Richard Feynman had a similar story but it involved safe cracking.
Is it this one?
Meanwhile some guys in the computing department came around and one of them said, "Hey, everybody; Feynman's gonna show Staley how to open a safe, ha, ha, ha!" I wasn't going to actually open the safe; I was just going to show Staley this way of quickly trying the back two numbers without losing your place and having to set up the first number again.
I began. "Let's suppose that the first number is forty, and we're trying fifteen for the second number. We go back and forth, ten; back five more and forth, ten; and so on. Now we've tried all the possible third numbers. Now we try twenty for the second number: we go back and forth, ten; back five more and forth, ten; back five more and forth, CLICK!" My jaw dropped: the first and second numbers happened to be right!
Nobody saw my expression because my back was towards them. Staley looked very surprised, but both of us caught on very quickly as to what happened, so I pulled the top drawer out with a flourish and said, "And there you are!"
Staley said, "I see what you mean; it's a very good scheme" -- and we walked out. Everybody was amazed. It was complete luck. Now I really had a reputation for opening safes.
(from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", which is a great read.)
What killed most of the people your refering to is mob justice, fear, racial hatred, green, xenophobia, and poor management.
Wait, what? Green kills people? The color? Holy crap! I use green all the time! I was just painting a picture of a field, and it has tons of green on it! I was going to show that to my kids! What did I almost do?
OH NO! I just realized something, I'm red-green colorblind! If green targets me next, I won't even see it coming!
If I have a cup that has 50 green M&Ms and 50 red M&Ms, and I add 10 green M&Ms and 5 red M&Ms, green M&Ms are now less then 50%, but that doesn't mean I lost green M&Ms.
Obviously the best AI was the opponent for the strategy sim "Global Thermonuclear War". It could even learn from its own mistakes. Very impressive, considering the state of AI when it was released.
This is not a news article! This is someone's blog post! I could get into why the post itself is stupid, but the point of that would be based on the premise that it is *supposed* to be informative/insightful in the first place. It's not! It's just a blog post.
What/. seriously needs is moderation for the articles.
The name displayed in the thread is the same as what is in your contact list. If you have two contacts with the same name, and that's a problem....UPDATE YOUR CONTACT LIST. You have the power. It's not gmail's fault that you didn't rtfm.
Sorry, I'm not yelling at you. I've been trying the Yahoo beta for a couple weeks now, and I'm still angry about it. Crappy ISP + slow beta = grrr!
You're going to get a lot of flack from ignorant twits (who probably are NOT parents themselves). Such is the problem with counter-intuitive solutions. The REAL problem is that human nature is counter-intuitive.
It sounds insensitive to tell a child that being bullied is partly their fault, but it's not. What's insensitive is telling them that it's NOT their fault at all, and letting them continue falling into the same bully traps.
Perhaps 'fault' is not quite the right word to use; it is emotionally charged. But I would say that, often, there are steps the victim could have taken to defuse the situation and prevent the bullying from taking place.
I, for one, think you absolutely have the right idea. I was bullied a lot when I was younger, and no one taught me how to handle it properly. It was only later that I discovered how much of the situation I controlled. After that, I wasn't bullied anymore (and also stopped fighting with my siblings; it's all related).
The world definitely needs more parents like you that are grounded in reality, and less parents living in fantasy land.
So how do you fight Jack? Well first off all you don't fight him directly. He's like the [fsck]ing Candy Man. Mention his name and you give him power. Arguing with him is a waste of time. Jack or someone like him will always be there beating their chest and begging for air time. You'll never change his mind. What you can change is the validity of his arguments and we don't do that during a [...] debate. We do it through our actions as a community. [...]
Arguing [...] with someone like Jack Thompson seems kind of stupid now don't you think?
See also the previous story: "[...] defining what a mashup really it" = really IS.
Two "is" errors in two consecutive summaries. What's going on here? Are they trying to subliminally tell me that mashups are the new "it" thing? Or that Perens is incontinent? Does it depend on what my definition of "is" is?
Beware spellcheckers, they lead to a false sense of correctness.
Unfunny indeed. But you won't find any negative comments about it on YouTube; they're pretty good at deleting them. Don't believe me? Leave a little negative feedback and watch how fast it disappears. (I wonder how much of the positive comments are astroturf. When I watched this a couple weeks ago, it seemed that all the comments were from usernames with little or no history.)
I was extremely disappointed by this, being a fan of Scrubs/Family Guy/Billy/etc. I chuckled once or twice, but that's it.
Sorry, I need more humor-density in the sitcoms I watch. My time is limited.
That's a good question. However, once you try it, you find that, not only do you need direction keys, you often need item, reload, lean left/right, crouch, etc keys.
I switched my mousing to my left hand a few weeks ago, and it was quite simple (much simpler than, say, switching the keyboard to dvorak, which I'm also doing). You get used to it quickly, and gain insight into the difficulties computer newbies face. Frustrated that your mom can't seem to even use the mouse? Use your mouse left-handed for a while. THAT is what it's like to be learning it for the first time.
As for FPS, don't give up on them. ^_^ What better way to train your left hand to control the mouse? Sure, you're not going to be taking anyone down in a deathmatch for a while, but you'll be able to fend off the lesser bots in a surprisingly short time. Giving up WASD is tough, though; IJKL just doesn't feel the same.
In the context. Japanese has the same issue and that's how they deal with it. Besides, it would vastly increase the odds of constructing puns.
Bullsh!t. Japanese has a limited number of sounds, so they use many different KANJI to tell the difference. (English equivalent: different spellings of homonyms). If you live in Japan long enough, you'll eventually notice people drawing kanji in the air (or on their hand) with their finger while they speak, to clarify what they are saying. It's not common, but it happens.
Very little (besides grammar markers) is written in the phonetic syllabary.
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Because I'm colorblind, not retarded.
Wait, what? Green kills people? The color? Holy crap! I use green all the time! I was just painting a picture of a field, and it has tons of green on it! I was going to show that to my kids! What did I almost do?
OH NO! I just realized something, I'm red-green colorblind! If green targets me next, I won't even see it coming!
Do...do we know each other?
Obviously the best AI was the opponent for the strategy sim "Global Thermonuclear War". It could even learn from its own mistakes. Very impressive, considering the state of AI when it was released.
Shall we play a game?
Awww... *sniffle*
Usually when a Slashdot comment brings me to tears, it's because of the atrocious grammar.
That's been on before.
Also available on.
Just a note, you might find the subtle SHARE "subliminal" ENJOY messages annoying and tacky.
Space has a terrible power, my friend!
One day my Space Robots will revolutionize the world! And space!
Do you have stairs in your house?
d = dash dot dot
g = dash dash dot
Easy mistake to make, if you're out of practice. ^_^
This is not a news article! This is someone's blog post! I could get into why the post itself is stupid, but the point of that would be based on the premise that it is *supposed* to be informative/insightful in the first place. It's not! It's just a blog post.
/. seriously needs is moderation for the articles.
What
Argentina has expressly asked for the arm...
The name displayed in the thread is the same as what is in your contact list. If you have two contacts with the same name, and that's a problem....UPDATE YOUR CONTACT LIST. You have the power. It's not gmail's fault that you didn't rtfm.
Sorry, I'm not yelling at you. I've been trying the Yahoo beta for a couple weeks now, and I'm still angry about it. Crappy ISP + slow beta = grrr!
Method Two:
"Take me off your call list" and "Don't call me ever again" might work just as well, but they're not nearly as much fun.
Peaks of Eternal Light are prime real estate for solar-powered Moon bases.
Location, location, location.
("That's just one thing, Mr. Peterson.")
It was that frelling Farscape reference that finally did it.
You're going to get a lot of flack from ignorant twits (who probably are NOT parents themselves). Such is the problem with counter-intuitive solutions. The REAL problem is that human nature is counter-intuitive.
It sounds insensitive to tell a child that being bullied is partly their fault, but it's not. What's insensitive is telling them that it's NOT their fault at all, and letting them continue falling into the same bully traps.
Perhaps 'fault' is not quite the right word to use; it is emotionally charged. But I would say that, often, there are steps the victim could have taken to defuse the situation and prevent the bullying from taking place.
I, for one, think you absolutely have the right idea. I was bullied a lot when I was younger, and no one taught me how to handle it properly. It was only later that I discovered how much of the situation I controlled. After that, I wasn't bullied anymore (and also stopped fighting with my siblings; it's all related).
The world definitely needs more parents like you that are grounded in reality, and less parents living in fantasy land.
Perens IS content.
See also the previous story: "[...] defining what a mashup really it" = really IS.
Two "is" errors in two consecutive summaries. What's going on here? Are they trying to subliminally tell me that mashups are the new "it" thing? Or that Perens is incontinent? Does it depend on what my definition of "is" is?
Beware spellcheckers, they lead to a false sense of correctness.
Unfunny indeed. But you won't find any negative comments about it on YouTube; they're pretty good at deleting them. Don't believe me? Leave a little negative feedback and watch how fast it disappears. (I wonder how much of the positive comments are astroturf. When I watched this a couple weeks ago, it seemed that all the comments were from usernames with little or no history.)
I was extremely disappointed by this, being a fan of Scrubs/Family Guy/Billy/etc. I chuckled once or twice, but that's it.
Sorry, I need more humor-density in the sitcoms I watch. My time is limited.
Unless you are using a laptop. ^_^
That's a good question. However, once you try it, you find that, not only do you need direction keys, you often need item, reload, lean left/right, crouch, etc keys.
I was just coming here to suggest the same thing.
I switched my mousing to my left hand a few weeks ago, and it was quite simple (much simpler than, say, switching the keyboard to dvorak, which I'm also doing). You get used to it quickly, and gain insight into the difficulties computer newbies face. Frustrated that your mom can't seem to even use the mouse? Use your mouse left-handed for a while. THAT is what it's like to be learning it for the first time.
As for FPS, don't give up on them. ^_^ What better way to train your left hand to control the mouse? Sure, you're not going to be taking anyone down in a deathmatch for a while, but you'll be able to fend off the lesser bots in a surprisingly short time. Giving up WASD is tough, though; IJKL just doesn't feel the same.
Very little (besides grammar markers) is written in the phonetic syllabary.