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I am currently using Windows Xp,,,, Although I feel Xp is quite stable and graphical interface is better than Me.. but I still feel that Windows has too many problems occuring...... As you can see in my previous threads about "Search Assistant" and "IE" things...... Would Macintosh be more reliable and stable? Or probably Windows 2003 would be much better than Xp, because it is, at least, the latest version of Windows I know....... Any suggestion? Albert

I am trying to conceptualize the notion of polynomial time. Can someone please tell me, in not-so-formal terms, what it means for something to be bounded by a polynomial? Any help will be much appreciated.

VB has perfectly serviceable IF statements. I think Klaynos has the best answer here so far.

I think they just create tens thousands topics, and wrote a standard answer for each topic. How do you think?

For reasons other than gaming, what are the main points that an average person could use a strong computer for certain subjects (business/school)

what is the most pointless computer software every made just curious / and the most advanced software if known

I have one or two ideas for what AI can be used for. If you have any, and would like it to be chewed over by others, post it here. Might be interesting. To start it off, I would like to see it used to "re-create" old images, making a modern very hi-def photo, from an old blurry bit of rubbish. I'm not talking about playing with contrast, brightness and colour and focus in the usual sense. What I would do is amass a database of modern, very high definition pictures, of say people, animals, cars, landscapes. Whatever subject is commonly captured. At every angle that you could. You would need a huge database, the bigger it got, the better it would wo…

It has been officially been announced. The next version of Windows will be called Windows Vista. It will be released in 2006. Microsoft hasn't officially said too much about it yet, but I know a few things about it. First, the GUI will be very high-tech. You are going to need a good graphics card to run the next Windows. A major feature will be the new type of icons. The icons will actually show a preview of the entire document, or picture. It will be much more than the Windows XP thumbnails. It will also feature IE7. Not too much is known about IE7, but I heard it will have tabbed browsing. Here is a little more technical information from Microsoft:

I have been trying to plot a number of black body radiator spectra curves in MATLAB but I come across a problem - only one curve is plotted when I run the program. Essentially, I am plotting intensity I against wavelength [latex]\lambda[/latex] for an array of temperatures from 3000K to 8000K in steps of 1000K with a wavelegnth array of 100nm to 3000nm with 1000 intervals, using Planck's radiation formula: [latex]I(\lambda,T) = \frac{2\pi c^2 h}{\lambda^5} \left(\frac{1}{e^\frac{hc}{\lambda kT} -1} \right)[/latex] where T is th absolute temperature, c is speed of light, h is Planck's constant and k is Boltzmann's constant. Here is my code: Function File …

As many here already know, the Turing Test is a test for strength of artificial intelligence proposed by computer scientist Alan Turing. It consists of a human and a computer interacting through text (much like modern-day instant messaging). If the human being cannot tell that the computer is a computer and mistakes it for a real human being, it has passed the Turing Test. Now, many have tried (and failed) to come up with so-called "chatbots". I remember back when AOL first came out, "Smarterchild" was very popular. The problem with Smarterchild, however, was that it had simple, stored responses for a given category of questions/statements. As such, it would never add…

I have configured a guestbook.pl for my website...and it works great except for one little thing. When you type something in the comments box that ends up being a few lines long....and then click submit.....the posting displays the comments as one long line rather than wrapping them around into several lines....which then causes a scroll bar to appear at the bottom and you have to keep scrolling to the right to see the whole line. How can I make the comments wrap around to where the lines don't go over let's say 80 characters in length....which would then wrap around to the next line and so forth until it reaches the last letter?? I have been looking all over the internet…

recently i went on a website which had a pop-up message saying: "click yes to enter the website" however the only option was to click 'ok' so obviously you couldnt enter the website, possibly it was done by refreshing the page each time 'ok' was clicked, but it wasnt just the same 'once off' pop up copy and pasted loads of times because i held down enter for a while, and the message just kept poping up, and there was no way it was copy and pasted THAT many times, so what is the HTML code for this pop up which yuo cant get rid of?

I don't understand why this is happening. On my own PC, my program works flawlessly. It's using the TwitterAPI to find data specifically useful for my industry. Like I said, it works fine on my own PC, but I'm trying to set it up on the server right now and I keep getting this message- Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> Tweeter() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\Tweeter.py", line 16, in Tweeter for item in s.get_iterator(): File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\TwitterAPI\TwitterAPI.py", line 198, in __iter__ yield json.loads(item.decode('utf-8')) File "C:\Python27\lib\json\__init__.py", line 338, …

1.a) Life's purpose is reasonably to do optimization. 1.b) Reference I: "Dissipative Adaptation", Jeremy England. 1.c) Reference II: Wikipedia/Laws of thermodynamics. 2.a) Artificial General intelligence (AGI), will probably arise in one decade or more, and they shall probably be better optimizers than humans. 2.b) Reference III: Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns: https://youtu.be/JiXVMZTyZRw?t=646 2.c) Reference IV: Demis Hassabis' prediction: https://youtu.be/rbsqaJwpu6A?t=918 2.d) In fact AGI is often referred to as the last invention mankind need ever make: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9snY7lhJA4c) 3) Thus, our purpose as a …

Hi, I have talked about services such as readnotify.com which tell you if your email was read or not. The only problem is that they charge you arround 30 us dollars per year. I don't want to pay that much. My summer vacation is here and this summer i want to figure out how this works and how to make it. As far as i know it either puts an activeX script of an image in the email. Can someone tell me how exactly it works and help me make something like this?

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Sometimes if you use the "free" WiFi service of an open internet wireless connection, you get redirected to their webpage instead of your homepage when first opening your internet browser or trying to go to a webpage. How do they accomplish that?

Hey guys. I'm almost finished with my program but I can't figure out what's not working. It works when I fill in the entries in the code but when I try to use the Scanner class to have a user input the characters, and then enter a space to stop, it doesn't work. I'm guessing there's something wrong with my loop since when I debug, I can enter a letter once, it sets the first entry to that letter, but cannot keep going after that in debugger. import java.util.Scanner; public class CombinationLockTester { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { CombinationLock lock = new CombinationLock("ABC"); Scanner scan = new Scanner(Sy…

Which is better Python or java? For network programming, security and over all.

Closed source (Microsoft Windows) or open source (Linux kernel) software, which do you think is better and why? go!

I have heard awful things about vista but ive heard aful things about almost any OS so i wonder why should i get vista and why shouldnt ?

Hi There... Simply i want to know what is the difference between ADT(Abstract Data types) & Data Structures? With all those years i still get confused between the 2 and cannot distinguish between the 2. I have a list of Computer Science/ Programming terminologies stuff... Can someone help me seperate them? List ArrayList LinkedList Map HashMap TreeMap Set HashSet TreeSet Tree BinaryTree Stack Queue Graphs Tables Arrays and did i miss any

Just curious as to what is possible with todays technology. What equipment/tools is available (Professional and Amature) to analyze computers for evidence. This is just a general thread i want to start because Forensic Science is cool!

Immorality is the most desired commodity in the world. Religions mine it, process it, and sell it to the masses, gaining both huge profits and preponderant power in world affairs. The Christian religion, for example, promises an afterlife in heaven with Jesus and his celebrated Father. Islam promises about the same thing: Mohammed will be up there, too, along and a bunch of dancing virgins. But that kind of immortality is not for everyone. What constitutes immortality? How would you know if you’re immortal or not. Woody Allen said once that immortality is a hard sell because it will take forever to prove its worth. But wait. Is flesh and blood immortality really what …