I'm very interested in email discussions - offers I've made previously in slashdot - but no-one was interested in it.
No one able to argue with you is going to bother to do so in email. They already know they're not going to convince you. The purpose of arguing in public is to help clarify the arguments for others, who might otherwise be thinking that creationism is a real science, rather than just a religious effort dressed up in the trappings of science.
Why? Is it not conceivable that computers may perhaps be weaker in some THING than humans?
Oh please. In say, a thousand years, do you really think that computers, despite being inconceivably more powerful than they are today, will still be incapable of producing better chess moves than humans?
Of course not. The only question is how long it will take. Less than 1,000, surely, and probably a hell of a lot less.
I am willing to bet that the alienware box smokes the pant's off of it for price vs performance.
You know, if you get can find a free pencil lying around you'll have a tremendous price/performance ratio. Maybe you should make that your regular machine.
I've had one for a few days now. Extraordinarily responsive. I used a firewire cable to connect my powerbook to it via "target disk mode." I started a huge copy, like 30 GB or so. While this was going on I was able to continue use the computer as if nothing were happening. In fact I had to stop a few times and check the progress of the copy, because it seemed like it must have stopped or something. But there it was, chugging along.
He can put his phone on his desk and call me from the coach w/ voice dialing.
Maybe if you weren't such an elitist you would get up out of your first class seat and go back there and talk with him. And what's that desk doing on the plane anyway?
No, Gosling doesn't use JDBC. He says it all the time. He doesn't interact with databases, I guess. Not everyone has to.
In your original comment you implied that he doesn't use it because it's bloated, when in fact he simply doesn't happen to use it. An important difference, and one that makes your original post disingenuous.
I had the honor of listening to James Gosling's Keynote at Borcon 2001... He, for instance, doesn't use JDBC for anything... The previous day, the inventor of Pascal, who now works at Microsoft, did his entire keynote from Notepad
I think maybe you're making this stuff up.
- If Gosling doesn't use JDBC for "anything" (whatever that means) then how does he interact with databases from within Java?
- If Gosling gave the keynote, then how could anyone else give a keynote the previous day?
- I doubt the inventor of Pascal gave a "keynote," and if he did he wouldn't want to use visual studio to do so.
Wow, good one. What makes it really funny is that before your post no one ever made a mental connection between singular and cingular. Great post. Seriously. Keep up the good work. I mean it. Really.
Upon arriving at the party, we were both thirsty so we drank three bottles of beer apiece, along with five cups of lemonade. Michelle finally arrived and she drank another four bottles of beer. We were there for a total of two hours
Is this a dirty story, or one o' them brain teaser things?
I have this disturbing feeling that I'm talking to someone who managed to resist a great and horrible temptation and do something meaningful and worthwhile with their lives.
Here we have a sentence which can be parsed as either saying practicing law is a bad thing, or not practicing law is a bad thing. Clearly you are a great lawyer.
I think you got a raw deal there, ZackSchil. Amusing and articulate, but apparently too complex for the moderator to properly parse during his three second attention span.
I thought the whole purpose of the darwin project was to get most of their OS developed at no cost. Then they can sell it back to the people who wrote it for them.
Well if they wrote it for them, then they'd already have it. And have the right to do whatever they wanted with it, including the parts Apple wrote. I don't quite see why this is bad. Perhaps you could elaborate.
You automatically lose the argument if you use an unrealistic extreme to prove me wrong.
Yeah? Well what if I had an accident and suffered brain damage so unusual that the only way I could effectively communicate was through the use of unrealistic extremes? Huh? What then, Buddy?
When you mute your machine does it do the gong thing at boot anyway? That is getting on my damn nerves.
If you're using speakers, don't turn them on until after you boot. If you really just want it silent all the time, stick a mini-RCA plug in the headphones jack.
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No one able to argue with you is going to bother to do so in email. They already know they're not going to convince you. The purpose of arguing in public is to help clarify the arguments for others, who might otherwise be thinking that creationism is a real science, rather than just a religious effort dressed up in the trappings of science.
Oh please. In say, a thousand years, do you really think that computers, despite being inconceivably more powerful than they are today, will still be incapable of producing better chess moves than humans?
Of course not. The only question is how long it will take. Less than 1,000, surely, and probably a hell of a lot less.
For sufficiently small values of cool, of course.
They are bad for business anyways.
So then your business process produces things that are bad for business?
That's kinda my point. Price/performance does not make a very good guide.
You know, if you get can find a free pencil lying around you'll have a tremendous price/performance ratio. Maybe you should make that your regular machine.
It's just fast fast fast.
Well, I was being cute, but it's along the lines of "I'm not seeing that for $8.50!," except that for me it's $2.50.
Since where I live movies are much cheaper than in the US, now I can not see it for $2.50 instead of not seeing it for $8.50. Woo hoo!
Maybe if you weren't such an elitist you would get up out of your first class seat and go back there and talk with him. And what's that desk doing on the plane anyway?
That's not recursion. It's repetition. They are not the same thing.
All it indicates is that the code was easily and trivially replaced, so why not go ahead and do so?
In your original comment you implied that he doesn't use it because it's bloated, when in fact he simply doesn't happen to use it. An important difference, and one that makes your original post disingenuous.
He, for instance, doesn't use JDBC for anything...
The previous day, the inventor of Pascal, who now works at Microsoft, did his entire keynote from Notepad
I think maybe you're making this stuff up.
- If Gosling doesn't use JDBC for "anything" (whatever that means) then how does he interact with databases from within Java?
- If Gosling gave the keynote, then how could anyone else give a keynote the previous day?
- I doubt the inventor of Pascal gave a "keynote," and if he did he wouldn't want to use visual studio to do so.
Wow, good one. What makes it really funny is that before your post no one ever made a mental connection between singular and cingular. Great post. Seriously. Keep up the good work. I mean it. Really.
Is this a dirty story, or one o' them brain teaser things?
Here we have a sentence which can be parsed as either saying practicing law is a bad thing, or not practicing law is a bad thing. Clearly you are a great lawyer.
I think you got a raw deal there, ZackSchil. Amusing and articulate, but apparently too complex for the moderator to properly parse during his three second attention span.
Well if they wrote it for them, then they'd already have it. And have the right to do whatever they wanted with it, including the parts Apple wrote. I don't quite see why this is bad. Perhaps you could elaborate.
Yeah? Well what if I had an accident and suffered brain damage so unusual that the only way I could effectively communicate was through the use of unrealistic extremes? Huh? What then, Buddy?
To keep it warm, obviously.
If you're using speakers, don't turn them on until after you boot. If you really just want it silent all the time, stick a mini-RCA plug in the headphones jack.
Well, they haven't won yet. All they've done is file the complaint.
your humor is way too subtle for today's slashdot. I'm surprised no one has yet called 'u' an idiot and linked to a dictionary entry of the word.
And unlike static companies, which are merely founded, this dynamic company was "originally founded." Apparently it was founded more than once.