..this just means they're going to call it something different and pass it without telling us, but at least they said they were wrong, it's not often they do that.
We already have human beating chess programs, why do we need another one? They can't make a Go playing program that can beat even a beginner, why not try that?
"There is no Mars race between superpowers in the offing" [from the article]
Hmmm... unless the Chinese do actually manage what they're promising and make a manned flight within 8 years. Bet the senate won't be forcing cutbacks on NASA then
I seem to recall reading a New Scientist article (in print) that said someone had worked out that the half-life of the web was 18 months, so a given link has a 50% chance being dead after 18 months.
Can't find any links unfortunately (the results of search for anything involving the words "half-life" tend to be somewhat skewed...)
There was a whole article about this in the New Scientist a couple of months ago, it's not on their site but I seem to recall it mentioned concrete planes too...
Bah, what's wrong with good graphics? Combat Mission manages to combine good graphics with brilliant game play.
It doesn't run on linux and you have to pay for it (hence I'm gonna get flamed) but it IS very, very good. It has a huge community (or here) following even though it is only available online and does not exactly have mainstream content.
Also a rare case of a developer working closely with their customers and allowing them to contribute to a product; the engine isn't open source but the graphics certainly are (to the extent where people are producing whole new enviroments that are totally outside the game's original scope).
Good idea, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when the last news article is dated 2001-11-12, and half the links look broken cos they're pointing to.glue or.geek sites (Of course they would look even dumber if they didn't use their own domains, so i guess they can't win on that score). At least they have the sense to put the instructions on how to change page on the.net domain...
But guns are designed to kill people, Kazaa isn't designed to break copyright laws, it's designed to share files.
No lawyer on earth could (successfully) argue that guns aren't designed to kill people, whereas it (obviously) can be argued that kazaa isn't designed to break laws.
I know next to nothing about this case but it seems strange to me that a Swedish company chose to pursue the case in the US courts.
Does the GPL not hold outside the US? Do judgements in foreign courts not hold any weight in the US? Or is it simply because they had a better chance of winning a trademark case in the US? (or is their Trademark registered in the US?)
They should have known that a US judge is never going to make a decision that harms a US company to the advantage of a foreign one.
Lets take all 900,000 pages, and look at the statistical distribution of the frequency of appearance of each letter of the alphabet. That way we could check to 10 decimal places that the letter values in scrabble are REALLY correct...
The USA produces more CO2 per captia that all the other industrilised countries
Yes, but it only has 4% of the world's population. I don't know what the US's absolute contribution is but I don't think it's the largest.
It's much more important globally that countries like India, China and Indonesia reduce emissions, they are the countries still expanding their industry at a great rate, and the ones that will make a real difference.
The WTO definitely wouldn't sanction against the US as it basically a US organisation, but you're right, the rest of the world probably wouldn't either. But that is exactly what they need to do, as long as they pander to the US, the US will think they can act as they like; largely because they actually can. As soon as people start to go ahead with "Global" treaties without them they will take notice and perhaps start behaving more inclusively.
The chain reaction of other countries re-thinking caused by the US not ratifying is exactly the problem...
I was only using Kyoto as an example, but it's a good one. There are also a whole load of scientific treaties/agreements they have pulled out of too (largely to their own detriment), as well as the high profile land mines and defence ones.
How did the richest and most powerful country in the world get $582m behind? Who let them get that far behind? Are they not telling us something? does the US perhaps have financial problems? Maybe this is why they cut NASA's budget: to pay back their 20 year old UN debt...
Slashdot Mirror
- Forza Korea!
- It's "Football" not "Soccer"
- If you're interested in that sort of the thing, the BBC, as a publicly funded body, has all it net stats and monitors open to the world.
This is the monitor page, and this is the mrtg graphs of all their internet links.Interesting is the sept 11th peak, but also their traffic is generally much higher now than last september.
Like the man said, Vote Green, they're much better...
Indeed, and of course the Fire Brigade will be at the forefront of the anti-pirate-radio offensive, necessitating these sweeping new powers.
..this just means they're going to call it something different and pass it without telling us, but at least they said they were wrong, it's not often they do that.
We already have human beating chess programs, why do we need another one? They can't make a Go playing program that can beat even a beginner, why not try that?
"There is no Mars race between superpowers in the offing" [from the article]
Hmmm... unless the Chinese do actually manage what they're promising and make a manned flight within 8 years. Bet the senate won't be forcing cutbacks on NASA then
Can't find any links unfortunately (the results of search for anything involving the words "half-life" tend to be somewhat skewed...)
Their space program can hardly be considered a failure because they didn't manage to hatch 6 eggs...
There was a whole article about this in the New Scientist a couple of months ago, it's not on their site but I seem to recall it mentioned concrete planes too...
I think that's called propaganda..
It doesn't run on linux and you have to pay for it (hence I'm gonna get flamed) but it IS very, very good. It has a huge community (or here) following even though it is only available online and does not exactly have mainstream content.
Also a rare case of a developer working closely with their customers and allowing them to contribute to a product; the engine isn't open source but the graphics certainly are (to the extent where people are producing whole new enviroments that are totally outside the game's original scope).
Good idea, but it doesn't fill me with confidence when the last news article is dated 2001-11-12, and half the links look broken cos they're pointing to .glue or .geek sites (Of course they would look even dumber if they didn't use their own domains, so i guess they can't win on that score). At least they have the sense to put the instructions on how to change page on the .net domain...
No lawyer on earth could (successfully) argue that guns aren't designed to kill people, whereas it (obviously) can be argued that kazaa isn't designed to break laws.
...they can put in a territorial claim now?
Does the GPL not hold outside the US? Do judgements in foreign courts not hold any weight in the US? Or is it simply because they had a better chance of winning a trademark case in the US? (or is their Trademark registered in the US?)
They should have known that a US judge is never going to make a decision that harms a US company to the advantage of a foreign one.
You just can't expect them [corporations] to do the right thing
Why not?
Doesn't a society that allows this statement to go unquestioned, never mind be a mainstream viewpoint, strike anyone as strange?
Any idea what the commonest word is? "the","a" or "sex"?
I've got one:
Lets take all 900,000 pages, and look at the statistical distribution of the frequency of appearance of each letter of the alphabet. That way we could check to 10 decimal places that the letter values in scrabble are REALLY correct...
...and of course no one wants thermonuclear weapons do they?
So would I, but there are other places in the uk, places north of watford. oooops, I said the N-word... :)
...though of course no-one sensible lives in London anyway :)
To the US it's not.
The UN's role these days is largely to protect the smaller countries (ie somalia, haiti, panama, nicaragua, cuba) from the larger ones (ie the USA)
As far as the US goverment is concerned, the UN only gets in the way.
The USA produces more CO2 per captia that all the other industrilised countries
Yes, but it only has 4% of the world's population. I don't know what the US's absolute contribution is but I don't think it's the largest.
It's much more important globally that countries like India, China and Indonesia reduce emissions, they are the countries still expanding their industry at a great rate, and the ones that will make a real difference.
The WTO definitely wouldn't sanction against the US as it basically a US organisation, but you're right, the rest of the world probably wouldn't either. But that is exactly what they need to do, as long as they pander to the US, the US will think they can act as they like; largely because they actually can. As soon as people start to go ahead with "Global" treaties without them they will take notice and perhaps start behaving more inclusively.
The chain reaction of other countries re-thinking caused by the US not ratifying is exactly the problem...
I was only using Kyoto as an example, but it's a good one. There are also a whole load of scientific treaties/agreements they have pulled out of too (largely to their own detriment), as well as the high profile land mines and defence ones.
How did the richest and most powerful country in the world get $582m behind? Who let them get that far behind? Are they not telling us something? does the US perhaps have financial problems? Maybe this is why they cut NASA's budget: to pay back their 20 year old UN debt...