Must not have had enough coffee when I submitted that...
Either that, or you must be new around here...
I mean, c'mon. I've seen flames going for tens of posts in one thread just because someone casually mentioned the v word... And you mentioned it just like that on the home page. Oh, the horrors...
Yep, and around the same time, we'll all be typing on Dvorak keyboards in Esperanto talking about the new flat tax.:)
Funny as it sounds, but it doesn't mean good ideas should not be born. After all, all the things you mentioned were good things just never implemented due to either old habits, resistance to change, or pure laziness:
Dvorak keyboards - would allow more efficient typing if people would take the time to (re)learn it.
Esperanto - easy to learn language for ALL nations, w/o complicated grammar, exceptions, etc.
flat tax - well, this is controversial, since it's political, but personally I think it's a great idea.
Yes, but you changed the context by adding the "decimal" into the sentence. Unless the parent had it implied, but since this was an instruction issued to a computer, it should not have this fuzziness.
...the author is trying to solve problems that don't exist...
I don't agree. The author is listing existing problems which programmers of various languages/tools are encountering.
Besides, he's just proposing a solution, not forcing an implementation. All it does is opening a discussion, and that's a good thing. Languages and any other tools we use to program machines are evolving. If they can evolve by taking into consideration the programming public, it's just for the better. No one is saying he found a silver bullet (which probably doesn't exist in programming), but he certainly mentioned a lot of good ideas, which can be improved upon.
You're right. I meant smallpox cure, not vaccine. But I meant it as an example of various life sciences breakthroughs that can be helped through grid computing.
Entertainment industry can sustain itself quite easily.
I own a computer store. One day, two policemen came into the store and told that they owned a 486 and a 286. They asked if a 486 and a 286 could be assembled together into a 686. I replied to the dumb request by asking them if two 200 horsepower police cars can be used to make up a 400 horsepower Ferrari. The policemen didn't get it and replied angrily that altering car engines is strictly forbidden by law.
A few negative (or somewhat negative) posts don't mean hostility. Note that/. is very diversified. You have a few science geeks, who whenever see a science article, whenever it's not a PhD thesis, will complain. That's OK, don't worry about them. There are a BUNCH of various tech geeks (myself included) who have a personal interest in various science topics, and who find summarizations in laymen language quite interesting. If a specific topic awakens deeper interest, there are numerous sources to go to.
If you describe your relationship with your dog as parental than perphaps its time to seek some human company.
No, he's right. A dog's brain is similar in development to a 2yo human. Of course it's not a human and you cannot treat him as such, but you would be surprised at the similarities in behavior.
It's not wisdom, it's knowledge. Indexed and searchable, but still only knowledge. Wisdom is knowing which information is relevant to context at hand, AND what to do with this knowledge.
Am I the only one somewhat annoyed by all the camera phones? If I'm in the public I see people around me, they hold their cell phones in front of them, flips open, pressing buttons. You can never tell if they're dialing a number or taking pictures. It's not that I'm hiding anything, but it feels like someone gave them a bunch of cheap spy toys, and they are all running around snapping "secret" pictures. At least with a conventional camera, you can see their intentions.
Who came with the idea of a lens on the outside? Some disgruntled spy? If these things are supposed to be mimic a video-phone, why not just make the lens on the inside, and now you can send your face to whoever you're calling. The recipient can do the same if he feels for it.
That said, I think I'm the last person on earth who enjoyed the latter two Matrix movies...
No, you're not the last one. It has become a very popular activity here @/. to complain about Matrix 2 and 3. The reason is I think because they didn't follow the good-better-best rule. So when the first Matrix came out, it was revolutionary enough to shock people. People were expecting similar shocks in the follow-ups, but since they weren't, they started complaining instead. Matrix 2 and 3 followed the plot nicely with lots of special effects as a bonus.
If Neo was so powerful he could mess with the "rules" of the Matrix, why not just have Trinity pause in mid-air, or turn her into a butterfly or whatever.
I think he can only express his powers up to a certain proximity of himself. So, f.ex. when he was shot upon, he could "freeze" the bullets midair before they got to him. It wouldn't work over long distance, hence he had to be there to save Trinity.
The suburbs is where all the s#!t happens that everyone *thinks* is limited to the "inner city".
Leading market for gang growth and presence? The burbs.
Leading market of drug users and drug spending? The burbs.
No one says the bad stuff is limited to inner cities, but it's well established there. And your mentioned "growth" is a well misleading word:
Example: There were 1000 killings in the city last year, and 1010 this year. There were 2 killings in the suburbs last year, and 4 this year. Which means the growth is 1% in the city and 100% in the suburbs. Oh my god! Look at the growth! It's so bad in the suburbs, time to move back to the city!
If you don't even have one person in the world who you can trust with your passwords while alive, then there really isn't anyone important enough to need your data when you're dead.
And that was very well said indeed. Makes you think about life's priorities for a while...
My karma will keep improving (even after I am dead!).
I understand your joke, but have a question about/. karma: if you stop posting to/. does it stay the same forever or it get worse? In other words is there an algorithm in the slashcode that requires you to post every once in a while to maintain your karma?
Slashdot Mirror
Must not have had enough coffee when I submitted that...
Either that, or you must be new around here...
I mean, c'mon. I've seen flames going for tens of posts in one thread just because someone casually mentioned the v word... And you mentioned it just like that on the home page. Oh, the horrors...
Funny as it sounds, but it doesn't mean good ideas should not be born. After all, all the things you mentioned were good things just never implemented due to either old habits, resistance to change, or pure laziness:
Looks like the 5th (decimal) digit to me.
Yes, but you changed the context by adding the "decimal" into the sentence. Unless the parent had it implied, but since this was an instruction issued to a computer, it should not have this fuzziness.
...the author is trying to solve problems that don't exist...
I don't agree. The author is listing existing problems which programmers of various languages/tools are encountering.
Besides, he's just proposing a solution, not forcing an implementation. All it does is opening a discussion, and that's a good thing. Languages and any other tools we use to program machines are evolving. If they can evolve by taking into consideration the programming public, it's just for the better. No one is saying he found a silver bullet (which probably doesn't exist in programming), but he certainly mentioned a lot of good ideas, which can be improved upon.
Is this not the Ultimate goal of programming? The Holy Grail of programming perhaps?
Indeed.
Applies to artists as well I suppose. After all they've been trying to express their ideas/thoughts w/o a lot of unnecessary restrictions/limitations.
You're right. I meant smallpox cure, not vaccine. But I meant it as an example of various life sciences breakthroughs that can be helped through grid computing.
Entertainment industry can sustain itself quite easily.
help finding a small pox vaccine than helping the already way-too-rich entertainment industry.
Yes, I was wondering about that. I guess 6:01 AM is way too early for /. editors.
Did the coffee maker break today, Timothy?
...meet siuch a hostility...
/. is very diversified. You have a few science geeks, who whenever see a science article, whenever it's not a PhD thesis, will complain. That's OK, don't worry about them. There are a BUNCH of various tech geeks (myself included) who have a personal interest in various science topics, and who find summarizations in laymen language quite interesting. If a specific topic awakens deeper interest, there are numerous sources to go to.
A few negative (or somewhat negative) posts don't mean hostility. Note that
If you describe your relationship with your dog as parental than perphaps its time to seek some human company.
No, he's right. A dog's brain is similar in development to a 2yo human. Of course it's not a human and you cannot treat him as such, but you would be surprised at the similarities in behavior.
carmel?
ispell returned these suggestions:
Which will it be?
Thank you google for your infinite wisdom
It's not wisdom, it's knowledge. Indexed and searchable, but still only knowledge. Wisdom is knowing which information is relevant to context at hand, AND what to do with this knowledge.
Am I the only one somewhat annoyed by all the camera phones? If I'm in the public I see people around me, they hold their cell phones in front of them, flips open, pressing buttons. You can never tell if they're dialing a number or taking pictures. It's not that I'm hiding anything, but it feels like someone gave them a bunch of cheap spy toys, and they are all running around snapping "secret" pictures. At least with a conventional camera, you can see their intentions.
Who came with the idea of a lens on the outside? Some disgruntled spy? If these things are supposed to be mimic a video-phone, why not just make the lens on the inside, and now you can send your face to whoever you're calling. The recipient can do the same if he feels for it.
...what was actually found there...
green cheese?
That said, I think I'm the last person on earth who enjoyed the latter two Matrix movies...
/. to complain about Matrix 2 and 3. The reason is I think because they didn't follow the good-better-best rule. So when the first Matrix came out, it was revolutionary enough to shock people. People were expecting similar shocks in the follow-ups, but since they weren't, they started complaining instead. Matrix 2 and 3 followed the plot nicely with lots of special effects as a bonus.
No, you're not the last one. It has become a very popular activity here @
If Neo was so powerful he could mess with the "rules" of the Matrix, why not just have Trinity pause in mid-air, or turn her into a butterfly or whatever.
I think he can only express his powers up to a certain proximity of himself. So, f.ex. when he was shot upon, he could "freeze" the bullets midair before they got to him. It wouldn't work over long distance, hence he had to be there to save Trinity.
so will they dry themselves when wet?
The suburbs is where all the s#!t happens that everyone *thinks* is limited to the "inner city".
Leading market for gang growth and presence? The burbs.
Leading market of drug users and drug spending? The burbs.
No one says the bad stuff is limited to inner cities, but it's well established there. And your mentioned "growth" is a well misleading word:
Example: There were 1000 killings in the city last year, and 1010 this year. There were 2 killings in the suburbs last year, and 4 this year. Which means the growth is 1% in the city and 100% in the suburbs. Oh my god! Look at the growth! It's so bad in the suburbs, time to move back to the city!
slashdot2001/slashdot2001 should still work...
must be a very popular login, if NYT ever checks the logs.
If you don't even have one person in the world who you can trust with your passwords while alive, then there really isn't anyone important enough to need your data when you're dead.
And that was very well said indeed. Makes you think about life's priorities for a while...
My karma will keep improving (even after I am dead!).
/. karma: if you stop posting to /. does it stay the same forever or it get worse? In other words is there an algorithm in the slashcode that requires you to post every once in a while to maintain your karma?
I understand your joke, but have a question about
How ironic. The first line of the last post on the main page announces "Life goes on."
I don't think it's ironic. I think it's right on.
And yes I've seen goatse... that was pretty bad, but not as bad. That one with the fat woman was pretty bad too...
I don't get something here. Is the idea of your grandfather thinking about sex, having sex, or watching pr0n really worse than goatse???
You know you'll be the same at his age, don't you?