It's a matter of technique. If your writing form is bad, it is going to be painful. It doesn't matter if you play the piano or not. Try to move your hand instead of your fingers when you write. It makes a world of difference.
Besides, handwritten math has had hundreds of years of development put into it, while computer based math typesetting is young and currently lacking (the keyboard just isn't a very good way to write something as non-linear as math). Sure, you can write pretty math in TeX on a computer, but it's a lot slower, and lacks the versatility of handwritten math. It's a good way to write a paper, but not for taking notes.
This song suggests that man may still be alive in year 2525, year 3535, year 4545, year 5555, year 6565, year 7510, year 8510, but probably not year 9595. Clearly, we knew more in the '70s than the mayans ever did (and the people in the '70s had lots of inventions we have now, like electricity and television -- they were so much like our civilization!), so doomsday is probably between year 8510 and 9595.
And if you think you're actually anonymous, you're an idiot. Slashdot logs the IPs. Your ISP logs who has what IP. You can be traced if someone wants to find you.
Tangentially relevant: Since Sweden introduced a law in which you can demand the identity of someone from their ISP if you suspect them of copyright infringement, what has happened is that several ISPs no longer store that information to get an edge on their competitors, making it virtually impossible to track who has what IP address, even for more legitimate reasons.
It isn't really homeopathy. The doses are larger than that.
Like, you have a headache and take a painkiller and it goes away. If you on the other hand take 17 bottles of painkiller, you die. In this case, 1 pill was good, and 17 bottles was bad..01% of a pill wouldn't do anything.
That's exactly the dismissive attitude that allows the problem to continue. Ire and denial.
As a member of the secret worldwide conspiracy of "Men", I assure you that we have never discussed FOSS in any of our secret meetings. We mostly sit around in top hats and monocles in front of fireplaces, drinking cognac and mocking the plights of women.
Wasn't he on top of that arrested because he was suspected of being related to someone they suspected of knowing someone they suspected was part of what they suspected was Al Qaeda?
There's something to be said for a crew on a space ship traveling aimlessly in space.
Since Star Trek has all but died, it is up to more or less blatant Star Trek clones to carry on the torch, and since they have been running somewhat scarce the last few years, SG:U is just in time.
It may not realize it yet, but it must become Star Trek. The Star Gate franchise has already stolen basically all of the Star Trek technology* without as much as lamp shading the fact, it is my hope that this will subtly influence them into becoming Star Trek. Someone's ears will over time grow pointy, and the women will have a sudden urge to wear mini skirts. Mark my word!
* They have different names, but it's basically the same. Almost in a federation starship has an equivalent in a Star Gate starship.
Is anyone hosting a Perl 5.11.0 House Party? Will there be deviled eggs?
I've gotten several invitations, but they were all in perl, and I've taken it to some of the best linguists of the world, and nobody could make heads or tails of them.
The YouTube stupidity wasn't limited to claiming it was faked. Here we have an actual YouTube commenter trying to draw a comparison between Hitler's Eugenics program and the engineering principles behind car safety. It's like crazy in a can.
You must be new to the Youtube comment section. Welcome.
everyone knows Libraries of Congress is a measurement of volume, not velocity. And I have no idea how loud it was at top speed.
Well, volume of data. If you want distance, the proper unit is "olympic-sized swimming pool / football field". Which makes speed "olympic-sized swimming pool / football field-second"
Any sensible essay should include the sentence "This statement is a lie." That way, somewhere, the grading computer spins it's sparking head and flails it arms as it screams "DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE!"
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It's interesting that the first ARPAnet line was no faster than a modern dialup modem (53-56 kbit/s).
Well, internet porn was limited to ascii art at the time, so it didn't need to be all that fast.
That's such an anachronism. This was four years before the ASCII standard was even published.
It's a matter of technique. If your writing form is bad, it is going to be painful. It doesn't matter if you play the piano or not. Try to move your hand instead of your fingers when you write. It makes a world of difference.
You are right.
Besides, handwritten math has had hundreds of years of development put into it, while computer based math typesetting is young and currently lacking (the keyboard just isn't a very good way to write something as non-linear as math). Sure, you can write pretty math in TeX on a computer, but it's a lot slower, and lacks the versatility of handwritten math. It's a good way to write a paper, but not for taking notes.
This song suggests that man may still be alive in year 2525, year 3535, year 4545, year 5555, year 6565, year 7510, year 8510, but probably not year 9595. Clearly, we knew more in the '70s than the mayans ever did (and the people in the '70s had lots of inventions we have now, like electricity and television -- they were so much like our civilization!), so doomsday is probably between year 8510 and 9595.
History has shown that if you realize some horrible scenario is possible, writing a dystopian novel to warn people is not a good idea.
Orwell for one, but HG Wells also inspired some very unfortunate developments (including the atomic bomb and bomber aircraft).
Rape is such a harsh word. Free surprise buttsecks is a much better way of putting it.
And if you think you're actually anonymous, you're an idiot. Slashdot logs the IPs. Your ISP logs who has what IP. You can be traced if someone wants to find you.
Tangentially relevant: Since Sweden introduced a law in which you can demand the identity of someone from their ISP if you suspect them of copyright infringement, what has happened is that several ISPs no longer store that information to get an edge on their competitors, making it virtually impossible to track who has what IP address, even for more legitimate reasons.
It isn't really homeopathy. The doses are larger than that.
Like, you have a headache and take a painkiller and it goes away. If you on the other hand take 17 bottles of painkiller, you die. In this case, 1 pill was good, and 17 bottles was bad. .01% of a pill wouldn't do anything.
Except in Nebraska.
Since when has Windows needed user space programs to trigger crashes? It does that just fine on it's own.
ie: Millions of people think Stross is wrong.
There's not much more to say on this.
Stross dislikes star trek.
Millions of fans like star trek.
The two are not mutually exclusive. People can have different preferences.
That's exactly the dismissive attitude that allows the problem to continue. Ire and denial.
As a member of the secret worldwide conspiracy of "Men", I assure you that we have never discussed FOSS in any of our secret meetings. We mostly sit around in top hats and monocles in front of fireplaces, drinking cognac and mocking the plights of women.
Wasn't he on top of that arrested because he was suspected of being related to someone they suspected of knowing someone they suspected was part of what they suspected was Al Qaeda?
Uh, democracy and dictatorship are not opposites. There are other forms of state as well, that are somewhere in between, or completely different.
16.8 million terabytes of RAM should be enough for anyone.
Nah, still not enough to run Windows Vista.
There's something to be said for a crew on a space ship traveling aimlessly in space.
Since Star Trek has all but died, it is up to more or less blatant Star Trek clones to carry on the torch, and since they have been running somewhat scarce the last few years, SG:U is just in time.
It may not realize it yet, but it must become Star Trek. The Star Gate franchise has already stolen basically all of the Star Trek technology* without as much as lamp shading the fact, it is my hope that this will subtly influence them into becoming Star Trek. Someone's ears will over time grow pointy, and the women will have a sudden urge to wear mini skirts. Mark my word!
* They have different names, but it's basically the same. Almost in a federation starship has an equivalent in a Star Gate starship.
Is anyone hosting a Perl 5.11.0 House Party? Will there be deviled eggs?
I've gotten several invitations, but they were all in perl, and I've taken it to some of the best linguists of the world, and nobody could make heads or tails of them.
How do they expect to enforce this law on companies that produce software outside of the US?
Apparently they still don't understand how this internet thing works.
LK
Yeah. The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
So just because a guy is black it automatically means he is a criminal?
No, just because a guy is a politician it automatically means he is a criminal.
Politicians aren't criminals, they're insane. They can't help themselves.
How do I know they're insane? Well, no sane person would accept the job.
Where's a "+1 The Damn Truth" when I need it?
The YouTube stupidity wasn't limited to claiming it was faked. Here we have an actual YouTube commenter trying to draw a comparison between Hitler's Eugenics program and the engineering principles behind car safety. It's like crazy in a can.
You must be new to the Youtube comment section. Welcome.
The brown car had such an angry mouth, so it was probably not a very nice car. But the gray car looked friendlier.
everyone knows Libraries of Congress is a measurement of volume, not velocity. And I have no idea how loud it was at top speed.
Well, volume of data. If you want distance, the proper unit is "olympic-sized swimming pool / football field". Which makes speed "olympic-sized swimming pool / football field-second"
Who uses SI anyway?
For those of us in the civilized world, it's 116,730,878 smoots / fortnight.
Any sensible essay should include the sentence "This statement is a lie." That way, somewhere, the grading computer spins it's sparking head and flails it arms as it screams "DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE!"
It's a nice prospect.