What the hell? Do you have any proof for the “plenty of experiments” you are supposed to have seen? (Especially, how have you seen what everybody paid? Unless you are close friends with them...) I think you’re just trolltalking out of your ass.
I know that at least Nine Inch Nails and Moby had big successes with that, and actually made more money that way. And lowering prices on Steam to 25% of the old price also made them more money.
Being nice to your clients can mean that they are nice to you too. Who woulda thunk that??;)
My friend, there is no such thing as “incurable”. There is only ”we don’t know how to cure it (yet)”. “incurable” is something, that arrogant physicians with a god complex use, because they actually believe that when they themselves can’t cure it, nobody ever in the whole of the universe will be able to. Which for plainly obvious reasons is not the case.
From what I know about this method (I already read about it, years ago, in scientific publications), we can basically change any gene with it. But we can only change it either locally, trough injecting the viruses at the exact right spot. Or... what understandably nobody dares to do... make those viruses able to reproduce and spread in the whole body, fixing all genes. The problem here is: What stops it from spreading over all lifeforms on earth? And the second problem is, that of course changing the genes does not necessarily mean that that your body part then transforms into the new one. Yes, new cells will be different. But old ones not. And a transformation can also make that part not be able to live in the mean time. For real new growing things and big changes, you’d need stem cell therapy.
I know for a fact, that this has nothing to do with getting old. But with having eaten junk for so long, that you are old. But hey, it’s easier to just make up excuses about how this is “normal”. It is not. And I have thousands of patients to prove it.
Do you not even feel ashamed for the amount of straw-man fallacies you use in there?
As I did already said somewhere up there: He specifically talks about handheld devices “not bigger than a [wrist]watch” (last paragraph of the first column), used for communication. Which is exactly what mobile phones are. The BlackBerry that was stated in the title of the/. story, is a mobile phone. QED.
Everything else in your comment is a made-up hallucination of your mind and fallacy over fallacy, too many to even list. And “This isn't true, just like the other things in the article are not possible with our current understanding of physics.” is a plain and simple lie. Or, no... wait, let me quote you to explain how you came up with this:
Wow, the number of distractive (e.g. straw-man) fallacies in that little comment, is astonishing. ^^
He specifically talks about handheld devices “not bigger than a [wrist]watch“ (last paragraph of the first column), used for communication. Which is exactly what mobile phones are. The BlackBerry that was stated in the title of the/. story, is a mobile phone. QED.
the rantings of once-great scientist who has slipped into mediocrity, or even insanity.
I’m sorry, but being in the “unfortunate” situation of having a relatively high IQ, I found the following to be true:
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Oh, and that strangely, in the western world, being dumb somehow seems to have become the ideal. Dumb people are the ones who get aided, supported and encouraged. One could say: In the western world, the dumb one is acting like the idiot is YOU!;) Somehow they can insult us, but we can’t call them what they are.:/
As/. has a high ratio of intelligent people, I’m sure you’ve been there too...
P.S.: Being intelligent does not mean we are perfect. So errors in my third language do not invalidate what I said. (That would be a logical fallacy anyway.) P.P.S.: The above quote seems to also be true for the “spy” type of intelligence.
I’m sorry?...but if he does not like climbing in a large rough machine to rip shit apart with gross motor action, then how does he dare calling himself a REAL MAN? ^^
...will it be “slow” and outdated, with a high risk of dying before the next release, and then in a quick move be replaced by the unstable and weird “Pathogenic Palin“?;)
I think Lockhart explained the problem very very well: The thing is, that a mathematical concept was once invented in need to solve a problem. Then it grew with its history. Until finally it becomes perfectly abstract.
But what people then do, to show other people that concept, is throw the final formula or abstract concept at you. Including inconceivable symbols, semantics and terms that you never heard of. Naturally, your brain shuts completely down, because it’s stuck an the first thing it does not understand, and hence never gets to the point where it’s explained. And even if it wouldn’t, the whole thing of course makes no sense and has no point at all.
Luckily there’s a workaround: Walk the same path. But with compacted optimized information. Or in other words: First and foremost read the history. Especially the starting point(s). And from that, step by step, get to the current state. If you can do it right, you will be rewarded with a deep and natural understanding of the matter, and will be able to come up with novel ways to think about it or use it, that people who learned it the “brainfuck” way, or learned it by heart, will never be able to come up with.:)
Didn’t we already have enough historical shooters? I think it’s a completely dead and sucked dry concept. Just like fantasy RPGs and default shooters. There is no way anyone could possibly make that feel fresh again. Because even every combination was tried.
I told ya so! pop music is to music, like Facebook is to 4chan. Not better. Just more popular and a lot more full of being molded into a predefined set of the crowd’s social conditioned views of how they think things are.
The problem with SSDs is: 1. cheap 2. big 3. reliable Choose two! But even then, you can only be sure of number 3, after some years have passed. For obvious reasons of there not being any test data for years of use, until years of use have passed. ^^
Hey, it’s better than the $15000 a “officially accepted” device would cost, that would do the same job. I say, it is completely irrelevant what the device was “supposed to be’. What counts is: 1. Did it help him? 2. Was it not pointlessly expensive? And as it looks like that’s a yes, and a yes, I say: If you’d pay a “official” device, of course it should be paid. And you should be thankful that he didn’t take the $15000 device. ^^
And that it happens for Humans too. For example, that what we eat changes us, and that this is the reason some people look more like the animals their predecessors are.
I’d say (non-judgemental!) that some Germans or Polish people look a bit more like pigs and cows, while Arabic mountain-dwellers have a bit of similarity to goats. Which also are the animals they eat most. (Again: This is not meant as an insult, and I don’t associate good or bad to looks anyway. So if you felt offended [which I don’t think you are], that would be because of what you’d think of me. Which would not be very nice.:)
I had to be reminded yesterday, that we can never ever directly observe causation anyway. All that we can observe, is correlation with as much other variables removed as possible. This is because physics at least demands the spacetime volumes to be different for two different (fermion-based) objects. (Pauli exclusion principle)
So observation alone still is not worth much more. Example: When I observe rain, I also observe that less people are outside. But that does not mean that people cause sunshine.:))
By the way: Have you also read the mousover text on that xkcd comic?
And keep your actual content out of any of those. (Or you will be punished with problems with translations and others.:) I preferred to keep content in custom XML formats individualized for the actual content. But nowadays, I have my own lightweight binary (EBML-like) markup format, which, with a tag mapper information file or block, is just as easy, but (other than XML) very efficient.
Slashdot Mirror
What the hell? Do you have any proof for the “plenty of experiments” you are supposed to have seen? (Especially, how have you seen what everybody paid? Unless you are close friends with them...)
I think you’re just trolltalking out of your ass.
I know that at least Nine Inch Nails and Moby had big successes with that, and actually made more money that way. And lowering prices on Steam to 25% of the old price also made them more money.
Being nice to your clients can mean that they are nice to you too. Who woulda thunk that?? ;)
LOL, This was even funnier with my little Firefox extension doing a s/kdawson/kmonkey/ ;)
My friend, there is no such thing as “incurable”. There is only ”we don’t know how to cure it (yet)”.
“incurable” is something, that arrogant physicians with a god complex use, because they actually believe that when they themselves can’t cure it, nobody ever in the whole of the universe will be able to. Which for plainly obvious reasons is not the case.
From what I know about this method (I already read about it, years ago, in scientific publications), we can basically change any gene with it. But we can only change it either locally, trough injecting the viruses at the exact right spot. Or... what understandably nobody dares to do... make those viruses able to reproduce and spread in the whole body, fixing all genes. The problem here is: What stops it from spreading over all lifeforms on earth?
And the second problem is, that of course changing the genes does not necessarily mean that that your body part then transforms into the new one. Yes, new cells will be different. But old ones not. And a transformation can also make that part not be able to live in the mean time.
For real new growing things and big changes, you’d need stem cell therapy.
As we get older and cataracts appear,
I know for a fact, that this has nothing to do with getting old. But with having eaten junk for so long, that you are old.
But hey, it’s easier to just make up excuses about how this is “normal”. It is not. And I have thousands of patients to prove it.
And let me guess, you also wish you could grow your penis in the same way. ;)
Do you not even feel ashamed for the amount of straw-man fallacies you use in there?
As I did already said somewhere up there: /. story, is a mobile phone. QED.
He specifically talks about handheld devices “not bigger than a [wrist]watch” (last paragraph of the first column), used for communication. Which is exactly what mobile phones are. The BlackBerry that was stated in the title of the
Everything else in your comment is a made-up hallucination of your mind and fallacy over fallacy, too many to even list.
And “This isn't true, just like the other things in the article are not possible with our current understanding of physics.” is a plain and simple lie. Or, no... wait, let me quote you to explain how you came up with this:
I'm not very knowledgable about science,
Aaah, that explains everything.
Wow, the number of distractive (e.g. straw-man) fallacies in that little comment, is astonishing. ^^
He specifically talks about handheld devices “not bigger than a [wrist]watch“ (last paragraph of the first column), used for communication. Which is exactly what mobile phones are. The BlackBerry that was stated in the title of the /. story, is a mobile phone. QED.
the rantings of once-great scientist who has slipped into mediocrity, or even insanity.
I’m sorry, but being in the “unfortunate” situation of having a relatively high IQ, I found the following to be true:
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Oh, and that strangely, in the western world, being dumb somehow seems to have become the ideal. Dumb people are the ones who get aided, supported and encouraged. One could say: In the western world, the dumb one is acting like the idiot is YOU! ;) Somehow they can insult us, but we can’t call them what they are. :/
As /. has a high ratio of intelligent people, I’m sure you’ve been there too...
P.S.: Being intelligent does not mean we are perfect. So errors in my third language do not invalidate what I said. (That would be a logical fallacy anyway.)
P.P.S.: The above quote seems to also be true for the “spy” type of intelligence.
I’m sorry? ...but if he does not like climbing in a large rough machine to rip shit apart with gross motor action, then how does he dare calling himself a REAL MAN ? ^^
These guys might like to have a word with him:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O_NrTW4lfgk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cx1XhlPIeEM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JLO1YIWQuXE
...will it be “slow” and outdated, with a high risk of dying before the next release, and then in a quick move be replaced by the unstable and weird “Pathogenic Palin“? ;)
As a Slashdotter this might not be an obvious though, but have you considered them having been in bed with someone else? ^^
Considering how much of a speed and memory hog Panda’s all-and-everything suit is, I’d say, they already know very well, how to create malware. ;)
Protip: Search for “strictfp” on http://floating-point-gui.de/languages/java/
Oh, and to the OP: EPIC FAIL!
I think Lockhart explained the problem very very well: The thing is, that a mathematical concept was once invented in need to solve a problem. Then it grew with its history. Until finally it becomes perfectly abstract.
But what people then do, to show other people that concept, is throw the final formula or abstract concept at you. Including inconceivable symbols, semantics and terms that you never heard of. Naturally, your brain shuts completely down, because it’s stuck an the first thing it does not understand, and hence never gets to the point where it’s explained. And even if it wouldn’t, the whole thing of course makes no sense and has no point at all.
Luckily there’s a workaround: Walk the same path. But with compacted optimized information. Or in other words: First and foremost read the history. Especially the starting point(s). And from that, step by step, get to the current state. :)
If you can do it right, you will be rewarded with a deep and natural understanding of the matter, and will be able to come up with novel ways to think about it or use it, that people who learned it the “brainfuck” way, or learned it by heart, will never be able to come up with.
Didn’t we already have enough historical shooters? I think it’s a completely dead and sucked dry concept. Just like fantasy RPGs and default shooters. There is no way anyone could possibly make that feel fresh again. Because even every combination was tried.
Actually, my version goes like this:
Fool me once, ... I break your fucking neck. (Then shame on you.)
You forgot
* Will have the first-ever 100% proven to never be crackable ever DRM.
which means that the following will not happen
* still be most successful game of the year
since...
* the game will have been proven to have ever existed at all. ;) (guaranteeing the first point)
Excess energy? That’s a problem I’d like to have! ^^
Oh Tesla coils! How I wish I had a couple of you just fizzing away all day long! That would definitely keep out the thieves! :D
I wrote it, five minutes ago, and it grew from zero to one today. Which is a growth rate of INFINITE! Beat that Chrome! ;))
(Wasn’t there an xkcd or Dilbert comic about how big percentages are irrelevant, if the starting value in extremely tiny?)
I told ya so! pop music is to music, like Facebook is to 4chan. Not better. Just more popular and a lot more full of being molded into a predefined set of the crowd’s social conditioned views of how they think things are.
The problem with SSDs is:
1. cheap
2. big
3. reliable
Choose two!
But even then, you can only be sure of number 3, after some years have passed. For obvious reasons of there not being any test data for years of use, until years of use have passed. ^^
Hey, it’s better than the $15000 a “officially accepted” device would cost, that would do the same job.
I say, it is completely irrelevant what the device was “supposed to be’. What counts is:
1. Did it help him?
2. Was it not pointlessly expensive?
And as it looks like that’s a yes, and a yes, I say: If you’d pay a “official” device, of course it should be paid. And you should be thankful that he didn’t take the $15000 device. ^^
And that it happens for Humans too. For example, that what we eat changes us, and that this is the reason some people look more like the animals their predecessors are.
I’d say (non-judgemental!) that some Germans or Polish people look a bit more like pigs and cows, while Arabic mountain-dwellers have a bit of similarity to goats. Which also are the animals they eat most. (Again: This is not meant as an insult, and I don’t associate good or bad to looks anyway. So if you felt offended [which I don’t think you are], that would be because of what you’d think of me. Which would not be very nice. :)
I had to be reminded yesterday, that we can never ever directly observe causation anyway. All that we can observe, is correlation with as much other variables removed as possible. This is because physics at least demands the spacetime volumes to be different for two different (fermion-based) objects. (Pauli exclusion principle)
So observation alone still is not worth much more. Example: When I observe rain, I also observe that less people are outside. But that does not mean that people cause sunshine. :))
By the way: Have you also read the mousover text on that xkcd comic?
And keep your actual content out of any of those. (Or you will be punished with problems with translations and others. :)
I preferred to keep content in custom XML formats individualized for the actual content. But nowadays, I have my own lightweight binary (EBML-like) markup format, which, with a tag mapper information file or block, is just as easy, but (other than XML) very efficient.