A program, not to program. The noun, not the verb. By this, he meant that people are far more likely to be using Internet Explorer or Quake than the stuff like the Dock and Finder, which are only used for short periods of time while they make their way to the programs.
Which is basically true. I suppose most people could probably even manage to use Bash to launch programs if they could still run their other programs just as well.
Yes, Japanese people don't take their animation industry very seriously. I mean, they'll like Mizaki films when they come out, but yes, they do consider it kids' stuff to some degree.
But Japanese cartoons still rock. So do many American ones, actually, (South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Sealab 2021...) but Japan has more variety, (our best cartoons are in comedy, they do better in drama and action) for one reason or another.
In this regard, anyone who takes anime seriously is disregarding and disrespecting the Japanese attitude towards the media and, in effect, displaying a bizarrely childlike fixation on things that are neither very deep nor very significant.
No. First of all, there's a lot of great stuff out there. (Not all cartoons are for kids. Just because most Japanese people think Anime is for kids doesn't mean the creators do.) And secondly, that's like saying, "Anyone who takes American Science Fiction seriously is disregarding and disrespecting American attitude towards the genre, and, in effect, is demonstrating a bizzarely childlike fixation on things that are neither very deep nor very signifigant."
Who effing cares what "the Japanese people" think? We're just here to watch some damned good cartoons.
I'll agree with you though that this is a rough equivalent of the Space Ghost desk, and not really intended to be actually used by anyone.
No, but they have far less guns. Gun control, you know. Of course, some criminals still have guns in Japan, (as gun fans are wont to point out) but less of them do. The gun fans would then like to counter that guns can be used for self-defense, or something, but when you're playing this game, it's unlikely that you'll be able to get to your gun too easily. Especially if you're a 15 year old girl.
I was actually going to mention that. But the "an unforeseen shortage in infinitely long tape" is just too good a joke to give up, and I didn't want to make the post too wordy.
Use Mozilla. Mozilla allows you to have multiple profiles, and by extension, multiple caches. You can simply start a seperate profile for your... less noble activities. (Or maybe start a new profile every time.)
No they don't. Turing Machines are an entirely theoretical construct, which by some standards never have actually been created. (Due to an unforeseen shortage in infinitely long tape.)
You have this little box which has an infinitely long tape fed into it. The box is a finite state machine which reads the tape, and based upon the state of the machine, writes to the tape, moves the tape left or right, and maybe changes its internal state.
There's a kind of neat Turing Machine Simulator here if you want.
Dang. I, for one, have already welcomed our robotic shark overloards. Now I'm gonna have to go ahead and apologize to humanity and try to send a fruit basket to the underwater lumberjacks in case I have to welcome them as the overlords. I'm sure they'll accept me. With my Excellent Karma, I'd be able to gather humans into their underwater work camps for them.
It's still around, but apparently only as Video On Demand.
Digital Cable companies, (...like Comcast...) in their attempts at competing with satellites, have begun to roll out On Demand channels because it's a lot easier to do two-way communication over a cable than through satellite. And On Demand isn't that bad, although a well run Tivo is quite comparable.
Evolution is nowhere near the best way of making things better. It works, but it's slow, cruddy, and shortsighted. We have a new technique: intellegence. There's no reason to "weed out the weak" now that we can apply our mighty brains to the matter. Intellegent Design might not have been how we got here, but that doesn't mean we can't start doing some of it ourselves. Just because someone is not particuarly evolutionarily fit does not make them unvaluable to society.
Within a few generations, we'll be able to manipulate the genetic code directly. So whatever crap we might accumulate in these few generations isn't that big a deal in the long run.
Although Microsoft has been known to have the resources in cows to acquire all the magic beans it could possibly need, it is a well known fact that Google is run by elves. Also, Microsoft would probably want to use their own proprietrary bean technologies which are not very magical at all.
Except the "I could care less" thing is THE EXACT OPPOSITE of "begging the question."
"I could care less" doesn't make sense in the context most people use it. We use it only because it's sort of become an idiom. "I could care less, but it would be very hard," to quote another replier.
"Begging the question," however, DOES make sense in the context people use it. "Begs the question" means that what you just said begs us to ask another question. "Raise the question" just isn't emotional enough. Beg is so much more passionate.
Yes, it means two meanings are overlapping, and that's undesirable. But it's not forbidden. And since "circular logic" is so much more intuitive than "begging the question" for the older meaning of the phrase, the new meaning of "beg the question" will eventually take over.
Genetically, maybe. But who cares about our stupid genes? Evolution isn't good or bad, it's merely what has worked so far. And anyway, ideas (memes) are what really counts, aren't they? They can evolve far faster than genes could ever have dreamt of, and "intelligence" can allow them to mold themselves towards good solutions instead of the woefully crude methods of mutation found in genetic evolution.
Plus, the phenotypes of ideas are capable of manipulating genes. (Genetic engineering.) So it's no big deal, really.
So yes, the forces of genetic evolution in Humans have slowed a bit. But memetic evolution is something infinitally cooler.
You are a wanker; you are a tosspot; you are a very tiny piece of turd.
Beer bubbles is one specific area of physics, curing Cancer is more of a biological field. (Figuring out how to prevent mutations in somatic cells, I guess, would be how you would manage it.) The two fields are entirely unrelated.
Obviously the government was lying about this purely as a way for them to train civil servants into being able to lie on the really big lies, like the Area 51 disco.
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A program, not to program. The noun, not the verb. By this, he meant that people are far more likely to be using Internet Explorer or Quake than the stuff like the Dock and Finder, which are only used for short periods of time while they make their way to the programs.
Which is basically true. I suppose most people could probably even manage to use Bash to launch programs if they could still run their other programs just as well.
But Japanese cartoons still rock. So do many American ones, actually, (South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Sealab 2021...) but Japan has more variety, (our best cartoons are in comedy, they do better in drama and action) for one reason or another.
No. First of all, there's a lot of great stuff out there. (Not all cartoons are for kids. Just because most Japanese people think Anime is for kids doesn't mean the creators do.) And secondly, that's like saying, "Anyone who takes American Science Fiction seriously is disregarding and disrespecting American attitude towards the genre, and, in effect, is demonstrating a bizzarely childlike fixation on things that are neither very deep nor very signifigant."
Who effing cares what "the Japanese people" think? We're just here to watch some damned good cartoons.
I'll agree with you though that this is a rough equivalent of the Space Ghost desk, and not really intended to be actually used by anyone.
No, but they have far less guns. Gun control, you know. Of course, some criminals still have guns in Japan, (as gun fans are wont to point out) but less of them do. The gun fans would then like to counter that guns can be used for self-defense, or something, but when you're playing this game, it's unlikely that you'll be able to get to your gun too easily. Especially if you're a 15 year old girl.
That episode was from 1995. That was hardly "the day."
But still, a very funny sketch. (Or technichally, fake ad.) A download is here.
It's turtles all the way down, my dear.
I was actually going to mention that. But the "an unforeseen shortage in infinitely long tape" is just too good a joke to give up, and I didn't want to make the post too wordy.
Use Mozilla. Mozilla allows you to have multiple profiles, and by extension, multiple caches. You can simply start a seperate profile for your... less noble activities. (Or maybe start a new profile every time.)
No they don't. Turing Machines are an entirely theoretical construct, which by some standards never have actually been created. (Due to an unforeseen shortage in infinitely long tape.)
You have this little box which has an infinitely long tape fed into it. The box is a finite state machine which reads the tape, and based upon the state of the machine, writes to the tape, moves the tape left or right, and maybe changes its internal state.
There's a kind of neat Turing Machine Simulator here if you want.
Yeah, but WASTE is intended for relatively small groups of trusted users, so it's only good for some purposes.
Kind of a cool program though.
I've been told that. But it's not an acid, so my point stands.
Dang. I, for one, have already welcomed our robotic shark overloards. Now I'm gonna have to go ahead and apologize to humanity and try to send a fruit basket to the underwater lumberjacks in case I have to welcome them as the overlords. I'm sure they'll accept me. With my Excellent Karma, I'd be able to gather humans into their underwater work camps for them.
It's still around, but apparently only as Video On Demand.
Digital Cable companies, (...like Comcast...) in their attempts at competing with satellites, have begun to roll out On Demand channels because it's a lot easier to do two-way communication over a cable than through satellite. And On Demand isn't that bad, although a well run Tivo is quite comparable.
ROTFL (IMNSHO) HAND
Capitalization isn't grammar. Sorry, I'm being a semantics nazi.
Yes, and weirding embiggens life.
My school didn't get around to multiplication until Grade Three. But yes, that's ridiculously easy math.
Evolution is nowhere near the best way of making things better. It works, but it's slow, cruddy, and shortsighted. We have a new technique: intellegence. There's no reason to "weed out the weak" now that we can apply our mighty brains to the matter. Intellegent Design might not have been how we got here, but that doesn't mean we can't start doing some of it ourselves. Just because someone is not particuarly evolutionarily fit does not make them unvaluable to society.
Within a few generations, we'll be able to manipulate the genetic code directly. So whatever crap we might accumulate in these few generations isn't that big a deal in the long run.
Magic Beans:
Although Microsoft has been known to have the resources in cows to acquire all the magic beans it could possibly need, it is a well known fact that Google is run by elves. Also, Microsoft would probably want to use their own proprietrary bean technologies which are not very magical at all.
Except the "I could care less" thing is THE EXACT OPPOSITE of "begging the question."
"I could care less" doesn't make sense in the context most people use it. We use it only because it's sort of become an idiom. "I could care less, but it would be very hard," to quote another replier.
"Begging the question," however, DOES make sense in the context people use it. "Begs the question" means that what you just said begs us to ask another question. "Raise the question" just isn't emotional enough. Beg is so much more passionate.
Yes, it means two meanings are overlapping, and that's undesirable. But it's not forbidden. And since "circular logic" is so much more intuitive than "begging the question" for the older meaning of the phrase, the new meaning of "beg the question" will eventually take over.
Language evolves.
Genetically, maybe. But who cares about our stupid genes? Evolution isn't good or bad, it's merely what has worked so far. And anyway, ideas (memes) are what really counts, aren't they? They can evolve far faster than genes could ever have dreamt of, and "intelligence" can allow them to mold themselves towards good solutions instead of the woefully crude methods of mutation found in genetic evolution.
Plus, the phenotypes of ideas are capable of manipulating genes. (Genetic engineering.) So it's no big deal, really.
So yes, the forces of genetic evolution in Humans have slowed a bit. But memetic evolution is something infinitally cooler.
You are a wanker; you are a tosspot; you are a very tiny piece of turd.
Beer bubbles is one specific area of physics, curing Cancer is more of a biological field. (Figuring out how to prevent mutations in somatic cells, I guess, would be how you would manage it.) The two fields are entirely unrelated.
As Arthur C. Clarke predicted in "Rendezvous with Rama," we're running low on Roman gods.
Not really. Dying stories can be true.
I think hick.org actually is affiliated with the makers of goatse, so this is a legit mirror, and not a "copycat."
Obviously the government was lying about this purely as a way for them to train civil servants into being able to lie on the really big lies, like the Area 51 disco.