but surely since every non-deterministic finite state machine can be re-implemented as a deterministic one it doesnt matter if its deterministic or not.
Still with that kind of power they could accept strings in languages of such complexity the earth would tremble in fear
Just because in XHTML you can specify your own semantics doesnt mean a visual editor will never be able to generate valid XHTML, in fact if the editor simply attributed its own default semantics it would be fine although would only generate a small subset of XHTML. Allow users to specify it themselves through dialogues and you have resolved the problem.
That said the problem certainly isnt trivial its just not impossible
I think your missing the point. It isnt that a law was broken it is that the employee is guilty of misconduct. Take for example in university, professors and students are all above the age of consent but it is still misconduct for a professor to have a sexual reltionship with a student (not to say that it doesnt happen however)
Nice reasoning however bein19 and in college means that you are by default drunk unlike at 29 in the workplace or 18/19 in the army. I think that explains a lot of the madness
This is just wrong, most programs in windows in fact CAN interoperate, case in point being the clipboard. Further practically any application i can drag a file onto the application window and something sensible will happen. In linux you find some apps do these things some dont and worst of all there is practically NO clipboard interoperability.
I mean even in win3.11 I could easily embed objects in other applications using OLE, now activeX performs a similar function meaning that if I want to embed a relational database or video in say a word document its a simple 2 click process
With the exception of several very good linux apps particularly open office linux is still playing catch up in terms if interoperability.
And before you tell me about piping output into other programs no-one who is a non-programmer cares about what is possible using a CLI. The state of computing has thankfully gone beyond that.
I have to come down to the contrary, my home PC gets used cheifly for the following things: Image editing, midi sequencing/ audio editing, world of warcraft. None of these are even feasible under any unix-like environment let alone faster. I'd also raise the point that Open office isnt as fast as word for creating.doc's in a typical work environment.
Unix-like environments are great for some types of task, for example I program expert systems and linux is far more productive for that task, however for the majority of computer users windows is still much faster and more productive than unix
yeah i want drug testing in the music industry too. My band recently won some magic mushrooms in a battle of the bands (seriously). They were supposedly fresh but were black and mingin' after only 2 days in the fridge!!! Better testing procedures could ensure the quality of our drugs.
Well presumably a large portion of their customers actually want the win98 licence. And to be honest its $5 who cares if your paying $5 for somtheing you dont need.
what i reallyt want to see is something like morrowind which feels huge and has plenty of exploration and lots of different things to do with massive multiplayer capabilites..the elder scrolls guys should really make one it'd be great.
Until then WoW kicks ass and i still play diablo2 as well..only other massively multiplayer i tried was first version of UO which severely sucked
look, you guys sound like your halfway to the grave. Adding more visual and multimedia content is a good thing, although it can be mis used just as plain text can be misused.
You represent most of what is wrong with the slashdot community, you consider yourself full of technical prowess but your feel to superior to allow any innovation so you instead slam anything new as just a waste of time.
If you guys are really happy with your command line interfaces, dull static webpages, only 256 colours and only 56k modems then perhaps you should consider putting yourself (and all of us who have to listen to your elitist drivel) out of your misery.
I'm actuallt quite impressed with OO.orgs compatability with Microsoft Equation objects. I used it to open some pretty hefty.docs I made during my maths degree and although it took a little while loading the equations it seemed more stable than using word with lots of equations (I have problems with running out of memory and general system slowdown sometimes when working with lots of equations in word)
I use OO.org on and off but sometimes end up drawn back to office due to familiarity but OO.org is a pretty damn impressive product. Adding some better scripting/macro capabilities should I thinkbecome a priority so people can make the same sort of mini-applications which are possible in excel/word
In the article they said they thought the scientific community would use proprietary formats due to a smaller market however from my experience most of the scientific community uses latex and postscript which I beleive are open (some use pdf too which im not too sure about the licencing status of)
Youve hit the nail on the head there. Predicting the death of anything is pretty liekly to be correct. I mean everything ends eventually. Microsofts "dying" is however unlikely to influence my life anytime soon.
I had a very similar problem, got 3 HDs and a cd burner in my machine as well as new soundcard with a front port powered from the mobo. Basically over time the secondary IDE would intermittently fail to detect the 2 drives on it. I noticed the problem was worse when i had usb gadget plugged in. So splashed out on a better power supply and a powered usb hub and the system is now completely stable.
Before this experience i really thought the power supply didnt matter but now i would always buy one with a decent amount of spare capacity.
maybe they're looking at customising or building an OS for their back-end..I mean I'm sure that their servers do specific enough things that this might be an avenue worth them exploring??
Actually I find the opposite with one small quantifier. There are lots..literally millions of OSS projects written and maintained by universities but they are usually very specialist. There is normaly not any research value in the big name OSS projects like OO.org, apache etc. However try doing a little survey of software for natural language programming, you'll find most of the core research is implemented through OSS projects.
Yeah but the beauty of it is you have the joint one place ahead of the controller..that way you pass the joint just as you receive the controller.....we normally just leave the munchies on the table though:)
That sounds fantastic!!! You should get to direct it! Oh and maybe the Fonz should have a bigger role the other characters are really just chaff in comparison
i would prefer to classify creationism as a myth rather than a theory.
Most scientists particularly in experimental science tend to observe the evidence and formualte a theory based on the evidence.
But wait..maybe I'm being hasty, perhaps creationism is a theory..well theres as much evidence that my arse created the universe so me and 2000 buddys are gonna get a sticker slapped on textbooks which indirectly supports arseism.
You'll be wishing a long time to see anything like this in X. One of the things in my opinion which really holds linux back from mass adoption is X. Sure its great for a networked multiuser environment but if its not responsive locally it needs to be changed.
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but surely since every non-deterministic finite state machine can be re-implemented as a deterministic one it doesnt matter if its deterministic or not.
Still with that kind of power they could accept strings in languages of such complexity the earth would tremble in fear
Just because in XHTML you can specify your own semantics doesnt mean a visual editor will never be able to generate valid XHTML, in fact if the editor simply attributed its own default semantics it would be fine although would only generate a small subset of XHTML. Allow users to specify it themselves through dialogues and you have resolved the problem.
That said the problem certainly isnt trivial its just not impossible
I think your missing the point. It isnt that a law was broken it is that the employee is guilty of misconduct. Take for example in university, professors and students are all above the age of consent but it is still misconduct for a professor to have a sexual reltionship with a student (not to say that it doesnt happen however)
Nice reasoning however bein19 and in college means that you are by default drunk unlike at 29 in the workplace or 18/19 in the army. I think that explains a lot of the madness
This is just wrong, most programs in windows in fact CAN interoperate, case in point being the clipboard. Further practically any application i can drag a file onto the application window and something sensible will happen. In linux you find some apps do these things some dont and worst of all there is practically NO clipboard interoperability.
I mean even in win3.11 I could easily embed objects in other applications using OLE, now activeX performs a similar function meaning that if I want to embed a relational database or video in say a word document its a simple 2 click process
With the exception of several very good linux apps particularly open office linux is still playing catch up in terms if interoperability.
And before you tell me about piping output into other programs no-one who is a non-programmer cares about what is possible using a CLI. The state of computing has thankfully gone beyond that.
I have to come down to the contrary, my home PC gets used cheifly for the following things: Image editing, midi sequencing/ audio editing, world of warcraft. None of these are even feasible under any unix-like environment let alone faster. I'd also raise the point that Open office isnt as fast as word for creating .doc's in a typical work environment.
Unix-like environments are great for some types of task, for example I program expert systems and linux is far more productive for that task, however for the majority of computer users windows is still much faster and more productive than unix
yeah i want drug testing in the music industry too. My band recently won some magic mushrooms in a battle of the bands (seriously). They were supposedly fresh but were black and mingin' after only 2 days in the fridge!!! Better testing procedures could ensure the quality of our drugs.
Well presumably a large portion of their customers actually want the win98 licence. And to be honest its $5 who cares if your paying $5 for somtheing you dont need.
what i reallyt want to see is something like morrowind which feels huge and has plenty of exploration and lots of different things to do with massive multiplayer capabilites..the elder scrolls guys should really make one it'd be great. Until then WoW kicks ass and i still play diablo2 as well..only other massively multiplayer i tried was first version of UO which severely sucked
look, you guys sound like your halfway to the grave. Adding more visual and multimedia content is a good thing, although it can be mis used just as plain text can be misused.
You represent most of what is wrong with the slashdot community, you consider yourself full of technical prowess but your feel to superior to allow any innovation so you instead slam anything new as just a waste of time.
If you guys are really happy with your command line interfaces, dull static webpages, only 256 colours and only 56k modems then perhaps you should consider putting yourself (and all of us who have to listen to your elitist drivel) out of your misery.
I'm actuallt quite impressed with OO.orgs compatability with Microsoft Equation objects. I used it to open some pretty hefty .docs I made during my maths degree and although it took a little while loading the equations it seemed more stable than using word with lots of equations (I have problems with running out of memory and general system slowdown sometimes when working with lots of equations in word)
I use OO.org on and off but sometimes end up drawn back to office due to familiarity but OO.org is a pretty damn impressive product. Adding some better scripting/macro capabilities should I thinkbecome a priority so people can make the same sort of mini-applications which are possible in excel/word
In the article they said they thought the scientific community would use proprietary formats due to a smaller market however from my experience most of the scientific community uses latex and postscript which I beleive are open (some use pdf too which im not too sure about the licencing status of)
i suspect offloading these processes to a newer single core would make more sense economically
Youve hit the nail on the head there. Predicting the death of anything is pretty liekly to be correct. I mean everything ends eventually. Microsofts "dying" is however unlikely to influence my life anytime soon.
Oh and does netcraft confirm it?
A more rational explanation is that you just look nervous or a little bit shifty
I had a very similar problem, got 3 HDs and a cd burner in my machine as well as new soundcard with a front port powered from the mobo. Basically over time the secondary IDE would intermittently fail to detect the 2 drives on it. I noticed the problem was worse when i had usb gadget plugged in. So splashed out on a better power supply and a powered usb hub and the system is now completely stable.
Before this experience i really thought the power supply didnt matter but now i would always buy one with a decent amount of spare capacity.
maybe they're looking at customising or building an OS for their back-end..I mean I'm sure that their servers do specific enough things that this might be an avenue worth them exploring??
Actually I find the opposite with one small quantifier. There are lots..literally millions of OSS projects written and maintained by universities but they are usually very specialist. There is normaly not any research value in the big name OSS projects like OO.org, apache etc. However try doing a little survey of software for natural language programming, you'll find most of the core research is implemented through OSS projects.
Yeah but the beauty of it is you have the joint one place ahead of the controller..that way you pass the joint just as you receive the controller.....we normally just leave the munchies on the table though :)
This game is fantastic. Since I got it my profile tells me I have wasted 165 hours of it and only got through 75% of the game.
The best part is the party crash mode where up to 8 people can pass a controller around and try to create the biggest pileups possible.
That sounds fantastic!!! You should get to direct it! Oh and maybe the Fonz should have a bigger role the other characters are really just chaff in comparison
This is the most insightful post i've seen on this whole subject. Its beyond me why its currently modded funny
My group already modelled this but apparently the kids don't have the geometric background to fully grasp a 4 dimensional torus.
I even suggested we could break 'em in gently with the harmonic time cube
i would prefer to classify creationism as a myth rather than a theory.
Most scientists particularly in experimental science tend to observe the evidence and formualte a theory based on the evidence.
But wait..maybe I'm being hasty, perhaps creationism is a theory..well theres as much evidence that my arse created the universe so me and 2000 buddys are gonna get a sticker slapped on textbooks which indirectly supports arseism.
You'll be wishing a long time to see anything like this in X. One of the things in my opinion which really holds linux back from mass adoption is X. Sure its great for a networked multiuser environment but if its not responsive locally it needs to be changed.