Exactly. I want to tag this as 'duh'. The challenge was to mine the original data set though, so I'm not sure if this would even be a valid entry?
Here's how the competition works. Netflix has provided a large data set that tells you how nearly half a million people have rated about 18,000 movies. Based on these ratings, you are asked to predict the ratings of these users for movies in the set that they have not rated. [emphasis mine]
Yarr, I have done. I couldn't justify getting the highest spec Macbook Pro though so I have the less powerful GPU. It's good enough to run Source well but can be prone to a bit of overheating at times:( I'm giving up on the constant upgrade cycle of PC gaming for the moment - I'd say I upgraded my PC every 1.5 years or so for games over the last decade. Developers have a lot of power to play with in the PS3 and I think it should be sufficient for another 3-5 years
In fact, there are some good arguments to turn the damn thing on, even if you know for certain it's going to destroy the planet. The only one I can think of just now is you. Sorry.
'only' 14%? Against Dell, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc? And running a completely different OS by default no less. Wow.
Only: "merely: and nothing more;"
It's a bit more than 'only'. I've always liked Macs since the late 80s. I kind of detested how it took the iPod to get them into the mainstream, but I like the halo effect that it had anyway. I now only use Windows at work and 100% of my time outside of work is spent in Mac OS. I've just got a PS3 today, and have had a Wii for the last couple of years. I may boot into Windows at home to play Test Drive Unlimited again at some point, but I think GT5 and GTA IV will be good enough that I won't have to. When TDU2 comes out on the PS3 I may just never need another game again (I have a nice setup with a full HDTV, soundrocker chair, and steering wheel with clutch and stick-shift:) );)
And also the problem of all the homeless people that get electrocuted from wearing your t-shirts. I don't think flexible batteries can provide enough power for this kind of stuff yet either, and you need to have a battery pack somewhere..
It's kinda like when they were worried that setting off a nuclear bomb could ignite the atmosphere. Still, nothing wrong with assessing its safety, I certainly don't think they're joking.. still a few days til April 1st:P
Whaaaaa? Has your experiend of computers perhaps been limited to only Microsoft Windows? How could anyone 'like' using Microsoft software considering the amount of shit you have to put up with until patches are released? It would be okay if they let you stick with older versions of their software, but noooo they only sell the latest version. I'm a little cranky because I've had to deal with computers running Office 2007 having issues, but that was more of an affirmation of my views than the cause of them. From a business point of view, Bill Gates is a god. But from any other standpoint, he's just the guy who ruined IT workers lives in the 90s (though he did pretty much create the IT Support and anti-virus industry so I guess a lot of us should thank him for that).
Actually, there is only one solved state. The centres in the block always have the same colour opposite to them, if you keep a certain colour face down, then the centre block at the top will never change. I read a little on rubik's cubes recently, I still have never bothered to complete one, but I see now how it's actually a lot simpler than you'd think just by messing about with one for a few minutes every few years:P
Now, you don't even need a computer to browse the web. I doubt that. More like "now, you need a computer to make phone calls and keep your car running".
He didn't say MMO, he said game.. the only MMO games I've played have been MapleStory and that's just because I really was bored out of my mind at that point in my life, and one of my friends introduced me to it. Games where you get ahead almost directly via the amount of time you spend just grinding away doing the same task are stupid. If life were like that then factory workers would all be billionaires.
If you need a WMP module to play media and Microsoft sabotages all other modules, nothing has changed. If you need an IE module to browse the web and many other programs are dependent on it, your favorite browser will be sabotaged just the same or harder because Microsoft can "unify" browsing preferences into the IE "module". You have no idea how operating systems work, do you?:p Is your network card driver going to have to interface with this 'IE module' to send and receive TCP communications?
He didn't say it was more modular than linux, just that it was ultra-modular. Presumably that means that it's modular but the modules have super powers (or is that ultra powers).
That's more to do with it being taught at school at an early age rather than how difficult it is to learn. In Scotland we only start learning a secondary language once we're about 12, it's pretty stupid. It's nice to hear that english is difficult to learn, though since I already know it then it seems pretty simple to me;) I've recently been studying a little bit of gaelic, and the whole language seems pretty basic compared to english. I don't see the need for masculine/feminine cases for words in other languages (gaelic, german, french, presumably spanish and italian too..) - I fail to see why non living things can't just be 'it'.
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Sounds like a lot of backwards boloks to me.
Obviously the picture is just part of a mock-up particle accelerator themed porn shoot - nothing to worry about, move along
Here's how the competition works. Netflix has provided a large data set that tells you how nearly half a million people have rated about 18,000 movies. Based on these ratings, you are asked to predict the ratings of these users for movies in the set that they have not rated. [emphasis mine]
According to this page it is actually April 2nd ( http://www.rcmautismnotebook.com/WorldAutismAwarenessDay.html )
You forgot number 5 - the most important and incomprehensible one!
5) Profit!!?
Yarr, I have done. I couldn't justify getting the highest spec Macbook Pro though so I have the less powerful GPU. It's good enough to run Source well but can be prone to a bit of overheating at times :( I'm giving up on the constant upgrade cycle of PC gaming for the moment - I'd say I upgraded my PC every 1.5 years or so for games over the last decade. Developers have a lot of power to play with in the PS3 and I think it should be sufficient for another 3-5 years
24, and yep actually kinda enjoying being single for the first time in my life :)
I think I may have seen the logo before. I'm guessing they're the ones that make Johnson's Baby Oil, which is pretty well known over here..
'only' 14%? Against Dell, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc? And running a completely different OS by default no less. Wow.
:) ) ;)
Only: "merely: and nothing more;"
It's a bit more than 'only'. I've always liked Macs since the late 80s. I kind of detested how it took the iPod to get them into the mainstream, but I like the halo effect that it had anyway. I now only use Windows at work and 100% of my time outside of work is spent in Mac OS. I've just got a PS3 today, and have had a Wii for the last couple of years. I may boot into Windows at home to play Test Drive Unlimited again at some point, but I think GT5 and GTA IV will be good enough that I won't have to. When TDU2 comes out on the PS3 I may just never need another game again (I have a nice setup with a full HDTV, soundrocker chair, and steering wheel with clutch and stick-shift
Who the heck are Johnson & Johnson? o_0 This is a very American poll then..
I always wondered why those implants felt like a bag of sand..
And also the problem of all the homeless people that get electrocuted from wearing your t-shirts. I don't think flexible batteries can provide enough power for this kind of stuff yet either, and you need to have a battery pack somewhere..
It's kinda like when they were worried that setting off a nuclear bomb could ignite the atmosphere. Still, nothing wrong with assessing its safety, I certainly don't think they're joking.. still a few days til April 1st :P
Whaaaaa? Has your experiend of computers perhaps been limited to only Microsoft Windows? How could anyone 'like' using Microsoft software considering the amount of shit you have to put up with until patches are released? It would be okay if they let you stick with older versions of their software, but noooo they only sell the latest version. I'm a little cranky because I've had to deal with computers running Office 2007 having issues, but that was more of an affirmation of my views than the cause of them. From a business point of view, Bill Gates is a god. But from any other standpoint, he's just the guy who ruined IT workers lives in the 90s (though he did pretty much create the IT Support and anti-virus industry so I guess a lot of us should thank him for that).
Actually, there is only one solved state. The centres in the block always have the same colour opposite to them, if you keep a certain colour face down, then the centre block at the top will never change. I read a little on rubik's cubes recently, I still have never bothered to complete one, but I see now how it's actually a lot simpler than you'd think just by messing about with one for a few minutes every few years :P
But would it have been had it not been marked interesting? We will never know. That's quantum that is.
He didn't say MMO, he said game.. the only MMO games I've played have been MapleStory and that's just because I really was bored out of my mind at that point in my life, and one of my friends introduced me to it. Games where you get ahead almost directly via the amount of time you spend just grinding away doing the same task are stupid. If life were like that then factory workers would all be billionaires.
That makes no sense. If that were true then wouldn't they have to evict everyone from all major cities and industrial areas?
He didn't say it was more modular than linux, just that it was ultra-modular. Presumably that means that it's modular but the modules have super powers (or is that ultra powers).
That's more to do with it being taught at school at an early age rather than how difficult it is to learn. In Scotland we only start learning a secondary language once we're about 12, it's pretty stupid. It's nice to hear that english is difficult to learn, though since I already know it then it seems pretty simple to me ;) I've recently been studying a little bit of gaelic, and the whole language seems pretty basic compared to english. I don't see the need for masculine/feminine cases for words in other languages (gaelic, german, french, presumably spanish and italian too..) - I fail to see why non living things can't just be 'it'.
Fine. Uh.. RSA can be implemented in.. 8452 operations and using only 3 registers!