Is this the MS way to get rid of Firefox and other
freeware on MS Windows ?
In the future, MS Windows could check aplications
and run only the ones which are properly certified.
Certification might require proper licensing.
Ah, and what about an administrative fee for
the whole procedure ?
Am I having a bad dream here ?
Why not try the opposite ?
Instead of fighting software patents, the
OSS community should establish an organization
which patents all new ideas in Linux, Mozilla etc.
There are certainly many new ideas in free software
and the inventor could patent them while at the
same time licensing the SW as free.
In case the evil empire uses its software patents
the OSS would have a cache of patents to fight back...
There was recently a conference about the Pioneer Anomaly and the conference webpage has links to various attempts of explanation. [http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/Pione er/]
As far as I know, there is no consensus if the anomaly has a trivial explanation (gas leaking from satellite, dust in the solar system etc.) or if something non-trivial is happening, such as a quantum garvity effect, dark matter etc.
As long as the dog just reacts to a list of
commands there is no understanding in my opinion,
no matter how long the list.
A 3-year old kid can do much more than that, like
play with words. More important, a 3-year old
has already some verbal representation of itself.
> if your dog understands what you are saying
In what sense does this type of communication
suggest "understanding" ? Every AIML chatbot
can communicate in this way and better, but I
would not consider this to suggest "understanding".
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Is this the MS way to get rid of Firefox and other freeware on MS Windows ? In the future, MS Windows could check aplications and run only the ones which are properly certified. Certification might require proper licensing. Ah, and what about an administrative fee for the whole procedure ? Am I having a bad dream here ?
I showed the pictures to my wife so that she stops complaining about the mess in my room. But a fine job indeed !
In the middle of part 2 (yes I actually read the thing), the author states: "Indeed, computer programmers are the Porno elite."
I have no clue what the author tries to suggest with
this 8-)
The exemplary equation does not make much ...
...
sense as it is and should really be:
df/dt = \partial f / \partial t + []
I am using LaTex notation where \partial t is the
partial derivative with respect to t and dt is
of course the total derivative.
By the way, the book seems to be a solid introductory text for physics students.
Nothing more nothing less
Why not try the opposite ? Instead of fighting software patents, the OSS community should establish an organization which patents all new ideas in Linux, Mozilla etc. There are certainly many new ideas in free software and the inventor could patent them while at the same time licensing the SW as free. In case the evil empire uses its software patents the OSS would have a cache of patents to fight back ...
There was recently a conference about thee er/]
Pioneer Anomaly and the conference webpage
has links to various attempts of explanation.
[http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/Pion
As far as I know, there is no consensus if the
anomaly has a trivial explanation
(gas leaking from satellite, dust in the
solar system etc.) or if something non-trivial is happening, such as a quantum garvity effect,
dark matter etc.
Of course, the most important contribution of Pioneer 10 to fundamental physics may be the Pioneer Anomaly : http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9808081
how about voluntary supression of basic instincts?
Show me a (fat) dog on a self-imposed diet and I acknowledge that it is intelligent.
As long as the dog just reacts to a list of commands there is no understanding in my opinion, no matter how long the list.
A 3-year old kid can do much more than that, like play with words. More important, a 3-year old has already some verbal representation of itself.
> if your dog understands what you are saying In what sense does this type of communication suggest "understanding" ? Every AIML chatbot can communicate in this way and better, but I would not consider this to suggest "understanding".
Matsushita needs a machine. We have Dennis Miller.
How about a discussion of Bayesian vs. frequentist. I would argue that probability depends on your Baysian prior.