Even Microsoft does not deserve such a prosopopeia... While they are both disgusting, Rumsfeld is completely useless while some people use Microsoft products...
Ridiculous indeed. Nethack and (perhaps even Rogue) is much more interesting and sophisticated than Diablo (which is nothing but click here, click there).
This algorithm is not really based on grammar, but seemingly on a pool of data, statistically evaluated. While I can't find an application of your problem example (perhaps a right or wrong situation like syntax checking?), the specs of the algorithm would allow it to cope in this case. Provided that it has some appropriate data in its pools.
Of course until I see it working I won't believe. I don't think human learning and perception is just statistics.
An interesting conclusion from your posting: Skype is definitely #1 in PC-based voice telecommunication. The talk is really about Skype and not about MS or Google:)
One of the reasons Skype is so popular is its ability to bypass NAT routers and firewalls without configuration. I was trying to communicate with some non-tech savvy relatives in Germany and Skype was the only solution: we tried other programs first (including the venerable and secure Speak Freely) but only Skype worked in the end.
Much to the hapiness of regular, responsible emule users, people like you will never have a satisfactory experience of the ed2k-kad network.
You are a leecher.
You entire posting, informative as it is, it is a cookbook for leechers. You don't like bittorrent because you have to seed. Too bad for you. You don't like emule because it's slow. Has it ever occured to you that its slow because people like you refuse to share and you get little credits? You like Gnutella because it allows you leech freely. And you like messing up the usenet by abusing any part of the word "privilege" that it used it be.
I am glad you don't use ed2k. Just be aware that it works perfectly for those who contribute and those who share.
FUD FUD FUD. Especially the part about spyware. While almost everyone in edonkey is using emule (find it at sourceforge), even the commercial edonkey hybrid does not have adware or spyware of any kind.
So the guy must be actually speaking of spyware in the network itself. Utterly clueless.
Perhaps you like overclocking yourself. No joke, the link from Tom's Hardware is a test of various drinks and the effect they had on the reflexes of the writer. Complete with stats and analysis.
However, keep in mind that
Some people just continue to drink coffee or other caffeinated drinks in the evenings, albeit in lesser amounts, in order to satisfy the urge to do so without fulfilling any particular need for concentration. When this happens you're officially an addict.
It is titled "The Invasion of the Chinese", I believe. "Cyberspies" is a subtitle. Take a look at the title of the browser's window. Also in the next pages of the article, the title remains "invasion of the Chinese" plainly, without the subtitle.
We have never seen an objective comparison between MS Office and Openoffice submitted to Slashdot. The last I remember was one comparing the loading speed of MS Word to Openoffice Writer and resulted in favor of the second.
First of all, the title of the article is "The Invasion Of The Chinese".
Secondly, take a look at this: "They would commandeer a hidden section of a hard drive, zip up as many files as possible and immediately transmit the data to way stations in South Korea, Hong Kong or Taiwan before sending them to mainland China."
How would anyone know where stations in these areas would transmit their data? Considering that these "stations" belong to hackers of the highest caliber, it's impossible. Unless one is speculating of course.
Such articles are not hard to find in todays' US media, even in serious ones such as Time. For example, this particular article has popped in Newsmax.com as well. (BTW, anyone willing to read more anti-China drivel should stick to Newsmax.com -- their supply is unlimited)
Sorry Alric, but the only thing I can get from this Time article (and only considering its a Time article) is that some influential people in the US are very very afraid of China.
Stallman's idealism is one of the most pragmatic, up to date. Read Stallman's ideas from the link provided in the first posting in this topic:
We funded the rewriting of the Linux-related extensions to the GNU C library, so that now they are well integrated, and the newest GNU/Linux systems use the current library release with no changes. We also funded an early stage of the development of Debian GNU/Linux.
The same here. I very rarely found anything informative or fun in "blogs" -- not to mention that they polluted search engines with self-centered banalities.
Instead of "blogs" lets get back to focused web sites, to content.
However, Google images is not simply an indexing service. It also keeps a minimized version of the image into its own storage and it servers this particular image to its users.
Personally I would wish pornographers rot in hell, but if there are legal issues in Google image's practice, then they must be resolved.
Very good points. Such a project would drive taxes to the skies and these taxes would also apply to people who have nothing to benefit from this technology.
Strict UI guidelines may not be a feature, but is most certainly not a bug. Maybe they shouldn't have said "grown up users", allright.
The client looks great and works very well. In its Java context of course which means that there is no really tight integration with the operation system (windows xp in my case) features: rather slow menus, no cleartype, non-standard file open/save dialogs etc).
It has potential to surpass thunderbird.
I've written to a large party in my country and they responded (quite extensively if I may say so) that they were against software patents. The other large party did not respond, but then I was informed from other FFII members that it was even more determined against patents (in the last vote).
I think that after the referendums in France and Holand, the parliament understands that public opinion is not to be taken lightly. A large number of people will get enraged if software patents pass, and very few people will be happy in this case. Therefore I think tomorrow will be a good day for us all: Software patents will not trouble European programmers, at least not in the near future.
Most comments (until now) focus on Guardian's article "File-share defender fired over TV show". However there is another issue here; Mr. Hanff was also funding a torrent site.
Therefore, is not only a matter of opinion but also a matter of action. Considering that Mr. Hanff declared himself to own nothing more than "a few guitars [...] and an old inkjet printer", one can conclude that part of his salary was going to the maintenance of the torrent site.
Take into account that his former employer is not dealing with end users but with companies (they are making database software solutions) -- they really don't want any cloud of unprofessionalism shade their contracts. It is extremely unfortunate for such a man to be fired (considering his statements, one can be pretty sure that he is a good person) -- but I really can't blame his company for firing him.
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Even Microsoft does not deserve such a prosopopeia... While they are both disgusting, Rumsfeld is completely useless while some people use Microsoft products...
Ridiculous indeed. Nethack and (perhaps even Rogue) is much more interesting and sophisticated than Diablo (which is nothing but click here, click there).
Your story is in fact much more interesting than the topic...
This algorithm is not really based on grammar, but seemingly on a pool of data, statistically evaluated. While I can't find an application of your problem example (perhaps a right or wrong situation like syntax checking?), the specs of the algorithm would allow it to cope in this case. Provided that it has some appropriate data in its pools.
Of course until I see it working I won't believe. I don't think human learning and perception is just statistics.
An interesting conclusion from your posting: Skype is definitely #1 in PC-based voice telecommunication. The talk is really about Skype and not about MS or Google :)
One of the reasons Skype is so popular is its ability to bypass NAT routers and firewalls without configuration. I was trying to communicate with some non-tech savvy relatives in Germany and Skype was the only solution: we tried other programs first (including the venerable and secure Speak Freely) but only Skype worked in the end.
Much to the hapiness of regular, responsible emule users, people like you will never have a satisfactory experience of the ed2k-kad network.
You are a leecher.
You entire posting, informative as it is, it is a cookbook for leechers. You don't like bittorrent because you have to seed. Too bad for you. You don't like emule because it's slow. Has it ever occured to you that its slow because people like you refuse to share and you get little credits? You like Gnutella because it allows you leech freely. And you like messing up the usenet by abusing any part of the word "privilege" that it used it be.
I am glad you don't use ed2k. Just be aware that it works perfectly for those who contribute and those who share.
Then don't connect to servers. Use kad. It's a serverless implementation of kademlia.
FUD FUD FUD. Especially the part about spyware. While almost everyone in edonkey is using emule (find it at sourceforge), even the commercial edonkey hybrid does not have adware or spyware of any kind.
So the guy must be actually speaking of spyware in the network itself. Utterly clueless.
However, keep in mind that HTH
It is titled "The Invasion of the Chinese", I believe. "Cyberspies" is a subtitle. Take a look at the title of the browser's window. Also in the next pages of the article, the title remains "invasion of the Chinese" plainly, without the subtitle.
We have never seen an objective comparison between MS Office and Openoffice submitted to Slashdot. The last I remember was one comparing the loading speed of MS Word to Openoffice Writer and resulted in favor of the second.
First of all, the title of the article is "The Invasion Of The Chinese".
Secondly, take a look at this: "They would commandeer a hidden section of a hard drive, zip up as many files as possible and immediately transmit the data to way stations in South Korea, Hong Kong or Taiwan before sending them to mainland China."
How would anyone know where stations in these areas would transmit their data? Considering that these "stations" belong to hackers of the highest caliber, it's impossible. Unless one is speculating of course.
Such articles are not hard to find in todays' US media, even in serious ones such as Time. For example, this particular article has popped in Newsmax.com as well. (BTW, anyone willing to read more anti-China drivel should stick to Newsmax.com -- their supply is unlimited)
Sorry Alric, but the only thing I can get from this Time article (and only considering its a Time article) is that some influential people in the US are very very afraid of China.
Does that seem like idealist whacko to you?
The same here. I very rarely found anything informative or fun in "blogs" -- not to mention that they polluted search engines with self-centered banalities.
Instead of "blogs" lets get back to focused web sites, to content.
However, Google images is not simply an indexing service. It also keeps a minimized version of the image into its own storage and it servers this particular image to its users.
Personally I would wish pornographers rot in hell, but if there are legal issues in Google image's practice, then they must be resolved.
"I am a human being." -- so you know what a contract is. Don't sign it if you don't like it.
Validating your HTML/XHTML code is a good idea, but the professional web designer should test his work on any popular browser out there.
Putting a disclaimer such as the one you are proposing, is offensive and amateurish. It's not the users who should adjust -- it's the designers.
Very good points. Such a project would drive taxes to the skies and these taxes would also apply to people who have nothing to benefit from this technology.
I never ran Microsoft Antispyware; it's like asking the wolf to guard the sheep. I use the following free applications instead:
Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Strict UI guidelines may not be a feature, but is most certainly not a bug. Maybe they shouldn't have said "grown up users", allright. The client looks great and works very well. In its Java context of course which means that there is no really tight integration with the operation system (windows xp in my case) features: rather slow menus, no cleartype, non-standard file open/save dialogs etc). It has potential to surpass thunderbird.
Rather different in my case...
I've written to a large party in my country and they responded (quite extensively if I may say so) that they were against software patents. The other large party did not respond, but then I was informed from other FFII members that it was even more determined against patents (in the last vote).
I think that after the referendums in France and Holand, the parliament understands that public opinion is not to be taken lightly. A large number of people will get enraged if software patents pass, and very few people will be happy in this case. Therefore I think tomorrow will be a good day for us all: Software patents will not trouble European programmers, at least not in the near future.
Most comments (until now) focus on Guardian's article "File-share defender fired over TV show". However there is another issue here; Mr. Hanff was also funding a torrent site.
Therefore, is not only a matter of opinion but also a matter of action. Considering that Mr. Hanff declared himself to own nothing more than "a few guitars [...] and an old inkjet printer", one can conclude that part of his salary was going to the maintenance of the torrent site.
Take into account that his former employer is not dealing with end users but with companies (they are making database software solutions) -- they really don't want any cloud of unprofessionalism shade their contracts. It is extremely unfortunate for such a man to be fired (considering his statements, one can be pretty sure that he is a good person) -- but I really can't blame his company for firing him.
It's Pournelle, kid. Do you understand how absurd your comment sounds?
Maybe its time for slashdot. groups then. Have you ever thought of running your own NNTP server?