I guess he just got confused because the Wiki is a MediaWiki, which is the Wiki developed and used for Wikipedia (and all other Wikimedia Wikis), and it's obviously also using the default stylesheets (or an only slightly modified version of them), and therefore has the same look and feel as Wikipedia (which is clearly different from the look and feel of most other Wikis).
Of course, if the software only evaluates voice patterns, you'll just have to learn to say everything with an extraordinarily nice voice. That is, you can still say "you're an incompetent idiot", you just have to say it in the same tone you would normally use for "you're a really smart person".
I have yet to see any government function that cannot be done better and cheaper privately, if there is any demand for the service at all.
Making laws? A private organization cannot make laws, because it simply doesn't have the legitimation to make them (and if they make them anyway, e.g. by bribing^Wlobbying, the result is seldom something good). And you don't want to tell that laws (like: murder is illegal and will be punished) are not an advantage.
Granted, the government is always in danger to make laws in areas where no law should be passed, or making laws which just overregulate; however there are some things where laws are necessary (because a law is the only way to make something mandatory for everyone).
Well, you could easily write programs with XML by just defining an appropriate DTD and a correcponding semantics. For example, a program in an FPML (Functional Programming Markup Language) could look like this:
<function name="fac">
Calculate the factorial of an integer
<argumentlist>
This function takes only one argument: The integer to calculate the factorial for
<argument name="n" type="integer"/>
</argumentlist>
<precondition>
The factorial is only defined for nonnegative integers
<call name="greater-or-equal">
<argument> <ref name="n"/> </argument>
<argument> <constant type="integer" value="0"/> </argument>
</call>
<body>
<conditional>
<condition>
<call name="equal">
<argument> <ref name="n"/> </argument>
<argument> <constant type="integer" value="0"/> </argument>
</call>
<condition>
<then>
0! = 1
<constant type="integer" value="1"/>
</then>
<else>
n! = n*(n-1)!
<call name="times">
<argument> <ref name="n"/> </argument>
<argument>
<call name="fac">
<argument>
<call name="minus">
<argument> <ref name="n"/> </argument>
<argument> <constant type="integer" value="1"/> </argument>
</call>
</argument>
</call>
</argument>
</call>
</else>
</conditional>
</body> </function>
Not that I'd really want to program in such a way.:-)
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the web would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with webcams. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
Now imagine someone would ask Graham Bell:
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the phone system would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with phone sex. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
If I understand the linked article correctly, the new thing is that they don't just look for the occurence of certain words, but try to get some (probably very basic) sort of meaning of the thing. Which I think could give a big advantage esp. for exclusion searches (e.g. Einstein -physicist).
Is it possible that the condensation of water vapour into rain cools the air?
No. Quite the opposite: Condensation of water produces heat. The reverse process consumes heat (that's the mechanism behind sweating, and that's also why raining tends to cool down the air - the water evaporates into the air, thus removing heat from it).
Yes, they told me I have to use those shells, but I just can't find the right command. I already tried "rm shit" and "clear", but nothing helped. I also don't understand why you have to have three shells open for such a simple task.
(note to moderators: yes, I did get the Demolition Man reference!)
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Mozilla/Firefox can. Just tell it to set all cookies as session cookies.
... because I already don't let the browser set them.
Does the advertising industry also "lose" money because it cannot track if I am watching their ads on TV?
Of course you could always switch it off while being outside.
You know, the internet access will be free as in speech, not free as in beer :-)
I just tried http://wifi.slashdot.org/ and even got a page! Slashdot is going to offer WLAN hotspots!
I guess he just got confused because the Wiki is a MediaWiki, which is the Wiki developed and used for Wikipedia (and all other Wikimedia Wikis), and it's obviously also using the default stylesheets (or an only slightly modified version of them), and therefore has the same look and feel as Wikipedia (which is clearly different from the look and feel of most other Wikis).
Ok, we'll inch you instead.
Of course, if the software only evaluates voice patterns, you'll just have to learn to say everything with an extraordinarily nice voice. That is, you can still say "you're an incompetent idiot", you just have to say it in the same tone you would normally use for "you're a really smart person".
An ARM will just not produce enough heat to toast a bread. I'd suggest a Pentium instead.
Making laws?
A private organization cannot make laws, because it simply doesn't have the legitimation to make them (and if they make them anyway, e.g. by bribing^Wlobbying, the result is seldom something good). And you don't want to tell that laws (like: murder is illegal and will be punished) are not an advantage.
Granted, the government is always in danger to make laws in areas where no law should be passed, or making laws which just overregulate; however there are some things where laws are necessary (because a law is the only way to make something mandatory for everyone).
Then LISP is not functional either:
The main syntax problem of C are not the curly braces. The main syntax problem is the terrible declaration syntax.
Simple: A list.
I don't know. If it is XHTML, it probably ends a paragraph (but, of which class?)
No.
Of course in the preview, those lines were still properly indented ...
Not that I'd really want to program in such a way. :-)
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No, just about 1.3 lightseconds.
SCO thinks otherwise
Google confirms: Apple is dying! :-)
He invented the World Wide Web.
Indeed, a very telling question is the following:
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the web would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with webcams. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
Now imagine someone would ask Graham Bell:
You must reflect though on the law of unintended consequences because it wasn't remotely ever your intention when you started on this that so much of the phone system would be given over to sexual exhibitionists masturbating in their bedrooms with phone sex. Do you ever have bad moments about that?
Wouldn't that just sound silly to everyone?
If I understand the linked article correctly, the new thing is that they don't just look for the occurence of certain words, but try to get some (probably very basic) sort of meaning of the thing. Which I think could give a big advantage esp. for exclusion searches (e.g. Einstein -physicist).
And of course the question about what hides behind the "2. ???" in Microsoft's business plan.
When speaking about game theory, don't forget to look up the prisoner's dilemma.
No. Quite the opposite: Condensation of water produces heat. The reverse process consumes heat (that's the mechanism behind sweating, and that's also why raining tends to cool down the air - the water evaporates into the air, thus removing heat from it).
Yes, they told me I have to use those shells, but I just can't find the right command. I already tried "rm shit" and "clear", but nothing helped.
I also don't understand why you have to have three shells open for such a simple task.
(note to moderators: yes, I did get the Demolition Man reference!)