There are some absolutely amazing episodes in the current series, then just some soppy emotional ones. "Boom Town" (latest) was slow, emotional and didn't go anywhere. The "Empty Child" sequence was real Dr. Who though, mystery, technology, humour, running, screaming, the works.
If you gat a sensible Bayesian filter, it implements a dynamic pseudo-blacklist and pseudo-whitelist. I've found it far more effective for pulling bad mail relays out of my inbox than explicit blacklisting ever was, and at the same time making sure email from known people got through no matter what. Just let it read the headers.
It also depends how well the OS is designed with regards to userspace. On a mac, each user's 'individual' applications run within their own userspace (macheads correct me if I'm wrong). On Windows, a single application may install to every start menu, and run on every boot. It's possible to do this with a mac, buy you need to actually think "am I installing this for everybody?"
IQ tests don't actually test intelligence though. They test your ability to solve problems.
Give me a problem including a load a number sequences and I can solve it by arithmetic means. Give me a problem involving shapes and I can solve it by scrawling notes.
Give me a problem involving how to move half a tonne of wooden poles with 2 lengths of rope and a group of teenagers and not only can I form a plan in a minute or two, but I can do it safely and quickly. This isn't tested in a classic IQ test, so therefore because I can't 'just do' the maths puzzle without resorting to stepping through the solution I'm less intelligent.
IQ tests don't really give any kind of indication of intelligence in situations it may be useful.
Disclaimer: My tested IQ is 143, and so far I've been overseeing the lifting of heavy pioneering poles for 4 years with only one casualty (a rope burn).
Even after 7 years of high school literature, I was sick and tired of anything printed.
It may just be possible, through some slim chance, that when the author wrote "It was a warm, sunny day" he/she was not referring to the political climate in his/her country with regards to the imminent summit on global warming which was held in the conference centre across the street. I know it may be a strange concept for you literature buffs to grasp, but sometimes a story is a story and nothing else.
Now that's over with, yes it does spoil it a bit but sometimes the new level of realisation makes you go "Damn...". I did a lot of stuff on electronics and as a result completely lost my ability to go "Duh, you put that into that and it works" but I have gained the far more useful ability to go "Wire that to that through one of those and it works far better, and it gives you a smoothed output and protects against back-EMF from the relay".
Handy in the real world, but still kinda irritating to lose that magic. This is why OSS (Sorry to bring up a regular topic) is bad for Joe Public, it doesn't just work.
The thing with digital data is that if you have a good backup procedure (you should do anyway), it's safe. When you notice the format going out of fashion, pick up the latest lossless encryption format and it's a swift and easy move.
The trick is to make the formats open (like this project is trying to), so that in 500 years when people dig out those antique nano-disks there will still be documentation for the format. With any luck if they get it right first time the format will still be the de facto standard. Plain text files anyone? WAV? They're not going anywhere as simple 'this bit is equal to that' files.
"The only really good thing about Windows is that nearly all hardware and software works with it (supposedly.. often they claim to work but don't).. which has nothing to do with the OS itself."
What the hell does it have to do with then? My hardware works fine under Windows, first time, no configuration. Last time I tried Linux on desktop rebuild (And a 'User Friendly' Ubuntu flavour as well) it took 2 hours to make it work at a higher resolution than 640x480. Needless to say, XP went straight back on.
All nice, except for the forward. When I'm on the beach I don't like to be at the office - the only time I do that is if I'm on wireless in which case my softphone hooks up to my office number anyway.
You may laugh, but my school recently moved to Cisco IP phones. It now takes around 2 days for voicemail to actually reach them, because the system we have installed just isn't designed for 80+ extensions, voicemail, call queueing, and the rest.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but there is no point in creating a 'New Internet' if it's just as easy to give each damn RFID tag an IP address. I shouldn't have to waste time translating between networks, if I ping an IP it should reply be it a server, an RFID tag, a mobile phone, a watch...
Remember URLs? Ever heard of the concept of URIs? A 'name' could be given to a tag which resolves just like a domain name.
Come on people, we don't need new networks. We need IPv6 on the one we've got, and hook more devices onto that.
The easiest way to simulate a brain, imo, is to design an IC which simulates a single neuron/synapse, then wire them all together. Yes you'd need billions of them, but what the hell.
The only time I have ever used dual screens was when I was dealing with documents. Lots of documents. Having two screens allowed me to keep two 'source' documents open on one monitor and the interface I happened to be transcribing them into (which needed a lot of screen estate) on the other.
I tried it with one screen and alt+tabbing, I gave up and demanded a 2nd monitor after 20 minutes.
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Nice theory, however you can't even run a fully accountable election any more. Electronic voting with no paper trail?
Lose one democracy point.
I would love to tell you, but I live in the UK. If you must know we do most of the pioneering at Bramhope and Wike campsites near Leeds.
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There are some absolutely amazing episodes in the current series, then just some soppy emotional ones. "Boom Town" (latest) was slow, emotional and didn't go anywhere. The "Empty Child" sequence was real Dr. Who though, mystery, technology, humour, running, screaming, the works.
I'm with this, especially 1.0
If you gat a sensible Bayesian filter, it implements a dynamic pseudo-blacklist and pseudo-whitelist. I've found it far more effective for pulling bad mail relays out of my inbox than explicit blacklisting ever was, and at the same time making sure email from known people got through no matter what. Just let it read the headers.
That was my point, logistically I'm great. I can work out what needs to be where when, and how to get it there. Can't do crosswords worth a damn.
Not carry my own, but work out how to get a group of scouts to lift 20 of them safely with only 2 lengths of rope. Carrying your own is easy :D
It also depends how well the OS is designed with regards to userspace. On a mac, each user's 'individual' applications run within their own userspace (macheads correct me if I'm wrong). On Windows, a single application may install to every start menu, and run on every boot. It's possible to do this with a mac, buy you need to actually think "am I installing this for everybody?"
I have taken the approach with my home network of forcing updates via SUS and group policy. Works perfectly.
IQ tests don't actually test intelligence though. They test your ability to solve problems.
Give me a problem including a load a number sequences and I can solve it by arithmetic means. Give me a problem involving shapes and I can solve it by scrawling notes.
Give me a problem involving how to move half a tonne of wooden poles with 2 lengths of rope and a group of teenagers and not only can I form a plan in a minute or two, but I can do it safely and quickly. This isn't tested in a classic IQ test, so therefore because I can't 'just do' the maths puzzle without resorting to stepping through the solution I'm less intelligent.
IQ tests don't really give any kind of indication of intelligence in situations it may be useful.
Disclaimer: My tested IQ is 143, and so far I've been overseeing the lifting of heavy pioneering poles for 4 years with only one casualty (a rope burn).
Even after 7 years of high school literature, I was sick and tired of anything printed.
It may just be possible, through some slim chance, that when the author wrote "It was a warm, sunny day" he/she was not referring to the political climate in his/her country with regards to the imminent summit on global warming which was held in the conference centre across the street. I know it may be a strange concept for you literature buffs to grasp, but sometimes a story is a story and nothing else.
Now that's over with, yes it does spoil it a bit but sometimes the new level of realisation makes you go "Damn...". I did a lot of stuff on electronics and as a result completely lost my ability to go "Duh, you put that into that and it works" but I have gained the far more useful ability to go "Wire that to that through one of those and it works far better, and it gives you a smoothed output and protects against back-EMF from the relay".
Handy in the real world, but still kinda irritating to lose that magic. This is why OSS (Sorry to bring up a regular topic) is bad for Joe Public, it doesn't just work.
The thing with digital data is that if you have a good backup procedure (you should do anyway), it's safe. When you notice the format going out of fashion, pick up the latest lossless encryption format and it's a swift and easy move.
The trick is to make the formats open (like this project is trying to), so that in 500 years when people dig out those antique nano-disks there will still be documentation for the format. With any luck if they get it right first time the format will still be the de facto standard. Plain text files anyone? WAV? They're not going anywhere as simple 'this bit is equal to that' files.
"The only really good thing about Windows is that nearly all hardware and software works with it (supposedly.. often they claim to work but don't).. which has nothing to do with the OS itself."
What the hell does it have to do with then? My hardware works fine under Windows, first time, no configuration. Last time I tried Linux on desktop rebuild (And a 'User Friendly' Ubuntu flavour as well) it took 2 hours to make it work at a higher resolution than 640x480. Needless to say, XP went straight back on.
All nice, except for the forward. When I'm on the beach I don't like to be at the office - the only time I do that is if I'm on wireless in which case my softphone hooks up to my office number anyway.
You may laugh, but my school recently moved to Cisco IP phones. It now takes around 2 days for voicemail to actually reach them, because the system we have installed just isn't designed for 80+ extensions, voicemail, call queueing, and the rest.
And fine wires at that...
*shivers*
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but there is no point in creating a 'New Internet' if it's just as easy to give each damn RFID tag an IP address. I shouldn't have to waste time translating between networks, if I ping an IP it should reply be it a server, an RFID tag, a mobile phone, a watch...
Remember URLs? Ever heard of the concept of URIs? A 'name' could be given to a tag which resolves just like a domain name.
Come on people, we don't need new networks. We need IPv6 on the one we've got, and hook more devices onto that.
The easiest way to simulate a brain, imo, is to design an IC which simulates a single neuron/synapse, then wire them all together. Yes you'd need billions of them, but what the hell.
On a 15.4" it definately is. I don't go any higher than 1600x1200 on a 19".
My bad, I started with PoV then realised people would expand it to point of view.
You forgot the second corollary - explicitly invoking Godwin's Law will ensure the continuation of the thread.
Seconded. Where do you get these things added to the list?
The only time I have ever used dual screens was when I was dealing with documents. Lots of documents. Having two screens allowed me to keep two 'source' documents open on one monitor and the interface I happened to be transcribing them into (which needed a lot of screen estate) on the other.
I tried it with one screen and alt+tabbing, I gave up and demanded a 2nd monitor after 20 minutes.
So fast enough for Persistance of Vision, but still a piss poor refresh rate.