Recently I've semi-vowed to write the ending of each book I read before I finish it (could also apply to other sections of the book). I think it is a great exercise (although it's making it tough to finish my current PKD book right now.;o)
I'm assuming the forum rules don't apply to the actual novels or it would exclude a lot of great lit that's been written.
Why should I take opposition to a joke? Because this humor defines what people what thought systems are practical. (It did for me.) Should I just accept that all the chaff in my biological thinking unit on some little mudball in the MilkyWay is superduper -- or should I strain at the leash of thought?
The hermetic nature of basic math is from a limitation of mathematicians, us, rather than math itself.
This year I finally caught the joke of the Einstein poster where he says, "Whatever you problems are with math I can assure you that mine are far greater." I think there are three types of human responses to that: think he meant he was bad at arithematic and was making fun, or to understand that he was grappling with the big chimeras, or to make the transition from the former state to the latter which is realization.
And I think I need to make up a joke to combat the sheep joke.
Maybe this is obvious and has been discussed before, but have we considered using an appropriate Google Search Appliance [4] (http://www.google.com/appliance/products.html). This is actual hardware that would need to be purchased that would sit in the racks of our servers and could be setup to index the entire Wikipedia every day. I don't know how expensive this solution is or whether "we" can afford it, but it looks like an ideal solution to the problem.
See http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ for an implementation.
Every month your P2P app reseeds offline blocks. The bittorrent style of scattering blocks among peers is perfect for this system. And you get an alert if parity is getting dangerously low.
it puts the antimatter in the particle accelerator or it gets the non-unified description of our Universe.
btw, here's an idea. so string theorists say that electromagnetism and other stuff is caused by extra dimensions that are too small to see. what i was thinking a couple days ago during a heat lightning storm, is that it relates to another part of string theory. namely the idea that our universe is like a soap bubble among a conglomerate. then the extra dimensions could be the axes to adjacent universes. perfect.
keep in mind that cosmology/quantum mechanics are non-intuitive.:o) but einstein's special theory of relativity was instigated by the simple idea that acceleration and gravity are equivalent.
I presume you are talking about the theorem that proves that you can't write a program that always will be capable of telling when an aribitrary other program will terminate.
In graphing theory, you learn that you can cheat with non-perfect algorithms that still get the job done to a given degree. I don't think that the theorem is a barrier to A.I.
Maestro4k: "If the accused pirate has half a brain"
given more crackdowns of this size each year for four years, and i could imagine that pirates would bother to step up their crypto to this level.
except for their 100 cd spindles of backups.
i wouldn't undervalue the evidence of external communications/transfers. (as mentioned down-thread) in the buccaneer operation, they setup a fast site, are immediately in with warez sites. also when they busted people they would just sit down at their computer and watch everyone chatting away. even if not enough to convict, it's enough to disrupt.
too bad in a way if piracy goes the way you describe and they are held up as a reason to continue the unconstitutional (5th amendment) forcing of passphrases from suspects.
This is a great idea. I used to think that free sw advocates should get free cdroms placed at checkout counters but apparently that is highly valuable retail space.
I would recommend that for people introducing libraries to free software, that cds should be purchased from mass-produced (with the distinctive stamped look) cd vendors for security trustworthiness. Not just on the person who puts the cds in the library but so borrowers don't replace any cds with their own versions.
And for burnt cds I'd recommend that the URL for the checksum be included in the cdrom case.
As far as selection goes, I don't think you can go wrong.
What is up with the need to start off all their proggies with K's anyway?
Reminds me of...
"With new membership came new names and titles: Klavern (brick meeting house), Kleagles (organizers and recruiters), Exalted Cyclops (president), Klaliff (vice-president), Kligrapp (secretary) and Klandom (entire organization). Shortly after, the Klandom was designated 'The Invisible Empire'; the president became known as the Grand Wizard. His cabinet was composed of ten Genii. Their internal system became Klancraft and their language was termed Klanguage."
There was a better quote, but none of the search engines are availing it to me.:o/
Hi.. To prevent bad patents I think that new ideas by Free software people should be posted on the web and timestamped. What's your opinion legally or otherwise on this defensive approach to "conceptual freedom"?
% du -h KSMP3s/ 147M KSMP3s % du -h KSOggs/ 274M KSOggs
Looks like a case of using "oggenc --bitrate n" instead of the better style "oggenc --quality n". I've found that quality 0 is fine for lectures and would probably save some filespace/bandwidth.
Adhere a piece of tape that the opening of the case will pull off. The black helicopter pilot will notice the tape when he puts your box back together and replace it.
But you knew that so you blocked adhesive on part of the tape (maybe by just putting a piece of paper on it). Then you put a tiny bit of fluff against that adhesive free part of the tape. The fluff falls down and is lost. OH NO THE FLUFF IS GONE! ALERT!:o)
We want as many Linux distributors to join this effort as possible. [...] Red Hat has been called by this group and invited personally already.
hmpf. Redhat watch out indeed. You've been invited to a good idea. I see this as a chance to unify QA testing when multiple distros converge on a release target. Aren't we all sick of always updating our buggy glibc's?
My hunch (and one that has gotten a little more popular over the years) is that Earth life was originally seeded by a comet.
Altho that may not affect contamination concerns. Should we worry about parasitic contamination from alien microlife? I don't think so. For example, viruses attack specific parts of cells. Maybe resource exploitation or toxic metabolizations would be more of a concern.
Everytime I act as semiwilling tech support to my Windoze friends it is because of viruses.
When geeks will emigrate (including myself)..
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For sunny free software scenario. Their main base at this point is the fact that setting *.htm to default to Anyotherbrowser breaks Frontpage.
But you rendered your argument counter productive by including your escapist infantile clause of OMG I'm just a dumbass.
/shotgun +1 genuis
Recently I've semi-vowed to write the ending of each book I read before I finish it (could also apply to other sections of the book). I think it is a great exercise (although it's making it tough to finish my current PKD book right now. ;o)
I'm assuming the forum rules don't apply to the actual novels or it would exclude a lot of great lit that's been written.
Why should I take opposition to a joke? Because this humor defines what people what thought systems are practical. (It did for me.) Should I just accept that all the chaff in my biological thinking unit on some little mudball in the MilkyWay is superduper -- or should I strain at the leash of thought?
The hermetic nature of basic math is from a limitation of mathematicians, us, rather than math itself.
This year I finally caught the joke of the Einstein poster where he says, "Whatever you problems are with math I can assure you that mine are far greater." I think there are three types of human responses to that: think he meant he was bad at arithematic and was making fun, or to understand that he was grappling with the big chimeras, or to make the transition from the former state to the latter which is realization.
And I think I need to make up a joke to combat the sheep joke.
A travelogue: "Journey into Kimland" by Scott Fisher
more: clicky, clicky, clicky, clicky, clicky.
since we seem to read the same stuff as our leaders, might as well be strung along the same.
See http://parchive.sourceforge.net/ for an implementation.
Every month your P2P app reseeds offline blocks. The bittorrent style of scattering blocks among peers is perfect for this system. And you get an alert if parity is getting dangerously low.
This would be very successful I believe.
Republocrats are Bolsheviks. And Harvard and Yale are aristocratic.
it puts the antimatter in the particle accelerator or it gets the non-unified description of our Universe.
:o) but einstein's special theory of relativity was instigated by the simple idea that acceleration and gravity are equivalent.
btw, here's an idea. so string theorists say that electromagnetism and other stuff is caused by extra dimensions that are too small to see. what i was thinking a couple days ago during a heat lightning storm, is that it relates to another part of string theory. namely the idea that our universe is like a soap bubble among a conglomerate. then the extra dimensions could be the axes to adjacent universes. perfect.
keep in mind that cosmology/quantum mechanics are non-intuitive.
I presume you are talking about the theorem that proves that you can't write a program that always will be capable of telling when an aribitrary other program will terminate.
In graphing theory, you learn that you can cheat with non-perfect algorithms that still get the job done to a given degree. I don't think that the theorem is a barrier to A.I.
Maestro4k: "If the accused pirate has half a brain"
given more crackdowns of this size each year for four years, and i could imagine that pirates would bother to step up their crypto to this level.
except for their 100 cd spindles of backups.
i wouldn't undervalue the evidence of external communications/transfers. (as mentioned down-thread) in the buccaneer operation, they setup a fast site, are immediately in with warez sites. also when they busted people they would just sit down at their computer and watch everyone chatting away. even if not enough to convict, it's enough to disrupt.
too bad in a way if piracy goes the way you describe and they are held up as a reason to continue the unconstitutional (5th amendment) forcing of passphrases from suspects.
This is a great idea. I used to think that free sw advocates should get free cdroms placed at checkout counters but apparently that is highly valuable retail space.
I would recommend that for people introducing libraries to free software, that cds should be purchased from mass-produced (with the distinctive stamped look) cd vendors for security trustworthiness. Not just on the person who puts the cds in the library but so borrowers don't replace any cds with their own versions.
And for burnt cds I'd recommend that the URL for the checksum be included in the cdrom case.
As far as selection goes, I don't think you can go wrong.
have fun.
it's a lot easier to see if a network spec's security was weakened than a crypto algorithm.
What is up with the need to start off all their proggies with K's anyway?
:o/
Reminds me of...
"With new membership came new names and titles: Klavern (brick meeting house), Kleagles (organizers and recruiters), Exalted Cyclops (president), Klaliff (vice-president), Kligrapp (secretary) and Klandom (entire organization).
Shortly after, the Klandom was designated 'The Invisible Empire'; the president became known as the Grand Wizard. His cabinet was composed of ten Genii. Their internal system became Klancraft and their language was termed Klanguage."
There was a better quote, but none of the search engines are availing it to me.
Hi.. To prevent bad patents I think that new ideas by Free software people should be posted on the web and timestamped. What's your opinion legally or otherwise on this defensive approach to "conceptual freedom"?
jumped my guns. looking at my quality 0 oggs of voice, they average 64 Kbps. (The kernel summit mp3 files are 32 Kbps.)
Lowtech solution:
:o)
Adhere a piece of tape that the opening of the case will pull off. The black helicopter pilot will notice the tape when he puts your box back together and replace it.
But you knew that so you blocked adhesive on part of the tape (maybe by just putting a piece of paper on it). Then you put a tiny bit of fluff against that adhesive free part of the tape. The fluff falls down and is lost. OH NO THE FLUFF IS GONE! ALERT!
..production is a lot more than 20% more expensive. Is it?
No I didn't read the article. That's what you're here for.
FAQ #6: What about other Linux providers?
We want as many Linux distributors to join this effort as possible. [...] Red Hat has been called by this group and invited personally already.
hmpf. Redhat watch out indeed. You've been invited to a good idea. I see this as a chance to unify QA testing when multiple distros converge on a release target. Aren't we all sick of always updating our buggy glibc's?
My hunch (and one that has gotten a little more popular over the years) is that Earth life was originally seeded by a comet.
Altho that may not affect contamination concerns. Should we worry about parasitic contamination from alien microlife? I don't think so. For example, viruses attack specific parts of cells. Maybe resource exploitation or toxic metabolizations would be more of a concern.
the monopoly barriers would fall to increased free software usage.
can you think of a less awkward slogan for this concept? -->
"friends don't help friends bootleg shackles"
Everytime I act as semiwilling tech support to my Windoze friends it is because of viruses.
Conditions:
=> An SSCA-clone is passed.
=> Challenged to Supreme Court.
=> Supreme Court does not rule it unconstitutional.
=> No legislators wake up.
=> No better legislators/presidents are voted in.
=> General purpose computers are apparently permanently illegal in the US.
<= The move to sunnier climes.