"To understand recursion, one must first understand how to recur + sion" would be better, since the point of recursion is to reduce the problem at each step.
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was this thing called "Chicken Little"? Because I remember reading a short story with a giant hunk of meat called chicken little, and I've been trying for the life of me to recall the author/title.
Semantic Web is the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard. The problem with meaning isn't representation -- English represents meaning just fine. The problem is meaning itself -- it doesn't matter if you figure out a way to encode it in some XML language, for every bit that it's easier for computers to use, it will carry that much less meaning.
Another way of putting it is, any program capable of extracting the same meaning from XML that humans can, should be able to understand English without much trouble. It's the whole Intelligence-complete" thing. Like NP-complete, there seem to be a class of problems which can only be solved by real intelligence, and they're all pretty much equivalent in that with real intelligence, you can solve them all.
You've convinced me that I should alias "cp" to "steal", because steal *.*/site/backup makes perfect sense, and clearly I don't nead "mv" because that means the same thing.
I think the other people that replied didn't get it. Being upper management isn't something to brag about. It means that we enjoy income based on what we control, not on what we produce.
Though Netgear reacted promptly with a firmware update to the news of a backdoor in the WLAN access point WG602, the backdoor is nevertheless still present -- this time with a new username and password. The name was handled with little creativity, extended from the original string "super" to "superman". In the case of the password, Netgear had obviously taken forum discussion [the link is a post by someone who used a hex editor to change the password to their phone number] of the first news of the security hole to heart and changed the number to 21241036. To whom this phone number belongs, though, Netgear Germany could not tell us -- they had not heard of the new problem and wanted to look into it first.
There is not yet a newly updated Firmware version. Anyways, there is the question of whether users will still be willing after this second screw-up to install new software. In the opinion of lawyers this problem could be quite sufficient ground to return the devices to dealers and demand a refund. The vendor can certainly try to touch up the deficiency, though at the moment the chances of that are obviously quite poor.
First, anonymous ftp is good because (unless you use SSL or some such) login information is sent plaintext which is in some sense worse than not logging in at all.
Second, undeletable folders? There's no such thing. You can use quotas to limit the space people can use up on your FTP site and/or have a script to clean it out at regular intervals. It is sad that people you don't know will happily use your FTP site, but that's life on the internet.
"The rules are fair if we would agree to it not knowing in advance which role we are going to be assigned.... For example you should assist the poor because their condition objectively requires assistance and it won't really hurt you that much to help."
Devil's advocate: I am a rich person who believes that I earned my money, and that people are poor only because they are slackers. In my view, we all started off in the same roles, and if I slacked off like they did, then I would *deserve* to be poor, and to expect help from others would be unfair.
Or: animals, and black people, are MADE to serve white people. That is their natural function in the universe, in the same way that the natural function of stones is to fall. If I were born a black person or an animal, I wouldn't expect to be able to do the things white people can, because I wouldn't be a white person. Nothing unfair about it.
The point is, it's very easy for someone to *claim* they would agree to be put into any role if they have the point of view of the better role.
There's research that shows that narrow columns are much easier to read -- specifically past a certain width you have to turn your head slightly to help your eyes track and this makes it harder to pick up the following line. People who use computers a lot have probably adapted to this more than most people.
If I sell you an orange, not knowing it's rotten inside, and you buy it, not knowing (or checking) that it's rotten inside, that's bad luck. I didn't do anything wrong by selling you what I thought was a decent orange. In a fair world, everyone in the universe would share this small bit of bad luck equally, but in the real world one person usually ends up with most of it. In this case, it's you with the orange, since I already have your money and I'm not a big orange-selling vendor with a reputation to maintain.
People in trusted positions should take reasonable precautions and be held accountable if they don't but that doesn't mean bad luck never strikes.
Isn't it sort of interesting that a radio signal is coming from an area of space with no known stars or planets in it? Considering that most of these signals are coming from interstellar objects and not aliens, if you remove signals which could come from interstellar objects you're more likely left which those which came from aliens, right?
So I guess in your theory a sheet of paper is heavier than a needle -- after all, it has more surface area to "deflect" the "gravitons."
Actually I'm being over-harsh, but this was old hash thousands of years ago. Check out this thread: http://www.besslerwheel.com/wwwboard/messages/106. html
Someone already said TeX. I think Dan Bernstien has a similar reward offer for finders of holes in djbnds. And there are numerous unreleased projects (NASA software, for example) that MUST be bug-free. It's not/that/ hard, it's just that in office software it's obviously not worth it. Or so most users who buy Microsoft seem to think.
University of Texas at Austin has something very similar, with access points all over campus. Because it's such a big campus, it's actually a bit annoying trying to figure out what the nearest is -- I usually just go to one of the obvious big ones, like the south mall, or one of the engineering buildings.
Burden of proof is on the original poster. I don't see any reason for an inverse relationship between the two. On the contrary, given the similarity between translating words to thoughts and visa versa, I'd expect them to go hand-in-hand. Easy to write doesn't mean shorter, it means easy to translate your thoughts directly into code. Personally, I find Python easy to write because it's nearly identical to the pseudocode I'd write when thinking about a problem.
There's got to be some positive aspects of this. Is there any reason we'd need to distribute a small piece of code in a matter of hours to a very large number of computers?
The problem is simply that physical objects degrade under errors gracefully. If you hire a sub-standard painter, your house isn't going to spontaneously collapse. Even if you don't hire a fabulous architect, it takes a lot of mistakes together before they seriously impact the quality of the product. Software's the opposite. Not only is it possible to introduce single, tiny errors which completely cripple the program, but almost all mistakes are of this type.
This is a consequence of the computer "doing exactly what we tell it." Until we create a way of programming computers which has some room for error/graceful degradation (and consequently doesn't do exactly what you tell it), then computers will always have this problem.
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No, you find out that Fred is Arctor pretty much the moment he's introduced.
"To understand recursion, one must first understand how to recur + sion" would be better, since the point of recursion is to reduce the problem at each step.
was this thing called "Chicken Little"? Because I remember reading a short story with a giant hunk of meat called chicken little, and I've been trying for the life of me to recall the author/title.
Semantic Web is the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard. The problem with meaning isn't representation -- English represents meaning just fine. The problem is meaning itself -- it doesn't matter if you figure out a way to encode it in some XML language, for every bit that it's easier for computers to use, it will carry that much less meaning.
Another way of putting it is, any program capable of extracting the same meaning from XML that humans can, should be able to understand English without much trouble. It's the whole Intelligence-complete" thing. Like NP-complete, there seem to be a class of problems which can only be solved by real intelligence, and they're all pretty much equivalent in that with real intelligence, you can solve them all.
Practically prohibited? Not quite -- all three of these were *required* reading in my American middle/high school education.
You've convinced me that I should alias "cp" to "steal", because steal *.* /site/backup makes perfect sense, and clearly I don't nead "mv" because that means the same thing.
I think the other people that replied didn't get it. Being upper management isn't something to brag about. It means that we enjoy income based on what we control, not on what we produce.
Though Netgear reacted promptly with a firmware update to the news of a backdoor in the WLAN access point WG602, the backdoor is nevertheless still present -- this time with a new username and password. The name was handled with little creativity, extended from the original string "super" to "superman". In the case of the password, Netgear had obviously taken forum discussion [the link is a post by someone who used a hex editor to change the password to their phone number] of the first news of the security hole to heart and changed the number to 21241036. To whom this phone number belongs, though, Netgear Germany could not tell us -- they had not heard of the new problem and wanted to look into it first.
There is not yet a newly updated Firmware version. Anyways, there is the question of whether users will still be willing after this second screw-up to install new software. In the opinion of lawyers this problem could be quite sufficient ground to return the devices to dealers and demand a refund. The vendor can certainly try to touch up the deficiency, though at the moment the chances of that are obviously quite poor.
Watch it, that's verbal abuse.
First, anonymous ftp is good because (unless you use SSL or some such) login information is sent plaintext which is in some sense worse than not logging in at all.
Second, undeletable folders? There's no such thing. You can use quotas to limit the space people can use up on your FTP site and/or have a script to clean it out at regular intervals. It is sad that people you don't know will happily use your FTP site, but that's life on the internet.
"The rules are fair if we would agree to it not knowing in advance which role we are going to be assigned. ... For example you should assist the poor because their condition objectively requires assistance and it won't really hurt you that much to help."
Devil's advocate: I am a rich person who believes that I earned my money, and that people are poor only because they are slackers. In my view, we all started off in the same roles, and if I slacked off like they did, then I would *deserve* to be poor, and to expect help from others would be unfair.
Or: animals, and black people, are MADE to serve white people. That is their natural function in the universe, in the same way that the natural function of stones is to fall. If I were born a black person or an animal, I wouldn't expect to be able to do the things white people can, because I wouldn't be a white person. Nothing unfair about it.
The point is, it's very easy for someone to *claim* they would agree to be put into any role if they have the point of view of the better role.
Why do you think newspapers use columns?
There's research that shows that narrow columns are much easier to read -- specifically past a certain width you have to turn your head slightly to help your eyes track and this makes it harder to pick up the following line. People who use computers a lot have probably adapted to this more than most people.
If I sell you an orange, not knowing it's rotten inside, and you buy it, not knowing (or checking) that it's rotten inside, that's bad luck. I didn't do anything wrong by selling you what I thought was a decent orange. In a fair world, everyone in the universe would share this small bit of bad luck equally, but in the real world one person usually ends up with most of it. In this case, it's you with the orange, since I already have your money and I'm not a big orange-selling vendor with a reputation to maintain.
People in trusted positions should take reasonable precautions and be held accountable if they don't but that doesn't mean bad luck never strikes.
Isn't it sort of interesting that a radio signal is coming from an area of space with no known stars or planets in it? Considering that most of these signals are coming from interstellar objects and not aliens, if you remove signals which could come from interstellar objects you're more likely left which those which came from aliens, right?
whew, I was worried my ability to understand German was really slipping.
Are you sure that's not arts? When I use arts instead of esound I get all kinds of delays and skipping.
You can also try "-vo sdl:arts"
"stripped" IMAP client -- I could definitely go for that too; though, I think it should also have NNTP. I suppose I want pine, but modernized.
So I guess in your theory a sheet of paper is heavier than a needle -- after all, it has more surface area to "deflect" the "gravitons."
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Actually I'm being over-harsh, but this was old hash thousands of years ago. Check out this thread: http://www.besslerwheel.com/wwwboard/messages/106
Someone already said TeX. I think Dan Bernstien has a similar reward offer for finders of holes in djbnds. And there are numerous unreleased projects (NASA software, for example) that MUST be bug-free. It's not /that/ hard, it's just that in office software it's obviously not worth it. Or so most users who buy Microsoft seem to think.
University of Texas at Austin has something very similar, with access points all over campus. Because it's such a big campus, it's actually a bit annoying trying to figure out what the nearest is -- I usually just go to one of the obvious big ones, like the south mall, or one of the engineering buildings.
Burden of proof is on the original poster. I don't see any reason for an inverse relationship between the two. On the contrary, given the similarity between translating words to thoughts and visa versa, I'd expect them to go hand-in-hand. Easy to write doesn't mean shorter, it means easy to translate your thoughts directly into code. Personally, I find Python easy to write because it's nearly identical to the pseudocode I'd write when thinking about a problem.
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame...
There's got to be some positive aspects of this. Is there any reason we'd need to distribute a small piece of code in a matter of hours to a very large number of computers?
This is a consequence of the computer "doing exactly what we tell it." Until we create a way of programming computers which has some room for error/graceful degradation (and consequently doesn't do exactly what you tell it), then computers will always have this problem.