The 'goods' that are sold on earth have no value in the greater galaxy, which makes real life a closed system, which sustains itself only due to the new people who are constantly being born as you yourself stated. It is a pyramid scheme.
donating sounds like a great idea, till you ask a computer charity about the associated costs. I worked for a place called Computers for Africa, which as you can guess shipped old computers over to africa for schools etc. We also would give refurbished systems to anyone who came and asked. We often had local charities and similar coming.
The problem is that recycling a computer is EXPENSIVE. Shipping an old computer, specially with CRT monitors costs a lot of money. Also, people don't want to take these old clunkers off you, so you end up collecting more and more pentium II 200mhz toasters which you then have to find some way to get rid off. It's not a profitable business. Now of course people will chime in, why doesn't the gov recycle them for plastics etc? Well recycling printers/monitors is really hard to do. It's very expensive and not worth a computer charities time on the whole, if they don't want to go under from the associated cost.
All in all, we (the west) produce so much computer waste that we can't keep track of it or keep ahead of the game. With the amount of people owning a PC sky rocketing, expect to see a whole lot of sad looking computer corpses being crushed at your local dumps.
lets be clear the reason why tag is more prevalent, it sounds cooler. While it might not be as logical a choice as Label it sounds more interesting and up-to-date. I doubt many people will associate tags with xml/html - I never did and I've been writing websites for a long time.
It does actually annoy me when places use terms other than tags for tagging stuff; I'm just used to that term and the process that goes with it. However this is non-story as a story can get.
If it REALLY bothers you, write a greasemonkey script that goes through google pages and replaces the word Label with the word Tag.
this is a conceptual game, in the same way that there is conceptual art. It makes it's point but is often only appealing in that sense, not in a greater aesthetic one.
Certainly I don't think it should have been pulled from slamdance and I'm with any independent game developer who pulls out of slam to protest this. Censorship is never the answer. Arguably it shows a lack of concern for all those involved in what happened in columbine (I stop short of using the word tragedy, i hate the word).
However having been one of those kids on the outside of school culture when younger when I watched columbine originally unfold and afterwards, I found that no lesson had really been learnt, especially by parents as to their personal responsibility and culpability for what happened.
While people ignore the way people who are 'outsiders' are treated as children in schools I think reminders like this are needed.
I think we as a geek community have proven that animation is not only for kids. Can games be for adults and deal with adult themes too? Perhaps Columbine rpg is not the greatest example as it is a shock title, but the point still stands.
I'm not sure at any point I compared the relative merits of Nasa and the iPhone! However on the whole I would imagine a great many people would be more interested in a new product from Apple than Nasa's latest ventures.
Personally I'm more interested in an apple story than a nasa one, as while I hold a passing interest in cosmology, day to day I read great deal more about tech and computing.
I know that every site has iphone news coming out of it's ears, but that's because it is a story worth reporting.
While roughly drafted may be publishing what amounts to just more speculation to fuel the fire, I've found the articles published there before insightful and refreshing.
in the end, there will always be the need for a slight compromise; 5 minutes to drag some folders to a wastebin and download vlc is trivial. the bonus is of course you have the best laptop in the world, bar none.
move along. Oh the irony. Anyhow, while this may be good news correct me if I'm wrong but US government has made headway reclassifying previously unclassified documents, as reported for instance here. I don't really know the ins and outs, but isn't it kind of one hand giving while the other takes away?
...what is being suggested is that the more complex a system becomes the more points of failure it has - wow, I need me a ticker tape parade.
It's hardly news that if someone goes looking for problems they find them - what is more revealing is the general response to the issues discovered:
Windows: 'well that's what you get when you write closed source crap and you try and bleed money out of your customers'. Apple: 'That'll wipe the smiles off their smarmy faces'. Linux: 'Oh we so good - look at how open source instantaneously fixes these problems, cures cancer and helps little orphans'.
all these above responses are of course propaganda (please refrain from using that awful, awful word "fud").
It's ironic that one of the hottest topics on slashdot, climate warming is accused of being one of the most tainted sciences but when it comes to something much simpler, the efficacy of patches on modern systems it turns into the biggest mud slinging match you could imagine.
the trick is... hoping that in a hundred thousand years people still care at all about their past. The slow realization as I read Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga about the origins of the Galactic Empire chilled me, mostly because the people of the empire had become so numb to their past as to have made it vanish entirely.
you're talking to us about rational debate when you have people like the CEI backing you up - way to go.
Funnily enough, as someone who believes in global warming I happen to also find the easiest way to prove it exists is using rational debate. However I also feel that there is another level to this debate, a moral level. There is a very simple reason why people don't want to discuss anything on this level, as I said above it dirties their conscience.
Global warming is here, now, affecting millions. Just because it predominantly isn't westerners we somehow manage to not give a fuck - is that right? No, it's cowardly.
it's funny how the one thing you won't admit is that global warming is here, now, causing devastation to peoples lives - I guess it really is a case of people sticking their heads in the ground and hoping for the best.
there's a very simple reason people disbelieve global warming - their conscience. To keep it clean they turn their head and look away and it sickens me.
It's the same kind of logic that keeps people smoking when they know exactly what it is doing to them. They simply don't want to think about what is happening so they ignore it - it's the elephant in the middle of the room.
plus, as many people here have said climate science is one of the most tainted - my fingers personally are pointed at the oil businesses and their sister companies the Governments.
As Al Gore said, this is a moral issue. Whose side are you on?
does anyone else think that this is a necessity of the maturation of a 'cyber' community. Honestly I think that companies will find 2nd life a bit of a red herring and the hype will soon vanish, but only because I don't think virtual communities are advanced enough. give 'em a couple more years and it might be a different matter.
Am i the only one who finds 2nd life totally unplayable because of it's atrocious graphics and nightmarish controls?
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but, make sure you don't do xxx or that's an instant do not pass go, go directly to hell.
recent statistics show kids are growing up 90% faster, the average age for a mid life crisis is now 25.
seriously though, more power to him.
The 'goods' that are sold on earth have no value in the greater galaxy, which makes real life a closed system, which sustains itself only due to the new people who are constantly being born as you yourself stated. It is a pyramid scheme.
see what I did there?
excuse me, did anyone ask you to get in the way of a good ms bashing opportunity?
how dare you assume anything but the British Police being totally incompetent!
preface, this IS a troll, anyhow:
apple got there first. it's called the jesuspho... er, iphone.
donating sounds like a great idea, till you ask a computer charity about the associated costs. I worked for a place called Computers for Africa, which as you can guess shipped old computers over to africa for schools etc. We also would give refurbished systems to anyone who came and asked. We often had local charities and similar coming.
The problem is that recycling a computer is EXPENSIVE. Shipping an old computer, specially with CRT monitors costs a lot of money. Also, people don't want to take these old clunkers off you, so you end up collecting more and more pentium II 200mhz toasters which you then have to find some way to get rid off. It's not a profitable business. Now of course people will chime in, why doesn't the gov recycle them for plastics etc? Well recycling printers/monitors is really hard to do. It's very expensive and not worth a computer charities time on the whole, if they don't want to go under from the associated cost.
All in all, we (the west) produce so much computer waste that we can't keep track of it or keep ahead of the game. With the amount of people owning a PC sky rocketing, expect to see a whole lot of sad looking computer corpses being crushed at your local dumps.
lets be clear the reason why tag is more prevalent, it sounds cooler. While it might not be as logical a choice as Label it sounds more interesting and up-to-date. I doubt many people will associate tags with xml/html - I never did and I've been writing websites for a long time.
It does actually annoy me when places use terms other than tags for tagging stuff; I'm just used to that term and the process that goes with it. However this is non-story as a story can get.
If it REALLY bothers you, write a greasemonkey script that goes through google pages and replaces the word Label with the word Tag.
this is a conceptual game, in the same way that there is conceptual art. It makes it's point but is often only appealing in that sense, not in a greater aesthetic one.
Certainly I don't think it should have been pulled from slamdance and I'm with any independent game developer who pulls out of slam to protest this. Censorship is never the answer. Arguably it shows a lack of concern for all those involved in what happened in columbine (I stop short of using the word tragedy, i hate the word).
However having been one of those kids on the outside of school culture when younger when I watched columbine originally unfold and afterwards, I found that no lesson had really been learnt, especially by parents as to their personal responsibility and culpability for what happened.
While people ignore the way people who are 'outsiders' are treated as children in schools I think reminders like this are needed.
I think we as a geek community have proven that animation is not only for kids. Can games be for adults and deal with adult themes too? Perhaps Columbine rpg is not the greatest example as it is a shock title, but the point still stands.
I'm not sure at any point I compared the relative merits of Nasa and the iPhone! However on the whole I would imagine a great many people would be more interested in a new product from Apple than Nasa's latest ventures.
Personally I'm more interested in an apple story than a nasa one, as while I hold a passing interest in cosmology, day to day I read great deal more about tech and computing.
I know that every site has iphone news coming out of it's ears, but that's because it is a story worth reporting.
While roughly drafted may be publishing what amounts to just more speculation to fuel the fire, I've found the articles published there before insightful and refreshing.
you're forgetting c) the great publicity their jesus phone is getting from this whole debate
in the end, there will always be the need for a slight compromise; 5 minutes to drag some folders to a wastebin and download vlc is trivial. the bonus is of course you have the best laptop in the world, bar none.
I'm an apple fanboy, I readily admit it!
move along. Oh the irony. Anyhow, while this may be good news correct me if I'm wrong but US government has made headway reclassifying previously unclassified documents, as reported for instance here. I don't really know the ins and outs, but isn't it kind of one hand giving while the other takes away?
a great reason to invest in energy saving lightbulbs i would think.
...what is being suggested is that the more complex a system becomes the more points of failure it has - wow, I need me a ticker tape parade.
It's hardly news that if someone goes looking for problems they find them - what is more revealing is the general response to the issues discovered:
Windows: 'well that's what you get when you write closed source crap and you try and bleed money out of your customers'.
Apple: 'That'll wipe the smiles off their smarmy faces'.
Linux: 'Oh we so good - look at how open source instantaneously fixes these problems, cures cancer and helps little orphans'.
all these above responses are of course propaganda (please refrain from using that awful, awful word "fud").
It's ironic that one of the hottest topics on slashdot, climate warming is accused of being one of the most tainted sciences but when it comes to something much simpler, the efficacy of patches on modern systems it turns into the biggest mud slinging match you could imagine.
the trick is... hoping that in a hundred thousand years people still care at all about their past. The slow realization as I read Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga about the origins of the Galactic Empire chilled me, mostly because the people of the empire had become so numb to their past as to have made it vanish entirely.
thanks, you've deeply amused me. do you have any other alternative name for this theory of yours? could you share it with us?
perhaps you got military specs SMART and didn't realize it.
you're talking to us about rational debate when you have people like the CEI backing you up - way to go.
Funnily enough, as someone who believes in global warming I happen to also find the easiest way to prove it exists is using rational debate. However I also feel that there is another level to this debate, a moral level. There is a very simple reason why people don't want to discuss anything on this level, as I said above it dirties their conscience.
Global warming is here, now, affecting millions. Just because it predominantly isn't westerners we somehow manage to not give a fuck - is that right? No, it's cowardly.
it's funny how the one thing you won't admit is that global warming is here, now, causing devastation to peoples lives - I guess it really is a case of people sticking their heads in the ground and hoping for the best.
there's a very simple reason people disbelieve global warming - their conscience. To keep it clean they turn their head and look away and it sickens me.
It's the same kind of logic that keeps people smoking when they know exactly what it is doing to them. They simply don't want to think about what is happening so they ignore it - it's the elephant in the middle of the room.
plus, as many people here have said climate science is one of the most tainted - my fingers personally are pointed at the oil businesses and their sister companies the Governments.
As Al Gore said, this is a moral issue. Whose side are you on?
technically slashdot is exactly the place to pretend you know shit about stuff you don't - the whole commentary for this story will prove this.
B5 was one of the pivotal sci-fi series of my teenage life, because it was real drama and didn't treat me like a child (star trek, tut tut).
'the very long night of lono mollari' has to rate as one of the greatest and most evocative sci-fi episodes ever made.
I'm not sure if it's such a great idea to revive the series though, in any way. other opinions?
does anyone else think that this is a necessity of the maturation of a 'cyber' community. Honestly I think that companies will find 2nd life a bit of a red herring and the hype will soon vanish, but only because I don't think virtual communities are advanced enough. give 'em a couple more years and it might be a different matter.
Am i the only one who finds 2nd life totally unplayable because of it's atrocious graphics and nightmarish controls?