I mean, the post made a good point, but I can see how others would not agree with it... therefore it's moderated as a troll! Here's what troll (in the context of slashdot) use to mean:
But clearly this definition has become antiquated if the parent post is a troll. Perhaps old trolls should be moderted orcs or some higher (or lower, depending on your point of view) level of non-human abomination?
I'm wondering if there's anything proventing the ex-KGB from doing this eavesdropping without doing this type of warning. The interesting thing in this policy is that it lulls people into thinking that they know overtly when they're being monitored, which may keep people from wondering when they maybe monitored covertly i.e. without a friendly reminder.
This is what I hate about searching for the "truth" - it's subvertible to the point where if you think about all the possible ways you could be decieved, you'll go nuts. It's not conspiratorial to say someone could set you up; the more technology we have, the more likely I think it will become.
1) You can write programs in pretty much what ever language you want. There's Java programs, there's C programs (Carbon), heck there are even Python and C++ bridges to call the Cocoa API. There's also RealBASIC too. Objective-C maybe the prefered langauge, but it's not the only one.
2) Would you really try to see a linux program ported from windows without first try to figure out how the system works? I think your 1 to 2 year learning curve to be way too steep - OS X doesn't have that many nuances.
3) What cost of development? You mean the free development tools? Yeah, that's hard money to make back. Plus, mac users, IMO, are much more likely to pay shareware fees than linux users.
I am so confused. Why is it starting to go around that it is hard to program for Mac OS X? My theory: FUD being thrown around because people are starting to realize that it's really really really easy to program for Mac OS X... but it's just a theory.
Does anyone know if there are any known benefits to having infinitely many twin primes? Are there any unfinished proofs that depend upon this result or the negation thereof? Not there is anything wrong with researching interesting questions - sometimes seemingly idle questions like these can bring very important results, either from the final conclusion or from the process taken to reach the conclusion.
true x true = true true x false = false false x true = false false x false = false
Which means that addition is like or'ing booleans together and multiplication is like and'ing booleans together. Therefofore, multiplication would seem to be the correct operation, as women are both time and money, not one or the other.
And because all the digits are even, no matter what base they were written, you will still have an even number unequal 2, and hence will be not a prime.
We know that 42 is the answer, but we don't know what the question is. Clearly we haven't found the question yet.
Considering this is all that linux distros have been doing for the past several years, how is this news? It seems that this same idea gets rehashed every so often. Yes, I'm not happy that lil' BG turned on Apple, but what do you expect Microsoft to do...
Microsoft Employee: Look, Apple just added X feature to OS X! Bill Gates: Well rats. Since they beat us to the punch, we should just voluntarially not add the feature for the next five to ten years as if they had a patent on it or something. Microsoft Employee: Good idea sir!
No way - as soon as one company adds some service or markets an idea, other companies can start using it as well. Apple's and Linux's big problem isn't microsoft stealing little features and design attributes, it's that people don't realize that both are very stable and allow you to do almost the exact same thing as a PC running windows. If that myth ever goes away, then there's a legitimate chance that users will start to move over at a noticeable rate to alternative platforms for the desktop.
25 cents per song? To pay for all the downloading as well? It's not like Apple's bandwidth is free. Considering that most people can't tell the difference between 128 and 320, this won't effect most people. Does it effect you? Yes. So don't use it. But I think it would be odd for Apple to shoot to please such a small minority first instead of the masses. Perhaps in the future they will have encoding settings as well. Sort of like how it only works in the US currently. But I don't think being able to choose between different encodings or having a super encoding which would be much larger and make downloads excessively long for modem users would have a lot of merit in an initial release.
"Gilson has not subjected his machines to industry benchmark tests."
Yeah, I have a computer doing 1 trillion giggaflops a second powered by my pet hamster. No test results can disprove me yet!
"I live in the future."
Clearly.
"'It's really a far-out research machine,' he says. 'It's more about what's coming in the future.'"
Yep. So the title is kind of misleading. This is all stuff in the future, like flying cars and such. We could make flying cars if we wanted to, but we really don't want to yet (economic and regulatory reasons). This technology has the impedments of still really being explored and economic feasibility.
It'll rock when they're ready, but it's nothing to go nuts over yet.
What do I mean? Google search is now embeded into Safari on OS X. It's right next to the location bar, and very convenient. Imagine if Internet Explorer had this type of functionality built in, and intentionally made impossible to switch from the Microsoft solution to any other.
Then you'll get the exact same thing that happened to Netscape (besides the other internal issues they had). Sigh...
They're cool from a distance, but the closer they get to you the further you want to run away!
F-bacher
May free speach and free thought live on
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Even though half my students are against the war and the other half are for, they all are interested, involved, and informed. I've been grilled by my students with better questions than I have been by adults. There's a healthy population of students who want to protest the war, and a healthy bunch who see this war as something really important. Logarithms, exponentials? No, today, my students showed me that they can care about something, and I have nothing but confidence that some day my students will be critical thinking adults that make a difference in this country.
May free speech continue to live, in spite of the attempts of the far right to silence it, and the far left to exploit it.
We'd just say they patented the wrong icon, as it should have been the Windows logo as the Recycle Bin.
I don't see how this utter idoicy. Apple has this trash can, and they don't want people just borrowing that icon for, say, a Linux system. If you don't use their icon, what's the big deal? If everyone just uses their own icons, then we don't have to worry about "confused customers" and such, which is (I'd assume) the intent or explanation for this patent. If you were an artist, you would like to have some control over how your art work gets reproduced, no?
I don't know much about D, but if it supports structs, isn't that essentially the same thing as a value class (save the instance methods and such)?
I personally prefer passing pointers instead of having to remember if the object is being copied behind the scenes or is the original object because I used an ampersand (pass by reference). If I wanted to make a copy, I'd call the "copy" instance method and poof, one has a copy. If I'm worried about my objects being changed, then just make the object immutable.
If Linux took over the desktop market, I don't think a title of "Linux As Next Microsoft" would be appropriate. Why? Because that brings a long not only that Linux has taken over the desktop market, but also all the negatives that can be attributed to microsoft. Why does this matter? Well, I don't think EA is becoming the next Disney in the way I think fo Disney. Disney use to conjure up warm feelings, but I think the slashdot community as a whole would agree that since Walt got cryogenically frozen (or whatever), Disney has done plenty to rise the ire of observers. And I see no reason to apply those negatives to EA (not yet at least).
You thought it looked good on your 15 inch CRT? Wait till you see all the *action* on your TV's 24 inches of glory... although that may not be the only 24 inches of glory you'd be seeing.
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The x is being used as a wild card. It probably would have made more sense to this audience if they used a "*" instead.
Considering how x is constantly used as a variable (haha, constant variable, I love that idea) in mathematical situations, I guess you're half right.
Matt Fahrenbacher
That's unpossible!
Gah, I meant Elvis.
Matt Fahrenbacher
Oh, I thought it said Elivs script.
Matt Fahrenbacher
I mean, the post made a good point, but I can see how others would not agree with it... therefore it's moderated as a troll! Here's what troll (in the context of slashdot) use to mean:
o t% 20troll
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Slashd
But clearly this definition has become antiquated if the parent post is a troll. Perhaps old trolls should be moderted orcs or some higher (or lower, depending on your point of view) level of non-human abomination?
Matt Fahrenbacher
I'm wondering if there's anything proventing the ex-KGB from doing this eavesdropping without doing this type of warning. The interesting thing in this policy is that it lulls people into thinking that they know overtly when they're being monitored, which may keep people from wondering when they maybe monitored covertly i.e. without a friendly reminder.
Matt Fahrenbacher
Who says black boxes can't be tampered with?
This is what I hate about searching for the "truth" - it's subvertible to the point where if you think about all the possible ways you could be decieved, you'll go nuts. It's not conspiratorial to say someone could set you up; the more technology we have, the more likely I think it will become.
And some wonder why people like being ignorant...
Matt Fahrenbacher
1) You can write programs in pretty much what ever language you want. There's Java programs, there's C programs (Carbon), heck there are even Python and C++ bridges to call the Cocoa API. There's also RealBASIC too. Objective-C maybe the prefered langauge, but it's not the only one.
2) Would you really try to see a linux program ported from windows without first try to figure out how the system works? I think your 1 to 2 year learning curve to be way too steep - OS X doesn't have that many nuances.
3) What cost of development? You mean the free development tools? Yeah, that's hard money to make back. Plus, mac users, IMO, are much more likely to pay shareware fees than linux users.
I am so confused. Why is it starting to go around that it is hard to program for Mac OS X? My theory: FUD being thrown around because people are starting to realize that it's really really really easy to program for Mac OS X... but it's just a theory.
Matt Fahrenbacher
I'm sure they were thinking of it being a sum of tens (30) minus a power of 2 (4) aka 26. That's far more geeky.
Matt Fahrenbacher
"AYBABTU," then "In Soviet Russia..."
When will the lame jokes end?!?! I only hope this valuable research will lead us towards a way to turn off the "lame-joke" gene.
Matt Fahrenbacher
Does anyone know if there are any known benefits to having infinitely many twin primes? Are there any unfinished proofs that depend upon this result or the negation thereof? Not there is anything wrong with researching interesting questions - sometimes seemingly idle questions like these can bring very important results, either from the final conclusion or from the process taken to reach the conclusion.
Matt Fahrenbacher
If I remember correctly:
;)
true + true = true
true + false = true
false + true = true
false + false = false
and
true x true = true
true x false = false
false x true = false
false x false = false
Which means that addition is like or'ing booleans together and multiplication is like and'ing booleans together. Therefofore, multiplication would seem to be the correct operation, as women are both time and money, not one or the other.
QED
Matt Fahrenbacher
2+2 does equal 5, for sufficiently large values of 2.
:)
I love being a mth dork
Matt Fahrenbacher
And because all the digits are even, no matter what base they were written, you will still have an even number unequal 2, and hence will be not a prime.
We know that 42 is the answer, but we don't know what the question is. Clearly we haven't found the question yet.
Matt Fahrenbacher
Considering this is all that linux distros have been doing for the past several years, how is this news? It seems that this same idea gets rehashed every so often. Yes, I'm not happy that lil' BG turned on Apple, but what do you expect Microsoft to do...
Microsoft Employee: Look, Apple just added X feature to OS X!
Bill Gates: Well rats. Since they beat us to the punch, we should just voluntarially not add the feature for the next five to ten years as if they had a patent on it or something.
Microsoft Employee: Good idea sir!
No way - as soon as one company adds some service or markets an idea, other companies can start using it as well. Apple's and Linux's big problem isn't microsoft stealing little features and design attributes, it's that people don't realize that both are very stable and allow you to do almost the exact same thing as a PC running windows. If that myth ever goes away, then there's a legitimate chance that users will start to move over at a noticeable rate to alternative platforms for the desktop.
Matt Fahrenbacher
25 cents per song? To pay for all the downloading as well? It's not like Apple's bandwidth is free. Considering that most people can't tell the difference between 128 and 320, this won't effect most people. Does it effect you? Yes. So don't use it. But I think it would be odd for Apple to shoot to please such a small minority first instead of the masses. Perhaps in the future they will have encoding settings as well. Sort of like how it only works in the US currently. But I don't think being able to choose between different encodings or having a super encoding which would be much larger and make downloads excessively long for modem users would have a lot of merit in an initial release.
Matt Fahrenbacher
"Gilson has not subjected his machines to industry benchmark tests."
Yeah, I have a computer doing 1 trillion giggaflops a second powered by my pet hamster. No test results can disprove me yet!
"I live in the future."
Clearly.
"'It's really a far-out research machine,' he says. 'It's more about what's coming in the future.'"
Yep. So the title is kind of misleading. This is all stuff in the future, like flying cars and such. We could make flying cars if we wanted to, but we really don't want to yet (economic and regulatory reasons). This technology has the impedments of still really being explored and economic feasibility.
It'll rock when they're ready, but it's nothing to go nuts over yet.
F-bacher
What do I mean? Google search is now embeded into Safari on OS X. It's right next to the location bar, and very convenient. Imagine if Internet Explorer had this type of functionality built in, and intentionally made impossible to switch from the Microsoft solution to any other.
Then you'll get the exact same thing that happened to Netscape (besides the other internal issues they had). Sigh...
F-bacher
They're cool from a distance, but the closer they get to you the further you want to run away!
F-bacher
Even though half my students are against the war and the other half are for, they all are interested, involved, and informed. I've been grilled by my students with better questions than I have been by adults. There's a healthy population of students who want to protest the war, and a healthy bunch who see this war as something really important. Logarithms, exponentials? No, today, my students showed me that they can care about something, and I have nothing but confidence that some day my students will be critical thinking adults that make a difference in this country.
May free speech continue to live, in spite of the attempts of the far right to silence it, and the far left to exploit it.
F-bacher
We'd just say they patented the wrong icon, as it should have been the Windows logo as the Recycle Bin.
I don't see how this utter idoicy. Apple has this trash can, and they don't want people just borrowing that icon for, say, a Linux system. If you don't use their icon, what's the big deal? If everyone just uses their own icons, then we don't have to worry about "confused customers" and such, which is (I'd assume) the intent or explanation for this patent. If you were an artist, you would like to have some control over how your art work gets reproduced, no?
Just my 2% of $1.00
F-bacher
Perhaps I can patent this? I'm sure there's a market for people who would rather watch mind-numbing commercials that mind-numbing television.
1. Patent name "Ovit"
2. ???
3. Profit!
Excellent.
F-bacher
I don't know much about D, but if it supports structs, isn't that essentially the same thing as a value class (save the instance methods and such)?
I personally prefer passing pointers instead of having to remember if the object is being copied behind the scenes or is the original object because I used an ampersand (pass by reference). If I wanted to make a copy, I'd call the "copy" instance method and poof, one has a copy. If I'm worried about my objects being changed, then just make the object immutable.
But that's just me,
F-bacher
You must be new here.
F-bacher
If Linux took over the desktop market, I don't think a title of "Linux As Next Microsoft" would be appropriate. Why? Because that brings a long not only that Linux has taken over the desktop market, but also all the negatives that can be attributed to microsoft. Why does this matter? Well, I don't think EA is becoming the next Disney in the way I think fo Disney. Disney use to conjure up warm feelings, but I think the slashdot community as a whole would agree that since Walt got cryogenically frozen (or whatever), Disney has done plenty to rise the ire of observers. And I see no reason to apply those negatives to EA (not yet at least).
F-bacher
pr0n!
You thought it looked good on your 15 inch CRT? Wait till you see all the *action* on your TV's 24 inches of glory... although that may not be the only 24 inches of glory you'd be seeing.
[rim shot]
F-bacher