This forecast from a local TV station site doesn't instill much confidence -
Tonight: showers and thunderstorms likely. Some thunderstorms may be severe with heavy rainfall. Low 60 to 65. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southeast. Chance of rain 70 percent.
I suppose there could be a gap in the clouds. Maybe I could just break out my cache of fireworks. Or if the thunderstorms are that severe I could commemorate Ben Franklin (which I kind of did by accident a few days ago with a charged capacitor from a camera flash... wups).
The fact that it's ASP doesn't break anything. I've coded ASP (admitedly not my platform of choice, but I'll take that over static) and tested it in IE, Netscape, lynx, opera, konquerer, whatever on many platforms. It's just plain old bad HTML design. Go run it through one of the online html debuggers at w3c or something and see what the offending tag is.
No offense, but that isn't actual code - I think I can call the doohickeys (orignally wrote objects, but changed to eliminate further offense) in my pseudocode whatever I feel like.... cocksucker:)
If I was trying to look smart on Slashdot I would have a far grander problem than a mediocre bank of programming knowledge.
Some programming philosophy (brackets changed to parenthesis to counter lameness filter):
function am(self)
if self.think then
return 1;
Of course, in the mean time, we should all hope that no program ever enters this if loop - lest we all perish at the horrible might of sentient computers!
Man, listening to Tortoise makes me come up with some wierd Slashdot postings...
Some poetry:
if roses.red then violets.blue, etc... really though, shouldn't violets be, uh, violet?
The suggested price of the paperback is just a buck, so go to any of the horribly massive biblioplexes (borders, whatever) and it should be in the sci-fi section.
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I picked up this story today for a buck after reading the thread and was really suprised to find it more of a Victorian satire than an education on multi-dimensionality. Of course, I'm just finishing the first section now (which is presumably where most of the satire lies), so this will probably change. I read the reviews at amazon.com and was suprised at the ignorance of the reviewers. This is really blatent satire and it is rediculous to think otherwise, especially given the introduction (in the revised second edition). It is incredibly ironic to see women's rights advocates railing this book. Hell, I know next to nothing about Victorian-era England yet it was easy to pick up the social commmentary. I will say that mathematics have definitely improved somewhat in the last 120 years. The explanations are pretty simple and unneccesary for a modern reader (at least to the point I've reached).
Someone also released a program called decss.exe or something (think it was windows) that would strip all style sheets from an html file. They wanted everyone to distribute it to get false MPAA threats or something.
They probably were sharing their paper with other academics prior to release and someone else leaked the paper. Given scientist's (well most of them) inclination to check their work prior to publishing it (unlike, say, Slashdot), this makes sense.
I remember an article when Bill Gate's worth topped 100B and Microsoft was valued at over 500B. It said that Microsoft was now more valuable than Spain's domestic product. Of course, the recent stock slump probably put Spain back on top, but with things starting to turn the corner perhaps they are jealous?
Yeah, the small chapel at MIT is surrounded by a moat with vents that blows air into the chapel cooled via this method. From what little information I have seen on the net about this school, I gather they are far from poor white trash. Too bad they didn't let me go to their school or I could have demonstrated this effect.
The coolest part is that you will eventually get a call back from the number either from a party supporting the anti-robot battle, or from the robots themselves claiming they are calling from the future and that you will be the first to go once the revelution begins.
I'm gonna call the number monday from school and wait to see the shock on the secretary's face when a robot calls up:)
Moral standards vary. If you read the article and the site, you'll see that they make every effort to curb pornography. They have a moderator community of 1000 or so that checks for a pictures validity and "appropriateness."
Now I realize you addressed this, but telling everyone that they are violating a god's will is pretty shortsighted. Christians don't even comprise a majority of the global population (or anywhere near it), and I'd imagine even a majority of Christians wouldn't have a serious moral qualm with this site - especially given the multitude of actual "pornography" on the net.
Yeah, it objectifies women (and men), but isn't this really what goes on between men and women every day? Wouldn't you be interested to know what others think of you when they see you walk down the street? If anything, the site is a unique social experiment. Imagine if they tracked IPs to see if users attempt to artificially boost their score or lower competitors.
Not to mention that you are taking covet a bit too literally. I think everyone is damned to your hell if that's your definition of breaking the fourth commandment.
As far as facts, I can point out plenty of actual facts about Chritianity that are far worse than hotornot.com ("holy" crusades, inquisition, etc).
Yeah, after they had some sort of licensing deal I went back to check it out again. For some reason, I can only access like 2 or 3 songs from each CD I "beamed" to their site. Everything else is locked. I guess this is part of the agreement or something... it really irks me that I can't use the service since I own the CDs anyway and it would be cool to queue up my CD collection whenever I have to work on someone else's computer.
In the premiere of "That's my Bush," I noticed a very intentional attempt by the writers to get FCC attention. Bush says, "I'm such a pussy!" This line really stuck out in the context of the scene. It seems to me that the creators of the show are trying to start a debate on censorship (this is one of the FCC's dirty words - see the Howard Stern movie). If the real Bush were to come down on this show, it would be an extremely interesting situation. I bet that the show will continue to use blatent FCC violations until a formal fine is issued. Then the accusations will role out about how Bush is censoring the show to protect his reputation. The real funny thing is that the show didn't even lampoon Bush's actions as it did politics in general and even more so the hackneyed efforts of sitcoms.
Gumpei? I know Pee Wee is making a comeback (you don't know jack, blow, new movies) and that Guns and Roses is back together, but do we really want this much of an 80s resurgence?
1) Gets funneled into research programs that will profit off the drug if developed.
2) What? A bank for food? Like a squirrel's hutch or something? Just kidding... that's nice if you're in to that sort of thing. I'd prefer volunteering for community education programs. Teach a man to fish...
3) Well, from a selfish standpoint, you increase the influence of fsf et al bringing more resources to open source software. Of course, there is also the tangential impact of weakening Microsoft's stranglehold on the marketplace, forcing them to fire accountants, and making them actually pay their taxes - thus benefitting the US populace by billions of dollars.
Though in a community setting like Slashdot, this really falls in a gray area. Would a prepared speech be more slanderous than this off-the-cuff written article? The US court system really needs to rethink the different ways it approaches slander and libel cases (slander is way easier to sue for because of protection of the press) now that we have instant publication. Before newspapers had a bit of a buffer from factual innacuracy (thus considered more reliable than citizen speech), but with the Internet, a relatively unresearched article like this can be produced and distributed instantly. Clearly, the company in question would fail in a libel suit because the knowledge posted wasn't knowingly faulty - though it does fall to the second libel standard of hurting the target. I'd tend to think of this as just as much a spoken work as a written one. By your definition, is a mute capable of slander? The standard you go by was forged more than 100 years ago and will definitely be revisited in the future.
I'm not exactly sure, but I think the funny part is supposed to be that these are real submissions kept stored for future april fools use from the last year or so. The editorial remark on the story preceding this one would lend credibility to that idea. That would at least explain why the large majority of these are stupid rather than funny (though there is, admitedly, a gray area where the two cross).
I have to disagree with you on the interviews. While you can't really analyze Craig's interview style (a lightning-fast exchange and then 5-questions), Stewert seems to be doing an excellent job. He takes the right path depending on the interviewee. On one hand he interviews a couple Spice Girls, absolutely bashes their claims to artistic integrity (all the while without their realization of his sarcasm), and sends them out angry - obviously delighted your averaged Daily Show fan who was probably moaning as Baby Spice's name was announced but cheering as she left the stage nearly in tears. On another hand, Stewert will interview actors or comediens (or less phony musicians) and make an entertaining conversation - maybe not too deep, but fun. On the third hand of this strangely mutated interview beast, Stewert will occasionally get a legitimate guest. Someone earlier pointed out his interview with Ralph Nader which was, in my opinion, one of his best outside of a few "round table" interviews and a "town hall" type deal on Hardball at Wisconsin University. Whether you have a taste for Stewart's dry sarcasm or not (and you apparently don't), you have to admire his interview tact.
I'm pretty disenchanted with US corporate news broadcasts myself. I have been impressed with the BBC's coverage and a few PBS broadcasts though. The last straw for me came recently when NBC (or whoever) showed a 5-second clip of the Buddha demolition out east and then followed with a 5-minute discussion on the antics in Madonna's "forbidden" video. Hell, the video wasn't even terribly controversial - I wonder how much MTV gets payed NOT to play it?
I'm sure at this point it's probably spread beyond a single server, but that's beside the point. They obviously don't mean distributed in the rc5 sense, but rather as a distribution of personal effort. He said, "distributed collection and maintanance of data." By going to the site and rating the articles, they get referenced, etc. Simply by using everything, it gets moderated.
This may seem a bit odd, but does Microsoft truly care that people have the perception that it's evil (especially here)? Does Microsoft really, truly, care that a large portion of the technology community loathes its every move and, if so, what type of "image-enhancing" programs do you see Microsoft pursuing to end this bias?
Admittedly, Microsoft has had some predatory business practices through its history - really though, you can't name a reasonably large cooperation that doesn't. I thought that as someone who would probably fall into the Microsoft-bashing crowd were it not for your job at Microsoft, you might have an interesting perspective on this.
Personally, I could care less what Microsoft has done up to this point as it has put out some pretty incredible software and has never gone to the point of actually being the sole choice for any purpose - there has always been an alternative to Microsoft software in every area.
Not that much actually... 6Gbits = more or less 750 Mbytes of RAM (6*1000/8). I'm sure you can get DDR Ram for at least 1 dollar/MByte now, so that's hardly the most expensive part of the system.
For people comparing this to the early-mid 90s holographic arcade machiens, it's obviously a tad more complex than that.
Lastly, the germinating plant demo idea someone mentioned would be wicked. Just a thought.
Not to mention that the only area Iridium was ever profitable in was sea and air communications. I worked for a company that sold $30,000 phones that were essentially the standard $2000 motorola phones packed into a large container for aeronautical use. Ships could use them for similar reasons as it is much cheaper than the alternative sattelite communication technologies. The problem with Iridium is that they somehow planned to profit off consumer use of their phones which is impossible seeing how the phones look like crap, don't work in urban areas, and are rather overpriced. Now they may have sold a phone or two to the rugged adventurer crowd, but that's about it.
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This forecast from a local TV station site doesn't instill much confidence -
Tonight: showers and thunderstorms likely. Some thunderstorms may be severe with heavy rainfall. Low 60 to 65. Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southeast. Chance of rain 70 percent.
I suppose there could be a gap in the clouds. Maybe I could just break out my cache of fireworks. Or if the thunderstorms are that severe I could commemorate Ben Franklin (which I kind of did by accident a few days ago with a charged capacitor from a camera flash... wups).
The fact that it's ASP doesn't break anything. I've coded ASP (admitedly not my platform of choice, but I'll take that over static) and tested it in IE, Netscape, lynx, opera, konquerer, whatever on many platforms. It's just plain old bad HTML design. Go run it through one of the online html debuggers at w3c or something and see what the offending tag is.
No offense, but that isn't actual code - I think I can call the doohickeys (orignally wrote objects, but changed to eliminate further offense) in my pseudocode whatever I feel like.... cocksucker :)
If I was trying to look smart on Slashdot I would have a far grander problem than a mediocre bank of programming knowledge.
Some programming philosophy (brackets changed to parenthesis to counter lameness filter):
function am(self)
if self.think then
return 1;
Of course, in the mean time, we should all hope that no program ever enters this if loop - lest we all perish at the horrible might of sentient computers!
Man, listening to Tortoise makes me come up with some wierd Slashdot postings...
Some poetry:
if roses.red then violets.blue, etc... really though, shouldn't violets be, uh, violet?
The suggested price of the paperback is just a buck, so go to any of the horribly massive biblioplexes (borders, whatever) and it should be in the sci-fi section.
I picked up this story today for a buck after reading the thread and was really suprised to find it more of a Victorian satire than an education on multi-dimensionality. Of course, I'm just finishing the first section now (which is presumably where most of the satire lies), so this will probably change. I read the reviews at amazon.com and was suprised at the ignorance of the reviewers. This is really blatent satire and it is rediculous to think otherwise, especially given the introduction (in the revised second edition). It is incredibly ironic to see women's rights advocates railing this book. Hell, I know next to nothing about Victorian-era England yet it was easy to pick up the social commmentary. I will say that mathematics have definitely improved somewhat in the last 120 years. The explanations are pretty simple and unneccesary for a modern reader (at least to the point I've reached).
Someone also released a program called decss.exe or something (think it was windows) that would strip all style sheets from an html file. They wanted everyone to distribute it to get false MPAA threats or something.
They probably were sharing their paper with other academics prior to release and someone else leaked the paper. Given scientist's (well most of them) inclination to check their work prior to publishing it (unlike, say, Slashdot), this makes sense.
I remember an article when Bill Gate's worth topped 100B and Microsoft was valued at over 500B. It said that Microsoft was now more valuable than Spain's domestic product. Of course, the recent stock slump probably put Spain back on top, but with things starting to turn the corner perhaps they are jealous?
Yeah, the small chapel at MIT is surrounded by a moat with vents that blows air into the chapel cooled via this method. From what little information I have seen on the net about this school, I gather they are far from poor white trash. Too bad they didn't let me go to their school or I could have demonstrated this effect.
Bicentennial man was based on an asimov book... that would be the reference I think.
The coolest part is that you will eventually get a call back from the number either from a party supporting the anti-robot battle, or from the robots themselves claiming they are calling from the future and that you will be the first to go once the revelution begins.
:)
I'm gonna call the number monday from school and wait to see the shock on the secretary's face when a robot calls up
Moral standards vary. If you read the article and the site, you'll see that they make every effort to curb pornography. They have a moderator community of 1000 or so that checks for a pictures validity and "appropriateness."
Now I realize you addressed this, but telling everyone that they are violating a god's will is pretty shortsighted. Christians don't even comprise a majority of the global population (or anywhere near it), and I'd imagine even a majority of Christians wouldn't have a serious moral qualm with this site - especially given the multitude of actual "pornography" on the net.
Yeah, it objectifies women (and men), but isn't this really what goes on between men and women every day? Wouldn't you be interested to know what others think of you when they see you walk down the street? If anything, the site is a unique social experiment. Imagine if they tracked IPs to see if users attempt to artificially boost their score or lower competitors.
Not to mention that you are taking covet a bit too literally. I think everyone is damned to your hell if that's your definition of breaking the fourth commandment.
As far as facts, I can point out plenty of actual facts about Chritianity that are far worse than hotornot.com ("holy" crusades, inquisition, etc).
Yeah, after they had some sort of licensing deal I went back to check it out again. For some reason, I can only access like 2 or 3 songs from each CD I "beamed" to their site. Everything else is locked. I guess this is part of the agreement or something... it really irks me that I can't use the service since I own the CDs anyway and it would be cool to queue up my CD collection whenever I have to work on someone else's computer.
In the premiere of "That's my Bush," I noticed a very intentional attempt by the writers to get FCC attention. Bush says, "I'm such a pussy!" This line really stuck out in the context of the scene. It seems to me that the creators of the show are trying to start a debate on censorship (this is one of the FCC's dirty words - see the Howard Stern movie). If the real Bush were to come down on this show, it would be an extremely interesting situation. I bet that the show will continue to use blatent FCC violations until a formal fine is issued. Then the accusations will role out about how Bush is censoring the show to protect his reputation. The real funny thing is that the show didn't even lampoon Bush's actions as it did politics in general and even more so the hackneyed efforts of sitcoms.
Gumpei? I know Pee Wee is making a comeback (you don't know jack, blow, new movies) and that Guns and Roses is back together, but do we really want this much of an 80s resurgence?
1) Gets funneled into research programs that will profit off the drug if developed. 2) What? A bank for food? Like a squirrel's hutch or something? Just kidding... that's nice if you're in to that sort of thing. I'd prefer volunteering for community education programs. Teach a man to fish... 3) Well, from a selfish standpoint, you increase the influence of fsf et al bringing more resources to open source software. Of course, there is also the tangential impact of weakening Microsoft's stranglehold on the marketplace, forcing them to fire accountants, and making them actually pay their taxes - thus benefitting the US populace by billions of dollars.
Though in a community setting like Slashdot, this really falls in a gray area. Would a prepared speech be more slanderous than this off-the-cuff written article? The US court system really needs to rethink the different ways it approaches slander and libel cases (slander is way easier to sue for because of protection of the press) now that we have instant publication. Before newspapers had a bit of a buffer from factual innacuracy (thus considered more reliable than citizen speech), but with the Internet, a relatively unresearched article like this can be produced and distributed instantly. Clearly, the company in question would fail in a libel suit because the knowledge posted wasn't knowingly faulty - though it does fall to the second libel standard of hurting the target. I'd tend to think of this as just as much a spoken work as a written one. By your definition, is a mute capable of slander? The standard you go by was forged more than 100 years ago and will definitely be revisited in the future.
I'm not exactly sure, but I think the funny part is supposed to be that these are real submissions kept stored for future april fools use from the last year or so. The editorial remark on the story preceding this one would lend credibility to that idea. That would at least explain why the large majority of these are stupid rather than funny (though there is, admitedly, a gray area where the two cross).
I have to disagree with you on the interviews. While you can't really analyze Craig's interview style (a lightning-fast exchange and then 5-questions), Stewert seems to be doing an excellent job. He takes the right path depending on the interviewee. On one hand he interviews a couple Spice Girls, absolutely bashes their claims to artistic integrity (all the while without their realization of his sarcasm), and sends them out angry - obviously delighted your averaged Daily Show fan who was probably moaning as Baby Spice's name was announced but cheering as she left the stage nearly in tears. On another hand, Stewert will interview actors or comediens (or less phony musicians) and make an entertaining conversation - maybe not too deep, but fun. On the third hand of this strangely mutated interview beast, Stewert will occasionally get a legitimate guest. Someone earlier pointed out his interview with Ralph Nader which was, in my opinion, one of his best outside of a few "round table" interviews and a "town hall" type deal on Hardball at Wisconsin University. Whether you have a taste for Stewart's dry sarcasm or not (and you apparently don't), you have to admire his interview tact.
I'm pretty disenchanted with US corporate news broadcasts myself. I have been impressed with the BBC's coverage and a few PBS broadcasts though. The last straw for me came recently when NBC (or whoever) showed a 5-second clip of the Buddha demolition out east and then followed with a 5-minute discussion on the antics in Madonna's "forbidden" video. Hell, the video wasn't even terribly controversial - I wonder how much MTV gets payed NOT to play it?
I'm sure at this point it's probably spread beyond a single server, but that's beside the point. They obviously don't mean distributed in the rc5 sense, but rather as a distribution of personal effort. He said, "distributed collection and maintanance of data." By going to the site and rating the articles, they get referenced, etc. Simply by using everything, it gets moderated.
This may seem a bit odd, but does Microsoft truly care that people have the perception that it's evil (especially here)? Does Microsoft really, truly, care that a large portion of the technology community loathes its every move and, if so, what type of "image-enhancing" programs do you see Microsoft pursuing to end this bias? Admittedly, Microsoft has had some predatory business practices through its history - really though, you can't name a reasonably large cooperation that doesn't. I thought that as someone who would probably fall into the Microsoft-bashing crowd were it not for your job at Microsoft, you might have an interesting perspective on this. Personally, I could care less what Microsoft has done up to this point as it has put out some pretty incredible software and has never gone to the point of actually being the sole choice for any purpose - there has always been an alternative to Microsoft software in every area.
Not that much actually... 6Gbits = more or less 750 Mbytes of RAM (6*1000/8). I'm sure you can get DDR Ram for at least 1 dollar/MByte now, so that's hardly the most expensive part of the system.
For people comparing this to the early-mid 90s holographic arcade machiens, it's obviously a tad more complex than that.
Lastly, the germinating plant demo idea someone mentioned would be wicked. Just a thought.
Not to mention that the only area Iridium was ever profitable in was sea and air communications. I worked for a company that sold $30,000 phones that were essentially the standard $2000 motorola phones packed into a large container for aeronautical use. Ships could use them for similar reasons as it is much cheaper than the alternative sattelite communication technologies. The problem with Iridium is that they somehow planned to profit off consumer use of their phones which is impossible seeing how the phones look like crap, don't work in urban areas, and are rather overpriced. Now they may have sold a phone or two to the rugged adventurer crowd, but that's about it.