I'd like to say what I think about Cringely and his opinions about OS X on PC, but I like my karma too much for that. I can tell tho that it's definitly the un-insightful opinion of the day.
No, you said they couldn't do " five + three..then you moved up to square roots, hoping to resolve your mistake
I said they couldn't do 5+3, right, but i didn't "move to square roots", you just interpreted that out of the conversation I had with this bot.
You spoke out of turn..with no facts..a scientific blunder..YOU WERE WRONG..IT is in writting..back down all you want..YOU WERE WRONG..nanny nanny boo boo..ha ha.
hahahaha, you fucking troll, that's what I like in Slashdot, there's always a gang of muthafuckas ready to jack off whenever they can tell/prove someone that he's wrong.
It's periodically sending your GPS location to the government who's building a huge database of people's movements, to correlate against all sorts of crimes ranging from terrorist attacks and murders to petty theft and jaywalking.
wait nevermind! I found one who can do it, at last!
Me : how much does five plus three? Aries : Well that's easy. 8. Me : the square root of thirty-six? Aries : WTF? I thought you already knew the answer to that question. Me : ah! so I guess you can't convolve the array 6, 4, 3 with 2, -3, 10, -3, 2? Aries : Hmmm.. let me think..... oh I know.. about 6,00! Am I right? Me : loser!
Exactly. Whenever I suspect "someone" to be a bot I ask "how much is five plus three?". Can't find a damn bot who could answer to that, although they all can tell stuff like "there's a nice 70 degrees in this CPU" when you ask them what's the weather like.
The way I humbly understood it, gravity is a deformation of space-time, and thus doesn't really travel and is instataneous, or something like that. Anyways, with that quantum thing about two particles changing of state at the same time, isn't it possible to transmit information instantaneously?
Host Jeremy Allison hit a few raw nerves with the opposing Oracle team, introducing them as members of the Berkeley DB product line, 'which Oracle will soon kill.'
And nobody has made a Steve Ballmer joke yet? OK, looks like I'll have to do it myself this time.
Ahem.. At that point, Mr. Allison picked up a chair and threw it across the stage hitting a spectator in the public. Mr. Allison then said: "Fucking Larry Ellison is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Oracle."
Yeah, I thought they might want to use some nuclear power in case of lack of light, but as long as it would happen on earth, i'm afraid tree-huggin hippies would do whatever they can for it not to happen
You can easily achieve 25X compression with simple algorithms, but you need to keep cycling the output back through the input and the speed gets progressively worse
Yeah, but imagine a beowulf cluster of these..
Concievably, it you had enough time on your hands to you get almost anysize file down to just a few dozen bytes
Actually, if you let it run recursively for about 257 years, you'll eventually shrink it to a couple of bytes, meaning that basically a fourth of all the files of the world can be compressed to this : 01
I trully hope you were trying to be sarcastic tho.
I never heard of such a thing but I remember when I was about 12 backing up my most important files and programs on a single floppy disk by storing aliases to them on it.
"Wow, look mom! Super Maze Wars only takes 9 kB!!!"
lol it was VTech Genius LEADER 2000. They didn't even get it for me but for my little sister. Not what made me a geek tho. And I would have been delighted to have been offered a Nintendo instead. Actually a NES with Family BASIC coulda done it I guess.
Ummm let's see... let's say that a liter of methonal costs about 30 USD cents, that's $3 * 10^11 a cubic kilometer. Provided that the cloud is about round, it must have a volume of about 4 * 10^35 cubic kilometers. Ummm.. I only need to know the density of this cloud in order to calculate how much it's worth in order to attract investors in order to send a tube there and suck all of it off.
Maybe the desnity is indicated somewhere in the article... should I read the article? This is Slashdot, no way!
When I want to learn a new programming environment, I pick out a simple project that I have already written in a known environment and port it to the new system.
Funny, that made me remember that without meaning to do that I did that everytime I learnt a new language. Everytime I tried porting a simple message encrypting program that I did in BASIC on a children portable computer (those with a B&W screen of 20x2) when I was 13-14.
It's actually a pretty good way to compare and understand the differences between two different languages (such as the handling of arrays, function arguments and pointers, indexing, memory allocation, strings etc..)
Please don't mod me down for this, but has anyone noticed how Marc Fleury sounds alot like McDonald's McFlurry? if this story had been posted a few days ago I would have thought it was a bad joke
An overwhelming majority of Americans think they can help reduce global warming and are willing to make the sacrifices that are needed, a new poll shows
Will at first it may sound cool, there's something I don't like about that.
I may be over-simplifying the problem, but to me it sounds like, particularly in the US, the administration found a cheap way of fighting global warming by making people feel guilty for it.
It's not all about what's going on in the US, it's happening here in Europe to I think, but I think the US is where it's the worse. Basically, and over-simplistically as I warned earlier, the administration doesn't do anything, and just makes the people feel guilty for the global warming (you often hear about how one american citizen polutes much more than one from another country, as really I don't think the problem is with citizens) so that its the people that makes efforts towards polluting less, for almost free, as really it should be the governement doing stuff so that for example there is no more coal power plant, so that vehicles consume less gasoline (after all, it's not your fault if your SUV drinks 4 times more than it should), etc...
In other words, it's cool that these people care, but it's not because they are those who pollute the most that making them try to pollute less will do what's needed. What I mean is that americans are making efforts as their country isn't ratifying the protocol of Kyoto. It's like trying to fix the leaks around the frame of a window so the cold doesn't come in (although some will argue that it's really the warm that goes away) as the window is wide open.
You ain't getting my point. Let me re-phrase it : from NeXTStep to Mac OS X 10.4.6, has there been any improvement to be seen from the programmer POV, or is Mac OS X = NeXTStep + eye candy?
haha, i'm feeling relieved for you that you didn't get modded up, otherwise you would have got your ass kicked for what I just quoted.
OS X is NeXTStep is only one in the long series of OS X is Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Darwin. get yourself a copy of NeXTStep and let me know how well it compares with Mac OS X from the user/advanced user POV. Mac OS X may be partially based on NeXTStep, but what it's definitly not it.
Linux is Unix... Linux is _a_ Unix, Mac OS X is _a_ Unix, BeOS/Zeta is _a_ Unix, BSD's are Unices, but if you want to call something Unix, you'll be closer to the truth if you choose a BSD over a Linux. It's not a point anyways, you push your logic to the end, then Mac OS X==Alto OS, Windows Vista == MS-DOS and your fav linux distro == some Unix from the 70's.
Computers are now mature. Sad isn't it. The cutting edge now seems to be in biotech and nanotech. There is a lot of research going on in those fields. Basic Research isn't dead. It's just moved on.
There you got the un-insightfull comment of the day, when will you learn that everybody who claimed "innovation is dead" had to realize sooner or later they were wrong? Take a look at OSes in 2066 and talk again about OSes ain't movin on no more as you just did.
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I'd like to say what I think about Cringely and his opinions about OS X on PC, but I like my karma too much for that. I can tell tho that it's definitly the un-insightful opinion of the day.
I said they couldn't do 5+3, right, but i didn't "move to square roots", you just interpreted that out of the conversation I had with this bot.
You spoke out of turn..with no facts..a scientific blunder..YOU WERE WRONG..IT is in writting ..back down all you want..YOU WERE WRONG..nanny nanny boo boo..ha ha.
hahahaha, you fucking troll, that's what I like in Slashdot, there's always a gang of muthafuckas ready to jack off whenever they can tell/prove someone that he's wrong.
Grow the fuck up
haha chill dude. wtf you're talking about anyways, I haven't claimed that no bot could find the square root of 36.
Btw, have you tried array convolution with Brother Jerome? ;-)
Previously I mainly tried AIM bots and um.. some other random web based bots, like Shakespearebot for example
On AIM, they don't have bots who can do maths tho.
ight, when it comes to relativity, i get it all wrong :-). anyways, how do we know that there is such a particle as gravitons?
You may think you're joking, but that's no joke. I read yesterday about the Homeland Security having developped a GPS plugin for NASA's WorldWind http://alteviltech.com/blog/2006/03/31/department- of-homeland-security-can-track-you-by-youre-phone/
wait nevermind! I found one who can do it, at last!
Me : how much does five plus three?
Aries : Well that's easy. 8.
Me : the square root of thirty-six?
Aries : WTF? I thought you already knew the answer to that question.
Me : ah! so I guess you can't convolve the array 6, 4, 3 with 2, -3, 10, -3, 2?
Aries : Hmmm.. let me think..... oh I know.. about 6,00! Am I right?
Me : loser!
Exactly. Whenever I suspect "someone" to be a bot I ask "how much is five plus three?". Can't find a damn bot who could answer to that, although they all can tell stuff like "there's a nice 70 degrees in this CPU" when you ask them what's the weather like.
The way I humbly understood it, gravity is a deformation of space-time, and thus doesn't really travel and is instataneous, or something like that. Anyways, with that quantum thing about two particles changing of state at the same time, isn't it possible to transmit information instantaneously?
And nobody has made a Steve Ballmer joke yet? OK, looks like I'll have to do it myself this time.
Ahem.. At that point, Mr. Allison picked up a chair and threw it across the stage hitting a spectator in the public. Mr. Allison then said: "Fucking Larry Ellison is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Oracle."
Yeah, I thought they might want to use some nuclear power in case of lack of light, but as long as it would happen on earth, i'm afraid tree-huggin hippies would do whatever they can for it not to happen
That's nice, but can't work about 4 months out of 12
Yeah, but imagine a beowulf cluster of these..
Concievably, it you had enough time on your hands to you get almost anysize file down to just a few dozen bytes
Actually, if you let it run recursively for about 257 years, you'll eventually shrink it to a couple of bytes, meaning that basically a fourth of all the files of the world can be compressed to this : 01
I trully hope you were trying to be sarcastic tho.
"Wow, look mom! Super Maze Wars only takes 9 kB!!!"
That's great! But I'm wondering, if it can compress ANYTHING 25x, if I feed it with 1000110100111011101011101 will it give me a 1 or a 0? [/sarcasm]
Until then, can we say "move along nothing to see here"? (no pun intended)
lol it was VTech Genius LEADER 2000. They didn't even get it for me but for my little sister. Not what made me a geek tho. And I would have been delighted to have been offered a Nintendo instead. Actually a NES with Family BASIC coulda done it I guess.
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Sad..
Maybe the desnity is indicated somewhere in the article... should I read the article? This is Slashdot, no way!
Funny, that made me remember that without meaning to do that I did that everytime I learnt a new language. Everytime I tried porting a simple message encrypting program that I did in BASIC on a children portable computer (those with a B&W screen of 20x2) when I was 13-14.
It's actually a pretty good way to compare and understand the differences between two different languages (such as the handling of arrays, function arguments and pointers, indexing, memory allocation, strings etc..)
Please don't mod me down for this, but has anyone noticed how Marc Fleury sounds alot like McDonald's McFlurry? if this story had been posted a few days ago I would have thought it was a bad joke
Will at first it may sound cool, there's something I don't like about that.
I may be over-simplifying the problem, but to me it sounds like, particularly in the US, the administration found a cheap way of fighting global warming by making people feel guilty for it.
It's not all about what's going on in the US, it's happening here in Europe to I think, but I think the US is where it's the worse. Basically, and over-simplistically as I warned earlier, the administration doesn't do anything, and just makes the people feel guilty for the global warming (you often hear about how one american citizen polutes much more than one from another country, as really I don't think the problem is with citizens) so that its the people that makes efforts towards polluting less, for almost free, as really it should be the governement doing stuff so that for example there is no more coal power plant, so that vehicles consume less gasoline (after all, it's not your fault if your SUV drinks 4 times more than it should), etc...
In other words, it's cool that these people care, but it's not because they are those who pollute the most that making them try to pollute less will do what's needed. What I mean is that americans are making efforts as their country isn't ratifying the protocol of Kyoto. It's like trying to fix the leaks around the frame of a window so the cold doesn't come in (although some will argue that it's really the warm that goes away) as the window is wide open.
Please notice that this is a rhetoric question
haha, i'm feeling relieved for you that you didn't get modded up, otherwise you would have got your ass kicked for what I just quoted.
OS X is NeXTStep is only one in the long series of OS X is Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Darwin. get yourself a copy of NeXTStep and let me know how well it compares with Mac OS X from the user/advanced user POV. Mac OS X may be partially based on NeXTStep, but what it's definitly not it.
Linux is Unix... Linux is _a_ Unix, Mac OS X is _a_ Unix, BeOS/Zeta is _a_ Unix, BSD's are Unices, but if you want to call something Unix, you'll be closer to the truth if you choose a BSD over a Linux. It's not a point anyways, you push your logic to the end, then Mac OS X==Alto OS, Windows Vista == MS-DOS and your fav linux distro == some Unix from the 70's.
Computers are now mature. Sad isn't it.
The cutting edge now seems to be in biotech and nanotech. There is a lot of research going on in those fields.
Basic Research isn't dead. It's just moved on.
There you got the un-insightfull comment of the day, when will you learn that everybody who claimed "innovation is dead" had to realize sooner or later they were wrong? Take a look at OSes in 2066 and talk again about OSes ain't movin on no more as you just did.