The article discusses that. The problem is you get in situations where the computer has been playing well and then makes a move so stupid no human would ever make it. It just moves, say, it's queen to be sacrificed with no purpose to it.
Not exactly, the GP seems to be discussing a probabilistic system weighted against success. You'd only get dramatically stupid moves on a regular basis if all possible moves were weighted equally, if you weight the best moves the most and the worst moves the least then you will not get "dramatically stupid" outcomes very often.
Sounds like we need a welfare program for FOSS apps to be able to play in the big leagues. How do you think CCHIT gets their operating budget? Through fees I would expect.
Sounds to me like this organization should be getting funded a better way. It's pretty commonly accepted that certification groups that get their budget from fees have a pretty significant conflict of interest wrt. properly executing their duties.
I think that since only 5 of the 42 projects garnered your attention that a better quote to include in the summary would have been:
We were impressed with the overall quality of the code, but we did find significant issues in a few projects, including buffer overflows in two of the projects.
If the other 37 projects didn't have any signficant flaws on the first round of this contest then that doesn't say to me "well, obviously no-one can do memory management properly" - it says that people make mistakes.
Efficiency only makes the people on the top of the stack wealthy. A nation's wealth is measured based on that of all its citizens. In addition, a healthy nation keeps most of its citizens employed.
Hiring warm bodies just to keep them from rioting is, well, dumb. Equally dumb as welfare, paying people for doing nothing, but that's another question.
Would you seriously prefer that the poor people of your country start looting and ruining your country? It's much wiser to keep people occupied than to have people starving and rioting. On that same note, welfare should be replaced with the WPA again - but that is indeed a different topic.
It's actually a bit different, but it is very reminiscent of the original. If you buy the Premier Edition the soundtrack has the different versions of the theme music from all three games.
I could also never effectively use Windows again because of its issues with large numbers of applications. I feel your pain when it comes to Adobe though, of all the non-tabbed programs that I wish had tabs there are two that top my list:
Adobe Acrobat Reader
National Instruments LabVIEW
Mathematica is a close 3rd, but having more than two notebooks open at once starts to get dangerous.
But that's rather full of exceptions. *IF* the full driver made it to the kernel, and stays in the sources, sure
In my mind this scenario is not full of exceptions, these exceptions exist on a local time scale. I see it is a matter of "when" rather than "if" - eventually a fully functional driver will get included, and when that day comes it will work forever thereafter (it is very incredibly rare for drivers to be removed).
I'm primarily a Mac user, but I do a lot of stuff on my Ubuntu install as well, I am just shocked at how far Linux has come and quite interested in what is to come.
Really? One of the huge original selling points for me was that Linux made (nearly) all the drivers open source and distributed as part of the kernel. This idea is really important because it means that once a driver for something is made it sticks around forever (sans growing pains every once in a while). Personally, I think this issue is why Linux will win in the long run and why Windows Vista was such a huge catastrophe - Linux will always update drivers for even the most obscure hardware where MS has to convince external entities to do the updates. Since these entities are not always amenable to this plan, and sometimes no-longer exist, the "Linux plan" has huge long-term advantages.
Speaking as a long time windows user and being fairly new at using Linux as a dedicated work-OS, I must say that that whole one-click.msi stuff is pretty damn awesome.
So, exactly what's wrong with.deb or.rpm files (whatever your poison happens to be)?
A cell phone is faster though, and sometimes that time counts. Do you really want to be on the other end of a lawsuit when someone blames you for "preventing" them from getting access to emergency services? Personally, I wouldn't do that - but I've run into plenty of people that will jump at any excuse to ruin someone for their own gain.
I don't think so, I didn't say anything about the quality or integrity of the work he did - I just said he's not a hero. If he had published his work and was persecuted for it (as Galileo was) then he could be considered a hero. This difference doesn't diminish the quality or importance of the work, but for him to be able to qualify as a hero of science (taking into account the time period) he would have to have published his work.
Despite his innovative work, Harriot remains relatively unknown. Unlike Galileo, he did not publish his drawings.
"Thomas Harriot is an unsung hero of science," Chapman said.
Not a chance, Harriot cannot be a hero of science since he did not publish his work. If you don't actually take the risk of publishing and try to contribute your knowledge to the world then you are not a hero of science.
An incandescant dimmer is simply a rheostat (variable resistor)...
No, REALLY old school dimmers are rheostats - modern dimmers are made with a triac (a special kind of rectifier) and are used to reduce the time that AC signal is high or low. Google if you must, be a modern dimmer will work just fine on an LED.
...a U235 doughnut target, a polonium initiator, and a U235 projectile...
If you'd actually read the article then you'd know that he discovered that the projectile was hollow and the target was solid. Personally, I just skimmed it - but it seems like he collected a lot of facts that lead him to believe that people were parroting incorrect information about how the bomb was constructed and he wanted to set the record straight.
Is there really a reason you need to upgrade? If updates are your concern then why don't you switch to Mac or Linux for your next PC? Call me old fashioned but I don't tend to upgrade very often, installing updates I have no problem with but "upgrading" is a giant pain.
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Not exactly, the GP seems to be discussing a probabilistic system weighted against success. You'd only get dramatically stupid moves on a regular basis if all possible moves were weighted equally, if you weight the best moves the most and the worst moves the least then you will not get "dramatically stupid" outcomes very often.
It could be that you just don't read xkcd enough: http://www.xkcd.com/verizon/
Sounds to me like this organization should be getting funded a better way. It's pretty commonly accepted that certification groups that get their budget from fees have a pretty significant conflict of interest wrt. properly executing their duties.
It's a restaurant, we have a couple of them in Colorado - they've even been spoofed on South Park a couple times.
+1 Excellent Contact reference.
If the other 37 projects didn't have any signficant flaws on the first round of this contest then that doesn't say to me "well, obviously no-one can do memory management properly" - it says that people make mistakes.
Would you seriously prefer that the poor people of your country start looting and ruining your country? It's much wiser to keep people occupied than to have people starving and rioting. On that same note, welfare should be replaced with the WPA again - but that is indeed a different topic.
You obviously don't live in capitalist america, it's not about jobs - it's about market efficiency.
It's actually a bit different, but it is very reminiscent of the original. If you buy the Premier Edition the soundtrack has the different versions of the theme music from all three games.
But the "right" to not be defamed is not defined in the constitution, so doesn't the right to free speech over-ride the "right" not to be defamed?
I could also never effectively use Windows again because of its issues with large numbers of applications. I feel your pain when it comes to Adobe though, of all the non-tabbed programs that I wish had tabs there are two that top my list:
Mathematica is a close 3rd, but having more than two notebooks open at once starts to get dangerous.
An implementation of the Atheros HAL just came out recently (http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/open_source_hal_for_atheros_wlan_chipsets). The proprietary HAL would never be included, but since there is now an open source HAL it is unlikely that you will have such problems down the road.
In my mind this scenario is not full of exceptions, these exceptions exist on a local time scale. I see it is a matter of "when" rather than "if" - eventually a fully functional driver will get included, and when that day comes it will work forever thereafter (it is very incredibly rare for drivers to be removed).
Really? One of the huge original selling points for me was that Linux made (nearly) all the drivers open source and distributed as part of the kernel. This idea is really important because it means that once a driver for something is made it sticks around forever (sans growing pains every once in a while). Personally, I think this issue is why Linux will win in the long run and why Windows Vista was such a huge catastrophe - Linux will always update drivers for even the most obscure hardware where MS has to convince external entities to do the updates. Since these entities are not always amenable to this plan, and sometimes no-longer exist, the "Linux plan" has huge long-term advantages.
So, exactly what's wrong with .deb or .rpm files (whatever your poison happens to be)?
You need a better name for a GPL project than that, I recommend "Black Sun" - and if you haven't read Snow Crash then shame on you.
http://www.system76.com/
Now what was it you were saying?
Usually I see a link to download it from dll-files.com ...
A cell phone is faster though, and sometimes that time counts. Do you really want to be on the other end of a lawsuit when someone blames you for "preventing" them from getting access to emergency services? Personally, I wouldn't do that - but I've run into plenty of people that will jump at any excuse to ruin someone for their own gain.
Yes, because no-one ever has emergency issues ... say, for example, a heart attack while at the theater.
I don't think so, I didn't say anything about the quality or integrity of the work he did - I just said he's not a hero. If he had published his work and was persecuted for it (as Galileo was) then he could be considered a hero. This difference doesn't diminish the quality or importance of the work, but for him to be able to qualify as a hero of science (taking into account the time period) he would have to have published his work.
Not a chance, Harriot cannot be a hero of science since he did not publish his work. If you don't actually take the risk of publishing and try to contribute your knowledge to the world then you are not a hero of science.
No, REALLY old school dimmers are rheostats - modern dimmers are made with a triac (a special kind of rectifier) and are used to reduce the time that AC signal is high or low. Google if you must, be a modern dimmer will work just fine on an LED.
If you'd actually read the article then you'd know that he discovered that the projectile was hollow and the target was solid. Personally, I just skimmed it - but it seems like he collected a lot of facts that lead him to believe that people were parroting incorrect information about how the bomb was constructed and he wanted to set the record straight.
Is there really a reason you need to upgrade? If updates are your concern then why don't you switch to Mac or Linux for your next PC? Call me old fashioned but I don't tend to upgrade very often, installing updates I have no problem with but "upgrading" is a giant pain.