voluntary association vs. coercion, the two (opposite) modes of human interaction But, but... coercion is voluntary action, that you take in order to avoid some voluntary actions from the other part! So they are not really opposite, and your definition of freedom doesn't make sense.
What's so special about memory management that you can't encapsulate it in a dedicated module, and abstract it away in the form of, say, a garbage collector?
Well yes we are, thank you. It's up to the magical market hand to provide it for us, isn't it?.
If the market can't cope with us using our ad-blockers, it's hardly our fault - you can't ask us to watch some irrelevant advertisements just to support a leaky business model.
Personally, my palms don't sweat much, but I know people whose do very easily. Pretty much if they hold onto something, regardless if they are stressed or not, their hand will become very sweaty. These biometrics vary so much from person to person I don't see how this could work very well. Perhaps because... The product works by first establishing a baseline set of characteristics for the user. It finds things like the normal level of moisture in your hand, and then works by detecting the slightest bit of variance from that baseline level.
How is paper based voting more difficult to hack than a cryptographically signed, publically available "receipt" for each vote? Because it has a distributed security system: every person that is present at the room during the voting and recount can keep trail of every aspect of the recount process, since every step is a well understood, low tech action. People will watch each other and take care of the whole process.
On the other hand, electronic, cryptographic technology has many failure points which only a few people understand. Each electronic device is a black box where human actions input and a lot of cryptographic gibberish output on the other side. Tweak just one machine in the whole chain so that it reports a result to humans and a different one into the system, and the whole process gets compromised; and just a few persons in the whole country would be able to tell if a particular machine has something wrong in it.
Remember, there's a big gap between "likely untrue" and "always untrue." When someone can look at their own statement, realize what it implies about their capacities, and then confidently declare "I am an idiot," they are displaying insight that is well above average, and certainly deserving of mod points.
I, for one, welcome our new self-insight-possessing commenters.
I'm an idiot, too....can I have my +5 Insightfool karma boost?
But will it run linux? And, better yet, if it were to kernel panic, what would the world look like? Or worse yet, how would the core dump smell?
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I can think of nothing in science that was based purely on faith How about: Every instance of "p or not-p" is true (the Law of excluded middle).
You can't prove that, it's an axiom in logic. Either you take it as a given or you can't do logic. (Or something else).
The very proposition that science gives an accurate description of a consistent external world is a belief. Things could be otherwise (see from Descartes to solipsism) and there's no way you could tell. At least not with science, since science's definition is based itself on those first principles - which are axiomatic, and thus not predictable through observation.
Your loved games haven't disappeared - they've just lost focus. Classic, skill-based never-ending games have survived in the form of minigames.
The main storyline is like reading a book with interactive challenges, and those challenges ARE skill based. Many of them can be replayed to your heart's content, and become as difficult as you want them. You can think of this as a new genre which has absorbed the old ones.
I guess I just don't get how making someone aware of your brand or product makes you any money at all, unless someone buys it. Because we live more and more in an attention economy, and public awareness makes money all by itself - you can make economic deals with stronger enterprises if your business is "emergent", specially if it sells shares in the stock market.
This "frozen attention" can be capitalized (or monetized) later in a myriad ways, even selling products other than the originally advertised one.
But even the pointer feature by itself tremendously expands the interface capabilities in games. ...on par with PC games. Seriously, playing Wii Play or Zelda with the wiimote and nunchuk resembles too much playing a FPS with left hand on keyboard and right hand on the mouse. I'm yet to play Trauma and Rayman and eager to test the long-term possibilities of the Wii controls, from which Wii Sports is just a tech preview.
Wha wha wha? So why couldn't I just include a 100MB data file with my decompressor and claim an infinite compression ratio with just the following shell script: "cat datafile" Because then you'd have to measure also the size of the UNIX system in the count of your decoder program, and that would ruin your ratio.
Read the book "The Humane Interface" for a comprehensive review of trade-offs between mouse and keyboard control.
And welcome to the world of Archy. This experimental interface designed by Apple creator Jef Raskin has almost all of the ideas from the article's proposal, plus many more.
What will stop these MIT viruses to become our next (welcome) overlords? What's to control these critters not to accumulate in hard to reach places instead of the original bacteria, while mutating into dangerous things?
The Big Brother app would make for a nice kid phone, though an expensive one ATM: program in the location of the school and you can even have it notify you if your kid's skipping classes.
I have a idea for this killer app from the Harry Potter's books... Remember the clock in the kitchen, that tells not the current hour but current the situation of everyone in the family? Friendly interface, and absolutely doable with nowadays technology.
Lucky you, that can predict all your future information retrieval needs and plan for them in advance. For all us that have to relate previously unconnected bits of information - or use information structures designed by others, automatic indexing is a bless. How would you "find in the last quarter documents all appearances of the term minimize risk", by laying files in structured folders?
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What's so special about memory management that you can't encapsulate it in a dedicated module, and abstract it away in the form of, say, a garbage collector?
Well yes we are, thank you. It's up to the magical market hand to provide it for us, isn't it?.
If the market can't cope with us using our ad-blockers, it's hardly our fault - you can't ask us to watch some irrelevant advertisements just to support a leaky business model.
Sorry I don't have mod points today. You seem to be the only one on this whole thread that happens to, actually, get it.
On the other hand, electronic, cryptographic technology has many failure points which only a few people understand. Each electronic device is a black box where human actions input and a lot of cryptographic gibberish output on the other side. Tweak just one machine in the whole chain so that it reports a result to humans and a different one into the system, and the whole process gets compromised; and just a few persons in the whole country would be able to tell if a particular machine has something wrong in it.
Remember, there's a big gap between "likely untrue" and "always untrue." When someone can look at their own statement, realize what it implies about their capacities, and then confidently declare "I am an idiot," they are displaying insight that is well above average, and certainly deserving of mod points.
I, for one, welcome our new self-insight-possessing commenters.
I'm an idiot, too.Did you ever begin zapping when a TV show went into a commercial break?
I'm of the opinion that "know the Truth" is an oxymoron...
(you insensitive clod?)
You can't prove that, it's an axiom in logic. Either you take it as a given or you can't do logic. (Or something else).
The very proposition that science gives an accurate description of a consistent external world is a belief. Things could be otherwise (see from Descartes to solipsism) and there's no way you could tell. At least not with science, since science's definition is based itself on those first principles - which are axiomatic, and thus not predictable through observation.
So, how do you play baseball with that controller? Doesn't feel a bit weird a C-shaped bat?
Your loved games haven't disappeared - they've just lost focus. Classic, skill-based never-ending games have survived in the form of minigames.
The main storyline is like reading a book with interactive challenges, and those challenges ARE skill based. Many of them can be replayed to your heart's content, and become as difficult as you want them. You can think of this as a new genre which has absorbed the old ones.
This "frozen attention" can be capitalized (or monetized) later in a myriad ways, even selling products other than the originally advertised one.
These days the media companies are looking for a game console that can do more then just play games. There, fixed for you.
Read the book "The Humane Interface" for a comprehensive review of trade-offs between mouse and keyboard control.
And welcome to the world of Archy. This experimental interface designed by Apple creator Jef Raskin has almost all of the ideas from the article's proposal, plus many more.
What will stop these MIT viruses to become our next (welcome) overlords?
What's to control these critters not to accumulate in hard to reach places instead of the original bacteria, while mutating into dangerous things?
The Big Brother app would make for a nice kid phone, though an expensive one ATM: program in the location of the school and you can even have it notify you if your kid's skipping classes.
I have a idea for this killer app from the Harry Potter's books... Remember the clock in the kitchen, that tells not the current hour but current the situation of everyone in the family? Friendly interface, and absolutely doable with nowadays technology.Say you saw it first on Slashdot.
So, the aliens got upset because we used anti-spam filters?
Mod points, please.
So you DO use search, instead of using simple directory structures, as the original poster advocates. Proves my point.
Lucky you, that can predict all your future information retrieval needs and plan for them in advance. For all us that have to relate previously unconnected bits of information - or use information structures designed by others, automatic indexing is a bless. How would you "find in the last quarter documents all appearances of the term minimize risk", by laying files in structured folders?