What's worse, he's not raising any real questions that Pierre Teilhard didn't delve into in more depth and with deeper understanding half a century ago.
Kurzweil's "ideas" are the philosophical equivalent of the trend to attach the "cyber-" prefix to _anything_ and proclaim it somehow different and new.
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Because he has opinions you don't like, his work's meaningless?
So you don't recall the Liberal Govt's threats to ban all X-rated material, which they used to make the reclassification to NVE (Non-Violent Erotica) more palatable to the public? A lot of what had been previously acceptable was lost in the translation and very little of it had to do with violence.
The Libs actually determined how many cumshots were allowable in a porn film before it would be classed as "fetish" material, such material being forbidden under the then-new NVE classification.
The fact that the number was considerably higher in most gay porn than straight had, I'm sure, nothing to do with the decision (which was made by a group that included members of John Howard's church, if I recall correctly...nothing like churchgoers to tell you what's acceptable in your sexual fantasies).
Nah, in my case it's because Atwood has been talking it up endlessly on Coding Horror for the last 6+ months:)
I'm guessing Spolsky has been doing the same at Joel on Software.
They still work for me -if- and only if I follow a link found through Google's search results. Doing a search on the Expert's Exchange site itself -does- obfuscate the solution, as does following a link from any other site to a solution.
Is that the same behaviour you're getting? If so, it seems fair enough to me to keep their solutions in Google search, if following from Google displays the solution.
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One of the greatest annoyances of Google (to those of us techies searching for answers) is "Expert's Exchange". Google gets to see the answers, but anyone searching for those answers doesn't get them, but is told to sign up and pay money for a "premium subscription".
There are ways around this, but this is all an annoyance and a pain to deal with[...]
The answers -are- there, just scroll down past the point that mentions subscription and you'll find them. If scrolling is "an annoyance and a pain", try hitting the End key...
Nice removal of the context, there. I particularly admire how you don't address any of the points I raised (how the 3.0 migration path docs don't agree with what you're claiming & the existence of the multiprocessing module especially) and are instead continuing trying to paint anyone who disagrees with your "opinion" as some kind of jihadi.
Good luck with that.
Here's a little hint before I go: try actually backing up your claims with some external evidence, you might come off less as a whiny little cuntsmear that way.
You really are a dopey little fucker, aren't you? I'm not entirely sure how your uppercasing my words makes me the one screaming...
Wait at least a year until all the Pythonistas aren't as oversensitive to questions about Python 3.0.
You didn't ask any questions, you made unsubstantiated claims that weren't supported by anything, not even the link you posted to. What the Python community is 'oversensitive' to is lies and bigoted rhetoric. What I did was highlight your bias and inaccuracy, the audacity of which has clearly shaken you.
Did Python murder your parents before your eyes at a young age or something?
not addressing the it's huge concurrency problems while it's being broken
And out comes another tired old trope. You clearly don't know about the multiprocessing module that's being released with 3.0. But again, don't let the facts get in the way of your bullshit posturing.
The only "concurrency problems" Python seems to have at the moment is the lack of a 'make this run in parallel without me having to do any thinking' switch. Good luck with waiting for that.
This is the wrong time to pick Python for teaching. Python 3.0 is coming out in months. It's going to be incompatible with all the 2.x versions. There's going to be major changes that effect everything all the way down to "Hello World."
That sounds like a big confusing mess to deal with explaining to a student.
Python 3.0 will change far less than most libraries' APIs do between major version releases. If this is really such a deal breaker for you, trust me, noone in the Python community will miss you.
Hell, noone in the wider programming community will etc.
This isn't pointless change just to give the Python-detractors something to crow about. (God knows there are times I'd wish Python 3.0 had kept print as a keyword just so people like you would STFU about it.) When did improvement become so damn anathematic to people in the IT industry?
In the United States, one cannot copyright a game's metrics.
But one can apparently patent them:
Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS), is a worldwide leader in the trading card game and tabletop role-playing game categories, and a leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, MAGIC: THE GATHERING, among many other trading card games and family card and
I believe this patent even included turning cards to indicate different states.
In Australia child pornography is legal, if you call it "art".
Oh come on, that's total garbage.
A picture of a naked child is not a sexualised image to anyone but a paedophile. All of this media beat up crap about it being "irresponsible" on the behalf of the artist(s) because "of what paedophiles do with such images" is further perpetrating the viewpoint that a naked child is a sexual entity. You can't hold someone as immoral when you're espousing their own position.
Look at it this way: there are some people for whom stuffed toys are their fetish. Should we be calling for the banning of Sesame Street for its irresponsible pandering?
While it's true the Wii couldn't put out a true 720p signal, it could very likely process high-def content and display it in extremely pretty 480p, which would put it a step above the aging Xbox.
While I agree with the rest of your comments completely, are you certain about this? I run XBMC for pretty much all of my media needs and it has no trouble with 480p.
Although now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure that was disabled by default in the Aus. version and I only managed to enable it with a modchip...
The Xbox+XBMC has been one of the greatest purchases I've ever made, it is a shame about the lack of power for handling 720p and up.
guido - believe that the functional-language-based primitives (map, lambda, reduce, filter) are "unnecessary".
i initially thought that this was a joke - it was announced on april 1st.
unfortunately it turns out to be true. the removal of these key features is profound: the language (python 3000) is dead before it is completed.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good rant:
Q. If you're killing reduce(), why are you keeping map() and filter()?
A. I'm not killing reduce() because I hate functional programming; I'm killing it because almost all code using reduce() is less readable than the same thing written out using a for loop and an accumulator variable. On the other hand, map() and filter() are often useful and when used with a pre-existing function (e.g. a built-in) they are clearer than a list comprehension or generator expression. (Don't use these with a lambda though; then a list comprehension is clearer and faster.)
You don't think there's a difference between Yahoo providing access to their own AJAX libs and Google offering _versioned_ access to multiple open-source AJAX libs?
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SyntaxError: not a chance
Chinese Checkers (Go).
Chinese Checkers & Go are two entirely different games.
What's worse, he's not raising any real questions that Pierre Teilhard didn't delve into in more depth and with deeper understanding half a century ago. Kurzweil's "ideas" are the philosophical equivalent of the trend to attach the "cyber-" prefix to _anything_ and proclaim it somehow different and new.
Because he has opinions you don't like, his work's meaningless?
When an author states that all gay relationships begin with an act of rape, then I'm going to seriously doubt that anything that author has to say has any value.
The main direct-buy sites in the U.S. are: http://www.fischertechnik.com/
The goggles! They do nothing!
You will not be disappointed by the quality.
Mostly from the diminished expectations induced by that site.
Death is humanity's refresh cycle.
So you don't recall the Liberal Govt's threats to ban all X-rated material, which they used to make the reclassification to NVE (Non-Violent Erotica) more palatable to the public? A lot of what had been previously acceptable was lost in the translation and very little of it had to do with violence.
The Libs actually determined how many cumshots were allowable in a porn film before it would be classed as "fetish" material, such material being forbidden under the then-new NVE classification.
The fact that the number was considerably higher in most gay porn than straight had, I'm sure, nothing to do with the decision (which was made by a group that included members of John Howard's church, if I recall correctly...nothing like churchgoers to tell you what's acceptable in your sexual fantasies).
Try going back to the 1995/96 entries here if you think the Libs weren't censorship happy: http://libertus.net/censor/debate/articles08.html
Nah, in my case it's because Atwood has been talking it up endlessly on Coding Horror for the last 6+ months :)
I'm guessing Spolsky has been doing the same at Joel on Software.
How is this any different then daniweb.com?
People have actually heard about stackoverflow.com
They still work for me -if- and only if I follow a link found through Google's search results. Doing a search on the Expert's Exchange site itself -does- obfuscate the solution, as does following a link from any other site to a solution.
Is that the same behaviour you're getting? If so, it seems fair enough to me to keep their solutions in Google search, if following from Google displays the solution.
One of the greatest annoyances of Google (to those of us techies searching for answers) is "Expert's Exchange". Google gets to see the answers, but anyone searching for those answers doesn't get them, but is told to sign up and pay money for a "premium subscription".
There are ways around this, but this is all an annoyance and a pain to deal with[...]
The answers -are- there, just scroll down past the point that mentions subscription and you'll find them. If scrolling is "an annoyance and a pain", try hitting the End key...
At least for Ubuntu, it was starting with 8.04.
Could the appearance on Colbert's show be part of a wider ranging media blitz by some of these candidates?
I've -always- thought this was the joke: Colbert -regularly- takes public credit for things like this, it's part of his shtick.
Somehow I doubt that most Muslims have the goal of "invading" the Western World
Go to YouTube and search for 'undercover mosque'.
While you're there, do a search for 'iraq war'.
I'm sorry, I meant to say hyperbolic little cuntsmear.
My mistake :)
Good luck with that.
Here's a little hint before I go: try actually backing up your claims with some external evidence, you might come off less as a whiny little cuntsmear that way.
Might.
You really are a dopey little fucker, aren't you? I'm not entirely sure how your uppercasing my words makes me the one screaming...
Wait at least a year until all the Pythonistas aren't as oversensitive to questions about Python 3.0.
You didn't ask any questions, you made unsubstantiated claims that weren't supported by anything, not even the link you posted to. What the Python community is 'oversensitive' to is lies and bigoted rhetoric. What I did was highlight your bias and inaccuracy, the audacity of which has clearly shaken you.
Did Python murder your parents before your eyes at a young age or something?
not addressing the it's huge concurrency problems while it's being broken
And out comes another tired old trope. You clearly don't know about the multiprocessing module that's being released with 3.0. But again, don't let the facts get in the way of your bullshit posturing.
The only "concurrency problems" Python seems to have at the moment is the lack of a 'make this run in parallel without me having to do any thinking' switch. Good luck with waiting for that.
This is the wrong time to pick Python for teaching. Python 3.0 is coming out in months. It's going to be incompatible with all the 2.x versions. There's going to be major changes that effect everything all the way down to "Hello World."
That sounds like a big confusing mess to deal with explaining to a student.
Link to python 3.0 info... http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
Python 3.0 will change far less than most libraries' APIs do between major version releases. If this is really such a deal breaker for you, trust me, noone in the Python community will miss you.
Hell, noone in the wider programming community will etc.
This isn't pointless change just to give the Python-detractors something to crow about. (God knows there are times I'd wish Python 3.0 had kept print as a keyword just so people like you would STFU about it.) When did improvement become so damn anathematic to people in the IT industry?
It's change or die.
In the United States, one cannot copyright a game's metrics.
But one can apparently patent them:
I believe this patent even included turning cards to indicate different states.
What are you, an idiot?
Can you really not tell the diffrence between a Child and a Stuffed Animal?
Speaking of idiocy, can you really not tell the difference between an image of a child and a child itself?
In Australia child pornography is legal, if you call it "art".
Oh come on, that's total garbage.
A picture of a naked child is not a sexualised image to anyone but a paedophile. All of this media beat up crap about it being "irresponsible" on the behalf of the artist(s) because "of what paedophiles do with such images" is further perpetrating the viewpoint that a naked child is a sexual entity. You can't hold someone as immoral when you're espousing their own position.
Look at it this way: there are some people for whom stuffed toys are their fetish. Should we be calling for the banning of Sesame Street for its irresponsible pandering?
While it's true the Wii couldn't put out a true 720p signal, it could very likely process high-def content and display it in extremely pretty 480p, which would put it a step above the aging Xbox.
While I agree with the rest of your comments completely, are you certain about this? I run XBMC for pretty much all of my media needs and it has no trouble with 480p.
Although now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure that was disabled by default in the Aus. version and I only managed to enable it with a modchip...
The Xbox+XBMC has been one of the greatest purchases I've ever made, it is a shame about the lack of power for handling 720p and up.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good rant:
(Python 3000 FAQ)As it stands, map() and filter() will both remain, and reduce() is being moved into functools. This isn't the deal breaker you're making it out to be.
You don't think there's a difference between Yahoo providing access to their own AJAX libs and Google offering _versioned_ access to multiple open-source AJAX libs?
A lot of folks don't even realize how Google is slowly weaning open-source projects into relying on them, too (with Google Summer of Code.)
Yeah, it's such a shame they've taken all the attention away from the myriad of OSS mentoring programs that existed before SoC...