Here's a nice article, neatly summarised by its headline -- "There's Sex In My Violence! What's this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent "Grand Theft Auto"?".
This reminds me of one of my first experience of US TV. I was watching "The Godfather" on TBS, in the middle of the day. When Santino beat the living Bejeesus out of his sister's husband on the street, they showed every frame of the violence. 5 minutes later, they pixelated the 3.5 seconds of nude breast (the only nudity in the entire film) in Michael's wedding night scene.
Who knows, Longhorn may even contain all the features of Cairo, which was announced in 1991. Of course, it's unlikely that WinFS will be finished, so we may still have to wait.
Oh, please. We've been a distinct species for millions of years, and it's ridiculous hubris to modern humanity is the golden generation that will achieve godhead through technology.
To Newton, the renaissance would look like a singularity. To Da Vinci, the 19th century would look like an unimaginable technological tornado. To Watt, or Stephenson, the inventions of the 1950s would have a been, to quote a popular phrase, "indistinguishable from magic." Turing would've looked at the incredible microchip technology driving web in marvel (plus : plenty of gay porn. Bonus).
Now, if you're suggesting a unprecedented evolutionary breakthrough, and our eventual transcedence, I'd suggest that nobody's transcending anywhere while there are still millions of people dying on the other side of the world from your comfortable futurologists apartment.
Oh, I'm fully aware that Kurzweil's a smart guy. But can't he find something productive to do with his time like... add a decent OCR program to Linux, for example:)
Goddamn communist atheists at the BBC, sharing stuff. Don't they realise that if any of us stop grasping what is ours, society will collapse. You didn't see Jesus Christ preaching about sharing, did you.
Given your sig, I'll take that with a pinch of salt.
ESR once described himself as "one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer", which is so mind-blastingly far from the truth that I've taken nothing he's said seriously since.
Well of course they are. But you've got to consider the sanest criterion to select things to get cut. There's no contradiction here.
Charter renewal is round the corner, and the external pressure from other broadcasters is starting to get felt... So, they've got to cut costs. So, how due you pick which things to shut? Well, it's those in which there is a marked lack of interest.
If many people really cared, they wouldn't be closing it due to lack of interest.
700,000 hits is really not very many.
And the idea that the closure of this small part of the webpage is going to result in BBC archivists deleting the programs is just idiotic scaremongering. The BBC are more than aware of the stupid mistakes made in the past w.r.t. Not Only But Also, The Goons and so.
normal distribution... mean is 12 minutes... the standard deviation must be pretty high.
Hey, Brilliant math guy : If a positively valued variable is normally distributed with mean 12, you're going trouble with a standard deviation of more than 5, because you'll then predict a substantial area of negative times (or lose normality).
Well maybe, but I'm really quite a pragmatic hippy. If I could see the worse evil being presented, I'd concede the point, but I honestly can't. The evil of equal competition between retailers just doesn't strike me as that bad. (Remember, constitutionally patents are to "to promote the common good"
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She was. But the best part of the movie is Michael kills the police chief in the restaurant. The film deserved its Oscar for that scene alone.
Here's a nice article, neatly summarised by its headline -- "There's Sex In My Violence!
What's this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent "Grand Theft Auto"?".
This reminds me of one of my first experience of US TV. I was watching "The Godfather" on TBS, in the middle of the day. When Santino beat the living Bejeesus out of his sister's husband on the street, they showed every frame of the violence. 5 minutes later, they pixelated the 3.5 seconds of nude breast (the only nudity in the entire film) in Michael's wedding night scene.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
tomorrow's "completely spurious number pulled out of our asses" will 17 Swiss Francs.
I'll say.
Who knows, Longhorn may even contain all the features of Cairo, which was announced in 1991. Of course, it's unlikely that WinFS will be finished, so we may still have to wait.
Wrong.
w ww.prospect.org/controversy/open_source/raymond-e- 1.html
That fake news article quotes a genuine ESR quote for comic effect (because it is very, very funny indeed). The original quote comes from an opinion piece that ESR wrote for American Prospect magazine. The original article is no longer on line, but you newbies can read it using the Wayback Machine... http://web.archive.org/web/20000510011639/http://
Now fuck off.
To Newton, the renaissance would look like a singularity. To Da Vinci, the 19th century would look like an unimaginable technological tornado. To Watt, or Stephenson, the inventions of the 1950s would have a been, to quote a popular phrase, "indistinguishable from magic." Turing would've looked at the incredible microchip technology driving web in marvel (plus : plenty of gay porn. Bonus).
Now, if you're suggesting a unprecedented evolutionary breakthrough, and our eventual transcedence, I'd suggest that nobody's transcending anywhere while there are still millions of people dying on the other side of the world from your comfortable futurologists apartment.
Oh, I'm fully aware that Kurzweil's a smart guy. But can't he find something productive to do with his time like... add a decent OCR program to Linux, for example :)
Man, I wish I could get a job making untestable hypotheses, and talking in stunningly vague terms about a vast morass of unrelated ideas.
But I don't want to be a futurist, and I don't have the time to study for the priesthood.
There is no ambassador. His appointment was held up by a filibuster in the Galactic Senate.
I once assembled some flat pack furniture in less than three days.
Goddamn communist atheists at the BBC, sharing stuff. Don't they realise that if any of us stop grasping what is ours, society will collapse. You didn't see Jesus Christ preaching about sharing, did you.
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Sure, George.
Given your sig, I'll take that with a pinch of salt.
ESR once described himself as "one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer", which is so mind-blastingly far from the truth that I've taken nothing he's said seriously since.
Charter renewal is round the corner, and the external pressure from other broadcasters is starting to get felt... So, they've got to cut costs. So, how due you pick which things to shut? Well, it's those in which there is a marked lack of interest.
700,000 hits is really not very many.
And the idea that the closure of this small part of the webpage is going to result in BBC archivists deleting the programs is just idiotic scaremongering. The BBC are more than aware of the stupid mistakes made in the past w.r.t. Not Only But Also, The Goons and so.
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1984 called, it wants it article back. ... no, wait, that doesn't work.
Well maybe, but I'm really quite a pragmatic hippy. If I could see the worse evil being presented, I'd concede the point, but I honestly can't. The evil of equal competition between retailers just doesn't strike me as that bad. (Remember, constitutionally patents are to "to promote the common good"