>FT is a general, mathematical idea. FFT is an algorithmic implementation in the same way that FT (Financial Times) is a general financial idea and FFT (Frankfurt) is a specific implementation?
>You can help by getting off your rear and writing to your congressman
Or could I just start castrating sys admins right now instead?
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Intimidating Computers
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Electronic Life
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>It is difficult today to remember how intimidating computers were for non-technical people in the early 1980s
Hello? Computers are still pretty intimidating for non-technical people in the early 2000s!
That's why Code Red/[insert name of favourite virus here], etc. proliferated so widely. Most people don't understand computers even to the level where they know how (or why) to install security patches.
Re:Please, Deep Blue is not AI, chess is a limited
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Behind Deep Blue
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· Score: 2, Interesting
>and even pray
The day a computer sits down and prays is the day I get the next spaceship off this planet.
And anyway, if a computer is intelligent enough to be 'a real thinking... machine', then I should hope it's intelligent enough to reject a thought system based on faith rather than reason.
You surely can't play (and win, natch) a whole game of pool WITHOUT putting some spin on the white to get to the next position you want? e.g. two balls next to each other; you pot the first and use backspin to get position on the next. I know some (OK, US) pool tables have humungous buckets for pockets, but it can't be that easy, can it?
You're right. Looking back to 1977, the Sex Pistols really were a shock to the system, especially amongst people of my generation (and by extension our parents, who were forced to watch/listen to it too!).
However, the language they use in the infamous interview with Bill Grundy now comes across as quite quaint.
"Fucking rotter", anyone? Sounds almost Dickensian!
Er, here I am sitting coding in a major bank in the City, wearing T shirt, jeans and DMs. The only rules we have are: - Smart dress on the trading floor - Smart dress when meeting clients I haven't worn a suit for a couple of years, (except for weddings)
Those checkpoints are only on every route into the City (financial district). The main congestion is in the West End, which has no checkpoints (as yet)
I haven't got the first clue about "the scattering properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in a finite depth well", and I doubt many people here have.
To prove my point, most of the mod'ed up comments here have been mod'ed as 'Funny', rather than 'Interesting' or 'Informative'.
People who have already bought an X-Box (or won one in my case - I'm not that stupid) can get two free games plus an extra controller (see http://www.xbox.com/uk/news/0025.htm)
Trouble is, of the games on offer, you're certain to already have at least one and the others might not really appeal (speaking as someone who took Amped back to the shop and got his money back).
The games are:
Halo Rallisport Challenge Project Gotham Racing Amped Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee Dead or Alive 3 Bloodwake Fuzion Frenzy
Still, it's probably worth getting them just to use as coffee mats - it costs M$oft money and that can only be a good thing...
Should be named after "Sid Waddell (the darts commentator)", surely! "The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there" - thanks, Sid!
Slashdot Mirror
>Pass a bill in congress making it a legal requirement that all sites and emails MUST contain these headers
Well, I personally am not subject to US Law, not living in the US and all that. So how do you expect to bring me to book?
Oh, wait...
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Screw Dyno-Mutt!
I can't wait for Dyno-Pussy!
(Sorry)
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If you like David Foster Wallace, you'll love The Onion's opinion!
>Am I the only one here who is reminded of Hagbard Celine's Leif Eriksson submarine from Robert Anton Wilson's novels
Yup, I think you might be.
Surely an MS house should have more than the average number of bathrooms, a la Dennis Pennis?
DP (doorstepping Michael Winner outside awards ceremony): Michael, is it true your new house has five bathrooms?
MW: Yes
DP: Is that because you put out so much shit?
Exit MW, confused
>it's not easy to do
Pah! Giving up is easy.
I've done it dozens of times
Boom boom
(and a strangely apposite sig, too, I've just realised!)
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labels' new legitimate online music services attracted fewer paying customers than the McDonald's in Times Square
And Selfridges in London attracts more customers per year than the population of Australia. So what?
Bald statistics prove nothing
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>FT is a general, mathematical idea. FFT is an algorithmic implementation
in the same way that FT (Financial Times) is a general financial idea and FFT (Frankfurt) is a specific implementation?
God I must be bored
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>You can help by getting off your rear and writing to your congressman
Or could I just start castrating sys admins right now instead?
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>It is difficult today to remember how intimidating computers were for non-technical people in the early 1980s
Hello? Computers are still pretty intimidating for non-technical people in the early 2000s!
That's why Code Red/[insert name of favourite virus here], etc. proliferated so widely. Most people don't understand computers even to the level where they know how (or why) to install security patches.
>and even pray
... machine', then I should hope it's intelligent enough to reject a thought system based on faith rather than reason.
The day a computer sits down and prays is the day I get the next spaceship off this planet.
And anyway, if a computer is intelligent enough to be 'a real thinking
Just my 2p worth
So was Gross Points Blank a film about a rookie writer who had to accept Net Points only??
I thank you... I'm here all week...
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More information on the Clangers here.
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The best site for the moon landing conspiracy has to be this one. Slashdotted soon, I guess - sorry to the owner...
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You surely can't play (and win, natch) a whole game of pool WITHOUT putting some spin on the white to get to the next position you want? e.g. two balls next to each other; you pot the first and use backspin to get position on the next. I know some (OK, US) pool tables have humungous buckets for pockets, but it can't be that easy, can it?
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You're right. Looking back to 1977, the Sex Pistols really were a shock to the system, especially amongst people of my generation (and by extension our parents, who were forced to watch/listen to it too!).
However, the language they use in the infamous interview with Bill Grundy now comes across as quite quaint.
"Fucking rotter", anyone? Sounds almost Dickensian!
quoth the nerd:
Superman needs a belt to keep his underpants up forcryingoutloud. And they're outside his trousers.
Er batman also has a (utility) belt, and he also wears his pants outside his trousers.
Your point?
Er, here I am sitting coding in a major bank in the City, wearing T shirt, jeans and DMs. The only rules we have are:
- Smart dress on the trading floor
- Smart dress when meeting clients
I haven't worn a suit for a couple of years, (except for weddings)
Rob
Those checkpoints are only on every route into the City (financial district). The main congestion is in the West End, which has no checkpoints (as yet)
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I haven't got the first clue about "the scattering properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in a finite depth well", and I doubt many people here have.
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To prove my point, most of the mod'ed up comments here have been mod'ed as 'Funny', rather than 'Interesting' or 'Informative'.
Seems symptomatic of most hard science posts on
That's it. My post-pub waffle is over.
I thought all printing companies were stationary, unless they operated from the back of a lorry.
Oh wait, you meant 'stationery'
'The Spelling Fascist'
Sorry, best one ever was:
God replies to prayers of small child - "No", says God.
Rob
I wonder what English for Norweigan is?
Perhaps "Norwegian"??? Jeez, at least use a spell-checker.
As in Webster's dictionary...
People who have already bought an X-Box (or won one in my case - I'm not that stupid) can get two free games plus an extra controller (see http://www.xbox.com/uk/news/0025.htm)
Trouble is, of the games on offer, you're certain to already have at least one and the others might not really appeal (speaking as someone who took Amped back to the shop and got his money back).
The games are:
Halo
Rallisport Challenge
Project Gotham Racing
Amped
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Dead or Alive 3
Bloodwake
Fuzion Frenzy
Still, it's probably worth getting them just to use as coffee mats - it costs M$oft money and that can only be a good thing...
Should be named after "Sid Waddell (the darts commentator)", surely!
"The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there" - thanks, Sid!