How was that flamebait? That's what I thought too when I saw that last bit, despite enjoying the series as a whole. My opinion? I think they ended up squandering the budget for those last episodes on hookers and blow, and ended up not having enough money left to do anything except recycle a lot of footage and use their killer high from the cocaine to come up with something so bizarre it would *have* to be hailed as genuis:
(watches last episodes)(thinks, hmm, I have nbo idea what the hell just happened. I think it was total crap, but maybe it was really so profound that I just didn't get it.) "Gee, that was, uh, deep, dude. Yeah, deep profound stuff." "Um, yeah, deep. Right."
Sounds like a case of the Emperor's new clothes to me.
I dunno, maybe it *was* deep, but all I know is the 8+ people in the room all echoed my "What the f**k?" sentiment as soon as the credits rolled.
it's not exactly the same, but I have a Psion Revo+, best $100 I ever spent. Faster than my Visor, bigger screen, and the keyboard you can actually type pretty quickly on. Granted, there's no backlight, but it's a damn shame these didn't catch on in the US the way they did in Europe.
Not to mention Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory", which, oddly enough, isn't on the list - maybe I need to email ClearChannel and inform them of their accidental omission.
Who would buy a Palm when you could get one of these?
Maybe someone who wants handwriting recognition that isn't, and I quote from the article, "nearly useless" at this point.
also from the article:
Character recognition is also exceedingly raw, and tapping away at the little on screen keyboard is tedious at best and irritating at worst. Performance is pretty bad...
Granted, they're working on all those things, but it sounds like at this point that, despite all the Slashdot hype, the unit basically sucks at doing *anything* quickly, reliably, or easily.
I wasn't implying any sort of exotic technology, just saying that, as it doesn't currently run on anything resembling normal hardware, it most likely isn't anywhere really near a point where it would be something that would be used by, say, the CIA.
I imagine that this *could* eventually be simulated by some sort of software- can't see any reason why not, but, as you mentioned, it would probably require a lot of processing balls to simulate in realtime, which is basically what I was saying.
Speech recognition does exist that, if not 100% accurate, has been demonstrated to be significantly more accurate than human speech recognition. It was being developed at USC while I was there. Something about a neural network of some sort, so it doesn't run on regular computers, but, and I quote,
In benchmark testing using just a few spoken words, USC's Berger-Liaw Neural Network Speaker Independent Speech Recognition System not only bested all existing computer speech recognition systems but outperformed the keenest human ears.
and
The system can distinguished words in vast amounts of random "white" noise -- noise with amplitude 1,000 times the strength of the target auditory signal.
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty damned impressed.
One problem with silent cars though-- you can't hear 'em coming. You don't realize how much people rely on their sense of hearing to tell them when a car is approaching until you almost get run over by a car that doesn't emit the familiar internal-combustion noise.
I'd wager as soon as EV's get mainstream, they'll be required to have artificial noisemakers, to keep blind people from getting mowed down, so I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for our cities to get much quieter.
<rant>Besides, you know as soon as the cars get quieter, assholes will just add more subwoofers to their damned lowered Civics to counteract the quieter traffic. God forbid that the rest of the city not get to share in the pleasure of their music. </rant>
Hate crime legislation is complete bullshit. You punish crimes, not motivations. Punishing someone extra because of their reason for doing something bad is just one more step toward punishing people just for being racist.
There was a book, written by Morton Rhue, that I had to read back in grade school, about a movement, called the Wave, which a teacher started to illustrate the dangers of organizations like the Nazi party that emphasize conformity and betraying nonconformists and, er, some crap like that. Follow the link, there's a summary of the story that is loads more coherent than mine.
Bravery? This must be some usage of the word 'brave that I have never previously encountered.
Bravery is sailing a few POS ships to some land across the sea that may or may not be where/what you think it is.
Bravery is attacking a biker gang with a trout.
Bravery is not letting Amazon, Kozmo, and Homegrocer deliver all my stuff and getting paid for it. In my world, that's called paradise.
Limit the number of times the data can be read? Shit, that's like turning my HD into a Divx disk, which, as we all know, are hewn cold from the bones of the stillborn!
>where I can put a DVD, CD audio, CD-R, CD-RW, or a CD full of MP3's in my single component, and let it play
Um, I think I just bought one of those for my parents, I'm not positive if it plays cd-rw's, but I'm relatively sure it knows all the others.
it's the Apex AD660, they sell it at Circuit City, among other places, I imagine.
And now, instead of fruitlessly trying to remove myself from a spammer's mailing list, I can just physically locate him and beat him like a redheaded stepchild, no?
Seriously though, I hope you're not serious. A system like that would cause way more shit than it'd be worth.
Urine? What kind of tank/ship is this? Does the army regularly urinate on their electronics?
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Seriously. What happened to a little old-fashioned domain name creativity?
When Staples.register.com was having that domain names for $1 deal, I registered 12. Given, they're all really bizarre, like hazardousmonkeys.com, whydontyougoaway.com, DeathBySpork.com, InbredYokels.com, and WenchHunt.com, but still..
Make some program that converts the buggy bits of code into music, and then sell the album!
Sure it'd be crap, but Yoko Ono managed to sell a few albums, right?
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>..The undoubtable fact is that the RIP act will reduce the exploitation of children, fraud, pornography, and more general crimes..
Yes, and the undoubtable fact is that turning a country into a police state will reduce crime of all sorts.
>"You oppose the RIP act, so therefore you support pornography/child abuse/whatever"
Just because I oppose the idea of Prohibition doesn't mean I support drunk driving, liver cirrhosis, alcoholism, and underage drinking. well, I do support underage drinking, but still..
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How was that flamebait?
That's what I thought too when I saw that last bit, despite enjoying the series as a whole.
My opinion? I think they ended up squandering the budget for those last episodes on hookers and blow, and ended up not having enough money left to do anything except recycle a lot of footage and use their killer high from the cocaine to come up with something so bizarre it would *have* to be hailed as genuis:
(watches last episodes)(thinks, hmm, I have nbo idea what the hell just happened. I think it was total crap, but maybe it was really so profound that I just didn't get it.) "Gee, that was, uh, deep, dude. Yeah, deep profound stuff." "Um, yeah, deep. Right."
Sounds like a case of the Emperor's new clothes to me.
I dunno, maybe it *was* deep, but all I know is the 8+ people in the room all echoed my "What the f**k?" sentiment as soon as the credits rolled.
Holy shite! Someone with a reasonable idea?
*dies from surprise*
it's not exactly the same, but I have a Psion Revo+, best $100 I ever spent. Faster than my Visor, bigger screen, and the keyboard you can actually type pretty quickly on. Granted, there's no backlight, but it's a damn shame these didn't catch on in the US the way they did in Europe.
Yes, God forbid they lose all self-restraint and play James Taylor's "Fire and Rain"
.....um, wtf?
WTC haiku:
Hit by terrorists?
Eenie meenie miney BOMB
Yeah, that'll teach 'em.
Refusing to play "What A Wonderful World" on the radio seems like kind of an odd way to pay your respects, don't ya think?
WTC haiku:
We'll not tolerate
These acts of terrorism
Quick, who do we bomb?
Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" generates overwhelming feelings for you?
What about Elton John's "Benny & The Jets"?
That's just sad.
Not to mention Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory", which, oddly enough, isn't on the list - maybe I need to email ClearChannel and inform them of their accidental omission.
Who would buy a Palm when you could get one of these?
Maybe someone who wants handwriting recognition that isn't, and I quote from the article, "nearly useless" at this point.
also from the article:
Granted, they're working on all those things, but it sounds like at this point that, despite all the Slashdot hype, the unit basically sucks at doing *anything* quickly, reliably, or easily.
I wasn't implying any sort of exotic technology, just saying that, as it doesn't currently run on anything resembling normal hardware, it most likely isn't anywhere really near a point where it would be something that would be used by, say, the CIA.
I imagine that this *could* eventually be simulated by some sort of software- can't see any reason why not, but, as you mentioned, it would probably require a lot of processing balls to simulate in realtime, which is basically what I was saying.
and
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty damned impressed.
the article on this system
One problem with silent cars though-- you can't hear 'em coming. You don't realize how much people rely on their sense of hearing to tell them when a car is approaching until you almost get run over by a car that doesn't emit the familiar internal-combustion noise.
I'd wager as soon as EV's get mainstream, they'll be required to have artificial noisemakers, to keep blind people from getting mowed down, so I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for our cities to get much quieter.
<rant>Besides, you know as soon as the cars get quieter, assholes will just add more subwoofers to their damned lowered Civics to counteract the quieter traffic. God forbid that the rest of the city not get to share in the pleasure of their music. </rant>
Hate crime legislation is complete bullshit.
You punish crimes, not motivations. Punishing someone extra because of their reason for doing something bad is just one more step toward punishing people just for being racist.
Am I the only one who finds this kinda creepy?
There was a book, written by Morton Rhue, that I had to read back in grade school, about a movement, called the Wave, which a teacher started to illustrate the dangers of organizations like the Nazi party that emphasize conformity and betraying nonconformists and, er, some crap like that. Follow the link, there's a summary of the story that is loads more coherent than mine.
Bravery? This must be some usage of the word 'brave that I have never previously encountered.
Bravery is sailing a few POS ships to some land across the sea that may or may not be where/what you think it is.
Bravery is attacking a biker gang with a trout.
Bravery is not letting Amazon, Kozmo, and Homegrocer deliver all my stuff and getting paid for it. In my world, that's called paradise.
Seriously. This sort of thing ain't exactly that difficult anymore.
"And for my next trick, I will...eat this sandwich! Followed by....some chips!"
[audience gasps]
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communicates so little
downloads quickly, though
Holy shit, did *any* of you read the article?
It's a comparison of the OSes on the basis of name, mascot, and the opinion of a Magic 8-Ball.
Sometimes I think some Slashdotters value a low comment number over comment coherency/relevance.
Limit the number of times the data can be read? Shit, that's like turning my HD into a Divx disk, which, as we all know, are hewn cold from the bones of the stillborn !
>where I can put a DVD, CD audio, CD-R, CD-RW, or a CD full of MP3's in my single component, and let it play
Um, I think I just bought one of those for my parents, I'm not positive if it plays cd-rw's, but I'm relatively sure it knows all the others. it's the Apex AD660, they sell it at Circuit City, among other places, I imagine.
Ok, I checked, it recognizes CD-RW too.
And now, instead of fruitlessly trying to remove myself from a spammer's mailing list, I can just physically locate him and beat him like a redheaded stepchild, no?
Seriously though, I hope you're not serious. A system like that would cause way more shit than it'd be worth.
>...shell fillings, water, sweat, urine..
Urine? What kind of tank/ship is this? Does the army regularly urinate on their electronics?
Seriously. What happened to a little old-fashioned domain name creativity? When Staples.register.com was having that domain names for $1 deal, I registered 12. Given, they're all really bizarre, like hazardousmonkeys.com, whydontyougoaway.com, DeathBySpork.com, InbredYokels.com, and WenchHunt.com, but still..
Best of MS Bugs? Sweet!
Make some program that converts the buggy bits of code into music, and then sell the album!
Sure it'd be crap, but Yoko Ono managed to sell a few albums, right?
>..The undoubtable fact is that the RIP act will reduce the exploitation of children, fraud, pornography, and more general crimes..
Yes, and the undoubtable fact is that turning a country into a police state will reduce crime of all sorts.
>"You oppose the RIP act, so therefore you support pornography/child abuse/whatever"
Just because I oppose the idea of Prohibition doesn't mean I support drunk driving, liver cirrhosis, alcoholism, and underage drinking.
well, I do support underage drinking, but still..