Is it because an AI strong enough to replace non-trivial support will probably require a pyschologist from time to time that luckily an AI strong enough to replace psychologists has existed for quite a long time?
The creature known as Kha-Nyou to the locals is so unique it represents an entire new family of wildlife.
How exactly does this guy get credit for discovering a species when the locals have obviously known about it for long enough to give it a name? Shouldn't they be given the credit for "discovering" it?
There is something to be said about security through obscurity, especially in the physical realm. Think they can figure out how to get past checkpoints? Let them try first. Eventually they'll figure out how to get through, I agree, but some of them will get caught in the meantime. Even one less insurgent making it through could save a soldier's life. IMHO that's worth keeping the document classified.
If you're still in disagreement, why not tell me where you live, how to get past your home security system (if any), and what your house schedule is like (when is it empty)? I could figure it all out if I spent the time. I'll be there, I'll have eyes, and I'll have all the time I need to get past the system and tell everyone else how it works and so on...
The up side of this is that at this rate, everyone in the US will have all their personal data made private. Maybe we'll switch to biometrics for verification of credit cards or something that can't be stolen.
What if we put the cat between two slices of toast? The slice on the cat's feet would be buttered so that the cat's feet were in the butter, and the slice on his back would be buttered so that the cat's back was in the butter. The toast on the cat's feet will orient itself so as to land butter side down, but the cat and the toast on its back will instinctively correct the positioning so that it would land on its feet. The trouble here is that only one slice of toast wants one orientation, while the other slice + cat wants the other orientation. This requires an additional slice of buttered toast (and a second layer of cat) to be added to the equation to balance things out.
Of course, the intelligent reader will note that this also creates an imbalance. Now one cat and two slices of toast want one orientation, and one cat and one slice of toast want the other. We can add an infinite number of cats and toast slices and never reach equilibrium, proving that this thought experiment is irrational. QED.
Putty == 380k, and an XServer (with OpenGL support) would be 1MB or less? Got a link to a Win32 X11 server that small? I'd be game for giving it a try.
I've seen classes go the other way, though, which is *way* more annoying in my opinion.
Yeah, this class assignment sounds a little bit ridiculous (anybody have statistics for what a reasonably good security person submits to bugtraq, as far as number of vulnerabilities go?). But when complaining/suing/whatever over these types of things, it makes the administration's job tougher to fail students in courses where they really deserve to fail.
Example: Here at Syracuse University, 95% of the computer science *graduate students* can't implement a Quick Sort without using google. I won't even go into their misunderstandings in discrete math (I've met more than one that doesn't know what "union" means). Yet they all have 3.7-4.0 GPAs. How? Whenever a professor tries to give them a bad grade, they complain to the admins, usually something along the lines of, "I'm paying for my education, it's not fault my professor couldn't teach it right, and only one kid in the class got a good grade anyway, so clearly the professor expected too much from us."
The end result, most of the people that graduate from my school are idiots as far as comp. sci. goes. If I ever wanted to work in the real world (*shudder*:)), and someone from my school interviews with company X before me, company X probably won't even call me back for my interview.
I'm probably in the minority, but I don't think college is about letting a brain be an empty vessel for a professor to fill. Hell, 99% of professor's can't teach, period. A university is like an expensive social networking club. It puts you in contact with some really smart professors and (a few) really smart students. Your job is to find out who they are. And while the professors can't teach in the classroom, go to their office and work on a project with them and you'll do and learn amazing things...and if you want good grades, read the book;-).
Yes, but use X to do WHAT exactly? Click on pretty buttons over and over again? If I can't have cygwin on disk, able to manipulate files, save scripts, etc, what's the use, really? The few Unix apps that are worth the trouble of running in an X11 window on a Windows box, already have native ports.
Native ports, yes, but does your desktop Windows machine compare to this?
unix:$ sysinfo
General Information
Manufacturer is Sun (Sun Microsystems) System Model is Fire V440 Main Memory is 16.0 GB Virtual Memory is 38.1 GB ROM Version is OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:28 Number of CPUs is 4 CPU Type is sparc
(note: some details cut out to preserve the server's anonymity)
This liveCD would be pretty useful to me. I would rather run my big computational and memory-intensive programs on our campus "big iron" unix servers than on my little pentium 4 desktop machine, which only has one cpu and a half a gig of ram. But hey, I'm a CS student writing chaos programs. YMMV.
I agree with you, but for a totally different reason. Yes, I hate when spiels start that way, too.
When Apple made the iPod, it was genius. This is especially true with what's it done with the later generations. The iPod is this incredibly simple and useful tool, and nothing has really changed. This is great. Apple made the iPod not about the iPod, but about the music. My roommates have a 2G and a 3G ipod, and I have a 4G. There's no jealousy over whose is better, because they are exactly the same thing (well, the 3G and 4G have bigger disks and a different cable [which I don't take advantage of one mine anyway]). But they still just play music, they all have the same screen. The interface buttons changed a tiny bit, but the argument is out on who likes which layout better.
By adding whizbang features like CompactFlash would cheapen the iPod and make it about the hardware. Suddenly my friend and I would be comparing each other's iPods as, "oh, yours was made when CF was the standard, you poor fool. Mine is good enough to at least read micro-dvds."
That said, I'm wondering why Apple made one with a color screen and more features in the first place. It seems like they're straying from the traditional simplistic design by making one iPod superior to another out of the box...
We need to invade them and destroy them before it's too late. Kim Jong-il is clearly insane and will launch attacks against anyone who disagrees with him.
I really liked this part. Who will launch attacks against anyone who disagrees with him, again?
I've been looking forward to seeing this movie since Columbine, and I better start this review by putting my cards on the table: I'm a fan of South Park, the TV show and the movie, especially in our post-Columbine world where young geeks are not allowed to express themselves fully in a high school setting. In fact, I've seen Orgazmo and Cannibal the Musical simply because they were about Columbine. I was skeptical about a Columbine movie, but I went in with realistic expectations.
And the first one into space is an egg whose shell has cracked open due to lack of air pressure, whose yolk then boiled as all the water evaporated into vaccum, and who was then incinerated upon re-entry.
Call me a cynic, but I'd wait a little while to be going into space, even if you can afford it.
I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com and indeed Google Inc. is listed as the registrar.
I suspect that they will begin offering a web-based web-browsing solution (like gmail, but for HTTP) with roughly a gigabyte of bandwidth usage per day. This will no doubt be great competition for the other web-based web browsers, like... Er, wait a second...
You're not thinking like a terrorist. What if you could just drop a fairly large depth charge in the area that caused the bomb to crack open and/or detonate the high explosives on board. I'm guessing (hoping?) that they had sufficient trigger safety systems in the 50s that the fissile part of the bomb wouldn't go off (some kind of primer that would need to be charged first), but even a standard explosion would still spread radioactive material in the ocean, which could hurt Savannah a good deal...
Aren't we ignoring a big point? The folks on Gilligan's Island kept hope that they would eventually be rescued or find a way off the island. Whoever treated the Howells nicely or got a lot of cash would certainly be rich once they set foot back in the United States.
It's a promisory note, and for all the castaways knew, the US government would still back up their dollars when they returned. In fact, thanks to the Professor's radio and the occassional island visitor, they *knew* the US was still A-OK.
That's reason enough to horde cash and gold to me...
And while we're at it, lets force everyone to become an automobile mechanic before they are allowed to have a drivers license. That way they would know enought to take care of their own cars.
I'm kind of a fan of this idea, actually, at least for basic stuff (how to tell your brakes and tires are okay, at the very least).
<anecdote> A few years ago a friend of mine got in a pretty serious car wreck. For weeks before it happened, her brake pedal had been getting spongy (when she was slowing down, the brake pedal would gradually drop to the floor and lose pressure, so she had to pump it). She just assumed that she had to add a little more brake fluid and everything would be okay. This wasn't the case...gradually dropping pressure like that was a sign that her master cylinder was going, and that's exactly what happened and what caused her to get in the accident -- her brakes completely failed. </anecdote>
So yeah, teaching people how to make sure their car will stop would be good...
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Same thing about spelling. Let them learn to spell, then teach them about spellcheck.
Is it because an AI strong enough to replace non-trivial support will probably require a pyschologist from time to time that luckily an AI strong enough to replace psychologists has existed for quite a long time?
The creature known as Kha-Nyou to the locals is so unique it represents an entire new family of wildlife.
How exactly does this guy get credit for discovering a species when the locals have obviously known about it for long enough to give it a name? Shouldn't they be given the credit for "discovering" it?
There is something to be said about security through obscurity, especially in the physical realm. Think they can figure out how to get past checkpoints? Let them try first. Eventually they'll figure out how to get through, I agree, but some of them will get caught in the meantime. Even one less insurgent making it through could save a soldier's life. IMHO that's worth keeping the document classified.
If you're still in disagreement, why not tell me where you live, how to get past your home security system (if any), and what your house schedule is like (when is it empty)? I could figure it all out if I spent the time. I'll be there, I'll have eyes, and I'll have all the time I need to get past the system and tell everyone else how it works and so on...
The up side of this is that at this rate, everyone in the US will have all their personal data made private. Maybe we'll switch to biometrics for verification of credit cards or something that can't be stolen.
The Department of Infinite Loops issued a bulletin requesting someone to try and sign their driver's license, "See ID." Any takers?
What if we put the cat between two slices of toast? The slice on the cat's feet would be buttered so that the cat's feet were in the butter, and the slice on his back would be buttered so that the cat's back was in the butter. The toast on the cat's feet will orient itself so as to land butter side down, but the cat and the toast on its back will instinctively correct the positioning so that it would land on its feet. The trouble here is that only one slice of toast wants one orientation, while the other slice + cat wants the other orientation. This requires an additional slice of buttered toast (and a second layer of cat) to be added to the equation to balance things out.
Of course, the intelligent reader will note that this also creates an imbalance. Now one cat and two slices of toast want one orientation, and one cat and one slice of toast want the other. We can add an infinite number of cats and toast slices and never reach equilibrium, proving that this thought experiment is irrational. QED.
It's karma etiquette to always post a mirror of article text anonymously. Karma whore.
But thanks anyway, I needed that.
Putty == 380k, and an XServer (with OpenGL support) would be 1MB or less? Got a link to a Win32 X11 server that small? I'd be game for giving it a try.
I've seen classes go the other way, though, which is *way* more annoying in my opinion.
Yeah, this class assignment sounds a little bit ridiculous (anybody have statistics for what a reasonably good security person submits to bugtraq, as far as number of vulnerabilities go?). But when complaining/suing/whatever over these types of things, it makes the administration's job tougher to fail students in courses where they really deserve to fail.
Example: Here at Syracuse University, 95% of the computer science *graduate students* can't implement a Quick Sort without using google. I won't even go into their misunderstandings in discrete math (I've met more than one that doesn't know what "union" means). Yet they all have 3.7-4.0 GPAs. How? Whenever a professor tries to give them a bad grade, they complain to the admins, usually something along the lines of, "I'm paying for my education, it's not fault my professor couldn't teach it right, and only one kid in the class got a good grade anyway, so clearly the professor expected too much from us."
The end result, most of the people that graduate from my school are idiots as far as comp. sci. goes. If I ever wanted to work in the real world (*shudder*
I'm probably in the minority, but I don't think college is about letting a brain be an empty vessel for a professor to fill. Hell, 99% of professor's can't teach, period. A university is like an expensive social networking club. It puts you in contact with some really smart professors and (a few) really smart students. Your job is to find out who they are. And while the professors can't teach in the classroom, go to their office and work on a project with them and you'll do and learn amazing things...and if you want good grades, read the book
Just my $.02 on the subject of higher education.
Yes, but use X to do WHAT exactly? Click on pretty buttons over and over again? If I can't have cygwin on disk, able to manipulate files, save scripts, etc, what's the use, really? The few Unix apps that are worth the trouble of running in an X11 window on a Windows box, already have native ports.
Native ports, yes, but does your desktop Windows machine compare to this?
unix:$ sysinfo
General Information
Manufacturer is Sun (Sun Microsystems)
System Model is Fire V440
Main Memory is 16.0 GB
Virtual Memory is 38.1 GB
ROM Version is OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:28
Number of CPUs is 4
CPU Type is sparc
(note: some details cut out to preserve the server's anonymity)
This liveCD would be pretty useful to me. I would rather run my big computational and memory-intensive programs on our campus "big iron" unix servers than on my little pentium 4 desktop machine, which only has one cpu and a half a gig of ram. But hey, I'm a CS student writing chaos programs. YMMV.
...and a http://www.google.com/mac
This is pretty weird...
I agree with you, but for a totally different reason. Yes, I hate when spiels start that way, too.
When Apple made the iPod, it was genius. This is especially true with what's it done with the later generations. The iPod is this incredibly simple and useful tool, and nothing has really changed. This is great. Apple made the iPod not about the iPod, but about the music. My roommates have a 2G and a 3G ipod, and I have a 4G. There's no jealousy over whose is better, because they are exactly the same thing (well, the 3G and 4G have bigger disks and a different cable [which I don't take advantage of one mine anyway]). But they still just play music, they all have the same screen. The interface buttons changed a tiny bit, but the argument is out on who likes which layout better.
By adding whizbang features like CompactFlash would cheapen the iPod and make it about the hardware. Suddenly my friend and I would be comparing each other's iPods as, "oh, yours was made when CF was the standard, you poor fool. Mine is good enough to at least read micro-dvds."
That said, I'm wondering why Apple made one with a color screen and more features in the first place. It seems like they're straying from the traditional simplistic design by making one iPod superior to another out of the box...
So if someone is still "using" the program the deceased program and/or code, does that count as programmer necrophilia?
Funny, I just read an article saying that MM's movie is going to be aired on satellite television tonight. Coincidence?
We need to invade them and destroy them before it's too late. Kim Jong-il is clearly insane and will launch attacks against anyone who disagrees with him.
I really liked this part. Who will launch attacks against anyone who disagrees with him, again?
I've been looking forward to seeing this movie since Columbine, and I better start this review by putting my cards on the table: I'm a fan of South Park, the TV show and the movie, especially in our post-Columbine world where young geeks are not allowed to express themselves fully in a high school setting. In fact, I've seen Orgazmo and Cannibal the Musical simply because they were about Columbine. I was skeptical about a Columbine movie, but I went in with realistic expectations.
Last one into space is a rotten egg!
And the first one into space is an egg whose shell has cracked open due to lack of air pressure, whose yolk then boiled as all the water evaporated into vaccum, and who was then incinerated upon re-entry.
Call me a cynic, but I'd wait a little while to be going into space, even if you can afford it.
level 22 would be the midrange.
So if we get past level 50, will that make our computer immortal? It would make it just like a DikuMUD...
Even without a web browser, you can telnet into some public libraries to surf with a remote Lynx browser.
Or just install Lynx on your local computer. There is even a win32 version if you don't run *nix...
I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com and indeed Google Inc. is listed as the registrar.
...
I suspect that they will begin offering a web-based web-browsing solution (like gmail, but for HTTP) with roughly a gigabyte of bandwidth usage per day. This will no doubt be great competition for the other web-based web browsers, like
Er, wait a second...
You're not thinking like a terrorist. What if you could just drop a fairly large depth charge in the area that caused the bomb to crack open and/or detonate the high explosives on board. I'm guessing (hoping?) that they had sufficient trigger safety systems in the 50s that the fissile part of the bomb wouldn't go off (some kind of primer that would need to be charged first), but even a standard explosion would still spread radioactive material in the ocean, which could hurt Savannah a good deal...
It's new to me.
Aren't we ignoring a big point? The folks on Gilligan's Island kept hope that they would eventually be rescued or find a way off the island. Whoever treated the Howells nicely or got a lot of cash would certainly be rich once they set foot back in the United States.
It's a promisory note, and for all the castaways knew, the US government would still back up their dollars when they returned. In fact, thanks to the Professor's radio and the occassional island visitor, they *knew* the US was still A-OK.
That's reason enough to horde cash and gold to me...
And while we're at it, lets force everyone to become an automobile mechanic before they are allowed to have a drivers license. That way they would know enought to take care of their own cars.
I'm kind of a fan of this idea, actually, at least for basic stuff (how to tell your brakes and tires are okay, at the very least).
<anecdote>
A few years ago a friend of mine got in a pretty serious car wreck. For weeks before it happened, her brake pedal had been getting spongy (when she was slowing down, the brake pedal would gradually drop to the floor and lose pressure, so she had to pump it). She just assumed that she had to add a little more brake fluid and everything would be okay. This wasn't the case...gradually dropping pressure like that was a sign that her master cylinder was going, and that's exactly what happened and what caused her to get in the accident -- her brakes completely failed.
</anecdote>
So yeah, teaching people how to make sure their car will stop would be good...