Well, judging by the name alone, not supporting the PATRIOT act is also very unpatriotic!
My point is, there are many articles in a law, and some of them may cover such cases, and that's up to the judge to decide. Judging by the name of the law is simply not enough.
Moreover, disconecting you because you infringed copyrights is illegal, if they do not prove that you really do it (otherwise it must be some kind of libel or defamation, but IANAL). And if they do prove it, that is going to be a bigger problem for you than lack of internet;).
Yeah, me too. I also want to have more software bundled with windows. Like a good text editor. Better browser, better file handling tools, and so much more.
The problem is, you and me and everybody else will have to suffer on that account. The thing is, monopolies are bad and are the worst, when they come to bundling. Yes, the consumer will have to put up with this FOR HIS OWN GOOD! For their future good. Yeah, that is bad, yes, it sucks donkey b.lls even. But somebody with better understanding of economy has decided that a long ago AND we can check to see that he is right.
And how on earth are they supposed to include the apps their users expect without "using your OS monopoly to out-compete other app vendors"?
By not using your monopoly OS.
Actually, do you know how antitrust laws first came into being? It is actually a tale about oil. The Rockfeller family with their company American Oil owned the whole american market and a good share of the world's. The politicans realised that they could bring down the government and the whole country, so they created the laws and ordered a split.
Despite seacrhing for an explanation, I've never understood this. How is this done? What does it do? And why is it done?
Exchange rate fixation. Countries do it all the time. Our currency (BGN, Bulgarian lev) is fixed to the euro. Naturally you accomplish it by saying you exchange levs for Euro unrestricted for this fixed prices. China also does it, but it is not only the dollar, but a whole basket of currencies. See http://en.wikipedia.com/Renminbi for more details on the yuan. Moreover, china does it by outlawing all exchanges of yuan except by their central bank, so the chinese currency is not free tradeable.
Why do it? When you have a country which is very important in terms of export or import, you don't want to disturb the economy with price fluctuations (USA/China rings any bell)? The british pound is a very strong example. They don't want to join the eurozone (the countries, that use euro as primary currency) because the dollar/euro is fluctuating very much. If they adopted the euro, now they would have gotten very strong euro vs dollar, which is BAD for exports to USA (the primary export destination). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday is a story about their last attempt to fix the pound to the euro.
(a) or (b) would create enough FUD for "terrorists" to actually distrust Skype as a communication medium. Don't worry, if it is good enough for the terrorists, it ought to be good enough for me.
Yeah, you're right!!!
More to the point, if you are smart and want to use pointers in C++, maybe use the concept of smart pointers. It is still faster and you take advantage of C++'s most unnoticed feature - that a destructor of a local object is called even when traversing the stack by the exception. It is EASY to write good code, just do practice, god dammit!!! Read! Think!
My worst problem with java is the unresponsive interface. The GC seems to be is always called when the menu is supposed to pop-up instantly!? Fuck it, why not just use C++.
(Unfortunately I am stuck with Delphi in my work, so I'm screwed...)
it's already not suitable for vegetarians. I thought vegans were just a subset of vegetarians, not an alternate name. My understanding has been that vegetarians are against eating meat, while vegans are against anything that harms animals. Are all vegans vegetarians? Are all vegetarians vegans? The bastards!!! They are harming (and hating) the poor plants!
If you'd actually read the comment you'd have noticed the bit where he said the salesman lied to him. Perhaps in america this behaviour is considered acceptable, but in normal human society it is not. I so much agree with you, man. Unfortunately:
1) everybody does it (lies to get their product sold) And the worst is
2) there is not a single thing you can do about it.
Actually the best thing you can do is share your bad experiences with your friends and coleagues so they can make the better decision, and thus getting a revenge (however small it is). And yes, do read everything you sign up for, *INCLUDING* the small print. Now that I think of it, especially the small print. So you can sue them. BTW if they reply to you "Term and Conditions", it's best if you know them, don't you think? And always ask to show *EXACTLY* where it is written they can do such and such, because they, you know, could be lying...
Sure, the euro (monetary unit) is doing well due to tight control, but I'm not so sure the union will hold up. You are just adding another layer of bureaucracy, another layer of law, another layer of taxation (indirectly) to some of the already highest taxed nations in the world. Something's gotta give. Can't find if those tax rates include the Universal Health Care in most of Europe, or not. Remember, it is about 10 percent tax on the income...
What can or can't be done within the borders of a particular
jurisdiction is up to that jurisdiction to decide. I know there is a principle known as sovereignity, so I asked a layer once and he said that in international law practice an international treaty triumphs local laws. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it does have a point.
The models for "solved" games like tic-tac-toe and checkers aren't wrong. They exhaustively map out all possible game states. There is no difference between the model and the game. So that is not a model. It can be argued that tic-tac-toe's mathematical (logical) representation is the game (not a model of the game, the game itself). But if you take the game to be the physical process, then the model is wrong in the sense that you can put the wrong markings, fold the paper, destroy it... there is something that is not part of the model (so it's wrong in this sense).
Most (if not all games) can be boiled down to mathematical models... Well... everything can be boiled down to a mathematical model. But all models are wrong (though some are useful).
... (this does not apply to things like soccer, football, etc. of course). Dead wrong. Yes, Go is easier to model directly (a game is a direct mathematical construct after all), but with the same kind of computing power to crack it we'd have one hell of a goof approximation of reality (in other words, a model).
Right now, we simply don't have the computing power to evaluate all the possible Go game branches fast enough. You're right, but perhaps the problem could be much easily solved with stuff like AI, than brute forcing. With that kind of processing power AI would seem far easier to implement, don't you think?
Give it 5-10 years. Just as IBM's supercomputer was able to go head to head with a grandmaster, soon processing power (as well as memory and other support systems required) will push past what is needed for Go to be evaluated extremely fast in silicon. Well... you know that 10^60 means that RSA checksums could be easily cracked and 10^70 is the number of elementary particles in the universe. Can NEVER get that amount of memory
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... What you do is design a nice directed heuristic, say, a multi objective algorithm, and train this to compute a reasonable set of possible moves from the current state. There is no need to describe an idea end state, just a decent ongoing performance requirement. Let me just tell you that a stone displaced by a mere one position can lead to very, very sure loss. Besides heuristics are good when we have at better understanding of the mechanics. All top books and players about go talk about "harmony", "beauty", "balance"... let's just fix what the bleep are we talking about and THEN teach it to a computer, shall we? The theory is more of meditation than a strategy guide.
Multi objective algorithms are fearsomely hard creatures to get right, but when working they can do great things. Use one to train a neural network with temporal properties (bases current decisions on past inputs at all positrons simultaneously), and you have a means to achieve a decent setup. It would take a long time to get right though. Please give me sources for the things you mentioned, couldn't understand a thing. Go is a game with "only" about 200 plausible positions for each turn, and let me assure you, the slightest error is more than enough to decide the outcome.
Go is too complex for a total understanding, if ever there were an NP complete problem, this is it. thats why we have evolutionary algorithms. best solution? don't care about them, best possible in reasonable time? That'll do nicely. Are you sure you know what NP-complete is? Because it has nothing to do with game theory.
You are right about evolutionary algorithms, they could be used to solve the game. If you have the computational power to let them evolve, that is.
Go is believed by many to be the last bastion of man's mind after what Deep Blue did could be accurately described as "beat the crap out of" Kasparov. I do believe we'll have to develop an AI before the computers get good enough to beat the world champion in Go.
Now, if NASA's budget had been cut as a result of the war, then you would have a point. But, as I stated, it wasn't. And even if the war had never happened, NASA's budget would not be any different than it is right now. Actually yes, it was cut because of the war. Cut as "less than they need to finish what they want and should do". As were so many other things from your nation's budget. I completely agree if it wasn't for the war the money would still not go to NASA, and even more, the war in Iraq is a sound decision made to shut the people's mouths by using the mantra "terorism" and to prevent the total collapse of your economy caused by the rising oil prices. Nevertheless, things COULD be different and just a day without war would increase the budget for NASA enormously. It is not pointless, I say it to give a little prespective. No, I don't need to bash Bush or any of his cronies, for that is your job to do it. Actually, I kind of hate him for what he does in the middle east, but that is not what the discussion is all about.
You're spending almost *THREE* fuckin' billion dollars a *DAY* on the war, and yet a mere billion a year for NASA is much money?! Yeah, right! Half of your research is getting done there, imagine with the funding for the war you could have established a permanent base on Mars for less than a year!
A number of years ago the late Dr. Robert L. Forward published some notions about this Question:
"How did the Big Bang get around the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy?"
Why do you think it got around them? The net sum of the mass and energy in the universe is zero, because the potential gravitational energy of a new piece of matter is negative, and the energy equivalent of the mass is positive and coincidentialy they zero out each other (They do, ok. I don't have the computations, but I did read it somewhere. A book or wikipedia, pick your poison). In other words, the Universe came out of nothing, and that's perfectly fine by the laws of physics.
For all that we didn't have negative particles and other too complex concepts. Well, it is funnier with laws of conservation of the barionic number for example, but that's a whole other story...
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Well, judging by the name alone, not supporting the PATRIOT act is also very unpatriotic! My point is, there are many articles in a law, and some of them may cover such cases, and that's up to the judge to decide. Judging by the name of the law is simply not enough.
Well, won't an official unlocking tool be a breach of their contract with AT&T?
A not-official one would certainly not moot the case at all, since it voids the warranty.
Moreover, disconecting you because you infringed copyrights is illegal, if they do not prove that you really do it (otherwise it must be some kind of libel or defamation, but IANAL). And if they do prove it, that is going to be a bigger problem for you than lack of internet ;).
The poor guys :(.
Yeah, me too. I also want to have more software bundled with windows. Like a good text editor. Better browser, better file handling tools, and so much more.
The problem is, you and me and everybody else will have to suffer on that account. The thing is, monopolies are bad and are the worst, when they come to bundling. Yes, the consumer will have to put up with this FOR HIS OWN GOOD! For their future good. Yeah, that is bad, yes, it sucks donkey b.lls even. But somebody with better understanding of economy has decided that a long ago AND we can check to see that he is right.
... just some poor uninformed guy. Here, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Negative_aspects to realize why a monopoly is a bad thing. No, wait, have you ever heard of OPEC? They are pretty close on that one, don't you know what they can do to your economy?
By not using your monopoly OS.
Actually, do you know how antitrust laws first came into being? It is actually a tale about oil. The Rockfeller family with their company American Oil owned the whole american market and a good share of the world's. The politicans realised that they could bring down the government and the whole country, so they created the laws and ordered a split.
Exchange rate fixation. Countries do it all the time. Our currency (BGN, Bulgarian lev) is fixed to the euro. Naturally you accomplish it by saying you exchange levs for Euro unrestricted for this fixed prices. China also does it, but it is not only the dollar, but a whole basket of currencies. See http://en.wikipedia.com/Renminbi for more details on the yuan. Moreover, china does it by outlawing all exchanges of yuan except by their central bank, so the chinese currency is not free tradeable.
Why do it? When you have a country which is very important in terms of export or import, you don't want to disturb the economy with price fluctuations (USA/China rings any bell)? The british pound is a very strong example. They don't want to join the eurozone (the countries, that use euro as primary currency) because the dollar/euro is fluctuating very much. If they adopted the euro, now they would have gotten very strong euro vs dollar, which is BAD for exports to USA (the primary export destination). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday is a story about their last attempt to fix the pound to the euro.
OMFG!!! Fat free means the icecream, not you ... thet are using corn syrup!!!
Yeah, you're right!!! More to the point, if you are smart and want to use pointers in C++, maybe use the concept of smart pointers. It is still faster and you take advantage of C++'s most unnoticed feature - that a destructor of a local object is called even when traversing the stack by the exception. It is EASY to write good code, just do practice, god dammit!!! Read! Think! My worst problem with java is the unresponsive interface. The GC seems to be is always called when the menu is supposed to pop-up instantly!? Fuck it, why not just use C++. (Unfortunately I am stuck with Delphi in my work, so I'm screwed...)
Why are you anonymous? He sure IS an asshole.
This is a good one. I use it regularly.
1) everybody does it (lies to get their product sold)
And the worst is
2) there is not a single thing you can do about it.
Actually the best thing you can do is share your bad experiences with your friends and coleagues so they can make the better decision, and thus getting a revenge (however small it is). And yes, do read everything you sign up for, *INCLUDING* the small print. Now that I think of it, especially the small print. So you can sue them. BTW if they reply to you "Term and Conditions", it's best if you know them, don't you think? And always ask to show *EXACTLY* where it is written they can do such and such, because they, you know, could be lying
jurisdiction is up to that jurisdiction to decide. I know there is a principle known as sovereignity, so I asked a layer once and he said that in international law practice an international treaty triumphs local laws. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it does have a point.
... (this does not apply to things like soccer, football, etc. of course). Dead wrong. Yes, Go is easier to model directly (a game is a direct mathematical construct after all), but with the same kind of computing power to crack it we'd have one hell of a goof approximation of reality (in other words, a model). Right now, we simply don't have the computing power to evaluate all the possible Go game branches fast enough. You're right, but perhaps the problem could be much easily solved with stuff like AI, than brute forcing. With that kind of processing power AI would seem far easier to implement, don't you think? Give it 5-10 years. Just as IBM's supercomputer was able to go head to head with a grandmaster, soon processing power (as well as memory and other support systems required) will push past what is needed for Go to be evaluated extremely fast in silicon. Well
... What you do is design a nice directed heuristic, say, a multi objective algorithm, and train this to compute a reasonable set of possible moves from the current state. There is no need to describe an idea end state, just a decent ongoing performance requirement. Let me just tell you that a stone displaced by a mere one position can lead to very, very sure loss. Besides heuristics are good when we have at better understanding of the mechanics. All top books and players about go talk about "harmony", "beauty", "balance"You are right about evolutionary algorithms, they could be used to solve the game. If you have the computational power to let them evolve, that is.
Go is believed by many to be the last bastion of man's mind after what Deep Blue did could be accurately described as "beat the crap out of" Kasparov. I do believe we'll have to develop an AI before the computers get good enough to beat the world champion in Go.
No, I don't need to bash Bush or any of his cronies, for that is your job to do it. Actually, I kind of hate him for what he does in the middle east, but that is not what the discussion is all about.
You're spending almost *THREE* fuckin' billion dollars a *DAY* on the war, and yet a mere billion a year for NASA is much money?! Yeah, right! Half of your research is getting done there, imagine with the funding for the war you could have established a permanent base on Mars for less than a year!
Sure. It's your right to be deluded as much as you like.
"How did the Big Bang get around the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy?"
Why do you think it got around them? The net sum of the mass and energy in the universe is zero, because the potential gravitational energy of a new piece of matter is negative, and the energy equivalent of the mass is positive and coincidentialy they zero out each other (They do, ok. I don't have the computations, but I did read it somewhere. A book or wikipedia, pick your poison). In other words, the Universe came out of nothing, and that's perfectly fine by the laws of physics.
For all that we didn't have negative particles and other too complex concepts. Well, it is funnier with laws of conservation of the barionic number for example, but that's a whole other story...