NOTE:"because", "because it's there", "human curiosity/wonder", and other such pie-in-the-sky BS will not wash.
Well first answer me then we humans should do anything we do.
We can just sit around and wait until we die, or we could actually have goals as a species. One such goal would be to settle land away from this planet, and settling the moon is a clear useful result towards that goal.
I installed a Wiki on a webserver, behind a password. It's like using pen and paper with endless paper, it goes with you wherever you have an internet connection, and you have hyperlinks.
My calendar is just a page with links to pages named 2005-06-12, 2005-06-13, with headers above them for month names. To-do lists, projects, whatever, I can make new pages just by typing a link to them and then starting to edit them.
OK, there I agree with you. If you know the exact error you are committing then it becomes easy to account for it. Problem is, we're talking about equipment that is somewhat out of our reach.
But we can let it take a picture of something that we know (like a star) and see how it distorts that. And if they know how the anomaly happened, they may be able to do the same thing to an identical camera back on earth, and see how that distorts things.
Please, it's pretty insulting to a whole body of existing useful math, and a NASA team of astronomers, to dismiss the idea that this is even possible based on a few seconds of guesswork.
It's not perfect, but the results will be better than the results before deconcolving.
The musical is based on the film _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. A running gag in that film is the king who constantly says five when he means three.
We cant even predict the weather without real-time pictures, to say nothing of climate prediction.
This is ridiculous. It's like saying we still can't track every rain drop individually, let alone notice that it rains.
Climate prediction is a statistical thing, it's a matter of how much energy is going in and how much is going out. It's completely unrelated to weather prediction.
And both pwned (195,000) and pwnage (93,500) could have been second on that list. Pwn itself is mostly used as an acronym so unfit to search for, but even "to pwn" gets 14,300 hits.
Those words are my favourite non-dictionary words. Wonder how long it'll take before they're in actual paper dictionaries.
What if microsoft refuses to pay up? What's the EU going to do then?
Let's see...
Stop paying MS for all software they use, claim all their European assets (office buildings, etc), claim the money in the US, jail MS board members, etc etc.
They can't really stop microsoft products being sold in the EU, there would be a europe-wide riot. If ms refuses to pay, the EU wont be able to do a thing.
This is ridiculous. The EU is a bunch of governments. Microsoft is a company refusing to pay fines for criminal activity. They'd just declare Windows free to copy for all and people would be dancing in the streets.
I've heard someone say once that the two greatest achievements of Austria in history were to make the world think that Hitler was German, and that Mozart was Austrian.
(Not that I agree, but it's a fun joke to make Austrians angry with)
Now these conservatives are demanding that Canada abandon sovereignty and model all of their intellectual property laws after the US?
No, these are not the same conservatives, these are NeoCons, and they have absolutely nothing to do with the founding principles of US conservatism except for using the Replublican Party brand.
t seems more likely that when there were more predators only the ugly bugs survived to leave eggs. The others got eaten.
Congratulations, that is exactly what evolution is.
But their DNA didn't change, the tasty-looking bugs just got weeded out.
On average, next generations will be uglier because more of their parents were ugly. Not all of them will get ugly kids though - just a lot more than before. That means the population as a whole got uglier.
In other words the DNA of the uglier bugs looks different because their parents were ugly. The problem with calling it an evolutionary change is that a subsequent generation was pretty again. If the DNA had in fact changed, they would have stayed ugly.
When the predators were gone, being pretty was an advantage again - probably a higher chance to be picked for mating. This resulted in the uglier ones being weeded out, and the population became prettier.
And that's all that evolution is. Plus a tiny bit of mutation etc to make the population diverse in the first place.
I was asked to bring code samples from my previous experience to the job interview for my current job. They basically want an idea of your coding style, they're not going to steal any IP. I had permission from my previous job to show code samples for this sort of thing.
Once Apple makes a significant marketshare in the European Union, Microsoft won't be a monopoly anymore.
The cheapest PowerBook on the US site it's $1499. On the Dutch version of the same site is €1519. That's living in the past, the dollar is €0.77 or thereabouts now. As long as they don't change that, they'll never become big here (and they're practically non-existant as it is, in the last 10 years I've met exactly 1 person owning a mac, the only time I ever saw one).
Why did they not keep their tactic of creating customized password dictionaries secret? Seems like they just gave potential criminals a big warning...
Because it doesn't matter one bit. Right now, most places where you must pick a password, there is already a warning that you shouldn't pick a word, pick something alphanumeric, something random. Nobody cares. If that doesn't change people's behaviour, this news story won't either.
Come on mods, that's just a troll... Russians don't have a near monopoly on commercial launches, and all those links lead to, uhm, exciting sports pictures of a younger-than-18-year-old...
The first book of his that I read was The Scar (I think because of its Hugo nomination, actually). I absolutely loved it. Fantastic. Then read Perdido Street Station, and it's not quite as good, but still very enjoyable. Then tried King Rat and didn't even finish it - it just did nothing for me.
So based on that (it's reverse chronological order), I'd say he's very much improving himself, and I should really read Iron Council. But I haven't yet, for one thing because I've read some reviews that weren't that positive so it doesn't have highest priority, and second because I don't even have time to read the stack of books that I also want to read...
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Dammit, where is FireSomething when we need it! It needs to be updated to be compatible with newer versions of Firefox/Lightningnarwhal/...
My favourite Firesomething name was Mozilla Superkoala, I'll vote for that.
NOTE:"because", "because it's there", "human curiosity/wonder", and other such pie-in-the-sky BS will not wash.
Well first answer me then we humans should do anything we do.
We can just sit around and wait until we die, or we could actually have goals as a species. One such goal would be to settle land away from this planet, and settling the moon is a clear useful result towards that goal.
Um...OK...if you know it's a dupe, why is it still being re-reported?
What on earth makes you believe the Slashdot editors think dupes are a bad thing?
Prime factorization is NP-complete.
You can factor any prime in O(1) time, you know...
I installed a Wiki on a webserver, behind a password. It's like using pen and paper with endless paper, it goes with you wherever you have an internet connection, and you have hyperlinks.
My calendar is just a page with links to pages named 2005-06-12, 2005-06-13, with headers above them for month names. To-do lists, projects, whatever, I can make new pages just by typing a link to them and then starting to edit them.
OK, there I agree with you. If you know the exact error you are committing then it becomes easy to account for it. Problem is, we're talking about equipment that is somewhat out of our reach.
But we can let it take a picture of something that we know (like a star) and see how it distorts that. And if they know how the anomaly happened, they may be able to do the same thing to an identical camera back on earth, and see how that distorts things.
Please, it's pretty insulting to a whole body of existing useful math, and a NASA team of astronomers, to dismiss the idea that this is even possible based on a few seconds of guesswork.
It's not perfect, but the results will be better than the results before deconcolving.
Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?
IT'S... Monty Python's Flying Circus!
How often does the man have to say it?
The musical is based on the film _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. A running gag in that film is the king who constantly says five when he means three.
We cant even predict the weather without real-time pictures, to say nothing of climate prediction.
This is ridiculous. It's like saying we still can't track every rain drop individually, let alone notice that it rains.
Climate prediction is a statistical thing, it's a matter of how much energy is going in and how much is going out. It's completely unrelated to weather prediction.
And both pwned (195,000) and pwnage (93,500) could have been second on that list. Pwn itself is mostly used as an acronym so unfit to search for, but even "to pwn" gets 14,300 hits.
Those words are my favourite non-dictionary words. Wonder how long it'll take before they're in actual paper dictionaries.
What if microsoft refuses to pay up? What's the EU going to do then?
Let's see...
Stop paying MS for all software they use, claim all their European assets (office buildings, etc), claim the money in the US, jail MS board members, etc etc.
They can't really stop microsoft products being sold in the EU, there would be a europe-wide riot. If ms refuses to pay, the EU wont be able to do a thing.
This is ridiculous. The EU is a bunch of governments. Microsoft is a company refusing to pay fines for criminal activity. They'd just declare Windows free to copy for all and people would be dancing in the streets.
You cannot compare a G4 at 1.25GHz to a x86 at 1.25 GHz. It just makes no sense whatsoever.
Nice try. But Hitler was not german.
I've heard someone say once that the two greatest achievements of Austria in history were to make the world think that Hitler was German, and that Mozart was Austrian.
(Not that I agree, but it's a fun joke to make Austrians angry with)
Now these conservatives are demanding that Canada abandon sovereignty and model all of their intellectual property laws after the US?
No, these are not the same conservatives, these are NeoCons, and they have absolutely nothing to do with the founding principles of US conservatism except for using the Replublican Party brand.
They can be sued for using patented technology without a license.
Hasn't happened yet, and it's probably not practical to do, but even users of a program need a license.
Or It Perhaps could be regular secrets / the element of surprise.
And fear. And a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
If they're in international waters, no authority can punish them for any infraction.
Isn't it more like, in international waters any authority that feels like it can punish them for any infraction?
t seems more likely that when there were more predators only the ugly bugs survived to leave eggs. The others got eaten.
Congratulations, that is exactly what evolution is.
But their DNA didn't change, the tasty-looking bugs just got weeded out.
On average, next generations will be uglier because more of their parents were ugly. Not all of them will get ugly kids though - just a lot more than before. That means the population as a whole got uglier.
In other words the DNA of the uglier bugs looks different because their parents were ugly. The problem with calling it an evolutionary change is that a subsequent generation was pretty again. If the DNA had in fact changed, they would have stayed ugly.
When the predators were gone, being pretty was an advantage again - probably a higher chance to be picked for mating. This resulted in the uglier ones being weeded out, and the population became prettier.
And that's all that evolution is. Plus a tiny bit of mutation etc to make the population diverse in the first place.
Or is it late and I'm missing something obvious?
The way evolution works is obvious.
I was asked to bring code samples from my previous experience to the job interview for my current job. They basically want an idea of your coding style, they're not going to steal any IP. I had permission from my previous job to show code samples for this sort of thing.
+1. One of the best games ever. Amazing amount of backstory, most of it extremely funny, AND great game play.
Too bad that Star Control III wasn't good - they simply recycled all the jokes and made the game itself crappier...
Once Apple makes a significant marketshare in the European Union, Microsoft won't be a monopoly anymore.
The cheapest PowerBook on the US site it's $1499. On the Dutch version of the same site is €1519. That's living in the past, the dollar is €0.77 or thereabouts now. As long as they don't change that, they'll never become big here (and they're practically non-existant as it is, in the last 10 years I've met exactly 1 person owning a mac, the only time I ever saw one).
In short, fat chance.
Why did they not keep their tactic of creating customized password dictionaries secret? Seems like they just gave potential criminals a big warning...
Because it doesn't matter one bit. Right now, most places where you must pick a password, there is already a warning that you shouldn't pick a word, pick something alphanumeric, something random. Nobody cares. If that doesn't change people's behaviour, this news story won't either.
China Miéville is his real name. Interview: The name, he says, is a result of having hippie parents.
Come on mods, that's just a troll... Russians don't have a near monopoly on commercial launches, and all those links lead to, uhm, exciting sports pictures of a younger-than-18-year-old...
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The first book of his that I read was The Scar (I think because of its Hugo nomination, actually). I absolutely loved it. Fantastic. Then read Perdido Street Station, and it's not quite as good, but still very enjoyable. Then tried King Rat and didn't even finish it - it just did nothing for me.
So based on that (it's reverse chronological order), I'd say he's very much improving himself, and I should really read Iron Council. But I haven't yet, for one thing because I've read some reviews that weren't that positive so it doesn't have highest priority, and second because I don't even have time to read the stack of books that I also want to read...