From: Peter Ceresole on
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:

> > No; entanglement.
>
> How so? If it was a joke, he's smiling. If it wasn't a joke, he's not
> smiling. Superposition, until the jokeness is collapsed.

No; the joke has been transmitted (initially) through a post, now on
dozens of machines. If I decide it's funny, it's instantly funny in all
its incarnations.

It's funny.

See?
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Peter
From: Pd on
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
>
> > > No; entanglement.
> >
> > How so? If it was a joke, he's smiling. If it wasn't a joke, he's not
> > smiling. Superposition, until the jokeness is collapsed.
>
> No; the joke has been transmitted (initially) through a post, now on
> dozens of machines. If I decide it's funny, it's instantly funny in all
> its incarnations.
>
> It's funny.
>
> See?

I do. Superposition *and* entanglement.
You really funk the quantum, man.

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Pd
From: Pd on
Debbie Wilson <djmaizels(a)mac.com> wrote:

> http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html

Anyone recognise the album in the background?

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Pd
From: zoara on
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote:
> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net>:
> > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> (I also look at the source to these things and boggle at the
> >> *ridiculous*
> >> effort that using CSS animation and JavaScript requires to do
> > > things
> >> that are actually quite trivial in Flash. But hey ho.)
> >
> > Yes. That point is not to be underestimated. People are lazy (and
> > rightly so). However, bigger sites have CEOs who might buy an iPad
> > then
> > shout at the employees when they discover their Flash-based company
> > site
> > doesn't work on their new toy. That might push things a bit. "I
> > don't
> > care if it's a lot of work, I can't have our bloody site look like
> > this!"
>
> ...at which point I would, once again, be updating my CV.

Heh. Good point. But enough employees wouldn't and the changes would
(likely) get made.


> Flash is way ahead of HTML5 and CSS3 as it currently stands, and
> ActionScript is actually a pretty decent language (despite some things
> missing in comparison with Java that drive me nuts. Hello,
> Collections).

I'm not arguing the technical merits of the languages, though you make a
fair point.


> As a case in point, the kind of Flash games we all like to waste time
> playing would be a nightmare to write in anything other than Flash,
> right now.

Agreed 100%. But I'd like to see a future where we could play those
games without requiring plugins.

-z-


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From: Gwynne Harper on
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:

> How so? If it was a joke, he's smiling. If it wasn't a joke, he's not
> smiling. Superposition, until the jokeness is collapsed.

However, I cannot see whether he is smiling/not smiling without looking
- this is a classic Schr�dingers Cheshire cat.


Gwynne
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