Because the government decreed ActiveX as the standard for banking and other government-related things back in the 90's.
It kinda made sense back then, IE 6 and ActiveX was actually superior to Netscape and Java plug-in (or whatever it was).
The problem is that as time went by, the world moved on, but S.Korea was stuck because everybody was already using ActiveX and they had invested huge amounts of time and money into it. This demonstrates the problem with doing things by government decree. In the US, banks were free to use whatever they damn wanted for their online banking. S.Korea banks had to use ActiveX period.
A simple neural net (I hate that fucking term) algorithm trained against average Go-playing humans will end up being average at playing Go.
Seems to me like you took a cursory glance at Go and decided it'd be simple to create an algorithm that would be good at it. Without any actual experience.
Have you actually played it? More importantly, have you ever seen a decent player play against a computer?
My dad is an amateur and is not ranked, in chess terms he's not even an expert and basically he's nothing. He stomps the living crap out of the best Go software commercially available; he wins every time. And from reading articles about the state of the art in computer Go programming, it would probably be a winning bet to say that my dad (a barely decent player) could beat any computer program ever made.
It's not so much a younger generation vs. older generation fight, it's more about ethnicity. Eastern Ukraine is heavily populated by ethnic Russians and they want the status quo. Western Ukraine has less Russians and they want to get out of the old Soviet sphere of influence and join the E.U.
At the root of the whole thing is economic problems. Ukraine is the shithole of Europe when it comes to economic development, with rampant corruption and vast inefficiencies still left over from communist days. The protesters look to Poland as a model to aspire to, since Poland was in a similar situation as Ukraine when Communism fell, but the Poles have since embraced western Europe and have developed light-years beyond the Ukrainians.
I stopped reading TFA as soon as I saw the author refer to a general as "she'.
Feminism may have its place and I would not have minded if they were talking about something modern, but come on... there were no fucking female generals in the Byzantine army.
btw Belisarius rocked, truly the last of the Romans. He was every bit as awesome as Hannibal and Caesar. Too bad he doesn't get enough recognition because the times he lived in wasn't as interesting.
You guys can cite Econ and Psych all you want, the real world has records of what really happened in the past so it behooves one to pay attention to history.
In situations where the currency was deflationary (money steadily gaining value over time, commodities steadily falling in price), people didn't stop all purchases. (you still need to buy food to live) But purchases dropped significantly and economic activity tanked. Most recent example is Japan during the Lost Decade of 90's - 00's.
This. Since you already have 15 years of C experience, you should pick this up quick. And it will set you apart from all the noob JS/php "developers" whose only knowledge of C is that it's the third letter of the alphabet.
Vellum is expensive, even today. It's inconceivable that they would've use it to teach kids how to write. I doubt even Bill Gates would teach his kids how to write on vellum.
The standard teaching method back in the day was to have students write on sand or clay surfaces, which could be wiped and used again and again.
That's because it's not a rock. It's poop, from a rock creature similar to the one Capt. Kirk fired his phaser on (can't remember which episode it was)
Definition of murder is killing another of the same species. Since dolphins are not human, it's not murder if a human does it.
Summary didn't say whether bottlenose dolphins are rare or endangered. If they are, they should be protected from fishermen. Otherwise I don't see a problem with harvesting a small percentage for their meat.
I coined the term Climascientology since the current state of climate "science" is a disgrace to the real sciences. Public opinion about scientists in general have been going down and that's a shame, so we need a way to separate the hard sciences of physics and chemistry from the bullshit like climascientology and social sciences.
Are you insane? What free software contributor would want to wade through 10,000+ pages of Obamacare? Somebody actually printed it out, and you need a forklift to move it around. And that's just Obamacare, there are mountains of other gov't health/tax/payroll regulations to go through before you write a single line of code.
Open source is only possible for software that developers want to make, where the developers determine the features. Nobody in the universe is masochistic enough to sit through meetings day after day and work through nights and get grilled by congresscritters for no pay.
First off, grant money from mainstream science organizations isn't handed with no questions asked. It's spent on gear (climate scientists neeed computers), and on tuition for the grad students.
Yes of course that's true. But wait, what do you think the research funded by industry is like? The scientists buy diamond rings and go cruising on a private luxury yacht? No, researchers funded by industry spend their money on exactly the same things that researchers funded by government do.
I wasn't saying the climate change researchers are out to make obscene millions of dollars for themselves. However the fact is that they need grant money flowing in or they do not exist as researchers. It's either get grants and have a nice position at the university and pay your interns and staff and buy nice equipment, or... go teach high school. And the biggest source of grant money is gov't by far, not oil industry.
If we enter another little ice age, that's bad for most everybody. Europe's agriculture would be decimated, many towns in the Alps will be overrun by glaciers, etc. We have good records of what happened during the last one ~200 to 600 years ago. It wasn't pretty.
The oil exporting desert kingdoms might benefit since energy demands will skyrocket and they might get some respite from their usually brutal summer heat.
About the only good thing from a new little ice age would be putting Al Gore, Michael Mann, etc. in their place, which is to say utterly discredited and labeled as perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history.
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Because the government decreed ActiveX as the standard for banking and other government-related things back in the 90's.
It kinda made sense back then, IE 6 and ActiveX was actually superior to Netscape and Java plug-in (or whatever it was).
The problem is that as time went by, the world moved on, but S.Korea was stuck because everybody was already using ActiveX and they had invested huge amounts of time and money into it. This demonstrates the problem with doing things by government decree. In the US, banks were free to use whatever they damn wanted for their online banking. S.Korea banks had to use ActiveX period.
Sorry, collusion and general douchebaggery is just as much of a leftist Dem characteristic as any other party.
Which party do you think Steve Jobs identified himself with? (hint: it sure as hell ain't the GOP or Tea Party)
If you choose Japanese, you need to install SQR Server 2008.
Reddit is the Grand Central of bitcoin pump and dump
iirc the software he's using is Many Faces of Go, which at the time (2009ish) was regarded the best commercially available program I believe.
Thanks for the info, I'll get him Crazy Stone as a birthday gift. He will go nuts over it.
A simple neural net (I hate that fucking term) algorithm trained against average Go-playing humans will end up being average at playing Go.
Seems to me like you took a cursory glance at Go and decided it'd be simple to create an algorithm that would be good at it. Without any actual experience.
Have you actually played it? More importantly, have you ever seen a decent player play against a computer?
My dad is an amateur and is not ranked, in chess terms he's not even an expert and basically he's nothing. He stomps the living crap out of the best Go software commercially available; he wins every time. And from reading articles about the state of the art in computer Go programming, it would probably be a winning bet to say that my dad (a barely decent player) could beat any computer program ever made.
No, but being a liberal Democrat is. At least in the Bay area.
waterVapor != life
It's not so much a younger generation vs. older generation fight, it's more about ethnicity. Eastern Ukraine is heavily populated by ethnic Russians and they want the status quo. Western Ukraine has less Russians and they want to get out of the old Soviet sphere of influence and join the E.U.
At the root of the whole thing is economic problems. Ukraine is the shithole of Europe when it comes to economic development, with rampant corruption and vast inefficiencies still left over from communist days. The protesters look to Poland as a model to aspire to, since Poland was in a similar situation as Ukraine when Communism fell, but the Poles have since embraced western Europe and have developed light-years beyond the Ukrainians.
I stopped reading TFA as soon as I saw the author refer to a general as "she'.
Feminism may have its place and I would not have minded if they were talking about something modern, but come on... there were no fucking female generals in the Byzantine army.
btw Belisarius rocked, truly the last of the Romans. He was every bit as awesome as Hannibal and Caesar. Too bad he doesn't get enough recognition because the times he lived in wasn't as interesting.
You guys can cite Econ and Psych all you want, the real world has records of what really happened in the past so it behooves one to pay attention to history.
In situations where the currency was deflationary (money steadily gaining value over time, commodities steadily falling in price), people didn't stop all purchases. (you still need to buy food to live) But purchases dropped significantly and economic activity tanked. Most recent example is Japan during the Lost Decade of 90's - 00's.
Objective-C for iOS
This. Since you already have 15 years of C experience, you should pick this up quick. And it will set you apart from all the noob JS/php "developers" whose only knowledge of C is that it's the third letter of the alphabet.
White Knight can't take off from a ship.
Vellum is expensive, even today. It's inconceivable that they would've use it to teach kids how to write. I doubt even Bill Gates would teach his kids how to write on vellum.
The standard teaching method back in the day was to have students write on sand or clay surfaces, which could be wiped and used again and again.
Carbon dating proves it was written in the 1400's. Who exactly was the writer trying to hoax? For what purpose?
I would've thought surely NSA could crack it by now....
The Deskstar wasn't nicknamed Deathstar for nothing, back in the day...
robots in disguise
That's because it's not a rock. It's poop, from a rock creature similar to the one Capt. Kirk fired his phaser on (can't remember which episode it was)
Because bullshit is bullshit no matter what tools it uses.
According to your logic, Bernie Madoff's investment scheme is not bullshit because he used arithmetic which is known to be valid.
Definition of murder is killing another of the same species. Since dolphins are not human, it's not murder if a human does it.
Summary didn't say whether bottlenose dolphins are rare or endangered. If they are, they should be protected from fishermen. Otherwise I don't see a problem with harvesting a small percentage for their meat.
I coined the term Climascientology since the current state of climate "science" is a disgrace to the real sciences. Public opinion about scientists in general have been going down and that's a shame, so we need a way to separate the hard sciences of physics and chemistry from the bullshit like climascientology and social sciences.
Are you insane? What free software contributor would want to wade through 10,000+ pages of Obamacare? Somebody actually printed it out, and you need a forklift to move it around. And that's just Obamacare, there are mountains of other gov't health/tax/payroll regulations to go through before you write a single line of code.
Open source is only possible for software that developers want to make, where the developers determine the features. Nobody in the universe is masochistic enough to sit through meetings day after day and work through nights and get grilled by congresscritters for no pay.
First off, grant money from mainstream science organizations isn't handed with no questions asked. It's spent on gear (climate scientists neeed computers), and on tuition for the grad students.
Yes of course that's true. But wait, what do you think the research funded by industry is like? The scientists buy diamond rings and go cruising on a private luxury yacht? No, researchers funded by industry spend their money on exactly the same things that researchers funded by government do.
I wasn't saying the climate change researchers are out to make obscene millions of dollars for themselves. However the fact is that they need grant money flowing in or they do not exist as researchers. It's either get grants and have a nice position at the university and pay your interns and staff and buy nice equipment, or... go teach high school. And the biggest source of grant money is gov't by far, not oil industry.
If we enter another little ice age, that's bad for most everybody. Europe's agriculture would be decimated, many towns in the Alps will be overrun by glaciers, etc. We have good records of what happened during the last one ~200 to 600 years ago. It wasn't pretty.
The oil exporting desert kingdoms might benefit since energy demands will skyrocket and they might get some respite from their usually brutal summer heat.
About the only good thing from a new little ice age would be putting Al Gore, Michael Mann, etc. in their place, which is to say utterly discredited and labeled as perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history.