"But, if you say something more obvious like "Molten Lead is cool" it's pretty easy to assume which version of cool you mean."
Couldn't one also use antonyms in this case. I.e. a word/phrase can be a replacement, if it is synonymous, and/not/ antonymous in the context. For example, molten describes the noun. Molten is probably also partially synonymous with "hot". Since "hot" is the antonym of "cool", in the temperature sense, then one would not use "froid" to describe it in French, but instead the appropriate term for "cool" ("cool" itself I guess), which would not be antonymous with "hot".
I have a T1 and I'd like to know if there are already hundreds of people doing this, or if the WTO is going to call me tomorrow saying that my IP accounts for 80% of their 100x overloaded web traffic.
"The American Indians had a conception of property, just as Richard Stallman does."
Actually, IIRC, very few Native American tribes really had a concept of individual property that even came close to what we now think of as "property" (maybe closer Stallman's concept though;). One couldn't own land or objects any more than one could own the sky. This was to some extent, I believe, because of the acknowledgement that humans were owned by earth and nature and not the other way around. Although they traded, their cultures were not predicated on it, or on the idea of individually owned property. It took European invasion to make a capitalist individual-ownership arrangement a necessity of survival. And what has it got them today? The crutches of casinos and life-sucking capitalism. The hand that holds is the hand that holds them down.
wow, this really got a score of 4? I thought this would be flamed as a stupid question. It is sort of weak. If there are other question about more specific things, feel free to pick them over this one.
On the other hand, it is/their/ servers, and/their/ service, so they get to dictate who uses it and how it is used. Not unlike AOL dictating who can interoperate with its instant messaging software. Since they have put the time, money, and effort into building the backend they should be able to dictate how it is used. If I provided a service to users, I wouldn't want the possibility of a foreign client disrupting or corrupting that service. In reality, in light of the fact that they give out their own client free, an open-source client probably wouldn't hurt anything, and in fact probably help, since they would gain a rather large, tech-savvy audience (I'd guess geeks have the monopoly on MP3s right now anyway).
How many people who agree they should open up their backend to foreign clients agree that AOL should do the same for MSFTs messager? What if they weren't giving their client away free?
Instead of messing directly with the cookies file, why not run a filtering proxy, like Muffin, or JunkBuster, or AdBlocker, or pick up IBM's WBI and write your own filter to discard cookies or something.
Or, heck, just turn cookies off.
I, personally, need to have several cookies, one for Slashdot, one for Yahoo, and some others. These I wouldn't like to be mangled but all others can. I tried making cookies read only, but that didn't work. Would changing the owner of the cookies file do this?
I year or few ago I saw some report on TV or read somewhere about this Comet Cursor startup company. They made it out as if the idea of having a custom cursor was some sort of amazing and ingenious thing, and that it was cool. I didn't really see the point and thought it was just plain stupid (yeah, I'm Mr. Joe consumer, I am SO impressed that your site made my cursor into some stupid animation...yay, let me buy your product).
I'd have to argue that the arrow keys are useful, and not that awfully arranged. With chords like shift and control the arrow keys can easily be used to navigate tokens. I am ALWAYS using CTRL-ARROW to move around the tokens when I'm programming. Since programming languages are nicely broken up into words I can easily traverse a block, select a parameter list etc. With SHIFT-CTRL-ARROW it is easy to select multiple tokens.
On the other hand when I use vi, I am ALWAYS traveling to ESC-land to reset the context. Most of the editing functions I do can be contained within one "context", so breaking them out so as to have overlapping contexts puts a burden on my by having to unnecessarily go out and find ESC to switch contexts. This context switching is awful and I can't really get in the "zone" in vi. Perhaps if ESC was closer and I actually took time to memorize all the meanings of all the keys in all the contexts I could do things faster.
I use jEdit (http://www.gjt.org/~sp/jedit.html), and find the conventional use of the arrow keys and SHIFT and CTRL chords very convenient and inuitive. I/can/ switch to and use the arrow keys without looking down. In fact it is/convenient/ that "up" is directly above the "down" arrow because I use my index finder on left, my ring finger on right, and my middle finger hovers between up and down. It is very easy to push either up or down with my middle finger. Sure it may not be easy to "trill" the up and down with one finger, but what chords do you know of that contain both the up and down arrow keys?
These is mucho cool. One step further to brains in vats eh?;)
Imagine now using your actual brain as a processor. Need to compile something? Pipe it through your brain;)
Also, would this work backwards? I mean, could the computer manipulate the brain through inputs, instead of the other way around? Mind control anybody?
Can't wait till they make the "Matrix: Learn Kung Foo" downloadable tutorial;)
In light of the possibility of a Debian HURD distribution, and out of infamiliarity with Debian, I would like to ask what exactly Debian/is/...what comprises it. Is it a packaging/versioning/distribution mechanism? Is it a suite of bundled software? What exactly does Debian offer, or develop? How is it different from other distros? It seems to me that Debian isn't just a label and bundle of software slapped on to Linux, so what exactly is it?
Um, doesn't this description fit/most/ angtsy teenagers. Isn't rebellion one of the stages of maturation/anyway/?
I'd have to agree with another poster in that these "tests" are really silly. What are they going to do/after/ they identify the kids though? That's the real question. And I sure hope the answer is not simple expulsion: "you're different and need help and we don't like you and/or we are too lazy/careless to do anything, therefore we are going to kick you out on your ass"
Man, I followed the Buchanan link... I knew he was sort of a crackpot, but my god, how does someone like him rise to the power he has? That shouldn't even be possible. I guess it only goes to show how many backwards, close-minded, xenophophic zealots our freedom affords here in the good us of a.
"Therefore, artificial intelligences simulated in an appropriate computer can still experience a subjectively infinite life span."
Enter Omega Point theory, by which a super-intelligence is created during the contraction of the universe, in which we can all live an infinite amount of simulated lives. Sounds a bit hokey to me though.
Wait a second...I saw the title of the article and thought that they were saying the universe was not/hyperbolic/ or/convex/ but/flat/.
Aren't they using the wrong terminology if they are trying to say that it is neither expanding nor contracting? As far as I know, the/topology/ (hyperbolic, flat, convex) is an entirely separate topic than the expansion rate (expanding, contracting, neither).
Just to verify, last time I checked, the consensus was that the universe's topology is hyperbolic.
In Toy Story one (which I coincidentally just watched again about an hour ago), not only are many of the childrens' faces shown many times (andy, sid and his sister), but andy's mother's face is shown a few times too.
Well the MWI (mouse-window-icon) isn't that great either. Really, how much stuff do you actually DO on a desktop? The more stuff you try to fit into the metaphor, the more metaphor shear you get.
Yes, DOOM admin was amusing in a "useless" sort of way, but there are some/real/ issues involved in 3D interfaces. For instance, in a 2D interface everything has the same visual priority. Screen space is precious, and useless things take up just as much space as useful things. Also, in a 2D environment, there is a limited number of ways you can "drill-down" to get to info. Everything must be encapsulated in a higher level of abstraction ("My Computer"->"Hard Drive C:"->"Folder 1", etc.). The hierarchy in the interface is entirely linear. It might be usefull to have a hyperbolic sort of hierarchy and interface, whereby more "important" things get a larger focus. This/can/ be done on a pure 2D interface, but since 2D is only 2D attempting to show multi-dimensional hierarchies gets very ugly. These are all valid human-interface problems. Scientists work and write papers on this stuff. Although I'm not suggesting it is a "cure-all", we should be moving in new directions now that we can. Who knows...if it hasn't ever been done before how do we know it's not better?
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Actually I hadn't thought about Indiana Jones. I think that is a different issue, since because it actually has a real historical setting, there is not much to invent. As David Brin saw Hans Solo as the most "real", most human character, I would say that Indian Jones is a bit more "real" and true,/because/ he is gritty, uncouth, etc., etc. It doesn't seem like Lucas is trying to sell me on anything in the Indian Jones series.
"Analyzing kid's movies..."
I don't think Star Wars was ever a kids movie. The Phantom Menace was marketed to kids only because they knew they could make a humongous profit on the merchandise and appeal. TPM, I think is a lot more directed at kids than the others ever were. Anyway, Lucas does have his own beliefs (one of which, from his own mouth, is apparently that democracy doesn't, and shouldn't work) and philosophies and he does inject these into the Star Wars saga. I can handle just watching them as pulp kiddie movies, but they still leave an unsettling aftertaste/thought.
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Dear Mr. Lucas
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If you watch the original star trek you will see how uber-cheezy it is. The costumes are so plastic, the Enterprise is so cardboard. But it still/worked/. People loved it. They did so, because it wasn't about the effects, it wasn't about technology...it was simply a vehicle for telling the story about humans of differing backgrounds working together. They could've been on a submarine.
Perhaps Slashdot should include small icons depicting the karmic state of a poster in his post. Those with high karma will be glowing self-actualized visages in nirvana. Those with low karma will be undesirables, or some form of disgusting bug...you could then tell which posts to not waste your time reading by the icon.
I guess NSA should make their own distributed project so people can help the government invade their privacy themselves. Power to the people. Somebody should make a fake press release of the above and post it to segfault;)
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It's great and all that this kid can use a computer, but how does that make him an executive?
"But, if you say something more obvious like "Molten Lead is cool" it's pretty easy to assume which version of cool you mean."
/not/ antonymous in the context. For example, molten describes the noun. Molten is probably also partially synonymous with "hot". Since "hot" is the antonym of "cool", in the temperature sense, then one would not use "froid" to describe it in French, but instead the appropriate term for "cool" ("cool" itself I guess), which would not be antonymous with "hot".
Couldn't one also use antonyms in this case. I.e. a word/phrase can be a replacement, if it is synonymous, and
ok, this is just lame...
i'm not going to clog up our network...
Um, is there a sit-in counter?
I have a T1 and I'd like to know if there are already hundreds of people doing this, or if the WTO is going to call me tomorrow saying that my IP accounts for 80% of their 100x overloaded web traffic.
ergghh...
s/life-sucking capitalism/life-sucking commercialism/g
"The American Indians had a conception of property, just as Richard Stallman does."
;). One couldn't own land or objects any more than one could own the sky. This was to some extent, I believe, because of the acknowledgement that humans were owned by earth and nature and not the other way around. Although they traded, their cultures were not predicated on it, or on the idea of individually owned property. It took European invasion to make a capitalist individual-ownership arrangement a necessity of survival. And what has it got them today? The crutches of casinos and life-sucking capitalism. The hand that holds is the hand that holds them down.
Actually, IIRC, very few Native American tribes really had a concept of individual property that even came close to what we now think of as "property" (maybe closer Stallman's concept though
wow, this really got a score of 4? I thought this would be flamed as a stupid question. It is sort of weak. If there are other question about more specific things, feel free to pick them over this one.
On the other hand, it is /their/ servers, and /their/ service, so they get to dictate who uses it and how it is used. Not unlike AOL dictating who can interoperate with its instant messaging software. Since they have put the time, money, and effort into building the backend they should be able to dictate how it is used. If I provided a service to users, I wouldn't want the possibility of a foreign client disrupting or corrupting that service. In reality, in light of the fact that they give out their own client free, an open-source client probably wouldn't hurt anything, and in fact probably help, since they would gain a rather large, tech-savvy audience (I'd guess geeks have the monopoly on MP3s right now anyway).
How many people who agree they should open up their backend to foreign clients agree that AOL should do the same for MSFTs messager? What if they weren't giving their client away free?
Instead of messing directly with the cookies file, why not run a filtering proxy, like Muffin, or JunkBuster, or AdBlocker, or pick up IBM's WBI and write your own filter to discard cookies or something.
Or, heck, just turn cookies off.
I, personally, need to have several cookies, one for Slashdot, one for Yahoo, and some others. These I wouldn't like to be mangled but all others can. I tried making cookies read only, but that didn't work. Would changing the owner of the cookies file do this?
I year or few ago I saw some report on TV or read somewhere about this Comet Cursor startup company. They made it out as if the idea of having a custom cursor was some sort of amazing and ingenious thing, and that it was cool. I didn't really see the point and thought it was just plain stupid (yeah, I'm Mr. Joe consumer, I am SO impressed that your site made my cursor into some stupid animation...yay, let me buy your product).
I'd have to argue that the arrow keys are useful, and not that awfully arranged. With chords like shift and control the arrow keys can easily be used to navigate tokens. I am ALWAYS using CTRL-ARROW to move around the tokens when I'm programming. Since programming languages are nicely broken up into words I can easily traverse a block, select a parameter list etc. With SHIFT-CTRL-ARROW it is easy to select multiple tokens.
/can/ switch to and use the arrow keys without looking down. In fact it is /convenient/ that "up" is directly above the "down" arrow because I use my index finder on left, my ring finger on right, and my middle finger hovers between up and down. It is very easy to push either up or down with my middle finger. Sure it may not be easy to "trill" the up and down with one finger, but what chords do you know of that contain both the up and down arrow keys?
On the other hand when I use vi, I am ALWAYS traveling to ESC-land to reset the context. Most of the editing functions I do can be contained within one "context", so breaking them out so as to have overlapping contexts puts a burden on my by having to unnecessarily go out and find ESC to switch contexts. This context switching is awful and I can't really get in the "zone" in vi. Perhaps if ESC was closer and I actually took time to memorize all the meanings of all the keys in all the contexts I could do things faster.
I use jEdit (http://www.gjt.org/~sp/jedit.html), and find the conventional use of the arrow keys and SHIFT and CTRL chords very convenient and inuitive. I
man, I have to read these later
I got to the crest story and decided that I had better stop or my coworkers might think I'm having an epileptic fit spitting up my coffee.
Is this as pure as evil gets?
/government/ in cohort with advertising agencies to reap data and profile its own population then sell it! Where is the democracy in /that/!
Egads a
These is mucho cool. One step further to brains in vats eh? ;)
;)
;)
Imagine now using your actual brain as a processor. Need to compile something? Pipe it through your brain
Also, would this work backwards? I mean, could the computer manipulate the brain through inputs, instead of the other way around? Mind control anybody?
Can't wait till they make the "Matrix: Learn Kung Foo" downloadable tutorial
In light of the possibility of a Debian HURD distribution, and out of infamiliarity with Debian, I would like to ask what exactly Debian /is/...what comprises it. Is it a packaging/versioning/distribution mechanism? Is it a suite of bundled software? What exactly does Debian offer, or develop? How is it different from other distros? It seems to me that Debian isn't just a label and bundle of software slapped on to Linux, so what exactly is it?
Um, doesn't this description fit /most/ angtsy teenagers. Isn't rebellion one of the stages of maturation /anyway/?
/after/ they identify the kids though? That's the real question. And I sure hope the answer is not simple expulsion: "you're different and need help and we don't like you and/or we are too lazy/careless to do anything, therefore we are going to kick you out on your ass"
I'd have to agree with another poster in that these "tests" are really silly. What are they going to do
Man, I followed the Buchanan link...
I knew he was sort of a crackpot, but my god, how does someone like him rise to the power he has? That shouldn't even be possible. I guess it only goes to show how many backwards, close-minded, xenophophic zealots our freedom affords here in the good us of a.
"Therefore, artificial intelligences simulated in an appropriate computer can still experience a subjectively infinite life span."
Enter Omega Point theory, by which a super-intelligence is created during the contraction of the universe, in which we can all live an infinite amount of simulated lives. Sounds a bit hokey to me though.
Wait a second...I saw the title of the article and thought that they were saying the universe was not /hyperbolic/ or /convex/ but /flat/.
/topology/ (hyperbolic, flat, convex) is an entirely separate topic than the expansion rate (expanding, contracting, neither).
Aren't they using the wrong terminology if they are trying to say that it is neither expanding nor contracting? As far as I know, the
Just to verify, last time I checked, the consensus was that the universe's topology is hyperbolic.
In Toy Story one (which I coincidentally just watched again about an hour ago), not only are many of the childrens' faces shown many times (andy, sid and his sister), but andy's mother's face is shown a few times too.
Well the MWI (mouse-window-icon) isn't that great either. Really, how much stuff do you actually DO on a desktop? The more stuff you try to fit into the metaphor, the more metaphor shear you get.
/real/ issues involved in 3D interfaces. For instance, in a 2D interface everything has the same visual priority. Screen space is precious, and useless things take up just as much space as useful things. Also, in a 2D environment, there is a limited number of ways you can "drill-down" to get to info. Everything must be encapsulated in a higher level of abstraction ("My Computer"->"Hard Drive C:"->"Folder 1", etc.). The hierarchy in the interface is entirely linear. It might be usefull to have a hyperbolic sort of hierarchy and interface, whereby more "important" things get a larger focus. This /can/ be done on a pure 2D interface, but since 2D is only 2D attempting to show multi-dimensional hierarchies gets very ugly. These are all valid human-interface problems. Scientists work and write papers on this stuff. Although I'm not suggesting it is a "cure-all", we should be moving in new directions now that we can. Who knows...if it hasn't ever been done before how do we know it's not better?
Yes, DOOM admin was amusing in a "useless" sort of way, but there are some
Actually I hadn't thought about Indiana Jones. I think that is a different issue, since because it actually has a real historical setting, there is not much to invent. As David Brin saw Hans Solo as the most "real", most human character, I would say that Indian Jones is a bit more "real" and true, /because/ he is gritty, uncouth, etc., etc. It doesn't seem like Lucas is trying to sell me on anything in the Indian Jones series.
"Analyzing kid's movies..."
I don't think Star Wars was ever a kids movie. The Phantom Menace was marketed to kids only because they knew they could make a humongous profit on the merchandise and appeal. TPM, I think is a lot more directed at kids than the others ever were. Anyway, Lucas does have his own beliefs (one of which, from his own mouth, is apparently that democracy doesn't, and shouldn't work) and philosophies and he does inject these into the Star Wars saga. I can handle just watching them as pulp kiddie movies, but they still leave an unsettling aftertaste/thought.
If you watch the original star trek you will see how uber-cheezy it is. The costumes are so plastic, the Enterprise is so cardboard. But it still /worked/. People loved it. They did so, because it wasn't about the effects, it wasn't about technology...it was simply a vehicle for telling the story about humans of differing backgrounds working together. They could've been on a submarine.
Perhaps Slashdot should include small icons depicting the karmic state of a poster in his post. Those with high karma will be glowing self-actualized visages in nirvana. Those with low karma will be undesirables, or some form of disgusting bug...you could then tell which posts to not waste your time reading by the icon.
I guess NSA should make their own distributed project so people can help the government invade their privacy themselves. Power to the people. Somebody should make a fake press release of the above and post it to segfault ;)