From what I know, the only way Theo eats, pays rent, or goes to the movies, is if he breaks his ass working on OpenBSD. I.e. it is his full time job and he takes it seriously. And the quality shows the the history of OpenBSD's security and reliability. Linus on the other hand has stated many times that he has a life outside of Linux and many other things to do. Fine. Linus, you are a better man than most, and we all owe you a great deal of gratitude. But now that people are using Linux in banks, hospitals, billion dollar companies, etc, maybe Linus should pass his hobby onto some people that will treat it like a profession.
1. Ping a machine farther away for more accurate results.
2. Have the entire lab flood-ping it to collect statistics at a faster rate.
3. Get some other shools doing this at the same time so you can compare results.
Somewhere (maybe here) scientists predicted that with the vast ammount of crap zipping about up there, the right type of collision (say bewteen a chunk of solar panel and a sattelite) could cause a chain reaction that would destroy every sattelite in orbit, and make it impossible to launch more.
I'm of Ukrainian decent, and I have friends and family that have been there recently.
A friend had to pay off cops to avoid getting beaten up because his Canadian passport wasn't in Ukrainian. A priest I know was stopped right off the plane at customs and had to pay $500 to get through.
The country is corrupt and falling appart. Who is going to enforce this law?
One of the biggest problems when watching someone play chess, is that you think you know what play should be made. When actually playing, this often translates to a mistake. i.e. you can't truly understand or appreciate the game unless you are playing, or getting a commentary from someone who knows whats going on. Now Kasparov himself has said that there isn't much point in strong human players playing strong machine players, because the machines will win (they are better). So ultimately, when watching this tournament, no one will really understand any of the moves!
...These are [a] real mystery... no one has captured one... This is well beyond a new species... do not act or look like other squid... We don't know of any cephalopod that has arms like that..."
And what's proof?
If I witnessed a terrorist act first hand and witnessed the terrorists put up a website and told someone about it, is that "proof"? What if I witnessed no such thing and lied?
Almost always, functinality must be proportional to complexity. The converse makes no sense.
Furthermore, depending on the skill of the developer, errors have a certain probability of existing per unit of code. More code = more errors.
Now biologically: functionality of an amoeba vs functinality of a fly. Or, probability of getting cancer in a specific cubic millimeter of flesh vs. probability of getting cancer period.
And now that I've made excuses for messy software... here's how to avoid it: "Never build an application." [instead] "Design a domain specific "language" that can be used to talk about applications in this domain. " -- The Pragmatic Programmers
Or you could see it as...
absurd redundancy and "cut & paste hell"
The same data in each cell!!
Plus there are no implementation related interfaces: What can I replace my hand with, and how easy would it be?
software is incredibly complex...
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kind of like the innards of a biological organism.
Most intelligent philosophers or game theorists will point out that what we call "moral behaivour" is actually self serving. (prisoners dillema and tit-for-tat strategy). Basically, we aren't capable enough to eccomplish what we want without the help of others, and most things in life aren't zero sum games (you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours and we're both better off). It's quite possible that an advanced intelligence might not need us humans to accomplish what it wants, and hence have to requirement for what we call morals.
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From what I know, the only way Theo eats, pays rent, or goes to the movies, is if he breaks his ass working on OpenBSD. I.e. it is his full time job and he takes it seriously. And the quality shows the the history of OpenBSD's security and reliability. Linus on the other hand has stated many times that he has a life outside of Linux and many other things to do. Fine. Linus, you are a better man than most, and we all owe you a great deal of gratitude. But now that people are using Linux in banks, hospitals, billion dollar companies, etc, maybe Linus should pass his hobby onto some people that will treat it like a profession.
Sorry if I'm out of line.
1. Ping a machine farther away for more accurate results.
2. Have the entire lab flood-ping it to collect statistics at a faster rate.
3. Get some other shools doing this at the same time so you can compare results.
I recommend slashdot.org.
Somewhere (maybe here) scientists predicted that with the vast ammount of crap zipping about up there, the right type of collision (say bewteen a chunk of solar panel and a sattelite) could cause a chain reaction that would destroy every sattelite in orbit, and make it impossible to launch more.
I'm of Ukrainian decent, and I have friends and family that have been there recently.
A friend had to pay off cops to avoid getting beaten up because his Canadian passport wasn't in Ukrainian. A priest I know was stopped right off the plane at customs and had to pay $500 to get through.
The country is corrupt and falling appart. Who is going to enforce this law?
Yes but mine is better than yours. ;)
But seriously, as bandwidth and processor speeds increase, will there be a reason to do it any other way? (at least on a single, personal system)
One of the biggest problems when watching someone play chess, is that you think you know what play should be made. When actually playing, this often translates to a mistake. i.e. you can't truly understand or appreciate the game unless you are playing, or getting a commentary from someone who knows whats going on. Now Kasparov himself has said that there isn't much point in strong human players playing strong machine players, because the machines will win (they are better). So ultimately, when watching this tournament, no one will really understand any of the moves!
How about Gentoo? Your entire distro, incuding compilers, is compiled on your system, for your system.
...These are [a] real mystery ... no one has captured one ... This is well beyond a new species ... do not act or look like other squid ... We don't know of any cephalopod that has arms like that ..."
So why are they still calling it a squid?
Put an AM tuner near your box, and you'll easily find a frequency (many in fact) that let you hear your PC.
Type some keys... move your mouse, open a window...
Not only are you broadcasting... you're composing...
And what's proof?
If I witnessed a terrorist act first hand and witnessed the terrorists put up a website and told someone about it, is that "proof"? What if I witnessed no such thing and lied?
is what Univarsity and College are all about. And one of the things you learn, is what you like and don't like.
I did a search on AltaVista which returned 10,000,000 results. I'll let you know when I find it.
Counterpane, a.k.a "Bruce Schneier's Headquarters" has an article about using a deck of cards for encryption here.
So I guess even playing a game of bridge will get you thrown in jail.
See earlier post.
This line is only here so that this otherwise acceptable post, passes the compression filter test.
Is someone working on how to package a better text editor with Wind0ws?
Almost always, functinality must be proportional to complexity. The converse makes no sense.
Furthermore, depending on the skill of the developer, errors have a certain probability of existing per unit of code. More code = more errors.
Now biologically: functionality of an amoeba vs functinality of a fly. Or, probability of getting cancer in a specific cubic millimeter of flesh vs. probability of getting cancer period.
And now that I've made excuses for messy software... here's how to avoid it:
"Never build an application."
[instead]
"Design a domain specific "language" that can be used to talk about applications in this domain. " -- The Pragmatic Programmers
Delicious irony.
The source code is in every cell, but it's all being patented.
Or you could see it as...
absurd redundancy and "cut & paste hell"
The same data in each cell!!
Plus there are no implementation related interfaces: What can I replace my hand with, and how easy would it be?
kind of like the innards of a biological organism.
Ever disected anything? It's MESSY.
Most intelligent philosophers or game theorists will point out that what we call "moral behaivour" is actually self serving. (prisoners dillema and tit-for-tat strategy). Basically, we aren't capable enough to eccomplish what we want without the help of others, and most things in life aren't zero sum games (you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours and we're both better off). It's quite possible that an advanced intelligence might not need us humans to accomplish what it wants, and hence have to requirement for what we call morals.
Yikes.
What Hertz SHOULD have said is that games are the only commercial applications used by the masses that maximize CPU useage ...
...
Yes, I'm sure no one has ever maxed a CPU for hours or days on end modelling fluid dynamics, or physical optics, or encoding mpegs, or
"Advanced Server for Advanced Dummies"
I can't wait.
Genius is inversely proportional to website quality.
3 years without cdparanoia working in the default install.
They still claim the fastest multimedia experience on x86.
Too bad. I'm still an AMD purist.