Ha! Spoken like someone who believes there is anything outside of the University's walls. Of course students are utterly dependent on the University to supply their every need. Why, let me show you....
[FX: window blinds being drawn]
Yikes! Where did that city of a million souls come from?
I always resented being taxed with an "activity fee", since in four years they (whoever it is that gets to spend our money on "activities") never managed to dream up an activity I would pay even one penny for if I had the choice. My favorite composers run from semiretired to dead-for-centuries, and I have a feeling there'd be precious few tracks from any of them included in this service.
Too bad Napster doesn't want its ratepayers to know what rate they're paying.
Perhaps we (human and nonhuman intelligences) would discover that our religions have something important in common, and rather than converting one another we'd pool our understanding and all understand our own faiths more deeply.
My second thought was that a howitzer takes time to reload, but I think its rate of fire is a bit better than 150 rounds in an eight-hour shift. (Dunno, you *do* have to move every once in a while before they back-track your fire, so maybe that is about right.)
Nah, let's keep the clicky-clicky mechanical keyboard but add a gadget which emits random clicks not connected with any keypresses. Don't hide the data; poison them to death.
"Nominal" for whom? What General Motors would call a nominal fee, I might call "more money than I will see in an entire lifetime."
(Of course GM would just rummage through the filing cabinets at Hughes, then reply, "we'll see your patent and raise you six" and pay nothing. Only those who can least afford it will pay.)-:
No, it's like someone of whatever color trying to bring his pogo stick onto the golf course and being denied. Play by the rules and you are welcome; damage the turf through selfish flouting of the rules and we throw you out.
"universal machine" here is a rather specialized term. A Turing machine is able to evaluate some set of computable functions; a universal Turing machine is able to simulate any possible Turing machine and so can evaluate any computable function. Whether or not Babbage's Analytical Engine is equivalent to a UTM is a question I'm not skilled to answer, but I'll bet he had no idea how to think about it in those terms. What Turing gave us was worked-out theory on what is and is not computable, and some ideas about classes of computable functions and what it takes to evaluate them.
Did the Countess of Lovelace ever actually write code for the AE? It was never built and could not be built until quite recently due to the manufacturing tolerances required. A few years back someone built a portion of the "mill", but a complete AE as Babbage envisioned it has never existed.
My original point was about calling Turing the "inventor of software". Depending on your definition of software, it goes way, way back. That has very little to do with a "programmable, multipurpose computer" which, while a really valuable object, isn't what the article discusses.
Um, no. The idea of an algorithm was invented by an Arab (al-Khowarizmi, or something like that) centuries before Turing *or* Jacquard. We also get the word "algebra" from the title of one of his writings.
Hmmm, what you seem to be describing is the idea of representing programs and data in the same store, which IIRC is due to von Neumann.
As to whether or not something is "programming" seems to be subjective. The loom has hardware to arrange the threads this way or that; the computer has hardware to add or shift. Either way there are some data which the machine would interpret as "do this, then do that." One is a data-driven device which operates on thread; the other a data-driven device which operates on data.
Nah, this is just what happens when starry-eyed techies meet the real world. The gadget works under perfect conditions, and now the field trials will shake out all of the practical problems that were not thought of in the lab.
I think the real impediment is going to be the natural trepidation of one who finds himself expected to submit his *eyes* to a machine which will decide whether he's good or evil.
A hollow voice says, "Jacquard", whose NC looms were old long before Turing came along. Turing put a firm theoretical foundation under what others had been doing for some time.
I usually figure that if some site can't be bothered to write actual HTML then they probably don't have anything worth reading anyway. Byebye, I'll shop somewhere else.
Probably it only works over Registry hives that happen to be loaded when it runs. So when you're logged on as A, B's USER.dat is not loaded and isn't cleaned. Tsk tsk, sloppy, it should walk the profile list and load 'em all under a temporary key.
Or just whip up a little VBscript/Jscript to trawl the process list, installed software, etc. via WMI. The Scripting Guys at MS probably published most of the required code already. You can even walk ADS containers or whole (sub)trees and scan each host remotely from the comfort of your office, or have the script mail you a report and let Task Manager run it for you.
Or package Spybot as a.MSI and push it out with a policy.
Really, many Windoze sysadmin.s are working way too hard.
Something else that's not known is whether the FBI called the UT administration back and said, "thanks for wasting our time, dudes. This guy is just curious -- why don't you give him a map?"
Um, the American Library Association is just one of a number of organizations which have been challenging the USA PATRIOT Act on Constitutional grounds practically from day one. Maybe you should read more widely.
Maybe they sent two agents because if one stepped over the line, the other could stop him, or at least rat him out later. See, it *could* be for YOUR protection. What a concept.
"So the fucking government can stop wasting my tax dollars trying to make an issue out of everything that isn't."
*sigh* How do you find out what is an issue and what isn't? You go and see. It's called "investigation". That's what the FBI was doing. Apparently they saved you a lot of tax dollars by determining that there was no reason to jail this guy. Hooray.
"So basically what your saying is, regardless of what you may actually plan on doing with that information, you should automatically be considered suspicious and investigated? Its like assuming that someone is guilty of being a terrorist until proven otherwise."
Yes, he is, and no, it isn't. "Suspicious" != "guilty". If they thought he was guilty he'd be looking at the world through bars now.
Maybe you can't prevent some officials from using faulty logic, but at least don't encourage them in it by using the same faulty logic yourself.
"Discovered?" Shouldn't you, like, have to *invent* something in order to get a patent? You know, do some work to call it into existence? It may be legal but it seems wrong.
I'm a bit worried to hear that Microsoft is having assignations with patents. That is just too kinky for words.
Yeah, bad news for Adidas: I'll probably go on buying those el-cheapo canvas deck shoes, since they cost 1/10 as much and last about 10 times as long as an athletic shoe even if you're as inathletic as I am.
Doggone it, I use machines because they are *not* emotional. The absence of things like boredom and distraction and petty irritation and dreams of glory is what makes them valuable.
A robot is, as Asimov observed, a mobile computerized tool. I do not want to have an emotional relationship with a tool -- those which evoke emotions I usually throw away long before they wear out! My ideal relationship with a tool is that it does what I ask of it, no more and no less.
The computer under my desk has a perfectly satisfactory gender: it is neuter. I see no reason why a robot shouldn't be neuter as well.
Or to put it a little more succinctly, the continuing mission is a lot more interesting to you (and me) than to most of your neighbors.
Once you get beyond "we sent robots to Mars and they worked!" you're kind of out of headline material for the average newspaper. Most editors will consider further results a yawn until we get the first pictures of something waving its claws at the rover.
Wait until we've got a global com/positioning satellite network set up for Mars. Then there could be "bus" vehicles to strew little mobile cameras all over, to survey closely for stuff to look at even more closely later. Right now a probe has to be a certain size because it needs a big antenna and lots of equipment to do the whole job in one vehicle.
No, I *don't* know how we'd power the drive system of a mini camerabot without a big plate of solar cells. Maybe you'll tell me. A long mylar tail with photocollectors printed on it, rolled up small and extruded after landing?
Yeah, tiny wheels are a problem. What about screws instead? Could be better for loose dry soil and small gravel, plus you could get under small objects and push them up for a look underneath.
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Ha! Spoken like someone who believes there is anything outside of the University's walls. Of course students are utterly dependent on the University to supply their every need. Why, let me show you....
[FX: window blinds being drawn]
Yikes! Where did that city of a million souls come from?
I always resented being taxed with an "activity fee", since in four years they (whoever it is that gets to spend our money on "activities") never managed to dream up an activity I would pay even one penny for if I had the choice. My favorite composers run from semiretired to dead-for-centuries, and I have a feeling there'd be precious few tracks from any of them included in this service.
Too bad Napster doesn't want its ratepayers to know what rate they're paying.
Perhaps we (human and nonhuman intelligences) would discover that our religions have something important in common, and rather than converting one another we'd pool our understanding and all understand our own faiths more deeply.
Nah.
At first I thought, "thirty words per *day*?"
My second thought was that a howitzer takes time to reload, but I think its rate of fire is a bit better than 150 rounds in an eight-hour shift. (Dunno, you *do* have to move every once in a while before they back-track your fire, so maybe that is about right.)
Nah, let's keep the clicky-clicky mechanical keyboard but add a gadget which emits random clicks not connected with any keypresses. Don't hide the data; poison them to death.
"Nominal" for whom? What General Motors would call a nominal fee, I might call "more money than I will see in an entire lifetime."
(Of course GM would just rummage through the filing cabinets at Hughes, then reply, "we'll see your patent and raise you six" and pay nothing. Only those who can least afford it will pay.)-:
No, it's like someone of whatever color trying to bring his pogo stick onto the golf course and being denied. Play by the rules and you are welcome; damage the turf through selfish flouting of the rules and we throw you out.
Ah, terminology.
"universal machine" here is a rather specialized term. A Turing machine is able to evaluate some set of computable functions; a universal Turing machine is able to simulate any possible Turing machine and so can evaluate any computable function. Whether or not Babbage's Analytical Engine is equivalent to a UTM is a question I'm not skilled to answer, but I'll bet he had no idea how to think about it in those terms. What Turing gave us was worked-out theory on what is and is not computable, and some ideas about classes of computable functions and what it takes to evaluate them.
Did the Countess of Lovelace ever actually write code for the AE? It was never built and could not be built until quite recently due to the manufacturing tolerances required. A few years back someone built a portion of the "mill", but a complete AE as Babbage envisioned it has never existed.
My original point was about calling Turing the "inventor of software". Depending on your definition of software, it goes way, way back. That has very little to do with a "programmable, multipurpose computer" which, while a really valuable object, isn't what the article discusses.
Um, no. The idea of an algorithm was invented by an Arab (al-Khowarizmi, or something like that) centuries before Turing *or* Jacquard. We also get the word "algebra" from the title of one of his writings.
Hmmm, what you seem to be describing is the idea of representing programs and data in the same store, which IIRC is due to von Neumann.
As to whether or not something is "programming" seems to be subjective. The loom has hardware to arrange the threads this way or that; the computer has hardware to add or shift. Either way there are some data which the machine would interpret as "do this, then do that." One is a data-driven device which operates on thread; the other a data-driven device which operates on data.
Nah, this is just what happens when starry-eyed techies meet the real world. The gadget works under perfect conditions, and now the field trials will shake out all of the practical problems that were not thought of in the lab.
I think the real impediment is going to be the natural trepidation of one who finds himself expected to submit his *eyes* to a machine which will decide whether he's good or evil.
A hollow voice says, "Jacquard", whose NC looms were old long before Turing came along. Turing put a firm theoretical foundation under what others had been doing for some time.
I usually figure that if some site can't be bothered to write actual HTML then they probably don't have anything worth reading anyway. Byebye, I'll shop somewhere else.
[Spybot seems to clean only one user at a time]
Probably it only works over Registry hives that happen to be loaded when it runs. So when you're logged on as A, B's USER.dat is not loaded and isn't cleaned. Tsk tsk, sloppy, it should walk the profile list and load 'em all under a temporary key.
Or just whip up a little VBscript/Jscript to trawl the process list, installed software, etc. via WMI. The Scripting Guys at MS probably published most of the required code already. You can even walk ADS containers or whole (sub)trees and scan each host remotely from the comfort of your office, or have the script mail you a report and let Task Manager run it for you.
.MSI and push it out with a policy.
Or package Spybot as a
Really, many Windoze sysadmin.s are working way too hard.
Something else that's not known is whether the FBI called the UT administration back and said, "thanks for wasting our time, dudes. This guy is just curious -- why don't you give him a map?"
Um, the American Library Association is just one of a number of organizations which have been challenging the USA PATRIOT Act on Constitutional grounds practically from day one. Maybe you should read more widely.
Maybe they sent two agents because if one stepped over the line, the other could stop him, or at least rat him out later. See, it *could* be for YOUR protection. What a concept.
"So the fucking government can stop wasting my tax dollars trying to make an issue out of everything that isn't."
*sigh* How do you find out what is an issue and what isn't? You go and see. It's called "investigation". That's what the FBI was doing. Apparently they saved you a lot of tax dollars by determining that there was no reason to jail this guy. Hooray.
"So basically what your saying is, regardless of what you may actually plan on doing with that information, you should automatically be considered suspicious and investigated? Its like assuming that someone is guilty of being a terrorist until proven otherwise."
Yes, he is, and no, it isn't. "Suspicious" != "guilty". If they thought he was guilty he'd be looking at the world through bars now.
Maybe you can't prevent some officials from using faulty logic, but at least don't encourage them in it by using the same faulty logic yourself.
"Discovered?" Shouldn't you, like, have to *invent* something in order to get a patent? You know, do some work to call it into existence? It may be legal but it seems wrong.
I'm a bit worried to hear that Microsoft is having assignations with patents. That is just too kinky for words.
Yeah, bad news for Adidas: I'll probably go on buying those el-cheapo canvas deck shoes, since they cost 1/10 as much and last about 10 times as long as an athletic shoe even if you're as inathletic as I am.
Doggone it, I use machines because they are *not* emotional. The absence of things like boredom and distraction and petty irritation and dreams of glory is what makes them valuable.
A robot is, as Asimov observed, a mobile computerized tool. I do not want to have an emotional relationship with a tool -- those which evoke emotions I usually throw away long before they wear out! My ideal relationship with a tool is that it does what I ask of it, no more and no less.
The computer under my desk has a perfectly satisfactory gender: it is neuter. I see no reason why a robot shouldn't be neuter as well.
Or to put it a little more succinctly, the continuing mission is a lot more interesting to you (and me) than to most of your neighbors.
Once you get beyond "we sent robots to Mars and they worked!" you're kind of out of headline material for the average newspaper. Most editors will consider further results a yawn until we get the first pictures of something waving its claws at the rover.
One day someone will recover all that stuff and sell it on Ebay, more likely. :-/
Wait until we've got a global com/positioning satellite network set up for Mars. Then there could be "bus" vehicles to strew little mobile cameras all over, to survey closely for stuff to look at even more closely later. Right now a probe has to be a certain size because it needs a big antenna and lots of equipment to do the whole job in one vehicle.
No, I *don't* know how we'd power the drive system of a mini camerabot without a big plate of solar cells. Maybe you'll tell me. A long mylar tail with photocollectors printed on it, rolled up small and extruded after landing?
Yeah, tiny wheels are a problem. What about screws instead? Could be better for loose dry soil and small gravel, plus you could get under small objects and push them up for a look underneath.