I know that this is cyberspace, nobody knows you're a dog, and we should judge everyone by things other than apperance, and all that.
But I've often been reading these interviews (which, by the way, are far better than interviews most anywhere else - the questions are better and there is no time limit or sound byte requirement) and been curious about what the person interviewed looks like. I guess I'm kindof a visual person, and it's funny that while I've read things about John Katz, John Carmack, Mandrake, and a whole bunch of others, I'd at least like to see a picture.
Sorry, Net+ chokes on some/. urls, so I'm posting this again in the right place.
BeOS does not play CDs that way. It doesn't use the audio cable at all. This allows all kinds of digital manipulations of the cd audio signal in real time. In fact, one thing they like to demo is the ability to play CDs at variable speeds, including backwards:-)
BeOS does not play CDs that way. It doesn't use the audio cable at all. This allows all kinds of digital manipulations of the cd audio signal in real time. In fact, one thing they like to demo is the ability to play CDs at variable speeds, including backwards:-)
Why do we hear the "It's very complex so it couldn't have happened by chance" arguement so often?
If I take a deck of cards with the jokers removed, and shuffle it, there are 52! possible arrangements of the deck. That's a big number. In fact, the odds of the pack coming out the way it did are one in 52! - imagine that, against tremendous odds, that arrangement still came out.
This guy is using the same kind of misunderstanding of probabilities. Just because the odds are slim that life could have evolved in this specific way doesn't mean it couldn't have happened another way. And don't forget just how much time it took for life to evolve the way it did.
How about this: instead of passively reporting, joking and complaining come election time, Slashdot could actually get involved in politics. I'm not trying to insert a tone of sarcasm here.
The reality is that to change things, you have to go through the systems. Why don't WE try to become one of those entrenched lobbying groups that at least get the attention of lawmakers? Slashdot could officially endorse candidates running for the US senate and presidency, the same way a newspaper would. We could have an extra section called "politics" or something. Heck, if there's enough IPO money from Andover and cash from that VA merger, it could make campaign contributions.
Yeah, I remember that article from last summer all right. In my not so humble opinion, there are serious problems not just with the so called "hacker's diet" but with dieting plans in general. That's right. Dieting plans in general. That's all the hacker's diet is: a diet for people that feel like they're getting somewhere faster if they take the matter into their hands mathematically by religiously counting every calorie they consume, as if they were analyzing and optimizing the runtime of a complex algorithm. You want to lose weight? Great, but don't think about losing weight. Think about getting healthy. And don't EVER write off exercise.
When Graff says "Who stopped the formics when they invaded fifty years ago?" it should be "sixty years ago" if you add the "50 years later" and "ten years later" notices.
Seems like those christian goths see the hypocracy at work, but don't mind. By their own account, churches are uneasy at their presence.
Anyways,
And, umm, how could you overlook the little distinction of Jesus being the Son of God and Koresh not? ...
my display of "arrogance"
You obviously are aware of it when you do it. What about Ba'hai (sp?) for instance? And about Waco being some kind of punishment raining down from the Lord? That's original. Of course, it was Reno's fsckup but you knew that.
But if we're going to indulge in fundamentalism, I have to wonder why don't we use the Jewish calendar, which purports to count from the 7 day creation? Isn't it much more logical to count from the beginning of time? (you probably believe that the universe is about 4000 years old and that the Jewish calendar does indeed start at the beginning of time)
My point is that there is nothing logical about the calendar system we use. We just use it because it is so entrenched, just like we still haven't gone metric.
Anyone heard the latest on LEONARDO DiCaprio? Word on the street is he's making a new movie that chicks are sure to dig. Unfortuately, girls, there's bad news too: rumors are flying about a hookup between LEONARDO and Britney Spears. What a hot couple. I bet they'll be together forever!
My, it's been a while since the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were popular. In my opinion, Splinter was the coolest character, but he was surely closely followed by LEONARDO!
Here's a little fun little-known fact for you readers out there: LEONARDO the turtle's name was inspired by an artist/scientist from waaaaaaay back in the rennaisance named LEONARDO DaVinci! You might have heard of him.
My, there's been a lot of talk about people named LEONARDO in today's column hasn't there. Well, here's another fun fact about the name LEONARDO: The name LEONARDO, a close relative of Leo, Leonard, and Leon, means "Like a Lion".
Let's hope the lions, er, lawyers, aren't sent after me because of this column. Time will tell, dear readers. Time will tell.
A friend of mine has this inside joke about one click shopping - whenever the subject of the lawsuit comes up, we burst out laughing and then declare we won't be doing anymore business with Amazon.
See, when it was first put into place, my friend didn't know it. And then, with a slightly misguided mouse click, he bought an antique map of New Zealand. The map, which was about $50.00, was promptly shipped to his front door despite his email efforts to reverse the order. He spent the next several days cursing Amazon's name. He still hasn't been able to return it, and he's considering trying to sell it on Ebay now.
I am about to get and ISDN line to my house (ISDN for 3 reasons: 1) So I can be ON my office network 2) My employer is paying for it and 3) DSL and cable modems are not an option in my area)
So anyway, I want to set up a fast ethernet inside my house, connected to the ISDN line. Would this gateway Qube server be the thing I'm looking for for this? Or can somebody suggest something better?
Also, does anyone know a good site for help on buying ISDN hardware?
Thank you for any help on this!
-- grappler
Maybe if the one and only goal is maximum speed...
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I can see where it would be useful if all you want to do is squeeze every last drop of speed out of your system, convenience, portability, maintainability be damned...
That's true, but if you want to be a Karma whore, like people here seem to be accusing each other of, it won't do you much good, since you can't get Karma by having an AC post moderated up.
But who needs Karma whores anyhow? The only difference it makes is when you get over the +2 threshold, and then it doesn't matter.
https://www.fortify.net/README_main.html#compariso n or without https http://www.fortify.net/README_main.html#comparison
This is Fortify for Netscape, a program that provides world-wide, unconditional, full strength 128-bit cryptography to users of Netscape Navigator (v3 and v4) and Communicator (v4).
What exactly were you trying to say? Were you correcting me on something? I know what fortify is - that's why I made the comment I did.
you can't moderate in any discussion you post in. I suppose you could do that with two accounts. Just use each account to moderate up the other one. The implications are rather interesting actually...
Here's an interesting question: Could we "manufacture" new senses for ourselves?
For someone who has never seen, that's exactly what this would be like - you make an input device sensitive to our visible light spectrum, feed it into his brain, and it hopefully learns over time to interpret the signals until he has another sense that just feels natural.
I see no reason to believe that the human brain is not adaptive enough to add new arbitrary senses. Of course, I am no expert in such things and if any of you out there are, please correct me.
Imagine the possibilities though - anything that we currently make equipment for! We could have a new device that would help us to "sense" our global position via GPS, radiation levels in the area, supersonic or subsonic viabrations, and so on...
And of course we can't forget the obvious - an infrared sensor with that certain sony handycam kind of filter. Clothes, begone!
That Katzdot headline generator is good for a laugh, but I was hoping it would actually write an article. You know, like Pakin's automatic complaint letter generator. Oh well.
The principle behind it is that, if you have a consistent system, then to prove something cannot exist you just show 2 observations that can't both be true. Normally, this only works well in mathematics.
Exactly. It works well in mathematics because mathematics and logic are very nearly the same thing. Disproving the existance of a God would not be as easy as providing two conflicting observations, otherwise we would have considered it disproven thousands of years ago! Like I said, God belongs in the category of Supernatural, so any seeming inconsistencies can be waved off as miracles or some such thing. It isn't the territory of science.
We can't be truly certain of everything science tells us (we can be pretty sure, but not 100%). However, if you are a religious person, you may accept the Bible as 100% truth. If so, to disprove the existance of God, you only need to find two statements about him in the Bible that cannot both be true.
Woah, wait just a minute! Who said anything about being a "religious" person, or accepting the Bible as 100% truth? By "God" I am talking about a very abstract concept - some otherworldly consciousness that oversees or directs actions down here on Earth (and possibly elsewhere). This has nothing to do with fundamentalist Christianity. I would consider myself an agnostic on this, for the simple reason that there is no way to really know. If there's no way to know, why take a definate stance?
I know there are truckloads of contradictions in the Bible, but I don't know if any deal with the nature of God. If one exists, the only reasonable conclusions are that either God doesn't exist, the Bible is false, or the rules of logic no longer apply.
It doesn't matter. I don't doubt that there are contradictions, and I don't really care. You need to widen your scope of thinking a little and forget about a polar separation of bible literalists vs. staunch athiests.
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I know that this is cyberspace, nobody knows you're a dog, and we should judge everyone by things other than apperance, and all that.
But I've often been reading these interviews (which, by the way, are far better than interviews most anywhere else - the questions are better and there is no time limit or sound byte requirement) and been curious about what the person interviewed looks like. I guess I'm kindof a visual person, and it's funny that while I've read things about John Katz, John Carmack, Mandrake, and a whole bunch of others, I'd at least like to see a picture.
--
grappler
Sorry, Net+ chokes on some /. urls, so I'm posting this again in the right place.
:-)
BeOS does not play CDs that way. It doesn't use the audio cable at all. This allows all kinds of digital manipulations of the cd audio signal in real time. In fact, one thing they like to demo is the ability to play CDs at variable speeds, including backwards
--
grappler
BeOS does not play CDs that way. It doesn't use the audio cable at all. This allows all kinds of digital manipulations of the cd audio signal in real time. In fact, one thing they like to demo is the ability to play CDs at variable speeds, including backwards :-)
--
grappler
Why do we hear the "It's very complex so it couldn't have happened by chance" arguement so often?
If I take a deck of cards with the jokers removed, and shuffle it, there are 52! possible arrangements of the deck. That's a big number. In fact, the odds of the pack coming out the way it did are one in 52! - imagine that, against tremendous odds, that arrangement still came out.
This guy is using the same kind of misunderstanding of probabilities. Just because the odds are slim that life could have evolved in this specific way doesn't mean it couldn't have happened another way. And don't forget just how much time it took for life to evolve the way it did.
--
grappler
How about this: instead of passively reporting, joking and complaining come election time, Slashdot could actually get involved in politics. I'm not trying to insert a tone of sarcasm here.
The reality is that to change things, you have to go through the systems. Why don't WE try to become one of those entrenched lobbying groups that at least get the attention of lawmakers? Slashdot could officially endorse candidates running for the US senate and presidency, the same way a newspaper would. We could have an extra section called "politics" or something. Heck, if there's enough IPO money from Andover and cash from that VA merger, it could make campaign contributions.
Anyways, what do you all think?
--
grappler
Yeah, I remember that article from last summer all right. In my not so humble opinion, there are serious problems not just with the so called "hacker's diet" but with dieting plans in general. That's right. Dieting plans in general. That's all the hacker's diet is: a diet for people that feel like they're getting somewhere faster if they take the matter into their hands mathematically by religiously counting every calorie they consume, as if they were analyzing and optimizing the runtime of a complex algorithm. You want to lose weight? Great, but don't think about losing weight. Think about getting healthy. And don't EVER write off exercise.
--
grappler
Clue Stick Award for FUD in Journalism = MSNBC
:-)
My vote goes to Ziff Davis
--
grappler
When Graff says "Who stopped the formics when they invaded fifty years ago?" it should be "sixty years ago" if you add the "50 years later" and "ten years later" notices.
--
grappler
Seems like those christian goths see the hypocracy at work, but don't mind. By their own account, churches are uneasy at their presence.
Anyways,
And, umm, how could you overlook the little distinction of Jesus being the Son of God and Koresh not?
...
my display of "arrogance"
You obviously are aware of it when you do it. What about Ba'hai (sp?) for instance? And about Waco being some kind of punishment raining down from the Lord? That's original. Of course, it was Reno's fsckup but you knew that.
But if we're going to indulge in fundamentalism, I have to wonder why don't we use the Jewish calendar, which purports to count from the 7 day creation? Isn't it much more logical to count from the beginning of time? (you probably believe that the universe is about 4000 years old and that the Jewish calendar does indeed start at the beginning of time)
My point is that there is nothing logical about the calendar system we use. We just use it because it is so entrenched, just like we still haven't gone metric.
Is anybody doubting that it's possible?
Somebody who actually decides to spend a year of his life that way is in need of some psychiatric help, in my humble opinion.
--
grappler
Anyone heard the latest on LEONARDO DiCaprio? Word on the street is he's making a new movie that chicks are sure to dig. Unfortuately, girls, there's bad news too: rumors are flying about a hookup between LEONARDO and Britney Spears. What a hot couple. I bet they'll be together forever!
My, it's been a while since the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were popular. In my opinion, Splinter was the coolest character, but he was surely closely followed by LEONARDO!
Here's a little fun little-known fact for you readers out there: LEONARDO the turtle's name was inspired by an artist/scientist from waaaaaaay back in the rennaisance named LEONARDO DaVinci! You might have heard of him.
My, there's been a lot of talk about people named LEONARDO in today's column hasn't there. Well, here's another fun fact about the name LEONARDO: The name LEONARDO, a close relative of Leo, Leonard, and Leon, means "Like a Lion".
Let's hope the lions, er, lawyers, aren't sent after me because of this column. Time will tell, dear readers. Time will tell.
--
grappler
A friend of mine has this inside joke about one click shopping - whenever the subject of the lawsuit comes up, we burst out laughing and then declare we won't be doing anymore business with Amazon.
See, when it was first put into place, my friend didn't know it. And then, with a slightly misguided mouse click, he bought an antique map of New Zealand. The map, which was about $50.00, was promptly shipped to his front door despite his email efforts to reverse the order. He spent the next several days cursing Amazon's name. He still hasn't been able to return it, and he's considering trying to sell it on Ebay now.
So much for "innovation".
--
grappler
These things you say may be true, but consider, lest we forget:
he got posted on Slashdot.
All was not in vain.
--
grappler
Where are the pictures?
I want to see PICTURES of this guy!!!!!!
anyone have a link? or is this just a text story?
How can anyone post a story like that without pictures?
--
grappler
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
--
grappler
...or is there a better solution?
I am about to get and ISDN line to my house (ISDN for 3 reasons: 1) So I can be ON my office network 2) My employer is paying for it and 3) DSL and cable modems are not an option in my area)
So anyway, I want to set up a fast ethernet inside my house, connected to the ISDN line. Would this gateway Qube server be the thing I'm looking for for this? Or can somebody suggest something better?
Also, does anyone know a good site for help on buying ISDN hardware?
Thank you for any help on this!
--
grappler
I can see where it would be useful if all you want to do is squeeze every last drop of speed out of your system, convenience, portability, maintainability be damned...
--
grappler
That's true, but if you want to be a Karma whore, like people here seem to be accusing each other of, it won't do you much good, since you can't get Karma by having an AC post moderated up.
But who needs Karma whores anyhow? The only difference it makes is when you get over the +2 threshold, and then it doesn't matter.
--
grappler
https://www.fortify.net/README_main.html#compariso n n
or without https http://www.fortify.net/README_main.html#compariso
This is Fortify for Netscape, a program that provides world-wide, unconditional, full strength 128-bit cryptography to users of Netscape Navigator (v3 and v4) and Communicator (v4).
What exactly were you trying to say? Were you correcting me on something? I know what fortify is - that's why I made the comment I did.
--
grappler
you can't moderate in any discussion you post in. I suppose you could do that with two accounts. Just use each account to moderate up the other one. The implications are rather interesting actually...
--
grappler
Now people outside the U.S. won't have to make the little visit to fortify.net afterwards :-)
It was always incredibly easy to get it anyway, but it's nice that there's now government permission. Definately a step in the right direction.
--
grappler
Besides the connection, he will also get a chance to really put that new Hurd server through a stress test.
--
grappler
Here's an interesting question: Could we "manufacture" new senses for ourselves?
For someone who has never seen, that's exactly what this would be like - you make an input device sensitive to our visible light spectrum, feed it into his brain, and it hopefully learns over time to interpret the signals until he has another sense that just feels natural.
I see no reason to believe that the human brain is not adaptive enough to add new arbitrary senses. Of course, I am no expert in such things and if any of you out there are, please correct me.
Imagine the possibilities though - anything that we currently make equipment for! We could have a new device that would help us to "sense" our global position via GPS, radiation levels in the area, supersonic or subsonic viabrations, and so on...
And of course we can't forget the obvious - an infrared sensor with that certain sony handycam kind of filter. Clothes, begone!
--
grappler
That Katzdot headline generator is good for a laugh, but I was hoping it would actually write an article. You know, like Pakin's automatic complaint letter generator. Oh well.
--
grappler
The principle behind it is that, if you have a consistent system, then to prove something cannot exist you just show 2 observations that can't both be true. Normally, this only works well in mathematics.
Exactly. It works well in mathematics because mathematics and logic are very nearly the same thing. Disproving the existance of a God would not be as easy as providing two conflicting observations, otherwise we would have considered it disproven thousands of years ago! Like I said, God belongs in the category of Supernatural, so any seeming inconsistencies can be waved off as miracles or some such thing. It isn't the territory of science.
We can't be truly certain of everything science tells us (we can be pretty sure, but not 100%). However, if you are a religious person, you may accept the Bible as 100% truth. If so, to disprove the existance of God, you only need to find two statements about him in the Bible that cannot both be true.
Woah, wait just a minute! Who said anything about being a "religious" person, or accepting the Bible as 100% truth? By "God" I am talking about a very abstract concept - some otherworldly consciousness that oversees or directs actions down here on Earth (and possibly elsewhere). This has nothing to do with fundamentalist Christianity. I would consider myself an agnostic on this, for the simple reason that there is no way to really know. If there's no way to know, why take a definate stance?
I know there are truckloads of contradictions in the Bible, but I don't know if any deal with the nature of God. If one exists, the only reasonable conclusions are that either God doesn't exist, the Bible is false, or the rules of logic no longer apply.
It doesn't matter. I don't doubt that there are contradictions, and I don't really care. You need to widen your scope of thinking a little and forget about a polar separation of bible literalists vs. staunch athiests.
--
grappler