You have an awful lot to say about a topic of which you have absolutely no understanding!
Yeah, we get it. You don't believe in free will. You think that makes you look smart and important and thus feel the need to share that fact with others. How you haven't spotted the contradiction in that reasoning is beyond me.
Aaaand this is exactly the kind of thing that young-earth creationists and climate change deniers will jump on to show that science (and scientists) can't be trusted.
So we should just ignore the problem because a few loons will use it to justify their crazy beliefs? Brilliant.
When I was in high school they had a "typing class" that I didn't do well in. Later when I started getting into online chat my typing speed increased ALOT.
You should have paid more attention in typing class. Just think how much faster you'd be if you used both hands.
At age 8 I was reading about black holes in science magazines and had taught myself how to code in GW-BASIC
So you were a perfectly average 8-year-old in the 1980's. Good for you.
It was a different time. Kids today have advantages we would have killed for, sure, but they also face different problems. Parents also face dramatically different social and legal pressures.
When we were kids, it wasn't a big deal to ride your bike a few miles to a friends house, not checking in until after dark to ask if you can stay over night. Today, you're face would end up on the news before lunch, and net your parents a few visits from social services.
Christ, just look at shit like this. If it were satire, it would be too implausible to be funny, but that's reality.
Why can't little Johnny code? Because we suspended him for planning out a game where you shot alien space ships with guns. The Horror!
Blame "culture" if you want, but it's a culture we've created. We're not kids any more. This is our world now. We did this. We're the ones who allow nonsense like the above to continue unchecked.
Each cell as an individual object is not only obviously inefficient, it's absurdly so.
It's like some idiot kid who just learned about "oop" thought to himself "cells, that's a noun. I'll make a cell class!" without putting in any further thought. It's a laughably bad approach that you wouldn't expect from anyone even minimally competent.
That this is the approach initially used is beyond belief. That it's still the approach used stretches credulity!
They're all solving different problems. TeX is designed for typesetting, which HTML and Word formats aren't well-suited. HTML does structure well, but it's useless for typesetting. OOXML is a weird mix, not really well suited to either task. It's better than older formats, but it's still incredibly painful to generate, and near impossible to read. If I had to guess, it's designed to give MS the ability to say that the format is open, while still making it difficult for competitors to support.
Of course we did. We also moved on to better tools as our needs, and motor skills, developed.
DaVinci and Monet didn't work with finger-paints. Tolstoy didn't scratch out War and Peace across a public beach. You used a keyboard, and not a sandbox, to write this post.
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Finally! An OS suitable for Sarah Palin.
She's a real Maverick.
I thought specs didn't matter?
Is it "Welcome to Slashdot"?
Jesus! Read a damn book!
You have an awful lot to say about a topic of which you have absolutely no understanding!
Yeah, we get it. You don't believe in free will. You think that makes you look smart and important and thus feel the need to share that fact with others. How you haven't spotted the contradiction in that reasoning is beyond me.
A shame you posted this as AC. The parent will never see it.
"But is there really any difference between having free will and appearing to have free will?
Yes.
Or, put another way, is there really any difference between the illusion of free will and free will?
Still 'Yes'.
Congratulations. You've discovered the most obvious limit of behavioralism.
I think I am in the camp of
... not having a basic understanding of modern philosophy?
Why? I don't seem to be the one with the reading problem here!
I'm sorry that your initial insult failed in the worst possible way. That can be embarrassing. Don't let that get you down. You will get over it.
Not only can I read, I have excellent reading comprehension.
at age 8 I had complete root access of the computer and by age 9 I had started to disassemble it for hardware modifications
Scored a Cromemco Miniframe computer by the age of 12
Next time, make an effort to understand what you've read before posting.
That's what people call it.
Then those people are morons.
Aaaand this is exactly the kind of thing that young-earth creationists and climate change deniers will jump on to show that science (and scientists) can't be trusted.
So we should just ignore the problem because a few loons will use it to justify their crazy beliefs? Brilliant.
I weep for humanity.
Making people aware of the problem is a good first step.
When I was in high school they had a "typing class" that I didn't do well in. Later when I started getting into online chat my typing speed increased ALOT.
You should have paid more attention in typing class. Just think how much faster you'd be if you used both hands.
Yet look at his username. I wonder what it's like to feel nostalgic for things long gone before you were born...
at age 8 I had complete root access of the computer
I was online before my parents because I was the one who figured out the passwords for the local UUNET dial up node 300bps
Does not compute. Was your home computer a VAX or something?
At age 8 I was reading about black holes in science magazines and had taught myself how to code in GW-BASIC
So you were a perfectly average 8-year-old in the 1980's. Good for you.
It was a different time. Kids today have advantages we would have killed for, sure, but they also face different problems. Parents also face dramatically different social and legal pressures.
When we were kids, it wasn't a big deal to ride your bike a few miles to a friends house, not checking in until after dark to ask if you can stay over night. Today, you're face would end up on the news before lunch, and net your parents a few visits from social services.
Christ, just look at shit like this. If it were satire, it would be too implausible to be funny, but that's reality.
Why can't little Johnny code? Because we suspended him for planning out a game where you shot alien space ships with guns. The Horror!
Blame "culture" if you want, but it's a culture we've created. We're not kids any more. This is our world now. We did this. We're the ones who allow nonsense like the above to continue unchecked.
What are you going to do about it?
And there lies the heart of the problem. Your average user is too fucking stupid to bother understanding anything.
If by "too fucking stupid" you mean "don't care enough"
It wouldn't matter if it was the greatest program ever to grace the personal computer. That it is necessary is the problem.
The whale will be bilingual.
Each cell as an individual object is not only obviously inefficient, it's absurdly so.
It's like some idiot kid who just learned about "oop" thought to himself "cells, that's a noun. I'll make a cell class!" without putting in any further thought. It's a laughably bad approach that you wouldn't expect from anyone even minimally competent.
That this is the approach initially used is beyond belief. That it's still the approach used stretches credulity!
For a bunch of nerds I'm surprised how difficult this is for some.
That's the average autodidact for you...
One of the key things is changing from handling each cell as an individual instance of an object to a more efficient approach.
...
Really? Someone thought that was a good idea?
They're all solving different problems. TeX is designed for typesetting, which HTML and Word formats aren't well-suited. HTML does structure well, but it's useless for typesetting. OOXML is a weird mix, not really well suited to either task. It's better than older formats, but it's still incredibly painful to generate, and near impossible to read. If I had to guess, it's designed to give MS the ability to say that the format is open, while still making it difficult for competitors to support.
I once wrote a Basic interpreter in Basic to annoy a friend.
RIM has already caved on that score and built in backdoors to let India eavesdrop on Blackberry users' communications.
That's not even a little bit true.
Check your facts before posting next time.
Of course we did. We also moved on to better tools as our needs, and motor skills, developed.
DaVinci and Monet didn't work with finger-paints. Tolstoy didn't scratch out War and Peace across a public beach. You used a keyboard, and not a sandbox, to write this post.