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I think the parent is serious. The idea is that your robot goes and grabs the images that needs to be decoded. Then on another website, it is presented and you can see free porn if you type in the word. I've heard of this but never read about it. Sounds like a good idea. Anyone know what this is called or some references ?
I disagree, but people who do aren't given much of a voice in the media. If you read the article you will see that all the 6 people are related to working on manned space missions, directly or indirectly. It would be more interesting if they asked a random cross section of scientists. In this case, the game is fixed.
You are clearly not a scientist. If I code something up in C++ using gcc, then I know everything I would know about my code on any other platform. And since when does code require proofs of what it does ? This is generally impossible anyway. In the end, for most science and engineering the final result is what counts. And as I indicated, in any case this is a myth that using something proprietary prevents you from understanding what you did. Even using gcc, I am not going to look at the source code for the compiler I am using anyway. How often is that done in any case, in or outside of scientific research ?
Regarding this post, and the above that says programming on a mac is problematic -
There are lots of ways to program obviously. I am very happy on my mac with gcc and my text editor. I also use Maple, Matlab, OCAML, Povray and other software and it all works great for me. I am not sure what problems you had, because I clearly can't imagine all possible programming scenarios on the mac, but then again, neither can you apparently.
Where is it written that The point of patents and copyrights are to promote the publics best interest by creating an incentive to create new works that benefit all. ??
I think that patent law is there to protect the inventor. While "all" may benefit, this is a secondary result, sometimes.
Not to be a jerk or anything, but two years of calculus and a PDE course don't prepare you to understand all that much. In this case some course in logic and the theory of computation might be in order.
I find wikipedia useful, and the math is generally well done. The biggest problem is that I hate reading math symbols in anything but latex generated documents.
he's a little weird and crazy on this point. It's really clear now that the computers are stronger, even just a fast desktop running Rybka or something would probably beat him, or Anand.
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I think the parent is serious. The idea is that your robot goes and grabs the images that needs to be decoded. Then on another website, it is presented and you can see free porn if you type in the word. I've heard of this but never read about it. Sounds like a good idea. Anyone know what this is called or some references ?
I disagree, but people who do aren't given much of a voice in the media. If you read the article you will see that all the 6 people are related to working on manned space missions, directly or indirectly. It would be more interesting if they asked a random cross section of scientists. In this case, the game is fixed.
You are clearly not a scientist. If I code something up in C++ using gcc, then I know everything I would know about my code on any other platform. And since when does code require proofs of what it does ? This is generally impossible anyway. In the end, for most science and engineering the final result is what counts. And as I indicated, in any case this is a myth that using something proprietary prevents you from understanding what you did. Even using gcc, I am not going to look at the source code for the compiler I am using anyway. How often is that done in any case, in or outside of scientific research ?
Regarding this post, and the above that says programming on a mac is problematic -
There are lots of ways to program obviously. I am very happy on my mac with gcc and my text editor. I also use Maple, Matlab, OCAML, Povray and other software and it all works great for me. I am not sure what problems you had, because I clearly can't imagine all possible programming scenarios on the mac, but then again, neither can you apparently.
Because it is going to come down to the difference of just being able to read different FILE formats, like jpg vs. gif.
Physics professor Roland Winston, proposed this 25 years ago.
I think I have a way to generalize the AC's method to finding all credit card numbers, but there isn't enough room in this comment to post it.
I think that clicking the link makes the city grow. So it is some geekster trying to make the equivalent of his minicity karma higher.
Weird - MTW thinks the music industry shouldn't be on the Supreme court ? I agree, but I didn't realize it was on the table.
Where is it written that
The point of patents and copyrights are to promote the publics best interest by creating an incentive to create new works that benefit all. ??
I think that patent law is there to protect the inventor. While "all" may benefit, this is a secondary result, sometimes.
Not to be a jerk or anything, but two years of calculus and a PDE course don't prepare you to understand all that much. In this case some course in logic and the theory of computation might be in order.
I find wikipedia useful, and the math is generally well done. The biggest problem is that I hate reading math symbols in anything but latex generated documents.
Well, I am willing to burn some Karma here:
In Birmingham, they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth
Nobel prize winner Steve Weinberg says in the article that it will be the only good science done on the ISS if it goes up!!!
I'm asking a serious question. I've never understood what is and what isn't pork.
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he's a little weird and crazy on this point. It's really clear now that the computers are stronger, even just a fast desktop running Rybka or something would probably beat him, or Anand.
Checkmate!
Seriously, this sucks.
What about obvious to the expert part ?
1000 is correct, but I believe the original was a homage joke to the Simpsons. It's a Nelson quote.
Actually it only has something like 2.5 stars on Amazon. Not a good sign.
Thanks for noticing my pun. No one else seems to have.
you have to give them credit for originality.
No - it is called an exceptional lie algebra.
Oh I understand all of a sudden. YOU ARE the guy whose been posting that troll that starts something like
"I went into my local library bathroom and out comes this big blond guy from a stall..."