Lets me explain a bit: The word is token[abc] which is attributed to meaning[data] when you change/create tokens you assign the new meanings. Meaning can't change on its own(the data whch had a token). You on the other hand have freedom to make token point to another data block. If two parties disagree over which data block is right,we need a new token. I suggest Libertianism? hmm
That hive mind is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink Groupthink.On slashdot its not that noticeable because of it expansion and varied views people have(a million at least read this forum daily).Groclaw is smaller and the groupthink is more pervasive.What we have on slashdot is a few "groupthinks" linked into one. I noticed the longer i stay in a forum,the less i object to its "normality and crowd opinion". Strong groupthink is what is dangerous,not a shared attitude or ideology strain that got popular. A monolithic subculture ("Hive mind" you comment about)following some memeplex is nothing human.Perhaps Borg? Don't you get urges to "follow the customs of the crowd"? ex: reposting some Slashdot meme in a thread that is ripe to such witty remarks,bringing satisfaction to the memebot and reinforcing the groupthink in that thread.
I see..have you considered that wikipedia software may be improved? Add moderation(users vote on article -1 flamebait),article voting(for best version),click stats(view per day,week,month,country,etc). Soem other wikis will have these features and rule the wikisphere. Wikipedia is in current form is flawed and the policies aren't attractive in any sense. I stopped posting after they required registration for new articles, deleted what i wrote in other articles(with a snobby excuse). I improve wiki pages ocassionaly but i won't dedicate a spare minute for it. The project going wrong way.
Thats what i love about wikipedia it written by the people who know the subject and willing to share knowledge they had on it.I don't like the current policies of it though(i.e. vandalism,registration,reverts,userpages),but hopefully it will improve(or get split into independent subject wiki portals,linked into one search engine).
Wisdom of the crowd vs Academic Elitism. Can you see there bright people in that crowd? Don't think they get marginalized by numbers of morons.Smart people would always find a way to make their voice count. As for Wikipedia just use History pages and makes your own versions of articles. Linking to history pages is easy.Without history wiki wouldn't be as good as it now.
Not TV ads(watching TV ads is like voluntaruly eating mental excrement),Legitimate advertising is what you can see in newspaper,like "Selling used PC pentium 3 700mhz,harddrive 20GB CDrom drive x24 128MB ram"
A harder to crack software will be replicated down to assembly level. Your "Trusted computing" or other DRM software will be cracked,modded and reverse engineered and i will laugh at you. All information is capable of being shared,will be shared.
What word means in the dictionary is different then what word means In Reality(which is propoganda) Political or economic goals that propoganda presents both end up CHEATING the viewer to promote their goal.
Legitimate advertisement is presented as unbiased,complete data on a subject matter,highlighting some compelling aspects of a product,concept,or feature. I consider pop-up ads and spam a form of propoganda.
Plasma cosmology is a cosmological model based on the electromagnetic properties of astrophysical plasmas. Advocates of plasma cosmology have offered explanations for the large scale structure and evolution of the universe, from galaxy formation to the cosmic microwave background, by invoking electromagnetic phenomena associated with laboratory plasmas. Plasma cosmology is considered by both proponents and critics to be a non-standard cosmology.[1] Plasma, electrically conducting gas in which electrons are stripped away from atoms and can move freely, makes up the stars and the interstellar medium. Astrophysicists agree that electromagnetic effects are important in stars, galactic discs, quasars and active galactic nuclei but in the standard big bang model the formation of structure is dominated by gravitational effects. Plasma cosmology advocates assert that the universe has no beginning, whereas in the big bang model the universe, as we know it, has existed for only a finite time.
I haven't had RSI but i can think of those in a minute: Mouse scrolling(and the autoscroll) Healthy lifestyle(no allnight coding!) Macros/Automated or sheduled tasks scripts and bots Slow typing with breaks Laconic/condensed writing/language custom keyboard layouts/drivers voice input,contact-pressure keyboards anything that reduces the work tempo
If linux interface worked like windows 9x and had plenty of graphic configuration tools i might consider it.you see alot of text utils in lunix but they don't worth messing with.text apps are niche,most users want full GUI apps(command line switches optional). Linux is not that fast,and most apps wouldnt work on it(emulation is incomplete).Besides what is i'm going to gain for switching? Win98 is good enough for me. If people wanted to manually configure their X config files and find their drivers off net it might be viable. The design of linux/gnu is major turn off for many users,ex:mounting their Cd-roms,shutting down computer(Plan 9 required to [fshalt] and THEN shutdown). Windows requires only Start->shutdown (though i use: ` s ` parses" Start s.bat" which invokes @win/z in Dos mode to shutdown,very convienient)
Nes is 'still a hit' Thanks to ROMS and emulation software.There alot of them on the interwebs(or BT) Its much more fun then crappy flash games
and modern 3d crap.When i want entertainment i can always take a rom and play right away from my 25GB rom collection.I prefer Genesis games though
for the polished look,but Nes is where the gameplay is(and where your know to play on the first game).
That because Diablo 2/1 designed for grinding.The game basically orders you to click away for hours on monsters. quests are thrown in to storyline as "required content" and without them game doesnt seem any different. Its popular not from grinding but item based economy(do you wonder why d2 items still sell for cash on ebay?) and charcter customization.(builds,item setups,playstyles and minor tactics) Still i don't consider it great game after playing for couple of years. dull and repetitive,with gameplay issues that remain unfixed forever(PK,duping,malicious data packets,char expiration,desync,heavy lag,queues,faulty servers,etc).Playing mods(D2 has large modding community)solves some of troubles but introduces others:even laggier servers,unbalanced mods with too much GFX content,closed "clique" communities,frequent crashes/bugs,etc I recall you could modify D2 server stats of your char before 1.10(havent checked 1.10/1.11)like cast/attack speed,run/walk,and maphack like changes from modded text files(which i played with).There isn't a clear boundary in the game whats server-side and what doesnt send packets,or something that changes per-game,or per-level basis. Blizzard (naturally) doesnt document their code.As for entertainment value Starcraft surpasses Diablo2 in all categories,and people don't get bored from it that fast. Diablo 2 will remain a mediocre RPG until blizzard shuts down the servers. Its not unique or something,just because people find nothing better and play D2.
What entertainment per-hour is this when it so straight-forward most d2 junkies already use bots and scripts to automate their Meph-runs and countless other stuff(d2 is scriptable with hacks). Blizzard response:try to ban them all =fails,people just invent better scripts. If a game so dumb and straight-forward that people don't play it but use bots it means the game AT FAULT not the people.(I don't talk about CS bots, This game suppose to give you "entertainment" which is that dull after yuo make it first time,not worth to repeat(i.e. finishing game on normal mode)) that people don't want to play it again(for entertainmet). They play for items/level grinding their way to the top.No wonder its goign to be a better use of time to let a script to Level,read something check it after hour and order the script to "meph run,leave game after" and goto sleep. That reminds me why i deleted D2 from my harddrive.Progress Quest sounds like a better game compared to diablo...
how you prove it to grammar nazis.They are fanatical believers in their Grammaticism. Language will be what speakers want it to be and tend to be efficient(acronyms/AOLspeak). i can speak in a efficient code which compressed my sentences into words,if it was understood by listeners.i.e. acronyms such as BRB,AFAIK,NVM,.
IIRC i "learned" division in few hours (even before i attended school) and there isnt anything hard with it.This argument is looking pretty stupid. division of reals is basically 1.convert both numbers into integrers 2.divide the numbers 3.move decimal points where it belongs (divide by 10^x(step1 converted)
(i'm not expert on this but) What if that vaccine gives the virus the time to spread when host immune system eradicates it.Host can be alive but what if he carries the virus? I.e.like Melissa doesn't format your harddisk right away,it just spreads.
Ah you are one of those 'OMG get a life' morons that come to a chatroom and demand we all logoff and "Get outside" and such bullshit? I can chat(or game/post on forums) 12 hours daily if i wanted and no one can convince me that isn't dull. Why don't you stop readign Slashdot? i consider reading it very dull (excpt news). Chatting is a form of social interactions,Like forums(slashdot is a forum),talking,SMS,phones,instant messaging. If you think chatting is dull,you just don't know channels and hubs of your area of interests,(well if you are a nerd consider looking for a linux/hacker/coding chans on IRC theres plenty),alot of software development projects have their dedicated channels on some irc networks. Internet gives more social life to you then "Real life" can provide. theres 56 million MySpace users,they all must be nerds with 'no life'?
a 186 (or a clone i don't remember) which had a CGA card and played games such as wizball,pacman and lunar patrol. I learned to use DOS on it.It had 2 floppy drives 1.used for os(dos 2/3) and/or games which boot without it
2. for other stuff that requires dos(i had a stack of 5" floppies with games and few progs), The bios on it had a funny test program that filled pixels on the screem randomly.After it i used a 286,486, a celeron 333,and now typing this from AMD duron 2300 running my trusty win98.
Doctors work for money,which comes from sick people(and financing for treatments of sick people). Would they be interested in a cure that really heals the patient instead of something that merely looks like it does and requires more medication to "keep" person "healthy". Infact you can see lots of people (especially elderly) living off drugs,dependant on their medicine, that "health industry" makes millions from. Are they really healthy?
This might seem funny but seeds were goverment property(Institute of Plants?). Under laws of communist Russia its would considered a embezzlement to eat them.I'd eat them anyway in their case,since the chances to get caught are less then starving.
My theory is eaither they were watchign each other backs or we're fanatically protective of seeds.
Slashdot Mirror
Lets me explain a bit:
The word is token[abc]
which is attributed to meaning[data]
when you change/create tokens
you assign the new meanings.
Meaning can't change on its own(the data whch had a token). You on the other hand have freedom to make token point to another data block.
If two parties disagree over which data block is right,we need a new token.
I suggest Libertianism? hmm
That hive mind is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink Groupthink .On slashdot its not that noticeable because of it expansion and varied views people have(a million at least read this forum daily).Groclaw is smaller and the groupthink is more pervasive.What we have on slashdot is
a few "groupthinks" linked into one.
I noticed the longer i stay in a forum,the less i object to its "normality and crowd opinion".
Strong groupthink is what is dangerous,not a shared attitude or ideology strain that got popular.
A monolithic subculture ("Hive mind" you comment about)following some memeplex
is nothing human.Perhaps Borg?
Don't you get urges to "follow the customs of the crowd"?
ex: reposting some Slashdot meme in a thread that is ripe to such witty remarks,bringing satisfaction to the memebot and reinforcing the groupthink in that thread.
I see..have you considered that wikipedia software may be improved?
Add moderation(users vote on article -1 flamebait),article voting(for best version),click stats(view per day,week,month,country,etc).
Soem other wikis will have these features and rule the wikisphere.
Wikipedia is in current form is flawed and the policies aren't attractive in any sense.
I stopped posting after they required registration for new articles,
deleted what i wrote in other articles(with a snobby excuse).
I improve wiki pages ocassionaly but i won't dedicate a spare minute for it.
The project going wrong way.
Thats what i love about wikipedia it written by the people who know the subject and willing to share knowledge they had on it.I don't like the current policies of it though(i.e. vandalism,registration,reverts,userpages),but hopefully it will improve(or get split into independent subject wiki portals,linked into one search engine).
Wisdom of the crowd vs Academic Elitism.
Can you see there bright people in that crowd? Don't think they get marginalized by numbers of morons.Smart people would always find a way to make their voice count.
As for Wikipedia just use History pages
and makes your own versions of articles.
Linking to history pages is easy.Without history wiki wouldn't be as good as it now.
Not TV ads(watching TV ads is like voluntaruly eating mental excrement) ,Legitimate advertising is what you can see in newspaper,like
"Selling used PC pentium 3 700mhz,harddrive 20GB CDrom drive x24 128MB ram"
A harder to crack software will be replicated down to assembly level.
Your "Trusted computing" or other DRM software
will be cracked,modded and reverse engineered and i will laugh at you.
All information is capable of being shared,will be shared.
What word means in the dictionary
,complete data on a subject matter,highlighting some compelling aspects of a product,concept,or feature.
is different then what word means
In Reality(which is propoganda)
Political or economic goals that propoganda presents both end up CHEATING
the viewer to promote their goal.
Legitimate advertisement is presented as unbiased
I consider pop-up ads and spam a form of propoganda.
Another reason switch to open-source games. Unfortunately there aren't any good yet.So hacks,warez and NOCd loaders will stay for awhile.
Sounds like electric universe theory is
getting another evidence claim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology
Plasma cosmology is a cosmological model based on the electromagnetic properties of astrophysical plasmas. Advocates of plasma cosmology have offered explanations for the large scale structure and evolution of the universe, from galaxy formation to the cosmic microwave background, by invoking electromagnetic phenomena associated with laboratory plasmas. Plasma cosmology is considered by both proponents and critics to be a non-standard cosmology.[1]
Plasma, electrically conducting gas in which electrons are stripped away from atoms and can move freely, makes up the stars and the interstellar medium. Astrophysicists agree that electromagnetic effects are important in stars, galactic discs, quasars and active galactic nuclei but in the standard big bang model the formation of structure is dominated by gravitational effects. Plasma cosmology advocates assert that the universe has no beginning, whereas in the big bang model the universe, as we know it, has existed for only a finite time.
I haven't had RSI but i can think of those in a minute:
Mouse scrolling(and the autoscroll)
Healthy lifestyle(no allnight coding!)
Macros/Automated or sheduled tasks
scripts and bots
Slow typing with breaks
Laconic/condensed writing/language
custom keyboard layouts/drivers
voice input,contact-pressure keyboards
anything that reduces the work tempo
I never played 3D games since doom,only 2d or 3D-perspective games.
I value gameplay much more than some graphics.
If linux interface worked like windows 9x and had plenty of graphic configuration tools i might consider it.you see alot of text utils in lunix but they don't worth messing with.text apps are niche,most users
want full GUI apps(command line switches optional).
Linux is not that fast,and most apps
wouldnt work on it(emulation is incomplete).Besides what is i'm going to gain for switching? Win98 is good enough for me.
If people wanted to manually configure
their X config files and find their drivers off net it might be viable.
The design of linux/gnu is major turn off for many users,ex:mounting their Cd-roms,shutting down computer(Plan 9 required to [fshalt] and THEN shutdown).
Windows requires only Start->shutdown
(though i use: ` s
` parses" Start s.bat"
which invokes @win/z in Dos mode to shutdown,very convienient)
Nes is 'still a hit' Thanks to ROMS and emulation software.There alot of them
on the interwebs(or BT)
Its much more fun then crappy flash games
and modern 3d crap.When i want entertainment i can always take a rom and play right away from my 25GB rom collection.I prefer Genesis games though
for the polished look,but Nes is where the gameplay is(and where your know to play on the first game).
That because Diablo 2/1 designed for grinding.The game basically orders you to click away for hours on monsters.
:try to ban them all
quests are thrown in to storyline as "required content" and without them game doesnt seem any different.
Its popular not from grinding but item based economy(do you wonder why d2 items
still sell for cash on ebay?) and charcter customization.(builds,item setups,playstyles and minor tactics)
Still i don't consider it great game after playing for couple of years. dull and repetitive,with gameplay issues
that remain unfixed forever(PK,duping,malicious data packets,char expiration,desync,heavy lag,queues,faulty servers,etc).Playing mods(D2 has large modding community)solves some of
troubles but introduces others:even laggier servers,unbalanced mods with too much GFX content,closed "clique" communities,frequent crashes/bugs,etc
I recall you could modify D2 server stats of your char before 1.10(havent checked 1.10/1.11)like cast/attack speed,run/walk,and maphack like changes from modded text files(which i played with).There isn't a clear boundary in the game whats server-side and what doesnt send packets,or something that changes per-game,or per-level basis.
Blizzard (naturally) doesnt document their code.As for entertainment value Starcraft surpasses Diablo2 in all categories,and people don't get bored from it that fast.
Diablo 2 will remain a mediocre RPG until blizzard shuts down the servers.
Its not unique or something,just because people find nothing better and play D2.
What entertainment per-hour is this when
it so straight-forward most d2 junkies already use bots and scripts to automate their Meph-runs and countless other stuff(d2 is scriptable with hacks).
Blizzard response
=fails,people just invent better scripts.
If a game so dumb and straight-forward that people don't play it but use bots it means the game AT FAULT not the people.(I don't talk about CS bots,
This game suppose to give you "entertainment" which is that dull after yuo make it first time,not worth to repeat(i.e. finishing game on normal mode)) that people don't want to play it again(for entertainmet).
They play for items/level grinding their way to the top.No wonder its goign to be
a better use of time to let a script to Level,read something check it after hour and order the script to "meph run,leave game after" and goto sleep.
That reminds me why i deleted D2 from my harddrive.Progress Quest sounds like a better game compared to diablo...
how you prove it to grammar nazis.They are fanatical believers in their /AOLspeak).
Grammaticism.
Language will be what speakers want it to be and tend to be efficient(acronyms
i can speak in a efficient code which compressed my sentences into words,if it was understood by listeners.i.e. acronyms such as BRB,AFAIK,NVM,.
IIRC i "learned" division in few hours (even before i attended school) and there isnt anything hard with it.This argument is looking pretty stupid.
division of reals is basically
1.convert both numbers into integrers
2.divide the numbers
3.move decimal points where it belongs
(divide by 10^x(step1 converted)
(i'm not expert on this but)
What if that vaccine gives the virus the time to spread when host immune system eradicates it.Host can be alive but what if he carries the virus?
I.e.like Melissa doesn't format your harddisk right away,it just spreads.
Ah you are one of those 'OMG get a life' morons that come to a chatroom and demand we all logoff and "Get outside" and such bullshit? ,they all must be nerds with 'no life'?
I can chat(or game/post on forums) 12 hours daily if i wanted and no one can convince me that isn't dull.
Why don't you stop readign Slashdot?
i consider reading it very dull (excpt news).
Chatting is a form of social interactions,Like forums(slashdot is a forum),talking,SMS,phones,instant messaging.
If you think chatting is dull,you just don't know channels and hubs of your area of interests,(well if you are a nerd consider looking for a linux/hacker/coding chans on IRC theres plenty),alot of software development projects have their dedicated channels on some irc networks.
Internet gives more social life to you then "Real life" can provide.
theres 56 million MySpace users
What if they evolve to Poliwags?
a 186 (or a clone i don't remember) which had a CGA card and played games such as wizball,pacman and lunar patrol. ,486,
I learned to use DOS on it.It had 2 floppy drives 1.used for os(dos 2/3) and/or games which boot without it
2. for other stuff that requires dos(i had a stack of 5" floppies with games and few progs),
The bios on it had a funny test program that filled pixels on the screem randomly.After it i used a 286
a celeron 333,and now typing this from
AMD duron 2300 running my trusty win98.
Doctors work for money,which comes from sick people(and financing for treatments of sick people). Would they be interested in a cure that really heals the patient instead of something that merely looks like it does and requires more medication to "keep" person "healthy".
Infact you can see lots of people (especially elderly) living off drugs,dependant on their medicine,
that "health industry" makes millions from. Are they really healthy?
Of course.you don't choose Picachu,
Picachu chooses you.
If the Doomsday is coming and it civilizations fault,I say :They deserve it. It also would be a lesson to survivors in post-envirompent-crisis-world.
This might seem funny but seeds were goverment property(Institute of Plants?). Under laws of communist Russia
its would considered a embezzlement to eat them.I'd eat them anyway in their case,since the chances to get caught are less then starving.
My theory is eaither they were watchign each other backs or we're fanatically protective of seeds.