No one should be allowed to run for re-election if they *EVER* voted in a bill that became an unconstitutional law. The president should be impeached (even if he doesn't get kicked out) for signing a new law which violates the highest in this country. Signing an unconstitutional law into being should be just as high if not higher on the list than bonking Monkey Lewinski.
At the very least congress-persons should be suspended for a period immediately after. The state that loses their vote will think twice about being *stupid* in the future.
Of course it would make congress-persons think at least twice whether or not the lobby money is worth it, but they'd probably just up their sellout price.
Its not a checks and balances if anyone can do what they want until (and if ever) someone has enough money or time to actually fight a "silly" law. That's just chaos with an upper bounds.
I don't know about you people, but the picture of the foggy baby that you can walk through gives me the heebie jeebies. There's a reason I stay away from dropping acid, and its not because I'm afraid to get addicted or something. It's because seeing really freaky weird stuff or seeing freaky weird stuff as a ghostly image scares the poop out of me.
Geez! I can just imagine this with doom. I jumped enough with my 14 inch display, I can do without it being life size and ghostly.
The CS developers just held a contest for this precise reason. When the contest results are announced, you should find games' links on the result site. (For the purpose of the contest all games are open source of some kind.)
however this could help with choosing those two large primes for RSA (although I think the algorithms used these days are already highly efficient at finding relatively prime numbers which is all that actually matters)
Then why aren't people suing the TV Guide for deep linking infringment. And yes you can record TV and quite often you can find archivals of TV that may or may not actually have been collected by the original producer of the show.
If its broadcast on publicly available wavelengths (or electrons) its publicly availabe.
Move this tech over to the heart, liver, kidneys, whatever, and NOW you've got the "holy grail of immunology"
Leave it to a software guy to claim the fix of the problem is to upgrade the hardware underneath!:) What a kludge this "human" software must be... (I'm not even going to mention the security concerns with all its open ports!)
well unless wolfram is correct:) Then you could fit it into automata... and pseudo-code and heuristics for that matter (but those two are cheating based on the first premise:)
You know... almost this entire argument could be made for why video games aren't as mature as movies... good eye candy, but no killer story to tag along with it. I guess there's game play, but I think that could mature in the same way... sorry... I'll stop being off topic now.
That's why I have a black keyboard... whatever oils are on my hands that could be discoloring my keys are just... well they do make the light reflect kinda funny actually... especially on the home row... those keys look especially slick... gross...
I mean.. what could be more therapeutic after driving home through countless retards on the road called "drivers" with cellphones or whatnot... and then coming home... pulling them out of their cars beating the blood out of them... and then making designs in the pavement with your bloody footprints... oh and steal their car and money!!:) I love it.
A radio station out here did the same kind of thing, except what they did is play really good music non-stop. Zero commercials and zero dj time, and only brief station identifications... Man... that was cool. The station is okay, but its nothing like a non-commercial paradise... too bad that stuff only happens in dreams... (or promotionals)
That's precisely what freenet is (sorry I don't know the link... I'm so bad at being a geek). Although "easy to do" probably doesn't apply there. Of course its just for porn and warez... not like the removal of unsolicited everything (ie demographic, adverts, spies... etc)
Heh. We should remove the use of the word free or open and use solicited... people'd probably have to take a moment to think what that means... and then they'd GNU/Getit.
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It's not possible to send both socks in a pair into one of these parallel universes. I'm not sure which law of physics this would falls under.
Matter/Anti-Matter, its probably the same place Hawkings got his idea for matter emitting black holes. You're a genius in the making.
Man is a thinking creature and has choices about what he or she allows to happen.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in? Man, all you gotta do is spend a day with the people around here to know that's not true. And the women aren't much better.
I personally find my lack of faith in the thinking man myth emperical.:)
I'm not really a big RTS gamer (frankly, I suck at them), but these are the complaints I hear most often. A "fun" game is one in which there is more than 1 viable strategy.
Game theory is that there's only ever 1 perfect strategy, despite the game (ever see A Beautiful Mind? that guy)
What's important is that the perfect game is hard to find. Like in Chess. There are more possible games of chess then there are people in the universe for all time to play them. Or at least pretty close.
Anyway I agree. Personally I think the solution is increased complexity, but then that removes the LCD with purchasing power buying the game. Ask any dynamics expert, an increase in complexity is a decrease in predictability. And lower predictability means harder time nailing down the flawless strategy...
Because the user has access to the source code, it's possible for him to make the modifications himself. In fact, the GPL encourages this. So chances are, he won't pay someone else to do it.
Not if he's some small ma'n'pa shop who knows how to sell antiques and would really like to inventory on a machine, but doesn't want to get a batch of source and try to figure out what the word compile means.
Only large corporations will be interested in this, and only if the corporation has an insufficient internal IT staff to do the job itself.
Large corporations are probably the only entity *with* an internal IT staff.
The end-user will only pay for help using the program if he can't figure it out himself. However, the easier the software is to use, the less help the user will need. That's what the term "ease-of-use" is all about. So the developer has an incentive to make the software hard to use, to improve the likelihood that the customer will pay for support. In other words, the pay-for-support-only model is completely contrary to making the software easy to use! The ramifications of this are astounding. It results in a business model that encourages making the product difficult to use, but not too difficult that people won't use it.
This is definitely one way to look at it, and I don't really have an argument against that because I think some people really do operate that way. However, working in one of those corporate development positions I can speak directly to my users. Even with this much involved, we still have to take time after each delivery to explain what's changed in this version and what's new. Not because we made it difficult for them to use, that wastes alot of our time, but because they haven't seen this before and the new features they wanted in this release aren't going to be sticking out at them like the Paperclip (because our users aren't stupid enough to request a paperclip...)
Selling support to a large corporation probably isn't going to work, but selling a corporation on the idea that they wouldn't need a large internal support unit may.
How so? I paid for a license (a while back now, so I haven't renewed any) and I'd be delighted in it being open sourced. I paid because I wanted NaN to be profitable and keep working on the product. I don't have time to work on a full 3d modeller myself, but I have plenty of use for one, so I'll pay someone else to work on it.
Of course now I feel guilty I didn't pay more, hope they do open it and hope someone with more time than I works on it.
This guy http://www.q12.org/phd-movies.html did a physical body *and* made it walk with artificial controls. (And he's developed a library for the physics called ODE which makes doing a body falling down stairs about a days work, maybe half.)
Is anything sufficiently complex enough to emulate any other language. Roughly this is the Church/Turing hypothesis for maximum expressibility... if you can't express another language, then you're language isn't very powerful.
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At the very least congress-persons should be suspended for a period immediately after. The state that loses their vote will think twice about being *stupid* in the future.
Of course it would make congress-persons think at least twice whether or not the lobby money is worth it, but they'd probably just up their sellout price.
Its not a checks and balances if anyone can do what they want until (and if ever) someone has enough money or time to actually fight a "silly" law. That's just chaos with an upper bounds.
Geez! I can just imagine this with doom. I jumped enough with my 14 inch display, I can do without it being life size and ghostly.
I get the feeling this "article" was dictated through a cell phone
however this could help with choosing those two large primes for RSA (although I think the algorithms used these days are already highly efficient at finding relatively prime numbers which is all that actually matters)
I think MC escher was being cool. The space was an "Etc..." :)
If its broadcast on publicly available wavelengths (or electrons) its publicly availabe.
Leave it to a software guy to claim the fix of the problem is to upgrade the hardware underneath! :) What a kludge this "human" software must be... (I'm not even going to mention the security concerns with all its open ports!)
Yeah... and I'm sure there won't be a million copies of those sold either.
well unless wolfram is correct :) Then you could fit it into automata... and pseudo-code and heuristics for that matter (but those two are cheating based on the first premise :)
You know ... almost this entire argument could be made for why video games aren't as mature as movies... good eye candy, but no killer story to tag along with it. I guess there's game play, but I think that could mature in the same way... sorry... I'll stop being off topic now.
Nevermind.
I mean .. what could be more therapeutic after driving home through countless retards on the road called "drivers" with cellphones or whatnot ... and then coming home... pulling them out of their cars beating the blood out of them ... and then making designs in the pavement with your bloody footprints... oh and steal their car and money!! :) I love it.
A radio station out here did the same kind of thing, except what they did is play really good music non-stop. Zero commercials and zero dj time, and only brief station identifications... Man ... that was cool. The station is okay, but its nothing like a non-commercial paradise... too bad that stuff only happens in dreams... (or promotionals)
I knew he sounded a bit too much like OOG THE CAVEMAN... now that's the kind of conspiracy I could get into ...
Am I the only one who thinks slashdot conspiracies alone would make a really great season of the xfiles... or lonegunmen or something... oh well ...
Heh. We should remove the use of the word free or open and use solicited... people'd probably have to take a moment to think what that means... and then they'd GNU/Getit.
Matter/Anti-Matter, its probably the same place Hawkings got his idea for matter emitting black holes. You're a genius in the making.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in? Man, all you gotta do is spend a day with the people around here to know that's not true. And the women aren't much better.
I personally find my lack of faith in the thinking man myth emperical. :)
Game theory is that there's only ever 1 perfect strategy, despite the game (ever see A Beautiful Mind? that guy)
What's important is that the perfect game is hard to find. Like in Chess. There are more possible games of chess then there are people in the universe for all time to play them. Or at least pretty close.
Anyway I agree. Personally I think the solution is increased complexity, but then that removes the LCD with purchasing power buying the game. Ask any dynamics expert, an increase in complexity is a decrease in predictability. And lower predictability means harder time nailing down the flawless strategy...
Then again, it could still be rushing
I'd buy that twice as fast as subscribe my eyes from ads
Not if he's some small ma'n'pa shop who knows how to sell antiques and would really like to inventory on a machine, but doesn't want to get a batch of source and try to figure out what the word compile means.
Only large corporations will be interested in this, and only if the corporation has an insufficient internal IT staff to do the job itself.
Large corporations are probably the only entity *with* an internal IT staff.
The end-user will only pay for help using the program if he can't figure it out himself. However, the easier the software is to use, the less help the user will need. That's what the term "ease-of-use" is all about. So the developer has an incentive to make the software hard to use, to improve the likelihood that the customer will pay for support. In other words, the pay-for-support-only model is completely contrary to making the software easy to use! The ramifications of this are astounding. It results in a business model that encourages making the product difficult to use, but not too difficult that people won't use it.
This is definitely one way to look at it, and I don't really have an argument against that because I think some people really do operate that way. However, working in one of those corporate development positions I can speak directly to my users. Even with this much involved, we still have to take time after each delivery to explain what's changed in this version and what's new. Not because we made it difficult for them to use, that wastes alot of our time, but because they haven't seen this before and the new features they wanted in this release aren't going to be sticking out at them like the Paperclip (because our users aren't stupid enough to request a paperclip...)
Selling support to a large corporation probably isn't going to work, but selling a corporation on the idea that they wouldn't need a large internal support unit may.
How so? I paid for a license (a while back now, so I haven't renewed any) and I'd be delighted in it being open sourced. I paid because I wanted NaN to be profitable and keep working on the product. I don't have time to work on a full 3d modeller myself, but I have plenty of use for one, so I'll pay someone else to work on it.
Of course now I feel guilty I didn't pay more, hope they do open it and hope someone with more time than I works on it.
This guy http://www.q12.org/phd-movies.html did a physical body *and* made it walk with artificial controls. (And he's developed a library for the physics called ODE which makes doing a body falling down stairs about a days work, maybe half.)
Don't you mean 4.000000000000000000000001 days ago?
Is anything sufficiently complex enough to emulate any other language. Roughly this is the Church/Turing hypothesis for maximum expressibility... if you can't express another language, then you're language isn't very powerful.