Yeah, that link totally doesn't work. Yet, the post it's in has a score of +5. Does this indicate that no one link-checks before they mod up for informative?
I am curious about why you think 68000 is better to learn first then x86? I happened to learn them in that order, too, but don't have any great love for the 68000. In fact, I thought it was a pain in the ass.
x86 was much more lean and clean, and I could do more with it in less time.
I just got to the end of "The Golden Transcendence" and what a marvelous journey this trilogy has been. Hints of influence by authors like Gene Wolfe and David Zindell resound through the series, and a distinct flavor of Wright's background in law shines through in very well-composed ways.
The hero of this story, a cyberneticly advanced individual named Patheon - many of the citizens of Wright's world use mythological and historical titles - who, in the first book, discovers that there are great portions of his memory - and life! - missing. Creatures from other planets visit, and often challenge, Patheon, tempting him with wealth, threatening him with violence and mind-rape, and informing him of hidden political struggles.
It is very difficult to say much more about the story without giving away some fundamentals of the story, but it's safe to highlight some of the issues touched on in the series:
Mortality Free Will What makes something 'alive' Space-colonization Love The venerable "Captain Kirk" problem - are you still yourself after you teleported? In this story, it was more along the lines of "Who are you after you have been ressurrected?"
The sereis is a fantastic read, and I reccomend it to anyone who enjoys hard science fiction. While I would not consider this work _hard_ Sci Fi, it goes a bit past medium-soft. It's good stuff!
Sure, the poster was probably aiming at humor, and I might even be faling for a troll/flamebait... but, I think this has to be said.
Being a geek does not imply that one is lazy, out of shape, or otherwise physically impaired. I would describe myself as one of the biggest geeks in town, both for my prowess at computers, my application of technology in daily life, and my interest in a wide variety of intellectual pursuits. However, this does not mean I sit around eating chips all day, while staring at a huge TV with two computers on the sides.
In fact, I enjoy bike riding. I have a rather old bike, but it will do until college is done and I have a job which can afford me a newer model. I enjoy working out at the gym, or running through the city. I am a practitioner of martial arts (brown belt in Shito-Ryu karate style, and will soon be training in TKD and Judo). I eat a healty diet, and I make a conscious effort to balance my physical and mental well being.
The point is that being a geek does not indicate that one must fall into the stereotype that your post seems to be enforcing. Please, enough of that.
No it was not easy to spot, but it is *possible*. Anyhow I am not saying it ruins the experience in any way, but for 100 million dollars on special effects along, I'd figure that they checked for stuff like that.
This new terminator looks....well.....too damn feminine. I ain't saying that she should look like a biker chic.....but she should at least not look like she's ready to do a Victoria Secret ad!
Why not?
If I were the central decision making hardware in SKYNET, I would certianly assign a high probability to the chance of a very attractive (read: desirable) female getting closer to those in charge (read: men) than a naked beef stick (read: the other Terminators).
Or maybe I just like my women... hot?
From the trailer, it seems like the female Terminator approaches a guy in a sports car with little problem at all. I'm fairly certian that it wouldn't work so well if the she were a he, approaching another he in a sports car.
On the other hand, maybe the "He hit me first" excuse is bullshit.
Oh, your post is, buddy.
First of all, situations like this hardly scale to the level of comparison you are describing here. If you want to add rationally to the discussion, please do. But to compare a nerd vs. jock rivalry with a life and death struggle which is largely founded on religion and politics is quite a joke.
The resort has an amazing 7500 beds, which all adds up to a lot of visitors making a lot of human waste. Converting this into snow seemed a logical step.
Prostitutes and pimps - sure, but main characters? Won't somebody please think of the children?
No no no. That simply will not do. Who would protect the children at the end of the day, if the terrorists have already won in this post-September 11th world where people are preaching to the converted about what Jesus would do in the post-Columbine atmosphere where CowboyNeal is the funk King of Michigan?
Otherwise, you end up with this: The mishaps page was hosted on http://www.thetechboard.com (aka "TTB"). The site was linked from the front page of http://www.slashdot.org.
Typically when a site gets linked by slashdot, also known as "slashdotted", it tends to encounter large bursts of traffic.
Due to the gross incompentence of the hosting service http://www.webmasters.com, the server crashed twice under the pressue of being "slashdotted".
The complaints of the other clients that were using the same server and therefore also experienced outage prompted Webmasters to threaten to permanently close the TTB acount.
Of course, the account has always otherwise been in good standing, but the folks at Webmasters don't even have the mental capacity to limit bandwidth for a particular site so it does not bring down the entire server, so why would they take TTB's otherwise "good behaviour" into consideration?
Please forward any hate mail to: security@webmasters.com (this is from whom the mail about the account cancellation came from).
Thank you.
Jon "jonny" Gerow (pronounced muck like "Guru", hence the handle)
I feel really bad for the operators of that site. Come on Slashdot... stop it.
It is noteworty to mention that Raph Koster was formerly "Designer Dragon" at Origin, and was responsible for the evolution of one of the most seminal games of recent times, Ultima Online.
I know it's too late to hope for much upvoting, but I think it's important to know that this is the person who wrote that "History". Yes, he did slant it, but that's his background.
It's too bad UO was "patched to death," by in large because of Koster and company. *sigh*
The difference would be the continuing existence of the object used as the model for replication. That's the difference: teleportation versus replication.
Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location.
To me, that sentence can be translated as such:
Team leader Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a ball point pen, its destruction and the recreation of the same ball point pen using a factory blueprint in a different location.
This isn't the first time I've read about "teleportation" of some particle or another, when it seems that they are simply re-creating, mirroring if you will, the particle(s) quantum states in another place. That's not teleporting - that's mimicing.
Slashdot Mirror
What's worse is if you let that "little fart" out in your cube when you think no one is listening...
Yeah, that link totally doesn't work. Yet, the post it's in has a score of +5. Does this indicate that no one link-checks before they mod up for informative?
How lovely!
Not quite:
You could also help route all thost hot grits down Natilie Portman's pants, and use your free time to petrify yourself.
I am curious about why you think 68000 is better to learn first then x86? I happened to learn them in that order, too, but don't have any great love for the 68000. In fact, I thought it was a pain in the ass.
x86 was much more lean and clean, and I could do more with it in less time.
What's your beef, so to speak?
I just got to the end of "The Golden Transcendence" and what a marvelous journey this trilogy has been. Hints of influence by authors like Gene Wolfe and David Zindell resound through the series, and a distinct flavor of Wright's background in law shines through in very well-composed ways.
The hero of this story, a cyberneticly advanced individual named Patheon - many of the citizens of Wright's world use mythological and historical titles - who, in the first book, discovers that there are great portions of his memory - and life! - missing. Creatures from other planets visit, and often challenge, Patheon, tempting him with wealth, threatening him with violence and mind-rape, and informing him of hidden political struggles.
It is very difficult to say much more about the story without giving away some fundamentals of the story, but it's safe to highlight some of the issues touched on in the series:
Mortality
Free Will
What makes something 'alive'
Space-colonization
Love
The venerable "Captain Kirk" problem - are you still yourself after you teleported? In this story, it was more along the lines of "Who are you after you have been ressurrected?"
The sereis is a fantastic read, and I reccomend it to anyone who enjoys hard science fiction. While I would not consider this work _hard_ Sci Fi, it goes a bit past medium-soft. It's good stuff!
What is this crap? It's $199 a year after the subscription (which comes with all vehicles new from the dealer) is up.
I bet there's about a million extra features that could hike it to the $400 range, but, come on, get real and stop making your own FUD.
Even CmdrTaco could fall under the category of a small-company contributer for his work on Slashcode.
So I guess that means Cowboy Neal would fall under the category of a huge mega-corporation?
*runs*
Don't click the parent's link! It's not cool.
Sure, the poster was probably aiming at humor, and I might even be faling for a troll/flamebait... but, I think this has to be said.
Being a geek does not imply that one is lazy, out of shape, or otherwise physically impaired. I would describe myself as one of the biggest geeks in town, both for my prowess at computers, my application of technology in daily life, and my interest in a wide variety of intellectual pursuits. However, this does not mean I sit around eating chips all day, while staring at a huge TV with two computers on the sides.
In fact, I enjoy bike riding. I have a rather old bike, but it will do until college is done and I have a job which can afford me a newer model. I enjoy working out at the gym, or running through the city. I am a practitioner of martial arts (brown belt in Shito-Ryu karate style, and will soon be training in TKD and Judo). I eat a healty diet, and I make a conscious effort to balance my physical and mental well being.
The point is that being a geek does not indicate that one must fall into the stereotype that your post seems to be enforcing. Please, enough of that.
Jennifer, it has been a pleasure to have met you. I love you.
I am very tired.
No it was not easy to spot, but it is *possible*. Anyhow I am not saying it ruins the experience in any way, but for 100 million dollars on special effects along, I'd figure that they checked for stuff like that.
They should check things, don't you think so?
This is far and away the most insightful thing I have ever read on Slashdot. Is this your original, or is it a quotation?
If it's original, as I suspect it is, then you should write more. I really like how you put that. I applaud you.
This new terminator looks....well.....too damn feminine. I ain't saying that she should look like a biker chic.....but she should at least not look like she's ready to do a Victoria Secret ad!
Why not?
If I were the central decision making hardware in SKYNET, I would certianly assign a high probability to the chance of a very attractive (read: desirable) female getting closer to those in charge (read: men) than a naked beef stick (read: the other Terminators).
Or maybe I just like my women... hot?
From the trailer, it seems like the female Terminator approaches a guy in a sports car with little problem at all. I'm fairly certian that it wouldn't work so well if the she were a he, approaching another he in a sports car.
Think about it.
On the other hand, maybe the "He hit me first" excuse is bullshit.
Oh, your post is, buddy.
First of all, situations like this hardly scale to the level of comparison you are describing here. If you want to add rationally to the discussion, please do. But to compare a nerd vs. jock rivalry with a life and death struggle which is largely founded on religion and politics is quite a joke.
The resort has an amazing 7500 beds, which all adds up to a lot of visitors making a lot of human waste. Converting this into snow seemed a logical step.
Maybe I'm not as logical as I once thought.
Heck, if we wanted to change the channel we had to walk two miles, through ten feet of snow, barefoot.
You forgot "uphill both ways."
Prostitutes and pimps - sure, but main characters? Won't somebody please think of the children?
No no no. That simply will not do.
Who would protect the children at the end of the day, if the terrorists have already won in this post-September 11th world where people are preaching to the converted about what Jesus would do in the post-Columbine atmosphere where CowboyNeal is the funk King of Michigan?
Yes. Much better.
..is it called bankruptcy?
Not if Sci Fi cancels that show like Farscape. =(
Otherwise, you end up with this:
The mishaps page was hosted on http://www.thetechboard.com (aka "TTB").
The site was linked from the front page of http://www.slashdot.org.
Typically when a site gets linked by slashdot, also known as "slashdotted", it tends to encounter large bursts of traffic.
Due to the gross incompentence of the hosting service http://www.webmasters.com, the server crashed twice under the pressue of being "slashdotted".
The complaints of the other clients that were using the same server and therefore also experienced outage prompted Webmasters to threaten to permanently close the TTB acount.
Of course, the account has always otherwise been in good standing, but the folks at Webmasters don't even have the mental capacity to limit bandwidth for a particular site so it does not bring down the entire server, so why would they take TTB's otherwise "good behaviour" into consideration?
Please forward any hate mail to: security@webmasters.com (this is from whom the mail about the account cancellation came from).
Thank you.
Jon "jonny" Gerow (pronounced muck like "Guru", hence the handle)
I feel really bad for the operators of that site. Come on Slashdot... stop it.
It is noteworty to mention that Raph Koster was formerly "Designer Dragon" at Origin, and was responsible for the evolution of one of the most seminal games of recent times, Ultima Online.
I know it's too late to hope for much upvoting, but I think it's important to know that this is the person who wrote that "History". Yes, he did slant it, but that's his background.
It's too bad UO was "patched to death," by in large because of Koster and company. *sigh*
The difference would be the continuing existence of the object used as the model for replication. That's the difference: teleportation versus replication.
It seems to me, that there is a huge difference:
Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location.
To me, that sentence can be translated as such:
Team leader Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a ball point pen, its destruction and the recreation of the same ball point pen using a factory blueprint in a different location.
This isn't the first time I've read about "teleportation" of some particle or another, when it seems that they are simply re-creating, mirroring if you will, the particle(s) quantum states in another place. That's not teleporting - that's mimicing.
And those are two widely accepted standards. That's _why_ the products are marketable.