from what i understand we (the west) does two different things: 1.) we dont allow free agricultureal imports from developing countries, this is what you mentioned. 2.) we dump our products subsidized into their markets since we would have to destroy them otherwise.
point 2 seems really malicous and despiccable to me especially if combined with capriccous notions like producing biofuel or some other fad.
Yes, i have also heard that it is quite easy to get into and n00bfriendly. you should get it and try it right away and start playing momentarily. the friendly community will be helping you along the way.
If you are playing rock/paper/scissors no rating would be sufficient to predict the outcome of a tournament.
That's true, but that's not because of intransitivities in the game, it's because there's so little difference between human players. Just because there's intransitivities in the game doesn't mean there's intransitivity in the rankings - Starcraft is built around intransitivities, but the rankings work just fine.
thats true, i should have said intransitives in the player vs player outcomes rather than the game mechanics.
i am certain that the sc2 story is FAR more complicated than the rankings even tough every race setup in 1vs1 should be balanced in theory.
Many rating systems seem to assume transitive dominance structures. If you are playing rock/paper/scissors no rating would be sufficient to predict the outcome of a tournament. Many games (using Batttlenet, true skill..) propably are not interested in finding nontransitive structures since players want to be the best and fans want to know who is the best which is kind of pointless with r/p/s.
What a surprise. Anything bundled with windos and IE will reach numbers like that quickly and easily. If they were to add a cooking recipe to IE, they would reach those numbers with it. In fact, given the de-facto monopoly especially in companies, and that it was lobbied/bought as the only choice if you wanted streaming videos of the last two Olympics, that is a surprisingly low number
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Only Silverlight is NOT bundled with windows or IE.
@nuclear power. aside from the small detail that china will create as many new coal reactors per year as there are in australia and will do so for the next 15 years it's an unequivocally switch.
And then the face of the kid who gets somebody else's calculator where the equals button doesn't work. And maybe the face of the kid who is tech savy and figures out he got the cheaters hacked calculator, as he may ethically ponder - cheat myself and get a better grade, or turn in one cheater who without their cheating instrument will probably be toward the bottom, but if they are turned in they may be removed from the curve all together.
If he is smart enough to reverse engineer how the hacked calculator works in the time of the exam he most likely won't need to cheat anyway.
IMHO the reason unpredictability and unreliability of people is a shortcoming in the modesl, and not an actual trait.
A modeled person is no person at all. When someone models your behavior, they turn you into a thing.
Magic cool, let's try this. "Person A over there will stand up in the next 20 minutes."....Whooosh.... Person A -> Thing A... "Ohh, what's this over there, shiny."....Whoosh... Thing A -> Person A..."Damn"... "Hmm, i am predicting that Person A will be cast to a thing in the near future, hehehehe."...Whoosh... Person A -> Thing A
And now to this soulstealing picture taking machines...
you could just guess at all the intermediate results of halfway through a long sequence of operations, and execute from there, but discard the information if it's wrong.
How would you know that the calculations were wrong?
You get the arguments for the next computation and can look the result up in a dictionary/ hash table. (space for time trade)
Let's say you know 10 facts in the interested domain. you put these 10 facts in a basket of 50 questions. if the suspect does not know what you know it is only combinatorics/probability to estimate the quality of the information. If you have no knowledge whatsoever what they are up to you probably should not start torturing people anyway.
The downside as I see it, is that you have to use Java. Does the NDK provide code interop with the Java Android libraries? It can't, not without a C++/CLI-like bastard language derivation. That means, the purpose of the NDK is not to write fully native apps, but for managed bindings to native-written function libraries.
Java is a language with no future. No one likes it. In fact, it carries more hatred than even Perl. Many programmers refuse to even associate with it on principle, for fear they will be somehow tainted by its knowledge. And it was almost, almost dead at last. And Google had to go and make it popular all over again. It's a flashback to the year 2000.
I love the Android for the simple fact it runs on Linux. But I'll be damned if I will program for the Android. I'd rather sell a kidney than to touch Java. C++ is painful, but fun, especially in its template intricacies. Java is an abomination, to the eyes, and to the mind. It's a soulless corporate manifestation, the COBOL of the present, the programming language that no one willingly chooses to learn. DIAF.
You set up fly traps that repel the genetically modified flies. What you end up with is flies that are genetically predisposed to stay away from the areas we designate. Assuming the genetic modifications don't have any other adverse affects I would say it would be a great idea. We could have a situation develop where flies stay away from us and yet are still part of the environment and the food chain.
Yes, but you would also have to increase the fitness of your engineered flies. make them attracted to a certain wavelength and place nutrition at lamps with this wavelength. also make them sexually compatible, but genetically dominant to the rest of the fly population.
So you're one of those fuckers that makes IE only apps... You're not a programmer, you're not a web designer. Just go do something else with your life as you're a failure at doing web.
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As far as i can remember Lost was planned for one season and 3-4 shows before the grand finale they decided that they could not kill the cash cow and had to make things up on the fly. That was the point when i stopped watching. Guess i didnt miss much.
So it will take 5-10 years to develop an algorithm that achieves this in a way that humans wont be able to distinguish the accoustic performance of a robot and human in a double blind experiment.
It will also take forever for people to accept this.
Then can you please explain what TFA is all about?
In effect I hand you a state and you can perform a measurement on it. You will either measure a Zero or a One. You cannot predict which of the two you will measure. And you can perform the measurement only once. However I can prepare my side of the link such as to ensure that you will measure Zero with exactly 15.37586 percent probability. I can now write a learned paper in which I claim that 8 digits worth of "quantum information" have been teleported.
Note that this cannot be used to actually transmit any actual, real, information. Like a phone call or a TV signal or anything anybody actually cares about. Because it's about teleporting a quantum state.
People figured out that this is really uninteresting, boring, and there's no reason to fund it; so they call it "teleporting quantum information" instead, because that keeps the public (and hopefully the funding agencies) interested.
hmm, if you can change and fix the probability of the outcome then you should be able to transmit information. just use a big sample, prepare all of them for a certain probabilty and the outcome will be binomial distributed with a certain confidence interval for the probability information you wanted to transmit.
How can you distinguish between a state that collapsed because:
a.) you measured it.
b.) the other half has been measured.
c.) somebody interferred.
if you can distinguish between these possibilities, cant you use this information for faster than light transmission?
Does interference destroy the entanglement which might be discvovered by traditional communication later because the deterministic relationship of the pair no longer held?
Being gay is probably genetic.There's physical differences in the brains of gays. There are gay animals. You can't choose to be gay or not, same as you can choose who you fall in love with. What gays can do is not act on their desires, sames as religious heterosexuals can choose not to have sex outside of marriage OR not for procreation AND not divorce when they change their minds.. and they do that sooo well !
where else do you suppose the differences should be visible if not the brain. the question is when and why they occur.if i choose to start practicing piano you will also see differences in the brain after some years...
Better yet: If you do not understand an investment, don't buy it.
Really. There's no shortage of investments that are *easy* to understand, and the lack of free lunches means that investments you -don't- understand, tend to come with drawbacks that are invisible to you, because you don't understand them.
What's wrong with: "Buy 100 shares of a company with a total of 1M shares, if the company pays a dividend, you get 100/1M of it, if the company goes broke, your investment is lost. There's a $5 fee for the purchase, but other than that no fees or associated costs whatsoever"
Too simple ?
but the drawbacks tend to effect all investments, not only the opague ones. so you might very well have been better off buying them.
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from what i understand we (the west) does two different things:
1.) we dont allow free agricultureal imports from developing countries, this is what you mentioned.
2.) we dump our products subsidized into their markets since we would have to destroy them otherwise.
point 2 seems really malicous and despiccable to me especially if combined with capriccous notions like producing biofuel or some other fad.
Yes, i have also heard that it is quite easy to get into and n00bfriendly.
you should get it and try it right away and start playing momentarily.
the friendly community will be helping you along the way.
you are ofcourse correct, i meant the players and not the game.
That's true, but that's not because of intransitivities in the game, it's because there's so little difference between human players. Just because there's intransitivities in the game doesn't mean there's intransitivity in the rankings - Starcraft is built around intransitivities, but the rankings work just fine.
thats true, i should have said intransitives in the player vs player outcomes rather than the game mechanics.
i am certain that the sc2 story is FAR more complicated than the rankings even tough every race setup in 1vs1 should be balanced in theory.
Many rating systems seem to assume transitive dominance structures. If you are playing rock/paper/scissors no rating would be sufficient to predict the outcome of a tournament. Many games (using Batttlenet, true skill..) propably are not interested in finding nontransitive structures since players want to be the best and fans want to know who is the best which is kind of pointless with r/p/s.
What a series of ridiculous assertions.
Silverlight penetration now stands at 51%
What a surprise. Anything bundled with windos and IE will reach numbers like that quickly and easily. If they were to add a cooking recipe to IE, they would reach those numbers with it. In fact, given the de-facto monopoly especially in companies, and that it was lobbied/bought as the only choice if you wanted streaming videos of the last two Olympics, that is a surprisingly low number
[...]
Only Silverlight is NOT bundled with windows or IE.
@nuclear power. aside from the small detail that china will create as many new coal reactors per year as there are in australia and will do so for the next 15 years it's an unequivocally switch.
And then the face of the kid who gets somebody else's calculator where the equals button doesn't work. And maybe the face of the kid who is tech savy and figures out he got the cheaters hacked calculator, as he may ethically ponder - cheat myself and get a better grade, or turn in one cheater who without their cheating instrument will probably be toward the bottom, but if they are turned in they may be removed from the curve all together.
If he is smart enough to reverse engineer how the hacked calculator works in the time of the exam he most likely won't need to cheat anyway.
A modeled person is no person at all. When someone models your behavior, they turn you into a thing.
Magic cool, let's try this. ....Whooosh.... ... ....Whoosh... ..."Damn"... ...Whoosh...
"Person A over there will stand up in the next 20 minutes."
Person A -> Thing A
"Ohh, what's this over there, shiny."
Thing A -> Person A
"Hmm, i am predicting that Person A will be cast to a thing in the near future, hehehehe."
Person A -> Thing A
And now to this soulstealing picture taking machines...
How would you know that the calculations were wrong?
You get the arguments for the next computation and can look the result up in a dictionary/ hash table. (space for time trade)
Let's say you know 10 facts in the interested domain. you put these 10 facts in a basket of 50 questions. if the suspect does not know what you know it is only combinatorics/probability to estimate the quality of the information. If you have no knowledge whatsoever what they are up to you probably should not start torturing people anyway.
well, you could use Eclipse or Emacs or any other editor.
The downside as I see it, is that you have to use Java. Does the NDK provide code interop with the Java Android libraries? It can't, not without a C++/CLI-like bastard language derivation. That means, the purpose of the NDK is not to write fully native apps, but for managed bindings to native-written function libraries.
Java is a language with no future. No one likes it. In fact, it carries more hatred than even Perl. Many programmers refuse to even associate with it on principle, for fear they will be somehow tainted by its knowledge. And it was almost, almost dead at last. And Google had to go and make it popular all over again. It's a flashback to the year 2000.
I love the Android for the simple fact it runs on Linux. But I'll be damned if I will program for the Android. I'd rather sell a kidney than to touch Java. C++ is painful, but fun, especially in its template intricacies. Java is an abomination, to the eyes, and to the mind. It's a soulless corporate manifestation, the COBOL of the present, the programming language that no one willingly chooses to learn. DIAF.
Well, then use Scala http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/scala-ide/Developing_for_Android or Clojure (tough there are significant performance penalties with clojure).
Compared to how bad games adapted from movies are they are all Oscar/Cannes material.
Here is a little hint for you. The dangerous hackers, the ones that are actually committing crimes in the wild, don't go to hacker competitions.
Yes, but the ones that are clever and interested enough, but earn enough money not to bother to go illegal, do.
You're thinking about it all wrong.
You set up fly traps that repel the genetically modified flies. What you end up with is flies that are genetically predisposed to stay away from the areas we designate. Assuming the genetic modifications don't have any other adverse affects I would say it would be a great idea. We could have a situation develop where flies stay away from us and yet are still part of the environment and the food chain.
Yes, but you would also have to increase the fitness of your engineered flies. make them attracted to a certain wavelength and place nutrition at lamps with this wavelength. also make them sexually compatible, but genetically dominant to the rest of the fly population.
So you're one of those fuckers that makes IE only apps... You're not a programmer, you're not a web designer. Just go do something else with your life as you're a failure at doing web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight#Operating_systems_and_web_browsers
As far as i can remember Lost was planned for one season and 3-4 shows before the grand finale they decided that they could not kill the cash cow and had to make things up on the fly. That was the point when i stopped watching. Guess i didnt miss much.
So it will take 5-10 years to develop an algorithm that achieves this in a way that humans wont be able to distinguish the accoustic performance of a robot and human in a double blind experiment. It will also take forever for people to accept this.
Then can you please explain what TFA is all about?
In effect I hand you a state and you can perform a measurement on it. You will either measure a Zero or a One. You cannot predict which of the two you will measure. And you can perform the measurement only once. However I can prepare my side of the link such as to ensure that you will measure Zero with exactly 15.37586 percent probability. I can now write a learned paper in which I claim that 8 digits worth of "quantum information" have been teleported.
Note that this cannot be used to actually transmit any actual, real, information. Like a phone call or a TV signal or anything anybody actually cares about. Because it's about teleporting a quantum state.
People figured out that this is really uninteresting, boring, and there's no reason to fund it; so they call it "teleporting quantum information" instead, because that keeps the public (and hopefully the funding agencies) interested.
hmm, if you can change and fix the probability of the outcome then you should be able to transmit information. just use a big sample, prepare all of them for a certain probabilty and the outcome will be binomial distributed with a certain confidence interval for the probability information you wanted to transmit.
How can you distinguish between a state that collapsed because: a.) you measured it. b.) the other half has been measured. c.) somebody interferred. if you can distinguish between these possibilities, cant you use this information for faster than light transmission? Does interference destroy the entanglement which might be discvovered by traditional communication later because the deterministic relationship of the pair no longer held?
Being gay is probably genetic.There's physical differences in the brains of gays. There are gay animals. You can't choose to be gay or not, same as you can choose who you fall in love with. What gays can do is not act on their desires, sames as religious heterosexuals can choose not to have sex outside of marriage OR not for procreation AND not divorce when they change their minds.. and they do that sooo well !
where else do you suppose the differences should be visible if not the brain. the question is when and why they occur.if i choose to start practicing piano you will also see differences in the brain after some years...
With NumPy and SciPy, it is just as easy to do what MATLab does in a language that's actually fun to work with.
I just hope Sage succeeds and becomes more well-known. It's the best open alternative we have.
Flamebait? sage was a reference to http://www.sagemath.org/ .
Since when is SF pre-installed? Wouldn't it be a great security risk for everyone and wouldn't it be an anti-trust case, like with IE?
it isnt.
Better yet: If you do not understand an investment, don't buy it.
Really. There's no shortage of investments that are *easy* to understand, and the lack of free lunches means that investments you -don't- understand, tend to come with drawbacks that are invisible to you, because you don't understand them.
What's wrong with: "Buy 100 shares of a company with a total of 1M shares, if the company pays a dividend, you get 100/1M of it, if the company goes broke, your investment is lost. There's a $5 fee for the purchase, but other than that no fees or associated costs whatsoever"
Too simple ?
but the drawbacks tend to effect all investments, not only the opague ones. so you might very well have been better off buying them.