Yeah, I blame Bush for what he did, and I blame Obama for making the crap Bush did the new normal, which is actually worse.
Noticing a pattern yet? Noticing that this has NOTHING to do with which political party is in power?
Yeah... this country has been taken over. The nifty part is we do not know who or which organized group of people did it, but you can bet they are exceedingly wealthy... enough to make Bill Gates blush.
Ha! If it were only so simple...
My diet has not changed over the past decade. I eat twice a day; eggs and bacon for breakfast, some sort of sandwich and soup for late lunch.
My exercise levels have not changed at all during that decade. I do not exercise.
I weighed 245 pounds. I weighed 190 pounds. I weighed 240 pounds. I weigh 200 pounds. I gain and lose weight based on what exactly? 40-50 pounds of gain and loss is not exactly small. Why does my weight vary so much? It is not diet and it is not exercise.
I feel certain that my weight would be more stable if I were to exercise, with the stabilization point likely at about 180. I know for a fact I would be healthier if I exercised...
But would my weight really stabilize if I exercised or would it still bounce around by 50 pounds?
I get comments all the time after a fat episode is over and a thinning episode starts: I am so jealous. What are you doing to lose weight?
Frequently, they are very unhappy when I tell them: Nothing.
He is the Perl hacker who was responsible for much of the original slashcode that this site ran on.
His nickname also used to be the final option on every poll in case none of the other options quite fit for you. Usually, this was added in a humorous way.
Being a high school dropout, I have to ask: Do Gallileo's findings take into account masses of vastly different sizes?
The reason I ask is this: All masses exert gravity, yes? So say a planet exerts an acceleration of 8m/s squared. The prevailing theory is that ALL objects, regardless of mass fall at the same speed... yes?
What if one of the objects is a bowling ball and the other is an asteroid the size of a mountain... wouldn't the asteroid fall faster? Before you answer no, I would need an explanation of why the acceleration of gravity of the bowling itself and the asteroid itself is not added to the acceleration of gravity of the planet itself...
Just pulling random numbers that are likely orders of magnitude off but are sufficient to demonstrate my question: planet 8m/s squared, asteroid
Again, a mountain sized asteroid has outrageously less mass than a planet so for most purposes, there is no reason to to account for its mass... but for scientific purposes and pedantry, wouldn't we need to account for it?
Hm...
Low user ID...
Initials of SJ...
Speaking knowledgeably about Apple insider stuff...
Hey guys! Steve Jobs is not dead! He is here posting on Slashdot. I guess pretending to be dead is boring eh?
Hm. I would say that there is a further issue going on here, namely that people are conflating strong AI and consciousness. They may not be the same thing.
Intelligence is like a tool that consciousness uses to make sense of the universe. Consciousness just is: To quote the Old Testament when God is speaking to Moses, "I am that I am."
Strong AI does not necessarily need consciousness in order to be strong. It does not have to have a "will" or the need to dominate its environment like an animal does.
In short, strong AI would merely be a tool for us to use unless consciousness is required for intelligence.
The intention of the IMF is not to help those it gives money to. The intention is basically to control them.
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And that's basically the IWFs function now. Though FJS could not even dictate how they may spend the money, unlike the IWF now.
Your 'M' got turned upside down in this last paragraph.
International Wildlife Fund? Heheh
I do not know which window I am closing when I have multiple windows open... that is assuming I can even find a "close" button anywhere in the confusing mess of windows that are open.
Drop shadows helped a LOT to show which window was on top of which window. Gradients on the buttons and window edges differentiated them from background noise.
All I see are lines. I have no idea which line indicates a window edge or some menu/workspace delineation marker.
Removing all of that (shadowing/gradients) removes vital clues that ANYONE, programmer or novice, needs in order to be able to operate a windowing interface efficiently.
Perhaps I am supposed to be using the taskbar to choose which application window I am trying to manipulate? If that is true, then why don't sub-windows always show up in the taskbar? Many do not. How can I manipulate the windows effectively without clues as to what is what? It is supposed to be a windowing paradigm right?
I am not disagreeing with anything you said, I am reinforcing it. The only point that I am making is that the interface is terrible for everyone, not just one class of user as your parent poster implied.
ISIS, now known as Da'esh, started out as Al Queda in Iraq. Eventually, there were some management disputes and Al Queda kicked them out.
American traffic is pretty tame compared to many other regions: Middle East and South Korea come immediately to mind. The laws of physics do not apply in their minds. Other regions, like India or the Philippines are just plain chaotic as hell, not necessarily rude, but primitive.
American traffic behavior may be poor compared to say, The Netherlands or Sweden, but it is MUCH more tame than a large majority of the world... and let's not bring Russian traffic into this discussion.
Erm, uh... what about the situation where you are running 4 drives in RAID 0 but the pairs are RAID1?
I keep forgetting if that is called RAID10 or RAID0+1. Meh. Regardless, RAID0 is not just used for unimportant data.
Like most people I thought pythons enforced white space and avoidance of braces and elimination of semicolons was constricting. Then I realized how easy it was to read other people programs.
Ever looked at the source for Anaconda, Redhat's installing program? Go ahead, take a moment...
Yeah... about Python being easy to read...
Protecting people from evil cults (even if they got the specifics of meme transmission a bit off by choosing "X-Files" and similar) is definitely something I would like my government to do.
I do not want my government involved in such things. I want my government involved in infrastructure and physical harm mediation. Protecting me is not on my list of things a government should do.
Yes, there is some protection afforded by the fact that the government will mediate physical harm issues, but the subtle point is that it is not done for protection but to mediate after the harm has already been done. You can not actually prevent ANYTHING.
People aren't really ripping Star Wars to protest against long copyright periods. They're ripping Age of Ultron so they can watch it for free.
I am not so sure of that claim. Sure, some people are downloading it so they can watch it for free...
I am considering downloading it myself currently. I could watch a censored version in the theater. I could wait 6 months or however long for a dvd (I do not do bluray) to come out.
I downloaded the first Avengers movie for the same reason. I eventually bought the dvd and ripped that and deleted the version I had downloaded... but only because the version I had downloaded was inferior to rip I had made.
I also downloaded Star Wars. The REAL version where Han shot first and there was no CGI Jabba. I think you can guess why.
People aren't downloading cracked versions of Donkey Kong. They're downloading cracked versions of the latest Assassin's Creed.
Actually, I did download Donkey Kong last month. I wanted to try out MAME again and lost all of my old ROMs. Assassins Creed is crap, but to stay true to your argument, I did download Skyrim and Civilization 5.
DRM pisses me off and I never buy anything prepackaged anymore. I found Skyrim and Civ 5 on Steam and decided the DRM that Steam provides is a worthwhile trade for the convenience of being able to download it anywhere and anytime and play it on any computer. I plain bought GTA V through Steam without even downloading a cracked copy first... but only because the GTA series always has an interesting world to discover even if gameplay can be flat at times.
In short, downloading games is a try before you buy proposition for many people. If you like a game and never buy it, you will not continue to see good games being made.
These things would have been illegal under even the earliest and shortest periods of copyright protection. These are titles that took hundreds of people and millions of dollars of investment to make, and the law effectively requiring people to contribute in return for their copy does promote the useful arts by making such projects financially viable.
Fuck them. They lobbied for and got copyright extensions that are so beyond reasonable that those laws actually violate the entire purpose of copyright. I do not care what is right in relationship to copyright anymore. It is pure fucking war. I try to play fair but get fucked every god damned time. Fuck them. They already said fuck me.
Not that I am arguing for or against any of this... If what you say is true, then why don't I get paid for the hour+ each day I spend in traffic going to and from work?
"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl." -- Dave Barry
