Re:Get your head from out of your arse
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1. Most education in Japan for professions like engineering etc. is done in the workplace.
2. Plenty of U.S. schools have IB programs -- I attended one.
3. #2 is irrelevant, however, because high school (or equivalent) is irrelevant.
Re:GDP/capita in Kuwait is 2/3 of US's GDP/capita
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Yes, but the poor in Kuwait (and other mideast countries) are extremely poor while the rich and powerful are extremely rich. People will try to say the same about the U.S., but that was the point of the article -- even the poor in the U.S. are not doing too bad, and most of us are somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, it must of creeped me out too in order to remember it at all. I vaguely remembered it when I read the original comment then after I followed your link and saw the '3-2-1 Contact' logo it at all clicked.
It takes second place on the tv-shows-that-creeped-me-out-as-a-kid-o-meter after a G.I. Joe episode about a mind-control carwash or something..
I'm not saying it's not copyrighted (although that may have been implied in my analogy), but I am saying that the functionality or content, rather than appearance, is the true value of the site to its operators. Hence, there is no reason for them to care.
However, I do know people, (my boss for one), who would prefer to hide the source for their web pages if at all possible.
The only thing exposed through HTML code is "look and feel". Stealing an HTML page is like stealing a blank book. If you could read PHP/Java/etc. and read the database table definitions my selecting "View Source" your analogy would be more valid, but it is still uncomparable to say, selling a Word Processor package, because most web pages work on a service model. This is funny, because people blast Microsoft for their well-known plans to move to a service model (pay-to-use the software), yet this is the exact same model OSS claims as a viable profit model.
I guess you played on a board with a stupid SysOp who set the turns/day at something like 5000+. Man I hated that shit. 750 is the maximum tolerable (about 1.5 hours worth), 500 is preferable. Giving inifinite turns just turned the game into a pissing contest of who could live with the least sleep, no school, no job, and no life.
This looks like an implementation of Self-Organizing Map system using neural nets for categorization of documents. It probably is working something like this:
Retrieve documents relevant documents based on keywords. As someone else already pointed out, this is a meta-search engine -- it is using other search engines to gather links and then retrieving those documents.
Using those documents, it computes a context for each word. This is done by assigning every word a random vector of say, 70 or so elements. The context is then computed from average of the vectors of the words surrounding each word, in the entire text collection.
These vectors are then used as inputs into a neural net -- the closest matching vectors on the net are labeled with the corresponding words and the neural net is smoothed from there with the associated context vectors. This creates a word category map.
A word histogram is then built from each document. This histogram is then mapped to the word category map and the resultant vectors are used as an input to another self organizing map -- the document map.
The document map represents clusters of related documents.
Obviously there are many different ways to do this, for example, use other criteria such as noun phrases instead of words, and there are lots of variations within just this particular implementation. I can't actually see what Kartoo is doing because the site isn't working for me, but I suspect it's something similar -- I think the 'Topics' is for example the word or phrase category map and the 'Sites' is the document map.
Actually, if you've looked at the screenshots, it's not just the units that need work, it's the tileset and even the GUI itself. I swear it would look twice as good if they would just fix the bottom panel too look like something other than the blurry greyscale mess that it is.
Those graphics are really bad though. I know, programmer art and all, but this project seems pretty popular -- couldn't they get some decent artists to help?
Three engineers are in a car driving down the freeway. Suddenly the engine stalls out and the driver pulls the car over. The engineers all scratch their heads wondering what could be wrong.
The chemical engineer says, "perhaps the fuel is the wrong type or the oil has broken down."
The electrical engineer says, "maybe there is faulty wiring or a sensor is bad."
The software engineer has a practical solution: "close all the windows, get out, get back in, and restart the car."
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2. Plenty of U.S. schools have IB programs -- I attended one.
3. #2 is irrelevant, however, because high school (or equivalent) is irrelevant.
Yes, but the poor in Kuwait (and other mideast countries) are extremely poor while the rich and powerful are extremely rich. People will try to say the same about the U.S., but that was the point of the article -- even the poor in the U.S. are not doing too bad, and most of us are somewhere in the middle.
It takes second place on the tv-shows-that-creeped-me-out-as-a-kid-o-meter after a G.I. Joe episode about a mind-control carwash or something..
Yes! They had cardboard cut-outs spinning around on electric trains and turntables with lamps behind them.
Anyone have a mirror? :)
Also, make sure to set your browser timeout accordingly.
However, I do know people, (my boss for one), who would prefer to hide the source for their web pages if at all possible.
The only thing exposed through HTML code is "look and feel". Stealing an HTML page is like stealing a blank book. If you could read PHP/Java/etc. and read the database table definitions my selecting "View Source" your analogy would be more valid, but it is still uncomparable to say, selling a Word Processor package, because most web pages work on a service model. This is funny, because people blast Microsoft for their well-known plans to move to a service model (pay-to-use the software), yet this is the exact same model OSS claims as a viable profit model.
Or you could have just used Delphi/Kylix.
Proview? I didn't see that, but I did see a huge "VIEWSONIC" taking up half the screen.
Who throws away electronics?? You'd have to be crazy to throw away anything, even moreso to throw away electronics!
Like this?
I guess you played on a board with a stupid SysOp who set the turns/day at something like 5000+. Man I hated that shit. 750 is the maximum tolerable (about 1.5 hours worth), 500 is preferable. Giving inifinite turns just turned the game into a pissing contest of who could live with the least sleep, no school, no job, and no life.
You probably wouldn't have too, because you'd probably be dead.
Counting to 20..
Obviously there are many different ways to do this, for example, use other criteria such as noun phrases instead of words, and there are lots of variations within just this particular implementation. I can't actually see what Kartoo is doing because the site isn't working for me, but I suspect it's something similar -- I think the 'Topics' is for example the word or phrase category map and the 'Sites' is the document map.
Actually, if you've looked at the screenshots, it's not just the units that need work, it's the tileset and even the GUI itself. I swear it would look twice as good if they would just fix the bottom panel too look like something other than the blurry greyscale mess that it is.
Those graphics are really bad though. I know, programmer art and all, but this project seems pretty popular -- couldn't they get some decent artists to help?
Got it, thanks.
Is there any way to save the quicktime file to my harddrive?
Well, at least you're using a spellchecker.
The chemical engineer says, "perhaps the fuel is the wrong type or the oil has broken down."
The electrical engineer says, "maybe there is faulty wiring or a sensor is bad."
The software engineer has a practical solution: "close all the windows, get out, get back in, and restart the car."
Why not just make the keygen available then?
That is funny, considering you can download it from their website.
Faulkner's still copyrighted?