The most common complaint I hear is that it is too complex and takes too long to learn. I would agree with that if you are only trying to write a simple application, but in that case you could probably get away with just learning vector and string. Who said good has to be associated with easy to learn? (Maybe vim is a good example of this....)
sabotage through the internet is similar to
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suicide bombers. anyone who puts in the effort can do it. the reason or planet generally survives this is because the vast majority of people are not this way. I personally am in a position such that with the click of a few buttons, or by rewriting one line of code i could cause tens of millions of dollars of damage to multiple production facilities around the world. i probably could even injure people if i got the timing right. but I could just as easily strap on some bombs and detonate myself on a crowded subway too. yet i'm fairly certain i'll never do these things. but surely someone out there will, and we'll just have to deal with it, like we always do.
In a move that is sure to get the prior art police out in full force, Slashdot has patented teh process they use to make trolls come out of the closet. Pope John Paul II is quoted in a BBC article as saying, "I think Slashdot has some real issues regarding this patent. Are we to believe that they are teh first corporation to ever get trolls out of the closet?"
Cell spam when you enter the vacinity isn't much different than walking by the chinese restaurant in the food court and getting a piece of chicken on a toothpick waved in front of your face. Personally, I don't think the vacinity cell spam will work. A sign is probably more effective.
Furthermore, there's a fundamental flaw in the idea. How the hell are they to get your phone number when you approach? If they could do that, than anyone could find out your number just by getting close to you, and certainly that would cause worse problems! (Hey babe,you don't know me, but you just walked by me a minute ago, and damn you're lookin' leet! Wanna see my firewire?)
The only reason they would WANT to do this is if we programmed them to- even if we had AI sophisticated enough to function in such a way as to be dangerous to the human race, we wouldn't pop in a little subroutine for 'destroy all human life'.
We (generally) don't teach our children to destroy human life either, but somehow they come up with it on their own. I think the same rule applys to "sophisticated enough" robots.
And in the meantime, the public will likely grow more and more annoyed as the results don't come in, fueling a potential backlash against aggressive stem-cell research. While this won't stop research all together, it may lead to a dramatic reduction in funding that could set back the field even further.
I disagree. The same sort of promises were made about artificial intelligence in the 50s and 60s. (We will pass the turing test next year if we work really hard at it.) Of course that never happened, and still may be far away, but I would consider that false excitement a boost for the field, rather than a hinderence, and certainly it led to more realistic promises after it was seen how difficult the problem really was.
The probability of the few EUVE surviving pieces falling into a populated area and hurting someone is very small
This is the very type of remark that I hope does not lead to lessening of accountability in the future. The probability of actually needing to use your airplane seat as a floatation device is also extremely small, but they spend the extra money to provide it, just in case. Let's not have a chunk of metal destroy an entire city block before we decide to regulate what gets shot up into space.
good idea. I don't claim to be an expert in this, but I believe in order for this to work you would have to sample the signal multiple times simultaneously with the different bandwidths (or have some sort of master signal which you could resample). For example, imagine 3 A/D converters at 0-44kHz, 0-22kHz and 22KHz-44KHz. If both the higher and lower frequencies contain data, then use the 0-44kHz data. If the 22KHz-44kHz is empty, than a flag would be inserted into the "data" to use the 0-22kHz data for this time period. BUT, in order to get 16 bits out of the lower 0-22kHz data you would need to have 16 bit accuracy in the range, or put another way, 32 bit converters throughout, which begs the question of simply storing the data as 32 bit in the first place, and then using lossless compression for the parts without the higher frequencies. So, in effect, I believe your idea to be a good one, but implementing it for realistic applications might better be served by oversampling, and then dithering or compressing to the desired storage size. IMHO. As far as whether or not we or audiophiles could hear the difference, this is an on-going debate. I would say that there are very few people in the world who, played music recorded at 16 bit and the exact same music at 32 bit (or 1000 bit for that matter), could distinguish them. Many people claim to be able to hear the difference, but put them in a room with high quality audio components and play one or the other at random 50 times, I'd bet that most them couldn't get it right much more than half the time. 16 bit 44.1kHz audio is pretty damn good.
what do the "masters" use?
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Just curious if people happen to know which editor the "masters" use.
I think I heard Linus uses microemacs.
I would guess that Bjarne uses vi since his errata is in s/a/b/ format.
Many might argue that a strong US retaliation will only "fuel the fire" to more terrorist attacks. However, surely it would be naive to think that the terrorists' mindset is: "Ok, we showed them, now lets leave them alone unless they retaliate." If many more americans die on US soil, then it would have happened regardless, for hatred does not fade.
American planes are the ones that also randomly bomb Iraqi civilian targets.
Hmmm... Looks like they spelled military wrong.
Every day Palestinians die in their homes, going to school, going to work, trying to get through an Israeli checkpoint or on the streets where they are open targets for Israeli tanks and snipers.
And every day Israelis die in their homes, going to school, going to work, walking on the streets where they are open targets for Palestinian suicide bombers.
But it doesn't matter! You know why? Neither side will ever give in. None of the people are able to change. The only hope is that their children will be sheltered from the hatred, so they might grow up too naive to realize they are supposed to hate each other. But until then, fanatics, and hatred-filled nutcases that believe in an afterlife will continue the killing, and thus mindful people that believe in justice or prevention will continue retaliating.
Most likely the attorneys in the likely-to-follow lawsuits will argue that Linux and code sharing are the causes of events like this.
I disagree.
This has nothing to do at all with Linux. If someone ports the software to run in DOS, that point would be invalid. This also has nothing to do with code sharing. You only need the binary to watch the free TV, and probably 99.99% of people using it will never even look at the source. The decoding program is already out there, and is changed when it stops working. Distributing the software is barely different (legally) from distributing an mp3 player.
If the attorneys want to argue something, perhaps they can attack the card-server providers (if they allow access from US-based ip address).
I don't think the long distance carriers will care until bandwidth becomes high enough to make day to day long distance through the internet worth while for the majority of their customers. And by then, the long distance companies will probably be running the broadband- unless AOL buys them all first.
I saw a show on the Discovery channel where scientists built a robotic bee that was so bee-like that it fooled the other bees. Basically it looked like a bee, and it imitated the movements of the leader, and sucussfully led the migration to different pollen fields. The bees fell for it as if it was one of them. Just thought I'd share.
If a patent may be given for thumbnail galleries, then whoever enabled html to have pictures act as hyperlinks should get the credit. Displaying pictures is part of HTML, and so is clicking them to get to another page. The notion of having an image act as a hyperlink to a description of that image, and perhaps a higher-res picture, is nothing more than a magazine with contents on the cover (e.g. Reader's Digest). And good style web development teaches us that all hyperlinks should be orgranized in a logical way- so click a picture and learn more about it... Wow, whoever thought of that is a genius!
Just hearing you ask if its worth it to work harder to study CS makes me think for you it isn't (from an intellectual viewpoint).
However, since you asked, I'd say that if you CAN do CS, then do it. I would be willing to bet that (later in life) less people regret working hard and learning more in school than those who regret having more time to party and have fun (although for many CS people, doing their homework is fun). It's a tradeoff, yes, but remember you are also "investing" for your future. College is 4 years (usually), your life is much longer (usually).
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The most common complaint I hear is that it is too complex and takes too long to learn. I would agree with that if you are only trying to write a simple application, but in that case you could probably get away with just learning vector and string. Who said good has to be associated with easy to learn? (Maybe vim is a good example of this....)
suicide bombers. anyone who puts in the effort can do it. the reason or planet generally survives this is because the vast majority of people are not this way. I personally am in a position such that with the click of a few buttons, or by rewriting one line of code i could cause tens of millions of dollars of damage to multiple production facilities around the world. i probably could even injure people if i got the timing right. but I could just as easily strap on some bombs and detonate myself on a crowded subway too. yet i'm fairly certain i'll never do these things. but surely someone out there will, and we'll just have to deal with it, like we always do.
who said long distance relationships can't work: patent no 6368268
In a move that is sure to get the prior art police out in full force, Slashdot has patented teh process they use to make trolls come out of the closet. Pope John Paul II is quoted in a BBC article as saying, "I think Slashdot has some real issues regarding this patent. Are we to believe that they are teh first corporation to ever get trolls out of the closet?"
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Cell spam when you enter the vacinity isn't much different than walking by the chinese restaurant in the food court and getting a piece of chicken on a toothpick waved in front of your face. Personally, I don't think the vacinity cell spam will work. A sign is probably more effective.
Furthermore, there's a fundamental flaw in the idea. How the hell are they to get your phone number when you approach? If they could do that, than anyone could find out your number just by getting close to you, and certainly that would cause worse problems! (Hey babe,you don't know me, but you just walked by me a minute ago, and damn you're lookin' leet! Wanna see my firewire?)
The only reason they would WANT to do this is if we programmed them to- even if we had AI sophisticated enough to function in such a way as to be dangerous to the human race, we wouldn't pop in a little subroutine for 'destroy all human life'.
We (generally) don't teach our children to destroy human life either, but somehow they come up with it on their own. I think the same rule applys to "sophisticated enough" robots.
And in the meantime, the public will likely grow more and more annoyed as the results don't come in, fueling a potential backlash against aggressive stem-cell research. While this won't stop research all together, it may lead to a dramatic reduction in funding that could set back the field even further.
I disagree. The same sort of promises were made about artificial intelligence in the 50s and 60s. (We will pass the turing test next year if we work really hard at it.) Of course that never happened, and still may be far away, but I would consider that false excitement a boost for the field, rather than a hinderence, and certainly it led to more realistic promises after it was seen how difficult the problem really was.
This is the very type of remark that I hope does not lead to lessening of accountability in the future. The probability of actually needing to use your airplane seat as a floatation device is also extremely small, but they spend the extra money to provide it, just in case. Let's not have a chunk of metal destroy an entire city block before we decide to regulate what gets shot up into space.
my school had a neat trick called exams. those who couldn't program didn't do so well.
good idea. I don't claim to be an expert in this, but I believe in order for this to work you would have to sample the signal multiple times simultaneously with the different bandwidths (or have some sort of master signal which you could resample). For example, imagine 3 A/D converters at 0-44kHz, 0-22kHz and 22KHz-44KHz. If both the higher and lower frequencies contain data, then use the 0-44kHz data. If the 22KHz-44kHz is empty, than a flag would be inserted into the "data" to use the 0-22kHz data for this time period. BUT, in order to get 16 bits out of the lower 0-22kHz data you would need to have 16 bit accuracy in the range, or put another way, 32 bit converters throughout, which begs the question of simply storing the data as 32 bit in the first place, and then using lossless compression for the parts without the higher frequencies. So, in effect, I believe your idea to be a good one, but implementing it for realistic applications might better be served by oversampling, and then dithering or compressing to the desired storage size. IMHO. As far as whether or not we or audiophiles could hear the difference, this is an on-going debate. I would say that there are very few people in the world who, played music recorded at 16 bit and the exact same music at 32 bit (or 1000 bit for that matter), could distinguish them. Many people claim to be able to hear the difference, but put them in a room with high quality audio components and play one or the other at random 50 times, I'd bet that most them couldn't get it right much more than half the time. 16 bit 44.1kHz audio is pretty damn good.
Just curious if people happen to know which editor the "masters" use.
I think I heard Linus uses microemacs.
I would guess that Bjarne uses vi since his errata is in s/a/b/ format.
(ok, pick your own masters if you want....)
Real programmers use only 3 keys. The 1 and the 0 and then map q to save and exit.
Many might argue that a strong US retaliation will only "fuel the fire" to more terrorist attacks. However, surely it would be naive to think that the terrorists' mindset is: "Ok, we showed them, now lets leave them alone unless they retaliate." If many more americans die on US soil, then it would have happened regardless, for hatred does not fade.
American planes are the ones that also randomly bomb Iraqi civilian targets.
Hmmm... Looks like they spelled military wrong.
Every day Palestinians die in their homes, going to school, going to work, trying to get through an Israeli checkpoint or on the streets where they are open targets for Israeli tanks and snipers.
And every day Israelis die in their homes, going to school, going to work, walking on the streets where they are open targets for Palestinian suicide bombers.
But it doesn't matter! You know why? Neither side will ever give in. None of the people are able to change. The only hope is that their children will be sheltered from the hatred, so they might grow up too naive to realize they are supposed to hate each other. But until then, fanatics, and hatred-filled nutcases that believe in an afterlife will continue the killing, and thus mindful people that believe in justice or prevention will continue retaliating.
interesting idea, and while we're at it, we should rebuild the pentagon too!
Most likely the attorneys in the likely-to-follow lawsuits will argue that Linux and code sharing are the causes of events like this.
I disagree.
This has nothing to do at all with Linux. If someone ports the software to run in DOS, that point would be invalid. This also has nothing to do with code sharing. You only need the binary to watch the free TV, and probably 99.99% of people using it will never even look at the source. The decoding program is already out there, and is changed when it stops working. Distributing the software is barely different (legally) from distributing an mp3 player.
If the attorneys want to argue something, perhaps they can attack the card-server providers (if they allow access from US-based ip address).
I don't think the long distance carriers will care until bandwidth becomes high enough to make day to day long distance through the internet worth while for the majority of their customers. And by then, the long distance companies will probably be running the broadband- unless AOL buys them all first.
I saw a show on the Discovery channel where scientists built a robotic bee that was so bee-like that it fooled the other bees. Basically it looked like a bee, and it imitated the movements of the leader, and sucussfully led the migration to different pollen fields. The bees fell for it as if it was one of them. Just thought I'd share.
If a patent may be given for thumbnail galleries, then whoever enabled html to have pictures act as hyperlinks should get the credit. Displaying pictures is part of HTML, and so is clicking them to get to another page. The notion of having an image act as a hyperlink to a description of that image, and perhaps a higher-res picture, is nothing more than a magazine with contents on the cover (e.g. Reader's Digest). And good style web development teaches us that all hyperlinks should be orgranized in a logical way- so click a picture and learn more about it... Wow, whoever thought of that is a genius!
Just hearing you ask if its worth it to work harder to study CS makes me think for you it isn't (from an intellectual viewpoint). However, since you asked, I'd say that if you CAN do CS, then do it. I would be willing to bet that (later in life) less people regret working hard and learning more in school than those who regret having more time to party and have fun (although for many CS people, doing their homework is fun). It's a tradeoff, yes, but remember you are also "investing" for your future. College is 4 years (usually), your life is much longer (usually).