Bad SNR on Slashdot? You must have a very low tolerance for noise in that case.
On a typical article of 200-300 posts you get maybe 5-10 useless ones (1. frist psot 2. goatsex suxors 3. turd in the library 4. racist junk for the sake of racism 5. some redundant posts giving the same wikipaedia link 6 times withint one minute)
That's pretty much it, unless you consider ideas you disagree with to be noise (in which case you should remember that there is no "-1, I Disagree" moderation option)
Get off your high horse. Industrialized countried ("First World") have been polluting the Earth for over a century and are still -- by far-- the largest polluters in the world. Per capita, US is ranked 10th worst CO2 polluter, while China is 91st: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita There are many more examples one could come up with.
As to all the Chinese coal-fired plants and carcinogen-spewing heavy industries, and I am not so sure the people's lifes would be better off without them. I have been to China, and all the clean rural places are dirt poor. The "dirty" industrialized areas, on the other hand, are much better off (probably at a level of Mexico or Brazil, but with a brighter future).
You kill a woman while voluntarily drunk-driving, then a week later (out on bail) go out do party and make jokes about the murder?
That's not called being "happy," it's called being a sociopath. People like that who can't see a difference between Right and Wrong should be locked up immediately upon diagnosis of the condition.
Deers tend to jump out of the bushes right in front of cars. It's the same with rabbits near sidewalks.
They stand still to be quiet when the predator is far, but will try to run away at a right angle when the "predator" is right next to them. I am not sure why they do it, but perhaps has something to do with their danger handling mechanism.
What I wonder is why the free market isn't able to meet Wii console demand.
Under the normal conditions the price would rise to reduce the demand until there are some units sitting on the shelves because they are too expensive, after which the manufacturer would increase the supply and lower the prices while still keeping supply-demand in equillibrium.
Since none of this is happening, I suspect the monopolist manufacturer manipulates the prices and supply such that there is an artificial shortage, either to 1) undercut the competitors by keeping the prices too low, or 2) to generate hype by the perceived scarcity of the resource: "hey, if these consoles are so popular I gotta get me some" (which counts as false advertizing)
There really isn't any reason why one that is drunk or under the influence of drugs, should be sitting at the wheel.
I think you will find there is very little reason involved in such senseless crimes. DUI punishment is already pretty severe, yet people still do it, probably because they are drunk and can't reason.
Then again, even very smart and reasonable people still commit pretty dumb crimes which are already punished by death (Re: Hans Reiser)
Well, let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves: would would Iraqi insurgents like to see become the next US president? Obama or McCain? Now isn't that interesting...
My point is, Obama should feel pretty safe in Iraq.
Well, there are ways to fight poverty that don't fuel inflation. Things like strategic loans and subsidized (government-backed) contracts worked extremely well for FDR and Hitler.
But I guess it's good news for us that the Russians would rather support our economy than in their own.
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I don't understand why "a vast increase in the number of people digitally signing their email" would cause any reduction in spam, unless you are saying that only signed emails should be allowed on the internet.
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Most people don't like jumping through meaningless (to them) hoops.
What studies? The ones where women report being more harassed and opressed than men? These self-reporting data cannot be trusted since women tend to be overly sensitive to that sort of thing, and are actively looking for social conflict.
Women are in fact much more sensitive to social conflicts given their brain peculiarities, including differences in dopaminergic innervation, larger size of speech and social centers (up to twice the number of cells of males, which means some women can basically read your mind just by looking at your face), hormonal effects, depression prevalence (x5 times the rate of males), and so on.
I agree that as a woman you probably FEEL you get more discrimination because that's what your brain is wired up to detect, but objectively that doesn't have to be the case.
Are you sure about that? Field artillery fire control software definitely runs on windows, and from the looks of (of this I am not sure) it's a VB app.
Sometimes humans tend to make the dumbest decisions. What we don't want is cultural fads being imprinted in the genes we leave for posterity. After all, do you really want all these fads translated into messing with genes: obsession with small feet/footbinding in ancient China, clitoral and labial mutilation in some African countries, popularity of anaemic women in Victorian England, preference for physical appearance over intelligence in most modern day contries (esp. for women), obsession with redheads/gingers in Israel (skin cancer central), lip and earlobe stretching among some natives, and so on.
Just guessing here, but one could rip iTunes Store recordings, or plays-for-sure (whatever the MS store is) tracks, or audible audio books just by playing them and capturing the high-quality PCM streams while it plays. Then convert into mp3 or whatever.
Essentially, this would let you exploid analog hole without requiring any cables for line in/line out loopback. And since the waveform never leaves your sound card, the quality of the recording is near perfect.
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I thinks the Arabs, the Canadians, the Chinese, and the Russians might not appreciate you nationalizing their oil.
Bad SNR on Slashdot? You must have a very low tolerance for noise in that case.
On a typical article of 200-300 posts you get maybe 5-10 useless ones (1. frist psot 2. goatsex suxors 3. turd in the library 4. racist junk for the sake of racism 5. some redundant posts giving the same wikipaedia link 6 times withint one minute)
That's pretty much it, unless you consider ideas you disagree with to be noise (in which case you should remember that there is no "-1, I Disagree" moderation option)
Get off your high horse. Industrialized countried ("First World") have been polluting the Earth for over a century and are still -- by far-- the largest polluters in the world. Per capita, US is ranked 10th worst CO2 polluter, while China is 91st: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
There are many more examples one could come up with.
As to all the Chinese coal-fired plants and carcinogen-spewing heavy industries, and I am not so sure the people's lifes would be better off without them. I have been to China, and all the clean rural places are dirt poor. The "dirty" industrialized areas, on the other hand, are much better off (probably at a level of Mexico or Brazil, but with a brighter future).
That would kill text aware compression ratios (try it in RAR).
I use RPN.
For example do #dc -e "1 2 3 + - p"
You kill a woman while voluntarily drunk-driving, then a week later (out on bail) go out do party and make jokes about the murder?
That's not called being "happy," it's called being a sociopath.
People like that who can't see a difference between Right and Wrong should be locked up immediately upon diagnosis of the condition.
What's that in real money? I guess around 30 euros, what a deal!
I know, I am sad as well.
Deers tend to jump out of the bushes right in front of cars. It's the same with rabbits near sidewalks.
They stand still to be quiet when the predator is far, but will try to run away at a right angle when the "predator" is right next to them. I am not sure why they do it, but perhaps has something to do with their danger handling mechanism.
What I wonder is why the free market isn't able to meet Wii console demand.
Under the normal conditions the price would rise to reduce the demand until there are some units sitting on the shelves because they are too expensive, after which the manufacturer would increase the supply and lower the prices while still keeping supply-demand in equillibrium.
Since none of this is happening, I suspect the monopolist manufacturer manipulates the prices and supply such that there is an artificial shortage, either to 1) undercut the competitors by keeping the prices too low, or 2) to generate hype by the perceived scarcity of the resource: "hey, if these consoles are so popular I gotta get me some" (which counts as false advertizing)
Monopolists need to be fined or broken up!
We, the flight crew, didn't get anything like that.
Well, you weren't the ones selling your soul to the devil. The man needs to be compensated somehow.
There really isn't any reason why one that is drunk or under the influence of drugs, should be sitting at the wheel.
I think you will find there is very little reason involved in such senseless crimes. DUI punishment is already pretty severe, yet people still do it, probably because they are drunk and can't reason.
Then again, even very smart and reasonable people still commit pretty dumb crimes which are already punished by death (Re: Hans Reiser)
Well, let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves: would would Iraqi insurgents like to see become the next US president? Obama or McCain? Now isn't that interesting...
My point is, Obama should feel pretty safe in Iraq.
Russia gets more nationalistic and ethnocentric of late.
As does any nation in decline. (Sadly, now including the US of A...)
Well, there are ways to fight poverty that don't fuel inflation. Things like strategic loans and subsidized (government-backed) contracts worked extremely well for FDR and Hitler.
But I guess it's good news for us that the Russians would rather support our economy than in their own.
I don't understand why "a vast increase in the number of people digitally signing their email" would cause any reduction in spam, unless you are saying that only signed emails should be allowed on the internet.
Most people don't like jumping through meaningless (to them) hoops.
They might be by the time gas hits $12/gal
Yeah, but with its arm controller off, who's going to press the reset button?
What studies? The ones where women report being more harassed and opressed than men? These self-reporting data cannot be trusted since women tend to be overly sensitive to that sort of thing, and are actively looking for social conflict.
Women are in fact much more sensitive to social conflicts given their brain peculiarities, including differences in dopaminergic innervation, larger size of speech and social centers (up to twice the number of cells of males, which means some women can basically read your mind just by looking at your face), hormonal effects, depression prevalence (x5 times the rate of males), and so on.
I agree that as a woman you probably FEEL you get more discrimination because that's what your brain is wired up to detect, but objectively that doesn't have to be the case.
Where exactly? Another Iraq?
Are you sure about that? Field artillery fire control software definitely runs on windows, and from the looks of (of this I am not sure) it's a VB app.
We might be able to cure the gay genes as well. We'll have the technology.
Survival of the fittest.
Sometimes humans tend to make the dumbest decisions. What we don't want is cultural fads being imprinted in the genes we leave for posterity. After all, do you really want all these fads translated into messing with genes: obsession with small feet/footbinding in ancient China, clitoral and labial mutilation in some African countries, popularity of anaemic women in Victorian England, preference for physical appearance over intelligence in most modern day contries (esp. for women), obsession with redheads/gingers in Israel (skin cancer central), lip and earlobe stretching among some natives, and so on.
The Germans arrested him early in 1942, but let him go for lack of evidence.
That's where they nazis lost it. They should have just rounded up all suspects and put them in a freedom camp or something.
Just guessing here, but one could rip iTunes Store recordings, or plays-for-sure (whatever the MS store is) tracks, or audible audio books just by playing them and capturing the high-quality PCM streams while it plays. Then convert into mp3 or whatever.
Essentially, this would let you exploid analog hole without requiring any cables for line in/line out loopback. And since the waveform never leaves your sound card, the quality of the recording is near perfect.