Re:Gaming the Recorder and Black Boxes
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I say the first application of that technology would be to equip every leader in the federal government with their own personal recorders with unbiased highlights shown on CSPAN. Let's see how much Ashcroft enjoys HIS privacy being violated.
I'd settle if they just said *when* this supposed infringement was introduced into the source code. Unless the person who introduced the infringment was Linus Torvalds himself when he wrote the original kernel, there was SOME POINT at which the kernel did not contain this supposed infringement. I'm willing to bet there are still plenty of linux users out there (commercial and otherwise) running older kernels that don't even have the suspect code in it.
I think we all agree the name has to reflect the nature of the code being "resurrected" from the ashes of the old project. So, here's some of my suggestions:
Jesus Lazarus Jean Grey Saddam Hussein (how many times has this guy come back from the dead now?) Dick Clark
Yes, and we all know how much studios are going to pay attention to this. After all, look how poorly My Big Fat Greek Wedding did since it didn't have enough action in it, and way too much love/sex/romance. They even say in the article:
Toy Story 2, a Disney Pixar production, was the film that had the closest match to the blueprint. The animated tale grossed more than £44m at the UK box office.
By comparison, Titanic, the #1 grossing film of all time, made £118m in the UK. Taking a look at the all-time best at the box office in the UK, we see that Toy Story 2 comes in at a paltry #7, with nearly half of what The Full Monty brought in despite its blatant disregard for the formula presented. Any sane studio exec (I know that's saying a lot, but I assume there must be some) is going to look at her data, and then look at box office grosses for the top films, and decide she's full of shit.
I also found it amusing that her research was sponsored by Diet Coke.
What if all of our "higher order" functions are really just an assemblage of many, many simpler systems? What if it's all just a long chain of simple stimulus-response patterns that with the right evolutionary twist became what we call "intelligence"?
Have you been locked in a cave for the last 40 years? That's exactly what neural networks do. The problem is that you still need to do some higher-level math to understand how the system works as a whole. That, and I've never heard anyone say (at least in the last 15-20 years) that neural networks are the solution to having autonomous thinking machines.
But where previous films made vague references to the Christian story, "The Matrix," some theologians argue, appeals directly to the heart of Christian identity.
I guess it's somewhat interesting, but there are other popular movies out there that make better examples of the "Christian story" than the Matrix. In the realm of sci-fi, we have ET, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and of course Star Wars. If you want some really overt symbolism try watching Cool Hand Luke.
Actually I've been thinking about this, and I wonder if one couldn't install linux and use WineX to "emulate" the DX layer? Rather than depend on the nefarious use of MS's XDK, you can use the freely-available DX9 SDK available for windows to develop applications, which happens to have mostly the same API. Of course, there's a few extra functions in the XDK that aren't in DX9 for windows, but I don't think it would be too hard to add support for the missing functionality.
I graduated with a similar degree and a minor in Japanese. To be honest, I never expected much out of the Japanese part; I had started studying Japanese on a whim when a friend convinced me to take Japanese 101 with him. He dropped the course later that semester, but I decided to stick with it since I thought it was a piece of cake compared to my regular coursework, I was learning something interesting, and there were several hot girls in my class. I managed to get a couple of scholarships thanks to my Japanese studies, which gave me the opportunity to study in Japan.
Even after I graduated and took a job at a company in the US, my Japanese skills got me a foot up when my company started doing business with Japan. Thanks to my collegiate experience I was a natural fit to be the guy that goes on business trips to Japan, and that has afforded me even more opportunity for career growth within my company than I would have expected otherwise possible.
Looking back on my life so far, I can say that deciding to take that class has changed my life dramatically. I've met people and done things I would never have thought possible, all thanks to that one little decision to take the class, and enjoying it enough to stick with it.
demo roku gatsu (getsu? I can never remember) no futsuka ni amerika ni kaeru to omoimasu..
FYI it's "gatsu" when you're talking about a date, and "getsu" when you're talking about a length of time. Think of it as "gatsu" always going with "ni". Incidentally you don't really need the "no" there, either.
I agree completely that none of those books had a decent ending. However, I was quite satisfied with the ending of Interface which he published under the pseudonym Stephen Bury. I'm not sure how much his uncle (apparently partly responsible for the book) contributed to that.
You really don't want to underestimate the generics. This will make code so much easier to read and understand, as well as make it clear when you are using someone else's library that they expect that ArrayList to be of type Pumpkin, and passing in a few Pumpkins mixed with Legumes is bad.
Actually I submitted a story just yesterday about a research team that developed a virus that eliminates brain cancer in mice. Unfortunately I didn't mention Microsoft, Linux, or DRM in the story, so it got rejected.
Apparently you didn't read the company story. If you did, you would realize that the original goal was to get a mac that didn't come bundled with a specific monitor, etc., so you could mix and match the system as you see fit. As stated in the linked page:
just didn't like that if I wanted a 21" monitor and wanted to purchase Apple Macintosh, I needed to put down $1699.99 regardless if all I wanted to do was surf the web, check e-mail or purchase off ebay with a larger monitor and low cost processor like in the iBook or iMac.
And, lest we forget, there are thousands of privately owned companies that have stock holders, boards of trustees, etc. who all face the same issue. There are things you are allowed to disclose, and things you are not allowed to disclose. Stock holders generally don't care about the technical details of every single project that comes along. They are interested in whether it is generating revenue, if it is over budget, etc. These things can be discussed openly without fear of the gestapo coming knocking on the boardroom door.
I think you have that backwards. A true money-grubbing executive would release each one individually a month or two apart, followed by a boxed set a few months after that.
Look at how LoTR was released. Not only was a boxed set released, but TWO box sets were released just for the first movie, maximizing their profits. Can you imagine how many different LoTR DVDs are going to be around by the time Return of the King is released?
I'm not against plausible speculations to applied science, but it just seems that the carbon nano-tube technology is still in its beginning phases, and we won't see these 'small optical fibers' or any other applied devices anytime before 2020.
The first semiconductor transistor (the point-contact transistor) was produced in 1947. The junction field-effect transistor was invented a few weeks later, and the first working prototype was produced in 1949. By 1958 integrated circuits were being made with them.
They do make those kinds of games, the problem is they aren't usually as fun as pulling out a rocket launcher and blowing up police cars.
Re:Now, if the radiation is baking the electronics
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You get 50 times as much radiation from background sources like the sun, the earth (plants & minerals),etc. than from any man-made source like consumer electronics.
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I say the first application of that technology would be to equip every leader in the federal government with their own personal recorders with unbiased highlights shown on CSPAN. Let's see how much Ashcroft enjoys HIS privacy being violated.
No, but froogle.google.com does.
I'd settle if they just said *when* this supposed infringement was introduced into the source code. Unless the person who introduced the infringment was Linus Torvalds himself when he wrote the original kernel, there was SOME POINT at which the kernel did not contain this supposed infringement. I'm willing to bet there are still plenty of linux users out there (commercial and otherwise) running older kernels that don't even have the suspect code in it.
I think we all agree the name has to reflect the nature of the code being "resurrected" from the ashes of the old project. So, here's some of my suggestions:
Jesus
Lazarus
Jean Grey
Saddam Hussein (how many times has this guy come back from the dead now?)
Dick Clark
Thanks for the reference. I am checking out some of the lab's papers and the look pretty interesting.
By comparison, Titanic, the #1 grossing film of all time, made £118m in the UK. Taking a look at the all-time best at the box office in the UK, we see that Toy Story 2 comes in at a paltry #7, with nearly half of what The Full Monty brought in despite its blatant disregard for the formula presented. Any sane studio exec (I know that's saying a lot, but I assume there must be some) is going to look at her data, and then look at box office grosses for the top films, and decide she's full of shit. I also found it amusing that her research was sponsored by Diet Coke.
Have you been locked in a cave for the last 40 years? That's exactly what neural networks do. The problem is that you still need to do some higher-level math to understand how the system works as a whole. That, and I've never heard anyone say (at least in the last 15-20 years) that neural networks are the solution to having autonomous thinking machines.
I guess it's somewhat interesting, but there are other popular movies out there that make better examples of the "Christian story" than the Matrix. In the realm of sci-fi, we have ET, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and of course Star Wars. If you want some really overt symbolism try watching Cool Hand Luke.
Actually I've been thinking about this, and I wonder if one couldn't install linux and use WineX to "emulate" the DX layer? Rather than depend on the nefarious use of MS's XDK, you can use the freely-available DX9 SDK available for windows to develop applications, which happens to have mostly the same API. Of course, there's a few extra functions in the XDK that aren't in DX9 for windows, but I don't think it would be too hard to add support for the missing functionality.
Pizza Hut seems to be doing well.
I wonder if it's going to use their patented Voxel technology.
Even after I graduated and took a job at a company in the US, my Japanese skills got me a foot up when my company started doing business with Japan. Thanks to my collegiate experience I was a natural fit to be the guy that goes on business trips to Japan, and that has afforded me even more opportunity for career growth within my company than I would have expected otherwise possible.
Looking back on my life so far, I can say that deciding to take that class has changed my life dramatically. I've met people and done things I would never have thought possible, all thanks to that one little decision to take the class, and enjoying it enough to stick with it.
FYI it's "gatsu" when you're talking about a date, and "getsu" when you're talking about a length of time. Think of it as "gatsu" always going with "ni". Incidentally you don't really need the "no" there, either.
Thank you for your lame attempts at rationalization, president Bush.
"It's OK if we do it, because we're on the good side!"
I agree completely that none of those books had a decent ending. However, I was quite satisfied with the ending of Interface which he published under the pseudonym Stephen Bury. I'm not sure how much his uncle (apparently partly responsible for the book) contributed to that.
You really don't want to underestimate the generics. This will make code so much easier to read and understand, as well as make it clear when you are using someone else's library that they expect that ArrayList to be of type Pumpkin, and passing in a few Pumpkins mixed with Legumes is bad.
Actually I submitted a story just yesterday about a research team that developed a virus that eliminates brain cancer in mice. Unfortunately I didn't mention Microsoft, Linux, or DRM in the story, so it got rejected.
one word: pornography
3DRealms. No, wait...
And, lest we forget, there are thousands of privately owned companies that have stock holders, boards of trustees, etc. who all face the same issue. There are things you are allowed to disclose, and things you are not allowed to disclose. Stock holders generally don't care about the technical details of every single project that comes along. They are interested in whether it is generating revenue, if it is over budget, etc. These things can be discussed openly without fear of the gestapo coming knocking on the boardroom door.
I think you have that backwards. A true money-grubbing executive would release each one individually a month or two apart, followed by a boxed set a few months after that.
Look at how LoTR was released. Not only was a boxed set released, but TWO box sets were released just for the first movie, maximizing their profits. Can you imagine how many different LoTR DVDs are going to be around by the time Return of the King is released?
The first semiconductor transistor (the point-contact transistor) was produced in 1947. The junction field-effect transistor was invented a few weeks later, and the first working prototype was produced in 1949. By 1958 integrated circuits were being made with them.
That had me rolling on the floor!
+5 FUNNY
They do make those kinds of games, the problem is they aren't usually as fun as pulling out a rocket launcher and blowing up police cars.
You get 50 times as much radiation from background sources like the sun, the earth (plants & minerals),etc. than from any man-made source like consumer electronics.
But don't take my word for it, read the CDC study.