... how do you even go about finding a new celestial body/galaxy? Isn't there some central database which contains all of the current known stars/galaxies/nebulae?
You can plot all of the locations on a virtual sky and start looking in the directions that have been explored the least.
Then all you have to do is get a cluster of amateur astronomers, line them up behind telescopes and voila you got yourself a mega super duper star-finding array (tm)?!
Hmm, I guess the three-dimensionality of the Universe does make it a bit hard to figure out which regions have already been explored.
I have had it with stupid city growth - I will now promptly proceed to rip off the pavement on my street and move it to Greenland. Hmm, ironically, why is it called Greenland?
... is a *humble* genius. Read it and weep (page 1, 1st chapter):
For what I have found is that with the new kind of science I have developed it suddenly becomes possible to make progress on a remarkable range of fundamental issues that have never successfully been addressed by any of the exisiting sciences before.
First off - read the article. In there "the expert says" that consumer demand is driving the move towards phones with more features. My "begging to differ" was arguing exactly that point - and I know I am not unique in wanting a simple phone without bells and whistles. Second of all, consumers can't be all that different. So don't go off on a tangent telling me that UKers are all that special. Peace out.
I just came up with the numbers... in principle it will always be cheaper to build your own than buy any of the commercial solutions. Besides, price is not the major point here.
The point, Taco, is price. Why should I pay $2000 when I can have it for $200 in parts. Plus, there are plenty to people who get more enjoyment out of building something themselves.
Windows has the so called compiled HTML files with an extension.chm - those are called executable HTML. But I don't think this is what they meant in the article. But then again I might be wrong about being wrong.
Referer can be spoofed so that won't work. But it's very easy for a large company like Yahoo (or any company for that matter) to setup its images server as an internal server - i.e. accessible to their *own* web servers alone. However, what's to stop spammers from grabbing the image off the browser cache and literally serving it from there on other pages. I can see how the article has a point unless the images appear on a SSL page which can't be cached. But then again I think you can cache even those.
Yep, a company called Cloudmark (http://www.cloudmark.com/products/authority/techn ology/) uses the DNS method you describe as one of its many rules to distinguish spam from regular mail. They call the approach Genetic Classification with the separate rules being called spamGenes. I don't know how much of a classifier (in the true AI sense) they have built but the idea sounds pretty nifty.
Michael, with your comments "the $1B is really $1M" yet again you prove that shoddy journalism is alive and well on Slashdot. Call me up when you donate as much as $1000 of software to a charity. Or better yet - if you can work out a deal whereas I can get $1B-worth of Microsoft software for $1M I will find the million to buy it. Mod me, biatch.
And who might you be - you seem to be knowledgeable about the rover yet you do not quote any articles so I am assuming that you have insider info? Or are you just playing the part?
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... how do you even go about finding a new celestial body/galaxy? Isn't there some central database which contains all of the current known stars/galaxies/nebulae?
You can plot all of the locations on a virtual sky and start looking in the directions that have been explored the least.
Then all you have to do is get a cluster of amateur astronomers, line them up behind telescopes and voila you got yourself a mega super duper star-finding array (tm)?!
Hmm, I guess the three-dimensionality of the Universe does make it a bit hard to figure out which regions have already been explored.
Just noticed it - at the bottom of the front page on Slashdot:
Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols
In Soviet Russia Tetris plays YOU!
I have had it with stupid city growth - I will now promptly proceed to rip off the pavement on my street and move it to Greenland. Hmm, ironically, why is it called Greenland?
There is prior art for this: the bondage beast from "Pulp Fiction".
Hey, I'd like place my pre-order right this second. How much?
... quite the looker
Also if the algorithm uses specific timings between knocks it can get screwed up due to the fickle nature of network latency.
What's your company name so I never get service with you?
First off - read the article. In there "the expert says" that consumer demand is driving the move towards phones with more features. My "begging to differ" was arguing exactly that point - and I know I am not unique in wanting a simple phone without bells and whistles. Second of all, consumers can't be all that different. So don't go off on a tangent telling me that UKers are all that special. Peace out.
The same principle that it's usually cheaper to build a decent box than buy it from Dell.
I just came up with the numbers ... in principle it will always be cheaper to build your own than buy any of the commercial solutions. Besides, price is not the major point here.
The point, Taco, is price. Why should I pay $2000 when I can have it for $200 in parts. Plus, there are plenty to people who get more enjoyment out of building something themselves.
Well, damn I must be the third one then.
Hop on over to Jilly's Drive in for pee-in-your-pants wisdom from Microsoft's knowledgebase.
Windows has the so called compiled HTML files with an extension .chm - those are called executable HTML. But I don't think this is what they meant in the article. But then again I might be wrong about being wrong.
Referer can be spoofed so that won't work. But it's very easy for a large company like Yahoo (or any company for that matter) to setup its images server as an internal server - i.e. accessible to their *own* web servers alone. However, what's to stop spammers from grabbing the image off the browser cache and literally serving it from there on other pages. I can see how the article has a point unless the images appear on a SSL page which can't be cached. But then again I think you can cache even those.
Yep, a company called Cloudmark (http://www.cloudmark.com/products/authority/techn ology/) uses the DNS method you describe as one of its many rules to distinguish spam from regular mail. They call the approach Genetic Classification with the separate rules being called spamGenes. I don't know how much of a classifier (in the true AI sense) they have built but the idea sounds pretty nifty.
I am still not going to drink Pepsi.
Michael, with your comments "the $1B is really $1M" yet again you prove that shoddy journalism is alive and well on Slashdot. Call me up when you donate as much as $1000 of software to a charity. Or better yet - if you can work out a deal whereas I can get $1B-worth of Microsoft software for $1M I will find the million to buy it. Mod me, biatch.
And who might you be - you seem to be knowledgeable about the rover yet you do not quote any articles so I am assuming that you have insider info? Or are you just playing the part?
At work I am required to use Netscape Mail - can we fix Netscape as well so that it launches my browser of choice instead of Netscape.
Cher ... "Believe" ... first kiss - sounds like a crush to me.
Foolish you are, yes, padawan. Sentence structure invert you must, hrmm. I feel not the force in you.