And if you want to share your windows apps with me I have to get wine, and that means windows is flawed?
Interesting case in point: Citrix servers can serve Linux clients. You don't need Wine to run stuff.
If you want an X app, you need X. If you have a crappy X client on your machine, that doesn't mean that X itself is flawed. You should replace your crappy client. I'm sure plenty of people here can suggest clients that will actually work.
Really? I'd like to meet said people. I've tried Exceed, Xfree86, MI/X, and WiredX. Do all of those suck? Why is it that they all have the same bandwidth requirements? I think bandwidth is always a problem.
You complain that you can't get a dirt cheap Xwindows solution for windows and you campare it to citrix in the same post. Is citrix free?
I want a solution where the CLIENT is free and easy to install (yes, the Citrix client is free). No, it doesn't mean the protocol is flawed if this doesn't exist, usually. But I think we can make an exception for X, because X puts such a burden of complexity on the client that it is difficult to make one.
I don't think you're being fair here. I'm running remote ssh-tunneled gaim from my home linux pc on a bsd machine in a computer lab a mile away. Both machines have X and it works. It's also not any slower than VNC would be.
Not any slower than VNC? Have you tried tightvnc? It requires about an order of magnitude less bandwidth than the original, and I have used it under the condition you mentioned as well as ssh-tunneled programs with X. Try running a web browser remotely. But that's another story. I don't want such a solution, as I said, because, like X, it is too primitive.
The fundamental problem with X is a lack of high level operations. The API should include calls like "make a button" and "open a modal pop-up box," and most importantly "display this bitmap" as well as the usual "draw a pixel."
Making this work isn't going to be backward compatible, at least not without making it even more bandwidth consuming. At least, thats how it appears to most people who have abandoned X. Perhaps someone clever will come along and figure out how to make the two ideas play nice.
It is precisely this flaw that leads to speed problems, which is addressed by both PicoGUI and Fresco. Unfortunately, Fresco was stupid enough to make all of their work require floating point ops, so they're going to have a lot of the speed problems that X does except on systems with a graphics processor - high end systems where speed isn't much of an issue anyway - and they'll still have bandwidth problems when they try to transmit pictures and other pixel-dependant info, since they will be transmitting fp numbers, making pixels larger than they should be. I think PicoGUI is very promising, however.
Not many, really. I can only think of a few, myself.
The Real Ghostbusters comes to mind. That ran for quite some time - several years. Also, Voltron, which was basically a rehash of the old Ultraman movies (they're kind of like Godzilla flicks). MIB has done pretty well as well. Jumanji lasted one or two seasons, which was enough to make money.
Captian Simian and the Spacemonkeys obviously drew its inspiration from the Starwars movies, and that one was on for a while (though you may not have heard about it - it was kind of a small scale cartoon).
Of course, if we open up the category to include series based upon movies, there are a few more, though still not many.
The ever popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a shining example of that. And we probably should add Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which are really just rehashes of Ultraman mixed with Voltron.
And then there are all of the Spy shows inspired by James Bond: first Get Smart, and then Inspector Gadget, and then young Inspector Gadget (or whatever they called that).
It all comes down to whether or not enough people identify with the ideas in the series to make it work. Just because its live action doesn't mean it doesn't translate into a cartoon or a series.
However, the cartoon or series can't stand upon the concept of the movie to work, just as a sequel can't be a rehash of the first movie and expect that it will do incredibly well (*cough* Home Alone 2 *cough*). It has to have its own new ideas, even if it has the same beloved characters.
Dexter is roughly the shape of a pill. Dee-dee and her friends have all of her limbs extending from a single point. All legs look like they did in the flintstones - like pipes that have a turn and end with a round stub (the turn is where the feet begin).
Almost nobody has any noses, or the noses look very strange. Also, no one has normal looking hands - very few have thumbs, or a full complement of fingers (10 total). The powerpuff girls have no hands and no feet. Samurai Jack is a little better, but still...there is very little detail in the characters. Jack himself has fingers that are apparently glued together, since they never seem to separate. Also, his four fingers are all the same length, unlike human fingers (his thumb is opposable, they show that when he holds a sword).
I would expect a Star Wars Universe to be much more lifelike since its based upon a live action universe, with, at the very least, five fingers on each hand, and the ability to move them the way humans do, and normally drawn noses. I don't expect that it'll happen because I think it costs more.
However, thin client support has only been added to Windows very recently, unlike X, which always had that. It comes from the different origins of the two, of course.
On the other hand, you don't have to restart your machine to restart your X server, but you do have to restart your Windows machine if the Windowing portion goes down, so the difference is noticable.
Heck, with the help of XDM, whenever my X goes down (as a result of me pressing ctrl+alt+bkspc), it comes right back up. I use it to change resolutions all the time.
I'll be using that when I have to be at Windows machines. Still...its not easy to get some of the less knowledgeable to use something that complicated to install.
I don't understand. You mentioned plenty of papers of how X is atrocious and that it should be scrapped. Perhaps you haven't come away with a reason, but doesn't the fact that said papers exist mean that there are plenty of people who have one?
And doesn't that mean that perhaps an alternative should be considered?
My reason is that net connections require too much bandwidth. We use Citrix at school and get connection rates from Windows servers with than 2kbps needed. And it appears as though there is no latency in the connection, even though there is - i.e. it seems as though its running on my machine. Another big reason is that X requires so much from the clients. They have to be SERVERS themselves.
Also, the way it stands, if I want to share my X apps with my Windows friends, I have to get them to either 1) Pay a lot for a decent X server for Windows (by decent, I mean that it doesn't put all X connections inside one Window with a fixed size, but rather creates Windows each time a call is made - unlike Cywgin xfree86). 2) Download, install and configure xfree86 with cygwin (assuming they've got the 200MB free for it). By the way, I know there is a version that is supposed to work without cygwin. It doesn't work yet, at least not right out of the box, and not with any instructions they give you. 3) Get them to use a non-windowing solution, i.e. VNC.
I don't really like any of those options, and that is why, for instance, there aren't a lot of X applications whose primary function is to be run remotely. Its why I won't develop any such applications - why I'm still sticking to using those less powerful gui kits like tcl/tk, swing and awt.
I yearn for something better than X, whether it meets your needs or not. If I could get a third of the functionality I get with a windowing environment, but also get those things, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
Of course, you'll be able to fit the MOVIES on one of those, but who wants the movie? You already will have seen it in the theatre!
If you want the extended-super-extra-feature making of the movie 94 disc feature set, which includes the entire life history of every actor, including those guys in the orc suits, as well as how Tolkien came up with the idea, and the complete works of Tolkien and every author he liked as read by Charlton Heston and William Shatner (with special guest appearances by Macho Man Randy Savage for the part of Sauron), there's no way its going to fit.
I was telling a computer illiterate to go to a website. I told them the name of the website and then had to say: "No, there is no www in front of the name. Just type the name like I said."
"No, there is no.com at the end of the name. Just type the name like I said."
People have come to associate.com with URLs on the internet - not just commercial ones - ALL URLs (as well as using www in the front for some stupid reason). Of course, it might be possible to change this, but that's the way it is right now.
according to the website (you have to dig a bit more than you did), he didn't do that.
Check the site now. He's got some golf gear he sells, but no car stuff.
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Perhaps you mean does it have the bandwidth to transmit MPEG-1 encoded video?
The answer is yes. More than enough for NTSC size and resolution. WinTV USB just sucks, and AFIAK it transmits uncompressed video.
A better question is exactly how much is done on the hardware before its transmitted to the computer. Its likely that the device merely does mjpeg encoding, which is then enhanced to full mpeg using software (because the motion component requires knowledge of several frames - more frames in memory means much higher cost for the device). If mjpeg is all it does, then this means that hacking it to Linux might require more work than otherwise (because you can do mjpeg more than one way since its just an intermediate step on the road to mpeg encoding, and not necessarily following a standard).
If we just look towards the future, all of this "having a positive attitude doesn't matter" stuff will pass - we just need to stay strong and keep the faith. I personally have eight forms of a cancer myself, as well as the Ebola virus and AIDS. The doctors say that I should be dead already. Even as I write, my medula oblongata, my heart, kidneys and lungs are currently functioning at.01% of normal. Though the power of positive thinking, I've been able to stay alive this way for the past 30 years on a diet of raw eggs and hamster bedding, and I can do everything a normal person can. Plus, I can fly and move things with my mind. You just have to know how to fight it- with smiles.
You too can live past the pain of cancer with the right attitude! I've outlined it all in my book, which can be yours for only 129.95. Don't delay - your life is waiting for you.
I will not be sensored! My rights are on the line here! I can say whatever I want!
Fellow/.ers, we must not let sensorship continue. First the MPAA and RIAA are against us and now DARPA. Its time we started speaking out against such sensorship. Now there hypeing "intelligent" sensorship? Since when is sensorship smart?
Talk to your congressman or woman and tell them that you don't like sensors. Surely, we can make a change if we all work together.
Now that you've read my post, here's a little note for the dimwitted: it's a joke!
I'm not from New York. And I only know one person who is. Therefore New Yorkers aren't the only ones, and I sure hope most people don't think like you.
Freedom of expression means that the government won't do something to you when you say something that they feel demeaned by. It gives us the right to criticize.
As a side consequence, it gives some people the right to treat others like dirt.
I'll gladly take the latter for the sake of the former.
Mind you, nowhere in my comment did I say that people SHOULD treat others like dirt - I'm definitely opposed to that, and I think that as a whole every human being on earth has a responsibility to care for every other human being they meet, though they have the right to deny this responsibility.
Its ironic how well this comment applies to your statement which basically implied, 1) You're ignorant (via the "Newsflash" statement) 2) You're from New York, which is where all the bad people are. The rest of the country is nicer than you, and nobody else in the country likes anything about your home. Seems like you are using your right to free speech to treat me like dirt, doesn't it?
"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God given right."
And for all of you who might be trying to decide whether or not this is satire, it's not. Sometimes we must let the worst things pass to let the best things live.
Where it comes from is just pretense. Its all about obeying the law. The all powerful second law of thermodynamics, that is.
The source of power is the dispersal of coalesced energy. The Sun has a lot of it (most of it having coalesced so far as to become matter), so its chemical process is designed to disperse it quickly. This leads to the processes you describe, as our planet has been infected by this energy from the sun.
As if we didn't have things like "properties of matter" to overcome in our quest to disperse energy - we also have to deal with the stuff from the sun.
Obviously this technique is just another one to add to the list of things that aid us in our work - the work that humans are uniquely qualified to do and which sets us higher than all of the rest of the creatures on earth: waste energy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I somebody just turned off one of the lights in the house, so I gotta go turn it back on. Plus, either the air conditioner or the heater just shut off; I need to go figure out which and get that up and running again.
Like the IEEE journal standard? Or the IEEE article standard?
I've got latex2e class files for both of those formats, which includes how the fonts should be layed out, figures, bibliography, page numbers, equations, and pretty much everything else.
I also have one from my University and past university for their thesis formats (at the Undergrad, Grad, and pHD levels for each).
Publishers just need to get everyone to accept metadata for how they want things to look; changing look and feel and fonts should be easy as long as you're using a WYSIWYM package.
I don't even know now what they wanted; all I know is that I had to edit one line to make my paper look the way they wanted it to.
Up to ten tools designed by five people in as little as two years? One tool per person per year? Umm...thanks, but what company do you work for? I need to know so that I never buy anything they make for more than $2.99.
Merely including non-GPL text to be output from a GPL program doesn't make the program non-GPL.
I think you're missing the point here...that's why it needs to be non-GPL from company's points of view. Merely including a flash code (not text) to be run from a GPL program makes that flash code GPL. The problem with making a driver GPL is that the firmware code needs to be hidden, which is impossible if any part of that driver is under the GPL. Firmware code can often make a DSP's functionality very, very easy to duplicate - more so than software drivers.
For certain kinds of hardware the work of the company is more in the firmware than the actual hardware. And hopefully, this will be more and more the case (because it makes hardware highly reconfigurable).
This seems to be about using strange approaches to spam filtering, but really...a bayesian network seems to be a natural step for a system that henceforth was composed of a series of heuristics with no knowledge of which is more important.
(Why hasn't it been done? Bayesian networks are only taught in AI and statistics classes).
What really interests me is that Spamassasin claims to use a genetic algorithm to rate how likely an e-mail is to be spam.
Drop a couple of those parachute hats too. Unlike the rifle design, which could be perfected enough to minimize the recoil,there's no way you could attach a parachute to your head without hanging from your neck.
And what if its just a normal hat, i.e. no attachment at all? You won't be wearing it for long. Give it to the terrorists along with some kind of device that launches people into the air. If the broken neck doesn't get them, the impact will.
Depends on the version. For the original gameboy version, in the count up mode (starting at level 1 and going up), you got to see images of a spaceship every 10 levels (if I remember right).
It launched when you reached the final level, I think. I did it once, and was very happy, but it sure wasn't as much fun as the game itself.
If you play the countdown mode (start with 40 pieces at a constant level and eliminate all of them) at the highest level (9, I think, or maybe 10), then when you finish you got to hear all of the instruments playing together (each of the other levels had instruments playing).
The ending of Dr. Mario was a lot more interesting.
Now whenever I lose the latest new game I can just say, "I have just determined that this game is very hard. Its NP-Hard, in fact." I'm sure that'll impress all the lady-geeks around that would otherwise have thought me intellectually inferior for losing the game.
Interesting thing about NP-hard stuff, though, especially when it comes to things like video games. There are a group of techniques that work to solve NP-hard problems SOME of the time based around searching. Because there are multiple winning solutions for Tetris, and there is are several quite obvious heuristics to aid in the search (such as planning so that you leave indentations that will fit the next piece(s), and attempting to fill lower lines before higher ones), it's probably still solvable in polynomial time MOST of the time.
Of course, solvable is relative. The optimal solution (highest score) for a finite number of moves cannot be proven without trying all combinations of states, but to simply finish, there are lots of solutions.
I don't really think reason is entering into the argument here. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
What you call a "mass of cells" I call a human. Why? Fundamentally, because I believe it is one. A secondary reason is because it is developed enough to behave the same way that a newborn would - requiring incredible amounts of support to sustain life, but producing almost exactly the same organic activity. I take slight offense to your making this a call to reason here, because I think science is on my side. There is more to point to the fact that a foetus is a child than that there isn't if we examine humanity as a machine whose function is life (one of the few objective ways to do it).
The one fact in your favor is that the baby is inside a womb instead of outside. Does location define humanity? I believe not, and you believe so. Do not confuse your belief with logos - the issue is far to cloudy for you to make a decision as you have to be such - more than anything else you believe it because you want to.
It takes a mere two weeks for a human foetus to take on the majority (something like 90%) of the biological functions of a human baby. Why has that not entered into your thinking?
Yeah. The technology industry isn't doing anything for India. Its not like they're attempting to convert their workforce into the majority of the Computer Science industry for the world.
Oh wait. THAT'S EXACTLY what they're trying to do.
They have little resources other than human resources, like a lot of third world countries (not all of India can be considered 3rd world, but most of it can). They are not alone in this idea. If you consider that the world itself is a national economy, and that human resources are also resources (just as an infrastructure is) then you can see that this can help 3rd world countries. If they don't have the infrastructure they need, that can be imported (or the people can be temporarily exported) to deal with that problem.
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And if you want to share your windows apps with me I have to get wine, and that means windows is flawed?
Interesting case in point: Citrix servers can serve Linux clients. You don't need Wine to run stuff.
If you want an X app, you need X. If you have a crappy X client on your machine, that doesn't mean that X itself is flawed. You should replace your crappy client. I'm sure plenty of people here can suggest clients that will actually work.
Really? I'd like to meet said people. I've tried Exceed, Xfree86, MI/X, and WiredX. Do all of those suck? Why is it that they all have the same bandwidth requirements? I think bandwidth is always a problem.
You complain that you can't get a dirt cheap Xwindows solution for windows and you campare it to citrix in the same post. Is citrix free?
I want a solution where the CLIENT is free and easy to install (yes, the Citrix client is free). No, it doesn't mean the protocol is flawed if this doesn't exist, usually. But I think we can make an exception for X, because X puts such a burden of complexity on the client that it is difficult to make one.
I don't think you're being fair here. I'm running remote ssh-tunneled gaim from my home linux pc on a bsd machine in a computer lab a mile away. Both machines have X and it works. It's also not any slower than VNC would be.
Not any slower than VNC? Have you tried tightvnc? It requires about an order of magnitude less bandwidth than the original, and I have used it under the condition you mentioned as well as ssh-tunneled programs with X. Try running a web browser remotely. But that's another story. I don't want such a solution, as I said, because, like X, it is too primitive.
The fundamental problem with X is a lack of high level operations. The API should include calls like "make a button" and "open a modal pop-up box," and most importantly "display this bitmap" as well as the usual "draw a pixel."
Making this work isn't going to be backward compatible, at least not without making it even more bandwidth consuming. At least, thats how it appears to most people who have abandoned X. Perhaps someone clever will come along and figure out how to make the two ideas play nice.
It is precisely this flaw that leads to speed problems, which is addressed by both PicoGUI and Fresco. Unfortunately, Fresco was stupid enough to make all of their work require floating point ops, so they're going to have a lot of the speed problems that X does except on systems with a graphics processor - high end systems where speed isn't much of an issue anyway - and they'll still have bandwidth problems when they try to transmit pictures and other pixel-dependant info, since they will be transmitting fp numbers, making pixels larger than they should be. I think PicoGUI is very promising, however.
Not many, really. I can only think of a few, myself.
The Real Ghostbusters comes to mind. That ran for quite some time - several years. Also, Voltron, which was basically a rehash of the old Ultraman movies (they're kind of like Godzilla flicks). MIB has done pretty well as well. Jumanji lasted one or two seasons, which was enough to make money.
Captian Simian and the Spacemonkeys obviously drew its inspiration from the Starwars movies, and that one was on for a while (though you may not have heard about it - it was kind of a small scale cartoon).
Of course, if we open up the category to include series based upon movies, there are a few more, though still not many.
The ever popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a shining example of that. And we probably should add Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which are really just rehashes of Ultraman mixed with Voltron.
And then there are all of the Spy shows inspired by James Bond: first Get Smart, and then Inspector Gadget, and then young Inspector Gadget (or whatever they called that).
It all comes down to whether or not enough people identify with the ideas in the series to make it work. Just because its live action doesn't mean it doesn't translate into a cartoon or a series.
However, the cartoon or series can't stand upon the concept of the movie to work, just as a sequel can't be a rehash of the first movie and expect that it will do incredibly well (*cough* Home Alone 2 *cough*). It has to have its own new ideas, even if it has the same beloved characters.
Like making people look like people.
Dexter is roughly the shape of a pill. Dee-dee and her friends have all of her limbs extending from a single point. All legs look like they did in the flintstones - like pipes that have a turn and end with a round stub (the turn is where the feet begin).
Almost nobody has any noses, or the noses look very strange. Also, no one has normal looking hands - very few have thumbs, or a full complement of fingers (10 total). The powerpuff girls have no hands and no feet. Samurai Jack is a little better, but still...there is very little detail in the characters. Jack himself has fingers that are apparently glued together, since they never seem to separate. Also, his four fingers are all the same length, unlike human fingers (his thumb is opposable, they show that when he holds a sword).
I would expect a Star Wars Universe to be much more lifelike since its based upon a live action universe, with, at the very least, five fingers on each hand, and the ability to move them the way humans do, and normally drawn noses. I don't expect that it'll happen because I think it costs more.
Which means really, really bad reviews, I think.
I think they always had it.
However, thin client support has only been added to Windows very recently, unlike X, which always had that. It comes from the different origins of the two, of course.
On the other hand, you don't have to restart your machine to restart your X server, but you do have to restart your Windows machine if the Windowing portion goes down, so the difference is noticable.
Heck, with the help of XDM, whenever my X goes down (as a result of me pressing ctrl+alt+bkspc), it comes right back up. I use it to change resolutions all the time.
You're the man. That'll do nicely.
I'll be using that when I have to be at Windows machines. Still...its not easy to get some of the less knowledgeable to use something that complicated to install.
Eventually X will be able to change resolutions - it just a matter of time. There are some ways to do it even now without shutting down.
Have you tried using dga modes?
There are some other problems, however, that won't go away ever...
It would take a reason to replace X.
I don't understand. You mentioned plenty of papers of how X is atrocious and that it should be scrapped. Perhaps you haven't come away with a reason, but doesn't the fact that said papers exist mean that there are plenty of people who have one?
And doesn't that mean that perhaps an alternative should be considered?
My reason is that net connections require too much bandwidth. We use Citrix at school and get connection rates from Windows servers with than 2kbps needed. And it appears as though there is no latency in the connection, even though there is - i.e. it seems as though its running on my machine. Another big reason is that X requires so much from the clients. They have to be SERVERS themselves.
Also, the way it stands, if I want to share my X apps with my Windows friends, I have to get them to either
1) Pay a lot for a decent X server for Windows (by decent, I mean that it doesn't put all X connections inside one Window with a fixed size, but rather creates Windows each time a call is made - unlike Cywgin xfree86).
2) Download, install and configure xfree86 with cygwin (assuming they've got the 200MB free for it). By the way, I know there is a version that is supposed to work without cygwin. It doesn't work yet, at least not right out of the box, and not with any instructions they give you.
3) Get them to use a non-windowing solution, i.e. VNC.
I don't really like any of those options, and that is why, for instance, there aren't a lot of X applications whose primary function is to be run remotely. Its why I won't develop any such applications - why I'm still sticking to using those less powerful gui kits like tcl/tk, swing and awt.
I yearn for something better than X, whether it meets your needs or not. If I could get a third of the functionality I get with a windowing environment, but also get those things, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
Of course, you'll be able to fit the MOVIES on one of those, but who wants the movie? You already will have seen it in the theatre!
If you want the extended-super-extra-feature making of the movie 94 disc feature set, which includes the entire life history of every actor, including those guys in the orc suits, as well as how Tolkien came up with the idea, and the complete works of Tolkien and every author he liked as read by Charlton Heston and William Shatner (with special guest appearances by Macho Man Randy Savage for the part of Sauron), there's no way its going to fit.
I was telling a computer illiterate to go to a website. I told them the name of the website and then had to say:
.com at the end of the name. Just type the name like I said."
.com with URLs on the internet - not just commercial ones - ALL URLs (as well as using www in the front for some stupid reason). Of course, it might be possible to change this, but that's the way it is right now.
"No, there is no www in front of the name. Just type the name like I said."
"No, there is no
People have come to associate
according to the website (you have to dig a bit more than you did), he didn't do that.
Check the site now. He's got some golf gear he sells, but no car stuff.
Perhaps you mean does it have the bandwidth to transmit MPEG-1 encoded video?
The answer is yes. More than enough for NTSC size and resolution. WinTV USB just sucks, and AFIAK it transmits uncompressed video.
A better question is exactly how much is done on the hardware before its transmitted to the computer. Its likely that the device merely does mjpeg encoding, which is then enhanced to full mpeg using software (because the motion component requires knowledge of several frames - more frames in memory means much higher cost for the device). If mjpeg is all it does, then this means that hacking it to Linux might require more work than otherwise (because you can do mjpeg more than one way since its just an intermediate step on the road to mpeg encoding, and not necessarily following a standard).
If we just look towards the future, all of this "having a positive attitude doesn't matter" stuff will pass - we just need to stay strong and keep the faith. I personally have eight forms of a cancer myself, as well as the Ebola virus and AIDS. The doctors say that I should be dead already. Even as I write, my medula oblongata, my heart, kidneys and lungs are currently functioning at .01% of normal. Though the power of positive thinking, I've been able to stay alive this way for the past 30 years on a diet of raw eggs and hamster bedding, and I can do everything a normal person can. Plus, I can fly and move things with my mind. You just have to know how to fight it- with smiles.
You too can live past the pain of cancer with the right attitude! I've outlined it all in my book, which can be yours for only 129.95. Don't delay - your life is waiting for you.
Just send $129.95 to...
I will not be sensored! My rights are on the line here! I can say whatever I want!
/.ers, we must not let sensorship continue. First the MPAA and RIAA are against us and now DARPA. Its time we started speaking out against such sensorship. Now there hypeing "intelligent" sensorship? Since when is sensorship smart?
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Talk to your congressman or woman and tell them that you don't like sensors. Surely, we can make a change if we all work together.
Now that you've read my post, here's a little note for the dimwitted: it's a joke!
I'm not from New York. And I only know one person who is. Therefore New Yorkers aren't the only ones, and I sure hope most people don't think like you.
Freedom of expression means that the government won't do something to you when you say something that they feel demeaned by. It gives us the right to criticize.
As a side consequence, it gives some people the right to treat others like dirt.
I'll gladly take the latter for the sake of the former.
Mind you, nowhere in my comment did I say that people SHOULD treat others like dirt - I'm definitely opposed to that, and I think that as a whole every human being on earth has a responsibility to care for every other human being they meet, though they have the right to deny this responsibility.
Its ironic how well this comment applies to your statement which basically implied,
1) You're ignorant (via the "Newsflash" statement)
2) You're from New York, which is where all the bad people are. The rest of the country is nicer than you, and nobody else in the country likes anything about your home.
Seems like you are using your right to free speech to treat me like dirt, doesn't it?
"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God given right."
And for all of you who might be trying to decide whether or not this is satire, it's not. Sometimes we must let the worst things pass to let the best things live.
Where it comes from is just pretense. Its all about obeying the law. The all powerful second law of thermodynamics, that is.
The source of power is the dispersal of coalesced energy. The Sun has a lot of it (most of it having coalesced so far as to become matter), so its chemical process is designed to disperse it quickly. This leads to the processes you describe, as our planet has been infected by this energy from the sun.
As if we didn't have things like "properties of matter" to overcome in our quest to disperse energy - we also have to deal with the stuff from the sun.
Obviously this technique is just another one to add to the list of things that aid us in our work - the work that humans are uniquely qualified to do and which sets us higher than all of the rest of the creatures on earth: waste energy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I somebody just turned off one of the lights in the house, so I gotta go turn it back on. Plus, either the air conditioner or the heater just shut off; I need to go figure out which and get that up and running again.
Like the IEEE journal standard? Or the IEEE article standard?
I've got latex2e class files for both of those formats, which includes how the fonts should be layed out, figures, bibliography, page numbers, equations, and pretty much everything else.
I also have one from my University and past university for their thesis formats (at the Undergrad, Grad, and pHD levels for each).
Publishers just need to get everyone to accept metadata for how they want things to look; changing look and feel and fonts should be easy as long as you're using a WYSIWYM package.
I don't even know now what they wanted; all I know is that I had to edit one line to make my paper look the way they wanted it to.
Up to ten tools designed by five people in as little as two years? One tool per person per year? Umm...thanks, but what company do you work for? I need to know so that I never buy anything they make for more than $2.99.
Merely including non-GPL text to be output from a GPL program doesn't make the program non-GPL.
I think you're missing the point here...that's why it needs to be non-GPL from company's points of view. Merely including a flash code (not text) to be run from a GPL program makes that flash code GPL. The problem with making a driver GPL is that the firmware code needs to be hidden, which is impossible if any part of that driver is under the GPL. Firmware code can often make a DSP's functionality very, very easy to duplicate - more so than software drivers.
For certain kinds of hardware the work of the company is more in the firmware than the actual hardware. And hopefully, this will be more and more the case (because it makes hardware highly reconfigurable).
This seems to be about using strange approaches to spam filtering, but really...a bayesian network seems to be a natural step for a system that henceforth was composed of a series of heuristics with no knowledge of which is more important.
(Why hasn't it been done? Bayesian networks are only taught in AI and statistics classes).
What really interests me is that Spamassasin claims to use a genetic algorithm to rate how likely an e-mail is to be spam.
Drop a couple of those parachute hats too. Unlike the rifle design, which could be perfected enough to minimize the recoil,there's no way you could attach a parachute to your head without hanging from your neck.
And what if its just a normal hat, i.e. no attachment at all? You won't be wearing it for long. Give it to the terrorists along with some kind of device that launches people into the air. If the broken neck doesn't get them, the impact will.
Depends on the version. For the original gameboy version, in the count up mode (starting at level 1 and going up), you got to see images of a spaceship every 10 levels (if I remember right).
It launched when you reached the final level, I think. I did it once, and was very happy, but it sure wasn't as much fun as the game itself.
If you play the countdown mode (start with 40 pieces at a constant level and eliminate all of them) at the highest level (9, I think, or maybe 10), then when you finish you got to hear all of the instruments playing together (each of the other levels had instruments playing).
The ending of Dr. Mario was a lot more interesting.
Now whenever I lose the latest new game I can just say, "I have just determined that this game is very hard. Its NP-Hard, in fact." I'm sure that'll impress all the lady-geeks around that would otherwise have thought me intellectually inferior for losing the game.
Interesting thing about NP-hard stuff, though, especially when it comes to things like video games. There are a group of techniques that work to solve NP-hard problems SOME of the time based around searching. Because there are multiple winning solutions for Tetris, and there is are several quite obvious heuristics to aid in the search (such as planning so that you leave indentations that will fit the next piece(s), and attempting to fill lower lines before higher ones), it's probably still solvable in polynomial time MOST of the time.
Of course, solvable is relative. The optimal solution (highest score) for a finite number of moves cannot be proven without trying all combinations of states, but to simply finish, there are lots of solutions.
I don't really think reason is entering into the argument here. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
What you call a "mass of cells" I call a human. Why? Fundamentally, because I believe it is one. A secondary reason is because it is developed enough to behave the same way that a newborn would - requiring incredible amounts of support to sustain life, but producing almost exactly the same organic activity. I take slight offense to your making this a call to reason here, because I think science is on my side. There is more to point to the fact that a foetus is a child than that there isn't if we examine humanity as a machine whose function is life (one of the few objective ways to do it).
The one fact in your favor is that the baby is inside a womb instead of outside. Does location define humanity? I believe not, and you believe so. Do not confuse your belief with logos - the issue is far to cloudy for you to make a decision as you have to be such - more than anything else you believe it because you want to.
It takes a mere two weeks for a human foetus to take on the majority (something like 90%) of the biological functions of a human baby. Why has that not entered into your thinking?
Yeah. The technology industry isn't doing anything for India. Its not like they're attempting to convert their workforce into the majority of the Computer Science industry for the world.
Oh wait. THAT'S EXACTLY what they're trying to do.
They have little resources other than human resources, like a lot of third world countries (not all of India can be considered 3rd world, but most of it can). They are not alone in this idea. If you consider that the world itself is a national economy, and that human resources are also resources (just as an infrastructure is) then you can see that this can help 3rd world countries. If they don't have the infrastructure they need, that can be imported (or the people can be temporarily exported) to deal with that problem.