Fashionable and looking like an idiot aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I think there are many "fashionable" things that make people look like idiots. That having pants down to your thighs and your underwear exposed look for starters. I'm not a violent person normally, but every time I see some punk-ass bitch wearing his pants like that, I want to crack his skull.
That has a similarity in name to one of the US Navy's aircraft carriers. I used to get a fair amount of email for people on that ship. Nothing classified (I would've been really disappointed and shocked, but probably not surprised), but there was one sailor in particular who must've had quite a taste for porn because that address got so much porn spam it was amazing.
Hell, I think the Mexican Fenders may be better than the USA Fenders in some cases. I bought a new Fender Tele Thinline in 2007 and it was right next to a custom Tele from the USA shop and it sounded better, played better, and cost about 800 dollars less. Perhaps it was a statistical outlier, but I love that freaking guitar.
Agreed. That's part of the thing with new technologies. Most people don't understand what the fuss is all about, some sort of see the potential, but don't know where it's going to wind up, a few jump on it because they think it's cool or profitable and have varying degrees of success and a very few do something that ultimately is transforming with it.
I remember seeing my first web browser in 1992. I knew that the web was going to be a big deal, but I didn't realize just how big a deal and what form it would take almost 20 years on. It went from "Oh, that's neat! Those guys from CERN are clever!" to a part of the modern social fabric in less than a decade. I don't think tablets are going to be THAT transformative, but I think there's a lot of potential in them waiting to be discovered.
I'm a grizzled old neck-bearded software and science guy who is so old he actually used punch cards in a production environment (until we switched to 8-inch floppies!) and I think the iPad is a peach of a device.
There are only two reasons I don't have one:
1. I think they're cool as hell, but I don't think they're 500 dollars cool. And for the model I'd really want (with 3G+Wifi), I REALLY don't think they're 630 dollars cool.
2. I was part of the Apple faithful for years, but got screwed over royally on a Pismo laptop that I paid $2,200 for back in 2000 that Apple refused to fix/replace. Apart from a couple 2nd gen iPod Nanos I bought my wife and son 5 years ago, I've been very leery of purchasing from them again. Maybe that's unfair, but hell, it's my money.
You've obviously never been confronted with the vast array of Cheetos now available on the market. I'm still waiting on the final results from my research team before I can make a decision between the Cheetos Fantastix Chili Cheese Flavored and the Crunchy Flamin' Hot Limon Cheese varieties.
Speaking as someone who both is and works with people doing robotic exploration of the solar system, most of us did NOT get into this because it was our dream to keep making better robots to put into space forever and ever. And I can also assure you it isn't for the rock star salaries, either. Without something to inspire the kids of today, it's going to be harder to find people tomorrow to build and pilot rovers, orbiters, and landers. Yes, I just said it. A good chunk of the purpose of manned spaceflight is PR. That shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who's been paying attention, though.
I agree that we shouldn't ignore remote and robotic systems. They are extraordinarily useful. But they are very limited. My boss is a planetary geologist and a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, and when the nominal 90 day mission ended, I asked him how long the work we did with each rover would take a competent human geologist to do. He replied, "a hard afternoon's worth of effort."
We shouldn't send people up just for the sake of sending people up; I agree with that too. There needs to be a plan, but I think even more importantly, there needs to be a vision. In the long run, though, we will need both manned and unmanned missions to really improve our understanding.
I pay Verizon almost 260 bucks every month (5 phones all unlimited texting, 3 with unlimited data plans). If they ever kick me off their network for using my rooted Moto Droid, it would suck, but I would survive and find something else to do with that 3000+ a year, I'm sure. It's my most expensive utility, except for summer electric bills in Arizona.
The common man might think this, but this is slashdot, where I hope the level of computer science and software engineering clue is still a bit higher than the background levels. Such people should already be aware of the close linkages between linguistics and computer programs and systems.
But maybe I'm just engaging in wishful thinking now.
Have a friend or family member post a review for you, saying in their own words what your experience was. The information comes from you, but the copyright actually belongs to the writer.
I used it in my data structures class way back in 1986. A hash table whose entries are head pointers to linked lists hardly qualifies as an advanced data structure. But I think this patent covers more than just that part.
The patent is still bogus, though, like all software patents.
Very true, and that is indeed a two edged sort, is it not?
I don't mean to get into a CLI vs. GUI pissing contest. Both have their uses, advantages and disadvantages, and as I said in another post, I believe they are better together.
As smart as he is mathematically, his ignorance of high-school level geology is rather shocking* if he's going to make pronouncements like this. The Earth is 62% iron and oxygen, not carbon. Carbon's not even in the top ten. Even in the lithosphere, carbon is only 0.03% (yes, three HUNDREDTHS of a percent) of it. I'm not qualified to say if his hypothesis would have issues with the oxygen and iron abundance, however. I recall iron being a sort of low energy state with respect to nuclear reactions, where fusion reactions with elements with atomic weights below iron being generally exothermic and fission being generally endothermic, and the reverse being true of elements heavier than iron. But in thinking the earth is primarily carbon when it's not he's starting out with a false premise.
*- Well, however smart he is, he's still a 12 year old boy so I should cut him a little slack.
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Fashionable and looking like an idiot aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I think there are many "fashionable" things that make people look like idiots. That having pants down to your thighs and your underwear exposed look for starters. I'm not a violent person normally, but every time I see some punk-ass bitch wearing his pants like that, I want to crack his skull.
That has a similarity in name to one of the US Navy's aircraft carriers. I used to get a fair amount of email for people on that ship. Nothing classified (I would've been really disappointed and shocked, but probably not surprised), but there was one sailor in particular who must've had quite a taste for porn because that address got so much porn spam it was amazing.
So, if Apple files patents suits, they're an annoying sister, but if Google (or its proxies) file patent suits, they're arm-breaking thugs?
Hell, I think the Mexican Fenders may be better than the USA Fenders in some cases. I bought a new Fender Tele Thinline in 2007 and it was right next to a custom Tele from the USA shop and it sounded better, played better, and cost about 800 dollars less. Perhaps it was a statistical outlier, but I love that freaking guitar.
Agreed. That's part of the thing with new technologies. Most people don't understand what the fuss is all about, some sort of see the potential, but don't know where it's going to wind up, a few jump on it because they think it's cool or profitable and have varying degrees of success and a very few do something that ultimately is transforming with it.
I remember seeing my first web browser in 1992. I knew that the web was going to be a big deal, but I didn't realize just how big a deal and what form it would take almost 20 years on. It went from "Oh, that's neat! Those guys from CERN are clever!" to a part of the modern social fabric in less than a decade. I don't think tablets are going to be THAT transformative, but I think there's a lot of potential in them waiting to be discovered.
I'm a grizzled old neck-bearded software and science guy who is so old he actually used punch cards in a production environment (until we switched to 8-inch floppies!) and I think the iPad is a peach of a device.
There are only two reasons I don't have one:
1. I think they're cool as hell, but I don't think they're 500 dollars cool. And for the model I'd really want (with 3G+Wifi), I REALLY don't think they're 630 dollars cool.
2. I was part of the Apple faithful for years, but got screwed over royally on a Pismo laptop that I paid $2,200 for back in 2000 that Apple refused to fix/replace. Apart from a couple 2nd gen iPod Nanos I bought my wife and son 5 years ago, I've been very leery of purchasing from them again. Maybe that's unfair, but hell, it's my money.
Absolutely! Looking at some of these numbers I feel like a newbie around here now. It was just zis vebsite, see?
You've obviously never been confronted with the vast array of Cheetos now available on the market. I'm still waiting on the final results from my research team before I can make a decision between the Cheetos Fantastix Chili Cheese Flavored and the Crunchy Flamin' Hot Limon Cheese varieties.
Speaking as someone who both is and works with people doing robotic exploration of the solar system, most of us did NOT get into this because it was our dream to keep making better robots to put into space forever and ever. And I can also assure you it isn't for the rock star salaries, either. Without something to inspire the kids of today, it's going to be harder to find people tomorrow to build and pilot rovers, orbiters, and landers. Yes, I just said it. A good chunk of the purpose of manned spaceflight is PR. That shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who's been paying attention, though.
I agree that we shouldn't ignore remote and robotic systems. They are extraordinarily useful. But they are very limited. My boss is a planetary geologist and a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, and when the nominal 90 day mission ended, I asked him how long the work we did with each rover would take a competent human geologist to do. He replied, "a hard afternoon's worth of effort."
We shouldn't send people up just for the sake of sending people up; I agree with that too. There needs to be a plan, but I think even more importantly, there needs to be a vision. In the long run, though, we will need both manned and unmanned missions to really improve our understanding.
Eh, sonny? Speak up! My hearing aid batteries have given up, and I need my grandson to take me to Walgreens on account of my rheumatiz actin' up.
Mine was IBM/360 assembler, actually. I guess that makes me really old. :-)
There needs to be a "+1 Brilliant Satire" mod for this comment. Well done.
I pay Verizon almost 260 bucks every month (5 phones all unlimited texting, 3 with unlimited data plans). If they ever kick me off their network for using my rooted Moto Droid, it would suck, but I would survive and find something else to do with that 3000+ a year, I'm sure. It's my most expensive utility, except for summer electric bills in Arizona.
The common man might think this, but this is slashdot, where I hope the level of computer science and software engineering clue is still a bit higher than the background levels. Such people should already be aware of the close linkages between linguistics and computer programs and systems.
But maybe I'm just engaging in wishful thinking now.
Have a friend or family member post a review for you, saying in their own words what your experience was. The information comes from you, but the copyright actually belongs to the writer.
No, because I know how to use the -exec option in find. ;-)
"Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them." - Milton
I used it in my data structures class way back in 1986. A hash table whose entries are head pointers to linked lists hardly qualifies as an advanced data structure. But I think this patent covers more than just that part.
The patent is still bogus, though, like all software patents.
I think so, Brain, but this time you wear the tutu.
"GIMP has command line options for batch processing..."
What's that, you say? :-)
Very true, and that is indeed a two edged sort, is it not?
I don't mean to get into a CLI vs. GUI pissing contest. Both have their uses, advantages and disadvantages, and as I said in another post, I believe they are better together.
This.
Like peanut butter and chocolate, GUI and CLI are even better together.
Interestingly, I had to put little watermarks on about 400 images a year ago. It took about 5 minutes of scripting with ImageMagick to do it.
If I'd done that with Photoshop or GIMP, I'd still be at it!
Dude, I get panicked ... when a dictatorship rises in my neyborhood.
Oh, you have an HOA? I hate those too.
As smart as he is mathematically, his ignorance of high-school level geology is rather shocking* if he's going to make pronouncements like this. The Earth is 62% iron and oxygen, not carbon. Carbon's not even in the top ten. Even in the lithosphere, carbon is only 0.03% (yes, three HUNDREDTHS of a percent) of it. I'm not qualified to say if his hypothesis would have issues with the oxygen and iron abundance, however. I recall iron being a sort of low energy state with respect to nuclear reactions, where fusion reactions with elements with atomic weights below iron being generally exothermic and fission being generally endothermic, and the reverse being true of elements heavier than iron. But in thinking the earth is primarily carbon when it's not he's starting out with a false premise.
*- Well, however smart he is, he's still a 12 year old boy so I should cut him a little slack.