Many of the examples you've given don't cross over into "uncanny valley" territory - nobody would get stuffed animals confused with real animals...
I thought this too at first but after reading further I realized (at least I think I did) that the PP is talking about real animals that are stuffed after death. So not your cute, cuddly stuffed toy you give to your kid - no one is generally going to be fooled by that.
A dead but stuffed and preserved animal can be difficult to tell apart from its live counterpart, at least until you look long enough and realize it isn't moving.
And contrary to the PP, I do find these disturbing. Just a personal feeling and I do agree that the whole "uncanny valley" thing is a bit exaggerated. But I don't think you can say for sure one way or the other because I believe it's very subjective and there probably isn't a 'one opinion for everyone' take on it.
The Fourth Amendment provides for security in persons, papers, effects and so forth from the government. Even if you construe it to be a privacy provision, it's not binding on Joe Sleazeball's Krazy Komputer Krepair Kshop.
Not properly dispensing overtime pay is not the same thing as slavery,
Yours is one of many posts saying the same thing (and getting +5 insightful).
Why are you guys focusing on bashing the headline instead on the actual problem, which is that highly skilled people are working over time for nothing?...
This is/. Isn't there room to discuss both? I don't think pointing how exaggerated the headline is necessarily takes away from the discussions on how unfair Apple is by doing this.
Personally I found this to be the most insightful comment so far.
someone with a stuffed wallet. They essentially would have no more room in their pocket to earn money from people who simply want want credentials on their verified, secure web site. Unfortunately that isn't happening soon.
Dear fucking god, my boss comes in at least once a week and asks me if our flagship app could run on cloud computing. Give me a gun and one bullet please.
Plus, nostalgia? Because I can? The same reason I tried Linux before it even hit version 1?
Good reasons... I just thought you meant in a professional setting because you mentioned MSDN. I don't know many individuals that have a MSDN subscription. Actually, I only know companies who have.
Yeah, my bad, I didn't mean for the two to sound related.
I'm lucky in the sense that my company pays for an MSDN subscription in my name as I am the sole developer here. So most of what I do with it is at home on my own time. I run their stuff in a VM just to keep up with what MS is doing. I generally just tinker around in Visual Studio and try out the new OS's as they are released. I don't get Office or other apps, just the Pro subscription stuff.
I've managed to push the company towards using LAMP(erl) solutions at the office for a lot of general information sharing apps so I may just give up MSDN soon. But, hey, as long as someone else is paying for it I'm still interested in what comes out of Redmond.:-) Plus no matter how hard I try I can't seem to break the addiction around here to Great Plains and Exchange/Outlook.
I wouldn't. But if I did it would run really fast. I've done it in the past out of curiosity. It's never lasted for more then a day or so. But it does run really fast.
Plus, nostalgia? Because I can? The same reason I tried Linux before it even hit version 1?
I totally agree that it is not very useful in any personal PC situation.
I wonder if it will still be available to MSDN subscribers.
(please feel free to ridicule the crap out of me if this was mentioned in TFA or on TFB)
I do have one nice thing to say about W3.11; if you can get it to run on anything about as or more modern then a PII it runs (and installs) really fast!
I always find it comical (or sad, depending on how you look at it) to see how ignorant the Slashdot crowd can be.
There are over 30,000 different "denominations" of "Christianity", and the vast majority of them, including Catholicism, make no dogmatic statement at all about the "how" of our coming to be (there are some groups that do, yes). That is left to the realm of science.
It irritates me to no end to see ignorant statements being modded up as "Informative" or "Insightful".
It is sad, maybe even comical, but they are the ones that get the press. Since the Scopes trial in 1925 to this and all the cases in between, Arkansas, Texas, I'm sure there are more, the vocal, Christian minority has hijacked the voice of their faith. Stereotyping is generally not a logical way to conclude things about people but it gets hard to separate who's who when the only people that seem to get any attention are the ones that spew the nonsense we're hearing out of LA these days.
Why is Slashdot posting links to crazy right wing/libertartian conspiracy theories? This is stupid.
While I agree that maybe the editors didn't do such a great job on this I think it's good that this got posted. I read the sensationalist summary, the article and now I return to/. and get far more information on how bunk the claims are. There are now dozens of posts here, most modded informative or insightful explaing why the article is just plain BS. Thanks to/. I get to see both sides of this "issue".
You mean Debian. Or Debian Lenny. No need to use "GNU/Linux" at all.
And laugh all you want, but your characterization of this as an "uptime" issue is incorrect to say the least.
I am as disgusted by twitter as the next/. user but what's wrong with GNU/Linux? That's what Debian calls their distro.
I don't insist that every distro add GNU to their name; that's up to them. But Debian chooses to so at least in their case could we maybe lose the "RMS is teh zealot!!" jokes?
Debian is a great dsitro for promoting Free software and I am pretty sure they made the choice to keep GNU in the name on priniciple. I respect them for it and it's a major reason why Debian remains my distro of choice.
Yes I believe I covered that when I said "Though the description could have been better". Yeah, my bad. I thought you were referring to TFS not TFA. I guess your comment "could have been better".
The first song starts out as "my country tis of thee" but ends with a lick from Baa Baa Black Sheep... so, though the description could have been better, the computer DOES play the song in question. Yes but the article does not mention My Country Tis of Thee at all.
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Many of the examples you've given don't cross over into "uncanny valley" territory - nobody would get stuffed animals confused with real animals...
I thought this too at first but after reading further I realized (at least I think I did) that the PP is talking about real animals that are stuffed after death. So not your cute, cuddly stuffed toy you give to your kid - no one is generally going to be fooled by that.
A dead but stuffed and preserved animal can be difficult to tell apart from its live counterpart, at least until you look long enough and realize it isn't moving.
And contrary to the PP, I do find these disturbing. Just a personal feeling and I do agree that the whole "uncanny valley" thing is a bit exaggerated. But I don't think you can say for sure one way or the other because I believe it's very subjective and there probably isn't a 'one opinion for everyone' take on it.
You don't get out a lot do you?
"The Mike Huckabee "bump" bit lead to the greatest evening on televsion EVER"
I didn't miss it the first time but your bold letters are appreciated.
My point was anyone who makes a statement like that obviously watches a lot of TV. My bad for trying to be subtle...
The Mike Huckabee "bump" bit lead to the greatest evening on televsion EVER:
The Jon Stewart/Steven Colbert/Conan Obrien crossover.
You don't get out a lot do you?
Kidding, given the writer's strike at the time that was pure gold.
PITA is going to have a field day with this one.
It's PETA. Not Pain In The Ass (although some do feel that way about them); People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
As to whether or not said field day will occur, I will abstain from commenting as I have not RTFA. But it would not surprise me if they do.
The Fourth Amendment provides for security in persons, papers, effects and so forth from the government. Even if you construe it to be a privacy provision, it's not binding on Joe Sleazeball's Krazy Komputer Krepair Kshop.
Are you by chance a KDE developer?
:-)
Again, thanks.
OK, I'll go ahead and display my total ignorance here. What does AFL mean?
Thanks...
Yours is one of many posts saying the same thing (and getting +5 insightful).
Why are you guys focusing on bashing the headline instead on the actual problem, which is that highly skilled people are working over time for nothing? ...
This is /. Isn't there room to discuss both? I don't think pointing how exaggerated the headline is necessarily takes away from the discussions on how unfair Apple is by doing this.
Personally I found this to be the most insightful comment so far.
He dies hard.
As the GP am I allowed to say whoosh! here or is someone else supposed to do that?
You THINK he died, but he actually hid in a refrigerator. He got the tip from his friend Harrison Ford.
He is Hard to Kill!
Oh wait, that's Steven Seagal. Well anyway, it escapes me now but I know there is something hard about killing Bruce Willis.
Oh sure. What could possibly go wrong?
I fear we get to look forward to more of this childish crap from the two teams from now on. Burbclaves, here we come.
Somehow I expected better from /. though.
Oh well...
someone with a stuffed wallet. They essentially would have no more room in their pocket to earn money from people who simply want want credentials on their verified, secure web site. Unfortunately that isn't happening soon.
Sounds like a job for Shuttleworth then!
Dear fucking god, my boss comes in at least once a week and asks me if our flagship app could run on cloud computing. Give me a gun and one bullet please.
A bullet for you or your boss?
Good reasons... I just thought you meant in a professional setting because you mentioned MSDN. I don't know many individuals that have a MSDN subscription. Actually, I only know companies who have.
Yeah, my bad, I didn't mean for the two to sound related.
I'm lucky in the sense that my company pays for an MSDN subscription in my name as I am the sole developer here. So most of what I do with it is at home on my own time. I run their stuff in a VM just to keep up with what MS is doing. I generally just tinker around in Visual Studio and try out the new OS's as they are released. I don't get Office or other apps, just the Pro subscription stuff.
I've managed to push the company towards using LAMP(erl) solutions at the office for a lot of general information sharing apps so I may just give up MSDN soon. But, hey, as long as someone else is paying for it I'm still interested in what comes out of Redmond. :-) Plus no matter how hard I try I can't seem to break the addiction around here to Great Plains and Exchange/Outlook.
Why would you do that? ...
I wouldn't. But if I did it would run really fast. I've done it in the past out of curiosity. It's never lasted for more then a day or so. But it does run really fast.
Plus, nostalgia? Because I can? The same reason I tried Linux before it even hit version 1?
I totally agree that it is not very useful in any personal PC situation.
I wonder if it will still be available to MSDN subscribers.
(please feel free to ridicule the crap out of me if this was mentioned in TFA or on TFB)
I do have one nice thing to say about W3.11; if you can get it to run on anything about as or more modern then a PII it runs (and installs) really fast!
I always find it comical (or sad, depending on how you look at it) to see how ignorant the Slashdot crowd can be.
There are over 30,000 different "denominations" of "Christianity", and the vast majority of them, including Catholicism, make no dogmatic statement at all about the "how" of our coming to be (there are some groups that do, yes). That is left to the realm of science.
It irritates me to no end to see ignorant statements being modded up as "Informative" or "Insightful".
It is sad, maybe even comical, but they are the ones that get the press. Since the Scopes trial in 1925 to this and all the cases in between, Arkansas, Texas, I'm sure there are more, the vocal, Christian minority has hijacked the voice of their faith. Stereotyping is generally not a logical way to conclude things about people but it gets hard to separate who's who when the only people that seem to get any attention are the ones that spew the nonsense we're hearing out of LA these days.
Obviously you've never heard of empornium.com then!
I will DL and have a look!
Why is Slashdot posting links to crazy right wing/libertartian conspiracy theories? This is stupid.
While I agree that maybe the editors didn't do such a great job on this I think it's good that this got posted. I read the sensationalist summary, the article and now I return to /. and get far more information on how bunk the claims are. There are now dozens of posts here, most modded informative or insightful explaing why the article is just plain BS. Thanks to /. I get to see both sides of this "issue".
How about:
for f in `tar tf archive.tar`; do
rm $f
done
You mean Debian. Or Debian Lenny. No need to use "GNU/Linux" at all.
And laugh all you want, but your characterization of this as an "uptime" issue is incorrect to say the least.
I am as disgusted by twitter as the nextI don't insist that every distro add GNU to their name; that's up to them. But Debian chooses to so at least in their case could we maybe lose the "RMS is teh zealot!!" jokes?
Debian is a great dsitro for promoting Free software and I am pretty sure they made the choice to keep GNU in the name on priniciple. I respect them for it and it's a major reason why Debian remains my distro of choice.
How do you "do" software?
I'm not sure... I think you need an internet connection though to do it right.The first song starts out as "my country tis of thee" but ends with a lick from Baa Baa Black Sheep... so, though the description could have been better, the computer DOES play the song in question. Yes but the article does not mention My Country Tis of Thee at all.