Stating "I know..." about a thing that is, by definition, unknowable, is irrational. "I don't know...", on the other hand, not so much.
"Is," "is." "is" -- the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. - Robert Anton Wilson
It was while standing there with the hose, hand on the lever but thinking that the foot-thick tornado of fire towering over me was way too beautiful to put out, that I realised I maybe wasn't the best person for the job...
I'm not quite sure you'd have the same reaction if said flames also constituted an immediate threat to your and others' life.
but more typically the scalpers descent and snap up all of the tickets leaving people no choice if they want to see the event.
The problem is that a) there is a big difference in the ticket prices and their perceived value, especially the "last ones", and b) they can buy enough tickets to cause a problem. Scalpers merely buy low, and sell high.
Last time I heard, the entire world economy was based on that idea. Why does nobody object to the stock market?
I don't doubt that Facebook use is growing faster than Google use
Well, duh. I don't think Google use can grow any faster.
There is a fundamental difference between Google and Facebook: you don't use Google to use Google, you use it to get somewhere else. You use Facebook to be on Facebook. In fact, we love Google precisely because they don't waste our time.
Now this could be for the sake of efficiency since public key crypto takes more cpu cycles but simply put if the US government asked for your private key, lets say they sent an NSL, RIM would be able to give it to them. That is not a secure system.
Note how this is an Enterprise(tm) system. There is no expectation of privacy, only contracts and CYA.
We can prove that the universe could have happened without God
Umm... how exactly?
The whole question is like P2P clients trying to figure out kernel internals and whether or not we're running in a VM, while others argue about the existence of the Programmer.
So you either have a tool that when you don't know how to use it, you're totally aware you don't know how to use it, or a tool that most people think they know how to use even though they don't have a clue.
Now what's optimal?
Master Foo nodded and replied: "When you are hungry, eat; when you are thirsty, drink; when you are tired, sleep."
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I always used the meaning "there was an attack on the day of release". Shame it became such a cool phrase it doesn't mean anything anymore.
While I believe all benchmarks (and non-comprehensive ACID tests) to be 3dmark-style pissing contests
I want a benchmark that shows a large Slashdot article loading over 3G (at -1, no Javascript). For some reason it still completely freezes Firefox.
Sadly, it's the only browser out there with Noscript and Adblock.
Stating "I know..." about a thing that is, by definition, unknowable, is irrational. "I don't know...", on the other hand, not so much.
"Is," "is." "is" -- the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. - Robert Anton Wilson
Can you verify that the offending parts are offending?
It was while standing there with the hose, hand on the lever but thinking that the foot-thick tornado of fire towering over me was way too beautiful to put out, that I realised I maybe wasn't the best person for the job...
I'm not quite sure you'd have the same reaction if said flames also constituted an immediate threat to your and others' life.
It's actually the honourable thing to do in this case - along with firing whoever signed off on it in the Reserve component.
Once you accept that "a lot of material that shouldn't have been printed in the first place" indeed shouldn't have been printed, sure.
However, it's still censorship. The only question is whether we approve of it.
but more typically the scalpers descent and snap up all of the tickets leaving people no choice if they want to see the event.
The problem is that a) there is a big difference in the ticket prices and their perceived value, especially the "last ones", and b) they can buy enough tickets to cause a problem. Scalpers merely buy low, and sell high.
Last time I heard, the entire world economy was based on that idea. Why does nobody object to the stock market?
One thing you may notice is that humans are pretty good at solving problems.
smart people
They aren't so good at mitigating problems, looking ahead and making sure they never happen,
Management
but when a problem does happen they are pretty good and solving that problems.
the same smart people who have been warning about those problems for months/years/decades
I don't doubt that Facebook use is growing faster than Google use
Well, duh. I don't think Google use can grow any faster.
There is a fundamental difference between Google and Facebook: you don't use Google to use Google, you use it to get somewhere else. You use Facebook to be on Facebook. In fact, we love Google precisely because they don't waste our time.
Cant wait to see the 10$ iPhony cell phones that use this rather then an actual touch screen.
Could we just let the whole touchscreen idea die instead? Please?
I just forward them all unread to hacks@blizzard.com .
If you can't be bothered to read your own mail, why would they? Chances are, they know about the problem anyway.
The Supernova matter will now corrupt our Solar system and makes us goes Supernova too!
Quick, sue the sun before it's too late!
it could cause a grandma somehwere to die, just so the fuckwits can annoy a file sharer.
And then they'll sue her.
And maybe played by the phone itself? I know, it's a craaaazy idea but some people might actually want that...
And some people want to have sex with wallabies.
He's probably used OS X too often and became jaded.
That would also explain why he doesn't deal with women.
Now this could be for the sake of efficiency since public key crypto takes more cpu cycles but simply put if the US government asked for your private key, lets say they sent an NSL, RIM would be able to give it to them.
That is not a secure system.
Note how this is an Enterprise(tm) system. There is no expectation of privacy, only contracts and CYA.
So there's going to be a generation of 3DTV which doesn't suck?
Most likely, yes. However, it's not guaranteed for this century.
Tokaji is mentioned in the Hungarian National Anthem, written in 1823. What are the Aussies doing with that name?
We can prove that the universe could have happened without God
Umm... how exactly?
The whole question is like P2P clients trying to figure out kernel internals and whether or not we're running in a VM, while others argue about the existence of the Programmer.
This is one of the dumbest arguments I've ever seen on slashdot.
You must be new here.
your girlfriend
You know this is Slashdot, right?
Agreed. I'd love to see someone hack into my $10 Alcatel.
So you either have a tool that when you don't know how to use it, you're totally aware you don't know how to use it, or a tool that most people think they know how to use even though they don't have a clue.
Now what's optimal?
Master Foo nodded and replied: "When you are hungry, eat; when you are thirsty, drink; when you are tired, sleep."
Upon hearing this, the novice was enlightened.
So, should this AI start as Republican or Democrat?
I've coded both.
Seeing as the alternative is 500ms latency vs USA players sub 200ms. :-(
Or, you know, an Aussie server.