The point of 2D is that you can see all of your viewing area at once, without stuff getting in the way, and you can interact with anything in your view, again without stuff getting in the way.
There's a reason we play two-dimensional board games, and things like 3D Chess end up being simply awkward novelties.
As 3D beings, we would have less control over a 3D system than we do over a 2D one.
And then we come to this piece of crap interface which is getting an award for some reason. They could have put lists of "related files" (not like those are going to be useful; who ever navigated by the "What's Related" menu in Netscape anyway?) in a 2D list, and it would have been more functional than this big huge ferris wheel displayed on a 2D screen where most of the things end up being so far away that they're a couple of pixels in area.
An interface in the physical meaning (the surface that divides two regions of space with different properties) can't possibly be 3D. An interface in the computer meaning, one between human space and information space, shouldn't be 3D either.
You realize that that would take a Constitutional amendment, right? Would the amendment say what voting system would be used, thus being firmly wedged in place when a better system comes along, or would the states have to periodically vote on the voting system, so they would all switch systems at once?
You're being far too specific. What if you're installing software on, say, a PalmPilot? Where two or three 40-point characters will fill up the screen? Legislating an interface is stupid.
Toy Symphony got really bad reviews. Sure, the technology is cool, but when you come down to it, it's still just kids banging on instruments and computers.
I've heard one listenable piece created in Hyperscore, and that was by a kid who already knew how to compose music and worked around all the stuff in the program trying to compose for him.
I still wouldn't want to do it though... I, like the great grandparent, am very wary of having water cursing through my computer.
Water molecule #38572039471928372: "God damn it - time to cool the fucking CPU again. Why the hell doesn't that piece of shit stop putting out so much fucking heat? Jesus."
Wow. I had no idea that feeding someone to lions was a way of showing tolerance.
It's probably not ironic, but it is unfortunate
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...that so many people can explain what irony isn't, but nobody can explain what it is without involving sentences like
Irony, in this context, is not there to lance a boil of duplicity, but rather to undermine sincerity altogether, to beggar the mere possibility of a meaningful moral position.
When I got a checking account, they _told_ me to print amounts on the check. Cursive letters look more similar to each other, so it's easier to tamper with an amount written in cursive.
The halting problem says that no algorithm can prove whether any program given to it halts or doesn't halt (or, by extension, does any certain thing you wish to test for).
However, for most programs, you can determine if they halt by one method or another. For example, tell me if this halts:
while (true) printf("foo");
There, you didn't need to solve the Halting Problem for that.
The method to prove a program correct may be quite involved, which is why it's called proving.
So, incidentally, you can prove that a program will run correctly on any of n zillion possible inputs, without actually running the program on all n zillion inputs, just like the guy who proved Fermat's Last Theorem obviously didn't test it with every combination of (a, b, c, n) from 1 to infinity.
The fact that it's "input type crash" that does it reminds me of Apple's OpenFirmware prompt. If you type "crash" at the prompt on an iMac, the computer locks up hard, not even responding to the power button.
Yes, those are the terms you use outside of topology.
In topology, you don't care about the interior at all, not even to acknowledge that it exists. There is nothing three-dimensional about the 2D surface of a 3D sphere, so the surface is called a "2-sphere".
dek el zen tris cat kink
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Well, I don't know how to solve the problem of "hundred". But the digits can have names (and not just the letter names, which have the problem that they're hard to tell apart and A sounds like 8).
On Everything2, there's the node Names for digits higher than 9. The names for the digits - I have no idea who created them - are "dek" for A, "el" for B, "zen" for C, "tris" for D, "cat" for E, and "kink" for F.
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I've been rather surprised at how quickly packages have been getting into unstable recently, actually. When I first saw on Slashdot that GNOME 2.2 was released, I did an apt-get upgrade and it was already there. (And it upgraded cleanly, which has _never_ happened with other versions of GNOME. Woot!)
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Helpful hint:
2^3 = 8
2^10 = 1024
Games: (The) N most foo games of bar (optional meaningless question mark)
We've had about one of these per week by now, right?
then we could use a three-dimensional interface.
The point of 2D is that you can see all of your viewing area at once, without stuff getting in the way, and you can interact with anything in your view, again without stuff getting in the way.
There's a reason we play two-dimensional board games, and things like 3D Chess end up being simply awkward novelties.
As 3D beings, we would have less control over a 3D system than we do over a 2D one.
And then we come to this piece of crap interface which is getting an award for some reason. They could have put lists of "related files" (not like those are going to be useful; who ever navigated by the "What's Related" menu in Netscape anyway?) in a 2D list, and it would have been more functional than this big huge ferris wheel displayed on a 2D screen where most of the things end up being so far away that they're a couple of pixels in area.
An interface in the physical meaning (the surface that divides two regions of space with different properties) can't possibly be 3D. An interface in the computer meaning, one between human space and information space, shouldn't be 3D either.
Please please enlighten me on how reducing loudness = no sonic boom?
Gay. Gay. Gay.
Was it entirely necessary to bring your rebuttal down to a middle-school level, by including that last line?
You realize that that would take a Constitutional amendment, right? Would the amendment say what voting system would be used, thus being firmly wedged in place when a better system comes along, or would the states have to periodically vote on the voting system, so they would all switch systems at once?
Sounds pretty unwieldy to me.
You're being far too specific. What if you're installing software on, say, a PalmPilot? Where two or three 40-point characters will fill up the screen? Legislating an interface is stupid.
Toy Symphony got really bad reviews. Sure, the technology is cool, but when you come down to it, it's still just kids banging on instruments and computers.
I've heard one listenable piece created in Hyperscore, and that was by a kid who already knew how to compose music and worked around all the stuff in the program trying to compose for him.
I still wouldn't want to do it though... I, like the great grandparent, am very wary of having water cursing through my computer.
Water molecule #38572039471928372: "God damn it - time to cool the fucking CPU again. Why the hell doesn't that piece of shit stop putting out so much fucking heat? Jesus."
Congratulations, you've crossed the matter/antimatter boundary with a starship. Now what do you do?
I mean, you're sure as heck not going to land anywhere.
Wait a sec. We're supposed to get excited about this new RPG from Monolith? The ones who made Septerra Core?
Oh lovely, now there's five floating continents instead of seven. Maybe that means the game will only suck 5/7 as much.
Wow. I had no idea that feeding someone to lions was a way of showing tolerance.
Well, certainly. I wouldn't actually use 2.3 if they sent it to me.
But "get it entered as evidence"? No way am I going to get that involved.
I paid for Caldera OpenLinux 2.2. Yes, it sucked.
:)
A few months later, by which time it was totally clear that they had released a buggy piece of shit, they sent me an offer for a free upgrade to 2.3.
I wonder if I could redeem that now? And have them send me all the CDs, including the kernel source?
When I got a checking account, they _told_ me to print amounts on the check. Cursive letters look more similar to each other, so it's easier to tamper with an amount written in cursive.
The halting problem says that no algorithm can prove whether any program given to it halts or doesn't halt (or, by extension, does any certain thing you wish to test for).
However, for most programs, you can determine if they halt by one method or another. For example, tell me if this halts:
while (true) printf("foo");
There, you didn't need to solve the Halting Problem for that.
The method to prove a program correct may be quite involved, which is why it's called proving.
So, incidentally, you can prove that a program will run correctly on any of n zillion possible inputs, without actually running the program on all n zillion inputs, just like the guy who proved Fermat's Last Theorem obviously didn't test it with every combination of (a, b, c, n) from 1 to infinity.
The fact that it's "input type crash" that does it reminds me of Apple's OpenFirmware prompt. If you type "crash" at the prompt on an iMac, the computer locks up hard, not even responding to the power button.
Yes, those are the terms you use outside of topology.
In topology, you don't care about the interior at all, not even to acknowledge that it exists. There is nothing three-dimensional about the 2D surface of a 3D sphere, so the surface is called a "2-sphere".
Well, I don't know how to solve the problem of "hundred". But the digits can have names (and not just the letter names, which have the problem that they're hard to tell apart and A sounds like 8).
On Everything2, there's the node Names for digits higher than 9. The names for the digits - I have no idea who created them - are "dek" for A, "el" for B, "zen" for C, "tris" for D, "cat" for E, and "kink" for F.
You could even begin to abbreviate "shock and awe" as "terror".
Um, right. Obviously we'll just switch our old oil-powered laptops to fuel cells and our dependence on oil will be gone.
Your troll would be more convincing if it made any sort of sense after reading the article summary.
^W means "delete word" in many forms of text input. Would you prefer seeing ^H^H^H^H^H^H?
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its luck is förknippad with primtalen.
I suppose if I were about to win a million dollars, my luck would be förknippad with primtalen, too.
I've been rather surprised at how quickly packages have been getting into unstable recently, actually. When I first saw on Slashdot that GNOME 2.2 was released, I did an apt-get upgrade and it was already there. (And it upgraded cleanly, which has _never_ happened with other versions of GNOME. Woot!)