It's likely that they would be a pack species, but not necessarily. It's possible that the species developed a way of working together on strictly short terms that allowed them to develop as a species without forming what we would consider a society. Again, unlikely, but possible. It's also quite possible that they had a society, but it broke down once they became a space-faring race. After a few thousand years (assuming lifespans similar to ours), they would no longer really be a pack species.
Really, until we encounter another intelligent species we have very little idea of what they can or cannot be like. Granted, some ideas are more sound, well thought out, and rooted in logic than others. But, it's still a bit arrogant that, from our little corner of the galaxy, we're able to determine what everyone else must be like when we haven't even explored the galaxy yet.
When you read shit like this you're almost tempted to conclude that it's either a)a joke that nobody gets, or b)a strawman designed to make others (in this case people obsessed with copyrighting everything) look like fools. Then you realize that it's not a joke and some people don't need strawmen to look like fools.
And if he was doing it on his own time then no, it probably wouldn't have mattered. However when he lies while acting as a agent of the Foundation, it makes the organization look bad as well. That's why he should be fired. It isn't like someone on/. claiming to be an expert on theoretical physics or copyright law when they're just a whiny teenager - nobody pays them much attention and it doesn't reflect (too) badly on Slashdot to have a liar in their mists.
Knowing how business work, possibly. That is why people are often offered a chance to retire instead of flat out getting fired. Retirement gets you benefits (severance, pension, whatever) while firing doesn't. Of course, that's another reason he should have been fired in the first place. Of course, allowing someone to retire makes it harder for them to retaliate against the company, so I guess this is the easiest way of making the problem go away.
Truman: "Whistlin dixy! I want this sent to Area 51 for study!" General: "But Sir! That's where we're building our fake moon landing set." Truman: "Then we'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them to get off their fannies!"
Well, we have no proof, but it sounds good and makes us seem "in the know" and is a perfectly logical explination for why this story was posted but our submission that linked to our personal blog that had nothing to do with technology wasn't. So we'll just assume that Slashdot is getting paid to post stories.
That was decent of you. I'm not worried about getting in any kind of trouble for not meeting the deadline since it doesn't seem like any other department is going to either. Besides, it's just PR. Despite what they thing they are not in charge of this project, it extends above, below, and around them. I'm just annoyed by them; they do very little besides create uninformative press releases and stick their noses in other people's business.
99% of the time it's because upper managment either promised the customers features that could not be implemented or gave the programmers too little time and/or resources to finish the job. While not software development, I am having to deal with a similar problem right now. We are moving our website to a new CMS system. So we have to move all of the content from our old pages to the new system using a slow, buggy, web based system. In the beginning we were told by IT that we had until June 5 to complete the move, so we scheduled our time accordingly. Things progressed slowly but in time to meet the deadline. Then Tuesday morning we get a call from the assholes in PR that we have to have everything done by this Friday. We just had our remaining time cut in less than half. There is no way we can get done, so the site will be incomplete. PR gets no blame and we look bad.
There are still way to many email clients in use that only accept plain text, so you can't necessarily guarentee that the recipient will see your markup.
I'm sure many individual birds will get screwed, and we may lose a few species in the process.
Oh, that was just a guess on my part since species sometimes can't handle dramatic changes. Of course, we don't really know how dramatic of a change this will be for them. Maybe all will survive, maybe only a certain percent of them will, but it's highly unlikely that we're looking at a 100% extinction rate.
Well, birds obviously managed to survive other reversals, so there is not reason to expect that they won't survive this. Overall at least. I'm sure many individual birds will get screwed, and we may lose a few species in the process. But, that's how nature works.
Are you really expecting Moore to have a clue. He's probably still convinced that there is no PS3 and the 360 is competing with the PS2. No GTAIV on PS2 = XBOX 360 exclusive.
The difference is that you're posting that comment with 0% chance of getting imprisioned for it, despite what many teenagers in the US seem to have convinced themselves. You think that would be the case if Slashdot and you were in China and you said the same things about the Chinese government?
Slashdot Mirror
What happens when you drop your paper ballot into the box? Can you tell me?
People's ability to turn everything into MS being evil is truly amazing.
It's likely that they would be a pack species, but not necessarily. It's possible that the species developed a way of working together on strictly short terms that allowed them to develop as a species without forming what we would consider a society. Again, unlikely, but possible. It's also quite possible that they had a society, but it broke down once they became a space-faring race. After a few thousand years (assuming lifespans similar to ours), they would no longer really be a pack species.
Really, until we encounter another intelligent species we have very little idea of what they can or cannot be like. Granted, some ideas are more sound, well thought out, and rooted in logic than others. But, it's still a bit arrogant that, from our little corner of the galaxy, we're able to determine what everyone else must be like when we haven't even explored the galaxy yet.
Indeed. It just never mentioned what direction to mod you.
When you read shit like this you're almost tempted to conclude that it's either a)a joke that nobody gets, or b)a strawman designed to make others (in this case people obsessed with copyrighting everything) look like fools. Then you realize that it's not a joke and some people don't need strawmen to look like fools.
And if he was doing it on his own time then no, it probably wouldn't have mattered. However when he lies while acting as a agent of the Foundation, it makes the organization look bad as well. That's why he should be fired. It isn't like someone on /. claiming to be an expert on theoretical physics or copyright law when they're just a whiny teenager - nobody pays them much attention and it doesn't reflect (too) badly on Slashdot to have a liar in their mists.
Knowing how business work, possibly. That is why people are often offered a chance to retire instead of flat out getting fired. Retirement gets you benefits (severance, pension, whatever) while firing doesn't. Of course, that's another reason he should have been fired in the first place. Of course, allowing someone to retire makes it harder for them to retaliate against the company, so I guess this is the easiest way of making the problem go away.
So it's probably just the damn advertisement they stick over top of it that requires Flash 8. Not really surprising.
Actually, "more less non-productive" sounds like something a manager would say, so it works in this context.
Agreed. It would really cut down on the number of crap lawsuits. Unfortunately that is exactly why it will not happen anytime soon.
Truman: "Whistlin dixy! I want this sent to Area 51 for study!"
General: "But Sir! That's where we're building our fake moon landing set."
Truman: "Then we'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them to get off their fannies!"
Well, we have no proof, but it sounds good and makes us seem "in the know" and is a perfectly logical explination for why this story was posted but our submission that linked to our personal blog that had nothing to do with technology wasn't. So we'll just assume that Slashdot is getting paid to post stories.
That was decent of you. I'm not worried about getting in any kind of trouble for not meeting the deadline since it doesn't seem like any other department is going to either. Besides, it's just PR. Despite what they thing they are not in charge of this project, it extends above, below, and around them. I'm just annoyed by them; they do very little besides create uninformative press releases and stick their noses in other people's business.
Nope, a college in PA
CMS system isn't responding again, so I can't really be working on the webpage anyway.
99% of the time it's because upper managment either promised the customers features that could not be implemented or gave the programmers too little time and/or resources to finish the job. While not software development, I am having to deal with a similar problem right now. We are moving our website to a new CMS system. So we have to move all of the content from our old pages to the new system using a slow, buggy, web based system. In the beginning we were told by IT that we had until June 5 to complete the move, so we scheduled our time accordingly. Things progressed slowly but in time to meet the deadline. Then Tuesday morning we get a call from the assholes in PR that we have to have everything done by this Friday. We just had our remaining time cut in less than half. There is no way we can get done, so the site will be incomplete. PR gets no blame and we look bad.
AntiVir is good, though the pop up you get everytime it updates is rather obnoxious. Is there a way to disable it?
There are still way to many email clients in use that only accept plain text, so you can't necessarily guarentee that the recipient will see your markup.
Oh, that was just a guess on my part since species sometimes can't handle dramatic changes. Of course, we don't really know how dramatic of a change this will be for them. Maybe all will survive, maybe only a certain percent of them will, but it's highly unlikely that we're looking at a 100% extinction rate.
Well, birds obviously managed to survive other reversals, so there is not reason to expect that they won't survive this. Overall at least. I'm sure many individual birds will get screwed, and we may lose a few species in the process. But, that's how nature works.
the only possible solution is to have them fight to the death Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot Style
Are you really expecting Moore to have a clue. He's probably still convinced that there is no PS3 and the 360 is competing with the PS2. No GTAIV on PS2 = XBOX 360 exclusive.
True, but Nintendo screwing over Europe kind of goes without saying.
The difference is that you're posting that comment with 0% chance of getting imprisioned for it, despite what many teenagers in the US seem to have convinced themselves. You think that would be the case if Slashdot and you were in China and you said the same things about the Chinese government?
Sure, we have cooler things than in the 70's and 80's, but they didn't have That 80's show.