Sophie Wilson did a great job and did anyone at school in the UK who was interested in computing the biggest favour of all - she gave us the gift of learning structured programming from day 0
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google indexed PDF documents, it even turns them into HTML
of course you could always try http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of Adobe(R) Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF.
yes, you are right, probability is always spread like that.
What I know is I was working on a gambling project to produce an internet slot machine. The company was an existing electronic gaming company. I was given a photocopied document that explained the maths behind their fruit machines and how the payouts should be managed.
It detailed that random was not good enough especially as they wanted to be able to have predictability. To spin the wheels and know that three bells only lands once every X times based on 20 fruit on each reel and one bell (you work it out !). It might happen three times in a row or never. Early mechanical machines ran like this and would sometimes run out of coins to pay out (in fact I own one - circa 1958 it takes UK pre-decimal 1d pennies).
I wish I still had that paper but I had to pass it on.
Another good read on the subject is "The Newtonian Casino" by Thomas Bass. The authors claim to have built wearable computers that analyze the peculiarities of individual roulette wheels and are able to narrow the odds and spead their bets to beat the house.
The patterns are pre-programmed so that the ratio of win to lose (which is legally mandated - in the UK at least, presumably other countries that issue gambling licences will have similar legislation) is constant over a particular time period.
A manufacturer can tell it's customers how much money the machine will make during it's lifetime.
was probably: "Scientists believe that this breakthrough could eventually lead to a cure for cancer" or "... lead to an end to world hunger" or "... lead to a renewable source of energy" or "... computers vastly more powerful than those we have today, rendering our current encrytption techniques useless"
Independent farmers here are a small minority. The land was seized and divided by the Normans in 1066 and has stayed pretty much the same since then. Most farmers are employees.
Intensive farming impacts us all. Whether it be from wasteful use of water or putting pesticides and hormones and anti-biotics into your precious food chain.
Voting with your wallet is one strategy for making changes and if you are really true to that then good for you and good for everyone else. But how much processed food do you eat? When you eat a chocolate biscuit and the ingredients say "animals fats" where do you think they come from?
have you ever been in a slaughter house?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2686421.stm Thurs day, 23 January, 2003, 09:14 GMT Unfit meat 'may be in food chain'
Ok, so you think my position is extreme, and it is.
You seem to have an opinion about intensive farming but what have you *ever* done about it? I speak out and if I don't take a stand and say "No" then nothing will happen.
"What do we want?" "Moderate change" "When do we want it?" "In due course"
no farmer I know does any sort of factory farming.
I'm sure the millions of chickens de-beaked and stuck in battery farms will be pleased to hear that.
I have been to many farms, in the UK and abroad. Every cow I have ever seen has a plastic tag in it's ear.
Maybe it is a European thing. I've not visited US farms.
I'm not deluded.
segreatating male and female animals for instance
Male calves are killed, females kept alive to breed and produce milk. Male pigs are killed for meat, females kept alive to breed then killed for meat. Male chickens are killed, females kept alive to produce eggs. Male sheep are killed, females kept alive to breed.
A few select males of each breed are kept alive for stud.
That is a major segregation and I understand it perfectly.
It is badly worded and toothless but I'll multiply it out in full this time.
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If, at the next election, the campaign issue was the border dispute and the people voted in favour of continuing the dispute you may well be entitled to take defensive action. Maybe not buring down the town but you could certainly close off access roads and other amenities associated with that border.
A was in a shed when a shearer cut off the nipple of one of the sheep. His reaction - pissed off because he had to stop shearing to "take care" of the poor animal. First he applied anaesthetic (well, he hit it on the forehead until it stopped struggling) and then kind of sewed up the hole and pushed it down the ramp into the outside pen.
The fields are full of cows, ever wonder where all the bulls are?
The fields are full of sheep, ever wonder where the rams are?
Where are the chickens? Oh there's thousands of them crammed into that little shed, three to cage and they have to have their beaks cut off to stop them killing each other.
The trouble with country folk is they've lost touch with nature.
I already have all the karma I need. I do wish they would revive the absolute score though, even if it was worthless. I'd really like to know what my score is.
You may notice that they are both by me, posted about 10 mins apart.
Slashdot Mirror
unlike the others I wrote mine from scratch in response to the post
sadly I posted a slightly wrong version
here's the one that works
http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/rc/webserver.rc
it's only a toy, of course.
http://server/../../../../../../etc/passwd
will get you the passwd file
no problem
/home/www/webserver.rc
/bin/date
/usr/bin/file -m /usr/share/misc/magic.mime $path | /usr/bin/awk ' { print $2 } '
/bin/cat $path | /usr/bin/wc -c | /usr/bin/tr -d ' '
/bin/cat $path
%tcpserver 127.0.0.1 80
--- webserver.rc ---
#!/usr/local/bin/rc
root = '/home/www/document_root'
fn echo_response {
echo 'HTTP/1.1 ' ^$response
}
fn echo_date {
echo -n 'Date: '
}
fn echo_content_type {
echo -n 'Content-Type: '
}
fn echo_content_length {
echo -n 'Content-Length: '
}
fn respond {
echo_response
echo_date
echo 'Server: rc shell'
echo_content_length
echo_content_type
echo 'Connection: close'
echo
}
ifs = '
'
for (request in `{echo -n}) {
url = $request(2)
file = `{echo $url | sed 's/http:\/\/[^\/]*//' | tr -d \012}
path = $root ^$file
echo $path
if (/bin/test -e $path) {
response = '200'
} else {
response = '404'
path = $root ^'/404.html'
}
respond
}
inline-assembler
definable functions
re-entrant procedures
http://www.bbcbasic.com/
Sophie Wilson did a great job and did anyone at school in the UK who was interested in computing the biggest favour of all - she gave us the gift of learning structured programming from day 0
try http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm
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once would work
8)
why do people send email messages that just say "see attached file"
because they select "send document" form the file menu and get a blank email with the document attached
google indexed PDF documents, it even turns them into HTML
of course you could always try http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of Adobe(R) Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF.
yes, you are right, probability is always spread like that.
What I know is I was working on a gambling project to produce an internet slot machine. The company was an existing electronic gaming company. I was given a photocopied document that explained the maths behind their fruit machines and how the payouts should be managed.
It detailed that random was not good enough especially as they wanted to be able to have predictability. To spin the wheels and know that three bells only lands once every X times based on 20 fruit on each reel and one bell (you work it out !). It might happen three times in a row or never. Early mechanical machines ran like this and would sometimes run out of coins to pay out (in fact I own one - circa 1958 it takes UK pre-decimal 1d pennies).
I wish I still had that paper but I had to pass it on.
Another good read on the subject is "The Newtonian Casino" by Thomas Bass.
The authors claim to have built wearable computers that analyze the peculiarities of individual roulette wheels and are able to narrow the odds and spead their bets to beat the house.
They don't run rand() to see if you win.
The patterns are pre-programmed so that the ratio of win to lose (which is legally mandated - in the UK at least, presumably other countries that issue gambling licences will have similar legislation) is constant over a particular time period.
A manufacturer can tell it's customers how much money the machine will make during it's lifetime.
The BBC has a story about it
I was asked to make an internet slot machine and was given documentation on the general principlies.
it would be a good plan if it defeated /.'s word splitting in long urls
:
2 28&mode=nested&tid=104&tid=106&tid=185&tid=189 ' | tr -d ' '
like this
echo 'http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1918
not true
plan9 ftp doesn't even use passwords to gain entry (and not just for ftp)
here's my previous post
Always make your files available to the public via HTTP/SSL in a chroot filesystem that is set no-write.
That would be a sad reflection on your OS
letting anonymous third parties install ring-0 software is asking for trouble really.
It is a design fault, just like root.
nt
was probably :
"Scientists believe that this breakthrough could eventually lead to a cure for cancer"
or
"... lead to an end to world hunger"
or
"... lead to a renewable source of energy"
or
"... computers vastly more powerful than those we have today, rendering our current encrytption techniques useless"
etc.etc.etc.
huge industrial farms are disgusting
Independent farmers here are a small minority. The land was seized and divided by the Normans in 1066 and has stayed pretty much the same since then.
Most farmers are employees.
Intensive farming impacts us all. Whether it be from wasteful use of water or putting pesticides and hormones and anti-biotics into your precious food chain.
Voting with your wallet is one strategy for making changes and if you are really true to that then good for you and good for everyone else. But how much processed food do you eat? When you eat a chocolate biscuit and the ingredients say "animals fats" where do you think they come from?
have you ever been in a slaughter house?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2686421.stm
Thur
Unfit meat 'may be in food chain'
Ok, so you think my position is extreme, and it is.
You seem to have an opinion about intensive farming but what have you *ever* done about it? I speak out and if I don't take a stand and say "No" then nothing will happen.
"What do we want?"
"Moderate change"
"When do we want it?"
"In due course"
just won't achieve anything
no farmer I know does any sort of factory farming.
I'm sure the millions of chickens de-beaked and stuck in battery farms will be pleased to hear that.
I have been to many farms, in the UK and abroad.
Every cow I have ever seen has a plastic tag in it's ear.
Maybe it is a European thing. I've not visited US farms.
I'm not deluded.
segreatating male and female animals for instance
Male calves are killed, females kept alive to breed and produce milk.
Male pigs are killed for meat, females kept alive to breed then killed for meat.
Male chickens are killed, females kept alive to produce eggs.
Male sheep are killed, females kept alive to breed.
A few select males of each breed are kept alive for stud.
That is a major segregation and I understand it perfectly.
It is badly worded and toothless but I'll multiply it out in full this time.
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witnessed with my own eyes
you can't rebutt it because it's true
I'm not trolling, it's my opinion.
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Reason: You can type more than that for your comment.
Eric's chapter on plan9 is particularly weak
how can you commit perjory when you are not under oath?
I'll multiply it out for you :
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The council is elected by the people.
If, at the next election, the campaign issue was the border dispute and the people voted in favour of continuing the dispute you may well be entitled to take defensive action. Maybe not buring down the town but you could certainly close off access roads and other amenities associated with that border.
I've worked on farms and the last thing farmers seem to care about is the short term pain (and long term in some cases) of their prisoners.
Branding
Ear tags
De-beaking
Artificial insemination
Murder
A was in a shed when a shearer cut off the nipple of one of the sheep. His reaction - pissed off because he had to stop shearing to "take care" of the poor animal. First he applied anaesthetic (well, he hit it on the forehead until it stopped struggling) and then kind of sewed up the hole and pushed it down the ramp into the outside pen.
The fields are full of cows, ever wonder where all the bulls are?
The fields are full of sheep, ever wonder where the rams are?
Where are the chickens? Oh there's thousands of them crammed into that little shed, three to cage and they have to have their beaks cut off to stop them killing each other.
The trouble with country folk is they've lost touch with nature.
8)
I already have all the karma I need. I do wish they would revive the absolute score though, even if it was worthless. I'd really like to know what my score is.
You may notice that they are both by me, posted about 10 mins apart.
but I can take a good poking if necessary