it may be all great that we get our body to live long, but there is more and more evidence that our brains are designed to stagnate over time. you know how the older people are the harder it is for them to learn? or how they become more stubborn? closed-minded?
think of this. evolution has designed an amazing organ. the brain. the brain is superb at learning, especially when it is young. the organism survives if it learns the correct patterns for survival. the older the organism gets, the better it's patterns in the brain must be. so the brain slowly shuts off it's ability to learn over time because it is a winning evolutionary strategy. if it works, don't fix it.
so we may conquer the failing of our flesh, but our minds are a totally different ballgame. imagine what a pain in the ass you'd be at 600... --
no offense mate, but there are MILLIONS of people who code Java, SQL, and HTML. i'm an engineering director and i immediately 86 any resume that doesn't have anything beyond Java, SQL, or HTML. why? because most Java only programmers don't really understand computers all that well, they don't understand memory management, file management, load issues, etc. note, i didn't say ALL. but most. i hire software engineers not java programmers. i hire folks who can code in any language because they understand what's going on. i hire folks that understand computer science theory and software hackery.
my team currently codes in perl, C, java, SQL, HTML, Javascript, i.e. whatever is needed for the tasks at hand. --
your idiotic post (how the hell does bullshit like this get a score of 3???) implies that Stalin killed 54 million Jews. or at least 54 million non-atheists.
dude, Stalin killed EVERYONE and ANYONE regardless of their religious or even political beliefs. he was monstrously paranoid and killed anyone who threatened (knowingly or unknowingly) his authority or future in the slightest manner.
[off topic: how that post got marked up to a score of 3 i'll never know... the moderation system is failing lately.]
but anyway... "Diablo" is a single word, "Nightmare on Elm Street" is a very unique title. to win a trademark you have to convince the trademark grantees that your word/phrase in a particular context is synonymous with your product.
obviously, getting a single word trademark is much more difficult than a phrase, but Nike (Nike is the goddess of Victory) did it with shoes and apparel.
"I find it a little worrying that so much of the work that has gone into the GeForce3 has been implementing unprecedented new features such as these vertex shaders, rather than improving more general stuff such as fillrate or transformation and lighting. This leads me to believe that Nvidia's goal with this chipset is not to improve the 3D gaming experience of their customers, but rather to lure developers into using these (admittedly excellent) new features."
welcome to the wonderful world of feature bloat. Nvidia is probably thinking along the same lines as Microsoft. New formats for Word with every new version means you have to have the latest version of Word (and not WordPerfect or... woah, i can't think of any other word processors, have they really killed them all!!!???) to open it. now that Nvidia is the undisputed leader (in terms of market cap) they will definitely fight to keep the lead with the same tactics MS has used successfully for years.
as gaming becomes more and more the primary entertainment for humans in the 21st century, you can bet we'll have to deal more and more with this crap. if the money is there, the pigs will come. --
"The basic fact is, Americans generally have poor knowledge of North American geography. For some reason, Canadians know more about the U.K. and U.S. than the other does about here. I blame elementary school."
You have done well, NARF agent #88017. Be sure to take all opportunities to redicule Americans no matter how silly these may sound. Remember, rediculing Americans relieves stress to you and your country.
"I was going to point out the same fact on the location and also the length of time this labratory has been open. It certainly isn't "recently" opened - it is over a year in operation - perhaps two - I forget. Stephen Hawking visited it shortly after it was complete and he was impressed."
the experiment didn't start with hawking arriving. although SNO was operating on various levels since 1998, it's only in the last few months or so that the original project plan was finally completed.
also note that timothy cut out the first part of my submission which read "although not breaking news,"
now lets get back to talking about neutrinos and how cool they are. --
considering the size of ontario and that kingston is the only non-toronto city people outside of canada might be aware of in the area, i think you can say "near" is appropriate.
god you guys nitpick on the stupidest shit. next time i'll just say "somewhere in canada".
nitpick nitpick. relative to the size of the planet, SNO ball is close to Kingston. Kingston is the only place near SNO that most people outside of Canada would be aware of. if we were talking about an experiment in Little Kangarooville, Australia, it would be more informative to say that it was near Perth then in Little Kangarooville which may be 500 miles away as that would at least place it on the west side of Australia (most non-Australians automatically think Sydney).
i love how the football field (and the related stadium) has become a standard of measurement in america. "the meteor crater could fit 27 football fields on it's bottom", "the kitty hawk flew just about the length of a football field", "the missile has enough accuracy to hit a football field after being launched 5000 miles away", etc. etc.
what ever happened to feet (or meters for that matter)? not sensationalist enough...
...when you were born with a silver spoon like RMS. his outdated arguments could easily be applied to many other areas, such as construction, the health industry, and most ironically, education.
i stopped listening to him in the 80s. i don't understand why anyone cares what that spoiled brat has to say. --
both of the articles linked to are total fluff. nothing we didn't already know in them. the caplan article is a monotonous restatement of the same premise over and over for paragraph after paragraph. yawn!
and it's not the genome research that convinced kansas to reverse it's anti-evolutionary ruling. READ THE ARTICLES FOLKS.
there's nothing that will convince creationists and there's no point in trying. we've known for decades that we share certain genes with frogs and tulips, the genome project is just another confirmation of evolution. --
according to the webpage: "Two flights are planned for the late in 2000."
so what happened?
this doesn't sound all that exciting to me, no one has developed anything yet, it's just an experiment for measuring combustion at supersonic speeds. $1M suddenly sounds like a lot.
stanislaw lem once said the best way to find extra terrestrial super intelligent lifeforms is to look for planets with a bunch of crap floating in orbit. looks like we're doing our best to help others find us...
anyway, gamespot has and always had better content, plus they allow user reviews, some of which are much more honest than the reviews of the staff members who rarely have time to spend playing a game all the way through. i found Gamecenter game and equipment reviews cursory.
i haven't even bothered looking in Gamecenter since early 98...
p.s. i can't believe people still say things like "this site has too many tables". ummm, upgrade from lynx please this is 2001. --
j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
is it some sort of linux kernel upgrade? a new security hack? or maybe a stoner's dream come true?
confused in san francisco --
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this ASCII hack does not deserve a story
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they probably use aalib. big deal.
i built a scanning camera that did this using a TRS-80 (actually an Altair III converted to be compatible with the TRS-80) and some parts from radio shack in 1980 or thereabouts.
ASCII hacks are so 1990s... and besides, nothing will ever beat ASCII Quake...
what does this have to do with seti? yeah, there are plenty of other successful DNA/RNA carriers. plants.... insects.... but they're not going into space... --
j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
Slashdot Mirror
here's another interesting device to help the blind "see".
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didn't yahoo! sue the owners of yahoe.com/yaho.com a few years ago and won? i wonder if those domains are comming back :0
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it may be all great that we get our body to live long, but there is more and more evidence that our brains are designed to stagnate over time. you know how the older people are the harder it is for them to learn? or how they become more stubborn? closed-minded?
think of this. evolution has designed an amazing organ. the brain. the brain is superb at learning, especially when it is young. the organism survives if it learns the correct patterns for survival. the older the organism gets, the better it's patterns in the brain must be. so the brain slowly shuts off it's ability to learn over time because it is a winning evolutionary strategy. if it works, don't fix it.
so we may conquer the failing of our flesh, but our minds are a totally different ballgame. imagine what a pain in the ass you'd be at 600...
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when i want movie reviews, i go to imdb or aintitcool. this isn't even a geek factor movie (except for awp whores in counter-strike, i suppose).
can someone tell me how i can filter out movie reviews and still get features at slashdot?
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no offense mate, but there are MILLIONS of people who code Java, SQL, and HTML. i'm an engineering director and i immediately 86 any resume that doesn't have anything beyond Java, SQL, or HTML. why? because most Java only programmers don't really understand computers all that well, they don't understand memory management, file management, load issues, etc. note, i didn't say ALL. but most. i hire software engineers not java programmers. i hire folks who can code in any language because they understand what's going on. i hire folks that understand computer science theory and software hackery.
my team currently codes in perl, C, java, SQL, HTML, Javascript, i.e. whatever is needed for the tasks at hand.
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isn't the fact that you're recording where the cart has gone a privacy issue? do you have a privacy policy?
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your idiotic post (how the hell does bullshit like this get a score of 3???) implies that Stalin killed 54 million Jews. or at least 54 million non-atheists.
dude, Stalin killed EVERYONE and ANYONE regardless of their religious or even political beliefs. he was monstrously paranoid and killed anyone who threatened (knowingly or unknowingly) his authority or future in the slightest manner.
--
[off topic: how that post got marked up to a score of 3 i'll never know... the moderation system is failing lately.]
but anyway... "Diablo" is a single word, "Nightmare on Elm Street" is a very unique title. to win a trademark you have to convince the trademark grantees that your word/phrase in a particular context is synonymous with your product.
obviously, getting a single word trademark is much more difficult than a phrase, but Nike (Nike is the goddess of Victory) did it with shoes and apparel.
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Computer Science = some academician writing really awful java code
Computer Engineering = some CTO lying through his teeth about architecture
chose
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"I find it a little worrying that so much of the work that has gone into the GeForce3 has been implementing unprecedented new features such as these vertex shaders, rather than improving more general stuff such as fillrate or transformation and lighting. This leads me to believe that Nvidia's goal with this chipset is not to improve the 3D gaming experience of their customers, but rather to lure developers into using these (admittedly excellent) new features."
welcome to the wonderful world of feature bloat. Nvidia is probably thinking along the same lines as Microsoft. New formats for Word with every new version means you have to have the latest version of Word (and not WordPerfect or... woah, i can't think of any other word processors, have they really killed them all!!!???) to open it. now that Nvidia is the undisputed leader (in terms of market cap) they will definitely fight to keep the lead with the same tactics MS has used successfully for years.
as gaming becomes more and more the primary entertainment for humans in the 21st century, you can bet we'll have to deal more and more with this crap. if the money is there, the pigs will come.
--
"The basic fact is, Americans generally have poor knowledge of North American geography. For some reason, Canadians know more about the U.K. and U.S. than the other does about here. I blame elementary school."
You have done well, NARF agent #88017. Be sure to take all opportunities to redicule Americans no matter how silly these may sound. Remember, rediculing Americans relieves stress to you and your country.
Keep up the good work.
--
"I was going to point out the same fact on the location and also the length of time this labratory has been open. It certainly isn't "recently" opened - it is over a year in operation - perhaps two - I forget. Stephen Hawking visited it shortly after it was complete and he was impressed."
the experiment didn't start with hawking arriving. although SNO was operating on various levels since 1998, it's only in the last few months or so that the original project plan was finally completed.
also note that timothy cut out the first part of my submission which read "although not breaking news,"
now lets get back to talking about neutrinos and how cool they are.
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considering the size of ontario and that kingston is the only non-toronto city people outside of canada might be aware of in the area, i think you can say "near" is appropriate.
god you guys nitpick on the stupidest shit. next time i'll just say "somewhere in canada".
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nitpick nitpick. relative to the size of the planet, SNO ball is close to Kingston. Kingston is the only place near SNO that most people outside of Canada would be aware of. if we were talking about an experiment in Little Kangarooville, Australia, it would be more informative to say that it was near Perth then in Little Kangarooville which may be 500 miles away as that would at least place it on the west side of Australia (most non-Australians automatically think Sydney).
(note, Little Kangarooville doesn't exist)
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i love how the football field (and the related stadium) has become a standard of measurement in america. "the meteor crater could fit 27 football fields on it's bottom", "the kitty hawk flew just about the length of a football field", "the missile has enough accuracy to hit a football field after being launched 5000 miles away", etc. etc.
what ever happened to feet (or meters for that matter)? not sensationalist enough...
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should i care?
not a troll goddamit!
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...when you were born with a silver spoon like RMS. his outdated arguments could easily be applied to many other areas, such as construction, the health industry, and most ironically, education.
i stopped listening to him in the 80s. i don't understand why anyone cares what that spoiled brat has to say.
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both of the articles linked to are total fluff. nothing we didn't already know in them. the caplan article is a monotonous restatement of the same premise over and over for paragraph after paragraph. yawn!
and it's not the genome research that convinced kansas to reverse it's anti-evolutionary ruling. READ THE ARTICLES FOLKS.
there's nothing that will convince creationists and there's no point in trying. we've known for decades that we share certain genes with frogs and tulips, the genome project is just another confirmation of evolution.
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according to the webpage: "Two flights are planned for the late in 2000."
so what happened?
this doesn't sound all that exciting to me, no one has developed anything yet, it's just an experiment for measuring combustion at supersonic speeds. $1M suddenly sounds like a lot.
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stanislaw lem once said the best way to find extra terrestrial super intelligent lifeforms is to look for planets with a bunch of crap floating in orbit. looks like we're doing our best to help others find us...
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j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
anyway, gamespot has and always had better content, plus they allow user reviews, some of which are much more honest than the reviews of the staff members who rarely have time to spend playing a game all the way through. i found Gamecenter game and equipment reviews cursory.
i haven't even bothered looking in Gamecenter since early 98...
p.s. i can't believe people still say things like "this site has too many tables". ummm, upgrade from lynx please this is 2001.
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j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
is it some sort of linux kernel upgrade? a new security hack? or maybe a stoner's dream come true?
confused in san francisco
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j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
they probably use aalib. big deal.
i built a scanning camera that did this using a TRS-80 (actually an Altair III converted to be compatible with the TRS-80) and some parts from radio shack in 1980 or thereabouts.
ASCII hacks are so 1990s... and besides, nothing will ever beat ASCII Quake...
yawn!!!
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j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
what does this have to do with seti? yeah, there are plenty of other successful DNA/RNA carriers. plants.... insects.... but they're not going into space...
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j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m
maybe they need a bigger computer
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j u l e s @ p o p m o n k e y . c o m