Only AFTER you spend some real time with them is it reasonable to develop feelings. If you haven't put in the face time, you're not really falling in love with that person, but the idea of the person. Remember, it's just a game, or it's just chat. It's a great way to make connections, but do your loving in person. That's wrapping it up pretty nicely!
A relationship takes into account everything about a person, and there is just no way you can convey all that information through text (or emotes or whatever). A text-based medium, no matter how complex or laden with feelings, cannot convey an impression like you get about a person when you meet face-to-face. Sure, maybe it's a nice addition, but it's not enough by itself.
There is no way I could possibly develop real feelings for anyone before meeting them in real life. Not seeing their face, their smile or hearing their voice and laughter? Impossible. The impressions from text are only my ideas about the person, which will probably be wrong.
This goes for non-romantic relationships as well. I keep the possibility open that the worst annoying troll or most awful lamer could actually turn out to be a great guy in real life. People online are only nicknames and handles until I meet them, then they become people.
Is there a language that, once learned, you need a big set of reference books? Is there a language that you need a big set of reference books?
I know other coders that have reference books, but I've never understood what kind of information exists on those pages that I can't find faster in an online documentation. Or google when I want the nitty-gritty details that aren't in a book anyway.
Nah. Teh 3rd movie was non-canon, SkyNet was hosten in co-located hardware.
Obviously, AIs in the wilderness are nice and quiet. It's only when you lock them up in a confined space they become genocidal and send killing machines back in time. Let them roam free and they're harmless, spending their time searching NASA records after life signs from Aplha Centauri and suchlike.
I was already looking away before following the link. When the "stare into the red dot" message came up, I donned arc welding goggles, backed up 5 meters and clicked next with a 16-foot pole.
Somehow people have gotten an attitude that good music will find them and don't bother trying to find it themselves You feel upset, Pandora, Last.fm et al are attempting to build a business on that very idea.
Next, you're going to tell me I will have to visit multiple stores, and not having everything in stock I will be awaiting the arrival of a plastic disk containing the information I am looking for? How quaint.
In my opinion (here's where I become an asshole) it takes a particularly immature mind to believe that downloading commercially sold entertainment in an illegal fashion is somehow the morally superior alternative. Bah. I got my new broadband connection yesterday. Had been waiting to explore their movies on demand and everything. Wanted to have a look yesterday. I was looking for a free sample, or something cheap. Really looking forward to rent movies online.
But what do I get? A fully flash-fucked website with absolutely awful interfaces and DRM-laden movies. Javascript popups galore and absolutely clueless interfaces. And that was after I revisited in Internet Explorer, when I used Firefox they just asked me to roll over and die. Probably because the crap they have pieced together is built with so much nonstandard design that they can't possibly get it to work in more than a single browser.
So yeah, I'll be pirating and Yarr'in and feeling all morally superior here, thank you very much. I will happily pay for content, but not until they get the services up to a level where they can at least give me a user experience as good service as piracy. Piracy is WAY more convenient than going to the video store, that web pages I visited yesterday is not.
I am also not re-sharing it (any more than I can help since I don't seed with bittorrent) so I'm not keeping anyone else from buying it. You're a leecher!
Ok, ok, I know you got a slow connection. On the other hand it's just a bad excuse for not giving much as you get. If you make use of BitTorrent to pirate something you feel is "moral", you should suck it up and help others do what they think is moral.
Or are you telling me that if a coworker missed a show, and you have downloaded it, you will refuse to give it to him because "it would be piracy"? Always get that 1:1 or better ratio, man!
Sweden was ranked #6 in the 2006 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. Perhaps they wouldn't do so well next year. Huh? Excuse me, but I think you're getting this the wrong way around. Corruption attempts happen everywhere. What matters, is if those attempts are exposed or not.
The fact is that a tiny thing like some late-joining members in a standards committee actually got into the news, then got corrected. That's not corruption, that is exactly the opposite. I don't know the details of the invalidation, but it almost seem like they used a technicality to prevent a morally "wrong" decision. Instead of the opposite, mind you.
Frankly, I get this image of some guy in Africa trying to explain to me how he doesn't need a fridge or a phone, because he is just fine and it's not really that important, thank you. Do I really have to "prove to you beyond any reasonable doubt that it is a necessity"?
Are you making excuses or are you putting in an effort to be #1 nation here? Are you the top dog, or are you becoming a nation of whiners? Now stop complaining and get your broadband up to scratch, or I'm going wonder if you're turning into a developing country here. You covered that fat chunk of land of yours with roads, laying some fiber into the ground shouldn't really be an issue.
For the record, my parents are past 60 and they canceled their landline for an IP phone last year. No, I didn't do it for them. Yes, we live in Scandinavia. Broadband is pretty basic around here.
Sorry for being rude, but lagging behind in technology is a warning sign IMHO. So get cracking!
It's not like we'll move every single bit of computing into services. We're going to have a little bit of each. Huge growth in personal computing? More software for your PC. Huge growth in the network? Sure, more software as a service.
We'll have both, need both, but will still have a lot of cases where people try to the wrong one and get burnt.
Written without reading TFA (and boy, did it feel good!). I'll read it now.:)
That would indeed be the best solution. Music made to contain the highest possible range, and various settings to adjust it to standarized loudnesses. Not sure if it is expensive or not, but hopefully music will be headed in that direction sooner or later. (As far as I remember, mp3 encoders can adjust loudness. So in a way, it would be possible to make separate recordings for each environment if you had access to a high-quality original.)
Anyway. Wait until anyone stars selling losslessly compressed music, and people will be able to recompress and readjust it to their own preferred level. Hopefully, increasing loudness will then only cause music to loose quality for people wanting a high range, and not adding any value for other situations. Which would encourage record companies to release with a high dynamic range.
What would the odds be for Terra Firma considering the music industry to be running around with its head up its ass and behaving in a suicidal and completely retared way? And do they fix "management issues" with a shotgun? (Oh, oops, that was the mafiaa, my mistake)
It's probably a pipe dream, but it would be amazing if they could actually restructure a record label to make it more fit for the digital age. People like music, and I'm sure you could make a hefty money machine from a record label. And yes, I mean without attempting to force-fit a business based on selling uncopiable music files with a gazillion % markup. That is a pipe dream.
Of course being exposed to some bacteria over your life is a good thing anyhow - it builds the immune system. That's why parents should let their kids go out side and play/eat the dirt, they'll be better for it in the long run. I agree completely. Our bodies are built to handle bacteria. The stuff they add to make it anti-bacterial... I'm not so sure about that.
Personally, I mentally apply the following slogan to anything anti-bacterial:
Hate diarrhea? Hate catching a cold? With our cell-destroying chemicals, you can swap them out and get cancer instead!
I'll reply to you, Ray, since you're working in this field.
These kinds of conferences are open to the public so if you're in or around Boston on that date, there's nothing to stop you showing up at what's guaranteed to be an extremely interesting hearing. October 23 at 2:30 pm?
How many people does usually show up at these hearings? How many people do you need to make the judge and lawyers raise an eyebrow? How many to get on the news?
Seems like plenty of time to get the word out and make people come. Maybe make a few posts around, add it to your calendar and ask slashdot if they have time to come and watch when it draws closer? (Or nobody will remember by the time October arrives)
There are a lot of people reading slashdot, and a lot of people that can get the word out to others. Maybe not as many of the take-to-the-streets-and-demonstrate-types, but I really think that online communities ought to get more involved outside of the net. Every single person attending to show some support for the defendant would be helping.
I live in Europe, so Boston souonds a bit far. But if anything was happening close to here, I'd take some time off and join in to support a good case.
To use a car analogy, Windows XP has been around the block, been put through its paces, had its engine tuned and is humming nicely, whilst Windows Vista has barely had more than its tyres kicked in the dealer's forecourt. If you were taking a 5,000 mile road trip across a continent, which would you go with? I wanted to go the the old and tried one, but I can't find anywhere they sell it.
That is why people are flaming MS for anything relatwed to Vista. Because Microsoft made the descicion for the consumers, they they should want Vista now, and make it difficult to get XP. Maybe you can get it if you're a company, but if you're a 50-something just wanting to upgrade your computer without getting used to a new OS, it's a lot harder.
Are those "long" tons (2240lb), "short" tons (2000lb), or "metric" tons (1000kg)? Holy cow... Is that even a question!?! 1000 kg of TNT, of course.
That's your problem, just there. I am not really aware of those other 2 definitions of a ton, can you get along with the program, please? Seriously, you need to ditch those medieval measurement systems. No matter if your country is Liberia, Myanmar or the United States. </rant>
With unicode requiring 2bytes per character, bytes are slipping into meaninglessness.
I look forward to the day when I can look at a file and read its size in megabits. Finally, it will all make sense.
This will probably happen a little while after the US drops off as the IT industry leader. No hard feelings, but we all know how much you like SI standards...
Nobody gives a rat's ass about "the SI unit." These are computers. And we've always used kilobyte/megabyte/etc as they applied to computers. Well, maybe electrical engineers would prefer to have 992 watts on the kilowatt, grocers would like to define a kg as 977 grams. Maybe 1023 tons of TNT is what fits on a standard truck, so it would be handier than that stupid 1000 for a kiloton. And the food industry, maybe they would like to redefine kilocalories as 1005 to the kilo, just because of some weird internal workings of molecular workings?
But instead of going with whatever number that fits their specific field, they all went with 1000. Really, that IT people refuse to do the same makes us look utterly retarded.
Not that it matters anyway. With 8 bits on the byte, we're doomed before we even start. There is no hope in sight until we just ditch this shit, get a clue from the network people, and start counting bits in multiples of 1000.
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If only cakes were digital! Then we could eat a copy and keep one, too.
Of course, bakers would sue for cake piracy, but nobody would really care.
A relationship takes into account everything about a person, and there is just no way you can convey all that information through text (or emotes or whatever). A text-based medium, no matter how complex or laden with feelings, cannot convey an impression like you get about a person when you meet face-to-face. Sure, maybe it's a nice addition, but it's not enough by itself.
There is no way I could possibly develop real feelings for anyone before meeting them in real life. Not seeing their face, their smile or hearing their voice and laughter? Impossible. The impressions from text are only my ideas about the person, which will probably be wrong.
This goes for non-romantic relationships as well. I keep the possibility open that the worst annoying troll or most awful lamer could actually turn out to be a great guy in real life. People online are only nicknames and handles until I meet them, then they become people.
I know other coders that have reference books, but I've never understood what kind of information exists on those pages that I can't find faster in an online documentation. Or google when I want the nitty-gritty details that aren't in a book anyway.
Nah. Teh 3rd movie was non-canon, SkyNet was hosten in co-located hardware.
Obviously, AIs in the wilderness are nice and quiet. It's only when you lock them up in a confined space they become genocidal and send killing machines back in time. Let them roam free and they're harmless, spending their time searching NASA records after life signs from Aplha Centauri and suchlike.
Dammit! Does that mean I should watch it, or not?
Careful.
Butlerian Jihad. Family nukes.
He might take care of the worm problem a little better than you'd want him to.
Wow, it wasn't a goatse!?!
I was already looking away before following the link. When the "stare into the red dot" message came up, I donned arc welding goggles, backed up 5 meters and clicked next with a 16-foot pole.
It better be a joke.
If humor is a part of their studies and they fail to see the irony here, the ninjas won without showing up, or even uttering a statement.
(And that's real ultimate power. No wonder even pirates fear them!)
Next, you're going to tell me I will have to visit multiple stores, and not having everything in stock I will be awaiting the arrival of a plastic disk containing the information I am looking for? How quaint.
But what do I get? A fully flash-fucked website with absolutely awful interfaces and DRM-laden movies. Javascript popups galore and absolutely clueless interfaces. And that was after I revisited in Internet Explorer, when I used Firefox they just asked me to roll over and die. Probably because the crap they have pieced together is built with so much nonstandard design that they can't possibly get it to work in more than a single browser.
So yeah, I'll be pirating and Yarr'in and feeling all morally superior here, thank you very much. I will happily pay for content, but not until they get the services up to a level where they can at least give me a user experience as good service as piracy. Piracy is WAY more convenient than going to the video store, that web pages I visited yesterday is not.
The root cause is DRM, of course.
Ok, ok, I know you got a slow connection. On the other hand it's just a bad excuse for not giving much as you get. If you make use of BitTorrent to pirate something you feel is "moral", you should suck it up and help others do what they think is moral.
Or are you telling me that if a coworker missed a show, and you have downloaded it, you will refuse to give it to him because "it would be piracy"? Always get that 1:1 or better ratio, man!
The fact is that a tiny thing like some late-joining members in a standards committee actually got into the news, then got corrected. That's not corruption, that is exactly the opposite. I don't know the details of the invalidation, but it almost seem like they used a technicality to prevent a morally "wrong" decision. Instead of the opposite, mind you.
He's talking about DRM, or possibly the WGA servers that were down 16 hours. You know, that stuff mentioned in the summary.
Frankly, I get this image of some guy in Africa trying to explain to me how he doesn't need a fridge or a phone, because he is just fine and it's not really that important, thank you. Do I really have to "prove to you beyond any reasonable doubt that it is a necessity"?
Are you making excuses or are you putting in an effort to be #1 nation here? Are you the top dog, or are you becoming a nation of whiners? Now stop complaining and get your broadband up to scratch, or I'm going wonder if you're turning into a developing country here. You covered that fat chunk of land of yours with roads, laying some fiber into the ground shouldn't really be an issue.
For the record, my parents are past 60 and they canceled their landline for an IP phone last year. No, I didn't do it for them. Yes, we live in Scandinavia. Broadband is pretty basic around here.
Sorry for being rude, but lagging behind in technology is a warning sign IMHO. So get cracking!
It's not like we'll move every single bit of computing into services. We're going to have a little bit of each. Huge growth in personal computing? More software for your PC. Huge growth in the network? Sure, more software as a service.
:)
We'll have both, need both, but will still have a lot of cases where people try to the wrong one and get burnt.
Written without reading TFA (and boy, did it feel good!). I'll read it now.
As the post before you mention, it should be possible to adjust the dynamic range during playback.
Removing information is easy. Recreating lost information is not.
That would indeed be the best solution. Music made to contain the highest possible range, and various settings to adjust it to standarized loudnesses. Not sure if it is expensive or not, but hopefully music will be headed in that direction sooner or later. (As far as I remember, mp3 encoders can adjust loudness. So in a way, it would be possible to make separate recordings for each environment if you had access to a high-quality original.)
Anyway. Wait until anyone stars selling losslessly compressed music, and people will be able to recompress and readjust it to their own preferred level. Hopefully, increasing loudness will then only cause music to loose quality for people wanting a high range, and not adding any value for other situations. Which would encourage record companies to release with a high dynamic range.
What would the odds be for Terra Firma considering the music industry to be running around with its head up its ass and behaving in a suicidal and completely retared way? And do they fix "management issues" with a shotgun? (Oh, oops, that was the mafiaa, my mistake)
It's probably a pipe dream, but it would be amazing if they could actually restructure a record label to make it more fit for the digital age. People like music, and I'm sure you could make a hefty money machine from a record label. And yes, I mean without attempting to force-fit a business based on selling uncopiable music files with a gazillion % markup. That is a pipe dream.
Personally, I mentally apply the following slogan to anything anti-bacterial:
Hate diarrhea? Hate catching a cold? With our cell-destroying chemicals, you can swap them out and get cancer instead!
How many people does usually show up at these hearings? How many people do you need to make the judge and lawyers raise an eyebrow? How many to get on the news?
Seems like plenty of time to get the word out and make people come. Maybe make a few posts around, add it to your calendar and ask slashdot if they have time to come and watch when it draws closer? (Or nobody will remember by the time October arrives)
There are a lot of people reading slashdot, and a lot of people that can get the word out to others. Maybe not as many of the take-to-the-streets-and-demonstrate-types, but I really think that online communities ought to get more involved outside of the net. Every single person attending to show some support for the defendant would be helping.
I live in Europe, so Boston souonds a bit far. But if anything was happening close to here, I'd take some time off and join in to support a good case.
That is why people are flaming MS for anything relatwed to Vista. Because Microsoft made the descicion for the consumers, they they should want Vista now, and make it difficult to get XP. Maybe you can get it if you're a company, but if you're a 50-something just wanting to upgrade your computer without getting used to a new OS, it's a lot harder.
I can see slashdot making jokes about governments and solutions to the energy crisis.
That's your problem, just there. I am not really aware of those other 2 definitions of a ton, can you get along with the program, please? Seriously, you need to ditch those medieval measurement systems. No matter if your country is Liberia, Myanmar or the United States. </rant>
With unicode requiring 2bytes per character, bytes are slipping into meaninglessness.
I look forward to the day when I can look at a file and read its size in megabits. Finally, it will all make sense.
This will probably happen a little while after the US drops off as the IT industry leader. No hard feelings, but we all know how much you like SI standards...
But instead of going with whatever number that fits their specific field, they all went with 1000. Really, that IT people refuse to do the same makes us look utterly retarded.
Not that it matters anyway. With 8 bits on the byte, we're doomed before we even start. There is no hope in sight until we just ditch this shit, get a clue from the network people, and start counting bits in multiples of 1000.