The last time I went in a brick and mortar "music" store, they also sold DVDs and other crap. Music was predominant, but then again, I believe it still is in iTMS. People can deal with inapproriately labelled services, and I'm guessing with who they're marketing to (everyone, but with the bar slightly lower) I'm guessing marketing research would probably find that customers prefer the work "music" to "media."
Computers predict which instruction to cache when branching is involved.
Let me be another in the long line of "Duh" responses, but in a different direction. Is it at all surprising that the participants didn't wait until $END_OF_TOKEN to start moving the mouse?
No, it isn't... in fact this is the way an optimized autocomplete works. We have several discrete states with a minor amount of non-determinism which favor more likely responses. When you start typing "w" and you are using some sort of autocomplete in c, the odds are it will suggest "while." Why would it do that? The answer is obvious, dispite its not being the only choice, it is the most likely.
If you RTFA, then you would understand that this only suggests humans aren't DFA's they are NFA's... but if you've taken a Computational Models course, then you know that they are functionally equivalent.
So... no... this isn't a major advancement in Cog. Sci. This is just a simple observation that humans are good at planning with incomplete data sets.
are we honestly saying that software should have an inflated cost because they didn't finish the process during the beta stage. I understand that you can't find every bug, but claiming that developers are LOSING something when they debug is bunk. Developers often spend many hours debugging code, and it's not time that should have went elsewhere.
open source != linux;
linux.isOpenSource() == true; // Linux and Open Source are not synonymous // Open Source Has a, Linux is a // Glad we could clear that up Microsoft... duh
The Big U actually ends... and what an ending it is. Other than that, I haven't read one of his books where the ending paragraph seems any more final than all the paragraphs before it (and many times it seems less final than some of the others). Still, he is an excellent writer and I intend to read this series no matter what others say about it... just as soon as I can find the oversized paperback that I have all his other books in.
And your saying that because you can't spend money upgrading a mac the TCO is HIGHER?!?!?! This does not even begin to follow logically unless you got some really great hidden premises... in which case, can we see them? If your arguement is for upgradability then leave it at that... don't try to make it TCO. In any event, I would say that because mac programmers have specific systems to target, the software tends to work better, and the systems tend to last longer. If you look at the Console gaming market you will see the same exact thing.
if all ten digits are possible, then that is 10^6 possible combinations. Because all combinations in this sequence are unique, I can assume it is 1/(10^6). So, given that I have choosen a specific desired sequence, I have a probability of exactly one in a million. I took discrete mathmatics last semster. So, unless something exploded in my head between now and then, I should be right about this. However, the first comment still holds true: this sequence is just as likely as any other. What you are doing is natural human pattern finding. The probability that you will get a set with a pattern in it is probably not too low. What you need is the set of all sequences that will be recognized as patterns. Now the size of that set is divided by a million... although this is beginning to sound like my teachers proof that there are no boring integers. If you take all of the boring integers and place them in the set of boring integers, which will have both a minimum and maximum integer. Certainly these integers are interesting so they don't belong in the set... well you get the picture.
The decision falls to the majority. Will more people be unhappy with it than happy? Then it won't be allowed.
When did we simply start assuming Utilitarianism to be correct? Just because it makes some people happy, and others unhappy doesn't make it RIGHT or WRONG. Happieness is not the measure of virtue, perhaps you should pick up some classics (Aristotle or Plato would be good start) before you start assuming a system of values.
I will also point out that the assumed system of morality in our laws tends to be a modified version of Egoism. This may sound bad, but it makes for a more sane set of laws.
Ayn Rand may not be the best philosopher in the world, but she is right about some things. Heck, Ursela K. LeGuin wrote about this (The ones who walk away from Omeleas (sp?))
When I went over to London I got told about VAT refunds. If you are a tourist in Britain you can get back most sales tax (Value added tax) if you save the recipts and it is over some base cost. The reason I heard for this is that a visiter recives no benefit for the tax and therefor has no logical reason to pay it. This seems to be the case with internet shopping... I don't live in North Dakota so why should I pay for kids to go to school there while not contributing to my state... now if the tax was being proposed from the originating state it makes a little more sense, but is still a streach. The long and short seems to be that the states are strapped for cash and trying to collect more taxes without making new taxes.
here here... Orson Scott Card all the way. From EG to Homecoming and the Worthing Saga, it's all great fiction. The wonderful thing about Card is that he writes good Sci-fi that has *gasp* real, believable, lovable characters. Although my vote goes with him I cannot grudge Clarke, Gibson, Asimov, Herbert, or Heinlein. There are others... but in this genre there are far too many great and terrible authors to name.
You people don't seem to get this. Sept 11 doesn't mean that we can let the government take away freedoms to protect them. I though I wouldn't have to say this on slashdot, but I guess times have changed. In this country we celebrate our freedom, go to war for it, and get into long expensive legal battles to get it back. The idea that Dmitry is finally able to go home is a step in keeping freedom alive. Yes the atrocities on the 11th were quite bad, but don't forget about freedom because you think it might protect you to be in bondage to the state.
Pure freedom in a government leads to an anarchy. In truth absolute freedom would allow for murder and rape... why because if you CAN do it you SHOULD be free to do it. In truth some restrictions on what you are free to do keep freedom for the majority alive. Let's take murder as an example, if I am allowed to murder I have robbed the person I killed of their freedom; however, if I have that freedom taken from me everyone gains some peace of mind and some freedom to live. Now I am just playing devils advocate here... RMS is taking his GNU ideas a bit too far this time. Apple is freaked out about licensing because of what Microslothy did to them the last time they had a brand new idea invovling a GUI... so there license isn't as open as it should be. BUT, Apple is trying to become more Open and Free and the idea that they should just drop everything at once GPL it and go back to being hobbeists is... well, it reaks of RMS. Now again, don't get me wrong, I think that RMS is a generally good guy. RMS started a movment that I am a part of, a movement I love. All I am saying is calm down Stallman, Apple is STARTING to do a good thing for open source
You really think that you want to expand via usb... what are you in mac world or something... its one massive chain that sucks off of 11 megs per sec... now I don't know about you but if im on a network I want 100 megs per second so I can actually transfer stuff... I might also want something like I don't know 802.11b... your right too many features in a laptop is silly... but only usb... thats not in the neighborhood of sane
After the Microsoft Windows incedent with MacOS I can see why the legal department of our friends at Apple may wish to protect their look and feel. After all thats all that Apple is really known for-- design. Now the problem comes down to this... they are now entering the world of open source and whenever they begin to make it clear that they are closing a door some programmer will find a clever way to avoid it until Apple either gives up or ends up sewing some poor bastard who will cry Skittle(tm) colored wolf (now avalible in platinum pink) at the EFF until we all hate Apple for trying to do something smart (come on guys don't you want to see *nix take over the universe... we have IBM... we are getting Apple... all we need is Radio Shack and we have the original PC industry) well until next post...
mod me down for redundant see if I care...
Hrmmm who else thinks that Taco is probably drooling about running Slashcode on that machine right now... And I'm sure Tech Squares former AI Lab gurus wish they had it 'back in the day'... of course all I wanna do is see how many fps I can get on it...
For all those out there who think they know the answer... in SCIENCE we try to study all paths... and then choose which is better, I mean take this approch with operating systems... UNIX does more than Linux does and doesn't have any odd copyright that I don't exacly understand... why study fiber optics copper works just fine for me! why try to create lithium-ion batteries again dems good ol batteries still work for me... please don't disregard this path because there is another... first try both paths then continue along the most benifical... I am religious... but I am not so nieve as to believe that a blastisis is a human life.
if you wanna talk speed...
*flashback*
Programmer 1: "Who would ever use C for applications/system design, I mean it's so much slower and bulkier than assembler."
Programmer 2: "Well it is more portable..."
Programmer 1: "To hell with your portability."
*Today*
Programmer 1: "Who would ever use Java for applications/system design, I mean it's so much slower and bulkier than assembler."
Programmer 2: "Well it is more portable..."
Programmer 1: "To hell with your portability."
"We don't question the value of people demonstrating flaws in commercially available products. But is it necessary to make what is being protected vulnerable in order to prove a weakness?"
If you have forgotten we live in a democratic nation with a little thing called the constitution. Freedom of speech should be enough to protect Demitri, and, along with Fair use, would be if not for the DMCA. Of course if you would like to destroy the laws and regulations designed to keep the copyright laws within the bounds of reason then you will have to take that up with the people of the US. In the end it comes down to this: If there was a law designed to protect children from inapropriate language by removing their ears it would fall under the "being protected" catigory.... and would solve all problems within that arena... but it is too far reaching and sadistic to be considered a reasonable solution... like the DMCA
now I will go to a movie and not only will an annoying cell phone sound go off... my brain will pinpoint it and draw my attention to it. I think you can save this sound for the emergencies thank you very much.
If you didn't ntoice like the rest of us DCMA as it appears in the title is... well... a bit off (okay 2 bytes in ascii). The DMCA is what it should have appeared as.... but everyone makes msitakes Tim. In the future though you may wnat to look at what you write before psoting it to the whole wrold.
Can we bring back caps on keys so that we can use a non-qwerty setup again? I know this is common knowledge but qwerty was developed with the opposite of usability in mind (maybe they are responsible for the florida fiasco... so if I put the 'A' under my left hand pinky that means I voted for Cowboyneal, right?)... I am sticking with my old IBM machinegun keyboard until I can send input directly from my head.
Has anyone else out there found the best way to browse/. articles (especially BSD ones) is to turn the threshold to -1 and scroll down to the bottem... I mean I found some interesting stuff down there... and it is so predictable too...
List of gems to find at -1
*BSD is Dead
*Linux is Dead (*?)
First Post
Hot Grits (Decremented)
Natalie Portman Naked (Decremented)
Hrmm... this list seems to be shorter than usual.... Well as always I thought I might point out the the "*BSD is Dying post" is the EXACT SAME TEXT as it always is. Do your modding... I don't have karma anyways
Slashdot Mirror
The last time I went in a brick and mortar "music" store, they also sold DVDs and other crap. Music was predominant, but then again, I believe it still is in iTMS. People can deal with inapproriately labelled services, and I'm guessing with who they're marketing to (everyone, but with the bar slightly lower) I'm guessing marketing research would probably find that customers prefer the work "music" to "media."
It is not possible there does not exist a place where people not unlike you couldn't possibly not get cookies for comments like that one... I think.
Computers predict which instruction to cache when branching is involved. Let me be another in the long line of "Duh" responses, but in a different direction. Is it at all surprising that the participants didn't wait until $END_OF_TOKEN to start moving the mouse? No, it isn't... in fact this is the way an optimized autocomplete works. We have several discrete states with a minor amount of non-determinism which favor more likely responses. When you start typing "w" and you are using some sort of autocomplete in c, the odds are it will suggest "while." Why would it do that? The answer is obvious, dispite its not being the only choice, it is the most likely. If you RTFA, then you would understand that this only suggests humans aren't DFA's they are NFA's... but if you've taken a Computational Models course, then you know that they are functionally equivalent. So... no... this isn't a major advancement in Cog. Sci. This is just a simple observation that humans are good at planning with incomplete data sets.
are we honestly saying that software should have an inflated cost because they didn't finish the process during the beta stage. I understand that you can't find every bug, but claiming that developers are LOSING something when they debug is bunk. Developers often spend many hours debugging code, and it's not time that should have went elsewhere.
The Return of Geeks in Space... as a TV show... sign me up.
open source != linux;
// Linux and Open Source are not synonymous
// Open Source Has a, Linux is a
// Glad we could clear that up Microsoft... duh
linux.isOpenSource() == true;
The Big U actually ends... and what an ending it is. Other than that, I haven't read one of his books where the ending paragraph seems any more final than all the paragraphs before it (and many times it seems less final than some of the others). Still, he is an excellent writer and I intend to read this series no matter what others say about it... just as soon as I can find the oversized paperback that I have all his other books in.
And your saying that because you can't spend money upgrading a mac the TCO is HIGHER?!?!?! This does not even begin to follow logically unless you got some really great hidden premises... in which case, can we see them? If your arguement is for upgradability then leave it at that... don't try to make it TCO. In any event, I would say that because mac programmers have specific systems to target, the software tends to work better, and the systems tend to last longer. If you look at the Console gaming market you will see the same exact thing.
if all ten digits are possible, then that is 10^6 possible combinations. Because all combinations in this sequence are unique, I can assume it is 1/(10^6). So, given that I have choosen a specific desired sequence, I have a probability of exactly one in a million. I took discrete mathmatics last semster. So, unless something exploded in my head between now and then, I should be right about this. However, the first comment still holds true: this sequence is just as likely as any other. What you are doing is natural human pattern finding. The probability that you will get a set with a pattern in it is probably not too low. What you need is the set of all sequences that will be recognized as patterns. Now the size of that set is divided by a million... although this is beginning to sound like my teachers proof that there are no boring integers. If you take all of the boring integers and place them in the set of boring integers, which will have both a minimum and maximum integer. Certainly these integers are interesting so they don't belong in the set... well you get the picture.
The decision falls to the majority. Will more people be unhappy with it than happy? Then it won't be allowed.
When did we simply start assuming Utilitarianism to be correct? Just because it makes some people happy, and others unhappy doesn't make it RIGHT or WRONG. Happieness is not the measure of virtue, perhaps you should pick up some classics (Aristotle or Plato would be good start) before you start assuming a system of values.
I will also point out that the assumed system of morality in our laws tends to be a modified version of Egoism. This may sound bad, but it makes for a more sane set of laws.
Ayn Rand may not be the best philosopher in the world, but she is right about some things. Heck, Ursela K. LeGuin wrote about this (The ones who walk away from Omeleas (sp?))
When I went over to London I got told about VAT refunds. If you are a tourist in Britain you can get back most sales tax (Value added tax) if you save the recipts and it is over some base cost. The reason I heard for this is that a visiter recives no benefit for the tax and therefor has no logical reason to pay it. This seems to be the case with internet shopping... I don't live in North Dakota so why should I pay for kids to go to school there while not contributing to my state... now if the tax was being proposed from the originating state it makes a little more sense, but is still a streach. The long and short seems to be that the states are strapped for cash and trying to collect more taxes without making new taxes.
here here... Orson Scott Card all the way. From EG to Homecoming and the Worthing Saga, it's all great fiction. The wonderful thing about Card is that he writes good Sci-fi that has *gasp* real, believable, lovable characters. Although my vote goes with him I cannot grudge Clarke, Gibson, Asimov, Herbert, or Heinlein. There are others... but in this genre there are far too many great and terrible authors to name.
Another one out here in mountain view. It seemed to be about 30 seconds to me. I wonder what this did in morgan hill (just north of Gilroy)
You people don't seem to get this. Sept 11 doesn't mean that we can let the government take away freedoms to protect them. I though I wouldn't have to say this on slashdot, but I guess times have changed. In this country we celebrate our freedom, go to war for it, and get into long expensive legal battles to get it back. The idea that Dmitry is finally able to go home is a step in keeping freedom alive. Yes the atrocities on the 11th were quite bad, but don't forget about freedom because you think it might protect you to be in bondage to the state.
Pure freedom in a government leads to an anarchy. In truth absolute freedom would allow for murder and rape... why because if you CAN do it you SHOULD be free to do it. In truth some restrictions on what you are free to do keep freedom for the majority alive. Let's take murder as an example, if I am allowed to murder I have robbed the person I killed of their freedom; however, if I have that freedom taken from me everyone gains some peace of mind and some freedom to live. Now I am just playing devils advocate here... RMS is taking his GNU ideas a bit too far this time. Apple is freaked out about licensing because of what Microslothy did to them the last time they had a brand new idea invovling a GUI... so there license isn't as open as it should be. BUT, Apple is trying to become more Open and Free and the idea that they should just drop everything at once GPL it and go back to being hobbeists is... well, it reaks of RMS. Now again, don't get me wrong, I think that RMS is a generally good guy. RMS started a movment that I am a part of, a movement I love. All I am saying is calm down Stallman, Apple is STARTING to do a good thing for open source
You really think that you want to expand via usb... what are you in mac world or something... its one massive chain that sucks off of 11 megs per sec... now I don't know about you but if im on a network I want 100 megs per second so I can actually transfer stuff... I might also want something like I don't know 802.11b... your right too many features in a laptop is silly... but only usb... thats not in the neighborhood of sane
After the Microsoft Windows incedent with MacOS I can see why the legal department of our friends at Apple may wish to protect their look and feel. After all thats all that Apple is really known for-- design. Now the problem comes down to this... they are now entering the world of open source and whenever they begin to make it clear that they are closing a door some programmer will find a clever way to avoid it until Apple either gives up or ends up sewing some poor bastard who will cry Skittle(tm) colored wolf (now avalible in platinum pink) at the EFF until we all hate Apple for trying to do something smart (come on guys don't you want to see *nix take over the universe... we have IBM... we are getting Apple... all we need is Radio Shack and we have the original PC industry) well until next post...
mod me down for redundant see if I care...
Hrmmm who else thinks that Taco is probably drooling about running Slashcode on that machine right now... And I'm sure Tech Squares former AI Lab gurus wish they had it 'back in the day'... of course all I wanna do is see how many fps I can get on it...
For all those out there who think they know the answer... in SCIENCE we try to study all paths... and then choose which is better, I mean take this approch with operating systems... UNIX does more than Linux does and doesn't have any odd copyright that I don't exacly understand... why study fiber optics copper works just fine for me! why try to create lithium-ion batteries again dems good ol batteries still work for me... please don't disregard this path because there is another... first try both paths then continue along the most benifical... I am religious... but I am not so nieve as to believe that a blastisis is a human life.
if you wanna talk speed...
*flashback*
Programmer 1: "Who would ever use C for applications/system design, I mean it's so much slower and bulkier than assembler."
Programmer 2: "Well it is more portable..."
Programmer 1: "To hell with your portability."
*Today*
Programmer 1: "Who would ever use Java for applications/system design, I mean it's so much slower and bulkier than assembler."
Programmer 2: "Well it is more portable..."
Programmer 1: "To hell with your portability."
"We don't question the value of people demonstrating flaws in commercially available products. But is it necessary to make what is being protected vulnerable in order to prove a weakness?"
If you have forgotten we live in a democratic nation with a little thing called the constitution. Freedom of speech should be enough to protect Demitri, and, along with Fair use, would be if not for the DMCA. Of course if you would like to destroy the laws and regulations designed to keep the copyright laws within the bounds of reason then you will have to take that up with the people of the US. In the end it comes down to this: If there was a law designed to protect children from inapropriate language by removing their ears it would fall under the "being protected" catigory.... and would solve all problems within that arena... but it is too far reaching and sadistic to be considered a reasonable solution... like the DMCA
now I will go to a movie and not only will an annoying cell phone sound go off... my brain will pinpoint it and draw my attention to it. I think you can save this sound for the emergencies thank you very much.
If you didn't ntoice like the rest of us DCMA as it appears in the title is... well... a bit off (okay 2 bytes in ascii). The DMCA is what it should have appeared as.... but everyone makes msitakes Tim. In the future though you may wnat to look at what you write before psoting it to the whole wrold.
Can we bring back caps on keys so that we can use a non-qwerty setup again? I know this is common knowledge but qwerty was developed with the opposite of usability in mind (maybe they are responsible for the florida fiasco... so if I put the 'A' under my left hand pinky that means I voted for Cowboyneal, right?)... I am sticking with my old IBM machinegun keyboard until I can send input directly from my head.
- List of gems to find at -1
- *BSD is Dead
- *Linux is Dead (*?)
- First Post
- Hot Grits (Decremented)
- Natalie Portman Naked (Decremented)
Hrmm... this list seems to be shorter than usual.... Well as always I thought I might point out the the "*BSD is Dying post" is the EXACT SAME TEXT as it always is. Do your modding... I don't have karma anyways