At the university I study, in the course "applied mathematics", more than half of the students are, in fact, women.
(I have to admit, I don't know the exact men:women ratio, but being a computer science student myself, it definately seems an overwhelming lot of women;))
"I like the idea for rentals, I hate having to return stuff to the video store."
Oh come on, if you can spare some time to go to the store to rent one, you surely can find some time to return it. People are getting more and more lazy these days,
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Driving a car in an unlimited and mostly uncontrolled environment is a much more complex task than navigating a robot (or team of -) in a more or less controlled and certainly a limited environment. However, a lot of research that is done in the robotsoccer field (computer vision, anticipating to unexpected situations), may be very useful to realize autonomous vehicle guidance in the (probably not very near) future.
I tried it (gentoo) some time ago. After two weeks of frustration I moved back to debian.
For me it was more like 1. emerge 2 come back in 8 hours and then:
a. see whole bunch of compilation errors,
b. dependencies were not sorted out correct, so nothing works
c. combination of above
I specially liked (still do) the optimization potential (where debian is stuck at i386), but it didn't work for me.
So this took her 18 months, and she still hasn't got any linux distribution running that satisfies her? That's one and a half year! In that kind of timespan, I could get any distro running on my hampster, using IP over pigeon for networking, a monkey and a blackboard for video output, and a dozen of budgies for sound output.
...your companions' names, where you stay, what you eat, your bed size preference, in-room movie preference, and just about anything else you get a receipt for...
What I don't get is why an airline company is even interested in all this data. I thought most companies log personal data only for commercial purposes (to offer personalized content/services). I can see some of the things listed could be (commercially) useful. What I don't get is what commercial use it is to an airline company to have information on who you travel with, or what bedsize you prefer.
Imagine that you took a thread and tried to put it along the edge of the snowflake. Assuming that the thread was very thin it would take an infinitely long thread to cover the entire edge, because of the way it is folded
The approximation of the sound contains not all information of the original signal (compression). So saying that things are left out, is perfectly correct.
I disagree. The company is contracted to deliver a product (a compiled and working program or perhaps a license for that). All the knowledge they gather during the construction of the product belongs to this company. The source is a reflection of that knowledge. Giving away the source is just an extra 'service', so the client has the opportunity to make future adjustments to the product.
Seriously, why are you even bothering to "Ask Slashdot?". This is a legal issue, you'll need legal contracts and agreements, all of that. Talk to a fucking lawyer.
You clearly don't know the difference between what you talking to a lawyer costs, and what talking to the slashdot-crowd costs:)
I've seen an applications where users had to interact with a software agent that used different 'gaze policies'. It's really hard to take it serious that some piece of software is looking at you. Cause you know it isn't, at least not in the way humans do. Eye-contact is very important in human-humon interaction, but in human-machine interaction, I really don't see a point in it. Just my opinion..
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Seems like futuremark had little choice, it's a loose/loose situation
At the university I study, in the course "applied mathematics", more than half of the students are, in fact, women.
;))
(I have to admit, I don't know the exact men:women ratio, but being a computer science student myself, it definately seems an overwhelming lot of women
"I like the idea for rentals, I hate having to return stuff to the video store."
Oh come on, if you can spare some time to go to the store to rent one, you surely can find some time to return it. People are getting more and more lazy these days,
Driving a car in an unlimited and mostly uncontrolled environment is a much more complex task than navigating a robot (or team of -) in a more or less controlled and certainly a limited environment. However, a lot of research that is done in the robotsoccer field (computer vision, anticipating to unexpected situations), may be very useful to realize autonomous vehicle guidance in the (probably not very near) future.
I tried it (gentoo) some time ago. After two weeks of frustration I moved back to debian.
For me it was more like
1. emerge
2 come back in 8 hours and then:
a. see whole bunch of compilation errors,
b. dependencies were not sorted out correct, so nothing works
c. combination of above
I specially liked (still do) the optimization potential (where debian is stuck at i386), but it didn't work for me.
So now the script-kiddies can also H4x0r my toilet.
So this took her 18 months, and she still hasn't got any linux distribution running that satisfies her? That's one and a half year! In that kind of timespan, I could get any distro running on my hampster, using IP over pigeon for networking, a monkey and a blackboard for video output, and a dozen of budgies for sound output.
Sjeesh.
...your companions' names, where you stay, what you eat, your bed size preference, in-room movie preference, and just about anything else you get a receipt for...
What I don't get is why an airline company is even interested in all this data. I thought most companies log personal data only for commercial purposes (to offer personalized content/services). I can see some of the things listed could be (commercially) useful. What I don't get is what commercial use it is to an airline company to have information on who you travel with, or what bedsize you prefer.
what else is actually a practical use
I think computer vision, or complex control systems (which are limited by available computing power at the time).
So these programs are also actually alive!!!
I think you're thinking sharks with giant "la - sers" attached to their heads
What makes America great is that they aren't afraid to do the right thing
The big question here is: what IS the right thing to do.
... but the assorted packages on my linux box are much harder to track and keep patched
two words:
apt-get -u upgrade
Imagine that you took a thread and tried to put it along the edge of the snowflake. Assuming that the thread was very thin it would take an infinitely long thread to cover the entire edge, because of the way it is folded
Isn't this comparable to the Paradox of Achilles and the turtle? Meaning that the thread does not have to be infinitely long?
The approximation of the sound contains not all information of the original signal (compression). So saying that things are left out, is perfectly correct.
I disagree. The company is contracted to deliver a product (a compiled and working program or perhaps a license for that). All the knowledge they gather during the construction of the product belongs to this company. The source is a reflection of that knowledge. Giving away the source is just an extra 'service', so the client has the opportunity to make future adjustments to the product.
Then again, I could be completely wrong here.
Seriously, why are you even bothering to "Ask Slashdot?". This is a legal issue, you'll need legal contracts and agreements, all of that. Talk to a fucking lawyer.
:)
You clearly don't know the difference between what you talking to a lawyer costs, and what talking to the slashdot-crowd costs
A better approuch would be to build in a camera that records the lip movements, so the (unreliable) phonetics interpretation can be skipped.
But then it would probably be more efficient to send streaming video of the speaking person...
I guess there are more people at the UT reading slashdot, than there are in the US military :))
I've seen an applications where users had to interact with a software agent that used different 'gaze policies'.
It's really hard to take it serious that some piece of software is looking at you. Cause you know it isn't, at least not in the way humans do. Eye-contact is very important in human-humon interaction, but in human-machine interaction, I really don't see a point in it. Just my opinion..
maybe becase it's 5:20 am
Maybe we don't all live in the same timezone...
They _really_ should have put up divx there instead of mpeg. /.-ed :)
They're just asking to be
How long before someone mounts machine guns on it?
Yeah, or how about some Friggin "la - sers"!
The first one says the screenshots have been removed due to microsoft request!?
:)
Finally they get a chance for _good_ press, but they blow it right away. I don't think they wanna get popular 'round here
at least they're showing a good movie on it :))