So There’s GMail Mobile now. Doesn’t work on my T630 (yet, I hope). Yahoo’s WAP access is pretty good. One wonders how long this mutual catch-up game will continue. Rather amusing.
Hope to have an AMD64 box in less than a month.
An interesting thing to note — tags – gotta love ‘em. But most people just create random tags based on content. I try to keep a limited number and organize them instead. It’s a little painful too keep track of previous tags (unless you’re using del.icio.us, which gives you a list of existing tags (tangent — their Firefox plugins sucks. It’s too obtrusive. The existing one on MozDev r0x0xr5.)). Anyway, the point is that I see tags being used rather haphazardly, rather than to provide organizational metadata. Or maybe I’m just an order freak.
Reading Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. Got me thinking about my “everything is random” theory. Which now officially explains The State of Things. Assume that everything that happens is truly random. Thus basic things happen with equal probability. Good Things, as we know, are created by a combination of many factors. Even if a few of these are not in place, you have a Bad Thing. Given the first assumption, all events are equally likely. Thus, the probability of a Good Thing existing is the product of the probability of occurrence of all individual contributing events. Since each of these is less than 1 (considerably so, by observation), the product is going to be far less than 1. The probability of Bad Things happening, is just 1 – P(Good Thing). Corollary — it is the nature of the Universe for just about everything to suck. And there’s nothing you can do about it, even if you knew how.
There. Aren’t you happier, now that you know?
Need to update my book list with all the new bookses.
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> it is the nature of the Universe for just about everything to suck. And there’s nothing you can do about it, even if you knew how.
I read the same book and came to very different conclusions. Which was basically this :-
Forget about progress, because there is none in the book of evolution. But there is a basic feedback system (which fails notably when Sex is involved – like the peacock’s tail) which ensures that the long term probability of immediately good things (like the Dodo losing the ability to fly, ironically) is higher than the similar numbers of bad things.
Of course, in the long run – we all end up dead. Genes needn’t … that was the whole message of Selfish Gene. Talk about an immortal soul, pah.
Anyway, the point is that I see tags being used rather haphazardly, rather than to provide organizational metadata. Me too.
Or maybe I’m just an order freak. And that’s exactly what my friends tell me.
>Or maybe I’m just an order freak.
No, you are just a freak.
(gd&r)
s/pessimist/realist
Remember when Pratchett talks about real mind-numbing sobriety (as opposed to everyday, wrapped-in-your-own-fantasies sobriety)?
Could friends possibly include people like?
(gd&r) == gobbles desert and rolls?
Superman’s a freak too. ;)
Almost everyone I know has told me not to be a perfectionist at some point of time or the other, and yes, that includes him too.
Gosh, you two certainly love renaming each other! ;)
Not that I’ve seen you renamed but I’m making a guess :P
No — I’m just called by my initials, or ETC (extra-terrestrial creature – don’t even ask. :)) or a variation thereof.
i am looking for a book called “1, 2,… infiniti”.
gimme config of your AMD 64 box… i am planning to buy one myself…
why are u going in for a box instead of a lappy?
ROLFMAO
2800-3000/Via Mobo/1GB/160GB/DVD-RW/GeForce5200 approximately
No lappy yet. No money either. This is for home.
how much… LCD??
website??
LCD is +10k — no money. Sticking with existing 17″ Flat.
http://www.computerwarehousepricelist.com
This doesn’t have the mobo we’re looking at, viz. MSI something
i knew it.
SEV