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The point of a Turing machine for those that don't understand, is the concept that, a very simple and limited set of operations can do any computation that is computable. It is the basics for all computers that we use today. The idea was first presented in the late 1930's and this is the first example of a machine that works much like the original example. In short, it's a math thing.
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-zelin (March 26, 2010, 09:58 PM)
Slightly OT: Why does it use Orwell's "Animal Farm" as the example...doesn't seem like a post that would be found here...at least, id hope not haha-Stephen66515 (March 23, 2010, 07:27 PM)
Well...it wouldn't until your post.
(see attachment in previous post)-40hz (March 23, 2010, 09:04 PM)
Re: Message from the grave, straight to your cell phone
Interesting...
But I'm thinking it might even be even more 'fun' to program an Eliza-like chatter-bot with my own distinctive choice of words and phrases (and my warped sense of humor) so that all two visitors to my grave could have a zero-content 'interactive' chat with me after I've left this plane of existence...hmmm...
(Like I said, warped sense of humor.)
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Facebook turned it down:Ashleigh was NOT being bullied...she was NOT being sexually harassed...she was NOT aware of the fact she was being groomed... she DID trust that someone was who they said they were...and she went to meet someone who she believed to be the same age as herself...a young man with whom she had been having an online friendship...and we can assume that she believed that the relationship was going somewhere...and THAT is where the report abuse button becomes redundant.
http://blogs.myspace...amp;blogId=531216980-Stephen66515 (March 18, 2010, 08:08 PM)
No, that`s when you ask your dad to come meet the guy with you.-RedPillow (March 19, 2010, 01:20 AM)
Ashleigh was NOT being bullied...she was NOT being sexually harassed...she was NOT aware of the fact she was being groomed... she DID trust that someone was who they said they were...and she went to meet someone who she believed to be the same age as herself...a young man with whom she had been having an online friendship...and we can assume that she believed that the relationship was going somewhere...and THAT is where the report abuse button becomes redundant.
Hmm, ok. Well first, Google tells me that the 7NF-RZ is an Athlon board, not P4. So if you're planning to use the board to get access to better graphics cards (AGP), you'll have to buy a new CPU (unless you have an Athlon sitting around): http://www.giga-byte...p;ProductName=7NF-RZ
The cheapest AGP card easily found is $30:
http://www.newegg.co...Item=N82E16814130210
You said you have 1GB of RAM but not the configuration. I'm going to assume 2x512MB DDR modules for now, and that you have 4 slots available, each of which could support 1GB modules. So 2x1GB modules to bring you up to 3GB would be $27x2=$54.
http://www.newegg.co...Item=N82E16820161626
So together you're up to $84, plus shipping and possible tax, depending where you live and where you buy from.
Not sure what the need for a sound card is as most motherboard audio is fine, but perhaps you have particular needs there.
Or for $200 you could get a Case+PSU (dunno how quiet), motherboard, CPU, and RAM that ought to best your current system in basically every way:
http://www.newegg.co...temList=Combo.352997
(onboard graphics)
Add your own hard drive, transfer the DVD-ROM from your old system, and you're set.
That's just a preconfigured low-end bundle. You could probably find better deals, higher performance, etc. if desired. And, perhaps crucially, that would be a much more upgradable system in the future. Whereas if you spend time and money upgrading the P4, even if you're happy with its performance now, it'll really be at the end of its useful upgrade life after that. No headroom.
Personally, as I said at the start, I would recommend spending a bit more to get a nicer upgrade and position yourself better for future upgrades as needed. I'd get a socket 775 motherboard and CPU as above, look into whether the current PSU can support the voltages needed, keep it if so or buy new if necessary, transfer the HD and DVD-ROM over, maybe re-use the case if that's possible, get some RAM. Start with onboard video (for the use you've described so far it's fine), and then get an add-in video card later if desired.
- Oshyan-JavaJones (March 17, 2010, 12:33 PM)
so ill just grab a couple more 1GB ones, and move up to 4GB maybe? (Could go higher but see no real need/point in having 8GB RAM lol)It has been quite some time since I heard a loud PSU. I don’t know if I've just been lucky or if PSU fans have just gotten that much quieter.You've been lucky!-J-Mac (March 17, 2010, 12:18 AM)-cranioscopical (March 17, 2010, 07:32 AM)
French contestants torture each other on TV Game of Death
Contestants on a new French game show torture fellow players with electric shocks - zapping one man until he cries for mercy and apparently drops dead - in a controversial programme that has drawn comparisons with Nazi atrocities.
I hate to tread on everyone's sense of temporality and causality, but in 1984 I received a mysterious dossier on microfilm format that had a list of 500,000 users, and instructions to set up this site. Your names and emails, along with your forum names, avatars, and and some additional unknown symbols, are all present in this original dossier, along with several hundred thousand users that have not yet signed up. It also lists emergency procedures for dealing with a situation where someone on the list attempts to leave the site (very unpleasant procedures i must say). The only thing i took the liberty of changing from the dossier instructions was the name of the site -- which i was instructed to call DOCO40948093823342352352352352350893425093485.com -- i thought that was a little long.-mouser (March 17, 2010, 12:41 AM)
Would a panic button ever stop a kid from trusting anyone enough to meet them in real life?
No.
Would a panic button ever stop a gullible kid from believing lies told to them by someone looking to lure them?
No.
Would a panic button ever stop a kid from liking the attention they seek, being given to them by strangers online?
No.
The kids that trust people that they shouldn't, will never click this button. The thought would never occur to them. Those that could potentially be helped most by it, will never use it.
So what is the purpose of this panic button again?-app103 (March 17, 2010, 06:36 AM)
Facebook here is a victim as they have been misused by a seriously deranged fellow. Punishing Facebook doesn't solve the problem.
[WTF??? Reality check! I can think of a million reasons not to! Do you seriously want to have kids flagging people as pedophiles? You know what that would do? It would turn into a witch-hunt complete with stakes, bonfires, and burning flesh. (Note that CEPO, a government organization in the country with the most CCTV cameras per capita of anywhere in the world, wants reports to go directly to them!)-Renegade
Im 16-RedPillow (March 16, 2010, 03:46 PM)
Do you have a particularly exciting PSU? Hehe
- Oshyan-JavaJones (March 16, 2010, 06:12 PM)
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I'm confused, are you suggesting that you're going to "upgrade" while sticking with this ancient hardware?-JavaJones (March 16, 2010, 03:01 PM)
Home Secretary Alan Johnson will hold talks with Facebook later this week about the social networking site's refusal to install a "panic button" to allow children to report suspected paedophiles.
Mr Johnson and junior Home Office minister Alan Campbell will meet representatives from the site in an attempt to persuade them to install the button, which links to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) centre.
Mr Campbell told MPs he could see no reason why Facebook and other social networking sites would not adopt the system.
Calls for Facebook to install the button on its website have intensified following the conviction of Peter Chapman for the kidnap, rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall.
Convicted sex offender Chapman used a false identity to befriend and entrap the teenager through Facebook, which has some 23 million UK users.
Mr Campbell, responding to a debate in Parliament's Westminster Hall, said he was "disappointed" that not all social networking sites had added Ceop's "report abuse" panic button.
He said: "I expect those responsible for provision of services online to take responsibility for providing safety mechanisms and information to their users and, in the case of services where there can be communication between people who are not previously know to each other and where identities can be invented, to provide the click Ceop button to allow users who feel threatened or vulnerable to make a report."
Mr Campbell continued: "We have argued... that the Ceop button should be used by all of those sites and many sites have either agreed to take them or agreed to take them at some point in the future, such as Bebo.
"We see absolutely no reason why sites should not do so.
"Later this week the Home Secretary and I will be meeting with Facebook to impress upon them the need to allow users who feel threatened to have access to the Ceop button."
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From the Facebook Help Centre:
What is the minimum age required to sign up for Facebook? How old do you have to be?
In order to be eligible to sign up for Facebook, users must be thirteen (13) years of age or older.
