I wouldn't say that all terrorists are not stupid. Remember Reed that shoe bomber guy? If he had just gone to the bathroom to light his shoe, he probably would have blown the plane up. But instead he tried to do it from his seat. He was definitely stupid, and thank god for that.
If you have an xbox (or know someone who does), you might want to check out Panzer Dragoon Orta. While the controls are not ultra-simple, once you get the hang of the buttons it's the sort of game where you can just "kick back and click around and shoot and that's it." Since it's on rails, you don't even have to worry about where you are going.
Both of the universities that I attended offered a two semester "Senior Project" that was done in groups of 3-4. The senior project required that you have requirments docs, design docs, implementation, various levels of testing, etc.
In addition both universities required a "Software Engineering" class which was similiar, but was only a single semester and focused on teaching students how to do things like requirments, design and testing.
I thought this was pretty standard at universities in the US.
Any of these "friendly" features of Word can be undone by hitting ctrl-z (undo). This can still be a pain if you are writing something where this happens a lot, but in most cases this is enough to get the job done, and you don't need to go searching in the menus to figure out how to turn it off, or modify the behavior.
Here is a cure, that has always worked for me, and is very simple (I don't get hiccups very often, so the sample size is small).
Just take a heaping spoon full of sugar (or a couple packets of sugar), and swallow it all at once. My mom is a nurse and she taught me this. She told me that it stimulates your gag reflex and thus stops your hiccups.
It is kind of nasty swallowing this huge pile of grains, and I guess it's 50+ empty calories, but if you've got the hiccups and other remedies have not worked (or are too complicated/too much work), give this a shot.
Dr. Mike Mozer is a professor of Computer Science (specializing in artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)). He has renovated an old school house near Boulder, Colorado and given it multiple sensors, and controls, and hooked all of this up to an adaptive learning system. For example his house has motion sensors and can control the lights, so when you walk into the bathroom the lights come on automatically.
He never had to program this particular function, but because the house "saw" that everytime there was movement in the bathroom the lights were turned on, it learned to turn the lights on itself. Similarly, a microphone in the living room can determine that the TV has been turned on, and dim the lights to the correct level. I believe the house also predicts what fans and AC/heating to turn on based upon time of day, temperature outside, time of year, day of week, etc. And the best part is you don't have to figure out the optimal logic yourself, but the house learns it from watching your behaviour.
You can find more information about this experiment here
The best part is that much of the work was done by graduate students, and much of the funding came from grants.
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Communication is mostly a left brain activity. Most communications skills are located in Broca's area, which is in the left hemisphere.
Can you imagine if it really was like used cars. You'd have a whole used game market. "Yeah, this here Tony Hawk 3, it was owned by this old lady. The only time she'd play it is after church on Sunday for 15 minutes. It's still got plenty of life left in it, even though it's 3 years old."
One feature you should consider is to weight phrases based inversely upon how common they are.
Say for example these were the total pages returned for your example
Phrase: N=Pages w/phrase
"Now is the time" 1000 "is the time for" 10 "the time for all" 10 "time for all good" 10 "for all good men" 100
Each phrase contributes a score of 1/N (maybe times some constant K if you want larger scores). Then the score for a page is the sum of the scores contributed for each phrase found on that page.
So for example if a page had phrases 2 & 3 it's score would be 1/10 + 1/10 =.2
If a similiar page also matched two phrases, but they were the more common phrases 1&5, it's score would only be 1/100 + 1/1000 =.011
This is a fairly common technique used in corpus analysis, and it should greatly improve your results.
TRIBES 2 allowed players to create clans in game. You could develop web-type pages for you clan in game, and players had email accounts, etc. Unfortunately TRIBES2 was a bug ridden mess upon release, so it never really took off.
Right now there is a great IMAX movie playing at my local IMAX theater (Denver Museum of Nature & Science). I imagine it is also playing at IMAX theaters around the nation. Although many seem to agree that the ISS was a waste of money, you can't help getting inspired and impressed if you go to see this film.
(Also it's narrated by Tom Cruise, if that makes a difference to you.)
Man or Astroman did something similiar. They always play in full costume, so you can't tell what they look like anyway. A couple of years ago, they had four different national tours simultaniously.
That sounds logical, but you have to consider that the cost of some pre-emptive "good" might be higher than some after market "good." The specific example you stated was donating money to charities, and on that specific example I won't argue with you. But I will try to defend the position that companies should care about more than their stock prices.
Consider this hypothetical situation. A company can save $10M dollars, by doing environmental damage that will cost $100M to clean up. Now if the EPA was doing it's job we could fine them $100M (or more) for doing this damage, but this simply does not happen. In this case, I think if the company is ethical, they should not save the $10M dollars, because the affect on humanity is an overall loss.
Unfortunately I think very very few companies think this way. The only way to make them think this way is to make that theoretical $100M fine a reality, or to have their decision generate $100M worth of bad press.
if you are using konqueror under KDE, you can type #command into the address field, and it will open the man page for that command. With that you get good formating, use fo hyperlinks, standard sections, and colors.
Good point. I wish TIVO did have that functionality already built in.
As for it changing the channel on stopping recording, I've noticed that also. I believe it is because the recording is going to a new stream, (from a saved recording, to the live buffer).
I think in their code it automatically changes the channel whenver a new stream starts. In many cases it is probably unecessary, but it does not really hurt anything, and is one less special case they have to deal with.
Disclamer: I have no idea if this is done on purpose, and it is probably not.
One way that cable companies could sabotage PVRs is by having less reliable set top boxes. The cable box that is hooked up to my TIVO does not always change the channel when you try to change the channel. Maybe 15-20% of the time, it simply fails and stays on the same channel it was already on.
Now for the normal user, they may not care because they can just punch the number in again, but when it does not work for TIVO, TIVO does not realize that and does not tape the correct show. The end result is that if I am not paying attention, or not around, then there is a decent chance that TIVO will miss the show I wanted it to record. I have not called the cable company, because I imagine that if I said that occasionaly, I have to punch in the channel twice, they would tell me to just deal with it.
I know that the problem lies with the cable box and not TIVO, because I have had the same experience when changing the channel by hand with the cable remote.
As I said earlier, I doubt that the cable companies do this specifically to thwart PVRs, but I believe they would be willing to do it if they thought of it. (hopefully no cable company C*Os are reading this).
It sounds to me like they are not actually going to use the I,Robot stories for the basis of the movie. I bet they use something from the _Caves of Steel_, _Naked Sun_, or _Robots of Dawn_ series. These are all much better suited for a movie, and are about the same basic ideas (laws of robotics, etc.)
Why is it a bad thing to put a large array on the stack? It seems like it would be faster to allocate memory from the stack (simply advance the stack pointer), than allocating it from the heap (search heap from free memory of appropriate size, then mark it as in use and return a pointer).
My DVD set (bought at WalMart) actually came with TWO passes in it. So for $25 I got two passes worth $8.50 each. Overall It only cost me $8 for a four DVD set. Best. Deal Ever.
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Well, I certainly agree that Bush is an idiot, but obviously about half of america disagreed, because they voted for him.
I wouldn't say that all terrorists are not stupid. Remember Reed that shoe bomber guy? If he had just gone to the bathroom to light his shoe, he probably would have blown the plane up. But instead he tried to do it from his seat. He was definitely stupid, and thank god for that.
If you have an xbox (or know someone who does), you might want to check out Panzer Dragoon Orta. While the controls are not ultra-simple, once you get the hang of the buttons it's the sort of game where you can just "kick back and click around and shoot and that's it." Since it's on rails, you don't even have to worry about where you are going.
Both of the universities that I attended offered a two semester "Senior Project" that was done in groups of 3-4. The senior project required that you have requirments docs, design docs, implementation, various levels of testing, etc.
In addition both universities required a "Software Engineering" class which was similiar, but was only a single semester and focused on teaching students how to do things like requirments, design and testing.
I thought this was pretty standard at universities in the US.
Any of these "friendly" features of Word can be undone by hitting ctrl-z (undo). This can still be a pain if you are writing something where this happens a lot, but in most cases this is enough to get the job done, and you don't need to go searching in the menus to figure out how to turn it off, or modify the behavior.
Here is a cure, that has always worked for me, and is very simple (I don't get hiccups very often, so the sample size is small).
Just take a heaping spoon full of sugar (or a couple packets of sugar), and swallow it all at once. My mom is a nurse and she taught me this. She told me that it stimulates your gag reflex and thus stops your hiccups.
It is kind of nasty swallowing this huge pile of grains, and I guess it's 50+ empty calories, but if you've got the hiccups and other remedies have not worked (or are too complicated/too much work), give this a shot.
Just to keep things straight, this is actually the seventh week of TTT.
Dr. Mike Mozer is a professor of Computer Science (specializing in artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)). He has renovated an old school house near Boulder, Colorado and given it multiple sensors, and controls, and hooked all of this up to an adaptive learning system. For example his house has motion sensors and can control the lights, so when you walk into the bathroom the lights come on automatically.
He never had to program this particular function, but because the house "saw" that everytime there was movement in the bathroom the lights were turned on, it learned to turn the lights on itself. Similarly, a microphone in the living room can determine that the TV has been turned on, and dim the lights to the correct level. I believe the house also predicts what fans and AC/heating to turn on based upon time of day, temperature outside, time of year, day of week, etc. And the best part is you don't have to figure out the optimal logic yourself, but the house learns it from watching your behaviour.
You can find more information about this experiment here The best part is that much of the work was done by graduate students, and much of the funding came from grants.
Communication is mostly a left brain activity. Most communications skills are located in Broca's area, which is in the left hemisphere.
Can you imagine if it really was like used cars. You'd have a whole used game market. "Yeah, this here Tony Hawk 3, it was owned by this old lady. The only time she'd play it is after church on Sunday for 15 minutes. It's still got plenty of life left in it, even though it's 3 years old."
One feature you should consider is to weight phrases based inversely upon how common they are.
.2
.011
Say for example these were the total pages returned for your example
Phrase: N=Pages w/phrase
"Now is the time" 1000
"is the time for" 10
"the time for all" 10
"time for all good" 10
"for all good men" 100
Each phrase contributes a score of 1/N (maybe times some constant K if you want larger scores).
Then the score for a page is the sum of the scores contributed for each phrase found on that
page.
So for example if a page had phrases 2 & 3 it's score would be 1/10 + 1/10 =
If a similiar page also matched two phrases, but they were the more common phrases 1&5, it's score would only be 1/100 + 1/1000 =
This is a fairly common technique used in corpus analysis, and it should greatly improve your results.
what is this supposed to be?
TRIBES 2 allowed players to create clans in game. You could develop web-type pages for you clan in game, and players had email accounts, etc. Unfortunately TRIBES2 was a bug ridden mess upon release, so it never really took off.
There is a way to do this. Check out these guys. They collect donations for musicians, and then pass it on.
Oh God... But I was voted most likely to succeed!
Right now there is a great IMAX movie playing at my local IMAX theater (Denver Museum of Nature & Science). I imagine it is also playing at IMAX theaters around the nation. Although many seem to agree that the ISS was a waste of money, you can't help getting inspired and impressed if you go to see this film.
(Also it's narrated by Tom Cruise, if that makes a difference to you.)
Man or Astroman did something similiar. They always play in full costume, so you can't tell what they look like anyway. A couple of years ago, they had four different national tours simultaniously.
That sounds logical, but you have to consider that the cost of some pre-emptive "good" might be higher than some after market "good." The specific example you stated was donating money to charities, and on that specific example I won't argue with you. But I will try to defend the position that companies should care about more than their stock prices.
Consider this hypothetical situation. A company can save $10M dollars, by doing environmental damage that will cost $100M to clean up. Now if the EPA was doing it's job we could fine them $100M (or more) for doing this damage, but this simply does not happen. In this case, I think if the company is ethical, they should not save the $10M dollars, because the affect on humanity is an overall loss.
Unfortunately I think very very few companies think this way. The only way to make them think this way is to make that theoretical $100M fine a reality, or to have their decision generate $100M worth of bad press.
if you are using konqueror under KDE, you can type #command into the address field, and it will open the man page for that command. With that you get good formating, use fo hyperlinks, standard sections, and colors.
Good point. I wish TIVO did have that functionality already built in.
As for it changing the channel on stopping recording, I've noticed that also. I believe it is because the recording is going to a new stream, (from a saved recording, to the live buffer).
I think in their code it automatically changes the channel whenver a new stream starts. In many cases it is probably unecessary, but it does not really hurt anything, and is one less special case they have to deal with.
Disclamer: I have no idea if this is done on purpose, and it is probably not.
One way that cable companies could sabotage PVRs is by having less reliable set top boxes. The cable box that is hooked up to my TIVO does not always change the channel when you try to change the channel. Maybe 15-20% of the time, it simply fails and stays on the same channel it was already on.
Now for the normal user, they may not care because they can just punch the number in again, but when it does not work for TIVO, TIVO does not realize that and does not tape the correct show. The end result is that if I am not paying attention, or not around, then there is a decent chance that TIVO will miss the show I wanted it to record. I have not called the cable company, because I imagine that if I said that occasionaly, I have to punch in the channel twice, they would tell me to just deal with it.
I know that the problem lies with the cable box and not TIVO, because I have had the same experience when changing the channel by hand with the cable remote.
As I said earlier, I doubt that the cable companies do this specifically to thwart PVRs, but I believe they would be willing to do it if they thought of it. (hopefully no cable company C*Os are reading this).
It sounds to me like they are not actually going to use the I,Robot stories for the basis of the movie. I bet they use something from the _Caves of Steel_, _Naked Sun_, or _Robots of Dawn_ series. These are all much better suited for a movie, and are about the same basic ideas (laws of robotics, etc.)
Why is it a bad thing to put a large array on the stack? It seems like it would be faster to allocate memory from the stack (simply advance the stack pointer), than allocating it from the heap (search heap from free memory of appropriate size, then mark it as in use and return a pointer).
That reminds me of a great line in "Real Genius"
Old Lady: Professor Hatheway, what is Einstein *really* like?
Hatheway: Dead.
My DVD set (bought at WalMart) actually came with TWO passes in it. So for $25 I got two passes worth $8.50 each. Overall It only cost me $8 for a four DVD set. Best. Deal Ever.