Blockhead, if I understand the somewhat handwaving construction, ought to be defeatable via something analogous to the "pumping lemma" in formal language theory. As the interrogator, I can, for example, generate arbitrarily many quadratic equations to ask Blockhead to solve, and no finite table can hold the list of coefficients and roots.
Not to mention that we have throughout history granted one another the presumption of intelligence based solely on one another's responses without X-raying or autopsying (?) one another...
Ah. Turns out I didn't look in the right place. I'm now downloading the pertinent.iso files at a reasonable clip, though that took some rummaging around even among the "members only" mirrors.
(Sigh...I'd just grabbed the release candidate version last night after reading a nice Mandrake Audio Workstation HOWTO. Mutter, mumble.)
I just subscribed to the Mandrake Club, and I'm finding maybe a couple of mirrors listed with transfer rates running about 1.2K/sec. I don't think that's a good rate for transferring three CD images...
I hasten to add that I'm glad I subscribed, and urge others interested in Mandrake to do so as well...but oy, it's frustrating to find, after staying up way too late getting 9.1 rc2, that I shouldn't have bothered and probably won't be able to bother for a while yet.
So this is the canonical situation where the award goes to someone who's been around for a long time for something not his or her best work? That's never seemed fair to me.
Seriously, why not? It's easy to learn, and has had over a century of use. Eurocentric? Yes, but the attempts to create a politically correct interlanguage vocabulary have generated a mishmash that is equally incomprehensible to everybody. (Probably the most notorious example is the Loglan/lojban "maximize the weighted sum of phoneme incidence in the N most widely-used natural languages" scheme. Every phoneme of "blue" occurs in "blanu," but no English speaker would ever guess that "blanu" has anything to do with "blue.")
Yeah, the problem is that a highly US-driven mono-culture is sweeping the world.
Baloney. The flow of culture isn't one-way. Japanese food, cars, electronics, and pop culture have invaded the US just as much as American food and pop culture have invaded Japan. Twenty years ago, in central Oklahoma, I counted myself as extremely lucky to find one album of Persian chants and love songs--now I can walk three blocks and spend far more than I can afford on "world music" CDs. (No, I haven't moved to the coast; I live in central Iowa.) Do you think that the rest of the world is a museum full of quaint natives that should be preserved in their natural state? That strikes me as vastly greater "cultural imperialism" than what you attribute to the US.
Of course, given that attitude, that's where your user base will stay; it's self-reinforcing. I can say that given your position, you can count on my not being part of your user base.
It doesn't do much of anything; it just shows off some of the more perverse corners of C, and that you can't get away with writing a minimalist parser to pull off something like this project--you have to go nearly whole hog, including at least enough of a symbol table to tell whether a * b; is a pointless expression or a declaration of a pointer to some typedef-ed type.
Remember those E.E.Doc Smith books. Space Cadet throws his FTL spaceship into orbit around strange planet and hauls out his trusty slide rule...
Yup...and don't forget the scene on the Directrix where, once they figure out which pre-calculated scenario is going to unfold against the Boskonian forces, they run over to the shelves and haul out the binders with the figures printed in them to read off to the other vessels!
Yes, but do a search for "path dependence." Self-correcting isn't the same thing as optimal. (OTOH, centralized control is infinitely worse, so this is probably a "the worst system except for all the others" situation.)
I wish I could get access to the program and feed it the songs from the Golden Throats series of CDs. Which would it rate higher: Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of the theme from Shaft, or Mae West's cover of "Twist and Shout"?
Shouldn't they be dedicating more of their time towards creating an OS that is not a security risk, and not in expansion to other markets?
Of course not. As long as they have 90+ percent of people force-fed Windows, spending resources on improving it don't generate any return they're not already getting. Better to muscle in on other areas, or make "improvements" like the Product Activation code, or code to enforce new licensing terms, or changing file formats to break compatibilty with competitors and older versions of their own code.
OK, but--if the program doesn't halt, when will you get that answer from the VM? You could say "if it hasn't halted in a year, it probably won't," but you'd be wrong, because there are mind-numbingly slow algorithms that are in fact algorithms (e.g. sort an array by iterating through all possible permutations and checking for sortedness after each permutation, or any algorithm to solve an NP-complete problem).
Let's see...Lilo's parents are dead, she pummels her classmates, has no friends, argues with and yells at her older sister, from whom she's about to be taken by the social worker, and the older sister's been fired and is having trouble finding work. Yeah, pretty darned saccharine.
Agreed. Dr. Pulaski was a jerk, not to mention a carbon-based life chauvinist, but she had her interesting qualities.
Besides--who on earth came up with the name "Crusher"? I'm sorry, but the only place I can visualize a person with the name "Dr. Crusher" is in the WW[EF].
In the immortal words of AOL users, "me too." Just took in one of my computers to see about replacing the fan on the heatsink, and the repair guy said it was a matter of time until the motherboard (an ABIT KT7) died, thanks to leaky electrolytics. The other ABIT KT7 I had died some time back, though I didn't bother to check why.
Frequently celebrity interviews are mocked up from a stock tape of the celebrity answering questions with the DJ's voice dubbed between even.
That at least has been done for a long time, with vinyl records of Elvis or the Beatles answering questions and gaps for the local DJ to ask the canned questions. I bet they're collectors' items nowadays.
The best Engrish in a manual I've seen was for an ABIT Socket 7 motherboard manual. I don't have it at hand, so I can't point to the precise one, but it is pre-super Socket 7. In the section on installing RAM, it says "All you have to do is insert RAM, without help from God. Isn't it wonderful?"
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As opposed to what? (If you say "Perl" or "C++", you may well have found the fatal joke from the Monty Python sketch.)
Blockhead, if I understand the somewhat handwaving construction, ought to be defeatable via something analogous to the "pumping lemma" in formal language theory. As the interrogator, I can, for example, generate arbitrarily many quadratic equations to ask Blockhead to solve, and no finite table can hold the list of coefficients and roots.
Not to mention that we have throughout history granted one another the presumption of intelligence based solely on one another's responses without X-raying or autopsying (?) one another...
Ah. Turns out I didn't look in the right place. I'm now downloading the pertinent .iso files at a reasonable clip, though that took some rummaging around even among the "members only" mirrors.
(Sigh...I'd just grabbed the release candidate version last night after reading a nice Mandrake Audio Workstation HOWTO. Mutter, mumble.)
I just subscribed to the Mandrake Club, and I'm finding maybe a couple of mirrors listed with transfer rates running about 1.2K/sec. I don't think that's a good rate for transferring three CD images...
I hasten to add that I'm glad I subscribed, and urge others interested in Mandrake to do so as well...but oy, it's frustrating to find, after staying up way too late getting 9.1 rc2, that I shouldn't have bothered and probably won't be able to bother for a while yet.
So this is the canonical situation where the award goes to someone who's been around for a long time for something not his or her best work? That's never seemed fair to me.
Kial ne?
Seriously, why not? It's easy to learn, and has had over a century of use. Eurocentric? Yes, but the attempts to create a politically correct interlanguage vocabulary have generated a mishmash that is equally incomprehensible to everybody. (Probably the most notorious example is the Loglan/lojban "maximize the weighted sum of phoneme incidence in the N most widely-used natural languages" scheme. Every phoneme of "blue" occurs in "blanu," but no English speaker would ever guess that "blanu" has anything to do with "blue.")
Baloney. The flow of culture isn't one-way. Japanese food, cars, electronics, and pop culture have invaded the US just as much as American food and pop culture have invaded Japan. Twenty years ago, in central Oklahoma, I counted myself as extremely lucky to find one album of Persian chants and love songs--now I can walk three blocks and spend far more than I can afford on "world music" CDs. (No, I haven't moved to the coast; I live in central Iowa.) Do you think that the rest of the world is a museum full of quaint natives that should be preserved in their natural state? That strikes me as vastly greater "cultural imperialism" than what you attribute to the US.
I have enough RFI making SWLing a major proctalgia. I'll stay with a tasteful Eeyore sticker for decoration, thank you very much.
Following the NuSphere link shows "V3.1 now available/supports Linux."
Of course, given that attitude, that's where your user base will stay; it's self-reinforcing. I can say that given your position, you can count on my not being part of your user base.
Agreed...but graphic designers should disabuse themselves of the notion that they have total control of web page layout; they don't.
It doesn't do much of anything; it just shows off some of the more perverse corners of C, and that you can't get away with writing a minimalist parser to pull off something like this project--you have to go nearly whole hog, including at least enough of a symbol table to tell whether a * b; is a pointless expression or a declaration of a pointer to some typedef-ed type.
Remember those E.E.Doc Smith books. Space Cadet throws his FTL spaceship into orbit around strange planet and hauls out his trusty slide rule...
Yup...and don't forget the scene on the Directrix where, once they figure out which pre-calculated scenario is going to unfold against the Boskonian forces, they run over to the shelves and haul out the binders with the figures printed in them to read off to the other vessels!
Yes, but do a search for "path dependence." Self-correcting isn't the same thing as optimal. (OTOH, centralized control is infinitely worse, so this is probably a "the worst system except for all the others" situation.)
Actually, what it always reminds me of is the Ku Klux Klan.
I thought that was what serial ATA is supposed to do.
I wish I could get access to the program and feed it the songs from the Golden Throats series of CDs. Which would it rate higher: Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of the theme from Shaft, or Mae West's cover of "Twist and Shout"?
Of course not. As long as they have 90+ percent of people force-fed Windows, spending resources on improving it don't generate any return they're not already getting. Better to muscle in on other areas, or make "improvements" like the Product Activation code, or code to enforce new licensing terms, or changing file formats to break compatibilty with competitors and older versions of their own code.
OK, but--if the program doesn't halt, when will you get that answer from the VM? You could say "if it hasn't halted in a year, it probably won't," but you'd be wrong, because there are mind-numbingly slow algorithms that are in fact algorithms (e.g. sort an array by iterating through all possible permutations and checking for sortedness after each permutation, or any algorithm to solve an NP-complete problem).
Let's see...Lilo's parents are dead, she pummels her classmates, has no friends, argues with and yells at her older sister, from whom she's about to be taken by the social worker, and the older sister's been fired and is having trouble finding work. Yeah, pretty darned saccharine.
Had you asked me, I'd have thought Japan was still all ga-ga over their home-grown TRON operating system.
Agreed. Dr. Pulaski was a jerk, not to mention a carbon-based life chauvinist, but she had her interesting qualities.
Besides--who on earth came up with the name "Crusher"? I'm sorry, but the only place I can visualize a person with the name "Dr. Crusher" is in the WW[EF].
In the immortal words of AOL users, "me too." Just took in one of my computers to see about replacing the fan on the heatsink, and the repair guy said it was a matter of time until the motherboard (an ABIT KT7) died, thanks to leaky electrolytics. The other ABIT KT7 I had died some time back, though I didn't bother to check why.
Frequently celebrity interviews are mocked up from a stock tape of the celebrity answering questions with the DJ's voice dubbed between even.
That at least has been done for a long time, with vinyl records of Elvis or the Beatles answering questions and gaps for the local DJ to ask the canned questions. I bet they're collectors' items nowadays.
The best Engrish in a manual I've seen was for an ABIT Socket 7 motherboard manual. I don't have it at hand, so I can't point to the precise one, but it is pre-super Socket 7. In the section on installing RAM, it says "All you have to do is insert RAM, without help from God. Isn't it wonderful?"