Ah you're right, I was being too hard on the man. He was trying to do something cool at least, unlike me.
If he's reading this I hope he accepts my apologies for calling him a dumbass
That was so annoying. The technology is cool but in the end it was only just ok cause I mostly wanted him to shut up especially when he talked about there being no interface.
But this is a significant broadening of the "vocabulary" used to interact with a GUI. For data entry, i.e. coding or taking notes or writing email, there seems to be nothing new..... but that guy strikes me as kind of a dumbass so perhaps someone out there does have something cool and hasn't told anybody yet. We'll have to wait and see.
That it's assumed education can be cheated means to me that education is shit in this world. Isn't it true that eventually the cheater will find he is stark naked at his parade? (To use a metaphor from the children's book.)
In this scheme, if I understand correctly, a large group of people get together and lend money. Any loss is the same but spread out over a large group. It's like financial leverage. Think about what happens to the force needed to lift a tonne supported by a hundred pulleys (neglect friction). Same thing, different physics.
This is bullshit. The act of coercion that results in two children having sex is the act of creation. If you base your prosecution on the creation of something that did not exist, how can you not prosecute also the authorities whose memories of the child pornography constitute the creation of something that did not previously exist?
I'm curious what kind of battery life these things get, but the Apple site is missing battery life estimates. Clearly, there's a Republican conspiracy involving aliens here.
That's the same article as linked to in the original story. The guy does a good job of not understanding cameras and is full of himself to boot ("Understanding its significance requires reading four of the techiest paragraphs you'll read all day, but it's worth the slog." -- ya, right, not even close buddy)
He does get one thing right: that sony's new ccd is cool because it can do compact digicam things and it's big
But he forgets that 24mm "true 35mm equivalent" (i.e. with the fov of a 24mm lens imaging on 35mm film) lenses have been on a few digital compacts (nikon's 8400, some olympus (8080? 7070?)). I believe what he's thinking of here is the main advantage of having a mirror-less (non SLR) camera is that you can move the lens closer to the imaging surface which makes it easiar to design wide angle lenses. Rangefinders were popular for this because their wide-angles didn't have to employ fancy retrofocal designs in order to get below a 35mm focal length and still fill the frame. So it's an advantage over the SLRs in this way but I bet the optics are about as good as a blowjob from a girl with braces.
I applaud sony for having the guts to do something different and encourage other manufacturers to follow suit. A modular digicam in the style and format of a rangefinder (or smaller) with a reasonably fast interface and a very strong line of modestly priced wide angles would be wicked.
I don't remember having to pay to look at patents. Must be gettin old..
The only reasonably secure solution I've been aware of was encrypted code that is sent to the CPU or an off die security engine for decryption into run-able code. The encryption is public/private key with the private key lying inside an "Apple" CPU
Linus has his reasons but they are incompatible with people who don't even know the difference between a binary driver and a non binary driver.
If I were NEC, Fujitsu or Hitachi and had the resources to hire even a skeleton size "Linux" development team, it would be really tempting to fork the kernel over this minor issue---you'd have vendor support up the wazoo. NVIDIA et al may even just flat out stop releasing source stubs and only support the binary interface.
Seems similar to the xorg/xfree dealie: pedantic old farts gettin in the way of practical decisions
Further, only the US destiny research module is actually up there. IIRC the other half of the station (the half on the grond) is mostly for research. From wikipedia:
Launched on periodic resupply missions
* Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Scheduled for launch by Shuttle after return to flight
* Node 2 (launch ~12/06)
* Columbus Laboratory (launch ~03/07)
* Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), aka KIBO (launch ~09/07)
* Node 3 - (launch ~05/08)
* Centrifuge Accommodations Module (launch ~7/09)
* Science Power Platform (launch ~10/10)
* Cupola - (launch ~03/09) Scheduled for launch by Proton rocket
* Multipurpose Laboratory Module FGB-2 based - (launch ~2007)
* European Robotic Arm (ERA) (2007),
* Russian Research Module reduced to 1 (launch ~2009)
he's idealizing about independence approaching infinity. we have people who benefit from censorship and hierarchy is then needed to decide what and what not to censor.
hierarchy-less documents mess with the concept of censorship and i like them because i like information free---but most people aren't geniuses like me.
i found the idiosyncracies of the scripting languages don't translate too well into a shell
but this was designed with a shell in mind
hopefully it will be suited to the shell... and make an impression on us.
The iterative operators are impressive (select, etc). They remind one of ruby syntax while some of the other parts of the language remind one of perl.
And I'm saying this from the perspective of a 100% linux user, this looks great. How much can it do? I can see some people within microsoft getting excited about it eventually replacing VB... I would support that motion. VB sucks.
Can we create something that can create/hallucinate/have creativity is the more interesting question. Creativity seems to me to be somewhat based on the ability to hallucinate.
The topic of the article is interesting from my point because it is a new tool that is an expressional analog of DNA. I.e. it is another basic chemical language. Whether it has the expressiveness and dynamism of DNA remains to be seen.
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Ah you're right, I was being too hard on the man. He was trying to do something cool at least, unlike me. If he's reading this I hope he accepts my apologies for calling him a dumbass
That was so annoying. The technology is cool but in the end it was only just ok cause I mostly wanted him to shut up especially when he talked about there being no interface.
But this is a significant broadening of the "vocabulary" used to interact with a GUI. For data entry, i.e. coding or taking notes or writing email, there seems to be nothing new..... but that guy strikes me as kind of a dumbass so perhaps someone out there does have something cool and hasn't told anybody yet. We'll have to wait and see.
That it's assumed education can be cheated means to me that education is shit in this world. Isn't it true that eventually the cheater will find he is stark naked at his parade? (To use a metaphor from the children's book.)
As well, the response from Prosper is no plans to expand to Canada.
Anyone know of a Canadian service?
I'm far, far, far from an economist.
In this scheme, if I understand correctly, a large group of people get together and lend money. Any loss is the same but spread out over a large group. It's like financial leverage. Think about what happens to the force needed to lift a tonne supported by a hundred pulleys (neglect friction). Same thing, different physics.
For example, this guy intends to build a sportscar and is raising $16,000. There are currently 65 bids mostly between $100-200. He defaults, these people lose $100 each while if he doesn't they make a little cash.
This is bullshit. The act of coercion that results in two children having sex is the act of creation. If you base your prosecution on the creation of something that did not exist, how can you not prosecute also the authorities whose memories of the child pornography constitute the creation of something that did not previously exist?
I'm curious what kind of battery life these things get, but the Apple site is missing battery life estimates. Clearly, there's a Republican conspiracy involving aliens here.
I shall take the lens/blowjob comment back. Blowjobs from girls with braces can be good and so can this lens according to dpreview.
That's the same article as linked to in the original story. The guy does a good job of not understanding cameras and is full of himself to boot ("Understanding its significance requires reading four of the techiest paragraphs you'll read all day, but it's worth the slog." -- ya, right, not even close buddy)
He does get one thing right: that sony's new ccd is cool because it can do compact digicam things and it's big
But he forgets that 24mm "true 35mm equivalent" (i.e. with the fov of a 24mm lens imaging on 35mm film) lenses have been on a few digital compacts (nikon's 8400, some olympus (8080? 7070?)). I believe what he's thinking of here is the main advantage of having a mirror-less (non SLR) camera is that you can move the lens closer to the imaging surface which makes it easiar to design wide angle lenses. Rangefinders were popular for this because their wide-angles didn't have to employ fancy retrofocal designs in order to get below a 35mm focal length and still fill the frame. So it's an advantage over the SLRs in this way but I bet the optics are about as good as a blowjob from a girl with braces.
I applaud sony for having the guts to do something different and encourage other manufacturers to follow suit. A modular digicam in the style and format of a rangefinder (or smaller) with a reasonably fast interface and a very strong line of modestly priced wide angles would be wicked.
I don't remember having to pay to look at patents. Must be gettin old..
The only reasonably secure solution I've been aware of was encrypted code that is sent to the CPU or an off die security engine for decryption into run-able code. The encryption is public/private key with the private key lying inside an "Apple" CPU
Anyone have more details?
Linus has his reasons but they are incompatible with people who don't even know the difference between a binary driver and a non binary driver. If I were NEC, Fujitsu or Hitachi and had the resources to hire even a skeleton size "Linux" development team, it would be really tempting to fork the kernel over this minor issue---you'd have vendor support up the wazoo. NVIDIA et al may even just flat out stop releasing source stubs and only support the binary interface. Seems similar to the xorg/xfree dealie: pedantic old farts gettin in the way of practical decisions
Further, only the US destiny research module is actually up there. IIRC the other half of the station (the half on the grond) is mostly for research. From wikipedia:
Launched on periodic resupply missions
* Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)
Scheduled for launch by Shuttle after return to flight
* Node 2 (launch ~12/06)
* Columbus Laboratory (launch ~03/07)
* Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), aka KIBO (launch ~09/07)
* Node 3 - (launch ~05/08)
* Centrifuge Accommodations Module (launch ~7/09)
* Science Power Platform (launch ~10/10)
* Cupola - (launch ~03/09)
Scheduled for launch by Proton rocket
* Multipurpose Laboratory Module FGB-2 based - (launch ~2007)
* European Robotic Arm (ERA) (2007),
* Russian Research Module reduced to 1 (launch ~2009)
Mmmm centrifuge
Everyone's like
Moral
Financial
Opensourceical
Freedom/powerical
But for me it was definitely sex appeal
Apple applications are held to a strict code of UI behavior: coding a commercial GUI application for OSX
But this doesn't preclude the possibility of running windows apps in OS X. It could be similar to old Mac OS 9 applications running in blue box.
he's idealizing about independence approaching infinity. we have people who benefit from censorship and hierarchy is then needed to decide what and what not to censor.
hierarchy-less documents mess with the concept of censorship and i like them because i like information free---but most people aren't geniuses like me.
i found the idiosyncracies of the scripting languages don't translate too well into a shell but this was designed with a shell in mind hopefully it will be suited to the shell... and make an impression on us.
The iterative operators are impressive (select, etc). They remind one of ruby syntax while some of the other parts of the language remind one of perl.
And I'm saying this from the perspective of a 100% linux user, this looks great. How much can it do? I can see some people within microsoft getting excited about it eventually replacing VB... I would support that motion. VB sucks.
Intelligence *is* programming without creativity.
Can we create something that can create/hallucinate/have creativity is the more interesting question. Creativity seems to me to be somewhat based on the ability to hallucinate.
The topic of the article is interesting from my point because it is a new tool that is an expressional analog of DNA. I.e. it is another basic chemical language. Whether it has the expressiveness and dynamism of DNA remains to be seen.