What? CMU won against Cornell in the Small-Size league? Can you give us a little update on that. The official page is still a little bit vague on that matter. (In case someone gets an updated page: The finals have been still blank)
Considering last years already impressive performance of BigRed in Fukuoka, this is quite an achievement. Congratulations.
> So why would the US, a country with less than a 5th of the combined population of those countries, saddle itself with a policy that will not touch those countries?
Well, I guess, they could settle for a limit, which would require them to produce at most the same amount of CO2 per capita as the US in 1990. It would be a limit without practical impact anyway.
Hashing a with buckets makes out of a Happy Mac a collection of groups of Not So Happy Mac parts of similar size, but of unrelated use.
A B-Tree is stuffing a lot of Happy Macs to a lot of 'X's, so you can smash them faster because of their physical nearness. But keep them in countable pile, so you don't lost track of them.
A two-handed clock algorithm is a attempt at stopping a clock with both hands, which bears the problem that one hand is catching the other.
Wait a sec, my French is a bit rusty (which already glorifies my french skills). Do I understand it correctly? 30Euro/m just for the 400Euro box? Or is that including the services?
An average power consumption of 20W seems a little high for me.
Otherwise, woohoo... who says MIPS is dead:)
Oh, and the documentation includes a description, how to install Internet access with Linux, exemplary demonstrated with Debian 3.0 (Woody). (Besides the obligatory MacOS X and 9, and Windows)
Finally, be prepared to be bombarded with "funny" comments about "freedom" (especially considering the name of the box) from some U.S.-Americans. You have my sympathies.
A proof through induction is a pure and valid proof for a property on countably infinite sets, which, being a real subset of natural numbers, prime numbers are.
As far as I understand it, it is "just" a proof that the prime numbers are not evenly distributed, even for arbitrary large numbers.
The car was driven by remote control in the same way Mr. Bond jumped in a flying plane. It's a special effect.
The BMW was driven by a stunt-man hidden in the backseat. Well, not the ordinary backseat, of course, but a custom built one, featuring video-screens, which replaced the ordinary vision, and of course, the steering-wheel, pedals and gear shift.
Um, the Fujitsu sports a Pentium III 700MHz and as far as I can see a single camera.
The SDR-4X II sports 3 64bit RISC processors each with 64Mb RAM (The previous SDR-4X had only two). Two cameras for stereoscopic vision. And from the presentation I've seen, the vision software is quite impressive.
> While it's not as customizable
Not as customisable? Are you refering to the add-on WLAN? The SDR-4X II has a Memory Stick slot (it's a Sony:) ). You can add a tremendiously expensive Bluetooth or WLAN Memory Stick. Not that the cost of those would matter, when your buying the robots. Or are you suggesting to go with a screwdriver at the >$40k robots?
The SDR-4X II is programmable with the Open-R SDK.
From what I know, I'd rather have the SDR-4X II. Not that I'm able to afford one, or that I would reject an offered HOAP-2 as gift.
You are certainly right, speaking out of personal experience.
To avoid any misunderstandings. It should be considered as a oversimplified example of an area, where German public is less restrictive than the U.S. one. Nothing more. It was not my intent to judge about how explicit these films are.
Let me reiterate my main point, it is up to a democratic society, what it considers acceptable or not. Most often, one nation is more restrictive in one area, while being less so in another.
To say that such thing (being more or less restrictive in one area in ones own nation) is stupid, is pretentious, as it is based on the assumption, that ones (or the one of ones nation) decision on that matter is superior to the other nations collective decision, which is based on their own knowledge and experience.
> my point : this restriction list is not really potent
Well, personally I think it is potent. It might not prevent a teenager from getting the game, but it displays the societies stand on that matter. And I think that is much more important than the ability to play it.
A society which follows a clear line on a matter gives the necessary counter-balance, to set such games back into perspective.
I think, playing such games do not promote such behaviour, iff the surroudings provide a good counter-balance to its statement. Listing such games enstrengthens the contra-position, and therefor does exactly what it is supposed to do. Demoting its unacceptable message (as considered by the German society, represented by the agency), without banning the game.
The critical point is, the more often, this mean is employed, the less potent it will become.
> Should they ban Quake type games too now? Several are already. Doom is.
> What about military flight simulators?
They are not.
> What about strategy games where military action is a part of the game?
Most are not. Depends on the game. Is militaric action the only way? Or are other possibilities given? (Master of Orion, Civilisation) How is the war displayed? Purely abstract, like chess? Hexagon games? Or can you drive with your tank over the people, and see blood splatter, like in Command and Conquer? Or can you shoot a person in various body parts and see how he is handycapped by that and see how he falters accordingly?
> The war in the gulf is underway. [...] > Do they think they can get the coalition to just back off and go home?
Putting a war advertising (as considered by this agency) game on that list has happened before this Gulf War. Why should they stop now? It is a long existing common practice in Germany.
> I bet those politicians are now drooling when they think about all the extra votes they will get in the next poll
Yeah, that is terribly evil. Politicians doing something, which might give them more votes. Democracy sucks. (Not that they will get any more, because it is a long existing agency)
Germany is a democratic nation, which decided (after bringing much havoc upon this earth with 2 World Wars) what is acceptable (porn on TV at 23:00) and what not (war advertising games) and acts according these principles (For several decades already).
You can call them cowards, like some people in the US tends to call the French for doing what they do, or you can call them partisans.
Or maybe you consider, that the way you and your country is living and the moral standards it adhers to, are not the only way, and acknowledge, that other democratic nations have also intelligent people, which have their own opinions, which are as much worth as yours or anybodies elses.
This doesn't make you wrong, but the majority decides.
> at least changed the name of the city to something else
No, it couldn't be the case, that the game in its whole could be the cause. Especially, when they already Unreal Tournament on that list, AFAIK.
> You see americans boycott french goods, now the germans are doing it to the americans.
A) It might strike you unlikely, but most world-wide distributed games come out of the US. Especially ones with militaric themes. For some reasons, you won't see Bubble-Bobble or Super Mario on that list, but 1942, or Command and Conquer.
B) They are not boycotting it. The goverment denied the publisher and the shops to advertise it, but it can still bought by adults.
C) Some of these games even gain special popularity by the fact, of being placed on the restricted list.
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I agree. The number of questions should be antiproportional to the knowledge of the user. And the installed desktop should reflect that.
A grandma should only click, "Put that on the computer".
Next thing in usability of the installer: Linux is an OS which supports multitasking. The installer runs under Linux. Why doesn't it install the packages, while I have to fill out some boring input boxes? Or when I wade through trees full of packages? IRC, Caldera did something like that, already.
Oh, a final thing. Automatic detection of an LDAP server (or whatever), which stores the install options, and uses them as default values.
> The root password you should generate too, give it to them, and tell them to write it down and keep it safe in case they ever have to get help, the person who helps them may need it.
Unless it discovers a printer, then it should try to print it out. This would also serve as a printer test.
You obviously came from RedHat and discovered that SuSE doesn't work the way you are expected from your experience. This doesn't make it "TERRIBLE".
I have to say that you are not alone, I had the same problem with SuSE (6.0).
But, as I am told, this has changed. In the past, SuSE kept all parameters in a single rc file. SuSE now keeps (since 8.0) like RedHat everything in a seperate config file.
> In the scientific community, proof is established by repeated experimental repetition, in Mathematics, testing this theory lots of times with lots of different numbers (see computers)
Sorry. Say that to a mathematician, and see how he laughs at you, or kicks you out.
A theorem is statement which can be verified by mathematical operations.
The statements usually includes axioms, which are not provable, and which define the mathematical operations on the given problem. The only thing you have to do is show is, given these axioms, the statement is always true.
The sequence of application of axioms is called "proof".
And mathematicians are very peculiar with "always". For scientists "always" means "many times, and until some shows otherwise", because you can't define these axioms.
Mathematics is not the kind of science you are thinking of. You are thinking of natural science. In mathematics, humans define the axioms. They may, or may not bear any relationship to reality. It some aspects, it resembles more philosophy than physics.
> Who are you to say that the editors of Nature don't know what to publish?
Probably a mathematician. They don't give a lot on physicists saying, "Hey, by finding some statistical correlation, we found a pattern, which holds true, in our finite data set, most of the time".
> cinematography is usually setting up lighting on a set and choosing cameras and lenses and film and how to use those tools to render a scene with actors onto a photographic negative.
You are missing the parts of digitising the film, and editing on a computer and compositing with CG, too. Some even skipping the photographic negative. Well, unless they are Dogme 95 films.
I'd say, the key difference is not "film" or "not-film", it is the spontanity of the actors, as it is recorded in real-time. Although the directors sometime are trying to confine this element.
Lastly, cinema is about "moving pictures", not necessarily about lighting, cameras, actors and celluloid.
Actually,.05% is an insignifant number. A measurement would look like (.05 +-.005) % or (.05 +- 1)%. In the latter case, the author should be shoot, or at least avoid scientific work. Probably, this is Yahoo News fault, not the original authors.
Every measurement has to be accompanied by a confindence interval, as it denotes the exactness of the measurement. Mentioning anything beneath that confidence interval is as useful as telling us the result of rolling a dice.
In other words (0.05 +- 1.0)% is by all practical means (0.0 +- 1.0)%, while (0.05 +. 0.005)% is not.
I, too, like Enterprise (many thanks to sharereactor for letting it me view:) ).
Actually my two greatest problem with the series are, Time Travel episodes and that it misses totally the idea of story/world development. Or the script-writers total disrespect for a consistent world, and its evolvement, should it be inconvinient for new story spins.
Why should it play in the past, when everything which exists in the future already occurs. Great deal, they don't have it, but everyone else has stuff they don't have in TOS.
After the Ferenghi and the Borg I'm waiting for the Cardassians. Scrap calling it hull-plating and name it shield and let the people stop bragging about how brave they were when using the transporter once again.
> What's next have a new young helm officer named James T. Kirk? A little calculation: Comission date of NX-01: 2151 Comission date of NCC-1701: 2245 Age of Kirk as helm officer? Say 16years. Ergo, Age of Kirk as Captain >110years.
Certainly the youngest person ever to become Captain. And don't evade by telling me something about advantages in medicine.
I cannot claim to be such a Trekky to know this by heart, but the people at Paramount provided me with some exlusive resources, which Mr. Berman probably is not allowed to look at.
I felt, that Enteprise actually had more of the original "adventurer" feeling, that TOS sported (and all later series lacked). But still in my opinion, Mr. Berman pays too little attention to the little details that makes world believable, like consistency and room for development.
Instead he (and other people) are slowly demolishing the world that was Star Trek.
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> What is 1/14th of a second divided by five?
I'd say, roughly 4000 computers in a cluster at work.
What? CMU won against Cornell in the Small-Size league?
Can you give us a little update on that. The official page is still a little bit vague on that matter.
(In case someone gets an updated page: The finals have been still blank)
Considering last years already impressive performance of BigRed in Fukuoka, this is quite an achievement. Congratulations.
Food for thought.
> So why would the US, a country with less than a 5th of the combined population of those countries, saddle itself with a policy that will not touch those countries?
Well, I guess, they could settle for a limit, which would require them to produce at most the same amount of CO2 per capita as the US in 1990.
It would be a limit without practical impact anyway.
Hashing a with buckets makes out of a Happy Mac a collection of groups of Not So Happy Mac parts of similar size, but of unrelated use.
A B-Tree is stuffing a lot of Happy Macs to a lot of 'X's, so you can smash them faster because of their physical nearness. But keep them in countable pile, so you don't lost track of them.
A two-handed clock algorithm is a attempt at stopping a clock with both hands, which bears the problem that one hand is catching the other.
And Google is the answer to all questions
Where is my banana?
(I admit, that I was not aware that Happy Mac stood for "that icon", too.)
Wait a sec, my French is a bit rusty (which already glorifies my french skills).
:)
Do I understand it correctly?
30Euro/m just for the 400Euro box? Or is that including the services?
An average power consumption of 20W seems a little high for me.
Otherwise, woohoo... who says MIPS is dead
Oh, and the documentation includes a description, how to install Internet access with Linux, exemplary demonstrated with Debian 3.0 (Woody). (Besides the obligatory MacOS X and 9, and Windows)
Finally, be prepared to be bombarded with "funny" comments about "freedom" (especially considering the name of the box) from some U.S.-Americans. You have my sympathies.
A proof through induction is a pure and valid proof for a property on countably infinite sets, which, being a real subset of natural numbers, prime numbers are.
As far as I understand it, it is "just" a proof that the prime numbers are not evenly distributed, even for arbitrary large numbers.
I'll start: 2 and 3. You'll have to find the next pair.
The car was driven by remote control in the same way Mr. Bond jumped in a flying plane. It's a special effect.
The BMW was driven by a stunt-man hidden in the backseat. Well, not the ordinary backseat, of course, but a custom built one, featuring video-screens, which replaced the ordinary vision, and of course, the steering-wheel, pedals and gear shift.
It already played DivX 5.0, 4.0, XViD (ISO MPEG-4). The DivX 3.11 ;) support was just recently added.
I'm not sure what the player speaks over Ethernet.
Um, the Fujitsu sports a Pentium III 700MHz and as far as I can see a single camera.
:) ). You can add a tremendiously expensive Bluetooth or WLAN Memory Stick. Not that the cost of those would matter, when your buying the robots.
The SDR-4X II sports 3 64bit RISC processors each with 64Mb RAM (The previous SDR-4X had only two). Two cameras for stereoscopic vision. And from the presentation I've seen, the vision software is quite impressive.
> While it's not as customizable
Not as customisable? Are you refering to the add-on WLAN? The SDR-4X II has a Memory Stick slot (it's a Sony
Or are you suggesting to go with a screwdriver at the >$40k robots?
The SDR-4X II is programmable with the Open-R SDK.
From what I know, I'd rather have the SDR-4X II. Not that I'm able to afford one, or that I would reject an offered HOAP-2 as gift.
The NTT Docomo site is not slashdotted, but I fear that won't help you much either :).
In the left column, the units are noted in brackets. The sign in brackets before 120 means minutes and the two before 200 stand for hours.
You are certainly right, speaking out of personal experience.
To avoid any misunderstandings. It should be considered as a oversimplified example of an area, where German public is less restrictive than the U.S. one. Nothing more. It was not my intent to judge about how explicit these films are.
Let me reiterate my main point, it is up to a democratic society, what it considers acceptable or not. Most often, one nation is more restrictive in one area, while being less so in another.
To say that such thing (being more or less restrictive in one area in ones own nation) is stupid, is pretentious, as it is based on the assumption, that ones (or the one of ones nation) decision on that matter is superior to the other nations collective decision, which is based on their own knowledge and experience.
> my point : this restriction list is not really potent
Well, personally I think it is potent.
It might not prevent a teenager from getting the game, but it displays the societies stand on that matter. And I think that is much more important than the ability to play it.
A society which follows a clear line on a matter gives the necessary counter-balance, to set such games back into perspective.
I think, playing such games do not promote such behaviour, iff the surroudings provide a good counter-balance to its statement. Listing such games enstrengthens the contra-position, and therefor does exactly what it is supposed to do.
Demoting its unacceptable message (as considered by the German society, represented by the agency), without banning the game.
The critical point is, the more often, this mean is employed, the less potent it will become.
You don't require a visa, to travel between the US and the EU, neither between the US and Japan, for that matter.
> Should they ban Quake type games too now?
Several are already. Doom is.
> What about military flight simulators?
They are not.
> What about strategy games where military action is a part of the game?
Most are not. Depends on the game. Is militaric action the only way? Or are other possibilities given? (Master of Orion, Civilisation) How is the war displayed? Purely abstract, like chess? Hexagon games? Or can you drive with your tank over the people, and see blood splatter, like in Command and Conquer? Or can you shoot a person in various body parts and see how he is handycapped by that and see how he falters accordingly?
> The war in the gulf is underway. [...]
> Do they think they can get the coalition to just back off and go home?
Putting a war advertising (as considered by this agency) game on that list has happened before this Gulf War. Why should they stop now? It is a long existing common practice in Germany.
> I bet those politicians are now drooling when they think about all the extra votes they will get in the next poll
Yeah, that is terribly evil. Politicians doing something, which might give them more votes.
Democracy sucks. (Not that they will get any more, because it is a long existing agency)
Germany is a democratic nation, which decided (after bringing much havoc upon this earth with 2 World Wars) what is acceptable (porn on TV at 23:00) and what not (war advertising games) and acts according these principles (For several decades already).
You can call them cowards, like some people in the US tends to call the French for doing what they do, or you can call them partisans.
Or maybe you consider, that the way you and your country is living and the moral standards it adhers to, are not the only way, and acknowledge, that other democratic nations have also intelligent people, which have their own opinions, which are as much worth as yours or anybodies elses.
This doesn't make you wrong, but the majority decides.
That is what democracy is about.
> at least changed the name of the city to something else
No, it couldn't be the case, that the game in its whole could be the cause. Especially, when they already Unreal Tournament on that list, AFAIK.
> You see americans boycott french goods, now the germans are doing it to the americans.
A) It might strike you unlikely, but most world-wide distributed games come out of the US. Especially ones with militaric themes. For some reasons, you won't see Bubble-Bobble or Super Mario on that list, but 1942, or Command and Conquer.
B) They are not boycotting it. The goverment denied the publisher and the shops to advertise it, but it can still bought by adults.
C) Some of these games even gain special popularity by the fact, of being placed on the restricted list.
No, I'd rather go for
all-your-base-are-belong-to.us
I agree.
The number of questions should be antiproportional to the knowledge of the user. And the installed desktop should reflect that.
A grandma should only click, "Put that on the computer".
Next thing in usability of the installer:
Linux is an OS which supports multitasking.
The installer runs under Linux.
Why doesn't it install the packages, while I have to fill out some boring input boxes? Or when I wade through trees full of packages? IRC, Caldera did something like that, already.
Oh, a final thing. Automatic detection of an LDAP server (or whatever), which stores the install options, and uses them as default values.
> The root password you should generate too, give it to them, and tell them to write it down and keep it safe in case they ever have to get help, the person who helps them may need it.
Unless it discovers a printer, then it should try to print it out. This would also serve as a printer test.
You obviously came from RedHat and discovered that SuSE doesn't work the way you are expected from your experience. This doesn't make it "TERRIBLE".
I have to say that you are not alone, I had the same problem with SuSE (6.0).
But, as I am told, this has changed. In the past, SuSE kept all parameters in a single rc file. SuSE now keeps (since 8.0) like RedHat everything in a seperate config file.
Sorry, a minor correction:
> The sequence of application of axioms is called "proof".
The sequence of application of mathematical operations, as defined per axioms, which reduces the statement to an axiom is called "proof".
> In the scientific community, proof is established by repeated experimental repetition, in Mathematics, testing this theory lots of times with lots of different numbers (see computers)
Sorry. Say that to a mathematician, and see how he laughs at you, or kicks you out.
A theorem is statement which can be verified by mathematical operations.
The statements usually includes axioms, which are not provable, and which define the mathematical operations on the given problem. The only thing you have to do is show is, given these axioms, the statement is always true.
The sequence of application of axioms is called "proof".
And mathematicians are very peculiar with "always". For scientists "always" means "many times, and until some shows otherwise", because you can't define these axioms.
Mathematics is not the kind of science you are thinking of. You are thinking of natural science.
In mathematics, humans define the axioms. They may, or may not bear any relationship to reality.
It some aspects, it resembles more philosophy than physics.
> Who are you to say that the editors of Nature don't know what to publish?
Probably a mathematician. They don't give a lot on physicists saying, "Hey, by finding some statistical correlation, we found a pattern, which holds true, in our finite data set, most of the time".
> cinematography is usually setting up lighting on a set and choosing cameras and lenses and film and how to use those tools to render a scene with actors onto a photographic negative.
You are missing the parts of digitising the film, and editing on a computer and compositing with CG, too. Some even skipping the photographic negative. Well, unless they are Dogme 95 films.
I'd say, the key difference is not "film" or "not-film", it is the spontanity of the actors, as it is recorded in real-time.
Although the directors sometime are trying to confine this element.
Lastly, cinema is about "moving pictures", not necessarily about lighting, cameras, actors and celluloid.
Actually, .05% is an insignifant number. A measurement would look like (.05 +- .005) % or (.05 +- 1)%. In the latter case, the author should be shoot, or at least avoid scientific work. Probably, this is Yahoo News fault, not the original authors.
Every measurement has to be accompanied by a confindence interval, as it denotes the exactness of the measurement. Mentioning anything beneath that confidence interval is as useful as telling us the result of rolling a dice.
In other words (0.05 +- 1.0)% is by all practical means (0.0 +- 1.0)%, while (0.05 +. 0.005)% is not.
I, too, like Enterprise (many thanks to sharereactor for letting it me view :) ) .
Actually my two greatest problem with the series are, Time Travel episodes and that it misses totally the idea of story/world development. Or the script-writers total disrespect for a consistent world, and its evolvement, should it be inconvinient for new story spins.
Why should it play in the past, when everything which exists in the future already occurs. Great deal, they don't have it, but everyone else has stuff they don't have in TOS.
After the Ferenghi and the Borg I'm waiting for the Cardassians.
Scrap calling it hull-plating and name it shield and let the people stop bragging about how brave they were when using the transporter once again.
> What's next have a new young helm officer named James T. Kirk?
A little calculation:
Comission date of NX-01: 2151
Comission date of NCC-1701: 2245
Age of Kirk as helm officer? Say 16years.
Ergo, Age of Kirk as Captain >110years.
Certainly the youngest person ever to become Captain.
And don't evade by telling me something about advantages in medicine.
I cannot claim to be such a Trekky to know this by heart, but the people at Paramount provided me with some exlusive resources, which Mr. Berman probably is not allowed to look at.
I felt, that Enteprise actually had more of the original "adventurer" feeling, that TOS sported (and all later series lacked). But still in my opinion, Mr. Berman pays too little attention to the little details that makes world believable, like consistency and room for development.
Instead he (and other people) are slowly demolishing the world that was Star Trek.