We are as yet unable to provide a public demo link. The Quake II code is GPL licensed, but the demo resources (textures, models, sounds, et al) are not, so we cannot simply upload them to a server. We are pursuing legitimate avenues to do so, though -- stay tuned.
At a deeper level, this work shows how social media expresses a collective wisdom which, when properly tapped, can yield an extremely powerful and accurate indicator of future outcomes.
No it doesn't show that at all. It shows that what is popular in twitter is popular in the real world. In other words, it shows that twitter is close enough to a representative sample of the general population for many practical purposes. That is all. It doesn't have anything to do with collective wisdom, nor does it help you predict any outcome unless it is primarily dependent on popular opinion.
Noticing that half of all the terrorist attacks on US soil in the last two generations were performed by white people white isn't being racist, it's being minimally observant.
All your statement tells us is that most of the individuals in a single terrorist attack were from the same country which is not insightful, it is fucking obvious.
The concept of joining the efforts and creating MeeGo is a very good one, but the details that have been announced are not encouraging. Mameo was a mature shipping product with many developers. Moblin was a proof of concept with some interesting ideas. And yet in all the mundane details they seemed to favor what Moblin was using rather than Mameo. Package management isn't a huge deal. Back in the day apt was better than rpm, now aptitude and yum are pretty comparable, with only minor advantages and disadvantages. So why change which they are using for no compelling reason? Why would they choose the convenience of Intel over the convenience of an established developer and user community? It makes no sense whatsoever.
We have those here in the US. They have mixed effect. The one that was put up outside the school near our college became a game to see who could get the biggest number (not during school-zone times). I can't imagine anyone here feeling shame because other drivers saw you going to fast. Some people do slow down but I think it is more because they either didn't realize how fast they were going to begin with, or become nervous that they will get a ticket. The systems aren't tied to tickets, but they are located in places where speeding is a problem, which are also more likely to have random speed traps. The combination of the two does have an impact on speed.
The later one would drive me crazy. I already have to deal with idiots that speed on roads where the lights are timed to the speed limit requiring them to stop at every single light (and often everyone behind them depending on how slow they are to get going again). And what good does it do to piss off other drivers on the road? I can't socially shun someone I have no contact with. It will only lead to more problems road rage.
You can use any number of technologies "under the hood" including those types of technologies commonly referred to as "NoSQL" and put an SQL interface in front!
Except the NoSQL technologies don't support some of the most fundamental features of a RDB. You would end up with something that has the same syntax as SQL but which performs significantly different operations, with completely different data guarantees. In object-oriented jargon, it would break the Liskov Substitution Principle. The semantics of an API affect how you write code using that API far more than the syntax does. Syntax is easy, and I really don't think you would be buying yourself anything by using SQL as the API to a non-RDBMS.
If you start with something like SQLlite rather than flat files, then you will get all the benefits of a RDB upfront, and it will be much easier to migrate to a "real" database if you ever need to in the future.
Sure I can scale Oracle to support massive DB's (and have), but I could probably get more value from using Amazon's SimpleDB for things that don't require massive scaling. Use the right tool for the job...
Isn't the entire point of these NoSQL databases that they offer better scalability at the cost of traditional ACID data guarantees? Why would you give up the flexibility and reliability of SQL if you didn't need massive scaling?
When you make income there are two things you can do with it - spend it or save it. Rich people spend a much smaller percentage of their income, as they save and invest more. Therefore, a smaller percentage of their income is taxed by a general sales tax than a poor people. That is the definition of a regressive tax - one where poor people have to pay a greater proportion of their income than rich.
That said, you can design sales taxes to make them either proportional or progressive, if you tax different items at different rates. Washington already exempts items such as groceries from sales tax, so unless the proposed sales tax hike changes that, I wouldn't assume that it must be regressive.
Microsoft still has it's employees in Washington, pays them income, and is taxed on that income. It is also taxed on the property it owns in the state. They are paying their fair share of the taxes needed to maintain the public services in the area. Washington is being a bunch of greedy fucks, trying to get the entire world to pay sales tax on products created in the state. In other words they have have created what amounts to a state export tariff, which is unconstitutional.
to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work
to distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending
to perform/display the copyrighted work publicly
Doing any one of those without permission is copyright infringement, unless fair use allows it. It probably does in this case, but I think that has more to do with the fact that Facebook are distributing the content in a format (HTML/CSS) that was specifically designed to allow different user agents to display information differently.
If your representitive needs a national census to know who he is representing, then he should never have been a representative at all. There are many ways to learn this information, including having been involved in the community at different levels before being elected as a representative. There are also many polling organizations that provide all the demographic information that the census provides and more without the potential of tying that information to specific individuals.
The agencies cited exemptions at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009, compared with 312,683 times the previous year, the review found. Over the same period, the number of information requests declined by about 11 percent, from 493,610 requests in fiscal 2008 to 444,924 in 2009.
Seriously, there is no need to speculate when the information was right there in front of you eyes.
Yep that has always been my biggest complaint with Avast and Antivirus applications in general. I have no problem doing so on my computer, but it took me a long time to train my relatives not to enter personal information into random popups (or worse credit card info for the commercial options). I don't want to subvert that work now. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced product that I can reauthorize from my own computer, without it nagging the user? I am imagining getting an email when one of the subscriptions I manage is due to expire. Then I would go to a website where I can view the status of each subscription (when it expires, what version they are running, when it last updated it virus definitions, etc), and pay to renew. Options for emails when a computer has not been updated in a long time would be nice too.
Yeah, this info isn't being hidden from the government, it is being hidden from shareholders (who likely don't care as long as it is profitable), and thus from the public as a whole (who do care, but likely won't do anything about it).
I tried to read the summary page to see what Mylyn was, but couldn't get halfway through it as my focus was constantly pulled away by that piece-of-shit zero-value-added twitter feed they have on the screen. What the fuck is wrong with web developers these days that they would think this is a good idea?
I envy you if your jobs have led you to think that only junior programmers have to deal with other people's spaghetti code. In my opinion any project big enough to be considered a "serious professional" project is big enough to have had at least one lousy developer that left their turds in it.
The demo made this look pretty nice for tracing functionality through multiple classes/method calls. It annoys me that most IDEs make it harder to view code side by side than Emacs did 15 years ago. That said, it appears that you either need a really huge monitor, or be comfortable reading really small text, for this system to work they way they demonstrate.
But part of the problem is that some professors try to cram so much information into such a small class period, that you don't have any time to wrap your head around what is being said in class. Mindless stenography is really your only survival option, especially when the prof is covering information that is not in the book. If they don't want students to act this way then:
Professors need to: * Set realistic goals for what can be covered in a lecture, realizing that not everyone learns a the same pace. * Provide comprehensive lecture notes for anything that is not in the book, and post them in advance of the lecture.
Students need to: * Read the book and/or notes in advance. * Focus on understanding what the professor is saying in class. * Limit note-taking to annotating the provided lecture notes.
Even then, there are some subjects where you really won't understand the subject until you dig in and start applying what you have learned.
FOIA requests for proprietary third-party information can be denied under exemption 4 (5 U.S.C. 552 b 4) . For example, just because Microsoft chooses to allow some government agencies to inspect their code, does not mean that the public is entitled to it.
This is something that we need to harp on everytime the subject comes up. You cannot pass laws against illegal aliens to prevent them from working or participating in social programs, because we don't know who they are. You can only pass laws against everyone requiring them to prove they are a citizen. To require us to beg government approval before we can work or attend school, and hope there isn't a clerical error, or we never lose our papers at a bad time, or that the government won't someday extend this program to a larger scope.
There are no laws against illegal aliens, there are only laws stating that we are all assumed guilty of being illegal aliens until we prove ourselves innocent.
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From the project FAQ:
We are as yet unable to provide a public demo link. The Quake II code is GPL licensed, but the demo resources (textures, models, sounds, et al) are not, so we cannot simply upload them to a server. We are pursuing legitimate avenues to do so, though -- stay tuned.
The quote in the article is such crap:
At a deeper level, this work shows how social media expresses a collective wisdom which, when properly tapped, can yield an extremely powerful and accurate indicator of future outcomes.
No it doesn't show that at all. It shows that what is popular in twitter is popular in the real world. In other words, it shows that twitter is close enough to a representative sample of the general population for many practical purposes. That is all. It doesn't have anything to do with collective wisdom, nor does it help you predict any outcome unless it is primarily dependent on popular opinion.
Noticing that half of all the terrorist attacks on US soil in the last two generations were performed by white people white isn't being racist, it's being minimally observant.
All your statement tells us is that most of the individuals in a single terrorist attack were from the same country which is not insightful, it is fucking obvious.
The concept of joining the efforts and creating MeeGo is a very good one, but the details that have been announced are not encouraging. Mameo was a mature shipping product with many developers. Moblin was a proof of concept with some interesting ideas. And yet in all the mundane details they seemed to favor what Moblin was using rather than Mameo. Package management isn't a huge deal. Back in the day apt was better than rpm, now aptitude and yum are pretty comparable, with only minor advantages and disadvantages. So why change which they are using for no compelling reason? Why would they choose the convenience of Intel over the convenience of an established developer and user community? It makes no sense whatsoever.
If they think this particle left a mess inside the collider, just wait till they find the particle with two bottom quarks.
We have those here in the US. They have mixed effect. The one that was put up outside the school near our college became a game to see who could get the biggest number (not during school-zone times). I can't imagine anyone here feeling shame because other drivers saw you going to fast. Some people do slow down but I think it is more because they either didn't realize how fast they were going to begin with, or become nervous that they will get a ticket. The systems aren't tied to tickets, but they are located in places where speeding is a problem, which are also more likely to have random speed traps. The combination of the two does have an impact on speed.
The later one would drive me crazy. I already have to deal with idiots that speed on roads where the lights are timed to the speed limit requiring them to stop at every single light (and often everyone behind them depending on how slow they are to get going again). And what good does it do to piss off other drivers on the road? I can't socially shun someone I have no contact with. It will only lead to more problems road rage.
You can use any number of technologies "under the hood" including those
types of technologies commonly referred to as "NoSQL" and put an SQL interface in front!
Except the NoSQL technologies don't support some of the most fundamental features of a RDB. You would end up with something that has the same syntax as SQL but which performs significantly different operations, with completely different data guarantees. In object-oriented jargon, it would break the Liskov Substitution Principle. The semantics of an API affect how you write code using that API far more than the syntax does. Syntax is easy, and I really don't think you would be buying yourself anything by using SQL as the API to a non-RDBMS.
If you start with something like SQLlite rather than flat files, then you will get all the benefits of a RDB upfront, and it will be much easier to migrate to a "real" database if you ever need to in the future.
Sure I can scale Oracle to support massive DB's (and have), but I could probably get more value from using Amazon's SimpleDB for things that don't require massive scaling. Use the right tool for the job ...
Isn't the entire point of these NoSQL databases that they offer better scalability at the cost of traditional ACID data guarantees? Why would you give up the flexibility and reliability of SQL if you didn't need massive scaling?
When you make income there are two things you can do with it - spend it or save it. Rich people spend a much smaller percentage of their income, as they save and invest more. Therefore, a smaller percentage of their income is taxed by a general sales tax than a poor people. That is the definition of a regressive tax - one where poor people have to pay a greater proportion of their income than rich.
That said, you can design sales taxes to make them either proportional or progressive, if you tax different items at different rates. Washington already exempts items such as groceries from sales tax, so unless the proposed sales tax hike changes that, I wouldn't assume that it must be regressive.
Microsoft still has it's employees in Washington, pays them income, and is taxed on that income. It is also taxed on the property it owns in the state. They are paying their fair share of the taxes needed to maintain the public services in the area. Washington is being a bunch of greedy fucks, trying to get the entire world to pay sales tax on products created in the state. In other words they have have created what amounts to a state export tariff, which is unconstitutional.
Copyright law grants exclusive rights to:
Doing any one of those without permission is copyright infringement, unless fair use allows it. It probably does in this case, but I think that has more to do with the fact that Facebook are distributing the content in a format (HTML/CSS) that was specifically designed to allow different user agents to display information differently.
If your representitive needs a national census to know who he is representing, then he should never have been a representative at all. There are many ways to learn this information, including having been involved in the community at different levels before being elected as a representative. There are also many polling organizations that provide all the demographic information that the census provides and more without the potential of tying that information to specific individuals.
It's not over till the fat lady sings.
The agencies cited exemptions at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009, compared with 312,683 times the previous year, the review found. Over the same period, the number of information requests declined by about 11 percent, from 493,610 requests in fiscal 2008 to 444,924 in 2009.
Seriously, there is no need to speculate when the information was right there in front of you eyes.
Yep that has always been my biggest complaint with Avast and Antivirus applications in general. I have no problem doing so on my computer, but it took me a long time to train my relatives not to enter personal information into random popups (or worse credit card info for the commercial options). I don't want to subvert that work now. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced product that I can reauthorize from my own computer, without it nagging the user? I am imagining getting an email when one of the subscriptions I manage is due to expire. Then I would go to a website where I can view the status of each subscription (when it expires, what version they are running, when it last updated it virus definitions, etc), and pay to renew. Options for emails when a computer has not been updated in a long time would be nice too.
Where the men are men, the women are men, and the little girls are FBI agents.
There have been several documentaries about hacking over the years that demonstrate the use of GPU-based computations. It is soo bad.
Yeah, this info isn't being hidden from the government, it is being hidden from shareholders (who likely don't care as long as it is profitable), and thus from the public as a whole (who do care, but likely won't do anything about it).
I tried to read the summary page to see what Mylyn was, but couldn't get halfway through it as my focus was constantly pulled away by that piece-of-shit zero-value-added twitter feed they have on the screen. What the fuck is wrong with web developers these days that they would think this is a good idea?
I envy you if your jobs have led you to think that only junior programmers have to deal with other people's spaghetti code. In my opinion any project big enough to be considered a "serious professional" project is big enough to have had at least one lousy developer that left their turds in it.
The demo made this look pretty nice for tracing functionality through multiple classes/method calls. It annoys me that most IDEs make it harder to view code side by side than Emacs did 15 years ago. That said, it appears that you either need a really huge monitor, or be comfortable reading really small text, for this system to work they way they demonstrate.
But part of the problem is that some professors try to cram so much information into such a small class period, that you don't have any time to wrap your head around what is being said in class. Mindless stenography is really your only survival option, especially when the prof is covering information that is not in the book. If they don't want students to act this way then:
Professors need to:
* Set realistic goals for what can be covered in a lecture, realizing that not everyone learns a the same pace.
* Provide comprehensive lecture notes for anything that is not in the book, and post them in advance of the lecture.
Students need to:
* Read the book and/or notes in advance.
* Focus on understanding what the professor is saying in class.
* Limit note-taking to annotating the provided lecture notes.
Even then, there are some subjects where you really won't understand the subject until you dig in and start applying what you have learned.
FOIA requests for proprietary third-party information can be denied under exemption 4 (5 U.S.C. 552 b 4) . For example, just because Microsoft chooses to allow some government agencies to inspect their code, does not mean that the public is entitled to it.
This is something that we need to harp on everytime the subject comes up. You cannot pass laws against illegal aliens to prevent them from working or participating in social programs, because we don't know who they are. You can only pass laws against everyone requiring them to prove they are a citizen. To require us to beg government approval before we can work or attend school, and hope there isn't a clerical error, or we never lose our papers at a bad time, or that the government won't someday extend this program to a larger scope.
There are no laws against illegal aliens, there are only laws stating that we are all assumed guilty of being illegal aliens until we prove ourselves innocent.