From: Peter Ceresole on 3 Mar 2010 15:58 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? -- Peter
From: Pd on 3 Mar 2010 16:04 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. -- Pd
From: Pd on 3 Mar 2010 16:06 Debbie Wilson <djmaizels(a)mac.com> wrote: > http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html Anyone recognise the album in the background? -- Pd
From: zoara on 3 Mar 2010 16:24 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- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Gwynne Harper on 3 Mar 2010 16:34
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 -- My real email is net, not line. |