Since when was writing legislation an activity that needed to be overseen? You're worse than the commission itself.
Whether you like it or not, congress has the ultimate descision. If the bill has any implications that may be harmful to corporations or groups that are donors to congerssmen (ACLU or the Chinese Government,) chances are they'll vote against the bill. If enough of them vote against it, it won't become law.
The biggest problem in implementation is that you make life more difficult for the consumer by removing Media Player from Windows. Whether it's anti completive or not, I think it's safe to say that consumers prefer products with more features. Neither Media Player nor IE have stalled innovation in their respective markets, and overall, consumers have benefited from their stability/standardization.
I find it interesting that an algorithm that was originally for image noise reduction found it's way to Machine Learning through a company whose purpose is to impliment noise reduction in audio. From my Googling, I think this is the first time anyone has used Baysian Noise Reduction in Machine Learning. Does anyone know otherwise?
Why does anyone think this is a good thing? Video games suck up so much of your time and leave you with virtually nothing--a slightly faster reflex is not as desirable as the physical benefits from playing an athletic sport or the mental benefits from playing a mathematical table game like chess, backgammon, or poker. Gender equality isn't a good thing when it applies to something that's harmful. Comparatively, an increase in male prostitution is not a good thing just as an increase in female gang membership is also not a good thing. Mod as troll or flamebait if you wish, but I'd like to know why Slashdoters (and Slashdotrises) think this is positive.
With such bloated and obscure syntax in both the language and regular expressions, why do you think Perl 5 has become so popular? Once you've written a few programs in it, it is ULTRA EASY, ULTRA FAST and not hard to remember. An experienced Perl programmer could probablyl do almost any text processing task in a third of what it would take an expert C++ programmer to do. All of the bloat and lack of orthogonality and "bad design" paradoxically makes Perl 5 a fantastic language to program. I hope Wall doesn't mess this up...
I thought it was funny becuase there was a hint of truth in it. All facets of our life are quickly being tied into and run through the Internet. Posting on Slashdot and further developing the Internet is, in a sense, welcoming our new HTML overlords. It's funny and instightful because it was an unexpected truth wrapped in a Simpson's Quote/Slashdot Cliche.
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Why do we need more books on Practical C++? The language itself is very practal and just about every intermediat book on the langauge emphasizes these aspects. What we really need is books that emphasize the practical aspects of languages that aren't used commonly in practice--- Practical Python, Practical Haskell, etc...
Does anyone kwow whether a Grand Unified Theory would help this problem? I can see how it would explain these unseen forces but from what I've heard, proposed GUTs don't really deal with forcse other than EM, Gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Would a GUT help to explain the force that is currently said to be caused by dark matter? Thanks.
$20m is a very small amount of money to the government. If it serves as a good incentive for a company to make space travel more affordable, the government could recoup the $20m many times over.
There are a million fields in CS-- you can view them as points on a line that stretches from engineering to mathematics. The people who work in architecture are at the most extreme end of the engineering section. If you want to go into systems programming or into architecture, then I can see how would want to base everything off of asm. But if you specialize in ai, or algorithms, or theory, you really don't encounter assembly that often... for the most part, the need isn't there to develop extremely high performance, system dependent apps. In these fields, you could do of a cs curriculum (through graduate) entirely in Matlab, Prolog and ML. The emphasis is on the mathematical structures the program represents over how the computer actually deals with them.
On napster, you can only get semi commerical/commercial music. The average college student demands far more for a file sharing service. With high speed access, the tempation is still there to download movies/software/porn which can't be done on Napster. While the students are downloading movies/software/porn, what would stop them from picking up a few tunes along the way?
In 20 years, only managers will have jobs in the US, everyone else will work at Wallmart. Everything will be outsourced to India. Unfortunately for the Indians, they'll demand higher salleries so their jobs will be outsourced to low paid, highly educated people in china who won't demand higher pay out of fear of getting a bullet through the skull.
My parents were well over 8 years old when the original Star Wars' came out. More like 38 (+6 for Jedi). They still loved them.
Perhaps your parents got caught up in star wars b/c you enjoyed it so much... It's very easy to like something that was/is so popular.
Most people that never saw the first trilogy (yes, they exist) who have seen the new ones as adults don't think they're all that great. My folks can't stand them.
Exactly... you're grown up and so are they.
It has dick all to do with childhood memories, really, contrary to what every karma whore has posted to every single Star Wars story on Slashdot for the past 4 years.
Be careful.. being a karma whore does not imply you're wrong.
Kids will eat anything up and call it candy, that is correct. But Star Wars (ep 4-6) stood the test of time because more than just pre-pubescents thought it was good. Same can't be said for the new stuff, sorry.
There are tons of childrens movies that flop... Who's to say that ep 1-3 isn't having the same impact on today's kids.
If you're going after the historical angle, at least point out the fact that in 1977 no one had even attempted the special affects Lucas did, whereas the new ones could really have been made by anyone. That at least is an acceptable excuse. Star Wars WAS something special, for all ages seeing it. Ep 1/2 might as well have been Matrix sequels, really.
There are tons of movies with "unprecedented special effects" that no body remembers.
I know I'm getting for a head of myself but I think that the main reason that we'll all be disappointed in this movie is that we're no longer five to eight years old-- the age range Lucas says he's targeting. What looked exciting and heroic when you were five looks cheesy and predictable when you're 25.
What I'm really trying to say is that even if this next Star Wars is as good as the first three, no one posting on Slashdot will be able to connect with this movie the same way we did with the first three. I think that we still view them though the eyes of an eight year old and will never be able to recreate that outlook towards another movie of this genre again.
Sub IdioticSlashdotUser(Article) Begin
If Article.ArticleText contains "Israel"
Article.Reply("Israel Sucks")
Else
Article.Reply("My G4 Kicks Ass")
End End
As recent world history has shown us, despite all the scare-mongering over 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', the real agressors come from the country that makes and sells more weapons of mass destruction than all the rest of the countries combined.
This statement doesn't imply that the country that produces weapons is inherently aggressive. Look at TR's walk softly and carry a big stick approach for a counter example.
The Chinese obviously seek to use space for military purposes and not for enhancing the public good. The US has to protect its infrastructure while it continues to make scientific, peaceful advances in space. It would be foolish not take proactive approach to protecting critical infrastructure.
I'm all for freedom of expression, but the ability of organizations to control speech on their property is another right that government has. For instance, it would be ridiculous for the government to step in and tell companies that they are not allowed to tell their employees that badmouth the company. Similarly, restraints can ask disruptive customers to leave their establishment. There are exceptions-- these can't discriminate based on race, sex, etc.... The companies that make these video games have one objective: to make money. They have the right to modify these games in any way they choose, according to the contract made upon the user installing the game. Thus, to say that these companies have some duty to protect free speech at the expense of profits is wrong. If you want to spread racist propaganda, there are plenty of other places on the Internet to do it.
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Since when was writing legislation an activity that needed to be overseen? You're worse than the commission itself.
Whether you like it or not, congress has the ultimate descision. If the bill has any implications that may be harmful to corporations or groups that are donors to congerssmen (ACLU or the Chinese Government,) chances are they'll vote against the bill. If enough of them vote against it, it won't become law.
The biggest problem in implementation is that you make life more difficult for the consumer by removing Media Player from Windows. Whether it's anti completive or not, I think it's safe to say that consumers prefer products with more features. Neither Media Player nor IE have stalled innovation in their respective markets, and overall, consumers have benefited from their stability/standardization.
I find it interesting that an algorithm that was originally for image noise reduction found it's way to Machine Learning through a company whose purpose is to impliment noise reduction in audio. From my Googling, I think this is the first time anyone has used Baysian Noise Reduction in Machine Learning. Does anyone know otherwise?
Why does anyone think this is a good thing? Video games suck up so much of your time and leave you with virtually nothing--a slightly faster reflex is not as desirable as the physical benefits from playing an athletic sport or the mental benefits from playing a mathematical table game like chess, backgammon, or poker. Gender equality isn't a good thing when it applies to something that's harmful. Comparatively, an increase in male prostitution is not a good thing just as an increase in female gang membership is also not a good thing. Mod as troll or flamebait if you wish, but I'd like to know why Slashdoters (and Slashdotrises) think this is positive.
you seriously think the government can "provide" a standard of living to a billion people
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It's a communist government. That's their job
Mod parent up!
It was a University of Washington study. The website is just reporting the results.
Supremum labs has released everything they promised plus or minus epsilon.
With such bloated and obscure syntax in both the language and regular expressions, why do you think Perl 5 has become so popular? Once you've written a few programs in it, it is ULTRA EASY, ULTRA FAST and not hard to remember. An experienced Perl programmer could probablyl do almost any text processing task in a third of what it would take an expert C++ programmer to do. All of the bloat and lack of orthogonality and "bad design" paradoxically makes Perl 5 a fantastic language to program. I hope Wall doesn't mess this up...
I thought it was funny becuase there was a hint of truth in it. All facets of our life are quickly being tied into and run through the Internet. Posting on Slashdot and further developing the Internet is, in a sense, welcoming our new HTML overlords. It's funny and instightful because it was an unexpected truth wrapped in a Simpson's Quote/Slashdot Cliche.
Why do we need more books on Practical C++? The language itself is very practal and just about every intermediat book on the langauge emphasizes these aspects. What we really need is books that emphasize the practical aspects of languages that aren't used commonly in practice--- Practical Python, Practical Haskell, etc...
There will soon be more web pages indexed in Google than people. I, for one, welcome our HTML overlords!
Does anyone kwow whether a Grand Unified Theory would help this problem? I can see how it would explain these unseen forces but from what I've heard, proposed GUTs don't really deal with forcse other than EM, Gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Would a GUT help to explain the force that is currently said to be caused by dark matter? Thanks.
$20m is a very small amount of money to the government. If it serves as a good incentive for a company to make space travel more affordable, the government could recoup the $20m many times over.
The use of the name "Heather" in regards to a school student has an interesting precedent.
Imperative languages are based on the Von Neumann machine.
Functional langauges are based on the lambda calculus.
Declartive langauges are based on some extension of propositional logic.
There are a million fields in CS-- you can view them as points on a line that stretches from engineering to mathematics. The people who work in architecture are at the most extreme end of the engineering section. If you want to go into systems programming or into architecture, then I can see how would want to base everything off of asm. But if you specialize in ai, or algorithms, or theory, you really don't encounter assembly that often... for the most part, the need isn't there to develop extremely high performance, system dependent apps. In these fields, you could do of a cs curriculum (through graduate) entirely in Matlab, Prolog and ML. The emphasis is on the mathematical structures the program represents over how the computer actually deals with them.
On napster, you can only get semi commerical/commercial music. The average college student demands far more for a file sharing service. With high speed access, the tempation is still there to download movies/software/porn which can't be done on Napster. While the students are downloading movies/software/porn, what would stop them from picking up a few tunes along the way?
In 20 years, only managers will have jobs in the US, everyone else will work at Wallmart. Everything will be outsourced to India. Unfortunately for the Indians, they'll demand higher salleries so their jobs will be outsourced to low paid, highly educated people in china who won't demand higher pay out of fear of getting a bullet through the skull.
My parents were well over 8 years old when the original Star Wars' came out. More like 38 (+6 for Jedi). They still loved them.
Perhaps your parents got caught up in star wars b/c you enjoyed it so much... It's very easy to like something that was/is so popular.
Most people that never saw the first trilogy (yes, they exist) who have seen the new ones as adults don't think they're all that great. My folks can't stand them.
Exactly... you're grown up and so are they.
It has dick all to do with childhood memories, really, contrary to what every karma whore has posted to every single Star Wars story on Slashdot for the past 4 years.
Be careful.. being a karma whore does not imply you're wrong.
Kids will eat anything up and call it candy, that is correct. But Star Wars (ep 4-6) stood the test of time because more than just pre-pubescents thought it was good. Same can't be said for the new stuff, sorry.
There are tons of childrens movies that flop... Who's to say that ep 1-3 isn't having the same impact on today's kids.
If you're going after the historical angle, at least point out the fact that in 1977 no one had even attempted the special affects Lucas did, whereas the new ones could really have been made by anyone. That at least is an acceptable excuse. Star Wars WAS something special, for all ages seeing it. Ep 1/2 might as well have been Matrix sequels, really.
There are tons of movies with "unprecedented special effects" that no body remembers.
I know I'm getting for a head of myself but I think that the main reason that we'll all be disappointed in this movie is that we're no longer five to eight years old-- the age range Lucas says he's targeting. What looked exciting and heroic when you were five looks cheesy and predictable when you're 25.
What I'm really trying to say is that even if this next Star Wars is as good as the first three, no one posting on Slashdot will be able to connect with this movie the same way we did with the first three. I think that we still view them though the eyes of an eight year old and will never be able to recreate that outlook towards another movie of this genre again.
Sounds too close to Person First Shooter for my comfort.
Sub IdioticSlashdotUser(Article)
Begin
If Article.ArticleText contains "Israel"
Article.Reply("Israel Sucks")
Else
Article.Reply("My G4 Kicks Ass")
End
End
As recent world history has shown us, despite all the scare-mongering over 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', the real agressors come from the country that makes and sells more weapons of mass destruction than all the rest of the countries combined.
This statement doesn't imply that the country that produces weapons is inherently aggressive. Look at TR's walk softly and carry a big stick approach for a counter example.
The Chinese obviously seek to use space for military purposes and not for enhancing the public good. The US has to protect its infrastructure while it continues to make scientific, peaceful advances in space. It would be foolish not take proactive approach to protecting critical infrastructure.
I'm all for freedom of expression, but the ability of organizations to control speech on their property is another right that government has. For instance, it would be ridiculous for the government to step in and tell companies that they are not allowed to tell their employees that badmouth the company. Similarly, restraints can ask disruptive customers to leave their establishment. There are exceptions-- these can't discriminate based on race, sex, etc.... The companies that make these video games have one objective: to make money. They have the right to modify these games in any way they choose, according to the contract made upon the user installing the game. Thus, to say that these companies have some duty to protect free speech at the expense of profits is wrong. If you want to spread racist propaganda, there are plenty of other places on the Internet to do it.