then in the interests of public safety, perhaps it would be wise if we standardized. i believe that if we create a consortium, we can bring all interested parties under one umbrella, and get some decisions made.
fair enough - i've heard the story countless times and none of what you guys just threw at me has ever come up. so sod that sentence then, but i notice that none of you tried to throw the baby out with the bathwater - kudos!
but to be fair to ME - when i hear that something really dumb occurs in america, i don't feel the urge to fact-check: it's like telling me the sun's going to come up tomorrow, i taken it as is.
once again - the geek is the one with the suntan. the nerd is the one with the umbrella, 2 inches of sunscreen pasted on his face, and he's probably wearing his trenchcoat on the beach. of course - this is all in the unlikely event that he's ventured so far as to get to the sand.
i really think that in cases such as these, the state should sue the parents of the plaintiff for gross negligence in raising a child - anybody that unequipped to deal with the real world needs to be dealt with or put down.
like the mcdonald's coffee case. and countless others.
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i am so bold, i suggest that the quality of gameplay and number of bugs are both inversely proportional to the amount of money spent on hype and advertising.
or, maybe they should advertise AFTER the game is COMPLETE, and not just for any given value of complete.
but to be fair, it's also possible that he got scooped up by some secret government / military / illuminati type organization, and is currently reading your post and giggling insanely. the fact that you can't find anything out about him doesn't indicate a damn thing!
i had an accident many years ago, and had to relearn how to walk. i'm painfully aware of my leg motion, and am constantly "reconfiguring" my gait. so i guess that counts me out, huh?
i'm sick of people posting reasons why a technology is unhelpful because it doesn't help them. if it's useful for the majority, that's good enough. i'm off to shoot myself in the head.
this sounds like a plan muhammar's been sitting on for a while. i wanted to mod the post, but there's no option for "disturbing", "worrying", or "it just might work". help me out here guys.
kind of relevant - it's a complaint about the article...
i speak british english, and every time i heard the abuse of the word "orient" it urks me. it urks me that before i clarified, i wasn't too sure about this... it had already become accepted usage.
orienting means taking someone or something and making it ORIENTAL. re-orienting is when an oriental person, who's been - for argument's sake - americanized, goes back to his roots.
the word you guys (okay, i'm targeting americans here) are looking for is ORIENTATION. and ORIENTATING. you know, like someone's who's totally disorientated is lost. you can re-orientate objects in general. i orientated myself towards the keyboard so that i could whine about this.
good night, ladies and gentlemen. 'cuz that's the most important thing i have to say right now.
the best place to start is to find a job where Oracle is NOT a requirement.
I've been working with Oracle for the past year, and suffering every minute of it.
They've constructed an RDBMS with AWESOME potential, but not only is the documentation generally aweful, the system itself is so unnecessarily complicated and, to quote Neal Stephenson, "crufty", that it takes a certain mentality to deal with the myriad little things that need tweaking and tuning (read Oracle SQL Statement Tuning if you don't believe me)... a certain "I don't mind wasting my life on trivialities" mentality.
Now don't get me wrong, I've seen Oracle DBA's do some mind-blowing things, but I've also seen the amount of work they have to put into the little, this-was-supposed-to-take-a-minute things, and quite frankly, it's one hell of a trade-off.
If you're satisfied with dedicating a large portion of your sanity and time, then good luck! Otherwise, keep away. It's for your own good.
I was asked the other day if I would say the same things if I was suddenly offered a job at Oracle, for an unbelievably large sum of money. I thought carefully about it, and came up with the only possible conclusion.
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
ummm - ok, so i'm a bio-Luddite. thanks for the link. i DO apologize, but i actually can't continue this argument purely on grounds that i worry that my IQ may drop. but if it ever comes to killing people to enforce "death" (god, that's sounds so retarded), you're the first on my list.
Speak for yourself. Some of us have bigger goals.
which is why people like einstein set a stage, and other people carry on the work.
let's convert the NIH into a building for raves rather than all that pointless curing cancer stuff.
curing a disease is one thing. fixing a natural process is another.
and hey, if they're going home each night satisified, then that's the LIVING part. and life isn't about raves, life is about being who you want to be, and doing the things you want to do - and doing them NOW. not trying to extend our lifespan because we wasted time.
Many people's quality of life would be greatly improved if their parents were still alive and healthy
wow. WOW. did you spend time THINKING about what you just said? you know what? keep pining for your parents, there's a difference between missing them and needing them. and if you still need them, they didn't do their job right. you just blew my mind with that one.
if you think aging and death is a beautiful natural process
obviously you never read the entirety of my post, or failed to understand the point. nice one. i don't recall ever insinuating beauty into this. the point i WAS making is that it's NECESSARY in turns of our evolution. unless, of course, you think that the world today could be perfectly run by the previous generation. try to imagine your parents innovating the way the new workforce does. one of the problems of being human is that we LEARN PATTERNS, and unlearning them is difficult. and most of the time, we don't want to. that we have children and THEY continue the legacy is a built-in mechanism for the success of the species. we need it. you are a part of the process of evolution, don't try to stop it in the middle.
and please, please don't whine about your parents. if they're dead, then their participation in the great scheme of things is over, and hopefully the result of that participation will live on. because that's the best thing we can hope for.
and it's not a bad thing.
the current average human life span is PLENTY for achieving dreams, enjoyment, and personal betterment. instead of trying to extend life, these guys should be out there LIVING.
and besides, as asimov said, our relatively short life-spans are a cause for collaboration, and you can't say that's not a good thing. a big part of human nature is the concept of legacy, evolving ourselves and passing down to the next generation. if we increase our life-spans, we just slow down the process.
not to mention overpopulation, poverty, blah blah blah etc. etc. ad nauseum.
if we're going to evolve, let's evolve along the lines of cybernetics, improving the quality of life for the here and now, instead of hanging around longer. those who dream of extended life are dreaming of more time to regret wasting the first bits.
and we're STILL not immune to large trucks. BUGGRIT.
is that you can make them do wonderful things. and there's always the possibility that you fell outside of the curve. just because it's unlikely, doesn't mean it won't happen every time.
like yesterday. i misplaced an electron 500,000 times. DAMN.
help her to achieve her dreams. add a little plastic here and there, just not TOO much, then send her my way. i'll be happy to find things for her to do. FLAME ON
i totally agree. it would be nice if your career and whatever you actually want to do with your life are the same, but in general it doesn't work out that way.
it's like university - you don't learn a trade there, you hopefully get educated a little. and find out more about what you WANT to do. what you do for cash takes a large part of your day, but it shouldn't stop you from going after your dreams.
that's what nights are for, that's why some of us don't get any sleep. aside from sleeping at our desks, that is.
during the course of my studies for a degree - a degree that the girls succeeded in better than the guys, btw - we studied the correlation between IQ test results and levels of extrovertness.
it turns out, the people who score highest on IQ tests are generally shy, less likely to ask for help for even trivial things during the course of their lives.
ergo, they think more for themselves when it comes to problem solving (often reinventing the wheel in the process), but it's great practice when something real important comes along, like phychologists waving around meaningless pieces of paper.
girls in general are a lot less socially inept, so it makes sense that the IQ results are lower, because they're more used to solving problems in a group effort.
as an aside, i personally believe that the only real psychological (not physical) differences between men and women are induced by society, and upbringing. men and women's brains possess the same functionality, we're just taught to use them differently, is all.
what about using solar power and a REALLY big fan? see, the way i figure it, the second the craft hits the atmosphere, there's something for it to push against.
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then in the interests of public safety, perhaps it would be wise if we standardized. i believe that if we create a consortium, we can bring all interested parties under one umbrella, and get some decisions made.
fair enough - i've heard the story countless times and none of what you guys just threw at me has ever come up. so sod that sentence then, but i notice that none of you tried to throw the baby out with the bathwater - kudos!
but to be fair to ME - when i hear that something really dumb occurs in america, i don't feel the urge to fact-check: it's like telling me the sun's going to come up tomorrow, i taken it as is.
once again - the geek is the one with the suntan. the nerd is the one with the umbrella, 2 inches of sunscreen pasted on his face, and he's probably wearing his trenchcoat on the beach. of course - this is all in the unlikely event that he's ventured so far as to get to the sand.
objection! slapping someone with a salami may cause him to break out in hives. i suggest slapping him with the gavel.
i really think that in cases such as these, the state should sue the parents of the plaintiff for gross negligence in raising a child - anybody that unequipped to deal with the real world needs to be dealt with or put down.
like the mcdonald's coffee case. and countless others.
damn. i was reading the description, and i thought to myself: "wow! maybe i'm autistic!"
and then i thought about posting just that to slashdot, so i'm not.
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i am so bold, i suggest that the quality of gameplay and number of bugs are both inversely proportional to the amount of money spent on hype and advertising.
or, maybe they should advertise AFTER the game is COMPLETE, and not just for any given value of complete.
but to be fair, it's also possible that he got scooped up by some secret government / military / illuminati type organization, and is currently reading your post and giggling insanely. the fact that you can't find anything out about him doesn't indicate a damn thing!
i had an accident many years ago, and had to relearn how to walk. i'm painfully aware of my leg motion, and am constantly "reconfiguring" my gait. so i guess that counts me out, huh?
i'm sick of people posting reasons why a technology is unhelpful because it doesn't help them. if it's useful for the majority, that's good enough. i'm off to shoot myself in the head.
and i can't be bothered to read all of them to check that this hasn't been mentioned:
ok brightsparks, you checked the pillows. nice one. did you check the goshdarn bedspread?
this sounds like a plan muhammar's been sitting on for a while. i wanted to mod the post, but there's no option for "disturbing", "worrying", or "it just might work". help me out here guys.
whatever. i'm going back to counterstrike now...
*pats robot slave on head*
kind of relevant - it's a complaint about the article...
i speak british english, and every time i heard the abuse of the word "orient" it urks me. it urks me that before i clarified, i wasn't too sure about this... it had already become accepted usage.
orienting means taking someone or something and making it ORIENTAL. re-orienting is when an oriental person, who's been - for argument's sake - americanized, goes back to his roots.
the word you guys (okay, i'm targeting americans here) are looking for is ORIENTATION. and ORIENTATING. you know, like someone's who's totally disorientated is lost. you can re-orientate objects in general. i orientated myself towards the keyboard so that i could whine about this.
good night, ladies and gentlemen. 'cuz that's the most important thing i have to say right now.
the best place to start is to find a job where Oracle is NOT a requirement.
I've been working with Oracle for the past year, and suffering every minute of it.
They've constructed an RDBMS with AWESOME potential, but not only is the documentation generally aweful, the system itself is so unnecessarily complicated and, to quote Neal Stephenson, "crufty", that it takes a certain mentality to deal with the myriad little things that need tweaking and tuning (read Oracle SQL Statement Tuning if you don't believe me)... a certain "I don't mind wasting my life on trivialities" mentality.
Now don't get me wrong, I've seen Oracle DBA's do some mind-blowing things, but I've also seen the amount of work they have to put into the little, this-was-supposed-to-take-a-minute things, and quite frankly, it's one hell of a trade-off.
If you're satisfied with dedicating a large portion of your sanity and time, then good luck! Otherwise, keep away. It's for your own good.
I was asked the other day if I would say the same things if I was suddenly offered a job at Oracle, for an unbelievably large sum of money. I thought carefully about it, and came up with the only possible conclusion.
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
ummm - ok, so i'm a bio-Luddite. thanks for the link. i DO apologize, but i actually can't continue this argument purely on grounds that i worry that my IQ may drop. but if it ever comes to killing people to enforce "death" (god, that's sounds so retarded), you're the first on my list.
congratulations!
Speak for yourself. Some of us have bigger goals.
which is why people like einstein set a stage, and other people carry on the work.
let's convert the NIH into a building for raves rather than all that pointless curing cancer stuff.
curing a disease is one thing. fixing a natural process is another.
and hey, if they're going home each night satisified, then that's the LIVING part. and life isn't about raves, life is about being who you want to be, and doing the things you want to do - and doing them NOW. not trying to extend our lifespan because we wasted time.
Many people's quality of life would be greatly improved if their parents were still alive and healthy
wow. WOW. did you spend time THINKING about what you just said? you know what? keep pining for your parents, there's a difference between missing them and needing them. and if you still need them, they didn't do their job right. you just blew my mind with that one.
if you think aging and death is a beautiful natural process
obviously you never read the entirety of my post, or failed to understand the point. nice one. i don't recall ever insinuating beauty into this. the point i WAS making is that it's NECESSARY in turns of our evolution. unless, of course, you think that the world today could be perfectly run by the previous generation. try to imagine your parents innovating the way the new workforce does. one of the problems of being human is that we LEARN PATTERNS, and unlearning them is difficult. and most of the time, we don't want to. that we have children and THEY continue the legacy is a built-in mechanism for the success of the species. we need it. you are a part of the process of evolution, don't try to stop it in the middle.
and please, please don't whine about your parents. if they're dead, then their participation in the great scheme of things is over, and hopefully the result of that participation will live on. because that's the best thing we can hope for.
and it's not a bad thing.
not everything can please everybody - my ears WORK, you insensitive clod! i have the right to use 'em!
the current average human life span is PLENTY for achieving dreams, enjoyment, and personal betterment. instead of trying to extend life, these guys should be out there LIVING.
and besides, as asimov said, our relatively short life-spans are a cause for collaboration, and you can't say that's not a good thing. a big part of human nature is the concept of legacy, evolving ourselves and passing down to the next generation. if we increase our life-spans, we just slow down the process.
not to mention overpopulation, poverty, blah blah blah etc. etc. ad nauseum.
if we're going to evolve, let's evolve along the lines of cybernetics, improving the quality of life for the here and now, instead of hanging around longer. those who dream of extended life are dreaming of more time to regret wasting the first bits.
and we're STILL not immune to large trucks. BUGGRIT.
is that you can make them do wonderful things. and there's always the possibility that you fell outside of the curve. just because it's unlikely, doesn't mean it won't happen every time.
like yesterday. i misplaced an electron 500,000 times. DAMN.
help her to achieve her dreams. add a little plastic here and there, just not TOO much, then send her my way. i'll be happy to find things for her to do.
FLAME ON
i totally agree. it would be nice if your career and whatever you actually want to do with your life are the same, but in general it doesn't work out that way.
it's like university - you don't learn a trade there, you hopefully get educated a little. and find out more about what you WANT to do. what you do for cash takes a large part of your day, but it shouldn't stop you from going after your dreams.
that's what nights are for, that's why some of us don't get any sleep. aside from sleeping at our desks, that is.
during the course of my studies for a degree - a degree that the girls succeeded in better than the guys, btw - we studied the correlation between IQ test results and levels of extrovertness.
it turns out, the people who score highest on IQ tests are generally shy, less likely to ask for help for even trivial things during the course of their lives.
ergo, they think more for themselves when it comes to problem solving (often reinventing the wheel in the process), but it's great practice when something real important comes along, like phychologists waving around meaningless pieces of paper.
girls in general are a lot less socially inept, so it makes sense that the IQ results are lower, because they're more used to solving problems in a group effort.
as an aside, i personally believe that the only real psychological (not physical) differences between men and women are induced by society, and upbringing. men and women's brains possess the same functionality, we're just taught to use them differently, is all.
what about using solar power and a REALLY big fan? see, the way i figure it, the second the craft hits the atmosphere, there's something for it to push against.
btw, iaanars. promise.