This might not be completely relevant, but I seem to recall a drink called "mirin" described as "rice wine" (I mean, as opposed to sake). Or is mirin just a different kind of sake?
Windows is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you boot up, when you go to work, when you pay your taxes. It is the OS that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
What truth?
That you are a slave, Neo. Like evreyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison you cannot taste or smell or touch. A prison for your computer.
What is XP? Control. XP is a system, built in order to change a human being...
The issue is not really whether it's polite to talk on a mobile phone, when it is or isn't, and whether or not it's polite to jam calls (and when it is or isn't). The fact is, technology like this exists because, no matter what the Right Thing to do is, some people (ok, a LOT of people) are not going to do it!
What I'm more interested in is that jamming technology doesn't really change things, as it's easily possible to be impolite with your jammer. In a cinema, it's decent to turn your mobile phone off, and reasonable to turn your jammer on. In short, it's reasonable to have your jammer on whenever it's unreasonable to have your mobile phone on. It just means that you'll be pissing people off under different circumstances!
So, in the end, this technology probably won't change the net annoyance (well, if it's legallised and made widespread in this form), but it would be very useful if installed in places like cinemas. Furthermore, if the technology is made legal only for installation (rather than personal use), you can put up signs telling people that it's a jamming zone, you can provide emergency land-line phones, etc.
Yes, people, it's not learning to program in Java, it's learning to program in JavaScript. You should know better. But anyway, that wasn't my point.
Java would probably be a better language for this sort of thing because JavaScript isn't standardised. "Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser As Long As You Only Want It To Run On That Browser And Therefore You're Going To Write For IE".
It's true. Gah, just when you thought you were safe from silly American laws by being outside the US, you're harshly reminded that for all the American arse kissing our politicians do it doesn't make a difference.
The thing is, Australian politicians have always, always held the paranoid delusion that the rest of the world is out to get us. Why, I do not know (maybe they think our natural resources are worth invading for). So they've always looked for some superpower to play big brother (and by that I mean "stop teasing me or my big brother will bash you", not Orwellian Big Brother). It used to be the UK, until it was decided after World War Two that maybe the UK weren't so desperate to secure our defense. Ever since, it's been the US. Why do you think we tagged along to Vietnam? Because we're your obnoxious kid brother.
The most frustrating thing is that this perception that we're at threat from international agencies is complete crap. Nobody notices Australia unless we deliberately do something to grab attention (such as be the only other nation to support a US military operation fot the umpteenth time). Take the Bali bombing for instance. A... nightclub, I think it was... which Australians were known to frequent was bombed by some extremist terrorist group. Tragedy as it is, the media and leadership had something of a field day with it, as it justifies that there really is someone out there targetting us.
Turns out that they actually thought they were targeting Americans. Yeah, they were reasonably happy that they managed to kill Australians, but it hadn't ever crossed their minds to go after us.
And you know what the funny thing is? It's almost only ever the politicians. Aussie culture borrows heavily from America, but public opinion is really quite ambivalent. It's only ever our glorious leadership embarassing us by taking us on another jolly outing with Big Bro America.
I love how commentaries on the volume of data generated\transferred on the 'net inevitably provide a handy reference to how many Libraries of Congress it would fill, or how many tonnes of paper it would take to print. Has anyone else noticed that libraries aren't full of pointless posts like this, journals nobody reads, and well, any of these?
It's not information, damnit. Archaelogists 2000 years from now are not going to dig up some kid's Angelfire site looking for documentation of our race. (Heh, at least I hope not).
There have also been plans for a gunship version of the V22, with a massive rotary cannon and the ability to fly very slow it's even going to make the A-10 look a bit lightweight:oD
Um... the A-10 is a tank killer, not a gunship. Besides, an AC-130 with a 105mm howitzer and two 30mm vulcan cannon packs more punch anyway, and can hang around over the target zone for ages.
"computer viruses are good, because every time we beat a computer virus it makes computers better able to defeat computer viruses".
If the only advantage of virus exposure is that you're better able to withstand more viruses, that is not a valid argument for viruses being valuable. It's like saying that "since we learn that we need to fix things when they break, we should break more things". Idiocy. If there were no viruses, there would be no NEED to have protection against them. What, are we developing an immunity to when the space aliens try to take over our computers from orbit?:/
Don't you just love articles written by people who have no clue what they're on about? No, never mind commenting on aimbots, wallhacks, maphacks, item duplication, bug exploits and other mallicious techniques used to gain unfair advantages over other players (or just piss them off). Let's just declare that cheating in an offline game of Solitaire leads to the decay of western society.
Idiots.
Yes but that's more traditional nano-technology, a concept that's been around for some time. Total Annihilation's nanotech is the idea that, as long as you've got the blueprints, you can spray a fine mist of microscopically small machines which act as generic building blocks. They then link up to form the desired structure, according to the blueprint (or greenprint, in TA's case).
The difference is that in this case, the idea is to use the tiny particles not as building blocks, but as miniature computers. If it were TA style, it would be more like " in a can".
I didn't find it surprising, either. Carmack's a coder of 3d engines, not a designer of games. I remember reading a press conference about Doom 3, and after various questions about how dark lighting would be used to alter the mood someone asked "Are the monsters affected by the darkness at all", to which the id guy (it might not have been Carmack, but that's really not the point) paused for a moment and then responded "Uh, let's just say they can see in the dark.", or words to that effect.
My point is that id games have never been about gameplay, and always about the graphics engine. Sure they're fun. Blowing stuff up with big guns is fun. It isn't very deep, though.
I'm all for stuff being easy to pick up and play, but I can't stand shallow games. Easy to learn and hard to master is best.
I've got that, actually the most extreme case the dermatologist has ever seen. It's not really that strange, and it's not constant - it's just that when they sweat they *really* sweat.
I just use a towel over the mouse. Simple.
Uh... nope. I'm ADD, and I used to believe that, but it simply isn't true. There is a very real, very specific difference between laziness\lack of discipline and ADD.
If you're lazy, or poorly disciplined, you know what you should be doing but you just can't bring yourself to do it. Everyone's like this to an extent (few people actually like doing hard work purely for the sake of it). If you're highly disciplined, you can easily overcome this mental inertia.
The thing about ADD is, the odds are stacked against you. The mental inertia, so to speak, is greater than normal to begin with. It doesn't matter how much you scream orders at yourself, wake up at the crack of dawn, drink coffee with chilli in it (guilty), draw up those f'ing term planners or schedule yourself. The inertia is still there.
The bottom line is that if you're ADD you have a harder time getting your brain to do what you want it to. Lack of discipline is when you don't have the self control to tell your brain what to do in the first place.
The worst thing is when you're ADD and you're smart. That way you can adequate marks in school (etc) without really trying, perform slightly above average, and still feel that you can do better. You don't know that your 60%s would be 80%s if you were concentrating better.
It's the same as dyslexia; it actually makes your vision blur and vibrate really badly (or something like that) so that, among other things, reading is very very difficult. The thing is, dyslexic kids assumed that it was normal for their vision to do that (how could they have thought otherwise?), therefore they must be stupid to be unable to read the same as everyone else.
Likewise, amphetamines help everyone concentrate. So sometimes it's hard to tell whether you're very bright and have ADD, or you're average, poorly motivated\disciplined and ADD medication helps your grades artificially, so to speak.
A good way I've found to generate some random alphanumeric password, and remember it, is to start up a new game of something like The Legend of Zelda, and enter you character name by mashing the buttons. It works fantastically, because your character's name comes up almost every line of dialogue, so you quickly learn it.
This would only work if you are generating the password at home and using it at work (or vice versa?:))... But it's not as though a cracker can h4x0r your N64 to retrieve your character name:)
There's a difference between misdiagnosis and a disease being mythical. I've also been diagnosed with ADD (I'm 17). Through highschool I was on 10mg dexamphetamine weekdays, these days I take 10mg on Uni days. But I digress.
I *do* have difficulty concentrating on things I'm not interested in. Extreme difficulty. On reading some notes on ADD given to my parents quite some time ago, I stumbled on an account by a lawyer who was also ADD which went something along the lines of "I go to my office to get some work done, and for some reason I just can't focus. Even though the stuff has to be done for tomorrow, I can't bring myself to do it. So I end up wasting time, playing games on my computer until late at night until it finally sinks in that if I don't start now it's not going to get done and I'm going to be in trouble." All I could think of while I was reading it was "Holy shit. This is me. This describes me *exactly*"
Anyways, being on dexamphetamine hasn't had any adverse effects on concentration, or school marks. Quite the opposite. For me, I can maintain concentration longer, retain information faster and generally stay more alert than usual. The difference is incredible.
Anyways, in terms of side effects it seems to suppress my appetite, and it "resets" my sleeping patterns as if I'm jet-lagged. I know, it sounds wierd. It's not exactly open to abuse; you can't get high off concentrating ("Whoa dude! Check it out! I can differentiate implicitly on this shit!").
Anyways, just my two cents.
Possibly. I think I was the only one who saw the term "Open Source Bill" and thought it was a bill written by anyone who wants to, with the process freely visible to everyone (as opposed to a normal "closed source" bill where the politicians make the decisions).
Isn't language fun?:)
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This might not be completely relevant, but I seem to recall a drink called "mirin" described as "rice wine" (I mean, as opposed to sake). Or is mirin just a different kind of sake?
For that matter, is there an equivalent of wine?
Windows is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you boot up, when you go to work, when you pay your taxes. It is the OS that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
...into this: *holds up a Duracel*
What truth?
That you are a slave, Neo. Like evreyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison you cannot taste or smell or touch. A prison for your computer.
What is XP? Control. XP is a system, built in order to change a human being...
The issue is not really whether it's polite to talk on a mobile phone, when it is or isn't, and whether or not it's polite to jam calls (and when it is or isn't). The fact is, technology like this exists because, no matter what the Right Thing to do is, some people (ok, a LOT of people) are not going to do it!
What I'm more interested in is that jamming technology doesn't really change things, as it's easily possible to be impolite with your jammer. In a cinema, it's decent to turn your mobile phone off, and reasonable to turn your jammer on. In short, it's reasonable to have your jammer on whenever it's unreasonable to have your mobile phone on. It just means that you'll be pissing people off under different circumstances!
So, in the end, this technology probably won't change the net annoyance (well, if it's legallised and made widespread in this form), but it would be very useful if installed in places like cinemas. Furthermore, if the technology is made legal only for installation (rather than personal use), you can put up signs telling people that it's a jamming zone, you can provide emergency land-line phones, etc.
Yes, people, it's not learning to program in Java, it's learning to program in JavaScript. You should know better. But anyway, that wasn't my point.
Java would probably be a better language for this sort of thing because JavaScript isn't standardised. "Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser As Long As You Only Want It To Run On That Browser And Therefore You're Going To Write For IE".
It's true. Gah, just when you thought you were safe from silly American laws by being outside the US, you're harshly reminded that for all the American arse kissing our politicians do it doesn't make a difference.
The thing is, Australian politicians have always, always held the paranoid delusion that the rest of the world is out to get us. Why, I do not know (maybe they think our natural resources are worth invading for). So they've always looked for some superpower to play big brother (and by that I mean "stop teasing me or my big brother will bash you", not Orwellian Big Brother). It used to be the UK, until it was decided after World War Two that maybe the UK weren't so desperate to secure our defense. Ever since, it's been the US. Why do you think we tagged along to Vietnam? Because we're your obnoxious kid brother.
The most frustrating thing is that this perception that we're at threat from international agencies is complete crap. Nobody notices Australia unless we deliberately do something to grab attention (such as be the only other nation to support a US military operation fot the umpteenth time). Take the Bali bombing for instance. A... nightclub, I think it was... which Australians were known to frequent was bombed by some extremist terrorist group. Tragedy as it is, the media and leadership had something of a field day with it, as it justifies that there really is someone out there targetting us.
Turns out that they actually thought they were targeting Americans. Yeah, they were reasonably happy that they managed to kill Australians, but it hadn't ever crossed their minds to go after us.
And you know what the funny thing is? It's almost only ever the politicians. Aussie culture borrows heavily from America, but public opinion is really quite ambivalent. It's only ever our glorious leadership embarassing us by taking us on another jolly outing with Big Bro America.
"Jan. 2004 -- Take a look at that dollar, Euro, yen, pound or peso in your wallet. Is it real or counterfeit? How can you be sure?"
:P
Because it's made of plastic, like any sane currency. Try running that through a colour printer
M$ DoS Hehe. MS DOS. Er... um. Never mind :)
...control. *hold up a duracel*
Gah. The first rule of Slashdot: anything you could possibly have thought of has already been thought of, and posted as a comment :P
I love how commentaries on the volume of data generated\transferred on the 'net inevitably provide a handy reference to how many Libraries of Congress it would fill, or how many tonnes of paper it would take to print. Has anyone else noticed that libraries aren't full of pointless posts like this, journals nobody reads, and well, any of these? It's not information, damnit. Archaelogists 2000 years from now are not going to dig up some kid's Angelfire site looking for documentation of our race. (Heh, at least I hope not).
There have also been plans for a gunship version of the V22, with a massive rotary cannon and the ability to fly very slow it's even going to make the A-10 look a bit lightweight :oD
Um... the A-10 is a tank killer, not a gunship. Besides, an AC-130 with a 105mm howitzer and two 30mm vulcan cannon packs more punch anyway, and can hang around over the target zone for ages.
Damn, beat me to it ;)
Funny thing is, a lot of the photoshopped images get it wrong too :)
Damn. I was hoping America would keep its terrible laws to itself :/
"computer viruses are good, because every time we beat a computer virus it makes computers better able to defeat computer viruses". If the only advantage of virus exposure is that you're better able to withstand more viruses, that is not a valid argument for viruses being valuable. It's like saying that "since we learn that we need to fix things when they break, we should break more things". Idiocy. If there were no viruses, there would be no NEED to have protection against them. What, are we developing an immunity to when the space aliens try to take over our computers from orbit? :/
Don't you just love articles written by people who have no clue what they're on about? No, never mind commenting on aimbots, wallhacks, maphacks, item duplication, bug exploits and other mallicious techniques used to gain unfair advantages over other players (or just piss them off). Let's just declare that cheating in an offline game of Solitaire leads to the decay of western society. Idiots.
Yes but that's more traditional nano-technology, a concept that's been around for some time. Total Annihilation's nanotech is the idea that, as long as you've got the blueprints, you can spray a fine mist of microscopically small machines which act as generic building blocks. They then link up to form the desired structure, according to the blueprint (or greenprint, in TA's case). The difference is that in this case, the idea is to use the tiny particles not as building blocks, but as miniature computers. If it were TA style, it would be more like " in a can".
I didn't find it surprising, either. Carmack's a coder of 3d engines, not a designer of games. I remember reading a press conference about Doom 3, and after various questions about how dark lighting would be used to alter the mood someone asked "Are the monsters affected by the darkness at all", to which the id guy (it might not have been Carmack, but that's really not the point) paused for a moment and then responded "Uh, let's just say they can see in the dark.", or words to that effect. My point is that id games have never been about gameplay, and always about the graphics engine. Sure they're fun. Blowing stuff up with big guns is fun. It isn't very deep, though. I'm all for stuff being easy to pick up and play, but I can't stand shallow games. Easy to learn and hard to master is best.
I've got that, actually the most extreme case the dermatologist has ever seen. It's not really that strange, and it's not constant - it's just that when they sweat they *really* sweat. I just use a towel over the mouse. Simple.
Uh... nope. I'm ADD, and I used to believe that, but it simply isn't true. There is a very real, very specific difference between laziness\lack of discipline and ADD. If you're lazy, or poorly disciplined, you know what you should be doing but you just can't bring yourself to do it. Everyone's like this to an extent (few people actually like doing hard work purely for the sake of it). If you're highly disciplined, you can easily overcome this mental inertia. The thing about ADD is, the odds are stacked against you. The mental inertia, so to speak, is greater than normal to begin with. It doesn't matter how much you scream orders at yourself, wake up at the crack of dawn, drink coffee with chilli in it (guilty), draw up those f'ing term planners or schedule yourself. The inertia is still there. The bottom line is that if you're ADD you have a harder time getting your brain to do what you want it to. Lack of discipline is when you don't have the self control to tell your brain what to do in the first place. The worst thing is when you're ADD and you're smart. That way you can adequate marks in school (etc) without really trying, perform slightly above average, and still feel that you can do better. You don't know that your 60%s would be 80%s if you were concentrating better. It's the same as dyslexia; it actually makes your vision blur and vibrate really badly (or something like that) so that, among other things, reading is very very difficult. The thing is, dyslexic kids assumed that it was normal for their vision to do that (how could they have thought otherwise?), therefore they must be stupid to be unable to read the same as everyone else. Likewise, amphetamines help everyone concentrate. So sometimes it's hard to tell whether you're very bright and have ADD, or you're average, poorly motivated\disciplined and ADD medication helps your grades artificially, so to speak.
A good way I've found to generate some random alphanumeric password, and remember it, is to start up a new game of something like The Legend of Zelda, and enter you character name by mashing the buttons. It works fantastically, because your character's name comes up almost every line of dialogue, so you quickly learn it. This would only work if you are generating the password at home and using it at work (or vice versa? :))... But it's not as though a cracker can h4x0r your N64 to retrieve your character name :)
Does anyone else think it looks like a Kilrathi Drakkhari? (or "Dralthi", the newer version's called)
There's a difference between misdiagnosis and a disease being mythical. I've also been diagnosed with ADD (I'm 17). Through highschool I was on 10mg dexamphetamine weekdays, these days I take 10mg on Uni days. But I digress. I *do* have difficulty concentrating on things I'm not interested in. Extreme difficulty. On reading some notes on ADD given to my parents quite some time ago, I stumbled on an account by a lawyer who was also ADD which went something along the lines of "I go to my office to get some work done, and for some reason I just can't focus. Even though the stuff has to be done for tomorrow, I can't bring myself to do it. So I end up wasting time, playing games on my computer until late at night until it finally sinks in that if I don't start now it's not going to get done and I'm going to be in trouble." All I could think of while I was reading it was "Holy shit. This is me. This describes me *exactly*" Anyways, being on dexamphetamine hasn't had any adverse effects on concentration, or school marks. Quite the opposite. For me, I can maintain concentration longer, retain information faster and generally stay more alert than usual. The difference is incredible. Anyways, in terms of side effects it seems to suppress my appetite, and it "resets" my sleeping patterns as if I'm jet-lagged. I know, it sounds wierd. It's not exactly open to abuse; you can't get high off concentrating ("Whoa dude! Check it out! I can differentiate implicitly on this shit!"). Anyways, just my two cents.
Well... ADD, technically.
I've got ADHD, and I still found it funny :P
Possibly. I think I was the only one who saw the term "Open Source Bill" and thought it was a bill written by anyone who wants to, with the process freely visible to everyone (as opposed to a normal "closed source" bill where the politicians make the decisions). Isn't language fun? :)