Recent content by Tony11235

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    Cannot make job/gradschool decision

    Actually I was told specifically BY the school I applied to that they are accepting late applications for the fall. But, that's the not the point.
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    Cannot make job/gradschool decision

    I don't think I would have any kind of urge to stay in Beijing. If I would choose to go to Beijing, it would be with a purpose: the language side of it, from which you unconsciously benefit from. The job side of it, for me, is just my way of getting there, although it benefits my resume.
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    Cannot make job/gradschool decision

    Hi I'm a computer science student graduating this semester. As of now I don't mind taking programming related jobs or IT related jobs, but I want to eventually be a language analyst/translator/interpreter as well in Chinese. I've had a few years of Chinese and lived in Beijing for a few months...
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    Decompilers that converts a program back to it's original source?

    Uhh, if that was the case, it would be a dream for the open source world.
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    Switching monitors: signal out of range

    Or maybe go to the resolution display window, and add a new monitor.
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    Lingusitics Which new language should i learn?

    Russian, Spanish, or Chinese(Mandarin) are pretty helpful and useful. Those plus Italian have been my choices over the years.
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    Switching monitors: signal out of range

    You might want to try reinstallig the video drivers so that they register the currently used monitors capabilities.
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    How much of science is faith based?

    It seems ZZ shares Feynman's frustration with philosophers. "Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong" "We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that...
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    Is Ubuntu Safe for My Laptop's Hard Drive?

    It's not confirmed.
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    Is Ubuntu Safe for My Laptop's Hard Drive?

    In Ubuntu it is. Plus hibernation and sleep work out of the box.
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    Is Ubuntu Safe for My Laptop's Hard Drive?

    What are you trying to say?
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    Is Ubuntu Safe for My Laptop's Hard Drive?

    Can't you just go to Device Manager? You should be able to get that info there. If not, then boot up a live cd and do "lspci".
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    Is Ubuntu Safe for My Laptop's Hard Drive?

    Madsmoke9, So your graphics card is intel, what is your wireless card's chipset? If it's intel or atheros, it sounds like your laptop might work right out of the box with Ubuntu Gutsy, all hardware configured. Of course it's your choice which distro you use.
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    Optimizing Towers of Hanoi Puzzle with Heuristic Search

    I'm trying to use a heuristic of this sort as part of an informed search, first Best-First-Search (aka greedy search), then A* Search. So that instead expanding all nodes, using a heuristic to decide which node is closest to the goal state and only expand that node. This is really not an...
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    Optimizing Towers of Hanoi Puzzle with Heuristic Search

    For a P posts, D discs, Towers of Hanoi puzzle, does anybody know of a decent heuristic? Where given a state, give back a rough estimate of the number of moves away from the goal state, which in this case is having all the disks moved to the right most post? I know that for a 3 posts, D disk...