Have you ever listened to synthesized music and cringed a little because it was too perfect? I always have that feeling with synthesized trumpets, french horns, etc. I like the variation that "imperfect" humans add to the music. If the robot is always perfectly in time and can't improvise, it won't be replacing good guitarists anytime soon.
Just try not to get annoyed when a story you submitted a week ago gets rejected, but the same story submitted today gets accepted... with a grammatical error or two thrown in for fun.
I find your story kind of interesting. This year I taught trigonometry to regular level geometry students in two ways - by using a trig table and by using their calculator. About half the class liked using the trig tables, the other half liked using their calculators. I think the teacher's goal was right, but his explanation was a little off - you should be able to use data appearing in different contexts. It sounds simplistic, but I think it's important to realize that when you're looking at a log table and when you're hitting the log key on your calculator, you're essentially doing the same thing (as far as the user is concerned).
Sig response: Actually, yes mine is - thanks for asking!
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It's actually both:
From the text (how did I get marked redundant in my first post, even if I did screw up the url somehow):
In the hope that these events have resulted from your inadvertence rather than your deliberate actions, we propose the following:
1. We demand that you cease and desist using our search service in a manner that is not authorized by our Terms of Service. This includes, but is not limited to, (1) no longer sending automated queries to www.google.com, or other affiliated sites, and (2) no longer using search results from www.google.com or other affiliated sites, except in accordance with our terms of service and this letter. This applies to the GoogleNews menubar interface to Google News as well as any other products or sites that you operate or control.
2. We demand that you cease and desist using the mark GoogleNews or any other mark or name that incorporates our famous GOOGLE mark or any similar marks.
3. If you remain interested in providing our award-winning search services to your users, we suggest you visit the variety of programs we offer at http://www.google.com/services/.
All we're doing is putting it in the platform. So I'm just saying, can you criticize us for having a platform that allows bits--bits, just bits; not music, not movies, not medical records, not tech things--to have any usage restriction for bits. Are we doing a disfavor to the world at large by saying some of our users, when they choose to--maybe for medical records--they can limit the accessibility of those bits?
Ah, but here is lies the classic folly. Currently, people have to decide if what they are doing is within the realms of fair use, such as copying a page from a book so they can cut out a favorite paragraph from the book and read it at presentation. DRM says that a machine has to decide if what I'm doing constitutes fair use. What happens when the computer doesn't understand my situation? Like with smart guns, if I'm wrestling with a criminal for their weapon and I manage to get it away from them, I won't be able to use it to defend myself! It's not just managing bits anymore Bill, it's managing our lives.
My poor linux box - I felt so secure and then this little worm gets out. Thank god I had some recent backups, otherwise this would have really sucked. I guess it's alright though - you have to get rooted one time before you really understand how vulnerable the internet makes all of us.
I mean, if parents can't decide if their child should live or die, what control over their offsprings' lives do they really have? That damn state, meddling in the affairs of the family again...
I played this old SNES game for the first time this summer, and it had this really tough puzzle near the end that I solved the first time using a walkthrough, but I thought it would be interesting to write a program that would find the shortest solution... and so I did! Source code and working java applet provided:
Slashdot Mirror
Secret Service at your door in 5.. 4...
Ouch, you must be on dial-up. My condolences. Maybe you can write google and see if they can do an ascii version to speed up the downloads.
I can't believe that didn't make the top ten.
Have you ever listened to synthesized music and cringed a little because it was too perfect? I always have that feeling with synthesized trumpets, french horns, etc. I like the variation that "imperfect" humans add to the music. If the robot is always perfectly in time and can't improvise, it won't be replacing good guitarists anytime soon.
Just try not to get annoyed when a story you submitted a week ago gets rejected, but the same story submitted today gets accepted... with a grammatical error or two thrown in for fun.
I think they're missing a colon after Dell.
I find your story kind of interesting. This year I taught trigonometry to regular level geometry students in two ways - by using a trig table and by using their calculator. About half the class liked using the trig tables, the other half liked using their calculators. I think the teacher's goal was right, but his explanation was a little off - you should be able to use data appearing in different contexts. It sounds simplistic, but I think it's important to realize that when you're looking at a log table and when you're hitting the log key on your calculator, you're essentially doing the same thing (as far as the user is concerned).
I believe that's the molecular structure for caffeine.
It is also capable of taking biometric measurements and transmitting them PCs and handheld devices.
My biometric information will love to have a PC transmitted to it! Can I get one as well?I mean, it's a thing... did everyone get that - it's a cool thing!
A thing I tell you!
Sig response: Actually, yes mine is - thanks for asking!
It's actually both:
From the text (how did I get marked redundant in my first post, even if I did screw up the url somehow):
In the hope that these events have resulted from your inadvertence rather than your deliberate actions, we propose the following:
1. We demand that you cease and desist using our search service in a manner that is not authorized by our Terms of Service. This includes, but is not limited to, (1) no longer sending automated queries to www.google.com, or other affiliated sites, and (2) no longer using search results from
www.google.com or other affiliated sites, except in accordance with our terms of service and this letter. This applies to the GoogleNews menubar interface to Google News as well as any other products or sites that you operate or control.
2. We demand that you cease and desist using the mark GoogleNews or any other mark or name that incorporates our famous GOOGLE mark or any similar marks.
3. If you remain interested in providing our award-winning search services to your users, we suggest you visit the variety of programs we offer at http://www.google.com/services/.
Here's a website with both txt and pdf of the order to pull my app that parsed google news:
http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/gn/gn.html/
- Nice interface for creating a new account
- Password can't have characters (boo)
- Birthdate has to be MM/DD/YY instead of MM/DD/YYYY
Now... I have to find someone to call for free...
I always thought they would spank the human, to be honest.
Sounds like what the judges will be doing while they hear the case :(
Maybe it's because they've realized George Bush not only attended, but actually graduated from an Ivy League School.
All we're doing is putting it in the platform. So I'm just saying, can you criticize us for having a platform that allows bits--bits, just bits; not music, not movies, not medical records, not tech things--to have any usage restriction for bits. Are we doing a disfavor to the world at large by saying some of our users, when they choose to--maybe for medical records--they can limit the accessibility of those bits?
Ah, but here is lies the classic folly. Currently, people have to decide if what they are doing is within the realms of fair use, such as copying a page from a book so they can cut out a favorite paragraph from the book and read it at presentation. DRM says that a machine has to decide if what I'm doing constitutes fair use. What happens when the computer doesn't understand my situation? Like with smart guns, if I'm wrestling with a criminal for their weapon and I manage to get it away from them, I won't be able to use it to defend myself! It's not just managing bits anymore Bill, it's managing our lives.
Does it run linux?
Or there are more qualified people applying then there are positions to fill.
In what way is Apple FORCING you to use AAC? It's not like you can play mp3's on your iPod as well. Oh wait...
Also, you can use your iPod as a firewire drive - I do it all the time to transfer files. There's no DRM involved in there at all.
What's in the iPod is the ability to play DRM'd music, not the requirement to play DRM'd music. There's a big difference there.
My poor linux box - I felt so secure and then this little worm gets out. Thank god I had some recent backups, otherwise this would have really sucked. I guess it's alright though - you have to get rooted one time before you really understand how vulnerable the internet makes all of us.
I mean, if parents can't decide if their child should live or die, what control over their offsprings' lives do they really have? That damn state, meddling in the affairs of the family again...
I played this old SNES game for the first time this summer, and it had this really tough puzzle near the end that I solved the first time using a walkthrough, but I thought it would be interesting to write a program that would find the shortest solution... and so I did! Source code and working java applet provided:
f f_ puzzle.html
http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/diff_puzzle/di
I'd rather see 'national parks' on uranus first.
Thank you, thank you.