This is the Atlanta Airport they're talking about... seriously, if you've ever been through there, you know they sell EVERYTHING! You want a new Dell to use on your flight? Sure, aisle 327. Oh, you wanted a LAPTOP?...the upshot is, I am not at all surprised at a measly iPod being sold from a vending machine where they don't have to hire a full-time cashier to babysit it.
"I'd be much more worried about my 12 year old kid... playing out their virtual life as a vamp[i]ric character."
I can't believe it, I thought Slashdot had more advanced and open-minded thinkers... and here we have to listen to this HEMOPHOBE? Daedra, can't a porphyrically-challenged guy get a little affirmation around here?
I'm sorry, I seem to have completely NOT made my point...
...but explaining puns totally kills what little humor they have.
...*sigh* but I'm going to, anyway, aren't I?
You see, a Y-Combinator is a construct used to implement recursion with anonymous functions... I don't know exactly how it works, something involving a lot of lambdas and parentheses, but don't worry about that... abstract it to "recursion" and apply to the parameter "bootstrapping"...
What, exactly, is wrong with this? Isn't transparent full-speed running of Windows software the perfect compromise? Wouldn't it be a GOOD thing if all developers could say "works with macs, too" for no additional trouble? This seems like a beautiful development, not a cop-out for the big software companies!
I keep hearing people talk about this Digg thing, but unless and until Digg slashdots Slashdot, I won't bother pointing my browser over that direction.
On second thought... I won't bother unless they take down slashdot's servers, and slashdotters say "we got digged" (or whatever the verb is)
Um.... hitting two keys at the same time is equivalent to typing at INFINITE speed, not at ZERO speed... the point about slowing typists down still stands.
I've found a simple solution to rid us of death forever! I can't believe nobody's ever found it! Unfortunately it's a little to long to jot down in this margin, but I'll type up the paper in a couple hours. I've been feeling so streesed late....
>>Do you really want the future of web processing to be entirely web based and saved on somebody else's machine?
>That would be word processing and the reason that preview exists. Oh well;)
That would be top-down processing, and the reason that preview doesn't help you find mistakes you've already made, in text your subconscious has already accepted as "correct."
If he's got control of the motor power, there's absolutely no reason he couldn't model up the system -- motor, belt elasticity, friction, momentum, and all -- and use the read head itself as a feedback sensor (detecting how often a bit/byte/sector/whatever-a-floppy-uses passes by) to set up a nice robust PID control system -- get it up to omega rpm as quick as you please with no bouncies, limited only by motor torque and available current!
This article was entered as part of an article-writing contest [flexbeta.net] with real life rewards such as a video card or DVD writers. This article is just written by some guy trying to win a contest, not by anyone influential. What he says is true, but obvious.
Then the real question becomes, not "why was the article written," but "why the hell was it posted to/.?"
(I think that's the most consecutive punctuation I've used, outside perl, that actually made sense...)
((an ellipsis counts as a single punctuation mark in my mind...))
--
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me...
I've long held a similar theory -- in fact, it would be identical to this in any test (assuming we did in fact come up with time travel to test the characteristics therof)
Rather than assuming all possible history cycles exist simultaneously and collapse as we watch them, I simply apply a bit of Heisenberg's and a bit of Quantum Probabilities to come up with an (unorthodox) hybrid. Every time someone goes back in time, there's a Normal (Gaussian) distribution to the time they end up at. Consequently, "strange loops" (to borrow a term from Hofstadter) occur as they would with fixed travel, where you go back, kill your father, therefore don't go back, therefore are born as usual, therefore go back in time to kill your father, etc. The only difference is you'll hit times farther forward and back from the target time, until one time, just by chance, you'll end up too FAR forward or back to execute your nefarious patricidal plans, thus exiting the loop.
The observed effect would be that of a single stable history, where it feels impossible to disrupt history, because every time you would otherwise do so, the time machine mysteriously malfunctions and sends you to a useless time for your purposes.
I got the idea from my own interpretation of the "slipping" in the book To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Author I Forget.
I wear nano-pants... These particular pairs are known as Dockers "Stain Defenders (tm or something)" and really do , uh... defend against stains. Case in point: I was in a restaurant, and someone moved a plate which moved a cup which moved a soup bowl into my lap. I stood up, brushed my hand down my pant leg once to flick the soup off, and sat down again. The table took more cleaning than this amazing material did. I love 'em and swear by them. (wrinkle-resistant too, as a bonus!)
I think what he was going for is not that you can assign a key to each feature -- you can assign a key to ALL of them. e.g. F12, set by the system, can pop up Dashboard, which contains everything I've seen people mention, and then some -- calculators, iTunes controls, network status, etc. (I could probably code up a good slide rule in a few seconds if I was bored enough (which I'm not, here at work)).
Alternatively, as another poster referred to in jest (or so he thought), Dashboard can be accessed with no keypresses at all -- simply toss the cursor to a corner you designate, and again all those features are available with a single interface (not a separate interface for each)
Slashdot Mirror
Don't take criticisms of Halo too seriously from a guy whose slashdot name is "cortana"
I would just like to recommend one small change... in your sig, actually:
--
for(r=0;allbase.size()>r;r++)
if(allbase[r].belongto==you)
allbase[r].belongto=us;
(anything below here is my own sig)
This is the Atlanta Airport they're talking about... seriously, if you've ever been through there, you know they sell EVERYTHING! You want a new Dell to use on your flight? Sure, aisle 327. Oh, you wanted a LAPTOP? ...the upshot is, I am not at all surprised at a measly iPod being sold from a vending machine where they don't have to hire a full-time cashier to babysit it.
"I'd be much more worried about my 12 year old kid ... playing out their virtual life as a vamp[i]ric character."
I can't believe it, I thought Slashdot had more advanced and open-minded thinkers... and here we have to listen to this HEMOPHOBE? Daedra, can't a porphyrically-challenged guy get a little affirmation around here?
The First Post!
Um...
...little help?
so did I...
I've been noticing that too, and so far you seem to be the only person who's said ANYTHING about it... Let me know if you find out what's up!
I'm sorry, I seem to have completely NOT made my point...
...but explaining puns totally kills what little humor they have.
...*sigh* but I'm going to, anyway, aren't I?
You see, a Y-Combinator is a construct used to implement recursion with anonymous functions... I don't know exactly how it works, something involving a lot of lambdas and parentheses, but don't worry about that... abstract it to "recursion" and apply to the parameter "bootstrapping"...
It should definitely return "funny".
So when he was starting up this startup-bootcamp business, did he attend his own bootcamp to learn how to do it well?
Bah, Hiro had this stuff a long time ago --
"Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel:
feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books."
Hardware, OS, and Support -- the same reasons that have always been "The Point"
What, exactly, is wrong with this? Isn't transparent full-speed running of Windows software the perfect compromise? Wouldn't it be a GOOD thing if all developers could say "works with macs, too" for no additional trouble? This seems like a beautiful development, not a cop-out for the big software companies!
I keep hearing people talk about this Digg thing, but unless and until Digg slashdots Slashdot, I won't bother pointing my browser over that direction.
On second thought... I won't bother unless they take down slashdot's servers, and slashdotters say "we got digged" (or whatever the verb is)
Um.... hitting two keys at the same time is equivalent to typing at INFINITE speed, not at ZERO speed... the point about slowing typists down still stands.
Better yet:
Are you sure you wanted
to press the "Cancel" button
on the previous "Are you sure"
dialog box?
[ OK ][ Cancel ]
HEEEURK! bleaugh...
>That would be word processing and the reason that preview exists. Oh well ;)
That would be top-down processing, and the reason that preview doesn't help you find mistakes you've already made, in text your subconscious has already accepted as "correct."
If he's got control of the motor power, there's absolutely no reason he couldn't model up the system -- motor, belt elasticity, friction, momentum, and all -- and use the read head itself as a feedback sensor (detecting how often a bit/byte/sector/whatever-a-floppy-uses passes by) to set up a nice robust PID control system -- get it up to omega rpm as quick as you please with no bouncies, limited only by motor torque and available current!
Then the real question becomes, not "why was the article written," but "why the hell was it posted to /.?"
(I think that's the most consecutive punctuation I've used, outside perl, that actually made sense...)
((an ellipsis counts as a single punctuation mark in my mind...))
-- Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me...
Sept 30th, baby!!!
Rather than assuming all possible history cycles exist simultaneously and collapse as we watch them, I simply apply a bit of Heisenberg's and a bit of Quantum Probabilities to come up with an (unorthodox) hybrid. Every time someone goes back in time, there's a Normal (Gaussian) distribution to the time they end up at. Consequently, "strange loops" (to borrow a term from Hofstadter) occur as they would with fixed travel, where you go back, kill your father, therefore don't go back, therefore are born as usual, therefore go back in time to kill your father, etc. The only difference is you'll hit times farther forward and back from the target time, until one time, just by chance, you'll end up too FAR forward or back to execute your nefarious patricidal plans, thus exiting the loop.
The observed effect would be that of a single stable history, where it feels impossible to disrupt history, because every time you would otherwise do so, the time machine mysteriously malfunctions and sends you to a useless time for your purposes.
I got the idea from my own interpretation of the "slipping" in the book To Say Nothing Of The Dog, by Author I Forget.
comments? flames? I'm curious what people think!
I wear nano-pants... These particular pairs are known as Dockers "Stain Defenders (tm or something)" and really do , uh... defend against stains. Case in point: I was in a restaurant, and someone moved a plate which moved a cup which moved a soup bowl into my lap. I stood up, brushed my hand down my pant leg once to flick the soup off, and sat down again. The table took more cleaning than this amazing material did. I love 'em and swear by them. (wrinkle-resistant too, as a bonus!)
I hate to be the first to tell you this, but these devices are out there. Several of my friends have them. I'm personally saving up to buy one.
Alternatively, as another poster referred to in jest (or so he thought), Dashboard can be accessed with no keypresses at all -- simply toss the cursor to a corner you designate, and again all those features are available with a single interface (not a separate interface for each)
Really!??
When will they get this right? 80 paperclips? What is that in Library of Congress Index Cards?