The problem they are asking you to solve is the Minsweeper Consistancy Problem. The problem is determining which boards are consistent with the rules... ie. a 3 with no mines around it would be inconsistent.
This is a hell of an algorithm when you really ponder it...
The degredation of women? Consenting women who enjoy their work? They can be degraded for all I care, I think it allows men to appreciate that their woman is a little more 3 dimensional than some slut in the Horse of Hector position.
Show me a statistic that links porn to rape. Please. Anyone who takes porn as seriously as you do should be locked up. I know I don't. But I will fight to protect it, because while it may be immoral in the eyes of some, it is legal and protected by the 1st.
Waco was probably the single most failed effort by the FBI ever. Almost everyone inside the compound died, most were just innocent followers of an insane evangalist. Do you honestly think it was a success? Are you condoning the reading of all your e-mail simply to label people as dangerous or not? Write the wrong word in a different context and have yourself on a blacklist?
You speak from your ass good sir.
I suggest collaborating with Dan McNamara (aka. Anti_Porn) to create the ultimate-slashdot-super-anti-liberal-pro-totalitar ianism-troll.
Apple can create anything they want, makes no difference to me, I don't find them useful.
But the mentality of most Mac owners and the company itself is what really scares me. Jobs is more than a ringmaster, he is a lunatic, a child in a man's body. His actions in this ATI fiasco were immature and reactionary. He wouldn't take phone calls from any ATI people the day of the launch, he was "too mad". There is no way to stop leaks like this, and he should know that. Not throw a tantrum over a third-party error.
I don't know how you can rationalize suing your own employees. Sure, punishment is necessary, but suing sends a strong message of "we don't trust you" to the very people you have to trust, and hired on the basis of trust.
Jobs is too much of a hothead, and was very lucky to come back to apple in a difficult time. Only two possibilities exist for the future of apple, sink with Jobs, or have the board dump him overboard and continue with a minority market share.
One processor yesterday at the same price as two processors today? Hrmm...Apple price gouging? nahhh?
As for the dual Athlons, check with AMD, they probably have a few test systems running dual, air-cooled of course. Sure they are hot, but it's not the end of the world.
Oh, please, that could never happen. Just like we could never lose our first and fourth amendment rights. And the government and large corporations would never decieve us.
Damn, what does that mean? I take it as being you feel relatively safe not doing drugs (BTW: Opposite of meaning, watch double negatives.) And while this is a fairly simple (Gump) view of things, it is wrong. Bad things happen to good people all the time. But let's lobby to try and prevent such violent crimes instead of preventing people from harming themselves. If you choose to shoot up a lethal dose of heroin or drive off a cliff, who am I to stop you, it's a choice.
All drugs are not way bad, some drugs are, some are not. Fenflouramine(sp?) is a diet pill that was passed by the FDA last year, it is legal. That chemical is 4 times as neurotoxic and had more contraindications than MDMA, which is illegal. Drug information can only help, it is a very Quaker view that information can harm, and it is wrong... When have you ever thought it would be better to know less? If you do, do not ever reproduce, we don't need that mentality.
And as far as being a wasto loser, I do drugs, moderately and when I choose, and I am not a wasto loser. I hate these generalizations that lump everyone from mild pot users to heroin and speed addicts as being losers and useless burdens. Most people at your work perhaps have dabbled in pot, and maybe more, you don't know because they are normal people leading normal lives.
It is my firm belief that in order to be a well-balanced individual, you have to look outside yourself and really be critical of your life, not just bitch about others. People who do this are bitter and self-indulgent, they are the people who tell you you have to cut down your backyard tree because it overhangs their property by an inch, and then spread rumors about your alcoholism to all the other chatty neighbors who have no self-worth. If you have to use drugs to understand yourself, or a better sense of self-worth, then by all means, do so responsibly.
If you don't choose to do drugs, fine, that is a choice, but don't evangelize to me.
By your own admission, you are clinically an alcoholic.
I like wine, I like beer, but I admit that it is toxic. I have been drunk enough to scare myself, and I have moved to a more moderate schedule of drinking and illicit substance consumption (which is much healthier IMHO).
For example, don't use extacy, but if you end up in a situation where you've used it, remember that it drains your electrolytes, so don't forget to drink lots of liquids.
You might want to look up some Ecstasy information on dancesafe or maps.org or any other site you can find that is not government funded, it's not nearly as dangerous as many people would have you believe. It does not drain electrolytes at all, and when taken at home, or at a theraputic session, it does not dehydrate you either. The hot club environment and frenetic dancing cause you to sweat, and that is why you have to drink water. Also, a few unlucky souls have drank themselves to death hoping that water is the "cure" for MDMA, it is not, only drink enough water to replace the lost sweat.
Katz deserves no break. This story is pathetic, a vandal defacing a McDonalds is not a 4th of July extravaganza, nor is it WW3 or a Mongol slaughtering.
A few points about this article (loose definition)
"Corporate Republic" WTF??? "Yahoo Serious"?? These words don't really make sense together...Such a thing doesn't exist. There is no underground corporate movement plotting to overthrow the goverment. Fear Mongering in action via Katz.
He is comparing Capitalism to the Measles in the fourth paragraph!! How many people died from the measles worldwide! Measles is a horrifying desease... This type of emotion-evoking yet utterly meaningless comparison has no place in a technology journal.
To top things off with a cherry, he includes hackers and programmers in with his list of "threatened" individualists. Clever how he turns the "evil empire" against the/. reading public, again evoking an emotional response to a non-issue. Large corporations don't give a rats ass about individualists as long as they buy their product.
"What in this country isn't for sale?" Certainly Katz's own book would be included in the "for sale" category?
Supermarkets are the status-quo, and yet small markets are still thriving. Why? Because people appreciate quality and service. There is no evil threat looming over the individualists of the world, and Jon Katz is as deluded as the vandal Jose Bove.
Do you honestly believe that Reebok and Adidas don't employ slave labor and overprice their shoes?
I've seen reebok cross-trainers for over $100. Simple shoes... I don't know a soccer player who has a pair of good Adidas cleats for less than $100.
If Nike were gone, Reebok would take their place quite quickly. Don't fool yourself into thinking one company has more morals than another. It's all bottom line for them...all of them.
And another thing, Nike makes decent shoes... There are better, but for some people a $25 pair of flimsy All Stars isn't going to cut it.
Canadian Tort law only provides for compensation for direct losses. Which means you can't sue for emotional loss.
"The measure of tort damages is to the plaintiff in the position that he/she would be in if the wrong had not occurred."
So this includes property damages, medical bills and direct lost income. Real damages, not 10 million for a hot cup of coffee. Most sensible people would curse themselves for spilling coffee on their crotch and leave it at that. Only in America...
You can't seriously think they are the bad guys here. NSI is at fault for bad security, end of story. The bad guy here is the ISP, who is suing based entirely on greed. Also at fault is American tort law which allows for compensational damages. (dumb)
Just because Nike is a huge corporation doesn't mean they are automatically bad. And you can't sue a company for making stupid ads.
Where would you be without huge corporations like Intel, GE, GM, Nike?...Probably using a typewriter, in the dark, with no car and bare feet.
The problem here isn't that MS is ushering out another powerful programming language. It's that the language is going to be targeted as a cross-platform (sure...) internet language. And we don't like web pages that can control our hardware. Yes, this is up to the implementor (MS), but if they create a VM that can access hardware, look out. The language isn't the problem here.
The whole language reeks of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. But in a different way. Java is based on C++, but simpler. It has garbage collection, and is fairly secure (how many java exploits are there without MS?). And C# is almost identical on paper, with vapor-improvements like 'better' security and garbage-collection.
Why not just use Java? It's powerful enough, widely accepted and cross-platform...hell Vampire: Masquerade is programmed in Java. But for MS, that would be admitting defeat. And they think they can do better. I don't think they need to.
Valenti told the Committee that the digital world is far more dangerous that the analog world. "The 1000th copy of a digitized movie is as pure as the original, whereas in analog each copy is degraded in quality."
What is wrong with lossless transmission? How is that a danger to the public and to the MPAA? This is a changing world Jack and just because you used loss of quality as an excuse to allow VCR's to take off, doesn't mean it holds any relevance today. What was, no longer is. Deal with it.
Oh he knows, he's no dummy. The reason he "doesn't know" anything is because he is in a very precarious situation where if he trips over his words, the case could be shot. He has been programmed by his lawyers to give two or three vague responses to different types of questions. Its literally a rehearsed play inside the courtroom in these high profile cases.
How will the heat be conducted to the magnets? Without a medium to transport the heat, the magnets will stay nice and chilly even if they are a foot away from 50,000 degree plasma.
BTW: IANADOAPP (I am not a doctor of applied... yeah, you get it...)
That the anti-aliasing technique shown is 61-tap... fairly CPU intensive.
If ClearType is computationally equivalent to an (example) 8-tap anti-aliasing method than it is a major breakthrough. (can't believe I'm saying something positive about M$...eww...)
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The problem they are asking you to solve is the Minsweeper Consistancy Problem. The problem is determining which boards are consistent with the rules... ie. a 3 with no mines around it would be inconsistent.
This is a hell of an algorithm when you really ponder it...
...is that this is publicity. period.
The UK has thrown away another of it's society's rights to "be the first". What kind of sick, twisted world do we live in? I'm disgusted.
The degredation of women? Consenting women who enjoy their work? They can be degraded for all I care, I think it allows men to appreciate that their woman is a little more 3 dimensional than some slut in the Horse of Hector position.
r ianism-troll.
Show me a statistic that links porn to rape. Please. Anyone who takes porn as seriously as you do should be locked up. I know I don't. But I will fight to protect it, because while it may be immoral in the eyes of some, it is legal and protected by the 1st.
Waco was probably the single most failed effort by the FBI ever. Almost everyone inside the compound died, most were just innocent followers of an insane evangalist. Do you honestly think it was a success? Are you condoning the reading of all your e-mail simply to label people as dangerous or not? Write the wrong word in a different context and have yourself on a blacklist?
You speak from your ass good sir.
I suggest collaborating with Dan McNamara (aka. Anti_Porn) to create the ultimate-slashdot-super-anti-liberal-pro-totalita
Apple can create anything they want, makes no difference to me, I don't find them useful.
But the mentality of most Mac owners and the company itself is what really scares me. Jobs is more than a ringmaster, he is a lunatic, a child in a man's body. His actions in this ATI fiasco were immature and reactionary. He wouldn't take phone calls from any ATI people the day of the launch, he was "too mad". There is no way to stop leaks like this, and he should know that. Not throw a tantrum over a third-party error.
I don't know how you can rationalize suing your own employees. Sure, punishment is necessary, but suing sends a strong message of "we don't trust you" to the very people you have to trust, and hired on the basis of trust.
Jobs is too much of a hothead, and was very lucky to come back to apple in a difficult time. Only two possibilities exist for the future of apple, sink with Jobs, or have the board dump him overboard and continue with a minority market share.
You do the math...
One processor yesterday at the same price as two processors today? Hrmm...Apple price gouging? nahhh?
As for the dual Athlons, check with AMD, they probably have a few test systems running dual, air-cooled of course. Sure they are hot, but it's not the end of the world.
Oh, please, that could never happen.
Just like we could never lose our first and fourth amendment rights.
And the government and large corporations would never decieve us.
;)
I listened to the realaudio too, it has lectures from two other doctors along the same lines... great stuff.
People need to make educated decisions based on fact, not propaganda.
"Don't think nothing bad will ever happen to me."
Damn, what does that mean?
I take it as being you feel relatively safe not doing drugs (BTW: Opposite of meaning, watch double negatives.)
And while this is a fairly simple (Gump) view of things, it is wrong. Bad things happen to good people all the time. But let's lobby to try and prevent such violent crimes instead of preventing people from harming themselves. If you choose to shoot up a lethal dose of heroin or drive off a cliff, who am I to stop you, it's a choice.
All drugs are not way bad, some drugs are, some are not. Fenflouramine(sp?) is a diet pill that was passed by the FDA last year, it is legal. That chemical is 4 times as neurotoxic and had more contraindications than MDMA, which is illegal. Drug information can only help, it is a very Quaker view that information can harm, and it is wrong... When have you ever thought it would be better to know less? If you do, do not ever reproduce, we don't need that mentality.
And as far as being a wasto loser, I do drugs, moderately and when I choose, and I am not a wasto loser. I hate these generalizations that lump everyone from mild pot users to heroin and speed addicts as being losers and useless burdens. Most people at your work perhaps have dabbled in pot, and maybe more, you don't know because they are normal people leading normal lives.
It is my firm belief that in order to be a well-balanced individual, you have to look outside yourself and really be critical of your life, not just bitch about others. People who do this are bitter and self-indulgent, they are the people who tell you you have to cut down your backyard tree because it overhangs their property by an inch, and then spread rumors about your alcoholism to all the other chatty neighbors who have no self-worth. If you have to use drugs to understand yourself, or a better sense of self-worth, then by all means, do so responsibly.
If you don't choose to do drugs, fine, that is a choice, but don't evangelize to me.
By your own admission, you are clinically an alcoholic.
I like wine, I like beer, but I admit that it is toxic. I have been drunk enough to scare myself, and I have moved to a more moderate schedule of drinking and illicit substance consumption (which is much healthier IMHO).
For example, don't use extacy, but if you end up in a situation where you've used it, remember that it drains your electrolytes, so don't forget to drink lots of liquids.
You might want to look up some Ecstasy information on dancesafe or maps.org or any other site you can find that is not government funded, it's not nearly as dangerous as many people would have you believe. It does not drain electrolytes at all, and when taken at home, or at a theraputic session, it does not dehydrate you either. The hot club environment and frenetic dancing cause you to sweat, and that is why you have to drink water. Also, a few unlucky souls have drank themselves to death hoping that water is the "cure" for MDMA, it is not, only drink enough water to replace the lost sweat.
Everything in moderation.
XXX-men
SeX-Men
X-Women
Can't think of any more...
Katz deserves no break. This story is pathetic, a vandal defacing a McDonalds is not a 4th of July extravaganza, nor is it WW3 or a Mongol slaughtering.
/. reading public, again evoking an emotional response to a non-issue. Large corporations don't give a rats ass about individualists as long as they buy their product.
A few points about this article (loose definition)
"Corporate Republic" WTF??? "Yahoo Serious"?? These words don't really make sense together...Such a thing doesn't exist. There is no underground corporate movement plotting to overthrow the goverment. Fear Mongering in action via Katz.
He is comparing Capitalism to the Measles in the fourth paragraph!! How many people died from the measles worldwide! Measles is a horrifying desease... This type of emotion-evoking yet utterly meaningless comparison has no place in a technology journal.
To top things off with a cherry, he includes hackers and programmers in with his list of "threatened" individualists. Clever how he turns the "evil empire" against the
"What in this country isn't for sale?" Certainly Katz's own book would be included in the "for sale" category?
Supermarkets are the status-quo, and yet small markets are still thriving. Why? Because people appreciate quality and service. There is no evil threat looming over the individualists of the world, and Jon Katz is as deluded as the vandal Jose Bove.
Do you honestly believe that Reebok and Adidas don't employ slave labor and overprice their shoes?
I've seen reebok cross-trainers for over $100. Simple shoes... I don't know a soccer player who has a pair of good Adidas cleats for less than $100.
If Nike were gone, Reebok would take their place quite quickly. Don't fool yourself into thinking one company has more morals than another. It's all bottom line for them...all of them.
And another thing, Nike makes decent shoes... There are better, but for some people a $25 pair of flimsy All Stars isn't going to cut it.
IANAL,
Canadian Tort law only provides for compensation for direct losses. Which means you can't sue for emotional loss.
"The measure of tort damages is to the plaintiff in the position that he/she would be in if the wrong had not occurred."
So this includes property damages, medical bills and direct lost income. Real damages, not 10 million for a hot cup of coffee. Most sensible people would curse themselves for spilling coffee on their crotch and leave it at that. Only in America...
You can't seriously think they are the bad guys here. NSI is at fault for bad security, end of story. The bad guy here is the ISP, who is suing based entirely on greed. Also at fault is American tort law which allows for compensational damages. (dumb)
Just because Nike is a huge corporation doesn't mean they are automatically bad. And you can't sue a company for making stupid ads.
Where would you be without huge corporations like Intel, GE, GM, Nike?...Probably using a typewriter, in the dark, with no car and bare feet.
Grow up.
The problem here isn't that MS is ushering out another powerful programming language. It's that the language is going to be targeted as a cross-platform (sure...) internet language. And we don't like web pages that can control our hardware. Yes, this is up to the implementor (MS), but if they create a VM that can access hardware, look out. The language isn't the problem here.
The whole language reeks of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. But in a different way. Java is based on C++, but simpler. It has garbage collection, and is fairly secure (how many java exploits are there without MS?). And C# is almost identical on paper, with vapor-improvements like 'better' security and garbage-collection.
Why not just use Java? It's powerful enough, widely accepted and cross-platform...hell Vampire: Masquerade is programmed in Java. But for MS, that would be admitting defeat. And they think they can do better. I don't think they need to.
You don't know tax hell... move to Canada :)
What is wrong with lossless transmission? How is that a danger to the public and to the MPAA? This is a changing world Jack and just because you used loss of quality as an excuse to allow VCR's to take off, doesn't mean it holds any relevance today.
What was, no longer is. Deal with it.
Besides, Stigmata was a good film.
Oh he knows, he's no dummy. The reason he "doesn't know" anything is because he is in a very precarious situation where if he trips over his words, the case could be shot. He has been programmed by his lawyers to give two or three vague responses to different types of questions. Its literally a rehearsed play inside the courtroom in these high profile cases.
Good effort though.
Jack Valenti is the head of the MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America. This case is in regards to DeCSS and the DMCA, not RIAA and Napster.
How will the heat be conducted to the magnets? Without a medium to transport the heat, the magnets will stay nice and chilly even if they are a foot away from 50,000 degree plasma.
BTW: IANADOAPP (I am not a doctor of applied... yeah, you get it...)
It's in space... no resistance = no speed limit. (except light that is.)
That the anti-aliasing technique shown is 61-tap... fairly CPU intensive.
If ClearType is computationally equivalent to an (example) 8-tap anti-aliasing method than it is a major breakthrough. (can't believe I'm saying something positive about M$...eww...)
But then aren't they infringing on their own copyrights?