"Ah, a transport vehicle! I order it to take us back to Alpha Complex." "Good thinking. It picks you up with its mandibles-- er, I mean, its cargo grapples--"
Are you looking at the approval rating of Congress overall, or of individual congressmen among their constituents? The latter is routinely higher than the former.
(Not getting into any of your other points, don't have enough time)
Several other aspects of the GP are debatable, but that particular part is a fairly obvious gloss: "downloading formats" ~= "downloading software/codecs/etc to handle formats".
I have to wonder about any engineers who are still at SCO at this point. Surely the good ones jumped ship long ago, or at least tried like hell to do so?
"As for immigration, solving that came at a heavy cost, and I personally regret the loss of California. However, the new Mexifornian economy is strong and El Presidente Schwarzenegger is doing a great job."
Maximum of 50k per ad, at least until the user starts interacting with it. Some other things in there that, at the least, count as Don't Be Really Evil.
I haven't decided how I feel about this yet, but at least this quantifies things somewhat.
Thanks for the correction. That works with any filetype (try it), but their Advanced Search form only covers certain types (PDF PS DWF KML KMZ XLS PPT DOC RTF SWF).
5. Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the unauthorized use of other search engine optimization services and/or software;
As I understand it, anyone worried about that could force an early pay-out by closing their account (and then opening a new one if they decide it's worth continuing after all).
The general consensus seems to be that, OOXML, as specified, is very complex and the spec is incomplete,
In particular, that it includes things like "tag X should cause the program to process Y the same way that WordPerfect 5.1 did", without actually explaining what that way was.
Or will have to back it with something that works like a US bank, loaning up to 10 dollars (which get converted to/from L$) for every dollar's worth of L$ (which get converted to/from dollars) someone puts in. But is anyone smoking enough crack to actually risk doing that?
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"5 to low 6 figure range" does not mean "5 to 6 million"; it means "10000-99999 (5 figure) to the low end of 100000-999999 (6 figure)". Which, lo and behold, matches right up with your "20 to 30 thousand" (not to mention the previous reply's "actually it's rather more than that").
Vinge's singularity has two significant differences from Good's idea:
Easier starting point. Instead of an AI with superhuman intelligence, you "merely" need an AI with human intelligence.
Radical conclusion as to time scale. Instead of the vague implication that superhuman intelligence implies superhuman speed as well, Vinge posits that AIs would be governed by Moore's Law (unlike human bodies and brains) and would thus speed themselves up as they participate in their own continued design.
This makes sense if you're creating new software. My current company mostly customizes existing software on a consulting basis, and its feeling has long been that the "fill in the blank" portions are small enough that any gain from handing them off would be outweighed by the communication overhead. Never mind the difficulty of finding competent juniors. Instead, we hired a senior that I knew from my last job, and handed off a number of whole projects.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's the total of (desktops + laptops) that's expected to grow 12.2%. Now, assuming that the year ends up reasonably close to all three of the trends noted here:
If the majority grows by 28%, and the minority grows by any amount, then the total would grow by at least 14% (maybe more, depending on how large the majority is, and how much the minority grows). To pull the weighted average down to 12.2%, the minority would have to shrink instead.
You were apparently right about the link getting slashdotted. Nevertheless, while the theory (bit flips have a side effect on the physical material that can be detected with sufficient effort) is at least plausible, I don't think it leads to anything resembling a practical solution:
As previously noted, you'd have to wade through a huge hex dump
And you'd only get the data that was most recently in RAM; digging deeper, if possible at all (I know it is for hard drives), would be even more expensive
And why would the **AA spend all this money, when they can (as I believe they have) just have the court order TorrentSpy to log the relevant info to disk? The government digs deep into a hard drive when it has to, e.g. they reasonably expect to find useful info re a planned terrorist attack
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"Ah, a transport vehicle! I order it to take us back to Alpha Complex."
"Good thinking. It picks you up with its mandibles-- er, I mean, its cargo grapples--"
Are you looking at the approval rating of Congress overall, or of individual congressmen among their constituents? The latter is routinely higher than the former.
(Not getting into any of your other points, don't have enough time)
Company name plz?
For those not already familiar, The Daily WTF is known nowadays as Worse Than Failure - obviously as a SFW backronym, but also as a concept in its own right.
Several other aspects of the GP are debatable, but that particular part is a fairly obvious gloss: "downloading formats" ~= "downloading software/codecs/etc to handle formats".
I have to wonder about any engineers who are still at SCO at this point. Surely the good ones jumped ship long ago, or at least tried like hell to do so?
"As for immigration, solving that came at a heavy cost, and I personally regret the loss of California. However, the new Mexifornian economy is strong and El Presidente Schwarzenegger is doing a great job."
I believe you're looking for this.
Maximum of 50k per ad, at least until the user starts interacting with it. Some other things in there that, at the least, count as Don't Be Really Evil.
I haven't decided how I feel about this yet, but at least this quantifies things somewhat.
Thanks for the correction. That works with any filetype (try it), but their Advanced Search form only covers certain types (PDF PS DWF KML KMZ XLS PPT DOC RTF SWF).
They don't support any of those either, alas.
Specifically, this section of the ToS
As I understand it, anyone worried about that could force an early pay-out by closing their account (and then opening a new one if they decide it's worth continuing after all).
Disagree. The "get the band back together" plot was awkward, but otherwise I quite liked the various new elements of seasons 9 and 10.
Didn't some fish get butterflied into existence in one of the later time-travel episodes?
Seems like a good idea, but how best to prevent this from becoming a DDoS vector?
Or will have to back it with something that works like a US bank, loaning up to 10 dollars (which get converted to/from L$) for every dollar's worth of L$ (which get converted to/from dollars) someone puts in. But is anyone smoking enough crack to actually risk doing that?
"5 to low 6 figure range" does not mean "5 to 6 million"; it means "10000-99999 (5 figure) to the low end of 100000-999999 (6 figure)". Which, lo and behold, matches right up with your "20 to 30 thousand" (not to mention the previous reply's "actually it's rather more than that").
Vinge's singularity has two significant differences from Good's idea:
This makes sense if you're creating new software. My current company mostly customizes existing software on a consulting basis, and its feeling has long been that the "fill in the blank" portions are small enough that any gain from handing them off would be outweighed by the communication overhead. Never mind the difficulty of finding competent juniors. Instead, we hired a senior that I knew from my last job, and handed off a number of whole projects.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's the total of (desktops + laptops) that's expected to grow 12.2%. Now, assuming that the year ends up reasonably close to all three of the trends noted here:
If the majority grows by 28%, and the minority grows by any amount, then the total would grow by at least 14% (maybe more, depending on how large the majority is, and how much the minority grows). To pull the weighted average down to 12.2%, the minority would have to shrink instead.
"Web 2.0" has four syllables, but the "2.0" part is likely some sort of special case.
"WiMAX"? Is there a better term?
You were apparently right about the link getting slashdotted. Nevertheless, while the theory (bit flips have a side effect on the physical material that can be detected with sufficient effort) is at least plausible, I don't think it leads to anything resembling a practical solution:
On the other hand, he might head for Nigeria instead, as if we didn't get enough spam from those guys already.