Well, since he's a well-known crypto-analyst, my guess is that he's incredibly paranoid and vastly overestimates any chance of catastrophe. So... I guess that makes him qualified to make scaremongrish claims, in a strange way.
Just as the hard-wiring of binary mathematics spun the entire twentieth century about a simple yes-no axis, the invention of the three-state switch promised to revolutionize twenty-fifth century computing. After all, with three states (negative, positive, and null charges) on nanoswitches, computers could now think in terms of yes, no, and maybe, greatly humanizing their internal logic.
This would have brought many, many more female engineers into the field of computer science (hence accelerating the pace at which computers could do useful things besides transmit, compress, and enhance pornography), except that the same abbreviational logic that turned "binary digit" into "bit" turned "trinary digit" into "tit." This nomenclatural error set computing back nearly three hundred years, and two entire generations of promising computer scientists were lost trying to keep abreast of bad puns. Courtesy of the genius at Schlock
Damn it, I feel dumb. Things like subtle sarcasm are hard to catch in plain text. It seemed feasible enough that somebody could post that in all seriousness...
Sure, you can vote for Amazon, but that would just be throwing your vote away. How on earth is it throwing your vote away? It's not a winner-take-all system, you get exactly what you vote for. I vote for DRM-free music from Amazon, a company that I like and has almost never significantly pissed me off. And you know what? I get that DRM-free music from Amazon. It would be like voting third-party if you could only play the music on certain, doomed-to-fail devices, but, once again, it's DRM-free.
Apple and Walmart are indeed the two big players, but Amazon is only like a third-party in that they're less well-known (as a digital music retailer).
...was NOT just to point out (split infinitive, but that's forgiveable these days) I generally make an effort not to correct grammar online, but here you're giving bad advice. The infinitive is "to point" and it's very securely unsplit. I'd expect many people to split the infinitive there (e.g. "...was NOT to just point out...") but he got it right.
I suspect that CmdrTaco is completely shitfaced, what with St. Patrick's Day and all. At least, it's St. Patrick's Day if you decide to accept the new date set by that old guy with the funny hat who thinks he has the power to move holidays. I mean, who the hell does he think he is?
I read that as:
'Glickman argued in his speech that neutrality regulations would bar the use of emerging tools that ISPs can use to prevent privacy' I was somewhat impressed how they were coming right out and saying it! But no, just more bullshit.
I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about, but wouldn't a single P2P download look similar to a ton of small FTP downloads and uploads to and from various locations?
But an 8 year old that types "pussy" into google? That's different. Heh, I remember one time when I was probably 8 or a little younger I was trying to come up with silly, fun insults to yell at my older brother, putting random words together. By some stroke of luck, I came up with "pussy face." It got a pretty good reaction, so I yelled it some more, until my mom screamed from the other room and had a talk with me about why that was a bad word.
For the life of me I couldn't understand why girls' privates would ever be called that; I was pretty sure they didn't look like a cat at all!
I suspect they did something like this in the new (~4 years old) computer science building at my university, because I generally have a full signal right outside, but can't recieve or place a call at all inside. It makes sense, since classes won't be disrupted nearly as much. I've more than once discovered after an exam or lecture that people had called me and my phone had no clue.
Um... you're still confused. QuatermassX was implying that the next president would be one of the democratic candidates (I chose to intepret that as Obama, maybe that's what he meant too), and while your point about McCain wasn't invalid or wrong, it was irrelevant.
In high school I actually wrote a paper (it was supposed to be in the style/an emulation of A Modest Proposal) positing that by rounding up and processing all "stupid" people (I think I set an IQ cutoff, though as that's culturally biased it might be more fair just to choose people that piss me off) we could slow or solve the whole oil/energy problem, drastically improve the collective intellect of the human race, and put a huge dent in overpopulation!
As I recall, I read the paper aloud to the class and got a round of applause. We never suspected how soon we could make that satire a reality!
They're actually both named variants of each other. His version is Hanlon's Razor. Probably my favorite "razor," though the only other one I can think of is Occam's.
Is there? If someone is not a metaphorical doormat, then there must be things that they will not tolerate, and thus they're not completely tolerant.
Basically, it is a joke based on my being a pedantic fuck. Though in all seriousness, I think it would be good for people who consider themselves "tolerant" to recognize that they themselves are intolerant of some people's ideas and opinions. It helps keep things in perspective.
The old saying "they don't make stuff like this today" is often true. Progress means the price goes down, and the product is thus available for more consumers, but still good enough for most. Some people however, are willing to pay extra, either in money or convenience, in order to get the "best", which often are what they made in the old days. A fantastic example is the straight razor. Compared to any modern safety razor, the straight razor gives an inequivocally better, closer shave, but is less convenient and has more of a learning curve (not to mention that slight fear of slicing your throat if someone knocks on the door at the wrong time). Interestingly, I've heard (and am pretty sure) that over a lifetime, a straight razor will cost substantially less than using safety razors, what with the recurring cost of buying disposable razors.
Another good example is fountain pens, which I adore and use daily, but I can't claim any real advantage other than a more enjoyable writing experience and possibly better handwriting.
Notice how they only promise windows and mac support for the keyboard because linux doesn't have enough marketshare Note that A.L. Studio is not in any way a hardware or even computer-related company; they are a design studio.
On their website they have a large repertoire of websites and advertisements and logos and objects that they've designed. Some of the things they have were obviously designed just for fun, as a bit of a joke (e.g. a ridiculous TV remote and an adapter to stick your fingers in an electrical socket) while others are simply interestingly designed everyday objects (like this coffee cup). I have a feeling the OLED keyboard was either conceived as an interesting idea or seen somewhere else, and they just went about doing their jobs, designing an interesting keyboard that happened to get a ton of attention on the interblogs.
In short, I can really see how from their pespective, it's not quite worthwhile to invest the resources to develop Linux software. Their business is design-for-hire, and my impression is they just make these objects for fun and to give an idea of their capabilities and design philosophy.
Only real complaint is that the album downloader (that allows you to get the album discount) only runs on Windows & MacOS. Write a Java client and get with the program, Amazon! Actually, it works in a sort of half-assed way in Wine. I mean, it'll crash if you click on a menu and generally barely works, but once you get it to run it will get the mp3s from the internet onto your computer.
My impression is that you'll get a nice sampling of "yes," "no," and "maybe" as a response to pretty much any question posed to theoretical physicists. I think they just like confusing the people who sign the checks so they can continue to get funding.
I submit that a good approach is to broadcast nice and expect to receive the opposite; you're right, or you're pleasantly surprised. But if you broadcast "asshole" and expect to recieve the same, you're almost always right.
Assuming the students were furnished with functioning fountain pens, absolutely! Although the situation doesn't quite fit, since writing with a fountain pen (as I always do) is orders of magnitude more pleasurable than writing with a ballpoint. As a sidenote, considering writing with a ballpoint is anything but pleasurable, those orders of magnitude add up to a non-negligible "somewhat pleasing."
A teacher who tells students (at whatever level) to not reference it is not a "bad teacher". Agreed, but a teacher who tells students not even to use Wikipedia could arguably be called a bad teacher, as they're keeping the students away from an incredibly rich (not to mention free) fount of information. I think there have been reports of Wikipedia being banned on school networks, which is just ridiculous.
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Well, since he's a well-known crypto-analyst, my guess is that he's incredibly paranoid and vastly overestimates any chance of catastrophe. So... I guess that makes him qualified to make scaremongrish claims, in a strange way.
This would have brought many, many more female engineers into the field of computer science (hence accelerating the pace at which computers could do useful things besides transmit, compress, and enhance pornography), except that the same abbreviational logic that turned "binary digit" into "bit" turned "trinary digit" into "tit." This nomenclatural error set computing back nearly three hundred years, and two entire generations of promising computer scientists were lost trying to keep abreast of bad puns. Courtesy of the genius at Schlock
Damn it, I feel dumb. Things like subtle sarcasm are hard to catch in plain text. It seemed feasible enough that somebody could post that in all seriousness...
...was NOT just to point out (split infinitive, but that's forgiveable these days) I generally make an effort not to correct grammar online, but here you're giving bad advice. The infinitive is "to point" and it's very securely unsplit. I'd expect many people to split the infinitive there (e.g. "...was NOT to just point out...") but he got it right.I suspect that CmdrTaco is completely shitfaced, what with St. Patrick's Day and all. At least, it's St. Patrick's Day if you decide to accept the new date set by that old guy with the funny hat who thinks he has the power to move holidays. I mean, who the hell does he think he is?
I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about, but wouldn't a single P2P download look similar to a ton of small FTP downloads and uploads to and from various locations?
For the life of me I couldn't understand why girls' privates would ever be called that; I was pretty sure they didn't look like a cat at all!
I suspect they did something like this in the new (~4 years old) computer science building at my university, because I generally have a full signal right outside, but can't recieve or place a call at all inside. It makes sense, since classes won't be disrupted nearly as much. I've more than once discovered after an exam or lecture that people had called me and my phone had no clue.
Um... you're still confused. QuatermassX was implying that the next president would be one of the democratic candidates (I chose to intepret that as Obama, maybe that's what he meant too), and while your point about McCain wasn't invalid or wrong, it was irrelevant.
No, you're confused. The GP was talking about Obama.
In high school I actually wrote a paper (it was supposed to be in the style/an emulation of A Modest Proposal) positing that by rounding up and processing all "stupid" people (I think I set an IQ cutoff, though as that's culturally biased it might be more fair just to choose people that piss me off) we could slow or solve the whole oil/energy problem, drastically improve the collective intellect of the human race, and put a huge dent in overpopulation!
As I recall, I read the paper aloud to the class and got a round of applause. We never suspected how soon we could make that satire a reality!
They're actually both named variants of each other. His version is Hanlon's Razor. Probably my favorite "razor," though the only other one I can think of is Occam's.
Is there? If someone is not a metaphorical doormat, then there must be things that they will not tolerate, and thus they're not completely tolerant.
Basically, it is a joke based on my being a pedantic fuck. Though in all seriousness, I think it would be good for people who consider themselves "tolerant" to recognize that they themselves are intolerant of some people's ideas and opinions. It helps keep things in perspective.
Exactly. I've always said the truly tolerant must tolerate intolerance.
Of course, that means it's a pain in the ass to be truly tolerant, so I'd settle for being "mostly tolerant" or something like that.
Damn you! Beat me to it by less than a minute!
So, uh... I'll go back to my coding now...
Another good example is fountain pens, which I adore and use daily, but I can't claim any real advantage other than a more enjoyable writing experience and possibly better handwriting.
On their website they have a large repertoire of websites and advertisements and logos and objects that they've designed. Some of the things they have were obviously designed just for fun, as a bit of a joke (e.g. a ridiculous TV remote and an adapter to stick your fingers in an electrical socket) while others are simply interestingly designed everyday objects (like this coffee cup). I have a feeling the OLED keyboard was either conceived as an interesting idea or seen somewhere else, and they just went about doing their jobs, designing an interesting keyboard that happened to get a ton of attention on the interblogs.
In short, I can really see how from their pespective, it's not quite worthwhile to invest the resources to develop Linux software. Their business is design-for-hire, and my impression is they just make these objects for fun and to give an idea of their capabilities and design philosophy.
My impression is that you'll get a nice sampling of "yes," "no," and "maybe" as a response to pretty much any question posed to theoretical physicists. I think they just like confusing the people who sign the checks so they can continue to get funding.
Ah, so what he meant to say was "wankee"?
As in, the wankee is wanked by the wanker.
Assuming the students were furnished with functioning fountain pens, absolutely! Although the situation doesn't quite fit, since writing with a fountain pen (as I always do) is orders of magnitude more pleasurable than writing with a ballpoint. As a sidenote, considering writing with a ballpoint is anything but pleasurable, those orders of magnitude add up to a non-negligible "somewhat pleasing."