Congratulations on actually being funny. 90% of the funny mods here are given to posts that are played out jokes, or just plain stupid. If only there was a way to filter out the stuff that is marked funny, but actually isn't... maybe some kind of peer rating system like credence
I like the idea of having 0 be the beginning of the universe, but why not keep it simple, and have 1 be the end of the universe, instead of current time.
1. Something that is deserved or merited, especially a punishment. Often used in the plural: They got their just deserts when the scheme was finally uncovered.
2. The state or fact of deserving reward or punishment.
This case sounds awfully similar to the two previous cases against google.
Google won the first one against Geico, but it looks like the case against AXA hasn't been decided yet.
I wonder if this ruling will help Google in that second case. Even if Google is in the right, this could be a tough case for them, because AXA has a lot more money than they do. (Google's revenue for a year is about 5 billion dollars ( revenues of $1.256 billion for the first quarter of 2005. AXA's revenue for 2004 was 72 billion euros.
The hard truth is that the ACLU is spending our Anti-Patriot Act (etc) dollars to strike down legislation that promises options to consumers, that is all.
This is the Utah branch of the ACLU, I bet their money comes out of a different pot than the national branch. And it's the national branch that would be fighting the USAPATRIOT act.
When I'm reading reviews on amazon, I always sort them so that the worst reviews are on top. No product is perfect, and it's much easier to see what the problems with a product are that way.
This administration was already creating direct federal news (Propoganda). This will just make it a little more likely that the average citizen will be able to tell that it is propoganda.
That's not what I got. My summary of his argument would be:
"The brain is a physical system. All physical systems above the quantum level are determinsistic (i.e. future states can be determined by the current state & the inputs). Therefore the brain cannot have free will unless it is on a quantum level. (also, some of the fundamental structures of the brain are about the right size for quantum effects to be relevant)."
If you are looking for a FPS that is different from all other FPS's, try out something in the TRIBES series. The first two games are available for free, and the latest Tribes:Vengeance is available for $20 if you look around.
Although the latest Tribes game has a strong single player component, the heart of TRIBES is in the multiplayer. That focus on multiplayer, combined with fluid movemement (jetting & skiing) makes the tribes experience totally unique.
The first time you play tribes, you might think it is similar to other FPS, but Tribes is all about movement. The most important skills in the game are skiing & jetting (& grappling in T:V).
It's hard to explain what makes Tribes so unique. Really, the movement is the most important difference, but their are lots of other minor differences, inventory stations, generators, light, medium, & heavy armor classes, different packs you can use to modify your role, large outdoor maps, etc. And lots of things that the TRIBES franchise pioneered, are now staples of other games (vehicles, etc.).
Be warned though, that the learning curve for TRIBES is pretty steep. Plan on being destroyed by the vets for at least the first week, while you learn how to ski, etc.
I've talked to at least half a dozen people that have all had that same reaction. You're watching the movie, and you're thinking, "This is weird. I'm not sure if I like this." Then the next two weeks, you're quoting the movie and laughing your ass off.
I can't believe no one mentioned TRIBES. The first FPS to be a online-only game. First FPS to have vehicles. First FPS to really use a jet-pack (where it's not just a toy). First FPS to have classes for characters, and deployable equipment. First FPS to have an overhead map where you can set waypoints, etc. First FPS to have a quick-chat system for alerting your teammates.
A similar program was developed at the University of Colorado back in 1998, using Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA). LSA works by creating a table with rows being terms, and columns being documents. Then the cells of the table are filled with the frequency that each term shows up in each document.
It uses singular value decomposition, a general form of factor analysis, to condense a very large matrix of word-by-context data into a much smaller, but still large-typically 100-500 dimensional-representation
The similarity between resulting vectors for words and contexts, as measured by the cosine of their contained angle, has been shown to closely mimic human judgments of meaning similarity and human performance based on such similarity in a variety of ways.
To assess the quality of essays, LSA is first trained on domain-representative text. Then student essays are characterized by LSA vectors of their contained words and compared with essays of known quality on degree of conceptual relevance and amount of relevant content. Over many diverse topics, LSA scores have agreed with human experts as well as expert scores agreed with each other.
...he's an idiot redneck from Texas, and he likes to play the part because he thinks it plays well with his core supporters.
And what does that say about his core supporters?
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I was in a similar situation at my university when I lost a $35 book, and they wanted me to pay $100 for it. Instead I was able to purchase a brand new hard copy edition of the book, and give them that. I can't remember if I had to pay a restocking type fee so that they could affix their bar code, etc.
It definitely is an overstatement. Which is exactly why the right wing media always claimed that gore said he "invented" the internet, instead of using his actual quote that he "took the initiative in creating" the internet.
I thought they decided to charge for the straight dope message boards? Am I remembering that incorrectly, or did they realize how stupid that was, and revert to free registration?
I've heard that DirecTiVo writes the digital stream directly to disk, but then I would have thought that there would be only one quality setting. Is digital compression happening on the fly?
I didn't find WilliamCotton's post hostile. In fact I thought it was very informative (only wish I still had mod points from earlier).
The first thing I thought of when reading Savage-Rabbits post was that he was probably not familiar with Duchamp's "fountain". I would guess the 'art piece' of the urinals was an obvious allusion to Duchamp's urinal. If you are not familiar with the reference, you probably have no idea what point the artist was trying to make.
There is a lot of art history that is sometimes necessary to understand before being able to intelligently comment on modern art.
I've found two sites that offer comparisons. Of course how different CPUs compare will depend on the task you are comparing them with, but between these two sites, you can atleast get a general idea.
http://www.cpuscorecard.com/ and http://www.th emacobserver.com/shootouts/processor_ notes.html
I think he is saying that if you have a highly ranked page (on say "Topic A"). You may want to link to a competitors page on say "Topic Ab" which is related to your page. Because your page is highly ranked, by linking to a competitors page, you are increasing their page rank.
So now you've made their page come up higher in Google. Before if you wanted to link to their page, they got the google page-rank benefit of being linked to by your high ranking page. Now you can tell google to ignore that link for the purpose of calculating their page rank.
I've been thinking of writing a 'zorkish' text based adventure in German for a long time. I learned a bit of German in college, but knew that I would need to practice it regularly if I wanted to improve or even retain the German that I know.
I figured a text adventure could work great, because you could start with a very limited vocabulary. The user would only need to know maybe 5 verbs, and 10-15 nouns to get into the game, then as they continue playing they are introduced to more verbs and nouns. A sufficiently lengthy game could contain maybe a few thousand different words that the user could use as input to the game. Different versions of the game could contain vocabulary that was geared towards particular areas. (i.e. a version for tourists, for students, for business travelers, etc.)
Output would be in German, but typing "Sprechen Sie English? (Do you speak english?)" would cause the same output to be repeated in English.
Also, a built in dictionary would allow the player to ask in German "what is [german-word] in english?" or vice-versa.
The major problem with this is that the grammar in text adventures is usually simplified. Grammar might have to be learned passively by the text the game outputs, because parsing complex grammar might be too complicated (certainly it would be if I were writing this game). Even if grammar was not conveyed to the user, certainly a larger vocabulary could be.
Slashdot Mirror
You'd just have a quick .cum boom and a bust.
I believe the phrase you are looking for is a ".cum bubble."
It's just so popular to say that people on Slashdot are hypocrites without actually providing any evidence
;)
Prove it.
Congratulations on actually being funny. 90% of the funny mods here are given to posts that are played out jokes, or just plain stupid. If only there was a way to filter out the stuff that is marked funny, but actually isn't... maybe some kind of peer rating system like credence
I like the idea of having 0 be the beginning of the universe, but why not keep it simple, and have 1 be the end of the universe, instead of current time.
Kool Keith is Dr. Octagon, Dr. Doom, etc. But that is not the same person as Del tha Funky Homosapien
If you are worried about that sort of thing, then you probably would be interested to know that it is 'just deserts' not 'just desserts'.
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check out the desert2 noun form:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=dese
n.
1. Something that is deserved or merited, especially a punishment. Often used in the plural: They got their just deserts when the scheme was finally uncovered.
2. The state or fact of deserving reward or punishment.
This case sounds awfully similar to the two previous cases against google.
Google won the first one against Geico, but it looks like the case against AXA hasn't been decided yet.
I wonder if this ruling will help Google in that second case. Even if Google is in the right, this could be a tough case for them, because AXA has a lot more money than they do. (Google's revenue for a year is about 5 billion dollars ( revenues of $1.256 billion for the first quarter of 2005. AXA's revenue for 2004 was 72 billion euros.
The hard truth is that the ACLU is spending our Anti-Patriot Act (etc) dollars to strike down legislation that promises options to consumers, that is all.
This is the Utah branch of the ACLU, I bet their money comes out of a different pot than the national branch. And it's the national branch that would be fighting the USAPATRIOT act.
When I'm reading reviews on amazon, I always sort them so that the worst reviews are on top. No product is perfect, and it's much easier to see what the problems with a product are that way.
This administration was already creating direct federal news (Propoganda). This will just make it a little more likely that the average citizen will be able to tell that it is propoganda.
That's not what I got. My summary of his argument would be:
"The brain is a physical system. All physical systems above the quantum level are determinsistic (i.e. future states can be determined by the current state & the inputs). Therefore the brain cannot have free will unless it is on a quantum level. (also, some of the fundamental structures of the brain are about the right size for quantum effects to be relevant)."
If you are looking for a FPS that is different from all other FPS's, try out something in the TRIBES series. The first two games are available for free, and the latest Tribes:Vengeance is available for $20 if you look around.
Although the latest Tribes game has a strong single player component, the heart of TRIBES is in the multiplayer. That focus on multiplayer, combined with fluid movemement (jetting & skiing) makes the tribes experience totally unique.
The first time you play tribes, you might think it is similar to other FPS, but Tribes is all about movement. The most important skills in the game are skiing & jetting (& grappling in T:V).
It's hard to explain what makes Tribes so unique. Really, the movement is the most important difference, but their are lots of other minor differences, inventory stations, generators, light, medium, & heavy armor classes, different packs you can use to modify your role, large outdoor maps, etc. And lots of things that the TRIBES franchise pioneered, are now staples of other games (vehicles, etc.).
Be warned though, that the learning curve for TRIBES is pretty steep. Plan on being destroyed by the vets for at least the first week, while you learn how to ski, etc.
I've talked to at least half a dozen people that have all had that same reaction. You're watching the movie, and you're thinking, "This is weird. I'm not sure if I like this." Then the next two weeks, you're quoting the movie and laughing your ass off.
I can't believe no one mentioned TRIBES. The first FPS to be a online-only game. First FPS to have vehicles. First FPS to really use a jet-pack (where it's not just a toy). First FPS to have classes for characters, and deployable equipment. First FPS to have an overhead map where you can set waypoints, etc. First FPS to have a quick-chat system for alerting your teammates.
A similar program was developed at the University of Colorado back in 1998, using Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA). LSA works by creating a table with rows being terms, and columns being documents. Then the cells of the table are filled with the frequency that each term shows up in each document.
It uses singular value decomposition, a general form of factor analysis, to condense a very large matrix of word-by-context data into a much smaller, but still large-typically 100-500 dimensional-representation
The similarity between resulting vectors for words and contexts, as measured by the cosine of their contained angle, has been shown to closely mimic human judgments of meaning similarity and human performance based on such similarity in a variety of ways.
To assess the quality of essays, LSA is first trained on domain-representative text. Then student essays are characterized by LSA vectors of their contained words and compared with essays of known quality on degree of conceptual relevance and amount of relevant content. Over many diverse topics, LSA scores have agreed with human experts as well as expert scores agreed with each other.
some basic information
Cool applets that let you play with LSA
...he's an idiot redneck from Texas, and he likes to play the part because he thinks it plays well with his core supporters.
And what does that say about his core supporters?
I was in a similar situation at my university when I lost a $35 book, and they wanted me to pay $100 for it. Instead I was able to purchase a brand new hard copy edition of the book, and give them that. I can't remember if I had to pay a restocking type fee so that they could affix their bar code, etc.
the word "invented" is an overstatement
It definitely is an overstatement. Which is exactly why the right wing media always claimed that gore said he "invented" the internet, instead of using his actual quote that he "took the initiative in creating" the internet.
I thought they decided to charge for the straight dope message boards? Am I remembering that incorrectly, or did they realize how stupid that was, and revert to free registration?
I've heard that DirecTiVo writes the digital stream directly to disk, but then I would have thought that there would be only one quality setting. Is digital compression happening on the fly?
I didn't find WilliamCotton's post hostile. In fact I thought it was very informative (only wish I still had mod points from earlier).
The first thing I thought of when reading Savage-Rabbits post was that he was probably not familiar with Duchamp's "fountain". I would guess the 'art piece' of the urinals was an obvious allusion to Duchamp's urinal. If you are not familiar with the reference, you probably have no idea what point the artist was trying to make.
There is a lot of art history that is sometimes necessary to understand before being able to intelligently comment on modern art.
How long was it from the development of photography in the 1800's (If memory serves me correctly) to the first documented photograph of a vagina?
g al lery_entrance.php
I don't know, but Amsterdam has a history of Sex museum, that might have the answer. They have lots of pictures of ancient pornography.
I have a small number of pictures from the amsterdam sex museum on my website including a very old pornographic photo:
http://www.prestopnik.com/honeymoon/sex_museum_
It's uh NSFW, in case there was any question.
I've found two sites that offer comparisons. Of course how different CPUs compare will depend on the task you are comparing them with, but between these two sites, you can atleast get a general idea.
h emacobserver.com/shootouts/processor_ notes.html
http://www.cpuscorecard.com/
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http://www.t
I think he is saying that if you have a highly ranked page (on say "Topic A"). You may want to link to a competitors page on say "Topic Ab" which is related to your page. Because your page is highly ranked, by linking to a competitors page, you are increasing their page rank.
So now you've made their page come up higher in Google. Before if you wanted to link to their page, they got the google page-rank benefit of being linked to by your high ranking page. Now you can tell google to ignore that link for the purpose of calculating their page rank.
I've been thinking of writing a 'zorkish' text based adventure in German for a long time. I learned a bit of German in college, but knew that I would need to practice it regularly if I wanted to improve or even retain the German that I know.
I figured a text adventure could work great, because you could start with a very limited vocabulary. The user would only need to know maybe 5 verbs, and 10-15 nouns to get into the game, then as they continue playing they are introduced to more verbs and nouns. A sufficiently lengthy game could contain maybe a few thousand different words that the user could use as input to the game. Different versions of the game could contain vocabulary that was geared towards particular areas. (i.e. a version for tourists, for students, for business travelers, etc.)
Output would be in German, but typing "Sprechen Sie English? (Do you speak english?)" would cause the same output to be repeated in English.
Also, a built in dictionary would allow the player to ask in German "what is [german-word] in english?" or vice-versa.
The major problem with this is that the grammar in text adventures is usually simplified. Grammar might have to be learned passively by the text the game outputs, because parsing complex grammar might be too complicated (certainly it would be if I were writing this game). Even if grammar was not conveyed to the user, certainly a larger vocabulary could be.