Could you justify "most pollution is caused by inefficiency"? I assume you mean economic efficiency, since you mentioned capitalism, rather than production or energy efficiency. For example, coal power is more economically efficient than solar power, but also much more polluting.
When will people finally figure out that causing less pollution should be a goal, not just a pretty side-effect? Unless people do, our planet is doomed.
It's also the law that they provide this 911 service whether you order phone service with them or not.
Can you cite a source, please? The local telco (Verizon) told me that they are not required to provide 911 service if I don't pay for a telephone line.
The reality is, teachers can barely look forward to the paycheck, since the paltry amount they get paid is barely enough to live on. If we expect professional teachers, why don't we pay them a rate fitting for professionals?
"Are you sure you want to use the ejection seat? (Yes/No/Help)"
"The program Microsoft Pilot has encountered an error, and will be shut down."
"We're sorry, your 30-day trial version of the hydraulic system has expired. Please enter a license number to continue your flight, or press Cancel to continue your trip underwater."
Currently, CMU student IDs are the same as social security numbers (except for international students, who don't have SSNs). However, the ID cards we get are coded with a different number. This isn't particularly useful, since SSNs are still used for everything other than buying stuff on campus.
It doesn't sound to me like the signal is tailored to the plane, or even aimed carefully. It sounds more like a beacon than anything else. In this case, the signal won't depend on the plane's current direction of travel, which it would need to know to signal left or right turns.
Microsoft has a new "trustworthy computing" policy that seems to imply that we should trust that software from Microsoft will be reliable. Why should we trust Microsoft, given its poor record of security and reliability in software development?
Batteries, as they currently stand, are large and heavy. You don't just pull one out at pop a new one in; even assuming that they were designed to be easily accessible, you'd need a crane to do the job. And woe be to the guy who accidentally drops a battery on his toe.
I don't think it's that mysterious. People experiencing the placebo effect don't actually get better; they simply report that they're feeling better:
Q: How much does it hurt?
A: A little less, I think. Thanks, Doc!
Or they get better because psychology matters: Q: Hey, I notice your blood pressure is much lower after taking this blood pressure medication we're testing.
A: Yeah, I feel much better.
(i.e. lower stress is causing a lower blood pressure, not the medication)
I'm guessing that you're referring to the fact that you can retroactively change ownership - i.e. if a patent is granted, it can be revoked if prior art is discovered. But this is true of physical property also. For example, if it is found that your car was stolen, it can be seized, even though you thought it was "yours."
It's not clear to me that this proves anything. I think it depends a lot on what exactly the people in the experiement were asked to do. For example, if they were asked to match the number of things the experimenter put out, they did this successfully. They were shown many sticks (or whatever), and they did indeed put out many sticks. The attempt to approximately match may have been because of another characteristic than quantity, e.g. length. "I see a bunch of sticks, spaced about this much apart, and the group of them is about this long. I'll do the same." As far as the subjects were concerned, they may have done exactly what they were supposed to.
That's not so impressive. To do that, you only have to double the size on each new hard drive. How many people really need a hard drive more often than every year and a half?
Yeah, I know. Moore's law is for transistors, not magnetic storage. But it's close enough for Slashdot.
How about encoding data in the modification date of the image? If that's not enough, use multiple images (each of which has its own modification date).
To pre-empt the obvious retort: no, Microsoft is not irrational. Stupid, corrupt, evil, etc. may all apply, but they do what they do for reasons that they think are valid.
"Worth" is simply the amount people are willing to pay for something at a particular point in time. If someone paid, or offered to pay, $12.5 billion for Lycos at a particular point in time, then it was really worth that much to the person who made the offer. Unless, of course, he/she is irrational...but then, how many irrational people (or organizations) have that much money?
Sure, it'll have a headphone jack. It might even have a Bluetooth connection to the car or whatever is nearby. But you really want to deal with the hassle of changing the songs every time you come home? Also, headphones are yet another thing you're supposed to carry around. Don't forget your phone charger. Two of them, if you have a car charger (yeah, I know, you leave it in the car, but it's another gizmo you have to deal with).
What exactly are people supposed to use this for? 12 songs is 48 minutes. You're not going to connect it to your car and listen to it on the way to work. You're not going to hold the phone up to your ear for minutes at a time just so you can listen to some nice music (that is the same every time). It's way overkill for fancy ring tones. The speaker sucks, compared to the iPod earphones; it's designed for phone quality, not CD quality. Ever been confused whether you were listening to hold music on the phone or your car stereo? Me neither.
I'm sorry. In order to post this copyrighted article on another web site, you must pay one million dollars. By posting this, you have cost us a million dollars in legal fees and lost sales because then people don't view ads on our web site.
Seriously, though, I'm guessing that cross-posting really is a copyright violation.
That's all very nice, but I'm also guessing that you don't make your living selling your music. People feel the same way about other things they create. Hobbyists are happy just to have someone use their creation, which is fine for them, but professionals have to eat somehow.
Genetic algorithms are not designed to, and will not, find the perfect solution. They won't even necessarily find a good solution. They're just one approach to function approximation where the goal is to optimize something resulting from the output of the function. It would not be ideal to use them; it would be ideal to find an optimal solution by analytic means. Failing that (typically because the problem is too hard), only then do we turn to approximate solutions like genetic algorithms.
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Could you justify "most pollution is caused by inefficiency"? I assume you mean economic efficiency, since you mentioned capitalism, rather than production or energy efficiency. For example, coal power is more economically efficient than solar power, but also much more polluting.
When will people finally figure out that causing less pollution should be a goal, not just a pretty side-effect? Unless people do, our planet is doomed.
Can you cite a source, please? The local telco (Verizon) told me that they are not required to provide 911 service if I don't pay for a telephone line.
Have you met a single person in AZ?
The reality is, teachers can barely look forward to the paycheck, since the paltry amount they get paid is barely enough to live on. If we expect professional teachers, why don't we pay them a rate fitting for professionals?
"Are you sure you want to use the ejection seat? (Yes/No/Help)"
"The program Microsoft Pilot has encountered an error, and will be shut down."
"We're sorry, your 30-day trial version of the hydraulic system has expired. Please enter a license number to continue your flight, or press Cancel to continue your trip underwater."
"No cockpit found. Press any rudder to continue."
Currently, CMU student IDs are the same as social security numbers (except for international students, who don't have SSNs). However, the ID cards we get are coded with a different number. This isn't particularly useful, since SSNs are still used for everything other than buying stuff on campus.
Or better yet, mount the lasers on sharks' heads! Doubleplusgood world domination plans.
It doesn't sound to me like the signal is tailored to the plane, or even aimed carefully. It sounds more like a beacon than anything else. In this case, the signal won't depend on the plane's current direction of travel, which it would need to know to signal left or right turns.
Microsoft has a new "trustworthy computing" policy that seems to imply that we should trust that software from Microsoft will be reliable. Why should we trust Microsoft, given its poor record of security and reliability in software development?
Any operating system where updating the web browser is a "major update" is fundamentally flawed.
Batteries, as they currently stand, are large and heavy. You don't just pull one out at pop a new one in; even assuming that they were designed to be easily accessible, you'd need a crane to do the job. And woe be to the guy who accidentally drops a battery on his toe.
Q: How much does it hurt?
A: A little less, I think. Thanks, Doc!
Or they get better because psychology matters:
Q: Hey, I notice your blood pressure is much lower after taking this blood pressure medication we're testing.
A: Yeah, I feel much better.
(i.e. lower stress is causing a lower blood pressure, not the medication)
I'm guessing that you're referring to the fact that you can retroactively change ownership - i.e. if a patent is granted, it can be revoked if prior art is discovered. But this is true of physical property also. For example, if it is found that your car was stolen, it can be seized, even though you thought it was "yours."
It's not clear to me that this proves anything. I think it depends a lot on what exactly the people in the experiement were asked to do. For example, if they were asked to match the number of things the experimenter put out, they did this successfully. They were shown many sticks (or whatever), and they did indeed put out many sticks. The attempt to approximately match may have been because of another characteristic than quantity, e.g. length. "I see a bunch of sticks, spaced about this much apart, and the group of them is about this long. I'll do the same." As far as the subjects were concerned, they may have done exactly what they were supposed to.
I really hope this is a joke...because otherwise you're suggesting a perpetual motion machine. Time for you to read up on elementary thermodynamics.
That's not so impressive. To do that, you only have to double the size on each new hard drive. How many people really need a hard drive more often than every year and a half?
Yeah, I know. Moore's law is for transistors, not magnetic storage. But it's close enough for Slashdot.
How about encoding data in the modification date of the image? If that's not enough, use multiple images (each of which has its own modification date).
To pre-empt the obvious retort: no, Microsoft is not irrational. Stupid, corrupt, evil, etc. may all apply, but they do what they do for reasons that they think are valid.
"Worth" is simply the amount people are willing to pay for something at a particular point in time. If someone paid, or offered to pay, $12.5 billion for Lycos at a particular point in time, then it was really worth that much to the person who made the offer. Unless, of course, he/she is irrational...but then, how many irrational people (or organizations) have that much money?
Sure, it'll have a headphone jack. It might even have a Bluetooth connection to the car or whatever is nearby. But you really want to deal with the hassle of changing the songs every time you come home? Also, headphones are yet another thing you're supposed to carry around. Don't forget your phone charger. Two of them, if you have a car charger (yeah, I know, you leave it in the car, but it's another gizmo you have to deal with).
What exactly are people supposed to use this for? 12 songs is 48 minutes. You're not going to connect it to your car and listen to it on the way to work. You're not going to hold the phone up to your ear for minutes at a time just so you can listen to some nice music (that is the same every time). It's way overkill for fancy ring tones. The speaker sucks, compared to the iPod earphones; it's designed for phone quality, not CD quality. Ever been confused whether you were listening to hold music on the phone or your car stereo? Me neither.
I'm sorry. In order to post this copyrighted article on another web site, you must pay one million dollars. By posting this, you have cost us a million dollars in legal fees and lost sales because then people don't view ads on our web site. Seriously, though, I'm guessing that cross-posting really is a copyright violation.
That's all very nice, but I'm also guessing that you don't make your living selling your music. People feel the same way about other things they create. Hobbyists are happy just to have someone use their creation, which is fine for them, but professionals have to eat somehow.
Genetic algorithms are not designed to, and will not, find the perfect solution. They won't even necessarily find a good solution. They're just one approach to function approximation where the goal is to optimize something resulting from the output of the function. It would not be ideal to use them; it would be ideal to find an optimal solution by analytic means. Failing that (typically because the problem is too hard), only then do we turn to approximate solutions like genetic algorithms.