What was that noise? Oh. That was the noise of the entire slashdot readership rolling their eyes.
Normally I wouldn't presume to speak for all of us.
Perhaps they should start complaining when they have an example of an actual bad thing that happened, and then show how regulation could and should prevent it.
If HBO wants to show all it's characters living it up with Perrier-Jouet champagne, that's up to them. Hell. They even show a character drunk on Perrier-Jouet stick her head out of a limosine and die. Is that a good enough warning for you? Where's an example of a product placed and used in a fashion that would cause someone to buy it with false expectations?
Yeah. See, this is the kind of bullshit we have to deal with if we want to talk about religion in public.
Just because you'd like to be nice doesn't make Mormons less crazy. They believe their magical underoos will protect them from physical harm. C'mon, dude. That's funny.
perhaps one could use units like this to demonstrate gba games..
Except that for most demonstration purposes, the GameCube GBA Player is a better solution. This is only slightly more portable than the gamecube + gba player + mini television.
a bit polishing though.. but at least it would be an eyecatcher for sure.
Eyecatcher in that "Living mother of God! My eyes! My eyes!" sort of way.
Ack. According to this dude, it isn't Wesley that says it. It's some romantic interest talking to him:
"Careful. That'll suck all the iron out of your bloodstream."
Always struck me as hilarious bullshit. Anyone know if that's possible? Is the iron in your blood polar and magnetic, or is it part of some larger molecule?
Wesley: Careful with that. It'll rip the iron right out of your bloodstream.
(P.S. I couldn't find the exact quote online. But I did discover that there is no more depressing thing than ST Voyager based fan fiction. Some of them have completely perfected the stilted dialog. Eugh.)
I am disappointed that Kevin Larson and RenderMonkey so casually disregarded my post to slashdot from the last story:
Many of our internal language comprehension algorithms seem to be ruled by stacks.
No, I'm not trying to say that we're a giant push-down-automata. There are various intermediaries between a push-down-automata and a full Turing machine. Some of the observable bottlenecks in human speech seem to suggest that we've got some kind of stack-based automata doing our language processing. Something like the "Bottom-up embedded push-down automata."
It would make plenty of sense that due to our habit of reading left to right, when reading a long word with reversed internal letters, we'd have to push every single letter. By the time we get to the second to last letter, we have some hope of popping and interpretting the word, but all our buffers are blown already. Too much of our language processing logic is occupied.
If it's a simple jumble, then there's fewer letters we need to push into the stack before we can start popping and understanding the words. If you have trouble with the whole word, you can start working on the next word, interpret that, and then keep popping use that information to guide your interpretation of the first word.
This makes sense, really. I swear. Someone tell me they follow what I'm saying.
Yeah. Duh. That's the only way you can stop something in space.
I just don't see the huge speed benefit to the ion drive if they've got to do their deceleration as soon as they hit their halfway point. Even if their required mass is very low.
Yeah, I was thinking... constant acceleration over the whole trip isn't exactly going to work when you smack into mars at a few thousand miles per hour.
If they do gradual deceleration, I can't see how they'd get such a huge time improvement. And with an ion drive only, they'd have to do it just as gradually as they started.
Many of our internal language comprehension algorithms seem to be ruled by stacks.
No, I'm not trying to say that we're a giant push-down-automata. There are various intermediaries between a push-down-automata and a full Turing machine. Some of the observable bottlenecks in human speech seem to suggest that we've got some kind of stack-based automata doing our language processing. Something like the "Bottom-up embedded push-down automata."
It would make plenty of sense that due to our habit of reading left to right, when reading a long word with reversed internal letters, we'd have to push every single letter. By the time we get to the second to last letter, we have some hope of popping and interpretting the word, but all our buffers are blown already. Too much of our language processing logic is occupied.
If it's a simple jumble, then there's fewer letters we need to push into the stack before we can start popping and understanding the words. If you have trouble with the whole word, you can start working on the next word, interpret that, and then keep popping use that information to guide your interpretation of the first word.
This makes sense, really. I swear. Someone tell me they follow what I'm saying.
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What was that noise? Oh. That was the noise of the entire slashdot readership rolling their eyes.
Normally I wouldn't presume to speak for all of us.
Perhaps they should start complaining when they have an example of an actual bad thing that happened, and then show how regulation could and should prevent it.
If HBO wants to show all it's characters living it up with Perrier-Jouet champagne, that's up to them. Hell. They even show a character drunk on Perrier-Jouet stick her head out of a limosine and die. Is that a good enough warning for you? Where's an example of a product placed and used in a fashion that would cause someone to buy it with false expectations?
Tell us Vince's last name. I'm sure he'd appreciate it.
Will it give people cancer/make them sterile too?
Plain Coke works fine for that anyway.
KIDDING! I'm kidding. Jesus.
Took me three seconds the first time I saw his site, and I wasn't looking for it.
As crazy as Mormons may be, there's no way to call them a cult without calling every religion a cult.
Yeah. See, this is the kind of bullshit we have to deal with if we want to talk about religion in public.
Just because you'd like to be nice doesn't make Mormons less crazy. They believe their magical underoos will protect them from physical harm. C'mon, dude. That's funny.
Yeah. I didn't mean to pay it any compliments.
perhaps one could use units like this to demonstrate gba games..
Except that for most demonstration purposes, the GameCube GBA Player is a better solution. This is only slightly more portable than the gamecube + gba player + mini television.
a bit polishing though.. but at least it would be an eyecatcher for sure.
Eyecatcher in that "Living mother of God! My eyes! My eyes!" sort of way.
The biggest victim of application maturity is Autodesk. AutoCAD has had nowhere to go for a long time now.
They're not talking about MMORPGs. Back before everquest, there used to be games that you could play online for free.
Yeah. I figured that. That even occured to me when I first watched the show at the age of 12.
Further evidence that Star Trek was crappy before Voyager. We just didn't know any better.
Ack. According to this dude, it isn't Wesley that says it. It's some romantic interest talking to him:
"Careful. That'll suck all the iron out of your bloodstream."
Always struck me as hilarious bullshit. Anyone know if that's possible? Is the iron in your blood polar and magnetic, or is it part of some larger molecule?
Wesley: Careful with that. It'll rip the iron right out of your bloodstream.
(P.S. I couldn't find the exact quote online. But I did discover that there is no more depressing thing than ST Voyager based fan fiction. Some of them have completely perfected the stilted dialog. Eugh.)
How did Tribes 2 get fucked up? I never played, but it always seemed rad, so I'm curious.
I am disappointed that Kevin Larson and RenderMonkey so casually disregarded my post to slashdot from the last story:
Many of our internal language comprehension algorithms seem to be ruled by stacks.
No, I'm not trying to say that we're a giant push-down-automata. There are various intermediaries between a push-down-automata and a full Turing machine. Some of the observable bottlenecks in human speech seem to suggest that we've got some kind of stack-based automata doing our language processing. Something like the "Bottom-up embedded push-down automata."
It would make plenty of sense that due to our habit of reading left to right, when reading a long word with reversed internal letters, we'd have to push every single letter. By the time we get to the second to last letter, we have some hope of popping and interpretting the word, but all our buffers are blown already. Too much of our language processing logic is occupied.
If it's a simple jumble, then there's fewer letters we need to push into the stack before we can start popping and understanding the words. If you have trouble with the whole word, you can start working on the next word, interpret that, and then keep popping use that information to guide your interpretation of the first word.
This makes sense, really. I swear. Someone tell me they follow what I'm saying.
I totally forget where windows stores that .wav file. The one that gets played every fucking time you click on a link in IE.
Well, replace that with something obscene.
Yeah. Duh. That's the only way you can stop something in space.
I just don't see the huge speed benefit to the ion drive if they've got to do their deceleration as soon as they hit their halfway point. Even if their required mass is very low.
Yeah, I was thinking... constant acceleration over the whole trip isn't exactly going to work when you smack into mars at a few thousand miles per hour.
If they do gradual deceleration, I can't see how they'd get such a huge time improvement. And with an ion drive only, they'd have to do it just as gradually as they started.
Isn't this thing supposed to land on the moon and take off again, though?
Huh. Then how would they slow down once they got to Mars? Would they have much more powerfull thrusters for landing?
Heh. "Lossy" event handling?
What do they offer over VNC?
I mean, for all that money, I'm sure there's something.
CDMA phones are widely considered to have superior call quality than GSM phones.
So, if you're used to GSM phones, then you could use this thing on its WCDMA band and perhaps get better quality call sound.
Many of our internal language comprehension algorithms seem to be ruled by stacks.
No, I'm not trying to say that we're a giant push-down-automata. There are various intermediaries between a push-down-automata and a full Turing machine. Some of the observable bottlenecks in human speech seem to suggest that we've got some kind of stack-based automata doing our language processing. Something like the "Bottom-up embedded push-down automata."
It would make plenty of sense that due to our habit of reading left to right, when reading a long word with reversed internal letters, we'd have to push every single letter. By the time we get to the second to last letter, we have some hope of popping and interpretting the word, but all our buffers are blown already. Too much of our language processing logic is occupied.
If it's a simple jumble, then there's fewer letters we need to push into the stack before we can start popping and understanding the words. If you have trouble with the whole word, you can start working on the next word, interpret that, and then keep popping use that information to guide your interpretation of the first word.
This makes sense, really. I swear. Someone tell me they follow what I'm saying.
I know. But in the un-Jobs years, Apple's marketting was horrible.
They forgot why people should have a Mac. It was crap.
In more serious news, Dell will need to have Apple's marketing savvy to have Apple's success, and I don't think they do.
Heh. Somehow the conditioning hasn't worn off from the dark years. You say "Apple's marketing savvy," and I still think, "oxymoron."