You see, as X approaches infinity, the value of the thumdrive increases infinitely!
I mean it's not like you actually need permanent copies of old linux distros. once they're used they're no longer necessary. like 99.9% of everything you burn to a dvd.
What? are you serious? When I want privacy I'm not talking about people not seeing the legs of the dinner table.
I'm talking about people not being able to track: how often I go to the bathroom where I live What movies I watch how much gas is left in the tank of my car how much gas I use driving to work how much gas I use during the week
And it's not because those things are important. It's because of powerful mathematical functions and formulas that can derive, from that, exactly where I hang out with friends, and when, and for how long, and the most opportune moment to pop out of the bushes and ninja-kill me.
Seriously. you have no business trying to math-ninja me.
I would be more worried about whether or not such technology increases your susceptibility to powers of suggestion.
For example: "Don't think about a beowulf cluster of 1,000 supercomputers all wasting their computing power on a single game of Tetris."
I mean, with a machine directly connected to your brain, and the most assuredly increased levels of stress you'd be under, I'd say that there's a significant risk of someone being inadvertently controlled, either by voice or by commercial, or something more sinister.
wow, that explains so much. I used to get AMD and ATI confused, and that just got worse when trying to find drivers for my new $150 1 GB Radeon HD 3650.
Which I still can't get working quite right in Linux.
In any event, I seriously doubt that AMD is out of the competition, what with deals like that going round.
speaking of which: I recently saw a $30 8 GB usb flash drive - that seems far more newsworthy than this, especially since it renders DVD writers obsolete for anything but creating illegal copies of dvd movies. which is easier with avi's anyways...
Considering that being blonde requires a specific combination of genes that make your hair blonde, and that they are naturally rare, I would say that your example is flawed.
Black people aren't a minority of the world, but there are extremely few in the industry.
Blonde people are, however, a minority of the world.
The problem with stereotypes is that it's far too easy to categorize people.
We see it all the time with politics and well, just about any kind of organization anyone tries to do with people.
Programmers versus Engineers.
Women versus Men.
the east versus the west.
Keynesian economics versus Traditional economics.
there are so many ways to lump people together into groups that one way is bound to be "more accurate" than another and therefore "more right". It's not, really. it's just luck when people guess correctly. you just have billions of guessers and some of them are bound to guess well.
As a fellow Italian myself I also don't get offended by the stereotypes, but then I don't get hammered with them every day. there are apparently a LOT of people in the churches of the south and in the businesses of the south who have made it the order of the day, every day, that it's "us versus them." I don't live in an environment like that so it's not really my place to say that they're wrong.
But you do have to realize it's like a whole different world for them.
Frankly I hope that this kind of argument creates some new debates. I, for one, welcome any attempt to diversify the gaming environment and introduce new stuff into our games.
When you combine several things together you can end up with a pretty nasty problem.
here, it's:
1) an absolutely massive section of the population has been raised to believe that everything is the way it is because that's the way it has to be.
2) any attempt to change their minds is met with force, because "you're wrong. that's the way it's always been and that's the way it'll always be."
3) they work long hours, (because of the administration) they get paid very little (because of the administration and their own stubborn attitudes), they have no future outside of their job (again, their own fault), and they're very bitter and stressed (their own fault, a combination of all of the above).
4) they outvote the intelligent.
Really and truly it's one very large engineering challenge that nobody has bothered to even attempt so far.
There is, however, some slow progress. When it was discovered that our crime rate countrywide plummeted by 50% exactly one generation after Roe V. Wade, and that the two events were the most likely connection, it started a whole new train of thought, and I'm hoping that it will eventually end up with people realizing that trying to control the world only makes things worse.
Virtually everything wrong in the above problems can stem from the fact that people believe that they have the right to say what should be done about everything. There are some things democracy won't work with.
You could try explaining it to them that their plan is not superior to God's plan, and that would probably be the only way to get through to them.
she has the means and the power to make that incredibly difficult for everyone involved.
It would be like a police officer trying to arrest another police officer. It would take a heck of a lot more than just one officer's statement to allow something like that to go through.
"While the number of cases dropped, the amount of money lost to internet fraud reached an all-time high in 2007"
This is usually a sign that the persons involved are more organized and sophisticated.
After all, why scam millions and get $.02 from each one when you can scam a few, get a whole lot of money out of each, and take advantage of their unwillingness to admit they've been duped?
We're obviously talking about a group that is maximizing their profit returns on this, and we should be especially worried that those involved might be in key positions in governmental agencies.
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At the very least, they'll save us from the velocirays.
The card I have now was a cheap card good enough to run the games I'd like to play. Thanks for the link and the reference.
why not just re-use the thumbdrive?
$30 versus $X.
You see, as X approaches infinity, the value of the thumdrive increases infinitely!
I mean it's not like you actually need permanent copies of old linux distros. once they're used they're no longer necessary. like 99.9% of everything you burn to a dvd.
In the words of a slashdot user's sig who shall remain anonymous,
"Censorship is always more offensive than that which is censored. Always."
What?
are you serious?
When I want privacy I'm not talking about people not seeing the legs of the dinner table.
I'm talking about people not being able to track:
how often I go to the bathroom
where I live
What movies I watch
how much gas is left in the tank of my car
how much gas I use driving to work
how much gas I use during the week
And it's not because those things are important.
It's because of powerful mathematical functions and formulas that can derive, from that, exactly where I hang out with friends, and when, and for how long, and the most opportune moment to pop out of the bushes and ninja-kill me.
Seriously. you have no business trying to math-ninja me.
also, I am NOT paranoid, so stop calling me that.
I would be more worried about whether or not such technology increases your susceptibility to powers of suggestion.
For example:
"Don't think about a beowulf cluster of 1,000 supercomputers all wasting their computing power on a single game of Tetris."
I mean, with a machine directly connected to your brain, and the most assuredly increased levels of stress you'd be under, I'd say that there's a significant risk of someone being inadvertently controlled, either by voice or by commercial, or something more sinister.
I was referring to [cost of drive] + [cost of countless cd's].
...that his works would be the ones to survive.
wow, that explains so much. I used to get AMD and ATI confused, and that just got worse when trying to find drivers for my new $150 1 GB Radeon HD 3650.
Which I still can't get working quite right in Linux.
In any event, I seriously doubt that AMD is out of the competition, what with deals like that going round.
speaking of which: I recently saw a $30 8 GB usb flash drive - that seems far more newsworthy than this, especially since it renders DVD writers obsolete for anything but creating illegal copies of dvd movies. which is easier with avi's anyways...
Playing around with them is fun, except for the floating disembodied hand that keeps clicking you until you say something funny.
I was so sick of Whorey Hedgehog or whatever it was.
Now Horney Hardon, that sounds much more respectable.
On the contrary, if the jackass party had been elected in 2000, we wouldn't have these problems.
Well that last point seals it for me.
Won't be playing EVE online's trial any time soon.
Considering that being blonde requires a specific combination of genes that make your hair blonde, and that they are naturally rare, I would say that your example is flawed.
Black people aren't a minority of the world, but there are extremely few in the industry.
Blonde people are, however, a minority of the world.
The problem with stereotypes is that it's far too easy to categorize people.
We see it all the time with politics and well, just about any kind of organization anyone tries to do with people.
Programmers versus Engineers.
Women versus Men.
the east versus the west.
Keynesian economics versus Traditional economics.
there are so many ways to lump people together into groups that one way is bound to be "more accurate" than another and therefore "more right". It's not, really. it's just luck when people guess correctly. you just have billions of guessers and some of them are bound to guess well.
As a fellow Italian myself I also don't get offended by the stereotypes, but then I don't get hammered with them every day. there are apparently a LOT of people in the churches of the south and in the businesses of the south who have made it the order of the day, every day, that it's "us versus them." I don't live in an environment like that so it's not really my place to say that they're wrong.
But you do have to realize it's like a whole different world for them.
Frankly I hope that this kind of argument creates some new debates. I, for one, welcome any attempt to diversify the gaming environment and introduce new stuff into our games.
"the average American is far too busy ... working"
When you combine several things together you can end up with a pretty nasty problem.
here, it's:
1) an absolutely massive section of the population has been raised to believe that everything is the way it is because that's the way it has to be.
2) any attempt to change their minds is met with force, because "you're wrong. that's the way it's always been and that's the way it'll always be."
3) they work long hours, (because of the administration) they get paid very little (because of the administration and their own stubborn attitudes), they have no future outside of their job (again, their own fault), and they're very bitter and stressed (their own fault, a combination of all of the above).
4) they outvote the intelligent.
Really and truly it's one very large engineering challenge that nobody has bothered to even attempt so far.
There is, however, some slow progress. When it was discovered that our crime rate countrywide plummeted by 50% exactly one generation after Roe V. Wade, and that the two events were the most likely connection, it started a whole new train of thought, and I'm hoping that it will eventually end up with people realizing that trying to control the world only makes things worse.
Virtually everything wrong in the above problems can stem from the fact that people believe that they have the right to say what should be done about everything. There are some things democracy won't work with.
You could try explaining it to them that their plan is not superior to God's plan, and that would probably be the only way to get through to them.
" MS Clearflow To Help Drivers Avoid Traffic James"
No, it's spelled right.
the article was meant for me.
"Excessive WoW playing can lead to loss of relationships, friends, jobs, and so on..."
I've heard this too often. you can make the same argument for being too much of a neat freak, or taking an hobby to an extreme.
nobody calls you an addict if you are into sports. Calling wow an addiction is how some people justify their dislike for it.
Sounds like the perfect opportunity to apply Genetic Programming.
In time, the algorithms generated could adapt to your preferences, and your backup band would actually have some substance.
You're not a lawyer.
she has the means and the power to make that incredibly difficult for everyone involved.
It would be like a police officer trying to arrest another police officer. It would take a heck of a lot more than just one officer's statement to allow something like that to go through.
Non-human?
Wow, he got nerfed pretty bad.
I'm not afraid of them ruining the story.
After all...
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
"While the number of cases dropped, the amount of money lost to internet fraud reached an all-time high in 2007"
This is usually a sign that the persons involved are more organized and sophisticated.
After all, why scam millions and get $.02 from each one when you can scam a few, get a whole lot of money out of each, and take advantage of their unwillingness to admit they've been duped?
We're obviously talking about a group that is maximizing their profit returns on this, and we should be especially worried that those involved might be in key positions in governmental agencies.
Most slashdotters are the vampire type, and eating stake would be very bad for their health.
Do you seriously believe that any such laws would be upheld WITHOUT bush in charge?