Re:Markup language != programming language
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The to primary things that most Markup Languages are missing that keep them from being programming languages are:
* Iteration * Conditionals * Variables
But that's changing and some ML now contain all three. These, IMO, are the three requirements of a computer language. What do you use as criteria for a programming language?
Here on Earth we have what most people would consider intelligent life and we can't communicate with it on any meaningful level. We can't talk to Dolphins and we've had years of trying. Communication is complicated enough with beings that are based on the same system (DNA). I can't for the life of me understand what makes people think that we will be able to understand alien life or vice versa.
If anything we will be a curiosity to be examined and fed fish.
When you find holes punched in the gas tanks of your SUVs and the filling station has a hole drilled into the ground you can thank this project for all it's amazing innovations.
However when you start missing shotgun shells and 9mm ammo from your gun locker... we're all in trouble.
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average was relatively unscathed by the NASDAQ's crash until the September 11, 2001 attacks, after which the DJIA suffered its worst one-day point loss and biggest one-week losses in history up to that point."
Let me see if I have this straight. It only took the most destructive terrorist act in American history to set the Dow Jones into what was an inevitable spiral caused over a decade earlier crash by a NASDAQ? Gosh... if 9/11 never happened we'd still be in danger of this national fiscal crisis just looming over us for maybe another decade or two.
Creating newspaper headlines seems like the only job where creating puns and word play is a requirement. I almost feel sorry for interviewers. But are you really getting anything from scraping a headline?
"PATERSON LYIN' KING OF STATE" "LOON FLIES COOP" "PETT-Y CASH"
And these were just todays. Bonus point for guessing the actual story.
Automobile manufactures pleased that Mario Cart is named "Game least likely to be banned from mentally ill teenagers."
The Big Three were happy to hear that Mario Cart was named "Game least likely to be banned from mentally ill teenagers" by Gamasutra. In a joint statement they were relieved that future automotive homicides might be avoided. Since the game is wholesome fun, preachers and fathers alike are normally tolerant of it's antics.
In the rare cases where the game was banned, players were known to take the family car where the game was hidden and drive over members of the family while throwing bananas out the window.
Note that there is an option you're ignoring. While He supposedly made us in his image, it's only an image. That means we are flawed, and hence evil (and given the choice of redemption). Given that we are flawed and that we are the one's that are evil, He would have to eliminate all of us to remove evil from the world.
If we were perfect, we would be God.
It's possible that this world is the best possible world that can exist given the flawed nature of humans. Without His enlightenment and influence the world could only be worse.
People shouldn't be asking if someone can replace Steve Jobs. That's a no-brainer and the answer is no.
The real question is who will Steve Jobs let follow him.
Jobs has a real ego that drives the company from his central gravitational field. It revolves around him like planets around a sun. But he wont let someone with that kind of magnetism follow in his wake.
If they hire from within you'll get someone who was drawn to Jobs and who could follow his vision and guidance (not a good leader).
If they hire from outside it will be someone Jobs hand picks and that person will be set up for failure.
I'm worried now. Before the switch to digital signals it was easy to sway the unwashed masses to any message you broadcasted. We even went so far as to buy the poor digital converters because we knew they couldn't afford the brainwashing tool for themselves. Put the terrorist threat up to red until we get more converters.
You didn't really think they'd support this thing through 2009 did you? Oh, go back and read your EULA. It clearly states that at the start of 2009 you'll have to pay a subscription fee for you unit to continue working. You signed it in blood from the paper cut. Legally binding in hell.
Someone looking up plumbing finds an ad for plumbers... Someone looking at the London listing finds hotel and air travel... Someone looking up nukes gets an ad for the FBI...
A simple google ad, text only, wouldn't kill off anything that Wikipedia is trying to accomplish.
However the idea of paying people to moderate, edit, or create articles is a horrid idea. The reason I trust Wikipedia is because it's run by the commons and while they don't get everything right, they get more right than most encyclopedias and with a lot more volume.
If they start paying, I'll just branch it for the free editing.
Keep to your strengths Wikipedia. You have good information that people rely on daily. Having a small text ad wont kill that.
Unlike projects by for profit organizations there's no need to continually create new versions of projects. Perhaps the dwindling developers is actually a great sign that the project has reached it's goals. Personally I think it works just fine and I can't think of any "new" feature creep I'd like to see added.
I know people who still use Word 5. Why? Because it was done. There wasn't a need for anything else. Maybe some bug fixes.
Are you using it?
Is it missing anything? (if you say yes... then you should really go add it.)
I can't patent it... there's prior art. (See: Hasbro Scrabble)
'Capablanca Chess' is a chess variant that includes two new pieces (one that moves like a rook and a knight and one that moves like a bishop and a knight). The game was created as a way to avoid the current frequency of draws in chess.
It was never patented.
However 'Gothic Chess' was patented. ( US patent number 6,481,716 on November 19, 2002 ) The games are nearly identical except for the starting position of the pieces.
You could make the argument that it *shouldn't* be patented, but it is and it has much less innovation than Scrabble.
1. The patent office gives out game mechanic patents pretty easily. I've seen copies of chess variants with only the switching of piece positions given as new mechanics.
2. You don't think that scrabble meets the criteria of innovation? I see absolutely no prior art that comes close to it and the restricted use and valuation of tiles for letter use is entirely inventive.
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The to primary things that most Markup Languages are missing that keep them from being programming languages are:
* Iteration
* Conditionals
* Variables
But that's changing and some ML now contain all three. These, IMO, are the three requirements of a computer language. What do you use as criteria for a programming language?
Here on Earth we have what most people would consider intelligent life and we can't communicate with it on any meaningful level. We can't talk to Dolphins and we've had years of trying. Communication is complicated enough with beings that are based on the same system (DNA). I can't for the life of me understand what makes people think that we will be able to understand alien life or vice versa.
If anything we will be a curiosity to be examined and fed fish.
I'll buy that for $1.
When you find holes punched in the gas tanks of your SUVs and the filling station has a hole drilled into the ground you can thank this project for all it's amazing innovations.
However when you start missing shotgun shells and 9mm ammo from your gun locker... we're all in trouble.
Obama Signals New Tone in Relations With Islamic World
Ring Tones for helping relations with the Islamic World?
Gates Sets Modest Goals for Afghanistan
Bill Gates has goals for computer sales in Afghanistan?
New York Says Health Chief Abused Power
Ok, you got me on this one.
I'm having a hard time focusing after ... why is this bowl dirty?
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average was relatively unscathed by the NASDAQ's crash until the September 11, 2001 attacks, after which the DJIA suffered its worst one-day point loss and biggest one-week losses in history up to that point."
Let me see if I have this straight. It only took the most destructive terrorist act in American history to set the Dow Jones into what was an inevitable spiral caused over a decade earlier crash by a NASDAQ? Gosh... if 9/11 never happened we'd still be in danger of this national fiscal crisis just looming over us for maybe another decade or two.
Ahem.
Creating newspaper headlines seems like the only job where creating puns and word play is a requirement. I almost feel sorry for interviewers. But are you really getting anything from scraping a headline?
"PATERSON LYIN' KING OF STATE"
"LOON FLIES COOP"
"PETT-Y CASH"
And these were just todays. Bonus point for guessing the actual story.
Automobile manufactures pleased that Mario Cart is named "Game least likely to be banned from mentally ill teenagers."
The Big Three were happy to hear that Mario Cart was named "Game least likely to be banned from mentally ill teenagers" by Gamasutra. In a joint statement they were relieved that future automotive homicides might be avoided. Since the game is wholesome fun, preachers and fathers alike are normally tolerant of it's antics.
In the rare cases where the game was banned, players were known to take the family car where the game was hidden and drive over members of the family while throwing bananas out the window.
Note that there is an option you're ignoring. While He supposedly made us in his image, it's only an image. That means we are flawed, and hence evil (and given the choice of redemption). Given that we are flawed and that we are the one's that are evil, He would have to eliminate all of us to remove evil from the world.
If we were perfect, we would be God.
It's possible that this world is the best possible world that can exist given the flawed nature of humans. Without His enlightenment and influence the world could only be worse.
But this is logic candy. I'm atheist.
People shouldn't be asking if someone can replace Steve Jobs. That's a no-brainer and the answer is no.
The real question is who will Steve Jobs let follow him.
Jobs has a real ego that drives the company from his central gravitational field. It revolves around him like planets around a sun. But he wont let someone with that kind of magnetism follow in his wake.
If they hire from within you'll get someone who was drawn to Jobs and who could follow his vision and guidance (not a good leader).
If they hire from outside it will be someone Jobs hand picks and that person will be set up for failure.
Curse you Perry the Platypus.
Or perhaps web blogs. Brilliant.
I'm worried now. Before the switch to digital signals it was easy to sway the unwashed masses to any message you broadcasted. We even went so far as to buy the poor digital converters because we knew they couldn't afford the brainwashing tool for themselves. Put the terrorist threat up to red until we get more converters.
**Assuming you knew that the phrase only included dictionary words you would still need to start with one, two, three...
at 171476 words in the American dictionary this becomes:
171476^6*4 (4 being the most common endings for a phrase [?.!{null}]
1.016904236538265454922659640279e+32 possible combination.
I didn't add bonus points for making all the words caps.
Nothing except common sense.
** There's a reason sudo only does one thing at a time.
Maybe I'm stretching a bit here, but doesn't seem like some Muslim extremist prankster is simply putting the shoe on Bush?
What? You don't twitter your PIN number? How do you remember it if you don't twitter it every few days?
Designed Obsolescence.
You didn't really think they'd support this thing through 2009 did you? Oh, go back and read your EULA. It clearly states that at the start of 2009 you'll have to pay a subscription fee for you unit to continue working. You signed it in blood from the paper cut. Legally binding in hell.
In England if you are an amazing author you get Knighted and recognition of your entire nation.
In the United States you get lawsuits.
Someone looking up plumbing finds an ad for plumbers...
Someone looking at the London listing finds hotel and air travel...
Someone looking up nukes gets an ad for the FBI...
A simple google ad, text only, wouldn't kill off anything that Wikipedia is trying to accomplish.
However the idea of paying people to moderate, edit, or create articles is a horrid idea. The reason I trust Wikipedia is because it's run by the commons and while they don't get everything right, they get more right than most encyclopedias and with a lot more volume.
If they start paying, I'll just branch it for the free editing.
Keep to your strengths Wikipedia. You have good information that people rely on daily. Having a small text ad wont kill that.
Unlike projects by for profit organizations there's no need to continually create new versions of projects. Perhaps the dwindling developers is actually a great sign that the project has reached it's goals. Personally I think it works just fine and I can't think of any "new" feature creep I'd like to see added.
I know people who still use Word 5. Why? Because it was done. There wasn't a need for anything else. Maybe some bug fixes.
Are you using it?
Is it missing anything? (if you say yes... then you should really go add it.)
I can't patent it... there's prior art. (See: Hasbro Scrabble)
'Capablanca Chess' is a chess variant that includes two new pieces (one that moves like a rook and a knight and one that moves like a bishop and a knight). The game was created as a way to avoid the current frequency of draws in chess.
It was never patented.
However 'Gothic Chess' was patented. ( US patent number 6,481,716 on November 19, 2002 ) The games are nearly identical except for the starting position of the pieces.
You could make the argument that it *shouldn't* be patented, but it is and it has much less innovation than Scrabble.
Two points:
1. The patent office gives out game mechanic patents pretty easily. I've seen copies of chess variants with only the switching of piece positions given as new mechanics.
2. You don't think that scrabble meets the criteria of innovation? I see absolutely no prior art that comes close to it and the restricted use and valuation of tiles for letter use is entirely inventive.
But you CAN patent the game mechanics.