The pointy bit is very likely to get me modded flamebait. But...
All governments do good things and bad things. The subjects of any government have these things called decisions. They are able to decide themselves whether or not they agree with what their government did.
For example, the U.S. government invaded Iraq. If all US citizens thought that invading and killing lots of people was a good thing, then I would have a low opinion on said population. This is not the case, many U.S. citizens have rallied against this action, and others agree to it on various levels.
However, when the Chinese government does something, and they get criticised, the entire population becomes defensive, and refuse to criticise their own government. This reflects poorly on their independence of mind.
You do realise the world population is over 6.6 billion, and the population of the PRC is 1.3 billion. That gives them 1/5 of the world's population. Not 1/3.
So we are supposed to forget everything because people are dying. Don't mean to burst your bubble, but normal people are perfectly capable of focussing on several different issues.
Just like a mother, if her son breaks through a window, she'll patch him up with one hand, and scold him with the other. There is no reason that a disaster should make politics go away. In fact a disaster should encourage politics, and often they do.
Also, you're telling people to shut up with their "POLITICAL GARBAGE", but you're spurting just as much as anyone else.
...Even worse, a computer in San Fran is going to have a hard time figuring out the correct context to the question "who won the election" when the person asking could be from anywhere in the world.
Well, it should be able to 'realise' that elections are constantly changing events, so it should look at recent news, and return results of the most recent widely-reported election. If there are several contenders, it could list them, and ask the user WHICH election they were talking about.
Also, the computer in San Fran should be able to guess the users whereabouts from his IP address, and/or his preferences. The computer could then focus more on news sources from that person's country (from IP, or being previously told).
Google of course already knows pretty much about every news article that gets published so it wouldn't be so hard for them, compared to a startup.
Searching with "What are the symptoms of codiene histamine reactions?" on Google appears to bring up relevant results.
You are right, it would be handy to be able to use regex when searching, but I can't see much point in searching with a hash.
I think you'll find that a lot of movies from the 80's had plot and character depth that you don't find in any films or TV shows released these days.
The Elephant Man and The Shining are excellent examples for character development and plot, while Die Hard is (IMHO) one of the best action movies ever made.
A lot of newer movies, like Titanic are utter crap when it comes to character development. For instance, Jack starts off as a crude character, but very quickly starts behaving like a normal 1990's man. And the plot, well.
As for Pearl Harbor, same kind of thing. The plot was WAY overdone, and things happened way too quickly to even get a handle on the personality of the main characters after they became older than 16.
Of course, there are also many good movies created recently, and many bad one's created in the 80's, but you can't just blanket the time period and say that their films weren't a high standard. If you bothered watching a few more films, you would realise that many films from the 50's, 60's, etc. should meet your standards, whether they include trashy chick-flicks or heavy psychological enquiry.
60 is not so old that one cannot be fast and nimble. Though I doubt RDA is fast and nimble, it's not impossible for someone of that age. When I learnt Judo, the instructors (little Japanese guys) were well into their 60's and 70's, but they could still move more nimbly than any of us teenagers could.
It's seems completely fair that rich people support poorer people. It's called charity and if people (like you) are too selfish to do it, then the government should help you do it.
There's probably already a game company out there that has thought about implementing some kind of game based on NASA. Now with NASA offering free advice, knowledge and who knows what else, it would be an ideal opportunity for a game developer who may already have something in the works.
Not only that, but they will probably be able to get an official NASA endorsement + free advertising on the NASA website.
Could actually work out well for both sides, and we may get a cool game from it.
The James Madison building alone has about 424k m^3 of assignable space (assuming a height of 10 feet of assignable space). The stack of CD's takes up 288 m3 assuming 12x12cm packaging. So assuming that the other two library buildings burnt down, then that would be 1/2000 libraries of congress.
You realise that modding as funny doesn't give the poster any karma. Modding as insightful does... that's the most likely reason someone modded it as such.
That's kind of redundant. Any non-fiction book will be at least partly out of date by the time it is published.
However, it is a good record of knowledge at the time the knowledge intake was frozen. And it would nevertheless be a very useful resource, especially for those that prefer reading on paper as opposed to using a screen.
Also there are many people who find information more reliable simply because it is in a book rather than being on the interwebs. The fact that it originally came from the interwebs probably wouldn't reduce the psychological effects making it appear to be more trustworthy data.
Not only that, but there are still a lot of people who have never heard of Wikipedia. The book would most likely help raise awareness, and hopefully garner more editors into the real Wikipedia.
Well, you're assuming that there is only one way something can be "too" complicated.
Back in the days when end users were able to cope just fine with complexity, most people were not end-users.
Also people have varying levels of being able to understand complex things, and then varying levels of the ability to produce coherent instructions, both of which are important in being able to successfully operate a computer. For some people, even using a mouse or keyboard is too complicated.
To cut things short, I'd say that Linux is not too complicated for most people to use. However, it is too complicated for most people to/want/ to use it. Therefore, it is still too complicated.
"Too complicated" by itself is very vague. You can say something is "too complicated", and also "not complicated", and both statements would be correct. It depends on/what/ it is too complicated/for/. So your definition of what was too complicated has nothing to do with what "too" actually means.
The Chinese also don't have an imperial guard. The empire fell apart (literally) in 1912. The last Emperor was Puyi, and he wasn't a very good emperor, being only 2 years old at the time.
Anyway, the Chinese imperial guard tended to use bows/arrows and "dan dao"s which in English are called Chinese broadswords. Anyway, they aren't nearly as cool as Katana's, even European swords had much more style. Actually some European swords are quite awesome you should look them up.
(But the clothes they wore were pretty awesome)
Of course, if I was an Emperor/King, I would expect my imperial guard to know how to wield rifles, but that's just me.
Actually, "parallelizable" is what is usually used. And that's all that makes a word 'correct' really, that it is the most common usage.
Personally, I think "parallelifyable" has a better ring to it, although I would spell it differently... But unless you have a lot of influence in the right sectors, getting that into mainstream usage would be unpossible.
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Anyway, a lot of problems are not parallelifiable (as far as we know), or parallelifiable only up to a certain point, so I agree, clock speeds will eventually need to begin increasing again.
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Mahmoud said that the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time. I interpret this as meaning "get rid of Israel".
The pointy bit is very likely to get me modded flamebait. But...
All governments do good things and bad things. The subjects of any government have these things called decisions. They are able to decide themselves whether or not they agree with what their government did.
For example, the U.S. government invaded Iraq. If all US citizens thought that invading and killing lots of people was a good thing, then I would have a low opinion on said population. This is not the case, many U.S. citizens have rallied against this action, and others agree to it on various levels.
However, when the Chinese government does something, and they get criticised, the entire population becomes defensive, and refuse to criticise their own government. This reflects poorly on their independence of mind.
You do realise the world population is over 6.6 billion, and the population of the PRC is 1.3 billion. That gives them 1/5 of the world's population. Not 1/3.
So we are supposed to forget everything because people are dying. Don't mean to burst your bubble, but normal people are perfectly capable of focussing on several different issues.
Just like a mother, if her son breaks through a window, she'll patch him up with one hand, and scold him with the other. There is no reason that a disaster should make politics go away. In fact a disaster should encourage politics, and often they do.
Also, you're telling people to shut up with their "POLITICAL GARBAGE", but you're spurting just as much as anyone else.
Yeah, but when they agree with the governments actions...
...Even worse, a computer in San Fran is going to have a hard time figuring out the correct context to the question "who won the election" when the person asking could be from anywhere in the world.Well, it should be able to 'realise' that elections are constantly changing events, so it should look at recent news, and return results of the most recent widely-reported election. If there are several contenders, it could list them, and ask the user WHICH election they were talking about.
Also, the computer in San Fran should be able to guess the users whereabouts from his IP address, and/or his preferences. The computer could then focus more on news sources from that person's country (from IP, or being previously told).
Google of course already knows pretty much about every news article that gets published so it wouldn't be so hard for them, compared to a startup.
I wasn't expecting that... haha. Good thing coffee wasn't in my mouth at the time.
Searching with "What are the symptoms of codiene histamine reactions?" on Google appears to bring up relevant results. You are right, it would be handy to be able to use regex when searching, but I can't see much point in searching with a hash.
I think you'll find that a lot of movies from the 80's had plot and character depth that you don't find in any films or TV shows released these days.
The Elephant Man and The Shining are excellent examples for character development and plot, while Die Hard is (IMHO) one of the best action movies ever made.
A lot of newer movies, like Titanic are utter crap when it comes to character development. For instance, Jack starts off as a crude character, but very quickly starts behaving like a normal 1990's man. And the plot, well.
As for Pearl Harbor, same kind of thing. The plot was WAY overdone, and things happened way too quickly to even get a handle on the personality of the main characters after they became older than 16.
Of course, there are also many good movies created recently, and many bad one's created in the 80's, but you can't just blanket the time period and say that their films weren't a high standard. If you bothered watching a few more films, you would realise that many films from the 50's, 60's, etc. should meet your standards, whether they include trashy chick-flicks or heavy psychological enquiry.
60 is not so old that one cannot be fast and nimble. Though I doubt RDA is fast and nimble, it's not impossible for someone of that age. When I learnt Judo, the instructors (little Japanese guys) were well into their 60's and 70's, but they could still move more nimbly than any of us teenagers could.
It's seems completely fair that rich people support poorer people. It's called charity and if people (like you) are too selfish to do it, then the government should help you do it.
It's probably not as stupid as it sounds.
There's probably already a game company out there that has thought about implementing some kind of game based on NASA. Now with NASA offering free advice, knowledge and who knows what else, it would be an ideal opportunity for a game developer who may already have something in the works.
Not only that, but they will probably be able to get an official NASA endorsement + free advertising on the NASA website.
Could actually work out well for both sides, and we may get a cool game from it.
Yeah. Those damned humans and their global warming of Mars.
OK, let's put it into Libraries of Congresses.
The James Madison building alone has about 424k m^3 of assignable space (assuming a height of 10 feet of assignable space). The stack of CD's takes up 288 m3 assuming 12x12cm packaging. So assuming that the other two library buildings burnt down, then that would be 1/2000 libraries of congress.
Bah.
Here in Shanghai, I wish it was.
You realise that modding as funny doesn't give the poster any karma. Modding as insightful does... that's the most likely reason someone modded it as such.
That's kind of redundant. Any non-fiction book will be at least partly out of date by the time it is published. However, it is a good record of knowledge at the time the knowledge intake was frozen. And it would nevertheless be a very useful resource, especially for those that prefer reading on paper as opposed to using a screen. Also there are many people who find information more reliable simply because it is in a book rather than being on the interwebs. The fact that it originally came from the interwebs probably wouldn't reduce the psychological effects making it appear to be more trustworthy data. Not only that, but there are still a lot of people who have never heard of Wikipedia. The book would most likely help raise awareness, and hopefully garner more editors into the real Wikipedia.
How dare you deride food makers you occupationist thug!
"just foodmakers"...
I respect people who make food much more than IT. Would you rather have an interblag, or would you prefer a nice juicy steak...
Oh. I'm talking to /. Oh well.
Interestingly enough, a prominent news source in New Zealand has picked up on this and claimed that Neanderthals spoke a bit like New Zealanders.
Well, you're assuming that there is only one way something can be "too" complicated.
Back in the days when end users were able to cope just fine with complexity, most people were not end-users.
Also people have varying levels of being able to understand complex things, and then varying levels of the ability to produce coherent instructions, both of which are important in being able to successfully operate a computer. For some people, even using a mouse or keyboard is too complicated.
To cut things short, I'd say that Linux is not too complicated for most people to use. However, it is too complicated for most people to /want/ to use it. Therefore, it is still too complicated.
"Too complicated" by itself is very vague. You can say something is "too complicated", and also "not complicated", and both statements would be correct. It depends on /what/ it is too complicated /for/. So your definition of what was too complicated has nothing to do with what "too" actually means.
Thank you.
The Chinese also don't have an imperial guard. The empire fell apart (literally) in 1912. The last Emperor was Puyi, and he wasn't a very good emperor, being only 2 years old at the time.
Anyway, the Chinese imperial guard tended to use bows/arrows and "dan dao"s which in English are called Chinese broadswords. Anyway, they aren't nearly as cool as Katana's, even European swords had much more style. Actually some European swords are quite awesome you should look them up.
(But the clothes they wore were pretty awesome)
Of course, if I was an Emperor/King, I would expect my imperial guard to know how to wield rifles, but that's just me.
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Pity his email is actually billg@microsoft.com
I'm sure we'd have no problem with that sort of technology by the time we actually reached that planet.
But it says so in the movies!!!
Actually, "parallelizable" is what is usually used. And that's all that makes a word 'correct' really, that it is the most common usage. Personally, I think "parallelifyable" has a better ring to it, although I would spell it differently... But unless you have a lot of influence in the right sectors, getting that into mainstream usage would be unpossible. --- Anyway, a lot of problems are not parallelifiable (as far as we know), or parallelifiable only up to a certain point, so I agree, clock speeds will eventually need to begin increasing again.