I'm a computer science guy, and I'm interested in quantum computers. I'd really like it, though, if people stopped talking about dots and collapsing waves and gives me an example of the O(n) time for an algorithm on an electric computer vs a quantum computer. The lower bound for a sort on an electric computer is O(n log n). What's it on a quantum computer? O(1)? O(log n)? O(n)? Or am I looking at things in the wrong way?
Thank the heavens that someone finally agrees with me! I thought that I was the *only* one who thought saying the words "Unbreakable" and "Super Hero" in the same sentance is spoiling the movie! I spent most of the time between the movie's release and when I saw it visiting with family on a boat, then saw it as soon as I got back, and I'm glad that nobody told me it was a superhero movie before I saw it. Realizing that it *is* a superhero movie, at the same time that Willis' character realizes that he is a hero, is part of the fun.
Would you tell someone the ending of Sixth Sense before they saw it? No? Well, the realization "I am a hero" is very similar to the realization "I am dead". Yet, while nobody would dare tell a moviegoer the second before they saw SS, "superhero" goes at the top of every unbreakable review. People are fucking stupid.
(On a side note, in Judaism, Elijah is the prophet that is expected to announce the coming of the Messiah...)
Doh.
I'm glad I *didn't* know that - it's heavy handed enough to give you a concussion. It would be like naming Willis' character in the Sixth Sense D. Edward Guy
I realized that the movie *had* sequel potential, but I didn't think it would ever seriously be done. Sequel is synonymous with crap these days. Schindler's List II? No. Casablanca II? Nope.
In my youth, I postulated that, if, say, 1 in 5 movies was worthy of a sequel, then only 1 in 5 movies would be just as worthy as it's predecesor, and thus 4/5 of all sequels are likely to make your eyeballs want to flee your body.
I'd imagine this is because scriptwriting and editing seldom is a solo process these days, and so many hands often get involved that even the best movies have a chance of being edited into crap as people with entirely too much pull add thier own special "vision".
I think M. Night can probably stare down anyone who thinks they have something to add. But, still, the odds are pretty long to make a good sequel. Still, though, if Unbreakable II (it better not be called that!) is only a quarter as good as the first one, it will still be worth twice the price of admission.
There is an aspect of inevitably about it, isn't there? Predators once ruled the landscape - now most are extinct, and the cutest live in our houses to entertain us.
People, if you are really worried about this, do what I'm doing. Get lots of instances of cuteness and adorability on your resume. Learn the art of feigned bottomless affection. Then, when the computers take over, you'll be at one of the top of the ladder positions for employment as a pet, instead of fishing through dumpsters.
You should have quit working. While you have to pay up if you quit, there's no way you could be made to pay up if he fires you. Just go in and play quake all day. When you get canned, be honest to your next boss about why...
I am a supporter of the right to bear arms, and since I found a nice
factoid on a certain aspect of gun violence, I decided to make it my sig.
The problem was that the quote was much longer than 120 characters (max sig length) so I had to snip it and snip it and snip it to fit it in, so all of the support, reasons, etc, were gone and it was a bare factoid.
Bare factoids make bad sigs, so I should have thrown the sig out then and there. But, I'm stubborn, so I put it in anyway. (I spent 10 minutes reducing it to 120 characters, so I was going to use it, by gods!) When half of the responses to my posts were about the sig, though, I figured it was time to stop wasting people's time and put in my new sig. Thus, the new sig, below.
As soon as we make it obvious that we have a brain one of the lawyers on either side will use one of thier seven hundred million "get rid of that juror, I don't like him" options so they can pair down the jury to a pile of hollow mindless flesh.
I think you guys are missing the point. This automated plane is not designed to replace all of the airforce. It sounds like it's designed to do a very small subset of ariel assaults - air to ground bombing of stationary targets.
And for something like this, you wonder why it hasn't been done. You give the plane a topographical map of the region, a gps system, and the gps coordinates of the target. Throw in some evasive abilities if it's cost effective. Then you say, "Plane! Go bomb Evil City X!" The ground isn't going to move. Evil City X isn't going to move. The plane bombs X and comes back.
The US Government has avoided or gotten pressured out of a lot of wars because American Soldiers were dying. Each technology designed to fight a battle without putting men on the field or in the sky will help move a political impediment to war.
In Europe, it's regarded as a basic democratic principle that no exit polls or results are published until all the polls are closed. (And in the case of European parliamentary elections, this is several days after the first countries have voted!) From this side of the Atlantic, it looks as if freedom of speech is valued more highly than fair elections in the US.
Oh, come on.
Is there any European nation that crosses four time zones? Wait, I forgot Alaska and Hawaii, more than four time zones. Many more.
But haven't you learned yet that the only group that it is acceptable to discriminate and insult anymore is the rich? Especially if they are white and male - then they get to be responsible for everything! And if you are a rich white male hacker, well, might as well report to the interment camp willingly before the truck comes to take you there.
As much as we say we've broken down the barriers of discrimination and we are moving towards an enlightened age, it seems like there is a set amount of hate in the United States and it always has to be pointed somewhere. The Galactic President in his leaky hut in the middle of nowhere on a planet in the middle of nowhere has a "wheel of animosity". He spins it, and a new minority gets to be the kicking boy for the new generation.
If one more person comes up to me and says: "Vote for Nader! Stick it to the man!" I'm going to flip. I'm going to lose it, completely, and scream loud enough to break windows for 5 blocks. Argh!
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If you look hard enough around on the net, you find all sorts of nasty rumors that the gasoline companies have either threaten or buy the patents for all competing technologies to maintain thier monopoly.
I always brushed all of those rumors off. Not because I thought that gas companies wouldn't do it, but because it just sounded too huge. How could the gas companies stop everyone who could come up with such technology? Where could they conceal thier "anti alternative energy mafia" that it wouldn't at some point reach the public eye?
Maybe I lept to a conclusion. Mr Negre, if you do have fuel prices down to 1c/km, you'll change the world, be the first big thing in the 2000 history books, and I will salute you. Good luck.
Nice how you can take 5 pages and compress it into a sentence. Which idiots moded this up? If the poster had enough integrity to fit in a thimble he would have at least posted a link to what he is refuting. No - he'd rather say, "The Libertarians are dumb - look, my one sentence proves it."
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Really.
If Ralph Nader gets 5% of the vote, then someone will get matching funds.
Is that someone Ralph? No. It's the party he represents.
What party does Ralph represent? The Greens.
What do the Greens support? A maximum wage. Read thier platform.
Nader can NOT escape (at least, I won't let him) that he represents a party that wants to institute socialism in it's most intrusive, most expensive, most Constution-ignoring form. There was that guy, who said that line. It describes how I feel about people voting for Nader. How does it go? Oh, yeah:
"Forgive them, my lord, for they know not what they do." Revenge! The most petty of all emotions, the desire to wrong because you have been wronged. Nader backers tell you that you are sticking one to Big Government if you vote for him. They persuade you to vote for someone by saying it will hurt someone else, and it works.
We take the power of kings, and give it to the people, and find out that the people handle it no better than the kings did. In a thousand years, that will summarize the United States democracy in a history book.
Ralph's platform means zilch, because that's about the chance that he's going to win. It is entirely about matching funds - Ralph's people will even *tell* you this. Do they tell you the platform of the people who will get the matching funds? No, they avoid that. Instead: "Stab the man! stab him! stab him! revenge! revenge!"
In short, tewl, the rumor mongers are right. A vote towards Nader is a vote for the representantive of a party that supports a maximum wage.
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You persuade your state to increase taxes by a factor of 10 and provide all those services and handouts and regulations that Mr. Nader proposes. The only difference you would notice is that instead of "United States Treasury," the checks you get - and send, and send, and send, would say "State of Fuckistan." I hope there's plenty of room for your state capital to expand.
Upon reading the words, "Fuckistan", I laughed loud enough to get the attention of everyone within about 50 meters - a cackle that either the wicked witch of the west or the grinch would envy. Thanks, you've brightened my day.
There's no such thing as a non-publically funded election. For gods sake, where else would the money come from? Some buisness, some person, etcetera, gives every single penny that supports any canidate.
The question is, do you want to give directly to the canidate you support, in whatever amount you want, or do you want to hand your money to the Government, where it will be mostly wasted on paperwork then given to canidates whose stand you find morally reprehensible?
Rich people already pay most of the taxes. The bottom fifty percent of the poulation pay 5% of the taxes. The upper fifty percent pays the other 95%. What is right, what is fair, about that? Why shouldn't a rich person feel tumultuous rage at his money being taken away from him at rates that would have the lower classes up in arms?
I agree with what the recent Cato institute article said. The only minority it is safe to abuse, steal from, and insult in public anymore is the rich. The average joe citizen *loves* to throw in the face of a bureaucrat, "I pay your salary through my taxes!". So who pays the salary of the average joe? The rich person who owns and runs the buisness (probably founded it out of his own blood, sweat, and tears). But no rich person ever says, "I pay *your* salary so STOP PRETENDING I'M EVIL!". It's about time for them to start, before the Green Party's platform gets in and they have every drop of wealth sucked out of them.
Fact. Some people are rich because they inherited money. Most, however, are rich because they worked for it. They worked for it - making your car, television, house, and precious fucking beer - making things of value that you consume and enjoy! So stop treating them as though they were the minions of cosmic evil, out to destroy the planet and the enviornment, when you consume the things they make and enjoy the socialism that thier taxes provide!
You are either a complete moron, or you haven't played UO in a long time, or both. The current dev team has fixed all these issues.
Get a clue. I've played UO on and off since the beta, and all of the changes border on the cosmetic, with the fixes being gross hacks. You are just used to how much it sucks, and thus minor changes making it suck slightly less look like huge improvements to you.
Outside programmers don't have your big picture. They will probably never have in mind how you might use that code in the future. In other words, they have naught motivation to be flexible or write code that can be flexible.
So if you outsource code to do foo, the code will do foo. It probably won't, without lots of reworking, do anything other than foo, no matter how close to foo what you want is.
An idiot coorperation outsourced all of thier coding to another group, to write a certain type of media player. The media player does exactly what it was contracted to do, which wasn't much. Compare this to other media players, which usually try to be flexible.
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I'm a computer science guy, and I'm interested in quantum computers. I'd really like it, though, if people stopped talking about dots and collapsing waves and gives me an example of the O(n) time for an algorithm on an electric computer vs a quantum computer. The lower bound for a sort on an electric computer is O(n log n). What's it on a quantum computer? O(1)? O(log n)? O(n)? Or am I looking at things in the wrong way?
Thank the heavens that someone finally agrees with me! I thought that I was the *only* one who thought saying the words "Unbreakable" and "Super Hero" in the same sentance is spoiling the movie! I spent most of the time between the movie's release and when I saw it visiting with family on a boat, then saw it as soon as I got back, and I'm glad that nobody told me it was a superhero movie before I saw it. Realizing that it *is* a superhero movie, at the same time that Willis' character realizes that he is a hero, is part of the fun.
Would you tell someone the ending of Sixth Sense before they saw it? No? Well, the realization "I am a hero" is very similar to the realization "I am dead". Yet, while nobody would dare tell a moviegoer the second before they saw SS, "superhero" goes at the top of every unbreakable review. People are fucking stupid.
(On a side note, in Judaism, Elijah is the prophet that is expected to announce the coming of the Messiah ...)
Doh.
I'm glad I *didn't* know that - it's heavy handed enough to give you a concussion. It would be like naming Willis' character in the Sixth Sense D. Edward Guy
Wow.
I realized that the movie *had* sequel potential, but I didn't think it would ever seriously be done. Sequel is synonymous with crap these days. Schindler's List II? No. Casablanca II? Nope.
In my youth, I postulated that, if, say, 1 in 5 movies was worthy of a sequel, then only 1 in 5 movies would be just as worthy as it's predecesor, and thus 4/5 of all sequels are likely to make your eyeballs want to flee your body.
I'd imagine this is because scriptwriting and editing seldom is a solo process these days, and so many hands often get involved that even the best movies have a chance of being edited into crap as people with entirely too much pull add thier own special "vision".
I think M. Night can probably stare down anyone who thinks they have something to add. But, still, the odds are pretty long to make a good sequel. Still, though, if Unbreakable II (it better not be called that!) is only a quarter as good as the first one, it will still be worth twice the price of admission.
*twitch*
There is an aspect of inevitably about it, isn't there? Predators once ruled the landscape - now most are extinct, and the cutest live in our houses to entertain us.
People, if you are really worried about this, do what I'm doing. Get lots of instances of cuteness and adorability on your resume. Learn the art of feigned bottomless affection. Then, when the computers take over, you'll be at one of the top of the ladder positions for employment as a pet, instead of fishing through dumpsters.
You should have quit working. While you have to pay up if you quit, there's no way you could be made to pay up if he fires you. Just go in and play quake all day. When you get canned, be honest to your next boss about why...
I am a supporter of the right to bear arms, and since I found a nice factoid on a certain aspect of gun violence, I decided to make it my sig.
The problem was that the quote was much longer than 120 characters (max sig length) so I had to snip it and snip it and snip it to fit it in, so all of the support, reasons, etc, were gone and it was a bare factoid.
Bare factoids make bad sigs, so I should have thrown the sig out then and there. But, I'm stubborn, so I put it in anyway. (I spent 10 minutes reducing it to 120 characters, so I was going to use it, by gods!) When half of the responses to my posts were about the sig, though, I figured it was time to stop wasting people's time and put in my new sig. Thus, the new sig, below.
Why bother?
As soon as we make it obvious that we have a brain one of the lawyers on either side will use one of thier seven hundred million "get rid of that juror, I don't like him" options so they can pair down the jury to a pile of hollow mindless flesh.
I think you guys are missing the point. This automated plane is not designed to replace all of the airforce. It sounds like it's designed to do a very small subset of ariel assaults - air to ground bombing of stationary targets.
And for something like this, you wonder why it hasn't been done. You give the plane a topographical map of the region, a gps system, and the gps coordinates of the target. Throw in some evasive abilities if it's cost effective. Then you say, "Plane! Go bomb Evil City X!" The ground isn't going to move. Evil City X isn't going to move. The plane bombs X and comes back.
The US Government has avoided or gotten pressured out of a lot of wars because American Soldiers were dying. Each technology designed to fight a battle without putting men on the field or in the sky will help move a political impediment to war.
Most people would consider this a bad thing.
this takes browser wars to a whole new level.
In Europe, it's regarded as a basic democratic principle that no exit polls or results are published until all the polls are closed. (And in the case of European parliamentary elections, this is several days after the first countries have voted!) From this side of the Atlantic, it looks as if freedom of speech is valued more highly than fair elections in the US.
Oh, come on.
Is there any European nation that crosses four time zones? Wait, I forgot Alaska and Hawaii, more than four time zones. Many more.
I just talked with a friend of mine, who opted to go to sleep confidant of a Gore victory when CNN projected that Gore had Florida.
Right now, I'd bet cash that Bush has it in the bag.
I imagine my friend, and a lot of people across the country, are in for a rude awakening.
I agree with you. Totally.
But haven't you learned yet that the only group that it is acceptable to discriminate and insult anymore is the rich? Especially if they are white and male - then they get to be responsible for everything! And if you are a rich white male hacker, well, might as well report to the interment camp willingly before the truck comes to take you there.
As much as we say we've broken down the barriers of discrimination and we are moving towards an enlightened age, it seems like there is a set amount of hate in the United States and it always has to be pointed somewhere. The Galactic President in his leaky hut in the middle of nowhere on a planet in the middle of nowhere has a "wheel of animosity". He spins it, and a new minority gets to be the kicking boy for the new generation.
If one more person comes up to me and says: "Vote for Nader! Stick it to the man!" I'm going to flip. I'm going to lose it, completely, and scream loud enough to break windows for 5 blocks. Argh!
The X-Box does ship with a broadband adaptor.
Really? Where can I get one?
If you look hard enough around on the net, you find all sorts of nasty rumors that the gasoline companies have either threaten or buy the patents for all competing technologies to maintain thier monopoly.
I always brushed all of those rumors off. Not because I thought that gas companies wouldn't do it, but because it just sounded too huge. How could the gas companies stop everyone who could come up with such technology? Where could they conceal thier "anti alternative energy mafia" that it wouldn't at some point reach the public eye?
Maybe I lept to a conclusion. Mr Negre, if you do have fuel prices down to 1c/km, you'll change the world, be the first big thing in the 2000 history books, and I will salute you. Good luck.
Nice how you can take 5 pages and compress it into a sentence. Which idiots moded this up? If the poster had enough integrity to fit in a thimble he would have at least posted a link to what he is refuting. No - he'd rather say, "The Libertarians are dumb - look, my one sentence proves it."
Really.
If Ralph Nader gets 5% of the vote, then someone will get matching funds.
Is that someone Ralph? No. It's the party he represents.
What party does Ralph represent? The Greens.
What do the Greens support? A maximum wage. Read thier platform.
Nader can NOT escape (at least, I won't let him) that he represents a party that wants to institute socialism in it's most intrusive, most expensive, most Constution-ignoring form. There was that guy, who said that line. It describes how I feel about people voting for Nader. How does it go? Oh, yeah:
"Forgive them, my lord, for they know not what they do." Revenge! The most petty of all emotions, the desire to wrong because you have been wronged. Nader backers tell you that you are sticking one to Big Government if you vote for him. They persuade you to vote for someone by saying it will hurt someone else, and it works.
We take the power of kings, and give it to the people, and find out that the people handle it no better than the kings did. In a thousand years, that will summarize the United States democracy in a history book.
Ralph's platform means zilch, because that's about the chance that he's going to win. It is entirely about matching funds - Ralph's people will even *tell* you this. Do they tell you the platform of the people who will get the matching funds? No, they avoid that. Instead: "Stab the man! stab him! stab him! revenge! revenge!"
In short, tewl, the rumor mongers are right. A vote towards Nader is a vote for the representantive of a party that supports a maximum wage.
You persuade your state to increase taxes by a factor of 10 and provide all those services and handouts and regulations that Mr. Nader proposes. The only difference you would notice is that instead of "United States Treasury," the checks you get - and send, and send, and send, would say "State of Fuckistan." I hope there's plenty of room for your state capital to expand.
Upon reading the words, "Fuckistan", I laughed loud enough to get the attention of everyone within about 50 meters - a cackle that either the wicked witch of the west or the grinch would envy. Thanks, you've brightened my day.
There's no such thing as a non-publically funded election. For gods sake, where else would the money come from? Some buisness, some person, etcetera, gives every single penny that supports any canidate.
The question is, do you want to give directly to the canidate you support, in whatever amount you want, or do you want to hand your money to the Government, where it will be mostly wasted on paperwork then given to canidates whose stand you find morally reprehensible?
Rich people already pay most of the taxes. The bottom fifty percent of the poulation pay 5% of the taxes. The upper fifty percent pays the other 95%. What is right, what is fair, about that? Why shouldn't a rich person feel tumultuous rage at his money being taken away from him at rates that would have the lower classes up in arms?
I agree with what the recent Cato institute article said. The only minority it is safe to abuse, steal from, and insult in public anymore is the rich. The average joe citizen *loves* to throw in the face of a bureaucrat, "I pay your salary through my taxes!". So who pays the salary of the average joe? The rich person who owns and runs the buisness (probably founded it out of his own blood, sweat, and tears). But no rich person ever says, "I pay *your* salary so STOP PRETENDING I'M EVIL!". It's about time for them to start, before the Green Party's platform gets in and they have every drop of wealth sucked out of them.
Fact. Some people are rich because they inherited money. Most, however, are rich because they worked for it. They worked for it - making your car, television, house, and precious fucking beer - making things of value that you consume and enjoy! So stop treating them as though they were the minions of cosmic evil, out to destroy the planet and the enviornment, when you consume the things they make and enjoy the socialism that thier taxes provide!
Get a clue. I've played UO on and off since the beta, and all of the changes border on the cosmetic, with the fixes being gross hacks. You are just used to how much it sucks, and thus minor changes making it suck slightly less look like huge improvements to you.
Outside programmers don't have your big picture. They will probably never have in mind how you might use that code in the future. In other words, they have naught motivation to be flexible or write code that can be flexible.
So if you outsource code to do foo, the code will do foo. It probably won't, without lots of reworking, do anything other than foo, no matter how close to foo what you want is.
An idiot coorperation outsourced all of thier coding to another group, to write a certain type of media player. The media player does exactly what it was contracted to do, which wasn't much. Compare this to other media players, which usually try to be flexible.
They are cybercrybabies. Get it right. *grin*