That is far easier than the Battlerock and Dreadnaught Purple Coins challenges. Bouldergeist really isn't that hard if you've got any experience with platformers.
It depends on the risk of getting the $20. Given even a 10% return on investment is amazing, getting 100% on that $10 would be astounding as long as the risk of you disappearing isn't high.
that article's bullshit. Maybe it just so happens that "liberals" are a lot more fit to teach at a liberal arts college than "conservatives"? I'd bet you could find that most CEOs are republicans. Seriously, the article confuses correlation and causation.
"hmm...how can we hurl a stone farther? These catapults don't seem to work well enough."
"How about a tree-bucket?" "Ok, but let's call it a 'trebuchet' so that the women don't know what we're talking about til we've invented it."
yes, but if you have peanut allergies, you shouldn't be eating peanuts. It's not like you'd see the lack of warning, and assume then, that it's ok to eat them.
DeBeers. They captured the south African diamond market early last century, and then gave diamonds to famous actresses to make them more popular. They had a hard-driving advertising campaign that continues to this day, but in the 1800s and before, diamond wedding rings were nearly unheard of.
Seriously, other gems really are much prettier. Diamonds aren't even "forever". They can be incinerated, and there are harder substances than diamond...how would they cut them if there wasn't anything harder?
yes, but that's a CPU. Have they put out 64-bit PCs yet? No. Apple's the only company that's pushing 64-bit computing into the hands of the home user. Anyone who wants a powerful computer can buy a G5 tower.
right now, you need to know how to tear apart a PC and rebuild it to include an AMD 64-bit, and I don't even know if Windows XP supports it. You can damned well be sure OS X does.
People can brew their own beer and grow their own tobacco, but they don't. What makes you think everyone would grow their own weed? There's probably a lot of people who would just want to buy it in stores, especially in cities. People can also grow their own fruits and veggies, but look how many people actually do.
ignores the "web", or "internet" part of the action, as well as has a different connotation. "Log" to me sounds too official, like an error log, or a ship's log for a naval cruiser. Most "blogs" are actually journals, as they're not actually logging events. But then we get back to my original point about the words.
For better or worse (worse, I think), we're stuck with "blog". It's been coined, people use it, it's in the lexicon. Hopefully it'll pass quickly, just like the outrageously stupid "information superhighway".
You're confusing "random" with the interval. a system that produces only "yes" or "no" can be random, if the answer is unpredictable. You're saying that the set of numbers that a human can say is limited, but that doesn't change that a human can be random.
Sure, "pick a random integer", or "pick a random rational number" might be more accurate to ask a human, but they'd still give a random number. Even though the human probably would never pick a thirty-three digit number, it doesn't mean she can't, and there's no guarantee that the human will always pick their favorite number, either. A human-derived number would be categorized as "random, with unknown probabilities." However, every, single number that a human could say would have a non-zero chance of being said.
Random means "not reliably predictable." Sure, you can know that your best friend loves "5", and will say it more often than not, but she's random, with a high probability of saying "5". Most people will gravitate towards saying certain numbers more often, but you can't tell when they're gonna deviate, or to which number they will deviate. Trust me, unless you've god-like powers, a human will say a random number.
Chimps, however. Despite their vocal inabilities, they are very smart, and can even be taught rudimentary language. How long until we have chimps replacing humans for basic labor jobs? Then we'll have chimp rights, and then human-chimp equality.
The only vitamin that one can't get in a vegan diet is vitamin B12. Unless you're completely hardcore vegan, you can get that in supplements, or nutritional yeast.
It's hard to do vegan, but not nearly as impossible as your FUD might suggest. I wouldn't want to be a vegan in the hills of the South, but in a big city, I'm sure you could find many, many vegan restaurants and food stores to help you along.
By the way, I'm a vegetarian, and though I eat eggs and dairy, I do so sparingly, and I'm as healthy as I could possibly be. My only ailments are allergies which have nothing do to with my diet.
It's not hard to have excellent karma. I earned 18 points in one day once I decided to start posting. All you need is a sense of humor or the ability to make obvious comments (read: insightful), and to post them early enough and high enough in the comments that people will read them and mod them up.
are you new here?...asks the user with a UID that's more than 5 times that of mine.
No, I'm not new, but this latest entry is bad, even by regular Slashdot standards. There's not even a story here, it's a few links to a few scraps of text. Must be a slow day in the tech world. Perhaps they could find a story that'd explain why gas prices jumped 20 cents/gallon over the weekend? I'd like to know why.
sadly, there was a hole in the language available for "Blog" to fill, as a verb. "writing a journal entry" is too long for these buzz-word filled days. "journalling" doesn't sound right, and it's still too many syllables. "blogging" is short, and to the point.
That said, I hate the word, and it's also pretty inaccurate, as a weblog (the originator of the word 'blog) is a site like Slashdot, not a personal web journal.
Seriously. usually when there's a link on a word like "reports", I expect some sort of report, not just some guy's home-page, with a complete lack of report.
Maybe your dice are affected by physics, but my dice are theoretical and mathematical. I took a course in Probability and Statistics, and our dice always had a 1/6 chance of each value. Of course, we never rolled them, we just calculated probability.
My point was, excepting god-like knowledge of all physics affecting what the person will think of to say, there's no way of knowing what the person will come up with for a number, so it's random. The odds aren't necessarily equal, but it's random. This contrasts completely with the pseudo-random nature of computers, in which a human with no higher-being knowledge can determine what a computer-generated random number will be. Computers can be repeatedly seeded with the same value and will always generate the same number. Humans can't be "seeded", and they won't always generate the same number, unless they're brain-damaged or being annoying on purpose.
I would. I wouldn't consider it a guarantee, but unlike other companies, Google's not trying to branch into an "internet portal", they want to remain the best search engine. They actively do research, and that may keep them ahead of the pack. If someone offered me even money, I'd take that bet.
A human can easily generate a random number. It doesn't mean that every number has an equal probability, however. Just because there are uneven chances doesn't make it not random. A pair of dice is random, right? In the same vein, a human is random.
Computers are pseudo-random because you could predict what value would be output given the "seed".
Then you mean to say that most American "B.A." or "B.S." would be "Incomplete highest". It takes about 8 years of schooling after getting one's high-school diploma to earn a Ph.D. I'd say that's more than equivalent to 5-7 years of Russian university, nyet?
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I disagree. Within an organized religion, the deity is above the structure, not part of the structure.
The Pope is the top of the Catholic Church, as God is not a member of a Church. Similarly, Allah is not a Muslim, he is Allah.
That is far easier than the Battlerock and Dreadnaught Purple Coins challenges. Bouldergeist really isn't that hard if you've got any experience with platformers.
It depends on the risk of getting the $20. Given even a 10% return on investment is amazing, getting 100% on that $10 would be astounding as long as the risk of you disappearing isn't high.
...then it's probably your mom!
It refers to the flashing stop sign on the school bus. The IR light changer is limited to emergency vehicles.
that article's bullshit. Maybe it just so happens that "liberals" are a lot more fit to teach at a liberal arts college than "conservatives"? I'd bet you could find that most CEOs are republicans. Seriously, the article confuses correlation and causation.
"hmm...how can we hurl a stone farther? These catapults don't seem to work well enough."
"How about a tree-bucket?"
"Ok, but let's call it a 'trebuchet' so that the women don't know what we're talking about til we've invented it."
yes, but if you have peanut allergies, you shouldn't be eating peanuts. It's not like you'd see the lack of warning, and assume then, that it's ok to eat them.
DeBeers. They captured the south African diamond market early last century, and then gave diamonds to famous actresses to make them more popular. They had a hard-driving advertising campaign that continues to this day, but in the 1800s and before, diamond wedding rings were nearly unheard of.
Seriously, other gems really are much prettier. Diamonds aren't even "forever". They can be incinerated, and there are harder substances than diamond...how would they cut them if there wasn't anything harder?
yes, but that's a CPU. Have they put out 64-bit PCs yet? No. Apple's the only company that's pushing 64-bit computing into the hands of the home user. Anyone who wants a powerful computer can buy a G5 tower.
right now, you need to know how to tear apart a PC and rebuild it to include an AMD 64-bit, and I don't even know if Windows XP supports it. You can damned well be sure OS X does.
People can brew their own beer and grow their own tobacco, but they don't. What makes you think everyone would grow their own weed? There's probably a lot of people who would just want to buy it in stores, especially in cities. People can also grow their own fruits and veggies, but look how many people actually do.
Seems people totally forgot the G5. Sure, it's not the x86 architecture, and it's not Intel or AMD, but it's the first 64-bit PC.
ignores the "web", or "internet" part of the action, as well as has a different connotation. "Log" to me sounds too official, like an error log, or a ship's log for a naval cruiser. Most "blogs" are actually journals, as they're not actually logging events. But then we get back to my original point about the words.
For better or worse (worse, I think), we're stuck with "blog". It's been coined, people use it, it's in the lexicon. Hopefully it'll pass quickly, just like the outrageously stupid "information superhighway".
You're confusing "random" with the interval. a system that produces only "yes" or "no" can be random, if the answer is unpredictable. You're saying that the set of numbers that a human can say is limited, but that doesn't change that a human can be random.
Sure, "pick a random integer", or "pick a random rational number" might be more accurate to ask a human, but they'd still give a random number. Even though the human probably would never pick a thirty-three digit number, it doesn't mean she can't, and there's no guarantee that the human will always pick their favorite number, either. A human-derived number would be categorized as "random, with unknown probabilities." However, every, single number that a human could say would have a non-zero chance of being said.
Random means "not reliably predictable." Sure, you can know that your best friend loves "5", and will say it more often than not, but she's random, with a high probability of saying "5". Most people will gravitate towards saying certain numbers more often, but you can't tell when they're gonna deviate, or to which number they will deviate. Trust me, unless you've god-like powers, a human will say a random number.
-1 off-topic. Duh.
Chimps, however. Despite their vocal inabilities, they are very smart, and can even be taught rudimentary language. How long until we have chimps replacing humans for basic labor jobs? Then we'll have chimp rights, and then human-chimp equality.
The only vitamin that one can't get in a vegan diet is vitamin B12. Unless you're completely hardcore vegan, you can get that in supplements, or nutritional yeast.
It's hard to do vegan, but not nearly as impossible as your FUD might suggest. I wouldn't want to be a vegan in the hills of the South, but in a big city, I'm sure you could find many, many vegan restaurants and food stores to help you along.
By the way, I'm a vegetarian, and though I eat eggs and dairy, I do so sparingly, and I'm as healthy as I could possibly be. My only ailments are allergies which have nothing do to with my diet.
It's not hard to have excellent karma. I earned 18 points in one day once I decided to start posting. All you need is a sense of humor or the ability to make obvious comments (read: insightful), and to post them early enough and high enough in the comments that people will read them and mod them up.
Post quantity != post quality.
are you new here? ...asks the user with a UID that's more than 5 times that of mine.
No, I'm not new, but this latest entry is bad, even by regular Slashdot standards. There's not even a story here, it's a few links to a few scraps of text. Must be a slow day in the tech world. Perhaps they could find a story that'd explain why gas prices jumped 20 cents/gallon over the weekend? I'd like to know why.
sadly, there was a hole in the language available for "Blog" to fill, as a verb. "writing a journal entry" is too long for these buzz-word filled days. "journalling" doesn't sound right, and it's still too many syllables. "blogging" is short, and to the point.
That said, I hate the word, and it's also pretty inaccurate, as a weblog (the originator of the word 'blog) is a site like Slashdot, not a personal web journal.
Seriously. usually when there's a link on a word like "reports", I expect some sort of report, not just some guy's home-page, with a complete lack of report.
Maybe your dice are affected by physics, but my dice are theoretical and mathematical. I took a course in Probability and Statistics, and our dice always had a 1/6 chance of each value. Of course, we never rolled them, we just calculated probability.
My point was, excepting god-like knowledge of all physics affecting what the person will think of to say, there's no way of knowing what the person will come up with for a number, so it's random. The odds aren't necessarily equal, but it's random. This contrasts completely with the pseudo-random nature of computers, in which a human with no higher-being knowledge can determine what a computer-generated random number will be. Computers can be repeatedly seeded with the same value and will always generate the same number. Humans can't be "seeded", and they won't always generate the same number, unless they're brain-damaged or being annoying on purpose.
I would. I wouldn't consider it a guarantee, but unlike other companies, Google's not trying to branch into an "internet portal", they want to remain the best search engine. They actively do research, and that may keep them ahead of the pack. If someone offered me even money, I'd take that bet.
A human can easily generate a random number. It doesn't mean that every number has an equal probability, however. Just because there are uneven chances doesn't make it not random. A pair of dice is random, right? In the same vein, a human is random.
Computers are pseudo-random because you could predict what value would be output given the "seed".
Then you mean to say that most American "B.A." or "B.S." would be "Incomplete highest". It takes about 8 years of schooling after getting one's high-school diploma to earn a Ph.D. I'd say that's more than equivalent to 5-7 years of Russian university, nyet?