Programming is an artistic endeavour. However it is totally different from designing a very good GUI. Programming is about being efficient and getting the most out of a machine. Programming isn't exactly like math or drawing but more like logic. I mean Math is of course *logic* but writing Math proofs or making Math arguments is different then programming. Maybe doing analysis is closest to programming but I feel when I do Math I'm doing something more spatially motivated. Programming I believe at least from my experience is not spatially motivated.
GUIs is about space and how to use space efficiently. Now if a programmer tries to apply the same reasoning that he uses while programming to designing GUIs there is inefficiency.
The semantics of programming is the same for every language and there is a consistancy. In x amount of lines I want to achieve y amount of tasks. There is a finite amount of ways to achieve this in any certain language. On the other hand designing a GUI is about taking space and manipulating it so I can move things around and build something. Designing a GUI is like painting or sculpting while programming is like writing a good essay.
There is a conflict between someone who is good at programming trying to design a GUI because they apply the same techniques which in a sense are incompatible. Programming is uniform and arguments over code can be solved by which code *works* the best. GUIs problems can not be solved like this since each individual manipulateds space or translates space at different rates and different ways. Programmers should stay away from designing GUIs because they tend to use programming methods. Spatial artists like painters, sculptors, graphic imagining should be given the task of GUI design. The task of designing a GUI is making space accessible to everyone is a uniform way. This is very different then programming.
I just feel that GUIs should be designed by those who have the talents to do such a thing. People who can take space and make it simple are spatial artists and architects. GUIs is like designing a building while programming is like writing... two different things.
Americans read of course... but they read garbage. Self-help books and tv guides. Basically the only reading that actually creates an active and critical mind is barely covered in high school. Then maybe a few required courses on the classics in college. Active reading of nonfiction and literature does not permeate in American culture. Sure you have book clubs etc... but thats the vast minority.
Its filled with pulp fiction about nothing meaningful, self-help books on how to make money, how to lose weight (yet we are still fat) and just plain out crap. Most of the nonfiction books are about fiction books (da vinci code anyone).
What if us Americans were deeply involved with John Rawls, Plato, Locke, Marx, Chomsky, Zinn, Derrida, Heidegger, Mohammend, Mark, Paul, Lao Tzu, Samjaya, Nagarjuna, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Heinlein, etc.... I guess we'd be a population of smart people.
Godel's theorem related to physics states that there will never exist one set of axioms that will describe every phenomena we encounter. Hawking gave an interesting lecture on Godel and Physics... I'm sure its on the web somewhere.
I hate to say it, but CDMS II (this experiment) was SUPPOSED to not find WIMPs in this range. There was an experiment called DAMA which had found a modulation in their noise consistent with their being WIMP dark matter, and they claimed detection. The whole purpose of this press release is to say that DAMA's claimed detection is now *ruled out*.
Maybe I'm confused but in the article they use words like incompatible and inconsistent with DAMA. The also say this is the new limit on WIMP-nucleon scalar cross section. So apparently unless I'm wrong.. which I probably am CDMS II went further then DAMA and didn't find anything. Anyway check out fig. 5, and if I am wrong an explanation of it would be nice.
wtf are you talking about... he could have played football for 3.6 million dollars... but this guy turned it down to go fight for his country. Thats pretty impressive and rare. I'm not putting a dollar figure on his life I'm if anything showing how much this guy wanted to fight for his country. Ask someone would you rather play football and get 3.6 million or die in a desert for your country. I'm sure 99% would take the money but this guy was part of the 1% who values honor and sacrifice over money. I dont dirty his accomplishments... I celebrate them
He turned down a 3.6 million dollar contract for a 18k a year job in the Rangers. Plus he fought in Iraq, came back to the US then opted to go to Afghanistan. Everyone who has so far died in this conflict is a hero to me but this guy was extraordinary.
Cardinality is essential for things like constructability, measurement, accessibility, and even computation. Mathematical systems may change according to observation/perception etc but the cardinality of the essential number system (natural numbers... aleph null) can not be changed. If there is such a cardinality to replace it... there is no way for us (human beings) to talk about it.
The solution is so simple. Just let Spirit find signs of WMD on Mars. Soonly after British intelligence discovers that Beagle 2 has be sabotoged by terrorists who have been using Mars as a terrorist training camp. Then by tomorrow Bush will give a speech indicating that the 'evil doers' are on Mars and Mars must be invaded. Five seconds later the guys at NASA hear a really loud cash register noise.
Because of the medium, I was able to cast my question in a non-threatening way, and he was able to compose his response without me watching his expression, or second-guessing his body language.
There is nothing wrong with being scared... nothing wrong with mustering up some courage to say something important to someone to their face. There is nothing wrong with being a little bit paranoid, being angry, being judgemental. Its natural. Its natural for things to be hard and uncomfortable. But when you take away the inconveniences because you don't like them... thats just running away. You become weak. Life becomes too goddamn easy. You can talk to your son about anything in front of him and he can say anything in front of you... You just need to have some strength and courage. When did those things become obsolete?
that scientifically Led Zeppelin 4 is the best album of all time. Therefore the best album every year. But White Stripes are pretty good. Even Jimmy Page likes them.
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the only way to stop piracy is divine intervention from God... btw God has an easynews account
also self-destructing....
btw I had to turn off the windows firewall built into SP2 to access slashdot... great job capitalism!!!!!!!
so your dick is on your head?
Programming is an artistic endeavour. However it is totally different from designing a very good GUI. Programming is about being efficient and getting the most out of a machine. Programming isn't exactly like math or drawing but more like logic. I mean Math is of course *logic* but writing Math proofs or making Math arguments is different then programming. Maybe doing analysis is closest to programming but I feel when I do Math I'm doing something more spatially motivated. Programming I believe at least from my experience is not spatially motivated.
GUIs is about space and how to use space efficiently. Now if a programmer tries to apply the same reasoning that he uses while programming to designing GUIs there is inefficiency.
The semantics of programming is the same for every language and there is a consistancy. In x amount of lines I want to achieve y amount of tasks. There is a finite amount of ways to achieve this in any certain language. On the other hand designing a GUI is about taking space and manipulating it so I can move things around and build something. Designing a GUI is like painting or sculpting while programming is like writing a good essay.
There is a conflict between someone who is good at programming trying to design a GUI because they apply the same techniques which in a sense are incompatible. Programming is uniform and arguments over code can be solved by which code *works* the best. GUIs problems can not be solved like this since each individual manipulateds space or translates space at different rates and different ways. Programmers should stay away from designing GUIs because they tend to use programming methods. Spatial artists like painters, sculptors, graphic imagining should be given the task of GUI design. The task of designing a GUI is making space accessible to everyone is a uniform way. This is very different then programming.
I just feel that GUIs should be designed by those who have the talents to do such a thing. People who can take space and make it simple are spatial artists and architects. GUIs is like designing a building while programming is like writing... two different things.
It was the gayest book ever.
Americans read of course... but they read garbage. Self-help books and tv guides. Basically the only reading that actually creates an active and critical mind is barely covered in high school. Then maybe a few required courses on the classics in college. Active reading of nonfiction and literature does not permeate in American culture. Sure you have book clubs etc... but thats the vast minority.
Just take a look at the NYTimes Bestseller list.
Its filled with pulp fiction about nothing meaningful, self-help books on how to make money, how to lose weight (yet we are still fat) and just plain out crap. Most of the nonfiction books are about fiction books (da vinci code anyone).
What if us Americans were deeply involved with John Rawls, Plato, Locke, Marx, Chomsky, Zinn, Derrida, Heidegger, Mohammend, Mark, Paul, Lao Tzu, Samjaya, Nagarjuna, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Heinlein, etc.... I guess we'd be a population of smart people.
whatever you damn terrorist i'm copying your commie antiamerican slander and sending it to john ashcroft.
if mathematics can not be axiomized then neither can the laws of physics but sure try it out if you want.
Godel's theorem related to physics states that there will never exist one set of axioms that will describe every phenomena we encounter. Hawking gave an interesting lecture on Godel and Physics... I'm sure its on the web somewhere.
i'm an idiot i confused now with not... stay off the drugs man
I hate to say it, but CDMS II (this experiment) was SUPPOSED to not find WIMPs in this range. There was an experiment called DAMA which had found a modulation in their noise consistent with their being WIMP dark matter, and they claimed detection. The whole purpose of this press release is to say that DAMA's claimed detection is now *ruled out*.
Maybe I'm confused but in the article they use words like incompatible and inconsistent with DAMA. The also say this is the new limit on WIMP-nucleon scalar cross section. So apparently unless I'm wrong.. which I probably am CDMS II went further then DAMA and didn't find anything. Anyway check out fig. 5, and if I am wrong an explanation of it would be nice.
There exists no logic derived from a countable set of axioms that can prove every proposition true or false. I hope thats a better explanation.
Godel's Theorem says one simple thing a finite list of axioms can never create a logic that can 'talk' about everything.
wtf are you talking about... he could have played football for 3.6 million dollars... but this guy turned it down to go fight for his country. Thats pretty impressive and rare. I'm not putting a dollar figure on his life I'm if anything showing how much this guy wanted to fight for his country. Ask someone would you rather play football and get 3.6 million or die in a desert for your country. I'm sure 99% would take the money but this guy was part of the 1% who values honor and sacrifice over money.
I dont dirty his accomplishments... I celebrate them
He turned down a 3.6 million dollar contract for a 18k a year job in the Rangers. Plus he fought in Iraq, came back to the US then opted to go to Afghanistan. Everyone who has so far died in this conflict is a hero to me but this guy was extraordinary.
Cardinality is essential for things like constructability, measurement, accessibility, and even computation. Mathematical systems may change according to observation/perception etc but the cardinality of the essential number system (natural numbers... aleph null) can not be changed. If there is such a cardinality to replace it... there is no way for us (human beings) to talk about it.
The solution is so simple. Just let Spirit find signs of WMD on Mars. Soonly after British intelligence discovers that Beagle 2 has be sabotoged by terrorists who have been using Mars as a terrorist training camp. Then by tomorrow Bush will give a speech indicating that the 'evil doers' are on Mars and Mars must be invaded. Five seconds later the guys at NASA hear a really loud cash register noise.
Because of the medium, I was able to cast my question in a non-threatening way, and he was able to compose his response without me watching his expression, or second-guessing his body language.
There is nothing wrong with being scared... nothing wrong with mustering up some courage to say something important to someone to their face. There is nothing wrong with being a little bit paranoid, being angry, being judgemental. Its natural. Its natural for things to be hard and uncomfortable. But when you take away the inconveniences because you don't like them... thats just running away. You become weak. Life becomes too goddamn easy. You can talk to your son about anything in front of him and he can say anything in front of you... You just need to have some strength and courage. When did those things become obsolete?
YES!! Stairway!! Accepted
that scientifically Led Zeppelin 4 is the best album of all time. Therefore the best album every year. But White Stripes are pretty good. Even Jimmy Page likes them.
ovens burn in jews!!!
In Soviet Russia KDE installs YOU!!!!
holds promise for future unlimited, clean energy
the same promise that politicians will stop lying, no more taxes, bosses wont be incompetent jerks, women will make sense and life will stop hurting?
god i love the holidays.
where Neanderthals on an alternate earth, where Homo sapiens died out instead, use a quantum computer which opens a portal to our world.
and this won a Hugo? Is SciFi that bad nowadays?
my bad you are right 0.333... is rational and so is 0.999....
however i still think 0.999... does not equal 1. yet this is still a matter of debate.