Every four years we are all reminded of the "electrical collegue" and it's outlandish intricacies. We all scratch our heads, argue a bit, and go back to our daly toils. I guess is one of those things you are not suppose to stare directly in the eye and just "walk around it". I wonder if still illegal in Texas to ride a horse with wire-cutters in your pocket? At least we don't have the king of England coming back to "push us around" and with don't have to pay a tax for putting rabbit antennas on our TV's.
Go to compusa or any computer store and try to find a dial control ( you know like the one used in games like Tempest or Pong ). I've been looking for years for a $20+ dial control that would allow me to navigate through horizontal menu's and play games like Breakout! and they don't exist unless you look from an old retro-fitted junk from ebay or some 200 Dlls over-kill X-Arcade control set. Bring back the dial control. Now I just counted to three and made my peace.
Only if you are holding a funny-looking bottle of Johnny Walker.
No seriously, digital enhancement technology IMHO sounds more like reverse-engineering where math-algorithms are applied to digital images but ultimately human eyes do the assesment of weather or not the enhancement works.
Zooming in the original terms is controlling the light(image) through optical technologies(lens). When you zoom with a good ol 35m reflex camera the image coming to you is the real-deal, weather your human-eye agree or not. I hope this shed some "light" on Sony mumbo-jumbo.
Great hook!: An insider take from a decortaed teacher on what's wrong w/ U.S Education. I started reading the prologue and after a few paragraphs like the following: "If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you'd think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?" I decided to stop. It is all silly rethoric BS. Only an idiot turn their kids into a school without being convinced (and that means lots of research) that the their daughter/son is in good hands. Thus anybody who kept reading and recomends the lecture must be an idiot or has a lot of idiot friends and share their idiotic dilemmas.
Maybe I should re-phrase instead of "created"..I should say "distributed/maintained/controlled". Java Standards are controlled by a for-profit company. C and C++ standards are controlled by ANSI.
ANSI doesn't care of who get's to do what. SUN does. Go write your own (non-standard) c compiler and be kewl by adding new bells and whistles. Very cool. Go write your own Java compiler with added features and watch the army of SUN lawyers knocking at your door. Not very cool.
Perhaps a good analogy is Microsoft Word spelling auto-correct feature. Which writer is cooler, the one using good-ol pen and notebook or the one in his 2K laptop using MS Word On-line-auto-correct Tools? Which writer requires to adopt a more disciplined/critical disposition towards the art of writing?
Still even the best writer has other people proofing their work by others. Even after using MS tools which won't catch mistakes such as: "He deplaned from the train" a-ha!
Personally I think Java is un-cool because is a language created and championed by a for-profit Company(SUN). And as we all know, the primary objective of any for-profit company is not to create better technology but to make money and crush the competition. I must admit this is some sort of reactionary/anarhcist view..which some think is cool too;).
In my very own abstract version of Liberals vs. Conservatives I use the condensed definition.
Conservative: You are playing monopoly and LOVING IT! Life couldn't be better! Liberal: You are playing monopoly and HATING IT! Winning by driving everybody else to misery!? C'mon!!
How to make a flawed argument sound reasonable: Premise: There are many reasons to avoid the CS major a few reasons not to do so.
Supporting arguments: Elaborate on the many(2) and dissmiss(forget) the few(0) Then go with personal opinion that "ALL CS I know are worthless as programmers". Clever! Then try to tone it down a bit to sound credible. Are you working for FOX news?
gather subjects in a room and recite out loud ==--==---==--- The Halting Problem: Given (m,n) does the Turing machine Tm halt when given the input n?
Prop 7.29. [The Halting Problem is unsolvable.] There is no algorithm which will decide the halting problem for all pairs (m,n).
Proof: Suppose there is such an algorithm. Then , there is an algorithm will decide the question:
does the Turing machine Tn halt when given the input n?
By Turing's thesis, this will correspond to a Turing machine T that will give a result 0 or 1 depending upon whether Tn halts or not for the input n.
Thus with input n we have T halts
(i) with output 0 if Tn halts with input n and
(ii) with output 1 if Tn does not halt with input n.
Here's a new Turing machine B: Do T and when T halts, look for a non zero square on the tape. If it finds a nonzero square, halt, otherwise, keep looking!
Thus for any n,
If Tn halts on input n, then B does not halt on n, and
if Tn does not halt on input n, then B does halt on n.
Now B is on the list of Turing machines, suppose B = TN. So Does TN halt on input N?
If TN halts, then B doesn't halt... ooops B= TN..
If Tn doesn't halt, then B halts... OOOOPs.
So there is no algorithm that will decide the Halting problem.
==--==--- observe reactions..remove those who stare blindly and go: uh?. Send them to get a their MS Cert.
==---==-- Second test. exclaim: GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix. ==--==--== observe reactions..remove those who wont smirk. Send them to get cisco certs. Keep the rest.
This may sound like an urban legend. I heard from a audio electronic store crew in S. Congress in Austin TX. The boy left a Hershey bar on top of the daddy's Macintosh amp. The thing melted through the top heat vent into the circuit board. The amp stopped working. The father took it inn. The repair dude opened it, isolated the circuit board...looking like a smore...connected the amp again with the speaker output plug to a resistor. Then he cranked up full blast and left it like that for 2 days. They say the could hear the resistor chirping tunes! The circuitboard heated so, it melted the chocolate away leaving the amp fulling functional again!!! It could happen!!;)
Symantec called a vaccine a piece of information that helps the system to detect and isolate a virus. Boy the got it wrong! A vaccine is a crippled VIRUS! which the system LEARNS to detect and destroy without the risk of failing due to the crippled condition of the virus. What the net need it is not "White Knights". What the net needs are vaccines. Crippled Viri that eats small % of your bandwith (is crippled) and let's you know you are vulnerable without causing permanent damage. Relase a vaccine in your 300 PC office and find 42 PC's getting infected and quickly patch themselves. Now we are talking high-tech instead of the stupid Mantra: "Have you ran the latest MS/Linux patch eh? uh?"
IMHO those myth are more opinions than actual myths. But the most controversial myth I have confronted as an open source advocate is the following:
"Open Source has just as many security-holes as closed source, it just happens to be that hackers are not interested in exploiting software that is not popular"
Let's get this straight: Mexico it's suffering the highest crimes rates ever. Assaults and kidnaps galore in Mexico City. Solution? Insert some chips to law enforcement!!!??? I think this guys are more afraid of the Mafia in Mexico and that's why they want to be tracked. They are afraid of every "citizen" out there coming after them.. to get even(ajustar cuentas).
But like the Molotov song goes: Si le das mas poder al poder...mas duro te van a venir a joder!
For the site to be truly complete it should provide famous music/musicians that made the sound of some of this instruments popular. The likes of: Tomita Jean Michelle Jarre Kitaro Vangelis Mike Oldfield Philip Glass and of course Tangerine Dream.
Though I'm not renwing my Dr.Dobbs subscription because they starte covering more MS technology and less Open Source. Of course they know who pays the bills right?
Netscape lost it's battle trying to follow IExplorer (jack-of-all-trades) app scheme. It became bloatware. Nobody cared that it could manage email, instant messages and newsgroups when all we wanted is to browse the damn web. Then came firefox. small, cute and F*A*S*T. Yep, Firefox is fast. Just like Google..whatever you are going to give, give it pronto. I did make Firefox my default browser. That is a lot to say after 5 years waiting for a viable alternative. Sure company services DEMAND to see IExplorer in the client info to support us. But at home...I built the net, there I'M GOD!
SDLead:How's the release doing? Dev: what? (removing headphones) SDLead: What are you listening? Dev: Uh? music. SDLead (looking at CD cover): Pink Floyd eh? Groovy! let me hear (putting headphones). Whats the name of the song? Dev: One of these days. SDLead: What? Dev: ONE OF THESE DAYS!!! SDLead(taking off headphones): This music doesn't speak to me..is too loud. What does it mean? Dev: The release was checked in 2 hrs ago. SDLead: Cool, later man!
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To put it succintly.
Linux is to Microsoft today
what Microsoft was to IBM/OS in the 80's:
A cheap low quality alternative.
Seems fate is not without a sense of irony.
I find the story line predictable and the
characters derivative.
howbout some creative wi-fi onomatopoeias!
zziiiing-ding-ding-ding(net stumbler)drrrrrr!
Still as wi-fi goes.
I dig their kung-fu.
enuff said.
Every four years we are all reminded of the "electrical collegue" and it's outlandish intricacies. We all scratch our heads, argue a bit, and go back to our daly toils.
I guess is one of those things you are not suppose to stare directly in the eye and just "walk around it". I wonder if still illegal in Texas to ride a horse with wire-cutters in your pocket? At least we don't have the king of England coming back to "push us around" and with don't have to pay a tax for putting rabbit antennas on our TV's.
Go to compusa or any computer store and try to find a dial control ( you know like the one used in games like Tempest or Pong ). I've been looking for years for a $20+ dial control that would allow me to navigate through horizontal menu's and play games like Breakout! and they don't exist unless you look from an old retro-fitted junk from ebay or some 200 Dlls over-kill X-Arcade control set.
Bring back the dial control.
Now I just counted to three and made my peace.
Poor Lisa, I once got on a Bus and also landeded on the express to crackton.
Damn public transportation!
Only if you are holding a funny-looking bottle of Johnny Walker. No seriously, digital enhancement technology IMHO sounds more like reverse-engineering where math-algorithms are applied to digital images but ultimately human eyes do the assesment of weather or not the enhancement works. Zooming in the original terms is controlling the light(image) through optical technologies(lens). When you zoom with a good ol 35m reflex camera the image coming to you is the real-deal, weather your human-eye agree or not. I hope this shed some "light" on Sony mumbo-jumbo.
Great hook!: An insider take from a decortaed teacher on what's wrong w/ U.S Education.
I started reading the prologue and after a few paragraphs like the following:
"If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you'd think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?"
I decided to stop. It is all silly rethoric BS.
Only an idiot turn their kids into a school without being convinced (and that means lots of research) that the their daughter/son is in good hands. Thus anybody who kept reading and recomends the lecture must be an idiot or has a lot of idiot friends and share their idiotic dilemmas.
I'm truly split between
Ghost in the Shell
and
my Neighboor Totoro
and I'm not anywhere near
to make up my damn mind.
Maybe I should re-phrase instead of "created"..I should say "distributed/maintained/controlled". Java Standards are controlled by a for-profit company. C and C++ standards are controlled by ANSI.
ANSI doesn't care of who get's to do what.
SUN does.
Go write your own (non-standard) c compiler and be kewl by adding new bells and whistles.
Very cool.
Go write your own Java compiler with added features and watch the army of SUN lawyers knocking at your door.
Not very cool.
Perhaps a good analogy is Microsoft Word spelling auto-correct feature. Which writer is cooler, the one using good-ol pen and notebook or the one in his 2K laptop using MS Word On-line-auto-correct Tools? Which writer requires to adopt a more disciplined/critical disposition towards the art of writing?
;).
Still even the best writer has other people proofing their work by others. Even after using MS tools which won't catch mistakes such as:
"He deplaned from the train" a-ha!
Personally I think Java is un-cool because is a language created and championed by a for-profit Company(SUN). And as we all know, the primary objective of any for-profit company is not to create better technology but to make money and crush the competition. I must admit this is some sort of reactionary/anarhcist view..which some think is cool too
In my very own abstract version of Liberals vs. Conservatives I use the condensed definition.
Conservative: You are playing monopoly and LOVING IT! Life couldn't be better!
Liberal: You are playing monopoly and HATING IT! Winning by driving everybody else to misery!? C'mon!!
How to make a flawed argument sound reasonable:
Premise: There are many reasons to avoid the CS
major a few reasons not to do so.
Supporting arguments:
Elaborate on the many(2) and dissmiss(forget)
the few(0)
Then go with personal opinion that "ALL CS I
know are worthless as programmers". Clever!
Then try to tone it down a bit to sound credible.
Are you working for FOX news?
gather subjects in a room and recite out loud
..
==--==---==---
The Halting Problem: Given (m,n) does the Turing machine Tm halt when given the input n?
Prop 7.29. [The Halting Problem is unsolvable.]
There is no algorithm which will decide the halting problem for all pairs (m,n).
Proof: Suppose there is such an algorithm.
Then , there is an algorithm will decide the question:
does the Turing machine Tn halt when given the input n?
By Turing's thesis, this will correspond to a Turing machine T that will give a result 0 or 1 depending upon whether Tn halts or not for the input n.
Thus with input n we have T halts
(i) with output 0 if Tn halts with input n and
(ii) with output 1 if Tn does not halt with input n.
Here's a new Turing machine B:
Do T and when T halts, look for a non zero square on the tape.
If it finds a nonzero square, halt, otherwise, keep looking!
Thus for any n,
If Tn halts on input n, then B does not halt on n, and
if Tn does not halt on input n, then B does halt on n.
Now B is on the list of Turing machines, suppose B = TN.
So Does TN halt on input N?
If TN halts, then B doesn't halt... ooops B= TN
If Tn doesn't halt, then B halts... OOOOPs.
So there is no algorithm that will decide the Halting problem.
==--==---
observe reactions..remove those who stare blindly
and go: uh?. Send them to get a their MS Cert.
==---==--
Second test.
exclaim: GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix.
==--==--==
observe reactions..remove those who wont smirk.
Send them to get cisco certs.
Keep the rest.
This may sound like an urban legend. I heard from a audio electronic store crew in S. Congress in Austin TX. ;)
The boy left a Hershey bar on top of the daddy's Macintosh amp. The thing melted through the top heat vent into the circuit board. The amp stopped working.
The father took it inn. The repair dude opened it, isolated the circuit board...looking like a smore...connected the amp again with the speaker output plug to a resistor. Then he cranked up full blast and left it like that for 2 days. They say the could hear the resistor chirping tunes!
The circuitboard heated so, it melted the chocolate away leaving the amp fulling functional again!!!
It could happen!!
Symantec called a vaccine a piece of information
that helps the system to detect and isolate a virus.
Boy the got it wrong!
A vaccine is a crippled VIRUS! which the system
LEARNS to detect and destroy without the risk of
failing due to the crippled condition of
the virus.
What the net need it is not "White Knights". What the net needs are vaccines. Crippled Viri that eats small % of your bandwith (is crippled) and let's you know you are vulnerable without causing permanent damage. Relase a vaccine in your 300 PC office and find 42 PC's getting infected and quickly patch themselves. Now we are talking high-tech instead of the stupid Mantra: "Have you ran the latest MS/Linux patch eh? uh?"
IMHO those myth are more opinions than actual myths.
But the most controversial myth I have confronted as an open source advocate is the following:
"Open Source has just as many security-holes as
closed source, it just happens to be that hackers are not interested in exploiting software that is not popular"
A powerful myth..a myth nevertheless.
Let's get this straight:
Mexico it's suffering the highest crimes rates
ever.
Assaults and kidnaps galore in Mexico City.
Solution?
Insert some chips to law enforcement!!!???
I think this guys are more afraid of the Mafia in
Mexico and that's why they want to be tracked.
They are afraid of every "citizen" out there coming after them.. to get even(ajustar cuentas).
But like the Molotov song goes:
Si le das mas poder al poder...mas duro
te van a venir a joder!
For the site to be truly complete
it should provide famous music/musicians that
made the sound of some of this instruments
popular. The likes of:
Tomita
Jean Michelle Jarre
Kitaro
Vangelis
Mike Oldfield
Philip Glass
and of course
Tangerine Dream.
Though I'm not renwing my Dr.Dobbs subscription
because they starte covering more MS technology and less Open Source. Of course they know who pays the bills right?
Netscape lost it's battle trying to follow IExplorer
(jack-of-all-trades) app scheme. It became bloatware. Nobody cared that it could manage email, instant messages and newsgroups when all we wanted is to browse the damn web.
Then came firefox.
small, cute and F*A*S*T.
Yep, Firefox is fast. Just like Google..whatever
you are going to give, give it pronto.
I did make Firefox my default browser. That is a lot to say after 5 years waiting for a viable alternative. Sure company services DEMAND to see
IExplorer in the client info to support us. But at home...I built the net, there I'M GOD!
SDLead:How's the release doing?
Dev: what? (removing headphones)
SDLead: What are you listening?
Dev: Uh? music.
SDLead (looking at CD cover): Pink Floyd eh? Groovy! let me hear (putting headphones). Whats the name of the song?
Dev: One of these days.
SDLead: What?
Dev: ONE OF THESE DAYS!!!
SDLead(taking off headphones): This music doesn't
speak to me..is too loud. What does it mean?
Dev: The release was checked in 2 hrs ago.
SDLead: Cool, later man!
I guess If a definition confuses people then..the definition sucks!
No wait.
"The Zero Defects definition has "Zero Defects""
Mexico 1978.
My 6th grade teacher had a long chalkboard ruler in the corner of the classroom. It was "el metro".
It was excactly a meter long.
Every now and then one of us will try to do
some mischief the teacher will threaten us to get
"el metro" and wap our behinds.
Then we all will glance with fear at the nasty big'ol ruler leaning on the corner. We all knew
exactly what "a meter" was.
Also every year some people get killed by "el
metro" in Mexico city. But that's another story.
The lesson is you have to embrace your fears and
get metric.
Edna and Joe getting ready to go to the beach:
Joe: Sugar, did you put my flip-flops in the bag?
Edna: If you asked me to put them I did.
Joe: I don't remember if I asked you, did you put them?
Edna: If you asked me; don't worry about it, they are there.
Joe: Dang it Sug! Just tell me where are my
goddam flip-flops!
Edna: Wherever you left them, dear.
Note: Edna is a Software QA at her Engineering
firm and find MACROS and integral part of
the software best practices.