I don't mean to troll, but exactly why is copying a mediocre operating system like Windoze "one of the best free software collections that you can have from [the] internet"?
Perhaps this is my bias towards 100% original operating systems kicking in. That, and the fact that I've been running my machine on nothing but Linux for the past several years and never saw any need to emulate Windoze.
Funny thing is that the limits of any one language can be transcended, in a sort of roundabout way. Ever since I started learning multiple tongues (English is native, learning Spanish and Modern Hebrew) I've been able to think without using words at all. But only since I really grasped some Spanish, and it's gotten better since I've been learning Hebrew.
Maybe to learn multiple languages we learn to think without language again?
I didn't restate my belief, I pointed to obvious evidence. Go out some time and look at other people. Can you predict (without knowing them, just what they are doing) what they will do? Hasn't anyone you know ever done something that you couldn't forsee? That's my "clearest observable evidence".
I hereby order to author of this book to go read comp.lang.lisp.
The future has been here for a decade or two. Lisp isn't good for everything (system's programming being the biggest thing because it practically requires pointers and inline assembler), but for the sort of things that Java tends to be used for (databases, web applications, handling large amounts of data, portability) you just can't beat Lisp.
The mark of a mature person is not creating arbitrary criteria for considering others mature. This statement is recursive and should probably go in someone's signature.
Now the PSP gaming networks will be filled with people mangling Japanese, Russian and any of 25 or so Indian languages instead of just English.
Still, I think it's that people will be able to play video games with people from the other side of the world ("It's night-time by you, right?" "No, noon.") without having to learn another language.
The parent is mostly correct, but simply fails to note the main strength of our current "oppressive regime": It's extremely easy to live in. Whoever made up this system realized that the only people they actually need to oppress are those who want a new or different society. Everyone else can be left to their own devices.
Funny, because at least Amazon should be able to know if you've bought the game from them.
So a decent review site has to have somebody who can be the Aloof Objective Guy. Funny, but on Slashdot these are called the editors and everyone hates them. So why not just have both things? A special section or moderation rating (ie: a separate scale entirely) would be given to Real Objective Reviewers and you'd go to another section if you wanted the People's Reviews.
Why not just allow anyone to write reviews and give game scores? Then the readers moderate the reviews, and can set threshholds of what sort of modded reviews they want to see.
What's that? Trying this good idea from the rest of the world would put professional game reviewers out of business? Well then they should change their business model, perhaps move into those game-reviewing websites which'll likely have pretty decent ad revenues, or possibly a charge for membership.
Has this been done elsewhere or should I get started?
I use the linux-wlan-ng drivers since this thing's a Prism2 chipset. I have to hand-hack a line of code to make them compile, then play with rc.d files to make it start at boot time (Gentoo), and when I changed to Gentoo I had to take tarballs from my Windoze partition in order to emerge the drivers, but by God it now works just fine!
Because The Management has favored it so often. When Scientists are given thousands to come up with principles of Engineering which lead to technologies for replacing human labor, the normal people who just lost their jobs resent Science. When Scientific principles are twisted in order to destroy the values of normal people - values like human dignity and absolute morality - people resent Science (and in this case respond with Fundamentalism). When people are told (in a consequence of my first example) that in the future the only available work will be Science and Engineering, they resent Science.
People dislike Science, because it is set on a pedestal and privileged by The Powers that Be. And when people see a group getting privileges, they start hating that group.
The fact of the matter is that that study's 2% were only the creators and producers required to help everyone else get by using that era's technology. The amount of people capable of being creators and producers is uncertain. I, personally, believe that most people are born with the possibility and quite a damn few have it nurtured. Some of those "quite a damn few" later go on to find that there is actual demand for their creative services.
Basically, society only demands 2% creativity when 30-70% creativity is possible.
However, that's probably because IQ tests mostly measure distinctly male types of intelligence.
Remember, men are systemizers, and women are empathizers. These are the general trends. However, IQ tests measure very systematic skills (put a picture together from jumbled pieces, solve maths, perform logic) rather than empathetic ones (understand body language, communicate successfully, empathize with the feelings of others). So since males are the systemizing gender IQ scores will show greater differentiation in men.
No, we don't need to "breed out" anyone. We already went down that path in the 1920s, and it resulted in a whole lot of sterilized black people. Because blacks are inferior genetic scum, you know? It also resulted in Hitler trying to kill off that most insidius and evil of inferior races (and my proud people): the Jews.
Don't breed out blacks, Jews, low-IQ people, or anyone else.
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Take it from a guy writing his own operating system: truly OS-portable code is hard to find on any platform.
There are homeless white people in the world, you know.
Nice rant. Make it coherant and somebody might listen to you.
Mod parent insightful but troll.
Wow, maybe the Messiah is coming sometime. I have to go write to the Rebbe, he said it first!
Hey, a flying pig!
The point about Linux was that I don't see why we need to clone Windoze, when we have another (just as original, sigh...) OS that works just fine.
When my hobby OS does something useful, I'll make sure to tell everyone.
I don't mean to troll, but exactly why is copying a mediocre operating system like Windoze "one of the best free software collections that you can have from [the] internet"?
Perhaps this is my bias towards 100% original operating systems kicking in. That, and the fact that I've been running my machine on nothing but Linux for the past several years and never saw any need to emulate Windoze.
http://www.cliki.net/database
http://www.cliki.net/networking
Try searching CLiki for anything you might want. Most of what's there is good stuff.
Funny thing is that the limits of any one language can be transcended, in a sort of roundabout way. Ever since I started learning multiple tongues (English is native, learning Spanish and Modern Hebrew) I've been able to think without using words at all. But only since I really grasped some Spanish, and it's gotten better since I've been learning Hebrew.
Maybe to learn multiple languages we learn to think without language again?
How was I supposed to know you would say that?
I didn't restate my belief, I pointed to obvious evidence. Go out some time and look at other people. Can you predict (without knowing them, just what they are doing) what they will do? Hasn't anyone you know ever done something that you couldn't forsee? That's my "clearest observable evidence".
I hereby order to author of this book to go read comp.lang.lisp.
The future has been here for a decade or two. Lisp isn't good for everything (system's programming being the biggest thing because it practically requires pointers and inline assembler), but for the sort of things that Java tends to be used for (databases, web applications, handling large amounts of data, portability) you just can't beat Lisp.
Actually, I put it in my own. Couldn't hurt to have it floating around Slashdot on another set of posts, though. Could it?
The mark of a mature person is not creating arbitrary criteria for considering others mature. This statement is recursive and should probably go in someone's signature.
Where are Jews mentioned in TFA? I don't like anyone hating on us any more than you, but I just don't see a mention of us in the article.
Sounds like they just had to switch over to special software that can compute arbitrary precision numbers.
Now the PSP gaming networks will be filled with people mangling Japanese, Russian and any of 25 or so Indian languages instead of just English.
Still, I think it's that people will be able to play video games with people from the other side of the world ("It's night-time by you, right?" "No, noon.") without having to learn another language.
The parent is mostly correct, but simply fails to note the main strength of our current "oppressive regime": It's extremely easy to live in. Whoever made up this system realized that the only people they actually need to oppress are those who want a new or different society. Everyone else can be left to their own devices.
Funny, because at least Amazon should be able to know if you've bought the game from them.
So a decent review site has to have somebody who can be the Aloof Objective Guy. Funny, but on Slashdot these are called the editors and everyone hates them. So why not just have both things? A special section or moderation rating (ie: a separate scale entirely) would be given to Real Objective Reviewers and you'd go to another section if you wanted the People's Reviews.
Why not just allow anyone to write reviews and give game scores? Then the readers moderate the reviews, and can set threshholds of what sort of modded reviews they want to see.
What's that? Trying this good idea from the rest of the world would put professional game reviewers out of business? Well then they should change their business model, perhaps move into those game-reviewing websites which'll likely have pretty decent ad revenues, or possibly a charge for membership.
Has this been done elsewhere or should I get started?
I use the linux-wlan-ng drivers since this thing's a Prism2 chipset. I have to hand-hack a line of code to make them compile, then play with rc.d files to make it start at boot time (Gentoo), and when I changed to Gentoo I had to take tarballs from my Windoze partition in order to emerge the drivers, but by God it now works just fine!
It is a valid opinion, and the National Youth Rights Association was formed to make it irrelevant by lowering the voting age.
Normal is what all the other normal people are doing.
Because The Management has favored it so often. When Scientists are given thousands to come up with principles of Engineering which lead to technologies for replacing human labor, the normal people who just lost their jobs resent Science. When Scientific principles are twisted in order to destroy the values of normal people - values like human dignity and absolute morality - people resent Science (and in this case respond with Fundamentalism). When people are told (in a consequence of my first example) that in the future the only available work will be Science and Engineering, they resent Science.
People dislike Science, because it is set on a pedestal and privileged by The Powers that Be. And when people see a group getting privileges, they start hating that group.
The fact of the matter is that that study's 2% were only the creators and producers required to help everyone else get by using that era's technology. The amount of people capable of being creators and producers is uncertain. I, personally, believe that most people are born with the possibility and quite a damn few have it nurtured. Some of those "quite a damn few" later go on to find that there is actual demand for their creative services.
Basically, society only demands 2% creativity when 30-70% creativity is possible.
However, that's probably because IQ tests mostly measure distinctly male types of intelligence.
Remember, men are systemizers, and women are empathizers. These are the general trends. However, IQ tests measure very systematic skills (put a picture together from jumbled pieces, solve maths, perform logic) rather than empathetic ones (understand body language, communicate successfully, empathize with the feelings of others). So since males are the systemizing gender IQ scores will show greater differentiation in men.
No, we don't need to "breed out" anyone. We already went down that path in the 1920s, and it resulted in a whole lot of sterilized black people. Because blacks are inferior genetic scum, you know? It also resulted in Hitler trying to kill off that most insidius and evil of inferior races (and my proud people): the Jews.
Don't breed out blacks, Jews, low-IQ people, or anyone else.