I lost three years of my life to MUDding, and two more to post-addiction depression. MMORPGs seem to be the same thing but far worse. Yes, they will be a HUGE problem, there's nothing special about South Koreans that makes them susceptible (I'm Dutch).
That's a surface area of 45.049cm^2.
Given our previous determination that we can store 0.114 LoC on 1cm^2, we arrive at a figure of 5.136 LoC/i(or LoC/n for nPod, as the case may be).
Apple's online music store launched with 200K+ songs. If we take 200K, and say an mp3 is 5MB, then all their songs is 1 TB. Or 1/40th nPod.
Before long, we're going to need a new unit, or we'll be talking about kilolibraries and so on...
I wonder how much space it takes to store all music ever released by record companies losslessly compressed?
> "The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing. That's not the way we're going to go."
So you don't want us to fix this so-called infringement? Most companies do a cease-and-decist before a lawsuit, allowing the accused to make changes.
Reminds me of the US government that's accusing the old Iraqi regime of destroying all their WMD, so that the US can't find it... those bastards! Unfair!
One thing I've never understood is how the "videogames cause violence", "TV causes violence", "movies cause violence", etc crowd can explain that somehow all these things -- which are available to the entire world -- only seem to cause violence here in the US? Does anyone know what their answer is?
But spam is responsible for, what was it Taco, 60% of traffic on networks?
I'm at 105% utilization already!
We conclude that at least 5% of network traffic is Windows patching spam. Please don't be so narrow minded.
Windows patching porn spam, actually, incorporating further data from this thread...
(Actually, there's no problem at all - 100% of traffic on some networks may be Quake, while 100% of the traffic of some other networks may be something else...)
Yeah, that's ok if what you're writing is some generic open source app. If you have to build something for a client or for your boss, on the other hand, you need design. If only to agree beforehand what it is that you're going to make, exactly.
The goal of all the cognitive scientists I've met is to make machines think, just as with A.I. In fact, I've always heard, and was told in my AI class, that A.I. is a branch of cognitive science.
The goal of cognitive science is to find out how humans think, especially how they process information and reach decisions.
AI as a branch of cognitive science tries to model human thought with computers, basically testing theories on how the human brain achieves the things it does, to achieve this.
AI in general tries to make computer intelligent (whatever that means).
Apparently Pim Fortuyn's politics were widely mischaracterized [curry.com] in most media after his asassination. You may find there was a lot more to like about the guy than most people outside of the Netherlends was led to believe.
My view of Fortuyn.
Fortuyn was absolutely not a racist or a fascist. Comparing him to Le Pen or so (extreme right wing in France) is stupid. He pointed out there were problems with integration of foreigners in the Netherlands. Well, duh.
But he was a populist. He had great charisma, was a great public speaker, and continuously made the current politicians look ridiculous. He also had a great talent for pointing out problems. The problem was that his "solutions" were extremely vague, naive, brutal and unlikely to work. But what does that matter, the man looked good on tv!... He went from nowhere to a quarter of the poll votes in no time.
Some left wing nut panicked and shot him. This was easy, bodyguards were unknown in Dutch politics, we had a PM that came to work on his bicycle. It's very sad. Love him or hate him, the Fortuyn show was cool to watch.
And there's no way he could have made it as a US politician, btw. He was so blatantly homosexual... there was a tv interview in which he intimated that his boyfriend's sperm tasted differently depending on what he ate the evening before. The fact that everybody considered this obviously irrelevant to politics, and no politician tried to attack his personal life is an important reason why I still love this country.
As evidenced by this statement: "...is rather offensive, in my opinion.", you clearly intend for the reader to assume responsibility for the conditions of those living in -insert impoverished country here- when history clearly demonstrates that such concern is idiotically ill-conceived.
What was offensive to me is that it was suggested that the current "problems" of IT in America are similar to the problems that Africa faces. I completely agree that more "help" by Western states is the last thing they need (although less active opposition by trade barriers would be good).
Here in the states the economics of being a programmer or anything in the IT industry is pretty bad, but from the article it seems Africa is much worse.
Well, DUH. Talk about obvious.
There are a few major problems in Africa, and the price of gasoline or the lack of $60k jobs isn't one of them.
One is drinking water. Another is AIDS. Civil war is also quite common.
In some countries, school teachers are dying of AIDS faster than they can be trained. In some countries, people pay more than half their daily income for fresh water. Saying that "it seems" the problems in US IT industry are not the worst in the world is rather offensive, in my opinion.
To my amazement, no-one has mentioned Vernor Vinge yet. His last two novels, _A Fire Upon The Deep_ and _A Deepness In The Sky_ are absolutely superb. They both won both Hugo and Nebula, iirc.
Another author I like is Greg Egan. Try _Diaspora_ and/or _Permutation City_. His ideas are way out there, but always very interesting.
I can think of a few reasons why this would be. First, Americans keep their houses hot. Not me personally - I like it at 60-65F - or even less- that's because i'm diabetic and always feeling hot anyway. I keep it above 60 for the benefit of others, else no one would stay in my house. But most people in the US keep it at 70 or 72. Europeans, on the other hand, seem to like it around 60. Big energy savings there, for sure.
Actually I like it around 17. The secret is very simple - stubborn Americans just have to change to the metric system and the numbers come way down;-)
Where did all the blood go? What portable instrument does the cauterized cuts? Why won't scavengers touch the dead bodies? Why are there no tracks or blood around the bodies? Why do they take tissues that have a lot of nerves?
That's a lot of questions. Add to it, Did the blood really go? How robust was the research into scavengers? Has there been any research into whether the meat was edible? Why are you talking about "they"?
Now, let's try "it were aliens" as the answer. How many questions have we answered? None. Do we get any new questions? Yes - How can aliens come to earth, How come no-one noticed them even with extremely refined rader equipment etc, and Why in heck would they do a thing like this.
An answer that answers nothing and only poses new, rather hard questions is not a very good answer.
Unfortunately the link is Slashdotted. I'd look into the facts first - how thorough was the research that makes those claims?
Last but not least, if not aliens....then Who, Why and How?
Those have to be answered if you argue it was done by aliens, too.
What are these "laws" you are talking about? Things aren't special because they have "law" in their name (for instance, in Dutch it's "Law of Pythagoras" not "Pythagoras' Theorem" - doesn't mean anything different).
But ok, I cede that there are conjectures that cannot be proven and still be true. But many examples of long-lived conjectures (the "four colour theorem", "fermat's last theorem") were eventually proven. Just from looking at Gödel's constructed non-provable true statement, which was book length, I have at least a gut feeling that his Theorem shouldn't have much impact in practice.
So now I'm talking about gut feelings in practice. I guess I'm defeating myself:-)
the number 7 (a prime) has the unique property (among other properties, like 'oddness') that it has the unique divisors 7 and 1, a property that it shares with no other numbers.
the number 17 (a prime) has the unique property (among other properties, like 'oddness') that it has the unique divisors 17 and 1, a property that it shares with no other numbers.
The number 15 (not a prime) has the unique property (among other properties, like 'oddness') that it has the unique divisors 3 and 5, a property that it shares with no other numbers.
It's also the only number that is equal to 15.
Every number has a special property - in particular, the lowest number that doesn't has the special property "is the lowest number that has no special properties":-)
You've "easily" proven things by defining them as something. An irrational number is a number with no known, infinite, repeatable sequence? You've *defined* it that way, that doesn't mean you've ever *proven* a number irrational.
In Mathematics, there's nothing that's "proven" that isn't explicitly defined as such. Notice how the Pythagorean Theorem is just that - a Theorem, not 'The Pythagorean Law'.
I don't see any difference between a "law" and a "theorem".
Anyway, a theorem is a formula that can be proven true.
Formulas that aren't theorems are, well, just formulas.
All the math we know consists of theorems, things that have been proven true. There are also some so-called "conjectures" - that means "we think this is a theorem but haven't found the proof yet.".
Experiments, hypotheses, data, tests, all that belongs to science - and math is not science.
A solution in Malbolge would be really really amazing. No-one has shown that it is possible to do loops in Malbolge yet; and a program with that much output would be really hard to make.
Someone did finally come up with a "Hello World" in Malbolge! Well, almost. He managed to make a "HEllO WORld" program by writing a genetic algorithm that took a few hours to find the program.
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I lost three years of my life to MUDding, and two more to post-addiction depression. MMORPGs seem to be the same thing but far worse. Yes, they will be a HUGE problem, there's nothing special about South Koreans that makes them susceptible (I'm Dutch).
That's a surface area of 45.049cm^2. Given our previous determination that we can store 0.114 LoC on 1cm^2, we arrive at a figure of 5.136 LoC/i(or LoC/n for nPod, as the case may be).
Apple's online music store launched with 200K+ songs. If we take 200K, and say an mp3 is 5MB, then all their songs is 1 TB. Or 1/40th nPod.
Before long, we're going to need a new unit, or we'll be talking about kilolibraries and so on...
I wonder how much space it takes to store all music ever released by record companies losslessly compressed?
I really hate to say this as a left-thinking, American-bashing European bigot.
But if the choice is between declining to join Kyoto, and joining it and then totally ignoring it - it seems the US did the right thing.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
To post an on-topic reply to your sig: Anne Frank fanfic.
No, some people are really wrong at heart.
Star Control II, Doom and Nethack are all the Best Game Ever.
> "The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing. That's not the way we're going to go."
So you don't want us to fix this so-called infringement? Most companies do a cease-and-decist before a lawsuit, allowing the accused to make changes.
Reminds me of the US government that's accusing the old Iraqi regime of destroying all their WMD, so that the US can't find it... those bastards! Unfair!
SCO just wants to avoid this nasty scenario :-)
Try $999,999. They can't have thought of everything!
One thing I've never understood is how the "videogames cause violence", "TV causes violence", "movies cause violence", etc crowd can explain that somehow all these things -- which are available to the entire world -- only seem to cause violence here in the US? Does anyone know what their answer is?
Not enough sex on TV in the US :-)
But spam is responsible for, what was it Taco, 60% of traffic on networks?
I'm at 105% utilization already!
We conclude that at least 5% of network traffic is Windows patching spam. Please don't be so narrow minded.
Windows patching porn spam, actually, incorporating further data from this thread...
(Actually, there's no problem at all - 100% of traffic on some networks may be Quake, while 100% of the traffic of some other networks may be something else...)
Yeah, that's ok if what you're writing is some generic open source app. If you have to build something for a client or for your boss, on the other hand, you need design. If only to agree beforehand what it is that you're going to make, exactly.
The goal of all the cognitive scientists I've met is to make machines think, just as with A.I. In fact, I've always heard, and was told in my AI class, that A.I. is a branch of cognitive science.
The goal of cognitive science is to find out how humans think, especially how they process information and reach decisions.
AI as a branch of cognitive science tries to model human thought with computers, basically testing theories on how the human brain achieves the things it does, to achieve this.
AI in general tries to make computer intelligent (whatever that means).
Apparently Pim Fortuyn's politics were widely mischaracterized [curry.com] in most media after his asassination. You may find there was a lot more to like about the guy than most people outside of the Netherlends was led to believe.
My view of Fortuyn.
Fortuyn was absolutely not a racist or a fascist. Comparing him to Le Pen or so (extreme right wing in France) is stupid. He pointed out there were problems with integration of foreigners in the Netherlands. Well, duh.
But he was a populist. He had great charisma, was a great public speaker, and continuously made the current politicians look ridiculous. He also had a great talent for pointing out problems. The problem was that his "solutions" were extremely vague, naive, brutal and unlikely to work. But what does that matter, the man looked good on tv!... He went from nowhere to a quarter of the poll votes in no time.
Some left wing nut panicked and shot him. This was easy, bodyguards were unknown in Dutch politics, we had a PM that came to work on his bicycle. It's very sad. Love him or hate him, the Fortuyn show was cool to watch.
And there's no way he could have made it as a US politician, btw. He was so blatantly homosexual... there was a tv interview in which he intimated that his boyfriend's sperm tasted differently depending on what he ate the evening before. The fact that everybody considered this obviously irrelevant to politics, and no politician tried to attack his personal life is an important reason why I still love this country.
As evidenced by this statement: "...is rather offensive, in my opinion.", you clearly intend for the reader to assume responsibility for the conditions of those living in -insert impoverished country here- when history clearly demonstrates that such concern is idiotically ill-conceived.
What was offensive to me is that it was suggested that the current "problems" of IT in America are similar to the problems that Africa faces. I completely agree that more "help" by Western states is the last thing they need (although less active opposition by trade barriers would be good).
Here in the states the economics of being a programmer or anything in the IT industry is pretty bad, but from the article it seems Africa is much worse.
Well, DUH. Talk about obvious.
There are a few major problems in Africa, and the price of gasoline or the lack of $60k jobs isn't one of them.
One is drinking water. Another is AIDS. Civil war is also quite common.
In some countries, school teachers are dying of AIDS faster than they can be trained. In some countries, people pay more than half their daily income for fresh water. Saying that "it seems" the problems in US IT industry are not the worst in the world is rather offensive, in my opinion.
To my amazement, no-one has mentioned Vernor Vinge yet. His last two novels, _A Fire Upon The Deep_ and _A Deepness In The Sky_ are absolutely superb. They both won both Hugo and Nebula, iirc.
Another author I like is Greg Egan. Try _Diaspora_ and/or _Permutation City_. His ideas are way out there, but always very interesting.
Wouldn't it be kinda funny if all the John Does trned out to be in foreign countries?
Why? AOL can sue them there.
I can think of a few reasons why this would be. First, Americans keep their houses hot. Not me personally - I like it at 60-65F - or even less- that's because i'm diabetic and always feeling hot anyway. I keep it above 60 for the benefit of others, else no one would stay in my house. But most people in the US keep it at 70 or 72. Europeans, on the other hand, seem to like it around 60. Big energy savings there, for sure.
Actually I like it around 17. The secret is very simple - stubborn Americans just have to change to the metric system and the numbers come way down ;-)
Where did all the blood go? What portable instrument does the cauterized cuts? Why won't scavengers touch the dead bodies? Why are there no tracks or blood around the bodies? Why do they take tissues that have a lot of nerves?
That's a lot of questions. Add to it, Did the blood really go? How robust was the research into scavengers? Has there been any research into whether the meat was edible? Why are you talking about "they"?
Now, let's try "it were aliens" as the answer. How many questions have we answered? None. Do we get any new questions? Yes - How can aliens come to earth, How come no-one noticed them even with extremely refined rader equipment etc, and Why in heck would they do a thing like this.
An answer that answers nothing and only poses new, rather hard questions is not a very good answer.
Unfortunately the link is Slashdotted. I'd look into the facts first - how thorough was the research that makes those claims?
Last but not least, if not aliens....then Who, Why and How?
Those have to be answered if you argue it was done by aliens, too.
in that laws might be an option to consider.
What are these "laws" you are talking about? Things aren't special because they have "law" in their name (for instance, in Dutch it's "Law of Pythagoras" not "Pythagoras' Theorem" - doesn't mean anything different).
But ok, I cede that there are conjectures that cannot be proven and still be true. But many examples of long-lived conjectures (the "four colour theorem", "fermat's last theorem") were eventually proven. Just from looking at Gödel's constructed non-provable true statement, which was book length, I have at least a gut feeling that his Theorem shouldn't have much impact in practice.
So now I'm talking about gut feelings in practice. I guess I'm defeating myself :-)
Uh, hello? 2?
That's just a measuring error :-)
the number 7 (a prime) has the unique property (among other properties, like 'oddness') that it has the unique divisors 7 and 1, a property that it shares with no other numbers.
the number 17 (a prime) has the unique property (among other properties, like 'oddness') that it has the unique divisors 17 and 1, a property that it shares with no other numbers.
The number 15 (not a prime) has the unique property (among other properties, like 'oddness') that it has the unique divisors 3 and 5, a property that it shares with no other numbers.
It's also the only number that is equal to 15.
Every number has a special property - in particular, the lowest number that doesn't has the special property "is the lowest number that has no special properties" :-)
You've "easily" proven things by defining them as something. An irrational number is a number with no known, infinite, repeatable sequence? You've *defined* it that way, that doesn't mean you've ever *proven* a number irrational.
Proof that the square root of 2 is irrational: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=928307
Proof that e is irrational: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=930313
Better examples are obviously out there, but I just searched for 'irrational' on E2... You're very ignorant.
In Mathematics, there's nothing that's "proven" that isn't explicitly defined as such. Notice how the Pythagorean Theorem is just that - a Theorem, not 'The Pythagorean Law'.
I don't see any difference between a "law" and a "theorem".
Anyway, a theorem is a formula that can be proven true.
Formulas that aren't theorems are, well, just formulas.
All the math we know consists of theorems, things that have been proven true. There are also some so-called "conjectures" - that means "we think this is a theorem but haven't found the proof yet.".
Experiments, hypotheses, data, tests, all that belongs to science - and math is not science.
A solution in Malbolge would be really really amazing. No-one has shown that it is possible to do loops in Malbolge yet; and a program with that much output would be really hard to make.
Someone did finally come up with a "Hello World" in Malbolge! Well, almost. He managed to make a "HEllO WORld" program by writing a genetic algorithm that took a few hours to find the program.
This is the source code:
(=<`$9]7<5YXz7wT.3,+O/o'K%$H"'~D|#z@b=`{^Lx8%$XmrSee http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/malbolge.html .
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