Basically, it is impossible to build a decision system that generates no false positives AND no false negatives.
So, you must assume you will sometimes get it wrong. Therefore you must decide if it is better to let the guilty go free, or better to lock up innocent people and bias the system one way or the other.
Because its not falsifiable. Evolution is falsifiable, find one thing that springs into existence with no common ancestor. ID has no such test, therefore it is not science.
I don't see anyone else mention this yet... but wouldn't it be wise to move away from fossile fuels and accept nuclear power. We can make nuclear power relatively safe with pebble bed reactors and although its not a perfect choice, given global warming, it is probably the lesser evil.
Just one thing about your temperature requirements... You only need these temperatures in a Maxwellian situation where the temperature you are measuring is due to the random motion of particles. If you can constrain the motion of the particles you are fusing to interact head on, then of course your local temperatures can be very high but your global temperatures quite reasonable.
You can read up on the Farnsworth Fusor to find out about a real Fusion device that operates at normal temperatures (of course there is a plasma generated that is very hot, but very small).
The theory behind cold fusion (Not that I am convinced) is that the Platinum can store up to 97%(?) of its weight in hydrogen, and that the hydrogen atoms in this matrix, under enough density have local energies high enough for fusion.
If you think of all the hacks (the immune system) put into slashcode to stop the trolls (bacteria), you can see how the same process works to improve the immunity of slashdot to trolls.
We used to own a ZX-81 with 1K (one kilobyte) RAM, and a keyboard with no keys (well, at least not real ones).
It didn't have a disk drive or tape deck, so if we wanted to play a game we had to type the program in (in BASIC) from scratch every time the computer was turned off.
Luxury!!
We used to dream of 1k of RAM.... If we were lucky Dad would give us a toggle switch that we used to store our 1 bit programs on AND we had to share it in our multiuser environment... ahhh, but we were happy.
Try and tell that to kids these days and they won't beleive you.
You should really check out Knoppix. This is a version of Linux that boots directly off of a live-CD, auto-detects all your hardware and boots up to a Windows like user interface (KDE), without you having to do anything. Learning a bit more about Linux from there should be pretty easy.
Don't they have a contract with the owners of SCO that mentions that they'll never make a unix like OS?
I didn't know what you were talking about, so I did some googling and found this.
By the sound of it MS could well distribute Linux, just as long as they didn't call it Unix.
OTOH, I can't see a problem if MS made their own Linux distribution, although they might have some proprietory parts (MS Office?), anything that was currently GPL'd would have to remain GPL'd. It would be a win for OSS!!
Yes, but applications have to *link* to the Java runtime libraries. If they were GPL, the applications would have to be as well. I believe glibc has an exception to the GPL for these reasons, and why the debian free-java-sdk is LGPL'd.
But then again, I do use Debian now, and I really like it. I just don't think that rubishing other distro's without looking at what they can do is the right way of making great software!!
lm-sensors will cook many IBM systems. The ThinkSpas 600s, and those series immediately preceeding will go *pooofter* upon running lm-sensors.
It's a hardware screw up by IBM. Other systems don't like lm-sensors, too
This is true apparantly... Although, I haven't tested this myself.
Anyone know if the T21 is vulnerable?
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I don't know if you were trolling or not, and I'm sure you've read the replies that this is not what Claud Shannon was talking about. Although I don't think its necessarily analogous to spam, no one has pointed out that it was actually Benoit Mandelbrot who said that noise is inevitable in communications. Is this where you get nlog(n)?.
If they are editing the obfuscated version and they prefer to make their modifications to their source in that form, then that is by definition the preferred form of the work for making modifications. However, it looks like they are editing the source in one form and releasing an obfuscated version of that. Therefore, they are not releasing the preferred form of the work for making modifications.
Hence, they are breaking their contract...
It has nothing whatsoever to do with easy/easier/easiest. Where did you get this idea from?
Damn, you have to be fast to not be redundant... Guess that's why they call it internet time. Was a pretty obvious answer really. I shouldn't have spent so long formatting it.
Oh well, go ahead, Mod me to hell -- I never had any karma to begin with:(
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Without prohibition it would be a lot more widespread.
You have proof?
Is it the legality of heroin/coke/meth what keeps you off of it? If so, you're an idiot.
Yes, I missed the joke...
Receiver operating characteristics.
Basically, it is impossible to build a decision system that generates no false positives AND no false negatives.
So, you must assume you will sometimes get it wrong. Therefore you must decide if it is better to let the guilty go free, or better to lock up innocent people and bias the system one way or the other.
> > ID is not a scientific theory
> Why not?
Because its not falsifiable. Evolution is falsifiable, find one thing that springs into existence with no common ancestor. ID has no such test, therefore it is not science.
redundant... removed redundant moderation now anyay ;)
sorry.
Do not taunt happy cell phone.
You know why there is no obfuscated Perl contest?
Everyone's a winner!
"Either the whole world is in it, or it's a no-go."
Kind of like the war in Iraq?
I don't see anyone else mention this yet... but wouldn't it be wise to move away from fossile fuels and accept nuclear power. We can make nuclear power relatively safe with pebble bed reactors and although its not a perfect choice, given global warming, it is probably the lesser evil.
Just one thing about your temperature requirements... You only need these temperatures in a Maxwellian situation where the temperature you are measuring is due to the random motion of particles. If you can constrain the motion of the particles you are fusing to interact head on, then of course your local temperatures can be very high but your global temperatures quite reasonable.
You can read up on the Farnsworth Fusor to find out about a real Fusion device that operates at normal temperatures (of course there is a plasma generated that is very hot, but very small).
The theory behind cold fusion (Not that I am convinced) is that the Platinum can store up to 97%(?) of its weight in hydrogen, and that the hydrogen atoms in this matrix, under enough density have local energies high enough for fusion.
You'll get my inches, miles, and gallons when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
Shouldn't that be - "You'll get my inches, miles and gallons when you pry them from my cold dead feet!"
If you think of all the hacks (the immune system) put into slashcode to stop the trolls (bacteria), you can see how the same process works to improve the immunity of slashdot to trolls.
We used to own a ZX-81 with 1K (one kilobyte) RAM, and a keyboard with no keys (well, at least not real ones).
It didn't have a disk drive or tape deck, so if we wanted to play a game we had to type the program in (in BASIC) from scratch every time the computer was turned off.
Luxury!!
We used to dream of 1k of RAM.... If we were lucky Dad would give us a toggle switch that we used to store our 1 bit programs on AND we had to share it in our multiuser environment... ahhh, but we were happy.
Try and tell that to kids these days and they won't beleive you.
You should really check out Knoppix. This is a version of Linux that boots directly off of a live-CD, auto-detects all your hardware and boots up to a Windows like user interface (KDE), without you having to do anything. Learning a bit more about Linux from there should be pretty easy.
Don't they have a contract with the owners of SCO that mentions that they'll never make a unix like OS?
I didn't know what you were talking about, so I did some googling and found
this.
By the sound of it MS could well distribute Linux, just as long as they didn't call it Unix.
OTOH, I can't see a problem if MS made their own Linux distribution, although they might have some proprietory parts (MS Office?), anything that was currently GPL'd would have to remain GPL'd. It would be a win for OSS!!
Yes, but applications have to *link* to the Java runtime libraries. If they were GPL, the applications would have to be as well. I believe glibc has an exception to the GPL for these reasons, and why the debian free-java-sdk is LGPL'd.
try doing a net install off a pair of floppies tho
/ 9. 0/i586/images/network.img
Why not try doing a net install off of a single floppy? More autodetection and much prettier too!!
http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake
But then again, I do use Debian now, and I really like it. I just don't think that rubishing other distro's without looking at what they can do is the right way of making great software!!
Regards,
Ben
This is true apparantly... Although, I haven't tested this myself.
Anyone know if the T21 is vulnerable?
I don't know if you were trolling or not, and I'm sure you've read the replies that this is not what Claud Shannon was talking about. Although I don't think its necessarily analogous to spam, no one has pointed out that it was actually Benoit Mandelbrot who said that noise is inevitable in communications. Is this where you get nlog(n)?.
Britney Spears gives Aural Sex!!
My PIN is pi... The last 4 digits. ;)
That's funny, but if you have a memory like mine, that means your using 3141
The only real use I can see for this is hiding information on someone else's compromised machine...
Great....
If they are editing the obfuscated version and they prefer to make their modifications to their source in that form, then that is by definition the preferred form of the work for making modifications. However, it looks like they are editing the source in one form and releasing an obfuscated version of that. Therefore, they are not releasing the preferred form of the work for making modifications.
Hence, they are breaking their contract...
It has nothing whatsoever to do with easy/easier/easiest. Where did you get this idea from?
Damn, you have to be fast to not be redundant... Guess that's why they call it internet time. Was a pretty obvious answer really. I shouldn't have spent so long formatting it.
:(
Oh well, go ahead, Mod me to hell -- I never had any karma to begin with
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
Your company is breaking the law... enough said.