The whole Vulcans as Lost Souls thing was completely skipped over. That is terrifying from the point of view of Trek Canon. The Vulvcans were the total Deus Ex Vulcan Fix-It when everyone was totally screwed and needed one man without iron in his blood and mind melds and all that. Now with however many of them left from a dead race, it's veering towards Star Wars and the last Jedi.
However bad the Canon got after 40-50 years, you just can't do that and pretend it's still Star Trek as normal.
Bonus Points to anyone who makes a Star Trek - Abrams Style video.
I'll throw a plug in to DonationCoder.com. I am not affiliated with the ownership, just a member and donator. There are guys there who specialize in those little "one feature widgets" that fit you just because you're you. Specifically, look for Skwire and MilesAhead. They're among the two who are the fastest at these little things.
As a broader philosophy, if a browser does everything you need *except one obnoxious quirk* then sometimes if you can fix the quirk you are better off overall. For example I just got a "turbo-backspace" widget that sits in my Windows tray and deletes either 4 or 7 keystrokes via a couple of hotkeys. Cumulatively I've saved at least an hour of my life by not hitting backspace 11 times per sentence to fix my Frankenstein typing style.
Another time I got ticked off at the Maximize button, so I got a widget that disables it. (Though that one is a little finicky.)
So look at a browser for its overall merit, then see if there is a finesse you can fix.
Glad to know someone else thought about that, too. In the one hand we have the frenetic "let's monitor the internet to make the web safer!" (A few stories back). Then on the other we get "Oh well, there's a security flaw that we won't fix until February."
The risky challenge is when there is a straight continual increase in ability right up until you keel over. Then instead of dying at 72 instead of 80, you croak within a day. Knowledge is like a fractal - the smarter you are, it just keeps on getting spiffier. Where do you draw the line at your new enhanced level when the summit of Everest is in front of you?
Since slashdot threads run their course so quick, I don't have time to properly research this. But I'm pretty sure that in fact this is indeed happening out there, somewhere in the research world.
The problem with Algernon cycles is the effect of your passing on the world around you. The quickest example to point to is the family - if the father decided to go that route, all the way to the end, the rest of the family is stuck with a new suboptimal structure for the rest of their lives. There's an information export problem. Let's say the effect works, but the researcher doesn't get his act together and publish his results, then all that potential vanishes in a tragic puff.
Firstly on the downsides theme, no doctor really likes side effects. (Let's skip the really evil businessmen with MD's doing scary corporate things for this discussion.) So the Pharm companies are already trying to overcome the side effects. So you can rest a little easier that big money is already going after that problem.
It's a really slippery choice. If for example you are intuitive and you can "almost see" the breakthrough, it could give you the willies just losing the chains of thought at the last links and then getting derailed. Instead, if you take the medicine and can suddenly "snap" the last links in the chain together, you can qualitatively go beyond levels you ever did before. But maybe this kind of choice is a truly tough test of our humanity, because one of the formulas could have a pure straight-line increase in benefit right up until your brain shorts out. Could you stand for example almost understanding Stephen Hawking, knowing that if you took the stuff you absolutely would, only to croak the next day? Eerie.
I am quite content with SP3, I have 2 Gigs of Ram and can't recall that many times when that felt like a limitation.
A buddy of mine did a pretty good build back in '06 and we added a chuck of dollars here and there for good parts, and except the hard drive might be struggling soon, it's pretty good. So except repair side, I haven't ever needed more, so I'm in the "quit pushing revenue-driven updates" crowd. I don't trust Win8. So I am trying to hold out to Win 9 to see where it all shakes out.
The job goes away as fast as the slip in the Manager's office. Rent's due next week and you needed that paycheck. The "Opportunity" doesn't show up for years.
One problem as I see it, is that the government is playing Left Hand - Right Hand games. The left hand likes to make these cool cheap toys and give/sell them to get innovation for half the security boys. The right hand is busy saying that anyone who shows learning of any kind not authorized in the manual is a terrorist. "Just think of all the danger of these radios falling into the wrong hands!" They want the end results of cleaned up innovation without the mess of the pioneer-process that produces it.
Ever notice that none of these stories are ever written from the jobs perspective? "I lost my translation job because ___ company is rolling out a software program that will do my job for them."
Do judges have that much trouble acquiring evidence in other types of cases?
Bonus remark: "Righthaven is a company, not a law firm." (Which) "partnered with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post to file 275 no-warning copyright infringement lawsuits". (Founded by) "Righthaven CEO and Las Vegas attorney Steven Gibson", who then hired "Righthavenâ(TM)s attorney, Shawn Mangano".
Whew! A company that is not a law firm is started by a lawyer, hires a lawyer, and files lawsuits! If that's not Onion Layers of Lawyers all the way down I don't know what is! (With pet Turtles on the desk to look cute.)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52692&cid=5217611 Advanced Search is a beautiful thing. I got this post in about 12 seconds because I knew it would be the only post with "4 green cardamom pods" in Slashdot.org.
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Re:Coffee Sucks!:P (Score:4, Informative) by jpsst34 (582349) Alter Relationship on 04:47 PM February 3rd, 2003 (#5217611) Journal
Chai is a spiced tea, generally associated with Indian cuisine. It is basic black tea with milk and honey or sugar.
That's: Milk * (Honey + Sugar)
But what makes it so good is the (traditionally indian) spice blend: cinnamon, clove, ginger, cardamom, and black pepper.
To make 2 latte mugs worth:
Pour 1.5 latte mugs worth of water into a small sauce pan. Add two 2" cinnamon sticks, 6 whole cloves, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 4 green cardamom pods, and a few grinds of black pepper. Bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat, covered, for 10 minutes. Add 1/2 cup sugar and 2/3 latte mug of milk, stir well, and return to a near-boil. Turn off heat. Now add 3 or 4 black tea bags, cover, and steep for about 7 minutes. Strain into your latte mugs and enjoy.
I bet there are certainly a few, though with a pay rate higher than 50 cents. I'd believe $5 per thread. $10 if they are getting a luxury payout for being good.
(Rant) So Slashdot was bought by Dice, right? Have they done ANYTHING to improve it?
I'm almost as sharp as a marble, but just look at this:
Title: Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed Summary: D H NG writes "According to a study by the career site Glassdoor, Google tops the list of tech companies in the salaries it pays to software engineers. Google paid its engineers an average base salary of $128,336, with Microsoft coming in second at $123,626. Apple, eBay, and Zynga rounded off the top 5."
And it has a... wait for it... Facebook tag?
Y'all yelled at me wen I said that Facebook is getting indirect advertising. And yet the Slashdot regulars haven't bothered to fork it since they instinctively know they can't get the critical mass to go to the forked version. So we continue to live with stuff like that.
I made Hamburger Bombs in College. (Sodium Peroxide looks *just like salt*) and does funny things to dining hall cheeseburgers. Runner up: putting "Sugar" on the cheerios. Bronze: Dry Ice fun.
Now I'm sure all of that stuff would earn a warning or expulsion.
Not just any old logical ruling, but I speculate it holds the seeds for slowing down patent madness. Borrowing from another of my posts elsewhere:
"It said the district court in California, which had issued the ban in June, had "abused its discretion in entering an injunction"."
Which, in Court Speak, is pretty bad. "Abused Discretion" is basically what we were all saying in Less-Safe-For-Work terms.
There's also an awesome phrase to keep an eye on. "Apple must show that consumers buy the Galaxy Nexus because it is equipped with the apparatus claimed in the â(TM)604 patentâ"not because it can search in general, and not even because it has unified search."
So we have the BAREST beginnings of how to slow down patent abuse: 1. SomePhone has "patented technology to play Angry Birds with live birds using geo-sensors and accelerometer tech in hunting season" or something. Let's even say something like that is innovating, and not obvious - shake your phone at a bird and it falls out of the sky!?
OtherCorp says that the tech infringes on their other patent which got there first, *and then tries to ban sales of the whole phone.*I think this court case is saying that the grumpy corp has to prove that consumers basically stood in the mall and picked which phone to buy based on exactly that tech and no more. "Hmm, this one has a better screen, better sound, better camera, better maps, better music interface, Android store." "Yeah, but mine kills pigeons in the park." "Ooh, I'm sold, I'll do that!"
That used to be what MS was good at. They were last to enter after the "innovators" made typical "pioneer mistakes", then MS swooped inand cleaned up. But something happened by about 2002 and they can't do that anymore.
If we have decided that being watched by Big Brother is for our own benefit, finish the charade and let's all be miserable. Or bust it and make an easy-to-cite standard for "non-dangerous speech" or something. But this middle ground is gonna be brutal, because it's all political.
7 words were harmed in this post. I avoided certain words which are normally rhetorically acceptable but apparently once posted on a social forum they no longer are.
Slashdot Mirror
The whole Vulcans as Lost Souls thing was completely skipped over. That is terrifying from the point of view of Trek Canon. The Vulvcans were the total Deus Ex Vulcan Fix-It when everyone was totally screwed and needed one man without iron in his blood and mind melds and all that. Now with however many of them left from a dead race, it's veering towards Star Wars and the last Jedi.
However bad the Canon got after 40-50 years, you just can't do that and pretend it's still Star Trek as normal.
Bonus Points to anyone who makes a Star Trek - Abrams Style video.
I'll throw a plug in to DonationCoder.com. I am not affiliated with the ownership, just a member and donator. There are guys there who specialize in those little "one feature widgets" that fit you just because you're you. Specifically, look for Skwire and MilesAhead. They're among the two who are the fastest at these little things.
As a broader philosophy, if a browser does everything you need *except one obnoxious quirk* then sometimes if you can fix the quirk you are better off overall. For example I just got a "turbo-backspace" widget that sits in my Windows tray and deletes either 4 or 7 keystrokes via a couple of hotkeys. Cumulatively I've saved at least an hour of my life by not hitting backspace 11 times per sentence to fix my Frankenstein typing style.
Another time I got ticked off at the Maximize button, so I got a widget that disables it. (Though that one is a little finicky.)
So look at a browser for its overall merit, then see if there is a finesse you can fix.
Glad to know someone else thought about that, too. In the one hand we have the frenetic "let's monitor the internet to make the web safer!" (A few stories back). Then on the other we get "Oh well, there's a security flaw that we won't fix until February."
The risky challenge is when there is a straight continual increase in ability right up until you keel over. Then instead of dying at 72 instead of 80, you croak within a day. Knowledge is like a fractal - the smarter you are, it just keeps on getting spiffier. Where do you draw the line at your new enhanced level when the summit of Everest is in front of you?
Since slashdot threads run their course so quick, I don't have time to properly research this. But I'm pretty sure that in fact this is indeed happening out there, somewhere in the research world.
The problem with Algernon cycles is the effect of your passing on the world around you. The quickest example to point to is the family - if the father decided to go that route, all the way to the end, the rest of the family is stuck with a new suboptimal structure for the rest of their lives. There's an information export problem. Let's say the effect works, but the researcher doesn't get his act together and publish his results, then all that potential vanishes in a tragic puff.
Firstly on the downsides theme, no doctor really likes side effects. (Let's skip the really evil businessmen with MD's doing scary corporate things for this discussion.) So the Pharm companies are already trying to overcome the side effects. So you can rest a little easier that big money is already going after that problem.
It's a really slippery choice. If for example you are intuitive and you can "almost see" the breakthrough, it could give you the willies just losing the chains of thought at the last links and then getting derailed. Instead, if you take the medicine and can suddenly "snap" the last links in the chain together, you can qualitatively go beyond levels you ever did before. But maybe this kind of choice is a truly tough test of our humanity, because one of the formulas could have a pure straight-line increase in benefit right up until your brain shorts out. Could you stand for example almost understanding Stephen Hawking, knowing that if you took the stuff you absolutely would, only to croak the next day? Eerie.
I can't find the angle here.
"Legacy Free" vs "Costs".
"Legacy Free" is a nice sounding term for "won't run $hit". So much for your 1,000 app and app-lets you rely on, Business.
So I give up on this story and will let the rest of y'all thrash it out.
I am quite content with SP3, I have 2 Gigs of Ram and can't recall that many times when that felt like a limitation.
A buddy of mine did a pretty good build back in '06 and we added a chuck of dollars here and there for good parts, and except the hard drive might be struggling soon, it's pretty good. So except repair side, I haven't ever needed more, so I'm in the "quit pushing revenue-driven updates" crowd. I don't trust Win8. So I am trying to hold out to Win 9 to see where it all shakes out.
Nope AC. Of course there's the gap.
The job goes away as fast as the slip in the Manager's office. Rent's due next week and you needed that paycheck. The "Opportunity" doesn't show up for years.
One problem as I see it, is that the government is playing Left Hand - Right Hand games. The left hand likes to make these cool cheap toys and give/sell them to get innovation for half the security boys. The right hand is busy saying that anyone who shows learning of any kind not authorized in the manual is a terrorist. "Just think of all the danger of these radios falling into the wrong hands!" They want the end results of cleaned up innovation without the mess of the pioneer-process that produces it.
Ever notice that none of these stories are ever written from the jobs perspective? "I lost my translation job because ___ company is rolling out a software program that will do my job for them."
Repeat until there are no jobs left.
They just had that article about a week or so ago, where something nice from a 3d printer got locked up by the car companies.
Good that you noticed that too.
Do judges have that much trouble acquiring evidence in other types of cases?
Bonus remark:
"Righthaven is a company, not a law firm." (Which) "partnered with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post to file 275 no-warning copyright infringement lawsuits". (Founded by) "Righthaven CEO and Las Vegas attorney Steven Gibson", who then hired "Righthavenâ(TM)s attorney, Shawn Mangano".
Whew! A company that is not a law firm is started by a lawyer, hires a lawyer, and files lawsuits! If that's not Onion Layers of Lawyers all the way down I don't know what is! (With pet Turtles on the desk to look cute.)
This one?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52692&cid=5217611
Advanced Search is a beautiful thing. I got this post in about 12 seconds because I knew it would be the only post with "4 green cardamom pods" in Slashdot.org.
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Re:Coffee Sucks! :P (Score:4, Informative)
by jpsst34 (582349) Alter Relationship on 04:47 PM February 3rd, 2003 (#5217611) Journal
Chai is a spiced tea, generally associated with Indian cuisine. It is basic black tea with milk and honey or sugar.
That's: Milk * (Honey + Sugar)
But what makes it so good is the (traditionally indian) spice blend: cinnamon, clove, ginger, cardamom, and black pepper.
To make 2 latte mugs worth:
Pour 1.5 latte mugs worth of water into a small sauce pan. Add two 2" cinnamon sticks, 6 whole cloves, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 4 green cardamom pods, and a few grinds of black pepper. Bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat, covered, for 10 minutes. Add 1/2 cup sugar and 2/3 latte mug of milk, stir well, and return to a near-boil. Turn off heat. Now add 3 or 4 black tea bags, cover, and steep for about 7 minutes. Strain into your latte mugs and enjoy.
Hello sir.
At least you are gutsy enough to say you made a mistake in the blurb.
However, neither of the editors on duty caught it.
I bet there are certainly a few, though with a pay rate higher than 50 cents. I'd believe $5 per thread. $10 if they are getting a luxury payout for being good.
(Rant)
So Slashdot was bought by Dice, right? Have they done ANYTHING to improve it?
I'm almost as sharp as a marble, but just look at this:
Title: Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed
Summary: D H NG writes "According to a study by the career site Glassdoor, Google tops the list of tech companies in the salaries it pays to software engineers. Google paid its engineers an average base salary of $128,336, with Microsoft coming in second at $123,626. Apple, eBay, and Zynga rounded off the top 5."
And it has a ... wait for it ... Facebook tag?
Y'all yelled at me wen I said that Facebook is getting indirect advertising. And yet the Slashdot regulars haven't bothered to fork it since they instinctively know they can't get the critical mass to go to the forked version. So we continue to live with stuff like that.
(/Rant)
Do the signs have rounded corners? Apple might become upset.
Yeah, that's the mood.
I made Hamburger Bombs in College. (Sodium Peroxide looks *just like salt*) and does funny things to dining hall cheeseburgers. Runner up: putting "Sugar" on the cheerios. Bronze: Dry Ice fun.
Now I'm sure all of that stuff would earn a warning or expulsion.
Not just any old logical ruling, but I speculate it holds the seeds for slowing down patent madness. Borrowing from another of my posts elsewhere:
"It said the district court in California, which had issued the ban in June, had "abused its discretion in entering an injunction"."
Which, in Court Speak, is pretty bad. "Abused Discretion" is basically what we were all saying in Less-Safe-For-Work terms.
There's also an awesome phrase to keep an eye on. "Apple must show that consumers buy the Galaxy Nexus because it is equipped with the apparatus claimed in the â(TM)604 patentâ"not because it can search in general, and not even because it has unified search."
So we have the BAREST beginnings of how to slow down patent abuse:
1. SomePhone has "patented technology to play Angry Birds with live birds using geo-sensors and accelerometer tech in hunting season" or something. Let's even say something like that is innovating, and not obvious - shake your phone at a bird and it falls out of the sky!?
OtherCorp says that the tech infringes on their other patent which got there first, *and then tries to ban sales of the whole phone.*I think this court case is saying that the grumpy corp has to prove that consumers basically stood in the mall and picked which phone to buy based on exactly that tech and no more. "Hmm, this one has a better screen, better sound, better camera, better maps, better music interface, Android store." "Yeah, but mine kills pigeons in the park." "Ooh, I'm sold, I'll do that!"
Anyone else notice that "anonymous submitter" has become "another random user"?
That used to be what MS was good at. They were last to enter after the "innovators" made typical "pioneer mistakes", then MS swooped inand cleaned up. But something happened by about 2002 and they can't do that anymore.
Unfortunately, Fast Food has designed itself to Maximize People to maximize profits.
Why can't we do a search of "Hobbit Life Expectancy" Not-Bilbo Not-Sam?
Good ol' Boolean ops!
It should get tested, all the way.
If we have decided that being watched by Big Brother is for our own benefit, finish the charade and let's all be miserable. Or bust it and make an easy-to-cite standard for "non-dangerous speech" or something. But this middle ground is gonna be brutal, because it's all political.
7 words were harmed in this post. I avoided certain words which are normally rhetorically acceptable but apparently once posted on a social forum they no longer are.