Yeah, they could clobber the idiots while the rest of us buy identical stuff from real competitors.
As it stands now, I can buy a $50 Lenovo brick (which lasts about one year), or a $25 no-name with amazon reviews featuring phrases like "electrocuted" and "caught fire."
As an aside at least the Lenovo bricks have a purely mechanical cord which is easy to insert and pops out surprisingly easily if snagged. It's nowhere near Magsafe, but I was still impressed.
Since the only choices we've allowed ourselves are 1) use it all up now; 2) impose Strict Market Discipline, we're just going to have to go with the latter since the former is clearly nuts.
It sounds more like a sound moral argument to me, but I guess anything which doesn't have a "$", "€", or similar symbol attached to it doesn't count as rational anymore.
Yes I have considered this but it's a complete red herring here. We're only talking about the default option for something which is already a standard practice.
Absolutely spot-on. The ending, with a time-lapse view of the streets from the Encom building as night falls and you see the cars flowing through these circuits, really affected me as a kid. Sometimes, complexity is all about perspective.
In retrospect, it's even more funny that the big cash-cow and policy maker, at a company with a functioning matter digitizer/teleporter, is a vector-art video game.:)
Sneakers was pretty good too apart from the encryption hand-waving that was necessary for the story (but even there they at least got the basic words right, and made mostly accurate reference to the real concepts).
I get the sense that this is a tongue-in-cheek announcement? It's 2010, so maybe it'll be the MMX machine?
Let's see. Wednesday: July 7, 2010 = 7-7-7DA. 20th anniversary of TeX. Hmm. I can't figure it out, but I'd put my money on an elegant technical curiosity which doubles as elaborate pun and extended joke, kind of like MMIX.
More to the point, Knuth is foremost an algorithmist. I don't think he cares very much about P $\neq$ NP as an ends in itself since it is probably going to be (and certainly is expected to be) a very abstract math result without much insight into algorithms per se. It's just not his style to spend much energy on it.
Some may laugh at this, but Knuth is a very practically-minded guy who also loves, and is quite capable of, playing with and generalizing these practical ideas and tools into theory. The "serious" attacks on P/NP are just the opposite. I'd guess he's probably taken a few cracks at it for fun and to test out new ideas, but one of them working would really be a longshot. Knuth has a LOT of ideas, but his being the _very first_ one to have the purely algorithmic insight to solve P/NP are quite slim.
I totally agree with you and would add if I may: an immediate corollary to "get off your butt and do stuff" is that what is important is understanding, analyzing, and testing the theory itself: the model, as opposed to thinking of nature itself as a monolithic mechanistic thing. I think the latter is what gets commonly oversimplified to "the book of nature is... mathematics," and it is all the more obvious that Plato didn't anticipate jack.
I think the point here is that a copyleft license may not amount to a contract; the interesting part is whether that's compatible with "click-through" licensing being a contract.
nearly anyone, if not anyone, can be ordained at Universal Life for free and with no special requirements. I don't know if this would actually hold up, but yeah, it'd probably be enough to convince an aspie.
Programs like this essentially boil down to training to interpret (using this word generously here) statistical results, without a solid understanding of statistics.
Anyone smart enough to be entrustable with this kind of stuff, should be smart and willing enough to learn real statistics. Unfortunately this would require more commitment than our "fluid" and deskilled labor market can tolerate. We all pay for this.
I want all of my images available through one viewer. Some of those images are PNGs for whatever reason.
Like I said, I'd like a date/event viewer for photos of my life; and a separate "pile" for pictures my friends have drawn; random pictures from the internet; scans from journalism sources; &c. Many of the latter are PNGs. Is that too much to ask?
just had the same experience. png support will be added in 0.6. it's kind of ridiculous, but whatever, it's in 0.x. also going to fullscreen and then back appears to totally fuck the interface (ubuntu lucid).
also: no way (?) to zoom into images.
I don't know if I like the event paradigm. They should combine it with a date-based view like f-spot. My pictures are a combination of daily snapshots and events. Also I'd like a "random crap from the internet" dumppile which is totally separate from my life... Kind of like keeping Playboys away from the family photo album.:-/
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Yeah, they could clobber the idiots while the rest of us buy identical stuff from real competitors.
As it stands now, I can buy a $50 Lenovo brick (which lasts about one year), or a $25 no-name with amazon reviews featuring phrases like "electrocuted" and "caught fire."
As an aside at least the Lenovo bricks have a purely mechanical cord which is easy to insert and pops out surprisingly easily if snagged. It's nowhere near Magsafe, but I was still impressed.
Since the only choices we've allowed ourselves are 1) use it all up now; 2) impose Strict Market Discipline, we're just going to have to go with the latter since the former is clearly nuts.
It sounds more like a sound moral argument to me, but I guess anything which doesn't have a "$", "€", or similar symbol attached to it doesn't count as rational anymore.
Yes I have considered this but it's a complete red herring here. We're only talking about the default option for something which is already a standard practice.
What's wrong with automatic organ donation?
at least he finally listened to his critics and started wearing a cup. (shudder)
Absolutely spot-on. The ending, with a time-lapse view of the streets from the Encom building as night falls and you see the cars flowing through these circuits, really affected me as a kid. Sometimes, complexity is all about perspective.
In retrospect, it's even more funny that the big cash-cow and policy maker, at a company with a functioning matter digitizer/teleporter, is a vector-art video game. :)
Sneakers was pretty good too apart from the encryption hand-waving that was necessary for the story (but even there they at least got the basic words right, and made mostly accurate reference to the real concepts).
2-3. Thank you: a splendidly humorous bit of rules-lawyering! I'll have to remember that one in case it ever comes up...
Yes, it's the 20th anniversary in the year 7DA. :)
I get the sense that this is a tongue-in-cheek announcement? It's 2010, so maybe it'll be the MMX machine?
Let's see. Wednesday: July 7, 2010 = 7-7-7DA. 20th anniversary of TeX. Hmm. I can't figure it out, but I'd put my money on an elegant technical curiosity which doubles as elaborate pun and extended joke, kind of like MMIX.
More to the point, Knuth is foremost an algorithmist. I don't think he cares very much about P $\neq$ NP as an ends in itself since it is probably going to be (and certainly is expected to be) a very abstract math result without much insight into algorithms per se. It's just not his style to spend much energy on it.
Some may laugh at this, but Knuth is a very practically-minded guy who also loves, and is quite capable of, playing with and generalizing these practical ideas and tools into theory. The "serious" attacks on P/NP are just the opposite. I'd guess he's probably taken a few cracks at it for fun and to test out new ideas, but one of them working would really be a longshot. Knuth has a LOT of ideas, but his being the _very first_ one to have the purely algorithmic insight to solve P/NP are quite slim.
I totally agree with you and would add if I may: an immediate corollary to "get off your butt and do stuff" is that what is important is understanding, analyzing, and testing the theory itself: the model, as opposed to thinking of nature itself as a monolithic mechanistic thing. I think the latter is what gets commonly oversimplified to "the book of nature is ... mathematics," and it is all the more obvious that Plato didn't anticipate jack.
You dog, you.
I think the point here is that a copyleft license may not amount to a contract; the interesting part is whether that's compatible with "click-through" licensing being a contract.
Oh, come on! At least one eligible modder should admit they chuckled at this.
I'd frankly rather that Google® crush the waste of disk space and net traffic that comprise that crappy cutrate shmup.
nearly anyone, if not anyone, can be ordained at Universal Life for free and with no special requirements. I don't know if this would actually hold up, but yeah, it'd probably be enough to convince an aspie.
Programs like this essentially boil down to training to interpret (using this word generously here) statistical results, without a solid understanding of statistics.
Anyone smart enough to be entrustable with this kind of stuff, should be smart and willing enough to learn real statistics. Unfortunately this would require more commitment than our "fluid" and deskilled labor market can tolerate. We all pay for this.
You can't fuck a car in public. Laws against sexing non-sex toys, would de facto ban most sex toys since they're labeled for "novelty use only".
libwebkit depends on libcairo, libpng, libjpeg, and libgstreamer (among others). ;-)
I just have a suspicion that once (if?) the UI evolves to have a reasonable date slider, it'll end up nearly as bloated as f-spot. :-/
Here's hoping for the best. It does feel snappier for now at least...
Maybe they did, and just didn't tell anybody.
Given the haphazard coding implied by the flaws I see, that's cutting it dangerously close.
Then again, it's not like I'm going to tempt fate by upgrading to 10.10 on release... (shudder)
I want all of my images available through one viewer. Some of those images are PNGs for whatever reason.
Like I said, I'd like a date/event viewer for photos of my life; and a separate "pile" for pictures my friends have drawn; random pictures from the internet; scans from journalism sources; &c. Many of the latter are PNGs. Is that too much to ask?
just had the same experience. png support will be added in 0.6. it's kind of ridiculous, but whatever, it's in 0.x. also going to fullscreen and then back appears to totally fuck the interface (ubuntu lucid).
also: no way (?) to zoom into images.
I don't know if I like the event paradigm. They should combine it with a date-based view like f-spot. My pictures are a combination of daily snapshots and events. Also I'd like a "random crap from the internet" dumppile which is totally separate from my life... Kind of like keeping Playboys away from the family photo album. :-/