You seem to have been meaning to write '': just out of curiosity, did you deliberately omit the semicolon in the HTML entity for 'less than'? I ask because that (omitting the;) is another example of what you're complaining about.:)
(A very small Dutch village, and a little fortress)
Belgian, actually. A friend of mine who lived in Brussels claims it was once a swamp and is now a gigantic, sprawling American-style suburb where Americans who work at NATO live.
(I didn't know you guys in the US called your cities after really small villages...)
Actually Waterloo, Ontario is in Canada, which also explains the name choice, since it was assigned back when we (that is, Canada) was part of the British Empire, and presumably wanted to commemorate a great British victory over the villanous French foe. (Despite our country being half French too.)
Naming stuff after 'Waterloo' makes a bit less sense in the States, but many Americans really seem to enjoy making fun of the French, so naming a city after the site of their greatest defeat would seem to tie in with that goal.
It's ironic that you would equate the the Great Emancipation with abortion, seeing as how the spirit of the latter is the opposite of the former (that is, treating someone as something less than a person).
Not necessarily. If you happen to not believe that abortion is always murder, there is no ironic juxtaposition here: the legalisation of abortion represents a crucial moment for the emancipation of women, just as the Great Emancipation was a crucial moment for the emancipation of black slaves.
I think Dr. Lessig overlooked copylefts as a viable alternative to public domain.
Lawrence Lessig overlooked copylefts?? Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, author of Free Culture, and director on the FSF board??
I rather doubt it.
The issue is that a large part of our culture is copyrighted and owned by people who are going to milk this copyright for all it's worth, as long as they can. Creative Commons/GPL/GFDL are only useful if you already own the copyright, and it's not practical to replicate everything.
If they acted more like the BBC (yeah, the aren't perfect either)when it came to programming maybe they would have a larger viewing base.
Funny, I hear that same charge with the same vehemence made against the BBC (and against NPR in the U.S). Maybe the reason BBC seems more neutral to you is because the issues being reported on are less close to home.
Just to know what sort of thing you're talking about, can you name a specific issue that CBC reported on, which a truly unbiased media would have reported differently?
'Free software means you're free to run it, study it, change it, redistribute it, and distribute modified versions the way cooks do with recipes. What names you're allowed to call a program is a side issue..The Linux trademark became an issue last month after a lawyer acting on behalf of Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 Australian companies asking that they sign a statutory declaration waiving exclusive rights to the trademark's use.'
On first reading this, I got the idea that the whole thing was a quote from RMS, since it was from an interview with him.
However, the second sentence (after the ellipsis) is a quote from the article, not from RMS.
Without any direct experience in game design, at least not at a professional level, I would suspect the following to be useful:
Game theory. Someone who's designing the logic for a game would need to know this stuff, I suspect
Graph theory. Understanding network flow would seem to be necessary for large multiplayer games.
Linear algebra. It's going to come up in all kinds of places anyway, and in any case it'll be essential if the student wants to do any graphics work.
I'm sure I can think of more, but that's all that comes to mind right now. A bit of mandatory exposure to literature and classics might be a good idea too, so these future game designers will have a mental dataset to mine.
However, game designers by nature should be creative types, so one should allow a fair degree of flexibility in an undergradute program tailored for them.
(An interesting direction, indeed. I don't know if it's a consequence of Ontario postsecondary funding policy, or simply an industry trend, but I'm seeing more and more of these highly-specialized undergraduate computer programs lately: McMaster has this program, and Waterloo is introducing a Quantum Computing undergrad degree. I guess this is what social acceptance does to the study of computer programming.)
SERIOUSLY. The FSF should try to patent many of the key things that McDonalds, Chrysler, Disney, and NBC do, and start fucking *everyone else* over.
The power of the corporations stems not from the loopholes in the patent system, but from the fact that they have money. Patents are the instruments of this control.
Applying for patents means little if you don't have the legal resources to defend them in court.
I'd forgotten just how non-geeky my high school was...
Yeah, mine was not particularly geeky either. I'm afraid I've never actually had a chance to sing the aleph-null song on a real school bus, and no, I don't regret this.
Five years after running afoul of the Feds, Microsoft is more powerful than ever. Pushing a platform instead of products could make it stronger still. The question is, where do you fit in?
Lisa: "Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?"
Cardinal arithmetic is pretty wacky. The biggest infinity always dominates, so you have things like aleph_0 + aleph_1 = aleph_1, aleph_0 * aleph_0 and aleph_0 = aleph_0 - 1.
Sorry, this should read:
Cardinal arithmetic is pretty wacky. The biggest infinity always dominates, so you have things like aleph_0 + aleph_1 = aleph_1, aleph_0 * aleph_1 = aleph_1, and aleph_0 = aleph_0 - 1.
The smallest cardinal number is aleph-0, which is the cardinality (number of) the natural numbers, N.
Then you can define the power set P(N) of the natural numbers, which is the set of all subsets of the natural numbers, i.e. P(N) = { {1}, {2},..., {1,2}, {1,3},..., {1,2,3}... }
The cardinal number aleph-1 is defined to be the cardinality of P(N). Going on, we can define an infinite number of cardinals. The (n+1)st cardinal corresponds to the cardinality of the power set of the set whose cardinality is the nth cardinal. In cardinal arithmetic terms,
aleph_(n+1) = 2^aleph_n
Cardinal arithmetic is pretty wacky. The biggest infinity always dominates, so you have things like aleph_0 + aleph_1 = aleph_1, aleph_0 * aleph_0 and aleph_0 = aleph_0 - 1.
(As an aside, the last bit led to the incredibly popular school bus song:
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph-null bottles of beer,
Take one down, pass it around
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall! )
One of the cool results of cardinal arithmetic is that the size of the real line is the same as the size of R^n for any n: that is, c = c^n for any n>1, where c is the cardinality of the real numbers.
I can understand the summary I've given above, but I cannot prove Goedels theorem using strictly logical constructs. However, with time, I could learn to do it, but a computer cannot, and there will never be a turing machine that can.
You don't understand. Gödel's theorem is provable and proven, but the true statement unprovable in the system whose existence is implied by Gödel's Theorem is not provable. That means not provable by you, by a computer, or by anybody: there is no algorithmic way to formulate a derivation from the axioms.
I don't understand why you think the human mind is somehow immune to the consequences of Gödel's theorem. Unless you think Gödel's theorem is the unprovable statement for mathematics, which is wrong. A mathematician can find a proof for Gödel's theorem, and so could a computer, with enough time or the right intuition.
As a side benefit, it releases no net CO2 (burning - photosynthesis = 0).
No net CO2, but the buck has to stop somewhere.
If Ye Olde Polluting Company (YOPC) decides to use their extra carbon emissions to make biodiesel when they would normally have been forced to cut carbon emissions altogether because of environmental laws, then some CO2 has still been added to the system. If YOPC decides to build a new factory when it wouldn't have done so otherwise because of the cost savings and lack of environmental issues which biodiesel enables, then some CO2 has still been added to the system.
Then again, what kind of crazy world am I talking about, where polluting companies are seriously deterred by environmental laws?
BTW apparently, the advancement in the Sith is only by slaying - first you have to kill a Sith apprentice to become one. Then you have to kill your Sith master to become one yourself. Nice clan, indeed.
Yes, this makes me wonder how the Sith could ever expand beyond two people. That would seem to be a key requirement for a rival religion to have,
Maybe a Sith Lord can have multiple apprentices. But if one of them finally succeeds in killing the master, what would happen to the others?
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I think you forget that the software is Microsoft's property. It's up to Microsoft to determine the terms under which it's willing to allow the use of its software in Cuba. Cuba has no right to declare that it can use the software without compensation.
If Cuba isn't a signatory to the international copyright convention, then Cuba has every right to do whatever it wants with Microsoft products.
However, it seems it is a member of the WIPO, so I suspect it is legally bound to recognize Microsoft's copyright.
It's an expression made popular in Silicon Valley years ago by Andy Grove of Intel: "inflection point." It's that abrupt elbow in a graph of growth or decline when the new technology or paradigm truly kicks in, and suddenly there is no going back.
Man, I really wish that Cringely, as a supposed pundit to the geek masses, would not contribute to distorting into sensationalist manager-ese technobabble a phrase that already has a precise mathematical meaning.
First, they collect your search information. Next they collected your email. Now they collect your destination. You put it all together, that is quite a bit of information.
But all that's only true if you give them the information. Even so, the quantity that Google could know about me just given all the Google stuff I've used from one single IP address is rather alarming.
But I don't mind. This is partly because I don't think they're jerks (as far as public corporations go, anyway), but mostly still because I don't think they really care.
If we had a lot of evidence they did care, then I suspect that there would immediately exist a movement for 'free', anonymous versions of whatever services Google currently provides.
The co-op program allows you to explore what you really would like to do in the real world, instead of some abstraction in the classroom. You get the best of both worlds - a solid academic background and a real taste of the engineering world.
The co-op experience is especially valuable, and is a large reason, or most of the reason, for Waterloo's success in general.
But the accusations that it is riding on its reputation at present are largely true. As I said elsewhere, the fawning press it received in the late 90's was not good for its humility.
But I think the really great thing about Waterloo, and probably other 'good schools' is not their reputation or the networking ability you get by going to them, which is what other people here seem to have thought. It's the simple fact that good schools attract other good people, and having a community of good and enthusiastic people is very successful at producing results.
My classroom education, in computer science at least, was almost inconsequential. It was my cohort which had influence on me.
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omitting terminating tags (e.g., <l\li>)
;) is another example of what you're complaining about. :)
You seem to have been meaning to write '': just out of curiosity, did you deliberately omit the semicolon in the HTML entity for 'less than'? I ask because that (omitting the
(A very small Dutch village, and a little fortress)
Belgian, actually. A friend of mine who lived in Brussels claims it was once a swamp and is now a gigantic, sprawling American-style suburb where Americans who work at NATO live.
(I didn't know you guys in the US called your cities after really small villages...)
Actually Waterloo, Ontario is in Canada, which also explains the name choice, since it was assigned back when we (that is, Canada) was part of the British Empire, and presumably wanted to commemorate a great British victory over the villanous French foe. (Despite our country being half French too.)
Naming stuff after 'Waterloo' makes a bit less sense in the States, but many Americans really seem to enjoy making fun of the French, so naming a city after the site of their greatest defeat would seem to tie in with that goal.
(by the way: Waterloo hasn't got a university, so it's quite a save bet :) )
I think you're thinking of Waterloo, Wisconsin. We're talking about Waterloo, Ontario.
It's ironic that you would equate the the Great Emancipation with abortion, seeing as how the spirit of the latter is the opposite of the former (that is, treating someone as something less than a person).
Not necessarily. If you happen to not believe that abortion is always murder, there is no ironic juxtaposition here: the legalisation of abortion represents a crucial moment for the emancipation of women, just as the Great Emancipation was a crucial moment for the emancipation of black slaves.
I think Dr. Lessig overlooked copylefts as a viable alternative to public domain.
Lawrence Lessig overlooked copylefts?? Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, author of Free Culture , and director on the FSF board??
I rather doubt it.
The issue is that a large part of our culture is copyrighted and owned by people who are going to milk this copyright for all it's worth, as long as they can. Creative Commons/GPL/GFDL are only useful if you already own the copyright, and it's not practical to replicate everything.
If they acted more like the BBC (yeah, the aren't perfect either)when it came to programming maybe they would have a larger viewing base.
Funny, I hear that same charge with the same vehemence made against the BBC (and against NPR in the U.S). Maybe the reason BBC seems more neutral to you is because the issues being reported on are less close to home.
Just to know what sort of thing you're talking about, can you name a specific issue that CBC reported on, which a truly unbiased media would have reported differently?
The quote from the article is:
'Free software means you're free to run it, study it, change it, redistribute it, and distribute modified versions the way cooks do with recipes. What names you're allowed to call a program is a side issue..The Linux trademark became an issue last month after a lawyer acting on behalf of Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 Australian companies asking that they sign a statutory declaration waiving exclusive rights to the trademark's use.'
On first reading this, I got the idea that the whole thing was a quote from RMS, since it was from an interview with him.
However, the second sentence (after the ellipsis) is a quote from the article, not from RMS.
I'm sure I can think of more, but that's all that comes to mind right now. A bit of mandatory exposure to literature and classics might be a good idea too, so these future game designers will have a mental dataset to mine.
However, game designers by nature should be creative types, so one should allow a fair degree of flexibility in an undergradute program tailored for them.
(An interesting direction, indeed. I don't know if it's a consequence of Ontario postsecondary funding policy, or simply an industry trend, but I'm seeing more and more of these highly-specialized undergraduate computer programs lately: McMaster has this program, and Waterloo is introducing a Quantum Computing undergrad degree. I guess this is what social acceptance does to the study of computer programming.)
SERIOUSLY. The FSF should try to patent many of the key things that McDonalds, Chrysler, Disney, and NBC do, and start fucking *everyone else* over.
The power of the corporations stems not from the loopholes in the patent system, but from the fact that they have money. Patents are the instruments of this control.
Applying for patents means little if you don't have the legal resources to defend them in court.
works as good as ...
I'm shocked to see natives using "its good", "don't go their", these are mistakes that no foreigners will make.
Guess you're a native speaker, eh?
I'd forgotten just how non-geeky my high school was...
Yeah, mine was not particularly geeky either. I'm afraid I've never actually had a chance to sing the aleph-null song on a real school bus, and no, I don't regret this.
Five years after running afoul of the Feds, Microsoft is more powerful than ever. Pushing a platform instead of products could make it stronger still. The question is, where do you fit in?
Lisa: "Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?"
Cardinal arithmetic is pretty wacky. The biggest infinity always dominates, so you have things like
:
aleph_0 + aleph_1 = aleph_1, aleph_0 * aleph_0 and aleph_0 = aleph_0 - 1.
Sorry, this should read
Cardinal arithmetic is pretty wacky. The biggest infinity always dominates, so you have things like
aleph_0 + aleph_1 = aleph_1, aleph_0 * aleph_1 = aleph_1, and aleph_0 = aleph_0 - 1.
Are there other ways to compare infinite quantities? (I'm genuinely interested.)
..., {1,2}, {1,3}, ..., {1,2,3} ... }
Yes, lots of them.
There are ways to compare different kinds of uncountable infinities using Cantor's techniques: see cardinal arithmetic and ordinal arithmetic.
The smallest cardinal number is aleph-0, which is the cardinality (number of) the natural numbers, N.
Then you can define the power set P(N) of the natural numbers, which is the set of all subsets of the natural numbers, i.e.
P(N) = { {1}, {2},
The cardinal number aleph-1 is defined to be the cardinality of P(N). Going on, we can define an infinite number of cardinals. The (n+1)st cardinal corresponds to the cardinality of the power set of the set whose cardinality is the nth cardinal. In cardinal arithmetic terms,
aleph_(n+1) = 2^aleph_n
Cardinal arithmetic is pretty wacky. The biggest infinity always dominates, so you have things like
aleph_0 + aleph_1 = aleph_1, aleph_0 * aleph_0 and aleph_0 = aleph_0 - 1.
(As an aside, the last bit led to the incredibly popular school bus song:
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph-null bottles of beer,
Take one down, pass it around
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall!
)
One of the cool results of cardinal arithmetic is that the size of the real line is the same as the size of R^n for any n: that is, c = c^n for any n>1, where c is the cardinality of the real numbers.
I can understand the summary I've given above, but I cannot prove Goedels theorem using strictly logical constructs. However, with time, I could learn to do it, but a computer cannot, and there will never be a turing machine that can.
You don't understand. Gödel's theorem is provable and proven, but the true statement unprovable in the system whose existence is implied by Gödel's Theorem is not provable. That means not provable by you, by a computer, or by anybody: there is no algorithmic way to formulate a derivation from the axioms.
I don't understand why you think the human mind is somehow immune to the consequences of Gödel's theorem. Unless you think Gödel's theorem is the unprovable statement for mathematics, which is wrong. A mathematician can find a proof for Gödel's theorem, and so could a computer, with enough time or the right intuition.
As a side benefit, it releases no net CO2 (burning - photosynthesis = 0).
No net CO2, but the buck has to stop somewhere.
If Ye Olde Polluting Company (YOPC) decides to use their extra carbon emissions to make biodiesel when they would normally have been forced to cut carbon emissions altogether because of environmental laws, then some CO2 has still been added to the system. If YOPC decides to build a new factory when it wouldn't have done so otherwise because of the cost savings and lack of environmental issues which biodiesel enables, then some CO2 has still been added to the system.
Then again, what kind of crazy world am I talking about, where polluting companies are seriously deterred by environmental laws?
I'm sure that this woman is not the first person who has had an ex-boyfriend/husband/lover post nude pictures of them on the net.
No, definitely not the first.
BTW apparently, the advancement in the Sith is only by slaying - first you have to kill a Sith apprentice to become one. Then you have to kill your Sith master to become one yourself. Nice clan, indeed.
Yes, this makes me wonder how the Sith could ever expand beyond two people. That would seem to be a key requirement for a rival religion to have,
Maybe a Sith Lord can have multiple apprentices. But if one of them finally succeeds in killing the master, what would happen to the others?
I think you forget that the software is Microsoft's property. It's up to Microsoft to determine the terms under which it's willing to allow the use of its software in Cuba. Cuba has no right to declare that it can use the software without compensation.
If Cuba isn't a signatory to the international copyright convention, then Cuba has every right to do whatever it wants with Microsoft products.
However, it seems it is a member of the WIPO, so I suspect it is legally bound to recognize Microsoft's copyright.
Replace common sense with government BS?
Does 'BS' possibly stand for Belinda Stronach?
It's an expression made popular in Silicon Valley years ago by Andy Grove of Intel: "inflection point." It's that abrupt elbow in a graph of growth or decline when the new technology or paradigm truly kicks in, and suddenly there is no going back.
Man, I really wish that Cringely, as a supposed pundit to the geek masses, would not contribute to distorting into sensationalist manager-ese technobabble a phrase that already has a precise mathematical meaning.
I'm not sure if there's an equivalent term in the US?
No, there's no specialized term in common use. One would just say "lawyer" in this instance
First, they collect your search information. Next they collected your email. Now they collect your destination. You put it all together, that is quite a bit of information.
Add to that your Usenet posts, where you're going or where you live, what you're buying, what kind of news you're interested in, and maybe even who your friends are.
But all that's only true if you give them the information. Even so, the quantity that Google could know about me just given all the Google stuff I've used from one single IP address is rather alarming.
But I don't mind. This is partly because I don't think they're jerks (as far as public corporations go, anyway), but mostly still because I don't think they really care.
If we had a lot of evidence they did care, then I suspect that there would immediately exist a movement for 'free', anonymous versions of whatever services Google currently provides.
We, the sovereign nation of Quebec will decides of ours own affaires...
Will you suport us Canadian friend?
Quand vous devenez une nation souveraine, oui. Cependant, j'espère sincèrement que vous choisissez de rester au Canada.
The co-op program allows you to explore what you really would like to do in the real world, instead of some abstraction in the classroom. You get the best of both worlds - a solid academic background and a real taste of the engineering world.
The co-op experience is especially valuable, and is a large reason, or most of the reason, for Waterloo's success in general.
But the accusations that it is riding on its reputation at present are largely true. As I said elsewhere, the fawning press it received in the late 90's was not good for its humility.
But I think the really great thing about Waterloo, and probably other 'good schools' is not their reputation or the networking ability you get by going to them, which is what other people here seem to have thought. It's the simple fact that good schools attract other good people, and having a community of good and enthusiastic people is very successful at producing results.
My classroom education, in computer science at least, was almost inconsequential. It was my cohort which had influence on me.