Your comments are like your sig; taking a point of view you know is wrong and arguing that it is true requires far less work than formulating a good-faith rebuttal. It's always but... but... but... it never ends. Some people make a sport of it, practice for years, because exasperating people entertains them.
A while ago these students would get the switch, or a spanking, or whatnot, and everyone would have agreed that it was an appropriate punishment. Now we have everyone getting their lawyer. I know on the face of it one could argue that we're teaching them to use the legal system instead of violence... sounds reasonable, but it just seems wrong to me. It all seems so much more, well... juvenile.
Give me a definition of a "transaction" that can only take place within a single 30cm radius, that is meaningfully applicable to a worldwide trading system.
When I read in bed, I want a nice, warm, 40W incandescent bulb and I don't give a DAMN how efficient it is. I get enough of that fluorescent crap during the day.
If they really cared about the environment and power consumption they would tax electricity itself. Tax the shit out of it unless it's from a renewable source. That would be a lot more productive than ruining my nightly quiet time.
IBM allowed its engineers to kibitz for Deep Blue when they thought it was making a mistake in the Kasparov tournament. Why would we have any reason to believe that they didn't cheat this time as well?
I quote from one of the interview videos on YouTube, "IBM's 'Watson' Pits Man vs. Machine on Jeopardy!"
Does it have an actual track record?
It does, but I cannot reveal that today.
Who's to say this isn't just a big steaming piece of shit cooked up by a marketing department that doesn't care at all about real technical achievement?
Sorry - that does sound a bit cynical, doesn't it.
Anyone with engineering and manufacturing experience, particularly in an industry where your mistakes can kill people, would say that calling the cause "driver error" is a red herring, totally irrelevant. If they found, after controlling for age and demographic and whatnot, that Toyotas were causing deaths significantly more often than other cars (this is the case, right?), it doesn't matter what the cause is - it's a design fault. Period.
A solution to the causality paradox requires infinity, so there is definitely more to existence than just our universe. Some day our only useful telescope will be mathematics.
I floated this idea years ago to a few physicists and they hated it for reasons I can't fathom. The whole idea of basing a unit on a single, random object instead of something universal seemed silly to me.
You don't standardize at such a high abstraction level, especially not for user interfaces - it utterly stifles progress. Any standard W3C provides should be expressed as a set of unit tests that validate the properties and behavior of browser objects.
Yes I know that not everyone is so inclined or has the time, but if you can (and it's really not that hard), it's a no-brainer to build your own. You get better components, only exactly what you need, and save money.
I know some will say "what about the other people"... well, most who can't or won't build their own machines just don't care. This Italian dude is a rare exception. Perish the thought, but most users *want* Windows. And I'm in the don't care camp, too, because when I hear "oh I hate Dell", or whatnot, I'm like, whatever.
None of the men has considered abandoning the mission, although they are free to walk out at any time, mission director and former cosmonaut Boris Morukov told reporters on Friday.
If they wanted more realism (and since it's Russia), they should have told the crew that death in space would be "simulated" if any tried to leave.
HTML to too high a level of abstraction to be maintained by a standards body; they are correct to move away from it so others - many others - can sort it out organically. We already have good lower-level candidates to take the place of a true web standard - Java and.NET (not Silverlight). HTML interpreters would then be libraries that the framework makers would provide, and web app developers would finally be freed from having to hack around the ass-backward idiocies of using markup and script to create user interfaces.
Oh god, I wish I'd never discovered Minecraft. I haven't had an accidental all-nighter since I was 22 - I'm not happy to re-discover that waking up with 2 hours of sleep does indeed still feel like being hit by a bus.
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since It's worked so well for business applications. I've seen so many users just weep for joy at the radical upgrades in usability.
I've watched that attitude devastate quality in the software industry over the last decade.
Strange, I was just thinking about how we're apparently experiencing a falling SUPPLY of brains. Won't the two kinda cancel out?
Your comments are like your sig; taking a point of view you know is wrong and arguing that it is true requires far less work than formulating a good-faith rebuttal. It's always but... but... but... it never ends. Some people make a sport of it, practice for years, because exasperating people entertains them.
If your argument is so weak that you're have to use violence to defend it, then you have already lost.
Tell that to law enforcement.
A while ago these students would get the switch, or a spanking, or whatnot, and everyone would have agreed that it was an appropriate punishment. Now we have everyone getting their lawyer. I know on the face of it one could argue that we're teaching them to use the legal system instead of violence... sounds reasonable, but it just seems wrong to me. It all seems so much more, well... juvenile.
Heh, made my buy Creatures series from Good Old Games. This weekend they actually even have them on 40% off sale.
No Star Control II? Bah!
Give me a definition of a "transaction" that can only take place within a single 30cm radius, that is meaningfully applicable to a worldwide trading system.
So unless they've found a way to break the light barrier, this is a load of bull.
When I read in bed, I want a nice, warm, 40W incandescent bulb and I don't give a DAMN how efficient it is. I get enough of that fluorescent crap during the day.
If they really cared about the environment and power consumption they would tax electricity itself. Tax the shit out of it unless it's from a renewable source. That would be a lot more productive than ruining my nightly quiet time.
I can't find the reference any more so you can take that with a grain of salt. Spent 20 minutes looking for it before I posted :/
IBM allowed its engineers to kibitz for Deep Blue when they thought it was making a mistake in the Kasparov tournament. Why would we have any reason to believe that they didn't cheat this time as well?
I quote from one of the interview videos on YouTube, "IBM's 'Watson' Pits Man vs. Machine on Jeopardy!"
Does it have an actual track record?
It does, but I cannot reveal that today.
Who's to say this isn't just a big steaming piece of shit cooked up by a marketing department that doesn't care at all about real technical achievement?
Sorry - that does sound a bit cynical, doesn't it.
Indeed. I didn't find any such statistic, otherwise I wouldn't have put it as a question.
Anyone with engineering and manufacturing experience, particularly in an industry where your mistakes can kill people, would say that calling the cause "driver error" is a red herring, totally irrelevant. If they found, after controlling for age and demographic and whatnot, that Toyotas were causing deaths significantly more often than other cars (this is the case, right?), it doesn't matter what the cause is - it's a design fault. Period.
This is just code for the kind of world bank economic policy that's brought ruin to every nation it's ever touched.
...and kids making forts from cardboard boxes. "Sorry, Timmy, that fort looks a little *too* good. You need a license to do that."
The name for a line that starts at a point and extends in one direction to infinity is called a ray.
The problem with rays are, take any random point on it. What is the probability that it is a finite distance from the endpoint? Zero.
So what's the probability that we ever find the logical equivalent of a ray's endpoint? Also zero.
A solution to the causality paradox requires infinity, so there is definitely more to existence than just our universe. Some day our only useful telescope will be mathematics.
If our universe has lower limits on size and duration, so must there be upper limits. You can't call a line infinite if you've found one end of it.
I floated this idea years ago to a few physicists and they hated it for reasons I can't fathom. The whole idea of basing a unit on a single, random object instead of something universal seemed silly to me.
You don't standardize at such a high abstraction level, especially not for user interfaces - it utterly stifles progress. Any standard W3C provides should be expressed as a set of unit tests that validate the properties and behavior of browser objects.
Yes I know that not everyone is so inclined or has the time, but if you can (and it's really not that hard), it's a no-brainer to build your own. You get better components, only exactly what you need, and save money.
I know some will say "what about the other people"... well, most who can't or won't build their own machines just don't care. This Italian dude is a rare exception. Perish the thought, but most users *want* Windows. And I'm in the don't care camp, too, because when I hear "oh I hate Dell", or whatnot, I'm like, whatever.
If they wanted more realism (and since it's Russia), they should have told the crew that death in space would be "simulated" if any tried to leave.
HTML to too high a level of abstraction to be maintained by a standards body; they are correct to move away from it so others - many others - can sort it out organically. We already have good lower-level candidates to take the place of a true web standard - Java and .NET (not Silverlight). HTML interpreters would then be libraries that the framework makers would provide, and web app developers would finally be freed from having to hack around the ass-backward idiocies of using markup and script to create user interfaces.
Oh god, I wish I'd never discovered Minecraft. I haven't had an accidental all-nighter since I was 22 - I'm not happy to re-discover that waking up with 2 hours of sleep does indeed still feel like being hit by a bus.