Hmm... just conjecture, but the effect you are experiencing should be just the opposite effect. Your brain is slowing down so everything at normal speed seems to move faster. If your brain was speeding up, it should seem like things were going slower... like Neo dodging bullets in the Matrix.
If you have banked 1200 hours of TV programming that you still need to watch, you've obviously been slacking off on your TV watching responsibilities. Come on, people, get with the program... you act like all you have to do all day is work or something.
Well, if you want to examine contemporary times, ebonics is (controversially) and accepted 'language' in some parts of the nation.
Language evolves over time as you have shown, so it's not surprising to see the new generation of english to be substantially different than that of past generations.
It's just like in the past when writers began to use the vernacular instead of Latin as the language for their writing. Apparently this caused quite an uproar.
Good writing is supposed to draw from the writers background and experience. Given the exposure to chat rooms and web-speak, it's not surprising to see people incorporating this into their 'normal' writing. It might not be correct, but that's the way it is.
While i don't care to see it happen, i think we will see that l337 language will become increasingly accepted in normal society more and more in the coming years.
The first time around is kinda tough... but if you've done it once, you can do it again easy enough. Just have to make sure to RTFM for the mobo to set your clockspeed correctly and make sure any jumpers are where they go.
Well, that's for a home type PC... servers are a different beast, there's a lot more options.
Thing is, it doesn't matter... the higher number of pixels a camera can record, the more flexibility the guy back at the shop (whether it's a web site or a print publication) can zoom in and crop to with finer images as the result. No professional shop(one that can afford $6k for a camera) will just take a pic and be happy with it, there is a certain amount of image manipulation that has to be done and the more recorded pixels, the better.
The problem with all that is that they only ever feature three matches on battle bots... for a grand total of about 9 minutes of the show. The rest of it is the "coverage" that you admit is horrible and i'd say is *REALLY REALLY* horrible.
To improve the show, i'd nix almost all of the coverage and 'get to know 'ya' stuff and offer more construction details and a LOT more actual robot combat with better commentators.
The 4 machines you are connected to perform your search then pass it on to the computers they're connected to and so on... i think there is a setting you can change, but generally searches go something like 8 levels deep.
The slashdot crowd has been saying that ever since the shutdown of napster. Many/. folk have commented on how the nap music to preview before they buy. Others mention how Napster and after Gnutella have actually increaded their CD buying. Most people link the slow down in CD sales to the economic downturn rather than making the RIAA's claim that it's from file trading.
I think it's pretty clear that file trading is pretty neutral on the music industry and i join others in wonderment over the industry's heavy handed tactics to stop file trading when there is no evidence that it even might hurt their bottom lines.
While it's true that you can't make projections about someone else's figures without knowing anything about how the data was collected, i'm halfway willing to call all the numbers pretty bogus unless they came up with a pretty brilliant way to collect the data.
There are scores of people that only have internet access at work and are really 'net users but probably not counted. NAT and wireless are technologies that call the numbers into doubt and also, there is no real way to count users on all the various home or home office setup LANS. Also, there are millions of college students that don't have net access in their dorms (or off campus residences) but have access through college computer labs. The same applies to high school students. Factor in internet cafes, kinkos and the like and you can begin to see that it would be quite difficult to gauge an 'actual' number of internet users.
Well, if you figure that Google has the capacity to cache just about the whole 'net, it's not inconceivable that they could dump their archives and have them sent up somewhat periodically.
But then again, even at these distances, while you would have huge latency, you could still have pretty high bandwidth. It probably wouldn't be too hard to maintain a spider that would run around and collect a local cache of the whole net. Any page requests hit the local cache and are relatively fast. The spider would take advantage of forsight to pull pages people are likely to look at (or even ALL pages) and the 42 min orund trip would be eliminated.
Pinging marsrover.co.mars [68.179.57.159] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12100ms TTL=4300 Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12000ms TTL=4300 Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=11000ms TTL=4300 Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12000ms TTL=4300
Ping statistics for 68.179.57.159:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11000ms, Maximum = 12100ms, Average = 11700ms
Won't be playing UT with these guys anytime soon...:)
With a cue from Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner, Senate Commerce panel staffers dimmed the lights for a packed February 28 hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building. A full house of lawmakers and lobbyists settled back to watch an ABC Nightline
How funny would it be if it came out that Eisner had downloaded the footage the night before off of LimeWire?
Which makes you wonder, did he actually have the rights to show the footage? Sure, Eisner OWNS abc, but i wonder if he went through the red tape to get something printed that said he had the rights.
Wow... very impressive stuff. Too bad most of us are computer nerds and not serious artists. I'm pretty sure i could not advance much farther than the textured rock. But at least the software will be free so i can play with it without a large cash layout.
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How to Test Your T1?
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You'd survive, maybe even make a comfortable revenue. You just can't make the outrageous yearly profits that everyone demands
This assertion of yours seems to say that advertising can in fact make the difference between just surviving and making outrageous yearly profits.
Of course, we know that everyone from the slashdot crowd, if they owned their own company, is so high and mighty that they would turn their nose up at those evil outrageous yearly profits.
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I have to take issue with the idea that humans have anything more than rule evaluation and database searching in their brains. Human development, in my opinion, seems to suggest that everything we do is based on having screwed it once before. Burn your hand on something? Don't touch it again. Old milk tastes nasty? Don't drink it again.
This is a great point for debate, but i am of the opinion that the human brain is just a large collection of facts (a database), a really fast processor, and really efficient algorithms for searches. Original thought, i feel, is done in a similar way to computers.... generate all the possibilities and evaluate the outcome, choose the best one... we can do it tremendously better than machines and that is why it appears to be original thought, but is merely extrapolating from current rules.
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Look at a few of the bots out there. Alicebot for example. You get this bot talking to someone over ICQ for a little bit and they will not know the difference. The machine wouldn't be able to beat an AI researcher who knows how to ask it the correct questions to reveal that it's a machine, but to a regular human they could have a long conversation and the human would never know.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm... just conjecture, but the effect you are experiencing should be just the opposite effect. Your brain is slowing down so everything at normal speed seems to move faster. If your brain was speeding up, it should seem like things were going slower... like Neo dodging bullets in the Matrix.
So what you are saying is that she motivated you to become an awesome writer...
Sounds liks she wasn't such a bad teacher afterall.
Maybe you don't respect the method she used, but as they say, "The ends justify the means".
If you have banked 1200 hours of TV programming that you still need to watch, you've obviously been slacking off on your TV watching responsibilities. Come on, people, get with the program... you act like all you have to do all day is work or something.
Well, if you want to examine contemporary times, ebonics is (controversially) and accepted 'language' in some parts of the nation.
Language evolves over time as you have shown, so it's not surprising to see the new generation of english to be substantially different than that of past generations.
It's just like in the past when writers began to use the vernacular instead of Latin as the language for their writing. Apparently this caused quite an uproar.
Good writing is supposed to draw from the writers background and experience. Given the exposure to chat rooms and web-speak, it's not surprising to see people incorporating this into their 'normal' writing. It might not be correct, but that's the way it is.
While i don't care to see it happen, i think we will see that l337 language will become increasingly accepted in normal society more and more in the coming years.
Maybe i should RTFA first...
:)
But still applies when lego men do it...
The first time around is kinda tough... but if you've done it once, you can do it again easy enough. Just have to make sure to RTFM for the mobo to set your clockspeed correctly and make sure any jumpers are where they go.
Well, that's for a home type PC... servers are a different beast, there's a lot more options.
It would suck if you had to sit next to him in the capsule.... kinda take all the fun out of going to space.
Thing is, it doesn't matter... the higher number of pixels a camera can record, the more flexibility the guy back at the shop (whether it's a web site or a print publication) can zoom in and crop to with finer images as the result. No professional shop(one that can afford $6k for a camera) will just take a pic and be happy with it, there is a certain amount of image manipulation that has to be done and the more recorded pixels, the better.
The problem with all that is that they only ever feature three matches on battle bots... for a grand total of about 9 minutes of the show. The rest of it is the "coverage" that you admit is horrible and i'd say is *REALLY REALLY* horrible.
To improve the show, i'd nix almost all of the coverage and 'get to know 'ya' stuff and offer more construction details and a LOT more actual robot combat with better commentators.
The 4 machines you are connected to perform your search then pass it on to the computers they're connected to and so on... i think there is a setting you can change, but generally searches go something like 8 levels deep.
The slashdot crowd has been saying that ever since the shutdown of napster. Many /. folk have commented on how the nap music to preview before they buy. Others mention how Napster and after Gnutella have actually increaded their CD buying. Most people link the slow down in CD sales to the economic downturn rather than making the RIAA's claim that it's from file trading.
I think it's pretty clear that file trading is pretty neutral on the music industry and i join others in wonderment over the industry's heavy handed tactics to stop file trading when there is no evidence that it even might hurt their bottom lines.
Why put up with this crap when OpenOffice, StarOffice, and KOffice do just about everything MSO does?
Because Microsoft owns a significant part of Apple...
While it's true that you can't make projections about someone else's figures without knowing anything about how the data was collected, i'm halfway willing to call all the numbers pretty bogus unless they came up with a pretty brilliant way to collect the data.
There are scores of people that only have internet access at work and are really 'net users but probably not counted. NAT and wireless are technologies that call the numbers into doubt and also, there is no real way to count users on all the various home or home office setup LANS. Also, there are millions of college students that don't have net access in their dorms (or off campus residences) but have access through college computer labs. The same applies to high school students. Factor in internet cafes, kinkos and the like and you can begin to see that it would be quite difficult to gauge an 'actual' number of internet users.
Well, if you figure that Google has the capacity to cache just about the whole 'net, it's not inconceivable that they could dump their archives and have them sent up somewhat periodically.
But then again, even at these distances, while you would have huge latency, you could still have pretty high bandwidth. It probably wouldn't be too hard to maintain a spider that would run around and collect a local cache of the whole net. Any page requests hit the local cache and are relatively fast. The spider would take advantage of forsight to pull pages people are likely to look at (or even ALL pages) and the 42 min orund trip would be eliminated.
I was just BSing for comic effect.... if i had thought about it more i would have added more than two zero's to the real ping i did...
C:\>ping www.marsrover.co.mars
:)
Pinging marsrover.co.mars [68.179.57.159] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12100ms TTL=4300
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12000ms TTL=4300
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=11000ms TTL=4300
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12000ms TTL=4300
Ping statistics for 68.179.57.159:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11000ms, Maximum = 12100ms, Average = 11700ms
Won't be playing UT with these guys anytime soon...
Stephen Hawking: Brief history of time and Universe in a nutshell.
Very well written, in plain english that anyone can understand. And the ideas in them will blow your mind...
HP 2200
Full duplex. Fast. Ethernet ready.
mmm...
With a cue from Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner, Senate Commerce panel staffers dimmed the lights for a packed February 28 hearing in the Russell Senate Office Building. A full house of lawmakers and lobbyists settled back to watch an ABC Nightline
How funny would it be if it came out that Eisner had downloaded the footage the night before off of LimeWire?
Which makes you wonder, did he actually have the rights to show the footage? Sure, Eisner OWNS abc, but i wonder if he went through the red tape to get something printed that said he had the rights.
Wow... very impressive stuff. Too bad most of us are computer nerds and not serious artists. I'm pretty sure i could not advance much farther than the textured rock. But at least the software will be free so i can play with it without a large cash layout.
Only if it has a big aftermarket muffler.
You'd survive, maybe even make a comfortable revenue. You just can't make the outrageous yearly profits that everyone demands
This assertion of yours seems to say that advertising can in fact make the difference between just surviving and making outrageous yearly profits.
Of course, we know that everyone from the slashdot crowd, if they owned their own company, is so high and mighty that they would turn their nose up at those evil outrageous yearly profits.
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
I have to take issue with the idea that humans have anything more than rule evaluation and database searching in their brains. Human development, in my opinion, seems to suggest that everything we do is based on having screwed it once before. Burn your hand on something? Don't touch it again. Old milk tastes nasty? Don't drink it again.
This is a great point for debate, but i am of the opinion that the human brain is just a large collection of facts (a database), a really fast processor, and really efficient algorithms for searches. Original thought, i feel, is done in a similar way to computers.... generate all the possibilities and evaluate the outcome, choose the best one... we can do it tremendously better than machines and that is why it appears to be original thought, but is merely extrapolating from current rules.
Look at a few of the bots out there. Alicebot for example. You get this bot talking to someone over ICQ for a little bit and they will not know the difference. The machine wouldn't be able to beat an AI researcher who knows how to ask it the correct questions to reveal that it's a machine, but to a regular human they could have a long conversation and the human would never know.