Give people enough time and they'll name everything and give unique words to describe it in detail. I have a lovely book called "WORD MENU" which proves the "Jargon comes a need urges" mindset.
Oh wait, looks like the Anthrax scare prevented that.
In related news the CIA building's mailroom has tested positive for Anthrax. I guess they were sloppy when they were mailing "Death by Envelope". The first step to eliminate terrorism is to stop the sponsers of terrorists - mainly the CIA EVERY FUCKING TIME is behind the training, arming, and funding of terrorists and dictators. If our government wants terrorists gone, eliminate the CIA and the insane bastards that run it outright. The CIA is ANTI-AMERICAN.
Hey, it's not like he can stalk girlfriends and write creepy
songs about them forever.
STING should sing, "King Of Pain" for the Microsoft XP
release. Give the masochists what they want I always say.
http://www.geocities.com/bennies12/Sting.html
The Catholic Church was all for
teenage boy bands.
They called them choirs and the singers were eunuchs
or castrati (no testicles for you!) Because the boys never got the puberty
boost of testosterone their larynxes never dropped and their voices stayed sweet
and girl-like.
Might want to note how the antibiotic for smallpox was found. Milkmaids that survived chicken pox were mostly immune to smallpox. Check the history books.
If you had chicken pox as a kid there's a fairly decent chance you'd survive small pox.
I would think that Microsoft would want to get out of their leadership position in enabling virus attacks and making them so painful
Well, the time is about ripe. I think not only the SW, but also the accompanying viruses and worms were made in Redmond. MS used these "tools" to track down and identify users not paying the proper licences. Now that they have served their purpose, and MS is moving over to a pay-by-the-minute licencing model, they don't need those
"tools" anymore.
I can see that they may get IIS fixed, but I am not sure how they are going to deal with VB. VB is a dangerous smurf in sheeps clothing.
It is an awfully odd thing Code Red I & II had "self-stop" commands built in. Date-based viruses usually relate to some specific event. CODE RED's REALLY FISHY in how it worked (attacking just Microsoft & the White House).
So, SONY, you still have some time to kill Bill Gates before the X-BOX hits the stores...
...what are you waiting for?
It sits there like a ROCK as the drive slowly chugs! How about virtual memory? Every try to defragment a floppy disk without the copy everything, format, copy back cycle? Windows COULD use the virtual memory to copy the floppy, tune it up there, then copy back the optimized disk. It COULD... but it uses the space free on the floppy as the swap file. DUMB!
Ever have two hard drives with one almost empty and the other mostly full? If you tune the almost full one will Windows use the almost empty drive as the swap file? Never. DUMB!
How long has Windows done these stupid things? Since Win3.1!
This isn't standardization, this is the most laziness they can get away with. It shows in all their mediocre software. Do you honestly think they don't take the most lazy method of programming to practice? What in their past performance makes you think otherwise?
How long was it since you didn't have to reboot in Windows to change the screen resolution?
Windows 98 (released in 1999)
When did Windows 3.1 release? (1990)
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/simcoe/display.htm
NINE YEARS OF POINTLESS REBOOTS!
NINE YEARS!
And this was just a MINOR ISSUE of Windows stupidity and laziness!
Should be refillable with butane disposable lighter refill bottles.
Or for a bigger job a small propane container could do. It's not like methane isn't easy to find, just few people have thought to capture, contain, and resell it in small containers (which should be easy to recycle or refill).
A battery with "INSTANT RECHARGE" would be a godsend to all aspects of personal electronics and amusements.
I've been waiting for a better battery than the slow-to-recharge radio-controlled car batteries. Now if the parents groups will wake up and recognize that children can be smart and a few Darwin-award suicide cases shouldn't cripple the entire powered toy industry we could get onto making better amusements with more processor power than what a lousy 1.5V to 6V toy could provide.
If it cost only a million to put up an asteroid tracking system to forwarn the Earth against complete extinction they'd say it was just in our best interest!
Damn them! I want them to spend $7 million making a sequel to "Freddie Got Fingered". If I'm going to die, I better die stupid and unentertained. How dare they put the best interests of the human species first over some really unwatchable movie. Bring on your sequel to "Joe Dirt", make another "The Animal", torture us with another "Spice World...
... but give humanity a chance to tap into limitless power or give us time to destroy or deflect an Earth-extincting asteriod...
...that's un-American!
Aliens: "We have a simulation of your Table Tennis."
Bart Simpson: "Is that the best you can do? That's so lame!"
Aliens: "Everyone here who owns a space ship raise your tentacle."
(Simpson family looks ashamed)
Or they could use that leftover non-standard Plutonium to ionize the hydrogen gas first and drive it up the atomic bonding chain by a small infusion of electricity.
Rotate the gas tank on a turntable to keep the heavy stuff out to the rim and the light stuff in the center. Eventually it should all become a lead coating with a decent power output as hydrogen bumps up the atomic ladder.
Finally someone remembered (say it loud) "THEENK OF THE CHEELD-RUN!"
Now I can sleep soundly knowing that all of our freedoms are being systematically eliminated "FOR THE CHILDREN!" (fucking little brats will have to live with this facist Republican bullshit - I know the children wouldn't want a future that Hitler would love.)
After opening a certain amount of windows in Slashdot or about two or three hours of browsing for me it would cause havok on my system's memory and I'd have to reboot to fix it.
You do know that a stray gunshot could take out the engine or cause the body of the plane to rip in two. That is a dumb request similar to having guns on the space station. This makes about as much sense as having windows in a submarine.
TASERS would be a better choice (though the spark could ignite the fuel in tanks). Another choice would be knives (which could still rip through the plane body - they are pretty thin and highly stressed). Or perhaps knockout gas (a non-combutable variety). Or perhaps poison-tipped darts (probably the best choice) or tranquilizer darts (fast-acting of course).
Having guns on airplanes makes as much sense as having handgrenades on airplanes. Heck, in two minutes I can come up with cheaper and better answers then making liberty-killing laws.
What about a panic-button (puts the plane on autopilot and the pilot has to give a clearance code which ONLY the air-traffic control release to manual control? What about a self-destruct button that blows the plane up in mid-air? What about better security for the cockpit along with a bathroom and food storage solely for the pilots along with an air circulation system that isolates the pilots from the passangers? What about a safety eject for the passanger cabin that parachutes the entire passanger area and the pilot cabin to safety in case of engine failure? What about having a rotation of security people (with non-plane-damaging equipment) on every flight? What about security codewords that ensure the pilot isn't being hijacked and pretending everything is fine?
What if they found out your weren't paying your nanny enough? What if they found out you once visited a Nazi web page just out of curiosity? What if they found out you said in anger "I want to kill so-and-so!"?
These laws aren't to protect the average person, they exist as the perfect BLACKMAIL tool. If you get uppity, they'll review your past for you from the day you were born to the last stupid thing you said yesterday. Did you honestly think J. Edgar Hoover was protecting his citizens or was he maintaining a huge database of BLACKMAIL information against political rebellion? He did not help the people oppressed by the Mafia or KKK, he kept the people who were in power then still in power later.
Wake up! It is not to late to understand America and its many flaws. We do not have to endure a Gestapo and another Nazi rise to power.
It is also important to remember that Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash CONVIENENTLY weeks before his election against John Ashcroft. The plane was supposedly struck by lightning (though no such information was to be found in radar records).
When Ashcroft lost to his dead challanger, his wife Jean Carnahan was elected. On September 9th, 2001 her house was struck by "lightning". Now on September 11th, 2001, the World Trade Centers were hit by two planes and a third slammed into the Pentagon.
Perhaps if this fraud Presidency wasn't so dead set on causing murder, mayhem, embezzlement, revenge, and bankruptcy we Americans could sleep soundly again. This will all point back to George Worthless Bush and most likely Scaife's schemes rather quickly.
[Choose Disliked Celebrity] dies and goes to Hell.
In Hell [Chosen Disliked Celebrity] sees all of the other sinners in various tortures and having a rather unhappy afterlife. The Devil walks up and says, "Follow Me."
[Chosen Disliked Celebrity] gasps, follows meekly as the Devil shows him to a special alcove in which [Choose a Second Popular Trendy celebrity That is Dead] is having frantic sex with [Pick Another Strongly Disliked Celebrity
That is Also Dead]. [Name of Celebrity From the First Part of Joke] is shocked! [Same Celebrity From Previous Sentence] stammers and asks the Devil, "This is Hell! Why do they get to have sex?" The Devil grunts, opens the door to another room in the alcove and says, "Go inside". Inside is [Naked Celebrity Regarded as a Sexual Icon That is Also Dead]. [The Celebrity From the Very First Part of the Joke Again] is astonished, "You've forgiven me for all my sins. This may be Hell, but I'm in Heaven!"
To which the Devil proclaims in a thundering nightmare of a voice, "[Naked Celebrity Regarded as a Sexual Icon That is Also Dead] for your insufferable sins I once again unleash upon you your eternal torture."
--- I like the "Policially Correct" joke poke. I am getting a little sick of the "Mad Libs" joke style I reposted above.
The biggest problem with Text-Taught A.I.'s is that of having a virtual Helen Keller.
It cannot see, it cannot hear, it cannot smell, it cannot touch, and it cannot taste.
Without those meager levels of reference to what we humans take for granted, it is very difficult to give a Text-Taught A.I. any easily repeatable information to verify. I can tell it the sky is blue. It can learn the sky is not always blue. It can learn that during the evening and morning the sky color changes colors. I can tell it during the night that the sky is not any color at all unless clouds obscure it. I can tell it many things are blue. I can give the RGB color values of a blue. Until it can see, it will never find that many things are blue without being told so.
Indeed a simple Virtual Reality enviroment could work to explain context for a Text-Taught A.I. and be the ground for internal imagining and for resolving confusion on images such as why a person's other arm is missing when it is not immediately visible over why so people's arms are always going to be missing.
Giving it a playground to imagine in would help context clues considerably for CYC (dead-end machine intelligence that it is). The major downside of Text-Taught A.I.'s lie in the fact that the information given a child shapes the interests, desires, and personality of that child while the A.I. is force-fed information and is not allowed even a basic personality. This will be the ultimate problem until the designers decide on what personality structure is desired.
Hell, humanity might become the equivalent of the computers' pets, and as far as I'm concerned, that's not a bad thing. All my cat does is eat sleep, and play - how often I wished I had that lifestyle.
Until they spay or neuter you to stop you from playing with yourself, decide who you'll breed with, stop feeding you what you like because it costs too much, or start spraying you with water because you watch too much TV or play on the computer too long.
Don't even get me started on what a childlike A.I. might decide to do to you. Human children are crazy and dangerous enough around pets.
Slashdot Mirror
Words for snow and describing snow:
Slush, Powder, Packed, Clumpy, Gritty, Yellow, Dusty, Dirty, Crunchy, Clustered, White, Ice Snow, Hail, Sleet, Freezing Rain, Frigid, Frosty, Caked, Crumbly, Crusty, Drift, Snow Bank, Flakes, etc...
Give people enough time and they'll name everything and give unique words to describe it in detail. I have a lovely book called "WORD MENU" which proves the "Jargon comes a need urges" mindset.
WHAT WE WE SUPPOSED TO DO - SEND THEM LETTERS?!?
Oh wait, looks like the Anthrax scare prevented that.
In related news the CIA building's mailroom has tested positive for Anthrax. I guess they were sloppy when they were mailing "Death by Envelope". The first step to eliminate terrorism is to stop the sponsers of terrorists - mainly the CIA EVERY FUCKING TIME is behind the training, arming, and funding of terrorists and dictators. If our government wants terrorists gone, eliminate the CIA and the insane bastards that run it outright. The CIA is ANTI-AMERICAN.
Hey, it's not like he can stalk girlfriends and write creepy songs about them forever. STING should sing, "King Of Pain" for the Microsoft XP release. Give the masochists what they want I always say. http://www.geocities.com/bennies12/Sting.html
The Google Toolbar has a bad memory leak that screws up Explorer in multiple windows (I sometimes have more than 10 open during a long search).
That's why I uninstalled it when I figured out that it was the Google Toolbar's fault.
I've seen Betamax porn.
It wasn't exclusively VHS. I do agree the porn makers do better research into what will be a dead format than most manufactures.
It also looks like from the FAQ that they use a hard Fresnel lens (available at any 1-hour eyeglass shop) for the projection.
I guess we're going to have to call this POWER RANGERS construction.
Buildings cheap enough that a giant monster can knock them down everyday and still be able to rebuild the entire city by tomorrow's episode.
Then I pity your dog and nearby children.
Pervert!
At least gay men can tell the diffence between beastiality and pedophilia. Consentual sex is between two adults who agree on the action.
Control your own mind and stop letting the American Taliban from filling it with shit.
The Catholic Church was all for teenage boy bands.
a ti.html
They called them choirs and the singers were eunuchs or castrati (no testicles for you!) Because the boys never got the puberty boost of testosterone their larynxes never dropped and their voices stayed sweet and girl-like.
We probably should be calling N*SYNC - N*NUTS
(They would have had to have this done before they hit puberty of course.)
http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/Castr
http://www.cix.co.uk/~velluti/cast.htm
http://wa.essortment.com/castratihistory_rzna.htm
Might want to note how the antibiotic for smallpox was found. Milkmaids that survived chicken pox were mostly immune to smallpox. Check the history books.
If you had chicken pox as a kid there's a fairly decent chance you'd survive small pox.
Life - Nobody finishes it alive.
I would think that Microsoft would want to get out of their leadership position in enabling virus attacks and making them so painful
Well, the time is about ripe. I think not only the SW, but also the accompanying viruses and worms were made in Redmond. MS used these "tools" to track down and identify users not paying the proper licences. Now that they have served their purpose, and MS is moving over to a pay-by-the-minute licencing model, they don't need those
"tools" anymore.
I can see that they may get IIS fixed, but I am not sure how they are going to deal with VB. VB is a dangerous smurf in sheeps clothing.
It is an awfully odd thing Code Red I & II had "self-stop" commands built in. Date-based viruses usually relate to some specific event. CODE RED's REALLY FISHY in how it worked (attacking just Microsoft & the White House).
So, SONY, you still have some time to kill Bill Gates before the X-BOX hits the stores...
...what are you waiting for?
Yeah! Windows ROCKS when accessing the A:\ drive.
It sits there like a ROCK as the drive slowly chugs! How about virtual memory? Every try to defragment a floppy disk without the copy everything, format, copy back cycle? Windows COULD use the virtual memory to copy the floppy, tune it up there, then copy back the optimized disk. It COULD... but it uses the space free on the floppy as the swap file. DUMB!
Ever have two hard drives with one almost empty and the other mostly full? If you tune the almost full one will Windows use the almost empty drive as the swap file? Never. DUMB!
How long has Windows done these stupid things? Since Win3.1!
This isn't standardization, this is the most laziness they can get away with. It shows in all their mediocre software. Do you honestly think they don't take the most lazy method of programming to practice? What in their past performance makes you think otherwise?
How long was it since you didn't have to reboot in Windows to change the screen resolution?
Windows 98 (released in 1999)
When did Windows 3.1 release? (1990)
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/simcoe/display.htm
NINE YEARS OF POINTLESS REBOOTS!
NINE YEARS!
And this was just a MINOR ISSUE of Windows stupidity and laziness!
Should be refillable with butane disposable lighter refill bottles.
Or for a bigger job a small propane container could do. It's not like methane isn't easy to find, just few people have thought to capture, contain, and resell it in small containers (which should be easy to recycle or refill).
A battery with "INSTANT RECHARGE" would be a godsend to all aspects of personal electronics and amusements.
I've been waiting for a better battery than the slow-to-recharge radio-controlled car batteries. Now if the parents groups will wake up and recognize that children can be smart and a few Darwin-award suicide cases shouldn't cripple the entire powered toy industry we could get onto making better amusements with more processor power than what a lousy 1.5V to 6V toy could provide.
Those damn scientists!
... but give humanity a chance to tap into limitless power or give us time to destroy or deflect an Earth-extincting asteriod...
...that's un-American!
If it cost only a million to put up an asteroid tracking system to forwarn the Earth against complete extinction they'd say it was just in our best interest!
Damn them! I want them to spend $7 million making a sequel to "Freddie Got Fingered". If I'm going to die, I better die stupid and unentertained. How dare they put the best interests of the human species first over some really unwatchable movie. Bring on your sequel to "Joe Dirt", make another "The Animal", torture us with another "Spice World...
Aliens: "We have a simulation of your Table Tennis."
Bart Simpson: "Is that the best you can do? That's so lame!"
Aliens: "Everyone here who owns a space ship raise your tentacle."
(Simpson family looks ashamed)
Or they could use that leftover non-standard Plutonium to ionize the hydrogen gas first and drive it up the atomic bonding chain by a small infusion of electricity.
Rotate the gas tank on a turntable to keep the heavy stuff out to the rim and the light stuff in the center. Eventually it should all become a lead coating with a decent power output as hydrogen bumps up the atomic ladder.
Oh no, I have dozens of tapes of the DR.DEMENTO show from 1991!
I'm an IP thief?!?
FUCK THE RIAA!
Finally someone remembered ( say it loud ) "THEENK OF THE CHEELD-RUN!"
Now I can sleep soundly knowing that all of our freedoms are being systematically eliminated "FOR THE CHILDREN!" (fucking little brats will have to live with this facist Republican bullshit - I know the children wouldn't want a future that Hitler would love.)
I uninstalled it despite its extreme usefulness.
After opening a certain amount of windows in Slashdot or about two or three hours of browsing for me it would cause havok on my system's memory and I'd have to reboot to fix it.
You do know that a stray gunshot could take out the engine or cause the body of the plane to rip in two. That is a dumb request similar to having guns on the space station. This makes about as much sense as having windows in a submarine.
TASERS would be a better choice (though the spark could ignite the fuel in tanks). Another choice would be knives (which could still rip through the plane body - they are pretty thin and highly stressed). Or perhaps knockout gas (a non-combutable variety). Or perhaps poison-tipped darts (probably the best choice) or tranquilizer darts (fast-acting of course).
Having guns on airplanes makes as much sense as having handgrenades on airplanes. Heck, in two minutes I can come up with cheaper and better answers then making liberty-killing laws.
What about a panic-button (puts the plane on autopilot and the pilot has to give a clearance code which ONLY the air-traffic control release to manual control? What about a self-destruct button that blows the plane up in mid-air? What about better security for the cockpit along with a bathroom and food storage solely for the pilots along with an air circulation system that isolates the pilots from the passangers? What about a safety eject for the passanger cabin that parachutes the entire passanger area and the pilot cabin to safety in case of engine failure? What about having a rotation of security people (with non-plane-damaging equipment) on every flight? What about security codewords that ensure the pilot isn't being hijacked and pretending everything is fine?
What if they found out your weren't paying your nanny enough? What if they found out you once visited a Nazi web page just out of curiosity? What if they found out you said in anger "I want to kill so-and-so!"?
These laws aren't to protect the average person, they exist as the perfect BLACKMAIL tool. If you get uppity, they'll review your past for you from the day you were born to the last stupid thing you said yesterday. Did you honestly think J. Edgar Hoover was protecting his citizens or was he maintaining a huge database of BLACKMAIL information against political rebellion? He did not help the people oppressed by the Mafia or KKK, he kept the people who were in power then still in power later.
Wake up! It is not to late to understand America and its many flaws. We do not have to endure a Gestapo and another Nazi rise to power.
It is also important to remember that Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash CONVIENENTLY weeks before his election against John Ashcroft. The plane was supposedly struck by lightning (though no such information was to be found in radar records).
When Ashcroft lost to his dead challanger, his wife Jean Carnahan was elected. On September 9th, 2001 her house was struck by "lightning". Now on September 11th, 2001, the World Trade Centers were hit by two planes and a third slammed into the Pentagon.
Perhaps if this fraud Presidency wasn't so dead set on causing murder, mayhem, embezzlement, revenge, and bankruptcy we Americans could sleep soundly again. This will all point back to George Worthless Bush and most likely Scaife's schemes rather quickly.
[Choose Disliked Celebrity] dies and goes to Hell.
In Hell [Chosen Disliked Celebrity] sees all of the other sinners in various tortures and having a rather unhappy afterlife. The Devil walks up and says, "Follow Me."
[Chosen Disliked Celebrity] gasps, follows meekly as the Devil shows him to a special alcove in which [Choose a Second Popular Trendy celebrity That is Dead] is having frantic sex with [Pick Another Strongly Disliked Celebrity
That is Also Dead]. [Name of Celebrity From the First Part of Joke] is shocked! [Same Celebrity From Previous Sentence] stammers and asks the Devil, "This is Hell! Why do they get to have sex?" The Devil grunts, opens the door to another room in the alcove and says, "Go inside". Inside is [Naked Celebrity Regarded as a Sexual Icon That is Also Dead]. [The Celebrity From the Very First Part of the Joke Again] is astonished, "You've forgiven me for all my sins. This may be Hell, but I'm in Heaven!"
To which the Devil proclaims in a thundering nightmare of a voice, "[Naked Celebrity Regarded as a Sexual Icon That is Also Dead] for your insufferable sins I once again unleash upon you your eternal torture."
--- I like the "Policially Correct" joke poke. I am getting a little sick of the "Mad Libs" joke style I reposted above.
How do you keep a curious person distracted?
(Please decode the secret message hidden in the above riddle to find the punchline.)
The biggest problem with Text-Taught A.I.'s is that of having a virtual Helen Keller.
It cannot see, it cannot hear, it cannot smell, it cannot touch, and it cannot taste.
Without those meager levels of reference to what we humans take for granted, it is very difficult to give a Text-Taught A.I. any easily repeatable information to verify. I can tell it the sky is blue. It can learn the sky is not always blue. It can learn that during the evening and morning the sky color changes colors. I can tell it during the night that the sky is not any color at all unless clouds obscure it. I can tell it many things are blue. I can give the RGB color values of a blue. Until it can see, it will never find that many things are blue without being told so.
Indeed a simple Virtual Reality enviroment could work to explain context for a Text-Taught A.I. and be the ground for internal imagining and for resolving confusion on images such as why a person's other arm is missing when it is not immediately visible over why so people's arms are always going to be missing.
Giving it a playground to imagine in would help context clues considerably for CYC (dead-end machine intelligence that it is). The major downside of Text-Taught A.I.'s lie in the fact that the information given a child shapes the interests, desires, and personality of that child while the A.I. is force-fed information and is not allowed even a basic personality. This will be the ultimate problem until the designers decide on what personality structure is desired.
Hell, humanity might become the equivalent of the computers' pets, and as far as I'm concerned, that's not a bad thing. All my cat does is eat sleep, and play - how often I wished I had that lifestyle.
Until they spay or neuter you to stop you from playing with yourself, decide who you'll breed with, stop feeding you what you like because it costs too much, or start spraying you with water because you watch too much TV or play on the computer too long.
Don't even get me started on what a childlike A.I. might decide to do to you. Human children are crazy and dangerous enough around pets.