...at the moment of discovery part of the world had just rotated out of its own shadow relative to the Sun? For one thing, this is always true, no matter what the event is.
Is that something you can demonstrate? Or would it be by definition? If the latter then I'll have to change my sig to "Anything capable of creating a universe is obviously capable of deceiving you", though only after you convince me your definition is standard usage.
perhaps you ought to do more than just espousing hate for religion
Why not reply in a more pertinent manner rather than making vague generalizations, presuppositions and exhortations?
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine
It's certainly less disgraceful than herding them up by their millions in disgusting environments and forcing them through machinery to be slaughtered en masse.
HTML isn't just fine at all. HTML formatting is horrible compared to the output from a professional typesetting package converted to PDF.
Secondly, printed documents are far easier to read. This is no mere luddism - I have thoroughly embraced ebooks. But most ebooks are read sequentially. Technical documentation isn't. Paper documents let you easily flick back and forth between the current page and the appendix at the back that explains what's going on, or rapidly flick through pages. And most importantly of all, reading paper documents is better for some undefinable reason that I can't even begin to describe but which makes the difference between something I can't read and something I can.
I think people are nervous about the long term applications of what Google are doing despite the fact that they respect Google as they currently are. On the one hand Google aren't getting any more information than your ISP already has. On the other hand, they are probably storing vastly more information than your ISP and, more importantly, Google have people smart enough to figure out how to use that information. So, at least for the first time in my life, I think that the usual/. phobias about the sort of things that/. readers have phobias about are justified.
Almost all mobile phones that exist support texting. Whatever luggable phone you were using in '76 is pretty well dwarfed by the number of modern cellphones over the world that currently support texting.
...many mobile phones already come with Morse support. Just dial the person you want. Most phones already have the Morse protocol activated at this point so you can launch right into it. To send someone a dot say "DIT" into the microphone. To send a dash say "DAH". Remember to put short spaces between your words. For example if you're having an emergency you can say DIT-DIT-DIT DAH-DAH-DAH DIT-DIT-DIT. With a little practice you'll find that this is much faster than texting, something you'll appreciate if you are ever in a real emergency.
What crappy new technologies are you talking about? Almost all mobile phones that have ever existed have supported texting. It's all very well being a Luddite, but to play the part well you have to know what actually is new and old technology.
Most users will be too ignorant to realize what the implications of this accelerator are. Who knows what horrible consequences might descend upon these people at a future date? But there's a good way to warn people so that they can make an informed decision - talk loudly and publicly about the risks. So that's what people are doing. You talk as if this is a weird thing to do.
Guess who tesselated the sphere in the singularity drive? The carpenter who built the thing had worked on Lawrence of Arabia. He was old. I thought he'd understand a simple ruler and compasses construction. No, he had to use orthogonal projections like he had for the previous half century of his life. As you might imagine, that kind of tesselation isn't easy to build from othogonal projections. So the final thing is more of a random distribution than I intended it to be.
For a list of movies under discussion try this link.
That's my dream job! My claim to fame is that I did consult a tiny bit for one of those movies, but as it has a score of 5.6 I'm embarassed to admit what it was.
I was looking at a picture of a plane on that web site and there was a link that said "Click for similar images". And what do you know? It brought up more pictures of planes. This is amazing stuff. How did it understand that I was looking at a picture of a plane?
That's another thing. I'm amazed away that such an obvious troll, a rehash of old trolls, got posted. I think if it was posted as a comment it would immediately get modded down!
You didn't read my post. Please read my post before you criticize.
My Japanese lessons start this summer. I hope that if I get to a point where I feel confident to post a story to the front page of a moderated and edited web site in Japanese, the editors will have the decency to tidy up what I write like almost every other news site. There's a big difference between informal conversation like this and posts on the front page of a major web site with hundreds of thousands of readers. It's no wonder geeks have a reputation for illiteracy when the top geek web site posts the crap it does. I have no complaints whatsoever about the original poster.
Are you making a general point that abstract meaning is there? Or are you saying that the meaning of this particular posting is there? Have you not noticed how much slower it is to communicate with people who only use Pidgin? Have you noticed how many times people who speak Pidgin have to go back and clarify things with each other?
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...at the moment of discovery part of the world had just rotated out of its own shadow relative to the Sun? For one thing, this is always true, no matter what the event is.
It was so bright that if it had happened just over 2 billion light years away we'd still be able to see it with a powerful telescope.
Am I the only one not getting the joke?
Secondly, printed documents are far easier to read. This is no mere luddism - I have thoroughly embraced ebooks. But most ebooks are read sequentially. Technical documentation isn't. Paper documents let you easily flick back and forth between the current page and the appendix at the back that explains what's going on, or rapidly flick through pages. And most importantly of all, reading paper documents is better for some undefinable reason that I can't even begin to describe but which makes the difference between something I can't read and something I can.
And it's no coincidence that George Bush is American.
I think people are nervous about the long term applications of what Google are doing despite the fact that they respect Google as they currently are. On the one hand Google aren't getting any more information than your ISP already has. On the other hand, they are probably storing vastly more information than your ISP and, more importantly, Google have people smart enough to figure out how to use that information. So, at least for the first time in my life, I think that the usual /. phobias about the sort of things that /. readers have phobias about are justified.
Almost all mobile phones that exist support texting. Whatever luggable phone you were using in '76 is pretty well dwarfed by the number of modern cellphones over the world that currently support texting.
...many mobile phones already come with Morse support. Just dial the person you want. Most phones already have the Morse protocol activated at this point so you can launch right into it. To send someone a dot say "DIT" into the microphone. To send a dash say "DAH". Remember to put short spaces between your words. For example if you're having an emergency you can say DIT-DIT-DIT DAH-DAH-DAH DIT-DIT-DIT. With a little practice you'll find that this is much faster than texting, something you'll appreciate if you are ever in a real emergency.
What crappy new technologies are you talking about? Almost all mobile phones that have ever existed have supported texting. It's all very well being a Luddite, but to play the part well you have to know what actually is new and old technology.
It's not meaningless, it's just wrong. It means that if they bought 4 computers they could save 96%.
...violate my privacy? Does it do something illegal? Does they do something that other 'information' companies don't?
Most users will be too ignorant to realize what the implications of this accelerator are. Who knows what horrible consequences might descend upon these people at a future date? But there's a good way to warn people so that they can make an informed decision - talk loudly and publicly about the risks. So that's what people are doing. You talk as if this is a weird thing to do.
Guess who tesselated the sphere in the singularity drive? The carpenter who built the thing had worked on Lawrence of Arabia. He was old. I thought he'd understand a simple ruler and compasses construction. No, he had to use orthogonal projections like he had for the previous half century of his life. As you might imagine, that kind of tesselation isn't easy to build from othogonal projections. So the final thing is more of a random distribution than I intended it to be.
It does have a small cult following...
That's my dream job! My claim to fame is that I did consult a tiny bit for one of those movies, but as it has a score of 5.6 I'm embarassed to admit what it was.
I was looking at a picture of a plane on that web site and there was a link that said "Click for similar images". And what do you know? It brought up more pictures of planes. This is amazing stuff. How did it understand that I was looking at a picture of a plane?
That's another thing. I'm amazed away that such an obvious troll, a rehash of old trolls, got posted. I think if it was posted as a comment it would immediately get modded down!
My Japanese lessons start this summer. I hope that if I get to a point where I feel confident to post a story to the front page of a moderated and edited web site in Japanese, the editors will have the decency to tidy up what I write like almost every other news site. There's a big difference between informal conversation like this and posts on the front page of a major web site with hundreds of thousands of readers. It's no wonder geeks have a reputation for illiteracy when the top geek web site posts the crap it does. I have no complaints whatsoever about the original poster.
Are you making a general point that abstract meaning is there? Or are you saying that the meaning of this particular posting is there? Have you not noticed how much slower it is to communicate with people who only use Pidgin? Have you noticed how many times people who speak Pidgin have to go back and clarify things with each other?
And after they do turn evil I guess you'll just ask them nicely to wipe the data on you they've already collected.
Pretty centralized compared to this.
But seriously, do any Intelligent Designists claim that we have been deliberately deceived?