That was a truthful headline. Something WAS found using SETI@home. If SETI@home had found evidence of intelligent life, the headline would've said so. As if the truth of the headline wasn't enough, the huge foot icon should've been a big indication that it's humorous. Furthermore, you are the exact kind of person who needs this kind of article. Laugh a little bit. Life's short, may as well enjoy it.
Also, if you accept that something can't come from nothing, then the notion that there's an infinite series of previous universes is also absurd. If they can't be created out of nothing, then they couldn't have existed.
Now, we can either state essentially the same facts and ask the same questions over and over in our own little infinite sequence (that had a start), or we can just say "We don't know," which is the truth.
Windows recognizes my wireless card. And it works just great too.
None of the flavors of linux that I've tried recognize it. Even after spending 3 hours trying to get it working, it wouldn't work.
I really don't care if Debian can run with a graphics card from 1993. I want it to run with my wireless card from 2006. I'm tired of having to use Windows all the time. It really should be one of the top priorities to get the hardware working on the "new" laptops. That is, the ones that thousands of students will be buying each fall for school.
"How could they have such mistakes in their process, if they care about intellectual property?" Not everyone has heard of BlueJ. The person(s) who wrote it might have fallen into this camp.
"Was the mistake that they didn't hide it well?" No, incoming patents can be examined by outside parties. Microsoft knows that all patents they submit will be closely looked at by people outside of the patent office.
"Did they simply try if they can get through with this?" You never know with these large corporations.
"Can an entity that consists of basically good humans be not good in the end? (I'm afraid yes)." You stated earlier that you believe human beings to be basically good, but they can err. So, let's look at Ghengis Khan to answer this question (I really hope there isn't a version of Godwin's Law for Ghengis Khan. We'd be running out of people to use examples of). Ghengis Khan was a human being. Therefore according to you he is basically good, but he is allowed to err slightly. Now, this man took over a good portion of the world through military might, raping and pillaging as he went. Of course, he didn't do this alone (although that'd be highly impressive). His army also consisted of men, who being people, were basically good. It's up to you to decide if his horses were good or evil. So, seeing as how raping and pillaging is generally seen as a Bad Thing, a group of basically good people must be able to do not good things in the end. Now that I think about it, the Ghengis Khan analogy is quite fitting to Microsoft and their rise to power.
"So I still cannot decide if I can trust them or not, they seem to have lied too often in the past." If a man is convicted and jailed for pedophile, it wouldn't matter if he cured cancer or fed the entire world: he'd always be remembered as a pedophile.
No, the game play needs work too. Not that it'll ever get done, but there is much to be wanting. Steering (a fairly important part of the game) is rough, and doesn't always follow what it'd be in real life. It could be said that "well duh, it'd take forever to get real driving down", but my response is that seeing as how they obviously did not do much work on the graphics, they had enough time to work on steering.
Here's what I call a next-generation console: "A console that has better hardware than the previous generation, allowing for games to run better and faster calculations." I suspect that many people share that one with me.
True, it's not the Wii's fault entirely, but that game still had to pass Nintendo's standards and the graphics are *horrible* for a game made nowadays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gt-pro-series-2 0060908022745688-1-.jpg There is a link to a screen shot. Thankfully, my brother just wanted a racing game, but the first words he said about the game were: "The graphics SUCK!"
On a side note, if you have any games you would think to be fun for an 11-year old that isn't too complicated, do share.
That's exactly what I saw. It seemed like all the big games were just a lot of minigames thrown together. I was quite disappointed by that. I hear that Red Steel is NOT a good game from everyone who's ever played it (that I talk to obviously). And Call of Duty 3 apparently has no multiplayer on the Wii. What's up with that?
The Wii is fun. Wii sports (boxing and bowling are the only ones I play, the others are meh) can be quite fun and Zelda was well done. But I can't say I'm impressed with the rest of the games. One of the games (Gran Turismo I think) has the graphics of the N64. It's a next generation system: the graphics shouldn't go back two generations.
Hopefully the new Smash and Mario games will change my lukewarm reaction to the Wii.
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The Flying...Squid...Monster? Poor Japanese school girls. Atleast they could stay away from tentacles if they avoided water...
That was a truthful headline. Something WAS found using SETI@home. If SETI@home had found evidence of intelligent life, the headline would've said so. As if the truth of the headline wasn't enough, the huge foot icon should've been a big indication that it's humorous. Furthermore, you are the exact kind of person who needs this kind of article. Laugh a little bit. Life's short, may as well enjoy it.
Strange, all the game store around here have had full shelves of Wii consoles for the past few weeks.
They've also had full shelves of PS3s for the past...month and a half.
Windows Vista Ultimate scales all the way to 11.
I melt at 85. It's 20 degrees out and I'm in shorts.
65 is the best temperature I think.
The only good is knowledge, the only evil, ignorance.
Can you support this? Pretty heavy thing you just said and you didn't give much evidence.
Or maybe SCO doesn't take wikipedia to be a 100% correct source.
This anecdote can't be true. Absolutely not.
/.er dating someone?
Who's heard of a
Also, if you accept that something can't come from nothing, then the notion that there's an infinite series of previous universes is also absurd. If they can't be created out of nothing, then they couldn't have existed.
Now, we can either state essentially the same facts and ask the same questions over and over in our own little infinite sequence (that had a start), or we can just say "We don't know," which is the truth.
I was told that story by a friend. Quite interesting. It was the shortened version (as in a 5 minute telling), but I think I got everything.
I do wonder though: How did the very first one occur? If this universe is from the last one, then there must have been a first one somewhere.
Finally someone who agrees with me.
"An operating system is supposed to be uncrackable."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't DRM supposed to be uncrackable too?
"There is no point looking for improvements, because the locations of the cracks are known (to a few people)."
The locations of cracks in the system are known to people OS-wise too. Is there no point in looking for an improvement the OS as well?
Does that apply to viruses and Operating systems too?
Which is exactly why games like Grand Theft Auto, Oblivion, and Mercenaries never sold a single copy.
Because it'll be back up eventually today.
You sir, win the award for Best /. Post Ever.
Dell: The Quality of our Computers will Shock you!
This is Slashdot. The closest multiplayer game to sex that people have played here is using two hands at once.
Interestingly, that one is written by someone working on Visual J++.
Windows recognizes my wireless card. And it works just great too.
None of the flavors of linux that I've tried recognize it. Even after spending 3 hours trying to get it working, it wouldn't work.
I really don't care if Debian can run with a graphics card from 1993. I want it to run with my wireless card from 2006. I'm tired of having to use Windows all the time. It really should be one of the top priorities to get the hardware working on the "new" laptops. That is, the ones that thousands of students will be buying each fall for school.
"How could they have such mistakes in their process, if they care about intellectual property?"
Not everyone has heard of BlueJ. The person(s) who wrote it might have fallen into this camp.
"Was the mistake that they didn't hide it well?"
No, incoming patents can be examined by outside parties. Microsoft knows that all patents they submit will be closely looked at by people outside of the patent office.
"Did they simply try if they can get through with this?"
You never know with these large corporations.
"Can an entity that consists of basically good humans be not good in the end? (I'm afraid yes)."
You stated earlier that you believe human beings to be basically good, but they can err. So, let's look at Ghengis Khan to answer this question (I really hope there isn't a version of Godwin's Law for Ghengis Khan. We'd be running out of people to use examples of). Ghengis Khan was a human being. Therefore according to you he is basically good, but he is allowed to err slightly. Now, this man took over a good portion of the world through military might, raping and pillaging as he went. Of course, he didn't do this alone (although that'd be highly impressive). His army also consisted of men, who being people, were basically good. It's up to you to decide if his horses were good or evil. So, seeing as how raping and pillaging is generally seen as a Bad Thing, a group of basically good people must be able to do not good things in the end. Now that I think about it, the Ghengis Khan analogy is quite fitting to Microsoft and their rise to power.
"So I still cannot decide if I can trust them or not, they seem to have lied too often in the past."
If a man is convicted and jailed for pedophile, it wouldn't matter if he cured cancer or fed the entire world: he'd always be remembered as a pedophile.
No, the game play needs work too. Not that it'll ever get done, but there is much to be wanting. Steering (a fairly important part of the game) is rough, and doesn't always follow what it'd be in real life. It could be said that "well duh, it'd take forever to get real driving down", but my response is that seeing as how they obviously did not do much work on the graphics, they had enough time to work on steering.
Here's what I call a next-generation console: "A console that has better hardware than the previous generation, allowing for games to run better and faster calculations." I suspect that many people share that one with me.
2 0060908022745688-1-.jpg There is a link to a screen shot. Thankfully, my brother just wanted a racing game, but the first words he said about the game were: "The graphics SUCK!"
True, it's not the Wii's fault entirely, but that game still had to pass Nintendo's standards and the graphics are *horrible* for a game made nowadays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gt-pro-series-
On a side note, if you have any games you would think to be fun for an 11-year old that isn't too complicated, do share.
That's exactly what I saw. It seemed like all the big games were just a lot of minigames thrown together. I was quite disappointed by that. I hear that Red Steel is NOT a good game from everyone who's ever played it (that I talk to obviously). And Call of Duty 3 apparently has no multiplayer on the Wii. What's up with that?
The Wii is fun. Wii sports (boxing and bowling are the only ones I play, the others are meh) can be quite fun and Zelda was well done. But I can't say I'm impressed with the rest of the games. One of the games (Gran Turismo I think) has the graphics of the N64. It's a next generation system: the graphics shouldn't go back two generations.
Hopefully the new Smash and Mario games will change my lukewarm reaction to the Wii.
We need a "sad but true" moderation option.