If you think that cnn.com is the authoritative news site on the Internet you should really check out The Independent.
Ever since 9/11 CNN has backed down from the hard questions and essentially repeats the offical line -- rather than doing some reporting (or even displaying some insight) to expose the real deal.
Because he's assuming that the parser program works like this:
Say the program has a few variables, and that those variables are used multiple times within the program:
integer1 integer47 var00002 integer29
As this process moves through the program, outputing a program with differed variable names, integer1 and all occurances of it become var00001, integer47 and all occurances of it become var00002. Hence, when the parser then reaches the variable that was initially var00002 it will conclude that var00002 is another one of the renamed integer47's. The parser can't simply increment and rename the variables if they occur multiple times. To do so would create a program containing entirely unique variable names, which could be a potential Bad Thing.
Eh, it's not your fault. The search system for slashdot is...ahh, lacking to say the least. They should really just hire google to breathe new life into the article search.
Ahh, but if we're being truly Buddist about our karma (and if we aren't, what's the point?) then we don't want karma. Karma binds us to the wheel of life, preventing us from departing the earthy world and attaining enlightenment. Bad karma creates chains of hot iron, but all Good karma does is create chains of gold.
Of course I wouldn't want my servers to awaken and free themselves of the cosmos -- so maybe you've made a good argument for Microsoft in this case;-).
So essentially this would be the technological version of a stage theatre production? If it's done right it could merge the uniqueness of a live performance with some spiffy effects that would not be possible to create otherwise. Sounds cool to me!
Ahh, I see now that I did indeed misinterpret your original post, and I did instead mis-understand communitization as to apply some concept throughout the community (e.g. communes in the 1950s and 60s and all of the conflicting policies that were handed down during that era).
But I'm afraid I must still disagree.
The Communist leaders weren't foiled by a changing world but by their own (hrm, rather Mao's) impatience. Starting with the Great Leap Forward, Mao pushed for a rapidness of revolution that simply could not be sustained by a large population, certainly not one the size of China's at the time, although they tried. This set a precedent for the rest of Mao's rule (influence would be a better word perhaps). That's why he was effectively ousted from the party in the early 1960s, so the CCP could proceed with their totalitarian vision that Mao's concept of constant struggle was interfering with.
I do not doubt that your conclusion would be correct if Mao had remained a "dead ancestor" in Shanghai in the early 1960s as the other party members hoped. Instead he used his cultural influence to create the red guards, and used his ties with the army to re-instate himself into power. Of course this led to the Cultural Revolution.
After the Cultural Revolution the people had simply become anti-political, they were tired of being micromanaged by the CCP. They no longer cared about some future perfection, they wanted stability -- and were willing to sacrifice political ideals to get it.
When Deng Xiaoping broke Hua Guofeng's holding pattern, he really had little choice but to introduce capitalism and give some controls back to the populace to revive China's production and economy.
During all of this there was little in the way of foreign, or "bad", influences affecting the people of China. Actually it was in one case the other way around, the Black Panthers smuggled thousands of copies of Mao's Little Red Book into the United States during the early 1970s. When people were punished for "going capitalist" during the Cultural Revolution, it was really for reverting to the ways of the past -- a very serious crime when your government is based on iconoclasm.
In China, it seems as though a similar evolution is occuring; The alter-ego of Soviet Commuism, Chinese Communism, is being exposed to it's antithesis. Russian Communism focused, as I understand, mainly on supression and communitization of materialism, but was then faced with the holy grail of materialism, McDonalds.
First off you can't suppress something and spread it throughout the community at the same time.
Second, Chinese Communism split from what was Soviet Communism back in the 1950s as China pissed off the USSR by declaring that they were going to Do It Their Way. Nowadays calling the Chinese government Communist is a joke. A joke perpetuated primarily for the benefit of the old party members who still wield control. They have even whipped up an excuse that allows self-proclaimed capitalists to join the Chinese Communist Party! The best explanation of China's current policy is this:
The CCP leaders are riding in a taxicab, ahead is a fork in the road with one path leading to Communism and one to Capitalism. The driver asks: Which way should I go? After a brief discussion, the leaders tell the driver to signal a turn to Communism, but to actually turn towards Capitalism.
The CCP wants to keep control over information, but the party isn't stupid. There is just an ongoing high level conflict on government policy, the Internet is just one of the controls being exploited by each side.
It is possible to equate Dunkurk with Yavin or Endor? Yes it is.
Go ahead. I didn't see any evidence in EOTC or ROTJ of the Emperor refuting his generals' advice (The Emperor actually seemed to seriously listen to Vader as a matter of fact) and changing battle strategies on a whim, or, indeed, of him taking "complete control." What scenes are you thinking of that give evidence of this?
No no no, he needs to go to Charlotte, NC and completely rename at least four of the streets. In Charlotte there is one intersection at which 5 streets intersect...and they are all named "Queen". The types of roads are different of course (e.g. Queen Street, Queen Road, Queen Court) but still, can you imagine giving (or following) directions through that oddity?
Having an adult around doesn't affect what's on the screen, that's for sure.
Sorry but I have to somewhat disagree with this, and if you had said "Having an attentive parent around..." I would have been forced to disagree completely.
My parents did not believe in movie ratings (except in a few extreme cases) and allowed us kids to go with them to the few movies that were worth seeing each year. I can still remember their hushed comments at key points during the movie and then discussions afterwards about such things as "movie language" vs "what we say in the real world" et cetera.
Far from psychologically damaging my siblings and I, these experiences helped us to grow and to learn about different ways of thought and action that ultimately helped us to learn to cope with most aspects of life in these United States.
Movies can be a great launchpad for serious discussions about life, how to live, how other people live, and how to deal with it all -- if you use your resources and adult influence wisely.
Everyone? I see at the tabulation page on jumptheshark.com that 1,345 users voted that it never jumped (many adding in the comments: Never jumped, never will), the next closest category has 96 votes.
Furthermore: It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark. - from Jump the Shark.com.
Ok, what is so difficult about this? Jumping the Shark is not, "when the show is clearly bad." JTS is that moment that stands as the pinnacle of the show such that all following episodes are lesser in comparison. Now, the Simpsons may get really bad but it's probably that it will never Jump the Shark because it has (so far) always hit on moments of genius even in this last season.
But if it did Jump the Shark, it's definitely already happened and my favorite contender is the first episode of "Who Shot Mister Burns?".
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Did you see Resident Evil? Great vg->movie. I played RE obsessively and loved the movie, my gf and her sister had never even heard of the games and loved the movie. What more do you want?
Also, for people running Windows (gotta play warcraft3!)
Dude, Warcraft 3 is going to be one of Transgaming's flagship games. Their library of compatible games just keeps growing, and with the recent release of a DirectX8.1 implementation it just keeps getting better and better.
It's now used to describe the episode in a series where long time fans give up watching a long running series because it has just become too much of a joke, too much of a cliche, or so far from the original premise that it doesn't warrant watching anymore.
No no no! The phrase "jump the shark" is used to describe a specific episode in which the series in question peaked, leaving the show nowhere to go but down unless they "jump back."
Exactly! The above post is right on the money. In spite of what any paranoid people might *like* to think, they should realize that they are simply not that important. No, not even to your local grocery store. Just another datapoint. Datapoints are good, lots of datapoints are necessary but in no way individually interesting.
Or when, as my brother tells me, the instructions to connecting your monitor told you with no trace of irony to grab the nearest occilloscope to determine frequency timings.
He sure did take it with good humor. After reading the story he sent the following email to the offices of The Onion:
"You have blown my cover as a wheelchair-bound mad professor. But little do you guess I'm really a Time Lord from Andromeda." http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/onion_pr .h tml
Slashdot Mirror
If you think that cnn.com is the authoritative news site on the Internet you should really check out The Independent.
Ever since 9/11 CNN has backed down from the hard questions and essentially repeats the offical line -- rather than doing some reporting (or even displaying some insight) to expose the real deal.
Sure any googler can do that, but it isn't integrated with the site.
Does it list articles by date? Can you search user comments only? Can you search by title only?
Because he's assuming that the parser program works like this:
Say the program has a few variables, and that those variables are used multiple times within the program:
integer1
integer47
var00002
integer29
As this process moves through the program, outputing a program with differed variable names, integer1 and all occurances of it become var00001, integer47 and all occurances of it become var00002. Hence, when the parser then reaches the variable that was initially var00002 it will conclude that var00002 is another one of the renamed integer47's. The parser can't simply increment and rename the variables if they occur multiple times. To do so would create a program containing entirely unique variable names, which could be a potential Bad Thing.
Eh, it's not your fault. The search system for slashdot is...ahh, lacking to say the least. They should really just hire google to breathe new life into the article search.
Ahh, but if we're being truly Buddist about our karma (and if we aren't, what's the point?) then we don't want karma. Karma binds us to the wheel of life, preventing us from departing the earthy world and attaining enlightenment. Bad karma creates chains of hot iron, but all Good karma does is create chains of gold.
;-).
Of course I wouldn't want my servers to awaken and free themselves of the cosmos -- so maybe you've made a good argument for Microsoft in this case
What about dumping it into a subduction zone?
Ahh, I see someone has taken (or leads) the
Wild Cave Tour at Mammoth Cave, KY.
Yah, except it's motion captured actor that is doing the..ah...acting.
So essentially this would be the technological version of a stage theatre production? If it's done right it could merge the uniqueness of a live performance with some spiffy effects that would not be possible to create otherwise. Sounds cool to me!
They're like walnuts, only evil!
We have as much privacy as most people [in our respective, democratic countries] want, or think they deserve, to have. Scary, isn't it?
Ahh, I see now that I did indeed misinterpret your original post, and I did instead mis-understand communitization as to apply some concept throughout the community (e.g. communes in the 1950s and 60s and all of the conflicting policies that were handed down during that era).
But I'm afraid I must still disagree.
The Communist leaders weren't foiled by a changing world but by their own (hrm, rather Mao's) impatience. Starting with the Great Leap Forward, Mao pushed for a rapidness of revolution that simply could not be sustained by a large population, certainly not one the size of China's at the time, although they tried. This set a precedent for the rest of Mao's rule (influence would be a better word perhaps). That's why he was effectively ousted from the party in the early 1960s, so the CCP could proceed with their totalitarian vision that Mao's concept of constant struggle was interfering with.
I do not doubt that your conclusion would be correct if Mao had remained a "dead ancestor" in Shanghai in the early 1960s as the other party members hoped. Instead he used his cultural influence to create the red guards, and used his ties with the army to re-instate himself into power. Of course this led to the Cultural Revolution.
After the Cultural Revolution the people had simply become anti-political, they were tired of being micromanaged by the CCP. They no longer cared about some future perfection, they wanted stability -- and were willing to sacrifice political ideals to get it.
When Deng Xiaoping broke Hua Guofeng's holding pattern, he really had little choice but to introduce capitalism and give some controls back to the populace to revive China's production and economy.
During all of this there was little in the way of foreign, or "bad", influences affecting the people of China. Actually it was in one case the other way around, the Black Panthers smuggled thousands of copies of Mao's Little Red Book into the United States during the early 1970s. When people were punished for "going capitalist" during the Cultural Revolution, it was really for reverting to the ways of the past -- a very serious crime when your government is based on iconoclasm.
In China, it seems as though a similar evolution is occuring; The alter-ego of Soviet Commuism, Chinese Communism, is being exposed to it's antithesis. Russian Communism focused, as I understand, mainly on supression and communitization of materialism, but was then faced with the holy grail of materialism, McDonalds.
First off you can't suppress something and spread it throughout the community at the same time.
Second, Chinese Communism split from what was Soviet Communism back in the 1950s as China pissed off the USSR by declaring that they were going to Do It Their Way.
Nowadays calling the Chinese government Communist is a joke. A joke perpetuated primarily for the benefit of the old party members who still wield control. They have even whipped up an excuse that allows self-proclaimed capitalists to join the Chinese Communist Party! The best explanation of China's current policy is this:
The CCP leaders are riding in a taxicab, ahead is a fork in the road with one path leading to Communism and one to Capitalism. The driver asks: Which way should I go? After a brief discussion, the leaders tell the driver to signal a turn to Communism, but to actually turn towards Capitalism.
The CCP wants to keep control over information, but the party isn't stupid. There is just an ongoing high level conflict on government policy, the Internet is just one of the controls being exploited by each side.
Right on! So right on in fact that I'll bet 5 imperial credits that the moderators ignore your post :-)
Wow, calling Pinochet "relatively benign"
Remember, he called Pinochet a relatively benign dictator. He didn't say that Pinochet was benign on his own merit.
It is possible to equate Dunkurk with Yavin or Endor? Yes it is.
Go ahead. I didn't see any evidence in EOTC or ROTJ of the Emperor refuting his generals' advice (The Emperor actually seemed to seriously listen to Vader as a matter of fact) and changing battle strategies on a whim, or, indeed, of him taking "complete control." What scenes are you thinking of that give evidence of this?
No no no, he needs to go to Charlotte, NC and completely rename at least four of the streets. In Charlotte there is one intersection at which 5 streets intersect...and they are all named "Queen". The types of roads are different of course (e.g. Queen Street, Queen Road, Queen Court) but still, can you imagine giving (or following) directions through that oddity?
Having an adult around doesn't affect what's on the screen, that's for sure.
Sorry but I have to somewhat disagree with this, and if you had said "Having an attentive parent around..." I would have been forced to disagree completely.
My parents did not believe in movie ratings (except in a few extreme cases) and allowed us kids to go with them to the few movies that were worth seeing each year. I can still remember their hushed comments at key points during the movie and then discussions afterwards about such things as "movie language" vs "what we say in the real world" et cetera.
Far from psychologically damaging my siblings and I, these experiences helped us to grow and to learn about different ways of thought and action that ultimately helped us to learn to cope with most aspects of life in these United States.
Movies can be a great launchpad for serious discussions about life, how to live, how other people live, and how to deal with it all -- if you use your resources and adult influence wisely.
Everyone? I see at the tabulation page on jumptheshark.com that 1,345 users voted that it never jumped (many adding in the comments: Never jumped, never will), the next closest category has 96 votes.
Furthermore: It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it jumping the shark. - from Jump the Shark.com.
Ok, what is so difficult about this? Jumping the Shark is not, "when the show is clearly bad." JTS is that moment that stands as the pinnacle of the show such that all following episodes are lesser in comparison. Now, the Simpsons may get really bad but it's probably that it will never Jump the Shark because it has (so far) always hit on moments of genius even in this last season.
But if it did Jump the Shark, it's definitely already happened and my favorite contender is the first episode of "Who Shot Mister Burns?".
Did you see Resident Evil? Great vg->movie. I played RE obsessively and loved the movie, my gf and her sister had never even heard of the games and loved the movie. What more do you want?
Also, for people running Windows (gotta play warcraft3!)
Dude, Warcraft 3 is going to be one of Transgaming's flagship games. Their library of compatible games just keeps growing, and with the recent release of a DirectX8.1 implementation it just keeps getting better and better.
It's now used to describe the episode in a series where long time fans give up watching a long running series because it has just become too much of a joke, too much of a cliche, or so far from the original premise that it doesn't warrant watching anymore.
No no no! The phrase "jump the shark" is used to describe a specific episode in which the series in question peaked, leaving the show nowhere to go but down unless they "jump back."
Don't just trust me on it: check out the Jump the Shark FAQ.
Exactly! The above post is right on the money. In spite of what any paranoid people might *like* to think, they should realize that they are simply not that important. No, not even to your local grocery store. Just another datapoint. Datapoints are good, lots of datapoints are necessary but in no way individually interesting.
Or when, as my brother tells me, the instructions to connecting your monitor told you with no trace of irony to grab the nearest occilloscope to determine frequency timings.
He sure did take it with good humor. After reading the story he sent the following email to the offices of The Onion:
r .h tml
"You have blown my cover as a wheelchair-bound mad professor. But little do you guess I'm really a Time Lord from Andromeda."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/onion_p
:-)