I routinely check Ben's Bargains at least once a day. It's a very good summary of all the good deals posted to message boards like Fat Wallet without the YMMV (Your Milage May Vary) or PM (PriceMatch) crap. Also, I'm sure most Slashdotters know this already but AnandTech Hot Deals Forums is a great place to get computer related deals.
Before I make any purchase online, I always send it through Pricegrabber to make sure I'm getting the lowest price, as well as check Funtasia for any coupon codes to sweeten the pot. Be sure to check the merchant ratings. It's sometimes wiser to spend a few more bucks to get it from a more reputable vendor rather than go through the headache of harassing a company to send you your stuff and later disputing a charge with the credit card company (take it from one who learned the hard way!).
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Emphasis mine. And on top of that, it's coming in from a Russian server. I can tell already that this service will be painfully slow. I might as well use dialup.
Also, I didn't notice it sending anything over a secure https connection when I checked the box "Transfer personal data via secure connection" but I wasn't really paying that much attention. Anyone know if it did or didn't?
I've been using Blogger for many years. It's very simple to use but the one thing it lacks is comments. People usually use third party scripts to do commenting but it's really not that hard to write your own if you know a little PHP.
My current Gen 1 mod chip has 29 wires. 29 wires to tin and solder in every time I want to mod a new board. The x2 is definitly an improvement over that.
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Actually it has been proven in an informal experiments that Kasparov could not reliably determine whether he was playing a computer or a human. This is an example of machines which have passed a restricted Turing test.
"Turing test" is the term coined by computer scientist Alan Turning in 1950 for articicially intelligent computers who acted so human, that when a keyboard is placed in front of you and you interacted with this computer, you would not be able to determine whether you were interacting with the machine or another human. Since no AI machine then and probably in the near future could pass an unrestricted Turing test, the restricted Turing test was introduced. Computers would be limited to certain tasks (playing chess for example) and humans would try to determine whether they were playing a computer or another human. Thus, Deep Blue (and certainly the most recent chess programs such as Deep Fritz) would pass the chess restricted Turing test.
In case you're interested, I found this a few days ago. Since there is no definitive list of banned sites in China, our friends at Harvard Law have decided to come up with a way you can test to see if your website (or any other for that matter) is blocked in China.
It seems to me that Cartoon Network is trying to promote a few of their series by showing a straight 3 hour block of a single one. The past week was been Yu-yu Hakusho. This week was Cowboy Bebop. I also think I remember a 3 hour block of Pilot Candidate thrown in there somewhere before Yu-yu Hakusho.
This is a pretty effective strategy IMO because I rarely like to just watch just one episode at a time. Putting in a whole three hour block makes more sense because it allows viewers to see plot development and sort of get the whole picture (eg they don't like one episode but really like the next one).
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I routinely check Ben's Bargains at least once a day. It's a very good summary of all the good deals posted to message boards like Fat Wallet without the YMMV (Your Milage May Vary) or PM (PriceMatch) crap. Also, I'm sure most Slashdotters know this already but AnandTech Hot Deals Forums is a great place to get computer related deals.
Before I make any purchase online, I always send it through Pricegrabber to make sure I'm getting the lowest price, as well as check Funtasia for any coupon codes to sweeten the pot. Be sure to check the merchant ratings. It's sometimes wiser to spend a few more bucks to get it from a more reputable vendor rather than go through the headache of harassing a company to send you your stuff and later disputing a charge with the credit card company (take it from one who learned the hard way!).
Emphasis mine. And on top of that, it's coming in from a Russian server. I can tell already that this service will be painfully slow. I might as well use dialup.
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Also, I didn't notice it sending anything over a secure https connection when I checked the box "Transfer personal data via secure connection" but I wasn't really paying that much attention. Anyone know if it did or didn't?
I've been using Blogger for many years. It's very simple to use but the one thing it lacks is comments. People usually use third party scripts to do commenting but it's really not that hard to write your own if you know a little PHP.
There's a wealth of silly instructions here.
My current Gen 1 mod chip has 29 wires. 29 wires to tin and solder in every time I want to mod a new board. The x2 is definitly an improvement over that.
Actually it has been proven in an informal experiments that Kasparov could not reliably determine whether he was playing a computer or a human. This is an example of machines which have passed a restricted Turing test.
"Turing test" is the term coined by computer scientist Alan Turning in 1950 for articicially intelligent computers who acted so human, that when a keyboard is placed in front of you and you interacted with this computer, you would not be able to determine whether you were interacting with the machine or another human. Since no AI machine then and probably in the near future could pass an unrestricted Turing test, the restricted Turing test was introduced. Computers would be limited to certain tasks (playing chess for example) and humans would try to determine whether they were playing a computer or another human. Thus, Deep Blue (and certainly the most recent chess programs such as Deep Fritz) would pass the chess restricted Turing test.
In case you're interested, I found this a few days ago. Since there is no definitive list of banned sites in China, our friends at Harvard Law have decided to come up with a way you can test to see if your website (or any other for that matter) is blocked in China.
A thing people who read/write the Economist do.
It seems to me that Cartoon Network is trying to promote a few of their series by showing a straight 3 hour block of a single one. The past week was been Yu-yu Hakusho. This week was Cowboy Bebop. I also think I remember a 3 hour block of Pilot Candidate thrown in there somewhere before Yu-yu Hakusho.
This is a pretty effective strategy IMO because I rarely like to just watch just one episode at a time. Putting in a whole three hour block makes more sense because it allows viewers to see plot development and sort of get the whole picture (eg they don't like one episode but really like the next one).