Is it just me, or does the blase nature with which bullshit in the articles are posted remind you of a coked out movie sta... ahem.. coked out nerds: "NYTimes, first born required, blah blah)"
Hmm, I don't know if I agree with your characterization either. So Rutan is not a rocket builder, but he has a massive aviation engineering background and physical infrastructure in place. The difference between the Carmack and Rutan teams is likely significant - to balance it out, I would bet that Rutan would have a hell of a time building a top-notch first-person shooter...
Dude, you're not a prophet, but you are a good Karma whore. What does the Bush administration and Mars have to do with this? How could you know what propulsion system is going to be used without NASA even working on it yet? And this Space Elevator company is a bunch of nerds building Lego Mindstorm models of their fantasy elevator!!!
The first day I started work I got a cube from another employee who had left a week before. After a couple of days my fingertips started to wrinkle severly. They looked like I had taken a 30 minute bath, but ALL THE TIME. My palms cracked as well. It took months for my hands to get back to normal. Anyone know what this is? A fungus?
The kid stuck in a little masturbatory shell of internal fractalization and is lazy so he lets others carry his weight while he dreams of the 5th dimension. To wake him up, the following may help:
* A group of thuggish kids who will smack the kid up until he snaps out of it * Repeated extreme embarrassment until desensitization occurs * Drugs and alcohol * Forced enrollment in the wrestling team * Forced Shoplifting * Sex with a prostitute * Putting out a cigarette on the back of his hand
After all this, he might actually be the most extroverted and alpha of all the kids in class.
Why is Babelfish used as the main example as to why machine translation doesn't work? Is Babelfish the best out there? Does it represent the state of the art in machine translation?
Why does everyone find this so difficult to understand? I never claimed that MS ISN'T blocking XFree86. I only claim that we also don't know if they ARE blocking it. You can't know unless you see their actual code. It could be one of a hundred schemes, some malicious, some not. Don't you think that with the millions of search terms out there, it would be strange if certain things WEREN'T blocked by accident?
Come on, use your brain. I never said that this was the actual algorithm, or that 10,000 is some magic number. It was just an example to show that perhaps it's not malicious intent on MS' part.
While it can be debated whether MS blocks competitor keywords, a little common sense would tell you that that there must be an exceptions list to their blocking algorithms.
Any of you moderators out there with a modern optical mouse? Please move your mouse around quickly, notice the responsiveness, and properly mod down the parent post.
95% of the people out there are actually nice and generally non-violent, but they are mearly pawns in a big chess game run by the powerful who care little for individuals on the battle field.
Power changes hands all the time. If you build a large military structure and a mass of weapons, they will eventually be used, and the two men shooting at each other don't hate each other. They are both pawns of evil people at the top playing games with their lives. There is no "we must defend ourselves against them". In actuality, we must remove the scum that parasitizes humanity and manipulates everyone into war for profit.
Why isn't all content and source code paid for by tax payers freely available? For instance, you have to pay to get the GIS database available from the USGS. All the source code from every government agency should be free as well. Also, why does NPR keep their content locked behind Real servers? I could go on. Am I missing something here? Shouldn't all this be free?
I read your article "My Love Affair with Acer's Ferrari Notebook", and you mention at the end that "Acer gets full credit for applying [unrelated branding] to the PC market." That's not really true. VPR Matrix put sold Porsche designed laptop at Best Buy in 2002. See here:
http://www.hilary.com/reviews/vprmatrix.html
and here:
http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/10/25/laptop_ by _porsche.html
We do have a pollution problem you know. And it's less of a paim in the ass than stocking up and hand warmers and inserting themm and trying to maintain a stable temperature.
There are a lot of good ideas for keyboards at Halfbakery.com. There are nine sections of ideas, including layout, alternative, illumination, comfort, etc.
I submitted an idea for extra thumb buttons. Here's the text of it:
"Most typing is done by the fingers, and even spaces are generally typed by only one thumb by most people. There could be one or more new buttons under the space bar, doubled for both thumbs. They could be shift or alt or ctrl, and/or a macro key for converting the characters on the keyboard to programming characters ({};", etc) or other application specific characters. Try hold your unused thumb down below the space bar - it's much easier than using your pinkies on the shift/alt/ctrl keys."
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A PDA with a hard drive! Someone has been listening to my prayers! Now if Apple would just add a color screen and a stylus, I'd be in heaven.
LS
Is it just me, or does the blase nature with which bullshit in the articles are posted remind you of a coked out movie sta... ahem.. coked out nerds: "NYTimes, first born required, blah blah)"
jeez
Hmm, I don't know if I agree with your characterization either. So Rutan is not a rocket builder, but he has a massive aviation engineering background and physical infrastructure in place. The difference between the Carmack and Rutan teams is likely significant - to balance it out, I would bet that Rutan would have a hell of a time building a top-notch first-person shooter...
LS
Dude, you're not a prophet, but you are a good Karma whore. What does the Bush administration and Mars have to do with this? How could you know what propulsion system is going to be used without NASA even working on it yet? And this Space Elevator company is a bunch of nerds building Lego Mindstorm models of their fantasy elevator!!!
The first day I started work I got a cube from another employee who had left a week before. After a couple of days my fingertips started to wrinkle severly. They looked like I had taken a 30 minute bath, but ALL THE TIME. My palms cracked as well. It took months for my hands to get back to normal. Anyone know what this is? A fungus?
LS
Like the Johnny Cash song, just name the kid Sue and he'll be forced to grow out of his shell.
LS
The kid stuck in a little masturbatory shell of internal fractalization and is lazy so he lets others carry his weight while he dreams of the 5th dimension. To wake him up, the following may help:
* A group of thuggish kids who will smack the kid up until he snaps out of it
* Repeated extreme embarrassment until desensitization occurs
* Drugs and alcohol
* Forced enrollment in the wrestling team
* Forced Shoplifting
* Sex with a prostitute
* Putting out a cigarette on the back of his hand
After all this, he might actually be the most extroverted and alpha of all the kids in class.
LS
Why is Babelfish used as the main example as to why machine translation doesn't work? Is Babelfish the best out there? Does it represent the state of the art in machine translation?
LS
So where does the name "mozilla" come from anyway? I couldn't find it anywhere on the website...
LS
Why does everyone find this so difficult to understand? I never claimed that MS ISN'T blocking XFree86. I only claim that we also don't know if they ARE blocking it. You can't know unless you see their actual code. It could be one of a hundred schemes, some malicious, some not. Don't you think that with the millions of search terms out there, it would be strange if certain things WEREN'T blocked by accident?
LS
Come on, use your brain. I never said that this was the actual algorithm, or that 10,000 is some magic number. It was just an example to show that perhaps it's not malicious intent on MS' part.
LS
AC,
While it can be debated whether MS blocks competitor keywords, a little common sense would tell you that that there must be an exceptions list to their blocking algorithms.
LS
Paranoids,
Blocking XFree86 is not an indication of concious effort by Microsoft to divert traffic. Perhaps their blocking software has the following algorithm:
For terms that have been searched for more than 10,000 times, block the term if the first letter is X and the second letter is a consonant.
As you can see, this search doesn't consciously target XFree86. And XFree85 and XFree87 probably wouldn't meet the 10,000 criteria.
Wouldn't you think that anyone who knows what XFree86 is would not be detered by MSN anyway?
This is non-news. Hey everybody, the dots on acoustical tile above my cube spell out "Microsoft rules!" oh no!!!
LS
Any of you moderators out there with a modern optical mouse? Please move your mouse around quickly, notice the responsiveness, and properly mod down the parent post.
LS
Actually, your view of the world is unrealistic.
95% of the people out there are actually nice and generally non-violent, but they are mearly pawns in a big chess game run by the powerful who care little for individuals on the battle field.
Power changes hands all the time. If you build a large military structure and a mass of weapons, they will eventually be used, and the two men shooting at each other don't hate each other. They are both pawns of evil people at the top playing games with their lives. There is no "we must defend ourselves against them". In actuality, we must remove the scum that parasitizes humanity and manipulates everyone into war for profit.
LS
Why isn't all content and source code paid for by tax payers freely available? For instance, you have to pay to get the GIS database available from the USGS. All the source code from every government agency should be free as well. Also, why does NPR keep their content locked behind Real servers? I could go on. Am I missing something here? Shouldn't all this be free?
LS
Two words:
Portable Porn
Porsche DID design a laptop, sold at Best Buy in 2002:
Porsche Laptop Review 1
Porsche Laptop Review 2
LS
I sent this mail to the author of the article:
_ by _porsche.html
I read your article "My Love Affair with Acer's Ferrari Notebook", and you mention at the end that "Acer gets full credit for applying [unrelated branding] to the PC market." That's not really true. VPR Matrix put sold Porsche designed laptop at Best Buy in 2002. See here:
http://www.hilary.com/reviews/vprmatrix.html
and here:
http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/10/25/laptop
LS
Moderators, what is interesting about this? To paraphrase: "I know this dude who has some theory I don't understand, but it might explain it".
reusable > disposable
We do have a pollution problem you know. And it's less of a paim in the ass than stocking up and hand warmers and inserting themm and trying to maintain a stable temperature.
I think the guys over at Jabber need to work more on their shitty architecture before working on Helix.
There are a lot of good ideas for keyboards at Halfbakery.com. There are nine sections of ideas, including layout, alternative, illumination, comfort, etc.
I submitted an idea for extra thumb buttons. Here's the text of it:
"Most typing is done by the fingers, and even spaces are generally typed by only one thumb by most people. There could be one or more new buttons under the space bar, doubled for both thumbs. They could be shift or alt or ctrl, and/or a macro key for converting the characters on the keyboard to programming characters ({};", etc) or other application specific characters. Try hold your unused thumb down below the space bar - it's much easier than using your pinkies on the shift/alt/ctrl keys."
You know, nothing I've seen posted here sounds that bad after reading this guide to male prostitution.
This sounds like a level in Doom...