I think the process Slashdot's going through is called "tabloid". The daily tabloids do this all the time. "Man murdered little girl" in big print on the front page. Read the article, and it turns out the "man" was 17, the murder was a traffic accident and the "girl" was a female cat. Okay. That was not the best example, but I'm no sleazy tabloid headline "journalist"...
Okay, this isn't quite related, but with this talk of plan-ahead for motoric activity... I once stood in the mirror and examined my face. For some reason, I decided to start flaring my nostrils. I noticed something that kinda amazed me and crept me out at the same time: Before I was conciously aware of having decided to expand my nostrils, they started expanding. I'd see my muscles preparing for an action before I was even aware of having decided that. The brain has a funny way of making decisions...
Isn't it possible to design an operating system using some very strict and controllable principles? Maybe even design a compiler/language that enforces them? Has anybody done something like this already?
It's going to be interesting to see how things develop with regard to HDTVs vs computer monitors. We're seeing flat-panels becoming popular at the same time as people want multimedia centers in their living rooms. For a long time now, I've been sensing the return of old fashioned combined consoles/PCs like Commodore 64, Amiga 500 etc. A portable console with a keyboard, mouse, hard drive and game controllers connected to a flat panel in the living room would work just fine as a family computer. It would play DVDs and Blu-ray disks (if they ever get introduced) and possibly work as a HDTV decoder as well, all controlled by a powerful CPU/GPU combo, and you'd go to your local radio/TV shop and they'd sell it as a working solution.
The manufacturers were already heading that way back in the day. The Amiga 500 had stereo sound and the ability to mix 4 channels in two pairs (two voices pr speaker) in the 1980s. It was an amazing machine compared to the PCs of the day.
For people with an unconcious relationship to technology, like my the people in, say, my sister's household, this would be an excellent solution. Each family member could own one, or it could be placed in the living room. There'd be no such thing as a "TV" or "computer monitor", they'd both be the same, just sold at various sizes, with a TV decoder/receiver included as an add-in device if desired.
Aren't you pretty much limited to modulating that carrier wave once per cycle or less (at least if you're using amplitude modulation)? What's BitTorrent at 50 baud like, I wonder...
Maybe... I think you're generalizing too much. You make it sound as if all geeks are narrow-minded. I think that's about as far from the truth as you can get. Geeks take an interest in the world around them. That includes understanding the inner workings of other humans, i.e. their body and mind. A true geek has both vertical and horizontal knowledge, and plenty of it. He simply knows more.
Geek code? Nah. Too corny for Google. FreshMeat replacement? Maybe? Google has been accused of being evil lately. Site for code Google made? Sounds plausible. *reads more* Ah, code that Google endorses *and* code they made themselves.
Eh, I used to follow the scene a few years back. Also, you understood perfectly well what I meant regarding wasting time. It had more to do with wasting time writing the message than spending time on the demo scene...
demo = graphical demonstration with music, made by coder/music/gfx groups that want to show off their skills, usually shown at large LAN parties like The Gathering, Assembly, etc.
cracktro = a.k.a. intro, mini-demo included in releases of warez to brand the release (warez groups eventually evolved into pure demo groups, and the use of 'intro' changed to mean 'stand-alone mini-demo', usually 64k or less).
I could go on, but I got better things to waste my time on.
Well, if this is anything like what my bank does, it works as the following:
1) You input your bank account number and a password into your bank's site. 2) You use a little calculator, you input a PIN into it, and it generates a unique number that you have to input into the page. 3) You're now authenticated.
Other schemes include having a little card with the numbers on it, and the site will request you to input code number N, and you do so, and it lets you in.
The acting in the trailer was on par with *shrudder* a Xena episode. The CG was good but the live action sucked. This was most definitely not recorded on film. It looks like a TV news report.
Okay. Just in case someone's going to troll "I don't have to think to write this at all". What I meant was: I don't have to think about English grammar, phrases, gloses, etc. when writing in the language. It flows naturally.
I'm from Norway, yet I find myself thinking in English when I take a piss. Scandinavians with IM friends abroad spend hours every day writing in English. I don't have to think to write this at all. I think there's a rather high percentage of people in the Scandinavian countries that have an almost unconcious relationship to English.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the process Slashdot's going through is called "tabloid". The daily tabloids do this all the time. "Man murdered little girl" in big print on the front page. Read the article, and it turns out the "man" was 17, the murder was a traffic accident and the "girl" was a female cat. Okay. That was not the best example, but I'm no sleazy tabloid headline "journalist"...
Wikipedia article on conciousness
Okay, this isn't quite related, but with this talk of plan-ahead for motoric activity... I once stood in the mirror and examined my face. For some reason, I decided to start flaring my nostrils. I noticed something that kinda amazed me and crept me out at the same time: Before I was conciously aware of having decided to expand my nostrils, they started expanding. I'd see my muscles preparing for an action before I was even aware of having decided that. The brain has a funny way of making decisions...
Anyone but me misunderstand "Crack Found in Shuttle Tank"? XD And here I was thinking astronauts were smuggling drugs into space.
Isn't it possible to design an operating system using some very strict and controllable principles? Maybe even design a compiler/language that enforces them? Has anybody done something like this already?
Of course you've also fucked up every bit of your own radio traffic, right?
Can they jam spread-spectrum modulated signals?
Notice how I get 3 mod points and you get 0? *laughs evilly... in a pleasant way*
April 1st!!!
I agree very strongly with this. Although I'm a geek, that doesn't mean things *have* to be as complicated as possible.
No? Slackware has KDE, Blackbox, FVWM, TWM, WindowMaker, Enlightenment, and probably a few others I don't remember the name of, included.
It's going to be interesting to see how things develop with regard to HDTVs vs computer monitors. We're seeing flat-panels becoming popular at the same time as people want multimedia centers in their living rooms. For a long time now, I've been sensing the return of old fashioned combined consoles/PCs like Commodore 64, Amiga 500 etc. A portable console with a keyboard, mouse, hard drive and game controllers connected to a flat panel in the living room would work just fine as a family computer. It would play DVDs and Blu-ray disks (if they ever get introduced) and possibly work as a HDTV decoder as well, all controlled by a powerful CPU/GPU combo, and you'd go to your local radio/TV shop and they'd sell it as a working solution.
The manufacturers were already heading that way back in the day. The Amiga 500 had stereo sound and the ability to mix 4 channels in two pairs (two voices pr speaker) in the 1980s. It was an amazing machine compared to the PCs of the day.
For people with an unconcious relationship to technology, like my the people in, say, my sister's household, this would be an excellent solution. Each family member could own one, or it could be placed in the living room. There'd be no such thing as a "TV" or "computer monitor", they'd both be the same, just sold at various sizes, with a TV decoder/receiver included as an add-in device if desired.
Sigh! Too bad the world sucks.
Aren't you pretty much limited to modulating that carrier wave once per cycle or less (at least if you're using amplitude modulation)? What's BitTorrent at 50 baud like, I wonder...
609 kroner timen? Er du rusk?
Personally, I'm weak for Interlingua.
Maybe... I think you're generalizing too much. You make it sound as if all geeks are narrow-minded. I think that's about as far from the truth as you can get. Geeks take an interest in the world around them. That includes understanding the inner workings of other humans, i.e. their body and mind. A true geek has both vertical and horizontal knowledge, and plenty of it. He simply knows more.
Ooh! Thanks for this tip! Any more cool shortcuts I can try?
Ditto! Brain did as follows:
Geek code? Nah. Too corny for Google.
FreshMeat replacement? Maybe? Google has been accused of being evil lately.
Site for code Google made? Sounds plausible.
*reads more*
Ah, code that Google endorses *and* code they made themselves.
Eh, I used to follow the scene a few years back. Also, you understood perfectly well what I meant regarding wasting time. It had more to do with wasting time writing the message than spending time on the demo scene...
Are you an idiot?
demo = graphical demonstration with music, made by coder/music/gfx groups that want to show off their skills, usually shown at large LAN parties like The Gathering, Assembly, etc.
cracktro = a.k.a. intro, mini-demo included in releases of warez to brand the release (warez groups eventually evolved into pure demo groups, and the use of 'intro' changed to mean 'stand-alone mini-demo', usually 64k or less).
I could go on, but I got better things to waste my time on.
Well, if this is anything like what my bank does, it works as the following:
1) You input your bank account number and a password into your bank's site.
2) You use a little calculator, you input a PIN into it, and it generates a unique number that you have to input into the page.
3) You're now authenticated.
Other schemes include having a little card with the numbers on it, and the site will request you to input code number N, and you do so, and it lets you in.
The acting in the trailer was on par with *shrudder* a Xena episode. The CG was good but the live action sucked. This was most definitely not recorded on film. It looks like a TV news report.
Mod parent up! *guffaw*
Okay. Just in case someone's going to troll "I don't have to think to write this at all". What I meant was: I don't have to think about English grammar, phrases, gloses, etc. when writing in the language. It flows naturally.
I'm from Norway, yet I find myself thinking in English when I take a piss. Scandinavians with IM friends abroad spend hours every day writing in English. I don't have to think to write this at all. I think there's a rather high percentage of people in the Scandinavian countries that have an almost unconcious relationship to English.