Am I imagining things, or did you have another excellent 5+ post in this thread? (talking about how Win 8 PCs keep crashing and how the customers want Win7 back). Can't seem to find it now...
Whilst I generally think the same as you, one game recently has given me hope - "Sonic and all-stars racing transformed". I loved mario kart on the SNES, and this game is indeed better than that - everyone one at Amazon rates it highly for the PS3/PC etc. I even get it to run at 60fps on my rather old PC.
Personally, I'd rather have a real virus than install McAfee, but download.com and softpedia.com's users rate their stuff at 3 or 4 out of 5. Beats me, but could be the placebo effect, or maybe it's better than many of us think (not that that's saying much) ?
Maybe you should think more geometrically/logarithmically/exponentially, rather than linearly. 60 is as much an increase over 50 as 6000 is over 5000 in this sense (assuming the kelvin scale).
In the same way, 1.1 million years estimate is only a little off from 1.0 million years in terms of date estimation, even though 100,000 seems like a "really, really big number" (tm).
I don't think phantomfive was being facetious or in any way sarcastic with his comment. Just us guys love technology/science so much that these things can *sometimes* become more exciting than some of our more carnal desires.
Good post, but I thought the main problem with getting decent LED light bulbs (for example) popular was the cost and that increasing the light produced too much heat. I for one would rather not see a fan-assisted bulb because of noise pollution. Do you think this discovery will help reduce heat to any degree for a given amount of lumens?
Apart from changing 'of' to 'if', I couldn't find much fault. It's pretty clear in its meaning, and I think that should take precedence over longer, more 'eloquent', yet ultimately more verbose sentences. (*Maybe* change 'lasted' to 'lasts' come to think of it...)
The title is ambiguous (in the words "Leading Big Bang Theory"). It could mean either:
A: Other variations of the big bang theory are safe, just the 'main' version is in trouble
or....
B: The big bang theory itself is in trouble, including any of its variations. 'Leading' here would mean big bang theory over say, a steady state universe.
From what I can tell, the Slashdot title means B due to this quote in the story:
But if you take the data we’ve been given and just follow your nose, then inflation and the whole Big Bang paradigm seem to be in big trouble,” Steinhardt says.
Is Word 2013 really as ugly as this, with an all spartan white background? It looks like an early Mac prototype GUI - you can't distinguish the different elements easily:
I think you're preaching to the choir here on Slashdot. I think lots of us think think that way. Swapping the military budget with a space budget is not just desirable in a human-species-saving kinda way, but also just immensely exciting in and of itself. That's why I think so much of people like Elon Musk who are researching things like reusable rockets and fusion rockets.
I'm not sure the rock over Russia was a big enough wake up call. I hope it is, but fear that a larger (bot not extinction-level) asteroid/comet will be needed to get people to start beginning to care. Sad huh?
CPU, memory, and metadata filesystem advances aside, the thing which would make me upgrade to a new laptop is an OLED display (matte not gloss coating please). The new LG 55" TV is coming out soon, and so the tech is definitely ready.
I think a 'pagerank' type system could work well, where papers and/or people are ranked not just on the quantity of people who support them, but also the authoritativeness of those people.
To make matters worse, the 'beat' for some conductors comes in on the downstroke, and for others, on the upstroke, and variations in between. It varies according to country, but even within a country, there's differences.
Yes, the negative reviews are still coming in thick and fast for Sim City 5 at Amazon. Mostly problems with the server still. I can't imagine how broken the game/DRM must be for them not to have fixed that yet.
You say that, but I tend to think there's a beautiful mathematical underpinning for music/art which no one has really discovered yet, and will take a lot of hard work to uncover the patterns.
I can almost prove my point by reductio ad absurdum. For example, Clair De Lune, Rhapsody in Blue, or [insert your fave pop/rock piece here] is as good as the sound of a mosquito in your ear according to you and other relativists. Also it would mean a featureless or noisy blur is as good as say this: http://mandelbulbs.s3.amazonaws.com/gallery/400/LimeSpine2.jpg
I never realized that Clair De Lune, Rhapsody in Blue or [insert your fave rock/pop song here] was essentially on a par with the whine that comes out of a mosquito when it's inside your ear. Thanks for enlightening me:P
I don't necessarily disagree with you. In fact I think I agree, but I think you should realize that for better or worse, the word 'objective' (as well as 'relative' for that matter) tends to have multiple definitions according to who uses it. Those are probably split up even further into various 'flavours'. Unfortunately, varying definitions in any debate have a tendency to confuse conversation and create argument even when two or more people were actually in agreement, unbeknown to either.
As for my 'favored' definition, I tend to view 'objective' as everything is of varying 'goodness' while 'subjective' as "every moral/art/opinion is ultimately equally as good/bad". Maybe I would like your definition too, but I can't think of a single word to replace my definition, so we need to invent new words or something.
I just wish more people would take it that one step further and realize art and music can also have an intrinsic 'goodness' value on a sliding scale from bad to good too.
We could be arguing over semantics here. It doesn't have to be "black or white" to be objective. You can have an intrinsic value on a sliding scale from bad to good, with various shades of grey in between as you pointed out. Also you can have a very contrasted balance where a very good thing can balance out a very bad thing (e.g.: firefighter sacrificing their life to save two, or the way cars usefulness balance out the number of deaths they cause on our roads). This is where most people tend to get very confused and where you have extremists on both sides of the middle.
In summary, when I say 'objective', I don't mean it is "always wrong to....abc" or "always right to.... xyz" - I mean that there's a unknown value or desirability of outcome which is hard or impossible to find out, but nevertheless exists.
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Am I imagining things, or did you have another excellent 5+ post in this thread? (talking about how Win 8 PCs keep crashing and how the customers want Win7 back). Can't seem to find it now...
Whilst I generally think the same as you, one game recently has given me hope - "Sonic and all-stars racing transformed". I loved mario kart on the SNES, and this game is indeed better than that - everyone one at Amazon rates it highly for the PS3/PC etc. I even get it to run at 60fps on my rather old PC.
Love to see a video of that. Changing the fitness function to one of the following:
...would produce very different styles of play, and I'd love to see them all.
a: highest score after x levels
b: quickest way to defeat x levels
c: complete x levels with minimal thrust
d: complete x levels with maximum thrust
Thinking of branching out to simple arcade games, like Bubble Bubble or Pacman? I'd love to see a video of a computer mastering those...
Personally, I'd rather have a real virus than install McAfee, but download.com and softpedia.com's users rate their stuff at 3 or 4 out of 5. Beats me, but could be the placebo effect, or maybe it's better than many of us think (not that that's saying much) ?
I wish we'd all standardize on 1:1. That way, we get a fair compromise between those who need height, and those who prefer width.
Maybe you should think more geometrically/logarithmically/exponentially, rather than linearly. 60 is as much an increase over 50 as 6000 is over 5000 in this sense (assuming the kelvin scale).
In the same way, 1.1 million years estimate is only a little off from 1.0 million years in terms of date estimation, even though 100,000 seems like a "really, really big number" (tm).
I don't think phantomfive was being facetious or in any way sarcastic with his comment. Just us guys love technology/science so much that these things can *sometimes* become more exciting than some of our more carnal desires.
Good post, but I thought the main problem with getting decent LED light bulbs (for example) popular was the cost and that increasing the light produced too much heat. I for one would rather not see a fan-assisted bulb because of noise pollution. Do you think this discovery will help reduce heat to any degree for a given amount of lumens?
Apart from changing 'of' to 'if', I couldn't find much fault. It's pretty clear in its meaning, and I think that should take precedence over longer, more 'eloquent', yet ultimately more verbose sentences. (*Maybe* change 'lasted' to 'lasts' come to think of it...)
A: Other variations of the big bang theory are safe, just the 'main' version is in trouble
or....
B: The big bang theory itself is in trouble, including any of its variations. 'Leading' here would mean big bang theory over say, a steady state universe.
From what I can tell, the Slashdot title means B due to this quote in the story:
But if you take the data we’ve been given and just follow your nose, then inflation and the whole Big Bang paradigm seem to be in big trouble,” Steinhardt says.
Emphasis on "whole".
Is Word 2013 really as ugly as this, with an all spartan white background? It looks like an early Mac prototype GUI - you can't distinguish the different elements easily:
http://tabtimes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/Screenshot%20(2).png
Can one change the menu bar/ribbon to at least have a darker/blue/grey background instead of just being white?
I'd rather not have a bill at all. Taxes should pay for basic communication in the same way it pays for our roads.
Considering dear mother nature has already wiped out over 99% of all species that's existed, I don't think we should put all the weight on ourselves.
And we're very arguably evolution's finest production to date with our advanced thought, art, music and vision. Not all life is equal.
I think you're preaching to the choir here on Slashdot. I think lots of us think think that way. Swapping the military budget with a space budget is not just desirable in a human-species-saving kinda way, but also just immensely exciting in and of itself. That's why I think so much of people like Elon Musk who are researching things like reusable rockets and fusion rockets.
I'm not sure the rock over Russia was a big enough wake up call. I hope it is, but fear that a larger (bot not extinction-level) asteroid/comet will be needed to get people to start beginning to care. Sad huh?
Think of it like a good newspaper. Techy stuff, plus only the most important of the most important world news.
CPU, memory, and metadata filesystem advances aside, the thing which would make me upgrade to a new laptop is an OLED display (matte not gloss coating please). The new LG 55" TV is coming out soon, and so the tech is definitely ready.
I think a 'pagerank' type system could work well, where papers and/or people are ranked not just on the quantity of people who support them, but also the authoritativeness of those people.
To make matters worse, the 'beat' for some conductors comes in on the downstroke, and for others, on the upstroke, and variations in between. It varies according to country, but even within a country, there's differences.
Yes, the negative reviews are still coming in thick and fast for Sim City 5 at Amazon. Mostly problems with the server still. I can't imagine how broken the game/DRM must be for them not to have fixed that yet.
You say that, but I tend to think there's a beautiful mathematical underpinning for music/art which no one has really discovered yet, and will take a lot of hard work to uncover the patterns.
I can almost prove my point by reductio ad absurdum. For example, Clair De Lune, Rhapsody in Blue, or [insert your fave pop/rock piece here] is as good as the sound of a mosquito in your ear according to you and other relativists. Also it would mean a featureless or noisy blur is as good as say this:
http://mandelbulbs.s3.amazonaws.com/gallery/400/LimeSpine2.jpg
I never realized that Clair De Lune, Rhapsody in Blue or [insert your fave rock/pop song here] was essentially on a par with the whine that comes out of a mosquito when it's inside your ear. Thanks for enlightening me :P
I don't necessarily disagree with you. In fact I think I agree, but I think you should realize that for better or worse, the word 'objective' (as well as 'relative' for that matter) tends to have multiple definitions according to who uses it. Those are probably split up even further into various 'flavours'. Unfortunately, varying definitions in any debate have a tendency to confuse conversation and create argument even when two or more people were actually in agreement, unbeknown to either.
As for my 'favored' definition, I tend to view 'objective' as everything is of varying 'goodness' while 'subjective' as "every moral/art/opinion is ultimately equally as good/bad". Maybe I would like your definition too, but I can't think of a single word to replace my definition, so we need to invent new words or something.
I just wish more people would take it that one step further and realize art and music can also have an intrinsic 'goodness' value on a sliding scale from bad to good too.
We could be arguing over semantics here. It doesn't have to be "black or white" to be objective. You can have an intrinsic value on a sliding scale from bad to good, with various shades of grey in between as you pointed out. Also you can have a very contrasted balance where a very good thing can balance out a very bad thing (e.g.: firefighter sacrificing their life to save two, or the way cars usefulness balance out the number of deaths they cause on our roads). This is where most people tend to get very confused and where you have extremists on both sides of the middle.
In summary, when I say 'objective', I don't mean it is "always wrong to....abc" or "always right to.... xyz" - I mean that there's a unknown value or desirability of outcome which is hard or impossible to find out, but nevertheless exists.