The entire US is not devoid of empathy, and I find your implication otherwise offensive.
UK Population: 60 Million.
US population: 295 Million.
(Granted those are the CIA #s so they're likely wrong;)
In short: there are more of us to go around, so country-wide news can't focus the same way it can in a (much) smaller country.
Even if we have exactly the same per-capita murder rate (last I saw was USA:UK 4.2:3.3), we would have five times the number of events to try and report. As it is, factoring in difference in rates AND the population issue, for ever 3 murders you have to report, we have roughly 20.
He was sentenced at Liverpool crown court to two years and eight months' in jail for the race hate crime and six months consecutively for the child pornography offences.
Also: Martin, from Maghull, Merseyside, pleaded guilty at earlier hearings to publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred and to making indecent photographs of children.
Hey Brits: Somebody wanna explain to me why hate speech is considered worse in your culture than the exploitation of children?
Hey, and if they could put a spot on the back for credit cards and money, I could leave my wallet at home too!
Which would be awesome, because then in a single mugging or pickpocketing event, your entire life could come to a screeching, horrific halt.
Have you ever considered that maybe your ID/cash and your electronic devices are best isolated for the same reason that you don't keep your matches and lighter fluid inside your fireproof safe with your birth certificate?
let us buy our music from anywhere and play it on any device.
They *do*. YOU just have to be industrious enough to rip in MP3 format.
Your problem is that you are busy whining about the "big bad corporations" instead of educating your fellow consumers. If we all spent a little of our time making sure our friends and family ripped and burned in MP3 format (and used services like emusic and instead of iTunes) instead of the proprietary formats, this wouldn't be an issue.
If I got close - as in one meter kind of close - sure, there was more small detail . ..
But back up to a more normal viewing distance for the screens (42"), and I saw no discernible difference at all,
Well I'm definetly going to avoid this new fangled HD stuff, if it suffers a massive degradation in quality in the 2.6 inch span between a meter and 42 inches. . .
Stick to the English system, or LEARN the metric system, don't try and randomly throw them together because you feel it makes you sound more erudite.
Is everything in 'rolling distance' for your robot in question? Or is your robot the size of a car?
If neither, than how exactly will it be clambering into your vehicle to go and run these errands you so blithely mention? Or will your car have an access ramp?
IAARE--and legs are vital to lots and lots of important task related activity. Even if you use wheels as your primary form of locomotion, you're going to want a leg alternative for many, many points along the way.
Fact: most people's mom encountered her first treelike structure the first day she typed a document in Word, and wanted to save it.
Fact: you haven't spent much time with your mother.
Your mother first encountered treelike structures with a book called Joy of Cooking in 1967, when you were as yet unborn.
JoC (and most other cookbooks) are broken down in trees: baked goods, soups, meats (subdivided into poultry, beef, etc), and so on. These subtrees are then further divided in some cases, and generally then sorted in alphabetical order.
Gee, isn't that funny? It's just like the filesystem!
Here's a thought, youngun: we didn't invent the treelike structure. We didn't even perfect it. We just happened to do a terrible job of conveying to our parents via the GUI how items nested when we implemented it in software. If we really wanted to help them understand the file system, we'd make the explorer sidebar (remember that handy thing?) ALWAYS appear in every file-related-window (including save, open, etc.), so they could clearly see 'where' in the structure they were, and how they could add subfolders to divide the current space.
Music is Play Once, Listen Once. It won't die. It'll just go to getting 99% of its revenue from concerts and physical stuff (shirts, stickers, etc.)
Movies, on the other hand. . .
Music will survive the digital revolution because people will keep going to concerts. This is because live music is a "play once, listen once" medium. Sure, I'll take a recording (play once, listen many times) home, but I will continue to pay to hear good artists play live.
Movies and Television shows will not survive, because their ONLY output is 'play once, view many times' (POVMT) and is therefore driven to an economically valueless space by the digital age.
Ironically, this means that Theater, long the ignored cousin of the movie industry, might experience a huge surge in growth again (since they are 'perform once, view once') as movies get smaller, more indie, and less 'phenominal.'
In the long run I believe we'll wind up with a tiny movie industry fractured into mainly amatuer efforts, with a handful of distributed films that are generally low budget, creative efforts supported by public funding or paypal donations.
In the 40s and 50s of this decade, we'll look back on the 1900s not as the golden age of movies--but as the only age of movies.
The books always start with a random NPC dying in a creative but gruesome manner, and ends with the villian dying in a dramatic fashion. At the very end of the book someone will get thoroughly laid.
Oh, and the merciless killer is also removed from humanity in some physical trait (skin colour, addiction, physical disability)*.
In fact, the entire Brown bookwriting process isn't even formulaic, as that implies some variation. It's just a collection of constants with minor cosmetic changes.
*The one exception here is the stone cold killers in Deception Point, who are not physically unique, but are instead made to seem so by being dehumanized by the author.
Does this mean you can't have two guys holding hands in a game? *shakes head*
Tomorrows news:
"Ohio makes it illegal to sell Kingdom Hearts II to Minors. Lawmakers point out that the male characters "totally hold hands, and that creeps us out" though they are quick to add that this "doesn't make us homophobic or anything. We just, y'know, yeah. .." More at 11."
Agreed. It's kindof like having a martial arts hall of fame induction include one of the Gracie brothers (competitors in the UFC), Morehei Ueshiba (O'sensei-founder of Aikido) and Mr. Miyagi.
The first are skilled and proven fighters, the second was an infuential force in the community, and the last was a character in a movie.
Make these seperate freakin' categories. Duh.
Work Bots, Play Bots, Fictional Bots. Then induct one or three per category, per year. Lumping them all together is ridiculous. In fact, A fourth category for research would be nice too.
I got a job working for a (now bust).com startup named "Intranology.com"* when I was 16, but it wasn't my hard work and diligence that aquired me the job--it was that I was a student and friend of a guy that was close friends with the founders of the company. My diligence and hard work kept me the job for the rest of the summer, but that had nothing to do with my aquiring the thing in the first place.
*no, really--".com" was part of the company title registered with the incorporation paperwork--*sigh*
Slashdot Mirror
Heh. I love /.
The parent is marked "2. Interesting."
[dies a little inside].
The entire US is not devoid of empathy, and I find your implication otherwise offensive. UK Population: 60 Million. US population: 295 Million. (Granted those are the CIA #s so they're likely wrong ;)
In short: there are more of us to go around, so country-wide news can't focus the same way it can in a (much) smaller country.
Even if we have exactly the same per-capita murder rate (last I saw was USA:UK 4.2:3.3), we would have five times the number of events to try and report. As it is, factoring in difference in rates AND the population issue, for ever 3 murders you have to report, we have roughly 20.
From TFA:
He was sentenced at Liverpool crown court to two years and eight months' in jail for the race hate crime and six months consecutively for the child pornography offences.
Also: Martin, from Maghull, Merseyside, pleaded guilty at earlier hearings to publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred and to making indecent photographs of children.
Hey Brits: Somebody wanna explain to me why hate speech is considered worse in your culture than the exploitation of children?
Sacrificing my ability to Moderate the threat to correct your statement.
The Wall Street Journal actually ran an article TODAY about how light truck and SUV sales are dropping and it's about to cost GM the farm.
Try researching BEFORE you post.
^ RTFMed.
Still got a fuxx0red install.
After a week, threw hands in air and installed Fedora.
It seems as if a mad-pack too many of you land-lubbers tried to board that poor ship at once, and she's capsized!*
Did any man-jack among you manage to capture the precious booty and abscond with it to a sturdier vessel before the original was blown to davy-jones?
Translations:
* You've slashdotted the server.
** Did anyone mirror it to a STABLE host like youtube or google video?
Um, This is Slashdot. How many of the slashdot community do you think actually still use cheques for, well, anything?
I litterally use 12 of them a year, because my landlord has yet to give me a method of paying him electronically.
Everything else I do via more secure methods, or with cash.
Which would be awesome, because then in a single mugging or pickpocketing event, your entire life could come to a screeching, horrific halt.
Have you ever considered that maybe your ID/cash and your electronic devices are best isolated for the same reason that you don't keep your matches and lighter fluid inside your fireproof safe with your birth certificate?
They *do*. YOU just have to be industrious enough to rip in MP3 format.
Your problem is that you are busy whining about the "big bad corporations" instead of educating your fellow consumers. If we all spent a little of our time making sure our friends and family ripped and burned in MP3 format (and used services like emusic and instead of iTunes) instead of the proprietary formats, this wouldn't be an issue.
Of course not! Zero is an uncountable number!
But back up to a more normal viewing distance for the screens (42"), and I saw no discernible difference at all,
Well I'm definetly going to avoid this new fangled HD stuff, if it suffers a massive degradation in quality in the 2.6 inch span between a meter and 42 inches. . .
Stick to the English system, or LEARN the metric system, don't try and randomly throw them together because you feel it makes you sound more erudite.
Is everything in 'rolling distance' for your robot in question? Or is your robot the size of a car?
If neither, than how exactly will it be clambering into your vehicle to go and run these errands you so blithely mention? Or will your car have an access ramp?
IAARE--and legs are vital to lots and lots of important task related activity. Even if you use wheels as your primary form of locomotion, you're going to want a leg alternative for many, many points along the way.
Everything is going digital, so you won't be able to make a copy of anything.
Uhhh. . . you might want to revisit your understanding of "digital" sir.
In fact, you weren't able to make a perfect copy of anything *until* things started going digital.
Fact: most people's mom encountered her first treelike structure the first day she typed a document in Word, and wanted to save it.
Fact: you haven't spent much time with your mother.
Your mother first encountered treelike structures with a book called Joy of Cooking in 1967, when you were as yet unborn.
JoC (and most other cookbooks) are broken down in trees: baked goods, soups, meats (subdivided into poultry, beef, etc), and so on. These subtrees are then further divided in some cases, and generally then sorted in alphabetical order.
Gee, isn't that funny? It's just like the filesystem!
Here's a thought, youngun: we didn't invent the treelike structure. We didn't even perfect it. We just happened to do a terrible job of conveying to our parents via the GUI how items nested when we implemented it in software. If we really wanted to help them understand the file system, we'd make the explorer sidebar (remember that handy thing?) ALWAYS appear in every file-related-window (including save, open, etc.), so they could clearly see 'where' in the structure they were, and how they could add subfolders to divide the current space.
Music is Play Once, Listen Once. It won't die. It'll just go to getting 99% of its revenue from concerts and physical stuff (shirts, stickers, etc.) Movies, on the other hand. . .
Music will survive the digital revolution because people will keep going to concerts. This is because live music is a "play once, listen once" medium. Sure, I'll take a recording (play once, listen many times) home, but I will continue to pay to hear good artists play live.
Movies and Television shows will not survive, because their ONLY output is 'play once, view many times' (POVMT) and is therefore driven to an economically valueless space by the digital age.
Ironically, this means that Theater, long the ignored cousin of the movie industry, might experience a huge surge in growth again (since they are 'perform once, view once') as movies get smaller, more indie, and less 'phenominal.'
In the long run I believe we'll wind up with a tiny movie industry fractured into mainly amatuer efforts, with a handful of distributed films that are generally low budget, creative efforts supported by public funding or paypal donations.
In the 40s and 50s of this decade, we'll look back on the 1900s not as the golden age of movies--but as the only age of movies.
We're not.
The buggy-whip industry used to be HUGE. It went by the wayside as a result of technology too.
Trust me, in 20 years, you won't miss it.
Don't they already do this?
Well, I suppose Apple hasn't broken the law. . . Unless you count breaking a legal agreement with Apple Corps. Thrice.
A handful of things, actually.
The books always start with a random NPC dying in a creative but gruesome manner, and ends with the villian dying in a dramatic fashion. At the very end of the book someone will get thoroughly laid.
Oh, and the merciless killer is also removed from humanity in some physical trait (skin colour, addiction, physical disability)*.
In fact, the entire Brown bookwriting process isn't even formulaic, as that implies some variation. It's just a collection of constants with minor cosmetic changes.
*The one exception here is the stone cold killers in Deception Point, who are not physically unique, but are instead made to seem so by being dehumanized by the author.
Does this mean you can't have two guys holding hands in a game? *shakes head*
." More at 11."
Tomorrows news:
"Ohio makes it illegal to sell Kingdom Hearts II to Minors. Lawmakers point out that the male characters "totally hold hands, and that creeps us out" though they are quick to add that this "doesn't make us homophobic or anything. We just, y'know, yeah. .
Agreed. It's kindof like having a martial arts hall of fame induction include one of the Gracie brothers (competitors in the UFC), Morehei Ueshiba (O'sensei-founder of Aikido) and Mr. Miyagi.
The first are skilled and proven fighters, the second was an infuential force in the community, and the last was a character in a movie.
Make these seperate freakin' categories. Duh.
Work Bots, Play Bots, Fictional Bots. Then induct one or three per category, per year. Lumping them all together is ridiculous. In fact, A fourth category for research would be nice too.
Can I get a big fat AMEN!?
.com startup named "Intranology.com"* when I was 16, but it wasn't my hard work and diligence that aquired me the job--it was that I was a student and friend of a guy that was close friends with the founders of the company. My diligence and hard work kept me the job for the rest of the summer, but that had nothing to do with my aquiring the thing in the first place.
I got a job working for a (now bust)
*no, really--".com" was part of the company title registered with the incorporation paperwork--*sigh*
It plays MP3s still, right?
.if you do a little digging and find yourself an old copy of Playfair or just grab a copy of Hymn. . . it *could* play those iTMS tracks.
Well. .
Diner Dash crashes? Well shoot, I thought that was just a built-in timer meant to encourage me to go purchase the full version. . . =)