and submit it to all the search engines so that it's the first thing that comes up when people search for that tech. You might get some action then... (either that, or encourage people to go to higher quality institutions.
Most hobbyists code by themself. Many large companies with several contracts have one person working on each contract. Many small companies only have one coder. And so on...
If you think most/. readers are excellent coders, maybe you should get them to work on some of the open source projects around, most of which are appallingly coded. There's more to coding than being able to write a few lines of Perl that nobody else can read.
For a near-perfect example of good coding, check out the latest version of Angband.
For an example of probably the worst I have seen, look at libmcrypt.
And then, when dealing with your clients, you have to put up with their stupidity. There's nothing worse in "working with" another company to produce code, and having their developers being incompetent, slow, (or even hindring on purpose).
The explanation given in the article is completely rigorous. However, your experiment has a small flaw: perhaps the next 100,000 cases will give 25% success and 75% failure. (or any other answer, in fact).
Solutions aren't NP-complete. NP-completeness applies to problems (in fact, a problem such that if it were discovered to be in P, then all NP problems would be in P).
Once you have found an algorithm for finding the optimal behaviour for N people, you can then decide if it's in P or NP, and then decide whether it is NP-complete or not.
There are two real differences: it is only a question of one boy's mud (not the group's mud), and the boys always see everyone else with mud.
Here is a problem similar to the mud:
Three boys are standing in a straight line, facing the same way. Each has a star on his back. All of the stars are red but one, which is white. The boys know this information, but can only see the stars of boys in front.
A boy wins if he can deduce that his star is white (similarly to in the mud problem).
Is this affected if there are only two boys? how about if there are five?
Sex is not frowned on (by any mature person). Pornography is frowned on. There is a world of difference of attitdue between doing it, and watching somebody else do it.
This is because the pay sites only link to pay sites (no pay site would link to a free site). But the free sites link to both free sites, and pay sites (since most pay sites have schemes where they pay people for posting their banners).
So you see links to pay sites everywhere, and fewer links to free sites. If you get stuck in the "pay site circle", you can follow links for months and never find a free site. However, once you get on a "free site circle", you're set.
I find this figure believable -- and I think its "free sites" also includes those AVS (AdultCheck, AdultBouncer, credit-card-for-age-purposes etc.) sites, which one tends to 'lump in' with pay sites, but don't actually charge their viewers.
Interesting that the button I'm about to click is labelled "Submit";)
What's even better is watching the search-monitor for what people are searching for. Here's a quick outtake (I just fired up bearshare):
filipina
monster dicks
nicole teen jpg
aerosmith
deep throat
notorious big juicy
russian mpg
lolitas
dogfart
cock suck
britney spears
lick my nuts
peter north
gay sex
STRIPPER.EXE ? After initial frustration at not being able to play cards well enough to win, I discovered that you can switch the filenames of the graphics files, so she starts off naked and then puts clothes on as you win..:)
Also - porn on cellphones, wtf? I guess if I see someone on the bus with their hand in their pocket and scrolling around their cellphone screen I'll know what's going on
No need for this to become a point of law - I'm merely suggesting that an ISP may find itself financially better off if it 'gets picky' in order to maintain its quality of service.
Seti P2P? No way, it's many people and one server. People don't send information sideways.
Also, other comments I've seen about P2P being an "internet over the internet" are also fallacious: networks like Napster and Gnutella are structurally identical to the WWW. Just a different port, and they don't serve HTML! The *only* advance from the WWW to Gnutella is participatory searches.
A line can be drawn somewhere. The ISP's T&C could clearly set down what behaviour and so on is not allowed, *and actually monitor it*.
Obviously this would require some careful planning, but at least we've tabled the idea now.
I wonder if volume-based prepay would go down well..
Here's another idea. If DSL providers actually policed their network, and culled all the script kiddies, nukers, DVD-downloaders, DDoSsers etc., they could save themself one hell of a lot of money on bandwidth charges to their upstream provider.
Regarding your comment: people (around here anyway) are willing to pay more for good service, in the broadband department. My recommendation will also improve this service, by freeing up bandwidth.
So:
1) remove lamers
2) actually charge a price that reflects the service's worth, not cut-price crap.
Ok, now we know what they all are.. what can they do?
Can I compile all my favourite GNU utils, and run my favourite webserver and scriptlanguage and so forth on any BSD?
If so.. then is there any real difference between GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris, if I compile GNU tools on all three?
For example, I feel 'safer' working on my "GNU/Solaris" than on any Linux (especially RedHat) -- maybe it's just the hardware, or maybe it's the scalability (/dev etc.)
Are there (non-X) apps which will only work on one particular UNIX variant?
A truly, truly superb story , set in the fifth millennium and based around a man born in 1912, is "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein. This may be one of the greatest works of fiction ever written.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Allows Plagiarism
and submit it to all the search engines so that it's the first thing that comes up when people search for that tech. You might get some action then... (either that, or encourage people to go to higher quality institutions.
Anyway, since when were techs universities?
Lucky the idiots who moderated that message up weren't also marking the university course, or all the plagiarists would have gotten an A+
If you think most /. readers are excellent coders, maybe you should get them to work on some of the open source projects around, most of which are appallingly coded. There's more to coding than being able to write a few lines of Perl that nobody else can read.
For a near-perfect example of good coding, check out the latest version of Angband.
For an example of probably the worst I have seen, look at libmcrypt.
And then, when dealing with your clients, you have to put up with their stupidity. There's nothing worse in "working with" another company to produce code, and having their developers being incompetent, slow, (or even hindring on purpose).
Just think of it as language evolution in action.
My sole reason for installing Jabber is to get a low userID in case it becomes popular later :)
:(
It seems that it will let me continue to communicate with my current ICQ list via my current ICQ number --- so byebye ICQ.
Hmm, I see it doesn't have userID numbers
oh well, already got it now, might as well keep it
You aren't a Comp Sci student by any chance? ;)
The explanation given in the article is completely rigorous. However, your experiment has a small flaw: perhaps the next 100,000 cases will give 25% success and 75% failure. (or any other answer, in fact).
This is like saying programming is only useful for one thing: getting paid.
:)
I'm sure you can find many Slashdotters who disagree
Nokia cellphones have this game now. Hence its popularity surge....
:)
it's great for when you're on the bus, or waiting for food
Stop working as a Visual Basic programmer
Solutions aren't NP-complete. NP-completeness applies to problems (in fact, a problem such that if it were discovered to be in P, then all NP problems would be in P).
Once you have found an algorithm for finding the optimal behaviour for N people, you can then decide if it's in P or NP, and then decide whether it is NP-complete or not.
There are two real differences: it is only a question of one boy's mud (not the group's mud), and the boys always see everyone else with mud.
Here is a problem similar to the mud:
Three boys are standing in a straight line, facing the same way. Each has a star on his back. All of the stars are red but one, which is white. The boys know this information, but can only see the stars of boys in front.
A boy wins if he can deduce that his star is white (similarly to in the mud problem).
Is this affected if there are only two boys? how about if there are five?
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
Good to see you highlighted your own grammatical error for us ;)
Sex is not frowned on (by any mature person). Pornography is frowned on. There is a world of difference of attitdue between doing it, and watching somebody else do it.
This is because the pay sites only link to pay sites (no pay site would link to a free site). But the free sites link to both free sites, and pay sites (since most pay sites have schemes where they pay people for posting their banners).
;)
So you see links to pay sites everywhere, and fewer links to free sites. If you get stuck in the "pay site circle", you can follow links for months and never find a free site. However, once you get on a "free site circle", you're set.
I find this figure believable -- and I think its "free sites" also includes those AVS (AdultCheck, AdultBouncer, credit-card-for-age-purposes etc.) sites, which one tends to 'lump in' with pay sites, but don't actually charge their viewers.
Interesting that the button I'm about to click is labelled "Submit"
What's even better is watching the search-monitor for what people are searching for. Here's a quick outtake (I just fired up bearshare):
filipina
monster dicks
nicole teen jpg
aerosmith
deep throat
notorious big juicy
russian mpg
lolitas
dogfart
cock suck
britney spears
lick my nuts
peter north
gay sex
It's to the left of the '2' key..
STRIPPER.EXE ? After initial frustration at not being able to play cards well enough to win, I discovered that you can switch the filenames of the graphics files, so she starts off naked and then puts clothes on as you win..:)
Also - porn on cellphones, wtf? I guess if I see someone on the bus with their hand in their pocket and scrolling around their cellphone screen I'll know what's going on
No need for this to become a point of law - I'm merely suggesting that an ISP may find itself financially better off if it 'gets picky' in order to maintain its quality of service.
Seti P2P? No way, it's many people and one server. People don't send information sideways.
Also, other comments I've seen about P2P being an "internet over the internet" are also fallacious: networks like Napster and Gnutella are structurally identical to the WWW. Just a different port, and they don't serve HTML! The *only* advance from the WWW to Gnutella is participatory searches.
A line can be drawn somewhere. The ISP's T&C could clearly set down what behaviour and so on is not allowed, *and actually monitor it*.
Obviously this would require some careful planning, but at least we've tabled the idea now.
I wonder if volume-based prepay would go down well..
Here's another idea. If DSL providers actually policed their network, and culled all the script kiddies, nukers, DVD-downloaders, DDoSsers etc., they could save themself one hell of a lot of money on bandwidth charges to their upstream provider.
Regarding your comment: people (around here anyway) are willing to pay more for good service, in the broadband department. My recommendation will also improve this service, by freeing up bandwidth.
So:
1) remove lamers
2) actually charge a price that reflects the service's worth, not cut-price crap.
Ok, now we know what they all are .. what can they do?
.. then is there any real difference between GNU/Linux, BSD, and Solaris, if I compile GNU tools on all three?
Can I compile all my favourite GNU utils, and run my favourite webserver and scriptlanguage and so forth on any BSD?
If so
For example, I feel 'safer' working on my "GNU/Solaris" than on any Linux (especially RedHat) -- maybe it's just the hardware, or maybe it's the scalability (/dev etc.)
Are there (non-X) apps which will only work on one particular UNIX variant?
A truly, truly superb story , set in the fifth millennium and based around a man born in 1912, is "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein. This may be one of the greatest works of fiction ever written.