Hmm.. what if they turn out about sixteen trillion of them, and then use diff to figure out if the bead matches your data. The million-monkey theory can work, I know it!
Well, if Sturgeon's Law holds, then probably more like fifteen hundred are worth a flip. It is, however, possible that Sturgeon was being highly optimistic.
Hmmm.. Alpha-style point-to-point communication. I may have to do a little reading about that. It sounds pretty cool. I'm usually not that much into hardware (except using it) but some stuff strikes me as really interesting.
Well, they were going to have a few squadrons to send in if Red Squadron and Gold Squadron couldn't cut it. Rouge Squadron was actually the third of these squadrons, after Teal Squadron and Mauve Squadron, and before Fuchsia Squadron.
My question is this.. if somebody made a razor out of synthetic diamond, with a single row of carbon atoms at its edge, how sharp would that be? Would you be able to shave your face with it, or would the blade just sink right into your skin and cause you to become the faceless man?
Well, if all the lawyers are killed, then more lawyers will spring up out of the woodwork.
Maybe you can get rid of Bill Clinton, but what do you do afterward, when CmdrTaco comes forth and says, "We must put an end to all this chaos.. unite behind me, I will protect our interests"?
Isn't the Chevy Nova a remarked Toyota Tercel? I wonder if they have trouble marketing it in South America and other Spanish-speaking places where "no va" == "no go"
Ok.. looks like tolldog posted some good links..
From reading those links, it also looks like I got the R in NURBS wrong.. it's "rational" not "reticular" (wonder where I got the latter:-) )
#define GLAMATRON_IS_NOT_AN_EXPERT
#include <grain_of_salt.h>
/* hopefully if I got it wrong, someone will correct me */
I believe NURBS is an acronym for Non-Uniform Reticular B-Splines. B-Spline in turn is, I think, bilinear spline. Bilinear I think means that it's got 2 dimensions in which it extends. Of course, since it's curved, it takes up 3 dimensions.. like a piece of cloth. Whereas a normal spline would be like a piece of string. Bezier curves are a form of spline. I would guess that bezier patches are the 2D extension thereof.
Anyway, splines are a mathematical way to describe smooth curves that change direction a lot. (well, I guess you _could_ describe a hyperbola with splines, but you'd be better off just saying x = 1/y) So, when you take the spline model and extend it into 2 dimensions, you can make nifty curved surfaces like automobile bodies or rippled water or flux capacitance diagrams.. all with a relatively low number of control points.
Of course, the process of turning a bunch of control points into a matrix of really small triangles takes quite a bit of floating point math.. so it would be way cool for it to be accelerated in hardware. What would be even cooler would be for the hardware to translate it directly into hundreds or thousands of projected pixels.
Your post has made me curious, so I have been reading about the Birmingham Six on various websites. (one of the most detailed is http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/o ther/1974/faul76.htm) It doesn't seem as though the men were implicated by the cards. On the contrary, the account says that both the men and their playing cards were clean. Rather, it seems that the police picked them up for being Irish in the wrong place at the wrong time, and then beat them into confession.
Hmm.. how long ago was it that people were saying that Windows 2000 had "64,000 known bugs"? I seem to remember a lot of fun-poking from anti-MS zealots at that time.
You can't necessarily prove that a program is correct.. For one thing, how do you prove that the proving algorithm is correct? Second, what if there is a potentially infinite loop within the program? If written sufficiently badly, I think that could cause the prover to go into an infinite loop.
Anyway, I could be wrong, but if I am, so is Douglas R. Hofstadter, and he's probably smarter than me. Furthermore, there are probably a vast number of programs for which you are right, so that's something that is really cool about functional languages.
I guess you're right. Other than some of the drag-n-drop stuff, the Win9x desktop is mostly a glorified program group (albeit easier to use.)
There's also some variance between command line interfaces; after using bash on Debian, MS-DOS prompts induce a feeling of claustrophobia. I bet even Red Hat 3.x's default.bash_profile would make me feel uncomfortable. I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement there too.. mostly in the hardware department, though.
Windows 3.1 had a desktop? I thought the only icons you could have at the top level in 3.1 were program groups. Program groups could contain programs (not files, not subgroups.) Maybe I'm remembering less than was really there, but there really is a lot of stuff you can do in Win95 that you had to do through totally different channels in older Windows.
Anyone else hear Brad Pitt style emphasis in their heads when reading "you determine your level of involvement"? Kinda freaky that FIN is using the same sort of brainwash lines that Fight Club satires so well.
Galileo has a much too high orbital velocity and not enough propellant to get to the sun.
Does that mean that it can't get to Earth either? I would think that that would be the best solution; since it's Earth crap that's on the probe to begin with, why not send it back to its place of origin?
Slashdot Mirror
Please mod up parent.
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
I have no idea who Tim Bernard Lee is, and Google wasn't much help.
Hmm.. what if they turn out about sixteen trillion of them, and then use diff to figure out if the bead matches your data. The million-monkey theory can work, I know it!
Well, if Sturgeon's Law holds, then probably more like fifteen hundred are worth a flip. It is, however, possible that Sturgeon was being highly optimistic.
Hmmm.. Alpha-style point-to-point communication. I may have to do a little reading about that. It sounds pretty cool. I'm usually not that much into hardware (except using it) but some stuff strikes me as really interesting.
Wet dreams don't count.. Do they?
Tetris is a drug.
All I can say to that is, "hook me up with a Dec-Athlon, dude!"
Though, I suppose that could be misinterpreted as an Athlon from Digital.
Well, they were going to have a few squadrons to send in if Red Squadron and Gold Squadron couldn't cut it. Rouge Squadron was actually the third of these squadrons, after Teal Squadron and Mauve Squadron, and before Fuchsia Squadron.
My question is this.. if somebody made a razor out of synthetic diamond, with a single row of carbon atoms at its edge, how sharp would that be? Would you be able to shave your face with it, or would the blade just sink right into your skin and cause you to become the faceless man?
Damnit.. that is one sick and twisted game. Pretty cool.
All I could seem to pull off though, were "taco grab", "crap" and "fast break"
Well, if all the lawyers are killed, then more lawyers will spring up out of the woodwork.
Maybe you can get rid of Bill Clinton, but what do you do afterward, when CmdrTaco comes forth and says, "We must put an end to all this chaos.. unite behind me, I will protect our interests"?
2 words:
Travel, dude!
Isn't the Chevy Nova a remarked Toyota Tercel? I wonder if they have trouble marketing it in South America and other Spanish-speaking places where "no va" == "no go"
maybe I got the B in B-spline wrong too.
Ok.. looks like tolldog posted some good links.. :-) )
From reading those links, it also looks like I got the R in NURBS wrong.. it's "rational" not "reticular" (wonder where I got the latter
#define GLAMATRON_IS_NOT_AN_EXPERT
#include <grain_of_salt.h>
/* hopefully if I got it wrong, someone will correct me */
I believe NURBS is an acronym for Non-Uniform Reticular B-Splines. B-Spline in turn is, I think, bilinear spline. Bilinear I think means that it's got 2 dimensions in which it extends. Of course, since it's curved, it takes up 3 dimensions.. like a piece of cloth. Whereas a normal spline would be like a piece of string. Bezier curves are a form of spline. I would guess that bezier patches are the 2D extension thereof.
Anyway, splines are a mathematical way to describe smooth curves that change direction a lot. (well, I guess you _could_ describe a hyperbola with splines, but you'd be better off just saying x = 1/y) So, when you take the spline model and extend it into 2 dimensions, you can make nifty curved surfaces like automobile bodies or rippled water or flux capacitance diagrams.. all with a relatively low number of control points.
Of course, the process of turning a bunch of control points into a matrix of really small triangles takes quite a bit of floating point math.. so it would be way cool for it to be accelerated in hardware. What would be even cooler would be for the hardware to translate it directly into hundreds or thousands of projected pixels.
Your post has made me curious, so I have been reading about the Birmingham Six on various websites. (one of the most detailed is http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/o ther/1974/faul76.htm) It doesn't seem as though the men were implicated by the cards. On the contrary, the account says that both the men and their playing cards were clean. Rather, it seems that the police picked them up for being Irish in the wrong place at the wrong time, and then beat them into confession.
"sea" "see" "seigh" har har har
What? "seigh" isn't a word? Does that mean I can't have the job?
Hmm.. how long ago was it that people were saying that Windows 2000 had "64,000 known bugs"? I seem to remember a lot of fun-poking from anti-MS zealots at that time.
Is the Clinton St. Theatre in Portland, OR or Portland, ME?
You can't necessarily prove that a program is correct.. For one thing, how do you prove that the proving algorithm is correct? Second, what if there is a potentially infinite loop within the program? If written sufficiently badly, I think that could cause the prover to go into an infinite loop.
Anyway, I could be wrong, but if I am, so is Douglas R. Hofstadter, and he's probably smarter than me. Furthermore, there are probably a vast number of programs for which you are right, so that's something that is really cool about functional languages.
I guess you're right. Other than some of the drag-n-drop stuff, the Win9x desktop is mostly a glorified program group (albeit easier to use.)
.bash_profile would make me feel uncomfortable. I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement there too.. mostly in the hardware department, though.
There's also some variance between command line interfaces; after using bash on Debian, MS-DOS prompts induce a feeling of claustrophobia. I bet even Red Hat 3.x's default
Windows 3.1 had a desktop? I thought the only icons you could have at the top level in 3.1 were program groups. Program groups could contain programs (not files, not subgroups.) Maybe I'm remembering less than was really there, but there really is a lot of stuff you can do in Win95 that you had to do through totally different channels in older Windows.
Anyone else hear Brad Pitt style emphasis in their heads when reading "you determine your level of involvement"? Kinda freaky that FIN is using the same sort of brainwash lines that Fight Club satires so well.
Galileo has a much too high orbital velocity and not enough propellant to get to the sun.
Does that mean that it can't get to Earth either? I would think that that would be the best solution; since it's Earth crap that's on the probe to begin with, why not send it back to its place of origin?