Would work at face value. Genetic algorithms can easily be used to solve something like that.
However I think taxes have more of an effect than just bringing in money, if the system decides to highly tax something, it might cause an economic downturn on that item, which could have ramnifications. In fact, the more popular the item is, the more cash you'd get if you raise the taxes on it.
You'd also need to have a number of extra wires running around the body... The nervous system is pretty nicely designed and compact, but I doubt you can fit the wires in the spine as well, I don't think having wires running around is much of a good idea.
The pacemaker just gives zaps to the heart which will beat on time. Its not supplying the energy to beat (which comes from glucose) but rather the command to do so.
I was actually a bit disappointed to find that the donkeys were just for smuggling videos:/
Yeah what they should do is get a hundred or so of them, then shave some of them to represent 0, leave unshaved ones to represent 1, and have someone with binoculars on the other side of the border transpose the data from donkeybinary to computer binary.
I was tired of patching (seemingly) every other day
Uh, generally the frequency that something is patched is a good thing...
If your mac gets patched every 3 months or so (something like that if I remember correctly), it means any security flaws could have a life of 3 months for which ALL users will be vulnerable.
Now, I always find it when people compare mac vs windows, they all seem to forget linux, which has pretty much all the bonuses of the mac (and more) with none of the problems of the doze - except for maybe certain very dedicated audio software.
As long as the system has 4GB, the rest is "nice to have for future", nothing more.
Only if you run a single program at the same time. Which isn't ever the case anymore. How often do you have a program using 4GB of your RAM anyway? Generally I have my web browser always open - which takes 500mb - 1gb or so depending on the amount of tabs I have open, and then if I'm running something RAM intensive it can take the rest. Not that I've ever used up all my RAM anyway...
To give two real life stories to explain my point.
A person I know turned up at a shop and demanded that she wanted "The Best". Aside from telling the salesman that you're a mug, she basically got the most expensive laptop in the shop, and now she runs Word, IE 8 and a ton of Spyware on a high end machine.
Another story involves the missus trying to choose between two laptops, one of which was an i3 with a large screen, and another which was an i5 with a smaller screen. I asked her what she was planning on doing with it, she told me she wanted to use it for watching videos and the like, so she got the i3. For myself, given I don't really need the screen real-estate and could use the cycles for my developing, picked up the i5.
So before you ask anything, find out what you're planning on doing with it. There's no such thing as 'the best'. An i7 tower with a demon of a graphics card is great for gameplay, but you try taking that on a train or to take lecture notes on. Similarly, a 'netbook' is great if you need a ton of battery life and the ability to carry it around without snapping your back, but sucks if you want to "pwn some n00bs" at online gaming.
"Decide what you want to do with it, then buy exactly what you need"
It sounds stupid, but you have no idea how many people buy a laptop or something without knowing whether they want to run high-end games or just use it for browsing the internet and then they end up with something overly expensive with traits they don't need.
More like "Don't drive if you don't know how not to crash"
I read the article, some stuff might be hard for the beginner (cable got lose, that might take a while for a person to diagnose) but asking them to upgrade RAM and not knowing how to check how much RAM the system has is stupid.
If you don't know how to repair it, don't break it.
If you don't know how not to break it, don't use it.
When sweet old nana who just sends emails of cats to everyone and installs everything that pops up has problems, and she gets messed over she kinda asked for it.
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Don't visit websites which could have code in them specifically to dump viruses in your system ("Drive by downloads").
Don't visit websites which have advertisers which could have been compromised to do the above.
Pretty simple innit.
"and what do Mac users need to do?"
Switch to Linux.
In fact, the more popular the item is, the more cash you'd get if you raise the taxes on it.
Tomorrow's Headline: Computer Suggests Tax on Sex
Slashdot crowd mostly unaffected.
Approximate. Not solve. Sorry.
Which is why you'd use something like a Genetic Algorithm to get a close enough approximation.
Would work at face value. Genetic algorithms can easily be used to solve something like that.
However I think taxes have more of an effect than just bringing in money, if the system decides to highly tax something, it might cause an economic downturn on that item, which could have ramnifications. In fact, the more popular the item is, the more cash you'd get if you raise the taxes on it.
You'd also need to have a number of extra wires running around the body... The nervous system is pretty nicely designed and compact, but I doubt you can fit the wires in the spine as well, I don't think having wires running around is much of a good idea.
Since the heart is beating and therefore expanding and contracting, wouldn't piezoelectricity work?
The pacemaker just gives zaps to the heart which will beat on time. Its not supplying the energy to beat (which comes from glucose) but rather the command to do so.
You wouldn't want some balding, hairy tech guy laughing at your 'secret method' do you?
That depends, is it home made stuff?
I was actually a bit disappointed to find that the donkeys were just for smuggling videos :/
Yeah what they should do is get a hundred or so of them, then shave some of them to represent 0, leave unshaved ones to represent 1, and have someone with binoculars on the other side of the border transpose the data from donkeybinary to computer binary.
I was tired of patching (seemingly) every other day
Uh, generally the frequency that something is patched is a good thing...
If your mac gets patched every 3 months or so (something like that if I remember correctly), it means any security flaws could have a life of 3 months for which ALL users will be vulnerable.
Now, I always find it when people compare mac vs windows, they all seem to forget linux, which has pretty much all the bonuses of the mac (and more) with none of the problems of the doze - except for maybe certain very dedicated audio software.
Effect of low gravity on wedgie probability.
Because if they do, we might all be subject to Operation Finding NEEMO
This doesn't hold for values larger than 6.
Its the plural of "Window" which is a rectangular display area used in GUI.
As long as the system has 4GB, the rest is "nice to have for future", nothing more.
Only if you run a single program at the same time. Which isn't ever the case anymore. How often do you have a program using 4GB of your RAM anyway? Generally I have my web browser always open - which takes 500mb - 1gb or so depending on the amount of tabs I have open, and then if I'm running something RAM intensive it can take the rest. Not that I've ever used up all my RAM anyway...
To give two real life stories to explain my point.
A person I know turned up at a shop and demanded that she wanted "The Best". Aside from telling the salesman that you're a mug, she basically got the most expensive laptop in the shop, and now she runs Word, IE 8 and a ton of Spyware on a high end machine.
Another story involves the missus trying to choose between two laptops, one of which was an i3 with a large screen, and another which was an i5 with a smaller screen. I asked her what she was planning on doing with it, she told me she wanted to use it for watching videos and the like, so she got the i3. For myself, given I don't really need the screen real-estate and could use the cycles for my developing, picked up the i5.
So before you ask anything, find out what you're planning on doing with it. There's no such thing as 'the best'. An i7 tower with a demon of a graphics card is great for gameplay, but you try taking that on a train or to take lecture notes on. Similarly, a 'netbook' is great if you need a ton of battery life and the ability to carry it around without snapping your back, but sucks if you want to "pwn some n00bs" at online gaming.
"Decide what you want to do with it, then buy exactly what you need"
It sounds stupid, but you have no idea how many people buy a laptop or something without knowing whether they want to run high-end games or just use it for browsing the internet and then they end up with something overly expensive with traits they don't need.
If you read the article, one of the examples given was pretending to put in RAM as requested, but really just running a spyware (and stuff) scan.
If you don't know how to check your computer's RAM, you shouldn't be trying to buy more of it.
More like "Don't drive if you don't know how not to crash"
I read the article, some stuff might be hard for the beginner (cable got lose, that might take a while for a person to diagnose) but asking them to upgrade RAM and not knowing how to check how much RAM the system has is stupid.
If you don't know how to repair it, don't break it.
If you don't know how not to break it, don't use it.
When sweet old nana who just sends emails of cats to everyone and installs everything that pops up has problems, and she gets messed over she kinda asked for it.
What?
Are they planning some sort of characters involving a team of Aquatic Mammals?
The problem is that with software patents a guy like me and you can be on the receiving end of one of these lawsuits.
How many small companies do you know make vehicle transmissions or defective manufacturing?
With software especially - the little guy can make his own product, and get sued for it.