I know its stupid, but I can't stand the camel-case naming conventions and square-bracket function calls in Mathematica. I can't get used to it. Clearly, a solution to this problem is not THAT important to me.
Can you use your head to list the first 4 zeros of the second-order Bessel function of the first kind? Neither can I, that's why I use something like matlab or octave.
I still use the TI89 that I've had for almost 10 years, because to this day I have yet to find a desktop symbolic calculator that satisfies me.
I use matlab for work, and its command line interface to maple is decent. What I really want, though, is to somehow combine a command line interface with a nice typeset display - visually parsing the results is so much faster that way. Does such a thing exist?
Then you can't change the workspaces independently. I've never wanted to do such a thing, but I can totally relate to his unique desire for functionality.
I'm always kind of confused when Linux people respond to this kind of question with "you don't need to do it that way." I thought doing it my way was the whole point.
I think the '3D interfaces' comment was referring to the concept of hand/finger position detection. That is, 3D INPUT interfaces, not DISPLAY interfaces. You're probably right about the 3D GUI, but 3D input systems have not really been explored too much as far as I know.
Full understanding of the phenomenon would allow simulation and rendering of it in computer graphics. That's definitely tech related, and its reason enough for me to take a look at the paper.
Fortunately, we have the advantage of being able to observe the current state of numerous natural intelligence systems that do work very well. Surely this can help guide us to a simple basic structure that can eventually exhibit emergent intelligence?
This is arguably still a racist viewpoint, since it implies that the people of Haiti are so far "behind" us developmentally that they absolutely need organized religion for solidarity, whereas we apparently do not.
I get complaints about being overly pedantic all the time, but this is really something. It's like asking "whats the point of having a pointing/clicking touchscreen interface similar to a mouse interface, but without having the mouse?".
The point is that you have an interface similar to the iphone touchscreen interface (hopefully better in some way), with a different type of hardware. Just as there are situations where a touchscreen is better than a mouse, or vice versa, there also MIGHT be situations where a touch-less gesture interface might be the best. Let's let them sell this product and we'll find out.
Seriously, is this summary a joke? I think someone saw "8.5 x 8.5" and "2.5" and decided those were the only numbers that could possibly be relevant, therefore we're going backwards.
Your "full circle" comment makes no sense. Broadcasting is inherently "mainstream" or "corporate" because it requires a big transmitter, and therefore a centralized gatekeeper, a bottleneck. Podcasts and streaming just require a personal computer and a free account on some site. That model fundamentally encourages the exact opposite of mainstream publishing. Large media corporations may pick it up too, but that doesn't cause the medium itself to become inherently mainstream.
Not that you don't have a point, but I myself (I'm an engineer) would say that I tend to see both sides and compromise more often than not - maybe even more often than other people. Engineering is often about solving problems by making compromises given limited resources, so you have to understand exactly what you're losing/gaining in a compromise.
Also, I'd like to think that I'm better at identifying subjective, opinion-based arguments than other people seem to be. This allows me to see both sides, because they're arbitrary, and therefore both more wrong than right.
I'm with Telstra due to my remote location, and I pay exorbitant prices for voice and data.
Isn't that how utility distribution works? If you live by yourself 400 miles from the nearest town, why shouldn't you pay exorbitant prices for a company to run 400 miles of line/pipe/whatever to serve only you? I don't know anything about your situation or whats going on with Australian telcos, this is just an honest question.
Nobody says "check out my cool new Microsoft Zune HD®!" in normal speech. I don't write like that in any kind of informal setting. Not to say grandparent is 100% accurate, but it sounds strange.
A) Isn't the point of it to be a public system, so that sites can accept users' email addresses, then find the gravatars themselves?
B) Wouldn't it be equally easy to reverse engineer the salt string, with your own known test email? (As long as the salt is shorter than some limit maybe)
Precision in language has its place, and that place is in science, and science journalism. If the article were a poem about an IR satellite, I wouldn't be complaining. The two different phrasings have different meanings. Sorry for the redundancy though.
Don't colorblind people have trouble distinguishing different hues? If so, then this toy would be BETTER for colorblind people than virtually anything else - all that matters is the relative intensity of the pieces, not the specific hue of any of them.
As an engineer, calling climate studies a "hard science" seems like a stretch to me. It does generally follow a mathematical-model-based scientific method, but those models are extremely complicated/poor compared to the models of basic physics. There is a big distinction within "hard science" that needs to be made.
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Not that it makes the name any better, but I think its a sort of "expanded acronym", from Hyper-PHP.
I know its stupid, but I can't stand the camel-case naming conventions and square-bracket function calls in Mathematica. I can't get used to it. Clearly, a solution to this problem is not THAT important to me.
Can you use your head to list the first 4 zeros of the second-order Bessel function of the first kind? Neither can I, that's why I use something like matlab or octave.
I still use the TI89 that I've had for almost 10 years, because to this day I have yet to find a desktop symbolic calculator that satisfies me.
I use matlab for work, and its command line interface to maple is decent. What I really want, though, is to somehow combine a command line interface with a nice typeset display - visually parsing the results is so much faster that way. Does such a thing exist?
Then you can't change the workspaces independently. I've never wanted to do such a thing, but I can totally relate to his unique desire for functionality.
I'm always kind of confused when Linux people respond to this kind of question with "you don't need to do it that way." I thought doing it my way was the whole point.
I think the '3D interfaces' comment was referring to the concept of hand/finger position detection. That is, 3D INPUT interfaces, not DISPLAY interfaces. You're probably right about the 3D GUI, but 3D input systems have not really been explored too much as far as I know.
Full understanding of the phenomenon would allow simulation and rendering of it in computer graphics. That's definitely tech related, and its reason enough for me to take a look at the paper.
You should just write a simple bookmarklet or greasemonkey script to change the style of all input areas.
Fortunately, we have the advantage of being able to observe the current state of numerous natural intelligence systems that do work very well. Surely this can help guide us to a simple basic structure that can eventually exhibit emergent intelligence?
This is arguably still a racist viewpoint, since it implies that the people of Haiti are so far "behind" us developmentally that they absolutely need organized religion for solidarity, whereas we apparently do not.
What if the display can be tuned to the user's retina blurring function, and then adjust for it?
Honest question: what exactly is a "beam of ordinary light"?
I get complaints about being overly pedantic all the time, but this is really something. It's like asking "whats the point of having a pointing/clicking touchscreen interface similar to a mouse interface, but without having the mouse?".
The point is that you have an interface similar to the iphone touchscreen interface (hopefully better in some way), with a different type of hardware. Just as there are situations where a touchscreen is better than a mouse, or vice versa, there also MIGHT be situations where a touch-less gesture interface might be the best. Let's let them sell this product and we'll find out.
But... DARPA gets money from the government? Money that could otherwise go toward other causes?
Seriously, is this summary a joke? I think someone saw "8.5 x 8.5" and "2.5" and decided those were the only numbers that could possibly be relevant, therefore we're going backwards.
Your "full circle" comment makes no sense. Broadcasting is inherently "mainstream" or "corporate" because it requires a big transmitter, and therefore a centralized gatekeeper, a bottleneck. Podcasts and streaming just require a personal computer and a free account on some site. That model fundamentally encourages the exact opposite of mainstream publishing. Large media corporations may pick it up too, but that doesn't cause the medium itself to become inherently mainstream.
Not that you don't have a point, but I myself (I'm an engineer) would say that I tend to see both sides and compromise more often than not - maybe even more often than other people. Engineering is often about solving problems by making compromises given limited resources, so you have to understand exactly what you're losing/gaining in a compromise.
Also, I'd like to think that I'm better at identifying subjective, opinion-based arguments than other people seem to be. This allows me to see both sides, because they're arbitrary, and therefore both more wrong than right.
I'm with Telstra due to my remote location, and I pay exorbitant prices for voice and data.
Isn't that how utility distribution works? If you live by yourself 400 miles from the nearest town, why shouldn't you pay exorbitant prices for a company to run 400 miles of line/pipe/whatever to serve only you? I don't know anything about your situation or whats going on with Australian telcos, this is just an honest question.
Nobody says "check out my cool new Microsoft Zune HD®!" in normal speech. I don't write like that in any kind of informal setting. Not to say grandparent is 100% accurate, but it sounds strange.
A) Isn't the point of it to be a public system, so that sites can accept users' email addresses, then find the gravatars themselves?
B) Wouldn't it be equally easy to reverse engineer the salt string, with your own known test email? (As long as the salt is shorter than some limit maybe)
Precision in language has its place, and that place is in science, and science journalism. If the article were a poem about an IR satellite, I wouldn't be complaining. The two different phrasings have different meanings. Sorry for the redundancy though.
Is it really "bathing" the cosmos? Don't most orbiting observatories just have sensors, not emitters?
Don't colorblind people have trouble distinguishing different hues? If so, then this toy would be BETTER for colorblind people than virtually anything else - all that matters is the relative intensity of the pieces, not the specific hue of any of them.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...?
As an engineer, calling climate studies a "hard science" seems like a stretch to me. It does generally follow a mathematical-model-based scientific method, but those models are extremely complicated/poor compared to the models of basic physics. There is a big distinction within "hard science" that needs to be made.