if its not as obvious as the dead-squirrel on Congressman Trafficant's (D) head Totally irrelevant point here, but they kicked Trafficant out of Congress, and he's in jail. But good point about his hair:)
The code wasn't written "just to beat him", but they did feed it every recorded game of his to give it a feel for how he played, and he didn't have any advance knowledge of how it played. Really, it's not all that exciting anyway. Chess isn't really a good benchmark for the progress of AI. The problem space may be big, but given enough power it can be brute-forced. One of the biggest things AI research has shown is that often times what is easy for humans (e.g. recognizing people's faces, understanding speech) is hard for computers and things that are hard for humans (e.g. calculus or chess) are relatively easy for computers.
Three points: 1) Parody is protected under copyright law. 2) Weird Al always asks first. 3) There was an incident where Coolio got quite upset because he said "No" and either his label or Al's told Weird Al "Yes" anyway.
Actually, Geoffrey McGovern was Ford in the radio show and David Dixon was Ford in the TV series. But, Mark Wing Davey was Zaphod in both. Oh, and you have your Jones's backwards.:)
1. The American Revolution - England underestimates the ability of a rag-tag militia made up mostly of civilians to free the peoples of the colonies.
The French did a good deal of the fighting for us there. Lafayette made the British surrender to Washington instead of him to add insult to injury. 2. WWII - Japan delivers what they thought would be a cripling blow (the bombing of Pearl Harbor), underestimating America's ability to recover and fight back.
No, Pearl Harbor was a stop gap to buy enough time to solidify their grip on Asia and get their petroleum supply back before the US could fight back.
That's weird. DFS is the only part of my Dell purchasing experience that didn't suck. I paid at least twice the monthly payment every month, and after I paid the last payment the sent me a nice letter thanking me and a refund of the overpayment because I didn't incur as much interest as they had planned. That being said, I don't think I'd buy a Dell again.When I had a problem I looked around the help page on their website, didn't see my problem, and then emailed them. After a few replies to autoresponses it finally got to a human who told me they could only help me (with a hardware question!) if it still had WinME on it.
and perhaps the lack of the zoom
Mozilla has zoom. Ctrl +/- zoom in and out. I've been told IE does too, but I've never bothered checking when I'm near a Windows box.
I'm pretty sure every modern browser offers that feature. I know that Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror do, and apparently (according to the AC reply to your post) even IE does. Very nice feature though. Hopefully your suggestion to use the zoom will help the poster you replied to.
A friend buys them, and passes them around (Is this a copyright violation?:) ). Nope. Publishers only have the "right of first sale" (or something to that effect). After you buy the book you can do whatever you want. Give it to a friend, donate to a library, sell it to a used bookstore, or whatever.
Bad Astronomy has a good page with links to sites debunking of all the "we didn't go to the moon" theories. He also has a thing he wrote addressing the Fox special about how we didn't go. Have a read.
No clue about Kylix, but I'm pretty sure the most recent icc complier from Intel can compile the Linux kernel. Like a couple others have mentioned, the kernel uses some gcc extensions, but I think Intel supports them for whatever good it may do. Plus, if Kylix is a C++ compiler only, then it has no chance of comiling the kernel. I was just reading on the lkml faq today that because of some C++ keywords that are used in the kernel as variables, and because the kernel headers aren't C++ safe that the kernel compile just barfs with a C++ compiler.
I guss configure failed to find the GTK libraries on your Linux workstation. By that I don't mean that you don't have them, just that they were nor detected. Something specific to Mandrake 8.2, perhaps. I can't speak for Mandrake, but I'm running SuSE 7.3 and I had to symlink gtk-config, gnome-config and all those things from/opt/gnome/bin/ to/usr/bin/ to get some things to find them. Could be something like that.
And since they'll be unable to pull their ripcords, they'll plummet to the ground and die. I think many/most parachutists these days use a piece of equipment that opens their chute for them if they don't pull it by a certain altitude. One of the doctors my mom works for had his life saved by such a device. The pilot was inexperienced at flying a jump plane and (don't ask me how) he ended up hitting him with the tail of the plane or something and knocked him out. Thankfully his chute auto opened and he's alive today. But I have to agree that it'd be no fun at all to jump if you were guaranteed to be blacked out:)
Yiddish is, as you point out, related to German, but not closely enough for a German speaker to understand Yiddish or vice-versa.
My German teacher in high school claimed that she could pick out bits and pieces of Yiddish and frequently get the gist of what someone is saying. Perhaps it helps that where she was born in Germany is now in Czecholovakia, so her native dialect (she of course does a perfect hochdeutsch now) has the slavic influence. But I join in the collective eye rolling that someone would claim that Yiddish and Hebrew are related. Borrowing writing systems is common and does not mean that the languages are at all related.
Highly believable. The Audi S4 comes from the factory with a 2.7 liter V6 and two KKK K03 turbos. Now, the K04 is just a touch bigger and almost a bolt on mod. There was an article in European Car a few years ago where they test drove one in Germany that had that done. In a 4 door, 5 seat family sedan he was going about 186MPH on the autobahn with the stereo and the A/C on. IIRC, the car makes 250HP stock and with the turbo upgrade and (perhaps) a fuel injection remap it made 400HP.
Totally OT thing to respond to on my part, but the only Opal they sell in America is the Omega, and they call it a Cadilac Catera:) In Germany they are Opals.
Global warming, like evolution vs. creation science, the consensus of scientists is pretty solidly on one side, but there is a very loud minority that the media listens to for some inexplicable reason (probably because controversy sells).
Pretty much every scientifically literate person I know would agree that evolution is the theory that best explains the evidence we have, and global warming at least has some solid statistical correlations that add up to a good chance of causation. The born again Christians and conspiracy theorists that I know believe that evoltion and global warming are myths or lies. Somehow it seems that there is almost always an ideological axe to grind.
And as several other posts have pointed out, this Guillermo Gonzalez guy is a creation scientist, so I'd say his theories are probably designed to lend credence to that set of beliefs.
Actually, as far as I know, the main way Chinese enter text is with keyboards that have BoPoMoFo characters on them. (Scroll down the page a bit to see the BoPoMoFo part). The one Chinese keyboard I have seen did also have latin characters on the keycaps too, so they at least have exposure to latin characters. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if there also existed a system for Chinese similar to the sometimes used Japanese system of Romaji->Kana->Kanji for input.
I found a better, more direct link about the issue. Should have thought to look for their webpage before. Anyway, they have the letter from CBS posted on their page and their reply.(for those curious about what I meant in my other post)
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Some do. I have TimeWarner now, but I'm thinking of switching to WOW which has three different tiers.
if its not as obvious as the dead-squirrel on Congressman Trafficant's (D) head :)
Totally irrelevant point here, but they kicked Trafficant out of Congress, and he's in jail. But good point about his hair
The code wasn't written "just to beat him", but they did feed it every recorded game of his to give it a feel for how he played, and he didn't have any advance knowledge of how it played.
Really, it's not all that exciting anyway. Chess isn't really a good benchmark for the progress of AI. The problem space may be big, but given enough power it can be brute-forced. One of the biggest things AI research has shown is that often times what is easy for humans (e.g. recognizing people's faces, understanding speech) is hard for computers and things that are hard for humans (e.g. calculus or chess) are relatively easy for computers.
Three points:
1) Parody is protected under copyright law.
2) Weird Al always asks first.
3) There was an incident where Coolio got quite upset because he said "No" and either his label or Al's told Weird Al "Yes" anyway.
Interestingly enough, both the Yugo and a Lada (I believe it is the Niva) are Fiat 128s made under licence.
Humans and chimps DNA have 99.6% of the same active genes. Comparing the whole of the DNA we are 98.3% the same.
Actually, Geoffrey McGovern was Ford in the radio show and David Dixon was Ford in the TV series. But, Mark Wing Davey was Zaphod in both. Oh, and you have your Jones's backwards. :)
1. The American Revolution - England underestimates the ability of a rag-tag militia made up mostly of civilians to free the peoples of the colonies.
The French did a good deal of the fighting for us there. Lafayette made the British surrender to Washington instead of him to add insult to injury.
2. WWII - Japan delivers what they thought would be a cripling blow (the bombing of Pearl Harbor), underestimating America's ability to recover and fight back.
No, Pearl Harbor was a stop gap to buy enough time to solidify their grip on Asia and get their petroleum supply back before the US could fight back.
That's weird. DFS is the only part of my Dell purchasing experience that didn't suck. I paid at least twice the monthly payment every month, and after I paid the last payment the sent me a nice letter thanking me and a refund of the overpayment because I didn't incur as much interest as they had planned.
That being said, I don't think I'd buy a Dell again.When I had a problem I looked around the help page on their website, didn't see my problem, and then emailed them. After a few replies to autoresponses it finally got to a human who told me they could only help me (with a hardware question!) if it still had WinME on it.
Use QuickStart with Mozilla. It preloads it just like IE. The time from clicking on the icon to having an open window is imperceptible between them.
and perhaps the lack of the zoom
Mozilla has zoom. Ctrl +/- zoom in and out. I've been told IE does too, but I've never bothered checking when I'm near a Windows box.
I'm pretty sure every modern browser offers that feature. I know that Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror do, and apparently (according to the AC reply to your post) even IE does. Very nice feature though. Hopefully your suggestion to use the zoom will help the poster you replied to.
A friend buys them, and passes them around (Is this a copyright violation? :) ).
Nope. Publishers only have the "right of first sale" (or something to that effect). After you buy the book you can do whatever you want. Give it to a friend, donate to a library, sell it to a used bookstore, or whatever.
Bad Astronomy has a good page with links to sites debunking of all the "we didn't go to the moon" theories. He also has a thing he wrote addressing the Fox special about how we didn't go. Have a read.
No clue about Kylix, but I'm pretty sure the most recent icc complier from Intel can compile the Linux kernel. Like a couple others have mentioned, the kernel uses some gcc extensions, but I think Intel supports them for whatever good it may do. Plus, if Kylix is a C++ compiler only, then it has no chance of comiling the kernel. I was just reading on the lkml faq today that because of some C++ keywords that are used in the kernel as variables, and because the kernel headers aren't C++ safe that the kernel compile just barfs with a C++ compiler.
I guss configure failed to find the GTK libraries on your Linux workstation. By that I don't mean that you don't have them, just that they were nor detected. Something specific to Mandrake 8.2, perhaps. /opt/gnome/bin/ to /usr/bin/ to get some things to find them. Could be something like that.
I can't speak for Mandrake, but I'm running SuSE 7.3 and I had to symlink gtk-config, gnome-config and all those things from
And since they'll be unable to pull their ripcords, they'll plummet to the ground and die. :)
I think many/most parachutists these days use a piece of equipment that opens their chute for them if they don't pull it by a certain altitude. One of the doctors my mom works for had his life saved by such a device. The pilot was inexperienced at flying a jump plane and (don't ask me how) he ended up hitting him with the tail of the plane or something and knocked him out. Thankfully his chute auto opened and he's alive today.
But I have to agree that it'd be no fun at all to jump if you were guaranteed to be blacked out
You can still get the Download Edition from BeBits and a German site called BeOSOnline has a "developer's edition" with updated drivers and stuff.
To give Speilberg some credit, he didn't direct Jurassic Park III. Someone named Joe Johnston did.
Yiddish is, as you point out, related to German, but not closely enough for a German speaker to understand Yiddish or vice-versa.
My German teacher in high school claimed that she could pick out bits and pieces of Yiddish and frequently get the gist of what someone is saying. Perhaps it helps that where she was born in Germany is now in Czecholovakia, so her native dialect (she of course does a perfect hochdeutsch now) has the slavic influence. But I join in the collective eye rolling that someone would claim that Yiddish and Hebrew are related. Borrowing writing systems is common and does not mean that the languages are at all related.
Highly believable. The Audi S4 comes from the factory with a 2.7 liter V6 and two KKK K03 turbos. Now, the K04 is just a touch bigger and almost a bolt on mod. There was an article in European Car a few years ago where they test drove one in Germany that had that done. In a 4 door, 5 seat family sedan he was going about 186MPH on the autobahn with the stereo and the A/C on. IIRC, the car makes 250HP stock and with the turbo upgrade and (perhaps) a fuel injection remap it made 400HP.
(I think Vauxhall is Opal in the US)
:) In Germany they are Opals.
Totally OT thing to respond to on my part, but the only Opal they sell in America is the Omega, and they call it a Cadilac Catera
Global warming, like evolution vs. creation science, the consensus of scientists is pretty solidly on one side, but there is a very loud minority that the media listens to for some inexplicable reason (probably because controversy sells).
Pretty much every scientifically literate person I know would agree that evolution is the theory that best explains the evidence we have, and global warming at least has some solid statistical correlations that add up to a good chance of causation. The born again Christians and conspiracy theorists that I know believe that evoltion and global warming are myths or lies. Somehow it seems that there is almost always an ideological axe to grind.
And as several other posts have pointed out, this Guillermo Gonzalez guy is a creation scientist, so I'd say his theories are probably designed to lend credence to that set of beliefs.
Actually, as far as I know, the main way Chinese enter text is with keyboards that have BoPoMoFo characters on them. (Scroll down the page a bit to see the BoPoMoFo part). The one Chinese keyboard I have seen did also have latin characters on the keycaps too, so they at least have exposure to latin characters. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if there also existed a system for Chinese similar to the sometimes used Japanese system of Romaji->Kana->Kanji for input.
I found a better, more direct link about the issue. Should have thought to look for their webpage before. Anyway, they have the letter from CBS posted on their page and their reply .(for those curious about what I meant in my other post)