Those will be fluffed out and emailed. Thank you. I should screenshot for "epic lulz" except I would never do that to my brother. Hopefully he does not Google. He knows my screen name.
If your fingernails are growing then you just might be turning into Wolverine... That has some benefits.
Most mathematics "educators" teach by rote. You do this to get this result and this is the proof. They never once actually explain WHY that is. They do not abstract and show the real world functions beyond the abacus used to teach toddlers. (They still make those, yes?) For instance, percentages are really damned easy if you figure out a single percent and then add/subtract that to find your total. You tell someone to get 53% of 500 and they will look at you as if you are daft. You should be able to do this in your head.
I *do* have my Ph.D and it is in Applied Mathematics. I would say that this makes me a pretty good judge but that is an appeal to authority. Take it as you wish. I did not like maths until I had a teacher who showed the concepts instead of just giving rote memory instructions.
You have more patience than I. When I got to the second link I looked ahead. I noticed the rest of the... Umm... Words. I noticed all the other links. I decided I did not care enough to parse it and that I likely could not. I used to post drunk too.
Anyhow, I clicked the comments link and hoped it would be digested for me. You might be the closest so far but I have no idea if you are correct.
Those symptoms indicate that you will probably be getting stretchy skin and bones as your super power. I also intend to tell people that the only reason they do not have access to this technology is because it is being suppressed and that it should really only cost about five dollars for a DNA test and then another five for modifications. It is because of the wealthy and China... I have already emailed the link to my brother. Now I need to reel him in... Victory can be mine!
I really can't think of a place where that is true really. I have yet to find something that I do on Linux that I can not functionally perform on Windows. I even have access to some of the Windows source. I can not read Windows source code. I can do that with Linux. I do not. That is not a function though. What can you not do on Windows?
I just can not like KDE or its derivatives. I am not a huge fan of Gnome either. I do like Cinnamon a great deal though and I seem to recall that it sort of forked off of Gnome. The KDE is just too... Well, it tries too much to be something it isn't or, maybe, something it should not be. It is hard to articulate and entirely subjective. I offer not one shred of evidence to claim one is better than the other - nor do I offer a suggestion that I insinuate such. Instead I simply prefer the Cinnamon environment.
Much thanks. DNA is, as far as I can tell, like coding. I am not a geneticist so I have a very limited understanding. I eagerly await my superhuman strength though! I am going to tell everyone that it is now possible and that science proves it. I do my best to help...
You have far more faith and hope in humanity than I. I do not disagree that class is stupid. I disagree that it will change. However, I hope you are right. I just do not think you are or that it will take much longer and will be akin to how features trickle down into lower cost cars.
I have found a number of scenarios that make it actually cheaper to charter a plane, take a bit longer, and fly on a small private jet. It is a bit more expensive but worth it. I fly private charter almost everywhere except intercontinental flights.
I see you are assuming that the tech will eventually break out and, while noble, implies that the underclass has the capacity to make use of that information and has access to resources to that information. It also implies that the tech will, in fact, break out. The whole "information wants to be free" charade.
I do not have your slashdot password because you will not give it to me. (Not the best example but it will do.)
These machines will need something to replicate and be programatically controlled. They will use recipes that are encrypted and the device will be secured against tampering and will use strong communication encryption as well. You will not have access to the device in any form other than that of a consumer.
The last paragraph is my expectation. I do understand the merits of your argument and agree that you have a probability of being correct. I do not agree that your argument is more probable than my own because, frankly, we are human beings and have a history of being human beings. Expecting that to change is silly. We have had many changes made already and throughout all of them we have maintained very little other than human nature. I do not expect this to change while we can still be classified as Homo Sapien Sapian. I think it naive to expect otherwise but do agree that there is a probability, however low, that you are correct.
You may, and I encourage you to do so, think the best for the future and believe in a quasi Utopian society. I do not see this as being viable and there are no quantifiable metrics to prove anything other than probability. I humbly submit the entirety of human history. We have not now, nor will we ever, remove the differences between the haves and the have-nots. That is my submission and reasoning.
I disagree entirely. I think you *should* know how a car operates, not how to fix it unless that floats your boat, before operating it. I think that should include a working knowledge of the mechanics so that you are able to give a safety baseline before operation. I think you should know how to use a computer before you start installing third party applications. Even the very first phones required learning how to use them properly. Nobody is asking them to understand phone switching - we are just insisting that good practice is going to be continued regardless of stupid users.
If you use Windows and install an application that makes registry changes do you expect those changes to revert when you uninstall the application? Of course not. If I install phpMyAdmin to make some changes to a MySQL database and then remove it in favor of installing a different application I sure as hell do not want it making changes to the database when I remove the files.
The user failing to understand the device is not the problem of the developer. There are ways that this could be changed but there is no blame here other than that which goes on the user for not controlling their own computer. If you do not know how to use a tool then do not use it until you are competent to do so. This is *not* a difficult rule to follow. Expecting this to change is absurd.
A lawyer can give advice and representation for free. A non-lawyer can not charge for legal representation services though. I am a little fluent in law procedure (which is actually the important part) and have represented many friends and family in court to some extent. I have spoken with DAs and have been in judge's chambers on other people's behalf. A lawyer can obviously offer free legal advice - it comes with consequences potentially but they can. They do pro bono work all the time. Depending on the nature of their advice they may be interpreted as having some restrictions as they may now have an attorney/client relationship but that is stretching it and a judge is likely to smack down any such interpretation by the state (or opposing party's) representative. The text is often seen as a way to avoid complexity and liability - it does not preclude anything like advice or their interpretations of how one might argue the appropriate laws.
There may be some niggling details that I have left out. It is impossible to cover all the variables which is what makes law so interesting. You can almost always appeal to the judge to argue the procedure if you feel it is in violation of the spirit of the law, for example. Your judge does not have to allow such but you are free to submit your interpretation and request a hearing. It is kind of interesting and it is actually the professional obligation of a lawyer to be an argumentative jackass.
When I hire a lawyer I do not do so because I want them to represent me - I have a right to have them do that on my behalf. Instead I hire them to advise me and speak on my own behalf up to and including requesting that the judge ask me personally instead of directing questions at my council.
I dunno... It seems unlikely - given history. I would expect something along the lines of a replicator that could only replicate things smaller than itself - and I am even envisioning something that will replicate at the atomic level so would not need input resources. It would also self-destruct if opened. It would also get its information from another source - streamed "recipes" would be the method. Now, could one program their own replicator? Probably. Will they have the resources to get that far? I do not know.
It seems likely that there is a potential outcome that is good. Now, achieving that goodness is possible but unlikely. It is not something I expect to happen given the nature of humans.
This does not, of course, mean you are wrong. It just means that I expect a different outcome. My outcome could, eventually, transition to your views. I think your views could easily end up resulting in my own as well after a period of time has passed. I also expect there will be a "Luddite" sect who resemble the Amish of today.
WTF? You stopped thinking? I guess that explains your post. We have nothing that does our thinking for us. We have things that do our calculations but we have nothing that thinks. Just because the wait screen says the computer is thinking does not mean it really is. It is searching for criteria or doing a task and all of those are really pretty simple mathematical functions. You still have to do the thinking. I think I see where you are using your computer wrong however.
You did not ask but I will share my advice for new parents with you. I am a parent. It is strange how I tend to write that I "was a parent" - I am still a parent but my children are grown. They still need help and ask advice or just long for love and communication. Anyhow, to my unrequested drivel...
Congratulations... Sucker.
There will be times when you regret your choice to have children. It is okay to have those thoughts. They are usually fleeting thoughts and immediately after there has been some sort of disruption. You will have those thoughts, reconcile their normality and move on.
I can not imagine why someone would do that. However, I do have, sort of, two cars I have never driven. One is a 1954 Mercury Monterey that is being reconditioned, painted, and repaired/updated mechanically. The other is a new 640Li BMW that is "bespoke" (I hate that word, really) and is not going to be done for another 10 weeks or so. I can not imagine owning a car, and I own a number - they are a passion of mine, and not using it. I could see someone wanting to own a car that they never drove because they had a driver. The thought is silly but I can picture it and know it is certainly true in some cases. I love to drive.
I am retired and not in need of money. I work all the time. I do not have to. I could pay someone to come wash my body and feed me. I actually do pay a neighbor to clean my house and cook me a meal every once in a while. I pick up but I tend to be pretty disorganized. She cleans it, I can't find it, and I buy another one. It is a vicious cycle.
You're no fun.;) You're supposed to throw a wild uneducated opinion out there.
Meh... I was wondering what effects this *could* have as well - like with immunizations. Obviously viruses would just adapt but the flavors of the day could be stopped maybe.
Very much so. I can fight my own battles and have done fine on my own. Fighting on my behalf, without my asking, is telling me that I can not do it on my own. This is unacceptable to me. If I want your help I will ask.
However, nobody is really fighting for me. They are fighting for some cause. I am not a member of that cause. I am a member of that race. My causes are my own. I will do what I do based on my beliefs and ability. I do not need help or I would ask for it.
Except, in your case, you own the store you are in and should know where the products are or at least have put your faith in some employee doing it on your behalf. In this case you chose to manage it yourself by installing an application that changes settings at the system level. You uninstall that application and those changes remain. You are a Windows user. If you install a Registry Tweaking application and then uninstall it after making changes do you expect it to revert the changes you made to the registry or do you expect them to remain the same? The developer can not anticipate all stupidity nor account for it.
If the security company came and offered to let you record video of cameras you have yet to spot and does not need to install cameras at your house (no new cameras) then wouldn't you notice and look around for the hidden cameras?
It is like installing a GUI to control a service and then being shocked that the service remains on and kept the settings given it by the GUI that you installed. I would say it is a default and not something I would expect or want to change. It is not the dev's fault that the user is stupid.
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Those will be fluffed out and emailed. Thank you. I should screenshot for "epic lulz" except I would never do that to my brother. Hopefully he does not Google. He knows my screen name.
If your fingernails are growing then you just might be turning into Wolverine... That has some benefits.
Most mathematics "educators" teach by rote. You do this to get this result and this is the proof. They never once actually explain WHY that is. They do not abstract and show the real world functions beyond the abacus used to teach toddlers. (They still make those, yes?) For instance, percentages are really damned easy if you figure out a single percent and then add/subtract that to find your total. You tell someone to get 53% of 500 and they will look at you as if you are daft. You should be able to do this in your head.
I *do* have my Ph.D and it is in Applied Mathematics. I would say that this makes me a pretty good judge but that is an appeal to authority. Take it as you wish. I did not like maths until I had a teacher who showed the concepts instead of just giving rote memory instructions.
You have more patience than I. When I got to the second link I looked ahead. I noticed the rest of the... Umm... Words. I noticed all the other links. I decided I did not care enough to parse it and that I likely could not. I used to post drunk too.
Anyhow, I clicked the comments link and hoped it would be digested for me. You might be the closest so far but I have no idea if you are correct.
Those symptoms indicate that you will probably be getting stretchy skin and bones as your super power. I also intend to tell people that the only reason they do not have access to this technology is because it is being suppressed and that it should really only cost about five dollars for a DNA test and then another five for modifications. It is because of the wealthy and China... I have already emailed the link to my brother. Now I need to reel him in... Victory can be mine!
They struggle with it? It is usually a dialogue over the system tray. It does not even steal focus.
I really can't think of a place where that is true really. I have yet to find something that I do on Linux that I can not functionally perform on Windows. I even have access to some of the Windows source. I can not read Windows source code. I can do that with Linux. I do not. That is not a function though. What can you not do on Windows?
I just can not like KDE or its derivatives. I am not a huge fan of Gnome either. I do like Cinnamon a great deal though and I seem to recall that it sort of forked off of Gnome. The KDE is just too... Well, it tries too much to be something it isn't or, maybe, something it should not be. It is hard to articulate and entirely subjective. I offer not one shred of evidence to claim one is better than the other - nor do I offer a suggestion that I insinuate such. Instead I simply prefer the Cinnamon environment.
Much thanks. DNA is, as far as I can tell, like coding. I am not a geneticist so I have a very limited understanding. I eagerly await my superhuman strength though! I am going to tell everyone that it is now possible and that science proves it. I do my best to help...
You have far more faith and hope in humanity than I. I do not disagree that class is stupid. I disagree that it will change. However, I hope you are right. I just do not think you are or that it will take much longer and will be akin to how features trickle down into lower cost cars.
I'd wear a miniskirt and no underwear. Yes. I am a man. An old, ugly, man.
I have found a number of scenarios that make it actually cheaper to charter a plane, take a bit longer, and fly on a small private jet. It is a bit more expensive but worth it. I fly private charter almost everywhere except intercontinental flights.
I see you are assuming that the tech will eventually break out and, while noble, implies that the underclass has the capacity to make use of that information and has access to resources to that information. It also implies that the tech will, in fact, break out. The whole "information wants to be free" charade.
I do not have your slashdot password because you will not give it to me. (Not the best example but it will do.)
These machines will need something to replicate and be programatically controlled. They will use recipes that are encrypted and the device will be secured against tampering and will use strong communication encryption as well. You will not have access to the device in any form other than that of a consumer.
The last paragraph is my expectation. I do understand the merits of your argument and agree that you have a probability of being correct. I do not agree that your argument is more probable than my own because, frankly, we are human beings and have a history of being human beings. Expecting that to change is silly. We have had many changes made already and throughout all of them we have maintained very little other than human nature. I do not expect this to change while we can still be classified as Homo Sapien Sapian. I think it naive to expect otherwise but do agree that there is a probability, however low, that you are correct.
You may, and I encourage you to do so, think the best for the future and believe in a quasi Utopian society. I do not see this as being viable and there are no quantifiable metrics to prove anything other than probability. I humbly submit the entirety of human history. We have not now, nor will we ever, remove the differences between the haves and the have-nots. That is my submission and reasoning.
I disagree entirely. I think you *should* know how a car operates, not how to fix it unless that floats your boat, before operating it. I think that should include a working knowledge of the mechanics so that you are able to give a safety baseline before operation. I think you should know how to use a computer before you start installing third party applications. Even the very first phones required learning how to use them properly. Nobody is asking them to understand phone switching - we are just insisting that good practice is going to be continued regardless of stupid users.
If you use Windows and install an application that makes registry changes do you expect those changes to revert when you uninstall the application? Of course not. If I install phpMyAdmin to make some changes to a MySQL database and then remove it in favor of installing a different application I sure as hell do not want it making changes to the database when I remove the files.
The user failing to understand the device is not the problem of the developer. There are ways that this could be changed but there is no blame here other than that which goes on the user for not controlling their own computer. If you do not know how to use a tool then do not use it until you are competent to do so. This is *not* a difficult rule to follow. Expecting this to change is absurd.
A lawyer can give advice and representation for free. A non-lawyer can not charge for legal representation services though. I am a little fluent in law procedure (which is actually the important part) and have represented many friends and family in court to some extent. I have spoken with DAs and have been in judge's chambers on other people's behalf. A lawyer can obviously offer free legal advice - it comes with consequences potentially but they can. They do pro bono work all the time. Depending on the nature of their advice they may be interpreted as having some restrictions as they may now have an attorney/client relationship but that is stretching it and a judge is likely to smack down any such interpretation by the state (or opposing party's) representative. The text is often seen as a way to avoid complexity and liability - it does not preclude anything like advice or their interpretations of how one might argue the appropriate laws.
There may be some niggling details that I have left out. It is impossible to cover all the variables which is what makes law so interesting. You can almost always appeal to the judge to argue the procedure if you feel it is in violation of the spirit of the law, for example. Your judge does not have to allow such but you are free to submit your interpretation and request a hearing. It is kind of interesting and it is actually the professional obligation of a lawyer to be an argumentative jackass.
When I hire a lawyer I do not do so because I want them to represent me - I have a right to have them do that on my behalf. Instead I hire them to advise me and speak on my own behalf up to and including requesting that the judge ask me personally instead of directing questions at my council.
I dunno... It seems unlikely - given history. I would expect something along the lines of a replicator that could only replicate things smaller than itself - and I am even envisioning something that will replicate at the atomic level so would not need input resources. It would also self-destruct if opened. It would also get its information from another source - streamed "recipes" would be the method. Now, could one program their own replicator? Probably. Will they have the resources to get that far? I do not know.
It seems likely that there is a potential outcome that is good. Now, achieving that goodness is possible but unlikely. It is not something I expect to happen given the nature of humans.
This does not, of course, mean you are wrong. It just means that I expect a different outcome. My outcome could, eventually, transition to your views. I think your views could easily end up resulting in my own as well after a period of time has passed. I also expect there will be a "Luddite" sect who resemble the Amish of today.
WTF? You stopped thinking? I guess that explains your post. We have nothing that does our thinking for us. We have things that do our calculations but we have nothing that thinks. Just because the wait screen says the computer is thinking does not mean it really is. It is searching for criteria or doing a task and all of those are really pretty simple mathematical functions. You still have to do the thinking. I think I see where you are using your computer wrong however.
You did not ask but I will share my advice for new parents with you. I am a parent. It is strange how I tend to write that I "was a parent" - I am still a parent but my children are grown. They still need help and ask advice or just long for love and communication. Anyhow, to my unrequested drivel...
Congratulations... Sucker.
There will be times when you regret your choice to have children. It is okay to have those thoughts. They are usually fleeting thoughts and immediately after there has been some sort of disruption. You will have those thoughts, reconcile their normality and move on.
I can not imagine why someone would do that. However, I do have, sort of, two cars I have never driven. One is a 1954 Mercury Monterey that is being reconditioned, painted, and repaired/updated mechanically. The other is a new 640Li BMW that is "bespoke" (I hate that word, really) and is not going to be done for another 10 weeks or so. I can not imagine owning a car, and I own a number - they are a passion of mine, and not using it. I could see someone wanting to own a car that they never drove because they had a driver. The thought is silly but I can picture it and know it is certainly true in some cases. I love to drive.
I am retired and not in need of money. I work all the time. I do not have to. I could pay someone to come wash my body and feed me. I actually do pay a neighbor to clean my house and cook me a meal every once in a while. I pick up but I tend to be pretty disorganized. She cleans it, I can't find it, and I buy another one. It is a vicious cycle.
People have easily been excluded from society by force. A machine to make anything can be protected and access restricted by force.
You're no fun. ;) You're supposed to throw a wild uneducated opinion out there.
Meh... I was wondering what effects this *could* have as well - like with immunizations. Obviously viruses would just adapt but the flavors of the day could be stopped maybe.
Very much so. I can fight my own battles and have done fine on my own. Fighting on my behalf, without my asking, is telling me that I can not do it on my own. This is unacceptable to me. If I want your help I will ask.
However, nobody is really fighting for me. They are fighting for some cause. I am not a member of that cause. I am a member of that race. My causes are my own. I will do what I do based on my beliefs and ability. I do not need help or I would ask for it.
Except, in your case, you own the store you are in and should know where the products are or at least have put your faith in some employee doing it on your behalf. In this case you chose to manage it yourself by installing an application that changes settings at the system level. You uninstall that application and those changes remain. You are a Windows user. If you install a Registry Tweaking application and then uninstall it after making changes do you expect it to revert the changes you made to the registry or do you expect them to remain the same? The developer can not anticipate all stupidity nor account for it.
If the security company came and offered to let you record video of cameras you have yet to spot and does not need to install cameras at your house (no new cameras) then wouldn't you notice and look around for the hidden cameras?
It is like installing a GUI to control a service and then being shocked that the service remains on and kept the settings given it by the GUI that you installed. I would say it is a default and not something I would expect or want to change. It is not the dev's fault that the user is stupid.