Considering myself a technically inclined user (being a senior developer) I lock my machine down myself. I know it sounds backwards, but I don't want rogue applications running on my machine when I'm testing. Not even the ones used by my company to keep the system "inventoried."
Sorry, I wasn't implying a State run "nanny state". I realize that was worded wrong. However, I do believe that the Bill of Rights was created to grant the citizens rights above that of State restriction. The government is in a sad state today, I agree, however you end your post with what is (could be) considered a rebellious/revolutionist statements. "Don't like it? Don't pay taxes." Sure. If you like being arrested, homeless, or worse. I posted in another thread about this, but the US Government has become what our forefathers fought against. For the most part, I agree with you... I think the Bill of Rights is a good thing. It guarantees privileges that the States cannot take away from law-biding citizens. These are the only laws I feel the feds should be involved in, next to the tasks of foreign interactions and commerce as you stated.
In order to do as you please (as you state) you would have to be a homeless man moving from forest to forest because you couldn't own your own land (the IRS would take it for not paying taxes) and you'd be living a pretty sad life IMHO. BTW, I'm all for getting rid of the IRS.
"You can't not be involved unless you're uninvolved entirely." This is where I disagree. Given, in today's government, that is true. However, if you look at what you stated and what is given to us in the Constitution, it doesn't NEED to be like that. It was loopholed, bastardized, and abused. You should only have to be concerned with what is happening around you. You then elect someone from your "fold" to represent your case to the higher powers. Laws were put in place to control these elections and the terms to which they would serve. Unfortunately, there were men conniving enough to find ways to manipulate these rules.
I don't know what it is about LISP/Erlang/etc. but I can't read them as easily as I read blocked code like C/C++/Java/JS/AS. When I was a kid, I learned on BASIC (GWBASIC, then QuickBasic) I eventually self taught VB4, and ever since coming out of college hating (need bolder bolds!) COBOL I just simply don't want to touch line delimited code. I've grown to love C-like languages and wished there was a better way to do multiprocessing without threads. I'm going to have to check into Scala as I really haven't heard much about it until recently. I don't understand why it would be that hard to create objects (or object syntax) for existing "block" languages to the point of making objects parallel with messaging. ("myobj proc_spawn { public:int main(){} }" for instance?). I really haven't tried messing with too many, but I too have been on a busy treadmill making threaded programs that don't step on themselves.
But there are people who are passionate about Politics, and they are pointing out the flaws (as the evaluation article linked proves.) The problem I have with the post above is that people are somehow "stupid" for not living your life. Ask those politicians how many sacks of seed it takes to plant a 50 acre lot and most of them will look at you dumbfounded. (btw, I haven't a clue how many...)
We all have interests in different things. Setting regulations on what we can be interested in is asinine. You like shooting guns for hobby or food? Oh now! Wait a minute here. Guns hurt, therefore bad. If you ask me, it all boils down to the original intent of the Constitution. One agency CANNOT rule over such a wide variety of individuals. Each State should have lawmaking rights over it's populace and the government should be forced to uphold the rights given to those people and watch over the States to make sure they don't step on those rights. Each State should enact laws to keep it's citizens safe, if it violates the Bill of Rights, the feds should be granted power to override that law.
The next time I go for an IQ test, I'll be sure to study up on Politics first. I wouldn't want to fail miserably. Thanks for the tip that Politics weighs so heavily on the testing process.
Seriously, out in "the sticks" they may not discuss politics because it's not on their front lawn. But you know what is? Farmland, livestock, maybe a severe storm and a new High School building addition. That's the funny thing about this country. Different parts of this land care about different things in life. By your post, you've told me that you are one of these arrogant "politician type" people that have NO clue what goes on in our country. People want to live their lives on their terms. Not your terms and your worries. It's called Freedom, and this is what this is all about, and that's why this country is going to hell. Politicians and lobbyists are trying to push their opinions on what makes a man "intelligent" and that they should be doing instead of living their own lives and making sure others can go about theirs.
I just have one question for you. If you walk up to a Judge and tell him/her that you did not do a double lane change illegally, and the officer says you did. Who will they believe?
The same holds true for drugs. "Your honor, I have never used marijuana. I don't know where that came from, but I know it wasn't in my car before they inspected it." "Officer, where did you find this?" "In their trunk." Who will the judge believe?
Officers DO have immense power. They can/do make people's lives hell. I had one officer threaten (nay, downright YELL) to drag me out of my car, impound it, take me downtown, and suspend my license for making what he called a double lane change on a crowded highway. It was 4am and I was coming home from work. I made two lane changes (apparently within 3 seconds of each other according to the ticket.) I was one of two cars on that road and he was looking for me to respond in a harsh manner, just so he could do as he said with force.
Another incident I had was when I was out with my friends. I had the top down, driving legally and I merged in front of a patrol car. He pulls me over, comes up and asks for my info and when I ask what I was pulled over for he says, "Just stay in your car. I'll be right back." He goes back to his car and does who knows what for a half hour (seriously, we were on our way to a movie and ended up missing it because we were late) then comes back up, hands me my license and tells me to drive carefully. To this day, I have no idea why he pulled me over and did that. Sure, maybe I could have taken him to court... lost a day of work, income, and challenged the state. But to what end? I didn't even know his name or car number. I had a blaring light in my mirror so I couldn't see behind me.
The mere fact that they can pull you over and delay your day is over-powering enough, IMO.
Some of us have a better coefficient for heat transfer. (Am I saying that right? Some of us "put off" more of our body heat than others.)
Like for instance. If I touch the girls here at work (...I'll likely lose my job *rim shot* [you know someone was thinking it]), they are usually "colder" than my body temp. Would this mean that the "warmer feeling" bodies would power these easier? Would those with "cold bodies" not have enough heat to power their PDA at all? Does it matter?
I need to use to a lot of Windows software and WINE just doesn't cut it
Virtualization? The only things I know of that don't work here are highly graphic intense apps like games and some modeling applications. I am currently in the act of looking for a dual-core laptop that has a nicer keypad and a dependable build quality to use a my personal programming platform for the next few years. I plan on putting Linux (Ubunutu 64-bit most likely) on it and running XP in a virtual machine so I don't have to dual boot for those apps I absolutely cannot run in Linux (mostly for remoting into work.) I don't plan on gaming on it, that's what my gaming PC is for. As far as resolutions and such, I've never really had a problem until I started fooling with files I shouldn't be messing with anyway, though I guess we all have our stories. For instance, I edited Grub to change the order of the boot options. Not knowing about "automagic", I just re-ordered the entries and the next update screwed my entries. As far as Windows dual boot support. I think it's crap. When was the last time you booted into Linux from your Microsoft boot loader? I agree that this could be better, but it's hardly worth dropping Linux for.
(BTW, anyone know of a good dual-core Linux laptop that has a nice keypad, build quality, and wants to make a suggestion? I don't want cheap.) =P
I was just coming up with a number, it was neither based on any measure or meaning. But I'm sure even at the nanosecond scale you might find yourself transported back in time to a point that would not be pleasant (ie: either up in the air due to the Earth's curvature, or in a brick wall.)
Oh, I'm sure it would have been. But let's (just for a moment) assume that the British government then, is like the current US government. They would have sent an "elite" force of troops to strategically capture Adams, Jefferson, Washington, et al. and have them disappear overnight. Anyone that spoke up against such crimes would also be silenced. The "New World Order" US government has become the tyrannical king.
Not even. I was simply pointing out that they would have been stripped of rights and sent to a government prison to never be heard from again. No questions, no news... nothing. (Not that they had rights, but I firmly believe that they could never pull off what they did in today's world.)
What if the known galaxy is actually orbiting around another central point at a speed faster than 2AU per nanosecond? Traveling to the same point in space two weeks in the past or future would put you into some very strange deep space.
I would venture a guess. Yes, it's safe to say we have never been in the same coordinate space. I would assume the Earth is drawing out an invisible helix as it orbits the sun traveling through space. In the EXTREME off chance that we are on some sort of planar surface though... anyone that's used a Spirograph can attest to the pen touching a previously drawn line at least once. If we have, it's been so long that if you did find the point in time that Earth was in the same position, you could never get back in your lifetime because that point in time would pass by too quickly. I'm going to guess though that the Earth and Sun do not travel on the same spacial plane.
I think if you could do that, most people would be too busy transporting their DNA all over the galaxy exploring all the habitable planets before time travel. What would your copy do? If it could send itself back, how/would you determine who shall remain alive or do you continue to infinitely clone yourself. Could this give way to the religious belief that somehow humans did start from thin air? Were Adam and Eve copies of an alien race who figured out how to transport their DNA signature to this planet to continue their race on a distant planet?
I think "alternate universes" could probably be explained with time/space warping though. They may not be alternate universes, but alternate planets that happen to interfere with your little time warp phenomenon. That wouldn't really be time travel, but a "natural" form of transportation without destruction.
The question that begs to be asked for time travel though: If you do travel back in time, and let's say you know exactly where you will end up. How do you get back? Let's say you build a device in the past (now present)... you've used resources from that time that could have been used for something else, creating the famous paradoxical situations. You could, by using a wrong plank of wood or stepping on a bug that might scare your ancestors into each others arms, change the course of your history, rendering you nonexistent. It would happen so fast, it would be like stepping off your time machine and vanishing into thin air. Along with your device. Not even mentioning airborne viruses that you could carry back with you.
I've actually wondered about this for some time. With the programmability of the Linksys WRT54G routers, couldn't you create and sell nodes using these devices or variations of such? You could even create a solar/battery power cell for it and not require local electricity to run it. You'd need to put them in a weatherproof container and you'd probably end up spending $100 or so a piece. If you could get a stable build, reduce the footprint and get someone to mass produce this, you'd be set for a node based network selling the devices for a few bucks (I'm guessing.) People wishing to promote this could buy a cheap node, mount it somewhere and be connected to a local wireless LAN. Since Neighbornet is taken, we'd have to come up with a new name. WAPnet?
Maybe Slashdot needs to implement a random first post algorithm to nullify the advantage of having your post at the top of the page. One refresh and it's all up to the random number generator on what order you're in.
Or, you could just post relevant information to the context of the story (which I guess the OP was) and just let the meta-moderators deal with it.
I don't know... maybe he didn't feel the need to slap his name on the game just to get recognition? Your guess is as good as mine. But to completely skip over him from Sid/Will straight to Gabe is kind of obtuse.
Even then that's a silly arguments. How many "Gabe Newell's Half-Life" or "Will Wright's Sim City" games do you know of? The only two people I'm aware of at this moment arrogant enough to label their games with their name are Sid and Richard Garriott (and we know how well that one went.)
Funny. It's just freaking amazing that someone would even stoop so low as to mention Gabe Newell and not know Carmack. Hell, the original Half-Life is written on the Quake engine written by Carmack.
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Considering myself a technically inclined user (being a senior developer) I lock my machine down myself. I know it sounds backwards, but I don't want rogue applications running on my machine when I'm testing. Not even the ones used by my company to keep the system "inventoried."
Sorry, I wasn't implying a State run "nanny state". I realize that was worded wrong. However, I do believe that the Bill of Rights was created to grant the citizens rights above that of State restriction. The government is in a sad state today, I agree, however you end your post with what is (could be) considered a rebellious/revolutionist statements. "Don't like it? Don't pay taxes." Sure. If you like being arrested, homeless, or worse. I posted in another thread about this, but the US Government has become what our forefathers fought against. For the most part, I agree with you... I think the Bill of Rights is a good thing. It guarantees privileges that the States cannot take away from law-biding citizens. These are the only laws I feel the feds should be involved in, next to the tasks of foreign interactions and commerce as you stated.
In order to do as you please (as you state) you would have to be a homeless man moving from forest to forest because you couldn't own your own land (the IRS would take it for not paying taxes) and you'd be living a pretty sad life IMHO. BTW, I'm all for getting rid of the IRS.
"You can't not be involved unless you're uninvolved entirely." This is where I disagree. Given, in today's government, that is true. However, if you look at what you stated and what is given to us in the Constitution, it doesn't NEED to be like that. It was loopholed, bastardized, and abused. You should only have to be concerned with what is happening around you. You then elect someone from your "fold" to represent your case to the higher powers. Laws were put in place to control these elections and the terms to which they would serve. Unfortunately, there were men conniving enough to find ways to manipulate these rules.
I don't know what it is about LISP/Erlang/etc. but I can't read them as easily as I read blocked code like C/C++/Java/JS/AS. When I was a kid, I learned on BASIC (GWBASIC, then QuickBasic) I eventually self taught VB4, and ever since coming out of college hating (need bolder bolds!) COBOL I just simply don't want to touch line delimited code. I've grown to love C-like languages and wished there was a better way to do multiprocessing without threads. I'm going to have to check into Scala as I really haven't heard much about it until recently. I don't understand why it would be that hard to create objects (or object syntax) for existing "block" languages to the point of making objects parallel with messaging. ("myobj proc_spawn { public:int main(){} }" for instance?). I really haven't tried messing with too many, but I too have been on a busy treadmill making threaded programs that don't step on themselves.
But there are people who are passionate about Politics, and they are pointing out the flaws (as the evaluation article linked proves.) The problem I have with the post above is that people are somehow "stupid" for not living your life. Ask those politicians how many sacks of seed it takes to plant a 50 acre lot and most of them will look at you dumbfounded. (btw, I haven't a clue how many...)
We all have interests in different things. Setting regulations on what we can be interested in is asinine. You like shooting guns for hobby or food? Oh now! Wait a minute here. Guns hurt, therefore bad. If you ask me, it all boils down to the original intent of the Constitution. One agency CANNOT rule over such a wide variety of individuals. Each State should have lawmaking rights over it's populace and the government should be forced to uphold the rights given to those people and watch over the States to make sure they don't step on those rights. Each State should enact laws to keep it's citizens safe, if it violates the Bill of Rights, the feds should be granted power to override that law.
The next time I go for an IQ test, I'll be sure to study up on Politics first. I wouldn't want to fail miserably. Thanks for the tip that Politics weighs so heavily on the testing process.
Seriously, out in "the sticks" they may not discuss politics because it's not on their front lawn. But you know what is? Farmland, livestock, maybe a severe storm and a new High School building addition. That's the funny thing about this country. Different parts of this land care about different things in life. By your post, you've told me that you are one of these arrogant "politician type" people that have NO clue what goes on in our country. People want to live their lives on their terms. Not your terms and your worries. It's called Freedom, and this is what this is all about, and that's why this country is going to hell. Politicians and lobbyists are trying to push their opinions on what makes a man "intelligent" and that they should be doing instead of living their own lives and making sure others can go about theirs.
I just have one question for you. If you walk up to a Judge and tell him/her that you did not do a double lane change illegally, and the officer says you did. Who will they believe?
The same holds true for drugs. "Your honor, I have never used marijuana. I don't know where that came from, but I know it wasn't in my car before they inspected it." "Officer, where did you find this?" "In their trunk." Who will the judge believe?
Officers DO have immense power. They can/do make people's lives hell. I had one officer threaten (nay, downright YELL) to drag me out of my car, impound it, take me downtown, and suspend my license for making what he called a double lane change on a crowded highway. It was 4am and I was coming home from work. I made two lane changes (apparently within 3 seconds of each other according to the ticket.) I was one of two cars on that road and he was looking for me to respond in a harsh manner, just so he could do as he said with force.
Another incident I had was when I was out with my friends. I had the top down, driving legally and I merged in front of a patrol car. He pulls me over, comes up and asks for my info and when I ask what I was pulled over for he says, "Just stay in your car. I'll be right back." He goes back to his car and does who knows what for a half hour (seriously, we were on our way to a movie and ended up missing it because we were late) then comes back up, hands me my license and tells me to drive carefully. To this day, I have no idea why he pulled me over and did that. Sure, maybe I could have taken him to court... lost a day of work, income, and challenged the state. But to what end? I didn't even know his name or car number. I had a blaring light in my mirror so I couldn't see behind me.
The mere fact that they can pull you over and delay your day is over-powering enough, IMO.
He said a "single" module, thus no counterpart and thus no "girlfriend."
Some of us have a better coefficient for heat transfer. (Am I saying that right? Some of us "put off" more of our body heat than others.)
Like for instance. If I touch the girls here at work (...I'll likely lose my job *rim shot* [you know someone was thinking it]), they are usually "colder" than my body temp. Would this mean that the "warmer feeling" bodies would power these easier? Would those with "cold bodies" not have enough heat to power their PDA at all? Does it matter?
Probably for the same reason there's a giant shaded wave of darkness over this map: http://www.opentopia.com/images/cams/world_sunlight_map_rectangular.jpg
The Earth is round + our solar system spins off axis to the rest of the galaxy = "sine wave" infrared signature showing the horizon of the galaxy.
(BTW, anyone know of a good dual-core Linux laptop that has a nice keypad, build quality, and wants to make a suggestion? I don't want cheap.) =P
I was just coming up with a number, it was neither based on any measure or meaning. But I'm sure even at the nanosecond scale you might find yourself transported back in time to a point that would not be pleasant (ie: either up in the air due to the Earth's curvature, or in a brick wall.)
Oh, I'm sure it would have been. But let's (just for a moment) assume that the British government then, is like the current US government. They would have sent an "elite" force of troops to strategically capture Adams, Jefferson, Washington, et al. and have them disappear overnight. Anyone that spoke up against such crimes would also be silenced. The "New World Order" US government has become the tyrannical king.
Not even. I was simply pointing out that they would have been stripped of rights and sent to a government prison to never be heard from again. No questions, no news... nothing. (Not that they had rights, but I firmly believe that they could never pull off what they did in today's world.)
The part that bothers me about the PATRIOT Act is that our forefathers would be considered terrorists.
What if the known galaxy is actually orbiting around another central point at a speed faster than 2AU per nanosecond? Traveling to the same point in space two weeks in the past or future would put you into some very strange deep space.
I would venture a guess. Yes, it's safe to say we have never been in the same coordinate space. I would assume the Earth is drawing out an invisible helix as it orbits the sun traveling through space. In the EXTREME off chance that we are on some sort of planar surface though... anyone that's used a Spirograph can attest to the pen touching a previously drawn line at least once. If we have, it's been so long that if you did find the point in time that Earth was in the same position, you could never get back in your lifetime because that point in time would pass by too quickly. I'm going to guess though that the Earth and Sun do not travel on the same spacial plane.
If you could find the signal, and it didn't cause Pluto to swerve off course and kill us all.
I think if you could do that, most people would be too busy transporting their DNA all over the galaxy exploring all the habitable planets before time travel. What would your copy do? If it could send itself back, how/would you determine who shall remain alive or do you continue to infinitely clone yourself. Could this give way to the religious belief that somehow humans did start from thin air? Were Adam and Eve copies of an alien race who figured out how to transport their DNA signature to this planet to continue their race on a distant planet?
I think "alternate universes" could probably be explained with time/space warping though. They may not be alternate universes, but alternate planets that happen to interfere with your little time warp phenomenon. That wouldn't really be time travel, but a "natural" form of transportation without destruction.
The question that begs to be asked for time travel though: If you do travel back in time, and let's say you know exactly where you will end up. How do you get back? Let's say you build a device in the past (now present)... you've used resources from that time that could have been used for something else, creating the famous paradoxical situations. You could, by using a wrong plank of wood or stepping on a bug that might scare your ancestors into each others arms, change the course of your history, rendering you nonexistent. It would happen so fast, it would be like stepping off your time machine and vanishing into thin air. Along with your device. Not even mentioning airborne viruses that you could carry back with you.
I've actually wondered about this for some time. With the programmability of the Linksys WRT54G routers, couldn't you create and sell nodes using these devices or variations of such? You could even create a solar/battery power cell for it and not require local electricity to run it. You'd need to put them in a weatherproof container and you'd probably end up spending $100 or so a piece. If you could get a stable build, reduce the footprint and get someone to mass produce this, you'd be set for a node based network selling the devices for a few bucks (I'm guessing.) People wishing to promote this could buy a cheap node, mount it somewhere and be connected to a local wireless LAN. Since Neighbornet is taken, we'd have to come up with a new name. WAPnet?
Where do I find a "screen reader" that converts Microsoft to "M$"? ;) (and wouldn't it be speech recognition, not a screen reader?)
Maybe Slashdot needs to implement a random first post algorithm to nullify the advantage of having your post at the top of the page. One refresh and it's all up to the random number generator on what order you're in.
Or, you could just post relevant information to the context of the story (which I guess the OP was) and just let the meta-moderators deal with it.
Your right, I was referencing mainly Newell. The other two were unfortunate inclusions.
I don't know... maybe he didn't feel the need to slap his name on the game just to get recognition? Your guess is as good as mine. But to completely skip over him from Sid/Will straight to Gabe is kind of obtuse.
Even then that's a silly arguments. How many "Gabe Newell's Half-Life" or "Will Wright's Sim City" games do you know of? The only two people I'm aware of at this moment arrogant enough to label their games with their name are Sid and Richard Garriott (and we know how well that one went.)
Funny. It's just freaking amazing that someone would even stoop so low as to mention Gabe Newell and not know Carmack. Hell, the original Half-Life is written on the Quake engine written by Carmack.