I can easily acquire a tec-9 semi automatic machine gun and bullets for it can be bought from Wal-mart, but somehow you think a laser that cuts through cheese will be banned from consumers?
Hey, man, this is America. A laser cheese slicer is my inalienable God-given right that He provided in the Denclaration of Independance. Pursuit of happiness. It's self-evident.
This article seems to overlook (though I may have missed it) the fact that OS X is based in part on Apple's
MkLinux
project that had PowerPC Macs running Linux (and other OSes) on top of the Open Group (OSF/RI) Mach 3.0.
Well, yes, sort of. There are levels of OBE, and Knight Commander is a higher one, +4 of 5, see for instance, this
note
on their relative rank. Then the OBEs lie within a greater range of honours, also described in the note. Most excellent, dude!
The series ended in a draw essentialy because of one move. The move 5....a6 in game 3 by the computer is very interesting/controversial.
You are avoiding the fact that the computer (Deep Fritz, a highly regarded piece of chess software) has no idea how to play the position after 5.... a6. That position isn't lost, Fritz just handled it poorly because of the difficulties in programming the machine to deal with horizon effect. Any average chess player could have played the position better than Fritz did, and most players could have beaten Fritz in that game if they had Kasparov's side handed to them after 15 moves or so. An average player could never beat a master in such a position, much less an alleged GM-caliber player like Deep Fritz. Kasparov used anti-computer strategy to show that, while computers can calculate tactics brilliantly in most chess positions, there are some sorts of positions in which they are entirely embarrassingly clueless. This game shows that while computers like Deep Fritz are GM-strength in most chess positions, there are some in which they are not even close.
I'm not a game programmer, but I imagine that some day such programmers will be able to add heuristics to chess engines so they can recognize such situations and handle them with some other algorithm.
Visionaries of the mid-20th century predicted that with new materials, methods of manufacture, and products, we'd all be living lives of leisure and luxury. In the developed world, we have plastics and semiconductors and fiber optics and wireless communication, mobile music, movies, tv, phones, computers, and internet. And yet life is not more luxurious or leisurely than it was 50 years ago. It's more stressful and dangerous, we spend more time working and less time enjoying our lives, it takes a greater percentage of our salary to buy necessities like food and lodging.
When I hear someone say that some innovation is going to raise our standard of living, I have to ask about all the innovations that don't seem to have really moved us toward truly better lives.
We must be doing something wrong.
Yes, I do like having wireless internet so I can read slashdot in the bathroom. I'm just saying that the basic quality of life - a healthier, more joyous life - life does not seem better now than it was 50 years ago.
"I have not seen anything like it in my entire career as a solar physicist. The probability of this happening is so low that it is a statistical anomaly."
This week's quote:
The probability of this happening is a double secret statistical anomaly.
"I have not seen anything like it in my entire career as a solar physicist. The probability of this happening is so low that it is a statistical anomaly."
What he meant:
"I don't understand the interactions between solar flares, so I assume that if two big ones happen in the same week, it must be an uncorrelated anomalous miracle of science."
Would you rather pay a bunch of money for an encumbered proprietary tool or get an approximately equivalent unencumbered tool for close to free? I don't see how MS can defend itself in this battle.
What MS said: "The decision to build or buy came down to our ability to innovate."
What MS meant:
The decision to build or buy came down to our ability to control.
Image search? What percentage of info search on the web is/will ever be image search? (Answer, more or less, zero.)
I am hard pressed to imagine how MS's "reputation for innovation" is going to enable them to develop search technology so innovative that it will be noticeably better than google's.
Success in technology markets comes from marketing, not technical superiority. MS is great at marketing, but Google seems fairly healthy in the search sector. If MS overtakes them in search, it will be by throwing its weight around, not by building a better mousetrap.
The 5620 red mouse was the Depraz mouse, aka "Swiss mouse," later produced by Logitech. Both were Swiss companies.
Nice picture in this
PDF (page 4).
It was well loved by hackers of that era.
A favorite bug story, this one involved
Apollo workstations, which were interesting and innovative machines, and a strong competitor to Sun in the 1980's.
Apollos were well networked, and it was possible to manipulate the parameters of the windowing system on one machine from another machine (like you can with X Window system, given sufficient permissions).
The Apollos had a command to change the mouse speed (similar to the X "xset m" command). It took a numeric value specifying the pointer distance to travel per unit time. The bug was that if you specified a negative value, the mouse pointer would travel backwards. No big surprise really, and not very interesting.
When this bug was discovered but not yet fixed or widely known, someone decided to play a practical joke, and walked into a fellow hacker's office and sat at his workstation and started playing with his mouse. A few seconds later (with the help of a hidden assistant in another office), the hacker says, hey look, there's something wrong with your mouse, it's all backwards. Sure enough, the mouse is acting all upside-down. The prankster then says, hey, I know what's wrong, have you cleaned your mouse lately? You must have put your mouse ball in upside down. He then pops the mouse ball out and pops it back into the mouse, and sure enough (with hidden assistance), the mouse works normally again. The victim of the practical joke was, of course, entirely puzzled.
The result of the last contest was somewhat of an upset, since a craftsmanly Russian program defeated a sophisticated genetic algorithm from NASA.
Therein lies the lesson. Craftsmanly usually defeats sophisticated. It is pompous to assume otherwise. (And yes, the comparison of the American and Russian space programs bears this out.)
The current shuttle fleet is silly. In effect, NASA has a fleet of enormous dump trucks that it uses as taxicabs. They should have more than one type of craft - a small safe one for carrying people, and a big honkin' unmanned one for carrying freight.
I'm saying that it can happen and it's not a dead end. If you negotiate protocols, people, including spammers, can use SMTP for a certain amount of time while an improved and safer protocol takes hold. SMTP can be phased out eventually. I am disagreeing with people who say "this is a dead end, it will never happen" (because it would be necessary for everyone to switch on some
flag day).
It is quite possible for comm programs to negotiate protocol. This means that newer programs can check to see if the newer safer features are available and use them if they are there. If not, they can fall back to older SMTP. There is certainly an incentive to upgrade, so I see no reason why it shouldn't happen.
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This just in, the GIMP is providing an optional anti-counterfeiting plugin, for people who want it. Seems fair.
Hey, man, this is America. A laser cheese slicer is my inalienable God-given right that He provided in the Denclaration of Independance. Pursuit of happiness. It's self-evident.
This article seems to overlook (though I may have missed it) the fact that OS X is based in part on Apple's MkLinux project that had PowerPC Macs running Linux (and other OSes) on top of the Open Group (OSF/RI) Mach 3.0.
I wonder if those tumbleweeds are anything like the ones we have in our deserts.
Maybe this slashdot article was a winner (encrypted) phoning home.
Well, yes, sort of. There are levels of OBE, and Knight Commander is a higher one, +4 of 5, see for instance, this note on their relative rank. Then the OBEs lie within a greater range of honours, also described in the note. Most excellent, dude!
You may find unofficial translations of the GPL into Hebrew at law.co.il and guides.co.il.
Hackers placed a replica of the Wright Flyer on top of MIT's Great Dome today. (There's another nice photo on MIT's home page, temporary, no doubt.
At work we use plastic Gould bins, which hook onto a frame in the rear.
I'm not a game programmer, but I imagine that some day such programmers will be able to add heuristics to chess engines so they can recognize such situations and handle them with some other algorithm.
When I hear someone say that some innovation is going to raise our standard of living, I have to ask about all the innovations that don't seem to have really moved us toward truly better lives. We must be doing something wrong.
Yes, I do like having wireless internet so I can read slashdot in the bathroom. I'm just saying that the basic quality of life - a healthier, more joyous life - life does not seem better now than it was 50 years ago.
The probability of this happening is a double secret statistical anomaly.
What he meant:
"I don't understand the interactions between solar flares, so I assume that if two big ones happen in the same week, it must be an uncorrelated anomalous miracle of science."
My dad is the smartest person in the world.
Would you rather pay a bunch of money for an encumbered proprietary tool or get an approximately equivalent unencumbered tool for close to free? I don't see how MS can defend itself in this battle.
You mean, sharing a name with a dufus ex-congressman and an elephant.
What MS meant: The decision to build or buy came down to our ability to control.
Image search? What percentage of info search on the web is/will ever be image search? (Answer, more or less, zero.)
I am hard pressed to imagine how MS's "reputation for innovation" is going to enable them to develop search technology so innovative that it will be noticeably better than google's.
Success in technology markets comes from marketing, not technical superiority. MS is great at marketing, but Google seems fairly healthy in the search sector. If MS overtakes them in search, it will be by throwing its weight around, not by building a better mousetrap.
The 5620 red mouse was the Depraz mouse, aka "Swiss mouse," later produced by Logitech. Both were Swiss companies. Nice picture in this PDF (page 4). It was well loved by hackers of that era.
Apollos were well networked, and it was possible to manipulate the parameters of the windowing system on one machine from another machine (like you can with X Window system, given sufficient permissions).
The Apollos had a command to change the mouse speed (similar to the X "xset m" command). It took a numeric value specifying the pointer distance to travel per unit time. The bug was that if you specified a negative value, the mouse pointer would travel backwards. No big surprise really, and not very interesting.
When this bug was discovered but not yet fixed or widely known, someone decided to play a practical joke, and walked into a fellow hacker's office and sat at his workstation and started playing with his mouse. A few seconds later (with the help of a hidden assistant in another office), the hacker says, hey look, there's something wrong with your mouse, it's all backwards. Sure enough, the mouse is acting all upside-down. The prankster then says, hey, I know what's wrong, have you cleaned your mouse lately? You must have put your mouse ball in upside down. He then pops the mouse ball out and pops it back into the mouse, and sure enough (with hidden assistance), the mouse works normally again. The victim of the practical joke was, of course, entirely puzzled.
Therein lies the lesson. Craftsmanly usually defeats sophisticated. It is pompous to assume otherwise. (And yes, the comparison of the American and Russian space programs bears this out.)
The current shuttle fleet is silly. In effect, NASA has a fleet of enormous dump trucks that it uses as taxicabs. They should have more than one type of craft - a small safe one for carrying people, and a big honkin' unmanned one for carrying freight.
I'm saying that it can happen and it's not a dead end. If you negotiate protocols, people, including spammers, can use SMTP for a certain amount of time while an improved and safer protocol takes hold. SMTP can be phased out eventually. I am disagreeing with people who say "this is a dead end, it will never happen" (because it would be necessary for everyone to switch on some flag day).
It is quite possible for comm programs to negotiate protocol. This means that newer programs can check to see if the newer safer features are available and use them if they are there. If not, they can fall back to older SMTP. There is certainly an incentive to upgrade, so I see no reason why it shouldn't happen.
It might not satisfy all your requirements out of the box, but could you put something together with tcltest?
With good legal defense, he should be able to get the penalty cut in half.