I have no idea. I don't really know the status of fatwas within Islam. Apart from this one example the only fatwas I ever hear about are by clerics who, for want of a better word, are thoroughly evil. It may be that the only reason we hear about fatwas like these is that fatwas are statements issued only by evil clerics. There's certainly no central fatwa proclamation center for Islam, or even for branches of Islam, so any renegade cleric can issue one.
The sad thing is that this stuff actually matters. If in a few months I want to search for this story then looking for titles containing the word 'QWERTY' is going to fail. By all means, let's tolerate bad spelling because geeks seem incapable of better, but not in titles that may ultimately end up in a thousand catalogs around the world.
Goldie, come over here. Tap, tap. Yes, that's right. No I don't have any food for you. But listen carefully. Do a triple backflip with 360 degree twist zero times. Go on...
Yet again, it gets it right.
I'll be honest though, once it failed to get it right.
So because a parrot can apparently do some basic arithmetic we should treat them better? I worry about your ethical sense if ability to pass a mathematics test determines your treatment. Maybe we should kill all mentally handicapped people who have trouble with addition. And maybe we should grant my abacus Constitutional rights.
because no one could truthfully commit such acts in the name of any God
God? Hmm... Would that be the same guy who wipes out the entire population of the Earth apart from a select few in a boat in Genesis? What were you saying about atrocities again?
BTW, purely empty space is not empty. there are constant creations of particles and their anti particles (thus servicing thermodynamics) popping in and out of existence in empty space. this causes a pressure to form and this pressure causes a force which can be used to extract energy
You know physicists read/. too? Don't you feel embarassed about what you just wrote?
Look, physicists have this notion of a vacuum state. It's the lowest energy state a system can occupy. You can't extract energy from a vacuum state because then it would be left in a lower state contradicting the fact that it's a vacuum state. So it doesn't matter if a vacuum state has cocktail sipping blue-tongued skinks materializing out of nothing. You can't extract energy from it.
Google page ranking sorts this out. If you receive few calls, but all the people who call you receive many calls, then you'll get a high ranking. In fact, that's what makes it so remarkable. It will find out who the people are who really matter.
You can do the equivalent of google page ranking for people. People who make many calls or are frequently called are well connected nodes in the graph of all phonecalls. These are likely to be influential people. So if you're trying to market something, say, then these are the people to call.
Oh, you mean the English-speaking subculture. That reminds me - I must finish that paper I've been writing on how everyone has been using 'blue' to refer to the wrong color. The fact that everyone says the sky is blue obviously doesn't make it so unless an academic says so.
No, you are completely wrong. Wikipedia has a great entry on the subject. But Wikipedia more or less agrees with every other description I have encountered going back many years. In fact, claiming 'Anti-hero=average person protagonist' is so far from correct that I suspect you are deliberately misinforming rather than making a mistake.
The stupid people are those selling doors that fling themselves wide open by default and yet look no different to the casual observer whether they're open or closed.
Why is it people use "very clever" when they spot the most trivial of strategies? Underestimating the enemy is the biggest mistake you can make. The people who carried out the attacks may have lived in London for years before it happened and may have been as familiar with the public transport as anyone else who lived there. They may even have been Londoners recruited in London.
How do you know CYC isn't as bad? I know one guy who worked on the project who thought the whole thing was a scam. I'm yet to hear a report of Cyc actually doing anything interesting or useful. And Lenat's previous projects (eg. AM, Eurisko) seem very suspect to me. If they really could do what they did at the time (late 70s, early 80s) we should see some amazing stuff today along those lines. We don't.
I can't find an article about it online. I read about it in a book a few years ago. Basically there is a frog or lizard that exists in two slightly different forms depending on whether its environment is wet or dry. This state is inherited from the parents but not as part of the genome. It may be something as similar as hormones that are supplied by the parent during development or something like gene inhibitors or promoters attached to the DNA. I'm not sure the mechanism was understood at the time I read about it.
Do the/. editors have any clue what they just posted a story about? It's about a link to 80,000 dumb questions with subjectively determined probabilities attached. Really dumb questions mostly. It's meant to be a 'model' of a human mind.
You can't claim that the code you make for
another purpose and without any intention
to do art is art.
I personally don't believe that intention is necessary for art. I think that the artist's intentions can be irrelevant. Leonardo is dead and what he thought when he executed La Gioconda is long gone with him. What we have today is a work of art that stands by its own merits.
But what you say about prestige is exactly what I think. I'm certainly not going to call programming 'art' just to make a bunch of geeks somewhere feel good about themselves.
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I have no idea. I don't really know the status of fatwas within Islam. Apart from this one example the only fatwas I ever hear about are by clerics who, for want of a better word, are thoroughly evil. It may be that the only reason we hear about fatwas like these is that fatwas are statements issued only by evil clerics. There's certainly no central fatwa proclamation center for Islam, or even for branches of Islam, so any renegade cleric can issue one.
The sad thing is that this stuff actually matters. If in a few months I want to search for this story then looking for titles containing the word 'QWERTY' is going to fail. By all means, let's tolerate bad spelling because geeks seem incapable of better, but not in titles that may ultimately end up in a thousand catalogs around the world.
Goldie, come over here. Tap, tap. Yes, that's right. No I don't have any food for you. But listen carefully. Do a triple backflip with 360 degree twist zero times. Go on...
Yet again, it gets it right.
I'll be honest though, once it failed to get it right.
Fatwa against Osama by cleric responsible for 1,000,000 Muslims.
So because a parrot can apparently do some basic arithmetic we should treat them better? I worry about your ethical sense if ability to pass a mathematics test determines your treatment. Maybe we should kill all mentally handicapped people who have trouble with addition. And maybe we should grant my abacus Constitutional rights.
I always thought it was a poor substitute for the ultimate recipe, using an ibrik, perfected by the Turks in the 16th century.
Look, physicists have this notion of a vacuum state. It's the lowest energy state a system can occupy. You can't extract energy from a vacuum state because then it would be left in a lower state contradicting the fact that it's a vacuum state. So it doesn't matter if a vacuum state has cocktail sipping blue-tongued skinks materializing out of nothing. You can't extract energy from it.
Google page ranking sorts this out. If you receive few calls, but all the people who call you receive many calls, then you'll get a high ranking. In fact, that's what makes it so remarkable. It will find out who the people are who really matter.
For the price of one of those I could make you a Beowulf cluster of low end PCs that outperformed it.
A low end PC with a mid-price graphics card easily outperforms and outprices an SGI these days.
You can do the equivalent of google page ranking for people. People who make many calls or are frequently called are well connected nodes in the graph of all phonecalls. These are likely to be influential people. So if you're trying to market something, say, then these are the people to call.
No, you are completely wrong. Wikipedia has a great entry on the subject. But Wikipedia more or less agrees with every other description I have encountered going back many years. In fact, claiming 'Anti-hero=average person protagonist' is so far from correct that I suspect you are deliberately misinforming rather than making a mistake.
That's much more sellable. But it's a crap solution to the problem as the end user is hardly going to worry about a light they can't actually see.
...and can help me file this as an application for a low cost please reply here. Serious responses only please.
A big LED on your access point that flashes "Unsafe" when your network is connected up but doesn't have encryption switched on.
The stupid people are those selling doors that fling themselves wide open by default and yet look no different to the casual observer whether they're open or closed.
Why is it people use "very clever" when they spot the most trivial of strategies? Underestimating the enemy is the biggest mistake you can make. The people who carried out the attacks may have lived in London for years before it happened and may have been as familiar with the public transport as anyone else who lived there. They may even have been Londoners recruited in London.
How do you know CYC isn't as bad? I know one guy who worked on the project who thought the whole thing was a scam. I'm yet to hear a report of Cyc actually doing anything interesting or useful. And Lenat's previous projects (eg. AM, Eurisko) seem very suspect to me. If they really could do what they did at the time (late 70s, early 80s) we should see some amazing stuff today along those lines. We don't.
I can't find an article about it online. I read about it in a book a few years ago. Basically there is a frog or lizard that exists in two slightly different forms depending on whether its environment is wet or dry. This state is inherited from the parents but not as part of the genome. It may be something as similar as hormones that are supplied by the parent during development or something like gene inhibitors or promoters attached to the DNA. I'm not sure the mechanism was understood at the time I read about it.
He's one of the most successful crackpots out there with stories in Wired and Time. (And /. of course.)
Maybe I'll try to submit /dev/random as a story.
I personally don't believe that intention is necessary for art. I think that the artist's intentions can be irrelevant. Leonardo is dead and what he thought when he executed La Gioconda is long gone with him. What we have today is a work of art that stands by its own merits.
But what you say about prestige is exactly what I think. I'm certainly not going to call programming 'art' just to make a bunch of geeks somewhere feel good about themselves.