Well the bluff continues. Right now Google (a big successful company that a lot ofmanager listen to) basically says "foreigners are not allowed to do profit in China". Don't you think this can have repercussions on foreign investments ?
On the moon there is no wind to disperse particles, no rain to drain them, no biosphere to harm. You can limit the impact of launches to a specific zone. And anyway, space is radioactive. If you want to build a colony on the moon you anyway have to shield it from solar radiation.
A few months ago, the Japanese probe Kaguya/SELENE gave us a map of the numerous uranium deposits on the moon. This is it. Let's go, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR ?
The project Orion got shelved because detonating nukes to propel a spacecraft had too much environmental and political problems, but from the Moon none of these problems are relevant. For a reminder, this projects proposes a spacecraft that could weight 100 000 tons, go at 3% of c through a constant 1g acceleration during 10 days. Let's build a godamn shipyard on the moon !
The difference between inference and guessing is that in inference you use clues in the data you have in order to rebuild a data that is not measured. It is like using the movement in a video in order to infer the parameters of the lens used : the data is here, but you have to extract it from the other data it is mixed with.
1 bit in, 10 bits out does not mean that you have created 9 bits of correct data. Look at Obama's teeth in the example. The algorithm understands it is better to put white pixels instead of black one when it doesn't know the color, but the separation between the teeth is smoothed out. If he had a missing tooth it would be replaced. The idea that we could use this algorithm for medical diagnosis is just nonsense.
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Exactly. This algorithm doesn't create absent data nor does it infer it, it just makes the uncertainties it has "nicer" than the usual smoothing.
Yeah, the title should be "if you use vulnerable software, resistance is futile". Duh. It looks like people are discovering what "vulnerable" means. They assume you are using a vulnerable browser, on a network with vulnerable servers. In that case, you are pretty much doomed anyway.
I think you underestimate the local production/consumption of "cultural goods" here in EU. Most of the top50 songs here in France are not from USA.
Also, more and more studies show that the biggest sharers are also the biggest buyers of cultural products. It is not much about following the money than following the ideology and stupidity...
Heh... Then join the pirate party. That is exactly their line : if you know anything about computers, in the legal world of today, you are a pirate. Join your party !
Given a dozen developers and a hard spec, Linux could be developed in 8 to 9 months.
I would call that a billion-dollars hard spec then:-)
The value of a program is not in its number of code lines, but in its architecture and in the cleverness of its design. Sure, given a good spec, all you have to do is convert it into line code literally and it may be a short job. But such a spec would be the value of the code and writing it would be an enormous effort.
...but in order to make comparisons with Google, Microsoft or Apple, you have to add many, many lines of code. If you start to include the OSS equivalent of the standard installation of windows XP + MSOffice + Visual Studio: Linux + GNU + Firefox + GNOME/KDE + various drivers + open office + Eclipse... you get much much more code. I think that more man-hours have been invested in the regular Ubuntu install than in the premium XP install.
But please, don't use dollars as a metric for that. As soon as any sum reaches more than one billion, a politician will try to tax it.
In China, there is no opposition party. In China you get arrested and tortured if you commemorate Tien Anmen massacres. You can do such things in UK and US. You can do them loud, you can convince other people. You take the example of noise disturbance as an example of how our freedom of speech is impaired, I do not believe it is fair. There are legal means of rallying people to a controversial views. In UK you have public demonstrators of extreme islamism or (IIRC) nazism happening regularly. I guess you have the regular communist rally also and of course opposition demonstrations.
The most problematic obstacle to data preservation, IMHO is the current legal and copyright system : A lot of copyrighted data is worth saving, but it raises a lot of problem when it comes to distribute backups of these. Right now, some data created before WWII are still protected by copyrights and saving/distribute them might be illegal, but their copyright holders might also not care for it.
This is a serious legal problem. We might lose a lot of the 20th century data because of unadapted copyright laws.
Donating clothes is bad, but in my experience, the most likely situation here is that cell phone operators fear that people get used to cheap service and they want their monopoly back.
You have to fail several time in order to succeed. I am happy that someone began to fail. Ultimately, all successful discussion boards will end up with a slashdot style karma moderation.
In fact, Einstein and his theories were outcast in the "German Physics" the nazi were building. Einstein was jewish and traitor in their eyes. The nazis really lacked science buffs in their government. They had some success in rewriting history, in creating a non-jewish litterature, they did not understand why it could not be possible to make a non-jewish physics. They did not understand that Einstein was not an author of his laws, but a mere discoverer.
It is very interesting to look into the "Uranium Verein", the nazi nuclear program. Considering all the very good scientists they had, and the good infrastructure that existed at this time, they should have succeed way before US. But they had Bohr leave, they had Pauli leave, they had Einstein leave. More than Einstein, they put Heisenberg as a leading person, despite him being a poor experimenter (but a very good theorician) the good experimenter at the time was too suspicious because he kept having jewish assistant and protesting about their disappearance. It also didn't help that many of the scientific team had to serve some time on the front (and one or two died). The whole program is an example of bright people hindered by poor management, it is fascinationg to read.
Stop reading and trying to get sense of every word politician says. These sentence are not constructed to convey meaning but a feeling. Read it quickly, get your first impression. "Conservatives FTW, pwnd liberal eco-fags lol" This is the message. Do not try to dig deeper.
There are serious concerns about the IPCC and some of their faulty results but the people mentioned in this article are neither competent nor willing to address them. Just bark with them or against them, do not try to have articulate discussion.
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If even the manufacturer can not say whether the acid will make the data unrecoverable, I would not call that dumb. It was worth a try...
Without the corresponding NASA budget...
Well the bluff continues. Right now Google (a big successful company that a lot ofmanager listen to) basically says "foreigners are not allowed to do profit in China". Don't you think this can have repercussions on foreign investments ?
On the moon there is no wind to disperse particles, no rain to drain them, no biosphere to harm. You can limit the impact of launches to a specific zone. And anyway, space is radioactive. If you want to build a colony on the moon you anyway have to shield it from solar radiation.
A few months ago, the Japanese probe Kaguya/SELENE gave us a map of the numerous uranium deposits on the moon. This is it. Let's go, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR ?
The project Orion got shelved because detonating nukes to propel a spacecraft had too much environmental and political problems, but from the Moon none of these problems are relevant. For a reminder, this projects proposes a spacecraft that could weight 100 000 tons, go at 3% of c through a constant 1g acceleration during 10 days. Let's build a godamn shipyard on the moon !
The difference between inference and guessing is that in inference you use clues in the data you have in order to rebuild a data that is not measured. It is like using the movement in a video in order to infer the parameters of the lens used : the data is here, but you have to extract it from the other data it is mixed with.
1 bit in, 10 bits out does not mean that you have created 9 bits of correct data. Look at Obama's teeth in the example. The algorithm understands it is better to put white pixels instead of black one when it doesn't know the color, but the separation between the teeth is smoothed out. If he had a missing tooth it would be replaced. The idea that we could use this algorithm for medical diagnosis is just nonsense.
Exactly. This algorithm doesn't create absent data nor does it infer it, it just makes the uncertainties it has "nicer" than the usual smoothing.
Yeah, the title should be "if you use vulnerable software, resistance is futile". Duh. It looks like people are discovering what "vulnerable" means. They assume you are using a vulnerable browser, on a network with vulnerable servers. In that case, you are pretty much doomed anyway.
And the fact that he is not an ass also plays some role, as he could have had a valid legal claim even without registration.
I think you underestimate the local production/consumption of "cultural goods" here in EU. Most of the top50 songs here in France are not from USA.
Also, more and more studies show that the biggest sharers are also the biggest buyers of cultural products. It is not much about following the money than following the ideology and stupidity...
Heh... Then join the pirate party. That is exactly their line : if you know anything about computers, in the legal world of today, you are a pirate. Join your party !
Given a dozen developers and a hard spec, Linux could be developed in 8 to 9 months.
I would call that a billion-dollars hard spec then :-)
The value of a program is not in its number of code lines, but in its architecture and in the cleverness of its design. Sure, given a good spec, all you have to do is convert it into line code literally and it may be a short job. But such a spec would be the value of the code and writing it would be an enormous effort.
...but in order to make comparisons with Google, Microsoft or Apple, you have to add many, many lines of code. If you start to include the OSS equivalent of the standard installation of windows XP + MSOffice + Visual Studio: Linux + GNU + Firefox + GNOME/KDE + various drivers + open office + Eclipse ... you get much much more code. I think that more man-hours have been invested in the regular Ubuntu install than in the premium XP install.
But please, don't use dollars as a metric for that. As soon as any sum reaches more than one billion, a politician will try to tax it.
Then they should mandate Lynx
In China, there is no opposition party. In China you get arrested and tortured if you commemorate Tien Anmen massacres. You can do such things in UK and US. You can do them loud, you can convince other people. You take the example of noise disturbance as an example of how our freedom of speech is impaired, I do not believe it is fair. There are legal means of rallying people to a controversial views. In UK you have public demonstrators of extreme islamism or (IIRC) nazism happening regularly. I guess you have the regular communist rally also and of course opposition demonstrations.
In China, not.
The most problematic obstacle to data preservation, IMHO is the current legal and copyright system : A lot of copyrighted data is worth saving, but it raises a lot of problem when it comes to distribute backups of these. Right now, some data created before WWII are still protected by copyrights and saving/distribute them might be illegal, but their copyright holders might also not care for it.
This is a serious legal problem. We might lose a lot of the 20th century data because of unadapted copyright laws.
Yeah, at this time we were supposing governments would be a bit more cautious than schools.
Is Google a country? Did I miss something?
Two entities discussing don't have to be of the same type. US can buy GM, MS can be sued by EU, etc...
The law Google was breaking was the law repressing some kind of political content on internet. Bad law, but law nonetheless
Don't worry, someone who makes sense like him will be promptly removed from office.
Donating clothes is bad, but in my experience, the most likely situation here is that cell phone operators fear that people get used to cheap service and they want their monopoly back.
You have to fail several time in order to succeed. I am happy that someone began to fail. Ultimately, all successful discussion boards will end up with a slashdot style karma moderation.
In fact, Einstein and his theories were outcast in the "German Physics" the nazi were building. Einstein was jewish and traitor in their eyes. The nazis really lacked science buffs in their government. They had some success in rewriting history, in creating a non-jewish litterature, they did not understand why it could not be possible to make a non-jewish physics. They did not understand that Einstein was not an author of his laws, but a mere discoverer.
It is very interesting to look into the "Uranium Verein", the nazi nuclear program. Considering all the very good scientists they had, and the good infrastructure that existed at this time, they should have succeed way before US. But they had Bohr leave, they had Pauli leave, they had Einstein leave. More than Einstein, they put Heisenberg as a leading person, despite him being a poor experimenter (but a very good theorician) the good experimenter at the time was too suspicious because he kept having jewish assistant and protesting about their disappearance. It also didn't help that many of the scientific team had to serve some time on the front (and one or two died). The whole program is an example of bright people hindered by poor management, it is fascinationg to read.
... for who it will be one microsecond longer
...or one could slow down at 0.999 c and the trip is going to be two minutes longer.
Stop reading and trying to get sense of every word politician says. These sentence are not constructed to convey meaning but a feeling. Read it quickly, get your first impression. "Conservatives FTW, pwnd liberal eco-fags lol" This is the message. Do not try to dig deeper.
There are serious concerns about the IPCC and some of their faulty results but the people mentioned in this article are neither competent nor willing to address them. Just bark with them or against them, do not try to have articulate discussion.