On that scale: what is being believed changes a lot in time, what seems to be less changing are the rituals. The meaning of the rituals change, but the form/practice stays the same a lot longer - that is, if Frits Staal is right about this. He even claims that rituals are pre-human and the origin of language.
I second that, I would even add that God must have F fingers.
Proof: if you want to know the n-th number of pi, you have to calculate all numbers up to n-1 to calculate n. However, in binary, octal, hexadecimal and any base 2^n you can calculate that number independently. So, to know the last "3" of "3.141592653" we need to calculate all numbers before. To know the last "0" of "3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E0" we do not have to calculate all numbers before it. As we see here, God of course has his shortcuts to omnipotency. So, he has 2^n fingers. The actual number of his fingers must be close to ours, since we were created to his semblance. Having less fingers than us would make him less perfect (a god without thumbs would be plainly absurd), so he must have F.
I bought an Archimedes 305 right after its launch in 1987, so I share your nostalgia. But RISC OS has one major problem as an operating system these days: multitasking is co-operative, meaning that any non-co-operative program can hijack the complete OS.
scientists already discovered 13 inhabitable planets outside of our solar system. It's just that we can't reach them due to them being billions of lightyears away.
Links please, we'd like to find out for ourselves if we can or cannot get there.
About the indentation remark by the AC above: I expected I would hate Python's indentation rule, but I actually love it. Liberated from BEGIN & END or { & }.
Unfortunately, Abubakr's arrangement means that the table can only be read by rotating it. That's tricky with a textbook and impossible with most computer screens.
Please, can somebody find a solution to this important screen rotation problem?
Co-incidentally, I do not have a TV and it has been years since I've been to a movie theater - I did create a couple of animation movies in that time tho, but nothing good enough to show off.
But you do have a point: of course you can both play games and create games.
While I agree myself that it's fun to create games and play around with them (man did I have some great ideas and projects at teenage years!), but it's not at all for everyone.
Well, this is slashdot after all:P
I like sandbox type games and I like messing around in games to see how the environment and AI responds to it. But my programming oriented mind probably affects a lot into that too.
I understand that, until recently I was playing Eve Online. I still think it is a great game, but I stopped playing because I wanted to do something more creative. Not paying my subscription has proven to be a good way to force myself to do something else.
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It is more fun to create a game than to play them, and a lot more fun than wincing about how much the commercial games cost...
I've seen an ATW at work in the late 80s. My Archimedes could calculate a mandlebrot set in about 30 seconds, a PC needed several minutes for that. The ATW could zoom in and out mandlebrots _in real time_ and one fly through them like through a 3D-world, I was really stunned when I saw that.
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Nope, ArcElite was the best version, but then again the Archimedes was also a "BBC Micro" (well at least the A300-series had the BBC logo):P
Well, the sun is not always visible, due to clouds or before sunrise/after sunset. Also I would need to know what time it is to deduce the North from the position of the sun and I don't wear a watch.
When I was a teen, I always consciously kept track where the North was. Every time I made a turn, I would adjust my imaginary compass - yeah I was some kind of freak. I would also make note of the orientation of some landmarks in every city. After a while, it became an automatism, now (over 20 yrs later) I often amaze people by pointing where the North is with very good accuracy without using a compass. It always works, but if I have been a passenger in a car (or other transport) it takes about half an hour after arriving before I know where the North is. Extra bonus: if the sun is visible, I can read the time of day from its position. I guess everybody can train it with a little bit of effort.
(I found this form ('tis) in Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, 1739 - yes, I know he's a Scott.).
Could we get a single clear form for the possessive in English please? No, of course not.
Is it "Haxamanish's post", "Haxamanish' post" or "Haxamanishes post"? Depending on who you ask, the answer is different. "It's" and "its" is consistent with none of those. But then again, consistency is not a property of natural language.
Before providing any substantive answer to your post, I have to ask if you endorse Proudhon's statement - i.e., do you believe that a synonym for "property" is "theft"? If so, can I ask for your- well, our- home address?
Yes, I do endorse that statement: property is theft. I call myself an anarchist, my friends call me a communist.
Proudhon makes a distinction between "property" and "possession". For example: a worker who uses a machine, should possess that machine as long as he does something useful with it. When he doesn't use it anymore, it should go to somebody else who can use it. In the current system however, the machine is property of the owner of the factory, who decides who operates it and who would sell it if he doesn't need it anymore.
About my house: I used to live in communes and on the road for years, but with my kids growing up that's not practical anymore. Now, I rent a small apartment, it's not my property. Inside it, you will not find things of value (the most valuable being the old computer I type this on, our furniture is old crap and the only things I'm somewhat attached to are my books - but I would be exactly as happy with a photocopy of those books as with a rare first edition). If I have something I do not need and which can be of use to anybody, I give it away. The result is me being pretty poor, but that is OK for me - if you think I'm stupid, feel free to do so. It also happens quite often that people I hardly or don't know at all are staying overnight in our place: my friends know they can drop off somebody who has no place for the night, they can use a bed and share in the food.
I do really like your remark pointing out the dual meaning of "privé", but the French text does not contain that word.
OT: I tried to write the French text in this remark, using the cumbersome html codes for foreign languages, but even that works only in the most simple cases on Slashdot. When will they fix this?
You seem to misunderstand me: I did not want to imply any patenting of mental processes, I wanted to say that the acceptance of the concept of IP as such limits what one is allowed to think (my education was in the tradition of FreeThought.)
"If I had to answer the following question, 'What is slavery?' and if I should respond in one word, 'It is murder', my meaning would be understood at once. I should not need a long explanation to show that the power to deprive a man of his thought, his will, and his personality is the power of life and death. So why to this other question, 'What is property?' should I not answer in the same way, 'It is theft,' without fearing to be misunderstood, since the second proposition is only a transformation of the first?" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "Qu'est-ce que la propriété?" 1840 (Translation: "What is Property?", Cambridge University Press 1993, page 13)
So we need another transformation now: "What is intellectual property? It is thought control."
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I would argue the opposite: a problem is something which has a solution, something without a solution is not a problem but a circumstance.
On that scale: what is being believed changes a lot in time, what seems to be less changing are the rituals. The meaning of the rituals change, but the form/practice stays the same a lot longer - that is, if Frits Staal is right about this. He even claims that rituals are pre-human and the origin of language.
Indeed, I stand corrected.
Please note I used the symbol "n" in 2 different meaning here. I should have written the "n-th position of pi" and "base 2^b" or something.
I second that, I would even add that God must have F fingers.
Proof: if you want to know the n-th number of pi, you have to calculate all numbers up to n-1 to calculate n. However, in binary, octal, hexadecimal and any base 2^n you can calculate that number independently. So, to know the last "3" of "3.141592653" we need to calculate all numbers before. To know the last "0" of "3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E0" we do not have to calculate all numbers before it. As we see here, God of course has his shortcuts to omnipotency. So, he has 2^n fingers. The actual number of his fingers must be close to ours, since we were created to his semblance. Having less fingers than us would make him less perfect (a god without thumbs would be plainly absurd), so he must have F.
I bought an Archimedes 305 right after its launch in 1987, so I share your nostalgia. But RISC OS has one major problem as an operating system these days: multitasking is co-operative, meaning that any non-co-operative program can hijack the complete OS.
scientists already discovered 13 inhabitable planets outside of our solar system. It's just that we can't reach them due to them being billions of lightyears away.
Links please, we'd like to find out for ourselves if we can or cannot get there.
Z80 is still in production, no need to "restart" it.
They should release an ARM version IMO.
such as the Acorn A3000 series?
Also install Pygame for them to make it true fun.
About the indentation remark by the AC above: I expected I would hate Python's indentation rule, but I actually love it. Liberated from BEGIN & END or { & }.
Unfortunately, Abubakr's arrangement means that the table can only be read by rotating it. That's tricky with a textbook and impossible with most computer screens.
Please, can somebody find a solution to this important screen rotation problem?
Prolog.
Co-incidentally, I do not have a TV and it has been years since I've been to a movie theater - I did create a couple of animation movies in that time tho, but nothing good enough to show off.
But you do have a point: of course you can both play games and create games.
While I agree myself that it's fun to create games and play around with them (man did I have some great ideas and projects at teenage years!), but it's not at all for everyone.
Well, this is slashdot after all :P
I like sandbox type games and I like messing around in games to see how the environment and AI responds to it. But my programming oriented mind probably affects a lot into that too.
I understand that, until recently I was playing Eve Online. I still think it is a great game, but I stopped playing because I wanted to do something more creative. Not paying my subscription has proven to be a good way to force myself to do something else.
It is more fun to create a game than to play them, and a lot more fun than wincing about how much the commercial games cost...
Some place to start: Python games community
I've seen an ATW at work in the late 80s. My Archimedes could calculate a mandlebrot set in about 30 seconds, a PC needed several minutes for that. The ATW could zoom in and out mandlebrots _in real time_ and one fly through them like through a 3D-world, I was really stunned when I saw that.
Nope, ArcElite was the best version, but then again the Archimedes was also a "BBC Micro" (well at least the A300-series had the BBC logo) :P
Well, the sun is not always visible, due to clouds or before sunrise/after sunset. Also I would need to know what time it is to deduce the North from the position of the sun and I don't wear a watch.
When I was a teen, I always consciously kept track where the North was. Every time I made a turn, I would adjust my imaginary compass - yeah I was some kind of freak. I would also make note of the orientation of some landmarks in every city. After a while, it became an automatism, now (over 20 yrs later) I often amaze people by pointing where the North is with very good accuracy without using a compass. It always works, but if I have been a passenger in a car (or other transport) it takes about half an hour after arriving before I know where the North is. Extra bonus: if the sun is visible, I can read the time of day from its position. I guess everybody can train it with a little bit of effort.
Well, 'tis changing.
(I found this form ('tis) in Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, 1739 - yes, I know he's a Scott.).
Could we get a single clear form for the possessive in English please? No, of course not.
Is it "Haxamanish's post", "Haxamanish' post" or "Haxamanishes post"? Depending on who you ask, the answer is different. "It's" and "its" is consistent with none of those. But then again, consistency is not a property of natural language.
Before providing any substantive answer to your post, I have to ask if you endorse Proudhon's statement - i.e., do you believe that a synonym for "property" is "theft"? If so, can I ask for your- well, our- home address?
Yes, I do endorse that statement: property is theft. I call myself an anarchist, my friends call me a communist.
Proudhon makes a distinction between "property" and "possession". For example: a worker who uses a machine, should possess that machine as long as he does something useful with it. When he doesn't use it anymore, it should go to somebody else who can use it. In the current system however, the machine is property of the owner of the factory, who decides who operates it and who would sell it if he doesn't need it anymore.
About my house: I used to live in communes and on the road for years, but with my kids growing up that's not practical anymore. Now, I rent a small apartment, it's not my property. Inside it, you will not find things of value (the most valuable being the old computer I type this on, our furniture is old crap and the only things I'm somewhat attached to are my books - but I would be exactly as happy with a photocopy of those books as with a rare first edition). If I have something I do not need and which can be of use to anybody, I give it away. The result is me being pretty poor, but that is OK for me - if you think I'm stupid, feel free to do so. It also happens quite often that people I hardly or don't know at all are staying overnight in our place: my friends know they can drop off somebody who has no place for the night, they can use a bed and share in the food.
Agreed. I guess what you call "free property" is what Proudhon calls "possession" in "Théorie de la propriété", II, 158.
I do really like your remark pointing out the dual meaning of "privé", but the French text does not contain that word.
OT: I tried to write the French text in this remark, using the cumbersome html codes for foreign languages, but even that works only in the most simple cases on Slashdot. When will they fix this?
You seem to misunderstand me: I did not want to imply any patenting of mental processes, I wanted to say that the acceptance of the concept of IP as such limits what one is allowed to think (my education was in the tradition of Free Thought.)
"If I had to answer the following question, 'What is slavery?' and if I should respond in one word, 'It is murder', my meaning would be understood at once. I should not need a long explanation to show that the power to deprive a man of his thought, his will, and his personality is the power of life and death. So why to this other question, 'What is property?' should I not answer in the same way, 'It is theft,' without fearing to be misunderstood, since the second proposition is only a transformation of the first?" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "Qu'est-ce que la propriété?" 1840 (Translation: "What is Property?", Cambridge University Press 1993, page 13)
So we need another transformation now: "What is intellectual property? It is thought control."