That was a very lucid peice. Too bad Rob didn't publish it. I think it would have made a great subject of conversation. Congrats. I copied it and placed it in my archive of "Cool Articles I've Read" -- fully cited, of course! I don't plagarize either. (You *should* put it up on a web page, btw).
Ick. Imagine. A kid, from birth, born blind and deaf but hooked up through various sensors to weather devices all over the world, and as an a adult being able to 'see' weather?
Oh dear. You've just described The Child Buyer by John Hersey. Basically, the denfense industry takes super intelligent kids, cuts off their senses and turns them into hugely intellegent, but essentially mindless, computing devices.
It was pretty disturbing. Pick it up if you can find a copy (It seems to be out of print -- maybe try a library?).
What are you *talking* about? Opera is superior to Netscape in almost every day. I have Windows NT at work, with 3 browsers installed (I'm a web developer) -- IE3, NS4.5ish, and Opera 3.0. Of these, Opera is the smallest, fastest and overall, the best. It puts *you* in charge, and it lets you follow hypertext in multiple windows like a graceful gazelle, instead of a clumbersome bison...
As to your specific gripes of JavaScript and tables: I've never had any troubles with JS; Opera tells websites it is Mozilla (like IE does). As for tables, Opera is *far* faster than any version of Netscape or MSIE. Mozilla vs. Opera is too close to tell (but Opera is over half as small...). We'll see how it goes when Mozilla is final. But for now, Opera rocks! If you have access to a Windows box, check out a recent version.
My only gripe? Opera caches more than it should. It makes dynamic sites a pain to create, test, and use, but must be nice for modem users.
I don't really watch DS9 very much (never really got into it and I also don't watch TV, really), but I did see that episode. They weren't evolving BACKWARDS, rather the propulsion device they were testing caused them to evolve FORWARD in time billions of years. The lizard/amphibian things they turned into were the future of humanity, not its past.
Though I don't know why they didn't just use that super fast drive (if I recall correctly it was Warp 10+ [which for any of you who have read the ST:TNG Technical manual, is supposed to be impossible] device) to blast a message to the Federation "Hey we're out here!". Or send their transporter image or something. That would get them home...
Perhaps you should learn about what you write, my friend. If I may qoute: "...are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
So, you are quite wrong when you say that "unless the constitution says this is your right...then that right belongs to the STATE" -- both in your construction (the Constitution says "States", meaning the individual States, whereas you say STATE, which I take to mean "the government") and in your impliction.
On the other hand, it's not like anyone pays attention to the Ninth and Tenth Ammendments anyway. That is one of the prime reasons why I'm an anarchist. At least we admitt there's no such thing as written rule of law.
Actually, I rather hope my (hypothetical) first-born's first word is "fuck" or something along those lines. I would find that highly amusing.
If you want to start your own swear-free linux distro, go right ahead. The rest of us, who believe it or not, do occassionally swear will keep using what works fine and isn't hurting anyone.
I was under the impression that// was now the prefered commenting style (for C++ of course,// doesn't work in C!). I'm only a student, but that's what I've read and been taught. In huge comment blocks,// makes it more apparent that what you are looking at is a comment (which is why I think a lot of people use this style: /* This is a comment * blah blah blah * blah. */).
'Sides,// is what Emacs uses when you do a "Comment out this section" -- it must be Right!
No, you are the one blatanly wrong here. Pi is a transendental number. It cannot be fully expressed in a finite quantity. You can cut a stick with length 22/7 inches, or 3.14 inches or 3.14159 inches, but you *cannot* cut a stick to *pi* inches. You can only approach it.
While it is true that SDMI will be DOA, what you say here is completely untrue:
"file size will be irrelevant when the average user has 10x more network bandwidth and storage devices with 10x the density."
Compression will *always* matter. Someday an (open) format which sounds better than mp3 will come along. But that format will not be.wav. Trust me. I mean, people always say "Storage sizes are getting so large, I can never fill it up!" but guess what? They always do! Perhaps the successor to mp3 will indeed be *larger* in size, but it will still be compressed. Why should you wait 10 minutes to get an album online when you could get it in 1? -- And have it sound just as good! Why be able to store 100 albums on a drive/DVD-ROM/flash card when you can have 1000? Compression matters.
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Maybe you should call your copy of the game NAND. [grin]
OK, that was pretty stupid...
Luke
It was pretty funny the way it was, because it's true! Plenty of people run everything they need on 100 Mhz...
Cease your floccinaucinihilipilification*, already!
* the act of estimating as worthless. I don't really know if it has any validity here, but I love that word!
That was a very lucid peice. Too bad Rob didn't publish it. I think it would have made a great subject of conversation. Congrats. I copied it and placed it in my archive of "Cool Articles I've Read" -- fully cited, of course! I don't plagarize either. (You *should* put it up on a web page, btw).
Hopefully, though, after reading, they will turn away in discust. Sorry, I'm a libertarian/anarchist, but I'm not a fan.
Ick. Imagine. A kid, from birth, born blind and deaf but hooked up through various sensors to weather devices all over the world, and as an a adult being able to 'see' weather?
Oh dear. You've just described The Child Buyer by John Hersey. Basically, the denfense industry takes super intelligent kids, cuts off their senses and turns them into hugely intellegent, but essentially mindless, computing devices.
It was pretty disturbing. Pick it up if you can find a copy (It seems to be out of print -- maybe try a library?).
What are you *talking* about? Opera is superior to Netscape in almost every day. I have Windows NT at work, with 3 browsers installed (I'm a web developer) -- IE3, NS4.5ish, and Opera 3.0. Of these, Opera is the smallest, fastest and overall, the best. It puts *you* in charge, and it lets you follow hypertext in multiple windows like a graceful gazelle, instead of a clumbersome bison...
As to your specific gripes of JavaScript and tables: I've never had any troubles with JS; Opera tells websites it is Mozilla (like IE does). As for tables, Opera is *far* faster than any version of Netscape or MSIE. Mozilla vs. Opera is too close to tell (but Opera is over half as small...). We'll see how it goes when Mozilla is final. But for now, Opera rocks! If you have access to a Windows box, check out a recent version.
My only gripe? Opera caches more than it should. It makes dynamic sites a pain to create, test, and use, but must be nice for modem users.
I don't really watch DS9 very much (never really got into it and I also don't watch TV, really), but I did see that episode. They weren't evolving BACKWARDS, rather the propulsion device they were testing caused them to evolve FORWARD in time billions of years. The lizard/amphibian things they turned into were the future of humanity, not its past.
Though I don't know why they didn't just use that super fast drive (if I recall correctly it was Warp 10+ [which for any of you who have read the ST:TNG Technical manual, is supposed to be impossible] device) to blast a message to the Federation "Hey we're out here!". Or send their transporter image or something. That would get them home...
Luke
Perhaps you should learn about what you write, my friend. If I may qoute: "...are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
So, you are quite wrong when you say that "unless the constitution says this is your right...then that right belongs to the STATE" -- both in your construction (the Constitution says "States", meaning the individual States, whereas you say STATE, which I take to mean "the government") and in your impliction.
On the other hand, it's not like anyone pays attention to the Ninth and Tenth Ammendments anyway. That is one of the prime reasons why I'm an anarchist. At least we admitt there's no such thing as written rule of law.
Actually, I rather hope my (hypothetical) first-born's first word is "fuck" or something along those lines. I would find that highly amusing.
If you want to start your own swear-free linux distro, go right ahead. The rest of us, who believe it or not, do occassionally swear will keep using what works fine and isn't hurting anyone.
Wow! "Webjacker"? That totally owns. Oh, and can't you just see Jesse Berst talking about "e-bandits"? LOL.
I was under the impression that // was now the prefered commenting style (for C++ of course, // doesn't work in C!). I'm only a student, but that's what I've read and been taught. In huge comment blocks, // makes it more apparent that what you are looking at is a comment (which is why I think a lot of people use this style:
// is what Emacs uses when you do a "Comment out this section" -- it must be Right!
/* This is a comment
* blah blah blah
* blah.
*/).
'Sides,
No, you are the one blatanly wrong here. Pi is a transendental number. It cannot be fully expressed in a finite quantity. You can cut a stick with length 22/7 inches, or 3.14 inches or 3.14159 inches, but you *cannot* cut a stick to *pi* inches. You can only approach it.
Probably the Windows NT kind... ;)
While it is true that SDMI will be DOA, what you say here is completely untrue:
.wav. Trust me. I mean, people always say "Storage sizes are getting so large, I can never fill it up!" but guess what? They always do! Perhaps the successor to mp3 will indeed be *larger* in size, but it will still be compressed. Why should you wait 10 minutes to get an album online when you could get it in 1? -- And have it sound just as good! Why be able to store 100 albums on a drive/DVD-ROM/flash card when you can have 1000? Compression matters.
"file size will be irrelevant when the average user has 10x more network bandwidth and storage devices with 10x the density."
Compression will *always* matter. Someday an (open) format which sounds better than mp3 will come along. But that format will not be