People don't "deserve" respect, they earn it. He earned quite a bit of it, and he spent it all on being an ideological moron. Now his ol' respect bank account is empty.
Of course you, being an AC, deserve no respect at all, so I'm being generous by even replying to you. I assume you created BSD or helped port SSH to the Mac or something, right?
Not many game engines out there that could model a fluid, never mind any that have actually tried to. I found this to be a truly unique thought in game design, and very "different" even within the theme they were given. (Bear in mind I haven't played it.. )
Also, I think in some of the descriptions of the games they just couldn't help themselves when they added "it's like XXX" to the description. It's so common now to describe games in terms of other games that it's like a knee-jerk reaction. I especially had this impression in the case of Charles' Chopper which isn't really like Choplifter except for having a theme in common, but they added that description anyway.
Dueling Machine is also quite unique. On the surface it's just another shooter, yet the magic is in the one disorienting difference of having so many "noncombatants" around. This game probably wouldn't be that difficult if it was attempted with fewer than several thousand obstacle characters hiding the target... sort of 3d interactive realtime Where's Waldo? Here again is a unique concept working in symbiosis with a unique engine.
And then there's Very Serious RoboDOOM which is unique primarily because it's not so much a game a statement about games.;-)
Most blog apps have this already. b2 which is my favorite certainly employs this feature, so you can filter by category. I'm not sure what this would add to a novel's narrative format, though. If it's not a linear progression through a story, it shouldn't be called a novel, although it may be no less meaningful a form of art. A blog can be a linear progression, but not if you filter out part of it by categorizing it.
would you bother to inflict someone with a virus this way?
Evil Men in Black Gov't Headquarters 7pm Meeting
Evil #1: The king of Kuwait is refusing to buy Microsoft software! We must assassinate him! Evil #2: But how? Evil #1: I know! Let's do it in such a way that it requires years and years for him to die, if ever! Evil #2: Someone shoot this man. Evil #3 (shoots Evil #1 in the back of the head). Evil #4: How about we just put naurotoxins on the stupid fly like we usually do?
Sometypeofsoftware? Don't be so pessimistic, device drivers aren't the only things we know how to write. If the manufacturers don't help, we'll reverse-engineer it and do it anyway.
Unless those 15,000 jobs are kickback jobs that is: "Buy the software of my largest contributor errr I mean constituency and we'll farm out some development jobs to your country."
It requires a certain number of jobs to run a certain amount of software. The number of jobs may vary quite a bit depending on the quality of software but there's nothing inherent in open source or proprietariness that causes software to be good or bad. We all have our opinions on this matter; let's stick to the basic assumption that the quality of the software packages is the same for both.
Peru requires a certain amount of software; it can get that software from a proprietary source or from a, well, an open source. They will still have the same amount of software when they're through, hence, the same number of jobs.
In fact, since open source tends to cost less than proprietary software (this is not a secret after all) there will be more money in the budget. It stands to reason that open source will create more jobs on average with that budget surplus.
Here's a better one. (Yes, it's Stallman, and I find him annoying too. But at least it's just as unbalanced as the original link, which was probably planted here on/. by a UCITA lobby group.)
Plus it's on the EFF website, which is an organization I don't find annoying.
Yeast is a fungus. Vegans eat fungus. While fungus is definitely "living", I would hesitate to call it "creatures", at the risk of being called dumb, which is what you are.
These machines are environmentally friendly, inexpensive and makes the telecommunications infrastructure more resilient.
Something that's desperately needed right now. The whole US internet infrastructure is only running now by the blessing of the court system, a court system whose wisdom is hit-or-miss at best. Not that I'm hoping WorldCom survives, I just want it to survive long enough for a bunch of smaller competitors to buy up the pieces at bargain bin rates.
Any technology that provides alternatives for getting on or running the internet gets a big cheer from me.
And nimec even gave us the reason why it won't work:
"I'm just afraid that over time people will keep downloading these bogus mp3s and become too lazy to delete them, like they are when it comes to incomplete songs."
So? Surely there are many orders of magnitude more incomplete files on the network than there will ever be bogus mp3 files. Yet the presence of these bad files don't stop anyone from downloading all the perfectly good music they want. It's really quite easy to tell good files from bad; the good files will be present on many more servers than the bad ones.
Definitely loss of points at the end there. He "tipped his hand" in the lingo. Granted, there are many slashbots who think nothing of buying a new PC every 6 months and wouldn't even notice this, but most people would recognize this as "hyperbole"--a sure sign of a troll.
On the other hand, the results speak for themselves.
To the original owner, that is. If we "stole" it from international territory, then it's forfeit to the original owner, right? Which is to say: the moon. Let's bring that sucker back and put it where we found it.
Any excuse to fire rockets into space is a good one if you ask me.
I don't know about huge. CEO of bit player in the corporate Linux world steps down. Nobody cares about Caldera.. a few people (most of Redhat's competition) care about UL. You seem to be saying that he'll do less damage this way, but I think he has the potential to do more damage.
I don't believe in the soul, but this argument could be rewritten with that word. I choose the word "identity." You will never teleport me, because if you did I would lose my identity.
I believe we are more than just brains and tissue and memories; we are the sum of ALL of our parameters. Our identity depends on that location parameter too. How do we reconcile this view with the certain knowledge that our parameters are changing constantly? We are constantly moving, our cells being born and dying, our mood swinging, or memories collecting. Identity isn't just the set of parameters as it is right now, it's a continuous function which shows our path from single unfertilized egg cell to the sum of all those terabytes of data which make us up as adults.
To teleport me into another location, you recreate my exact characteristics in the new location with a new location parameter. Whether or not the original continues to exist is irrelevant; the new me is not the old me. You have created a discontinuity in my function. Identity is continuity.
Let's talk about that important concept, identity. # The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group. # The quality or condition of being the same as something else. # The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.
The dictionary is telling us that it means both "the same as something else" and "distinct, individual". It's almost a one-word oxymoron. Certainly if you have been teleported in a process which can conceivably leave behind, even for a millisecond, a copy of you at the starting location, you are no longer individual. That sense of identity has been violated.
What about the second sense: The quality or condition of being the same as something else. But if a being has been teleported, the new being is not "the same as" the other. They do not share identity because of that discontinuity. The old me has to be destroyed, the new me has to be born, and they do not share the same location, so they do not share the same function, so they are not the same waveform, and they are not the same entity.
A smile and a peck on the cheek? For Christ's sake, this is Neverwinter Nights. We're talking some intense sexual favors, and I don't mean things you've done for him before.
From the article (about a study in Finland): "It cited compatibility problems, namely among users trying to receive Microsoft World documents." [emphasis mine]
I'd be honestly surprised if Google doesn't run with the ball and fold it into their main search engine. The only thing standing in the way is the storage space and CPU time to do it.
. . . Two things Google should have no trouble finding.
Does anyone remember back in 1997 when Gore announced practically every month was the warmest month ever recorded? Does anyone remember that for most (all?) of those months when the data was actually processed that it really wasn't true?
I don't remember this, but it rings true. The one effect that this law can never have and will never have, is to control the massive social influence that scientific lies spoken by politicians have. We need a law against BS spoken by public figures. Scientific slander? If you can't find any scientific authority to back up your data or conclusions, then you go to jail.
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People don't "deserve" respect, they earn it. He earned quite a bit of it, and he spent it all on being an ideological moron. Now his ol' respect bank account is empty.
Of course you, being an AC, deserve no respect at all, so I'm being generous by even replying to you. I assume you created BSD or helped port SSH to the Mac or something, right?
Not many game engines out there that could model a fluid, never mind any that have actually tried to. I found this to be a truly unique thought in game design, and very "different" even within the theme they were given. (Bear in mind I haven't played it.. )
;-)
Also, I think in some of the descriptions of the games they just couldn't help themselves when they added "it's like XXX" to the description. It's so common now to describe games in terms of other games that it's like a knee-jerk reaction. I especially had this impression in the case of Charles' Chopper which isn't really like Choplifter except for having a theme in common, but they added that description anyway.
Dueling Machine is also quite unique. On the surface it's just another shooter, yet the magic is in the one disorienting difference of having so many "noncombatants" around. This game probably wouldn't be that difficult if it was attempted with fewer than several thousand obstacle characters hiding the target... sort of 3d interactive realtime Where's Waldo? Here again is a unique concept working in symbiosis with a unique engine.
And then there's Very Serious RoboDOOM which is unique primarily because it's not so much a game a statement about games.
And he's running ICANN! I knew he was a hypocrite.
Most blog apps have this already. b2 which is my favorite certainly employs this feature, so you can filter by category. I'm not sure what this would add to a novel's narrative format, though. If it's not a linear progression through a story, it shouldn't be called a novel, although it may be no less meaningful a form of art. A blog can be a linear progression, but not if you filter out part of it by categorizing it.
would you bother to inflict someone with a virus this way?
Evil Men in Black Gov't Headquarters
7pm Meeting
Evil #1: The king of Kuwait is refusing to buy Microsoft software! We must assassinate him!
Evil #2: But how?
Evil #1: I know! Let's do it in such a way that it requires years and years for him to die, if ever!
Evil #2: Someone shoot this man.
Evil #3 (shoots Evil #1 in the back of the head).
Evil #4: How about we just put naurotoxins on the stupid fly like we usually do?
Some type of software? Don't be so pessimistic, device drivers aren't the only things we know how to write. If the manufacturers don't help, we'll reverse-engineer it and do it anyway.
Unless those 15,000 jobs are kickback jobs that is: "Buy the software of my largest contributor errr I mean constituency and we'll farm out some development jobs to your country."
It's really quite a bit simpler than that.
It requires a certain number of jobs to run a certain amount of software. The number of jobs may vary quite a bit depending on the quality of software but there's nothing inherent in open source or proprietariness that causes software to be good or bad. We all have our opinions on this matter; let's stick to the basic assumption that the quality of the software packages is the same for both.
Peru requires a certain amount of software; it can get that software from a proprietary source or from a, well, an open source. They will still have the same amount of software when they're through, hence, the same number of jobs.
In fact, since open source tends to cost less than proprietary software (this is not a secret after all) there will be more money in the budget. It stands to reason that open source will create more jobs on average with that budget surplus.
Here's a better one. (Yes, it's Stallman, and I find him annoying too. But at least it's just as unbalanced as the original link, which was probably planted here on /. by a UCITA lobby group.)
Plus it's on the EFF website, which is an organization I don't find annoying.
Yeast is a fungus. Vegans eat fungus. While fungus is definitely "living", I would hesitate to call it "creatures", at the risk of being called dumb, which is what you are.
These machines are environmentally friendly, inexpensive and makes the telecommunications infrastructure more resilient.
Something that's desperately needed right now. The whole US internet infrastructure is only running now by the blessing of the court system, a court system whose wisdom is hit-or-miss at best. Not that I'm hoping WorldCom survives, I just want it to survive long enough for a bunch of smaller competitors to buy up the pieces at bargain bin rates.
Any technology that provides alternatives for getting on or running the internet gets a big cheer from me.
Parent suggests that we should perhaps buy a new car every time we take a plane flight to go on vacation.
This is a mark of a troll, but I have to admit, it was a good one.
Definitely loss of points at the end there. He "tipped his hand" in the lingo. Granted, there are many slashbots who think nothing of buying a new PC every 6 months and wouldn't even notice this, but most people would recognize this as "hyperbole"--a sure sign of a troll.
On the other hand, the results speak for themselves.
To the original owner, that is. If we "stole" it from international territory, then it's forfeit to the original owner, right? Which is to say: the moon. Let's bring that sucker back and put it where we found it.
Any excuse to fire rockets into space is a good one if you ask me.
I don't know about huge. CEO of bit player in the corporate Linux world steps down. Nobody cares about Caldera.. a few people (most of Redhat's competition) care about UL. You seem to be saying that he'll do less damage this way, but I think he has the potential to do more damage.
You can still do a useful comparison between productivity when using the "ideal" software and productivity using the "current" software.
The complete analysis of hours of work per day would look like this:
Without software: 8:00
With bug-free software: 6:00
With existing software: 6:05
The benefit of having the software is obvious, but the cost of the bugs is real.
I don't believe in the soul, but this argument could be rewritten with that word. I choose the word "identity." You will never teleport me, because if you did I would lose my identity.
I believe we are more than just brains and tissue and memories; we are the sum of ALL of our parameters. Our identity depends on that location parameter too. How do we reconcile this view with the certain knowledge that our parameters are changing constantly? We are constantly moving, our cells being born and dying, our mood swinging, or memories collecting. Identity isn't just the set of parameters as it is right now, it's a continuous function which shows our path from single unfertilized egg cell to the sum of all those terabytes of data which make us up as adults.
To teleport me into another location, you recreate my exact characteristics in the new location with a new location parameter. Whether or not the original continues to exist is irrelevant; the new me is not the old me. You have created a discontinuity in my function. Identity is continuity.
Let's talk about that important concept, identity.
# The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.
# The quality or condition of being the same as something else.
# The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.
The dictionary is telling us that it means both "the same as something else" and "distinct, individual". It's almost a one-word oxymoron. Certainly if you have been teleported in a process which can conceivably leave behind, even for a millisecond, a copy of you at the starting location, you are no longer individual. That sense of identity has been violated.
What about the second sense: The quality or condition of being the same as something else. But if a being has been teleported, the new being is not "the same as" the other. They do not share identity because of that discontinuity. The old me has to be destroyed, the new me has to be born, and they do not share the same location, so they do not share the same function, so they are not the same waveform, and they are not the same entity.
A smile and a peck on the cheek? For Christ's sake, this is Neverwinter Nights . We're talking some intense sexual favors, and I don't mean things you've done for him before.
From the article (about a study in Finland): "It cited compatibility problems, namely among users trying to receive Microsoft World documents." [emphasis mine]
Yeah, it's not as if they evacuated an office building so they could crash a helicopter into it in the first one.
. . . about 25 times as great as current hard disks.
All right, so how much denser is it than punch cards?
. . . Two things Google should have no trouble finding.
When did Germany incorporate? Well I guess it was only a matter of time. They all follow in America's footsteps sooner or later.
I don't remember this, but it rings true. The one effect that this law can never have and will never have, is to control the massive social influence that scientific lies spoken by politicians have. We need a law against BS spoken by public figures. Scientific slander? If you can't find any scientific authority to back up your data or conclusions, then you go to jail.