CARLSON: Right. But of the nine guys running, who do you think was best. Do you think he was the best, the most impressive?
STEWART: The most impressive? CARLSON: Yes. STEWART: I thought Al Sharpton was very impressive. (LAUGHTER) STEWART: I enjoyed his way of speaking. I think, oftentimes, the person that knows they can't win is allowed to speak the most freely, because, otherwise, shows with titles, such as CROSSFIRE. BEGALA: CROSSFIRE. STEWART: Or "HARDBALL" or "I'm Going to Kick Your Ass" or... (LAUGHTER) STEWART: Will jump on it.
Doesn't Jon realise that the same argument works for him? He goes out and publicly calls his show 'Fake News'. There's no pretenses. He knows nobody's going to take what he says as a serious threat: So he's free to say whatever he wants without fear backlash.
I think you're sort of mis-reading Sun's intention on this. I don't believe they have any interest in restricting what we, the open-source community can do with it.
What they want desperately to avoid is being screwed the same way they've been screwed so many times before: Microsoft swings in, take what Sun (or the W3C in the case of HTML&Friends) and shattering it into independant & incompatible implementations that eliminate one of the project's main goals: Interoperability.
I believe Sun is trying very hard to let the open source community take the code and run with it as its done with so much other software, but without letting MS tie it to a You-Require-Windows-To-Work-In-The-Real-World business model.
Really, what are they going to do if they find something they don't like: "We Europeans order you to STOP your elections immediately!"... yeaaahh, I don't think so.
Pardon me if I'm missing something obvious here but... it seems to be they'd report on anything shady so the people would know? And that because people would know if anything shady happened, fewer people would attempt anything shady?
In this day and age, I'm really genuinely surprised at how common being on hold is.
Let the customer input their phone number, leave a message, or whatever, and get the next available person to just call them.
The customer doesn't have to hold a phone to their head for an hour. They don't have to tie up their phone line. They can listen to whatever music they want, watch TV, make food, or pretty much do whatever it was they were doing before they had to call you.
Perhaps if they were legally obligated to provide such services at no cost other then the price of media. If we're legally obligated to not break their encryption, surely the same strength of demand can be made the other way around.
Everybody complains about the obselesence of Debian's stable releases. What they rarely mention is that there are constant updates. They don't add features (because those new features neccesarrilly add a risk of new bugs), but only fixes for existing security problems.
What version of gabber, and what version of Gnome?
The old gnome panel had a fundamentally broken "docklet" procotol. If it ever worked for you reliably, you were lucky.
Gnome 2.2 and up supports the new system tray, which works much better. This feature is supported in newer 0.8.x releases of gabber, and in the current experimental versions. It is also supported by much other software, including xmms, rhythmbox, gaim, gossip, quark, wine (IIRC, it should be able to map windows systray icons properly), etc.
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Because the outdated product has recieved that extensive beta-testing program card manufacturers like to call "first year of release".
That many extra months of public eyes give that older product's drivers more time to mature, not to mention more time for people to find hardware defects that only crop up after more time.
Mice given a heart transplant following such treatment found that the length of time the new organ stayed unmolested by the immune system increased fourfold compared with untreated animals.
Yes, the mice all rejected the transplant, but the same happened in the untreated mice. The difference is that those who were treated lasted much longer. Keep in mind that this was in absense of any other immune-system suppressants: This treatment in conjection with a milder conventional treatment poses a substantial potential.
Without commenting specifically on whether or not this is appropriate, consider that we don't go to this sort of length in response to a murder conviction.
Kernel 2.4.9 was released Aug. 16th, 2001.
GCC 3.1 was released May 15th, 2002, after 2.4.19 had been released.
It's a shame that flaimbait these days can't even keep their basic stories straight.
A) MS abused their copyrights B) MS isn't willing to change C) MS's refusal to play fair has a direct impact on the EU economies, so:
D) Just have the EU declare all infringing MS products public domain. See how long it takes before EuroWindows is available at the low-low cost of $0 to anyone who wants it. There's an onion in the ointment that MS'll want to avoid.
And don't tell me that that reaction would be unjustified or out of proportion: When corporations start declaring open war on governments, all's fair.
A newborn baby is pretty dumb too. Attributing it with any label of "Intellegence" would probably be faulty. However, what seperates a dumb baby from a dumb computer (like those we have today) is that the baby has the potential to learn and grow and become much more than it is.
~20 years from now (or 50, or 100, whatever. the exact timeline is irrelevant) a computer matches the human brain in terms of pure computing power & storage. Isn't it likely that that computer, over a period of some number of years, would be able to take in information and build its own responses based on what it sees, mimicking something not unlike our definition of intelligence?
Just as the RIAA and MPAA have demonstrated that they will fight tooth and nail to prevent digital music and video from becoming free and ubiquitous...
But digital music and video are free and ubiquitous today, regardless of the RIAA and MPAA's attempts to prevent it. Sooner or later (later, at this rate) law and industry will accept this or perish. Once they learn to be productive under the new technological realities, the prediction Highfield makes will be not only possible, but inevitable.
What portion of the gaming market wants to be writing up text documents as they play? Who wants to read slashdot as they blow an avatar's head off?
IM (in particular, presence) is something that alot of people would go for as something to sit idle while they play something else. Even more so if they have the opprotunity to wrap their traditional IM experience into an interface that's blended seamlessly into their gaming UI. (Eg, recieving messages via a HUD, quick replies via the keyboard).
Frankly, I'd like to see game producers start to put something like this into practice regardless of whether the game's my OS or not.
Say goodbye to your msn/icq/aim/yahoo in the background...
Unless of course the game developers started building in support for open-ended protocols like jabber, in which case a remote server could be handling things like providing legacy IM services and native jabber im.
This assumes there isn't a significant number of people who avoid buying software just because it costs too much, as opposed to just costing something at all.
As a consumer, it bothers me greatly everytime I purchase something and someone mentions that they got the same product for a lesser price.
They didn't get the same product.
They got (generally) a lower-quality version of the recording, with no packaging, cd liner, etc. They didn't get a hard copy of the music that's likely to last quite long (it's easier in my experience to accidentally wipe a hard drive than to accidentally destroy a cd, and don't get me started on CDR's).
What specific value you place on all that is up to you.
For a while there, we in canada had the Rhinosaurus party. They had such outlandish ideas as moving the Rocky Mountains closer to Toronto to improve tourism.
Let's say there's 100 bots. Just to make it ridulously clear, let's say 98 of them are using random choice. Our bot, which will use the "suboptimal" solution, will still come up against all of the random bots in a draw, since they're playing randomly. The only thing left to affect our total score is that one other "suboptimal" bot. If our sub-optimal bot can beat it on average, we get a slight edge, and win the tournement.
The same applies to the 50-50 case. Basically, you can't win or lose against the random bots. So you might as well play your own stratagy.
The other problem to look out for is that going into a match, you don't know anything about your opponent. It could be a random bot, or any kind of strategic algorithm. Once again, if it's random, it doesn't matter what you play, you'll still come out even. But on the slightest chance that it's non-random, you can try your strategy.
You can also take it a step further, and try to deduce what the other guy's stratagy is. If you know exactly what his Roshambo algorithm is going to pick, then you can always beat him. Then again, you run the risk of misintepreting a strategy (or a series of random plays *as* a strategy), and playing yourself into the ground. Or you could end up playing your adaptive algorithm against someone else's adaptive algorithm, and getting into some really interesting competition:)
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I think you're sort of mis-reading Sun's intention on this. I don't believe they have any interest in restricting what we, the open-source community can do with it.
What they want desperately to avoid is being screwed the same way they've been screwed so many times before: Microsoft swings in, take what Sun (or the W3C in the case of HTML&Friends) and shattering it into independant & incompatible implementations that eliminate one of the project's main goals: Interoperability.
I believe Sun is trying very hard to let the open source community take the code and run with it as its done with so much other software, but without letting MS tie it to a You-Require-Windows-To-Work-In-The-Real-World business model.
You mean like the "File: Open Location" Menu option, with it's clear label "Ctrl+L" shortcut displayed prominantly next to it?
In this day and age, I'm really genuinely surprised at how common being on hold is. Let the customer input their phone number, leave a message, or whatever, and get the next available person to just call them. The customer doesn't have to hold a phone to their head for an hour. They don't have to tie up their phone line. They can listen to whatever music they want, watch TV, make food, or pretty much do whatever it was they were doing before they had to call you.
My questions:
Which raises the question, if slashdot had a "Depressing" moderation option, would it default +1 or -1?
Perhaps if they were legally obligated to provide such services at no cost other then the price of media. If we're legally obligated to not break their encryption, surely the same strength of demand can be made the other way around.
Hit Control+L
Somebody hasn't been paying attention.
Everybody complains about the obselesence of Debian's stable releases. What they rarely mention is that there are constant updates. They don't add features (because those new features neccesarrilly add a risk of new bugs), but only fixes for existing security problems.
What version of gabber, and what version of Gnome? The old gnome panel had a fundamentally broken "docklet" procotol. If it ever worked for you reliably, you were lucky. Gnome 2.2 and up supports the new system tray, which works much better. This feature is supported in newer 0.8.x releases of gabber, and in the current experimental versions. It is also supported by much other software, including xmms, rhythmbox, gaim, gossip, quark, wine (IIRC, it should be able to map windows systray icons properly), etc.
Because the outdated product has recieved that extensive beta-testing program card manufacturers like to call "first year of release". That many extra months of public eyes give that older product's drivers more time to mature, not to mention more time for people to find hardware defects that only crop up after more time.
Without commenting specifically on whether or not this is appropriate, consider that we don't go to this sort of length in response to a murder conviction.
Typo: 2.4.19 was meant to say 2.4.18
Kernel 2.4.9 was released Aug. 16th, 2001. GCC 3.1 was released May 15th, 2002, after 2.4.19 had been released. It's a shame that flaimbait these days can't even keep their basic stories straight.
Way easier than that:
A) MS abused their copyrights
B) MS isn't willing to change
C) MS's refusal to play fair has a direct impact on the EU economies, so:
D) Just have the EU declare all infringing MS products public domain. See how long it takes before EuroWindows is available at the low-low cost of $0 to anyone who wants it. There's an onion in the ointment that MS'll want to avoid.
And don't tell me that that reaction would be unjustified or out of proportion: When corporations start declaring open war on governments, all's fair.
~20 years from now (or 50, or 100, whatever. the exact timeline is irrelevant) a computer matches the human brain in terms of pure computing power & storage. Isn't it likely that that computer, over a period of some number of years, would be able to take in information and build its own responses based on what it sees, mimicking something not unlike our definition of intelligence?
But digital music and video are free and ubiquitous today, regardless of the RIAA and MPAA's attempts to prevent it. Sooner or later (later, at this rate) law and industry will accept this or perish. Once they learn to be productive under the new technological realities, the prediction Highfield makes will be not only possible, but inevitable.
What portion of the gaming market wants to be writing up text documents as they play? Who wants to read slashdot as they blow an avatar's head off?
IM (in particular, presence) is something that alot of people would go for as something to sit idle while they play something else. Even more so if they have the opprotunity to wrap their traditional IM experience into an interface that's blended seamlessly into their gaming UI. (Eg, recieving messages via a HUD, quick replies via the keyboard).
Frankly, I'd like to see game producers start to put something like this into practice regardless of whether the game's my OS or not.
Say goodbye to your msn/icq/aim/yahoo in the background... Unless of course the game developers started building in support for open-ended protocols like jabber, in which case a remote server could be handling things like providing legacy IM services and native jabber im.
This assumes there isn't a significant number of people who avoid buying software just because it costs too much, as opposed to just costing something at all.
They got (generally) a lower-quality version of the recording, with no packaging, cd liner, etc. They didn't get a hard copy of the music that's likely to last quite long (it's easier in my experience to accidentally wipe a hard drive than to accidentally destroy a cd, and don't get me started on CDR's).
What specific value you place on all that is up to you.
For a while there, we in canada had the Rhinosaurus party. They had such outlandish ideas as moving the Rocky Mountains closer to Toronto to improve tourism.
Let's say there's 100 bots. Just to make it ridulously clear, let's say 98 of them are using random choice. Our bot, which will use the "suboptimal" solution, will still come up against all of the random bots in a draw, since they're playing randomly. The only thing left to affect our total score is that one other "suboptimal" bot. If our sub-optimal bot can beat it on average, we get a slight edge, and win the tournement. The same applies to the 50-50 case. Basically, you can't win or lose against the random bots. So you might as well play your own stratagy. The other problem to look out for is that going into a match, you don't know anything about your opponent. It could be a random bot, or any kind of strategic algorithm. Once again, if it's random, it doesn't matter what you play, you'll still come out even. But on the slightest chance that it's non-random, you can try your strategy. You can also take it a step further, and try to deduce what the other guy's stratagy is. If you know exactly what his Roshambo algorithm is going to pick, then you can always beat him. Then again, you run the risk of misintepreting a strategy (or a series of random plays *as* a strategy), and playing yourself into the ground. Or you could end up playing your adaptive algorithm against someone else's adaptive algorithm, and getting into some really interesting competition :)