Some people like women with hairy legs, but not most even though hairy is the natural state. If you think your ass looks ugly covered in hair, why not wax?
I understand that the (first) inventors of the wheel were a South American tribe. As they didn't use pack animals the wheel was of limited use to them and was primarily used as a childrens toy. Hardly changing the world.
If anyone can confirm (or deny) this story please do so.
Then there is the whole is zero a natural number thing.
Mathematicians usually say no, it is defined to not be. The reason for this definition is that zero is a special case in terms of many rules (division for example) so having it not be a natural number makes many mathematical theorems work for natural numbers that would otherwise have a special case. Mathematicians don't like special cases.
On the other hand Computer Scientists, among others, like to say yes, as it is possible to have zero of something (eg there are zero sheep in the room with me, at the moment) so zero should be a natural number. Having zero not be a natural number even though it is possible to have zero of something makes zero a special case. Computer Scientists don't like special cases.
In the end it is more or less a matter of preference and convention. When in Maths-land ignore zero as it is inconvenient, when in CompSci-land take zero into account as your programs will likely crash otherwise.
I've done a little work on using eye movements as a pointing device myself. It's not so bad at present, and if you divide the screen into a 3x3 grid it can reliably determine which section you are looking at in realtime.
Adding a little filtering introduces a small lag, but accuracy improves. I estimate that a desktop icon size area could be found on about.25 -.5 seconds filtering.
Of course the amount of lag that is acceptable is determined by what you are trying to do. For word processing moving the cursor to close enough and then fine tuning with arrow keys should be possible with todays technology.
But if the big players don't hog the press, the little players will get some publicity, pulling attention away from the big players. And we can't have that now.
Phase inverters have a small delay in them. When a noise is constant phase inverters work well, as you can predict changes in the noise and have the inverted version ready, but PC components produce more or less random noise, so a phase inverter works poorly, if at all, and may make the problem worse.
The metagame (or meta-tournament) is used in M:tG to refer to the act of deciding what deck to play on the basis of what decks you are likely to face. Something along the lines of "I'll probably see a lot of creatures, so I'll play a deck with a lot of creature removal."
To give a sport analogy for the CCG-geekishness impaired it would be like saying "In the next tournament we are likely to see defensive strategy X, so we will practise offensive strategy Y to defeat it."
It does not affect your playing ability directly, but using the metagame to your advantage is one of the keys to winning.
That whole CD case thing really annoyed me in MGS. Not because I didn't have the CD case, I did, but because you get told to read the radio frequency off the CD case just after you get a CD in game. It took me ages of screwing about to work out that the CD I was just given in game has nothing to do with the CD case I was meant to be looking at for the radio frequency.
/. ran the link, so now millions of people who already hated microsoft know that microsoft is evil.
To do anything about this site now would probably draw the attention of people who don't read/., harming the microsoft image more than doing nothing.
However now that/. has run the link, it will probably be picked up by other news sites, with a less anit-MS audience.
I bet they wait a few days until something more mainstream runs the link before they take any action. When they take action they will be firing all cannons though.
Just to simplify it for those not up on thier cryptography:
Encrypt with the public key = can only be unencrypted with the private key, ie only the intended recipient can view the original message.
Encrypt with the private key = can be unencrypted with the public key, ie anyone can read it, but it is garuanteed that the person who claims to have sent it actually is the person who sent it, because they have the private key (authentication)
Erm...novice user...should not have access to anything other than their own files, so should not cause irreversible damage. If they do have root, well, that's kind of the same as letting newbies have administrator access on Windows machines...a very bad idea. There should be no need.
While it may not break the system, I wager that to most 'novice' (and other) users, deleting all their files would rate as damage.
Otherwise good post, I mostly agree with it, though I wouldn't fault anyone for getting out of practise with something they don't use very often.
Video games can make children fat
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some children became addicted to video games, spending all their waking hours in front of a computer screen gorging potato chips, pizza and soft drinks.
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You need to take into account the positioning, and the liklihood of Latin being used. So it actually reads:
O U O S V A V V = Deus Mode
I think you are thing of this article.
Some people like women with hairy legs, but not most even though hairy is the natural state. If you think your ass looks ugly covered in hair, why not wax?
I understand that the (first) inventors of the wheel were a South American tribe. As they didn't use pack animals the wheel was of limited use to them and was primarily used as a childrens toy. Hardly changing the world.
If anyone can confirm (or deny) this story please do so.
I always thought Unbelievably Cynical would be a +1
You don't seem to understand when they link to slashdot, slashdot goes down!
www.seeingmachines.com.au
FaceLAB is used primarily for creating logs of eye and head movement for later study for use by, for example, reaserchers into tiredness.
I was involved in a project to create a demo game that can be used to show off Seeing Machines' technology in real time at trade shows and the like.
There's always a canal... or an inlet... or a stream, river, bay...
Then there is the whole is zero a natural number thing.
Mathematicians usually say no, it is defined to not be. The reason for this definition is that zero is a special case in terms of many rules (division for example) so having it not be a natural number makes many mathematical theorems work for natural numbers that would otherwise have a special case. Mathematicians don't like special cases.
On the other hand Computer Scientists, among others, like to say yes, as it is possible to have zero of something (eg there are zero sheep in the room with me, at the moment) so zero should be a natural number. Having zero not be a natural number even though it is possible to have zero of something makes zero a special case. Computer Scientists don't like special cases.
In the end it is more or less a matter of preference and convention. When in Maths-land ignore zero as it is inconvenient, when in CompSci-land take zero into account as your programs will likely crash otherwise.
I've done a little work on using eye movements as a pointing device myself. It's not so bad at present, and if you divide the screen into a 3x3 grid it can reliably determine which section you are looking at in realtime.
.25 - .5 seconds filtering.
Adding a little filtering introduces a small lag, but accuracy improves. I estimate that a desktop icon size area could be found on about
Of course the amount of lag that is acceptable is determined by what you are trying to do. For word processing moving the cursor to close enough and then fine tuning with arrow keys should be possible with todays technology.
[REMOVED FOR YOUR PROTECTION], [REMOVED FOR YOUR PROTECTION] there is.
For safety reasons all personnel are being provided with [REMOVED FOR YOUR PROTECTION]-foil hats by management
But if the big players don't hog the press, the little players will get some publicity, pulling attention away from the big players. And we can't have that now.
It's not hard to score a +5 funny, you just have to use the right lines:
In Soviet Russia beowulf cluster of internet voting machines running BSD imagines you, and dies like Steven King.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the buffet.
You forgot:
Phase inverters have a small delay in them. When a noise is constant phase inverters work well, as you can predict changes in the noise and have the inverted version ready, but PC components produce more or less random noise, so a phase inverter works poorly, if at all, and may make the problem worse.
To give a sport analogy for the CCG-geekishness impaired it would be like saying "In the next tournament we are likely to see defensive strategy X, so we will practise offensive strategy Y to defeat it."
It does not affect your playing ability directly, but using the metagame to your advantage is one of the keys to winning.
That whole CD case thing really annoyed me in MGS. Not because I didn't have the CD case, I did, but because you get told to read the radio frequency off the CD case just after you get a CD in game. It took me ages of screwing about to work out that the CD I was just given in game has nothing to do with the CD case I was meant to be looking at for the radio frequency.
Go ask a physicist, any physicist:
"Do we know all the laws of physics?"
While the machine must obey the laws, we don't know exactly what laws its obeying.
/. ran the link, so now millions of people who already hated microsoft know that microsoft is evil.
/., harming the microsoft image more than doing nothing.
/. has run the link, it will probably be picked up by other news sites, with a less anit-MS audience.
To do anything about this site now would probably draw the attention of people who don't read
However now that
I bet they wait a few days until something more mainstream runs the link before they take any action. When they take action they will be firing all cannons though.
with trolling motors for propulsion
I knew it! There are robot trolls on slashdot.
What do you mean can't figure out the plot??? You just wrote it in the previous paragraph.
This refers to the practise of checking that the safety is off before shooting civilians, yes?
You don't need a private key to verify certs.
Just to simplify it for those not up on thier cryptography:
Encrypt with the public key = can only be unencrypted with the private key, ie only the intended recipient can view the original message.
Encrypt with the private key = can be unencrypted with the public key, ie anyone can read it, but it is garuanteed that the person who claims to have sent it actually is the person who sent it, because they have the private key (authentication)
Otherwise good post, I mostly agree with it, though I wouldn't fault anyone for getting out of practise with something they don't use very often.
From the article:
Anyone else pick this up?