Very good idea, having a wiki page for every geographic location. Just yesterday night, my research team had this idea and we are now patenting it. The patent should be filed by the end of week.
We just put cameras on the mission to Mars. Also see "The Simple Life".
On the mission to Mars, we should send some nude dancers, a gay, a lesbian, a hairdresser, someone with Aspergers, a hippie, a republican congressman (or any combination thereof).
We watch everything they do, their disputes and troubles get discussed every day, we give them little tasks - "Today, Bill and Joel have to repair the solar panel on a spacewalk. If they succeed, the crew may heat their dinner."
I expect a big success, though some troubles - "Bill has decided to leave, but Joel blocks the air lock".
KDE can deal with it by removing the auto-grouping, and using something more complex, for example I suggest (you better archive my post since MS might patent it, or better find more ncient suggestions of this idea), so I suggest that you use a directory tree -like structure for the taskbar, meaning you can drag items into groups etc. Then you add user-definable filtering rules like those used for an email client, and this way you can enable the user to recreate the autogrouping behaviour by "scripting" filter rules in config files.
A flat SSN does not make sounds. In the way of becoming flat though because of the pressure exerted by water at these depths, a submarine makes sounds.
NULLs make a lot of sense if you understand fields as sets; so a field with value 11 would really represent the set {11}. Now NULL makes sense because NULL = {} the empty set.
However, sometimes NULL is supposed to mean "unknown" in the meaning of "This value could be anything".
What is missing from SQL is therefore the opposite of NULL, the value ALL, which would indicate e.g. for an integer field the set containing all numbers. This is where the logic of SQL is indeed often broken, because people use NULL to indicate "unknown" and then questions like "Who COULD have murdered Jane ?" can't be answered by
"SELECT name, motive, place FROM motives, whereabouts WHERE motives.name=whereabouts.name AND whereabouts.place='house'"
But maybe you can correct my SQL:-)
(Sorry I had the wrong format selected, so I resubmitted.. should have used preview)
NULLs make a lot of sense if you understand fields as sets; so a field with value 11 would really represent the set {11}.
Now NULL makes sense because NULL = {} the empty set.
However, sometimes NULL is supposed to mean "unknown" in the meaning of "This value could be anything".
What is missing from SQL is therefore the opposite of NULL, the value ALL, which would indicate e.g. for an integer field the set containing all numbers.
This is where the logic of SQL is indeed often broken, because people use NULL to indicate "unknown" and then questions like "Who COULD have murdered Jane ?" can't be answered by
"SELECT name, motive, place FROM motives, whereabouts WHERE motives.name=whereabouts.name AND whereabouts.place='house'"
But maybe you can correct my SQL:-)
I guess most academic persons will mess this up like they mess up when discussing science fiction.
Maybe my experience is just tainted by this discussion I had with someone who insisted that science fiction was nothing but pulp fiction/space opera/gadgets.
I guess there are a lot of SF books that are like this, but there is nothing that keeps a science fiction author from writing a book with as much "depth" as normal fiction. Also sometimes the "gadgets" are what the author wants to talk about(see Arthur C. Clarke and satellites), the gadgets not always are just a means to keep the story going and cool.
Applying this to games this would mean giving recognition to games that do more than the basics, have a good background story, or include gameplay ideas from other game genres.
I wonder, if there was(years ago) another planet out there with exactly the same transmission behavior as Earth what are the chances that SETI would be able to detect it ?
Or can SETI detect only communication if we happen to be practically the target of the transmission ?
This wont work on any serious scale because the people who are interested in doing it are just the ones who will have tons of illegal downloads sitting around on their harddrives.
It is much like escaping from prison and then provoking a police officer to arrest you unlawfully.
This is false. Much like the BSD-licensed code, you may GPL'ed code for anything you wish.
Obviously, I can't simply rename GNU software, remove the license and sell it. I also cannot legally print the source into a big stack of paper and bash Bill through the windows with it.
So, if the app is just some random internal-use-only app..
He didn't say it was internal use only. Also, in a business context, can you really make sure that it stays internal ? What if the company gets bought ? What if it splits up into small companies ? What if your app is so great you want to sell it ?
What you cannot do is to distribute GPL code without offering the same rights as you were given under the GPL.
I read this up under the GNU website yesterday, and they commented that you can't distribute the program either without offering the same rights.
And the original comment isn't fitting in all situations either:Well, if I understand the GPL accurately, you can't use a GPL lib without sharing your entire codebase.
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Well, if it is a "lib", then it is possible that the lib is available under the LGPL, and in this case your codebase stays yours and unburdened.
Now to add something myself, it it somewhat annoying that it is usually the GPL that gets used not the LGPL or the GNU Artistic License.
For example, if I have a snippet of code that is under GPL, and I don't change it and it is clearly separated and encapsulated in one file, then if I make a program that calls that code then I am supposed to make not only that code but the entire program available under the GPL.
Clearly that does not make that much sense; consider for example if I spend some more brains and effort I could place the GPL code snippet in a separate program, and call the code by the venerable systems exec command, and in this case I only have to make the wrapper I made for the GPLed code under the GPL.
This may be cool from a theoretic point of view, "free software", but it is difficult in practice.
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"What happens if everyone clicks on an earthquake at the same time?"
Let's analyze this: Because of relativity, you have choose a point in spacetime where you measure same-time-ness from; So, clicking at the same time must be taken to mean that the click arrives at the same time at the quake server.
For the click to arrive at the same at the quake server, the clickers have to be at the same internet distance, and the server has to be able to handle the clicks at the same time. You could use a rack of dual-core processor servers, but I suggest you simply use akamai.
This gives the answer: The click is handled by the akamai server closest to your location, so what happens is, two or more earthquakes are spawned, one near you, one near every other one who clicked. Then every akamai server executes the click on his local earthquake.
Of course, if you had quantum-entangled clickers, you ACTUALLY could click on a single earthquake at the same time, but all of your clickers have to be identical twins to each other - This is kind of unrealistic isn't it ?
However the same argument you make should then apply to the existing hand-stun guns - and they seem to work. Maybe the shooter actually conducts electricity, but the flow and voltage is low, while the shot is a compressed burst of high voltage and ampere ?
I also wondered about something similar: Some days ago I watched an electrician draw diagrams of a shortcut and that the current then takes the ground as a route back to the central power generator. I really wonder, doesn't the ground just act more like a giant capacitor that sucks up electrons and disperses them or can you really say there is a closed current with the generator ?
IMHO some people who legally own copies of some copyrighted work(almost everyone does) should get together and sue the government for damages.
Extending copyright practically means you take away the rights to copy from the owners of books and other media, and when property of yours gets taken away for the better of the public, you are entitled to compensation.
Taking away something without compensating for it is communist.
It is a bit unfair to compare it with MapQuest, since it tries to do better by taking into account how dangerous areas are, for example it could consider that a forest is safer for infantry.
It is pretty obvious that pathfinding that takes into account danger is better than pathfinding that does not, esp. if you have ever played Command and Conquer like me and seen your harvesters trying to move through the enemy base to reach resources on the other side of your base.;-)
I expect you would have settings for the software such as "the REALLY SAFE path"(back up and move around with tanks) or just "safe path".
You could also add influence maps and burnt circles(tm S.S.).
Lots of directories, even if organized deep actually don't help much after a point if you have lots of entries. They are fine for organizing projects, though.
I'm actually talking about organizing my bookmarks;-) The problem is both that I never get around to sort all of them, and much more often use google on www to find something than to check my bookmarks. Even after sorting a bookmark into a category, there is not enough information to find a bookmark relevant to a (sub)topic.
This sounds like a task for a non-hierarchical file system, or one with a database like query interface. The first thing the system should do when you create a file should be to ask the user to categorize the file by keywords.
Or maybe a list of keywords could be autogenerated. I think I would need something that googles my mozilla bookmarks;-)
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Very good idea, having a wiki page for every geographic location. Just yesterday night, my research team had this idea and we are now patenting it. The patent should be filed by the end of week.
Yours truly,
Bill Gates
We just put cameras on the mission to Mars.
Also see "The Simple Life".
On the mission to Mars, we should send some nude dancers, a gay, a lesbian, a hairdresser, someone with Aspergers, a hippie, a republican congressman (or any combination thereof).
We watch everything they do, their disputes and troubles get discussed every day, we give them little tasks - "Today, Bill and Joel have to repair the solar panel on a spacewalk. If they succeed, the crew may heat their dinner."
I expect a big success, though some troubles - "Bill has decided to leave, but Joel blocks the air lock".
Well, they tried to get some people to use their windows scripting host, and their offer "was well received" by viruses made by 1337 h4x025 ..
Also you could rename DirectX to "3D graphics scripting interface" if you want to anger a programmer.
They also have VBScript. They just were not met with cheers, but I guess theres a reason for it.
Uglyness, bad interfaces, no free documentation.
Probably another reason is that closed programming shops don't work unless you invest lots of money in it.
Well it sort of makes sense:
x as in x-rated
free as in free prn
8 as in a boobs
6 as in sex (or 69)
x96 - the site for couples that don't have sex
KDE can deal with it by removing the auto-grouping, and using something more complex, for example I suggest (you better archive my post since MS might patent it, or better find more ncient suggestions of this idea), so I suggest that you use a directory tree -like structure for the taskbar, meaning you can drag items into groups etc. Then you add user-definable filtering rules like those used for an email client, and this way you can enable the user to recreate the autogrouping behaviour by "scripting" filter rules in config files.
You just scored high on our terrorist awareness program (TAP).
Now friendly patriotic truckers will guard your house day and night.
Curses, the Unix/C text console library does not have a taskbar, so I guess it can't be foiled by the patent on taskbar grouping.
The German Telecom has trademarked the color magenta, registered with the patent office.
So yes, you can patent the colour of the sky, you just have to pay patenting and waste money on marketing/being a big company.
A flat SSN does not make sounds. In the way of becoming flat though because of the pressure exerted by water at these depths, a submarine makes sounds.
I guess like a coke can, just lasting longer.
NULLs make a lot of sense if you understand fields as sets; so a field with value 11 would really represent the set {11}.
:-)
.. should have used preview)
Now NULL makes sense because NULL = {} the empty set.
However, sometimes NULL is supposed to mean "unknown" in the meaning of "This value could be anything".
What is missing from SQL is therefore the opposite of NULL, the value ALL, which would indicate e.g. for an integer field the set containing all numbers.
This is where the logic of SQL is indeed often broken, because people use NULL to indicate "unknown" and then questions like "Who COULD have murdered Jane ?" can't be answered by
"SELECT name, motive, place FROM motives, whereabouts WHERE motives.name=whereabouts.name AND whereabouts.place='house'"
But maybe you can correct my SQL
(Sorry I had the wrong format selected, so I resubmitted
NULLs make a lot of sense if you understand fields as sets; so a field with value 11 would really represent the set {11}. Now NULL makes sense because NULL = {} the empty set. However, sometimes NULL is supposed to mean "unknown" in the meaning of "This value could be anything". What is missing from SQL is therefore the opposite of NULL, the value ALL, which would indicate e.g. for an integer field the set containing all numbers. This is where the logic of SQL is indeed often broken, because people use NULL to indicate "unknown" and then questions like "Who COULD have murdered Jane ?" can't be answered by "SELECT name, motive, place FROM motives, whereabouts WHERE motives.name=whereabouts.name AND whereabouts.place='house'" But maybe you can correct my SQL :-)
We had a bath party in Iraq, but the bush made us end it, so now we side with the programmers who scratch their itches.
I guess most academic persons will mess this up like they mess up when discussing science fiction.
Maybe my experience is just tainted by this discussion I had with someone who insisted that science fiction was nothing but pulp fiction/space opera/gadgets.
I guess there are a lot of SF books that are like this, but there is nothing that keeps a science fiction author from writing a book with as much "depth" as normal fiction. Also sometimes the "gadgets" are what the author wants to talk about(see Arthur C. Clarke and satellites), the gadgets not always are just a means to keep the story going and cool.
Applying this to games this would mean giving recognition to games that do more than the basics, have a good background story, or include gameplay ideas from other game genres.
I wonder, if there was(years ago) another planet out there with exactly the same transmission behavior as Earth what are the chances that SETI would be able to detect it ?
Or can SETI detect only communication if we happen to be practically the target of the transmission ?
This wont work on any serious scale because the people who are interested in doing it are just the ones who will have tons of illegal downloads sitting around on their harddrives.
It is much like escaping from prison and then provoking a police officer to arrest you unlawfully.
Change your name to "Shop Lifter".
..
You then don't need to give your name because doing so would incriminate you
In Soviet Russia the cluster models YOU.
This is false. Much like the BSD-licensed code, you may GPL'ed code for anything you wish.
Obviously, I can't simply rename GNU software, remove the license and sell it. I also cannot legally print the source into a big stack of paper and bash Bill through the windows with it.
So, if the app is just some random internal-use-only app ..
He didn't say it was internal use only. Also, in a business context, can you really make sure that it stays internal ? What if the company gets bought ? What if it splits up into small companies ? What if your app is so great you want to sell it ?
What you cannot do is to distribute GPL code without offering the same rights as you were given under the GPL.
I read this up under the GNU website yesterday, and they commented that you can't distribute the program either without offering the same rights.
And the original comment isn't fitting in all situations either:Well, if I understand the GPL accurately, you can't use a GPL lib without sharing your entire codebase. .
Well, if it is a "lib", then it is possible that the lib is available under the LGPL, and in this case your codebase stays yours and unburdened.
Now to add something myself, it it somewhat annoying that it is usually the GPL that gets used not the LGPL or the GNU Artistic License.
For example, if I have a snippet of code that is under GPL, and I don't change it and it is clearly separated and encapsulated in one file, then if I make a program that calls that code then I am supposed to make not only that code but the entire program available under the GPL.
Clearly that does not make that much sense; consider for example if I spend some more brains and effort I could place the GPL code snippet in a separate program, and call the code by the venerable systems exec command, and in this case I only have to make the wrapper I made for the GPLed code under the GPL.
This may be cool from a theoretic point of view, "free software", but it is difficult in practice.
"What happens if everyone clicks on an earthquake at the same time?"
Let's analyze this: Because of relativity, you have choose a point in spacetime where you measure same-time-ness from; So, clicking at the same time must be taken to mean that the click arrives at the same time at the quake server.
For the click to arrive at the same at the quake server, the clickers have to be at the same internet distance, and the server has to be able to handle the clicks at the same time. You could use a rack of dual-core processor servers, but I suggest you simply use akamai.
This gives the answer: The click is handled by the akamai server closest to your location, so what happens is, two or more earthquakes are spawned, one near you, one near every other one who clicked. Then every akamai server executes the click on his local earthquake.
Of course, if you had quantum-entangled clickers, you ACTUALLY could click on a single earthquake at the same time, but all of your clickers have to be identical twins to each other - This is kind of unrealistic isn't it ?
However the same argument you make should then apply to the existing hand-stun guns - and they seem to work. Maybe the shooter actually conducts electricity, but the flow and voltage is low, while the shot is a compressed burst of high voltage and ampere ?
I also wondered about something similar: Some days ago I watched an electrician draw diagrams of a shortcut and that the current then takes the ground as a route back to the central power generator. I really wonder, doesn't the ground just act more like a giant capacitor that sucks up electrons and disperses them or can you really say there is a closed current with the generator ?
Finally a game that I can play against my giant pet snail and where it can beat me.
(The mention of W. is also a good one)
IMHO some people who legally own copies of some copyrighted work(almost everyone does) should get together and sue the government for damages.
Extending copyright practically means you take away the rights to copy from the owners of books and other media, and when property of yours gets taken away for the better of the public, you are entitled to compensation.
Taking away something without compensating for it is communist.
Uh, sorry you have typo in that line. It is supposed to read:
You have the right to purchase happiness.
It is a bit unfair to compare it with MapQuest, since it tries to do better by taking into account how dangerous areas are, for example it could consider that a forest is safer for infantry.
;-)
It is pretty obvious that pathfinding that takes into account danger is better than pathfinding that does not, esp. if you have ever played Command and Conquer like me and seen your harvesters trying to move through the enemy base to reach resources on the other side of your base.
I expect you would have settings for the software such as "the REALLY SAFE path"(back up and move around with tanks) or just "safe path".
You could also add influence maps and burnt circles(tm S.S.).
Lots of directories, even if organized deep actually don't help much after a point if you have lots of entries. They are fine for organizing projects, though.
;-) The problem is both that I never get around to sort all of them, and much more often use google on www to find something than to check my bookmarks.
;-)
I'm actually talking about organizing my bookmarks
Even after sorting a bookmark into a category, there is not enough information to find a bookmark relevant to a (sub)topic.
This sounds like a task for a non-hierarchical file system, or one with a database like query interface.
The first thing the system should do when you create a file should be to ask the user to categorize the file by keywords.
Or maybe a list of keywords could be autogenerated.
I think I would need something that googles my mozilla bookmarks