It also doesn't say anything about whether the apps it mentions are actually malware rather than apps who's whole purpose revolves around being able to access your phone book and send texts etc.
Well, the summary doesn't at least. You didn't think I was going to RTFA, did you?
They had a test page for HTML5 stuff, but it would be pretty dumb to completely switch over to it before the specs are finished and all the main browsers have passable implementations of those specs.
Fair enough, I must have read your comment a bit too quickly as I didn't relate the two, sorry.
Well, in my mind a value of 0.85 in fuzzy logic would represent an 85% possibility of something being 100% true, it only seems to be the terminology that is distinct, and I'm sure algorithms can be defined to do the same calculations with both systems. I'm not a mathematician though so I'm not sure how much I'm treading on toes/traditions by saying that. The wikipedia article on Fuzzy Logic says "Bart Kosko argues that probability is a subtheory of fuzzy logic, as probability only handles one kind of uncertainty", so it seems at least one other person kind of agrees with me:P
He maybe should have said something like "semantic" instead of "literary", but I too had already compared you to the "overly politically correct" - similar to the type of person who complains about the use of certain words even where no offence is either meant, nor taken. Not that this is the scenario in this case. This is the first time I've seen the RIAA's crazy crusade called a "jihad", but the term seems appropriate.
The point is not that engineers can't use it for "engineering communication" (whatever that is). It's that engineers don't want to use it at all. I created an account but I really just don't see the point in it. I think I posted 3 times and then got bored. According to my degree I'm a scientist and not an engineer, but I do reside in the engineering department at my workplace.
Having said that, one of my engineering friends on is always doing whiny little Facebook updates about wanting beer, wanting holidays, his car breaking, etc.. he'd probably love Twitter, if he isn't already on it.
Whoah, chill!:P He does know about emulators, which is why he says:
And to do that, you need information about that platform. You need technical specifications that allow you to basically reproduce a virtualization that may enable you to run the software in its original form in the future. So what we're trying to do is preserve not only the games, but preserve the knowledge that you would need to create a virtualization platform to play the game.
You can't create an emulator if you don't know anything about the original hardware! So he's just trying to make an archive of info on how to create emulators for these systems. Though in future if you want to emulate these ancient systems you could just create an x86 PC emulator, then run the other emulators inside Linux or Windows on top of that, rather than create a fresh emulator for each new hardware generation, hehe.
probabilistic logic admits only the standard true or false, and the probabilities refer to our best estimate of how likely it is to be true
You can do that with fuzzy logic though. Saying "it is probably the case that it is [100%] true " is pretty meaningless in computing terms unless you can enumerate what "probably" means in that sentence. Fuzzy logic is a good way of doing that. You could easily make an algorithm to set some variable to "100% true" if another variable is over a certain value.
I'm assuming it's with ABS considering it's been common for 20 or 30 years..
Yeah sitting at 2 car lengths is stupid, the best measure is time. I sometimes end up around 1.5 seconds behind people when going around town, but that's in slow traffic and I do pay attention. The only time I really get distracted is if I have to really think about an answer for a passenger - it disrupts the internal observation monologue I picked up in my advanced driving course..
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There are even less bad options out there though. With Windows Mobile and especially Android phones you can do pretty much anything you want. Comparing the iPhone to even more locked down phones is like comparing Mussolini to Hitler rather than simply comparing him to the full range of world leaders. Almost anyone is going to look good when compared with Hitler.
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As phone handsets go, it's pretty empowering, I'd say
That's like saying "as evil dictators go, Mussolini wasn't so bad".
Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of trying to be permanently right.
Sometimes people do "err" out of laziness, stupidity of evil intent!
We can take seriously the proposition that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or unworthy
Any suitably intelligent person already knows that failures are as much a part of learning as always being "right". And sometimes we do make really silly mistakes by overlooking things that should have been obvious. I know I do. Then again, often what is obvious to me, isn't to others..
I hate all these stories calling potatoes and other fruits/vegetables "energy sources". They are if you eat them, but if you're using them to make a battery isn't all the actual power generated from the potential difference between the cathode and anode?
It's nice that they've made a more efficient potato to complete the circuit - but that's really not the same as the potato being used as the actual energy source. This is only "sustainable" while we have plenty of zinc and copper around.
I'd at least want them to reimburse me for the extra fuel my vehicle is going to use through added weight for the plate/wiring, and electricity drain on the battery..
Over here it's the "2 second rule".. got to love all these arbitrary speed limits and rules. 2 seconds is definitely enough, 3 must be for people who are asleep at the wheel.
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Not really very fair comparisons considering the 3DS will have to render each scene twice to get the 3D effect.
It's not nationalism.
Do you know anything about Japan?
100% of your pc applications have access to your file system!
Dozens of apps were found to have the same type of access to sensitive information as known spyware does
Dozens of children were found to have access to the same types of kitchen utensils that murderers use!
It also doesn't say anything about whether the apps it mentions are actually malware rather than apps who's whole purpose revolves around being able to access your phone book and send texts etc.
Well, the summary doesn't at least. You didn't think I was going to RTFA, did you?
They had a test page for HTML5 stuff, but it would be pretty dumb to completely switch over to it before the specs are finished and all the main browsers have passable implementations of those specs.
Don't forget Wales! And North East Scotland where I currently reside. Now if ewe'll excuse me..
Fair enough, I must have read your comment a bit too quickly as I didn't relate the two, sorry.
Well, in my mind a value of 0.85 in fuzzy logic would represent an 85% possibility of something being 100% true, it only seems to be the terminology that is distinct, and I'm sure algorithms can be defined to do the same calculations with both systems. I'm not a mathematician though so I'm not sure how much I'm treading on toes/traditions by saying that. The wikipedia article on Fuzzy Logic says "Bart Kosko argues that probability is a subtheory of fuzzy logic, as probability only handles one kind of uncertainty", so it seems at least one other person kind of agrees with me :P
It seems to me he read your post just fine.
He maybe should have said something like "semantic" instead of "literary", but I too had already compared you to the "overly politically correct" - similar to the type of person who complains about the use of certain words even where no offence is either meant, nor taken. Not that this is the scenario in this case. This is the first time I've seen the RIAA's crazy crusade called a "jihad", but the term seems appropriate.
Careful.. you might just have spawned a whole new trend in goatse photoshops :s
I fail to see how it works as a captcha if the "correct" interpretation is unknown..
The point is not that engineers can't use it for "engineering communication" (whatever that is). It's that engineers don't want to use it at all. I created an account but I really just don't see the point in it. I think I posted 3 times and then got bored. According to my degree I'm a scientist and not an engineer, but I do reside in the engineering department at my workplace.
Having said that, one of my engineering friends on is always doing whiny little Facebook updates about wanting beer, wanting holidays, his car breaking, etc.. he'd probably love Twitter, if he isn't already on it.
Whoah, chill! :P He does know about emulators, which is why he says:
And to do that, you need information about that platform. You need technical specifications that allow you to basically reproduce a virtualization that may enable you to run the software in its original form in the future. So what we're trying to do is preserve not only the games, but preserve the knowledge that you would need to create a virtualization platform to play the game.
You can't create an emulator if you don't know anything about the original hardware! So he's just trying to make an archive of info on how to create emulators for these systems. Though in future if you want to emulate these ancient systems you could just create an x86 PC emulator, then run the other emulators inside Linux or Windows on top of that, rather than create a fresh emulator for each new hardware generation, hehe.
probabilistic logic admits only the standard true or false, and the probabilities refer to our best estimate of how likely it is to be true
You can do that with fuzzy logic though. Saying "it is probably the case that it is [100%] true " is pretty meaningless in computing terms unless you can enumerate what "probably" means in that sentence. Fuzzy logic is a good way of doing that. You could easily make an algorithm to set some variable to "100% true" if another variable is over a certain value.
I'm assuming it's with ABS considering it's been common for 20 or 30 years..
Yeah sitting at 2 car lengths is stupid, the best measure is time. I sometimes end up around 1.5 seconds behind people when going around town, but that's in slow traffic and I do pay attention. The only time I really get distracted is if I have to really think about an answer for a passenger - it disrupts the internal observation monologue I picked up in my advanced driving course..
There are even less bad options out there though. With Windows Mobile and especially Android phones you can do pretty much anything you want. Comparing the iPhone to even more locked down phones is like comparing Mussolini to Hitler rather than simply comparing him to the full range of world leaders. Almost anyone is going to look good when compared with Hitler.
As phone handsets go, it's pretty empowering, I'd say
That's like saying "as evil dictators go, Mussolini wasn't so bad".
I put err in quotes because if they are doing something wrong purposely with evil intent, it's not an error.
Extract the methane and burn it? It's not very cost efficient though.
the ability to reach a conclusion that could be incorrect... but is still probably correct.
That sounds a lot like fuzzy logic to me..
stupidity of evil intent!
*cough* that wasn't a typo.. it was a moral judgement. Yes.
Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of trying to be permanently right.
Sometimes people do "err" out of laziness, stupidity of evil intent!
We can take seriously the proposition that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or unworthy
Any suitably intelligent person already knows that failures are as much a part of learning as always being "right". And sometimes we do make really silly mistakes by overlooking things that should have been obvious. I know I do. Then again, often what is obvious to me, isn't to others..
I hate all these stories calling potatoes and other fruits/vegetables "energy sources". They are if you eat them, but if you're using them to make a battery isn't all the actual power generated from the potential difference between the cathode and anode?
It's nice that they've made a more efficient potato to complete the circuit - but that's really not the same as the potato being used as the actual energy source. This is only "sustainable" while we have plenty of zinc and copper around.
And how are they going to pipe down solar gas into your server room anyway?
I'd at least want them to reimburse me for the extra fuel my vehicle is going to use through added weight for the plate/wiring, and electricity drain on the battery..
Over here it's the "2 second rule".. got to love all these arbitrary speed limits and rules. 2 seconds is definitely enough, 3 must be for people who are asleep at the wheel.