So what do you think a researcher does after his model fails to perform in the testing set? He builds a new model. From that point on, it's just like using the same set for training and testing.
"there's an 80 percent chance that climate change was responsible"
What the hell does that even mean? It's just a way to get the attention of laymen, anyone who understands a shred of statistics will laugh at this meaningless suggestion.
Free market is a fair judge, treats all the same and the winners and losers are decided only by their merits, not by who they know.
Distributing wealth according to "merit", which you probably define as intelligence, talent, education, luck and hard-working-ness, is only marginally preferrable to distributing according to nepotism and personal connections; there's little someone can do to influence either set of criteria.
An equal distribution of wealth is far fairer; at the very least, no one should be abandoned in poverty while his fellow citizens spend extravagantly, even if this requires a state-defined limit to the wealth any one individual can amass.
Donate to pay the money? I assure you that the convicted have more than enough to cover the fine. TPB was making huge amounts of money from the ads. They weren't close to Google just because they searched through files, they had the same business model as well.
I've been reading Slashdot for years and I've always had this problem: Whenever a discussion hits two or more pages, if I try to view the second page I get the comments from the first page with a couple of new comments appended. I've posted about this before but nobody seems to mind. It's mind-boggling how a site as frequented as Slashdot can have such a huge bug for so many years with nobody doing a thing about it.
Yep, that's true. Queensryche and Black Sabbath (big name bands) sounded good. The rest (Pearl Jam, RHCP, Tool, etc) sounded like crap. I was fairly horrified to be a teenager realizing that my favorite bands couldn't do "studio" live. Hmmm, all the bands you mention are experienced and I'm sure they could pull a nice sounding show. Sometime it's just a bad night or the setting just won't sound nice, no matter how hard the sound engineer tries.
This worshipping of live audio outrages me. Since I was a little boy I would always hear people say how live sound is great and you can't get that sound on a recording etc.
Until I started going to actual rock concerts.
The truth: On most of them the sound sucks. Some of them have great sound and some of them have awful sound where you can't hear a thing. Most of them fall in between.
I don't get what's so great about the live sound. People play their instruments/sing into a microphone, it's fed into aplifiers, passed through some hastily prepared filters and goes to the speakers. It's exactly the same on a CD. If you had the same equipment they have on the gig, you'd get the same sound. The CD standard won't limit you.
Note that I still love going to concerts because of the feel and the contact with the performers. That's what makes a gig great.
I'm still the guy who in high school managed to seduce the hottest girl in school. I'm still the guy who took 4 grams of mushrooms on a road trip from Austin to New Orleans to make the time pass (though I wasn't driving). And from now on you're the guy that bragged about it on slashdot. That's the saddest of them all.
Why? It's dead easy to find people who infringe. Just open bittorrent and look at the IP's in the swarm. Some clients will helpfully let you know which country each IP is coming for, too!
Thank for the listing! I like some of those artists and next time I'm in a record store I'll get some more!
There are some people who don't mind paying to get something, you know. And when we break the law, we face the consequences, we don't say shit like "information wants to be free."
Hmmm, I love typical/. postings of the poor-guy-gets-fucked-by-the-RIAA-for-nothing-they- killed-his-kitten-too kind as much as the next guy, but wait a minute!
First of all, you don't have to pay a lawyer, the court can appoint one for you or you can represent yourself.
Secondly, how many of the people accused by the RIAA do you think are innocent? The RIAA submits their data to the ISP and they double-check with their logs, why would an ISP give a customer away if he was innocent? I think that 99.9% of the people accused are guilty and the rest.1% are genuine mistakes by the RIAA. With millions of people trading songs on the net every second, do you really think that the RIAA is in need of fabricating data? I can create a torrent with a music album now and get 100s of IP's within five minutes. No need to make anything up. No need for an expensive lawyer either.
What a load of crap. We're evidently at a hugely inferior technology point than those aliens and we can land spacecrafts on every planet on our solar system.
It only takes one to place a rootkit on your computer so it's better to avoid them all.
Discs that use copy protection are clearly marked on their covers. I buy CD's regularly and I've never bought a copy protected disc because I simply don't buy them when I see them on the shelf.
And what kind of logic is this anyway? It's better to avoid all CD's because there was a problem in 0.00001% of them that is now fixed? It's like saying you avoid all doctors because it only takes one medical mistake to kill you.
Since I've resigned myself not to waste any more time with the music business, I suppose I'll have to resort to purchasing used CD's & records, or having my friends occasionally make me a copy of one of their newer CD's.
WTF? What's wrong with buying CD's just like he used to?
Sure there are discs that are copy-protected and can give you trouble but the vast majority isn't, especially on non-mainstream music.
You can do that until Gmail's POP fails on you. It's done so numerous times here and I've given up on POP. I just use the website.
It fails with some attachments, someone will send me an attachment (not viruses or anything) and then POP fails. You can't login with your mail client. You have to use the website and delete all your mail with attachments until you find the culprit. Again, nothing wrong with the attachment itself, just some bug with Gmail.
Why does everyone think that every single human being in developing countries lives in mud huts and is starving to death? Reality check: being poor doesn't mean that you're starving to death or that you're living in a mud hut.
There are hundreds of millions of people in those countries that don't starve, but they're far from wealthy enough to afford a computer. A $100 computer could be a help to them, and it introduces them to computing which is a very valuable skill.
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So what do you think a researcher does after his model fails to perform in the testing set? He builds a new model. From that point on, it's just like using the same set for training and testing.
"there's an 80 percent chance that climate change was responsible"
What the hell does that even mean? It's just a way to get the attention of laymen, anyone who understands a shred of statistics will laugh at this meaningless suggestion.
Free market is a fair judge, treats all the same and the winners and losers are decided only by their merits, not by who they know.
Distributing wealth according to "merit", which you probably define as intelligence, talent, education, luck and hard-working-ness, is only marginally preferrable to distributing according to nepotism and personal connections; there's little someone can do to influence either set of criteria.
An equal distribution of wealth is far fairer; at the very least, no one should be abandoned in poverty while his fellow citizens spend extravagantly, even if this requires a state-defined limit to the wealth any one individual can amass.
You forgot the US-backed coup in Greece, in 1967. The 7-year dictatorship which followed also attempted to stage a coup in Cyprus by assassinating the elected leader, in 1974. The effort was botched, Turkey intervened and illegally occupies a part of Cyprus since then.
Bill Clinton publicly apologised after roughly 30 years.
Probably the worst slashdot article I've ever read.
Does it have smooth scrolling and adblock yet? If not then I can't move. Especially after the huge speedup in FF 3.5.
It was certainly great fun, but I wouldn't say it needed "deep" skill. Maybe they can fix that.
Donate to pay the money? I assure you that the convicted have more than enough to cover the fine. TPB was making huge amounts of money from the ads. They weren't close to Google just because they searched through files, they had the same business model as well.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I've been reading Slashdot for years and I've always had this problem: Whenever a discussion hits two or more pages, if I try to view the second page I get the comments from the first page with a couple of new comments appended. I've posted about this before but nobody seems to mind. It's mind-boggling how a site as frequented as Slashdot can have such a huge bug for so many years with nobody doing a thing about it.
It wasn't that long ago that they turned down the offer of one billion dollars to tour again.
billion? what the hell are you talking about?
Duh, many P2P apps transfer data using HTTP.
Nobody will buy them anyway. It's just a move to get support from the geeks.
This worshipping of live audio outrages me. Since I was a little boy I would always hear people say how live sound is great and you can't get that sound on a recording etc.
Until I started going to actual rock concerts.
The truth: On most of them the sound sucks. Some of them have great sound and some of them have awful sound where you can't hear a thing. Most of them fall in between.
I don't get what's so great about the live sound. People play their instruments/sing into a microphone, it's fed into aplifiers, passed through some hastily prepared filters and goes to the speakers. It's exactly the same on a CD. If you had the same equipment they have on the gig, you'd get the same sound. The CD standard won't limit you.
Note that I still love going to concerts because of the feel and the contact with the performers. That's what makes a gig great.
I thought it was well known that RMS is nothing but a thinly veiled communist.
Why? It's dead easy to find people who infringe. Just open bittorrent and look at the IP's in the swarm. Some clients will helpfully let you know which country each IP is coming for, too!
And that's all you need to do!
Thank for the listing! I like some of those artists and next time I'm in a record store I'll get some more!
There are some people who don't mind paying to get something, you know. And when we break the law, we face the consequences, we don't say shit like "information wants to be free."
Hmmm, I love typical /. postings of the poor-guy-gets-fucked-by-the-RIAA-for-nothing-they- killed-his-kitten-too kind as much as the next guy, but wait a minute!
.1% are genuine mistakes by the RIAA. With millions of people trading songs on the net every second, do you really think that the RIAA is in need of fabricating data? I can create a torrent with a music album now and get 100s of IP's within five minutes. No need to make anything up. No need for an expensive lawyer either.
First of all, you don't have to pay a lawyer, the court can appoint one for you or you can represent yourself.
Secondly, how many of the people accused by the RIAA do you think are innocent? The RIAA submits their data to the ISP and they double-check with their logs, why would an ISP give a customer away if he was innocent? I think that 99.9% of the people accused are guilty and the rest
What a load of crap. We're evidently at a hugely inferior technology point than those aliens and we can land spacecrafts on every planet on our solar system.
Discs that use copy protection are clearly marked on their covers. I buy CD's regularly and I've never bought a copy protected disc because I simply don't buy them when I see them on the shelf.
And what kind of logic is this anyway? It's better to avoid all CD's because there was a problem in 0.00001% of them that is now fixed? It's like saying you avoid all doctors because it only takes one medical mistake to kill you.
Since I've resigned myself not to waste any more time with the music business, I suppose I'll have to resort to purchasing used CD's & records, or having my friends occasionally make me a copy of one of their newer CD's.
WTF? What's wrong with buying CD's just like he used to?
Sure there are discs that are copy-protected and can give you trouble but the vast majority isn't, especially on non-mainstream music.
You can do that until Gmail's POP fails on you. It's done so numerous times here and I've given up on POP. I just use the website.
It fails with some attachments, someone will send me an attachment (not viruses or anything) and then POP fails. You can't login with your mail client. You have to use the website and delete all your mail with attachments until you find the culprit. Again, nothing wrong with the attachment itself, just some bug with Gmail.
Why does everyone think that every single human being in developing countries lives in mud huts and is starving to death? Reality check: being poor doesn't mean that you're starving to death or that you're living in a mud hut.
There are hundreds of millions of people in those countries that don't starve, but they're far from wealthy enough to afford a computer. A $100 computer could be a help to them, and it introduces them to computing which is a very valuable skill.
Is it so hard to understand?
You're an idiot.