I have this sinking feeling that they're trying to snatch a quick hit by leveraging the box office power of Will Smith, in which case I'd put money on Halle Berry.
AAAARGH! Calvin isn't a (conventionally, at least) attractive woman physically--that's obvious from "Liar." For that matter, her personality isn't all that appealing, either--it's stated/implied repeatedly that she's far more comfortable dealing with robots than dealing with people.
<sheepish>Uh, wait a minute...how many of us does that describe?</sheepish>
HE, I agree and am glad to say, is not dead. Asimov, alevasholem, is, as I think the original poster intended to say, ambiguous pronoun antecedent notwithstanding .
I could see Smith as one of the roving repairmen (Donovan or, uh,...the other guy). OTOH, it looks like they're putting an Asimovian veneer on somebody else's story--NOT promising.
And who will they get for Dr. Susan Calvin? (Hmmm....how about Linda Hunt?)
In one place on the XL site, we see "The syntax itself generally matters very little in the long term, as long as it is not completely inane or ambiguous." Elsewhere, we see "Try and do numeric-intensive programming, and LISP is no good either, not because of its performance, but because mathematicians write 1 + 1 rather than (+ 1 1)". So...which of these mutually exclusive claims would the author have us believe?
Much obliged for the pointer, but I do have a question. I'm probably overlooking something simple here, but...Grover writes that we're limited to "reversible" gates, i.e. those for which one can infer the inputs from the outputs. NOT is obviously reversible, but it seems that the pigeonhole principle would prevent any gate with more than one input from being reversible (there are 2**n possible n-bit inputs, but only two possible one-bit outputs). What am I missing?
You forget the informal version of Grosch's Law: "No matter how clever the hardware boys are, the software boys will [urinate] it away." Besides, there are a lot of problems that require massive parallelism to do even semi-efficiently (unless someone proves that P=NP). Some of them are of major interest to compiler and operating system writers.
With all due respect, David Lynch's Dune was total dreck. It looked like the people involved read the first chapter of Dune, went to Cliff's Notes for about another half, and then interviewed stoned people with friends who knew people who had read Dune a decade or so ago for the rest.
It was full of gross-out for gross-out's sake. It fundamentally botched things like the Voice. Worst of all, it make Baron Harkonnen a buffoon.
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It's below hood level of other cars on the road, so the driver will have a hard time seeing much of anything in traffic. The back seat passenger's knees in the photo are wrapped around the driver's seat, and it's not clear that the passenger could even comfortably read a book while riding. It makes airliner seats look spacious. I guess that it will be an OK car for short anorexic models who aren't schlepping anything.
Been there, done that; reading core was destructive, so you had to copy back what you just read. Admittedly, it means that there's no read-only version.
Indeed it is. After reading the page linked to, IMHO it's still lamentable that she has reproduced. She placed the coffee cup between her legs and then proceeded to remove the only structural element keeping her legs from mashing the styrofoam cup, namely the lid. What's wrong with this picture?
It didn't use the f-word that I recall, but doesn't all this go back to Parnas's famous paper?
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Both having to do with computers didn't cut the mustard with the judge who threw out Microware Systems Corporation's suit against Apple over Mac OS 9, despite Microware's trademark on "OS-9," use of the name OS-9 since 1980, and Macintosh users who to this day post Macintosh questions on comp.os.os9 and nearly universally refer to that version of the Macintosh operating system as "OS 9".
I actually have a copy of Marshak and Culbreath's biography of Shatner, titled Shatner: Where No Man..., and one of the truly scary parts of it is the section where he lets M&C listen to portions of The Transformed Man, and they praise it unreservedly and without irony.
Perhaps a good starting place would be the chapter on X in the Unix-Haters Handbook. That's been around for some time; is there a definitive discussion/refutation of it somewhere?
In the case of structured programming, I wouldn't say that it's come and gone; rather that it has simply been pretty generally adopted, and hence isn't trumpeted or bragged about.
White Lion has already been mentioned. Also, the famous "Steamboat Willie," Mickey Mouse's first "talkie," lifts its ideas from the Buster Keaton film "Steamboat Bill." The hypocrisy is quite overwhelming, isn't it?
...a few years back John Astin was here in Des Moines beta testing a one-man show on Edgar Allen Poe. He gave a talk a few days beforehand, and mentioned, among other things, something Poe wrote that did deal with astronomy, and in particular Olbers' Paradox. If memory serves, he said Poe argued for what is in fact the correct answer (stars aren't uniformly distributed).
(If you happen across this, Mr. Astin, I hope you enjoyed the copy of The Quantum and the Jaguar, and the show was great.)
Another factor, IMO, is the seeming death of the theme album. I ask this question with all honesty: is there anything from the 90's and later that is equivalent to Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, The Wall, and Bat Out of Hell? I'm open to expand my contemporary music tastes here -- let the titles fly.
I'd point you at Chris Isaak's Forever Blue and Allison Krauss's Forget About It; the theme's not political, to be sure, but IMHO John Dowland, Elizabethan angstmeister that he was, would be right proud if he could say he'd written some of the songs on those two albums.
Popping the stack to the question of time filtering out the best stuff--the problem is that oldies stations don't do that. "Oldies Stations" are really "Oldies Top 40 Stations," so while you'll not hear some dreck such as "Tennessee Birdwalk" or "In the Year 2525," you will hear some dreck (e.g. "McArthur Park," "Green Tambourine") and you won't hear some of the great stuff that you had to listen to the early AOR stations for that didn't make the charts, or the regional hits (ever hear any Quicksilver Messenger Service or Pearls Before Swine on oldies stations? How about nonhits by well known groups, like "Heavy Music" by Bob Seger, "Monster" by Steppenwolf, the Association's "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies" or "Requiem for the Masses," or anything but "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell or anything but "Poetry Man" by Phoebe Snow?).
I just grabbed the latest.iso, and it's not wanting to fit on the CD-R. (I figured those have a standard size...) Has anyone actually managed to burn one of those on a CD-R, and if so, how?
There are LOTS of radio stations out there whose streaming version is WMA only...how easy will this be to make usable by xmms so that I don't need a Windows box to listen to said stations?
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I have this sinking feeling that they're trying to snatch a quick hit by leveraging the box office power of Will Smith, in which case I'd put money on Halle Berry.
AAAARGH! Calvin isn't a (conventionally, at least) attractive woman physically--that's obvious from "Liar." For that matter, her personality isn't all that appealing, either--it's stated/implied repeatedly that she's far more comfortable dealing with robots than dealing with people.
<sheepish>Uh, wait a minute...how many of us does that describe?</sheepish>
HE, I agree and am glad to say, is not dead. Asimov, alevasholem, is, as I think the original poster intended to say, ambiguous pronoun antecedent notwithstanding .
I could see Smith as one of the roving repairmen (Donovan or, uh, ...the other guy). OTOH, it looks like they're putting an Asimovian veneer on somebody else's story--NOT promising.
And who will they get for Dr. Susan Calvin? (Hmmm....how about Linda Hunt?)
In one place on the XL site, we see "The syntax itself generally matters very little in the long term, as long as it is not completely inane or ambiguous." Elsewhere, we see "Try and do numeric-intensive programming, and LISP is no good either, not because of its performance, but because mathematicians write 1 + 1 rather than (+ 1 1)". So...which of these mutually exclusive claims would the author have us believe?
If you can't peek at the insides of a quantum computer, what would a debugger look like?
Much obliged for the pointer, but I do have a question. I'm probably overlooking something simple here, but...Grover writes that we're limited to "reversible" gates, i.e. those for which one can infer the inputs from the outputs. NOT is obviously reversible, but it seems that the pigeonhole principle would prevent any gate with more than one input from being reversible (there are 2**n possible n-bit inputs, but only two possible one-bit outputs). What am I missing?
You forget the informal version of Grosch's Law: "No matter how clever the hardware boys are, the software boys will [urinate] it away." Besides, there are a lot of problems that require massive parallelism to do even semi-efficiently (unless someone proves that P=NP). Some of them are of major interest to compiler and operating system writers.
With all due respect, David Lynch's Dune was total dreck. It looked like the people involved read the first chapter of Dune, went to Cliff's Notes for about another half, and then interviewed stoned people with friends who knew people who had read Dune a decade or so ago for the rest.
It was full of gross-out for gross-out's sake. It fundamentally botched things like the Voice. Worst of all, it make Baron Harkonnen a buffoon.
It's below hood level of other cars on the road, so the driver will have a hard time seeing much of anything in traffic. The back seat passenger's knees in the photo are wrapped around the driver's seat, and it's not clear that the passenger could even comfortably read a book while riding. It makes airliner seats look spacious. I guess that it will be an OK car for short anorexic models who aren't schlepping anything.
Been there, done that; reading core was destructive, so you had to copy back what you just read. Admittedly, it means that there's no read-only version.
Indeed it is. After reading the page linked to, IMHO it's still lamentable that she has reproduced. She placed the coffee cup between her legs and then proceeded to remove the only structural element keeping her legs from mashing the styrofoam cup, namely the lid. What's wrong with this picture?
It didn't use the f-word that I recall, but doesn't all this go back to Parnas's famous paper?
Both having to do with computers didn't cut the mustard with the judge who threw out Microware Systems Corporation's suit against Apple over Mac OS 9, despite Microware's trademark on "OS-9," use of the name OS-9 since 1980, and Macintosh users who to this day post Macintosh questions on comp.os.os9 and nearly universally refer to that version of the Macintosh operating system as "OS 9".
The parent parodies a disclaimer that creationists are pushing. The point is that sufficiently organized crackpots can be dangerous.
I actually have a copy of Marshak and Culbreath's biography of Shatner, titled Shatner: Where No Man..., and one of the truly scary parts of it is the section where he lets M&C listen to portions of The Transformed Man, and they praise it unreservedly and without irony.
Perhaps a good starting place would be the chapter on X in the Unix-Haters Handbook. That's been around for some time; is there a definitive discussion/refutation of it somewhere?
In the case of structured programming, I wouldn't say that it's come and gone; rather that it has simply been pretty generally adopted, and hence isn't trumpeted or bragged about.
White Lion has already been mentioned. Also, the famous "Steamboat Willie," Mickey Mouse's first "talkie," lifts its ideas from the Buster Keaton film "Steamboat Bill." The hypocrisy is quite overwhelming, isn't it?
...a few years back John Astin was here in Des Moines beta testing a one-man show on Edgar Allen Poe. He gave a talk a few days beforehand, and mentioned, among other things, something Poe wrote that did deal with astronomy, and in particular Olbers' Paradox. If memory serves, he said Poe argued for what is in fact the correct answer (stars aren't uniformly distributed).
(If you happen across this, Mr. Astin, I hope you enjoyed the copy of The Quantum and the Jaguar, and the show was great.)
Who gets to decide what is considered "Hate Speech"?
Isn't that Minitru's job?
I'd point you at Chris Isaak's Forever Blue and Allison Krauss's Forget About It; the theme's not political, to be sure, but IMHO John Dowland, Elizabethan angstmeister that he was, would be right proud if he could say he'd written some of the songs on those two albums.
Popping the stack to the question of time filtering out the best stuff--the problem is that oldies stations don't do that. "Oldies Stations" are really "Oldies Top 40 Stations," so while you'll not hear some dreck such as "Tennessee Birdwalk" or "In the Year 2525," you will hear some dreck (e.g. "McArthur Park," "Green Tambourine") and you won't hear some of the great stuff that you had to listen to the early AOR stations for that didn't make the charts, or the regional hits (ever hear any Quicksilver Messenger Service or Pearls Before Swine on oldies stations? How about nonhits by well known groups, like "Heavy Music" by Bob Seger, "Monster" by Steppenwolf, the Association's "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies" or "Requiem for the Masses," or anything but "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell or anything but "Poetry Man" by Phoebe Snow?).
I just grabbed the latest .iso, and it's not wanting to fit on the CD-R. (I figured those have a standard size...) Has anyone actually managed to burn one of those on a CD-R, and if so, how?
There are LOTS of radio stations out there whose streaming version is WMA only...how easy will this be to make usable by xmms so that I don't need a Windows box to listen to said stations?
Didn't MS hire away some people from Borland?