Might be worth noting to the layman that O(2^N) in both time, or space are almost totally impractical for large N (100 is huge to O(2^N), just concider how many places you can go in a 19-19 go game...)
The practical impossibility to use the same methods applyed to chess for a go board any decent sized go board draws AI programmers to the game, in particular using things like neural networks in combination with other tricks to focus on areas, spot possibilities without relying on precise calclation of moves.
Somewhat exciting, but hey, even the simple computer go players beat me hands down:/
Though one route is electrolysis of water, but the cheapest way is the steam reforming of natural gas, Gas and Water after the process turns into.. Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen.
Spot the greenhouse gas given off there, and the use of fossil fuels. Unless we can find a way to make electrolysis the economical way of producing hydrogen, a hydrogen powered car isn't as kind to the envioment as people are sometimes lead to believe.
Personally, I can't wait until Samba 4 comes out that will bring this all together (Kerb, LDAP, AD) with it's own LDAP server.
Personally, that soudnds pretty damn awful to me, though I guess actually having active directory would be nice, they look like there doing it the uguly way.
A local store tiraled self-scaning, and decided to withdraw the service eventually...
people fail to scan things, so you get goods leaving the store unpaid for and coupled to that you don't have people stuck in queues, which although a bane to customers, it's while your stuck in queues that your right next to the magazines, sweets and other goods which they put there to tempt you, so they loose sales of last minute items too.
On the plus side you don't need to employ as many staff on the tills, but there normally minimum wage or just above it, so not a huge saving there concidering the new expense on the gadgets, mantance etc.
In conclusion, were unlikely to see it anywhere big-scale, though walk-though checkouts using RFID might appear, though in the UK we now have almost all the major stores offering online shopping, couple that with the local shops for fruit, vedge and the other things people like to feel before they buy and the supermarket could be comming to an end...
Over the past few hundred years weve destroyed vast ammounts of forest land, decreasing our worlds ability to remve carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while increasing the ammount of carbon dioxide that is pushed out into the atmosphere.
It's just unfortunate that our particulate emmissons helped change the structure of clouds so they reflect more sunlight back into space counter-acting the effects of the increased carbon dioxide levels so we never noticed what were really doing (apart form some things we didn't really ascioate with the polution like the year-on-year failing rains over parts of africa)
Well, I've still got hope, when all the worlds major coastal cities are under 2 meters of water (after some ice-sheets have melted), people might actually listen and we might seriously concider changing our ways, before vast ammounts of the earth become uninhabitable.
The problem is, when blinding helping the coroprations to ensure they can continue to grow and provide jobs, the little guys who employ just as many but don't have a single voice to speak up get ignored.
Hundreds of small businesses have formed alliances against software patents, but they don't have anywhere near the same clout as bill gates saying software patents are good.
The london part refers to where the press release came from, pretty tradgic really that the person who posted the article to slashdot didn't even read the article properly.
I'ts amazing really how few people have picked up on the very blatent sarcasm in that post *rolls eyes*. Glad to know I chuckled when reading it, and chuckled again when I saw it was moderated as insightful.
I guess slashdot is now slowly filling up with idiots and induhvidiuals.
It really does irk me how many people confuse these things, extortion, blackmail and bribery.
I'm not sure if this fits the definition of extortion, but it stinks, also stinks that the small software companies which will be hit by the law can't talk to the prime minster at all, even though they might suffer a lot more than 800 job losses.
Children have rights, the right to do many of the things adults do, but they also have the right not to be damaged by material which there not sexyally or socially mature enough to handle. In the absence of a parent or guardian that respomsibility falls on the state to protect them.
Well, ok the analogy was streching it, but my main point is that using the heavilly reduced stasticic that 'spam has increased since the can-spam act came in' can't be used on it's own to conclude anything more than exactly what it says.
It can't be used to determine if the act had any effect what so ever, positive or negitive.
It sounds like a damn good idea to me, games with graphic violence and sexual scenes of a explicit nature shouln't be sold to minors.
Most other countries have copied the laws which regard the sale of videos and movies to computer games, it doesn't stop the problem but it does mean that a 12 yearold can't walk in and buy something like Vampire Bloodlines (one of my favorite games), which depicts graphic acts of violence against humans and includes sexual themes including homosexual themes, and also has a manditory story line which involves snuff movies.
Don't get me wrong I don't like censorship, and I don't think the state should involve itself in parenting, but this is neither. The state is giving parents power to decide what there kids can buy instead of leaving the power purely in the hands of the shop which probably only cares about sellig the game.
The chain of BASIC goes from a very early version number straight along to MS VB.net, I was looking forward to seeing a complete tree of the various versions of basic, yet this manages to exclude all the other windows versions, let alone the vast numbers of other basic clones generated for other platforms over the years.
Spam has increased since the introduction of the can spam act.. well murder in america has gone up since the space program started too...
The question is, what is the diference between the prediced trend before and after the introduction of the bill... most likely it will demonstrate that it has had no effect one way or the other.
I love debian, but I'd go with Redhat or Suse for pretty much the same reason, why do gentoo fans seem to think there disto is the solution to all the worlds problems, why can't they make it the ultimate power-user system and be happy with that.
Most of the time, people look at the computer as something they can break, or will be broken if they do anything wrong, most geeks have broken so many in there time they don't fear it.
Right mouse button, well strange things pop up when that happens, so I don't want to touch that incase I do something wrong.
Really we just have to teach people that computers are fairly robust, the worst thing most people can do on windowsxp unless there deliberately mallicious is forget to save a document when turning off the computer.
This is a way to put binaries into XML, eg a jpeg image without incuring a huge size penalty to encode the data in viweable characters only.
I doubt a binary version of the XML format would see any popular use, but a decent compression system for XML would be a nice bonus, just something to put alongside the other compression standards commonly seen in HTTP 1.1's Accept-Encoding header.
I'm ok with pigs with human organs so that they can be used in heart-transplants etc, but growing animals with human brains to see how cognitive functions develop... that's sick.
Well it means that a large chunk of machiens will remain open to those who wish to install bot-nets on them and DDoS whoever annoys them on IRC.
I think they'd probably have done a lot better if the next version of DirectX can't install on a illegal version of windows, people generally don't give much of a damn if they can't get security patches, if they can't get the latest game to work however the'll be pissed.
The gap doesn't cause a drop in effeciency your correct, but it does cause a drop in the maximum transfered power. I guess I should read what I write before I hit submit.
From what I gather it's inductive coupling, the simple way of viewing this is to imagine cutting a transformer in two and wraping the two halfs in plastic, you put them together your electricity flows just like a normal transformer, though the gap created by the plasic might cause minimal losses in the transfered energy. All the other losses of the sysetem would add up to heat dissapation from the pad.. putting your bracelet down on it might also cause some heat to be radiated:)
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Might be worth noting to the layman that O(2^N) in both time, or space are almost totally impractical for large N (100 is huge to O(2^N), just concider how many places you can go in a 19-19 go game...)
:/
The practical impossibility to use the same methods applyed to chess for a go board any decent sized go board draws AI programmers to the game, in particular using things like neural networks in combination with other tricks to focus on areas, spot possibilities without relying on precise calclation of moves.
Somewhat exciting, but hey, even the simple computer go players beat me hands down
Though one route is electrolysis of water, but the cheapest way is the steam reforming of natural gas, Gas and Water after the process turns into.. Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen.
Spot the greenhouse gas given off there, and the use of fossil fuels. Unless we can find a way to make electrolysis the economical way of producing hydrogen, a hydrogen powered car isn't as kind to the envioment as people are sometimes lead to believe.
Personally, I can't wait until Samba 4 comes out that will bring this all together (Kerb, LDAP, AD) with it's own LDAP server.
Personally, that soudnds pretty damn awful to me, though I guess actually having active directory would be nice, they look like there doing it the uguly way.
A local store tiraled self-scaning, and decided to withdraw the service eventually...
people fail to scan things, so you get goods leaving the store unpaid for and coupled to that you don't have people stuck in queues, which although a bane to customers, it's while your stuck in queues that your right next to the magazines, sweets and other goods which they put there to tempt you, so they loose sales of last minute items too.
On the plus side you don't need to employ as many staff on the tills, but there normally minimum wage or just above it, so not a huge saving there concidering the new expense on the gadgets, mantance etc.
In conclusion, were unlikely to see it anywhere big-scale, though walk-though checkouts using RFID might appear, though in the UK we now have almost all the major stores offering online shopping, couple that with the local shops for fruit, vedge and the other things people like to feel before they buy and the supermarket could be comming to an end...
Over the past few hundred years weve destroyed vast ammounts of forest land, decreasing our worlds ability to remve carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while increasing the ammount of carbon dioxide that is pushed out into the atmosphere.
It's just unfortunate that our particulate emmissons helped change the structure of clouds so they reflect more sunlight back into space counter-acting the effects of the increased carbon dioxide levels so we never noticed what were really doing (apart form some things we didn't really ascioate with the polution like the year-on-year failing rains over parts of africa)
Well, I've still got hope, when all the worlds major coastal cities are under 2 meters of water (after some ice-sheets have melted), people might actually listen and we might seriously concider changing our ways, before vast ammounts of the earth become uninhabitable.
The problem is, when blinding helping the coroprations to ensure they can continue to grow and provide jobs, the little guys who employ just as many but don't have a single voice to speak up get ignored.
Hundreds of small businesses have formed alliances against software patents, but they don't have anywhere near the same clout as bill gates saying software patents are good.
The london part refers to where the press release came from, pretty tradgic really that the person who posted the article to slashdot didn't even read the article properly.
I'ts amazing really how few people have picked up on the very blatent sarcasm in that post *rolls eyes*. Glad to know I chuckled when reading it, and chuckled again when I saw it was moderated as insightful.
I guess slashdot is now slowly filling up with idiots and induhvidiuals.
It really does irk me how many people confuse these things, extortion, blackmail and bribery.
I'm not sure if this fits the definition of extortion, but it stinks, also stinks that the small software companies which will be hit by the law can't talk to the prime minster at all, even though they might suffer a lot more than 800 job losses.
I totaly agree, *goes back to thinking of uses for icons people havn't used them for yet and patenting them*
Children have rights, the right to do many of the things adults do, but they also have the right not to be damaged by material which there not sexyally or socially mature enough to handle. In the absence of a parent or guardian that respomsibility falls on the state to protect them.
Well, ok the analogy was streching it, but my main point is that using the heavilly reduced stasticic that 'spam has increased since the can-spam act came in' can't be used on it's own to conclude anything more than exactly what it says.
It can't be used to determine if the act had any effect what so ever, positive or negitive.
It sounds like a damn good idea to me, games with graphic violence and sexual scenes of a explicit nature shouln't be sold to minors.
Most other countries have copied the laws which regard the sale of videos and movies to computer games, it doesn't stop the problem but it does mean that a 12 yearold can't walk in and buy something like Vampire Bloodlines (one of my favorite games), which depicts graphic acts of violence against humans and includes sexual themes including homosexual themes, and also has a manditory story line which involves snuff movies.
Don't get me wrong I don't like censorship, and I don't think the state should involve itself in parenting, but this is neither. The state is giving parents power to decide what there kids can buy instead of leaving the power purely in the hands of the shop which probably only cares about sellig the game.
The chain of BASIC goes from a very early version number straight along to MS VB.net, I was looking forward to seeing a complete tree of the various versions of basic, yet this manages to exclude all the other windows versions, let alone the vast numbers of other basic clones generated for other platforms over the years.
Spam has increased since the introduction of the can spam act.. well murder in america has gone up since the space program started too...
The question is, what is the diference between the prediced trend before and after the introduction of the bill... most likely it will demonstrate that it has had no effect one way or the other.
I love debian, but I'd go with Redhat or Suse for pretty much the same reason, why do gentoo fans seem to think there disto is the solution to all the worlds problems, why can't they make it the ultimate power-user system and be happy with that.
Most of the time, people look at the computer as something they can break, or will be broken if they do anything wrong, most geeks have broken so many in there time they don't fear it.
Right mouse button, well strange things pop up when that happens, so I don't want to touch that incase I do something wrong.
Really we just have to teach people that computers are fairly robust, the worst thing most people can do on windowsxp unless there deliberately mallicious is forget to save a document when turning off the computer.
This is a way to put binaries into XML, eg a jpeg image without incuring a huge size penalty to encode the data in viweable characters only.
I doubt a binary version of the XML format would see any popular use, but a decent compression system for XML would be a nice bonus, just something to put alongside the other compression standards commonly seen in HTTP 1.1's Accept-Encoding header.
*sigh* what's next, miricle penis elargement pill's under the Science page :(
I'm ok with pigs with human organs so that they can be used in heart-transplants etc, but growing animals with human brains to see how cognitive functions develop... that's sick.
It's pushing me to Linux... But I do see the point, a mac-mini cost is comparable to a non-oem version of XP Pro.
Well it means that a large chunk of machiens will remain open to those who wish to install bot-nets on them and DDoS whoever annoys them on IRC.
I think they'd probably have done a lot better if the next version of DirectX can't install on a illegal version of windows, people generally don't give much of a damn if they can't get security patches, if they can't get the latest game to work however the'll be pissed.
The gap doesn't cause a drop in effeciency your correct, but it does cause a drop in the maximum transfered power. I guess I should read what I write before I hit submit.
Sorry but anything that wants to be remotely geeky should use the right terms for the right things, this is software for lusers :)
From what I gather it's inductive coupling, the simple way of viewing this is to imagine cutting a transformer in two and wraping the two halfs in plastic, you put them together your electricity flows just like a normal transformer, though the gap created by the plasic might cause minimal losses in the transfered energy. All the other losses of the sysetem would add up to heat dissapation from the pad.. putting your bracelet down on it might also cause some heat to be radiated :)