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Erm...
The ability to extract a certain set of characters from mangled patterns included in an image is not necessarily a task that humans should have an advantage in.
I am pretty sure that it would take a human significantly more time to deny/allow a user access, based on biometric data such as fingerprints or a voice pattern.
A computer has to extract the data from a very limited (a small image) sample, and is 100% "sure" that all extracted data falls within a very limited predefined set of results - the alphabet.
A (very) well written algorithm can easily have an edge on most humans.
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
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Ender in Exile
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Ender's game, and many years later, Ender's Shadow, were two good books.
The other six books, 3 in the original and 3 in the shadow series are written with even less talent that Douglas Adam's later books.
If anything south Osetia are the last people anyone should feel sorry for.
Osetia and Abhazia are populated by very brutal, stupid and separatists people. They can't get
along among themselves at all.
They poked Georgia for a long time now, raid here, killing there. Guerrilla generally.
Georgia got fed up, and retaliated with full Army force, like any country should when it's fed up. They didn't hit hard enough, but they did invade well.
Russia came to the defense of the pretty much defenseless but annoying Osetians, and reacted like it should, by attacking with full force against the (rightful) aggressors.
It's completely offtopic, no need to tell me that, thank you.
This is not the US. Terrorism is not a boogie-man, and as you are probably aware, we are educated to go on with our lives and not go into panic every time a rocket hits. Regardless of why, terrorism is not the imaginary American terrorism you are probably referring to.
IDF is not IDF. IDF are the people that serve in it. And by removing yourself from the pool, you remove another person that could act in the way you consider fit for an IDF soldier to act.
Either way, as they say , for every two Israelis, there are at least three opinions.
This thing probably won't pass.
I know that for Americans it's very hard to understand, but being a liberal and serving in an elite combat unit goes hand in hand here.
If you don't believe me, just read the news stories, and the bios of the kidnapped soldiers. The front lines are CEOs, lawyers, scientists, mathematicians, accountants and what not. The middle+ class are the people that go to war. The most leftist and liberal leaders were always the best generals - Rabin (Oslo) , Barak (pulled out of Lebanon), and in his last years, Ariel Sharon who pulled out of Gaza. And most importantly, there is not a single religious general, and Israel never had a religious leader.
I design complex real-time control systems (Mostly based on PIC/NEC/Toshiba ), and like any Israeli, for 28 days a year, I become a soldier. Despite what you may or may not understand about our society, chances are that there is plenty of holes in your understanding how this microscopic 5 million people country works. But point is, nobody here trusts the government, the current government is extremely weak, and on the verge of being replaced. This thing will not pass. Most people here read 1984 =).
You sir, are an idiot. "Worth" is not revenue. A company can be worth 10 billion, and not generate any revenue at all (bubbles...). I suggest you re-read what I wrote
I am going to be modded down for this, because there is no "+1 I hate this person and he is fucking wrong" mod thingy.
I agree with you, that our great challenges are sociological, economical and political. But Thing is, we are already living in the peaceful times in human history. We have not a single real war outside of Africa. If you think I am wrong, I advise you to take a few history classes. But the real social challenge is moving away from democracy and capitalism, and embracing a more advanced model which does not revolve around individualism and revenue. Of course, the USSR stands as shining beacon of colossal failure, which simply makes communism and the lack of individual rights look bad, and it pisses me off even more to see China "opening up" instead of other countries taking its model and improving it. Democracy is not the end of political and social evolution. Nothing truly great can be achieved as long as we act as individuals.
It realy "grinds my gears" to see bright people waste their valuable time on Web/Social/Communication applications. If one thing in the world is currently going well, it's that field. That field has been developing well, there are plenty of bright minds working on it, no need to direct more geniuses that way.
Let them work on REAL challenges. Like better engines (we've been using the same combustion engine for 100 years now), better flight (which as not progressed much since WW2 jets), new energy sources (we never went beyond nuclear, which was 60 years ago). Why not let them work on wireless power, on indoor agriculture, desalinization technologies ? REAL challenges, not some hyper-popular niche that doesn't suffer from the lack of talented people.
GOOG is an advertising platform, not just advertising space. The entire market of internet advertising (70%+ ?) flows through google's pipes. The revenue of the entire internet advertising market is smaller than HP's revenue.
Free = marketing. Just like you give away free commercials - you pay a million dollar for making a good commercial, another million to air it, but you do not charge your potential costumers any money. They get to enjoy the commercial for free. Wohooo.
When I come to/. , I get to enjoy content. Because this content is delivered to me assuming a certain CPM value, which makes having a site like/. profitable. But thing is, end of the day, the economics of "free" is just the market of marketing and advertisement. Giving things away in order to get the people to get other things for money.
To remind you all, advertising is not where the money is at. NewEgg, priceline, travelocity, amazon , each make more than x4 the money facebook/myspace digg/youtube/ or any large advertising space makes. Money is in the products, not advertising. Giving away things for free, be it CDs or letting you watch 0:30 commercials, are just marketing tools, and are not part of the "real" economy, meaning the actualy products we are expected to consume eventually.
You are wrong. You do not have to be different or have different knowledge from others. Buying GOOG stock early or investing in stocks that pay good dividends are examples of decisions that are made based on public info- there is plenty of money that can be made using normal, publicly available information. Investing in penny stocks and day-trading are completely different issues of course.
Nowadays, people who could have made a real change by marching in the streets, burning tires and protesting these horrible things, simply type away furiously, and think that someone cares.
The Internet is a microscopic, meaningless medium for message delivery, and nothing proves it better than Ron Paul. You want to make a change? Stop blogging, making videos and writing articles, and start fighting with legislation, with money, with burning tires and real 100,000 people marches. The Internet created this idiotic illusion that a bunch of people supporting each other can make a difference. Well here's your fucking wake-up call. Reality has not changed.
I am not from the US, and what's "worse" I am from Israel, but it saddens me to see your nation giving up so many values that has made it great. AND IT'S YOUR FUCKING FAULT, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING.
a) Who said I use ANY libraries when I write C ?
b) Who said there is an OS ?!
When writing Java, you will always have both. This is not an eviroment that a starting programmer should first be introduced to. A person that is unable to write a driver or low-level library from scratch, should not be starting his education by using one.
That's bullshit
C is a perfect beginner's language. When something is wrong, you know that YOU did it, not the compiler, not some class or wrapper or interface you have never seen, not the VM, or some bug or leak or god knows what. I write for real-time control systems (thermal/air/chemical, etc...) in C , for PIC and NEC microcontrollers, and I've written Java servlets and PHP (5, OO) for myself. When I write something like shortPointer=&(BYTE *)&Short_Transmission+2 I know exactly where I point, what kind of data is there, how I handle it and what can change it. If something is messed up, I KNOW I did it, and I shouldn't google around for workaround, a bug fix or some undocumented feature. Learning programming should start from the point where you have full control over your code and data, and build up to the level of Java, where very often you handle little more than instances of objects that you just happen to understand enough to use.
There is a reason why we are stuck in one place for 40 years. Same energy sources, same engines, same everything, just improvement but no innovation. Brightest minds busy improving mobile phones and thinking of cute ways to abuse AJAX instead of brining real solutions to the world. You had TV ? No you get it Flat ! You had audio recording ? Now get it digital !
It used to be - "Now we can fly !" "We have entered space !" "Nuclear Power is here" .
We are living in the most boring times in the last 200 years.
He did take it well.
Norris even cited the facts he likes best.
But they are not publishing the book as some joke, these are not a bunch of teens that happen to like Norris jokes and just give out copies of their collection.
It's a bunch of businessmen, that are about to make good money on the back of Norris and the people that wrote all those jokes.
Slashdot Mirror
Hello :)
It is currently available in Europe. For at least one person in Spain, fore sure
Howdy. Bit self-promotional... but.. Read my blog. It is the best StarCraft Blog on the web. :)
I am in the beta, all the info that was published this month (including the massive SC2 Beta FAQ) is there, system requirements, screenshots, and will soon be posting replays/videos. Currently 500 users online, so I can handle bit of slashdotting
Cheers.
Yeah, we don't appreciate Apple products over here.
Erm...
The ability to extract a certain set of characters from mangled patterns included in an image is not necessarily a task that humans should have an advantage in. I am pretty sure that it would take a human significantly more time to deny/allow a user access, based on biometric data such as fingerprints or a voice pattern.
A computer has to extract the data from a very limited (a small image) sample, and is 100% "sure" that all extracted data falls within a very limited predefined set of results - the alphabet.
A (very) well written algorithm can easily have an edge on most humans.
Ender's game, and many years later, Ender's Shadow, were two good books.
The other six books, 3 in the original and 3 in the shadow series are written with even less talent that Douglas Adam's later books.
There are no Stupid Starcraft Tricks.
There's no need for that, we already have the answer (see title).
Mod parent recursive !!!
If anything south Osetia are the last people anyone should feel sorry for.
Osetia and Abhazia are populated by very brutal, stupid and separatists people. They can't get along among themselves at all.
They poked Georgia for a long time now, raid here, killing there. Guerrilla generally. Georgia got fed up, and retaliated with full Army force, like any country should when it's fed up. They didn't hit hard enough, but they did invade well.
Russia came to the defense of the pretty much defenseless but annoying Osetians, and reacted like it should, by attacking with full force against the (rightful) aggressors.
It's completely offtopic, no need to tell me that, thank you.
This is not the US. Terrorism is not a boogie-man, and as you are probably aware, we are educated to go on with our lives and not go into panic every time a rocket hits. Regardless of why, terrorism is not the imaginary American terrorism you are probably referring to.
IDF is not IDF. IDF are the people that serve in it. And by removing yourself from the pool, you remove another person that could act in the way you consider fit for an IDF soldier to act.
Either way, as they say , for every two Israelis, there are at least three opinions.
This thing probably won't pass. I know that for Americans it's very hard to understand, but being a liberal and serving in an elite combat unit goes hand in hand here.
If you don't believe me, just read the news stories, and the bios of the kidnapped soldiers. The front lines are CEOs, lawyers, scientists, mathematicians, accountants and what not. The middle+ class are the people that go to war. The most leftist and liberal leaders were always the best generals - Rabin (Oslo) , Barak (pulled out of Lebanon), and in his last years, Ariel Sharon who pulled out of Gaza. And most importantly, there is not a single religious general, and Israel never had a religious leader.
I design complex real-time control systems (Mostly based on PIC/NEC/Toshiba ), and like any Israeli, for 28 days a year, I become a soldier. Despite what you may or may not understand about our society, chances are that there is plenty of holes in your understanding how this microscopic 5 million people country works.
But point is, nobody here trusts the government, the current government is extremely weak, and on the verge of being replaced. This thing will not pass. Most people here read 1984 =).
You sir, are an idiot. "Worth" is not revenue. A company can be worth 10 billion, and not generate any revenue at all (bubbles ...). I suggest you re-read what I wrote
I am going to be modded down for this, because there is no "+1 I hate this person and he is fucking wrong" mod thingy.
I agree with you, that our great challenges are sociological, economical and political. But Thing is, we are already living in the peaceful times in human history. We have not a single real war outside of Africa. If you think I am wrong, I advise you to take a few history classes.
But the real social challenge is moving away from democracy and capitalism, and embracing a more advanced model which does not revolve around individualism and revenue. Of course, the USSR stands as shining beacon of colossal failure, which simply makes communism and the lack of individual rights look bad, and it pisses me off even more to see China "opening up" instead of other countries taking its model and improving it. Democracy is not the end of political and social evolution. Nothing truly great can be achieved as long as we act as individuals.
It realy "grinds my gears" to see bright people waste their valuable time on Web/Social/Communication applications. If one thing in the world is currently going well, it's that field. That field has been developing well, there are plenty of bright minds working on it, no need to direct more geniuses that way.
Let them work on REAL challenges. Like better engines (we've been using the same combustion engine for 100 years now), better flight (which as not progressed much since WW2 jets), new energy sources (we never went beyond nuclear, which was 60 years ago). Why not let them work on wireless power, on indoor agriculture, desalinization technologies ? REAL challenges, not some hyper-popular niche that doesn't suffer from the lack of talented people.
GOOG is an advertising platform, not just advertising space. The entire market of internet advertising (70%+ ?) flows through google's pipes. The revenue of the entire internet advertising market is smaller than HP's revenue.
Free = marketing. Just like you give away free commercials - you pay a million dollar for making a good commercial, another million to air it, but you do not charge your potential costumers any money. They get to enjoy the commercial for free. Wohooo. /. , I get to enjoy content. Because this content is delivered to me assuming a certain CPM value, which makes having a site like /. profitable. But thing is, end of the day, the economics of "free" is just the market of marketing and advertisement. Giving things away in order to get the people to get other things for money.
When I come to
To remind you all, advertising is not where the money is at. NewEgg, priceline, travelocity, amazon , each make more than x4 the money facebook/myspace digg/youtube/ or any large advertising space makes. Money is in the products, not advertising. Giving away things for free, be it CDs or letting you watch 0:30 commercials, are just marketing tools, and are not part of the "real" economy, meaning the actualy products we are expected to consume eventually.
08
Doh =(
1) Win format war
2) ???!?!?!?!?!
3) Profit
Step 2 is uncharted territory, my friends
You are wrong.
You do not have to be different or have different knowledge from others. Buying GOOG stock early or investing in stocks that pay good dividends are examples of decisions that are made based on public info- there is plenty of money that can be made using normal, publicly available information. Investing in penny stocks and day-trading are completely different issues of course.
Nowadays, people who could have made a real change by marching in the streets, burning tires and protesting these horrible things, simply type away furiously, and think that someone cares.
The Internet is a microscopic, meaningless medium for message delivery, and nothing proves it better than Ron Paul. You want to make a change? Stop blogging, making videos and writing articles, and start fighting with legislation, with money, with burning tires and real 100,000 people marches. The Internet created this idiotic illusion that a bunch of people supporting each other can make a difference. Well here's your fucking wake-up call. Reality has not changed.
I am not from the US, and what's "worse" I am from Israel, but it saddens me to see your nation giving up so many values that has made it great.
AND IT'S YOUR FUCKING FAULT, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING.
Don't count other people's money. What do you care how much they make off Linux
a) Who said I use ANY libraries when I write C ?
b) Who said there is an OS ?!
When writing Java, you will always have both. This is not an eviroment that a starting programmer should first be introduced to. A person that is unable to write a driver or low-level library from scratch, should not be starting his education by using one.
That's bullshit
C is a perfect beginner's language. When something is wrong, you know that YOU did it, not the compiler, not some class or wrapper or interface you have never seen, not the VM, or some bug or leak or god knows what.
I write for real-time control systems (thermal/air/chemical, etc...) in C , for PIC and NEC microcontrollers, and I've written Java servlets and PHP (5, OO) for myself.
When I write something like
shortPointer=&(BYTE *)&Short_Transmission+2
I know exactly where I point, what kind of data is there, how I handle it and what can change it. If something is messed up, I KNOW I did it, and I shouldn't google around for workaround, a bug fix or some undocumented feature.
Learning programming should start from the point where you have full control over your code and data, and build up to the level of Java, where very often you handle little more than instances of objects that you just happen to understand enough to use.
There is a reason why we are stuck in one place for 40 years. Same energy sources, same engines, same everything, just improvement but no innovation. Brightest minds busy improving mobile phones and thinking of cute ways to abuse AJAX instead of brining real solutions to the world. You had TV ? No you get it Flat ! You had audio recording ? Now get it digital ! It used to be - "Now we can fly !" "We have entered space !" "Nuclear Power is here" . We are living in the most boring times in the last 200 years.
I use IE7 (due to policies and ) at work and FF at home. Why am I stupid ?
He did take it well.
Norris even cited the facts he likes best.
But they are not publishing the book as some joke, these are not a bunch of teens that happen to like Norris jokes and just give out copies of their collection.
It's a bunch of businessmen, that are about to make good money on the back of Norris and the people that wrote all those jokes.