It's official, Larry Wall is a divine prophet. All bow to the Camel.
Seriously, WHY was the case not dropped immediately after the 'fortune' thing was explained? Suspension is a separate issue, but drop the crazed killer part of it at least.
Not only that, but if information really "wants to be free", why do we have such a problem with marketers collecting data on customers and selling it? Privacy concerns would be invalid.
Obviously this isn't my own line, but I like it so much I'm going to say it: Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
ditto that. I was reading it in 10th grade (I'm now a college sophomore). I got an account because I liked being able to set preferences and stuff I guess. I was always choosing certain display options (I guess it would have been threaded since nested hadn't come yet) so I made those the default.
Hmm, that seems to clear something up for me. I had always had the impression that it is the escaped particle that accounts for the "evaporation" and my thought was always, "but wouldn't the particles/antiparticles entering balance each other out?" But if it's _energy_, I guess that answers that...
Wow. I'd say this person has found the ultimate way to get a flurry of posters to proofread his every word and helpfully point out mistakes. Just find an arrogant name and a really arrogant sig.
I think that things can only become worse - there is a great reallignment happening in the world of programming, as it becomes more of a blue collar environment, and sheds it's elitist image.
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I think that the increasing franchise of programming, which is at last being grasped by the common man, can only be a good thing.
So what is it? Good or bad?
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UID over 47? Beware.
Yes, as a matter of fact - my UID is greater by a factor of roughly 300. Sorry if this offends your senior status...
He's at the New York Times, and it's a syndicated column. It's in lots and lots of papers. Where I live, both major papers have his column. And I'm sure an enterprizing slashdotter such as yourself could find the same thing on the web in about one minute. I wrote what I did because I had already read it in the morning paper and didn't feel like looking up a link.
I think it was best of 7, and he won by switching strategies midgame. The next year, he played a much improved version (didn't know it was called 'deeper blue', but apparently that was its name) and lost.
speaking for myself and putting aside questions of cost and maintenance (I don't know which would be better in those regards) I would take the electric over the gas any day of the week.
If the car can do 0-60 in 4.1 seconds, that's enough power. I think it would be really cool to be able to do that quietly without using gas. Just make the car look cool and there'd be no image problem as far as I'm concerned.
us drivers in hydroelectric rich British Columbia (Motto: Keeping California's Lights Burning) would be able to enjoy guilt-free driving right now.
Yeah, until another dam is required, at which point another river is blocked and several more square miles of land are put underwater, etc
Hydro is nice and it doesn't pollute, but it has its drawbacks, make no mistake. Also, individual cars can still be more or less efficient in their use and storage of electricity (but wouldn't be as bad as gas)
Here's an idea - go through the keywords of the given story and look them up on everything2! Find relevant nodes and perhaps follow those to other nodes until you have enough text to put a comment together. Then you need some kind of grammar algorithm so that it sounds reasonably coherent.
How about a post generated by a neural network? You could train it by feeding it stories and resulting replies for each story - and then the scores for each of those replies. The idea would be to train it for +5 posts. Of course, every time it posted something itself, it would recieve feedback on what score its own post recieved.
Arrgh! I'm NOT demonizing conservatives! I was trying to show the silliness of the person I was replying to! He said that the major news networks are not liberal, explaining that his liberal views are "real" liberalism.
I set up a similiar scenario on the Right side to make the absurdity apparent. Obviously, what I described is the extereme right wing. Obviously, most conservatives don't feel this way.
But, there is a very vocal minority who do, and they'll tell you that they are following the "wishes of the founding fathers" exactly (even when it is plain that they are not). They'll claim this is a Christian country and that our founding fathers wanted it that way. These people have a conference coming up called 'Reclaiming America for Christ'. Check it out - those guys are scary.
by the same token, FOX News is NOT conservative either. They're both tempered but neither are in the center.
A "real" conservative in your "it has to be extreme" assertion doesn't just want to lower taxes. They want to enact Biblical Law and christianize the country. They want Genesis taught in school as fact. They see news involving the UN and/or the middle east in terms of Bible prophecy, making for an impressively twisted interpretation. And so on...
That's not helpful when you want to find a not-so-common file and therefore want to search a very large number of users to have a good chance of finding it.
That's why napster's so great - it derives its benefit from the fact that practically everyone is hooked in and their files are centrally indexed.
Sure, YOU can always go somewhere else, but if nobody else uses the same PTP as you, it is useless.
I heard Excel has a flight simulator hidden somewhere, but I've never seen it...
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yeah, I don't dispute any of that. I'm just saying that the psychology of the SUV buyer is not going to let them buy something that is so obviously not a "rugged mountain vehicle". Not that there is anything rational about it.
But practically every SUV commercial shows the car in the mountains. It's the image, even if the image is a joke.
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Seriously, WHY was the case not dropped immediately after the 'fortune' thing was explained? Suspension is a separate issue, but drop the crazed killer part of it at least.
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Obviously this isn't my own line, but I like it so much I'm going to say it: Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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Forever is a long time...
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I think that the increasing franchise of programming, which is at last being grasped by the common man, can only be a good thing.
So what is it? Good or bad?
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UID over 47? Beware.
Yes, as a matter of fact - my UID is greater by a factor of roughly 300. Sorry if this offends your senior status...
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Hmmm, that sounds kind strange, but it's fine by me if they want to do that. Find a pink elephant and "drive around", by all means...
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I choose no cameras (even though I don't especially respect gun nuts)
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If the car can do 0-60 in 4.1 seconds, that's enough power. I think it would be really cool to be able to do that quietly without using gas. Just make the car look cool and there'd be no image problem as far as I'm concerned.
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and when you're an atheist, these things matter
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Yeah, until another dam is required, at which point another river is blocked and several more square miles of land are put underwater, etc
Hydro is nice and it doesn't pollute, but it has its drawbacks, make no mistake. Also, individual cars can still be more or less efficient in their use and storage of electricity (but wouldn't be as bad as gas)
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yeah - Finux: for industrial strength typesetting!
How about a post generated by a neural network? You could train it by feeding it stories and resulting replies for each story - and then the scores for each of those replies. The idea would be to train it for +5 posts. Of course, every time it posted something itself, it would recieve feedback on what score its own post recieved.
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I set up a similiar scenario on the Right side to make the absurdity apparent. Obviously, what I described is the extereme right wing. Obviously, most conservatives don't feel this way.
But, there is a very vocal minority who do, and they'll tell you that they are following the "wishes of the founding fathers" exactly (even when it is plain that they are not). They'll claim this is a Christian country and that our founding fathers wanted it that way. These people have a conference coming up called 'Reclaiming America for Christ'. Check it out - those guys are scary.
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A "real" conservative in your "it has to be extreme" assertion doesn't just want to lower taxes. They want to enact Biblical Law and christianize the country. They want Genesis taught in school as fact. They see news involving the UN and/or the middle east in terms of Bible prophecy, making for an impressively twisted interpretation. And so on...
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That's not helpful when you want to find a not-so-common file and therefore want to search a very large number of users to have a good chance of finding it.
That's why napster's so great - it derives its benefit from the fact that practically everyone is hooked in and their files are centrally indexed.
Sure, YOU can always go somewhere else, but if nobody else uses the same PTP as you, it is useless.
I heard Excel has a flight simulator hidden somewhere, but I've never seen it...
But practically every SUV commercial shows the car in the mountains. It's the image, even if the image is a joke.
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