Except unlike with email, you have to have an authenticated from field in an instant message. If anyone wants valid ICQ UIN's it's easy to generate them. They're consecutive integers! and there is some spam, but it's not so bad. Many clients have a "don't accept messages from people not in my contact list" setting to avoid it entirely.
It sounds like that web page with the javascript button that runs way from your mouse cursor - as soon as you start typing all the keyboard controls change!
I see a lot of people complain about the windows key, but the more modifier keys the better, if you ask me!
And besides, windows assigns some really useful global hotkeys to windows key combinations (win+r = Run, win+e = new explorer window, win+d = minimize/revert all programs ("desktop"), win+break= system properties, to name a few. see your help files for a complete list)
It doesn't really matter unless the letter / dipthong / consonant cluster distribution is different in this more archaic style (it for the most part isn't).
I think a potentially bigger problem is that sv occurs high up in the list of words, since it isn't even like an english word. But I don't think it matters that much, just because sv and thou each only make up 0.2% of the corpus.
way of saying the same thing is that the (human) language in which you think and speak determines what you can think and speak about.
The linguistics side of that is called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and in its strong form (the one you stated) generally isn't taken very seriously. However, language does influence thought, that's certain.
I think a more direct relationship is true for computer programming, however, which is really the point of this discussion anyways.
So only the elite get to have fun? That's retarded too. They should be able to say "this isn't fun for me, getting my ass smeared all over the map, I quit." It's not like they entered some contract to play to the specified time limit or kill count or anything with you...
Infinite Jest is way geeky. But it's fantastic, and geeky in a totally different way from GEB or Programming Perl (first of all, it's a novel. Second of all, computers are as absent as possible from a book that takes place 5-10 years in the future). If you've got the patience for GEB, you'll definately find Infinite Jest worth while. Especially a second time through!
Netscape started eroding the standards first. I blame neither MS nor NS because:
The goal was never to break standards, the goal was to provide the features developers/designers wanted. Which is why they got used. Which is why now that the standards are catching up, people can write standard HTML and still do stuff more complicated than showing a picture of their dog.
Yes, clearly it's unreasonable for them to ship software with any bugs in it. That chief software architect should have personally looked at each of the 10 million lines of code and formally verified its correctness, and refused to ship the product until he was done. THAT'S a winning strategy.
Me and my roommate have been writing a game - we're about halfway done. We're running into the same questions. Open source would be nice, but making money would be good too (breaking even on hosting/bandwidth fees would be a step in the right direction).
Currently our plan is to charge $5 for an account on our multiplayer servers. This has two advantages: 1) We get some money. 2) People are less likely to make a billion accounts to abuse the rating/scoring system.
Also that means that we can give the client away for free, open source or not.
But it's totally one of those things where... there's not way to predict how well it will work until you try it.
Technological solutions can't ever really fix problems that aren't technological in nature
I could not disagree with you more. If techonolgy could only be applied to solve technological problems, it wouldn't be much good at all. But the fact is that technology CAN change the way we live, the way we interact, the way we think about the world. Technology provides a kind of power, and like everything else, it can be used for good (the internet enables free speech to some extent all throughout the world), or for awful.
In terms of physical discomfort, it was basically unnoticable during the day, but yeah, insertion was kind of weird, and removal tickled my gag reflex. But it was surprisingly non-awful.
Like seemingly most/. readers I have had my share of debiliating and/or unpleasant medical or emotional problems. Thus I had to wear one of the 24-hour nasal catheters that this technology will replace, on several occasions. The way it works is they stick a tube up your nose, down your throat, and attach it to a walkman sized gizmo that's recording the output. Then they say "go home, and have a regular day at junior high". Then they monitor the acid levels throughout this "normal" day. It's not really all that unpleasant, in terms of medical procedure, but socially the "normal day" was no walk in the park.
I'm just thankful that my gastrointestinal problems were all upper GI. Talk about unpleasant medical procedures!
I think the big difference is that you can conclusively say with a theoretical basis what sounds CDs can't store. Just because there's no theoretical to what a record can hold (er, unless you get down to the molecular level), doesn't mean that they (or the rest of your sound system! or your own sensory system!) have no practical upper limit.
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Except unlike with email, you have to have an authenticated from field in an instant message. If anyone wants valid ICQ UIN's it's easy to generate them. They're consecutive integers! and there is some spam, but it's not so bad. Many clients have a "don't accept messages from people not in my contact list" setting to avoid it entirely.
It sounds like that web page with the javascript button that runs way from your mouse cursor - as soon as you start typing all the keyboard controls change!
His 'experiment' does verify that Dvorak's layout at least does a pretty good job of meeting its theoretical design goals.
I see a lot of people complain about the windows key, but the more modifier keys the better, if you ask me!
And besides, windows assigns some really useful global hotkeys to windows key combinations (win+r = Run, win+e = new explorer window, win+d = minimize/revert all programs ("desktop"), win+break= system properties, to name a few. see your help files for a complete list)
It doesn't really matter unless the letter / dipthong / consonant cluster distribution is different in this more archaic style (it for the most part isn't).
I think a potentially bigger problem is that sv occurs high up in the list of words, since it isn't even like an english word. But I don't think it matters that much, just because sv and thou each only make up 0.2% of the corpus.
That doesn't stop him from building a klein bottle and so on.
Sure you can. You may not be able to accurately play it back, but you can certainly generate any pcm data you want and burn it to cd.
Nickelodeon is showing Invader Zim, however. That redeems them significantly, IMO.
Well, sure, but who chose to use mySQL?
No integers. This may be appropriate to NVIDIA, but is not a universal design decision.
Arrays use float indices. This is an odd design decision, relevant to DirectX 8 and Nvidia only.
Without ints what else would you use?
I'm not sure I even understand why MS or Netscape care. I mean, it's not like there's a crapload of money to be made by giving out free web browsers..
It's also always darkest before it goes pitch black.
actually, it's darker after it goes pitch black.
way of saying the same thing is that the (human) language in which you think and speak determines what you can think and speak about.
The linguistics side of that is called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and in its strong form (the one you stated) generally isn't taken very seriously. However, language does influence thought, that's certain.
I think a more direct relationship is true for computer programming, however, which is really the point of this discussion anyways.
So only the elite get to have fun? That's retarded too. They should be able to say "this isn't fun for me, getting my ass smeared all over the map, I quit." It's not like they entered some contract to play to the specified time limit or kill count or anything with you...
Infinite Jest is way geeky. But it's fantastic, and geeky in a totally different way from GEB or Programming Perl (first of all, it's a novel. Second of all, computers are as absent as possible from a book that takes place 5-10 years in the future). If you've got the patience for GEB, you'll definately find Infinite Jest worth while. Especially a second time through!
Netscape started eroding the standards first. I blame neither MS nor NS because:
The goal was never to break standards, the goal was to provide the features developers/designers wanted. Which is why they got used. Which is why now that the standards are catching up, people can write standard HTML and still do stuff more complicated than showing a picture of their dog.
Yes, clearly it's unreasonable for them to ship software with any bugs in it. That chief software architect should have personally looked at each of the 10 million lines of code and formally verified its correctness, and refused to ship the product until he was done. THAT'S a winning strategy.
Me and my roommate have been writing a game - we're about halfway done. We're running into the same questions. Open source would be nice, but making money would be good too (breaking even on hosting/bandwidth fees would be a step in the right direction).
Currently our plan is to charge $5 for an account on our multiplayer servers. This has two advantages: 1) We get some money. 2) People are less likely to make a billion accounts to abuse the rating/scoring system. Also that means that we can give the client away for free, open source or not. But it's totally one of those things where... there's not way to predict how well it will work until you try it.
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Happiness is mandatory!
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Technological solutions can't ever really fix problems that aren't technological in nature
I could not disagree with you more. If techonolgy could only be applied to solve technological problems, it wouldn't be much good at all. But the fact is that technology CAN change the way we live, the way we interact, the way we think about the world. Technology provides a kind of power, and like everything else, it can be used for good (the internet enables free speech to some extent all throughout the world), or for awful.
A heads up to anyone interested, Wishmountainisdead is Matt Herbert's project that is exhibits this the most strongly. It's also excellent.
In terms of physical discomfort, it was basically unnoticable during the day, but yeah, insertion was kind of weird, and removal tickled my gag reflex. But it was surprisingly non-awful.
Like seemingly most /. readers I have had my share of debiliating and/or unpleasant medical or emotional problems. Thus I had to wear one of the 24-hour nasal catheters that this technology will replace, on several occasions. The way it works is they stick a tube up your nose, down your throat, and attach it to a walkman sized gizmo that's recording the output. Then they say "go home, and have a regular day at junior high". Then they monitor the acid levels throughout this "normal" day. It's not really all that unpleasant, in terms of medical procedure, but socially the "normal day" was no walk in the park.
I'm just thankful that my gastrointestinal problems were all upper GI. Talk about unpleasant medical procedures!
I think the big difference is that you can conclusively say with a theoretical basis what sounds CDs can't store. Just because there's no theoretical to what a record can hold (er, unless you get down to the molecular level), doesn't mean that they (or the rest of your sound system! or your own sensory system!) have no practical upper limit.