A number of people have pointed out that Tiger-Cats and OS X Tiger are in different industries and therefore not comparable. But didn't the Pilot pen company get the Pilot PDA's name changed to PalmPilot and eventually simply Palm?
Before someone slams CS for their quality, note that WMSCI is *not* a respected conference. It looks to me to be a scam.
For example, what are the acceptance rates? From their homepage: "grown from 55 papers to 2904 papers in Orlando WMSCI 2004". Who are the organizers? A web search for the PC chair, general chair, and organizing chair reveals no homepages. What professional societies are associated with it? None.
Personally, I'd run from anyone claiming a publication in this or any of its affiliated conferences. Paying $$ to get a paper in print doesn't count as research.
What I want is a thin DVI cable with a detactable connector. My stinkin' contractor put a conduit in for me, but it's 1" in diameter and has a 90 degree bend.:(
I thought of this 5 years ago in grad school. At the time I thought it would be cool for football refs to be able to reconstruct a play in 3D, then zoom in to see if the player really did have his knee down or not, etc.
At least my good ideas aren't 10 years old anymore.:)
Software is pretty invisible. The trick is to get across the idea of molding a program, without boring them with for loops and batch-oriented demos.
Check out toontalk for a graphical programming environment that looks like legoland.
Also see how the objects-first people are teaching programming nowadays. In the first week of class they have people drawing faces using OO programming, without loops or branches. For example, they have the students create a drawing program using event callbacks.
Did you RTFA? It's practically impossible to exhaustively test a unit, nevermind the entire system. For example, consider pow(x,y). There are x*y possible combinations of inputs.
Things actually get better at the system level because you can ignore the sub-modules. For example, if your code only ever calls pow(2,3), then you don't need to waste time testing all the other values that are possible inputs to the module.
The Economist has a nice article on this in last week's issue. Apparently the courts have allowed cities to declare property as "decrepit" just because it's not pulling in enough tax revenue. Here's the article
Dammit. I was really hoping Google would have something.
I wonder if anyone monitors searches at Google... "Hey Bob, we're getting a lot of hits for 'britney spears nude goat dildo sparcstation'!"
And there is further proof in the gloriously organized land of China, where everyone is right-handed. Places like the US must not bow to the liberal LEFTIST agenda of choice. There's a reason it's the RIGHT choice that's the proper one.
I'm pretty sure that Verisign sells domain searches. I searched for coppit.com there, and a week later a squatter had it. It's not like I was going to pay the extortion, so I had to wait a year before I could get it myself.
2 things requires such a processor: hi-def encoded content (e.g. MS HD Media) and heavy postprocessing of the image using ffdshow. But neither is mandatory, so you can get away with a less powerful and heat-generating CPU as you say.
One thing I find worrying is the disparity between pre-election
polling and exit polling compared to the actual results of the election. Pre-election polling had Kerry winning
Florida but losing Ohio, and exit polling had Kerry winning Florida and
Ohio both. (All the other exit polling predictions were accurate.)
I also find it surprising that Florida was so clearly for Bush given how
tight it was last time. (Maybe retirees care more about terrorism and Iraq
than I thought?)
Much of Ohio uses Diebold voting machines, which leave no paper trail.
Early in the campaign, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell, a GOP fundraiser,
promised to deliver Ohio to Bush.:(
Question: If someone committed fraud, would it be better to make it a
decisive victory in order to avoid scrutiny?
These guys should start with the big counties in states such as Florida and Ohio that seemed to turn out contrary to prediction.
I disagree. The major difference is that the wronged party in this case is not an australian. If Bill, an aussie, painted "Bob is a dingo" on the moon, that would defame Bob (an aussie as well), and Bob can sue. If someone put up a Billboard in Melbourne which said "Yan Ping is a eggroll-head", why should Australia care? Yan Ping is not an Australian, and may not even have slander/libel laws in his country. If such laws exist, he would seek recourse in his country because that's where the billboard had its effect (assuming the billboard was big enough to be seen in his home country).
To me, the automatic connection type detection feature of UltraVNC is killer. (I don't know which is the best protocol for my connection!)
Another killer feature (which TightVNC also has) is the ability to scale to any size. This allows you to scale a 1280x1024 VNC screen so that you can see the whole remote desktop on a local 1024x768 display.
Lastly, being able to change the remote resolution without losing the connection is nice. I don't think TightVNC can do this.
Chicken of the VNC is good for Mac, but doesn't have these features.:(
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Heck no. In fact, I'm sure they collect information about your browsing habits.
A number of people have pointed out that Tiger-Cats and OS X Tiger are in different industries and therefore not comparable. But didn't the Pilot pen company get the Pilot PDA's name changed to PalmPilot and eventually simply Palm?
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in American Psycho to this:
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in the Machinist to this:
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in Batman. He dropped 1/3 of his body weight (180 to 120) for the machinist. Supposedly he wanted to go to 100 but the producers wouldn't let him.
BTW, see the machinist if you haven't.
For example, what are the acceptance rates? From their homepage: "grown from 55 papers to 2904 papers in Orlando WMSCI 2004". Who are the organizers? A web search for the PC chair, general chair, and organizing chair reveals no homepages. What professional societies are associated with it? None.
Personally, I'd run from anyone claiming a publication in this or any of its affiliated conferences. Paying $$ to get a paper in print doesn't count as research.
Who cares? As long as it isn't his baby. ;)
And do it soon. We're lucky to have many of the founding fathers (and mothers!) of computer science still with us.
What I want is a thin DVI cable with a detactable connector. My stinkin' contractor put a conduit in for me, but it's 1" in diameter and has a 90 degree bend. :(
At least my good ideas aren't 10 years old anymore. :)
Check out toontalk for a graphical programming environment that looks like legoland.
Also see how the objects-first people are teaching programming nowadays. In the first week of class they have people drawing faces using OO programming, without loops or branches. For example, they have the students create a drawing program using event callbacks.
Things actually get better at the system level because you can ignore the sub-modules. For example, if your code only ever calls pow(2,3), then you don't need to waste time testing all the other values that are possible inputs to the module.
Unit testing != exhaustive testing.
The Economist has a nice article on this in last week's issue. Apparently the courts have allowed cities to declare property as "decrepit" just because it's not pulling in enough tax revenue. Here's the article
Huh?
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Dammit. I was really hoping Google would have something. I wonder if anyone monitors searches at Google... "Hey Bob, we're getting a lot of hits for 'britney spears nude goat dildo sparcstation'!"
That's so their employees can afford a two-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley.
(I think they meant human/non-human hybrid. Humans are animals too, you know. :)
My guess is that the best practical way to do this is to have it land on already dead organic matter and "feed". Catching a fly in midair is tough. :)
Isn't that a woman?
And there is further proof in the gloriously organized land of China, where everyone is right-handed. Places like the US must not bow to the liberal LEFTIST agenda of choice. There's a reason it's the RIGHT choice that's the proper one.
I'm pretty sure that Verisign sells domain searches. I searched for coppit.com there, and a week later a squatter had it. It's not like I was going to pay the extortion, so I had to wait a year before I could get it myself.
2 things requires such a processor: hi-def encoded content (e.g. MS HD Media) and heavy postprocessing of the image using ffdshow. But neither is mandatory, so you can get away with a less powerful and heat-generating CPU as you say.
she's already married. To the fat guy.
I also find it surprising that Florida was so clearly for Bush given how tight it was last time. (Maybe retirees care more about terrorism and Iraq than I thought?)
Much of Ohio uses Diebold voting machines, which leave no paper trail. Early in the campaign, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell, a GOP fundraiser, promised to deliver Ohio to Bush. :(
Question: If someone committed fraud, would it be better to make it a decisive victory in order to avoid scrutiny?
These guys should start with the big counties in states such as Florida and Ohio that seemed to turn out contrary to prediction.
I thought it was conventional to sign over copyright to the code maintainer?
I disagree. The major difference is that the wronged party in this case is not an australian. If Bill, an aussie, painted "Bob is a dingo" on the moon, that would defame Bob (an aussie as well), and Bob can sue. If someone put up a Billboard in Melbourne which said "Yan Ping is a eggroll-head", why should Australia care? Yan Ping is not an Australian, and may not even have slander/libel laws in his country. If such laws exist, he would seek recourse in his country because that's where the billboard had its effect (assuming the billboard was big enough to be seen in his home country).
To me, the automatic connection type detection feature of UltraVNC is killer. (I don't know which is the best protocol for my connection!)
:(
Another killer feature (which TightVNC also has) is the ability to scale to any size. This allows you to scale a 1280x1024 VNC screen so that you can see the whole remote desktop on a local 1024x768 display.
Lastly, being able to change the remote resolution without losing the connection is nice. I don't think TightVNC can do this.
Chicken of the VNC is good for Mac, but doesn't have these features.