What's the joke? ZOMG! THE STINK FOLLOWED THEM!!! There's nothing comedic about that. There's no irony, there's not even a pun. It's just a story of a group of people trying to get rid of a smell and failling horribly.
I'm liberal myself, and although I'm fairly confident that there is a lot of emotion in the left, the right is hardly sterile and logical. To pick an obvious example: the religious right. Although religion is probably not caused by mere emotional sensitivity. And certainly the more libertarian-leaning members of The Right seem to be a fairly logical bunch, even if I think their logic is somewhat flawed.
Uh, I think shfted is talking about that astronomical body which some call the Daystar, although the scientific name is Sol. "Evil Yellow Face" is probably taken from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, where there is a character named Smeagol who enters a cave to hide himself from the evil glare of the "Yellow Face."
Verbing is a perfectly acceptable linguistic practice in English. here's this page on the matter I found via a quick Googling.
The only problem is that the newly verbed word may often sound awkward or pretentious, and it's not at all Formal English. But Slashdot editors aren't exactly known for their linguistic fortitude.
There are probably roughly equivalent numbers of smart Democratic celebrities. But most people in Hollywood are stupid, and most stupid celebrities will run with the crowd, and the crowd is left-leaning.
Just so you know, the original seizure Anime was not giant robots, but actually Pokemon. Only about 300 people actually got seizures, but Japanese culture can be just as panicky as American culture, so it became a decently sized news story. (Also, of course, Pokemon was fairly popular in Japan too.)
That is all they need to do, provided you hook them up to the right hardware. The mind takes inputs and return outputs, depending on their internal state. There has to be an algorithm for how to do that.
The only question is whether Turing Machines can do those algorithms in reasonable time. And if they can't, we can always try to make computers which are Neural-based instead of Turing-based.
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What's the joke? ZOMG! THE STINK FOLLOWED THEM!!! There's nothing comedic about that. There's no irony, there's not even a pun. It's just a story of a group of people trying to get rid of a smell and failling horribly.
The sound, my friend, is *fwapfwapfwapfwapfwapfwapfwapfwap*
Weird Al claimed that there was a miscommunication and that he thought he got permission.
Amygdala sorta sounds like Amidala. I believe that was the extent of his horrible horrible pun.
I'm liberal myself, and although I'm fairly confident that there is a lot of emotion in the left, the right is hardly sterile and logical. To pick an obvious example: the religious right. Although religion is probably not caused by mere emotional sensitivity. And certainly the more libertarian-leaning members of The Right seem to be a fairly logical bunch, even if I think their logic is somewhat flawed.
Uh, I think shfted is talking about that astronomical body which some call the Daystar, although the scientific name is Sol. "Evil Yellow Face" is probably taken from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, where there is a character named Smeagol who enters a cave to hide himself from the evil glare of the "Yellow Face."
How do you know what's a right and what isn't?
Verbing is a perfectly acceptable linguistic practice in English. here's this page on the matter I found via a quick Googling.
The only problem is that the newly verbed word may often sound awkward or pretentious, and it's not at all Formal English. But Slashdot editors aren't exactly known for their linguistic fortitude.
There are probably roughly equivalent numbers of smart Democratic celebrities. But most people in Hollywood are stupid, and most stupid celebrities will run with the crowd, and the crowd is left-leaning.
Kerry also looks way more like Herman Munster than Lurch.
No, Mr. Darkness. I expect you to die.
Flash, like Java applets, is best for mindless fun. Thus this story.
Just so you know, the original seizure Anime was not giant robots, but actually Pokemon. Only about 300 people actually got seizures, but Japanese culture can be just as panicky as American culture, so it became a decently sized news story. (Also, of course, Pokemon was fairly popular in Japan too.)
They get 1-2 months off every year. That sounds pretty successful to me.
But if we raise our productivity, unemployment will go up because management won't need as many people to get work done.
No, I want to go the other way. I want to have stupidly long DNS names.
web.fred.cs.fnord.mit.ed.ma.us
Fred's webserver on the CS department <fnord/> of MIT, an educational institution in Massachusetts, a state of the United States.
Sarcasm is t3h awesome.
That is all they need to do, provided you hook them up to the right hardware. The mind takes inputs and return outputs, depending on their internal state. There has to be an algorithm for how to do that.
The only question is whether Turing Machines can do those algorithms in reasonable time. And if they can't, we can always try to make computers which are Neural-based instead of Turing-based.
Yes, but all Go programs are in that area, so it's okay.
Not so well, but if you want to talk about Go, (and of course you do) GnuGo is one of the better Go programs around.
Microsoft is bad, but cartoons are good. As is mindless R&D with no commercial value.
Wile E. Coyote.
Smells like Cobol.
Damn. I was afraid of that. Oh well. Well, a low-mass sphere would still have lower inertia than a large-mass sphere.
Yes, but inertia is based on mass, not size. If you can just find some really really light material, the treadsphere would work very nicely.