Someone obviously doesn't know the/. crowd. Take about $1000 for expenses on custom parts , an expert small-circuit hacker, and a week of professional labor and we'll have an Internet Controlled Auto-Loading Microwave. The Internet Controlled Massager is already on sale.
The cutting edge of Silicon Intelligence is not the NPC's in games. Those are simply a few cheap lines of code thrown in by the game designers to glue up some other problem that was worse.
Your sorting example is in fact, quite easy to program. One algorithm of many works with the class of sortable objects, against the rules imported for sorting. As long as you correctly defined how to sort by alphabet, it would do fine. (Do you sort by T for The, etc.)
The big bucks used to pay for the Professor's authenticity to prevent slick talkers from deluding themselves or others about their subject knowledge.
I have thought that education is a dormant bubble that will shake the world when it pops. All you need is attestation services to prove you have learned the subject.
I know that *some* students thrive on the pressure of a deadline, but that would be a service to that student, not a core necessity. I had one great professor who used a brilliant form of inverse psychology on one of our early classes. Something to the effect of:
"Our Registrar has deposited your check, so I have all the leverage I need. While I care about each of you, I could care less about rules, because rules do not equal learning. For the minimalists of you out there, here is : The book, my syllabus outline, the four test dates, the three paper spec lists, and $10 in supplies. Place those objects on my desk on the dates listed. Find me after the final so we can have lunch.
I can answer a few questions in class. For those who need extensive answers, these are my office hours. Now go home. Since we all know the first day of class is a joke, I won't waste my time. See you on Thursday with chapters 1-3 read because they are also a joke. The best cafeteria Pizza is between 4:45 and 5:00 before the seniors get out of seminar. Bye."
If I had patented all the ridiculously ugly things I can think of, would that have prevented Microsoft DevelopersDevelopers(woohooo) from trashing both Office07 and IE7 User Interfaces?
Once some of the brouhaha clears out, there will be some 7 music sites. iTunes, Amazon, your choice of a few more.
Combine slightly lower grade files like 96kbps for free with a weighted ranking system.
Modern intelligent users are capable of ranking good music, and when the music you rate up is also agreed with by other respected raters, you get a "postive respect factor" of some name, much like Karma here.
Then the exhausted new members simply try the highly rated stuff. To go from free 96kbps to 256 plus hardcopy CD plus premium notes on bands they like, they can buy the premium materials.
We're all a little shell shocked at the moment... All we really did at the music store was stare at the selection in the category, buy our two favorites, and take a chance on some random third album.
Within 8-12 more years, 30+% of the internet userbase will feel just as comfortable doing that from online stores.
Then we'd cue the discussions about how dumb the Respected Reviewers are, and form our own "find the hidden gems" clubs squirrelling around the "undiscovered bands"... who then get boosted.
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This is exactly the spot the awesome funds donor in the auction needs to step forward!
Wikipedia says that the new Solar Cycle is beginning this year. Sunspots are slightly cooler areas on the sun.
No, this goes far beyond "exact same penalties".
Maybe someone can summon the Friendly Neighborhood New York Lawyer for his take.
If this can stick, I want to see the sub-companies of the RIAA absolutely crushed by this and the other not-yet-found examples.
Linus Torvalds understands his 0S,
Richard Stallman understands 0SS.
Someone obviously doesn't know the /. crowd. Take about $1000 for expenses on custom parts , an expert small-circuit hacker, and a week of professional labor and we'll have an Internet Controlled Auto-Loading Microwave. The Internet Controlled Massager is already on sale.
The Captcha is Tasting.
Tom "Hammer" Delay - "God, *Mona*, and the Rise of the Republican Congress"
There. Fixed it for you.
Nope, that's a Styx song.
Certain gifted/cursed types can see those numerical interactions instantly, thus wasting no time.
Brilliant.
Announce the "intermediate" step of "no DRM, we'll pacify you by raising the price. X months later we'll do what we really wanted to."
Take it to the next obvious level.
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With their sensor, they can decide when you need a jolt, either good/bad.
With Microsoft Biological Advantage, you now know why you suddenly feel like
OW!!! WHAT THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS WAS THAT?
I mean, Now you can Enjoy Microsoft Every Day.
"You get one of the above, and only on one product".
Cheap - Base OS on OEM. So cheap that it irritated the DOJ just a little (but not enough.)
The cutting edge of Silicon Intelligence is not the NPC's in games. Those are simply a few cheap lines of code thrown in by the game designers to glue up some other problem that was worse.
Your sorting example is in fact, quite easy to program. One algorithm of many works with the class of sortable objects, against the rules imported for sorting. As long as you correctly defined how to sort by alphabet, it would do fine. (Do you sort by T for The, etc.)
Might you be older than the average Patent Reviewer?
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What are the rates to rent your Sig?
Bill would get our dear Commander Taco a cheap flight on Priceline to see his hardware for the first time as a 10th anniversary dispensation.
Nope.
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NewYorkCountryLawyer is a Minor Deity here at
I cannot abide some RIAA sleaze taking him out.
You borrowed your Net Handle from the old management article's throwaway suggestion.
If someone was so inclined, would you like to be involved in relations with a Commander Taco restaurant?
(Taco Bell meets Slashdot with Linux Terminals and cheap food...)
I respectfully disagree.
The big bucks used to pay for the Professor's authenticity to prevent slick talkers from deluding themselves or others about their subject knowledge.
I have thought that education is a dormant bubble that will shake the world when it pops. All you need is attestation services to prove you have learned the subject.
I know that *some* students thrive on the pressure of a deadline, but that would be a service to that student, not a core necessity. I had one great professor who used a brilliant form of inverse psychology on one of our early classes. Something to the effect of:
"Our Registrar has deposited your check, so I have all the leverage I need. While I care about each of you, I could care less about rules, because rules do not equal learning. For the minimalists of you out there, here is : The book, my syllabus outline, the four test dates, the three paper spec lists, and $10 in supplies. Place those objects on my desk on the dates listed. Find me after the final so we can have lunch.
I can answer a few questions in class. For those who need extensive answers, these are my office hours. Now go home. Since we all know the first day of class is a joke, I won't waste my time. See you on Thursday with chapters 1-3 read because they are also a joke. The best cafeteria Pizza is between 4:45 and 5:00 before the seniors get out of seminar. Bye."
Wesley's experiment went wrong.
Now you know why there's only 104 people in the world.
Wait a minute...
If I had patented all the ridiculously ugly things I can think of, would that have prevented Microsoft DevelopersDevelopers(woohooo) from trashing both Office07 and IE7 User Interfaces?
You deserve a +1 Funny for that choice of font in the context of your post.
Simple.
Once some of the brouhaha clears out, there will be some 7 music sites. iTunes, Amazon, your choice of a few more.
Combine slightly lower grade files like 96kbps for free with a weighted ranking system.
Modern intelligent users are capable of ranking good music, and when the music you rate up is also agreed with by other respected raters, you get a "postive respect factor" of some name, much like Karma here.
Then the exhausted new members simply try the highly rated stuff. To go from free 96kbps to 256 plus hardcopy CD plus premium notes on bands they like, they can buy the premium materials.
We're all a little shell shocked at the moment... All we really did at the music store was stare at the selection in the category, buy our two favorites, and take a chance on some random third album.
Within 8-12 more years, 30+% of the internet userbase will feel just as comfortable doing that from online stores.
Then we'd cue the discussions about how dumb the Respected Reviewers are, and form our own "find the hidden gems" clubs squirrelling around the "undiscovered bands"... who then get boosted.
There are indeed gradients of unique. All are the first of their kind. The question of how unique they are is the % they differ from known examples.
... more unique. (I saw one in a mall once. It was later removed.)
I came up with my own mixed drink. Sake & Moxie. It's unique. But since it's just two known items mixed, it's only unique by a small percentage.
Talking Trashcans are
This was my favorite desktop for a couple months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ricin_structure.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricin
"Idiot Translation"
"Squiggly Lines = Good" (Orange)
"Telephone Cords = Bad" (Blue)
Barley Grain= "Bad Telephone Cords without the assistance of Squiggleys"
AKA If the bad component can't get a foothold, it is mostly harmless.
Bah.
1 Gig.
Hooray for the AC currents on slashdot.
I fixed my fan, added 1 Meg of memory, and got a cheap 250 gig drive for my work machine. I plan to use XP and Office 2003 until it completely caves.
Maybe they forgot to rinse.
The lather-repeat caused a buffer overflow.