Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five? Canyonero! Canyonero! Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown Canyonero! Canyonero! Hey, hey! Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, Sixty five tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero! Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts! Canyonero! Canyonero! She blinds everybody with her super high beams She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero! Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
The US requirement for Interstate highways is 12 feet per lane, making the Canyonero an impressive 24 feet wide.
I'd like to second the comments made here - while it's an interesting concept, the entire game is severely crippled by the poor controls. I would much rather see a system where you select a shape and then can use keyboard controls or rotation selections from a palette to manipulate that one shape. Make the shadow of the selected shape a different color (if possible) to indicate which shape is selected.
Also, make camera panning a special mode that you have to activate separately, so that you don't sit there whirling about while you're trying to click on a shape.
I liked most of the endings. The one that I thought was poorly cut was where Frodo and Sam are on that rock in the middle of a bunch of lava, crying and blubbering and whatnot, and the screen fades to black.... and then fades back in, to the same shot of them still blubbering on the same damn rock!
The electoral college has really only played a minor role in filtering the will of the people into a result for who ends up being US President. ("Minor" meaning situations where popular and electoral votes don't exactly reflect each other, while "Major" means mass chaos in the electoral system of the sort that would be akin to what the EU ministers did.)
However, electors *have* cast votes for a different candidate than the one they were expected to vote for. Tennessee in 1948 is one example.
You obviously have no idea just how much government money goes into research and academic projects of all sorts. The government is probably the most impartial funding agency out there - moreso with NSF as opposed to DoD, of course.
Not a flaw. When dealing w/ GAs, one needs to create the initial generation somehow, and using 'randomly generated' GAs provides a good start that is statistically unlikely to be biased or stuck in a local maxima/minima.
Except that wasn't what the poster was getting at - he was noting that the trials provided to the GA were essentially random, and didn't necessarily reflect what the cache is likely to see IRL.
I suspect, however, that this is an error in the NS article, and that the data sets *were* tuned to particular situations.
On a side note, some of the research our group is doing suggests that random initial populations in GAs can hinder the search, and that the first portion of the search is relatively indistinguishable from random search, because the fitness in most problems is flat over large portions of the search space. If you do know something general about the solution to the problem, it might not be a bad idea to seed the initial population with that knowledge.
This goes right next to the cases of people who get fired for bringing their new cell phone to work because their office is a security-tight "no camera zone" and their new phone just happens to be a cameraphone model.
It seems like a camera-phone is an even worse security threat than either a cell phone or a camera alone, because it combines visual surveillance with instant transmission.
It doesn't matter whether some guy thinks they're terrorists or not - let facts speak for themself:
At that time, the Greenpeace vessel caused a collision with our research ship. Greenpeace activities caused damage to property and included theft of personal property and trespassing.
I'd very much like to try out this game, but already being a subscriber to two other MMOGs, I don't want to spend $50 on a box for a game I won't play past the trial period.
I mean, EQ is finally letting you download the original game and first two expansions for free, plus giving a free month to go along with it. CoH could make some serious inroads in dissatisfied players of EQ and other games if they quickly followed suit.
Additionally, China is putting approximately three metric assloads more cars on their roads per day, every one of which is under the thumb of some not-very-restrictive emissions control standards. Increased demand in China has been cited as a major reason for the increase in gasoline prices worldwide.
I have found whois information to be useful in helping me determine the validity of several mom-and-pop Internet stores. It's also come in handy for providing leads (sometimes forged, yes, but many times even forged info provides a good lead) for tracking down spammers and their employers.
I'd consider it a loss if the validity requirements on whois degenerated any further than they already have.
Exactly. As long as the EPA maintains a *consistent* test, the test serves its purpose - which is to provide a basis for comparing the mileage that various makes of car will get.
The reason that universities want to prohibit using WAPs in dorm rooms is because it's a security risk. Some wardriver can come along and infect the network with the latest worm that would ordinarily be blocked at the firewall. Prohibiting WAPs altogether is a lot easier than permitting WAPs but not permitting them to be attached to the campus network, at least in terms of detection and enforcement.
At CMU and other schools offering campus-wide wireless access, there's really no *need* to run your own WAP unless for some strange reason you don't want to register your wireless NICs with campus IT. But I suppose this ruling would allow you to do so anyway.
The best thing about this was that the public outcry worked enough to demand a statement from the artists (or at least the artists' minders). It shows that the RIAA model of distrusting the customer is flawed, and that the people still have some power. Perhaps in the future, the awareness of this sort of malware will help prevent it from propagating further.
However, this has very little impact on selection, since most people at that age no longer reproduce (either because they can't, in the case of women, or because they seldom find partners of reproductive age, in the case of men).
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Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
Sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
She blinds everybody with her super high beams
She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!
Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!
The US requirement for Interstate highways is 12 feet per lane, making the Canyonero an impressive 24 feet wide.
I'd like to second the comments made here - while it's an interesting concept, the entire game is severely crippled by the poor controls. I would much rather see a system where you select a shape and then can use keyboard controls or rotation selections from a palette to manipulate that one shape. Make the shadow of the selected shape a different color (if possible) to indicate which shape is selected.
Also, make camera panning a special mode that you have to activate separately, so that you don't sit there whirling about while you're trying to click on a shape.
This was removed to appease goverment regulators in the USofC(ensorship).
Last I checked, the only regulations governing computer games in the US are self-imposed by the games industry.
I liked most of the endings. The one that I thought was poorly cut was where Frodo and Sam are on that rock in the middle of a bunch of lava, crying and blubbering and whatnot, and the screen fades to black.... and then fades back in, to the same shot of them still blubbering on the same damn rock!
The electoral college has really only played a minor role in filtering the will of the people into a result for who ends up being US President. ("Minor" meaning situations where popular and electoral votes don't exactly reflect each other, while "Major" means mass chaos in the electoral system of the sort that would be akin to what the EU ministers did.)
However, electors *have* cast votes for a different candidate than the one they were expected to vote for. Tennessee in 1948 is one example.
See here or here for more details.
You obviously have no idea just how much government money goes into research and academic projects of all sorts. The government is probably the most impartial funding agency out there - moreso with NSF as opposed to DoD, of course.
Not a flaw. When dealing w/ GAs, one needs to create the initial generation somehow, and using 'randomly generated' GAs provides a good start that is statistically unlikely to be biased or stuck in a local maxima/minima.
Except that wasn't what the poster was getting at - he was noting that the trials provided to the GA were essentially random, and didn't necessarily reflect what the cache is likely to see IRL.
I suspect, however, that this is an error in the NS article, and that the data sets *were* tuned to particular situations.
On a side note, some of the research our group is doing suggests that random initial populations in GAs can hinder the search, and that the first portion of the search is relatively indistinguishable from random search, because the fitness in most problems is flat over large portions of the search space. If you do know something general about the solution to the problem, it might not be a bad idea to seed the initial population with that knowledge.
This goes right next to the cases of people who get fired for bringing their new cell phone to work because their office is a security-tight "no camera zone" and their new phone just happens to be a cameraphone model.
It seems like a camera-phone is an even worse security threat than either a cell phone or a camera alone, because it combines visual surveillance with instant transmission.
Perhaps it's the government that payed Greenpeace for it's crime? Gee, I wonder!?
I'll take "Ways Not to Enhance Your Credibility" for $200, Alex.
It doesn't matter whether some guy thinks they're terrorists or not - let facts speak for themself:
At that time, the Greenpeace vessel caused a collision with our research ship. Greenpeace activities caused damage to property and included theft of personal property and trespassing.
And here I thought Genesis was planet forbidden.
Or, you could just turn down your detail settings... for free.
2- they install patches on Tuesdays.. rather than on Friday and hose it for the weekend.
Notice how those contrast with EQ...
EQ usually patches late late on Tuesday nights.
I'd very much like to try out this game, but already being a subscriber to two other MMOGs, I don't want to spend $50 on a box for a game I won't play past the trial period.
I mean, EQ is finally letting you download the original game and first two expansions for free, plus giving a free month to go along with it. CoH could make some serious inroads in dissatisfied players of EQ and other games if they quickly followed suit.
Additionally, China is putting approximately three metric assloads more cars on their roads per day, every one of which is under the thumb of some not-very-restrictive emissions control standards. Increased demand in China has been cited as a major reason for the increase in gasoline prices worldwide.
Or, hacking into accounts on other computers whose users use the same usernames/passwords as on the machine whose /etc/shadow was obtained.
Hence, the Americans (and Daleks) with Disabilities Act.
I have found whois information to be useful in helping me determine the validity of several mom-and-pop Internet stores. It's also come in handy for providing leads (sometimes forged, yes, but many times even forged info provides a good lead) for tracking down spammers and their employers.
I'd consider it a loss if the validity requirements on whois degenerated any further than they already have.
Exactly. As long as the EPA maintains a *consistent* test, the test serves its purpose - which is to provide a basis for comparing the mileage that various makes of car will get.
The reason that universities want to prohibit using WAPs in dorm rooms is because it's a security risk. Some wardriver can come along and infect the network with the latest worm that would ordinarily be blocked at the firewall. Prohibiting WAPs altogether is a lot easier than permitting WAPs but not permitting them to be attached to the campus network, at least in terms of detection and enforcement.
At CMU and other schools offering campus-wide wireless access, there's really no *need* to run your own WAP unless for some strange reason you don't want to register your wireless NICs with campus IT. But I suppose this ruling would allow you to do so anyway.
Especially since a username and password will undoubtedly be written on the back of the device with a Sharpie.
Well, I hope it was more significant than what you say. But at the very least, it was a blip on somebody's radar.
The best thing about this was that the public outcry worked enough to demand a statement from the artists (or at least the artists' minders). It shows that the RIAA model of distrusting the customer is flawed, and that the people still have some power. Perhaps in the future, the awareness of this sort of malware will help prevent it from propagating further.
However, this has very little impact on selection, since most people at that age no longer reproduce (either because they can't, in the case of women, or because they seldom find partners of reproductive age, in the case of men).
Correctly identifying yourself when you have outstanding warrants can also lead to an acquittal. It is not by itself a self-incriminating act.