Thank you for writing this post. I'm not anywhere near being as wise as you - I'm only 27 years old - but, I must say I definately not only agree with you, I respect what you are saying.
Before I go on, I must say that I am a complete idiot; I only went to college for 3 years, and in that time managed to fail out of both schools... I guess I just couldn't understand why I was paying people to tell me what books to read and how to read them... oh well.
Anyway, it's pretty easy to see that hardly anything is original these days, it's all just copies of other copies... and if a real problem turns up - hey, no big deal - we can just call up FlyingGuy and his buddies... I just hope he doesn't give us too much trouble this time..
As far as this whole topic goes, computers are just big calculators - they do math. All of the programming languages created to do that math were created by us stupid humans to put that math into words.
Hopefully my grammar and spelling were good enough for any readers of this post.
Sorry, but this guy is an idiot... i guess that's why i've never heard of him before? I mean seriously... i can easily travel 10 miles in what.. 5 minutes? His analogies are pointless, or maybe i'm just missing the point?
"pinky and the brain, pinky and the brain, one is a genius.. the other insane" -- i'm pretty sure pinky's the insane one...
anyway, maybe i just need to get more sleep, but i think what pinky's getting at is that the next wave of computing will be here very soon - as in sometime between next month to next year... i already discovered the new video cards with a gig of memory built into them... pretty sad when a modern day video card is more "powerful" than the computer i'm running - ah well...
apparently, he was a piano player back in the 30's, as well as a hypochondriac that was addicted to prescription drugs and that his wife "frequently committed him to mental hospitals."
Really, what difference does it make? In order to have "intelligence", one must declare you to be intelligent. Funny how people are arguing about the idea of information being free when in reality, when it comes down to it - we're just believing what we're told.
intelligence ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-tl-jns) n.
The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. The faculty of thought and reason. Superior powers of mind. See Synonyms at mind. An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel. Information; news. See Synonyms at news.
Secret information, especially about an actual or potential enemy. An agency, staff, or office employed in gathering such information. Espionage agents, organizations, and activities considered as a group: "Intelligence is nothing if not an institutionalized black market in perishable commodities" (John le Carré).
The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, especially toward a purposeful goal. An individual's relative standing on two quantitative indices, namely measured intelligence, as expressed by an intelligence quotient, and effectiveness of adaptive behavior.
Main Entry: intelligence Pronunciation: in-'tel-&-j&n(t)s Function: noun 1 a : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations b : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests) 2 : mental acuteness --intelligent/in-'tel-&-j&nt/ adjective --intelligently adverb
n 1: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: stupidity] 2: a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy [syn: intelligence service, intelligence agency] 3: secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" [syn: intelligence information] 4: new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, tidings, word] 5: the operation of gathering information about an enemy [syn: intelligence activity, intelligence operation]
How can anyone rate "productivity" anyway? A person may completely believe he's being as productive as he possibly can each and everyday - yet, his boss can fire him at any time for "not being productive"; the two individuals views on productivity are completely different. Therefore, who is it that determines just which one is being more productive? Perhaps, they both are being exteremely productive, just in several different areas... blah blah blah, anyway, what i'm getting at is this is a pretty stupid topic.
I took Networking for 2 years while at college and learned hardly anything I didn't already know about computers, but I learned a lot about Networking - used to be at a different party every night,:P
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Hello FlyingGuy,
Thank you for writing this post. I'm not anywhere near being as wise as you - I'm only 27 years old - but, I must say I definately not only agree with you, I respect what you are saying.
Before I go on, I must say that I am a complete idiot; I only went to college for 3 years, and in that time managed to fail out of both schools... I guess I just couldn't understand why I was paying people to tell me what books to read and how to read them... oh well.
Anyway, it's pretty easy to see that hardly anything is original these days, it's all just copies of other copies... and if a real problem turns up - hey, no big deal - we can just call up FlyingGuy and his buddies... I just hope he doesn't give us too much trouble this time..
As far as this whole topic goes, computers are just big calculators - they do math. All of the programming languages created to do that math were created by us stupid humans to put that math into words.
Hopefully my grammar and spelling were good enough for any readers of this post.
-sum1
Sorry, but this guy is an idiot... i guess that's why i've never heard of him before? I mean seriously... i can easily travel 10 miles in what.. 5 minutes? His analogies are pointless, or maybe i'm just missing the point?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Theseus
"pinky and the brain, pinky and the brain, one is a genius.. the other insane" -- i'm pretty sure pinky's the insane one...
anyway, maybe i just need to get more sleep, but i think what pinky's getting at is that the next wave of computing will be here very soon - as in sometime between next month to next year... i already discovered the new video cards with a gig of memory built into them... pretty sad when a modern day video card is more "powerful" than the computer i'm running - ah well...
here's a good quote for all of you out there:
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." -
-- Oscar Levant
I even went ahead and looked up sum info on Oscar Levant, simply because I had heard of the quote before, but had no idea who had said it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Levant
apparently, he was a piano player back in the 30's, as well as a hypochondriac that was addicted to prescription drugs and that his wife "frequently committed him to mental hospitals."
yay!
I think you need to get out more... cheers!
dude... you rule...
batman beyond was definately the best one.
Really, what difference does it make? In order to have "intelligence", one must declare you to be intelligent. Funny how people are arguing about the idea of information being free when in reality, when it comes down to it - we're just believing what we're told.
/in-'tel-&-j&nt/ adjective --intelligently adverb
intelligence ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-tl-jns)
n.
The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
The faculty of thought and reason.
Superior powers of mind. See Synonyms at mind.
An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.
Information; news. See Synonyms at news.
Secret information, especially about an actual or potential enemy.
An agency, staff, or office employed in gathering such information.
Espionage agents, organizations, and activities considered as a group: "Intelligence is nothing if not an institutionalized black market in perishable commodities" (John le Carré).
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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
intelligence (n-tl-jns)
n.
The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, especially toward a purposeful goal.
An individual's relative standing on two quantitative indices, namely measured intelligence, as expressed by an intelligence quotient, and effectiveness of adaptive behavior.
Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Main Entry: intelligence
Pronunciation: in-'tel-&-j&n(t)s
Function: noun
1 a : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations b : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)
2 : mental acuteness --intelligent
Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
intelligence
n 1: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: stupidity] 2: a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy [syn: intelligence service, intelligence agency] 3: secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" [syn: intelligence information] 4: new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, tidings, word] 5: the operation of gathering information about an enemy [syn: intelligence activity, intelligence operation]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
intelligence
intelligence: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary
Source: On-line Medical Dictionary, © 1997-98 Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
How can anyone rate "productivity" anyway?
A person may completely believe he's being as productive as he possibly can each and everyday - yet, his boss can fire him at any time for "not being productive"; the two individuals views on productivity are completely different. Therefore, who is it that determines just which one is being more productive? Perhaps, they both are being exteremely productive, just in several different areas... blah blah blah, anyway, what i'm getting at is this is a pretty stupid topic.
If you can't afford $100 for the initial cost, how the hell can you afford the system to play the damn game?
I took Networking for 2 years while at college and learned hardly anything I didn't already know about computers, but I learned a lot about Networking - used to be at a different party every night, :P
sum1 has to clean up the mess...