...the Information Retrieval (IR) geeks reckon there's 2 major factors. You are correct that one of those is relevance, which is known as precision. And the other is recall. Think of recall as getting all the relevant results.
And don't forget the third factor: Information Retrieval's policy is to charge suspects for the costs of retrieval. It's only fair!
The bible doesn't have all the answers, so try to answer in your own words instead of quoting me that book.
Well, seeing as how your mind's made up, there's not much point in answering in any words, is there? Not even these words, which means this is a pointless post. Congratulations on your successful troll!
Heh... the last thing I expected to my malicious little insinuation was an intelligent reply. My post was a mean-spirited joke at the expense of the previous poster, implying that he had sinister ulterior motives. Coherent analysis takes all the fun out of it!
In the main, your argument is sensible, though in practice it can be quite difficult to separate innocuous nudity from eroticism. The former won't hurt kids much (for example, I never suffered much trauma from exposure to my parents' mini-replica of Michelangelo's David); as for the latter, most people are going to discover it when puberty strikes, no matter what you do, but I think there's a good argument to be made for insulating the young from the world of eroticism and all its passions and complications. Sadly, however, I don't have the time to develop that argument right now.
The American fear of letting the children see the Dick or the Nipple or what ever is indeed a reliogious belief in itself. It is Christian "ethics", a belief system not shared by atheists.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but I suspect most atheists will put the fear of God in you real quick if you try to show their kids "the Dick or the Nipple".
Vehicles, by Valentino Braitenberg, presents a different way of thinking about thinking, one tied more closely to sensing and acting as opposed to long, detailed calculations.
In a related story, Valentino Braitenberg has been elected to the Berkeley City Council.
I understand that people in small towns sometimes dont have another choice besides Wal-mart, and in all honesty, in that situation my need for video games and food would surpass my need for a gun free america. But in my community I have plenty of other options, so I can afford to avoid Wal-Mart.
Heh... I took exactly the same approach to Kmart after they stopped selling handgun ammo. Thus is the balance of the Universe maintained!
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What does it say about America when she has to find her hero's in the realm of corporate business? Perhaps she should take a look for her real hero's. Those people that actually affect the bottom line of all the people around them?
What we need is a movie about a plucky Slashdot reader whose postings awaken the conscience of a nation.
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Is that because Timothy thinks the elder Buckley is funny, too, or is Timothy a right wing nut?
Timothy probably likes left-wing nuts too. After all, Buckley may be funny, but Noam Chomsky is pure comic genius!
At the end of a stressful day, I often come to Slashdot and breathe deeply of the tranquility that suffuses this idyllic website. It's as soothing as watching Oprah while taking a Calgon bath.
This never happened. You can't get a real case, so you make one up. Great way to lie.
I think the example was meant to be a humorous illustration of the type of case the ACLU often works on.
I considered joining the ACLU at one time, until I went to their website. They seemed to have a nice balance of important cases and PC nonsense, but a little too much of the latter for my tastes.
That is why I am asking for $48M in damages, mostly in punitive damages. That should be enough for a sting for them to feel it and for other companies to take note.
Unless your entry has to be ultra-ultra lightweight, please consider putting a few justified ounces into a keyboard. Make it something that will be worth typing on in 10 years, like my IBM model M keyboard is.
Model M keyboards are fantastic. But if the goal is to minimize costs as much as possible, it'll be hard to justify the expense of using the buckling-spring technology that gives the keys their great feel and positive feedback (when you feel the spring click, you're sure that you've typed one and only one character). The reason is that each key needs its own individual mechanism -- as opposed to cheaper modern keyboards, which just rely on a single sheet of circuits covered with a sheet of rubber.
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And don't forget the third factor: Information Retrieval's policy is to charge suspects for the costs of retrieval. It's only fair!
Your troll shows potential. In future efforts, be careful not to go overboard with the hyperbole -- it's a dead giveaway. C+.
Just out of curiosity, are there legal obstacles that would prevent him from granting permission after the material was already published?
Well, seeing as how your mind's made up, there's not much point in answering in any words, is there? Not even these words, which means this is a pointless post. Congratulations on your successful troll!
Warning: goatse.cx link.
...progressive taxation is piracy. Now who are you going to believe -- highfalutin' smartypants Tim O'Reilly, or me?
Here's the post's non-idealistic twin!
3. hauser.lu goes out of business
4. Billyboy raises the price of future laptops to hauser.lu levels
The options are configurable.
It wouldn't really be a true depiction of Europe's idyllic progressivism without the falme, though, would it?
Heh... the last thing I expected to my malicious little insinuation was an intelligent reply. My post was a mean-spirited joke at the expense of the previous poster, implying that he had sinister ulterior motives. Coherent analysis takes all the fun out of it!
In the main, your argument is sensible, though in practice it can be quite difficult to separate innocuous nudity from eroticism. The former won't hurt kids much (for example, I never suffered much trauma from exposure to my parents' mini-replica of Michelangelo's David); as for the latter, most people are going to discover it when puberty strikes, no matter what you do, but I think there's a good argument to be made for insulating the young from the world of eroticism and all its passions and complications. Sadly, however, I don't have the time to develop that argument right now.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but I suspect most atheists will put the fear of God in you real quick if you try to show their kids "the Dick or the Nipple".
Somewhere in there, he posits the availability of an unlimited supply of identical twins of each actor. With that, the analogy holds up better.
Ducks covered in oil: depressing.
Ducks covered in oatmeal: hilarious!
Of course there are -- that's why it took five years to get it done!
In a related story, Valentino Braitenberg has been elected to the Berkeley City Council.
Heh... I took exactly the same approach to Kmart after they stopped selling handgun ammo. Thus is the balance of the Universe maintained!
What we need is a movie about a plucky Slashdot reader whose postings awaken the conscience of a nation.
Timothy probably likes left-wing nuts too. After all, Buckley may be funny, but Noam Chomsky is pure comic genius!
Uh, if you're going to spread peace, democracy, decency, and morality, maybe classifying your opponents as "monsters" isn't the best starting point.
At any rate, at least he isn't history's greatest monster -- Jimmy Carter.
> This is a place for reflection and thought.
At the end of a stressful day, I often come to Slashdot and breathe deeply of the tranquility that suffuses this idyllic website. It's as soothing as watching Oprah while taking a Calgon bath.
How often does Michael Moore balance Pat Buchanan?
They wouldn't balance. Once Moore hit the scales, it'd take hours for Buchanan to fall back to Earth.
I think the example was meant to be a humorous illustration of the type of case the ACLU often works on.
I considered joining the ACLU at one time, until I went to their website. They seemed to have a nice balance of important cases and PC nonsense, but a little too much of the latter for my tastes.
What will you do with the money?
Fair enough. But isn't it rather judgmental to filter the audience in such a way?
Model M keyboards are fantastic. But if the goal is to minimize costs as much as possible, it'll be hard to justify the expense of using the buckling-spring technology that gives the keys their great feel and positive feedback (when you feel the spring click, you're sure that you've typed one and only one character). The reason is that each key needs its own individual mechanism -- as opposed to cheaper modern keyboards, which just rely on a single sheet of circuits covered with a sheet of rubber.