When the same program that can play chess really well can do *anything else* really well, I'll give a shit. Right now people are just writing programs that can play chess.. fucking yawn. That's not a chess competition, that's a programming competition, and that's just great.. at least it's not some stupid math competition disguised as a programming competition (as the ACM programming competition is every fucking year). But the idea is that all this chess shit is supposed to tell us something about intelligence and so far all it's said is that you don't need a whole lot of intelligence to play chess.
Athy is a market town situated at the convergence of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in County Kildare, Ireland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athy
Athy was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athy (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
My entire point is that what has started out as a buzz word is now becoming a stable term of the art. It's entirely possible for a word to mean many different things at the same time. Eventually, a few meanings "win" and dominate the usage, while the other meanings are either completely forgotten or considered old hat or fringe. There was a time when "object oriented" was a buzz word. Are you trying to say that people should have stopped using "object oriented" to refer to object oriented programming languages?
The growing number of people storing information on internet-accessible servers rather than on their own machines, has become a core part of the rise of Web 2.0 applications. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies such as Google.
Umm.. so how do you figure they agree with you more than me? I read that as "the applications that have arisen since not refreshing the page to communicate to the server became commonplace programming practice on the web".. which, you have to admit, is a very long winded way to talk and needs a term.
Can you give any examples of somewhere someone has used "web 2.0" to mean something other than not refreshing the page to communicate to the server? Cause I can give millions where that appears to be what the author is referring to.
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The current developers don't. Maybe you should fork the project and become a hero to everyone who also wants that.
And don't give me the but I can't code whine. There's clearly plenty of people out there who can code and who agree with you, form a team and get it done.
Or did you really mean that you just want to whine.
does:) mean you're lying? Cause it certainly doesn't indicate what you said is funny.
You're either a lair or you're a freak, choose.
If Google are serious about providing people with a backup solution, they should provide a Gmail Backup Client like G-Archiver (but preferably with less fuckups) so that normal people can backup their email. As they don't, I can only assume that they are only half interested in providing a backup solution.
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When the same program that can play chess really well can do *anything else* really well, I'll give a shit. Right now people are just writing programs that can play chess.. fucking yawn. That's not a chess competition, that's a programming competition, and that's just great.. at least it's not some stupid math competition disguised as a programming competition (as the ACM programming competition is every fucking year). But the idea is that all this chess shit is supposed to tell us something about intelligence and so far all it's said is that you don't need a whole lot of intelligence to play chess.
The top two stories are cycling too.
I'm guessing that's a snide remark on my spelling..
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnt
is how the English spell it.. ya know, the namesake of the language?
It's also how we spell it here in Australia.
You're completely wrong. It's a standard feature of Ubuntu and Vista, and everyone under 25 uses it.
Do you also notice that the comment count for stories is broken on the front page?
This story, for example, apparently has zero comments.
Reminds me of how much more fun Blackjack was before I learnt basic strategy.
http://www.quantumg.net/slashdot-lameness.png
They need to test their shit before pushing it to the live website too.
Athy is a market town situated at the convergence of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in County Kildare, Ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athy
Athy was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athy (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
I'm more Athy than you. I'm the Athiest.
yeah, this is called a "wuss-slap" by Bartle (one of the biggest proponents of permadeath).
And I suppose they completely fucked up the death mechanism like every other MMO.
If there was permadeath then it wouldn't matter who was on top.. cause eventually they'll die.
It's a fish tank.
Bruce Schneier is a human buzz word. If you hear someone dropping his name, you can be sure they know nothing about security.
It kinda looks like this law is written almost exactly with WGA and other nasties in mind.
Look at the name of the submitter.. this is blatant self promotion.
And, as is often the case, Schneier's blog doesn't add anything to the article either.
I think Nevada is one of the USA's best assests.
Mine is the Swingline.
My entire point is that what has started out as a buzz word is now becoming a stable term of the art. It's entirely possible for a word to mean many different things at the same time. Eventually, a few meanings "win" and dominate the usage, while the other meanings are either completely forgotten or considered old hat or fringe. There was a time when "object oriented" was a buzz word. Are you trying to say that people should have stopped using "object oriented" to refer to object oriented programming languages?
Ahh, groovy. Thanks for the awesome reply!
Is there any point to separate partitions for / and /home? I mean, if you were running different file systems on each of them I could see the point.
The growing number of people storing information on internet-accessible servers rather than on their own machines, has become a core part of the rise of Web 2.0 applications. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies such as Google.
Umm.. so how do you figure they agree with you more than me? I read that as "the applications that have arisen since not refreshing the page to communicate to the server became commonplace programming practice on the web".. which, you have to admit, is a very long winded way to talk and needs a term.
Can you give any examples of somewhere someone has used "web 2.0" to mean something other than not refreshing the page to communicate to the server? Cause I can give millions where that appears to be what the author is referring to.
The current developers don't. Maybe you should fork the project and become a hero to everyone who also wants that.
And don't give me the but I can't code whine. There's clearly plenty of people out there who can code and who agree with you, form a team and get it done.
Or did you really mean that you just want to whine.
not refreshing the page to communicate to the server.
A smug bastard who would rather point and laugh at you than educate?
does :) mean you're lying? Cause it certainly doesn't indicate what you said is funny.
You're either a lair or you're a freak, choose.
If Google are serious about providing people with a backup solution, they should provide a Gmail Backup Client like G-Archiver (but preferably with less fuckups) so that normal people can backup their email. As they don't, I can only assume that they are only half interested in providing a backup solution.
I think I speak for everyone when I say: you're an idiot.
At least you've managed to find Slashdot, well done.