Cool! Does the polarization stone work through clouds too? And isn't it amazing that there's a different magicky
special stone for magnetism?? The chinese floated it on a cork for compass use:
By the 12th century, the lodestone compass was being used for navigation in medieval China. --- from History of the lodestone on wikipedia
The wikipedites also claim that the Olmecs might have beaten the chinese by a millennium, though!;>p
Well, when there is the weight of the government squeaking about, both Mastercard/Mastercharge and Visa/Bankamericard will do something "without even being asked": they cut off all transaction processing for wikileaks. . This was combined with a response from the financial industry world-wide which was the equivalent of a global financial blockade. How do you like them apples?
Yeppirree, we've got an ice-cream maker device at home. We use it for making the flavors that are hard to find like raspberry ice-cream with real fresh unfrozen raspberries (which is silly 'cause the little suckers will freeze a little when we make the ice-cream freeze, eh?), blueberry, or cashew-raisin-coconut, or home-made mango or lychee nut. You can get lychee nut at double-rainbow up north, and green-tea and such is at the ice-cream places as well as in the specialty aisles. But every now and then, it's fine to get the vanilla and choco-flavos from the store and let them do the work now and again. In those cases, make fresh waffles or crepes at home to eat with 'em!
You missed the point entirely. Despite the tap-dancing Breyer's does on their web site, their "frozen dessert" products do not contain enough milk and milk solids and actual DAIRY content to be legally labelled as ice cream. They must, therefore, be labelled as "Frozen Dessert", because what they are selling is no longer legally meeting the definition of ice-cream. See also the canadian dairy farmer's web site about what ice-cream really is. Please note that I specifically said that 90% of what is avaiable at Ralph's from Breyer's is "frozen dairy dessert". Even though they still make ice-cream, they don't really make that much of it anymore. And their tap-dancing question/answers really just say "we cheaped out so the ice-cream would be smoother and tastier and we cherry-picked focus groups until we found a sub-group that was stupid enough to say that the twigs and mud taste as good as the real thing." ;>p My original point stands: most of what Breyer's makes in NO LONGER LEGALLY CAPABLE OF BEING LABELLED AS ICE-CREAM, because it is not ice-cream. And my post was in response to another post about a store sellling "shakes" instead of "milk shakes" because what they were shakin' in the yard did NOT have enough milk or dairy in it to be legally called "milk shake". Hell, if they could get away with calling the chemicals they were selling "ice cream", they certainly would try to call it that. But they can't; they know they can't; their lawyers know they can't: 'cause what they selling 90% of at Ralph's ain't ice-cream. See ya in the yard!
You missed the point entirely. Despite the tap-dancing Breyer's does on their web site, their "frozen dessert" products do not contain enough milk and milk solids and actual DAIRY content to be legally labelled as ice cream. They must, therefore, be labelled as "Frozen Dessert", because what they are selling is no longer legally meeting the definition of ice-cream. See also the canadian dairy farmer's web site about what ice-cream really is. Please note that I specifically said that 90% of what is avaiable at Ralph's from Breyer's is "frozen dairy dessert". Even though they still make ice-cream, they don't really make that much of it anymore. And their tap-dancing question/answers really just say "we cheaped out so the ice-cream would be smoother and tastier and we cherry-picked focus groups until we found a sub-group that was stupid enough to say that the twigs and mud taste as good as the real thing." ;>p My original point stands: most of what Breyer's makes in NO LONGER LEGALLY CAPABLE OF BEING LABELLED AS ICE-CREAM, because it is not ice-cream. And my post was in response to another post about a store sellling "shakes" instead of "milk shakes" because what they were shakin' in the yard did NOT have enough milk or dairy in it to be legally called "milk shake". See ya in the yard!
re: found out that they could not sell them as "milk" shakes because there was not enough milk in them :>(
Breyer's
which used to make real
ice cream, has turned from selling 64 ounces of ice-cream into selling 48-ounces of frozen milk and oil and carageenan which can no longer legally be called ICE-CREAM so they sell it as FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT. My mom tells me they used to run commercials about how they only made ice-cream out of pure pure ingerdients and didn't believe me when I told her that she had NOT bought ice-cream. .
I pointed out the ingredients to her, and we went back to the Ralphs in the village and got our money back. We looked at all of the breyer's flavors they had in the freezer at the store and 90% of them now were labeled "Frozen Dessert Product" and NOT labelled as ice-cream. This is serious crap, people, at least for true ice-cream as a religion type people like me. Do Not Encourage these idiots by buying their "Frozen Dessert" products. Only buy real REAL ice-cream.
re: all about the business of business .
Yep. When the MBAs move in to the management structure ( whether it's part of the "growing" of a small company as capital comes into it from investors or if it's because the founder's sons or daughters finished college, got their MBA and came home to roost in their pre-ordained family job ), the presence of those only interested in the business of business instead of the actual business of the company leads to the deterioration of that company's performance. My local example: a nice bbq restaurant that my family and I have noticed is going downhill over the last 4 years: lots of little performance enhancers being added, the workers get new uniforms that make no sense (really, white shirts for a bbq server?), restructured menus and prices, shrinking the size of the beverage cup (yet still allowing unlimited refills, thus annoying both the customers and the waitress-staff at the extra work required and the amount of time the customer is without a beverage!), and a few other silly things.
These little tweaks are not appropriate for the business specifically; they seem like tweaks that were generated from a list of "business enhancing" or "profit enhancing" changes. Kinda like a viagra-pill for businesses!!
Re: what Facebook Feature Creep really means... .
My best guess as to what Facebook Feature Creep will mean about one month from now, when the next Facebook update occurs is: .
Facebook Featured Creep: This week, we highlight and feature Facebook's Creep of the Week -- the person or corporate person who has done the most stalking or creeping or creeping out of others. Please note that Facebook itself, having already become Creep of the Century and Creep of the Millennium, is NOT in contention for the Facebook Featured Creep of the Week award.
Thank you anonymous for this information. Greg Maxwell's little essay on the linked page gives much more detail, along with a useful and coherently paced explanation behind maxwell's decision to publicly release his own "spidered" JSTOR collector of the philosophical transactions of the royal society. Thanks, again!
In the USA, it is possible for public and governmental employees to not only contribute to open source software, but also to have that be part of their particular job. . ImageJ is a public domain software package developed at the NIH (National INstitute of Health) by Wayne Rasband. .
NIST also has software that is publicly available, though not all of it is "public domain". .
I don't know whether the "public domain" status is used because Gov't entities are not allowed to hold copyright on materials they develop; I know I've seen copyright labels on a lot of NASA products and images and animations. I strongly feel that products developed from our tax dollars ought to be available back to us and between/amongst different governmental departments so as to save us money and development costs.
It's a bit ambiguous and unsaid at the RSA blog page how exactly this spearfishing attack is "valdiating or checking ID"... They say:
The bouncer phishing kit targets a preset email list for each campaign. A user ID value is generated for the targeted recipients, sending them a unique URL for access to the attack. Hereâ(TM)s the interesting part â" much like a night clubâ(TM)s bouncer list â" any outsider attempting to access the phishing page is redirected to a âoe404 page not foundâ error message. Unlike the usual IP-restricted entry that many older kits used, this is a trueâ"depending on how you look at itâ"black hat whitelist.
When victims access the phishing link, their name has to be on the list and their âoeIDâ value is verified on-the-fly as soon as they attempt to browse to the URL. After a scan of the âoebouncer listâ, unintended visitors are stirred away from the phishing page; in fact, the page is not even generated for eyes it was not meant for.
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So which is it? Aren't they using IP addy to verify the identity of the sucker? Or is their some other source (their unique URL that they post)? .
If it's by unique URL with a referral code at the post, then security checks wouldn't see it. IF it's just the unique URL, anyone else testing that URL would see it too.
Haha. As a Californian, I can sympathize with west-coastie-toasties who do feel that being stuck in the Carolinas is "hell", but I truly did not intend to imply that sort of meaning at all. Hell is more likely to be sprinkled amongst the 'zonies with the constant left-turn blinkers on! (ducks for cover as the 'zonies get their GPS's to recalculate their bearings to come attack me with bad driving...);>)
Rare earth elements are in the usa also. Hell, diamonds and emeralds are sprinkled all throughout the carolinas too, but they're just not extracted. PArt of the reason for that is the cost of extraction. But another part of the reason is "hey why not let the other guy extract all of their mineral content and we BUY it from them, and save our own minerals for when they finally run out. Then we can use ours AND we won't have to share ours with them!" .
Pretty much strip mine and use the other guys/gals stuff before we even touch our shares. (Like the mormons who keep a stockpile of grain and such to last them for a year or longer in case something drastic happens on this earth. Until then, they keep buying from the grocery store like everyone else. Use up other's resources before using up our own!)
re:It wasn't just his unexpected high performance, but also the expected drop in performance once the internet broadcast of the game was disabled. . Moi, je n'ai RTFA pas (or wouldn't it be LLAF in french, lire l'article f**francaise** ??) , so if I'd known that the cheater's performance dropped dramatically and drastically (dramastically?;>) ) once the game broadcast were dropped, I would easily have conceded the likeliness of cheating. I missed that point since it wasn't in the posting summary. .
Questions to all the francophones out there: please traduire RTFA from anglais to francais for me. Would LLAF be correct?
It's a bit ambiguous: does "once per infringing image" mean
-- "once per image infringed", so that Agence-Presse-Francais and the Washington Post would only pay half of the cost each per each image infringed
-- "once per infringing use [posting or publishing, not per view] of image", so that whatever the "use cost" of the image is, the Post would have to pay full use cost, and AFP would also have to pay full use cost.
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I can actually see the point and usefulness of "per view" of image, because I would guess that the contractual or negotiated "use cost" of the image would be different for different uses:
-- smaller payment for a small magazine with low distribution and readers
-- larger payment for a large magazine with large distribution and lots of readers
-- even larger payment for exclusive publication rights (which helps magazines sell even more copies, and also helps tabloid newspapers with paparazzi photos)
-- some other negotiated fee for web usage, with a sliding scale for number of impressions / views / click throughs.
So it would make sense that a web site that copied it and had a lot of page views of the image ought to pay more for infringing it than a web site that didn't. Unless of course, you bring in "statutory damages" which will not require bringing in any proof of dollar loss, merely prroof of copyright infringement.
Etrange. Tres etrange.
Gotcha. Point taken. I hadn't considered that the small computer would only help you cheat successfully at perhaps the local level, not at the grandmaster and regional or national levels. (Glee: we're going to regionals! We're going to Nationals!)
Even the author of the paper, KW Regan, concedes in his third paragraph that at certain board positions or at certain points in a game, alpha-beta pruning or the chess engines will come to the same "desired move" as a good human player would:
a move that is given a clear standout evaluation by a program is much more likely to be found by a strong human player.
re a deck-of-cards computer wouldn't get you very far at masters level... .
Good point. The article is a lot more about another article that K.W. Regan has written about "Measuring Fidelity to a Computer Agent" (which sounds more like spies mindlessly following Dear Leader;>) rather than about a chess-playing agent) at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/
which has some interesting links I have not followed yet. .
Regan even concedes the point I made above by stating in the third paragraph:
a move that is given a clear standout evaluation by a program is much more likely to be found by a strong human player.
In other words, a decent player at a point in a game with limited options may just as likely come to the same conclusion or move that a computerized algorithm evaluates to be the best. And that is insufficient evidence for cheating. I mean, if "you're in a twisty maze and the passage only goes 30 degrees to the right or back where you came from" since time only moves forward in chess, you go 30 degrees to the right. Sometimes the game or board position strongly constrains what your next move is going to be.
What if they are not cheating? Some possibilities:
1 -- they learned chess mostly/exclusively by playing against a machine rather than against human opponents. Then their strategy would mostly be informed by or similar to the type of gameplay which they have observed kicking their own ass as they learned to play. Thus they might "play like a computer" because they have internalized the computer's algorithms as they learned to play chess.
2 -- they randomly play chess in manners that appear like a computer's algorithms. In fact, hey, when they say that the person's moves closely mirror the moves a computer would make, shouldn't they specify which computer program/algorithm they mean for making chess moves? If you're running gnu/linux, you can play Xboard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xboard ) as the front-end (visual GUI) with multiple possible engines driving it underneath (such as Gnu chess). You can even run Xboard to provide a running analysis of a game being played by others as you enter the moves played (see the man pages for analysis options). Different engines would probably come up with different moves/styles of play, right? So saying that a person's moves and play style mirror a computer is an insufficiently detailed accusation. The chess engine being suspected ought to be specified and indicated, in my opinion.
3 -- yes it is strange that someone with a normally low rating would suddenly get so far against a grand-master, and yes it is less suspicious when that happens with a yougner player, but why couldn't it occur with an adult player? Suspicion is just suspicion, not evidence.
4 -- there is a comment in the article about using Faraday cages at the match in order to decrease the risk for cheating. Remember that these days computers are very small, smaller than a deck of cards (yes, fancy phone in your pocket, I'm talking about you being as powerful as a supercomputer from the 1970s or 1980s). They could rig a fancy interface for their toes and have a shoe computer for all that you know.
5 -- is this all fallout from the pete rose type stuff, or because of lance armstrong from yesterday? . :>)
A cheating scandal in chess. Wowza.
Re: Are you kidding me? The difficulty with HL7... .
Problems with HL7? Just wait for the third iteration after HL7 to see it crash and burn... Remember what happened with the last HL10? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-10#Fictional_references
We ended up with the
Bionic Man. Hell, if we could do something like that for $6M-USA these days, wouldn't that be amazing?
It's just a symbol meant for PR and to draw attention. As for polio, it's mostly eradicated in the majority of the world thanks to the dead ( formalin inactivated) virus vaccine invented by Salk (founder of the Salk Institute here in La Jolla, next door to UCSD) and to the weakened live virus invented by Sabin (not as well remembered here in La Jolla). Polio still runs rampant in Nigeria and north central Africa and Pakistan (check out the colorful distribution heatmap on the wikipedia article about poliomyelitis), but the March of Dimes' activities are limited to the USA.
It's just a symbol meant for PR and to draw attention. As for polio, it's mostly eradicated in the majority of the world thanks to the dead ( formalin inactivated) virus vaccine invented by Salk (founder of the Salk Institute here in La Jolla, next door to UCSD) and to the weakened live virus invented by Sabin (not as well remembered here in La Jolla). Polio still runs rampant in Nigeria and north central Africa and Pakistan (check out the colorful distribution heatmap on the wikipedia article about poliomyelitis), but the March of Dimes' activities are limited to the USA.
Why not consider a datacenter that looks like Times Square? Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads .
There were a bunch of comments on that article about using up the empty building as a data-center.: . animats anonymous coward: why not a datacenter? .
I understand that sometimes cities have an art budget that they need to use up with each new construction project, and it's cute to have new structures blend in or stand out aesthetically, but it seems un-necessary and over-kill to go too far out of your way to do this. But hey, if you're building it, (and you get the appropriate permits by approval or bribery) do whatever floats your boats and roxen your boxen!
Yep, it's like the kid who kills their parents and says to the judge "Your honor, have mercy on me since I'm an orphan!" Why, shouldn't we be merciful to these poor unemployed high level execs since their company went kaput? The fact that their company went kaput because of their shenanigans and they played with the factors and manipulated things to extract so much money out before crashing and buring should have nothing to do with it!!! It's like Bain Capital. Why Mitt was just plain ol' smart coming in to these companies with lots of available credit and no outstanding loans, taking as much cash as possible while putting the companies in hock, and then taking the legal bankruptcy route to deny payment to creditors all while taking a nice healthy chunk of restructuring fees and consulting payments.... Just plain ol' smarts indeed.:>(
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The wikipedites also claim that the Olmecs might have beaten the chinese by a millennium, though! ;>p
It's been hypothesized that pigeons also use polarized light to sense the position of the sun in the sky-sphere, even if the sun itself is obscured from direct viewing. It's been definitely shown to be true for:
-- honeybees : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_navigation#Orientation_by_polarised_light
-- squids eyes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye#Polarized_light
-- fishies : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_in_fishes#Polarized_light
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Pigeons have been tested for polarization sensing and magnetic field sensing by William Tinsley Keeton.
Well, when there is the weight of the government squeaking about, both Mastercard/Mastercharge and Visa/Bankamericard will do something "without even being asked": they cut off all transaction processing for wikileaks.
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This was combined with a response from the financial industry world-wide which was the equivalent of a global financial blockade. How do you like them apples?
Yeppirree, we've got an ice-cream maker device at home. We use it for making the flavors that are hard to find like raspberry ice-cream with real fresh unfrozen raspberries (which is silly 'cause the little suckers will freeze a little when we make the ice-cream freeze, eh?), blueberry, or cashew-raisin-coconut, or home-made mango or lychee nut. You can get lychee nut at double-rainbow up north, and green-tea and such is at the ice-cream places as well as in the specialty aisles. But every now and then, it's fine to get the vanilla and choco-flavos from the store and let them do the work now and again. In those cases, make fresh waffles or crepes at home to eat with 'em!
You missed the point entirely. Despite the tap-dancing Breyer's does on their web site, their "frozen dessert" products do not contain enough milk and milk solids and actual DAIRY content to be legally labelled as ice cream. They must, therefore, be labelled as "Frozen Dessert", because what they are selling is no longer legally meeting the definition of ice-cream. See also the canadian dairy farmer's web site about what ice-cream really is. Please note that I specifically said that 90% of what is avaiable at Ralph's from Breyer's is "frozen dairy dessert". Even though they still make ice-cream, they don't really make that much of it anymore. And their tap-dancing question/answers really just say "we cheaped out so the ice-cream would be smoother and tastier and we cherry-picked focus groups until we found a sub-group that was stupid enough to say that the twigs and mud taste as good as the real thing."
;>p
My original point stands: most of what Breyer's makes in NO LONGER LEGALLY CAPABLE OF BEING LABELLED AS ICE-CREAM, because it is not ice-cream. And my post was in response to another post about a store sellling "shakes" instead of "milk shakes" because what they were shakin' in the yard did NOT have enough milk or dairy in it to be legally called "milk shake". Hell, if they could get away with calling the chemicals they were selling "ice cream", they certainly would try to call it that. But they can't; they know they can't; their lawyers know they can't: 'cause what they selling 90% of at Ralph's ain't ice-cream. See ya in the yard!
You missed the point entirely. Despite the tap-dancing Breyer's does on their web site, their "frozen dessert" products do not contain enough milk and milk solids and actual DAIRY content to be legally labelled as ice cream. They must, therefore, be labelled as "Frozen Dessert", because what they are selling is no longer legally meeting the definition of ice-cream. See also the canadian dairy farmer's web site about what ice-cream really is. Please note that I specifically said that 90% of what is avaiable at Ralph's from Breyer's is "frozen dairy dessert". Even though they still make ice-cream, they don't really make that much of it anymore. And their tap-dancing question/answers really just say "we cheaped out so the ice-cream would be smoother and tastier and we cherry-picked focus groups until we found a sub-group that was stupid enough to say that the twigs and mud taste as good as the real thing."
;>p
My original point stands: most of what Breyer's makes in NO LONGER LEGALLY CAPABLE OF BEING LABELLED AS ICE-CREAM, because it is not ice-cream. And my post was in response to another post about a store sellling "shakes" instead of "milk shakes" because what they were shakin' in the yard did NOT have enough milk or dairy in it to be legally called "milk shake". See ya in the yard!
re: found out that they could not sell them as "milk" shakes because there was not enough milk in them
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:>(
Breyer's which used to make real ice cream, has turned from selling 64 ounces of ice-cream into selling 48-ounces of frozen milk and oil and carageenan which can no longer legally be called ICE-CREAM so they sell it as FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT. My mom tells me they used to run commercials about how they only made ice-cream out of pure pure ingerdients and didn't believe me when I told her that she had NOT bought ice-cream.
I pointed out the ingredients to her, and we went back to the Ralphs in the village and got our money back. We looked at all of the breyer's flavors they had in the freezer at the store and 90% of them now were labeled "Frozen Dessert Product" and NOT labelled as ice-cream. This is serious crap, people, at least for true ice-cream as a religion type people like me. Do Not Encourage these idiots by buying their "Frozen Dessert" products. Only buy real REAL ice-cream.
re: all about the business of business
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Yep. When the MBAs move in to the management structure ( whether it's part of the "growing" of a small company as capital comes into it from investors or if it's because the founder's sons or daughters finished college, got their MBA and came home to roost in their pre-ordained family job ), the presence of those only interested in the business of business instead of the actual business of the company leads to the deterioration of that company's performance. My local example: a nice bbq restaurant that my family and I have noticed is going downhill over the last 4 years: lots of little performance enhancers being added, the workers get new uniforms that make no sense (really, white shirts for a bbq server?), restructured menus and prices, shrinking the size of the beverage cup (yet still allowing unlimited refills, thus annoying both the customers and the waitress-staff at the extra work required and the amount of time the customer is without a beverage!), and a few other silly things.
These little tweaks are not appropriate for the business specifically; they seem like tweaks that were generated from a list of "business enhancing" or "profit enhancing" changes. Kinda like a viagra-pill for businesses!!
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My best guess as to what Facebook Feature Creep will mean about one month from now, when the next Facebook update occurs is:
. Facebook Featured Creep: This week, we highlight and feature Facebook's Creep of the Week -- the person or corporate person who has done the most stalking or creeping or creeping out of others. Please note that Facebook itself, having already become Creep of the Century and Creep of the Millennium, is NOT in contention for the Facebook Featured Creep of the Week award.
Thank you anonymous for this information. Greg Maxwell's little essay on the linked page gives much more detail, along with a useful and coherently paced explanation behind maxwell's decision to publicly release his own "spidered" JSTOR collector of the philosophical transactions of the royal society. Thanks, again!
In the USA, it is possible for public and governmental employees to not only contribute to open source software, but also to have that be part of their particular job.
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ImageJ is a public domain software package developed at the NIH (National INstitute of Health) by Wayne Rasband.
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NIST also has software that is publicly available, though not all of it is "public domain".
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I don't know whether the "public domain" status is used because Gov't entities are not allowed to hold copyright on materials they develop; I know I've seen copyright labels on a lot of NASA products and images and animations. I strongly feel that products developed from our tax dollars ought to be available back to us and between/amongst different governmental departments so as to save us money and development costs.
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So which is it? Aren't they using IP addy to verify the identity of the sucker? Or is their some other source (their unique URL that they post)?
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If it's by unique URL with a referral code at the post, then security checks wouldn't see it. IF it's just the unique URL, anyone else testing that URL would see it too.
Haha. As a Californian, I can sympathize with west-coastie-toasties who do feel that being stuck in the Carolinas is "hell", but I truly did not intend to imply that sort of meaning at all. Hell is more likely to be sprinkled amongst the 'zonies with the constant left-turn blinkers on! (ducks for cover as the 'zonies get their GPS's to recalculate their bearings to come attack me with bad driving...) ;>)
Rare earth elements are in the usa also. Hell, diamonds and emeralds are sprinkled all throughout the carolinas too, but they're just not extracted. PArt of the reason for that is the cost of extraction. But another part of the reason is "hey why not let the other guy extract all of their mineral content and we BUY it from them, and save our own minerals for when they finally run out. Then we can use ours AND we won't have to share ours with them!"
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Pretty much strip mine and use the other guys/gals stuff before we even touch our shares. (Like the mormons who keep a stockpile of grain and such to last them for a year or longer in case something drastic happens on this earth. Until then, they keep buying from the grocery store like everyone else. Use up other's resources before using up our own!)
re:It wasn't just his unexpected high performance, but also the expected drop in performance once the internet broadcast of the game was disabled. ;>) ) once the game broadcast were dropped, I would easily have conceded the likeliness of cheating. I missed that point since it wasn't in the posting summary.
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Moi, je n'ai RTFA pas (or wouldn't it be LLAF in french, lire l'article f**francaise** ??) , so if I'd known that the cheater's performance dropped dramatically and drastically (dramastically?
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Questions to all the francophones out there: please traduire RTFA from anglais to francais for me. Would LLAF be correct?
-- "once per infringing use [posting or publishing, not per view] of image", so that whatever the "use cost" of the image is, the Post would have to pay full use cost, and AFP would also have to pay full use cost.
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-- smaller payment for a small magazine with low distribution and readersI can actually see the point and usefulness of "per view" of image, because I would guess that the contractual or negotiated "use cost" of the image would be different for different uses:
-- larger payment for a large magazine with large distribution and lots of readers
-- even larger payment for exclusive publication rights (which helps magazines sell even more copies, and also helps tabloid newspapers with paparazzi photos)
-- some other negotiated fee for web usage, with a sliding scale for number of impressions / views / click throughs.
So it would make sense that a web site that copied it and had a lot of page views of the image ought to pay more for infringing it than a web site that didn't. Unless of course, you bring in "statutory damages" which will not require bringing in any proof of dollar loss, merely prroof of copyright infringement.
Etrange. Tres etrange.
Gotcha. Point taken. I hadn't considered that the small computer would only help you cheat successfully at perhaps the local level, not at the grandmaster and regional or national levels. (Glee: we're going to regionals! We're going to Nationals!)
from http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/ : Measuring fidelity to a computer agent
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Good point. The article is a lot more about another article that K.W. Regan has written about "Measuring Fidelity to a Computer Agent" (which sounds more like spies mindlessly following Dear Leader
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Regan even concedes the point I made above by stating in the third paragraph: a move that is given a clear standout evaluation by a program is much more likely to be found by a strong human player.
In other words, a decent player at a point in a game with limited options may just as likely come to the same conclusion or move that a computerized algorithm evaluates to be the best. And that is insufficient evidence for cheating. I mean, if "you're in a twisty maze and the passage only goes 30 degrees to the right or back where you came from" since time only moves forward in chess, you go 30 degrees to the right. Sometimes the game or board position strongly constrains what your next move is going to be.
What if they are not cheating? Some possibilities:
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1 -- they learned chess mostly/exclusively by playing against a machine rather than against human opponents. Then their strategy would mostly be informed by or similar to the type of gameplay which they have observed kicking their own ass as they learned to play. Thus they might "play like a computer" because they have internalized the computer's algorithms as they learned to play chess.
2 -- they randomly play chess in manners that appear like a computer's algorithms. In fact, hey, when they say that the person's moves closely mirror the moves a computer would make, shouldn't they specify which computer program/algorithm they mean for making chess moves? If you're running gnu/linux, you can play Xboard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xboard ) as the front-end (visual GUI) with multiple possible engines driving it underneath (such as Gnu chess). You can even run Xboard to provide a running analysis of a game being played by others as you enter the moves played (see the man pages for analysis options). Different engines would probably come up with different moves/styles of play, right? So saying that a person's moves and play style mirror a computer is an insufficiently detailed accusation. The chess engine being suspected ought to be specified and indicated, in my opinion.
3 -- yes it is strange that someone with a normally low rating would suddenly get so far against a grand-master, and yes it is less suspicious when that happens with a yougner player, but why couldn't it occur with an adult player? Suspicion is just suspicion, not evidence.
4 -- there is a comment in the article about using Faraday cages at the match in order to decrease the risk for cheating. Remember that these days computers are very small, smaller than a deck of cards (yes, fancy phone in your pocket, I'm talking about you being as powerful as a supercomputer from the 1970s or 1980s). They could rig a fancy interface for their toes and have a shoe computer for all that you know.
5 -- is this all fallout from the pete rose type stuff, or because of lance armstrong from yesterday?
A cheating scandal in chess. Wowza.
Re: Are you kidding me? The difficulty with HL7...
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Problems with HL7? Just wait for the third iteration after HL7 to see it crash and burn... Remember what happened with the last HL10? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL-10#Fictional_references
We ended up with the Bionic Man. Hell, if we could do something like that for $6M-USA these days, wouldn't that be amazing?
It's just a symbol meant for PR and to draw attention. As for polio, it's mostly eradicated in the majority of the world thanks to the dead ( formalin inactivated) virus vaccine invented by Salk (founder of the Salk Institute here in La Jolla, next door to UCSD) and to the weakened live virus invented by Sabin (not as well remembered here in La Jolla). Polio still runs rampant in Nigeria and north central Africa and Pakistan (check out the colorful distribution heatmap on the wikipedia article about poliomyelitis), but the March of Dimes' activities are limited to the USA.
It's just a symbol meant for PR and to draw attention. As for polio, it's mostly eradicated in the majority of the world thanks to the dead ( formalin inactivated) virus vaccine invented by Salk (founder of the Salk Institute here in La Jolla, next door to UCSD) and to the weakened live virus invented by Sabin (not as well remembered here in La Jolla). Polio still runs rampant in Nigeria and north central Africa and Pakistan (check out the colorful distribution heatmap on the wikipedia article about poliomyelitis), but the March of Dimes' activities are limited to the USA.
Why not consider a datacenter that looks like Times Square? Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads
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There were a bunch of comments on that article about using up the empty building as a data-center.:
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anonymous coward: why not a datacenter?
I understand that sometimes cities have an art budget that they need to use up with each new construction project, and it's cute to have new structures blend in or stand out aesthetically, but it seems un-necessary and over-kill to go too far out of your way to do this. But hey, if you're building it, (and you get the appropriate permits by approval or bribery) do whatever floats your boats and roxen your boxen!
Yep, it's like the kid who kills their parents and says to the judge "Your honor, have mercy on me since I'm an orphan!" Why, shouldn't we be merciful to these poor unemployed high level execs since their company went kaput? The fact that their company went kaput because of their shenanigans and they played with the factors and manipulated things to extract so much money out before crashing and buring should have nothing to do with it!!! It's like Bain Capital. Why Mitt was just plain ol' smart coming in to these companies with lots of available credit and no outstanding loans, taking as much cash as possible while putting the companies in hock, and then taking the legal bankruptcy route to deny payment to creditors all while taking a nice healthy chunk of restructuring fees and consulting payments.... Just plain ol' smarts indeed. :>(