To bad you're not smart enough to know how to use a bank, dumbass.
But I guess we'll see if you're ability to spell, punctuate, and use correct grammar beats out my ability to use tools like "student loans" and "sepulchering software" (btw, there is nothing wrong with my grammar, and little with my punctuation. AFAIK)
I've also held down a part time job making $21/hr, as a which easily would have covered my education expenses. (as a VB programmer for the Student Loan company, ironically)
If you're an American (I'm assuming you are) the only reason not to get a university is general stupidity.
There are really two classes of achievers. One is the one whose driven to bear the fruits of their mind. The other is driven to do the best he can at whatever task they are put to. That second class will have high GPAs, the first will have GPAs that are lower then what they could have if they worked harder.
I would say that most innovation comes from the first class, but that a lot of success and wealth is generated by the second class (often times by exploiting the first class, but hey)
It seems like these guys spent a lot of time optimizing for Java, only to see it get the smack down. Of course, there is the issue of how competent they were, but the fact remains that.net is apparently faster for this kind of thing.
Its kind of crappy that they couldn't name app servers due to 'server B's license, especially since Server B sucked so bad...
Universities don't own the ideas that students come up with on their own, outside of class, only things that you need to turn into the school. For example, a project you wrote for class could be sold by the school, but something you wrote in your dorm room in your spare time would be yours.
Has anyone else noticed this sort of 'stratification' of the student housing on various campuses? Here at ISU they're building a lot of these 'student sweets' that cost more then regular dorms. I think its kind of sad, as one of the most interesting things about collage life is that for the most part its a true meritocracy, and you get to meet people from all different walks of life and social backgrounds (and, once you get out you're all mostly on the same playing field, depending on how well you did:P)
Now we add these stratifications, and... I donno it just seems wrong and in the least unnecessary.
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Anyway, a more specific comment about this dorm. All I can say is 'belch' The business world will be soul sucking enough when I get out of collage. To me collage is supposed to be about learning and academia. Not about becoming the next money grubbing enronite. The whole 'money money money gimmy gimmy gimmy' culture is just so repulsive. I mean, I understand the desire for money, I do. I really do like money... (hell, just look at my sig : P). But this thing sounds like it's a breading ground for the kinds of people who put money above everything else, including the value to society. Lots of people would love to stifle innovation and humanity for profits (just look at the RIAA, Enron's roll in the California energy crisis, Microsoft, etc)
I guess I wish more people would try to think more of their impact on society rather then how much money they make. You can make a lot of money while making the world a better place (i.e. google, as a simple example) but the two things are not intrinsically bound.
I think this school should be more worried about teaching it's business students humanity rather then trying to shove them off into the dog-eat-dog world as soon as possible.
Just goes to show you how little the left has learned, and how narrow their view of 9/11 has become. The lesson of 9/11 was not about just one nation, or one group, it is about the danger of ignoring clear and gathering dangers in this age of uber-fanatics waging asymmetrical warfare. It was about soberly looking at situations and heading them off before they happen, rather than hoping against hope that we'll get really lucky and intercept that nuke before they happen.
So I take it you favor castrating all men because some of them rape?
Ah, rather then actually try link Saddam to 9/11 you merely say that it doesn't matter if he was involved or not, it was 'bad' and Saddam is also 'bad' therefore Saddam must go. Well, excuse me if I don't fall for such moronic logic. There is no relation between Saddam and 9/11, so whatever happened on 9/11 is not a reasonable argument for discussing Saddam. Would your argument work if there had never been a 9/11? If not, then it shouldn't work now.
Oh, cry for me. Preemptive attacks are an extremely common occurance throughout history.
Preemptive strikes by the US are not a common occurrence. In fact they have never happened. This will be the first time ever.
Hold your horses, dude, Kim Jong Il (sp?) is simply NOT insane, I don't know where you got that.
It isn't obvious
As for your point, he may be a brutal dictator, but he's never (to our knowledge) used chemical weapons on his own people
Would you rather be gassed to death or die of starvation? "conservatives" love bash Mao for killing tens of millions of people even though the vast majority died due to poor planning then to any malicious act. The thing is, South Korea has more then enough material wealth to go around, and could easily provide for everyone. Yet he belligerently holds power, and rebuffs opportunities to open his country. While at the same time letting people starve to death. He's killed far more of "his own" then Saddam ever will.
he doesn't assassinate foreign leaders,
Yes he does.
he doesn't invade his neighbors every chance he gets,
Well, how do you define chance? I don't think he's ever had the 'chance', as S.K and the US would crush him at the first opportunity. Similarly, Iraq has not invaded a single country in the last 10 years.
and he doesn't fund Palestinian terrorist
But they do sell advanced weapons technology to countries like Iran.
or have regular pow-wows with top Al Qaeda and other terrorist functionaries.
There is no evidence that Saddam does this either.
In any event, none of this has said has any baring on wether or not KJI is insane only wether or not he is more bad then Saddam. You can in fact be very nice, and still very insane.
Why do I think KJI is insane? Well, would a sane person kidnap Japanese film makers and force them to do remakes of Godzilla? Would a sane person run their country into the ground causing mass starvation while at the same time building some of the most advanced missile technology on earth (and almost nothing else) Would a sane man ban pregnant women from the capital city? Would a sane man allow said Japanese kidnap victims to return home with his face pinned to their clothing while keeping their family members back home? Would a sane man give out medals to peaces of machinery? Would a sane man preside over one of the most orwelian places on earth? Seriously, how can you call KJI sane with a straight face?
It seems like you're more ignorant that anything else.
except aggressively invade their neighboring countries, refuse to disarm, and use poison gas on their own inhabitants
Did you forget that we supported Saddam during all of that and even gave him 'permission' before invading Kuwait? SD hasn't done anything like that since the end of the gulf war over 10 years ago.
Hell, why don't we just invade Japan again for Perl harbor. Sure it was a while ago, but hey.
Doing bad things with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons before we knew the dire consequences of using them is one thing. But it is another thing to use such weapons on civilians when you know exactly what the effects will be.
So you're saying it's somehow more morally acceptable to experiment on unwitting people who have done nothing to you then it is use tested and proven poisons on people who are in the middle of an uprising? It's not like Saddam was out gassing people for fun, "His own people" were trying to overthrow him.
We used biological, chemical, and radiological substances we thought would hurt people on innocent people to make sure it worked. Saddam used weapons on people trying to overthrow him. One of them is worse then the other, and it isn't Saddam
When I first read that, I thought they had invented some way to put OLEDs on paper not written a paper about OLEDs:P
Well, one can dream, can't that? (Actualy, that can't be to far off. IIRC you can 'print' plastic on paper, and people have made electrically conductive plastic, if they could be merged with OLEDs....)
Hehe, how cool would it be to be able to buy a off-the-shelf ink jet printer and print electrical circuits, with built in OLED displays and all kinds of other craziness:)
Well, if you whent around putting image links to/dev/zero, I doubt many people would visit your website anyway.
And secondly, if you're making raw HTTP connections to the client (which they probably are, to fake the browser version) then there is no way to download anything that isn't on your computer. And, they don't even need to actually download it, they can just ignore whatever comes back from the pipe. As long as they make a request, it's in the logs.
Ultimately, there is no real way to tell the difference between a refer-spammer making a request and a regular user.
The exact opposite for me. Spammers finaly figured out one of my new email address on my own mail server, I'm guessing through 'name combinations' (IE they know my domain, they know my name, and they spam every combination)
For one thing, I only get about 2-3 legit emails a day, vs 20-30 spams.
On the other hand, I usually get a few thousand refer logs, and I *already* get a bunch of bogus refer logs from buggy browsers or something (like, a refer from a site I link to, I guess from people hitting the back button, that kind of thing).
On the other hand, I could see how it could get annoying for small sites.
The "solution" you mentioned wouldn't really work, as the spammers could simply download your images as well.
A more effective way to block these would be to scan sites in your logs and check to see if they link to you. It might take a while for huge sites, but then huge sites probably don't look through their refer logs as much.
OTOH, you would miss out on hits from sites that have random URLs or that kind of thing (like goggle's 'get lucky button')
Mac OSX must truly be an amazing piece of technology. Every single article here on slashdot portrays it in a positive light, along with apple technology as well. Hell, even Apples advertisements receive glowing praise here.
Since we know Slashdot would never, ever be unbiased in any way, its clear that apple has produced a superior product. Oh, the GUI and other components aren't open source or anything like that. But look, eye candy!
We don't know the mind works, no. But what we do know is the mechanism by which it works. There is absolutly no reason to think that the brain can't be modeled on a turing machine.
What you just said makes no sense. Memory 'optimization'? optimization on what vector? (size, speed of access, what?)
The only thing I can think of is like garbage collection or fragmentation... but memory is linear not 2dimensional. You don't need to 'rotate' anything.
You don't know much about CS or Tetris, actualy.
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Tetris is all about putting things where they fit, not some grand master strategy.
Actually, Tetris is all about risk management. See my other post on the subject. Once you get good at fitting the pieces together, the game becomes a question of figuring how risky building (and destroying) certain structures is, based on the probability of getting a long, or L shape.
And us biological constructs have an advantage, where we can more or less decide on the fly if X piece will fit decently enough in Y hole without having to go through a bajillion IF-THEN logic loops.
Hrm... What is an "if-then" loop?
Seriously though, in this case it shouldn't take more then a handful of loops and conditionals to figure out if a piece fits somewhere.
Playing Tetris is not actually a hard problem for a computer. NP-Hard and 'hard for a computer' are totally different things.
In general, the only reason human brains are better at some kinds of problems then computers is because computers are simply more limited in processing power. It would take thousands upon thousands of PCs hooked together to equal one human brain in terms of raw processing power.
(I've heard estimates that PCs will equal the human mind in 20 years, figuring with Moore's law, that would mean the human brain is about 2^13 times more powerful then a PC, or 8192 times)
Computational theory applies to all computing devices, including brains and other neural networks.
If something is NP-hard for a circuit, its NP hard for a brain too.
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To bad you're not smart enough to know how to use a bank, dumbass.
But I guess we'll see if you're ability to spell, punctuate, and use correct grammar beats out my ability to use tools like "student loans" and "sepulchering software" (btw, there is nothing wrong with my grammar, and little with my punctuation. AFAIK)
I've also held down a part time job making $21/hr, as a which easily would have covered my education expenses. (as a VB programmer for the Student Loan company, ironically)
If you're an American (I'm assuming you are) the only reason not to get a university is general stupidity.
But congratulations on your grammar.
There are really two classes of achievers. One is the one whose driven to bear the fruits of their mind. The other is driven to do the best he can at whatever task they are put to. That second class will have high GPAs, the first will have GPAs that are lower then what they could have if they worked harder.
I would say that most innovation comes from the first class, but that a lot of success and wealth is generated by the second class (often times by exploiting the first class, but hey)
My school gave me a wooden desk. Plywood, sure, but still :P
Well, it was in my dorm room anyway, I guess they didn't really give it to me.
And yeah, these kids are pussies. I say let the company make enough money to afford the leather chairs and nice desks before it gets 'em : P
Also your porn site sucks.
It seems like these guys spent a lot of time optimizing for Java, only to see it get the smack down. Of course, there is the issue of how competent they were, but the fact remains that .net is apparently faster for this kind of thing.
Its kind of crappy that they couldn't name app servers due to 'server B's license, especially since Server B sucked so bad...
Only worked for a while. But who would have anticipated Microsoft writing less buggy software then their competitors?
Universities don't own the ideas that students come up with on their own, outside of class, only things that you need to turn into the school. For example, a project you wrote for class could be sold by the school, but something you wrote in your dorm room in your spare time would be yours.
Has anyone else noticed this sort of 'stratification' of the student housing on various campuses? Here at ISU they're building a lot of these 'student sweets' that cost more then regular dorms. I think its kind of sad, as one of the most interesting things about collage life is that for the most part its a true meritocracy, and you get to meet people from all different walks of life and social backgrounds (and, once you get out you're all mostly on the same playing field, depending on how well you did :P)
Now we add these stratifications, and... I donno it just seems wrong and in the least unnecessary.
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Anyway, a more specific comment about this dorm. All I can say is 'belch' The business world will be soul sucking enough when I get out of collage. To me collage is supposed to be about learning and academia. Not about becoming the next money grubbing enronite. The whole 'money money money gimmy gimmy gimmy' culture is just so repulsive. I mean, I understand the desire for money, I do. I really do like money... (hell, just look at my sig : P). But this thing sounds like it's a breading ground for the kinds of people who put money above everything else, including the value to society. Lots of people would love to stifle innovation and humanity for profits (just look at the RIAA, Enron's roll in the California energy crisis, Microsoft, etc)
I guess I wish more people would try to think more of their impact on society rather then how much money they make. You can make a lot of money while making the world a better place (i.e. google, as a simple example) but the two things are not intrinsically bound.
I think this school should be more worried about teaching it's business students humanity rather then trying to shove them off into the dog-eat-dog world as soon as possible.
Just goes to show you how little the left has learned, and how narrow their view of 9/11 has become. The lesson of 9/11 was not about just one nation, or one group, it is about the danger of ignoring clear and gathering dangers in this age of uber-fanatics waging asymmetrical warfare. It was about soberly looking at situations and heading them off before they happen, rather than hoping against hope that we'll get really lucky and intercept that nuke before they happen.
So I take it you favor castrating all men because some of them rape?
Ah, rather then actually try link Saddam to 9/11 you merely say that it doesn't matter if he was involved or not, it was 'bad' and Saddam is also 'bad' therefore Saddam must go. Well, excuse me if I don't fall for such moronic logic. There is no relation between Saddam and 9/11, so whatever happened on 9/11 is not a reasonable argument for discussing Saddam. Would your argument work if there had never been a 9/11? If not, then it shouldn't work now.
Oh, cry for me. Preemptive attacks are an extremely common occurance throughout history.
Preemptive strikes by the US are not a common occurrence. In fact they have never happened. This will be the first time ever.
Hold your horses, dude, Kim Jong Il (sp?) is simply NOT insane, I don't know where you got that.
It isn't obvious
As for your point, he may be a brutal dictator, but he's never (to our knowledge) used chemical weapons on his own people
Would you rather be gassed to death or die of starvation? "conservatives" love bash Mao for killing tens of millions of people even though the vast majority died due to poor planning then to any malicious act. The thing is, South Korea has more then enough material wealth to go around, and could easily provide for everyone. Yet he belligerently holds power, and rebuffs opportunities to open his country. While at the same time letting people starve to death. He's killed far more of "his own" then Saddam ever will.
he doesn't assassinate foreign leaders,
Yes he does.
he doesn't invade his neighbors every chance he gets,
Well, how do you define chance? I don't think he's ever had the 'chance', as S.K and the US would crush him at the first opportunity. Similarly, Iraq has not invaded a single country in the last 10 years.
and he doesn't fund Palestinian terrorist
But they do sell advanced weapons technology to countries like Iran.
or have regular pow-wows with top Al Qaeda and other terrorist functionaries.
There is no evidence that Saddam does this either.
In any event, none of this has said has any baring on wether or not KJI is insane only wether or not he is more bad then Saddam. You can in fact be very nice, and still very insane.
Why do I think KJI is insane? Well, would a sane person kidnap Japanese film makers and force them to do remakes of Godzilla? Would a sane person run their country into the ground causing mass starvation while at the same time building some of the most advanced missile technology on earth (and almost nothing else) Would a sane man ban pregnant women from the capital city? Would a sane man allow said Japanese kidnap victims to return home with his face pinned to their clothing while keeping their family members back home? Would a sane man give out medals to peaces of machinery? Would a sane man preside over one of the most orwelian places on earth? Seriously, how can you call KJI sane with a straight face?
It seems like you're more ignorant that anything else.
Christ, dude, don't you get it? The whole 9/11 thing?
Hrm, I don't remember iraq having anything to do with that.
Anyway, if we do go to war with iraq, it will be the first unprovoked attack by the United States in its history.
If we're so woried about nuclear terrorism, why don't we go after North Korea, who's leader is actualy insane, and actualy working on nukes.
except aggressively invade their neighboring countries, refuse to disarm, and use poison gas on their own inhabitants
Did you forget that we supported Saddam during all of that and even gave him 'permission' before invading Kuwait? SD hasn't done anything like that since the end of the gulf war over 10 years ago.
Hell, why don't we just invade Japan again for Perl harbor. Sure it was a while ago, but hey.
As what happened in Europe. Were talking about the destruction of entire cities, the loss of tens of millions of people, both civilian and soldier.
It doesn't help that those two incidents are the only incidents in the past hundred years or so.
Damn dude, he gassed "His own people" not "his own innocent people". They were in the process of trying to overthrow him.
Not that he's a nice guy or anything. But attacking people after your head is hardly the zenith of immorality.
Doing bad things with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons before we knew the dire consequences of using them is one thing. But it is another thing to use such weapons on civilians when you know exactly what the effects will be.
So you're saying it's somehow more morally acceptable to experiment on unwitting people who have done nothing to you then it is use tested and proven poisons on people who are in the middle of an uprising? It's not like Saddam was out gassing people for fun, "His own people" were trying to overthrow him.
We used biological, chemical, and radiological substances we thought would hurt people on innocent people to make sure it worked. Saddam used weapons on people trying to overthrow him. One of them is worse then the other, and it isn't Saddam
That guys' name was 'Junis' not 'Junti'.
CDT's technology paper on light emitting polymers
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When I first read that, I thought they had invented some way to put OLEDs on paper not written a paper about OLEDs
Well, one can dream, can't that? (Actualy, that can't be to far off. IIRC you can 'print' plastic on paper, and people have made electrically conductive plastic, if they could be merged with OLEDs....)
Hehe, how cool would it be to be able to buy a off-the-shelf ink jet printer and print electrical circuits, with built in OLED displays and all kinds of other craziness
Well, if you whent around putting image links to /dev/zero, I doubt many people would visit your website anyway.
And secondly, if you're making raw HTTP connections to the client (which they probably are, to fake the browser version) then there is no way to download anything that isn't on your computer. And, they don't even need to actually download it, they can just ignore whatever comes back from the pipe. As long as they make a request, it's in the logs.
Ultimately, there is no real way to tell the difference between a refer-spammer making a request and a regular user.
The exact opposite for me. Spammers finaly figured out one of my new email address on my own mail server, I'm guessing through 'name combinations' (IE they know my domain, they know my name, and they spam every combination)
Yeah, I havn't been getting much spam in my hotmail box anymore. But then again I did block all email into the thing...
For one thing, I only get about 2-3 legit emails a day, vs 20-30 spams.
On the other hand, I usually get a few thousand refer logs, and I *already* get a bunch of bogus refer logs from buggy browsers or something (like, a refer from a site I link to, I guess from people hitting the back button, that kind of thing).
On the other hand, I could see how it could get annoying for small sites.
The "solution" you mentioned wouldn't really work, as the spammers could simply download your images as well.
A more effective way to block these would be to scan sites in your logs and check to see if they link to you. It might take a while for huge sites, but then huge sites probably don't look through their refer logs as much.
OTOH, you would miss out on hits from sites that have random URLs or that kind of thing (like goggle's 'get lucky button')
Mac OSX must truly be an amazing piece of technology. Every single article here on slashdot portrays it in a positive light, along with apple technology as well. Hell, even Apples advertisements receive glowing praise here.
Since we know Slashdot would never, ever be unbiased in any way, its clear that apple has produced a superior product. Oh, the GUI and other components aren't open source or anything like that. But look, eye candy!
Just keep giving it those * :P
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Peices. You'll never get a tetris that way
We don't know the mind works, no. But what we do know is the mechanism by which it works. There is absolutly no reason to think that the brain can't be modeled on a turing machine.
It just gets harder and faster untill you die.
/ernie cline. :P
Just. Like. Life.
What you just said makes no sense. Memory 'optimization'? optimization on what vector? (size, speed of access, what?)
The only thing I can think of is like garbage collection or fragmentation... but memory is linear not 2dimensional. You don't need to 'rotate' anything.
Tetris is all about putting things where they fit, not some grand master strategy.
Actually, Tetris is all about risk management. See my other post on the subject. Once you get good at fitting the pieces together, the game becomes a question of figuring how risky building (and destroying) certain structures is, based on the probability of getting a long, or L shape.
And us biological constructs have an advantage, where we can more or less decide on the fly if X piece will fit decently enough in Y hole without having to go through a bajillion IF-THEN logic loops.
Hrm... What is an "if-then" loop?
Seriously though, in this case it shouldn't take more then a handful of loops and conditionals to figure out if a piece fits somewhere.
Playing Tetris is not actually a hard problem for a computer. NP-Hard and 'hard for a computer' are totally different things.
In general, the only reason human brains are better at some kinds of problems then computers is because computers are simply more limited in processing power. It would take thousands upon thousands of PCs hooked together to equal one human brain in terms of raw processing power.
(I've heard estimates that PCs will equal the human mind in 20 years, figuring with Moore's law, that would mean the human brain is about 2^13 times more powerful then a PC, or 8192 times)
Computational theory applies to all computing devices, including brains and other neural networks.
If something is NP-hard for a circuit, its NP hard for a brain too.