Thinking a bit more about this, perhaps the best counter example of this was "Short Circuit" where they explained that "They don't get happy, they don't get sad, they don't get angry, THEY JUST RUN PROGRAMS".
Along with "War Games" TRON gave an unrealistic expectation of what computers could do which continues to perplex Ludites to this day.
On an offtopic note, this reminds me of one time when I went to a school auction. A couple of idiots felt that they got a really good deal, because they got the largest piece of computing equipment (A DEC computer of some sort) for less than what the Commodore PET computers were going for. I couldn't help but smile when I heard one say to the other "This part's the brains."
A bar code can be somewhat dirty or damaged and still work. I'm thinking that the first time some snotty-nosed little kid walks into the children's section of the library, he'll probably wipe out the ability of dozens of books to be scanned with his mucus-mist.
It seems to me that even a small obstruction, dust, or damage to the led lens would wipe out a lot of the displable data of this led device.
What if you could modulate the power of your reader? Use a 10-foot setting while you're walking past the cases, a 2 foot setting to find the right shelf, and a 6 inch setting ot find the right area on the shelf?
I don't think the only issue is price. It's also one more item that needs lead time to manufacturing. One of the advantages of a bar-code is that the company who prints my boxes can print the bar code as part of their process. If I have to get a separate led mask generated for each of my products, that's going to require a whole different printing process, possibly requiring another vendor. And I'm guessing will involve an expensive setup process with lead time involved. These may not be at all economically viable for small-quantity products.
PETA and Greenpeace both called and said it'll kill too many endagered fish species.
Dang it! I warned these people. Last month I sent them a letter:
Dear PETA,
While I love animals as much as the next guy, I'm sick and tired of your stupid press releases. You do more harm than good by making animal lovers seem rediculous to the general public.
Therefore, I have no choice but to make you reconsider your PR tactics. Starting next week, any time you issue a press release that does animals more harm than good, I'm going to the pet store, and buying a hampster. Then I'm going to take it out in the parking lot and hit it with a shovel.
Sincerely,
LocalMan57
You're only thinking in terms of the United States, you insensitive clod! Think about someplace like Bangladesh. They have a hell of a rainy season, and a seacoast. Last I checked, a fresh water shortage wasn't a big problem for them. At least during the rainy season. Potable water? Yes. Unsalted water? No.
I agree. You could run a local subversion server in your lab. Require each student to have a flash drive (the 128MB ones they sell at walmart for $5 would be fine) where they can do checkouts. Each student pair would have their own repository.
Do the checkouts / checkins from the flash drive in the lab at the beginning / end of class. That way the students can hack code at home on anything from Win98 / Notepad to Vim on their Mac. They wouldn't even need internet at home.
Because you could do all the setup before the term started, the students could concentrate on the basics of what you want to teach them, ie programming constructs and software development methods.
I dunno about others, but all of a sudden, I'd have an incentive to find the shortest router from point A to point B, even if that means city-streets instead of expressway. This means I'll be sitting in heavy traffic, clogging up the streets, taking longer to reach my destination, and probably causing more accidents and safety issues.
Interesting. Perhaps we should base it on a combination of milage and total engine revolutions. I've always wanted an RevOdometer (or hours of operation meter) on cars anyway. That way you could tell if the used Crown Vic you're about to buy was used mostly on highway trips to and from Minnesota to Florida, or used as a taxi cab.
Of course a driver who drives more is higher risk. Suppose that over my lifetime I drive one million miles. And my friend, who likes hugging trees, saving whales and composting his lunch leftovers in his pocket, only drives a lifetime total of 100k miles.
Why would his first 100k miles be any less risky than my first 100k miles? The risk of my first 100k miles will not be lessened by the fact that I intend to drive more in the future.
Therefore, unless I have zero risk of an accicident in my final 900k miles, my lifetime risks are higher than his, all other things being equal.
I don't know. But it's interesting to think that people watching the DVDs 1000 years from now will probably find our speech as odd and different as we find Beowulf now...
That's nothing. My Atari 2600 booted into COMBAT before my finger left the POWER lever.
And a few seconds later my 3 little green planes were beating the shit out of poor sap flying the big pink plane.
If you're dumb enough to contract HIV in any way other than a clinical fuck-up, then frankly, I hope you die, and I hope you never managed to reproduce.
Nice sentiment. Until you find out that your husband/wife was not, in fact, on a hiking trip. Suddenly you need an urgent blood test, despite never having done anything more risky than trusting your spouse.
And, just for the record, you should care because empathy is one of the things that separates you from lower species.
The other 1% is what geographers call the "edge"; the area at which the two sides of the flat earth meet. Mapping both sides of a flat object is easy. Unfortunately mapping the edge is much harder. Just be glad the Earth is flat, not round. Otherwise, there'd be no accurate way to project it onto a piece of paper.
There seems to be all of this press about how people are getting information out using the internet. But back in the early 90's, before I had access to the internet, my friends and I used to transfer information and files from one place to another using two modems connected via a plain old telephone line, sending files back and forth using Zmodem protocol. Is this technique still being used? I'm picturing someone using an acoustic coupler on a pay phone to send small cellphone videos out of Iran to a friendly party...
Pain signals travel through nerves at less than 10 feet per second
Can you imagine the early, renaissance-era experimental measurements of this quantity?
"I'm going to need two men. One very tall, the other very short. Without shoes. And I'll need two hammers."
This reminds me of an arguement I had with a co-worker about extra-terrestrial life a few years back. Him: Do you know how much stuff would have to be just right for that to happen? It'd be like hitting the lottery. Me: People hit the lottery every week.
Checkmate.
I don't know about that, but I did see the newly formed super-group The Fifth-Dimensonal Monkees some time back. They did a mashup of "I'm a Believer" and "Age of Aquarius". Really, really horrible.
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Thinking a bit more about this, perhaps the best counter example of this was "Short Circuit" where they explained that "They don't get happy, they don't get sad, they don't get angry, THEY JUST RUN PROGRAMS".
Along with "War Games" TRON gave an unrealistic expectation of what computers could do which continues to perplex Ludites to this day.
On an offtopic note, this reminds me of one time when I went to a school auction. A couple of idiots felt that they got a really good deal, because they got the largest piece of computing equipment (A DEC computer of some sort) for less than what the Commodore PET computers were going for. I couldn't help but smile when I heard one say to the other "This part's the brains."
The Atari 2600 had a 3d game called "Tunnel Runner". Think Wolfenstein with no nazis, guns, dogs, furnature or artwork... There was a ghost-thingie, though http://www.atariage.com/screenshot_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=2339
A bar code can be somewhat dirty or damaged and still work. I'm thinking that the first time some snotty-nosed little kid walks into the children's section of the library, he'll probably wipe out the ability of dozens of books to be scanned with his mucus-mist.
It seems to me that even a small obstruction, dust, or damage to the led lens would wipe out a lot of the displable data of this led device.
What if you could modulate the power of your reader? Use a 10-foot setting while you're walking past the cases, a 2 foot setting to find the right shelf, and a 6 inch setting ot find the right area on the shelf?
I don't think the only issue is price. It's also one more item that needs lead time to manufacturing. One of the advantages of a bar-code is that the company who prints my boxes can print the bar code as part of their process. If I have to get a separate led mask generated for each of my products, that's going to require a whole different printing process, possibly requiring another vendor. And I'm guessing will involve an expensive setup process with lead time involved. These may not be at all economically viable for small-quantity products.
No, but here's a place you can buy one for less than $9.95... http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=cuecat&_sacat=See-All-Categories
PETA and Greenpeace both called and said it'll kill too many endagered fish species.
Dang it! I warned these people. Last month I sent them a letter:
Dear PETA,
While I love animals as much as the next guy, I'm sick and tired of your stupid press releases. You do more harm than good by making animal lovers seem rediculous to the general public.
Therefore, I have no choice but to make you reconsider your PR tactics. Starting next week, any time you issue a press release that does animals more harm than good, I'm going to the pet store, and buying a hampster. Then I'm going to take it out in the parking lot and hit it with a shovel.
Sincerely,
LocalMan57
You're only thinking in terms of the United States, you insensitive clod! Think about someplace like Bangladesh. They have a hell of a rainy season, and a seacoast. Last I checked, a fresh water shortage wasn't a big problem for them. At least during the rainy season. Potable water? Yes. Unsalted water? No.
Only if the waterfall is on the edge of the ocean...
I get 2 bars on my iPhone ... (in the bathroom of my one bedroom apartment).
Note to self: Never buy hax0r_this's used iPhone. (It's been "flagged").
I agree. You could run a local subversion server in your lab. Require each student to have a flash drive (the 128MB ones they sell at walmart for $5 would be fine) where they can do checkouts. Each student pair would have their own repository.
Do the checkouts / checkins from the flash drive in the lab at the beginning / end of class. That way the students can hack code at home on anything from Win98 / Notepad to Vim on their Mac. They wouldn't even need internet at home.
Because you could do all the setup before the term started, the students could concentrate on the basics of what you want to teach them, ie programming constructs and software development methods.
I dunno about others, but all of a sudden, I'd have an incentive to find the shortest router from point A to point B, even if that means city-streets instead of expressway. This means I'll be sitting in heavy traffic, clogging up the streets, taking longer to reach my destination, and probably causing more accidents and safety issues.
Interesting. Perhaps we should base it on a combination of milage and total engine revolutions. I've always wanted an RevOdometer (or hours of operation meter) on cars anyway. That way you could tell if the used Crown Vic you're about to buy was used mostly on highway trips to and from Minnesota to Florida, or used as a taxi cab.
Of course a driver who drives more is higher risk. Suppose that over my lifetime I drive one million miles. And my friend, who likes hugging trees, saving whales and composting his lunch leftovers in his pocket, only drives a lifetime total of 100k miles.
Why would his first 100k miles be any less risky than my first 100k miles? The risk of my first 100k miles will not be lessened by the fact that I intend to drive more in the future.
Therefore, unless I have zero risk of an accicident in my final 900k miles, my lifetime risks are higher than his, all other things being equal.
I don't know. But it's interesting to think that people watching the DVDs 1000 years from now will probably find our speech as odd and different as we find Beowulf now...
That's nothing. My Atari 2600 booted into COMBAT before my finger left the POWER lever. And a few seconds later my 3 little green planes were beating the shit out of poor sap flying the big pink plane.
Great. Like I didn't stand out enough already wearing this tin-foil hat. Now I have to carry an umbrella in good weather?
Awesome. The local private pilots are gonna love it when their Cessna 172's start being shot at for no apparent reason.
If you're dumb enough to contract HIV in any way other than a clinical fuck-up, then frankly, I hope you die, and I hope you never managed to reproduce.
Nice sentiment. Until you find out that your husband/wife was not, in fact, on a hiking trip. Suddenly you need an urgent blood test, despite never having done anything more risky than trusting your spouse.
And, just for the record, you should care because empathy is one of the things that separates you from lower species.
I'd hate that. My regular expressions have too many backslashes as it is...
The other 1% is what geographers call the "edge"; the area at which the two sides of the flat earth meet. Mapping both sides of a flat object is easy. Unfortunately mapping the edge is much harder. Just be glad the Earth is flat, not round. Otherwise, there'd be no accurate way to project it onto a piece of paper.
There seems to be all of this press about how people are getting information out using the internet. But back in the early 90's, before I had access to the internet, my friends and I used to transfer information and files from one place to another using two modems connected via a plain old telephone line, sending files back and forth using Zmodem protocol. Is this technique still being used? I'm picturing someone using an acoustic coupler on a pay phone to send small cellphone videos out of Iran to a friendly party...
Pain signals travel through nerves at less than 10 feet per second
Can you imagine the early, renaissance-era experimental measurements of this quantity?
"I'm going to need two men. One very tall, the other very short. Without shoes. And I'll need two hammers."
This reminds me of an arguement I had with a co-worker about extra-terrestrial life a few years back.
Him: Do you know how much stuff would have to be just right for that to happen? It'd be like hitting the lottery.
Me: People hit the lottery every week.
Checkmate.
I don't know about that, but I did see the newly formed super-group The Fifth-Dimensonal Monkees some time back. They did a mashup of "I'm a Believer" and "Age of Aquarius". Really, really horrible.