Because I think greater editorial care is required for things on either the front page of Slashdot or your blog, than for a random comment or IM. Basically, I think more care is required the less casual the writing is. If writing an article, I would write it, go over it, set it aside, and then go over it a few hours or days later. That comment was typed, glanced over briefly, then posted.
Besides, Slashdot has editors. One would think they could, you know, edit something once in a while.
Oops. Clearly some of my professors would be annoyed about that. It really does seem to be a law of the universe that grammar nazi comments will have mistakes in them.
I mean, most of my professors expect correct English, at least usually...
"Dylan Greene's site Teacher Reviews which allows students to post reviews of their professors." The last time I checked, sentences needed a verb.
"Yesterday and tonight I talked with a professor who was extremely upset with what written about him on TeacherReviews." Try again, only this time you need a second verb. Probably "was," somewhere between "with" and "what."
That's annoying. Apparently you can't access their web site with ECN turned on. In case it's causing problems for anyone else who turned on ECN in their kernel config, you can turn it off with 'echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn'. And yes, that does mean they are violating RFC 793. Anyway, if you're getting a connection refused error, and are using ECN, that's probably why. You can, as always, send complaints to webmaster@rochester.edu.
In case you weren't aware, the opteron and the amd64 are the same chip. The only differences are certification and memory bus width, but my understanding is that amd will be selling 128 bit wide athlon64 parts. Some people just like to refer to the 64 bit parts as opterons for clarity.
Umm, it's faster in FP (by a moderate margin) and slower in Int (by a significant margin). If that's what your code needs, it's faster. Sure, the first version was crap, but it's gotten better. Now, if you want to complain about the price... that I agree with;)
And? A good lead or lack thereof *frequently* makes or breaks a film. If Disney does as well as they did with Pirates, and the actors do as well, and the director, and things generally go right, it could be a very good movie.
My understanding is that this exact option was considered. The decision was that they could include an effective dust removal system, at the cost of any one of the instruments. They chose to keep the instruments.
The intent of the GPL is to guarantee that if I give you a program under a GPL license, then no one can take away your freedoms as regards that program. Microsoft's intent here is to license the patents in such a way that they can revoke the license if desired. These goals are rather incompatible. Whether that makes it MS's fault... that's up to you. Personally, it doesn't surprise me; I think it's bad, I think it's an abuse of the patent system, and I think it is exactly in keeping with the habits of MS and much of other big business of late.
That's not true for 19x19, actually. Well, assuming you limit yourself to the available memory in the entire univers, and the time remaining before it ends. Raw compute power is useful, but it has its limits.
Actually, go boards through at least 6x6 are solved; I think 6x7 is solved too. A group of players from New Zealand, with the help of two Japanese professionals, has produced a proposed solution for 7x7. It is not a proof, but it would seem the "the answer" for 7x7 is known. Even 8x8 or 9x9 go is far beyond our capabilities to solve.
Copyright was originally instituted to encourage open publication. Therefore, it should only be fair that software which enjoys copyright protection must be provided with the full open specifications of the file formats it uses.
So take it a step further. Require code that enjoys copyright protection to have the source included. The copyright holder can then refuse to grant permission to redistribute the source, but at least it's there to study for interoperability purposes. Also, it doesn't get lost if the the company folds and the users want it. If copyright is there to make it so that society can benefit from the work, why should we let a few greedy corporations or individuals pervert it to keep their code secret?
And before anyone says this will lose revenue... how? if people were going to infringe on your copyright with the source available, why wouldn't they without it? Publishers of books don't complain that they have to make the text of the book available.
Of course, I agree completely that such a reform is unlikely, and implementing it all at once would probably be a bad idea... but it seems a reasonable goal to work toward, and a solution to a lot of problems with software lately.
Yes, the lack of prizes probably helps. There is some cheating, but it's usually fairly blatant and quickly noticed. There are about 6500 registered players, and I think somewhere around 2000 of those are currently active. It's not as many as would be nice, but it seems to be enough to keep prices reasonable and keep the major claims relatively liquid. Feel free to join:)
Real markets (and the "terror market" which the US proposed earlier) contain information because people work very hard to make sure their investments perform well and that they don't suffer financial losses. In stock market games, on the other hand, participants aren't penalized for losing money, only for winning huge amounts of it.
I don't know how the MIT version will turn out, but the Foresight Exchange does fairly well. It seems that people tend to care about their accounts, and for the most part prices on FX correlate very well with prices on tradesports and the Iowa Electronic Markets (to within the margins imposed by things like commissions, and on claims that are reasonably similar). So, while cheating is a very real possibility with prizes involved, it is at least possible to have play money markets that "work."
basically, you have to either run it as a gambling operation or as a securities exchange. As a gambling operation, you can't run it across state lines, so you have to go out of the country. There are a couple such; tradesports.com is the biggest, iirc. If you want to make it an actual exchange, that costs $1M to the SEC. This has so far been prohibitive. The other thing of note is the Iowa Electronic Markets, run by U of Iowa, which bet on the presidential elections. They have special permission from the SEC as a research institution, but are highly limited in what they can trade, who can trade, and how much. So, in short, it's hard to do in the US, but there are places doing it.
Also of note is Foresight Exchange, a long-established play money market. It seems a lot of people are interested in it being real, but unfortunately it seems difficult at present (and the few there are charge high comissions).
Not only that, they want to see videos of it moving *every day*. Somehow I doubt your mouse would appreciate being frozen every evening and thawed every morning...
How is this different from regular maintenence on a car? I'm required to keep my car up to date on polution standards; if I don't keep my car well maintained and the breaks fail and cause an accident, I'm liable for the damages (though insurance exists for that), etc, etc. How is expecting a random pc user to keep up to date on patches any different than expecting a random driver to keep up to date on state inspections? And before you complain about expecting too much of people, if they were legally required to keep up to date within a month, there would be a market for computer techs to keep them up to date. And before you complain that paying people to do that is too expensive, note that unsafe cars are far, far cheaper, but you aren't allowed to sell them because they have been deemed bad for society. How is this different?
I should note, however, that I generally agree with you that blaming developers is probably a better idea. But if you do that, I think you need a reasonable system to allow for occasional mistakes that are fixed in a timely manner, and also a way to allow distribution of developmental projects.
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Besides, Slashdot has editors. One would think they could, you know, edit something once in a while.
Oops. Clearly some of my professors would be annoyed about that. It really does seem to be a law of the universe that grammar nazi comments will have mistakes in them.
"Dylan Greene's site Teacher Reviews which allows students to post reviews of their professors." The last time I checked, sentences needed a verb.
"Yesterday and tonight I talked with a professor who was extremely upset with what written about him on TeacherReviews." Try again, only this time you need a second verb. Probably "was," somewhere between "with" and "what."
who skipped not only the article but the summary, to directly see what the latest round of SCO jokes was?
That's annoying. Apparently you can't access their web site with ECN turned on. In case it's causing problems for anyone else who turned on ECN in their kernel config, you can turn it off with 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn'. And yes, that does mean they are violating RFC 793. Anyway, if you're getting a connection refused error, and are using ECN, that's probably why. You can, as always, send complaints to webmaster@rochester.edu.
In case you weren't aware, the opteron and the amd64 are the same chip. The only differences are certification and memory bus width, but my understanding is that amd will be selling 128 bit wide athlon64 parts. Some people just like to refer to the 64 bit parts as opterons for clarity.
Some data: FP
Int
And? A good lead or lack thereof *frequently* makes or breaks a film. If Disney does as well as they did with Pirates, and the actors do as well, and the director, and things generally go right, it could be a very good movie.
Without the tinfoil hat? Are you kidding? There's no way you'll get me to take it off that easily.
My understanding is that this exact option was considered. The decision was that they could include an effective dust removal system, at the cost of any one of the instruments. They chose to keep the instruments.
How much C code do you recieve in your inbox, that you want to recieve?
At least it can use a spellchecker. And it can probably catch dupes on occasion, too, with some work. I don't know what you'd be complaining about.
Only if you're a subsriber. I knew there was a reason I haven't signed up yet. I don't get a future slashdot, so I don't care!
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The intent of the GPL is to guarantee that if I give you a program under a GPL license, then no one can take away your freedoms as regards that program. Microsoft's intent here is to license the patents in such a way that they can revoke the license if desired. These goals are rather incompatible. Whether that makes it MS's fault... that's up to you. Personally, it doesn't surprise me; I think it's bad, I think it's an abuse of the patent system, and I think it is exactly in keeping with the habits of MS and much of other big business of late.
That's not true for 19x19, actually. Well, assuming you limit yourself to the available memory in the entire univers, and the time remaining before it ends. Raw compute power is useful, but it has its limits.
Actually, go boards through at least 6x6 are solved; I think 6x7 is solved too. A group of players from New Zealand, with the help of two Japanese professionals, has produced a proposed solution for 7x7. It is not a proof, but it would seem the "the answer" for 7x7 is known. Even 8x8 or 9x9 go is far beyond our capabilities to solve.
So take it a step further. Require code that enjoys copyright protection to have the source included. The copyright holder can then refuse to grant permission to redistribute the source, but at least it's there to study for interoperability purposes. Also, it doesn't get lost if the the company folds and the users want it. If copyright is there to make it so that society can benefit from the work, why should we let a few greedy corporations or individuals pervert it to keep their code secret?
And before anyone says this will lose revenue... how? if people were going to infringe on your copyright with the source available, why wouldn't they without it? Publishers of books don't complain that they have to make the text of the book available.
Of course, I agree completely that such a reform is unlikely, and implementing it all at once would probably be a bad idea... but it seems a reasonable goal to work toward, and a solution to a lot of problems with software lately.
Yes. I use mozilla firebird with the adblock plugin; if you use adblock to remove the adds, you don't even get a big placeholder.
Yes, the lack of prizes probably helps. There is some cheating, but it's usually fairly blatant and quickly noticed. There are about 6500 registered players, and I think somewhere around 2000 of those are currently active. It's not as many as would be nice, but it seems to be enough to keep prices reasonable and keep the major claims relatively liquid. Feel free to join :)
I don't know how the MIT version will turn out, but the Foresight Exchange does fairly well. It seems that people tend to care about their accounts, and for the most part prices on FX correlate very well with prices on tradesports and the Iowa Electronic Markets (to within the margins imposed by things like commissions, and on claims that are reasonably similar). So, while cheating is a very real possibility with prizes involved, it is at least possible to have play money markets that "work."
Also of note is Foresight Exchange, a long-established play money market. It seems a lot of people are interested in it being real, but unfortunately it seems difficult at present (and the few there are charge high comissions).
Not only that, they want to see videos of it moving *every day*. Somehow I doubt your mouse would appreciate being frozen every evening and thawed every morning...
Every time? how often do you do this, anyway?
How is this different from regular maintenence on a car? I'm required to keep my car up to date on polution standards; if I don't keep my car well maintained and the breaks fail and cause an accident, I'm liable for the damages (though insurance exists for that), etc, etc. How is expecting a random pc user to keep up to date on patches any different than expecting a random driver to keep up to date on state inspections? And before you complain about expecting too much of people, if they were legally required to keep up to date within a month, there would be a market for computer techs to keep them up to date. And before you complain that paying people to do that is too expensive, note that unsafe cars are far, far cheaper, but you aren't allowed to sell them because they have been deemed bad for society. How is this different?
I should note, however, that I generally agree with you that blaming developers is probably a better idea. But if you do that, I think you need a reasonable system to allow for occasional mistakes that are fixed in a timely manner, and also a way to allow distribution of developmental projects.