ability to make the chemical-physical transition in your muscle cells to make contraction and relaxation must be built in, because it is a mechanism.
logically thats like saying you can learn to see. (not interpret the world necessarily, or identify faces, but receieve optical impulse necessary to allow you to do all that learning)
Get the distinction yet?
Muscle memory? silly? wha? No, it is real, just like 2+2=4 is automatic, some movements become automatic by the same neutral pathway ingraining. Just ask Tiger Woods. Or someone who can bunny hope that building in action quake 2 city level.
If you look at the semantics of what I said, I said the brain knows how to move muscles, no coordinated movement, and, for some reason, which I forget, that point of distinction was important.
I forgot what this thread was about now, but the very fact that you can randomly and uncoordinatedly move your muscles means the brain knows how to move muscles. (ok just nerve impules, but you are wired up, albeit randomly, or not randomly, but we don't know what does what yet)
Writing some complex and large CMS/workflow applcations for a large (very large) financial instritute somewhere in europe I recall one meeting in the plush and trendy meeting room, we were all happy, and a newly mastered release (only a 0.6 probably) with a whole 2 stright no holidays of work on it, was about to head off to a courier.
Great. In comes the comical yet lovable scottish boss (not in scotland) who stars talking a non-english lanuage, fires up xemacs (through cygwin) on the projector computer, does some home magic, and runs a script with some grep on the code (Java).
Ensuing hilarity as the page floods with multi-lingual obscenities. A quick -10n hack and we had a rough count attributed to each person. The skin head in the metal-band-of-your-choice-T's face lit up as he was exponentially above the rest.
The female developers were a bit shy in the fact that they hadn't gotten away scot free.
We grabbed the CD from the courier, and ceremonially broke it up.
It was to be sent to a code integration review, and well... you know... (maybe you had to be there - imagine 20 techies around a... round table... late on a Thursday - right laughs I tell you)
So, what have we learnt? DOCUMENTING CODE IS BAD! I know some people actually believe that, they say the method names should be well structured, and each method very atomic, so you do not need MUCH comments (but def some).
About going back to code as little as 3 weeks later, seeing some lines of code with comments, homing in to remember what was happening at this place, and then seeing the helpful://AUTHOR: Doesn't work?//AUTHOR: removed lines to fix//AUTHOR: seems to be working????
yeah... so helpful... seemed easy at the time. But what it shows is, some of these 'wtf?' comments are now null and void, because pruning old traces/comments is the most arduous task of a programmer. it compiles, runs, closes without bombing, ship it already!
When I was young, I asked my mum, why are some plants weeds, and others flowers, because the ones I saw with flowers, were in fact weeds. When she told me it was up to you which ones were weeds, I realised what she meant.
Now, how does this apply?
When is a virus a virus (using the n00b def of something bad - forget tech semantics for a mo).
File A, loads onto system, HAS NO PAYLOAD, but is a virus
File B, loads onto system, HAS A SPYWARE/ADWARE PAYLOAD, but is not a virus, because marketting types with small cocks wet themselves at giving things new names.
I say this should be a virus, and saying that a file without a payload is a virus (most/many viruses have little/no payload) yet a file, the same metaphor of infection, is not a virus, but has an unwanted, active, and threatening payload, is sucking fupid!
AV apps are shit in general, not as shit as that slashdot 'are you real' script. that can jump off a cliff handcuffed to an old VW van, and the guy who wrote it.
again, talking technology just cramps your thinking room.
GOOGLE ALREADY DO THIS, without your customisation page, and adding a 'choose your own RSS' if managed correctly people will love it.
Have RSS subscriptions in your GMAIL account (with diffing, so only new articles come up as unread etc - don't know if rss supports this? (article id'ing, else just use url))
RSS for slashdot == correct. Using is as a news source on google news? not correct.
<i>It's meant for legal downloads only, of course. </i>
Well BitTorrent is meant for legal downloads too, but that doesn't mean a whole lot.
BitTorrent is a protocol. Not an application.
It isn't meant for anything, legal or illegal. Think about it.
And even if you write a protocol for illegal things, I do not think that should proclude it from being available.
It's this half assed bad thinking in society that just begs for dumb laws. When we question the legitimacy of something tat is UNQUESTIONABLY legitimate, how will the other people, who are not tech savvy look at something that they see as a tool to remove money from their pocket?
If one more person talks about legitimising bit-torrent again... I mean, who the hell was the first person to say it, and everyone latched on.
Rather than fight the notion that an idea (and code is a well defined idea) needs to be validated in case it can be used for bad purposes, we give CREDIT to the implausible, and try and defend against it, when it does not exist, and then, one day, without realising, it will exist, because we were fighting the wrong battle.
to the asshole who has written the "To confirm you're not a script" logo, go fuck yourself, just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. PS: The Y letter is cropped, and next to a V letter, so they look almost indistinguishable. DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH ALL YOUR FREE TIME. Jackass.
a release costs marketting, but also resets upgrade paths, microsoft have seen companies arenot ready to jump from 2k to xp, and dont want them to skip longhorn, they want to be back on the rails for longhorn, with all their engineered flaws that will show up and cause people to trickle their money back into M$ pockets.
Plus, they lost some key staff, and now microsoft are playing catch up by hiring some open source people, which I think is daft.
How can they flail around if they haven't already learned to move their muscles?
You know, even flailing and moving arms with neural circuitry cannot just exist, it has to be programmed and designed, pre built.
You were Thinking moving a biological arm in a flailing motion (yet controlled, they can stop and start) is LESS complex than learning to walk on them, at a neural processing level?
Yes walking patterns get placed into 'muscle' memory, but the ability to move muscles is built in. Same as, erm, a heart beating? "Well Mr Jones, he is a little slow to learn, most children learn to beat their hearts by 11 months, but don't worry, keep up the heart massage, and he might live."
Stop thinking that being narrow minded and not seeing the whole puzzle makes you more intelligent.
With rat brain cells, in a suspesion, with lots of tiny wires on a core placed into them, they found that patterns emerged.
But our brains have built in abilities, for instance, we do not learn to smell or process visual cues, or move our muscles.
What would be cool? The ability to interface a controlled part of the brain (like, learn something while thinking about the beatles) to allow us to control which part of the brain stores some info, and have this as a removable, tranferrable core, and then see if we insert into into someone else, can they access their own interface (by perhaps, thinking about lemons) which would trigger these new associations.
It would give a while new meaning to getting someone to do your homework, they could also study for you for the exam, or lend you their notes literally.
Or actors could shag fit celebrities, and then copy their thoughts, and you rent them, and have memories of the event.
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First Linux booting on DELL X50.
We finally succedeed. The serial output of this alpha kernel version is available here.
For this testing kernel, you can get output through serial cable only. After the penguin appeared for about 20 seconds, you can see some kernel mssages at the LCD (that means the framebuffer driver works), but the font is too small, so they can't be recognised. and then it stops there. That's not a problem, making GUI work is more and more easier than making kernel work:)
I just tested it one my x50 (416) machine, so I don't know if it will also works on x50 (512) or x50v. If you have tested it, please tell me:P
The necessary files can be downloaded here:
haret.exe zImagex30s default.txt initrd
NOTE: This kernel version is just for debugging, you can't see GUI at this time . And it will destroy all your data in ram, so make sure you have backed up you data. Make a copy of your rom image is also recommended, it is safe on my machine, but I am not so sure if it will be on yours.
2005-4-19
Great news, I have done my selfmade serial cable , it works fine. So the following steps should be quick. Thank you my friend reactos , thanks for your great help.
After clean up my hundreds of cables, I will post the total debug information from serial port and complete my personal home page. And....... maybe I will post the practical serial cable making method and the images.
PS: Getting past junk character filter was a bitch
I am very keen to remove my reliance on the poor (yet just usable) tools. The RAPI, the cecopy etc was a bitch to get a real development cycle going, using Java (superwaba.com.br).
As a veteran of 3 wireless applications that link to a remote interface I have seen a great deal of potential in the handheld paradigm, there was a slashdot link about a many to many pradigm in computing screens, where angles dictate what you saw, well my idea if different handhelds have differnet views on a computer system, like thin clients.
Right now the ipaq is an up and coming bluetooth tv remote control, which shows the tv guide on the ipaq, and allows you to email using the qwerty keyboard, or web surf (built in apps).
Right now it is a bad set of programs, and hacks, with linux opening up the system, I can make customised system designed for this.
Imagine, watching seinfeld on xvid through your RF link to you 42" screen, from your PC, but then watching satellite channels on yoru handheld, while you check for latest news on an earthquake, and then at a push of a button send the image you are seeing to the tv screen.
I think it is an embarassment that the supposedly enlightened crowd suffer the bad reporting at the level it exists on slashdot. I am suprised slashdot isn't asking sites to take it down as a news source. It doesn't make sense.
Yes, it can be a link source, but not a news source.
Sometimes I see a google news article, which is an article, about an article, about an article, about an article, that you have to register to read. And in traditional chinese whispers, it starts as one thing, and it ends as another.
Many a time the/. title has been one thing, and the actual story is the INVERSE of the claim.
Really, they should allow you to register your 5 google accounts, drag a 10gb file on the folder, and then split/span the file into all those accounts, which can be done through one root account, (if sent mail doesnt add to storage...) anyway, keep sent mail can be turned off.
Then, when you login, it pops the 5 accounts one at a time, collates the file system, then caches.
Since you only have to update when you make a change, it wont be slow.
Google has some neato throttling on file dl's, but if you copy the 10gb file to your HDD, it just gets segment by segment.
Viola. Then you can write a torrent function, and automatically seed google accounts as torrent sources.
Then you could store all yoru data on gmail, because we know the end of the world is coming, because every two-bit news 'source' is trying to get on slashdot with stories about the apple intel merger.
The bad blogs, were, well bad. The good blogs were, well, good, but bad. How so?
Well, blogging became a trite and annoying word, and those who could have had sane web content published to their site using automated means, whose instead to label this technology as an action.
The fact that the verb was the technology is an irkish trait.
The verb should have been removed from the underlying technology, the whole process of writing has been around, suddenly a technology comes around that does... nothing... one day all these forum / im / chat processes were relabeled with a piece of jargon, and everyone wanted to do it.
If you trace the ancient entymology of 'blog you will find an antique phrase:
web log
web is a protraction of world-wide-web, a name given to the http related protocols that run on the 'net (route: english, from word 'Internet' from older phrase 'interconnected network'). log is the same as the ancient word 'log' meaning a piece of felled tree.
The act of web logging means you kept a series of diary like thoughts. However, most were not diaries, but link dumps, or a way of changing the front page content of a website. Which makes sense.
But, althought you write a diary on a diary, and a newspaper on a newspaper, and a tv guide on a tv guide, and a sightseeing book, in, a , erm, sightseeing book, they are not all the same thing.
You can call it publishing, but blogging has other roots, and the misuse of the term is like garlic salt on an open eye wound.
My favourite blog was my friends, it was unpretentious, only about 5 people ever read it. I preffer that.
Basically, write an article if you have something to say, if you want to write a how-to, write a how -to.
Don't blog a how-to, or blog a hack.
And weblogs.com can die, as can any other 'auto-content-blog-content-write-for-us- content- for-the-sake-of-linkable-content- google-friendly -badgerisms' can go and die.
Making it too easy to publish things that went into the global conscience of the web, just made it easier for the people who saw little value in what they wrote to just write more of it, and make it EASIER (or more difficult for google) for them to infect the mainstream.
Blogging was one hell of a signal/noise screw over, and for that, they can tongue my sweaty starfish, the bastards.
The apple and intel merger has been CONFIRMED that is poses no threat to the immediate orbits of the solar bodies.
Upon confirmation millions who sold their homes and donated the money to the 'Now Apple Choose Intel the Solar System will Implode' church, which is a wing of scient-fallacy, had this to say:
'pwned'.
However, this does threaten *BSD, which as you will find on any/. thread, has been dying for years anyway.
Also, in France, a man has claimed that the frogs are out for revenge, and the intel/apple alliance is part of their evil plan.
Also - JUST IN - it is confirmed that rumours that the Apple / Intel deal will/will not harm/scare/threaten distribution of firefox/parmesan cheese/oranges and adult daipers.
STOP PRESS!!
It has been confirmed that Apple and Intel Merger *IS NOT* I repeat *IS NOT* a link to the holy grail / concer cure / aids vaccine / fission / the idiot who is writing the 'To confirm you're not a script' fudge.
Thankfully, if any more websites hop onto the 'lets say something is not something after something happens' band waggon, they cannot use the above stories, because the editors will know its a dupe!
Hang on, they seem to be spending all their time writing this 'To confirm you're not a script' thing... to whoever is writing this: TELL US WHY FFS! You damn heathen.
What I do not get is that engadget do not quote their source. They are only a second hand source of news, they are not the actual people who said this, yet they do not quote their source.
Why? Well their only link is a google friendly link to a search on their site (no doubt anticipating people searching for 'upgrade firmware psp').
Anyway, they should quote their source of 'apparently' etc.
In fact reading the toms hardware article, it looks like toms hardware *WAS* the source for the engaydget article.
SONY: I wasn't going to buy a PSP, now this has been cracked, I am considering it!
"Hi Bob, what time is it?" "Quarter to Summer, Janine" "OK, thanks Bob, Look I am off to have lunch, some summer berries I guess, I'll do those reports at half past Autumn ok?" "No problem, just get them to me before I get snowed in my office again"
Orbits the star once every 48 earth-hours? Or Orbits the start once ever sol? (if its day is 182.51 days long, then its year wold be equal to hours if this is right)
Tum tee tum. Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars, let me see what life is like on Gliese 876 and Gliese 875.
If you are writing programs, you can raise you odds against the house by betting when there is a probability of a shortage of low cards, because the house has rules of when they are allowed to fold.
This is called card couting, easy enough for someone who trains hard at it, erm, very simple for computers!
Poker: Having watched TV poker whilst stranded with my family one christmas, I realise that you have 3 areas you can take advantage of:
Knowing what is on the turn, and what cards you have and knowing what cards have gone, you may realise that noone could beat you in certain hands (if the cards have passed)
Mapping someones betting habits isn't a good idea, because this would leave a weakness in a system that could be exploited.
Simply bet to probability. Down to the button. (the other machine would know the same probabilities as you,and understand from your value bet how much you had, unless you did put a bluff in there)
Sometimes an inital bet is more to see what cards the others have than to give away any indication of what cards you have.
A weak bet on a strong raise for a good player means he has a good hand, and wants to bite you, or he is going to bluff, and wants to lure you into thinking he has a good hand, OR (etc).
I was just about to order some extra razors from some proles via email too! I had better go to the ministry of truth and rewrite this post after I am done.
News: Chocolate rations are up from 200g to 150g this week.
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ability to make the chemical-physical transition in your muscle cells to make contraction and relaxation must be built in, because it is a mechanism.
logically thats like saying you can learn to see. (not interpret the world necessarily, or identify faces, but receieve optical impulse necessary to allow you to do all that learning)
Get the distinction yet?
Muscle memory? silly? wha? No, it is real, just like 2+2=4 is automatic, some movements become automatic by the same neutral pathway ingraining. Just ask Tiger Woods. Or someone who can bunny hope that building in action quake 2 city level.
If you look at the semantics of what I said, I said the brain knows how to move muscles, no coordinated movement, and, for some reason, which I forget, that point of distinction was important.
I forgot what this thread was about now, but the very fact that you can randomly and uncoordinatedly move your muscles means the brain knows how to move muscles. (ok just nerve impules, but you are wired up, albeit randomly, or not randomly, but we don't know what does what yet)
Writing some complex and large CMS/workflow applcations for a large (very large) financial instritute somewhere in europe I recall one meeting in the plush and trendy meeting room, we were all happy, and a newly mastered release (only a 0.6 probably) with a whole 2 stright no holidays of work on it, was about to head off to a courier.
//AUTHOR: Doesn't work? //AUTHOR: removed lines to fix //AUTHOR: seems to be working????
Great. In comes the comical yet lovable scottish boss (not in scotland) who stars talking a non-english lanuage, fires up xemacs (through cygwin) on the projector computer, does some home magic, and runs a script with some grep on the code (Java).
Ensuing hilarity as the page floods with multi-lingual obscenities. A quick -10n hack and we had a rough count attributed to each person. The skin head in the metal-band-of-your-choice-T's face lit up as he was exponentially above the rest.
The female developers were a bit shy in the fact that they hadn't gotten away scot free.
We grabbed the CD from the courier, and ceremonially broke it up.
It was to be sent to a code integration review, and well... you know... (maybe you had to be there - imagine 20 techies around a... round table... late on a Thursday - right laughs I tell you)
So, what have we learnt? DOCUMENTING CODE IS BAD! I know some people actually believe that, they say the method names should be well structured, and each method very atomic, so you do not need MUCH comments (but def some).
About going back to code as little as 3 weeks later, seeing some lines of code with comments, homing in to remember what was happening at this place, and then seeing the helpful:
yeah... so helpful... seemed easy at the time. But what it shows is, some of these 'wtf?' comments are now null and void, because pruning old traces/comments is the most arduous task of a programmer. it compiles, runs, closes without bombing, ship it already!
When I was young, I asked my mum, why are some plants weeds, and others flowers, because the ones I saw with flowers, were in fact weeds. When she told me it was up to you which ones were weeds, I realised what she meant.
Now, how does this apply?
When is a virus a virus (using the n00b def of something bad - forget tech semantics for a mo).
File A, loads onto system, HAS NO PAYLOAD, but is a virus
File B, loads onto system, HAS A SPYWARE/ADWARE PAYLOAD, but is not a virus, because marketting types with small cocks wet themselves at giving things new names.
I say this should be a virus, and saying that a file without a payload is a virus (most/many viruses have little/no payload) yet a file, the same metaphor of infection, is not a virus, but has an unwanted, active, and threatening payload, is sucking fupid!
AV apps are shit in general, not as shit as that slashdot 'are you real' script. that can jump off a cliff handcuffed to an old VW van, and the guy who wrote it.
again, talking technology just cramps your thinking room.
GOOGLE ALREADY DO THIS, without your customisation page, and adding a 'choose your own RSS' if managed correctly people will love it.
Have RSS subscriptions in your GMAIL account (with diffing, so only new articles come up as unread etc - don't know if rss supports this? (article id'ing, else just use url))
RSS for slashdot == correct. Using is as a news source on google news? not correct.
BitTorrent is a protocol. Not an application.
It isn't meant for anything, legal or illegal. Think about it.
And even if you write a protocol for illegal things, I do not think that should proclude it from being available.
It's this half assed bad thinking in society that just begs for dumb laws. When we question the legitimacy of something tat is UNQUESTIONABLY legitimate, how will the other people, who are not tech savvy look at something that they see as a tool to remove money from their pocket?
If one more person talks about legitimising bit-torrent again... I mean, who the hell was the first person to say it, and everyone latched on.
Rather than fight the notion that an idea (and code is a well defined idea) needs to be validated in case it can be used for bad purposes, we give CREDIT to the implausible, and try and defend against it, when it does not exist, and then, one day, without realising, it will exist, because we were fighting the wrong battle.
to the asshole who has written the "To confirm you're not a script" logo, go fuck yourself, just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. PS: The Y letter is cropped, and next to a V letter, so they look almost indistinguishable. DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH ALL YOUR FREE TIME. Jackass.
a release costs marketting, but also resets upgrade paths, microsoft have seen companies arenot ready to jump from 2k to xp, and dont want them to skip longhorn, they want to be back on the rails for longhorn, with all their engineered flaws that will show up and cause people to trickle their money back into M$ pockets.
Plus, they lost some key staff, and now microsoft are playing catch up by hiring some open source people, which I think is daft.
No farmonauts would be a voyager into a farm.
:-)
I think you mean astrofarmers or cosmofarmers.
Still, I just ate a pizza hut pizza, so stick that in your shuttle and eat it!
I wish dominos/hut would do mars delivery one day, but I think subaqueous hotels will exists first, and the first subaqua society. That'd be cool.
Well done, I said move muscules not walking.
How can they flail around if they haven't already learned to move their muscles?
You know, even flailing and moving arms with neural circuitry cannot just exist, it has to be programmed and designed, pre built.
You were Thinking moving a biological arm in a flailing motion (yet controlled, they can stop and start) is LESS complex than learning to walk on them, at a neural processing level?
Yes walking patterns get placed into 'muscle' memory, but the ability to move muscles is built in. Same as, erm, a heart beating? "Well Mr Jones, he is a little slow to learn, most children learn to beat their hearts by 11 months, but don't worry, keep up the heart massage, and he might live."
Stop thinking that being narrow minded and not seeing the whole puzzle makes you more intelligent.
With rat brain cells, in a suspesion, with lots of tiny wires on a core placed into them, they found that patterns emerged.
But our brains have built in abilities, for instance, we do not learn to smell or process visual cues, or move our muscles.
What would be cool? The ability to interface a controlled part of the brain (like, learn something while thinking about the beatles) to allow us to control which part of the brain stores some info, and have this as a removable, tranferrable core, and then see if we insert into into someone else, can they access their own interface (by perhaps, thinking about lemons) which would trigger these new associations.
It would give a while new meaning to getting someone to do your homework, they could also study for you for the exam, or lend you their notes literally.
Or actors could shag fit celebrities, and then copy their thoughts, and you rent them, and have memories of the event.
Coolies. Weird.
They are bringing out the double whopper 180 teraflops soon, with 'have it your way' clustering, and a free coke.
I am very keen to remove my reliance on the poor (yet just usable) tools. The RAPI, the cecopy etc was a bitch to get a real development cycle going, using Java (superwaba.com.br).
As a veteran of 3 wireless applications that link to a remote interface I have seen a great deal of potential in the handheld paradigm, there was a slashdot link about a many to many pradigm in computing screens, where angles dictate what you saw, well my idea if different handhelds have differnet views on a computer system, like thin clients.
Right now the ipaq is an up and coming bluetooth tv remote control, which shows the tv guide on the ipaq, and allows you to email using the qwerty keyboard, or web surf (built in apps).
Right now it is a bad set of programs, and hacks, with linux opening up the system, I can make customised system designed for this.
Imagine, watching seinfeld on xvid through your RF link to you 42" screen, from your PC, but then watching satellite channels on yoru handheld, while you check for latest news on an earthquake, and then at a push of a button send the image you are seeing to the tv screen.
Yes, it is already here, but not working nicely.
Wray for linux!
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/step/
If you look now though, there are two areas of fairly high risk.
Don't use this map for anything important, like planning picnics.
Still, I check this every day, and I am suprised that I was given a reference to test its accuracy so soon.
Still, it has updated today in light of the events.
Would you like to browse other windows machines shared directories? Yes | No | Exit
Would you like to run an smtp server, ftp server, ssh server, plus the other 27 servers that are installed by default on your distro? Yes | No | Exit
Would you like to bother setting up cups? Yes
No | I don't have a printer maaaan
Would you like to auto-configure Firefox for faster pr0n access Yes | Yes | Exit
You see, easy to use doesn't have to be expensive.
I think it is an embarassment that the supposedly enlightened crowd suffer the bad reporting at the level it exists on slashdot. I am suprised slashdot isn't asking sites to take it down as a news source. It doesn't make sense.
/. title has been one thing, and the actual story is the INVERSE of the claim.
/.
Yes, it can be a link source, but not a news source.
Sometimes I see a google news article, which is an article, about an article, about an article, about an article, that you have to register to read. And in traditional chinese whispers, it starts as one thing, and it ends as another.
Many a time the
well done
Really, they should allow you to register your 5 google accounts, drag a 10gb file on the folder, and then split/span the file into all those accounts, which can be done through one root account, (if sent mail doesnt add to storage...) anyway, keep sent mail can be turned off.
Then, when you login, it pops the 5 accounts one at a time, collates the file system, then caches.
Since you only have to update when you make a change, it wont be slow.
Google has some neato throttling on file dl's, but if you copy the 10gb file to your HDD, it just gets segment by segment.
Viola. Then you can write a torrent function, and automatically seed google accounts as torrent sources.
Then you could store all yoru data on gmail, because we know the end of the world is coming, because every two-bit news 'source' is trying to get on slashdot with stories about the apple intel merger.
Piece. (sic)
Before you mod, my thoughts:
- for-the-sake-of-linkable-content-y -badgerisms' can go and die.
The bad blogs, were, well bad. The good blogs were, well, good, but bad. How so?
Well, blogging became a trite and annoying word, and those who could have had sane web content published to their site using automated means, whose instead to label this technology as an action.
The fact that the verb was the technology is an irkish trait.
The verb should have been removed from the underlying technology, the whole process of writing has been around, suddenly a technology comes around that does... nothing... one day all these forum / im / chat processes were relabeled with a piece of jargon, and everyone wanted to do it.
If you trace the ancient entymology of 'blog you will find an antique phrase:
web log
web is a protraction of world-wide-web, a name given to the http related protocols that run on the 'net (route: english, from word 'Internet' from older phrase 'interconnected network'). log is the same as the ancient word 'log' meaning a piece of felled tree.
The act of web logging means you kept a series of diary like thoughts. However, most were not diaries, but link dumps, or a way of changing the front page content of a website. Which makes sense.
But, althought you write a diary on a diary, and a newspaper on a newspaper, and a tv guide on a tv guide, and a sightseeing book, in, a , erm, sightseeing book, they are not all the same thing.
You can call it publishing, but blogging has other roots, and the misuse of the term is like garlic salt on an open eye wound.
My favourite blog was my friends, it was unpretentious, only about 5 people ever read it. I preffer that.
Basically, write an article if you have something to say, if you want to write a how-to, write a how -to.
Don't blog a how-to, or blog a hack.
And weblogs.com can die, as can any other 'auto-content-blog-content-write-for-us-
content
google-friendl
Making it too easy to publish things that went into the global conscience of the web, just made it easier for the people who saw little value in what they wrote to just write more of it, and make it EASIER (or more difficult for google) for them to infect the mainstream.
Blogging was one hell of a signal/noise screw over, and for that, they can tongue my sweaty starfish, the bastards.
The apple and intel merger has been CONFIRMED that is poses no threat to the immediate orbits of the solar bodies.
/. thread, has been dying for years anyway.
Upon confirmation millions who sold their homes and donated the money to the 'Now Apple Choose Intel the Solar System will Implode' church, which is a wing of scient-fallacy, had this to say:
'pwned'.
However, this does threaten *BSD, which as you will find on any
Also, in France, a man has claimed that the frogs are out for revenge, and the intel/apple alliance is part of their evil plan.
Also - JUST IN - it is confirmed that rumours that the Apple / Intel deal will/will not harm/scare/threaten distribution of firefox/parmesan cheese/oranges and adult daipers.
STOP PRESS!!
It has been confirmed that Apple and Intel Merger *IS NOT* I repeat *IS NOT* a link to the holy grail / concer cure / aids vaccine / fission / the idiot who is writing the 'To confirm you're not a script' fudge.
Thankfully, if any more websites hop onto the 'lets say something is not something after something happens' band waggon, they cannot use the above stories, because the editors will know its a dupe!
Hang on, they seem to be spending all their time writing this 'To confirm you're not a script' thing... to whoever is writing this: TELL US WHY FFS! You damn heathen.
Thats all. -1 Troll. Yep.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ;-)
What I do not get is that engadget do not quote their source. They are only a second hand source of news, they are not the actual people who said this, yet they do not quote their source.
Why? Well their only link is a google friendly link to a search on their site (no doubt anticipating people searching for 'upgrade firmware psp').
Anyway, they should quote their source of 'apparently' etc.
In fact reading the toms hardware article, it looks like toms hardware *WAS* the source for the engaydget article.
SONY: I wasn't going to buy a PSP, now this has been cracked, I am considering it!
"Hi Bob, what time is it?"
"Quarter to Summer, Janine"
"OK, thanks Bob, Look I am off to have lunch, some summer berries I guess, I'll do those reports at half past Autumn ok?"
"No problem, just get them to me before I get snowed in my office again"
Orbits the star once every 48 earth-hours? Or Orbits the start once ever sol? (if its day is 182.51 days long, then its year wold be equal to hours if this is right)
Tum tee tum. Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars, let me see what life is like on Gliese 876 and Gliese 875.
No doesn't have the ring to it.
If you are writing programs, you can raise you odds against the house by betting when there is a probability of a shortage of low cards, because the house has rules of when they are allowed to fold.
This is called card couting, easy enough for someone who trains hard at it, erm, very simple for computers!
Poker: Having watched TV poker whilst stranded with my family one christmas, I realise that you have 3 areas you can take advantage of:
Knowing what is on the turn, and what cards you have and knowing what cards have gone, you may realise that noone could beat you in certain hands (if the cards have passed)
Mapping someones betting habits isn't a good idea, because this would leave a weakness in a system that could be exploited.
Simply bet to probability. Down to the button. (the other machine would know the same probabilities as you,and understand from your value bet how much you had, unless you did put a bluff in there)
Sometimes an inital bet is more to see what cards the others have than to give away any indication of what cards you have.
A weak bet on a strong raise for a good player means he has a good hand, and wants to bite you, or he is going to bluff, and wants to lure you into thinking he has a good hand, OR (etc).
Poker is cool.
I was just about to order some extra razors from some proles via email too! I had better go to the ministry of truth and rewrite this post after I am done.
News: Chocolate rations are up from 200g to 150g this week.
Yeah, but you would end up bunny hopping around like a maniac, and everyone would know what you were doing, you sick puppy!
Seriously.