A national ballot is the best way to find out which cities water supplies the government is testing it's dumb-dumb juice in.
I say test the water before recounting the votes.
At the same time they can find out if watching too much TV stunts your intelligence, and whether playing violent video games increases your ability to solve complicated visual puzzles (aka the ballot sheet)
Good luck, America. We're rootin' for you in Australia:)
The crazy postal worker comes out of the building holding a poor crying lady in front of him, with a gun to her head. Police cars totally surround the area, cops crouched behind their open doors with guns at the ready...
Officer Fuz points his directional megaphone at the lady's ear and says "Duck now!"
When it happens to me, I work on personal projects that I really enjoy the idea of, and find that loving feeling for programming again when I kick some goals in areas I'm actually interested in. This then reminds me of the fun part of programming - mapping a mental problem to a real live coded solution!
If your typing speed is holding you back, practise on a typing tutor. It is far more satisfying being able to code as fast as you think, so you don't lose that great thought before you can get it down. (You may be able to justify doing your own projects on business time to your bosses when they see your *actual* job productivity increase as a side-effect.)
One other thing you can try: program in English (or whatever your first language is). Use comments and write down your thoughts without even thinking about C. Shuffle them around, see what comes out of it.
And finally: surf the web. Check out memepool.com, miketheheadlesschicken.org, stileproject.com, or whatever gives you a chuckle.
A while back, a relative had a brain tumour, and I wrote a Delphi program that could enable construction of sentences with just limited and simple movement of the mouse - no clicking.
I figured that electric wheelchairs had the minimalist form of control, a 2D input device. In a computer, the challenge is to get it do what you want without having to click mouse buttons, or keyboard keys. A joystick or mouse (without button clicks) are interchangeable input devices, with maybe the joystick being easier.
Software would basically be a nested set of screens with large hotspots that were activated by mouse overs.
If anyone is interested in seeing a demo of this sort of thing, let me know (markoatpcbluesdotcom). It's obviously quite easy to write an app like this.
The other thing I am doing currently is cheaply building a parallel port interface with digital and analog inputs and outputs that are software controllable. This will allow interfacing with household appliances. In Australia, at least, such a kit is available from Dick Smith Electronics for about AUD $50, which at the moment is about US$30.
I am going to be combining software for this with the clickless interface and see what happens.
Another interesting research area is in controlling a cursor on a screen with brain waves. This was achieved about 5 years ago. (Sorry, no reference - check online science mags) A cursor's X and Y movement was not controlled by thinking "UP" or "DOWN", but by thinking about emotionally different things, for example, a peaceful scene for one direction, tense for another. I am not sure about the cost of hacking together one of these devices and connecting it to the parallel port.
The bringing together of all these ideas would create a controllable home environment without ANY physical manipulation, (unless windows crashed).
This is a great application of the Turing Intelligence Test. Can you tell whether your judgment was brought down by a human with a silly wig sitting on his head, or a piece of software run on a computer with a silly wig sitting on top of it. The sooner the interpretation of the law is handed over to a piece of software instead of judge/jury/lawyers/dollars/threats/crime bosses, the sooner we will *all* be able to: 1) Afford justice 2) Compete on a legal footing against $-laden opposition The big question is how seriously we take the judgements handed down by software. This is a prime example of Garbage In, Garbage Out. At least putting the Garbage In would be cheaper than hiring an expensive and skillful lawyer to vomit the garbage into a court hearing. Maybe the case would lean to the side that could type their case in quicker, e.g. Did too! Did not! Did too! Did not! Did not! Did not! Did not.... JUDGEBOT: NOT GUILTY THROUGH WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE
Like so many successful and long-running TV series, there is a logical place where they should be laid to rest. In StarBlazer's case it was once they reached Earth. Unfortunately, they didn't get it. Ah well.
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Funny how often people are prepared to let their religious beliefs be overpowered by science-based superstition... hmmmm. But I hope all the hostages become well again, and my best wishes are with them . No-one deserves that treatment, even for political reasons. Warring nations, take note. No PERSON deserves it.
If you were'nt concerned that the Russkies were using fuel vapor bombs to "target" terrorists, now we have the nuclear car keys handed over to the boy who enjoys destroying insects with magnifying glasses on sunny days.
If I had a choice, America wouldn't be my international policeman of choice ( I think Australia has better sportsmen), but I don't have one, and they're one hell of a lot better than nothing ( so long as you don't know too many of the people they @#$%' for their national interests)... All the best, brothers and sisters who love mankind.
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A national ballot is the best way to find out which cities water supplies the government is testing it's dumb-dumb juice in.
:)
I say test the water before recounting the votes.
At the same time they can find out if watching too much TV stunts your intelligence, and whether playing violent video games increases your ability to solve complicated visual puzzles (aka the ballot sheet)
Good luck, America. We're rootin' for you in Australia
Wall Street!
The crazy postal worker comes out of the building holding a poor crying lady in front of him, with a gun to her head. Police cars totally surround the area, cops crouched behind their open doors with guns at the ready...
Officer Fuz points his directional megaphone at the lady's ear and says "Duck now!"
BLAM....
This feeling is no good.
When it happens to me, I work on personal projects that I really enjoy the idea of, and find that loving feeling for programming again when I kick some goals in areas I'm actually interested in. This then reminds me of the fun part of programming - mapping a mental problem to a real live coded solution!
If your typing speed is holding you back, practise on a typing tutor. It is far more satisfying being able to code as fast as you think, so you don't lose that great thought before you can get it down. (You may be able to justify doing your own projects on business time to your bosses when they see your *actual* job productivity increase as a side-effect.)
One other thing you can try: program in English (or whatever your first language is). Use comments and write down your thoughts without even thinking about C. Shuffle them around, see what comes out of it.
And finally: surf the web. Check out memepool.com, miketheheadlesschicken.org, stileproject.com, or whatever gives you a chuckle.
All the best!
A TLD called .porn
Create a cyber red light district so you can:
1: Know where to go when you want to get dirty.
2: Be able to leave them out of your web search results when are searching for ANYTHING else.
A while back, a relative had a brain tumour, and I wrote a Delphi program that could enable construction of sentences with just limited and simple movement of the mouse - no clicking.
I figured that electric wheelchairs had the minimalist form of control, a 2D input device. In a computer, the challenge is to get it do what you want without having to click mouse buttons, or keyboard keys. A joystick or mouse (without button clicks) are interchangeable input devices, with maybe the joystick being easier.
Software would basically be a nested set of screens with large hotspots that were activated by mouse overs.
If anyone is interested in seeing a demo of this sort of thing, let me know (markoatpcbluesdotcom). It's obviously quite easy to write an app like this.
The other thing I am doing currently is cheaply building a parallel port interface with digital and analog inputs and outputs that are software controllable. This will allow interfacing with household appliances. In Australia, at least, such a kit is available from Dick Smith Electronics for about AUD $50, which at the moment is about US$30.
I am going to be combining software for this with the clickless interface and see what happens.
Another interesting research area is in controlling a cursor on a screen with brain waves. This was achieved about 5 years ago. (Sorry, no reference - check online science mags) A cursor's X and Y movement was not controlled by thinking "UP" or "DOWN", but by thinking about emotionally different things, for example, a peaceful scene for one direction, tense for another. I am not sure about the cost of hacking together one of these devices and connecting it to the parallel port.
The bringing together of all these ideas would create a controllable home environment without ANY physical manipulation, (unless windows crashed).
This is a great application of the Turing Intelligence Test. Can you tell whether your judgment was brought down by a human with a silly wig sitting on his head, or a piece of software run on a computer with a silly wig sitting on top of it. The sooner the interpretation of the law is handed over to a piece of software instead of judge/jury/lawyers/dollars/threats/crime bosses, the sooner we will *all* be able to: 1) Afford justice 2) Compete on a legal footing against $-laden opposition The big question is how seriously we take the judgements handed down by software. This is a prime example of Garbage In, Garbage Out. At least putting the Garbage In would be cheaper than hiring an expensive and skillful lawyer to vomit the garbage into a court hearing. Maybe the case would lean to the side that could type their case in quicker, e.g. Did too! Did not! Did too! Did not! Did not! Did not! Did not.... JUDGEBOT: NOT GUILTY THROUGH WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE
Like so many successful and long-running TV series, there is a logical place where they should be laid to rest. In StarBlazer's case it was once they reached Earth. Unfortunately, they didn't get it. Ah well.
Funny how often people are prepared to let their religious beliefs be overpowered by science-based superstition... hmmmm. But I hope all the hostages become well again, and my best wishes are with them . No-one deserves that treatment, even for political reasons. Warring nations, take note. No PERSON deserves it.
If you were'nt concerned that the Russkies were using fuel vapor bombs to "target" terrorists, now we have the nuclear car keys handed over to the boy who enjoys destroying insects with magnifying glasses on sunny days.
If I had a choice, America wouldn't be my international policeman of choice ( I think Australia has better sportsmen), but I don't have one, and they're one hell of a lot better than nothing ( so long as you don't know too many of the people they @#$%' for their national interests)... All the best, brothers and sisters who love mankind.