Big deal. My 16 year old neighbor with Freenet can find out how to make a nuke. Finding out _how_ to is easy. It's actually doing that which requires a lot of resources, connections, etc. Iraq had none of these (as evidenced by the fact that none of it was found after years and years of searching). Just the GOP trying to piss into the tidalwave of DNC talking points about the cockup that is Iraq.
Actually, I believe that the premium version also disallows VM usage, but I could be wrong. Too darn lazy to look it up again, but I vaguely recall being annoyed that the business version is the only one that will "legally" allow me to use it in a VM. Could be wrong, though (however, the pricetag of the premium version allows it to retain the "ridiculous" bit).
Sure, but my point was that their EULA provisions seem like a waste of space. The point of limiting the VM usage is, I can only imagine, to force home users to get the business version if they want to use VM. Of course, the number of "home" users who use VM is vanishingly small once you eliminate the "enthusiast" crowd. So why put that provision in there at all? All it's doing is changing what version will get warez'd, and since the "business" version is likely (in spite of whatever MS says) to have some version of the VLK's, it's the one that's gonna get pirated anyway. Just confuses me as to why they bother.
Will this make the Net fun to explore again? It used to be interesting to surf around and see what weirdness or coolness you could find. Now it's kind of boring. Or am I the only one who feels this way?
your comment reminded me of the tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell, when they're mischievously investigating a sniper computer and are astonished that it's "a sub-turing machine!"
(yeah, I know they're referring to the Turing Test for AI and not the Turing machine you're talking about, but I can't always control the way my brain makes these connections!)
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I have a large-ish 1bedroom apartment.
I paid $50 last month that included some pretty cold days and in-efficient windows.
Sounds like you need to replace some appliances, or, I dunno, not run AC so often.
Keep in mind that there have been two seperate, distinct political parties in the US named "Republican", which is likely what the late 19th century-early 20th century party they refer to as "democratic republican" is.
I dunno, it seems to be that "back in the day" there was a barrier to entry (what's this "www" thing you speak of) that kept things from being as reactionary. Though, I guess I'm probably wrong there and seeing it through slashdot-colored glasses.
I dunno about the OP, but I'd have to say that's mostly correct. "Psychologically addicting" just means "don't have the willpower to stop". Real, physical addiction involves actual changes or damage to structures such as neuroreceptors. You'd have to play a crapload of GTA in order to have your serotonin receptors change so that you never work correctly again without GTA being available. I take GTA away from a subject, they'll bitch for a while, then move on to something else.
If you're running a server on Fedora Core, you really need to do your homework better. It's not designed for production environments, stop trying to wedge it into a role it wasn't meant for.
After reading all these, I am definitely thinking that hiring for their software development positions is radically different than the rest of the IT positions.
I personally know of someone with no degree at all who was hired by Google. Just because you think you're good enough for a job, doesn't mean that everyone agrees with you.
The people who were there through his "care" weren't there because they needed one drink a year, but rather they needed it every night, and is impeded their ability to operate in a nominal fashion in society. Your brother (and your) view on it is typical of those in the legal/criminal justice system in this day and age: one size fits all, and the simple explanation is good enough to generalize to the population at large.
A half-minute of mental work would result in you realizing that your brother's statement obviously isn't an accurate one, but that it does constitute a good soundbite for people who are so far gone that they need simple, overly generalized, zero-tolerance rules to keep their lives from falling apart. Or for people who don't want to think too hard about how human behavior is a range of values, not just individual data points that can be extrapolated into hard and fast rules about behavior.
While that very well may work in practice when you're basically trying to keep people who are severely maladapted from resuming their self-destructive behaviors, that doesn't mean it's a true or accurate statement that can be generalized to the point which your brother has apparently done. You don't get to just make up your own definition of "addiction" any more than you get to make up your own definition of "autistic".
Well, that may be the case, though I'm not sure how one expects to do a manned mars mission with many fewer adjusted dollars in funding than we used to get to the moon (yeah sure, we had to do a lot of scratch, but it sounds like there's a lot to be done from scratch now, too). My gut tells me that the majority of those pitiful budget increases (and a lot of the budget existing) is (re)earmarked for Manned Mars projects as opposed to the stuff NASA's been doing lately with increasing percentages of success.
I'm fairly certain that your brother's concept of addiction is not the same as the medical concept of addiction. I've had the chance to take enough psych education to know that "I need one drink a year" isn't the sign of addiction in a medical/psychological sense. IIRC, one of the (many) necessary components of addiction is that it precludes doing things that actually need to be done in order to function nominally in society. Your brother's theoretical "one drink a year" need is pretty close to opposite of that, unless we add some unreasonable qualifier to it, like "I *need* one drink a year during Christmas!", which isn't so much addiction as an avoidant behavior due to some event (say, the proverbial crazy mother-in-law).
Once people start taking things such as online avatars copulating in strange ways too seriously (I'm lookin' at you, furries), then harassing them becomes great fun.
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Hey, smart guy. Re-read this line:
Saddam was just keeping the documents around to donate to the Saddam Hussein Presidential Library for historical purposes *when his term was up*
Yeah. I think you need to retune your sarcasm meter.
Big deal. My 16 year old neighbor with Freenet can find out how to make a nuke. Finding out _how_ to is easy. It's actually doing that which requires a lot of resources, connections, etc. Iraq had none of these (as evidenced by the fact that none of it was found after years and years of searching). Just the GOP trying to piss into the tidalwave of DNC talking points about the cockup that is Iraq.
Actually, I believe that the premium version also disallows VM usage, but I could be wrong. Too darn lazy to look it up again, but I vaguely recall being annoyed that the business version is the only one that will "legally" allow me to use it in a VM. Could be wrong, though (however, the pricetag of the premium version allows it to retain the "ridiculous" bit).
Sure, but my point was that their EULA provisions seem like a waste of space. The point of limiting the VM usage is, I can only imagine, to force home users to get the business version if they want to use VM. Of course, the number of "home" users who use VM is vanishingly small once you eliminate the "enthusiast" crowd. So why put that provision in there at all? All it's doing is changing what version will get warez'd, and since the "business" version is likely (in spite of whatever MS says) to have some version of the VLK's, it's the one that's gonna get pirated anyway. Just confuses me as to why they bother.
All it's gonna do is result in more people warezing the business version instead of the home version.
Will this make the Net fun to explore again? It used to be interesting to surf around and see what weirdness or coolness you could find. Now it's kind of boring. Or am I the only one who feels this way?
Limiting E3 to the small amount of press that will bother to attend now will result in the death of E3 as a relevant convention.
And that's your Gamepro Game Tip.
your comment reminded me of the tachikomas from Ghost in the Shell, when they're mischievously investigating a sniper computer and are astonished that it's "a sub-turing machine!"
(yeah, I know they're referring to the Turing Test for AI and not the Turing machine you're talking about, but I can't always control the way my brain makes these connections!)
CO. I'm not saying never use it, but $150 just from AC? That's crazy talk.
... I have a large-ish 1bedroom apartment. I paid $50 last month that included some pretty cold days and in-efficient windows. Sounds like you need to replace some appliances, or, I dunno, not run AC so often.
Many locales allow people to vote earlier than election day.
y'know, I really try to keep up with such things, but am I the only one here who hasn't heard of either of these companies before?
Keep in mind that there have been two seperate, distinct political parties in the US named "Republican", which is likely what the late 19th century-early 20th century party they refer to as "democratic republican" is.
I dunno, it seems to be that "back in the day" there was a barrier to entry (what's this "www" thing you speak of) that kept things from being as reactionary. Though, I guess I'm probably wrong there and seeing it through slashdot-colored glasses.
Dude. Paragraphs. Comeon, now.
I dunno about the OP, but I'd have to say that's mostly correct. "Psychologically addicting" just means "don't have the willpower to stop". Real, physical addiction involves actual changes or damage to structures such as neuroreceptors. You'd have to play a crapload of GTA in order to have your serotonin receptors change so that you never work correctly again without GTA being available. I take GTA away from a subject, they'll bitch for a while, then move on to something else.
If you're running a server on Fedora Core, you really need to do your homework better. It's not designed for production environments, stop trying to wedge it into a role it wasn't meant for.
After reading all these, I am definitely thinking that hiring for their software development positions is radically different than the rest of the IT positions.
Gotta agree with this, I've never seen a phone with a "+" sign on it in the US.
I personally know of someone with no degree at all who was hired by Google. Just because you think you're good enough for a job, doesn't mean that everyone agrees with you.
That's great, but there's also common sense.
The people who were there through his "care" weren't there because they needed one drink a year, but rather they needed it every night, and is impeded their ability to operate in a nominal fashion in society. Your brother (and your) view on it is typical of those in the legal/criminal justice system in this day and age: one size fits all, and the simple explanation is good enough to generalize to the population at large.
A half-minute of mental work would result in you realizing that your brother's statement obviously isn't an accurate one, but that it does constitute a good soundbite for people who are so far gone that they need simple, overly generalized, zero-tolerance rules to keep their lives from falling apart. Or for people who don't want to think too hard about how human behavior is a range of values, not just individual data points that can be extrapolated into hard and fast rules about behavior.
While that very well may work in practice when you're basically trying to keep people who are severely maladapted from resuming their self-destructive behaviors, that doesn't mean it's a true or accurate statement that can be generalized to the point which your brother has apparently done. You don't get to just make up your own definition of "addiction" any more than you get to make up your own definition of "autistic".
Well, that may be the case, though I'm not sure how one expects to do a manned mars mission with many fewer adjusted dollars in funding than we used to get to the moon (yeah sure, we had to do a lot of scratch, but it sounds like there's a lot to be done from scratch now, too). My gut tells me that the majority of those pitiful budget increases (and a lot of the budget existing) is (re)earmarked for Manned Mars projects as opposed to the stuff NASA's been doing lately with increasing percentages of success.
I'm fairly certain that your brother's concept of addiction is not the same as the medical concept of addiction. I've had the chance to take enough psych education to know that "I need one drink a year" isn't the sign of addiction in a medical/psychological sense. IIRC, one of the (many) necessary components of addiction is that it precludes doing things that actually need to be done in order to function nominally in society. Your brother's theoretical "one drink a year" need is pretty close to opposite of that, unless we add some unreasonable qualifier to it, like "I *need* one drink a year during Christmas!", which isn't so much addiction as an avoidant behavior due to some event (say, the proverbial crazy mother-in-law).
Come on now, at least be *slightly* perceptive and notice that I wasn't the OP.
Once people start taking things such as online avatars copulating in strange ways too seriously (I'm lookin' at you, furries), then harassing them becomes great fun.