This is getting rediculous--most small, independent websites like this can't take a slashdotting, and it's making it almost pointless to link it.
It seems to me Slashdot could offer to mirror the content for a price, so that the linkee gets ad money, while slashdot carries the bandwidth burden.
Is there no way to:
1) Contact the website owner 2) Alert him of the amount of bandwidth he's going to need 3) Offer to mirror his pages such that ad referals still go to him 4) Everybody profits?
The group my faculty advisor is in, here at Caltech, has already done this; I wouldn't be surprised if other universities have done it as well. His group published an astronomy textbook under the GPL (!). Readers are allowed to distribute, read, print, and edit the book, and even sell their revisions.
!: I think this is just incredibly lame--a textbook?? under the GPL?? Sounds to me they're just in there for buzzwords. Surely there's a better way to describe the rights you want to give away / keep. Oh well...
Beowulf cluster? Reinforcement learning? Evolutionary algorithm? What are you, the buzzword king?
First of all, how would this "solution" answer your problem with modpacks?
Second, most of your AI is going to need to be produced on the spot. The toughest part is going to be adapting to eccentric players and their habits--that can only be done locally.
Game designers are pretty good at writing "general" AI, on what a computer tries to do to win in certain cases. Only the designers can limit their accuracy there.
So, is there a free, easy to use software package that will lock up my computer's ports and services for me? I have a cheap box that's serving music, but have pretty much stuck with the stock redhat 8.2 install.
For QM, it's really more helpful to get a book (Griffiths is good), but you can get some of the basics online if you've got a really good LinAl background (let's hope most CSists do).
At Caltech, Dr. Mabuchi is resident QM whiz. You can get his lecture notes at
http://minty.caltech.edu/Ph195/downloads.htm
While they're really coherent, as far as physics derivations go, you might want to have someone who's had a first year's QM around to answer questions. And again, you should have a good grasp of LinAl, since that's pretty much what QM is.
As for general reading, I find that PRL (prl.aps.org) has pretty readable stuff, and it's also really interesting. Do yourself a favor--if you're at a college that has the online subscriptions, skim a couple articles a week. For a while, I tried to make that my "news site" instead of slashdot. I'll keep trying, and will let you know (or not) about the results.
No, they want responsible, proven people. If you can't stick it out for 4 years of college, in a comparitively easy major (don't even try to argue this--few colleges make CS hard) then you probably don't belong at a Fortune company, no matter what color hat you'll be wearing.
If your parents don't have enough money for college, and you make it through anyways, more power to ya. I really do respect you.
TI calculators are, afaik, just black and white. however, games developers are able to support at least 7 colors by sacrificing refresh rate for color blending. So, you get grayscales. Sounds like what they're doing. If you can't tell the difference, why make a fuss? I don't see the point in having more than 8 bit color anyways on a stinking PDA.
Try getting an Amex blue card (even through your parents, if you don't have a steady job).
Adds 1 year to the standard warranty, price protection for at least 30 days (maybe 60, can't remember), return protection for 30 (they'll buy it back if the store won't take it), and single-use credit cards for those shadier vendors.
What a great card. Oh, no annual fee. I use it on all my computer parts, and just reimburse my parents. In my opinion, it's a better deal than the 1% back they usually use anyways.
I've been doing some research involving fiber optics, lately, and so have come upon information and papers on plastic fiber. It's been around for awhile, so this isn't exactly new stuff... And while it is less fragile, it still has more attenuation than good ol' silica based fibers.
This is more of a fluff, "invest in us, because we're almost there", piece than a report of a real breakthrough.
You bought your last hard drive over a year ago? You're not doing much to help the economy, are you. Maybe you should throw away your old one, and buy this instead. And what's all this talk about warranties? Ending is better than mending, you know.
Wow, bs'ing. It's been a while since I thought about that. There was a great web board dedicated to it for a couple years, scbackstab.com, but it fell into a downward spiral of trolling and stupidity.
For some great pics of me in my BS'ing prime, you might want to check out www.geocities.com/chikin03
I usually reserve the term "Civil Disobedience" for things that you wouldn't normally want to do. Like refusing to leave the steps of your state capitol, or not using the metrobus, and walking to work instead, but not just using a cable descrambler because you think information should be free. A life of "Civil Disobedience" should be a hard one.
John: So, you still on your Civil Disobedience kick?
Jay: Yeah, it's tough, ya'know. But somebody's got to do it. I suffer, I really do. But it's for a good cause.
John: Maybe one day it'll be legal to wear those x-ray glasses of yours, and then you can go back to your normal life.
Except that our whole process of education is based on the works and inventions of others. I would bet that few of you during your childhood could have derived Maxwell's equations without the help of a scientist, engineer, or physics book.
If a new, crucial advance is made in some field, teachers will make sure students are at least conscious of it. Shouldn't this violate your little test for uniqueness?
In a world without IP restrictions, it would be hard to justify spending money on R&D. It's likely that any discovery will be uncovered by the competition, so there'd be little if any reward for the original company.
Music, literature are almost the same. If music was so undervalued that a musician couldn't expect to take in enough to break even, or live above the poverty line, then no artist would take time off from their job at McDonalds to commercially compose a tune.
I agree with you, but the point of his little blurb at the end of the articles--besides making him feel better about being so lazy--is to encourage discussion.
It's what all great TV anchors do. Now, if he only punctuated and paused his speech with completely predictable fake drama...
Slashdot Mirror
before this get's slashdotted, you can download the movie at
b .m ov
http://http.dvlabs.com/gnn/qt/gnn/redux/redux_b
Happy viewing!
This is getting rediculous--most small, independent websites like this can't take a slashdotting, and it's making it almost pointless to link it.
It seems to me Slashdot could offer to mirror the content for a price, so that the linkee gets ad money, while slashdot carries the bandwidth burden.
Is there no way to:
1) Contact the website owner
2) Alert him of the amount of bandwidth he's going to need
3) Offer to mirror his pages such that ad referals still go to him
4) Everybody profits?
For those of you who want to try and still get the movie, or just want to throw the URL onto DAP and retrieve it later, the file's at
/ an canar_trailer_large.mov
http://www.joannewarfieldfineart.com/ancanar/qt
Just thought I'd give you all a heads up (since I just grabbed it).
actually, if he's talking about the energy of a packet of light, it's
E = hv,
where h is Planck's constant (not h-bar)
and v is the greek nu, for frequency.
This is like first term HS E&M, people.
The group my faculty advisor is in, here at Caltech, has already done this; I wouldn't be surprised if other universities have done it as well. His group published an astronomy textbook under the GPL (!). Readers are allowed to distribute, read, print, and edit the book, and even sell their revisions.
!: I think this is just incredibly lame--a textbook?? under the GPL?? Sounds to me they're just in there for buzzwords. Surely there's a better way to describe the rights you want to give away / keep. Oh well...
Scheme, baby!
Beowulf cluster? Reinforcement learning? Evolutionary algorithm? What are you, the buzzword king?
First of all, how would this "solution" answer your problem with modpacks?
Second, most of your AI is going to need to be produced on the spot. The toughest part is going to be adapting to eccentric players and their habits--that can only be done locally.
Game designers are pretty good at writing "general" AI, on what a computer tries to do to win in certain cases. Only the designers can limit their accuracy there.
9) ...
10) Profit!!
Woah. So that's what step 2 is. Everyone else guards it like a trade secret.
It's all starting to make sense now.
So, is there a free, easy to use software package that will lock up my computer's ports and services for me? I have a cheap box that's serving music, but have pretty much stuck with the stock redhat 8.2 install.
For QM, it's really more helpful to get a book (Griffiths is good), but you can get some of the basics online if you've got a really good LinAl background (let's hope most CSists do).
At Caltech, Dr. Mabuchi is resident QM whiz. You can get his lecture notes at
http://minty.caltech.edu/Ph195/downloads.htm
While they're really coherent, as far as physics derivations go, you might want to have someone who's had a first year's QM around to answer questions. And again, you should have a good grasp of LinAl, since that's pretty much what QM is.
As for general reading, I find that PRL (prl.aps.org) has pretty readable stuff, and it's also really interesting. Do yourself a favor--if you're at a college that has the online subscriptions, skim a couple articles a week. For a while, I tried to make that my "news site" instead of slashdot. I'll keep trying, and will let you know (or not) about the results.
Good luck
No, they want responsible, proven people. If you can't stick it out for 4 years of college, in a comparitively easy major (don't even try to argue this--few colleges make CS hard) then you probably don't belong at a Fortune company, no matter what color hat you'll be wearing.
If your parents don't have enough money for college, and you make it through anyways, more power to ya. I really do respect you.
You must be too old for to own a TI-89.
TI calculators are, afaik, just black and white. however, games developers are able to support at least 7 colors by sacrificing refresh rate for color blending. So, you get grayscales. Sounds like what they're doing. If you can't tell the difference, why make a fuss? I don't see the point in having more than 8 bit color anyways on a stinking PDA.
Try getting an Amex blue card (even through your parents, if you don't have a steady job).
Adds 1 year to the standard warranty, price protection for at least 30 days (maybe 60, can't remember), return protection for 30 (they'll buy it back if the store won't take it), and single-use credit cards for those shadier vendors.
What a great card. Oh, no annual fee. I use it on all my computer parts, and just reimburse my parents. In my opinion, it's a better deal than the 1% back they usually use anyways.
I've been doing some research involving fiber optics, lately, and so have come upon information and papers on plastic fiber. It's been around for awhile, so this isn't exactly new stuff... And while it is less fragile, it still has more attenuation than good ol' silica based fibers.
This is more of a fluff, "invest in us, because we're almost there", piece than a report of a real breakthrough.
You bought your last hard drive over a year ago? You're not doing much to help the economy, are you. Maybe you should throw away your old one, and buy this instead. And what's all this talk about warranties? Ending is better than mending, you know.
huxley.net
Wow, bs'ing. It's been a while since I thought about that. There was a great web board dedicated to it for a couple years, scbackstab.com, but it fell into a downward spiral of trolling and stupidity.
For some great pics of me in my BS'ing prime, you might want to check out www.geocities.com/chikin03
Maybe he should just stick to communicating with symbols.
--The Shoe
I usually reserve the term "Civil Disobedience" for things that you wouldn't normally want to do. Like refusing to leave the steps of your state capitol, or not using the metrobus, and walking to work instead, but not just using a cable descrambler because you think information should be free. A life of "Civil Disobedience" should be a hard one.
John: So, you still on your Civil Disobedience kick?
Jay: Yeah, it's tough, ya'know. But somebody's got to do it. I suffer, I really do. But it's for a good cause.
John: Maybe one day it'll be legal to wear those x-ray glasses of yours, and then you can go back to your normal life.
why do you think this site hasn't been slashdotted yet? The superiority of the Cappuccino line? That extra jolt of caffeine powering their sysadmins?
Or maybe it's just that they knew about the upcoming load, since they submitted the story?
So... what's the point? You just wanted to brag that you got a girlfriend?
You're the economist, you tell me :)
Except that our whole process of education is based on the works and inventions of others. I would bet that few of you during your childhood could have derived Maxwell's equations without the help of a scientist, engineer, or physics book.
If a new, crucial advance is made in some field, teachers will make sure students are at least conscious of it. Shouldn't this violate your little test for uniqueness?
In a world without IP restrictions, it would be hard to justify spending money on R&D. It's likely that any discovery will be uncovered by the competition, so there'd be little if any reward for the original company.
Music, literature are almost the same. If music was so undervalued that a musician couldn't expect to take in enough to break even, or live above the poverty line, then no artist would take time off from their job at McDonalds to commercially compose a tune.
I agree with you, but the point of his little blurb at the end of the articles--besides making him feel better about being so lazy--is to encourage discussion.
It's what all great TV anchors do. Now, if he only punctuated and paused his speech with completely predictable fake drama...