Remember that $1 US is to almost $8 HK dollars, and average earning in HK is lower than in US. Having said that, 7-mo. contract is still a pretty good deal. =)
Notice the competency of/. moderators modding the parent post insightful? It was a funny post though. hahah
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In poor countries it's the *poor* who are most likely to have cell phones.
Seriously, this is one the biggest crap I've ever heard. I am from one of the 'poorer' country, and if you don't have a job, you apply and sit at home waiting with the much cheaper land line instead of the more expensive phone lines. Bear in mind the subtle fact that a family of 5 can share the same line while cell phones are only for one individual.
'Poor' countries ain't that bad. We don't have 1% of population paying 70% income tax (huge disparity in earning), and our lawyer per capita is often much lower than doctor per capita. Health care quality is often a little lower, but it's AVAILABLE even if you are 'poor'.
Yes, it is the 100th anniversary, but we have problem zeroing in the exactly street address Max Planck started all this. However, scientists are pretty sure he was somewhere in Germany.
You might want to check out Genetic Programming instead. It is the method of evolving programs instead of evolving solutions like Genetic Algorithm described here.
There are some inherit disadvantages of GP, while being much more powerful than GA. One of them being the problem of code growth, usually after some generations, the organisms gets to be too large and starting to cosume too much memory and cpu resources to be feasible. One of the papers I wrote while taking Evolutionary Computation class while in college was the investigation and a 'solution/improvement' to the code growth problem.
can bring down the network of this country very quickly once they are on the network. Tell me, what is to prevent anybody from just signing up the NETWORK with the AOL cds?
Give me a break, goddamn it. Shutting down WiFi security holes will prevent intruders from going on the NETWORK?
I can understand if this is to prevent government agencies or companies with knowledge of government secrets from having wide open WiFi, but for EVERYONE?
In light of this, I find it impossible to believe that "chance" had anything to do with the process that created life
The most important difference in the pure chance of monkeys typing out Hamlet and the creation of life is the lack of heredity in the former. If everytime a monkey hit the next sequence of character(s) that eventually will form Hamlet, that sequence is recorded and carry into the next 'generation'. Repeat the whole process in a finate number of times... viola, Hamlet!
The most important aspect of the process that created life is heridity. You only need get the 'chance' to stumble upon something that can replicate with the property of heridity. In our planet, it is in the form of DNA.
These animals (Wolly Rhinos,Elephants) thrived during the ice age, evident from their physical adaptation to the cold habitat at the time. Often times they are not killed, or died naturally via other means not uncommon from animals today. This particular Rhino could very well have crushed the frozen lake and drawn or fell of a cliff.
On the other hand, a warmer temperature at the end of the ice age would probably bring more trouble to wolly rhinos than the rigid cold climat during the ice age.
After moving to a new place and needed to go online desperately, I did use the free AOL hours.
They either requires your CC#, or they will charge through your phone company directly and reflect on your phone bill.
After a couple of weeks, it got on my nerve and I decided to cancel their service. The speed was decent, but I just can't stand the bloatware, and the inability to share the connection without using any 3rd party proxy. (AOL disabled the handy right click on connection, so you can't choose 'share this internet connection')
The process was rather straight forward (u know, the usual automated maze until you can reach a rep), the rep asked me the reason, and I just told him I couldn't share the connection. The account was promptly cancelled, but if you try using the same account and password to login to AOL again, it _will_ work, and they will promptly reinstate your account, up to a month anyway. This mean that AOL will still store your CC# (if you provided one) for at least a month upon your canceling their service.
is first outlined by physicist Kip Thorn and widely accepted by the scientific community as a real possibility. It is a method which utilise the ability of keeping worm holes open and high speed travel IIRC.
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outragous Legacy by Kip Thorn is perhaps one of the best science books I read, though I didn't really read that many of them.:)
1. Are there different versions of the middle finger gesture? One 'adult', and another 'radio edit'?
2. When will we see a mod of this thing to a baseball glove so that we can get a translation of what the manager converse to the players on the field, live via TV?
Dell is not selling to Retailers, no, you won't see that brand new shiny Dell in BestBuy or Circuit City. Dell is only selling 'generic computers' to dealers who in turns sell them to small businesses.
I thought true slashdotism (not reading the story) only happens to joe six packs, and no the editor..
You are right about the GA, but this is closer to Genetic Programming than GA. GA evolves the 'answer', but GP evolves the 'solution' to the answer.
There's a difference, GA is much easier to program than GP and is usually much faster. Example of a good candidate problem for to use GA to solve would be the travelling salesman problem, while GP would find a method to solve a problem.
While fundamentally pretty similar, GP is slightly more complicated. You have to deal with issues such as program over growth during evolutions, which doesn't happen in GA.
You probably haven't read the article thanks to true slashdot tradition. In this case, the data in the hdd is encrypted when the wrist watch device worn by the true owner is not at a certain distance. Sure you can still use some l33t way to decrypt the files or what not, but it makes the task that much harder.
I've noticed the Imac from Terra Soft is priced $1474 while the exact same offering from Apple store is $1399.
The Imac from Terra Soft comes with both OSX and Linux CDs, but do we get to opt out from OSX and get a rebate? OSX is great, but is Apple giving us a choice?
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If you really read the article, there's a link about the country that stated the GNP at about $1000 for year 2000.
The original poster quoted $5 to pick up Windows XP from a university but failed to state that the institution has already paid Microsoft a big license fee, granted it is at a discounted price. The license fee is ultimately paid by the students through tuition fee.
This is all well and great for students who choose to use Microsoft products, but there is no opt-out, you have to pay that percentage through tuition even if you do not use it. It's bad for OSS uses, and even worse for students who doesn't own a computer.
This is all good and neat, but how about we look at the treaty for banning land mines? Take a look at http://www.banminesusa.org.
Hey, we can clear your land mines with our cool laser technology for only $200,000,000. By the way, here's the brochure for our newest offering of grade AAA mines.
I have one more issue of Popular Science left in my subscription and I am not going to renew it.
Half the magazine are ads, and another quarter of them are half baked product reviews (for example, comparing iMac with top of the line Sony desktop) with appropriate information on where to buy them.
In the past year, only a handful of articles were worth reading, and this one is definately the best I have seen thus far.
Maybe I should just use the money to subscribe to/. wait.. I can still get it for free..
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Remember that $1 US is to almost $8 HK dollars, and average earning in HK is lower than in US. Having said that, 7-mo. contract is still a pretty good deal. =)
Notice the competency of /. moderators modding the parent post insightful? It was a funny post though. hahah
In poor countries it's the *poor* who are most likely to have cell phones.
Seriously, this is one the biggest crap I've ever heard. I am from one of the 'poorer' country, and if you don't have a job, you apply and sit at home waiting with the much cheaper land line instead of the more expensive phone lines. Bear in mind the subtle fact that a family of 5 can share the same line while cell phones are only for one individual.
'Poor' countries ain't that bad. We don't have 1% of population paying 70% income tax (huge disparity in earning), and our lawyer per capita is often much lower than doctor per capita. Health care quality is often a little lower, but it's AVAILABLE even if you are 'poor'.
Yes, it is the 100th anniversary, but we have problem zeroing in the exactly street address Max Planck started all this. However, scientists are pretty sure he was somewhere in Germany.
Well, the earliest 'duplicators' are most probably not the DNA we are seeing now. Also, we have got time scale measured in billions of years.
I'm not drawing any conclusions, but this is the best explanation I agree with. Anyway lets not get into the creationist/evolutionist debate.
You might want to check out Genetic Programming instead. It is the method of evolving programs instead of evolving solutions like Genetic Algorithm described here.
There are some inherit disadvantages of GP, while being much more powerful than GA. One of them being the problem of code growth, usually after some generations, the organisms gets to be too large and starting to cosume too much memory and cpu resources to be feasible. One of the papers I wrote while taking Evolutionary Computation class while in college was the investigation and a 'solution/improvement' to the code growth problem.
can bring down the network of this country very quickly once they are on the network. Tell me, what is to prevent anybody from just signing up the NETWORK with the AOL cds?
Give me a break, goddamn it. Shutting down WiFi security holes will prevent intruders from going on the NETWORK?
I can understand if this is to prevent government agencies or companies with knowledge of government secrets from having wide open WiFi, but for EVERYONE?
Land of the free, just a thought.
The most important difference in the pure chance of monkeys typing out Hamlet and the creation of life is the lack of heredity in the former. If everytime a monkey hit the next sequence of character(s) that eventually will form Hamlet, that sequence is recorded and carry into the next 'generation'. Repeat the whole process in a finate number of times... viola, Hamlet!
The most important aspect of the process that created life is heridity. You only need get the 'chance' to stumble upon something that can replicate with the property of heridity. In our planet, it is in the form of DNA.
These animals (Wolly Rhinos,Elephants) thrived during the ice age, evident from their physical adaptation to the cold habitat at the time. Often times they are not killed, or died naturally via other means not uncommon from animals today. This particular Rhino could very well have crushed the frozen lake and drawn or fell of a cliff.
On the other hand, a warmer temperature at the end of the ice age would probably bring more trouble to wolly rhinos than the rigid cold climat during the ice age.
After moving to a new place and needed to go online desperately, I did use the free AOL hours.
They either requires your CC#, or they will charge through your phone company directly and reflect on your phone bill.
After a couple of weeks, it got on my nerve and I decided to cancel their service. The speed was decent, but I just can't stand the bloatware, and the inability to share the connection without using any 3rd party proxy. (AOL disabled the handy right click on connection, so you can't choose 'share this internet connection')
The process was rather straight forward (u know, the usual automated maze until you can reach a rep), the rep asked me the reason, and I just told him I couldn't share the connection. The account was promptly cancelled, but if you try using the same account and password to login to AOL again, it _will_ work, and they will promptly reinstate your account, up to a month anyway. This mean that AOL will still store your CC# (if you provided one) for at least a month upon your canceling their service.
one of those ships from Quaoar ..
is first outlined by physicist Kip Thorn and widely accepted by the scientific community as a real possibility. It is a method which utilise the ability of keeping worm holes open and high speed travel IIRC.
:)
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outragous Legacy by Kip Thorn is perhaps one of the best science books I read, though I didn't really read that many of them.
Wonder how long until the receiver get slashdotted
/. is having a story regarding that famous .cx site.. *phew* ..
Somehow I thought
It's still early.. -_-
1. Are there different versions of the middle finger gesture? One 'adult', and another 'radio edit'?
:P
2. When will we see a mod of this thing to a baseball glove so that we can get a translation of what the manager converse to the players on the field, live via TV?
I'm only half joking.
Dell is not selling to Retailers, no, you won't see that brand new shiny Dell in BestBuy or Circuit City. Dell is only selling 'generic computers' to dealers who in turns sell them to small businesses.
I thought true slashdotism (not reading the story) only happens to joe six packs, and no the editor..
You are right about the GA, but this is closer to Genetic Programming than GA. GA evolves the 'answer', but GP evolves the 'solution' to the answer.
:)
There's a difference, GA is much easier to program than GP and is usually much faster. Example of a good candidate problem for to use GA to solve would be the travelling salesman problem, while GP would find a method to solve a problem.
While fundamentally pretty similar, GP is slightly more complicated. You have to deal with issues such as program over growth during evolutions, which doesn't happen in GA.
http://www.genetic-programming.org/ is a good source to learn more about GP.
I took a class on GA and GP while in college, very interesting stuff.
You probably haven't read the article thanks to true slashdot tradition. In this case, the data in the hdd is encrypted when the wrist watch device worn by the true owner is not at a certain distance. Sure you can still use some l33t way to decrypt the files or what not, but it makes the task that much harder.
you've got dos!
I've noticed the Imac from Terra Soft is priced $1474 while the exact same offering from Apple store is $1399.
The Imac from Terra Soft comes with both OSX and Linux CDs, but do we get to opt out from OSX and get a rebate? OSX is great, but is Apple giving us a choice?
If you really read the article, there's a link about the country that stated the GNP at about $1000 for year 2000.
So I guess $5 is about 6-7% of monthly salary.
The original poster quoted $5 to pick up Windows XP from a university but failed to state that the institution has already paid Microsoft a big license fee, granted it is at a discounted price. The license fee is ultimately paid by the students through tuition fee.
This is all well and great for students who choose to use Microsoft products, but there is no opt-out, you have to pay that percentage through tuition even if you do not use it. It's bad for OSS uses, and even worse for students who doesn't own a computer.
how about we actually build something that gets rid of land mines?
And how about we actually stop building mines? Not exactly a chicken and egg problem, is it?
This is all good and neat, but how about we look at the treaty for banning land mines? Take a look at http://www.banminesusa.org.
Hey, we can clear your land mines with our cool laser technology for only $200,000,000. By the way, here's the brochure for our newest offering of grade AAA mines.
Since 1990? more like 2001, and I still blamed my foolishness.
I have one more issue of Popular Science left in my subscription and I am not going to renew it.
/. wait.. I can still get it for free..
Half the magazine are ads, and another quarter of them are half baked product reviews (for example, comparing iMac with top of the line Sony desktop) with appropriate information on where to buy them.
In the past year, only a handful of articles were worth reading, and this one is definately the best I have seen thus far.
Maybe I should just use the money to subscribe to