SW+tESB+ RotJ: are classics and not up for discussion.
EP I - was whoring on lucas's part (i nearly said money-whoring), thouroughly disappointing.
EP II - can't explain to myself why i went, optimism i guess.
the way i see it, THEY(producers,director,writers) wasted 5 hours of screentime in which they advanced the plot very little. nothing but "Moy-chendising" (where the real money from the movie is made)
now they are going to cram all the remainig plot hole plugs in the 3rd movie.
I'm not even sure i'll see it on DVD (that'll show them)
but if common sense would lead you to that conclusion (with which i agree) then televising a show in which you take a cell phone , and create mixtures of whatever is a silly mock-up , but fills up more air-time than your argument.
This happens a lot when you look at popular science.
The reporter read the back cover of the book, and the introduction, then he made a lot of stuff up to fill the blanks
The Two slit experiment(look it up if you are interested) is rather old. and i guess would fit into the introduction of the book.
after you've eqplained about the quntum nature of photons, there rises a question of , so what does it mean to be in a quantum state with a probability of,say, 50%. (prior to the measurement)
now, one explanation, is the Many World explanation (the Copenhagen... IIRC)
I feel sorry for the author of the book who is probably tearing his hair out in frustration.
i did not mean to contribute to any anti-globalizaton-auto-reply-MS-is-evil arguments, so there's no need to get all jumpy
anyway, lets put it this way, SCO, isn't about to lose any money on this. and the companies that do, will probably learn something about pricing...(and they are likely the 4 out of five , and not the 1 in a 1M)
but to answer your (nitpicking?) questions
1. what do they give society? well, for one they create evolutionary pressure to do away stupid business models
2. no i do not think that poor people are automatically riteous, but i truely am happy that some kids can make 3$ and not by begging or worse. ('mister , please , just 7 cleeks')
Tourists can live pretty good on 10$ (US) per day.
(and that's when you get ripped off for everything)
for a local vilaager (forgive PCness, lack of) half that amount is hansome.
I guess that someday the bottom will drop out.
but untill that day , some money can change hands from some corporations to some people who truely deserve it (i figure if i were 12, i'd be willing to sit for three hours , opening and closing tabs(firefox) for ~10,000 clicks )
(I guess these sites can prevent scripts, otherwise we'd all be a part of such schemes)
great now we have internet sweat shops
that is the scariest bit of news i've heard lately
(mpaa has a new program that teaches children they should buy more , 'if you don't pay for it - you've stolen it' , by giving , get this, the teachers yearly free movie passes,... there's more , worth your time..)
originally here , a couple of days ago, and making waves
No , i am not the author of touch graph,
sorry if it came out that way.
Alex Shapiro is
I just modified the code to suit my needs.
what i did write was the attached wiki and the interfaces, both ways
Anyway, there was no cynicism in my previous post.
I am truely thankful for your comments AND the accompannying tone.
I'd gladly trade any amount of politeness for a like amount of truth.
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OT ---
It (being truthful at the cost of being polite/PC) would make life a lot more simple most of the time, and in the long run , everybody feels more comfertable, which is what politeness was supposed to be about in the first place.
I actually think that most of the time politeness is a sign of disrespect.
Thanks for your comments.
Like I said , it is WIP, (and probably will keep being.)
History, good idea, easy to implement, didn't occur to me, till you brought it up, can do, definitely on my to do list
spatial organization - also a good idea, but i have'nt decided how it should be, i thought of adding 'gravity', and 'weights' so 'heavier' nodes would tend to be below their parents, pushing the others up or something., i don't know yet
"glue to backgroud" good idea, can do , will think about it.
as for the jittering, do you think that something that jumps/snaps to the final loaction in 1-2 steps is better than a jiggle ? i don't know, though now that you bring it up, maybe i should change the Touchgraph core, and not update the sceren till calculations are done, once they are, i could have all nodes move smoothly in that direction (towards their final destination) - can do, harder work,on the bottom of my to do list for when i have free time
anyway , i really appreciate your comments,
even your truthful undertone.
I am now working on an OSS project with a lot of these ideas in mind.
Discourse District A dynamic repository for community writings, a mirror, mapping the writing community.
(the link above points to an abstract, the link to the system is at the bottom)
basically it is a wiki adaptation with touchgraph interface, that is meant to be a community utilized concept map.
Born out of a need to define the Complexity community, its scope, and the fact that no one person could define it , since everybody else would disagree. This way the community would be defined by anyone adding their activities, and a graphical map would be a new form of definition
I am new to this and would appreciate your comments on
1. Concepts
2. UI
3. publication
4. that stupid IE6 SP0 bug on calling an applet from the contatining page and getting the width...
seen on/. earlier this year
-- Dear Lord, do you mean to say that the rumors of the day star are true !!!
---
i am sorry for not quoting the originator, i googlesearched the phrase but nothing came
Many people here claim that this will backfire mainly because it will annoy everyone.
this is not true,
let me demonstrate with a little gedanken experiment.
1) would these popups annoy you ?
2) would you have considered voting for GW if it were'nt for those popups?
I think that this campaign is better targetted than one may think.
Remember that if spam & aggressive marketing were not economically viable, they would not exist
---
i'll stop here, because the next conclusion is not PC, (actually though i believe that conclusion, it would (rightly so) be considered flamebait)
--
now, (OT) since nobody mentioned THIS favorite blocker... (i also use it to block flash advertisement, which is the best feature in the history of browsers)
Many lawyers (IMO , this is not checked) get paid a certain percent of the damages rewarded to their client, sometimes as much as 50%.
putting a limit on this amount might help counter the waves of BS-lawsuits (for lack of a better name.) (though i realize this is unlikely)
another point that counter such suits (and can be carried out by the courts quite easily) is to charge the plantiff with both sides' legal fees in case his suit was deemed by the court unjust , and declared to be one without basis.
This may deter the ones that are just out fishing.
1. Dave Barry wrote an important piece concerning nanotube application (in layperson's terms , carbon nanotubes are nanotubes made of carbon)
It also talks about those dummy close door elevator buttons (whose cousins, the crosswalk buttons were talked about a lot)
a - a women suing her successfull son for slander (or ST) trying to get rich.
b - a women pretrnding to fall over in a day after Xmas DVD sale to sue the company (didn't it turn out that it was the 16th time she sued them... (while being employed))
c - companies patenting facts, ideas , linux code.
d- a women suing (and winning) a department store claiming she sprained her arm tripping over a toddler (her own child)
e - a man suing his neighbor (and getting 5 figures) claiming the dog attacked him (which is true except that "he started it" by repeatedly shooting the dog with a BB gun)
(i appologize for not citing the reference but you can google for outrageous lawsuits to see that i downtoned)
These are syndromes of a society with too many lawyers, coupled with distorted get rich quick ideas
------
why don't all these people just meet up with wealthy nigerian businessmen/inheritors and split the $20,000,000,023.85 that just needs a resourceful individual like yourself..
it says that perlininary results show that the bias is 51%, which would imply you need more than 10000 tosses.
It doesn't say how many trials accounted for the 51% , but if they rely on the fact that "many tosses do not flip at all" and factor that in, then this really starts to smell.
or to quote R.P.Feynman (lectures on physics volume 1, IIRC)
The neatness in which all these lines converge simultaniously at a far away point are proof that this is the result of work done by a mathematician, and which does not represnt real data.
its worst than just a dumbed down version. its basically a pun-infested piece stating that 10^34 is bigger than 500.
a lot bigger. very very much so. indeed.
lengthy but worth it (Feynman Quotes)
on
More on Columbia
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
in
"
It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management. What are the causes and consequences of this lack of agreement? Since 1 part in 100,000 would imply that one could put a Shuttle up each day for 300 years expecting to lose only one, we could properly ask "What is the cause of management's fantastic faith in the machinery?"
more in http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.ht ml
on a lighter note (not really light)
in
http://www.terindell.com/asylum/filk/other/burton- west/nature.txt
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't mean for it to happen but after a few posts on /. my page surged on google
(when searching for my name)
here's an example
SW+tESB+ RotJ: are classics and not up for discussion.
EP I - was whoring on lucas's part (i nearly said money-whoring), thouroughly disappointing.
EP II - can't explain to myself why i went, optimism i guess.
the way i see it, THEY(producers,director,writers) wasted 5 hours of screentime in which they advanced the plot very little. nothing but "Moy-chendising" (where the real money from the movie is made)
now they are going to cram all the remainig plot hole plugs in the 3rd movie.
I'm not even sure i'll see it on DVD (that'll show them)
like i said , i didn't see the show,
but if common sense would lead you to that conclusion (with which i agree)
then televising a show in which you take a cell phone , and create mixtures of whatever is a silly mock-up , but fills up more air-time than your argument.
-- Common sense isn't
first of , what is this ? "Ask Slashdot?"
second, though i agree that the cellphone isn't to blame, failure to start a fire using a cell phone is not proof of anything (i didn't STFS)
It's the reporter's fault not the Author
,say, 50%. (prior to the measurement)
This happens a lot when you look at popular science.
The reporter read the back cover of the book, and the introduction, then he made a lot of stuff up to fill the blanks
The Two slit experiment(look it up if you are interested) is rather old. and i guess would fit into the introduction of the book.
after you've eqplained about the quntum nature of photons, there rises a question of , so what does it mean to be in a quantum state with a probability of
now, one explanation, is the Many World explanation (the Copenhagen... IIRC)
I feel sorry for the author of the book who is probably tearing his hair out in frustration.
thanks !!!
/. flames instead of bombs?
When will people learn to settle their differences with
wow, slashdot bombs are cool
do you have a reference for this ? (give me a lead i'll look it up)
oh , come on...
...(and they are likely the 4 out of five , and not the 1 in a 1M)
i did not mean to contribute to any anti-globalizaton-auto-reply-MS-is-evil arguments, so there's no need to get all jumpy
anyway, lets put it this way, SCO, isn't about to lose any money on this. and the companies that do, will probably learn something about pricing
but to answer your (nitpicking?) questions
1. what do they give society? well, for one they create evolutionary pressure to do away stupid business models
2. no i do not think that poor people are automatically riteous, but i truely am happy that some kids can make 3$ and not by begging or worse.
('mister , please , just 7 cleeks')
Tourists can live pretty good on 10$ (US) per day.
(and that's when you get ripped off for everything)
for a local vilaager (forgive PCness, lack of) half that amount is hansome.
I guess that someday the bottom will drop out.
but untill that day , some money can change hands from some corporations to some people who truely deserve it (i figure if i were 12, i'd be willing to sit for three hours , opening and closing tabs(firefox) for ~10,000 clicks )
(I guess these sites can prevent scripts, otherwise we'd all be a part of such schemes)
great now we have internet sweat shops
OK , this looks like a good place for a localized israeli thread.
- plonter used to be a good site for computer hardware but the times have changed.
- american sites no longer offer free shipping (or do they?)
also
amazon.com vs amazon.co.uk?
RSVP
what did you learn in school today
..)
I will go to a music shop and buy more CD's
that is the scariest bit of news i've heard lately
(mpaa has a new program that teaches children they should buy more , 'if you don't pay for it - you've stolen it' , by giving , get this, the teachers yearly free movie passes,... there's more , worth your time
originally here , a couple of days ago, and making waves
No , i am not the author of touch graph, sorry if it came out that way.
Alex Shapiro is
I just modified the code to suit my needs.
what i did write was the attached wiki and the interfaces, both ways
Anyway, there was no cynicism in my previous post.
I am truely thankful for your comments AND the accompannying tone.
I'd gladly trade any amount of politeness for a like amount of truth.
---
OT
---
It (being truthful at the cost of being polite/PC) would make life a lot more simple most of the time,
and in the long run , everybody feels more comfertable, which is what politeness was supposed to be about in the first place.
I actually think that most of the time politeness is a sign of disrespect.
Like I said , it is WIP, (and probably will keep being.)
History, good idea, easy to implement, didn't occur to me, till you brought it up, can do, definitely on my to do list
spatial organization - also a good idea, but i have'nt decided how it should be, i thought of adding 'gravity', and 'weights' so 'heavier' nodes would tend to be below their parents, pushing the others up or something., i don't know yet
"glue to backgroud" good idea, can do , will think about it.
as for the jittering, do you think that something that jumps/snaps to the final loaction in 1-2 steps is better than a jiggle ? i don't know,
though now that you bring it up, maybe i should change the Touchgraph core, and not update the sceren till calculations are done, once they are, i could have all nodes move smoothly in that direction (towards their final destination) - can do, harder work,on the bottom of my to do list for when i have free time
anyway , i really appreciate your comments,
even your truthful undertone.
I am now working on an OSS project with a lot of these ideas in mind.
Discourse District
A dynamic repository for community writings, a mirror, mapping the writing community.
(the link above points to an abstract, the link to the system is at the bottom)
basically it is a wiki adaptation with touchgraph interface, that is meant to be a community utilized concept map.
Born out of a need to define the Complexity community, its scope, and the fact that no one person could define it , since everybody else would disagree.
This way the community would be defined by anyone adding their activities, and a graphical map would be a new form of definition
That number again '0'(Chief Wiggham)
I am new to this and would appreciate your comments on
1. Concepts
2. UI
3. publication
4. that stupid IE6 SP0 bug on calling an applet from the contatining page and getting the width...
seen on /. earlier this year
-- Dear Lord, do you mean to say that the rumors of the day star are true !!! --- i am sorry for not quoting the originator, i googlesearched the phrase but nothing came
Many people here claim that this will backfire mainly because it will annoy everyone.
this is not true,
let me demonstrate with a little gedanken experiment.
1) would these popups annoy you ?
2) would you have considered voting for GW if it were'nt for those popups?
I think that this campaign is better targetted than one may think.
Remember that if spam & aggressive marketing were not economically viable, they would not exist
---
i'll stop here, because the next conclusion is not PC, (actually though i believe that conclusion, it would (rightly so) be considered flamebait)
--
now, (OT) since nobody mentioned THIS favorite blocker... (i also use it to block flash advertisement, which is the best feature in the history of browsers)
Many lawyers (IMO , this is not checked) get paid a certain percent of the damages rewarded to their client, sometimes as much as 50%.
putting a limit on this amount might help counter the waves of BS-lawsuits (for lack of a better name.) (though i realize this is unlikely)
another point that counter such suits (and can be carried out by the courts quite easily) is to charge the plantiff with both sides' legal fees in case his suit was deemed by the court unjust , and declared to be one without basis.
This may deter the ones that are just out fishing.
sorry , i got carried away so is my (e) (same rebuttal) you are right
1. Dave Barry wrote an important piece concerning nanotube application (in layperson's terms , carbon nanotubes are nanotubes made of carbon)
... (while being employed))
..
It also talks about those dummy close door elevator buttons (whose cousins, the crosswalk buttons were talked about a lot)
2. the original title was Dave Barry: Lawyers needed, many, to test space elevator , i'll get to that in a second.
OK let sum it up
youv'e got
a - a women suing her successfull son for slander (or ST) trying to get rich.
b - a women pretrnding to fall over in a day after Xmas DVD sale to sue the company (didn't it turn out that it was the 16th time she sued them
c - companies patenting facts, ideas , linux code.
d- a women suing (and winning) a department store claiming she sprained her arm tripping over a toddler (her own child)
e - a man suing his neighbor (and getting 5 figures) claiming the dog attacked him (which is true except that "he started it" by repeatedly shooting the dog with a BB gun)
(i appologize for not citing the reference but you can google for outrageous lawsuits to see that i downtoned)
These are syndromes of a society with too many lawyers, coupled with distorted get rich quick ideas
------ why don't all these people just meet up with wealthy nigerian businessmen/inheritors and split the $20,000,000,023.85 that just needs a resourceful individual like yourself
It doesn't even say they did it once !!
it says that perlininary results show that the bias is 51%,
which would imply you need more than 10000 tosses.
It doesn't say how many trials accounted for the 51% , but if they rely on the fact that "many tosses do not flip at all" and factor that in, then this really starts to smell.
or to quote R.P.Feynman (lectures on physics volume 1, IIRC)
The neatness in which all these lines converge simultaniously at a far away point are proof that this is the result of work done by a mathematician, and which does not represnt real data.
what you were really looking for is
"xml sucks" - 672
"xml rocks" - 79
you are a bigger majority.
its worst than just a dumbed down version.
its basically a pun-infested piece stating that 10^34 is bigger than 500.
a lot bigger.
very very much so.
indeed.
more in http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.ht ml
on a lighter note (not really light)
in http://www.terindell.com/asylum/filk/other/burton- west/nature.txt
you'll find a song