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Other than that, you'll just have to wait since, unfortunately, OpenOffice is not yet sufficiently compatible with Microsoft Office to replicate the latter's vulnerabilities in their entirety. But we are working on it!
This example should resonate with the Slashdot demographic: would you prefer an oscilloscope that has 4 buttons and knobs or 40? Would you prefer cat or vim as your text editor. Would you prefer a mouse with 1 or 3 buttons? (Full disclosure: my mouse has 12)
My apologies, I do not know for certain what I saw except that I was told it had a cusom 10k RPM drive and it was incredibly fast.
1. The laptop was a 17" "desktop replacement" kind... Could they perhaps use 3.5" drives? I have no idea. 2. It was NOT an ultra3, but I hear one can put a SAS drive into that. 3. scsi>sata adapter? You would need to make your own to fit that into a laptop, but IC diagrams are available for the solder-happy geniuses out there... 4. Of course it's also likely I am so thick I did not notice my leg being pulled?
In a race situation, especially one with moving obstacles, that's just not an option.
Isn't this DARPA challenge supposed to be looking for novel, revolutionary, out-of-the-box solutions to dealing with moving obstacles, unstable road, and confusing nav clues at 10 mph?
Oh, here is one: how about you let the robots drive a GPS-equipped BULLDOZER!
So, the 1 Terrabyte array I have now, when I decide I need more room, I can swap out the disks (one at a time, letting it rebuild), and when I'm done, I can have 2 Terrabytes, perhaps more
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No, you will not get "more room". You will still have 1 Terrabyte of the same data copied out over more disks, but still only 1 Terrabyte.
As I understand, insects/flies use (controllably) sticky adhesive, while lizzards use "velcro". One needs regular cleaning (that's what the flies do) while the other does not.
I know you are just kidding, but if you think about it, robotic driving is not rocket science, exactly.
If you think about it, all the robotic drivers in computer games such as Grand Theft Auto are pretty damn good, and can follow rules and stick to routes much better than their human opponents. So, driving/navigation algorythms have been developed a decade ago, all they need is a good way to recognize their surroundings.
With this in mind, this whole driving challenge is a problem no different from OCR or voice recognition.
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Per capita Sweden has about the most Nobel laureates!
1 United States 160
2 United Kingdom 110
3 Germany 94
4 France 54 5 Sweden 27
6 Switzerland 25
7 USSR and Russia 21
As someone mentioned here, the corporations will never finance "pie in the sky" fundamental research efforts. A few exceptions to this (e.g. Bell Labs) rather reinforce the point.
My major is transitioning to new fields, particularly bioengineering and nanotechnology design and fabrication, which may be supporting your point, but OTOH the new stuff is very bleeding edge and will not be ready for productizing for a decade or four.
It's bleeding because its funding was cut off for the past five years.
Most labs are still surviving, most researchers are still persisting, but it's a matter of months now, not years. Smart people who spent 20+ years of their life in school are not going to stick around much longer, waiting for scraps, begging for grants, pulling 14-hour workdays yet earning less than a mechanic or a waitress.
Don't restore the funding in time, and we will lose in the next two years all the advances (and advantages) that we generated in the previous 15.
I think they go back because they have to go back. The numbers could be a little off here, but there are over 1.2M students coming into the US each year, but we only give 70k H1-B visas per year. And even that is taken up mostly by M$ hiring their code monkeys at slave wages.
I have heard someone say that each Sci/Tech PhD diploma should get a green card stapled to the back. Would that be a good idea or not, I can't tell?
But what I can tell is that about the first thing that needs fixing is restoring our science funding to pre-Bush levels. Not sure about the DoD, but NIH funding was cut in half.
Well, recruiting smart people is not the same as recruiting people who can get the job done!
PhD gives people training in how to interpret other people's results, how to collaborate as a team, and how to document your research so that others can follow up (in case you change projects, quit your job, or die in a boating accident). It also teaches you how to develop a comprehensive plan, and FOLLOW IT for months or years.
To illustrate the point, which programmer would you hire for a team project:
the one that can write brillinat one-liner C hacks that even he himself might not understand 6 months from now and which break under a different compiler, OS, or architecture, -or- the one that writes that same program in 100 lines, provides exhaustive comments, outputs portable and structured code, and actually uses your CVS?
Irrelevant, as I've shown, there are very good reasons that those things are/aren't in Wikipedia (and not all of those things are illegal). I am sure some Good Chinese is reciting Good reasons why the Tank Square isn't in the Chinese wiki.
The point being, certain things are not acceptable to certain communities (legal, moral, other reasons). But just because Texas tolerates beasteality but does not tolerate dildo use by consenting married couples does not make you and me a better/worse person.
How many paedophilic images do you find on the English Wikipedia? How many homosexual rape HOWTO entrees are there? Just how detailed are the Wikipedia's meth cooking/ricin making manuals? When was the last time our Govt declassified a blueprint for a nuclear warhead? A detailed travel schedule and the layout of alarm circuits in dubbyas house perhaps? No?
What, those are all illegal in US, you say? Well, in China, all politically subversive public speech is illegal.
We all have our reasons for outlawing certain things. Are China's laws just? Who knows...
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you are funny.
No it isn't. Robots.txt does not include "article.pl" which is the article front page that shows all the comments.
As long as your post is modded up and thus visible via article.pl, all your links get counted!
In particular, all +5 Comments' links are registered by google.
that's not a source, that's a destination. for customers' money.
What if she doesn't convert?
Stop being a pedantic dick. Maybe the guy is dyslexic and does not have access to a spellchecker.
If it bothers you so much, stop reading or spellcheck on your own.
You'd probably object to the Stalin's execution squads on the basis the bullets costed too much.
Thank you for supporting OpenOffice.
Have you considered submitting a Feedback/Feature Request to support the latest ZeroDays?
Other than that, you'll just have to wait since, unfortunately, OpenOffice is not yet sufficiently compatible with Microsoft Office to replicate the latter's vulnerabilities in their entirety. But we are working on it!
Get a shotgun.
Thinking people like complexity.
This example should resonate with the Slashdot demographic: would you prefer an oscilloscope that has 4 buttons and knobs or 40?
Would you prefer cat or vim as your text editor.
Would you prefer a mouse with 1 or 3 buttons? (Full disclosure: my mouse has 12)
Well at least with BSD/Linux you've got choice. Even without tweaking the source you can still change the interface in almost any way imaginable.
But with Windows/Mac, you get a choice of color and font size... And that's pretty much it.
My apologies, I do not know for certain what I saw except that I was told it had a cusom 10k RPM drive and it was incredibly fast.
1. The laptop was a 17" "desktop replacement" kind... Could they perhaps use 3.5" drives? I have no idea.
2. It was NOT an ultra3, but I hear one can put a SAS drive into that.
3. scsi>sata adapter? You would need to make your own to fit that into a laptop, but IC diagrams are available for the solder-happy geniuses out there...
4. Of course it's also likely I am so thick I did not notice my leg being pulled?
Isn't this DARPA challenge supposed to be looking for novel, revolutionary, out-of-the-box solutions to dealing with moving obstacles, unstable road, and confusing nav clues at 10 mph?
Oh, here is one: how about you let the robots drive a GPS-equipped BULLDOZER!
No, you will not get "more room". You will still have 1 Terrabyte of the same data copied out over more disks, but still only 1 Terrabyte.
As I understand, insects/flies use (controllably) sticky adhesive, while lizzards use "velcro". One needs regular cleaning (that's what the flies do) while the other does not.
Get a faster hard drive (if you are willing to pay the premium).
I saw a WinXP laptop with a a 10k RPM drive resume from hybernation in what looked like 5 seconds.
Well, linux will do that too. Granted, you can change swappiness through /proc rather easily under linux, but I suspect most people do not.
I know you are just kidding, but if you think about it, robotic driving is not rocket science, exactly.
If you think about it, all the robotic drivers in computer games such as Grand Theft Auto are pretty damn good, and can follow rules and stick to routes much better than their human opponents. So, driving/navigation algorythms have been developed a decade ago, all they need is a good way to recognize their surroundings.
With this in mind, this whole driving challenge is a problem no different from OCR or voice recognition.
Per capita Sweden has about the most Nobel laureates!
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1 United States 160
2 United Kingdom 110
3 Germany 94
4 France 54
5 Sweden 27
6 Switzerland 25
7 USSR and Russia 21
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_by_c
I think GP post demostrates the point of you made in GPP quite convincingly.
As someone mentioned here, the corporations will never finance "pie in the sky" fundamental research efforts. A few exceptions to this (e.g. Bell Labs) rather reinforce the point.
At least for these, NSF/NIH route is better.
It's bleeding because its funding was cut off for the past five years.
Most labs are still surviving, most researchers are still persisting, but it's a matter of months now, not years. Smart people who spent 20+ years of their life in school are not going to stick around much longer, waiting for scraps, begging for grants, pulling 14-hour workdays yet earning less than a mechanic or a waitress.
Don't restore the funding in time, and we will lose in the next two years all the advances (and advantages) that we generated in the previous 15.
I think they go back because they have to go back. The numbers could be a little off here, but there are over 1.2M students coming into the US each year, but we only give 70k H1-B visas per year. And even that is taken up mostly by M$ hiring their code monkeys at slave wages.
I have heard someone say that each Sci/Tech PhD diploma should get a green card stapled to the back. Would that be a good idea or not, I can't tell?
But what I can tell is that about the first thing that needs fixing is restoring our science funding to pre-Bush levels. Not sure about the DoD, but NIH funding was cut in half.
Well, recruiting smart people is not the same as recruiting people who can get the job done!
PhD gives people training in how to interpret other people's results, how to collaborate as a team, and how to document your research so that others can follow up (in case you change projects, quit your job, or die in a boating accident). It also teaches you how to develop a comprehensive plan, and FOLLOW IT for months or years.
To illustrate the point, which programmer would you hire for a team project:
the one that can write brillinat one-liner C hacks that even he himself might not understand 6 months from now and which break under a different compiler, OS, or architecture,
-or-
the one that writes that same program in 100 lines, provides exhaustive comments, outputs portable and structured code, and actually uses your CVS?
substitute "porn" for "football" and you got yourself one hell of a comment!
but then Wikipedia also doesn't have "detailed" manuals for making concrete either.u ction
what, you mean nothing like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement#Prod
Irrelevant, as I've shown, there are very good reasons that those things are/aren't in Wikipedia (and not all of those things are illegal).
I am sure some Good Chinese is reciting Good reasons why the Tank Square isn't in the Chinese wiki.
The point being, certain things are not acceptable to certain communities (legal, moral, other reasons). But just because Texas tolerates beasteality but does not tolerate dildo use by consenting married couples does not make you and me a better/worse person.
How many paedophilic images do you find on the English Wikipedia?
How many homosexual rape HOWTO entrees are there? Just how detailed are the Wikipedia's meth cooking/ricin making manuals?
When was the last time our Govt declassified a blueprint for a nuclear warhead?
A detailed travel schedule and the layout of alarm circuits in dubbyas house perhaps? No?
What, those are all illegal in US, you say?
Well, in China, all politically subversive public speech is illegal.
We all have our reasons for outlawing certain things. Are China's laws just? Who knows...