Millions of humans have been killed in the past for not following the religion of the dominant group. So believing in something just because the majority of people around you do seems a useful survival trait.
Where you draw the line between gene and meme is sometimes difficult to define, though. And some instincts are easier to override with reason than others.
Redhat's instructions for RHEL updates had it. But any decent admin knows that you have to restart (or HUP or USR1 ) daemons when you have modified the config files.:)
Once updated, any application relying on/etc/localtime will need to be restarted. The easiest solution would be to reboot the system to ensure that all applications have been updated.
I can understand not reading the article, but you could have at least read the/. summary that you linked to!
Notably, the phrase, "deployed for the first time". Which contradicts whatever orifice you pulled, "that's certainly not the first time F-22's have flown across the pacific" out of. Which makes it quite likely that you made up the rest of your silly assertions about DST updates as well. Especially considering that the military, and airplanes especially, primarily use GMT.
The input field for the search term is a flash program? (I can't type anything, probably some bug in linux flash 9 plugin). Whatever happened to using standards compliant html for web pages so the "World" part of the world wide web can use it? Are they hiring graphics people to do their cgi programming or something?
That includes those of us that chose an xbox for last generation that want to switch to sony for this console generation.:) Being able to buy some of the ps2 games I missed and 1080p resolution are my only two reasons for considering purchasing a ps3 recently. (I put it off for now in favor of upgrading my PC for Oblivion, though:)
uhm, did you completely forget what you wrote? You made a mistake about who you were replying to. I wasn't the one who missed the original sarcasm. I merely replied to your statement about the "mental disease" of not recognizing sarcasm. These forums are not for one on one conversations. I suggested paying attention to who said what so that you wouldn't make the same mistake again. Or maybe you are testing my sarcasm detector by pretending that you didn't make the mistake at all?;) hrm, if that is a popular thing to do, it would explain a lot of conversations I've seen online where people have the "mental disease" of being unable to recognize their own mistakes.:)
I merely replied to the generalization about how often people seem to miss when someone is intentionally not telling the truth. I am not the GP poster. Please pay attention to who said what.
I think it boils down to accuracy. A lot of us computer geeks try to be extremely accurate in everything we say. When someone says something different from what they really mean, it often throws us for a loop. I often don't get jokes where the punchline simply involves saying something that is not true. Which is all this type of "sarcasm" really is, when you think about it: saying something not true or that you do not believe. (The other kind is exaggeration which is a lot easier to notice):)
In a perfect computer geek world, much like programming languages, you would have to say precisely what you mean and not obfuscate issues with "clever" debating tactics.
We reject it for the same reason we reject Roland Piquepille's slashvertisements for his blog (which has ads on it such as "make money fast by blogging"). It may be legal, but it is creeping near the grey area because it is a way of separating people from their money in a dishonest fashion. If we don't make a stand against the stuff in the grey area, then the greedy scam artists will merely march further on and take advantage of more people without the wit to see that they are being taken advantage of. (e.g. a girl I know almost falling for the poetry contest scam, "we've selected your poem to be published in our book!" until I did 3 seconds of researching which brought up proof it was a scam since they "chose" someone's purposely random text entry)
Whatever happened to the warrior stance that let you break stuns? As a rogue( a class with lots of stuns ), warriors were always my toughest kills. (I played in 2005 on a pvp server)
Right there with him if he is a game developer apparently.:) I boot out of linux into windows once in a blue moon to play a game and have been quite surprised to see code that millions of dollars went into developing like WoW or FFXI throwing assertion errors. Apparently they compile release builds with assertions enabled nowadays!
Probably based on how deep in which layer it was discovered. Often times the 24 million year old stuff is on top of the 25 million year old stuff.:) I also think they can tell what type of tree the amber came from. For example, if the species of trees around producing amber 300 million years ago is different to the ones producing amber 25 million years ago and the ones producing amber fossils from 30 to 200 million years back didn't grow in that geographic area, etc.
Whereas I am sick and tired of people trotting out this 'We're all a bit Aspergers' line because we're in IT. ... and still not be Asperger's or anywhere on the autistic spectrum.
You make a good point, but you seem to be misunderstanding the concept of a spectrum. There is no "autistic spectrum", autism is simply at one end of "a" spectrum of human behaviour:
|---normal-range-of-human-behaviour-------introver ts----"a bit asperger's-like geeks"----asperger's----autism--| Obviously a grossly inaccurate simplification, but I'm just trying to show that not everyone that notices how often we INTP computer geeks exhibit asperger's like symptoms is trying to claim those actually have asperger's syndrome, they are just saying they are near that end of the spectrum.
Uhm, why are you guys pulling these ridiculous percentages out of thin air? They are woefully incorrect. Ever heard of the various gnome projects that have completely sequenced the dna of certain animals and plants? There is still a large margin of error based on the precise definition of "similarity", but based on the genome projects that have sequenced a human and a rat, the number was much closer to 80% for rats. And the estimates were around 40% similarity to humans for chickens(gallus domesticus). Our common ancestor with rodents was around 85 Million years ago, and we've diverged quite a bit more than.5% since then. Heck, just look at the number of chromosomes of rats and humans, humans have 3 more haploid chromosomes, that's around a 13% difference alone, so obviously the 99.5% number is completely bogus. erm, well he said mice, but mice and rats are pretty close, and both used for lab experiments. ah, here is a pretty picture that shows structural differences within the chromosomes as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee_Genome_Pro ject
The worst part is when they port from console to PC and yet they keep the horrid clickfest of an interface instead of letting you use some of the 104 keys on your keyboard. I just got around to starting to play Oblivion and you can tell those guys designed for consoles and not PCs(they just coded a few keys as analogs for the 8 or so on a console gamepad). And Final Fantasy XI online, which held my attention for nearly a whole month was even more horrid in that regard. I can't believe the mindless repetition and endlessly nested matroushka menus that console people will put up with whereas PC gamers want single keystrokes. At least, the smart ones do; PCs do have their own boring clickfests like Diablo.;)
Anyway, my point was that I think this is why exclusives are often preferred and why some games turn out to be really awesome. e.g. Halo for xbox or Thief for PC.
In 1969/71, the BSA allowed Girl Scouts of the USA and Camp Fire Girls to join Exploring, then made the Explorer program fully co-ed, and raised the upper age to 21.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploring_(Learning_f or_Life)
And I used to go to my sister's Girl Scout meetings - I helped them learn things I had learned in Boy Scouts like knot tying or alternately got chased around the parking lot by this one crazy girl that was always trying to kiss me.
Oh yeah, this one time I went on a camping trip with the girls to this campground on the ocean in the florida keys that is split with a Girl Scout camp and a Boy Scout camp. The boys thought only girls were on our side and when they were trying to sneak over in the dark I simply said in a deep voice, "What do you think you're doing?" and the girls turned all their flashlights on them and some screamed and ran, and others gawked for a moment before running too. That was a hilarious sight seeing them all running away.:)
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Millions of humans have been killed in the past for not following the religion of the dominant group. So believing in something just because the majority of people around you do seems a useful survival trait.
Where you draw the line between gene and meme is sometimes difficult to define, though. And some instincts are easier to override with reason than others.
Her "philosophy" (widely rejected by academia) is full of poorly done arguments, unsourced statements, and pseudo-psychology.
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Doesn't that describe just about every philosopher in mankind's history?
I can understand not reading the article, but you could have at least read the /. summary that you linked to!
Notably, the phrase, "deployed for the first time". Which contradicts whatever orifice you pulled, "that's certainly not the first time F-22's have flown across the pacific" out of. Which makes it quite likely that you made up the rest of your silly assertions about DST updates as well. Especially considering that the military, and airplanes especially, primarily use GMT.
The input field for the search term is a flash program? (I can't type anything, probably some bug in linux flash 9 plugin). Whatever happened to using standards compliant html for web pages so the "World" part of the world wide web can use it? Are they hiring graphics people to do their cgi programming or something?
That includes those of us that chose an xbox for last generation that want to switch to sony for this console generation. :) Being able to buy some of the ps2 games I missed and 1080p resolution are my only two reasons for considering purchasing a ps3 recently. (I put it off for now in favor of upgrading my PC for Oblivion, though :)
uhm, did you completely forget what you wrote? You made a mistake about who you were replying to. I wasn't the one who missed the original sarcasm. I merely replied to your statement about the "mental disease" of not recognizing sarcasm. These forums are not for one on one conversations. I suggested paying attention to who said what so that you wouldn't make the same mistake again. ;) :)
Or maybe you are testing my sarcasm detector by pretending that you didn't make the mistake at all?
hrm, if that is a popular thing to do, it would explain a lot of conversations I've seen online where people have the "mental disease" of being unable to recognize their own mistakes.
That's probably why the press release was careful to mention two American cities; to throw you off that scent. :)
... in partnership by GE's Lighting division, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and GE's Global Research Center, headquartered in Niskayuna, NY, ...
I merely replied to the generalization about how often people seem to miss when someone is intentionally not telling the truth. I am not the GP poster. Please pay attention to who said what.
I think it boils down to accuracy. A lot of us computer geeks try to be extremely accurate in everything we say. When someone says something different from what they really mean, it often throws us for a loop. I often don't get jokes where the punchline simply involves saying something that is not true. Which is all this type of "sarcasm" really is, when you think about it: saying something not true or that you do not believe. (The other kind is exaggeration which is a lot easier to notice) :)
In a perfect computer geek world, much like programming languages, you would have to say precisely what you mean and not obfuscate issues with "clever" debating tactics.
We reject it for the same reason we reject Roland Piquepille's slashvertisements for his blog (which has ads on it such as "make money fast by blogging"). It may be legal, but it is creeping near the grey area because it is a way of separating people from their money in a dishonest fashion. If we don't make a stand against the stuff in the grey area, then the greedy scam artists will merely march further on and take advantage of more people without the wit to see that they are being taken advantage of. (e.g. a girl I know almost falling for the poetry contest scam, "we've selected your poem to be published in our book!" until I did 3 seconds of researching which brought up proof it was a scam since they "chose" someone's purposely random text entry)
Whatever happened to the warrior stance that let you break stuns? As a rogue( a class with lots of stuns ), warriors were always my toughest kills. (I played in 2005 on a pvp server)
I was forced to quit cold turkey because the hurricane knocked out power at my house for a few weeks. :)
Right there with him if he is a game developer apparently. :) I boot out of linux into windows once in a blue moon to play a game and have been quite surprised to see code that millions of dollars went into developing like WoW or FFXI throwing assertion errors. Apparently they compile release builds with assertions enabled nowadays!
Probably based on how deep in which layer it was discovered. Often times the 24 million year old stuff is on top of the 25 million year old stuff. :) I also think they can tell what type of tree the amber came from. For example, if the species of trees around producing amber 300 million years ago is different to the ones producing amber 25 million years ago and the ones producing amber fossils from 30 to 200 million years back didn't grow in that geographic area, etc.
Whereas I am sick and tired of people trotting out this 'We're all a bit Aspergers' line because we're in IT.
...
r ts----"a bit asperger's-like geeks"----asperger's----autism--|
and still not be Asperger's or anywhere on the autistic spectrum.
You make a good point, but you seem to be misunderstanding the concept of a spectrum. There is no "autistic spectrum", autism is simply at one end of "a" spectrum of human behaviour:
|---normal-range-of-human-behaviour-------introve
Obviously a grossly inaccurate simplification, but I'm just trying to show that not everyone that notices how often we INTP computer geeks exhibit asperger's like symptoms is trying to claim those actually have asperger's syndrome, they are just saying they are near that end of the spectrum.
Uhm, why are you guys pulling these ridiculous percentages out of thin air? They are woefully incorrect. Ever heard of the various gnome projects that have completely sequenced the dna of certain animals and plants? There is still a large margin of error based on the precise definition of "similarity", but based on the genome projects that have sequenced a human and a rat, the number was much closer to 80% for rats. And the estimates were around 40% similarity to humans for chickens(gallus domesticus). Our common ancestor with rodents was around 85 Million years ago, and we've diverged quite a bit more than .5% since then. Heck, just look at the number of chromosomes of rats and humans, humans have 3 more haploid chromosomes, that's around a 13% difference alone, so obviously the 99.5% number is completely bogus. erm, well he said mice, but mice and rats are pretty close, and both used for lab experiments. ah, here is a pretty picture that shows structural differences within the chromosomes as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee_Genome_Pro ject
The worst part is when they port from console to PC and yet they keep the horrid clickfest of an interface instead of letting you use some of the 104 keys on your keyboard. I just got around to starting to play Oblivion and you can tell those guys designed for consoles and not PCs(they just coded a few keys as analogs for the 8 or so on a console gamepad). And Final Fantasy XI online, which held my attention for nearly a whole month was even more horrid in that regard. I can't believe the mindless repetition and endlessly nested matroushka menus that console people will put up with whereas PC gamers want single keystrokes. At least, the smart ones do; PCs do have their own boring clickfests like Diablo. ;)
Anyway, my point was that I think this is why exclusives are often preferred and why some games turn out to be really awesome. e.g. Halo for xbox or Thief for PC.
It's the only even prime number.
And I used to go to my sister's Girl Scout meetings - I helped them learn things I had learned in Boy Scouts like knot tying or alternately got chased around the parking lot by this one crazy girl that was always trying to kiss me.
Oh yeah, this one time I went on a camping trip with the girls to this campground on the ocean in the florida keys that is split with a Girl Scout camp and a Boy Scout camp. The boys thought only girls were on our side and when they were trying to sneak over in the dark I simply said in a deep voice, "What do you think you're doing?" and the girls turned all their flashlights on them and some screamed and ran, and others gawked for a moment before running too. That was a hilarious sight seeing them all running away.
Coke, tea and coffee are just flavored water, though. They still hydrate you.