To be fair, chess playing computers typically work by calculating all the combinations of moves a few ahead to figure out the best move. That's a far cry from the way most humans play (ok, so they also will look ahead, but probably not all the combinations) and doesn't work as well when scaled to the real world with many more times the possibilities.
Using their numbers, if double the amount of people pirated software, they pirate companies could manage to hire 6000 more people and generate billions!
Just think how well the economy would be doing with more piracy!
I used to have a payment tag from citi that was just a sticker that could go on my phone. I used that to pay for things for a while until they "upgraded" my card to one that had it built in. Apparently they can't issue a separate tag for this card, so when I requested a new one, they just sent me a new card, then when I called customer support, they told me that could, but just sent a new card....
Anyways, it's possible to have just the rfid chip on your phone without having to interact with it, but it's not supported by many cards/merchants.
Generally, the illicit nature of counterfeiting and piracy makes estimating the economic impact of IP infringements extremely difficult, so assumptions must be used to offset the lack of data.
Well in this case it would be "making an ass of u and mptions"
That was my first thought seeing this article - the sound waves are already being converted into electricity in all phones - usually it's converted to a digital signal on cellphones.
A lot of people I talked to just didn't understand what RSS did. I'd try to explain how all the sites they visit were consolidated or it was like the site emailing them the latest content, but it ended up being too confusing and they didn't understand why they wouldn't want to just visit the website instead.
Actually, being a drone it'll just fly around in circles or to somewhere that it can get signal. Shooting it down would be better for an adversary as there wouldn't a drone anymore.
Are you one of the people that signs the online petitions every time facebook changes too?
If you're going to the google homepage, most likely you want to just do a quick search, in which case, the fade in eliminates everything else in the page and makes it easy for your brain to instantly narrow in on the search bar.
Now I know you probably also visit google.com to view their privacy policy, but you can just bookmark that if it's so important.
One nasty thing is if there's a directdraw game with a 256 color palette (like many games from the late 90's - starcraft and AOE included), then the windows explorer corrupts the color palette making the game horrible to look at. One solution is to kill explorer.exe once in the game, but Microsoft actually noticed this and put an obscure registry key with a handful of games listed for compatibility. There's some strange ID based of the exe and some flags that if you set correctly, fixes the color problems.
That means they were completely aware this would be a problem, but made only a half-assed effort to fix it, and didn't bother to tell people how to do it themselves.
That's one of the big problems I had with the end of Battlestar Galactica. After all the effort of saving humanity and escaping the cylons - they destroy all the culture and become cavemen on a place where there were already cavemen.
It's not the species that's so important, it's all the knowledge and culture that's been created by it that's worth preserving.
Hand raising makes sense for large groups, and it can help a teacher include more people that may have been pushed out of the conversation with more aggressive students.
I had scheme as an intro class in both High School and College. I don't think there was anyone in either class that enjoyed the language, and it needs a good teacher to teach it, or it doesn't make sense. I've also found that a lot of the concepts were a bit abstract and not so applicable to real world tasks (like the push towards recursive functions to solve problems).
Much more enjoyable was a class that used python, as it's less of a fight with syntax and more learning how different things work.
The article here is actually wikipedia which states:
Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public, but it is probably used for relaying military orders.
Later in the article there is a section speculating about military use but that's all using an old geocities page (in Russian) found in web archive. Would be good if there was something a little more authorative on the subject.
It's amazing how things look if you give a relative number. Noticed that MA just got $250 million from race to the top funds - thought, "Wow that's enough for half a school in CA"
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To be fair, chess playing computers typically work by calculating all the combinations of moves a few ahead to figure out the best move. That's a far cry from the way most humans play (ok, so they also will look ahead, but probably not all the combinations) and doesn't work as well when scaled to the real world with many more times the possibilities.
Marijuana isn't legal in Massachusetts. Possessing small quantities is not a criminal offense any more, but it's still illegal.
Using their numbers, if double the amount of people pirated software, they pirate companies could manage to hire 6000 more people and generate billions!
Just think how well the economy would be doing with more piracy!
I used to have a payment tag from citi that was just a sticker that could go on my phone. I used that to pay for things for a while until they "upgraded" my card to one that had it built in. Apparently they can't issue a separate tag for this card, so when I requested a new one, they just sent me a new card, then when I called customer support, they told me that could, but just sent a new card....
Anyways, it's possible to have just the rfid chip on your phone without having to interact with it, but it's not supported by many cards/merchants.
Now you're just making an ass of u and med...
Generally, the illicit nature of counterfeiting and piracy makes estimating the economic impact of IP infringements extremely difficult, so assumptions must be used to offset the lack of data.
Well in this case it would be "making an ass of u and mptions"
That was my first thought seeing this article - the sound waves are already being converted into electricity in all phones - usually it's converted to a digital signal on cellphones.
A lot of people I talked to just didn't understand what RSS did. I'd try to explain how all the sites they visit were consolidated or it was like the site emailing them the latest content, but it ended up being too confusing and they didn't understand why they wouldn't want to just visit the website instead.
Isn't something being wrong the problem you'd be reporting?
Guess there's a lot of tractor beam research with this and Tractor Beams Come To Life
Actually, being a drone it'll just fly around in circles or to somewhere that it can get signal. Shooting it down would be better for an adversary as there wouldn't a drone anymore.
I think it'd be better for people to show up with fire extinguishers - maybe some calls to the fire department.
After all, they didn't get a burning permit, so they're just concerned citizens looking out for the safety of the town.
Well Apple is #2 on the list. Everyone knows that if there is any mention of Apple in an article it needs to be posted on /. and in the apple section.
It doesn't have official Opera support either, though if you identify as firefox then it'll turn on and work fine.
Are you one of the people that signs the online petitions every time facebook changes too?
If you're going to the google homepage, most likely you want to just do a quick search, in which case, the fade in eliminates everything else in the page and makes it easy for your brain to instantly narrow in on the search bar.
Now I know you probably also visit google.com to view their privacy policy, but you can just bookmark that if it's so important.
But if you search for 'search engine' (singular), Google comes out at #8
You can also create a registry key that solves the problem more permanently.
There are details here: http://go.hopx.net/2010/05/256-color-issues-with-directdraw-and.html
One nasty thing is if there's a directdraw game with a 256 color palette (like many games from the late 90's - starcraft and AOE included), then the windows explorer corrupts the color palette making the game horrible to look at. One solution is to kill explorer.exe once in the game, but Microsoft actually noticed this and put an obscure registry key with a handful of games listed for compatibility. There's some strange ID based of the exe and some flags that if you set correctly, fixes the color problems.
That means they were completely aware this would be a problem, but made only a half-assed effort to fix it, and didn't bother to tell people how to do it themselves.
Lost sale? You are so sued.
That's one of the big problems I had with the end of Battlestar Galactica. After all the effort of saving humanity and escaping the cylons - they destroy all the culture and become cavemen on a place where there were already cavemen.
It's not the species that's so important, it's all the knowledge and culture that's been created by it that's worth preserving.
Hand raising makes sense for large groups, and it can help a teacher include more people that may have been pushed out of the conversation with more aggressive students.
I had scheme as an intro class in both High School and College. I don't think there was anyone in either class that enjoyed the language, and it needs a good teacher to teach it, or it doesn't make sense. I've also found that a lot of the concepts were a bit abstract and not so applicable to real world tasks (like the push towards recursive functions to solve problems).
Much more enjoyable was a class that used python, as it's less of a fight with syntax and more learning how different things work.
Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown to the public, but it is probably used for relaying military orders.
Later in the article there is a section speculating about military use but that's all using an old geocities page (in Russian) found in web archive. Would be good if there was something a little more authorative on the subject.
It's amazing how things look if you give a relative number. Noticed that MA just got $250 million from race to the top funds - thought, "Wow that's enough for half a school in CA"
Well this being an American site, it makes sense to call it just football since that's what it's called here.