Here's an interesting philosophical question. After the first autocatalytic sets and simple replicators, but before the first cell walls, was the entire Earth a single organism?
Somewhere in there, there's a great Science Fiction story about people landing on a planet that turns out to actually be a giant living Madball.
While I think it's okay that he says he thinks Chinese women are beautiful, I can understand why it might also be considered racist. Saying he thinks Chinese women are the most beautiful is kind of like saying he thinks women who are not Chinese are not the most beautiful, which sounds kind of like the guy he criticized, who implies he's a good looking guy because he's not Chinese.
Sounds kind of like a Tesla. It has great performance but at a high cost and you can only fit two people and have to plug it up. I suspect the people who don't care about price and only having two seats might overlap with the people who don't care about cost and having a shorter recording time. They'd rather pay for performance and coolness. There just has to be enough people who can afford to do that.
I think how much it scares you depends heavily on your imagination. I used to read "Choose Your Own Adventure" books and get scared, afraid of what would happen to me if I made the wrong decision. I also think the story of the game matters much more than special effects.
Super Mario. When they play that sound that shows you are running out of time to complete the level and then the music plays fast, rushing you and you know you're nowhere near the end of the level. I can't go on.
The comment was not meant to be a counter-argument. It was meant to call you a jackass. I did not comment further because I don't think it's very practical to argue with one of those, and I assumed I would get modded invisible as usual anyway. But I like to answer questions so I will revisit the topic.
Do you object because I don't advocate spending exorbitant amounts of resources conforming things that are not naturally handicap-friendly to the handicapped or because my argument is not well thought-out? I.e. is this a difference in opinion or a criticism of my train of logic?
Both. A difference of opinion because I don't consider it to be exhorbitant. A difference of logic because I believe making a website available to the widest audience is an expense in the short term, but maximizes the potential return over the lifetime of the site, so it's practical.
"Jackass" is a rather vague term, although it confers the tone perfectly reasonably. Are you implying that I'm a jerk because I rebutted the "What about the handicapped?" assertion or are you calling me a moron? I.e. "asshole" or "dumb as a mule"? Possibly both?
The first one. I think the way you responded was condescending. I'm not disabled myself, so I don't personally need "accessible" webpages. But while you are a realist, I am an idealist. I am also Black, Female, self-proclaimed Christian, and a borderline hippie. If you put all of those together, I'm bound to call a realist a jackass for something.
It's only a "singleton" because it's new. But it is pretty nice. If somebody would make a desktop search that could do that, they'd blow Google and everybody else out of the water.
I must be confused then. My understanding of a hash value is you run an algorithm on a bunch of objects and get a bunch of values suitable for looking them up in a hash table. But the number of possible values is often less than the number of objects, and hash functions aren't perfect, so coming up with more than one object with the same hash value is fairly normal. What am I missing?
I would think these devices would be unreachable because their IP address is different from that of the router. So you'd have to crack the router or the host computer to get to the light switch, and routers and computers have enough processing power for complex authentication, if you really care.
The Kansas City, Kansas school district has provided MacBooks for all of the students. Ours all love them. I think, given a choice, they'd go with a Mac. Of course they're comparing a shiny new Mac to my 8-year-old Inspiron with half a GB or RAM. My sis also went with a MacBook and I think her decision may have stemmed from them offering a free iPod Touch with the computer. I'll bet that could sell more of them than the school program if enough people could afford the things.
Since they probably have access to the program and know its nature, this seems like an excellent opportunity to make use of the Windows Malicious Software Removal tool.
What's wild about that is, it seems the best way to create a YouTube object is to create a YouTube class that has a member object that is a Google. So while the object oriented programming Google is a small piece of a YouTube, the real life YouTube is a small piece of Google. It's time for me to get away from the computer.
I'll bet it wouldn't be too hard to make a captcha that's only readable if you are colorblind, by putting in a bunch of extra red/green stuff that would distort the picture for everybody else. Then just let the user click on something to get that version of the captcha.
When I first started driving, I had an old Chevy Blazer complete with a lift kit and crash guard. It was just plain big by my standards. I never had trouble getting into a lane. I think people were somehow afraid of that thing. Now I've got a tiny Hyundai Accent and I have bicyclers and skateboarders playing chicken with me.
What are you driving? I don't know much about cars but I'm thinking your car's valve timing is optimized for some high speed so you end up with the best fuel efficiency at some speed more suitable racing than a commute. That, and you have a six-speed manual transmission, and the best you're getting is 26 miles per gallon anyway. So maybe it's a sports car?
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Here's an interesting philosophical question. After the first autocatalytic sets and simple replicators, but before the first cell walls, was the entire Earth a single organism?
Somewhere in there, there's a great Science Fiction story about people landing on a planet that turns out to actually be a giant living Madball.
Governments have a long history of portraying their actions as justified, but those same actions by other governments as being evil.
Oh, "government". I thought you said "Google". I guess I was paying more attention to the context than the spelling.
While I think it's okay that he says he thinks Chinese women are beautiful, I can understand why it might also be considered racist. Saying he thinks Chinese women are the most beautiful is kind of like saying he thinks women who are not Chinese are not the most beautiful, which sounds kind of like the guy he criticized, who implies he's a good looking guy because he's not Chinese.
Sounds kind of like a Tesla. It has great performance but at a high cost and you can only fit two people and have to plug it up. I suspect the people who don't care about price and only having two seats might overlap with the people who don't care about cost and having a shorter recording time. They'd rather pay for performance and coolness. There just has to be enough people who can afford to do that.
I think how much it scares you depends heavily on your imagination. I used to read "Choose Your Own Adventure" books and get scared, afraid of what would happen to me if I made the wrong decision. I also think the story of the game matters much more than special effects.
Super Mario. When they play that sound that shows you are running out of time to complete the level and then the music plays fast, rushing you and you know you're nowhere near the end of the level. I can't go on.
The comment was not meant to be a counter-argument. It was meant to call you a jackass. I did not comment further because I don't think it's very practical to argue with one of those, and I assumed I would get modded invisible as usual anyway. But I like to answer questions so I will revisit the topic.
Do you object because I don't advocate spending exorbitant amounts of resources conforming things that are not naturally handicap-friendly to the handicapped or because my argument is not well thought-out? I.e. is this a difference in opinion or a criticism of my train of logic?
Both. A difference of opinion because I don't consider it to be exhorbitant. A difference of logic because I believe making a website available to the widest audience is an expense in the short term, but maximizes the potential return over the lifetime of the site, so it's practical.
"Jackass" is a rather vague term, although it confers the tone perfectly reasonably. Are you implying that I'm a jerk because I rebutted the "What about the handicapped?" assertion or are you calling me a moron? I.e. "asshole" or "dumb as a mule"? Possibly both?
The first one. I think the way you responded was condescending. I'm not disabled myself, so I don't personally need "accessible" webpages. But while you are a realist, I am an idealist. I am also Black, Female, self-proclaimed Christian, and a borderline hippie. If you put all of those together, I'm bound to call a realist a jackass for something.
It's only a "singleton" because it's new. But it is pretty nice. If somebody would make a desktop search that could do that, they'd blow Google and everybody else out of the water.
The good part for the Internet Archive is they can't rip off the idea and do it better because they'd have to go back in time to get the data.
What if somebody creates true child pornography that actually has the same hash value as the google banner?
I must be confused then. My understanding of a hash value is you run an algorithm on a bunch of objects and get a bunch of values suitable for looking them up in a hash table. But the number of possible values is often less than the number of objects, and hash functions aren't perfect, so coming up with more than one object with the same hash value is fairly normal. What am I missing?
Jackass.
If I ever find myself trapped in a slashdotter's basement, I'll try to talk him into using some other type of tape instead. Perhaps VHS.
Just release it with no version number.
I would think these devices would be unreachable because their IP address is different from that of the router. So you'd have to crack the router or the host computer to get to the light switch, and routers and computers have enough processing power for complex authentication, if you really care.
How about your computer being able to tell you when your car's headlight or taillight is out?
The oil just makes it easier to free yourself from the duct tape.
The Kansas City, Kansas school district has provided MacBooks for all of the students. Ours all love them. I think, given a choice, they'd go with a Mac. Of course they're comparing a shiny new Mac to my 8-year-old Inspiron with half a GB or RAM. My sis also went with a MacBook and I think her decision may have stemmed from them offering a free iPod Touch with the computer. I'll bet that could sell more of them than the school program if enough people could afford the things.
Since they probably have access to the program and know its nature, this seems like an excellent opportunity to make use of the Windows Malicious Software Removal tool.
What's wild about that is, it seems the best way to create a YouTube object is to create a YouTube class that has a member object that is a Google. So while the object oriented programming Google is a small piece of a YouTube, the real life YouTube is a small piece of Google. It's time for me to get away from the computer.
I'll bet it wouldn't be too hard to make a captcha that's only readable if you are colorblind, by putting in a bunch of extra red/green stuff that would distort the picture for everybody else. Then just let the user click on something to get that version of the captcha.
Did you say Todd Bridges is into cloud computing?
When I first started driving, I had an old Chevy Blazer complete with a lift kit and crash guard. It was just plain big by my standards. I never had trouble getting into a lane. I think people were somehow afraid of that thing. Now I've got a tiny Hyundai Accent and I have bicyclers and skateboarders playing chicken with me.
What are you driving? I don't know much about cars but I'm thinking your car's valve timing is optimized for some high speed so you end up with the best fuel efficiency at some speed more suitable racing than a commute. That, and you have a six-speed manual transmission, and the best you're getting is 26 miles per gallon anyway. So maybe it's a sports car?
Wouldn't it be cool if you did that and accidentally discovered new solar panel technology?