I like debugging: it's the one time that hacking is as straightforward as people think it is. You have a totally constrained problem, and all you have to do is solve it. Your program is supposed to do x. Instead it does y. Where does it go wrong? You know you're going to win in the end. It's as relaxing as painting a wall.
The next time I go bug-huntin', I hope I remember that quote. It's true - you do always win in the end, but it hardly feels like that when you're pulling your hair and trying to contain frustrated screams.
He publicly accuses those students of stealing, which he knows that they clearly have not been doing (in neither the common usage nor the legal sense of the word). Perhaps some civil rights movement could help the students sue him for slander?
Consider this, when you flash your lights to an oncoming vehical, you are conveying information Consider this, when you flash your tits to an oncoming vehicle, you are also conveying information. Yet there are sometimes laws against it.
When you add something as simple as the standard logarithmic utility function (which basically means that if you have $1.000.000, your utility/happiness/survival will go down more from losing $1.000.000, than it will go up from gaining another $1.000.000), a rational agent becomes risk averse and can thus theoretically benefit from insurance. Lotteries become even more of a sucker deal when you involve the utility function.
That the community is more alive, the libraries are better organized, no one likes prefix math and companies does not run away screaming when they hear the name. Scheme and Common LISP are stagnant.
LISP is damn cool, it just needs some syntactic sugar and libs. It might become a 'hip language' again if stuff like arc or goo ever gets anywhere (and some fanatics suddenly implements a shitload of useful libraries for them).
I agree that the commentary is pretty weak. Personally I would have appreciated less cheerleading and more rational analysis.
I do, however, disagree with your analysis about what ESR is trying to communicate. In the finishing comments he does say that this memo is not especially evil or anything, it just happens to give insight into which anti-OSS strategies we will be seeing next. Especially the sentence "the sort of thing that gets churned out daily by clueless corporate droids everywhere" says essentially the same thing that you seem to be saying - every company is saying stuff like this all the time, they haven't done anything strange or wrong. Informative document neverthless.
Reflexively dismissing something (or reading it as MS-bashing) just because it comes from an open source advocate is just as silly as saying that all MS software is crap.
A quick search on his mailadress on google turns up this: "Jonathan Kipling Knight has a BS in Physics, an MA in Applied Mathematics and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science."
Hardly enough credentials to guarantee that he's not a crackpot, but enough to allow the possibility that he has some basic understanding of cryptographics.
A search on google groups shows that he has never discussed on any crypto groups using this mail adress or his name. So not very active on the scene.
Well most of you may not get any idea of what Russia is. At least let me tell you one thing - 90% of what Holywood makes about us is pure crap.
90% of what Hollywood makes about any country (including USA) is pure crap.
People who read this are probably familiar with computers to the degree that they can see how much nonsense the Hollywood depiction of, for example, a hacker is. As a matter of fact, any area in which I have special interests are treated with the same massive flood of factual incorrectness. Given this record, do we have any reason to believe that any of the subjects we know less about are treated with any accuracy?
I am totally serious when I say that slashdot needs a "-1 wrong" or "-1 factual error".
True - Kramnik is a staunch defender.
Computers are not big on taking risks to begin with (they hardly ever sacrifice material for instance) and they don't really "play for a win", but if the operators wanted it to play more drawish, that would not be a problem, provided that they are allowed to adjust some positional parameters.
A 5 min game would be extremely difficult for Kramnik. Quick games are basically just about calculating tactics, since the deeper aspects become hidden behind both sides poor play. A human excels in stuff like planning and sometimes logical reasoning, which both takes some time to do. It is a well known fact that computers don't improve their play much when given longer time (programmers will recognize this problem as "the exponential wall").
On a side note: In this game Kramnik drew easily because he could do some logical reasoning that no computer has ever done. He understood that in the final position, the computer could manoeuver around as much as it damn well pleased, there were simply no legal moves that could ever threaten anything. A computer will have great difficulty understanding this, since the calculation of variations will not show this simple visual fact.
In my opinion Deep Fritz will never beat Kramnik in a Berlin Defence. The team could try to deviate earlier, perhaps by closing the position with 4.d3, but this will also be easy play for Kramnik. They could also skip the Ruy Lopez altogether and play 3.Bc4 (Italian) or 2.f4 (King's gambit) instead, but these moves are not so common among the extreme elite. Kramnik would probably equalize comfortably against these moves. IMHO the team should try either switching to 1.d4 (at least for one game, to see where it leads) or just try to head for equal but tactically complicated positions after the King's gambit or the Italian, mentioned above. Playing 1.c4 or 1.Nf3 would probably be unwise. Kramnik knows these waters extremely well and could probably easily steer the game to a dull and totally safe position.
My money is on Kramnik, he will probably not lose a single game.
English is indeed hard. In this case, for instance, you are simply wrong. "[T]he lake has nearly a dozen species of fish in it" is not proper English. Do a google search on "fishes".
The first three matches: Coral Reef Fishes Division of Fishes - Ichthyology, Fish A CATALOG OF THE SPECIES OF FISHES
Now, I'm not even a native English speaker, but isn't it true that when talking about several different species of fish, the plural is still "fishes"? Similarly, when "viri" is used, the plural form often denominates several kinds of viri, and not several copies of the same virus (or "one infection"). The matter seems still unresolved to me.
I think the problem is that it is so boring (and sometimes difficult) to program all the drivers that are needed. Hell - if I could magically interface with all my hardware, I would have made my own superduper OS (based on "naughty", my own semi-interpreted LISP-ish language) a long time ago.
As far as I'm concerned they could just skip the whole respawning-patch and give me a nice save/load function. Also get some japanese game designers (anyone involved in Tekken or DOA would do) to work on the women to make them more giggly, with bouncier breasts and that strange desire to show off their panties.
Furthermore - is it too much to ask to be able to see my XP? I've been slaying people for months, but my level does not seem to increase.
If the developers have an unstable version with these features, I am willing to beta test.
I am _still_ waiting for my PDA and my mobile phone to be one device! Does anybody know if there are any accessories that give the Zaurus GSM capability?
Since he had to pass through customs (or something like that), he could not keep the data on regular media. Bear in mind that the actual data that he downloads is originally on a tiny CD-like thing. He had to use "natural" media (the brain) so that they wouldn't suspect him of being the courier. Thus it is really the brain that is supposed to have 160 GB of free space, that can be utilized before it starts to write over personal stuff. You can hardly expect the brains storage capacity to follow the same exponential laws as hardware, now can you?;)
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The next time I go bug-huntin', I hope I remember that quote. It's true - you do always win in the end, but it hardly feels like that when you're pulling your hair and trying to contain frustrated screams.
"The chinaman peed on my rug" is a quote from The Big Lebowski and so is my answer. And so is the subject of this post. Get a haircut.
Asian american...
Of course, they'll need to use Conway's chained arrow notation just to get the sum down on paper.
Consider this, when you flash your lights to an oncoming vehical, you are conveying information
Consider this, when you flash your tits to an oncoming vehicle, you are also conveying information.
Yet there are sometimes laws against it.
When you add something as simple as the standard logarithmic utility function (which basically means that if you have $1.000.000, your utility/happiness/survival will go down more from losing $1.000.000, than it will go up from gaining another $1.000.000), a rational agent becomes risk averse and can thus theoretically benefit from insurance. Lotteries become even more of a sucker deal when you involve the utility function.
BTW, IANAE.
So it wouldn't be for all those naughty goatse pictures then?
That the community is more alive, the libraries are better organized, no one likes prefix math and companies does not run away screaming when they hear the name. Scheme and Common LISP are stagnant.
LISP is damn cool, it just needs some syntactic sugar and libs. It might become a 'hip language' again if stuff like arc or goo ever gets anywhere (and some fanatics suddenly implements a shitload of useful libraries for them).
I agree that the commentary is pretty weak. Personally I would have appreciated less cheerleading and more rational analysis.
I do, however, disagree with your analysis about what ESR is trying to communicate. In the finishing comments he does say that this memo is not especially evil or anything, it just happens to give insight into which anti-OSS strategies we will be seeing next. Especially the sentence "the sort of thing that gets churned out daily by clueless corporate droids everywhere" says essentially the same thing that you seem to be saying - every company is saying stuff like this all the time, they haven't done anything strange or wrong. Informative document neverthless.
Reflexively dismissing something (or reading it as MS-bashing) just because it comes from an open source advocate is just as silly as saying that all MS software is crap.
Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.
Thus tricking the judge into letting you of the hook on the anti-trust suite regarding your other monopolies. Your ideas intrigue me...
Well, I always enjoyed a good apple fight. It seems more fair than dragging lawyers into it.
This is the way it has always been written. Are the fnords getting to you?
A quick search on his mailadress on google turns up this:
"Jonathan Kipling Knight has a BS in Physics, an MA in Applied Mathematics and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science."
Hardly enough credentials to guarantee that he's not a crackpot, but enough to allow the possibility that he has some basic understanding of cryptographics.
A search on google groups shows that he has never discussed on any crypto groups using this mail adress or his name. So not very active on the scene.
90% of what Hollywood makes about any country (including USA) is pure crap.
People who read this are probably familiar with computers to the degree that they can see how much nonsense the Hollywood depiction of, for example, a hacker is. As a matter of fact, any area in which I have special interests are treated with the same massive flood of factual incorrectness. Given this record, do we have any reason to believe that any of the subjects we know less about are treated with any accuracy?
Her: "That's not really a female connector, you know..."
Him: "It's alright, this is not really my IEEE 1394 firewire either."
- True - Kramnik is a staunch defender.
- Computers are not big on taking risks to begin with (they hardly ever sacrifice material for instance) and they don't really "play for a win", but if the operators wanted it to play more drawish, that would not be a problem, provided that they are allowed to adjust some positional parameters.
- A 5 min game would be extremely difficult for Kramnik. Quick games are basically just about calculating tactics, since the deeper aspects become hidden behind both sides poor play. A human excels in stuff like planning and sometimes logical reasoning, which both takes some time to do. It is a well known fact that computers don't improve their play much when given longer time (programmers will recognize this problem as "the exponential wall").
On a side note: In this game Kramnik drew easily because he could do some logical reasoning that no computer has ever done. He understood that in the final position, the computer could manoeuver around as much as it damn well pleased, there were simply no legal moves that could ever threaten anything. A computer will have great difficulty understanding this, since the calculation of variations will not show this simple visual fact.In my opinion Deep Fritz will never beat Kramnik in a Berlin Defence. The team could try to deviate earlier, perhaps by closing the position with 4.d3, but this will also be easy play for Kramnik. They could also skip the Ruy Lopez altogether and play 3.Bc4 (Italian) or 2.f4 (King's gambit) instead, but these moves are not so common among the extreme elite. Kramnik would probably equalize comfortably against these moves. IMHO the team should try either switching to 1.d4 (at least for one game, to see where it leads) or just try to head for equal but tactically complicated positions after the King's gambit or the Italian, mentioned above. Playing 1.c4 or 1.Nf3 would probably be unwise. Kramnik knows these waters extremely well and could probably easily steer the game to a dull and totally safe position.
My money is on Kramnik, he will probably not lose a single game.
English is indeed hard. In this case, for instance, you are simply wrong. "[T]he lake has nearly a dozen species of fish in it" is not proper English. Do a google search on "fishes".
The first three matches:
Coral Reef Fishes
Division of Fishes - Ichthyology, Fish
A CATALOG OF THE SPECIES OF FISHES
Now, I'm not even a native English speaker, but isn't it true that when talking about several different species of fish, the plural is still "fishes"?
Similarly, when "viri" is used, the plural form often denominates several kinds of viri, and not several copies of the same virus (or "one infection").
The matter seems still unresolved to me.
I think the problem is that it is so boring (and sometimes difficult) to program all the drivers that are needed. Hell - if I could magically interface with all my hardware, I would have made my own superduper OS (based on "naughty", my own semi-interpreted LISP-ish language) a long time ago.
As far as I'm concerned they could just skip the whole respawning-patch and give me a nice save/load function. Also get some japanese game designers (anyone involved in Tekken or DOA would do) to work on the women to make them more giggly, with bouncier breasts and that strange desire to show off their panties.
Furthermore - is it too much to ask to be able to see my XP? I've been slaying people for months, but my level does not seem to increase.
If the developers have an unstable version with these features, I am willing to beta test.
Damn funny!
I am _still_ waiting for my PDA and my mobile phone to be one device! Does anybody know if there are any accessories that give the Zaurus GSM capability?
Since he had to pass through customs (or something like that), he could not keep the data on regular media. Bear in mind that the actual data that he downloads is originally on a tiny CD-like thing. He had to use "natural" media (the brain) so that they wouldn't suspect him of being the courier. ;)
Thus it is really the brain that is supposed to have 160 GB of free space, that can be utilized before it starts to write over personal stuff. You can hardly expect the brains storage capacity to follow the same exponential laws as hardware, now can you?
Because she heard they had a guy hung like _this_ *stretches arms*.
[liter^3] = [(dm^3)^3] = [dm^9]
Something must be measured in units of dm^9, right?