Never mind this browser malarkey! Someone fix the random shuffle in my Prius stat!
It has a CD with neary 200 MP3s on it, and for some insaaane reason it is very fond of playing Tatu's "They're not gonna get us"...which I'm not sure how got on the CD in the first place... *mumble mumble*
So I start the car, there it is. I press next a few times, find nothing I like, and hit the Random button again, and guess what. I have heard nothing but Tatu and Madness songs for two fricking weeks to and fro work, and now I'm borderline certifiable.
I can only hope the cruise control / pedal issue offs me before the CD player breaks my remaining will to live.
Hell, even Halo will be ten next year. 10 years isn't a long time in gaming anymore..... (especially when you consider that the average AAA game will take between 3 and 5 years to develop).
And which one of these _trademarks_ has gone anywhere near 10 years between a new game/film/etc?
It's the smell of free will going out the window, courtesy of people thinking that gene==unable to overcome that impulse. And with free will out the window, there's no liability. And with no liability... well, the court system we have is completely unworkable.
A man is presented before the court, accused of murder. He pleads not guilty due to determinism, and adresses the court.
"All things that happen are the direct consequence of events preceding it. Like balls on a pool table. And with such a miserable childhood and social stature as mine, any man like me would have done as me, and ended up killing. So, I am not at fault and cannot be held responsible for my actions."
The female judge is not amused and retorts. "While you argument may be valid and logical, it must apply to all if it is true. If so, I am also a product of determinism. My upbringing, my morals, my choice of career. In fact, even the inner strength I have to quell the impulse to have you put to death for your horrible actions are all but swirling marbles on the table of the universe. So, you see, I am bound as much as you by determinism when I seemingly, but not really, freely sentence you to life without parole."
Except that quantum mechanics implies that we are not in a deterministic universe. Replay the same actions twice and you won't necessarily get the same outcome.
I'd love to agree with you, and did cling to the hope of quantum mechanics finally setting ourselves free from determinism, but they haven't yet found any way that the quantum world spills over and adds an RNG to our brains.
I found MRI a better experience than CT, especially if the CT scan involved contrast fluid, and told my doctor about it. After that, I only had MRI scans for the next five years, no CTs. I even learned to ignore the noise and fall asleep inside the donut... Annoyed the operators a bit though. "Stop moving and hold still. Damnit, he's snoring again!"
LOL. Nah, I'm just using Firefox for automated testing with WATIR until Opera gets its support for it sorted.:)
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Ex-Opera employee here: Yes, the same code base is used for mobile and device versions of Opera.
Usually the versions used lags a little behind the desktop version, as a desktop version can allow to use more CPU and memory. No idea if 10.0 is in any mobile versions yet (perhaps Opera Mini is). When I worked there, the Opera 9 code base was starting to get into a lot of mobile projects.
There was an article on the problem of people not understanding probability percentages in Scientific American a few months ago, going specifically into the HIV tests.
The proposed solution was to use more "natural frequencies" as in "out of 10,000 people one person has HIV". That is, focusing on the counts and numbers and avoiding the 99%, five nines and 0.01% failure rates like the plague due to their inherit relativeness, as in something that decreases your chances of cancer from 0.02% to 0.01% is touted - technically correct, but misleading - as reducing your risk of cancer by 50%.
The most scary thing about that article was that doctors - medical practitioners - were doing just as bad as the general populace at understanding the probabilities and false positive risks when presented as percentages. Moving to natural frequencies the docs did a lot better, probably because it is more intuitive.
His argument is simple: (1) math cannot be patented (2) all algorithms are math (3) all software is one or more algorithms and so follows that software cannot be patentable.
While I agree with the sentiment, this isn't good logic. Since software is a combination of algorithms, the combination of those algorithms may be non-obvious and novel.
I want SW-patents to go the way of the dodo as much as the next/.'er, but the above struck me as aking to A) atoms cannot be patented, B) all machines are made of one or more atoms, ergo machines cannot be patented.
It the case of physical theft, the production company doesn't lose money. The victim loses possessions.
The best litmus test of whether something is theft; try claiming it on the insurance.
Physical theft means the store inventory goes down, but they can claim it on the insurance. (Which migt be a good thing, in case the product isn't moving, as it frees up the capital to invest in other products.)
I'd like to see the **AA companies go after a large insurance company, trying to get piracy "theft" claims approved.
Nothing like having two behemoth organizations go at each other. Might even make for better entertainment that most of the crud they're pushing out.
It's all about calculated risk - piss off some English Catholics, you get some peeved letters in the local paper. Piss off Muslims, you get explosions, beheadings, and people living out their lives in hiding.
So they are saving that PR-goldmine for the next GTA release instead then?
The Bible's got incest, rape, mass-murder (and it advocates some mass-murders, too), and all sort of cruelties that were committed by both Jews and Christians--such as any other people in the history of humanity.
How 'bout you read the old testament for a change?
With a premise like that, who'll be satisifed with just reading when you can look at the pictures?
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So, perhaps we should do a DNA fingerprint on all the jurors. "Not only are the matches close by, two of them are in the jury box with you!"
It has a CD with neary 200 MP3s on it, and for some insaaane reason it is very fond of playing Tatu's "They're not gonna get us"...which I'm not sure how got on the CD in the first place... *mumble mumble*
So I start the car, there it is. I press next a few times, find nothing I like, and hit the Random button again, and guess what. I have heard nothing but Tatu and Madness songs for two fricking weeks to and fro work, and now I'm borderline certifiable.
I can only hope the cruise control / pedal issue offs me before the CD player breaks my remaining will to live.
Mario,1981 (29 years old)
Link, 1986 (24 years old)
Streetfighter 1987 (23 years old)
Sonic the Hedgehog 1991 (19 years old)
Hell, even Halo will be ten next year. 10 years isn't a long time in gaming anymore..... (especially when you consider that the average AAA game will take between 3 and 5 years to develop).
And which one of these _trademarks_ has gone anywhere near 10 years between a new game/film/etc?
The Victorians had sexier table-legs precisely because they were so sexually repressed, obviously!
This is why saying "Please" is so important. Not just to avoid the impending Cylon war...
That was a cracker, not a hacker, and the latter is not paid enough to afford hookers. :(
It's the smell of free will going out the window, courtesy of people thinking that gene==unable to overcome that impulse. And with free will out the window, there's no liability. And with no liability... well, the court system we have is completely unworkable.
A man is presented before the court, accused of murder. He pleads not guilty due to determinism, and adresses the court.
"All things that happen are the direct consequence of events preceding it. Like balls on a pool table. And with such a miserable childhood and social stature as mine, any man like me would have done as me, and ended up killing. So, I am not at fault and cannot be held responsible for my actions."
The female judge is not amused and retorts. "While you argument may be valid and logical, it must apply to all if it is true. If so, I am also a product of determinism. My upbringing, my morals, my choice of career. In fact, even the inner strength I have to quell the impulse to have you put to death for your horrible actions are all but swirling marbles on the table of the universe. So, you see, I am bound as much as you by determinism when I seemingly, but not really, freely sentence you to life without parole."
Except that quantum mechanics implies that we are not in a deterministic universe. Replay the same actions twice and you won't necessarily get the same outcome.
I'd love to agree with you, and did cling to the hope of quantum mechanics finally setting ourselves free from determinism, but they haven't yet found any way that the quantum world spills over and adds an RNG to our brains.
I found MRI a better experience than CT, especially if the CT scan involved contrast fluid, and told my doctor about it. After that, I only had MRI scans for the next five years, no CTs. I even learned to ignore the noise and fall asleep inside the donut... Annoyed the operators a bit though. "Stop moving and hold still. Damnit, he's snoring again!"
3.2 kbytes should be enough to kill anyone.
Remind me again; how big is the JPG on goatse?
LOL. Nah, I'm just using Firefox for automated testing with WATIR until Opera gets its support for it sorted. :)
Usually the versions used lags a little behind the desktop version, as a desktop version can allow to use more CPU and memory. No idea if 10.0 is in any mobile versions yet (perhaps Opera Mini is). When I worked there, the Opera 9 code base was starting to get into a lot of mobile projects.
So it is less expansive for transexuals to get boobs !
I hope you meant expensive. If not, the TS' will have some huge nipples...
...why do men still have nipples. Film at 11.
Midi-Chlorian
What's that? A music standard for sanitizing swimming pools?
There was an article on the problem of people not understanding probability percentages in Scientific American a few months ago, going specifically into the HIV tests.
The proposed solution was to use more "natural frequencies" as in "out of 10,000 people one person has HIV". That is, focusing on the counts and numbers and avoiding the 99%, five nines and 0.01% failure rates like the plague due to their inherit relativeness, as in something that decreases your chances of cancer from 0.02% to 0.01% is touted - technically correct, but misleading - as reducing your risk of cancer by 50%.
The most scary thing about that article was that doctors - medical practitioners - were doing just as bad as the general populace at understanding the probabilities and false positive risks when presented as percentages. Moving to natural frequencies the docs did a lot better, probably because it is more intuitive.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=knowing-your-chances
His argument is simple: (1) math cannot be patented (2) all algorithms are math (3) all software is one or more algorithms and so follows that software cannot be patentable.
While I agree with the sentiment, this isn't good logic. Since software is a combination of algorithms, the combination of those algorithms may be non-obvious and novel.
I want SW-patents to go the way of the dodo as much as the next /.'er, but the above struck me as aking to A) atoms cannot be patented, B) all machines are made of one or more atoms, ergo machines cannot be patented.
Donald Rumsfeld, is that you?
rub one out
Am I the only one that read that with an American-Italian accent in mind, and wondered why homicide would help on a coding block?
Writers block, sure, that makes (some) sense. ("Secret Window" made me wonder if Stephen King has pulled that trick.)
As power increases, so should transparency.
So that's why the emperor had no clothes!
code it, document it, test it, etc.
One out of three ain't bad.
Isn't Visa a debit card nowadays, and not a credit card? Or is that just here in Norway?
It the case of physical theft, the production company doesn't lose money. The victim loses possessions.
The best litmus test of whether something is theft; try claiming it on the insurance.
Physical theft means the store inventory goes down, but they can claim it on the insurance. (Which migt be a good thing, in case the product isn't moving, as it frees up the capital to invest in other products.)
I'd like to see the **AA companies go after a large insurance company, trying to get piracy "theft" claims approved.
Nothing like having two behemoth organizations go at each other. Might even make for better entertainment that most of the crud they're pushing out.
It's all about calculated risk - piss off some English Catholics, you get some peeved letters in the local paper. Piss off Muslims, you get explosions, beheadings, and people living out their lives in hiding.
So they are saving that PR-goldmine for the next GTA release instead then?
The Bible's got incest, rape, mass-murder (and it advocates some mass-murders, too), and all sort of cruelties that were committed by both Jews and Christians--such as any other people in the history of humanity. How 'bout you read the old testament for a change?
With a premise like that, who'll be satisifed with just reading when you can look at the pictures?