This allows them to say things about whether an algorithm will terminate that a Turing machine couldn't
Yes, but when humans say things.. sometimes they are wrong, even when they 'understand' it.
In essence, the argument here is applying a different standard for the turing machine than for humans.
I always think back to the optimal sorting network problem, which is solvable in finite (yet prohibitively long) time. For many years the best sorting networks for even small N (such as 16) were crafted by humans, and algorithms were only coming close to (falling short of) the best known network sort.
Later on however, algorithms were besting humans on the same problem. The computational time for proving optimality for N=16 is still prohibitive even after 40+ years of Moore's but never-the-less the computers surpassed humans in skill on this problem, as the best known network for N=16 was designed by a computer, something no human has matched.
They said that if I voted for McCain that the wars would continue, that Guantanamo would remain open, and that government spending would go through the roof.
I voted for McCain, so I guess that they were right.
Well there is a difference between the D's and the R's.... sort of.
It was an R that was trying to filibustering this.
This isnt to say that all Republican's are like Rand Paul, but there wasnt a single Democrat senator actively trying to stop it so it is quite fair to say that NO Democrat is like Rand Paul.
My hat is off to men and women in Kentucky who voted this man in.
Perhaps your confusion on this matter is because your URL bar is hiding what site you are on. This is slashdot... we dont read the fucking article.
FACT: you have no idea what youre talking about
Time will tell and then you will see that I am right, but will you ever verbally admit it? Probably not, as there is too much kool-aid already in that gaping (you've got 12 posts in this article now) mouth of yours.
Really don't get what's the problem with the URL bar.
The problem with the URL bar is that it doesnt always send people directly to Google.
FACT: The majority of Mozilla revenue comes directly from Google payments to be the default search engine.
FACT: The current default search deal, extended for 3 more years in august 2008, ends this year.
FACT: Mozilla big-wigs would see substantial paycuts if this deal isnt renewed.
Google has released WebP and has advertised it, and are even so bold as to give newbie advice on how they can convert their entire image libraries to WebP.
All I see right now is a twit that doesnt want WebP to already be a failure.
What kind of standard does "...going to be added" make for?
Alpha is just another color channel. What the fuck is the big deal that it isnt already implemented? This is one of Googles big problems. They are treating these formats like they treat just about everything else they do... perpetual beta.
What developer wants to constantly be checking up on googles progress, and who the fuck wants their own patch schedules partially dictated by googles meanderings? I mean what the fuck... Alpha in WebP will be dead on arrival, and thats if it ever arrives.
You pull out your credit card to make a purchase and out of its speaker comes "Good Morning SilverHatHacker! What a beautiful day it is! I see that you are at a Walmart store location. Would you like to hear about special Walmart promotional offers that are exclusive to this MasterSmartCard? Just look at all the wonderful things that you can save money on today! Tap the information icon on any one of these exciting offers!"
But when you replace a 1280x1024 pixel monitor with a 1920x1080 pixel monitor, you gain vertical pixels, and you also gain the ability to show two pages side-by-side.
You do realize that the 5:4 1280x1024 resolution was specifically selected and promoted for its ability to display two A4 documents side-by-side at the originally-standard 72 DPI with just enough extra space for some UI.. right?
1280x1024 is not 4:3 but it is a commonly supported video mode on 5:4 LCD panels, which were common before the "HD" television push which caused the 16:9 and 16:10 panels to flood the market.
1280x960 is a commonly supported video mode on 4:3 CRT's. If you are using 1280x1024 on a 4:3 display then those pixels arent square.
In the short term, they will not lower output (and hence, not lower employment) unless demand decreases. Businesses are always looking to minimize costs, regardless of the tax structure, so you can safely assume that any firm is at their current minimum level of employment given their sales. Raising (or lowering) taxes is not going to increase their sales, and so raising (or lowering) is not going to lower (or raise) employment levels.
This idea that changing taxes will not effect sales in interesting.. in a fantasy world where the government can tax with impunity.
Were the people that convinced you of this also talking about the benefits of raising some(one else's) taxes? Maybe they used good-sounding terms like "social responsibility" in order to get you to turn off your critical thinking?
In the long term, if a small business owner has $10 million in assets invested in his/her business, and is earning $1 million in profit, that is a ROI of 10%. If income tax goes up such that he/she is only earning $0.5 million in profit, they will shutter their business if they can expect to achieve a return greater than 5% if they invested their money elsewhere. (And presumably, when they invest that money elsewhere, that will create jobs.)
The $10M in assets is a valuation based upon the profit margin at $1M/year. This idea that reducing the profitability 50% will not effect that $10M valuation is interesting.. in a fantasy world where things dont effect each other.
Were the people that convinced you of this also talking about the benefits of raising some(one else's) taxes? Maybe they used good-sounding terms like "social responsibility" in order to get you to turn off your critical thinking?
If states can allow and levy taxes on Indian Casinos, why can they not levy taxes on corporations selling to or from their state?
Bzzt. Wrong. States do NOT levy taxes on tribal casinos that are operated on tribal land.
Per federal law, tribes operating gaming establishments must enter into Tribal-State Compacts. with their respective States.
Any money the State gets is per Compact negotiations ultimately derived from Federal law, and in fact these compacts are not legal until they are accepted and entered into the Federal Registry. Furthermore, the federal laws governing this entire situation specifically point out that they do NOT give the States the authority to "impose any taxes, fee, charge, or other assessment upon an Indian tribe."
But despite all Valve's ideas, they still take about 5 times as long to release a game as their competitors, and whilst they're games are good, they're not so good that the increase in release time can be justified.
The thing is that Valve games have polish. Its not just about how much content is in there, but how smoothly everything fits together. Portal 2, at least in single player, is an exceptionally well done game: zero-glitch high-immersion with voice acting and model animations that are top-notch.
The games are not only 'good', but are 'high quality' too. What other game house can say that?
because the average user has no way to know whether a program should be allowed to do what it's trying to do because Windows gives nowhere near enough information to make that decision.
Lets be honest here. The users wants to run that program, or else they wouldnt have downloaded it. What in Linux is going to prevent a user from running a program that they really want to run?
However, the complaint contradicts itself in numerous places.
To be fair, it would be very difficult to find a lawsuit doesnt contradict itself. Certainly the idea is to throw everything at the wall and then to see what sticks.
Rear-ending someone results in the standard lawsuit claims where you were (A) driving too fast, (B) distracted, (C) failed to maintain the vehicles breaks, (D) followed too closely, (E) failed to turn, (F) failed to sound your horn,..........
If you prove that you did sound your horn and maintained your vehicle, that doesnt negate the lawsuit because they only need one claim to be found "true", which is why lawsuits make so many claims.
It isnt about opening the file. Its about creating it to begin with. Why would you ever choose an inferior technology like rar?
Its like storing your photos in gif format just because those files are smaller than bmp, completely ignoring the fact that both of those options are shitty inferior choices.
The fact that rar is not only a shitty inferior choice, but also a proprietary one, makes the gif analogy perfect.
Since when is rar the best format for any job? I swear that you pirates are completely ignorant. Your obsession with rar is a self destructive cycle that will forever have you passing around significantly larger files than necessary.
1995 called and it wants its inefficient proprietary archive format back.
I thought that under capitalism, in an industry with high entry barriers such as last mile telecommunications, it was most profitable for the producers of a good to enter into a cartel.
This is the flaw in "the free market wont work" argument on this subject. Every time someone makes the argument, they have to stretch things absurdly pointing to wild speculation about the future that doesnt even hold water on the face of it.
The fact is that there is no free market here so there is no room for the free market to work. The barriers to entry are entirely artificial, by mandate of local governments (such as yours.) Organize your community to throw out your local comcast (or whoever) monopoly. If you can't get momentum behind that sort of thing, then there are either alternatives or maybe comcast (or whoever) isnt so evil after all.
Many times you will hear people say "but I have to use comcast because the DSL around here is slow".. the translation of which is "comcast offers a superior broadband service that I find to be worth the money."
Clearly these people are voting with their money, but somehow are not voting the right local government in to improve what they seem to think isn't a good situation.
I live in an area where neither Comcast nor Verizon are allowed to enter my market by the local government. If Comcast and Verizon were allowed in, I would surely enjoy seeing what sort of competitive offer they have for me because it would have to be better than Metrocast (10 Mbit, no caps, non-bundled $45/mo) and AT&T (6 Mbit, caps, non-bundled $45/mo)
I could say "but I have to use Metrocast because DSL around here is slow, and capped too.".. the translation of which is "Metrocast offers a superior broadband service that I find to be worth the money."
Let someone else make me an offer. Comcast isnt stopping that from happening.. on the contrary surely Comcast would pay big bucks to be on of those offers.
After reading all the comments thus far under your post, I can only conclude that you really havent thought this through.
Do you understand the difference between a shallow copy and a deep copy? The fact that there *is* a difference is why these languages DO NOT create copies of objects with the equals operator, for the operator does not describe the type of copy that you want (I suppose that you expect a shallow copy, ala 'rep movsb' ?)
An object copier is best implemented as a method of said object so that the full terms of the copy can be described in detail...
...which leaves us with a free '=' operator which can be used for something as mind-blowingly common as creating a reference to the object, something that also made sense as a candidate operation for the '=' operator before we examined things in detail to see which was better.
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This allows them to say things about whether an algorithm will terminate that a Turing machine couldn't
Yes, but when humans say things.. sometimes they are wrong, even when they 'understand' it.
In essence, the argument here is applying a different standard for the turing machine than for humans.
I always think back to the optimal sorting network problem, which is solvable in finite (yet prohibitively long) time. For many years the best sorting networks for even small N (such as 16) were crafted by humans, and algorithms were only coming close to (falling short of) the best known network sort.
Later on however, algorithms were besting humans on the same problem. The computational time for proving optimality for N=16 is still prohibitive even after 40+ years of Moore's but never-the-less the computers surpassed humans in skill on this problem, as the best known network for N=16 was designed by a computer, something no human has matched.
They said that if I voted for McCain that the wars would continue, that Guantanamo would remain open, and that government spending would go through the roof.
I voted for McCain, so I guess that they were right.
Well there is a difference between the D's and the R's.... sort of.
It was an R that was trying to filibustering this.
This isnt to say that all Republican's are like Rand Paul, but there wasnt a single Democrat senator actively trying to stop it so it is quite fair to say that NO Democrat is like Rand Paul.
My hat is off to men and women in Kentucky who voted this man in.
FACT: you didnt read the article
Perhaps your confusion on this matter is because your URL bar is hiding what site you are on. This is slashdot... we dont read the fucking article.
FACT: you have no idea what youre talking about
Time will tell and then you will see that I am right, but will you ever verbally admit it? Probably not, as there is too much kool-aid already in that gaping (you've got 12 posts in this article now) mouth of yours.
Really don't get what's the problem with the URL bar.
The problem with the URL bar is that it doesnt always send people directly to Google.
FACT: The majority of Mozilla revenue comes directly from Google payments to be the default search engine.
FACT: The current default search deal, extended for 3 more years in august 2008, ends this year.
FACT: Mozilla big-wigs would see substantial paycuts if this deal isnt renewed.
End of story.
Google has released WebP and has advertised it, and are even so bold as to give newbie advice on how they can convert their entire image libraries to WebP.
All I see right now is a twit that doesnt want WebP to already be a failure.
What kind of standard does "...going to be added" make for?
Alpha is just another color channel. What the fuck is the big deal that it isnt already implemented? This is one of Googles big problems. They are treating these formats like they treat just about everything else they do... perpetual beta.
What developer wants to constantly be checking up on googles progress, and who the fuck wants their own patch schedules partially dictated by googles meanderings? I mean what the fuck... Alpha in WebP will be dead on arrival, and thats if it ever arrives.
You pull out your credit card to make a purchase and out of its speaker comes "Good Morning SilverHatHacker! What a beautiful day it is! I see that you are at a Walmart store location. Would you like to hear about special Walmart promotional offers that are exclusive to this MasterSmartCard? Just look at all the wonderful things that you can save money on today! Tap the information icon on any one of these exciting offers!"
But when you replace a 1280x1024 pixel monitor with a 1920x1080 pixel monitor, you gain vertical pixels, and you also gain the ability to show two pages side-by-side.
You do realize that the 5:4 1280x1024 resolution was specifically selected and promoted for its ability to display two A4 documents side-by-side at the originally-standard 72 DPI with just enough extra space for some UI.. right?
1280x1024 is not 4:3 but it is a commonly supported video mode on 5:4 LCD panels, which were common before the "HD" television push which caused the 16:9 and 16:10 panels to flood the market.
1280x960 is a commonly supported video mode on 4:3 CRT's. If you are using 1280x1024 on a 4:3 display then those pixels arent square.
In the short term, they will not lower output (and hence, not lower employment) unless demand decreases. Businesses are always looking to minimize costs, regardless of the tax structure, so you can safely assume that any firm is at their current minimum level of employment given their sales. Raising (or lowering) taxes is not going to increase their sales, and so raising (or lowering) is not going to lower (or raise) employment levels.
This idea that changing taxes will not effect sales in interesting.. in a fantasy world where the government can tax with impunity.
Were the people that convinced you of this also talking about the benefits of raising some(one else's) taxes? Maybe they used good-sounding terms like "social responsibility" in order to get you to turn off your critical thinking?
In the long term, if a small business owner has $10 million in assets invested in his/her business, and is earning $1 million in profit, that is a ROI of 10%. If income tax goes up such that he/she is only earning $0.5 million in profit, they will shutter their business if they can expect to achieve a return greater than 5% if they invested their money elsewhere. (And presumably, when they invest that money elsewhere, that will create jobs.)
The $10M in assets is a valuation based upon the profit margin at $1M/year. This idea that reducing the profitability 50% will not effect that $10M valuation is interesting.. in a fantasy world where things dont effect each other.
Were the people that convinced you of this also talking about the benefits of raising some(one else's) taxes? Maybe they used good-sounding terms like "social responsibility" in order to get you to turn off your critical thinking?
If states can allow and levy taxes on Indian Casinos, why can they not levy taxes on corporations selling to or from their state?
Bzzt. Wrong. States do NOT levy taxes on tribal casinos that are operated on tribal land.
Per federal law, tribes operating gaming establishments must enter into Tribal-State Compacts. with their respective States.
Any money the State gets is per Compact negotiations ultimately derived from Federal law, and in fact these compacts are not legal until they are accepted and entered into the Federal Registry. Furthermore, the federal laws governing this entire situation specifically point out that they do NOT give the States the authority to "impose any taxes, fee, charge, or other assessment upon an Indian tribe."
Now get off my lawn, nub.
But despite all Valve's ideas, they still take about 5 times as long to release a game as their competitors, and whilst they're games are good, they're not so good that the increase in release time can be justified.
The thing is that Valve games have polish. Its not just about how much content is in there, but how smoothly everything fits together. Portal 2, at least in single player, is an exceptionally well done game: zero-glitch high-immersion with voice acting and model animations that are top-notch.
The games are not only 'good', but are 'high quality' too. What other game house can say that?
You don't give Alice a coin, you sign it with Alice's key and broadcast it to everyone.
No you don't. You broadcast it to some people.. who broadcast it to others.. and only later (eventually) it gets to everyone..
One could also envision starving an entire country of its network connectivity, and then dealing bitcoins to both sides of the wall.
32-bit Linux reserves 1GB of address space for the kernel and hardware too.
..also, 32-bit Linux needs to be recompiled to enable PAE (something off by default on nearly every 32-bit distro)
Please turn in your geek card at the logout button.
because the average user has no way to know whether a program should be allowed to do what it's trying to do because Windows gives nowhere near enough information to make that decision.
Lets be honest here. The users wants to run that program, or else they wouldnt have downloaded it. What in Linux is going to prevent a user from running a program that they really want to run?
Nothing at all.
However, the complaint contradicts itself in numerous places.
To be fair, it would be very difficult to find a lawsuit doesnt contradict itself. Certainly the idea is to throw everything at the wall and then to see what sticks.
..........
Rear-ending someone results in the standard lawsuit claims where you were (A) driving too fast, (B) distracted, (C) failed to maintain the vehicles breaks, (D) followed too closely, (E) failed to turn, (F) failed to sound your horn,
If you prove that you did sound your horn and maintained your vehicle, that doesnt negate the lawsuit because they only need one claim to be found "true", which is why lawsuits make so many claims.
It isnt about opening the file. Its about creating it to begin with. Why would you ever choose an inferior technology like rar?
Its like storing your photos in gif format just because those files are smaller than bmp, completely ignoring the fact that both of those options are shitty inferior choices.
The fact that rar is not only a shitty inferior choice, but also a proprietary one, makes the gif analogy perfect.
Maybe because it's the best tool for your job?
Since when is rar the best format for any job? I swear that you pirates are completely ignorant. Your obsession with rar is a self destructive cycle that will forever have you passing around significantly larger files than necessary.
1995 called and it wants its inefficient proprietary archive format back.
Yeah its not like Microsoft continues to create a stream of some of the richest people on the planet...
The last thing you read will be "U R WTFBBQ!!!"
Browsers such as Chrome contain memory allocations that avoid DEP by using VirtualProtectEx() as it is pretty much a requirement of JIT compilation.
Blaming Microsoft in this case is extremely premature, since we know that Chrome does in fact disable some protections intentionally.
I thought that under capitalism, in an industry with high entry barriers such as last mile telecommunications, it was most profitable for the producers of a good to enter into a cartel.
This is the flaw in "the free market wont work" argument on this subject. Every time someone makes the argument, they have to stretch things absurdly pointing to wild speculation about the future that doesnt even hold water on the face of it.
.. the translation of which is "comcast offers a superior broadband service that I find to be worth the money."
.. the translation of which is "Metrocast offers a superior broadband service that I find to be worth the money."
The fact is that there is no free market here so there is no room for the free market to work. The barriers to entry are entirely artificial, by mandate of local governments (such as yours.) Organize your community to throw out your local comcast (or whoever) monopoly. If you can't get momentum behind that sort of thing, then there are either alternatives or maybe comcast (or whoever) isnt so evil after all.
Many times you will hear people say "but I have to use comcast because the DSL around here is slow"
Clearly these people are voting with their money, but somehow are not voting the right local government in to improve what they seem to think isn't a good situation.
I live in an area where neither Comcast nor Verizon are allowed to enter my market by the local government. If Comcast and Verizon were allowed in, I would surely enjoy seeing what sort of competitive offer they have for me because it would have to be better than Metrocast (10 Mbit, no caps, non-bundled $45/mo) and AT&T (6 Mbit, caps, non-bundled $45/mo)
I could say "but I have to use Metrocast because DSL around here is slow, and capped too."
Let someone else make me an offer. Comcast isnt stopping that from happening.. on the contrary surely Comcast would pay big bucks to be on of those offers.
After reading all the comments thus far under your post, I can only conclude that you really havent thought this through.
...which leaves us with a free '=' operator which can be used for something as mind-blowingly common as creating a reference to the object, something that also made sense as a candidate operation for the '=' operator before we examined things in detail to see which was better.
Do you understand the difference between a shallow copy and a deep copy? The fact that there *is* a difference is why these languages DO NOT create copies of objects with the equals operator, for the operator does not describe the type of copy that you want (I suppose that you expect a shallow copy, ala 'rep movsb' ?)
An object copier is best implemented as a method of said object so that the full terms of the copy can be described in detail...
R. Daneel Olivaw was the robot.