LISP wins when the problem is selected based on what LISP and LISP programmers do best (list processing and recursion). Pick a different problem and LISP would be slaughtered.
The tetracycline is produced by Streptomyces bacteria that contaminates the beer, rather than the yeast. It can be done, but brewing your own antibiotics just doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
The US is so far ahead of anyone else in space that there is no longer a race being run. What other country could make a soft landing on one of Saturn's moons? How many other countries have rovers exploring Mars? Who else sent a probe out of the Solar System into interstellar space?
NASA has been a branch of the military from its inception. What do you think was the purpose of all those "scientific experiments" they conducted back in the '50s and '60s?
The entire purpose of copyright was to serve as an incentive for creators to add to the public wealth of knowledge and art. It was mutually beneficial: they get public protection for their work, and the public receives high quality art.
The primary purpose of copyright was to ensure that the creators could profit from their work for a reasonable length of time, then the work would enter the public domain so others can use or extend it. I agree that current copyright laws don't serve that purpose very well; the concept needs to be modernized to accommodate corporations which can exist for hundreds of years as well as individuals. More like trademark than copyright.
A good example of what you refer to is known as Donationware, basically an honor system where you get the content free and legal, but you are also politely asked to pay what you think it's worth to the author or donate to a worthy cause.
It's a nice Utopian solution to distributing IP. But as far as I know there have only been a few content producers who have been able to make a living off it, and even they don't seem to stay at it for long.
When Dan Rather replaced a story criticizing the war in Iraq with an even better story criticizing George Bush just two months before the 2004 elections he was so excited with the documents that he overlooked what everyone saw as obvious forgeries. He later stated that even though the documents were clearly fake he was sure that the story based on them was true.
A study by the company I worked for a few years ago only found one thing that correlated with the number of bugs - the number of comments. It wasn't so much that the algorithm was complicated and needed explanation; more often it was just bad programmers tossing in a bunch of commented out print statements and comments that didn't accurately describe what the code was doing.
Atmospheric friction has little effect on the velocity and the smallest ones survive the voyage to the Earth’s surface are quickly slowed by atmospheric friction to speeds of a few hundred kilometers per hour
It is an impossible question to answer because you deliberately rule out the examples of such.
No, his question was about overthrowing an existing government rather than a colony seeking independence. The problem is that in order to overthrow a repressive and violent tyrant you need to be even more violent. We'll see how the Arab Spring turns out.
Boston bombing? You mean the two brothers who packed two pressure cookers with fireworks?
I can't see how any amount of surveillance could have called them out as an imminent threat. NSA is concerned with threats that will kill thousands of people, not a couple of punks.
This kind of person often thinks he's so much smarter than everyone else that he doesn't need to follow the rules like the rest of us fools.When he gets caught he'll blame other people, bad luck, whatever; it's never his fault. After all, he never did anything that was really wrong. Just followed a different set of rules because he's special.
I wasn't talking about a single replica or committing fraud. I meant building an assembly line and manufacturing trucks that have "Made By bzipitidoo Motor Co." on the title, but everything else is exactly the same as a Ford. Saves you all the time and money that goes into design, engineering and marketing a product if you can just copy it.
Both failures probably have the same root cause. Software development running behind schedule, a deadline looming that management wouldn't/couldn't move. So run it up the flagpole and hope the failure isn't too spectacular. Then make excuses and claim it isn't really as bad as it appears.
Nah, Usability is a desirable goal; UX is a meaningless buzzword. It's more like "Knowledge Engineering". Management heard the terms and feared they would miss something really important if they didn't hire some experts. But there's no definition of what either UX or KE really is and certainly no way determine if a candidate is qualified to do whatever it is they're supposed to do. So people are hired, make a nuisance of themselves at meetings for a couple of years, then fade away.
Try building a pickup truck that looks just like an F150, put a Ford logo and nameplate that says F150 on it, and see what happens when you try to market it.
You can buy a used book (at least a real printed one) without paying a copyright fee, but you can't make a movie based on a book that's still under copyright any more than you can make that F150 truck.
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LISP wins when the problem is selected based on what LISP and LISP programmers do best (list processing and recursion). Pick a different problem and LISP would be slaughtered.
I could have sworn Antarctica only has a northern edge.
Only at the South Pole. As soon as you're off that point you are on a point of Latitude and Longitude.
The tetracycline is produced by Streptomyces bacteria that contaminates the beer, rather than the yeast. It can be done, but brewing your own antibiotics just doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
The US is so far ahead of anyone else in space that there is no longer a race being run. What other country could make a soft landing on one of Saturn's moons? How many other countries have rovers exploring Mars? Who else sent a probe out of the Solar System into interstellar space?
NASA has been a branch of the military from its inception. What do you think was the purpose of all those "scientific experiments" they conducted back in the '50s and '60s?
More importantly, when you as a nation have lost the ability to launch your own rockets, and you can only rent payload from communist states -
Take a look here and try to count how many of the little flags represent the United States.
As far as scientific missions...What about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Rovers? Don't they count?
Yea, my next submission will have a headline like "Global Warning scientist tells NSA to Stand Your Ground".
The entire purpose of copyright was to serve as an incentive for creators to add to the public wealth of knowledge and art. It was mutually beneficial: they get public protection for their work, and the public receives high quality art.
The primary purpose of copyright was to ensure that the creators could profit from their work for a reasonable length of time, then the work would enter the public domain so others can use or extend it. I agree that current copyright laws don't serve that purpose very well; the concept needs to be modernized to accommodate corporations which can exist for hundreds of years as well as individuals. More like trademark than copyright.
an algorithm to convince people to lower their expectations
I suspect that's exactly what his algorithm does.
enabling the machine to 'learn' and hence propose higher potential matches
A good example of what you refer to is known as Donationware, basically an honor system where you get the content free and legal, but you are also politely asked to pay what you think it's worth to the author or donate to a worthy cause.
It's a nice Utopian solution to distributing IP. But as far as I know there have only been a few content producers who have been able to make a living off it, and even they don't seem to stay at it for long.
When Dan Rather replaced a story criticizing the war in Iraq with an even better story criticizing George Bush just two months before the 2004 elections he was so excited with the documents that he overlooked what everyone saw as obvious forgeries. He later stated that even though the documents were clearly fake he was sure that the story based on them was true.
A study by the company I worked for a few years ago only found one thing that correlated with the number of bugs - the number of comments. It wasn't so much that the algorithm was complicated and needed explanation; more often it was just bad programmers tossing in a bunch of commented out print statements and comments that didn't accurately describe what the code was doing.
Atmospheric friction has little effect on the velocity and the smallest ones survive the voyage to the Earth’s surface are quickly slowed by atmospheric friction to speeds of a few hundred kilometers per hour
Espionage. If you think the USA is the only government up to it you might also be interested in a bridge I have for sale in New York.
It is an impossible question to answer because you deliberately rule out the examples of such.
No, his question was about overthrowing an existing government rather than a colony seeking independence. The problem is that in order to overthrow a repressive and violent tyrant you need to be even more violent. We'll see how the Arab Spring turns out.
Boston bombing? You mean the two brothers who packed two pressure cookers with fireworks?
I can't see how any amount of surveillance could have called them out as an imminent threat. NSA is concerned with threats that will kill thousands of people, not a couple of punks.
This kind of person often thinks he's so much smarter than everyone else that he doesn't need to follow the rules like the rest of us fools.When he gets caught he'll blame other people, bad luck, whatever; it's never his fault. After all, he never did anything that was really wrong. Just followed a different set of rules because he's special.
I wasn't talking about a single replica or committing fraud. I meant building an assembly line and manufacturing trucks that have "Made By bzipitidoo Motor Co." on the title, but everything else is exactly the same as a Ford. Saves you all the time and money that goes into design, engineering and marketing a product if you can just copy it.
Both failures probably have the same root cause. Software development running behind schedule, a deadline looming that management wouldn't/couldn't move. So run it up the flagpole and hope the failure isn't too spectacular. Then make excuses and claim it isn't really as bad as it appears.
UX is the new Usability I guess.
Nah, Usability is a desirable goal; UX is a meaningless buzzword. It's more like "Knowledge Engineering". Management heard the terms and feared they would miss something really important if they didn't hire some experts. But there's no definition of what either UX or KE really is and certainly no way determine if a candidate is qualified to do whatever it is they're supposed to do. So people are hired, make a nuisance of themselves at meetings for a couple of years, then fade away.
Wasn't that Alexander Graham Bell?
Does Ford get a cut of every used Ford ever sold?
Try building a pickup truck that looks just like an F150, put a Ford logo and nameplate that says F150 on it, and see what happens when you try to market it.
You can buy a used book (at least a real printed one) without paying a copyright fee, but you can't make a movie based on a book that's still under copyright any more than you can make that F150 truck.
he said a small percentage of their sales are online
Well, yea. Their web site is down.
September?
Swedish public service radio and tv is financed not by tax, but by a fee. The fee is, by law, for any device able to receive tv broadcasts.
I suppose calling it a "fee" means they don't count it against the Swedes' tax rate. But what you describe is a tax.