Did anyone else notice that the poster tagged his post with "Feersum" and "Enjinn" - this is a far-future science fiction novel by Ian M. Banks. I wonder why he did that...
This little movie was funny but also touching and thought-provoking. These are two of societies gentle hermits. Many people, not just PRG nerds, live a seperated life, so it's of value to everyone to consider their situation. Habitual withdrawl from others is not good, although I won't try to support that here.
In high school the two men are shown to support each other to the point where all other relationships fell away from simple disuse. This support includes sexuality. Another possibility (not unrelated) is that they both attempted to reach out to others, and were so strongly rebuked that they did not try again. This is hinted at especially with their attempts to "attract" girls.
The really interesting point about this movie is that the only loving relationship seems to be between the two gamers. Everyone else is portrayed as hateful (but especially the women). It's not clear if this is actual mysogony on the part of the filmmakers or an attempt to show the viewer the world through a gamer's eyes. The brother seems to be genuinely concerned, but the exagerated emotion and the religious approbations would seem to be clear that his intentions aren't entirely kind.
Overall, this was an entertaining look at what isolation is like and hints about how it can come about.
I know a little something about optics - if the material has a negative index of refraction, can't you use a concave (rather than convex) lense for a magnified image?
Or perhaps I am not understanding what this material does, since a negative R_i indicates that the material permits light to go faster than c!
Think of this as a compact desktop with a built-in UPS. Since it can run for about an hour on batteries that's actually pretty good - most experts recommend a 15 minute UPS, and this device gives you 4 times that. It would actually be quite handy for the gamer going to lots of LAN parties, or the power user who doesn't want to mess with cabling or give lots of desk real estate, or for a (admittedly odd) server. Certainly this isn't a mainstream device, but useful nonetheless.
While it's true that our society relies upon automation of a certain sort, somatic embodiment of that code really does present grave risk which shouldn't be minimized. Credit fraud can be reversed. A computer driver of a vehicle that has been "hacked" to cross the center divider poses a much greater, irreversable threat.
In other words, I think it is wise to be very conservative about introducing robots into our daily lives.
I recommend that you:
1. not worry (most important),
2. do not go on call,
3. work smart for 8 hours a day, no more, no less.
If this is enough labor to support all of the companies computing needs, then no change is needed. You will know if it is enough because things won't break.
Be very aware that you may be wrong, and accept that possibility. Then you'll be able to get what you want.
Toys for Tots was hawking toys outside of the local supermarket yesterday. They had one pile of toys on a table, and a bin of toys about 5 feet away. One of the three young women implored, "You look like a high roller, so" (yes, she really said this) "how about buying a toy for Toys for Tots?"
I replied, "I'm a high roller when it comes to food, not inundating kids with Chinese plastic garbage when they probably have much more fun with a cork, 2 plastic straws and a styrofoam cup." There was a marine standing nearby who chuckled. I continued, "Besides, you just take the toys back out of the bin and put them back on the table to be sold again, right?"
She looked aghast. "We would never do that!" I pointed out that they might as well rather than incur the cost of shipping the toys out to the store to be moved 5 feet and then shipped back to the Toys for Tots distribution center. She looked a little miffed.
The marine looked amused and said, "I hear what you're saying, but..." I took one glance at the pretty young girls' consternated faces and said, "I know man, we're just a couple of assholes."
The moral of the story is that kids will make toys out of anything, and there is essentially no need for Toys for Tots. Most of our 4000 year history has been devoid of a T4T charity, and somehow we turned out just fine, and in fact had plenty of toys. Give to cancer research, not to Chinese factories.
While you can't state that a given idiom will improve performance of a program, you also can't state that a given idom will have no effect, either. In particular, the author claims that making methods final has no effect, but fails to show it. The whole article was marked by the same lack of solid evidence the author was decrying.
As far as I'm concerned, these Java idioms are still open to question, and the information content was minimal.
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After the singularity, Singularity U will be free, after all. And you'll be immortal so you can take 1 unit a year or whatever.
Yes, this sounds reasonable. I'd add Flash/Flex to the DHTML mix, too.
Did anyone else notice that the poster tagged his post with "Feersum" and "Enjinn" - this is a far-future science fiction novel by Ian M. Banks. I wonder why he did that...
This little movie was funny but also touching and thought-provoking. These are two of societies gentle hermits. Many people, not just PRG nerds, live a seperated life, so it's of value to everyone to consider their situation. Habitual withdrawl from others is not good, although I won't try to support that here.
In high school the two men are shown to support each other to the point where all other relationships fell away from simple disuse. This support includes sexuality. Another possibility (not unrelated) is that they both attempted to reach out to others, and were so strongly rebuked that they did not try again. This is hinted at especially with their attempts to "attract" girls.
The really interesting point about this movie is that the only loving relationship seems to be between the two gamers. Everyone else is portrayed as hateful (but especially the women). It's not clear if this is actual mysogony on the part of the filmmakers or an attempt to show the viewer the world through a gamer's eyes. The brother seems to be genuinely concerned, but the exagerated emotion and the religious approbations would seem to be clear that his intentions aren't entirely kind.
Overall, this was an entertaining look at what isolation is like and hints about how it can come about.
I know a little something about optics - if the material has a negative index of refraction, can't you use a concave (rather than convex) lense for a magnified image?
Or perhaps I am not understanding what this material does, since a negative R_i indicates that the material permits light to go faster than c!
Think of this as a compact desktop with a built-in UPS. Since it can run for about an hour on batteries that's actually pretty good - most experts recommend a 15 minute UPS, and this device gives you 4 times that. It would actually be quite handy for the gamer going to lots of LAN parties, or the power user who doesn't want to mess with cabling or give lots of desk real estate, or for a (admittedly odd) server. Certainly this isn't a mainstream device, but useful nonetheless.
In particular, the iPod supports Apple Lossless format - I'm listening to it right now, in fact.
Startup iTunes
Select menu Edit | Preferences
Click tab Importing
Set Import Using: "Apple Lossless"
While it's true that our society relies upon automation of a certain sort, somatic embodiment of that code really does present grave risk which shouldn't be minimized. Credit fraud can be reversed. A computer driver of a vehicle that has been "hacked" to cross the center divider poses a much greater, irreversable threat.
In other words, I think it is wise to be very conservative about introducing robots into our daily lives.
I recommend that you: 1. not worry (most important), 2. do not go on call, 3. work smart for 8 hours a day, no more, no less. If this is enough labor to support all of the companies computing needs, then no change is needed. You will know if it is enough because things won't break. Be very aware that you may be wrong, and accept that possibility. Then you'll be able to get what you want.
Toys for Tots was hawking toys outside of the local supermarket yesterday. They had one pile of toys on a table, and a bin of toys about 5 feet away. One of the three young women implored, "You look like a high roller, so" (yes, she really said this) "how about buying a toy for Toys for Tots?" I replied, "I'm a high roller when it comes to food, not inundating kids with Chinese plastic garbage when they probably have much more fun with a cork, 2 plastic straws and a styrofoam cup." There was a marine standing nearby who chuckled. I continued, "Besides, you just take the toys back out of the bin and put them back on the table to be sold again, right?" She looked aghast. "We would never do that!" I pointed out that they might as well rather than incur the cost of shipping the toys out to the store to be moved 5 feet and then shipped back to the Toys for Tots distribution center. She looked a little miffed. The marine looked amused and said, "I hear what you're saying, but..." I took one glance at the pretty young girls' consternated faces and said, "I know man, we're just a couple of assholes." The moral of the story is that kids will make toys out of anything, and there is essentially no need for Toys for Tots. Most of our 4000 year history has been devoid of a T4T charity, and somehow we turned out just fine, and in fact had plenty of toys. Give to cancer research, not to Chinese factories.
While you can't state that a given idiom will improve performance of a program, you also can't state that a given idom will have no effect, either. In particular, the author claims that making methods final has no effect, but fails to show it. The whole article was marked by the same lack of solid evidence the author was decrying. As far as I'm concerned, these Java idioms are still open to question, and the information content was minimal.