I hate FPS games. Desperately. I love small and sometimes clever games, though. Flash games - and recently sometimes HTML5 games - are perfectly suited to my needs. Play a game for 15 minutes, sometimes 5 hours over several days - then you're done with it. You can play something completely different next time. I noticed that very often games that take only 5 minutes (like the story is over and there is no point in replaying it) get very high ratings - also from me. I love playing games with fresh ideas. And almost never a game requires to be 3D. I hate 3D games. Desperately. One series of desktop games I played was Heroes of Might and Magic. A great game. But then they decided to make the new one in 3D. For no real purpose, as the gameplay requires only 2D. Result was that you had to pan and rotate, just to get a view on your hero that was not obstructed by trees. Why in hell did they do this? 3D simply sucks.
But the rules for commercial provision of transport service are far more stricter. Obviously adhering to these rules is connected to a cost which Uber drivers do not have to pay and thus can be cheaper.
It is somewhat sane to demand a higher level of security from drivers that are expected to transport more people. Yes, it would be very safe to demand the same level from everyone that is driving a vehicle. But demanding the higher standards only from those transporting the most people gives a good trade-off bewteen effort/cost and benefit.
In addition the insurance for an average driver can be lower, because the average number of people injured in an accident is lower. I bet (but don't know) that insurances for taxi drivers are higher. Insurance for a bus will probably be even higher.
Let's remember that this plane fell down somewher, and the exact spot seems to be indisputable. I don't expect Russia claiming that the black box recorders stopped working with the plane flying for another 100km.
It is mostly limited to local criminals, ex- political leaders (Communist and "Party of Regions" parties).
In these situations I must always think about one of the leaked cables, where some embassador said that in Russia you cannot distinguish organized crime from politics.
It's Russia because
- UTC+4 is one time-zone east of moscow;
- it shifted to energy supplying firms with the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine (where Russia's gas delivieries are considered as the its only trump)
- it's either Russia or China in general
You noticed that the described project is used to implant electrodes into the brain of live animals (mostly rodents)? The aim is to measure an electrical signal that can be associated with a small cluster of neurons.
This indeed sounds cruel (and I think it is), and for such research the ethical cost has to be related to the scientific gain in a reasonable ratio.
Btw, I know researchers that say you can pull out the electrodes after the experiment and the animal could live on without much impediment. But the laws here in Germany demand that the animals are killed.
If you say "has constant execution time", you mean it's not allowed to use functions and other control flow constructs, right? Because only then you might get close to "constant execution time", when also abstracting away the rest of the system the code is running on.
Most non-trivial code has non-constant execution time. And IMHO only non-trivial code can receive the tag "elegant", for if the task is trivial, there's no room for doing anything interesting.
IMHO, Haskell is a language that enables writing very elegant code. But estimating the execution time of a Haskell program is extremely difficult, not only because it has a lazy execution model.
But we can agree on the "no side effects" thing, better calling it referential transparency. Call the same code with the same arguments to obtain the same result every time.
The nice thing about (bayesian) statistics is that you can combine information from different sources and form a coherent statistical estimate based on everything you have. So given they have a model about debris occurance in this part of the ocean, they can very well increase the probabilities based on the sighting of debris.
The BBC had a nice article about bayesian search methods some days ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
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... and replace him with someone competent!
And how would you do that exactly?
I hate FPS games. Desperately. I love small and sometimes clever games, though. Flash games - and recently sometimes HTML5 games - are perfectly suited to my needs. Play a game for 15 minutes, sometimes 5 hours over several days - then you're done with it. You can play something completely different next time. I noticed that very often games that take only 5 minutes (like the story is over and there is no point in replaying it) get very high ratings - also from me. I love playing games with fresh ideas. And almost never a game requires to be 3D. I hate 3D games. Desperately. One series of desktop games I played was Heroes of Might and Magic. A great game. But then they decided to make the new one in 3D. For no real purpose, as the gameplay requires only 2D. Result was that you had to pan and rotate, just to get a view on your hero that was not obstructed by trees. Why in hell did they do this? 3D simply sucks.
But the rules for commercial provision of transport service are far more stricter. Obviously adhering to these rules is connected to a cost which Uber drivers do not have to pay and thus can be cheaper.
It is somewhat sane to demand a higher level of security from drivers that are expected to transport more people. Yes, it would be very safe to demand the same level from everyone that is driving a vehicle. But demanding the higher standards only from those transporting the most people gives a good trade-off bewteen effort/cost and benefit.
In addition the insurance for an average driver can be lower, because the average number of people injured in an accident is lower. I bet (but don't know) that insurances for taxi drivers are higher. Insurance for a bus will probably be even higher.
Let's remember that this plane fell down somewher, and the exact spot seems to be indisputable. I don't expect Russia claiming that the black box recorders stopped working with the plane flying for another 100km.
It is mostly limited to local criminals, ex- political leaders (Communist and "Party of Regions" parties).
In these situations I must always think about one of the leaked cables, where some embassador said that in Russia you cannot distinguish organized crime from politics.
It's Russia because
- UTC+4 is one time-zone east of moscow;
- it shifted to energy supplying firms with the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine (where Russia's gas delivieries are considered as the its only trump)
- it's either Russia or China in general
You noticed that the described project is used to implant electrodes into the brain of live animals (mostly rodents)? The aim is to measure an electrical signal that can be associated with a small cluster of neurons.
This indeed sounds cruel (and I think it is), and for such research the ethical cost has to be related to the scientific gain in a reasonable ratio.
Btw, I know researchers that say you can pull out the electrodes after the experiment and the animal could live on without much impediment. But the laws here in Germany demand that the animals are killed.
It's true that there is more information in video data, but the problem described in the article is certainly not caused by the restriction to stills.
Most non-trivial code has non-constant execution time. And IMHO only non-trivial code can receive the tag "elegant", for if the task is trivial, there's no room for doing anything interesting.
IMHO, Haskell is a language that enables writing very elegant code. But estimating the execution time of a Haskell program is extremely difficult, not only because it has a lazy execution model.
But we can agree on the "no side effects" thing, better calling it referential transparency. Call the same code with the same arguments to obtain the same result every time.
The nice thing about (bayesian) statistics is that you can combine information from different sources and form a coherent statistical estimate based on everything you have. So given they have a model about debris occurance in this part of the ocean, they can very well increase the probabilities based on the sighting of debris.
The BBC had a nice article about bayesian search methods some days ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...