Ahh, the old debate about grounded vs. ungrounded deflector headgear. It's quite simple! Are you being spied on my mole men or government satellites? If Uncle Sam, ground your headgear. If mole men, install antennae. The mole men will have improved reception on a grounded deflective helm. Likewise, Uncle Sam's spying eyes in the sky love antennae. When you ground, Uncle Sam won't be able to isolate your brain waves because he will be picking up mole man carriers,, and vice versa.
Disclaimer : I am a board certified metallic foil haberdasherer, but this is not official certified advice. Everybody's paranoia is unique and healthy. Stop by the store for a personal consultation of Neuro-absorptive/Nero-reflective helmets and headgear that best suits your needs. Initial consultation only $39.95 while supplies last.
My favorite Futurama moment was even subtler than the race track (though that was a damn fine one!). In the episode with Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Nichelle Nichols, and the super computer, Fry gets thrown into a school bus. That bus is labelled:
Grand Unified School District.
99% of the potential audience wouldn't even have known there was a joke involved. I was laughing so hard I almost caughed up my slurm. If you can't see the joke, just remember that Hawking was in the episode.:O)
But, sir, you sidestep his point. After all, Linux can mount FAT paritions as well? Oughtn't that obligate Apple to open source... uhhh... what exactly are they supposed to open source, anyway? iPod firmware? Why -- the iPod doesn't format itself... The util they use to format the iPod at the factory? Uhhh -- maybe they use Linux anyway:)... Whatever formatting program the end user uses to format his iPod however he feels like it because it is just a firewire block device (which happens to play audio on a few filesystems)...
If the pluralisation came from latin, that'd be an informative post. But, boxen is german pluralisation. This is because the first digital computer was made in germany using electro-mechanical relays.
I clearly overstated the case. I suppose, leet Haxor probably evolved most directly from phreak, with its deliberate mis-spellings. The leet/ham connection was intended more as a joke than anything else. I'm a metallic foils haberdasherer by training, not a real linguist.
While both 1337 spe4k and ham are dialects of hackish, they are not directly decended from each other. l33t is, if anything, decended from ham, as ham predates l33t. Most hackish linguists feel that the gamerz weren't especially aware of ham when l33t was developed. The similarities arise from the similar circumstances of origion of the two dialects. Both are designed to be extremely terse, due to limited available "bandwidth." In the case of l33t, any time spent of the numpad detracts from game play, while with ham, you need to key out each letter with multiple strokes.
Ever see the movie Strip Search? You may find it draws fascinating comparisons between China and the current US political climate. Oh, and you get to see Maggie Gyllenhall's boobie. It's a very nice boobie, but the political aspect of the movie was much more interesting, IMHO.
Actually, soldering in your underwear is a great way to reinforce the seams. OTOH, and I speak from experience, for god's sake, don't do the soldering in your underwear *while wearing the underwear.*
Suggestions... Hmmm... Why, in fact, I could think of billions and billions of suggestions! I'm a big fan of Carl Sagan. That's why his corpse usually winds up as a character in my writing.:)
I have to hand it to this fella -- he is the most organised, well prepared troll I've seen in a long time. He even gets modded up half the time. Amazing.
Now, see, you are just trying to write spaghettic C in Basic. You only needed to retype lines 10 and 25. This re-use and refactoring technology, whereby unmodified parts of the source code remain persistent in memory until specifically edited, is what inspired Java and all other Object Oriented languages. Clearly, in BASIC, the line itself was the object!
Because lines 20 and 30 remain unchanged, there was no need to retype, or copy-paste them. Retyping just introduces opportunities for a typo, and slows down the professional programmer.
Kids today have no respect for the classics.
P.S. I know a guy who is building a micro using an intel 4004 CPU, and plans to get basic running on it. W00t!
Indeed. As I said, I'm not at all bothered by the notion the humanity dealt with some Really Bad Weather in the early years, but that doesn't require a completely literal interpretation of the myths. Some of those myths are pretty wacky!
These TTY scams take up a ton of time for the person who answers the phone. We get about ten TTY scam calls per week, and about 1 legit deaf call per month. That adds up to a lot of wasted time.
Well, going off #2... Colorado is a good place to find Dinosaur-era sea creatures. So is Ohio.
I'm not familiar with the Middle East, but let's imagine a day, thousands of years ago, when some guy has just discovered a skeleton of an icthyosaur
-Holy Motherfuck! What the hell is this doing in the middle of the desert. I'll go ask the wiseman!
-Hmm, that's damned peculiar. I suppose the only good answer for why you found a giant fish is that this place used to be underwater.
-How can that be? We know from our standard creation story that our deity created us right here.
-Well, maybe he created us here, then there was a big flood, and the fish died, and then the flood receded.
-How did we survive the flood?
-Some guy must have built a really fucking big boat to keep the land animals safe.
-Well, I guess I don't have a better answer.
Now, given the number of cultures that have flood myths, IMHO, there probably was some major bad weather early in human history, so there probably would have been an oral tradition of flood stories even before guys started digging up fishes in the desert.
I don't personally believe in a literal take on the bible, but my own personal hunch is that the noah story comes from several very real observations and events.
I had a friend who named all his systems with LOTR names. This was back in the day, before the movies were even in preproduction. I actually have every node on my network named after various girls named Lindsay that I know. Don't ask. I didn't realise I had done it until I was four systems in, and then, I just sort of went with it. It wasn't even intentional, or stalkerish. It just started off that I was asking a girl what I should use as the network name for a system. She didn't have a good idea, so I just used her AIM handle, and went from there. Most of the names are derived from AIM handles, others from nicknames, or last names. Unfortunately, I ran out of Lindsays, so I have one system simply names G3.
I hope I don't get a second Power Mac G3. There could be chaos. Or, I'd have to meet more girls named Lindsay. Thankfully, most of my computers aren't on the network, so they don't have names. If they did, I'd have to be social to keep my naming scheme going. That, or use celebrity Lindsays. I could name my G3 "lohan" I guess...
That G3 is kinda cute, curvy, and under 18 years old, so it'd fit, too.
June 8th is my 21st birthday! Finally, a good excuse to have a birthday completely alone, without that damned interference from friends or family. "Sorry, can't have dinner with you, I'll be "making observations" until sunset!"
I once tried to use my palm pilot as a video iPod. With a video player app, and a memory card big enough to hold an episode of star trek, I could catch up on my TV viewing over lunch. Enough capacity for my use.
Except, I'd have to hold the farking video iPod at arms length for an hour, or stare at my lap at a crooked angle. Not worth the bother. Wake me up again when ultralight head mounted displays are $100. As soon as that happens, and I can watch a movie while wearing a pair of sunglasses, and lounging -- That's when the video iPod will matter!
Here is a little thought experiment to go along with the parent post. Suppose I make DeluxoWrite, the best Word Fragmenting program ever imagined. I want to make a logo commensurate to the sheer awesomeness of my word fragmenter. So, I go into GIMP, and I make a deluxo logo. The preferred form for editing is my multilayered GIMP file, and the custom perl script I made to make things perfect.
So, I decide to use my logo, and I save it as a PPM, and I include it in the source to my program. Is it a GPL violation if I don't include the GIMP multilayered file? The image is certainly part of the "source" that goes into building the final executable. The PPM embedded in a header file is certainly not the preferred editing format. How does this work?
I'm not saying I outright disagree with the Debian decision. I'm just... mulling it over.
I have mod points, and I really want to do a little bit of smacking down, but I'll just go for correcting instead. I phear the metamods, yo!
ASHLI is *not* a renderer. It isn't anywhere near doing what Gelato does. Gelato takes a scene file, and gives you a picture. It does it very nicely, using motion blur, programmable shading, and all sorts of fun stuff like that. It is written by the Ex - Ex Luna boys. (Larry Gritz, Matt Pharr, Craig Colb -- Three mofos who know their shizzle.)
ASHLI takes a renderman shader in RSL, and gives you a compiled shader for OpenGL or DirectX. It's then up to you to write the whole renderer.
It's cool, but if you are seriously writing lots of RenderMan shaders, you can probably just as well write them in GL Slang, for your in house customised OpenGL renderer. ASHLI's utility is limited. Frankly, it is pretty much a complete non sequiter in a discussion about a renderer.
As a side question, in relation to the parent... Assuming robots eventually are sentient, members of society, have a reasonable assortment of rights. What about recreation? What happens to society when robots realise that fleshies are building their kind solely as a labor force? Is there any chance that robots would try to make robot production a solely internal matter? What happens when the first research robot decides to clone a human or human like child, and raise it? Obviously, the question of robot production in this sense is a very distant one, so much so as to be a pretty moot point in our lifetime, but I still find it an interesting muse.
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I just marked you as a slashdot friend for reminding me of that. :)
Ahh, the old debate about grounded vs. ungrounded deflector headgear. It's quite simple! Are you being spied on my mole men or government satellites? If Uncle Sam, ground your headgear. If mole men, install antennae. The mole men will have improved reception on a grounded deflective helm. Likewise, Uncle Sam's spying eyes in the sky love antennae. When you ground, Uncle Sam won't be able to isolate your brain waves because he will be picking up mole man carriers,, and vice versa.
Disclaimer : I am a board certified metallic foil haberdasherer, but this is not official certified advice. Everybody's paranoia is unique and healthy. Stop by the store for a personal consultation of Neuro-absorptive/Nero-reflective helmets and headgear that best suits your needs. Initial consultation only $39.95 while supplies last.
My favorite Futurama moment was even subtler than the race track (though that was a damn fine one!). In the episode with Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Nichelle Nichols, and the super computer, Fry gets thrown into a school bus. That bus is labelled:
:O)
Grand Unified School District.
99% of the potential audience wouldn't even have known there was a joke involved. I was laughing so hard I almost caughed up my slurm. If you can't see the joke, just remember that Hawking was in the episode.
But, sir, you sidestep his point. After all, Linux can mount FAT paritions as well? Oughtn't that obligate Apple to open source... uhhh... what exactly are they supposed to open source, anyway? iPod firmware? Why -- the iPod doesn't format itself... The util they use to format the iPod at the factory? Uhhh -- maybe they use Linux anyway :) ... Whatever formatting program the end user uses to format his iPod however he feels like it because it is just a firewire block device (which happens to play audio on a few filesystems)...
I say mod the gp +1 stupid.
If the pluralisation came from latin, that'd be an informative post. But, boxen is german pluralisation. This is because the first digital computer was made in germany using electro-mechanical relays.
Duh, you fuxxor heads.
I clearly overstated the case. I suppose, leet Haxor probably evolved most directly from phreak, with its deliberate mis-spellings. The leet/ham connection was intended more as a joke than anything else. I'm a metallic foils haberdasherer by training, not a real linguist.
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Don't forget - if you answer "no," it's also the problem!
While both 1337 spe4k and ham are dialects of hackish, they are not directly decended from each other. l33t is, if anything, decended from ham, as ham predates l33t. Most hackish linguists feel that the gamerz weren't especially aware of ham when l33t was developed. The similarities arise from the similar circumstances of origion of the two dialects. Both are designed to be extremely terse, due to limited available "bandwidth." In the case of l33t, any time spent of the numpad detracts from game play, while with ham, you need to key out each letter with multiple strokes.
Ever see the movie Strip Search? You may find it draws fascinating comparisons between China and the current US political climate. Oh, and you get to see Maggie Gyllenhall's boobie. It's a very nice boobie, but the political aspect of the movie was much more interesting, IMHO.
I remember the first time I saw Outlook. I moved away from it so fast that I had to pick up the logo on a ELF radio reciever.
How's that for an anti-MS joke?
Adding a fanless power supply, and solid state storage, so that they only way you realise your computer is turned on is the keyboard LED... Priceless.
Actually, soldering in your underwear is a great way to reinforce the seams. OTOH, and I speak from experience, for god's sake, don't do the soldering in your underwear *while wearing the underwear.*
Thank you.
Suggestions... Hmmm... Why, in fact, I could think of billions and billions of suggestions! I'm a big fan of Carl Sagan. That's why his corpse usually winds up as a character in my writing. :)
I have to hand it to this fella -- he is the most organised, well prepared troll I've seen in a long time. He even gets modded up half the time. Amazing.
Now, see, you are just trying to write spaghettic C in Basic. You only needed to retype lines 10 and 25. This re-use and refactoring technology, whereby unmodified parts of the source code remain persistent in memory until specifically edited, is what inspired Java and all other Object Oriented languages. Clearly, in BASIC, the line itself was the object!
Because lines 20 and 30 remain unchanged, there was no need to retype, or copy-paste them. Retyping just introduces opportunities for a typo, and slows down the professional programmer.
Kids today have no respect for the classics.
P.S. I know a guy who is building a micro using an intel 4004 CPU, and plans to get basic running on it. W00t!
Indeed. As I said, I'm not at all bothered by the notion the humanity dealt with some Really Bad Weather in the early years, but that doesn't require a completely literal interpretation of the myths. Some of those myths are pretty wacky!
These TTY scams take up a ton of time for the person who answers the phone. We get about ten TTY scam calls per week, and about 1 legit deaf call per month. That adds up to a lot of wasted time.
Well, going off #2... Colorado is a good place to find Dinosaur-era sea creatures. So is Ohio.
I'm not familiar with the Middle East, but let's imagine a day, thousands of years ago, when some guy has just discovered a skeleton of an icthyosaur
-Holy Motherfuck! What the hell is this doing in the middle of the desert. I'll go ask the wiseman!
-Hmm, that's damned peculiar. I suppose the only good answer for why you found a giant fish is that this place used to be underwater.
-How can that be? We know from our standard creation story that our deity created us right here.
-Well, maybe he created us here, then there was a big flood, and the fish died, and then the flood receded.
-How did we survive the flood?
-Some guy must have built a really fucking big boat to keep the land animals safe.
-Well, I guess I don't have a better answer.
Now, given the number of cultures that have flood myths, IMHO, there probably was some major bad weather early in human history, so there probably would have been an oral tradition of flood stories even before guys started digging up fishes in the desert.
I don't personally believe in a literal take on the bible, but my own personal hunch is that the noah story comes from several very real observations and events.
I wonder if that was intended as an engineer's joke, or just a coincidence...
quote:
You mean the 16C. The 15C is a scientific programmable calculator that does not have a hex mode.
I had a friend who named all his systems with LOTR names. This was back in the day, before the movies were even in preproduction. I actually have every node on my network named after various girls named Lindsay that I know. Don't ask. I didn't realise I had done it until I was four systems in, and then, I just sort of went with it. It wasn't even intentional, or stalkerish. It just started off that I was asking a girl what I should use as the network name for a system. She didn't have a good idea, so I just used her AIM handle, and went from there. Most of the names are derived from AIM handles, others from nicknames, or last names. Unfortunately, I ran out of Lindsays, so I have one system simply names G3.
I hope I don't get a second Power Mac G3. There could be chaos. Or, I'd have to meet more girls named Lindsay. Thankfully, most of my computers aren't on the network, so they don't have names. If they did, I'd have to be social to keep my naming scheme going. That, or use celebrity Lindsays. I could name my G3 "lohan" I guess...
That G3 is kinda cute, curvy, and under 18 years old, so it'd fit, too.
W00t !!!
June 8th is my 21st birthday! Finally, a good excuse to have a birthday completely alone, without that damned interference from friends or family. "Sorry, can't have dinner with you, I'll be "making observations" until sunset!"
I once tried to use my palm pilot as a video iPod. With a video player app, and a memory card big enough to hold an episode of star trek, I could catch up on my TV viewing over lunch. Enough capacity for my use.
Except, I'd have to hold the farking video iPod at arms length for an hour, or stare at my lap at a crooked angle. Not worth the bother. Wake me up again when ultralight head mounted displays are $100. As soon as that happens, and I can watch a movie while wearing a pair of sunglasses, and lounging -- That's when the video iPod will matter!
Here is a little thought experiment to go along with the parent post. Suppose I make DeluxoWrite, the best Word Fragmenting program ever imagined. I want to make a logo commensurate to the sheer awesomeness of my word fragmenter. So, I go into GIMP, and I make a deluxo logo. The preferred form for editing is my multilayered GIMP file, and the custom perl script I made to make things perfect.
So, I decide to use my logo, and I save it as a PPM, and I include it in the source to my program. Is it a GPL violation if I don't include the GIMP multilayered file? The image is certainly part of the "source" that goes into building the final executable. The PPM embedded in a header file is certainly not the preferred editing format. How does this work?
I'm not saying I outright disagree with the Debian decision. I'm just... mulling it over.
I have mod points, and I really want to do a little bit of smacking down, but I'll just go for correcting instead. I phear the metamods, yo!
ASHLI is *not* a renderer. It isn't anywhere near doing what Gelato does. Gelato takes a scene file, and gives you a picture. It does it very nicely, using motion blur, programmable shading, and all sorts of fun stuff like that. It is written by the Ex - Ex Luna boys. (Larry Gritz, Matt Pharr, Craig Colb -- Three mofos who know their shizzle.)
ASHLI takes a renderman shader in RSL, and gives you a compiled shader for OpenGL or DirectX. It's then up to you to write the whole renderer.
It's cool, but if you are seriously writing lots of RenderMan shaders, you can probably just as well write them in GL Slang, for your in house customised OpenGL renderer. ASHLI's utility is limited. Frankly, it is pretty much a complete non sequiter in a discussion about a renderer.
As a side question, in relation to the parent... Assuming robots eventually are sentient, members of society, have a reasonable assortment of rights. What about recreation? What happens to society when robots realise that fleshies are building their kind solely as a labor force? Is there any chance that robots would try to make robot production a solely internal matter? What happens when the first research robot decides to clone a human or human like child, and raise it? Obviously, the question of robot production in this sense is a very distant one, so much so as to be a pretty moot point in our lifetime, but I still find it an interesting muse.