But she sure wasted precious brain cells on something that is irrelevant (3.141592654 gives you the circumference of the earth to within a centimeter given its diameter), and easily looked up.
You're missing the point - this is not about doing something useful, it's about proving that it can be done by a human. For the same reason people hold sports competitions: that somebody can jump 2.40 meters high is also irrelevant per se, but it sure is an impressive thing for a human to do.
Your theory about the 3 capacities is interesting, but as it stands, it's just that: a theory. I for one think it is more likely that the brain can be trained, and through training can expand its capacity. Certainly the concentration required to memorize large numbers will be beneficial when we try to think logically.
I know I should not respond to the AC, but stereotypical comments like this really bug me.
Just what kind of monsters do you think live in the city of Linz, that they deserve to be killed 60 years after the end of the war?
If you think a mass phenomenon like national socialism could not happen in the USA, go read The Wave.
Exactly. There were lines of cheering people when the Germans marched in, but most of the published news images and films showing masses of Austrians applauding the reunion ("Anschluß") were the result of clever camera positioning and orchestrated propaganda.
The Austrian people even got to vote for or against the Anschluß, and officially over 99% voted pro; but when you take a look at the ballots (the big circle is labeled "yes"), and account for the presence of armed Nazis in the voting booths, the whole thing is reduced to a farce. From what my grandfather told me, only a few people in Austria were enthusiastic about "rejoining" Germany, but all in all, at this point there was little to no resistance against it.
As for the trolls in this thread who think that dropping time-delayed bombs on a city is noble or just... words fail me.
ovarian cancer is completely impossible without ovaries, just like it is impossible for a female to get testicular cancer.
Don't oppress me, you insensitive clod!
I have an idea. Suppose I agree that I can't actually have ovarian cancer, not having ovaries, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that I can have the right to have ovarian cancer.
It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Google gave a Glimpse of its machine Uebersetzungsystems [..]
To be honest, I don't regard that as all that bad for current machine translation.
Until you compare it with a translation done by a real human.
Here is what it looks like when I translate the blurb into German and back again (and I'm not a professional translator):
Google gave journalists a glimpse of its next generation machine translation system at a May 19th Google Factory Tour. "Google Blogoscoped" offers an excellent overview of the presentation. The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. This corpus is some 20 billion words worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages. Apparently it was successful where the current version had failed in translating certain phrases. If anyone were capable of making a serious go of MT, that would have to be Google.
There is no such thing as a "copyright" in Germany and Austria. You're probably referring to the "Urheberrecht", which is a very different concept. It can't be registered, it can't be sold, but it can be passed on to your heirs.
What if I send you what looks like an HTML document, but mark it text/plain?
Then it should be displayed as a plain text. You can check this with Firefox, or any other software that respects MIME types (ie, not MSIE).
Changing the MIME type of an email alters things because it changes how the receiving application interprets and displays the message. Using HTML in emails has brought us such wonderful things as self-installing trojans, web bugs, and messages that play a MIDI track in the background. I've been filtering all HTML emails into a quarantine folder for years now (those that haven't been marked as spam before), and a lot of my friends are doing the same thing. The results are great: 99% is spam, and the rest is from family members who have just discovered the cool formatting options in their mail client.
If you want to interpret HTML as text/html, that's your prerogative.
Not really. If I just ignore the MIME type, I'm broken software.
if I sent you a password in an HTML email, would you consider it safe? By your logic, I didn't really send it plaintext.
You're confusing MIME types with encryption.
I was talking about the difference between HTML and plain text; both of them are "plaintext" from a cryptographical point of view.
If you're talking crypto, the opposite of plaintext is cyphertext, not HTML.
So: both HTML and plain text (as in text/plain) are text, but they're not both plain. Get it?
They are *not* the same.
Using your logic that the rendering client defines the format ("Certain clients choose to render the HTML"), everything would be plaintext. Image viewers also just "choose" to render a PNG as an image. Sheesh.
Re:Poor choice of dates, and show me the numbers.
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Second, lacking from TFA are actual numbers and places.
Also, I find the article lacks images and phone numbers of the 35% who are still there, but maybe that's just me.
Oh well. I for one welcome the new male dominated IT sector - women don't show proper respect for our toys anyway.
Why was this modded funny? Quite a few people make a living that way, or at least they get some reward for the time they spent writing and maintaining the software.
the tin foil hat croud will need to re-think, since there is no consipracy. It just broke. A random failure in a sea of success.
In related news,
I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked, that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83x9x12. I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm.
I think you're right; a simple Google search for "developers of the following leading software" turned up this site as one of the first results.
I believe the software is still there for sale. Or have I missed something?
If you compare their products page to the screenshot in TFA, you'll notice that the names and icons for some of the products have changed (e.g. "MailList King Pro" to "MailList Pro"). I can't say if they are still selling the same software under a different name, or if they have found someone else to trick.
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But she sure wasted precious brain cells on something that is irrelevant (3.141592654 gives you the circumference of the earth to within a centimeter given its diameter), and easily looked up.
You're missing the point - this is not about doing something useful, it's about proving that it can be done by a human. For the same reason people hold sports competitions: that somebody can jump 2.40 meters high is also irrelevant per se, but it sure is an impressive thing for a human to do.
Your theory about the 3 capacities is interesting, but as it stands, it's just that: a theory. I for one think it is more likely that the brain can be trained, and through training can expand its capacity. Certainly the concentration required to memorize large numbers will be beneficial when we try to think logically.
(sorry)
Yeah, sounds impressive at first, but closer examination reveals that those 2 bytes are actually metric bytes with 10 bits each.
Clever bastards.
I know I should not respond to the AC, but stereotypical comments like this really bug me.
Just what kind of monsters do you think live in the city of Linz, that they deserve to be killed 60 years after the end of the war?
If you think a mass phenomenon like national socialism could not happen in the USA, go read The Wave.
Exactly. There were lines of cheering people when the Germans marched in, but most of the published news images and films showing masses of Austrians applauding the reunion ("Anschluß") were the result of clever camera positioning and orchestrated propaganda.
The Austrian people even got to vote for or against the Anschluß, and officially over 99% voted pro; but when you take a look at the ballots (the big circle is labeled "yes"), and account for the presence of armed Nazis in the voting booths, the whole thing is reduced to a farce. From what my grandfather told me, only a few people in Austria were enthusiastic about "rejoining" Germany, but all in all, at this point there was little to no resistance against it.
As for the trolls in this thread who think that dropping time-delayed bombs on a city is noble or just... words fail me.
> something unreadable
Really unreadable.
Looks like "Bombenhülse" - "bomb shell"
We are the Knights Who Say Pi!
ovarian cancer is completely impossible without ovaries, just like it is impossible for a female to get testicular cancer.
Don't oppress me, you insensitive clod!
I have an idea. Suppose I agree that I can't actually have ovarian cancer, not having ovaries, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that I can have the right to have ovarian cancer. It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Will this DRM magically evaporate?
Yes, it will evaporate about two hours after DVD Jon gets his hands on one of those disks...
To be honest, I don't regard that as all that bad for current machine translation.
Until you compare it with a translation done by a real human.
Here is what it looks like when I translate the blurb into German and back again (and I'm not a professional translator):
Google gave journalists a glimpse of its next generation machine translation system at a May 19th Google Factory Tour. "Google Blogoscoped" offers an excellent overview of the presentation. The system has been trained using the United Nations Documents as a corpus. This corpus is some 20 billion words worth of content. It uses existing source and target language translations (done by human translators at the U.N.) to find patterns it then uses to build rules for translating between those languages. Apparently it was successful where the current version had failed in translating certain phrases. If anyone were capable of making a serious go of MT, that would have to be Google.
FYI,
t rand 10}1..13);$|=!$|;$*+=($|=!$|)?$_:$_[ )for(split//);$*%=10;print$_.($*?10- $*:$[).$/}while sleep 1
:)
assuming that the grandparent's verify function has the correct algorithm,
your code does *NOT* generate valid CC numbers.
And by the way, if you want to show off terse/cryptic Perl code, do it right:
#!/usr/bin/perl
do{($_,$*)='54'.join($,,map{in
*2-($_>4?9:$
I'm sure this can be golfed futher, but beware of the spaces that Slash will insert if your lines get too long
I keep reading Lost-Cow Space Shuttle Replacement
Since when do commies have german accents?
Since the very beginning?
There is no such thing as a "copyright" in Germany and Austria. You're probably referring to the "Urheberrecht", which is a very different concept. It can't be registered, it can't be sold, but it can be passed on to your heirs.
In a discussion about (open) sources, you could have mentioned the source for that quote.
Then it should be displayed as a plain text. You can check this with Firefox, or any other software that respects MIME types (ie, not MSIE).
Changing the MIME type of an email alters things because it changes how the receiving application interprets and displays the message. Using HTML in emails has brought us such wonderful things as self-installing trojans, web bugs, and messages that play a MIDI track in the background. I've been filtering all HTML emails into a quarantine folder for years now (those that haven't been marked as spam before), and a lot of my friends are doing the same thing. The results are great: 99% is spam, and the rest is from family members who have just discovered the cool formatting options in their mail client.
Not really. If I just ignore the MIME type, I'm broken software.
if I sent you a password in an HTML email, would you consider it safe? By your logic, I didn't really send it plaintext.
You're confusing MIME types with encryption.
I was talking about the difference between HTML and plain text; both of them are "plaintext" from a cryptographical point of view.
If you're talking crypto, the opposite of plaintext is cyphertext, not HTML.
So: both HTML and plain text (as in text/plain) are text, but they're not both plain. Get it?
When will people stop spreading this nonsense?
HTML is text/html,
Plain text is text/plain.
They are *not* the same.
Using your logic that the rendering client defines the format ("Certain clients choose to render the HTML"), everything would be plaintext. Image viewers also just "choose" to render a PNG as an image. Sheesh.
Second, lacking from TFA are actual numbers and places.
Also, I find the article lacks images and phone numbers of the 35% who are still there, but maybe that's just me.
Oh well. I for one welcome the new male dominated IT sector - women don't show proper respect for our toys anyway.
Why was this modded funny? Quite a few people make a living that way, or at least they get some reward for the time they spent writing and maintaining the software.
I took the red nonpareil...
In related news, I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked,
that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83x9x12.
I repeat, nothing happened.
Please remain calm.
I think you're right; a simple Google search for "developers of the following leading software" turned up this site as one of the first results.
I believe the software is still there for sale. Or have I missed something?
If you compare their products page to the screenshot in TFA, you'll notice that the names and icons for some of the products have changed (e.g. "MailList King Pro" to "MailList Pro"). I can't say if they are still selling the same software under a different name, or if they have found someone else to trick.
And you can expect to see these at a local dealer soon. (at least Europe)
What, you mean it's not vaporware?
That would depend on your news server.
My provider's server has 14 c.db.postgresql.* groups.
And come to think of it, so does Google.