Try reading Unfinished Tales and the appendix of LOTR, then maybe you'll enjoy Silmarillion more. In my opinion only The Silmarillion reveals full glory of Tolkien's creation, LOTR with is about humans, Silmarillion is about gods. No wonder why Christopher Tolkien despises Jackson interpretation of LOTR, it just ignores Silmarillion completely, downgrading magnificent story to some anonymous D&D quest.
I for one am a huge fan of Turin's story. It always gives me the shivers, when I read it anew. And actually Children of Hurin is a story about Hurin also, if I remember correctly, after Turin's death the story talks about the final fate of Hurin and Morwen. I hope that Christopher Tolkien will include it. The last stand of Hurin in Nirnaeth Arnoediad is one of my favorite episodes, along with the Fingolfin's fight with Morgoth. Now then I think about it, without Turin, the Silmarillion would lose some charm, because with this story Tolkien shows the horror of Morgoth.
I looked again at the screenshots, and yes it is possible to skip the invitation process. But still, you cannot say that this is a non-issue. If the Flixster script for accessing contacts has a bug, you are running risk of becoming a spammer, through no fault of your own. And from other comments you can see that this is exactly the case.
They can pry it only from my cold unresisting hands. If any site asked for it, not only I would not give it, but I would write a nasty letter, telling to shove their request so high up the ass, that it would be possible to see, when they open their mouths.
Concerning live-site, I think nothing compares with tennis grand slams live scoring. You can watch shots practically live, and this really takes more effort technically, than to refresh the site every few minutes. How much is there real change in bike race, especially in flat stages? First hour, peloton is in one group, second hour, one break-away group, fifth hour, break-away group is reeled in, we gonna have a sprint finish. 10 minutes - teams are preparing for sprint, 10 seconds, the sprint has happened, the winner is such and such. That's all. I do not see what is so really ground-breaking technology-wise.
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Yeah, that's why I ignored this year's Tour de France. It took some effort, since I check eurosport.com every day, but I was strong:) It is a pity, that doping is so deeply involved in the sport. And the coincidences, when all the doping scandals take place just before the race, during the race, or just after the race, strongly hints (at least for me) of a set up. And that means that everybody is doping, just that some unfortunate ones are told upon. Couple that with Leblanc's relentless hunt (dislike) of Armstrong and Tour de France loses its charm.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did pine use to support only us-ascii encoding? If it is true, then it does not even qualify for a name of an email client. Shortcuts, shmortcuts, if I see giberish on the screen instead of my mail, how does it help me?
Yeah, computers are faster, but if they give you result 42, does this say that the answer is really 42? Maybe it is 39.9999, or 40.0001 or whatever. And probably the formula for computing this number is not so trivial to code and actually it is faster to take 85 years to calculate it by not using computers.
According to Hardy, prime age of mathematician is 25. After that you cannot achieve anything significant. Probably this is true, but anything significant here is very very significant:)
So? From landline call only to landline, for cell use cell. As for landline I'll get it only and only if it is the only option for getting internet. Otherwise what is the point of it? It's my 9th year without a landline, and a need for it.
In USA high school is what you get before university or college, or what you call "high school" in Europe. Confusing naming scheme for europeans, but that's how it is. So really you are overqualified for high school dropout in the sense used in this article.
If the only advantage of a project is its API, then it is doomed. The majority of the users do not care about API at all. They could care about new ways about doing things, things that fix long standing problems of other projects and etc. Gnome and KDE have produced working desktops, what did Gnustep produce? API and a tool to ease developing. Excuse me, I'm not developer, and I need to work, not to code a desktop in order for me to work.
The downers are it's a bit of a different paradigm, and effective use of the API requires a dynamic OO language such as Objective-C or SmallTalk. Obj-C is very easy to learn though - a few hours and you'll be flying.
In my opinion people should be flogged in public for saying things "oh TheNextBestThing is very easy to learn (use)". It maybe is easy for someone, but not for everyone. For someone who used "TheFormerBestThing" it is probably easy, for someone who never used anything it may be impossible.
After reading the article, I still do not understand the iPod's shuffling algorithm.
The first half of the article is devoted to describing how the writer got the probabilities of rated songs and properties of these probabilities. Although these probabilities give some insight to the shuffling algorithm, they are pretty useless, since they are observed from unrealistic list of songs, i.e. 6 songs with different ratings.
Then cames the formula in Figure 2. How it is calculated and where from the author takes it, is not explained in the article. Also this formula is not backed up by empirical observation. The rest of the article is devoted to analyzing the effects of this formula, which are interesting, yet could have no importance if the actual formula is different. So this article does not really explore the iPod shuffling algorithm, but explores how would iPod shuffling algorithm work if the probability of the next song is calculated according to the formula provided by author. That is pretty useless, since we all can provide our own formulas and write the articles.
Now concerning this formula. To me it seems a litlle strange. Consider hypothetical situation of song list with 1000 unrated songs, and one with 5 star rating. The the probability (according to the formula provided by author) that the song with 5 star rating would come up is
0.27/(1000*0.039+0.27) = 0.006875477
which is pretty miserable odds. If I rated it so highly, that means I want to hear it a lot, now with such shuffling algorithm, I would hear it slightly more, yet not a lot. Of course, then I could create a playlist, with this song only, but then why one needs rating system, if it does not perform.
So it would be really interesting to know iPod's shuffling algorithm, to see if it saves the hassle of creating your own playlists. (Or even the possibility to provide your own algorithm), yet this article does not provide any insights.
I mean, not all film remakes are bad, but I thought Lord of the Rings (I only saw the first one) was pretty bad. I liked it as I watched it, but was disappointed in the end.
Exactly! Film was good, but Jackson's interpretation of LOTR really sucked IMHO. What's with all the nonsense of I'm not worthy, because blood of Isildur runs in me, Eomer's departure, and unexplainable appearances of characters in places where they could not physically appear (Elrond in Dunharrow, Elf army at Helm's deep). I'm not looking for exact copy of all the book details, but for the feel of the book. Jackson interpreted LOTR as an isolated book, with no ties to other Tolkien work, when LOTR is really only a culmination of all the history of the Middle-Earth. I don't think Tolkien would have liked this interpretation. I did not like it either.
Hurdle 1: I can't find them because they're on my WinXP/NTFS partition.
(Solution: An init script (or preferably, an install module) to scan for non-ext3 partitions and automatically add them to fstab.)
Ironically, I could not test how my WinXP (came preinstalled with the notebook) plays videos, since the only one I had was in my ext3 partition.
The post below is right, all these problems are solved in modern distributions.
Interestingly nada in Russian loosely translates as you've got to. Of course in spanish as merriam webster tells it means nothing. So when you think, that you are posting a cool answer, for some not familiar with Spanish, yet familiar with Russian this answer seems totaly stupid. Just pointing out the irony.
3. Are there cities covered in detail worldwide? Or just in the US?
The whole world is covered with medium resolution imagery and terrain data. This resolution allows you to see major geographic features and man-made development such as towns, but not detail of individual buildings. Additional high-resolution imagery which reveals detail for individual buildings is available for most of the major cities in the US, Western Europe, Canada, and the UK. 3D buildings are represented in 38 US cities (the major urban areas). Detailed road maps are available for the US, Canada, the UK, and Western Europe. And Google Local search is available for the US, Canada, and the UK.
So even places with maps are not still mapped by Google.
I rolled a 2 and a 3. That makes 5.
Again, No. "Alright, I rolled an 18. I'm striking with both hands, so thats one and one half my strength mod, so 18+(5+2)+1+1+4, so thats a 31. Oh shit, I'm flanking him, sorry, thats a 33. Of course you should have your modifers memorized to ease the game along, but that isn't the point here.
So it is still only adding actual numbers up. That's arithmetics. When you don't have funky notation and few actual numbers, you can't call it mathematics:)
Hm, PhD statistician using Excel? What kind of statistic models they use? I'm doctorate student statistician and I cannot imagine doing serious work with Excel. To say the truth I never tried that, except once (multiplying matrices in Excel is pain in the ass), so I'm really curious, maybe I'm missing something.
Fedora and Knoppix are more than 3 years younger than Debian stable. So it is not surprising that some hardware will not work on Debian stable.
Actually hardware problems are more related to the version of kernel the distribution is using. Debian stable by default uses kernel 2.4.18, fedora and knoppix uses either 2.6.x or latest from 2.4.x series. With every new kernel version you get new drivers and more hardware is supported.
So if you use old kernel it would try to use the exact driver for your hardware, or the nearest equivalent. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. The kind of distribution you use will be irrelevant in this case.
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Try reading Unfinished Tales and the appendix of LOTR, then maybe you'll enjoy Silmarillion more. In my opinion only The Silmarillion reveals full glory of Tolkien's creation, LOTR with is about humans, Silmarillion is about gods. No wonder why Christopher Tolkien despises Jackson interpretation of LOTR, it just ignores Silmarillion completely, downgrading magnificent story to some anonymous D&D quest.
I for one am a huge fan of Turin's story. It always gives me the shivers, when I read it anew. And actually Children of Hurin is a story about Hurin also, if I remember correctly, after Turin's death the story talks about the final fate of Hurin and Morwen. I hope that Christopher Tolkien will include it. The last stand of Hurin in Nirnaeth Arnoediad is one of my favorite episodes, along with the Fingolfin's fight with Morgoth. Now then I think about it, without Turin, the Silmarillion would lose some charm, because with this story Tolkien shows the horror of Morgoth.
I looked again at the screenshots, and yes it is possible to skip the invitation process. But still, you cannot say that this is a non-issue. If the Flixster script for accessing contacts has a bug, you are running risk of becoming a spammer, through no fault of your own. And from other comments you can see that this is exactly the case.
They can pry it only from my cold unresisting hands. If any site asked for it, not only I would not give it, but I would write a nasty letter, telling to shove their request so high up the ass, that it would be possible to see, when they open their mouths.
Yeah, R also. Try nlme with hundred iterations and enjoy:)
Concerning live-site, I think nothing compares with tennis grand slams live scoring. You can watch shots practically live, and this really takes more effort technically, than to refresh the site every few minutes. How much is there real change in bike race, especially in flat stages? First hour, peloton is in one group, second hour, one break-away group, fifth hour, break-away group is reeled in, we gonna have a sprint finish. 10 minutes - teams are preparing for sprint, 10 seconds, the sprint has happened, the winner is such and such. That's all. I do not see what is so really ground-breaking technology-wise.
Yeah, that's why I ignored this year's Tour de France. It took some effort, since I check eurosport.com every day, but I was strong:) It is a pity, that doping is so deeply involved in the sport. And the coincidences, when all the doping scandals take place just before the race, during the race, or just after the race, strongly hints (at least for me) of a set up. And that means that everybody is doping, just that some unfortunate ones are told upon. Couple that with Leblanc's relentless hunt (dislike) of Armstrong and Tour de France loses its charm.
At last it is on Slashdot. I've been refreshing the front page all day:) And no, I am not a sad sad geek. Ok, maybe a little:)
Correct me if I am wrong, but did pine use to support only us-ascii encoding? If it is true, then it does not even qualify for a name of an email client. Shortcuts, shmortcuts, if I see giberish on the screen instead of my mail, how does it help me?
Yeah, computers are faster, but if they give you result 42, does this say that the answer is really 42? Maybe it is 39.9999, or 40.0001 or whatever. And probably the formula for computing this number is not so trivial to code and actually it is faster to take 85 years to calculate it by not using computers.
According to Hardy, prime age of mathematician is 25. After that you cannot achieve anything significant. Probably this is true, but anything significant here is very very significant:)
So? From landline call only to landline, for cell use cell. As for landline I'll get it only and only if it is the only option for getting internet. Otherwise what is the point of it? It's my 9th year without a landline, and a need for it.
In USA high school is what you get before university or college, or what you call "high school" in Europe. Confusing naming scheme for europeans, but that's how it is. So really you are overqualified for high school dropout in the sense used in this article.
What if you meat with very different people...
What one letter can change:)If the only advantage of a project is its API, then it is doomed. The majority of the users do not care about API at all. They could care about new ways about doing things, things that fix long standing problems of other projects and etc. Gnome and KDE have produced working desktops, what did Gnustep produce? API and a tool to ease developing. Excuse me, I'm not developer, and I need to work, not to code a desktop in order for me to work.
The downers are it's a bit of a different paradigm, and effective use of the API requires a dynamic OO language such as Objective-C or SmallTalk. Obj-C is very easy to learn though - a few hours and you'll be flying.
In my opinion people should be flogged in public for saying things "oh TheNextBestThing is very easy to learn (use)". It maybe is easy for someone, but not for everyone. For someone who used "TheFormerBestThing" it is probably easy, for someone who never used anything it may be impossible.
Oh, come on. Making it say "this ad suck, and any company using it will go under", certainly made my day:)
After reading the article, I still do not understand the iPod's shuffling algorithm.
The first half of the article is devoted to describing how the writer got the probabilities of rated songs and properties of these probabilities. Although these probabilities give some insight to the shuffling algorithm, they are pretty useless, since they are observed from unrealistic list of songs, i.e. 6 songs with different ratings.
Then cames the formula in Figure 2. How it is calculated and where from the author takes it, is not explained in the article. Also this formula is not backed up by empirical observation. The rest of the article is devoted to analyzing the effects of this formula, which are interesting, yet could have no importance if the actual formula is different. So this article does not really explore the iPod shuffling algorithm, but explores how would iPod shuffling algorithm work if the probability of the next song is calculated according to the formula provided by author. That is pretty useless, since we all can provide our own formulas and write the articles.
Now concerning this formula. To me it seems a litlle strange. Consider hypothetical situation of song list with 1000 unrated songs, and one with 5 star rating. The the probability (according to the formula provided by author) that the song with 5 star rating would come up is
0.27/(1000*0.039+0.27) = 0.006875477
which is pretty miserable odds. If I rated it so highly, that means I want to hear it a lot, now with such shuffling algorithm, I would hear it slightly more, yet not a lot. Of course, then I could create a playlist, with this song only, but then why one needs rating system, if it does not perform.
So it would be really interesting to know iPod's shuffling algorithm, to see if it saves the hassle of creating your own playlists. (Or even the possibility to provide your own algorithm), yet this article does not provide any insights.
I mean, not all film remakes are bad, but I thought Lord of the Rings (I only saw the first one) was pretty bad. I liked it as I watched it, but was disappointed in the end.
Exactly! Film was good, but Jackson's interpretation of LOTR really sucked IMHO. What's with all the nonsense of I'm not worthy, because blood of Isildur runs in me, Eomer's departure, and unexplainable appearances of characters in places where they could not physically appear (Elrond in Dunharrow, Elf army at Helm's deep). I'm not looking for exact copy of all the book details, but for the feel of the book. Jackson interpreted LOTR as an isolated book, with no ties to other Tolkien work, when LOTR is really only a culmination of all the history of the Middle-Earth. I don't think Tolkien would have liked this interpretation. I did not like it either.
Hurdle 1: I can't find them because they're on my WinXP/NTFS partition. (Solution: An init script (or preferably, an install module) to scan for non-ext3 partitions and automatically add them to fstab.)
Ironically, I could not test how my WinXP (came preinstalled with the notebook) plays videos, since the only one I had was in my ext3 partition.
The post below is right, all these problems are solved in modern distributions.
Interestingly nada in Russian loosely translates as you've got to. Of course in spanish as merriam webster tells it means nothing. So when you think, that you are posting a cool answer, for some not familiar with Spanish, yet familiar with Russian this answer seems totaly stupid. Just pointing out the irony.
Slim.
From Google Earth - Common questions:
3. Are there cities covered in detail worldwide? Or just in the US?
The whole world is covered with medium resolution imagery and terrain data. This resolution allows you to see major geographic features and man-made development such as towns, but not detail of individual buildings. Additional high-resolution imagery which reveals detail for individual buildings is available for most of the major cities in the US, Western Europe, Canada, and the UK. 3D buildings are represented in 38 US cities (the major urban areas). Detailed road maps are available for the US, Canada, the UK, and Western Europe. And Google Local search is available for the US, Canada, and the UK.
So even places with maps are not still mapped by Google.
I rolled a 2 and a 3. That makes 5. Again, No. "Alright, I rolled an 18. I'm striking with both hands, so thats one and one half my strength mod, so 18+(5+2)+1+1+4, so thats a 31. Oh shit, I'm flanking him, sorry, thats a 33. Of course you should have your modifers memorized to ease the game along, but that isn't the point here.
So it is still only adding actual numbers up. That's arithmetics. When you don't have funky notation and few actual numbers, you can't call it mathematics:)
Hm, PhD statistician using Excel? What kind of statistic models they use? I'm doctorate student statistician and I cannot imagine doing serious work with Excel. To say the truth I never tried that, except once (multiplying matrices in Excel is pain in the ass), so I'm really curious, maybe I'm missing something.
Snapshot of Debian Sarge, or Sid? I think it will be snapshot of Sid, not Sarge. Gnome 2.8 for example is not even in Sid now, it is in experimental.
Fedora and Knoppix are more than 3 years younger than Debian stable. So it is not surprising that some hardware will not work on Debian stable. Actually hardware problems are more related to the version of kernel the distribution is using. Debian stable by default uses kernel 2.4.18, fedora and knoppix uses either 2.6.x or latest from 2.4.x series. With every new kernel version you get new drivers and more hardware is supported. So if you use old kernel it would try to use the exact driver for your hardware, or the nearest equivalent. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. The kind of distribution you use will be irrelevant in this case.