I graduated with an EE and a specialization in computer engineering in 4 years back in 94. It was not that difficult. Maybe it's different now, but everyone around me who took 5 or 6 years did so because they were goofing off (Netrek and MUDs flunked out several of my classmates) or they weren't really sure they wanted an EE degree (so they were taking other courses they didn't need) or they were not passing classes the first time through.
Among other things, by selling anything on their site you give them a "...nonexclusive, worldwide, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, crop, reproduce, publicly display, sell, and distribute the Work and a Changed Work (if applicable) in various sizes and in any manner..."
I'd probably be a contributor if it weren't for that irrevocable bit. Why not "until I close my account"?
I got fed up near the beginning of this month when I realized I'd downloaded 3900 spams in just 7 days. I was using catch-all rather than just setup the addresses that I actually use. I turned off the catch-all and my spam decreased. Catch-all is convenient and it's a shame that spamming doesn't allow me to use it.
Well, except for the time required to download it all. I use POPFile which is filtering 99.66% success rate but I still have to download 250 spams a day.
This year alone I've taken around 4,800 digital photos on my digital Canon S50 and plan on taking another 300 or so before the year is over.
The cost of 35mm film alone WITHOUT processing would have cost me anywhere from $400-$800 this year depending on the type of film I bought. Processing would increase the cost, obviously. Even if you have your own dark room you need to buy chemicals and paper. The money I saved in film more than made up for the price of the camera.
In other words, a $1,000 digital SLR will probably cost you less in the long run than a $200 film SLR if you take a lot of photographs. That said, I personally don't plan on investing in a digital SLR until I can get 10 megapixels for around $600 (hopefully some time next year).
I've worked at both. In my experience, the major difference between big and small companies (even startups) is the level of bureaucracy. Small companies have less which means you are generally given more freedom to do things how you want. Big companies have to get approval from eight VPs. Small companies, for better or worse, just do.
In small companies, especially startups, ESPECIALLY when the money isn't coming in fast enough, you could even get less time to do design, estimation, and coding than at a big company.
I like small companies better. Things happen faster. It's more interesting. But don't think you'll escape office politics or unreasonable managers.
That happens anyway. I've got some nasty ones claiming to be from Paypal recently. Not only do they ask for your password, they want your bank account and credit card number as well.. for "verification" that you want to keep your account active. I'm sure there are a lot of people who fall for it too.
You seem to be missing the point. If one builds a wireless network, one probably doesn't want to use wires.;-)
It sounds like you only use wireless for internet browsing. Myself, I have an 11b wireless network at home and I frequently wish it was faster and had better range. I have no intention of running cables everywhere (that's why I chose wireless in the first place) but with this 11g change I also now have no reason to upgrade to 11g.
I think we are agreeing.:-) Searching itself is not AI in it's own right. But there seems to be a hangup that people think all a chess engine does is search. In fact that's only half of the equation. A chess engine also EVALUATEs every position it reaches. And because those positions are not at the end of the game it has to make a quantitative and qualitative evaluation (e.g. I have more pawns but two of those pawns aren't as "good" because of X). Chess positions are more than the sum of their parts. The player with the most pieces isn't always in a better position. That second part, the evaluation, is where I think AI research could benefit chess engines.
Humans are much better than computers at evaluating static positions on the board. Imagine a player with the brute force searching capability of a computer combined with the chess knowledge and intelligence of a grandmaster evaluating each position.
"with Chess you just need a big calculator and present as much of the game (projected) as possible"
But that's the trouble. With modern computers, it is impossible to evaluate the entire tree of moves deeper than about 15 ply. I agree that chess is not a good subject for AI reseach IF you can exhaustively search the entire tree and at each leaf at the end of the game you either have win, loss, or draw.
But because the entire tree cannot be searched, the search needs to be cut short at certain points and the position evaluated. This involves knowledge about chess, understanding why a position is good or bad, and knowing which branches of the search tree are fruitless. This seems to me to be perfect for AI research.
I've been able to get about 300 K BYTES per second out of the thing. Practically, though, most web sites I connect to only serve at about 50 K bytes. But even then I can initiate 5 or 6 connections to different servers all getting about 50 k each. I'm talking about big file transfers here... for viewing web pages, you don't really need any more than 50 K bytes/s. $45/month.
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I graduated with an EE and a specialization in computer engineering in 4 years back in 94. It was not that difficult. Maybe it's different now, but everyone around me who took 5 or 6 years did so because they were goofing off (Netrek and MUDs flunked out several of my classmates) or they weren't really sure they wanted an EE degree (so they were taking other courses they didn't need) or they were not passing classes the first time through.
Here's a link to their license agreement.
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http://www.zazzle.com/policy/nonexclusive_license
Among other things, by selling anything on their site you give them a "...nonexclusive, worldwide, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, crop, reproduce, publicly display, sell, and distribute the Work and a Changed Work (if applicable) in various sizes and in any manner..."
I'd probably be a contributor if it weren't for that irrevocable bit. Why not "until I close my account"?
I got fed up near the beginning of this month when I realized I'd downloaded 3900 spams in just 7 days. I was using catch-all rather than just setup the addresses that I actually use. I turned off the catch-all and my spam decreased. Catch-all is convenient and it's a shame that spamming doesn't allow me to use it.
Well, except for the time required to download it all. I use POPFile which is filtering 99.66% success rate but I still have to download 250 spams a day.
This year alone I've taken around 4,800 digital photos on my digital Canon S50 and plan on taking another 300 or so before the year is over.
The cost of 35mm film alone WITHOUT processing would have cost me anywhere from $400-$800 this year depending on the type of film I bought. Processing would increase the cost, obviously. Even if you have your own dark room you need to buy chemicals and paper. The money I saved in film more than made up for the price of the camera.
In other words, a $1,000 digital SLR will probably cost you less in the long run than a $200 film SLR if you take a lot of photographs. That said, I personally don't plan on investing in a digital SLR until I can get 10 megapixels for around $600 (hopefully some time next year).
I've worked at both. In my experience, the major difference between big and small companies (even startups) is the level of bureaucracy. Small companies have less which means you are generally given more freedom to do things how you want. Big companies have to get approval from eight VPs. Small companies, for better or worse, just do.
In small companies, especially startups, ESPECIALLY when the money isn't coming in fast enough, you could even get less time to do design, estimation, and coding than at a big company.
I like small companies better. Things happen faster. It's more interesting. But don't think you'll escape office politics or unreasonable managers.
That happens anyway. I've got some nasty ones claiming to be from Paypal recently. Not only do they ask for your password, they want your bank account and credit card number as well.. for "verification" that you want to keep your account active. I'm sure there are a lot of people who fall for it too.
You seem to be missing the point. If one builds a wireless network, one probably doesn't want to use wires. ;-)
It sounds like you only use wireless for internet browsing. Myself, I have an 11b wireless network at home and I frequently wish it was faster and had better range. I have no intention of running cables everywhere (that's why I chose wireless in the first place) but with this 11g change I also now have no reason to upgrade to 11g.
Yeah, exactly! The B&D porn industry wou^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H. Oh, R&D. Nevermind.
I think we are agreeing. :-) Searching itself is not AI in it's own right. But there seems to be a hangup that people think all a chess engine does is search. In fact that's only half of the equation. A chess engine also EVALUATEs every position it reaches. And because those positions are not at the end of the game it has to make a quantitative and qualitative evaluation (e.g. I have more pawns but two of those pawns aren't as "good" because of X). Chess positions are more than the sum of their parts. The player with the most pieces isn't always in a better position. That second part, the evaluation, is where I think AI research could benefit chess engines.
Humans are much better than computers at evaluating static positions on the board. Imagine a player with the brute force searching capability of a computer combined with the chess knowledge and intelligence of a grandmaster evaluating each position.
"with Chess you just need a big calculator and present as much of the game (projected) as possible"
But that's the trouble. With modern computers, it is impossible to evaluate the entire tree of moves deeper than about 15 ply. I agree that chess is not a good subject for AI reseach IF you can exhaustively search the entire tree and at each leaf at the end of the game you either have win, loss, or draw.
But because the entire tree cannot be searched, the search needs to be cut short at certain points and the position evaluated. This involves knowledge about chess, understanding why a position is good or bad, and knowing which branches of the search tree are fruitless. This seems to me to be perfect for AI research.
I've been able to get about 300 K BYTES per second out of the thing. Practically, though, most web sites I connect to only serve at about 50 K bytes. But even then I can initiate 5 or 6 connections to different servers all getting about 50 k each. I'm talking about big file transfers here... for viewing web pages, you don't really need any more than 50 K bytes/s. $45/month.