So the only time to goto war is when you're defending yourself? Hmm...ok. What happened last time we accepted that viewpoint?
OMG...NOO! You called me a villainous, corrupt, and self-serving party!!! Oh no! So I guess we should just ask these leaders nicely to provide deprogramming to all their future soldiers? I'm sure they'll agree to that right?
I'm sorry, but you're an idiot with your head in the sand. To compare these great and wonderful villains with the US....yeah so we water borded a few people...great...what did those nations do? Gas entire populations and commit genocide? But let's ignore all the innocent they have killed when the USofA did something horrible right?
You're a joke man...get a life.
The world is not black and white. There is not right and wrong, it is all subjective to the situation and the real facts that no one can honestly truly know.
I think it is in bad taste to produce a game in which there is no historical reference to place a black and white line onto yet.
Imperialistic views started WWII and WWI. You may see a big ugly thug but the truth is we remember what nearly destroyed our nation in the past. Sitting idly by is not an option even if you are a super power. You may see a thug but honestly each small little war staves off another global war as dictators are allowed to amass power, ignore the UN, and rattle their sword anytime they want something.
I did not support the war even though a large part of me thought it was needed. You seam to have a lot of hate in you...while nations have poisoned the minds of their children to hate the US and the western world...we have done no better in our actions of recent. The real question is if we would have been forced to take such actions if you did not allow such a dictator into power in the first place...see you on the battlefield.
My proposal was made after all of one minute of thinking about the subject...it was hardly even considered a proposal...hence why I didn't even bother to log in. I mean you are taking this way to seriously...
Look, if I really wanted this model to work...let me devote five minutes of thinking about it instead of the 30 seconds from before...
damn only gave it three minutes. The current peer to peer network obviously would not work. There would not be a method to make it profitable for an online entity to publish works via the peer to peer network. You would need several things to get this to even work. First of all a way for CNN, ZDNET, or whoever to deny responsibility for the distrobution of the content in question....so they could not then be charged for the amount of bandwidth their content takes up. Secondly they would need a way to profit from distributing their content to the public.
And again, you jumped the gun...I know browsing on a peer to peer network is nothing like browsing search results on google or other search engines that use web bots to gather info. So...if peer to peer networks where to be used to avoid getting charged extra mula for distrobution...well let's goto the TFA...
Their idea was to limit the amount of bandwidth sites like google or cnn could broadcast to their users...to get past the limit they would have to pay mucho mula. If cnn published their works via a peer to peer network there would be NO WAY the ISP could then limit their traffic unless the ISP actually filtered everything based on the content of the packets instead of simply who was sending what...they would be forced to read the data...not just IPs. I don't think ISP want to do this...and even if they did you can introduce SSL or some other encryption.
Let's move onto searching...well let's think for another two seconds here. Assuming we could even come close the the quality of results a current web search engine produces...who would they then charge for that extra bandwidth? Again you come down to a very simple issue...peer to peer software could be open source...so let's say they block the ports...we could go on for hours about this but the point is if you could produce results that where even close to the quality of google...use encryption...maybe some way to randomize the ports being used...ISPs are not going to be able to charge someone like google...but then again google wouldn't exist in this model unless we came up with another protocol that could be used in peer to peer network trafic for major search engines...look we can play god here and say the networks of the future will be run off of candy canes and lolly pops...that's not the point...the point is we can work our way around what the ISPs are suggesting if we wanted to.
And how would they get paid...who the freaken heck knows...and at this point i don't really care...lol.
Look man my point is don't simply act like how you are...the biggest thing I've hated about my field where the smug types that honestly thought they knew everything in the world and everyone else was brainless...not that I'm calling you that...but don't simply discredit someone else's random comments for being made of fairy dust. The point in this field isn't what can't work...it's what you could make work if you wanted it to. Peace man.
I mean Jesus fucking Christ do I have to spell it out for you? Ok...
I have content I wish to publish...Mr ISP wants to limit my bandwidth... to get this content out to the public faster I will have to pay Mr ISP more mula. So instead I dump my content on a peer to peer network...where there is no way to track who is directly responsible for the content being distributed...where there is no way to have special limitations on my content...my content will be available on countless systems over the network...thus how much bandwidth I do or don't have is pointless...
go ahead...now tell me I want to have the internet without the IP protocol....
I want to thank my cable modem for this breif moment of fame...all my friends and family that thought I had no life by living online...and of course my cat...
It's funny you should mention this. Some believe that the Roman's brutality is in someway related to the lead used in their cooking pots. Interesting concept to say the least.
Ok did you consider the simple fact that the majority of women are technically inept? I work in a call center for a cable company. About 70% of the calls are women calling in. Female calls usualy go smoothly because they call up asking for me to help them with their cable box that is now fried...because almost half of the cable boxes we ship out are crap anyway. Women want you to tell them what to do and when to do it when it comes to repair problems...because all their life they have been told they don't know what they are doing and they simply don't try to figure it out because...well they where told they don't know what they are doing. Guy calls go a lot differently. A guy calls up only when he is fairly sure what the problem is already...even if the guy is talking rubbish lingo that he picked up from some tech somewhere...he is still so sure of himself that he is right. When you tell the guy to do something...he does something else because he's a guy and he must know what is wrong.
While our minds maybe made differently there is simply no reason why a women can not do this job just as easily. Regardless if it's because the women doesn't "want" to do it or not...those ideas where put in her head by our society.
As far as the geeks asking girls out because they think a girl is interested when she isn't. What planet are you on? You can tell when people like you and when they don't...it is an inate human ability. IF a guy asks, it's the girls job to define the relationship in what she is comfortable with. If a girl asks...the guy will probably just use her for sex regardless of how he feels about her:-) So, in my personal opinoin...it's better this way. If a girl gets hit on by guys she actually acts like she likes and she keeps having to say no...she might want to reconsider the possibility that she is the one that is to socialy inept to give guys the right cues....because it's their job just as much as it's the guy's job to pick up on those cues.
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I said when there is no "need" to. I was very aware of male animals killing the young of other males before they produce their own offspring. I'm no biologist but I don't recall watching to many nature shows talking about a male killing its own ofspring when there is no reason for it.
I work for Charter Communications in St. Louis, MO. How is this any different than VOD (video on demand) provided by Charter...made possible by vod technology and two way addressable systems?
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You can order any movie/tv series on our servers. Sounds like Tivo is just trying to provide the same types of services cable companies can already offer people.
You know it would be nice if the people that reported about these types of stories where as smart as you...
how does mapping blood flow responces from external environmental events translate into reading a person's mind and what they are thinking given the events they are watching/hearing/smelling/etc?
Can I pick your brain and ask you what you think would be the technical requirements to do such a thing? You mentioned two methods, blood flow and electrical activity...would it be neccessary to map both and comparing those against previous known thoughts..hey prison inmates would be good canidents for coming up with a database of known thought proccesses for comparison basis....
is there anything we can do to stop this from going on? Does anyone know of any political groups that are actively seeking to end software patents and genome patents? Where do I sign up?...I could sit here and say how stupid software patents are over and over again but it isn't going to do much good in the long run. What can I do besides being one small voice to my reps in congress to help change the patent system? Links, phone numbers, e-mail lists...anything you guys got I want to know about....and hell Slashdot should provide a link to such political groups on both sides of such issues when they are brought up in articles.
Local to St. louis here. There has been an ad on the radio about an AIDS vaccine being tested here. I was wondering if anyone else knew anything about it. The ad is for volenteers to go in to be a part of the study...you can't get AIDS from it and yadda yadda crap. Why exactly do we have fifty billion research companies all looking for the same answer and none of them are working together on it?
Ok first of all I've worked at Wally World for 3 years and the biggest thing I must say about your comment is this part...
The other thing you need to appreciate about Wal-Mart is they have probably the most sophisticated and efficient computerized supply chain on the planet. They have giant computers in Arkansas that track every transaction in every store and make sure the right goods arrive at the right place at the right time.
You have no freaken clue...not one about what really goes on in a real Wally world store. That "most sophisticated and efficient computerized supply chain on the planet" does nothing more but cram as much freight as humanly possible in the smallest areas as possible...in the entire year most stores that are busy barely ever reach their bins. They are so busy shoveling freight from the truck...to the pallets..and straight to the floor while the majority of it stays stuck on a shelf somewhere never even touched. They use dumb terminals from like the early 90's for christ sakes. There is nothing SMART about a system that orders something when the database tells it to. There is nothing SMART about a system that isn't maintained because the employee's are to busy helping the gagillion customers and stocking the new freight.
And you know what they will be doing next that they are doing a trial run in Florida? Every truck will be palletized...in about a year. That means my job along with an average of 5-20 people in every store accross the nation will now require only about 1-3 people.
That check yourself out register you where talking about...one person does the task of what used to take 4. Those are there to help the customers get used to the next big thing RFID tags where bar codes are a distant memmory. You wont even have to remove the products from the cart if you don't want to. The largest employer in the nation is replacing its workers using technology as the usual way things go.
I'm also a computer science major and I've run into several managers at Wally World that used to work in the field during the '90s. Wal-Mart might be a great thing and something to look at as a symbol of how America allows you to creat something from nothing...but I can asure you any Wal-Mart employee that you ask that has been working for the company longer than 7 years will tell you that the company has changed drastically since good ol Sam has died.
Wal-Mart, Microsoft, IBM, and blah blah blah are stabbing the middle class in the back. Have you looked at CEO's incomes in relation to their employee's vs from the 70's to 80's? I read one figure that put them about 500% higher. The greed in todays corps and stock holders looking for higher profits...that has corrupted our goverment is getting way out of hand.
I am not talking about some revolution or something...but Unions are dying...large companies are taking over...middle income workers are being replaced by outsourcing so they can go work at Wal-Mart as a manager where they don't use an ounce of the skills they learned. Inovation no longer can happen in a country where white color jobs that created that inovation is shipped overseas.
Some economists see it as the World market just balancing things out...like it's unstoppable....and the funny one is they even view it as natural. I don't have the answer to the problem but I can asure you it is a problem and the company you have chosen to trump up as been deformed since its early days into part of the problem. Technology removing unnecessary jobs from the work force is one thing...but using technology to remove unnecessary skills and people from jobs that are still needed to be filled is another. If these are no longer American companies, than we need to consider who we as consumers do business with....because the rich getting richer off of this will only be laughing as they get to buy another trip that is now only a dream to the middle class.
To many this will only be a problem when their job is threatoned. America's streng
Normally taking advantage of "advanced features offered by the programming language" usual means you're writting less code not more....otherwise why would it be considered advanced? Unless you're talking about things you should do all the time like clean up your memmory space when your done with it or something...but come on man avoiding that is a no no.
and I look forward to the day that I can command my nanobots to carry my shit to the tolite for me without ever getting up off my fat ass...because without a war...such things are likely to be used for equally as stupid things in our day to day life.
Just wait, the second we start modifying the human body for the sake of becoming better than who or what we are....will be the second every church goer on the face of the planet writes his/her congressman stopping you and I from prolonging our life beyond what "god" has intended. But don't think for a second that will stop us geeks...we'll just do it in our basements anyway:-)
Look I'm sorry but this is just how absurd things have gotten around here. We are tagging and tracking sex offenders for life but not people that have killed? This ranks right up there with spammers getting jail time.
The entire point of our system isn't to mark someone for the rest of their life. The idea is we change them while going through prison to be more constructive members of society...I guess we gave up on that a long time ago though.
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So the only time to goto war is when you're defending yourself? Hmm...ok. What happened last time we accepted that viewpoint? OMG...NOO! You called me a villainous, corrupt, and self-serving party!!! Oh no! So I guess we should just ask these leaders nicely to provide deprogramming to all their future soldiers? I'm sure they'll agree to that right? I'm sorry, but you're an idiot with your head in the sand. To compare these great and wonderful villains with the US....yeah so we water borded a few people...great...what did those nations do? Gas entire populations and commit genocide? But let's ignore all the innocent they have killed when the USofA did something horrible right? You're a joke man...get a life.
The world is not black and white. There is not right and wrong, it is all subjective to the situation and the real facts that no one can honestly truly know.
I think it is in bad taste to produce a game in which there is no historical reference to place a black and white line onto yet.
Imperialistic views started WWII and WWI. You may see a big ugly thug but the truth is we remember what nearly destroyed our nation in the past. Sitting idly by is not an option even if you are a super power. You may see a thug but honestly each small little war staves off another global war as dictators are allowed to amass power, ignore the UN, and rattle their sword anytime they want something.
I did not support the war even though a large part of me thought it was needed. You seam to have a lot of hate in you...while nations have poisoned the minds of their children to hate the US and the western world...we have done no better in our actions of recent. The real question is if we would have been forced to take such actions if you did not allow such a dictator into power in the first place...see you on the battlefield.
My proposal was made after all of one minute of thinking about the subject...it was hardly even considered a proposal...hence why I didn't even bother to log in. I mean you are taking this way to seriously... Look, if I really wanted this model to work...let me devote five minutes of thinking about it instead of the 30 seconds from before... damn only gave it three minutes. The current peer to peer network obviously would not work. There would not be a method to make it profitable for an online entity to publish works via the peer to peer network. You would need several things to get this to even work. First of all a way for CNN, ZDNET, or whoever to deny responsibility for the distrobution of the content in question....so they could not then be charged for the amount of bandwidth their content takes up. Secondly they would need a way to profit from distributing their content to the public. And again, you jumped the gun...I know browsing on a peer to peer network is nothing like browsing search results on google or other search engines that use web bots to gather info. So...if peer to peer networks where to be used to avoid getting charged extra mula for distrobution...well let's goto the TFA... Their idea was to limit the amount of bandwidth sites like google or cnn could broadcast to their users...to get past the limit they would have to pay mucho mula. If cnn published their works via a peer to peer network there would be NO WAY the ISP could then limit their traffic unless the ISP actually filtered everything based on the content of the packets instead of simply who was sending what...they would be forced to read the data...not just IPs. I don't think ISP want to do this...and even if they did you can introduce SSL or some other encryption. Let's move onto searching...well let's think for another two seconds here. Assuming we could even come close the the quality of results a current web search engine produces...who would they then charge for that extra bandwidth? Again you come down to a very simple issue...peer to peer software could be open source...so let's say they block the ports...we could go on for hours about this but the point is if you could produce results that where even close to the quality of google...use encryption...maybe some way to randomize the ports being used...ISPs are not going to be able to charge someone like google...but then again google wouldn't exist in this model unless we came up with another protocol that could be used in peer to peer network trafic for major search engines...look we can play god here and say the networks of the future will be run off of candy canes and lolly pops...that's not the point...the point is we can work our way around what the ISPs are suggesting if we wanted to. And how would they get paid...who the freaken heck knows...and at this point i don't really care...lol. Look man my point is don't simply act like how you are...the biggest thing I've hated about my field where the smug types that honestly thought they knew everything in the world and everyone else was brainless...not that I'm calling you that...but don't simply discredit someone else's random comments for being made of fairy dust. The point in this field isn't what can't work...it's what you could make work if you wanted it to. Peace man.
I mean Jesus fucking Christ do I have to spell it out for you? Ok... I have content I wish to publish...Mr ISP wants to limit my bandwidth... to get this content out to the public faster I will have to pay Mr ISP more mula. So instead I dump my content on a peer to peer network...where there is no way to track who is directly responsible for the content being distributed...where there is no way to have special limitations on my content...my content will be available on countless systems over the network...thus how much bandwidth I do or don't have is pointless... go ahead...now tell me I want to have the internet without the IP protocol....
I want to thank my cable modem for this breif moment of fame...all my friends and family that thought I had no life by living online...and of course my cat...
It's funny you should mention this. Some believe that the Roman's brutality is in someway related to the lead used in their cooking pots. Interesting concept to say the least.
They can have our call center jobs!I work in a call center and it's the worst job I ever had!
Ok did you consider the simple fact that the majority of women are technically inept? I work in a call center for a cable company. About 70% of the calls are women calling in. Female calls usualy go smoothly because they call up asking for me to help them with their cable box that is now fried...because almost half of the cable boxes we ship out are crap anyway. Women want you to tell them what to do and when to do it when it comes to repair problems...because all their life they have been told they don't know what they are doing and they simply don't try to figure it out because...well they where told they don't know what they are doing. Guy calls go a lot differently. A guy calls up only when he is fairly sure what the problem is already...even if the guy is talking rubbish lingo that he picked up from some tech somewhere...he is still so sure of himself that he is right. When you tell the guy to do something...he does something else because he's a guy and he must know what is wrong. While our minds maybe made differently there is simply no reason why a women can not do this job just as easily. Regardless if it's because the women doesn't "want" to do it or not...those ideas where put in her head by our society. As far as the geeks asking girls out because they think a girl is interested when she isn't. What planet are you on? You can tell when people like you and when they don't...it is an inate human ability. IF a guy asks, it's the girls job to define the relationship in what she is comfortable with. If a girl asks...the guy will probably just use her for sex regardless of how he feels about her :-) So, in my personal opinoin...it's better this way. If a girl gets hit on by guys she actually acts like she likes and she keeps having to say no...she might want to reconsider the possibility that she is the one that is to socialy inept to give guys the right cues....because it's their job just as much as it's the guy's job to pick up on those cues.
my $.02
I said when there is no "need" to. I was very aware of male animals killing the young of other males before they produce their own offspring. I'm no biologist but I don't recall watching to many nature shows talking about a male killing its own ofspring when there is no reason for it.
I work for Charter Communications in St. Louis, MO. How is this any different than VOD (video on demand) provided by Charter...made possible by vod technology and two way addressable systems? Charter on Demand You can order any movie/tv series on our servers. Sounds like Tivo is just trying to provide the same types of services cable companies can already offer people.
You know it would be nice if the people that reported about these types of stories where as smart as you... how does mapping blood flow responces from external environmental events translate into reading a person's mind and what they are thinking given the events they are watching/hearing/smelling/etc? Can I pick your brain and ask you what you think would be the technical requirements to do such a thing? You mentioned two methods, blood flow and electrical activity...would it be neccessary to map both and comparing those against previous known thoughts..hey prison inmates would be good canidents for coming up with a database of known thought proccesses for comparison basis....
is there anything we can do to stop this from going on? Does anyone know of any political groups that are actively seeking to end software patents and genome patents? Where do I sign up?...I could sit here and say how stupid software patents are over and over again but it isn't going to do much good in the long run. What can I do besides being one small voice to my reps in congress to help change the patent system? Links, phone numbers, e-mail lists...anything you guys got I want to know about....and hell Slashdot should provide a link to such political groups on both sides of such issues when they are brought up in articles.
Local to St. louis here. There has been an ad on the radio about an AIDS vaccine being tested here. I was wondering if anyone else knew anything about it. The ad is for volenteers to go in to be a part of the study...you can't get AIDS from it and yadda yadda crap. Why exactly do we have fifty billion research companies all looking for the same answer and none of them are working together on it?
Ok first of all I've worked at Wally World for 3 years and the biggest thing I must say about your comment is this part...
The other thing you need to appreciate about Wal-Mart is they have probably the most sophisticated and efficient computerized supply chain on the planet. They have giant computers in Arkansas that track every transaction in every store and make sure the right goods arrive at the right place at the right time.
You have no freaken clue...not one about what really goes on in a real Wally world store. That "most sophisticated and efficient computerized supply chain on the planet" does nothing more but cram as much freight as humanly possible in the smallest areas as possible...in the entire year most stores that are busy barely ever reach their bins. They are so busy shoveling freight from the truck...to the pallets..and straight to the floor while the majority of it stays stuck on a shelf somewhere never even touched. They use dumb terminals from like the early 90's for christ sakes. There is nothing SMART about a system that orders something when the database tells it to. There is nothing SMART about a system that isn't maintained because the employee's are to busy helping the gagillion customers and stocking the new freight.
And you know what they will be doing next that they are doing a trial run in Florida? Every truck will be palletized...in about a year. That means my job along with an average of 5-20 people in every store accross the nation will now require only about 1-3 people.
That check yourself out register you where talking about...one person does the task of what used to take 4. Those are there to help the customers get used to the next big thing RFID tags where bar codes are a distant memmory. You wont even have to remove the products from the cart if you don't want to. The largest employer in the nation is replacing its workers using technology as the usual way things go.
I'm also a computer science major and I've run into several managers at Wally World that used to work in the field during the '90s. Wal-Mart might be a great thing and something to look at as a symbol of how America allows you to creat something from nothing...but I can asure you any Wal-Mart employee that you ask that has been working for the company longer than 7 years will tell you that the company has changed drastically since good ol Sam has died.
Wal-Mart, Microsoft, IBM, and blah blah blah are stabbing the middle class in the back. Have you looked at CEO's incomes in relation to their employee's vs from the 70's to 80's? I read one figure that put them about 500% higher. The greed in todays corps and stock holders looking for higher profits...that has corrupted our goverment is getting way out of hand.
I am not talking about some revolution or something...but Unions are dying...large companies are taking over...middle income workers are being replaced by outsourcing so they can go work at Wal-Mart as a manager where they don't use an ounce of the skills they learned. Inovation no longer can happen in a country where white color jobs that created that inovation is shipped overseas.
Some economists see it as the World market just balancing things out...like it's unstoppable....and the funny one is they even view it as natural. I don't have the answer to the problem but I can asure you it is a problem and the company you have chosen to trump up as been deformed since its early days into part of the problem. Technology removing unnecessary jobs from the work force is one thing...but using technology to remove unnecessary skills and people from jobs that are still needed to be filled is another. If these are no longer American companies, than we need to consider who we as consumers do business with....because the rich getting richer off of this will only be laughing as they get to buy another trip that is now only a dream to the middle class.
To many this will only be a problem when their job is threatoned. America's streng
Normally taking advantage of "advanced features offered by the programming language" usual means you're writting less code not more....otherwise why would it be considered advanced? Unless you're talking about things you should do all the time like clean up your memmory space when your done with it or something...but come on man avoiding that is a no no.
and I look forward to the day that I can command my nanobots to carry my shit to the tolite for me without ever getting up off my fat ass...because without a war...such things are likely to be used for equally as stupid things in our day to day life. Just wait, the second we start modifying the human body for the sake of becoming better than who or what we are....will be the second every church goer on the face of the planet writes his/her congressman stopping you and I from prolonging our life beyond what "god" has intended. But don't think for a second that will stop us geeks...we'll just do it in our basements anyway :-)
Look I'm sorry but this is just how absurd things have gotten around here. We are tagging and tracking sex offenders for life but not people that have killed? This ranks right up there with spammers getting jail time. The entire point of our system isn't to mark someone for the rest of their life. The idea is we change them while going through prison to be more constructive members of society...I guess we gave up on that a long time ago though.