Apparently these are grandmaster level players being accused.
Your comment intrigued me, so I googled chess program strength. The impression that I got was that chess programs have gotten significantly better in just the past few years at evaluating the strength of a position, allowing them to be very aggressive in pruning the search tree.
This is pulled from wikipedia:
Chess engines continue to improve. In 2009 chess engines running on slower hardware have reached the grandmaster level. A mobile phone won a category 6 tournament with a performance rating 2898: chess engine Hiarcs 13 running inside Pocket Fritz 4 on the mobile phone HTC Touch HD won the Copa Mercosur tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina with 9 wins and 1 draw on August 4–14, 2009.[16] Pocket Fritz 4 searches fewer than 20,000 positions per second.[17] This is in contrast to supercomputers such as Deep Blue that searched 200 million positions per second.
I'm one of the people who don't use it that rip on it. However, I'm not totally unreasonable. My impression is that Vista is basically XP with the addition of
Aero is pretty, but I probably don't need video hardware that can run it for anything else (I spend almost all my time in emacs and a web browser, so I never waste money on a powerful video card) So the choice is either turn it off or spend a lot on unnecessary hardware
What it boils down to is I would turn off all the new features that I know of in Vista. If I'm going to do that, I might as well run XP (If I have to run windows that is).
Since you're happy with vista, I'd be interested to know what new features you use. Thanks in advance.
Most of the protests have more to do with the oppression of the Chinese government and lack of religious freedom than the fact that China conquered Tibet. The Dalai Lama himself has said he doesn't want independence, though he does want more freedoms and local authority.
I don't see why China's dominion is evil while ours is not.
Imperialism is wrong whoever engages in it. The difference is, Puerto Ricans aren't being religiously persecuted by the US government, and if they wanted independence, the US would give it to them. (That's the stated position of all the candidates for President anyway. Sure they could be lying, but I can't think of any way that's in their interests.) If there are human rights abuses going on in Puerto Rico that I am unaware of, I would appreciate information.
They revolt out of nationalistic pride, but in reality they are better off with China's modernizations.
Who are you to decide what the Tibetan people are better off with? How do you know the motives of an entire ethnic group? Were the Tibetan people really better off starving to death during the Great Leap Forward? Are they better off being driven to minority status in their own homeland by China's immigration policies? Are they better off without political and religious freedoms? It's impossible to know what the Tibetans would have done if left to their own devices, but it's at least possible that they would have modernized on their own.
What about the great firewall? Why do we even care?
Because censorship is evil.
...China is protecting it political and economic goods. Thanks to the great firewall, Chinese corporations boom within their subset of the internet, PLUS they don't have to worry about their people embracing the American fascist economic policies because their websites are prettier. Free markets are good, and don't Godwin yourself!
I would not have thought it possible to spread a virus like this. Sure you could put the virus on the dvd, but when will it get executed? Wouldn't you have to exploit vulnerabilities unique to each dvd decoder?
I know its a pretty reasonable assumption that nobody will read the summary or the article, but come on... The summary says it's likely to become another piece of space junk. The entire last paragraph of the article concerns plans to deorbit the satellite, and claims that everyone involved is "eager to splash the satellite within days".
Wikipedia policy explicitly forbids posting original research. Why do authors want journals to give them the right to post things on wikipedia against wikipedia's policy?
You might find it interesting that the IEBlog entry hints that they were actually thinking about such things:
While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue. Of course, I concede the point in the general case that the slashdot editors do try to generate traffic in the way you describe. This is the exception that proves the rule.
What security tasks did you propose to the assistants in the shop? Was it a random store, or one of the apple stores? If it was the Apple Store, were you just talking to the sales reps, or did you get to talk to a "Mac Genius"?
Why are pictures of Muhammad worse than other pictures of people? I'm not trying to "call out" Muslims here; I'm truly curious. All of the references I've read give a blanket declaration against all pictures or at least all pictures depicting living things. The problem according to your own sources with making pictures is that it is imitating the creative act of the divine. To me it seems that a Picasso, or a cartoon about Barack Obama, or a painting of George Washington are all imitating that creative act too. Yet, art museums, history books, and newspapers don't hear from Muslims unless Muhammad is involved.
I hadn't heard that the passengers reported suspicious behavior and were ignored. That's really shocking to me; the most shocking part is that it wasn't much reported. Do you have a source? Also, from your sig, how do you figure that p10e-11 for innocent people being held in Guantanamo? I mean, I'm pretty certain there are innocent people in Gitmo, but how do you derive probability for something like that?
What tools do you use for data recovery? Are you recovering from a situation where the data is still on the disk but the data structures that point to the data are gone, or has the data itself been overwritten? Thanks in advance.
The methodology takes efficiency into account. For every type of land use and every country there are individual yield factors calculated so that comparisons can be made even though efficiency varies widely around the world. Here's what I'm looking at: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/download.php?id=4.
Poor people have the heaviest environmental impact? That's just blatantly false. The fact of the matter is, rich people use an order of magnitude more stuff than poor people. See here for pointers to sources.
I don't think so. What you get is applications built with KDE's libraries, like amarok and koffice. What's been ported is the libraries that build the widgets in the gui and do interprocess communication and provide other services for people who are making KDE applications. What's not been ported is the compositing effects - those happen on a lower level, and are much more dependent on X.
Call me crazy, but vaccinating bats seems a lot harder than vaccinating humans. We know more about human physiology, and we know how to vaccinate a human population. OTOH no one has ever vaccinated an entire wild population of an animal. Bats would seem to be a very difficult first attempt!
You also mentioned eradicating bats. The endangered species act makes that illegal in the United States. But putting aside the legal restrictions, eradicating all bats would most likely have consequences we don't foresee. At least initially, changes in the bat population will cause changes in the populations of bat's predators and prey. With no bats to eat them, we might suddenly have orders of magnitude more mosquitoes. Especially in Africa (where Ebola outbreaks actually occur), mosquitoes are a vector for diseases including Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever and West Nile Virus.
I assume the public is not making a technical decision, or a safety evaluation, but an ethical choice. The majority of people don't object to these hybrids on ethical grounds, so they are to able to continue because, as we all know, what is popular is always right.
What exactly are the Binary Formats? Surely this isn't the complete spec of all doc, xls, and ppt files? To what extent does this address technical issues with OOXML?
It is a huge investment to switch, however a new scripting language also creates a reason to upgrade. They ran out of new things to add that typical users see back in 2003. So in 2k7 they scrap the gui. People see something new and shiny and think they need it. Microsoft can't really justify doing that twice in a row, so they're going to switch scripting languages. If they can create the perception that "everyone's doing it" and you need the new vba to work with other people who have upgraded, they will have created a reason to buy office again.
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Apparently these are grandmaster level players being accused.
Your comment intrigued me, so I googled chess program strength. The impression that I got was that chess programs have gotten significantly better in just the past few years at evaluating the strength of a position, allowing them to be very aggressive in pruning the search tree.
This is pulled from wikipedia:
Chess engines continue to improve. In 2009 chess engines running on slower hardware have reached the grandmaster level. A mobile phone won a category 6 tournament with a performance rating 2898: chess engine Hiarcs 13 running inside Pocket Fritz 4 on the mobile phone HTC Touch HD won the Copa Mercosur tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina with 9 wins and 1 draw on August 4–14, 2009.[16] Pocket Fritz 4 searches fewer than 20,000 positions per second.[17] This is in contrast to supercomputers such as Deep Blue that searched 200 million positions per second.
- DirectX10
- UAC
- Aero
I don't want any of those features. since- I don't play games, but even if I did, I've seen more than one article critical of the performance, quality and cost - here's an example: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/09/0244212
- You yourself turned off UAC, and
- Aero is pretty, but I probably don't need video hardware that can run it for anything else (I spend almost all my time in emacs and a web browser, so I never waste money on a powerful video card) So the choice is either turn it off or spend a lot on unnecessary hardware
What it boils down to is I would turn off all the new features that I know of in Vista. If I'm going to do that, I might as well run XP (If I have to run windows that is). Since you're happy with vista, I'd be interested to know what new features you use. Thanks in advance.
...making your skin do photosynthesis... I for one, welcome our new green-skinned overlords.Most of the protests have more to do with the oppression of the Chinese government and lack of religious freedom than the fact that China conquered Tibet. The Dalai Lama himself has said he doesn't want independence, though he does want more freedoms and local authority.
I don't see why China's dominion is evil while ours is not.Imperialism is wrong whoever engages in it. The difference is, Puerto Ricans aren't being religiously persecuted by the US government, and if they wanted independence, the US would give it to them. (That's the stated position of all the candidates for President anyway. Sure they could be lying, but I can't think of any way that's in their interests.) If there are human rights abuses going on in Puerto Rico that I am unaware of, I would appreciate information.
They revolt out of nationalistic pride, but in reality they are better off with China's modernizations.Who are you to decide what the Tibetan people are better off with? How do you know the motives of an entire ethnic group? Were the Tibetan people really better off starving to death during the Great Leap Forward? Are they better off being driven to minority status in their own homeland by China's immigration policies? Are they better off without political and religious freedoms? It's impossible to know what the Tibetans would have done if left to their own devices, but it's at least possible that they would have modernized on their own.
What about the great firewall? Why do we even care?Because censorship is evil.
...China is protecting it political and economic goods. Thanks to the great firewall, Chinese corporations boom within their subset of the internet, PLUS they don't have to worry about their people embracing the American fascist economic policies because their websites are prettier. Free markets are good, and don't Godwin yourself!I would not have thought it possible to spread a virus like this. Sure you could put the virus on the dvd, but when will it get executed? Wouldn't you have to exploit vulnerabilities unique to each dvd decoder?
I know its a pretty reasonable assumption that nobody will read the summary or the article, but come on... The summary says it's likely to become another piece of space junk. The entire last paragraph of the article concerns plans to deorbit the satellite, and claims that everyone involved is "eager to splash the satellite within days".
Wikipedia policy explicitly forbids posting original research. Why do authors want journals to give them the right to post things on wikipedia against wikipedia's policy?
Your post is funny, but I haven't seen a dup on slashdot in about a year or so. What happened?
What security tasks did you propose to the assistants in the shop? Was it a random store, or one of the apple stores? If it was the Apple Store, were you just talking to the sales reps, or did you get to talk to a "Mac Genius"?
Have you ever had an auction taken down in this way? If so, what did you do?
Why are pictures of Muhammad worse than other pictures of people? I'm not trying to "call out" Muslims here; I'm truly curious. All of the references I've read give a blanket declaration against all pictures or at least all pictures depicting living things. The problem according to your own sources with making pictures is that it is imitating the creative act of the divine. To me it seems that a Picasso, or a cartoon about Barack Obama, or a painting of George Washington are all imitating that creative act too. Yet, art museums, history books, and newspapers don't hear from Muslims unless Muhammad is involved.
I don't understand the reference, can you explain?
Here is my nerd card, I'm turning it in in advance.
Come again? You're putting cheeseburgers on the same level as sex?
oh yeah, this is slashdot
Um ... India's not on a side of the Atlantic.
I hadn't heard that the passengers reported suspicious behavior and were ignored. That's really shocking to me; the most shocking part is that it wasn't much reported. Do you have a source? Also, from your sig, how do you figure that p10e-11 for innocent people being held in Guantanamo? I mean, I'm pretty certain there are innocent people in Gitmo, but how do you derive probability for something like that?
They exempt themselves with their TOS which all of their users must agree to (mostly without understanding or even reading them!)
What tools do you use for data recovery? Are you recovering from a situation where the data is still on the disk but the data structures that point to the data are gone, or has the data itself been overwritten? Thanks in advance.
The methodology takes efficiency into account. For every type of land use and every country there are individual yield factors calculated so that comparisons can be made even though efficiency varies widely around the world. Here's what I'm looking at: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/download.php?id=4.
Poor people have the heaviest environmental impact? That's just blatantly false. The fact of the matter is, rich people use an order of magnitude more stuff than poor people. See here for pointers to sources.
I don't think so. What you get is applications built with KDE's libraries, like amarok and koffice. What's been ported is the libraries that build the widgets in the gui and do interprocess communication and provide other services for people who are making KDE applications. What's not been ported is the compositing effects - those happen on a lower level, and are much more dependent on X.
Call me crazy, but vaccinating bats seems a lot harder than vaccinating humans. We know more about human physiology, and we know how to vaccinate a human population. OTOH no one has ever vaccinated an entire wild population of an animal. Bats would seem to be a very difficult first attempt!
You also mentioned eradicating bats. The endangered species act makes that illegal in the United States. But putting aside the legal restrictions, eradicating all bats would most likely have consequences we don't foresee. At least initially, changes in the bat population will cause changes in the populations of bat's predators and prey. With no bats to eat them, we might suddenly have orders of magnitude more mosquitoes. Especially in Africa (where Ebola outbreaks actually occur), mosquitoes are a vector for diseases including Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever and West Nile Virus.
I assume the public is not making a technical decision, or a safety evaluation, but an ethical choice. The majority of people don't object to these hybrids on ethical grounds, so they are to able to continue because, as we all know, what is popular is always right.
What exactly are the Binary Formats? Surely this isn't the complete spec of all doc, xls, and ppt files? To what extent does this address technical issues with OOXML?
It is a huge investment to switch, however a new scripting language also creates a reason to upgrade. They ran out of new things to add that typical users see back in 2003. So in 2k7 they scrap the gui. People see something new and shiny and think they need it. Microsoft can't really justify doing that twice in a row, so they're going to switch scripting languages. If they can create the perception that "everyone's doing it" and you need the new vba to work with other people who have upgraded, they will have created a reason to buy office again.