By your definition, every spam message is a mistake for the spam filter because it "reads" all of them (at least to the same extend as it "reads" any non-spam email). The filter is more accurate because it is fast enough to be more thorough than any human can possibly be expected to be. If we could thoroughly analyze hundreds of emails in a matter of seconds, we would have no need for spam filters. We have spam filters because we don't have the time (or the patience, for that matter) to be as careful as a filter.
The biology textbooks be damned! For the longest time we all thought the nucleotide base pairs consisted of only Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine, from which the movie title GATTACA was assembled. But wait! The movie now appears to be titled Gattica! There is now a 5th nucleotide base pair previously unknown to the world! Will this affect the Human Genome Project?
While DNA only has four different nucleotide bases, they are not the only nucleotide bases in existence. RNA contains uracil in place of thymine (that's your "5th" base right there). tRNA has a number of unique and modified bases, not the least of which is inosine, which is found in the anti-codon and can pair to adenine, cytosine, or uracil.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had virtually no problems with Red Hat 7.0. After I updated from 6.2, I had to change a few config files, but after that, it ran fine. I compiled 2.2.18 the standard way; if there was some problem with the default gcc, I didn't see it. I'm going to update to 7.1, if only to stay current, but I'll wait until the next power outage to do so. I wouldn't want to lose my 110 day uptime, which dates from the installation of 2.2.18.
For basic multi-player (8-16) games no game should be designed such that a modem has insufficient bandwidth. There seems to be a link between the complexity and detail of a games model and the bandwidth required to communicate movement of that model... I think this is just plain bad design. Game designers should striving to use as little bandwidth as possible... because however many players can comfortably run on a 56K modems you could feasably run 10 times as many players using cable... the more players in a game the more fun it is to play....
The problem isn't really the lack of bandwidth, it's the high latency of modems. In many fast-paced games, even a fraction of a second delay can throw you off (especially when sniping or doing anything else that requires split-second timing). It's not bad game design, it's simply a delay between the client and the server that could not be improved much even with the best networking code. It's broadband's lower latency, not its high bandwidth, that makes it better for playing multiplayer games.
If one were to actually read The Origin of Species, he or she would learn that Darwin believed that all creatures evolved together from more primitive versions of themselves, not that humans evolved from monkeys who evolved from lesser creatures.
True, Darwin did not say that humans evolved from apes in his most famous work, The Origin of Species, but in 1871, he wrote a little book called The Descent of Man. It was in this book that he proposed the theory that humans evolved from the great apes.
WaSP wants everybody to write HTML-compliant markup, but they also want us to make our web sites not work on older browsers. These two ideas seem almost mutually exclusive. I strongly support writing compliant code because it allows web sites to be viewed with all browsers. As a previous poster mentioned, WaSP's web site works perfectly in lynx. Standards compliance is a Very Good Thing, but alienating users of older browsers for no reason certainly isn't.
According to Britannica.com, the population of Florida in 1990 was around 13 million. The certified result says that Bush won by 537 votes. That means Bush is in the lead in Florida by a margin of around 4 thousandths of a percent. Statistically insignificant? Definitely. Gore picked up more votes than that in Broward county alone. It's easy to understand why the Republicans wanted to stop the recounts.
There's no fundamental, logical reason why the simplist solution should be the correct one.
That is not what Occam's Razor states. The original wording was "pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate," meaning "plurality should not be posited without necessity." This basically means that when formulating a theory, there is no need for complex ideas when simpler ones will do. For example, Occam was opposed to the idea of universals, abstract terms that are common among a number of objects, such as heaviness. By Occam's Razor, there is no need for universals to exist (outside of human thought); all objects can be described by their physical attributes and the way we perceive them.
There is a Metroid game for Game Boy, Metroid 2. It's 9 years old, but still a good game. While I'd love to see a new Metroid come out, I don't know how likely it is. The Metroid series was never very popular in Japan. If Nintendo doesn't release a game in Japan, they're not going to release it anywhere.
The Neo Geo has been around almost as long as the Game Boy (since 1990) and games are still being made for it (although now it's only being sold in Japan). Both the Neo Geo and Game Boy were impressive when they first came out, but seem dated now. As another poster mentioned, the Atari 2600 was sold for 18 years, but probably because it was the only popular console for a long time.
Capcom has been very supportive of emulation. They allowed HanaHo Games to distribute a CD of roms for old Capcom games with their HotRod Joystick. I don't think Sega ever really did much to support emulation.
For well subtitled movies, I often almost completely forget that I am reading the dialog.
Often when I watch subtitled movies, I start to look away from the subtitles and look more at what's going on. Then, after several minutes, I realize that I have no idea what anybody is saying.
Unfortunately, due to manufacturing problems, Motorola and IBM are for the moment having trouble making G4s that run at over 500 mhz, and there are _still_ no multiprocessing G4 mobos available as far as i am aware.
XLR8 is working on a multiprocessing G4 upgrade card which should be out by the end of 2000.
The problem with this idea is that when people are making calls, they're not looking at their cell phone. It might work better if there were audio ads which you had to listen to before you placed a call rather than visuals.
I might be wrong, but doesn't those screen still have the problem with a limited view angle?
A few years ago, almost all LCD screens were like this. Unless you were almost directly in front of the screen, you couldn't see anything (or the colors were inverted). But advances have been made in LCD technology and most of today's LCDs look great from almost any angle.
Actually, IIRC, the CD was invented in 1978. The Apple II had only been around for a year. Hard drives didn't exist, at least not for personal computers. It would have been hard to imagine back then that in 2 decades, we'd have multi-gigabyte hard drives and a way to transfer music at near-CD quality (or even CD quality, if you have the bandwidth) to anywhere in the world. Although currently transferring a DVD at full-quality is hard to do, in only a few years, I'll bet it'll be as easy to do as transferring MP3s today. I'm not siding with the people who want to ban DeCSS; I believe that everybody should have the right to use their DVDs as they want for their own personal use. However, copyright protection is a bigger issue today than it was in 1978 because in the forseeable future, it'll be feasible to give pirated DVDs to other people, something that would have been almost science-fiction when CDs were created.
It's convenient, genious. Minidisc isn't solid state, CD isn't solid state, and yes, you can get a MiniDisc to skip - 40sec. skip protection doesn't do much good when you run cross country for an hour.
There are ways to prevent MD players from skipping while jogging or running. While I haven't tried any of them myself, there is a list of ways to prevent skipping at http://www.minidisc.org/md_jogging.html.
Both those are power hogs, while Rio batteries last forever.
Sony recently released an MD portable (the MZ-E95) which can (supposedly) run for 77 hours with an external AA battery. I don't know how long a Rio lasts, but for most purposes, 77 hours of music is much more than enough.
Rios are smaller.
The latest MD portable player/recorders are barely larger than a MD (in length and width). Rios aren't much smaller.
The quality is not worse; it's all a function of bitrate. At 128kbps some wierd noises occur, but I can't tell 190kbps from a CD, period. If you were cursed with more discerning ears, sorry.
With crappy headphones or speakers, MP3s sound the same as MDs or CDs. But with high-quality headphones/speakers, the difference is clear (at least to most people I know).
Memo to Casio: invent the Human Bus. MP3/whatever player on the belt, watch on the arm, no wires linking them, but the watch is the controller. Why? So you can control something that's easily accessible (it's on your wrist) rather than fumbling around blindly at something on your belt. Also, something on your belt could be a lot bigger and heavier (look at pagers/cellphones) as compared to something on the end of your arm.
I agree completely. Another advantage to this is that you wouldn't have to take off the watch to recharge the batteries. You could still wear the watch while the MP3 player recharges.
If you read the magazine, the award is for whoever had the biggest impact on the news, it's not necessarily sayin they're good or bad.
I've seen much more news about Columbine, Monica Lewinsky, and the Microsoft trial this year than I've seen about Jeff Bezos. The way I see it, Time doesn't care about the most important or most influential people; it just wants to promote the corporate image. Jeff Bezos might have been a good choice when Amazon.com first started, but there were many people who had a much bigger impact on the news this year than him.
Even though the moon won't look much brighter than normal tomorrow night, it'll still be a good time to look at it through a telescope because it's a full moon at its perigee, so you'll be able to see an entire side and it'll be closer to Earth than it usually is. It's a good excuse not to pack it up.:)
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By your definition, every spam message is a mistake for the spam filter because it "reads" all of them (at least to the same extend as it "reads" any non-spam email). The filter is more accurate because it is fast enough to be more thorough than any human can possibly be expected to be. If we could thoroughly analyze hundreds of emails in a matter of seconds, we would have no need for spam filters. We have spam filters because we don't have the time (or the patience, for that matter) to be as careful as a filter.
The biology textbooks be damned! For the longest time we all thought the nucleotide base pairs consisted of only Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine, from which the movie title GATTACA was assembled. But wait! The movie now appears to be titled Gattica! There is now a 5th nucleotide base pair previously unknown to the world! Will this affect the Human Genome Project?
While DNA only has four different nucleotide bases, they are not the only nucleotide bases in existence. RNA contains uracil in place of thymine (that's your "5th" base right there). tRNA has a number of unique and modified bases, not the least of which is inosine, which is found in the anti-codon and can pair to adenine, cytosine, or uracil.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had virtually no problems with Red Hat 7.0. After I updated from 6.2, I had to change a few config files, but after that, it ran fine. I compiled 2.2.18 the standard way; if there was some problem with the default gcc, I didn't see it. I'm going to update to 7.1, if only to stay current, but I'll wait until the next power outage to do so. I wouldn't want to lose my 110 day uptime, which dates from the installation of 2.2.18.
For basic multi-player (8-16) games no game should be designed such that a modem has insufficient bandwidth. There seems to be a link between the complexity and detail of a games model and the bandwidth required to communicate movement of that model... I think this is just plain bad design. Game designers should striving to use as little bandwidth as possible... because however many players can comfortably run on a 56K modems you could feasably run 10 times as many players using cable... the more players in a game the more fun it is to play....
The problem isn't really the lack of bandwidth, it's the high latency of modems. In many fast-paced games, even a fraction of a second delay can throw you off (especially when sniping or doing anything else that requires split-second timing). It's not bad game design, it's simply a delay between the client and the server that could not be improved much even with the best networking code. It's broadband's lower latency, not its high bandwidth, that makes it better for playing multiplayer games.
If one were to actually read The Origin of Species, he or she would learn that Darwin believed that all creatures evolved together from more primitive versions of themselves, not that humans evolved from monkeys who evolved from lesser creatures.
True, Darwin did not say that humans evolved from apes in his most famous work, The Origin of Species, but in 1871, he wrote a little book called The Descent of Man. It was in this book that he proposed the theory that humans evolved from the great apes.
WaSP wants everybody to write HTML-compliant markup, but they also want us to make our web sites not work on older browsers. These two ideas seem almost mutually exclusive. I strongly support writing compliant code because it allows web sites to be viewed with all browsers. As a previous poster mentioned, WaSP's web site works perfectly in lynx. Standards compliance is a Very Good Thing, but alienating users of older browsers for no reason certainly isn't.
2001-03-18 03:13:37
It's my birthday at a very elite time.
According to Britannica.com, the population of Florida in 1990 was around 13 million. The certified result says that Bush won by 537 votes. That means Bush is in the lead in Florida by a margin of around 4 thousandths of a percent. Statistically insignificant? Definitely. Gore picked up more votes than that in Broward county alone. It's easy to understand why the Republicans wanted to stop the recounts.
Bolo was originally for the BBC Micro. The graphics in the Mac version and Winbolo were taken directly from the original.
if CO2, like water, actually *expands* when going from liquid to solid. I thought water was somewhat unique in that aspect, tho'!
This property of water is due to hydrogen bonding, so it wouldn't occur in CO2.
ISO: International Organization for Standardization. www.iso.ch.
"ISO" is also a common term used for CD images in ISO-9660 format.
There's no fundamental, logical reason why the simplist solution should be the correct one.
That is not what Occam's Razor states. The original wording was "pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate," meaning "plurality should not be posited without necessity." This basically means that when formulating a theory, there is no need for complex ideas when simpler ones will do. For example, Occam was opposed to the idea of universals, abstract terms that are common among a number of objects, such as heaviness. By Occam's Razor, there is no need for universals to exist (outside of human thought); all objects can be described by their physical attributes and the way we perceive them.
There is a Metroid game for Game Boy, Metroid 2. It's 9 years old, but still a good game. While I'd love to see a new Metroid come out, I don't know how likely it is. The Metroid series was never very popular in Japan. If Nintendo doesn't release a game in Japan, they're not going to release it anywhere.
The Neo Geo has been around almost as long as the Game Boy (since 1990) and games are still being made for it (although now it's only being sold in Japan). Both the Neo Geo and Game Boy were impressive when they first came out, but seem dated now. As another poster mentioned, the Atari 2600 was sold for 18 years, but probably because it was the only popular console for a long time.
Capcom has been very supportive of emulation. They allowed HanaHo Games to distribute a CD of roms for old Capcom games with their HotRod Joystick. I don't think Sega ever really did much to support emulation.
For well subtitled movies, I often almost completely forget that I am reading the dialog.
Often when I watch subtitled movies, I start to look away from the subtitles and look more at what's going on. Then, after several minutes, I realize that I have no idea what anybody is saying.
Unfortunately, due to manufacturing problems, Motorola and IBM are for the moment having trouble making G4s that run at over 500 mhz, and there are _still_ no multiprocessing G4 mobos available as far as i am aware.
XLR8 is working on a multiprocessing G4 upgrade card which should be out by the end of 2000.
That should be www.xlr8.com.
The problem with this idea is that when people are making calls, they're not looking at their cell phone. It might work better if there were audio ads which you had to listen to before you placed a call rather than visuals.
I might be wrong, but doesn't those screen still have the problem with a limited view angle?
A few years ago, almost all LCD screens were like this. Unless you were almost directly in front of the screen, you couldn't see anything (or the colors were inverted). But advances have been made in LCD technology and most of today's LCDs look great from almost any angle.
Actually, IIRC, the CD was invented in 1978. The Apple II had only been around for a year. Hard drives didn't exist, at least not for personal computers. It would have been hard to imagine back then that in 2 decades, we'd have multi-gigabyte hard drives and a way to transfer music at near-CD quality (or even CD quality, if you have the bandwidth) to anywhere in the world. Although currently transferring a DVD at full-quality is hard to do, in only a few years, I'll bet it'll be as easy to do as transferring MP3s today. I'm not siding with the people who want to ban DeCSS; I believe that everybody should have the right to use their DVDs as they want for their own personal use. However, copyright protection is a bigger issue today than it was in 1978 because in the forseeable future, it'll be feasible to give pirated DVDs to other people, something that would have been almost science-fiction when CDs were created.
It's convenient, genious. Minidisc isn't solid state, CD isn't solid state, and yes, you can get a MiniDisc to skip - 40sec. skip protection doesn't do much good when you run cross country for an hour.
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There are ways to prevent MD players from skipping while jogging or running. While I haven't tried any of them myself, there is a list of ways to prevent skipping at http://www.minidisc.org/md_jogging.html
Both those are power hogs, while Rio batteries last forever.
Sony recently released an MD portable (the MZ-E95) which can (supposedly) run for 77 hours with an external AA battery. I don't know how long a Rio lasts, but for most purposes, 77 hours of music is much more than enough.
Rios are smaller.
The latest MD portable player/recorders are barely larger than a MD (in length and width). Rios aren't much smaller.
The quality is not worse; it's all a function of bitrate. At 128kbps some wierd noises occur, but I can't tell 190kbps from a CD, period. If you were cursed with more discerning ears, sorry.
With crappy headphones or speakers, MP3s sound the same as MDs or CDs. But with high-quality headphones/speakers, the difference is clear (at least to most people I know).
Memo to Casio: invent the Human Bus. MP3/whatever player on the belt, watch on the arm, no wires linking them, but the watch is the controller. Why? So you can control something that's easily accessible (it's on your wrist) rather than fumbling around blindly at something on your belt. Also, something on your belt could be a lot bigger and heavier (look at pagers/cellphones) as compared to something on the end of your arm.
I agree completely. Another advantage to this is that you wouldn't have to take off the watch to recharge the batteries. You could still wear the watch while the MP3 player recharges.
If you read the magazine, the award is for whoever had the biggest impact on the news, it's not necessarily sayin they're good or bad.
I've seen much more news about Columbine, Monica Lewinsky, and the Microsoft trial this year than I've seen about Jeff Bezos. The way I see it, Time doesn't care about the most important or most influential people; it just wants to promote the corporate image. Jeff Bezos might have been a good choice when Amazon.com first started, but there were many people who had a much bigger impact on the news this year than him.
Even though the moon won't look much brighter than normal tomorrow night, it'll still be a good time to look at it through a telescope because it's a full moon at its perigee, so you'll be able to see an entire side and it'll be closer to Earth than it usually is. It's a good excuse not to pack it up. :)