This is not a personal criticism, just a slight tweak in your wording...
Evolution has nothing to do with producing the "BEST" anything. Evolution produces the "most fit for survival". Saying that "evolution is (...) varying the combination of a lot of existing stuff ever so slightly to see which one produces the best" implies a higher purpose or thought behind the random mutations that evolution exploits. The truth is that most of this "varying" produces less fit entities and they quickly die. That doesn't mean they were worse, just less fit.
There could arise a disease tomorrow that kills off everybody but hemophiliacs. Eventually, only hemophiliacs would survive. Does that make them the "best" humans? No, simply the most fit to survive that particular threat. Think that's a silly example? Tell that to all the people with sickle cell anemia who have a natural resistance to malaria.
Richard Dawkins once said, "It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism". Thinking that evolution produces things which are better is one of those misunderstandings. It simply produces things which are more fit to survive and reproduce given a particular environment.
I'm guessing nobody in your organization has ever developed an embedded app, or you would have industry contacts, real world experience, and better things to do than post this to "Ask Slashdot".
From the summary: "Security-minded laptop users live in fear of theft"
Nice blanket generalization there. I'm security minded, use two laptops, and I don't live in fear. I mitigate risks. I use caution, but I don't live out my life in a state of fear, as your cliche ridden statement says.
Karma be damned, but I'm sick of people who use phrases without thinking what they actually mean.
First, I read something like Olduvai Theory which paints such a dire picture of our civilization, basically proposing that we have collectively "shot our wad", and that we have wasted our one chance at an industrialized society.
Then, Kurzweil paints an equally extreme but opposite view of the world. One is left wondering which to trust more.
I hope Kurzweil is right, but I really worry about a return to the stoneage. I'd make a lousy caveman.
My project was to create a system for algorithmic music composition. My dream was to be able to tweak parameters to generate contextually apropriate soundtracks for video games, or other non-scripted events.
Research involved dealing with music theory, AI, midi, and several languages, including neural networks and ArtIM.
Lots of fun, very stressful waiting for uncertain results, and in the end, I met with limited success, but learned a lot and impressed my professor with my ability to bring multiple ideas and techniques to bear on a problem.
From the second paragraph of the article: " It's unlikely that Intel itself would build such a device."
Then, the article clearly goes on to say that this is a empty plastic shell, designed merely to inspire Intel's partners, not an example of any upcoming Intel product. I guess that doesn't sound as exciting and inflamatory, though.
Dude, relax. They are saying they interviewed 2200 adults. A certain percentage of those reported they were web searchers (probably somewhere near that 1399 number you quoted). Then, of that number, 90% of THEM feel confident in their own searching abilities.
In other words, nothing to see here, move along. Still, it's more fun to blame Pew than your own analytical skills.
The meteor appears about 1 minute into the exposure, but it doesn't take 1 minute for the meteor to cross the field of exposure, which is what you are implying by your "half a hertz" oscillation theory.
Now, the motors could have had a 60 hertz "hum" and the meteor was in the frame for just under half a second. That cycle rate is common for AC in North America, and I can belive a meteor streaking across the sky in half a second more than I can believe it streaked across the sky in a whole minute.
PPP tunnelled over SSH is simple, quick to set up, and works without a hitch. I've used it to connect 20+ locations, and it's just as good as having a dedicated frame link between the sites.
IPSEC (using openeswan or similar) work well, but are in my experience more complicated and harder to maintain than using the PPPoverSSH method.
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
-- Revelation 8, NIV
Here comes the evil space germs to wipe us out. Better get that ark on the moon ready quick.
Rather than portray anyone as a villian, I thought the article did a good job of explaining why the DMCA is so bad, and why we shouldn't endorse government sanctioned monopolies of ideas.
Particularly I thought comparing software interoperability to knock off razor blades effective.
Slashdot Mirror
It's editors all the way down...
If you don't know the answers, why are you selling yourself as an expert to this poor school?
This is not a personal criticism, just a slight tweak in your wording...
Evolution has nothing to do with producing the "BEST" anything. Evolution produces the "most fit for survival". Saying that "evolution is (...) varying the combination of a lot of existing stuff ever so slightly to see which one produces the best" implies a higher purpose or thought behind the random mutations that evolution exploits. The truth is that most of this "varying" produces less fit entities and they quickly die. That doesn't mean they were worse, just less fit.
There could arise a disease tomorrow that kills off everybody but hemophiliacs. Eventually, only hemophiliacs would survive. Does that make them the "best" humans? No, simply the most fit to survive that particular threat. Think that's a silly example? Tell that to all the people with sickle cell anemia who have a natural resistance to malaria.
Richard Dawkins once said, "It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism". Thinking that evolution produces things which are better is one of those misunderstandings. It simply produces things which are more fit to survive and reproduce given a particular environment.
I did not know that Redhat Enterprise 4 was a game.
I can see it now, "Hey, dude, did you see that killer init script I just fragged?"
Sometimes you read the article description, and actually know less than when you started.
This is one of those times.
If you're talent pool is so limited, use MXLogic or PostIni.
We've been using MXLogic for a year, and it works much better than SpamAssassin ever did.
I'm guessing nobody in your organization has ever developed an embedded app, or you would have industry contacts, real world experience, and better things to do than post this to "Ask Slashdot".
You've only got 35 users?
LOL
From the summary: "Security-minded laptop users live in fear of theft"
Nice blanket generalization there. I'm security minded, use two laptops, and I don't live in fear. I mitigate risks. I use caution, but I don't live out my life in a state of fear, as your cliche ridden statement says.
Karma be damned, but I'm sick of people who use phrases without thinking what they actually mean.
Excellent point. It would be nice to find some recent data to compare.
First, I read something like Olduvai Theory which paints such a dire picture of our civilization, basically proposing that we have collectively "shot our wad", and that we have wasted our one chance at an industrialized society.
Then, Kurzweil paints an equally extreme but opposite view of the world. One is left wondering which to trust more.
I hope Kurzweil is right, but I really worry about a return to the stoneage. I'd make a lousy caveman.
My project was to create a system for algorithmic music composition. My dream was to be able to tweak parameters to generate contextually apropriate soundtracks for video games, or other non-scripted events.
Research involved dealing with music theory, AI, midi, and several languages, including neural networks and ArtIM.
Lots of fun, very stressful waiting for uncertain results, and in the end, I met with limited success, but learned a lot and impressed my professor with my ability to bring multiple ideas and techniques to bear on a problem.
Amen to that. Damned if I want to deal with it!
Alarm companies will sell you a monitored service to do just what you want.
That's what we use.
Fools shop at ThinkGeek!
(don't mod me down, that's what the shirt says)
From the second paragraph of the article: " It's unlikely that Intel itself would build such a device."
Then, the article clearly goes on to say that this is a empty plastic shell, designed merely to inspire Intel's partners, not an example of any upcoming Intel product. I guess that doesn't sound as exciting and inflamatory, though.
92% of web searchers
Dude, relax. They are saying they interviewed 2200 adults. A certain percentage of those reported they were web searchers (probably somewhere near that 1399 number you quoted). Then, of that number, 90% of THEM feel confident in their own searching abilities.
In other words, nothing to see here, move along. Still, it's more fun to blame Pew than your own analytical skills.
The meteor appears about 1 minute into the exposure, but it doesn't take 1 minute for the meteor to cross the field of exposure, which is what you are implying by your "half a hertz" oscillation theory.
Now, the motors could have had a 60 hertz "hum" and the meteor was in the frame for just under half a second. That cycle rate is common for AC in North America, and I can belive a meteor streaking across the sky in half a second more than I can believe it streaked across the sky in a whole minute.
The article is rather vague, but I would be interested in whether the man knew the game he had purchased was a bootleg.
PPP tunnelled over SSH is simple, quick to set up, and works without a hitch. I've used it to connect 20+ locations, and it's just as good as having a dedicated frame link between the sites.
IPSEC (using openeswan or similar) work well, but are in my experience more complicated and harder to maintain than using the PPPoverSSH method.
Both of these are free.
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
-- Revelation 8, NIV
Here comes the evil space germs to wipe us out. Better get that ark on the moon ready quick.
Rather than portray anyone as a villian, I thought the article did a good job of explaining why the DMCA is so bad, and why we shouldn't endorse government sanctioned monopolies of ideas.
Particularly I thought comparing software interoperability to knock off razor blades effective.
Because it would be computationally expensive to check the validity of the hash on the receiving end.
:D
It's a one way proof of work, not bi-directional make-work. What do you think this is, a government job?
The only problem with Apple is that I lust after them.
Now, my 40GB iPod is obsolete! I must have the yellow one.