| Now if we don't fix our economy and stop spending money we don't have, then in 20 or 30 years we won't be able to afford the military we have now and won't be able to come to our own aid, much less anyone elses...
| If NASA had that attitude, we never would have had a decade of stagnation after the first Shuttle accident.
Listen, lad. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest castle in these islands.
Would it be more usable than the conventional tablet [ ie. scribbling on the screen ], to have a smaller screen to write on? It would seem to keep the 'input clutter' away from the primary screen, provide feedback and higher resolution sensing.
Also, you could use the iSight + little screen to get innovative viewing angles....
Although they are all turing machines in the end, a functional programming language can separate the program from the implementation. You don't think in terms of contexts, a single program may use an arbitrary number of cores, in a very lightweight and low context method.
Each one effectively removes a to-be-evaluated expression from a list, and returns its evaluated result. In the process of evaluating the expression, it may add other to-be-evaluated expressions to this list, which will be evaluated by available cores. When the list is single valued, the 'program' is complete. The idea is that the system, rather than the programmer, stretches to the available parallelism. It won't help getting the last element of a list, but an entire list can be searched in parallel, presuming the comparison is more expensive than the traversal. When a core has completed a given expression, its context is dead, or, in other words, the expression is the context.
two problems: 1. functional programming is hard. I know the math nerds will say its natural, which is true if you happen to be a math nerd. 2. most functional programming languages are about as intuitive as windows registry.
maybe we can ask Misters K&R to write an "F" language to do for functional programming what C did to the abyss of COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I,... just don't let Mr S near it.
....and turned Microsoft from a beloved entity into..... When and by whom was MicroSoft ever a 'beloved entity'? They've always been crapware, and gates is most known for whining about the lack of royalties for some mickey mouse version of basic. Its like saying "turned McDonalds from an epicurean ideal into a grease recycler". It was always crap, but sometimes you are either poor or depraved enough to want the crap.
The responses to this have been unbelievable. "... wasting your best fucking years...", "... its her fault...", "... she wants someone like you...". 'Get a grip' would seem like an appropriate response, but it seems like many of you have been gripping a little too much.
And for the logic impaired:
I am a bad guy, thus I have sex with lots of women. does not imply that
I never have sex, thus I am a good guy.
The misogynistic rants disguised as 'poor me, I am too smart to be mean to women' would be frightening they weren't impotent whining.
Widesweeping generalizations: 1. Almost everyone enjoys sex. 2. Almost everyone has fantasies about who they want to have sex with. 3. Some people realize their fantasies.
If you want to be included in #3, do something about it. Probably involves burning the porn collection and actually learning how to be interesting to someone other than 'old lefty'; but it could be worth the effort.
And, for the record, some of the 'bad guys' stats are skewed because they would fuck a snake if nothing else were available. A similar study of 'bad girls' would show the same bias.
If I make a really cool pencil, and the military want to buy it, I don't think it makes me a 'little Eichmann', as the parent seems to suggest. If I make 'brown people seeking missiles', that is another matter.
Whether or not you support current military activities, in good conscience you cannot advocate that the military should get second class service. Your conscience will get in the way because you will be causing the death of somebody.
By the same sword, the talented shouldn't feel an obligation towards something they wholeheartedly disagree with. When the military take on 'adventures', they must realise that they are risking a generation of braintrust if there is little support for their mission. This is the case for any employer, although short of the Pinto, most employers haven't set out to kill people.
During the 1990s, after a massive victory in the former-Yugoslavian states, there appeared to be an uncommon support amongst techies to be proud of working for the military. That good will, perhaps tenfold, has certainly disappeared. Quel surprise.
No. This idea rests on way too much faith about how a brain works. Just because I have all the ingredients in a pot doesn't mean beef bourguignon will result from applying heat. I have to have real knowledge on how it works. Even if you could magically generate every possible substance than came from these ingredients, you would still need a way to select which one is beef bourguignon. The kicker is, even when you do this the one that generated it isn't necessarily a chef. It might make a mess of salmon almondine. AI as a 'simulated human brain' is snake oil. Wasn't there an article earlier about naivety vs skepticism?
We know how our own intelligence works so well that we made a test to measure it. Intelligence is whatever an IQ test measures. Where are our intelligent machines?
sorry blue fox, didn't mean to touch a nerve. I don't really care for personal attacks, demeans us all and all of that. If its really trouble for you, I'll drag your SUV to the dump if you give me $100. At 3000kg of fuel a year, it would do us all a favour. Your tale of driving is sad; did you ever consider a career that didn't require traveling a 100km a day? After all, we (that is, everyone) are subsidizing your career, at least until the price of gas covers the real cost of gas. Could you take a couple of courses and get yourself off the petroleum-welfare ride?
I was awestruck at the image on the right side of the article. Surely nobody can deny the divinity of his noodliness now, showing his presence at this glorious intersection of science and theology.
Don't really care if the rocks are uncomfortable. Presumably there is a narrow band that 'life as we know it' exists within. 0K..270K really doesn't matter, we'd all be dead. Suppose the narrow band is in the range 290K.. 310K. Then 1K is ~5%. Thats a bit more troubling. What is the actual range?
Second, I think part of the issue is about distribution - head in the oven, feet in the fire - and all that. Although, the feet in the SUV, head up the ass seems more popular...
I googled this, and it appears to be a spelling mistake - skim through being offered as the likely one. I think I'll wait and see if it is something that google wants to learn about before looking further into it.
10. They can't make them hold that much weight. 9. They can just sell empty boxes and nobody will notice. 8. They think its pointless. 7. They will get sued for all the heart attacks. 6. They are trying to add a hamburger eating exercise. 5. They want to print a McRap coupon for every 10seconds of use. 4. They won't be able to sell Super Mario if there are no fat americans.....
'a big gaping hole'? Seems a little much. 'A bug', 'unintended behaviour', seems a bit more even keeled.
MS haven't shown any great concern with security in the past, other than securing market share. Safari appears to have been ported to Windows for the same reason iTunes was - to support apple products (iPhone and iPod resp), thus market share for these products. MS is already in the i^HsmartPhone market, and doesn't want to find its products in the back row alongside the 'non iPod MP3 players'.
As such, Apple are a fair target, and should be covering their ass in this regard. They are about to broaden the iPhones market two or three fold, and a pissing contest over bug/feature/big-gaping-hole isn't worth the risk.
Slashdot Mirror
The web is your friend - www.saltrain.com. Not much about plants...
Yes, and exciting too. Couldn't we use nuclear weapons to blow the sea into the upper atmosphere? That would be cool, pun intended.....
| Now if we don't fix our economy and stop spending money we don't have, then in 20 or 30 years we won't be able to afford the military we have now and won't be able to come to our own aid, much less anyone elses...
The flickering hope of peace.
its almost like every service that uses hostnames might be affected.
| If NASA had that attitude, we never would have had a decade of stagnation after the first Shuttle accident.
Listen, lad. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest castle in these islands.
> Like say some idiot knocking out your connection because they knocked it out with a backhoe.
I've heard techs refer to backhoes as "cable finders"...
Would it be more usable than the conventional tablet [ ie. scribbling on the screen ], to have a smaller screen to write on? It would seem to keep the 'input clutter' away from the primary screen, provide feedback and higher resolution sensing.
Also, you could use the iSight + little screen to get innovative viewing angles....
uh, yeah, either that or look for pit-bulls. If weed were legal, we wouldn't need pit bulls....
that seems to shut down lots of brain activity.
Although they are all turing machines in the end, a functional programming language can separate the program from the implementation. You don't think in terms of contexts, a single program may use an arbitrary number of cores, in a very lightweight and low context method.
Each one effectively removes a to-be-evaluated expression from a list, and returns its evaluated result. In the process of evaluating the expression, it may add other to-be-evaluated expressions to this list, which will be evaluated by available cores. When the list is single valued, the 'program' is complete. The idea is that the system, rather than the programmer, stretches to the available parallelism. It won't help getting the last element of a list, but an entire list can be searched in parallel, presuming the comparison is more expensive than the traversal.
When a core has completed a given expression, its context is dead, or, in other words, the expression is the context.
two problems: 1. functional programming is hard. I know the math nerds will say its natural, which is true if you happen to be a math nerd. 2. most functional programming languages are about as intuitive as windows registry.
maybe we can ask Misters K&R to write an "F" language to do for functional programming what C did to the abyss of COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, ... just don't let Mr S near it.
....and turned Microsoft from a beloved entity into .....
When and by whom was MicroSoft ever a 'beloved entity'? They've always been crapware, and gates is most known for whining about the lack of royalties for some mickey mouse version of basic. Its like saying "turned McDonalds from an epicurean ideal into a grease recycler". It was always crap, but sometimes you are either poor or depraved enough to want the crap.
is to collect data on the cluelessness of nerds.
The responses to this have been unbelievable. "... wasting your best fucking years ...", " ... its her fault...", "... she wants someone like you...". 'Get a grip' would seem like an appropriate response, but it seems like many of you have been gripping a little too much.
And for the logic impaired:
I am a bad guy, thus I have sex with lots of women.
does not imply that
I never have sex, thus I am a good guy.
The misogynistic rants disguised as 'poor me, I am too smart to be mean to women' would be frightening they weren't impotent whining.
Widesweeping generalizations:
1. Almost everyone enjoys sex.
2. Almost everyone has fantasies about who they want to have sex with.
3. Some people realize their fantasies.
If you want to be included in #3, do something about it. Probably involves burning the porn collection and actually learning how to be interesting to someone other than 'old lefty'; but it could be worth the effort.
And, for the record, some of the 'bad guys' stats are skewed because they would fuck a snake if nothing else were available. A similar study of 'bad girls' would show the same bias.
If I make a really cool pencil, and the military want to buy it, I don't think it makes me a 'little Eichmann', as the parent seems to suggest. If I make 'brown people seeking missiles', that is another matter.
Whether or not you support current military activities, in good conscience you cannot advocate that the military should get second class service. Your conscience will get in the way because you will be causing the death of somebody.
By the same sword, the talented shouldn't feel an obligation towards something they wholeheartedly disagree with. When the military take on 'adventures', they must realise that they are risking a generation of braintrust if there is little support for their mission. This is the case for any employer, although short of the Pinto, most employers haven't set out to kill people.
During the 1990s, after a massive victory in the former-Yugoslavian states, there appeared to be an uncommon support amongst techies to be proud of working for the military. That good will, perhaps tenfold, has certainly disappeared. Quel surprise.
You could almost buy two copies of Vista for that money.
No. This idea rests on way too much faith about how a brain works. Just because I have all the ingredients in a pot doesn't mean beef bourguignon will result from applying heat. I have to have real knowledge on how it works. Even if you could magically generate every possible substance than came from these ingredients, you would still need a way to select which one is beef bourguignon.
The kicker is, even when you do this the one that generated it isn't necessarily a chef. It might make a mess of salmon almondine.
AI as a 'simulated human brain' is snake oil. Wasn't there an article earlier about naivety vs skepticism?
We know how our own intelligence works so well that we made a test to measure it. Intelligence is whatever an IQ test measures. Where are our intelligent machines?
Fascinating. Could we build a robot that just reads braille? Wouldn't it be a smart as a blind person?
sorry blue fox, didn't mean to touch a nerve. I don't really care for personal attacks, demeans us all and all of that. If its really trouble for you, I'll drag your SUV to the dump if you give me $100. At 3000kg of fuel a year, it would do us all a favour.
Your tale of driving is sad; did you ever consider a career that didn't require traveling a 100km a day? After all, we (that is, everyone) are subsidizing your career, at least until the price of gas covers the real cost of gas.
Could you take a couple of courses and get yourself off the petroleum-welfare ride?
I was awestruck at the image on the right side of the article. Surely nobody can deny the divinity of his noodliness now, showing his presence at this glorious intersection of science and theology.
Don't really care if the rocks are uncomfortable. Presumably there is a narrow band that 'life as we know it' exists within. 0K..270K really doesn't matter, we'd all be dead. Suppose the narrow band is in the range 290K .. 310K. Then 1K is ~5%. Thats a bit more troubling. What is the actual range?
Second, I think part of the issue is about distribution - head in the oven, feet in the fire - and all that. Although, the feet in the SUV, head up the ass seems more popular...
I googled this, and it appears to be a spelling mistake - skim through being offered as the likely one. I think I'll wait and see if it is something that google wants to learn about before looking further into it.
> 15 years alone is going to mess him even up..
Like make him so crazy he might kill the mother of his children?
10. They can't make them hold that much weight. ....
9. They can just sell empty boxes and nobody will notice.
8. They think its pointless.
7. They will get sued for all the heart attacks.
6. They are trying to add a hamburger eating exercise.
5. They want to print a McRap coupon for every 10seconds of use.
4. They won't be able to sell Super Mario if there are no fat americans.
really... as a matter of fact it's all dark.
I think we should get Pink Floyd up there for a concert before its too late.
'a big gaping hole'? Seems a little much. 'A bug', 'unintended behaviour', seems a bit more even keeled.
MS haven't shown any great concern with security in the past, other than securing market share. Safari appears to have been ported to Windows for the same reason iTunes was - to support apple products (iPhone and iPod resp), thus market share for these products. MS is already in the i^HsmartPhone market, and doesn't want to find its products in the back row alongside the 'non iPod MP3 players'.
As such, Apple are a fair target, and should be covering their ass in this regard. They are about to broaden the iPhones market two or three fold, and a pissing contest over bug/feature/big-gaping-hole isn't worth the risk.