I think both cases are completely valid, when you factor in all the time involved planning and organizing those 60 boys, getting them all to their assigned plots of land, and checking the quality of their work, it WOULD take more than one minute, just as it would take more than 1 hour for those 18 doctors to perform that operation (although the doctor's time management would probably be more based on the human body's limitiations, but you get the idea)
I think you missed the point, the comparison was intended just for that purpose, to show how much time we waste spending on useless pointless things when we could be achieving greatness. To get fired up over a little comment is pretty stupid (it's called irony, look it up sometime).
forget about changing things on this planet. Man will just have to evolve for himself over time and try not to make his home uninhabitable
So what you're saying essentially is that you're no-longer part of the human race? If everyone had your attitude then nothing would ever change because everyone would just figure "someone else will do it". The only way to affect change is have lots of individuals (yourself included friend) come together and make it happen. To say that man will just have to evolve for himself is really foolish thinking when you realize you're a part of it.
actually i seem to remember Riker warning an alien once that with the phaser set to full power with a wide dispersal area, it would vaporize half the building they were standing in... but i guess its more dramatic to have your heroes be seemingly overwhelmed by the enemy
buti think you're over-analyzing the use of phasers on TOS, Gene Roddenberry once said that the show was like a western in space, so the phasers were used more like 6-shooters, but whatever, just my take on it
Slashdotted already - Offtopic
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wow, 15 comments and its already slashdotted... now this comment isn't meant to be a troll, but... what is Slashdot doing right and other sites are doing wrong? I mean... in order for a site to be slashdotted, those browsers are being directed from slashdot, so AT LEAST that many people are browsing slashdot at any given time, yet the front page loads lightning quick, even over dial-up, and there's very little downtime, i think the rest of the web can learn something here (don't use IIS maybe)?
anyway, not a troll, just genuinely curious
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hmmm, i'll just type this up on my invisible typewriter.... do dee doo do do
In the old comics, Juggernaught was the size of a bus (from the front), in the new cartoon series, he's much smaller, with skinnier legs, he can still throw Wolverine around pretty good though. (wasn't he Proffessor X's wimply little brother until he found some ancient egyptian jewel that was like, magical steroids or something?)
Keeping with the tradition of recursive Unix names:
YOPY: Your Own Personal Yopy
Editplus can be used as a poor man's IDE
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You can configure the "Tools" menu to launch any application you want. Just create a new menu item called whatever you want, and set it run "javac" (if its already in your path). Set its argument to "current file" and dump the output (errors really) to a subwindow at the bottom of Editplus (i forget what that check-box is called now)
This is how i got through my Java class 2 semesters ago, Editplus can also save/open to ftp sites.
I kinda got the impression that the Bug's Life outtake where the queen accidently says "Princess Abba", then stops and makes a joke about disco might have been real. They might have animated that one first then decided to make up some more just for fun.
I think the biggest difference there is the content aspect. Apple has never tried to position itself as a content pusher, there's no AppleNBC, AppleN (yeah, we all remember eWorld, but that was before the web was universal). I don't have THAT much of a problem with vertical hardware/software markets, but MS shooting its own content down that vertical pipe is just plain scary.
Do you think right now there are people sitting around at intel marvelling over the speed of a motorola processor?
ummm... actually... yes, stupid public and a higher mhz number do not a faster processor make
hmmmm... sound familiar?
Remember back in the 80's when we as children were all assaulted with those terrible anti-drug ads from the mind of Nancy Reagan? The "this is your brain on drugs" ad being singled out as the possibly least effective ad of all time? Now, after seeing our favorite cartoon characters turn down drugs and tell us how "bad" they were... what effect did it have?
Most of us got to college (maybe even high school), opened our minds, tried some pot, maybe liked it, and have a pretty non-chalant view of things... maybe even smoking up every now and then. Those who don't do drugs do so for their own reasons, not because Arnold on "Diff'rent Strokes" told them not to. So the effect on today's kids will be exactly zero. If anything, they'll realize the lame "do-gooder" condescending attitude, and another piece of tripe will become unpopular and get cancelled.
btw: have you written your representives about the SSSCA yet? i have!
i think it depends on the v-card, my rage fury pro worked just fine when i plugged in my tv and booted into win2k, i didn't have a monitor installed and i didn't tell the card that it would be using s-video, it just detected it somehow (who knew the tv would send back an "i am here" through s-video...) so i'm assuming the savage-4 can do this as well
my employer has the control category "Games and Fun" blocked at the firewall so i can't see ign.com, and google doesn't have it cached yet, i wanna see this thing! anyone know where there's another picture?
A movie costs that much here in Amish Country too. But even at 7.50, 2 tickets, popcorn and sodas... 25-30 bucks for a date, not TERRIBLE, but its still a luxury you can't indulge in too much. It's price gouging.. but gee, that cost will go down once they stop all the bad pirates from stealing their money... right? right?
damnit!
whoever moderated me down is a moron with his head up his ass
"oh no! that guy is saying something different than what slashdotters are supposed to think! quick! mod him down", and to be modded down as "overrated"? how the hell can i be overrated at 1 as a registered user! morons!!!!!!! and to think that i gave up moderating this story just post something that i thought would be interesting and spark debate
sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell i guess
From the article: MusicCity is a Nashville outfit that's backed by Timberline Venture Partners, an affiliate of respected VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
So this is backed by a VC company? Which means that someone is trying to make money off this service. Which means that all the standard "information wants to be free" arguments go right out the window. This isn't Gnutella where its a labor of love for the people in charge, someone is trying to make a buck of off someone else's intellectual property/art, which makes it the category of piracy. I think that::shudder:: the RIAA is actually right this time. Now when they come for gnutella on the other hand..........
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I think both cases are completely valid, when you factor in all the time involved planning and organizing those 60 boys, getting them all to their assigned plots of land, and checking the quality of their work, it WOULD take more than one minute, just as it would take more than 1 hour for those 18 doctors to perform that operation (although the doctor's time management would probably be more based on the human body's limitiations, but you get the idea)
I think you missed the point, the comparison was intended just for that purpose, to show how much time we waste spending on useless pointless things when we could be achieving greatness. To get fired up over a little comment is pretty stupid (it's called irony, look it up sometime).
actually i seem to remember Riker warning an alien once that with the phaser set to full power with a wide dispersal area, it would vaporize half the building they were standing in... but i guess its more dramatic to have your heroes be seemingly overwhelmed by the enemy
buti think you're over-analyzing the use of phasers on TOS, Gene Roddenberry once said that the show was like a western in space, so the phasers were used more like 6-shooters, but whatever, just my take on it
wow, 15 comments and its already slashdotted... now this comment isn't meant to be a troll, but... what is Slashdot doing right and other sites are doing wrong? I mean... in order for a site to be slashdotted, those browsers are being directed from slashdot, so AT LEAST that many people are browsing slashdot at any given time, yet the front page loads lightning quick, even over dial-up, and there's very little downtime, i think the rest of the web can learn something here (don't use IIS maybe)?
anyway, not a troll, just genuinely curious
hmmm, i'll just type this up on my invisible typewriter.... do dee doo do do
oh yeah... and first post too
In the old comics, Juggernaught was the size of a bus (from the front), in the new cartoon series, he's much smaller, with skinnier legs, he can still throw Wolverine around pretty good though. (wasn't he Proffessor X's wimply little brother until he found some ancient egyptian jewel that was like, magical steroids or something?)
Keeping with the tradition of recursive Unix names:
YOPY: Your Own Personal Yopy
You can configure the "Tools" menu to launch any application you want. Just create a new menu item called whatever you want, and set it run "javac" (if its already in your path). Set its argument to "current file" and dump the output (errors really) to a subwindow at the bottom of Editplus (i forget what that check-box is called now)
This is how i got through my Java class 2 semesters ago, Editplus can also save/open to ftp sites.
I kinda got the impression that the Bug's Life outtake where the queen accidently says "Princess Abba", then stops and makes a joke about disco might have been real. They might have animated that one first then decided to make up some more just for fun.
but can they protect me from the terrible secret of space?
Third Post!!!!
come on, i need to troll at least ONCE!
I think the biggest difference there is the content aspect. Apple has never tried to position itself as a content pusher, there's no AppleNBC, AppleN (yeah, we all remember eWorld, but that was before the web was universal). I don't have THAT much of a problem with vertical hardware/software markets, but MS shooting its own content down that vertical pipe is just plain scary.
two words:
firmware update
or is that three? well, whatever, i could happen
mod parent up!!!!!
Do you think right now there are people sitting around at intel marvelling over the speed of a motorola processor? ummm... actually... yes, stupid public and a higher mhz number do not a faster processor make
hmmmm... sound familiar?
Remember back in the 80's when we as children were all assaulted with those terrible anti-drug ads from the mind of Nancy Reagan? The "this is your brain on drugs" ad being singled out as the possibly least effective ad of all time? Now, after seeing our favorite cartoon characters turn down drugs and tell us how "bad" they were... what effect did it have?
Most of us got to college (maybe even high school), opened our minds, tried some pot, maybe liked it, and have a pretty non-chalant view of things... maybe even smoking up every now and then. Those who don't do drugs do so for their own reasons, not because Arnold on "Diff'rent Strokes" told them not to. So the effect on today's kids will be exactly zero. If anything, they'll realize the lame "do-gooder" condescending attitude, and another piece of tripe will become unpopular and get cancelled.
btw: have you written your representives about the SSSCA yet? i have!
i think it depends on the v-card, my rage fury pro worked just fine when i plugged in my tv and booted into win2k, i didn't have a monitor installed and i didn't tell the card that it would be using s-video, it just detected it somehow (who knew the tv would send back an "i am here" through s-video...) so i'm assuming the savage-4 can do this as well
my employer has the control category "Games and Fun" blocked at the firewall so i can't see ign.com, and google doesn't have it cached yet, i wanna see this thing! anyone know where there's another picture?
A movie costs that much here in Amish Country too. But even at 7.50, 2 tickets, popcorn and sodas... 25-30 bucks for a date, not TERRIBLE, but its still a luxury you can't indulge in too much. It's price gouging.. but gee, that cost will go down once they stop all the bad pirates from stealing their money... right? right?
who Clinton? certainly not that mush-mouthed daddy's boy, he's got about as much charisma as a bag of pretzels
sorry, i'm in a really sarcastic mood today, all my posts are pissy
Could you post the URL for his website and the web-form please?
thanks
I mean, I don't go to movies, I don't rent movies -- I don't want and can't afford that culture
you can't afford the what, 3 bucks to rent a movie? all talk of the SSSCA aside, that's pretty sad dude (or pretty exagerated)
damnit!
whoever moderated me down is a moron with his head up his ass
"oh no! that guy is saying something different than what slashdotters are supposed to think! quick! mod him down", and to be modded down as "overrated"? how the hell can i be overrated at 1 as a registered user! morons!!!!!!! and to think that i gave up moderating this story just post something that i thought would be interesting and spark debate
sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell i guess
From the article: MusicCity is a Nashville outfit that's backed by Timberline Venture Partners, an affiliate of respected VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. ::shudder:: the RIAA is actually right this time. Now when they come for gnutella on the other hand..........
So this is backed by a VC company? Which means that someone is trying to make money off this service. Which means that all the standard "information wants to be free" arguments go right out the window. This isn't Gnutella where its a labor of love for the people in charge, someone is trying to make a buck of off someone else's intellectual property/art, which makes it the category of piracy. I think that