OK, I am sorry. I was reading this bug report they refer to in the dicsussion. It started with the makefiles, actually meanwhile he has changed.c files at least in cdrtools as well.
Just to point out something: Jörg has put his makefiles under the CDDL, not parts of the source itself. The problem is, that according to section 3 of the GPL you must provide the _complete_ source code under the GPL. Now, the GPL states explicitely that "complete source code" includes "all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable"
Well, most people would regard the makefiles as scripts, not so Jörg. And therefore he doesn't see a conflict between licenses. The Debian people see it differently and therefore see distributing binaries of this as a violation of section 3 of the GPL.
What I don't understand: Why do they fork the complete work? Why don't they just write new makefiles under GPL, put it together with the rest of the code and are 100% GPL afterwards? I would assume that this is much easier than keeping up a complete fork.
I think, that this all went out of proportion - where both sides are to blame for this.
But I argue that the real understanding of the physics is to be had in making sense of the symmetries.
Ahem, symmetry is already one of the central points of physics. Group theory is all over physics - because that's a way to handle symmetries mathematically. And you will find this from condensed matter physics to high energy physics.
isn't it interesting how much of our innovation nowadays is centered around profiting from people's vices
nowadays? One of the reasons Blaise Pascal was working on the mathematics of probability was due to the request of dice playing noblemen to incease their winning chances.
A very strong and useful technique in AI is to create learning algorithms. Some of these, such as reinforcement learning, are actually quite effective.
Effective they might be, but compared to the human ability to learn and reason by analogy it is absolutely not impressive. So if one compares the current programs' ability to learn and reason by analogy to that of an average human being, the statement that they are not particularly good at it, is not too far off the mark.
The reason this game is difficult is not based on a computer's inability to solve problems, rather that there are so many possibilities that we cannot effectively design algorithms that the can be put to use.
I don't think that this is really the point. If the players would play the game with open cards, it would be not too interesting. I am not a poker expert, but the few times I watched it a bit on TV the commentator who like the other TV spectators knew who holds which cards can very well predict who will have the better hand at the end. It is indeed the incomplete information, which makes the difference. What I read about programs playing poker, one of the targets of a program is to deduce the strategy of the other players - when do they bluff, when do they pass etc. This is quite different from chess programs where the other player is not interesting, just the position on the board counts.
If the earth is a part of the universe, and the entropy of the universe is increasing, then the entropy of the earth is also increasing.
Wrong conclusion. In parts of a system the entropy can decrease while in the overall system it increases. It's like saying: the average salary in the US is going up, therefore the average salary in my hometown also goes up, as it is part of the US. Evolution takes place only on a subset of the earth. There is a constant interaction between the organic part and the anorganic part on earth. Earth itself is also not a closed system as there is a constant exchange of energy with the outer space. So, evolution is taking place in a system which is not isolated and therefore the second law of thermodynamics is not violated. That people believe in this argument is really surprising to me, because with the same logic you could deduce that a car plant violated the second law of thermodnynamics and is therefore not possible. You find it everyday that systems go from less ordered to more ordered states. But this is only possible because those systems are not isolated.
My college chemistry professor also said the same thing. He said that evolution appears to violate the law of entropy.
That's clearly a wrong statement.
As for me, my major was chemistry. - I do know the second law of thermodynamics.
Oops. Sorry, but what you said here does not looked like you understood it fully. No harm intended, but you really might have a second look at your textbook about it.
...didn't read a book. So it makes no sense to say that after him, and because of books about him, people got better and therefore experts are made [...]
Your logic is flawed. Sure, Mozart Jr. didn't read the book, but in this book his father described his experience with his son, so that others could repeat it. Whether actually the book was responsible for this increase or some other factors - or if there was really such an increase in talents is another question.
A COMPUTER can play chess. The rules and strategies are almost all worked out, so it takes only practice to learn them.
The way computers find the moves is completely different from how humans do it. There is absolutely no expertise used in chess programming which had any influence on the world of human chess playing. Of course, the knowledge of rules and strategies in chess has increased a lot over the decades, but still it is not completely solved and it takes more than learning the known strategies to become a world class player.
Evolution made its way into schools via court decision
I don't think this is even true for the US. Evolution made its way into schools, because that's the generally accepted explanation in science.
It [ID] simply demonstrates flaws in Evolution without getting specific as to how or in what way things actually came about.
Where did ID do this?
To start with, evolution violates the basic law of entropy, which says that left alone, things naturally go to disorder.
Obviously somebody uses some scientific concepts withour really understanding them. Do you think you violate entropy if you remove disorder in your bedroom? The second law of thermodynamics, which states, that entropy tends to increase is only valid for a closed system, which earth is not.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy#The_second_la w
And when I can't collide or interact with it, it kinda ruffles me the wrong way. What kinda magical stuff is this supposed to be.
A bit similar to neutrinos.
It kinda reminds me how about 500 years ago astronomers came up with double and triple rotations of planets
Well it's not clear whether this is similar to the postulation of the up to then unknown neutrinos (with also quite ghosty attributes), this way extending our knowledge based on existing models, or if we jsut happen to see the standard theories failing and hinting at alternative explanations. And as this is not known, we can observer currently two approaches: Dark Matter/Dark Energy and this way just staying inside our standard theories, or using enhanced or simply different models, where the effects for which the Dark Stuff has been introduced come out evidentely. Maybe we will see something inbetween at the end.
In his great book "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" Oliver Sacks describes a similar case, where a former soldier is bound to the same condition. He is living shortly after WWII. During one of their talks Sacks shows him pictures from the moon landing. The man is completely shocked, and Sacks was very sorry about what he did. But at least the man forgot about this shock shortly afterwards.
Actually... this is sort of a subset of another truth: you become the people with which you associate.
But you chose as well the people with which you associate based on your personality. Whilst you grow up, you might search and hang around with changing groups, but later on you stay with those people more or less "compatible" with you. So, it's an interchanging correlation between your relations you build up based on your personality and the group's influence on your personality.
"There is a fine line bettwen a Genius and an Idiot." Many people we hold in high esteeme for their brillance were also a little eccentric, or down right crazy.
Being an idiot and being crazy are complete different things. A genius can be an idiot, because he has a very special talent and might have deficits in other important areas. But being a bit crazy is probably connected to being a genius. A genius tends to think out of the frame other people have around their minds. So, it's likely they think out of the frame in other areas as well, not just there, where they are famous for.
I have seen one episode from this series (It also had an actor from the originial series). It was trash, poorly written, poorly acted and not very entertaining. As a contrast, I really enjoyed the parody "Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning". Stunning CGIs, great look and sound and quite funny story. The actors are mostly amateurs as well, but they seem to be just perfect for this film. I lift my hat to the makers of Star Wreck.
If Debian is so scalable, why does it take them so much longer than any other OS vendor to simply do a release?
"scalable" does not mean from the developer's view, but from the user's view.
I guess many people agree with me because these days I see very few people advertising Debian as the Wonder OS that it was promoted as when I first got into Linux.
When reading the interview, I would guess: neither would Krafft call it "Wonder OS".
Of course, it's not exactly great PR to promote yourself as the base for what are effectively (policy and project-wise) forks, but marketing was never Debians strong point...
This feature is extremely useful for any website that wants to give their users better content by parsing what they're going through.
I am simply amazed! Imagine - a guy has just been divorced, he started to drink, he lost his job, couldn't pay his mortgage anymore, is now living on the street, and when he browses a little bit through the WWW from an internet cafe, a simple technical change makes it possible that the compassionate admin of a website is able to get to know "See, what this poor soul was going through!"
Memory consumption is indeed a major issue for me as well (IIRC Firefox was presented as a "light" browser - but it has become a real heavyweight in the ring). Otherwise I like it, but this is really annoying.
you might consider switching to Firefox trunk
Well, one alternative is, to restart it from time to time. But I am currently tentatively switching over to Opera.
It's not like they actually own any of their articles.
Of course they do. It is copyrighted and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you copy parts of Wikipedia texts you have to put your text under the same license - and you have to name the auhroship. It is similar to Open Source Software under the GNU - license: it is not, that anybody can just take and use it as he wishes.
Do a study that tells me something I don't know, will ya?
That you are groggy after waking up is no news. What was surprising was how strong this effect is. When someone is awake for 26 hours, although he is obviously very tired, he his still mentally more fit than 10 minutes after he woke up.
That there is a relation might be obvious. But still it is of interest to get the numbers: what is the probability to get pregnant after having sex, what conditions have an influence on this probability? How big is the risk of getting cancer if you are an average smoker (*very* interesting for insurance companies). Those numbers may not be listed in a short news message, but experts can get something out of the study, making it worth the money.
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OK, I am sorry. I was reading this bug report they refer to in the dicsussion. It started with the makefiles, actually meanwhile he has changed .c files at least in cdrtools as well.
Just to point out something: Jörg has put his makefiles under the CDDL, not parts of the source itself. The problem is, that according to section 3 of the GPL you must provide the _complete_ source code under the GPL. Now, the GPL states explicitely that "complete source code" includes "all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable"
Well, most people would regard the makefiles as scripts, not so Jörg. And therefore he doesn't see a conflict between licenses. The Debian people see it differently and therefore see distributing binaries of this as a violation of section 3 of the GPL.
What I don't understand: Why do they fork the complete work? Why don't they just write new makefiles under GPL, put it together with the rest of the code and are 100% GPL afterwards? I would assume that this is much easier than keeping up a complete fork.
I think, that this all went out of proportion - where both sides are to blame for this.
Obviously he has changed that in the meantime. In this README ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/README he says:
Ahem, symmetry is already one of the central points of physics. Group theory is all over physics - because that's a way to handle symmetries mathematically. And you will find this from condensed matter physics to high energy physics.
nowadays? One of the reasons Blaise Pascal was working on the mathematics of probability was due to the request of dice playing noblemen to incease their winning chances.
Effective they might be, but compared to the human ability to learn and reason by analogy it is absolutely not impressive. So if one compares the current programs' ability to learn and reason by analogy to that of an average human being, the statement that they are not particularly good at it, is not too far off the mark.
I don't think that this is really the point. If the players would play the game with open cards, it would be not too interesting. I am not a poker expert, but the few times I watched it a bit on TV the commentator who like the other TV spectators knew who holds which cards can very well predict who will have the better hand at the end. It is indeed the incomplete information, which makes the difference. What I read about programs playing poker, one of the targets of a program is to deduce the strategy of the other players - when do they bluff, when do they pass etc. This is quite different from chess programs where the other player is not interesting, just the position on the board counts.
Wrong conclusion. In parts of a system the entropy can decrease while in the overall system it increases. It's like saying: the average salary in the US is going up, therefore the average salary in my hometown also goes up, as it is part of the US. Evolution takes place only on a subset of the earth. There is a constant interaction between the organic part and the anorganic part on earth. Earth itself is also not a closed system as there is a constant exchange of energy with the outer space. So, evolution is taking place in a system which is not isolated and therefore the second law of thermodynamics is not violated. That people believe in this argument is really surprising to me, because with the same logic you could deduce that a car plant violated the second law of thermodnynamics and is therefore not possible. You find it everyday that systems go from less ordered to more ordered states. But this is only possible because those systems are not isolated.
That's clearly a wrong statement.
Oops. Sorry, but what you said here does not looked like you understood it fully. No harm intended, but you really might have a second look at your textbook about it.
Your logic is flawed. Sure, Mozart Jr. didn't read the book, but in this book his father described his experience with his son, so that others could repeat it. Whether actually the book was responsible for this increase or some other factors - or if there was really such an increase in talents is another question.
The way computers find the moves is completely different from how humans do it. There is absolutely no expertise used in chess programming which had any influence on the world of human chess playing. Of course, the knowledge of rules and strategies in chess has increased a lot over the decades, but still it is not completely solved and it takes more than learning the known strategies to become a world class player.
I don't think this is even true for the US. Evolution made its way into schools, because that's the generally accepted explanation in science.
Where did ID do this?
Obviously somebody uses some scientific concepts withour really understanding them. Do you think you violate entropy if you remove disorder in your bedroom? The second law of thermodynamics, which states, that entropy tends to increase is only valid for a closed system, which earth is not. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy#The_second_la w
Yes, and the moment the first carricatures of KDE appear in American newspapers, the US embassy in Berlin will be burnt down.
A bit similar to neutrinos.
Well it's not clear whether this is similar to the postulation of the up to then unknown neutrinos (with also quite ghosty attributes), this way extending our knowledge based on existing models, or if we jsut happen to see the standard theories failing and hinting at alternative explanations. And as this is not known, we can observer currently two approaches: Dark Matter/Dark Energy and this way just staying inside our standard theories, or using enhanced or simply different models, where the effects for which the Dark Stuff has been introduced come out evidentely. Maybe we will see something inbetween at the end.
In his great book "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" Oliver Sacks describes a similar case, where a former soldier is bound to the same condition. He is living shortly after WWII. During one of their talks Sacks shows him pictures from the moon landing. The man is completely shocked, and Sacks was very sorry about what he did. But at least the man forgot about this shock shortly afterwards.
But you chose as well the people with which you associate based on your personality. Whilst you grow up, you might search and hang around with changing groups, but later on you stay with those people more or less "compatible" with you. So, it's an interchanging correlation between your relations you build up based on your personality and the group's influence on your personality.
Being an idiot and being crazy are complete different things. A genius can be an idiot, because he has a very special talent and might have deficits in other important areas. But being a bit crazy is probably connected to being a genius. A genius tends to think out of the frame other people have around their minds. So, it's likely they think out of the frame in other areas as well, not just there, where they are famous for.
I have seen one episode from this series (It also had an actor from the originial series). It was trash, poorly written, poorly acted and not very entertaining. As a contrast, I really enjoyed the parody "Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning". Stunning CGIs, great look and sound and quite funny story. The actors are mostly amateurs as well, but they seem to be just perfect for this film. I lift my hat to the makers of Star Wreck.
"scalable" does not mean from the developer's view, but from the user's view.
When reading the interview, I would guess: neither would Krafft call it "Wonder OS".
The quote you refer to was not from Krafft.I am simply amazed! Imagine - a guy has just been divorced, he started to drink, he lost his job, couldn't pay his mortgage anymore, is now living on the street, and when he browses a little bit through the WWW from an internet cafe, a simple technical change makes it possible that the compassionate admin of a website is able to get to know "See, what this poor soul was going through!"
Through morphogenetic fields of course.
Just joking. It's obviously from the pseudo-scientific realm.
But it is home to 100% of the hobbit population of the world!
Of course they do. It is copyrighted and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you copy parts of Wikipedia texts you have to put your text under the same license - and you have to name the auhroship. It is similar to Open Source Software under the GNU - license: it is not, that anybody can just take and use it as he wishes.
Alas, an ocean seperates us.
Besides my tendency to split hairs (not mine, they have become too valuable over the years), this can not be completely excluded.
Sorry, not until I counted all the beans lying around here.
That you are groggy after waking up is no news. What was surprising was how strong this effect is. When someone is awake for 26 hours, although he is obviously very tired, he his still mentally more fit than 10 minutes after he woke up.
That there is a relation might be obvious. But still it is of interest to get the numbers: what is the probability to get pregnant after having sex, what conditions have an influence on this probability? How big is the risk of getting cancer if you are an average smoker (*very* interesting for insurance companies). Those numbers may not be listed in a short news message, but experts can get something out of the study, making it worth the money.