Well one difference is what's at stake. Back then by being the first to get somewhere you could be the first to claim huge lands filled with potential slaves. In space, you can't claim a damn thing, and there isn't much to claim anyway. Even mining is nowhere near being economically viable.
Sometimes I doubt anyone really knows what the -cracy suffix means. If they did I doubt anyone would say hypocracy (hypo+cracy = a weak/lack of governmental rule?) for hypocrisy or idiocracy for idiocy.
Until ebooks can recreate the experience of flipping pages
OK, someone explain this to me, what's so flipping good about flipping flipping pages?!? I've always thought that books were a huge pain in the arse as a form factor. Once you made yourself comfortable with reading the left page, well shit, you've got to read the right page which depending on your posture wasn't meant to be readable the way you were holding your book when you were reading the left page. Have you ever tried reading a book while you're laying down? A major PITA for so many reasons!
In bed I actually like to read from my N95 better than from a book or magazine. They're so unwieldy, they're not self luminescent and paper gets in the way of what you're reading. Books are a crappy form factor, I'm amazed that people would act like it's the best form factor when you can hardly even leave a book open on a flat surface without pages to flip themselves or even have the damn thing close itself.
And there we go again with people trying to define words like there's no such thing as dictionaries.
According to Wikipedia, "an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.
Or more succintly, as given by Wiktionary, "A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject." So no, an expert in a field isn't the best in the field (who's the "best" anyway?), or one of the 999 best in the field, it's someone with a vast knowledge in a specific field.
I know that people love to equate what they don't like with what nobody likes, but really, the "OMG THEIR LIEK NAZIS"-type of criticisms are the most useless and pointless one could make. Look at how it's working for Fox News and their "OMG OBAMA = RACIST MUSLIM SOCIALIST NAZI FASCIST!!".
My point is, learn to elaborate and stop using dramatic and hyperbolic comparisons that don't sway anyone.
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Although I once heard that they had $RANDOM_NON_IMPORTANT_INCONSEQUENTIAL_ISSUE and they're not quite as polished as $MAIN_BIG_NAME_CONCURRENT. At least with them I have $OBSCURE_FEATURE_THAT_SHOULD_APPEAL_TO_ADVANCED_USERS.
$MAIN_BIG_NAME_CONCURRENT aside, FastMail.fm is the best hands down!! (Well, except maybe for the part where the free option has a ridiculously small storage space, is ridden with advertisement, closes after 45 days if you don't use it, doesn't offer POP3 or SMTP, doesn't let you transfer more than 40 MB a month)
Regarding the immigration form, one thing that was must puzzling wasn't what they asked, but how they asked it. They had 5 boxes to tick (hint: don't tick any), and under one box they were asking both if you worked for the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945 or if you were looking for work in the USA. In the same fucking question!!
why on earth should they choose any western nation?
I didn't know Brazil wasn't in the west. From the western nation of Ireland it looks like Brazil is westerner. The point? Don't say western if what you mean has nothing to do with the west.
Alternatively we could write it in Lawa instead so we could have the law interpreted in real-time in a virtual legal system. It might be a less efficient legal system but it would have the advantage of being completely portable to any other country without modifications, given a compatible virtual legal system. Should work quite well, I'll try writing a Habeas Corpus in Lawa later today and see how that works.
Legal code these days is the equivalent of assembly language, it's complicated but it describes on a low-level what has to be done. While it's fine and dandy, the problem these days is that too much code is produced. Hence I propose that we make a GCC-Legalese or LLVM-Legalese fork so that we can -Os legislation. Better yet, we could simply write law in a higher level language, intent, and the compiler's intent preprocessor would turn that into faithful lower level code.
I also propose that we start forking Valgrind as to automatically find legal loopholes, conflicts and grey areas before a law is passed. Finally I think we should rewrite common law in Objective-Law++ so we can benefit from the many advantages offered by objection-oriented law over procedural law. Any thoughts on Convict Collection?
guns that use gun powder and bullets will not be used by modern militaries
I don't see why you say that. Surely I can picture tiny hovering drones shooting bad guys/machinery with bullets, but I don't see why the bullets would have to go. If you want to physically damage something at a distance that's still the best thing. See, the current trend (can't speak of for a few decades from now) is all in the information technology. Cars still guzzle gas, the biggest change they're experiencing is the electronics/computers that change/allow a big number of things, old military aircrafts are fitted with new electronics/radars/computers that give them a new edge (for example seeing through your cockpit and firing a missile at a guy who's not even in front of you), soldiers still use guns from World War I, but their new edge comes from their new sensors/communication equipment/etc.
Besides this is all quite transient and or current information technology revolution isn't going to last forever (unless you're a disciple of Kurzweil). As a matter of fact I'd bet that we're about halfway into it, by that I mean you won't see much more change coming directly out of it than you've seen since 40 years ago. Later in the future surely an other wave of progress will come about, and who knows maybe we'll get much more efficient sources of energy or propulsion that will bring about the flying car, quick travel to Mars and peace and prosperity in Africa.
Well if you look at it in the short term, yes. Abolition of slavery -> the Civil war. The civil rights movements -> lots of social and political unrest, riots and demonstrations.
If you're a short sighted man, change is very rarely worth it.
Still, Windows 7 needs to be ported to Arm to get more consideration from PC makers as a replacement for Intel CPUs, Gold said.
Yeah right, like it's gonna help to have an ARM Windows when people run Windows only so they can run their x86 binaries (Microsoft are not Apple, who gets any developer to do what they say, they can't make developers give a crap about making ARM binaries). Now I understand why people seldom bother RTFAing anymore. Also what's "Arm"?
If it's so opaque, wouldn't it be colder near the surface since no light would get there? Then how would the surface vaporise? Maybe in cycles? Or maybe there could be a permanent lava cloud cover that would keep the surface cold enough to not vaporise?
Hmmm, so that must be why I'm watching videos of people having a shower. I'm preparing myself to some time in the future have myself a shower! I don't feel ready quite yet though, I'll think watch some more first.
Didn't you have biology in high school? According to my distant high school memories the heart's rate is regulated from the brain by a couple of nerves. In the case of a heart transplant these are not reconnected, so if I'm not mistaken being nervous won't make your heart rate increase. So if you want the answer to your question just ask someone who had a heart transplant.
Doesn't the pulse get dampened with distance anyway? As in, having lower variations in pressure as you go away from the heart? I always assumed it might be the case but I still don't know.
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Well one difference is what's at stake. Back then by being the first to get somewhere you could be the first to claim huge lands filled with potential slaves. In space, you can't claim a damn thing, and there isn't much to claim anyway. Even mining is nowhere near being economically viable.
Good point, but if you're going to have a device with a book page aspect ratio, then no need to scroll, you can have a virtual flip too!
Whenever something happens, the first question is "Who do I sue?"
Yeah, that's just wrong. Shouldn't it be "Whom do I sue?"
It's not hypocracy.
Sometimes I doubt anyone really knows what the -cracy suffix means. If they did I doubt anyone would say hypocracy (hypo+cracy = a weak/lack of governmental rule?) for hypocrisy or idiocracy for idiocy.
Etymology, people!
What? It looks just like the Apple logo! ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOJOBS!!
Until ebooks can recreate the experience of flipping pages
OK, someone explain this to me, what's so flipping good about flipping flipping pages?!? I've always thought that books were a huge pain in the arse as a form factor. Once you made yourself comfortable with reading the left page, well shit, you've got to read the right page which depending on your posture wasn't meant to be readable the way you were holding your book when you were reading the left page. Have you ever tried reading a book while you're laying down? A major PITA for so many reasons!
In bed I actually like to read from my N95 better than from a book or magazine. They're so unwieldy, they're not self luminescent and paper gets in the way of what you're reading. Books are a crappy form factor, I'm amazed that people would act like it's the best form factor when you can hardly even leave a book open on a flat surface without pages to flip themselves or even have the damn thing close itself.
And there we go again with people trying to define words like there's no such thing as dictionaries.
According to Wikipedia, "an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.
Or more succintly, as given by Wiktionary, "A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject." So no, an expert in a field isn't the best in the field (who's the "best" anyway?), or one of the 999 best in the field, it's someone with a vast knowledge in a specific field.
I know that people love to equate what they don't like with what nobody likes, but really, the "OMG THEIR LIEK NAZIS"-type of criticisms are the most useless and pointless one could make. Look at how it's working for Fox News and their "OMG OBAMA = RACIST MUSLIM SOCIALIST NAZI FASCIST!!".
My point is, learn to elaborate and stop using dramatic and hyperbolic comparisons that don't sway anyone.
lol, fat chance to see that happen. I can picture Firefox, Photoshop and GTA V being written in .Net already. Not.
Hey fellow anonymous FastMail.fm user who's not affiliated in any way with FastMail.fm despite knowing the name and position of staff members *wink wink*! I too would like to chime in to say that as another FastMail.fm user who's not affiliated in any way with FastMail.fm I'm very satisfied with FastMail.fm!
Although I once heard that they had $RANDOM_NON_IMPORTANT_INCONSEQUENTIAL_ISSUE and they're not quite as polished as $MAIN_BIG_NAME_CONCURRENT. At least with them I have $OBSCURE_FEATURE_THAT_SHOULD_APPEAL_TO_ADVANCED_USERS.
$MAIN_BIG_NAME_CONCURRENT aside, FastMail.fm is the best hands down!! (Well, except maybe for the part where the free option has a ridiculously small storage space, is ridden with advertisement, closes after 45 days if you don't use it, doesn't offer POP3 or SMTP, doesn't let you transfer more than 40 MB a month)
Regarding the immigration form, one thing that was must puzzling wasn't what they asked, but how they asked it. They had 5 boxes to tick (hint: don't tick any), and under one box they were asking both if you worked for the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945 or if you were looking for work in the USA. In the same fucking question!!
why on earth should they choose any western nation?
I didn't know Brazil wasn't in the west. From the western nation of Ireland it looks like Brazil is westerner. The point? Don't say western if what you mean has nothing to do with the west.
Alternatively we could write it in Lawa instead so we could have the law interpreted in real-time in a virtual legal system. It might be a less efficient legal system but it would have the advantage of being completely portable to any other country without modifications, given a compatible virtual legal system. Should work quite well, I'll try writing a Habeas Corpus in Lawa later today and see how that works.
Legal code these days is the equivalent of assembly language, it's complicated but it describes on a low-level what has to be done. While it's fine and dandy, the problem these days is that too much code is produced. Hence I propose that we make a GCC-Legalese or LLVM-Legalese fork so that we can -Os legislation. Better yet, we could simply write law in a higher level language, intent, and the compiler's intent preprocessor would turn that into faithful lower level code.
I also propose that we start forking Valgrind as to automatically find legal loopholes, conflicts and grey areas before a law is passed. Finally I think we should rewrite common law in Objective-Law++ so we can benefit from the many advantages offered by objection-oriented law over procedural law. Any thoughts on Convict Collection?
GMAFB
Get My Ass.. Fucked... Backwards?
guns that use gun powder and bullets will not be used by modern militaries
I don't see why you say that. Surely I can picture tiny hovering drones shooting bad guys/machinery with bullets, but I don't see why the bullets would have to go. If you want to physically damage something at a distance that's still the best thing. See, the current trend (can't speak of for a few decades from now) is all in the information technology. Cars still guzzle gas, the biggest change they're experiencing is the electronics/computers that change/allow a big number of things, old military aircrafts are fitted with new electronics/radars/computers that give them a new edge (for example seeing through your cockpit and firing a missile at a guy who's not even in front of you), soldiers still use guns from World War I, but their new edge comes from their new sensors/communication equipment/etc.
Besides this is all quite transient and or current information technology revolution isn't going to last forever (unless you're a disciple of Kurzweil). As a matter of fact I'd bet that we're about halfway into it, by that I mean you won't see much more change coming directly out of it than you've seen since 40 years ago. Later in the future surely an other wave of progress will come about, and who knows maybe we'll get much more efficient sources of energy or propulsion that will bring about the flying car, quick travel to Mars and peace and prosperity in Africa.
Well if you look at it in the short term, yes. Abolition of slavery -> the Civil war. The civil rights movements -> lots of social and political unrest, riots and demonstrations.
If you're a short sighted man, change is very rarely worth it.
Still, Windows 7 needs to be ported to Arm to get more consideration from PC makers as a replacement for Intel CPUs, Gold said.
Yeah right, like it's gonna help to have an ARM Windows when people run Windows only so they can run their x86 binaries (Microsoft are not Apple, who gets any developer to do what they say, they can't make developers give a crap about making ARM binaries). Now I understand why people seldom bother RTFAing anymore. Also what's "Arm"?
If it's so opaque, wouldn't it be colder near the surface since no light would get there? Then how would the surface vaporise? Maybe in cycles? Or maybe there could be a permanent lava cloud cover that would keep the surface cold enough to not vaporise?
Everything you do is practice for your future.
Hmmm, so that must be why I'm watching videos of people having a shower. I'm preparing myself to some time in the future have myself a shower! I don't feel ready quite yet though, I'll think watch some more first.
Didn't you have biology in high school? According to my distant high school memories the heart's rate is regulated from the brain by a couple of nerves. In the case of a heart transplant these are not reconnected, so if I'm not mistaken being nervous won't make your heart rate increase. So if you want the answer to your question just ask someone who had a heart transplant.
Wouldn't you hear some mechanical hum? Which might make it even more freaky hehe.
Doesn't the pulse get dampened with distance anyway? As in, having lower variations in pressure as you go away from the heart? I always assumed it might be the case but I still don't know.
Oh wait crap, understood your post the wrong way around :-(
Digital art can't be easily copied? That's a pretty novel claim! :D