Woah! You found a place with slopping waters ?!? That's awesome, now I can go waterskiing without the need for a boat !
I know we slashdotters don't get out much, but there are these rare things called "rivers". Ask you local outdoorsy person where you might find one.
P.S. Water Skiing not advised.
If the planet is tidally locked to the sun, and the satellite is tidally locked to the planet... well then the satellite is going to smash into the planet because it isn't actually in orbit. Think about it.
I think walking through parks at night doesn't exactly lead to rape. In actuality, it is quite rare. If you happened to be unlucky enough to be a victim, you will probably be more paranoid about things than is reasonable given the statistics. If you could erase those memories you may be able to live a carefree life again without having a panic attack anytime you have to walk after dark or need to get into your car or want to form a relationship with someone.
Sure our memories teach us how to act, what to avoid and how to get by in life. But in cases like rape victims where the experience was significantly more traumatic than the chances of it ever happening again, it "teaches" the victim paranoia and fear that isn't realistically necessary. This usually hurts their life, not helps it.
You seem to be implying that the victim was doing something "wrong". Which is why he/she got raped. So after the fact, they'll learn not to do that "wrong" action anymore. That is a little over the top for me. I can't imagine any situation where it is the victim's fault. Accept for maybe those fuzzy non-violent rape situations where the victim didn't ever actually say no. But I assume we're all talking about violent rape?
It would be a pretty strained relation if it did exist. Charged particles probably have very little climate effect compared to the giant death ball bombarding us with photons.
If you're going to those lengths, possibly you should just break down and admit that -we- are causing climate change. There is defiantly a higher correlation. Occam's Razor you know. It is a pretty simple explanation. Lets be scientific.
Sorry to put this bluntly, but you're wrong about poker or games involving dice. It is still just a search space, just one with odds. With enough time, a computer will be able to "solve" games with luck as easily as complete games.
Some assume that there is a little bit of interest in games like poker since it involves intention. You know, bluffing, drawing bets in, ext. But really, the best tactic is a statistical one, especially when you don't have any "tells" since you're just a machine. A little bit of playing with the number will show that while "bluffing" may give you gains in the short term, if you're up against someone playing statistically, you'll lose in the end. So, every tactic levels off.
Of course, I'm not suggesting that playing statistically is the best thing to do if you're up against a bunch of people that aren't. If people are playing sub-optimally, and you understand that sub-optimality, you can come up with even better methods then the statistical approach. If you apply the stats method, and someone else apply a method to take advantage of the other opponent's irrationality, they'll beat you out. But if everyone optimizes play more and more based on how others are playing, everyone will converge to the statistical model.
What is interesting, in my opinion, is writing programs that can take in rules for a game and figure out how to parse and optimize their own search tree. We can always invent games with bigger search trees than we can search (if nothing comes to mind, we can just double the size of 'Go' again and again). Now that would be an accomplishment. Then we could say that the program actually 'understands' the game, rather then the programmers. Then we just expand that from games to everything else in the world and watch the robot revolution commence.
Those would be very hard for a computer to solve, but the problem is how would you generate an infinite number of them? It is easy to human-create a problem hard enough that computes can't solve them and humans can't. The real issue is making it so that the computers can generate problems that computers can't solve.
See, if all the problems have to be created by hand, the crackers will just gather all the finite number of them and answer them, then they have cracking software. They don't even need -all- of them, just a 20% percentage or so and they'll get in most of the time (since they get several tries). So in order to be affective, you'd have to have a full time team creating additions to the problems, and basically, they'd have to be larger then the team the one the crackers will hire in china to solve them
Even if a computer could -generate- an image of a cat, the hackers would just have to figure out the algorithm used, not learn how to recognize a cat. Once they know the algorithm, the search space just has to be explored. With computers getting faster and faster, making a larger search space doesn't yield useful long term protection, although it might slow the attacks.
Say what you want about the Chinese, though. No really, go ahead — the Chinese people don't get to. And therein lies the only real difference between us and them. For now.
So the only difference between us and them is that we get to say stuff about China and they don't. I agree completely.
Spore is probably the most anticipated game of this year and it's been in production for around 6 or 7 years. As such, it will also be the most pirated.
Actually, I think that might not be the case. People want to buy a good game, and spore for many pirates qualifies as the first -good- game in a long time.
Myself, I pirate everything, and I mean everything. First, I have no moral qualms and second I don't have the cash, and I mean this very seriously. Sleeping on couches in public buildings seriously. But, alas, I scraped together $50 for spore and I have to say, if I do it, the dam must be broken. Oh, sure, the number of downloads will be though the roof, but I bet that the amount EA suffers do to downloading (however much that elusive figure is) will be lower than any game in recent history.
Of course it is pretty easy for be to spout completely unverifiable speculation, I guess, no one will be proving me wrong anytime soon.
Sure, "hi, how are you", has a pretty consistent meaning, but it is clear to me that you are unilingual. Meaning shift and have many overtones which cannot be translated from one language to another. Especially when you start getting into religious, symbolic language. It is very hard to translate common phrases or idioms and retain all their original meaning. It becomes hard, especially after multiple translations to to understand the original tone of the speaker, especially if the translator wasn't very careful to preserve it. What were once analogies may be taken as literal, what was was literal may seem symbolic.
To give a simple example that a unilingual like you might understand, take the following sentance, "her eyes stoked fires in my heart". It seems like a very simple sentence to translate, but underneath it are many analogies that might only exist in our language. For example, the idea that the heart is the location of love and warm fuzzy emotions might not exist in another language or culture. The correlation between fires and passion might not exist. It the translator isn't careful, the reader may think that her eyes are causing indigestion. Therefor, a careful translator would translate the phrase to something which literally says "her eyes bring love to mind", or maybe "her eyes make passionate take over my soul", all depending on what would be a roughly equivalent phrase in the language we're translating to. Now, imagine translating that back to english. The translator wouldn't know that the original said anything about a heart or fires, so he'd end up with "her eyes make me feel passion". Which is clearly a different statement than the original.
When translating from one language to another, decisions like these have to be made every single line. Only the most simplistic of writing can be translated literally. Now, imagine these changes mounting up, many in each paragraph. Even a single translation can significantly alter the tone or a work unless the translator is very talented. Even then, it alters the tone a little. Now imagine the dozens of times the bible has been translated and try and tell me whether Strong's concordance seems to apply anymore. And we haven't even touch on translation -errors-.
We (the US) have some grand proclamation (I forget the name) that states "There will be no communists in our hemisphere. Stupid yuppies, get of our lawn and take your damn governmental ideas with you."
That's a direct quote, I think.
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Wouldn't the world make much more sense if everyone spoke this way?! You think that it wouldn't really work. Since after all, you have many different pronouns for a reason. If only you would think things through, you would see that you are right and that you are wrong.
There is no ethical delimma. You are being asked to open something by that something's owner. NOT cracking passwords would be wrong. Every one saying that opening his accounts is ethical hasn't thought this through.
What about all the people who, thinking that he is gone, have sent emails of a private nature that they expect never to be read. If you think this is far fetched, (and it isn't, having myself had an unethical look-see at a dead friends gmail account) then what about messages that were sent while he was alive by people that are still living that were private.
Secret lovers, sexual preference, bitter feuds... all this can come out about people who are still alive. These people care.
Definitely unethical.
I agree that it is absolutely hypocritical for file sharers to hate leechers, and it is a shame you got modded down. I'm a file sharer who thinks that every site has an obligation to support as many leeches as it can before the system actually stops working well.
Which is exactly why I like demonoid so much. They don't really enforce ratios, and closed registration is done strictly for logistical reasons. Some people hate demonoid because it isn't elite enough, and because it lets people leech, slowing speeds for everyone. Those people are missing the point and philosophy of file sharing, which is spreading the information as far and wide as it'll go. Lechers or not.
If I had a dime for everyone who said "I was reading fluently before kindergarten" or "I was doing some impressive intellectual feat before 2nd grade" I would have enough money to buy a nice lunch.
Here's a tip: No, you weren't, unless you're a statistical aberration.
Ouch, harsh. The "no you weren't" line. Well, I don't want to toot my own horn, but yes I was. I suppose technically I am a statistical aberration. Since four standard deviation is, I suppose, a statistical aberration.
But toot I will because my point is that I think all children can reach these 'heights'. I don't want to tell you how to go about your own business, because after all, maybe I'm wrong and I don't have any kids myself. But judging from my own experience, your kid would probably do fine with concepts of solving for variables and simple geometry (non-numeric symbols sounds like variables to me, so there you are).
Whether your kid is interested is a different matter. The key is finding something your kid is interested in. Me, I liked math. A constant to my life: interest in mathematics.
I think people in general don't give their kids enough credit. I'm not saying that is what you're doing, I just meandered over to this point. There are four year olds that could pwn me at chess, and I actually study chess. Whether that is any use to the child, I don't know. But clearly, the research shows that the early ages are when the brain is expanding and forming the connections it'll use for the rest of their lives. Exposure is the key. If I can give some advice to you (and people in general), despite having no real experience in the matter, I would suggest that you expose your child to high level concepts even if they can't fully grasp it. Of course, going too high is pointless. But at the right level (for four year olds, I suggest common middle-school stuff) it will make getting into the subjects much easier later on.
Or maybe I'm full of it, like I said, I'm really only basing this off of my own experience and research I've selectively decided believe do to my own experience. So take anything I say with a grain of salt. Furthermore, I expect you to completely disregard my statements, since anyone who raises their kid based on advice given on slashdot should be shot.
Now if only I can find someone besides myself willing to accept the fact that I'm a genius and give me a programming job. I'm the living proof that IQ scores don't correlate to real world success. Actually, come to think of it -- nevermind all of that, teach your child good work ethics. That'll matter so much more.
(My karma is screwed up, but you should read this anyway, despite the zero)
At first, I was like, "Oh no, not the space program". But then I realized, maybe just because I'm trying to rationalize a way to agree with Obama, that I think I do actually agree. Here is why.
Firstly, thanks to Bush, we really aren't going to be doing anything interesting in space anytime soon. Sure we could putter around and send some probes, but we aren't going to have the resources to do something really extraordinary for awhile.
In the meantime, the US is slipping. We aren't the smartest, we aren't the biggest economy and we slowly shifting away from the center of the world. Like Egypt, China and Europe before, it is possible that the world's reins may slip from our hands unless we do something. Now whether that is a bad thing or not, I don't know, but as a government, I'm assuming a main goal is to retain influence.
One of the best ways to maintain our influence is through education. If we really go all out on the next generation, then in 30 years, we'll still be the center of the modern world. If not, then in 30 years, China, Japan, Europe and India are going to stop sending us their smartest people and keep them for themselves, and then we'll just have the brain-deads over here watching American Idol.
The best, most surefire way to increase the overall effectiveness of our education system is early education. We can pour trillion into high schools and get microscopic results, but just a fraction of that going into getting education out there to pre-kindergardeners and we will probably see general competency double. No I don't have a source for that, it being pure speculation, but it is well known that early development is a critical stage.
Lately I've realized how little parent teach their kids. Some, I dare say most, do absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. Maybe the teach them to count to ten, but that is all. You're lucky if you get the ABC's as well. I find it shocking when I talk to people who didn't get taught anything as a child, and even more shocking when I see children not being taught.
I was reading fluently and doing basic algebra before I entered kindergarden, and that lead has stuck with me my whole life. (Quite frustrating actually.)
So yeah, those of you who are complaining that Obama isn't thinking long term, take a moment to consider whether you are thinking long term. Getting off of the planet, to a different solar system is going to take hundreds and hundreds of years of dedicated work and research. Furthermore, throughout those hundreds of years, society will have to be intelligent enough in general to realize the need for such a project and support it (which they aren't now). Possibly, before we dive straight for space flight, we need to raise the intellectual level of society high enough that they aren't looking at their own wallets so hard that we'll never get off the ground.
Early education sounds like the best way to do that to me.
P.S. I've only gotten one, count them, one bad mod (overrated), and I've got several (8 or 9) good ones, yet my karma has decided to become "bad". So now all my posts start at zero and no one ever reads them (let alone mods them up), meaning I can never get my karma to good, or at least normal. What is up with that. Should I just start a new account. Seriously, does one overrated mean I should be censored like this? Bah. Bah. I bet no one reads this either.
The companies don't use this for targeted per-person adversing. They use the general metrics to figure out what adword to pay more for, or what sites get more conversion, or what spelling error are most common in searches. Stuff that could help them do SEO type things.
Yes, they are probably shady types trying to weasel google and other to giving them a higher rating than they deserve, but not THAT shady.
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Woah! You found a place with slopping waters ?!? That's awesome, now I can go waterskiing without the need for a boat !
I know we slashdotters don't get out much, but there are these rare things called "rivers". Ask you local outdoorsy person where you might find one. P.S. Water Skiing not advised.
Sorry, I was thinking of them both locked to each other... ignore me.
If the planet is tidally locked to the sun, and the satellite is tidally locked to the planet... well then the satellite is going to smash into the planet because it isn't actually in orbit. Think about it.
Properly handled and locked up, nuclear devices are no more dangerous than a hammer. And I do love me some nuking.
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I think walking through parks at night doesn't exactly lead to rape. In actuality, it is quite rare. If you happened to be unlucky enough to be a victim, you will probably be more paranoid about things than is reasonable given the statistics. If you could erase those memories you may be able to live a carefree life again without having a panic attack anytime you have to walk after dark or need to get into your car or want to form a relationship with someone.
Sure our memories teach us how to act, what to avoid and how to get by in life. But in cases like rape victims where the experience was significantly more traumatic than the chances of it ever happening again, it "teaches" the victim paranoia and fear that isn't realistically necessary. This usually hurts their life, not helps it.
You seem to be implying that the victim was doing something "wrong". Which is why he/she got raped. So after the fact, they'll learn not to do that "wrong" action anymore. That is a little over the top for me. I can't imagine any situation where it is the victim's fault. Accept for maybe those fuzzy non-violent rape situations where the victim didn't ever actually say no. But I assume we're all talking about violent rape?
It would be a pretty strained relation if it did exist. Charged particles probably have very little climate effect compared to the giant death ball bombarding us with photons.
If you're going to those lengths, possibly you should just break down and admit that -we- are causing climate change. There is defiantly a higher correlation. Occam's Razor you know. It is a pretty simple explanation. Lets be scientific.
Sorry to put this bluntly, but you're wrong about poker or games involving dice. It is still just a search space, just one with odds. With enough time, a computer will be able to "solve" games with luck as easily as complete games.
Some assume that there is a little bit of interest in games like poker since it involves intention. You know, bluffing, drawing bets in, ext. But really, the best tactic is a statistical one, especially when you don't have any "tells" since you're just a machine. A little bit of playing with the number will show that while "bluffing" may give you gains in the short term, if you're up against someone playing statistically, you'll lose in the end. So, every tactic levels off.
Of course, I'm not suggesting that playing statistically is the best thing to do if you're up against a bunch of people that aren't. If people are playing sub-optimally, and you understand that sub-optimality, you can come up with even better methods then the statistical approach. If you apply the stats method, and someone else apply a method to take advantage of the other opponent's irrationality, they'll beat you out. But if everyone optimizes play more and more based on how others are playing, everyone will converge to the statistical model.
What is interesting, in my opinion, is writing programs that can take in rules for a game and figure out how to parse and optimize their own search tree. We can always invent games with bigger search trees than we can search (if nothing comes to mind, we can just double the size of 'Go' again and again). Now that would be an accomplishment. Then we could say that the program actually 'understands' the game, rather then the programmers. Then we just expand that from games to everything else in the world and watch the robot revolution commence.
Those would be very hard for a computer to solve, but the problem is how would you generate an infinite number of them? It is easy to human-create a problem hard enough that computes can't solve them and humans can't. The real issue is making it so that the computers can generate problems that computers can't solve.
See, if all the problems have to be created by hand, the crackers will just gather all the finite number of them and answer them, then they have cracking software. They don't even need -all- of them, just a 20% percentage or so and they'll get in most of the time (since they get several tries). So in order to be affective, you'd have to have a full time team creating additions to the problems, and basically, they'd have to be larger then the team the one the crackers will hire in china to solve them
Even if a computer could -generate- an image of a cat, the hackers would just have to figure out the algorithm used, not learn how to recognize a cat. Once they know the algorithm, the search space just has to be explored. With computers getting faster and faster, making a larger search space doesn't yield useful long term protection, although it might slow the attacks.
No, no, he thinks we should protect children from the RIAA's war. This is a no brainer, think of the children, vote McCain.
With last-mile problems around here, that may end up being the solution.
Say what you want about the Chinese, though. No really, go ahead — the Chinese people don't get to. And therein lies the only real difference between us and them. For now.
So the only difference between us and them is that we get to say stuff about China and they don't. I agree completely.
Spore is probably the most anticipated game of this year and it's been in production for around 6 or 7 years. As such, it will also be the most pirated.
Actually, I think that might not be the case. People want to buy a good game, and spore for many pirates qualifies as the first -good- game in a long time.
Myself, I pirate everything, and I mean everything. First, I have no moral qualms and second I don't have the cash, and I mean this very seriously. Sleeping on couches in public buildings seriously. But, alas, I scraped together $50 for spore and I have to say, if I do it, the dam must be broken. Oh, sure, the number of downloads will be though the roof, but I bet that the amount EA suffers do to downloading (however much that elusive figure is) will be lower than any game in recent history.
Of course it is pretty easy for be to spout completely unverifiable speculation, I guess, no one will be proving me wrong anytime soon.
To give a simple example that a unilingual like you might understand, take the following sentance, "her eyes stoked fires in my heart". It seems like a very simple sentence to translate, but underneath it are many analogies that might only exist in our language. For example, the idea that the heart is the location of love and warm fuzzy emotions might not exist in another language or culture. The correlation between fires and passion might not exist. It the translator isn't careful, the reader may think that her eyes are causing indigestion. Therefor, a careful translator would translate the phrase to something which literally says "her eyes bring love to mind", or maybe "her eyes make passionate take over my soul", all depending on what would be a roughly equivalent phrase in the language we're translating to. Now, imagine translating that back to english. The translator wouldn't know that the original said anything about a heart or fires, so he'd end up with "her eyes make me feel passion". Which is clearly a different statement than the original.
When translating from one language to another, decisions like these have to be made every single line. Only the most simplistic of writing can be translated literally. Now, imagine these changes mounting up, many in each paragraph. Even a single translation can significantly alter the tone or a work unless the translator is very talented. Even then, it alters the tone a little. Now imagine the dozens of times the bible has been translated and try and tell me whether Strong's concordance seems to apply anymore. And we haven't even touch on translation -errors-.
We (the US) have some grand proclamation (I forget the name) that states "There will be no communists in our hemisphere. Stupid yuppies, get of our lawn and take your damn governmental ideas with you." That's a direct quote, I think.
Why aren't they reporting that his cancer was caused by a zebra sneezing in the UK last fall under a fig tree. It seems quite relevant.
Which is exactly why I like demonoid so much. They don't really enforce ratios, and closed registration is done strictly for logistical reasons. Some people hate demonoid because it isn't elite enough, and because it lets people leech, slowing speeds for everyone. Those people are missing the point and philosophy of file sharing, which is spreading the information as far and wide as it'll go. Lechers or not.
Here's a tip: No, you weren't, unless you're a statistical aberration.
Ouch, harsh. The "no you weren't" line. Well, I don't want to toot my own horn, but yes I was. I suppose technically I am a statistical aberration. Since four standard deviation is, I suppose, a statistical aberration.
But toot I will because my point is that I think all children can reach these 'heights'. I don't want to tell you how to go about your own business, because after all, maybe I'm wrong and I don't have any kids myself. But judging from my own experience, your kid would probably do fine with concepts of solving for variables and simple geometry (non-numeric symbols sounds like variables to me, so there you are).
Whether your kid is interested is a different matter. The key is finding something your kid is interested in. Me, I liked math. A constant to my life: interest in mathematics.
I think people in general don't give their kids enough credit. I'm not saying that is what you're doing, I just meandered over to this point. There are four year olds that could pwn me at chess, and I actually study chess. Whether that is any use to the child, I don't know. But clearly, the research shows that the early ages are when the brain is expanding and forming the connections it'll use for the rest of their lives. Exposure is the key. If I can give some advice to you (and people in general), despite having no real experience in the matter, I would suggest that you expose your child to high level concepts even if they can't fully grasp it. Of course, going too high is pointless. But at the right level (for four year olds, I suggest common middle-school stuff) it will make getting into the subjects much easier later on.
Or maybe I'm full of it, like I said, I'm really only basing this off of my own experience and research I've selectively decided believe do to my own experience. So take anything I say with a grain of salt. Furthermore, I expect you to completely disregard my statements, since anyone who raises their kid based on advice given on slashdot should be shot.
Now if only I can find someone besides myself willing to accept the fact that I'm a genius and give me a programming job. I'm the living proof that IQ scores don't correlate to real world success. Actually, come to think of it -- nevermind all of that, teach your child good work ethics. That'll matter so much more.
Hmm, now spelling, always had a problem with spelling. No wonder it had a wavy red line under it.
At first, I was like, "Oh no, not the space program". But then I realized, maybe just because I'm trying to rationalize a way to agree with Obama, that I think I do actually agree. Here is why.
Firstly, thanks to Bush, we really aren't going to be doing anything interesting in space anytime soon. Sure we could putter around and send some probes, but we aren't going to have the resources to do something really extraordinary for awhile.
In the meantime, the US is slipping. We aren't the smartest, we aren't the biggest economy and we slowly shifting away from the center of the world. Like Egypt, China and Europe before, it is possible that the world's reins may slip from our hands unless we do something. Now whether that is a bad thing or not, I don't know, but as a government, I'm assuming a main goal is to retain influence.
One of the best ways to maintain our influence is through education. If we really go all out on the next generation, then in 30 years, we'll still be the center of the modern world. If not, then in 30 years, China, Japan, Europe and India are going to stop sending us their smartest people and keep them for themselves, and then we'll just have the brain-deads over here watching American Idol.
The best, most surefire way to increase the overall effectiveness of our education system is early education. We can pour trillion into high schools and get microscopic results, but just a fraction of that going into getting education out there to pre-kindergardeners and we will probably see general competency double. No I don't have a source for that, it being pure speculation, but it is well known that early development is a critical stage.
Lately I've realized how little parent teach their kids. Some, I dare say most, do absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. Maybe the teach them to count to ten, but that is all. You're lucky if you get the ABC's as well. I find it shocking when I talk to people who didn't get taught anything as a child, and even more shocking when I see children not being taught.
I was reading fluently and doing basic algebra before I entered kindergarden, and that lead has stuck with me my whole life. (Quite frustrating actually.)
So yeah, those of you who are complaining that Obama isn't thinking long term, take a moment to consider whether you are thinking long term. Getting off of the planet, to a different solar system is going to take hundreds and hundreds of years of dedicated work and research. Furthermore, throughout those hundreds of years, society will have to be intelligent enough in general to realize the need for such a project and support it (which they aren't now). Possibly, before we dive straight for space flight, we need to raise the intellectual level of society high enough that they aren't looking at their own wallets so hard that we'll never get off the ground.
Early education sounds like the best way to do that to me.
P.S. I've only gotten one, count them, one bad mod (overrated), and I've got several (8 or 9) good ones, yet my karma has decided to become "bad". So now all my posts start at zero and no one ever reads them (let alone mods them up), meaning I can never get my karma to good, or at least normal. What is up with that. Should I just start a new account. Seriously, does one overrated mean I should be censored like this? Bah. Bah. I bet no one reads this either.
Whenever my x-girlfriend started singing, it would destroy my rocket, she had a voice like a crow. Wait, that isn't what we're talking about is it?
The companies don't use this for targeted per-person adversing. They use the general metrics to figure out what adword to pay more for, or what sites get more conversion, or what spelling error are most common in searches. Stuff that could help them do SEO type things. Yes, they are probably shady types trying to weasel google and other to giving them a higher rating than they deserve, but not THAT shady.
Japan is the best country in the world. Really. Trust us.