Am I the only one reading all these comments and thinking "oh wow I sound like an old programmer, but I'm only 22!" ? Is there anyone my age still coding in assembly? Hello?
You understand that you're better than someone who just got out of school because you're more experienced but you don't understand that people more experienced than you are better than you for the very same reason?
Good thinking, just one problem, domain names being usually quite sort and in base ~40, how long would it take to discover a domain by bruteforce (by generating every possible domain name?). Worse, a lot of them must be mere IP addresses, that's only a few billion hashes to generate and check against the list..
Without reading the comments I'd say apathy, egocentrism, a lack of self-awareness as a member of society, a poor grip on societal reality and an overly simplistic and manichean understanding of politics and social issues, as well as a preference for holding principle-based opinions on such matters.
Left 4 Dead is more a casual "shoot a hundred zombies a minute" type of game. I play it when I have 5 minutes to kill, choose a random level, and get shooting and pistol whipping like I'm a factory worker. It's not because it has zombies that it's survival horror now is it? Cause besides that Duke Nukem 3D is probably more like survival horror then, and actually scarier by the way.
Very true. You can see companies as more or less far competent pragmatic machines that will seek to maximise profits in all ways, even the less obvious and more indirect ways.
I guess that's something that people don't yet understand very well, that everything is interest driven. Not like it's a bad thing, but people need to understand that to figure out how people and groups of people work. Even when you do something apparently altruistic and selfless deep down it all comes down to a choice between two outcomes (i.e. helping someone vs. not helping someone) and the implications (feeling more or less good about it vs. feeling more or less bad). Same thing for companies, except it's even simpler, because they only care about only one single thing.
Slightly off-topic : that's actually the same for governments, if you think about it : if the government wants to maximise its profits on the long term, it's in its interest that everybody has a job so that people produce wealth instead of being a financial burden, that all people get a good education and good opportunities so that they produce the most wealth, and so on..
Indeed. It's foolish to think a publicly owned company can care about anything. What Adam Smith described is not an ideology but a description of fundamental, inherent mechanisms of economy. Companies are all about profit, nothing can be done to change it, it's up to governments to take care of the sticks and carrots.
OK cool that French video got me sold on Linux because it seems to say that if I put that Linux thing on computers then cute French nurses will fall for me and laugh at my jokes. But what's that Linux thing you're talking about, where do I get it? *googles some* okay, looks like there's lots of them, so what do I want, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware?
My point is, while you can tell people "got milk?" cause they know how to obtain milk, you can't tell people "get Linux", it's too confusing. Choose a precise product and market it.
I can't be bothered to do the math, but basically the fact it's starting vertically takes off 9.8m/s^2 to its acceleration compared to if it was going horizontally like a car. But basically horizontally that means it would accelerate at more than 1 G which is probably much more than your car can do.
OT, but this is what boggles my mind about you guys, if you can't stand kids walking on your damn lawn, why don't you build a mother fucking fence? I mean seriously, the USA are the only country I've ever been to where everybody has open lawns, and spends their time complaining about people cutting through them.
Lol, I'd love to see some drug dealers try to shoot down something over 60kft high just for the sake of not being seen, despite the fact that it would attract more attention and investigation than if they threw up a free cocaine party with fireworks reading "here be drugs" in the night sky.
Great post, however I must disagree with the very last bit about family. I think it has a whole lot more to do with our civilisation's modern cultural outlook on life as a whole and on the point of it. Long story short, individualism makes people think that only their own person matters (hence narcissism), while materialism reduced the point of life to getting rich, having stuff, and did away with such things as accomplishment (other than "accomplishment through material ownership" i.e. "I own a Cadillac therefore I'm an accomplished man"), personal qualities (what you own and the image your project of yourself matter more than who you are or your personal qualities) and just "living a worthwhile life".
Basically, people these days think, puzzlingly enough to me, that "what's the point of life?" is one of those very deep questions that we'll never get an answer to, and, out of loss for directions on what to do with their life substitute it with what is commonly represented as attributes of success, that is fame, wealth, a (trophy) wife, all for the sake of superficial happiness, fun and well-being.
If you keep that in mind, then it seems obvious why all these people are just looking for a fast track to what they believe is their (false) goal in life. But don't listen to me, I'm a broke bastard (thus qualifying me as a loser) who thinks the point of life is to have an awesome life and do awesome stuff rather than just stacking up cash.
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Am I the only one reading all these comments and thinking "oh wow I sound like an old programmer, but I'm only 22!" ? Is there anyone my age still coding in assembly? Hello?
You understand that you're better than someone who just got out of school because you're more experienced but you don't understand that people more experienced than you are better than you for the very same reason?
You think that's bad? I'm still stuck with IPv3.11 for Workgroups!
Good thinking, just one problem, domain names being usually quite sort and in base ~40, how long would it take to discover a domain by bruteforce (by generating every possible domain name?). Worse, a lot of them must be mere IP addresses, that's only a few billion hashes to generate and check against the list..
Apparently not so much for "used grown man underpants". Go figure..
Ibuprofen is the gateway drug to liver failure!
Mostly that what's being talked about here really is a ratio of 10^42. Any real number can be n^42 ;-).
Yep, I guess the difference lies in "to kill hundreds of thousands of people".
He was the underdog as long as polls kept him under Clinton, which was most of the primary season (even half Clinton's score actually).
Oh. I never actually read Digg, I just remembered people on Slashdot decrying Digg for pushing the anti-Bush pro-Democrat crap, a few years ago.
Without reading the comments I'd say apathy, egocentrism, a lack of self-awareness as a member of society, a poor grip on societal reality and an overly simplistic and manichean understanding of politics and social issues, as well as a preference for holding principle-based opinions on such matters.
Did I get any right?
Do you guys realise from reading the comments how Slashdot has become to libertarians as Digg is for liberals?
Left 4 Dead is more a casual "shoot a hundred zombies a minute" type of game. I play it when I have 5 minutes to kill, choose a random level, and get shooting and pistol whipping like I'm a factory worker. It's not because it has zombies that it's survival horror now is it? Cause besides that Duke Nukem 3D is probably more like survival horror then, and actually scarier by the way.
Very true. You can see companies as more or less far competent pragmatic machines that will seek to maximise profits in all ways, even the less obvious and more indirect ways.
I guess that's something that people don't yet understand very well, that everything is interest driven. Not like it's a bad thing, but people need to understand that to figure out how people and groups of people work. Even when you do something apparently altruistic and selfless deep down it all comes down to a choice between two outcomes (i.e. helping someone vs. not helping someone) and the implications (feeling more or less good about it vs. feeling more or less bad). Same thing for companies, except it's even simpler, because they only care about only one single thing.
Slightly off-topic : that's actually the same for governments, if you think about it : if the government wants to maximise its profits on the long term, it's in its interest that everybody has a job so that people produce wealth instead of being a financial burden, that all people get a good education and good opportunities so that they produce the most wealth, and so on..
grammar nazi, not nazi grammar, crap..
nazi grammar fail
However some would rightly say it foetuses.
Indeed. It's foolish to think a publicly owned company can care about anything. What Adam Smith described is not an ideology but a description of fundamental, inherent mechanisms of economy. Companies are all about profit, nothing can be done to change it, it's up to governments to take care of the sticks and carrots.
OK cool that French video got me sold on Linux because it seems to say that if I put that Linux thing on computers then cute French nurses will fall for me and laugh at my jokes. But what's that Linux thing you're talking about, where do I get it? *googles some* okay, looks like there's lots of them, so what do I want, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware?
My point is, while you can tell people "got milk?" cause they know how to obtain milk, you can't tell people "get Linux", it's too confusing. Choose a precise product and market it.
I can't be bothered to do the math, but basically the fact it's starting vertically takes off 9.8m/s^2 to its acceleration compared to if it was going horizontally like a car. But basically horizontally that means it would accelerate at more than 1 G which is probably much more than your car can do.
OT, but this is what boggles my mind about you guys, if you can't stand kids walking on your damn lawn, why don't you build a mother fucking fence? I mean seriously, the USA are the only country I've ever been to where everybody has open lawns, and spends their time complaining about people cutting through them.
Lol, I'd love to see some drug dealers try to shoot down something over 60kft high just for the sake of not being seen, despite the fact that it would attract more attention and investigation than if they threw up a free cocaine party with fireworks reading "here be drugs" in the night sky.
Yeah, sure, MLK retired at the right time. Oh wait a minute...
Great post, however I must disagree with the very last bit about family. I think it has a whole lot more to do with our civilisation's modern cultural outlook on life as a whole and on the point of it. Long story short, individualism makes people think that only their own person matters (hence narcissism), while materialism reduced the point of life to getting rich, having stuff, and did away with such things as accomplishment (other than "accomplishment through material ownership" i.e. "I own a Cadillac therefore I'm an accomplished man"), personal qualities (what you own and the image your project of yourself matter more than who you are or your personal qualities) and just "living a worthwhile life".
Basically, people these days think, puzzlingly enough to me, that "what's the point of life?" is one of those very deep questions that we'll never get an answer to, and, out of loss for directions on what to do with their life substitute it with what is commonly represented as attributes of success, that is fame, wealth, a (trophy) wife, all for the sake of superficial happiness, fun and well-being.
If you keep that in mind, then it seems obvious why all these people are just looking for a fast track to what they believe is their (false) goal in life. But don't listen to me, I'm a broke bastard (thus qualifying me as a loser) who thinks the point of life is to have an awesome life and do awesome stuff rather than just stacking up cash.
Yeah maybe lol I had no idea that blimps could actually be as big as 600 feet hehe.
tl;dr lol