and that's entirely reasonable because help is an inherently HTML-like function
No it's not. If help is an inherently HTML-like function, then it should simply be HTML. Then you could access the help without needing IE, the windows gui, etc. This would most certainly (well, with one small assumption) be beneficial beyond just reducing the dependence on IE: Suppose you are forced to boot to the command line, and you need something which is contained in the help. Well, presently, I don't think you can access it. But if the help were plain old standards conforming (God forbid) HTML, then a text-only browser could render it no problem. True, you lose graphics, but that's ok, you'd still be able to get to the information you needed. The small assumption I mentioned earlier is that there is anything in the help worth getting to...
Of course, as I recall, the XP help system is capable of actually doing things on the system (for example, firing up control panel dohickeys (if this were gnome, they'd be capplets)), which is most assuredly not an HTML function. If you want to preserve that functionality, then the help system should be entirely separate from IE, because a browser should not be able to do stuff like that. Which is where a lot of IE's security flaws come in.
Go right ahead and tell them that. However, I see no mention of "constitution" or any such things in your post. Instead you said you "draw the line". What, exactly, does that mean? If you meant that you would advise against it based on your understanding of the constitution and the spirit this country was founded on, simply say so, rather than use a vague construction such as "drawing the line".
So vote against such laws. Don't tell grandparent poster that he/she should not be voting for them. Its called a democracy. If a sufficiently large portion of the population decides that such laws should be in effect, then they will be. Deal with it, or go somewhere else. Or start a revolution. Those would seem to be your options.
I'd think that a neural net would most likely be a very good solution. It could learn and then predict how a particular opponent would bet based on past history. Then, the samples from actual online play would be excessively useful... I suspect that the state of the neural net after learning a particular opponent would most likely fall into one of several categories of players, and so an algorithm to even more quickly place an opponent into one of those buckets would be possible.
If I had the time and inclination, I'd set up my own mini-tournament as a genetic algorithms type setup, and pit my own bots against each other automatically, then modify the winners until I had a really kick eyes bot. Wow, a genetic setup evolving neural nets... There's a melange of computer learning for you...
Get rid of the legacy PC crap and it'll require some rather serious hacking to get the code to run on a standard PC.
Ummm, last time I checked, when I write code, I don't take any of that into account. So, unless Apple is planning to only allow code written in assembly to run on their machines, or only distribute binaries (OS X is currently open source), virtually no hacking will be necessitated by the removal of any legacy systems. I suppose the kernel might need to be hacked slightly... Or then again, no. FreeBSD already runs on normal x86 just fine. So no, no hacking.
Well, I've been to Mexico before... But as far as immigration goes, I don't know. But, didn't you ever watch the Shawshank Redemption? All you need is several hundred thousand dollars cash, and an assumed name.
You missed the point. The reason higher math doesn't require calculators is that it doesn't involve arithmetic. Arithmetic doesn't even enter the picture. Unless you're doing applied math. In that case, most mathematicians would in fact refer to everything you're doing (be it calculus, algebra, linear algebra, etc.) as arithmetic. Math involves proofs and abstract concepts. Arithmetic involves numbers and calculations. There is often remarkably little overlap between the two.
It could conceivably be used to propel spacecraft. Or even comets, see Greg Benford's book _The_Heart_of_the_Comet_, which didn't use railguns per se, but did use large mass-guns to alter the comet's orbit at perihelion.
That's a good idea. CowboyNeal could actually make useful polls. Then, any issue that is being considered for inclusion in our great/. political machine of doom gets a poll. If the agreement on one side is not oh say at least 75% of respondents, then the issue is dropped. That'd be one way to do it at least.
As far as you living in DC, you could go give a few legislators the gift of a swift kick in the seat of the pants. They like gifts, right?
Mapquest is terrible here (Chicago west suburbs). Several times I've tried to get directions places (Since I don't live here, I'm only working in the summer), and mapquest takes me to the middle of a residential neighborhood when I'm trying to go to, for example, a mall. Or it tells me to turn right where there is no place to turn right (or left) etc. So during the summers at least, I've given up on Mapquest. Of course, when I get back home to Texas, its a different story. But then again, at home, I don't generally need Mapquest...
Well, slashdotters number at least 600,000. (just based on my UID.) (Of course, thats not all in the US, but I'd wager it is at least 50% US, so over 300,000) So, let's all send letters/emails/complaints/gifts(if there's anyone with enough money) to our senators and representatives. If for every complaint about DMCA/DRM/PATRIOT Act/Whathaveyou that gets posted here, a letter was sent, hell, we might be able to accomplish something. In other words, feel free to complain about your country. I certainly do. But, at the same time, EVERYBODY GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! (Which I am also guilty of not doing, sadly.)
If someone with a little bit more political knowledge than me could write up a decent form letter of sorts, and post it here, I'm sure that would make it much easier and more likely that we would all do something. Anyone?
Also, note that all nouns can be verbed. E.g.: "All nouns can be verbed", "I'll mouse it up", "Hang on while I clipboard it over", "I'm grepping the files". English as a whole is already heading in this direction (towards pure-positional grammar like Chinese); hackers are simply a bit ahead of the curve.
Slashdot Mirror
smack of Nazi Germany. Of course, so does the USA, today.
Wait, I'm confused!! What's wrong with the newspaper!??
and that's entirely reasonable because help is an inherently HTML-like function
No it's not. If help is an inherently HTML-like function, then it should simply be HTML. Then you could access the help without needing IE, the windows gui, etc. This would most certainly (well, with one small assumption) be beneficial beyond just reducing the dependence on IE: Suppose you are forced to boot to the command line, and you need something which is contained in the help. Well, presently, I don't think you can access it. But if the help were plain old standards conforming (God forbid) HTML, then a text-only browser could render it no problem. True, you lose graphics, but that's ok, you'd still be able to get to the information you needed. The small assumption I mentioned earlier is that there is anything in the help worth getting to...
Of course, as I recall, the XP help system is capable of actually doing things on the system (for example, firing up control panel dohickeys (if this were gnome, they'd be capplets)), which is most assuredly not an HTML function. If you want to preserve that functionality, then the help system should be entirely separate from IE, because a browser should not be able to do stuff like that. Which is where a lot of IE's security flaws come in.
WTF? This is not an FP. Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO.
X: "The Generation That Never Learned"
Go right ahead and tell them that. However, I see no mention of "constitution" or any such things in your post. Instead you said you "draw the line". What, exactly, does that mean? If you meant that you would advise against it based on your understanding of the constitution and the spirit this country was founded on, simply say so, rather than use a vague construction such as "drawing the line".
60% RH is a dry day in Dallas....
That's one mod point, Insightful, times the square root of negative one.
Off to meta-moderate...
So vote against such laws. Don't tell grandparent poster that he/she should not be voting for them. Its called a democracy. If a sufficiently large portion of the population decides that such laws should be in effect, then they will be. Deal with it, or go somewhere else. Or start a revolution. Those would seem to be your options.
You must be new here...
I'd think that a neural net would most likely be a very good solution. It could learn and then predict how a particular opponent would bet based on past history. Then, the samples from actual online play would be excessively useful... I suspect that the state of the neural net after learning a particular opponent would most likely fall into one of several categories of players, and so an algorithm to even more quickly place an opponent into one of those buckets would be possible.
If I had the time and inclination, I'd set up my own mini-tournament as a genetic algorithms type setup, and pit my own bots against each other automatically, then modify the winners until I had a really kick eyes bot. Wow, a genetic setup evolving neural nets... There's a melange of computer learning for you...
Get rid of the legacy PC crap and it'll require some rather serious hacking to get the code to run on a standard PC.
Ummm, last time I checked, when I write code, I don't take any of that into account. So, unless Apple is planning to only allow code written in assembly to run on their machines, or only distribute binaries (OS X is currently open source), virtually no hacking will be necessitated by the removal of any legacy systems. I suppose the kernel might need to be hacked slightly... Or then again, no. FreeBSD already runs on normal x86 just fine. So no, no hacking.
I think USB was a Mac hand-me-down to PCs, rather than the other way around. -.0001, incorrect AFAIK. Other than that, +1 insightful.
except for those people who just save everything to the desktop.
Like my roommate... Love the guy to death, but he has no clue.
Well, I've been to Mexico before... But as far as immigration goes, I don't know. But, didn't you ever watch the Shawshank Redemption? All you need is several hundred thousand dollars cash, and an assumed name.
You missed the point. The reason higher math doesn't require calculators is that it doesn't involve arithmetic. Arithmetic doesn't even enter the picture. Unless you're doing applied math. In that case, most mathematicians would in fact refer to everything you're doing (be it calculus, algebra, linear algebra, etc.) as arithmetic. Math involves proofs and abstract concepts. Arithmetic involves numbers and calculations. There is often remarkably little overlap between the two.
IBM had PL/1 with syntax worse than JOSS, and everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
Hooray for Crunchly!
It could conceivably be used to propel spacecraft. Or even comets, see Greg Benford's book _The_Heart_of_the_Comet_, which didn't use railguns per se, but did use large mass-guns to alter the comet's orbit at perihelion.
That's a good idea. CowboyNeal could actually make useful polls. Then, any issue that is being considered for inclusion in our great /. political machine of doom gets a poll. If the agreement on one side is not oh say at least 75% of respondents, then the issue is dropped. That'd be one way to do it at least.
As far as you living in DC, you could go give a few legislators the gift of a swift kick in the seat of the pants. They like gifts, right?
Yes, but if I cry and run away, then I no longer care if it gets better. Anyway, I was kidding. I'm from Texas. I'd go to Mexico.
Mapquest is terrible here (Chicago west suburbs). Several times I've tried to get directions places (Since I don't live here, I'm only working in the summer), and mapquest takes me to the middle of a residential neighborhood when I'm trying to go to, for example, a mall. Or it tells me to turn right where there is no place to turn right (or left) etc. So during the summers at least, I've given up on Mapquest. Of course, when I get back home to Texas, its a different story. But then again, at home, I don't generally need Mapquest...
Well crap. Here I was hoping I could move to Canada whenever it got too bad here.
Well, slashdotters number at least 600,000. (just based on my UID.) (Of course, thats not all in the US, but I'd wager it is at least 50% US, so over 300,000) So, let's all send letters/emails/complaints/gifts(if there's anyone with enough money) to our senators and representatives. If for every complaint about DMCA/DRM/PATRIOT Act/Whathaveyou that gets posted here, a letter was sent, hell, we might be able to accomplish something. In other words, feel free to complain about your country. I certainly do. But, at the same time, EVERYBODY GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! (Which I am also guilty of not doing, sadly.)
If someone with a little bit more political knowledge than me could write up a decent form letter of sorts, and post it here, I'm sure that would make it much easier and more likely that we would all do something. Anyone?
Linux based sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads....
Riding on elephants' backs! Just trampling, eating, outcomputing, and laserifying everything they see!
From the jargon file:
Also, note that all nouns can be verbed. E.g.: "All nouns can be verbed", "I'll mouse it up", "Hang on while I clipboard it over", "I'm grepping the files". English as a whole is already heading in this direction (towards pure-positional grammar like Chinese); hackers are simply a bit ahead of the curve.