not the right analogy. It's as if you threw 1000000 BB's at a cement truck and everyonce in a while, all 1000000 BB's will strike the truck at the right angle to bounce off and make an image. They send large numbers of cement trucks through the BB beam to get even one image, so it's not some math trick as much as "who cares what happens to the virus after you've already bounced all the BB's off of it [at once]".
My hyperdesktop isn't square, you insensitive clod.
(really, there is no such thing as maximize (without megazoomer, anyway) on OSX. You know that, right?)
1) styrofoam human head, put lil cameras in the foam where the eyes are, and place a set of the polarized glasses on it.
2)Recreate the 3d for the viewer (a very small and short project) who needs two LED video projectors (700 dollars, less then an LCD tv and bigger) with keystoning support ( or preferably baked into software that offers two-stream mpeg decoding, one stream to each of two monitors hooked up to an HTPC)
and 3) another pair of glasses at home to send the light of each projector through again, with a final pair for the person or two watching from the 'sweet spot'.
why do you think Apple is different the Android in having one good set of hardware and API (more or less)? I couldn't possibly be because they control the platform and stopped businesses from mutilating the platform for their own short reasons, could it?
nuff said. oh, well a bit more, read this about sampling whole cities at-once for drugs, and what the parent just said doesn't sound paranoid at all. I do not want to submit to a complete chemical search of my exhalations as part of a routine commerical interaction. Isn't this what HIPPA and it's privacy laws are meant to *prevent*??
... they want to sell what they have on their shelves and it's way too early to make all the buyers go out and rebuy a planned-obsolescence upgrade. If they wait, they won't anger all their christmas customers with finicky "i'll wait for it" choices.. you know.. for the good of the product.
I'm going to go out and say the problem this guy has with ascii is probably with editors and GUIs, as you mention in passing, then with ASCII.
Editors can and SHOULD go much, much farther in mating code (functions written as they are now) with structure, that is, functions grouped and abstracted (and available to be edited) in groups that do not need a top to bottom representation. We ARE NOT talking diagrams here - that implies a tree or flow of direction. The flow is defined via function calls in ascii, like normal, and no connecting lines are needed. What is needed is the idea of groups (or aspects, or categories) that can reveal structure on a less restricted plane (pun intended) then a top to bottom file structure. Files are an unnecessary and evil hold over from people building what the they could not what they wanted to. Think about it; the flow of a program in general depends NOT AT ALL on the linear presentation of code that's rampant (let's ignore python's use of files-as-module, that can be tweaked).
The reason I bring this up is that the argument here is that the manipulation of symbols using ASCII is tedious, slow, constrictive. I submit the time spent and problems encountered ARE how symbols are presented and analyzed (esp.for people learning a code base for the first time) -- but on the function or class level, not the individual character.
I strongly believe (and will build eventually if I'm not beaten to it) are editor environments that succesfully understand code to deliver us from the ultimate tyranny of the file itself.
Lets think this through, using some out there guessing as to what this is/can do:
Microphones on the inside of the case don't require an external sound port, and can actually be conducted onto the plastic case itself.
Good: The magnitude of a direct finger tap opposed to an external click or thump filters out error from the environment.
Good: Multi touch may not be perfectly possible with two mics but it is using three mics; gives you triangulation, makes simultaneous events seperable. Anyone want to make the case two mics is practical for that?
Bad: Can't detect dragging.
Good: cell phones are an exception to this, but music players and other digital devices can now be waterproof easily, if induction charging and wifi are used so that a simple gasket can be used to seal it
What did I miss?
I love significant whitespace because it stops people with your mindset from making up their own spacing regime for every program they write. see my signature.
something that expensive, hanging from my wrist and exposed to all sorts of bang ups? no thanks, i'll be wearing it, like all watches, on my belt loop. Why people don't do this i'll never know (bad eyesight, being the one exception)
nope, your referring to prediction - not prescience - something that neural networks, such as the ones in your head - are very good at.
if you'd like to explore a real philosophical issue, consider whether or not you, as a neural network world-predictor, could ever experience anything truly random? Pretty much, no, your mind cannot refuse to map patterns, even if your senses pick up something that has no pattern at all, since your brain is just so wired to the gills to put a pattern on EVERYTHING.
which is totally a fine analogy until i extend that to "congressmen with sound-nerve weapons" to establish "people free zones." The point is, it's not correct to say that the reach is the same. The good news is, somebody has to make and maintain -- and use! -- those types of weapons to make kids ineffective, and if they refuse then that's that. The bad news is "we're" the ones with the somebodies to make and maintain the power a country exerts, and, ah, we get crazy ass juveniles into the army that have no problem pressing buttons to kill people (thanks video games)
Depending, i would not want to meet the congressmen.
apparently, your concepts of how to use flash are quite limited.
as a matter of fact, the *applications* i write are often full (browser) screen flash apps with nothing else on the page.
it's okay, i understand you've been bombarded by so many flash ads and you simply must conceive of the platform as nothing more then banners and video games and video playback. but you're wrong and get yourself past the mundane: http://openlaszlo.org/
your welcome.
You are being completely cynical. The ideal book reader in my mind is an lcd and a stick of ram with two buttons, that costs much, much less then a mid-end calculator! come on, text memory is CHEAP.
There a complete lack of ubiquity about our digital reading revolution. It's all highend do everything gadget that break when they get wet. Maybe the IronMan triathlon wristwatch company would like to give an ebook reader a go; i'd buy that for 39.00, no DRM (reads text) and is usb-FAT mountable. Make it glow and be waterproof to a hundred feet - all cheap - and THAT'S a nerds tool.
Seeing kurzweil in this game just makes me really hope he brings some common sense
that whole scene about apologizing for the kill they made reminded me very much of someone who wrote a (much) better story WITHOUT the anti technology impeteus (quite the opposite) was a story from Fred Saberhagen, about the "reen", who are tribally intelligent aliens that use PSI to cause animals to come to them and submit to their deaths when they need food, and the speech they use to invoke this is much more elegant then anything in Avatar. Hell, they should have given this short story the treatment instead. The story is in "Beserker Base" by Fred Saberhagen.
Who hath drawn the circuits for the lion?
yes in a way.. here's what i'm pondering. ounce for ounce, heat generated, how does the metabolism of a group of neurons stack up against computational elements taking the same space? Could you use the self orgainzing properties of neurons grown on a lab on a chip to connect in just the right way? Neurons are "better" at finding real world thresholds then there purely mathematical counterparts; i might say, more stable to me. Probably because they employ more then one method of signaling and collecting internally; chemical, electrical, inhibiting, unhibiting, etc. many states at once. perhaps if you could mass produce these and count on their self-assembly, you *could* make enough of it to be useful
i'm aware that computational simulation is often faster then taking a biological neuron _now_, but such a "computer" would be a wonderful platform for testing and learning about how neurons really *work* - it's like incredibly complex constraint system in programming (i mean, constraining one value to the value of something else)
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And where there is smoke there are often... Fog machines! Duh, duh, duuuuuuuuh!
not the right analogy. It's as if you threw 1000000 BB's at a cement truck and everyonce in a while, all 1000000 BB's will strike the truck at the right angle to bounce off and make an image. They send large numbers of cement trucks through the BB beam to get even one image, so it's not some math trick as much as "who cares what happens to the virus after you've already bounced all the BB's off of it [at once]".
Really? Cmon man, a cray running ms-pac man is just that. Your specs are useless, in this case apple knows it, android doesn't, and you don't.
My hyperdesktop isn't square, you insensitive clod. (really, there is no such thing as maximize (without megazoomer, anyway) on OSX. You know that, right?)
Well THIS one's easy. just get a
:)
1) styrofoam human head, put lil cameras in the foam where the eyes are, and place a set of the polarized glasses on it.
2)Recreate the 3d for the viewer (a very small and short project) who needs two LED video projectors (700 dollars, less then an LCD tv and bigger) with keystoning support ( or preferably baked into software that offers two-stream mpeg decoding, one stream to each of two monitors hooked up to an HTPC)
and 3) another pair of glasses at home to send the light of each projector through again, with a final pair for the person or two watching from the 'sweet spot'.
easy
In other news, lionesses can pray!
are you kidding me? The Chinese worker, exposed to toxins, packed in like sardines, working 20 hours a day.
/sarcasm
Yeah, they sure got a GREAT deal
(geeez)
okay genius,
"sans Apple's vendor lock in on hardware and OS"
why do you think Apple is different the Android in having one good set of hardware and API (more or less)? I couldn't possibly be because they control the platform and stopped businesses from mutilating the platform for their own short reasons, could it?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715160823.htm
nuff said. oh, well a bit more, read this about sampling whole cities at-once for drugs, and what the parent just said doesn't sound paranoid at all. I do not want to submit to a complete chemical search of my exhalations as part of a routine commerical interaction. Isn't this what HIPPA and it's privacy laws are meant to *prevent*??
... they want to sell what they have on their shelves and it's way too early to make all the buyers go out and rebuy a planned-obsolescence upgrade. If they wait, they won't anger all their christmas customers with finicky "i'll wait for it" choices.. you know.. for the good of the product.
I thought it was Fizzbitch.. and Gun
/real man here!
I'm going to go out and say the problem this guy has with ascii is probably with editors and GUIs, as you mention in passing, then with ASCII.
:)
Editors can and SHOULD go much, much farther in mating code (functions written as they are now) with structure, that is, functions grouped and abstracted (and available to be edited) in groups that do not need a top to bottom representation. We ARE NOT talking diagrams here - that implies a tree or flow of direction. The flow is defined via function calls in ascii, like normal, and no connecting lines are needed. What is needed is the idea of groups (or aspects, or categories) that can reveal structure on a less restricted plane (pun intended) then a top to bottom file structure. Files are an unnecessary and evil hold over from people building what the they could not what they wanted to. Think about it; the flow of a program in general depends NOT AT ALL on the linear presentation of code that's rampant (let's ignore python's use of files-as-module, that can be tweaked).
The reason I bring this up is that the argument here is that the manipulation of symbols using ASCII is tedious, slow, constrictive. I submit the time spent and problems encountered ARE how symbols are presented and analyzed (esp.for people learning a code base for the first time) -- but on the function or class level, not the individual character.
I strongly believe (and will build eventually if I'm not beaten to it) are editor environments that succesfully understand code to deliver us from the ultimate tyranny of the file itself.
And that's my rant
Lets think this through, using some out there guessing as to what this is/can do: Microphones on the inside of the case don't require an external sound port, and can actually be conducted onto the plastic case itself. Good: The magnitude of a direct finger tap opposed to an external click or thump filters out error from the environment. Good: Multi touch may not be perfectly possible with two mics but it is using three mics; gives you triangulation, makes simultaneous events seperable. Anyone want to make the case two mics is practical for that? Bad: Can't detect dragging. Good: cell phones are an exception to this, but music players and other digital devices can now be waterproof easily, if induction charging and wifi are used so that a simple gasket can be used to seal it What did I miss?
Everyone knows shopping carts are old school.
/what a strange patent
now we have the shopping cloud! win all around!
I love significant whitespace because it stops people with your mindset from making up their own spacing regime for every program they write. see my signature.
something that expensive, hanging from my wrist and exposed to all sorts of bang ups? no thanks, i'll be wearing it, like all watches, on my belt loop. Why people don't do this i'll never know (bad eyesight, being the one exception)
nope, your referring to prediction - not prescience - something that neural networks, such as the ones in your head - are very good at.
if you'd like to explore a real philosophical issue, consider whether or not you, as a neural network world-predictor, could ever experience anything truly random? Pretty much, no, your mind cannot refuse to map patterns, even if your senses pick up something that has no pattern at all, since your brain is just so wired to the gills to put a pattern on EVERYTHING.
which is totally a fine analogy until i extend that to "congressmen with sound-nerve weapons" to establish "people free zones." The point is, it's not correct to say that the reach is the same. The good news is, somebody has to make and maintain -- and use! -- those types of weapons to make kids ineffective, and if they refuse then that's that. The bad news is "we're" the ones with the somebodies to make and maintain the power a country exerts, and, ah, we get crazy ass juveniles into the army that have no problem pressing buttons to kill people (thanks video games) Depending, i would not want to meet the congressmen.
apparently, your concepts of how to use flash are quite limited. as a matter of fact, the *applications* i write are often full (browser) screen flash apps with nothing else on the page. it's okay, i understand you've been bombarded by so many flash ads and you simply must conceive of the platform as nothing more then banners and video games and video playback. but you're wrong and get yourself past the mundane: http://openlaszlo.org/ your welcome.
You are being completely cynical. The ideal book reader in my mind is an lcd and a stick of ram with two buttons, that costs much, much less then a mid-end calculator! come on, text memory is CHEAP. There a complete lack of ubiquity about our digital reading revolution. It's all highend do everything gadget that break when they get wet. Maybe the IronMan triathlon wristwatch company would like to give an ebook reader a go; i'd buy that for 39.00, no DRM (reads text) and is usb-FAT mountable. Make it glow and be waterproof to a hundred feet - all cheap - and THAT'S a nerds tool. Seeing kurzweil in this game just makes me really hope he brings some common sense
"To sumarize the summary of the summary - people are a problem" - HTTG
that whole scene about apologizing for the kill they made reminded me very much of someone who wrote a (much) better story WITHOUT the anti technology impeteus (quite the opposite) was a story from Fred Saberhagen, about the "reen", who are tribally intelligent aliens that use PSI to cause animals to come to them and submit to their deaths when they need food, and the speech they use to invoke this is much more elegant then anything in Avatar. Hell, they should have given this short story the treatment instead. The story is in "Beserker Base" by Fred Saberhagen. Who hath drawn the circuits for the lion?
There's always a way out!
yes in a way.. here's what i'm pondering. ounce for ounce, heat generated, how does the metabolism of a group of neurons stack up against computational elements taking the same space? Could you use the self orgainzing properties of neurons grown on a lab on a chip to connect in just the right way? Neurons are "better" at finding real world thresholds then there purely mathematical counterparts; i might say, more stable to me. Probably because they employ more then one method of signaling and collecting internally; chemical, electrical, inhibiting, unhibiting, etc. many states at once. perhaps if you could mass produce these and count on their self-assembly, you *could* make enough of it to be useful
i'm aware that computational simulation is often faster then taking a biological neuron _now_, but such a "computer" would be a wonderful platform for testing and learning about how neurons really *work* - it's like incredibly complex constraint system in programming (i mean, constraining one value to the value of something else)