Perhaps the possibility of Apple selling their OS as a separate package, i.e. competitor to Windows, has slipped your mind. This seems a much more likely reason for them to close their OS. When I heard Apple was switching to Intel hardware my first thought was Apple is porting their OS to sell to PC users. I have seen nothing since that has convinced me otherwise. On the contrary, this seems a step in that direction. Further, the features that Microsoft has added to Vista mirror OSX quite accurately. Perhaps this is a move by Microsoft in anticipation of Apple's direct competition?
I can easily pick out the "bully" in a group and then I can use intelligence, postioning, and execution to cull that person (or personality) from my work environment.
Ahem. Are you trying to be funny? This sounds like bullying to me. I recommend looking up the salem witch trials. You might be convinced that the law is not an oppressor of the people, rather, a safeguard against trigger-happy paranoids. A theme common among the Nazi party was the execution of undesirables. I recommend looking up the holocaust to see what happened.
Quake 2 was the first game designed for and supporting 3d acceleration out of the box. In this way it is certainly seminal. So much so, in fact, that 3d acceleration is no longer a part of the collective consumer consciousness:)
here's an idea: how about creating something? you sound like a pure consumer. "I read this, I read that. I'm bored, you all can't entertain me." I'm not sure the metrics used to determine intellegence, but I'm sure they are all related to information processing efficiency and speed. Use these invaluable traits for something other than being unsatisfied. Use them to create. Then, just maybe, you won't be so sad about how effortless "what is required of you" really is. Some people would probably be pretty pissed to hear you talk like that.
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Your post is certainly accurate though perhaps incomplete.
It is important to remember that public schools serve as an economic lever. It should be painfully evident that they are most concerned with perpetuating industry above anything (this is true for most colleges aswell.) I'm not sure public schools segregate these 'gifted' children for the benefit of the children or the world. Indeed, I would not be surprised to learn that these programs are research-driven.
I think we're heading toward a tiered society (if we're not there already) composed of the literate and well educated and the underclass who stay in non-thinking jobs
this has been true since the beginning of civilization.
It's a bit of a rhetorical question, you see. Sort of like how CNN will run a front page story on something that's not happening. It doesn't matter what is or isn't happening, as long as people absorb the keywords. Same with prime time television. Similarly, several hundred years worth of rational development is irrelevent in any common discussion of politics as long as either 'liberal,' 'conservative,' 'democrat,' or 'republican' is uttered with some confidence. It all means nothing.
As for this discussion being productive: Slashdot is free to you and I. That means the product isn't for us. More likely, we are the product. Profiling, anyone? (keyword!)
Nothing moves at the speed of light (in a vacuum) as the energy required to accelerate near the speed of light increases (presumably) asymptotically.
Current is a measure of the speed of electrons in a conductor if the number of free electrons per volume of the conductor is known. Because the capacity will be constant, one can get a general idea of current as proportional to the speed of electrons in a conductor.
Not to mention, some of these projects may have been started before summer of code was announced. In fact, applications which indicated an ongoing project were probably preferred as they were more likely to yield results.
DNS is a standard implemented to increase the utility of the internet. It is not fundamental to its operation, however, and all these would-be governers are succeeding in is destroying a functional standard. When DNS is owned by King Saudami or Dark Lord Gatesss (pick your own antagonist, it's fun!) people who care will develop a parallel standard. In fact, the concept is already implemented in some peer to peer and otherwise layered networks. Because of this, I say if you want to control namespace on the internet then create your own standard. However, this just adds to another problem: fragmentation of the internet.
The internet has been born and it will NOT cease to exist. The real issue is: why is it an issue? just as the parent mentioned.
You mean to tell me people aren't aware of anxiety? Anxiety is one of the most obvious effects of puberty. I cannot comprehend in any way someone who suffers from excessive anxiety and is not aware of the fact. Anxiety is as obvious to people as sex. Anxiety is the core of primitive behavior. (see: fight or flight)
So why are you trying to convince someone they suffer from anxiety?
This is one of the many problems I have with psychologists. The only thing psychologists have done is provide a successful theory of conditioning. Everything else they have done has provided a cloud of mysticism toward the mind that would make the ancient egyptians laugh their asses off.
what they claim to provide would be a most excellent service. however..
this isn't quite that functional. it seems to group albums by genre only. we've all bought albums for one song that is like a tasty peice of chocolate while the others were spoiled milk. so when I type in a song, and get another off the same album that sounds quite different I'm already uneasy. so I skip and get another artist from the same 'genre' that sounds completely different.
I guess it's not quite technical enough. I expect some sort of frequency pattern analysis from something like this. If this were the case, at the very least the songs should sound like they are from the same producer.
Spitting tracks at me from a database of genres proves it is nothing more than a glorified marketing tool.
I have the utmost respect for the collective entity that is Linux. However, articles like this seem a little delusional to me. Linux has been around for many years now as a completely free and fully functional operating system. Yet, it struggles to be adopted by those other than obsessive tech die hards. Why does a free product struggle in a market of products in the multihundred dollar range? Well, I'll leave it as an exercise.. but stop kidding yourselves. If Corvette's were free there would be none left on the lots, folks.
has it really been TWO YEARS since SiteFinder? Say it isn't so! With time passing like that, I feel as if my life is already over. Is the post referring perhaps to some other 'sitefinder,' like maybe Yahoo or Google? Or even some event, perhaps an announcement, and not the actual activation of Verisign's service?:(
It is my understanding that the levees did not break until the day after Katrina hit the city. My guess is the rainfall inland ran down the Mississippi and put extra strain on the levee. In this case, its not the strength of the hurricane per se. The Mississippi is over 6 000km, and empties to the gulf through New Orleans. Thus, the rainfall from the storm is only part of the equation; New Orleans and in particular Lake Ponchartain bares the force of all the rainfall. This is a lot of energy. The fact that there was more than one instance where the levee was breached reenforces this speculation according to Pascal's Law: the pressure applied is equal at all points along the walls of a container.
Engineers aren't miracle workers. They built a functional levee even -beyond specifications, according to you- during a strong category 4 hurricane. It's not fair to put the weight of the Mississippi on the Engineer's shoulders. Everyone wants to point fingers, but it's simply not the right time to do so. We tend to forget about the power of nature: we press too hard on chalk and it breaks, or we get caught up in a thought and trip or drop something. We need to put more energy into fixing what we still can.
On the heels of the announcement of computer generated repetitious musical compositions, is the retirement of many minimalist composers such as phillip glass, terry riley, and mike oldfield.
Many of you - and most everyone, I think - miss the point of Wolfram's cellular automata experiments. They are based on the observation of patterns in nature. Patterns are *everywhere* in nature, and Wolfram uses mathematical theory to create patterns, perhaps in hopes of discovering an insightful relationship between theory and the patterns. It is pretty hardcore stuff - even for scientists - due to its completely abstract nature.
Wolfram does tend to abstain from modesty, but perhaps it is because modesty means little when there is so much to be discovered. Perhaps most of what he has built has come from the ground up, without hours spent reading past research. I doubt his work in cellular automata stemmed from music, rather his thoughts spread to music after much work on cellular automata..
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how is this different from a Charge-coupled device?
sounds like story time to me. movie trailers don't even get me this excited. how could you not follow through with the stories?!
I feel this is somehow relevant but my wit is failing to make a significant presentation. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134588&cid= 11236065
Perhaps the possibility of Apple selling their OS as a separate package, i.e. competitor to Windows, has slipped your mind. This seems a much more likely reason for them to close their OS. When I heard Apple was switching to Intel hardware my first thought was Apple is porting their OS to sell to PC users. I have seen nothing since that has convinced me otherwise. On the contrary, this seems a step in that direction. Further, the features that Microsoft has added to Vista mirror OSX quite accurately. Perhaps this is a move by Microsoft in anticipation of Apple's direct competition?
I can easily pick out the "bully" in a group and then I can use intelligence, postioning, and execution to cull that person (or personality) from my work environment.
Ahem. Are you trying to be funny? This sounds like bullying to me. I recommend looking up the salem witch trials. You might be convinced that the law is not an oppressor of the people, rather, a safeguard against trigger-happy paranoids. A theme common among the Nazi party was the execution of undesirables. I recommend looking up the holocaust to see what happened.
Have a look at the video lectures in Professor Lewin's Physics I course of 1999--pretty entertaining stuff!
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Hey buddy, I think you're doing it wrong.
Any word on how many kittens they killed?
Quake 2 was the first game designed for and supporting 3d acceleration out of the box. In this way it is certainly seminal. So much so, in fact, that 3d acceleration is no longer a part of the collective consumer consciousness :)
What myth would the Mythbusters most like to investigate but lack the means to do so?
the flaw is in the implementation, not the standard.
here's an idea: how about creating something? you sound like a pure consumer. "I read this, I read that. I'm bored, you all can't entertain me." I'm not sure the metrics used to determine intellegence, but I'm sure they are all related to information processing efficiency and speed. Use these invaluable traits for something other than being unsatisfied. Use them to create. Then, just maybe, you won't be so sad about how effortless "what is required of you" really is. Some people would probably be pretty pissed to hear you talk like that.
Your post is certainly accurate though perhaps incomplete.
It is important to remember that public schools serve as an economic lever. It should be painfully evident that they are most concerned with perpetuating industry above anything (this is true for most colleges aswell.) I'm not sure public schools segregate these 'gifted' children for the benefit of the children or the world. Indeed, I would not be surprised to learn that these programs are research-driven.
I think we're heading toward a tiered society (if we're not there already) composed of the literate and well educated and the underclass who stay in non-thinking jobs
this has been true since the beginning of civilization.
It's a bit of a rhetorical question, you see. Sort of like how CNN will run a front page story on something that's not happening. It doesn't matter what is or isn't happening, as long as people absorb the keywords. Same with prime time television. Similarly, several hundred years worth of rational development is irrelevent in any common discussion of politics as long as either 'liberal,' 'conservative,' 'democrat,' or 'republican' is uttered with some confidence. It all means nothing.
As for this discussion being productive: Slashdot is free to you and I. That means the product isn't for us. More likely, we are the product. Profiling, anyone? (keyword!)
Nothing moves at the speed of light (in a vacuum) as the energy required to accelerate near the speed of light increases (presumably) asymptotically. Current is a measure of the speed of electrons in a conductor if the number of free electrons per volume of the conductor is known. Because the capacity will be constant, one can get a general idea of current as proportional to the speed of electrons in a conductor.
Not to mention, some of these projects may have been started before summer of code was announced. In fact, applications which indicated an ongoing project were probably preferred as they were more likely to yield results.
It is in IGN's interest to throw out high numbers. Think about it.. Oh, and spending money isn't everyone's goal.
I'd like to add:
DNS is a standard implemented to increase the utility of the internet. It is not fundamental to its operation, however, and all these would-be governers are succeeding in is destroying a functional standard. When DNS is owned by King Saudami or Dark Lord Gatesss (pick your own antagonist, it's fun!) people who care will develop a parallel standard. In fact, the concept is already implemented in some peer to peer and otherwise layered networks. Because of this, I say if you want to control namespace on the internet then create your own standard. However, this just adds to another problem: fragmentation of the internet.
The internet has been born and it will NOT cease to exist. The real issue is: why is it an issue? just as the parent mentioned.
You mean to tell me people aren't aware of anxiety? Anxiety is one of the most obvious effects of puberty. I cannot comprehend in any way someone who suffers from excessive anxiety and is not aware of the fact. Anxiety is as obvious to people as sex. Anxiety is the core of primitive behavior. (see: fight or flight)
So why are you trying to convince someone they suffer from anxiety?
This is one of the many problems I have with psychologists. The only thing psychologists have done is provide a successful theory of conditioning. Everything else they have done has provided a cloud of mysticism toward the mind that would make the ancient egyptians laugh their asses off.
what they claim to provide would be a most excellent service. however..
this isn't quite that functional. it seems to group albums by genre only. we've all bought albums for one song that is like a tasty peice of chocolate while the others were spoiled milk. so when I type in a song, and get another off the same album that sounds quite different I'm already uneasy. so I skip and get another artist from the same 'genre' that sounds completely different.
I guess it's not quite technical enough. I expect some sort of frequency pattern analysis from something like this. If this were the case, at the very least the songs should sound like they are from the same producer.
Spitting tracks at me from a database of genres proves it is nothing more than a glorified marketing tool.
the slashdot effect is a myth. no one actually reads the articles. nice theory otherwise.
man, google+nasa AND bittorrent going corporate?
the revolution is imminent! it truly is a marvelous time to be alive!
I have the utmost respect for the collective entity that is Linux. However, articles like this seem a little delusional to me. Linux has been around for many years now as a completely free and fully functional operating system. Yet, it struggles to be adopted by those other than obsessive tech die hards. Why does a free product struggle in a market of products in the multihundred dollar range? Well, I'll leave it as an exercise.. but stop kidding yourselves. If Corvette's were free there would be none left on the lots, folks.
has it really been TWO YEARS since SiteFinder? Say it isn't so! With time passing like that, I feel as if my life is already over. Is the post referring perhaps to some other 'sitefinder,' like maybe Yahoo or Google? Or even some event, perhaps an announcement, and not the actual activation of Verisign's service? :(
It is my understanding that the levees did not break until the day after Katrina hit the city. My guess is the rainfall inland ran down the Mississippi and put extra strain on the levee. In this case, its not the strength of the hurricane per se. The Mississippi is over 6 000km, and empties to the gulf through New Orleans. Thus, the rainfall from the storm is only part of the equation; New Orleans and in particular Lake Ponchartain bares the force of all the rainfall. This is a lot of energy.
The fact that there was more than one instance where the levee was breached reenforces this speculation according to Pascal's Law: the pressure applied is equal at all points along the walls of a container.
Engineers aren't miracle workers. They built a functional levee even -beyond specifications, according to you- during a strong category 4 hurricane. It's not fair to put the weight of the Mississippi on the Engineer's shoulders. Everyone wants to point fingers, but it's simply not the right time to do so. We tend to forget about the power of nature: we press too hard on chalk and it breaks, or we get caught up in a thought and trip or drop something. We need to put more energy into fixing what we still can.
On the heels of the announcement of computer generated repetitious musical compositions, is the retirement of many minimalist composers such as phillip glass, terry riley, and mike oldfield.
Many of you - and most everyone, I think - miss the point of Wolfram's cellular automata experiments. They are based on the observation of patterns in nature. Patterns are *everywhere* in nature, and Wolfram uses mathematical theory to create patterns, perhaps in hopes of discovering an insightful relationship between theory and the patterns. It is pretty hardcore stuff - even for scientists - due to its completely abstract nature.
Wolfram does tend to abstain from modesty, but perhaps it is because modesty means little when there is so much to be discovered. Perhaps most of what he has built has come from the ground up, without hours spent reading past research. I doubt his work in cellular automata stemmed from music, rather his thoughts spread to music after much work on cellular automata..