The company's stock soared on the news, rising $54.75, or 57 percent, to close at $11.69 on Nasdaq.
Dang! I wish I'd known that they were paying people to take shares of Rambus yesterday (at 54.75 - 11.69 = 43.06 per share); I would have taken a lot of them.
How about this, from circlemakers.org, which calls into question the doctorate of one of the people often cited with respect to supposed "biophysical changes" in plants in crop circles?
So, would you say that natural forces, or animals, are responsible for drawing a cartoon of one of the popular conceptions of what aliens look like?
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According to the link, the aliens use ASCII, i.e. they can receive our data transmissions and figure out their encoding, but rather than reply using the same medium, they go stomp out ASCII in a corn field. Uh-huh...
Besides, shouldn't they be submitting a proposal to extend Unicode so future crop circles can use their character set?
So advanced civilizations have nothing better to do than to go to backwater planets and doodle in random fields? I suppose all those abductions get boring after a while.
Perhaps you only think it's left-wing bias because you normally get your news from extreme right-wing organizations, such as Fox News?
You mean the extreme right-wing organization that features Alan Colmes and that fellow from the extreme left-wing group, FAIR? (For that matter, Paula Zahn's show on Fox News had a definite tilt to the left...)
Duff's Device had its reason for being, but Duff is right; don't do it now. Can you say "irreducible flow graph"? Sure, I knew you could. Modern compilers will get themselves out of the pickle Duff's Device and analogous code schemata put them in, if they do at all, by replicating code, thus undoing one of the things people think clever about it.
Not true. Government programs don't get cut because their beneficiaries defend them fiercely. See Demosclerosis for details.
As for examples of unnecessary programs: government should not be in the business of education or welfare, just to name two. Government shouldn't be in the business of product testing; independent companies should do that, just as Underwriters Laboratories tests irons, toasters, etc.
Most companies may well be poorly managed--but then, they go under. When government agencies are poorly managed, government takes more of our money to give to the poorly managed agencies.
As for USPS: if they didn't have a government-granted monopoly on the delivery of letters, most people would find that the mail they sent most often would cost less.
That's funny; if you look at the anti-libertarian rants on, say, freerepublic.com, aside from the crazed Drug Warriors, you'll see people claiming that every time someone votes Libertarian, he or she is voting Democrat. If you're both right, I must be getting two votes--what a deal!
Said ranters manage to argue both that Libertarians are laughably few in number and that we're a deadly danger because we deny victory to their preferred candidate. It's not clear how these can both be true.
Sure. Power (i.e. government office) can be won by promising to use the power of government to take money and things from some people and give it to others.
The recipients become government dependent, terrified of losing their goodies, and can be counted on to keep voting for whoever keeps them attached to the trough. (The major example of this is currently the elderly.)
Income tax rates are highly "progressive," which means that very few people pay the vast majority of income tax. Once the majority of people are in the goodie recipient category, whoever is in power is in power securely...at least until the minority decides not to put up with it any more (a la Atlas Shrugged).
It is demonstrably true that self-consistent but mutually exclusive systems of rigorously defined science and mathematics can be formulated. Ever read Goedel?
Yes, I've read Goedel, and his work has to do with systems of logic and (hence, if you go along with Russell et al.) mathematics, not science. If things such as the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice have observable, testable consequences, then by experiment one can decide which system in fact conforms with reality. If they don't, then you're right, but OTOH, it's not clear that it's of any importance save as a curiosity.
The list of extremely intelligent people who have believed in utter idiocy is long. Isaac Newton spent much of the last part of his life trying to make the Pope's name add up to 666. Linus Pauling thought vitamin C cured just about everything. Brian Josephson believes in spoon benders. Crookes fell for spiritualism. I think the technical term here is ad verecundiam.
I took a peek at the project's web page. As far as actual product, there appears to be:
A Windows only reader for "CosmicBook"
A demo for "ZigZag" in bootable floppy form--the link to the supposed Java version leads only to a page reading
OOOOOOH YEAH BABBBBBBY!
Site is underway as we are GO GO GO GO GO with our sponsor. We will be bringing you the big time content with eye popping, mouth drooling, ear candy delights of wonderful visuals.
along with a link to teen porn (as Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up)
There is yet another version of Xanadu code under development; the web page says there will be a presentation given on it at a conference in August 2001, which says something about how up to date the Project Xanadu site is.
Ted Nelson is quite correct about the drawbacks of the web as it stands, but I fear that the 42-year-old Xanadu has become a victim of worse is better.
It would be nice if he supplied some experimental evidence in support of his claims. (Be sure to check out the rest of his web site, so you can learn about the dangers of pink light, too.)
I do wonder, though, what he means by "white" science...
Forbes both characterizes Unix and C (1972) as "the original computer operating system and language," but also has FORTRAN (mid to late 50s) in its list of 85 big ideas--so not only are they wrong (Unix isn't even the first multitasking OS or the first OS written in a high-level language--we'll grant C high-level status in this context), they contradict themselves.
There was a segment on public radio (I don't remember which show, alas) a month or so ago about a guy who's trying to get the most reviews on amazon.com, and a woman who currently has the most reviews. I don't recall any implication that they're doing anything other than just trying to get the dubious honor of having the most reviews.
I agree with you in principle, though whoever eventually succeeds will find themselves accused of "cultural genocide"; vide the reactions to cochlear implants.
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Dang! I wish I'd known that they were paying people to take shares of Rambus yesterday (at 54.75 - 11.69 = 43.06 per share); I would have taken a lot of them.
How about this, from circlemakers.org, which calls into question the doctorate of one of the people often cited with respect to supposed "biophysical changes" in plants in crop circles?
So, would you say that natural forces, or animals, are responsible for drawing a cartoon of one of the popular conceptions of what aliens look like?
According to the link, the aliens use ASCII, i.e. they can receive our data transmissions and figure out their encoding, but rather than reply using the same medium, they go stomp out ASCII in a corn field. Uh-huh...
Besides, shouldn't they be submitting a proposal to extend Unicode so future crop circles can use their character set?
So advanced civilizations have nothing better to do than to go to backwater planets and doodle in random fields? I suppose all those abductions get boring after a while.
Perhaps you only think it's left-wing bias because you normally get your news from extreme right-wing organizations, such as Fox News?
You mean the extreme right-wing organization that features Alan Colmes and that fellow from the extreme left-wing group, FAIR? (For that matter, Paula Zahn's show on Fox News had a definite tilt to the left...)
Duff's Device had its reason for being, but Duff is right; don't do it now. Can you say "irreducible flow graph"? Sure, I knew you could. Modern compilers will get themselves out of the pickle Duff's Device and analogous code schemata put them in, if they do at all, by replicating code, thus undoing one of the things people think clever about it.
The developers are not to blame, we just did our jobs...
Mustn't...invoke...Godwin's...law...
Wouldn't a comparison with the Phoenix project be somewhat fairer?
Not true. Government programs don't get cut because their beneficiaries defend them fiercely. See Demosclerosis for details.
As for examples of unnecessary programs: government should not be in the business of education or welfare, just to name two. Government shouldn't be in the business of product testing; independent companies should do that, just as Underwriters Laboratories tests irons, toasters, etc.
Most companies may well be poorly managed--but then, they go under. When government agencies are poorly managed, government takes more of our money to give to the poorly managed agencies.
As for USPS: if they didn't have a government-granted monopoly on the delivery of letters, most people would find that the mail they sent most often would cost less.
Only those things explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, thank you very much.
That's funny; if you look at the anti-libertarian rants on, say, freerepublic.com, aside from the crazed Drug Warriors, you'll see people claiming that every time someone votes Libertarian, he or she is voting Democrat. If you're both right, I must be getting two votes--what a deal!
Said ranters manage to argue both that Libertarians are laughably few in number and that we're a deadly danger because we deny victory to their preferred candidate. It's not clear how these can both be true.
Sure. Power (i.e. government office) can be won by promising to use the power of government to take money and things from some people and give it to others.
The recipients become government dependent, terrified of losing their goodies, and can be counted on to keep voting for whoever keeps them attached to the trough. (The major example of this is currently the elderly.)
Income tax rates are highly "progressive," which means that very few people pay the vast majority of income tax. Once the majority of people are in the goodie recipient category, whoever is in power is in power securely...at least until the minority decides not to put up with it any more (a la Atlas Shrugged).
...the ultimate mechanism to bolster repressive regimes, soon to appear at a store near you.
It is demonstrably true that self-consistent but mutually exclusive systems of rigorously defined science and mathematics can be formulated. Ever read Goedel?
Yes, I've read Goedel, and his work has to do with systems of logic and (hence, if you go along with Russell et al.) mathematics, not science. If things such as the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice have observable, testable consequences, then by experiment one can decide which system in fact conforms with reality. If they don't, then you're right, but OTOH, it's not clear that it's of any importance save as a curiosity.
The list of extremely intelligent people who have believed in utter idiocy is long. Isaac Newton spent much of the last part of his life trying to make the Pope's name add up to 666. Linus Pauling thought vitamin C cured just about everything. Brian Josephson believes in spoon benders. Crookes fell for spiritualism. I think the technical term here is ad verecundiam.
When I click on "About Mozilla" I see
Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020602
(Admittedly that's not the latest version.) So here's at least one person who actually uses it on a personal machine.
No, it's not. The correct term is "perineum."
along with a link to teen porn (as Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up)
There is yet another version of Xanadu code under development; the web page says there will be a presentation given on it at a conference in August 2001, which says something about how up to date the Project Xanadu site is.
Ted Nelson is quite correct about the drawbacks of the web as it stands, but I fear that the 42-year-old Xanadu has become a victim of worse is better.
Well, if all the beta testers die, no wonder!
It would be nice if he supplied some experimental evidence in support of his claims. (Be sure to check out the rest of his web site, so you can learn about the dangers of pink light, too.)
I do wonder, though, what he means by "white" science...
Forbes both characterizes Unix and C (1972) as "the original computer operating system and language," but also has FORTRAN (mid to late 50s) in its list of 85 big ideas--so not only are they wrong (Unix isn't even the first multitasking OS or the first OS written in a high-level language--we'll grant C high-level status in this context), they contradict themselves.
There was a segment on public radio (I don't remember which show, alas) a month or so ago about a guy who's trying to get the most reviews on amazon.com, and a woman who currently has the most reviews. I don't recall any implication that they're doing anything other than just trying to get the dubious honor of having the most reviews.
I agree with you in principle, though whoever eventually succeeds will find themselves accused of "cultural genocide"; vide the reactions to cochlear implants.
We just think french ppl are stupid, and rightly so.
<sarcasm>Yup...Cauchy, Galois, Laplace, Poincare, didn't none of 'em know diddly.</sarcasm>