a lot of anime is inspired by earlier live film. metropolis, for example, was based on an earlier film of the same name. perhaps some people aren't quite as ignorant as having mostly anime in their DVD collections and want to rent/buy something else...
1) hide your parents' income in advance. (it's not tax evasion, it's tax avoidance).
2) that college fund your parents started will all be taken. it's really rather useless unless you have ALL of the needed money in there ahead of time.
3) a lot of uni's don't want to give scholarships to incoming students because high school is an aweful indication of how well you will do in college and life (i lived with a guy who got straight As in HS, but just couldn't hack college)
4) even if you *do* get a scholarship, say, 2nd year, you will almost surely never see a cent of it. i got a $16k scholarship, and, you guessed it, i didn't see a cent of it (just had to write thank you notes).
scholarships are nice, but most people are delusional about where most of them go. ironically, the better school, the less the chance of scholarships (and top schools won't give merit scholarships at all). the only chance for a *real* scholarship is one which you got from a private donor and can hide from the school somehow. in other words: GOOD LUCK!
they *didn't* get access to the C code. if you were careful enough to RTFA on the mplayer website you would have noticed that all they did was compare strings from the binaries.
it's been mentioned a number of times in different posts: the source code provided on the kiss website is *not* for the allegedly stolen code.
plus, that lame linux kernel vulnerability *was* kind of lame, as the fix wasn't included until 2.4.23. debian got hit with it too:)
if you read the *reason* for switching from debian to slackware is that the old maintainer knew debian and the new one doesn't. a bunch of hungarians might not necessarily be the nicest guys in the world, but they aren't stupid either.
for one, "i, robot" is a collection of short stories. read the robot novels (caves of steel, naked sun, robots of dawn). ironically, in another collection of robot stories (robot visions, i believe) asimov says that he likes his own robot stuff better than the foundation series.
there should be another category: most disputed. i think matrix 3 goes into this category. when i saw it this chic came up to me after the movie and said "i honestly enjoyed your obnoxious comments more than the movie." that and the fact that one person clapped and he was stoned. *sigh* i guess everyone is entitled to their opinion
there was also a book published called "the positronic man" which was based on the short story. i think this would have been a better title anyway (although i see why hollywood decided to go with the former)
it seems if there are any, they are hiding:). my biggest problem with most GIS system is the general lack of good open data in a format that doesn't take a month to understand. tiger and DCW (digital chart of the world) are the primary data sets, but both take a lot of processing, and people who (like myself) actually bother to figure out the formats end up being quite stingy with the results. nobody understands us!
the ultimate biometric would (i think) be handwriting. although many systems currently are not adequate to deploy, handwritten signature verification is a lot better (albeit also more noisy) than retina scans or fingerprints. unlike other biometric data, you can't steal a person's signature the way you can chop off a finger. remember gattaca?
detecting forgeries is quite a difficult task, but most human experts don't have any temporal data to work with: they have to infer it all from the off-line data. the other big problem (that i have seen from my own research) is that in order to get a very low false acceptance rate you also have to be pessimistic about accepting real signatures (which tends to piss people off when they have to enter their signature an average of about 2 times before it is authenticated)
we *are* computers in the theoretical sense. we are no more powerful than any turing machine, and same with computers. so, theoretically, there does exist a TM that can simulate you and me; just no one has thought of one yet (if ever). clockwork is different; it is a fanciful illusion of complexity. computers, however, have a sound mathematical basis that allows them to be entirely general and hence computationally equivalent to humans.
what i am intereted in is what kind of API they provide to access the 3d capabilities of their display technology. what exactly are the games doing to make them look 3d? is this just an opengl wrapper (like wicked3d for an anaglyph effect) or is there support in the video card hardware to output to this kind of display...interesting stuff though, either way
this has been mentioned multiple times, but becoming and being a monopoly are not illegal; abusing it is. that is what microsoft is doing. that's why this is an anti-trust suit.
as right as you are about most consumers not willing to fight a war, which they are indeed not, to a player in the operating system market, this is very much a war. if you were a big player, such as redhat, microsoft, ibm, apple, whatever...would *you* care about the outcome of this PR spectacle?
"oh i think you would, trebeck"
Now, since you are not a big player in the market, you are telling the world that you do not care about the outcome of this lawsuit. now assume the worst for linux; the GPL becomes illegal, contributing to linux is deemed terrorism, and writing any operating system code without a government license violates the DMCA. naturally, this would probably not happen, but imagine it does. would you, the not-a-big-player, care then?
"oh i think you would, trebeck"
if you think that is not about war but instead freedom, then the war consists of the ability to exercise freedom. many wars have been fought on this basis, and while this war is mostly corporate, it has similar consequences. until you are bothered when using some software you like, you will continue to ignore all that goes on around you and use it. however, when someone comes to your door calling you a terrorist accomplice, would you care if you were told to stop using the software you have been using for as long as you can remember?
absolutely. i work for a company that has processed the tiger data on their own. it seems like a great format for people to enter data in, but an awful one to read. even if you *are* able to read the format which is quite a chore in itself, you cannot just use off the bat. you have to process it in usable regions/polygons (whatever you want to call them) because everything is split up far beyond the point it should be. for example, all the lat/lon data is a very strange integer of the real values.
good point. interesting you mention BNF, explicit conditionals, loops, and recursion. loops are not necessary (e.g. SML), BNF *is* recursive (still not turing complete, because CFGs are strictly less powerful than turing machines). conditionals aren't even really necessary, yet BNF (when implemented as an NPDA) sorta does have conditionals since its output depends on the value on top of thestack; a turing machine can be implemented with 2 integer counters, or give a PDA two stacks-- and it's as powerful as a turing machine.
as long as functional programming languages are considered to be declarative (at least according to foldoc) then there are plenty of declarative programming languages. arguably, functional languages are not completely declarative, but they aim high and do a much better job of defining the problem.
they need handwriting recognition, not stroke recognition. just strokes defeats the point of a tablet. you want to be able to write something like you normally would and have it recognize it. go trying writing with any kind of reasonable speed with just strokes...
i see your point, but i think it would be less funny if the first search engine was msn instead of ask. at least they knew how to get to ask. imagine this scenario: this newbie's friend tells him about google and how great it is. newbie clicks on "Internet" icon, which automatically takes him to the msn website (which, by what he can figure, is "the internet"). he proceeds to ask a question hoping to find what his friend told him, mostly because he does not know what a URL is. sadly, this happens way too often. *sigh*
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a lot of anime is inspired by earlier live film. metropolis, for example, was based on an earlier film of the same name. perhaps some people aren't quite as ignorant as having mostly anime in their DVD collections and want to rent/buy something else...
1) hide your parents' income in advance. (it's not tax evasion, it's tax avoidance).
2) that college fund your parents started will all be taken. it's really rather useless unless you have ALL of the needed money in there ahead of time.
3) a lot of uni's don't want to give scholarships to incoming students because high school is an aweful indication of how well you will do in college and life (i lived with a guy who got straight As in HS, but just couldn't hack college)
4) even if you *do* get a scholarship, say, 2nd year, you will almost surely never see a cent of it. i got a $16k scholarship, and, you guessed it, i didn't see a cent of it (just had to write thank you notes).
scholarships are nice, but most people are delusional about where most of them go. ironically, the better school, the less the chance of scholarships (and top schools won't give merit scholarships at all). the only chance for a *real* scholarship is one which you got from a private donor and can hide from the school somehow. in other words: GOOD LUCK!
they *didn't* get access to the C code. if you were careful enough to RTFA on the mplayer website you would have noticed that all they did was compare strings from the binaries.
:)
it's been mentioned a number of times in different posts: the source code provided on the kiss website is *not* for the allegedly stolen code.
plus, that lame linux kernel vulnerability *was* kind of lame, as the fix wasn't included until 2.4.23. debian got hit with it too
if you read the *reason* for switching from debian to slackware is that the old maintainer knew debian and the new one doesn't. a bunch of hungarians might not necessarily be the nicest guys in the world, but they aren't stupid either.
i think xbill now needs a sequel (after all the machines are turned into toasters): xlinus. except that now the daemons trash the dead rats.
for one, "i, robot" is a collection of short stories. read the robot novels (caves of steel, naked sun, robots of dawn). ironically, in another collection of robot stories (robot visions, i believe) asimov says that he likes his own robot stuff better than the foundation series.
ironically, no, i meant the prior :)
there should be another category: most disputed. i think matrix 3 goes into this category. when i saw it this chic came up to me after the movie and said "i honestly enjoyed your obnoxious comments more than the movie." that and the fact that one person clapped and he was stoned. *sigh* i guess everyone is entitled to their opinion
there was also a book published called "the positronic man" which was based on the short story. i think this would have been a better title anyway (although i see why hollywood decided to go with the former)
it seems if there are any, they are hiding :). my biggest problem with most GIS system is the general lack of good open data in a format that doesn't take a month to understand. tiger and DCW (digital chart of the world) are the primary data sets, but both take a lot of processing, and people who (like myself) actually bother to figure out the formats end up being quite stingy with the results. nobody understands us!
the ultimate biometric would (i think) be handwriting. although many systems currently are not adequate to deploy, handwritten signature verification is a lot better (albeit also more noisy) than retina scans or fingerprints. unlike other biometric data, you can't steal a person's signature the way you can chop off a finger. remember gattaca?
detecting forgeries is quite a difficult task, but most human experts don't have any temporal data to work with: they have to infer it all from the off-line data. the other big problem (that i have seen from my own research) is that in order to get a very low false acceptance rate you also have to be pessimistic about accepting real signatures (which tends to piss people off when they have to enter their signature an average of about 2 times before it is authenticated)
we *are* computers in the theoretical sense. we are no more powerful than any turing machine, and same with computers. so, theoretically, there does exist a TM that can simulate you and me; just no one has thought of one yet (if ever). clockwork is different; it is a fanciful illusion of complexity. computers, however, have a sound mathematical basis that allows them to be entirely general and hence computationally equivalent to humans.
what i am intereted in is what kind of API they provide to access the 3d capabilities of their display technology. what exactly are the games doing to make them look 3d? is this just an opengl wrapper (like wicked3d for an anaglyph effect) or is there support in the video card hardware to output to this kind of display...interesting stuff though, either way
on that subject, so is fedora! didn't know redhat was a traitor all along
this has been mentioned multiple times, but becoming and being a monopoly are not illegal; abusing it is. that is what microsoft is doing. that's why this is an anti-trust suit.
celebrity jeopardy skits... all of them are therea /jeopar dy.asp
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on the show, yes. but connery kept calling him trebeck on SNL :)
alex trebeck. (perhaps a tad american centric) go watch sean connery debase trebeck in the "celebrity jeopardy" skits on Saturday Night Live.
as right as you are about most consumers not willing to fight a war, which they are indeed not, to a player in the operating system market, this is very much a war. if you were a big player, such as redhat, microsoft, ibm, apple, whatever...would *you* care about the outcome of this PR spectacle?
"oh i think you would, trebeck"
Now, since you are not a big player in the market, you are telling the world that you do not care about the outcome of this lawsuit. now assume the worst for linux; the GPL becomes illegal, contributing to linux is deemed terrorism, and writing any operating system code without a government license violates the DMCA. naturally, this would probably not happen, but imagine it does. would you, the not-a-big-player, care then?
"oh i think you would, trebeck"
if you think that is not about war but instead freedom, then the war consists of the ability to exercise freedom. many wars have been fought on this basis, and while this war is mostly corporate, it has similar consequences. until you are bothered when using some software you like, you will continue to ignore all that goes on around you and use it. however, when someone comes to your door calling you a terrorist accomplice, would you care if you were told to stop using the software you have been using for as long as you can remember?
"oh i think you would, trebeck"
absolutely. i work for a company that has processed the tiger data on their own. it seems like a great format for people to enter data in, but an awful one to read. even if you *are* able to read the format which is quite a chore in itself, you cannot just use off the bat. you have to process it in usable regions/polygons (whatever you want to call them) because everything is split up far beyond the point it should be. for example, all the lat/lon data is a very strange integer of the real values.
good point. interesting you mention BNF, explicit conditionals, loops, and recursion. loops are not necessary (e.g. SML), BNF *is* recursive (still not turing complete, because CFGs are strictly less powerful than turing machines). conditionals aren't even really necessary, yet BNF (when implemented as an NPDA) sorta does have conditionals since its output depends on the value on top of thestack; a turing machine can be implemented with 2 integer counters, or give a PDA two stacks-- and it's as powerful as a turing machine.
as long as functional programming languages are considered to be declarative (at least according to foldoc) then there are plenty of declarative programming languages. arguably, functional languages are not completely declarative, but they aim high and do a much better job of defining the problem.
that's exactly the problem. most people's handwriting doesn't consist of strokes...it is cursive or something equally messy
they need handwriting recognition, not stroke recognition. just strokes defeats the point of a tablet. you want to be able to write something like you normally would and have it recognize it. go trying writing with any kind of reasonable speed with just strokes...
i see your point, but i think it would be less funny if the first search engine was msn instead of ask. at least they knew how to get to ask. imagine this scenario: this newbie's friend tells him about google and how great it is. newbie clicks on "Internet" icon, which automatically takes him to the msn website (which, by what he can figure, is "the internet"). he proceeds to ask a question hoping to find what his friend told him, mostly because he does not know what a URL is. sadly, this happens way too often. *sigh*
anti-aliasing is not pseudo analog, it increases the effective resolution.
that is pseudo analog. analog would be infinite resolution!