Well, I've always believed that upon death you would relive your life moving backwards through time, so yes they are similar to flux capacitors.
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But you can't make fun of people for using language that is correct, just because they don't understand that exactly why its correct. Thats just spitefully elitist. I personally don't like to be made fun of when I try to tell my mechanic what I think is wrong with my car, when I confuse classical music styles, or confuse monet with manet. So I try to extend the same courtasy to everyone else who doesn't have the same computer expertise I do.
Plus, sometimes talking with some one who is completely ignorant about the subject, they through their ignorance spout out something that sounds crazy upon first thought, but is actually a brilliant non conventional way of doing it.
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What exactly are you smoking? So I've got an embedded pc thing, all it has for storage or memory is flash. Its the same freaking chip! its used for memory, and storage. you might be too young, but the book I had for intro to computers in 7th grade had a diagram of the computer parts. "Storage" wasn't listed. There was only primary memory (RAM), and secondary memory ( which could be a tape drive, or floppy).
Yes, people get confused at talk about ram as if it was a hard drive, and visa versa, but its really the OS that makes the designation of what will be used in each role (think about virtual memory for a sec).
Chicago is very corrupt, but also very cheap. Just slip a fiver to a daily campaign guy and install the anti aircraft gun already. My blind great uncle got a drivers license for a couple Italian sausages.
No one in the state calls it UIUC, except for University of Illinois at Chicago students and alumni who get upset when you call it U of I. Every one else just calls it Illinois. It confuses everyone else when its referred to as UIUC.
I think the grand irony of the Carson Tucker episode is that Stewart is very similar to Tucker in the reaction that he gets from his audience. He reinforces their notions of good and bad, rather than challenging them like Colbert does.
But they're required to work anyways. Its like requiring students that are studying psychology to talk to people with real psychological problems for free. As I said earlier, I myself wouldn't assign such work due the difficulty in creating different assignments and grading them on a fair scale, but I don't buy the ideology problem. You really can't live your life these days with out using free software in some way, whether its the network stack in windows, or a lamp using social network site. They might as well give something back.
The daily show makes me *less* interested in politics. Jon Stewart doesn't strike me as funny, and he just reinforces polarizing stereotypes with his jokes. Colbert actually uses his humor to make very specific, nuanced points without reducing it to a tired preconceived notion.
Unfortunately with the rise in popularity of Macs, more naive users are adopting the platform. Three friends who used to get a virus weekly, by trying to look at "photos" people had emailed them are now on Macs. They won't give it a second thought, they could probably be conned into putting in their credit card number, social security number and sign over their firstborn, if the sketchy web site told them to.
Granted an OS can only do so much to protect such users, but people don't blame themselves when they do stupid things on computers they blame the computers.
A chainsaw, wielded by the wrong person, can destroy a house. Wielded by the right person, it can create a sculpture made of ice.
Or... cut down a tree... maybe? Why don't we just stick to car metaphors, they sound cooler even when used incorrectly. Its like using a small block Chevy to tow a Church!
Dear lord, I've been called over analytical on Slashdot. Maybe everyone else in the world is right?!?
Like, I repeatedly said it *can* be funny in a number of ways. I think most people who read it laughed at the gut instinct level. No that there is anything wrong with that, it just creates another layer of humor for those who get the irony.
I think it was funny that people thought it was funny. Its like an optical illusion, but with humor. You laugh because your brain does a quick scan of it with out doing much processing, but then the thread in your brain in charge of deeper thought realizes that it doesn't actually make sense as a regular joke. Then you laugh because it everyone else laughed at it, cause their deep thought thread is just as delayed as yours, perhaps even more.
Two paragraphs are really just scratching the surface as you see. I take my humor very seriously. A study of humor is a study of what people believe and how they think. I think that is deserving of a great deal of time for anyone who is curious about such things.
Which layer of that is the funny one? Icaza likes OOXML, so it wouldn't make sense that he would "promote" it, in the same sense that the ODF group is "promoting" the ODF standard by dropping it. Is it funny because we secretly suspect his love for open sourcing MS is an triple cross maneuver to bring them down from the outside while appearing to be on the inside? Explanation required.
I think the mods just didn't get the joke, and should be prevented form moderating anything funny. Thats an idea for Taco, if he's lurking around here. Make the categories of moderation, dependent upon how their mods have held up in meta moderation. Some folks might have a skill at modding insightful posts, but have the humor of a wet sponge.
The lesson I take away from your story is to never ever sell someone a computer that wont do what they want it to do, even if they tell you they don't want to do it. Plus, Macs with out OSX are worth less than nothing, charging anything for them should be a felony.
Actually.... I have. I left that out cause I thought it dated me too much and it would scare the children. I haven't done any modern work in the field, but I would assume that most would have that at this point. I have gpf nightmares every now and then.
Yeah thats the difficult part when it comes to complex machines: figuring out the durability of the solution. Its difficult enough to get something like this to work once, its quite another to do it repeatedly. In many ways you learn more form failures like this than you do your successes. You learn where the weakest link is, figure out a way to strengthen it or predict its failure and replace it before it fails. Its a shame each one is so expensive, not like 3d coding where you just have a badly rendered object or at worst a crash.
Yeah, I do stop to smell the technological roses frequently. I still get stuff done. Sometimes understanding the way things were helps figure out how things should be. There are a lot of technological dead ends in particular that are really fascinating. Most people don't make the platoesqe separation between the idea behind a device or software and the actual thing itself marred by various flaws.
I think 1.44 is special to me, because that used to be a back up routing I did as an intern. At the end of the day, I would run a dos script that copied the files over to a 1.44 floppy. It was also back up on tape, but working without source control, it was easiest to keep my own back ups than to disturb the guy in charge of the tape machine to see if he could try and find a file I had a month ago that I wanted to look at. I was young and stupid I re wrote grep because I didn't know it existed. I guess if you've every programed at every level from asembly to c,to lisp, to perl, to java, to erlang you really have a sense of understanding of progress and wonderment, which turns out is perpendicular to happiness.
Plus did you ever run the OS/2 warp demo on a single 3 1/2, it was incredible. I had no idea my crappy 386 was capable of such things. But it turned out the boxed version of the software wasn't free so I didn't buy it.
Are you kidding me? putting 1.44 Mb on a 3 & 1/2 inch disk still blows my mind. If there is a nuclear holocaust, and I'm the smartest person left alive, I'd consider myself a genius if I could get to that stage. Or I suppose, as the smartest person alive, I could just invent a clay tablet and They'd worship me as a god. yeah, that seems easier. But still, man 1.44 mb! un-freaking-believable.
Thusly proving that he is in fact in the perfect place. People complaining on people not reading the summary are a little more rare, but equally at home. The yin and the yang, badda and the bing. When will you realise that he is you, and you are him? Two sides of the same coin, flipped for eternity by the cosmic hipster trying to make some scratch and catch some glances.
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Well, I've always believed that upon death you would relive your life moving backwards through time, so yes they are similar to flux capacitors.
But you can't make fun of people for using language that is correct, just because they don't understand that exactly why its correct. Thats just spitefully elitist. I personally don't like to be made fun of when I try to tell my mechanic what I think is wrong with my car, when I confuse classical music styles, or confuse monet with manet. So I try to extend the same courtasy to everyone else who doesn't have the same computer expertise I do.
Plus, sometimes talking with some one who is completely ignorant about the subject, they through their ignorance spout out something that sounds crazy upon first thought, but is actually a brilliant non conventional way of doing it.
What exactly are you smoking? So I've got an embedded pc thing, all it has for storage or memory is flash. Its the same freaking chip! its used for memory, and storage. you might be too young, but the book I had for intro to computers in 7th grade had a diagram of the computer parts. "Storage" wasn't listed. There was only primary memory (RAM), and secondary memory ( which could be a tape drive, or floppy).
Yes, people get confused at talk about ram as if it was a hard drive, and visa versa, but its really the OS that makes the designation of what will be used in each role (think about virtual memory for a sec).
Chicago is very corrupt, but also very cheap. Just slip a fiver to a daily campaign guy and install the anti aircraft gun already. My blind great uncle got a drivers license for a couple Italian sausages.
No one in the state calls it UIUC, except for University of Illinois at Chicago students and alumni who get upset when you call it U of I. Every one else just calls it Illinois. It confuses everyone else when its referred to as UIUC.
Hu is on first, but its clear his esteemed Vietnamese college Wat is on second.
Plus, I would venture to guess the myspace membership is inflated with all of the spam accounts.
I think the grand irony of the Carson Tucker episode is that Stewart is very similar to Tucker in the reaction that he gets from his audience. He reinforces their notions of good and bad, rather than challenging them like Colbert does.
But they're required to work anyways. Its like requiring students that are studying psychology to talk to people with real psychological problems for free. As I said earlier, I myself wouldn't assign such work due the difficulty in creating different assignments and grading them on a fair scale, but I don't buy the ideology problem. You really can't live your life these days with out using free software in some way, whether its the network stack in windows, or a lamp using social network site. They might as well give something back.
I don't exactly understand how being required to contribute to open source would be exploitative, but yes it would be difficult to grade.
The daily show makes me *less* interested in politics. Jon Stewart doesn't strike me as funny, and he just reinforces polarizing stereotypes with his jokes. Colbert actually uses his humor to make very specific, nuanced points without reducing it to a tired preconceived notion.
Unfortunately with the rise in popularity of Macs, more naive users are adopting the platform. Three friends who used to get a virus weekly, by trying to look at "photos" people had emailed them are now on Macs. They won't give it a second thought, they could probably be conned into putting in their credit card number, social security number and sign over their firstborn, if the sketchy web site told them to.
Granted an OS can only do so much to protect such users, but people don't blame themselves when they do stupid things on computers they blame the computers.
A chainsaw, wielded by the wrong person, can destroy a house. Wielded by the right person, it can create a sculpture made of ice.
... maybe? Why don't we just stick to car metaphors, they sound cooler even when used incorrectly. Its like using a small block Chevy to tow a Church!
Or... cut down a tree
Dear lord, I've been called over analytical on Slashdot. Maybe everyone else in the world is right?!?
Like, I repeatedly said it *can* be funny in a number of ways. I think most people who read it laughed at the gut instinct level. No that there is anything wrong with that, it just creates another layer of humor for those who get the irony.
I don't know, let just pray that when we find him the death blossom works.
I think it was funny that people thought it was funny. Its like an optical illusion, but with humor. You laugh because your brain does a quick scan of it with out doing much processing, but then the thread in your brain in charge of deeper thought realizes that it doesn't actually make sense as a regular joke. Then you laugh because it everyone else laughed at it, cause their deep thought thread is just as delayed as yours, perhaps even more.
Two paragraphs are really just scratching the surface as you see. I take my humor very seriously. A study of humor is a study of what people believe and how they think. I think that is deserving of a great deal of time for anyone who is curious about such things.
Which layer of that is the funny one? Icaza likes OOXML, so it wouldn't make sense that he would "promote" it, in the same sense that the ODF group is "promoting" the ODF standard by dropping it. Is it funny because we secretly suspect his love for open sourcing MS is an triple cross maneuver to bring them down from the outside while appearing to be on the inside? Explanation required.
I think the mods just didn't get the joke, and should be prevented form moderating anything funny. Thats an idea for Taco, if he's lurking around here. Make the categories of moderation, dependent upon how their mods have held up in meta moderation. Some folks might have a skill at modding insightful posts, but have the humor of a wet sponge.
Yes, I read that. Macs, IMHO, were crap back then. They weren't worth $200 new. I say this as an owner of 2 macs now.
The lesson I take away from your story is to never ever sell someone a computer that wont do what they want it to do, even if they tell you they don't want to do it. Plus, Macs with out OSX are worth less than nothing, charging anything for them should be a felony.
And *Thats* why it was a nightmare! Also, i think I saw a two.
Actually.... I have. I left that out cause I thought it dated me too much and it would scare the children. I haven't done any modern work in the field, but I would assume that most would have that at this point. I have gpf nightmares every now and then.
Yeah thats the difficult part when it comes to complex machines: figuring out the durability of the solution. Its difficult enough to get something like this to work once, its quite another to do it repeatedly. In many ways you learn more form failures like this than you do your successes. You learn where the weakest link is, figure out a way to strengthen it or predict its failure and replace it before it fails. Its a shame each one is so expensive, not like 3d coding where you just have a badly rendered object or at worst a crash.
Yeah, I do stop to smell the technological roses frequently. I still get stuff done. Sometimes understanding the way things were helps figure out how things should be. There are a lot of technological dead ends in particular that are really fascinating. Most people don't make the platoesqe separation between the idea behind a device or software and the actual thing itself marred by various flaws.
I think 1.44 is special to me, because that used to be a back up routing I did as an intern. At the end of the day, I would run a dos script that copied the files over to a 1.44 floppy. It was also back up on tape, but working without source control, it was easiest to keep my own back ups than to disturb the guy in charge of the tape machine to see if he could try and find a file I had a month ago that I wanted to look at. I was young and stupid I re wrote grep because I didn't know it existed. I guess if you've every programed at every level from asembly to c,to lisp, to perl, to java, to erlang you really have a sense of understanding of progress and wonderment, which turns out is perpendicular to happiness.
Plus did you ever run the OS/2 warp demo on a single 3 1/2, it was incredible. I had no idea my crappy 386 was capable of such things. But it turned out the boxed version of the software wasn't free so I didn't buy it.
Are you kidding me? putting 1.44 Mb on a 3 & 1/2 inch disk still blows my mind. If there is a nuclear holocaust, and I'm the smartest person left alive, I'd consider myself a genius if I could get to that stage. Or I suppose, as the smartest person alive, I could just invent a clay tablet and They'd worship me as a god. yeah, that seems easier. But still, man 1.44 mb! un-freaking-believable.
Thusly proving that he is in fact in the perfect place. People complaining on people not reading the summary are a little more rare, but equally at home. The yin and the yang, badda and the bing. When will you realise that he is you, and you are him? Two sides of the same coin, flipped for eternity by the cosmic hipster trying to make some scratch and catch some glances.