I think the idea behind using "war" as the description of googles actions is that this is not a disagreement google is having with link farming and other methods it sees as inappropriate, it wants to see those methods destroyed utterly and the people who use them punished. You and I might disagree over the use of war in this context, or compete for the ears of others, but I am not spending millions of dollars and man-hours trying to see your idea wiped from the face of the earth. Google is trying to do just that to what it considers shysty SEO methods. Make no mistake, it's not just about the bottom line, they really *hate* being "gamed". There's far more antipathy than is warrented from the economic standpoint. So a competition+hatred+the use of extrodinary manpower+ goal of absolute destruction of the opposing side=war
As an aside to the great grandparent, don't think that because something isn't covered in the mud of the trenches it isn't involved in war. The most dangerous places in the world are where they keep the buttons, and they are kept spotlessly clean
When I saw this headline, it really made me wish there was some way I could mod the article itself down.
This is really a sad commentary on the position of slashdot readers in the social order, and I'll illustrate why with a anecdote from middle school: At recess I often used to watch the field behind the soccer goals, because it's where the social outcasts would go to pick on each other. Day after day they would battle to determine the pecking order of the bottom 5th percentile. Fights like those didn't go on in the upper levels, where looks, money, and prestige determined social rank. It was fascinating, and tragic. In the end, the winners gained nothing, and the stuggle only served to make their lives that much more miserable.
Now for those that didn't understand the moral, here it is; If you pick on the weakest people you can find, it is because you are yourself weak. If you are actually important or noteworthy in some way, you wouldn't have to point out failings in others to try and aggrandize yourself. Hugh Hefner doesn't need to scoff at other's sexual exploits, because he is legendary in that regard. If you do, you are obviously not.
So for everyone out there who felt the need to say, "har dee har, at least I'm not those guys", congratulations, but recess is over. So point your eyes back down at the floor and don't bump into anyone in the hall, because to everyone else, you're still at the bottom.
This actually puts the grandparent poster's comment about "foreign business owners becoming millionaires in 5 years" comment in perspective. Perhaps it has less to do with their restaurants and hotels, and more to do with their laundromats.
I feel your pain - how do so many long-winded comments spawn so quickly? Twenty minutes and the topic is washed up. I can only assume it's all a trick to get you to buy the subscription.
I think it's usefulness will be limited to certain areas. It can outrun you on semi-even ground, but it has zero climbing ability. To evade it you just need cross some type of obstacle it can't surmount, like a fence, low wall, or ditch. Unfortunatly, it doesn't seem capable of climbing stairs, which would limit its pursuit capabilites in many situations.
Not to mention the ubiquitous door...
On adifferent note, I wonder if it would actually trip you, if it kept running into and under your feet as it tried to keep up to you. If it did, it would make it that much harder to escape. You'd have to walk away carefully.
thats all it needs to do. It calls the cops, then follows you around as you attempt your theft/sabotage/espionage/whatever emitting the loudest noise it can. It's going to keep you from being effective, and when the authorities arrive, you're easy to find. So when it spots you, you have to flee (or destroy it), making it much like a dog who can operate a cell phone.
ok. . . I'll bite. So how exactly are you getting this 40% profit margin for these subsciption services? Considering you're assuming Apple only makes 5% profit? What's going to cost apple so much more? Certainly not bandwidth- their sales model is very efficient in that sense. Unless their advertising is that much more expensive, or they have a really piss poor deal with the record companies, I can't see where their profit margins would be that much lower.
I hope you read this reply, because I've suffered from much the same problem, and I'd like to throw in my two cents.
First, prefectionism really is a problem. It leads to your life being agonizing, and is actually counterproductive in terms of achievement and productivity. You realize this, which is a good start. The most difficult thing about fixing it is a belief that you need to do it all by yourself. You are not perfect, nor are you going to be. You are not self-sufficient. As a perfectionist, you undoubtably believe that if you can't solve your problems by yourself, you are not worthy of a solution. This is not true.
If I had to give practical advice for your schoolwork, I'd say this, start early, and plan less. I'm sure as soon as you get an assignment you start thinking in grandiose terms- this is a setup. Start the assignment that night, don't give yourself time to make it bigger than it needs to be. My school career was littered with half-finished masterpieces.
Another suggestion, find something you'd like to be jugded on beside academics. Having an identity beyond being smart is important, and not just as a fallback plan. Untie your self worth from achievement. It does wonders for both.
Oh, and stop apologizing. Don't worry that someone might percieve you as ranting/whining/whatever. After all, you're not perfect.
Ok.. the question I have for this is the same question I have every time they do this *same* type of study and produce the *same* type of results.. If the conversation itself is what impairs the driver, wouldn't that apply when the driver is having a conversation with a passenger? Certainly they're not suggesting that people who are driving shouldn't be allowed to talk?
The only counterargument I can think of is that having a passenger could provide a benefit to the driver that would offset the penalty of conversation, perhaps by spotting things the driver might have missed. This assumes the the passenger can or would assist the driver- kids, the elderly, and the unobservant wouldn't count.
Correct me if I'm wrong..but if what you're saying about this technique is true, then it does have the oppourtunity to generate thrust in excess of chemical rockets. Since chemical rockets are powered by the reaction itself, the reaction must be thermodynamically favored, and the thrust you receive comes from the reaction. in this technique the reation is being driven by the maser- thus it could be thermodynaically unfavored. In fact, as you pointed out, the thrust would be proportionally only to activation energy. Thus you would want a reaction with a high activation energy, as it would be able to absorb more of the incoming radiation.
Once born with these traits, there is no cure. Just as there would be no cure for left-handedness or red hair. This is not an acquired disease, this is who these people are.
Actually, you can cure lefthandedness. You simply condition the child not to use his or her left hand. Lefthandedness used to be seen as undesirable, and in my parents and grandparents days "fixing" it was done as a matter of course. My father would likely be lefthanded, were he not "cured".
As for red hair, you can't cure it, but there are treatments available.
It does make sense to compare the songs to the handle and the player to the blade...The songs (and the aquisition channel for them) are the part that endures, that keep the user locked into the main product. You buy your next iPod because you use iTunes, and all you songs are in AAC, so changing would seem like a hassle.
Now if the power mac is compared to gillette foaming shave gel...
ok I've been curious about this..why does the antiparticle have to fall into the hole? Why not the particle? It would seem to me that they would fall in in equal amounts, thus negating any "decay" of the hole.
This is not a new trend, folks, people have been giving things to the wealthy since times immemorial. It's simply a way of trying to curry favor with the powerful, the idea being, that little favor with the powerful goes a long way. In this case, their favor means the marketing power of their name.
There was an interview with Trump recently, where he talks about how most of the time if he goes to a restaurant he doesn't frequent, they give him the food! Now why would they do this? (hint: it's not because he can't pay) It's because just maybe he'll like it, and he might mention it somewhere, and if he does there will be people listening. His opinion can change your restaurant from an unknown hole-in-the-wall to an A-list establishment. Even if he doesn't, they can boast about how Trump came to their restaurant.
Companies want rich people to use their products, because others will follow. Nobody buys a product because they saw poor people using it, in fact, in many cases they will avoid such products. It's been the same cycle for hundreds of years, common people trying to be like the rich, who usually in turn try to avoid aped by the common people.
You really have lofty expectations on the literacy of slashdot readers if you actually expect them to read through two lengthy, difficultly worded articles before continuing to post.
You didn't read the article carefully, the great dying happened before the dinosaurs. The researchers are suggesting that the dinosaurs might have come to power specifically because they were adapted to cope with the lower oxygen levels.
The iraqi resistance? Oh, yeah, because being a member of an organization that engineers the bombings of numerous, military, civil, and civilian targets, as well as assasination attempts on government officials and candidates is possibly good, and most certainly quite harmless.
I supported you right up to that point, but I can't say I do now.
I'd like to throw the comment out here that one of the problems facing open-source game development, one that in particular affects the lack of artists/musicians available, is the Windows/Mac divide.
The platform divide makes it hard to get the kind of well-rounded crew you need to make a game. The guys writing code on windows need the artistic, musical, and storytelling skills more common to people in the Apple crowd. Not to say there arn't mac programmers and PC artists, but the majority tend to follow those lines. If you don't have your team all on one side of the line, you're at a serious disadvantage. I'm speaking from experience when I say it's hard to get excited about designing for a game that you'll never play on your own computer. A project started by a friend and I got nowhere for that reason (well, among others).
It would increase the robustness of aircraft control systems significantly by allowing them to operate in parallel- simply having each individual control surface with its own muscle, rather than being component of a hydraulic system, which eliminates the possiblilty of a catastrophic system-wide failure (of that type).
You're absolutly right- It will be a tossup to see whether US agricultural production will rise or fall. Russia, on the other hand, with the frozen wastes of Siberia thawing, has nowhere to go but up.
Meanwhile, all countries near the equator are screwed, but really, with the way things have been going for them recently, who would expect otherwise?
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I think the idea behind using "war" as the description of googles actions is that this is not a disagreement google is having with link farming and other methods it sees as inappropriate, it wants to see those methods destroyed utterly and the people who use them punished. You and I might disagree over the use of war in this context, or compete for the ears of others, but I am not spending millions of dollars and man-hours trying to see your idea wiped from the face of the earth. Google is trying to do just that to what it considers shysty SEO methods. Make no mistake, it's not just about the bottom line, they really *hate* being "gamed". There's far more antipathy than is warrented from the economic standpoint. So a competition+hatred+the use of extrodinary manpower+ goal of absolute destruction of the opposing side=war
As an aside to the great grandparent, don't think that because something isn't covered in the mud of the trenches it isn't involved in war. The most dangerous places in the world are where they keep the buttons, and they are kept spotlessly clean
hey, you forgot to close your tag... or was that your plan all along???
This is really a sad commentary on the position of slashdot readers in the social order, and I'll illustrate why with a anecdote from middle school: At recess I often used to watch the field behind the soccer goals, because it's where the social outcasts would go to pick on each other. Day after day they would battle to determine the pecking order of the bottom 5th percentile. Fights like those didn't go on in the upper levels, where looks, money, and prestige determined social rank. It was fascinating, and tragic. In the end, the winners gained nothing, and the stuggle only served to make their lives that much more miserable.
Now for those that didn't understand the moral, here it is; If you pick on the weakest people you can find, it is because you are yourself weak. If you are actually important or noteworthy in some way, you wouldn't have to point out failings in others to try and aggrandize yourself. Hugh Hefner doesn't need to scoff at other's sexual exploits, because he is legendary in that regard. If you do, you are obviously not.
So for everyone out there who felt the need to say, "har dee har, at least I'm not those guys", congratulations, but recess is over. So point your eyes back down at the floor and don't bump into anyone in the hall, because to everyone else, you're still at the bottom.
This actually puts the grandparent poster's comment about "foreign business owners becoming millionaires in 5 years" comment in perspective. Perhaps it has less to do with their restaurants and hotels, and more to do with their laundromats.
Take a look what tomorrows picture is going to be.
I feel your pain - how do so many long-winded comments spawn so quickly? Twenty minutes and the topic is washed up. I can only assume it's all a trick to get you to buy the subscription.
Not to mention the ubiquitous door...
On adifferent note, I wonder if it would actually trip you, if it kept running into and under your feet as it tried to keep up to you. If it did, it would make it that much harder to escape. You'd have to walk away carefully.
No, seriously.
thats all it needs to do. It calls the cops, then follows you around as you attempt your theft/sabotage/espionage/whatever emitting the loudest noise it can. It's going to keep you from being effective, and when the authorities arrive, you're easy to find. So when it spots you, you have to flee (or destroy it), making it much like a dog who can operate a cell phone.
ok. . . I'll bite. So how exactly are you getting this 40% profit margin for these subsciption services? Considering you're assuming Apple only makes 5% profit? What's going to cost apple so much more? Certainly not bandwidth- their sales model is very efficient in that sense. Unless their advertising is that much more expensive, or they have a really piss poor deal with the record companies, I can't see where their profit margins would be that much lower.
First, prefectionism really is a problem. It leads to your life being agonizing, and is actually counterproductive in terms of achievement and productivity. You realize this, which is a good start. The most difficult thing about fixing it is a belief that you need to do it all by yourself. You are not perfect, nor are you going to be. You are not self-sufficient. As a perfectionist, you undoubtably believe that if you can't solve your problems by yourself, you are not worthy of a solution. This is not true.
If I had to give practical advice for your schoolwork, I'd say this, start early, and plan less. I'm sure as soon as you get an assignment you start thinking in grandiose terms- this is a setup. Start the assignment that night, don't give yourself time to make it bigger than it needs to be. My school career was littered with half-finished masterpieces.
Another suggestion, find something you'd like to be jugded on beside academics. Having an identity beyond being smart is important, and not just as a fallback plan. Untie your self worth from achievement. It does wonders for both.
Oh, and stop apologizing. Don't worry that someone might percieve you as ranting/whining/whatever. After all, you're not perfect.
Good luck.
I know several individuals with prefectionist tendancies who migrated on to full blown panic attacks in college. It really is no joke.
Ok.. the question I have for this is the same question I have every time they do this *same* type of study and produce the *same* type of results.. If the conversation itself is what impairs the driver, wouldn't that apply when the driver is having a conversation with a passenger? Certainly they're not suggesting that people who are driving shouldn't be allowed to talk? The only counterargument I can think of is that having a passenger could provide a benefit to the driver that would offset the penalty of conversation, perhaps by spotting things the driver might have missed. This assumes the the passenger can or would assist the driver- kids, the elderly, and the unobservant wouldn't count.
Correct me if I'm wrong..but if what you're saying about this technique is true, then it does have the oppourtunity to generate thrust in excess of chemical rockets. Since chemical rockets are powered by the reaction itself, the reaction must be thermodynamically favored, and the thrust you receive comes from the reaction. in this technique the reation is being driven by the maser- thus it could be thermodynaically unfavored. In fact, as you pointed out, the thrust would be proportionally only to activation energy. Thus you would want a reaction with a high activation energy, as it would be able to absorb more of the incoming radiation.
Actually, you can cure lefthandedness. You simply condition the child not to use his or her left hand. Lefthandedness used to be seen as undesirable, and in my parents and grandparents days "fixing" it was done as a matter of course. My father would likely be lefthanded, were he not "cured".
As for red hair, you can't cure it, but there are treatments available.
Now if the power mac is compared to gillette foaming shave gel...
ok I've been curious about this..why does the antiparticle have to fall into the hole? Why not the particle? It would seem to me that they would fall in in equal amounts, thus negating any "decay" of the hole.
the correct one line summary would be:
policy is based on value judgements(politics), not facts(science) because the relevancy of any fact is a value judgement.
There was an interview with Trump recently, where he talks about how most of the time if he goes to a restaurant he doesn't frequent, they give him the food! Now why would they do this? (hint: it's not because he can't pay) It's because just maybe he'll like it, and he might mention it somewhere, and if he does there will be people listening. His opinion can change your restaurant from an unknown hole-in-the-wall to an A-list establishment. Even if he doesn't, they can boast about how Trump came to their restaurant.
Companies want rich people to use their products, because others will follow. Nobody buys a product because they saw poor people using it, in fact, in many cases they will avoid such products. It's been the same cycle for hundreds of years, common people trying to be like the rich, who usually in turn try to avoid aped by the common people.
You really have lofty expectations on the literacy of slashdot readers if you actually expect them to read through two lengthy, difficultly worded articles before continuing to post.
You didn't read the article carefully, the great dying happened before the dinosaurs. The researchers are suggesting that the dinosaurs might have come to power specifically because they were adapted to cope with the lower oxygen levels.
I supported you right up to that point, but I can't say I do now.
The platform divide makes it hard to get the kind of well-rounded crew you need to make a game. The guys writing code on windows need the artistic, musical, and storytelling skills more common to people in the Apple crowd. Not to say there arn't mac programmers and PC artists, but the majority tend to follow those lines. If you don't have your team all on one side of the line, you're at a serious disadvantage. I'm speaking from experience when I say it's hard to get excited about designing for a game that you'll never play on your own computer. A project started by a friend and I got nowhere for that reason (well, among others).
It would increase the robustness of aircraft control systems significantly by allowing them to operate in parallel- simply having each individual control surface with its own muscle, rather than being component of a hydraulic system, which eliminates the possiblilty of a catastrophic system-wide failure (of that type).
No!! It's a trick by House Davion! The myomer is defective!
Meanwhile, all countries near the equator are screwed, but really, with the way things have been going for them recently, who would expect otherwise?