Even on a cosmic timescale, that isn't very often. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old, no? Life on earth is, what, 3.5 billion years old (at least these are the earliest fossils we can find)?
So if this happens once every 5 million years, that is still only 1000 times that we have traded rocks with Mars.
That's a lot, but if you're talking about the chances of those rocks containing some absurdly rare strain of bacteria that can exist in an environment very much unlike that of the majority of this planet, it starts looking pretty damn unlikely.
Cosmic time scales or not, one every 5 million years is certainly not "constantly".
I apologize for the self-reply (no editing on slashdot, thank taco), but I should clarify.
My move to a new house ended my internet "addiction" because I moved from a suburban housing complex (a "master planned community") to an urban center with things that are within walking/biking distance (Tempe, AZ).
To be honest, my former town is exactly the type of situation that fosters the types of behaviours most of its residents claimed to hate. There was nothing in the town to do (other than grocery shop); it hadn't been allowed to develop organically. Because of this, people stayed in their homes and never interacted with one another. There wasn't a community there at all...just a grouping of houses.
If you're addicted to "the Internet"... what do you have to show for it?
Well, personally, I got really into sites like fark (and eventually reddit), but hated a lot of the stuff on them, so I set out to design my own(Although this was the first thing I ever did. A lot of it is very badly designed).
I've since learned CSS, python, javascript (beacuse I wanted to use ajax), mysql, and apache. To further the basketball analogy, I started watching my favorite team on television *all the time* and decided that I wanted to learn to play as well. My first few tries out (like the example linked about) I stumbled a bit, but have since more-or-less figured it out.
Point is, internet isn't all bad, so long as you decide to use it as a tool to educate yourself.
I have found it very interesting in how people would play fishing, basketball, and other sports on video game consoles, but not yet think "hey maybe I should do this in real life..."
It's about availability and time-investment. My time-investment to play some flash-based fishing game (or dolphin olympics, goddamn you dolphin olympics) is about 5 minutes. My time-investment in fishing or basketball is several hours, plus the frightening reality that I might not be very good at it.
You can impulse-participate in a video game, doing the same thing in real-life requires more commitment.
I thought for a while that I was "addicted" to the internet. I post to blogs a lot, check my twitter like crazy, check the websites I run like crazy etc. etc.
Then I moved to a new house. Rarely if ever do I even power my computer on while I'm at home now. I'd rather be reading or playing with the dog or riding my bicycle.
It turns out I was just bored.
I think kids have set their standards too high. The internet allows the entire world to compete for their attention. Give them something more interesting to obsess over and they will.
In other words, kids are no more "addicted" to the internet than they were at one point addicted to fishing, or basketball, or any other hobbie that kids have ever had.
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Apple must really stop making all these heavily profitable mistakes..
Yes, like the mac book air. Which was going to *totally* revolutionize the laptop market...except, it's a steaming pile of aluminum dogshit.
The line-in jack will disappear with physical audio. Honestly, unless you're a DJ, it's pretty unlikely that you have any audio that doesn't exist as something digital (MP3, AAC, WAV, etc.)
And if you are a DJ, you should be using a dedicated piece of hardware... Don't get me wrong, this makes me sad (probably because audio is a hobby of mine) but it isn't at all surprising.
Forgive the really really stupid question here, but what kind of staff do DCs really need? IO just opened a MASSIVE datacenter in Phoenix (where I live), and I've been trying to get an out-of-work friend of mine to apply there, but neither of us really know what you *do* in a datacenter.
Ah yes, slashdot, the only place I know of where a discussion about video games will devolve into a debate about who knows more about watching naked women dance on a pole.
I'm not saying I agree with it. The laws around movies and things are insane. I was just answering GPs question about why they can't do whatever they want with the DVD they bought.
Sure, they own the copyright on the material on the disk but I own the disk. I can sell it, why can't I rent it out to someone?
Because you own the disk and not the content on it. It is a bit like me owning my kindle but not really owning the books on it. The difference is that it is much more difficult to remove the movies from the DVD than it is to remove things from my kindle.
What you do own is a a very specific license that grants you the ability to play the content of the disc that you bought in ways that have been determined by the content's owners.
If their goal is outright legalization, then their stated goal should also be outright legalization.
Suggesting that pot should be something that you get from a pharmacy and with a prescription when, in reality, you believe that you should be able to grow and use it yourself is disingenuous and counterproductive.
Like I said, I'm a huge medical marijuana advocate. My point with the placebo thing was that the argument about marijuana providing any measurable, predictable, beneficial effects is moot; it's helping people and at no cost to anyone else. That is all that matters.
My point is that people fighting to have marijuana treated as a medical substance should not be reviewing it as if it is a recreational one.
If this was a laboratory study that sought to find the specific THC concentration of each strain, that would be fine; what this sounds like is a bunch of recreational marijuana users reviewing their plant. It is counterproductive.
People act like sticking these people in an isolated chamber for a few hundred days is a new problem, it isn't. Sailors have been doing it for centuries.
If you want to study the effects further, give these people all a free 600 day cruise around the open sea. They're going to get horny, they're going to get angry, and they're going to get bored. That is what will happen.
Put a server on board with some quake and a few other video games. Give them all a bunch of contraceptives.
I am a HUGE advocate for medical marijuana. It find it absurd that I have a bottle of hydrocodone (which is an opioid [like heroin or morphine]) in my cabinet and can take it whenever I need to, but if a doctor wanted to prescribe me marijuana, she couldn't.
Guys, even if it's a placebo, even if it is really doing *NOTHING* to help people physically and it is all mental (although recent research suggests that placebos can produce physical results), it's still helping; it is still making somebody who might be in pain be able to feel just a little bit better.
A major frown to those who oppose the idea of giving medicine to sick people
Another major frown to this idiotic newspaper. Do you realize what you're doing? You're playing exactly into the fears that the people who oppose this drug have; that it's just a bunch of potheads that want it. Do you review xanax? Vicodin? Perkaset? No? Well then fuck off.
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How can you even possibly *not* sanitize the inputs? Python's mysql module, for instance, does the work for you:
cursor.execute("select grade from grades where student = %s", ("bobby; drop table grages"))
would be completely fine.
Gack, that should say "that is sill less than 1000 times".
Even on a cosmic timescale, that isn't very often. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old, no? Life on earth is, what, 3.5 billion years old (at least these are the earliest fossils we can find)?
So if this happens once every 5 million years, that is still only 1000 times that we have traded rocks with Mars.
That's a lot, but if you're talking about the chances of those rocks containing some absurdly rare strain of bacteria that can exist in an environment very much unlike that of the majority of this planet, it starts looking pretty damn unlikely.
Cosmic time scales or not, one every 5 million years is certainly not "constantly".
I apologize for the self-reply (no editing on slashdot, thank taco), but I should clarify.
My move to a new house ended my internet "addiction" because I moved from a suburban housing complex (a "master planned community") to an urban center with things that are within walking/biking distance (Tempe, AZ).
To be honest, my former town is exactly the type of situation that fosters the types of behaviours most of its residents claimed to hate. There was nothing in the town to do (other than grocery shop); it hadn't been allowed to develop organically. Because of this, people stayed in their homes and never interacted with one another. There wasn't a community there at all...just a grouping of houses.
I'm very glad to be gone from it.
If you're addicted to "the Internet" ... what do you have to show for it?
Well, personally, I got really into sites like fark (and eventually reddit), but hated a lot of the stuff on them, so I set out to design my own(Although this was the first thing I ever did. A lot of it is very badly designed).
I've since learned CSS, python, javascript (beacuse I wanted to use ajax), mysql, and apache. To further the basketball analogy, I started watching my favorite team on television *all the time* and decided that I wanted to learn to play as well. My first few tries out (like the example linked about) I stumbled a bit, but have since more-or-less figured it out.
Point is, internet isn't all bad, so long as you decide to use it as a tool to educate yourself.
I have found it very interesting in how people would play fishing, basketball, and other sports on video game consoles, but not yet think "hey maybe I should do this in real life..."
It's about availability and time-investment. My time-investment to play some flash-based fishing game (or dolphin olympics, goddamn you dolphin olympics) is about 5 minutes. My time-investment in fishing or basketball is several hours, plus the frightening reality that I might not be very good at it.
You can impulse-participate in a video game, doing the same thing in real-life requires more commitment.
I thought for a while that I was "addicted" to the internet. I post to blogs a lot, check my twitter like crazy, check the websites I run like crazy etc. etc.
Then I moved to a new house. Rarely if ever do I even power my computer on while I'm at home now. I'd rather be reading or playing with the dog or riding my bicycle.
It turns out I was just bored.
I think kids have set their standards too high. The internet allows the entire world to compete for their attention. Give them something more interesting to obsess over and they will.
In other words, kids are no more "addicted" to the internet than they were at one point addicted to fishing, or basketball, or any other hobbie that kids have ever had.
Apple must really stop making all these heavily profitable mistakes..
Yes, like the mac book air. Which was going to *totally* revolutionize the laptop market...except, it's a steaming pile of aluminum dogshit.
I'm sorry, but does android really need saving? I see more and more and more android based phones every day.
The line-in jack will disappear with physical audio. Honestly, unless you're a DJ, it's pretty unlikely that you have any audio that doesn't exist as something digital (MP3, AAC, WAV, etc.)
And if you are a DJ, you should be using a dedicated piece of hardware... Don't get me wrong, this makes me sad (probably because audio is a hobby of mine) but it isn't at all surprising.
Forgive the really really stupid question here, but what kind of staff do DCs really need? IO just opened a MASSIVE datacenter in Phoenix (where I live), and I've been trying to get an out-of-work friend of mine to apply there, but neither of us really know what you *do* in a datacenter.
Substitute sunglasses with motorcycle helmet.
Or it could be that they're quoting what the guy...you know...said in the video.
"I'm going on record...Hewlett Packard computers are racist, there I said it!"
Ah yes, slashdot, the only place I know of where a discussion about video games will devolve into a debate about who knows more about watching naked women dance on a pole.
Apple has a pretty long history of breaking the iTunesdb on every update.
Err..when I say "breaking", I mean "changing it...again so that you can't touch with a third party app until it is cracked...again."
But...THIS time it's different!
funny stuff.
Bill, is that you? Don't worry, I respect you as a fellow geek.
I'm not saying I agree with it. The laws around movies and things are insane. I was just answering GPs question about why they can't do whatever they want with the DVD they bought.
Sure, they own the copyright on the material on the disk but I own the disk. I can sell it, why can't I rent it out to someone?
Because you own the disk and not the content on it. It is a bit like me owning my kindle but not really owning the books on it. The difference is that it is much more difficult to remove the movies from the DVD than it is to remove things from my kindle.
What you do own is a a very specific license that grants you the ability to play the content of the disc that you bought in ways that have been determined by the content's owners.
If their goal is outright legalization, then their stated goal should also be outright legalization.
Suggesting that pot should be something that you get from a pharmacy and with a prescription when, in reality, you believe that you should be able to grow and use it yourself is disingenuous and counterproductive.
This sort of nonsense is taking time and effort away from truly valuable sexbot research.
Have you seen how attractive snow bunnies are?
Very attractive, kind sir, very attractive indeed.
I support this research whole-heartedly.
Like I said, I'm a huge medical marijuana advocate. My point with the placebo thing was that the argument about marijuana providing any measurable, predictable, beneficial effects is moot; it's helping people and at no cost to anyone else. That is all that matters.
My point is that people fighting to have marijuana treated as a medical substance should not be reviewing it as if it is a recreational one.
If this was a laboratory study that sought to find the specific THC concentration of each strain, that would be fine; what this sounds like is a bunch of recreational marijuana users reviewing their plant. It is counterproductive.
People act like sticking these people in an isolated chamber for a few hundred days is a new problem, it isn't. Sailors have been doing it for centuries.
If you want to study the effects further, give these people all a free 600 day cruise around the open sea. They're going to get horny, they're going to get angry, and they're going to get bored. That is what will happen.
Put a server on board with some quake and a few other video games. Give them all a bunch of contraceptives.
It will be fine. Trust me.
I am a HUGE advocate for medical marijuana. It find it absurd that I have a bottle of hydrocodone (which is an opioid [like heroin or morphine]) in my cabinet and can take it whenever I need to, but if a doctor wanted to prescribe me marijuana, she couldn't.
Guys, even if it's a placebo, even if it is really doing *NOTHING* to help people physically and it is all mental (although recent research suggests that placebos can produce physical results), it's still helping; it is still making somebody who might be in pain be able to feel just a little bit better.
A major frown to those who oppose the idea of giving medicine to sick people
Another major frown to this idiotic newspaper. Do you realize what you're doing? You're playing exactly into the fears that the people who oppose this drug have; that it's just a bunch of potheads that want it. Do you review xanax? Vicodin? Perkaset? No? Well then fuck off.
Maybe when they don't offer a 4GB file (their install.iso file is 200MB) they don't see the need.
Every openbsd installer I have ever downloaded has been 10MB...
Forgive me, as I am not a biologist, but...
What does he have to do to "prove" that genetic mutations have occurred beyond:
1) Sequence DNA from original strain
2) Sequence DNA from current strain
3) diff strain1 strain2
Wasn't easy DNA sequencing supposed to be one of the new technological advancements that was changing the world?
Am I missing something here?