Newkyuler power in space? Good god man, you'll kill us all! If the thing blows up or de-orbits, that amount of newkyuler participles could, uh, well I don't really know but I'm going to go with "reduce the planet to a glassy sphere." Won't someone think of the children? You can't hug a children with radioactive satellites.
Very informative, thanks. But I am having another problem. You see, I am too lazy to wipe after taking a dump. As you seem to enjoy enabling bad behavior by helping lazy people do things they really could have done for themselves, perhaps you could help me out down there? Wet-nap, one finger, circular motion.
As an interesting side note, a good portion of our visual processing system is devoted to facial recognition. As one might expect, this system has also been integrated into the depth perception system. Your brain is hard wired to know in absolute terms how big a face is. Therefore, one derives distance information in scenes where faces are present from the relative size of those faces.
The other monocular depth perception cues include motion parallax, color vision, perspective, relative size, distance fog, depth from focus, and occlusion. binocular depth cues include only stereopsis and convergence. All these signals are integrated to judge depth. Frequently one or more of these signals are not available, but the others suffice to make a judgement of depth.
The hard wiring of these various neural depth perceiving systems creates many optical illusions. If depth perception were the cut-and-dried binocular vision thing you suppose it to be, these optical illusions wouldn't exist.
Wikipedia's article on depth perception. Please note the number of monocular depth cues as opposed to binocular depth cues. Anyone needing more proof should simply cover up one eye and note that the world does not suddenly appear two dimensional.
These guys wouldn't know IRC if it kickbanned them in the ass. They have trouble with AIM. Besides, they don't give a rat's ass about the web, unless it's a site put up by one of those guys they did all that E with at Burning Man. They just wanna party, and you can't share drugs over IRC.
Not that I have any problem with drugs. Just shallow people.
it's still not the same thing as the interpretation of two 2D images from different angles.
For distances over four feet, you'd be surprised how close it is to seeing things from two different angles. Try covering one eye and looking at some distant objects, you'll see that aside from the narrower field of view, it isn't that much different.
I knew some of the people behind this thing, and they were for the most part shallow attention seekers with the technical expertise of your average turtle. The main reason for the webbies is to throw a giant party for their friends on someone else's dime. Back in the.com days everyone thought they were hot shit. I kinda thought they had slunk back into the marketing sewer they crawled out of. Make no mistake, geeks, the webbies were created by the popular kids who picked on us in high school, not by or for fellow geeks.
I mean, I could see some industry group giving out awards, like the Academy awards, or even a bunch of trade journalists, like the Golden Globes, but the webbies are just some guys who said, "How can we make a buck off this Internet thingy? I know! We can get paid to throw a huge party and hand out some made-up awards!"
Sorry for the rant, but these guys epitomize everything that was wrong with the.com boom.
Perhaps democracy was only a temporary blip on the radar of history, and humanity's natural state is under the boot of the tyrant? The ancient Greeks thought so. Or at least they thought that humanity would continually rotate in and out of tyranny.
Correct, because we don't need to shoot them. Our people aren't desperate and starving, they won't listen to some marginalized reporter. If we shoot them, it becomes a story. If someone tried to break a story that seriously threatened the status quo here, be sure that reporter would be just as dead as his colleague in China.
You're not just being pedantic, you are wrong. I lost an eye in a mugging and I can see in 3D just fine, for anything further than about 4 feet. I can't thread a needle to save my life, but I can drive a car and play darts pretty well. The brain has many, many circuits for determining distance besides stereo vision. Color fading, occlusion, parallax, change of focal length, all provide depth perception cues. Seeing something in 3D does not require stereo vision, I can attest to that.
Huh? That says that you can't just declare some person or group guilty of a crime by legislative fiat. What does that have to do with anything? The US government seizes property anytime it wants to, we wouldn't have a national highway system if that wasn't the case.
Sitting for eight hours without moving causes DVT. I sleep for eight hours without moving much and haven't yet woken up in the ICU. It's the compression of the vein caused by having your legs hanging off the edge of a chair that does it. The reason that we see it so much in air travel is that the seats are designed to sort of fit everyone, and thus fit almost no one perfectly. With good ergonomic chair design, the leg veins won't be compressed and you could code for days without DVT.
I like second shift myself, four to midnight. I can still go out Friday nights (to Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Cons, really! No, you can't have my geek card back.) and I don't have to get up until noon. I can get erands done in the early afternoon and I hit my mental peak about the middle of my shift. Also, I have much less dealings with irate, ignorant and/or downright dumb clients at night. I don't like third shift because I sleep through most of the day and being a pasty-white geek, I need all the sun I can get.
Well, if you do something all the time, of course there's going to be no magic to it. I'm a middle of the road coder myself, kernel code scares the bejezus out of me, but it I worked with it every day I'd get comfortable with it right quick.
The point is, some projects are straightforward. Jump right in, the water's fine. Others, not so much.
How do you get use your personal decryption key to decrypt the file that is identical to the one you just used bittorrent to download off of dozens of other people's computers?
No, sequel implies some kind of sequence (notice the similarities between the two words?) There is no sequence in the final fantasy games, they all have different characters and worlds.
If there is a versus mode, I hope the gameplay is akin to something like Final Fantasy Tactics as opposed to the "I play myself while you watch" FFXII.
That comment could have been made much funnier with the proper insertion of a "with."
No, because I don't expect them to be in any way a sequel. And because I've only ever bought one, FFX. Yet I still understand that these games are not sequels. "Final Fantasy" simply means it has cactuars, chocobos, and some random guy named Cid in it.
governments cannot grant rights, they can only take them away.
That's a naive way of looking at rights. Without society, rights do not exist. If I was the only person on earth, would it be sensible to talk about my "right" to free speach? If I lived in a barbarous anarchy, would my whining about my "property rights" stop some local warlord from taking them from me? Obviously not. Rights exist because a group of people get together and decide what they will protect each other from. If I don't have a group willing to stand up for my free speach, I don't have free speach. What might we call such a group of people who decide amongst themselves upon a course of collective action and mutual protection? Oh, I don't know, a government?
Only governments grant rights. Without governments all there is is force.
Also does it not rebutt the myth that if you have the code you can easily maintain and improve it yourself?
It proves the truth that if you have access to the code you can easily maintain and improve it yourself by paying someone to do it for you. Or did you think that simply having the code automatically makes everyone a programmer? Or (more likely) are you deliberately misinterpreting this "myth" to make some snarky straw-man point? In any case, your comment made me laugh my ass off and now I need to "rebutt" myself.
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Newkyuler power in space? Good god man, you'll kill us all! If the thing blows up or de-orbits, that amount of newkyuler participles could, uh, well I don't really know but I'm going to go with "reduce the planet to a glassy sphere." Won't someone think of the children? You can't hug a children with radioactive satellites.
Very informative, thanks. But I am having another problem. You see, I am too lazy to wipe after taking a dump. As you seem to enjoy enabling bad behavior by helping lazy people do things they really could have done for themselves, perhaps you could help me out down there? Wet-nap, one finger, circular motion.
As an interesting side note, a good portion of our visual processing system is devoted to facial recognition. As one might expect, this system has also been integrated into the depth perception system. Your brain is hard wired to know in absolute terms how big a face is. Therefore, one derives distance information in scenes where faces are present from the relative size of those faces.
The other monocular depth perception cues include motion parallax, color vision, perspective, relative size, distance fog, depth from focus, and occlusion. binocular depth cues include only stereopsis and convergence. All these signals are integrated to judge depth. Frequently one or more of these signals are not available, but the others suffice to make a judgement of depth.
The hard wiring of these various neural depth perceiving systems creates many optical illusions. If depth perception were the cut-and-dried binocular vision thing you suppose it to be, these optical illusions wouldn't exist.
Wikipedia's article on depth perception. Please note the number of monocular depth cues as opposed to binocular depth cues. Anyone needing more proof should simply cover up one eye and note that the world does not suddenly appear two dimensional.
These guys wouldn't know IRC if it kickbanned them in the ass. They have trouble with AIM. Besides, they don't give a rat's ass about the web, unless it's a site put up by one of those guys they did all that E with at Burning Man. They just wanna party, and you can't share drugs over IRC.
Not that I have any problem with drugs. Just shallow people.
"What is that in Bill's hands? He's holding a tiny white object and can't stop fiddling with it."
There's a reason he named his company micro soft...
"I've got mine, so fuck you" is in full swing these days.
It's worse than that, it's "I've got mine, therefore I'm better than you. Greed is good, selfishness is next to Godliness. So fuck you."
it's still not the same thing as the interpretation of two 2D images from different angles.
For distances over four feet, you'd be surprised how close it is to seeing things from two different angles. Try covering one eye and looking at some distant objects, you'll see that aside from the narrower field of view, it isn't that much different.
I knew some of the people behind this thing, and they were for the most part shallow attention seekers with the technical expertise of your average turtle. The main reason for the webbies is to throw a giant party for their friends on someone else's dime. Back in the .com days everyone thought they were hot shit. I kinda thought they had slunk back into the marketing sewer they crawled out of. Make no mistake, geeks, the webbies were created by the popular kids who picked on us in high school, not by or for fellow geeks.
.com boom.
I mean, I could see some industry group giving out awards, like the Academy awards, or even a bunch of trade journalists, like the Golden Globes, but the webbies are just some guys who said, "How can we make a buck off this Internet thingy? I know! We can get paid to throw a huge party and hand out some made-up awards!"
Sorry for the rant, but these guys epitomize everything that was wrong with the
Thanks for clarifying, you are correct. And no, I guess I didn't read the article carefully. :)
Perhaps democracy was only a temporary blip on the radar of history, and humanity's natural state is under the boot of the tyrant?
The ancient Greeks thought so. Or at least they thought that humanity would continually rotate in and out of tyranny.
Correct, because we don't need to shoot them. Our people aren't desperate and starving, they won't listen to some marginalized reporter. If we shoot them, it becomes a story. If someone tried to break a story that seriously threatened the status quo here, be sure that reporter would be just as dead as his colleague in China.
You're not just being pedantic, you are wrong. I lost an eye in a mugging and I can see in 3D just fine, for anything further than about 4 feet. I can't thread a needle to save my life, but I can drive a car and play darts pretty well. The brain has many, many circuits for determining distance besides stereo vision. Color fading, occlusion, parallax, change of focal length, all provide depth perception cues. Seeing something in 3D does not require stereo vision, I can attest to that.
Huh? That says that you can't just declare some person or group guilty of a crime by legislative fiat. What does that have to do with anything? The US government seizes property anytime it wants to, we wouldn't have a national highway system if that wasn't the case.
Sitting for eight hours without moving causes DVT. I sleep for eight hours without moving much and haven't yet woken up in the ICU. It's the compression of the vein caused by having your legs hanging off the edge of a chair that does it. The reason that we see it so much in air travel is that the seats are designed to sort of fit everyone, and thus fit almost no one perfectly. With good ergonomic chair design, the leg veins won't be compressed and you could code for days without DVT.
Anytime the question is "will he be forced to buy a new copy of X," the answer is "yes, if we can get away with it."
I like second shift myself, four to midnight. I can still go out Friday nights (to Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Cons, really! No, you can't have my geek card back.) and I don't have to get up until noon. I can get erands done in the early afternoon and I hit my mental peak about the middle of my shift. Also, I have much less dealings with irate, ignorant and/or downright dumb clients at night. I don't like third shift because I sleep through most of the day and being a pasty-white geek, I need all the sun I can get.
Well, if you do something all the time, of course there's going to be no magic to it. I'm a middle of the road coder myself, kernel code scares the bejezus out of me, but it I worked with it every day I'd get comfortable with it right quick.
The point is, some projects are straightforward. Jump right in, the water's fine. Others, not so much.
How do you get use your personal decryption key to decrypt the file that is identical to the one you just used bittorrent to download off of dozens of other people's computers?
No, sequel implies some kind of sequence (notice the similarities between the two words?) There is no sequence in the final fantasy games, they all have different characters and worlds.
If there is a versus mode, I hope the gameplay is akin to something like Final Fantasy Tactics as opposed to the "I play myself while you watch" FFXII.
That comment could have been made much funnier with the proper insertion of a "with."
No, because I don't expect them to be in any way a sequel. And because I've only ever bought one, FFX. Yet I still understand that these games are not sequels. "Final Fantasy" simply means it has cactuars, chocobos, and some random guy named Cid in it.
governments cannot grant rights, they can only take them away.
That's a naive way of looking at rights. Without society, rights do not exist. If I was the only person on earth, would it be sensible to talk about my "right" to free speach? If I lived in a barbarous anarchy, would my whining about my "property rights" stop some local warlord from taking them from me? Obviously not. Rights exist because a group of people get together and decide what they will protect each other from. If I don't have a group willing to stand up for my free speach, I don't have free speach. What might we call such a group of people who decide amongst themselves upon a course of collective action and mutual protection? Oh, I don't know, a government?
Only governments grant rights. Without governments all there is is force.
Also does it not rebutt the myth that if you have the code you can easily maintain and improve it yourself?
It proves the truth that if you have access to the code you can easily maintain and improve it yourself by paying someone to do it for you. Or did you think that simply having the code automatically makes everyone a programmer? Or (more likely) are you deliberately misinterpreting this "myth" to make some snarky straw-man point? In any case, your comment made me laugh my ass off and now I need to "rebutt" myself.