Now if they were requiring that a person register with their ID number -- everyone in China has one -- that would be something. It surprises me, actually, that they're not doing that. I wonder why?
My first guess would be security reasons.
The VAST majority of people that live in China access the internet via huge internet cafes for ~5RMB/hr. Who the hell knows what keylogging software and other crap is on those machines?
How many times are we going to improperly use the phrase "begs the question?" Every time it happens, around 25% of whatever thread it was gets taken up by posts discussing its proper use. You think people on Slashdot would take this opportunity to learn something about proper usage.
It shows just how little of the forum discussions people submitting these stories read, either that or they're just doing it as a joke now.
Or, they could just be really fucking dumb.
It's almost as if the people submitting the stories care about nothing except seeing their name on Slashdot's front page every day. They spend so much time trolling for submittable news links on the internet that they can't be bothered to actually read the site itself, because if they DID, they wouldn't make this mistake roughly five hundred times a week.
Google usually just ends up leading me to Wikipedia.
That said, Google wins with me because Google offers me the opportunity of finding forums (such as this) that cover topics instead of just the related Wikipedia article. If I've got a problem or question, I value the process of getting to the solution or answer just as much as I value the solution or answer itself.
Also, if you're looking at this question purely from a "which is a better homepage" standpoint, Google wins hands down for versatility.
They need to take just one fucking hour out of their day every 2 years and vote.
You touched on another problem right there. I think a lot of the people who do vote only take "one fucking hour out of their day every 2 years" to vote instead of investing more time to research their options so that they can make an educated decision.
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Yes, I would like a DVD filled with news clips that are dated by the time they get to me. This might appeal to certain people without access to television yet have access to the internet, or people interested in having an archive of certain clips, but I don't see how this caters to the masses.
If everyone on the planet only worked 20 hours a week, and relied on technology and handouts for food and clothing, there would be no technology, no clothes and no food.
+5 Insightful? Maybe I'm missing something, but here's a counter-argument, because I don't see where he said we would all be relying on handouts.
If everyone on the planet only worked 20 hours a week, we would have a lot more technology research being performed, clothing being made, and resources being gathered worldwide.
Maybe you forgot how many people are on this planet. Maybe you forgot that most unemployment percentages, depending on the country, don't include part-time workers which may or may not even work 20 hours per week. Maybe you also think that your specific country and it's single digit unemployment rate are the indicator for how much of the rest of the worlds population is unemployed. Maybe you missed the continent of Africa on whatever unemployment chart you may have been looking at before you made that statement.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and take your meaning of "everyone" to be "every able bodied person." I would guess that if we dropped the 40 hour per week workers down to 20 per week, the population that was working under 20 hours per week or none at all would more than make up for that loss in the work force.
Am I missing something? Is it necessary for us to have people that don't 'work' in order for us to thrive as a race?
The worst engineering mistake I have ever seen was at Towson University:
The very high quality ceramic mayonaise and ketchup pump dispensors they use in the cafeteria have tubes that only extend halfway down into the tub. Once the mayo or ketchup level inside reaches the half-way point, you have to manually open up the device and use a spoon to get out your condiment of choice.
This easily trumps all the other so-called "engineering mistakes" in that list.
You can't think of any legitimate reason why someone would use the word "crack" in their search terms?
Stop being a nerd for ONE SECOND and remember that real life objects can "crack" and people like to know how to fix them, or that people might want to research drugs for a school project.
Yeah, I sure with they had at least some third-party support. While I'm not necessarily defending the quality of some of these games (I'm not necessarily a Spongebob fan), the point it that third-party support exists.
I think someone switched your S and T keys around on your keyboard as an April Fools joke and never told you.
You're all missing the point and jumping to conclusions. "Racist post! Quick, mod this down instantly without thinking!"
I saw the original downmodded post mentioned by the parent within the first couple minutes this story was up. Regardless of the posters intention, it had almost instantly been modded way down, and that was way before anyone put any thought into the implications brought up by his post.
Doing what the original poster suggested, and what the parent of this post did, raises an interesting question: Is there a correlation between higher illegal immigrant populations and the spread of these outbreaks?
The resulting data shows that often there are higher populations of illegal immigrants in the affected outbreak areas.
This in no way suggests that Mexicans or any other race are inferior in any way. However, it brings to light the idea that these illegal immigrants (we'll assume they're from Mexico for arguments sake) come from a country where immunizations against these diseases are not as commonplace and regulated as they are here. As a result, their presence in the affected areas could very likely be a contributing factor to the spread of these diseases.
Please don't mod posts without thinking first. Thanks, I owe ya one.
That demo of Cellhunter (whatever game that was) on the linked site showed a HUGE impact of your investment right on the screen. I'm going to guess you didn't view that video.:)
How much more are you looking for from video cards besides higher resolutions, textures, aa capabilities, and whatnot?
If you don't increase interactivity and such within these games and just keep improving the visuals, you will still have a dead, lifeless game world to play in no matter how good it looks.
Like I said before, when 3D accelerators first came out, people said the same things about them.
I'm going to assume you weren't around when 3D accelerators first came into existence and everyone was saying the same thing as what you just said.
Improved physics matter only to "hardcore techies?" I challenge you to explain Half-Life2's success without including the use of physics in your answer.
Physics is an emerging area in gaming and huge quantities of resources are being poured into its improvement. A card that not only offloads the physics calculations to a separate chip, but as a result gives us the capabilities for more and better in-game physics capabilities is absolutely a great idea. Puzzles can become more interesting, visuals can become more immersive due to improved particle physics just for starters, you'll have creative ways to destroy your enemies without shooting them directly, destructible environments... and the list keeps going..
It's only a matter of time until these take off. Some folks might have a tough time finding an empty slot for one of these on their motherboard (with all the QUINTUPLE-SLI configs people have now-adays), but they'll just upgrade to a bigger case and a board with more slots especially if developers keep stepping on-board.
Games probably won't REQUIRE one for quite some time, but I would expect these will be about as widespread as 5.1+ sound-cards in just a few years..
I also think there's another huge aspect involved which is the fact that before MySpace, nobody really had a reason to make their own webpage. Now, everyone's networked together so people know their pages will be seen instead of just floating out there on the internet.
Having a MySpace profile now in highschool/college/whatever is socially just as important as having an AIM account was and still is for communicating online to friends primarily in the 14-25 age range.
You're missing the point behind MySpace's explosive growth. Their audience is exactly the same kind of people with cellphones that have sequins on them and light up like a christmas tree while playing the latest 50 Cent song when someone calls them.
Allowing their users to make unrestricted and completely rediculous modifications to their homepage let's those users feel like they're expressing their individuality. Take away or restrict the freedom for those users to customize their page however they want and you're just going to be left with the same thing as every other personal dating/networking site out there.
The users also enjoy thinking they know something about web page design once they figure out how to customize their MySpace profile.
MySpace is a business, and clearly it's doing a great job making money just the way it is.
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How many times are we going to improperly use the phrase "begs the question?" Every time it happens, around 25% of whatever thread it was gets taken up by posts discussing its proper use. You think people on Slashdot would take this opportunity to learn something about proper usage.
It shows just how little of the forum discussions people submitting these stories read, either that or they're just doing it as a joke now.
Or, they could just be really fucking dumb.
It's almost as if the people submitting the stories care about nothing except seeing their name on Slashdot's front page every day. They spend so much time trolling for submittable news links on the internet that they can't be bothered to actually read the site itself, because if they DID, they wouldn't make this mistake roughly five hundred times a week.
Google usually just ends up leading me to Wikipedia.
That said, Google wins with me because Google offers me the opportunity of finding forums (such as this) that cover topics instead of just the related Wikipedia article. If I've got a problem or question, I value the process of getting to the solution or answer just as much as I value the solution or answer itself.
Also, if you're looking at this question purely from a "which is a better homepage" standpoint, Google wins hands down for versatility.
Quake 1 - Team Fortress (PC/Quakeworld)
Doom 1
Super Metroid (SNES)
Super Mario64 (N64)
Counter Strike: Source
I wonder if Nintendo feels that way.
Press releases don't let people try out hardware.
How many suicides have been reported so far?
Yes, I would like a DVD filled with news clips that are dated by the time they get to me. This might appeal to certain people without access to television yet have access to the internet, or people interested in having an archive of certain clips, but I don't see how this caters to the masses.
bravo. i haven't laughed that hard in about a month.
+5 Insightful? Maybe I'm missing something, but here's a counter-argument, because I don't see where he said we would all be relying on handouts.
If everyone on the planet only worked 20 hours a week, we would have a lot more technology research being performed, clothing being made, and resources being gathered worldwide.
Maybe you forgot how many people are on this planet. Maybe you forgot that most unemployment percentages, depending on the country, don't include part-time workers which may or may not even work 20 hours per week. Maybe you also think that your specific country and it's single digit unemployment rate are the indicator for how much of the rest of the worlds population is unemployed. Maybe you missed the continent of Africa on whatever unemployment chart you may have been looking at before you made that statement.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and take your meaning of "everyone" to be "every able bodied person." I would guess that if we dropped the 40 hour per week workers down to 20 per week, the population that was working under 20 hours per week or none at all would more than make up for that loss in the work force.
Am I missing something? Is it necessary for us to have people that don't 'work' in order for us to thrive as a race?
...but the prototype is 125lbs and uses materials I don't have access to.
I don't care about a device like this until I can get my hands on one or make one without having to break into a hospital to steal parts.
I did find the bit about the spy plane interesting though.
The worst engineering mistake I have ever seen was at Towson University:
The very high quality ceramic mayonaise and ketchup pump dispensors they use in the cafeteria have tubes that only extend halfway down into the tub. Once the mayo or ketchup level inside reaches the half-way point, you have to manually open up the device and use a spoon to get out your condiment of choice.
This easily trumps all the other so-called "engineering mistakes" in that list.
You can't think of any legitimate reason why someone would use the word "crack" in their search terms?
Stop being a nerd for ONE SECOND and remember that real life objects can "crack" and people like to know how to fix them, or that people might want to research drugs for a school project.
I have NO idea what these people were thinking. Mass murder of children is NOT entertainment. Sheesh.
...but the mass murdering of adults and your peers in video games is?
Who are you to determine what is or isn't entertainment for everyone else?
Yeah, I sure with they had at least some third-party support. While I'm not necessarily defending the quality of some of these games (I'm not necessarily a Spongebob fan), the point it that third-party support exists.
I think someone switched your S and T keys around on your keyboard as an April Fools joke and never told you.
..giant robotic toothpaste dispenser!
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
You're all missing the point and jumping to conclusions. "Racist post! Quick, mod this down instantly without thinking!"
I saw the original downmodded post mentioned by the parent within the first couple minutes this story was up. Regardless of the posters intention, it had almost instantly been modded way down, and that was way before anyone put any thought into the implications brought up by his post.
Doing what the original poster suggested, and what the parent of this post did, raises an interesting question: Is there a correlation between higher illegal immigrant populations and the spread of these outbreaks?
The resulting data shows that often there are higher populations of illegal immigrants in the affected outbreak areas.
This in no way suggests that Mexicans or any other race are inferior in any way. However, it brings to light the idea that these illegal immigrants (we'll assume they're from Mexico for arguments sake) come from a country where immunizations against these diseases are not as commonplace and regulated as they are here. As a result, their presence in the affected areas could very likely be a contributing factor to the spread of these diseases.
Please don't mod posts without thinking first. Thanks, I owe ya one.
That demo of Cellhunter (whatever game that was) on the linked site showed a HUGE impact of your investment right on the screen. I'm going to guess you didn't view that video. :)
How much more are you looking for from video cards besides higher resolutions, textures, aa capabilities, and whatnot?
If you don't increase interactivity and such within these games and just keep improving the visuals, you will still have a dead, lifeless game world to play in no matter how good it looks.
Like I said before, when 3D accelerators first came out, people said the same things about them.
Diseases?! Originating from college dorms?!?! This just can't be true!
I'm going to assume you weren't around when 3D accelerators first came into existence and everyone was saying the same thing as what you just said.
Improved physics matter only to "hardcore techies?" I challenge you to explain Half-Life2's success without including the use of physics in your answer.
Physics is an emerging area in gaming and huge quantities of resources are being poured into its improvement. A card that not only offloads the physics calculations to a separate chip, but as a result gives us the capabilities for more and better in-game physics capabilities is absolutely a great idea. Puzzles can become more interesting, visuals can become more immersive due to improved particle physics just for starters, you'll have creative ways to destroy your enemies without shooting them directly, destructible environments... and the list keeps going..
It's only a matter of time until these take off. Some folks might have a tough time finding an empty slot for one of these on their motherboard (with all the QUINTUPLE-SLI configs people have now-adays), but they'll just upgrade to a bigger case and a board with more slots especially if developers keep stepping on-board.
Games probably won't REQUIRE one for quite some time, but I would expect these will be about as widespread as 5.1+ sound-cards in just a few years..
See, I think there's partial truth in this.
I also think there's another huge aspect involved which is the fact that before MySpace, nobody really had a reason to make their own webpage. Now, everyone's networked together so people know their pages will be seen instead of just floating out there on the internet.
Having a MySpace profile now in highschool/college/whatever is socially just as important as having an AIM account was and still is for communicating online to friends primarily in the 14-25 age range.
You're missing the point behind MySpace's explosive growth. Their audience is exactly the same kind of people with cellphones that have sequins on them and light up like a christmas tree while playing the latest 50 Cent song when someone calls them.
Allowing their users to make unrestricted and completely rediculous modifications to their homepage let's those users feel like they're expressing their individuality. Take away or restrict the freedom for those users to customize their page however they want and you're just going to be left with the same thing as every other personal dating/networking site out there.
The users also enjoy thinking they know something about web page design once they figure out how to customize their MySpace profile.
MySpace is a business, and clearly it's doing a great job making money just the way it is.
New Battery Promises Longer Battery Life?
Isn't "zoning out" when playing a video game an indication that you're highly focussed/concentrating heavily on the video game in question?