According to Moore's law, and asuming that chip complexity is directly proportional to storage capacity, if the largest memory cards available today have a capacity of 2 GB, we would be seeing TB cards in about 9 years... of course there is a physical limit to this, that may be reached before 9 years have passed.
Real programming problems and AI problems are not mutually exclusive (I know you didn't necessarily mean that), and if most AI people favor functional languages, my guess is that it is for a good reason. A couple of years ago, when I was taking a (very basic) AI course, one of the assignments was required to be written in Scheme and I remember it was particularly useful for parsing lists and trees.
So, I may be wrong, but I think functional languages are clearly better suited for solving some of the problems that are common in AI programs. The question would be if the ICPF choses this kind of problems to try to make a point (when most top places in the contest are taken by programs written in functional languages) that the functional paradigm is useful for a large range of problems.
That has always been a part of their policy. This time they added that they will require that even content that is not intended to ever be seen by the player is fully disclosed.
That would be ridiculous. This most likely has been triggered by the recent incident with Rockstar's GTA San Andreas. They obviously refer to content put in there by the game creators, unaltered by such kinds of hacks as you describe. I believe the only difference from their previous policy is that they're emphasizing that game creators should disclose even content that is not intended to be seen by the players of the game (ie images or whatever cut out of the game but the files still left in there because it was easier than removing them).
Besides, even if we should actually worry about this, the word "fully" is not ambiguous here, but rather the definition of "hidden content"... which, IMO, would be hardly confused with user performed alterations like the ones you suggest.
I don't think that would qualify as nudity, unless nipples, sexual organs, pubic hair, etc are drawn on the underlying body. These should not be necessary for the whole "under render thing".
I would have modded you insightful rather than just funny.
How does this benefit customers?
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Oracle To Buy Siebel
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Oracle said the deal had the approval of the Siebel board and that the takeover was expected to be completed in 2006, subject to regulatory approval.
It also said that the customers of both firms had long called for them to come together.
Too late to answer to this, I guess, but I'll do it anyway. I do not worship Microsoft (and I certainly do not worship IE, in fact, I use FireFox), but I'm still open to considering their products and I use many of them.
Most probably you're trying to be funny. But I do highly recommend a Microsoft internship. An intern there does pretty much the same kind of work as a full-timer, the work you do has real impact on the products they ship, and you get to work with very smart people.
If you're interested you can find more about it here
As far as I know, AOP is about separating business logic, or the main purpose of the program, from security, transactional consistency, etc. Code to deal with all this other concerns is usually scattered and duplicated all over the program, AOP tries to modularize it.
I have never used an AO language though, so I can't say much about it's real benefits. But I do think that what I've read about it is interesting.
I once read a paper written by Cristina Videira Lopes, a pioneer of aspect oriented programming, in it she stated that AOP is a significant breakthroug, but that the next step is to include elements of natural language in programming languages.
She says that natural language is not suited to write computer programs, but it has powerful elements that can be useful in transferring ideas more closely to the way we think. An example of such elements are temporal references such as before and after.
You can read the abstract to one of her papers here. Very interesting stuff.
And then again, cowardice is not the presence of fear. Everybody feels afraid, at least everybody should. Fear makes us careful and prudent. Bravery is about overcoming fear, not getting rid of it. It's OK to be afraid, we just have to overcome that fear when we feel it's worth it.
Microsoft does not need Googles money, they're just trying to harm Google in any way they can, that may or may not be by reducing their cash supply. But they're certainly not chasing the money.
Peltier coolers use electricity, which is generated by the horribly inefficient internal combustion engine which produces greenhouse gasses and other toxins by the boatload.
Isn't it possible that in combination with new hybrid cars this will be an actual environment friendly alternative?
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gotta love the slashdot moderation system
Hey, I liked Yo! Noid.
Soviet Russia, right? Is that where you're from?
What!? How dare you!? How bold of you to criticize anything Google on Slashdot!
Anyway, fellow posters have already given you what you deserve.
Sorry, that's 18 years, not 9.
According to Moore's law, and asuming that chip complexity is directly proportional to storage capacity, if the largest memory cards available today have a capacity of 2 GB, we would be seeing TB cards in about 9 years... of course there is a physical limit to this, that may be reached before 9 years have passed.
Real programming problems and AI problems are not mutually exclusive (I know you didn't necessarily mean that), and if most AI people favor functional languages, my guess is that it is for a good reason. A couple of years ago, when I was taking a (very basic) AI course, one of the assignments was required to be written in Scheme and I remember it was particularly useful for parsing lists and trees.
So, I may be wrong, but I think functional languages are clearly better suited for solving some of the problems that are common in AI programs. The question would be if the ICPF choses this kind of problems to try to make a point (when most top places in the contest are taken by programs written in functional languages) that the functional paradigm is useful for a large range of problems.
me no needs no stupid grammer checker
It was not Hans who wrote that, it was Linus in response to Hans' claims that Reiser4 is important because it can compete with WinFS and Spotlight.
That has always been a part of their policy. This time they added that they will require that even content that is not intended to ever be seen by the player is fully disclosed.
It's in the freakin' summary, man.
That would be ridiculous. This most likely has been triggered by the recent incident with Rockstar's GTA San Andreas. They obviously refer to content put in there by the game creators, unaltered by such kinds of hacks as you describe. I believe the only difference from their previous policy is that they're emphasizing that game creators should disclose even content that is not intended to be seen by the players of the game (ie images or whatever cut out of the game but the files still left in there because it was easier than removing them).
Besides, even if we should actually worry about this, the word "fully" is not ambiguous here, but rather the definition of "hidden content"... which, IMO, would be hardly confused with user performed alterations like the ones you suggest.
I don't think that would qualify as nudity, unless nipples, sexual organs, pubic hair, etc are drawn on the underlying body. These should not be necessary for the whole "under render thing".
I would have modded you insightful rather than just funny.
Do you have a URL for that one?
I'm starting to believe more and more in what fuckedgoogle has to say. All of the posts link to a news article, anyway, so they're somewhat founded.
Too late to answer to this, I guess, but I'll do it anyway. I do not worship Microsoft (and I certainly do not worship IE, in fact, I use FireFox), but I'm still open to considering their products and I use many of them.
Most probably you're trying to be funny. But I do highly recommend a Microsoft internship. An intern there does pretty much the same kind of work as a full-timer, the work you do has real impact on the products they ship, and you get to work with very smart people.
If you're interested you can find more about it here
As far as I know, AOP is about separating business logic, or the main purpose of the program, from security, transactional consistency, etc. Code to deal with all this other concerns is usually scattered and duplicated all over the program, AOP tries to modularize it.
I have never used an AO language though, so I can't say much about it's real benefits. But I do think that what I've read about it is interesting.
I once read a paper written by Cristina Videira Lopes, a pioneer of aspect oriented programming, in it she stated that AOP is a significant breakthroug, but that the next step is to include elements of natural language in programming languages.
She says that natural language is not suited to write computer programs, but it has powerful elements that can be useful in transferring ideas more closely to the way we think. An example of such elements are temporal references such as before and after.
You can read the abstract to one of her papers here. Very interesting stuff.
And then again, cowardice is not the presence of fear. Everybody feels afraid, at least everybody should. Fear makes us careful and prudent. Bravery is about overcoming fear, not getting rid of it. It's OK to be afraid, we just have to overcome that fear when we feel it's worth it.
Microsoft does not need Googles money, they're just trying to harm Google in any way they can, that may or may not be by reducing their cash supply. But they're certainly not chasing the money.
Isn't it possible that in combination with new hybrid cars this will be an actual environment friendly alternative?
I'd say there's quite enough prior art to that, and on video too. ;)