It's nice to see Google doing something about ensuring some part of the power they use is from renewable sources. Now if only they could do this with their data centers.
Eh. If you spend your life wondering what stupid people who don't know what they're talking think about you, you'll never wind up doing up anything useful or interesting.
You can probably have unbelievably simple conversations, like
"Do you want to kill me?" "No."
And for anything approximating a normal conversation, it's utterly fucking useless. Also, for the times when you actually need a very urgent, very good understanding of the language to prevent a lot of trouble, I bet it's beyond worthless.
At present, and for the forseeable future, there's no adequate substitute for humans that speak the language. I realize we throw Arabic speakers out of the military because they're gay and all, but maybe we could make an exception because their skills are necessary at present. No computer translation system is adequate for usage in a live military operation.
I know I'm gonna get modded down for saying this, but the Gnome and KDE people could do the Linux world a favor by standardizing on a single GUI toolkit.
Diversity is great in a lot of places, but not here. The two major desktop platform in the commerical world both have a single UI toolkit. That allows them to have similar look and feel, and functionality across applications, and relieves developers from having to decide what particular subset of users they want to support.
And, yes, I know, I can install both sets of libraries and run apps from either. The point is, why? Pick one thing, make it work well, and move on to more important stuff, like writing good apps. Duplication of effort is pointless here. It's time to standardize.
You used to be presumed innocent till proven guilty. Since the Bush administration came to power, you're presumed whatever the government says you are till you're granted the ability to prove otherwise or they change their mind about you.
At least they don't consider him an "enemy combatant." Since they're making up legal statuses for people, and don't so much have to give the habeas corpus to foriegners (including permanent residents), you're more or less screwed if they take a dislike to you.
And, yeah, in case you're wondering, we're starting the slow slide towards fascism.
Apparently, you're the result of a series of consanguineous sexual unions, likely culminating one between your mother and her father. Further, you're also a coprophile, and specifically, what's commonly called a "scat mucher;" that is, you consume feces - usually human - for pleasure - typically of a sexual nature.
Of course, on Slashdot, you shit eating retards seem to appeal to the folks with mod points.
Seriously, find something to remove your testicles/ovaries now, because the rest of the species can't afford to have you breed. If you're feeling charitable, get a gun or some poison or something and end your fucking life in the next 1/2 hour.
If you do enough shady crap long enough, you get caught eventually. You can be clever about it, but usually people get careless and/orinvolve one or more other parties.
If Folley had written letters to the boy on clay tablets or papyrus, using technology available at least since the age of the ancient Egyptians, he'd still have run the exact same risk. Because he would still have been acting like a creepy, hypocritical pedophile and still would have been committing statements proving that to a semi-permanent medium.
The basic problem is that people like to tell secrets and gossip, and so information leaks out. They drink and they brag, they're indiscreet, often they're outright stupid. We've had the exact same character flaw for a million years: we just cant shut up. It just gets disseminated more quickly now.
For a blog with 15,000 entries and 5MB of data, use Blogger or Typepad.
And, frankly, I don't think learning how to use the tools properly and how to test one's code is "overengineering." I think of it as competently programming the application. But I'm old fashioned.
Stupid application construction isn't a good reason to make the design of the app even stupider.
In the old days, everyone used flat files, because that's what there was. Then someone (several someones, most notably Codd and some others at IBM) realized that breaking the flat data into sets of discrete data that related to each other reduced redundancy and allowed for an overall better quality of data. And it wasn't app specific.
The answer to SQL injection is to test apps more completely (including tests for this kind of attack), to provide extra checks at the database level (for integrity issues, perhaps in the form of constraints, etc. dependent on the scale and structure of the database), and to develop tools/libraries for data access that make this kind of thing hard to do accidently.
destroys thousands of lives a year. Sure, it starts small - a SELECT there, a few INSERTS on the weekend. Eventually, though, you're using stored procedures and trying to score triggers in the middle of the night.
The iPod sales are likely to slow down in the next couple years anyway, merely as a matter of change in fads. But I'm not gonna dump my Apple stock because of the threat from MS Zune.
Late to the game and adding nothing. If they hadn't lucked out with MS-DOS, you might never have heard of them.
Actually, no, I don't think one would have to detect minute gradients.
Basically, you need a threshold value and it needs to be stronger across 50% of your field of sensivity. If you grow 1cm per day, you grow in the direction in which the signal is strongest for one day. The next, you grow in the direction again. And again, again, again, etc, etc. It only takes being approximately right every day, and since your prey is stationary, you get to it eventually.
Smell isn't anything more than detecting fairly dilute chemicals in the air. The fact that some species of plant have evolved to perform very specific kinds of chemical detection to ensure their survival doesn't seem surprising to me. Plants grow towards the light - why not towards other things that are essential for their survival.
GALE seems geared towards translation and aggregation of data for convenient access by mono-lingual military and intelligence personnel. The goal of the ACE project is to provide classification of data based on what it actually means.
It refuses to install if the user isn't smart enough properly understand and maintain the distribution.
Seriously, though, all he does is say that things failed to emerge properly or that he was too scared to try to fix his X resolution. He says he's used about a 1/2 dozen distros, which I guess is supposed to mean that he understands this kind of thing.
But if he understood Linux and compilation of software, he'd be able to tell why zlib wouldn't install, and he'd be able to figure out how to set his monitor resolution without fucking up his computer. So, really, he's just a dumbshit that likes to bitch about shit he clearly doesn't understand and has no willingness to learn about.
Stop posting this crap. Or do you need the eyeballs to boost ad revenue?
I'd be rather pissed off at the current management of the company. Microsoft has traditionally been able to compete in a given market by sheer size. The XBox is a good example - they sucked it initially, then basically poured money and effort into it till they became a dominant player in the market.
But now they're trying to become dominant in everything - search, portable music players/services, online video streaming, etc. Microsoft can certainly dominate one market with brute force, perhaps two or three. But at some point, the brute force method just isn't possible anymore - it eats far too many resources. And from the looks of it, MS doesn't seem to be getting any better at initial execution. As late to the game as they were with online video and search engines, they needed to have a "wow" product. Instead, they turned out their typical "meh" product. Eventually, they won't be able to spend their way out of the holes they dig.
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We just resort to cannibalism and man-powered industry.
Maybe if they bought New Mexico and turned it into one big panel array though.
So, they'd be replacing New Mexico with something useful? And the catch is?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster running on these babies.
Now that's hot!
It's nice to see Google doing something about ensuring some part of the power they use is from renewable sources. Now if only they could do this with their data centers.
Wow, modded down to zero... that sucks, dude.
Eh. If you spend your life wondering what stupid people who don't know what they're talking think about you, you'll never wind up doing up anything useful or interesting.
You can probably have unbelievably simple conversations, like
"Do you want to kill me?" "No."
And for anything approximating a normal conversation, it's utterly fucking useless. Also, for the times when you actually need a very urgent, very good understanding of the language to prevent a lot of trouble, I bet it's beyond worthless.
At present, and for the forseeable future, there's no adequate substitute for humans that speak the language. I realize we throw Arabic speakers out of the military because they're gay and all, but maybe we could make an exception because their skills are necessary at present. No computer translation system is adequate for usage in a live military operation.
Oh, and IACL (I am A Computational Linguist).
I know I'm gonna get modded down for saying this, but the Gnome and KDE people could do the Linux world a favor by standardizing on a single GUI toolkit.
Diversity is great in a lot of places, but not here. The two major desktop platform in the commerical world both have a single UI toolkit. That allows them to have similar look and feel, and functionality across applications, and relieves developers from having to decide what particular subset of users they want to support.
And, yes, I know, I can install both sets of libraries and run apps from either. The point is, why? Pick one thing, make it work well, and move on to more important stuff, like writing good apps. Duplication of effort is pointless here. It's time to standardize.
You used to be presumed innocent till proven guilty. Since the Bush administration came to power, you're presumed whatever the government says you are till you're granted the ability to prove otherwise or they change their mind about you.
At least they don't consider him an "enemy combatant." Since they're making up legal statuses for people, and don't so much have to give the habeas corpus to foriegners (including permanent residents), you're more or less screwed if they take a dislike to you.
And, yeah, in case you're wondering, we're starting the slow slide towards fascism.
Yes, you blithering fucking idiot. I'm trolling.
You're still a scat muncher, and your grandpa fucks your mom.
Apparently, you're the result of a series of consanguineous sexual unions, likely culminating one between your mother and her father. Further, you're also a coprophile, and specifically, what's commonly called a "scat mucher;" that is, you consume feces - usually human - for pleasure - typically of a sexual nature.
Of course, on Slashdot, you shit eating retards seem to appeal to the folks with mod points.
Seriously, find something to remove your testicles/ovaries now, because the rest of the species can't afford to have you breed. If you're feeling charitable, get a gun or some poison or something and end your fucking life in the next 1/2 hour.
Fuck you.
If you do enough shady crap long enough, you get caught eventually. You can be clever about it, but usually people get careless and/orinvolve one or more other parties.
If Folley had written letters to the boy on clay tablets or papyrus, using technology available at least since the age of the ancient Egyptians, he'd still have run the exact same risk. Because he would still have been acting like a creepy, hypocritical pedophile and still would have been committing statements proving that to a semi-permanent medium.
The basic problem is that people like to tell secrets and gossip, and so information leaks out. They drink and they brag, they're indiscreet, often they're outright stupid. We've had the exact same character flaw for a million years: we just cant shut up. It just gets disseminated more quickly now.
For a blog with 15,000 entries and 5MB of data, use Blogger or Typepad.
And, frankly, I don't think learning how to use the tools properly and how to test one's code is "overengineering." I think of it as competently programming the application. But I'm old fashioned.
Yeah, but most people are still stupid and humorless. So, in the end, I come out ahead.
Stupid application construction isn't a good reason to make the design of the app even stupider.
In the old days, everyone used flat files, because that's what there was. Then someone (several someones, most notably Codd and some others at IBM) realized that breaking the flat data into sets of discrete data that related to each other reduced redundancy and allowed for an overall better quality of data. And it wasn't app specific.
The answer to SQL injection is to test apps more completely (including tests for this kind of attack), to provide extra checks at the database level (for integrity issues, perhaps in the form of constraints, etc. dependent on the scale and structure of the database), and to develop tools/libraries for data access that make this kind of thing hard to do accidently.
Hey, thanks. People are stupid and humorless; you get inured to it after a while.
destroys thousands of lives a year. Sure, it starts small - a SELECT there, a few INSERTS on the weekend. Eventually, though, you're using stored procedures and trying to score triggers in the middle of the night.
Just say no, kids.
Uh, that Nokia would rather sell a technloogy that's all their own than promote one they don't completely control?
The iPod sales are likely to slow down in the next couple years anyway, merely as a matter of change in fads. But I'm not gonna dump my Apple stock because of the threat from MS Zune.
Late to the game and adding nothing. If they hadn't lucked out with MS-DOS, you might never have heard of them.
Actually, no, I don't think one would have to detect minute gradients.
Basically, you need a threshold value and it needs to be stronger across
50% of your field of sensivity. If you grow 1cm per day, you grow in the
direction in which the signal is strongest for one day. The next, you grow
in the direction again. And again, again, again, etc, etc. It only takes
being approximately right every day, and since your prey is stationary,
you get to it eventually.
Smell isn't anything more than detecting fairly dilute chemicals
in the air. The fact that some species of plant have evolved to
perform very specific kinds of chemical detection to ensure their
survival doesn't seem surprising to me. Plants grow towards the
light - why not towards other things that are essential for their
survival.
http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/ace/
GALE seems geared towards translation and aggregation of data for convenient
access by mono-lingual military and intelligence personnel. The goal of the
ACE project is to provide classification of data based on what it actually
means.
That's why they're problems and not inconveniences.
It refuses to install if the user isn't smart enough properly understand and
maintain the distribution.
Seriously, though, all he does is say that things failed to emerge properly
or that he was too scared to try to fix his X resolution. He says he's used
about a 1/2 dozen distros, which I guess is supposed to mean that he understands
this kind of thing.
But if he understood Linux and compilation of software, he'd be able to tell
why zlib wouldn't install, and he'd be able to figure out how to set his monitor
resolution without fucking up his computer. So, really, he's just a dumbshit
that likes to bitch about shit he clearly doesn't understand and has no willingness
to learn about.
Stop posting this crap. Or do you need the eyeballs to boost ad revenue?
I'd be rather pissed off at the current management of the company.
Microsoft has traditionally been able to compete in a given market by
sheer size. The XBox is a good example - they sucked it initially,
then basically poured money and effort into it till they became a dominant
player in the market.
But now they're trying to become dominant in everything - search, portable music players/services, online video streaming, etc. Microsoft can certainly dominate
one market with brute force, perhaps two or three. But at some point, the brute
force method just isn't possible anymore - it eats far too many resources. And
from the looks of it, MS doesn't seem to be getting any better at initial execution.
As late to the game as they were with online video and search engines, they needed
to have a "wow" product. Instead, they turned out their typical "meh" product.
Eventually, they won't be able to spend their way out of the holes they dig.