Now as far as BMI - it does not measure fat - let me repeat that- it DOES NOT measure fat, merely the relative weight to height. People in the ideal range tend to live longer. People outside the ideal range, be it fat or huge amounts of muscle, tend not to live as long (strain on the heart, kidneys, joints, etc).
People also outside the normal height range suffer, too. I'm 6'8" and knowing my BMI is completely worthless.
I don't think AI has disappeared because it was a disappointment, but rather, that the knowledge constituting it has changed names or spawned sub-fields of its own: machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), image processing, latent semantic analysis (LSA), markov models (MM), conditional random fields (CRF), support vector machines (SVM) etc.
Those aggregate fields comprise artificial intelligence as a field, and renaming it doesn't change the simple fact that as a field AI is probably the only computer science subfield that has fallen short of the goals of 50 years ago. Every other single field has vastly outstripped even the most optimistic predictions of the 1950's and 1960's.
...back in the day when RealAudio kicked ass. AM-quality stereo(I think) audio over a 28.8 modem through a tiny unobtrusive program. What happened?
Really??? My experience is the opposite, that Real is one of the few applications that's gotten less bloated over the years. When Real first came out it was horribly bloated, slow, and adware-riddled, and current Real (while I don't use it) isn't nearly as bad.
Good point. And I'm sure Bezos himself wasn't at Kinko's having the boxes shipped. The decision as to what to send was most likely sent by patent lawyers.
No, copyright infringement is a civil offense, not a criminal one, no matter what the RIAA tells you. At least like this it means that even if the RIAA's team of lawyers manages to bribe you guilty, you'll never get a criminal record.
Copyright infringement is both a civil and a criminal offense, and you can certainly get a criminal record for violating copyright law. There are plenty of laws the create both criminal and civil penalties for the same action; copyright law is one, RICO is another.
News flash for ya, folks. The exact location where these folks went is out a long, undeveloped road, sure. But San Ramon is a suburb, people. Yeah, if you're out there you'll find that 80 percent of the people are white. But that's not "white trash missin teeth an' drinkin moonshine" white, that's "53 percent of the people in this town are college educated and 17 percent have graduate degrees" white. It's "48 percent of the families in this town have median incomes higher than $100,000" white. Look it up. [san-ramon.ca.us]
Come on, don't let facts get in the way of all the pro-gun slashdot rants. Let's take the average vocally pro-gun slashdot poster. They're geeks, so probably not especially physically imposing. Grew up into math and computers and science, and probably got picked on for it. When they grew up they picked a safe, sedentary job. The only way they can assert their masculinity is by boasting about gun ownership online, and denigrate people who treat guns with caution.
I'm not sure how it work, wether they just defend you for free (if they think your case is relevant to their fight), or if they just get paid low rate, but either way you'll probably get the most competent people for that precise matter, for far less than a top lawyer's fee.
Plus, you might get NYCL's autograph:)
If I was being sued, I probably wouldn't go anywhere near the EFF unless I had no other choice. Their track record has been mixed, and they seem to let their ideology overwhelm their legal reasoning sometimes. I definitely wouldn't mind being defended by NYCL though, he obviously knows what he's doing.
If you commit murder against someone I love I can sue you for wrongful death.
That would depend on the relationship you had with that person. If you're not married to that person, that person's child, or that person's parent, you can't sue.
now, which of you geeks want to take on this duty ?
Yes, because of when I think of effective bodyguards, I think slashdot geeks. Though I suppose theoretically if one took a bullet for NYCL, his pocket protector might intercept the bullet.
People are slowly getting choice back, it is only a matter of time before anyone can walk into a store and they can pick from Windows or Linux. Now of course when people realize they can save $50ish for switching to Linux they will. And from there the MS empire collapses.
People have been saying that for the past 16 years. Compared to the expectations a lot of people had for Linux in the mid 90's, Linux has been a dismal failure in terms of adoption. Even the early predictions that Linux would dominate the server market were completely derailed by IIS.
Keep in mind that they cannot *outright* discriminate against any minority. They must check as many 80 year old ladies as middle eastern looking men, even though the majority (yes, not all) of the terrorists in the past 20 years have been middle eastern looking males.
Good. Spread the misery around, and the general public is a lot more likely to push their elected representatives into forcing the TSA to pull back on the intrusive, unconstitutional, and mostly useless security measures they've been doing.
The rise of exceptionally violent and explicit media, starting in the early to mid 90's, is actually inversely related to the violent crime rates. That's right - as media has gotten more violent, actual violent crime has provably gone down.
You think media has gotten more violent? I was around during the 80s and 90s, and I remember TV shows in the 80s being a lot more violent than those in the 90s.
Also note that the ACLU does not defend these religious Children either, and sometimes they have to drop the law suit because they cannot afford it to keep it going.
See, that's completely and utterly false. Look here for example. If you're willing to either (1) make either a statement you know is untrue, or (2) make a statement that 15 seconds on google would have disproven, why should we believe any of your other assertions?
You link to two stories off a right-wing Christian website, neither of which is especially detailed, and neither one of which, even if true, proves your claim--that there is institutional prejudice against Christians. The U.S. president has always been a Christian, congress is dominated by Christians, and there are plenty of evangelical judges in office too. Are you so desirous of being "persecuted" that you have to believe that you are somehow being discriminated against even when it's not true?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of an undesired religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof from an undesired religion; or abridging the freedom of speech of people they don't like, or of the press unless it is not a liberal press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble unless they don't want them to, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances as long as they are a left-winger, atheist, agnostic, or from a desired religion and not some religious nut like a Christian or Mormon, who aren't real human beings or rational anyway."
Suuuure, those poor persecuted right-wing christians. Do you have any examples of this horrible double standard that you guys constantly whine about? No? Course you don't.
No, of course it has meaning. You might want to find an 18th century dictionary, though, and look up the word "regulate." If I can steal a line from the Princess Bride: "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Funny, why did you seize upon one word? Did I only quote "regulate?" Or is that just the easiest way to attack? The phrases "well regulated" and "security of a free state," taken in conjunction with the phrases "bear arms" (you might want to check 18th century uses of that phrase--it refers to military service and not private gun ownership) suggests a collective right, not an individual one.
Right. Because "The People" in the 2nd amendment are obviously not the same "The People" from the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments. Those are clearly some other people. Or maybe the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments are also some kind of nebulous collective right that can be defined out of existence on a whim?
And the whole "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," has absolutely no meaning and is completely extraneous?
The problem is that your local Mom & Pop cafe isn't managing their wifi properly.
How so? All you've done is advocate the removal of all restrictions on a network. How does that solve the problem listed in the post you're responding to, that of too many non-customers using too much bandwidth?
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Now as far as BMI - it does not measure fat - let me repeat that- it DOES NOT measure fat, merely the relative weight to height. People in the ideal range tend to live longer. People outside the ideal range, be it fat or huge amounts of muscle, tend not to live as long (strain on the heart, kidneys, joints, etc).
People also outside the normal height range suffer, too. I'm 6'8" and knowing my BMI is completely worthless.
I don't think AI has disappeared because it was a disappointment, but rather, that the knowledge constituting it has changed names or spawned sub-fields of its own: machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), image processing, latent semantic analysis (LSA), markov models (MM), conditional random fields (CRF), support vector machines (SVM) etc.
Those aggregate fields comprise artificial intelligence as a field, and renaming it doesn't change the simple fact that as a field AI is probably the only computer science subfield that has fallen short of the goals of 50 years ago. Every other single field has vastly outstripped even the most optimistic predictions of the 1950's and 1960's.
For example, law in the United States uses Black's Law Dictionary [wikipedia.org], falling back to Merriam-Webster for any other words.
Eh, I think the OED is the de facto dictionary for non-law research.
...back in the day when RealAudio kicked ass. AM-quality stereo(I think) audio over a 28.8 modem through a tiny unobtrusive program. What happened?
Really??? My experience is the opposite, that Real is one of the few applications that's gotten less bloated over the years. When Real first came out it was horribly bloated, slow, and adware-riddled, and current Real (while I don't use it) isn't nearly as bad.
Good point. And I'm sure Bezos himself wasn't at Kinko's having the boxes shipped. The decision as to what to send was most likely sent by patent lawyers.
A farm near my parents had an incident where someone started shooting at a combine.
The combine probably deserved it.
No, copyright infringement is a civil offense, not a criminal one, no matter what the RIAA tells you. At least like this it means that even if the RIAA's team of lawyers manages to bribe you guilty, you'll never get a criminal record.
Copyright infringement is both a civil and a criminal offense, and you can certainly get a criminal record for violating copyright law. There are plenty of laws the create both criminal and civil penalties for the same action; copyright law is one, RICO is another.
News flash for ya, folks. The exact location where these folks went is out a long, undeveloped road, sure. But San Ramon is a suburb, people. Yeah, if you're out there you'll find that 80 percent of the people are white. But that's not "white trash missin teeth an' drinkin moonshine" white, that's "53 percent of the people in this town are college educated and 17 percent have graduate degrees" white. It's "48 percent of the families in this town have median incomes higher than $100,000" white. Look it up. [san-ramon.ca.us]
Come on, don't let facts get in the way of all the pro-gun slashdot rants. Let's take the average vocally pro-gun slashdot poster. They're geeks, so probably not especially physically imposing. Grew up into math and computers and science, and probably got picked on for it. When they grew up they picked a safe, sedentary job. The only way they can assert their masculinity is by boasting about gun ownership online, and denigrate people who treat guns with caution.
I'm not sure how it work, wether they just defend you for free (if they think your case is relevant to their fight), or if they just get paid low rate, but either way you'll probably get the most competent people for that precise matter, for far less than a top lawyer's fee. Plus, you might get NYCL's autograph :)
If I was being sued, I probably wouldn't go anywhere near the EFF unless I had no other choice. Their track record has been mixed, and they seem to let their ideology overwhelm their legal reasoning sometimes. I definitely wouldn't mind being defended by NYCL though, he obviously knows what he's doing.
If you commit murder against someone I love I can sue you for wrongful death.
That would depend on the relationship you had with that person. If you're not married to that person, that person's child, or that person's parent, you can't sue.
Not to mention that a civil case doesn't allow for double jeopardy, i.e. you can win the case and still get sued again for the exact same thing.
It's not double jeopardy, but retrying civil cases can be barred by res judicata.
"EFF Wins"
now, which of you geeks want to take on this duty ?
Yes, because of when I think of effective bodyguards, I think slashdot geeks. Though I suppose theoretically if one took a bullet for NYCL, his pocket protector might intercept the bullet.
People are slowly getting choice back, it is only a matter of time before anyone can walk into a store and they can pick from Windows or Linux. Now of course when people realize they can save $50ish for switching to Linux they will. And from there the MS empire collapses.
People have been saying that for the past 16 years. Compared to the expectations a lot of people had for Linux in the mid 90's, Linux has been a dismal failure in terms of adoption. Even the early predictions that Linux would dominate the server market were completely derailed by IIS.
Success is measured in different ways.
No, profit is kind of a universal measure. And MS is profitable.
What kind of moron goes to the trouble of setting up and registering and licensing a full-blow business and the sells counterfeit software?
Not really that hard to set up a business in most states. Basically you fill out a form.
Keep in mind that they cannot *outright* discriminate against any minority. They must check as many 80 year old ladies as middle eastern looking men, even though the majority (yes, not all) of the terrorists in the past 20 years have been middle eastern looking males.
Good. Spread the misery around, and the general public is a lot more likely to push their elected representatives into forcing the TSA to pull back on the intrusive, unconstitutional, and mostly useless security measures they've been doing.
The rise of exceptionally violent and explicit media, starting in the early to mid 90's, is actually inversely related to the violent crime rates. That's right - as media has gotten more violent, actual violent crime has provably gone down.
You think media has gotten more violent? I was around during the 80s and 90s, and I remember TV shows in the 80s being a lot more violent than those in the 90s.
My kids will not only learn a love of nature, but they'll keep those memories forever.
Which is good, because by running your SUV up there you're damaging that nature you love so much, and eventually memories are all you'll have of it.
Also note that the ACLU does not defend these religious Children either, and sometimes they have to drop the law suit because they cannot afford it to keep it going.
See, that's completely and utterly false. Look here for example. If you're willing to either (1) make either a statement you know is untrue, or (2) make a statement that 15 seconds on google would have disproven, why should we believe any of your other assertions?
You link to two stories off a right-wing Christian website, neither of which is especially detailed, and neither one of which, even if true, proves your claim--that there is institutional prejudice against Christians. The U.S. president has always been a Christian, congress is dominated by Christians, and there are plenty of evangelical judges in office too. Are you so desirous of being "persecuted" that you have to believe that you are somehow being discriminated against even when it's not true?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of an undesired religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof from an undesired religion; or abridging the freedom of speech of people they don't like, or of the press unless it is not a liberal press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble unless they don't want them to, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances as long as they are a left-winger, atheist, agnostic, or from a desired religion and not some religious nut like a Christian or Mormon, who aren't real human beings or rational anyway."
Suuuure, those poor persecuted right-wing christians. Do you have any examples of this horrible double standard that you guys constantly whine about? No? Course you don't.
No, of course it has meaning. You might want to find an 18th century dictionary, though, and look up the word "regulate." If I can steal a line from the Princess Bride: "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Funny, why did you seize upon one word? Did I only quote "regulate?" Or is that just the easiest way to attack? The phrases "well regulated" and "security of a free state," taken in conjunction with the phrases "bear arms" (you might want to check 18th century uses of that phrase--it refers to military service and not private gun ownership) suggests a collective right, not an individual one.
Right. Because "The People" in the 2nd amendment are obviously not the same "The People" from the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments. Those are clearly some other people. Or maybe the 1st, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments are also some kind of nebulous collective right that can be defined out of existence on a whim?
And the whole "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State," has absolutely no meaning and is completely extraneous?
The problem is that your local Mom & Pop cafe isn't managing their wifi properly.
How so? All you've done is advocate the removal of all restrictions on a network. How does that solve the problem listed in the post you're responding to, that of too many non-customers using too much bandwidth?
The iPhone and Starbucks target demographics overlap heavily.
Just thinking about that demographic makes my skin crawl...