tygorius

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by tygorius 16y ago
Augmented reality, merging digital information with real-world representations, still seems like science fiction to me. In the last couple of years we've seen demonstrations of growing body parts to order from your stem cells. Heck, when yo
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by tygorius 16y ago
Some of these seem like cheats -- either a science demonstration with a ton of PR spin or worse. The hoverboard, for example, is a piece of art that will only "hover" over its pedestal and won't support any weight. I saw a similar DIY proje
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by tygorius 16y ago
What does it say about the, um, rigor of the writing and editing of this piece that the author goes on about differing with Bruce Sterling's assessment, says it is "important to read" -- and doesn't provide a link to the essay in question?
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yep, from the beta samples it appears they're using commodity hardware, so the only savings will be the Windows tax. Basically, if you took the original Asus 701 netbook and made some upgrades (7" -> 12" screen; 600 MHz Centrino ->
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by tygorius 16y ago
I agree on the price point, although it's not clear how you could get to that price point -- ditching the Windows tax doesn't buy you that much. I think the biggest problem I have with it is that -- barring a revolutionary cheap price point
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by tygorius 16y ago
Actually, I have, and it's perfectly adequate if you're using a netbook as a netbook . (The biggest number of Windows complaints I see on the eeeuser.com forums involve people who have 64-bit driver problems, for example.) I mean, if you'r
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by tygorius 16y ago
OK, so what is the politically correct term for the use of, say, a double negative in English? The preferred euphemism used to be "non-standard", which still leaves the problem of defining "standard" English.
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by tygorius 16y ago
Agreed on the color scheme, the dark grey give me the impression I'm visiting a cancer survivor site or something similar. If your technology is aimed at improving people's health, you want to build up a positive, cheerful tone with your si
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by tygorius 16y ago
Back in the dark ages, we used to break pre-production into three stages: alpha (distribution inside the organization for comment, subject to possible radical change after feedback), beta (distribution to key customers for feedback), and ga
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by tygorius 16y ago
So the "defense" as I read it boiled down to: 1) Just because it isn't ready yet doesn't mean it won't be someday, 2) It has a better chance of being improved because it's closer than other Google projects to their company's core competency
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by tygorius 16y ago
OK, I'll grant you the smart card example. I have no experience with those guy; there are what, a half-dozen vendors? For obvious reasons they don't talk about the details of their software much. The nub of our disagreement: the definition
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by tygorius 16y ago
Jini has nothing to do with embedded systems? Really? Well, de facto, sure. But how did Sun originally pitch it? Let's do a little search and, oh, here's Bill Venners talking about the same topic in 2006: < http://www.artima.com/weblogs
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by tygorius 16y ago
Well, I'm willing to entertain data that contradicts my thesis, but I'm unconvinced by either attacking my motives or distorting what I wrote. My point with the Microsoft language products of the 1980s was that they were willing to sell a v
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yeah, if only Microsoft had promoted Lisp the way they had Xenix, or the Zune, then _everybody_ would be using Lisp! Or if Sun had picked up the cause, then Lisp would be used in all those set-top boxes the way Java is today. Oh, wait... Mi
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by tygorius 16y ago
There are too many variables in the Shanghai equation to claim a refutation, but since lowering the reliance on rote memorization was specifically mentioned as an improvement that school administrators had made, presumably you and the local
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by tygorius 16y ago
> _it doesn't mean successful test-takers are able to produce Google or Facebook._ Seriously, how many Googles or Facebooks does China need to create internally for its needs? Is there any reason to believe their internal markets are be
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by tygorius 16y ago
It seems to me that your assertion that Asian countries "have a difficult time with creativity" is unproven. Yes, the culture encourages conformance. But it not clear from anything you've cited thus far that either the Chinese government or
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by tygorius 16y ago
Hmm, no. [ http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/ignorance.html ] Had he argued that his points were valid simply because they hadn't been disproven , then it would have been an argument from ignorance. Just because someone makes an assertion
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by tygorius 16y ago
As much as I enjoy and have profited by reading Mandino's books, I have to point out that from a hacker perspective, there's a significant case of prior art in Benjamin Franklin's attempt to perfect his character by practicing each of 13
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by tygorius 16y ago
tc;dc (too cute; didn't click) I was dubious about the link from the "X things about Y" style of title, but left as soon it looked like a more stylish version of a Web slide show. I hate slide shows; if a site doesn't offer an obvious "al
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by tygorius 16y ago
I suspect the chessboards and rule came from different generations. During the "Searching for Bobby Fischer" era, the beat cops would probably have gotten to know the regular chessplayers and used them as resources -- i.e., asking if they h
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by tygorius 16y ago
I can't help you with the forgotten user name, but in contrast to all these kids with their cloud-this and server-that, I'll pass along what Stan Isaacs (a true gray beard) taught me -- and he got it from his wife: break your password into
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by tygorius 16y ago
The drive in question sounds like the 2TB bargain that New Egg regularly offers deals on: ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136... ) I've got three of these in a JBOD server, running a couple of months without incid
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by tygorius 16y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the numbers on Amazon customer criteria -- there are plenty of reasons besides price. Two data points: 1) I recently bought a netbook via Amazon even though it was a new model and Amazon's price was near list and
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by tygorius 16y ago
Just a thought. You might want to consider one of the BSD variants, just to explore a somewhat different system architecture. For everyday use, I find Ubuntu good enough, although I do wish they'd break fewer things every six months. I susp
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by tygorius 16y ago
It's an impressive effort, although it's missing the first Linux I regularly used: Tom Oehser's tomsrtbt ( http://www.toms.net/rb/ ), a single-floppy release aimed at system rescue. Highlighting the lineage aspect, however, loses useful con
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by tygorius 16y ago
Your thesis seems rather a reach to me. Socratic dialogues are a sequential form -- earlier points lay the groundwork for later ones, for example. I'm not an expert on the ancient Greeks, but the last I heard there wasn't much evidence of a
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by tygorius 16y ago
I don't remember particular sentences like that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were at least partially intentional. Ambiguity is one of the main components of hypnotic inductions, and van Vogt was a lay expert on hypnosis. (He co-author
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by tygorius 16y ago
Given that the memo was a rant aimed at managers over problems that dated back a year, I took it to mean "You guys are working hard on things and leading by example, right?" I've had a couple of bosses who worked hard and expected the manag
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by tygorius 16y ago
Well, here's one clue from Google Finance's weekly price data: in the three weeks before he sent the memo the price had dropped from $29.407 to $21.063 - a 28% drop. Oddly enough, the 3/23 Friday close of $17 (just after the memo went publi

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