Hmm, I am a friend of theories like this but in this case ?? The NYT still sells it and I recall that I then have seen it in "then to be trusted" magazines (note that I was (already:) able to read back then).
Evil cyborg Bill takes off a shoe and starts banging it on the podium, "I WILL BURY YOU!"
Just to give some historical context for those who might eventually not remember.
In 1959 Cold War tensions eased a little. The new Soviet leader, Nikita Khruschchev, visited Dwight Eisenhower at his holiday home near Washington. The meeting was very friendly. But the next year, relations got worse again. An American military plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Eisenhower admitted that such planes had been spying on the Soviets for four years. In a speech at the United Nations, Khruschchev got so angry that he took off his shoe and beat it on a table. loc.cit.
considering the time & a probable computation error
from./... "Seems as though the Genesis spacecraft was able to launch from earth, travel through space, avoid aliens, and cruise back into the atmosphere to be caught by stunt pilots waiting patiently with their helicopters. Alas, the brakes didn't work because a sensor was designed upside down.
With all the advanced technology, nothing similar or remotedly comparable happens in the new millenium.
"We all assume that the kernel is the kernel that is maintained by kernel.org and that Linux won't fork the way UNIX did..right? There's a great story at internetnews.com about the SuSe CTO taking issue with Red Hat backporting features of the 2.6 Kernel into its own version of the 2.4 kernel. "I think it's a mistake, I think it's a big mistake," he said. "It's a big mistake because of one reason, this work is not going to be supported by the open source community because it's not interesting anymore because everyone else is working on 2.6." My read on this is a thinly veiled attack on Red Hat for 'forking' the kernel. The article also give a bit of background on SuSe's recent decision to GPL their setup tool YAST, which they hope other distros will adopt too."
My father still tries to control his PC with the stereo remote.
Reminds me of a word of a friend: "The Internet is only then ready for the masses when my parents can easily manage to access what they want with a remote". (He is ~50 and in IT and Counseling with UI evaluation experience).
Basically, this boils down to that developers should adapt to human behaviour basics (cave: are there any - I am not so sure - but still).
Donald A. Waterman, Allen Newell: PAS-II: An Interactive Task-Free Version of an Automatic Protocol Analysis System. IEEE Trans. Computers 25(4): 402-413 (1976)
which, considering the state-of-the-art then (it was PDP 10) times was performing not too bad (as I thought then).
Starting from there, I think it would be feasible today to come up with s. th. conforming to "HCI-ideas" more than particularly java which could tackle the DWIM-problem a little better than this ancient one (C-c d - For ACL only, does a "Do What I Mean" eval/compile (see function documentation for eli-lisp-eval-or-compile-dwim).)
Extended further. I recollect that when I was in the "electric train set" age on Christmas they presented me a layout without a train (it was hidden in the tunnel) telling me it would arrive next year.
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They ought to measure ... the relative frequency of overeating and drinking to self-medicate a negative emotional state, ...
... erm ... and what kind of non-psychological device do you use to assess "a negative emotional state" ??
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mispellings of popular cites
No.
Presumably more likely.
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Noone was there to take a picture
:) able to read back then).
Hmm, I am a friend of theories like this but in this case ?? The NYT still sells it and I recall that I then have seen it in "then to be trusted" magazines (note that I was (already
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Evil cyborg Bill takes off a shoe and starts banging it on the podium, "I WILL BURY YOU!"
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Just to give some historical context for those who might eventually not remember.
In 1959 Cold War tensions eased a little. The new Soviet leader, Nikita Khruschchev, visited Dwight Eisenhower at his holiday home near Washington. The meeting was very friendly. But the next year, relations got worse again. An American military plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Eisenhower admitted that such planes had been spying on the Soviets for four years. In a speech at the United Nations, Khruschchev got so angry that he took off his shoe and beat it on a table.
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That doesn't sound like the Google I know and love.
Loads of empathy from my side, but " Pecunia non olet! ".
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One thing I noticed is nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, can stand being overtaken by one of these.
Even more so if you drive a classic MINI as I do.
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Hell, with all that, if it can give you a blowjob too, who needs a girlfriend?
Hmm, if the phone is smart indeed, it might have other choices besides this if it spots a cute potential evironment {|}
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but you have to be a realist (rare on Slashdot, I know) ...
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Hmm, looking back, becoming a realist is like starting to die -- so beware
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+5 funny - thank you for extending my scope of language
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don't make samba shares on your firewall box
Don't put a harddisk in your firewall box.
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... please explain.
Maybe this is too idiomatic so my language skills leave me alone ???
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P.S.:Editorial comment, offtopic by rule.
considering the time & a probable computation error
./ ... "Seems as though the Genesis spacecraft was able to launch from earth, travel through space, avoid aliens, and cruise back into the atmosphere to be caught by stunt pilots waiting patiently with their helicopters. Alas, the brakes didn't work because a sensor was designed upside down.
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With all the advanced technology, nothing similar or remotedly comparable happens in the new millenium.
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if Paul Krill himself was written in lisp
Maybe a test case on the basis of a (poorly) semanically loaded web using PROLOG ?
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erm
"We all assume that the kernel is the kernel that is maintained by kernel.org and that Linux won't fork the way UNIX did..right? There's a great story at internetnews.com about the SuSe CTO taking issue with Red Hat backporting features of the 2.6 Kernel into its own version of the 2.4 kernel. "I think it's a mistake, I think it's a big mistake," he said. "It's a big mistake because of one reason, this work is not going to be supported by the open source community because it's not interesting anymore because everyone else is working on 2.6." My read on this is a thinly veiled attack on Red Hat for 'forking' the kernel. The article also give a bit of background on SuSe's recent decision to GPL their setup tool YAST, which they hope other distros will adopt too."
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My father still tries to control his PC with the stereo remote.
Reminds me of a word of a friend: "The Internet is only then ready for the masses when my parents can easily manage to access what they want with a remote". (He is ~50 and in IT and Counseling with UI evaluation experience).
Basically, this boils down to that developers should adapt to human behaviour basics (cave: are there any - I am not so sure - but still).
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Achieving unambiguous precision with English is HARD.
To me, this seems hard in any language, programming languages included.
IIRC, even the representation of such simple sructure as ALGOL60 in BNF was ambiguous.
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'83 Monte Carlo
ignoring world input at large as well
Cordially Carlo
translation anybody?
Preparing for the future.
Think Metropolis, Modern Times, 1984 (to me rather a remake of Jevgenij Samjatin), RFID+Neurochips.
Add remote control! Imagine!
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at least, there are (maybe) arguments ...
googlarized: bsd security mac os
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... live longer.
Well, the post war era will show.
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Hmm, once upon a time there was a system ->
Donald A. Waterman, Allen Newell: PAS-II: An Interactive Task-Free Version of an Automatic Protocol Analysis System. IEEE Trans. Computers 25(4): 402-413 (1976)
which, considering the state-of-the-art then (it was PDP 10) times was performing not too bad (as I thought then).
Starting from there, I think it would be feasible today to come up with s. th. conforming to "HCI-ideas" more than particularly java which could tackle the DWIM-problem a little better than this ancient one (C-c d - For ACL only, does a "Do What I Mean" eval/compile (see function documentation for eli-lisp-eval-or-compile-dwim).)
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I might seem a little pedantic but it was and still is HCI indeed.
Evidence here
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Yep, but that book is too technical. ;)
Nah, it is art - just think of (look at) pp. 83 ff. .
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Gotta love that sensitive 19th C. parenting.
Extended further. I recollect that when I was in the "electric train set" age on Christmas they presented me a layout without a train (it was hidden in the tunnel) telling me it would arrive next year.
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Oh yes. And for the interested parents I recommend some Holldöbler & Wilson (1991).
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