When you consider that Philip Glass studied at Juilliard for several years, this isn't really that surprising or far out for them. The robots' music was probably less repetitive and more soulful than Glass's compositions of the time;-) one of which is described as:
"The player performs "1 + 1" by tapping the table top with his fingers or knuckles. Two rhythmic units, which build the block of "1 + 1", are combined in regular arithmetic progressions."
but ROTFL relates to the action itself how? Oh that's right, it doesn't. It relates to the arbitrary linguistic units commonly used to describe said actions - spefically, in modern English.
Good point. I'd disagree with your comment that it 'describes said actions', though. I'd say that Rolling On The Floor Laughing is more an idiom, since it's very rare anyone ever actually rolls on the floor, and isn't really describing that process ever happening. Anyway, I see the difference you're trying to pick out.
When we might actually say words like 'lol' out aloud.
I've heard it done. I've also heard 'roffle' (an attempt at pronouncing ROTFL I guess). Bizarre, really, since those terms are attempts to turn physical real-life actions into a verbal-only form.
It's probably a good thing that they steer away from Slashdot as a corpus of English usage. Or, should I say, in SOVIET RUSSIA it's best Slashdot stays away from THEM! Or is it that only old people use the Internet as a corpus of the English language while pouring hot grits down a naked and petrified Natalie Portman's pants?
Well if even a Playstation 3 is going to be the equivalent of 20 Opterons, I imagine you could emulate an x86 in software (a la Virtual PC) and it'd still be as fast as, oh, a few Opterons?:)
I don't know if I can take this article seriously. A games console due out within the next year or two is going to be as powerful as 20 of our current top of the range chips? I'm not buying it.
There are a lot of people out there who understand the PageRank system, and complain that if they add outgoing links on their site then their previous PageRank will be "leaked" to other sites, rather than their own internal pages.
Well, luckily Google has now released a way for people to link to each other without leaking PageRank. Yes, the nofollow relation. So, now everyone can link to each other, and no-one gets any benefit out of it whatsoever.
This tag is not a bad idea, but I think the good things it could stamp out weren't considered anywhere near as much as the few bad things it can stamp out..
Of course, it only struck me that I might have made an expensive mistake after plugging it in, but luck and sensible engineering were on my side.
Do note that the specs are written on the power brick itself;-) That's the first place you should always look when plugging things into weird sockets.. *g*
For what it's worth.. iBook and PowerBook power supplies work in both areas (US/UK - and I guess the Continent too) as they're switch-mode. I think the PSU on the Mac Mini will be the same too, since the PSU is separate from the machine. So even if you bought a machine and the supplied power brick was wrong, the machine is still the same.
I agree, but I'm glad someone's doing it, even if I wouldn't. This is why I have some respect for what Gates is doing with his money. He's helping people get educated and manage to stay alive to actually experience space travel in the future;-)
Desktop search was supposed to be part of WinFS, which MS announced about a year ago. You can't call apple the innovator here, just the fastest-to-market.
Using that logic, Duke Nukem Forever is the most innovative FPS. Of course, we haven't seen it yet, but all the bold claims they made were waaaaay before Doom 3 and Halflife 2 were announced!
When we rolled in Linux to automate our internal business systems, security was at the top of the flag pole for us. Our old systems (AIX) had suffered from numerous repetitive flaws particularly in areas of allowing certain connections and not allowing others, which posed a significant problem when it came to securing the entire network from outside abuse.
We analyzed the various systems available to us at the time we were making the rearchitecture decision, some six months ago or so, and quite rapidly we reached a decision based on the data. That is.. Linux would be more secure in our company because we already have the technical people using Linux outside of work who would be able to already understand the system and be able to fix specific and non-specific security issues themselves rather than having us rely on an outside contractor or vendor. This meant we could buy vanilla beige boxes and install Linux, set up all of our business processes, all without having to go to one of those vendors such as RedHat, Sun, or one of the other many vendors in the Linux field.
So, security is a strong concept of safeness for us, and we're glad we're running Linux.
True, although I'd like to know how people actually get a seat at Starbucks. Do you have to get there as soon as it opens?
Whenever I've gone to a Starbucks (all of twenty times, admittedly) it's always jam packed and there's nowhere to sit. I once got a seat at a Starbucks out in a small country town. In LA? Forget it. The Starbucks in Studio City is full to capacity every time I've been there.
Luckily you can find nicer coffee shops that are emptier, but those tend not to have wireless. Oh the shame.
I can see a not-so-distant future where Web hosting companies are trying to dominate the 'hosting' tag on del.icio.us. Where fashion companies are putting pictures of some model wearing prada on the flickr 'fashion' tag. Where you always see pictures of the new Mercedes Benz on the 'car' tag.
What will prevent tag based systems getting overridden with commercial concerns like weblog comments have?
Wow, it really does work. I posted something that mentioned the word Toronto, and bam, I'm at the top of a page Slashdot linked to. Yes, it appears this system is kinda open to abuse, and that's what worries me about using systems like Technorati and del.icio.us as some sort of magical community showhome. They're great as personal tools, for organizing my links or looking who's linking to my site.. but for monitoring how communities use things? I'm not so sure on that. del.icio.us is already getting spammed, and I bet Flickr will be covered with spam images on popular tags within time.
Washington U has an interesting software project along similar lines. It can index thousands of pictures, and then recall them based on your crude drawings. Very cool and I think this tech is already appearing in one open source image management tool.
It's USB only. You can, however, get PS2->USB adapters on eBay pretty cheap. I have one so I can use my Microsoft Natural on my Mac. Works great. Also means you only take up one USB slot too.
This has been done by CIHost. They attributed 800 new clients to the stunt. With acquisition costs around $50-$100 in the hosting industry, the $15k or so they paid was pretty much a bargain if this is true. Only difference? The guy had the logo on the back of his head, not the front.
This move will be good for SA, because LiveJournal has some excellent thinkers and programmers. Okay, their users might tend to be a bit juvenile, but LiveJournal's architecture is pretty amazing. It's great what the team have managed to do with limited resources, they've developed some really hot technologies, like memcached, which even Slashdot uses now.
I just hope technology migrates from LJ to SA's products, rather than the other way round.. no TypeKey or comment spam on LJ please!
I tried their site but couldn't work out how they're getting these stats. From what I can make out, these people run some sort of counter company.. so they're getting their stats from hits to certain sites, right?
That being the case, it seems a bit dumb to guess that Microsoft uses Google X% of the time, because it's only true on a small subset of data. Without having Google's access logs, you can't possibly say that with any authority.
This story rang some bells for me. Okay, the story is kinda screwy, but this is a nice one anyway.
Back in 1990 when I was a wee lad, I was playing with a cover disk (5.25"!) what came with a PC magazine. It had a text adventure on it, so I installed it and began to play. It got kinda hard though, so I decided to try and hack through the data files that came with the game to get some ideas. Well, I looked through the files and saw the word C**T written there as one of the keywords. I went to the game and typed it in and it gave me some sort of rebuke.
I went and asked my parents, quite matter of factly, "What does c**t mean?" As you can imagine, they weren't so impressed, although they weren't mad. Anyway, I guess my dad complained to the magazine, and as a gesture of good will they sent me a copy of the then very brand new Wing Commander. Score!
And I never did find out what the word meant till several years after that..
It's not liberal enough. Most geeks, webloggers, and Internet users are more liberal than average. That's why Kerry aced nearly every single online poll. It's part of the demographic.
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When you consider that Philip Glass studied at Juilliard for several years, this isn't really that surprising or far out for them. The robots' music was probably less repetitive and more soulful than Glass's compositions of the time ;-) one of which is described as:
"The player performs "1 + 1" by tapping the table top with his fingers or knuckles. Two rhythmic units, which build the block of "1 + 1", are combined in regular arithmetic progressions."
but ROTFL relates to the action itself how? Oh that's right, it doesn't. It relates to the arbitrary linguistic units commonly used to describe said actions - spefically, in modern English.
Good point. I'd disagree with your comment that it 'describes said actions', though. I'd say that Rolling On The Floor Laughing is more an idiom, since it's very rare anyone ever actually rolls on the floor, and isn't really describing that process ever happening. Anyway, I see the difference you're trying to pick out.
When we might actually say words like 'lol' out aloud.
I've heard it done. I've also heard 'roffle' (an attempt at pronouncing ROTFL I guess). Bizarre, really, since those terms are attempts to turn physical real-life actions into a verbal-only form.
It's probably a good thing that they steer away from Slashdot as a corpus of English usage. Or, should I say, in SOVIET RUSSIA it's best Slashdot stays away from THEM! Or is it that only old people use the Internet as a corpus of the English language while pouring hot grits down a naked and petrified Natalie Portman's pants?
I know this isn't the Slashdot definition, but I'd call it redundant because it's common knowledge.
It'd be like replying to a post about Windows saying, "Windows is an operating system." It's redundant information, even if it's relevant.
Well if even a Playstation 3 is going to be the equivalent of 20 Opterons, I imagine you could emulate an x86 in software (a la Virtual PC) and it'd still be as fast as, oh, a few Opterons? :)
I don't know if I can take this article seriously. A games console due out within the next year or two is going to be as powerful as 20 of our current top of the range chips? I'm not buying it.
There are a lot of people out there who understand the PageRank system, and complain that if they add outgoing links on their site then their previous PageRank will be "leaked" to other sites, rather than their own internal pages.
Well, luckily Google has now released a way for people to link to each other without leaking PageRank. Yes, the nofollow relation. So, now everyone can link to each other, and no-one gets any benefit out of it whatsoever.
This tag is not a bad idea, but I think the good things it could stamp out weren't considered anywhere near as much as the few bad things it can stamp out..
Of course, it only struck me that I might have made an expensive mistake after plugging it in, but luck and sensible engineering were on my side.
;-) That's the first place you should always look when plugging things into weird sockets.. *g*
Do note that the specs are written on the power brick itself
For what it's worth.. iBook and PowerBook power supplies work in both areas (US/UK - and I guess the Continent too) as they're switch-mode. I think the PSU on the Mac Mini will be the same too, since the PSU is separate from the machine. So even if you bought a machine and the supplied power brick was wrong, the machine is still the same.
I agree, but I'm glad someone's doing it, even if I wouldn't. This is why I have some respect for what Gates is doing with his money. He's helping people get educated and manage to stay alive to actually experience space travel in the future ;-)
Perhaps because the -v switch often means 'verify'? Just a guess.
Desktop search was supposed to be part of WinFS, which MS announced about a year ago. You can't call apple the innovator here, just the fastest-to-market.
Using that logic, Duke Nukem Forever is the most innovative FPS. Of course, we haven't seen it yet, but all the bold claims they made were waaaaay before Doom 3 and Halflife 2 were announced!
When we rolled in Linux to automate our internal business systems, security was at the top of the flag pole for us. Our old systems (AIX) had suffered from numerous repetitive flaws particularly in areas of allowing certain connections and not allowing others, which posed a significant problem when it came to securing the entire network from outside abuse.
We analyzed the various systems available to us at the time we were making the rearchitecture decision, some six months ago or so, and quite rapidly we reached a decision based on the data. That is.. Linux would be more secure in our company because we already have the technical people using Linux outside of work who would be able to already understand the system and be able to fix specific and non-specific security issues themselves rather than having us rely on an outside contractor or vendor. This meant we could buy vanilla beige boxes and install Linux, set up all of our business processes, all without having to go to one of those vendors such as RedHat, Sun, or one of the other many vendors in the Linux field.
So, security is a strong concept of safeness for us, and we're glad we're running Linux.
True, although I'd like to know how people actually get a seat at Starbucks. Do you have to get there as soon as it opens?
Whenever I've gone to a Starbucks (all of twenty times, admittedly) it's always jam packed and there's nowhere to sit. I once got a seat at a Starbucks out in a small country town. In LA? Forget it. The Starbucks in Studio City is full to capacity every time I've been there.
Luckily you can find nicer coffee shops that are emptier, but those tend not to have wireless. Oh the shame.
To be honest, a deal was announced what.. a week ago? I seriously doubt Six Apart has control over anything at this point.
I just realized I wasn't really clear.
I can see a not-so-distant future where Web hosting companies are trying to dominate the 'hosting' tag on del.icio.us. Where fashion companies are putting pictures of some model wearing prada on the flickr 'fashion' tag. Where you always see pictures of the new Mercedes Benz on the 'car' tag.
What will prevent tag based systems getting overridden with commercial concerns like weblog comments have?
Wow, it really does work. I posted something that mentioned the word Toronto, and bam, I'm at the top of a page Slashdot linked to. Yes, it appears this system is kinda open to abuse, and that's what worries me about using systems like Technorati and del.icio.us as some sort of magical community showhome. They're great as personal tools, for organizing my links or looking who's linking to my site.. but for monitoring how communities use things? I'm not so sure on that. del.icio.us is already getting spammed, and I bet Flickr will be covered with spam images on popular tags within time.
Unfortunately there are certain people who will never gain any benefit from reading this stuff because it's simply not what they want to hear.
So what do they want to hear? We can just write that and make some money.
Washington U has an interesting software project along similar lines. It can index thousands of pictures, and then recall them based on your crude drawings. Very cool and I think this tech is already appearing in one open source image management tool.
It's USB only. You can, however, get PS2->USB adapters on eBay pretty cheap. I have one so I can use my Microsoft Natural on my Mac. Works great. Also means you only take up one USB slot too.
This has been done by CIHost. They attributed 800 new clients to the stunt. With acquisition costs around $50-$100 in the hosting industry, the $15k or so they paid was pretty much a bargain if this is true. Only difference? The guy had the logo on the back of his head, not the front.
This move will be good for SA, because LiveJournal has some excellent thinkers and programmers. Okay, their users might tend to be a bit juvenile, but LiveJournal's architecture is pretty amazing. It's great what the team have managed to do with limited resources, they've developed some really hot technologies, like memcached, which even Slashdot uses now.
I just hope technology migrates from LJ to SA's products, rather than the other way round.. no TypeKey or comment spam on LJ please!
I tried their site but couldn't work out how they're getting these stats. From what I can make out, these people run some sort of counter company.. so they're getting their stats from hits to certain sites, right?
That being the case, it seems a bit dumb to guess that Microsoft uses Google X% of the time, because it's only true on a small subset of data. Without having Google's access logs, you can't possibly say that with any authority.
This story rang some bells for me. Okay, the story is kinda screwy, but this is a nice one anyway.
Back in 1990 when I was a wee lad, I was playing with a cover disk (5.25"!) what came with a PC magazine. It had a text adventure on it, so I installed it and began to play. It got kinda hard though, so I decided to try and hack through the data files that came with the game to get some ideas. Well, I looked through the files and saw the word C**T written there as one of the keywords. I went to the game and typed it in and it gave me some sort of rebuke.
I went and asked my parents, quite matter of factly, "What does c**t mean?" As you can imagine, they weren't so impressed, although they weren't mad. Anyway, I guess my dad complained to the magazine, and as a gesture of good will they sent me a copy of the then very brand new Wing Commander. Score!
And I never did find out what the word meant till several years after that..
It's not liberal enough. Most geeks, webloggers, and Internet users are more liberal than average. That's why Kerry aced nearly every single online poll. It's part of the demographic.