The alternative being on kidney dialysis for the rest of your bed-ridden life?
I'm not disagreeing with you per se; I'd be pissed if I died with any of my vital organs intact, honestly.:P But it sure seems like a lose-lose either way.
I don't know why you're coming down so hard on this, particularly since you are absolutely correct. My point was that Microsoft knows how to implement a trivial randomization algorithm in a trivial situation (the difference between 60% and 100% random in this situation is not only unobservable unless thousands of iterations are performed, but it's also trivial to close that gap). If they went with a less-random algorithm, it would be far more likely to have been a willful decision instead of an accidental mistake. We're making two different and non-overlapping points.
On the other hand, the devil is in the details, and one would think that a company such as Microsoft that has been owning the software market for decades now would know how to implement a randomizing algorithm correctly.
Yet again, it would appear that the US patent system is being used to stifle competition, as opposed to stimulating innovation.
And here I was, thinking the patent application I submitted while interning at IBM which was a new ways of providing recommendations to users was actually a good idea. It's apparent to me now which of these two patents was clearly more original.
I'm pretty sure Apple could drum up an altruistic-sounding or business-smart reason to ban just about any app from their store.
-No competing browsers? They duplicate existing functionality. Certainly wouldn't want that.
-No scantily clad women? They objectify women. But pay no heed to the Sports Illustrated app or the entirety of the internet at your very literal fingertips.
-No Google voice? Also duplicates existing functionality. But be sure to ignore the allowance of Skype.
Yep, Apple's got a good reason for everything that it does, and its reason is placing consumers and developers first!
That would work only if the barrels/containers don't leak or rupture while in the process of being "recycled". That's precisely why we don't launch it into the sun or heave it into a volcano or any of the other plausible-yet-we're-all-doomed-if-anything-goes-wrong suggestions for processing the waste.
Plus they've supposed greenlit the Stargate: Atlantis movie, so they can't be selling off everything. And yeah, actually the gate that used to be the SGC is now the one being used on Destiny.
Yeah, that's pretty obvious. It was indeed introduced as a "save their ass" device, but it wasn't maxed out keeping the city running. It ran for the next two seasons, allowing them to raise and lower shields, engage and disengage the cloak, fire drones, and have plenty of power to spare for everyday goings-on. I believe it was the episode with Rodney and his sister experimenting with parallel universes in season 3 which drained the ZPM.
The researchers are seeking to infer the hidden distribution of spammers' find-and-replace tactics, rather than simply trashing emails with "pen1s" in the subject.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't hidden markov models been around for decades?
Seriously though, that statement cost you all your credibility. I'd have been willing to overlook the fact that the views of both Rev. Wright (Obama's former minister) and the "retard professor" (though I have no idea who would fit the bill here...what alleged professors do you hang out with?) constitute the fringe of society and are not, by any stretch, represented accordingly by the vast majority of folk with more than two brain cells to rub together.
I would also be willing to overlook the fact that your reasoning behind Osama's motives is astonishingly shallow (our military is never "invited" anywhere; arrangements are negotiated and compromises are made in order to establish outposts, mostly for the purpose of political leverage).
I would even have been willing to overlook the fact that your comment really doesn't even have a coherent point to it, and doesn't seem to relate back to the parent comment or even to the original article (who cares that "you can't just do what everyone wants you to do"?).
But then you went and introduced stale partisan bickering (and backed it up with the beaten-to-DEATH random word CAPITALIZATION that so CHARACTERIZES political diarrhea). Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?
Actually, according to the Gibbs free energy equation, it is in fact the opposite: matter's mission to attain a lower energy level, which equates to an increasing amount of disorder in the system. Finding a "greater order", on the other hand, requires an input of energy to the system.
Evolution is a large-scale byproduct of adapting to the changing environment in such a way that is energetically favorable for the organism.
Arguably, the anecdotes you've mentioned are reasons why programmers and managers would be much better off with more statistics. You're absolutely right when you say that the 1 failure in 10 million transactions is what matters; for programmers and managers to overlook that as "statistically insignificant" have a very warped and naive grasp of statistics.
...why Microsoft seems to think it's in competition with Apple. Microsoft built itself on being a software company and has only recently - within the last decade - ventured significantly into the hardware market (Xbox, Zune, now the tablet, etc).
Apple, meanwhile, has traditionally been the opposite - a hardware company that occasionally ventures into the software industry (arguably the only software they make is variations of OS X for all their hardware devices).
I am ready and willing to accept naivete as a reason for my above question, but on the off-chance it's not...why does Microsoft care what Apple does? I should think they'd be better off worrying more about what Google does in response to this tablet than Apple.
Ok seriously, I'm tired of being modded troll when I actually had what I thought was a valid point. It would seem to me that the men and women of Congress would be jumping all over the opportunity to implement some governmental oversight on a hot-button political topic.
I would almost think this would be the perfect opportunity for all those whining senators and representatives over the CRU not-debacle to institute some governmental oversight.
"...Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, said the agency should be fighting terrorists, 'not spying on sea lions.'"
I sincerely doubt the CIA is going to put terrorism intelligence-gathering on the back burner in order to free up resources for this initiative. I also wouldn't be surprised if this Senator was one of the many who called for heads of the CRU scientists; and now he's quashing an attempt to make this research more transparent (not that there was really anything over which to call for the heads of the CRU scientists, unless you were part of a conspiracy circle).
There was a similar attempt made in Pittsburgh several years ago. The student governments from all the universities in the area - UPitt, CMU, Chatham, and so on - all got together and set up a demonstration strategy that involved 1) spreading the word about the student tax by posting representatives at locations in the city frequented by students, and 2) encouraging students not to go to bars, liquor stores, or clubs.
Within 10 days, at the prodding of local bars, clubs, and package stores that had lots the vast majority of their clientele, the Pittsburgh council dropped the student tax proposal.
If we can pull off a similar economic demonstration, like the parent alludes to, then I suspect we'll have trouble telling this Mayor what a moron he is.
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The alternative being on kidney dialysis for the rest of your bed-ridden life?
:P But it sure seems like a lose-lose either way.
I'm not disagreeing with you per se; I'd be pissed if I died with any of my vital organs intact, honestly.
I don't know why you're coming down so hard on this, particularly since you are absolutely correct. My point was that Microsoft knows how to implement a trivial randomization algorithm in a trivial situation (the difference between 60% and 100% random in this situation is not only unobservable unless thousands of iterations are performed, but it's also trivial to close that gap). If they went with a less-random algorithm, it would be far more likely to have been a willful decision instead of an accidental mistake. We're making two different and non-overlapping points.
On the other hand, the devil is in the details, and one would think that a company such as Microsoft that has been owning the software market for decades now would know how to implement a randomizing algorithm correctly.
Yet again, it would appear that the US patent system is being used to stifle competition, as opposed to stimulating innovation.
And here I was, thinking the patent application I submitted while interning at IBM which was a new ways of providing recommendations to users was actually a good idea. It's apparent to me now which of these two patents was clearly more original.
And as an interested academic, I'm disappointed that this (so far) appears to be nothing more than a marketing ploy.
I'm pretty sure Apple could drum up an altruistic-sounding or business-smart reason to ban just about any app from their store.
-No competing browsers? They duplicate existing functionality. Certainly wouldn't want that.
-No scantily clad women? They objectify women. But pay no heed to the Sports Illustrated app or the entirety of the internet at your very literal fingertips.
-No Google voice? Also duplicates existing functionality. But be sure to ignore the allowance of Skype.
Yep, Apple's got a good reason for everything that it does, and its reason is placing consumers and developers first!
That would work only if the barrels/containers don't leak or rupture while in the process of being "recycled". That's precisely why we don't launch it into the sun or heave it into a volcano or any of the other plausible-yet-we're-all-doomed-if-anything-goes-wrong suggestions for processing the waste.
StarCraft II: The Undiscovered Game.
...a friend of mine runs into the room in the middle of a download and starts playing with a flashlight?
Plus they've supposed greenlit the Stargate: Atlantis movie, so they can't be selling off everything. And yeah, actually the gate that used to be the SGC is now the one being used on Destiny.
I didn't really watch the show too much
Yeah, that's pretty obvious. It was indeed introduced as a "save their ass" device, but it wasn't maxed out keeping the city running. It ran for the next two seasons, allowing them to raise and lower shields, engage and disengage the cloak, fire drones, and have plenty of power to spare for everyday goings-on. I believe it was the episode with Rodney and his sister experimenting with parallel universes in season 3 which drained the ZPM.
The researchers are seeking to infer the hidden distribution of spammers' find-and-replace tactics, rather than simply trashing emails with "pen1s" in the subject.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't hidden markov models been around for decades?
But this is difficult for lefties to get.
What if I'm right-handed?
Seriously though, that statement cost you all your credibility. I'd have been willing to overlook the fact that the views of both Rev. Wright (Obama's former minister) and the "retard professor" (though I have no idea who would fit the bill here...what alleged professors do you hang out with?) constitute the fringe of society and are not, by any stretch, represented accordingly by the vast majority of folk with more than two brain cells to rub together.
I would also be willing to overlook the fact that your reasoning behind Osama's motives is astonishingly shallow (our military is never "invited" anywhere; arrangements are negotiated and compromises are made in order to establish outposts, mostly for the purpose of political leverage).
I would even have been willing to overlook the fact that your comment really doesn't even have a coherent point to it, and doesn't seem to relate back to the parent comment or even to the original article (who cares that "you can't just do what everyone wants you to do"?).
But then you went and introduced stale partisan bickering (and backed it up with the beaten-to-DEATH random word CAPITALIZATION that so CHARACTERIZES political diarrhea). Is it lonely up there on your pedestal?
Hard to beat out IBM when it's submitting applications for LOL, regex for SSN verification, changing the color of email text, and 40 minute meetings.
Actually, according to the Gibbs free energy equation, it is in fact the opposite: matter's mission to attain a lower energy level, which equates to an increasing amount of disorder in the system. Finding a "greater order", on the other hand, requires an input of energy to the system.
Evolution is a large-scale byproduct of adapting to the changing environment in such a way that is energetically favorable for the organism.
Arguably, the anecdotes you've mentioned are reasons why programmers and managers would be much better off with more statistics. You're absolutely right when you say that the 1 failure in 10 million transactions is what matters; for programmers and managers to overlook that as "statistically insignificant" have a very warped and naive grasp of statistics.
More for the spankbanks of all the readers of Dan Brown novels who truly believe Mary Magdalene is buried beneath the Louvre.
You're absolutely correct; forgot about those rather important applications. :)
...why Microsoft seems to think it's in competition with Apple. Microsoft built itself on being a software company and has only recently - within the last decade - ventured significantly into the hardware market (Xbox, Zune, now the tablet, etc).
Apple, meanwhile, has traditionally been the opposite - a hardware company that occasionally ventures into the software industry (arguably the only software they make is variations of OS X for all their hardware devices).
I am ready and willing to accept naivete as a reason for my above question, but on the off-chance it's not...why does Microsoft care what Apple does? I should think they'd be better off worrying more about what Google does in response to this tablet than Apple.
Ok seriously, I'm tired of being modded troll when I actually had what I thought was a valid point. It would seem to me that the men and women of Congress would be jumping all over the opportunity to implement some governmental oversight on a hot-button political topic.
I would almost think this would be the perfect opportunity for all those whining senators and representatives over the CRU not-debacle to institute some governmental oversight.
"...Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, said the agency should be fighting terrorists, 'not spying on sea lions.'"
I sincerely doubt the CIA is going to put terrorism intelligence-gathering on the back burner in order to free up resources for this initiative. I also wouldn't be surprised if this Senator was one of the many who called for heads of the CRU scientists; and now he's quashing an attempt to make this research more transparent (not that there was really anything over which to call for the heads of the CRU scientists, unless you were part of a conspiracy circle).
There was a similar attempt made in Pittsburgh several years ago. The student governments from all the universities in the area - UPitt, CMU, Chatham, and so on - all got together and set up a demonstration strategy that involved 1) spreading the word about the student tax by posting representatives at locations in the city frequented by students, and 2) encouraging students not to go to bars, liquor stores, or clubs.
Within 10 days, at the prodding of local bars, clubs, and package stores that had lots the vast majority of their clientele, the Pittsburgh council dropped the student tax proposal.
If we can pull off a similar economic demonstration, like the parent alludes to, then I suspect we'll have trouble telling this Mayor what a moron he is.
Glad to see someone appreciates my humor :P
The Karmic Koala upgrade worked flawlessly on its VM.