The US needs to catch up to the rest of the world. The entire world uses Metric people. And it makes an infinite amount more sense to use Metric than the US system. If we don't, trade will continue to suffer as well as accidents such as this one.
Nobody is suffering due to English or Imperial units here in America. You want suffering? Then force everyone to change. How European that would be. We have much bigger problems than inches and miles.
BTW, you misread the article. It wasn't the conversion that caused the problem.
As much as like the idea of remaking classic games. Why dont we try and concentrate on innovating new ones? The Article says that remakes are good because they excite consumers with "names" they already know.
The best games are universal and immortal. Chess, Go, etc. They do not deserve to be tied to obsolete hardware, etc. The process of remakes and reinvention and preservation is essential and creative, as no great game ever sprung up fully formed. Hopefully we'll get one great game out of the first hundred years of computing.
Before a patent is accepted, it's put up for public display, for anyone to dispute. What we really need is a user-powered web site (Another OSDN partner?) that watches patents as they are put up for review, and looks for prior art.
So, your body notices the core temperature dropping and says "Crikey! Better shut off those extremities even more."
So, aren't these gloves self defeating?
I ask you.. why are your hands warming it mittens than in gloves? Are mittens self-defeating?
Usually I get the best coding results after 16 hours of constant work without sleep. In the end I suddenly see new options which came never into my mind before. The same holds for my coworkers. So from personal experience I strongly doubt their result.
Well, yeah, I've been there. Works best on an empty stomach in a cold drafty basement for me. But surely you've woken up with inspiration?
One time I was having serious performance problems in a protocol engine for interprocess communication among the parts of a big web application at a private bank. I couldn't quite narrow it down. I was spending my waking hours hacking on it. Then one night I had an incredibly vivid dream in which I was the parser looking out over the network and I was performing the operations with my hands. Put this over there, allocate that, read, write, etc. I knew the solution.
We carry around all this crap (yes, me included) and require it for our jobs and personal lives. We can't live without it. Right? Laptop, cell phone, Wi-Fi gear, PDA, and related equipment. Are we not borg already?
We spend enough time cursing our gadgets for me to conclude no, and it seems unlikely that integration paradise is right around the corner. But then, maybe ST has never explored the Borg well enough to find the sucky, irritating and mundane side of them. We need Quentin Tarantino for that.
Try something like the Mountainsmith Day Pack 03. It's a waist pack, a shoulder bag, and a backpack. Different, at least. The only thing is the Mountainsmith bags tend to have an overabundance of straps. Also check out the REI Mother Lode - cheaper. You see these sorts of things on eBay, too, beat up and really cheap - but good ones last forever (get a good laptop sleeve). The last thing a bag like this says is "laptop bag" - good if you're not interested in advertising the fact that you're carrying around expensive hardware.
The brain would have thought about this and have already prepared to outsource the kidney functions to the liver.
OT: I believe it was Emo Philips who said --- I used to think the brain was the most interesting part of the body. Then I thought, look what's telling me that
One could also make the statement that because Macs are marketed toward (and purportedly purchased by) those who know nothing about computers, they are less likely to go on wild adventures in their operating systems, unlike those who use Windows who may or may not be technically savvy.
It could be... but in my experience the average Windows user knows they are always one click away from disaster and really don't want to reinstall the OS again. Although XP sucks less, as the saying goes, non-newbies still have deep psychological wounds from previous versions of Windows.
I used the free version 2.1.3 for years but Alpha
has been my main text editor on the Mac since 1993 or so. Now that is the closest a real mac app has ever gotten to emacs.
the worst assumption many of us are making is that humans are not themselves computers.
It's an interesting intellectual exercise, but
the idea that we are merely computers is nothing more than the continued novelty of the computer, just as we once thought of ourselves and the world as clockwork. Wishful thinking, or perhaps professional myopia. Everyone thinks their field is the key to the universe. But this is not theory, so until someone can actually create complex life, I see no reason to believe people like Ray. Show me the money.
As I understand it, those too young to have made a decision before their death are summarially accepted by Christ. So, while it sounds unjust on the surface, this is not a good "unfairness" attack on Christianity.
Ahhhh. Accepted by a technicality? so there must be a threshold, then, after which one becomes eligible for damnation. Once you can think for yourself, I guess. Interesting view of the world.
Bochs will never replace VPC as long as Bochs is written in "pure" platform neutral code. VPC works as well as it does because of platform-specific optimizations done all over the place, both in C code and in assembly.
Here's an interesting anecdote: Needing to run a windows app immediately, I installed both bochs on my 12" g4 powerbook (867 MHz) and virtual PC 4 (not OS X compatible) on an old 266 MHz Wallstreet powerbook G3. VPC was at least twice as fast on that old G3 in OS 9. NT4 was actually useable on the Wallstreet, not at all on the 12". (Wallstreet forever!)
Hmmm. Just tried it and it missed my address by two blocks, as well as goofing up the name of a nearby high school. I do love the large map size, though.
Heh, same here. There is a drive and a road by the same name, I happen to live on the drive. MSN changes the drive I typed on the address box to road.
All in all, I'd give it an A for originality, but only a B- for aesthetic value.
I'd give it an F for aesthetics. No cherubs, no demons, no skulls, no Latin, no half naked goddesses in flowing robes with sceptres, no twisted vines and flowers. I mean, where's the life? The struggle? the humanity?
What the hell else would they use? Cygwin and GCC?
I thought it was well known that they've used a mish mash of everything. The existence of undocumented APIs plus the reliability/scaleability of their commercial dev tools casts serious doubt on their ability to handle, say, a system the size of Windows and Office. Not to mention the fact that the product release and bugfix cycles between the tools and their other products would have to be in serious sync. If they rely on their own tools to a large extent, they probably use very old, stable versions, the bug fixes for which have never been released to the public (lest they take away from the current version on sale).
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Thirty *and* making up words? Time for his run.
Nobody is suffering due to English or Imperial units here in America. You want suffering? Then force everyone to change. How European that would be. We have much bigger problems than inches and miles.
BTW, you misread the article. It wasn't the conversion that caused the problem.
The best games are universal and immortal. Chess, Go, etc. They do not deserve to be tied to obsolete hardware, etc. The process of remakes and reinvention and preservation is essential and creative, as no great game ever sprung up fully formed. Hopefully we'll get one great game out of the first hundred years of computing.
patentslash.org maybe?
I ask you.. why are your hands warming it mittens than in gloves? Are mittens self-defeating?
Well, yeah, I've been there. Works best on an empty stomach in a cold drafty basement for me. But surely you've woken up with inspiration?
One time I was having serious performance problems in a protocol engine for interprocess communication among the parts of a big web application at a private bank. I couldn't quite narrow it down. I was spending my waking hours hacking on it. Then one night I had an incredibly vivid dream in which I was the parser looking out over the network and I was performing the operations with my hands. Put this over there, allocate that, read, write, etc. I knew the solution.
The answer to the collatz problem is yes, it does. Thank you very much.
We spend enough time cursing our gadgets for me to conclude no, and it seems unlikely that integration paradise is right around the corner. But then, maybe ST has never explored the Borg well enough to find the sucky, irritating and mundane side of them. We need Quentin Tarantino for that.
Try something like the Mountainsmith Day Pack 03. It's a waist pack, a shoulder bag, and a backpack. Different, at least. The only thing is the Mountainsmith bags tend to have an overabundance of straps. Also check out the REI Mother Lode - cheaper. You see these sorts of things on eBay, too, beat up and really cheap - but good ones last forever (get a good laptop sleeve). The last thing a bag like this says is "laptop bag" - good if you're not interested in advertising the fact that you're carrying around expensive hardware.
OT: I believe it was Emo Philips who said --- I used to think the brain was the most interesting part of the body. Then I thought, look what's telling me that
It could be... but in my experience the average Windows user knows they are always one click away from disaster and really don't want to reinstall the OS again. Although XP sucks less, as the saying goes, non-newbies still have deep psychological wounds from previous versions of Windows.
I used the free version 2.1.3 for years but Alpha has been my main text editor on the Mac since 1993 or so. Now that is the closest a real mac app has ever gotten to emacs.
It's an interesting intellectual exercise, but the idea that we are merely computers is nothing more than the continued novelty of the computer, just as we once thought of ourselves and the world as clockwork. Wishful thinking, or perhaps professional myopia. Everyone thinks their field is the key to the universe. But this is not theory, so until someone can actually create complex life, I see no reason to believe people like Ray. Show me the money.
Ahhhh. Accepted by a technicality? so there must be a threshold, then, after which one becomes eligible for damnation. Once you can think for yourself, I guess. Interesting view of the world.
simplicity is totally overrated. security, trust, manageability never result from it.
sheesh. mouse gestures. kids these days.
Christian Science Monitor - the last one.
sigh. where are you, ted nelson?
HotJava was released in early 1995, iirc. that was why we upgraded to solaris from sunOS. You know, so we could play tic-tac-toe like it was 1978!
Here's an interesting anecdote: Needing to run a windows app immediately, I installed both bochs on my 12" g4 powerbook (867 MHz) and virtual PC 4 (not OS X compatible) on an old 266 MHz Wallstreet powerbook G3. VPC was at least twice as fast on that old G3 in OS 9. NT4 was actually useable on the Wallstreet, not at all on the 12". (Wallstreet forever!)
Heh, same here. There is a drive and a road by the same name, I happen to live on the drive. MSN changes the drive I typed on the address box to road.
Works in Safari.
I'd give it an F for aesthetics. No cherubs, no demons, no skulls, no Latin, no half naked goddesses in flowing robes with sceptres, no twisted vines and flowers. I mean, where's the life? The struggle? the humanity?
Sure they have learned to some extent, but I don't teach them to fear me.
I thought it was well known that they've used a mish mash of everything. The existence of undocumented APIs plus the reliability/scaleability of their commercial dev tools casts serious doubt on their ability to handle, say, a system the size of Windows and Office. Not to mention the fact that the product release and bugfix cycles between the tools and their other products would have to be in serious sync. If they rely on their own tools to a large extent, they probably use very old, stable versions, the bug fixes for which have never been released to the public (lest they take away from the current version on sale).
Heh. Do you think Microsoft uses its own development tools?