I just find the idea of a cure for autism hard to accept, because I think the cure is incompatible with what autism "enables" in some people. If someone is socially inept because he spends all his time with mathematics, the cure would make him socially active, but he'd stop doing math. What is cured then? You've made a person normal instead of special.
Of course in the above I'm not talking about people with autism who can't do anything at all except sit in a corner, I guess for many people with autism you could imagine a cure, but I think in some cases it isn't a cure and a person with totally different abilities than regular people, even if these abilities prevent them from living a normal live, should be allowed to keep living with this special ability instead.
If someone has some form of autism making him extremely good at something (music, math, extreme memory, collecting stamps,...), would this medicine affect his ability to do that?
Should there also be a shrimp free zone for those who are allergic to shrimps, and a strawberry free zone for those who are alergic to strawberries, and maybe a sweater free zone for those who are allergic to sweaters?
Something else I'll probably never need
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Yet another kind of connection from PC to TV?
Why not just watch on the monitor of the PC, or use a projector?
That would have INFINITE value. Having the whole human race actually work on something, instead of just slacking off and constantly fighting legal battles instead.
Hmm, for such a record attempt, do you actually have to calculate all these earlier digits? They're already known. Can anyone prove the computer calculated the already known digits first (instead of getting them from a table) before finally getting to the 120 million new ones?
The story was pretty cliché. I'm not sure how Americans see this, but I can usually predict the end of American movies while European or Asian movies are much more unpredictable. So yeah, you know, if in an American movie there's a male and a female character you know what's going to happen. There are exceptions of course, e.g. LOTR (but then again, Tolkien wasn't really an American).
But it didn't really matter to me that the story was somewhat weak! The effects and graphics were the most amazing ones I've ever seen. I saw it in 3D but I think even without that it'd have been the best so far. So, well done:)
I haven't used VIM that much. I grew up with text editors like QBasic in MS DOS and then notepad, gedit, kedit, text input boxes in web browsers, and such. So that's the style I'm used to, the kind of things like: selecting words / lines / multiple lines with either the mouse or a combination of shift key + arrow keys; searching for words with "ctrl+f"; saving with "ctrl+s"; undo with "ctrl+z",... You know, the way of working in virtually every editor except VI(M) and Emacs.
Now what I think Vim users are saying is, that working with Vim is faster than with the "normal" editors I described. I haven't used Vim often enough to be able to say whether that's true or not. But a few things make me think that this is not true. Some of those things that make me sceptical about Vim being faster to work with are: afaik no mouse; cursor movement keys don't have shape of arrow keys; key shortcuts and combinations that don't match those of most of todays software; no usage of graphical GUI in its interface. Interface designed in the 70's (nothing wrong with that but normally one would expect that todays interfaces have come together out of more research about UI's than those of the 70's). I think people who grew up with Vim in a time when today's UI standard of text editors didn't exist yet, find Vim faster to work with because they're used to it.
So basically, to believe that Vim is faster to work than "regular" text editors, I'd have to see statistics that for most people, even those who have used "regular" text editors their whole life and never Vim, will be able to edit text faster with Vim after they learn Vim and used it long enough. Has any research been done about this?
A physical book has a sort of built-in DRM! If you give it away, you can't read it anymore. It can't easily be copied (it requires a lot of scanning and printing to do that). Isn't that kind of thing also part of the intention of DRM?
IMHO though, the world has changed, we now live in a world where information can be copied without any physical restrictions. So I hope that one day humanity will be able to live in that world, instead of trying to enforce old ways onto us with DRM. I'm sure that in a world where information can be copied freely, there can also be culture, people who make money, artists, and so on.
I didn't read your entire post, but, MS Office can't properly handle CSV either. If you have an internationalized Windows and in the language settings of WINDOWS (not of office or anything!!), you have somewhere ";" instead of "," as "separator", then MS Excel can't read a CSV that uses "," anymore! It's called COMMA separated list, and yet excel can't read it and uses your localized settings, so that people with a computer of a different language can't even exchange such files with each other!
Come on, it's called CSV, why doesn't MS Office always use comma's then.
I wasn't taught how to program by someone. I discovered QBasic in DOS myself when I was 13 and was automatically drawn into it. I liked programming graphical things the most (plotting pixels with PSET). The fact that such graphical things were possible is what interested me so much. I'm not sure how this is with other people, but programming boring text examples makes it uninteresting probably.
I was a student at this university, some 5 years ago all students who visited IMEC had to do an experiment for them, namely wear a watch with this technology and then it'd generate a few microwatts out of the difference between the outside and body temperature. They even gave a funny speech related to The Matrix before the experiment. It seems they've improved a lot in the meantime, though it's a shame the article doesn't mention how much power it currently generates.
I'm European myself and I didn't even know we had DMCA style legislation here, and also not that the EU would demand something from Canada. Now this article combines both. How is this possible?
So far I don't think we've done or created anything that comes near to the effect of natural disasters such as a volcano or meteor strike or tsuname or... If humans are gone, the nuclear reactors left won't have any significant effect on wildlife I think, other than a few fishes with 3 eyes.
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I just find the idea of a cure for autism hard to accept, because I think the cure is incompatible with what autism "enables" in some people. If someone is socially inept because he spends all his time with mathematics, the cure would make him socially active, but he'd stop doing math. What is cured then? You've made a person normal instead of special.
Of course in the above I'm not talking about people with autism who can't do anything at all except sit in a corner, I guess for many people with autism you could imagine a cure, but I think in some cases it isn't a cure and a person with totally different abilities than regular people, even if these abilities prevent them from living a normal live, should be allowed to keep living with this special ability instead.
If someone has some form of autism making him extremely good at something (music, math, extreme memory, collecting stamps, ...), would this medicine affect his ability to do that?
Duke Nukem Forever is FOREVER!
Should there also be a shrimp free zone for those who are allergic to shrimps, and a strawberry free zone for those who are alergic to strawberries, and maybe a sweater free zone for those who are allergic to sweaters?
Yet another kind of connection from PC to TV?
Why not just watch on the monitor of the PC, or use a projector?
MS, if you want to help SVG, how about supporting the current standard of it in your browser? kthx.
Whoa, the motion blur image with the birds and the mountain is nice, what game is that screenshot from??!!1
That would have INFINITE value. Having the whole human race actually work on something, instead of just slacking off and constantly fighting legal battles instead.
Hmm, for such a record attempt, do you actually have to calculate all these earlier digits? They're already known. Can anyone prove the computer calculated the already known digits first (instead of getting them from a table) before finally getting to the 120 million new ones?
Not relevant to the plot? What WAS relevant to the plot then? The plot isn't really what makes this movie stand out... The 3D is.
The story was pretty cliché. I'm not sure how Americans see this, but I can usually predict the end of American movies while European or Asian movies are much more unpredictable. So yeah, you know, if in an American movie there's a male and a female character you know what's going to happen. There are exceptions of course, e.g. LOTR (but then again, Tolkien wasn't really an American).
But it didn't really matter to me that the story was somewhat weak! The effects and graphics were the most amazing ones I've ever seen. I saw it in 3D but I think even without that it'd have been the best so far. So, well done :)
These comments don't make me certain of that.
I haven't used VIM that much. I grew up with text editors like QBasic in MS DOS and then notepad, gedit, kedit, text input boxes in web browsers, and such. So that's the style I'm used to, the kind of things like: selecting words / lines / multiple lines with either the mouse or a combination of shift key + arrow keys; searching for words with "ctrl+f"; saving with "ctrl+s"; undo with "ctrl+z", ... You know, the way of working in virtually every editor except VI(M) and Emacs.
Now what I think Vim users are saying is, that working with Vim is faster than with the "normal" editors I described. I haven't used Vim often enough to be able to say whether that's true or not. But a few things make me think that this is not true. Some of those things that make me sceptical about Vim being faster to work with are: afaik no mouse; cursor movement keys don't have shape of arrow keys; key shortcuts and combinations that don't match those of most of todays software; no usage of graphical GUI in its interface. Interface designed in the 70's (nothing wrong with that but normally one would expect that todays interfaces have come together out of more research about UI's than those of the 70's). I think people who grew up with Vim in a time when today's UI standard of text editors didn't exist yet, find Vim faster to work with because they're used to it.
So basically, to believe that Vim is faster to work than "regular" text editors, I'd have to see statistics that for most people, even those who have used "regular" text editors their whole life and never Vim, will be able to edit text faster with Vim after they learn Vim and used it long enough. Has any research been done about this?
A physical book has a sort of built-in DRM! If you give it away, you can't read it anymore. It can't easily be copied (it requires a lot of scanning and printing to do that). Isn't that kind of thing also part of the intention of DRM?
IMHO though, the world has changed, we now live in a world where information can be copied without any physical restrictions. So I hope that one day humanity will be able to live in that world, instead of trying to enforce old ways onto us with DRM. I'm sure that in a world where information can be copied freely, there can also be culture, people who make money, artists, and so on.
I didn't read your entire post, but, MS Office can't properly handle CSV either. If you have an internationalized Windows and in the language settings of WINDOWS (not of office or anything!!), you have somewhere ";" instead of "," as "separator", then MS Excel can't read a CSV that uses "," anymore! It's called COMMA separated list, and yet excel can't read it and uses your localized settings, so that people with a computer of a different language can't even exchange such files with each other!
Come on, it's called CSV, why doesn't MS Office always use comma's then.
It seems like they reinvented Newgrounds (which is 14 years old and still kicking!).
Maybe the particles that causes the tsunami also started 1.5 days earlier.
Yes, Linus, if you're reading this, happy birthday! :)
That's just 1 day after the tsunami. Could there be a connection?!
I wasn't taught how to program by someone. I discovered QBasic in DOS myself when I was 13 and was automatically drawn into it. I liked programming graphical things the most (plotting pixels with PSET). The fact that such graphical things were possible is what interested me so much. I'm not sure how this is with other people, but programming boring text examples makes it uninteresting probably.
And I have the same question for the memristor. Both look very interesting to me.
I was a student at this university, some 5 years ago all students who visited IMEC had to do an experiment for them, namely wear a watch with this technology and then it'd generate a few microwatts out of the difference between the outside and body temperature. They even gave a funny speech related to The Matrix before the experiment. It seems they've improved a lot in the meantime, though it's a shame the article doesn't mention how much power it currently generates.
That would be an easy fix I think...
I'm European myself and I didn't even know we had DMCA style legislation here, and also not that the EU would demand something from Canada. Now this article combines both. How is this possible?
If your parent is a troll... then... You'd also be born as a troll!
So far I don't think we've done or created anything that comes near to the effect of natural disasters such as a volcano or meteor strike or tsuname or... If humans are gone, the nuclear reactors left won't have any significant effect on wildlife I think, other than a few fishes with 3 eyes.