I for one hope they keep the cartoon characters. Otherwise as well as the occasional 'normal' person, most rooms would be inhabited by giant assholes expelling hot air, and trolls.
On the upside, the slashdot car analogies could get a bit more fun as people demonstrate them in practice.
Collections of Isaac Asimov short stories are great for kids, and usually quite thought provoking too:) For example The Bicentennial Man (made into a movie in the last decade) started as an Asimov short story, which he expanded into a novel length story IIRC.
The Hobbit is also a great book for kids - as well as adults I'm sure. I personally plan on reading it again soon even though I was about 9 when I last read it. I was finished in a day or 2 even though I had school as well, so unfortunately it must be quite short.
LOTR was extremely boring to me and I never finished it - I got close to the end of the second book and then just never went back to reading it for some reason. Probably because I was used to the much faster pace of the Riftwar Saga (which has a fair amount of sex in it so I wouldn't recommend it for young kids) and DiscWorld. If your kids are used to faster paced stuff like Harry Potter, Narnia or any other children's classics then perhaps they'd find LOTR a bit heavy going.
The DiscWorld books, by Terry Pratchett are great. Full of all kinds of humour from slapstick to subtle word play. Also the occasional bit of innuendo but nothing too bad (and the frequency of such jokes decreased after the first few books IMO, either that or I just became desensetised to them of course).
Nothing wrong with it if it's kept in check at least, kinda like a coffee habit I guess!
Yes, being aware of what level your brain is operating on is one of the exercises in the book, often we are just operating on autopilot with no 'rational' thought really necessary. I did like the remarks in your journal about how people see truth differently - it's something I'm pretty accutely aware of at the moment as I've kind of done a 180 on my core beliefs about the nature of our reality recently. It's made the world a more refreshing and interesting place to not feel like I no longer have all the answers given to me on a plate (or rather, in a single book).
One of the oft-repeated memes in Prometheus Rising is "what the thinker thinks, the prover proves", and it is amazing what the mind will do to prove it is 'right' when it believes something to be true. My mum doesn't believe that I could just stop being a Christian after being "born again" for 10 years.. but I have, and just because she doesn't believe it's possible doesn't make it so. I expect she will continue to believe that I'm just backsliding for the rest of her life, because to admit otherwise would be to admit that her core beliefs are not infallible, and cause her world to crumble around her. Often breaking free of your current perceptions involves very painful experiences, but in the end it is worth it. I certainly hope so at least. I'll find out when I die. Or, as the case may be, I'll be dead and technically won't ever know whether my beliefs are correct or not;)
Okay, I'd better stop blabbering on now. I'm experimentally going to attempt going to bed early, so I can get up early and become a model worker instead of a bum who drifts into work at 10AM and browses/. in between coffee/music fueled coding sessions and other random sysadmin duties..
No. This last week, as often happens, I blindly wandered through the hours in a haze of narcotics and alcohol, vomiting onto my co-workers and randomly saying "whuth day is ih..??". This culminated in me forgetting that it is the second Tuesday in July and therefore due to a long and boring story, the one time in the year where I am meant to come home and cook dinner for the start of a romantic evening with my beloved wife. I think it was rather the straw that broke the camel's back, and she's just this minute left me for a tall Puerto Rican calendar designer. He always knows what day it is.
Oooooh wait, you mean like patch tuesday? Gotcha..
Wow, you live in your own little world, don't you? "I won't believe anything you show me, I'll just believe what I want to believe!". I can't find much googling various combinations of Sony, FMD and Blu-ray, perhaps you could enlighten me with a link to a news story of Sony buying FMD tech.. (and not Flash Memory Drive technology either, I mean the optical kind).
Most real tech demonstrations are not hoaxes, they are basic proof of concepts, and the companies would admit which parts aren't developed yet. Faking a demonstration on a hard drive instead of a basic proof of concept of the optical drive is ludicrous. Yes a prototype doesn't have to work the same as the final system, but what they did is like demonstrating a new electric car and running it on an internal combustion engine, without telling anyone (otherwise it wouldn't have been called a 'scandal').
How is that a bad thing considering SONY have released a useful disk format. You're suggesting that they'd buy a load of companies and then not bother to look into any interesting tech that those companies had been researching? Blu-ray is theoretically capable of holding just as much as these disks if SONY can work out how to do multi-layer work effectively, as Pioneer claim to have done. I'd expect SONY are either close on their heels in R&D terms, or could just license the tech.
The main difference between these 2 formats are that SONYs was out in the market over 2 years ago, and Pioneer has yet to get this tech out of the lab. 2 years ago, a 50GB optical format (dual layer blu-ray) was quite useful, and it still is today. Blu-ray also has rewritable disks in the market.
Really, I don't see what use in the extremely-mild-conspiracy type comment serves.. companies like google and MS always buy out other companies and assimilate their tech. In some cases that can be negative, but in other cases it leads to some great products.
BTW, Wikipedia points out that FMD died because one of their demonstrations was proven to be a hoax. I presume they did have some working tech though because DMD is being developed by a company who acquired Constellation 3D's patents.
That's not an addressing problem though, a search can just go through the whole database incrementally and return the required information when you find it with no need for an address. Kind of like using a limited linked list where you always have to work from the head and can never directly address anything else.
Besides, if something isn't in the database, there will be no need for an address for it anyway, so you don't need infinite addresses for infinite search terms.
If you want an infinitely large database then sure, you'll need an infinite addressing scheme, but otherwise you just need to limit the size of a single database to what you can address. You could of course have several such databases, possibly indexed by another database.
The mafia can be the owner of a private company, they can't be the owner of a public company, and I would much rather have shareholders coming after me than the mafia.
What happens if the mafia have bought shares in a public company? Then you're screwed!
You'd maybe have a hard time proving that someone actually wrote the comments, depending on if the site recorded IP addresses or even had user accounts..
lol, that's very similar to my current situation in fact.
I read some of your journals and there was an interesting philosophical debate about math going on. I noted that you are also kinda stubborn and into fierce debating as I am (and I suppose most slashdotters are - though I personally wish I was much more relaxed when it comes to discussing things). I think I agreed more with the other guy more overall though. Teehee.
If you've never used it then I think you'd like Haskell, a functional programming language we used at Uni before moving onto Prolog. I was pretty rubbish with that style of coding compared to normal imperative coding, but it was interesting anyway - lots of use of recursive functions and the ability to define number systems in the same way as you were building them from 'nothing' in your musings.
By the way, I think you're actually way more of a geek than I am:) The few journals I've ever done in my life were about random happenings, holidays, whatever, not in depth reviews and musings on books about psychology/math:p I did recently read Prometheus Rising though, it has a fair bit of good psychology stuff throughout start, but by the end it just gets rather strange with the author advocating the use of LSD because of its consciousness expanding qualities... I'm not so sure that things like holding your breath (prayanama/yoga breathing) and taking drugs really put you into a higher state of consciousness, or are just flooding your brain with endorphins/starving your brain of oxygen in a similar way to getting drunk, leading to you imagining that you are on a higher plane rather than you actually becoming at one with the universe! Who knows..
If you've ever gone outside you've probably seen a woman wear a similar top.
Maybe in the US. Over here there wouldn't be the weird bit round the top, there would just be plenty of cleavage with no weird pretensions of hiding skin *shrug* that top just looks really strange to me
They *are* legitimate search results though. If your employer is too dumb to realise that more than one person can have the same name, do you really want to be working for them?
I've heard of at least one site where you can go and say "don't date this person". I can imagine a lot of malicious people just writing complete lies about their ex if they had a bad breakup.. and there's nothing you can do about it. Just as bad would be if it's true, but it's about someone with a different name! It's almost as bad as someone going on a sex offenders list for peeing in an alley while drunk or whatever, but then they get harrassed by the public because everyone thinks they're a pedophile:/
I tried googling for myself and found books by authors with my name have written about games programming, C++, pascal, and one about police chases. That's quite funny because I've written games, code in C++ and Pascal, and got stopped by the police for speeding in March..! I wonder if names somehow correlate to personality, or fields of interest:p
More likely it's all just coincidence. Of course lots of people have the same name - though I was surprised so many people have theirs spelled exactly the same as mine, because there are several ways to spell my first name, which is gaelic, and two ways to spell my last name. It was even cooler that someone has written programming books though, I'm considering buying them just so that I can try to make out to people at work that I'm a published author, for a laugh:)
Surely Samus is just a form of Seamus, which is Irish Gaelic for James >_> I thought that Metroid character was a dude when I had it on the DS, it wasn't until I got the Gamecube version for my Wii that I realised otherwise.
Never is such a strong word. A lot of times the comments are more interesting than TFA, but when pictures or a video are required, or the subject is something damn cool - like that 3D display or advanced prosthetic limbs - then it's sometimes worth skimming the article.
It's amazing how easily massive offtopic conversations appear near the top of articles though. Even worse, I usually want to finish reading the offtopic discussion and sometimes just don't get to the actual on-topic discussion..
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I for one hope they keep the cartoon characters. Otherwise as well as the occasional 'normal' person, most rooms would be inhabited by giant assholes expelling hot air, and trolls.
On the upside, the slashdot car analogies could get a bit more fun as people demonstrate them in practice.
the second resulted in more money as they realised how useful I can be when properly motivated :)
I wish my motivation realised how useful it can be when properly motivated, then I wouldn't need external factors to do the metamotivation :/
Sounds like there's more than alittle truthiness to that.
Collections of Isaac Asimov short stories are great for kids, and usually quite thought provoking too :) For example The Bicentennial Man (made into a movie in the last decade) started as an Asimov short story, which he expanded into a novel length story IIRC.
The Hobbit is also a great book for kids - as well as adults I'm sure. I personally plan on reading it again soon even though I was about 9 when I last read it. I was finished in a day or 2 even though I had school as well, so unfortunately it must be quite short.
LOTR was extremely boring to me and I never finished it - I got close to the end of the second book and then just never went back to reading it for some reason. Probably because I was used to the much faster pace of the Riftwar Saga (which has a fair amount of sex in it so I wouldn't recommend it for young kids) and DiscWorld. If your kids are used to faster paced stuff like Harry Potter, Narnia or any other children's classics then perhaps they'd find LOTR a bit heavy going.
The DiscWorld books, by Terry Pratchett are great. Full of all kinds of humour from slapstick to subtle word play. Also the occasional bit of innuendo but nothing too bad (and the frequency of such jokes decreased after the first few books IMO, either that or I just became desensetised to them of course).
My uncle had a Honda Goldwing, you insensitive clod! Only motorbike I've seen that has a stereo system :D And a reverse gear, apparently..
Nothing wrong with it if it's kept in check at least, kinda like a coffee habit I guess!
Yes, being aware of what level your brain is operating on is one of the exercises in the book, often we are just operating on autopilot with no 'rational' thought really necessary. I did like the remarks in your journal about how people see truth differently - it's something I'm pretty accutely aware of at the moment as I've kind of done a 180 on my core beliefs about the nature of our reality recently. It's made the world a more refreshing and interesting place to not feel like I no longer have all the answers given to me on a plate (or rather, in a single book).
One of the oft-repeated memes in Prometheus Rising is "what the thinker thinks, the prover proves", and it is amazing what the mind will do to prove it is 'right' when it believes something to be true. My mum doesn't believe that I could just stop being a Christian after being "born again" for 10 years.. but I have, and just because she doesn't believe it's possible doesn't make it so. I expect she will continue to believe that I'm just backsliding for the rest of her life, because to admit otherwise would be to admit that her core beliefs are not infallible, and cause her world to crumble around her. Often breaking free of your current perceptions involves very painful experiences, but in the end it is worth it. I certainly hope so at least. I'll find out when I die. Or, as the case may be, I'll be dead and technically won't ever know whether my beliefs are correct or not ;)
Okay, I'd better stop blabbering on now. I'm experimentally going to attempt going to bed early, so I can get up early and become a model worker instead of a bum who drifts into work at 10AM and browses /. in between coffee/music fueled coding sessions and other random sysadmin duties..
No. This last week, as often happens, I blindly wandered through the hours in a haze of narcotics and alcohol, vomiting onto my co-workers and randomly saying "whuth day is ih..??". This culminated in me forgetting that it is the second Tuesday in July and therefore due to a long and boring story, the one time in the year where I am meant to come home and cook dinner for the start of a romantic evening with my beloved wife. I think it was rather the straw that broke the camel's back, and she's just this minute left me for a tall Puerto Rican calendar designer. He always knows what day it is.
Oooooh wait, you mean like patch tuesday? Gotcha..
/* John was hit by a bus last week :( I have no idea what he was doing here, I'll just return 1 and hope for the best.. */
Wow, you live in your own little world, don't you? "I won't believe anything you show me, I'll just believe what I want to believe!". I can't find much googling various combinations of Sony, FMD and Blu-ray, perhaps you could enlighten me with a link to a news story of Sony buying FMD tech.. (and not Flash Memory Drive technology either, I mean the optical kind).
Most real tech demonstrations are not hoaxes, they are basic proof of concepts, and the companies would admit which parts aren't developed yet. Faking a demonstration on a hard drive instead of a basic proof of concept of the optical drive is ludicrous. Yes a prototype doesn't have to work the same as the final system, but what they did is like demonstrating a new electric car and running it on an internal combustion engine, without telling anyone (otherwise it wouldn't have been called a 'scandal').
How is that a bad thing considering SONY have released a useful disk format. You're suggesting that they'd buy a load of companies and then not bother to look into any interesting tech that those companies had been researching? Blu-ray is theoretically capable of holding just as much as these disks if SONY can work out how to do multi-layer work effectively, as Pioneer claim to have done. I'd expect SONY are either close on their heels in R&D terms, or could just license the tech.
The main difference between these 2 formats are that SONYs was out in the market over 2 years ago, and Pioneer has yet to get this tech out of the lab. 2 years ago, a 50GB optical format (dual layer blu-ray) was quite useful, and it still is today. Blu-ray also has rewritable disks in the market.
Really, I don't see what use in the extremely-mild-conspiracy type comment serves.. companies like google and MS always buy out other companies and assimilate their tech. In some cases that can be negative, but in other cases it leads to some great products.
BTW, Wikipedia points out that FMD died because one of their demonstrations was proven to be a hoax. I presume they did have some working tech though because DMD is being developed by a company who acquired Constellation 3D's patents.
That's not an addressing problem though, a search can just go through the whole database incrementally and return the required information when you find it with no need for an address. Kind of like using a limited linked list where you always have to work from the head and can never directly address anything else.
Besides, if something isn't in the database, there will be no need for an address for it anyway, so you don't need infinite addresses for infinite search terms.
If you want an infinitely large database then sure, you'll need an infinite addressing scheme, but otherwise you just need to limit the size of a single database to what you can address. You could of course have several such databases, possibly indexed by another database.
The mafia can be the owner of a private company, they can't be the owner of a public company, and I would much rather have shareholders coming after me than the mafia.
What happens if the mafia have bought shares in a public company? Then you're screwed!
You'd maybe have a hard time proving that someone actually wrote the comments, depending on if the site recorded IP addresses or even had user accounts..
lol, that's very similar to my current situation in fact.
I read some of your journals and there was an interesting philosophical debate about math going on. I noted that you are also kinda stubborn and into fierce debating as I am (and I suppose most slashdotters are - though I personally wish I was much more relaxed when it comes to discussing things). I think I agreed more with the other guy more overall though. Teehee.
If you've never used it then I think you'd like Haskell, a functional programming language we used at Uni before moving onto Prolog. I was pretty rubbish with that style of coding compared to normal imperative coding, but it was interesting anyway - lots of use of recursive functions and the ability to define number systems in the same way as you were building them from 'nothing' in your musings.
By the way, I think you're actually way more of a geek than I am :) The few journals I've ever done in my life were about random happenings, holidays, whatever, not in depth reviews and musings on books about psychology/math :p I did recently read Prometheus Rising though, it has a fair bit of good psychology stuff throughout start, but by the end it just gets rather strange with the author advocating the use of LSD because of its consciousness expanding qualities... I'm not so sure that things like holding your breath (prayanama/yoga breathing) and taking drugs really put you into a higher state of consciousness, or are just flooding your brain with endorphins/starving your brain of oxygen in a similar way to getting drunk, leading to you imagining that you are on a higher plane rather than you actually becoming at one with the universe! Who knows..
If you've ever gone outside you've probably seen a woman wear a similar top.
Maybe in the US. Over here there wouldn't be the weird bit round the top, there would just be plenty of cleavage with no weird pretensions of hiding skin *shrug* that top just looks really strange to me
I guess that's another one of those things to blame on the weather-man
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They *are* legitimate search results though. If your employer is too dumb to realise that more than one person can have the same name, do you really want to be working for them?
I've heard of at least one site where you can go and say "don't date this person". I can imagine a lot of malicious people just writing complete lies about their ex if they had a bad breakup.. and there's nothing you can do about it. Just as bad would be if it's true, but it's about someone with a different name! It's almost as bad as someone going on a sex offenders list for peeing in an alley while drunk or whatever, but then they get harrassed by the public because everyone thinks they're a pedophile :/
I tried googling for myself and found books by authors with my name have written about games programming, C++, pascal, and one about police chases. That's quite funny because I've written games, code in C++ and Pascal, and got stopped by the police for speeding in March..! I wonder if names somehow correlate to personality, or fields of interest :p
More likely it's all just coincidence. Of course lots of people have the same name - though I was surprised so many people have theirs spelled exactly the same as mine, because there are several ways to spell my first name, which is gaelic, and two ways to spell my last name. It was even cooler that someone has written programming books though, I'm considering buying them just so that I can try to make out to people at work that I'm a published author, for a laugh :)
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How was that comment sexist? It would be pretty attention whoring for a guy to wear clothing with slightly risque holes in it too..
It's probably because of the American-Oz war?
Surely Samus is just a form of Seamus, which is Irish Gaelic for James >_> I thought that Metroid character was a dude when I had it on the DS, it wasn't until I got the Gamecube version for my Wii that I realised otherwise.
Never is such a strong word. A lot of times the comments are more interesting than TFA, but when pictures or a video are required, or the subject is something damn cool - like that 3D display or advanced prosthetic limbs - then it's sometimes worth skimming the article.
It's amazing how easily massive offtopic conversations appear near the top of articles though. Even worse, I usually want to finish reading the offtopic discussion and sometimes just don't get to the actual on-topic discussion..