Don't shut the idea, the idea is pretty good, yet the implementation is going to be tricky, with a space elevator, sending a kg. into space will be way more cheap than what is cost nonadays.
This comment may sound a bit offtopic, but using a similar system of what OpenID uses (you set who you trust) with a visible list of the current rankers, it could work out.
Let's say at the end of as document you encounter a list of ratuing like :
* The catholic church beleives this is 75% true (link) * The community of philosofy profesors of the University of Alabama belives this article is 10% true. (link) * The FBI beleives this article is 37% true (link) * The overmind beleives this article is 2.7123973% true (link)
With links to a detailed analysis found of their websites (so is moot to forge the rankings). Making the ranking more or less informative and not used as censorship. You choose who to beleive from.
I used to work with a laywer for like 3 or 4 years (I was coding as Human Resources oriented app.) and I can say it was a very enrichful experience, I learned to read (and write a bit of) mexican legalese and understand what the things on the contracts actually mean.
As most knowledge you can eigther use it on your favor or let the others use _you_ in their favor.
One legend that I have heard a few times (mostly back in the late 80's and early 90's) was that President Reagan had the company that produced Cabbage Patch dolls make them intentionally ugly. This legend maintains that government scientists thought that this is what the offspring of survivors of a nuclear war would look like. By familiarizing people with this "look", the survival of the human race would be ensured.
I mean an ad that consisted of a long, detailed and graphic discussion between Gates and Ballmer as to their preferred methods for torturing and maiming kittens would probably get talked about; I'm not sure such an ad could be considered as positive for Microsoft.
The opposite of publicity is noy bad publicity, is oscurity. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if your publicity was good or bad, but the fact that your product is in the consumer's mind.
This will teach children that is ok to be lazy, that if you have a deadline you can extend that indefinitly and no bad consecuences will happen, just like the real world./sarcasm
The problem with the alarming rates of failing is that education is supposed to be two sided, one part is done by the teachers in the school grounds, while the other part is done by the parents at home, and both sides are very important.
Don't worry, it will be more than 400 years long by the year 2328 when US Copyright Law will change again because Mickey Mouse will be about to enter public domain.
Seems like several post here are meant to deal with shadow/perma/silent/ip/hell/girl/etc banning the troll, however from the problem of the edited post, you can add a "This post was edited on..." to show that the post was not the original one (Users usually take posts with the edit flag with a bit of salt, hence that many people add a "EDIT: Spelling" "Edit: added something I forgot to add" at the bottom of the post).
You could also define some threesholds in the diff between the original and the edited post (that however may require a lot of aditional space in the database) so if the diff is past this threeshold (i.e. is not a spelling error or a link added) you could show a "Original post said" brigth yellow rectangle to show the original post as well as the edited post.
Or you could pull a slashdot and forbid any editing at all.
I'm a Christian, and I don't beleive that the 7 days of the creation were earth days at all... considering that an earth day is the time that earth takes to spin in itself and that earth didn't exist until the second day makes the first day unmesureable.
Didn't the bible mention that for God a day is like a millenium and a millenium like a day?
I don't think that the bible is meant to be taken literally, it's meant to be studied and interpreted by the guidance of the Holy Ghost.
I also don't beleive in ID, the God in the bible is clearly a God of order, he prepared the humanity for the first comming of Christ for millenia, if God style was just to puff stuff out of nothing, Christ could come and die for the humanity just after Adam and Eve just commited the original sin; instead God prepared the world, choosed Abraham to form a nation, raised David to be king, etc. etc. etc.
I don't see why God couldn't had created evolution, it makes a lot of sence that if you create a world that changes (seasons, odd and even years, ages) that you populate it with life that is able to change itself and adapt. However I don't think that evolution is *random* at all, but thats just a minor point.
For the point that that would mean that human body came from the apes, I don't really care about that, I do care that my soul is made in image as God's. Clearly God doesn't need a body to interact with the universe (not talking about Christ here in this moment), I don't think that God have kidneys or a panchreas, but I do beleive that my soul is an image of his soul.
If you beleive the bible as 100% literal, the book of Revelations must look very very interesting to you. Take in mind that the target audience when the bible was written was very different from today's in the aspect for education, for them a value of Pi as 3 was a workable aproximation.
where computers could be trained 'to recognize a range of different emotions, such as anger and nervousness
Nothing new to see here, we been doing this on software for call centers for managers to help agents if people in the other side of the line starts to get angry or something.
... an inferior keyboard in all practical ways except for the simple act of typing...
Wow, isn't that what *gulp* keyboards are supposed to be good for?
Don't mind me, I use a $2 keyboard that does that pretty good. I don't use those fancy volume control keys, nor plug anything into it, the CPU have frontal USB ports for that matter.
well... I learned how to read and write in front of a tv set conected to a c64 (no kidding), I was 3 when my parents bougth a C64 and some user manuals (funny thing that user manuals had ton's of code) and typed some characters that looked like... maybe thats why I have bad handwriting
I got a similar experience, a when we installed debian on a friend's machine, the first thing we say when we started X, was the last Windows screen (he scared like hell) of the last reboot (the one that says "Its safe to turn off the system" or something like that) the funny thing is that it wasnt a LCD, it was a CRT, and keep happening often. BTW that only happen when we dont turn off the monitor.
Actually when we installed OSx (quite time ago, and not Jaguar BTW) at school, one of our first impressions was that there was no bash (BTW our first one is that we could find the root acount) but it was avaible for download somewhere at the apple site
well quicksort complex is about n log n rigth ? I remember that theres a way (or two ways I dont remeber) to sort numbers in n, yeah I'm not crazy but is wastes LOTS of memory, you actualy have an array from the lowest numer to the highest number and keep in them the times that the number apear, its quite insane to keep about 65536 vars. for sorting integer values, but the speed is almost unbeatable.
Also quicksort is beaten by heapsort in most cases, but i dont remember the algorithm.
Last time I checked Debian (a few minutes ago), Woody was the lastest stable release (while potato was the old stable and sarge the testing dist. and sid the unstable)
Want new things ? install sid and apt-get update everything every morning (well i do that)
Slashdot Mirror
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, when asked about when the space elevator would be constructed, he said something like:
Probably about 50 years after everybody quits laughing.
link.
Don't shut the idea, the idea is pretty good, yet the implementation is going to be tricky, with a space elevator, sending a kg. into space will be way more cheap than what is cost nonadays.
If you're installing [...] Vista you'll need all the speed you can get!
FTFY
This comment may sound a bit offtopic, but using a similar system of what OpenID uses (you set who you trust) with a visible list of the current rankers, it could work out.
Let's say at the end of as document you encounter a list of ratuing like :
* The catholic church beleives this is 75% true (link)
* The community of philosofy profesors of the University of Alabama belives this article is 10% true. (link)
* The FBI beleives this article is 37% true (link)
* The overmind beleives this article is 2.7123973% true (link)
With links to a detailed analysis found of their websites (so is moot to forge the rankings). Making the ranking more or less informative and not used as censorship. You choose who to beleive from.
However, that requires a ton of work for that.
I used to work with a laywer for like 3 or 4 years (I was coding as Human Resources oriented app.) and I can say it was a very enrichful experience, I learned to read (and write a bit of) mexican legalese and understand what the things on the contracts actually mean.
As most knowledge you can eigther use it on your favor or let the others use _you_ in their favor.
If it runs with GNU tools (as most, if not all, non-embedded Linux distributions run with) then it won't be much diferent that what we already have.
Maybe a custom installer, packager, device discovered, etc. But I expect the cores (gcc, bash, X, etc.) to be like all the GNULinux distros out there.
From snopes.com:
One legend that I have heard a few times (mostly back in the late 80's and early 90's) was that President Reagan had the company that produced Cabbage Patch dolls make them intentionally ugly. This legend maintains that government scientists thought that this is what the offspring of survivors of a nuclear war would look like. By familiarizing people with this "look", the survival of the human race would be ensured.
http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/cabbage.asp
I mean an ad that consisted of a long, detailed and graphic discussion between Gates and Ballmer as to their preferred methods for torturing and maiming kittens would probably get talked about; I'm not sure such an ad could be considered as positive for Microsoft.
The opposite of publicity is noy bad publicity, is oscurity. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if your publicity was good or bad, but the fact that your product is in the consumer's mind.
They are more like makefiles...
This will teach children that is ok to be lazy, that if you have a deadline you can extend that indefinitly and no bad consecuences will happen, just like the real world. /sarcasm
The problem with the alarming rates of failing is that education is supposed to be two sided, one part is done by the teachers in the school grounds, while the other part is done by the parents at home, and both sides are very important.
Don't worry, it will be more than 400 years long by the year 2328 when US Copyright Law will change again because Mickey Mouse will be about to enter public domain.
We already know the answer is 42 tho.
that you can do with the wiimote like head tracking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
low cost interactive whiteboard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ
Finger tracking (ala minority report)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU
I would mod you Interesting, but already commented on this article.
The browser sounds amazing, I'm currently downloading a windows binary (67.5 MB for a web browser... awesome), gonna give it a try soon.
This may be sigthly off-topic, but about the dektop paradigm, there was an article a couple weeks ago.
Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME
Worth reading.
That's why my phone have printed in large friendly letters "DON'T PANIC" on the back side.
Seems like several post here are meant to deal with shadow/perma/silent/ip/hell/girl/etc banning the troll, however from the problem of the edited post, you can add a "This post was edited on..." to show that the post was not the original one (Users usually take posts with the edit flag with a bit of salt, hence that many people add a "EDIT: Spelling" "Edit: added something I forgot to add" at the bottom of the post).
You could also define some threesholds in the diff between the original and the edited post (that however may require a lot of aditional space in the database) so if the diff is past this threeshold (i.e. is not a spelling error or a link added) you could show a "Original post said" brigth yellow rectangle to show the original post as well as the edited post.
Or you could pull a slashdot and forbid any editing at all.
I'm a Christian, and I don't beleive that the 7 days of the creation were earth days at all... considering that an earth day is the time that earth takes to spin in itself and that earth didn't exist until the second day makes the first day unmesureable.
Didn't the bible mention that for God a day is like a millenium and a millenium like a day?
I don't think that the bible is meant to be taken literally, it's meant to be studied and interpreted by the guidance of the Holy Ghost.
I also don't beleive in ID, the God in the bible is clearly a God of order, he prepared the humanity for the first comming of Christ for millenia, if God style was just to puff stuff out of nothing, Christ could come and die for the humanity just after Adam and Eve just commited the original sin; instead God prepared the world, choosed Abraham to form a nation, raised David to be king, etc. etc. etc.
I don't see why God couldn't had created evolution, it makes a lot of sence that if you create a world that changes (seasons, odd and even years, ages) that you populate it with life that is able to change itself and adapt. However I don't think that evolution is *random* at all, but thats just a minor point.
For the point that that would mean that human body came from the apes, I don't really care about that, I do care that my soul is made in image as God's. Clearly God doesn't need a body to interact with the universe (not talking about Christ here in this moment), I don't think that God have kidneys or a panchreas, but I do beleive that my soul is an image of his soul.
If you beleive the bible as 100% literal, the book of Revelations must look very very interesting to you. Take in mind that the target audience when the bible was written was very different from today's in the aspect for education, for them a value of Pi as 3 was a workable aproximation.
where computers could be trained 'to recognize a range of different emotions, such as anger and nervousness
Nothing new to see here, we been doing this on software for call centers for managers to help agents if people in the other side of the line starts to get angry or something.
Dunno why this is labeled as "new".
... an inferior keyboard in all practical ways except for the simple act of typing...
Wow, isn't that what *gulp* keyboards are supposed to be good for?
Don't mind me, I use a $2 keyboard that does that pretty good. I don't use those fancy volume control keys, nor plug anything into it, the CPU have frontal USB ports for that matter.
intelligent bureaucrats
Your query returned 0 results.well... I learned how to read and write in front of a tv set conected to a c64 (no kidding), I was 3 when my parents bougth a C64 and some user manuals (funny thing that user manuals had ton's of code) and typed some characters that looked like... maybe thats why I have bad handwriting
I got a similar experience, a when we installed debian on a friend's machine, the first thing we say when we started X, was the last Windows screen (he scared like hell) of the last reboot (the one that says "Its safe to turn off the system" or something like that) the funny thing is that it wasnt a LCD, it was a CRT, and keep happening often. BTW that only happen when we dont turn off the monitor.
Actually when we installed OSx (quite time ago, and not Jaguar BTW) at school, one of our first impressions was that there was no bash (BTW our first one is that we could find the root acount) but it was avaible for download somewhere at the apple site
Time for nothing special ? try this
well quicksort complex is about n log n rigth ? I remember that theres a way (or two ways I dont remeber) to sort numbers in n, yeah I'm not crazy but is wastes LOTS of memory, you actualy have an array from the lowest numer to the highest number and keep in them the times that the number apear, its quite insane to keep about 65536 vars. for sorting integer values, but the speed is almost unbeatable.
Also quicksort is beaten by heapsort in most cases, but i dont remember the algorithm.
Couldn't you have at least installed Potato?
Last time I checked Debian (a few minutes ago), Woody was the lastest stable release (while potato was the old stable and sarge the testing dist. and sid the unstable)
Want new things ? install sid and apt-get update everything every morning (well i do that)