i think the biggest problem is the growing trend of antiintellectualism in america. families are a great deal stronger in europe, as mentioned by the author, but americans _do_ have an inherent distaste towards smart people. many believe the only reason american culture has embraced einstein so much, for example, is the myth of him "being bad at math in school." sure, there are plenty of stupid geeks, called nerds, but at the same time, associating with someone "smart", esp someone dubbed "booksmart" is always considered degrading.
what's wonderful about ssh is that it provides essentially a security layer. the entire ftp connection is tunneled through ssh. same goes for any software that needs to connect to another computer. it's a brilliant way to secure a connection without having to reimplement all the encryption
chess is nice, but most progresses in chess have been due to speed increases in hardware and optimizations, hence allowing the computer to overpower the human with depth of search. On top of that, the evaluation functions are rather primitive, with lots of factors, but fail rather miserably without a great depth of search. New developments such as Logistello's statistical forward alpha cutoff called multiprobcut is the interesting development, IMHO
chess is nice, but most progresses in chess have been due to speed increases in hardware and optimizations, hence allowing the computer to overpower the human with depth of search. On top of that, the evaluation functions are rather primitive, with lots of factors, but fail rather miserably without a great depth of search. New developments such as Logistello's statistical forward alpha cutoff called multiprobcut is the interesting development, IMHO
you are thinking of the webfreetv. you want the plugin the mplayer ppl produce
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...and in ever other country, playing the nation's sports IS patriotic, and stands to uphold the nation's solidarity. only in america have sports become 100% about money and 0% about the country. country stop wars when their football team reaches round of 8, they make national holidays out of the finals, etc. america, however, has devolved into consumerist bullshit, where the polititians are aiming to be SO patriotic there is no room for patriotism among its citizens.
gates wantes to release software for "servers and webservices." since linux has the biggest appeal in the server market, it is only natural that m$ wants to harness that power. why would they want to touch the desktop. on the desktop, most users know little (and more importantly care little) of security, and the current OS is "enough" by most users' standards.
ironically, Asimov does not like his foundation books as much as the robot series, as he explicitly states in an introduction to one of his new books, "robot visions."
so, naturally, the robot books should all be done first
i saw once, was to show that it is indeed impossible to save the entire human population. basically, the amount of people we can take off the planet every day is nowhere near the level of population growth. so, even if you can get a few million off the planet, 99% of the people currently on earth will be still living on earth, and any large scale disaster will still wipe out almost the entire human race if we do not prevent it. sure, maybe the human race itself will survive, but it will most likely not be sufficient to maintain itself, and will just die out anyway.
many of problems brought up by many comments above are of the sort "for desktop gui use, X is bad." they like the screenshots of picogui? it seems to offer transparency. that is all nice, but does transparency REALLY add any functionality? not really, just eye candy. X was meant to be a generalization of all possible usage scenarios. it DOES sacrifice blazing speed for network transparency, etc. any toolkit that is better in any one thing would need to be worse in another. and it isn't, it will probably be JUST as slow.
you can call me of a dual voice. this is because i run windows through vmware. there are some things i simply cant do on *nix: some uni software only runs on windows! anywho...i use linux all the time, for just about everything, including games (i don't play too much, so there are enough for me) and use windows through vmware. so...why can't everyone be getting the best of both worlds??
look how easy it is to copy and pirate stuff now compared to, say, 20 years ago. DRM is coming, and it might have the effect of setting us back into some analogous form of tape copying in the 80s. it won't STOP piracy by any means, but it might be more difficult for the avg consumer to pirate, so the average consumer might not be as interested anymore. did tapes hurt the industry? NO. Did piracy ruin the industry? NO. so...will this ruin us? ofcourse not. those who think so are paranoid.
last time it was whistler, longhorn has been scrapped, now blackcomb...wait, isn't there a mountain (www.whistler-blackcomb.com) in british columbia? either these ppl are great fans of skiing, or they are just stealing names out of the blue!!
won't there still be icebergs? i wouldn't approach an area where the icecap is going to be in 1 month and was 1 month ago. there will be plenty of ice to be careful of and frigid water. OR: is technology good enough to avoid all these obstacles and still make a profit?
if it is so wonderful, how come other distributions not use similar hardware detection? we have seen linux distros go in and out, people complain and complain about hardware detection, but we have yet to see one of the bigger distributions adopt a system similar to what knoppix is doing. i mean the worst thing that could happen is could detect the wrong hardware (tough, but possible) and you will have to remove the modules. but otherwise, seems like a win win situation.
[offtopic]: it uses an interesting algorithm. although it does seem to use a spring dynamic system, it seems to be critically damped. the nodes never oscillate, and seem to pull very smoothly. i have never seen graph layout algorithms with such smooth characteristics.
cmon...most of the missions in gta are to kill someone. just like technically, gangsters can be "peacefull", they very rarely are. what is wrong with a little addictive destroying of vehicles?
see, the gpl license is very much like modern encryption alogrithms. prior to the days of RSA, ala world wars, encryption and security was based around the fact that people can hide secure algorithms well enough to keep things secret. in other words, if anyone found out the algorithm, the encryption scheme became utterly pointless.
relatively recently, encryption has undergone a complete turn-around in ideology. now, most every cryptologist believes that the algorithm should not only be simple but also VERY OPEN. the more eyes that look at it, the more errors can be spotted, and as time has told, today's crypto systems, for example RSA, are much more secure than the enigma. everyone and their dog knows how it works, and still no one can break it.
the same thing goes for software. the whole "falls into the wrong hands" argument works exactly the same as crypto-systems. if a crypto-system falls into the wrong hands (as someone else noted), it will also fall into the right hands, and errors will be fixed.
licensing government software under the gpl opens it up, and in the long run reduces the error rate and effectively, it's security, etc. people still think that if they hide the source to the software, it will be more secure. PLEASE look at what happened to cryptology in recent times and act accordingly.
i can understand teenagers et al sharing stuff online upsetting the RIAA, but these are *supposed* to be respectfull adults, who have plenty of money to buy CDs. if the RIAA only realized that most of the people who share content are not going to buy CDs anyway, and if they DO buy CDs, it has little to do with their sharing. perhaps if the CDs were of reasonable price, ppl would consider buying them.
for example, the company i work for does not have a fancy license manager, and really anyone can steal the software if they want to, no one is stopping them, and we don't hunt them...but very few do. why? it is their ass on the line, and on top of that, they need support and consulting. if we spent a lot of money trying to stop them, for example by writing a license manager or working on protection/registration/activation schemes beyond a serial key, it would hurt the profit. if the RIAA feels that their profit is hurt, then perhaps they should revise their product or its pricing instead of going after people who use the most natural alternative.
what i find really interesting is that the solutions of these topology problems have a characteristic very similar to the mathematics of random walks, both self-avoiding and regular:
there exists some phenomena that is dimensionally dependent. there exists some critical dimension for which the case is simple and hence reduces, and much easier to prove. the 2d case is classical, and often yields elegant results and rational numbers.
however, the MOST interesting thing, is that in all 3 problems (random walks, self-avoiding walks, and the pointcare conjecture) the d=3 case is the most mind-boggling. it yields VERY ugly mathematics, and ends up being much harder to prove for. just a thought...
this is the property of a non-euclidean riemann geometry. suppose that you had a front yard, and you wanted to put a fence around it, to show it was yours. the yard is 2D, so the bigger the yard, the bigger the fence. however, since the flat surface of the earth curves and folds on itself as a sphere, you can own a yard the size of the earth and NOT need a fence, since there are no edges. the same thing applies here.
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i think the biggest problem is the growing trend of antiintellectualism in america. families are a great deal stronger in europe, as mentioned by the author, but americans _do_ have an inherent distaste towards smart people. many believe the only reason american culture has embraced einstein so much, for example, is the myth of him "being bad at math in school." sure, there are plenty of stupid geeks, called nerds, but at the same time, associating with someone "smart", esp someone dubbed "booksmart" is always considered degrading.
what's wonderful about ssh is that it provides essentially a security layer. the entire ftp connection is tunneled through ssh. same goes for any software that needs to connect to another computer. it's a brilliant way to secure a connection without having to reimplement all the encryption
chess is nice, but most progresses in chess have been due to speed increases in hardware and optimizations, hence allowing the computer to overpower the human with depth of search. On top of that, the evaluation functions are rather primitive, with lots of factors, but fail rather miserably without a great depth of search. New developments such as Logistello's statistical forward alpha cutoff called multiprobcut is the interesting development, IMHO
chess is nice, but most progresses in chess have been due to speed increases in hardware and optimizations, hence allowing the computer to overpower the human with depth of search. On top of that, the evaluation functions are rather primitive, with lots of factors, but fail rather miserably without a great depth of search. New developments such as Logistello's statistical forward alpha cutoff called multiprobcut is the interesting development, IMHO
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ hope that helps
you are thinking of the webfreetv. you want the plugin the mplayer ppl produce
...and in ever other country, playing the nation's sports IS patriotic, and stands to uphold the nation's solidarity. only in america have sports become 100% about money and 0% about the country. country stop wars when their football team reaches round of 8, they make national holidays out of the finals, etc. america, however, has devolved into consumerist bullshit, where the polititians are aiming to be SO patriotic there is no room for patriotism among its citizens.
gates wantes to release software for "servers and webservices." since linux has the biggest appeal in the server market, it is only natural that m$ wants to harness that power. why would they want to touch the desktop. on the desktop, most users know little (and more importantly care little) of security, and the current OS is "enough" by most users' standards.
ironically, Asimov does not like his foundation books as much as the robot series, as he explicitly states in an introduction to one of his new books, "robot visions."
so, naturally, the robot books should all be done first
i saw once, was to show that it is indeed impossible to save the entire human population. basically, the amount of people we can take off the planet every day is nowhere near the level of population growth. so, even if you can get a few million off the planet, 99% of the people currently on earth will be still living on earth, and any large scale disaster will still wipe out almost the entire human race if we do not prevent it. sure, maybe the human race itself will survive, but it will most likely not be sufficient to maintain itself, and will just die out anyway.
many of problems brought up by many comments above are of the sort "for desktop gui use, X is bad." they like the screenshots of picogui? it seems to offer transparency. that is all nice, but does transparency REALLY add any functionality? not really, just eye candy. X was meant to be a generalization of all possible usage scenarios. it DOES sacrifice blazing speed for network transparency, etc. any toolkit that is better in any one thing would need to be worse in another. and it isn't, it will probably be JUST as slow.
you can call me of a dual voice. this is because i run windows through vmware. there are some things i simply cant do on *nix: some uni software only runs on windows! anywho...i use linux all the time, for just about everything, including games (i don't play too much, so there are enough for me) and use windows through vmware. so...why can't everyone be getting the best of both worlds??
look how easy it is to copy and pirate stuff now compared to, say, 20 years ago. DRM is coming, and it might have the effect of setting us back into some analogous form of tape copying in the 80s. it won't STOP piracy by any means, but it might be more difficult for the avg consumer to pirate, so the average consumer might not be as interested anymore. did tapes hurt the industry? NO. Did piracy ruin the industry? NO. so...will this ruin us? ofcourse not. those who think so are paranoid.
last time it was whistler, longhorn has been scrapped, now blackcomb...wait, isn't there a mountain (www.whistler-blackcomb.com) in british columbia? either these ppl are great fans of skiing, or they are just stealing names out of the blue!!
won't there still be icebergs? i wouldn't approach an area where the icecap is going to be in 1 month and was 1 month ago. there will be plenty of ice to be careful of and frigid water. OR: is technology good enough to avoid all these obstacles and still make a profit?
one exception ofcourse is mandrake, but i have tried it, and well, it doesn't seem to work that well. perhaps the newer versions are better.
if it is so wonderful, how come other distributions not use similar hardware detection? we have seen linux distros go in and out, people complain and complain about hardware detection, but we have yet to see one of the bigger distributions adopt a system similar to what knoppix is doing. i mean the worst thing that could happen is could detect the wrong hardware (tough, but possible) and you will have to remove the modules. but otherwise, seems like a win win situation.
[offtopic]: it uses an interesting algorithm. although it does seem to use a spring dynamic system, it seems to be critically damped. the nodes never oscillate, and seem to pull very smoothly. i have never seen graph layout algorithms with such smooth characteristics.
cmon...most of the missions in gta are to kill someone. just like technically, gangsters can be "peacefull", they very rarely are. what is wrong with a little addictive destroying of vehicles?
see, the gpl license is very much like modern encryption alogrithms. prior to the days of RSA, ala world wars, encryption and security was based around the fact that people can hide secure algorithms well enough to keep things secret. in other words, if anyone found out the algorithm, the encryption scheme became utterly pointless.
relatively recently, encryption has undergone a complete turn-around in ideology. now, most every cryptologist believes that the algorithm should not only be simple but also VERY OPEN. the more eyes that look at it, the more errors can be spotted, and as time has told, today's crypto systems, for example RSA, are much more secure than the enigma. everyone and their dog knows how it works, and still no one can break it.
the same thing goes for software. the whole "falls into the wrong hands" argument works exactly the same as crypto-systems. if a crypto-system falls into the wrong hands (as someone else noted), it will also fall into the right hands, and errors will be fixed.
licensing government software under the gpl opens it up, and in the long run reduces the error rate and effectively, it's security, etc. people still think that if they hide the source to the software, it will be more secure. PLEASE look at what happened to cryptology in recent times and act accordingly.
i can understand teenagers et al sharing stuff online upsetting the RIAA, but these are *supposed* to be respectfull adults, who have plenty of money to buy CDs. if the RIAA only realized that most of the people who share content are not going to buy CDs anyway, and if they DO buy CDs, it has little to do with their sharing. perhaps if the CDs were of reasonable price, ppl would consider buying them.
for example, the company i work for does not have a fancy license manager, and really anyone can steal the software if they want to, no one is stopping them, and we don't hunt them...but very few do. why? it is their ass on the line, and on top of that, they need support and consulting. if we spent a lot of money trying to stop them, for example by writing a license manager or working on protection/registration/activation schemes beyond a serial key, it would hurt the profit. if the RIAA feels that their profit is hurt, then perhaps they should revise their product or its pricing instead of going after people who use the most natural alternative.
what i find really interesting is that the solutions of these topology problems have a characteristic very similar to the mathematics of random walks, both self-avoiding and regular:
there exists some phenomena that is dimensionally dependent. there exists some critical dimension for which the case is simple and hence reduces, and much easier to prove. the 2d case is classical, and often yields elegant results and rational numbers.
however, the MOST interesting thing, is that in all 3 problems (random walks, self-avoiding walks, and the pointcare conjecture) the d=3 case is the most mind-boggling. it yields VERY ugly mathematics, and ends up being much harder to prove for. just a thought...
this is the property of a non-euclidean riemann geometry. suppose that you had a front yard, and you wanted to put a fence around it, to show it was yours. the yard is 2D, so the bigger the yard, the bigger the fence. however, since the flat surface of the earth curves and folds on itself as a sphere, you can own a yard the size of the earth and NOT need a fence, since there are no edges. the same thing applies here.
i heard it quite differently, mostly starting with the fact they were going down an icy hill and eventually stopped the car at the bottom.
[middle is the same]
software engineer:
let's go down once more, and see if the problem happens gain!
an 8 cpu compaq for the tournament.