(the majority of pot users people are non-famous random joes, and it seems to have a very small, temporary impact on their ability to judge the world in a reasonable matter).
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(the majority of people are non-famous random joes, and have a very small, ability to judge the world in a reasonable matter).
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That's a terrible attitude. You claim to be a geek but can't see anything other than a direct simple application? Please turn in your geek card, geeks need ot be better thinkers than that.
*Sigh* Come one. I am no geek then, I will renounce that, but Im not that dumb either. Your example was pretty cool but you did not cite any sources at all. Alas I will let it go because you tried.
You basically are saying you have FAITH that something big will come of this which is why it is important. Wow, in science, a proof-based arena, you are coming at me with "maybe", "who knows", "what if", and asking me to turn in my geek card? And you point to your "extrapolation" of going from centimeters to...whoa "KILOMETERS!!" as being a "better thinker"? Besides the fact that in denouncing my geekdom you did not present an idea related to this that point to you being a "better thinker", you base it off of nothing.
In all seriousness I just dont think it is news at this point i mean come on its sort of laughable. I agree that when this advancements leads to, or clearly points to, a real advancement we should go tell it on the mountains of Slashdotopolis. But at this point? No.
To use the example you used against me, imagine:
SLASHDOT NEWS FLASH:Scientist's figure out why shower curtains billow inwards!
Ahhh, hold the presses, this could be big.
*takes Geek card back and adds a star*
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Wait are we serious...
I may be misunderstood. I dont mean a simpler process of producing crap-carrying-algae my friend. I mean a simpler process of moving crap a few meters. For example if you can even find anything that small worth moving a FEW CENTIMETERS, why not use oh i dunno...
degradable capsules (like medicine pills), injection, air propellant, liquid propellant, heck even a soft nudge.
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the part i dont find simple is attaching the cargo to these carriers and tracking it. Much less what the hell would be useful enough to put on algae, and then furthermore, something that small that needs to be carried a FEW CENTIMETERS?!
i dont see...
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Please tell a geek deeply rooted in electrical and software systems, why this is helpful and why it couldnt be replaced with a simpler solution...
Albeit I viciously hate the "X"casting buzzword wave that is threatening to hit at any second...
at least this one sort of makes sense. I mean assuming "X"casting is birthed from the idea of broadcasting, which if is not the case please kill me now, then yes you are broadcasting via the Bluetooth TM protocol to cell phones.
BUT...someone slap the marketing flunky who came up with "podcasting" because the content is actually pulled by clients (like RSS). I know I know it seems nitpicky but i hate it when technical words lose meaning and actually mis-describe things. It merely sets us back further as a whole on the road to technical progression/innovation.
//i could have been wrong on this ENTIRE post because I hate the buzzword "podcasting" so much i would not bother to lookup its innerworkings. but my innergeek tells me im right and my karma is positive.
Who cares who is in the driver's seat...
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I mean when it comes down to it people may not be in total control, aka "the driver's seat" when this far-off car revolution happens, but they will be in the car, and that is all that matters. In general people use cars to get places so whether they are driving or not they really just want to get to their destination.
Of course non-destination based travel idiosyncracies(sp?) arise because it is taken for granted that someone has to drive the car. Hence you have "cruising the strip", "joy-riding", "drive-in movies", and other random and BASICALLY useless things.
The main point im trying to make here is that there is no BIG, SCARY revelation in... "OMG WHO IS DRIVING THE CAR?!?!!! W3 4R3 S0 PWN3D!!!"...who cares, we will always get where we need to be and if worse comes to worse i bet they will even let us sit in the front seats so we can feel like we are still driving.
the first utterance of your post illustrates the point i am stressing here: "well my Mac OS X does..."
FORGET that whole idea of thinking and hoping that each tech-geeks favorite OS does things this way or that way and negotiate with 3rd parties to make things harmonious. Just let entities code in something that they know will work for all the browsers they care about (the majority) and be happy.
Your point about M$ not being able or willing to negotiate with Macromedia to have plug-ins pre-installed is also the whole point. Who cares if two companies cant agree on some deal so that millions of dollars transfers between hands that arent my own? I dont and neither do most users, they just want their shit to work. So basically, yes the Utopia of having harmony between corporations isnt here (and it never will be) so given that, deal with it, and the solution to dealing with it is....TADA, AJAX!
Here it is, and while it is the ONLY difference it is a HUGE difference and one that is big enough to make vendors know to switch to AJAX.
AJAX will work with nearly any major browser off the shelf. poof. No downloading plug-ins once or twice based on how many browsers you are using, no nothing. Just come to the site and begin using the application.
With FLASH, you must download a plug-in. That may not sound like a lot but it is huge. It is at least one barrier for customers (who are by and large tech-retarded) to overcome just to use a vendor's service. And if there are multiple browsers there will be multiple plug-in downloads and there are times when the plug-ins wont work.
So bottom line is, by taking out the need for customers to visit a 3rd party, the User experience is exponentially increased and brand brainwashing commences immediately and without any hiccups. Believe me, no one wants to ever expose 3rd party tools when they are trying to sell something.
that this only affects win2000 so that the only people heavily affected as a group are big corporations (like CNN ironically) that have too hard of a time migrating to new OS's so they are always a step or two behind the normal consumer (of Windows at least).
So now there is this mad dash by the news corporations because they are probably feeling it worse than the people they are reporting to.
I mean sheesh I just saw Anderson Cooper and he was gripping the table white-nuckled and looking way frazzled.
I still do not get what "new programming style" is being metioned here. Are we talking new like the emergence of Object Oriented Programming? or simply new in terms of what technology is being used (.NET, java, Ruby, Jscript/AJAX)?
NOTE: If its the latter this whole topic is useless.
What "Halo 2 fiasco" are you talking about? Halo 2 pushed mainstream console gamers into the realm of subscription based gaming like no other game before. The revenue from that base alone is absolutely ridiculous and if the subscriptions can carry over they will shatter everyone. No other console player in the game right now has CLOSE to the amount of paying subscribers that MS has. That is the key, continued revenue without the necessary production of more titles. So how is MS losing a chunk of their install base? If you have Halo 2 and subscribed to play online, why are you all of a sudden cancelling your subscription and going over to the not-yet-existing PS3 online network?
I would give your response more validity normally, but in reality the stats you used are of a more linear nature, while the overreaction/backlash to terrorist activities at this point in the 1st world is more impulse-like in nature.
My comments of this being a likely problem are in complete context of our current state-of-the-world view on terrorism.
So yes "if you let the terrorist engender unreasonable fears, then they have already won" but... if you are bold enough to ignore plain-sight common sense then you are dead.
I think "better safe than sorry" trumps the other annoying cliche.
Or maybe it's just me. I feel like a game like this catching on around the tech world is really a bad idea. In the wake of terrorist bombings on mass transit and cellphone detonation scares, its kind of like playing soccer in a field of landmines....
"And?" is the correct question to ask here. Lets be serious, is this really surprising?
No one should be shocked that you can find this information about a person online, you've probably been aware (and sometimes guilty) of doing it for years, especially as a tech crowd.
the problem and outrage still should only lie in the fact that you KNOW the person you are looking at is a CIA agent. Think about it. The breach of security is in the connection of this person being CIA, not in you being able to find a random person's house. The fact remains that if Karl Rove would never have leaked her identity to the media, this would not be posted on/. right now, because it isnt news.
far star When did it become ok to start calling people nerds ? Seriously, is it ok to call a hip-hop dance show "N*ggers that dance" ? Before you say "Well that's different because that's a racial epiteth then how about a home remodeling show "Fags have fun with your living room" ?
Ahh come on! both terms: N*gger and F*ggot are so much more loaded to the point that people labeled with these words were murdered for it. Have you ever witnessed a mob killing or fatal attack on some glasses wearing kid, whilst people are yelling "Die Nerd!"?
These terms aren't even close to comparable, but I appreciate your attempt at logic. You sound like someone who picked up the workings of HTML last year and now like to comment about "how code works".
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(the majority of people are non-famous random joes, and have a very small, ability to judge the world in a reasonable matter).
but it is a gateway to pr0n
*Sigh* Come one. I am no geek then, I will renounce that, but Im not that dumb either. Your example was pretty cool but you did not cite any sources at all. Alas I will let it go because you tried.
You basically are saying you have FAITH that something big will come of this which is why it is important. Wow, in science, a proof-based arena, you are coming at me with "maybe", "who knows", "what if", and asking me to turn in my geek card? And you point to your "extrapolation" of going from centimeters to...whoa "KILOMETERS!!" as being a "better thinker"? Besides the fact that in denouncing my geekdom you did not present an idea related to this that point to you being a "better thinker", you base it off of nothing.
In all seriousness I just dont think it is news at this point i mean come on its sort of laughable. I agree that when this advancements leads to, or clearly points to, a real advancement we should go tell it on the mountains of Slashdotopolis. But at this point? No.
To use the example you used against me, imagine:
SLASHDOT NEWS FLASH:Scientist's figure out why shower curtains billow inwards!
Ahhh, hold the presses, this could be big.
*takes Geek card back and adds a star*
I may be misunderstood. I dont mean a simpler process of producing crap-carrying-algae my friend. I mean a simpler process of moving crap a few meters. For example if you can even find anything that small worth moving a FEW CENTIMETERS, why not use oh i dunno...
degradable capsules (like medicine pills), injection, air propellant, liquid propellant, heck even a soft nudge.
the part i dont find simple is attaching the cargo to these carriers and tracking it. Much less what the hell would be useful enough to put on algae, and then furthermore, something that small that needs to be carried a FEW CENTIMETERS?! i dont see...
Please tell a geek deeply rooted in electrical and software systems, why this is helpful and why it couldnt be replaced with a simpler solution...
at least this one sort of makes sense. I mean assuming "X"casting is birthed from the idea of broadcasting, which if is not the case please kill me now, then yes you are broadcasting via the Bluetooth TM protocol to cell phones.
BUT...someone slap the marketing flunky who came up with "podcasting" because the content is actually pulled by clients (like RSS). I know I know it seems nitpicky but i hate it when technical words lose meaning and actually mis-describe things. It merely sets us back further as a whole on the road to technical progression/innovation.
Of course non-destination based travel idiosyncracies(sp?) arise because it is taken for granted that someone has to drive the car. Hence you have "cruising the strip", "joy-riding", "drive-in movies", and other random and BASICALLY useless things.
The main point im trying to make here is that there is no BIG, SCARY revelation in... "OMG WHO IS DRIVING THE CAR?!?!!! W3 4R3 S0 PWN3D!!!"...who cares, we will always get where we need to be and if worse comes to worse i bet they will even let us sit in the front seats so we can feel like we are still driving.
FORGET that whole idea of thinking and hoping that each tech-geeks favorite OS does things this way or that way and negotiate with 3rd parties to make things harmonious. Just let entities code in something that they know will work for all the browsers they care about (the majority) and be happy.
Your point about M$ not being able or willing to negotiate with Macromedia to have plug-ins pre-installed is also the whole point. Who cares if two companies cant agree on some deal so that millions of dollars transfers between hands that arent my own? I dont and neither do most users, they just want their shit to work. So basically, yes the Utopia of having harmony between corporations isnt here (and it never will be) so given that, deal with it, and the solution to dealing with it is....TADA, AJAX!
AJAX will work with nearly any major browser off the shelf. poof. No downloading plug-ins once or twice based on how many browsers you are using, no nothing. Just come to the site and begin using the application.
With FLASH, you must download a plug-in. That may not sound like a lot but it is huge. It is at least one barrier for customers (who are by and large tech-retarded) to overcome just to use a vendor's service. And if there are multiple browsers there will be multiple plug-in downloads and there are times when the plug-ins wont work.
So bottom line is, by taking out the need for customers to visit a 3rd party, the User experience is exponentially increased and brand brainwashing commences immediately and without any hiccups. Believe me, no one wants to ever expose 3rd party tools when they are trying to sell something.
So now there is this mad dash by the news corporations because they are probably feeling it worse than the people they are reporting to.
I mean sheesh I just saw Anderson Cooper and he was gripping the table white-nuckled and looking way frazzled.
I still do not get what "new programming style" is being metioned here.
Are we talking new like the emergence of Object Oriented Programming? or simply new in terms of what technology is being used (.NET, java, Ruby, Jscript/AJAX)?
NOTE: If its the latter this whole topic is useless.
UK Police: Man Killed Unrelated to Probe
Im just saying.
What "Halo 2 fiasco" are you talking about? Halo 2 pushed mainstream console gamers into the realm of subscription based gaming like no other game before. The revenue from that base alone is absolutely ridiculous and if the subscriptions can carry over they will shatter everyone. No other console player in the game right now has CLOSE to the amount of paying subscribers that MS has. That is the key, continued revenue without the necessary production of more titles. So how is MS losing a chunk of their install base? If you have Halo 2 and subscribed to play online, why are you all of a sudden cancelling your subscription and going over to the not-yet-existing PS3 online network?
You sound like a blind troll funded by Sony
My comments of this being a likely problem are in complete context of our current state-of-the-world view on terrorism.
So yes "if you let the terrorist engender unreasonable fears, then they have already won"
but... if you are bold enough to ignore plain-sight common sense then you are dead.
I think "better safe than sorry" trumps the other annoying cliche.
Or maybe it's just me. I feel like a game like this catching on around the tech world is really a bad idea. In the wake of terrorist bombings on mass transit and cellphone detonation scares, its kind of like playing soccer in a field of landmines....
"And?" is the correct question to ask here. Lets be serious, is this really surprising?
/. right now, because it isnt news.
No one should be shocked that you can find this information about a person online, you've probably been aware (and sometimes guilty) of doing it for years, especially as a tech crowd.
the problem and outrage still should only lie in the fact that you KNOW the person you are looking at is a CIA agent.
Think about it. The breach of security is in the connection of this person being CIA, not in you being able to find a random person's house.
The fact remains that if Karl Rove would never have leaked her identity to the media, this would not be posted on
far star
When did it become ok to start calling people nerds ? Seriously, is it ok to call a hip-hop dance show "N*ggers that dance" ? Before you say "Well that's different because that's a racial epiteth then how about a home remodeling show "Fags have fun with your living room" ?
Ahh come on! both terms: N*gger and F*ggot are so much more loaded to the point that people labeled with these words were murdered for it. Have you ever witnessed a mob killing or fatal attack on some glasses wearing kid, whilst people are yelling "Die Nerd!"?
These terms aren't even close to comparable, but I appreciate your attempt at logic. You sound like someone who picked up the workings of HTML last year and now like to comment about "how code works".