Grammar and language bow to no man (or group of propeller heads). Hacker is more widely used to describe malicious coders than basement-dwelling-iPod-modders. Anybody who doesn't like that will suffer eternally. Esperanto is living (or dead, depending on how you look at it) proof that you can't engineer languages and the meaning of words. You can't be, like, the Microsoft of language, dewd.
How would you prove that you trying to "use" it ?
I imagine that RIMM and a lot of tech companies are sitting on a handful of patents, which may be quite legit in intent, that they couldn't decently prove they are using at the moment.
Of course a charlatan would easily find a 100 ways to prove he was "using" it.
People shouldn't spam the term "law of averages" around as if it has some clear meaning. It's a statistical term and if it were used correctly it wouldn't appear it this article.
Tag sounds like it is a temporary attachment, to be removed on arrival at its destination.
Label sound as if it is a permanent attachment.
At least, that is how it sounds to me who doesn't work with html etc.
"I don't think aging is a random process - it's a program, an anti-cancer program,"
Cancer, then, is an anti-aging program.
Cancer is not programmed to do anything. "Ageing",however, is.
Rubbish. Cancer doesn't know the first thing about ageing; nor does it care. Cancer is about cell DNA gradually becoming damaged.
These guys are saying that "ageing" is a process caused by gradually restricting cell division, because mutations that accumulate over time increase the liklihood of cancer.
This new understanding is amazing.
This news is so old I am confident they must have mailed it into Slashdot, otherwise it would have been posted months ago.
Seriously, The Economist had an article on this phenomenon months ago.
People pretend that it is the big bad corporate bosses in the Game/Music industries that force the products to be boring repetitive drivel, because of sheer malice.
The reality of course is that they provide what people want. Otherwise they wouldn't sell anything.
All this howling and moaning should be aimed at how boring and staid your typical person is- not at how good corporations are at taking advantage of people's lack of imagination.
Forget thinking about the children, seriously.
Think about your parents. They are older than you, and you will most probably watch them die.
If this can create treatments and cures that could ease the passage of my folks, I don't care how many unthinking, unfeeling, embryos they need to bin, to research this stuff.
Three cheers for the thinking future. Three boos for brainless rhetoric.
You just don't need pilots in most situations.
We understand physics pretty well, so most of this stuff should be pretty trivial to model.
In this day and age, surely PCs should be doing all boring humdrum repetitive things, like driving busses, and playing WoW.
... Brings to mind the Farside Cartoon, where the one pilot says to the other:
"Say Jeff, what is a mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds."
Seriously though, commercial airline pilots are now just one step closer to being glorified bus drivers.
Ok, airbus drivers, but you get the point.
Yup, you missed it.
Religion, generally, relies on people being in a vegetative state.
People that have active frontal lobes avoid religion like the plague.
Wake people up with drugs, and they'll all be surfing websites like this. When they should really be going to church to eat their gods. At least then they won't read Dan Brown's bad writing.
Oh boy.
If you thought the Catholic Church was angry about the Da Vinci Code, wait until you see how this drug that undoes the veggie-mental-state will annoy them.
I think some of you guys have the "mono-culture" thing all wrong.
I believe the notion that formats and standards developed by a group of people with an intellectual mono-culture are more likely to have flaws than, say, formats and standards developed and maintained by many.
This has nothing to do with the fact that the formats and standards themselves are a mono-culture.
Some here would be implying that the basic design of a dog is wrong, simply because dogs are similar- in that they all have 4 legs. This is just silly- we should be looking at the diversity of the dog's gene pool, and the power of this ability to improve the dogs resilience, longevity, etc.
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database.
No way man- Not all PC users are database eggheads.
I happen to need spreadsheets that big.
The fancy actuarial mathematics I use them for is so much easier on a spreadsheet and, frankly, I'd rather not add data base manipulation to my already sexually appealing list of skills- like differentiation, integration, and stochastic modelling.
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Grammar and language bow to no man (or group of propeller heads). Hacker is more widely used to describe malicious coders than basement-dwelling-iPod-modders. Anybody who doesn't like that will suffer eternally. Esperanto is living (or dead, depending on how you look at it) proof that you can't engineer languages and the meaning of words. You can't be, like, the Microsoft of language, dewd.
How would you prove that you trying to "use" it ? I imagine that RIMM and a lot of tech companies are sitting on a handful of patents, which may be quite legit in intent, that they couldn't decently prove they are using at the moment. Of course a charlatan would easily find a 100 ways to prove he was "using" it.
People shouldn't spam the term "law of averages" around as if it has some clear meaning. It's a statistical term and if it were used correctly it wouldn't appear it this article.
Tag sounds like it is a temporary attachment, to be removed on arrival at its destination. Label sound as if it is a permanent attachment. At least, that is how it sounds to me who doesn't work with html etc.
LFG Somebody who gives a shit.
"I don't think aging is a random process - it's a program, an anti-cancer program," Cancer, then, is an anti-aging program. Cancer is not programmed to do anything. "Ageing" ,however, is.
Rubbish. Cancer doesn't know the first thing about ageing; nor does it care. Cancer is about cell DNA gradually becoming damaged.
These guys are saying that "ageing" is a process caused by gradually restricting cell division, because mutations that accumulate over time increase the liklihood of cancer.
This new understanding is amazing.
I, for one, welcome our new OpenCyc overlords.
This news is so old I am confident they must have mailed it into Slashdot, otherwise it would have been posted months ago. Seriously, The Economist had an article on this phenomenon months ago.
People pretend that it is the big bad corporate bosses in the Game/Music industries that force the products to be boring repetitive drivel, because of sheer malice. The reality of course is that they provide what people want. Otherwise they wouldn't sell anything. All this howling and moaning should be aimed at how boring and staid your typical person is- not at how good corporations are at taking advantage of people's lack of imagination.
Maybe that bacteria is usually found in strong curry?
I, for one, welcome our new 50TB storing Halobacterium Salinarum overlords.
... I hope I am not reading this at the wrong time. I wouldn't want to be in violation of the power law.
I grew up with chickens at my house- they can't fly very far. No match for a dog or cat, anyway.
This algorithm will breathe life into my old porn collection!
Forget thinking about the children, seriously. Think about your parents. They are older than you, and you will most probably watch them die. If this can create treatments and cures that could ease the passage of my folks, I don't care how many unthinking, unfeeling, embryos they need to bin, to research this stuff. Three cheers for the thinking future. Three boos for brainless rhetoric.
You just don't need pilots in most situations. We understand physics pretty well, so most of this stuff should be pretty trivial to model. In this day and age, surely PCs should be doing all boring humdrum repetitive things, like driving busses, and playing WoW.
... Brings to mind the Farside Cartoon, where the one pilot says to the other: "Say Jeff, what is a mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds." Seriously though, commercial airline pilots are now just one step closer to being glorified bus drivers. Ok, airbus drivers, but you get the point.
Yup, you missed it. Religion, generally, relies on people being in a vegetative state. People that have active frontal lobes avoid religion like the plague. Wake people up with drugs, and they'll all be surfing websites like this. When they should really be going to church to eat their gods. At least then they won't read Dan Brown's bad writing.
Oh boy. If you thought the Catholic Church was angry about the Da Vinci Code, wait until you see how this drug that undoes the veggie-mental-state will annoy them.
I think some of you guys have the "mono-culture" thing all wrong.
I believe the notion that formats and standards developed by a group of people with an intellectual mono-culture are more likely to have flaws than, say, formats and standards developed and maintained by many.
This has nothing to do with the fact that the formats and standards themselves are a mono-culture.
Some here would be implying that the basic design of a dog is wrong, simply because dogs are similar- in that they all have 4 legs. This is just silly- we should be looking at the diversity of the dog's gene pool, and the power of this ability to improve the dogs resilience, longevity, etc.
WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database. No way man- Not all PC users are database eggheads. I happen to need spreadsheets that big. The fancy actuarial mathematics I use them for is so much easier on a spreadsheet and, frankly, I'd rather not add data base manipulation to my already sexually appealing list of skills- like differentiation, integration, and stochastic modelling.