Buddhists don't exactly have a "God". Buddha himself made a point to insist he was just "an enlightened man". Very sloppily put, when you do good work, you improve the world around you. Someone remembers and does good for you someday. But sidestepping the literalism interpretations of reincarnation, there's no other external entity doing the whole Santa/God "Naughty-Nice" calculation on you all day long. In some of the "soft and long" (my words) interpretations of Buddhism, if you make a sin that *truly* hurts no one but yourself, it has very little effect. The Universe calmly waits for you to become bored with it, and then you will just stop doing it (sometimes with friends/classes help).
Well, I thought ahead and had part of a situation of "best finance I'll have for a long time". So I spent actually a fair more on HD's to "fire up and forget". So I have a 1.75 Terabyte combined storage and space wise it will last me forever. It was a pocket in time where those were first possible, plus the first Quad Core Kentsfield designs, when the first Vista disasters were hitting full steam, that I wanted a computer I could just sit on and ride out theoretically to the emergence of what is now probably Windows 9.
Nah, sometimes it's the opposite problem, the body can trick itself into symptoms. As for the Upset Stomach, the throwup that you had to flush down the toilet wasn't fake.
However it wasn't due to the drug, it was due to the subject/patient over stressing about tertiary factors.
In Personal Computing in the true sense of Personal and not corp-crap or netbooks or whatever, if you're gonna buy a goddamn comp, spend a few hundred bucks to do it right. No one except the media wins with these "budget parts" stories.
So forget the $50 sound card. What can you get with $80? Forget the $50 video card. What can you get with $80? Spend an extra $20 on the fan. Spend an extra $20 on a key cable. Spend an extra $60 on a better HD that has capacity to better meet your growth. Spend an extra $40 on a better casing. I added a special extra chip for data conversion like Audacity Sound Processing 30% faster.
So yes, it adds a few bucks cumulatively. But you help mitigate stupid "cheap crap failures" that risks years of useful life. 6 years later into my op life I think I have a medium grade HD problem, but it's still ticking, so I have some time. Not like a total crash yet when some dumb part blows the whole board.
(Satire) We all know that Hackers are terrorists, right? The EULA-Abiding masses should never be clicking anywhere outside the nice little boxes on the page.
So we can power the state of Montana with the clash between National Security and Think of the Children, right?
How did the summary miss the chance to mention Facebook? Oh, they don't mention the F-word (!!) for once when it makes the Zuck look bad?
For lists of questions that don't include "design it yourself", Facebook is the Walmart of Secret Question Busters.
(Simulation) "Yay, I feel special, I made a Facebook account! Let's tell the whole world who I am! I'm ______ ______, I born and raised up in Philly, shout out to all the Main Street peeps! My whole family is there in Philly. Let's Like Mom, and Mom's whole family! I named my cat after Susan Boyle's, Pebbles."
McDonald's, through their (insert three adverbs here) ____ ____ ____ processes, produce fries that give the best in the country a run for the money *if you time the batch cycles right*. That is, you watch the current batch of fries, wait until they burn on 4 customers, and maneuver your way to the first of the new batch. Beats EVERY TIME the nasty "home fries" that the indie restaurants seem to think taste good.
Taco Bell that you tried to hate on, has an even stronger case. You can't get out of a standard mexican restaurant under $15. (remember tips?) They have SEVEN of the best low cost meals I have ever had at fast food outlets. (Five if you count the Non-KFC Co-branded ones.)
What these lowballer corps do is force everyone else to offer something else besides price.
Yahoo has long been the Fifth of Everything. It's been the poster kid "wow, you're still here?"
So I'm all for a new CEO who looks sideways on the facts and might make them survive. I picked Yahoo mail a long time ago as much as anything to be Non-Microsoft Non-Google.
So if they can get some other stuff working, go for it.
I dunno, at the rate which we aggressively avoid reading TFA's, maybe it is Slashdot worthy - someone who really is interested will deep-click to the meaty theory on the web.
Actually, Chess is in a bit of conceptual identity trouble. The power that computers have over modern chess has begun to encroach the game. We're in a Silver Age now because new young players can ramp up faster, but just around that corner comes the point that it's beginning to dry up.
Anand said in a lecture recently that Garry Kasparov made his name as an Openings analyst, and together with his teams created novelties that could last for months before they were finally beaten. Now, in the computer age, at the top level a novelty MIGHT get you through two tournaments tops, and by that point someone will have posted the counter.
Anand also said that it used to be important to know how to analyze a position from scratch, and record your findings. Now, he said, you let the computer blunder check millions of positions and then you save your work for the important positions. The skill has changed to Information Management rather than positional analysis one by one.
First, a pet theory. I consider AI to be a deep racial fear, because once it gets going there will be no shutting it down, so in a way it is 10% like the Matrix, in which people have to push themselves ever harder to keep up, and AI just gets to copy the prior progress and keep going.
And also as much as it is slammed, I feel the Loebner prize is an important branch of AI that could highlight one currently under-rated aspect of AI: defending against troll comments. Currently the favorite way to bust the Loebner entries is *by having an incentive to reward non-meaningful conversations*, the contestants immediately start asking pure troll questions like "is Queen Anne bigger than an opera singer?" In one sense, these are not as hard to parse as they look. Instead of getting all wrapped up in 7 layers, the program could have a troll-deflection routine that acts like someone chatting on a forum, "lol wut is who bigger than wha?"
Changing topics here, 5 million "to study immortality and life&death" is pitifully small! What do they expect to buy with that budget? "A theologist, a biologist, and a family planner were sitting in a bar". It's almost as low balled as 1$ mil in rent, 1$mil in tests, 1$mil in hospital stays for a patient experiment, $1 mil for your choice of equipment on site, and then 2 years of salaries for some small number of people vanishes into the last million.
Oh, I never said that FB was the holy site to last forever. Just that whatever topples it would "be a Business Story". So I agree that something will eclipse them, but it will be much harder to topple than some other things. Whatever we think of the Zuck, he hired at least one team of managers somewhere in room 347 that is using his wads of cash somewhat intelligently to cement themselves into everything.
Bingo, both to you and the guy talking about the ticket ahead of me.
I'm quite happy for Secretary X to sign for 600 things then leave for Bermuda. Because then *the news story changes* from "document not received" to "document received but then incompetently mishandled".
That's the entire point of that service. It creates a trail to prevent this story's nonsense, and even your good guess.
Sender points to his slip that says his Docuement entered the Black Hole (Mail Service). Black Hole says that they delivered the Document. Receiver has to *sign for it*.
So then it just takes a couple questions under perjury to close the gap. "Did you bother to check the mailbox in question?" "Did you see the Document package?" "Why didn't you sign for it to pick it up?"
So yes, in 2012 I don't want to read news stories about people not receiving documents. Make up ANY other excuse than that.
I'm not asking for competence - that would require a shipment of registered snowballs to hell!
I'm more grumped out at the *particular* reason they chose, "not receiving a document".
It all came up for me years ago about a contest entry not being received, and the US Post at that particular branch (representing the national system) "we don't guarantee delivery". (!?) "What about proof of mailing?" "No." So getting rather angry by that point, I said something like "if I had to send the oly original copy of an Egyptian Papyrus to a consultant across the country for analysis, how do I make SURE it gets there?" and that's when I heard the particular phrase to use of "Registered Mail".
I think I disagree, Facebook might be different. Enough raw time has passed so that everyone has at least heard that "it's okay for normal housewives to be on Facebook", whereas I think what did Myspace in was the attempt to be edgy with the Under-25 crowd and bands.
So I think Facebook is becoming the Lock-In of Ordinary Family social media, and if indeed something topples them, it will be business news in the making.
So now that we're past plastic plates, here we really go to Star Trek's Replicator. All that remains now is the ever growing list of "objects supported".
I'm just amazed that even as late as TNG/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise let's say less than five scripts out of _____ even mentioned property rights, let alone the kind of thing we're wrangling with now.
So for a 3D printable object, is the object covered by a patent because it's an object, or copyright because of the software that produces that object is essentially identical?
And with our love of all things military, what would an Information Bomb look like? It took Einstein to barely get us to believe Mass to Energy. Information to Energy just has a whole other creepy ring to it.
Since we and the **AA have had fun lately with modern topics in Information, I'll even let the Copyright problems (!!) go for now - how many conversion does it take to convert information from a safe source to a bomb? With the obligatory facetiousness, could someone build a bomb out of a Justin Bieber MP3?
Slashdot Mirror
Buddhists don't exactly have a "God". Buddha himself made a point to insist he was just "an enlightened man". Very sloppily put, when you do good work, you improve the world around you. Someone remembers and does good for you someday. But sidestepping the literalism interpretations of reincarnation, there's no other external entity doing the whole Santa/God "Naughty-Nice" calculation on you all day long. In some of the "soft and long" (my words) interpretations of Buddhism, if you make a sin that *truly* hurts no one but yourself, it has very little effect. The Universe calmly waits for you to become bored with it, and then you will just stop doing it (sometimes with friends/classes help).
Yep, I was waiting for someone to notice that.
It's not even tagged Dupe on the main set of tags.
Well, I thought ahead and had part of a situation of "best finance I'll have for a long time". So I spent actually a fair more on HD's to "fire up and forget". So I have a 1.75 Terabyte combined storage and space wise it will last me forever. It was a pocket in time where those were first possible, plus the first Quad Core Kentsfield designs, when the first Vista disasters were hitting full steam, that I wanted a computer I could just sit on and ride out theoretically to the emergence of what is now probably Windows 9.
Nah, sometimes it's the opposite problem, the body can trick itself into symptoms. As for the Upset Stomach, the throwup that you had to flush down the toilet wasn't fake.
However it wasn't due to the drug, it was due to the subject/patient over stressing about tertiary factors.
I'll reply to you.
In Personal Computing in the true sense of Personal and not corp-crap or netbooks or whatever, if you're gonna buy a goddamn comp, spend a few hundred bucks to do it right. No one except the media wins with these "budget parts" stories.
So forget the $50 sound card. What can you get with $80?
Forget the $50 video card. What can you get with $80?
Spend an extra $20 on the fan. Spend an extra $20 on a key cable. Spend an extra $60 on a better HD that has capacity to better meet your growth.
Spend an extra $40 on a better casing. I added a special extra chip for data conversion like Audacity Sound Processing 30% faster.
So yes, it adds a few bucks cumulatively. But you help mitigate stupid "cheap crap failures" that risks years of useful life. 6 years later into my op life I think I have a medium grade HD problem, but it's still ticking, so I have some time. Not like a total crash yet when some dumb part blows the whole board.
(Satire)
We all know that Hackers are terrorists, right? The EULA-Abiding masses should never be clicking anywhere outside the nice little boxes on the page.
So we can power the state of Montana with the clash between National Security and Think of the Children, right?
"Let's train our children to be terrorists!"
How did the summary miss the chance to mention Facebook? Oh, they don't mention the F-word (!!) for once when it makes the Zuck look bad?
For lists of questions that don't include "design it yourself", Facebook is the Walmart of Secret Question Busters.
(Simulation)
"Yay, I feel special, I made a Facebook account! Let's tell the whole world who I am! I'm ______ ______, I born and raised up in Philly, shout out to all the Main Street peeps! My whole family is there in Philly. Let's Like Mom, and Mom's whole family! I named my cat after Susan Boyle's, Pebbles."
(Later, looks at security questions. "Doh!")
He got a class on "Business Speak" somewhere. When you leave a major undertaking, presuming it's not a sinking ship, you speak of it in multi-tenses.
You tried to snark, but you lose.
McDonald's, through their (insert three adverbs here) ____ ____ ____ processes, produce fries that give the best in the country a run for the money *if you time the batch cycles right*. That is, you watch the current batch of fries, wait until they burn on 4 customers, and maneuver your way to the first of the new batch. Beats EVERY TIME the nasty "home fries" that the indie restaurants seem to think taste good.
Taco Bell that you tried to hate on, has an even stronger case. You can't get out of a standard mexican restaurant under $15. (remember tips?) They have SEVEN of the best low cost meals I have ever had at fast food outlets. (Five if you count the Non-KFC Co-branded ones.)
What these lowballer corps do is force everyone else to offer something else besides price.
Yahoo has long been the Fifth of Everything. It's been the poster kid "wow, you're still here?"
So I'm all for a new CEO who looks sideways on the facts and might make them survive. I picked Yahoo mail a long time ago as much as anything to be Non-Microsoft Non-Google.
So if they can get some other stuff working, go for it.
Oh I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUw-qRihn7k
I dunno, at the rate which we aggressively avoid reading TFA's, maybe it is Slashdot worthy - someone who really is interested will deep-click to the meaty theory on the web.
Actually, Chess is in a bit of conceptual identity trouble. The power that computers have over modern chess has begun to encroach the game. We're in a Silver Age now because new young players can ramp up faster, but just around that corner comes the point that it's beginning to dry up.
Anand said in a lecture recently that Garry Kasparov made his name as an Openings analyst, and together with his teams created novelties that could last for months before they were finally beaten. Now, in the computer age, at the top level a novelty MIGHT get you through two tournaments tops, and by that point someone will have posted the counter.
Anand also said that it used to be important to know how to analyze a position from scratch, and record your findings. Now, he said, you let the computer blunder check millions of positions and then you save your work for the important positions. The skill has changed to Information Management rather than positional analysis one by one.
Hi there. I'll reply to you.
First, a pet theory. I consider AI to be a deep racial fear, because once it gets going there will be no shutting it down, so in a way it is 10% like the Matrix, in which people have to push themselves ever harder to keep up, and AI just gets to copy the prior progress and keep going.
And also as much as it is slammed, I feel the Loebner prize is an important branch of AI that could highlight one currently under-rated aspect of AI: defending against troll comments. Currently the favorite way to bust the Loebner entries is *by having an incentive to reward non-meaningful conversations*, the contestants immediately start asking pure troll questions like "is Queen Anne bigger than an opera singer?" In one sense, these are not as hard to parse as they look. Instead of getting all wrapped up in 7 layers, the program could have a troll-deflection routine that acts like someone chatting on a forum, "lol wut is who bigger than wha?"
Changing topics here, 5 million "to study immortality and life&death" is pitifully small! What do they expect to buy with that budget? "A theologist, a biologist, and a family planner were sitting in a bar". It's almost as low balled as 1$ mil in rent, 1$mil in tests, 1$mil in hospital stays for a patient experiment, $1 mil for your choice of equipment on site, and then 2 years of salaries for some small number of people vanishes into the last million.
Oh, I never said that FB was the holy site to last forever. Just that whatever topples it would "be a Business Story". So I agree that something will eclipse them, but it will be much harder to topple than some other things. Whatever we think of the Zuck, he hired at least one team of managers somewhere in room 347 that is using his wads of cash somewhat intelligently to cement themselves into everything.
Bingo, both to you and the guy talking about the ticket ahead of me.
I'm quite happy for Secretary X to sign for 600 things then leave for Bermuda. Because then *the news story changes* from "document not received" to "document received but then incompetently mishandled".
Oh! I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYyNDWjIivo
Mrs. Doubtfire
That's the entire point of that service. It creates a trail to prevent this story's nonsense, and even your good guess.
Sender points to his slip that says his Docuement entered the Black Hole (Mail Service).
Black Hole says that they delivered the Document.
Receiver has to *sign for it*.
So then it just takes a couple questions under perjury to close the gap.
"Did you bother to check the mailbox in question?"
"Did you see the Document package?"
"Why didn't you sign for it to pick it up?"
So yes, in 2012 I don't want to read news stories about people not receiving documents. Make up ANY other excuse than that.
I'm not asking for competence - that would require a shipment of registered snowballs to hell!
I'm more grumped out at the *particular* reason they chose, "not receiving a document".
It all came up for me years ago about a contest entry not being received, and the US Post at that particular branch (representing the national system) "we don't guarantee delivery". (!?) "What about proof of mailing?" "No." So getting rather angry by that point, I said something like "if I had to send the oly original copy of an Egyptian Papyrus to a consultant across the country for analysis, how do I make SURE it gets there?" and that's when I heard the particular phrase to use of "Registered Mail".
What part of something like Registered Return Receipt Mail with Insurance don't these people understand?
If you have Important Document A to get somewhere, you pay the $20 it takes to send it top level Registered, and it gets there.
Quoting from someone I heard from a US Post office, "If you send something Registered, and it doesn't arrive, someone loses a job."
Thread over.
p.s. the link won't work with a final : symbol on the end, Slashdot doesn't like the link.
Well, here's the summary links to the bill itself.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.2105:
I'm a little out of my depth but "comprehensive legislation" these days makes me nervous that there aren't sneaky things in there.
I think I disagree, Facebook might be different. Enough raw time has passed so that everyone has at least heard that "it's okay for normal housewives to be on Facebook", whereas I think what did Myspace in was the attempt to be edgy with the Under-25 crowd and bands.
So I think Facebook is becoming the Lock-In of Ordinary Family social media, and if indeed something topples them, it will be business news in the making.
So now that we're past plastic plates, here we really go to Star Trek's Replicator. All that remains now is the ever growing list of "objects supported".
I'm just amazed that even as late as TNG/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise let's say less than five scripts out of _____ even mentioned property rights, let alone the kind of thing we're wrangling with now.
So for a 3D printable object, is the object covered by a patent because it's an object, or copyright because of the software that produces that object is essentially identical?
And with our love of all things military, what would an Information Bomb look like? It took Einstein to barely get us to believe Mass to Energy. Information to Energy just has a whole other creepy ring to it.
Since we and the **AA have had fun lately with modern topics in Information, I'll even let the Copyright problems (!!) go for now - how many conversion does it take to convert information from a safe source to a bomb? With the obligatory facetiousness, could someone build a bomb out of a Justin Bieber MP3?