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Certainly now, but not as the term was first used -- There are references to Listerine ads from the 1920s that feature halitosis. The earliest article in your link runs back to 1965. The first AMA publications I could find on the topic are from ~1931. (here, here, and here)

All three of these question the claims of Listerine to do anything to kill bacteria and germs. (It should be noted that at the same time, the AMA's 'popular' magazine included some more positive appraisals of Listerine.) Listerine's advertising efforts under the name of science appear to go back before 1910 or 1905, although I could not find the term 'halitosis' much before the above links from 1931.

So the point is that I can not say who created the term, not having done enough research, and not really caring to...

heh. After these posts I do want to go buy Listerine, though.

BTW, there is a whole other mess regarding Listerine: IP and trade secrets. Interesting to read about if... well, never, actually.

Certainly now, but not as the term was first used -- There are references to Listerine ads from the 1920s that feature halitosis. The earliest article in your link runs back to 1965. The first AMA publications I could find on the topic are from ~1931. (here, here, and here)

All three of these question the claims of Listerine to do anything to kill bacteria and germs. (It should be noted that at the same time, the AMA's 'popular' magazine included some more positive appraisals of Listerine.) Listerine's advertising efforts under the name of science appear to go back before 1910 or 1905, although I could not find the term 'halitosis' much before the above links from 1931.

So the point is that I can not say who created the term, not having done enough research, and not really caring to...

heh. After these posts I do want to go buy Listerine, though.

BTW, there is a whole other mess regarding Listerine: IP and trade secrets. Interesting to read about if... well, never, actually.

Wow. I totally forgot about Netrek...

So now who's up for a game of Bolo?

Multiplayer angband?

Ah, the classics...
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Free speech vs. Copyright:

Freedom Of Speech And Injunctions In Intellectual Property Cases (Mark A. Lemley, Eugene Volokh)

Fair Use in terms of First Amendment:

Universal City Studios, Inc. V. Corley: The Constitutional Underpinnings Of Fair Use Remain An Open Question

General Digital Copyright:

Selected Papers by Pamela Samuelson

These are good background to understand the concepts. Don't believe everything you read on Slashdot (though this sentence is one of the things you should believe :-) ).

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

It's when the company is about to be delisted, not bankruptcy that gets the Q appended.

No. According to this page, if a company's Nasdaq stock symbol ends in Q, then the company is in bankruptcy proceedings. C is for "may be delisted soon."

It's when the company is about to be delisted, not bankruptcy that gets the Q appended.

No. According to this page, if a company's Nasdaq stock symbol ends in Q, then the company is in bankruptcy proceedings. C is for "may be delisted soon."

I don't think he even understands the real difference between an NFA and a DFA. You can convert any NFA to a minimal DFA and that's how it should be done. That is the fastest possible strategy, and... I'm surprised none of you karma whores have been able to shoot this one down.


Can't even find this basic fact on Google!!?!?!


Perl people... Soooo far from theory.

actually, reasarchers at duke have suggested that exposing plants to an enviroment richer in co2 does indeed increase the rate at which they grow...

Neville Chamberlain.

At my university, IPv6 has been deployed since last year, maybe longer. I've been running FreeBSD w/ IPV6 for at least that long. Honestly, it hasn't made that big a difference for me :)

If you look at Mars' atmosphere, you see a 50x higher concentration of carbondioxide compared to earth.

After an initial flurry of excitement, the original Miller-Urey experiments which produced some amino acids also highlighted a number of problems on the way along said road.

• The experiment was highly artifical, not at all a good representation of putative early Earth conditions
  
• despite this, we would expect some amino acids to form anyway, due to the chemical potentials involved (there is a dip in the road to life, into which some chemical processes will roll with very little pursuasion)
  
• the dip in potential has another side, and that looks kind of like the roads you see in some cartoons, which lead up to the base of a cliff, then trundle straight on up the face of it; what this means in real terms is that not only do some simple atoms/molecules find it relatively easy to become amino acids, but also more complicated molecules find it much easier to relapse to aminoness and it's very unlikely that aminos will self-assemble into anything much more complicated
  
• the acids formed were racemised, that is, about half of them were twisted the wrong way; with one exception, amino acids in living beings are twisted left-handed (are said to have left-handed chirality)
  
• the putative primitive conditions also destroy even the simple amino acids formed by the experiment very quickly
  
• the early conditions involve a heck of a lot of chemicals unlikely to exist in useful amounts on Mars
  
• for that matter, there is much evidence that Earth did not have a reducing atmosphere like the one used in the experiment, or at least did not have one for very long.
  

I think it's more important that the presence of water enables us to create colonies on Mars in the near future

If you look at Mars' atmosphere, you see a 50x higher concentration of carbondioxide compared to earth.

After an initial flurry of excitement, the original Miller-Urey experiments which produced some amino acids also highlighted a number of problems on the way along said road.

• The experiment was highly artifical, not at all a good representation of putative early Earth conditions
  
• despite this, we would expect some amino acids to form anyway, due to the chemical potentials involved (there is a dip in the road to life, into which some chemical processes will roll with very little pursuasion)
  
• the dip in potential has another side, and that looks kind of like the roads you see in some cartoons, which lead up to the base of a cliff, then trundle straight on up the face of it; what this means in real terms is that not only do some simple atoms/molecules find it relatively easy to become amino acids, but also more complicated molecules find it much easier to relapse to aminoness and it's very unlikely that aminos will self-assemble into anything much more complicated
  
• the acids formed were racemised, that is, about half of them were twisted the wrong way; with one exception, amino acids in living beings are twisted left-handed (are said to have left-handed chirality)
  
• the putative primitive conditions also destroy even the simple amino acids formed by the experiment very quickly
  
• the early conditions involve a heck of a lot of chemicals unlikely to exist in useful amounts on Mars
  
• for that matter, there is much evidence that Earth did not have a reducing atmosphere like the one used in the experiment, or at least did not have one for very long.
  

I think it's more important that the presence of water enables us to create colonies on Mars in the near future

If it did have negative gravitic mass, that would have all kinds of funky consequences. Maybe we could stabilize wormholes, and get faster-than-light travel and time travel. Fun to think about, anyway.

From this page, for example: The following chart shows the perceived travel time for the particle moving at 0.9999999999999999999999951c from different locations in the universe: Alpha Centauri 0.43 milliseconds
Galactic nucleus 3.2 seconds
Andromeda galaxy 3.5 minutes
Virgo cluster 1.15 hours
Quasar 3C273 3 days
Edge of universe 19 days
For a better understanding, consider the following. If you set out on a ship from earth moving at the velocity of the above proton, and travelled to the edge of the universe and back, you would perceive being gone for 38 days (19 days out and 19 in). However, when you arrive back on earth, 34 BILLION YEARS would have elapsed! The earth probably won't even be here by then. That time is twice as old as many speculate the universe is.

The world is stranger than you think. Next week perhaps I'll tell you about quantum mechanics ;)

Posted by chrisd on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times(free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA , Purdue, Duke, UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Posted by chrisd [dibona.com] on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 [mailto] was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article [nytimes.com] on the New York Times [nytimes.com] (free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT [mit.edu], UCLA [ucla.edu], Purdue [purdue.edu], Duke [duke.edu], UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie [google.com], an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Potentially humorous, but factually incorrect.

Purdue's estimated cost for 1 year (for in state students) is $12,000. That's tuition + room + board + books + misc. fees.

UCLA costs about the same.

You could sent two students to either Purdue or UCLA for less than the cost for 1 student at Duke.

The University of Illinois is also more expensive.

Posted by chrisd
on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM

from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.

akiaki007 was among many who wrote in
to say: "Check out this
article
on the New York Times (free reg, blah
blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include
MIT, UCLA,
Purdue, Duke,
UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group

DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for
crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news
briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide
my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Posted by chrisd on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times (free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

Posted by chrisd on Tuesday December 11, @08:22PM
from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.
akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times (free reg, blah blah) site. The CmdrTaco have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, UofO, all hot-beds of young tender assholes. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie, an asshole appreciation club. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my asshole. They might think it's some weird fucking tool."

• Asymetric bandwidth. Guess why bandwidth is asymetric, they don't want content competition from their customers.
  
  
• ATT, the nation's largest cable operator, at one point made noises about asking a percentage of the ecommerce that flowed over their pipes to the Internet.
  
  
• the "Cisco whitepaper". Cisco marketing equipment to cable internet operators to make competitors traffic slower. Analysis.
  
  

• Asymetric bandwidth. Guess why bandwidth is asymetric, they don't want content competition from their customers.
  
  
• ATT, the nation's largest cable operator, at one point made noises about asking a percentage of the ecommerce that flowed over their pipes to the Internet.
  
  
• the "Cisco whitepaper". Cisco marketing equipment to cable internet operators to make competitors traffic slower. Analysis.
  
  

Read thing you have written, Ideas (I will admit I have not finished it yet, I just got it in the mail a few days ago) and this conference paper as well as Code to some extent, I get the idea that what you call for is not possible under the current political system. The distributors of the 20th century want to keep their hold on the right to distribute without competition from the common person and they will not support a politician that advocates a system that will challenge theirs. Generally it seems as if working within the current political system is not possible if we (the ones who will be benefited by the new "regime" as you call it in Ideas) want to protect the commons. In light of this, would you advocate starting a new political party with this as part of its platform? Or do you think that corporate money will always be in American politics and that the only way to protect the public domain will be for producers to mandate that their work goes into the public domain much like Open Source software does?

Rewarding those who do good things is certainly something nobody will argue against, for it's how we teach our children.

But to be rewarded with the ability to then tell others they cannot make use of what good you have done is for others worse then you never having done it.

Do you see the inherent contridiction of giving exclusive use as a reward?

Change the IP laws from "cannot" based to "CAN" based and the forward moving force to advance will have a great deal less friction against it.

Who is to say that being rewarded with exclusive use that you will use such exclusive use to it fullest benefit to you and society? There is no magic intelligence that you somehow receive upon getting exclusive use granted you, that insure you will do the best thing.

However, to have "CAN" based laws such that anyone can use what good you have done, so long as they give you proper credit and reward. Perhaps based upon a relative percentage of the profits one makes in using your good. Or perhas this is a probelm area the public can better solve? see below!

This way, it's not up to just the do gooder to then figure out the best way to impliment the good, but rather up to any and everyone who wants to make use of it. Consider the following quote!

One of the papers from the Duke university Public domain conference didn't make it into the "download all papers" archive on that site: Coase's Penguin

"At the heart of the economic engine of the world's most advanced economies, and
in particular that of the United States, we are beginning to take notice of a hardy,
persistent, and quite amazing phenomenon--a new model of production has taken root,
one that should not be there, at least according to our most widely held beliefs
about economic behavior. It should not, the intuitions of the late 20th century
American would say, be the case that thousands of volunteers will come together
to collaborate on a complex economic project. It certainly should not be that these
volunteers will beat the largest and best financed business enterprises in the world
at their own game. And yet, this is precisely what is happening in the software
world." - Yochai Benkler

BTW, my home page is relative to this matter.

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If you would like to read more on the subject of the book you can go here and look at some conference papers about the "public domain," one of them is even by Lawrence Lessig. I just bought his new book off of bn.com and I'm looking forward to reading it. Unlike the reviewer, I for one am looking forward to this book more than Code. I am thinking it will be more accessable to non computer people like myself.

It's a known fact that cloned DNA is often (but not always) weaker and ages faster. This may not be the case with human DNA however.

It's probably fair to say that there is little legal overlap between OSS / FS licenses and public domain as it is defined by Mirriam Webster.

I do think that Paula Samuelson's article gives a much more complete and interesting examination of the concept of public domain than is possible from a dictionary definition, though.

But if you want to focus only on the dictionary definition of "public domain"... (and who could fault you for such an academic insistence on precision ?)... then I think you're right.

I have read the papers - I couldn't find Eben Moglens paper but I've just read Yochai Benklers.

I assure you that Eben Moglen would not have spoken if Free Software were considered irrelevant by the people who organized the conference.

I'm not saying that Open Source of Free Software isn't considered relevant by the prganizers. I'm saying it shouldn't be, because the overwhelming majority of Free SOftware and Open Source is not public domain, including most of the examples Yochai mentions in his paper.

Asides from the fact its factually incorrect, promoting things which aren't public domain as being public domain contributes the the existing misunderstandings people have about Open Source and Free Software and encourages people to ignore the responsibilities required in exchange for use of OSS / FSF applications.

Mike

A group here at Duke has just started to collaborate with the Emulab people on a similar area of research. We're pretty excited, since we think our group has a lot to share with the Utah group. It's just kind of weird to load Slashdot and find your collaborators on the front page. Here I was thinking I'd take a break from research and read Slashdot, but noooooo .....

And to respond to another poster, maybe if Emulab had Muse-like resource management of their web server, they could handle the web load. :) It would be nice if someone could work on merging the two, getting the two to leverage the best parts of both, work on .... uh, maybe I should get back to work before my advisor sees me posting on Slashdot. :)

-jdm

Well worth downloading

Which gets us back to the issue at hand. I don't know anything about the inner workings of the Radeon driver, but there are probably a number of similar tradeoffs involved in its design. The most reasonable interpretation is *not* that Radeon has optimized for Quake 3 at the expense of other programs. If that were true, it would run at the same rate whatever it were named. The better explanation is that when the driver knows what program is being run (such as Quake 3) it optmizes itself to the known characteristics of that program, and when a program which the driver knows nothing about (such as "Quack") is run, it uses default settings.

Thus, it's not necessarily favoring Quake 3 over other applications, but is instead using optimizations for for known programs which are not available for unknown ones. There's nothing in this article to indicate that similar optimizations haven't been made for Counter Strike, Half Life, or any other popular 3D programs.

Why don't you look at this before you start making stuff up:

A bust of Nefertiti

Now does that person look black to you?

The sound waves have to "bounce" off something more substantial than air and thin vinyl. They then have to "escape" out to achieve a balance of the back versus the front of the driver. (see folded horn illustration). In a ported (bass reflex) enclosure there is a tuned hole that attains this balance. Then there is the sealed enclosure (not a great example) that relies on the balance to be a factor of amplifier wattage, speaker capability, and enclosure size to gain the most "bang for the buck".

As for the environement. It's all just a bunch of scare tactics, right? Well, if you listen to ultra right-wing groups such as capitalismmagaize.com and aynrand.org, perhaps, since it's in their own best interest to promote their ideology which says you shouldn't inconvenience yourself for the benefit of anyone else. Similarly, a story about the severity of global warming from a group like Earth First! wouldn't carry much weight, either, even though they can quote plenty of studies themselves.

So is it just a bunch of scare tactics? We have hard data showing that people definitely have a significant impact on the local climate -- think urban heat islands. Is it possible that in doing so, the local climate can have such a huge effect without impacting the larger world? Not really. There aren't ecosystems that large that exist in complete isolation.

Many people have claimed that carbon sinks, largely in the form of forests, would be more than enough to counter the effect of increase carbon dioxide emissions. The Kyoto Protocol placed significant emphasis on forests for that purpose. Unfortunately for that view, researchers at Duke released the results of a study showing that while the growth rate of plants showed significant initial increases, it slowed dramatically within a couple years (see the last couple paragraphs). What's the implication? That we'd need to constantly be planting forests. And of course since they'd absorbed the carbon we couldn't cut them down since that'd end up releasing the carbon back to the atmosphere. Actually, it isn't known how much of the carbon the trees actuall keep as opposed to storing in short-lived organs like leaves which fall off, decay, and release the carbon back into the environment (see the infor about this ongoing Harvard study). And if you want to know more about the group that did the research for Duke and is conducting related studies, their homepage is here.

Finally, as for the idea that "our president has stood up for his belief that environmentalism, when carried to the extreme, is very unhealthy for everybody"... Well, if you cut through the political commentary in this column you find out that Bush's own ranch has gone to great lengths to be environmentally sensitive. So much for his politics reflecting his actual beliefs.

As for the environement. It's all just a bunch of scare tactics, right? Well, if you listen to ultra right-wing groups such as capitalismmagaize.com and aynrand.org, perhaps, since it's in their own best interest to promote their ideology which says you shouldn't inconvenience yourself for the benefit of anyone else. Similarly, a story about the severity of global warming from a group like Earth First! wouldn't carry much weight, either, even though they can quote plenty of studies themselves.

So is it just a bunch of scare tactics? We have hard data showing that people definitely have a significant impact on the local climate -- think urban heat islands. Is it possible that in doing so, the local climate can have such a huge effect without impacting the larger world? Not really. There aren't ecosystems that large that exist in complete isolation.

Many people have claimed that carbon sinks, largely in the form of forests, would be more than enough to counter the effect of increase carbon dioxide emissions. The Kyoto Protocol placed significant emphasis on forests for that purpose. Unfortunately for that view, researchers at Duke released the results of a study showing that while the growth rate of plants showed significant initial increases, it slowed dramatically within a couple years (see the last couple paragraphs). What's the implication? That we'd need to constantly be planting forests. And of course since they'd absorbed the carbon we couldn't cut them down since that'd end up releasing the carbon back to the atmosphere. Actually, it isn't known how much of the carbon the trees actuall keep as opposed to storing in short-lived organs like leaves which fall off, decay, and release the carbon back into the environment (see the infor about this ongoing Harvard study). And if you want to know more about the group that did the research for Duke and is conducting related studies, their homepage is here.

Finally, as for the idea that "our president has stood up for his belief that environmentalism, when carried to the extreme, is very unhealthy for everybody"... Well, if you cut through the political commentary in this column you find out that Bush's own ranch has gone to great lengths to be environmentally sensitive. So much for his politics reflecting his actual beliefs.

For two legal views on ICANN's Legitimacy, see Jonathan Weinberg, ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy (.pdf), and my (long) article, Wrong Turn in Cyberspace: Using ICANN to Route Around the APA and the Constitution , available in HTML or .pdf formats.

okay, your reading off the same script.

i have nothing left to say to your points except for the link that you sent me gave me a nice selection of hotjobs.com, monster, and the ilk. i can see you don't even research your links before you post them. Given that, here's some information.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Library homepage
National Statistical Coordinization Board - Yearbook of Labor Statistics page (needs to be ordered)
Duke University Library's Indexes and Databases for Researching Labor Unions and Labor History

Biased links:
AFL-CIO homepage
Union Resource Network

Here is a better link with more info about the project from Duke...

What if a left-handed version of H20 was created that acted like the ice-nine in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle . Ice-nine in the novel was supposed to "freeze" regular water on contact regardless of the temperature.

You'd think that the oblong nucleus of left-handed nuclei would cause the orbits of any electrons to go out of kilter?

AFAIK a team of researcher working on FreeBSD still have the record for TCP performance, using FreeBSD/Alpha on a Myrinet network.

See..

• Duke Computer Scientists Exceed "Gigabit" Data Processing Speeds With Internet Software
• DUKE COMPUTER SCIENTISTS EXCEED 'GIGABIT' DATA FLOW SPEEDS WITH INTERNET SOFTWARE

The performance reached was 1.147 billion bps on a single TCP connection... Way over what Gigabit Ethernet or ATM are even physically able to do. Those boards are really fast...

Anyone know about more recent results ?

It has been suggested that a language-independent examination might encourage a focus on ideas rather than language details. This approach has merit, but...

I think that the decision to switch to Java testing was a good one on the part of the College Board, but will miss it's mark by the time it's put into full effect.

From taking a look at the language subset that they plan on testing (here) I can see that they are focusing as little as possible on Java's little quirks and try to cover as much broad concepts of OO as possible.

In this respect I think that Java is a pretty good tool for the job. C++ has too much language overhead that you have to be familiar with in order to be able to use it.

As far as arguments of a language-neutral test go, I would like to see anyone clearly abstract away an inheritance tree in a way that is can be objectively evaluated. The last thing you want on a test is a prick grader deciding to misinterpret your pseudo-code. And with something as fuzzy as OO in question, I think any kind of pseudo coding will be wide-open to interpretation.

to help clarify:

In this section, we discuss the Java subset that students will be expected to master to take the AP CS exam. We also mention a number of features that are potentially relevant in a CS1/2 course but that the AP CS exam does not cover.

. . .

Keep in mind that this subset is intended for the AP CS exam. The purpose of the subset is to enable the designers of the AP CS exam to formulate questions relating to the AP CS syllabus. The AP CS subset is not intended as a prescription for a computer science course. We expect courses to cover language features that go well beyond this subset. For example, many instructors will choose to cover applets, graphics or user interfaces. However, none of these topics are tested on the AP CS exam.

To help students with test preparation, the AP CS subset is purposefully kept small.

We omitted language constructs and library features that did not add significant functionality and that can, for the formulation of exam questions, easily be expressed by other mechanisms in the subset.

For example, inner classes or the StringBuffer class are not essential for the formulation of exam questions -- the exam uses mundane alternatives that can be easily understood by students. Of course, these constructs add significant value for programming.

Omission of a feature from the AP CS subset does not imply any judgment that the feature is inferior or not worthwhile.

worth looking at just to see what they'll be looking for

Penguins love to play games. The Linux Pimp

pointing out that it is the culture, not guns, that encourages Columbine-like behavior. There can be no doubt that the Columbine killers were affected by the culture, and accessed that through the internet.

protein sequence is linear; while local structural details may be predictable with some reliability, ultimately it is the final 3D fold with long range interactions that form the final structure. You can imagine that the longer the protein, the harder it is to fold, due to the increased number of potential tertiary interactions.

There is hope in some algorithms (such as DPMTA) which intelligently partition large groups of particles to simplify the computation of long-range forces:

...the classical N-Body problem involves computing the net effect of the interactions of each pair of particles out of a set of N... the amount of computation grows as the square of the number of particles, for the naive implementation... The FMA process, however, uses a Multipole Expansion (MPE) to represent the effects of a group of particles as a single entity. By using the MPE when computing forces on a particle, and doing operations to combine multipole expansions, the overall amount of computation can be reduced to an almost linear relationship with the number of particles.

"We did not want to ban Napster because there are a number of quite legitimate uses of the software in moving bodies of data around, and this is an area where such programs will become increasingly familiar," Keohane wrote in an e-mail. "We need to deal with the root of the problem in copyright protection and find good payments systems rather than ban something that facilitates legitimate communication."

Actually, from the actual show, the quote should contain a contraction: "That's unpossible!".

Me fail english? That's unpossible!

--

I just talked about the way the industry was changing and possible ways these changes could benefit the artist as well as the consumer (and of course the fact that the industry is being ridiculous by trying to _prevent_ it from happenning!)

1) AI class I took last year (well, TA'd) we went in to some detail on possible RPS strategies. Yes, you can have strategies, at least assuming that your opponent is not a pure RNG (in which case the only correct strategy is to be RNG yourself.)
2) Nothing that the tourney produces will be as cool as this. Unfortunately, the picture stinks, but on the left is my professor, and on the right is the kid (he'll hate me for that) who build the RPS-playing Lego Mindstorm. And that's the RPS bot in the kid's hand. It used some pattern learning software (written in legOS) to attempt to detect patterns in human RPS players. Didn't work great, but what the heck... it was still damn cool. Had fingers and the whole bit.
~luge