Is your wide-awake brain as much fun as your "up for 48 hours" brain?
Yes, although hopefully in a different manner. That's when I say dumb, funny shit on purpose with intelligent calculation behind it.
Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.
Good luck with whatever you're working on.
I've been working on a football fan club database while also giving extended emotional support to a friend whose mother died this weekend (insert sympathetic "awwwwws" here). I'm knocking off now and going food shopping before I crash.
Pray for me. God only knows what I'll find in my kitchen when I wake up tomorrow afternoon.
Dude, if you said this on purpose, it's hilarious (but meaningless).
It's hilarious anyway.
I suspect you meant to say that "philogeny recapitulates ontogeny"
I've been up for 48 hours. The brain has taken on a mind of its own, as it were, and is doing things I don't approve of. What I meant, of course, was "Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny."
- which still doesn't have much to do with your thesis.
Would you prefer "All software expands until it can read email." ?
Too much is taking what everyone else has done and trying to do it better. ..
And this is called "Good Engineering," kinda like what's happened with wheels.
The number of truly novel good ideas is actually rather limited and often relies on a technological advance to impliment. Once that technological advance is made the good ideas come thick and fast for a short time, then settle down to evolutionary development again.
Take the wheel. First a solid disk, then spoked, then tension spoked, each phase a dramatic leap over the previous method, and yet, if you look at the world today most wheels are solid disks. Why? Because of advances in materials. To the first builders of wheels the stamped steel wheel would have been a more logical development than the spoked wheel, except, of course, that they didn't have steel or the tools for forming it.
Now, with the even greater advances in materials, such as plastics and composites, the solid spoked wheel is making a comeback.
Philology recapitulates ontology and most "new and innovative" ideas turn out to be old ideas reimplimented with new technologies.
It's simply a shame that most people haven't got the background to know the negative reasons why some ideas were dropped in the first place, thus wasting time recapitualating the wrong old idea.
This phenomenon is so common that such languages have a name: Creole.
The old Lingua Franca was on the verge of becoming such a creole language before being superceded by the Lingua Francais, and there are a number of creoles spoken by millions, such as Swahili.
Seems a bit of a risk to deprive these children of learning an existing sign language just for the sake of an experiment.
They were deprived of learning an existing sign language because they are deprived, not as the result of any experiment.
Havn't you seen any of those Sally Struthers commercials?
Are they going to lock some normal Nicaraguan children up and see if they come up with a new spoken language?
Pretty much all children come up with a new spoken language. Yeah, it's based on the old one, but it comes out new. You'll understand this better when you hit 40 or 50 and find yourself walking around muttering under your breath that you don't understand a damned thing kids say these days.
Just imagine what it was like before the invention of the dictionary and standarized spelling and grammar as a somewhat stablizing force.
And we still got ebonics. The kids made it up as they went along. The professorial types then make a career out of analyzing it. Hence the invention of dictionaries and standarized spellings, but the language always comes first, then gets codified as "correct" after the fact.
The O.E.D. isn't so a much definitive reference to the English language so much as it is a biography of the language.
Or, to put it another way, a history of the way kids talk.
A bike without a seat is not as desirable to ride off with:)
But still highly desirable if it's a Colnago.
Better to pull a crank, but the pros steal bikes from vans, they don't ride them away, or, if it looks like too much of a problem to steal, they'll just steal your crankset, brakes, etc.
I even use sturdy locks on my junk-built singlespeeds, after one of them got stolen.
The essential problem for those of us that use the bicycle as our primary means of transportation is just the same as for the afficianados of the automobile, the cost of the bike is somewhat irrelevant. The problem comes when you're 25 miles out and your bike isn't there when you return to it, leaving you stranded.
I always try to lock even my crudiest "rain" bike as securely as is reasonable.
It's a little know fact that the Chinese first discovered the penis. They didn't know what it was good for so they used it as a stir-fry tool, which explains why Chinese food is cooked so fast.
It also goes a long way to explaining certain peculiarities of the language.
That said, the fact that it can also be used to penetrate a lockbox is rather old news and yes, certain elements of society already consider possession to be a crime.
The employees were capable and intent on making the product.
They usually are. Oftentimes they even soldier on trying to make a go of the company long after the scammer has taken the money and run.
They rarely succeed.
If the CEO really was a true con-artist, he would not have spent the money to work on developing ANYTHING, and just skipped town with the investors millions.
Nonsense. To sell snake oil you at least need to manufacture snake oil. Some cons run for decades with a considerable amount of physical plant, investment and "R&D" by the con artist. The perpetual motion and "free energy" people are particularly good at this and often spend millions to keep the con going. Ponzi schemes actually rely on payoffs to keep going, as such payoffs build further trust in the scam.
Having seen the operation from the inside. ..
No, no, no. You were a job applicant and saw nothing from the inside. I've never had a job in my life that I even began to see the inside of until I'd actually been working there at least a month or two. In a technical company you'd have to be an idiot to show the actual inside of your operation to an applicant.
In the case of a scam, however, what you get shown is a set piece, a staged (very likely without the knowledge of the "actors") situation to leave you with exactly the impression that they want to leave you with. Like, that's kinda the definition of "con."
And while you're looking at that the other hand is palming something and putting in a secret pocket.
You don't get to see that unless you are "inside" that secret pocket.
I believe he's referring to licensing fees for the hardware and software encoding/decoding.
Which are passed on to the consumer.
And you demonstrate so little understanding of copyright law, your response reeks of flamebait.
No, he is absolutely correct. Possesion of a DVD-ROM is 100% of the law. You may play it, lend it, sell it, rent it out, or fondue it, it is yours. You violate no law in any of the above, nor does the person you lend/sell it too, because he does not need a license, only possesion.
You may not copy it. The right to copy is someone else's.
KFG
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I chose the Cheetah for a number of reasons. The first being that they're the most dog like of the big cats, even to the point of having dog like feet with dull, nonretractable claws. They won't scratch either you or the furniture.
Second, I just watched Hatati! a couple of days ago.
Third, they're actually a proven deterent against burglers. A woman on Long Island used to keep one and let if roam free in the yard. The police found the jimmy marks on the window, cheetah footprints around the window, and burgler footprints leading away from the window very far apart and very deep. The Cheetah doesn't have to chase to be a viable deterent. Simply arriving on the the scene seems to be all the persuasion a burgler needs to flee.
The primary disadvantage of the cheetah is that it's primarily diurnal. For maximum security I advise supplimenting the cheetah with a leopard, a nocturnal hunter which naturally shares territory with cheetahs.
Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal - Matthew 6:19
An interesting thing about valuables, it usually costs far more to maintain them than the cost of the valuable. That's why there are so many ratty sports cars running around and the way I've always figured it anything that's so valuable and easily stolen that it has to be kept in a safe deposit box is just like not owning it in the first place, only at great expense.
... and they're suprised nobody could do something impossible?
I guess they're surprised that it turned out to be impossible, as per the Konigsberg Bridge Problem.
However, if it really is impossible they should have sucked it up and awarded the bounty to the first person who proved it, as per Euler and the Konigsberg Bridge Problem.
Knowing for a fact that something can't be done is itself valuable information.
Perhaps, but bear in mind that not everyone's primary motivation is to win the prize, nor is the prize the only pot of gold at the end of the spacebow.
Cheers to this new attempt by the Romanian team.
I had a Romanian great grandfather, so I'll give a cheer to the old home team, but, yeah, I admit it, my money was on Burt from the start and don't exactly see any reason not to let it ride.
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I haven't said anything about Infineon.
KFG
Is your wide-awake brain as much fun as your "up for 48 hours" brain?
Yes, although hopefully in a different manner. That's when I say dumb, funny shit on purpose with intelligent calculation behind it.
Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.
Good luck with whatever you're working on.
I've been working on a football fan club database while also giving extended emotional support to a friend whose mother died this weekend (insert sympathetic "awwwwws" here). I'm knocking off now and going food shopping before I crash.
Pray for me. God only knows what I'll find in my kitchen when I wake up tomorrow afternoon.
KFG
Dude, if you said this on purpose, it's hilarious (but meaningless).
It's hilarious anyway.
I suspect you meant to say that "philogeny recapitulates ontogeny"
I've been up for 48 hours. The brain has taken on a mind of its own, as it were, and is doing things I don't approve of. What I meant, of course, was "Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny."
- which still doesn't have much to do with your thesis.
Would you prefer "All software expands until it can read email." ?
KFG
Too much is taking what everyone else has done and trying to do it better. . .
And this is called "Good Engineering," kinda like what's happened with wheels.
The number of truly novel good ideas is actually rather limited and often relies on a technological advance to impliment. Once that technological advance is made the good ideas come thick and fast for a short time, then settle down to evolutionary development again.
Take the wheel. First a solid disk, then spoked, then tension spoked, each phase a dramatic leap over the previous method, and yet, if you look at the world today most wheels are solid disks. Why? Because of advances in materials. To the first builders of wheels the stamped steel wheel would have been a more logical development than the spoked wheel, except, of course, that they didn't have steel or the tools for forming it.
Now, with the even greater advances in materials, such as plastics and composites, the solid spoked wheel is making a comeback.
Philology recapitulates ontology and most "new and innovative" ideas turn out to be old ideas reimplimented with new technologies.
It's simply a shame that most people haven't got the background to know the negative reasons why some ideas were dropped in the first place, thus wasting time recapitualating the wrong old idea.
KFG
This phenomenon is so common that such languages have a name: Creole.
The old Lingua Franca was on the verge of becoming such a creole language before being superceded by the Lingua Francais, and there are a number of creoles spoken by millions, such as Swahili.
Or English.
KFG
Seems a bit of a risk to deprive these children of learning an existing sign language just for the sake of an experiment.
They were deprived of learning an existing sign language because they are deprived, not as the result of any experiment.
Havn't you seen any of those Sally Struthers commercials?
Are they going to lock some normal Nicaraguan children up and see if they come up with a new spoken language?
Pretty much all children come up with a new spoken language. Yeah, it's based on the old one, but it comes out new. You'll understand this better when you hit 40 or 50 and find yourself walking around muttering under your breath that you don't understand a damned thing kids say these days.
Just imagine what it was like before the invention of the dictionary and standarized spelling and grammar as a somewhat stablizing force.
And we still got ebonics. The kids made it up as they went along. The professorial types then make a career out of analyzing it. Hence the invention of dictionaries and standarized spellings, but the language always comes first, then gets codified as "correct" after the fact.
The O.E.D. isn't so a much definitive reference to the English language so much as it is a biography of the language.
Or, to put it another way, a history of the way kids talk.
KFG
A bike without a seat is not as desirable to ride off with :)
But still highly desirable if it's a Colnago.
Better to pull a crank, but the pros steal bikes from vans, they don't ride them away, or, if it looks like too much of a problem to steal, they'll just steal your crankset, brakes, etc.
KFG
I even use sturdy locks on my junk-built singlespeeds, after one of them got stolen.
The essential problem for those of us that use the bicycle as our primary means of transportation is just the same as for the afficianados of the automobile, the cost of the bike is somewhat irrelevant. The problem comes when you're 25 miles out and your bike isn't there when you return to it, leaving you stranded.
I always try to lock even my crudiest "rain" bike as securely as is reasonable.
KFG
It's a little know fact that the Chinese first discovered the penis. They didn't know what it was good for so they used it as a stir-fry tool, which explains why Chinese food is cooked so fast.
It also goes a long way to explaining certain peculiarities of the language.
That said, the fact that it can also be used to penetrate a lockbox is rather old news and yes, certain elements of society already consider possession to be a crime.
KFG
The employees were capable and intent on making the product.
.
They usually are. Oftentimes they even soldier on trying to make a go of the company long after the scammer has taken the money and run.
They rarely succeed.
If the CEO really was a true con-artist, he would not have spent the money to work on developing ANYTHING, and just skipped town with the investors millions.
Nonsense. To sell snake oil you at least need to manufacture snake oil. Some cons run for decades with a considerable amount of physical plant, investment and "R&D" by the con artist. The perpetual motion and "free energy" people are particularly good at this and often spend millions to keep the con going. Ponzi schemes actually rely on payoffs to keep going, as such payoffs build further trust in the scam.
Having seen the operation from the inside. .
No, no, no. You were a job applicant and saw nothing from the inside. I've never had a job in my life that I even began to see the inside of until I'd actually been working there at least a month or two. In a technical company you'd have to be an idiot to show the actual inside of your operation to an applicant.
In the case of a scam, however, what you get shown is a set piece, a staged (very likely without the knowledge of the "actors") situation to leave you with exactly the impression that they want to leave you with. Like, that's kinda the definition of "con."
And while you're looking at that the other hand is palming something and putting in a secret pocket.
You don't get to see that unless you are "inside" that secret pocket.
KFG
They seemed like nice enough people.
Has it actually escaped your attention that the good con artists always do? It's their primary stock in trade.
Has it also actually escaped your attention that the employees of a good con artist are often as not just as much dupes of the scam as the customers?
"But they seemed so nice!" is the nearly universal cry of the suckered.
KFG
Ah! But his only known son is adopted.
KFG
No, but he might see the money. That's the power of the dark side.
KFG
. . .a romantic comedy set in a hospital?
While You Were on Dagobah
KFG
"Now I have become a corporation, the very thing I was against." - George Lucas
He's gone over to the dark side.
KFG
If DMCA is repealed, I would bet something like this will show up in newspaper ads.
Certainly, because that's where the copy protection is, in the player. Not the DVD-ROM.
KFG
. . .but they can go to hell.
Please.
KFG
I believe he's referring to licensing fees for the hardware and software encoding/decoding.
Which are passed on to the consumer.
And you demonstrate so little understanding of copyright law, your response reeks of flamebait.
No, he is absolutely correct. Possesion of a DVD-ROM is 100% of the law. You may play it, lend it, sell it, rent it out, or fondue it, it is yours. You violate no law in any of the above, nor does the person you lend/sell it too, because he does not need a license, only possesion.
You may not copy it. The right to copy is someone else's.
KFG
. . .and refuse to use a zipper...
Zippers are obsolescent, you insensitive Luddite.
KFG
I chose the Cheetah for a number of reasons. The first being that they're the most dog like of the big cats, even to the point of having dog like feet with dull, nonretractable claws. They won't scratch either you or the furniture.
Second, I just watched Hatati! a couple of days ago.
Third, they're actually a proven deterent against burglers. A woman on Long Island used to keep one and let if roam free in the yard. The police found the jimmy marks on the window, cheetah footprints around the window, and burgler footprints leading away from the window very far apart and very deep. The Cheetah doesn't have to chase to be a viable deterent. Simply arriving on the the scene seems to be all the persuasion a burgler needs to flee.
The primary disadvantage of the cheetah is that it's primarily diurnal. For maximum security I advise supplimenting the cheetah with a leopard, a nocturnal hunter which naturally shares territory with cheetahs.
They also hide their kills in the attic.
KFG
Obligatory quote:
Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal - Matthew 6:19
An interesting thing about valuables, it usually costs far more to maintain them than the cost of the valuable. That's why there are so many ratty sports cars running around and the way I've always figured it anything that's so valuable and easily stolen that it has to be kept in a safe deposit box is just like not owning it in the first place, only at great expense.
KFG
KFG
Or a Cheetah if you're a cat person.
KFG
... and they're suprised nobody could do something impossible?
I guess they're surprised that it turned out to be impossible, as per the Konigsberg Bridge Problem.
However, if it really is impossible they should have sucked it up and awarded the bounty to the first person who proved it, as per Euler and the Konigsberg Bridge Problem.
Knowing for a fact that something can't be done is itself valuable information.
KFG
"[...]an explosion caused by an ignition system malfunction destroyed most of the installation."
Somebody dropped the candle.
KFG
Perhaps, but bear in mind that not everyone's primary motivation is to win the prize, nor is the prize the only pot of gold at the end of the spacebow.
Cheers to this new attempt by the Romanian team.
I had a Romanian great grandfather, so I'll give a cheer to the old home team, but, yeah, I admit it, my money was on Burt from the start and don't exactly see any reason not to let it ride.
KFG