Good point. Just have marketing come up with a new buzz word and tell everyone why its "new". Look to anyone of Microsoft's upgrade programs marketing for ideas on how to resell the same product.
I'm not sure who Andy Oram is other than a blogger for Oreily, but his blaming of the dot com ecoms and the internet 2 are incredibly lame. He might as well have blamed Atilla the Hun, for all the relevance.
Its always a problem with the registry. All-freaking-ways. If a program x isn't behaving its 99% of the time because of the registry. I worked too long doing tech support to know that the registry is anything but horrid. I'd list its many faults here, but it would make me relive a time in my life I'd rather forget. In brief I'd just say that having small config files in each apps directory is a lot easier to maintain than one giant one, that tries to solve all problems but does none well. I'm not a violent man by nature, but If I were ever to meet anyone connected with the creating a registry for windows, well, I'd like to introduce his or her face to a cream pie of their least favorite variety.
Be careful what you deem to be only a mathematical model. Murray Gel Man insisted his theoretical quarks didn't really exist. But lo, and behold they do. You certainly can't say that space-time doesn't exit and isn't curved, without some proof to the contrary or a separate theory that replicates all of the results of the current one, without introducing concepts that are even more bizarre. In general, as many other non-crack addicted posters have posted, there is a conflict between Einsteins general relativity and theories in particle physics. This should help sort out some things in particle physics, but it won't really be the missing link between the two realms
Not really. There have been many slashdot stories that have linked to the New York Times. No one has ever misidentified it. As far as I can recall, this is the first one referencing Clevland Clinic and it was misidentified. Its not as famous to the general public as NYT. I would say something like the Mayo Clinic is more akin to the Times. Maybe Cleveland is more like the Chicago Sun Times of Health care.
Exactly. A large number of people making bad decisions often affect more than just themselves. Just take a look at the sub prime scandal, those bad loans may just pull the entire nation into a recession. You may get laid off because some idiots signed mortgages they were never able to afford. Should the government have taken action, restricting their freedoms to prevent them from screwing you over? Its a tough question.
In order to have a real sense of the "nature" of engineering, you have to look at more than the failures. You have to look at the successes that occurred in the midst of these same pressures. I'd start by looking into the Manhattan project, of which Feynman played a part in. The exercise of finding other examples is left for the reader.
Agreed. I would add that Visual studio was almost required to use most Windows development languages( MFC++, win32 api, classic Visual Basic), because the languages used a lot of boiler plate code, just to get to hello world. And due to the difficulties of remembering all of that stuff, it made the IDE seem magical. Now with C#,VB.Net,PHP,Ruby,Python,and Java its easier to program without massive editors.
I guess what I'm saying is what everyone already said in this thread: I'm fine with using a tool as long as I understand what it does, and I can do the same thing without it.
You know autocomplete and the like work in Eclipse as well, right? There are also vim scripts that do the same thing. In fact, there are many editors that have the functionality now. I'm sure there are other features that make visual studio nice. I used it up until version 6, and really liked it. But yes, as you said, you should know what you are doing regardless of technologies involved.
Its as informative as the broadcast I watched. I'm not a satellite image specialist by any stretch of the imagination, but I typically do hear of resolutions mentioned in terms of distance. Take a look at what wiki says on the matter. Notice the resolution mentioned in terms of linear distance.
According to the PBS special on the MOL project, the very first spy satellites had a resolution of 3 inches. That was in the 70's. I don't think they've gotten any worse over time.
I'm not sure which dialect of English you are speaking, but that seems like a reply to the original story. I have personal experiences, you have personal experiences. We could go back and forth, not really replying to what the other is saying because that isn't really possible.
And this one time, I dreamed I ate a big marshmallow and when I woke up, my pillow was gone.
I'm with you except for the hardware support dis. I bought a super cheap pc online for my college brother that needed a simple pc. I could not after hours of trying get windows to work perfectly with it. The driver installation crashed, windows didn't recognize any of the drivers on the mobo cd as belonging to the sound chip. Ubuntu worked with out a hassle. So thats what he has now. And he likes it.
Ok, but then we need a different word to describe this "programmatic complexity" that "seems" "intelligent". I guess if we are going to call original computer thought ( something that was not pre programmed) artificial intelligence then we can't really use intelligence to describe the preprogrammed rule based complexity computers have today.
On a side note, I would LOVE it if computers always did what I tell them to in my programs. If you do it long enough, you'll find problems in lower levels of software/hardware that randomly thwart desires.
It does somethings smarter than it used to, because of the increased computerization. The car actually changes the ignition time based upon feed back from the sensors. It monitors oxygen intake and uses that to figure out how much fuel to inject. That on some level is intelligence, which is different than consciousness. There are also prototype cars that can drive themselves. I was referring to intelligence in that sense, which is quite different than human intelligence. I thought that was clear, but this being slashdot I guess there's always someone willing to argue with your terminology.
The farther out you make a projection, the less likely it is to be true. With this one in particular, I just don't see it being a focus of research. Yes we will have increase levels of intelligence in cars toasters and ball point pens, but the intelligence will be in a supporting role to make the devices more useful to us. There isn't a need for a human like intelligence inside a computer. We have enough ones inside human bodies.
Also, I will not be ingesting nano bots to interact with my neurons, I'll be injecting them into my enemies to disrupt their thinking. Or possibly just threatening to do so to extract large sums of money from various governmental organisations.
Very true. However, their is a fair amount of Bullshit evenly mixed through out the hot air. It would not be financially feasible to separate the two. Apparently there are things even lawyers won't do.
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He wasn't that into the whole FOSS scene. His replacement seems to be much better attuned to the finer points of freedom.
The problem I have with Rush is he doesn't give opinions. He just calls them opinions when people point out how wrong he is. He's an absolutist. He'll expose the benefits of "conservatism" over "liberalism" without acknowledging that there might be any middle ground between them. He always talks from the perspective of the individual, without any regard to the effect an individual has upon the larger community, or the effect the community has on the individual.
Brilliant! Every time there is a bombing, we'll condemn the entire country and force everyone to move to a different one! When we run out of land, we'll live at the bottom of the sea, grow gills, live in pineapples and wear square pants.
I'm guessing it was probably one of those ultra portable laptops. The price premium, like the Mac Air, is for the small size, rather than the computational capability.
Hey, I was just protesting your logic, not agreeing with the protesters. In fact that was my point. People protest for all sorts of reasons, and thats their first amendment right. If you disagree with one group of protesters reason for protesting, that doesn't mean that all protesters are equally wrong.
I don't personally have any problem with Scientologists in general, but I *do* have a problem with people who spew logical fallacies at the drop of a hat.
What is this? Where am I? how did I get here? did I never notice that link before? How long has this been here? Where's my oatmeal? Why can't I get a good piece of seafood in santo domingo? Where it the world is carmen sandiago? Is she an illegal alien? Will some one think of the children? Why didn't they give me blue cheese with these hot wings? Who's that tall man in the dark suite? What happened to my mothers body?
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Good point. Just have marketing come up with a new buzz word and tell everyone why its "new". Look to anyone of Microsoft's upgrade programs marketing for ideas on how to resell the same product.
I'm not sure who Andy Oram is other than a blogger for Oreily, but his blaming of the dot com ecoms and the internet 2 are incredibly lame. He might as well have blamed Atilla the Hun, for all the relevance.
Its always a problem with the registry. All-freaking-ways. If a program x isn't behaving its 99% of the time because of the registry. I worked too long doing tech support to know that the registry is anything but horrid. I'd list its many faults here, but it would make me relive a time in my life I'd rather forget. In brief I'd just say that having small config files in each apps directory is a lot easier to maintain than one giant one, that tries to solve all problems but does none well. I'm not a violent man by nature, but If I were ever to meet anyone connected with the creating a registry for windows, well, I'd like to introduce his or her face to a cream pie of their least favorite variety.
Be careful what you deem to be only a mathematical model. Murray Gel Man insisted his theoretical quarks didn't really exist. But lo, and behold they do. You certainly can't say that space-time doesn't exit and isn't curved, without some proof to the contrary or a separate theory that replicates all of the results of the current one, without introducing concepts that are even more bizarre. In general, as many other non-crack addicted posters have posted, there is a conflict between Einsteins general relativity and theories in particle physics. This should help sort out some things in particle physics, but it won't really be the missing link between the two realms
Not really. There have been many slashdot stories that have linked to the New York Times. No one has ever misidentified it. As far as I can recall, this is the first one referencing Clevland Clinic and it was misidentified. Its not as famous to the general public as NYT. I would say something like the Mayo Clinic is more akin to the Times. Maybe Cleveland is more like the Chicago Sun Times of Health care.
Exactly. A large number of people making bad decisions often affect more than just themselves. Just take a look at the sub prime scandal, those bad loans may just pull the entire nation into a recession. You may get laid off because some idiots signed mortgages they were never able to afford. Should the government have taken action, restricting their freedoms to prevent them from screwing you over? Its a tough question.
In order to have a real sense of the "nature" of engineering, you have to look at more than the failures. You have to look at the successes that occurred in the midst of these same pressures. I'd start by looking into the Manhattan project, of which Feynman played a part in. The exercise of finding other examples is left for the reader.
Agreed. I would add that Visual studio was almost required to use most Windows development languages( MFC++, win32 api, classic Visual Basic), because the languages used a lot of boiler plate code, just to get to hello world. And due to the difficulties of remembering all of that stuff, it made the IDE seem magical. Now with C# ,VB.Net,PHP,Ruby,Python,and Java its easier to program without massive editors.
I guess what I'm saying is what everyone already said in this thread: I'm fine with using a tool as long as I understand what it does, and I can do the same thing without it.
You know autocomplete and the like work in Eclipse as well, right? There are also vim scripts that do the same thing. In fact, there are many editors that have the functionality now. I'm sure there are other features that make visual studio nice. I used it up until version 6, and really liked it. But yes, as you said, you should know what you are doing regardless of technologies involved.
Its as informative as the broadcast I watched. I'm not a satellite image specialist by any stretch of the imagination, but I typically do hear of resolutions mentioned in terms of distance. Take a look at what wiki says on the matter. Notice the resolution mentioned in terms of linear distance.
According to the PBS special on the MOL project, the very first spy satellites had a resolution of 3 inches. That was in the 70's. I don't think they've gotten any worse over time.
I'm not sure which dialect of English you are speaking, but that seems like a reply to the original story. I have personal experiences, you have personal experiences. We could go back and forth, not really replying to what the other is saying because that isn't really possible.
And this one time, I dreamed I ate a big marshmallow and when I woke up, my pillow was gone.
I'm with you except for the hardware support dis. I bought a super cheap pc online for my college brother that needed a simple pc. I could not after hours of trying get windows to work perfectly with it. The driver installation crashed, windows didn't recognize any of the drivers on the mobo cd as belonging to the sound chip. Ubuntu worked with out a hassle. So thats what he has now. And he likes it.
Ok, but then we need a different word to describe this "programmatic complexity" that "seems" "intelligent". I guess if we are going to call original computer thought ( something that was not pre programmed) artificial intelligence then we can't really use intelligence to describe the preprogrammed rule based complexity computers have today.
On a side note, I would LOVE it if computers always did what I tell them to in my programs. If you do it long enough, you'll find problems in lower levels of software/hardware that randomly thwart desires.
It does somethings smarter than it used to, because of the increased computerization. The car actually changes the ignition time based upon feed back from the sensors. It monitors oxygen intake and uses that to figure out how much fuel to inject. That on some level is intelligence, which is different than consciousness. There are also prototype cars that can drive themselves. I was referring to intelligence in that sense, which is quite different than human intelligence. I thought that was clear, but this being slashdot I guess there's always someone willing to argue with your terminology.
The farther out you make a projection, the less likely it is to be true. With this one in particular, I just don't see it being a focus of research. Yes we will have increase levels of intelligence in cars toasters and ball point pens, but the intelligence will be in a supporting role to make the devices more useful to us. There isn't a need for a human like intelligence inside a computer. We have enough ones inside human bodies.
Also, I will not be ingesting nano bots to interact with my neurons, I'll be injecting them into my enemies to disrupt their thinking. Or possibly just threatening to do so to extract large sums of money from various governmental organisations.
Very true. However, their is a fair amount of Bullshit evenly mixed through out the hot air. It would not be financially feasible to separate the two. Apparently there are things even lawyers won't do.
He wasn't that into the whole FOSS scene. His replacement seems to be much better attuned to the finer points of freedom.
The problem I have with Rush is he doesn't give opinions. He just calls them opinions when people point out how wrong he is. He's an absolutist. He'll expose the benefits of "conservatism" over "liberalism" without acknowledging that there might be any middle ground between them. He always talks from the perspective of the individual, without any regard to the effect an individual has upon the larger community, or the effect the community has on the individual.
Brilliant! Every time there is a bombing, we'll condemn the entire country and force everyone to move to a different one! When we run out of land, we'll live at the bottom of the sea, grow gills, live in pineapples and wear square pants.
Because the marketing department's bonus depends upon the perception. They need proof that their huge budget accomplishes something.
"All these people talking about the Starbucks elitest mentality need to lose it."
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If anyone is qualified to speak of elitist mentalities, it would be someone with a user name congaing the word "Pimp" and/or "daddy" in it.
I'm guessing it was probably one of those ultra portable laptops. The price premium, like the Mac Air, is for the small size, rather than the computational capability.
Hey, I was just protesting your logic, not agreeing with the protesters. In fact that was my point. People protest for all sorts of reasons, and thats their first amendment right. If you disagree with one group of protesters reason for protesting, that doesn't mean that all protesters are equally wrong.
I don't personally have any problem with Scientologists in general, but I *do* have a problem with people who spew logical fallacies at the drop of a hat.
What is this? Where am I? how did I get here? did I never notice that link before? How long has this been here? Where's my oatmeal? Why can't I get a good piece of seafood in santo domingo? Where it the world is carmen sandiago? Is she an illegal alien? Will some one think of the children? Why didn't they give me blue cheese with these hot wings? Who's that tall man in the dark suite? What happened to my mothers body?