Who'd have thought that Rocket Fuel wasn't good for human consumption? I remember growing up, riding out to the swimming hole in the back of my uncles pickup, drinking Rocket Fuel out of an old mason jar with my cousins.
The sun will never burn out at that rate! In order to burn out the sun, you'd have to take 30% of its current energy. Then 30% of the remaining. Then 30% of that remaining. Then 30%... You get the idea. You could never use all its energy taking 30% at a time, anymore than I could cross a room and bump my nose into the wall by continually crossing half the remaining distance.
I tried that myself with my new Quanilon(tm) quantum CPU from AMD. The problem I had, was when the cooling fan failed the CPU overheated -- causing the probability wave to colapse -- and my cat died...
I know it's Linspire, but still the average user doesn't know to configure their digital camera with linux, or recompile the kernel.
The average user will, most likely, never have to recompile the kernel. As for the digital camera, that's a problem for the camera manufacturer to solve. Wal-mart can put enough preasure (if they want) on manufacturer to include software for Linspire.
I figure wal-mart supporting linux (in its own greedy way) just may be a good thing.
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"And it's pretty crazy that the global temperature changes in the last 100 years coincide nicely with the industrialization of the world."
That is one of the oldest fallacies in the book. The idea that if A and B occur, it means that A causes B. You really need to do some research concerning logic.
Very true, I've heard it put best as: Correlation does not imply causation.
So what I said was the most absurd thing you've ever heard for some time? Wow. Yes, it is. Read my origional comment again to gain a clear understanding.
I think that it is important that adequate help is given to people who can't use speech recognition methods... just as you can't expect a blind person to just "make an effort" and read the signs.
You can't compare a "stammer" to blindness -- no, a blind person can't "make an effort" (sic) to see. Nor should I expect such from a blind person. A person with a "stammer", on the other hand, CAN make an effort. As another poster pointed out, often times a person with a "stammer" can speak very clearly when they're alone. I don't know of any blind people who can see just fine when no one else is around.:)
Yeah, a "stammer" is certainly NOT A DISABILITY. Nor should it be so considered. Some therapy -- both speech and psychiatric -- could do wonders for you, as it has for many others with similar problems.
I really feel that a significant portion of society is being discriminated against. There are 550,000 people in the UK alone who have speech dysfluency problems, and yet speech recognition cannot deal with the multitude of different manifestations of this; repetition of sounds, blocking, or laboured or breathless speaking.
How, exactly, is your very small minority being discriminated against? That is, quite possibly, the most absurd statement I've heard in some time!
A few things: 1) Learn what discrimination is. You obviously don't know.
2) You can't expect speach recognition, which is just now becoming a viable technology, to be perfected to the point that it can cope with your particular disability.
3) It looks to me like all you're after is sympathy! I find that disgusting. Learn to live in society like the rest of us. Don't expect society to learn to live with you. You're not that important.
Text messaging is on all phones, but it's not very popular compared to other countries. It seems very popular here with the <20 crowd.
People would rather use a cell phone as a mobile version of a land line phone. Wow, people wanting to use their phone as a phone. Who'd have thought?
The american culture is not really into technology. You mean the country that brought you the personal computer? Or the country that took man to the moon and explored the surface of mars?
Though I do like the idea that Japan is the liver of the U.S. Filtering out crap we don't want or need.
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Who'd have thought that Rocket Fuel wasn't good for human consumption? I remember growing up, riding out to the swimming hole in the back of my uncles pickup, drinking Rocket Fuel out of an old mason jar with my cousins.
Ah, those lazy summer days!
Blasphemer!
Both my keyring and my zippo give me a rash when I carry them in my pants pockets -- my cellphone does as well, even when its turned off.
and prey that you don't talk in your sleep.
That's how I ended up here. My youngest boy heard me saying in my sleep: Down with big brother, down with big brother!
He's a good boy, called the though police right away.
Q: How do people get fat?
A: They eat too much.
Q: How can you stop getting fat?
A: Don't eat so much.
It just takes a handful iterations to drain the sun's output down to 1% of its energy. It is pretty much spent at this point, agree?
I agree. However, this was a joke. Remember Zeno's paradox?
Only try to realize the truth... There is no sitcom.
The sun will never burn out at that rate! In order to burn out the sun, you'd have to take 30% of its current energy. Then 30% of the remaining. Then 30% of that remaining. Then 30% ... You get the idea. You could never use all its energy taking 30% at a time, anymore than I could cross a room and bump my nose into the wall by continually crossing half the remaining distance.
I tried that myself with my new Quanilon(tm) quantum CPU from AMD. The problem I had, was when the cooling fan failed the CPU overheated -- causing the probability wave to colapse -- and my cat died...
The parent AC must think all laptops are 'thinkpads'. Hell, it worked for kleenex -- why not IBM?
Is a perscription necessary?
Expand your mind, man!
I know it's Linspire, but still the average user doesn't know to configure their digital camera with linux, or recompile the kernel.
The average user will, most likely, never have to recompile the kernel. As for the digital camera, that's a problem for the camera manufacturer to solve. Wal-mart can put enough preasure (if they want) on manufacturer to include software for Linspire.
I figure wal-mart supporting linux (in its own greedy way) just may be a good thing.
"And it's pretty crazy that the global temperature changes in the last 100 years coincide nicely with the industrialization of the world."
That is one of the oldest fallacies in the book. The idea that if A and B occur, it means that A causes B. You really need to do some research concerning logic.
Very true, I've heard it put best as: Correlation does not imply causation.
same analogy, but with 'exploit' instead of 'secure'
To a certain extent, I'll agree -- It's not likely that in a class this interesting that the majority would blow it off.
Of course, this professor is noted for saying:
You Fail It! Your Skill Is Not Enough!!
I don't know if I'm Turing dreaming I'm a window, or a window dreaming that I'm Turing!
how much rope do you need to close a door?
The same amount you need to shoot yourself in the foot...
What we casually refer to as 3D games, for example, are really projections of 3D structures onto a two-dimensional screen.
Augh! You're blinding me with the obvious!
Anyhow, think about how your eyes work. Then read the part of your post I quoted above.
So what I said was the most absurd thing you've ever heard for some time? Wow.
... just as you can't expect a blind person to just "make an effort" and read the signs.
:)
Yes, it is. Read my origional comment again to gain a clear understanding.
I think that it is important that adequate help is given to people who can't use speech recognition methods
You can't compare a "stammer" to blindness -- no, a blind person can't "make an effort" (sic) to see. Nor should I expect such from a blind person. A person with a "stammer", on the other hand, CAN make an effort. As another poster pointed out, often times a person with a "stammer" can speak very clearly when they're alone. I don't know of any blind people who can see just fine when no one else is around.
Yeah, a "stammer" is certainly NOT A DISABILITY. Nor should it be so considered. Some therapy -- both speech and psychiatric -- could do wonders for you, as it has for many others with similar problems.
I really feel that a significant portion of society is being discriminated against. There are 550,000 people in the UK alone who have speech dysfluency problems, and yet speech recognition cannot deal with the multitude of different manifestations of this; repetition of sounds, blocking, or laboured or breathless speaking.
How, exactly, is your very small minority being discriminated against? That is, quite possibly, the most absurd statement I've heard in some time!
A few things:
1) Learn what discrimination is. You obviously don't know.
2) You can't expect speach recognition, which is just now becoming a viable technology, to be perfected to the point that it can cope with your particular disability.
3) It looks to me like all you're after is sympathy! I find that disgusting. Learn to live in society like the rest of us. Don't expect society to learn to live with you. You're not that important.
Text messaging is on all phones, but it's not very popular compared to other countries.
It seems very popular here with the <20 crowd.
People would rather use a cell phone as a mobile version of a land line phone.
Wow, people wanting to use their phone as a phone. Who'd have thought?
The american culture is not really into technology.
You mean the country that brought you the personal computer? Or the country that took man to the moon and explored the surface of mars?
Though I do like the idea that Japan is the liver of the U.S. Filtering out crap we don't want or need.
"we have so few users we can actually list them by name".
I think the message is more along the lines of:
"Look! 10,000 users willing to donate money for a product that they already get for free. Look at how valuable they consider this product!"
Nothing has value until someone is willing to pay for it. Or so conventional wisdom goes.
That's funny, I haven't used IE for well over a year now and I've had no problems.
Now for something On Topic:
This gets me thinking of reverse-racial-memory - remember Arthur C Clarke's Childhoods end?
A better reference would be Arthur C Clarke's 3001: Final Odyssey -- Where Floyd is fitted with a "brain cap".
What the hell does your "Childhoods End" analogy have to do with the article? I hope the overlords don't read this!