I live in Alaska. The only things dangerous to humans here are too big to fit in a shoe (i.e., brown, black or polar bears), so shaking out shoes in the morning tends to be kind of silly.
C'mon, how many people here had a crush on Lara Croft (*before* the movie came out)? I'm guessing it is a statistically significant number, and if I'm right, that pretty much blows GPP's point out of the water.
Because I was smart enough to care about emerging technology in high school and college instead of sex and drugs, I now have a well-paying job that provided me with a very, very nice house in one of the nicer parts of my town, the perfect motorcycle for my needs, an airplane, a late model truck and a (modest, granted) recording studio in one of the extra bedrooms in the aforementioned very, very nice house. As if that weren't enough, I have a smokin' hot wife and a daughter who makes life worth living, even if I didn't have any of the material possessions I mentioned first. Life is good. So, yeah, I'd say HTML5 probably will make some of us happy.
YMMV. Keep drinking cheap beer and chasing skirts while living in your mom's basement if you want, but when you find yourself old, fat, broke and alone, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.
Also, the way you've described it, the caption wouldn't be a tag; it would be an attribute of the image tag:
caption as an attribute:
<img caption="yadda yadda yadda" src="blah blah blah">
caption as a tag:
<img src="blah blah blah">
<caption text="yadda yadda yadda">
Good job jumping to conclusions, there. You don't know OP's situation, and therefore, you don't know what (s)he tried first.
OP may very well have tried to educate, but may have just been working with someone who refused to learn. I've been there and done that. I had a relative that needed lots of help with his/her computer (staying anonymous to protect the guilty). This person would invariably create a new document in Word/Excel/Publisher, then click the little "x" icon to close the program, click "Yes" when asked to save it before closing, and then would freak out when (s)he didn't know how to find it again later. I don't know how many times I explained how to use the "open recent documents" option in the menu to find the file they had last edited, and I don't know how many times I suggested that (s)he actually use "Save As" to save the document (what a concept...). Sometimes people don't want to learn, especially when it's easier to ask the "computer guru" to help dig them out of the hole their willful ignorance has landed them in.
Second, what if OP didn't recommend Mac because "it's an operating system designed for idiot^Wmommies and daddies" (I wish I could find that video again...), but rather because it's the OS that (s)he is competent fixing? I don't like Windows, and so I work on it grudgingly, if at all. OTOH, I rather enjoy both OS-X and the various Linux flavors and I tend to be rather proficient at them. Consequently, if someone wants me to provide free tech support, IMHO, it's reasonable to require that they use one of these OS's because it's what I can best support.
I kept saying that to one particular, anonymous relative who kept needing assistance with his/her computer. Eventually, (s)he did buy a Mac, and guess what? No more virus/malware problems, but this person managed to lose the icons for Word and Excel in the dock (twice) -- one time actually having *deleted* Office entirely, and I'm still not sure how (s)he managed to do that -- and even completely locked the Mac up a couple of times. I use a Mac sometimes too, although I prefer Linux, and have never, ever seen anything like the problems this person has with his/her Mac.
Macs are good, and they are designed to be used by non-technical people, but they are not foolproof. A determined enough user can break a Mac, too.
It's more than that, though. After spending 40+ hours per week fixing computers at work, when I get home, I don't particularly want to touch another computer until I get back to work. I want to ride my motorcycle, snuggle with my wife, play games with my daughter, etc. I don't work on computers because it is my biggest passion in life; I work on computers because it foots the bill for a reasonably comfortable lifestyle for my family and me.
Yeah, but "fixing" an animal requires a somewhat different skillset than fixing a machine. I know if someone tried to "fix" me, I'd probably attack them, too:D
1) Friend: How should I fix ${generic_problem} with my computer?
2) Me: Install Linux
3) ???
4) Repeat as required
5) Profit!!! Well, maybe not "profit", but they stopped asking me for help, anyway:)
I understand the desire to have unique ideas- actual research has found that people can generate more unique ideas alone than in a group (you can go find the CSCW papers for yourself, I'm lazy).
That said, ignoring everything else isn't good either. There is a LOT of good work that has been done in this area. Is each individual project a complete solution to creating artificial life? No. But I suspect that many of the pieces are already out there just waiting to be assembled.
Maybe a good approach would be to have a group (or individual) working on the creative ideas independently, while another group looks at what each creative group/individual has accomplished and assembles the best bits of into a coherent whole? The idea of being "polluted" by someone else's research makes sense to me -- if you start thinking along a certain line, it's difficult to imagine other ways of solving the problem, whereas if you have no idea what other researchers are doing, you might find a solution that never would have occurred to them -- but at the same time, you have a valid point about "many of the pieces...already [being] out there just waiting to be assembled."
Amending the Constitution is so difficult, comrade. Better if we merely ignore or reinterpret the Constitution per our whims. For the good of the country, of course.
Funny thing is, I don't remember reading that caveat anywhere in the 4th Amendment </sarc> Did you actually think through the repercussions of that interpretation before parroting the party line? Look what that logic (and I use the term loosely) does to the rest of the Bill of Rights:
"Of course you have a right to free speech, freedom of religion, and the freedom to assemble. You just can't do it on municipal, state or federal property. If you want to speak your mind inside your house, feel free. If you want to worship the FSM, you can do it inside your house, too. And you and as many of your like-minded friends and family who want to assemble can do it in your living room. You can even carry protest signs there, if you like. But if you want to do any of those things, you can't do them anywhere Big Brother is watching."
"Of course you have the right to keep and bear arms -- and that freedom is no longer interpreted as applying only to state militias. You just can't leave your house with your weapons. We aren't forcing you to go anywhere firearms are prohibited, after all. If you want to step outside of your property, you are choosing to do so."
"Of course you have the right to remain silent...unless you are on a public street. We aren't forcing you to leave your house, after all, so if you choose to go to the shopping mall or the gas station and we question you, you have chosen to be somewhere that the 5th Amendment doesn't apply."
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Just because a trade group has lobbying money, shouldn't mean that they get to play with society's rules.
While I agree with you, the sad fact is that lobbying money is pretty much the only thing that allows one to play with society's rules.
I live in Alaska. The only things dangerous to humans here are too big to fit in a shoe (i.e., brown, black or polar bears), so shaking out shoes in the morning tends to be kind of silly.
The so-called 'experts exchange' ... would be first on my blocked list.
Seconded! That was the first domain I thought of when I read the headline.
Huh..."Learn something new..."
Well, for one thing, I can buy a torque wrench at Sears, but I've never seen a zip-tie puller with a torque/force meter on it...
And don't get me started about video games.
*cough*
C'mon, how many people here had a crush on Lara Croft (*before* the movie came out)? I'm guessing it is a statistically significant number, and if I'm right, that pretty much blows GPP's point out of the water.
:rolleyes:
Because I was smart enough to care about emerging technology in high school and college instead of sex and drugs, I now have a well-paying job that provided me with a very, very nice house in one of the nicer parts of my town, the perfect motorcycle for my needs, an airplane, a late model truck and a (modest, granted) recording studio in one of the extra bedrooms in the aforementioned very, very nice house. As if that weren't enough, I have a smokin' hot wife and a daughter who makes life worth living, even if I didn't have any of the material possessions I mentioned first. Life is good. So, yeah, I'd say HTML5 probably will make some of us happy.
YMMV. Keep drinking cheap beer and chasing skirts while living in your mom's basement if you want, but when you find yourself old, fat, broke and alone, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.
Also, the way you've described it, the caption wouldn't be a tag; it would be an attribute of the image tag:
caption as an attribute:
<img caption="yadda yadda yadda" src="blah blah blah">
caption as a tag:
<img src="blah blah blah"> <caption text="yadda yadda yadda">
</pedantic>
That's the one, thanks!
That thought has occurred to me from time to time :)
Sweet! Thanks for sharing :)
You stole my sig!!!
:D
Good job jumping to conclusions, there. You don't know OP's situation, and therefore, you don't know what (s)he tried first.
OP may very well have tried to educate, but may have just been working with someone who refused to learn. I've been there and done that. I had a relative that needed lots of help with his/her computer (staying anonymous to protect the guilty). This person would invariably create a new document in Word/Excel/Publisher, then click the little "x" icon to close the program, click "Yes" when asked to save it before closing, and then would freak out when (s)he didn't know how to find it again later. I don't know how many times I explained how to use the "open recent documents" option in the menu to find the file they had last edited, and I don't know how many times I suggested that (s)he actually use "Save As" to save the document (what a concept...). Sometimes people don't want to learn, especially when it's easier to ask the "computer guru" to help dig them out of the hole their willful ignorance has landed them in.
Second, what if OP didn't recommend Mac because "it's an operating system designed for idiot^Wmommies and daddies" (I wish I could find that video again...), but rather because it's the OS that (s)he is competent fixing? I don't like Windows, and so I work on it grudgingly, if at all. OTOH, I rather enjoy both OS-X and the various Linux flavors and I tend to be rather proficient at them. Consequently, if someone wants me to provide free tech support, IMHO, it's reasonable to require that they use one of these OS's because it's what I can best support.
I kept saying that to one particular, anonymous relative who kept needing assistance with his/her computer. Eventually, (s)he did buy a Mac, and guess what? No more virus/malware problems, but this person managed to lose the icons for Word and Excel in the dock (twice) -- one time actually having *deleted* Office entirely, and I'm still not sure how (s)he managed to do that -- and even completely locked the Mac up a couple of times. I use a Mac sometimes too, although I prefer Linux, and have never, ever seen anything like the problems this person has with his/her Mac.
Macs are good, and they are designed to be used by non-technical people, but they are not foolproof. A determined enough user can break a Mac, too.
It's more than that, though. After spending 40+ hours per week fixing computers at work, when I get home, I don't particularly want to touch another computer until I get back to work. I want to ride my motorcycle, snuggle with my wife, play games with my daughter, etc. I don't work on computers because it is my biggest passion in life; I work on computers because it foots the bill for a reasonably comfortable lifestyle for my family and me.
Yeah, but "fixing" an animal requires a somewhat different skillset than fixing a machine. I know if someone tried to "fix" me, I'd probably attack them, too :D
It works for me:
:)
1) Friend: How should I fix ${generic_problem} with my computer?
2) Me: Install Linux
3) ???
4) Repeat as required
5) Profit!!! Well, maybe not "profit", but they stopped asking me for help, anyway
I understand the desire to have unique ideas- actual research has found that people can generate more unique ideas alone than in a group (you can go find the CSCW papers for yourself, I'm lazy). That said, ignoring everything else isn't good either. There is a LOT of good work that has been done in this area. Is each individual project a complete solution to creating artificial life? No. But I suspect that many of the pieces are already out there just waiting to be assembled.
Maybe a good approach would be to have a group (or individual) working on the creative ideas independently, while another group looks at what each creative group/individual has accomplished and assembles the best bits of into a coherent whole? The idea of being "polluted" by someone else's research makes sense to me -- if you start thinking along a certain line, it's difficult to imagine other ways of solving the problem, whereas if you have no idea what other researchers are doing, you might find a solution that never would have occurred to them -- but at the same time, you have a valid point about "many of the pieces...already [being] out there just waiting to be assembled."
You don't even need a CCW in my state. I'm genuinely curious how this would play out.
I'm at 61 15' north. How much farther do I have to go?!?!
Amending the Constitution is so difficult, comrade. Better if we merely ignore or reinterpret the Constitution per our whims. For the good of the country, of course.
It's not a red vs. blue issue. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," regardless of which party is in charge.
Hell, I'm not even an American, and I'm outraged by this.
I'd gladly trade a good part of this country's population for a few more people like you. What happened to this country???
Funny thing is, I don't remember reading that caveat anywhere in the 4th Amendment </sarc> Did you actually think through the repercussions of that interpretation before parroting the party line? Look what that logic (and I use the term loosely) does to the rest of the Bill of Rights:
I could go on, but you get the picture.
I give you points for a clever reply, but I still disagree with your point of view :)