I had a 300bps non-acoustic coupler modem. It plugged into the cartridge slot of my C=64. There was a 1200bps, but we couldn't afford it. 2400bps was the stuff of legend and I think (?) the absolute limit of the C=64 serial port was 9600. How could it be so fast?!;-)
I read his sig as an argument against the argument that "media is left-leaning". The Fox News brand is based on a manufactured "underdog" image, and a ridiculous one.
Anyway, even if it weren't, there's no contradiction. Rich people aren't one cohesive whole - I wish people would realize this.
Compared to using pneumatic springs to harness and dampen the force of exploding atomic bombs in order to propel a manned craft, coupling to an asteroid is downright quaint.
Yeah, they're "enough" as long as the subject is in the same pose; has same eyewear/hair/facial hair; has similar facial expression; is illuminated similarly; &c.
Not that the Genetic Algorithms Amateur Hour is going to do any better of course...
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Of course it wasn't. It was because of their names.
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I thought they had some sort of crappy forums and "community features". I could imagine that being worth it for a niche market at least. The corporate family-friendly version of Something Awful.
Probably would be easier to just add dependency for a compound which is added to and only present in the advertiser's products. Introduce malignin, a new protein which looks like serotonin but doesn't work; will ensure sales of Maligninase Cola down the line...
Won't that be something. Our patent law (which will undoubtedly be even worse by then) will force the poor to produce gamma drones, instead of real human children worthy of respect.
I wonder what the penalty will be for using unlicensed Chinese (or will it be Russian by then?) imported genetic treatments?
Maybe then, people will finally understand a slashdotter's perspective on IP. Probably not.
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Is getting your children taken away by the state part of this plan? Seems risky to me... you don't know who will end up with them. Although, it is a cheap way to have kids...
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For a brief while at least, you could get a broadband AOL subscription for $5 a month or something. (Using someone else's broadband.) The point being, they tried to assert a value-add beyond just being an ISP. I found it amusing.
I recall shortly after the attacks, hearing Harlan Ellison talk about it. He said it was awful and all, but on the bright side, at least the towers were gone; describing them as "a pair of vampire's fangs sunk deep into an otherwise beautiful city".
I've heard similar sentiments from many New Yorkers, usually after a few drinks. I suspect it's a fairly common thought, and maybe why the Memorial is so slow to get underway...
Maybe the World Bank could make it a condition for poor countries getting loans, that they "volunteer" some of their citizens for this project. They could even get a partially-subsidized patent grant in exchange. It's a win-win and it's fair too, because they don't have anything to offer but miserable, uneducated and useless masses?
82,000 years ago I was a cat! In time: solid ball became hollow one – concomitant changes in the correlation structure were mitigated and I forgot what this meant. Never condition on the future.
FUCK
Betwixt me! Against me! Forlorn antipathy, against which a lurgid bee doth protest unkindly.
Pie crust: kneading moist dough causes proteins to entangle (not applicable) = unpleasant mouthfeel. Moisturizing the dough to workability with high proof vodka (and the usual buttering/short) instead of water, thus gives superior results! Just ask Vivaldi and the late lobster-murdering Julia^H^H^H^Hesus Child^H^H^Hrist savour of the tulip factory.
THIS IS WORSE THAN SOMETHING BUT I DON'T REMEMBER YET WHAT IT WAS Mustard is made from mustard seeds and is more properly called "prepared mustard". It's hard to know when to stop, though.
As I said, the methodology could be criticized. We could spend all day coming up with stories. As I said it's not worth it; my time is apparently better spent responding to reasonless trolls.:-/
I pointed out that the self-report was a problem (although since I didn't use any obscenities or ridiculous personal attacks, you may have gotten confused reading all six sentences of my post).
As for "similarly sized populations enjoy violent v.s. [sic] non-violent video games", I am afraid that I have no idea what you're trying to say here. It's vague to be generous, and more likely just nonsense. What are you trying to say, which isn't said in "There is no correlation between violence and satisfaction."?
The buzzword criticism here isn't "correlation isn't causation", it's "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
If the randomization was done correctly, yes it does. Whether it is done correctly can be debated, but I'm not getting into it here. This study's not significant enough to think much about.
In this case, the "result" seems to be that there is no correlation (between violence and satisfaction), as self-reported so it doesn't matter anyways whether the correlation (which is zero) is causal or not...
Of course, this is sort of (although not exactly) like asking someone "Did you prefer cereal X because it was more delicious, or because it had 15 more grams of sugar?" The point is, it doesn't matter what they say (or even think) if statistically they are more likely to buy the cereal with more sugar (which they are).
It's mostly two things that rub me the wrong way; the body-parts of the state were a bit much ("the nose") although I see the point of it (fascist state=one entity); and the whole thing about Fate running things. It's just hard to believe in a single omnipotent computer these days. (Although I guess Adam Susan could have just been imagining its abilities, and really it was doing simple statistical calculations.)
For what it's worth, I think Moore said that the context of V for Vendetta was overly optimistic: it didn't even take a nuclear strike to bring about V's world.
Watchmen may well be over-rated (in a way it, like Maus, has become the poster-child for "Serious Graphic Novel"). Still, I really don't think it's dated. It's "out of date" of course, but that's inevitable. If nothing else, I think it preserves a sense of the time permanently and, at least for that alone, is art.
Let me say it this way: Suppose I were totally unfamiliar with Moore; and someone gave me a copy of Watchmen with all the copyright notices changed to 2009, and they said something like "This graphic novel was just written. It explores the social tensions about power and nuclear brinksmanship of the late 70s and 80s, through a critical and intertextual examination of the development of superheroes in context of society." (or whatever)
I strongly suspect that I would read it and come out of it saying "Wow, that guy absolutely nailed the 70s/80s and froze it in these pages forever, while in an alternate history nonetheless."
Regarding your stats class, I'm sorry it was so uninteresting and hand-wavy. The subject is rarely taught well, and if it were I truly believe that many students who go into CS, would do statistics instead. On the other hand, it's vexingly hard to teach for a number of reasons and, to make things worse, the field itself is having a kind of existential crisis at the moment.
I was speaking once to a much more mature and sophisticated person than myself, and the whole Kurzweil thing came up. I asked him, if it was reasonable and if not, whether it was sound to pin hopes on it.
He said to me, that it was basically a ploy to get young above-average-IQ (but not quite world-class brilliant) idealists into computers and hot fields of science (notice, biotech and neuroscience are Singularitarian topics; geology, not so much) as opposed to making money (business school); playing sports; entering a traditional trade (lawyer or doctor); &c. The real geniuses are going to do math and science automatically; the singularity is kind of an emotional selling point for others to live a technical life.
How he said it, it was so blindingly obvious, and it felt like an enormous weight lifted from me only to be replaced by another one. I grew up an atheist, so I never had a religion to lose. Still, at that moment I understood a bit of what it would feel like to lose faith.
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I had a 300bps non-acoustic coupler modem. It plugged into the cartridge slot of my C=64. There was a 1200bps, but we couldn't afford it. 2400bps was the stuff of legend and I think (?) the absolute limit of the C=64 serial port was 9600. How could it be so fast?! ;-)
I read his sig as an argument against the argument that "media is left-leaning". The Fox News brand is based on a manufactured "underdog" image, and a ridiculous one.
Anyway, even if it weren't, there's no contradiction. Rich people aren't one cohesive whole - I wish people would realize this.
It's not crazy at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Compared to using pneumatic springs to harness and dampen the force of exploding atomic bombs in order to propel a manned craft, coupling to an asteroid is downright quaint.
You're right, except that the "skill" is actually a strange one: to disregard risk knowing that you won't bear the costs personally.
(And no, I don't believe any real sort of management would be posting on slashdot. I'm just playing along.)
http://books.google.com/books?id=2QULLmiErNgC
I saw a talk about this. The main problem is that it's extremely slow, but the concept is glorious.
Yeah, they're "enough" as long as the subject is in the same pose; has same eyewear/hair/facial hair; has similar facial expression; is illuminated similarly; &c.
Not that the Genetic Algorithms Amateur Hour is going to do any better of course...
Of course it wasn't. It was because of their names.
I thought they had some sort of crappy forums and "community features". I could imagine that being worth it for a niche market at least. The corporate family-friendly version of Something Awful.
Probably would be easier to just add dependency for a compound which is added to and only present in the advertiser's products. Introduce malignin, a new protein which looks like serotonin but doesn't work; will ensure sales of Maligninase Cola down the line...
Razor and blades...
Won't that be something. Our patent law (which will undoubtedly be even worse by then) will force the poor to produce gamma drones, instead of real human children worthy of respect.
I wonder what the penalty will be for using unlicensed Chinese (or will it be Russian by then?) imported genetic treatments?
Maybe then, people will finally understand a slashdotter's perspective on IP. Probably not.
Is getting your children taken away by the state part of this plan? Seems risky to me... you don't know who will end up with them. Although, it is a cheap way to have kids...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6648877&page=1
For a brief while at least, you could get a broadband AOL subscription for $5 a month or something. (Using someone else's broadband.) The point being, they tried to assert a value-add beyond just being an ISP. I found it amusing.
Yeah, but three strongly-worded letters is more than three times as much fun...
By then, the tin roof may have ... rusted!
I recall shortly after the attacks, hearing Harlan Ellison talk about it. He said it was awful and all, but on the bright side, at least the towers were gone; describing them as "a pair of vampire's fangs sunk deep into an otherwise beautiful city".
I've heard similar sentiments from many New Yorkers, usually after a few drinks. I suspect it's a fairly common thought, and maybe why the Memorial is so slow to get underway...
Maybe the World Bank could make it a condition for poor countries getting loans, that they "volunteer" some of their citizens for this project. They could even get a partially-subsidized patent grant in exchange. It's a win-win and it's fair too, because they don't have anything to offer but miserable, uneducated and useless masses?
Fortunately, patents expire in seventeen years so there's no loss here!
"Questionable Content" is "For Better or For Worse" for indie kids. Except with much less character development, and slightly more boobies.
82,000 years ago I was a cat! In time: solid ball became hollow one – concomitant changes in the correlation structure were mitigated and I forgot what this meant. Never condition on the future.
FUCK
Betwixt me! Against me! Forlorn antipathy, against which a lurgid bee doth protest unkindly.
Pie crust: kneading moist dough causes proteins to entangle (not applicable) = unpleasant mouthfeel. Moisturizing the dough to workability with high proof vodka (and the usual buttering/short) instead of water, thus gives superior results! Just ask Vivaldi and the late lobster-murdering Julia^H^H^H^Hesus Child^H^H^Hrist savour of the tulip factory.
THIS IS WORSE THAN SOMETHING BUT I DON'T REMEMBER YET WHAT IT WAS
Mustard is made from mustard seeds and is more properly called "prepared mustard". It's hard to know when to stop, though.
(so see if I don't)
As I said, the methodology could be criticized. We could spend all day coming up with stories. As I said it's not worth it; my time is apparently better spent responding to reasonless trolls. :-/
I pointed out that the self-report was a problem (although since I didn't use any obscenities or ridiculous personal attacks, you may have gotten confused reading all six sentences of my post).
As for "similarly sized populations enjoy violent v.s. [sic] non-violent video games", I am afraid that I have no idea what you're trying to say here. It's vague to be generous, and more likely just nonsense. What are you trying to say, which isn't said in "There is no correlation between violence and satisfaction."?
The buzzword criticism here isn't "correlation isn't causation", it's "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
If the randomization was done correctly, yes it does. Whether it is done correctly can be debated, but I'm not getting into it here. This study's not significant enough to think much about.
In this case, the "result" seems to be that there is no correlation (between violence and satisfaction), as self-reported so it doesn't matter anyways whether the correlation (which is zero) is causal or not...
Of course, this is sort of (although not exactly) like asking someone "Did you prefer cereal X because it was more delicious, or because it had 15 more grams of sugar?" The point is, it doesn't matter what they say (or even think) if statistically they are more likely to buy the cereal with more sugar (which they are).
It's mostly two things that rub me the wrong way; the body-parts of the state were a bit much ("the nose") although I see the point of it (fascist state=one entity); and the whole thing about Fate running things. It's just hard to believe in a single omnipotent computer these days. (Although I guess Adam Susan could have just been imagining its abilities, and really it was doing simple statistical calculations.)
For what it's worth, I think Moore said that the context of V for Vendetta was overly optimistic: it didn't even take a nuclear strike to bring about V's world.
Watchmen may well be over-rated (in a way it, like Maus, has become the poster-child for "Serious Graphic Novel"). Still, I really don't think it's dated. It's "out of date" of course, but that's inevitable. If nothing else, I think it preserves a sense of the time permanently and, at least for that alone, is art.
Let me say it this way: Suppose I were totally unfamiliar with Moore; and someone gave me a copy of Watchmen with all the copyright notices changed to 2009, and they said something like "This graphic novel was just written. It explores the social tensions about power and nuclear brinksmanship of the late 70s and 80s, through a critical and intertextual examination of the development of superheroes in context of society." (or whatever)
I strongly suspect that I would read it and come out of it saying "Wow, that guy absolutely nailed the 70s/80s and froze it in these pages forever, while in an alternate history nonetheless."
By contrast, this is not true for V for Vendetta.
Regarding your stats class, I'm sorry it was so uninteresting and hand-wavy. The subject is rarely taught well, and if it were I truly believe that many students who go into CS, would do statistics instead. On the other hand, it's vexingly hard to teach for a number of reasons and, to make things worse, the field itself is having a kind of existential crisis at the moment.
I was speaking once to a much more mature and sophisticated person than myself, and the whole Kurzweil thing came up. I asked him, if it was reasonable and if not, whether it was sound to pin hopes on it.
He said to me, that it was basically a ploy to get young above-average-IQ (but not quite world-class brilliant) idealists into computers and hot fields of science (notice, biotech and neuroscience are Singularitarian topics; geology, not so much) as opposed to making money (business school); playing sports; entering a traditional trade (lawyer or doctor); &c. The real geniuses are going to do math and science automatically; the singularity is kind of an emotional selling point for others to live a technical life.
How he said it, it was so blindingly obvious, and it felt like an enormous weight lifted from me only to be replaced by another one. I grew up an atheist, so I never had a religion to lose. Still, at that moment I understood a bit of what it would feel like to lose faith.
It would probably be easier to cut the stick of butter, if you unsheathed the kirpan first... ;-)