the mathes that are being played by humans against computers these days (expcept for kasparov vs DeepBlue) are all mostly on single processor PCs. But, single processor PCs are not the only computers in this world. It is only on these machines that humans are able to draw against computers, not win. The standard method being used by GMs to draw is to set up a closed position which need deep strategical moves and long term plans to win againt. Since the games are limited to 40 moves in 2 hrs per player, the single processor computers agree for draws in such positions when they are unable to calculate the winning moves in time. Given that processor speed is increasing rapidly, even these single processor PCs will beat humans pretty soon. If a human played against amy of the Top500 supercomputers today, he would get his butt kicked big time, even Kasparov. I think a cluster of less than 10 computers is enough to beat kasparov. Since kasparov already lost to deep blue, nobody is intersted in investing money in writing software for parallel processing chess programs. Its considered a done deal. The statistics the author of the article is using to prove his point are only valid for PCs.
I disagree with you (politely). They should not feel cheated if the drive says 123.5GB. If it says 123.5 GiB (Notice the 'i') then they should feel cheated if the OS shows 115 GB. They can be sued for that. This is based on the other link in the story which is also very informative.
Clearly explains that the difference is only in units and nobody is trying to defraud anybody. The users are getting what they pay for. But, one question is if there are bad sectors on the disk, would the space lost be shown by the OS?
What do you do if you have to call some company's customer support, or, more generally, any number where you will be on hold for a while? Do you really burn all those cell-plan minutes? Do you pay a premium for a large bucket of any-time minutes?
Then I disconnect internet and use the land line! After I am done calling them, I replace the net connection. Obviously, I am on dialup
If Isaac newton was alive today he would not be a physicist. He would be a laid off geek sitting and reading slashdot. So, the question of whether he would be accepted as faculty is moot.
I have a land line that I never connect to a phone. Its just for internet use. But, whenever I am filling out forms and providing phone numbers in applicatios, I give out this number. I have a cell phone for all communication purposes and I only give out that number to the people who can call me. Once in a while, very rarely telmarketers call on the cell number too, but if I tell them they are calling me on my cell phone, they hang up and never call back.
The best way to keep apprised of the activities of
both amateurs and professionals is to establish open networks
of researchers, perhaps modeled on the Open
Source Software (OSS) movement, and potentially sponsored
by the government during their embryonic phases.
The Open Source development community thrives on
constant communication and plentiful free advice. This
behavior is common practice for professional biology
hackers, and it is already evident on the Web amongst
amateur biology hackers.14 This represents an opportunity
to keep apprised of current research in a distributed
fashion. Anyone trying something new will require advice
from peers and may advertise at least some portion
of the results of their work. As is evident from the ready
criticism leveled at miscreants in online forums frequented
by software developers (Slashdot, Kuro5hin,
etc.), people are not afraid to speak out when they feel the
work of a particular person or group is substandard or
threatens the public good. Thus our best potential defense
against biological threats is to create and maintain open
networks of researchers at every level, thereby magnifying
the number of eyes and ears keeping track of what is
going on in the world.
Two questions: 1.Where would OSS be with government support in embryonic phases?
2. Slashdot is so powerful??
What I am trying to say is that the number of virii does not matter. The articles comparing 40000 viruses in windows vs 5 in linux don't prove much. It is the effect of the viruses that matters. I don't want to speculate on how the effect would have been different as it would be mere speculation.
there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms
Probably, there would be as many viruses written, or more, but the effect of the viruses would have been different. As to whether the effects would have been not as bad, equal or worse is difficult to answer.
When I was moving, I shipped my computer to the new address and when I tried to boot up my computer at the new location, it made a cranky noise and did not work. I lost all my mp3s that I collected right from the days of napster:(
I think the vibrations and shocks that the machine gets during the journey are a little too intense for the hard-disk to handle and thus, this Air-bag idea sound good to me. But, hey, I'm not the type who pays a price equal to the price of the disk itself for the air-bag. So, they better make it inexpensive.
If putting rfid tags can let them track you, that means whenever you travel by air and check luggage in, you are being tracked. That's because checked baggage is being tracked by rfid tags now. once the bag is checked in, a computerized system keeps track of the bag till it completes security screeing inside the baggage handling system till it reaches the gates where the bags are loaded into the aircraft. But, once the bag reaches the gate, the tag cannot be removed, as the bag needs to be delivered to the right place in the destinantion airport. So, you take the bag and the tag home with you, thus creating a possiblity of being tracked. In that case, being tracked by books should not worry us as we are already being tracked!
If you want to follow Napster's progress, send us your e-mail
There is nothing more than some animations and that input box in napster.com. Is that the real website of napster?
The article does not mention what speed the surfboard can go at.
Some places have restrictions on speeds for watercrafts though these rules do not generally apply to water skiing. But, in light of the fact that these surfboards have mechanical engines, it might be possible that there will be new rules and speed restrictions.
After I watched the matrix and found out they were making reloaded, I had something to look forward to in life. Even now, I have something to look forward to in form of "Revolutions". But, what next? There will be nothing to look forward to after that and our lives will be filled with void. Maybe I should not watch revolutions till for many years just so that there will be something worth doing left in life.
Trinkaus -- An Informal Look (Part 8 of 10)
The guy who won literature prize is quite interesting. Check this out
(71) "The Demise of 'Yes': An Informal Look," J. Trinkaus, Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 84, no. 3, part 1, June 1997, p. 866.
For affirmative responses to simple interrogatories, the use of "absolutely" and "exactly" may be becoming more socially frequent than "yes." A counting of positive replies to 419 questions on several TV networks showed 249 answers of "absolutely," 117 "exactly," and 53 of "yes."
Now you know what to do when you are watching TV shows. Just count how many times they use some other word for 'no' and you may win a prize!!
$0.20 is a bad target as todays $0.2 will only be worth $0.15 next year, with US economy doing not so good. It will be easier for them to achive a target of 0.2 Euros!
Slashdot Mirror
the mathes that are being played by humans against computers these days (expcept for kasparov vs DeepBlue) are all mostly on single processor PCs. But, single processor PCs are not the only computers in this world. It is only on these machines that humans are able to draw against computers, not win. The standard method being used by GMs to draw is to set up a closed position which need deep strategical moves and long term plans to win againt. Since the games are limited to 40 moves in 2 hrs per player, the single processor computers agree for draws in such positions when they are unable to calculate the winning moves in time. Given that processor speed is increasing rapidly, even these single processor PCs will beat humans pretty soon. If a human played against amy of the Top500 supercomputers today, he would get his butt kicked big time, even Kasparov. I think a cluster of less than 10 computers is enough to beat kasparov. Since kasparov already lost to deep blue, nobody is intersted in investing money in writing software for parallel processing chess programs. Its considered a done deal. The statistics the author of the article is using to prove his point are only valid for PCs.
I disagree with you (politely). They should not feel cheated if the drive says 123.5GB. If it says 123.5 GiB (Notice the 'i') then they should feel cheated if the OS shows 115 GB. They can be sued for that.
This is based on the other link in the story which is also very informative.
Clearly explains that the difference is only in units and nobody is trying to defraud anybody. The users are getting what they pay for.
But, one question is if there are bad sectors on the disk, would the space lost be shown by the OS?
What do you do if you have to call some company's customer support, or, more generally, any number where you will be on hold for a while? Do you really burn all those cell-plan minutes? Do you pay a premium for a large bucket of any-time minutes?
Then I disconnect internet and use the land line!
After I am done calling them, I replace the net connection. Obviously, I am on dialup
If Isaac newton was alive today he would not be a physicist. He would be a laid off geek sitting and reading slashdot. So, the question of whether he would be accepted as faculty is moot.
I read the title as "Notes From The SCO Roadshow's First post" and thought " wow! they are sending out information through FP!!".
I have a land line that I never connect to a phone. Its just for internet use. But, whenever I am filling out forms and providing phone numbers in applicatios, I give out this number.
I have a cell phone for all communication purposes and I only give out that number to the people who can call me. Once in a while, very rarely telmarketers call on the cell number too, but if I tell them they are calling me on my cell phone, they hang up and never call back.
The best way to keep apprised of the activities of both amateurs and professionals is to establish open networks of researchers, perhaps modeled on the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, and potentially sponsored by the government during their embryonic phases. The Open Source development community thrives on constant communication and plentiful free advice. This behavior is common practice for professional biology hackers, and it is already evident on the Web amongst amateur biology hackers.14 This represents an opportunity to keep apprised of current research in a distributed fashion. Anyone trying something new will require advice from peers and may advertise at least some portion of the results of their work. As is evident from the ready criticism leveled at miscreants in online forums frequented by software developers (Slashdot, Kuro5hin, etc.), people are not afraid to speak out when they feel the work of a particular person or group is substandard or threatens the public good. Thus our best potential defense against biological threats is to create and maintain open networks of researchers at every level, thereby magnifying the number of eyes and ears keeping track of what is going on in the world.
Two questions:
1.Where would OSS be with government support in embryonic phases?
2. Slashdot is so powerful??
What I am trying to say is that the number of virii does not matter. The articles comparing 40000 viruses in windows vs 5 in linux don't prove much. It is the effect of the viruses that matters. I don't want to speculate on how the effect would have been different as it would be mere speculation.
there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms Probably, there would be as many viruses written, or more, but the effect of the viruses would have been different. As to whether the effects would have been not as bad, equal or worse is difficult to answer.
When I was moving, I shipped my computer to the new address and when I tried to boot up my computer at the new location, it made a cranky noise and did not work. I lost all my mp3s that I collected right from the days of napster :(
I think the vibrations and shocks that the machine gets during the journey are a little too intense for the hard-disk to handle and thus, this Air-bag idea sound good to me. But, hey, I'm not the type who pays a price equal to the price of the disk itself for the air-bag. So, they better make it inexpensive.
are they also inserting some frames from other movies along with these 'cigarette spots'
pray, what might be the reasons for admins to have spam moving? To increase their job security?
None of Netzero or MSN users have been sued by RIAA according to the link provided in the article. (1100 subpoenas) I wonder why?
If putting rfid tags can let them track you, that means whenever you travel by air and check luggage in, you are being tracked. That's because checked baggage is being tracked by rfid tags now. once the bag is checked in, a computerized system keeps track of the bag till it completes security screeing inside the baggage handling system till it reaches the gates where the bags are loaded into the aircraft. But, once the bag reaches the gate, the tag cannot be removed, as the bag needs to be delivered to the right place in the destinantion airport. So, you take the bag and the tag home with you, thus creating a possiblity of being tracked. In that case, being tracked by books should not worry us as we are already being tracked!
the subject should read napster.com.
If you want to follow Napster's progress, send us your e-mail There is nothing more than some animations and that input box in napster.com. Is that the real website of napster?
opportunities Apple missed with some key technologies -- such as HyperCard and the Newton."
Atleast, Newton did not miss his opportunities with an apple.
The article does not mention what speed the surfboard can go at.
Some places have restrictions on speeds for watercrafts though these rules do not generally apply to water skiing. But, in light of the fact that these surfboards have mechanical engines, it might be possible that there will be new rules and speed restrictions.
After I watched the matrix and found out they were making reloaded, I had something to look forward to in life. Even now, I have something to look forward to in form of "Revolutions". But, what next? There will be nothing to look forward to after that and our lives will be filled with void. Maybe I should not watch revolutions till for many years just so that there will be something worth doing left in life.
Trinkaus -- An Informal Look (Part 8 of 10)
The guy who won literature prize is quite interesting. Check this out
(71) "The Demise of 'Yes': An Informal Look," J. Trinkaus, Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 84, no. 3, part 1, June 1997, p. 866. For affirmative responses to simple interrogatories, the use of "absolutely" and "exactly" may be becoming more socially frequent than "yes." A counting of positive replies to 419 questions on several TV networks showed 249 answers of "absolutely," 117 "exactly," and 53 of "yes."
Now you know what to do when you are watching TV shows. Just count how many times they use some other word for 'no' and you may win a prize!!
just send invoices to you clients for $699. Some of them will pay without bothering to find out what they are paying for.
$0.20 is a bad target as todays $0.2 will only be worth $0.15 next year, with US economy doing not so good. It will be easier for them to achive a target of 0.2 Euros!
you really need to go on a loooong trip to listen to all the songs before you get home.
anonymous cowards bravely admit they are retards