Meaning could, in principle, mean 'affective meaning' as in the emotional weight something carries. Maybe Google are also working on emotional search engines and the article poster doesn't want us getting confused with that.
...as opposed to 'non-semantic meaning' or just 'semantic meaning' as in 'I don't know what semantic means but using it here will make me look intelligent'?
...houses were going to manage Zaphod's second head. They're generally technologically backwards compared to the US companies. So now we know. They hardly bothered. Quite a few US companies are now doing excellent CGI heads in movies and it's a pity they couldn't have been used.
You had a keypunch. Lucky you. I used to have a little pin on the end of some wooden dowel and I'd push out the little squares (I've since learned to call them chads) by hand. (Does the pin thing have a name?) But we did use the rubber band! I remember one day I actually went into the place where the mainframe was and tried out the keypunch. "Wow! You could write really amazingly complicated programs if you had one of these!" I thought to myself.
There are a bunch of metrics out there for measuring the readability of English text. In my opinion they're all a bit silly. Much of the world's greatest literature would score badly and young children's writing can score highly.
...is native PDF support. For example you can create diagrams in Omnigraffle or Adobe Illustrator (say) or equations in LaTeX (dragged and dropped from here) and insert them easily into your document as vector graphics. This means that they can still be scaled, rotated or otherwise transformed without any loss of quality even though they are no longer in the package that created them. This is a great boon for people preparing technical presentations.
Having done a little Palm development there is a lot of similarity with MacOS
I'd have liked to have seen the Psion way win out. I loved the Psion III. If the Newton helped to bring about the Palm then I think it brought about the death of the PDA as a useful gadget. You can't even type on most modern PDAs though you can use an incredibly slow input method like jot or graffiti. On the Psion's you could not only type, you could develop code right out of the box. It was actually useful, not just a toy for playing music and games.
...they wrote a routine to convert binary to Roman but unfortunately they used a floating point divide on one of their own CPUs and for some reason the letters came out funny...
On ebing asked whether they were using wireless or not "26% were unsure which technology they were using". Astonishing! Even my mother knows what wireless. Hell, even my father, who's never used a computer in his life (no exaggeration whatsoever!) could probably guess that if there are no wires coming out of it then it's probably wireless!
The Newton concept lead to Palm and then to PocketPC
This is a skewed view of things. For one thing Psion had handheld PDAs out there since 1984. Diary, text editor, contact database. All there. And the whole touch sensitive tablet concept was straight out of Star Trek (I'm not kidding here!). Even if the Newton hadn't existed the basic design for the Palm had pretty well already been specified.
...is simply a function of whether or not there is an interpreter for it. Presumably this game would ship with such an interpreter making a fine and dandy scripting language.
I've used Linux at home for quite a while - since my first Yggdrasil disk with 0.99. In the early days it was really clunky, but I didn't mind because, hell, it was a real live Unix machine running in my own home. Over the years I used used Irix at work, then Windows, and now I actually have to use Linux. What a shock. So many things that were wrong with Linux simply haven't changed since years ago. What were once charming quirks of my geeky hacker's PC at home are now major annoyances all day long at work. Some simple examples of things that don't work well:
The goddamn backspace key. It seems to be impossible to tweak it satisfactorily so that my.cshrc works across different distros and in every application.
Copy and paste. I've no idea what's going on here. Different applications use completely independent cut/paste buffers. Simply copy-and-pasting from my web browser into a text window can be a headache requiring me to paste temporarily into an intermediate application.
Shared libraries. I can run plenty of old Win 95 apps on a modern Windows XP box. Plenty of old Linux binaries will fail to run on a modern distribution. Downloading third party apps like RealPlayer is a real nightmare.
Focus. Many applications pop up windows but they fail to get focus. Nothing is more annoying than doing a search in acrobat reader, say, and having to actually click on the search window to bring it into focus.
The fact is - all of these problems are soluble. But I'm no longer that single young kid who thought it was cool to spend all night hacking away to fix the most trivial problems. I now just want these things to work. They do under Windows, they do under MacOSX. No doubt some smart young Linux zealot wil tell be how to solve the above problems. But that's completely missing the point.
Just so it's not all negative: it's a pleasure to have a working command line again. CMD.EXE is so, so, broken.
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Hiring one or two CG supes from visual effects comapnies does not suddenly make you know how to make movies.
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...movies.
Yes. I've talked to people at EA. They really have no clue what it takes to get a movie made. When it takes 100 CPU hours to render a typical frame (not unusual) and hours of work by human compositors to achieve subtle 2D effects for which no algorithms as yet exist (such as touching up the lighting because what is aesthetically pleasing isn't geometrically correct) I wonder how they're going to do this stuff at 60fps even if the hardware renders 1000 times faster than is possible on the current crop of PCs.
On the other hand, if by movies they mean the likes of Episode II then Half Life 2 is already better.
The Register [theregister.co.uk] shows how stupid google's adword system is abused
You tell me how to parse this sentence. Maybe you mean stupidly. That would mean that it acts as a modifier to "is abused" rather than "google". But that's not what you wrote. Maybe if you learn some grammar it would help. That's what grammar is for - making communication more reliable.
Who said I'm wholly ignorant of this stuff? Not me. And my original criticism is entirely valid. People who talk about a flat response from their audio hardware when that response is only for hardware that you wouldn't actually use in reality (ie. a high impedance measurement device rather than real headphones) are the people working without a brain. It's typical audiophile BS. Publish information about some non-existent ideal system as if that adds anything useful to just listening to the damn thing.
You, on the other hand, clearly don't understand this. Maybe you should keep out of discussions you don't understand, you'll just embarass yourself.
I might actually just about believe you. At least I might consider not rejecting your response out of hand. It seems to make some kind of sense even if I don't know if it's true.
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...what people think it means. Mostly it's a way for people who aren't very smart to make themselves feel better by saying things like "he's smart but he lacks wisdom" so as to make themselves somehow seem less unintelligent, or at least somehow morally superior.
although the bigger players have flat frequency response, they have trouble sustaining big bass notes
If the response is flat then by definition it can play back bass notes. This reads more like audiophile verbal diarrhea than something with semantic value.
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Meaning could, in principle, mean 'affective meaning' as in the emotional weight something carries. Maybe Google are also working on emotional search engines and the article poster doesn't want us getting confused with that.
...as opposed to 'non-semantic meaning' or just 'semantic meaning' as in 'I don't know what semantic means but using it here will make me look intelligent'?
...houses were going to manage Zaphod's second head. They're generally technologically backwards compared to the US companies. So now we know. They hardly bothered. Quite a few US companies are now doing excellent CGI heads in movies and it's a pity they couldn't have been used.
You had a keypunch. Lucky you. I used to have a little pin on the end of some wooden dowel and I'd push out the little squares (I've since learned to call them chads) by hand. (Does the pin thing have a name?) But we did use the rubber band! I remember one day I actually went into the place where the mainframe was and tried out the keypunch. "Wow! You could write really amazingly complicated programs if you had one of these!" I thought to myself.
There are a bunch of metrics out there for measuring the readability of English text. In my opinion they're all a bit silly. Much of the world's greatest literature would score badly and young children's writing can score highly.
...is native PDF support. For example you can create diagrams in Omnigraffle or Adobe Illustrator (say) or equations in LaTeX (dragged and dropped from here) and insert them easily into your document as vector graphics. This means that they can still be scaled, rotated or otherwise transformed without any loss of quality even though they are no longer in the package that created them. This is a great boon for people preparing technical presentations.
Name me one word processor that has one. (And don't try to tell me the thing in Word actually checks English grammar.)
Having done a little Palm development there is a lot of similarity with MacOS I'd have liked to have seen the Psion way win out. I loved the Psion III. If the Newton helped to bring about the Palm then I think it brought about the death of the PDA as a useful gadget. You can't even type on most modern PDAs though you can use an incredibly slow input method like jot or graffiti. On the Psion's you could not only type, you could develop code right out of the box. It was actually useful, not just a toy for playing music and games.
...they wrote a routine to convert binary to Roman but unfortunately they used a floating point divide on one of their own CPUs and for some reason the letters came out funny...
But scientists still haven't perfected the cart that the mouse will use to carry its human sized brain around with it.
On ebing asked whether they were using wireless or not "26% were unsure which technology they were using". Astonishing! Even my mother knows what wireless. Hell, even my father, who's never used a computer in his life (no exaggeration whatsoever!) could probably guess that if there are no wires coming out of it then it's probably wireless!
...is simply a function of whether or not there is an interpreter for it. Presumably this game would ship with such an interpreter making a fine and dandy scripting language.
- The goddamn backspace key. It seems to be impossible to tweak it satisfactorily so that my
.cshrc works across different distros and in every application.
- Copy and paste. I've no idea what's going on here. Different applications use completely independent cut/paste buffers. Simply copy-and-pasting from my web browser into a text window can be a headache requiring me to paste temporarily into an intermediate application.
- Shared libraries. I can run plenty of old Win 95 apps on a modern Windows XP box. Plenty of old Linux binaries will fail to run on a modern distribution. Downloading third party apps like RealPlayer is a real nightmare.
- Focus. Many applications pop up windows but they fail to get focus. Nothing is more annoying than doing a search in acrobat reader, say, and having to actually click on the search window to bring it into focus.
The fact is - all of these problems are soluble. But I'm no longer that single young kid who thought it was cool to spend all night hacking away to fix the most trivial problems. I now just want these things to work. They do under Windows, they do under MacOSX. No doubt some smart young Linux zealot wil tell be how to solve the above problems. But that's completely missing the point.Just so it's not all negative: it's a pleasure to have a working command line again. CMD.EXE is so, so, broken.
Hiring one or two CG supes from visual effects comapnies does not suddenly make you know how to make movies.
Yes. I've talked to people at EA. They really have no clue what it takes to get a movie made. When it takes 100 CPU hours to render a typical frame (not unusual) and hours of work by human compositors to achieve subtle 2D effects for which no algorithms as yet exist (such as touching up the lighting because what is aesthetically pleasing isn't geometrically correct) I wonder how they're going to do this stuff at 60fps even if the hardware renders 1000 times faster than is possible on the current crop of PCs.
On the other hand, if by movies they mean the likes of Episode II then Half Life 2 is already better.
You, on the other hand, clearly don't understand this. Maybe you should keep out of discussions you don't understand, you'll just embarass yourself.
Yes, it's a really stupid system. I bet you made billions more $$$ with your system.
Yes. 'Right' and 'wrong'. Another means by which untalented people label others so they can make themselves feel superior.
Go to this link and read the stuff about the golden ratio. Hilarious!
I might actually just about believe you. At least I might consider not rejecting your response out of hand. It seems to make some kind of sense even if I don't know if it's true.
...what people think it means. Mostly it's a way for people who aren't very smart to make themselves feel better by saying things like "he's smart but he lacks wisdom" so as to make themselves somehow seem less unintelligent, or at least somehow morally superior.
It's pretty simple photogrammetry. There are plenty of tools out there that do this stuff. I even wrote my own.