Not that I ever expect to watch it again, but that's the nature of most commedy: quite enjoyable movie at the time, but not something I'd view repeatedly as a classic.
There's people out there looking at the Busy Beaver function who study the 4-tuple Turing Machine. And certainly it is possible to make a 3-tupple TM by further combining the 4-tuple operations. On the other hand, I think I've seen Turing Machines called 8-tupple by taking up a whole lot of extra space (I think they counted the two halt states or something).
...is things that block adds and what not. Mozilla has "block immages from this server" which really needs to be advertised more; from stopping adds to blocking out ugly avatars which I'd rather not see on various forums. Wouldn't hurt to advertise a patch that range blocks a few servers like Gator (As I know this can be done, but I'm too lazy to look it up myself).
Though, yes brand name recongition helps with any such advertising, of course.
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Reverend Blunden's sermons focus on things that the college professors, in their tweedy jackets, will never talk about. As such, this book should be required reading by computer science majors, who often have a number of misconceptions concerning the industry that they are about to enter.
Maybe not, but having taken a couple of grad courses in Comp-Sci, I can say that the day we all switch from PCs to 5-tuple one-tape Turing Machines I will so be set.
Joking asside, Universities aren't about practical education (barring Medicine and Law...and to some extent Engineering). You don't go to university to learn how to be Bill Gates (god forbid). You go there to learn how things really ought to be. Then again, despite how ideal Universities try to be, research ends up having its fair share of backstabbing and intellectual thievery.
You separate into groups; the response group R, and the "Fuck off" group F. Say that F is 1000 people or so; you now take a subsample of F, say 20 people, and you harass them at all hours of the day until they give you a straight answer. You then assume that the 20 people you randomly chose to harass in this manner are representative of the entire 1000, and multiply the ratio accordingly.
Of course, most surveyors don't have the nerve to do the statistical analysis properly, and frankly I can't say I blame them.
Seems more like it's "street smarts" or something. Don't think "EQ" really covers that either, though I never looked into the EQ test much.
Though, yeah, certainly not IQ. I've known a brilliant physicist at UBC who got duped into giving a homeless person about $100 for a train ticket so that the guy could get back to his dieing mother...only to see the guy pan-handling on the street the next day.
Alternatively, he may just have a good spam wall set up with whatever email he's using. I know I've had very little problems with my university email accounts, and I tip my hat to the system administrators for blocking out most of it.
And Wario Ware Inc certainly is a fringe-innovative game.
Warioland 2 is the classic example I always think of; the only platformer from the past...hmm 7 years that I've played and really respected (from an innovation standpoint among other things).
I also have a particular fetish for Wario's Woods (obscure puzzle game). Though, the multiplayer is poor, and the game is not as simple to learn as the truely successful puzzle games (like Tetris, Tetris Attack, Columns, and Dr. Mario) so...it was doomed to failure probably.
Gator eWallet - The world's most popular digital wallet. The Gator eWallet automatically remembers login IDs/passwords and fills in online forms with just one click. No more lost passwords, and no more typing information such as address, email, credit card numbers, etc!
One click? Mozilla can do that in zero (and it's free too...)
I have to add this to be a true Slashdick, Do you refer to the web as "the internet" as well?
Occasionally, though I do know better. Don't get me wrong, I've been around Unix boxes back in the 80s, I just never used command line very well so Linux/Unix hasn't been useful to me until recently (though Shell is considerably more useful than DOS; I can tell that even with my distaste for the format). Like it or not end-user support involves catering primarily to people who are used to Windows (hence why KDE/Gnome have versions of the "Windows bar" and "Start menu"). There's also practical purposes to things like Gaim; sure versions of instant messaging have been around on Unix boxes for as far back as I can remember, but it's the larger number of people on the AIM network which makes it actually have useful applications to me.
Mock me all you want for being fairly green to Linux, but having spent several months adjusting to it myself I can certainly comment on what more my System Administrator could have done.
End-user support doesn't have to be KDE/Gnome; Red Hat has an OS too (which I personally don't like as much as KDE/Gnome, but I've debated with people).
Other than that, in addition to openoffice and gnumeric, Gaim is good to know about; I also find myself using AbiWord and Nedit.
Though, as a disclaimer I'm a total non-expert here. I'm just someone who started using Linux OSs when they became user-friendly.
Why do people that have legitimate topics get censored as 'Flamebait' when talking about microsoft or comment on KDE and GNOME being more bloated than Rosey O'donell as a 'Troll'.
Because it is a troll. Trolling is all in the wording; metaphors and hyperbole are usually signs of trolling, for example: "FF7 has the IQ of a tadpole; it's so stupid that anyone who played it would colapse and vomit then go into multiple convulsions and die from a stroke." This is quite different from pointing out legitimate objections such as "FF7 really just borrowed a lot of gameplay from FF6, reducing the complexity and the difficulty drastically, and the early polygons were really a downgrade in graphics (barring FMVs)."
We want details, not poetry. Spare us your literary devices.
Why do people that CUT AND PASTE news article get rewarded by the IDIOT moderators of this website with a +5 informative moderation ??
We're too lazy to search for the stuff ourselves. That involves sifting through useless links, and not all relevant links will show up on the first 5 pages Google.
A. Is that a bad thing? It's a lot harder to hack a piece of paper with a hand drawn X.
B. Don't be so sure. Granted, it's possible politics will keep e-voting out of the USA for quite some time, but if the system is good then other countries will adopt it. Granted, America has a poor track record when it comes to holding on to archaic systems (see: using Imperial over Metric, and still using Electoral Colleges).
Yep. Sure United States is larger than Canada or Australia, but 10x the people means 10x the vote counters.
Now, you can debate about whether it's better to use a pull-lever stamping system to write out the ballots, or just marking an X with a plain old pen. The advantage of some kind of a pull-lever system (or press button system) is that you won't get ballots which are unclear (just a printout) and you can have an internal counter on the machine to give you a reasonable idea if your hand-count is correct.
Fundamentally, though, all good systems I've seen are very close to the pen and paper hand counting.
It's not so much that Brits throw in an extra vowel, as Americans started taking out vowels over the past hundred years or so. Having to adopt to a new spelling is kinda annoying, though in some cases the new spelling makes more sense (aeroplane vs airplane). Despite the advantages, however, I'd really prefer to keep the original spelling; partially out of historical interest.
Way back in elementary school, I remember wasting hours on Hypercard. A few years later, I remember my Science teacher brining in a news story (as he did every morning) this time about the "world wide web" which was supposedly this growing way of doing things on the internet, and none of us had heard of it.
I think pretty much everyone knows that "bands" like nsync have no musical talent, but I think this quote proves it. Come on, the "band" can't get through a 3 minute song without thousands of edits on their vocals?!?!
Everybody who goes to a professional recording studio gets this. They'll adjust things like increasing the frequency by tiny increments to make it perfectly on key. In fact a lot of people in the industry aren't good singers which you find out very quickly if you go to their concerts (provided they're not using a prerecorded track in the background, which trashier pop-groups nearly always do).
Though, in the defence of some such pop groups, I've seen some of them get talked into serenading the interviewer (don't ask why I was watching such interviews...). Anyway, some of them really can sing and do excellent harmony (often better than the same songs they record in the studios which is focused more on "solos" or something).
Nah, it'll be just like the internet is with information. Sure, anyone can make music, but if you suck at making it nobody's going to download it, and you're certainly not getting on the radio.
Basically, people post links to good websites (or in this case good music). It's a peer review process. Someone else, who has entirely too much time on their hands (and there always is someone) filters out all the garbage for you.
...is if you can copy and paste between the OSs. That always annoyed me when I had Linux open remotely through a Windows machine. I had to leave a submission form open on my website as a "back door" to copy stuff in. This goes for things like Gnumeric to Excel data too.
You know, just because it's only on a small scale doesn't mean it's boring. Heck, RIAA suing a 12-year-old Girl made the newspapers, and I heard about that lawsuit before I knew what RIAA was.
Besides, such effects seem to snowball in the courts. If smalltime people can shut down one ISP, then they'll shut down another; where there might be only one case this year, a year or two down the road there could be twelve
It's just a long thin billboard, scrolling text I'm guessing. Well, 99 Feet is approximately 30 Meters, so that makes it about 1.5 Meters high, or 5 feet high. This assuming no typos, of course.
"The music community's efforts have triggered a national conversation--especially between parents and kids--about what's legal and illegal when it comes to music on the Internet," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, in a statement. "In the end it will be decided not in the courtrooms, but at kitchen tables across the country. We are heartened by the response we have seen so far."
This is precisely the point. I know a lot of people who are somewhat uneasy about file sharing. Giving it bad publicity was probably their goal from the outset. Not that they're going to stop hardcore swappers who know several sites other than Kazaa, have each other's emails, know how to proxy sites, et c. but plenty of casual users will think twice about getting into it.
I do believe that India and China are the only two countries over 1 billion people at the moment. These incidentally happen to be the two countries who have banned IPs en mass (DISCLAIMER: this is based the other comments in this topic; I'm no expert on the subject, and there's probably some small governments somewhere which also bans stuff). So perhaps large countries are hard to manage, or at least their leaders are paranoid about managing them. Just a hypothesis.
The border is quiet. Maybe a little too quiet. What are those sneaky canucks up to?
Oh, the border's quiet now (much like all of Europe these days) but America certainly tried (and failed) to invade on a few occasions. Most noteably the war of 1812 where Canadians stood strong against the entire American army (or most of it anyway). There was also the slogan "54 40' or Fight" which was used by an American president trying to get land straight through to Alaska, whereas Canadians wanted land right down through Oregon. Though, granted that dispute was settled peacefully in the end.
Realistically, the most quiet border is probably in South America somewhere. Then again I don't know any South America history further south than the Carribean so I'm probably way off. And yeah, Canada/US has certainly been quiet for a while now.
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Not that I ever expect to watch it again, but that's the nature of most commedy: quite enjoyable movie at the time, but not something I'd view repeatedly as a classic.
There's people out there looking at the Busy Beaver function who study the 4-tuple Turing Machine. And certainly it is possible to make a 3-tupple TM by further combining the 4-tuple operations. On the other hand, I think I've seen Turing Machines called 8-tupple by taking up a whole lot of extra space (I think they counted the two halt states or something).
Though, yes brand name recongition helps with any such advertising, of course.
Maybe not, but having taken a couple of grad courses in Comp-Sci, I can say that the day we all switch from PCs to 5-tuple one-tape Turing Machines I will so be set.
Joking asside, Universities aren't about practical education (barring Medicine and Law...and to some extent Engineering). You don't go to university to learn how to be Bill Gates (god forbid). You go there to learn how things really ought to be. Then again, despite how ideal Universities try to be, research ends up having its fair share of backstabbing and intellectual thievery.
You separate into groups; the response group R, and the "Fuck off" group F. Say that F is 1000 people or so; you now take a subsample of F, say 20 people, and you harass them at all hours of the day until they give you a straight answer. You then assume that the 20 people you randomly chose to harass in this manner are representative of the entire 1000, and multiply the ratio accordingly.
Of course, most surveyors don't have the nerve to do the statistical analysis properly, and frankly I can't say I blame them.
Though, yeah, certainly not IQ. I've known a brilliant physicist at UBC who got duped into giving a homeless person about $100 for a train ticket so that the guy could get back to his dieing mother...only to see the guy pan-handling on the street the next day.
Alternatively, he may just have a good spam wall set up with whatever email he's using. I know I've had very little problems with my university email accounts, and I tip my hat to the system administrators for blocking out most of it.
Warioland 2 is the classic example I always think of; the only platformer from the past...hmm 7 years that I've played and really respected (from an innovation standpoint among other things).
I also have a particular fetish for Wario's Woods (obscure puzzle game). Though, the multiplayer is poor, and the game is not as simple to learn as the truely successful puzzle games (like Tetris, Tetris Attack, Columns, and Dr. Mario) so...it was doomed to failure probably.
One click? Mozilla can do that in zero (and it's free too...)
Occasionally, though I do know better. Don't get me wrong, I've been around Unix boxes back in the 80s, I just never used command line very well so Linux/Unix hasn't been useful to me until recently (though Shell is considerably more useful than DOS; I can tell that even with my distaste for the format). Like it or not end-user support involves catering primarily to people who are used to Windows (hence why KDE/Gnome have versions of the "Windows bar" and "Start menu"). There's also practical purposes to things like Gaim; sure versions of instant messaging have been around on Unix boxes for as far back as I can remember, but it's the larger number of people on the AIM network which makes it actually have useful applications to me.
Mock me all you want for being fairly green to Linux, but having spent several months adjusting to it myself I can certainly comment on what more my System Administrator could have done.
Other than that, in addition to openoffice and gnumeric, Gaim is good to know about; I also find myself using AbiWord and Nedit.
Though, as a disclaimer I'm a total non-expert here. I'm just someone who started using Linux OSs when they became user-friendly.
Why do people that have legitimate topics get censored as 'Flamebait' when talking about microsoft or comment on KDE and GNOME being more bloated than Rosey O'donell as a 'Troll'.
Because it is a troll. Trolling is all in the wording; metaphors and hyperbole are usually signs of trolling, for example: "FF7 has the IQ of a tadpole; it's so stupid that anyone who played it would colapse and vomit then go into multiple convulsions and die from a stroke." This is quite different from pointing out legitimate objections such as "FF7 really just borrowed a lot of gameplay from FF6, reducing the complexity and the difficulty drastically, and the early polygons were really a downgrade in graphics (barring FMVs)."
We want details, not poetry. Spare us your literary devices.
Why do people that CUT AND PASTE news article get rewarded by the IDIOT moderators of this website with a +5 informative moderation ??
We're too lazy to search for the stuff ourselves. That involves sifting through useless links, and not all relevant links will show up on the first 5 pages Google.
B. Don't be so sure. Granted, it's possible politics will keep e-voting out of the USA for quite some time, but if the system is good then other countries will adopt it. Granted, America has a poor track record when it comes to holding on to archaic systems (see: using Imperial over Metric, and still using Electoral Colleges).
Now, you can debate about whether it's better to use a pull-lever stamping system to write out the ballots, or just marking an X with a plain old pen. The advantage of some kind of a pull-lever system (or press button system) is that you won't get ballots which are unclear (just a printout) and you can have an internal counter on the machine to give you a reasonable idea if your hand-count is correct.
Fundamentally, though, all good systems I've seen are very close to the pen and paper hand counting.
It's not so much that Brits throw in an extra vowel, as Americans started taking out vowels over the past hundred years or so. Having to adopt to a new spelling is kinda annoying, though in some cases the new spelling makes more sense (aeroplane vs airplane). Despite the advantages, however, I'd really prefer to keep the original spelling; partially out of historical interest.
And now I'm online every day....
Everybody who goes to a professional recording studio gets this. They'll adjust things like increasing the frequency by tiny increments to make it perfectly on key. In fact a lot of people in the industry aren't good singers which you find out very quickly if you go to their concerts (provided they're not using a prerecorded track in the background, which trashier pop-groups nearly always do).
Though, in the defence of some such pop groups, I've seen some of them get talked into serenading the interviewer (don't ask why I was watching such interviews...). Anyway, some of them really can sing and do excellent harmony (often better than the same songs they record in the studios which is focused more on "solos" or something).
Basically, people post links to good websites (or in this case good music). It's a peer review process. Someone else, who has entirely too much time on their hands (and there always is someone) filters out all the garbage for you.
...is if you can copy and paste between the OSs. That always annoyed me when I had Linux open remotely through a Windows machine. I had to leave a submission form open on my website as a "back door" to copy stuff in. This goes for things like Gnumeric to Excel data too.
Besides, such effects seem to snowball in the courts. If smalltime people can shut down one ISP, then they'll shut down another; where there might be only one case this year, a year or two down the road there could be twelve
It's just a long thin billboard, scrolling text I'm guessing. Well, 99 Feet is approximately 30 Meters, so that makes it about 1.5 Meters high, or 5 feet high. This assuming no typos, of course.
Excellent point. I hadn't thought of that. Probably they'll mail you a piece of tin foil for free if you ask for it or something like that.
This is precisely the point. I know a lot of people who are somewhat uneasy about file sharing. Giving it bad publicity was probably their goal from the outset. Not that they're going to stop hardcore swappers who know several sites other than Kazaa, have each other's emails, know how to proxy sites, et c. but plenty of casual users will think twice about getting into it.
I do believe that India and China are the only two countries over 1 billion people at the moment. These incidentally happen to be the two countries who have banned IPs en mass (DISCLAIMER: this is based the other comments in this topic; I'm no expert on the subject, and there's probably some small governments somewhere which also bans stuff). So perhaps large countries are hard to manage, or at least their leaders are paranoid about managing them. Just a hypothesis.
Oh, the border's quiet now (much like all of Europe these days) but America certainly tried (and failed) to invade on a few occasions. Most noteably the war of 1812 where Canadians stood strong against the entire American army (or most of it anyway). There was also the slogan "54 40' or Fight" which was used by an American president trying to get land straight through to Alaska, whereas Canadians wanted land right down through Oregon. Though, granted that dispute was settled peacefully in the end.
Realistically, the most quiet border is probably in South America somewhere. Then again I don't know any South America history further south than the Carribean so I'm probably way off. And yeah, Canada/US has certainly been quiet for a while now.