Brand new game: $99.95 About 5 months after release: $89.95. Some games stay at this price for years About a year or more: $49.95 Cheap bin before they vanish: $29.95 (Some $19.95)
This is in Australian dollars which is about 90 cents US.
Depending who you are, it might be cheap, but in general these prices are not to be sneezed at.
Books are overpriced as well though, so you do have a good point. Computer books at the shops are always well over $100.
I don't know if I'm ready to go sticking stuff in there, especially in light of evolution's work to keep stuff out, and, our still insufficient knowledge of the brain.
No one is talking about starting to implanting things right now. These are the first steps. Of course researchers will be careful to make sure it is safe (Or at least worth the risk) before starting human trials.
And this is a very important area of study. Imagine someone that is paralysed or missing a limb. If we can build artificial limbs and able to interface it directly without causing infections or rejections, this will substantially improve their quality of life!
This is actually very exciting news. We should definitely pursue this as much as we can.
I guess (And this is nothing more than a guess) that the weapon manufacturers have great sway in political decisions. Perhaps they made big campaign contributions to today's leaders feel obliged to provide them purpose.
Again, this is not a conspiracy theory. Just an argument of the form:
War is good for weapon makers. Leaders start war. Therefore weapon makers influence leaders.
So what is your solution to combating global spam problem?
Do you propose that security researchers go after thousands upon thousands of infected hosts? How would you clean them out when then are located in another jurisdiction? I hope you realize that they can't just DoS it down as it could be doing some vital tasks (For example if a machine in a hospital is infected).
And the problem can't be fixed with educating the user, because they don't care and don't want to care. See dancing pigs problem. It really does not matter what operating system they use, as a user is more than happy to provide the root password in order to get what he/she wants.
Going after the head of the botnet sounds like the only logical choice left. It is a lot easier to investigate and offline five control machines rather than thousand of infected hosts. Will this end up with more sophisticated botnets? Of course. But it is better than doing nothing at all!
While the parent is intended as a joke, the idea that quality software will put people out of work is quite widespread among people in IT. Which is quite a sad state of affairs as it is such an obvious case of a broken window fallacy. Rather then spending resources on fixing up damage, it is much more production to direct it on creation of new things or modifying existing to better meet the demand.
Is the source of this attitude the built in obsolescence idea from manufacturers? Do developers really think that once the perfect software is delivered the requirements will never again change and never need to be modified? Do they not enjoy adding new features and solutions, and would rather spend their time fixing the broken parts of releases? Even the support personnel should realize that there would still be a need for them in order to answer questions of the new users.
His point was that keeping to the standard hand position did not end in RSI even while coupled with stress of hitting the mechanical keys. How can something be overkill in this case? The less stress the better.
It does sounds like common sense as well: If you hold your hands rigidly, it would would result in less twisting (Well unless you hold your hands rigidly in weird angles, but why would anyone do that?!). Less twisting == Less stress on your tendons == Reduced RSI danger.
There is only one positive article on the front page: Tech downturn is over. Even that is attempted to show negatively by having "Unofficially" in the title.
What is it with all the whining and doom-crying?! Am I just really new here and it always been thus? Are the editors all sufferers of depression?
That just means that the leftover programmers would have time to create some new and innovative rather than being bogged down all the time in maintenance.
Pollution is wrong. Let's come together in some comopolitan city - hmmm, maybe Copenhagen? - and agree to end pollution.
It doesn't matter if global warming happens today or 10,000 years from now. What matters is ending air pollution.
The issue here is not pollution. Every single person on this planet, including coal and oil producers, recognize that pollution is undesirable.
This is all about money.
You (And all people that see global warming as a massive issue) are asking people to change their ways to reduce pollution. Change costs money.
Thus the question becomes: Are you willing to spend time and money in order to cut down on the green house gasses, etc. A lot of people say no.
Now they cannot justify their answer as "No, I would rather contribute to global warming rather than make sacrifices". One position is that they deny that humans are the ones responsible. And they are willing to spend money on grants to have scientists try to prove them right.
Global warming is not a scientific debate, but a political one.
There hasn't been any large conflict there ever since World War Two. Haven't heard of any kind of outbreaks or hunger. Yet the childbirth rates are falling.
there's no conclusive evidence that nicotine itself causes cancer
I always thought that the nicotine is completely harmless. You can chew the nicotine gum for every second of your life and you will probably be fine.
It is the tar from the cigarette smoke that is the culprit. All those smoke particles accumulating in your lungs is probably not a very healthy thing. Only reason why everyone is so anti-nicotine is that it makes you want to get more smoke into yourself.
Back before the Iraq war, when I was repeatedly
warning that the US govt was lying about WMD, I was modded down so much I had to create a new UID.
Could you please provide a link to one of your down-modded posts. This would actually be interesting to see how the community's opinion changed over the years.
Slashdot Mirror
You can always buy them as a gift for someone.
There is a checkbox on the bottom to get the gift code. I am sure you know at least someone that would appreciate it.
Why don't you visit Australia!
Brand new game: $99.95
About 5 months after release: $89.95. Some games stay at this price for years
About a year or more: $49.95
Cheap bin before they vanish: $29.95 (Some $19.95)
This is in Australian dollars which is about 90 cents US.
Depending who you are, it might be cheap, but in general these prices are not to be sneezed at.
Books are overpriced as well though, so you do have a good point. Computer books at the shops are always well over $100.
You are doing it wrong.
You aren't suppose to use logic or reason. It is the end of the world (Again...), so start acting like it!
I don't know if I'm ready to go sticking stuff in there, especially in light of evolution's work to keep stuff out, and, our still insufficient knowledge of the brain.
No one is talking about starting to implanting things right now. These are the first steps. Of course researchers will be careful to make sure it is safe (Or at least worth the risk) before starting human trials.
And this is a very important area of study. Imagine someone that is paralysed or missing a limb. If we can build artificial limbs and able to interface it directly without causing infections or rejections, this will substantially improve their quality of life!
This is actually very exciting news. We should definitely pursue this as much as we can.
This is awesome! I hope this research will not encounter any major barriers and we will finally have a way to interface with the brain directly.
What an amazing age we live in.
I guess (And this is nothing more than a guess) that the weapon manufacturers have great sway in political decisions. Perhaps they made big campaign contributions to today's leaders feel obliged to provide them purpose.
Again, this is not a conspiracy theory. Just an argument of the form:
War is good for weapon makers.
Leaders start war.
Therefore weapon makers influence leaders.
Ditto.
When the show is brought back from cancellation, a lot of them just become terrible. Example would be Family Guy.
I *really* hope that Futurama will be an exception to the rule. Let us hope they will not run out of ideas for a long time to come.
So what is your solution to combating global spam problem?
Do you propose that security researchers go after thousands upon thousands of infected hosts? How would you clean them out when then are located in another jurisdiction? I hope you realize that they can't just DoS it down as it could be doing some vital tasks (For example if a machine in a hospital is infected).
And the problem can't be fixed with educating the user, because they don't care and don't want to care. See dancing pigs problem. It really does not matter what operating system they use, as a user is more than happy to provide the root password in order to get what he/she wants.
Going after the head of the botnet sounds like the only logical choice left. It is a lot easier to investigate and offline five control machines rather than thousand of infected hosts. Will this end up with more sophisticated botnets? Of course. But it is better than doing nothing at all!
While the parent is intended as a joke, the idea that quality software will put people out of work is quite widespread among people in IT. Which is quite a sad state of affairs as it is such an obvious case of a broken window fallacy. Rather then spending resources on fixing up damage, it is much more production to direct it on creation of new things or modifying existing to better meet the demand.
Is the source of this attitude the built in obsolescence idea from manufacturers? Do developers really think that once the perfect software is delivered the requirements will never again change and never need to be modified? Do they not enjoy adding new features and solutions, and would rather spend their time fixing the broken parts of releases? Even the support personnel should realize that there would still be a need for them in order to answer questions of the new users.
Well maybe rats is not a good example.
Now think about ants. Good luck wiping those out!
His point was that keeping to the standard hand position did not end in RSI even while coupled with stress of hitting the mechanical keys. How can something be overkill in this case? The less stress the better.
It does sounds like common sense as well: If you hold your hands rigidly, it would would result in less twisting (Well unless you hold your hands rigidly in weird angles, but why would anyone do that?!). Less twisting == Less stress on your tendons == Reduced RSI danger.
What about Wesnoth though? What's it based on?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohan:_Immortal_Sovereigns
And then what?
Yeah. Making offspring part will be tougher though.
If there was a way to mod a comment to +10 Insightful: This post is it.
Thank you.
When was the exact moment that Slashdot changed from being about devices and tech to trying to make us fear just about everything?
Be afraid:
- Half of US Patents go to external companies!
- Wikileaks are dying!
- China is hacking Google!
- Hackers take down search engines!
Even a tech announcement about Google able to host any file type is focused on how it will be used for malware and bring more vulnerabilities.
There is only one positive article on the front page: Tech downturn is over. Even that is attempted to show negatively by having "Unofficially" in the title.
What is it with all the whining and doom-crying?! Am I just really new here and it always been thus? Are the editors all sufferers of depression?
Bravo! You win the Internet for the day.
That just means that the leftover programmers would have time to create some new and innovative rather than being bogged down all the time in maintenance.
Pollution is wrong. Let's come together in some comopolitan city - hmmm, maybe Copenhagen? - and agree to end pollution.
It doesn't matter if global warming happens today or 10,000 years from now. What matters is ending air pollution.
The issue here is not pollution. Every single person on this planet, including coal and oil producers, recognize that pollution is undesirable.
This is all about money.
You (And all people that see global warming as a massive issue) are asking people to change their ways to reduce pollution. Change costs money.
Thus the question becomes: Are you willing to spend time and money in order to cut down on the green house gasses, etc. A lot of people say no.
Now they cannot justify their answer as "No, I would rather contribute to global warming rather than make sacrifices". One position is that they deny that humans are the ones responsible. And they are willing to spend money on grants to have scientists try to prove them right.
Global warming is not a scientific debate, but a political one.
Don't worry too much about population explosion.
It is a mystery to me, but somehow human population is controlling itself. And this is without any war, famine or diseases.
Look for example at Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan
There hasn't been any large conflict there ever since World War Two. Haven't heard of any kind of outbreaks or hunger. Yet the childbirth rates are falling.
Seems like similar is happening in Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Europe
there's no conclusive evidence that nicotine itself causes cancer
I always thought that the nicotine is completely harmless. You can chew the nicotine gum for every second of your life and you will probably be fine.
It is the tar from the cigarette smoke that is the culprit. All those smoke particles accumulating in your lungs is probably not a very healthy thing. Only reason why everyone is so anti-nicotine is that it makes you want to get more smoke into yourself.
Could be wrong though. Just word of mouth stuff.
And how do you know what the majority of climatologists accept?
Just because some popular newspaper/site/show told you so?
Could you please provide a link to one of your down-modded posts. This would actually be interesting to see how the community's opinion changed over the years.
This is just spot on!
I don't know what you said, but I want to buy it.