I always thought it would be a great idea to have something like google that maps out financial relationships, rather than reference relationships. Just enter in a company, industry, service, product, or what have you, and see who's got a lot invested in it, and who's profiting from it. No, you can't make inference directly from it, but it would certainly be interesting when discussing these issues.
The upper part is not the jaw...the jaw is the part that moves. If the upper part of your head moves when you talk, you're probably a muppet. Anyway, even if we consider your upper lip as part of your jaw, it doesn't drop when you're surprised, unless you're a narcoleptic, in which your whole head is likely to take a dive. . .
To me, a small mainboard means bad performance (i.e. memory throughput etc). Is this the case? I would gladly sacrifice expandability (PCI slots) if I was sure that the components that count (HDD, CPU, RAM) were still performing optimally. . .
How is this a troll? I used Mozilla (mostly as a MUA) for a long time and switched to Opera 7 a few days ago. The difference is night & day! Mozilla feels clunky and bloated (gee, maybe it *is*), whilst Opera is nimble even with a much better skin engine and a more graphically rich interface!
That would only work for pages with large images. Many sites use images (or worse--Flash) heavily as part of their logo and navigation. These will likely still get crushed by the/. effect.
Philips is probably just covering their ass because a lot of these copyprotection schemes render the discs unplayable in many devices (there was one case in which you would freeze your iMac if you put in a CD with a certain kind of copyprotection). The last thing the owners of a brand (such as the Compact Disc brand) want is for people to associate negative experiences with their product or logo. By only allowing standards-adhering products to bear their logo, they are ensuring uniformity and compatability, in other words, a good user experience.
A Doom-playing version of this system would probably require AI-complete machine vision, and sniping on eBay (not to mention document reformatting and data entry) is better accomplished with, say, a Perl script. While this is a cool little project, the piece detection has a pretty narrow range of operation wrt to contrast and flicker, and in no way is extensible enough to be a "universal, playform-independent macro system".
I was having this conversation with my friend the other day. I insisted that the best part about eating animals was when they died suddenly while under great stress. Scare an animal to death, then eat it before the circulating adrenaline is metabolized--its delicious, kind of sweet and tangy.
The only downside to this method is you can't properly grind or deep-fry the animal first. I can't think of anything tastier than a pig that's been ground up and shoved up its own ass to make sausage.
I've never lived in any of the cities in question, but I know in Honolulu that tourists can rent mopeds, and they drive them on sidewalks everywhere. I would much rather see them on Segways. It might even keep them out of the roads, too.
I've always wanted to do little projects like this, where a computer controls various relays. The only thing I don't know how to do is get the computer to control them! Are there inexpensive kits that connect to, say, a serial port? I'd love it if anyone who has experience with similar things can tell me how to do this cheaply.
I see a lot of other posts coming from people who sound like they've read Robert Park's book "Voodoo Science". Park is a physicist by training and covers all sorts of crap science in this book--health risks from power lines and microwaves, cold fusion, and free energy machines, among others.
While it's not a field guide to identifying bad science (he mostly covers stories that were or are popular in the media), he periodically takes a break from storytelling to identify the common threads shared between the cases. Basically, anyone making claims that fly in the face of conventional knowledge is suspect, doubly so if they refuse to submit their ideas to peer review or confirmation. Clonaid anyone?
You're right. Since all problems are different points along an infinite series of causes and effects, it's pointless to say that we "know" anything. Thanks for clearing that up.
You might be able to sell your system to people doing similar things--but other colleges? Perhaps not. I am the student body webmaster for my college and I put together a few iterations of a SQL-based content management system for putting the student newspaper online. I started with PHP templating and graduated to XSLT, and then--I ditched the whole thing and switched to PDF files indexed with ht://dig.
Why? Well, the newspaper is sent to the printers in PDF format, so why should I waste hours each week scaling and cropping photos (or writing automation for it), stripping out 'smart quotes' and other web-unfriendly characters only to end up with something that looks mass-produced when I can serve up the pages as they were printed?
One thing that became a problem right away with all the web applications I was writing was that I was the only one who knew how they worked, and how to use them. One thing that might test your dedication to such an endeavour is realizing that you won't sell much without good documentation, compatability (not everyone keeps their PHP installations up-to-date or compiles with the same settings), and an easy installation procedure. Systems that you've developed in-place won't have these things naturally. Anyway, best of luck--at the very least it will look good on a resume.
Is this a troll? Should Slashdot or, say, Penny Arcade pay the ISPs of all their visitors? Including operating costs in product prices is all well and good for e-commerce sites, but what about content publishers that aren't trying to sell anything?
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I always thought it would be a great idea to have something like google that maps out financial relationships, rather than reference relationships. Just enter in a company, industry, service, product, or what have you, and see who's got a lot invested in it, and who's profiting from it. No, you can't make inference directly from it, but it would certainly be interesting when discussing these issues.
The upper part is not the jaw...the jaw is the part that moves. If the upper part of your head moves when you talk, you're probably a muppet. Anyway, even if we consider your upper lip as part of your jaw, it doesn't drop when you're surprised, unless you're a narcoleptic, in which your whole head is likely to take a dive. . .
Thanks for playing.I'd be more worried about your having multiple jaws than your low 3DMark score. . .
"I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy."
Better luck next time!Medulla oblongata. There is no 'obdula' in the brain, nor in any dictionary I've seen.
To me, a small mainboard means bad performance (i.e. memory throughput etc). Is this the case? I would gladly sacrifice expandability (PCI slots) if I was sure that the components that count (HDD, CPU, RAM) were still performing optimally. . .
How is this a troll? I used Mozilla (mostly as a MUA) for a long time and switched to Opera 7 a few days ago. The difference is night & day! Mozilla feels clunky and bloated (gee, maybe it *is*), whilst Opera is nimble even with a much better skin engine and a more graphically rich interface!
You're king of the people with poor reading comprehension. CowboyNeal simply posted a submission written by somebody else.
That would only work for pages with large images. Many sites use images (or worse--Flash) heavily as part of their logo and navigation. These will likely still get crushed by the /. effect.
Because then I can buy it and then I'll have more bits than you. Nyah-nyah.
Philips is probably just covering their ass because a lot of these copyprotection schemes render the discs unplayable in many devices (there was one case in which you would freeze your iMac if you put in a CD with a certain kind of copyprotection). The last thing the owners of a brand (such as the Compact Disc brand) want is for people to associate negative experiences with their product or logo. By only allowing standards-adhering products to bear their logo, they are ensuring uniformity and compatability, in other words, a good user experience.
See, I can exploit subtleties to make points too.
I expect these will do about as well on the market as amphetamine-free speed, and nudity-free porn.
"You need lots of bandwidth to serve lots of data to lots of people."
I've had more insightful things come out of my penis.
A Doom-playing version of this system would probably require AI-complete machine vision, and sniping on eBay (not to mention document reformatting and data entry) is better accomplished with, say, a Perl script. While this is a cool little project, the piece detection has a pretty narrow range of operation wrt to contrast and flicker, and in no way is extensible enough to be a "universal, playform-independent macro system".
Yeah kids, we did this here and here.
The only downside to this method is you can't properly grind or deep-fry the animal first. I can't think of anything tastier than a pig that's been ground up and shoved up its own ass to make sausage.
I've never lived in any of the cities in question, but I know in Honolulu that tourists can rent mopeds, and they drive them on sidewalks everywhere. I would much rather see them on Segways. It might even keep them out of the roads, too.
I've always wanted to do little projects like this, where a computer controls various relays. The only thing I don't know how to do is get the computer to control them! Are there inexpensive kits that connect to, say, a serial port? I'd love it if anyone who has experience with similar things can tell me how to do this cheaply.
While it's not a field guide to identifying bad science (he mostly covers stories that were or are popular in the media), he periodically takes a break from storytelling to identify the common threads shared between the cases. Basically, anyone making claims that fly in the face of conventional knowledge is suspect, doubly so if they refuse to submit their ideas to peer review or confirmation. Clonaid anyone?
You're right. Since all problems are different points along an infinite series of causes and effects, it's pointless to say that we "know" anything. Thanks for clearing that up.
Why? Well, the newspaper is sent to the printers in PDF format, so why should I waste hours each week scaling and cropping photos (or writing automation for it), stripping out 'smart quotes' and other web-unfriendly characters only to end up with something that looks mass-produced when I can serve up the pages as they were printed?
One thing that became a problem right away with all the web applications I was writing was that I was the only one who knew how they worked, and how to use them. One thing that might test your dedication to such an endeavour is realizing that you won't sell much without good documentation, compatability (not everyone keeps their PHP installations up-to-date or compiles with the same settings), and an easy installation procedure. Systems that you've developed in-place won't have these things naturally. Anyway, best of luck--at the very least it will look good on a resume.
Is this a troll? Should Slashdot or, say, Penny Arcade pay the ISPs of all their visitors? Including operating costs in product prices is all well and good for e-commerce sites, but what about content publishers that aren't trying to sell anything?
21) You post "too much slashdot" lists to slashdot, and in true open-source style, invite others to add to it.
"Chai" means "Tea", so you are, in effect, asking for a robot that makes Tea Tea. It's like talking about DSL lines and PIN numbers.