Why are you posting on/. and engaging in higher thought processes and abstract conversation then? What has that to do with biological necessities?
I didn't say be concerned only with biological requirements. I said learn that that is all that you need. Anything else is nice, but not required.
Really? You don't care about the future? I'm glad you value your present so much as to not be concerned with the future. Strictly speaking as going by your first comment, survival machines worry about the future. Their biological necessity for survival as you put it is very much concerned with the future. Looks like you have a value conflict here eh?
If you are only concerned with biological survival, it is a lot easier not to be overly concerned with the future. Of course you still have to worry about having biological needs fulfilled. You still have to be concerned with the future, but many people are too concerned. Too many people stress about the future. The first point makes the second a lot easier to acheive.
Says who? Do you have any scientific evidence that states that the brain state is unhappy when buying products? Or are you just playing to the/. groupthink so you get modded up?
It's all my own experience. I never suggested it was anything other than that. I see how buying things makes me feel, and how those with fewer things are generally happier. It could be because they don't want more things, but it seems entirely consistent to me to say that when you have one thing you want more. Witness all the people who hold off buying computers until the next thing comes out. It shouldn't matter if a better one comes out: if the current one does the job it is worth the price.
I'm glad to see platitudes are being modded up on/. these days. All it shows are/.'s groupthink values more than any objective analysis of happiness.
I was just saying what works for me. I think that is the point of the comment system, no? Or can we not have anecdotes? Is this a scientific journal? I even put a disclaimer at the top.
Warning: Wishy-washy bullshit approaching. Proceed with caution.
Learn that you do not need anything except the biological neccessities for survival. Appreciate the present, but don't be considered with the future. Give up all attachments. Take only what you need to live.
The fact is, the more you have, the more you want. Do you ever see anyone without a TV lusting after a big screen plasma TV? Do you ever see someone without a computer lusting after the latest AMD processor? They spend time with those they care about, they read things, they think, they learn. Not only can you not buy happiness, buying actively makes you unhappy.
Dogs who experience electric shocks that they cannot avoid by their actions simply give up trying. They will passively endure later shocks that they could easily escape.
Ah, shit... they're on to me! This bird's gonna fly!
Saw a message of the day at the bottom of the slashdot page a few weeks ago: "Men don't know what happiness is until they are married, but by then it's too late". Good for wedding toasts...
I feel today's is equally (if not more) relevant:
"Beam me up, Scotty! It ate my phaser!"
Nothing quite like watching William Shatner be bullied by a giant noodly space monster. Weeping with full stops between the sobs, and the like.
Netscape 8 is based on Firefox, but lets users switch between both the Firefox and IE browser engines.
Keep this in mind. This is Netscape 8, possibly the ugliest browser out there. It uses Firefox's rendering engine (Gecko), but also has the ability to use IE's rendering engine if needed.
FTA:
Netscape 8 is based on Firefox, but lets users switch between both the Firefox and IE browser engines.
So now IE is still kind of the default browser -- when the site doesn't render properly, they will just switch the rendering engine to IE and go on like normal. It resolves nothing, as websites are not encouraged to fix their bugs.
Why not just have buttons to push if a beer is needed. The button could be on the coaster, or just on the bar, or at the tables, or whatever. That would probably be cheaper. That also solves the problem of having finished one beer, but not wanting another. Not to mention people walking out of the bar with the coaster, etc.
I have seen baboons open doors, open garbage cans, whack things with sticks, whack shellfish with rocks - and baboons are held to be less intelligent than other great apes.
I think you've been hanging around Tony Shalhoub, Robin Williams, and James Gandolfini just a little too often....
You know, if you were a subscriber, you could have seen it earlier, before you wasted those three minutes. I mean, think about it. Three minutes a day looking for an article that hasn't been posted. That's 21 minutes a week. Assuming you get paid ~$21/hr, that's ~$7/week (~$28/month!) you waste looking for stories that you could have if you were a subscriber. Now, say it costs $5/month for a Slashdot subscription. That's $23 savings each month! That's $276 savings each year! Become a subscriber today!
That is wht the Tech big wigs need to do. Google should buy one, yahoo, MS and Apple...
Yeah, that's a great idea! But since there's a fifth big record company, we'll need a fifth big technology company to buy another. Let's see... how about.. yeah! Sony! Since they're a technology company, they'll want to avoid nasty things like DRM and price fixing. I can see it now...
Could print drivers be devised to tamper with this? If the little dots are "invisible" to the human eye, I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a printer driver randomly throw these little dots all over the page? I guess it might have to change the color depending on what model of printer is being used. But it sounds like it could be done... or am I missing something?
The Godson-2 is pretty much a copy of the MIPS R10000 which makes it on par with 1995 technology.
Which is excellent for vintage music lovers like myself, because all the hardware I've used since 1996 and on has absolutely refused to play my Ace of Base MP3s.
Great Danes for example do not repoduce with say Boston Terriers.
I think you will find that with a little Viagra, duct tape, creative patting, and yes, even a little TLC, you can get most any dog to mate with any other dog.
This occurs when organisms are not separated physically, but "choose" not to breed with each other...
Does this mean that geeks are soon to speciate and then ultimate fail as the male/female ratio is horrendously out of wack?
It depends. When they use quotation marks on "choose", do they mean the species legitimately chooses not to mate? Or do they mean in the same way a geek "chooses" not to mate? (The same way we "choose" to get all sweaty, nervous and stuttering if a female operator happens to pick up the phone when we're calling tech support.)
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(Would now be a good time to introduce my Theory of Relative Lesbianism?)
In other news, I left my vacuum cleaner in the hallway and my brother stubbed his toe. He was going to be pissed, but decided not to be, so it was all good. He actually thought it was funny eventually. Just so you all know.
1. You have your own vacuum cleaner.
2. You talk of this fact very casually. Thus, it seems likely that each member of your family has their own vacuum cleaner.
3. You keep this vacuum cleaner somewhere other than your room.
4. Each member of your family likely keeps their vacuum cleaners outside of their rooms.
5. This would cause for centralization. e.g. Each member of the family has their own vacuum cleaner in what is refered to as The Vacuum Cleaner Closet.
6. You are old enough to have your own vacuum cleaner, or at least you were raised to do chores at a very young age.
7. Your brother decides on his emotional state.
8. Your brother thought that stubbing his toe was funny.
9. You post on Slashdot.
Ergo, your family is likely known as The Crazy Family. You and your brother are in your mid-40s and live with your parents, who are deceased and stuffed and left on the couch. Mother's penetrating stare still nags you to clean the house furiously. You clean yourself even more vigourously. After all, you need to be clean for when you kiss Mother goodnight. She so hates the dust and dirt foul boys bring with them. Your brother and you fight often, but usually you give it up "for mom's sake." You and your brother take turns moving Mother and Father's vacuum cleaners around in the vacuum cleaner closet so it seems like they are still alive. You and your brother do not work, but manage to pay the bills by selling a part of Father's skin every week.
One final interesting detail - they narrowed the field of view from 90 to 75 in Half Life 2, narrowing it even further to around 50 during the final cut-scene with Breen.
Anyone know why this would be? For artistic purposes? I don't play first person shooters, so I don't really understand why someone would want this...
Apple has experience with the iTunes Music Store. They know how to run digital distribution models. They would be good candidates for running a video download store.
Apple also has the H.264 codec. According to their site, "H.264 delivers stunning video quality at remarkably low data rates, so you see crisp, clear video in much smaller files."
But, H.264 needs a fast processor. Now, Apple has fast enough processors, but only in their high-end lines.
Apple moves to Intel. Intel has faster processors. Now every Mac can have a fast enough processor.
What else does Intel have? Intel has DRM built into the chip. But Intel doesn't control the whole computer. They don't want to offer things to Windows users off the bat where they have to know about their processor. (Many barely know it runs Windows.) They make the store for Macs only to start. Movie studios start to relax knowing their content is protected.
Plus, if the store gets cracked, only Mac users have access. The Mac is an ideal testing ground for these things.
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Why are you posting on /. and engaging in higher thought processes and abstract conversation then? What has that to do with biological necessities?
/. groupthink so you get modded up?
/. these days. All it shows are /.'s groupthink values more than any objective analysis of happiness.
I didn't say be concerned only with biological requirements. I said learn that that is all that you need. Anything else is nice, but not required.
Really? You don't care about the future? I'm glad you value your present so much as to not be concerned with the future. Strictly speaking as going by your first comment, survival machines worry about the future. Their biological necessity for survival as you put it is very much concerned with the future. Looks like you have a value conflict here eh?
If you are only concerned with biological survival, it is a lot easier not to be overly concerned with the future. Of course you still have to worry about having biological needs fulfilled. You still have to be concerned with the future, but many people are too concerned. Too many people stress about the future. The first point makes the second a lot easier to acheive.
Says who? Do you have any scientific evidence that states that the brain state is unhappy when buying products? Or are you just playing to the
It's all my own experience. I never suggested it was anything other than that. I see how buying things makes me feel, and how those with fewer things are generally happier. It could be because they don't want more things, but it seems entirely consistent to me to say that when you have one thing you want more. Witness all the people who hold off buying computers until the next thing comes out. It shouldn't matter if a better one comes out: if the current one does the job it is worth the price.
I'm glad to see platitudes are being modded up on
I was just saying what works for me. I think that is the point of the comment system, no? Or can we not have anecdotes? Is this a scientific journal? I even put a disclaimer at the top.
Warning: Wishy-washy bullshit approaching. Proceed with caution.
Learn that you do not need anything except the biological neccessities for survival. Appreciate the present, but don't be considered with the future. Give up all attachments. Take only what you need to live.
The fact is, the more you have, the more you want. Do you ever see anyone without a TV lusting after a big screen plasma TV? Do you ever see someone without a computer lusting after the latest AMD processor? They spend time with those they care about, they read things, they think, they learn. Not only can you not buy happiness, buying actively makes you unhappy.
Dogs who experience electric shocks that they cannot avoid by their actions simply give up trying. They will passively endure later shocks that they could easily escape.
Ah, shit... they're on to me! This bird's gonna fly!
SPLAT!
Saw a message of the day at the bottom of the slashdot page a few weeks ago: "Men don't know what happiness is until they are married, but by then it's too late". Good for wedding toasts...
I feel today's is equally (if not more) relevant:
"Beam me up, Scotty! It ate my phaser!"
Nothing quite like watching William Shatner be bullied by a giant noodly space monster. Weeping with full stops between the sobs, and the like.
Netscape 8 is based on Firefox, but lets users switch between both the Firefox and IE browser engines.
Keep this in mind. This is Netscape 8, possibly the ugliest browser out there. It uses Firefox's rendering engine (Gecko), but also has the ability to use IE's rendering engine if needed.
FTA:
Netscape 8 is based on Firefox, but lets users switch between both the Firefox and IE browser engines.
So now IE is still kind of the default browser -- when the site doesn't render properly, they will just switch the rendering engine to IE and go on like normal. It resolves nothing, as websites are not encouraged to fix their bugs.
Links:
Netscape Browser 8
Screenshot of Netscape Browser 8 -- The goggles! They do nothing!
Details on Netscape 8 UI Flaws
Why not just have buttons to push if a beer is needed. The button could be on the coaster, or just on the bar, or at the tables, or whatever. That would probably be cheaper. That also solves the problem of having finished one beer, but not wanting another. Not to mention people walking out of the bar with the coaster, etc.
I have seen baboons open doors, open garbage cans, whack things with sticks, whack shellfish with rocks - and baboons are held to be less intelligent than other great apes.
I think you've been hanging around Tony Shalhoub, Robin Williams, and James Gandolfini just a little too often....
You know, if you were a subscriber, you could have seen it earlier, before you wasted those three minutes. I mean, think about it. Three minutes a day looking for an article that hasn't been posted. That's 21 minutes a week. Assuming you get paid ~$21/hr, that's ~$7/week (~$28/month!) you waste looking for stories that you could have if you were a subscriber. Now, say it costs $5/month for a Slashdot subscription. That's $23 savings each month! That's $276 savings each year! Become a subscriber today!
That is wht the Tech big wigs need to do. Google should buy one, yahoo, MS and Apple...
Yeah, that's a great idea! But since there's a fifth big record company, we'll need a fifth big technology company to buy another. Let's see... how about.. yeah! Sony! Since they're a technology company, they'll want to avoid nasty things like DRM and price fixing. I can see it now...
It was for beer.
Could print drivers be devised to tamper with this? If the little dots are "invisible" to the human eye, I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a printer driver randomly throw these little dots all over the page? I guess it might have to change the color depending on what model of printer is being used. But it sounds like it could be done... or am I missing something?
Clicked the link. First story on their page:
Nokia to move off Symbian? Unlikely
Of course the article below that is the one we are looking for.
The Godson-2 is pretty much a copy of the MIPS R10000 which makes it on par with 1995 technology.
Which is excellent for vintage music lovers like myself, because all the hardware I've used since 1996 and on has absolutely refused to play my Ace of Base MP3s.
Great Danes for example do not repoduce with say Boston Terriers.
I think you will find that with a little Viagra, duct tape, creative patting, and yes, even a little TLC, you can get most any dog to mate with any other dog.
--
My home videos are all saran-wrapped.
It depends. When they use quotation marks on "choose", do they mean the species legitimately chooses not to mate? Or do they mean in the same way a geek "chooses" not to mate? (The same way we "choose" to get all sweaty, nervous and stuttering if a female operator happens to pick up the phone when we're calling tech support.)
--
(Would now be a good time to introduce my Theory of Relative Lesbianism?)
well-played, but I'm a college student and the house is currently a pig-sty. but, yeah, I like where you're going...
That's exactly what an obsessively cleanly Oedipussical skin-selling psychopath would say!
In other news, I left my vacuum cleaner in the hallway and my brother stubbed his toe. He was going to be pissed, but decided not to be, so it was all good. He actually thought it was funny eventually. Just so you all know.
1. You have your own vacuum cleaner.
2. You talk of this fact very casually. Thus, it seems likely that each member of your family has their own vacuum cleaner.
3. You keep this vacuum cleaner somewhere other than your room.
4. Each member of your family likely keeps their vacuum cleaners outside of their rooms.
5. This would cause for centralization. e.g. Each member of the family has their own vacuum cleaner in what is refered to as The Vacuum Cleaner Closet.
6. You are old enough to have your own vacuum cleaner, or at least you were raised to do chores at a very young age.
7. Your brother decides on his emotional state.
8. Your brother thought that stubbing his toe was funny.
9. You post on Slashdot.
Ergo, your family is likely known as The Crazy Family. You and your brother are in your mid-40s and live with your parents, who are deceased and stuffed and left on the couch. Mother's penetrating stare still nags you to clean the house furiously. You clean yourself even more vigourously. After all, you need to be clean for when you kiss Mother goodnight. She so hates the dust and dirt foul boys bring with them. Your brother and you fight often, but usually you give it up "for mom's sake." You and your brother take turns moving Mother and Father's vacuum cleaners around in the vacuum cleaner closet so it seems like they are still alive. You and your brother do not work, but manage to pay the bills by selling a part of Father's skin every week.
Is it just me or does anyone else find games fun because all you need is your thumbs?
So for some people who can enjoy them, WTF is the fun in stamping on pads or riding trains?
Ever heard of endorphins?
I doubt you would like to compete against a government that can simply take whatever money it needs from it's "customers".
An elected government does not "simply take whatever money it needs" from it's taxpayers. They ask for it every term.
Claim prior art. You know, by Beethoven/Mozart/Bach/whoever.
Prior art applies to patent law, not anti-competitive behaviour. Similarily, parody applies to copyright works, and not anti-competitive behaviour.
I justed tested in 10.4.1, and it seems TAB works like that. OPTION-TAB, however, does not do anything.
One final interesting detail - they narrowed the field of view from 90 to 75 in Half Life 2, narrowing it even further to around 50 during the final cut-scene with Breen.
Anyone know why this would be? For artistic purposes? I don't play first person shooters, so I don't really understand why someone would want this...
Take a break from typing for a while. Take the time off work if need be. (Could probably be sick days.)
but why make such a big deal over the first step?
Neil Armstrong: "This is one small step for man... Aw, now then why am I even opening mah big yap in the first place?"
Apple has experience with the iTunes Music Store. They know how to run digital distribution models. They would be good candidates for running a video download store.
Apple also has the H.264 codec. According to their site, "H.264 delivers stunning video quality at remarkably low data rates, so you see crisp, clear video in much smaller files."
But, H.264 needs a fast processor. Now, Apple has fast enough processors, but only in their high-end lines.
Apple moves to Intel. Intel has faster processors. Now every Mac can have a fast enough processor.
What else does Intel have? Intel has DRM built into the chip. But Intel doesn't control the whole computer. They don't want to offer things to Windows users off the bat where they have to know about their processor. (Many barely know it runs Windows.) They make the store for Macs only to start. Movie studios start to relax knowing their content is protected.
Plus, if the store gets cracked, only Mac users have access. The Mac is an ideal testing ground for these things.
Just some random thoughts.