Wow.. I suddenly feel so much comfortable with the idea of a foreign domination of Africa.. Let's recolonise, err wait I mean, let's "bring these people democracy"!
OMG stfu, you just started talking about something completely off topic, then you're like "nanana I'm right I'm right". Get a fucking life, fucking moron. Besides, this thread is like 3 weeks old.
And the lenient sentencing is because he ultimately did not cause much damage.
What? Have you not heeded the cries of your fellow Slashdotters!? Lynch him! Draw him! Quarter him! Then hang his quarters separately!! Stealing bank passwords is so much worse than murder, rape or treason!
I'd say, no, not really. We don't overcomplicate things to an insane degree just for the fuck of it, we can be reasonable, regardless of the specifics of our nature, we don't do these things by instinct.
Your comment seems to say "if it ain't broke don't fix it". The thing is, it is broke, and it always was, they're just trying to fix it, even if it gets ugly. While Wikipedia is quite satisfactory to the end user, it has many problems, like abusive deletionism, vandalism, problems with relevance, and so on, there's a long list of such issues, and most will probably never get fixed, but the thing is, what Wikipedia tries to do has ramifications, and the solutions brought to each problem has yet deeper ramifications, with new perverse effects each time that are fortunately no worse than the problem fixed.
You can say that Wikipedia messed up somewhere, but can you say, "Wikipedia messed up here, they shouldn't have done it like that", or anything that would allow for a more viable alternative? I'd be surprised. The problem with Wikipedia is not Wikipedia itself, its more theoretical than that, it's the problem with the paradigm it employs. Any solution or viable alternative would have to solve issues inherent to the concept Wikipedia is based on.
Interesting thought, but how would it translated in concrete terms? Sounds to me like in order for it to be decentralised, it would have to be an application, kind of like all these blog applications you can put on your own website so you don't have to be a PHP programmer to have a blog on your own website, but with a form of interaction between each, although it's hard to conceptualise in practical terms to be honest... Besides that would require every user to host on his own, so that kind of ruins the point.
Well I guess it could be all P2Ped, although I don't see myself browsing on a P2P network, but even then, you need a central code for anyone to use to make that work, or at least a common base, so I don't really see how you could get towards anything like a truly decentralised web service... I mean basically the web is decentralised, but coherent subnetworks have to be centralised in some way, otherwise, where's the coherence? The P2P analogy doesn't work because search functions and such work like web search engines in that they make everything accessible from a central point, but everything is still independent and incoherent...
Is that the Notorious BIG remix sounds an awful lot like a legit rap song. Like, you wouldn't be surprised if you heard that on BET or MTV. Which I'm afraid says something about rap music producers, who for some create a beat in 10 minutes. Now they can just use Songsmith as a basis for their work.
Is my mind just twisted or is there an innuendo of sorts in the fact that the article is titled Atomic John, with a photograph below of the guy in question and a huge atomic phallic substitute seeming to come out of his crotch?
I don't see the issue with the Games For Windows Live thing, it logs in transparently while displaying the legal screens, and doesn't interfere much with anything, not even modding (I write some LUA scripts for GTA IV). The one real downside is that it makes it pretty hard to play multiplayer on a cracked version.
Exactly how I felt for a while too. Before Obama, I'd always think, "I wish I was president just so I could do this, this and that, or make this a priority" (among these things were such issues as the influence of lobbyists in Washington, market regulation, universal health care and death penalty).
Now we've got this uncommonly wise and pragmatic (the long sighted kind of pragmatic, short sighted pragmatism is awful) president, with nearly no ideological grudge, who seems to understand all points of view (unlike George W. Bush who, despite being much smarter than commonly believed, was intellectually handicapped by a complete inability to put himself in other people's shoes), I mean, you can't really top this, that guy knows so well the issues he's tackling, he probably knows what's good for you better than you do on a few issues!
X-Plane is great, but not in all areas. The super-sonic flight model sucks, there's a lot of improvement to be brought in areas that are just a let down (I haven't played it in a while, but I'd say things like roads in the sky, no reflective textures (non-shiny matte airplanes? The 1990s just called..), a feeling that it could be all optimised a bit, have some better graphics on things like smoke (individual rounds of smoke? come on..), rain (the rain looks awful), crash effects, and so on...
My point is, X-Plane is great, but very specific interest, i.e. it's great for its subsonic flight model and modelling planes, seeing how they really handle and all that.. but the one guy who programs it has no interest in only taking a piece of his pie, but more importantly, there aren't that many good flight simulators out there, some alternatives would be welcome.
I for one would love a flight simulator that looks like what it looks like when you look out the window in an airplane, and also good combat a la Chuck Yeager's Air Combat or F/A-18 Korea..
I read a few of the comments following this story, and they all seem to have a similar theme of having a fairly negative POV about Obama's stand on this issue.
You must be new here. It's like a pattern on Slashdot, a summary makes misleading claims, the first moderated comments shout doom (i.e. "OMG Obama = Bush", "Google is evil and wants all your privacy to hand it to the evil government" or even "Apple is teh new M$") or make sarcastic comments (i.e. "That's change we can believe in" etc..), then more reasonable people who know a bit better what they're talking about explain why it's not even remotely as bad as it's made look and get modded up, then most of discussions drift off-topic but get modded up anyways.
It's always been here on Slashdot, but in the case of Obama topics, get used to it, that pattern is here to stay, Obama is our new Google. We need little more than a misleading headline (i.e. "Jesus Christ Seen Touching Children") to start crucifying our saviours.
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Like? Give me one reason why prohibition on marijuana is not like prohibition on alcohol, and why alcohol should be allowed but not marijuana.
Oh the humanity!
Geoengineering to the rescue!!
No, seriously, if leaving the thing alone doesn't cut it, if jumping on the brakes isn't enough, clutch to reverse and jump on the gas pedal.
Wow.. I suddenly feel so much comfortable with the idea of a foreign domination of Africa.. Let's recolonise, err wait I mean, let's "bring these people democracy"!
Respect my authoritah!
He probly did
Thats prolly, u unsensitive cloud.
Let's not forget that cameras don't shoot people, people shoot people!
OMG stfu, you just started talking about something completely off topic, then you're like "nanana I'm right I'm right". Get a fucking life, fucking moron. Besides, this thread is like 3 weeks old.
And the lenient sentencing is because he ultimately did not cause much damage.
What? Have you not heeded the cries of your fellow Slashdotters!? Lynch him! Draw him! Quarter him! Then hang his quarters separately!! Stealing bank passwords is so much worse than murder, rape or treason!
Are their also clinics for grammatical deficiency? ;-)
I'd say, no, not really. We don't overcomplicate things to an insane degree just for the fuck of it, we can be reasonable, regardless of the specifics of our nature, we don't do these things by instinct.
Your comment seems to say "if it ain't broke don't fix it". The thing is, it is broke, and it always was, they're just trying to fix it, even if it gets ugly. While Wikipedia is quite satisfactory to the end user, it has many problems, like abusive deletionism, vandalism, problems with relevance, and so on, there's a long list of such issues, and most will probably never get fixed, but the thing is, what Wikipedia tries to do has ramifications, and the solutions brought to each problem has yet deeper ramifications, with new perverse effects each time that are fortunately no worse than the problem fixed.
You can say that Wikipedia messed up somewhere, but can you say, "Wikipedia messed up here, they shouldn't have done it like that", or anything that would allow for a more viable alternative? I'd be surprised. The problem with Wikipedia is not Wikipedia itself, its more theoretical than that, it's the problem with the paradigm it employs. Any solution or viable alternative would have to solve issues inherent to the concept Wikipedia is based on.
Interesting thought, but how would it translated in concrete terms? Sounds to me like in order for it to be decentralised, it would have to be an application, kind of like all these blog applications you can put on your own website so you don't have to be a PHP programmer to have a blog on your own website, but with a form of interaction between each, although it's hard to conceptualise in practical terms to be honest... Besides that would require every user to host on his own, so that kind of ruins the point.
Well I guess it could be all P2Ped, although I don't see myself browsing on a P2P network, but even then, you need a central code for anyone to use to make that work, or at least a common base, so I don't really see how you could get towards anything like a truly decentralised web service... I mean basically the web is decentralised, but coherent subnetworks have to be centralised in some way, otherwise, where's the coherence? The P2P analogy doesn't work because search functions and such work like web search engines in that they make everything accessible from a central point, but everything is still independent and incoherent...
Is that the Notorious BIG remix sounds an awful lot like a legit rap song. Like, you wouldn't be surprised if you heard that on BET or MTV. Which I'm afraid says something about rap music producers, who for some create a beat in 10 minutes. Now they can just use Songsmith as a basis for their work.
Is my mind just twisted or is there an innuendo of sorts in the fact that the article is titled Atomic John, with a photograph below of the guy in question and a huge atomic phallic substitute seeming to come out of his crotch?
*BOOM*
Huh? I have a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2, which is very much a PS2-like controller, and it's officially supported and works great.
Regarding controls, the only thing botched up is the mouse control in vehicle cockpit mode, they got it very wrong.
I don't see the issue with the Games For Windows Live thing, it logs in transparently while displaying the legal screens, and doesn't interfere much with anything, not even modding (I write some LUA scripts for GTA IV). The one real downside is that it makes it pretty hard to play multiplayer on a cracked version.
Exactly how I felt for a while too. Before Obama, I'd always think, "I wish I was president just so I could do this, this and that, or make this a priority" (among these things were such issues as the influence of lobbyists in Washington, market regulation, universal health care and death penalty).
Now we've got this uncommonly wise and pragmatic (the long sighted kind of pragmatic, short sighted pragmatism is awful) president, with nearly no ideological grudge, who seems to understand all points of view (unlike George W. Bush who, despite being much smarter than commonly believed, was intellectually handicapped by a complete inability to put himself in other people's shoes), I mean, you can't really top this, that guy knows so well the issues he's tackling, he probably knows what's good for you better than you do on a few issues!
Hmmm... now I think I understand why my brand new software would sell #DIV/0 times better this year than last year...
Oh, I haven't tried it much, but I remember hearing that even with a most powerful computer you could still get a really shitty framerate.
X-Plane is great, but not in all areas. The super-sonic flight model sucks, there's a lot of improvement to be brought in areas that are just a let down (I haven't played it in a while, but I'd say things like roads in the sky, no reflective textures (non-shiny matte airplanes? The 1990s just called..), a feeling that it could be all optimised a bit, have some better graphics on things like smoke (individual rounds of smoke? come on..), rain (the rain looks awful), crash effects, and so on...
My point is, X-Plane is great, but very specific interest, i.e. it's great for its subsonic flight model and modelling planes, seeing how they really handle and all that.. but the one guy who programs it has no interest in only taking a piece of his pie, but more importantly, there aren't that many good flight simulators out there, some alternatives would be welcome.
I for one would love a flight simulator that looks like what it looks like when you look out the window in an airplane, and also good combat a la Chuck Yeager's Air Combat or F/A-18 Korea..
We were talking about interferometry, not sharing simple information. You're off-topic.
Mars is from Earth, Mercury is from Venus.
...and methane is from Uranus.
Sorry..
I read a few of the comments following this story, and they all seem to have a similar theme of having a fairly negative POV about Obama's stand on this issue.
You must be new here. It's like a pattern on Slashdot, a summary makes misleading claims, the first moderated comments shout doom (i.e. "OMG Obama = Bush", "Google is evil and wants all your privacy to hand it to the evil government" or even "Apple is teh new M$") or make sarcastic comments (i.e. "That's change we can believe in" etc..), then more reasonable people who know a bit better what they're talking about explain why it's not even remotely as bad as it's made look and get modded up, then most of discussions drift off-topic but get modded up anyways.
It's always been here on Slashdot, but in the case of Obama topics, get used to it, that pattern is here to stay, Obama is our new Google. We need little more than a misleading headline (i.e. "Jesus Christ Seen Touching Children") to start crucifying our saviours.
And they don't really want any personal computers, they just don't see what good they are.
Right after that, 2030 sent an e-mail, which read "rofl no broadband? can u still even watch tv without it in ur time?"