But it's sufficient to produce the complexity found in high-level structural pieces? It seems to me that ID proponents don't quite grasp the *scale* of the Earth, let alone the universe. Even if the probability of self-replicating molecules occurring by random chance in Earth's oceans at some point within a period of 4 billion years is infinitesimal (and given the size of earth, and the sheer mind-boggling length of time available, it's larger than you'd think) there are enough worlds in the universe that it's pretty much certain to happen *somewhere*. This just happens to be that somewhere.
Once you have self-replicating molecules, it's simply a matter of time and cosmic radiation.:P
Sounds good. I dunno about the trains and tracks thing though, since the trains get destroyed and recreated (cloned) at each junction).
I'd describe it as like a telephone network, where any computer can dial and talk to any other computer, but that's cheating because that's what it is.:P Maybe a better analogy would be a classroom with a bunch of kids (computers) passing notes (packets) to each other. If a kid passes a note to someone directly beside them (same subnet) then they can just reach over and drop it on their desk. If it needs to go to a kid on the opposite side of the room, they pass the note to their friend who passes it on.
Desktops are only more repairable if you have a geek-type house with a stash of spare parts. Try troubleshooting a desktop on a dirt floor in a mud hut and you'll find that it's a lot more delicate than a sealed unit. It looks to me like the OLPC is aiming at the sweet spot between 'rugged' and 'cheap', which will let the units get the maximum use per dollar in their target environment. Kind of like those kiddie computers you can buy (sealed unit, membrane keyboard, small LCD) but with enough grunt to be useful as an actual work or learning tool.
given that the topic of conversation is Nazis and germans though, you might just have made a REALLY funny pun with the word gaul:-P Quick, Getafix! Whip up a cauldron of magic free-speech potion!
It's interesting the way you suggest cost per hour as a measure of immersiveness or 'engrossment'. That's one of the justifications I used when I started playing WoW - sure, it costs AU$20/month, but if I get 10 hours of entertainment a week (a conservative estimate, back when I was single it was more like 40+ hours) that makes it one of the cheapest passtimes available on a per-hour basis. A list of things I do regularly:
$20+/hr: Dinner and a movie with teh GF (I'm old-fashioned, it would be cheaper if I let her pay:P )
$15+/hr: Drinking expensive booze while out with friends
$5.00/hr: Drinking cheap booze at home with friends
$0.50/hr: Bargain bin second-hand paperbacks
$0.50/hr: WoW (usually combined with 'drinking cheap booze at home with friends';)
$0.25/hr: 50 cent weekly movies on Wednesday
On that scale, the only thing that beats WoW in terms of bank for the buck is 50 cent weeklies, bless our local DVD shop. WoW is still more fun, though.:P
If I play Tetris (Tetris DS triggered it), then I dream Tetris. If I play Bejeweled, I dream Bejeweled (or Puzzle Quest, this past week). Totally with you here.:) Hell, I spent the whole time I was asleep last night DPSing in Deadmines, and I can't count the number of WSG games I've won while sleeping.:P
Also, the fever dream comment was interesting. I've always had really vivid gaming dreams when I've been sick, I guess it's because, being off work, I tend to spend the whole day playing games... Regardless, I've always seen dreaming about games as a sign that you're being fully immersed in the game world, and in my opinion you have to do that to get the most out of the game.
not to mention that they always try to prove stupid crap like [...] "it takes one to know one". Surely this is a good time to mention Unskilled and Unaware of It. It seems it does, indeed, take one to know one.:)
...until someone rear-ends someone else on the off-ramp while fiddling with their GPS trying to plot an alternate route, and the off-ramp backs up into the freeway, leaving you stuck in a massive traffic jam of your own devising.;)
I believe that the hypocrite governor of NJ is gonna be punished enough by getting that sort of injury from a crash. He might even stop being a hypocrite. Or, god help us all, he might 'take up the cause' and become one of those retards who campaign for 'zero tolerance' and national 80km/h limits and other such stupid ideas. We have one of those here in Australia, and together with his bot-net of 20 or so letter-writing drones he's always trying to impose his tin-pot automotive dictatorship on the rest of us.
Re:Social hack - use "bullfight" for "speed trap".
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Do you really expect someone to go out to each road, and try and determine the fastest allowable speed? It is a lot easier (cheaper) just to say, every one of these roads has X for a speed limit. Oddly enough, they don't seem to mind putting in the effort to *police* speed limits.
If we assume that each road will have a speed trap on it at least once, then they've *already got* the data to determine an appropriate speed limit as per the 85th percentile rule. Interestingly, as Wikipedia notes, "a review of available speed studies demonstrates that the posted speed limit is almost always set well below the 85th-percentile speed by as much as 8 to 12 mph (see p.88)." This indicates that in a vast majority of cases, speed limits are set according to political rather than safety concerns.
Now, you could possibly argue that it only needs to be able to recognize 1 person or at most 2, you and "not you", as once it determines it is not you the system does not care about the specific identify. Still, until they get that number to 100% it's going to be more hassle than it's worth, especially at a place with a 3 attempt lockout policy or the like. It's simply the suspenders part of a belt-and-suspenders system. If more than one person knows your password, you have problems regardless. But unless they mimic your typing well enough as well, when you get back from lunch break you get a 'three unauthorized login attempts with correct password' message and you think 'oh shit, I'd better change my password and this time not write it on a post-it note and stick it on my monitor.'
Come to think of it, it's kind of a honeypot for leaked passwords. At worst it tells you your typing's funny and you have to retry a few times. At best it will alert you to social engineering attempts before they cause data leakage/lossage.
Now along comes the Internet, and Oh Crap! Jonny Football Hero can't physically bully Nedrick the Nerd anymore, or he's going to have himself photoshopped into a very compromising position and plastered on the bathroom walls. Actually, I believe the problem is that now Jonny Football Hero can not only beat the crap outta Nedrick the Nerd, but that in the unlikely event that school staff interfere, can simply do so outside of school and record the whole incident on his phone. Then he forwards the video to everyone in the class, prints posters of Ned's head being flushed, and generally makes sure that Ned never EVER forgets not to do Jonny's homework. Never underestimate the ability of vindictive children to adopt new technology, it's on par with that of the Ministry of Defense.
How would that work if...? How about if...? What do you do with someone accused of something? Then the situation would have been different. For a 12-year-old accused of a bomb threat, incarceration until further notice on the strength of dubious reasoning definitely seems harsh.
Fact 1: The hoax call was made at time X.
Fact 2: The boy's home number made a call, also at time X.
Even if the times had been right, that's not enough evidence to convict him of anything without further investigation.
I remember a paper at a conference I went to once that addressed exactly this problem; matching video clips. It turns out that the lengths of each individual scene in a movie gives a pretty good identifier for the clip. This is simple to calculate (just detect whole-image cuts, if you want to get smart about it then detect wipes and fades as well), universal (not affected by hue/saturation/luminance filters, codec and only minimally by framerate) and apparently works pretty well. Think the way CDDB identifies CDs, but CDs with at least tens, usually hundreds of tracks.
I'm sitting here spamming refresh on the Random Kitten Generator... Damn you! As a member of the aforementioned 18-35 straight males, that is NOT a web site I want to be busted spamming refresh on at work.:P
(which BTW is the cutest site ever) Quoted for truth. >.>
What always really used to annoy me was getting v1agr4 spam when I was single. Insensitive clods. >:/
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Whoever moderated this 'Redundant' is clearly insane.
There can never be too many boobs.
But it's sufficient to produce the complexity found in high-level structural pieces? It seems to me that ID proponents don't quite grasp the *scale* of the Earth, let alone the universe. Even if the probability of self-replicating molecules occurring by random chance in Earth's oceans at some point within a period of 4 billion years is infinitesimal (and given the size of earth, and the sheer mind-boggling length of time available, it's larger than you'd think) there are enough worlds in the universe that it's pretty much certain to happen *somewhere*. This just happens to be that somewhere.
:P
Once you have self-replicating molecules, it's simply a matter of time and cosmic radiation.
Sounds good. I dunno about the trains and tracks thing though, since the trains get destroyed and recreated (cloned) at each junction).
:P Maybe a better analogy would be a classroom with a bunch of kids (computers) passing notes (packets) to each other. If a kid passes a note to someone directly beside them (same subnet) then they can just reach over and drop it on their desk. If it needs to go to a kid on the opposite side of the room, they pass the note to their friend who passes it on.
I'd describe it as like a telephone network, where any computer can dial and talk to any other computer, but that's cheating because that's what it is.
Desktops are only more repairable if you have a geek-type house with a stash of spare parts. Try troubleshooting a desktop on a dirt floor in a mud hut and you'll find that it's a lot more delicate than a sealed unit. It looks to me like the OLPC is aiming at the sweet spot between 'rugged' and 'cheap', which will let the units get the maximum use per dollar in their target environment. Kind of like those kiddie computers you can buy (sealed unit, membrane keyboard, small LCD) but with enough grunt to be useful as an actual work or learning tool.
It's interesting the way you suggest cost per hour as a measure of immersiveness or 'engrossment'. That's one of the justifications I used when I started playing WoW - sure, it costs AU$20/month, but if I get 10 hours of entertainment a week (a conservative estimate, back when I was single it was more like 40+ hours) that makes it one of the cheapest passtimes available on a per-hour basis. A list of things I do regularly:
:P )
;)
:P
$20+/hr: Dinner and a movie with teh GF (I'm old-fashioned, it would be cheaper if I let her pay
$15+/hr: Drinking expensive booze while out with friends
$5.00/hr: Drinking cheap booze at home with friends
$0.50/hr: Bargain bin second-hand paperbacks
$0.50/hr: WoW (usually combined with 'drinking cheap booze at home with friends'
$0.25/hr: 50 cent weekly movies on Wednesday
On that scale, the only thing that beats WoW in terms of bank for the buck is 50 cent weeklies, bless our local DVD shop. WoW is still more fun, though.
Also, the fever dream comment was interesting. I've always had really vivid gaming dreams when I've been sick, I guess it's because, being off work, I tend to spend the whole day playing games... Regardless, I've always seen dreaming about games as a sign that you're being fully immersed in the game world, and in my opinion you have to do that to get the most out of the game.
Actually, according to this, they do.
Well not really, but you get the gist.
Yarr, me link be taken by ninjas!
Has anyone seen Rexxar? -_-
Believe it or not, it does sometimes happen, sometimes even to slashdotters.
:D
*smug grin*
...until someone rear-ends someone else on the off-ramp while fiddling with their GPS trying to plot an alternate route, and the off-ramp backs up into the freeway, leaving you stuck in a massive traffic jam of your own devising. ;)
If we assume that each road will have a speed trap on it at least once, then they've *already got* the data to determine an appropriate speed limit as per the 85th percentile rule. Interestingly, as Wikipedia notes, "a review of available speed studies demonstrates that the posted speed limit is almost always set well below the 85th-percentile speed by as much as 8 to 12 mph (see p.88)." This indicates that in a vast majority of cases, speed limits are set according to political rather than safety concerns.
Tossing the caber, and curling, respectively. I'm surprised you didn't associate it with kernalling, as performed by many core Linux developers.
Movies of homocidal violence, however, for some reason, do not.
Come to think of it, it's kind of a honeypot for leaked passwords. At worst it tells you your typing's funny and you have to retry a few times. At best it will alert you to social engineering attempts before they cause data leakage/lossage.
So, you are saying that mud doesn't stick and thus it should be legal to throw it?
Fact 1: The hoax call was made at time X.
Fact 2: The boy's home number made a call, also at time X.
Even if the times had been right, that's not enough evidence to convict him of anything without further investigation.
I remember a paper at a conference I went to once that addressed exactly this problem; matching video clips. It turns out that the lengths of each individual scene in a movie gives a pretty good identifier for the clip. This is simple to calculate (just detect whole-image cuts, if you want to get smart about it then detect wipes and fades as well), universal (not affected by hue/saturation/luminance filters, codec and only minimally by framerate) and apparently works pretty well. Think the way CDDB identifies CDs, but CDs with at least tens, usually hundreds of tracks.
At least you won't have to skip work to compete in the fishing contest... :P
What always really used to annoy me was getting v1agr4 spam when I was single. Insensitive clods. >:/