The dual screen seems terrible until you use it. The DS gained all sorts of extra functionality because of it. It is far more efficient and versatile than fitting a mini-keyboard into the space occupied by the lower screen, for example.
I wouldn't want it to replace a full keyboard on a standard notebook used for typical purposes, granted. But I think your dismissal is too flippant.
You can burn CDs with windows 98. You can use memory sticks and USB drives with windows 98. It does require loading drivers. They aren't necessarily useless machines.
The 360 won't ever incorporate Blu-Ray for gaming... just as it never incorporated HD-DVD for gaming. It was an add on solely for playing movies, and it was impossible to use it for any game data. That was always the plan, and the success or failure of the HD formats don't have any relevance.
The next microsoft console will no doubt use a higher capacity format; I would bet it will be a slightly customized version of Blu-Ray, kind of like how the Wii uses disks that are 'almost' DVDs.
This has been mentioned a few times in this thread. Where did the crazy idea come from that analog data isn't data? Cassette, VHS, reel-to-reel, records, all exist to store data. Often in higher precision than any digital format.
There were analog computers that could process that data just fine without having to convert it to bits, as well. Digital is not the only data-processing paradigm.
You pull up and stop at a red light. You notice that you are about two feet over the line, so you put your car in reverse and back up slightly. You wait. Eventually, the light turns green, so you accelerate, and crash into the car behind you.
The kernel (the driver) is supposed to verify that the direction flag (gearshift) is in the right position during every acceleration. But the driver is lazy, and wasn't checking. He assumed he didn't need to check, since the gearshift is generally always in "drive" at a redlight.
I think the GCC compiler is represented by "stopping at an intersection" in that instance.
Just to answer you seriously, it's because you'll learn something new while programming Forth. Not the RPN; that's really just a detail. What is unique about Forth is the way most non-trivial applications end up practically rewriting or extending the compiler itself. Sure, other languages do it, but with Forth it's really in your face. Not just defining new procedures, but effectively patching into the compilation loop.
Sure, all languages are interchangeable, to a degree. You can do object oriented programming in Basic, and so forth. But different languages make different approaches more natural, will make different techniques more elegant. Forth will nudge you to do things differently than most other languages, and that will result in you becoming a better programmer in all languages.
The same applies to many other niche languages. I'm not trying to hype Forth. I'm hyping diversity.
True, but cost is whatever penalty would have been leveled plus all legal fees, which might be substantial. So settling early might be better for both sides, just worse for the lawyers.
I think it's very likely that the FCC will lose on this one. The first amendment is one of the few areas that can often bring both sides of the court together, and one of the few rights that may be even stronger today than it was decades back.
My bet is that, while the basic principle that the FCC can regulate public airwaves won't be challenged, the court will chastise them for inconsistent and arbitrary enforcement and their unclear guidelines.
The Truman administration's refusal to abandon nuclear weapons was what started the Cold War. They instead choose to keep the weapons to threaten Russia. In short, United States foreign and nuclear policy has been immature and shortsighted, driven by domestic politics.
Truman starting the cold war was the price to pay for avoiding a hot war. The cold war was the best choice, when the alternative was another major war in Europe.
And, strangely, our "immature and shortsighted" foreign policy pretty much worked. We won the cold war with Russia.
Yeah, but he wasn't using the slang in an attempt to communicate. He was using it sarcastically in response to a pretty silly question about hacking. I thought it worked ok. Would give it a 3/5.
Exactly right. Each of the sixteen molecules plays the role of two bits. They've made four bytes of ram.
It's good that they're researching this; maybe someday it'll lead to faster, more compact storage. But when they release statements about how they can store "4.3 billion different states", they seem to be trying to market themselves. You can do the same with 32 pennies.
I won't flame you; but I would like to correct you.
It's perspective. Recent music sells more because it's recent, but it will drop off, and in ten years nobody will buy it. The Beatles were huge, and even forty years removed, sells well... and will be selling well forty years from now. Ironically, If the Beatles weren't so valuble, they would have already been on I-Tunes. I have no doubt that Apple will make back that 400 million.
It's a bit like the gravitational attraction from the sun, compared to the gravitational attraction from the asteroid that's 100 meters away. The asteroid may, briefly, subject you to more force... but get a million miles away from both, and one's still pulling at you.
God, that's a strained analogy. Am I really going to submit this post?
I have no doubt that someday, everyone will have full wireless internet access from nearly everywhere. But I suspect that is many years, maybe decades, off.
Partly that's due to infrastructure. This sort of thing seems to quickly spread to the densist 10% of population centers, then take years to roll out to the remaining 90% of the nation.
But I also have a strong sense of skepticism that they will make the service adequate. I expect that they will use the cell-phone model; it will be an expensive, locked-in, walled-garden type of experience.
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I loved her as the Invisible Woman, I didn't know she wrote comics also! What a gifted young woman.
The trouble is that there is no way for ICANN to avoid the oversight of some nation... or nations, in the case of the UN. There will always be some sort of accountability to some governing body. Although the United States may be known to screw up from time-to-time (no, really, sometimes they do), I think the free speech laws in the US are as strong as anywhere in the world, and I have far more confidence that right will continue under the US than that it will under the UN.
They made it publicly available. It's the same as watching an HBO broadcast in a store window. If you do something silly in a public location, the public cannot be blamed for viewing it.
Or, even better; there used to be a hill you could sit on in this town that let you watch over the fence into a drive-in movie screen. Is that theft? No; it's just spillover, a consequence of where the theater was located. They are broadcasting into the public space. They could have raised the fence another twenty feet to fix the problem, but they didn't care enough to.
This site could have restricted the accessibility of the URL, but didn't care enough to.
Plus, as a practical matter, they are now the latest idiot of the week on the internet. There is no way this will work out in their favor.
It's always interesting to come across somebody confidently asserting as fact something that I'm confident is completely wrong. (Thanks, Slashdot.) Morally, your only obligation is to respect other people's rights. Rights are not an arbitrary human construct, but a recognition of human nature and how society functions. Because rights derive from the nature of humanity, does not mean that they are constructs of humanity.
True, they aren't religious in nature. But they correspond to some degree with many religious principles, because religions that fly in the face of human nature rarely flourish.
The issue of corporations having rights is really a legal fiction, done mainly as a legal matter of convenience, not out of moral or ethical principles. Morally, corporations should have no rights other than that possessed by the conglomeration of its stockholders.
I don't think he was saying Obama supporters are irrational; just that there's an irrational subset of Obama voters busy on the internet, squashing debate where possible... which is undoubtedly true. Obama's net-savy geek contingent is probably second only to Paul's.
Well, now you have read the testimonials of hundreds of people who have been positively impacted by the game. An open-minded person might wonder if their personal, negative, experience was not universally true.
I'm inclined to think this is something mundane... unaccounted for mass, systematic measuring flaws, something like that.
But if it is something exotic... the fact that it seems to show up on elliptical orbits suggests that it has to do with an object repeated going up and down the sides of a gravity well. Maybe space/time isn't the only thing curved by gravity?
Also, I wonder how the velocity change is distributed through the orbit? Depending on timing, it could tend to bring all eccentric orbits into a more nearly circular path. If this really is a new, universal, force, that could have big cosmological implications.
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The dual screen seems terrible until you use it. The DS gained all sorts of extra functionality because of it. It is far more efficient and versatile than fitting a mini-keyboard into the space occupied by the lower screen, for example.
I wouldn't want it to replace a full keyboard on a standard notebook used for typical purposes, granted. But I think your dismissal is too flippant.
You can burn CDs with windows 98. You can use memory sticks and USB drives with windows 98. It does require loading drivers. They aren't necessarily useless machines.
The 360 won't ever incorporate Blu-Ray for gaming... just as it never incorporated HD-DVD for gaming. It was an add on solely for playing movies, and it was impossible to use it for any game data. That was always the plan, and the success or failure of the HD formats don't have any relevance.
The next microsoft console will no doubt use a higher capacity format; I would bet it will be a slightly customized version of Blu-Ray, kind of like how the Wii uses disks that are 'almost' DVDs.
Hmmm... I would argue that he most accurately would be described as "American" at that point. One who was once Japanese.
This has been mentioned a few times in this thread. Where did the crazy idea come from that analog data isn't data? Cassette, VHS, reel-to-reel, records, all exist to store data. Often in higher precision than any digital format.
There were analog computers that could process that data just fine without having to convert it to bits, as well. Digital is not the only data-processing paradigm.
Or it's a rounding issue. If 10 Republicans cast 1.1 votes apiece, and 10 Democrats cast 0.9 votes apiece, that would explain things.
You pull up and stop at a red light. You notice that you are about two feet over the line, so you put your car in reverse and back up slightly. You wait. Eventually, the light turns green, so you accelerate, and crash into the car behind you.
The kernel (the driver) is supposed to verify that the direction flag (gearshift) is in the right position during every acceleration. But the driver is lazy, and wasn't checking. He assumed he didn't need to check, since the gearshift is generally always in "drive" at a redlight.
I think the GCC compiler is represented by "stopping at an intersection" in that instance.
Just to answer you seriously, it's because you'll learn something new while programming Forth. Not the RPN; that's really just a detail. What is unique about Forth is the way most non-trivial applications end up practically rewriting or extending the compiler itself. Sure, other languages do it, but with Forth it's really in your face. Not just defining new procedures, but effectively patching into the compilation loop.
Sure, all languages are interchangeable, to a degree. You can do object oriented programming in Basic, and so forth. But different languages make different approaches more natural, will make different techniques more elegant. Forth will nudge you to do things differently than most other languages, and that will result in you becoming a better programmer in all languages.
The same applies to many other niche languages. I'm not trying to hype Forth. I'm hyping diversity.
True, but cost is whatever penalty would have been leveled plus all legal fees, which might be substantial. So settling early might be better for both sides, just worse for the lawyers.
I think it's very likely that the FCC will lose on this one. The first amendment is one of the few areas that can often bring both sides of the court together, and one of the few rights that may be even stronger today than it was decades back.
My bet is that, while the basic principle that the FCC can regulate public airwaves won't be challenged, the court will chastise them for inconsistent and arbitrary enforcement and their unclear guidelines.
Inconsistency is our watchword.
No, it is not. Wait... yes it is.
Also incompetance.
You could'nt be futher from the truth.
The Truman administration's refusal to abandon nuclear weapons was what started the Cold War. They instead choose to keep the weapons to threaten Russia. In short, United States foreign and nuclear policy has been immature and shortsighted, driven by domestic politics.
Truman starting the cold war was the price to pay for avoiding a hot war. The cold war was the best choice, when the alternative was another major war in Europe.
And, strangely, our "immature and shortsighted" foreign policy pretty much worked. We won the cold war with Russia.
Almost all of you guys can code... and some of you have frightening opinions.
Especially you assembly hackers!
Yeah, but he wasn't using the slang in an attempt to communicate. He was using it sarcastically in response to a pretty silly question about hacking. I thought it worked ok. Would give it a 3/5.
Exactly right. Each of the sixteen molecules plays the role of two bits. They've made four bytes of ram.
It's good that they're researching this; maybe someday it'll lead to faster, more compact storage. But when they release statements about how they can store "4.3 billion different states", they seem to be trying to market themselves. You can do the same with 32 pennies.
I won't flame you; but I would like to correct you.
It's perspective. Recent music sells more because it's recent, but it will drop off, and in ten years nobody will buy it. The Beatles were huge, and even forty years removed, sells well... and will be selling well forty years from now. Ironically, If the Beatles weren't so valuble, they would have already been on I-Tunes. I have no doubt that Apple will make back that 400 million.
It's a bit like the gravitational attraction from the sun, compared to the gravitational attraction from the asteroid that's 100 meters away. The asteroid may, briefly, subject you to more force... but get a million miles away from both, and one's still pulling at you.
God, that's a strained analogy. Am I really going to submit this post?
I have no doubt that someday, everyone will have full wireless internet access from nearly everywhere. But I suspect that is many years, maybe decades, off.
Partly that's due to infrastructure. This sort of thing seems to quickly spread to the densist 10% of population centers, then take years to roll out to the remaining 90% of the nation.
But I also have a strong sense of skepticism that they will make the service adequate. I expect that they will use the cell-phone model; it will be an expensive, locked-in, walled-garden type of experience.
La Perdida by Jessica Abel
I loved her as the Invisible Woman, I didn't know she wrote comics also! What a gifted young woman.
The trouble is that there is no way for ICANN to avoid the oversight of some nation... or nations, in the case of the UN. There will always be some sort of accountability to some governing body. Although the United States may be known to screw up from time-to-time (no, really, sometimes they do), I think the free speech laws in the US are as strong as anywhere in the world, and I have far more confidence that right will continue under the US than that it will under the UN.
They made it publicly available. It's the same as watching an HBO broadcast in a store window. If you do something silly in a public location, the public cannot be blamed for viewing it.
Or, even better; there used to be a hill you could sit on in this town that let you watch over the fence into a drive-in movie screen. Is that theft? No; it's just spillover, a consequence of where the theater was located. They are broadcasting into the public space. They could have raised the fence another twenty feet to fix the problem, but they didn't care enough to.
This site could have restricted the accessibility of the URL, but didn't care enough to.
Plus, as a practical matter, they are now the latest idiot of the week on the internet. There is no way this will work out in their favor.
It's always interesting to come across somebody confidently asserting as fact something that I'm confident is completely wrong. (Thanks, Slashdot.) Morally, your only obligation is to respect other people's rights. Rights are not an arbitrary human construct, but a recognition of human nature and how society functions. Because rights derive from the nature of humanity, does not mean that they are constructs of humanity.
True, they aren't religious in nature. But they correspond to some degree with many religious principles, because religions that fly in the face of human nature rarely flourish.
The issue of corporations having rights is really a legal fiction, done mainly as a legal matter of convenience, not out of moral or ethical principles. Morally, corporations should have no rights other than that possessed by the conglomeration of its stockholders.
I don't think he was saying Obama supporters are irrational; just that there's an irrational subset of Obama voters busy on the internet, squashing debate where possible... which is undoubtedly true. Obama's net-savy geek contingent is probably second only to Paul's.
Well, now you have read the testimonials of hundreds of people who have been positively impacted by the game. An open-minded person might wonder if their personal, negative, experience was not universally true.
How is it handled in Vista? Is it different than previous versions of Windows?
I'm inclined to think this is something mundane... unaccounted for mass, systematic measuring flaws, something like that.
But if it is something exotic... the fact that it seems to show up on elliptical orbits suggests that it has to do with an object repeated going up and down the sides of a gravity well. Maybe space/time isn't the only thing curved by gravity?
Also, I wonder how the velocity change is distributed through the orbit? Depending on timing, it could tend to bring all eccentric orbits into a more nearly circular path. If this really is a new, universal, force, that could have big cosmological implications.