The core recipe of humanity carries clumps of genes that show we are descended from bacteria. There is no other way to explain the jerry-rigged nature of the genes that control key aspects of our development.
This is the sum total of the evidence: the genes look jury-rigged to us, and come from bacteria; therefore they must be the result of evolution. So there!
Obviously the author has never heard of "code reuse." All the good programmers are doing it!
I wonder what AltaVista's improvements over prior indexing tools are, though. "Your Honor, our system has one key feature never before proposed in an indexing system for distributed data--namely, humongousness. Of lesser importance, but still significant, are our introduction of Searchliciousness and The Wow! Factor."
This patent enforcement crusade could end up being kind of a Pyrrhic victory for AltaVista. Sure, they probably have to try to enforce the patents to keep them, so maybe they don't really mean to be jerks about it--maybe it's just one of those things they think they have to do. But regardless of the motivation, this could cause a lot of ill will in a lot of places. Especially if it ends up affecting the software corporations use to index their internal systems.
And in the best of all possible worlds, perhaps the Patent Office will start considering the idea of "prior art" a little more seriously after this...
I spent months lobbying against the Smithsonian for its rejection of an Australopithecus Spiff-arino specimen. Now, sadder but wiser, I wish I'd known the provenance of that cruel hoax from the outset. Government is the only answer.
If memory serves, there were offers of help from all over the world pretty quickly after the news broke. But the Russians wouldn't accept help for quite a while.
Hopefully the Lord of the Rings movie will show all the taste and restraint that marked "Meet the Feebles." But of course this will have a much bigger budget, so the puke and pus should look much more convincing.
The problem with making movies out of classics isn't the idea itself... it's the attempt to add "attitude" that was never in the original work. If you want to know how the movie might differ from the books, read Dumas' original "Rencontrez les Feebles."
I bought the original PSX to be able to play Twisted Metal. When I was at Best Buy looking through the already-released games on PS2 Eve, I saw Smuggler's Run and decided I'd be waiting in line at an ungodly hour the next morning. It's not a car-combat game... more along the lines of Driver.
For me, the single most amazing thing about SR is the sense of space. On PSX, Vigilante 8 did a great job of capturing this (at least compared to other PS games I'd played), and on PS2, SR takes that to another level. From the top of a hill, you can see for what seems like miles. Good stuff!
Interesting read. But the choice between Gush and Bore is misleading. The only way anyone with good ideas will ever get into the office is if A) a miracle happens or B) the alternative parties build up brand recognition over time. And the only way B can happen is if good citizens like me vote for them.
So to those who won't vote for Harry Browne, I say: kiss my Harry Browne butt!
The truly wasted vote is when you vote for the lesser of two evils, because you have declared that you support something that you don't.
Good point. Also, non-Republicratic voting is never going to seem a "viable option" to the mainstream voters unless someone, somewhere, starts the ball rolling, even if it rolls real slow at first...
I went to see Browne speak at a local Holiday Inn a few days ago. He has no illusions about his chances of winning, but he has to go around doing the job, because someone has to. And I must admit it was neat to shake the hand of the man who's getting my vote for President.:)
Submitted this to the beer page in August but it hasn't made it up yet... I will not be silenced!:)
// DM implementation
mob/verb/sing(bottleCount as num)
while(bottleCount > 0)
usr << "[bottleCount] bottle\s of beer on the wall,"
usr << "[bottleCount] bottle\s of beer."
usr << "Take one down, pass it around;"
usr << "[bottleCount--] bottle\s of beer on the wall.\n"
> First of all, using the words "girls" and "women" interchangeably is a bad idea.
[...]
> There's no way my girlfriend would choose her low paying secretarial job over a high-paying programming job if she'd felt she had the opportunity to train for the latter.
Not long after construction begins, all the workers will begin speaking different languages and the project will be abandoned. It's happened before...
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Paper and pencil role playing games to me seem, well.... not that interesting. You basically have to leave a great deal up to the GM and little up to dealing with interesting things.
It all depends on how interesting the GM and players are. Pen-and-paper RP'ing allows you to come up with conversations and strategies that no computer RPG can handle.
Computer: Dru'aathlik Jenlyfthiel tells you, "The brigands must be stopped!"
Player: tell Dru'aathlik "I will stop the brigands for free if I can call you Dru."
Computer: Dru'aathlik Jenlyfthiel tells you, "You will stop the brigands? Excellent! I will pay you 500 silver furchtbars if you succeed."
The legacy of the techno-outsider culture, such games have been partly supplanted by flashier entertainment systems from Nintendo and Sega, and technologically-sophisticated games like "Seaman."
Seaman is great and addictive, but I don't know about "technologically sophisticated." I've been raising mine for almost a month now; most of his conversations seem to rely on "switch" statements (yes or no? Dreamcast or PlayStation or Atari? January or February or...?) When you try to initiate a conversation yourself, he won't know what you're talking about 80% of the time.
Sometimes he doesn't even recognize yes or no correctly... now my Seaman thinks I support Internet censorship and don't like girls.
Disclaimer: I am a smoker. I don't like the fact that I smoke, but all my quitting attempts have so far been unsuccessful. This is the reason why I don't think tobacco products should be sold. A government-enforced ban on smoking would probably be the best thing to happen to me in my life.
Yep... if they'd bundle that in with a ban on books and video games, I'd never be in debt again!
Yep. I expect 70,000 for the whole history of MS computing is a pretty conservative number.
I wonder what figure you'd get if you toted up the (sales/download figures) for every Windows (programming language/development environment) ever (sold/given away), and then assumed that only, say, 5% were actually used to create meaningful applications?
> To observe the effect:
> - Take a clear piece of hard plastic
> - Rough one or both surfaces (sandpaper is good)
> - It should now be translucent or even opaque depending on how much you damaged the surface.
> - Immerse in water. You should be able to see through it much better.
I tested this by submerging my DVD player in the bathtub and playing a scratched disc. It didn't work.
(Just kidding, of course. I may actually try the experiment to "edutain" my sister's kids!)
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Personally, I'm rooting for BYONDimes.
There's a site called bountyquest.com that has a similar idea. You can post a bounty for information that would help invalidate a patent.
Yep, no text here.
This is the sum total of the evidence: the genes look jury-rigged to us, and come from bacteria; therefore they must be the result of evolution. So there!
Obviously the author has never heard of "code reuse." All the good programmers are doing it!
I wonder what AltaVista's improvements over prior indexing tools are, though. "Your Honor, our system has one key feature never before proposed in an indexing system for distributed data--namely, humongousness. Of lesser importance, but still significant, are our introduction of Searchliciousness and The Wow! Factor."
This patent enforcement crusade could end up being kind of a Pyrrhic victory for AltaVista. Sure, they probably have to try to enforce the patents to keep them, so maybe they don't really mean to be jerks about it--maybe it's just one of those things they think they have to do. But regardless of the motivation, this could cause a lot of ill will in a lot of places. Especially if it ends up affecting the software corporations use to index their internal systems.
And in the best of all possible worlds, perhaps the Patent Office will start considering the idea of "prior art" a little more seriously after this...
I spent months lobbying against the Smithsonian for its rejection of an Australopithecus Spiff-arino specimen. Now, sadder but wiser, I wish I'd known the provenance of that cruel hoax from the outset. Government is the only answer.
If memory serves, there were offers of help from all over the world pretty quickly after the news broke. But the Russians wouldn't accept help for quite a while.
Hopefully the Lord of the Rings movie will show all the taste and restraint that marked "Meet the Feebles." But of course this will have a much bigger budget, so the puke and pus should look much more convincing.
The problem with making movies out of classics isn't the idea itself... it's the attempt to add "attitude" that was never in the original work. If you want to know how the movie might differ from the books, read Dumas' original "Rencontrez les Feebles."
I bought the original PSX to be able to play Twisted Metal. When I was at Best Buy looking through the already-released games on PS2 Eve, I saw Smuggler's Run and decided I'd be waiting in line at an ungodly hour the next morning. It's not a car-combat game... more along the lines of Driver.
For me, the single most amazing thing about SR is the sense of space. On PSX, Vigilante 8 did a great job of capturing this (at least compared to other PS games I'd played), and on PS2, SR takes that to another level. From the top of a hill, you can see for what seems like miles. Good stuff!
"This is not a proper area of inquiry."
I can't say I'm surprised. The vote should be tallied on the Commodore 64. Foreign machines have no business counting American votes.
Interesting read. But the choice between Gush and Bore is misleading. The only way anyone with good ideas will ever get into the office is if A) a miracle happens or B) the alternative parties build up brand recognition over time. And the only way B can happen is if good citizens like me vote for them.
So to those who won't vote for Harry Browne, I say: kiss my Harry Browne butt!
Good point. Also, non-Republicratic voting is never going to seem a "viable option" to the mainstream voters unless someone, somewhere, starts the ball rolling, even if it rolls real slow at first...
I went to see Browne speak at a local Holiday Inn a few days ago. He has no illusions about his chances of winning, but he has to go around doing the job, because someone has to. And I must admit it was neat to shake the hand of the man who's getting my vote for President. :)
Submitted this to the beer page in August but it hasn't made it up yet... I will not be silenced! :)
// DM implementation
mob/verb/sing(bottleCount as num)
while(bottleCount > 0)
usr << "[bottleCount] bottle\s of beer on the wall,"
usr << "[bottleCount] bottle\s of beer."
usr << "Take one down, pass it around;"
usr << "[bottleCount--] bottle\s of beer on the wall.\n"
mob/Login()
sing(99)
U of Wisconsin's plan for addressing isolation
> First of all, using the words "girls" and "women" interchangeably is a bad idea.
[...]
> There's no way my girlfriend would choose her low paying secretarial job over a high-paying programming job if she'd felt she had the opportunity to train for the latter.
Are you sure you don't mean "womanfriend"?
Not long after construction begins, all the workers will begin speaking different languages and the project will be abandoned. It's happened before...
It all depends on how interesting the GM and players are. Pen-and-paper RP'ing allows you to come up with conversations and strategies that no computer RPG can handle.
Computer: Dru'aathlik Jenlyfthiel tells you, "The brigands must be stopped!"
Player: tell Dru'aathlik "I will stop the brigands for free if I can call you Dru."
Computer: Dru'aathlik Jenlyfthiel tells you, "You will stop the brigands? Excellent! I will pay you 500 silver furchtbars if you succeed."
That article had far too many one-sentence paragraphs. Overusing them just dulls the effect!
But perhaps that's his goal.
Perhaps he's actually just another tool of the Establishment, working to numb us up for the dark days to come.
I hope that was suitably dramatic.
Seaman is great and addictive, but I don't know about "technologically sophisticated." I've been raising mine for almost a month now; most of his conversations seem to rely on "switch" statements (yes or no? Dreamcast or PlayStation or Atari? January or February or...?) When you try to initiate a conversation yourself, he won't know what you're talking about 80% of the time.
Sometimes he doesn't even recognize yes or no correctly... now my Seaman thinks I support Internet censorship and don't like girls.
(Still, it's a lot of fun.)
Yep... if they'd bundle that in with a ban on books and video games, I'd never be in debt again!
Yep. I expect 70,000 for the whole history of MS computing is a pretty conservative number.
I wonder what figure you'd get if you toted up the (sales/download figures) for every Windows (programming language/development environment) ever (sold/given away), and then assumed that only, say, 5% were actually used to create meaningful applications?
> there is nothing I love more then seeing big corporations fuck up. Makes me all warm inside.
:)
Especially if it's the big corporation that manufactured the shielding on your microwave oven...
Dang! I had no idea they even offered such a thing. I've had a link to them on my site for months. I could've made a dollar by now!
> To observe the effect:
> - Take a clear piece of hard plastic
> - Rough one or both surfaces (sandpaper is good)
> - It should now be translucent or even opaque depending on how much you damaged the surface.
> - Immerse in water. You should be able to see through it much better.
I tested this by submerging my DVD player in the bathtub and playing a scratched disc. It didn't work.
(Just kidding, of course. I may actually try the experiment to "edutain" my sister's kids!)