Stupidity. Every Slashdotter's favorite word. Yes, everyone else is stupid. I'm sure you're a genius, however. Bully for you. Are you sure that allowing people to install OS X on unknown hardware is going to further Apple's cause? I don't.
This is all hilarious. Apple has at most 3% market share and everybody here wants to hammer them for trying to protect what they have. Until recently it seems Apple had a fairly decent rep on Slashdot. It is, after all, a really nice alternative to using Windows, which everybody also seems to hate.
You can knock Apple wanting to control things as much as you want, but I can tell you that as an Apple consumer the reason I stay with Apple is because they control their hardware. Things work. I'm not interested in defending anything that leads to Apple quality going downhill because I want to continue using Apple products in the future.
Talk about control, I see control freaks on the other side of this as well. If you want total control how about using Linux, which you can mod/change/hack to your heart's content. Or is it just more fun to try to do the "forbidden" thing?
Forgive me, but aren't you talking about the entropy of information and not a definition of information itself? I was just reading about this in "Mastering Algorithms With C." In the book it is used to calculate the amount of actual bits needed to represent information for compression techniques.
I say good riddance to LPs. I heard about CDs when I was in high school so I deliberately did not buy too many vinyl disks in anticipation of this fabulous new tech. And it never failed that when I did buy one it would have at least one serious pop or skip even after a careful wipe with the Discwasher. Even if the sound is slightly inferior it has been well worth it in my mind to go to CD.
The only thing I miss about LPs was a the great amount of print real estate for liner notes, photos, etc.
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Space is essentially the only frontier we have left...
The only external one, perhaps. The truly greatest frontier still wide open is the human mind. Going to Mars is a parlor trick compared to trying to figure out the intricacies of the brain. And there are more human benefits to it as well. Exploration of outer spaces is probably just a way to avoid exploration of the truly terrifying inner spaces. But that's human nature I guess. The answer is always "out there" somewhere.
Spot on. My wife is a psychiatrist so I'm well aware of NPD. I also think it's probable that your 10% figure is accurate, but that doesn't mean the 2-3% of the total population figure can't also be accurate. Naturally, those types of people will gravitate to positions of power. It IS a frightening disorder. There is no reasoning with people that have it. For them everyone exists as something to use. They do not have nor do they understand empathy, yet at the same time they can be very charming in order to get what they want.
But, if you ever cross someone who has NPD they will never, ever forget it (it doesn't matter if they were in the wrong) and they will stop at virtually nothing to hit back in their narcissistic rage. On top of it all, I don't think most people realize that not only can you not reason with these people, but that they will never be "cured." It's a life-long affliction.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention your whole life. Sociopathic personalities make up 2-3% of the population. There are always going to be people out there who have zero regard for anything other than personal gain.
And who is Dr. Smith to talk anyway? He was clearly a danger to Will and Penny and the rest of the Robinsons, and he botched every attempt they had at getting saved.
No, I'd expect the opposite. It will give voice the the normally less assertive. People who are already assertive aren't going to start shutting up because of a clicker.
I fail to see the difference between spending two hours watching a movie and spending two hours playing a video game.
Neither do I. That's why I also stopped going to movies for the most part. Since I don't play video/computer games anymore the biggest social impact that gaming has had on me is the uneasy realization that there are lots of people out there who think that a game involving killing cops and brutalizing hookers is somehow fun. It's the same feeling I used to get from people who told me that The Godfather was their favorite movie.
So, what's your point? Did no Republicans vote yea? Are you disappointed that Democrats are not standing up to corporate greed? Do you think Republicans are somehow better? Do you think Porgy Tirebiter could do a better job?
This robot is seriously cool. The thing is autonomous in every way and the guidance does not depend on external GPS signals either, yet all the people around here can do it state how umimpressive it is, how it doesn't do enough, how it's inferior to biological organisms, blah, blah, blah. For crying out loud, show a little respect for some hard work on a cool project with a high geek factor.
If it was the caterpillar, how is it that it suddenly figures out how to create a cocoon, lay dormant for a winter, then emerge as a completely different creature?
I hope that by suddenly you mean tens or hundreds of thousands of years. This is exactly why people have a problem with evolution; they lack the ability to understand the time scale. The caterpillar/butterfly thing wasn't a weekends work for the species. Tiny changes occuring over really long periods account for the end product. But it's still not the end product as everything is still evolving. Well, just about everything. Human behavior could possibly be devolving.
Didn't Stephen J Gould provided fairly adequate explanation of such mechanism: mutation in isolated subgroup.
Probably. But an excellent book about such topics is Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen. In it he writes about island biogeography and examines what happens evolutionarily when species are cut off from the main group. It's a fascinating and fun read and includes details both about Darwin and Alfred Wallace, who may have beaten Darwin to the punch in actuality.
For instance (hey, that's a little joke), say you define a method that returns a string representation of your object. You can do it like this:
-(NSString *)stringRepresentation;
in which case what is being returned is a pointer to an object of type NSString specifically, or you can do it like this
-(id)stringRepresentation;
which uses the generic id identifier for any type of object, which is then typed at runtime. The first example is statically typed, the second dynamically. I'm not that experienced but that's my understanding of it.
It is also partially what Objective-C is based on. According to the wikipedia entry "the syntax for certain object-oriented features, including message-passing, is borrowed from Smalltalk."
While you say "aggressively dynmically typed" you also remember you always have the option of statically typing.
Just for the record, I do own a TiBook. I've never had the hinges break. The TiBook was probably a bad purchase for people who tend to treat delicate eletronic devices as though they were horse shoes.
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Stupidity. Every Slashdotter's favorite word. Yes, everyone else is stupid. I'm sure you're a genius, however. Bully for you. Are you sure that allowing people to install OS X on unknown hardware is going to further Apple's cause? I don't.
You can knock Apple wanting to control things as much as you want, but I can tell you that as an Apple consumer the reason I stay with Apple is because they control their hardware. Things work. I'm not interested in defending anything that leads to Apple quality going downhill because I want to continue using Apple products in the future.
Talk about control, I see control freaks on the other side of this as well. If you want total control how about using Linux, which you can mod/change/hack to your heart's content. Or is it just more fun to try to do the "forbidden" thing?
He wasn't killed because he was a spammer. He was killed because he was doing business with sociopaths. The spamming thing was just a side note.
Perhaps this is retaliation by the authorities for the librarians being so vocally opposed to the Patriot Act.
Probably not as expensive as getting ripped off by out of state energy companies (read Enron).
Pissed off? No. Shocked. Yes. I had no idea the patent office actually rejected some applications.
Forgive me, but aren't you talking about the entropy of information and not a definition of information itself? I was just reading about this in "Mastering Algorithms With C." In the book it is used to calculate the amount of actual bits needed to represent information for compression techniques.
The only thing I miss about LPs was a the great amount of print real estate for liner notes, photos, etc.
The only external one, perhaps. The truly greatest frontier still wide open is the human mind. Going to Mars is a parlor trick compared to trying to figure out the intricacies of the brain. And there are more human benefits to it as well. Exploration of outer spaces is probably just a way to avoid exploration of the truly terrifying inner spaces. But that's human nature I guess. The answer is always "out there" somewhere.
I guess that explains why after a day of deleting spam I feel like killing somebody.
But, if you ever cross someone who has NPD they will never, ever forget it (it doesn't matter if they were in the wrong) and they will stop at virtually nothing to hit back in their narcissistic rage. On top of it all, I don't think most people realize that not only can you not reason with these people, but that they will never be "cured." It's a life-long affliction.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention your whole life. Sociopathic personalities make up 2-3% of the population. There are always going to be people out there who have zero regard for anything other than personal gain.
No, I'd expect the opposite. It will give voice the the normally less assertive. People who are already assertive aren't going to start shutting up because of a clicker.
Neither do I. That's why I also stopped going to movies for the most part. Since I don't play video/computer games anymore the biggest social impact that gaming has had on me is the uneasy realization that there are lots of people out there who think that a game involving killing cops and brutalizing hookers is somehow fun. It's the same feeling I used to get from people who told me that The Godfather was their favorite movie.
Yes. Mostly because I'm not in the elite. I wonder how many Slashdotters believe they are the "top programmers?"
So, what's your point? Did no Republicans vote yea? Are you disappointed that Democrats are not standing up to corporate greed? Do you think Republicans are somehow better? Do you think Porgy Tirebiter could do a better job?
This robot is seriously cool. The thing is autonomous in every way and the guidance does not depend on external GPS signals either, yet all the people around here can do it state how umimpressive it is, how it doesn't do enough, how it's inferior to biological organisms, blah, blah, blah. For crying out loud, show a little respect for some hard work on a cool project with a high geek factor.
I don't think you'll be seeing that. Macs were better before. Now they've just been sullied. :-)
Yes, I later realized I'd gotten my thoughts mixed up. I think someone else pointed this out, too. My apologies.
I hope that by suddenly you mean tens or hundreds of thousands of years. This is exactly why people have a problem with evolution; they lack the ability to understand the time scale. The caterpillar/butterfly thing wasn't a weekends work for the species. Tiny changes occuring over really long periods account for the end product. But it's still not the end product as everything is still evolving. Well, just about everything. Human behavior could possibly be devolving.
Probably. But an excellent book about such topics is Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen. In it he writes about island biogeography and examines what happens evolutionarily when species are cut off from the main group. It's a fascinating and fun read and includes details both about Darwin and Alfred Wallace, who may have beaten Darwin to the punch in actuality.
-(NSString *)stringRepresentation;
in which case what is being returned is a pointer to an object of type NSString specifically, or you can do it like this
-(id)stringRepresentation;
which uses the generic id identifier for any type of object, which is then typed at runtime. The first example is statically typed, the second dynamically. I'm not that experienced but that's my understanding of it.
While you say "aggressively dynmically typed" you also remember you always have the option of statically typing.
Just for the record, I do own a TiBook. I've never had the hinges break. The TiBook was probably a bad purchase for people who tend to treat delicate eletronic devices as though they were horse shoes.