"Generally, the more planned the act, the more likely that complete sentences pass through your brain. For instance, you're more likely to simply pick a quarter off the floor than to say, "I am going to pick this quarter off the floor." Whereas, you're very likely to think the sentence, "I should buy some wine on my way home from the market" if that's part of your plans."
Hypothetically speaking, what happens if someone was born and lived in isolation, never learining a language. How is their thought affected by their inability to form sentances? Does it make them any worse at planning future actions?
This would be even easier to fool than traditional lie detectors. How many people actually think "I'm guilty, but now I'll make up some bullshit excuse" before speaking?
Not to mention you can control what you say in your mind almost as easilly as you can control what you say out loud.
yes, but if you only need to receive INCOMING calls and SMS messages from work relates purposes, it would seem unfair for you to be on a tarrif with monthly payments, or for your work to cover your call costs.
"$15 for 60 minutes of music which for many in this world takes them 2-3 hours to make."
I think you mean for the *majority* of people on this planet it takes *days* and in some cases *months* to make that $15. The average income is a hell of a lot lower than minimum wage in the US.
I tend to agree. A good game has much more to it than highly realistic 3d videos. Historically the games which have been most successful were the ones with a simple, yet addictive concept. It didn't matter that they were designed for a 8 bit 2MHz proccessor with a black and white low-res display.
Recently there has been almost no inovation whatsoever. Every new game which comes out belongs to an already existing category (strategy, 3d fps, simulation, etc), with the only difference between them being slightly modified sprites.
The way I see it, the future probably will lie in Massive-multiplayer. As residential connections get faster, and protocols are improved to cope with lag better, it might be possible to design games where hundreds of thousands of players compete in real time in one virtual environment. That would be awesome.
Agreed. The maximum HD I could find for laptop PCs is 80GB. While it's enough for most uses, it would certainly be nice to be able to keep my entire DivX collection on my laptop, so I can choose something to watch while travelling.
What I would really need is a combination pendrive, wi-fi, and bluetooth adaptor, and MP3/OGG player.
Currently I carry a seperate USB flash drive, and MA401 pen-style wi-fi transceiver. The lack of built in memory on the MA401 means I need to plug in the pendrive every time I need to load the drivers.
Hmm... I see plenty of pages in Google that have URLs with GET parameters, so there must be some way of getting it to crawl them. Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying? Maybe the key here is to provide an alternate route to those pages without doing anything fancy (drop-down menus, radio buttons, etc.). Just generate another page that contains a regular link to all your pages. You could hide that page from your regular users by, say, linking it to a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF. A robot will find it, but most of your users won't even notice.
Yeah, I can see that google sometimes lists pages with get content in it's index. It doesn't want to do it for a lot of pages though, and I haven't figured out why. There seems to be nothing different in the HTML.
Hypothetically speaking, whats there to stop someone doing a:
<? print("<a href='thispage.php/${rand()}'>Some page...</a>"); ?>... and looping google?
Let me give you an example. I run a forum. The main index page doesn't contain much information, just an overview of the latest posts and a brief introduction.
The rest of the content is what people submit. Here is the problem. The pages are generated dynamically. They end up having url's like http://domain/index.php?act=showpost&postid=12 44
Google sees index.php as one page, and does not attempt to submit any data via get/post. This means that effectively the most valuable content is missed.
Of course making it crawl/?yada=yada links has problems, namely the possibilty of getting stuck in an infinite loop where data and links are tracked using sessions, and an infinite number of URLs could potentially yeild valid, although very similar results.
[i]Of course, it's nice to know that the content's there, but how many children are now going to be able to bypass the disclaimer pages on porn sites because of deep linking?[/i]... because so many teenage children will be determined by the disclaimer. "Oh, damn, I'm not 18 so I can't see her titties".
Also there is nothhing from stopping the sites from checking the refferer to display the disclaimer on first EXTERNAL entry. Also search engines at present are hardly intelligent enough to automatically avoid directing people to pages beyond the disclaimer.
So are you implying that you're credit card information is currently availible on web pages, with no password protection, and the only thing stoping hackers is that it isn't listed in a search engine?
And isn't it nice that Mac OS X now gives you the best of both worlds:)
Linux has done the same ever since X came into existance.
Windows has always supported a command prompt too, just the majority of users don't have a clue on what it is, or how to use it.
IMHO only a subset of the intrinsic OS utillities can be properly used via the GUI. As an example I often want to transfer files from my digitial camera. The camera saves the files as "DSCF0001, DSCF0002,...". Sometimes I want to move the contents of several memory cards into each folder. I have no quick way of renaming "DSCF0001-DSCF0056 --> Holiday0001-Holiday0002" via the GUI. In the CL, I just type "ren DSCF* Holiday*".
"The European Commission is considering new regulation which could order McDonalds corporation to bundle french fry from the rival Burger King restaurant chain. This will ensure that Burger King fries are as easy to access for customers, as McDonalds own proprietary fries."
Seriously, why would the above be considered a joke, while people are actually seriously considering a comparable ruling against MS?
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Just posted this entry on my blog.
Interesting...
"Generally, the more planned the act, the more likely that complete sentences pass through your brain. For instance, you're more likely to simply pick a quarter off the floor than to say, "I am going to pick this quarter off the floor." Whereas, you're very likely to think the sentence, "I should buy some wine on my way home from the market" if that's part of your plans."
Hypothetically speaking, what happens if someone was born and lived in isolation, never learining a language. How is their thought affected by their inability to form sentances? Does it make them any worse at planning future actions?
This would be even easier to fool than traditional lie detectors. How many people actually think "I'm guilty, but now I'll make up some bullshit excuse" before speaking?
Not to mention you can control what you say in your mind almost as easilly as you can control what you say out loud.
yes, but if you only need to receive INCOMING calls and SMS messages from work relates purposes, it would seem unfair for you to be on a tarrif with monthly payments, or for your work to cover your call costs.
"$15 for 60 minutes of music which for many in this world takes them 2-3 hours to make."
I think you mean for the *majority* of people on this planet it takes *days* and in some cases *months* to make that $15. The average income is a hell of a lot lower than minimum wage in the US.
LOCs/second rely partially on SI units. Personally I prefer deciLOCs/fortnight.
Actually they are suing uploaders ONLY - they have no legal ground to sue downloaders.
Isn't that the case in the US too?
Seems canada's status as the new land of the free may have been short-lived.
I tend to agree. A good game has much more to it than highly realistic 3d videos. Historically the games which have been most successful were the ones with a simple, yet addictive concept. It didn't matter that they were designed for a 8 bit 2MHz proccessor with a black and white low-res display.
Recently there has been almost no inovation whatsoever. Every new game which comes out belongs to an already existing category (strategy, 3d fps, simulation, etc), with the only difference between them being slightly modified sprites.
The way I see it, the future probably will lie in Massive-multiplayer. As residential connections get faster, and protocols are improved to cope with lag better, it might be possible to design games where hundreds of thousands of players compete in real time in one virtual environment. That would be awesome.
I'm sure IE 6.05.1 will feature a small modification which happens to cause this fix to stop working. ;)
Agreed. The maximum HD I could find for laptop PCs is 80GB. While it's enough for most uses, it would certainly be nice to be able to keep my entire DivX collection on my laptop, so I can choose something to watch while travelling.
Nice, except flash memory is just a start.
What I would really need is a combination pendrive, wi-fi, and bluetooth adaptor, and MP3/OGG player.
Currently I carry a seperate USB flash drive, and MA401 pen-style wi-fi transceiver. The lack of built in memory on the MA401 means I need to plug in the pendrive every time I need to load the drivers.
I wonder what effect this will have on the number of spam messages we get daily?
Six spammers is probably a drop in the desert, and shutting them down won't cause a noticable impact, but at least it's a start.
No?
You clearely haven't seen my coding, have you?
7 bits = 128 combinations
;)
8 bits = 256 combinations
Perhaps you were talking bits per set of nibbles
Oh, it was a joke.
Hmm... I see plenty of pages in Google that have URLs with GET parameters, so there must be some way of getting it to crawl them. Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying? Maybe the key here is to provide an alternate route to those pages without doing anything fancy (drop-down menus, radio buttons, etc.). Just generate another page that contains a regular link to all your pages. You could hide that page from your regular users by, say, linking it to a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF. A robot will find it, but most of your users won't even notice.
... and looping google?
Yeah, I can see that google sometimes lists pages with get content in it's index. It doesn't want to do it for a lot of pages though, and I haven't figured out why. There seems to be nothing different in the HTML.
Hypothetically speaking, whats there to stop someone doing a:
<?
print("<a href='thispage.php/${rand()}'>Some page...</a>");
?>
AKA "What's a robots.txt file?" says the innocent web crawling robot. :P
;)
Nah, I'm sure the contents of the robots.txt file will be read, and the file itsself will be listed in the index too
Good-bye riaa.org.
It could actually be useful content.
/?yada=yada links has problems, namely the possibilty of getting stuck in an infinite loop where data and links are tracked using sessions, and an infinite number of URLs could potentially yeild valid, although very similar results.
Let me give you an example. I run a forum. The main index page doesn't contain much information, just an overview of the latest posts and a brief introduction.
The rest of the content is what people submit. Here is the problem. The pages are generated dynamically. They end up having url's like http://domain/index.php?act=showpost&postid=12 44
Google sees index.php as one page, and does not attempt to submit any data via get/post. This means that effectively the most valuable content is missed.
Of course making it crawl
[i]Of course, it's nice to know that the content's there, but how many children are now going to be able to bypass the disclaimer pages on porn sites because of deep linking?[/i] ... because so many teenage children will be determined by the disclaimer. "Oh, damn, I'm not 18 so I can't see her titties".
Also there is nothhing from stopping the sites from checking the refferer to display the disclaimer on first EXTERNAL entry. Also search engines at present are hardly intelligent enough to automatically avoid directing people to pages beyond the disclaimer.
So are you implying that you're credit card information is currently availible on web pages, with no password protection, and the only thing stoping hackers is that it isn't listed in a search engine?
And isn't it nice that Mac OS X now gives you the best of both worlds :)
...". Sometimes I want to move the contents of several memory cards into each folder. I have no quick way of renaming "DSCF0001-DSCF0056 --> Holiday0001-Holiday0002" via the GUI. In the CL, I just type "ren DSCF* Holiday*".
Linux has done the same ever since X came into existance.
Windows has always supported a command prompt too, just the majority of users don't have a clue on what it is, or how to use it.
IMHO only a subset of the intrinsic OS utillities can be properly used via the GUI. As an example I often want to transfer files from my digitial camera. The camera saves the files as "DSCF0001, DSCF0002,
Never try to extort more than it would cost to have you killed ;)
This may deliver precisely coordinated jolts of electricity upon detecting reduced brain activity...
;)
Finally a device which will stop me falling asleep during those boring meetings
You can untick the little box for notepad, solataire, etc, during installation.
Problem sold.
"The European Commission is considering new regulation which could order McDonalds corporation to bundle french fry from the rival Burger King restaurant chain. This will ensure that Burger King fries are as easy to access for customers, as McDonalds own proprietary fries."
Seriously, why would the above be considered a joke, while people are actually seriously considering a comparable ruling against MS?