To tell the truth, I'm fucking sick of the whole OS thing. They're all crap, anyway you look at it. XP hides all its configuration options and treats me like a brain-dead two year old. It's fat, stupid and ugly. Linux is a piece of crap for other reasons (HW incompatibilities, badly written SW, little to no support from 3rd parties). I've heard Mac OSX is a decent OS (never used it extensively as I can't afford a mac), but that it has problems with Hebrew and other RTL languages, which (sadly) is a deal breaker for me. What's left? FreeBSD? Is there in existence an operating system that doesn't suck? Vista isn't going to miraculously become the best thing on Earth with SP1. The sad fact of the matter is that a simple, open, just-working OS is not something I have ever seen.
To all the Linux geeks out there loading their flamethrowers:
The fact that among the trash heap that is modern OSs Linux is the only usable option (that I found) doesn't mean it's not still a piece of crap.
Don't know about other places, but some roads in Israel have had this feature for years (no, they don't tell you to go back on the road, just make a nasty buzzing noise when you get on the shoulders).
Actually, the 'cats eat mice' meme is a myth (much like the 'dogs hate cats' meme). In fact most cat's never eat mice. They are extremely irritated though by the high-pitched squeaking (most of which is inaudible to human ears, but must be really annoying to cats). So cats usally beat mice senseless and then leave them like a boring toy.
in fact, I forget where it was, but I seem to remember reading someone psychoanalyzing a corporation (as if it were a human) and finding that it's insane.
Does that mean that C will cease to be constant (i.e. speed will be simply cumulative without the need Lorentz transforms)? How will that impact the energy of photons such as hitting the Earth from the Sun? What about the effect on quantum mechanics? On orbital trajectories? On electrical equipment? I don't think life as we know it will be possible in a Euclidean (as opposed to a relativistic) universe. Maybe time won't stand still, as others posters suggested, but I can't believe everything would just continue like nothing happened, with only sophisticated physics experiments being able to tell the difference.
Same disclaimer as parent applies, this is probably a BS paper.
Please cease and dessist from consuming our unlicensed content. You're welcome to settle before we sue - That would be $9k per song pirated over the cubicle wall. Our attorny will contact you for payment arrangements.
6. Heat.
7. Cold. (yes, two separate senses).
8. Ballance.
9. Proprioception (The information about where each limb is).
10. Pain. Can also be considered as every other sense when taken to extreme.
The iPhone is cute and all, but isn't it about time we let the thing go? I mean, if it were any other phone (and this can happen with any smart phone), this wouldn't have even been reported anywhere. These days slashdot looks like somebody did 'grep iphone' on the entire internet.
Of course, this is another abuse by the powers that be of the common man etc. etc., but this was labeled 'funny', so lets turn to the bright side of things.
Things you can do with a police tracking device:
1. Sell it on an auctioning site - that's what the guy did. Maybe he thought it would get him a few bucks. Didn't work that well, so let's try something else.
2. Destroy it - the Right thing to do. Not much to say about that. Net loss for the police, no gain to you.
3. Abandon it - Watch the cops surround a garbage bin, with hilarious consequences.
4. Attach them to a moving target - this is my favourite. Forget it in a cab, tape it to a bus, throw it on some truck, send it in the mail, whatever. I'd like to see those coppers try to keep tabs on you after a nice portion of wild goose chase.
To sum it up, this guy blew away a perfect chance to make stupid cops look even sillier.
Some problems don't even present themselves as such until you try doing something different and non-obvious - almost random - and begin to realize new possibilities rather than refining existing ones.
The fact that we don't understand a process (and creativity is currently very badly understood), by no means makes it random. Our minds make 'leaps of faith' which we do not understand (when they happen to us), but often look very logical in hindsight, or from outside. If it truly were a random process (completely random - I concede that artificial creativity must contain some arbitrary aspect), it would produce only gibberish.
2.
Intelligence isn't going to make invention obsolete unless there is artificial creativity to go with it.
You're completely right, but that just mean it's time we get down to business and tackle artificial creativity - the lack of which is probably the greatest flaw with most AI systems.
I'm not trying to justify these people. Facing the same problem, I chose to install Ubuntu. It's just the way things are, and MS had a big hand in making things be this way. A simple thing like separating WGA and the update service, and offering the update service freely to all (ALL) windows users would have made an incredible improvement in the security of the entire internet.
So if you want to blame anyone for the success of malware like the Storm trojans/worms, blame the people who attach unpached, unsecured machines directly and without any kind of security suit or firewall whatsoever to the internet.
You can blame them, but it wouldn't help. The reason none of these people patch and update is because the update service is not available to them. All the people I know (except for myself and my brother), use only unregistered versions of windows in their homes. They don't want to pay for the software so they copy it. You may call it stealing, but that's what most people use these days. And since the update system MS uses regularly spies on the users and checks for their identity and registration, they're just afraid that if they use the update service, MS will catch on to them and disable their computer or sue them to hell. So they don't update, and then you get zombies. When their computer starts getting too slow, they reinstall Windows. You can blame all you weant, but the actions by MS contributing to this cannot be discounted.
Your point about firewalls and security software remains valid though.
I know I shouldn't be replying... but I'll do it anyway.
BULLSHIT.
Religion has done no good whatsoever to anyone. Like Zaphod's sunglasses (I forget the name) that turn to black at the slightest hint of danger, religion can be comforting and relaxing, but it can also be extremely dangerous as it prevents you from really looking at the world. I think it's like a doctor, telling a man who has two days left to live he's completely healthy just so his patient wouldn't be sad. Do you think he'll thank the nice doctor if he knew? The road to hell etc.
If you need some crazy mythical story to tell you being nice to each other is a Good Thing, berlieving in that story isn't going to help you anyway.
Come all ye religious zealots (and grammar nazis) and flame.
There're two terms that aren't defined well enough for me in this post. First, what is a libertarian. I see lots of people here attacking each other based on what they think libertarianism stands for, but nobody can agree on what it is. Maybe it's because I'm not American that I don't understand perfectly what the word means, but it seems to me that most of the people here don't either.
The second is what constitutes a nerd. Most nerds here are self proclaimed, but since they're here (news for nerds etc.), I'll accept their claims;). So I'll just define it the way I like to, as an individual, that although very handy with technical subjects, logic and math, has some difficulty with social relationships. He usually has a scientific, skeptical attitude, is self-reliant (and self-important) and is frequently a sci-fi induced idealist (either an optimist or a pessimist, depends on the person).
And to my point - a person such as described above will usually be an individualist - since logically, society does not exist, only collections of individuals really do. Also, he'll tend to discount social effects due to his anti-social tendencies. Thirdly, a person with a skeptical frame of mind will not swallow government propaganda easily, and tend to keep an eye on where he's being screwed.
Taken all together, I'd say the most frequent political attitude found in geeks should be strongly pro-individual and anti-government, which my experience corroborates. Is this libertarianism? You tell me.
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To tell the truth, I'm fucking sick of the whole OS thing. They're all crap, anyway you look at it. XP hides all its configuration options and treats me like a brain-dead two year old. It's fat, stupid and ugly. Linux is a piece of crap for other reasons (HW incompatibilities, badly written SW, little to no support from 3rd parties). I've heard Mac OSX is a decent OS (never used it extensively as I can't afford a mac), but that it has problems with Hebrew and other RTL languages, which (sadly) is a deal breaker for me. What's left? FreeBSD? Is there in existence an operating system that doesn't suck? Vista isn't going to miraculously become the best thing on Earth with SP1. The sad fact of the matter is that a simple, open, just-working OS is not something I have ever seen.
To all the Linux geeks out there loading their flamethrowers:
The fact that among the trash heap that is modern OSs Linux is the only usable option (that I found) doesn't mean it's not still a piece of crap.
Don't know about other places, but some roads in Israel have had this feature for years (no, they don't tell you to go back on the road, just make a nasty buzzing noise when you get on the shoulders).
You calling me a liar?
>:(
It seems the prerequisite for being modded insightful/interesting or even funny is already having been modded as such. Sucks being new here.
Actually, the 'cats eat mice' meme is a myth (much like the 'dogs hate cats' meme). In fact most cat's never eat mice. They are extremely irritated though by the high-pitched squeaking (most of which is inaudible to human ears, but must be really annoying to cats). So cats usally beat mice senseless and then leave them like a boring toy.
I tried it, messed around with the black holes like you said, but I couldn't get to 5. Profit!!!
Help?
Sounds to me more like a DAC.
alluc.org
Does that mean that C will cease to be constant (i.e. speed will be simply cumulative without the need Lorentz transforms)? How will that impact the energy of photons such as hitting the Earth from the Sun? What about the effect on quantum mechanics? On orbital trajectories? On electrical equipment? I don't think life as we know it will be possible in a Euclidean (as opposed to a relativistic) universe. Maybe time won't stand still, as others posters suggested, but I can't believe everything would just continue like nothing happened, with only sophisticated physics experiments being able to tell the difference.
Same disclaimer as parent applies, this is probably a BS paper.
Dear Dave,
Please cease and dessist from consuming our unlicensed content. You're welcome to settle before we sue - That would be $9k per song pirated over the cubicle wall. Our attorny will contact you for payment arrangements.
Thank you,
The RIAA
You mean like Intel(R) Core(TM)2 6400@2.13GHz 4 6.15.6 0000-06F6-0000-0000-0000-0000 1600MHz/3066MHz 64 bit 266MHz fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm cpufreq L1 cache 32KB L2 cache 2MB
Yeah that'd be a good name for a processor.
Use double-barreled Gun(zip) silly.
Hey, I just got one of these and all it'll print is "All your base are belong to us."....
It probly wants more toner.
There are actually 10 senses, which make this one the 11th.
1. Vision.
2. Hearing.
3. Touch (+pressure/vibration).
4. Taste.
5. Smell.
6. Heat.
7. Cold. (yes, two separate senses).
8. Ballance.
9. Proprioception (The information about where each limb is).
10. Pain. Can also be considered as every other sense when taken to extreme.
The iPhone is cute and all, but isn't it about time we let the thing go? I mean, if it were any other phone (and this can happen with any smart phone), this wouldn't have even been reported anywhere. These days slashdot looks like somebody did 'grep iphone' on the entire internet.
link?
Of course, this is another abuse by the powers that be of the common man etc. etc., but this was labeled 'funny', so lets turn to the bright side of things.
Things you can do with a police tracking device:
1. Sell it on an auctioning site - that's what the guy did. Maybe he thought it would get him a few bucks. Didn't work that well, so let's try something else.
2. Destroy it - the Right thing to do. Not much to say about that. Net loss for the police, no gain to you.
3. Abandon it - Watch the cops surround a garbage bin, with hilarious consequences.
4. Attach them to a moving target - this is my favourite. Forget it in a cab, tape it to a bus, throw it on some truck, send it in the mail, whatever. I'd like to see those coppers try to keep tabs on you after a nice portion of wild goose chase.
To sum it up, this guy blew away a perfect chance to make stupid cops look even sillier.
The fact that we don't understand a process (and creativity is currently very badly understood), by no means makes it random. Our minds make 'leaps of faith' which we do not understand (when they happen to us), but often look very logical in hindsight, or from outside. If it truly were a random process (completely random - I concede that artificial creativity must contain some arbitrary aspect), it would produce only gibberish.
2.
You're completely right, but that just mean it's time we get down to business and tackle artificial creativity - the lack of which is probably the greatest flaw with most AI systems.
I'm not trying to justify these people. Facing the same problem, I chose to install Ubuntu. It's just the way things are, and MS had a big hand in making things be this way. A simple thing like separating WGA and the update service, and offering the update service freely to all (ALL) windows users would have made an incredible improvement in the security of the entire internet.
You can blame them, but it wouldn't help. The reason none of these people patch and update is because the update service is not available to them. All the people I know (except for myself and my brother), use only unregistered versions of windows in their homes. They don't want to pay for the software so they copy it. You may call it stealing, but that's what most people use these days. And since the update system MS uses regularly spies on the users and checks for their identity and registration, they're just afraid that if they use the update service, MS will catch on to them and disable their computer or sue them to hell. So they don't update, and then you get zombies. When their computer starts getting too slow, they reinstall Windows. You can blame all you weant, but the actions by MS contributing to this cannot be discounted.
Your point about firewalls and security software remains valid though.
Selling more songs on iTunes. Getting more people on iTunes that otherwise wouldn't have. Lock the iPhones in like the iPods.
I know I shouldn't be replying... but I'll do it anyway.
BULLSHIT.
Religion has done no good whatsoever to anyone. Like Zaphod's sunglasses (I forget the name) that turn to black at the slightest hint of danger, religion can be comforting and relaxing, but it can also be extremely dangerous as it prevents you from really looking at the world. I think it's like a doctor, telling a man who has two days left to live he's completely healthy just so his patient wouldn't be sad. Do you think he'll thank the nice doctor if he knew? The road to hell etc.
If you need some crazy mythical story to tell you being nice to each other is a Good Thing, berlieving in that story isn't going to help you anyway.
Come all ye religious zealots (and grammar nazis) and flame.
Darth Vader action figure. And stop pretending it's your own garage.
Here's my couple of cents:
;). So I'll just define it the way I like to, as an individual, that although very handy with technical subjects, logic and math, has some difficulty with social relationships. He usually has a scientific, skeptical attitude, is self-reliant (and self-important) and is frequently a sci-fi induced idealist (either an optimist or a pessimist, depends on the person).
There're two terms that aren't defined well enough for me in this post. First, what is a libertarian. I see lots of people here attacking each other based on what they think libertarianism stands for, but nobody can agree on what it is. Maybe it's because I'm not American that I don't understand perfectly what the word means, but it seems to me that most of the people here don't either.
The second is what constitutes a nerd. Most nerds here are self proclaimed, but since they're here (news for nerds etc.), I'll accept their claims
And to my point - a person such as described above will usually be an individualist - since logically, society does not exist, only collections of individuals really do. Also, he'll tend to discount social effects due to his anti-social tendencies. Thirdly, a person with a skeptical frame of mind will not swallow government propaganda easily, and tend to keep an eye on where he's being screwed.
Taken all together, I'd say the most frequent political attitude found in geeks should be strongly pro-individual and anti-government, which my experience corroborates. Is this libertarianism? You tell me.