Um, I'm not sure what you were trying, but I typed in that exact regular expression and it worked exactly how you said it should work, it matched 312.123.321.123. just fine. When you put in ^ and $ at the beginning and end of the regexp, respectively, is when it starts refusing things like "123.1"
But it's still pretty cool - a new way to integrate existing technologies, bring them together to make computers work better. I thought TFA was an interesting read, even though it didn't have anything particularly earth-shattering in it.
So, they first say that you can't predict what'll happen after that singularity because The World Will Be So Different Than Now, and then proceed to give predictions of what'll happen after that singularity?
My job title at one point was "Systems Engineer". I didn't have an engineering degree, and my father (who did) was severely irked, rightfully so; just because I came up with solutions involving computer systems did not make me an "engineer". This is the same kind of BS. "Journalist" is a professional title, and you can't slap it on a person simply because they yack about current events.
"Web loggers" point to FOX news and say "If THEY'RE journalists, I sure as hell am, especially since unlike them, I don't lie or distort things!" WRONG. FOX news staff are REPORTERS. If they went to school and studied journalism, THEN they are a journalist.
While I see your point, I'm a little bit put off by this section here...
Are you meaning to say that that your job title is determined by your education? As I see it, if what you were doing was "Engineering", then "Systems Engineer" is a proper title regardless of whether your degree was in engineering or not. And on the flip side, just because someone had a degree in engineering, that doesn't mean that their job title should be "Foo Engineer" even if what they're doing at that particular job isn't engineering. Likewise for the second point - if someone went to school and studied journalism, and then gets a job in some field that is not journalism, then they shouldn't be called a "journalist"; and if someone studies something other than journalism in school, but then goes off and gets a job which involves "writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation", then they should be called a journalist.
Well, it IS just a fudge factor to make our theories and equations, as far as I can see.
Because nobody's been able to come up with equations/theories that describe everything better, and don't require the fudge factor... There's various theories out there that don't need the fudge factor, but they're not really developed yet, and haven't made verifiable predictions yet.
Hopefully when one of them finally works out, we'll be able to replace that "dark matter"/"dark energy" BS with actual understanding. (Or when dark energy/dark matter is actually observed somewhere else, again hopefully leading to actual understanding of it instead of fudge factor in equation.)
Actually, even if you're not lacking in critical thinking skills, you seem to be lacking in critical reading skills! Since, rereading the post, I don't see him using those words anywhere, or even trying to use actual numbers anywhere.
I think this is an appropriate place to bring up a quote from paulgraham.com -
To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants-- whether the computer wants to or not.
(And, also, whether the previous users/programmers of the computer want him to or not)
Well, the "society" is just a collection of individuals. Individuals and their views. To change a society, you have to influence the people in it.
People generally want to be respected and liked by their peers. And "in a materialistic society", part of the way people are judged is material wealth. It's hard to decide to not be materialistic when that means people you know will look down on you.
Yes, it's definitely an individual problem, not "just" a societal one - if you pick your friends right, you'll know people that won't think less of you because of your house size. But the more materialistic societies make it that much harder - the same people that would be able to resist in one culture would collapse and go with the crowd in a different one.
A simplistic example is computation of a certain polynomial. It is easy to check what the degree is by examining the software and then you need to check that the values are correct in as many (or more) test points as you have coefficients in the polynomial. If all of these are correct - voila, you know that the answer is right for any argument.
Well, that is, if your "polynomial calculation" doesn't get broken by other factors - for example, integer overflow, the fact that floating-point addition isn't actually commutative, or the fact that your computer has limited memory to store the coefficients and results.
If I test the polynomial x**3 with x=1, x=2, x=3, and x=10 that doesn't guarantee that it will work for x=-1 (what if somewhere along there it gets treated as an unsigned int?) or for x=2**64. And it CERTAINLY doesn't guarantee correctness for x=2.4.
And it's not even touching the issue of what the code will do if you give it x="abcde".
IANSE (I am not a software engineer), but this might not be a "feature" not a "bug".
It's expected that migrating to a new architecture would require, well, rewriting of existing code that worked with the old OS. Wouldn't there be more cause to worry if Vista supported all of the OLD authentication mechanisms as well as its own ones, since maintaining backwards compatibility seems like it could introduce unnecessary security holes?
Um, that's not true. Go to google.com, search for Falun Gong. Go to google.cn, see lots of chinese characters, search for Falun Gong. Compare results. Pretty obvious differences there.
too bad it isnt theft. There is an understanding between the schools
It might be treated as theft. When Harvey Mudd stole the cannon a while back, it got the students into some pretty deep shit, because apparently the administrations did not view this kindly.
So, is there any chance at all that the Aircaft Carriers will actually stay in use for the entire 50 years? Won't be replaced by anything newer or better?
At this point, this experiment is NOT about "practical results." It's way too early to say that "maybe we could use this to have X effect."
What this is, at the moment, is "Look - there's some strange effects going on which aren't consistent with existing theories, I wonder why that could be..."
As I've heard often said - "The great discoveries generally aren't anounced by 'EUREKA!', they're announced by 'hmm, that's curious...'"
Hopefully this result will point in a direction to investigate to further refine or Relativity, maybe finding a way to tie Gravity into the other forces.
MP3 is proprietary. They can't include it with a default distribution of something unless they pay royalties.
When I installed ubuntu (for my laptop), it didn't come with anything that could play MP3s either, but could play OGG fine. Getting MP3 playback to work was pretty simple - apt-get had everything necessary available.
Am I correct in guessing that most distros would end up the same - no MP3 support out of the box? Or is that just an ubuntu quirk?
While banning Wikipedia is certainly a significant inconvenience, it shouldn't impact anyone's actual research... it's not the kind of source one would use in even an undergraduate thesis.
So basically, as far as I can tell, this is basically a chat room with a human organizer scheduling and moderating things - except that it also has lots of features (videoconferencing, etc) to make communication as convenient as possible, and it's also optimized for "chatting" about legal disputes.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if it becomes very widely used, since for two parties across the globe it's pretty difficult to arrange a long series of meetings in person, but it's being misrepresented - no "robot lawyers" are solving anything, it's just a computer interface to a human lawyer, for convenience.
I think a major part of the crime was, in this case, forging the return email address -
so the ISP got thousands of disgruntled emails daily from customers complaining about them sending spam. And got the reputation of a spammer. (If they take the time to respond that "we didn't send it!" that means they have to respond to that many emails. If they try to filter out those complaints, then they get the reputation of not only spamming but also of not responding to complaints.)
They were effectively framed.
Not sure where on earth the number of 11 billion came from though. Either way, it doesn't matter, it's more than the spammer can pay.
Well, from what I know, saline solution is used as a placebo precisely because we know it does nothing and most closely mimics blood. It's used as a generic placebo for comparison to any sort of medicine, not just this one.
That said, I don't know whether there have been tests as to whether saline solution actually does nothing or whether it does something... I'd guess there were, but don't know for certain.
Well, they can't just pray - they have to spend money, because a placebo only works if the patient believes it will work. So the patient has to spend the money to get something that he thinks will work...
though I suppose for someone religious, prayer would work as a placebo.
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The plural of "anecdote" is NOT "data".
Um, I'm not sure what you were trying, but I typed in that exact regular expression and it worked exactly how you said it should work, it matched 312.123.321.123. just fine. When you put in ^ and $ at the beginning and end of the regexp, respectively, is when it starts refusing things like "123.1"
But it's still pretty cool - a new way to integrate existing technologies, bring them together to make computers work better. I thought TFA was an interesting read, even though it didn't have anything particularly earth-shattering in it.
So, they first say that you can't predict what'll happen after that singularity because The World Will Be So Different Than Now, and then proceed to give predictions of what'll happen after that singularity?
Brilliant, real brilliant.
While I see your point, I'm a little bit put off by this section here...
Are you meaning to say that that your job title is determined by your education? As I see it, if what you were doing was "Engineering", then "Systems Engineer" is a proper title regardless of whether your degree was in engineering or not. And on the flip side, just because someone had a degree in engineering, that doesn't mean that their job title should be "Foo Engineer" even if what they're doing at that particular job isn't engineering. Likewise for the second point - if someone went to school and studied journalism, and then gets a job in some field that is not journalism, then they shouldn't be called a "journalist"; and if someone studies something other than journalism in school, but then goes off and gets a job which involves "writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation", then they should be called a journalist.
Well, it IS just a fudge factor to make our theories and equations, as far as I can see. Because nobody's been able to come up with equations/theories that describe everything better, and don't require the fudge factor... There's various theories out there that don't need the fudge factor, but they're not really developed yet, and haven't made verifiable predictions yet. Hopefully when one of them finally works out, we'll be able to replace that "dark matter"/"dark energy" BS with actual understanding. (Or when dark energy/dark matter is actually observed somewhere else, again hopefully leading to actual understanding of it instead of fudge factor in equation.)
Oh no! They're gonna leak the source code! Debian is screwed now...
All your stories are belong to us!
To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants-- whether the computer wants to or not.
(And, also, whether the previous users/programmers of the computer want him to or not)
- http://paulgraham.com/gba.html
People generally want to be respected and liked by their peers. And "in a materialistic society", part of the way people are judged is material wealth. It's hard to decide to not be materialistic when that means people you know will look down on you.
Yes, it's definitely an individual problem, not "just" a societal one - if you pick your friends right, you'll know people that won't think less of you because of your house size. But the more materialistic societies make it that much harder - the same people that would be able to resist in one culture would collapse and go with the crowd in a different one.
If I test the polynomial x**3 with x=1, x=2, x=3, and x=10 that doesn't guarantee that it will work for x=-1 (what if somewhere along there it gets treated as an unsigned int?) or for x=2**64. And it CERTAINLY doesn't guarantee correctness for x=2.4.
And it's not even touching the issue of what the code will do if you give it x="abcde".
IANSE (I am not a software engineer), but this might not be a "feature" not a "bug".
It's expected that migrating to a new architecture would require, well, rewriting of existing code that worked with the old OS. Wouldn't there be more cause to worry if Vista supported all of the OLD authentication mechanisms as well as its own ones, since maintaining backwards compatibility seems like it could introduce unnecessary security holes?
Um, that's not true. Go to google.com, search for Falun Gong. Go to google.cn, see lots of chinese characters, search for Falun Gong. Compare results. Pretty obvious differences there.
too bad it isnt theft. There is an understanding between the schools
It might be treated as theft. When Harvey Mudd stole the cannon a while back, it got the students into some pretty deep shit, because apparently the administrations did not view this kindly.
So, is there any chance at all that the Aircaft Carriers will actually stay in use for the entire 50 years? Won't be replaced by anything newer or better?
I would guess they would be.
At this point, this experiment is NOT about "practical results."
It's way too early to say that "maybe we could use this to have X effect."
What this is, at the moment, is "Look - there's some strange effects going on which aren't consistent with existing theories, I wonder why that could be..."
As I've heard often said - "The great discoveries generally aren't anounced by 'EUREKA!', they're announced by 'hmm, that's curious...'"
Hopefully this result will point in a direction to investigate to further refine or Relativity, maybe finding a way to tie Gravity into the other forces.
There are, however, instances where you dearly wish that you could put parentheses into English ;) (To clear up order of operations)
Not really that surprising.
MP3 is proprietary. They can't include it with a default distribution of something unless they pay royalties.
When I installed ubuntu (for my laptop), it didn't come with anything that could play MP3s either, but could play OGG fine. Getting MP3 playback to work was pretty simple - apt-get had everything necessary available.
Am I correct in guessing that most distros would end up the same - no MP3 support out of the box? Or is that just an ubuntu quirk?
While banning Wikipedia is certainly a significant inconvenience, it shouldn't impact anyone's actual research... it's not the kind of source one would use in even an undergraduate thesis.
So basically, as far as I can tell, this is basically a chat room with a human organizer scheduling and moderating things - except that it also has lots of features (videoconferencing, etc) to make communication as convenient as possible, and it's also optimized for "chatting" about legal disputes.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if it becomes very widely used, since for two parties across the globe it's pretty difficult to arrange a long series of meetings in person, but it's being misrepresented - no "robot lawyers" are solving anything, it's just a computer interface to a human lawyer, for convenience.
I think a major part of the crime was, in this case, forging the return email address - so the ISP got thousands of disgruntled emails daily from customers complaining about them sending spam. And got the reputation of a spammer. (If they take the time to respond that "we didn't send it!" that means they have to respond to that many emails. If they try to filter out those complaints, then they get the reputation of not only spamming but also of not responding to complaints.) They were effectively framed. Not sure where on earth the number of 11 billion came from though. Either way, it doesn't matter, it's more than the spammer can pay.
They should vote in the Gay Penguin!
Well, from what I know, saline solution is used as a placebo precisely because we know it does nothing and most closely mimics blood. It's used as a generic placebo for comparison to any sort of medicine, not just this one.
That said, I don't know whether there have been tests as to whether saline solution actually does nothing or whether it does something... I'd guess there were, but don't know for certain.
Well, they can't just pray - they have to spend money, because a placebo only works if the patient believes it will work. So the patient has to spend the money to get something that he thinks will work...
though I suppose for someone religious, prayer would work as a placebo.