You're right, but the reason for women's ideal originates in their inherent complexes. Women always think they're too short and too fat. Cosmo covers or not. Therefore their ideal is an overly tall and skinny woman. Which in turn fuels their complexes further. It's a vicious circle.
To a lower extent it's the same thing with penises. Men are complexed about their penis size, pornography shows men with above the average penises making men even more complexed. The difference here is perhaps that the original complex doesn't necessarily create the preference for endowment in pornography. Or does it? I don't know..
Well I for one would be happy to look at a Playboy knowing that what I'm looking at is real.
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Yep, I know what you mean, I myself have taken risky bets that have paid off. But it's usually hard to convince anyone to take a piece of your own risk pie.
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it becomes tougher to get people to invest in an idea that isn't safe
Yeah, maybe cause ideas that are not safe are not safe. Innovative ideas are a crapshoot, no matter how brilliant it seems you can't tell if it's going to stick or not.
The people who can't write in the future will be the same people who can't write now; the neglected, the mentally impaired, the lazy, and those who depended on the public school system to give them the essential skills.
A bit off-topic I know, but that makes me ponder the consequences of the eventual death of handwriting. Besides "boohoo lost art" I mean. An awfully long time in the early years of your education is spent learning how to write with a pen. Based on the assumption that learning how to hunt-and-peck would be much quicker (all you have to do is know how to find the letters, and with practice you quickly become faster), and that a child learning that will always write faster than a child learning to handwrite, wouldn't that free up more time for learning things?
Think about it, in the early years, lots of time is spent copying text from the blackboard. If you can learn to type fast soon enough, then I suppose there would be a noticeable positive impact on education.
10. So why ping IPv4 addresses now?
9. Yeah, and when Megan Fox becomes my girlfriend all the other girls who rejected me will so regret it. Besides, what you mean lonely place? Everybody's gonna still be able to connect with IPv4 for decades, even if IPv6 was adopted by all tomorrow.
8. He said bandwidth. 16 bytes just for the raw address. What's your average IP packet length?
7. Yeah, because IPv6 so is as trivial as migrating to a new version of MS Word.
4. What's in those 5%?
3. Sure, who in their right mind would want to exploit an artificial scarcity for profit?
2. lol, you're kidding, right? You're not really suggesting to use IPv6 for the Internet and everything-IPv4 for the LAN, are you?
1. What's so broken about NAT? That everyone doesn't get their very own public IP? Well boo-fucking-hoo! Is that what the big deal is all about??
Seriously, I know people around here like to shout "DOOOOMED!! WE'RE DOOOOOMED!!", but it looks like just another "OMG Y2K TEH COMPUTALYPSE IS COMING!!" to me. Lots of noise for not much. What if everybody's behind NAT? Give me your Doomsday scenario and why anyone with a company should care even a bit.
Yep, that's just a way to break down the unknowns. It can apply to anything. Demonstration :
Number of women I might get lucky with in a year = number of people in my area * fraction of people who are female * fraction of people in the suitable age range * fraction of women who might find me desirable * fraction of women I might find desirable * fraction of time I spend outside my basement * average rate at which I'll make an acquaintance in the outside * fraction of acquaintances that will turn into friendships * fraction of friends I can get pity sex or drunk sex with. Can it be called the 4D6963 equation so I can be remembered for something too?
Somehow I feel that if I run the numbers it might ruin my day...
No it's not. You're either intelligent or not. You're intelligent as long as you're alive and not completely brain dead. A running brain = intelligence, even if you're just a cockroach.
Yep, Mac OS 9.x sucks big time for web browsing. This being said, Classilla is what you want. Netscape Communicator/IE 5/iCab just don't cut it anymore.
Also, I remember having Firefox 1.5 running on Windows 95, and it worked just fine. No problem there, if you compare Windows 95 and Mac OS 7.6 then no question that Windows 95 aged a hell of a lot better, at least when it comes to web browsing. Same for Windows 98 and Mac OS 8.5+.
Hallelujah! If IPv4's resilience proves anything, it's that millions of people and the thousands of companies we run/work in will do the less we have to do no matter what. That's like some days I wake up and wonder how I'll do all the things I think I have to do. Then at the end of the day I've only done one thing cause all the rest didn't matter that much.
That's how it works for IPv6. 99% of companies gain ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from being among the first 50% to move to IPv6. That's some basic game theory for you, I'll let you guess what that means for the adoption of IPv6 by companies. What do they have to lose? Few of them even need a single public IP address of their own, and everyone will still be able to reach them long after the majority have moved to IPv6. The main flaw of IPv6 (despite its technical flaws, I mean seriously, 16 bytes addresses? What's your average Internet packet like, barely a hundred bytes?) is that as explained above there's no reason it could possibly compel anyone to move to it. To do so it would have needed some killer feature, like broadcast or something like that.
Here's what I think will happen. Everything NATed. Even servers. You know how a single IP can host many domains? Well there you go. Now I don't know how it would work for non-HTTP protocols (can the frontline router remember which domain was asked for and always route to the correct NATed server?), but if we can't change the IP protocol (after such wide adoption you can't be surprised that the task would be so arduous) then we can have a higher level solution. None one wants to use more numbers than in an IPv4 address anyway, and even that was a PITA. Domain names are the way to go, and if the current DNS isn't good enough for it, maybe a DNSv2 can have the answer to all our problems? If someone with a better clue than me about networks and protocol could tell me if that wouldn't work out or if it actually would I'd appreciate.
Bottom line is, IPv4 isn't broken, it's our vision of it (one public IP for everyone!) that is.
Then maybe you should read about Jung's collective unconscious and its built-in "God" archetype. The point being, God doesn't exist, but our collective unconscious is built for us to believe in deities, hence why everybody always believed in one or many God until not too long ago when our insight about reality and reason took the upper hand, at least for a bunch of people. A simpler answer to the reason why you don't get the fascination with religion is, bad news, our mind isn't an idealised intelligence of pure cold reason (that's what Stoicism is for), and our collective unconscious plays a big part in departing from that, at least when it comes to sex and religion.
Don't read Dawkins, that's just hippie crap, I mean the guy's just a biologist.
Some kids got a fantastic education 100 years ago. We only know about the ones who made it. Most were thrown on the scrapheap once they could read or write. Today, we have a vastly better educated populace than we have ever had, and there is plenty more potential there.
It's not the point. The point is that innovation is irrelevant to good education.
As for your experience, you went to school with a bunch of cosmopolitan, well off, middle-class kids. You should be holding yourself to a different standard than the average output of the French school system.
Too bad you have no idea what you're talking about. Private schools there are nothing like private schools in America, and actually there's not a lot of differences with public schools in terms of results (actually private schools are typically Catholic, whereas public schools cannot be, so where you go depends on how religious your parents are. Or how much they loathe Muslims. Although once again this has nothing in common with Catholic schools in North America, and there's not much difference in education style or curriculum with public schools). In France what really makes a difference is where you live. If it's in a ZEP then you'll get a shitty education. Otherwise everybody does about as good.
I know it's cool and all, but a giant planet in the habitable zone is more important than a rock planet hovering close to its star's burning atmosphere. Imagine a Saturn + Titan in the habitable zone. We'd only see the Saturn from here, but we can assume that such a planet might have large moons, moons capable of sustaining a dense atmosphere (which I know isn't the most common thing, but still).
Let's imagine a Titan around whichever giant exoplanet we know that's in the habitable zone, and that it has the same amount of biological activity as the Earth does now, what would it take for us to see it spectrally? Actually, what would it take for us to see oscillation in the spectrum of a planet's light (which I suppose isn't easy to separate from its star's light to begin with) that would occur when one of its satellites would be occulted or would occult the planet? (thus allowing us to detect the satellite and learn about its chemical composition). I imagine it's currently out of reach, but that's still an interesting question.
Only if you think you can count on your dead reckoning of minutes. I for one would like better something that would give me a sense of the minutes part of the hour that it is. Something like the back of your wristwatch indicating by stimulating a small spot on your skin where the big hand is. I don't suppose that knowing which hour it is is a big problem?
That's a new sense nested inside an already existing sense. Like an HUD in your eye that would show you an infrared overlay would be like a new sense inside your sense of vision.
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I'm fairly confident that it'll take some time for it to cross the American-Afghan border ;-).
Seriously, STFU and RTFA.
You're right, but the reason for women's ideal originates in their inherent complexes. Women always think they're too short and too fat. Cosmo covers or not. Therefore their ideal is an overly tall and skinny woman. Which in turn fuels their complexes further. It's a vicious circle.
To a lower extent it's the same thing with penises. Men are complexed about their penis size, pornography shows men with above the average penises making men even more complexed. The difference here is perhaps that the original complex doesn't necessarily create the preference for endowment in pornography. Or does it? I don't know..
Well I for one would be happy to look at a Playboy knowing that what I'm looking at is real.
Yep, I know what you mean, I myself have taken risky bets that have paid off. But it's usually hard to convince anyone to take a piece of your own risk pie.
it becomes tougher to get people to invest in an idea that isn't safe
Yeah, maybe cause ideas that are not safe are not safe. Innovative ideas are a crapshoot, no matter how brilliant it seems you can't tell if it's going to stick or not.
The people who can't write in the future will be the same people who can't write now; the neglected, the mentally impaired, the lazy, and those who depended on the public school system to give them the essential skills.
I'm dysgraphic, you insensitive clod!
A bit off-topic I know, but that makes me ponder the consequences of the eventual death of handwriting. Besides "boohoo lost art" I mean. An awfully long time in the early years of your education is spent learning how to write with a pen. Based on the assumption that learning how to hunt-and-peck would be much quicker (all you have to do is know how to find the letters, and with practice you quickly become faster), and that a child learning that will always write faster than a child learning to handwrite, wouldn't that free up more time for learning things?
Think about it, in the early years, lots of time is spent copying text from the blackboard. If you can learn to type fast soon enough, then I suppose there would be a noticeable positive impact on education.
assuming 4 billion users
Can I have some of what that guy's smoking? There is hardly even 4 billion electricity users, let alone 4 billion literate people.
10. So why ping IPv4 addresses now?
9. Yeah, and when Megan Fox becomes my girlfriend all the other girls who rejected me will so regret it. Besides, what you mean lonely place? Everybody's gonna still be able to connect with IPv4 for decades, even if IPv6 was adopted by all tomorrow.
8. He said bandwidth. 16 bytes just for the raw address. What's your average IP packet length?
7. Yeah, because IPv6 so is as trivial as migrating to a new version of MS Word.
4. What's in those 5%?
3. Sure, who in their right mind would want to exploit an artificial scarcity for profit?
2. lol, you're kidding, right? You're not really suggesting to use IPv6 for the Internet and everything-IPv4 for the LAN, are you?
1. What's so broken about NAT? That everyone doesn't get their very own public IP? Well boo-fucking-hoo! Is that what the big deal is all about??
Seriously, I know people around here like to shout "DOOOOMED!! WE'RE DOOOOOMED!!", but it looks like just another "OMG Y2K TEH COMPUTALYPSE IS COMING!!" to me. Lots of noise for not much. What if everybody's behind NAT? Give me your Doomsday scenario and why anyone with a company should care even a bit.
How long until we'll be begging our Zunes to let us use our software?
About when we'll starting begging our hot girlfriends for sex.
Are you kidding? Haven't you ever heard of PSP games that take 7 minutes to get to the gameplay?
Yep, that's just a way to break down the unknowns. It can apply to anything. Demonstration :
Number of women I might get lucky with in a year = number of people in my area * fraction of people who are female * fraction of people in the suitable age range * fraction of women who might find me desirable * fraction of women I might find desirable * fraction of time I spend outside my basement * average rate at which I'll make an acquaintance in the outside * fraction of acquaintances that will turn into friendships * fraction of friends I can get pity sex or drunk sex with. Can it be called the 4D6963 equation so I can be remembered for something too?
Somehow I feel that if I run the numbers it might ruin my day...
Well, intelligence is relative.
No it's not. You're either intelligent or not. You're intelligent as long as you're alive and not completely brain dead. A running brain = intelligence, even if you're just a cockroach.
I heard of an emulator being developed a few years ago, but never saw anything come out of it. I'm afraid that one is quite dead.
Huh, how do you watch videos with Mac OS 9? I tried that hard and couldn't find a good player to play the recent common formats.
Yep, Mac OS 9.x sucks big time for web browsing. This being said, Classilla is what you want. Netscape Communicator/IE 5/iCab just don't cut it anymore.
Also, I remember having Firefox 1.5 running on Windows 95, and it worked just fine. No problem there, if you compare Windows 95 and Mac OS 7.6 then no question that Windows 95 aged a hell of a lot better, at least when it comes to web browsing. Same for Windows 98 and Mac OS 8.5+.
Hallelujah! If IPv4's resilience proves anything, it's that millions of people and the thousands of companies we run/work in will do the less we have to do no matter what. That's like some days I wake up and wonder how I'll do all the things I think I have to do. Then at the end of the day I've only done one thing cause all the rest didn't matter that much.
That's how it works for IPv6. 99% of companies gain ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from being among the first 50% to move to IPv6. That's some basic game theory for you, I'll let you guess what that means for the adoption of IPv6 by companies. What do they have to lose? Few of them even need a single public IP address of their own, and everyone will still be able to reach them long after the majority have moved to IPv6. The main flaw of IPv6 (despite its technical flaws, I mean seriously, 16 bytes addresses? What's your average Internet packet like, barely a hundred bytes?) is that as explained above there's no reason it could possibly compel anyone to move to it. To do so it would have needed some killer feature, like broadcast or something like that.
Here's what I think will happen. Everything NATed. Even servers. You know how a single IP can host many domains? Well there you go. Now I don't know how it would work for non-HTTP protocols (can the frontline router remember which domain was asked for and always route to the correct NATed server?), but if we can't change the IP protocol (after such wide adoption you can't be surprised that the task would be so arduous) then we can have a higher level solution. None one wants to use more numbers than in an IPv4 address anyway, and even that was a PITA. Domain names are the way to go, and if the current DNS isn't good enough for it, maybe a DNSv2 can have the answer to all our problems? If someone with a better clue than me about networks and protocol could tell me if that wouldn't work out or if it actually would I'd appreciate.
Bottom line is, IPv4 isn't broken, it's our vision of it (one public IP for everyone!) that is.
Then maybe you should read about Jung's collective unconscious and its built-in "God" archetype. The point being, God doesn't exist, but our collective unconscious is built for us to believe in deities, hence why everybody always believed in one or many God until not too long ago when our insight about reality and reason took the upper hand, at least for a bunch of people. A simpler answer to the reason why you don't get the fascination with religion is, bad news, our mind isn't an idealised intelligence of pure cold reason (that's what Stoicism is for), and our collective unconscious plays a big part in departing from that, at least when it comes to sex and religion.
Don't read Dawkins, that's just hippie crap, I mean the guy's just a biologist.
Some kids got a fantastic education 100 years ago. We only know about the ones who made it. Most were thrown on the scrapheap once they could read or write. Today, we have a vastly better educated populace than we have ever had, and there is plenty more potential there.
It's not the point. The point is that innovation is irrelevant to good education.
As for your experience, you went to school with a bunch of cosmopolitan, well off, middle-class kids. You should be holding yourself to a different standard than the average output of the French school system.
Too bad you have no idea what you're talking about. Private schools there are nothing like private schools in America, and actually there's not a lot of differences with public schools in terms of results (actually private schools are typically Catholic, whereas public schools cannot be, so where you go depends on how religious your parents are. Or how much they loathe Muslims. Although once again this has nothing in common with Catholic schools in North America, and there's not much difference in education style or curriculum with public schools). In France what really makes a difference is where you live. If it's in a ZEP then you'll get a shitty education. Otherwise everybody does about as good.
A rocky planet orbits the sun. A rocky exoplanet orbits other suns. But who cares anyway? It's just us pigeonholing the objects we see in the sky.
I know it's cool and all, but a giant planet in the habitable zone is more important than a rock planet hovering close to its star's burning atmosphere. Imagine a Saturn + Titan in the habitable zone. We'd only see the Saturn from here, but we can assume that such a planet might have large moons, moons capable of sustaining a dense atmosphere (which I know isn't the most common thing, but still).
Let's imagine a Titan around whichever giant exoplanet we know that's in the habitable zone, and that it has the same amount of biological activity as the Earth does now, what would it take for us to see it spectrally? Actually, what would it take for us to see oscillation in the spectrum of a planet's light (which I suppose isn't easy to separate from its star's light to begin with) that would occur when one of its satellites would be occulted or would occult the planet? (thus allowing us to detect the satellite and learn about its chemical composition). I imagine it's currently out of reach, but that's still an interesting question.
Only if you think you can count on your dead reckoning of minutes. I for one would like better something that would give me a sense of the minutes part of the hour that it is. Something like the back of your wristwatch indicating by stimulating a small spot on your skin where the big hand is. I don't suppose that knowing which hour it is is a big problem?
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That's a new sense nested inside an already existing sense. Like an HUD in your eye that would show you an infrared overlay would be like a new sense inside your sense of vision.