> All we have to do is filter any e-mail with this "Trusted Sender" Seal and cut them out.
Yeah, it's like p-mail marked "Urgent" or "To be Opened by Addressee Only" -- guaranteed to be p-spam, and destined for a quick trip to the recycling bin.
> I would be more interesting in reliability, as well as raw performance.
For my next purchase I will be looking at power/heat as well. I don't subscribe to the "1G is enough for anyone" school of thought, but I am starting the think I'd trade down some raw speed to keep from running a heater in my room during the summer.
> 0. Get the latest version of the code from CVS.
1. Read and understand the code.
2. Make changes.
3. Send your patches to the maintainer.
4. Hope they get accepted.
Is there a companion volume for getting your stories accepted by Slashdot?
Years ago Indy^w Harrison said that if he did another one he'd like to play an Indy of his own age. If the script supports that wish, the following logic may apply.
RotLA came out in '81, and was apparently set in the mid-late 30's (Nazis existed, but Germans could still operate freely in Egypt.) Now it's '02, so roll Indy's age up by 21 years and you get mid-late 50's. Shouldn't be any Nazis -- will we get Commies instead? Or maybe not-so-reformed "ex" Nazis, leading to a stereotyped setting in Argentina?
Also, given the popularity of episodes I and III vs II, I would look for the key artifact to be something in the Judaeo-Christian tradition again.
The suggestion re Noah's Ark might work well given the putative time frame, choice of baddies (if Soviets), and J-C tradition. Ditto for Garden of Eden. The Middle East looks like a probable setting, and it might allow some of the secondary roles from the earlier shows to appear again, if the actors are still alive.
Heh heh, the ultimate laugh -- especially if S.C. is in it again -- would be to set it c. 1960 and have him bump in to the young James Bond somewhere along the way.
> I suppose they chose Farscape because it was a cheap license, but sheesh. Licensed games have a history of being disappointing [...]
A couple of people have mentioned "license" games. Does this just mean a game company bought the rights to do a game based on a show, or does it have some more technical meaning?
> We have always assumed that these terrorists were unorganized nutcases running around with bombs attached to themselves.... The truth is that there are some scarily intelligent people in these terrorist organizations who are using religious ferver to control otherwise sane individuals.
Or perhaps merely a few sane leaders who are exploiting all the nutcases they can round up?
Beyond the fundamental wrongness of mass murder, there's something seriously wrong about hiding in a cave back home while you send other people out to blow themselves up to score political points for you.
> On the other hand, these laws do cause a considerable hassle for law-abiding organizations that wish to add security to their products. Therefore I believe that these laws are detrimental and should be repealed immediately.
Citizens want to have secure communications; governments don't want citizens to have secure communications. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground.
But yeah, the notion of stopping the proliferation of strong encryption by means of export restrictions is ludicrous. What were the feds thinking? (Or rather, why weren't they thinking?) Ordinarily I would suspect an ulterior motive, but I've never been able to divine one in this case.
> Eventually they will simply have to go after individual users if they want to stop illegal sharing. I know that if word got around on perhaps a college campus that students were being kicked out of the dorms that it would cause the casual pirates to think twice.
That strategy hasn't been notably effective as a way of stopping people from using illegal drugs.
> Finaly consider this: Checking for cheaters in a class isn't just doing a diff of two files. For every student in the class, you have to check his code against everyone else's. This is a O(n^2) problem. My class had around 350 people in it
so that's 122500 checks to do. If it is anything more complex than a diff (multiple files, compiler front-end, fancy perl parcing) this can take a mad amount of computing.
Not so hard, because you just generate a parse tree for everyone, which takes a bit less time than compiling the programs. Then you use Lisp to try pattern matching on the parse trees, and terminate the comparison as soon as you reach a point that won't unify. (Probably no point in checking the rest of the program on that pair.)
Though an O(n^2) problem, the actual number of pairs to check is only about half of 350^2, call it 60K tests. No sweat for a fully automated system on a 1GHz PC, unless the programs are really big.
> Prior to that year, VT had an average of 75 cheating violations for the WHOLE university (25000+ students). For that one class, on one assignment, 150 students were found cheating by the cheating detector... out of the 500 or so students in the class.
IIRC, there was a year when 20% of all students busted for cheating at my alma mater were in one of the sections of Intro to CS. I wonder whether cheating is especially endemic there, or whether it's merely the getting caught that's endemic.
After all, CS seems to hold the promise of a gilded career these days, but the subject matter is so difficult that Otto B. Abusinessmajor can't hack it. Lots of motivation and opportunity to cheat, it seems.
> Might not many or most of the phenomena we attribute to "the early universe" be simple artifacts of the unimaginably long path the light took getting to us?
IANAFundie, but for some reason I never liked the big bang theory anyway. Unfortunately the BBT has a nasty habit of making predictions that turn out right, so I have reluctantly signed on and moved my "tired light" conjectures to the realm of alternative universe phantasies.
> Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of which ran: "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR.NET!" We know this, because our logs include the Web address where visitors browsed from; when people click there from a Microsoft Exchange email message, Exchange helpfully gives us the subject line and username. The people who followed that link all had email addresses in the microsoft.com domain.
That's frikkin hilarious.
> Microsoft may have shot itself in the foot this time, but future efforts may be a little more subtle.
I've never seen the least sign that anyone at Microsoft is even aware of the concept "subtle", let alone knows how to apply it.
> Can someone please explain where this originated from and what it means?
It's a joke on a line from a Japanese game poorly translated into English, "All your base are belong to us!" (Apparently meaning "We have captured all your bases.")
For some reason it caught the geek imagination, and has become a standard template for geek jokes.
BTW, I blew it by saying "titles" rather than "title", as the template requires.
If this kind of enterprise ever becomes profitable the RIAA is going to step in and say "All your titles are belong to us", and Gracenote will end up paying the RIAA a license fee just to stay in business.
> I think pretty soon. Windows and linux will be on equal footing for stability and security... we can't ride the "more stable" horse (ha ha, get it?) forever.
> So linux is free, which is great, but what else?
You seem to have it backwards. What you should have asked is, "When the for-pay stuff finally catches up with the for-free stuff, will that actually be a recommendation for choosing it?"
> You're right, but you also have to consider that there's a point at which the misty-eyed nostalgia effect takes over.
Yes. Thank you and everybody else for the insightful posts you're all making on this topic.
I would also like to interject here that my IMDB example was actually a pretty poor one, chosen out of laziness. It seems to be fairly resistant to the recency effect because if you rate move A at "10" this year, it will still keep your "10" vote next year when you rate the hot new B as a "10" as well. You don't have to choose between A and B on the IMDB like you do on some other kinds of list making. IIRC all the "best of" lists that came out at the end of 1999 or 2000 tended to show the recency effect much more strongly than the IMDB list does, and in fact those lists are what originally made the idea occur to me.
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> All we have to do is filter any e-mail with this "Trusted Sender" Seal and cut them out.
Yeah, it's like p-mail marked "Urgent" or "To be Opened by Addressee Only" -- guaranteed to be p-spam, and destined for a quick trip to the recycling bin.
> As long as intel's compiler is not GPL and does not support as many architectures as gcc does
Shush! You're not supposed to tell Intel that other architectures exist, man! Someone at Intel might be reading this.
> I would be more interesting in reliability, as well as raw performance.
For my next purchase I will be looking at power/heat as well. I don't subscribe to the "1G is enough for anyone" school of thought, but I am starting the think I'd trade down some raw speed to keep from running a heater in my room during the summer.
> 0. Get the latest version of the code from CVS.
1. Read and understand the code.
2. Make changes.
3. Send your patches to the maintainer.
4. Hope they get accepted.
Is there a companion volume for getting your stories accepted by Slashdot?
If Lucas has anything to do with it, it will probably be Indiana Jones and the Extensive Collection of Action Figures.
Coming soon to a store^h^h^h^h^h theater near you!
Years ago Indy^w Harrison said that if he did another one he'd like to play an Indy of his own age. If the script supports that wish, the following logic may apply.
RotLA came out in '81, and was apparently set in the mid-late 30's (Nazis existed, but Germans could still operate freely in Egypt.) Now it's '02, so roll Indy's age up by 21 years and you get mid-late 50's. Shouldn't be any Nazis -- will we get Commies instead? Or maybe not-so-reformed "ex" Nazis, leading to a stereotyped setting in Argentina?
Also, given the popularity of episodes I and III vs II, I would look for the key artifact to be something in the Judaeo-Christian tradition again.
The suggestion re Noah's Ark might work well given the putative time frame, choice of baddies (if Soviets), and J-C tradition. Ditto for Garden of Eden. The Middle East looks like a probable setting, and it might allow some of the secondary roles from the earlier shows to appear again, if the actors are still alive.
Heh heh, the ultimate laugh -- especially if S.C. is in it again -- would be to set it c. 1960 and have him bump in to the young James Bond somewhere along the way.
> Here's where people get confused: Stocks are an asset like anything else.
But of all the assets you could name, they are most like "pyramids".
> Sturgeon's Law applies.
90% of all laws are crap?
> I suppose they chose Farscape because it was a cheap license, but sheesh. Licensed games have a history of being disappointing [...]
A couple of people have mentioned "license" games. Does this just mean a game company bought the rights to do a game based on a show, or does it have some more technical meaning?
Thnx.
> The problem it seems is our unwillingness to deal with the fact that we will face problems. Again, contingency is seen as a waste...
Hardly surprising in a society organized to optimize quarterly earnings reports.
> We have always assumed that these terrorists were unorganized nutcases running around with bombs attached to themselves.
Or perhaps merely a few sane leaders who are exploiting all the nutcases they can round up?
Beyond the fundamental wrongness of mass murder, there's something seriously wrong about hiding in a cave back home while you send other people out to blow themselves up to score political points for you.
> On the other hand, these laws do cause a considerable hassle for law-abiding organizations that wish to add security to their products. Therefore I believe that these laws are detrimental and should be repealed immediately.
Citizens want to have secure communications; governments don't want citizens to have secure communications. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground.
But yeah, the notion of stopping the proliferation of strong encryption by means of export restrictions is ludicrous. What were the feds thinking? (Or rather, why weren't they thinking?) Ordinarily I would suspect an ulterior motive, but I've never been able to divine one in this case.
> Eventually they will simply have to go after individual users if they want to stop illegal sharing. I know that if word got around on perhaps a college campus that students were being kicked out of the dorms that it would cause the casual pirates to think twice.
That strategy hasn't been notably effective as a way of stopping people from using illegal drugs.
> Finaly consider this: Checking for cheaters in a class isn't just doing a diff of two files. For every student in the class, you have to check his code against everyone else's. This is a O(n^2) problem. My class had around 350 people in it
so that's 122500 checks to do. If it is anything more complex than a diff (multiple files, compiler front-end, fancy perl parcing) this can take a mad amount of computing.
Not so hard, because you just generate a parse tree for everyone, which takes a bit less time than compiling the programs. Then you use Lisp to try pattern matching on the parse trees, and terminate the comparison as soon as you reach a point that won't unify. (Probably no point in checking the rest of the program on that pair.)
Though an O(n^2) problem, the actual number of pairs to check is only about half of 350^2, call it 60K tests. No sweat for a fully automated system on a 1GHz PC, unless the programs are really big.
> Prior to that year, VT had an average of 75 cheating violations for the WHOLE university (25000+ students). For that one class, on one assignment, 150 students were found cheating by the cheating detector... out of the 500 or so students in the class.
IIRC, there was a year when 20% of all students busted for cheating at my alma mater were in one of the sections of Intro to CS. I wonder whether cheating is especially endemic there, or whether it's merely the getting caught that's endemic.
After all, CS seems to hold the promise of a gilded career these days, but the subject matter is so difficult that Otto B. Abusinessmajor can't hack it. Lots of motivation and opportunity to cheat, it seems.
> Might not many or most of the phenomena we attribute to "the early universe" be simple artifacts of the unimaginably long path the light took getting to us?
IANAFundie, but for some reason I never liked the big bang theory anyway. Unfortunately the BBT has a nasty habit of making predictions that turn out right, so I have reluctantly signed on and moved my "tired light" conjectures to the realm of alternative universe phantasies.
> Were does all these ideas come from?
Do a Google search on "drugs".
> Wow, M$ must be really hurting for cash! They usually just buy a good rating!
Now they'll just have to buy ZDnet.
> Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of which ran: "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR
That's frikkin hilarious.
> Microsoft may have shot itself in the foot this time, but future efforts may be a little more subtle.
I've never seen the least sign that anyone at Microsoft is even aware of the concept "subtle", let alone knows how to apply it.
> Can someone please explain where this originated from and what it means?
It's a joke on a line from a Japanese game poorly translated into English, "All your base are belong to us!" (Apparently meaning "We have captured all your bases.")
For some reason it caught the geek imagination, and has become a standard template for geek jokes.
BTW, I blew it by saying "titles" rather than "title", as the template requires.
If this kind of enterprise ever becomes profitable the RIAA is going to step in and say "All your titles are belong to us", and Gracenote will end up paying the RIAA a license fee just to stay in business.
> I think pretty soon. Windows and linux will be on equal footing for stability and security... we can't ride the "more stable" horse (ha ha, get it?) forever.
> So linux is free, which is great, but what else?
You seem to have it backwards. What you should have asked is, "When the for-pay stuff finally catches up with the for-free stuff, will that actually be a recommendation for choosing it?"
> You're right, but you also have to consider that there's a point at which the misty-eyed nostalgia effect takes over.
Yes. Thank you and everybody else for the insightful posts you're all making on this topic.
I would also like to interject here that my IMDB example was actually a pretty poor one, chosen out of laziness. It seems to be fairly resistant to the recency effect because if you rate move A at "10" this year, it will still keep your "10" vote next year when you rate the hot new B as a "10" as well. You don't have to choose between A and B on the IMDB like you do on some other kinds of list making. IIRC all the "best of" lists that came out at the end of 1999 or 2000 tended to show the recency effect much more strongly than the IMDB list does, and in fact those lists are what originally made the idea occur to me.