They're the same as all other animals in that they cooperate based on the rules on kin selection. But with ants it's a bit weird in that the females are more closely related to the queen than the males or something like that which makes them appear "communist" or more altruistic than other specias.
They have a weird split of "amount of relatedness" between the workers / soldiers and the queen. Perhaps it was that that the workers are more closly related to their brothers and sisters than the queen - I think that might have been it.
I did a week trial at a MMORPG game maker and was asked to write a daemon that would find all the listings on ebay for their game's gold etc and get the sellers id and automatically e-mail them asking them to stop or they'll take action. Admittedly it was against the rules for that game afaik, I don't know about WoW.
I didn't end up getting the job in the end and feel like I was used as a cheap temp to do a project for them which they probably still use, as it did work reasonably well.
Bastards!
Personally if you're going to play a MMPORG then you should expect it to take forever to complete, that's half the point. But if it get you out of a rut and makes you happy, I don't give a monkeys.
Holly: "Busy, Dave?"
Lister: "Well, yeah. I am, actually".
Holly: "Oh, then you won't want to know about the two super-lightspeed fighters that are tracking us".
Lister: "What?!"
Holly: "I'll leave you to your bubble blowing, mate".
Lister: "No, Hol, come on, come on".
Holly: "They're from Earth".
Lister: "Three million years away?"
Holly: "They're from the NorWEB federation".
Lister: "What's that?"
Holly: "The North Western Electricity Board. They want you, Dave".
Lister: "Me? Why? What for?"
Holly: "For your crimes against humanity".
Lister: "You what!"
Holly: "It seems when you left Earth three million years ago, you left two half-eaten German sausages on a plate in your kitchen".
Lister: "Did I?"
Holly: "You know what happens to sausages left unattended for three million years?"
Lister: "Yeah. They go all mouldy".
Holly: "Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eighths of the Earth's surface. Also you left seventeen pounds, fifty pence in a bank account. Thanks to compound interest you now own ninety-eight percent of all the world's wealth, but since you've hoarded it for three million years nobody's got any money except for you and NorWEB".
Lister: "Why NorWEB?"
Holly: You left a light on in the bathroom. I've got a final demand here for £180 billion.
Lister: £180 billion? You're kidding?
Holly: (wearing Groucho Marx disguise) "April fool".
Lister: "But it's not April".
Holly: "Yeah, I know, but I could hardly wait six months with a red-hot jape like that under my belt".
I think that's what the "Wiki" in Wikipedia means.
Indeed. From Urbandictionary;-)
"1. A collaborative Web site comprised of the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors. In contrast, a blog, typically authored by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments to the original content. The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunnigham in 1995
Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, like all sources, not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased. Many of the general rules of thumb for conducting research apply to Wikipedia, including:
* Always be wary of any one single source, or of multiple works that derive from a single source.
* Where articles have references to external sources (whether online or not) read the references and check whether they really do support what the article says.
I fail to see what the Registers problems are with Wikipedia.
Perhaps there should be a system where any software installed has to agree to a license on that computer. So I can add my own EULA to my computer and any software vendor that has their software on my computer has to agree to it. There can be a nice API that can be used to get at the license and everything. If I have to agree to an EULA when installing their products on my machine, they should have to agree to my EULA to run their software on my machine. If they break it then I can sue them.
This is fair too, because as much as I don't understand their EULAs, they wont be able to understand mine. Vive la revolution in software consumer rights!
I say we extend this theory...
So it's alright for me to rip my mates CD collection because he said it was OK for me to do so. However, I can't rip my own because noone has given me permission?
hmmmmmm.......
Why the hell would somebody want to go all the way to Mars and plant landmines everywhere? I mean really! It's not as if it's going to protect it from alien invaders, and it will be nothing but problematic for the early settlers.
If you keep on top of it it's easy to do it all by hand (with the help of a few tools)
I use ID3Tagit and convert all my songs to have proper tgs for Artist, Track number, Album, Title. I then use ID3 Tagit to rename all my files based on the ID3 info in the format
track# - Artist - Album - Track Name
then I put the resulting files in my Audio directory under the structure
Audio -> Artist -> Album
It's not that often that I have so many albums to get throguh in one go that it becomes tedious. Just let the tool do it for me and them move the files where I want them. Then just drag them onto my WA playlist where I want them. Save the PL and press play.
If you have a car that has an electric and internal combustion engine do you have to pay double the tax or car parking fees? No that would be silly. Unfortunatly in the State of Oracle there is muchos sillyness, alas no Ministry of Silly Walks =(
In China you get into jail for saying what you think. People are imprisoned and tortured. Human rights violated.
You can be imprisoned indefinatly with no reason given and with no access to a lawyer - here in the UK, and the Patroit act does pretty much the same I believe.
This is just a great example of why web-polls are not scientific.
Give it time, you get better results with the more people who vate, and so far that's very little. Also remember that posting on slashdot may bias the results because it'll get hit so much and slashdotters may fall into a particular pidgeon hole with regards to political views.
a. Become exceptionally skilled workers (not difficult, considering the exceptional quality of educational institutions in the U.S.)
I don't think this will work. There are a lot of very intelligent and well educated people in the East. There isn't really that much that the west can do with software developemnt that people from China, India etc can't also do.
Also, it's just not possible to breed loads of amazing graduates and post grads without also creating more average ones. You'll just end up with the same ammount of software engineers and the same mix of elite, very good, good and average coders. Unless you enforce a very strict, "less than 95% average mark in your first year and you don't get to go to the next year rule." Which I doubt will be very popular.
It's the problem with a global workforce and one that requires unions to solve, not neo-liberal ecconomists.
I did my final year project / dissertation on delta compression and created a java web service & GUI to allow the distribution of delta files that users could download and apply.
It still requires a fair bit of work to make it very usable (hardly the best software engineering development ever), the Swing code is awful because I had to learn it in a week and it could do with some object serialisers on the data it returns. It worked ok though.
If anyone's interested they can read my report [PDF] (2.3MB). The point of doing that project was the reason that it is a technology that was massivly under exploited. It is quite limited for some things however, especially compressed archives and to a certain extent binary compiled files. However if you want to compress tars of source code it's brilliant and massivly improves over zip technology.
The package I used at the time was a java port of the xdelta project, javaxdelta. It had some bugs in it at the time however which meant that it didn't always work, I think from the discussion on their maling list that they've been fixed recently. I don't think it's as fast as the normal C++ xdelta implementation and xdelta as an algorithm isn't as good as some others, notably vcdiff and zdelta (see Suel & Memon, Algorithms for Delta Compression and Remote File Synchronization (2002))
I'm happy though, there may be some money making opertunities for my project =)
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They're the same as all other animals in that they cooperate based on the rules on kin selection. But with ants it's a bit weird in that the females are more closely related to the queen than the males or something like that which makes them appear "communist" or more altruistic than other specias.
They have a weird split of "amount of relatedness" between the workers / soldiers and the queen. Perhaps it was that that the workers are more closly related to their brothers and sisters than the queen - I think that might have been it.
I'm guessing you're a girl?
:P
You posted as AC and I couldn't tell from your post what your gender was. So your comment is somewhat meaningless without more context
Personally I welcome our new tree climbing mechanised overlords
At the bottom of the page there is a very nice link
"Didn't get the results you expected?Help us improve "
I'm sure MS will appreciate all your constructive feedback (no sarcasm).
Who knows, it might be more useful than bitching about it here!
I did a week trial at a MMORPG game maker and was asked to write a daemon that would find all the listings on ebay for their game's gold etc and get the sellers id and automatically e-mail them asking them to stop or they'll take action. Admittedly it was against the rules for that game afaik, I don't know about WoW.
I didn't end up getting the job in the end and feel like I was used as a cheap temp to do a project for them which they probably still use, as it did work reasonably well.
Bastards!
Personally if you're going to play a MMPORG then you should expect it to take forever to complete, that's half the point. But if it get you out of a rut and makes you happy, I don't give a monkeys.
I thought it was a remake of the Ministry of Silly Walks. Or mechanical Chuckle Brothers, "to me", "to you", "to me", "to you".
What gives them the right?
That they're higher in the food chain.
Or Reductio ad Hitlerum
"Hitler ate sugar."
There's SMS 2003 available from here
That is Futureama, not Red Dwarf
I think this is what you meant:
Holly: "Busy, Dave?"
Lister: "Well, yeah. I am, actually".
Holly: "Oh, then you won't want to know about the two super-lightspeed fighters that are tracking us".
Lister: "What?!"
Holly: "I'll leave you to your bubble blowing, mate".
Lister: "No, Hol, come on, come on".
Holly: "They're from Earth".
Lister: "Three million years away?"
Holly: "They're from the NorWEB federation".
Lister: "What's that?"
Holly: "The North Western Electricity Board. They want you, Dave".
Lister: "Me? Why? What for?"
Holly: "For your crimes against humanity".
Lister: "You what!"
Holly: "It seems when you left Earth three million years ago, you left two half-eaten German sausages on a plate in your kitchen".
Lister: "Did I?"
Holly: "You know what happens to sausages left unattended for three million years?"
Lister: "Yeah. They go all mouldy".
Holly: "Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eighths of the Earth's surface. Also you left seventeen pounds, fifty pence in a bank account. Thanks to compound interest you now own ninety-eight percent of all the world's wealth, but since you've hoarded it for three million years nobody's got any money except for you and NorWEB".
Lister: "Why NorWEB?"
Holly: You left a light on in the bathroom. I've got a final demand here for £180 billion.
Lister: £180 billion? You're kidding?
Holly: (wearing Groucho Marx disguise) "April fool".
Lister: "But it's not April".
Holly: "Yeah, I know, but I could hardly wait six months with a red-hot jape like that under my belt".
I think that's what the "Wiki" in Wikipedia means.
;-)
Indeed. From Urbandictionary
"1. A collaborative Web site comprised of the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors. In contrast, a blog, typically authored by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments to the original content. The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunnigham in 1995
2. Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. "
As linked to from the Wikipedia FAQ Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia
Wikipedia can be a great tool for learning and researching information. However, like all sources, not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased. Many of the general rules of thumb for conducting research apply to Wikipedia, including:
* Always be wary of any one single source, or of multiple works that derive from a single source.
* Where articles have references to external sources (whether online or not) read the references and check whether they really do support what the article says.
I fail to see what the Registers problems are with Wikipedia.
Why does everything have to resort to a law suit?
Easy. Greed and money.... oh and it often works.
There's a very big difference between something being a sign of something good and the thing in question being good.
Perhaps there should be a system where any software installed has to agree to a license on that computer. So I can add my own EULA to my computer and any software vendor that has their software on my computer has to agree to it. There can be a nice API that can be used to get at the license and everything. If I have to agree to an EULA when installing their products on my machine, they should have to agree to my EULA to run their software on my machine. If they break it then I can sue them.
This is fair too, because as much as I don't understand their EULAs, they wont be able to understand mine. Vive la revolution in software consumer rights!
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I say we extend this theory... So it's alright for me to rip my mates CD collection because he said it was OK for me to do so. However, I can't rip my own because noone has given me permission? hmmmmmm.......
Why the hell would somebody want to go all the way to Mars and plant landmines everywhere? I mean really! It's not as if it's going to protect it from alien invaders, and it will be nothing but problematic for the early settlers.
"You're in a relativly large room with two portcullis....."
Knightmare for teh win!
If you keep on top of it it's easy to do it all by hand (with the help of a few tools)
I use ID3Tagit and convert all my songs to have proper tgs for Artist, Track number, Album, Title. I then use ID3 Tagit to rename all my files based on the ID3 info in the format
track# - Artist - Album - Track Name
then I put the resulting files in my Audio directory under the structure
Audio -> Artist -> Album
It's not that often that I have so many albums to get throguh in one go that it becomes tedious. Just let the tool do it for me and them move the files where I want them. Then just drag them onto my WA playlist where I want them. Save the PL and press play.
If you have a car that has an electric and internal combustion engine do you have to pay double the tax or car parking fees? No that would be silly. Unfortunatly in the State of Oracle there is muchos sillyness, alas no Ministry of Silly Walks =(
I'm so glad we're free.
This is just a great example of why web-polls are not scientific.
Give it time, you get better results with the more people who vate, and so far that's very little. Also remember that posting on slashdot may bias the results because it'll get hit so much and slashdotters may fall into a particular pidgeon hole with regards to political views.
a. Become exceptionally skilled workers (not difficult, considering the exceptional quality of educational institutions in the U.S.)
I don't think this will work. There are a lot of very intelligent and well educated people in the East. There isn't really that much that the west can do with software developemnt that people from China, India etc can't also do.
Also, it's just not possible to breed loads of amazing graduates and post grads without also creating more average ones. You'll just end up with the same ammount of software engineers and the same mix of elite, very good, good and average coders. Unless you enforce a very strict, "less than 95% average mark in your first year and you don't get to go to the next year rule." Which I doubt will be very popular.
It's the problem with a global workforce and one that requires unions to solve, not neo-liberal ecconomists.
I did my final year project / dissertation on delta compression and created a java web service & GUI to allow the distribution of delta files that users could download and apply.
It still requires a fair bit of work to make it very usable (hardly the best software engineering development ever), the Swing code is awful because I had to learn it in a week and it could do with some object serialisers on the data it returns. It worked ok though.
If anyone's interested they can read my report [PDF] (2.3MB). The point of doing that project was the reason that it is a technology that was massivly under exploited. It is quite limited for some things however, especially compressed archives and to a certain extent binary compiled files. However if you want to compress tars of source code it's brilliant and massivly improves over zip technology.
The package I used at the time was a java port of the xdelta project, javaxdelta. It had some bugs in it at the time however which meant that it didn't always work, I think from the discussion on their maling list that they've been fixed recently. I don't think it's as fast as the normal C++ xdelta implementation and xdelta as an algorithm isn't as good as some others, notably vcdiff and zdelta (see Suel & Memon, Algorithms for Delta Compression and Remote File Synchronization (2002))
I'm happy though, there may be some money making opertunities for my project =)