I would like to sign your petition to make the web fantastic *again*... We all love animated GIFs with text and background with blindness inducing color scheme... Oh and lets not forget the mandatory Java applets with water ripple effects and ActiveX object just for some 3D little animation. The web really was fantastic then, websites even tasted better... kinda like strawberry and kittens. So please Adobe, sprinkle some of your corporate magic unicorn dust over the interwebs.
Awesome, just fucking awesome... I never realized the Atom had *this much* power (and with that I mean processing, the rated power-use is like 8 watts). They should be at least 10 times more efficient as most desktop processors.
/me writes down an Atom based silent PC on my wish-list...
I would have thought that since the board remains fixed you could easily brute force the entire game for an optimal solution... You can optimize the search by grouping colors and discarding branches if you know it's less optimal than another one you already found. The way I would go about this is try to tweak an algorithm that finds the same result as the brute force search with 99% accuracy.
I once wrote a program that could play Bejeweled, but that board changes unpredictably because new jewels keep falling, so the best I could do was calculate the highest combo I could make with the current state of the field. It worked very successful because you would normally start to get in trouble at 10.000 points, but my program kept playing until over 100 million until I stopped it.:)
Your post is intriguing and sparks my interest, I ordered the book right away from Amazon... It's a great subject about the social aspects of why horrible stuff happens, and way too many people just believe 'it will never happen to them'. With the context of the science of memetics these social interaction become even more interesting if you think about the idea living a life of it's own beyond the control of the people who started it. In my opinion understanding some process is the first step to be able to prevent that process from reaching the same (inevitable?) conclusion.
P.S. Screw Godwin, this is mostly on subject and Nazi's should not be a de-facto conversation killer otherwise we can never learn from mistakes from the past...
You joke, but step 3 is easy for me: 'work'. I often use WMWifiRouter to have full access to the web on my laptop everywhere, and it's very useful in my like of work. Here in Amsterdam the average 3G speed beats the low tier ADSL easy. And the contract is no big deal, I already have unlimited fast 3G for € 10 per month. easily worth it. Oh and while were recommending great software: if you add Pocket Player (google it) you can also stream thousands of radio stations over the mobile net! I hook my phone to my car to get exactly what this device offers with the added bonus of unlimited great music.
The patriotic upper echelons know all about these threats, they have carnivorous software, and cool acronyms like SIGINT, and COINTELPRO and nice 'social networks' like room 641A. And they already have the plans in place to chip away at your block of freedom.
The only thing they can't figure out is how to explain it to us with a bad car analogy.
Hey I'm working on Vista right now you insensitive clod.
But... if Vista is not real... am I real? Are my thoughts real? And what in the hell would a sensitive clod look like?
The quake was the 6th of april, and the toads already sensed it 5 days before that... What a marvelous coincidence that this news reaches us *exactly* one year later. We should declare this day a worldwide holiday to celebrate the glory of toads!
Found in the phonebook: Gaylord, Junior Boner. Oh and yeah, he's probably talking about his child... the puppy being a priest of satan and all (oh no it was the other side that does the buggering).
I've seen a concept of this once where the screen was what they called a 'surface camera' I think. The idea was that you can use it as webcam, input device but also as a scanner... you just put a piece of paper against your screen and you have an instant copy you can edit. And i can imagine they could also extend this with an infrared pen or something like that to create a touchscreen that can also be used as a high-resolution drawing tablet. Just wait until Wacom builds a screen with tech like this and people will go crazy for it.
Not only *good*, the pirates are some of the chosen few touched by his noodly appendage, which would make them the equivalent of *saints*!!! http://www.venganza.org/.
That was a real funny quote that actually got me thinking years back that cannabis might not be so bad as some people try to scare you into believing... Nobody sucks dick for weed, and nobody overdosed on the stuff *ever*... Sadly you can't say the same about fatty (or sugary) foods, the death toll is like 0 to a couple million. But I must note that there might be a slight correlation between the two caused by the munchies.:)
I really love PostgreSQL too, but in stability it is far from perfect... certain queries can bring it down easily. And there is a most annoying bug with stored procedures returning a SETOF some table row... When you alter the table it will bork with some vague error " structure of query does not match function result type", and nothing you can do will fix this inconsistent state short of removing the entire database and restoring it from a backup.
Isn't that their self-admitted tactic? I read recently that Microsoft does not innovate, they wait until others prove new tech and move in either by buying their way in or just by copying the competition (if it's fairly trivial). Whatever you may think of it it is a legitimate business tactic... but they won't get the respect from the tech community that Google gets. We geeks love innovation, and the people that do the coolest research 'for us' are our modern day geek heroes.:)
The sea giveth and the sea taketh away.
These sandbars (dis-)appear all the time... But to people who *want* to believe this was *obviously* the work of global warming (rolls eyes).
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I would like to sign your petition to make the web fantastic *again*... We all love animated GIFs with text and background with blindness inducing color scheme... Oh and lets not forget the mandatory Java applets with water ripple effects and ActiveX object just for some 3D little animation. The web really was fantastic then, websites even tasted better... kinda like strawberry and kittens. So please Adobe, sprinkle some of your corporate magic unicorn dust over the interwebs.
... but I wanna bet Gordon will be pissed. ;-)
Awesome, just fucking awesome... I never realized the Atom had *this much* power (and with that I mean processing, the rated power-use is like 8 watts). They should be at least 10 times more efficient as most desktop processors.
/me writes down an Atom based silent PC on my wish-list...
I would have thought that since the board remains fixed you could easily brute force the entire game for an optimal solution... You can optimize the search by grouping colors and discarding branches if you know it's less optimal than another one you already found. The way I would go about this is try to tweak an algorithm that finds the same result as the brute force search with 99% accuracy.
:)
I once wrote a program that could play Bejeweled, but that board changes unpredictably because new jewels keep falling, so the best I could do was calculate the highest combo I could make with the current state of the field. It worked very successful because you would normally start to get in trouble at 10.000 points, but my program kept playing until over 100 million until I stopped it.
If you want efficiency you should just have made N = 1. :-)
My P is proven to be hard for a girl with NP.
You misspelled $1 million as $1. ;-)
So that's why mother earth never goes out anymore, she's afraid of the gang of dwarf planets hanging around the neighborhood.
Your post is intriguing and sparks my interest, I ordered the book right away from Amazon... It's a great subject about the social aspects of why horrible stuff happens, and way too many people just believe 'it will never happen to them'. With the context of the science of memetics these social interaction become even more interesting if you think about the idea living a life of it's own beyond the control of the people who started it. In my opinion understanding some process is the first step to be able to prevent that process from reaching the same (inevitable?) conclusion.
P.S. Screw Godwin, this is mostly on subject and Nazi's should not be a de-facto conversation killer otherwise we can never learn from mistakes from the past...
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your highlander.
You joke, but step 3 is easy for me: 'work'. I often use WMWifiRouter to have full access to the web on my laptop everywhere, and it's very useful in my like of work. Here in Amsterdam the average 3G speed beats the low tier ADSL easy. And the contract is no big deal, I already have unlimited fast 3G for € 10 per month. easily worth it. Oh and while were recommending great software: if you add Pocket Player (google it) you can also stream thousands of radio stations over the mobile net! I hook my phone to my car to get exactly what this device offers with the added bonus of unlimited great music.
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The patriotic upper echelons know all about these threats, they have carnivorous software, and cool acronyms like SIGINT, and COINTELPRO and nice 'social networks' like room 641A. And they already have the plans in place to chip away at your block of freedom.
The only thing they can't figure out is how to explain it to us with a bad car analogy.
... just use ducktape!
We have to create some rules for the real idiots... like how they can win a Darwin award.
Hey I'm working on Vista right now you insensitive clod.
But... if Vista is not real... am I real? Are my thoughts real? And what in the hell would a sensitive clod look like?
The quake was the 6th of april, and the toads already sensed it 5 days before that... What a marvelous coincidence that this news reaches us *exactly* one year later. We should declare this day a worldwide holiday to celebrate the glory of toads!
NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!!!
Found in the phonebook: Gaylord, Junior Boner. Oh and yeah, he's probably talking about his child... the puppy being a priest of satan and all (oh no it was the other side that does the buggering).
I've seen a concept of this once where the screen was what they called a 'surface camera' I think. The idea was that you can use it as webcam, input device but also as a scanner... you just put a piece of paper against your screen and you have an instant copy you can edit. And i can imagine they could also extend this with an infrared pen or something like that to create a touchscreen that can also be used as a high-resolution drawing tablet. Just wait until Wacom builds a screen with tech like this and people will go crazy for it.
Not only *good*, the pirates are some of the chosen few touched by his noodly appendage, which would make them the equivalent of *saints*!!! http://www.venganza.org/.
Great paraphrase of a quote from one of the funniest stoner movies, Half Baked: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120693/quotes?qt0426764
:)
That was a real funny quote that actually got me thinking years back that cannabis might not be so bad as some people try to scare you into believing... Nobody sucks dick for weed, and nobody overdosed on the stuff *ever*... Sadly you can't say the same about fatty (or sugary) foods, the death toll is like 0 to a couple million. But I must note that there might be a slight correlation between the two caused by the munchies.
I really love PostgreSQL too, but in stability it is far from perfect... certain queries can bring it down easily. And there is a most annoying bug with stored procedures returning a SETOF some table row... When you alter the table it will bork with some vague error " structure of query does not match function result type", and nothing you can do will fix this inconsistent state short of removing the entire database and restoring it from a backup.
Isn't that their self-admitted tactic? I read recently that Microsoft does not innovate, they wait until others prove new tech and move in either by buying their way in or just by copying the competition (if it's fairly trivial). Whatever you may think of it it is a legitimate business tactic... but they won't get the respect from the tech community that Google gets. We geeks love innovation, and the people that do the coolest research 'for us' are our modern day geek heroes. :)
The sea giveth and the sea taketh away.
These sandbars (dis-)appear all the time... But to people who *want* to believe this was *obviously* the work of global warming (rolls eyes).