No fortunately they're not going yet for a full unicode thing, only a few select character sets like Chinese or Arabic. So for the moment that shouldn't be a problem.
My name is John, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day looking at stupid ass pictures. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any pussy? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than jerking off to pictures on facebook.
Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my basketball team. What sports do you play, other than "jack off to naked drawn Japanese people"? I also get straight A's, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.
Well actually I was originally referring to the Jewish guy in Zombieland (if you've seen it you'll recognise my description of the character and the plot). As for backing it up as a generality, I could quote a whole bunch of Jews who played nerds and you still wouldn't be satisfied.
By the way, why do you guys take my claim this way? I mean, besides the traditional post-WWII goy white knighting that makes anyone strongly react to any claim that has the word Jew in it? If I claim that East Asians are typically portrayed as nerds, no one's gonna challenge that right? Yet I've seen more Jews portrayed as nerds. Are you the kind who likes to pretend that you can't tell a Jew by their appearance?
I'm the arrogant one? That's novel, coming from someone who just compared me to a hick and condescendly suggested me to do something I've already done.
lol wow, if you're not abysmally stupid that's a sophisticated troll. First of all I have no idea what you were trying to say, then I didn't know a culture could be ruled, and then, Napolean? Yeah, sounds like a troll.
Good one, a bit too heavy handed on the stupidity, and the purpose isn't sufficiently clear. 7/10.
I'm telling you man, you find a disproportionate amount of Jews in nerdy loser type of roles. You can verify that if you don't believe me. As for an explanation, well I wish I had one. I just think/presume that people associate Jews with nerds, as they do with East Asians.
"Jewy" sounds pretty damned pejorative to me, and while you're welcome to talk about people that way if you want you can't really expect not to be called on it.
Another European speaking here. I do not share your boredom of the American high school stereotypes. In fact, I secretly enjoy all the high school movies from US.
Haha, actually, I know perfectly well what you're talking about. When I was younger (about 16) I found it infinitely more exciting than the boring way things were at my school, cause it seemed like a game of making your way through a complex hierarchy, and because it seemed clear that I would fare well at this. But now, to see eternal losers on TV who are at the bottom/the least desirable place in that hierarchy, who never really climb it significantly, it just kills me, perhaps because I hate always seeing the same shit, or perhaps because I'm more empathic now.
When I went to America about that time, the father of the host family I lived in asked me which sort of cliques I belonged to. You're right, we don't really have cliques, so I just answered what kind of person people saw me as, because the truth is groups of people tended to be awfully homogeneous. The kind where a rich vain orange skin girl is friends with a shy farmer-type guy who always wears the same green jumpsuit. And you're also right that there are unique kinds of cliques. I used to be with the communist-socialist hash-smoking skateboarders who listened to rap music:D.
And yes, there's a fundamental difference. As you pointed out, we are defined by our individuality, our personality, and even that changes a lot depending on the context. Whereas in the USA, and this is really all it comes down to, everyone must be neatly pigeon-holed. Everyone must fit into categories, be then defined by those categories and have those categories influence the perception of people into a sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop. Why such a cultural determination to substituting individualism for a sort of communitarianism? I don't know... Although somehow I suspect that it's the same reason that is at the origin of segregation, or at least its modern survival (i.e., people are still strongly segregated even if that's not by law but by choice).
Perhaps cause you're about as American as I am?;-)
That's because the entire culture is oriented towards being a 'winner'. But people always forget that for one winner, well, everybody else is a loser.
Ah, true, I almost forgot about this. How American culture is geared towards constant interpersonal competition. The shark-pool "second place is just the first loser" mentality. That's most certainly the origin of everything I was talking about in the original comment. However I don't actually know where this mentality is coming from. Why do they have beauty pageants for 5 year olds? Why do they have homecoming kings and queens? Why must the school football team have a captain? Why do they have all the in-school extra curricular activities (football, cheerleading, various clubs, school newspapers/TV stations, marching bands etc..) for people to differentiate themselves from an early age and adopt a group identity rather than develop an unforced individuality? What originally compelled them to make their children go through that?
On the other hand, he got one thing right - those movies do embody the traditional American psyche - its just not the fatalistic one that he thought was.
Well, movies are yet another arm of American escapism, in that in movies losers win, whereas the self-identified losers who watch those movies don't even try.
Wow, you managed to make fun of France without using the word 'surrender'. I humbly bow to you!
Oh, and "big jewy loser"? Really?
Yep! If you've got a functioning Jewdar you might have noticed that lots of nerds in movies look Jewish (and often enough are played by Jewish actors). I really don't know why, maybe people equate Jews with nerds? Seriously, it's a real trend, and I'm no sure why it is so.
And yes, that's exactly it, "rooting for the underdog". We're talking about the same phenomenon here, the difference is that I explained why you root for the underdog. And I know you were joking but in France we're just maybe not as much into that whole David vs Goliath thing, and even if we go for that our David is never as "nerdy" or jewy.
It's sad to see middle-aged men still talking about stuff that happened to them in high school. I know John Hodgman is hardly serious, but the more I know about the USA the more it sounds like a country of 17-year old self-claimed losers who get publicly humiliated on a daily basis by having their underpants pulled up.
Seriously, it's sad to see grown men still dragging along their high school complexes. Jocks and nerds? Grow the fuck out of it. Not only must every single god damn American TV show plot that's centred around males at school must be about so-called losers who get humiliated by big mean guys and mean "popular girls", on top of that you have a very significant portion of the American adult population who must completely identify and go out of their way to fit the stereotypes, from reading children's comic books about superior men in tight pants who avenge anyone by kicking the arse of the big mean guys (yes, so-called losers enjoy escapism by means of reading about a superior man who kicks all the arse they never had the balls to kick themselves) to being pansies who'll get pushed around by their wife as if they were still 12 and that the chick was their mom, probably because they feel that so-called losers don't need to grow some balls and become a man, so they forever remain whiny overgrown teenagers who play with Star Wars figurines and get flashbacks of having their underpants pulled up. If you're gonna play something that involves dungeons and you're over 20, it'd better involve gags and leather restraints.
As an outsider, watching that shit is getting increasingly painful. We don't even have a word for wedgie cause no one gets their underpants pulled up in France, except maybe girls with G-strings that stick out of their pants, so that's hard to relate to your neurosis. It's like your entire culture and civilisation revolves around men with complexes who can't grow out of their teenager bullshit. Look at movies. How many of them are about a loser hero any other loser can relate to and who becomes a loser+ by staying a loser so you can still relate but in the process accomplishing something great? As in "big jewy loser who never kissed a girl and plays WoW goes through a bunch of adventures and in the end he kisses a hot chick whom he thought was "out of his league", whatever the fuck that means". Or "divorced middle-aged loser with a crappy job saves the world and gets with a hot woman". Sometimes it seems like you ALL must think of yourselves as loser, one way or another. That's pathetic.
That's utter bullshit. "Jocks" don't run the world, real jocks end up working at an auto plant and become alcoholics by the time they're 35. Hustlers run the world. If you want the world you can't be a sheep. You can't follow the other sheeps and wonder why you're not getting anywhere special.
Look at John D. Rockefeller, that guy was the perfect example of the successful aggressive hustler. From co-owning one refinery he pulled every possible trick to become more competitive than anyone else, eat the competition to get even bigger until he had a complete monopoly and became the richest son of a bitch in the world. No one told him what to do, no one showed him what to do, no one made it easy for him, he didn't follow anyone or complain like a big loser.
At the other end of the spectrum you've got people complaining in this topic that their quasi-janitorial job isn't getting them anywhere. I mean shit, the type of jobs we're talking about here partially consists in making sure people don't have CAPS LOCK turned on when they login in the morning. What the hell did you expect?! No one gets anywhere special by following the safe, pre-designed path that you've borrowed. What you do isn't special, you're probably spending most of your work day typing in some MySQL when you're not typing rants on Slashdot with your Cheetos-scented fingers.
I was just watching the Colbert Report and there was this thing about the university degrees the world's billionaires had. And guess what, a lot of them had none. Steve Jobs had none. Bill Gates had none. John D. Rockefeller had none. And you know what else these guys have in common? They're hustlers, and they got rich as hell. They didn't work for 20 years for some large company waiting to realise their career is shit, they took the bull by the horns, created their own damn company and strived to make it successful.
You don't want to create your own company? You don't have any sort of entrepreneurial spirit? You don't want to quit your day job? Well too bad for you. In life you can only choose two of the following three things : have it easy, do something you like, become rich and respected. You chose the first two, don't complain you'll never see the third.
How many things do you need to simulate when you're exploring AI algorithms? Besides, you control things better when things are simulated, you can speed things up tremendously, you can get as many units as you need (no need to build them) and then you don't have to work out the kinks of making a robot that interacts with its environment.
I think that outweighs any of the bullshit effects another poster mentioned.
Why even bother with robots? So it looks more real and tangible than just a computer simulation? Maybe, but other than that it's a waste of time and resources. Anything you could learn you could learn from a simulation of those robots, since this is entirely an algorithmic problem. I guess these guys just like to play with robots.
I'm pretty sure that's why RapidShare/MegaUpload don't have search functions, even though they actually store and serve the files, and why it takes third party websites to crawl the web in search of files hosted by those services.
“The next island is located very far from the first one,” said Oganessian. How far away might that next island be" In terms of numbers on the periodic table, it could lie around atomic number 164, as some theorists predicted, certainly a long way from where researchers are exploring today in hopes of discovering element 120. (from here)
Re:Why the need to 'discover' the elements?
on
Element 114 Verified
·
· Score: 1
First of all I'm not sure what you mean by formula, and as for the basic properties, they mostly all come down to the half-life.
I'll have you know that using a strawman argument can be used to make a valid argument, which I did. Just because someone uses an analogy doesn't make their argument instantly invalid.
In other words I have a good point and you have nothing to say for it. I accept your apology.
No one gives a crap. If Leopard is a full-blown UNIX, then what could possibly prevent Snow Leopard from being one too? What's the difference? There's none, you're just a mindless tool who can't think for himself, so you think that because that worthless certification wasn't renewed it's in any way significant.
If not then go ahead and tell me what's the difference that would make it less a UNIX than Leopard. You'll have to research it, because right now I don't think you have the vaguest idea. As far as you know there's none, so there was really no point in bring that whole shit up in the first place.
Check your facts. Archive.org only has a tiny fraction of the Web (even if it's the most important of it), the whole Internet is an entirely different story (since it's made of every server and personal computer connected, and every service out there, most of which cannot be "stored" in any way). Cuil is known to inflate its search index count by a few hundreds times, or at least it was in its early days.
Slashdot Mirror
No fortunately they're not going yet for a full unicode thing, only a few select character sets like Chinese or Arabic. So for the moment that shouldn't be a problem.
Hey Faggots,
My name is John, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day looking at stupid ass pictures. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any pussy? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than jerking off to pictures on facebook.
Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my basketball team. What sports do you play, other than "jack off to naked drawn Japanese people"? I also get straight A's, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.
Pic Related: It's me and my bitch
Well actually I was originally referring to the Jewish guy in Zombieland (if you've seen it you'll recognise my description of the character and the plot). As for backing it up as a generality, I could quote a whole bunch of Jews who played nerds and you still wouldn't be satisfied.
By the way, why do you guys take my claim this way? I mean, besides the traditional post-WWII goy white knighting that makes anyone strongly react to any claim that has the word Jew in it? If I claim that East Asians are typically portrayed as nerds, no one's gonna challenge that right? Yet I've seen more Jews portrayed as nerds. Are you the kind who likes to pretend that you can't tell a Jew by their appearance?
I'm the arrogant one? That's novel, coming from someone who just compared me to a hick and condescendly suggested me to do something I've already done.
lol wow, if you're not abysmally stupid that's a sophisticated troll. First of all I have no idea what you were trying to say, then I didn't know a culture could be ruled, and then, Napolean? Yeah, sounds like a troll.
Good one, a bit too heavy handed on the stupidity, and the purpose isn't sufficiently clear. 7/10.
Mods : 'Jew' isn't a slur, you know?
I'm telling you man, you find a disproportionate amount of Jews in nerdy loser type of roles. You can verify that if you don't believe me. As for an explanation, well I wish I had one. I just think/presume that people associate Jews with nerds, as they do with East Asians.
"Jewy" sounds pretty damned pejorative to me, and while you're welcome to talk about people that way if you want you can't really expect not to be called on it.
Not really, I'm immune to that, I'm part Jewish.
Yes, by all means let us not hear what outsiders can reveal about you that you wouldn't know on your own.
Another European speaking here. I do not share your boredom of the American high school stereotypes. In fact, I secretly enjoy all the high school movies from US.
Haha, actually, I know perfectly well what you're talking about. When I was younger (about 16) I found it infinitely more exciting than the boring way things were at my school, cause it seemed like a game of making your way through a complex hierarchy, and because it seemed clear that I would fare well at this. But now, to see eternal losers on TV who are at the bottom/the least desirable place in that hierarchy, who never really climb it significantly, it just kills me, perhaps because I hate always seeing the same shit, or perhaps because I'm more empathic now.
When I went to America about that time, the father of the host family I lived in asked me which sort of cliques I belonged to. You're right, we don't really have cliques, so I just answered what kind of person people saw me as, because the truth is groups of people tended to be awfully homogeneous. The kind where a rich vain orange skin girl is friends with a shy farmer-type guy who always wears the same green jumpsuit. And you're also right that there are unique kinds of cliques. I used to be with the communist-socialist hash-smoking skateboarders who listened to rap music :D.
And yes, there's a fundamental difference. As you pointed out, we are defined by our individuality, our personality, and even that changes a lot depending on the context. Whereas in the USA, and this is really all it comes down to, everyone must be neatly pigeon-holed. Everyone must fit into categories, be then defined by those categories and have those categories influence the perception of people into a sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop. Why such a cultural determination to substituting individualism for a sort of communitarianism? I don't know... Although somehow I suspect that it's the same reason that is at the origin of segregation, or at least its modern survival (i.e., people are still strongly segregated even if that's not by law but by choice).
One thing I could never understand.
Perhaps cause you're about as American as I am? ;-)
That's because the entire culture is oriented towards being a 'winner'. But people always forget that for one winner, well, everybody else is a loser.
Ah, true, I almost forgot about this. How American culture is geared towards constant interpersonal competition. The shark-pool "second place is just the first loser" mentality. That's most certainly the origin of everything I was talking about in the original comment. However I don't actually know where this mentality is coming from. Why do they have beauty pageants for 5 year olds? Why do they have homecoming kings and queens? Why must the school football team have a captain? Why do they have all the in-school extra curricular activities (football, cheerleading, various clubs, school newspapers/TV stations, marching bands etc..) for people to differentiate themselves from an early age and adopt a group identity rather than develop an unforced individuality? What originally compelled them to make their children go through that?
On the other hand, he got one thing right - those movies do embody the traditional American psyche - its just not the fatalistic one that he thought was.
Well, movies are yet another arm of American escapism, in that in movies losers win, whereas the self-identified losers who watch those movies don't even try.
Wow, you managed to make fun of France without using the word 'surrender'. I humbly bow to you!
Oh, and "big jewy loser"? Really?
Yep! If you've got a functioning Jewdar you might have noticed that lots of nerds in movies look Jewish (and often enough are played by Jewish actors). I really don't know why, maybe people equate Jews with nerds? Seriously, it's a real trend, and I'm no sure why it is so.
And yes, that's exactly it, "rooting for the underdog". We're talking about the same phenomenon here, the difference is that I explained why you root for the underdog. And I know you were joking but in France we're just maybe not as much into that whole David vs Goliath thing, and even if we go for that our David is never as "nerdy" or jewy.
It's sad to see middle-aged men still talking about stuff that happened to them in high school. I know John Hodgman is hardly serious, but the more I know about the USA the more it sounds like a country of 17-year old self-claimed losers who get publicly humiliated on a daily basis by having their underpants pulled up.
Seriously, it's sad to see grown men still dragging along their high school complexes. Jocks and nerds? Grow the fuck out of it. Not only must every single god damn American TV show plot that's centred around males at school must be about so-called losers who get humiliated by big mean guys and mean "popular girls", on top of that you have a very significant portion of the American adult population who must completely identify and go out of their way to fit the stereotypes, from reading children's comic books about superior men in tight pants who avenge anyone by kicking the arse of the big mean guys (yes, so-called losers enjoy escapism by means of reading about a superior man who kicks all the arse they never had the balls to kick themselves) to being pansies who'll get pushed around by their wife as if they were still 12 and that the chick was their mom, probably because they feel that so-called losers don't need to grow some balls and become a man, so they forever remain whiny overgrown teenagers who play with Star Wars figurines and get flashbacks of having their underpants pulled up. If you're gonna play something that involves dungeons and you're over 20, it'd better involve gags and leather restraints.
As an outsider, watching that shit is getting increasingly painful. We don't even have a word for wedgie cause no one gets their underpants pulled up in France, except maybe girls with G-strings that stick out of their pants, so that's hard to relate to your neurosis. It's like your entire culture and civilisation revolves around men with complexes who can't grow out of their teenager bullshit. Look at movies. How many of them are about a loser hero any other loser can relate to and who becomes a loser+ by staying a loser so you can still relate but in the process accomplishing something great? As in "big jewy loser who never kissed a girl and plays WoW goes through a bunch of adventures and in the end he kisses a hot chick whom he thought was "out of his league", whatever the fuck that means". Or "divorced middle-aged loser with a crappy job saves the world and gets with a hot woman". Sometimes it seems like you ALL must think of yourselves as loser, one way or another. That's pathetic.
That's utter bullshit. "Jocks" don't run the world, real jocks end up working at an auto plant and become alcoholics by the time they're 35. Hustlers run the world. If you want the world you can't be a sheep. You can't follow the other sheeps and wonder why you're not getting anywhere special.
Look at John D. Rockefeller, that guy was the perfect example of the successful aggressive hustler. From co-owning one refinery he pulled every possible trick to become more competitive than anyone else, eat the competition to get even bigger until he had a complete monopoly and became the richest son of a bitch in the world. No one told him what to do, no one showed him what to do, no one made it easy for him, he didn't follow anyone or complain like a big loser.
At the other end of the spectrum you've got people complaining in this topic that their quasi-janitorial job isn't getting them anywhere. I mean shit, the type of jobs we're talking about here partially consists in making sure people don't have CAPS LOCK turned on when they login in the morning. What the hell did you expect?! No one gets anywhere special by following the safe, pre-designed path that you've borrowed. What you do isn't special, you're probably spending most of your work day typing in some MySQL when you're not typing rants on Slashdot with your Cheetos-scented fingers.
I was just watching the Colbert Report and there was this thing about the university degrees the world's billionaires had. And guess what, a lot of them had none. Steve Jobs had none. Bill Gates had none. John D. Rockefeller had none. And you know what else these guys have in common? They're hustlers, and they got rich as hell. They didn't work for 20 years for some large company waiting to realise their career is shit, they took the bull by the horns, created their own damn company and strived to make it successful.
You don't want to create your own company? You don't have any sort of entrepreneurial spirit? You don't want to quit your day job? Well too bad for you. In life you can only choose two of the following three things : have it easy, do something you like, become rich and respected. You chose the first two, don't complain you'll never see the third.
How many things do you need to simulate when you're exploring AI algorithms? Besides, you control things better when things are simulated, you can speed things up tremendously, you can get as many units as you need (no need to build them) and then you don't have to work out the kinks of making a robot that interacts with its environment.
I think that outweighs any of the bullshit effects another poster mentioned.
Why even bother with robots? So it looks more real and tangible than just a computer simulation? Maybe, but other than that it's a waste of time and resources. Anything you could learn you could learn from a simulation of those robots, since this is entirely an algorithmic problem. I guess these guys just like to play with robots.
Up until now, the land-area of the moon was mainly described by either being in the light side or the dark side.
Let me guess, you're not quite from the bright side of Earth, are you?
They should get a patent on getting patents for just about anything.
I'm pretty sure that's why RapidShare/MegaUpload don't have search functions, even though they actually store and serve the files, and why it takes third party websites to crawl the web in search of files hosted by those services.
Or the next one :
“The next island is located very far from the first one,” said Oganessian. How far away might that next island be" In terms of numbers on the periodic table, it could lie around atomic number 164, as some theorists predicted, certainly a long way from where researchers are exploring today in hopes of discovering element 120. (from here)
First of all I'm not sure what you mean by formula, and as for the basic properties, they mostly all come down to the half-life.
I'll have you know that using a strawman argument can be used to make a valid argument, which I did. Just because someone uses an analogy doesn't make their argument instantly invalid.
In other words I have a good point and you have nothing to say for it. I accept your apology.
What the hell are you babbling about?
No one gives a crap. If Leopard is a full-blown UNIX, then what could possibly prevent Snow Leopard from being one too? What's the difference? There's none, you're just a mindless tool who can't think for himself, so you think that because that worthless certification wasn't renewed it's in any way significant.
If not then go ahead and tell me what's the difference that would make it less a UNIX than Leopard. You'll have to research it, because right now I don't think you have the vaguest idea. As far as you know there's none, so there was really no point in bring that whole shit up in the first place.
Check your facts. Archive.org only has a tiny fraction of the Web (even if it's the most important of it), the whole Internet is an entirely different story (since it's made of every server and personal computer connected, and every service out there, most of which cannot be "stored" in any way). Cuil is known to inflate its search index count by a few hundreds times, or at least it was in its early days.