So to implement "ten times bigger", we would get: "Light was blocked out all over the world. 3.5 meters of ash fell *2500 miles* away. (or 35 cm 25.000 miles away) The global temperature plunged 210 degrees. Mankind was absolutely extinguished, and even the remains of the extermination were extinguished."
First, I never use that T9 stuff, because it never chooses the right word.
Haven't you ever considered, that the latter is caused by the former? Or is your phone just that outdated.
T9 learns your word preferences, new words, and unused words in every modern phone I hah in the last years.
My T9 dictionary knew nearly all of my slang words after a month of usage. On my next phone, i even created an SMS with my most used non-included words on the first day.
For purposefully misspelled words, there's a simple solution: Spell it right, and then replace just the letter(s) you want to change. Of course this only works comfortable when your phone supports quick switching of modes and editing functions, which mine (Nokia smartphone) did.
Real geeks read science fiction and hate fantasy! (Even the one disguised as sci-fi, like Dune.)
Fantasy is to sci-fi, as religion is to science. Religion is a schizophrenic disease, disconnecting the person from the logic used is reality. Logic is a major cornerstone of the geekyness expressed on this site. I rest my case.;)
I think you're talking of the pipe dream of the idea of Wikipedia, which is as dead as the pipe dream idea of communism or democracy (which were good ideas in theory only too).
Nowadays we have a small government, pushing their own reality to gain power. Lucky you, if it fits with your reality.
Unfortunately, in reality, reality is relative. And I don't mean the humoristic "truthiness" kind. I mean the relativity to the state of the sensing entity. (Eg. location, environment, experience, sensory distortion, etc.)
Hey, I used that "one big monitor" feature, and it was great. Just because you found no use for it, you don't have to insult everyone else!
I used it to have one monitor (the new and big one) for the document and one (the old and smaller one) for the tool-palettes in photoshop, maya, and so on. Being able to drag them over is a major plus.
If only you would have refrained from attacking me... (2nd last paragraph) I want to remind you, that intelligent people find disagreements more useful than agreements, and therefore see no reason to start attacking each other to defend a twisted reality.:)
No. The exact point of difference is the arrogance. When it's combined with learning something new, it results in insistence on wrong assumptions. Healthy people expect to be wrong to assume the results of their unrelated experiences for this new problems.
Problem is: Stupid people have to be delusionally arrogant in the assumption of their own correctness, or their whole world view would break down. See: Religion, Politics, Schizophrenics,...
You know, the poor guy who barely has enough money to live because the only job he can get is as a waiter. If he manages to clone the data, and get some money to another account (perhaps with the help of a friend).
Besides: I wonder whey credit cards are in use at all. They are obviously the worst security concept in history (until Windows 95's user login, circumvented by pressing ESC).
But.. but... that's the idea behind all of it. Making them dependent. And making us dependent (trough loans).
I read, that if the world bank did not actively keep Africa poor, they would boom, because of all their subterranean resources. Also I'm pretty sure, that the Internet makes it possible to gain knowledge and use that to make money, even in the poorest, most remote five-hut town, as long as they have cheap Internet access.
I can remember reading from John Carmack, that he hated the ATi drivers, because they were so crappy. The impression that I got from his description was, that it's kind of like the Internet Explorer of graphics drivers. They did seem to not be able to conform to the OpenGL or DirectX specifications at all, and had weird bugs when rendering in a specific condition.
Does anyone who is programming actual 3D and shader code know if this has changed? I can imagine that nowadays, everything is written as shaders, so the actual implementation of higher level functionality (like the OpenGL default rendering model) does not matter anymore.
Oh, and my setup for a game-headset is a high-end headphone, and a clip-on microphone (like the ones used on TV). These microphones have a very impressive sound quality and loudness compared to normal headset microphones.
Please, please, please IBM, open source Lotus SmartSuite. Especially WordPro and 1-2-3. Specifically the InfoBox.
That way the developers of OpenOffice maybe throw away their bloated, badly designed imitation of MS Office. You know... because you can't expect them to do anything creative by themselves, because of the childr... eehem... I mean... those who are used to MS Office.
Replace one of them by me (including the income at Sun), and I'll give you an UI that's so great, geeks and Joe Sixpacks can jack off to it.;))
I am Navid Zamani, and I approve this statement.;)
Who gave you the authority to define this? Or in other words: Since when is you opinion relevant to us? Or in other other words: No it hasn't. Get over it, or learn basic logic.
Yeah. You're paying tons of cash for the best hardware out there, and then route the audio trough crappy active PC speakers? That's like those people who buy an expensive car, and then can't afford the fuel for it.
If you have an expensive display, or sound card, don't be cheap on the sound. Everybody I know, who has a decent system, has it connected to his hi-fi system. I have only one output on my system: Real-time encoded AC-3 trough a fiber glass cable... It's better to let your amplifier do the D/A-decoding, instead of the cheap decoders in your sound card.
At least I don't have to tell my fellow Slashdotters, that the keyboard is very important too.:)
That's simple. It's because "faith" is another word for a kind of mild but generally accepted schizophrenic disease. It spreads especially well in a combination of a environment that is too horrible to accept, and stupid minds.
Be aware that those Humans are victims themselves. The causes are mostly wars and poverty.
The reasons for wars and poverty come from the basic struggle for limited resources, in order to win in natural selection. So if you want to stop wars, you either have to add nearly unlimited resources, or stop natural selection. Latter would be a very bad thing, because this would mean no further evolution / development.
Be aware, that resources, struggle, wars and so on can still exist in other contexts. For example: We already have a context. The context of our thoughts. These are so complex, that ideas and concepts fight for mind space, and can be seen as life forms on a different level.
Maybe one time, when we travel the galaxies, only our minds, ideas and concepts will do so, and this will be, what science-fiction authors meant, when they wrote about the ascension of a species. I, for one, want to welcome myself as a free-mind-overlord, as soon as possible!:D
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So to implement "ten times bigger", we would get: "Light was blocked out all over the world. 3.5 meters of ash fell *2500 miles* away. (or 35 cm 25.000 miles away) The global temperature plunged 210 degrees. Mankind was absolutely extinguished, and even the remains of the extermination were extinguished."
(And: Yes, I'm exaggerating. That's the point. :P)
There will be no humans left to eat them there.
First, I never use that T9 stuff, because it never chooses the right word.
Haven't you ever considered, that the latter is caused by the former? Or is your phone just that outdated.
T9 learns your word preferences, new words, and unused words in every modern phone I hah in the last years.
My T9 dictionary knew nearly all of my slang words after a month of usage. On my next phone, i even created an SMS with my most used non-included words on the first day.
For purposefully misspelled words, there's a simple solution: Spell it right, and then replace just the letter(s) you want to change. Of course this only works comfortable when your phone supports quick switching of modes and editing functions, which mine (Nokia smartphone) did.
Real geeks read science fiction and hate fantasy! (Even the one disguised as sci-fi, like Dune.)
Fantasy is to sci-fi, as religion is to science. ;)
Religion is a schizophrenic disease, disconnecting the person from the logic used is reality.
Logic is a major cornerstone of the geekyness expressed on this site.
I rest my case.
Simply use "one, one, one..."
Same method as "ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten, ten..."
I think you're talking of the pipe dream of the idea of Wikipedia, which is as dead as the pipe dream idea of communism or democracy (which were good ideas in theory only too).
Nowadays we have a small government, pushing their own reality to gain power.
Lucky you, if it fits with your reality.
Unfortunately, in reality, reality is relative. And I don't mean the humoristic "truthiness" kind. I mean the relativity to the state of the sensing entity. (Eg. location, environment, experience, sensory distortion, etc.)
For a more harsh way of saying it, read my sig. ;)
As I said: I wrote the post to catch other who think like I do, in order to gain up-to-date infos on the subject.
I succeeded thanks to KovaaK.
The only one who has the shame on him, is you, for attacking me for it. ;)
Hey, I used that "one big monitor" feature, and it was great.
Just because you found no use for it, you don't have to insult everyone else!
I used it to have one monitor (the new and big one) for the document and one (the old and smaller one) for the tool-palettes in photoshop, maya, and so on.
Being able to drag them over is a major plus.
Thank you. :)
That was a very informative answer.
If only you would have refrained from attacking me... (2nd last paragraph) :)
I want to remind you, that intelligent people find disagreements more useful than agreements, and therefore see no reason to start attacking each other to defend a twisted reality.
No. The exact point of difference is the arrogance. When it's combined with learning something new, it results in insistence on wrong assumptions.
Healthy people expect to be wrong to assume the results of their unrelated experiences for this new problems.
Problem is: Stupid people have to be delusionally arrogant in the assumption of their own correctness, or their whole world view would break down. ...
See: Religion, Politics, Schizophrenics,
(I bet that for everyone here, our parents are our #1 support customers)
Hey, I don't have a mom or a dad, you insensitive clod!
The American cultural system would collapse
Choose one of:
A) What is this American culture you are speaking of?
B) You say that, as if it were a bad thing...
And if they are the same person?
You know, the poor guy who barely has enough money to live because the only job he can get is as a waiter.
If he manages to clone the data, and get some money to another account (perhaps with the help of a friend).
Besides: I wonder whey credit cards are in use at all. They are obviously the worst security concept in history (until Windows 95's user login, circumvented by pressing ESC).
But.. but... that's the idea behind all of it. Making them dependent. And making us dependent (trough loans).
I read, that if the world bank did not actively keep Africa poor, they would boom, because of all their subterranean resources.
Also I'm pretty sure, that the Internet makes it possible to gain knowledge and use that to make money, even in the poorest, most remote five-hut town, as long as they have cheap Internet access.
I can remember reading from John Carmack, that he hated the ATi drivers, because they were so crappy. The impression that I got from his description was, that it's kind of like the Internet Explorer of graphics drivers. They did seem to not be able to conform to the OpenGL or DirectX specifications at all, and had weird bugs when rendering in a specific condition.
Does anyone who is programming actual 3D and shader code know if this has changed? I can imagine that nowadays, everything is written as shaders, so the actual implementation of higher level functionality (like the OpenGL default rendering model) does not matter anymore.
Oh, and my setup for a game-headset is a high-end headphone, and a clip-on microphone (like the ones used on TV).
These microphones have a very impressive sound quality and loudness compared to normal headset microphones.
Yes, you're right (apart from the insult).
But do you want to have headphones on your ears all day long?
I sweat like crazy, even with the most advanced materials.
Besides: I like my 5.1 system. At least as long, as binaural recording for everyone in an unsolved problem. :)
it will be easy for others to develop better UIs
You mean...like... OpenOffice?
No thanks... :)
Please, please, please IBM, open source Lotus SmartSuite.
Especially WordPro and 1-2-3. Specifically the InfoBox.
That way the developers of OpenOffice maybe throw away their bloated, badly designed imitation of MS Office.
You know... because you can't expect them to do anything creative by themselves, because of the childr... eehem... I mean... those who are used to MS Office.
Replace one of them by me (including the income at Sun), and I'll give you an UI that's so great, geeks and Joe Sixpacks can jack off to it. ;))
I am Navid Zamani, and I approve this statement. ;)
Who gave you the authority to define this?
Or in other words: Since when is you opinion relevant to us?
Or in other other words: No it hasn't. Get over it, or learn basic logic.
Huh...? We're in Soviet Russia?
No speakers (FAIL)
Yeah. You're paying tons of cash for the best hardware out there, and then route the audio trough crappy active PC speakers? That's like those people who buy an expensive car, and then can't afford the fuel for it.
If you have an expensive display, or sound card, don't be cheap on the sound. Everybody I know, who has a decent system, has it connected to his hi-fi system. I have only one output on my system: Real-time encoded AC-3 trough a fiber glass cable... It's better to let your amplifier do the D/A-decoding, instead of the cheap decoders in your sound card.
At least I don't have to tell my fellow Slashdotters, that the keyboard is very important too. :)
Well, work at EA for more than a month, and then tell me how you feel... if you still haven't jumped down a bridge or shot yourself...
If you haven't got a clue, simply STFU for a change.
That's simple. It's because "faith" is another word for a kind of mild but generally accepted schizophrenic disease. It spreads especially well in a combination of a environment that is too horrible to accept, and stupid minds.
Be aware that those Humans are victims themselves. The causes are mostly wars and poverty.
The reasons for wars and poverty come from the basic struggle for limited resources, in order to win in natural selection.
So if you want to stop wars, you either have to add nearly unlimited resources, or stop natural selection.
Latter would be a very bad thing, because this would mean no further evolution / development.
Be aware, that resources, struggle, wars and so on can still exist in other contexts. For example: We already have a context. The context of our thoughts. These are so complex, that ideas and concepts fight for mind space, and can be seen as life forms on a different level.
Maybe one time, when we travel the galaxies, only our minds, ideas and concepts will do so, and this will be, what science-fiction authors meant, when they wrote about the ascension of a species. :D
I, for one, want to welcome myself as a free-mind-overlord, as soon as possible!
'[...] unravel one of the greatest known political scandals in our nation's history.'
There, fixed that for you.