It's not new, this stuff is used in one of Microsoft's IIS web analysis tools. It's VERY cool. I had always been extremely skeptical of any software that said it could 'map' a web site -- the tree structures you build with web links are very rarely simple enough to render easily. But the hyperbolic tree scheme works quite well.
Just because English has its troublesome bits doesn't mean you can unilaterally label them as wrong.
Yes, you can. Just because several people agree to do a stupid thing, does not make it any less a stupid thing. Irregardless is a silly word and people should not use it. That they do anyway is no justification for it being an 'official' part of the language.
I'm similarly beligerent about punctuation. This business of putting punctuation after closing quotes is silly and illogical. Quotes should be treated as nesting parentheses in an expression.
e.g. I was amazed when I heard John say "Julie said 'Who is that guy over there?'."!
Any conventional attempt to punctuate that sentence would be a mess. You'd end up with something like: I was amazed when I heard John say "Julie said 'Who is that guy over there'"?.! or I was amazed when I heard John say "Julie said 'Who is that guy over there'"!
Also, AMD just released a new chip. PIII isn't on the market yet.
Actually, the P3 is out now, and it's release was a complete non-event. It's only substantive improvement over P2 is clock speed. (A whopping 10%!)
That AMD has done so well amidst the P3 pre-release hype is a success in itself. Now that intel has dropped the ball with the P3, AMD has a clear path for strong K6-3 sales, until they deliver intel a resounding boot-to-the-head with the K7.
There's already a well-established standard for a collaborative networked 3D environment. It's got excellent image quality, and generally provides a virtual reality experience orders of magnitude better than any of the VRML implementations out there. The latency is well managed, and plenty of people are running servers for it.
"While it is true that the main problem with people throwing bricks with notes attached to them through living room windows is the commercial people who want to sell us stuff, I can imagine a need for it: say the media are completely owned by large corporate interests which block out what environmental whistle blowers have to say. The only recourse the environmental people might be throwing bricks with notes attached to them through living room windows."
6. Superspecificity is also achieved by SBS through advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and techniques such as recursion, cellular autonoma, heuristics and genetic algorithms, which are incorporated into a single system which naturally selects the most efficient library element for achieving maximum specificity.
Buzzword alert! Buzzword alert! He forgot "neural nets" though. I'm sure they're in there.
7. Higher orders of specificity are also possible because SBS's Hypercomputer system is self-recursive. It uses its own algorithms to evolve itself. The system is capable not only of producing systems that are more simple than itself, it is also capable of producing systems that are more complex than itself.
Cool, they've hit that holy grail of science fiction, the self evolving computer. All you have to do now is build a pair of robotic arms for it and it will build itself into a gigantic Übercomputer and take over the universe.
Oh, and my favourite part:
9. Because the Viva software system includes a formally accurate method for achieving an optimal solution to a problem, the layering of those optimal solutions is also optimal....
It looks like they've solved that nasty "computer science" problem we've all been working on! No more slaving over algorithm design! Just type in the problem (in English I assume) and this thing will solve it optimally.
I'd rather see a "digital music" logo, so that the topic can contain news about VQF and the other standards for encrypted/protected digital audio. This issue is bigger than just MP3.
The idea that looks are important doesn't imply "cute".
What *I* want to see in computer design is a return the classic computer design: huge, imposing, and in it's best examples, frightening.
I want large, black towers. I want an ominous everpresent throbbing hum. I want blinking lights, that make it perfectly clear that the machine is thinking thoughts so far beyond your comprehension that you should be on your knees offering it baskets of fruit. I want quarter-inch tape reels spinning back and forth in a mesmerizing display of it's infernal machinations. I want to own a computer that looks like if you did something the least bit displeasing, it would make use of any electrical devices plugged in anywhere in your house to kill you.
But instead, we get transparent blue jellybeans. Sigh.
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It's not new, this stuff is used in one of Microsoft's IIS web analysis tools. It's VERY cool. I had always been extremely skeptical of any software that said it could 'map' a web site -- the tree structures you build with web links are very rarely simple enough to render easily. But the hyperbolic tree scheme works quite well.
...are entirely pointless when your output device is a shitty NTSC television.
Hey Rob, you wanted a REAL stress test for that new box of yours? Here's your chance.
Just because English has its troublesome bits doesn't mean you can unilaterally label them as wrong.
Yes, you can. Just because several people agree to do a stupid thing, does not make it any less a stupid thing. Irregardless is a silly word and people should not use it. That they do anyway is no justification for it being an 'official' part of the language.
I'm similarly beligerent about punctuation. This business of putting punctuation after closing quotes is silly and illogical. Quotes should be treated as nesting parentheses in an expression.
e.g.
I was amazed when I heard John say "Julie said 'Who is that guy over there?'."!
Any conventional attempt to punctuate that sentence would be a mess. You'd end up with something like:
I was amazed when I heard John say "Julie said 'Who is that guy over there'"?.!
or
I was amazed when I heard John say "Julie said 'Who is that guy over there'"!
For an explanation of this phenomenon have a look at this advertisement from a Monty Python book.
What's with this pronouncing on acronyms?? In Canada, we spell them out.
GUI is "gee you eye"
FAQ is "eff ay que"
Um, nobody says Gee You Eye. Gooey is a pronunciation that even novices today know. Fack is universal too.
CaseyB
Canadian, last he checked.
I couldn't stop laughing at the Balmer comparison. I can only imagine that they were making similar noises at the time.
It was funny. Hence, you're wrong.
Also, AMD just released a new chip. PIII isn't on the market yet.
Actually, the P3 is out now, and it's release was a complete non-event. It's only substantive improvement over P2 is clock speed. (A whopping 10%!)
That AMD has done so well amidst the P3 pre-release hype is a success in itself. Now that intel has dropped the ball with the P3, AMD has a clear path for strong K6-3 sales, until they deliver intel a resounding boot-to-the-head with the K7.
There's already a well-established standard for a collaborative networked 3D environment. It's got excellent image quality, and generally provides a virtual reality experience orders of magnitude better than any of the VRML implementations out there. The latency is well managed, and plenty of people are running servers for it.
It's called Quake.
Oh, that's a lovely argument.
"While it is true that the main problem with people throwing bricks with notes attached to them through living room windows is the commercial people who want to sell us stuff, I can imagine a need for it: say the media are completely owned by large corporate interests which block out what environmental whistle blowers have to say. The only recourse the environmental people might be throwing bricks with notes attached to them through living room windows."
The AMD-K6-III/450 processor is priced at $476, and the AMD-K6-III/400 processor is priced at $284, each in 1,000-unit quantities.
$476 / 450MHz = $1.06/MHz
$284 / 400MHz = $0.71/MHz
That seems a pretty big gap, for a ~10% speed increase.
My warning bells started clanging at this point:
6. Superspecificity is also achieved by SBS through advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and techniques such as recursion, cellular autonoma, heuristics and genetic algorithms, which are incorporated into a single system which naturally selects the most efficient library element for achieving maximum specificity.
Buzzword alert! Buzzword alert! He forgot "neural nets" though. I'm sure they're in there.
7. Higher orders of specificity are also possible because SBS's Hypercomputer system is self-recursive. It uses its own algorithms to evolve itself. The system is capable not only of producing systems that are more simple than itself, it is also capable of producing systems that are more complex than itself.
Cool, they've hit that holy grail of science fiction, the self evolving computer. All you have to do now is build a pair of robotic arms for it and it will build itself into a gigantic Übercomputer and take over the universe.
Oh, and my favourite part:
9. Because the Viva software system includes a formally accurate method for achieving an optimal solution to a problem, the layering of those optimal solutions is also optimal....
It looks like they've solved that nasty "computer science" problem we've all been working on! No more slaving over algorithm design! Just type in the problem (in English I assume) and this thing will solve it optimally.
I'd rather see a "digital music" logo, so that the topic can contain news about VQF and the other standards for encrypted/protected digital audio. This issue is bigger than just MP3.
http://slashdot.org/articles/98 /11/26/1145212.shtml
Searching for the string "340" under IBM articles returns two results (now):
World's Smallest Hard Drive by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 2nd@10:02 7
340MB on 1-inch Square HDD by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 9th@11:09 44
Sorry, but I don't want a cutesy-wutesy computer.
The idea that looks are important doesn't imply "cute".
What *I* want to see in computer design is a return the classic computer design: huge, imposing, and in it's best examples, frightening.
I want large, black towers. I want an ominous everpresent throbbing hum. I want blinking lights, that make it perfectly clear that the machine is thinking thoughts so far beyond your comprehension that you should be on your knees offering it baskets of fruit. I want quarter-inch tape reels spinning back and forth in a mesmerizing display of it's infernal machinations. I want to own a computer that looks like if you did something the least bit displeasing, it would make use of any electrical devices plugged in anywhere in your house to kill you.
But instead, we get transparent blue jellybeans. Sigh.