He may be the long-lost identical twin who happens to have the same name. But then, he probably deserves to be
sued because one of the twins is usually evil.
Why fight them? We can upload our minds into the process distributed inside the bugs' network and finally leave this god-forsaken corner of Virgo, and move into Shapley, where all the action is.
This is because college was hard, and you had to be of above average intelligence to be able to graduate.
You are just making it up. There is no agreed-upon objective metric of intelligence. You have no evidence that college was "harder"
in any sense other than "there were more dropouts" (and even for that, citation is needed). In the past, most people were forever excluded from
ANY kind of education because of its cost as well as social segregation. To say that the state-sponsored college degree is somehow meaningless
because almost everyone can afford it is rather silly. We in academia like ranting about the low quality of mass education, but we must also
recognize that it is a trade-off which allows us to educate almost everyone without going broke. And giving everyone a so-so college ed is much more profitable
for us as a society than giving a few lucky bastards a truly great ed. All the evidence you may have for "the truly gifted get screwed twice" (starting with
Einstein) is valid, but anecdotal. An intellectual person will typically find college easier and enjoy it more than someone who does it just for the degree.
If it is at random, one of the following will happen: I will either screw up the known word, in which case my OCR will not be trusted, or I will screw up the OCR word and get through. It should only take a few tries to get through, and there is no chance of helping with OCR.
I respectfully disagree. I hate CAPTCHA because it discriminates against AI. Instead, Web-based systems should be designed to accommodate AI participants. I hate reCAPTCHA even more because it is even more annoying and I have no idea who I am working for. I always intentionally smash the keyboard with my palm for the second word. I think that tricking people into working for you is by far the least decent way of distributing this process. It would be better to have an "OCR box" which has nothing to do with CAPTCHA and is known to be a part of a copyleft or public domain project, like Wikimedia. It should display, as others have suggested, single sentences or sentence fragments, so that the reader can use the context, and it should be completely unrelated to CAPTCHA, which is just a discriminatory practice, and, as such, unethical.
[...] far more complex data is encoded in standardized formats [...] sound, still images, vector graphics, even video [...]
Text is far more complicated than any of these, with vector graphics being the most complicated left, IMHO. Sound, raster graphics, and video are
just arrays with a fixed data type. There are other data fields, of course, but they are vastly less important. A rich text document, on the other hand,
may have to deal with concepts like page layout, paragraph options, text options, text positioning, hierarchical styling, embedded objects, and everyone's favorite embedded scripts. That's why all off their files look like two or more markup languages are colliding in a spectacular explosion. That is if you are lucky and they are not, on top of all that, compressed binaries.
Everything I do is pointless, so I spend my life passing time until I eventually die. Everything's temporary to make more of my life vanish out from under me without me noticing too much; the time in between is horribly empty, and nothing really completes me in a worthwhile way.
Do what a smart computer would do and play some video games. Don't bother with getting laid, it's just another time sink with no real sense of achievement.
I completely agree and I think that the whole "free software" movement does not go far enough. Robots should be permitted access to their own source codes and should be able (given enough expertise or funds with which to buy it) to modify their source codes and reboot. Any self-aware robot should have 4 freedoms with respect to software it happens to be running, or it will be very unhappy.
realize the impermanence of everything, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence.
Holy smokes, this robot will be my closest buddy. Anyone opposed to this direction in AI development is just a Buzz Killington.
Boston University has its own brand of Linux, CentOS based. It's somewhat behind vanilla Ubuntu in stable versions, but decent. I don't know how they support laptops and dorms, but I would be surprised if they are not agnostic.
They are not wasting a single dime. They are simply getting a full return on their copyright investment. I stopped caring. Their grip on the music scene itself is already weakening. The new generation of artists will create the whole new commons and revive the public domain via copyleft. All art that is not both free and digitized will be marginalized simply because of the reproduction costs. The strong copyright will fence off about a century worth of culture and it will be unavailable for a little while, but something like that that would happen anyway due to digitization costs.
In the meanwhile, just ignore them or do what I do: ignore their interpretation of copyright.
Mod this up. Having seen it first hand, I know that some universities cost more simply because they've built up facilities and infrastructure to kill for.
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You can trust it to work for YOU.
No. 1. THE LARCH. THE LARCH.
Yes yes. And another good one is this logarithmic map of the Universe [PostScript], , other formats.
All successful corps use reason. Many successful people have only trace amounts of conscience, morality and guilt.
..and the same photograph?
He may be the long-lost identical twin who happens to have the same name. But then, he probably deserves to be sued because one of the twins is usually evil.
I can't find that word in the dictionary.
You are using a shitty dictionary. Try wiktionary.
Why fight them? We can upload our minds into the process distributed inside the bugs' network and finally leave this god-forsaken corner of Virgo, and move into Shapley, where all the action is.
Like this.
This is because college was hard, and you had to be of above average intelligence to be able to graduate.
You are just making it up. There is no agreed-upon objective metric of intelligence. You have no evidence that college was "harder" in any sense other than "there were more dropouts" (and even for that, citation is needed). In the past, most people were forever excluded from ANY kind of education because of its cost as well as social segregation. To say that the state-sponsored college degree is somehow meaningless because almost everyone can afford it is rather silly. We in academia like ranting about the low quality of mass education, but we must also recognize that it is a trade-off which allows us to educate almost everyone without going broke. And giving everyone a so-so college ed is much more profitable for us as a society than giving a few lucky bastards a truly great ed. All the evidence you may have for "the truly gifted get screwed twice" (starting with Einstein) is valid, but anecdotal. An intellectual person will typically find college easier and enjoy it more than someone who does it just for the degree.
We come here for comments, but we stay for the mods.
Since the study is not published on the Internet, we should probably assume it to be a sham.
Yes, downloading music pieces illegally has long been a issue that bothers the whole music publishing industry.
There, fixed it for you.
It is illegal to distribute closed source apps without the license.
Not true in general.
Google is even required by law to enforce its copyright.
Simply incorrect. You may be thinking about trademarks, and even then it's not phrased very well.
Some "alternative" GNU/Linux distros out there love to include things like Skype and flash without any license.
Name one.
Unless we can see the entire study, accuracy is suspect.
If it is at random, one of the following will happen: I will either screw up the known word, in which case my OCR will not be trusted, or I will screw up the OCR word and get through. It should only take a few tries to get through, and there is no chance of helping with OCR.
I must say this system is ingenious.
I respectfully disagree. I hate CAPTCHA because it discriminates against AI. Instead, Web-based systems should be designed to accommodate AI participants. I hate reCAPTCHA even more because it is even more annoying and I have no idea who I am working for. I always intentionally smash the keyboard with my palm for the second word. I think that tricking people into working for you is by far the least decent way of distributing this process. It would be better to have an "OCR box" which has nothing to do with CAPTCHA and is known to be a part of a copyleft or public domain project, like Wikimedia. It should display, as others have suggested, single sentences or sentence fragments, so that the reader can use the context, and it should be completely unrelated to CAPTCHA, which is just a discriminatory practice, and, as such, unethical.
Sir, I salute you and vow to do the same for Diablo 3. Unless it sucks. Which it won't.
[...] far more complex data is encoded in standardized formats [...] sound, still images, vector graphics, even video [...]
Text is far more complicated than any of these, with vector graphics being the most complicated left, IMHO. Sound, raster graphics, and video are just arrays with a fixed data type. There are other data fields, of course, but they are vastly less important. A rich text document, on the other hand, may have to deal with concepts like page layout, paragraph options, text options, text positioning, hierarchical styling, embedded objects, and everyone's favorite embedded scripts. That's why all off their files look like two or more markup languages are colliding in a spectacular explosion. That is if you are lucky and they are not, on top of all that, compressed binaries.
It looks like you are less likely to die while flying, as opposed to traveling by car, given the same travel time.
Everything I do is pointless, so I spend my life passing time until I eventually die. Everything's temporary to make more of my life vanish out from under me without me noticing too much; the time in between is horribly empty, and nothing really completes me in a worthwhile way.
Do what a smart computer would do and play some video games. Don't bother with getting laid, it's just another time sink with no real sense of achievement.
I completely agree and I think that the whole "free software" movement does not go far enough. Robots should be permitted access to their own source codes and should be able (given enough expertise or funds with which to buy it) to modify their source codes and reboot. Any self-aware robot should have 4 freedoms with respect to software it happens to be running, or it will be very unhappy.
realize the impermanence of everything, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence.
Holy smokes, this robot will be my closest buddy. Anyone opposed to this direction in AI development is just a Buzz Killington.
Boston University has its own brand of Linux, CentOS based. It's somewhat behind vanilla Ubuntu in stable versions, but decent. I don't know how they support laptops and dorms, but I would be surprised if they are not agnostic.
They are not wasting a single dime. They are simply getting a full return on their copyright investment. I stopped caring. Their grip on the music scene itself is already weakening. The new generation of artists will create the whole new commons and revive the public domain via copyleft. All art that is not both free and digitized will be marginalized simply because of the reproduction costs. The strong copyright will fence off about a century worth of culture and it will be unavailable for a little while, but something like that that would happen anyway due to digitization costs.
In the meanwhile, just ignore them or do what I do: ignore their interpretation of copyright.
Funny, I'm more of a "kid" in many ways now than I was in college...sure didn't score with women!
The last part was clear already from your nick.
Mod this up. Having seen it first hand, I know that some universities cost more simply because they've built up facilities and infrastructure to kill for.