Same here. I'm smart, pretty well informed, watched the debates, and voted for Bush.
If you made your decision by watching a debate, then perhaps you aren't as well informed as you think.
Personally, I judge people by what they do and not what they say. If it wasn't obvious to what he has been doing for the past 4 years then you might need to look a bit harder.
I voted for Bush in 2000. I did not in 2004.
If you haven't realized after the latest problems in Iraq, Fema, and what is about to happen with Iran then let us just hope we can survive til 2008 so we can have a Clinton vs Mccain election. Hell, I would take a Rice vs Powell ticket.
He may have better insight into the industry than any of us.
The same thing could be said about Generals in WWI. Just because this is your profession, may not automatically mean you know what the front line conditions are like unless you participate in it.
When he has actually played a Nintedo revolution FPS game using the controller then he may judge it.
But that lack of spyware and viruses has nothing to do with the techincal strengths or lack thereof of Linux. It has to do with it's insignifigance in the desktop arena, which makes it unattractive as a target.
Maybe that just means the target audience of Linux users are just less likley to click "Yes" on the dialog box "Is it ok to install 'this random application you have never seen before'?".
Linux is no more resistant to spyware than Windows, and viruses are only significantly different in a multiuser context (which isn't what most desktop installs are). Calling it bulletproof is entirely untrue.
However one of them gives you out of the box protection of a burlap sack and the other gives you at least a standard kevlar vest.
Sure, they can be both penetrated by a.50 armor peircing round but...
What makes every company (and especially IT companies) expensive to start? EMPLOYEES
Then why don't those companies hire people right out of college and maybe get some employee loyaltee while saving some money instead of hiring the latest guru who who costs 50% of the companies budget and will end up leaving for Google in 5 months.
I think the biggest problem with many companies is their aversion to hiring people right out of college.
Amazing! Your head hit just the 'z' key, and held down the SHIFT key simultaneously for the first one! And then, somehow, your computer submitted your comment. How do you do that?
King Arthur: [about the slashdot post] What does it say, Brother Maynard? Brother Maynard: It reads, "No wonder I've been nodding off at wo...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" King Arthur: What? Brother Maynard: "at wo...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" Sir Bedevere: What is that? Brother Maynard: He must have feel asleep while posting it. King Arthur: Oh come on! Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says. King Arthur: Look, if he was falling a sleep, he wouldn't have bothered to type 'Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'. He'd just say it. Sir Galahad: Maybe he was dictating it. King Arthur: Oh shut up!
I could be wrong, but I would think an optical chip would produce less heat since it would have less resistance and would scale better in power consumption.
I'm not engineer so I could be wrong about that assumption.
I don't see why one should rule out the scenario that due to your (or other) actions, you end up dead or nonexistent in all possible universes.
Because you cannot nonexist unless you currently do not exist. Since you exist now, you will exist forever as something because you can't observe yourself not existing and it could be infinite time between you now and the next time of you being consciously being able to observe your own existence.
Can you conceptualize infinite time? No... Well neither can I. So that leads up to the problem of knowing what will happen over infinite amount of time.
If I am wrong or right doesn't really make a difference because chances I won't make remember this conversation in 10 billion years regardless of weather I am still alive or dead and not existing.
Secondly...
Flawed creatures living for eternity could be a definition of "Hell".
If mankind decided to make the ultimate punishment... Then do what do you think they will do first?
If the fed gets control of what private organizations can do in every regard, its only a short put to your front door...your living room...your bedroom.
And if the private organizations are already controlling your life beyond your will, what then?
Normally religions have few restrictions, and they are all quite reasonable!
I know you are being sarcastic, but the problem with religion is that it kicks people out for not following rules rather than helping them overcome the problems. Take a Zen Koan that explains this:
When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.
Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again bankei disregarded the matter. this angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.
When bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. "You are wise brothers," he told them. "You know what is right and what is not right. You may somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave."
A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.
My school tracks down your blog and reads it. If you say anything in it(such as drug or alcohol use) you must take a drug test or are suspended until you do(if you try to fight them in court you only have 21 days because if you are out of school longer then that you fail for the year no matter what your grades are). I dont even know what happens if you talk about attacking the school. Its funny though the only way they figure out your blog because they gave everyone laptops and kids goto them and blog.
I think what you describe is a common sense test rather than a morality test for real life.
One does not ever discuss illegal activities over electronic communications nor do you write it down. There has to be plausible deniablity. I mean when the kid is 50 and he is talking about the latest mob hit he took part in south Brooklyn he ought to know at any given moment the FBI could be tapping his cell phone much less his blog. If you have to communicate anything about illegal actvities you tell that to them in person or in code so that later you can either call them a liar while subconciously suggesting through double speak that you'll whack his family if he testifies before a court against you.
I mean we had to let go poor Jimmy because he sent an email to his wife mentioning his current whereabouts on the night of July the 5th between the hours of 9-10pm.
Never... Ever set yourself up to have physical or electronic evidence with your illegal activies... Not that I would know anything about that.
Nothing makes an intelligent person more critical of religion than actually learning about a religion.
Personally, I have found the more I learn about Buddhism, the more it makes sense than other religions and usually doesn't conflict with what I know about science (since Buddhism doesn't really explain the why things are by rather how things are, but I will say there are things that I disagree with).
Mostly because Bhuddism doesn't attempt to explain creationism or supernatual events and more is direct to the point of how to comprehend reality and how to control your life and being better towards other people.
Not unless you think the Federal government gets to review and approve all school rules, employee handbooks and shopping mall rules.
INAL, but private organizations can't discriminate against person for race, sex, religion, and various other criteria. Although, one would have to prove that such behavior violates some type of that discrimination ruleset.
It is far easier to leave or quit that orginization than to hire an expensive lawyer in court to prove an unprecedented case.
What I mean is, regardless of the culture you were raised in and the social climate of your environment, at some point, wrong is wrong is wrong.
Wrong.
I'm not saying it is right based on our culture, but take for example the Crusades of the Middle ages. The Pope said "It is ok to kill the Infidel in order to regain the holy land. In fact, you can kill as many as you like and you will get into heaven." Those knights seriously believed this and their families believed in this... Their kings told them to do this... Their wives, parents and kids all believed this was right and all that did so was heralded as heros. These knights died thinking they did the right thing and were going to heaven for it. Their whole society thought this was right.
But is it really right to invade and indiscrimently kill every living person in Jeresulem?
Maybe not, but you should realize that some things you believe to be right or wrong may not be right in another society or even in our own 1,000 years from now. There are no true absolutes.
You express your anger with abuse of arbitrary power in a virtual realm by abusing your own arbitrary power, in your own personal virtual realm?
The truth of the matter is that sometimes the little guys will get abused by authority until authority picks on a public figure in which uses his position to fix the problem and therefore no more little guys get abused.
I'd rather have Taco bitch about this in this venue then let it go silently. The problem is that GM systems for MMOGs should not be voluneteers but accountable employees. They should have supervisors that can be contacted in case they do abuse their power.
If not for the players themselves but for keeping customers for the benefit of Blizzard.
The higher ups in Blizzard would not like to find that their lower employees are driving away customers because they were over zealous.
Disney is not a sentient being. It's stockholders want profit so the board of directors get on the ceo's case which eventually leads down to some group putting together ideas in order to prevent piracy or put out a movie that doesn't flop.
Persons within Disney may also have different goals... One may want to make good movies and the other wants more returns on his stock options so he can retire early.
But in general, you are correct on how they work and the many people that while drag their relatives out to see an Disney movie and Pirates of the Carribean was a good movie, but we should really stop generalizing corporations as they are just persons because they don't actually work like that.
Can the human brain retain the sheer volume of information and experience achievable in a millenia of living? Would we forget the past, or become unable to learn the future?
One of the nicest things about life is that it doesn't go on forever.
If Quantum Immortality is true, then you may not have a choice in the matter. It could be quite possible that it maybe impossible for you to die. Even if you do loose your memories and your physicial bodies is destroyed, chances are you will spontaneously exist somewhere else in this universe or another.
Try to think of it like this. You obviously are observing yourself currently existing (while reading this) so therefore your conciousness does exist. By definition, not existing is not observable so seeing that you now exist in present form may spontaneously exist as something else if you cease to exist now.
The question is that the universe took 11 billion years for you to exist now and may not end for quite some time after that point. Then you may also have to take into account that other universes may also exist if Copenhagen theory is correct and you might spontaneously exist in another universe before that time frame (just in case existing in this universe was more improbable).
But all what I just said is speculation... But remember... Chances are that you can't escape life by just dying.
Slashdot Mirror
Did the Police check to see if anyone had been "fucking burried" on Microsoft properties?
If China convinces Venesula to sell them all their oil, we will see $100 oil very soon.
Not if we invade Venuzuela first!
Oh wait...
He also pointed me to some newer Vostok core data :)
;)
So is Lake Vostok really home to Cthulhu?
But seriously, I'd be really interested to hear on what is really going on down there.
Same here. I'm smart, pretty well informed, watched the debates, and voted for Bush.
If you made your decision by watching a debate, then perhaps you aren't as well informed as you think.
Personally, I judge people by what they do and not what they say. If it wasn't obvious to what he has been doing for the past 4 years then you might need to look a bit harder.
I voted for Bush in 2000. I did not in 2004.
If you haven't realized after the latest problems in Iraq, Fema, and what is about to happen with Iran then let us just hope we can survive til 2008 so we can have a Clinton vs Mccain election. Hell, I would take a Rice vs Powell ticket.
He may have better insight into the industry than any of us.
The same thing could be said about Generals in WWI. Just because this is your profession, may not automatically mean you know what the front line conditions are like unless you participate in it.
When he has actually played a Nintedo revolution FPS game using the controller then he may judge it.
But that lack of spyware and viruses has nothing to do with the techincal strengths or lack thereof of Linux. It has to do with it's insignifigance in the desktop arena, which makes it unattractive as a target.
Maybe that just means the target audience of Linux users are just less likley to click "Yes" on the dialog box "Is it ok to install 'this random application you have never seen before'?".
Linux is no more resistant to spyware than Windows, and viruses are only significantly different in a multiuser context (which isn't what most desktop installs are). Calling it bulletproof is entirely untrue.
.50 armor peircing round but...
However one of them gives you out of the box protection of a burlap sack and the other gives you at least a standard kevlar vest.
Sure, they can be both penetrated by a
Given the option I'll take the kevlar vest.
Nah!
;)
This is Japan.
Instead of marketing and overpaid manager, most of it will be used to paid to prevent Sokaiya at the stock holders meeting!
What makes every company (and especially IT companies) expensive to start?
EMPLOYEES
Then why don't those companies hire people right out of college and maybe get some employee loyaltee while saving some money instead of hiring the latest guru who who costs 50% of the companies budget and will end up leaving for Google in 5 months.
I think the biggest problem with many companies is their aversion to hiring people right out of college.
Would you want to be employed by a firm whose products were projected to be worthless by year's end?
Only if they pay 100K per year and give good references.
Oops someone already posted obligatory python post three parents up...
Amazing! Your head hit just the 'z' key, and held down the SHIFT key simultaneously for the first one! And then, somehow, your computer submitted your comment. How do you do that?
King Arthur: [about the slashdot post] What does it say, Brother Maynard?
Brother Maynard: It reads, "No wonder I've been nodding off at wo...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
King Arthur: What?
Brother Maynard: "at wo...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
Sir Bedevere: What is that?
Brother Maynard: He must have feel asleep while posting it.
King Arthur: Oh come on!
Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says.
King Arthur: Look, if he was falling a sleep, he wouldn't have bothered to type 'Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'. He'd just say it.
Sir Galahad: Maybe he was dictating it.
King Arthur: Oh shut up!
Can someone explain what the real advantage is?
Heat.
I could be wrong, but I would think an optical chip would produce less heat since it would have less resistance and would scale better in power consumption.
I'm not engineer so I could be wrong about that assumption.
I don't see why one should rule out the scenario that due to your (or other) actions, you end up dead or nonexistent in all possible universes.
Because you cannot nonexist unless you currently do not exist. Since you exist now, you will exist forever as something because you can't observe yourself not existing and it could be infinite time between you now and the next time of you being consciously being able to observe your own existence.
Can you conceptualize infinite time? No... Well neither can I. So that leads up to the problem of knowing what will happen over infinite amount of time.
If I am wrong or right doesn't really make a difference because chances I won't make remember this conversation in 10 billion years regardless of weather I am still alive or dead and not existing.
Secondly...
Flawed creatures living for eternity could be a definition of "Hell".
If mankind decided to make the ultimate punishment... Then do what do you think they will do first?
Private institutions such as Catholic schools and private employers are immune.
What happens when they receive government funding or tax dollars?
If the fed gets control of what private organizations can do in every regard, its only a short put to your front door...your living room...your bedroom.
And if the private organizations are already controlling your life beyond your will, what then?
I know you are being sarcastic, but the problem with religion is that it kicks people out for not following rules rather than helping them overcome the problems. Take a Zen Koan that explains this:
My school tracks down your blog and reads it. If you say anything in it(such as drug or alcohol use) you must take a drug test or are suspended until you do(if you try to fight them in court you only have 21 days because if you are out of school longer then that you fail for the year no matter what your grades are). I dont even know what happens if you talk about attacking the school. Its funny though the only way they figure out your blog because they gave everyone laptops and kids goto them and blog.
I think what you describe is a common sense test rather than a morality test for real life.
One does not ever discuss illegal activities over electronic communications nor do you write it down. There has to be plausible deniablity. I mean when the kid is 50 and he is talking about the latest mob hit he took part in south Brooklyn he ought to know at any given moment the FBI could be tapping his cell phone much less his blog. If you have to communicate anything about illegal actvities you tell that to them in person or in code so that later you can either call them a liar while subconciously suggesting through double speak that you'll whack his family if he testifies before a court against you.
I mean we had to let go poor Jimmy because he sent an email to his wife mentioning his current whereabouts on the night of July the 5th between the hours of 9-10pm.
Never... Ever set yourself up to have physical or electronic evidence with your illegal activies... Not that I would know anything about that.
Nothing makes an intelligent person more critical of religion than actually learning about a religion.
Personally, I have found the more I learn about Buddhism, the more it makes sense than other religions and usually doesn't conflict with what I know about science (since Buddhism doesn't really explain the why things are by rather how things are, but I will say there are things that I disagree with).
Mostly because Bhuddism doesn't attempt to explain creationism or supernatual events and more is direct to the point of how to comprehend reality and how to control your life and being better towards other people.
Not unless you think the Federal government gets to review and approve all school rules, employee handbooks and shopping mall rules.
INAL, but private organizations can't discriminate against person for race, sex, religion, and various other criteria. Although, one would have to prove that such behavior violates some type of that discrimination ruleset.
It is far easier to leave or quit that orginization than to hire an expensive lawyer in court to prove an unprecedented case.
What I mean is, regardless of the culture you were raised in and the social climate of your environment, at some point, wrong is wrong is wrong.
Wrong.
I'm not saying it is right based on our culture, but take for example the Crusades of the Middle ages. The Pope said "It is ok to kill the Infidel in order to regain the holy land. In fact, you can kill as many as you like and you will get into heaven." Those knights seriously believed this and their families believed in this... Their kings told them to do this... Their wives, parents and kids all believed this was right and all that did so was heralded as heros. These knights died thinking they did the right thing and were going to heaven for it. Their whole society thought this was right.
But is it really right to invade and indiscrimently kill every living person in Jeresulem?
Maybe not, but you should realize that some things you believe to be right or wrong may not be right in another society or even in our own 1,000 years from now. There are no true absolutes.
You express your anger with abuse of arbitrary power in a virtual realm by abusing your own arbitrary power, in your own personal virtual realm?
The truth of the matter is that sometimes the little guys will get abused by authority until authority picks on a public figure in which uses his position to fix the problem and therefore no more little guys get abused.
I'd rather have Taco bitch about this in this venue then let it go silently. The problem is that GM systems for MMOGs should not be voluneteers but accountable employees. They should have supervisors that can be contacted in case they do abuse their power.
If not for the players themselves but for keeping customers for the benefit of Blizzard.
The higher ups in Blizzard would not like to find that their lower employees are driving away customers because they were over zealous.
Disney just wants to make a profit.
Disney is not a sentient being. It's stockholders want profit so the board of directors get on the ceo's case which eventually leads down to some group putting together ideas in order to prevent piracy or put out a movie that doesn't flop.
Persons within Disney may also have different goals... One may want to make good movies and the other wants more returns on his stock options so he can retire early.
But in general, you are correct on how they work and the many people that while drag their relatives out to see an Disney movie and Pirates of the Carribean was a good movie, but we should really stop generalizing corporations as they are just persons because they don't actually work like that.
Can the human brain retain the sheer volume of information and experience achievable in a millenia of living? Would we forget the past, or become unable to learn the future?
That is what Google is for.
One of the nicest things about life is that it doesn't go on forever.
If Quantum Immortality is true, then you may not have a choice in the matter. It could be quite possible that it maybe impossible for you to die. Even if you do loose your memories and your physicial bodies is destroyed, chances are you will spontaneously exist somewhere else in this universe or another.
Try to think of it like this. You obviously are observing yourself currently existing (while reading this) so therefore your conciousness does exist. By definition, not existing is not observable so seeing that you now exist in present form may spontaneously exist as something else if you cease to exist now.
The question is that the universe took 11 billion years for you to exist now and may not end for quite some time after that point. Then you may also have to take into account that other universes may also exist if Copenhagen theory is correct and you might spontaneously exist in another universe before that time frame (just in case existing in this universe was more improbable).
But all what I just said is speculation... But remember... Chances are that you can't escape life by just dying.