Does anypeople here really think the people of Afghanistan will be worse off if we destroy the Taliban
I think the problem is that it will be very difficult to avoid destroying a few of the people of Afghanistan in the process, turning otherwise peaceful people against us.
Afghanistan never started sending tanks into the USA. Some individuals from somewhere, maybe Afghanistan, did this terrible thing. Afghanistan didn't. They couldn't have stopped it even if they knew about it.
A chess grandmaster can easily beat me at chess. He mentions this fact in a non-chalant manner. Is this arrogance? Stating superiority that is fact is not arrogance.
You think it is fact that the country is superior. It is arrogant to assume what you think is reality. What you are saying is an example of the arrogance.
thenerd.
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I also do not think the fact that the word "war" was used indicates a desire for war. If I say "I do not want a war", does that automatically mean I do? By your claim if I say, "I do not want peace?" then in fact peace is what I want, but how can that be?
I think what was meant that by saying 'this is an act of war' everywhere, then the only conclusion would be 'an act of war requires an act of war in retaliation'. Perhaps instead of saying it was an act of war, they should say what it actually IS, which is an act of terrorism.
I think we pretty much understand the culture of the terrorists, a fanatical and suicadal culture. They need to be exterminated, they want to die anyways, let's do them a favor.
No, that's how you understand their culture given the fact that you know little about it. Yes, they are off the deep end about as far as they could be, but REAL UNDERSTANDING and compassion is the ONLY WAY you can EVER protect yourself.
The people that have been killed here have a lot in common with people that have been killed in places like Israel:
1) They are completely innocent
2) They didn't instigate any hatred
3) They are ruled by people that do not understand and will not understand the other side because they are ruled by hate
When lives are being lost the ego, the pride, and the bloodlust must go straight out the window because otherwise lives will continue to be lost. The terrorists are VERY SIMILAR to us in so far as the only way out they see is to blindly attack a country that they see responsible for their death.
Note, I'm not saying that what they've done is on the same magnitude as what we've done. They have done a terrible thing that is so hard to comprehend it's made me burst into tears more than once.
Right or not, the consensus at my local bar was just start with Afghanistan and see where it goes. If we're wrong... whoops, so sorry. Now let's get Hamas, and Hezbollah, and... f* it. Everybody hates us anyway. If they think we're the Greate Satan now let 'em see us when we do evil on purpose, and with the public's full support.
Keep in mind I'm about an hour from NYC; a few months ago I was working in that neighborhood. I have friends there, and I would glady see the whole Taliban extinct than see any of them hurt.
I think the terrorists are going to find this was a mistake.
You do not know who did this. Killing innocents is what the evil people that perpetrated this act did. Killing innocents in revenge would:
1) make you as evil as them
2) make the country subject to more attacks
Instead, kill the people that you know who did this, not just people who look different and have different customs that you do not understand.
Drinking doesn't help, I know from many experiences.
But he wasn't really elected in any meaningful sense really, was he? It was my impression that the whole thing reeked of corruption. Whether the people wanted Bush or not, they were not listened to.
That's not even old enough, in most cases, to have reached full technical competency, let alone to have also reached the level of maturity and business skill where you could be entrusted with employees' livelihoods
Given the differences between people, surely it's possible that he's so skilled he kicks our asses? Why assume that he couldn't possibly be very much better than you or I at running a business?
Either you work for Microsoft or you've never really used a PocketPC. Which one is it?
I'm replying on the persons behalf, but neither. CE 3.0 devices are generally very fast, very intuitive, and in the UK there's PocketPC/cellphone integrated devices for sale in high street stores. These are also GPRS (2.5G) compatible. Obviously there are exceptions but some people would say palm devices suck as well.
I know people don't want to talk about CE 3.0, but everybody is completely missing the wood for the trees by touting this as a technological advance. It's already been done for months and months. And it's been done well.
Strictly speaking, data mining is not statistics. Statistics deals with analysis of time-based data, typically small amount of parameters is sampled many times. Data mining studies non or weakly time-based data, with lots of parameters but just a few samples taken.
Data mining classically involves stages aside from preprocessing and transformation - statistical exploration, and creating predictive and/or exploratory models of data.
Unfortunately, you can mine data that is time-based or not, you may or may not have a large number of parameters, and you may or may not have a large number of observations. You obviously can get more robust conclusions with larger numbers of observations.
Both the examples you gave could be classed as a statistical or data mining problem as the two areas overlap to a large extent - you may however validly use techniques for both of the problems you have that could be classed as 'data mining techniques'.
Like other recent stories where some of us looked back to when we were teenagers BBS'ing and stuff, this thread brought it back.
I'm a UKian, but for three months lived in San Diego, CA - I got my first proper computer, an AST PremiumExec 386sx/20, and ran a WWIV BBS. (Was anyone here ever a user of Xcellent! BBS in 619? It would be cool to chat.) I went out and bought Red Baron and was amazed! It was something like six discs and seemed massive, hi-tech and atmospheric. I also got Heart Of China which took ages to complete - it had a plot about saving a nurse from some triad in China, and that only got completed a couple of years ago =). It was my first real foray into big, good, games, and though I don't play them much now, it gives me plenty of nostalgia! I remember me and a Russian friend got 4D Drive and 4D Boxing, and a few others...
People who "misuse" or "misinterpret" "...begs the question...", on the other hand, generally wouldn't hesitate to give a definition, and dismiss self-proclaimed "experts" as pedants. The same goes for "millennium" (or "millenium" for that matter).
They may dismiss people who know the correct definition as pedants, but that still wouldn't make them right. The meaning of 'begs the question' really isn't that obscure. If someone wouldn't hesitate to give an incorrect definition of it then they are wrong to do it. I'm sure some people wouldn't hesitate to give an incorrect definition of many things (even me!) - but they are still wrong. I don't have a problem being wrong as long as I can work out how to be right.
If anyone had bothered to read http://www.gnu.org, you can CLEARLY see that it is an anti-corporate communist, license that many sheep seem to follow blindly without actually bothering to see the consequences.
Is a license that is anti-corporate and communist bad?
It would be pretty hard to "leave Philip alone" when he's attempted to rearrange the board in direct contradiction to what he agreed to in exchange for $35 million.
At the time of writing, I didn't know this. It seemed like they were just suing him for good measure after pushing him, and I didn't like this. Now I know a bit more.
Like others, I've been wondering what this is about. I've read a bit of the documentation referred to on Philip's site, and it seems to be that ArsDigita and the VC's are suing Philip, Eve Andersson, and Tracy Adams because they think that a 'stockholders agreement' has been violated.
They think that the way this has been violated is because Philip, Eve, and Tracy have (according to this new money grubbing bunch of VC's), been claiming that they (or perhaps others) are working for the company as an officer or director, and that there are two sets of individuals that say that they run the company.
Why Arsdigita can't just give up and leave poor Philip and friends alone after completely screwing up everything is beyond me.
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need more lawyers.
Could this be a reason for the skyrocketting crime?
Since when has crime been skyrocketting? Crime has been fairly constant for about the last five years. Sure, the value is going up due to new counting methods now, but crime is not skyrocketting in any meaningful sense of the word.
As far as the average Chinese person's point of view, they'll believe whatever their goverment-owned press and their government-filtered Intranet (I don't even consider them to have Internet access) tells them to believe, and they'll lap it up.
I think I know the point you want to make you aren't showing a lot of respect for the intelligence of the average Chinese person.
So a guy finds some seed on his property that has properties that he thinks are good, and decides to use them...
What harm does that do anyone? So he invests the time and money to make more seeds by growing plants he finds - why should that be so wrong? What sort of a sick place is this? You get sued for growing some plants?
Although you put what you said in somewhat strong, emotive, terms, I agree.
At the end of the day, people should matter more than money.
At the end of the day, if we don't do something, we still have the choice to do that same thing the next day. If we do it tonight we don't have that choice any more. It's done.
OK, so every time a new advert type is invented everybody pipes up - and they say this:
"I don't want to see all these ads, it is intrusive and waste of my bandwidth. I would even pay not to see them".
Now Salon does this, and the reply is "I'm not going to pay, and besides, I can use Junkbuster to block them anyway, so why would I want to pay 30 bucks?"
Well you might want to pay 30 bucks so you can read some good stuff. Come on guys we're talking less than a buck a week for some good writing. It's pretty mean to decide that these guys aren't entitled to a single penny just because you are so used to getting stuff for free. It must cost Salon a lot to stay operational, because unlike a lot of other sites they probably pay their writers/columnists for their work. So that those writers can carry on feeding their kids, etc., as they probably live in reality, not in college.
So why not wake up and decide to reward someone who puts something good in your direction, instead of saying "I shall avoid rewarding people for their work at all costs, even if it benefits me".
I may be playing devils advocate, but why not just use a PocketPC device with Windows Media Player or some such? Straight out the box video streaming through wireless ethernet onto your device, in full colour.
I've worked in BT and I can vouch for the fact that every single person I spoke to about this subject thought Oftel were a bunch of a**holes.
Now, don't get me wrong. I have no loyalty for BT whatsoever, but things are sometimes rather difficult. If you have a physical exchange were there is no space and no room for expansion of this sort, what can you do? You have to buy more property.
However, it would be cool to get DSL and I'm fed up with waiting.
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Does anypeople here really think the people of Afghanistan will be worse off if we destroy the Taliban
I think the problem is that it will be very difficult to avoid destroying a few of the people of Afghanistan in the process, turning otherwise peaceful people against us.
Afghanistan never started sending tanks into the USA. Some individuals from somewhere, maybe Afghanistan, did this terrible thing. Afghanistan didn't. They couldn't have stopped it even if they knew about it.
thenerd
A chess grandmaster can easily beat me at chess. He mentions this fact in a non-chalant manner. Is this arrogance? Stating superiority that is fact is not arrogance.
You think it is fact that the country is superior. It is arrogant to assume what you think is reality. What you are saying is an example of the arrogance.
thenerd.
I also do not think the fact that the word "war" was used indicates a desire for war. If I say "I do not want a war", does that automatically mean I do? By your claim if I say, "I do not want peace?" then in fact peace is what I want, but how can that be?
I think what was meant that by saying 'this is an act of war' everywhere, then the only conclusion would be 'an act of war requires an act of war in retaliation'. Perhaps instead of saying it was an act of war, they should say what it actually IS, which is an act of terrorism.
thenerd
Lack of understanding for cultures ?
I think we pretty much understand the culture of the terrorists, a fanatical and suicadal culture. They need to be exterminated, they want to die anyways, let's do them a favor.
No, that's how you understand their culture given the fact that you know little about it. Yes, they are off the deep end about as far as they could be, but REAL UNDERSTANDING and compassion is the ONLY WAY you can EVER protect yourself.
The people that have been killed here have a lot in common with people that have been killed in places like Israel:
1) They are completely innocent
2) They didn't instigate any hatred
3) They are ruled by people that do not understand and will not understand the other side because they are ruled by hate
When lives are being lost the ego, the pride, and the bloodlust must go straight out the window because otherwise lives will continue to be lost. The terrorists are VERY SIMILAR to us in so far as the only way out they see is to blindly attack a country that they see responsible for their death.
Note, I'm not saying that what they've done is on the same magnitude as what we've done. They have done a terrible thing that is so hard to comprehend it's made me burst into tears more than once.
thenerd
Right or not, the consensus at my local bar was just start with Afghanistan and see where it goes. If we're wrong... whoops, so sorry. Now let's get Hamas, and Hezbollah, and... f* it. Everybody hates us anyway. If they think we're the Greate Satan now let 'em see us when we do evil on purpose, and with the public's full support.
Keep in mind I'm about an hour from NYC; a few months ago I was working in that neighborhood. I have friends there, and I would glady see the whole Taliban extinct than see any of them hurt.
I think the terrorists are going to find this was a mistake.
You do not know who did this. Killing innocents is what the evil people that perpetrated this act did. Killing innocents in revenge would:
1) make you as evil as them
2) make the country subject to more attacks
Instead, kill the people that you know who did this, not just people who look different and have different customs that you do not understand.
Drinking doesn't help, I know from many experiences.
thenerd.
And all because we had to elect a simpleton...
But he wasn't really elected in any meaningful sense really, was he? It was my impression that the whole thing reeked of corruption. Whether the people wanted Bush or not, they were not listened to.
thenerd
That's not even old enough, in most cases, to have reached full technical competency, let alone to have also reached the level of maturity and business skill where you could be entrusted with employees' livelihoods
Given the differences between people, surely it's possible that he's so skilled he kicks our asses? Why assume that he couldn't possibly be very much better than you or I at running a business?
thenerd
Either you work for Microsoft or you've never really used a PocketPC. Which one is it?
I'm replying on the persons behalf, but neither. CE 3.0 devices are generally very fast, very intuitive, and in the UK there's PocketPC/cellphone integrated devices for sale in high street stores. These are also GPRS (2.5G) compatible. Obviously there are exceptions but some people would say palm devices suck as well.
I know people don't want to talk about CE 3.0, but everybody is completely missing the wood for the trees by touting this as a technological advance. It's already been done for months and months. And it's been done well.
thenerd.
Strictly speaking, data mining is not statistics. Statistics deals with analysis of time-based data, typically small amount of parameters is sampled many times. Data mining studies non or weakly time-based data, with lots of parameters but just a few samples taken.
Data mining classically involves stages aside from preprocessing and transformation - statistical exploration, and creating predictive and/or exploratory models of data.
Unfortunately, you can mine data that is time-based or not, you may or may not have a large number of parameters, and you may or may not have a large number of observations. You obviously can get more robust conclusions with larger numbers of observations.
Both the examples you gave could be classed as a statistical or data mining problem as the two areas overlap to a large extent - you may however validly use techniques for both of the problems you have that could be classed as 'data mining techniques'.
thenerd.
Like other recent stories where some of us looked back to when we were teenagers BBS'ing and stuff, this thread brought it back.
I'm a UKian, but for three months lived in San Diego, CA - I got my first proper computer, an AST PremiumExec 386sx/20, and ran a WWIV BBS. (Was anyone here ever a user of Xcellent! BBS in 619? It would be cool to chat.) I went out and bought Red Baron and was amazed! It was something like six discs and seemed massive, hi-tech and atmospheric. I also got Heart Of China which took ages to complete - it had a plot about saving a nurse from some triad in China, and that only got completed a couple of years ago =). It was my first real foray into big, good, games, and though I don't play them much now, it gives me plenty of nostalgia! I remember me and a Russian friend got 4D Drive and 4D Boxing, and a few others...
Ah memories.
thenerd.
People who "misuse" or "misinterpret" "...begs the question...", on the other hand, generally wouldn't hesitate to give a definition, and dismiss self-proclaimed "experts" as pedants. The same goes for "millennium" (or "millenium" for that matter).
They may dismiss people who know the correct definition as pedants, but that still wouldn't make them right. The meaning of 'begs the question' really isn't that obscure. If someone wouldn't hesitate to give an incorrect definition of it then they are wrong to do it. I'm sure some people wouldn't hesitate to give an incorrect definition of many things (even me!) - but they are still wrong. I don't have a problem being wrong as long as I can work out how to be right.
thenerd.
That is the most insane law I have ever heard of in my life, second only to having your hand chopped off in Saudi Arabia for stealing.
I can't get over how insane that is.
thenerd.
If anyone had bothered to read http://www.gnu.org, you can CLEARLY see that it is an anti-corporate communist, license that many sheep seem to follow blindly without actually bothering to see the consequences.
Is a license that is anti-corporate and communist bad?
thenerd.
I was in San Diego running a WWIV board in early '92 - how great was it all then? ComputorEdge's BBS listings... aaah. Nostalgia.
thenerd.
It would be pretty hard to "leave Philip alone" when he's attempted to rearrange the board in direct contradiction to what he agreed to in exchange for $35 million.
At the time of writing, I didn't know this. It seemed like they were just suing him for good measure after pushing him, and I didn't like this. Now I know a bit more.
thenerd.
Like others, I've been wondering what this is about. I've read a bit of the documentation referred to on Philip's site, and it seems to be that ArsDigita and the VC's are suing Philip, Eve Andersson, and Tracy Adams because they think that a 'stockholders agreement' has been violated.
They think that the way this has been violated is because Philip, Eve, and Tracy have (according to this new money grubbing bunch of VC's), been claiming that they (or perhaps others) are working for the company as an officer or director, and that there are two sets of individuals that say that they run the company.
Why Arsdigita can't just give up and leave poor Philip and friends alone after completely screwing up everything is beyond me.
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need more lawyers.
thenerd.
Could this be a reason for the skyrocketting crime?
Since when has crime been skyrocketting? Crime has been fairly constant for about the last five years. Sure, the value is going up due to new counting methods now, but crime is not skyrocketting in any meaningful sense of the word.
thenerd.
As far as the average Chinese person's point of view, they'll believe whatever their goverment-owned press and their government-filtered Intranet (I don't even consider them to have Internet access) tells them to believe, and they'll lap it up.
I think I know the point you want to make you aren't showing a lot of respect for the intelligence of the average Chinese person.
thenerd.
What is the opinion of China flying recon planes around the US? No problem, with that, right?
thenerd.
So a guy finds some seed on his property that has properties that he thinks are good, and decides to use them...
What harm does that do anyone? So he invests the time and money to make more seeds by growing plants he finds - why should that be so wrong? What sort of a sick place is this? You get sued for growing some plants?
Urgh.
thenerd.
Although you put what you said in somewhat strong, emotive, terms, I agree.
At the end of the day, people should matter more than money.
At the end of the day, if we don't do something, we still have the choice to do that same thing the next day. If we do it tonight we don't have that choice any more. It's done.
thenerd.
OK, so every time a new advert type is invented everybody pipes up - and they say this:
"I don't want to see all these ads, it is intrusive and waste of my bandwidth. I would even pay not to see them".
Now Salon does this, and the reply is "I'm not going to pay, and besides, I can use Junkbuster to block them anyway, so why would I want to pay 30 bucks?"
Well you might want to pay 30 bucks so you can read some good stuff. Come on guys we're talking less than a buck a week for some good writing. It's pretty mean to decide that these guys aren't entitled to a single penny just because you are so used to getting stuff for free. It must cost Salon a lot to stay operational, because unlike a lot of other sites they probably pay their writers/columnists for their work. So that those writers can carry on feeding their kids, etc., as they probably live in reality, not in college.
So why not wake up and decide to reward someone who puts something good in your direction, instead of saying "I shall avoid rewarding people for their work at all costs, even if it benefits me".
ARGH!
thenerd.
I may be playing devils advocate, but why not just use a PocketPC device with Windows Media Player or some such? Straight out the box video streaming through wireless ethernet onto your device, in full colour.
thenerd
Duke Nukem started off way before 1996, as a platform game like commander keen was.
thenerd.
I've worked in BT and I can vouch for the fact that every single person I spoke to about this subject thought Oftel were a bunch of a**holes.
Now, don't get me wrong. I have no loyalty for BT whatsoever, but things are sometimes rather difficult. If you have a physical exchange were there is no space and no room for expansion of this sort, what can you do? You have to buy more property.
However, it would be cool to get DSL and I'm fed up with waiting.
thenerd.