Windows: crashes often, closed source Linux: doesn't crash, open source Our car: doesn't crash, so its firmware needs to be associated with, or run, Linux, or the for most people vague concept of open source
From just reading the summary, I guessed that the light went on when the robot found food, and that other robots would move towards those lights, because they indicate food, and that some robots evolved to not turn on the light when they found food, so they didn't attract other robots, so they had it all to themselves, which would be an advantage.
In probabilistic terms, it would make perfect sense for you to play. 1 - (100000 * 10^-6) = 0.9, which means that the game has a positive expected payoff. In fact, it would make sense for you to play a lot, up to whatever limit is allowed, let's say once a day. But would you do it? I kind of doubt you would, because every day, you'd be looking at that one-in-a-million chance of having your life shattered. Most people would consider that a bad risk, no matter what the raw numbers say. And people who play the lottery consider it a pretty good risk for the same reason.
Still, millions of people drive to work daily. Positive expected payoff, but a small chance of having your life shattered.
Yes they do: as burners burn discs, they make write errors (more with increased write speed), which are usually corrected by the parity data associated with each sector. Oxydation introduces errors with time. Handling causes occasional scrathes.
These three factors compound. Once there are more errors than the parity data can handle, the sector becomes unreadable.
Thus, there are three factors that will cause a disc to last longer: * High-quality burner making few errors (or burning at a lower speed) * High-quality dye that oxydizes slower * Careful or infrequent usage, limiting scratches
Of course, storage conditions are also important, such as a constant temperature.
The deterrent is the chance of being caught. In Somalia, or any other country without an effective police force, the chance of being caught is zero, so there is no deterrent. The actual magnitude of the punishment has surprisingly little deterring effect, and in some cases can make crimes worse: back when capital punishment was applied to just about every crime, there was a big incentive to kill all witnesses to reduce the chance of getting caught, leading to many more murders than would otherwise have been the case.
Of course, they just need to put a different type of chip in the thumbdrive, no biggie. The problem is that flash memory might be a lot cheaper due the massive amount of factories already tooled to produce it. Maybe they could include a physical write protect switch like you see on floppies, or something.
(Statements like "siblings share half their genes" are super misleading. Yes, you get half from Mom and half from Dad, but 99.9% of those genes are the same anyway.)
I recently read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, who mentions this point, and explains that what is meant is the genes above those that all humans share.
No, the best part is that BusyBeaver asks for $1729, which is the sum of two cubes, and which is famous because of a mathematical anecdote, and occurs frequently in Futurama.
Then why is trying to sell fake drugs illegal too? (Assuming the fake stuff is harmless, and not poisonous.) I suppose it would be dangerous, because you'd get pissed off clients...
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Maybe their thinking went like this:
Windows: crashes often, closed source
Linux: doesn't crash, open source
Our car: doesn't crash, so its firmware needs to be associated with, or run, Linux, or the for most people vague concept of open source
True, but you did start the process, and you enabled it to complete.
It is likely that when we get to the stage of actually building actual AIs, they will similarly grow from a mostly empty framework.
Do you have the right to do anything you want to your kids?
give me one GOOD reason why copyright should extend BEYOND the author's death.
To discourage big media companies from ordering hits ON, rather than FOR their stars.
Does the phrase average speed not answer your question?
It compresses remarkably well, though.
Most motherboards already have internal USB headers.
He'll come up with a cool pseudonym.
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe!
From just reading the summary, I guessed that the light went on when the robot found food, and that other robots would move towards those lights, because they indicate food, and that some robots evolved to not turn on the light when they found food, so they didn't attract other robots, so they had it all to themselves, which would be an advantage.
$whooshjoke
In probabilistic terms, it would make perfect sense for you to play. 1 - (100000 * 10^-6) = 0.9, which means that the game has a positive expected payoff. In fact, it would make sense for you to play a lot, up to whatever limit is allowed, let's say once a day. But would you do it? I kind of doubt you would, because every day, you'd be looking at that one-in-a-million chance of having your life shattered. Most people would consider that a bad risk, no matter what the raw numbers say. And people who play the lottery consider it a pretty good risk for the same reason.
Still, millions of people drive to work daily. Positive expected payoff, but a small chance of having your life shattered.
par2 uses the Reed-Solomon codes you mention. It's a bit confusing that it's called parity, when it is much more than that.
Still, it can't hurt to fill up the remaining space on the disc with more error recovery data.
Yes they do: as burners burn discs, they make write errors (more with increased write speed), which are usually corrected by the parity data associated with each sector. Oxydation introduces errors with time. Handling causes occasional scrathes.
These three factors compound. Once there are more errors than the parity data can handle, the sector becomes unreadable.
Thus, there are three factors that will cause a disc to last longer:
* High-quality burner making few errors (or burning at a lower speed)
* High-quality dye that oxydizes slower
* Careful or infrequent usage, limiting scratches
Of course, storage conditions are also important, such as a constant temperature.
It makes people believe absurdities, and commit atrocities.
That's what they say. Do they actually help poor people by getting them to use birth control?
This one's much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I
I think he didn't call you the player a piece of shit, but your villain character.
The deterrent is the chance of being caught. In Somalia, or any other country without an effective police force, the chance of being caught is zero, so there is no deterrent. The actual magnitude of the punishment has surprisingly little deterring effect, and in some cases can make crimes worse: back when capital punishment was applied to just about every crime, there was a big incentive to kill all witnesses to reduce the chance of getting caught, leading to many more murders than would otherwise have been the case.
So he's talking about memes.
Maybe the relation between CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and temperature isn't linear?
Of course, they just need to put a different type of chip in the thumbdrive, no biggie. The problem is that flash memory might be a lot cheaper due the massive amount of factories already tooled to produce it. Maybe they could include a physical write protect switch like you see on floppies, or something.
(Statements like "siblings share half their genes" are super misleading. Yes, you get half from Mom and half from Dad, but 99.9% of those genes are the same anyway.)
I recently read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, who mentions this point, and explains that what is meant is the genes above those that all humans share.
No, the best part is that BusyBeaver asks for $1729, which is the sum of two cubes, and which is famous because of a mathematical anecdote, and occurs frequently in Futurama.
Then why is trying to sell fake drugs illegal too? (Assuming the fake stuff is harmless, and not poisonous.) I suppose it would be dangerous, because you'd get pissed off clients...