This is less applicable being in a hman controlled environement. But I have to wonder if our attempts to "help" animals actually results in long-term harm. Like it or not, the weak are supposed to die out. Perhaps we should do less to help animals.
I will also temper my argument by saying that people need to stop intruding so much on animals' natural habitats so that they can have a healthy population that can rebound from the occasional disease or natural disaster.
Absolutely. I now have responsibilities, and can't afford to spend hours on end playing games. Very few things worthwhile that I can get the hang of in a short time, yet are fun enough to play mre than a few times.... Crap... I look forward to the newest Orbitz game coming out!
I read about this a day or two ago, and thought to myself: "Should I submit this to Slashdot". Then I thought "Nah, certainly something this stupid would never make it onto Slashdot".
Sun, Mass, 1.99 x 10 30 kg Earth, Mass 5.98 x 10 24 kg
Convert the whole earth to Uranium, and dump it into the Sun, you get.0003 % of the Sun's mass is Uranium. The actual amount we will put in is insignificant
Now, let's say we are really scared of something happening.... We can just as easily dump this stuff on Venus. Takes a little more math skills, but is doable.
The real reason we don't: It takes more energy to put this stuff into orbit than we generate from the nucular reaction.
Problem is -- this fight was going on BEFORE the US got back into ITER. I've been following this politicial fiasco for years. Maybe Clinton was right to pull us out when he did. Too much politics. Not enought science.
But anything that suggests that the US is anti-science and politically vindictive automatically gets a +5 insightful.
Bull. This fight was going on before George W Bush got us back in ITER. Remember Clinton pulled us out?
Please don't mod something insightful that is false.
It is interesting to see how much work is required to get something that simulates 'common sense'. Note how much 'tagging' was required to get a character in a controled environment from point A to point B in a logical manner.
Now take your average FPS player. He is able to look at the terrain without these tags and make a coherent game plan. Leave one tag off of an object, and that AI player is suddenly trying to do something impossible and not able to make a decision to try a different tact.
AI has certainly improved. I can't even begin to guess how many single player games have been destroyed simply because I found an explotable AI weakness. What will make AI really good is when it can adapt strategies when it has consistently lost.
Reminds me of a couple years ago when we had a "White Elephant Gift" party. I found a Partridge Family 8-Track at Goodwill. The look on the recipient's face was priceless!
Now I am wondering how many slashdotters even know of what the "Partidge Family" is?
Untrue. We do get a lot of folks from immigration, but we would still continue to grom with a birthrate of 2.3 children per household average.
I believe you are getting mixed up with some projections that have been made: By 2030, we should see the birthrate drop low enough that we would not support otherwise.
Now, many European nations are having to face this issue. In fact, I saw recently that Italy was considering giving cash to folks who decided to have their 2nd kid...
I think that the average user is getting more EDUCATED, not more intelligent. Lemme give you an example. Today at work, we receive approximately 27,000 metric tons of information about changes to our health care plan. I consider myself relatively intelligent, with a good amount of education. However, the volumes of information are not in my realm of expertise. The HR folks seem to think we should be able to absorb all this information and make an intelligent choice for our families within two weeks.
For someone who is absorbed in this stuff, this is probably very straightforward. To someone who is in the tech field, understanding service providers, and "what the internet is" is relatively trivial.
The danger becomes that or profession looks down on the majority of folks who don't have a clue. It isn't because they are stooopid. It is because the mechaniscs of the computer world does not interest them. Our job is to serve those folks, help them to make better choices, make it EASIER to make those choices.
Overall, I think we've done well, but then there are posts like this, which I HOPE are the minority.
If we all had the same gifts, this wold be a boring world.
I voted. I did not vote for either Kerry or Bush. I dislike Bush. However, that, in my mind, is not a reason to vote for Kerry. I found Kerry ran as the "I'm not Bush" candidate. Even his official site was devoid of specifics on Kerry's views.
Both parties have gone away from the basics of what has made their parties strong, and have instead chosen to court small percentages of the populous. And this has gotten worse over the couple decades I have followed politics. Reagan and Clinton have been strong leaders... but otherwise....
Anyhow, my point. I have realized that voting is not the best way to exercise my civic duty. I need to get involved in a couple single-issue organizations, and support them. People complain about PACs, and their influence on politics. I say that PACs are the only way to get the system changed. I also find that when I have invested myself into something that I am less 'disenfrachised'.
If you're one of the folks that is threatening to move out of the US now -- don't let the door smack you on the butt on your way out. Believe it or not, this country has been more divided and more ugly at several points in its history. It took committed citizens to pull the US back together.
Not sure why I'm posting this. But I wanted to share my thoughts!
Brilliant job. I did not vote for George Bush. However, I know at least two people who did not vote for Kerry because they got tired of all the phone calls. Not sure exactly how many, but I know that my house had 27 calls on our answering maching in the 72 hours leading up to the election.
Part of this is that I live in Ohio. I wonder how many people were fed up with the spam and decided not to vote for Kerry.
Slashdot Mirror
This is less applicable being in a hman controlled environement. But I have to wonder if our attempts to "help" animals actually results in long-term harm. Like it or not, the weak are supposed to die out. Perhaps we should do less to help animals.
I will also temper my argument by saying that people need to stop intruding so much on animals' natural habitats so that they can have a healthy population that can rebound from the occasional disease or natural disaster.
Absolutely. I now have responsibilities, and can't afford to spend hours on end playing games. Very few things worthwhile that I can get the hang of in a short time, yet are fun enough to play mre than a few times.... Crap... I look forward to the newest Orbitz game coming out!
I read about this a day or two ago, and thought to myself: "Should I submit this to Slashdot". Then I thought "Nah, certainly something this stupid would never make it onto Slashdot".
Insert obligatory: "You must be new here" reply.
Have you ever read a statement so outrageous and funny that you can't think of a good comeback :) Its a lot like watching C-SPAN.
Any your karma sucks out the butt... why is that?
Sun, Mass, 1.99 x 10 30 kg
.0003 % of the Sun's mass is Uranium. The actual amount we will put in is insignificant
Earth, Mass 5.98 x 10 24 kg
Convert the whole earth to Uranium, and dump it into the Sun, you get
Now, let's say we are really scared of something happening.... We can just as easily dump this stuff on Venus. Takes a little more math skills, but is doable.
The real reason we don't: It takes more energy to put this stuff into orbit than we generate from the nucular reaction.
Would it be able to get a sufficient amount of meaningless technobable, managementspeak, sentence fragments and misspelled words?
I thought not.
My life is complete. Got this modded TROLL when it is factually correct. How dare I point out a hole in a "U.S. is a big men evil country" argument?
Problem is -- this fight was going on BEFORE the US got back into ITER. I've been following this politicial fiasco for years. Maybe Clinton was right to pull us out when he did. Too much politics. Not enought science.
But anything that suggests that the US is anti-science and politically vindictive automatically gets a +5 insightful.
Bull. This fight was going on before George W Bush got us back in ITER. Remember Clinton pulled us out? Please don't mod something insightful that is false.
It is interesting to see how much work is required to get something that simulates 'common sense'. Note how much 'tagging' was required to get a character in a controled environment from point A to point B in a logical manner.
Now take your average FPS player. He is able to look at the terrain without these tags and make a coherent game plan. Leave one tag off of an object, and that AI player is suddenly trying to do something impossible and not able to make a decision to try a different tact.
AI has certainly improved. I can't even begin to guess how many single player games have been destroyed simply because I found an explotable AI weakness. What will make AI really good is when it can adapt strategies when it has consistently lost.
Learn to spell 'Frist'!
And the internet was a place where people got along in harmony and respected people's opinions
:)
That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard!
Reminds me of a couple years ago when we had a "White Elephant Gift" party. I found a Partridge Family 8-Track at Goodwill. The look on the recipient's face was priceless!
Now I am wondering how many slashdotters even know of what the "Partidge Family" is?
His sentence is correct as it stands.
Yup. It was really nice to program in a language that only utilized the first two characters of a variable name. Who needs Hungarian notation?
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I with a whopping 4K of RAM :)
I was trying to think of an analogy that would perfectly describe the ridculousness of this suit. You found the perfect one.
Segway... more expensive than my first car :) Winner -- Roomba!
apart from driving my pet beagle completely ballistic
:)
This is a bad thing?
Funny... With that intellect, you sound like the perfect fit for AOL!
Untrue. We do get a lot of folks from immigration, but we would still continue to grom with a birthrate of 2.3 children per household average. I believe you are getting mixed up with some projections that have been made: By 2030, we should see the birthrate drop low enough that we would not support otherwise. Now, many European nations are having to face this issue. In fact, I saw recently that Italy was considering giving cash to folks who decided to have their 2nd kid...
Kind of funny. Kind of elitist.
I think that the average user is getting more EDUCATED, not more intelligent. Lemme give you an example. Today at work, we receive approximately 27,000 metric tons of information about changes to our health care plan. I consider myself relatively intelligent, with a good amount of education. However, the volumes of information are not in my realm of expertise. The HR folks seem to think we should be able to absorb all this information and make an intelligent choice for our families within two weeks.
For someone who is absorbed in this stuff, this is probably very straightforward. To someone who is in the tech field, understanding service providers, and "what the internet is" is relatively trivial.
The danger becomes that or profession looks down on the majority of folks who don't have a clue. It isn't because they are stooopid. It is because the mechaniscs of the computer world does not interest them. Our job is to serve those folks, help them to make better choices, make it EASIER to make those choices.
Overall, I think we've done well, but then there are posts like this, which I HOPE are the minority.
If we all had the same gifts, this wold be a boring world.
I voted. I did not vote for either Kerry or Bush. I dislike Bush. However, that, in my mind, is not a reason to vote for Kerry. I found Kerry ran as the "I'm not Bush" candidate. Even his official site was devoid of specifics on Kerry's views.
Both parties have gone away from the basics of what has made their parties strong, and have instead chosen to court small percentages of the populous. And this has gotten worse over the couple decades I have followed politics. Reagan and Clinton have been strong leaders... but otherwise....
Anyhow, my point. I have realized that voting is not the best way to exercise my civic duty. I need to get involved in a couple single-issue organizations, and support them. People complain about PACs, and their influence on politics. I say that PACs are the only way to get the system changed. I also find that when I have invested myself into something that I am less 'disenfrachised'.
If you're one of the folks that is threatening to move out of the US now -- don't let the door smack you on the butt on your way out. Believe it or not, this country has been more divided and more ugly at several points in its history. It took committed citizens to pull the US back together.
Not sure why I'm posting this. But I wanted to share my thoughts!
Brilliant job. I did not vote for George Bush. However, I know at least two people who did not vote for Kerry because they got tired of all the phone calls. Not sure exactly how many, but I know that my house had 27 calls on our answering maching in the 72 hours leading up to the election. Part of this is that I live in Ohio. I wonder how many people were fed up with the spam and decided not to vote for Kerry.