This is as stupid as the cases surround the ten commandments in that courthouse. Who f-n cares?!?! Even if you're not a Christan, you have to be pretty dang stupid to object to those. After all, there are some pretty good rules to get alone with each other in those. Things like, "don't murder", "don't hump your neighbor's wife", "don't hold false witness", etc, etc., all seem like pretty good ideas to me.
You're forgetting that nice little "thou shalt have no other gods" bit. Putting this in front of a supreme court, whose job it is to uphold the freedom of religion (among other things), doesn't make sense. It's as if the supreme court endorses the Christian god and endorses the notion of having no other god. Or how about not making any statues or graven images? Should the courts be enforcing that law?
Should we put all "pretty good ideas" in tablet form in front of the courts? Buddha's good ideas, Allah's good ideas, Vishnu's good ideas, etc.? How about a big banner saying "wash your hands before you eat"? That's a good idea which is medically sound. Or are the courts a forum for only Christian good ideas?
Probably the best thing to do to prevent disinformation from entering your company is to block articles by Rob Enderle.
Given the recent FUD from "our own Roblimo", I think it might be good to block articles from anyone named Rob if you're looking fro honest information.
If they are using laser beams to power a generator in the plane, why don't they use this to solve our energy distribution problem? In blackouts, just beam power to cities by laser.
Got any spare gigawatt lasers lying around that you're not using to etch your name into the moon's surface? That's one hell of a power requirement!
Isn't that how spam works? Admit it, after a few hundred or thousand spams for penis pills are you much more inclined to buy than you would have been if you got just one? That certainly seems to be the concept spam is based on.
I never said you weren't correct. While your post is rather "trollish", it has the rare trait of being very accurate in pointing out the problem with current spam and anti-spam. Unfortunately, the one way to sure-fire shut down spammers is the method people resist the most.
Why have email as part of the system? Why not just have a blacklist of spam sites and encourage people to beat on them?
Several people have written suggesting a "DDoS@Home" project of this type. (Two correspondents who shall remain nameless simultaneously invented this catchy name.) But I think mail should remain in the system for two reasons: (a) it tells you which sites to pound, and when, and (b) if you included it as part of a filter, you could get more users.
On the other hand, if some group managed to launch a DDoS@Home project aimed at spammers, that would be enormously amusing. I'd sign up for it.
Sounds like a challenge. So who's going to be the first to post a URL to the SourceForge project page?;-)
Look at it again. Man on bottom left is by himself.
That's clearly a case of "severed adult-child hand grip syndrome" and is an exception. It is obvious from the picture that, moments prior, they were joined at the hand in an unbroken chain of order 3. However, due to the fat man slipping backwards, the untimely sprawling caused a momentary chain breakage. Rest assured, had the picture been drawn only a few seconds afterward, the man would have recovered and the chain would once again be established.
The images aren't meant to be realistic, they're meant to be representational. The images mean that humans have a torso, a smaller head, and 4 limbs in upper and lower pairs. Remember that these plaques may be seen by entities with no concept of shading, muscles, or any other style of art that we either innately comprehend due to our brain's "greedy" pattern recognition or have learned to accept as part of our years of seeing images. Every single element of the drawing must have a precise and unique meaning.
So some future entity will think that all the creatures depicted in those crude drawings must be a lifeform that exists solely by being chained together at the arms. There's not one example of a human existing on its own. Just look at it again. Every depiction of a human is done through joining of two or more people at the hands. They would think we're some kind of chained lifeform.
Granted, an alien being may not have any concept of shading, muscles, etc. but neither did the six year old who drew those pictures. If the goal is to have every single element stand on its own and be uniquely defined, surely they could come up with something non-stick figure. Even a simple silhouette would be orders of magnitude better. And your argument falls apart anyway. In the first image strip, the people on the left have torsos. The people on the right have no torsos. One person on the right has a triangular hip, whereas nobody else in that strip has a triangular hip. How are they to know a triangular lower part means a skirt and, hence, the stick figure must therefore be the child-bearing member of the species? And look at the bottom image. There's not even a remotely accurate sense of scale. The first person is a tiny neckless balloon on top of a large balloon, out of which huge disproportionate sticks protrude. On the right of that bottom image strip, there's another triangle hip person joined to a big fat person where the triangle represents the torso and hip and most of the legs too, leaving only stubby feet. And god only knows what the hell is dangling from the fat triangle's arms. Is that supposed to be a purse? A dog?
I've often wondered how Computers could ever top man, since they run on programs made by man, are they not? It just seems like humans couldn't make chess software that was better than a human itself. Anyone care to shed some more light on this subject?
Given an unlimited amount of time, it's always possible that computers won't fare any better than humans, since humans can use the same algorithms. However, chess is played in a finite amount of time. It's like having a contest to multiply two large numbers together. A human can always come up with the correct answer, as will the computer. However, the computer will always do it faster. Now put a time limit on the multiplication exercise and a human won't be able to find the correct solution in the time allotted, which is that we're starting to see now with computers beating humans in chess.
It's inevitable that the trend in computer chess advances will only continue. Previously, humans trounced computers, both due to overall weakness and by taking advantage of a computer's flaws. Now, humans can only manage a draw against computers because they're having to play more and more defensively. In the future, computers will be fast enough and the algorithms will be sufficiently "intelligent" that humans will lose against computers. If a top-level human player can beat another top-level human player, it only stands to reason that a sufficiently advanced chess computer can do the same.
Run an OS 10.0.4 box along side of a 10.1.0 box or a 10.0.4 along side a 10.2.0 box and then do a file copy or a browse to a network server and fart around with the machine at the sametime.
I agree. With 10.0.4 it took over 20 minutes to copy a 17MB file, but 10.2 only takes a few seconds.;-)
Personally, I think this kind of innovation is a Good Thing. However, the innovation should be done at the application level, not at the infrastructure level. Let applications determine how to handle the case where a DNS query returns NXDOMAIN. But don't break the infrastructure and force all applications to go south just because you want a web browser (1 port out of 65K) to handle DNS differently.
"Apple, since the G5's introduction in June, has touted the new chip's processing power in numerous comparisons with Pentium 4 machines, and rightfully so. It'll pretty much hand every other computer its proverbial hat and keep on crunching data without breaking a sweat."
The best Fisher Space Pen I've had the pleasure of using is the Millennium model. Guaranteed to never run out of ink for your lifetime. Of course, I was too cheap to pony up the several hundred they're asking and opted for the titanium bullet pen instead. That pen soon developed a leak, perhaps due to the ink being over-pressurized. The good thing is that they fully guarantee their products. Just send it back and they'll fix it or replace it free.
But that Millennium pen... damn you, I just may have to spring for it.
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This is as stupid as the cases surround the ten commandments in that courthouse. Who f-n cares?!?! Even if you're not a Christan, you have to be pretty dang stupid to object to those. After all, there are some pretty good rules to get alone with each other in those. Things like, "don't murder", "don't hump your neighbor's wife", "don't hold false witness", etc, etc., all seem like pretty good ideas to me.
You're forgetting that nice little "thou shalt have no other gods" bit. Putting this in front of a supreme court, whose job it is to uphold the freedom of religion (among other things), doesn't make sense. It's as if the supreme court endorses the Christian god and endorses the notion of having no other god. Or how about not making any statues or graven images? Should the courts be enforcing that law?
Should we put all "pretty good ideas" in tablet form in front of the courts? Buddha's good ideas, Allah's good ideas, Vishnu's good ideas, etc.? How about a big banner saying "wash your hands before you eat"? That's a good idea which is medically sound. Or are the courts a forum for only Christian good ideas?
Why is this listed under the interviews category?
Mono is a work in progress and really isn't embedded itself into Linux yet or probably will for a long while.
So, what you're saying is that:
Mono is a work in progress and really isn't [hasn't] embedded itself into Linux yet or probably will [embed itself into Linux?] for a long while?
What is it you're trying to say, man?
Probably the best thing to do to prevent disinformation from entering your company is to block articles by Rob Enderle.
Given the recent FUD from "our own Roblimo", I think it might be good to block articles from anyone named Rob if you're looking fro honest information.
I think an apt name for the 111th element is Binarium.
I just finished reading the whole article as it was pointed out by a troll in another BSD story:
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http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/10/1
Coincidence?
I guess we have to rely on the BSD trolls for all our stories now?
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:)
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=81828&cid
Rather amusing, that.
If they are using laser beams to power a generator in the plane, why don't they use this to solve our energy distribution problem? In blackouts, just beam power to cities by laser.
Got any spare gigawatt lasers lying around that you're not using to etch your name into the moon's surface? That's one hell of a power requirement!
Isn't that how spam works? Admit it, after a few hundred or thousand spams for penis pills are you much more inclined to buy than you would have been if you got just one? That certainly seems to be the concept spam is based on.
I never said you weren't correct. While your post is rather "trollish", it has the rare trait of being very accurate in pointing out the problem with current spam and anti-spam. Unfortunately, the one way to sure-fire shut down spammers is the method people resist the most.
I suppose you take the time to post this every time a spam filter story gets posted?
From this page:
;-)
Why have email as part of the system? Why not just have a blacklist of spam sites and encourage people to beat on them?
Several people have written suggesting a "DDoS@Home" project of this type. (Two correspondents who shall remain nameless simultaneously invented this catchy name.) But I think mail should remain in the system for two reasons: (a) it tells you which sites to pound, and when, and (b) if you included it as part of a filter, you could get more users.
On the other hand, if some group managed to launch a DDoS@Home project aimed at spammers, that would be enormously amusing. I'd sign up for it.
Sounds like a challenge. So who's going to be the first to post a URL to the SourceForge project page?
Look at it again. Man on bottom left is by himself.
That's clearly a case of "severed adult-child hand grip syndrome" and is an exception. It is obvious from the picture that, moments prior, they were joined at the hand in an unbroken chain of order 3. However, due to the fat man slipping backwards, the untimely sprawling caused a momentary chain breakage. Rest assured, had the picture been drawn only a few seconds afterward, the man would have recovered and the chain would once again be established.
A quick google came up with this:
http://www.bebits.com/app/3459
Thanks. I came across that one before. Given that it's a self-described 0.1 alpha version, I didn't give it much of a glance.
Does anyone know of an engine (open source or otherwise) which can be used to create MMORPG games?
The images aren't meant to be realistic, they're meant to be representational. The images mean that humans have a torso, a smaller head, and 4 limbs in upper and lower pairs. Remember that these plaques may be seen by entities with no concept of shading, muscles, or any other style of art that we either innately comprehend due to our brain's "greedy" pattern recognition or have learned to accept as part of our years of seeing images. Every single element of the drawing must have a precise and unique meaning.
So some future entity will think that all the creatures depicted in those crude drawings must be a lifeform that exists solely by being chained together at the arms. There's not one example of a human existing on its own. Just look at it again. Every depiction of a human is done through joining of two or more people at the hands. They would think we're some kind of chained lifeform.
Granted, an alien being may not have any concept of shading, muscles, etc. but neither did the six year old who drew those pictures. If the goal is to have every single element stand on its own and be uniquely defined, surely they could come up with something non-stick figure. Even a simple silhouette would be orders of magnitude better. And your argument falls apart anyway. In the first image strip, the people on the left have torsos. The people on the right have no torsos. One person on the right has a triangular hip, whereas nobody else in that strip has a triangular hip. How are they to know a triangular lower part means a skirt and, hence, the stick figure must therefore be the child-bearing member of the species? And look at the bottom image. There's not even a remotely accurate sense of scale. The first person is a tiny neckless balloon on top of a large balloon, out of which huge disproportionate sticks protrude. On the right of that bottom image strip, there's another triangle hip person joined to a big fat person where the triangle represents the torso and hip and most of the legs too, leaving only stubby feet. And god only knows what the hell is dangling from the fat triangle's arms. Is that supposed to be a purse? A dog?
Precise and unique meaning, my ass!
I've often wondered how Computers could ever top man, since they run on programs made by man, are they not? It just seems like humans couldn't make chess software that was better than a human itself. Anyone care to shed some more light on this subject?
Given an unlimited amount of time, it's always possible that computers won't fare any better than humans, since humans can use the same algorithms. However, chess is played in a finite amount of time. It's like having a contest to multiply two large numbers together. A human can always come up with the correct answer, as will the computer. However, the computer will always do it faster. Now put a time limit on the multiplication exercise and a human won't be able to find the correct solution in the time allotted, which is that we're starting to see now with computers beating humans in chess.
It's inevitable that the trend in computer chess advances will only continue. Previously, humans trounced computers, both due to overall weakness and by taking advantage of a computer's flaws. Now, humans can only manage a draw against computers because they're having to play more and more defensively. In the future, computers will be fast enough and the algorithms will be sufficiently "intelligent" that humans will lose against computers. If a top-level human player can beat another top-level human player, it only stands to reason that a sufficiently advanced chess computer can do the same.
how to ensure you don't lose your $129 dollars...
Question: how do you pronounce $129?
Answer: One hundred twenty-nine dollars.
Question: how do you pronounce $129 dollars?
Answer: One hundred twenty-nine dollars dollars.
Score: -1, Redundant Redundant.
Run an OS 10.0.4 box along side of a 10.1.0 box or a 10.0.4 along side a 10.2.0 box and then do a file copy or a browse to a network server and fart around with the machine at the sametime.
;-)
I agree. With 10.0.4 it took over 20 minutes to copy a 17MB file, but 10.2 only takes a few seconds.
OK, funny either way, but was that r a typo or were you poking fun at some folks probrems pronouncing certain letters?
I just hope China doesn't have a presidential election soon.
So... How long until someone writes a virus and adds it to the back if thier Drivers License?
I figure most of these swipers are already running some version of Windows, so I doubt it would be really difficult for someone to do this.
Hey, it worked in Independence Day... good luck fitting that 50KB attachment onto a magstripe though.
So the problem now is too much speed? You need to introduce a bloated text format to slow down the framerate?
I guess to answer the question, yes all speed problems are eliminated. The graphics are all uniformly slow.
Personally, I think this kind of innovation is a Good Thing. However, the innovation should be done at the application level, not at the infrastructure level. Let applications determine how to handle the case where a DNS query returns NXDOMAIN. But don't break the infrastructure and force all applications to go south just because you want a web browser (1 port out of 65K) to handle DNS differently.
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I hear the FBI's anti-child porn database is composed of around that many Petafiles.
"Apple, since the G5's introduction in June, has touted the new chip's processing power in numerous comparisons with Pentium 4 machines, and rightfully so. It'll pretty much hand every other computer its proverbial hat and keep on crunching data without breaking a sweat."
That got a chuckle.
The best Fisher Space Pen I've had the pleasure of using is the Millennium model. Guaranteed to never run out of ink for your lifetime. Of course, I was too cheap to pony up the several hundred they're asking and opted for the titanium bullet pen instead. That pen soon developed a leak, perhaps due to the ink being over-pressurized. The good thing is that they fully guarantee their products. Just send it back and they'll fix it or replace it free.
But that Millennium pen... damn you, I just may have to spring for it.