Re:Yes, yes, yes, Apple's dying, blah blah blah
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All you have done is denied the premise of The I Shing's statement; you have in no way refuted it. Semantic arguments are just plain silly...
When someone refers to the immediacy of something by saying "Apple is about to die," they are OBVIOUSLY referring to a commonly accepted understanding of the relative immediacy of the impending collapse. To compare this to the collapse of England or the Sun going nova is just avoiding logical discussion of the topic altogether.
Does anyone know if Infogames acquired anything more than the intellectual property for Atari? When Atari folded and sold, its assetts must have gone somewhere. It would be nice to get my hands on some of the Jaguar and Lynx development units. For that matter, it would be nice just to get the games for cheap for both of them.
"Basically every game written since 1990 has not run dependent on the clock speed..."
Yes, but isn't that dependent on a static clock speed? I thought that the clock speed was determined, then applications with timing issues adjusted accordingly.
How does adjusting the clock speed affect timing issues in applications (games)? If it dynamically adjusts the timing, won't this create some bizarre effects?
I don't see why PETA would have a problem with this, as you indicated above (I didn't know that they did). It seems that this would prevent the senseless slaughter of many animals so that a single human could live.
If this research proves fruitful, then people with type 1 diabetes would have a potential cure that wouldn't involve "extraction" from a non-human creature. If this research starts being used for other evils, like extending the lives of people who are killing themselves by consuming meat, then that would be most counterproductive indeed.
The fact of the matter is (and this article proves it) that this sort of research is going to happen either way. We can embrace it and learn from it or we can illegalize it and leave the knowledge gained hidden for a future, more libertarian society to learn from. The choice is ours. Write your legislature and express your disapproval.
It is far more important that we, as the only superpower in the world, work NOT on additional countermeasures to combat terrorism and biological attacks, but on making such attacks irrelevant.
You're absolutely right in pointing to our hopeless foreign policy as the instigator of this entire ordeal.
If our military forces are used only in accordance with their constitutionally aligned duties, this paradigm would not exist, and terrorist attacks would be a non-issue.
I couldn't possibly agree with you more with the perspective on the evolution of life on the planet. Humans have had (by far) the worst impact on the ecosystem of the planet. I sometimes wonder if it is unfortunate that humans are so resillient. I believe that this is a temporary phase in our development as a species, and, in a few thousand years, we'll probably be over it.
Smallpox and Anthrax (and any other biological threat) are just developmental instigators, promoting alteration of perspective on the planet as a whole, and our lives in particular. Hopefully these recent "threats", rather than being forever looked at as a tragedy (like the response to polio, the Black Death, and concentration camps during WW2), will spur a new era of enlightened insight into our role in the community of life on this planet.
It is a proven fact in the US that a percentage of people who are exposed to television (or any other form of broadcast media) are prone to suicide, homicide, and collecting Pez (though, not necessarily all three).
It seems to me that any box that facilitates television viewing can only be evil as well...
If you are a contracted employee, then this is only acceptable if there are provisions for it in your contract. If not, your employment is just an agreement with your employer. If they change the terms of the employment, you have every right to seek employment elsewhere.
Of course, you could turn it around on them. Be preemptive. Approach the security guard menacingly and insist on searching him.
4:40 pm: read Slashdot
4:42 pm: read about availability on www.robotech.com
4:50 pm: Call Best Buy to reserve a copy
5:00 pm: retrieve my reserved copy from the ignorant fool at Best Buy who didn't know what Robotech was.
I am so very glad that I didn't have to mail order this one. I do, however, wish that Best Buy wasn't 10 MINUTES away! I could've been halfway through the first episode in the time it took me to get homw... We have got to figure out a better way of doing this for the 3 and 4. I don't know if I can handle this sort of anticipation while I'm behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
I really want to move to Japan now. Venture Capitalists over there must really be loaded to let the square watermelon company slip this one by them. I mean, come on! If refrigerator space is at that kind of premium, couldn't they just cut their existing watermelon into squares (or whatever) before they load these suckers in?
I want to find the genius that let this go so I can finally market my idea for dehydrated water. Now, you wanna see something get really space-efficient...?
I find the old "Perl vs Python" battle a bit tiresome. While reading the article, though it hardly touches on Perl, I KNEW it was just bait for battle.
I don't think that his book was bad (I've read it). I think Python rocks. I don't know very much Perl, but we use both extensively at work and I can see that they each have their strengths.
On a positive note, I wrote my entire website (and I suck at site design, I know...) in Python, and it was (and still is) quite a fun project.
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All you have done is denied the premise of The I Shing's statement; you have in no way refuted it. Semantic arguments are just plain silly...
When someone refers to the immediacy of something by saying "Apple is about to die," they are OBVIOUSLY referring to a commonly accepted understanding of the relative immediacy of the impending collapse. To compare this to the collapse of England or the Sun going nova is just avoiding logical discussion of the topic altogether.
Does this thing still exist? I thought he had to kill it....
Not another one....
Does anyone know if Infogames acquired anything more than the intellectual property for Atari? When Atari folded and sold, its assetts must have gone somewhere. It would be nice to get my hands on some of the Jaguar and Lynx development units. For that matter, it would be nice just to get the games for cheap for both of them.
"Basically every game written since 1990 has not run dependent on the clock speed..."
Yes, but isn't that dependent on a static clock speed? I thought that the clock speed was determined, then applications with timing issues adjusted accordingly.
How does adjusting the clock speed affect timing issues in applications (games)? If it dynamically adjusts the timing, won't this create some bizarre effects?
I don't see why PETA would have a problem with this, as you indicated above (I didn't know that they did). It seems that this would prevent the senseless slaughter of many animals so that a single human could live.
If this research proves fruitful, then people with type 1 diabetes would have a potential cure that wouldn't involve "extraction" from a non-human creature. If this research starts being used for other evils, like extending the lives of people who are killing themselves by consuming meat, then that would be most counterproductive indeed.
The fact of the matter is (and this article proves it) that this sort of research is going to happen either way. We can embrace it and learn from it or we can illegalize it and leave the knowledge gained hidden for a future, more libertarian society to learn from. The choice is ours. Write your legislature and express your disapproval.
...and sick! I love it. After reading that, I dont even remeber what the original post was about!
All of that is true except the $5 part. She could only get $3 back then, because of the recession in her area. How do you know her?
Sheesh. Get a life, moron.
It is far more important that we, as the only superpower in the world, work NOT on additional countermeasures to combat terrorism and biological attacks, but on making such attacks irrelevant.
You're absolutely right in pointing to our hopeless foreign policy as the instigator of this entire ordeal.
If our military forces are used only in accordance with their constitutionally aligned duties, this paradigm would not exist, and terrorist attacks would be a non-issue.
George Carlin - isn't he that guy hiding in a cave in Afghanistan leading a terrorist network?
I couldn't possibly agree with you more with the perspective on the evolution of life on the planet. Humans have had (by far) the worst impact on the ecosystem of the planet. I sometimes wonder if it is unfortunate that humans are so resillient. I believe that this is a temporary phase in our development as a species, and, in a few thousand years, we'll probably be over it.
Smallpox and Anthrax (and any other biological threat) are just developmental instigators, promoting alteration of perspective on the planet as a whole, and our lives in particular. Hopefully these recent "threats", rather than being forever looked at as a tragedy (like the response to polio, the Black Death, and concentration camps during WW2), will spur a new era of enlightened insight into our role in the community of life on this planet.
Chicken soup books will start selling again because people are going to be scared of getting chicken pox.
Sheesh! There's no more of a biological terror threat than there was 15 years ago. People are so paranoid.
UPS - United Peril Service
It is a proven fact in the US that a percentage of people who are exposed to television (or any other form of broadcast media) are prone to suicide, homicide, and collecting Pez (though, not necessarily all three).
It seems to me that any box that facilitates television viewing can only be evil as well...
If you are a contracted employee, then this is only acceptable if there are provisions for it in your contract. If not, your employment is just an agreement with your employer. If they change the terms of the employment, you have every right to seek employment elsewhere.
Of course, you could turn it around on them. Be preemptive. Approach the security guard menacingly and insist on searching him.
4:40 pm: read Slashdot
4:42 pm: read about availability on www.robotech.com
4:50 pm: Call Best Buy to reserve a copy
5:00 pm: retrieve my reserved copy from the ignorant fool at Best Buy who didn't know what Robotech was.
I am so very glad that I didn't have to mail order this one. I do, however, wish that Best Buy wasn't 10 MINUTES away! I could've been halfway through the first episode in the time it took me to get homw... We have got to figure out a better way of doing this for the 3 and 4. I don't know if I can handle this sort of anticipation while I'm behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
Next time, I'll have to use my Cyclone...
I really want to move to Japan now. Venture Capitalists over there must really be loaded to let the square watermelon company slip this one by them. I mean, come on! If refrigerator space is at that kind of premium, couldn't they just cut their existing watermelon into squares (or whatever) before they load these suckers in?
I want to find the genius that let this go so I can finally market my idea for dehydrated water. Now, you wanna see something get really space-efficient...?
Pro 1: One big benefit is its ease in debugging.
Pro 2: It's easier to write than Java (well, for me, anyway)
Con: If you don't know Python yet, a "huge" project isn't exactly where I'd start...
I find the old "Perl vs Python" battle a bit tiresome. While reading the article, though it hardly touches on Perl, I KNEW it was just bait for battle.
I don't think that his book was bad (I've read it). I think Python rocks. I don't know very much Perl, but we use both extensively at work and I can see that they each have their strengths.
On a positive note, I wrote my entire website (and I suck at site design, I know...) in Python, and it was (and still is) quite a fun project.
Just my $.02. Flame away, please.