Yeah, but you know what? This is a place to get some of my complaining out and get rid of the frustrations without having to take the response or criticism too personally. I actually appreciate the tone of your reply, and I pretty much agree with you. But's it's nice to have a place to vent, especially when it's also a place where I (intermittently) find some intelligent gem of a comment or learn some particular esoteric detail from some coder who bothered to take the time to educate others. :>)
So take my venting with a grain of salt, and however many grains of aspirin make up an adequate anti-headache dose! (I just learned about the word "grain" as a pharmaceutical unit of measure today. Can you tell?)
You exemplify what it means to love to code. Cool! My dad said he used to type programs out on my grandad's manual typewriter for two years before they ever got the trs-80. Sometimes, i write c programs long-hand along with doodles for short routines when I'm bored at school.
Here's the weird timing of my getting 15 mod points even though I had not used up 13 of my prior mod points I'd received less than THREE HOURS AGO!!! Strange...
Reply to "TRS-80 all the way, baby!" by StormReaver Monday April 01, @05:56AM * 15 Mod Points Received - Expire on 04/04 Monday April 01, @06:33AM Reply to "Re:So lame I'm not refreshing the home page anymor" by nukenerd Monday April 01, @06:38AM * Reply to "So lame I'm not refreshing the home page anymore." by ChrisMaple Monday April 01, @07:41AM * 15 Mod Points Received - Expire on 04/04 Monday April 01, @09:31AM
Strangely, about 15 minutes ago, I got a note saying I'd received 15 mod points, even though twenty minutes ago, I had used up just two of the mod points I received three hours ago while I was in school at lecture. So why did I receive a "top up" back up to 15 mod points if I hadn't used them all up? Strange. .
re nickname: it's turning a taunt from a coupla years ago into a nick o' pride. No other details to be shared.:>p
Ha ha ha! Almost true! The true reality of the recursive world (and the recursively defined word) is the exact opposite of your claim that "lame is an encoder":
LAME = LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder (as seen on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME#History )
However, kudos, ChrisMaple, for making me laugh and enjoy some more of today!;>)
re : Oh, I didn't RTFA. :>(
oops, neither did I !! I replied about our level 1 basic rom, 4KB model I TRS-80. I don't think my parents had a coco from radio-shack. My dad wasn't allowed to take the TRS-80 to college with him, but a friend had an atari 800 and another friend got a the color computer / coco when he was a senior. Perhaps I'll ask to take the trs-80 with me !
I've got (well, my dad's got, in the garage) a TRS-80 Model 1 with 4KiloBytes of RAM and Level 1 BASIC built in! It rocks! (truly!) It was the first machine I was allowed to play with as a kid.
That would be funny: building "redneck" google-glasses by duct taping a cue-cat, an add-on web-cam, an old-laptop, and an old Metricom ricochet modem together to build a simulacrum of google-glasses. Bonus add on: strap some beer-can holders onto the helmet that holds your glasses in place. The display can be one of those LED-scroller displays attached to the helmet and dangled in front like a carrot in front of the wearer.
Hey, humor is subjective. This subject was not entertained by the so-called humor. And I let it be known. By posting on a user-moderated board. Where other users who post and moderate have moderated me up. .
It's the same thing that you're doing, but without making fun of or belittling individual posters. And I'm not interested in extra click-throughs for dice when the summary on the front page ought to be enough to let me know if I want to follow a story or not. I'm not the one crying "waaahhh".
Yeah. I got that over the weekend. I'm getting fifteen points at a time and on sunday I just found out that posting on a topic unmoderated my mods on that topic article. So then it's a toss-up, do I want to post on an article, or do I want to use my mod points. I've been getting mod points daily (except for one day) for a week, and fifteen points at a time, and I am getting tired of it. It freaks me out having to decide whether to go back to mod older comments so I don't. I've been just modding new stuff for that day as I read it. And since saturday, I've been worrying about modding in topics I'd rather post in. It's annoying having to hold myself back. The example page for mods says "5 points" and using up 15 mods is annoying. I've been modding things up that are interesting. And I've stopped browsing at (-1) even though it's recommended for moderating because of those lame long APK posts. (+ i was lurking for a couple of years before registering) -- self-avowed avid/.er
I'm not lobbying to end the tradition, I'm lobbying to uphold the traditionof good interesting april fool's day joke pages. IMHO, this year is not so inventive and funny. Please see my other comment or look at previous years' april fool's days slashdot pages to see what I mean. I would like/. to be more inventive and creative. I'm offering constructive criticism, gave an example of what would be better, and just pointed out to the readers (and any editors reading) that the gag is tiresome rather quickly and not as funny as they might think it is. .
It might be an example of how lame humor can be when you decide to create a joke by committee.
This is so fucking lame that I'm not even going to bother refreshing the home page or even posting anything more today. Seriously! .
I just reloaded the home page and saw the fucking ROT-13 gibberish and I don't even feel like clicking on the link to see what the lame-o April Fool's joke is going to be. If I feel that way as an avid registered slashdotter (who even got mod points for the first time last week, yay?), then how does the average joe/jill feel when they open the home page? This is a moronic april fool's day gag that makes me less interested in reading/. today, and perhaps even tomorrow. Sheesh. .
This is tiresome. This is not fun. This is not funny. This is lame. Do you understand this yet, editors? Anyone listening, or are you editors skipping the rest of the day too?
Used to be funnier and well thought out and silly, but now it's just comedy by committee, with all kinds of notes from the network executives. .
Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke? :>(
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It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new/., eh?
Well, it would be the same as having googlasses do "on-the-fly decrypting" of QR-codes in your glasses field of view so that you have the web-page or URL it links to automatically flashing in yo' goo-goggles. Or doing the same auto-linking for UPC codes on products, or ISBN numbers if you look at a magazine or a book. ;>)
It's like being able to carry around
a cueCat with you at all times and using it to scan everything and immediately getting the linked web-page or associated web-searches. Goo-glasses just takes the hassle of carrying the CueCat + laptop + internet-access-portal-device with you into the coolness-of-being-a-hipster-dude who wears funky glasses!
Yeah, but/. at least has (or had) a history of some interesting and playful pranks. Not quite as lame as today's is. Mine's double secure, I ROT-13'ed it twice!
Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke? .
It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new/., eh?
You are correct, sir, or ma'am, as the case may be! I meant 16 get 15 right, 120 get 14 right, binomial (16, n) get n right. Thanks for picking that nit, especially since you're right!
Dude, Steve Jobs tooks Pixar where it went, from an in-house digital effects firm for ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) into what it became: a Hollywood powerhouse that took in Lasseter and made Toy Story and other blockbusters. .
Sure Canon invented the m.o. drive in the NeXT machine; I made no claim that Jobs invented it. Jobs didn't invent USB even though he put it into the iMac fruit-colored all-in-one '040 machines that ran system 7 or 8. Jobs didn't invent firewire but he put those into Powerbooks and Powermacs. Jobs didn't invent ethernet but he created ethernet dongles for 68040-based Mac IIci machines. He may not have invented those things, and he didn't invent the macintosh, but he was the prime mover behind the creation and marketing and success of those things on consumer-grade hardware.
3. F.U.! Read what I wrote. I never said he wrote unix. He incorporated Mach and Posix into NeXT, designed the use of the NeXT-step GUI interface, and pushed for the integration of the dsp chip into easy to use software APIs and allowed for programmers to access the hardware in a useful way. .
He was an excellent overseer, and a slave-driver, and an ego-maniac, and an asshole. That's how he got things done. My point was that selecting for the same traits in someone else will more likely get you 50-70% of those traits: the external expresed phenotypes, like jack-assery. Selecting for those external traits will most likely not get you an employee that will star-ship rocket your company into the world of success.
Why does everyone forget that he was pushed out when Scully cam on board? Jobs had to rebuild from square one at NeXt (or NeXT, or some other camely spelling) where he built the underpinnings for OSX and for applescript in building the NeXT machine and the NeXT cube while keeping his cool artistic and "beautiful box" ideas and still providing:
- a hardware base with a programmable DSP that could be used as a modem, or a fax, or as in the basis for real time audio processing
- the first commercially usable mexapixel display with 24-bit color
- UNIX based underneath with a pretty interface on top, NeXT-Step, also the precursor of OSX
- the first optical drive on consumer hardware (it was magneto-optical however)
- a NeXT machine was the workbench upon which Tim Berners Lee was able to program the beginning of the WWW=world wide web and HTML language and HTTP protocol
Jobs also started up Pixar which gave him his entree into hollywood connections. Jobs was flung down quite a few times and built his own way back up. Good luck finding someone with that level of arrogance and that level of actual capability and that level of chutzpah.
It's a false idea that Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. In other words, saying "because it happened after XYZ, it must have been because of XYZ" is wrong. I think Nolan Bushnell is probably right about a bunch of his ideas, but ultimately Atari did not rise to the top like the cream that was Macintosh/Apple did, or that IBM's PC architecture did because of all of that "complimentary copying", or that Unix or POSIX did in being used everywhere including in GNU/Linux. .
Look at past successes to see that one die roll that won in the corporate world of selecting employees who turn out to be diamonds in the rough
is as crazy as
looking at the past performance of 65536 (~sixty-five thousand = 2^16) brokers each of whom makes one of the binary bets of heads/tails on 16 binary events and then being surprised that one of them got all 16 bets rights, and 120 got 15 out of the 16 bets right. .
Sometimes it's pretty random, and looking for reason in fluke choices won't get you far.
As for that betting example, go look at the
Binomial distribution. Also see http://www.skepdic.com/perfectprediction.html where they use an example of 100 letters, whereas they would be better off having a power of 2.
The best explanation of the "stock market prediction scam" is at
http://totse2.com/content.php?163-The-Old-Stock-Market-Prediction-Scam .
re: Are we just spinning our wheels? ;>)
Only/especially if we're using flywheels to store energy in their rotational inertial moment. Then, "just spinning our wheels" could mean that our energy is stored and not being transferred to or from our inertial-moment energy storage device, another "alternate" energy storage system.
You can run
Knoppix like this also, with everything stored in ram using the "to ram" command line option when booting up:
knoppix lang=us toram no3d
This works better for the CD-sized version of
knoppix if you have only one-Gig of RAM, if you've got more than 6GB RAM, go ahead and use "toram" for the DVD-sized versions of Knoppix.
I did not know that gmail had something like that which would let you import your old emails into gmail. I'd just seen imap as a way to export mail out of gmail. Damn. They've got a time machine point of view into all the nooks and crannies of communication done by everyone who's bothered to imap-archive their ancient emails into google. That's even sicker than I'd ever anticipated or would have thought I'd have believed.;>)
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Yeah, but you know what? This is a place to get some of my complaining out and get rid of the frustrations without having to take the response or criticism too personally. I actually appreciate the tone of your reply, and I pretty much agree with you. But's it's nice to have a place to vent, especially when it's also a place where I (intermittently) find some intelligent gem of a comment or learn some particular esoteric detail from some coder who bothered to take the time to educate others.
:>)
So take my venting with a grain of salt, and however many grains of aspirin make up an adequate anti-headache dose! (I just learned about the word "grain" as a pharmaceutical unit of measure today. Can you tell?)
You exemplify what it means to love to code. Cool! My dad said he used to type programs out on my grandad's manual typewriter for two years before they ever got the trs-80. Sometimes, i write c programs long-hand along with doodles for short routines when I'm bored at school.
Here's the weird timing of my getting 15 mod points even though I had not used up 13 of my prior mod points I'd received less than THREE HOURS AGO!!! Strange...
Reply to "TRS-80 all the way, baby!" by StormReaver Monday April 01, @05:56AM
* 15 Mod Points Received - Expire on 04/04 Monday April 01, @06:33AM
Reply to "Re:So lame I'm not refreshing the home page anymor" by nukenerd Monday April 01, @06:38AM
* Reply to "So lame I'm not refreshing the home page anymore." by ChrisMaple Monday April 01, @07:41AM
* 15 Mod Points Received - Expire on 04/04 Monday April 01, @09:31AM
Strangely, about 15 minutes ago, I got a note saying I'd received 15 mod points, even though twenty minutes ago, I had used up just two of the mod points I received three hours ago while I was in school at lecture. So why did I receive a "top up" back up to 15 mod points if I hadn't used them all up? Strange. :>p
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re nickname: it's turning a taunt from a coupla years ago into a nick o' pride. No other details to be shared.
However, kudos, ChrisMaple, for making me laugh and enjoy some more of today! ;>)
re : Oh, I didn't RTFA.
:>(
oops, neither did I !! I replied about our level 1 basic rom, 4KB model I TRS-80. I don't think my parents had a coco from radio-shack. My dad wasn't allowed to take the TRS-80 to college with him, but a friend had an atari 800 and another friend got a the color computer / coco when he was a senior. Perhaps I'll ask to take the trs-80 with me !
I've got (well, my dad's got, in the garage) a TRS-80 Model 1 with 4KiloBytes of RAM and Level 1 BASIC built in! It rocks! (truly!) It was the first machine I was allowed to play with as a kid.
That would be funny: building "redneck" google-glasses by duct taping a cue-cat, an add-on web-cam, an old-laptop, and an old Metricom ricochet modem together to build a simulacrum of google-glasses. Bonus add on: strap some beer-can holders onto the helmet that holds your glasses in place. The display can be one of those LED-scroller displays attached to the helmet and dangled in front like a carrot in front of the wearer.
ab whfg sehfgengrq. gnaxf 4 nfxvat, gub!
. echo ab whfg sehfgengrq. gnaxf 4 nfxvat, gub! | tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' auto-decoder code pasted above. copypasta into your bash shell!
Hey, humor is subjective. This subject was not entertained by the so-called humor. And I let it be known. By posting on a user-moderated board. Where other users who post and moderate have moderated me up.
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It's the same thing that you're doing, but without making fun of or belittling individual posters. And I'm not interested in extra click-throughs for dice when the summary on the front page ought to be enough to let me know if I want to follow a story or not. I'm not the one crying "waaahhh".
Yeah. I got that over the weekend. I'm getting fifteen points at a time and on sunday I just found out that posting on a topic unmoderated my mods on that topic article. So then it's a toss-up, do I want to post on an article, or do I want to use my mod points. I've been getting mod points daily (except for one day) for a week, and fifteen points at a time, and I am getting tired of it. It freaks me out having to decide whether to go back to mod older comments so I don't. I've been just modding new stuff for that day as I read it. And since saturday, I've been worrying about modding in topics I'd rather post in. It's annoying having to hold myself back. The example page for mods says "5 points" and using up 15 mods is annoying. I've been modding things up that are interesting. And I've stopped browsing at (-1) even though it's recommended for moderating because of those lame long APK posts. (+ i was lurking for a couple of years before registering) -- self-avowed avid /.er
I'm not lobbying to end the tradition, I'm lobbying to uphold the traditionof good interesting april fool's day joke pages. IMHO, this year is not so inventive and funny. Please see my other comment or look at previous years' april fool's days slashdot pages to see what I mean. I would like /. to be more inventive and creative. I'm offering constructive criticism, gave an example of what would be better, and just pointed out to the readers (and any editors reading) that the gag is tiresome rather quickly and not as funny as they might think it is.
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It might be an example of how lame humor can be when you decide to create a joke by committee.
This is so fucking lame that I'm not even going to bother refreshing the home page or even posting anything more today. Seriously! /. today, and perhaps even tomorrow. Sheesh.
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I just reloaded the home page and saw the fucking ROT-13 gibberish and I don't even feel like clicking on the link to see what the lame-o April Fool's joke is going to be. If I feel that way as an avid registered slashdotter (who even got mod points for the first time last week, yay?), then how does the average joe/jill feel when they open the home page? This is a moronic april fool's day gag that makes me less interested in reading
.
This is tiresome. This is not fun. This is not funny. This is lame. Do you understand this yet, editors? Anyone listening, or are you editors skipping the rest of the day too?
Used to be funnier and well thought out and silly, but now it's just comedy by committee, with all kinds of notes from the network executives. /., eh?
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Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke?
:>(
. It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new
Well, it would be the same as having googlasses do "on-the-fly decrypting" of QR-codes in your glasses field of view so that you have the web-page or URL it links to automatically flashing in yo' goo-goggles. Or doing the same auto-linking for UPC codes on products, or ISBN numbers if you look at a magazine or a book.
;>)
It's like being able to carry around a cueCat with you at all times and using it to scan everything and immediately getting the linked web-page or associated web-searches. Goo-glasses just takes the hassle of carrying the CueCat + laptop + internet-access-portal-device with you into the coolness-of-being-a-hipster-dude who wears funky glasses!
Yeah, but /. at least has (or had) a history of some interesting and playful pranks. Not quite as lame as today's is. Mine's double secure, I ROT-13'ed it twice!
Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke? /., eh?
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It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new
You are correct, sir, or ma'am, as the case may be! I meant 16 get 15 right, 120 get 14 right, binomial (16, n) get n right. Thanks for picking that nit, especially since you're right!
Thanks for the info. You are probably correct on all the details.
Dude, Steve Jobs tooks Pixar where it went, from an in-house digital effects firm for ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) into what it became: a Hollywood powerhouse that took in Lasseter and made Toy Story and other blockbusters.
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Sure Canon invented the m.o. drive in the NeXT machine; I made no claim that Jobs invented it. Jobs didn't invent USB even though he put it into the iMac fruit-colored all-in-one '040 machines that ran system 7 or 8. Jobs didn't invent firewire but he put those into Powerbooks and Powermacs. Jobs didn't invent ethernet but he created ethernet dongles for 68040-based Mac IIci machines. He may not have invented those things, and he didn't invent the macintosh, but he was the prime mover behind the creation and marketing and success of those things on consumer-grade hardware.
3. F.U.! Read what I wrote. I never said he wrote unix. He incorporated Mach and Posix into NeXT, designed the use of the NeXT-step GUI interface, and pushed for the integration of the dsp chip into easy to use software APIs and allowed for programmers to access the hardware in a useful way.
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He was an excellent overseer, and a slave-driver, and an ego-maniac, and an asshole. That's how he got things done. My point was that selecting for the same traits in someone else will more likely get you 50-70% of those traits: the external expresed phenotypes, like jack-assery. Selecting for those external traits will most likely not get you an employee that will star-ship rocket your company into the world of success.
- the first commercially usable mexapixel display with 24-bit color
- UNIX based underneath with a pretty interface on top, NeXT-Step, also the precursor of OSX
- the first optical drive on consumer hardware (it was magneto-optical however)
- a NeXT machine was the workbench upon which Tim Berners Lee was able to program the beginning of the WWW=world wide web and HTML language and HTTP protocol
Jobs also started up Pixar which gave him his entree into hollywood connections. Jobs was flung down quite a few times and built his own way back up. Good luck finding someone with that level of arrogance and that level of actual capability and that level of chutzpah.
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Look at past successes to see that one die roll that won in the corporate world of selecting employees who turn out to be diamonds in the rough is as crazy as
looking at the past performance of 65536 (~sixty-five thousand = 2^16) brokers each of whom makes one of the binary bets of heads/tails on 16 binary events and then being surprised that one of them got all 16 bets rights, and 120 got 15 out of the 16 bets right.
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Sometimes it's pretty random, and looking for reason in fluke choices won't get you far. As for that betting example, go look at the Binomial distribution. Also see http://www.skepdic.com/perfectprediction.html where they use an example of 100 letters, whereas they would be better off having a power of 2.
The best explanation of the "stock market prediction scam" is at http://totse2.com/content.php?163-The-Old-Stock-Market-Prediction-Scam .
re: Are we just spinning our wheels?
;>)
Only/especially if we're using flywheels to store energy in their rotational inertial moment. Then, "just spinning our wheels" could mean that our energy is stored and not being transferred to or from our inertial-moment energy storage device, another "alternate" energy storage system.
This works better for the CD-sized version of knoppix if you have only one-Gig of RAM, if you've got more than 6GB RAM, go ahead and use "toram" for the DVD-sized versions of Knoppix.
I did not know that gmail had something like that which would let you import your old emails into gmail. I'd just seen imap as a way to export mail out of gmail. Damn. They've got a time machine point of view into all the nooks and crannies of communication done by everyone who's bothered to imap-archive their ancient emails into google. That's even sicker than I'd ever anticipated or would have thought I'd have believed. ;>)