It's a nightmare, and patching/updating is a whole different nightmare.
A ridicilously cheap, easy and not to mention; stupid way to autoupdate software on windows is to just to have your programs/binaries in a subversion repository and have a seperate startup program which runs 'svn up' on the catalog before starting the real program. Include subversion in the installer and it's totally self-contained too.
It's not the most elegant solution, but it's damn easy and it works.
Predicting the past is easier than predicting the future.
No, it's seriously not. They are exactly the same. There's no difference between taking the first 3 of the last 5 years and training your dataset and validating on the last 2, and training on the last 3 years and validating on the next two to come. The models doesn't know the clock, and datasets are datasets.
There is a world of difference between accuracy rates on your training/calibration set and your models performance on the validation set. One of them is occasionally usefull, one of them is never ever. Somewhat illustrated by the lackluster comments on this story, In regular computer science there's way too many people who don't know the difference. This is also one of the major reasons I really don't consider Computer Science a real Science, it's just hack'n'slash and fancy words (kinda like dentists).
I suspect that both the Chinese and the Russian people would be *ahem* amused at having their respective countries referred to as "developing countries".
That doesn't change the fact that they are though. Both countries are changing quite fast, both economically and culturally trying to find their new place in the world. What they morph into remain to be seen though.
First of, welcome to facing the problems the rest of the world have been for some time.
so how am i, on my gb keyboard suppose to conveniently type in all sorts of foreign characters?
You're not. Same way there is no convient way to write english chars on a russian keyboard. There's nothing to do but switch charset and try to remember where the characters were.
The more important question is, why should countries with completely different alphabets than us be forced to use our alphabet? Right now, Russians have to switch alphabets based on what they're doing. Writing a document, Russian charset! Typing an URL, english charset! For SMS and short messages, they just transcribe everything into the english charset, but anything remotely official have to be decent.
i am all for versatility, but there is always talk about unification, this would just segregate the web into 'things i can type' and 'things i can't'
It's already been divided by language. If you know the langauge, you probably had their charset available anyways, as you presumably write it occassionaly.
and considering that html is in american, and that most people take into account that english is a very common language when designing a page, are we not just creating some novelty, which after a while will annoy all but a few?
Of course, to an American the web looks English. To a Norwegian, it doesn't. It's about half'n'half between English and Norwegian content for me personally.. and I read English just as effortlessly as Norwegian, so it's all about content. (with the occasional Russian thrown in to verify that not practicing isn't magically increasing my skills).
In short, get your head out of your ass and stop whining. Have a cookie.
Yeah, you're right. I could have phrased myself more carefully, but I didn't want to bother with all the disclaimers and qualifiers.
What I meant was general one-sided 'you're totally screwed now' non-compete clauses weren't allowed.. and as seen by your and the other replies here, that does hold.
Sorry for going on a way too short rant (given the subject), but I've had this discussion with plenty of Americans. Apparently Americans are supposed to be for freedom, while Europeans are for security (*sic*).
I always said we're both for freedom, the big question is just 'freedom from whom?'.. and this question illustrates it perfectly. In Europe, this is a non-issue. I could sign all the non-compete contracts I'd want to, but they don't hold up in court. We have a 'right to work'.
You have the freedom to be screwed over by companies. You have the freedom to sign away your liberties to everybody but the government. Now, is that really freedom, or just really advanced serfdom?
Generally, people don't speak in foreign languages(atleast Scandinavian ones) in Hollywood movies . They make random words using only english sounds, often sounding like they have a potato stuck down their throats (like the Danes!) and throw in an occasional horribly, horribly mispronounced 'Ja!.
Performance and the rage to be the first in everything should be something they gradually come to expect as they age
.. or never. It's really not a necessicity for a working society for every child to be raised to be a mal-adjusted competition-driven asshole. It's true!
This is slashdot.org, not beedot.org. There aren't many people here with knowledge of the beekeeping industry. If this was about CPU fabrication, you'd see a thread full of detailed discussion on operations per cycle and whatever else.
Instead of pitifull attempts at humour, you'd see pitifull attempts at technical discussion. Me, for one, can't really see the big distiction.
CPU time is, by itself atleast, is inconsequencal.
Time Used by User isn't. Malware adds to this in in primarely three different ways, choked connections and laggy internet, direct intervention like pop-ups, and lastly, by bogging the machine down, either through hooking into places it shouldn't hook into, or through eating CPU-cycles.
In my experience atleast, the first two are way more prevailent than the latter.
Or maybe user privleges aren't a sane metric to judge security by?
Yeah, sure:
Given physical access / Local user account
DOS: Owned
Linux: Owned (start shell instead of startup-script if bootloader isn't locked down, which it isn't on any standard distribution I know of)
Given normal remote user access
DOS: No such thing as remote user access.
Linux: Arguable how insecure this is (on most standard installs, it certainly can be safe).
Either way, the risk is larger than non-exist, so still win for DOS.
Given Superuser access
Silly, but:
DOS: Owned
Linux: Owned
But there are certainly any number of virus and trojan type exploits for *DOS. Or perhaps these aren't sane metrics either?
No, merely counting number of exploits/bugs without ensuring they actually are comparable isn't a sane metric. Take a look at some Microsoft Propaganda if you want to know how misleading it can get.
What's next, implying MS-DOS is more secure than Linux based on numbers of system calls and lines of code?
... but it is!
Name one remote security exploit in any DOS implementation?
Regardless of whether it's a fair comparison or not, DOS is more secure than Linux by just about any reasonably sane metric you can come up with it.
The difference* between a peaceful protestor and a rioter is the mood of the commanding officer. Do we really want a deciding factor in wether protestors get fried to be whether the commanding officer got laid last night?
I think the lack of good non-lethal weapons has been a great boon to Western Society. It made dispersing those crowds of godless fuckers campaigning for something you really, really disagree with** that much more difficult. It's a good test for 'do we *really* want to disperse this crowd'.
* Not really, but it shows the problem. The guy deciding on the definition is also the one with the power.
** Including, but not limited to, anti-slavery, women's suffrage, gay rights, white supremacy and anti-war
I actually agree with most of what you said, I just find your arrogance astounding. You speak as if your beliefs are the One Self Evident Universal Truth, and that all Americans are fools because some of them disagree with you, even though on a global scale your views are the the minority by a long shot.
Yes, his belief actually is part of The One Self Evident Universal Truth. Nipples are not dangerous and people like sex.
I'm not sure you really want to make this into a numbers game though. Africa is for the most part really open about sex, and most Latin Americans have a fairly relaxed attitude to it. Most of Asia seems to not make such a big deal about it either; it's just not an issue. The only countries I've heard of punishments like these are in fact Middle Eastern ones and the US (coincidently, not too far from the list of countries that still allow executions).
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It's not the most elegant solution, but it's damn easy and it works.
No, it's seriously not. They are exactly the same. There's no difference between taking the first 3 of the last 5 years and training your dataset and validating on the last 2, and training on the last 3 years and validating on the next two to come. The models doesn't know the clock, and datasets are datasets.
There is a world of difference between accuracy rates on your training/calibration set and your models performance on the validation set. One of them is occasionally usefull, one of them is never ever. Somewhat illustrated by the lackluster comments on this story, In regular computer science there's way too many people who don't know the difference. This is also one of the major reasons I really don't consider Computer Science a real Science, it's just hack'n'slash and fancy words (kinda like dentists).
The traffic lights are not my gods!
Yes, it certainly is developing!
You're not. Same way there is no convient way to write english chars on a russian keyboard. There's nothing to do but switch charset and try to remember where the characters were.
The more important question is, why should countries with completely different alphabets than us be forced to use our alphabet? Right now, Russians have to switch alphabets based on what they're doing. Writing a document, Russian charset! Typing an URL, english charset! For SMS and short messages, they just transcribe everything into the english charset, but anything remotely official have to be decent.
It's already been divided by language. If you know the langauge, you probably had their charset available anyways, as you presumably write it occassionaly.
Of course, to an American the web looks English. To a Norwegian, it doesn't. It's about half'n'half between English and Norwegian content for me personally.. and I read English just as effortlessly as Norwegian, so it's all about content. (with the occasional Russian thrown in to verify that not practicing isn't magically increasing my skills).
In short, get your head out of your ass and stop whining. Have a cookie.
What I meant was general one-sided 'you're totally screwed now' non-compete clauses weren't allowed.. and as seen by your and the other replies here, that does hold.
I always said we're both for freedom, the big question is just 'freedom from whom?'.. and this question illustrates it perfectly. In Europe, this is a non-issue. I could sign all the non-compete contracts I'd want to, but they don't hold up in court. We have a 'right to work'.
You have the freedom to be screwed over by companies. You have the freedom to sign away your liberties to everybody but the government. Now, is that really freedom, or just really advanced serfdom?
Regards
A Norwegian.
Time Used by User isn't. Malware adds to this in in primarely three different ways, choked connections and laggy internet, direct intervention like pop-ups, and lastly, by bogging the machine down, either through hooking into places it shouldn't hook into, or through eating CPU-cycles.
In my experience atleast, the first two are way more prevailent than the latter.
Given physical access / Local user account
DOS: Owned
Linux: Owned (start shell instead of startup-script if bootloader isn't locked down, which it isn't on any standard distribution I know of)
Given normal remote user access
DOS: No such thing as remote user access.
Linux: Arguable how insecure this is (on most standard installs, it certainly can be safe).
Either way, the risk is larger than non-exist, so still win for DOS.
Given Superuser access
No, merely counting number of exploits/bugs without ensuring they actually are comparable isn't a sane metric. Take a look at some Microsoft Propaganda if you want to know how misleading it can get.Silly, but:
DOS: Owned
Linux: Owned
Name one remote security exploit in any DOS implementation?
Regardless of whether it's a fair comparison or not, DOS is more secure than Linux by just about any reasonably sane metric you can come up with it.
Claim 1: Linux has a slightly steeper learning curve than Windows
Claim 2: Windows zealots claim Linux is infitabely (*sick*) harder than Windows.
+4 Insightfull Poster*: Those statements are totally contradicting eachother. You're stupid and I'm smug!
* FULL DISCLOSURE: Quote may have been slightly paraphrased.
(K)-Ubuntu.
Anybody needing something else would never ask the question in the first place.
I think the lack of good non-lethal weapons has been a great boon to Western Society. It made dispersing those crowds of godless fuckers campaigning for something you really, really disagree with** that much more difficult. It's a good test for 'do we *really* want to disperse this crowd'.
* Not really, but it shows the problem. The guy deciding on the definition is also the one with the power.
** Including, but not limited to, anti-slavery, women's suffrage, gay rights, white supremacy and anti-war
Yes, his belief actually is part of The One Self Evident Universal Truth. Nipples are not dangerous and people like sex.
I'm not sure you really want to make this into a numbers game though. Africa is for the most part really open about sex, and most Latin Americans have a fairly relaxed attitude to it. Most of Asia seems to not make such a big deal about it either; it's just not an issue. The only countries I've heard of punishments like these are in fact Middle Eastern ones and the US (coincidently, not too far from the list of countries that still allow executions).
Right.
Alternativly, you could just lose some weight.
Movement:
Collision Detection:
Objects interacting on collision:
I mean, everything is the same always, just worse.