I was actually more interested in the REAL story of who Justin Bailey was from the code and why his name was used. A comment below linking to Wikipedia was worth more to me than the cheesy video. Sorry.
I have my task bar at the top at work because that's where my mouse spends 75+% of it's time. Think about it. Your menus, tool bars, everything is at the top of the screen. It's less mousing that way. (And I don't own a Mac. Never have.)
I was thinking more along the lines of: Leave him there so the market will see what an incredible mistake it is leaving one company/person in charge of so much.
Charles Kane: Charles was a teacher at Gordon Boarding school, where he taught Lara [Croft] the subject of history for two years. He has a personal interest in the old Iron Curtain countries and with the advent of glasnost seized his opportunity to visit the Eastern bloc whenever he could afford the time. He also helped Lara [Croft] out in her mission in Russia in 1995.
The first rule of twitter trolling is that you don't talk about twitter trolling!
Anyway, I don't know how Slashdot and St. Elsewhere are tied together, but I'd love to see that correlation! As far as Slashdot, Microsoft, and the Internet being tied together... you may be right. Think about this for a second. Mostly computer "geeks" hang out here. We are usually those that are questioned somewhere in the line of command as to what purchases are going to be made and supported (at least for most cases I certainly hope so!) Fighting in the great underground of the Internet could very well be anonymous employees posting because they are getting paid, they think they have to defend their company, or they have a vested interest in a certain company and soon become zealots.
Slashdot is also kind of like a popularity contest (aka. High School) for geeks. You come here for information, but you also try to put forth the idea that you are "in." The more people you can get on your side, the "cooler" you are. If you can prove that someone is a fake, point and laugh at them here, you can pay back all those bastards in school that made fun of you and gave you "swirlies" and stole your lunch money.
Is it more lame to have multiple accounts, or to "research" (whatever that involves considering you don't have IP addresses) and speculate on people that do because they don't agree with you?
Linux winning in any facet of business desktops would be a huge hit to Microsoft. I'm guessing they are referring to Desktop Linux as Home PCs, and not workstations? Either way, if Linux makes inroads to people's work desks, then it will naturally turn into users looking for similar home PCs. However, and Microsoft may be predicting this move in their recent gaming/entertainment push instead of stability/productivity. I can't totally rule out the idea of going to work in a Linux environment (all business) and coming home to a game/movie on a Microsoft box.
What about larger object... like cars, crates, and large chunks of building? If you are in a multiplayer world and one of the members jumps up on a wall section and your wall didn't land in the same spot, someone will cry foul.
But... but... Microsoft Excel is the best program for everything! At least that's how everyone here at work sees it. I don't know how many times someone will open send me an XLS with some checklist that could have been done in the email text itself. It's worse than someone inserting a photo from their drive into Word before sending it to me.
Seriously, I agree with you. Using the right tool for the right job. Photoshop is a tool for editing photos... not making a comic.
GIMP is also known as "The GNU Image Manipulation Program"... not the "The GNU Image Creation Program"
Consciousness itself could be a very complex set of patterns that the outcome from all it's inputs could SEEM to be alive. Take a step back to 1734. (Just a "random" year) [actually, it's not so random. I tend to favor numbers that any two numbers within them equal another internal number, or are even... good events in my life tended to fall on even years, whatever.]
Sorry, I'm off track here. You're in 1734 and you see this future walking dog robot on the floor. It looks, sounds, feels, and acts like dogs you are used to. Is it alive? It accepts thousands or millions of inputs from sounds (microphone), sights (camera), touch (built in sensors in the "skin"), and tastes (based on chemical composition of material.) Even with those 4 "senses", it has to browse it's back catalog of events. It processes those inputs to the best of it's internal machinery can and an event is formulated within a time set forth by trial and error in the lab. (The response time let the robot get through an obstacle course in the shortest time.) It has accumulated, cataloged and retained it's previous actions as a good/bad action and sequence of events. It can process up to 10,000 of those previous events to determine if it's next action is good. It knows that if it licks a bare wire, it's going to do damage to itself. Does it's computer have the ability to tie that event with the state of a light switch on the wall? Do we? If I randomly flipped the light switches in your house, would you feel confident touching bare wires? We enact standards which fit our being. We dictate how we live our lives by rules so we don't have to question our actions.
It's not measurable because we don't know how to measure it... yet. If it were 1734, even I would probably assume it was a "real dog". (Are we real humans or just organic computers honed over the years to perform self sustaining tasks in the shortest period of time?)
If it's proven not to be true: No harm lost...but if it is true: I win.
Is that they never look at the restrictions placed upon them by assumption in the first place. You obviously have different actions based on your belief that free will/something is granting you choice and ignore the thought that it could be pattern based. If you come into a study thinking that you might be offending some "higher being" you will also likely change the outcome of your report based on this.
Personally, I wouldn't doubt that we do follow a set of patterns, but those patterns have so many variables and are based on other patterns so recursively that we just can't comprehend it at this time.
As a programmer, I imagine it like a program that has evolved over millions of years and everyone forgot what the original intent was, but they keep going with it because it works and never question why.
Not really, because you wouldn't be REQUIRED to have a GPU/RPU to do any of the rendering. Right now, you'd be hard pressed to play anything without a DirectX 9 card where with ray tracing you could just buy the biggest/best processor and build your system around that. You'd get good enough performance and only those that need bleeding edge will actually buy accelerators.
...and you wouldn't leave nVidia out of the loop because their are always gamers that want that one extra level of realism. You could have an Intel core doing threads of tracing and have the nVidia core work along side of it giving more depth, more rays, or real time radiosity down the line.
This is why I don't understand why there is a huge debate on this. It's not like GPUs will suddenly vanish because of raytracing. They just won't be mainstream, which may be the reason./shrug
Second that. I use a light blue/teal/green/gray on black/dark gray for all my coding. My supervisor hates it cause it's hard for him to read, but that's not why I do it. It's just easier for me to read blue/green on black. I rarely use red hues unless I need to notify myself of something (coding errors, etc.)
I just wish it was easier to select a "dark format" desktop and have everything read my local system settings for colors. I tried at one time, but I got so sick of web pages with white images for backgrounds disturbing my dark reading bliss.
I'm guessing a mailbox, maybe a street sign? Those would be clues to me as to the nature of the path. Even in some remote parts of Ohio people still put mailboxes at the end of their lane and most county/township maintained roads have street signs.
I read one post in his history that could be construed as such, but you could also read it as sarcasm. Ugh, either way. I'm not sure why it matters to me either. I have just seen a brutal spam campaign the past few days on these account IDs.
For twitter, his alter egos and/or his followers... all I can recommend is if you are the same person, please stop. If you are not, spread out a bit. Something I learned from my multiple MMOs. Nobody likes an aggressive mob, but they hate a whole camp of them even more and will likely camp you.;)
I agree, though... I don't see any proof that these are the same person. Hell, it could be four college roommates who all share the same mentality or a group of people that just click.
Outright calling them out without proof is like declaring your own "War on Terror" paramount to what our idiot politicians are doing grouping them into some kind of stereotype.
Lets say you have this open source application. It's free, there are no costs associated to forced upgrades, and it sits on your machine and does what is intended.
Why would you need to look at anything else? Slowly, people will look at Open as a good thing. They will remember that ___ application is running on that machine over there and it's been reliable. That one application just changed their outlook. Now they consider it more and more. With more and more open source, comes different businesses and starts to chip away at the former closed source business model. Eventually, it won't be monetarily beneficial to try to get people on the upgrade treadmill. They will see that what they have works and is supported by those new businesses selling support.
So there's more than one person in this world that dislikes Microsoft... this is news? I'm looking through the history here and it seems like twitter is a very adamant Microsoft hater. Maybe he has followers. Maybe there are more than a few people who agree. Is that hard to believe? I myself happen to dislike a lot of the moves they are making even today. So what?
Has Slashdot proven that these are both from the same IP? What makes you justified in comparing the two and spamming every post he/she/they make? What skin did he/she/they pull off your back? Is your life that meaningless that you have enough time to dedicate to this crusade?
I don't even know why I bother responding to an AC. How about logging in so we can have a meaningful conversation with your history and intentions known.
Not to mention, that once you have a stable working copy of something, you usually don't have to go out and rewrite the whole thing over again just to add a new feature. This reduces the cost to code the entire project since a lot of the grunt work is already done.
Open Source relies on the the "it just works" mentality in software. I know that sounds backwards with some people complaining about certain apps usability, but when you write a piece of software that does a job (and does it well) there's really no need to rewrite it.
You need a web server? Download ___ library, code in server, and compile. You want to add a wiggly window effect? Download ___ library, extend your class and compile. Open source thrives on simple, extensible object models.
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Interesting, sure. Funny? I guess that depends.
I was actually more interested in the REAL story of who Justin Bailey was from the code and why his name was used. A comment below linking to Wikipedia was worth more to me than the cheesy video. Sorry.
I always thought the best place for wind was on the sides of mountains where the air is "funneled" by the landscape...
I have my task bar at the top at work because that's where my mouse spends 75+% of it's time. Think about it. Your menus, tool bars, everything is at the top of the screen. It's less mousing that way. (And I don't own a Mac. Never have.)
I was thinking more along the lines of: Leave him there so the market will see what an incredible mistake it is leaving one company/person in charge of so much.
That makes him the elder of a Tomb Raider!
Bill Clinton "didn't inhale" or "have sexual relations with that woman" either.
The first rule of twitter trolling is that you don't talk about twitter trolling!
Anyway, I don't know how Slashdot and St. Elsewhere are tied together, but I'd love to see that correlation! As far as Slashdot, Microsoft, and the Internet being tied together... you may be right. Think about this for a second. Mostly computer "geeks" hang out here. We are usually those that are questioned somewhere in the line of command as to what purchases are going to be made and supported (at least for most cases I certainly hope so!) Fighting in the great underground of the Internet could very well be anonymous employees posting because they are getting paid, they think they have to defend their company, or they have a vested interest in a certain company and soon become zealots.
Slashdot is also kind of like a popularity contest (aka. High School) for geeks. You come here for information, but you also try to put forth the idea that you are "in." The more people you can get on your side, the "cooler" you are. If you can prove that someone is a fake, point and laugh at them here, you can pay back all those bastards in school that made fun of you and gave you "swirlies" and stole your lunch money.
Is it more lame to have multiple accounts, or to "research" (whatever that involves considering you don't have IP addresses) and speculate on people that do because they don't agree with you?
I'm going to take a wild guess and say there is a bit more than nudging and winking going on.
Linux winning in any facet of business desktops would be a huge hit to Microsoft. I'm guessing they are referring to Desktop Linux as Home PCs, and not workstations? Either way, if Linux makes inroads to people's work desks, then it will naturally turn into users looking for similar home PCs. However, and Microsoft may be predicting this move in their recent gaming/entertainment push instead of stability/productivity. I can't totally rule out the idea of going to work in a Linux environment (all business) and coming home to a game/movie on a Microsoft box.
What about larger object... like cars, crates, and large chunks of building? If you are in a multiplayer world and one of the members jumps up on a wall section and your wall didn't land in the same spot, someone will cry foul.
But... but... Microsoft Excel is the best program for everything! At least that's how everyone here at work sees it. I don't know how many times someone will open send me an XLS with some checklist that could have been done in the email text itself. It's worse than someone inserting a photo from their drive into Word before sending it to me.
... not the "The GNU Image Creation Program"
Seriously, I agree with you. Using the right tool for the right job. Photoshop is a tool for editing photos... not making a comic.
GIMP is also known as "The GNU Image Manipulation Program"
Consciousness itself could be a very complex set of patterns that the outcome from all it's inputs could SEEM to be alive. Take a step back to 1734. (Just a "random" year) [actually, it's not so random. I tend to favor numbers that any two numbers within them equal another internal number, or are even... good events in my life tended to fall on even years, whatever.]
Sorry, I'm off track here. You're in 1734 and you see this future walking dog robot on the floor. It looks, sounds, feels, and acts like dogs you are used to. Is it alive? It accepts thousands or millions of inputs from sounds (microphone), sights (camera), touch (built in sensors in the "skin"), and tastes (based on chemical composition of material.) Even with those 4 "senses", it has to browse it's back catalog of events. It processes those inputs to the best of it's internal machinery can and an event is formulated within a time set forth by trial and error in the lab. (The response time let the robot get through an obstacle course in the shortest time.) It has accumulated, cataloged and retained it's previous actions as a good/bad action and sequence of events. It can process up to 10,000 of those previous events to determine if it's next action is good. It knows that if it licks a bare wire, it's going to do damage to itself. Does it's computer have the ability to tie that event with the state of a light switch on the wall? Do we? If I randomly flipped the light switches in your house, would you feel confident touching bare wires? We enact standards which fit our being. We dictate how we live our lives by rules so we don't have to question our actions.
It's not measurable because we don't know how to measure it... yet. If it were 1734, even I would probably assume it was a "real dog". (Are we real humans or just organic computers honed over the years to perform self sustaining tasks in the shortest period of time?)
Is that they never look at the restrictions placed upon them by assumption in the first place. You obviously have different actions based on your belief that free will/something is granting you choice and ignore the thought that it could be pattern based. If you come into a study thinking that you might be offending some "higher being" you will also likely change the outcome of your report based on this.
Personally, I wouldn't doubt that we do follow a set of patterns, but those patterns have so many variables and are based on other patterns so recursively that we just can't comprehend it at this time.
As a programmer, I imagine it like a program that has evolved over millions of years and everyone forgot what the original intent was, but they keep going with it because it works and never question why.
Not really, because you wouldn't be REQUIRED to have a GPU/RPU to do any of the rendering. Right now, you'd be hard pressed to play anything without a DirectX 9 card where with ray tracing you could just buy the biggest/best processor and build your system around that. You'd get good enough performance and only those that need bleeding edge will actually buy accelerators.
...and you wouldn't leave nVidia out of the loop because their are always gamers that want that one extra level of realism. You could have an Intel core doing threads of tracing and have the nVidia core work along side of it giving more depth, more rays, or real time radiosity down the line.
/shrug
This is why I don't understand why there is a huge debate on this. It's not like GPUs will suddenly vanish because of raytracing. They just won't be mainstream, which may be the reason.
Not to mention, it's not like Anti-Aliasing in ray tracing is impossible.
ftp://ftp.alvyray.com/Acrobat/6_Pixel.pdf (from 1995 no less)
Second that. I use a light blue/teal/green/gray on black/dark gray for all my coding. My supervisor hates it cause it's hard for him to read, but that's not why I do it. It's just easier for me to read blue/green on black. I rarely use red hues unless I need to notify myself of something (coding errors, etc.)
I just wish it was easier to select a "dark format" desktop and have everything read my local system settings for colors. I tried at one time, but I got so sick of web pages with white images for backgrounds disturbing my dark reading bliss.
I'm guessing a mailbox, maybe a street sign? Those would be clues to me as to the nature of the path. Even in some remote parts of Ohio people still put mailboxes at the end of their lane and most county/township maintained roads have street signs.
True, but isn't that the same for everything? Eventually, someone will get it right and it will stick (and I'm sure it will stay for a long time.)
I read one post in his history that could be construed as such, but you could also read it as sarcasm. Ugh, either way. I'm not sure why it matters to me either. I have just seen a brutal spam campaign the past few days on these account IDs.
;)
For twitter, his alter egos and/or his followers... all I can recommend is if you are the same person, please stop. If you are not, spread out a bit. Something I learned from my multiple MMOs. Nobody likes an aggressive mob, but they hate a whole camp of them even more and will likely camp you.
I agree, though... I don't see any proof that these are the same person. Hell, it could be four college roommates who all share the same mentality or a group of people that just click.
Outright calling them out without proof is like declaring your own "War on Terror" paramount to what our idiot politicians are doing grouping them into some kind of stereotype.
Lets say you have this open source application. It's free, there are no costs associated to forced upgrades, and it sits on your machine and does what is intended.
Why would you need to look at anything else? Slowly, people will look at Open as a good thing. They will remember that ___ application is running on that machine over there and it's been reliable. That one application just changed their outlook. Now they consider it more and more. With more and more open source, comes different businesses and starts to chip away at the former closed source business model. Eventually, it won't be monetarily beneficial to try to get people on the upgrade treadmill. They will see that what they have works and is supported by those new businesses selling support.
Maybe I'm just being optimistic.
So there's more than one person in this world that dislikes Microsoft... this is news? I'm looking through the history here and it seems like twitter is a very adamant Microsoft hater. Maybe he has followers. Maybe there are more than a few people who agree. Is that hard to believe? I myself happen to dislike a lot of the moves they are making even today. So what?
Has Slashdot proven that these are both from the same IP? What makes you justified in comparing the two and spamming every post he/she/they make? What skin did he/she/they pull off your back? Is your life that meaningless that you have enough time to dedicate to this crusade?
I don't even know why I bother responding to an AC. How about logging in so we can have a meaningful conversation with your history and intentions known.
Not to mention, that once you have a stable working copy of something, you usually don't have to go out and rewrite the whole thing over again just to add a new feature. This reduces the cost to code the entire project since a lot of the grunt work is already done.
Open Source relies on the the "it just works" mentality in software. I know that sounds backwards with some people complaining about certain apps usability, but when you write a piece of software that does a job (and does it well) there's really no need to rewrite it.
You need a web server? Download ___ library, code in server, and compile. You want to add a wiggly window effect? Download ___ library, extend your class and compile. Open source thrives on simple, extensible object models.