This is noteworthy because normally there are large time spans between releases of DVDs and Sequels
This is not noteworthy, nor should it have even been posted. (Just my opinion.) (It's just like my post--my post is pointless too, but I'm bored.)
I find it amusing that Slashdot has chosen the two pills as the symbol for The Matrix, thereby accentuating the drug-taking aspect of the movie above all others.
My previous comment is not a Trolling post--it's my honest opinion, and I happen to believe it's largely a statement of fact as well. (The last part is purely opinion, obviously.)
It's too bad people think that posting truth about Microsoft is the same as trolling.
Yes, but Windoze 3.11 and later Windoze 95 straight-out *stole* the interface Apple was using for the Mac. This is an example of "dirty tricks" *before* M$ became a monopoly and it's the way they have always done things.
These 'digital shoplifters' are using cellphones to photograph magazine pages in bookstores, rather than buying them. 'Digital shoplifting is becoming a big problem as camera-equipped mobile handsets are spreading fast and their quality is improving greatly,'
I strongly object to the characterization of these people as shoplifters. To me, shoplifting implies a situation where you're taking something (a physical something) away from someone else. Watch out for anti-piracy organizations that equate illegal copying with plain, standard physical theft--they're trying to pull a 1984-style maneuver.
It's true that this sort of copying is, technically IP theft, but when the anti-piracy orgs tell the masses, "bad, evil, nasty people are digitally shoplifting our stuff!!" it sounds much more sinister. This is a blatant attempt by those organizations to vilify something that's probably not that bad.
IMHO, the world would be a better place if these orgs would find ways to adapt rather than bitch and moan about something which is simply an irrevocable truth of the digital age. (I.e. it's really easy to copy stuff over and over and over...)
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It's not a question of subtlety not working on slashdot. (although it's true that subtlety probably doesn't work most of the time on this site)
No, the problem is that there was no way to tell that you were joking. It reads as completely serious, if a little non sequitor. This is frequently a problem with written communications, as I'm sure you're already aware.
Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?"
For me it'll be sad day when showing a film becomes a case of clicking "go".
Oh don't worry, I'm sure the system will have enough complexity that your standard high school student/part timer will screw it up on a regular basis. They'll mess up the audio (too loud, too quiet, not turned on), they'll mess up the video (contrast too high, too low, colors way off). If the digital movie is in more than one "file", they'll mess up the sequencing so that the next file doesn't play when the first one is done.
sigh. I've had to sit through *a lot* of inept film handling. It would be nice if they could make the system more idiot proof.
This is the saddest, most pathetic karma whoring I have ever seen. Usually I don't mind that posts with a tiny bit of info get bumped up to Score 5 because it is actually helping people. But this is just sick. What next? pr0n site password lists?
LINUX. Get Linux put on a great many more machines. Become totally devoted to the "Linux way" and shove it down other people's throats every chance you get. It's not pretty, but it would work. Then the kids would have their little proggy languages.
My real concerns are that the answer is overly simplistic. You can't just say "oh, it's infinity!" and leave it at that. If it were that simple, there'd be no calculus.
This web page gives a brief demonstration of how messy probability can be when dealing with a countably infinite set: http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Probability/infi nity.s html
Put aside the 1/infinity thing for a minute and ask yourself this: Does it make *sense* that the probability of getting an even prime number is *exactly* zero? *almost* zero sure, but *exactly* zero? No. It doesn't make sense because there is, in fact, one even integer. Yes, yes I know there are infinitely many odd primes, but if you understand how probably actually works, a probability of *exactly* zero is supposed to mean that the corresponding event is completely impossible. So we have a contradiction here--so something's wrong. I was focusing on the simplistic division by infinity. It's either that or something else. Right now, I'm thinking the flaw is in applying probability to an infinite set without knowing how to do it properly.
Of course, applying probability incorrectly is very classic--happens all the time. That's probably the original poster's point.
Right. And therefore, you're not actually _at_ infinity.
Maybe the question to ask you, oh masterful guru is: what is the practical difference between being _at_ infinity and _approaching_ infinity? Do you know what infinity actually means? It means roughly, that the same pattern, increasing or decreasing, continues forever and ever without bounds.
Now, given that, what is this difference between _at_ infinity and _approaching_ infinity? Both are somewhat wrong, but yours sounds more nonsensical. Just because we can use an infinity symbol in calculations, it doesn't necessarily follow that it means the same things as some of our other symbols. You can be _at_ or approaching any point on the number line, but you can't really be _at_ infinity because it's not a location, it's a pattern of never-ending increase or decrease.
Wrong. Linux is named after a person. It is ethnocentrist to intentionally bastardize the pronunciation of someone's name into your language. Since Linus Torvald's first name is pronounced Leenuhs, it follows that the kernel named after him is pronounced Leenuhks. Linus also expressly allows the pronunciation Linuhks (soft `i').
I'm not sure I agree with your definition of `information'.
I think, for something to count as infomration, it has to be meaningful in some way. This means/dev/random doesn't count as information--it's just arbitrary numbers. No true patterns.
Only because nearly all or all of Microsoft's business model is based on sales of software. In that scenerio it is obviously ludicrous for said company to release the source code to their product--they'd have nothing left to sell. There are other situations, however, where the program code is not the thing actually being sold. There are also situations in which a company goes belly-up or can no longer make any profit from the software. In these situations and others, Open Source and/or Free Software (those are not identical) makes sense.
With two buttons, then there's a question: Which button to use in any situation? With three buttons, you've also got to worry about two button combos (keyboards have combos!)
Well if taht was the problem they could've just labled the damn buttons. Besides, on a keyboard there's more than one Ctrl, Alt, and Shift key! Oh no! Confusion! Aaaaaaaaggh, brain on fire, nooooooo!!!:-)
To me it always seemed that the Unix-like OSes were user indifferent.:-) Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or flaming--I'm just sayin'... I usually get the feeling that the UI doen't care if I live or die.
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Maybe the Wachoski's (sp?) were mean, but it might have bean in Marcus's best interest to just take the $250,000 deal that was offered.
This is not noteworthy, nor should it have even been posted. (Just my opinion.) (It's just like my post--my post is pointless too, but I'm bored.)
I find it amusing that Slashdot has chosen the two pills as the symbol for The Matrix, thereby accentuating the drug-taking aspect of the movie above all others.
The Google translation of your sig into English is: "The scents of the breathing of my cat have taste of the food for cats."
I guess you're saying, "My cat's breath smells like cat food." Should this really come as a surprise?
My previous comment is not a Trolling post--it's my honest opinion, and I happen to believe it's largely a statement of fact as well. (The last part is purely opinion, obviously.)
It's too bad people think that posting truth about Microsoft is the same as trolling.
Yes, but Windoze 3.11 and later Windoze 95 straight-out *stole* the interface Apple was using for the Mac. This is an example of "dirty tricks" *before* M$ became a monopoly and it's the way they have always done things.
Yes, but what if just once, *just once*, *for a moment*, I were careless? Then I might get dead. If you were careless even once, you might too.
What if your pregnant wife were in the car and you had to rush her to the hospital? Boy, that would suck, huh?
I strongly object to the characterization of these people as shoplifters. To me, shoplifting implies a situation where you're taking something (a physical something) away from someone else. Watch out for anti-piracy organizations that equate illegal copying with plain, standard physical theft--they're trying to pull a 1984-style maneuver.
It's true that this sort of copying is, technically IP theft, but when the anti-piracy orgs tell the masses, "bad, evil, nasty people are digitally shoplifting our stuff!!" it sounds much more sinister. This is a blatant attempt by those organizations to vilify something that's probably not that bad.
IMHO, the world would be a better place if these orgs would find ways to adapt rather than bitch and moan about something which is simply an irrevocable truth of the digital age. (I.e. it's really easy to copy stuff over and over and over...)
It's not a question of subtlety not working on slashdot. (although it's true that subtlety probably doesn't work most of the time on this site)
No, the problem is that there was no way to tell that you were joking. It reads as completely serious, if a little non sequitor. This is frequently a problem with written communications, as I'm sure you're already aware.
No.
Oh don't worry, I'm sure the system will have enough complexity that your standard high school student/part timer will screw it up on a regular basis. They'll mess up the audio (too loud, too quiet, not turned on), they'll mess up the video (contrast too high, too low, colors way off). If the digital movie is in more than one "file", they'll mess up the sequencing so that the next file doesn't play when the first one is done.
sigh. I've had to sit through *a lot* of inept film handling. It would be nice if they could make the system more idiot proof.
This is the saddest, most pathetic karma whoring I have ever seen. Usually I don't mind that posts with a tiny bit of info get bumped up to Score 5 because it is actually helping people. But this is just sick. What next? pr0n site password lists?
LINUX. Get Linux put on a great many more machines. Become totally devoted to the "Linux way" and shove it down other people's throats every chance you get. It's not pretty, but it would work. Then the kids would have their little proggy languages.
oopsie--you know when I said "one even integer" what I meant was "one even prime number"
Why the hell doesn't slashdot let you edit posts after they're posted? Too abusable maybe...
My real concerns are that the answer is overly simplistic. You can't just say "oh, it's infinity!" and leave it at that. If it were that simple, there'd be no calculus.
i nity.s html
This web page gives a brief demonstration of how messy probability can be when dealing with a countably infinite set:
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Probability/inf
Put aside the 1/infinity thing for a minute and ask yourself this: Does it make *sense* that the probability of getting an even prime number is *exactly* zero? *almost* zero sure, but *exactly* zero? No. It doesn't make sense because there is, in fact, one even integer. Yes, yes I know there are infinitely many odd primes, but if you understand how probably actually works, a probability of *exactly* zero is supposed to mean that the corresponding event is completely impossible. So we have a contradiction here--so something's wrong. I was focusing on the simplistic division by infinity. It's either that or something else. Right now, I'm thinking the flaw is in applying probability to an infinite set without knowing how to do it properly.
Of course, applying probability incorrectly is very classic--happens all the time. That's probably the original poster's point.
Right. And therefore, you're not actually _at_ infinity.
Maybe the question to ask you, oh masterful guru is: what is the practical difference between being _at_ infinity and _approaching_ infinity? Do you know what infinity actually means? It means roughly, that the same pattern, increasing or decreasing, continues forever and ever without bounds.
Now, given that, what is this difference between _at_ infinity and _approaching_ infinity? Both are somewhat wrong, but yours sounds more nonsensical. Just because we can use an infinity symbol in calculations, it doesn't necessarily follow that it means the same things as some of our other symbols. You can be _at_ or approaching any point on the number line, but you can't really be _at_ infinity because it's not a location, it's a pattern of never-ending increase or decrease.
Wrong. Linux is named after a person. It is ethnocentrist to intentionally bastardize the pronunciation of someone's name into your language. Since Linus Torvald's first name is pronounced Leenuhs, it follows that the kernel named after him is pronounced Leenuhks. Linus also expressly allows the pronunciation Linuhks (soft `i').
But you don't have to take my word for it:
Linux Jargon File Entry
torvalds-says-linux.wav (81kB)
I'm sorry, I just can't resist. You misspelled a word there. That should be "grammar".
I'm not sure I agree with your definition of `information'.
/dev/random doesn't count as information--it's just arbitrary numbers. No true patterns.
I think, for something to count as infomration, it has to be meaningful in some way. This means
depends on how you choose to store it.
Okay, I'm forgetful and I'm too lazy to google. I forget--what are the advantages of the blue laser?
I always figured it was pronounced as:
"thirty-one, three, thirty-seven", or
"Ee-leet".
Only because nearly all or all of Microsoft's business model is based on sales of software. In that scenerio it is obviously ludicrous for said company to release the source code to their product--they'd have nothing left to sell. There are other situations, however, where the program code is not the thing actually being sold. There are also situations in which a company goes belly-up or can no longer make any profit from the software. In these situations and others, Open Source and/or Free Software (those are not identical) makes sense.
Well if taht was the problem they could've just labled the damn buttons. Besides, on a keyboard there's more than one Ctrl, Alt, and Shift key! Oh no! Confusion! Aaaaaaaaggh, brain on fire, nooooooo!!! :-)
To me it always seemed that the Unix-like OSes were user indifferent. :-) Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or flaming--I'm just sayin'... I usually get the feeling that the UI doen't care if I live or die.
What makes you say their equipment is the most inferior?