Come on, it's better to just keep digging up and draining the ground until there's nothing left and hope for a bright future. That way when all the economically viable hydrocarbon sources are used up we'll have no backup plan and really be able to commit to sucking the teat of whatever corporations corner the next energy dependencies.
I think maybe the point is to do both. It starts seeming a lot like trickle down economics if the data sourced from these tax funded missions is only analyzable by a small group of scientists. Why should everyone just be content with having all the thinking monopolized by those few individuals. All in hopes that one day the results trickle down in the form of innovations to our everyday lives. There's value in having data (3d film in this case) that can be analyzed by the laymen as well. It leads to something very different, but it's not worthless.
That's another big reason why our current war on drugs is such a shame (more of a shame is all the people dying over it along the us/mex border). If just cannabis and other unprocessed crops like shrooms, etc were legalized federally I think would be a huge boon for the country culturally. I know I've gotten some of my best ideas while high. I certainly don't enjoy writing code high, but I can continue to think about a project or specific problem after lighting up at the end of the day and usually gain some pretty amazing insight.
I switched to the PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/) fork when I switched to Vista/7 64-bit. Peer Guardian doesn't seem to get updates anymore and doesn't support those versions of windows anyway. How effective either are/were I couldn't attest to. I run it as a precaution. I do know that when I am torrent'ing the block history list moves right along at a fairly constant rate.
Exactly. It's infuriating the way they react publicly to their own abuses. Any other organization would have been burned to the ground a long time ago for the kind of offenses the pope and his cadre are getting away with now.
Are you saying your first reaction to finding a lost phone in a bar isn't to send it straight to Gizmodo? It's standard practice and nothing to speculate over.
Wrong. That wasn't the ruling. That was the sensationalist headline put out by all the news outlets to get ad viewers. Read the commission statement regarding that case:
http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/
The court merely invalidated one of the enforcement methods the FCC was using.
So how long until there's completely unmanned surgical automats? That would be pretty scary and at the same time pretty cool, in a dark cyberpunk future kind of way...
Those people have also forced the schools to dumb everything down too I think. I also recently returned to school and am able to get As in most of my classes with barely any effort. Every class is full of grade hand-outs to prop up all those uninterested people.
I found programming by learning Basic in a high-school programming class. Anyone that was so affected by the first language they were introduced to had some preexisting conditions I'd say... If a person only has the capacity to think in terms of the tool currently in their hands then forget about it. I quickly moved on to C and Linux in my teens when Basic didn't support what I wanted to do and my empty wallet didn't support Borland or Visual Studio. So yeah, thank you BASIC, public libraries and Linux.
Apple as of late has really rekindled my appreciation for Windows on my personal computers. Sell me the hardware and then let me do what the f**k I want. I'm just waiting for the next major version of OSX brings in the wonderful strangle hold of the app store too...
Exactly. 4/5 games are horrible from my experience of playing A LOT of games (in past). I stopped buying based on the hype and previews a looooong time ago. I either download a demo or download the torrent rip first. If the game still has me wanting more after a couple hours then I'll go to the store. Being locked to the release version because I'm running a torrent rip of the game sucks. That's DRM enough for me. For a long game, like DragonAge: Origins, the last game I really played, I need/want the patches as they are released.
As much as I am a fan of Kevin Smith and take pride in the fact that he's from my home state of NJ, I have to side with Southwest on this one. I've had the horrible experience of being seated next to and between very fat people several times and it just isn't fair. They should have paid for part of my ticket each time. Flights are cramped uncomfortable experiences as it is, but to have some bloated wheezing corpse pouring over the arm rest into my seat really crosses the line socially.
I think Slashdot has been overrun by a new type of person... I can't believe how many people are posting in favor of this locked down, DRM ridden piece of steve jobs crap. It flies in the face of everything I learned reading this site for the last 10+ years. Now I don't know what to believe. This thing can't even run Linux! What's going on??!?
Microsoft perpetually holds between $5-10 of my money, and has for a couple years now. Every time I want to purchase some DLC it's pretty much always the case that my current points pool is short of the price by 100-400 points. Of course they don't sell 100 points - you have to buy 500 or 1000 (I forget the exact amounts offered). I'm sure I'm far from the only one in this situation. It's almost like a superman scam. I wonder how much in total of unredeemed cash they sit on each month.
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You just don't understand the sodomy based economy we live in...
Sounds like you work for the SEC
Come on, it's better to just keep digging up and draining the ground until there's nothing left and hope for a bright future. That way when all the economically viable hydrocarbon sources are used up we'll have no backup plan and really be able to commit to sucking the teat of whatever corporations corner the next energy dependencies.
I think maybe the point is to do both. It starts seeming a lot like trickle down economics if the data sourced from these tax funded missions is only analyzable by a small group of scientists. Why should everyone just be content with having all the thinking monopolized by those few individuals. All in hopes that one day the results trickle down in the form of innovations to our everyday lives. There's value in having data (3d film in this case) that can be analyzed by the laymen as well. It leads to something very different, but it's not worthless.
That's another big reason why our current war on drugs is such a shame (more of a shame is all the people dying over it along the us/mex border). If just cannabis and other unprocessed crops like shrooms, etc were legalized federally I think would be a huge boon for the country culturally. I know I've gotten some of my best ideas while high. I certainly don't enjoy writing code high, but I can continue to think about a project or specific problem after lighting up at the end of the day and usually gain some pretty amazing insight.
I switched to the PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/) fork when I switched to Vista/7 64-bit. Peer Guardian doesn't seem to get updates anymore and doesn't support those versions of windows anyway. How effective either are/were I couldn't attest to. I run it as a precaution. I do know that when I am torrent'ing the block history list moves right along at a fairly constant rate.
Exactly. It's infuriating the way they react publicly to their own abuses. Any other organization would have been burned to the ground a long time ago for the kind of offenses the pope and his cadre are getting away with now.
The man playing Hitler in that movie does an amazing job. It's very chilling.
Are you saying your first reaction to finding a lost phone in a bar isn't to send it straight to Gizmodo? It's standard practice and nothing to speculate over.
Wrong. That wasn't the ruling. That was the sensationalist headline put out by all the news outlets to get ad viewers. Read the commission statement regarding that case: http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/ The court merely invalidated one of the enforcement methods the FCC was using.
People always think of the best outcome when a new technology is created, forgetting the cesspool we call humanity that's going to use and pervert it.
But, people perverting it is what I'm looking forward too...
Well, if there was one movie worth owning multiple versions Blade Runner is it. I still wouldn't though, but I'm cheap.
So how long until there's completely unmanned surgical automats? That would be pretty scary and at the same time pretty cool, in a dark cyberpunk future kind of way...
Those people have also forced the schools to dumb everything down too I think. I also recently returned to school and am able to get As in most of my classes with barely any effort. Every class is full of grade hand-outs to prop up all those uninterested people.
I found programming by learning Basic in a high-school programming class. Anyone that was so affected by the first language they were introduced to had some preexisting conditions I'd say... If a person only has the capacity to think in terms of the tool currently in their hands then forget about it. I quickly moved on to C and Linux in my teens when Basic didn't support what I wanted to do and my empty wallet didn't support Borland or Visual Studio. So yeah, thank you BASIC, public libraries and Linux.
Apple as of late has really rekindled my appreciation for Windows on my personal computers. Sell me the hardware and then let me do what the f**k I want. I'm just waiting for the next major version of OSX brings in the wonderful strangle hold of the app store too...
Exactly. 4/5 games are horrible from my experience of playing A LOT of games (in past). I stopped buying based on the hype and previews a looooong time ago. I either download a demo or download the torrent rip first. If the game still has me wanting more after a couple hours then I'll go to the store. Being locked to the release version because I'm running a torrent rip of the game sucks. That's DRM enough for me. For a long game, like DragonAge: Origins, the last game I really played, I need/want the patches as they are released.
As much as I am a fan of Kevin Smith and take pride in the fact that he's from my home state of NJ, I have to side with Southwest on this one. I've had the horrible experience of being seated next to and between very fat people several times and it just isn't fair. They should have paid for part of my ticket each time. Flights are cramped uncomfortable experiences as it is, but to have some bloated wheezing corpse pouring over the arm rest into my seat really crosses the line socially.
So Linus is just some celebrity...on Slashdot...?
Everything and everyone is a failure these days, don't watch TV or read the news?
When being a Nazi is a good thing. I guess they were just victims of context.
I think Slashdot has been overrun by a new type of person... I can't believe how many people are posting in favor of this locked down, DRM ridden piece of steve jobs crap. It flies in the face of everything I learned reading this site for the last 10+ years. Now I don't know what to believe. This thing can't even run Linux! What's going on??!?
Microsoft perpetually holds between $5-10 of my money, and has for a couple years now. Every time I want to purchase some DLC it's pretty much always the case that my current points pool is short of the price by 100-400 points. Of course they don't sell 100 points - you have to buy 500 or 1000 (I forget the exact amounts offered). I'm sure I'm far from the only one in this situation. It's almost like a superman scam. I wonder how much in total of unredeemed cash they sit on each month.
This game failed in big part because of their extremely poor server performance. Who cares how they did it?
Capitalism has anyone that does what they 'like doing' by the balls. It's not just research, look at the situation commercial airline pilots are in.