Where it not for free health and free university tuition---no, scratch that, I get paid to take an education---then I'm not sure where I would be today.
But I'm convinced that even with the tax breaks my parents would have gotten, they wouldn't have been able to afford both my hospitalization and my studies at a university [which claims to be the best at CS here in the country].
And I think that would have been a shame, since my ability to code is probably my best shot at providing value for others in our society.
So, were it not for Danish Socialism, society would have missed out on the (maximal) productivity of one of its members.
I got a CS degree with little parental help, and little government help. I now have student loans, which I will pay back over time.
I'd rather pay my $700/month to pay back my student loans for 10 years, rather than paying $1000/month more to the government for the rest of my life.
It's 7.5% as of 2008 according to the CIA world Factbook. Compared to 5.7% for the US, 5.5% in the united kingdom and 4.5% in Australia. Balance this against the fact that those employed enjoy substantially improved job conditions. It's not exactly pants wetting-ly bad there.
I'd rather have a crap job than sit at home, unemployed, knowing that my neighbor is being treated well at his job.
Damn. I looked at the site and they said "Fairfield", and I looked at Google Maps for Fairfield, CA. It's close enough to me that I was like "Wow, I could move there and commute!"
Then I saw the 641 area code on their Contact page. THEN I saw your sig.:(
I'm super jealous.
As it is, I just moved to CA from New Hampshire, where fiber deployment has completely stopped. Quick summary: Verizon had a monopoly on broadband deployment in much of the state (and Comcast was their only real competitor in the remaining markets). New Hampshire said "Verizon, hurry up with fiber or you're in trouble!" Verizon responded "Alright, see you later!", and sold all their infrastructure in the entire state to Fairpoint. Fairpoint has no plans to roll out any more fiber.:/
I was replying to Fex, not you. My point was that outside of Europe and Japan, pretty much every country besides the US is outside the industrialized world.
Yes, it's true that Somalia doesn't have good broadband penetration right now, but I think they have bigger priorities.
no firearm manufacturer claims that its products are non-lethal. Taser does make that claim, and even though it is often false, they're using their lawyers to keep up the pretense.
Hence the new term "less lethal", because given the right conditions, even pepper spray can be lethal. (severe asthma, for instance)
It was nice being on campus at my undergrad school during winter break... at one point I was one of about 10 people sharing the huge pipe the school had (multiple 1Gbps connections), in order to normally feed 16,000 students and staff. The on-campus network was 100mbps ethernet, so ~12MBps down and up.
In order for Remote Desktop to my Windows machine to run smoothly, I had to limit my BitTorrent client to 2MBps down, 500kBps up. That was nice...:)
Now I'm in the Real World (tm), and I have my Comcastic (tm) home connection.:/
What does that have to do with anything in the article?
Your post ranted on about "socially conservative politics", when that had nothing to do with the article.
Some researchers published an article with an inflamatory title: "Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously", and got sued for libel. This isn't about censorship or intellectual property laws, it's about a company protecting its image from mudslinging.
Doom was a "3D game" in that all of the brush work was actually drawn in 3D, even though all of the entities were sprites. Each point on the map had only one height value, but the point is that different points on the map could have different values.
Yeah, FPSs that wish to implement leaning have established a convention by now of using Q and E for that purpose. Call of Duty was one of the first games I played to implement it.
Games with faked 3D are known as "2.5D" -- most notably, most side-scrolling fighting adventure games, like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series for the NES.
It's not pure 2D like the Mario/Metroid NES/SNES games, but it's not pure 3D either.
The mystical quicksave key is a dark and mysterious power that can change the very fabric of reality.
I was ambushed by a bunch of jerks on my way somewhere, killed one or two, hit behind a rock, and quicksaved. But then three of them all threw grenades and I ended up with a cloud of shrapnel instead of a face.
After I quickloaded though, they suddenly didn't seem to care. I was able to walk up and affably chat to them about how their day was going. One of them even offered to guide me through the forest, but halfway through he ran off, yelling "That's him! Take him down!"
I couldn't see anyone else around, but it seems he was talking to my processor because at that point the game crashed.
On the contrary, from the graph you linked to it looks like Cox and Starhub now throttle 0% of torrents, while Comcast is merely throttling less than 5%.
The real problems come in when aliens from outside our space-time continuum try to harvest their young in your warp core, thinking it's a natural gravity well! Time starts doing some whacky stuff!
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Artificial intelligence is not really that computationally complex. Current hardware can perform voice recognition easily, for example. Improving artificial intelligence requires improving current algorithms rather than throwing more juice at the problem.
Actually, in some cases the algorithms already exist, they're just waiting for the hardware to be able to compute in real-time.
If you take a pre-recorded audio sample and hand it to a top-of-the-line piece of speech-to-text software, it will take that sample, and give you text far more accurate than what you can get with most programs, but it may take a minute or two. Meanwhile, the average consumer wants realtime translation, so they can dictate a paper or an article, and have the text appear as they speak. In a few years when CPUs are more powerful, then the consumer applications will have the better algorithms in place, and be able to run those in realtime.
AI algorithms that must work in realtime are given a deadline: "Give me the best answer you can get within 500 milliseconds", maybe. It's possible that they'll find a better solution if you just give them an extra 1 millisecond to figure it out, but you cut them off early in order to make sure you have some answer ready for the user. Until the algorithm finds the best possible solution, or until it gets cut off, it will keep improving its earlier estimate of the solution.
That's essentially what FlacSquisher does -- it's a Windows front-end for LAME and OggEnc.;) The only difference is that it doesn't re-encode any flacs for which the MP3/Ogg already exists.
Some pseudocode:
foreach flacfile in flacdir:
if(!exists(destfile)):
encode(flacfile, destfile)
It's been a while since I used XMMS, but I think in order to support gapless playback, you need a plugin, which I think I had installed on my old Gentoo machine. Glad to hear you found a player you like, though!:)
I'm American, but I've never heard Brits use "pah-tent" in any context. In Jeremy Clarkson's "Inventions that Changed the World" series, for example, when he was talking about the race to the patent office between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, pronounced it "pay-tent".
VLC and mplayer should work... I mostly work with Windows, and even when I'm in Linux it's in Gnome, so I haven't tried them for playing music.
In Windows I use foobar2000, and in Linux I still use XMMS, despite the fact that it's not maintained anymore. foobar2000 does an excellent job of reducing gaps between MP3s, though for some files it's just unavoidable.
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Where it not for free health and free university tuition---no, scratch that, I get paid to take an education---then I'm not sure where I would be today.
But I'm convinced that even with the tax breaks my parents would have gotten, they wouldn't have been able to afford both my hospitalization and my studies at a university [which claims to be the best at CS here in the country].
And I think that would have been a shame, since my ability to code is probably my best shot at providing value for others in our society.
So, were it not for Danish Socialism, society would have missed out on the (maximal) productivity of one of its members.
I got a CS degree with little parental help, and little government help. I now have student loans, which I will pay back over time.
I'd rather pay my $700/month to pay back my student loans for 10 years, rather than paying $1000/month more to the government for the rest of my life.
Am I the only one?
It's 7.5% as of 2008 according to the CIA world Factbook. Compared to 5.7% for the US, 5.5% in the united kingdom and 4.5% in Australia. Balance this against the fact that those employed enjoy substantially improved job conditions. It's not exactly pants wetting-ly bad there.
I'd rather have a crap job than sit at home, unemployed, knowing that my neighbor is being treated well at his job.
Maybe that's just me.
Damn. I looked at the site and they said "Fairfield", and I looked at Google Maps for Fairfield, CA. It's close enough to me that I was like "Wow, I could move there and commute!"
Then I saw the 641 area code on their Contact page. THEN I saw your sig. :(
I'm super jealous.
As it is, I just moved to CA from New Hampshire, where fiber deployment has completely stopped. :/
Quick summary:
Verizon had a monopoly on broadband deployment in much of the state (and Comcast was their only real competitor in the remaining markets). New Hampshire said "Verizon, hurry up with fiber or you're in trouble!" Verizon responded "Alright, see you later!", and sold all their infrastructure in the entire state to Fairpoint. Fairpoint has no plans to roll out any more fiber.
I was replying to Fex, not you. My point was that outside of Europe and Japan, pretty much every country besides the US is outside the industrialized world.
Yes, it's true that Somalia doesn't have good broadband penetration right now, but I think they have bigger priorities.
Your comment reminded me of Gabe's last line in this strip :)
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/2/14/
That only settles the issue if it's a UK law that's causing the issue.
no firearm manufacturer claims that its products are non-lethal. Taser does make that claim, and even though it is often false, they're using their lawyers to keep up the pretense.
Hence the new term "less lethal", because given the right conditions, even pepper spray can be lethal. (severe asthma, for instance)
You mean outside of the industrialized world?
It was nice being on campus at my undergrad school during winter break... at one point I was one of about 10 people sharing the huge pipe the school had (multiple 1Gbps connections), in order to normally feed 16,000 students and staff. The on-campus network was 100mbps ethernet, so ~12MBps down and up.
In order for Remote Desktop to my Windows machine to run smoothly, I had to limit my BitTorrent client to 2MBps down, 500kBps up. That was nice... :)
Now I'm in the Real World (tm), and I have my Comcastic (tm) home connection. :/
What does that have to do with anything in the article?
Your post ranted on about "socially conservative politics", when that had nothing to do with the article.
Some researchers published an article with an inflamatory title: "Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously", and got sued for libel. This isn't about censorship or intellectual property laws, it's about a company protecting its image from mudslinging.
Pretty much any 2D game that uses some sort of trickery to emulate 3D gameplay is 2.5D.
I submit this review as evidence of the aforementioned NES/SNES games being considered 2.5D by the gaming industry:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/222-XBLA-Double-Bill
Doom was a "3D game" in that all of the brush work was actually drawn in 3D, even though all of the entities were sprites. Each point on the map had only one height value, but the point is that different points on the map could have different values.
Yeah, FPSs that wish to implement leaning have established a convention by now of using Q and E for that purpose. Call of Duty was one of the first games I played to implement it.
Games with faked 3D are known as "2.5D" -- most notably, most side-scrolling fighting adventure games, like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series for the NES.
It's not pure 2D like the Mario/Metroid NES/SNES games, but it's not pure 3D either.
From Yahtzee, on STALKER: Clear Sky
The mystical quicksave key is a dark and mysterious power that can change the very fabric of reality.
I was ambushed by a bunch of jerks on my way somewhere, killed one or two, hit behind a rock, and quicksaved. But then three of them all threw grenades and I ended up with a cloud of shrapnel instead of a face.
After I quickloaded though, they suddenly didn't seem to care. I was able to walk up and affably chat to them about how their day was going. One of them even offered to guide me through the forest, but halfway through he ran off, yelling "That's him! Take him down!"
I couldn't see anyone else around, but it seems he was talking to my processor because at that point the game crashed.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/271-S-T-A-L-K-E-R-Clear-Sky
Kinda like how in the German TF2, the body parts are gift-wrapped presents. :)
"Hey kids, blow up your friend with a pipe bomb, and you'll have a second Christmas!"
On the contrary, from the graph you linked to it looks like Cox and Starhub now throttle 0% of torrents, while Comcast is merely throttling less than 5%.
Wow, that summed up my position on the debate so concisely!
The very reason for experimentation is precisely because we don't know what will happen.
As a Comcast customer, I heartily look forward to trying out these tools on my Comcastic(tm) connection at home!
On another note, I also look forward to carrier-grade NAT in the near future, when Comcast decides they want to stay with IPv4 forever!
The thing that really gets me is that people debate the first moon landing all the time, with Apollo 11.
Have you ever heard anyone try to deny that Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, or 17 landed on the moon?
The real problems come in when aliens from outside our space-time continuum try to harvest their young in your warp core, thinking it's a natural gravity well! Time starts doing some whacky stuff!
Summary of all Creative Commons licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/
Artificial intelligence is not really that computationally complex. Current hardware can perform voice recognition easily, for example. Improving artificial intelligence requires improving current algorithms rather than throwing more juice at the problem.
Actually, in some cases the algorithms already exist, they're just waiting for the hardware to be able to compute in real-time.
If you take a pre-recorded audio sample and hand it to a top-of-the-line piece of speech-to-text software, it will take that sample, and give you text far more accurate than what you can get with most programs, but it may take a minute or two. Meanwhile, the average consumer wants realtime translation, so they can dictate a paper or an article, and have the text appear as they speak. In a few years when CPUs are more powerful, then the consumer applications will have the better algorithms in place, and be able to run those in realtime.
AI algorithms that must work in realtime are given a deadline: "Give me the best answer you can get within 500 milliseconds", maybe. It's possible that they'll find a better solution if you just give them an extra 1 millisecond to figure it out, but you cut them off early in order to make sure you have some answer ready for the user. Until the algorithm finds the best possible solution, or until it gets cut off, it will keep improving its earlier estimate of the solution.
That's essentially what FlacSquisher does -- it's a Windows front-end for LAME and OggEnc. ;) The only difference is that it doesn't re-encode any flacs for which the MP3/Ogg already exists.
Some pseudocode:
foreach flacfile in flacdir:
if(!exists(destfile)):
encode(flacfile, destfile)
It's been a while since I used XMMS, but I think in order to support gapless playback, you need a plugin, which I think I had installed on my old Gentoo machine. Glad to hear you found a player you like, though! :)
I'm American, but I've never heard Brits use "pah-tent" in any context. In Jeremy Clarkson's "Inventions that Changed the World" series, for example, when he was talking about the race to the patent office between Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, pronounced it "pay-tent".
The OED says that both pronunciations are valid for the legal document:
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/patent?view=uk
VLC and mplayer should work... I mostly work with Windows, and even when I'm in Linux it's in Gnome, so I haven't tried them for playing music.
In Windows I use foobar2000, and in Linux I still use XMMS, despite the fact that it's not maintained anymore. foobar2000 does an excellent job of reducing gaps between MP3s, though for some files it's just unavoidable.