Wouldn't it be a good idea to cooperate with Wikimedia Commons, a "repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files"? The goals seem to overlap quite a lot...?
How will Wikipedia be out of date in comparison to that other encyclopedia whose contents can freely be redistributed - the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica?
Most information does not get out of date quickly. That is especially true for data that is relevant to people who do not have internet access.
Perhaps people don't understand how to configure their mailclient. SMTP server? POP3 server? What's that? It's much easier to go to a website, enter your username and ID and see your mail.
Or perhaps peop^H^H^H^Hconsumers just like the idea that a big, "don't be evil" Google company can scan their e-mail to create relevant ads, so that they know what to buy.
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Windows?"
Zealot: "Oh God, I had to install Quake 3 in Windoze for some lamer friend of mine! God, what a fucking mess! I put in the CD and it took about 3 minutes to copy everything, and then I had to reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
You forget the last part: and then all my other games stopped working, because it wrote DirectX version N over DirectX version (N+p) (p>0).
But what does this have to do with Thunderbird?
The Scratchware Manifesto
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The Scratchware Manifesto is a manifesto written by a number of game programmers. It basically says: "Death to the gaming industry! Long live games." The authors mean by this: the production of games has become an industry. New games are designed by spending a lot of money on expensive special effects, rather than innovative ideas or creativity. Those are the games that can be found on the shelves in the software stores. But how about the games that are built by a small group of people, or an individual, using the resources they have? Written with blood, sweat and tears. Having a very original idea. And sometimes, becoming very popular. Is there still a chance for individual creativity in today's gaming industry? Or will the successor to Civilization IV be Civilization V, and then VI, until no new games are ever produced anymore?
A Dutch attorney (Tonnino) once threw away a PC without erasing the data. Too bad for him, it had not only sensitive information, but some child porn as well. He should have used shred to destroy at least the evidence...
Imagine being able to enter meetings in your PIM software by saying to someone "Let's meet here tomorrow at five" and having the computer know where "here" is
Imagine knowing where you are, and just saying "Let's meet in front of the main campus building tomorrow at five", without even having a computer with you...
(it would also know who you're talking to, using facial recognition, but that's a different topic...).
Imagine knowing who you're talking to without a computer...
Imagine your computer reminding you of work-related tasks as you walk into the office, and home-related ones when you arrive at home.
Imagine a pencil and a paper... and a way to attach it to your desk...
Imagine walking into a place you've never been, and having your computer automatically display useful information about it.
Imagine a place that has the information that the visitor needs readily available...
How would one get lost in a dense city? Street signs are everywhere and dense fog won't make orienting much more difficult. There are always people whom you can ask. GPS is useful in areas without population: open sea, deserts, Lappland, Alaska. The use case for such a device is pretty much zero.
an average iq kid who has a high social intelligence will go on to make $40 million, and the high iq, low social intelligence asperger type we're talking about here will wind up working for him for $30K/ year.
So what? That doesn't make him succesful. Einstein and the other geniuses contributed a whole lot more to society than any millionaire ever did.
if the point of this slashdot story is to bring attention to the preciousness of autism/ asperger's and its role in high iq people, then i respond with a big "so what".
If only neurotypicals would tolerate autism a bit more, humanity would benefit a lot more from those Asperger's that are really genius.
Many autistic people have IQ's over 110 and are well educated, well employed and miserable. Raising a severely autistic child might or might not be difficult for the parents, but it is most certainly not a reason not to let it be born. Too often, not playing with other kids is seen as a sign of unhappiness. It need not be. I preferred counting the bars of the fence around the school playground to playing with other kids: of course I did. Of course I was not unhappy. Only years later I heard the school psychologist thought I was. It had not occured to me that anyone would think that.
After all, the other children were not interested in counting the fence bars at all. Weird, that's what they were. Weird neurotypicals. Perhaps they were unhappy and should not have been born?
When one would really study abiogenesis thermodynamically, one could pretty well conclude that the chance that life would evolve at all is so small that it has not happened more than once in the universe.
Which, of course, does not necessarily imply that there is no extraterrestial life.
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Actually, most of the links to specific stitches in the needlepoint article are redlinks.
Or, if it's propietry, where can I buy it?
I want it! They should integrate it in phones. I can make a picture and then I at know: what is this person's emotion?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to cooperate with Wikimedia Commons, a "repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files"? The goals seem to overlap quite a lot...?
Most information does not get out of date quickly. That is especially true for data that is relevant to people who do not have internet access.
This is a very good idea.
But perhaps what's really meant is:
23:30 PDT = 06:30 UTC = 08:30 CEST ?
And it has an excellent guide on how to write useful comments for Slashdot.
You can't visit continental Europe.
Isn't the best way to go to program in a language one is experienced in?
Or perhaps peop^H^H^H^Hconsumers just like the idea that a big, "don't be evil" Google company can scan their e-mail to create relevant ads, so that they know what to buy.
Zealot: "Oh God, I had to install Quake 3 in Windoze for some lamer friend of mine! God, what a fucking mess! I put in the CD and it took about 3 minutes to copy everything, and then I had to reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
You forget the last part: and then all my other games stopped working, because it wrote DirectX version N over DirectX version (N+p) (p>0).
But what does this have to do with Thunderbird?
The Scratchware Manifesto
$ cat > /usr/src/myapp/myapp.c
... /* What else do you need? */
#include
int main () {
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- The page may have been linked from Slashdot
But then, that is just a detail of the second cause.A Dutch attorney (Tonnino) once threw away a PC without erasing the data. Too bad for him, it had not only sensitive information, but some child porn as well. He should have used shred to destroy at least the evidence...
Imagine knowing where you are, and just saying "Let's meet in front of the main campus building tomorrow at five", without even having a computer with you...
(it would also know who you're talking to, using facial recognition, but that's a different topic...).
Imagine knowing who you're talking to without a computer...
Imagine your computer reminding you of work-related tasks as you walk into the office, and home-related ones when you arrive at home.
Imagine a pencil and a paper... and a way to attach it to your desk...
Imagine walking into a place you've never been, and having your computer automatically display useful information about it.
Imagine a place that has the information that the visitor needs readily available...
How would one get lost in a dense city? Street signs are everywhere and dense fog won't make orienting much more difficult. There are always people whom you can ask. GPS is useful in areas without population: open sea, deserts, Lappland, Alaska. The use case for such a device is pretty much zero.
That's 10.5cm x 14.8cm, according to google calculator results.
So what? That doesn't make him succesful. Einstein and the other geniuses contributed a whole lot more to society than any millionaire ever did.
if the point of this slashdot story is to bring attention to the preciousness of autism/ asperger's and its role in high iq people, then i respond with a big "so what".If only neurotypicals would tolerate autism a bit more, humanity would benefit a lot more from those Asperger's that are really genius.
Of course, aborting only heterosexuals solves the problem in a couple of generations.
After all, the other children were not interested in counting the fence bars at all. Weird, that's what they were. Weird neurotypicals. Perhaps they were unhappy and should not have been born?
When one would really study abiogenesis thermodynamically, one could pretty well conclude that the chance that life would evolve at all is so small that it has not happened more than once in the universe.
Which, of course, does not necessarily imply that there is no extraterrestial life.
(after all, that's what the party says, isn't it?)
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. (source)
with Firefox now starring as the poster child app
You forgot OpenOffice.org.