Actually, the error of a sum is not the sum of the errors. The square of the error is the sum of the squares of the individual errors. According to your figs, with SA jitter, the error is 30.6 m; without the jitter, the standard error is 5.8 m.
The court (in this case the NY Court of Appeals, affirmed by the Supreme Court since they refused to hear the case) essentially recognized an ISP as a common carrier.
IANAL, but IIRC common carriers by law must relay all messages, and "all messages" includes stupid, pointless, annoying mail commonly called spam..
If someone decides that I have to buy a CD, if I like the music, I will.
How do you know whether or not you like the music until you listen to it (which, in RIAA's plan, entails purchasing the CD)? If a CD has three listenable songs (as determined from MP3 previewing), and it has been released in a market where an vendor exists that delivers to Indiana (too bad that a lot of Euro stuff gets released only in Europe), I buy it. But most of the albums out there are one or two halfway decent tracks and twelve tracks full of SHIT SHIT SHIT.
I had the choice between Civilization and FreeCiv, I would choose Civilization over a bad copy
A lot of these games are more art than code. Look at the typical game's credits; there tend to be twice as many artists as coders, and good game artists generally don't work for free beer (unless they're alcoholics:-). Anyone know how to solve the "better art in games with closed source code" problem?
and TONS of stories with less than 100 comments... many with less than 75. then there is the severe lack of intelligent comments as of late
Slashdot is quite a bit better on weekdays than on weekends. There tend to be fewer w4nk3rs trolling/. on the weekdays and more users who want more games for the GNU/Linux system.
Re:Google already uses it
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Actually, Google does have ads but says no to 468x60 pixel animated GIF advertising; instead, Google inserts clean-looking text ads; the simple "surf with w3m or lynx and don't get ads" trick no longer works because Google is designed to look as good in character-cell browsers as in graphical browsers.
Who says there's a lack of games for the GNU/Linux system? Probably critics who have never been to the depot. Or you can click my Home Page link or signature.
It probably looks for number of keywords over number of total words in a message. After the first "Jam Echelon Day", they probably revised the filter so that it used somewhat more advanced lexical analysis on messages that fell within boundaries for keyword frequency (ignoring messages with too many keywords next to each other), and that would reject your typical "jam Echelon" message as "Score:-1, Nonsensical" to put it in/. terms.
Re:Computer Vision - the real problem.
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In order to understand hand-written script what did people do? Here is a hint: think palm-pilot. Yes... since it's too hard, the solution was to "train the monkey". That is, you, the user have to type one character at a time, and not regular characters but special characters.
Have you ever used a Newton device? Before Apple threw out its entire product line to make room for the G3 and iMac computers, Apple MessagePad 2000 had excellent handwriting recognition.
And Apple's just sitting on it! Waaaaaah!
But a depth-first search...
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A conservative underestimate would be that the tree has a branching factor of 35 and a depth of 100. 35 ^ 100 is far more than the number of atoms in the Universe.
<disclaimer content="I am not a mathematician"> The only reason the search tree must be stored is so you can find your way back from the solution. If the tree is searched depth-first, the search needs only about 100 words of storage, 35 values for each word. Multiply that by about a few thousand, and you have space for sophisticated tree-pruning algorithms; how about a distributed.net attack? </disclaimer>
/. has trolls. Get used to it.
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For the same [FIR57 P057!] reason that [hot grits down your pants] people say [Natalie Portman naked] dumb things for me to poop on at all, [goatse.cx] to get attention. It probably wouldn't bother us as much if it were part of a sig, but when it's the only thing in a reply...
The MSOffice document problem is not going to go away, as much as you might like it to.
It might if all the rest of the industry adopts XML (extensible markup language) as a common file format. It has already happened with word processing (many include HTML, a dialect of which is an XML application) and spreadsheets (Gnumeric documents are gzipped XML). If Microsoft Applications makes decent import and export filters for XML, things might improve.
the DOJ plan has all of the XML stuff being owned by the Apps company, which means that they will have the incentive to twist the standards to support their Office monopoly.
Many GTK apps use libglade, which uses libxml. When WinGTK matures, libglade will be ported to Windows, which will bring libxml with it. If MSApps fscks with the XML standard, someone will write proper filters between Office's OLE/COM and XML and (I hope) release them as free software.
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Besides, you can run it from any desktop environment you want - as long as you have the KDE libraries installed
Which means you have to port the KDE libs to your platform first, unless they already make KDE for BeOS, Mac OS, or Microsoft Windows.
I wonder how long before MS does something similar and calls it an "Innovation"
I'd call that the Win98 explorer.exe, where you can type a Web URL into the pathname bar.
What does e-mail have to do with a browser?
Mail.com, Coldmail.com, Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, AOL.com webmail, etc. The good ones have encrypted login pages.
The article is about "open source." RMS and GNU are about free software.
links to the power colo(u)r classic
Didn't Apple do that and call it an iSor^H^H^H^HiMac computer?
Actually, the error of a sum is not the sum of the errors. The square of the error is the sum of the squares of the individual errors. According to your figs, with SA jitter, the error is 30.6 m; without the jitter, the standard error is 5.8 m.
...to his upstream provider. Most upstreams have TOS that restricts spammers from spamming using their networks.
The court (in this case the NY Court of Appeals, affirmed by the Supreme Court since they refused to hear the case) essentially recognized an ISP as a common carrier.
IANAL, but IIRC common carriers by law must relay all messages, and "all messages" includes stupid, pointless, annoying mail commonly called spam..
XHTML doesn't take into account things required for printed output, such as page numbering, page breaks, headers/footers, margins
That's what cascading stylesheets are for. IIRC there are standard CSS extensions to handle printed output.
If someone decides that I have to buy a CD, if I like the music, I will.
How do you know whether or not you like the music until you listen to it (which, in RIAA's plan, entails purchasing the CD)? If a CD has three listenable songs (as determined from MP3 previewing), and it has been released in a market where an vendor exists that delivers to Indiana (too bad that a lot of Euro stuff gets released only in Europe), I buy it. But most of the albums out there are one or two halfway decent tracks and twelve tracks full of SHIT SHIT SHIT.
I had the choice between Civilization and FreeCiv, I would choose Civilization over a bad copy
A lot of these games are more art than code. Look at the typical game's credits; there tend to be twice as many artists as coders, and good game artists generally don't work for free beer (unless they're alcoholics :-). Anyone know how to solve the "better art in games with closed source code" problem?
I'll take you to court (without being able to plead damages, because no money was lost.)
Remember the Dr. Dre suit? A copyright owner can sue for up to $100,000 in statutory damages.
People "wanted" Mario (TM & © Nintendo), but Sega's and Sony's consoles still made money licensing devkits for their consoles. Do players want Tomb Raider^TM, or do they want behind-the-player shooters? (Big 7i75 can be worked into any custom player skin.) Do they want Quake^TM, or do they want first-person shooters? Do they want Starcraft^TM, or do they want real-time strategy games? Do they want TETRIS®, or do they want puzzle games? Do they want Gran Turismo^TM, or do they want racing games? By restricting themselves to brand names, they miss out on fun.
Your word-processing XML DTD is already out there: W3C's XHTML + CSS.
and TONS of stories with less than 100 comments... many with less than 75. then there is the severe lack of intelligent comments as of late
Slashdot is quite a bit better on weekdays than on weekends. There tend to be fewer w4nk3rs trolling /. on the weekdays and more users who want more games for the GNU/Linux system.
Actually, Google does have ads but says no to 468x60 pixel animated GIF advertising; instead, Google inserts clean-looking text ads; the simple "surf with w3m or lynx and don't get ads" trick no longer works because Google is designed to look as good in character-cell browsers as in graphical browsers.
And no, I don't work for Google :-)
Who says there's a lack of games for the GNU/Linux system? Probably critics who have never been to the depot. Or you can click my Home Page link or signature.
When you buy games, they come on huge CDs that have a whole bunch
Same here in the States. Get them from BSDi, the makers of the Walnut Creek CDROM collection. But do they have Hampsterdeath, Vitamins, or freepuzzlearena? I know for a fact that freepuzzlearena started in Russia (as TETRIS®).
So is DNS propagation anything like Usenet propagation?
It probably looks for number of keywords over number of total words in a message. After the first "Jam Echelon Day", they probably revised the filter so that it used somewhat more advanced lexical analysis on messages that fell within boundaries for keyword frequency (ignoring messages with too many keywords next to each other), and that would reject your typical "jam Echelon" message as "Score:-1, Nonsensical" to put it in /. terms.
In order to understand hand-written script what did people do? Here is a hint: think palm-pilot. Yes... since it's too hard, the solution was to "train the monkey". That is, you, the user have to type one character at a time, and not regular characters but special characters.
Have you ever used a Newton device? Before Apple threw out its entire product line to make room for the G3 and iMac computers, Apple MessagePad 2000 had excellent handwriting recognition.
And Apple's just sitting on it! Waaaaaah!
A conservative underestimate would be that the tree has a branching factor of 35 and a depth of 100. 35 ^ 100 is far more than the number of atoms in the Universe.
<disclaimer content="I am not a mathematician">
The only reason the search tree must be stored is so you can find your way back from the solution. If the tree is searched depth-first, the search needs only about 100 words of storage, 35 values for each word. Multiply that by about a few thousand, and you have space for sophisticated tree-pruning algorithms; how about a distributed.net attack?
</disclaimer>
For the same [FIR57 P057!] reason that [hot grits down your pants] people say [Natalie Portman naked] dumb things for me to poop on at all, [goatse.cx] to get attention. It probably wouldn't bother us as much if it were part of a sig, but when it's the only thing in a reply...
Last time /. screwed up MI5 vs. Mozilla, it was http://slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=00/03/24/2120256&mode=thread
The MSOffice document problem is not going to go away, as much as you might like it to.
It might if all the rest of the industry adopts XML (extensible markup language) as a common file format. It has already happened with word processing (many include HTML, a dialect of which is an XML application) and spreadsheets (Gnumeric documents are gzipped XML). If Microsoft Applications makes decent import and export filters for XML, things might improve.
the DOJ plan has all of the XML stuff being owned by the Apps company, which means that they will have the incentive to twist the standards to support their Office monopoly.
Many GTK apps use libglade, which uses libxml. When WinGTK matures, libglade will be ported to Windows, which will bring libxml with it. If MSApps fscks with the XML standard, someone will write proper filters between Office's OLE/COM and XML and (I hope) release them as free software.