Sorry, I mean a social model. Has anyone attempted this before?
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You are freakin kidding me.
Of COURSE it has been done before, yeesh. There have been countless Science Fiction collaborative projects. Collaborative worlds, stories, books, essays, you name it.
Many Bulletin Board Systems also had a "Never Ending Story" thread or board where each user in turn added X paragraphs to the story. Heck the "pass the paper around" methodology is darn nearly a cliche within writing classes!
There are also many stories of professional authors going over the script of young but highly creative writers and doing collaborative works with them. One could say that John Campbell's editing style was pretty much a collaborative one.
Application grouping adds one more click which may not seem like much, but it's still slower than tabs inside the browser.
That and it is just a pain.:-P Application grouping is a royal pain in the arse, it does not let me quickly see what resources I have open and which ones I need to shove open another browser window for (windowkey-e, shift-tab, space, shift-tab.)
Have you tried tabbed browsing in Mozilla? I used to have a bunch of IE or Netscape windows open and alt-tab between them, but after experiencing tabbed browsing I just can't go back.
Yah I have tried it, it is a royal pain. I end up hitting the X and closing everything, though the little warning window that has come along recently is rather nice, heh.
If I could Control-Tab between the tabs then maybe I would be OK, but as it is, err, ah, heh. Well that would not be much different then alt-tabbing now would it?:-D The way I browse is typicaly to go along a meta-site such as everything2.com and just open up everything that even remotly interests me and then when I start to run out of RAM (on this machine, 768 megabytes) I start reading the pages one by one and closing off windows as I go.
Every try opening 5 articles in XP? IE doesn't have tabs, so you have to either use ALT+TAB or click on the IE box on the taskbar and find the window you wish to view.
Ever try turning off application grouping?
*rolls eyes*
Annnyways. I use alt-tab anyways, even under 2K with a functional taskbar.:-P I typicaly can have well over TWENTY IE windows open and navigate them just fine.
Why is he doing the color filter thing when high resolution color CCDs are now availble? Is it for clairities sake or something? I know it was neccisary when Greyscale was all there was, but do color CCDs just now work as well or something?
Regarding Photoshop, Corel Photopaint and Gimp are excellent replacements. I know they don't have all the prepress features of Photoshop. But most Photoshop users don't use prepress features!
The Gimp's interface uses up, err, well, pretty much all of my screen real estate.
Bad interface = hard to use = little work done = me no using it. Photoshop was easy and natural to use from almost the first time I started it up, The Gimp seems like it was just thrown together. Yes some of The Gimp's features have at various times in both program's development cycles, surpassed those of Photoshop in a few areas, but that is irrelevant, for as soon as I started the program up I ran smack dab into the horrid interface.
Besides, having programs open up a gazzilion task bar items in Windows is just a pain. Icky icky bad bad makes switching programs all that much more of pain. Cntrl-Tab has its uses, don't need to alt-tab between everything.
But eventually you'll reach the limits of physical matter: atoms, neutrons, protons, electrons, quarks; or the limits of whatever you're using to represent the fractal... What does it happen when you reach that limit?
Well then you say screw it, your mathmatical model just hit real world limits.
As a posted above stated, snowflakes are not *perfect* fractals. Perfect fractals do not exist in nature for exactly the reasons you stated.
Then again for those very same reasons, perfect spherse, squares, triangles, or perfect versions of any other mathmatical construct also do not exist.
It is math, it has limits.:) But it IS a useful analogy, and fractals ARE darn cool and really pretty looking to boot. They actualy aren't all/that/ hard to get down once you read up on them enough.:)
(I had my intro to them a few years back in some other/. story. Hehe. ^_^)
The typical example used to explain fractals is that of a coast line.
Think of drawing a costal outline. Now think of adding more detail do it, the big rocks. Then the bumpss on the big rocks. Then the moss growing on the bumpss on those big rocks. Then the little hairy things on the moss growing on the bumpss of those big rocks. Then the bacteria living on the hairy things on the moss on the bumpss on those big rocks.
The point here is that you can keep on zooming in until you hit the real world limits of our universe, but it just so happens that modeling a fractal and treating certian intervals of that graph as your "coastal line" is a far easier way to go about and do it.
Now part of the definition of a fractal is that you can keep on zooming in forever and getting more and more detail. Obviously for the real world this will not work out, but within certian intervals the fractal is a pretty darn good approximation of reality. Just like almost any other graph or mathmatical construct, it has its constraints, but within those constraints, it is darn useful.
Pay close attention to the hardware in the background. Quite often it isn't a Windows system or a Linux system. It's a Mac.
So Macs where used by the artsy types, your point is? The artsy fartsy machines did the artsy fartsy work and the work horse machines did the serious crunching.
Don't worry about money, it's not an issue any more. International banks/investors already trust China enough to put more money in such uncoming projects.
*sigh* I just want to know what sort of ass hats give money to communists to develop technology.
because it's what came installed on the PC when they got it.
Well in that case X is part of "Mandrake Linux".:-P
*Nix users are always talking about flexibility and different parts of the OS can be chopped off at will, well, Windows CAN do SOME of that, not to nearly the same extent, but don't cut Windows too short of a stick, as far as modularity goes, while it may not be able to squeeze down to a single floppy disk, it can have a lot of it wacked away at at still end up in a workable state.
Ah, but you're forgetting the code that's shared between Internet Explorer and Outlook Express (and Windows too, of course. Thanks Bill!:) ).
Mostly HTML rendering code, and even that is modular and can be updated separately. I forget what DLL that is in. *G*
Any programmer is free to use those built in libraries, all it is is an HTML renderer. *shrugs* Nothing all that special, heck, for the longest time it even sucked horribly, giving the competition more then enough opportunity to keep their advantage, but, err, *looks over towards Netscape 4.7* oops.:-P Kind of blew that lead. . ..
Windows can be cut down to around 33-50% of its default install size (depending on which version of windows you are talking about), all is not nearly as integrated as some make it out to be. Granted Windows is still way to big and the code is a bloated piece of crap and the default install includes crap that is not even *usable* on current versions (2k+) of Windows, but at least some of the crud can be cut.
The fact that various OSS projects utilize stand alone DLLs ripped from Windows boxes should emphasize that. *G*
Merely a holdover from the days when it was an application in its own right. Now, however, the only way you can acquire it from Microsoft's web site is as a part of the install package for Internet Explorer.
Which does NOT make it a PART of Internet Explorer. It just means it is in the same installation package. Big whoop.
People with one eye that is far weaker than the other cannot use them. Irritating. Nerve Regeneration had better come along quickly, I want the rest of my Optic nerve. . . .
If you're really interested, there's a convention twice a year, where most of the big providers have booths, and lots of people, ranging from talent (read, lots of hot girls), to webmasters (anyone with a site) show up and talk business.
So your saying that if I wanted to get rid of all of those "xxxhot donkey sex actionxxx" spam messages in my inbox, that that convention would be the place to go postal at?
Also, why wouldn't the x-rated want to be under a.xxx TLD? It only makes 'em more easy to find, and anyone who's looking for porn will find it anyway. And anyone who doesn't want to find it will click away anyway.
Because most porn site owners are complete idiots who believe that everybody wants pornography and can pay for it and thus why they advertise the living hell on warez sites mostly populated by 13yr old males without credit cards.
Real brainiacs. . . .
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My opinion of the film improved immeasurably when someone clued me in that the "aliens" were descendents of the mecha.
Which sounds like absolute non-sense, there is no evidence at all that this is the case, and had Mecha's been around and that evolved they could have saved humanity long ago if they had that much interest in them. Unless they did not develope that interest until much later on.
Hmm, anybody have a copy of the original book at hand? ^_^
of course you fail to say what that reason was...like trying to subsidize our own brand of govt on people that were looking for any alternative?...how weak.
Oh go shove it. The VietKong where ruthless merciless terrorists who literally kidnapped and tortured thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians and violated the rights of countless solderers.
Gee, that sure was a good use of money. Propping up the corrupt South Vietnamese government, thousands more Americans and tens of thousands more Asians dead, and the US backing the Khmer Rouge. Much better than some stupid space program.
Ask somebody from South Vietname how they feel about communists. We where there for a damn good reason.
Uh, what planet is this on? Here in the US, cable companies are prohibited from charging on a per outlet basis. If I want cable TV in another room, all I have to do is buy a splitter at Radio Shack.
Last time I checked, if my local cable co hears about that they cancel the account. They ban the usage of splitters. Not like the cable guy gives a damn (or won't help you install them for that matter. . ..)
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*looks up*
You are freakin kidding me.
Of COURSE it has been done before, yeesh. There have been countless Science Fiction collaborative projects. Collaborative worlds, stories, books, essays, you name it.
Many Bulletin Board Systems also had a "Never Ending Story" thread or board where each user in turn added X paragraphs to the story. Heck the "pass the paper around" methodology is darn nearly a cliche within writing classes!
There are also many stories of professional authors going over the script of young but highly creative writers and doing collaborative works with them. One could say that John Campbell's editing style was pretty much a collaborative one.
That and it is just a pain.
Yah I have tried it, it is a royal pain. I end up hitting the X and closing everything, though the little warning window that has come along recently is rather nice, heh.
If I could Control-Tab between the tabs then maybe I would be OK, but as it is, err, ah, heh. Well that would not be much different then alt-tabbing now would it?
Ever try turning off application grouping?
*rolls eyes*
Annnyways. I use alt-tab anyways, even under 2K with a functional taskbar.
Why is he doing the color filter thing when high resolution color CCDs are now availble? Is it for clairities sake or something? I know it was neccisary when Greyscale was all there was, but do color CCDs just now work as well or something?
The Gimp's interface uses up, err, well, pretty much all of my screen real estate.
Bad interface = hard to use = little work done = me no using it. Photoshop was easy and natural to use from almost the first time I started it up, The Gimp seems like it was just thrown together. Yes some of The Gimp's features have at various times in both program's development cycles, surpassed those of Photoshop in a few areas, but that is irrelevant, for as soon as I started the program up I ran smack dab into the horrid interface.
Besides, having programs open up a gazzilion task bar items in Windows is just a pain. Icky icky bad bad makes switching programs all that much more of pain. Cntrl-Tab has its uses, don't need to alt-tab between everything.
But where does the 200-400 cost of that circuit go? Take it one or two steps further. . . .
And in America Too!
See we really do not have all that much differnt from our soviet comrads! Make peace not war!
Well then you say screw it, your mathmatical model just hit real world limits.
As a posted above stated, snowflakes are not *perfect* fractals. Perfect fractals do not exist in nature for exactly the reasons you stated.
Then again for those very same reasons, perfect spherse, squares, triangles, or perfect versions of any other mathmatical construct also do not exist.
It is math, it has limits.
(I had my intro to them a few years back in some other
The typical example used to explain fractals is that of a coast line.
Think of drawing a costal outline. Now think of adding more detail do it, the big rocks. Then the bumpss on the big rocks. Then the moss growing on the bumpss on those big rocks. Then the little hairy things on the moss growing on the bumpss of those big rocks. Then the bacteria living on the hairy things on the moss on the bumpss on those big rocks.
The point here is that you can keep on zooming in until you hit the real world limits of our universe, but it just so happens that modeling a fractal and treating certian intervals of that graph as your "coastal line" is a far easier way to go about and do it.
Now part of the definition of a fractal is that you can keep on zooming in forever and getting more and more detail. Obviously for the real world this will not work out, but within certian intervals the fractal is a pretty darn good approximation of reality. Just like almost any other graph or mathmatical construct, it has its constraints, but within those constraints, it is darn useful.
Welcome to America, if you are smart, work hard, and are determined to make it in life no matter what anybody says, you'll make it.
Is that not kind of the entire point of this countries existence? To create a place where that is possible?
So Macs where used by the artsy types, your point is? The artsy fartsy machines did the artsy fartsy work and the work horse machines did the serious crunching.
*sigh* I just want to know what sort of ass hats give money to communists to develop technology.
This before or AFTER we carpet bomb them?
Well in that case X is part of "Mandrake Linux".
*Nix users are always talking about flexibility and different parts of the OS can be chopped off at will, well, Windows CAN do SOME of that, not to nearly the same extent, but don't cut Windows too short of a stick, as far as modularity goes, while it may not be able to squeeze down to a single floppy disk, it can have a lot of it wacked away at at still end up in a workable state.
Mostly HTML rendering code, and even that is modular and can be updated separately. I forget what DLL that is in. *G*
Any programmer is free to use those built in libraries, all it is is an HTML renderer. *shrugs* Nothing all that special, heck, for the longest time it even sucked horribly, giving the competition more then enough opportunity to keep their advantage, but, err, *looks over towards Netscape 4.7* oops.
Windows can be cut down to around 33-50% of its default install size (depending on which version of windows you are talking about), all is not nearly as integrated as some make it out to be. Granted Windows is still way to big and the code is a bloated piece of crap and the default install includes crap that is not even *usable* on current versions (2k+) of Windows, but at least some of the crud can be cut.
The fact that various OSS projects utilize stand alone DLLs ripped from Windows boxes should emphasize that. *G*
Which does NOT make it a PART of Internet Explorer. It just means it is in the same installation package. Big whoop.
*sigh*
No it is not. Separate directory, separate executables, separate registry entries.
If enough layers where used with each layer some how being able to go to transparent, a real 3D image could be created.
That is about it though. ^_^ We only have two eyes, so this sort of face "offset" 3d can only go so far.
People with one eye that is far weaker than the other cannot use them. Irritating. Nerve Regeneration had better come along quickly, I want the rest of my Optic nerve. . . .
If the billboard is in my front yard, I will demand payment for use of my property.
Downloaded to MY hard drive, loaded up into MY RAM, transfered over the connection that *I* pay for,
billboards are on private property. They may be publicaly viewable, but that is it.
So your saying that if I wanted to get rid of all of those "xxxhot donkey sex actionxxx" spam messages in my inbox, that that convention would be the place to go postal at?
Also, why wouldn't the x-rated want to be under a
Because most porn site owners are complete idiots who believe that everybody wants pornography and can pay for it and thus why they advertise the living hell on warez sites mostly populated by 13yr old males without credit cards.
Real brainiacs. . . .
Which sounds like absolute non-sense, there is no evidence at all that this is the case, and had Mecha's been around and that evolved they could have saved humanity long ago if they had that much interest in them. Unless they did not develope that interest until much later on.
Hmm, anybody have a copy of the original book at hand? ^_^
Oh go shove it. The VietKong where ruthless merciless terrorists who literally kidnapped and tortured thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians and violated the rights of countless solderers.
Ask somebody from South Vietname how they feel about communists. We where there for a damn good reason.
Last time I checked, if my local cable co hears about that they cancel the account. They ban the usage of splitters. Not like the cable guy gives a damn (or won't help you install them for that matter. . .