My little Canadian town has this already
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The airport in my little town of Fredericton NB Canada has had free wireless for quite a while, and in the past several months, the whole downtown area of the city has had free wireless. Yes, you can walk downtown, sit on a bench, open your laptop, and surf the net on 802.11g! In the next couple years, they will cover the entire city. Sweet.
It's the #1 reason why 80% of all start-ups by would-be entrepreneurs fail. Techies can't run a business. Train yourselves in business first, then do it. It could work.
Round most places I've heard, penalizing salary is illegal. You can dismiss a person for failing to adhere to their contract, but you can't just take a chunk out of their pay. Of couse, if it's a contract project paid by the number of hours worked on the project then you could use the system, but then it's not penalizing, it's just couting. For regular employees it's right out, though.
Oh but don't worry, you'll be fine until you hire someone who knows his rights and is not afraid to fight for them.
The assumption being made is that there's some group of terrorists who will be flagged as safe for travel
No, your assumption is that the entire group will be flagged identically, which is clearly wrong. The group can simply send out individual agents, not as a group, on planes, and see who gets flagged. They do this with many agents, of different races and backgrounds. The ones that get through n times later go on a "mission".
The system is broken. Did you read the paper? By MIT? Did you?
If you turn off all the lights in your room and shine a red flashlight on a similar color calibration device, all the colors will be various shades of red! The human eye does perform some white-balancing on its own, but it will not go so extreme as balancing bright reds to white. It is perfectly possible that all the light near the rover on Mars is in the reddish wavelengths, and hence a human's eye (if a human were to stand there) would not totally adjust the colors, and things would actually look red!
If you actually read anything you would have noticed that modern GPUs are indeed turing complete, and many, many mathematical operations can be performed with great parallel efficiency.
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I guess until I can actually not tell the difference... I'll bet you a dollar that some significant percentage of the CG shots flew by you without you ever noticing, precisely because you could not tell the difference.
Okay, now write a program to randomly generate such word problems so 1) no two are ever alike, i.e. could not be parsed by a program and 2) they're still easily solvable by humans. Get back to me my Friday and I'll give you a job.
The Chinese government savors keeping its people ignorant and submissive
Consider for a moment that most human beings are not idiots. From my own observations, my friends who are the best at sniffing out cons and snow-jobs, and finding flaws, nepitism and favoritism in beaurocracies, and are best able to handle such situations efficiently, are from China. Most north-americans that I know (including myself) would simply not survive in China, until they were taken to the cleaners several times and wisened up a little. Even if a government is striving to keep its citizens ignorant and submissive, it hardly means the citizens end up that way.
Kids are really impressionable - it's better for them to develop their own ideas and preferences about sexuality, rather than be heavily influenced by whatever variety of pornography they're first exposed to.
Simple solution: expose them to every variety of pornography simultaneuously.
The primary evidence for the Alvarez theory of extinction caused by asteroid impact is the abnormally high concentration of iridium and other siderophiles in the K-T layer
You forgot to mention the GIANT ASS craters that line up nicely when you back-date the tectonic plate movements to that period. This research was done at my little university in Canada:)
Wow, you proved P != NP?? Lemme see! Please post the proof! That's awesome! BTW, did you ever consider that even if P = NP, the two solutions (checking vs. solving) can differ by a POLYNOMIAL FACTOR? For example, if I can solve a problem in O(n^1000000000000000), it is still in P. Your examples are clearly O(n).
The reason most restaurants fail is indeed because the owners do not know how to run a business, but it's not as simple as firing up an accounting package on a PC. For the most part, small businesses fail during the transition from a one-person-operation to a several-person-operation. The skills for dealing with people, and setting up a business such that everybody knows what their job is and how it fits in with the whole, this is what is missing from most small businesses.
Then my shirt is not red, and my pants are not beige, because when I turn off the light, they're all black, right? Or if I shine blue light on them, they look blue! Wait, but that blue light is black if I turn it off, so it cannot be blue! In fact, nothing is any color! There are no colors at all! Revelation! Ack! I can't see!
Okay, just add some inaudible noise in the MP3 body, using a random seed. Then put the random seed used in the ID3 tag, so that when someone downloads the song from you, their client can remove your noise, and add their own with their own random seed, putting that into the ID3 tag. Bingo, the MP3s will get new random bits for every user who downloads them, and they won't lose quality over time because the noise is removed each time it's downloaded.
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The airport in my little town of Fredericton NB Canada has had free wireless for quite a while, and in the past several months, the whole downtown area of the city has had free wireless. Yes, you can walk downtown, sit on a bench, open your laptop, and surf the net on 802.11g! In the next couple years, they will cover the entire city. Sweet.
I just watched Enemy of the State last night. I guess I should stop developing automagic 3D image reconstruction algorithms :(
It's the #1 reason why 80% of all start-ups by would-be entrepreneurs fail. Techies can't run a business. Train yourselves in business first, then do it. It could work.
Round most places I've heard, penalizing salary is illegal. You can dismiss a person for failing to adhere to their contract, but you can't just take a chunk out of their pay. Of couse, if it's a contract project paid by the number of hours worked on the project then you could use the system, but then it's not penalizing, it's just couting. For regular employees it's right out, though.
Oh but don't worry, you'll be fine until you hire someone who knows his rights and is not afraid to fight for them.
The assumption being made is that there's some group of terrorists who will be flagged as safe for travel
No, your assumption is that the entire group will be flagged identically, which is clearly wrong. The group can simply send out individual agents, not as a group, on planes, and see who gets flagged. They do this with many agents, of different races and backgrounds. The ones that get through n times later go on a "mission".
The system is broken. Did you read the paper? By MIT? Did you?
Such a sentimental headline... yikes you guys!
If you turn off all the lights in your room and shine a red flashlight on a similar color calibration device, all the colors will be various shades of red! The human eye does perform some white-balancing on its own, but it will not go so extreme as balancing bright reds to white. It is perfectly possible that all the light near the rover on Mars is in the reddish wavelengths, and hence a human's eye (if a human were to stand there) would not totally adjust the colors, and things would actually look red!
If you actually read anything you would have noticed that modern GPUs are indeed turing complete, and many, many mathematical operations can be performed with great parallel efficiency.
I guess until I can actually not tell the difference...
I'll bet you a dollar that some significant percentage of the CG shots flew by you without you ever noticing, precisely because you could not tell the difference.
Psshh.. In my little town of Fredericton, NB we've had free wireless for over a week!
Microsoft sure doesn't use those silly butterfly guys in Japan!
Okay, now write a program to randomly generate such word problems so 1) no two are ever alike, i.e. could not be parsed by a program and 2) they're still easily solvable by humans. Get back to me my Friday and I'll give you a job.
The Chinese government savors keeping its people ignorant and submissive
Consider for a moment that most human beings are not idiots. From my own observations, my friends who are the best at sniffing out cons and snow-jobs, and finding flaws, nepitism and favoritism in beaurocracies, and are best able to handle such situations efficiently, are from China. Most north-americans that I know (including myself) would simply not survive in China, until they were taken to the cleaners several times and wisened up a little. Even if a government is striving to keep its citizens ignorant and submissive, it hardly means the citizens end up that way.
Are you paying Google the appropriate fees for automated use of their service? You knew that's against their TOS if you're not paying for it, right?
Kids are really impressionable - it's better for them to develop their own ideas and preferences about sexuality, rather than be heavily influenced by whatever variety of pornography they're first exposed to.
Simple solution: expose them to every variety of pornography simultaneuously.
The primary evidence for the Alvarez theory of extinction caused by asteroid impact is the abnormally high concentration of iridium and other siderophiles in the K-T layer :)
You forgot to mention the GIANT ASS craters that line up nicely when you back-date the tectonic plate movements to that period. This research was done at my little university in Canada
Wow, you proved P != NP?? Lemme see! Please post the proof! That's awesome! BTW, did you ever consider that even if P = NP, the two solutions (checking vs. solving) can differ by a POLYNOMIAL FACTOR? For example, if I can solve a problem in O(n^1000000000000000), it is still in P. Your examples are clearly O(n).
The reason most restaurants fail is indeed because the owners do not know how to run a business, but it's not as simple as firing up an accounting package on a PC. For the most part, small businesses fail during the transition from a one-person-operation to a several-person-operation. The skills for dealing with people, and setting up a business such that everybody knows what their job is and how it fits in with the whole, this is what is missing from most small businesses.
Isn't your Amiga 32-bit? All of mine were.
That's very cool. Please elaborate on I nicely ask for it back.
I read that as "Astronomers Upset About Asteroid; Panic!"
seal seal seal
meal seat seat
meat meat beat
moat moat boat
coat coat coat
Never mind... this one is too easy. No cookie for me today.
seal
meal
meat
moat
coat
Yay! Where's my cookie?
Then my shirt is not red, and my pants are not beige, because when I turn off the light, they're all black, right? Or if I shine blue light on them, they look blue! Wait, but that blue light is black if I turn it off, so it cannot be blue! In fact, nothing is any color! There are no colors at all! Revelation! Ack! I can't see!
Okay, just add some inaudible noise in the MP3 body, using a random seed. Then put the random seed used in the ID3 tag, so that when someone downloads the song from you, their client can remove your noise, and add their own with their own random seed, putting that into the ID3 tag. Bingo, the MP3s will get new random bits for every user who downloads them, and they won't lose quality over time because the noise is removed each time it's downloaded.