Comment Re:Third party developers (Score 1) 426
Was there an official statement from Sony that they support region lockout at all?
Comment Conspiracy? No, just Yahoo User Interface library (Score 1) 1
See http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ - a great javascript/css/widget lib with far better support, cross-browser compatibility, and breadth than things like prototype.js will ever get.
Comment what if the mamillian brain (Score 1) 234
is a quantum computers..?
Comment Re:Nooo!!!! (Score 1) 128
I am more or less an intermediate PHP hacker. Most of my experience is in Perl and mod_perl.
Right now, what I find the most frustrating about PHP is the embedded model. It seems that you have to jump through a lot of hoops to work around that. Maybe once you get used to jumping through those hoops it is okay, but (for me anyway) it seems like I am working against the language when I want to abstract webpages away from their files, for example.
It seems to me that this is one of those areas where the easy-access part (templating built right into the way you code) starts making it harder to do more complicated things.
Coffee Maybe Not a Health Drink! 381
perbert writes "Canadian researchers have published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that excess coffee drinking (4+ cups a day) could lead to an increased risk of heart disease if you have the wrong gene. In light of other studies linking antioxidants in coffee to a reduction in heart disease, who is right? Or will they cancel out in a coffee death-match?"
President Defends Global Outsourcing 1075
mytrip wrote to mention a New York Times article discussing President Bush's trip to the Indian subcontinent. There, he urged Americans to welcome global competition for their jobs. From the article: "Mr. Bush, reiterating a theme of his trip, strongly defended the outsourcing of American jobs to India as the reality of a global economy, and said that the United States should instead focus on India as a vital new market for American goods ... 'The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is there is a 300 million-person market of middle class citizens here in India, and that if we can make a product they want, that it becomes viable,'"
Comment Re:comes with the territory. (Score 4, Insightful) 780
Even people who are "mostly" honest and hardworking lie.
did you ever come in late and lied about it? Did you ever lie to get off work early one day? Did you ever lie to a co-worker?
Of course you did. You just don't see the lies as being harmful so you do it. You probably lie every day at least once if not a dozen times. They may be small lies but they are lies anyway.
As you go up in an organization lies get bigger and bigger and yet people still don't see it as harmful so they do it. They of course also do it to save their assess, to make themselves look better or to make other people look bad, or maybe just to shift the blame from themselves. The dog ate my homework I swear!.
It's a fact of life. Everybody lies every day. CIOs and politicians lie thousand times a day and about bigger things.
did you ever come in late and lied about it? Did you ever lie to get off work early one day? Did you ever lie to a co-worker?
Of course you did. You just don't see the lies as being harmful so you do it. You probably lie every day at least once if not a dozen times. They may be small lies but they are lies anyway.
As you go up in an organization lies get bigger and bigger and yet people still don't see it as harmful so they do it. They of course also do it to save their assess, to make themselves look better or to make other people look bad, or maybe just to shift the blame from themselves. The dog ate my homework I swear!.
It's a fact of life. Everybody lies every day. CIOs and politicians lie thousand times a day and about bigger things.
Journal Journal: Beyond Good And Evil: aphorism 9 1
Nietzsche talks about the Stoics. They do not really want to live by nature, but instead want to do what "still happens today, too, as soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in it's own image."
I take a couple things from this. Firstly, knowing both about stoicism and about "stoic" personalities, I think Nietzsche is arguing that nature is not something to be sternly endured.
Journal Journal: Beyond Good And Evil: aphorism 8
At some point in your philosophy you will present your conviction on the stage, and what shall you have prepared by way of expectation? Which part of the argument do you allow your conviction to present?
Journal Journal: Beyond Good And Evil: aphorism 7
Philosophers with a grandiose manners are actors. Mere actors?
Journal Journal: How I mod
When I have mod points, I have started reading un-threaded at 0, with newest posts first. Reading newest first seems like the most important. I generally try to use up my points quickly but thoughtfully. If I start at the top (ie. oldest posts first), I usually see a few posts deserving some points before I even get half way through a topic that already has 100 or so posts. Starting at the other end gives you a chance to get to some of the fresh stuff that could still have an impact on the disc
Journal Journal: A day spent with Win95
This morning, when I went to print out my dvi file over my home network to my stupid winprinter, doomed to be forever connected to my trusty Win95 print server, suddenly nothing worked.
Journal Journal: The modding system
I'm starting to lose faith in the moderators. (Everyone will say: you must be new around here!)
But yes, it's true. I submitted a post that said exactly this: "Red Hat is a Vendor, for example". That's it. I even had to wait a few seconds because I typed it so fast the lameness filter got pissed off at me.
Journal Journal: My sig
I think my anti-war sig is costing me karma!
Here it is, in case I ever change:
Congratulations! Now we're the Evil Empire
(Please note the lack of closing punctuation. It's my fault and I haven't gone back to fix it.)
Journal Journal: Beyond Good And Evil: aphorism 6 3
Philosophy doesn't really come from a "Will to Knowledge" (well, it may if it wants) but more generally it comes from many of the other drives in the human mind.
"Drives" are taken as distinct forces of influence in the mind (and by inclusion the body). According to Nietzsche many of the various "drives" has at one time or another philosophized, which is to say some philosopher has created a philosophic system while motivated by that drive.
