...Dyson was theorizing on some form of water life that can tunnel through a few kilometers of ice and extend a probiscus into near vacuum that would act as a solar collector.
Well, actually, according to this article, "a nut is a seed, but a seed is not necessarily a nut." Though the distinction, I expect, is really only significant to biologists, and maybe even only taxonomists.
Or, rather, that most people are generally confused (which is to say, they're not quite sure what to think) about everything.
Slashdot is primarily a forum, not a news agency. Slashdot doesn't even report on the news: its users do. So I think that that's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that should be expected, given the tendency of people to disagree on most things.
Just my $0.02. Feel free to disagree if you'd like.;)
All time is free. And every healthy person has the same amount in any given day: 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds. The idea that we have time that isn't free is actually an illusion created by society to maintain a sense of duty towards certain institutions: your job, etc.
So try not to criticize how others decide to use their time, unless you're paying them for it.:)
I'd blame it on the vague title... Diamond _Transistor_, they should've said. Then the 81GHz makes more sense. At first, I was thinking, "how can a slab of diamond semiconductor operate at all, let alone at '81GHz'?"
But then again, the editor probably didn't understand the article either.
I really like the way you put that. It seems to be a most accurate perspective on the whole IP issue surrounding software.
I like how this emphasizes the similarity between computer programming and writing... both involve crafting information, words, instructions to communicate exactly what you want. Software is indeed information, as much so as is any instruction manual. Only this one's written for a computer. The quest for the ultimate programming language that many computer scientists seem preoccupied with is therefore a struggle for the ultimate method of communication. There's a reason they're called 'languages,' after all.
Those concerned that it's not a good idea for computers to track their belongings and whereabouts are advised that they may ultimately have to fragment their identities, keeping multiple IDs and e-mail addresses.
Did this line remind anyone else of Philip K. Dick's thoroughly perplexing novel "A Scanner Darkly"?
My co-workers and I would regularly discuss how one could, hypothetically, write the ultimate virus... some of our ideas would have been quite evil indeed. And most of us were pretty good programmers.
That could be considered conspiracy, you know...
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Did you actually read the article? The results of this experiment will have very tangible benefits to humankind, in growing stem cells for medical purposes without needing to use human embryo cells. This was certainly not done out of 'morbid curiosity.'
Yeah, I guess we'd know enough to do anything we'd want to... and that reminds me of the whole idea of pseudo-fractures. To quote Douglas Adams:
The major problem which the medical profession in the most advanced sectors of the galaxy had to tackle after cures had been found for all the major diseases, and instant repair systems had been invented for all physical injuries and disablements except some of the more advanced forms of death, was that of employment.
Planets full of bronzed healthy clean limbed individuals merrily prancing through their lives meant that the only doctors still in business were the psychiatrists, simple because no one had discovered a cure for the Universe as a whole - or rather the only one that did exist had been abolished by the medical doctors.
Then it was noticed, like most forms of medical treatment, total cures had a lot of unpleasant side effects. Boredom, listlessness, lack of...well anything very much, and with these conditions came the realisation that nothing turned say, a lsightly talented musicain into a towering genius faster than the problem of encroaching deafness, and nothing turned a perfectly normal healthy individual into a great political or military leader better than irreversible brain damage. Suddenly, everything changed. Previously best selling books such as How I survived an hour with a sprained finger were swept away in a flood of titles such as How I scaled the North face of the MegaPurna with a perfectly healthy finger but everything else sprained, broken or bitten off by a pack of mad yaks.
And so doctors were back in business recreating all the diseases and injuries they had abolished in popular easy to use forms. Thus, given the right and instantly available types of disability even something as simple as turning on the three-d TV could become a major challenge, and, when all the programmes on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft pallettes speaking lines by dyslexic writers filmed by blind cameramen instead of merely seeming like that, it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile.
THHGTTG is just so rife with little things like that, which can pop up in any conversation and actually be relevant.
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The user buys the software therefore ACCEPTING whatever license that comes with the software.
Wouldn't it be better to think of it as if the user buys the license, and not the software?
...Dyson was theorizing on some form of water life that can tunnel through a few kilometers of ice and extend a probiscus into near vacuum that would act as a solar collector.
Hmm, this sounds strangely familiar...
Well, that's the orbital period... Since we just round it to 24 hours, we re-sync using leap years.
Yes, they can quite obviously seem... incompetent at times. Though not [yet] intolerably so.
Well, actually, according to this article, "a nut is a seed, but a seed is not necessarily a nut." Though the distinction, I expect, is really only significant to biologists, and maybe even only taxonomists.
Or, rather, that most people are generally confused (which is to say, they're not quite sure what to think) about everything.
;)
Slashdot is primarily a forum, not a news agency. Slashdot doesn't even report on the news: its users do. So I think that that's a perfectly reasonable conclusion that should be expected, given the tendency of people to disagree on most things.
Just my $0.02. Feel free to disagree if you'd like.
All time is free. And every healthy person has the same amount in any given day: 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds. The idea that we have time that isn't free is actually an illusion created by society to maintain a sense of duty towards certain institutions: your job, etc.
:)
So try not to criticize how others decide to use their time, unless you're paying them for it.
I agree, there are far better examples of absurd technical illustration. Most of these are just... not funny at all.
[Stops himself from commenting on Slashdot's quality lately...]
Not really. A peanut is not actually a nut, but a seed.
Heh, I love that there's a huge IBM ad on that page. How ironic. :-)
I'd blame it on the vague title... Diamond _Transistor_, they should've said. Then the 81GHz makes more sense. At first, I was thinking, "how can a slab of diamond semiconductor operate at all, let alone at '81GHz'?"
But then again, the editor probably didn't understand the article either.
I really like the way you put that. It seems to be a most accurate perspective on the whole IP issue surrounding software.
I like how this emphasizes the similarity between computer programming and writing... both involve crafting information, words, instructions to communicate exactly what you want. Software is indeed information, as much so as is any instruction manual. Only this one's written for a computer. The quest for the ultimate programming language that many computer scientists seem preoccupied with is therefore a struggle for the ultimate method of communication. There's a reason they're called 'languages,' after all.
It's a great way of thinking of it.
But as far as I know, I never heard of the big guys (think HP, IBM, GE, P&G etc) got raided. Why is that?
Because they're members! (Well, HP and IBM, at least.)
Those concerned that it's not a good idea for computers to track their belongings and whereabouts are advised that they may ultimately have to fragment their identities, keeping multiple IDs and e-mail addresses.
Did this line remind anyone else of Philip K. Dick's thoroughly perplexing novel "A Scanner Darkly"?
So, are you saying that I should keep away from telephones from now on?
I'm just amazed at Apple's attention to detail with something so seemingly trivial as product packaging.
Yeah, pretty stupid, eh?
...performed a Harry Potter job on the account books...
That's the first time I've heard that expression. o_0
>_ oh my fragile little mind...
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My co-workers and I would regularly discuss how one could, hypothetically, write the ultimate virus ... some of our ideas would have been quite evil indeed. And most of us were pretty good programmers.
That could be considered conspiracy, you know...
Yes, but can fish live in it?
Did you actually read the article? The results of this experiment will have very tangible benefits to humankind, in growing stem cells for medical purposes without needing to use human embryo cells. This was certainly not done out of 'morbid curiosity.'
Yeah, do they make them so damn loud on purpose, or what? I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that it's incredibly obnoxious.