...a job working for one of the companies working on the HHGTG visual effects. He's a big time Douglas Adams fan and it was a good job offer. But instead he found a job elsewhere. He simply didn't want to have his name attached to what looks like it's ultimately going to turn into the bastardization of the best work of one of his favorite authors.
Uncanny Valley. It doesn't just apply to humans but art in general. As you approach photorealism the perceived 'goodness' of art can paradoxically go down before going up again.
I learned to drive in a country where people understand the difference between right and left and so if I'm driving slower I'll already be in the right lane. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, most Americans don't know the difference.
For a while now I've been meaning to build an LED display for the back of my car so I can flash messages like GET OUT FROM UP MY ASS and plain old FUCK YOU! to whoever's tailgating me.
Someone file a patent for generating/. compatible lame humor about patents. But then again, given there are 3 billion examples of prior art I doubt it'd be granted.
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Right...so there is a conspiracy to stop people buying certain types of music even though you can freely pick and choose stuff online, listen to samples and even get recommendations from other unpaid individuals.
How can you be stupid about what music you like? If I go to a store and buy the wrong CD and don't like it, that's stupid. But if someone hears music on the radio, go to the store, buy it and like it - how can that be stupid?
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If it's bad, why are people buying it?
And you're not allowed to answer "because there's nothing else" because last time I went to a record store I found music going back a couple of centuries and it can't all be bad.
Your criticism (2) is no criticism at all. 'Self-selecting' is completely the wrong term. You just mean plain old 'selecting'. That smart people may select Macs (or have Macs selected for them) because of their profession is in no way a contradiction with the article. (Or you're arguing something subtler and I've missed the point.)
Your criticism (3) is no criticism either. The only thing it criticizes is the non-existent straw-man who claims Mac use makes you smarter.
One day I woke up and realized that I didn't need the latest technology. I realized that there really is life behind the leading edge. A good game from 5 years ago is as good as a good game from today, except the game from 5 years ago costs $4.99 or less instead of $49.99 and plays on a used PC that costs $200 instead of $2000. And if the game made today really is that good...then in 5 years I'll be buying it for $4.99 to play on my $200 system. And I'll have no trouble waiting those 5 years because I'm nowhere near finishing those games from 5 years ago yet.
...with an area of over 1014 m2. And this is a small amount of ammonia. There could be any number of vents where ammonia is being released from volcanic activity underground without an active volcano being discovered. Given that we've only looked at a tiny part of the Martian surface it's a little premature to be calling 'life'.
That's just how I feel. My life seems to be dominated by struggling with other people's APIs. I think too many students have been studying design patterns. Every C++ API I deal with requires drilling down through a Russian doll of abstraction layers before you get to the trivial bit of data you're seeking.
Or APIs that are so super-powerful they can encompass just about any new feature that might be added - except the one feature that was added with the next release that completely broke its architecture meaning that all that awesome power you thought you had acquired by learning the previous API has just been made completely redundant. But that's OK, the new API is also super-powerful...
If I just want to plot a simple graph using a C++ API I shouldn't have to write dozens of lines of code to specify what icon and cursor I want, to install an event handler, to actually write an event handler, to specify in gory detail exactly what format my pixels should be in and so on. On the other hand, I do want to be able to do all of the things I've just described if the need arises.
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Your freedom is only being taken away if you drive like a moron, which presumably you have just admitted to.
Oh great. Let's just let people drive like morons and wait until after they've had an accident to deal with them.
...a job working for one of the companies working on the HHGTG visual effects. He's a big time Douglas Adams fan and it was a good job offer. But instead he found a job elsewhere. He simply didn't want to have his name attached to what looks like it's ultimately going to turn into the bastardization of the best work of one of his favorite authors.
You're right. I really need to add the head-up display and reverse firing rocket launchers at the same time.
Uncanny Valley. It doesn't just apply to humans but art in general. As you approach photorealism the perceived 'goodness' of art can paradoxically go down before going up again.
I learned to drive in a country where people understand the difference between right and left and so if I'm driving slower I'll already be in the right lane. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, most Americans don't know the difference.
For a while now I've been meaning to build an LED display for the back of my car so I can flash messages like GET OUT FROM UP MY ASS and plain old FUCK YOU! to whoever's tailgating me.
You probably forgot where you were for a moment. This is slashdot.
I wonder if this has anything to do with it.
Maybe applied mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously. Real mathematicians do it over the integers. :-)
Read a story introduced by the title "3-D Fossils Found in Canada"? I'm as likely to read that as a story titled "New Pentium PC does arithmetic".
I'm sure we could fix that with a little Astroglide.
...really is about rather than the pop-science version. After all, fossils have been 3D since the dawn of time - well, almost anyway.
Someone file a patent for generating /. compatible lame humor about patents. But then again, given there are 3 billion examples of prior art I doubt it'd be granted.
Right...so there is a conspiracy to stop people buying certain types of music even though you can freely pick and choose stuff online, listen to samples and even get recommendations from other unpaid individuals.
How can you be stupid about what music you like? If I go to a store and buy the wrong CD and don't like it, that's stupid. But if someone hears music on the radio, go to the store, buy it and like it - how can that be stupid?
And you're not allowed to answer "because there's nothing else" because last time I went to a record store I found music going back a couple of centuries and it can't all be bad.
Your criticism (3) is no criticism either. The only thing it criticizes is the non-existent straw-man who claims Mac use makes you smarter.
OK, OK, make that early 90s instead.
Woah! It configured your display automatically! What other features does it have that Windows had in the 80s?
Stupid slashdot doesn't understand the markup.
One day I woke up and realized that I didn't need the latest technology. I realized that there really is life behind the leading edge. A good game from 5 years ago is as good as a good game from today, except the game from 5 years ago costs $4.99 or less instead of $49.99 and plays on a used PC that costs $200 instead of $2000. And if the game made today really is that good...then in 5 years I'll be buying it for $4.99 to play on my $200 system. And I'll have no trouble waiting those 5 years because I'm nowhere near finishing those games from 5 years ago yet.
...with an area of over 1014 m2. And this is a small amount of ammonia. There could be any number of vents where ammonia is being released from volcanic activity underground without an active volcano being discovered. Given that we've only looked at a tiny part of the Martian surface it's a little premature to be calling 'life'.
Or APIs that are so super-powerful they can encompass just about any new feature that might be added - except the one feature that was added with the next release that completely broke its architecture meaning that all that awesome power you thought you had acquired by learning the previous API has just been made completely redundant. But that's OK, the new API is also super-powerful...
If I just want to plot a simple graph using a C++ API I shouldn't have to write dozens of lines of code to specify what icon and cursor I want, to install an event handler, to actually write an event handler, to specify in gory detail exactly what format my pixels should be in and so on. On the other hand, I do want to be able to do all of the things I've just described if the need arises.