You know what, when I first heard about the Segway, I was under the impression it was going to be something more like iBot (perhaps I just heard two accounts of information and combined them.) iBot seems more impressive to me, I think I remember seeing something on PBS about it now that you mention it.
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I seem to remember accidenlty visiting http://www.woz.com not more than a month ago, and to my disappointment it had nothing to do with Steve Wozniak (until I later realized it was supposed to be http://www.woz.org).
I wonder if he had to purchase that domain from someone, or if it expired, etc.
They're a great to place to buy books that you can't find anywhere else. It is also much easier to search for books online than browse aisles at a bookstore.
Not exactly an admission of guilt. More of a "nolo contendo" or whatever.
When I get a traffic ticket, I can sign 1 of 3 spots on the back, either admitting guilt and paying the fine, pleading no content, and paying the fine (thus, paying the fine, but not admittin guilt.) or pleading innocence.
I see what they have done there along the same lines.
He was a little closer than that, if you read the next paragraph:
One hundred other students who also managed to decode and figure out the problem were offered a place on the computer science course at the university. While it may not have been required for admission, and I don't know the size of their program, 100 sounds pretty high, so that may well encompass all incoming freshmen, or not.
Breaking encryption would imply good mathematical knowledge and higher reasoning.
I think this is a good basis for a scholarship and admission. Most other scholarships and admissions are based on self-written essays. At least it is less subjective.
I had the described problem with Tux Racer using FreeBSD 4.4 and Redhat 7.2 (I have no clue what version of what else was installed, but I would guess a very recent kernel.)
My hardware setup is as follows:
ASUS A7A266, Athlon 1.3 GHz, Geforce 2 GTS Pro 64.
I found a Go game for my Palm V. It was supposedly based on GNU Go, but the AI was so poor, that even myself, a beginning Go player could beat it 90% of the time. (It didn't even score right.. ugh.)
Anyway, GNU Go is pretty good, scoring 8th in the 21st Century cup.
If you think that a tree of all possible moves for chess is huge, you should try Go. There's so many more possible moves in just the first 4 or 5 turns.
Hmm, I had NT 4 running on a P133 with 128 MB ram, and it ran great compared to some other OS's I tried (including but not limited to whatever version of RedHat was out then, BSDi, and FreeBSD.)
If it was good software, shouldn't the user not have to go through that much trouble to get his problem fixed?
If linux makes any ground at all in the desktop market, do you expect each of those people to know what to do when something crashes on them? Do you think they will have a clue how to fix it or report what happened in detail?
Probably not. They'll probably hit the reset button and try again, until they get so upset they give up and dismiss Linux as a hobbyists dream.
You can only take a $2000 deduction currently for charitable donations. Since Gates probably pays income taxes on much more than that, I doubt he'd even notice. And it doesn't cost you the same amount of money. A $2000 deduction doesn't save you $2000. You just get to pretend like you made $2000 less than you really did.
New cars are usually covered by the manufacturer anyway aren't they? I believe that responsibility falls on the manufacturer not the dealer. Which makes it more applicable to this article anyway.
I would certainly hope that a cookie wouldn't contain that information. Usually a cookie just has an identifying number, and all information is stored server side. I can't imagine anyone doing otherwise.
You have freedom of speech as long as it doesn't harm other people, i.e., Charles Manson. He told other people what to do, and he's the one spending life in prison.
So, if you write code that is harmful (i.e. results in loss of profit, etc.), then you most certainly can be held liable for it.
Most used car dealers sell cars "as is/no warranty", and at least in my state, that means that if you drive off the lot in the car and it breaks down in 1 block, you're up a shit creek without a paddle.
Really, if we sue the crap out of them, they will not have the opportunity to fix the problem, since they will spend all of their time and money in court.
This would just be a hinderance towards making more secure software. We need something more like a "right to know" law.
F = ma = The force of an object is equal to the product of it's mass and acceleration. No mention of weight...
Here is a more formal statement of Newton's Second Law for you:
The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force, in the same direction as the net force, and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
Force != Weight. As far as everyday life is concerned they might be pretty similar, but they are not one in the same thing. Acceleration does not have to have anything to do with gravity either. In many cases it does, but not always.
Weight IS a particular force in certain instances. When you're sitting here on earth, the force of gravity on you is equal to the product of your mass and ~~ 9.8 m/s^2.
Just don't go throwing around statements like "Force = Weight" when you mean that weight is a particular force in certain instances. You are going to mislead high school physics students reading/. and then we'll all be in for it.
Weight is a gravitational force, thus acting on 2 objects, and pulling them either towards or away from each other. I don't know of any bi-directional vectors.
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You know what, when I first heard about the Segway, I was under the impression it was going to be something more like iBot (perhaps I just heard two accounts of information and combined them.) iBot seems more impressive to me, I think I remember seeing something on PBS about it now that you mention it.
I wonder if he had to purchase that domain from someone, or if it expired, etc.
They're a great to place to buy books that you can't find anywhere else. It is also much easier to search for books online than browse aisles at a bookstore.
Who stole the idea from your local classified ads. This isn't a new idea, just an old one applied to a new place.
Not exactly an admission of guilt. More of a "nolo contendo" or whatever.
When I get a traffic ticket, I can sign 1 of 3 spots on the back, either admitting guilt and paying the fine, pleading no content, and paying the fine (thus, paying the fine, but not admittin guilt.) or pleading innocence.
I see what they have done there along the same lines.
He was a little closer than that, if you read the next paragraph:
One hundred other students who also managed to decode and figure out the problem were offered a place on the computer science course at the university. While it may not have been required for admission, and I don't know the size of their program, 100 sounds pretty high, so that may well encompass all incoming freshmen, or not.
Fertile land.
I think this is a good basis for a scholarship and admission. Most other scholarships and admissions are based on self-written essays. At least it is less subjective.
No kidding, same here. I didn't remember reading an article about CS cheaters though... oh well.
My hardware setup is as follows:
ASUS A7A266, Athlon 1.3 GHz, Geforce 2 GTS Pro 64.
In the words of the great Homer J Simpsons, "In theory! In theory, communism works, in theory."
Anyway, GNU Go is pretty good, scoring 8th in the 21st Century cup.
If you think that a tree of all possible moves for chess is huge, you should try Go. There's so many more possible moves in just the first 4 or 5 turns.
Hmm, I had NT 4 running on a P133 with 128 MB ram, and it ran great compared to some other OS's I tried (including but not limited to whatever version of RedHat was out then, BSDi, and FreeBSD.)
If linux makes any ground at all in the desktop market, do you expect each of those people to know what to do when something crashes on them? Do you think they will have a clue how to fix it or report what happened in detail?
Probably not. They'll probably hit the reset button and try again, until they get so upset they give up and dismiss Linux as a hobbyists dream.
Amen!!!
You can only take a $2000 deduction currently for charitable donations. Since Gates probably pays income taxes on much more than that, I doubt he'd even notice. And it doesn't cost you the same amount of money. A $2000 deduction doesn't save you $2000. You just get to pretend like you made $2000 less than you really did.
Unless maybe you're a solipsist or something.
New cars are usually covered by the manufacturer anyway aren't they? I believe that responsibility falls on the manufacturer not the dealer. Which makes it more applicable to this article anyway.
I would certainly hope that a cookie wouldn't contain that information. Usually a cookie just has an identifying number, and all information is stored server side. I can't imagine anyone doing otherwise.
So, if you write code that is harmful (i.e. results in loss of profit, etc.), then you most certainly can be held liable for it.
Most used car dealers sell cars "as is/no warranty", and at least in my state, that means that if you drive off the lot in the car and it breaks down in 1 block, you're up a shit creek without a paddle.
Really, if we sue the crap out of them, they will not have the opportunity to fix the problem, since they will spend all of their time and money in court.
This would just be a hinderance towards making more secure software. We need something more like a "right to know" law.
Here is a more formal statement of Newton's Second Law for you:
The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force, in the same direction as the net force, and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
Force != Weight. As far as everyday life is concerned they might be pretty similar, but they are not one in the same thing. Acceleration does not have to have anything to do with gravity either. In many cases it does, but not always.
Weight IS a particular force in certain instances. When you're sitting here on earth, the force of gravity on you is equal to the product of your mass and ~~ 9.8 m/s^2.
Just don't go throwing around statements like "Force = Weight" when you mean that weight is a particular force in certain instances. You are going to mislead high school physics students reading /. and then we'll all be in for it.
Weight is a gravitational force, thus acting on 2 objects, and pulling them either towards or away from each other. I don't know of any bi-directional vectors.