I dont need to prove my memory, dufus. Thats why I have a wall in my cave, to paint on it. A clay tablet, to write on it. A stone wall, to carve stories on it. Papyrus, later paper, later the press, later this, that, and those. And finally, this thingie here we call a macbook pro 15 in late 2011.
The fact that counciousness is our memory and our memory compresses, sometimes loosing stuff, sometimes modifying and interpreting, cannot be weilded as evidence for the inexistance of shit we write to and ITS reliability. All to the contrary: the fact that we devised stuff to remember better is proof that both our memory sucks and we dont like it.
Well no. I just want kids to not be fed idiotic rubish that has never been observed in a lab, such as idiotic creationism and the endearing idea that god planted dinosaur bones to test "our" faith.
You see. The civic sin of this biblethumping dumbasses is in that "our". They mean its yours too, ya know? And that of all of the kids in Kentucky to boot.
The only software that has absolutely no bugs from the rollout is code more than 20 years old that hasnt been touched in the last 10 and does exactly what it did back then.... and even then, sometimes the unexpected can come up way in the future.
How about both? You cant "grab" a video, make it smaller, turn on another channel or youtube video and position it besides the first one. Or rather you can, but with speech it would be a lengthy process while grabing, resizing, playing (or invoking a play of video #2 with voice) and positioning both videos can be done in three swift moves.
Its not either/or. Its both. I want my voice recognition and my gesture thingie. What is ridiculous is the Microsoft wouldnt think of this "small box of interaction", sensor facing up, to get higher resolution than kinect and a better interface for what we now call a PC or iTV, bis a bis the long distance and poor 3d resolution of kinect. Its such an obvious, beautiful trade-off.
Missing the point: it is not about computers, its about a wall mounted intelligent tv with automatic voice-command recognition that can turn your coffee on or off, download your tv episodes...etc.
The future for computers has always been ubiquity, invisibility and support for daily shit.
Well I think "can't build" is too strong a phrase. You sure may be able to produce some very good aproximation of an AI that can handle metaphor with a huge database.
SnowCrash is, however, a fucking wonderful read and, for its time, trully visionary.
The steampunk stuff aint my thing. Cryptonomicon and Snowcrash is what i keep from neil.
Now, Master Gibson is in another level in the literary sense, of course. That guy, to me, delivered the best scifi writing since Phillip K. Dick. Buuut... it stops once we get to spook country which, to me, is a bit hum... how to put it... weak.
Right now, i think fucking palanihuk should delve into scifi and see what he can deliver.
If the new frauds against the new meters are equivalent in size to the old frauds against old meters, but with the new meters they are at least more easily quantified, it still makes sense to deploy them. If the new frauds amount to lesser losses compared to the older frauds, then its still worth it.
If not, Id try and find out who is getting the kickback for this idiotic things.
"The U.S. government is involved in espionage against other governments. There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of cyberespionage the United States government does and China. The U.S. government doesn’t hack its way into Airbus and give Airbus the secrets to Boeing [many believe that Chinese hackers gave Boeing secrets to Airbus]. "
Here is a hint: start doing it, you dumbasses. Im no expert in chinese culture, but i've been studying their story with reverse engineering and the way they've built their home industry to come to the conclusion that, to the chinese, this is business as usual.
You may be appalled by it, you may cringe with moral sentiment (and stubborn western-european hypocrisy), but you don't just stand there. Have a strategy to take a blow-by-blow approach to this and counterattack.... and maybe then you will realize all your strict IP laws and magical thinking make no sense at all in this brave new world.
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I dont need to prove my memory, dufus. Thats why I have a wall in my cave, to paint on it. A clay tablet, to write on it. A stone wall, to carve stories on it. Papyrus, later paper, later the press, later this, that, and those. And finally, this thingie here we call a macbook pro 15 in late 2011.
The fact that counciousness is our memory and our memory compresses, sometimes loosing stuff, sometimes modifying and interpreting, cannot be weilded as evidence for the inexistance of shit we write to and ITS reliability. All to the contrary: the fact that we devised stuff to remember better is proof that both our memory sucks and we dont like it.
" if philosophy is bullshit then we might as well crawl back to ~C4 BC and start again."
Im all for this, with minor changes.
" if religious bullshit is to be respected, then we might as well crawl back to ~C4 BC and start again."
There.
Genetic Engineering.
Agronomy
Any zootecniques
and a long long etc.
And, ceteris paribus, we are used by evolution much more than we use her. Its just the natural order of things.
No no, what you do in that instance is to try and NOT VOTE for religious cranks.
Youd think the most advanced democracy in the world would get that...
Well no. I just want kids to not be fed idiotic rubish that has never been observed in a lab, such as idiotic creationism and the endearing idea that god planted dinosaur bones to test "our" faith.
You see. The civic sin of this biblethumping dumbasses is in that "our". They mean its yours too, ya know? And that of all of the kids in Kentucky to boot.
Well yes you can, numbnuts: use a brit proxy. Costs 10 bucks.
wrong blog post, but it is down. The apple appstore runs on it and it doesnt work.
Try and buy an app from your iphone NOW.
Windows Azure is DOWN AS WE SPEAK: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/01/windows-azure-service-disruption-update.aspx ... congrats on paying for your non working OS without any indemnity either.
idle dot slashdot dot org
Is there anything you understand about this section of slashdot?
Oh man. I want some modpoints... :)
LOL
They called us commie scum. We will never forget.
It can. Usually isnt.
The only software that has absolutely no bugs from the rollout is code more than 20 years old that hasnt been touched in the last 10 and does exactly what it did back then.... and even then, sometimes the unexpected can come up way in the future.
You have no idea of how software is made, do you?
You have never, ever written any kind of software, have you?
How about both? You cant "grab" a video, make it smaller, turn on another channel or youtube video and position it besides the first one. Or rather you can, but with speech it would be a lengthy process while grabing, resizing, playing (or invoking a play of video #2 with voice) and positioning both videos can be done in three swift moves.
Its not either/or. Its both. I want my voice recognition and my gesture thingie. What is ridiculous is the Microsoft wouldnt think of this "small box of interaction", sensor facing up, to get higher resolution than kinect and a better interface for what we now call a PC or iTV, bis a bis the long distance and poor 3d resolution of kinect. Its such an obvious, beautiful trade-off.
Missing the point: it is not about computers, its about a wall mounted intelligent tv with automatic voice-command recognition that can turn your coffee on or off, download your tv episodes ...etc.
The future for computers has always been ubiquity, invisibility and support for daily shit.
I wish I had modpoints.... LOL
Well I think "can't build" is too strong a phrase. You sure may be able to produce some very good aproximation of an AI that can handle metaphor with a huge database.
SnowCrash is, however, a fucking wonderful read and, for its time, trully visionary.
The steampunk stuff aint my thing. Cryptonomicon and Snowcrash is what i keep from neil.
Now, Master Gibson is in another level in the literary sense, of course. That guy, to me, delivered the best scifi writing since Phillip K. Dick. Buuut... it stops once we get to spook country which, to me, is a bit hum... how to put it... weak.
Right now, i think fucking palanihuk should delve into scifi and see what he can deliver.
If the new frauds against the new meters are equivalent in size to the old frauds against old meters, but with the new meters they are at least more easily quantified, it still makes sense to deploy them. If the new frauds amount to lesser losses compared to the older frauds, then its still worth it.
If not, Id try and find out who is getting the kickback for this idiotic things.
I don't mean literally "steal it back" (these is technology, not rods of gold). I mean blow-by-blow, wherever it hurts them.
"The U.S. government is involved in espionage against other governments. There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of cyberespionage the United States government does and China. The U.S. government doesn’t hack its way into Airbus and give Airbus the secrets to Boeing [many believe that Chinese hackers gave Boeing secrets to Airbus]. "
Here is a hint: start doing it, you dumbasses. Im no expert in chinese culture, but i've been studying their story with reverse engineering and the way they've built their home industry to come to the conclusion that, to the chinese, this is business as usual.
You may be appalled by it, you may cringe with moral sentiment (and stubborn western-european hypocrisy), but you don't just stand there. Have a strategy to take a blow-by-blow approach to this and counterattack.... and maybe then you will realize all your strict IP laws and magical thinking make no sense at all in this brave new world.
Snap out of it NOW!
Really. That is one smart kid with a lot of time, talent, willpower and attention for detail. Kudos to the guy/gal that accomplished it.
Why would a fixed price be impossible to implement by other distribution methods?
Not as important as books anyway...
Unless its a book about cheese!