But what's the problem with using cat here? It's not necessary, but it doesn't harm either, does it? Also, well written code means maintainable code. Maintainable code means code that is easy to change. Which speaks for cat.
BTW, I've even found uses for the apparently useless use of cat in cat | command or command | cat (note: no filename on the cat!). That's when using programs which test whether standard input or standard output is a terminal, and I want the non-terminal behaviour even though I'm typing in a terminal.
People who want my wallet usually have not given me money before. But people who do give me money (in form of credit) actually want more money back (that's called interest).
Public funding means that the public gives money. So isn't it reasonable that the public should also get something for that money?
What use is a processor design if you don't have a fab that can produce it? In an open source processor world, it would be whoever has the best fabs who makes the most money. Which AFAIK currently is Intel.
Anybody want to venture a guess as to what computing will be like by 2050?
The standard computer will be one which you carry around. It will have the power of today's supercomputers, but a battery life of a full month. However if you hold it wrong, it won't get a network connection.:-)
Which is total bullshit. The PROPER way to do it at the end of the year is if any money is left over you take decrease the budget by 1/2 the difference for the next year.
Even that is a bad idea. If not spending all the money means a decrease in future budget, however tiny that decrease is, there will be efforts to spend that money, even if it doesn't make sense. OTOH, money not spent is money not spent, even if it had been allowed to be spent.
Indeed, it would make more sense to reward those who do not spend all the money, by increasing their next year budget. Of course that extra budget part should not be included in the determination if they were below budget (i.e. if they are above the normal budget, but below the increased budget, they don't get an increased budget next year).
It depends. Mining bitcoins on your own equipment using energy you pay yourself is certainly not illegal (at least not that I know of), however mining bitcoins on computers someone else (like the university you work at) owns may be a bit different. Unless you have explicit permission by the owner to do that, of course.
Ha, I've just found that the work of Leonardo da Vinci's work contains a secret code. When decoded, it predicts the copyright extensions, and also my existence, and it gives me the copyright to his work. Anyone claiming that code is bullshit and Leonardo didn't give me the copyrights is obviously only trying to rob me.:-)
What about: They found the dead body, investigated the crime scene, and found out that you must have done it (e.g. they identified your bullets, or you lost a hair and they got your DNA from that).
Although Cleverbot managed to score well on the Turing test, the model that did that is different from the one you will find online. While the online Cleverbot searches its banks 3 times before providing an answer, the test version searched 42 times, so it probably has a little different feel.
In a conversation I had with it, it claimed at one point that I was a computer program written by it. I then asked it in which programming language I was written in, and it answered that it is written in a mixture of C and Python (and that after not long before claiming not to be a bot).
For valid science, there has to be data that could falsify a theory, even though it was previously thought to be valid.
No. That's a description of empirical science. The very fact that the term "empirical science" exists already tells you that there are also other types of science.
The important part of any science is that there are objective ways to either determine certain statements as being right or as being wrong. In empirical sciences, you can determine statements as wrong by doing an experiment which contradicts them. In mathematics, you can determine a statement to be wrong by providing a counter example, and in addition you can determine a statement to be right by giving a proof.
Well, the idea to get the USA to fight (and lose) in Afghanistan was a stated(!) goal of Bin Laden. OTOH, if all forces had been concentrated in Afghanistan instead of going into the totally pointless Iraq war (remember, it was that war which made America lose much of its reputation [and Guantanamo, of course]; few questioned the appropriateness of the Afghanistan war), maybe Afghanistan wouldn't have turned into the disaster it is now.
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But what's the problem with using cat here? It's not necessary, but it doesn't harm either, does it?
Also, well written code means maintainable code. Maintainable code means code that is easy to change. Which speaks for cat.
BTW, I've even found uses for the apparently useless use of cat in cat | command or command | cat (note: no filename on the cat!). That's when using programs which test whether standard input or standard output is a terminal, and I want the non-terminal behaviour even though I'm typing in a terminal.
People who want my wallet usually have not given me money before. But people who do give me money (in form of credit) actually want more money back (that's called interest).
Public funding means that the public gives money. So isn't it reasonable that the public should also get something for that money?
What use is a processor design if you don't have a fab that can produce it? In an open source processor world, it would be whoever has the best fabs who makes the most money. Which AFAIK currently is Intel.
So the RIAA should put versions of their songs on TPB where every five seconds someone says "arrr"?
The standard computer will be one which you carry around. It will have the power of today's supercomputers, but a battery life of a full month. However if you hold it wrong, it won't get a network connection. :-)
Use it to figure out what 42 means
Don't do that. You don't want to attract Vogon construction fleets.
Even that is a bad idea. If not spending all the money means a decrease in future budget, however tiny that decrease is, there will be efforts to spend that money, even if it doesn't make sense. OTOH, money not spent is money not spent, even if it had been allowed to be spent.
Indeed, it would make more sense to reward those who do not spend all the money, by increasing their next year budget. Of course that extra budget part should not be included in the determination if they were below budget (i.e. if they are above the normal budget, but below the increased budget, they don't get an increased budget next year).
It depends. Mining bitcoins on your own equipment using energy you pay yourself is certainly not illegal (at least not that I know of), however mining bitcoins on computers someone else (like the university you work at) owns may be a bit different. Unless you have explicit permission by the owner to do that, of course.
I'm pretty sure the batteries we have today would have qualified as "light-weight, high capacity battery" in 1901.
I believe that for the last couple decades John Lennon has not been composing any new songs. In fact I hear a rumor that he's actually de-composing.
Well, he just wrote an addition to his famous song "Imagine". Unfortunately he can't write to Slashdot from heaven, therefore I post it for him:
Imagine there's no RIAA,
it's easy if you try.
No company to sue you,
no damage claims that lie.
Imagine all the people
sharing all the songs.
You may say I am a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope one day you'll join us,
and the world will share as one.
Ha, I've just found that the work of Leonardo da Vinci's work contains a secret code. When decoded, it predicts the copyright extensions, and also my existence, and it gives me the copyright to his work. Anyone claiming that code is bullshit and Leonardo didn't give me the copyrights is obviously only trying to rob me. :-)
One is a scientific project, the other is looking to find Alf
No, they are looking for E.T., otherwise they would be named SAlfI@Home! :-)
What about: They found the dead body, investigated the crime scene, and found out that you must have done it (e.g. they identified your bullets, or you lost a hair and they got your DNA from that).
Quite the opposite: It's a very special earth. I haven't seen any other like it.
Well, actually most humans have secretly been replaced by bots.
Does it bother you that none of I useless meat-sacks ever realised you were a machine?
FTFA :
Although Cleverbot managed to score well on the Turing test, the model that did that is different from the one you will find online. While the online Cleverbot searches its banks 3 times before providing an answer, the test version searched 42 times, so it probably has a little different feel.
I see. So 42 actually is the answer. :-)
In a conversation I had with it, it claimed at one point that I was a computer program written by it. I then asked it in which programming language I was written in, and it answered that it is written in a mixture of C and Python (and that after not long before claiming not to be a bot).
I don't use batteries to charge batteries, yes. :-)
(Note that I answered to an AC; maybe you've seen my post reparented)
No. That's a description of empirical science. The very fact that the term "empirical science" exists already tells you that there are also other types of science.
The important part of any science is that there are objective ways to either determine certain statements as being right or as being wrong. In empirical sciences, you can determine statements as wrong by doing an experiment which contradicts them. In mathematics, you can determine a statement to be wrong by providing a counter example, and in addition you can determine a statement to be right by giving a proof.
So mathematics is not science?
Hey, the electricity I use is always 100% clean. It's pure electrons, uncontaminated with any other charge carrier. :-)
Few of them do it on September 11.
Every time someone uses the date format "YYYY-MM-DD", Baby Jesus cries.
But every time someone uses "MM/DD/YYYY", god kills a kitten.
Well, the idea to get the USA to fight (and lose) in Afghanistan was a stated(!) goal of Bin Laden. OTOH, if all forces had been concentrated in Afghanistan instead of going into the totally pointless Iraq war (remember, it was that war which made America lose much of its reputation [and Guantanamo, of course]; few questioned the appropriateness of the Afghanistan war), maybe Afghanistan wouldn't have turned into the disaster it is now.