I remember reading an Asimov story (don't remember the title, maybe I'm remembering a couple) and one of the points of the story was that the population at large couldn't read or do math because they were so used to computers solving things and speaking to them.
Maybe several hundred years in the future this will be a porblem, but I do more reading and math dealing with computers than I ever did at school. I can't stand to wait for audio commentaries when I can read 20 times faster than I can listen to it. Is there anyone here who works in IT that *doesn't* use some math skills on a regualar basis? I know that mine have improved with my computing skills.
Language doesn't degenerate. It just changes. Snow Crash had a really cool explanatin for why language fragments instead of consolidates. I have also read studies showing a parallel between the increasing complexity of kid's entertainmnet (mostly videogames) and increasingly early mental development in kids.
Only history will tell. Unless we screw up and we all die or are too busy surviving to worry about history.
I wish, after all of this hyping, that we'd get a bug as well written as some of these (you know, that gets into everything and around all defenses) but gets old-school on its victims. None of this pussyfooting around, I mean like copy itself, mailing itself to all of your contacts, and delete everyone's hard drives. Or filling it with beastiality pron. Nasty stuff.
Show these kids what a real virus is about. Put that hype to good use. And make everyone stop acting like EVERY LITTLE BUG IS A RIDER OF THE APOCALYPSE. Because most of these, like even the Sober worm, aren't really that harmful. Most malware writers are really only out for money, not general misanthropia. I just want ONE killer bug to put all of this in perspective. And maybe get people to switch to a modern OS like Linus, BSD, or OS X.
I guess something to do with patents loosely having something to do with YRO. Because, you know, other patents actually affect YRO. Even though this one doesn't. But they're related. So.
Heh, when I took AP Psychology, the teacher was briefly reviewing Rorschach inkblots, and had PowerPoint show of a couple of examples. Everyone was supposed to write down what each one looked like to them. But the last slide was like a waterpainting of the Grim Reaper (couldn't be seen as anything else) and then the teacher said "I think it looks like a bunny rabbit. What about you guys?". Some people didn't realize that it was a joke put there on purpose until the rest of us stared laughing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman are two of the nicest and most progressive countries in the Middle East. I lived in Oman for about seven months, and I am still amazed at the change that has happend in 30 years (the Sultan is pretty unique among rulers). Much of the rest of the Mid East feels like it is a world apart.
A right is something that the government can't take away and is supposed to prevent others from taking away, not something it is required to give you. I have a right to the pursuit of happiness, but I don't expect taxes to go to buying me a new videocard.
That being said, I do believe that public healthcare is inefficient, but that it is too important to not have. But it is NOT a right.
Security, security, security What about my Linux partition?
For the first time, Microsoft is building high-end graphics effects into Windows. What was the deal with the XP look then? And is there a medium choice if I don't want the crappy Classic look but also don't want to need dual 7800s in SLI? Hell, they've got quad SLI now, is that what I'll need to run F.E.A.R.?
Windows Vista boasts a much-improved backup program that should help users avoid wholesale digital meltdowns. You mean Knoppix?
Parental controls Haha, you're kidding, right? MS couldn't stop releasing of their own source-code and CD-keys before XP came out, and they are still plagued by security problems, so what makes you think that a kid with above-room temperature IQ couldn't get around this? Actual parenting is the solution. My school has priveleges and download locks, DeepFreeze, and N2H2, and you know what we do in class? Get through the filter, go Download.com, download the Unreal Tournament demo installer, install it, and play for an hour.
Desktop search How hard is it to put things in folder? C'mon people. If you are really lazy or forgetful, Google desktop will be better the same way that Google search is still better than MSN. Is this for the people that dump EVERYTHING on to their desktop? Could it include a bomb to kill them off?
Better updates Unless the updates themselves are better, I don't care. When I can download a Service Pack and have it NOT ASSRAPE MY SYSTEM then I will be happy. A service pack should not add 8 minutes to the start-up time, like it did with mine (reinstalled XP with included SP2, no more problems than usual)
Peer-to-peer collaboration Bittorent? Doens't Ubuntu come with that already? Or is this a new security hole? Or is this like the same Handouts/Dropbox feature already in operation at my school?
it's just words. The context is more important. If someone says, "man, your wife makes fucking awesome [x food]" then I'd take it as a compliment. But if someone says "Fuck you to hell you nigger-fucking jewbag" I'd be offended by the verbal lobotomy I'd just received. I'd expect any game (gone to a little league game recently and sat next to the parents?) to have its share of high emotions and tolerances for behaviour, but the leap from "Suck it Reds! Eat this, bitch!" to the complete lack of non-hate/swearwords is a big one.
Really, the hate words are the biggy. Red vs. Blue is about the most cussing I'd ever do, but hate words and racial slurs are too much. Unless there is comedy involved with people that I know are cool with it. For example, I hang out with a ethnically mixed bunch of guys and we occasionally make fun of stereotypes in an overblown way, and everyone is equally bashed, and no one gets worked up about it.
The worst is when communication ceases and it vecomes just logorrhea which is a plague upon the web.
I don't think it's appropriate for ME to see the goatse guy any more often than strictly nessesary
Doctor: I'm sorry sir, it looks like you haven't been getting all of your vitamins. You: What? I eat healthy, exercise, take vitamin pills, what am I not getting? Doc: It seems you are vitamin-g deficient. You: Vitamin-g? What's that? How come I've never heard of it before? Doc: It's a recently discovered vitamin, but it appears to be critically important. You: You're not making this up are you? I've never heard of "Harfvurd University" either. Is that degree real? Doc: Of course it is. Trust me. Now close your eyes until I tell you to open them...
What about 60GBs of movies? Or whatever size they have by the time this is finally implemented? Eve nif USB transfer speed is incresed, the ipod disk probably doesn't spin at 7200rpms.
Considering the hours it would take to transfer...
you'd have to leave and come back to pick it up later...
and aside from being inconvenient...
minimum-wage highschool and college kids will make off with millions in stolen iPods and video content. "$5.74 an hour? Fuck this job." *yoink* "Later bitchez."
Drive to Mexico, sell the iPods and burned DVDs of the movies, and then get wasted and get VD from a prostitute. And then win up in a Mexican jail. Retirement!
Windows will one step (okay, 87,000 steps) closer to finally being as stable as nitroglycerin. M$ slaves around the world rejoice. *nix users either 1.) laugh at the unwashed masses, 2.) sigh and shake their heads at the primitive savages, or 3.) be too busy being productive to notice.
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What? You like BDSM? Thanks for sharing, but... uhh... no thanks. Well, it probably is VERY manly.
I remember reading an Asimov story (don't remember the title, maybe I'm remembering a couple) and one of the points of the story was that the population at large couldn't read or do math because they were so used to computers solving things and speaking to them.
Maybe several hundred years in the future this will be a porblem, but I do more reading and math dealing with computers than I ever did at school. I can't stand to wait for audio commentaries when I can read 20 times faster than I can listen to it. Is there anyone here who works in IT that *doesn't* use some math skills on a regualar basis? I know that mine have improved with my computing skills.
Language doesn't degenerate. It just changes. Snow Crash had a really cool explanatin for why language fragments instead of consolidates. I have also read studies showing a parallel between the increasing complexity of kid's entertainmnet (mostly videogames) and increasingly early mental development in kids.
Only history will tell. Unless we screw up and we all die or are too busy surviving to worry about history.
I wish, after all of this hyping, that we'd get a bug as well written as some of these (you know, that gets into everything and around all defenses) but gets old-school on its victims. None of this pussyfooting around, I mean like copy itself, mailing itself to all of your contacts, and delete everyone's hard drives. Or filling it with beastiality pron. Nasty stuff.
Show these kids what a real virus is about. Put that hype to good use. And make everyone stop acting like EVERY LITTLE BUG IS A RIDER OF THE APOCALYPSE. Because most of these, like even the Sober worm, aren't really that harmful. Most malware writers are really only out for money, not general misanthropia. I just want ONE killer bug to put all of this in perspective. And maybe get people to switch to a modern OS like Linus, BSD, or OS X.
Because no, not even Norton can save you.
Grif: "And talk about a waste of resources, you know? I mean, we should be out there, finding new and intelligent forms of life. Y'know, fight them"
I guess something to do with patents loosely having something to do with YRO. Because, you know, other patents actually affect YRO. Even though this one doesn't. But they're related. So.
Form bash.org (I believe he was talking about pens):
glasnost: dammit, all my penis keep getting lost
glasnost: err
glasnost: penis*
glasnost: dammit!
glasnost: i've freudian slipped and i can't get up
Heh, when I took AP Psychology, the teacher was briefly reviewing Rorschach inkblots, and had PowerPoint show of a couple of examples. Everyone was supposed to write down what each one looked like to them. But the last slide was like a waterpainting of the Grim Reaper (couldn't be seen as anything else) and then the teacher said "I think it looks like a bunny rabbit. What about you guys?". Some people didn't realize that it was a joke put there on purpose until the rest of us stared laughing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman are two of the nicest and most progressive countries in the Middle East. I lived in Oman for about seven months, and I am still amazed at the change that has happend in 30 years (the Sultan is pretty unique among rulers). Much of the rest of the Mid East feels like it is a world apart.
That's 'cause it'll be 35 times bigger.
Just email the city police dept.
are just doing whatever it takes to get into college, and may not have any real interest in being scientists.
Whew! I hope this is a pattern...
Buzzword-compliance probably won't get them beyond a certain point career-wise
You mean like upper management? There are plenty of PHBs around.
A right is something that the government can't take away and is supposed to prevent others from taking away, not something it is required to give you. I have a right to the pursuit of happiness, but I don't expect taxes to go to buying me a new videocard.
That being said, I do believe that public healthcare is inefficient, but that it is too important to not have. But it is NOT a right.
Security, security, security
What about my Linux partition?
For the first time, Microsoft is building high-end graphics effects into Windows.
What was the deal with the XP look then? And is there a medium choice if I don't want the crappy Classic look but also don't want to need dual 7800s in SLI? Hell, they've got quad SLI now, is that what I'll need to run F.E.A.R.?
Windows Vista boasts a much-improved backup program that should help users avoid wholesale digital meltdowns.
You mean Knoppix?
Parental controls
Haha, you're kidding, right? MS couldn't stop releasing of their own source-code and CD-keys before XP came out, and they are still plagued by security problems, so what makes you think that a kid with above-room temperature IQ couldn't get around this? Actual parenting is the solution. My school has priveleges and download locks, DeepFreeze, and N2H2, and you know what we do in class? Get through the filter, go Download.com, download the Unreal Tournament demo installer, install it, and play for an hour.
Desktop search
How hard is it to put things in folder? C'mon people. If you are really lazy or forgetful, Google desktop will be better the same way that Google search is still better than MSN. Is this for the people that dump EVERYTHING on to their desktop? Could it include a bomb to kill them off?
Better updates
Unless the updates themselves are better, I don't care. When I can download a Service Pack and have it NOT ASSRAPE MY SYSTEM then I will be happy. A service pack should not add 8 minutes to the start-up time, like it did with mine (reinstalled XP with included SP2, no more problems than usual)
Peer-to-peer collaboration
Bittorent? Doens't Ubuntu come with that already? Or is this a new security hole? Or is this like the same Handouts/Dropbox feature already in operation at my school?
Quick setup
Dream on, kid.
it's just words. The context is more important. If someone says, "man, your wife makes fucking awesome [x food]" then I'd take it as a compliment. But if someone says "Fuck you to hell you nigger-fucking jewbag" I'd be offended by the verbal lobotomy I'd just received. I'd expect any game (gone to a little league game recently and sat next to the parents?) to have its share of high emotions and tolerances for behaviour, but the leap from "Suck it Reds! Eat this, bitch!" to the complete lack of non-hate/swearwords is a big one.
Really, the hate words are the biggy. Red vs. Blue is about the most cussing I'd ever do, but hate words and racial slurs are too much. Unless there is comedy involved with people that I know are cool with it. For example, I hang out with a ethnically mixed bunch of guys and we occasionally make fun of stereotypes in an overblown way, and everyone is equally bashed, and no one gets worked up about it.
The worst is when communication ceases and it vecomes just logorrhea which is a plague upon the web.
I don't think it's appropriate for ME to see the goatse guy any more often than strictly nessesary
Doctor: I'm sorry sir, it looks like you haven't been getting all of your vitamins.
You: What? I eat healthy, exercise, take vitamin pills, what am I not getting?
Doc: It seems you are vitamin-g deficient.
You: Vitamin-g? What's that? How come I've never heard of it before?
Doc: It's a recently discovered vitamin, but it appears to be critically important.
You: You're not making this up are you? I've never heard of "Harfvurd University" either. Is that degree real?
Doc: Of course it is. Trust me. Now close your eyes until I tell you to open them...
We got it from you guys originally, remember. All the people you didn't like came here.
This is just more stupid, unnecessary legislation for the sake of controlling people. Let the free market do its thing and kill physical casinos.
Why not put some of this legislative effort into, oh, say, patent reform?
My new hero this judge is. Your old one was Yoda, right?
What about 60GBs of movies? Or whatever size they have by the time this is finally implemented? Eve nif USB transfer speed is incresed, the ipod disk probably doesn't spin at 7200rpms.
So, in essence, it is subjective, at least compared to engineering or another field normally called objective.
Considering the hours it would take to transfer...
you'd have to leave and come back to pick it up later...
and aside from being inconvenient...
minimum-wage highschool and college kids will make off with millions in stolen iPods and video content. "$5.74 an hour? Fuck this job."
*yoink*
"Later bitchez."
Drive to Mexico, sell the iPods and burned DVDs of the movies, and then get wasted and get VD from a prostitute. And then win up in a Mexican jail. Retirement!
Yeah, except for the most powerful supercomputer clusters in the world: http://www.top500.org/
He said "desktop". Not "any computer that could concieviably run Linux".
Go AC Go!
Windows will one step (okay, 87,000 steps) closer to finally being as stable as nitroglycerin. M$ slaves around the world rejoice. *nix users either 1.) laugh at the unwashed masses, 2.) sigh and shake their heads at the primitive savages, or 3.) be too busy being productive to notice.
How does that happen? Since when to /.ers RTFA? I didn't.