It's not a spoof, you can get this in Japan
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GPS-tracked Clothing
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Since 2001, DoCoMo has had a GPS tracker that looks like a beeper you can give to your kids. The parent can track them on the Internet or get a map faxed to them.
It is made specifically for keeping track of kids.
When I worked for Symbolics, makers of the Lisp Machine, their window system had a hybrid command line/ GUI called the "presentation manager".
Each object (yes, object) in the system had a 'presentation' method, so it could present itself in the GUI. The window system could this present any type of object, and allow object or application-specific operation by the user clicking the mouse OR by entering them in the command line. Thus, clicking over, say, an email address object, would allow you to do operations on it.
If Microsoft can patent this, I ought to be able to patent pressing "enter" to end a line in an email message.
Here's some good stuff for someone's movie entry
for this contest:
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/gui.html
Bill Gates also decided the GUI was the way to go during this time. After seeing that Apple refused to license the Mac OS, he announced Windows in 1983, and how it would revolutionize the PC industry. The first version of Windows would not be released for 4 more years. During the development of Windows, Bill Gates feared Apple would sue him due to the fact that his OS was looking a lot like the Mac OS. So on November 22, 1983, John Sculley, then CEO of Apple, signed an agreement to allow Microsoft use Mac OS technology in exchange for further development of Microsoft software for the Mac. This single event would be one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the microcomputing industry. Windows 1.01 was finally released for use with IBM computers and compatible clones on August 11, 1987. Its arcane interface, built on the cryptic MS-DOS operating system, was almost unusable. With its unsightly tiled windows and lack of icons, it was a large disappointment. Even so, Jobs began to complain about how Microsoft had stolen the Mac OS's interface design to which Bill Gates replied in the March 14, 1989 edition of MacWEEK:
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo"
Like most physicists, he suffers from the illusion that he knows everything about everything. His theories of intelligence and conciousness are so bad they are not even wrong.
As far as I can tell, his argument was "quantum physics is complicated. The brain is complicated. Therefore it can only be explained as quantum physics".
It's just a hunch, but I bet 99.9999% of users have not whitelisted any other sites. I had no idea there even was such a feature or whitelist until I saw this bug report.
If they would just have coughed up the $50 for their AAA membership, this wouldn't be a problem. As it stands, the towing charges are going to be astronomical.
It is new enough to contain features such as strong typing and lexically-scoped parameters that programmers today rely upon to implement OOP and RAII techniques, but programs are made unnecessarily complex by the lack of exceptions and garbage collection -- available in the most current crop of languages (C#, Java).
You are very confused. CommonLisp most certainly has exceptions, and generally speaking the implementations have much better GC than any Java you will come across.
1) A larger user base makes it more likely that the program will get maintained and improved by the community.
2) In the case of Firefox vs. IE, I feel that people using IE are demonstrably at great risk of infecting their computers with viruses, and I think it is a public service to inform people of safer alternatives.
If each country has incompatible data interchange protocols, then we cannot exchange information with them. If China is moving their citizens slowly to an alternate internet (one with domain names that cannot be accessed by the external world), then they are isolating their citizens.
It takes a lot of careful work to make Internet standards actually function. It only takes one move by some network provider in order to seriously break the protocols. Witness the Verisgin domain wildcard hijacking last year...
The original poster of this message is totally misinterpreting the spirit and intent of Turing's proposed 'test'.
Turing did propose this test as some sort of threshold of intelligence. What he was arguing was more of a playful jest. He was saying that if you had a system which could carry on a conversation indistinguishable from a human,and the critics *still* denied that it was intelligent, then the critics were simply incapable of accepting that a machine could ever be intelligent. That would apply to John Searle and his pathetic "Chinese Room" as well.
Turing's 'test' was a mind experiment to reduce the religious and other ignorant criticisms of machine intelligence to their absurd extreme. Passing Turing's test is sufficient but not necessary to demonstrate useful levels of intelligence.
I tried to use Ask Jeeves a couple of times when it came out, and the answers I got to my questions were so bad, so wrong, so utterly useless, it hurt my feelings.
Try it now, it will take you back to the bad old days before Google, when nothing but random crap shows up. Then try Google, and feel the almost mystical connection from your query to your results.
It seems to me like it is almost a crime that no one has forcibly made the users of Ask Jeeves sit down and try Google.
People should use CommonLisp S-expressions instead of XML. S-expressions have the advantage that they have basic datatypes built into the format (string, list, ints, floats, symbols), and the namespace model is much more straightforwards.
I made a C library of the Reed-Solomon error correction routines and published it as the rscode library on Sourceforge at http://rscode.sourceforge.net/
I wrote a version of this library originally as a contractor for PARC when I was in grad school, to use as the error correction coding for their data glyphs. This is bsaically the same algorithm used for audio and CD-ROM data.
What is fucking hilarious is that the DRM that is right now going into media players and monitors will make it virtually impossible to quote from original sources; want to include a clip from a movie or a news broadcast? Sorry, that's a violation of the DRM mechanism and you cannot do it.
The so-called "fair use" rights are poorly situated for legal protection at best, and are being eliminated systematically while complacent twits such as yourself look the other way.
It's easier to install and admin than mysql
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The dirty secret is that Postgres is actually easier to install and administer than mysql. I don't want to get into a religious argument with mysql users but... oh hell yes I do.
I have worked with self-educated programmers who did not know how to do simple table joins or even modestly complex SQL queries or transactions, because they had learned what they thought was SQL by using Mysql. There is a whole generation of developers who now think that transactions aren't really necessary in a database application.
Postgres is really an Oracle killer at this point, and I know, having used Oracle. There is quite simply no reason to use any other relational database at this point, especially to back a live web site.
I was sitting in a car in a residential neighborhood Palo Alto, looking for a wireless AP to read me email. Someone's AP was labeled with their street address, which made it easy to drive up in front of their house for better reception.
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Since 2001, DoCoMo has had a GPS tracker that looks like a beeper you can give to your kids. The parent can track them on the Internet or get a map faxed to them.
It is made specifically for keeping track of kids.
Here's an invention, a string or "cord" tied between the computer and the wireless mouse to keep it from getting lost or misplaced.
I'll patent it and make billions!
I think it is an overstatement that civilization would collapse without semiconductors. We'd be using a hell of a lot of vacuum tubes, yeah, but....
I'm serious. It is the best portable machine ever made, in my opinion.
I'm retrofitting one I got on eBay to have a Linux coprocessor, connected via serial port. Someone wrote a termcap entry for it.
When I worked for Symbolics, makers of the Lisp Machine, their window system had a hybrid command line/ GUI called the "presentation manager".
Each object (yes, object) in the system had a 'presentation' method, so it could present itself in the GUI. The window system could this present any type of object, and allow object or application-specific operation by the user clicking the mouse OR by entering them in the command line. Thus, clicking over, say, an email address object, would allow you to do operations on it.
If Microsoft can patent this, I ought to be able to patent pressing "enter" to end a line in an email message.
This software patent stuff is just so psychotic.
Here's some good stuff for someone's movie entry for this contest: http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/gui.html Bill Gates also decided the GUI was the way to go during this time. After seeing that Apple refused to license the Mac OS, he announced Windows in 1983, and how it would revolutionize the PC industry. The first version of Windows would not be released for 4 more years. During the development of Windows, Bill Gates feared Apple would sue him due to the fact that his OS was looking a lot like the Mac OS. So on November 22, 1983, John Sculley, then CEO of Apple, signed an agreement to allow Microsoft use Mac OS technology in exchange for further development of Microsoft software for the Mac. This single event would be one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the microcomputing industry. Windows 1.01 was finally released for use with IBM computers and compatible clones on August 11, 1987. Its arcane interface, built on the cryptic MS-DOS operating system, was almost unusable. With its unsightly tiled windows and lack of icons, it was a large disappointment. Even so, Jobs began to complain about how Microsoft had stolen the Mac OS's interface design to which Bill Gates replied in the March 14, 1989 edition of MacWEEK: "Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo"
Like most physicists, he suffers from the illusion that he knows everything about everything. His theories of intelligence and conciousness are so bad they are not even wrong.
As far as I can tell, his argument was "quantum physics is complicated. The brain is complicated. Therefore it can only be explained as quantum physics".
It's just a hunch, but I bet 99.9999% of users have not whitelisted any other sites. I had no idea there even was such a feature or whitelist until I saw this bug report.
I tried loading the exploit web page , but nothing happens.
There must be more factors needed to enable this this that they didn't elaborate on.
If they would just have coughed up the $50 for their AAA membership, this wouldn't be a problem.
As it stands, the towing charges are going to be astronomical.
You are very confused. CommonLisp most certainly has exceptions, and generally speaking the implementations have much better GC than any Java you will come across.
Sheesh.
1) A larger user base makes it more likely that the program will get maintained and improved by the community.
2) In the case of Firefox vs. IE, I feel that people using IE are demonstrably at great risk of infecting their computers with viruses, and I think it is a public service to inform people of safer alternatives.
3) Free software is better for humanity.
If each country has incompatible data interchange protocols, then we cannot exchange information with them. If China is moving their citizens slowly to an alternate internet (one with domain names that cannot be accessed by the external world), then they are isolating their citizens.
It takes a lot of careful work to make Internet standards actually function. It only takes one move by some network provider in order to seriously break the protocols. Witness the Verisgin domain wildcard hijacking last year...
The original poster of this message is totally misinterpreting the spirit and intent of Turing's proposed 'test'.
,and the critics *still* denied that it was intelligent, then the critics were simply incapable of accepting that a machine could ever be intelligent. That would apply to John Searle and his pathetic "Chinese Room" as well.
Turing did propose this test as some sort of threshold of intelligence. What he was arguing was more of a playful jest. He was saying that if you had a system which could carry on a conversation indistinguishable from a human
Turing's 'test' was a mind experiment to reduce the religious and other ignorant criticisms of machine intelligence to their absurd extreme. Passing Turing's test is sufficient but not necessary to demonstrate useful levels of intelligence.
Their CEO is a sociopathic liar, at least in terms of behavior norms for responsible Internet protocol maintainers.
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http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2003/10/20
I tried to use Ask Jeeves a couple of times when it came out, and the answers I got to my questions were so bad, so wrong, so utterly useless, it hurt my feelings.
Try it now, it will take you back to the bad old days before Google, when nothing but random crap shows up. Then try Google, and feel the almost mystical connection from your query to your results.
It seems to me like it is almost a crime that no one has forcibly made the users of Ask Jeeves sit down and try Google.
People should use CommonLisp S-expressions instead of XML. S-expressions have the advantage that they have basic datatypes built into the format (string, list, ints, floats, symbols), and the namespace model is much more straightforwards.
Don't read that communist stuff. Well, Bill Gates said it was communist stuff. And he wouldn't say something that wasn't true right? We can trust him.
According to Jewish tradition, a fetus does not become a viable human being until it graduates from medical school.
I wrote a version of this library originally as a contractor for PARC when I was in grad school, to use as the error correction coding for their data glyphs. This is bsaically the same algorithm used for audio and CD-ROM data.
To paraphrase an old joke about the USSR:
In China they have freedom of speech.
They have freedom of assembly.
They have freedom to criticize their government.
In America, we have freedom *after* speech, etc.
What is fucking hilarious is that the DRM that is right now going into media players and monitors will make it virtually impossible to quote from original sources; want to include a clip from a movie or a news broadcast? Sorry, that's a violation of the DRM mechanism and you cannot do it.
The so-called "fair use" rights are poorly situated for legal protection at best, and are being eliminated systematically while complacent twits such as yourself look the other way.
The dirty secret is that Postgres is actually easier to install and administer than mysql. I don't want to get into a religious argument with mysql users but ... oh hell yes I do.
I have worked with self-educated programmers who did not know how to do simple table joins or even modestly complex SQL queries or transactions, because they had learned what they thought was SQL by using Mysql. There is a whole generation of developers who now think that transactions aren't really necessary in a database application.
Postgres is really an Oracle killer at this point, and I know, having used Oracle. There is quite simply no reason to use any other relational database at this point, especially to back a live web site.
I imagine that would actually work better than whatever mess was delivered to the FBI.
I was sitting in a car in a residential neighborhood Palo Alto, looking for a wireless AP to read me email. Someone's AP was labeled with their street address, which made it easy to drive up in front of their house for better reception.