I love two things about Opera: One is integrated www, email and rss and the other is it that it's one of the most customizable software I've ever seen. You can change *every* keyboard/mouse/mouse-gesture setting and you can customize *every* ui element (and with a good menu to do so, too).
For software i spend hours each day using, like a browser, I think the most important thing is a good user interface - and there is no better one than the one you built yourself. But it kinda makes talking about the interface pointless - spend 10 minutes with it and it will look like (your personal version of) perfection.
Ok, England is an isle, but does that explain why their children seem to be a demonic race of violent criminals from hell that needs constant supervision? How else can you explain that in the rest of the world tries to treat children with love and trust and they pretty much turn out great?
Every time i hear how the UK goverment looks down at and treats their population as if they were savage, violent Untermenschen i wonder how it could come so far. "Wehret den AnfÃngen!" is just a nice local quote, right?
So what will be next? Looking at my own country's history, the next step after demonizing and controlling a group in society was declaring them a treat to society. For the better of themselfes and society as a whole they need to be concentrated, reeducated and prevented from breeding. Oh and then the killing started, but i guess we live in different times now, right?
Imagine Microsoft selecting what apps may be installed on a windows computer. Sure, the scale is much bigger and smartphones are tied very tight to a particular os, but the essence is that Apple can decide what apps can be installed on hardware you've bought... i think Microsoft got sued for *alot* less. Has really nobody sued them over the appstore yet or did i simply miss it?
i took a AI course this semester, they recomended this book (AIMA) and gave the book's homepage: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ some sample chapters and links there...
I think im a pretty normal gamer, and i think over the last years i bought 5 games and pirated something like 20. So my personal pirating rate is 80%+, but that doesnt mean i would have bought any of the games.. most of them were boring, but i brought 2 after i warez'd them. If i think back and count the games i loved and should have bought vs the games i bought, my lost sales rate is below 50%.
I'm kinda experienced in that pirating stuff, doing it since the good old isdn days, but these days with bittorrent and the pirate bay, pretty much everyone can pirate something if they dare. DRM has never been any issue for me, in the worst case the crack come out a few days after the official release date (gasp!). A few years ago, when there was less pirates and just some simple copy protection, it took alot longer to find a crack. Ok, on Mass Effect with the fancy new securom it almost took two weeks to get a bug-free crack, but on the other hand, many who bought the game also had to wait...
Sooner or later everyone, pirate or not, needs a crack for something: DRM creates pirates, from music to games to video. I remember trying to explain to my mom why she can't copy a CD to leave it in the car (and failing at it)... in the end i just downloaded the album and she became a music pirate (sort of )
Anyways, i think the absolute mayority of game pirates are not against paying for a game in general (i have brought plenty of games myself), but against buying a bug-ridden, boring, unplayable game that is not my taste or doesn't run on my pc ( just the same for music and video ).
Even if DRM worked and prevents me from using a product, leaving me unable to decide if i like it or not, that definitly won't make me buy it blindly...
... on collecting every bad design choice in one place, to serve as a warning to others. Php has beem the prime source for how-not-to's for ages now, and still manage to come up with new stuff.. respect!
The LHC is the greatest achievement of humanity to date, yet every other day someone wants to see it destroy the planet in some new, ridiculus way. In my humble opinion physics is probably the one most complex scientific field ( I studied physics for 2 years before i switched to math and comp sci and the latter are a yummy piece of cake compared to the first ) yet every other crazie (and ofc the media) thinks they know more than 3000++ physicists. I mean seriously, if you want the world destroyed just pick some other cause and enjoy what humanity build ( in these last days of time;-) )
I've never in my life brought a complete (desktop) pc system. Choosing your own parts and assembling them is cheaper and fits your personal needs better anyways (and dead easy too, if you have working eyes and the ability to read). While i didn't exactly assemble my latest pc/first laptop, it's pretty much the same thing: I brought a model by Nexoc, which is basically just a laptop case and you get to choose everything from ram to hds to vga. No OS, no preinstalled crapware, but 300 Euro less than a Dell laptop with the exact same specs ( thou i spend those to add another 2gig ram and a better vga, plus the laptop got tested for free by my retailer ). Installing a OS took like half an hour. How does it get better than that?
What you do is minimizing a logical expression. Think of a sudoku as a list of expressions like "(field_1_is_1 or field_1_is_2 or field_1_is_3 or... ) AND ( field_2_is_1 or.... )/* every number can appear anywhere rule */ AND ( field_1_is 1 XOR field_2_is_1 XOR... )/* numbers are unique per 3x3 box */ AND (... */ numbers are unique per row */ ) AND ( field_43_is_9 AND field_14_is_7 AND... )/*here goes your starting set */
Now since we know that the whole thing has only one solution, this whole thing in 81*9 variables (9 for each number of the 81 fields) has to be equal to a expression like "(field_1_is_7 AND field_2_is_5 AND field_3_is_9 AND... AND field_81_is_3)" which has only 9**2 variables and has a trivial solution (all True) and is the "solution" you seek. So, it's all just minimzing a logical expression, and that is where your "patterns" come from... and as i've shown above, the solution itself is trivial, you just can't see it;P
Sudoku is NP complete. NP completeness means by definition that the problem can be expressed as a SAT problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem). Basically NP complete means that you can see the problem as a black box and only check if a given solution solves the problem. So the usual solution is *not* to write a new program for each np-complete problem, but to express them as a SAT problem and use one highly optimized SAT solver.
Obviously, dpkg does nothing more than solve a SAT problem (Solve: (( libA-v1 AND libA-v1-depencency) OR libA-v2 OR libA-v3) AND (libB-v1) and so on ), and therefore it can be used for any SAT problem.
The funny thing is, without the gag order, it might not have appeared on/., the presentation might not have been posted in the comments and i would have never read it. So this kind of "gag" orders are fine with me, as long as it's "no talking" only. I can read myself:-)
The whole idea is completely ridiculus and stupid. Even if a comitee would allow doping in their competition, the next day a new would be formed to do the same sport, just without doping. So we would end up with the same sport as we have now, plus another league for the sport with people openly doping. Obviously hardly anyone would be in support of the doped sports when you can have normal sport too, so it would shut down soon after. Therefore, even legalizing doping would change nothing ( and the author didnt spend 10 sec to think about the results )...
Seriously, what should happen to google? If you think google will lose your data soon, bet on that on your local stock market. You'll be so rich when that happens that you wouldnt care anymore.
The whole pagerank algorithm is well know and not particulary complex. Implementing it and writing a spider was one of many homeworks i had in my numeric programming course (thou one of the most interesting) Basically you put the probability to get from website A to B into a matrix and find it's eigenvalues (which is best done numeric). Those are the pagerank. What's not so well known is how to find a good set of a few hundred websites out of the trillions of pages your spider indexed to build that matrix...
It's kinda sad that some people here say "if he put it on facebook its his own fault" but most people (aka non-nerds) have no idea why privacy is important at all.
Any information you put online about yourself is a invitation to hurt you in some way or another, be it finacially through identity theft or because the first thing HR does when they see your job application is type your name into google, or physically like the classic myspace-children-predator type...
The point of this article should be "yet another way to get fucked for people with no idea about privacy", not "blah who cares, he's a idiot anyways"
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I love two things about Opera: One is integrated www, email and rss and the other is it that it's one of the most customizable software I've ever seen. You can change *every* keyboard/mouse/mouse-gesture setting and you can customize *every* ui element (and with a good menu to do so, too).
For software i spend hours each day using, like a browser, I think the most important thing is a good user interface - and there is no better one than the one you built yourself. But it kinda makes talking about the interface pointless - spend 10 minutes with it and it will look like (your personal version of) perfection.
Children of Men fits great this time.
Ok, England is an isle, but does that explain why their children seem to be a demonic race of violent criminals from hell that needs constant supervision? How else can you explain that in the rest of the world tries to treat children with love and trust and they pretty much turn out great?
Every time i hear how the UK goverment looks down at and treats their population as if they were savage, violent Untermenschen i wonder how it could come so far. "Wehret den AnfÃngen!" is just a nice local quote, right?
So what will be next? Looking at my own country's history, the next step after demonizing and controlling a group in society was declaring them a treat to society. For the better of themselfes and society as a whole they need to be concentrated, reeducated and prevented from breeding. Oh and then the killing started, but i guess we live in different times now, right?
Imagine Microsoft selecting what apps may be installed on a windows computer. Sure, the scale is much bigger and smartphones are tied very tight to a particular os, but the essence is that Apple can decide what apps can be installed on hardware you've bought ... i think Microsoft got sued for *alot* less. Has really nobody sued them over the appstore yet or did i simply miss it?
kill twitter!
If only compilers could read wikipedia, then they knew that they could inline function calls.
i took a AI course this semester, they recomended this book (AIMA) and gave the book's homepage: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ some sample chapters and links there ...
seriously, is this "article" some bad joke?
I think im a pretty normal gamer, and i think over the last years i bought 5 games and pirated something like 20. So my personal pirating rate is 80%+, but that doesnt mean i would have bought any of the games .. most of them were boring, but i brought 2 after i warez'd them. If i think back and count the games i loved and should have bought vs the games i bought, my lost sales rate is below 50%.
I'm kinda experienced in that pirating stuff, doing it since the good old isdn days, but these days with bittorrent and the pirate bay, pretty much everyone can pirate something if they dare. ...
DRM has never been any issue for me, in the worst case the crack come out a few days after the official release date (gasp!). A few years ago, when there was less pirates and just some simple copy protection, it took alot longer to find a crack. Ok, on Mass Effect with the fancy new securom it almost took two weeks to get a bug-free crack, but on the other hand, many who bought the game also had to wait
Sooner or later everyone, pirate or not, needs a crack for something: DRM creates pirates, from music to games to video. I remember trying to explain to my mom why she can't copy a CD to leave it in the car (and failing at it) ... in the end i just downloaded the album and she became a music pirate (sort of )
Anyways, i think the absolute mayority of game pirates are not against paying for a game in general (i have brought plenty of games myself), but against buying a bug-ridden, boring, unplayable game that is not my taste or doesn't run on my pc ( just the same for music and video ).
Even if DRM worked and prevents me from using a product, leaving me unable to decide if i like it or not, that definitly won't make me buy it blindly ...
... on collecting every bad design choice in one place, to serve as a warning to others. Php has beem the prime source for how-not-to's for ages now, and still manage to come up with new stuff .. respect!
And you missed the whole point of this thing: it's for those too stupid and/or lazy to set up ssl.
The LHC is the greatest achievement of humanity to date, yet every other day someone wants to see it destroy the planet in some new, ridiculus way. In my humble opinion physics is probably the one most complex scientific field ( I studied physics for 2 years before i switched to math and comp sci and the latter are a yummy piece of cake compared to the first ) yet every other crazie (and ofc the media) thinks they know more than 3000++ physicists. ;-) )
I mean seriously, if you want the world destroyed just pick some other cause and enjoy what humanity build ( in these last days of time
I've never in my life brought a complete (desktop) pc system. Choosing your own parts and assembling them is cheaper and fits your personal needs better anyways (and dead easy too, if you have working eyes and the ability to read). While i didn't exactly assemble my latest pc/first laptop, it's pretty much the same thing: I brought a model by Nexoc, which is basically just a laptop case and you get to choose everything from ram to hds to vga.
No OS, no preinstalled crapware, but 300 Euro less than a Dell laptop with the exact same specs ( thou i spend those to add another 2gig ram and a better vga, plus the laptop got tested for free by my retailer ). Installing a OS took like half an hour. How does it get better than that?
What you do is minimizing a logical expression. Think of a sudoku as a list of expressions like "(field_1_is_1 or field_1_is_2 or field_1_is_3 or ... ) AND ( field_2_is_1 or .... ) /* every number can appear anywhere rule */ ... ) /* numbers are unique per 3x3 box */ AND ( ... */ numbers are unique per row */ ) AND ( field_43_is_9 AND field_14_is_7 AND ... ) /*here goes your starting set */
AND ( field_1_is 1 XOR field_2_is_1 XOR
Now since we know that the whole thing has only one solution, this whole thing in 81*9 variables (9 for each number of the 81 fields) has to be equal to a expression like "(field_1_is_7 AND field_2_is_5 AND field_3_is_9 AND ... AND field_81_is_3)" which has only 9**2 variables and has a trivial solution (all True) and is the "solution" you seek. So, it's all just minimzing a logical expression, and that is where your "patterns" come from ... and as i've shown above, the solution itself is trivial, you just can't see it ;P
Sudoku is NP complete. NP completeness means by definition that the problem can be expressed as a SAT problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem). Basically NP complete means that you can see the problem as a black box and only check if a given solution solves the problem.
So the usual solution is *not* to write a new program for each np-complete problem, but to express them as a SAT problem and use one highly optimized SAT solver.
Obviously, dpkg does nothing more than solve a SAT problem (Solve: (( libA-v1 AND libA-v1-depencency) OR libA-v2 OR libA-v3) AND (libB-v1) and so on ), and therefore it can be used for any SAT problem.
... simply make all wiretapping legal! It's brilliant! They really learn from history, and not just their own.
The funny thing is, without the gag order, it might not have appeared on /., the presentation might not have been posted in the comments and i would have never read it. So this kind of "gag" orders are fine with me, as long as it's "no talking" only. I can read myself :-)
The whole idea is completely ridiculus and stupid. Even if a comitee would allow doping in their competition, the next day a new would be formed to do the same sport, just without doping. So we would end up with the same sport as we have now, plus another league for the sport with people openly doping. Obviously hardly anyone would be in support of the doped sports when you can have normal sport too, so it would shut down soon after. Therefore, even legalizing doping would change nothing ( and the author didnt spend 10 sec to think about the results ) ...
Seriously, what should happen to google? If you think google will lose your data soon, bet on that on your local stock market. You'll be so rich when that happens that you wouldnt care anymore.
With every slashdot article they will last longer. Just let them die...
The whole pagerank algorithm is well know and not particulary complex. Implementing it and writing a spider was one of many homeworks i had in my numeric programming course (thou one of the most interesting) Basically you put the probability to get from website A to B into a matrix and find it's eigenvalues (which is best done numeric). Those are the pagerank. ...
What's not so well known is how to find a good set of a few hundred websites out of the trillions of pages your spider indexed to build that matrix
See these:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/ C Style Guide
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ Python Style Guide
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ " Readability counts."
I think python is the one language where "good code==natural code". Can't hurt to read the thoughts behind this ...
It's kinda sad that some people here say "if he put it on facebook its his own fault" but most people (aka non-nerds) have no idea why privacy is important at all.
Any information you put online about yourself is a invitation to hurt you in some way or another, be it finacially through identity theft or because the first thing HR does when they see your job application is type your name into google, or physically like the classic myspace-children-predator type ...
The point of this article should be "yet another way to get fucked for people with no idea about privacy", not "blah who cares, he's a idiot anyways"
I thought this is the internet.
100 feet = 30.48 m
1720 feet = 524.26 m
3000 feet = 914.4 m
4e10 yards**3 = 3.658e10 m**3
7.7 on the Richter scale = 355e9 ton TNT = 1.484e18 J
1. declare him a terrorist
2. torture him
3. ???? [redacted for national security reasons]
4. password!