Yeah, and didn't the robots get too good at it and start hunting other things as well, so they had to design robots to hunt the robots, then robots to hunt those robots, and so on until they had a planet full of homicidal robots!
What, so the use of lasers to correct something that has been uncorrectable for the previous entire history of mankind has nothing to do with technology?
As for contacts, they just scare me. I spend most of my life trying to stop things from landing on the surface of my eye. (I apply the similer logic to needles.)
I was the same, I hated the idea of something touching my eyes. I could not even bring myself to touch the whites of my eyes. But after the second broken pair of glasses in as many months, I went to see about contacts.
To make matters worse, the optician recommended hard lenses, so I was prepared for the worst. But it really wasn't that bad! There was certainly no pain at all - it was like having a bit of sand in your eye at first, then you get used to them. Usually you forget they are even there.
And now putting the lenses in is no big deal at all. Sure, after about 9 hours of wearing them, your eyes get a bit sore, but you can always fall back on the glasses.
Besides, if you don't like the idea of things in your eye, how are you going to deal with some guy ramming a scalpel in there, peeling bits of it back and boiling the fluid in your eye with lasers?;)
I suppose if you derive your work partly from someone else's sources, you're constrained by what sort of license they had on their code - the GPL might not be appropriate.
It's an excellent book, I'd certainly recommend to any sci-fi fan. It's also especially geared towards hackers - it's rare to see a popular work that is actually accurate about technical subjects.
His piece in which he waxes lyrical about the various powers of 2 (really!) will certainly strike a chord with hackers.
Seems to me that sentence was the whole raison d'etre for the article. Have some bogus piece on common mistakes, just so you can toss some line in about your main rivals, "you think this is bad, you should see these guys", like it is the received wisdom.
Can intelligence be 'bred' at all? A recent BBC documentary on evolution said that if a cave-man's child from 20,000 odd years ago was transported to this era and brought up as a modern child it would have the same capacity for learning - there would be no reason he could not be a rocket scientist.
All that makes us better is that we have records, so each generation does not have to start from scratch, but can build on the discoveries and knowledge of others who have gone before. Also, we have a society that values that knowledge, or at least makes it worthwhile those who have the ability to learn to pursue academic paths.
But remember what they say - we're ever only three square meals away from chaos!
"In today's Gaurdian?" Guardian, surely!;) Though this may be intentional - the Guardian used to be notorious for its typographical errors (it's often referred to as "The Grauniad")
To get back on topic, their knowledge of tech matters is less than stellar (though not as bad as, say, the Sunday Times) so they may have just fallen for some marketing hype. I can scarcely imagine any Nintendo execs being stunned at that little demo, impressive though it is for 74k. (Though I've seen better on 4K Amiga intros)
You think that's bad? Some German 'entreprenuer' has trademarked the use of the @ symbol! Check out the link. (Babelfished, alas, the original German is here - it's be nice if a German reader could give more details...)
Ah yes, that's the boyo. In fact on the comments page, about half way down, some guy from MIT raves about how useful they were for his wearable computer project. He says they can type up to 60 words a minute using this little thing...
You could have some sort of keyboard device in your pocket - like those things where you can produce any letter by manipulating 4 or 5 keys in different ways. Of course, to the casual observer it might look like you were engaging in a game of 'pocket billiards' - geeks' image are bad enough already!
If you use BT and register your ISP (local call) phone number as a so-called best friend number you'll be entitled to 20% discount to all calls made on this number.
Yes, but tell me you didn't feel slightly sad ringing BT up and asking them to register your ISP as your best friend.;)
As a die-hard GNU advocate I'd still be the first person happy to rename 'grep' as 'regexp-filter' or even 'search'.
And you'd probably think that stuff like renaming shell commands, and making stuff like switches less obtuse would be a great leap forward in usuability, right?
Maybe so, but you've got to understand that 95% of the computer using public does not want to use a CLI *at all*!
I think Linux and Macs are pretty much diametrically opposed, as far as OS philosophy goes. This means that there should be no reason they cannot co-exist - one will not threaten the other niches.
"They felt that "free software" sounded too frightening."
Yeah, that really scares the shit out of me!! Seriously, they do confuse free software and OSS - software can be free without coming with source, surely.
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Yeah, and didn't the robots get too good at it and start hunting other things as well, so they had to design robots to hunt the robots, then robots to hunt those robots, and so on until they had a planet full of homicidal robots!
;)
WE MUST STOP THIS NOW!!
Contacts rock! Unless you're like me and don't take proper care of them.
Indeed - I knew a girl who would take them out at night, lick 'em and stick them to her mirror!
What, so the use of lasers to correct something that has been uncorrectable for the previous entire history of mankind has nothing to do with technology?
As for contacts, they just scare me. I spend most of my life trying to stop things from landing on the surface of my eye. (I apply the similer logic to needles.)
;)
I was the same, I hated the idea of something touching my eyes. I could not even bring myself to touch the whites of my eyes. But after the second broken pair of glasses in as many months, I went to see about contacts.
To make matters worse, the optician recommended hard lenses, so I was prepared for the worst. But it really wasn't that bad! There was certainly no pain at all - it was like having a bit of sand in your eye at first, then you get used to them. Usually you forget they are even there.
And now putting the lenses in is no big deal at all. Sure, after about 9 hours of wearing them, your eyes get a bit sore, but you can always fall back on the glasses.
Besides, if you don't like the idea of things in your eye, how are you going to deal with some guy ramming a scalpel in there, peeling bits of it back and boiling the fluid in your eye with lasers?
I suppose if you derive your work partly from someone else's sources, you're constrained by what sort of license they had on their code - the GPL might not be appropriate.
I'm not sure if that's the case here, though.
I think you've misunderstood the name 'Palm Pilot' ;)
It's an excellent book, I'd certainly recommend to any sci-fi fan. It's also especially geared towards hackers - it's rare to see a popular work that is actually accurate about technical subjects.
His piece in which he waxes lyrical about the various powers of 2 (really!) will certainly strike a chord with hackers.
Oh man, get out of here! Flamebait, alright, but redundant?! TWICE?
I wasn't making those things up you know.
Queen hires spin doctor
Sunday Times Internet 'Journalism'
I think both these points are very relevant to the story.
"...cheated against women Super GM Judit Polgar..."
He cheated? How did he do that?
So, that would be the
;)
Linternationalizationux project?
Holy cow!
The use of Hungarian as a choice surely gave it away as a hoax.
My hovercraft is full of eels!
My nipples explode with the light!
I weeel not buy thees record, eet is scratched!
etc, etc.
So what they're saying is, "there's nothing wrong with NT, it's all your fault, you moron!"
Nice attitude!
Seems to me that sentence was the whole raison d'etre for the article. Have some bogus piece on common mistakes, just so you can toss some line in about your main rivals, "you think this is bad, you should see these guys", like it is the received wisdom.
Appalling.
Ah yes, the "supper cannon", which was to fire enormous custard pies at the west. That would've shown the infidels!
You mean the supergun, which the poster explained was in fact a satellite launch platform.
Can intelligence be 'bred' at all? A recent BBC documentary on evolution said that if a cave-man's child from 20,000 odd years ago was transported to this era and brought up as a modern child it would have the same capacity for learning - there would be no reason he could not be a rocket scientist.
All that makes us better is that we have records, so each generation does not have to start from scratch, but can build on the discoveries and knowledge of others who have gone before. Also, we have a society that values that knowledge, or at least makes it worthwhile those who have the ability to learn to pursue academic paths.
But remember what they say - we're ever only three square meals away from chaos!
"In today's Gaurdian?" Guardian, surely! ;)
Though this may be intentional - the Guardian used to be notorious for its typographical errors (it's often referred to as "The Grauniad")
To get back on topic, their knowledge of tech matters is less than stellar (though not as bad as, say, the Sunday Times) so they may have just fallen for some marketing hype. I can scarcely imagine any Nintendo execs being stunned at that little demo, impressive though it is for 74k. (Though I've seen better on 4K Amiga intros)
There's a demo of this at
http://www.nervana.com/psi/
(Winoze, Be and Mac)
It looks quite good, but very basic. Hard to tell really if it's going to be revolutionary or not.
Oh man... the first link is bogus, let's try again...
You think that's bad? Some German 'entreprenuer' has trademarked the use of the @ symbol! Check out the link. (Babelfished, alas, the original German is here - it's be nice if a German reader could give more details...)
Even better, hows about an 3l337 keyboard, in which all the numbers are on the home row? ;)
grab those warez in double quick time!
Ah yes, that's the boyo. In fact on the comments page, about half way down, some guy from MIT raves about how useful they were for his wearable computer project. He says they can type up to 60 words a minute using this little thing...
I don't see a keyboard. How do you type things?
You could have some sort of keyboard device in your pocket - like those things where you can produce any letter by manipulating 4 or 5 keys in different ways. Of course, to the casual observer it might look like you were engaging in a game of 'pocket billiards' - geeks' image are bad enough already!
If you use BT and register your ISP (local call) phone number as a so-called best friend number you'll be entitled to 20% discount to all calls made on this number.
;)
Yes, but tell me you didn't feel slightly sad ringing BT up and asking them to register your ISP as your best friend.
As a die-hard GNU advocate I'd still be the first person happy to rename 'grep' as 'regexp-filter' or even 'search'.
And you'd probably think that stuff like renaming shell commands, and making stuff like switches less obtuse would be a great leap forward in usuability, right?
Maybe so, but you've got to understand that 95% of the computer using public does not want to use a CLI *at all*!
I think Linux and Macs are pretty much diametrically opposed, as far as OS philosophy goes. This means that there should be no reason they cannot co-exist - one will not threaten the other niches.
"They felt that "free software"
sounded too frightening."
Yeah, that really scares the shit out of me!! Seriously, they do confuse free software and OSS - software can be free without coming with source, surely.