This kind of probabilistic inference approach with "new information" [evidence] being used to figure out "consequences" [probability of an event happening] sounds very similar to Bayesian inference/networks.
I would be interested in knowing how does this approach compares to BN and the Transferable Belief Model (or Dempster–Shafer theory) which itself addresses some shortcomings of BN.
Back when I played D&D, the difference between a good and a bad dungeon master was that when playing with bad DM you would feel like you were more in a rail-quest and if you happened to do something the DM has not planned he would freak out. Great DMs accepted your choices and had a lot of resources to try to make the story flow smooth with your decisions.
But can you prove that in court? If you send someone 99.9% of a torrent will they be able to watch the movie? If it's rared they won't even be able to open it.
Your post is the typical slashdot wishful thinking. It HAS been proven in court (see the RIAA vs People cases) that this kind of defence does not work. Some time ago someone linked to a piece about "the color of the law" or of your actions. This means that in general it is the INTENTION of what you were doing what counts and not the technical details.
Well, we (Mexicans) don't exactly have all your jobs, but mainly Chinese and Indian programmers.
Don't just take any job? Do you realize how many college graduates who spent a lot of money on their degrees he's up against right now? And how few jobs there are?
Indeed from what I've read and heard there are VERY few entry programming jobs in the USA, specially for big companies. This mainly due to the jobs being shipped overseas.
So either you get into a job which includes programming tasks in a small company (for example, back when I graduated from college a friend was working in a family run nuts&bolts seller, where he had the chance to develop and maintain a point of sell software. ).
"money isn't your primary motivator"...or in other words, "we can manipulate/trick/persuade you into working 80 hours weeks for nothing"
I hate the "tell us money is not your primary motivator" employers.
So what? if money is your primary motivator and you are GOOD then it will be very easy to keep you happy.
There are a bunch of "Prima Donnas" who not only expect money but a nice cube, new computer every year, and even having Natalie Portman as a massageur.
The fact is that if people didn't want to get a job for the money, they WONT get a job. Shit, they wont be working FOR YOUR COMPANY, may have started another company or just contributed to open source or whatnot.
We live in a very humid climate with lots of dust and sand in Mexico. Usually one of the first things people in the know do after getting a new computer is to spray it with silicone spray (or something like that), supposedly it will protect the computer from outside dust.
That is the typical scaremongering of the BSA. Although some of the patches have trojans, the idea of using sites like PirateBay and the like where releases are PEER REVIEWED pretty much renders that point moot.
Actually, I'm not even sure if Mexican Coca-Cola uses sugar anymore...
Yup, we still enjoy sugar-cola in Mexico. If I recall correctly the problem stated by GP comes from the fact that the USA gives a LOT of subsidies to corn. So much that even Mexico is suffering of it (cannot compete vs those low prices!).
This makes corn syrup considerably cheaper than cane sugar, and as a consequence a lot of food manufacturers use it as sweetener.
And whatever happened to bubble memory, anyway? Wasn't that supposed to save the day and obsolete rotating storage once and for all? Isn't that what Intel promised us?
I've never heard of that technology so I gave a quick read at Wikipedia article. Although the technology seems interesting, one of the wiki snippets at the end tells (me at least) why it is definitely a losing technology:
The Bubble System required a "warm-up" time of about 20 seconds (prompted by a timer on the screen when switched on) before the game was loaded, as bubble memory needs to be heated to around 30 to 40 C to operate properly.
if I hadn't already spammed this thread with posts I'd have modded you up - other than price/GB, most of the problems in the wiki article are exaggerated IMHO.
It is something I have noted about wikipedia for some time, "editors" feel the need to add a bunch of "negative" or "positive" things in a wiki article just to make it view "neutral". Even if they do not know what they are talking about, or if it is completely false or FUD.
I think the last time I saw it was when reading about some homebrew for a console (they added "bad things" even though it is just the typical crap that console makers tell to scare people [oh noes putting a chip will make your Xbox explode!!])
huhuhu this made me recall a [bad]... someone told me "it is the question that every engineer must know th answer to", back when I was starting my soft. eng. bachelor degree:
What was first, the masturbation of Men or the masturbation of Women?.... A: The masturbation of men was first because it is "manual" (hand-operated) and Women's masturbation is "digital". har har...
Someone should make a page like RIAA-radar making a huge database of everything you can buy and indicating if it is "Chinnese-free".
I know your sentiment... it has happened to me in a similar way. I went to a Mexican crafts market (and when I say market it is the street-kind of-market and not walmart or similar) looking to buy some typical stuff to get some friends in Germany (where I am living now) and to my surprise, a lot of the textiles people where selling had a "made in china" label, although the styles *where* the same as the typical Mexican stuff. That made me really sad.
I've seen a some electronic photo frames that have this no-glasses 3D technology. Once in a Saturn shop and the other at CEBIT-2010 in Germany.
I think it is quite cool and also think that portable electronics is an adequate place to use this technology, given that it requires you to stay at a specific angle (mainly, directly in front of the screen) in order to work best.
That being said, I still believe that this kind of technology is only a fad (btw, didn't 3D refereed to the ability of having in OpenGL or DirectX kind?) as I do not believe it will provide anything new to the games... and the DS screen (in its current state) is really small to show "nice" graphics.
However I am still eager to see what nintendo comes up... who knows, maybe Sony will be pushed to release a new PSP version, more crippled but with an interesting take on Nintendo's technology.
From what I recall he then went on to work at FPS systems which was an array processor that you could add onto other machines (I think vaxen...but I could be wrong there..)
Around 1996/97 I downloaded a free program (kind of homebrew/non commercial "scene" stuff) that allowed you to configure in a *very* detailed manner OpenGL and Direct3D settings of *any* game.
The idea was that you run this program and then loaded an EXE with it. After that, a screen containing a bunch of settings related to Direct3D or OpenGL configuration was shown. After you selected settings correctly for your computer, you ran the program and in some way, this little software intercepted GL or DX calls.
This allowed you to lower the graphics quality and even render in wire frame mode. The most important feature (and the reason I downloaded it) was that it allowed to force the use of DirectX HEL (hardware emulation layer) when you didn't have a 3D graphics accelerator.
Unfortunately I do not remember what program was that and where did I got it (if someone knows, I would like to get the program again). But I have seen that it *is* possible to do all sort of amazing tweaks. For that reason, I do not think that using IE9 in Win XP will be impossible.
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking the other day over the possibility of uploading Torrent files to sites like RapidShare, megaupload, ifile.it and the like.
These sites have a greater array of content and it is not like they can be shot down that easily.
This kind of probabilistic inference approach with "new information" [evidence] being used to figure out "consequences" [probability of an event happening] sounds very similar to Bayesian inference/networks.
I would be interested in knowing how does this approach compares to BN and the Transferable Belief Model (or Dempster–Shafer theory) which itself addresses some shortcomings of BN.
And they'll also pay for "escorts" services and the like.
In fact, a GOOD escort services web page (say, for New York City or another big city) can improve the business quite a lot.
Another:
I can move "My Documents" folder to any disk drive in Windows XP whereas in vista and Win7 it is hardcoded to C:\users
WTF?
P.S. The labs down the hall that participate in the collaboration will be partying tonight :)
So that means free food for the PhDs??? sounds good enough. Fortunately I've passed that stage already!
Your comment reminded me of this hilarious "Sims Horror Movie" video:
"There's no conceivable way to cross this gate."
Back when I played D&D, the difference between a good and a bad dungeon master was that when playing with bad DM you would feel like you were more in a rail-quest and if you happened to do something the DM has not planned he would freak out. Great DMs accepted your choices and had a lot of resources to try to make the story flow smooth with your decisions.
But can you prove that in court? If you send someone 99.9% of a torrent will they be able to watch the movie? If it's rared they won't even be able to open it.
Your post is the typical slashdot wishful thinking. It HAS been proven in court (see the RIAA vs People cases) that this kind of defence does not work. Some time ago someone linked to a piece about "the color of the law" or of your actions. This means that in general it is the INTENTION of what you were doing what counts and not the technical details.
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Well, we (Mexicans) don't exactly have all your jobs, but mainly Chinese and Indian programmers.
Don't just take any job? Do you realize how many college graduates who spent a lot of money on their degrees he's up against right now? And how few jobs there are?
Indeed from what I've read and heard there are VERY few entry programming jobs in the USA, specially for big companies. This mainly due to the jobs being shipped overseas.
So either you get into a job which includes programming tasks in a small company (for example, back when I graduated from college a friend was working in a family run nuts&bolts seller, where he had the chance to develop and maintain a point of sell software. ).
"money isn't your primary motivator"...or in other words, "we can manipulate/trick/persuade you into working 80 hours weeks for nothing"
I hate the "tell us money is not your primary motivator" employers.
So what? if money is your primary motivator and you are GOOD then it will be very easy to keep you happy.
There are a bunch of "Prima Donnas" who not only expect money but a nice cube, new computer every year, and even having Natalie Portman as a massageur.
The fact is that if people didn't want to get a job for the money, they WONT get a job. Shit, they wont be working FOR YOUR COMPANY, may have started another company or just contributed to open source or whatnot.
This tells us three things: You actually can cut code,
Not only that, my graduation project consisted not only of CUT code, but also COPY and PASTE code!
So, how much will I earn a month?
Aren't HDDs sealed shut and isolated? dust won't matter in that case
We live in a very humid climate with lots of dust and sand in Mexico. Usually one of the first things people in the know do after getting a new computer is to spray it with silicone spray (or something like that), supposedly it will protect the computer from outside dust.
That is the typical scaremongering of the BSA. Although some of the patches have trojans, the idea of using sites like PirateBay and the like where releases are PEER REVIEWED pretty much renders that point moot.
Hey Mr. Green, the solution is quite simple and at your fingertips
That patch will fix your broken version of C&C4 ;-)
Actually, I'm not even sure if Mexican Coca-Cola uses sugar anymore...
Yup, we still enjoy sugar-cola in Mexico. If I recall correctly the problem stated by GP comes from the fact that the USA gives a LOT of subsidies to corn. So much that even Mexico is suffering of it (cannot compete vs those low prices!).
This makes corn syrup considerably cheaper than cane sugar, and as a consequence a lot of food manufacturers use it as sweetener.
Kubuntu is even worst than Ubuntu given that it is just a "patchwork" of KDE apt-gets into the Ubuntu distribution.
I've tested it in current distribution and previous 2 and it is horrible.
Those who want KDE desktop should look for a *real* KDE distribution (I heard Mandrake and openSUSE are options).
And whatever happened to bubble memory, anyway? Wasn't that supposed to save the day and obsolete rotating storage once and for all? Isn't that what Intel promised us?
I've never heard of that technology so I gave a quick read at Wikipedia article. Although the technology seems interesting, one of the wiki snippets at the end tells (me at least) why it is definitely a losing technology:
The Bubble System required a "warm-up" time of about 20 seconds (prompted by a timer on the screen when switched on) before the game was loaded, as bubble memory needs to be heated to around 30 to 40 C to operate properly.
if I hadn't already spammed this thread with posts I'd have modded you up - other than price/GB, most of the problems in the wiki article are exaggerated IMHO.
It is something I have noted about wikipedia for some time, "editors" feel the need to add a bunch of "negative" or "positive" things in a wiki article just to make it view "neutral". Even if they do not know what they are talking about, or if it is completely false or FUD.
I think the last time I saw it was when reading about some homebrew for a console (they added "bad things" even though it is just the typical crap that console makers tell to scare people [oh noes putting a chip will make your Xbox explode!!])
huhuhu this made me recall a [bad]... someone told me "it is the question that every engineer must know th answer to", back when I was starting my soft. eng. bachelor degree:
What was first, the masturbation of Men or the masturbation of Women? ....
A: The masturbation of men was first because it is "manual" (hand-operated) and Women's masturbation is "digital".
har har...
Someone should make a page like RIAA-radar making a huge database of everything you can buy and indicating if it is "Chinnese-free".
I know your sentiment... it has happened to me in a similar way. I went to a Mexican crafts market (and when I say market it is the street-kind of-market and not walmart or similar) looking to buy some typical stuff to get some friends in Germany (where I am living now) and to my surprise, a lot of the textiles people where selling had a "made in china" label, although the styles *where* the same as the typical Mexican stuff. That made me really sad.
I've seen a some electronic photo frames that have this no-glasses 3D technology. Once in a Saturn shop and the other at CEBIT-2010 in Germany.
I think it is quite cool and also think that portable electronics is an adequate place to use this technology, given that it requires you to stay at a specific angle (mainly, directly in front of the screen) in order to work best.
That being said, I still believe that this kind of technology is only a fad (btw, didn't 3D refereed to the ability of having in OpenGL or DirectX kind?) as I do not believe it will provide anything new to the games... and the DS screen (in its current state) is really small to show "nice" graphics.
However I am still eager to see what nintendo comes up... who knows, maybe Sony will be pushed to release a new PSP version, more crippled but with an interesting take on Nintendo's technology.
From what I recall he then went on to work at FPS systems which was an array processor that you could add onto other machines (I think vaxen...but I could be wrong there..)
Wow, I didn't know First Person Shooters were so old! how many fps did he get back then?
Around 1996/97 I downloaded a free program (kind of homebrew/non commercial "scene" stuff) that allowed you to configure in a *very* detailed manner OpenGL and Direct3D settings of *any* game.
The idea was that you run this program and then loaded an EXE with it. After that, a screen containing a bunch of settings related to Direct3D or OpenGL configuration was shown. After you selected settings correctly for your computer, you ran the program and in some way, this little software intercepted GL or DX calls.
This allowed you to lower the graphics quality and even render in wire frame mode. The most important feature (and the reason I downloaded it) was that it allowed to force the use of DirectX HEL (hardware emulation layer) when you didn't have a 3D graphics accelerator.
Unfortunately I do not remember what program was that and where did I got it (if someone knows, I would like to get the program again). But I have seen that it *is* possible to do all sort of amazing tweaks. For that reason, I do not think that using IE9 in Win XP will be impossible.
Uuuhhh the difference is that Google does not host any of the indexed material, whereas YouTube *does* host the infringing videos.