Seems like whats been proven is that a doughnut != sphere.
That depends on the donut. A traditional toroidal donut is not simply connected, so in that case you're correct. However a jelly donut or one of the custard-filled subtypes is cylindrical rather than toroidal; this donut would then be a sphere, if you're a topologist.
If you want to make a single-button design completely intuitive for all users you have to make the button large, shiny, red, illuminated, and labelled "Do Not Press This Button". The users will figure it out from there.
No matter how you define the boundary of the species, there was a "first chicken". By definition, that chicken hatched from an egg. Question answered.
The solution here is obvious: send several live chickens back in time to lay chicken eggs to produce the first chickens which will eventually produce the very chickens you send back in time. If you simultaniously kill off every chicken in the world as you send the chickens back in time, the very same chickens will come before the first egg and exist after the last eggs.
We therefor require a device to enable travel in time. Anyone have a delorean I can borrow?
>Have you heard of google? Nope. What can you tell me about it?
It's a fully featured calculator, email, calendar, and chat system. Oh, it does searches too. It's really rather like emacs in that, someday, it may even get its own text editor.
I believe following a Wue Wei in this matter and seeking a Tao of OS would dictate that you did not decide either OS, but rather whichever OS more naturally handled a task would be the one that was chosen.
By advocating that only one OS is "the way" you are denying that fact that the Tao is in all things, and ergo, all things are part of the Tao.
And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?
Your disk drive has firmware that lets you talk to it in SCSI (or whatever). You don't get to play with the head stepper or the ECC directly. What is the difference between that and a video card? If the video drivers were moved onto the card and the interface was made OpenGL would that make it "Open Source"?
Yes. Or close enough. If video cards worked like that it would be great: one unified standard protocol that drives the video card to its full potential, and all the software wizardry to make that work lies on the card itself or the card is designed to speak that protocol natively. Then we wouldn't need an ATI Radeon (random number here) driver, or an nVidia geforce (similar random number here) driver; instead we could have a standard AcceleratedGraphicsCard driver that speaks to any compliant card.
The catch here is "drives the video card to its full potential." I don't want 640x480x16colors VGA, I want 3d accelerated with all the widgets working as expected.
"Dig" is an ok name for a tech news site, but I bet something with a better connection to tech itself would go over well. Something that says "Here is where to go!" hmmm, in unix "here" can be represented with PWD or even a dot, or a dotslash. hey, that's a good name! "./"! Anyone want to volunteer to set up something like this?
> Their products are beautiful and wonderful, but they never can get over that hump that other big >companies surmount to being able to mass-produce a product while maintaining its greatness. > >I was wondering why the iPod never really took off . . . That was a neat little music player. Such a >shame.
So, would you say that reassigning control of the Iraq domain from two jailed Palestinian immigrants in the United States was what... arbitrary? Unreasonable?
I don't know if that's what your parent post intended you to get from his comment, but I'll say that.
Let's change the phrase "two jailed Palestinian Immigrants in the United States" to "the individuals who legitimately purchased control of the domain." :
So, would you say that reassigning control of the Iraq domain from the individuals who legitimately purchased control of the domain was what... arbitrary? Unreasonable?
Not that I'm disputing any of your comment, but I had a question. When you said:
There hasn't been a major world war since they were invented (that is rivaling WWI, WWII, etc).
You implied that there had been other "major world wars" besides WW1 and 2. However, WW1 was a war of a scale previously unheard of (at the time it was "The War to end all wars"). World War 2 was, again, war on a massive scale with vast casualties on all sides.
Was your implication simply a mistake and you meant to say "There hasn't been a major war on the scale of WW1 or WW2 since the invention and deployment of atomic and thermonuclear weapons," or am I missing a global-scale conflict somewhere?
The problem with delaying the delivery of punishments like that (your "wait a week and then let them have it." experiment) is: it removes the immediacy of action leading to punishment. The reason you'd feel bad for doing it is because now you're punishing them at a time when they may not even remember what it is they're being punished for.
Properly delivered punishments with a sense of immediacy and not over-utilized can be an effective method to aid in instilling proper discipline in children. No a spanking isn't the proper punishment for all misdeeds. However, when a child is being exceptionally poorly behaved, or failing to acknowledge other methods of dealing with bad behaviours (threats of time-outs, grounding, etc) the application of a moderate amount of force to a child's posterior can show that such behaviors will not be tolerated.
As to your question about crime rates, all I have is annecdotal information which shows that the worst behaved children (now teens actually) that I know were, to the best of my knowledge, never spanked or hit as children, and in fact ran roughshod over their parents.
Five people were killed and 17 more hospitalized by an intentionally-deployed bioterrorism agent, within the United States, and you think it was blown out of proportion?
What if I worded that like:
"A biological warfare agent was intentionally deployed within and against the United States, however the release of this agent resulted in only 5 deaths out of 22 total reported cases of infection."
That certainly sounds less worrisome to me, once you cut out the buzzword of the day "terrorism" and stop treating 5 deaths like the end of the world, the threat falls more into perspective.
The threats are exaggerated far beyond their actual danger, though how much of that needs to be blamed on the current administration and how much is ust the fault of media hype I'll leave for someone else to determine.
Either that, or I'm just some crazy guy with a computer.
So you're saying that ??? is 3 alpha characters, specifically (hopefully) "sex"?
Thus giving us
a. Inventing technologies with multiple beneficial uses to society. b. Proliferating said technologies. c. Utilizing said technologies in a single manner that potentially undercuts existing profit models for monied business lobbies. d. Inducing said lobbies to petition government to make such technologies illegal. e. Cotinuing to investigate, develop, maintain, utilize and otherwise possess said technologies. f. Publishing to members of the opposite sex said possession of said technologies. g. sex h. [obligatory] Profit!
I think you misunderstand the "carrot and stick" analogy. The carrot is a reward (like a raise, or promotion). The stick is the threat of punishment (like getting fired).
The lack of a raise, or the lack of perception of fair raises, means the employer doesn't have the "stick" of not offering a raise since the employees already feel that they're not getting a raise, or not getting enough of a raise to worry about it.
If that happens, the current clock maintainer simply finds the serial-bit adder controlling the venus orbit and adjusts the 28-bit code to reflect the new orbit. And maybe makes a notation in a clay tablet which he then bakes so it will last 9500 years.
Just once I'd like to hear "Oh... well yeah I see why Microsoft did that. I'm not sure it'll work, but let's wait and see what happens when I've had a chance to actually try it."
You must not be listening then. Hear all those people who don't say anything in the threads about Office 12 and Vista? All of them are saying precisely that.
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Seems like whats been proven is that a doughnut != sphere.
That depends on the donut. A traditional toroidal donut is not simply connected, so in that case you're correct. However a jelly donut or one of the custard-filled subtypes is cylindrical rather than toroidal; this donut would then be a sphere, if you're a topologist.
If you want to make a single-button design completely intuitive for all users you have to make the button large, shiny, red, illuminated, and labelled "Do Not Press This Button". The users will figure it out from there.
No matter how you define the boundary of the species, there was a "first chicken". By definition, that chicken hatched from an egg. Question answered.
The solution here is obvious: send several live chickens back in time to lay chicken eggs to produce the first chickens which will eventually produce the very chickens you send back in time. If you simultaniously kill off every chicken in the world as you send the chickens back in time, the very same chickens will come before the first egg and exist after the last eggs.
We therefor require a device to enable travel in time. Anyone have a delorean I can borrow?
>Have you heard of google?
Nope. What can you tell me about it?
It's a fully featured calculator, email, calendar, and chat system. Oh, it does searches too.
It's really rather like emacs in that, someday, it may even get its own text editor.
I believe following a Wue Wei in this matter and seeking a Tao of OS would dictate that you did not decide either OS, but rather whichever OS more naturally handled a task would be the one that was chosen.
By advocating that only one OS is "the way" you are denying that fact that the Tao is in all things, and ergo, all things are part of the Tao.
And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?
Your disk drive has firmware that lets you talk to it in SCSI (or whatever). You don't get to play with the head stepper or the ECC directly. What is the difference between that and a video card? If the video drivers were moved onto the card and the interface was made OpenGL would that make it "Open Source"?
Yes. Or close enough. If video cards worked like that it would be great: one unified standard protocol that drives the video card to its full potential, and all the software wizardry to make that work lies on the card itself or the card is designed to speak that protocol natively. Then we wouldn't need an ATI Radeon (random number here) driver, or an nVidia geforce (similar random number here) driver; instead we could have a standard AcceleratedGraphicsCard driver that speaks to any compliant card.
The catch here is "drives the video card to its full potential." I don't want 640x480x16colors VGA, I want 3d accelerated with all the widgets working as expected.
"Dig" is an ok name for a tech news site, but I bet something with a better connection to tech itself would go over well. Something that says "Here is where to go!" hmmm, in unix "here" can be represented with PWD or even a dot, or a dotslash. hey, that's a good name! "./"! Anyone want to volunteer to set up something like this?
> Their products are beautiful and wonderful, but they never can get over that hump that other big >companies surmount to being able to mass-produce a product while maintaining its greatness.
>
>I was wondering why the iPod never really took off . . . That was a neat little music player. Such a >shame.
I'll tell you why it never took off: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
So, what is "felt" is the conscious interpretation of the subconscious decoding of the cellular level signal?
Like the application's reaction to the operating system's message about the mouse being clicked?
How is that different?
Then how did the president get an alignment of CS (Criminally Stupid)?
You forgot the Sun Elves
So, would you say that reassigning control of the Iraq domain from two jailed Palestinian immigrants in the United States was what... arbitrary? Unreasonable?
I don't know if that's what your parent post intended you to get from his comment, but I'll say that.
Let's change the phrase "two jailed Palestinian Immigrants in the United States" to "the individuals who legitimately purchased control of the domain." :
So, would you say that reassigning control of the Iraq domain from the individuals who legitimately purchased control of the domain was what... arbitrary? Unreasonable?
Yes.
What do you think the first language is supposed to be?
Yeah, I'm sure they're chomping at the bit to host my porn.
Well, they are the world's largest providers of the Host...
Not that I'm disputing any of your comment, but I had a question. When you said:
There hasn't been a major world war since they were invented (that is rivaling WWI, WWII, etc).
You implied that there had been other "major world wars" besides WW1 and 2. However, WW1 was a war of a scale previously unheard of (at the time it was "The War to end all wars"). World War 2 was, again, war on a massive scale with vast casualties on all sides.
Was your implication simply a mistake and you meant to say "There hasn't been a major war on the scale of WW1 or WW2 since the invention and deployment of atomic and thermonuclear weapons," or am I missing a global-scale conflict somewhere?
The problem with delaying the delivery of punishments like that (your "wait a week and then let them have it." experiment) is: it removes the immediacy of action leading to punishment. The reason you'd feel bad for doing it is because now you're punishing them at a time when they may not even remember what it is they're being punished for.
Properly delivered punishments with a sense of immediacy and not over-utilized can be an effective method to aid in instilling proper discipline in children. No a spanking isn't the proper punishment for all misdeeds. However, when a child is being exceptionally poorly behaved, or failing to acknowledge other methods of dealing with bad behaviours (threats of time-outs, grounding, etc) the application of a moderate amount of force to a child's posterior can show that such behaviors will not be tolerated.
As to your question about crime rates, all I have is annecdotal information which shows that the worst behaved children (now teens actually) that I know were, to the best of my knowledge, never spanked or hit as children, and in fact ran roughshod over their parents.
Five people were killed and 17 more hospitalized by an intentionally-deployed bioterrorism agent, within the United States, and you think it was blown out of proportion?
What if I worded that like:
"A biological warfare agent was intentionally deployed within and against the United States, however the release of this agent resulted in only 5 deaths out of 22 total reported cases of infection."
That certainly sounds less worrisome to me, once you cut out the buzzword of the day "terrorism" and stop treating 5 deaths like the end of the world, the threat falls more into perspective.
The threats are exaggerated far beyond their actual danger, though how much of that needs to be blamed on the current administration and how much is ust the fault of media hype I'll leave for someone else to determine.
Either that, or I'm just some crazy guy with a computer.
... i guess that i'm just gonna be deemed a pervert for eschewing all of these flash sites, and using browsers like links2, then. sod you all :)
/me has been reading too much Myth
thats pervect!
Vi on Tinfoil is much better than Emacs on Aluminum.
ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.
Ah, the good old Chewbacca Defense.
In this instance, however, I can certainly see how it applies. Maybe Chewbacca is the intelligent designer behind the Kansaas board of ecudation?
So you're saying that ??? is 3 alpha characters, specifically (hopefully) "sex"?
Thus giving us
a. Inventing technologies with multiple beneficial uses to society.
b. Proliferating said technologies.
c. Utilizing said technologies in a single manner that potentially undercuts existing profit models for monied business lobbies.
d. Inducing said lobbies to petition government to make such technologies illegal.
e. Cotinuing to investigate, develop, maintain, utilize and otherwise possess said technologies.
f. Publishing to members of the opposite sex said possession of said technologies.
g. sex
h. [obligatory] Profit!
I think you misunderstand the "carrot and stick" analogy. The carrot is a reward (like a raise, or promotion). The stick is the threat of punishment (like getting fired).
The lack of a raise, or the lack of perception of fair raises, means the employer doesn't have the "stick" of not offering a raise since the employees already feel that they're not getting a raise, or not getting enough of a raise to worry about it.
If that happens, the current clock maintainer simply finds the serial-bit adder controlling the venus orbit and adjusts the 28-bit code to reflect the new orbit. And maybe makes a notation in a clay tablet which he then bakes so it will last 9500 years.
Just once I'd like to hear "Oh... well yeah I see why Microsoft did that. I'm not sure it'll work, but let's wait and see what happens when I've had a chance to actually try it."
You must not be listening then.
Hear all those people who don't say anything in the threads about Office 12 and Vista? All of them are saying precisely that.
First you must assume a spherical chicken of uniform density in simple harmonic motion...