Well, Skype did not really request permission, or even really notify you. In limited cases such as this, I believe "fight fire with fire" is permissible.
You're discounting altruism. Maybe the man believes that exploiting this knowledge that way would be evil, or at least unethical, and that the best action he could take is to make the code public.
If the polynomial-time solution of 3-SAT is correct, then he has proven that there exists a way to solve any NP-complete problem in polynomial time. The solution could probably be adapted to at least some of the NP problems, but probably not all.
The emphasis on "I" was intended to be self-deprecating - if I could learn it in three years, others should easily be able to do so as well, possibly faster.
In retrospect, it could be taken as self-promoting - "It learned it in only three years". My bad.
I tried to look the problem up on Wikipedia, and all I got was inscrutable high-level math. From what I can gather, I seems like something that could be explained in layman's terms. Would someone be kind enough to do so?
I'm a fast reader. It usually takes me about half an hour to read my daily updates, maybe one hour on Mondays when everything updates. A good chunk of the comics I'm subscribed to also update only rarely - some haven't updated in months, but I stay subscribed just in case it comes back to life.
The "killer feature" of Firefox, at least for me, is Live Bookmarks. I subscribe to nearly a hundred webcomics, and Live Bookmarks is my favorite way to read them. I've tried other systems, but they just don't feel right.
However, ever since Firefox 3.x, there's been a massive bug. Firefox will literally stop responding while it updates Live Bookmarks. Normally, if you have just a handful, it's barely noticeable. But when you have as many as I do, it means Firefox takes about 5 minutes to start up, about twice as long as it takes Windows. And that's just unacceptable.
Because of that, I switched to Chrome for daily browsing. I only boot Firefox up once a day, for my webcomics trawl. However, I'd actually prefer to use Firefox, just because the interface feels better to me.
It's not like this is an unknown bug - it's been reported dozens of times, on almost every platform. It just seems to be ignored. If that bug gets fixed in 4.0, I'll definitely be upgrading.
Nope. Bethesda's good at many things, but coding isn't one of them. It took almost a year to get enough patches out for Oblivion that it was remotely stable, and even then, fans using the mod tool were able to fix several thousand bugs on their own. Hell, someone even had to make their own patch to the binary itself to make it crash less. Not "doesn't crash", just "crash less". And from what I've heard, New Vegas is even worse, coding-wise.
A game designed by artists rather than by games developers
And that, right there, is the reason Square Enix is having problems. For years, they've been putting a "character designer" in the role of game designer. Which is about analogous to having a graphic designer code your database - you end up with a giant mess.
Nobody in Square Enix, at least in the FF departments, seems to treat "game design" as a proper science, which means that, at best, you'll get gameplay that's decent but unoriginal. At worst, you'll get a mess of dozens of needless mechanics and clutter (Dissidia) or the removal of even more gameplay in order to add more story (FFXIII).
Well, the current console "generation" seems to be a two-parter: MS and Sony are effectively treating Kinect/Move as a new console generation, and Nintendo, at best, will make a Wii HD type of console. So, quite likely, they'll still have time for FFXV. Maybe even a FFXVI, if they rush it.
Whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate. Personally, I think FF peaked around VI and VII - every game before was a general improvement on its predecessor, every game after was a general letdown, with VI and VII being about tied, IMO. At this point, they need a serious overhaul of not just the engine, not even the game design, but they seriously need to make massive changes to their entire development process. For one, stop putting character designers in the role of game designer.
The US is not fighting a war in Iraq. The US is fighting an occupation. This is a significantly different task, one that the American Army is not designed for. The US Army is designed to crush, to destroy, to annihilate the enemy - and the US Army is possibly the best army in the world at this. Fighting an insurgency is a much different task - it requires completely different training, logistics, organization, even equipment. The two are as different as HTML and assembly language.
The "war" part of Gulf War II was over in weeks. Very few conventional military forces can stand against the US, and none of those are in the Middle East. If the US launched a proper war (go in, kill every soldier, leave the country), the battle would last a few weeks. Think Poland in 1939 - I give Iran about a month of real Total War, before it collapses. And that's assuming the US doesn't use nukes - if it did, I give it about an hour before it becomes the Islamic Cinder Pile of Iran.
You do realize I was being facetious, right? You told me to "go bitch about something". I bitched. I you don't like people whining and complaining, stop telling people to whine and complain about stuff.
now get back to your keyboard and find something to whine about hysterically!
You know what makes me sick? You know what makes me so mad I just want to punch a kitten?
People not using proper capitalization and punctuation. Seriously, what the hell is your problem? Carolingian script was invented to make it easier to separate words and sentences. What do you have against the period? Did a period kill your parents or something? I almost hope one did - anyone too lazy to use proper punctuation deserves no parents.
It's two buttons. Two simple buttons: a shift, and a period. The same two buttons necessary to produce the > you needed to separate your paragraphs. Not that difficult. You seem to have no problem with the comma, or the exclamation point, or the question mark. Why you would skip the capitalization and the punctuation is beyond me.
You, sir, have murdered the English language. Murdered, I say!
Obviously, they have plenty of probable cause connecting him to an actually serious crime, and they probably obtained a warrant in this case to get these records. While Loughner may not have left explicit notes along the lines of "I'm going to shoot people", it would definitely be relevant for the purpose of establishing his mental state.
Not every search-and-seizure is objectionable, you know. Sometimes, the government is actually doing its job properly.
LAN doesn't work well for data storage when gaming, which is a pretty significant use of modern PCs, especially the type that might buy this graphics card.
Some games can be both massive, and require fast access to most of the data - my current install of Oblivion is nearly 20 gigs, and even on a fast hard drive, it can take some time to load. If that were over USB, I would probably spend more time looking at the loading screen than actually playing. Even gigabit Ethernet might be a bottleneck.
Rage is going to be even worse. IIRC, the current game is over 70 gigabytes of data, which will be streamed from the hard drive to VRAM continuously. Keeping the data on a server might make that game unplayable.
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Well, Skype did not really request permission, or even really notify you. In limited cases such as this, I believe "fight fire with fire" is permissible.
"Oderint dum metuant."
So, then, do you at least fear me?
You're discounting altruism. Maybe the man believes that exploiting this knowledge that way would be evil, or at least unethical, and that the best action he could take is to make the code public.
If the polynomial-time solution of 3-SAT is correct, then he has proven that there exists a way to solve any NP-complete problem in polynomial time. The solution could probably be adapted to at least some of the NP problems, but probably not all.
The emphasis on "I" was intended to be self-deprecating - if I could learn it in three years, others should easily be able to do so as well, possibly faster.
In retrospect, it could be taken as self-promoting - "It learned it in only three years". My bad.
Ah. Thank you.
Linguam romanae scio. Latina difficila non est; ego in annis tribus didici.
I tried to look the problem up on Wikipedia, and all I got was inscrutable high-level math. From what I can gather, I seems like something that could be explained in layman's terms. Would someone be kind enough to do so?
I'm a fast reader. It usually takes me about half an hour to read my daily updates, maybe one hour on Mondays when everything updates. A good chunk of the comics I'm subscribed to also update only rarely - some haven't updated in months, but I stay subscribed just in case it comes back to life.
The "killer feature" of Firefox, at least for me, is Live Bookmarks. I subscribe to nearly a hundred webcomics, and Live Bookmarks is my favorite way to read them. I've tried other systems, but they just don't feel right.
However, ever since Firefox 3.x, there's been a massive bug. Firefox will literally stop responding while it updates Live Bookmarks. Normally, if you have just a handful, it's barely noticeable. But when you have as many as I do, it means Firefox takes about 5 minutes to start up, about twice as long as it takes Windows. And that's just unacceptable.
Because of that, I switched to Chrome for daily browsing. I only boot Firefox up once a day, for my webcomics trawl. However, I'd actually prefer to use Firefox, just because the interface feels better to me.
It's not like this is an unknown bug - it's been reported dozens of times, on almost every platform. It just seems to be ignored. If that bug gets fixed in 4.0, I'll definitely be upgrading.
Nope. Bethesda's good at many things, but coding isn't one of them. It took almost a year to get enough patches out for Oblivion that it was remotely stable, and even then, fans using the mod tool were able to fix several thousand bugs on their own. Hell, someone even had to make their own patch to the binary itself to make it crash less. Not "doesn't crash", just "crash less". And from what I've heard, New Vegas is even worse, coding-wise.
I'm a PC player, by the way.
A game designed by artists rather than by games developers
And that, right there, is the reason Square Enix is having problems. For years, they've been putting a "character designer" in the role of game designer. Which is about analogous to having a graphic designer code your database - you end up with a giant mess.
Nobody in Square Enix, at least in the FF departments, seems to treat "game design" as a proper science, which means that, at best, you'll get gameplay that's decent but unoriginal. At worst, you'll get a mess of dozens of needless mechanics and clutter (Dissidia) or the removal of even more gameplay in order to add more story (FFXIII).
Well, the current console "generation" seems to be a two-parter: MS and Sony are effectively treating Kinect/Move as a new console generation, and Nintendo, at best, will make a Wii HD type of console. So, quite likely, they'll still have time for FFXV. Maybe even a FFXVI, if they rush it.
Whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate. Personally, I think FF peaked around VI and VII - every game before was a general improvement on its predecessor, every game after was a general letdown, with VI and VII being about tied, IMO. At this point, they need a serious overhaul of not just the engine, not even the game design, but they seriously need to make massive changes to their entire development process. For one, stop putting character designers in the role of game designer.
I never said they were fighting against an occupation.
The US is not fighting a war in Iraq. The US is fighting an occupation. This is a significantly different task, one that the American Army is not designed for. The US Army is designed to crush, to destroy, to annihilate the enemy - and the US Army is possibly the best army in the world at this. Fighting an insurgency is a much different task - it requires completely different training, logistics, organization, even equipment. The two are as different as HTML and assembly language.
The "war" part of Gulf War II was over in weeks. Very few conventional military forces can stand against the US, and none of those are in the Middle East. If the US launched a proper war (go in, kill every soldier, leave the country), the battle would last a few weeks. Think Poland in 1939 - I give Iran about a month of real Total War, before it collapses. And that's assuming the US doesn't use nukes - if it did, I give it about an hour before it becomes the Islamic Cinder Pile of Iran.
It still just might cause a war. Sure, Iran can't fight a war with the US, but it can (and probably will) fight Israel. THAT would be nasty.
You do realize I was being facetious, right? You told me to "go bitch about something". I bitched. I you don't like people whining and complaining, stop telling people to whine and complain about stuff.
Do both, to double-check. It's got more than enough processing power to.
now get back to your keyboard and find something to whine about hysterically!
You know what makes me sick? You know what makes me so mad I just want to punch a kitten?
People not using proper capitalization and punctuation. Seriously, what the hell is your problem? Carolingian script was invented to make it easier to separate words and sentences. What do you have against the period? Did a period kill your parents or something? I almost hope one did - anyone too lazy to use proper punctuation deserves no parents.
It's two buttons. Two simple buttons: a shift, and a period. The same two buttons necessary to produce the > you needed to separate your paragraphs. Not that difficult. You seem to have no problem with the comma, or the exclamation point, or the question mark. Why you would skip the capitalization and the punctuation is beyond me.
You, sir, have murdered the English language. Murdered, I say!
Obviously, they have plenty of probable cause connecting him to an actually serious crime, and they probably obtained a warrant in this case to get these records. While Loughner may not have left explicit notes along the lines of "I'm going to shoot people", it would definitely be relevant for the purpose of establishing his mental state.
Not every search-and-seizure is objectionable, you know. Sometimes, the government is actually doing its job properly.
Nope. Should sue the FCC for allowing Fox to continue telling him about websites that can then terrify him.
I believe that would be the first case of "shooting the messenger's messenger's messenger".
Wouldn't it make more sense to sue the government for doing those things, instead of suing Wikileaks for talking about them?
Man, I remember Irony before it sold out. Irony used to have integrity.
Now, the only way I can appreciate Irony is ironically.
I found MS's blog post to be pretty dang funny. If you don't get the satire, check where all those links go - apparently Theora was made by Klingons.
Sure, I disagree with Microsoft's stance, but I will concede that they made a very humorous point.
LAN doesn't work well for data storage when gaming, which is a pretty significant use of modern PCs, especially the type that might buy this graphics card.
Some games can be both massive, and require fast access to most of the data - my current install of Oblivion is nearly 20 gigs, and even on a fast hard drive, it can take some time to load. If that were over USB, I would probably spend more time looking at the loading screen than actually playing. Even gigabit Ethernet might be a bottleneck.
Rage is going to be even worse. IIRC, the current game is over 70 gigabytes of data, which will be streamed from the hard drive to VRAM continuously. Keeping the data on a server might make that game unplayable.