> I'll probably get flamed for daring to say this, but what the hell
Good thing you added this disclaimer!
I've been working on Linux/laptop for the past eight years. No complaints. In contrary.
When I receive a new laptop, I install Linux before Windows even has a change to boot.
I know, it's your opinion against my opinion. But I'd just wanted you to know that some people do like Linux on laptops.
Your mileage clearly varies.
Funny how economical and driving culture are opposites:
- US economics: liberal; US driving: egalitarian.
- European economics: egalitarian; European driving: liberal.
Seems cultures that are against rules in some field overcompensate by introducing rules in another field. "The Rules" for dating, for example, come to mind as another one of those subjects where the US is ridiculuous in that way.
What they find is that, in states and countries where there is a big gap between the incomes of rich and poor, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity and teenage pregnancy are more common, the homicide rate is higher, life expectancy is shorter, and children’s educational performance and literacy scores are worse . . . [Wilkinson and Pickett] emphasise that it is not only the poor who suffer from the effects of inequality, but the majority of the population.
French "droit patrimonial" gives an exclusive right that runs until 70 years after the death of the author. If wikipedia is correct, it says that in the US it's: 70 years after the death, or 95 years after publication, or 120 years after creation.
You see, the French are not that bad. They certainly do not lobby for infinity. And they have changed the limit only twice in over 200 years.
(Sorry for the links to the French pages, but I found them clearer.)
Thanks to the billions invested by the US government to develop computers in the 50's (cfr. the SAGE project), the US has had the upperhand in computer hardware and software until now. The US have been able to develop fantastic new technologies that stimulated economic growth and boosted productivity. Slashdot is a fine example of these new technologies.
If the US invests heavily in smart grids, within 10 years we will be able to slashdot distributed nuclear battery networks.
What was your scientific method for this research? Did you use two distinct groups of chicks, the "Guitar Hero chicks" vs "rusty guitar chicks". Were both groups randomly picked from the subject group? How big was the subject group, anyway? What exactly did you measure? Did you postulate a hypothesis for why they prefer the rusty guitar over the plastic toy? Please clarify urgently. I want to go buy a guitar but I'm not sure which one to choose.
One of the principle objectives of this research is to identify the cognitive capabilities that artificial agents must posses to enable, in a population of such agents, the emergence and evolution of a language that exhibits characteristic features identified in natural languages.
The utility plants are not so scalable. They are designed for peak demand which occurs between 9 and 11 am. Nuclear plants, for example, have a big inertia and can't change their production very rapidly. They are also designed for a nominal energy production and they suffer if they produce more or less.
I believe the Swiss buy cheap electricity from the French at night to pump the water back up the mountain so they can use it during the day when the electricity is more expensive.
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> I'll probably get flamed for daring to say this, but what the hell
Good thing you added this disclaimer!
I've been working on Linux/laptop for the past eight years. No complaints. In contrary.
When I receive a new laptop, I install Linux before Windows even has a change to boot.
I know, it's your opinion against my opinion. But I'd just wanted you to know that some people do like Linux on laptops.
Your mileage clearly varies.
"Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie win Japan Prize."
Skip useless introductions.
... that when the world is nuked, the survivors can retrieve a copy of Phil Collins' and Tina Turner's CDs.
How do you prove you were running the software?
Funny how economical and driving culture are opposites:
- US economics: liberal; US driving: egalitarian.
- European economics: egalitarian; European driving: liberal.
Seems cultures that are against rules in some field overcompensate by introducing rules in another field. "The Rules" for dating, for example, come to mind as another one of those subjects where the US is ridiculuous in that way.
What they find is that, in states and countries where there is a big gap between the incomes of rich and poor, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity and teenage pregnancy are more common, the homicide rate is higher, life expectancy is shorter, and children’s educational performance and literacy scores are worse . . . [Wilkinson and Pickett] emphasise that it is not only the poor who suffer from the effects of inequality, but the majority of the population.
Yes, species have disappeared in the past, too. Only, this time, the pace of extinction is a 1000x faster. Don't know what that will lead to.
Like Tim Etchells' The Broken World
French "droit patrimonial" gives an exclusive right that runs until 70 years after the death of the author. If wikipedia is correct, it says that in the US it's: 70 years after the death, or 95 years after publication, or 120 years after creation.
You see, the French are not that bad. They certainly do not lobby for infinity. And they have changed the limit only twice in over 200 years.
(Sorry for the links to the French pages, but I found them clearer.)
This "small" area is called the US.
Oh common! A lot of people here have a grandfather!
Thanks to the billions invested by the US government to develop computers in the 50's (cfr. the SAGE project), the US has had the upperhand in computer hardware and software until now. The US have been able to develop fantastic new technologies that stimulated economic growth and boosted productivity. Slashdot is a fine example of these new technologies. If the US invests heavily in smart grids, within 10 years we will be able to slashdot distributed nuclear battery networks.
See also here for previous work on this idea: http://www.csl.sony.fr/items/2001/musaicing/
Amen!
What was your scientific method for this research? Did you use two distinct groups of chicks, the "Guitar Hero chicks" vs "rusty guitar chicks". Were both groups randomly picked from the subject group? How big was the subject group, anyway? What exactly did you measure? Did you postulate a hypothesis for why they prefer the rusty guitar over the plastic toy? Please clarify urgently. I want to go buy a guitar but I'm not sure which one to choose.
just use a big slingshot (or whatever) to hurl it off in the general direction of the sun
if only the sun would stop moving...
One of the principle objectives of this research is to identify the cognitive capabilities that artificial agents must posses to enable, in a population of such agents, the emergence and evolution of a language that exhibits characteristic features identified in natural languages.
http://www.emergent-languages.org/
Thanks for that. I just filed the patent application. I wanted to patent "inhumane torture" too but it's in Public Domain.
You make backup on my computer. I make you a good deal. Very cheap. OK?
touch donate.txt
for ((n=0; n<17280; n++));
do
ps x -o pcpu= -o comm= | sort -k 2 | uniq -s 5 > ps.out
cat ps.out | while read cpu app; do
cpu_accum=`cat donate.txt | grep -e "$app\$" | cut -f 1 -d " "`;
if [ "x$cpu_accum" = "x" ]; then
echo $cpu $app;
fi;
done > ps.new
cat ps.out | while read cpu app; do
cpu_accum=`cat donate.txt | grep -e "$app\$" | cut -f 1 -d " "`;
if [ "x$cpu_accum" != "x" ]; then
new_cpu=`echo $cpu_accum + $cpu | bc -l`
echo $new_cpu $app;
fi;
done > ps.accum
cat donate.txt | while read cpu app; do
line=`cat ps.out | grep -e "$app\$"`;
if [ "x$line" = "x" ]; then
echo $cpu $app;
fi;
done > ps.old
mv donate.txt donate.txt.old
cat ps.accum ps.old ps.new > donate.txt
rm ps.accum ps.old ps.new ps.out
sleep 5
done
The utility plants are not so scalable. They are designed for peak demand which occurs between 9 and 11 am. Nuclear plants, for example, have a big inertia and can't change their production very rapidly. They are also designed for a nominal energy production and they suffer if they produce more or less.
I believe the Swiss buy cheap electricity from the French at night to pump the water back up the mountain so they can use it during the day when the electricity is more expensive.
I would imagine even Windows can run 32 bit applications batter
I guess you meant: I would imagine even Windows batters 32 bit applications.
This article doesn't really tell us anything we didn't know already.
Who cares about the article. Don't you just love to discuss it all again?
... and RIAA's lawyers howl "Meat! Meat!".