Given that it allows me freely and legally download and tinker with a top of the line OS and pretty much all the software I could need, I'd say it's been working for some time now.
The purpose of the GPL isn't to force MS to open up Vista, it's to allow people who choose to embrace the free software movement to ensure that it continues, and that works derived from their original efforts remain free.
That's a very complete answer, thanks! Does the bit about the non t-mobile router networks mean that the routers t-mobile sends out will give priority to voice traffic?
In any case, let's toss some mod points Thail's way!
T-Mobile's billing system isn't smart enough to notice handoffs between Wi-Fi and cellular networks. So each call is billed according to where it begins. You can start a call at home, get in your car, drive away and talk for free until the battery's dead.
The opposite is also true, however; if you begin a call on T-Mobile's cell network and later enter a Wi-Fi hot spot, the call continues to eat up minutes.
One thing I'd want to make certain of is that in the presence of both wifi and a cell network, it _always_ gives preference to the wifi, rather than occasionally deciding that the cell signal is stronger than wifi in my kitchen, and therefore starting on the cell and only switching over to the wifi at a later point. Has anyone seen anything that lays out the rules they use for network preference?
State-run media reported that some online shoppers began using QQ coins to buy real-world items such as CDs and makeup. So-called QQ Girls started accepting the coins as payment for intimate private chats online. Gamblers caught wind, too, and started using the currency to get around China's anti-gambling laws, converting wins in online mahjong and card games back into cash. Dozens of third-party trading posts sprouted up to ease transactions, turning the QQ coin into a kind of parallel currency.
Xinhua also reports that the operators of some Internet forums are now paid in QQ coins rather than the official currency. And there is evidence that other online sites not associated with Tencent also accept QQ coins.
I think there may be some confusion here regarding the difference between the laws applying in a particular location and the laws being enforced in that location.
Let's take for instance Cuba. US Citizen Bob travels (by way of another country) to Cuba to hang out on the beach, and while there he decides to buy some cigars. Will he be arrested in the cigar shop? Almost certainly not.
If, however, he is caught with Cuban cigars on the way back into the country, and other evidence is found that he traveled to Cuba and violated US laws which prohibit his unlicensed commercial transactions there, then according to http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1 097.html it is likely that he's going to be facing criminal prosecution for the actions he took on foreign soil.
The Cuban police certainly weren't enforcing US law within Cuba, but Bob really isn't going to get the charges dropped by claiming he was abroad and therefore US law didn't apply.
If you're up for a bit of a read, the Harvard International Law Journal dealt with the issue of projected jurisdiction, how it relates to anti-terrorism enforcement abroad, and potential constitutional limits. It's all at http://www.harvardilj.org/print/101
Menilmontant is 38 minutes
Un Chien Andalou is 16
Two Men and a Wardrobe is 20 minutes
and The Heart of the World is only 6, yet I think all of them qualify as great cinema, on the level of the godfather if not above it.
We can find some more if you'd like, or if you'd like to fall back on a literary analogy, there's an absolute ton of wonderful short stories, and I've seen those go as short as Ernest Hemingway's 6-word masterpiece "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
In music, we could talk about Brian Wilson's Our Prayer, or a number of songs by the Pixies. Duke Ellington's Hank Cinq or the first movement of Beethoven's 101 in A major. Pretty much name an established genre and we can find respected short works.
I suppose we could even fall back on visual arts, and talk about the size of a canvas or sculpture...or we could bring in the impressionists and talk about how long it should take to view a painting...but my point's going to remain the same. In any artistic medium, there are works of great merit at very small scales. They may not be commercial successes, and indeed I would imagine a 10 second game wouldn't sell very well at all, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be an amazing game.
I just took a break from getting my ass kicked by the boss of the Shadow Temple...and I have to say OoT really holds its own today, at least as far as I'm concerned. I played Twilight Princess first, and it is a more polished game, with more attention paid to detail, but there are a lot of things about OoT that I'm loving. The atmosphere is excellent and the dungeons are really challenging, but in a way that keeps me coming back. Yeah, the textures look like a late 90's game, but hey, the color pallet in SMB looks like a mid 80's game, and mario's head has some serious stairstepping going on. I still love them both, however, because they both get the job done, convey what they need to, and display exemplary design.
At what point did we loose the ability to distinguish between graphics being dated and graphics being poorly done?
Thank you for actually checking things out and offering sourced information rather than rumors. Even looking at their definitions of SRCOs and Featured Recording Artists, it really doesn't look like anyone who's made music is going to be charged.
Earlier this spring, some friends and I traveled the east coast megalopolis on local public transit, documenting our trip on video and with still cameras. As bad as New York is, we actually found it more friendly towards amateur photographers/videographers than a lot of other places up and down the east coast. It was usually authorities in the small towns with the least to fear from terrorism that reacted the most strongly, either attempting to confiscate our cameras for photographing a public transit building, or accusing us of planning to hijack/sabotage a train or bus. Let's not give them the strength of law to back up their bluster.
Some of the software comes from CMU, it seems. I wonder if anyone there has taken a crack at integrating CLARAty with Tekkotsu. Assuming that JPL has some pretty cracker-jack code,(which seems safe to me), then you could buy a used Aibo and a memory stick off ebay and suddenly have the makings of a world-class robotics lab in your living room.
Actually, the element was originally named aluminum by Humphrey Davey (technically he began with alumium, but he settled on aluminum). The British actually added extra letters to Davey's name, taking the suggestion of aluminium which appeared anonymously in an 1812 edition of the Quarterly Review.
Baseball's being a defensive sport aside, I'd argue that 80% accuracy should certainly not be good enough for a grand jury. Let's examine a hypothetical case where someone is brought before a grand jury for cime X.
The situation:
A profiling procedure has been developed which can tell with 80% accuracy if this person is the type of person who would commit crime X.
Out of the population at large, let's say X is a very common crime, and 10% of the population has committed it. (In other words P(Crime) = 0.1, and P(!Crime) = 0.9)
If a person commits crime X, then the test returns true 80% of the time. (P(Positive|Crime) = 0.8)
If a person has not committed crime X, then the test returns true 20% of the time. (P(Positive|!Crime) = 0.2)
Unless I've made a mistake, this works out to (0.8 * 0.1) / ((0.8 * 0.1) + (0.2 * 0.9)), or roughly 0.308
That means that for any given person indicated by the profiling procedure as being a criminal, there is about a 70% chance that they did not do it, and only roughly a 30% chance that they did.
I would certainly hope that presenting a grand jury with only a 30% chance of guilt would not be enough (on its own) to indict. And please keep in mind that we are assuming a very high proportion of the population is guilty here. In cases where less than 10% of the population has committed the crime, then the liklihood of a false positive for an individual case would be even higher.
I'm not qualified to talk about the fundamental differences in how the OS's handle killing processes when something goes awry, but from my more userish perspective the biggest advantage I find on my linux boxes is that I have a keyboard shortcut to kill X without restarting the system...that and I can alt-F# to a different terminal and kill a process there. Beyond that, the NT-based windows seem to manage quite nicely. Ending a "task" is unreliable, but if you tell it to kill a process and you have the right permissions, then that process dies reliably. There's also a command line process killer (taskkill) for those who don't want to ctrl-alt-del and deal with the task manager.
If anyone feels like shedding more light on how the underpinnings are different and in what situations I would be observing a major difference, I'm completely ready to learn. My day to day experience with modern OS's, though, is that they've all pretty much got process killing down pat.
Sidekicks are where it's at. I don't live that far from Gallaudet - Sidekicks are everywhere there, and have been for some time. It's the only phone I know of that's been focused on texting for several generations now, which means they've got it down pat. This also means that if you're on a budget or are really averse to a large featureset, you could grab an older model one and toss in your SIM card.
The choice of putting a hard disk drive in every machine was the absolute right decision technically, but is a tough choice financially.
This quote does a good job of representing why I find myself with a little spark of love for sony. Despite being a huge multinational corporation that pushes rootkits, they regularly give in to their hardware geeks.
These are the people who brought you betamax and introduced broadcast-quality video recording and playback to the home. They brought you the aibo, which years after it's discontinuation remains the most advanced robotics package available to the consumer. Both of these things failed for the same reason that the PS3 might fail - they were cutting edge, amazing hardware. That's a niche market right there, and sony is too big to try and sell flagship products to a niche market, so their marketing folks have to try and make it fit the masses.
Now I'm the kind of person who benefits from this, because it meant that in high-school I could pick up a couple beta decks at a garage sale and start editing great looking video. It means that I can use my aibo to set up a basic cognitive robotics lab in my own house for less than a tenth of what it would have cost a decade ago, and it means I'm going to be able to crunch numbers with a cell processor without having to go buy myself a hugely expensive cell dev board. Sony makes all of this possible by being willing - every few years - to give in to their hardware geeks and shoot themselves in the foot financially. And that's why I love 'em.
I am amused that the summary says it will be the first commercial spaceport, while the "related" section points to http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/1 6/1736213, an article from last year about the mid-atlantic regional spaceport's first launch.
This will be the first purpose-built commercial spaceport. That's a key distinction.
For me, sizes smaller than a standard laptop don't offer any benefit until they hit pocket-size. At this point, a PDA with a hard drive/keyboard running xwindows (for me, a Zaurus) is supplanting my laptop on a regular basis.
They keyboard is tiny, the screen is small, and the specs generally resemble a laptop from 1996 (64meg ram, 6 gig HDD, 450mhz strongARM processor, 640x480 screen), but once it can fit in a pocket, the portability more than makes up for those issues. With wifi and bluetooth CF cards, it's gotten me through worldwide vacations (doesn't have to be taken out of a bag for TSA), conferences, and has replaced my laptop for most of the days when I need to take work home...it just syncs up wirelessly with my main home computer when I get there - and with a recompile most linux apps work pretty well.
It's never going to be a primary development box, a graphics workstation (although it does run the gimp) or good for writing long papers, but I can get up to about 45-50 WPM typing on it, and with the standard set of linux dev tools (I haven't installed any full IDE's of course), firefox, mplayer and xmms, and some games available, it suffices for most small/day-to-day tasks.
The big challenge to ethics will come not when from the creation of robots (automata which duplicate/expand on human physical abilities), but from the creation of sentient A.I. (automata which duplicate/expand on human mental abilities). To date we have not had to separate the notion of sentient rights from the notion of human rights, since the only sentience we have so far recognized is consistently bundled in human bodies.
In the ethics which have been developed, the mind, emotions, conscious choice, and intentionality are indespensible, and in fact feature far more prominently in ethical decisions than the existence of two legs, opposable thumbs, a certain muscular structure, or a sense of balance. Thus it is reasonable to infer that when the separation of sentience and human form becomes possible we will see more critical ethical challenges arising from the possession of an intelligent mind by an inhumanly-shaped object than the possession of a human-like body by an unintelligent object.
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I wonder how much of an impact this'll have on the price of 20GB models sitting around on eBay?
They're going to have to drop a certain amount below $500...and if I can get my hands on cell processors at $3-400 a pop, I'll be very happy indeed.
Given that it allows me freely and legally download and tinker with a top of the line OS and pretty much all the software I could need, I'd say it's been working for some time now.
The purpose of the GPL isn't to force MS to open up Vista, it's to allow people who choose to embrace the free software movement to ensure that it continues, and that works derived from their original efforts remain free.
That's a very complete answer, thanks! Does the bit about the non t-mobile router networks mean that the routers t-mobile sends out will give priority to voice traffic?
In any case, let's toss some mod points Thail's way!
One thing I'd want to make certain of is that in the presence of both wifi and a cell network, it _always_ gives preference to the wifi, rather than occasionally deciding that the cell signal is stronger than wifi in my kitchen, and therefore starting on the cell and only switching over to the wifi at a later point. Has anyone seen anything that lays out the rules they use for network preference?
I think there may be some confusion here regarding the difference between the laws applying in a particular location and the laws being enforced in that location.
1 097.html it is likely that he's going to be facing criminal prosecution for the actions he took on foreign soil.
Let's take for instance Cuba. US Citizen Bob travels (by way of another country) to Cuba to hang out on the beach, and while there he decides to buy some cigars. Will he be arrested in the cigar shop? Almost certainly not.
If, however, he is caught with Cuban cigars on the way back into the country, and other evidence is found that he traveled to Cuba and violated US laws which prohibit his unlicensed commercial transactions there, then according to http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_
The Cuban police certainly weren't enforcing US law within Cuba, but Bob really isn't going to get the charges dropped by claiming he was abroad and therefore US law didn't apply.
If you're up for a bit of a read, the Harvard International Law Journal dealt with the issue of projected jurisdiction, how it relates to anti-terrorism enforcement abroad, and potential constitutional limits. It's all at http://www.harvardilj.org/print/101
Menilmontant is 38 minutes
Un Chien Andalou is 16
Two Men and a Wardrobe is 20 minutes
and The Heart of the World is only 6, yet I think all of them qualify as great cinema, on the level of the godfather if not above it.
We can find some more if you'd like, or if you'd like to fall back on a literary analogy, there's an absolute ton of wonderful short stories, and I've seen those go as short as Ernest Hemingway's 6-word masterpiece "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
In music, we could talk about Brian Wilson's Our Prayer, or a number of songs by the Pixies. Duke Ellington's Hank Cinq or the first movement of Beethoven's 101 in A major. Pretty much name an established genre and we can find respected short works.
I suppose we could even fall back on visual arts, and talk about the size of a canvas or sculpture...or we could bring in the impressionists and talk about how long it should take to view a painting...but my point's going to remain the same. In any artistic medium, there are works of great merit at very small scales. They may not be commercial successes, and indeed I would imagine a 10 second game wouldn't sell very well at all, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be an amazing game.
I just took a break from getting my ass kicked by the boss of the Shadow Temple...and I have to say OoT really holds its own today, at least as far as I'm concerned. I played Twilight Princess first, and it is a more polished game, with more attention paid to detail, but there are a lot of things about OoT that I'm loving. The atmosphere is excellent and the dungeons are really challenging, but in a way that keeps me coming back. Yeah, the textures look like a late 90's game, but hey, the color pallet in SMB looks like a mid 80's game, and mario's head has some serious stairstepping going on. I still love them both, however, because they both get the job done, convey what they need to, and display exemplary design.
At what point did we loose the ability to distinguish between graphics being dated and graphics being poorly done?
Thank you for actually checking things out and offering sourced information rather than rumors. Even looking at their definitions of SRCOs and Featured Recording Artists, it really doesn't look like anyone who's made music is going to be charged.
Earlier this spring, some friends and I traveled the east coast megalopolis on local public transit, documenting our trip on video and with still cameras. As bad as New York is, we actually found it more friendly towards amateur photographers/videographers than a lot of other places up and down the east coast. It was usually authorities in the small towns with the least to fear from terrorism that reacted the most strongly, either attempting to confiscate our cameras for photographing a public transit building, or accusing us of planning to hijack/sabotage a train or bus. Let's not give them the strength of law to back up their bluster.
Thanks to Shenmue, a generation of dreamcast gamers now know how to navigate a small town in japan.
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Don't believe me? Check out http://shenmue.planets.gamespy.com/forum/viewtopi
It's pretty crazy.
Or you could store the superposition of all possible recipes simultaneously. It would simply decohere into the one you wanted once you began cooking.
The trick is going to be figuring out the right first interaction to generate the recipe you're searching for.
Some of the software comes from CMU, it seems. I wonder if anyone there has taken a crack at integrating CLARAty with Tekkotsu. Assuming that JPL has some pretty cracker-jack code,(which seems safe to me), then you could buy a used Aibo and a memory stick off ebay and suddenly have the makings of a world-class robotics lab in your living room.
And that's pretty spiffy.
Actually, the element was originally named aluminum by Humphrey Davey (technically he began with alumium, but he settled on aluminum). The British actually added extra letters to Davey's name, taking the suggestion of aluminium which appeared anonymously in an 1812 edition of the Quarterly Review.
It's all in your friendly neighborhood O.E.D.
Thanks, that's a really good summary.
- A profiling procedure has been developed which can tell with 80% accuracy if this person is the type of person who would commit crime X.
- Out of the population at large, let's say X is a very common crime, and 10% of the population has committed it. (In other words P(Crime) = 0.1, and P(!Crime) = 0.9)
- If a person commits crime X, then the test returns true 80% of the time. (P(Positive|Crime) = 0.8)
- If a person has not committed crime X, then the test returns true 20% of the time. (P(Positive|!Crime) = 0.2)
- By bayes theorem, P(Crime|Positive) = (P(Positive|Crime) * P(Crime)) / (P(Positive|Crime) * P(Crime) + P(Positive|!Crime)*P(!Crime))
- Unless I've made a mistake, this works out to (0.8 * 0.1) / ((0.8 * 0.1) + (0.2 * 0.9)), or roughly 0.308
- That means that for any given person indicated by the profiling procedure as being a criminal, there is about a 70% chance that they did not do it, and only roughly a 30% chance that they did.
I would certainly hope that presenting a grand jury with only a 30% chance of guilt would not be enough (on its own) to indict. And please keep in mind that we are assuming a very high proportion of the population is guilty here. In cases where less than 10% of the population has committed the crime, then the liklihood of a false positive for an individual case would be even higher.I'm not qualified to talk about the fundamental differences in how the OS's handle killing processes when something goes awry, but from my more userish perspective the biggest advantage I find on my linux boxes is that I have a keyboard shortcut to kill X without restarting the system...that and I can alt-F# to a different terminal and kill a process there. Beyond that, the NT-based windows seem to manage quite nicely. Ending a "task" is unreliable, but if you tell it to kill a process and you have the right permissions, then that process dies reliably. There's also a command line process killer (taskkill) for those who don't want to ctrl-alt-del and deal with the task manager.
If anyone feels like shedding more light on how the underpinnings are different and in what situations I would be observing a major difference, I'm completely ready to learn. My day to day experience with modern OS's, though, is that they've all pretty much got process killing down pat.
Sidekicks are where it's at. I don't live that far from Gallaudet - Sidekicks are everywhere there, and have been for some time. It's the only phone I know of that's been focused on texting for several generations now, which means they've got it down pat. This also means that if you're on a budget or are really averse to a large featureset, you could grab an older model one and toss in your SIM card.
- Stefan
These are the people who brought you betamax and introduced broadcast-quality video recording and playback to the home. They brought you the aibo, which years after it's discontinuation remains the most advanced robotics package available to the consumer. Both of these things failed for the same reason that the PS3 might fail - they were cutting edge, amazing hardware. That's a niche market right there, and sony is too big to try and sell flagship products to a niche market, so their marketing folks have to try and make it fit the masses.
Now I'm the kind of person who benefits from this, because it meant that in high-school I could pick up a couple beta decks at a garage sale and start editing great looking video. It means that I can use my aibo to set up a basic cognitive robotics lab in my own house for less than a tenth of what it would have cost a decade ago, and it means I'm going to be able to crunch numbers with a cell processor without having to go buy myself a hugely expensive cell dev board. Sony makes all of this possible by being willing - every few years - to give in to their hardware geeks and shoot themselves in the foot financially. And that's why I love 'em.
And the U.S. hosted the olympics in 1996!
That gives us about a year and four months, by my clock.
I am amused that the summary says it will be the first commercial spaceport, while the "related" section points to http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/1 6/1736213, an article from last year about the mid-atlantic regional spaceport's first launch.
This will be the first purpose-built commercial spaceport. That's a key distinction.
For me, sizes smaller than a standard laptop don't offer any benefit until they hit pocket-size. At this point, a PDA with a hard drive/keyboard running xwindows (for me, a Zaurus) is supplanting my laptop on a regular basis.
They keyboard is tiny, the screen is small, and the specs generally resemble a laptop from 1996 (64meg ram, 6 gig HDD, 450mhz strongARM processor, 640x480 screen), but once it can fit in a pocket, the portability more than makes up for those issues. With wifi and bluetooth CF cards, it's gotten me through worldwide vacations (doesn't have to be taken out of a bag for TSA), conferences, and has replaced my laptop for most of the days when I need to take work home...it just syncs up wirelessly with my main home computer when I get there - and with a recompile most linux apps work pretty well.
It's never going to be a primary development box, a graphics workstation (although it does run the gimp) or good for writing long papers, but I can get up to about 45-50 WPM typing on it, and with the standard set of linux dev tools (I haven't installed any full IDE's of course), firefox, mplayer and xmms, and some games available, it suffices for most small/day-to-day tasks.
The big challenge to ethics will come not when from the creation of robots (automata which duplicate/expand on human physical abilities), but from the creation of sentient A.I. (automata which duplicate/expand on human mental abilities). To date we have not had to separate the notion of sentient rights from the notion of human rights, since the only sentience we have so far recognized is consistently bundled in human bodies.
In the ethics which have been developed, the mind, emotions, conscious choice, and intentionality are indespensible, and in fact feature far more prominently in ethical decisions than the existence of two legs, opposable thumbs, a certain muscular structure, or a sense of balance. Thus it is reasonable to infer that when the separation of sentience and human form becomes possible we will see more critical ethical challenges arising from the possession of an intelligent mind by an inhumanly-shaped object than the possession of a human-like body by an unintelligent object.