What if we create a subspecies with limited intellect and self awareness, but capable of simple tasks: dig here, carry this from here to there, turn the red lever sideways, turn the blue lever up and down, etc.
Amazing how folks' minds go to Paris. I would argue her thinking is not restricted at all. This does not translate into "intelligent". Good point. I guess I was looking at it from the angle of free thinking put to good use or to bad use. Being a celebutard isn't very useful to society, except for being the poster child of the rich and stupid.
Wealthier individuals with the larger home... does the environment itself produce children who are less restricted in their thinking? Ummm... Paris Hilton? She's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
Is there going to be a time when humans just don't do this kind of thing? Only when our brains grow to twice their current size. Then, we will develop telepathy and torment each other without speaking.
Quake II CTF: This was THE multiplayer game for me. This would be great if I only had an internet connection. (And people still played it. heh) I was thinking Q3 FFA, but realized if I had an internet connection, I wouldn't be playing Q3. I'd be spamming for help.
I don't know about you, but with only 10 sentences, a single picture on the first page, and no printer-friendly page, I refuse to read the rest of the article. So, after reading how ungodly expensive ink is, your reaction is to print? When gas prices go up, do you go buy an SUV? Just busting your chops - no need to flame back.
I get my 500gb hard drives from new egg. Was $179 last year, down to $159 now. Maxtor Onetouch 3. Reasonably quiet (can't hear it move than a few feet away), comes preformatted. Doesn't spin down after like 5m of inactivity. Only issue is that it has an huge, annoying blinking light even when idle. I cover that with a beer can. I just bought an internal WD 500GB from newegg for $135 with a $10 rebate = $125
Of course, I bought two and made a RAID0 array = almost 1TB:-)
The squad tactics used by the human commandos in Half-Life 1 are very slick. Hide behind a corner, and one guy will lob a grenade to flush you out, while another takes up position to shoot you when you move. I fell for that on more than one occasion. Yeah. That was the first game where I really felt like the AI was out to get me.
HL2 did even better, in some scenarios. Those freaking tri-pod bastards always seemed to know my next move!
When I worked at Wang in the late 80's, we had a couple of high-speed band printers* the size of chest freezers. They could spew paper at an alarming rate. You had to form-feed past 4 pages to get your printout. It was a remarkable paper waster. A service tech once showed my what happens when you short out the form-feed circuit - a flurry of paper.
* For you yung'uns, a band printer had a rotating metal band stamped with characters. It spun about as fast as a band saw. It had an ink ribbon
It's not the end of research or innovation, eventually a new group will be formed to replace it. And if it doesn't produce, it'll be gone too. What about TANG?!?!?
Ok. Well then maybe LISP makes a good Intermediate Language. I never embraced it as a general purpose language for solving a wide spectrum of problems. Perhaps FORTRAN and BASIC poisoned my mind, making it difficult to learn LISP.
Personally, I've always found runtime support to be more important than language syntax. I recall using FORTRAN on VAX/VMS. I was able to call ANY VMS language runtime. For example, I used to call some of the VMS BASIC functions for formatting text.
Well, Lisp came out the next year, and has about the most versatile architecture of any language invented since. Versatile, yes. Useful? I dunno. Besides emacs, are there any examples of LISP in a useful product? Of course, there are some who would argue the usefulness of emacs.:-)
Heh. All very funny. But wouldn't it be fun if we pushed this as a new meme? Imagine if everyone being tortured by the "need" to use Web 2.0 stuff were to start telling their bosses variants of "Well, Web 2.0 is a good idea, but you know it won't really work well until we upgrade to IPv6 (or Internet 2 if you prefer)". People who insist on Web 2.0 stuff without properly studying it first are highly likely to accept such a claim without giving it any study, either. Are you Scott Adams? That sounds like a perfect Dilbert comic.
I had a real-world example of this. I was working for HP as part of the HP-UX team porting to 64-bit PA-RISC. Everybody was under tight schedules since new hardware was waiting for our part to reap the benefits of 64 bits.
One of my coworkers explained to our PHB: "I think I can only get 63 bits ready in time for the delivery." PHB: "Ok, we can deliver a patch for that last bit."
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Downside: do it too often and you'll bleed. You sound like you have some experience in this.
Right on dude! Not my #1 choice, but a top contender. I recall looking bleary-eyed up at the clock - 3AM!?!?!? That is the sign of a good game!
M.U.L.E. is a good choice too
If I bought a legit DVD that didn't play in my DVD player, I would never buy another Sony DVD again.
These corporations are so stupid. They think that piracy == lost revenue. Sure, there is SOME lost revenue, but a lot less than they probably think.
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... Right now, my keyboard's top row says "ALEXROCKSU". (This makes it impossible for non-touch typists to use my computer) Sure they could.al3x r0x u
I get my 500gb hard drives from new egg. Was $179 last year, down to $159 now. Maxtor Onetouch 3. Reasonably quiet (can't hear it move than a few feet away), comes preformatted. Doesn't spin down after like 5m of inactivity. Only issue is that it has an huge, annoying blinking light even when idle. I cover that with a beer can. I just bought an internal WD 500GB from newegg for $135 with a $10 rebate = $125
Of course, I bought two and made a RAID0 array = almost 1TB
HL2 did even better, in some scenarios. Those freaking tri-pod bastards always seemed to know my next move!
When I worked at Wang in the late 80's, we had a couple of high-speed band printers* the size of chest freezers. They could spew paper at an alarming rate. You had to form-feed past 4 pages to get your printout. It was a remarkable paper waster. A service tech once showed my what happens when you short out the form-feed circuit - a flurry of paper.
* For you yung'uns, a band printer had a rotating metal band stamped with characters. It spun about as fast as a band saw. It had an ink ribbon
It's not the end of research or innovation, eventually a new group will be formed to replace it. And if it doesn't produce, it'll be gone too. What about TANG?!?!?
I prefer NiMH, myself. Not as heavy, but a lot more reactive. :-)
I prefer AuOk. Well then maybe LISP makes a good Intermediate Language. I never embraced it as a general purpose language for solving a wide spectrum of problems. Perhaps FORTRAN and BASIC poisoned my mind, making it difficult to learn LISP.
Personally, I've always found runtime support to be more important than language syntax. I recall using FORTRAN on VAX/VMS. I was able to call ANY VMS language runtime. For example, I used to call some of the VMS BASIC functions for formatting text.
Finally, proof that GOTO is harmful. Death.
I can beat that. Can you say paper tape?
I would show the prior art, but I can't read the reel-to-reel tapes.
How soon will Star Trek's "Dagger of the Mind" become a reality.
Pair it up with "Minority Report" tech for some real fun: Preemptive Erasing.
I had a real-world example of this. I was working for HP as part of the HP-UX team porting to 64-bit PA-RISC. Everybody was under tight schedules since new hardware was waiting for our part to reap the benefits of 64 bits.
One of my coworkers explained to our PHB: "I think I can only get 63 bits ready in time for the delivery."
PHB: "Ok, we can deliver a patch for that last bit."
Paraphrased, but you get the idea.