Analysts at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, who have been busy translating, rotating and dropping, have demonstrated what the rest of us suspected: Tetris is hard. Technically, it's 'NP-hard,'
Mybe they should be studying the correlation between how challenging problems are to AI, and how enjoyable they are for the human brain.
Obviously loads of people love Tetris. My favourite game is Sokoban, which is beloved of AI researchers as it is P Space complete.
Oh, and it's available for sed, as well as emacs :-)
..is the title of Harry Benjamin's book on a set of simple exercises to permanently cure your eye problems. There's really no need to prop up any part of the multi-billion dollar vision industry, when you can cure yourself:-)
See
here for more info.
hth
- Derwen
...is the title of Harry Benjamin's book on a set of simple exercises to permanently cure your eye problems. There's really no need to prop up any part of the multi-billion dollar vision industry, when you can cure yourself:-)
See
here for more info.
hth
- Derwen
and 'a McDonald's kiosk and... the company's branded food' in the game."
Most games don't take the realism far enough, but this one takes it both ways: The burgers you get from a 'meatspace' McDonalds have the same nutritional value as those made from pixels on your screen.
I have never seen a Debian machine in a production environment. Seriously. Every production Linux machine I see is Red Hat. Netcraft seems to agree too. I rarely see Debian, but I see Red Hat all the time when doing netcraft lookups.
Maybe if by admin you mean, "personal SMTP/DHCP/Firewall server on DSL in my closet" then sure.
Random example 1:
In the September edition of Linux Pro - the mini-magazine that comes with Linux Format - The Positive Internet Company have a two page advertorial singing the praises of Debian GNU/Linux, and all that it has done for their company, and their customers.
Random example 2:
The 2 tera flop 512 node SDU Supercluster at Syddansk Universitet, in Denmark.
- Derwen
As is debian can't seem to release in a timely manner why add more fuel to the fire. Wouldn't it be simpler to accomplish the same thing with task packages? Why a whole seperate distro? I mean the base system would be the same, only difference should be the additional packages installed. Seems pretty silly to me.
Ahem, it/is/ such a task package. From the announcement:
HOW TO HELP
Many things can be done and needs to be done :
- integrate in Debian some external Debian packages for education
(we created some of these for the french Debian Education)
And as for releasing in a timely manner - not only do Debian release 'when it's ready', and stick to that, but there were some reasonable excuses last time:-/
- Derwen
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So, am I terribly wrong if I assume that there is not the cost benefit or atleast it is not very significant?
You are right to assume that cost is not significant, as the 'market' is skewed by all sorts of factors (special site licences, donations tying hardware to software, support deals, education authority incompetence, overworked and poorly-trained teachers , etc).
The real strength of Free Software in education is - Freedom to share, study, understand, modify and improve the code matters everywhere, but it counts double in education, which is based on foundations of openness, experiment and passing on of knowledge.
- Derwen
Debian is a bit too late. They will have to be extremely aggressive if they would want folks like us to switch over.
Debian, aggressive?
ROTFL:-)))
Debian GNU/Linux got to be the one true distro (TM), and the most popular with admins, simply by being the best:-)
That's the only strategy Debian has ever had (backed up, of course, by its social contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)) -
and that seems to have worked just fine;-)
In all seriousness, it's great that Debian are doing this - and great that Red Hat do something similar. When every child has access to a Free *nix at school (or even access to a school - never mind a computer) will be the time to start bickering about which GNU/Linux distro has the biggest dick in the edu world;-)
- Derwen
You seem to be saying that the cow not living at all (due to veganism) is cruel. I was following the implications of such a view.
Apologies if I misunderstood, and that was not what you were saying.
- Derwen
0. Grass sward contains many useful and edible plants.
1. Dig up the grass and plant some of the 5000 edible plants that grow in our climate.
2. What cattle eat only grass species?
3. If you want to eat cows (or mothers' milk from cows) then fine, but find an argument that isn't based on land use. I've got plenty that you could have, but I'm not feeling generous today;-P
but in the vegan option, the cow never existed. Who's more cruel?
An interesting point, let's follow this line a little...
In the western world 95% of dairy cows are conceived through artificial insemination (the other AI;-)
Now, as you say, were we all to turn vegan, these cows would not exist. Is the suggestion that it is better to create a huge amount of life, regardless of consequence - that quantity of life is a good in itself?
OK then, better get campaigning against China's birth control policies - which are holding the country's population at scarcely more than a billion. And all those charities (and the UN) working to promote birth control in Latin America, lets stop that now!
Cows are raised on marginal land. That's grass land that's poor, too steep or rocky to be plowed, irrigated, or raise other crops).
Hey, you obviously don't live in the prime dairy area of your country. Cows here are raised on high quality land: in the winter they feed on crops grown on other prime quality land.
Now a lot of second guessing about our diet goes on by people who know everything. But the bottom line is...
That's quite true, however not only are my roots in the country, I still live their now, in a village where cows outnumber peple ten to one;-)
- Derwen
This begs me to ask the question:
Do veggies really "love animals" or do they just really hate plants?
Hmm, try a little arithmetic:
one pound of steak arrives on your plate courtesy of some fifty pounds of plants (and ten to a hundred times its calorific value in energy consumed to produce it, depending upon the production method, but that's another matter).
One pound of vegetables costs the life of one pound of vegetables.
Ergo our carrot munching friends have saved the lives of 49 pounds of vegetables each time you eat a pound of steak.
(and saved millions of acres of land, so other people on this crowded planet can eat - perhaps it's people that veggies like, after all?)
- Derwen
It is nice to think that a farmer could use such a device to get prices on equipment and such from around the world, however, what good will it do them? They still will probably be forced to buy what is easily
provided.
Instead, this seems like a case where people are just hoping that a computer can magically fix so many problems. I don't understand it, how exactly is the computer supposed to be the answer that solves world
poverty?
You have a rather narrow view of peoples' chance for progress:-(
Whilst the farmer may carry on with her farm, with little direct and immediate benefit to herself from the computer, it could mean a lot for her children. Tech jobs is a growth sector in India (unlike in Europe atm) and early access to technology for children of the poor can lead to them getting out of povrty - through a good job - and then helping others in their family/community, too.
You might as well question what use a cheap PC is to someone who works in your local "burger bar" - after all, it won't help them with their burger-flipping:-/ - Derwen
But it already has. It is a mature codec; Free and offers better quality at normally-used bitrates.
Ogg is used by many thousands of people who aren't going to stop using it just because it isn't currently the most popular lossy compression.
Of course one day we may have so much bandwidth and diskspace that we don't need to compress our 24-bit, 192KHz, 5.1 sound files - but until then we'll stick with ogg, thanks:)
- Derwen
How much do you want to bet this breaks samba. How much do you want to bet that Microsoft won't release enough information for the samba team to quickly support the
new file system. How much do you want to bet this has nothing to do with making a better file system and more to do with killing non-Microsoft servers. I would give any
other company the benefit of the doubt. Microsoft's history, however, proves everything they do is to increase marketshare and nothing to do with making a better OS.
Funnily enough Jeremy Allison has been predicting something like this for a while and mentions this in an interview in the next issue of Linux Format magazine (issue 26, to be published at the end of the month).
- Derwen
I bet that it won't break samba at all for a very simple reason. They have to maintain backwards compatability.
Bzzt. Wrong!;-)
Everyone will be on the XP license treadmill by the time that this comes out. None of the older systems will any longer be officially supported by MS.
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Obviously loads of people love Tetris. My favourite game is Sokoban, which is beloved of AI researchers as it is P Space complete.
Oh, and it's available for sed, as well as emacs
- Derwen
See here for more info.
hth
- Derwen
See here for more info.
hth
- Derwen
- Derwen
In the September edition of Linux Pro - the mini-magazine that comes with Linux Format - The Positive Internet Company have a two page advertorial singing the praises of Debian GNU/Linux, and all that it has done for their company, and their customers.
Random example 2:
The 2 tera flop 512 node SDU Supercluster at Syddansk Universitet, in Denmark.
- Derwen
- Derwen
You are right to assume that cost is not significant, as the 'market' is skewed by all sorts of factors (special site licences, donations tying hardware to software, support deals, education authority incompetence, overworked and poorly-trained teachers , etc).
The real strength of Free Software in education is - Freedom to share, study, understand, modify and improve the code matters everywhere, but it counts double in education, which is based on foundations of openness, experiment and passing on of knowledge.
- Derwen
Debian, aggressive?
ROTFL
Debian GNU/Linux got to be the one true distro (TM), and the most popular with admins, simply by being the best :-)
;-)
That's the only strategy Debian has ever had (backed up, of course, by its social contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)) - and that seems to have worked just fine
In all seriousness, it's great that Debian are doing this - and great that Red Hat do something similar. When every child has access to a Free *nix at school (or even access to a school - never mind a computer) will be the time to start bickering about which GNU/Linux distro has the biggest dick in the edu world ;-)
- Derwen
Apologies if I misunderstood, and that was not what you were saying.
- Derwen
0. Grass sward contains many useful and edible plants. 1. Dig up the grass and plant some of the 5000 edible plants that grow in our climate. 2. What cattle eat only grass species? 3. If you want to eat cows (or mothers' milk from cows) then fine, but find an argument that isn't based on land use. I've got plenty that you could have, but I'm not feeling generous today
An interesting point, let's follow this line a little...
In the western world 95% of dairy cows are conceived through artificial insemination (the other AI
Now, as you say, were we all to turn vegan, these cows would not exist. Is the suggestion that it is better to create a huge amount of life, regardless of consequence - that quantity of life is a good in itself?
OK then, better get campaigning against China's birth control policies - which are holding the country's population at scarcely more than a billion. And all those charities (and the UN) working to promote birth control in Latin America, lets stop that now!
Hey, you obviously don't live in the prime dairy area of your country. Cows here are raised on high quality land: in the winter they feed on crops grown on other prime quality land. That's quite true, however not only are my roots in the country, I still live their now, in a village where cows outnumber peple ten to one
- Derwen
Hmm, try a little arithmetic:
one pound of steak arrives on your plate courtesy of some fifty pounds of plants (and ten to a hundred times its calorific value in energy consumed to produce it, depending upon the production method, but that's another matter).
One pound of vegetables costs the life of one pound of vegetables.
Ergo our carrot munching friends have saved the lives of 49 pounds of vegetables each time you eat a pound of steak.
(and saved millions of acres of land, so other people on this crowded planet can eat - perhaps it's people that veggies like, after all?)
- Derwen
is self delusion Due to Y2K issues it thinks it's still 1972, so it's way too young to burn out and die
Whilst the farmer may carry on with her farm, with little direct and immediate benefit to herself from the computer, it could mean a lot for her children.
Tech jobs is a growth sector in India (unlike in Europe atm) and early access to technology for children of the poor can lead to them getting out of povrty - through a good job - and then helping others in their family/community, too.
You might as well question what use a cheap PC is to someone who works in your local "burger bar" - after all, it won't help them with their burger-flipping :-/
- Derwen
it's will never make it.
But it already has. It is a mature codec; Free and offers better quality at normally-used bitrates.
Ogg is used by many thousands of people who aren't going to stop using it just because it isn't currently the most popular lossy compression.
Of course one day we may have so much bandwidth and diskspace that we don't need to compress our 24-bit, 192KHz, 5.1 sound files - but until then we'll stick with ogg, thanks :)
- Derwen
Actually it's "neighbourhood renewal" - we're very attached to all the useless extra vowels that the French so kindly donated to the language =o)
That aside, I agree with your broader point. We will be dealing with the repurcussions of this destruction of community for generations :-(
- Derwen
Funnily enough Jeremy Allison has been predicting something like this for a while and mentions this in an interview in the next issue of Linux Format magazine (issue 26, to be published at the end of the month).
- Derwen
Bzzt. Wrong!
Everyone will be on the XP license treadmill by the time that this comes out. None of the older systems will any longer be officially supported by MS.
Yeah. But we found that the Americans didn't have a rugby team, so we never went back
- Derwen
Indeed, it is good news. Don't forget that it's being done in primary and secondary education, too.
- Derwen