You don't have to drink the ADC cool-aid, you can just as easily drop to Terminal, set up fink or darwinports, and treat your OSX box like the fancy Unix workstation it wants to be.
You know.. to fill in 'all those gaps' in non-existent system software.
.. pontificating blow-hards, going on and on and on about 'intelligence', while doing absolutely -zero- actual, real, honest-to-goodness work.
psychology is for the lazy. trying to apply rules of psychology to computers and deliver 'equivalent results' (i.e. results with equivalence, as 'baby bootstrap' is supposed to imply) is like forever chasing a red dawn light; you will never get there, but it sure will be a beautiful ride.
something i'd really like to investigate further, in my own realm of responsibility for 'learning machines' (i make musical instruments for a living) is the future treatment of 'TIME->MEMLOC' mapping by CPU architectures. that is to say, i wish there was a way of moving into hardware, the mapping of TIMESTAMP to DATA, and coordinating memory searches on such. i've often wondered how best i could use 64-bit architectures to bond timestamp:pointer union together, and do some sort of smart memory/time-searching algorithm, that allows for flexible 'time-domain' computing, rather than 'data-domain' computing.
this would give us better tools for 'computer learning', anyway.. but i suppose its the typical programmer call, put everything in hardware, always 'seems faster' to me, heh heh..
i concur. the kinds of products i work on have the same constraints: 'tricky DSP code', which, actually, is pretty simple and easy to think with, wrapped up in a huge base of code required to make that simplicity 'easy to use' for the end user.
gah. interface is always gonna be king. lets see if SPIRAL + GUI-RAD is gonna come to fruition any time soon, for DSP work anyway that'd be nice..
The US already has the most advanced military and by far the largest military spending. Why is such an increase in military research nececessary at this point in time?
to prop up the festering economy, of course, duh. all those munitions gotta come from some mid-west venture..
i could imagine some sort of long pipe, with the acid on one end, some sort of 1,000-year 'dissolve time' substance in between, and a block of lead and places for the acid to go (and create a battery) at the very end, in the 'well'.
so, the acid, over time, uses gravity/chemistry to burn through the wall, fall into the lead bits at the bottom, and boot up your crypt-o-gram.
{which had better not announce itself with a Windows.. or Apple.. chime, or I'll be pissed..}
Its called an octothorpe, or a hash. I say hash.. octhothorpe is far too freakin' ridiculous, 'pound' is a confusing concept entirely to most yanks, and besides it looks like a hash..
GoogleChick - finds hot chicks in your local neighborhood GooglePizza - finds hot pizza in your local neighborhood GoogleCrack - finds hot crack in your local neighborhood
Then, the transformation from "Google, Friend of the World" to "Google, Matrix Overlord Ruler of the Human Slaves" will be complete...
yeah, this is gonna be a test of the GPL. EFF, step forward. epic battle of intellectual property the way we define it, against the way they define it. americans, put away your guns.
coders, continue prepping releases. the point of open source is that things never get stale. if cherryOS is a ripoff today, ain't nothin' stoppin' PearOS from doing another point release in upgrade, and surfing their stupid PR blunder into fame...
what gets the job done with the least amount of money
Well, the government should spend the money in a way that benefits the most amount of people, not one that 'gets the job done' for a few.
If it takes a little longer, but gets the job done for more people, then its the better route to take than, "gets the job done in the least amount of time, for a little benefit for a few".
See the difference?
And as for your tax dollars funding ideology, umm.. what the hell do you think "tax" is, anyway? One HUUUUUUGE ideology, buddy. Pay that tax, fund ideologies: thats the way all government works. Get off your "anti-ideology" strawman position, I'd say..
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You don't have to drink the ADC cool-aid, you can just as easily drop to Terminal, set up fink or darwinports, and treat your OSX box like the fancy Unix workstation it wants to be.
You know.. to fill in 'all those gaps' in non-existent system software.
i run linux.
.. simply no point.
i also run OSX...
i will never run windows, nor use any microsoft product in my computing realm again
Or, you could be sane, and realize that the military is going to kill people no matter what..
... sheesh.
well, then we should kill the military.
oh.. wait. d'oh!! that means we have to join them. but wait... oh
i give up. go ahead, bullies, kill all you want.
8-bit shows were so already done. Perth, Western Australia, 1998. Enschede, Netherlands, 1999, 2001, 2004.
Good to see someone's cashing in on this phenomenon late, in Melrose...
'real work' referred to: making computers do some kind of work.
and as a matter of fact, it is hard work to satisfy my end users..
.. pontificating blow-hards, going on and on and on about 'intelligence', while doing absolutely -zero- actual, real, honest-to-goodness work.
..
psychology is for the lazy. trying to apply rules of psychology to computers and deliver 'equivalent results' (i.e. results with equivalence, as 'baby bootstrap' is supposed to imply) is like forever chasing a red dawn light; you will never get there, but it sure will be a beautiful ride.
something i'd really like to investigate further, in my own realm of responsibility for 'learning machines' (i make musical instruments for a living) is the future treatment of 'TIME->MEMLOC' mapping by CPU architectures. that is to say, i wish there was a way of moving into hardware, the mapping of TIMESTAMP to DATA, and coordinating memory searches on such. i've often wondered how best i could use 64-bit architectures to bond timestamp:pointer union together, and do some sort of smart memory/time-searching algorithm, that allows for flexible 'time-domain' computing, rather than 'data-domain' computing.
this would give us better tools for 'computer learning', anyway.. but i suppose its the typical programmer call, put everything in hardware, always 'seems faster' to me, heh heh
If you ever meet a cute 20-something straight chick who plays with people like that, please send her my way. just my type.
i concur. the kinds of products i work on have the same constraints: 'tricky DSP code', which, actually, is pretty simple and easy to think with, wrapped up in a huge base of code required to make that simplicity 'easy to use' for the end user.
..
gah. interface is always gonna be king. lets see if SPIRAL + GUI-RAD is gonna come to fruition any time soon, for DSP work anyway that'd be nice
yeah .. but .. what does "home-made" mean, foo?
The US already has the most advanced military and by far the largest military spending. Why is such an increase in military research nececessary at this point in time?
..
to prop up the festering economy, of course, duh. all those munitions gotta come from some mid-west venture
.. wake me up when you can run it on this.
.. this guy ..
who gives a frark?
.. how do you make one yourself?
.. yeah, wake me up for that one.
"MAKE Magazine: the Radio-Isotopic Generator Issue"
No, Firesmoke-Detector-Pile-Boy doesn't count.
And besides, I think you mean "Radio-Isotopic", not "Nuclear".. its a battery, after all.
i could imagine some sort of long pipe, with the acid on one end, some sort of 1,000-year 'dissolve time' substance in between, and a block of lead and places for the acid to go (and create a battery) at the very end, in the 'well'.
.. or Apple .. chime, or I'll be pissed..}
so, the acid, over time, uses gravity/chemistry to burn through the wall, fall into the lead bits at the bottom, and boot up your crypt-o-gram.
{which had better not announce itself with a Windows
Its called an octothorpe, or a hash. I say hash .. octhothorpe is far too freakin' ridiculous, 'pound' is a confusing concept entirely to most yanks, and besides it looks like a hash..
".. the involvement of Paris Hilton as a 'cunning stunt'".
you mean.
The one day of the year I don't read /.
{got ya!}
GoogleChick - finds hot chicks in your local neighborhood
GooglePizza - finds hot pizza in your local neighborhood
GoogleCrack - finds hot crack in your local neighborhood
Then, the transformation from "Google, Friend of the World" to "Google, Matrix Overlord Ruler of the Human Slaves" will be complete...
High tech crooks already have money-sniffing machines.
C'mon, is there nothing we shouldn't be scared of in the known Universe, I mean
Its like, we have to be reminded of this, every single time someone has an axe to grind.
Yup, one of my favourite bits of electronic weirdness from the 60's ..
really though, i find myself humming "ooooh-eeeeeh-oooooh" any time i see anything even remotely resembling a tardis.
yeah, this is gonna be a test of the GPL. EFF, step forward. epic battle of intellectual property the way we define it, against the way they define it. americans, put away your guns.
coders, continue prepping releases. the point of open source is that things never get stale. if cherryOS is a ripoff today, ain't nothin' stoppin' PearOS from doing another point release in upgrade, and surfing their stupid PR blunder into fame...
since 'sony started releasing defect LCDs on purpose', duh. sheesh.
pay attention to the thread, dude, before you robo-krit.
what gets the job done with the least amount of money
..
Well, the government should spend the money in a way that benefits the most amount of people, not one that 'gets the job done' for a few.
If it takes a little longer, but gets the job done for more people, then its the better route to take than, "gets the job done in the least amount of time, for a little benefit for a few".
See the difference?
And as for your tax dollars funding ideology, umm.. what the hell do you think "tax" is, anyway? One HUUUUUUGE ideology, buddy. Pay that tax, fund ideologies: thats the way all government works. Get off your "anti-ideology" strawman position, I'd say