Hell, I can simulate player personalities right here.
Commentator: "What's your strategy going into the second half?"
Robo-player: "Well, we just weren't scoring enough points was the problem. We're gonna try to play hard and score some more goals than we did in the first half."
Commentator: "All right."
I don't think the soccer-playing robot would have too much trouble doing a retarded dance in the end zone, so I think we're set.
The real challenge will be to teach robots to make terrible jokes and use the word "literally" improperly in every sentence so we can get rid of announcers.
I don't know about being a cook. That seems like it might help. But I have a similar problem to this kid's, not due to excessive smarts but because when people talk to me I freeze up and imagine all the ways I'm going to make an ass of myself before whoever is talking to me leaves despite my best efforts to not, and I worked as a cashier.
So I can tell you that being a cashier will only teach the kid to smile and nod while thinking, "Shut up and pay, shut up and pay, there's people behind you, they're going to yell at me for being slow and it's your fault, shut up and pay." Smile-and-nod skills are important, but there are better ways to learn them where no one yells at you.
Who cares if it's not very efficient - it'll run twice as fast in 18 months
Sure. But in 18 months it will be replaced by something three times as inneficient.
I'm not saying write everything in assembly, but "who cares if it's not very efficient" is a really terrible way to think. That's what Microsoft and the Nazis did.
You're right. There's no moral reason why. It's just convenience. When my kid types in www.gapkids.com, I don't want to see a banner ad for hot, naked girls. More importantly, when old people type in www.mastercard.com, I want them to get Mastercard's site, not Alberta Creditscam Co.'s. Sometimes the decisions suck, and Bob Gapkids would get it taken away, but that's life.
Imagine people running around in a virgin country, sticking up signs every thirty miles or so at random, saying "this is my land." Should they be able to collect on it all, if those signs are the only claim they have?
Imagine if someone was renting all the land on the planet for twenty bucks for two years and porn companies rented all the usable farmland and then linked it all to one spot in Arizona with nothing on it but advertisements for porn that no matter how many sites you click through, you never find any any actual naked chicks, dammit.
Seventy years? Sweeeeet. I was thinking about writing a really, really, really, really, really great novel, but if it was only going to be profitable for fifty years after I die, I wasn't going to bother. But now! I guess I'll have to learn to spell, 'cause I got some novellin' to do.
When I hear XP, I always imagine big, swooping camera movements at weird angles with a big, flashy logo and an over-excited announcer for a guy debugging a double-freed pointer.
There are lots of reasons to search for speaker bracelet. For instance, if I wanted to find your post on google, I would search for speaker bracelet. And more relevently, if I wanted to find a post on a message board or something that said, "I got a new speaker for my car. It's good. New things are nice. I also got a bracelet which is new and, therefore, nice."
Whenever I need to test my internet connection, I do a google search for "dog october" or something to make sure I'm not looking at a cached page. No, it's not a conspiracy, but that doesn't mean google users are always searching for products that exist.
Writing everything in Java [a programming language created by Sun] will help, because stuff written in antique programming languages like C [a widely used language created by Bell Labs in the early 1970s] is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network. Yet that's what Microsoft still uses. But even Java doesn't prevent people from making stupid mistakes.
Microsoft has to use C. It would be pretty tricky to write an OS without pointers and that runs in a virtual machine. And thank God they don't use Java for their apps. I have to use a crappy computer most of the time, and Office takes a week to start already. Maybe it's possible to make the performance hit negligable, but I don't think Microsoft has the competence to make that happen.
there is definate advantages to having what is effectively a 'mon & pop' satellite ISP.
There's also some pretty big disadvantages. Like when Pop calls up and says, "Hey. So... Ya lookin' at porn, huh? Yeah, I know how that is. You don't mind if I follow along on my machine, do y--Ooh! I like her... Yeah, baby. No, no, no, go back to her. I wasn't done yet."
I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS
editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. I have worked
extensively on compilers, editors, debuggers, command interpreters, the
Incompatible Timesharing System and the Lisp Machine operating system.
I pioneered terminal-independent display support in ITS. In addition I
have implemented one crashproof file system and two window systems for
Lisp machines.
Sure, you did some good stuff, but you don't have to brag, man.
I can't beleive you guys want to spend more of my hard earned dough on your Wasp Rap devices. I think you white folks need to remember that rap is the language of the people. I'm so tired of you whitees thinking that you can just change all our artforms into your bastardized propaganda for white rule. Power to the people. The revolution will not be televised. Next time you drive around in your $200,000 Chevys, listening to that Warper Eminem, remember that we're taking names and plates, boy. You best watch your back.
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Hell, I can simulate player personalities right here.
Commentator: "What's your strategy going into the second half?"
Robo-player: "Well, we just weren't scoring enough points was the problem. We're gonna try to play hard and score some more goals than we did in the first half."
Commentator: "All right."
I don't think the soccer-playing robot would have too much trouble doing a retarded dance in the end zone, so I think we're set.
The real challenge will be to teach robots to make terrible jokes and use the word "literally" improperly in every sentence so we can get rid of announcers.
Note to self: If I ever make a web server, don't put advertisements for it on "Error 503: Server Broke" page.
I don't know about being a cook. That seems like it might help. But I have a similar problem to this kid's, not due to excessive smarts but because when people talk to me I freeze up and imagine all the ways I'm going to make an ass of myself before whoever is talking to me leaves despite my best efforts to not, and I worked as a cashier.
So I can tell you that being a cashier will only teach the kid to smile and nod while thinking, "Shut up and pay, shut up and pay, there's people behind you, they're going to yell at me for being slow and it's your fault, shut up and pay." Smile-and-nod skills are important, but there are better ways to learn them where no one yells at you.
There's a girl on slashdot? Dammit, I thought this was the one place I'd never have to suck in my gut.
I guess I'll go put on some pants. Dammit.
Who cares if it's not very efficient - it'll run twice as fast in 18 months
Sure. But in 18 months it will be replaced by something three times as inneficient.
I'm not saying write everything in assembly, but "who cares if it's not very efficient" is a really terrible way to think. That's what Microsoft and the Nazis did.
Ten feet? I'm so excited! OhmyGodohmyGodohmyGod! I hope it goes eleven!
You're right. There's no moral reason why. It's just convenience. When my kid types in www.gapkids.com, I don't want to see a banner ad for hot, naked girls. More importantly, when old people type in www.mastercard.com, I want them to get Mastercard's site, not Alberta Creditscam Co.'s. Sometimes the decisions suck, and Bob Gapkids would get it taken away, but that's life.
Corruption is the problem. The law is fine.
It's slightly more like Spike Lee suing Spike Lee TV for using his name.
Imagine people running around in a virgin country, sticking up signs every thirty miles or so at random, saying "this is my land." Should they be able to collect on it all, if those signs are the only claim they have?
I don't know. Do they have a flag?
Imagine if someone was renting all the land on the planet for twenty bucks for two years and porn companies rented all the usable farmland and then linked it all to one spot in Arizona with nothing on it but advertisements for porn that no matter how many sites you click through, you never find any any actual naked chicks, dammit.
Wow. The law actually worked and wasn't evil or nothing for once. Good on them.
Even for people who don't care at all about free software he'll sound evil in this one.
Seventy years? Sweeeeet. I was thinking about writing a really, really, really, really, really great novel, but if it was only going to be profitable for fifty years after I die, I wasn't going to bother. But now! I guess I'll have to learn to spell, 'cause I got some novellin' to do.
Nobody cares what we geeks think.
But I'm begging someone to please prove me wrong.
//donate to IBM.//
Yes. Hurry. Just pennies a day, less than the price of a cup of coffee. Give all you can to this poor, defenseless, huge corporation.
When I hear XP, I always imagine big, swooping camera movements at weird angles with a big, flashy logo and an over-excited announcer for a guy debugging a double-freed pointer.
There are lots of reasons to search for speaker bracelet. For instance, if I wanted to find your post on google, I would search for speaker bracelet. And more relevently, if I wanted to find a post on a message board or something that said, "I got a new speaker for my car. It's good. New things are nice. I also got a bracelet which is new and, therefore, nice."
Whenever I need to test my internet connection, I do a google search for "dog october" or something to make sure I'm not looking at a cached page. No, it's not a conspiracy, but that doesn't mean google users are always searching for products that exist.
Writing everything in Java [a programming language created by Sun] will help, because stuff written in antique programming languages like C [a widely used language created by Bell Labs in the early 1970s] is full of holes. Those languages weren't designed for writing distributed programs to be used over a network. Yet that's what Microsoft still uses. But even Java doesn't prevent people from making stupid mistakes.
Microsoft has to use C. It would be pretty tricky to write an OS without pointers and that runs in a virtual machine. And thank God they don't use Java for their apps. I have to use a crappy computer most of the time, and Office takes a week to start already. Maybe it's possible to make the performance hit negligable, but I don't think Microsoft has the competence to make that happen.
That's 'cause you capitalized the "A". Now do you get it?
I understand. That's awfully noble of them. Gives me new respect for the penis bird.
We haven't had a story just for the immature and cruel Slashdotters in a while. It's like adult swim, but backwards. Have fun, guys.
How is the parent a troll? This gets my vote for worst moderation ever.
there is definate advantages to having what is effectively a 'mon & pop' satellite ISP.
There's also some pretty big disadvantages. Like when Pop calls up and says, "Hey. So... Ya lookin' at porn, huh? Yeah, I know how that is. You don't mind if I follow along on my machine, do y--Ooh! I like her... Yeah, baby. No, no, no, go back to her. I wasn't done yet."
I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much-imitated EMACS editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. I have worked extensively on compilers, editors, debuggers, command interpreters, the Incompatible Timesharing System and the Lisp Machine operating system. I pioneered terminal-independent display support in ITS. In addition I have implemented one crashproof file system and two window systems for Lisp machines.
Sure, you did some good stuff, but you don't have to brag, man.
I can't beleive you guys want to spend more of my hard earned dough on your Wasp Rap devices. I think you white folks need to remember that rap is the language of the people. I'm so tired of you whitees thinking that you can just change all our artforms into your bastardized propaganda for white rule. Power to the people. The revolution will not be televised. Next time you drive around in your $200,000 Chevys, listening to that Warper Eminem, remember that we're taking names and plates, boy. You best watch your back.