How can a paradigm be risky? It is a way of looking at data and the operations performed on them. Proper application of a sound paradigm (ie., good code) is all that matters; no paradigm is inherently evil[1].
Using Java might(/would) be risky. But OO isn't Java.
[1]: Except functional programming. Gah.
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Automats are great for snacks. You see them quite a lot in the Netherlands. Usually with a counter beside them for non-quick-snack orders, though.
You pick the window you want to open (where, generally, there is food), insert coin, pull back handle and open window, take out food, close window. You occasionally see a pair of hands replacing food.
Uh, why? It's not as if they have to allow access to its network from anywhere. Especially to a group that has expressed a desire to do something detrimental to their service.
The customers are the only ones who might be even a little miffed at this, since it could be argued that they are restricting the client's abilities on Internet. And I couldn't imagine why anyone would sue their ISP over something this good.
Okay, that's a bit cynical. Lovely news. I would consider an LCD, if I knew the quality was good and the price was better.
Although I found a great 15" LCD screen from a company called Gericom at 350 Euros, new, with energy company rebate. It looks better than most of the competition, quality and speedwise. No ghosting, clear picture, and all that.
Nokia offers a prediction, or a set of predictions, in a rather limited fashion. This app simply increases the surface area of more likely combinations.
I tried to do 'Four score and hundred years ago my grandma ate a fuzzy pickle', for no real reason. Grandma appeared quite easily, while 'ate' took a bit of trouble. Fuzzy, again, came easily.
While it is both based on similar principles, the smoothflowing visual entry system is, in my mind, much superior, in terms of useability. Great stuff.:-)
If a grunt-worker is getting $30k a year, it can be argued that a top-executive in that (large) company should get $100k-200k fairly reasonably.
Giving yourself a yearly bonus of $10 *million* is not reasonable, unless the grunt worker can expect a (proportional) $1.5-3 million for working his ass off too.
And then there was the phrase in the article that, *after* receiving a $3.1mln bonus, the CEO did things that made him a tidy sum of money. Many reasonably well-to-do people would, metaphorically, kill to have that amount of money.
Expecting all people to get paid the same is ridiculous, but for equal values of determination, dedication and hard work, people should get equally proportioned rewards.
You can look at AI in two ways (or a combination of both, of course): - AI needs to have its capabilities defined and data manually entered in, so that it can do what an AI needs to do - AI needs to be able to learn, so that it can learn what an AI needs to do. A smart AI that 'knows' nothing is just a big paperweight.
Roughly, at any rate.
Both ideas have merits. Babies, for example, learn by association, and by occasionally trying stuff out and making assertions based on observations. However, they also come equipped with the hardware (wetware) capable of handling this.
I think that getting both parts right will be useful, so yes, it is (or might be) a big deal.
Lastly, what do you want to use the computation force for? Write down the equations and calculations now that will yield a successful AI, if it's that damned easy. You can't, because designing it is more difficult than throwing expensive hardware at it. -- Try translating 'Mensa' from Spanish to English.
What's a nice girl like her doing in a place like that? (cleaning up/out, obviously, which is perfectly fine in this gender equal world, not to say that women are identical to men, nor superior, nor inferior, but on a level that is as high, though not higher, and certainly not lower, than that of the men who are browsing the internet in the background.)
Anyway, I'd like some nice person there to knock that orange cap on the ground for me, about a meter further away from the camera.
Hmm.
What do you mean, 'customer service' does not equal 'fan service'?!
What does democracy have to do with capitalism? Anyway, KPNQwest runs some pretty big pipes over the Atlantic. If they do go under, those pipes and the means to use them pretty much have to stay open. Otherwise they're not the only ones who are screwed.
Last time one of KPNs lines was accidentally cut, it was very noticeable concerning traffic to/from the US.
To prevent massive congestion on the other lines we (the Dutch, anyway) have, I say we let the government do whatever it can do to keep those pipes afloat. Err, metaphorically.
I don't care about power efficiency except as a means to an end.
And that end is a passively cooled machine of sufficient performance to run a desktop workstation or server. I'd like to replace my aging PPro200 with a passively cooled machine, and Transmeta seems to be able to deliver that.
So why don't they do that? I think there's a market there, too. A Transmeta mobo and processor is all that is needed, yet in the Netherlands, I can find neither...
Of course, 'cheap' would be a nice property of such a system too, though I don't know if Transmeta could deliver that.
I never do housework *now*, and I don't have robots. You too can do this with a special technique I like to call 'ignore', which works just as well, and is pretty cheap.
Do remember to put on some kind of footwear, though. And bring a shovel.
And I laugh at whatever hellhole you crawled from and its stupid citizens.
The Internet is an aspect on real life. People send other people money over the internet. If you send me money and expect me to send you an item back, and I don't, that is a crime. Same as in other aspects of real life.
Come on, there are far better reasons to laugh at Merkins. Dealing with immoral business practices on the 'net should be lauded.
I tested this theory of yours with a few fellows who agreed with your viewpoint as targets. While you are correct that both the audio, video and tactile feedback was substantially improved, it created problems with regards to respawns.
Since running over their corpses repeatedly did not lead to an increase in ammunition as is the case with the virtual weapons, it has to be my conclusion that this is not a good gameplay development, and virtual guns are the way of the future.
I'd like to thank my fallen comrades for being volunteered for this experiment, which was obviously so needed.
(Whether what was needed concerned either the fallen comrades or the experiment, the author declines to specify)
Lasergaming has the benefit of not being potentially physically painful or even dangerous. Plus you don't get dorks who bring their own ammo, pre-frozen solid.
Note that my paintball knowledge is secondhand, but I do like lasergaming. Depending on how you play, you can get a lot of excercise out of it. You're also packed in more tightly together, which makes it a bit more exciting, IMHO.
Suddenly having a social life (we are talking about sweaters in hell, obviously) and the sensibilities that come with it, I'd say screw Debian stable, screw Mozilla 1.0, screw Duke Nukem Forever and, more the to the point, screw that supermodel.
Fail to understand difference between 'trailer' and 'movie', do you.
Please note that trailer material is hand picked to show you the *best* of the movie. Whether AotC can 'beat' LotR remains to be seen, though I highly doubt it.
If you don't like cell phones, then go find somewhere that doesn't have them.
No. If you want to use your cellphone, go somewhere where people will not be bothered by it.
Or: If you are expecting or making an important call, go somewhere where cellphones are welcome.
You're suggesting the equivalent of letting cars drive through parks, telling park visitors that they should somewhere where there aren't any cars. It's a privilege, not a right.
When it rains, the sky isn't even *close* to being 100% filled up with water (or we'd drown, obviously), nor half, nor a quarter. But step out into the rain for a few moments, and you will get wet.
If you fire an Uzi in random horizontal directions on a crowded city square, the bullets take up an insanely small amount of space. I'd still be worried about getting hit, though.
The only difference I can see here is a matter of scale. While the odds that any bit of junk will hit anything are much smaller, you simply don't want to take those chances. And doubling the amount of junk in space pretty much doubles your chances of getting your satelite/spaceship hit.
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How can a paradigm be risky? It is a way of looking at data and the operations performed on them. Proper application of a sound paradigm (ie., good code) is all that matters; no paradigm is inherently evil[1].
Using Java might(/would) be risky. But OO isn't Java.
[1]: Except functional programming. Gah.
Automats are great for snacks. You see them quite a lot in the Netherlands. Usually with a counter beside them for non-quick-snack orders, though.
You pick the window you want to open (where, generally, there is food), insert coin, pull back handle and open window, take out food, close window. You occasionally see a pair of hands replacing food.
Works like a charm. And, importantly, it's fast.
Uh, why? It's not as if they have to allow access to its network from anywhere. Especially to a group that has expressed a desire to do something detrimental to their service.
The customers are the only ones who might be even a little miffed at this, since it could be argued that they are restricting the client's abilities on Internet. And I couldn't imagine why anyone would sue their ISP over something this good.
This just in: Computer hardware getting cheaper.
Okay, that's a bit cynical. Lovely news. I would consider an LCD, if I knew the quality was good and the price was better.
Although I found a great 15" LCD screen from a company called Gericom at 350 Euros, new, with energy company rebate. It looks better than most of the competition, quality and speedwise. No ghosting, clear picture, and all that.
Well that's not new. Hot air has been used in balloons for centuries now.
They'd be quite happy to consider the people who DoS'ed them as non-customers, I'm sure. And I can't blame them.
While I can smile at the idea of the RIAA being DoS'ed in protest, I am a strong believer in fairness of this sort.
Here you can read the page in Google's cache
Nokia offers a prediction, or a set of predictions, in a rather limited fashion. This app simply increases the surface area of more likely combinations.
:-)
I tried to do 'Four score and hundred years ago my grandma ate a fuzzy pickle', for no real reason. Grandma appeared quite easily, while 'ate' took a bit of trouble. Fuzzy, again, came easily.
While it is both based on similar principles, the smoothflowing visual entry system is, in my mind, much superior, in terms of useability. Great stuff.
One the one hand, we could spend those millions on making a Spanish channel.
On the other hand, we could take those millions and buy a summer home or two in Fort Lauderdale.
Oh, these mindbending, difficult decisions.
</sarcasm>
Optimism is all well and good, but don't *you* be fooled that the FCC is in the business of altruism.
If a grunt-worker is getting $30k a year, it can be argued that a top-executive in that (large) company should get $100k-200k fairly reasonably.
Giving yourself a yearly bonus of $10 *million* is not reasonable, unless the grunt worker can expect a (proportional) $1.5-3 million for working his ass off too.
And then there was the phrase in the article that, *after* receiving a $3.1mln bonus, the CEO did things that made him a tidy sum of money. Many reasonably well-to-do people would, metaphorically, kill to have that amount of money.
Expecting all people to get paid the same is ridiculous, but for equal values of determination, dedication and hard work, people should get equally proportioned rewards.
You can look at AI in two ways (or a combination of both, of course):
- AI needs to have its capabilities defined and data manually entered in, so that it can do what an AI needs to do
- AI needs to be able to learn, so that it can learn what an AI needs to do. A smart AI that 'knows' nothing is just a big paperweight.
Roughly, at any rate.
Both ideas have merits. Babies, for example, learn by association, and by occasionally trying stuff out and making assertions based on observations. However, they also come equipped with the hardware (wetware) capable of handling this.
I think that getting both parts right will be useful, so yes, it is (or might be) a big deal.
Lastly, what do you want to use the computation force for? Write down the equations and calculations now that will yield a successful AI, if it's that damned easy. You can't, because designing it is more difficult than throwing expensive hardware at it.
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Try translating 'Mensa' from Spanish to English.
Just an observation.
What's a nice girl like her doing in a place like that? (cleaning up/out, obviously, which is perfectly fine in this gender equal world, not to say that women are identical to men, nor superior, nor inferior, but on a level that is as high, though not higher, and certainly not lower, than that of the men who are browsing the internet in the background.)
Anyway, I'd like some nice person there to knock that orange cap on the ground for me, about a meter further away from the camera.
Hmm.
What do you mean, 'customer service' does not equal 'fan service'?!
Anyway, kudos on the operation to everyone there.
Then again, some people can sleep through falling out of bed. The top bunk.
I myself tend to sleep through anything, and am generally surprised that there was heavy thunder at night, for example.
What does democracy have to do with capitalism? Anyway, KPNQwest runs some pretty big pipes over the Atlantic. If they do go under, those pipes and the means to use them pretty much have to stay open. Otherwise they're not the only ones who are screwed.
Last time one of KPNs lines was accidentally cut, it was very noticeable concerning traffic to/from the US.
To prevent massive congestion on the other lines we (the Dutch, anyway) have, I say we let the government do whatever it can do to keep those pipes afloat. Err, metaphorically.
I don't care about mobile.
I don't care about power efficiency except as a means to an end.
And that end is a passively cooled machine of sufficient performance to run a desktop workstation or server. I'd like to replace my aging PPro200 with a passively cooled machine, and Transmeta seems to be able to deliver that.
So why don't they do that? I think there's a market there, too. A Transmeta mobo and processor is all that is needed, yet in the Netherlands, I can find neither...
Of course, 'cheap' would be a nice property of such a system too, though I don't know if Transmeta could deliver that.
I never do housework *now*, and I don't have robots. You too can do this with a special technique I like to call 'ignore', which works just as well, and is pretty cheap.
Do remember to put on some kind of footwear, though. And bring a shovel.
And I laugh at whatever hellhole you crawled from and its stupid citizens.
The Internet is an aspect on real life. People send other people money over the internet. If you send me money and expect me to send you an item back, and I don't, that is a crime. Same as in other aspects of real life.
Come on, there are far better reasons to laugh at Merkins. Dealing with immoral business practices on the 'net should be lauded.
I tested this theory of yours with a few fellows who agreed with your viewpoint as targets. While you are correct that both the audio, video and tactile feedback was substantially improved, it created problems with regards to respawns.
Since running over their corpses repeatedly did not lead to an increase in ammunition as is the case with the virtual weapons, it has to be my conclusion that this is not a good gameplay development, and virtual guns are the way of the future.
I'd like to thank my fallen comrades for being volunteered for this experiment, which was obviously so needed.
(Whether what was needed concerned either the fallen comrades or the experiment, the author declines to specify)
Lasergaming has the benefit of not being potentially physically painful or even dangerous. Plus you don't get dorks who bring their own ammo, pre-frozen solid.
Note that my paintball knowledge is secondhand, but I do like lasergaming. Depending on how you play, you can get a lot of excercise out of it. You're also packed in more tightly together, which makes it a bit more exciting, IMHO.
Suddenly having a social life (we are talking about sweaters in hell, obviously) and the sensibilities that come with it, I'd say screw Debian stable, screw Mozilla 1.0, screw Duke Nukem Forever and, more the to the point, screw that supermodel.
*cough*
Fail to understand difference between 'trailer' and 'movie', do you.
Please note that trailer material is hand picked to show you the *best* of the movie. Whether AotC can 'beat' LotR remains to be seen, though I highly doubt it.
No. If you want to use your cellphone, go somewhere where people will not be bothered by it.
Or: If you are expecting or making an important call, go somewhere where cellphones are welcome.
You're suggesting the equivalent of letting cars drive through parks, telling park visitors that they should somewhere where there aren't any cars. It's a privilege, not a right.
When it rains, the sky isn't even *close* to being 100% filled up with water (or we'd drown, obviously), nor half, nor a quarter. But step out into the rain for a few moments, and you will get wet.
If you fire an Uzi in random horizontal directions on a crowded city square, the bullets take up an insanely small amount of space. I'd still be worried about getting hit, though.
The only difference I can see here is a matter of scale. While the odds that any bit of junk will hit anything are much smaller, you simply don't want to take those chances. And doubling the amount of junk in space pretty much doubles your chances of getting your satelite/spaceship hit.