigabytes of bandwidth before they used up their monthly allowance... and then they learnt not to spam our domain.
Personally I don't get what Sony is doing selling MP3 players for all your "favourite tunes" and then selling music which they say you are not allowed to copy to their MP3 players, but that's another story."
Ok, what the hell does that have to do with the stated news article about suing Shaman Networks? More news, less uninformed opinion please? Nah - too much to ask.
To paraphrase Kieron Gillan from PC Gamer, Half-Life may only have a B-Movie story (unlike, say, Deus Ex), but what counts here is the way that story is told.
If we *do* end up using carbon nanotubes you'd end up with a char-grilled terrorist and a slightly blackoned, sooty elevater. *BOOM* *Bing*, "10024th floor. Please enjoy your stay."
Agreed. My granddad was an engineer (!), while my dad was a programmer back in the 80's. Granddad has only used Macs, so when he needs another computer he goes out and buys the first Mac he sees which just happens to be an iMac. My dad is a Mac-zealot and is pretty good with computers.
Anyway, we're on holiday at my granddad's house and Dad is typing up some ultra-important stuff on the iMac. He saves it in a folder he created called "Ceri" (his name), and leaves the computer. Granddad comes in, sits down, starts typing up a letter to the village council, hits save, hits "ok" without even looking where he's saving (remember the default behavior is to save in the last used place). Next day he can't find his precious letter, and concludes Dad has made the computer "forget about it" somehow. He then flies into a rage and doesn't speak to Dad for the rest of the week, and bans him from using the computer (!). I go on the Mac, find Granddad's letter (in the "Ceri" folder, just where Dad suspected it would be), copy it to Granddad's regular folder, and tell him I've solved the problem. I then recieve high (albeit undeserved) praise for the rest of the week, and extra shortbread while Dad recieves angry looks and muttering (!). The next week the situation has calmed down and Dad's allowed to use the computer, so the first thing he does is put a shortcut to "Recent Documents" in the start up folder to stop this kind of thing from happening again. Big mistake - "I've no idea what that thing does, but your dad put it there, it always comes up, and I can't get rid of it!" the old man wails at me the next day...
So just goes to show, even Mac users need Tech support sometimes.
Really? Seems more like 7:39AM to me (not everyone is from the States ya know!). (And not everyone feels the obsessive need to label themselves in socially-limiting categories - geek, nerd, etc.) (And not all females are turned off by mental prowess.)
Ok, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna post a "what the hell is this place comming too" post. Jesus, here's some guy who has done a rather awesome thing. Can we please just admire it for what it is without all the name calling? Jesus the tagline is "news for NERDS" - basicly everyone here so can we just stop it with the cheapshots and one-liners? And please, no more smart areses talking about getting laid. With that attitude you never will.
For those who were seriously interested in this project can I refer you to the link a fellow poster posted: it s more interesting.
1. A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
fess up. how many of you still have Legos from 20+ years ago?:)
My mum threw *all* mine away (I had so many) wen we moved. It's all the same to her - from electronic thermometers to driver cds and manuals (this was before we had the Net) to lego - if she didn't understand what it was, in the bin. Sad days.:'(
Will someone please tell the mainstream media that blogs and "the media" are not the same, are not trying to be the same, and will never be the same.
You see, they are different. (I feel like I'm a primary school teacher here.)
Blogs are one person's perspective on the news and can be a great way to watchdog the media - as many posters here have surgested. This isn't trying to uproot the main media becasue the main media currently doesn't have anything like this. (Retractions? No need to retract, we'll just hope no one notices.
Blogs can also be great grassroots news sources. You wouldn't hear about the Election from a blog and that's why I didn't write about it in mine - everybody already knows from the media! But, as we saw during the invasion of Bagdad (someone else google for the Bagdad Blogger - I'm too tired right now) and post 911 NY, blogs can be great grassroots sources, picking up stories which are later picked up and expanded upon by the media. Again, the media has no equivilent to this and shouldn't feel threatened by it.
What about project blogs? These are different again! CNN wouldnt carry a story about the latest version of Apache - why would they! ("Yeah but we survived before all these fancy "project logs" came about". Really? Guess which famous project blog this quote came from:... register online prior to the conference and save US$100 on the full conference...). Essential infomation - if you're interested in it. So this is another kind of blog again.
Finally (and this is what *really* annoys me) there are personal blogs. These are personal and should NOT be confused with the above two. (It's not the personal blogs that annoy me, its that people group the two and critisize them as one entity when they are different.) Sometimes a personal blog can oscilate between the other categories, but personal blogs are great ways to keep in touch with family and friends. It's easier than email, more public, and less intrusive. (I live 6000 miles away from most of my friends because I'm a TCK and believe me, it is useful.) So what that they're just complaining about who they're crushing on - thats the kind of stuff I want to know. But not all blogs are personal and have this kind of infomation. "95% of the blogs out there are these little high schoolers writing their journal online" is a valid critisicm of blogging in exactly the same way that saying "95% of the websites out there are porn, personal homepages of highschool drama queens, and spam campaigns. Therefore its all useless". The statistics may be true but I still find the website of my best friend pretty useful, and BBC.co.uk too.
your saying passive (second hand) smoking is worse than being the actual smoker? That's what I heard, yes. The active smoker has a filter between him and the burning element, while the passive smoker has nothing. Note: I could be completely wrong about this and are prepared to be persuaded otherwise.
IAMAS (I Am Not A Smoker). AFAIK, it's not (just) the nicotine that cases problems. Nicotine is the adictive but the stuff that really causes problems are substances such as the tar and the smoke. With this device, the nicotine is heated, not burnt, so no tar, smoke, etc. Secondly, the real danger effect of passive smoking (and what makes passive so much worse than active) is that the passive smoker smokes the cigerrette while the active smoker is not inhaling and the cigerette is just burning into the air. So while it is true there is a small amount of nicotine to be inhaled from the active smoker, almost all of the dangers of passive smoking will be eliminated. I don't smoke either, BTW.
Coincidentially I was trying to install OpenBSD today to work as a router in my home on an old AMD K6-2 300 - I chose OpenBSD for pretty much this reason. Unfortunately it won't work due to my CPU lacking an onboard FPU; can anyone reccomend an OS to use instead, of a release of OpenBSD which will work anyway? Or a fix or a workaround? I was really looking forward to this...
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Webster defines it as 1 a : a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) of a human being
Funny that, the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!".
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revelution comes". Curiously enough, an edition of the Webster's encyclopedia from a thousand years in the future, defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first up against the wall when the revelution came".
Disclaimer: I'm not a Linux zealot. I don't even use Linux.
But when I installed FC3 last week, the mouse certainly seemed to work ok. The three LAN cards installed themselves completely transparently at startup (in Windows I needed three seperate driver installations from three seperate cds), and the Audigy was blasting out Linkin Park as soon as I'd logged in for the first time (in Windows I was required to sit through an *hour* long driver installation, and a restart immediately afterwoulds).
In fact, the only thing I had to install was the graphics card. (Which, unfortunately, left a bit to be desired.)
Can't you do that with MythTV? (Serious question, as I am considering putting together a MythTV / Video / MP3 server soon.)
As a philosopher (and a pedantic one at that), I can't help but point out there is no intrinsic way for us to know that the earth was not created in 4004 BCE. (It may, in fact, have come in to existence slightly under five minutes ago, and all the Science in the world will not be able to prove otherwise.)
Good post, though.
That's the fault of the parents, not of the ratings.
Parents don't know any better, and percieve games to be "for kids" simply because they don't understand them. Then they get shocked and outraged that their 9-year-old's GTA:SA christmas present depicts strong violence.
(OT: My grandma walked in with a shocked face after the Star Trek episode "Contact". (The one where one of the alien (in typical hippie/Roswell fashion states "I always wanted to have sex with an alien" (meaning Riker). In very "old-lady" tone of voice, my grandma shouts, in utter horror, "Star Trek's supposed to be a children's show!" Anyway, same principle here with games.)
Personally, I completely fucking agree.
Thanks!
Damn good post. Sounds alot like a case of The Banality of Evil. (Evil people are not evil at all, but are simply good people trying to do the right thing, but are too short-sighted to see they are not, says philosopher Hannah Arendt.) Interesting perspective, thanks!
No, no, no, this is important news, just old important news. Here's my next submission:
This just in: The American Colonies Now Free of Colonial Rule
and
The English are comming, the English are comming!
My friend's blog's comment system was defaced by linkbots once, on my own server (I provide him webspace for free). This made my slightly angry so we used a script to systematicly request images from the spam sites, like this:
P AM MING_DJCF_SYTES_NET
http://www.freeonlinepoker.com/image.gif?STOP_S
We went through about 30 gigabytes of bandwidth before they used up their monthly allowance... and then they learnt not to spam our domain.
Daniel
Where's the +1 worryingly accurate?
There's actually land on the moon isn't there?
Linux has a kernel, doesn't it?
(I'm only joking, I think SCO are evil conniving bastards as much as everyone else.)
Ok, what the hell does that have to do with the stated news article about suing Shaman Networks? More news, less uninformed opinion please? Nah - too much to ask.
What - by putting wheels on it and doing an ollie? :-S
To paraphrase Kieron Gillan from PC Gamer, Half-Life may only have a B-Movie story (unlike, say, Deus Ex), but what counts here is the way that story is told.
If we *do* end up using carbon nanotubes you'd end up with a char-grilled terrorist and a slightly blackoned, sooty elevater. *BOOM* *Bing*, "10024th floor. Please enjoy your stay."
Agreed. My granddad was an engineer (!), while my dad was a programmer back in the 80's. Granddad has only used Macs, so when he needs another computer he goes out and buys the first Mac he sees which just happens to be an iMac. My dad is a Mac-zealot and is pretty good with computers.
Anyway, we're on holiday at my granddad's house and Dad is typing up some ultra-important stuff on the iMac. He saves it in a folder he created called "Ceri" (his name), and leaves the computer. Granddad comes in, sits down, starts typing up a letter to the village council, hits save, hits "ok" without even looking where he's saving (remember the default behavior is to save in the last used place). Next day he can't find his precious letter, and concludes Dad has made the computer "forget about it" somehow. He then flies into a rage and doesn't speak to Dad for the rest of the week, and bans him from using the computer (!). I go on the Mac, find Granddad's letter (in the "Ceri" folder, just where Dad suspected it would be), copy it to Granddad's regular folder, and tell him I've solved the problem. I then recieve high (albeit undeserved) praise for the rest of the week, and extra shortbread while Dad recieves angry looks and muttering (!). The next week the situation has calmed down and Dad's allowed to use the computer, so the first thing he does is put a shortcut to "Recent Documents" in the start up folder to stop this kind of thing from happening again. Big mistake - "I've no idea what that thing does, but your dad put it there, it always comes up, and I can't get rid of it!" the old man wails at me the next day...
So just goes to show, even Mac users need Tech support sometimes.
Really? Seems more like 7:39AM to me (not everyone is from the States ya know!). (And not everyone feels the obsessive need to label themselves in socially-limiting categories - geek, nerd, etc.) (And not all females are turned off by mental prowess.)
Ok, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna post a "what the hell is this place comming too" post. Jesus, here's some guy who has done a rather awesome thing. Can we please just admire it for what it is without all the name calling? Jesus the tagline is "news for NERDS" - basicly everyone here so can we just stop it with the cheapshots and one-liners? And please, no more smart areses talking about getting laid. With that attitude you never will.
For those who were seriously interested in this project can I refer you to the link a fellow poster posted: it s more interesting.
My mum threw *all* mine away (I had so many) wen we moved. It's all the same to her - from electronic thermometers to driver cds and manuals (this was before we had the Net) to lego - if she didn't understand what it was, in the bin. Sad days. :'(
Will someone please tell the mainstream media that blogs and "the media" are not the same, are not trying to be the same, and will never be the same.
You see, they are different. (I feel like I'm a primary school teacher here.)
Blogs are one person's perspective on the news and can be a great way to watchdog the media - as many posters here have surgested. This isn't trying to uproot the main media becasue the main media currently doesn't have anything like this. (Retractions? No need to retract, we'll just hope no one notices.
Blogs can also be great grassroots news sources. You wouldn't hear about the Election from a blog and that's why I didn't write about it in mine - everybody already knows from the media! But, as we saw during the invasion of Bagdad (someone else google for the Bagdad Blogger - I'm too tired right now) and post 911 NY, blogs can be great grassroots sources, picking up stories which are later picked up and expanded upon by the media. Again, the media has no equivilent to this and shouldn't feel threatened by it.
What about project blogs? These are different again! CNN wouldnt carry a story about the latest version of Apache - why would they! ("Yeah but we survived before all these fancy "project logs" came about". Really? Guess which famous project blog this quote came from: ... register online prior to the conference and save US$100 on the full conference...). Essential infomation - if you're interested in it. So this is another kind of blog again.
Finally (and this is what *really* annoys me) there are personal blogs. These are personal and should NOT be confused with the above two. (It's not the personal blogs that annoy me, its that people group the two and critisize them as one entity when they are different.) Sometimes a personal blog can oscilate between the other categories, but personal blogs are great ways to keep in touch with family and friends. It's easier than email, more public, and less intrusive. (I live 6000 miles away from most of my friends because I'm a TCK and believe me, it is useful.) So what that they're just complaining about who they're crushing on - thats the kind of stuff I want to know. But not all blogs are personal and have this kind of infomation. "95% of the blogs out there are these little high schoolers writing their journal online" is a valid critisicm of blogging in exactly the same way that saying "95% of the websites out there are porn, personal homepages of highschool drama queens, and spam campaigns. Therefore its all useless". The statistics may be true but I still find the website of my best friend pretty useful, and BBC.co.uk too.
Something to think about...
Daniel
your saying passive (second hand) smoking is worse than being the actual smoker? That's what I heard, yes. The active smoker has a filter between him and the burning element, while the passive smoker has nothing. Note: I could be completely wrong about this and are prepared to be persuaded otherwise.
IAMAS (I Am Not A Smoker). AFAIK, it's not (just) the nicotine that cases problems. Nicotine is the adictive but the stuff that really causes problems are substances such as the tar and the smoke. With this device, the nicotine is heated, not burnt, so no tar, smoke, etc. Secondly, the real danger effect of passive smoking (and what makes passive so much worse than active) is that the passive smoker smokes the cigerrette while the active smoker is not inhaling and the cigerette is just burning into the air. So while it is true there is a small amount of nicotine to be inhaled from the active smoker, almost all of the dangers of passive smoking will be eliminated. I don't smoke either, BTW.
Coincidentially I was trying to install OpenBSD today to work as a router in my home on an old AMD K6-2 300 - I chose OpenBSD for pretty much this reason. Unfortunately it won't work due to my CPU lacking an onboard FPU; can anyone reccomend an OS to use instead, of a release of OpenBSD which will work anyway? Or a fix or a workaround? I was really looking forward to this...