I'm not sure, but you might be confusing facts with digital thoughts. I am arguing that in my mind, the existance of a car is not yes or no. My observations of the car, the extent at which it is a car (e.g. a new car-like invention), as well as my past experiences with cars all provide me with ideas about the existance of this car. If the ideas are strong enough, then I will be confident about its existance. If my ideas are below a certain level, then I will be confident that the car doesn't exist. As always, there are uncertainties, and it remains a fact (digital) that I am unsure about the car.
If anyone wants to buy me a Jag, then I'll give you my real email address and we can try this out.:-)
Dell never had a with charging me sales tax a long time ago. They are the only internet company that I ever ordered from that actually obeyed the whole 'ship across state lines' tax rule.
I don't agree 100% that the brain makes digital decisions. The article says that we make an either/or decision regarding whether something is there or not. It is a car or it isn't a car. That's rather black and white. If a picture is blurry or if the object is partially hidden, then we could say, "It is almost a car," or, "It might be a car," implying that there is a degree to which something might be a car.
If you run an analog signal through a filter, you can detect if certain frequency is present. This may seem digital, similar to the car case, but actually it can be an analog signal and and analog filter. The results, similar to the car may be that the signal present, but it is not statistically significant above the background noise/interference.
To make a long story short; I still believe that humans make analog thoughts, even if our brain is just one big circuit.
I guess this KDE/Gnome development settles my previously mentioned naming problem.
Also, it's nice to see a PDA with a large amount of ROM compared to it's RAM. Hopefully it'll power one of those tiny hardrives or be expandable enough to hold MP3's. Don't even mess around with black and white. Nothing should be in black and white nowadays.
Latency can't be much of an issue compared to most CD changers. It's like torture waiting for the next CD to rotate/slide/spin into position before it'll start playing. Enough of a pain to never use 'SHUFFLE'
IANAL, but the censorware companies couldn't be sued for libel. Beaver University would have to prove that 1) the libel damaged the university and 2) the libel was intentional.
It seems like it would be common decency for the companies to build an exception into there filters for Beaver University, but that's probably asking a bit much.
Doesn't it seem a bit drastic to change a whole university's name over a domain name filtering problem? I guess since they physically moved the university in 1962, it's not as big a problem to change the name either.
However, "damn." is not a complete sentence. It doesn't need capitalization, and it doesn't need the period at the end. I included the period only to seperate it from the next sentence.
I'll agree with you there. Atomic Force Microscopy is amazing. The physics and operation of an Scanning Electron Microscope is very interesting. It's similar to a huge television tube.
If you are interested in a field/career that uses a lot of microscopy, I recommend Materials Science Engineering. This field is a great application of modern physics to the area of design and engineering. A typical MSE graduate will have experience with an AFM, SEM, TEM, or an STM.
Was it just me, or did anyone else read the perl program just to see if it was downloading the images from a publicly accessible database? Porn or no Porn, I'm always looking for nice images to use on websites.
If you are going to go around signing, The Grammar Police then you sure as hell better get a user account.
Otherwise leave it to the grammar nazi, or the original grandpa GrammarCorrector who no longer posts. I did notice that someone recently took the name "Grammar Police". Please use it wisely and try not to be annoying.
Passive voice, not irony. Grammar nazi is my proper name, not Grammar Nazi. I'll only capitalize it at the beginning of a sentence. 3 instead of three (gasp! at the beginning of a sentence, too!) is short form. Similarly I use/. instead of slashdot (didn't capitalize again!) in order to keep it short.
Mister AC, nobody ever said that a sig. file had to contain complete nice sounding sentences. Proper English should be reserved for slashdot commentary, where it is important. Signatures are mere billboards for ideas and jokes.
The Quake 3 engine is a state of the art engine. The problem with the Marathon 2 engine is that is was over 1 year old by the time the new game came out. They were competing against games like quake and it might have been in their best interest to improve the engine. Of course, you are right about gameplay and plot. These were two of strong points of the whole series.
The thing that I was angry about was that my Macintosh was starting to lose out to my friends' openGL PCs in the game market.
Actually, our friend Jon Katz, says that the movie has "neat special affects." Later on, he points out that, "The special effects/animation bar is being raised all the time, and those in Titan, A.E. aren't spectacular.." If one assumes that "aren't spectabular" implies "not neat," then he didn't misspell affects. He was refering to:
the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes
He must be saying that the characters had neat and special aspects of emotions.
I decided to do as I usually do, and enlighten and entertain the/. masses:
slack (as an adj.) 1 : not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : NEGLIGENT 2 a : characterized by slowness, sluggishness, or lack of energy (a slack pace) b : moderate in some quality; especially : moderately warm (a slack oven) c : blowing or flowing at low speed (the tide was slack) 3 a : not tight or taut (a slack rope) b : lacking in usual or normal firmness and steadiness : WEAK (slack muscles) (slack supervision) 4 : wanting in activity : DULL (a slack market) 5 : lacking in completeness, finish, or perfection (a very slack piece of work) Interesting rootwords include the greek lagnos meaning lustful.
Mandrake(we all know it's the magician, though) 1 a : a Mediterranean herb (Mandragora officinarum) of the nightshade family with ovate leaves, yellowish or purple flowers, and a large forked root traditionally credited with human attributes b : the root of a mandrake formerly used especially to promote conception, as a cathartic, or as a narcotic and soporific 2 : MAYAPPLE
yellow-dog 1 : MEAN, CONTEMPTIBLE 2 : of or relating to opposition to trade unionism or a labor union
grammar nazi's conclusions: None of the other Linux distros had worthwhile names to list here. Slack is probably not a hotword for a productivity application/OS. However, it is a catchy word and it represents the exact opposite of how I perceive the linux kernel. I can think of one particular OS that is fitting to be called slackware. Any guesses?
I agree with you Legolas-Greenleaf, that this doesn't necessarily have a grim future. After all, a kickin' console system is still a kickin' console system. Your final sentence makes a good point (I corrected the grammar):
If there is a Linux market for games (which is
increasing), it will make good business sense to go after it, since it won't disappear anytime soon.
This point, which many people posting at/. miss, is that if MS can make money at it, then they'll do it. Everyone agrees with that.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure, but you might be confusing facts with digital thoughts. I am arguing that in my mind, the existance of a car is not yes or no. My observations of the car, the extent at which it is a car (e.g. a new car-like invention), as well as my past experiences with cars all provide me with ideas about the existance of this car. If the ideas are strong enough, then I will be confident about its existance. If my ideas are below a certain level, then I will be confident that the car doesn't exist. As always, there are uncertainties, and it remains a fact (digital) that I am unsure about the car.
:-)
If anyone wants to buy me a Jag, then I'll give you my real email address and we can try this out.
Well, that protects Andover.net from the microsoft's copyright allegations, but what will Slashdot do? How come we haven't been updated?
Dell never had a with charging me sales tax a long time ago. They are the only internet company that I ever ordered from that actually obeyed the whole 'ship across state lines' tax rule.
I wonder what other features that Yahoo could push on. I doubt that they will fight for a Quake3 port.
I don't agree 100% that the brain makes digital decisions. The article says that we make an either/or decision regarding whether something is there or not. It is a car or it isn't a car. That's rather black and white. If a picture is blurry or if the object is partially hidden, then we could say, "It is almost a car," or, "It might be a car," implying that there is a degree to which something might be a car.
If you run an analog signal through a filter, you can detect if certain frequency is present. This may seem digital, similar to the car case, but actually it can be an analog signal and and analog filter. The results, similar to the car may be that the signal present, but it is not statistically significant above the background noise/interference.
To make a long story short; I still believe that humans make analog thoughts, even if our brain is just one big circuit.
I guess this KDE/Gnome development settles my previously mentioned naming problem.
Also, it's nice to see a PDA with a large amount of ROM compared to it's RAM. Hopefully it'll power one of those tiny hardrives or be expandable enough to hold MP3's. Don't even mess around with black and white. Nothing should be in black and white nowadays.
Latency can't be much of an issue compared to most CD changers. It's like torture waiting for the next CD to rotate/slide/spin into position before it'll start playing. Enough of a pain to never use 'SHUFFLE'
IANAL, but the censorware companies couldn't be sued for libel. Beaver University would have to prove that 1) the libel damaged the university and 2) the libel was intentional.
It seems like it would be common decency for the companies to build an exception into there filters for Beaver University, but that's probably asking a bit much.
Doesn't it seem a bit drastic to change a whole university's name over a domain name filtering problem? I guess since they physically moved the university in 1962, it's not as big a problem to change the name either.
However, "damn." is not a complete sentence. It doesn't need capitalization, and it doesn't need the period at the end. I included the period only to seperate it from the next sentence.
damn. You caught me. I actually did read the article since then, and I feel pretty dirty about the whole thing.
I'll agree with you there. Atomic Force Microscopy is amazing. The physics and operation of an Scanning Electron Microscope is very interesting. It's similar to a huge television tube.
If you are interested in a field/career that uses a lot of microscopy, I recommend Materials Science Engineering. This field is a great application of modern physics to the area of design and engineering. A typical MSE graduate will have experience with an AFM, SEM, TEM, or an STM.
I think this deserves a little postive moderation. That takes a lot more work then just rewriting the URI with the old s/www/partners/ trick.
Was it just me, or did anyone else read the perl program just to see if it was downloading the images from a publicly accessible database? Porn or no Porn, I'm always looking for nice images to use on websites.
Very nice, indeed. Now try and maintain a positive karma. That is a challenge.
What will things be kalled now?
e.g.Knapster or Gnapster
Doesn't anyone know that you kan't kombine two products that both add/change the first letter in their gnaming konvention?
Please don't be so nitpicky.
Who the hell are you?
If you are going to go around signing, The Grammar Police then you sure as hell better get a user account.
Otherwise leave it to the grammar nazi, or the original grandpa GrammarCorrector who no longer posts. I did notice that someone recently took the name "Grammar Police". Please use it wisely and try not to be annoying.
ugh??
/. instead of slashdot (didn't capitalize again!) in order to keep it short.
Passive voice, not irony. Grammar nazi is my proper name, not Grammar Nazi. I'll only capitalize it at the beginning of a sentence. 3 instead of three (gasp! at the beginning of a sentence, too!) is short form. Similarly I use
Mister AC, nobody ever said that a sig. file had to contain complete nice sounding sentences. Proper English should be reserved for slashdot commentary, where it is important. Signatures are mere billboards for ideas and jokes.
While you are at it, try asking, "What can't you offer that others will?" or, "What are any problems for using this service?"
Actually, these two questions work well at job interviews, potential graduate school visits, and many other places. Use them wisely.
I'll be damned.
The Katz-master went back and corrected his error. It did say affects, honest! At least the grammar nazi has done his job.
The Quake 3 engine is a state of the art engine.
The problem with the Marathon 2 engine is that is was over 1 year old by the time the new game came out. They were competing against games like quake and it might have been in their best interest to improve the engine. Of course, you are right about gameplay and plot. These were two of strong points of the whole series.
The thing that I was angry about was that my Macintosh was starting to lose out to my friends' openGL PCs in the game market.
Does this look like a modern-day Game Genie to anyone?
I decided to do as I usually do, and enlighten and entertain the /. masses:
slack (as an adj.)
1 : not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : NEGLIGENT
2 a : characterized by slowness, sluggishness, or lack of energy (a slack pace) b : moderate in some quality; especially : moderately warm (a slack oven) c : blowing or flowing at low speed (the tide was slack)
3 a : not tight or taut (a slack rope) b : lacking in usual or normal firmness and steadiness : WEAK (slack muscles) (slack supervision)
4 : wanting in activity : DULL (a slack market)
5 : lacking in completeness, finish, or perfection (a very slack piece of work)
Interesting rootwords include the greek lagnos meaning lustful.
Mandrake(we all know it's the magician, though)
1 a : a Mediterranean herb (Mandragora officinarum) of the nightshade family with ovate leaves, yellowish or purple flowers, and a large forked root traditionally credited with human attributes b : the root of a mandrake formerly used especially to promote conception, as a cathartic, or as a narcotic and soporific
2 : MAYAPPLE
yellow-dog
1 : MEAN, CONTEMPTIBLE
2 : of or relating to opposition to trade unionism or a labor union
grammar nazi's conclusions:
None of the other Linux distros had worthwhile names to list here. Slack is probably not a hotword for a productivity application/OS. However, it is a catchy word and it represents the exact opposite of how I perceive the linux kernel. I can think of one particular OS that is fitting to be called slackware. Any guesses?