The evolutionary pressure in this case is the researcher's observations about which iterations survive.
So really the "organisms" compete for the attention of the obvserver.
tone differentiation is only one allele
what surprises me is that they got much progrss at all and with only 4000 generations. In biology and most computer science, mutations are generally bad.
oh, btw. Darwin didn't use the word evolve to describe his hypothesis but the last word in Origin of The Species" is "evolved".
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how could "hi dave, you know that thing i bought you at christmas a few weeks ago, was it the sort of thing you like? Oh really, that's [nice|a shame]. So what kind other things are you into at the moment? Do you follow any [sports|tv series|bands|writers] material?".
I know that because they have been regularly playing with / using them since they received them.
Speaking for myself, my basement is full of junk that I did not want. I smiled every time and I daren't return them because, every once in a while, they ask after the present.
It's a sad sign that you are scared to communicate simple things with the people you are closest to.
My suggestion is you could go round and talk to that person, say that you were flattered that they even thought of buying you something and ask what they were thinking / why they bought it for you. You might find out something about yourself and something about them.
Gifts are a point of sharing. To express how you feel and what you feel is suitable for some other person. If you're buying out of politeness / family duty then perhaps you're wasting your time anyway. If you spent a couple of days with them in the months before the holiday and really listened to what their thoughts and pre-occupations were you'd soon find something and hoepfully they'd find something for you.
Craps gifts reflect crap relationships which is the lesson a crap gift give you.
What I try and do is to PAY ATTENTION to the likes and lives of my family members and that way I can get them gifts they want without having to ask them!
If it's true the the USA relys on XP for security then we should all be scared. Not so much that XP is insecure but that those who make such decisions to employ an OS with less than a year of maturity. Insanity.
Mind you, I did do an NT install in our local Policce station (in through the front door for a change).
The UK police do have an internal WAN and luckily our telecoms isn't run by isralies.
A couple of years ago I worked for a dance music record label in the UK, We'd had minor chart success and were selling about 1000 records per main release.
But how on earth do you get your record in the many shops scattered around the uk?
There were 1200 dance music singles in our genre released EVERY week!!
Making the music is the easy part.
A band can make multiple tracks per week (our outfit was making probably 10 releaseable tracks per week).
A startup music crew in the digital age NEEDS good marketing. We had our music videos on MTV even but still little market penetration when it came to singles sales.
So there we are, we can put maybe 500 tracks a year on our web site on mp3 but how on earth are we going to make money from that? Subscription?
But that means e-commerce infastructure and business people and marketing so we're back at square one.
my guess is that it doesn't get scratched
have you ever burned a dvd disc?
not exactly snappy
tried burning a CD in your digital camera?
my high speed CD drive is soo noisy and can oly get up to speed in burst mode, these won't have that problem
reading from them will require no moving parts so the drives will be cheaper & more reliable.
no more stupid cd roms / dvds for that gaming console.
and with a bit of tweaking no doubt software manufacturers can mae one that are incompatable which is a big draw for them. They want cheap mass produced readers which is why they used CD rom variants.
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The evolutionary pressure in this case is the researcher's observations about which iterations survive.
So really the "organisms" compete for the attention of the obvserver.
tone differentiation is only one allele
what surprises me is that they got much progrss at all and with only 4000 generations. In biology and most computer science, mutations are generally bad.
oh, btw. Darwin didn't use the word evolve to describe his hypothesis but the last word in Origin of The Species" is "evolved".
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The chip modifies its own logic randomly.
This sounds suspiciously like my lovely wife.
you got one with logic!! man, i need to upgrade
If you are the sort of admin who get's asked "hi AdminMonkey, my email doesn't work, can you sort it please" or "i need nfs access to foo, sort it"
then assembler probably isn't much use.
But if you are the type who get's asked "bar program keeps core dumping on me, could you fix it please" then it most probably is.
You can close this discussion now.
a potentially controversial discussion
how could "hi dave, you know that thing i bought you at christmas a few weeks ago, was it the sort of thing you like? Oh really, that's [nice|a shame]. So what kind other things are you into at the moment? Do you follow any [sports|tv series|bands|writers] material?".
Not too hard is it?
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Aren't your family polite?
yes they are, but they also like my gifts.
I know that because they have been regularly playing with / using them since they received them.
Speaking for myself, my basement is full of junk that I did not want. I smiled every time and I daren't return them because, every once in a while, they ask after the present.
It's a sad sign that you are scared to communicate simple things with the people you are closest to.
My suggestion is you could go round and talk to that person, say that you were flattered that they even thought of buying you something and ask what they were thinking / why they bought it for you. You might find out something about yourself and something about them.
Gifts are a point of sharing. To express how you feel and what you feel is suitable for some other person. If you're buying out of politeness / family duty then perhaps you're wasting your time anyway. If you spent a couple of days with them in the months before the holiday and really listened to what their thoughts and pre-occupations were you'd soon find something and hoepfully they'd find something for you.
Craps gifts reflect crap relationships which is the lesson a crap gift give you.
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What I try and do is to PAY ATTENTION to the likes and lives of my family members and that way I can get them gifts they want without having to ask them!
No returns and plenty of smiles!
well, I can't change it now you've told me too!
hmm, i was using IE downstairs in the den
looks fine on konqueror
IE doesn't wrap the long lines
i'm having to scroll left and right to read the comments, sheesh, don't the editors have a preview (not that it helps me !)
s/microoft/microsoft
sorry, i'm on the settee can only just see the monitor
echo '65.234.12.1 windowsupdate.microoft.com' >> c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
mirror the windows update page
add whatever content you like and watch user install all of your stuff and then think they are patched !!
this could be a national security issue
If it's true the the USA relys on XP for security then we should all be scared. Not so much that XP is insecure but that those who make such decisions to employ an OS with less than a year of maturity. Insanity.
Mind you, I did do an NT install in our local Policce station (in through the front door for a change).
The UK police do have an internal WAN and luckily our telecoms isn't run by isralies.
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bah, I was hitting preview in my mind
pretend it looks right plz.
:)
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Rudy's on my "Languages to learn" list
there comes a point when you have to say "This one is for me, now to spend a long time mastering it" because you never explore all of the corners.
I learn new techniques with every project in every lamguage I write in.
I've nailed myself to python and php for my current phase (and I've got no choice but to keep up with javascript).
Anyway I have a ruby question seeing as I don't want to spend the time to find out.
can you do something like this :
%class Foo :
5 bar = "";
% def __init__ (self, bar) :
% self.bar = bar
% def setbar (self, hoge) :
% self.bar = hoge
% return self
% def getbar(self) :
% return self.bar
%
%f = Foo("fred")
%print f.setbar("shiela").getbar()
shiela
my point being that the . separated parts are evaluated left to right
javascript has a similar approach
sadly php doesn't and it's a source of frustration
is ruby like that?
i'm looking forward to experimenting with generators and yield
i already love python in functional programming mode
well do Guido & the guys
Meryy Chrismarse
buy you can plan for the fact that paying customers will make lame requests
besides marketing
you pitch this like it's trvial
A couple of years ago I worked for a dance music record label in the UK, We'd had minor chart success and were selling about 1000 records per main release.
But how on earth do you get your record in the many shops scattered around the uk?
There were 1200 dance music singles in our genre released EVERY week!!
Making the music is the easy part.
A band can make multiple tracks per week (our outfit was making probably 10 releaseable tracks per week).
A startup music crew in the digital age NEEDS good marketing. We had our music videos on MTV even but still little market penetration when it came to singles sales.
So there we are, we can put maybe 500 tracks a year on our web site on mp3 but how on earth are we going to make money from that? Subscription?
But that means e-commerce infastructure and business people and marketing so we're back at square one.
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one of the previous email worms executed code due to a buffer overflow in Outlook's date parser
no file extensions, no nothing just a nice juicy malformed header
using Outlook is stupid merely because of it's ubiquity
if you must use windows try TheBat!
it's a great email client with (gasp) regexs for filtering
and loads of features I've never used (and I've dumped windows since anyway
Imagine if you knew what you were talking about, you'd be very dangerous then.
I do a regular mailout to our subscribed 40,000 uk students
consequently they all have mail from us and hence our mailout address gets into their inboxes
I've received about 10 virus sent mails in the last month
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NT is the 386 feature "Nested Threads" which enables pre-emptive multitasking.
Microsoft NT was the first Microsoft OS to use this feature.
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my kid doesn't play soccer but his mom uses Star Office & kmail every day
and she's mostly computer clueless (apart from using these and opera & irc!)
but I thought that most of the users of Slashdot were above bias.
ffs don't you ever read anyone's comments!!!!!
my guess is that it doesn't get scratched
have you ever burned a dvd disc?
not exactly snappy
tried burning a CD in your digital camera?
my high speed CD drive is soo noisy and can oly get up to speed in burst mode, these won't have that problem
reading from them will require no moving parts so the drives will be cheaper & more reliable.
no more stupid cd roms / dvds for that gaming console.
and with a bit of tweaking no doubt software manufacturers can mae one that are incompatable which is a big draw for them. They want cheap mass produced readers which is why they used CD rom variants.
is that enough already?