even if you argue it's really all analog, the fact that you can mentally process digital logic means that you are digital computer
Any analog computer can process digital logic. The difference between analog and digital is with analog you have noise, with digital you have rounding errors (and those rounding errors can be simulated in an analog computer).
You can make a simple analog computer (actually more like an electric slide rule) with a couple of batteries, a couple of potentiometers, a voltmeter and a little wire. More complex analogs were built, of course, with outputs to CRTs.
So is your comment, the first poster said exactly the same thing. Guys, there's this thing called the "firehose" where you can moderate stories before they're posted. One of the downmods is "Dupe". So the/. editors aren't all there are to blame, you didn't vote it down so STFU, you're to blame, too.
Apple's iron grip on their ecosystem is what allows them to position their device as "premium" and charge so much for it.
So how does Samsung get away with selling BlingPhones at the same price as Apple's BlingPhones? The same reason BMW and Porsche can sell so many BlingCars; they sell them to people with lots of money and little self-esteem, people who tie a person's worth to the size of their credit card bill.
Meanwhile my $100 Android will do what your $800 Blingphone will and my thirteen year old Chrysler will get me to the store just as quickly and comfortably as your $90k BlingCar.
High-end phones, cars, jewelry, everything is for folks with more dollars than sense.
Anyone who identifies a dupe can be moderated +6 awesome for 7 days. Anyone who submits a dupe is automatically modded -1 for 7 days.
So, I submit a story and you submit a story. Mine is accepted in five minutes, yours in two hours and they're both the same story. Why should you be penalized for submitting a story? However, I've tagged dupes in the firehose before, how about of you spot a dupe you get mod points (to moderate others) as a reward?
I'm going a different direction with my book. Electronic versions will be free, you'll only have to pay for paper versions (even though paper comes out before electrons).
Oh, and there aren't any zombies or vampires. There are ghosts in chapter chapter 21 but they're not really ghosts. It's science fiction, not horror.
Shit, it's halloween, sorry. The bad guys are ghouls (at least that's what the Martians call them).
Saw your comment metamoderating (left it at 3, not changing it) but I wasn't aware that other companies except Apple were pulling that crap.
Is it because I don't buy expensive phones? My Kyocera edge was about a hundred bucks (no contract). If I bought a phone that I couldn't change the battery I'd send it back. Fuck that! WTF??
Ebert argues that unlike movies, video games can never really be considered works of art.
That's what I always liked about his reviews, I could depend on them. If he gave a movie two thumbs up I knew it was going to be a bore, and two thumbs down meant it was probably science fiction and/or really rocked. Ans yes, I wholeheartedly disagree with him about video games, too. They're not all art of course, but I've seen some that certainly are.
Charles Broussard disagrees with me on this, we had some interesting online conversations about this a little over a decade ago. Michelangelo didn't consider himself an artist, either.
Just encode them as illiterate, incoherent, childish ramblings and post them to Slashdot.
That's impossible, illiterates can't write at all. I will agree that there seems to be a whole lot of aliterates here, though. "There car's are over they're." Aliterate.
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over a man who can't read." -- Twain (Clemons)
If I had mod points you'd get some. An illiterate can't read at all, an aliterate has to sound the words out. Ambiguity is easy to avoid for the literate writer who doesn't sound words out when he reads as long as he's proofread what he's written. The aliterate can't understand this, not realizing that the literate not only don't hear the words unless they're in quotes, they don't see them -- they see and hear what the words convey rather than the words themselves.
The spoken word is indeed ambiguous. Did the Beatles sing "Lets all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born, though she was born a long long time ago. Your mother should know" or did they sing "Lets all get up and dance to a song. That was a hippie four. Your mother was born, though she was born a long long time ago. Your mother should, no?"
The written word can be ambiguous (like the title, and like a lot of headlines in mainstream newspapers) but it doesn't have to be if properly edited.
I got a yahoo mail address a decade ago because I was tired of changing email addresses every time I changed ISPs, and kept it for the same reason I got it, I hate changing email addresses. If you send mail to my mcgrewbooks.com domain, it gets forwarded to my regular email (or will, it's a new domain and I haven't set up mail forwarding yet).
The US? You think we in the US actually LIKE that horse shit commercialism? It's not US, it's the very rich who run the entire world. They don't give two shits about America, they just use it for their own evil ends.
America pretends to be a Christian nation when most worship at the Church of Mammon on Wall Street. The Muslims really fucked up when they gave the Mammonites 3000 martyrs. Morons. Giving a rival religion martyrs is stupid.
while nearly every holiday is tainted with capitalistic greed, i think halloween is probably fairly low on the list. candy and costumes for the most part.
That's how it was fifty years ago, but some people spend hundreds of dollars on lawn decorations and lights these days. The house across the street from me has a dozen tombstones, spiderwebs and a giant spider, some ghosts... it's ridiculous. Better Halloween be taken over by mammon-worshipers than Christmas, which was alas taken over long, long ago by the church of Wall Street. All hail the mighty god named "wealth".
PS- capitalization counts to the truly literate. Join us.
Cool, thanks. As to the transcript guy, MeTV has obviously been using computer voice recognition for their captions from the way the captions are mangled. Use the computer for the transcripts and have the transcript guy just edit that, it should be a lot faster and easier. When voice recognition gets better your transcript guy will have to do something else...
Seconded (thirded? Ninethid?). Videos are fine for animations that show how something works, or demonstrating something cool, like that Q8k guy that flew his rocket to the edge of space, but I'm visually oriented, not aurally oriented. I don't want talking heads, I'm literate. Give me the written word or STFU.
Do you seriously believe that the rich pay less in tax than the poor?
In absolute dollars the rich pay far more, but in terms of percent of income they pay much less than the poor when you add up all taxes. The poor are paying little Federal income tax, but in Illinois the state income tax is flat. The poor spend a far higher percentage of their income on taxable goods than the rich, especially when you add in road taxes and other excise taxes. They're paying property tax for their landlords when they pay rent. When you get slightly above the poverty line, Mitt Romney is paying 13% of his income in tax while the poor are paying twice that in income tax alone, since his income is taxed as capital gains rather than income.
I think you nailed it, the OP is probably in his twenties or younger -- the MyFaceBook generation. For me, email is the handiest method of communication (yes, I still use the phone as a phone, too). My youngest daughter (26) emails me almost exclusively (becuse I'm not on FaceBook) and my older daughter (28) Textes me... when she knows I'm asleep or when I'm otherwise not answering my phone. When I get a text or email, the phone beeps. I seldom return texts because I hate typing on a touch screen; if I get an email the phone beeps, I read the message and respond when I can get on a device with a real keyboard, or just call.
"But with facebook I can talk to everybody at once!"
I think it's unlikely that this is the only (or first) planet to have life, bot otoh so much has to be just perfect for it to begin that I do think it's rare.
It takes no thought or reading to glance at the speedometer, it does with a GPS. The speedometer takes your eyes off the road for a split second, GPS takes both your eyes and mind off for several seconds. After all, if you know where you are you don't need GPS and if you don't, why are you moving?
From reading that National Geographic article I suspect this kind of thing is more common than they think. It wouldn't even need a collision, just a close call with a larger body.
So could the planet have formed in a wider orbit and migrated inward? This is another improbability, say the researchers. âoeIt couldnâ(TM)t have formed further out and migrated inward, because it would have migrated all the way into the star. This planet is an enigma,â Sasselov added.
âoeWhat Iâ(TM)m going to say is really absolutely crazy,â he said at the start of a recent seminar. âoeIf we publish this, my career might be over.â He could have made the same remark back in 2004 about what is now called the Nice modelâ"the hypothesis that he and his colleagues, including Alessandro Morbidelli of the CÃte dâ(TM)Azur Observatory in Nice, developed on the basis of dozens of computer simulations.
In essence Levisonâ(TM)s team proposed that our solar systemâ(TM)s four giant planetsâ"Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptuneâ"had started out much more closely packed together, on nearly circular orbits, with the latter three closer to the sun than they are now. Early on they were embedded in the disk-shaped solar nebula, which was still full of icy and rocky debris. As the planets absorbed those planetesimals or flung them away after close encounters, they cleared gaps in the disk.
Because the planets were also tugging on one another, the whole system was fragileâ"âoealmost infinitely chaotic,â Levison says. Instead of each planet being linked only to the sun by a brass arm, itâ(TM)s as if they were all linked by gravitational springs as well. The most powerful one linked the two biggest bodies, Jupiter and Saturn. A yank on that spring would jolt the whole system.
And that, the team believes, is what happened when the solar system was about 500 million to 700 million years old. As the planets interacted with planetesimals, their own orbits shifted. Jupiter moved slightly inward; Saturn moved slightly outward, as did Uranus and Neptune. Everything happened slowlyâ"until at a certain point Saturn was completing exactly one orbit for every two of Jupiterâ(TM)s.
Because the planets were also tugging on one another, the whole system was fragileâ"âoealmost infinitely chaotic,â Levison says. Instead of each planet being linked only to the sun by a brass arm, itâ(TM)s as if they were all linked by gravitational springs as well. The most powerful one linked the two biggest bodies, Jupiter and Saturn. A yank on that spring would jolt the whole system.
TFA is framing the question in a sensational way. What the scientists are saying is "this is an exciting puzzle, it shouldn't happen according to what we know.
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even if you argue it's really all analog, the fact that you can mentally process digital logic means that you are digital computer
Any analog computer can process digital logic. The difference between analog and digital is with analog you have noise, with digital you have rounding errors (and those rounding errors can be simulated in an analog computer).
You can make a simple analog computer (actually more like an electric slide rule) with a couple of batteries, a couple of potentiometers, a voltmeter and a little wire. More complex analogs were built, of course, with outputs to CRTs.
So is your comment, the first poster said exactly the same thing. Guys, there's this thing called the "firehose" where you can moderate stories before they're posted. One of the downmods is "Dupe". So the /. editors aren't all there are to blame, you didn't vote it down so STFU, you're to blame, too.
Apple's iron grip on their ecosystem is what allows them to position their device as "premium" and charge so much for it.
So how does Samsung get away with selling BlingPhones at the same price as Apple's BlingPhones? The same reason BMW and Porsche can sell so many BlingCars; they sell them to people with lots of money and little self-esteem, people who tie a person's worth to the size of their credit card bill.
Meanwhile my $100 Android will do what your $800 Blingphone will and my thirteen year old Chrysler will get me to the store just as quickly and comfortably as your $90k BlingCar.
High-end phones, cars, jewelry, everything is for folks with more dollars than sense.
Anyone who identifies a dupe can be moderated +6 awesome for 7 days.
Anyone who submits a dupe is automatically modded -1 for 7 days.
So, I submit a story and you submit a story. Mine is accepted in five minutes, yours in two hours and they're both the same story. Why should you be penalized for submitting a story? However, I've tagged dupes in the firehose before, how about of you spot a dupe you get mod points (to moderate others) as a reward?
Which are?
Bugs unfound by their pathetic QA. A vulnerable OS is a poorly written OS.
Oh, on this we certainly agree,
I was sure of that, I just needed to beat my dead horse again, that lazy bastard...
I'm going a different direction with my book. Electronic versions will be free, you'll only have to pay for paper versions (even though paper comes out before electrons).
Oh, and there aren't any zombies or vampires. There are ghosts in chapter chapter 21 but they're not really ghosts. It's science fiction, not horror.
Shit, it's halloween, sorry. The bad guys are ghouls (at least that's what the Martians call them).
Am I on topic yet? Damn...
Saw your comment metamoderating (left it at 3, not changing it) but I wasn't aware that other companies except Apple were pulling that crap.
Is it because I don't buy expensive phones? My Kyocera edge was about a hundred bucks (no contract). If I bought a phone that I couldn't change the battery I'd send it back. Fuck that! WTF??
BlingPhones: more money, less value I guess.
I believe he was making a reference to otherOS, a backhanded way of saying "You would believe a Sony FAQ???"
Sony has a long history of FAQing its customers over. I'll not be a customer again.
(mods, I'll agree with the overrated but I don't think the parent was trolling)
Ebert argues that unlike movies, video games can never really be considered works of art.
That's what I always liked about his reviews, I could depend on them. If he gave a movie two thumbs up I knew it was going to be a bore, and two thumbs down meant it was probably science fiction and/or really rocked. Ans yes, I wholeheartedly disagree with him about video games, too. They're not all art of course, but I've seen some that certainly are.
Charles Broussard disagrees with me on this, we had some interesting online conversations about this a little over a decade ago. Michelangelo didn't consider himself an artist, either.
Just encode them as illiterate, incoherent, childish ramblings and post them to Slashdot.
That's impossible, illiterates can't write at all. I will agree that there seems to be a whole lot of aliterates here, though. "There car's are over they're." Aliterate.
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over a man who can't read." -- Twain (Clemons)
If I had mod points you'd get some. An illiterate can't read at all, an aliterate has to sound the words out. Ambiguity is easy to avoid for the literate writer who doesn't sound words out when he reads as long as he's proofread what he's written. The aliterate can't understand this, not realizing that the literate not only don't hear the words unless they're in quotes, they don't see them -- they see and hear what the words convey rather than the words themselves.
The spoken word is indeed ambiguous. Did the Beatles sing "Lets all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born, though she was born a long long time ago. Your mother should know" or did they sing "Lets all get up and dance to a song. That was a hippie four. Your mother was born, though she was born a long long time ago. Your mother should, no?"
The written word can be ambiguous (like the title, and like a lot of headlines in mainstream newspapers) but it doesn't have to be if properly edited.
I got a yahoo mail address a decade ago because I was tired of changing email addresses every time I changed ISPs, and kept it for the same reason I got it, I hate changing email addresses. If you send mail to my mcgrewbooks.com domain, it gets forwarded to my regular email (or will, it's a new domain and I haven't set up mail forwarding yet).
The US? You think we in the US actually LIKE that horse shit commercialism? It's not US, it's the very rich who run the entire world. They don't give two shits about America, they just use it for their own evil ends.
America pretends to be a Christian nation when most worship at the Church of Mammon on Wall Street. The Muslims really fucked up when they gave the Mammonites 3000 martyrs. Morons. Giving a rival religion martyrs is stupid.
the thing with american holidays is that most are relatively new and based on some other culture's ancient celebration
Well, the country itself is relatively new, only two centuries old. It's a toddler compared to European and Asian countries.
while nearly every holiday is tainted with capitalistic greed, i think halloween is probably fairly low on the list. candy and costumes for the most part.
That's how it was fifty years ago, but some people spend hundreds of dollars on lawn decorations and lights these days. The house across the street from me has a dozen tombstones, spiderwebs and a giant spider, some ghosts... it's ridiculous. Better Halloween be taken over by mammon-worshipers than Christmas, which was alas taken over long, long ago by the church of Wall Street. All hail the mighty god named "wealth".
PS- capitalization counts to the truly literate. Join us.
Cool, thanks. As to the transcript guy, MeTV has obviously been using computer voice recognition for their captions from the way the captions are mangled. Use the computer for the transcripts and have the transcript guy just edit that, it should be a lot faster and easier. When voice recognition gets better your transcript guy will have to do something else...
Seconded (thirded? Ninethid?). Videos are fine for animations that show how something works, or demonstrating something cool, like that Q8k guy that flew his rocket to the edge of space, but I'm visually oriented, not aurally oriented. I don't want talking heads, I'm literate. Give me the written word or STFU.
Do you seriously believe that the rich pay less in tax than the poor?
In absolute dollars the rich pay far more, but in terms of percent of income they pay much less than the poor when you add up all taxes. The poor are paying little Federal income tax, but in Illinois the state income tax is flat. The poor spend a far higher percentage of their income on taxable goods than the rich, especially when you add in road taxes and other excise taxes. They're paying property tax for their landlords when they pay rent. When you get slightly above the poverty line, Mitt Romney is paying 13% of his income in tax while the poor are paying twice that in income tax alone, since his income is taxed as capital gains rather than income.
That's possibly generational.
I think you nailed it, the OP is probably in his twenties or younger -- the MyFaceBook generation. For me, email is the handiest method of communication (yes, I still use the phone as a phone, too). My youngest daughter (26) emails me almost exclusively (becuse I'm not on FaceBook) and my older daughter (28) Textes me... when she knows I'm asleep or when I'm otherwise not answering my phone. When I get a text or email, the phone beeps. I seldom return texts because I hate typing on a touch screen; if I get an email the phone beeps, I read the message and respond when I can get on a device with a real keyboard, or just call.
"But with facebook I can talk to everybody at once!"
Talk to ME, kid. Fuck facebook.
I think it's unlikely that this is the only (or first) planet to have life, bot otoh so much has to be just perfect for it to begin that I do think it's rare.
But no way am I certain one way or the other.
It takes no thought or reading to glance at the speedometer, it does with a GPS. The speedometer takes your eyes off the road for a split second, GPS takes both your eyes and mind off for several seconds. After all, if you know where you are you don't need GPS and if you don't, why are you moving?
From reading that National Geographic article I suspect this kind of thing is more common than they think. It wouldn't even need a collision, just a close call with a larger body.
I'm not a Halloween kind of guy and kids keep knocking on the damned door wanting candy, so I just take my notebook to the bar.
I'm not so sure about that. From TFA:
That is in opposition to this:
TFA is framing the question in a sensational way. What the scientists are saying is "this is an exciting puzzle, it shouldn't happen according to what we know.