Plus, think about it logically, if ads didn't generate revenue or alter spending habits, they wouldn't be cost effective and wouldn't exist.
There's an assumption of rationality there--but come to think of it, the counterexamples that come to mind are all government-generated (the War on Some Drugs, the War on Poverty, entitlement programs, government-run schools--all fiascos but many people still think that if we just bled taxpayers a little whiter or gave a few more draconian and totalitarian powers, they'd start working) so never mind...
accompanied by a facial expression used to mark a question, translates as "Have you been to San Francisco?" (FINISH is used as a marker of completed action--sometimes that's rendered with a perfect tense in English, but not always; also, ASL, like Klingon:), doesn't have "to be.")
Another facial expression gets used like the Japanese topic marker wa, and in its presence, word order in an utterance isn't necessarily what an English speaker would expect.
(Then there's the placement of adjectives after the things they modify, an influence of French and French sign language on ASL, or the use of rhetorical questions...)
As for why people don't learn sign...in my case, I do want to learn sign, but I'd have to travel quite a distance to get to a place that teaches it seriously. (As a programmer, I'm always looking for the BNF at the back of the book--surely someone's written a generative grammar for ASL? Please?)
I just woke up, but if my math is correct, this is almost 9300% faster?!? I cannot believe that just the optimizations of Linux have done that.
You can't get more than 100% faster, or you'd have the answer before you asked the question. It used to take 1020 (17 hr * 60 min/hr) minutes, and now it takes 11 minutes; the time it takes has been cut by 1009 / 1020 * 100 percent, about 98.9%.
Can it really have sped up that much? Yes, but it's hard to believe that the OS is the cause. They almost certainly got faster hardware when they switched, the compiler technology may be better, and if they have to consult a database to do the calculation, they quite possibly have a different or newer (and one would hope improved) DBMS.
Then the Bitboys came up with what they called the "Other Other Operation":
Hype!
Actually produce a product.
Profit!
This, for the Bitboys, was the turning point.
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Agreed, USENET is dying, but the "tragedy of the commons" is a big reason. If nobody owns a thing, nobody takes care of it, and people will abuse anything that costs nothing--hence spam, trolls, etc.
How ironic...the architecture of Dorian Gray, with endless bags on the side added over the past two decades (a long time in computer years)--only made to run reasonably by internally interpreting it on the fly into something decent and executing the result...and technically knowledgeable people are praying that the latest flogging of the dead horse is successful? I know, I'm guilty of it, too, because I want Intel to lose, but how strange that Intel's doing something right, namely starting over, is so universally deprecated (vide the "Itanic" nickname common on websites like The Register).
No excrement...It's almost embarrassing to read a David Coursey column because the craven, slobbering, bootlicking groveling to and worship of Bill Gates is laid on so thick. The best example of this has to be his "My Lunch With Bill" two-column sequence. It's positively antiperistaltogenic.
Computer Shopper? It's dead meat. The pontificating columnists are worthless, and advice and prices are far easier and faster to get on the Web. Publication lead times are what, two or three months?--an insanely long time for technology.
Before the Web, back when Computer Shopper ran near a thousand pages, it was worthwhile (actually, it was worthwhile even longer ago, when Stan Veit owned it and you could still read something about computers other than IBM clones)...now, with the magazine running at barely two hundred pages and shrinking, I'd be surprised if Computer Shopper lasts another year in dead tree format.
I remember back when Ziff-Davis bought up many fine computer magazines (e.g. Creative Computing, Color Computer Magazine) only to destroy them, leaving a scorched earth landscape with essentially nothing but Ziff-Davis magazines and no coverage of anything save PClones. Computer Shopper was bought and then all the columnists writing on non-Intel systems told to go away...so as far as I'm concerned, die, Ziff-Davis, home of Intel and MS shills. I'll dance on your grave.
Agreed wholeheartedly; this is an abomination and an affront to history.
I'll admit to doing things to enhance my CoCo 3s, like putting in a 6309, using an AT keyboard interface, adding SCSI and IDE cards and eventually putting at least one in a PClone case, so that from a strict preservationist point of view I suppose I'm sinning...but those mods at least preserve the spirit of the machine rather than turn it into just another (insert favorite expletive) PClone under the hood.
Look more closely at the FAQ (under "Customer Services"). That $69.95 is a "special limited-time annual cost"...so later on, you get to pay more to watch commercials.
Why do you trust Microsoft more than your own government?
A government can be changed by the will of people, and exists to do the will of the people (even populism gives people what they think they want).
A corporation exists to make as many money as possible for their own benifit, that ever benifit that gives to society is a sideeffect.
I don't trust either of them.
You say a government can be changed by the will of the people...but at least for a while, incumbents had a better chance of being re-elected in the US Congress than they had in the Supreme Soviet, and the government has a power that, so far at least, even Microsoft doesn't have--they have an army and a police force that can come and take my property and throw me into jail if I don't go along. So far, I have yet to go to jail for not using Windows.
Besides, what's so great about the will of the people? I like my will better, and in a business transaction, I get to say what I trade my money or goods for; I don't have to go along with what the majority or its alleged representatives decide.
What person of any intelligence would put a styrofoam cup full of hot liquid between his or her legs and then remove the plastic lid, the only thing resisting the inward pressure of his or her legs? McDonald's shouldn't be held responsible for customers who are sufficiently stupid as to put themselves in harm's way.
MS could buy BIGNUM hackers and put them to work finding security holes in Linux and BSD using a trivial percentage of their petty cash. MS has done things with the intent of breaking other software in the past (e.g. the bogus warning when Windows 3.1 ran atop something other than MS-DOS, the calls in win32s.dll that ask for RAM intentionally out of range for virtual DOS sessions under OS/2, "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run"). It's not a matter of hatred; it's a matter of MS SOP.
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Won't these people learn? Didn't they see the Terminator?
Haven't you read the Bolo stories? If I remember Laumer's timeline, we're way overdue for GM to start on the Mark I.:)
<serious>I share Asimov's disgust with the pessimism and "there are things man was not meant to know" attitude, a disgust which pushed him to write his robot stories. There are good and evil humans (I see the Bill Gates Borg icon as I type....)--what is it about AI that makes people think it will automatically be evil?</serious>
[Linux] remains far behind [in usage] on personal systems, but at such time as the Linux nerds catch on to the importance of user friendliness, that should change. Before too long I hope to get the ear of some of them, even if they don't necessarily like what I say.
You definitely have our ears here; please, have at it. Anyone who only hears from those who agree with him won't learn diddly, so I hope the folks who matter will listen.
The Avant Prime and Stellar keyboards (mentioned elsewhere in this thread; see the CVT web site for details) were evidently designed by the folks who did the Northgate Omnikey, and judging by a review I read, share its sturdiness. (The key reprogramming software runs under Windows; no word as to whether it will run under WINE.) Rather pricey at $150, but if you're at your keyboard a lot, it might be worth it.
The authors of the cited article have an interest in denying the existence of "path dependence" so that they can argue that the most popular product is always the best. (I'm a libertarian, and have no love of government, but I can't agree to that.) For balance it might also be worth looking at this web page.
G.H. Hardy wrote several books on math for the interested layperson: A Course of Pure Mathematics, A Mathematician's Apology, and one titled something like Mathematics for the Common Man.
Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million is a standard of this sort; Hogben's ideology gets a bit in the way--he, very much unlike Hardy, has very little truck for pure mathematics.
Isaac Asimov's Realm of Numbers and Realm of Algebra are classics--and, alas, darned hard to find.
Jagjit Singh wrote several books on technical and mathematical matters for the layperson, including a very good one on information theory.
As someone else has mentioned, Dover reprints a LOT of good books on many subjects, especially mathematics.
Now...a lot of the popular mathematics books concentrate on analysis. Internet Ninja didn't specify a particular interest--algebra (in the abstract sense, i.e. groups, rings, fields, and the like), topology, category theory, and so on. Knowing whether IN has specific interests would help.
It's actually pretty amazing to see such a MS toady as David Coursey (his column on "My Dinner with Bill" is useful either for laughter or antiperistalsis, depending on how you feel at the time) coming out with a column like this. Does anyone questioning Palladium have the kind of public forum that Levy has with Newsweek, though?
It's time for the Trappist monks to sue Cage's publisher. (For that matter, you'll recall the final track, "The Monks' Vow of Silence" on the Chantmania CD. If Cage's publisher didn't sue the Benzedrine Monks of Santa Demonica, then clearly they have not been vigorously protecting their copyright, have they?)
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There's an assumption of rationality there--but come to think of it, the counterexamples that come to mind are all government-generated (the War on Some Drugs, the War on Poverty, entitlement programs, government-run schools--all fiascos but many people still think that if we just bled taxpayers a little whiter or gave a few more draconian and totalitarian powers, they'd start working) so never mind...
Agreed. To use a canonical ASL example:
:), doesn't have "to be.")
FINISH TOUCH SAN FRANCISCO
accompanied by a facial expression used to mark a question, translates as "Have you been to San Francisco?" (FINISH is used as a marker of completed action--sometimes that's rendered with a perfect tense in English, but not always; also, ASL, like Klingon
Another facial expression gets used like the Japanese topic marker wa, and in its presence, word order in an utterance isn't necessarily what an English speaker would expect.
(Then there's the placement of adjectives after the things they modify, an influence of French and French sign language on ASL, or the use of rhetorical questions...)
As for why people don't learn sign...in my case, I do want to learn sign, but I'd have to travel quite a distance to get to a place that teaches it seriously. (As a programmer, I'm always looking for the BNF at the back of the book--surely someone's written a generative grammar for ASL? Please?)
One of the greats has gone.
(I know it's wrong, and I know it's gallows humor, but somehow, I hope that "V" is inscribed on his tombstone.)
Check out Sisal.
You can't get more than 100% faster, or you'd have the answer before you asked the question. It used to take 1020 (17 hr * 60 min/hr) minutes, and now it takes 11 minutes; the time it takes has been cut by 1009 / 1020 * 100 percent, about 98.9%.
Can it really have sped up that much? Yes, but it's hard to believe that the OS is the cause. They almost certainly got faster hardware when they switched, the compiler technology may be better, and if they have to consult a database to do the calculation, they quite possibly have a different or newer (and one would hope improved) DBMS.
- Hype!
- Actually produce a product.
- Profit!
This, for the Bitboys, was the turning point.Agreed, USENET is dying, but the "tragedy of the commons" is a big reason. If nobody owns a thing, nobody takes care of it, and people will abuse anything that costs nothing--hence spam, trolls, etc.
How ironic...the architecture of Dorian Gray, with endless bags on the side added over the past two decades (a long time in computer years)--only made to run reasonably by internally interpreting it on the fly into something decent and executing the result...and technically knowledgeable people are praying that the latest flogging of the dead horse is successful? I know, I'm guilty of it, too, because I want Intel to lose, but how strange that Intel's doing something right, namely starting over, is so universally deprecated (vide the "Itanic" nickname common on websites like The Register).
Jesse was great compared to what is there now.
No excrement...It's almost embarrassing to read a David Coursey column because the craven, slobbering, bootlicking groveling to and worship of Bill Gates is laid on so thick. The best example of this has to be his "My Lunch With Bill" two-column sequence. It's positively antiperistaltogenic.
Computer Shopper? It's dead meat. The pontificating columnists are worthless, and advice and prices are far easier and faster to get on the Web. Publication lead times are what, two or three months?--an insanely long time for technology.
Before the Web, back when Computer Shopper ran near a thousand pages, it was worthwhile (actually, it was worthwhile even longer ago, when Stan Veit owned it and you could still read something about computers other than IBM clones)...now, with the magazine running at barely two hundred pages and shrinking, I'd be surprised if Computer Shopper lasts another year in dead tree format.
I remember back when Ziff-Davis bought up many fine computer magazines (e.g. Creative Computing, Color Computer Magazine) only to destroy them, leaving a scorched earth landscape with essentially nothing but Ziff-Davis magazines and no coverage of anything save PClones. Computer Shopper was bought and then all the columnists writing on non-Intel systems told to go away...so as far as I'm concerned, die, Ziff-Davis, home of Intel and MS shills. I'll dance on your grave.
Agreed wholeheartedly; this is an abomination and an affront to history.
I'll admit to doing things to enhance my CoCo 3s, like putting in a 6309, using an AT keyboard interface, adding SCSI and IDE cards and eventually putting at least one in a PClone case, so that from a strict preservationist point of view I suppose I'm sinning...but those mods at least preserve the spirit of the machine rather than turn it into just another (insert favorite expletive) PClone under the hood.
Look more closely at the FAQ (under "Customer Services"). That $69.95 is a "special limited-time annual cost"...so later on, you get to pay more to watch commercials.
A government can be changed by the will of people, and exists to do the will of the people (even populism gives people what they think they want).
A corporation exists to make as many money as possible for their own benifit, that ever benifit that gives to society is a sideeffect.
I don't trust either of them.
You say a government can be changed by the will of the people...but at least for a while, incumbents had a better chance of being re-elected in the US Congress than they had in the Supreme Soviet, and the government has a power that, so far at least, even Microsoft doesn't have--they have an army and a police force that can come and take my property and throw me into jail if I don't go along. So far, I have yet to go to jail for not using Windows.
Besides, what's so great about the will of the people? I like my will better, and in a business transaction, I get to say what I trade my money or goods for; I don't have to go along with what the majority or its alleged representatives decide.
What person of any intelligence would put a styrofoam cup full of hot liquid between his or her legs and then remove the plastic lid, the only thing resisting the inward pressure of his or her legs? McDonald's shouldn't be held responsible for customers who are sufficiently stupid as to put themselves in harm's way.
MS could buy BIGNUM hackers and put them to work finding security holes in Linux and BSD using a trivial percentage of their petty cash. MS has done things with the intent of breaking other software in the past (e.g. the bogus warning when Windows 3.1 ran atop something other than MS-DOS, the calls in win32s.dll that ask for RAM intentionally out of range for virtual DOS sessions under OS/2, "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run"). It's not a matter of hatred; it's a matter of MS SOP.
Haven't you read the Bolo stories? If I remember Laumer's timeline, we're way overdue for GM to start on the Mark I. :)
<serious>I share Asimov's disgust with the pessimism and "there are things man was not meant to know" attitude, a disgust which pushed him to write his robot stories. There are good and evil humans (I see the Bill Gates Borg icon as I type....)--what is it about AI that makes people think it will automatically be evil?</serious>
For the honor of the regiment,
jejones
Well...there is a Japanese painting titled "The Fart Battle." If I remember rightly, the contestants are shown on horseback.
The Avant Prime and Stellar keyboards (mentioned elsewhere in this thread; see the CVT web site for details) were evidently designed by the folks who did the Northgate Omnikey, and judging by a review I read, share its sturdiness. (The key reprogramming software runs under Windows; no word as to whether it will run under WINE.) Rather pricey at $150, but if you're at your keyboard a lot, it might be worth it.
The authors of the cited article have an interest in denying the existence of "path dependence" so that they can argue that the most popular product is always the best. (I'm a libertarian, and have no love of government, but I can't agree to that.) For balance it might also be worth looking at this web page.
- G.H. Hardy wrote several books on math for the interested layperson: A Course of Pure Mathematics, A Mathematician's Apology, and one titled something like Mathematics for the Common Man.
- Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million is a standard of this sort; Hogben's ideology gets a bit in the way--he, very much unlike Hardy, has very little truck for pure mathematics.
- Isaac Asimov's Realm of Numbers and Realm of Algebra are classics--and, alas, darned hard to find.
- Jagjit Singh wrote several books on technical and mathematical matters for the layperson, including a very good one on information theory.
As someone else has mentioned, Dover reprints a LOT of good books on many subjects, especially mathematics.Now...a lot of the popular mathematics books concentrate on analysis. Internet Ninja didn't specify a particular interest--algebra (in the abstract sense, i.e. groups, rings, fields, and the like), topology, category theory, and so on. Knowing whether IN has specific interests would help.
It's actually pretty amazing to see such a MS toady as David Coursey (his column on "My Dinner with Bill" is useful either for laughter or antiperistalsis, depending on how you feel at the time) coming out with a column like this. Does anyone questioning Palladium have the kind of public forum that Levy has with Newsweek, though?
It's time for the Trappist monks to sue Cage's publisher. (For that matter, you'll recall the final track, "The Monks' Vow of Silence" on the Chantmania CD. If Cage's publisher didn't sue the Benzedrine Monks of Santa Demonica, then clearly they have not been vigorously protecting their copyright, have they?)
Well...according to the FAQ, Winamp for Linux will not be open source, so I wouldn't count out XMMS as having no role for Linux in the future.