In the case of humans, I would say that evolution has come up with a new use for nipples, namely as erogenous areas. And they do function that way on at least some men. Whether that's the primary 'method' is a different question, and probably not one that can be answered scientifically!
You want hieroglyphics, look at the Ribbon on MsWord 2007. You want alphabetically written commands, look at MsWord 2003 or any other program that uses menus.
"Nipples on men? A clear case of including an object without ever calling its methods." On the contrary, I'm rather attached to them. And they do come in er, handy, once in awhile.
Strikes me as akin to Knuth's Literate Programming (and many later implementations of it). Although with the usual LP methods, you have to extract the software from the document before you can run it. An interesting idea, to run it directly in the document... Not very archivable, though, since the chances of this document format being interpretable in 50 years is, IMO, slim.
All natural languages are hard. Perhaps you mean that English spelling is not hard? If you do, I think I'll disagree with you.
Then again, I noticed your thread's title has a double negative (not to mention failing to capitalize the word "English"). So maybe your posting is a joke, in which case I should laugh with you!
90% of my interactions with ANY computer are by keyboard. Have you ever noticed that ALT key on your keyboard? ALT-F brings up the file menu, ALT-E brings up the Edit menu, and so forth. Then you see those underlined letters, like _S_ave? (Ok, they're underlined on the menu, I can't replicate that here.) So type ALT-F S, and you'll save the file you're editing. Marvelous what those menus can do!
Preach it, brother! The Ribbon is the reason I moved to Open Office.
(Most retarded comment about the ribbon was a poster who claimed that Open Office was moving to the ribbon because of its acknowledged advantages. Four years later, and there is blessedly no ribbon in Open Office or Libre Office.)
Yeap, there's a Mailings tab to make it real easy to do mail merge in Word. Let's see, when was the last time I wanted to do that...maybe in the 80s? And to insert a footnote, I use the Insert tab, right? No? Oh, I have to use the References tab to insert a footnote. Ok, and I see Insert endnote, so the thing right under that must be to insert a footnote. (I spent five frustrating minutes, finally resorting to Word Help, trying to insert a footnote using the Next footnote icon...which turns out to jump to the next footnote, not insert a footnote using the next number.) Then there's the Tables tabs,which show up only when you're in a table...except for the Insert table command, which is over in the Insert menu, unlike the Insert footnote command. AAAAArgh! (That's Pirate for AAAAArgh!)
(BTW, I'm guessing your tongue is in your cheek about the Ribbon. So I'm not attacking you, just the ribbon!)
Agreed--if this story turns out to be correct, it could well be that the so-called "religious" areas of the brain have little to do with religious feelings; they might just be areas that are involved with favoring a particular group or leader. Have studies been done of more or less leaderless religions, like Taoism? (I don't really know anything about Taoism, but from what little I do know, it doesn't have a leader in the same way that Christianity or Islam or Judaism has. Maybe some varieties of Buddhism would fall into this same category.)
...which is a nice segue to a comment I'd like to make. It's time we consider "rocket science" to have become "rocket engineering," and tell NASA to leave the engineering to commercial companies. Let NASA do the next science thing, which (IMO) ought to be to get us out of low earth orbit, in fact to get us away from the Earth entirely. That will take some new technology. Maybe it's ion propulsion, maybe some kind of atomic rocket; or maybe ion propulsion with the energy coming from a nuclear plant of some sort. If we had large ion engines that could propel a human-carrying spacecraft reliably for a period of weeks or months, then we could move around the Solar System at reasonable speeds, possibly even with reasonable accelerations (meaning the astronauts might not suffer from the effects of 0g).
I am not afraid of computers; I program them for a living. But I find my bottom-end Verizon phone to have the worst UI I can imagine. Buttons on the outside that I accidentally push when I pick it up in a hurry, a confusing menu system (I can get to at least three different menus by pressing three different buttons--why not a single menu system?), I can't find the menu items I want because there are too many other menu items that I don't need (why can't I get rid of menus that I don't want, and which simply get in the way?). Plus a color screen that's hard to read in anything but ideal light, and an exterior BW screen that is simply impossible to read under normal lighting conditions.
What I want: 1) No outside buttons. 2) A single entry-point menu system 3) The ability to delete menus that I don't want 4) A high-contrast BW internal screen 5) No external screen
> And no, it's not an economy car just like the Prius isn't an economy car... > add some options and you're easily pushing $30k, way outside > what anyone would consider economy.
I suppose you could pay $30k for a Prius if you wanted to, but I picked mine up for $22k with the mid-level package. Or you can get a Honda Insight for around $18k (less than a Toyota Matrix), or various other hybrids for under $20k. That's a heck of a lot more economy than this Volt.
> a decent leap in technology over the Prius
It's not a leap, it's not even a step over the Prius; more like they tripped over the Prius. My Prius currently gets well over 50 mpg in mixed freeway and city street driving, up from the ~50 mpg when it was new; slightly less in cold weather. From what I've read over on cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com, the Volt gets *less* than that--Cosmic Log says 43.1 mpg. About the only technology the Volt has that the Prius doesn't is a "stuttery little horn" to warn pedestrians. Maybe I should buy a thumb-operated bell, like we used to have on bicycles.
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I imagine you were at least partly in jest, but: you could say that evolution has developed a new method for nipples. That seems to be a common way that evolution works--IIUC, many (maybe most) proteins are slightly modified versions of other proteins. Not sure how good this site is:
http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/kavli-futures-symposium-evolution-new-functions-big-questions
but the second bullet explains the idea.
In the case of humans, I would say that evolution has come up with a new use for nipples, namely as erogenous areas. And they do function that way on at least some men. Whether that's the primary 'method' is a different question, and probably not one that can be answered scientifically!
You want hieroglyphics, look at the Ribbon on MsWord 2007. You want alphabetically written commands, look at MsWord 2003 or any other program that uses menus.
"Nipples on men? A clear case of including an object without ever calling its methods." On the contrary, I'm rather attached to them. And they do come in er, handy, once in awhile.
Strikes me as akin to Knuth's Literate Programming (and many later implementations of it). Although with the usual LP methods, you have to extract the software from the document before you can run it. An interesting idea, to run it directly in the document... Not very archivable, though, since the chances of this document format being interpretable in 50 years is, IMO, slim.
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All natural languages are hard. Perhaps you mean that English spelling is not hard? If you do, I think I'll disagree with you.
Then again, I noticed your thread's title has a double negative (not to mention failing to capitalize the word "English"). So maybe your posting is a joke, in which case I should laugh with you!
"OpenOffice is the one thing that MS sales reps really hate."
I dunno about that, but I can tell you that I switched to OpenOffice when MsWord switched to the ribbon. I *hate* that ribbon.
"Someone is going to fund it." Why?
90% of my interactions with ANY computer are by keyboard. Have you ever noticed that ALT key on your keyboard? ALT-F brings up the file menu, ALT-E brings up the Edit menu, and so forth. Then you see those underlined letters, like _S_ave? (Ok, they're underlined on the menu, I can't replicate that here.) So type ALT-F S, and you'll save the file you're editing. Marvelous what those menus can do!
"I guess menus are hard." Agreed, you have to be able to READ!
Why read when you can choose your app by its Personality?!
Yuck.
Preach it, brother! The Ribbon is the reason I moved to Open Office.
(Most retarded comment about the ribbon was a poster who claimed that Open Office was moving to the ribbon because of its acknowledged advantages. Four years later, and there is blessedly no ribbon in Open Office or Libre Office.)
Yeap, there's a Mailings tab to make it real easy to do mail merge in Word. Let's see, when was the last time I wanted to do that...maybe in the 80s? And to insert a footnote, I use the Insert tab, right? No? Oh, I have to use the References tab to insert a footnote. Ok, and I see Insert endnote, so the thing right under that must be to insert a footnote. (I spent five frustrating minutes, finally resorting to Word Help, trying to insert a footnote using the Next footnote icon...which turns out to jump to the next footnote, not insert a footnote using the next number.) Then there's the Tables tabs,which show up only when you're in a table...except for the Insert table command, which is over in the Insert menu, unlike the Insert footnote command. AAAAArgh! (That's Pirate for AAAAArgh!)
(BTW, I'm guessing your tongue is in your cheek about the Ribbon. So I'm not attacking you, just the ribbon!)
Agreed--if this story turns out to be correct, it could well be that the so-called "religious" areas of the brain have little to do with religious feelings; they might just be areas that are involved with favoring a particular group or leader. Have studies been done of more or less leaderless religions, like Taoism? (I don't really know anything about Taoism, but from what little I do know, it doesn't have a leader in the same way that Christianity or Islam or Judaism has. Maybe some varieties of Buddhism would fall into this same category.)
Thank God your grandfather didn't go back and kill Adam and Eve!
Well, who cares about Soviets, former or otherwise? I want to know how the Klingons teach CS!
...which is a nice segue to a comment I'd like to make. It's time we consider "rocket science" to have become "rocket engineering," and tell NASA to leave the engineering to commercial companies. Let NASA do the next science thing, which (IMO) ought to be to get us out of low earth orbit, in fact to get us away from the Earth entirely. That will take some new technology. Maybe it's ion propulsion, maybe some kind of atomic rocket; or maybe ion propulsion with the energy coming from a nuclear plant of some sort. If we had large ion engines that could propel a human-carrying spacecraft reliably for a period of weeks or months, then we could move around the Solar System at reasonable speeds, possibly even with reasonable accelerations (meaning the astronauts might not suffer from the effects of 0g).
I am not afraid of computers; I program them for a living. But I find my bottom-end Verizon phone to have the worst UI I can imagine. Buttons on the outside that I accidentally push when I pick it up in a hurry, a confusing menu system (I can get to at least three different menus by pressing three different buttons--why not a single menu system?), I can't find the menu items I want because there are too many other menu items that I don't need (why can't I get rid of menus that I don't want, and which simply get in the way?). Plus a color screen that's hard to read in anything but ideal light, and an exterior BW screen that is simply impossible to read under normal lighting conditions.
What I want:
1) No outside buttons.
2) A single entry-point menu system
3) The ability to delete menus that I don't want
4) A high-contrast BW internal screen
5) No external screen
> And no, it's not an economy car just like the Prius isn't an economy car...
> add some options and you're easily pushing $30k, way outside
> what anyone would consider economy.
I suppose you could pay $30k for a Prius if you wanted to, but I picked mine up for $22k with the mid-level package. Or you can get a Honda Insight for around $18k (less than a Toyota Matrix), or various other hybrids for under $20k. That's a heck of a lot more economy than this Volt.
> a decent leap in technology over the Prius
It's not a leap, it's not even a step over the Prius; more like they tripped over the Prius. My Prius currently gets well over 50 mpg in mixed freeway and city street driving, up from the ~50 mpg when it was new; slightly less in cold weather. From what I've read over on cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com, the Volt gets *less* than that--Cosmic Log says 43.1 mpg. About the only technology the Volt has that the Prius doesn't is a "stuttery little horn" to warn pedestrians. Maybe I should buy a thumb-operated bell, like we used to have on bicycles.
I thought Beethoven was de-composing?
Not everyone in every generation things its music is the greatest. IMHO, the music of the late 1600s - early 1700s was the best ever. And no, I'm not *that* old!
> Since when was "right around the same time" the same thing as "500 million years later" ? Since about 13.2 billion years ago.