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What is with those kinds of posts? Adult Swim is incredibly popular amongst exact demographic that read Slashdot, and therefore qualifies as "News for Nerds" even if you have personally never heard of it.
Like personally I think all anime is garbage and wouldn't know "Akira" from tentacle porn, but I realize it's popular among geeks, so I'm not gonna worry if Slashdot posts something about anime.
You know, when geeks are quoting ATHF and Sealab along with Python in 30 years and using them to name code projects it might be helpful to know what they're referring to.:)
Yeah I was, I thought "Bastogne" was pretty obvious, but I'm a WW2 buff. If he would've gotten that correct he would've been unbeatable going into Final Jeopardy. But, hey, everyone has gaps in their knowledge, he also didn't know any "Seinfeld" stuff either.
Yeah the odds just caught up with him. Like if he would've answered the last Daily Double correctly he would've won. I personally found that question pretty easy. "Bastogne" was obvious to me but I'm a WW2 buff (and a big "Seinfeld" fan).
Uhh, not for hardcore techies? Hardcore techies prefer Windows over UNIX? Wow that's news to me. Man, somebody should've told me, I'm a rich game developer that writes all my code (cross platform) on OSX.:)
In retrospect, NeXT was definitely the right choice although at the time I was a big BeOS fan and my reaction to the NeXT buy was "Huh? Oh yeah I remember NeXT. They went with that?" But the fact is, NeXT was much, much more mature than Be, plus they got the progidal son (Jobs) in the deal as well. If I had actually known much about NeXT at the time, I would've made the choice of it over Be.
If they had went with Be, Apple would probably just now be coming out with the first public release (assuming they had somehow managed to stay in business all this time with OS 9). Be was a nice little *lean* operating system (the emphasis on the word *lean*) but just wasn't the right choice to be made into the next Mac OS.
Uhh, you guys are completely missing the most important thing beyond the trivial misspellings, the code is totally wrong although it serves essentially the same purpose! It should be !strcmp. So what this code is doing is that for any candidate besides Bush it is incrementing the bushvote count by 10 and if you vote for Bush it gets counted once and Gore gets no votes! (unless you happen to vote for "Nater")
Ugh, you're so right, here we go again. Individual photons, or any massless particle, travel at *exactly* the speed of light, no more, no less. When physicists speak of "slowing down" or "speeding up" light, they are referring to a type of *wave* velocity is which utterly different than the speed of the individual particles making up the wave, is *not* the speed at which information can be transmitted by the wave.
There is also no way to transmit information faster than light with entanglement. In fact, in the transactional interpretation (just an "interpretation" mind you, it in no way predicts different effects than other interpreations) the information is transmitted exactly at c, but *back in time* with advanced waves.
These are prime examples of complex, subtle subjects that are totally misunderstood by the lay person because of simplified analogies or terminology.
My personal view on this is that it is the continuity of your consciousness that makes you *you*. So I personally would never be frozen or ever take a transporter.
Assuming for the sake of argument that you could actually be unfrozen successfully, the "you" that woke up wouldn't "really" be you. Obviously, the "you" that's there would think everything worked just fine since it had all the same exact memories and experiences as you. It's actually a terribly disturbing thought if that ever happened to me. Because the "me" after being unfrozen would obviousy have my same beliefs but would still feel his consciousness did in fact survive the freezing. And even if I'm wrong, I'd still having the nagging feeling I wasn't "me". I suppose "I" would somehow rationalize it. It's one of those essential unanswerable questions.
As far as the transporter goes, it's just freaking destroying you and creating another copy somewhere else. My thinking on all this is similiar to this guy's thoughts on the "Duplicates Paradox": http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html. There's a lot of interesting literature on this subject and "qualias".
I'm not saying that we *invented* satire and sarcasm, just perfected it.:) Obviously there are some non Gen X'ers that get it and generations after would be influenced by us, I was just making a point. I'm fascinated by the fact that an entire generation is so characterized by these particular traits of cynicism, sarcasm and irony, and I wonder what the societal reasons are. Yeah my defining influences growing up were Python and Letterman.
Yeah, but in this case a compromise had to be made and only change the O in order to fool more people into misinterpreting the meaning, thus enhancing the joke overall.:)
I'm beginning to think the only people that can write and get jokes like this are the stereotypical, jaded, cynical, Daily Show watching, The Onion reading, Simpsons quoting Gen X'ers like myself. And I base this conclusion on absolutely nothing.:)
I think we've raised satire into high art that only few can appreciate or even comprehend. From my point of view, I can't believe anyone that actually read the paper couldn't at least know it was intended to be joke even if they didn't actually understand it or why it was suppose to be funny.
I suppose it's like that with anything though. Like someone who is an art expert sees some piece of abstract piece as brilliant, but most people wouldn't even recognize or know it was even suppose to be art.
"Are you being sarcastic?" "Dude, I don't even know anymore."
Anyone else read "Rare Earth"? They make a compelling argument that *intelligent* life may be exceeding rare, as opposed to microbial life which the universe may be teeming with. Obviously in an infinite universe, we can't be alone, but we have absolutely no idea at present how common intelligent life is. Even in a galaxy of 100 billions stars, if there is only 1 in a 100 billion chance of intelligent life occuring, that means there'd be only one civilization in our galaxy, us. We just don't know. One large number times some small number that we don't even know the order of magnitude of means it could be from 1 to a million. Drake's equation anyone?
Just because the Earth has been pushed further and further from it's special place in the universe doesn't mean we shouldn't leave open the possibility that, in fact, our planet, or our sun or even our entire galaxy may be highly unusual. Thinking we're completely average in every regard is ridiculous anyway. Are you average weight, height, build, eye color, blood type, religion, race? (How many families do you know that have 1.8 children? An illogical argument but funny.:)
Anybody read Rare Earth? It makes a conceiving argument that animal life may be extremely rare, as opposed to microbial life, which may be extraordinarily common. Perhap even so far as there may only be *one* civilization per galaxy or maybe even in the whole observable universe.
I wasn't condoning his particular act, just commenting on how widespread the practice of actually keeping source code from a company you worked for is.
Yeah, as a term of my previous contract I had to sign an agreement not to work for a competitor for a year after leaving the company. Although since I'm in Texas, which is a right to work state, it may not have actually stood up in court.
Now be honest, how many software developers here have copies of source code from every company they've ever worked for? I sure do. I've never used any non-trivial portion of it (especially since each software job I've had has been in a radically different field) nor would I, mainly because I'd probably want to completely rewrite it anyway:), but I just hate the idea of "losing" something I worked so hard on, even if it justs sits on some dusty CD somewhere and isn't really "mine". They're essentially digital "trophies" I suppose.:)
On the other hand, if I someday go to work for a direct competitor of a company I used to work for, I'd sure as hell make sure I had deleted most of the code I had from the previous company. I definitely wouldn't keep the entire project tree at the very least.
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What is with those kinds of posts? Adult Swim is incredibly popular amongst exact demographic that read Slashdot, and therefore qualifies as "News for Nerds" even if you have personally never heard of it.
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Like personally I think all anime is garbage and wouldn't know "Akira" from tentacle porn, but I realize it's popular among geeks, so I'm not gonna worry if Slashdot posts something about anime.
You know, when geeks are quoting ATHF and Sealab along with Python in 30 years and using them to name code projects it might be helpful to know what they're referring to.
And we all know how well "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" worked out for Master Shake. :)
Lousy Smarch weather!
Yeah I was, I thought "Bastogne" was pretty obvious, but I'm a WW2 buff. If he would've gotten that correct he would've been unbeatable going into Final Jeopardy. But, hey, everyone has gaps in their knowledge, he also didn't know any "Seinfeld" stuff either.
Yeah the odds just caught up with him. Like if he would've answered the last Daily Double correctly he would've won. I personally found that question pretty easy. "Bastogne" was obvious to me but I'm a WW2 buff (and a big "Seinfeld" fan).
Uhh, not for hardcore techies? Hardcore techies prefer Windows over UNIX? Wow that's news to me. Man, somebody should've told me, I'm a rich game developer that writes all my code (cross platform) on OSX. :)
In retrospect, NeXT was definitely the right choice although at the time I was a big BeOS fan and my reaction to the NeXT buy was "Huh? Oh yeah I remember NeXT. They went with that?" But the fact is, NeXT was much, much more mature than Be, plus they got the progidal son (Jobs) in the deal as well. If I had actually known much about NeXT at the time, I would've made the choice of it over Be. If they had went with Be, Apple would probably just now be coming out with the first public release (assuming they had somehow managed to stay in business all this time with OS 9). Be was a nice little *lean* operating system (the emphasis on the word *lean*) but just wasn't the right choice to be made into the next Mac OS.
Uhh, you guys are completely missing the most important thing beyond the trivial misspellings, the code is totally wrong although it serves essentially the same purpose! It should be !strcmp. So what this code is doing is that for any candidate besides Bush it is incrementing the bushvote count by 10 and if you vote for Bush it gets counted once and Gore gets no votes! (unless you happen to vote for "Nater")
Ah, this must be one of its new predictions. :)
Ugh, you're so right, here we go again. Individual photons, or any massless particle, travel at *exactly* the speed of light, no more, no less. When physicists speak of "slowing down" or "speeding up" light, they are referring to a type of *wave* velocity is which utterly different than the speed of the individual particles making up the wave, is *not* the speed at which information can be transmitted by the wave. There is also no way to transmit information faster than light with entanglement. In fact, in the transactional interpretation (just an "interpretation" mind you, it in no way predicts different effects than other interpreations) the information is transmitted exactly at c, but *back in time* with advanced waves. These are prime examples of complex, subtle subjects that are totally misunderstood by the lay person because of simplified analogies or terminology.
My personal view on this is that it is the continuity of your consciousness that makes you *you*. So I personally would never be frozen or ever take a transporter.
Assuming for the sake of argument that you could actually be unfrozen successfully, the "you" that woke up wouldn't "really" be you. Obviously, the "you" that's there would think everything worked just fine since it had all the same exact memories and experiences as you. It's actually a terribly disturbing thought if that ever happened to me. Because the "me" after being unfrozen would obviousy have my same beliefs but would still feel his consciousness did in fact survive the freezing. And even if I'm wrong, I'd still having the nagging feeling I wasn't "me". I suppose "I" would somehow rationalize it. It's one of those essential unanswerable questions.
As far as the transporter goes, it's just freaking destroying you and creating another copy somewhere else. My thinking on all this is similiar to this guy's thoughts on the "Duplicates Paradox": http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html. There's a lot of interesting literature on this subject and "qualias".
I'm not saying that we *invented* satire and sarcasm, just perfected it. :) Obviously there are some non Gen X'ers that get it and generations after would be influenced by us, I was just making a point. I'm fascinated by the fact that an entire generation is so characterized by these particular traits of cynicism, sarcasm and irony, and I wonder what the societal reasons are. Yeah my defining influences growing up were Python and Letterman.
Yeah, but in this case a compromise had to be made and only change the O in order to fool more people into misinterpreting the meaning, thus enhancing the joke overall. :)
I'm beginning to think the only people that can write and get jokes like this are the stereotypical, jaded, cynical, Daily Show watching, The Onion reading, Simpsons quoting Gen X'ers like myself. And I base this conclusion on absolutely nothing. :)
I think we've raised satire into high art that only few can appreciate or even comprehend. From my point of view, I can't believe anyone that actually read the paper couldn't at least know it was intended to be joke even if they didn't actually understand it or why it was suppose to be funny.
I suppose it's like that with anything though. Like someone who is an art expert sees some piece of abstract piece as brilliant, but most people wouldn't even recognize or know it was even suppose to be art.
"Are you being sarcastic?"
"Dude, I don't even know anymore."
I always joke that Windows is barely a *uni*-tasking operating system. You can hardly even do *one* thing at a time with it. :)
Anyone else read "Rare Earth"? They make a compelling argument that *intelligent* life may be exceeding rare, as opposed to microbial life which the universe may be teeming with. Obviously in an infinite universe, we can't be alone, but we have absolutely no idea at present how common intelligent life is. Even in a galaxy of 100 billions stars, if there is only 1 in a 100 billion chance of intelligent life occuring, that means there'd be only one civilization in our galaxy, us. We just don't know. One large number times some small number that we don't even know the order of magnitude of means it could be from 1 to a million. Drake's equation anyone?
:)
Just because the Earth has been pushed further and further from it's special place in the universe doesn't mean we shouldn't leave open the possibility that, in fact, our planet, or our sun or even our entire galaxy may be highly unusual. Thinking we're completely average in every regard is ridiculous anyway. Are you average weight, height, build, eye color, blood type, religion, race? (How many families do you know that have 1.8 children? An illogical argument but funny.
Anybody read Rare Earth? It makes a conceiving argument that animal life may be extremely rare, as opposed to microbial life, which may be extraordinarily common. Perhap even so far as there may only be *one* civilization per galaxy or maybe even in the whole observable universe.
I wasn't condoning his particular act, just commenting on how widespread the practice of actually keeping source code from a company you worked for is.
Yeah, as a term of my previous contract I had to sign an agreement not to work for a competitor for a year after leaving the company. Although since I'm in Texas, which is a right to work state, it may not have actually stood up in court.
Now be honest, how many software developers here have copies of source code from every company they've ever worked for? I sure do. I've never used any non-trivial portion of it (especially since each software job I've had has been in a radically different field) nor would I, mainly because I'd probably want to completely rewrite it anyway :), but I just hate the idea of "losing" something I worked so hard on, even if it justs sits on some dusty CD somewhere and isn't really "mine". They're essentially digital "trophies" I suppose. :)
On the other hand, if I someday go to work for a direct competitor of a company I used to work for, I'd sure as hell make sure I had deleted most of the code I had from the previous company. I definitely wouldn't keep the entire project tree at the very least.