Maybe you weren't alive in the 80's but that's just how we talked. We said stuff like:
"I love Tron's graphics, they're so BAD." and "Tron's graphics are so BAD, they spun me right round, baby, right round. Like a record, baby, right round round round." and "Tron's colors are like my dream. Red, gold and green." and "Like totally to the max!"
B) If you don't think that machines can ever be "sentient" but you do believe that biological organisms can be, then you must explain what magic is happening in biology which can not be replicated in other media.
Also, if you could explain at exactly which level of biological intelligence "sentience" emerges. I'll assume you would claim humans as sentient. Is that all humans? How about apes? Monkeys? All mammals? All vertebrates? Maybe if we can determine who is sentient and who isn't, we can study the differences in their brains and find out what is the magic part that makes it all possible.
I was gonna get an iPad but now that someone has vaguely described a competing product I think I'll just hold on to my money for up to 3 years consider buying it instead.
This is a clear case of "dog bites man" and therefore, by definition, not news. Let me know when a diabetic dog's life is saved by his heroic master eating one of his toes.
I'm not entirely convinced that a backlit screen causes as much eye strain as people think. It may sound strange, but I think part of the blame is on badly rendered fonts. I rarely, if ever, get eye strain reading text on a Mac or iPod but chunky Windows fonts will do it to me. Or maybe it's just psychological...
Nobody. But if anyone did, they'd immediately find the premise of the article ridiculous. Good luck teaching a baby to use a Kindle. Also, I doubt babies would be interested in monochrome rabbits.
I used to have an ereader, not a kindle but similar, and I liked it a lot until it broke. But I really don't see why anyone would choose a kindle or similar device over an iPad. Am I missing something?
Yes but also, Beck will now have to periodically renew the domain to keep it from falling into the "wrong" hands. So, every year or so his credit card statement will bear the words "didglenbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990". Something about that makes me smile.
Recently, I've seen some C# code written by Japanese which not only has Japanese comments, but also strings and even constants that use Japanese multibyte characters. It's really ridiculous because it compounds the problem, it's not just a language problem anymore, it's also an encoding problem. I think the latter is actually harder to deal with.
It does say something beyond that actually. It indicates that Microsoft may not have a very good working relationship with hardware companies. Clearly MS isn't optimizing their stuff to run on Apple's hardware but maybe they're not doing much to make sure it works well with any hardware.
You may think it's pretty sad that so many Americans believe in such a silly thing but here in Japan, practically everyone believes in ghosts. It's so prevalent that when people find out that my opinion is basically the same as Penn and Teller's conclusion, they're usually shocked and can't believe it. To them, it seems, the existence of ghosts is as much a fact of life as the sun rising in the East.
It's pretty weird quirk for a country that seems to be so far ahead of the curve in so many other ways.
Your #5 doesn't work. The timeline of the establishment of the 13th colony and our own understanding of our species' history on earth has the Galactica arriving on earth when humans are still quite primitive.
Slashdot Mirror
Title: just like windows 3
Conclusion: it's hard to make comparisons
You win.
And the Star War in which a desert planet dirt farmer saves the galaxy is also fantasy.
Maybe you weren't alive in the 80's but that's just how we talked. We said stuff like:
"I love Tron's graphics, they're so BAD."
and
"Tron's graphics are so BAD, they spun me right round, baby, right round. Like a record, baby, right round round round."
and
"Tron's colors are like my dream. Red, gold and green."
and
"Like totally to the max!"
B) If you don't think that machines can ever be "sentient" but you do believe that biological organisms can be, then you must explain what magic is happening in biology which can not be replicated in other media.
Also, if you could explain at exactly which level of biological intelligence "sentience" emerges. I'll assume you would claim humans as sentient. Is that all humans? How about apes? Monkeys? All mammals? All vertebrates? Maybe if we can determine who is sentient and who isn't, we can study the differences in their brains and find out what is the magic part that makes it all possible.
Still ... aren't we supposed to skip every version of Windows (because they're always only half-cooked)?
There. Fixed that for ya.
Vocabulary != grammar
So, no, you're not a grammar nazi. You're a vocabulary nazi but maybe just not a very good one.
I was gonna get an iPad but now that someone has vaguely described a competing product I think I'll just hold on to my money for up to 3 years consider buying it instead.
This is a clear case of "dog bites man" and therefore, by definition, not news. Let me know when a diabetic dog's life is saved by his heroic master eating one of his toes.
Sounds like more evidence for that small penis theory.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:King_Tut_had_a_small_penis
I'm waiting for programmable okonomiyaki.
And I, for one, welcome our new moon water overlords.
But seriously, if you want anyone to get interested in the moon, you need to find out how much light sweet crude is up there.
Please bring this to Japan. It is impossible to find free wifi here. SBC used to have it but they seem to have completely folded.
I'm not entirely convinced that a backlit screen causes as much eye strain as people think. It may sound strange, but I think part of the blame is on badly rendered fonts. I rarely, if ever, get eye strain reading text on a Mac or iPod but chunky Windows fonts will do it to me. Or maybe it's just psychological...
They got 'a guy' into parliament? 'A' guy? One? Let me tell you about the USA...
Nobody. But if anyone did, they'd immediately find the premise of the article ridiculous. Good luck teaching a baby to use a Kindle. Also, I doubt babies would be interested in monochrome rabbits.
I used to have an ereader, not a kindle but similar, and I liked it a lot until it broke. But I really don't see why anyone would choose a kindle or similar device over an iPad. Am I missing something?
Wow, I feel like I know so much about you now. What was your point, again?
They didn't 'reverse' the policy, they ended it. A reversal would result in a new policy in which you may only pay with cash.
Thanks for summing that up. But you forgot that those reasons are not evenly weighted. Let me help you:
1. 5%
2. 90%
3. 0%
4. It often creates smaller files than the alternatives - 5%.
Yes but also, Beck will now have to periodically renew the domain to keep it from falling into the "wrong" hands. So, every year or so his credit card statement will bear the words "didglenbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990". Something about that makes me smile.
Recently, I've seen some C# code written by Japanese which not only has Japanese comments, but also strings and even constants that use Japanese multibyte characters. It's really ridiculous because it compounds the problem, it's not just a language problem anymore, it's also an encoding problem. I think the latter is actually harder to deal with.
Only one man can save Microsoft now. But where is Gil Amelio when they really need him?
It does say something beyond that actually. It indicates that Microsoft may not have a very good working relationship with hardware companies. Clearly MS isn't optimizing their stuff to run on Apple's hardware but maybe they're not doing much to make sure it works well with any hardware.
"They seem to have lost the transparency that they had."
It took them 10 years to finally get PNGs working properly and now they're going to be broken again?
You may think it's pretty sad that so many Americans believe in such a silly thing but here in Japan, practically everyone believes in ghosts. It's so prevalent that when people find out that my opinion is basically the same as Penn and Teller's conclusion, they're usually shocked and can't believe it. To them, it seems, the existence of ghosts is as much a fact of life as the sun rising in the East.
It's pretty weird quirk for a country that seems to be so far ahead of the curve in so many other ways.
Your #5 doesn't work. The timeline of the establishment of the 13th colony and our own understanding of our species' history on earth has the Galactica arriving on earth when humans are still quite primitive.