We had a case up here of a police officer shooting a plane behind the car, and then claiming that the car was travelling almost 400KM/h.
As it looks to me, that judgement is in effect creating a blanket permission to officers to "make up" speeding tickets without having the tickets challenged.
Since my bank requires the gadget to be used not only at logon time but also whenever I request a transfer of money to a new entity, as well as a 4-digit pass code puched in via mouse, I'd say the hackers may have a rather tough time trying to dig me debt-trench deeper than it already is.
Although they may have a laugh browsing my accounts, that won't help them a bit.
A non-militant country with no physical borders has no natural enemies.
And all of this story isn't about the gov.t. covering up shit, it's about the leaders of the bank wanting their own shit covered up.
The minister of education stepped forward in a newsbroadcase and said that although it was obviously a criminal matter, it's still an ethical question on because of the gravity of the matter, wether the nation hasn't the right to know - despite laws that say otherwise.
1) Yes, of course I have, and No, it's not the holy grail you were looking for. KDE isn't the X-Server, it's a layer _on_top_ of the Xserver, which brings us to the next point 2) Remove the network layer from the X-Server, combine and compact the GDI to focus on speed and simplicity. The GDI should worry ONLY on how to actually talk to the graphics hardware, not how to communicate to some remote client. For what it's worth, Apple and to some rather large extent, Microsoft, are doing it right. This part at least. 3) Big, sluggish, unneccessarily complex X-Server (and to an extent too many choices of desktops).
What Linux _NEEDS_ is to cut down on old fat. Streamlining the X-Server (or writing a new one from scratch) that actually worries about the graphics aspect and ignores backwards compatibility with awkward graphics-transport protocols - focuses on speed and simplicity.
Of course you can do all of what you can in MacOS and Windows on a Linux box - at least as far as the eye-candy goes, but at the cost of speed and fuctionality - which really isn't what Linux needs, not since it used to be the speediest kid on the block.
The X-Server was already a dinosaur in the 90's, and it still is, since it doesn't matter for how long you polish a turd, it'll still be one when your'e over.
I lived in Sweden, which at the time didn't have any public internet on offer. I got a couple of boxes of diskettes mailed from a friend of mine who lived in anouther country. If I remember correctly, the kernel version was 0.98.
I installed it, used it and havn't really looked back since, until 2002/2003 I defected to Apple. They have a monolithic GDI. Something Linux sorely lacks.
The X-Server has lived its lifetime. It's time to kill it off, and bring something that actually brings the Linux graphical front end into the present time. (And before you bash me, no, servers should NOT be running a graphics server)
Apple most definitely has a monopoly on the Apple platform. Every machine comes pre-installed with a fixed set of applications, and the user is locked-in to use said set wether he likes it or not. You can't get rid of the apps (f.ex. QuickTime) although you may choose to ignore them. Much in the same way as IE binds into Windows.
The tidal change experienced on the Firefox download day and the resulting usage of Firefox clearly demonstrates that although IE still exists on the Windows machines, it's in no position to claim a monopoly.
This is a battle that should be won by who produces the best quality, not by who produces the largest group of moronic lawyers running their errands for them.
No that I'd classify Microsoft as any kind of favorite, but get real already folks.
If Microsoft should disband IE from Windows, then the same should go for Apple with Safari, ASUS with Mozilla on their Eee PC and any other vendor that creates a preference for a browser.
And, for the bigger picture, the same should go for any application distributed with the operating system.
And, lastly, any operating system distributed with a computer should be disbanded and sold separately.
So what about cellphones ? Of course, with the multitude of operating systems for cellphones on the market, the same should apply there.
Etc, etc, etc....
Let's get real for a moment - consumers in general have no longing to build and brew their own PC/cellphone/PDA/whatever.. None at all. They want a solution, and they want it to work.
These anti-competitive lawsuits are starting to borderline on ridiculous. Opera has the same competitive environment on the PC as it has on the Mac and on Linux and FreeBSD. They choose to compete on the market, they know the stakes beforehand, and if their product turns up sour, they shouldn't be allowed to file suit.
Actually, I'd recommend going there to study economy, since where would it be better to study a complete economical model of the capitalist economical rules that has failed on a nation-wide basis ?
Oh, and give it two more years... Britain is wobbling already, Germany has it going tough and several eastern-European nations will have a rough time as well.
Even the USA hasn't seen the end of the depression. Hell, it hasn't even seen but the introduction of it yet.
And here we're talking of economic systems two orders of magnitude larger than the Icelandic one...
That was rather naive. You demand that no generalizations are made about the similarity of the UK and EU educational systems because you don't know enough yourself to tell the difference?
Duh!
According to the Eurpean Credit Transfer and accumulation System (ECTS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Credit_Transfer_and_Accumulation_System ) you can very well take classes in the UK and have the credits transferred. Usually, the English credits transfer 2:1, while the Scottish credits have a little different evaluation.
Most of Europe however IS enforcing the ECTS and as such, studies abroad should be no problem for most.
On the graduate level (Masters degree), classes are usually taught in english, regardless of country.
If you wish to specialize in Artificial Intelligence, I can recommend Reykjavik University ( http://www.ru.is/ ). The A.I. department has won the last two international generic game playing agent contests and has a full house of very respectable professionals. The head of the Computer Science department is a former NASA employee and the others are no less.
And it adds value that the Icelandic Krona is so deflated that it's probably cheaper to study here than even in eastern Europe:P
I agree. Russell&Norvig is THE introductory AI book to read.
I'll add to your reading list: Reinforcement Learning: An introduction by Sutton & Barto. It's a very well written book which should come as a natural follow-up for R&N.
This statement is valid for most of Europe. The author is always the copyright holder. In some countries (like f.ex. Iceland), the laws are strict enough that you can't hand over the copyright. You can however hand over the distribution rights and right of ownership. But the copyright defaults to you, and identifies you as the author.
Of course I ment "legal" (as in perceivably), not truly legal:)
Regarding the "sellers" copy, not being able to show anything but a paper with his name on it makes for a very sticky position. (Of course you signed the paper very loosely with vanishing ink:P)
I think that adding "vanishing print" to our flora of vanishing stufff makes more opportunities for scammers to practice what they do than what it creates in legit opportunities and convenience.
Like all phenomena that abides a rigid law, mathematics can't be "invented", nor can it be "discovered".
To be invented, it must first not exist. But since the rules are there, even tho the practicioners may not comprehend them at some point in time, everything still follows these rules and once the rules are understood the notation is invented. Yes, the notation. The way of putting the rules down on paper. That's an invention, as may well be seen with 18th century mathematicians, who many of which managed to understand the same things at similar times at different places in the world, putting them down on paper for future generations. Many of these "moments of enlightenment" are put down so differently that f.ex. when studying discrete mathematics, you generally learn several different notations for the same ground law.
But to be discovered, there's no requirement of an understanding. It's simply that you stumble upon something possibly great.
Take f.ex. gravity. We can with farly good certainty say that humans don't know how gravity works. We know that Newtons law og acceleration is affected by gravity, but we don't comprehend the laws and physics behind gravitational forces. Not enough to be able to say with any certainty what the laws of gravitation are.
But the gravity is still there. Ask anyone over the age of sixty. They'll show you proof.
Now, if someone really bright would think long and hard about gravity and how it works, he might finally understand the inner workings of gravity itself, and the laws that control it.
Understand.
He wouldn't discover anything, since what he was "searching" for was already there. He just didn't comprehend it.
Much like a native of the Maku tribe of South America wouldn't comprehend a fission reactor, although he might understand that it's a dangerous object, and he would certainly understand that it's there.
And however much you'd want to be able to claim to have invented the laws of gravity - I think that "doubtful honour" belongs to Al Gore, inventor of the internet, universe and everything.:-)
What aggrevates me more is that within C.S. (not engineering, but still a science) there are students that are actually gaining the same degree as I am, but looking at the subjects they take, they are taking a heavily diluted degree with much better scores than I am.
I have been taking all the "real" C.S. courses - linear algebra, computer graphics, specialized db's, multi-dimensional search systems, theory of computing etc etc...
The "light-riders" have been taking subjects like information systems (a very light blah course), foreign languages (with languages I mean real world languages, like spanish, english etc, not computer languages) and other courses, which have a very high median grade. Some of these students are actually passing with a median high enough to get them into the top 5% of the students within C.S., while they really havn't taken enough subjects to call themselves computer scientists. THIS I feel is diluting MY graduation. That students graduate with the same degree as I am, with better grades, and yet they know less about computer science than the average self-educated sysadmin. That, quite frankly, sucks.
Mankinds collective stupidity has helped elevating Jobs bottom line.
I still have faith in that mankind isn't going to play stupid forever, even if they choose to do so for a decade or two;)
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We had a case up here of a police officer shooting a plane behind the car, and then claiming that the car was travelling almost 400KM/h.
As it looks to me, that judgement is in effect creating a blanket permission to officers to "make up" speeding tickets without having the tickets challenged.
Heavily stupid sentence.
Since my bank requires the gadget to be used not only at logon time but also whenever I request a transfer of money to a new entity, as well as a 4-digit pass code puched in via mouse, I'd say the hackers may have a rather tough time trying to dig me debt-trench deeper than it already is.
Although they may have a laugh browsing my accounts, that won't help them a bit.
A non-militant country with no physical borders has no natural enemies.
And all of this story isn't about the gov.t. covering up shit, it's about the leaders of the bank wanting their own shit covered up.
The minister of education stepped forward in a newsbroadcase and said that although it was obviously a criminal matter, it's still an ethical question on because of the gravity of the matter, wether the nation hasn't the right to know - despite laws that say otherwise.
Isn't it lovely when the text on /. is dumbed down to suit the readers of Doanld Duck ?
I would have thought that "geekdom" ment more than this :p
What you really meant to say is:
Today we have the skill and the know-how to make crap look like it will last, worth the hefty pricetag and novel enough that you must have it.
Of course said crap will rarely last much longer than the warranty period...
My Vadem Clio C-1050 built in 1999 is still used on a daily basis. Still the original LiIon battery, and still works like a champ.
My Commodore Amigas, built in the '87 (A500), and '92 (A600, A1200) still get regular use.
My Sinclair ZX81 (1981, 1KB RAM, 16KB Expansion) is fired up about twice a year.
My oldest laptop is the Nec PC-8201A, which still does several days on four AA-cells.
They just don't make them like they used to, that's for sure :-)
1) Yes, of course I have, and No, it's not the holy grail you were looking for. KDE isn't the X-Server, it's a layer _on_top_ of the Xserver, which brings us to the next point
2) Remove the network layer from the X-Server, combine and compact the GDI to focus on speed and simplicity. The GDI should worry ONLY on how to actually talk to the graphics hardware, not how to communicate to some remote client. For what it's worth, Apple and to some rather large extent, Microsoft, are doing it right. This part at least.
3) Big, sluggish, unneccessarily complex X-Server (and to an extent too many choices of desktops).
What Linux _NEEDS_ is to cut down on old fat. Streamlining the X-Server (or writing a new one from scratch) that actually worries about the graphics aspect and ignores backwards compatibility with awkward graphics-transport protocols - focuses on speed and simplicity.
Of course you can do all of what you can in MacOS and Windows on a Linux box - at least as far as the eye-candy goes, but at the cost of speed and fuctionality - which really isn't what Linux needs, not since it used to be the speediest kid on the block.
The X-Server was already a dinosaur in the 90's, and it still is, since it doesn't matter for how long you polish a turd, it'll still be one when your'e over.
I lived in Sweden, which at the time didn't have any public internet on offer. I got a couple of boxes of diskettes mailed from a friend of mine who lived in anouther country. If I remember correctly, the kernel version was 0.98.
I installed it, used it and havn't really looked back since, until 2002/2003 I defected to Apple. They have a monolithic GDI. Something Linux sorely lacks.
The X-Server has lived its lifetime. It's time to kill it off, and bring something that actually brings the Linux graphical front end into the present time. (And before you bash me, no, servers should NOT be running a graphics server)
That depends wholly on the scope you set.
Apple most definitely has a monopoly on the Apple platform. Every machine comes pre-installed with a fixed set of applications, and the user is locked-in to use said set wether he likes it or not. You can't get rid of the apps (f.ex. QuickTime) although you may choose to ignore them. Much in the same way as IE binds into Windows.
The tidal change experienced on the Firefox download day and the resulting usage of Firefox clearly demonstrates that although IE still exists on the Windows machines, it's in no position to claim a monopoly.
This is a battle that should be won by who produces the best quality, not by who produces the largest group of moronic lawyers running their errands for them.
One more reason not to join the EU.
No that I'd classify Microsoft as any kind of favorite, but get real already folks.
If Microsoft should disband IE from Windows, then the same should go for Apple with Safari, ASUS with Mozilla on their Eee PC and any other vendor that creates a preference for a browser.
And, for the bigger picture, the same should go for any application distributed with the operating system.
And, lastly, any operating system distributed with a computer should be disbanded and sold separately.
So what about cellphones ? Of course, with the multitude of operating systems for cellphones on the market, the same should apply there.
Etc, etc, etc....
Let's get real for a moment - consumers in general have no longing to build and brew their own PC/cellphone/PDA/whatever.. None at all. They want a solution, and they want it to work.
These anti-competitive lawsuits are starting to borderline on ridiculous. Opera has the same competitive environment on the PC as it has on the Mac and on Linux and FreeBSD. They choose to compete on the market, they know the stakes beforehand, and if their product turns up sour, they shouldn't be allowed to file suit.
I remember working a schedule like that when I was in my teens..
3 work, 2 off, 2 work, 3 off... something like that...
*SIGH* the time flew while flipping burgers.....
Actually, I'd recommend going there to study economy, since where would it be better to study a complete economical model of the capitalist economical rules that has failed on a nation-wide basis ?
Oh, and give it two more years... Britain is wobbling already, Germany has it going tough and several eastern-European nations will have a rough time as well.
Even the USA hasn't seen the end of the depression. Hell, it hasn't even seen but the introduction of it yet.
And here we're talking of economic systems two orders of magnitude larger than the Icelandic one...
That was rather naive. You demand that no generalizations are made about the similarity of the UK and EU educational systems because you don't know enough yourself to tell the difference?
Duh!
According to the Eurpean Credit Transfer and accumulation System (ECTS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Credit_Transfer_and_Accumulation_System ) you can very well take classes in the UK and have the credits transferred. Usually, the English credits transfer 2:1, while the Scottish credits have a little different evaluation.
Most of Europe however IS enforcing the ECTS and as such, studies abroad should be no problem for most.
On the graduate level (Masters degree), classes are usually taught in english, regardless of country.
If you wish to specialize in Artificial Intelligence, I can recommend Reykjavik University ( http://www.ru.is/ ). The A.I. department has won the last two international generic game playing agent contests and has a full house of very respectable professionals. The head of the Computer Science department is a former NASA employee and the others are no less.
And it adds value that the Icelandic Krona is so deflated that it's probably cheaper to study here than even in eastern Europe :P
I'd like to see hard numbers on that.
We're currently producing 250MWh on 1000m2 with geothermal on 9 ducts.
Totally under 2GWh are produced in geothermal.
Also there are ~10GWh in hydropower.
Totally: around 12GWh, with less than 0.1% of that created with fossil fuel.
That's for all of my country.
How about America starting to drill in Yellowstone ? :)
I agree. Russell&Norvig is THE introductory AI book to read.
I'll add to your reading list: Reinforcement Learning: An introduction by Sutton & Barto. It's a very well written book which should come as a natural follow-up for R&N.
You think the recycler is disgusting ?
Think about it a few seconds - your body recycles water from poop.
Admittedly, you don't drink the water, you inject it directly into your bloodstream.
Grossed out yet ?
This statement is valid for most of Europe. The author is always the copyright holder. In some countries (like f.ex. Iceland), the laws are strict enough that you can't hand over the copyright. You can however hand over the distribution rights and right of ownership. But the copyright defaults to you, and identifies you as the author.
Access Point != Free hotSpot
London actually has the least HotSpots of the three cities surveyed.
10.5.4 here, and closing the browser window was sufficient.
> That's more memory than I've had in any computer prior to this year
Huh... that's less memory than I have in any of my computers, save the vintage stock - and my XPC.
Server: 4GB
Laptop: 4GB
Workstation: 14GB
Guess your milage actually does vary :P
So, basically it's your standard peeping tom camera ?
:P
Now I can't wait until all those T-ray porn sites start appearing
Of course I ment "legal" (as in perceivably), not truly legal :)
:P)
Regarding the "sellers" copy, not being able to show anything but a paper with his name on it makes for a very sticky position. (Of course you signed the paper very loosely with vanishing ink
I think that adding "vanishing print" to our flora of vanishing stufff makes more opportunities for scammers to practice what they do than what it creates in legit opportunities and convenience.
What if I "print" on the paper a statement that you agreee I'm going to handle some sale for you.
Then, the paper erases the print, but your signature is intact since that's real ink.
Now, I print with a real printer a contract stating you already sold me your house for x $'s and it has been paid in full.
You've already signed the paper, so the sale is legal and final, I suspect.
Like all phenomena that abides a rigid law, mathematics can't be "invented", nor can it be "discovered".
:-)
To be invented, it must first not exist. But since the rules are there, even tho the practicioners may not comprehend them at some point in time, everything still follows these rules and once the rules are understood the notation is invented. Yes, the notation. The way of putting the rules down on paper. That's an invention, as may well be seen with 18th century mathematicians, who many of which managed to understand the same things at similar times at different places in the world, putting them down on paper for future generations. Many of these "moments of enlightenment" are put down so differently that f.ex. when studying discrete mathematics, you generally learn several different notations for the same ground law.
But to be discovered, there's no requirement of an understanding. It's simply that you stumble upon something possibly great.
Take f.ex. gravity. We can with farly good certainty say that humans don't know how gravity works. We know that Newtons law og acceleration is affected by gravity, but we don't comprehend the laws and physics behind gravitational forces. Not enough to be able to say with any certainty what the laws of gravitation are.
But the gravity is still there. Ask anyone over the age of sixty. They'll show you proof.
Now, if someone really bright would think long and hard about gravity and how it works, he might finally understand the inner workings of gravity itself, and the laws that control it.
Understand.
He wouldn't discover anything, since what he was "searching" for was already there. He just didn't comprehend it.
Much like a native of the Maku tribe of South America wouldn't comprehend a fission reactor, although he might understand that it's a dangerous object, and he would certainly understand that it's there.
And however much you'd want to be able to claim to have invented the laws of gravity - I think that "doubtful honour" belongs to Al Gore, inventor of the internet, universe and everything.
I agree for the most part.
What aggrevates me more is that within C.S. (not engineering, but still a science) there are students that are actually gaining the same degree as I am, but looking at the subjects they take, they are taking a heavily diluted degree with much better scores than I am.
I have been taking all the "real" C.S. courses - linear algebra, computer graphics, specialized db's, multi-dimensional search systems, theory of computing etc etc...
The "light-riders" have been taking subjects like information systems (a very light blah course), foreign languages (with languages I mean real world languages, like spanish, english etc, not computer languages) and other courses, which have a very high median grade. Some of these students are actually passing with a median high enough to get them into the top 5% of the students within C.S., while they really havn't taken enough subjects to call themselves computer scientists. THIS I feel is diluting MY graduation. That students graduate with the same degree as I am, with better grades, and yet they know less about computer science than the average self-educated sysadmin. That, quite frankly, sucks.
Mankinds collective stupidity has helped elevating Jobs bottom line. I still have faith in that mankind isn't going to play stupid forever, even if they choose to do so for a decade or two ;)