Or possibly that he just developed a mental model of mathematics that was particularly well adapted - Feynman used to muse along these lines, that whilst the equations of, for example, quantum mechanics would be common to two physicists they would both still have a different model in their heads, one better suited to visualising X and the other better for Y. It's entirely possible that top mathematicians have simply developed a better in-head-model.
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Lack of fingers was another big spur to the development of camel intellect. Human mathematical development had always been held back by everyone’s instinctive tendency, when faced with something really complex in the way of triform polynomials or parametric differentials, to count fingers. Camels started from the word go by counting numbers. – Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
And a nice long gmail address helps too. Gmail doesn't count any periods in the user name, so if you use an address like "abcdefg@gmail.com" then you also have "abcdef.g@gmail.com", "abcde.fg@gmail.com" etc. It gives you a large number of "different" email addresses you can use for a service allowing multiple accounts without having to set up new email accounts or use a catch-all. (I leave tracking used/unused addresses as an exercise for the reader...)
You're making the classic mistake of applying reason to the insurance industry. It's all about the stats - if the stats show that teetotalers with advanced driving qualifications have more accidents then they will pay more, regardless of what "reason" would suggest.
You wouldn't be pirating it if you downloaded it from the Pirate Bay, it was put there by the copyright holder, just like you're not pirating Ubuntu if you torrent it. Of course, in the UK the Pirate Bay is blocked by ISPs, but in this particular case you'd be breaking no laws, civil or criminal. That's kind of in the headline. And summary. And article.
Yeah, and what's with the processor? It's rubbish, and as for the graphics card and expandable port system. Of course, that'll take more power, and the supply is woefully inadequate, so better add that. And a heat sink. And fan. And casing...
And I for one welcome our ninja spacetank driving robotic eight year old overlords. Seriously, they would probably do a better job than most current politicians (the Speaker of the UK house of commons recently told MPs that the youth parliament were generally more sensible and thoughtful than the real version).
I suspect it's more an age/culture thing. If you grew up with Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley then you probably get the "terror" version of the word, but if you're West Philadelphia born and raised, in the playground is where you spend most of your days, you probably think of the other sense first. I presumed it was a UK/US English split because I'm familiar with the "relaxing" variant as an Americanism, although it's been adopted here too.
The UK use of the word means to chill with terror - to be scared into feeling cold. "Anthony Hopkins' chilling portrayal of Hannibal Lecter", that sort of thing.
The company I'm doing a lot of work for are in the bar/restaurant trade and part of my job for the last year has been getting them to use social networks to promote their businesses - it's been a fair old fight for one simple reason, people are absolutely terrified of saying the wrong thing and getting fired. The tweets etc have been mundane to the extreme, "Try the fish, mmm" as a random example, there's no personality, real interaction or playfulness behind them.
And to be honest, I can see exactly where they're coming from, most companies, this one included, have always used "make no public statements of any sort, refer it upwards" in the majority of their contracts, and switching from that to actively promoting the idea takes a lot of getting used to.
Yup, of course we do. "Gun offenses" also include mere possession, which isn't an offence in the US. And it doesn't mean we don't have guns outright, the armed forces and police can carry them under some circumstances, farmers and other country types are allowed shotguns, we shoot various game birds for sport and cull deer with high powered rifles and tweed hats. And there's plenty of illegal ones in circulation, mainly in the cities, and especially in Northern Ireland.
It's just not common to see anybody with one, and we have a correspondingly low death rate through gunshot wounds. I can't prove a correlation there, but my gut reaction is that it's a real link - the odds of seeing a gun are very small, therefore the odds of it killing you are also small.
As did I (in the UK around 20 years ago) - the guns were kept in a safe in the gun club, in a safe bolted to the inside of a car while being transported to a safe at another gun club, or were in use on the range. No other place. Worked fine. If you want to have a gun in a public place then it's for killing people, whether in defence or offence, can't think of any other reason (apart from threatening to kill people, which is much the same thing).
You don't give them the keys to your kingdom. You register an app on fb which gives you a private key. Your site sends a request to fb which includes the key, the user logs in through fb's system and this then returns a json string to your site to be used as you see fit. At no time does fb have any access to your site above and beyond what is publically available anyway. It does log a significant amount of info against the user's account and their use of your site, but you don't need to hand over any sensitive information other than your app key (which, if you're doing it properly, isn't stored anywhere that is publically visible).
To be honest, I see this as good news. There's no real security threat for the user (assuming any login process is done server side) and means that the software in question is, at least in theory, configurable by the user. The Linux equivalent of this article is "Linux allows your to customise your software with editable config files" - OK, he's having to do it the hard way, but it's a first step, and at least it shows a certain resilience to loss of network connection in principle. This is probably the most positive article on Win8 I've read so far.
I see a lot of people who complain there's nobody to vote for other than D/R. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm a Brit with little knowledge of US political law) but surely anyone can stand within a few simple rules? Isn't that the point? Or is it all too difficult because the big boys have the only two balls in the game? Come on, you're either the Land Of The Free or you're a bunch of people who think you get to vote heads or tails like it makes any difference at all.
Democracy? Don't give me that, the US is an embarrassment to the word, your average Afghan village is more democratic than the US.
Are you angry now? Good and angry? Feels good doesn't it, like you're still alive? So why don't you all stick your names on some application forms or vote for the smart bloke who lives down the road and doesn't seem particularly bribable and you can go out there and get these parties!
Sorry, it all went a bit Point Break at the end there, but seriously America, come on. You're brilliant, you do a bunch of amazing stuff, and you're in the final stages of handing your entire country over to multinational corporations via two groups who's only real arguments are birth control and tax. There's more to it than that, and you deserve more than that, and to an outsider it's just desperately tragic and scary at the same time.
Frankly, either would do. You don't necessarily have to be smart to see there's a third option - in fact it's often the "dumb janitor" who provides the solution when the two professors are busy arguing over who has the less wrong answer.
You think anybody is going to be able to check there isn't a malicious script at the end of that? The vast, vast majority of people won't even be able to check the trail beforehand, they either have to click or not click, and it's A FUNNY PICTURE!
Which is why we need a very clear THIS IS THE END POINT protocol, no shortened URLs, no redirect services. Back in the day a redirect or script call to an external URL was seen as being dodgy, now it's de rigeur because of the advertising industry. Now we're going back full circle.
Not in the UK, our PM is only paid around £70k (about US$110k) per annum, it's a fair old wage but dwarfed by any similar job in the private sector. What they're really worried about is the "party donations" and the future "consultancy work" which is where politicians make the real money once they've left office. It's all a scam of course, and we already have a way to stop it - simply refuse to vote for any party which receives significant amounts of money from any lobbying group, and ideally vote for people who don't particularly care about money above and beyond a very handsome £70k a year job. One term as PM would see me earn enough money to live for about 20 years without too much worry (I've earned around £10k most my life), but apparently that's not enough for our current leaders.
Nope, they're referring to Cerenkov radiation, it's a known effect and produces a very pretty blue light in nuclear reactors. It occurs when the phase velocity travels faster than the speed of light in that medium which is all fine and dandy and breaks no rules at all.
For those not getting the reference, parent is talking about Heather Couper, one of the other great popularisers of astronomy in the UK. She wrote to Moore as a child asking if being a girl was an obstacle to being an astronomer - his reply to her was basically "No, not at all. But you'll have to work hard at the maths, and that's something girls aren't usually 'meant to do' in the current education system." - this was about 40 years ago, and he was spot on for the time.
He was born the year that Hubble made the observations which showed there were galaxies other than our Milky Way, during his lifetime the scale of the (understood) universe expanded by a factor of 100,000. As an amateur astronomer (he never gained any formal qualifications in the subject) he discovered a new crater on the Moon. He lived to see the discovery of a black hole at the center of our galaxy, every "first" in manned and robotic space flight and holds the record for the longest running TV presenter on a show.
For those who prefer computer games, he played "The GamesMaster" on the British TV show of the same name, and his disembodied borg-like head would give out tips and cheats for various games.
He was at the forefront of the fight against UFO nonsense (some would say too far, he refused to believe in any life outside the Earth) and was accused of ghost-writing a possibly satirical book called "Flying Saucers Are Real" as "Cedric Allingham", although he always strenuously denied this to the point of threatening legal action.
Also an accomplished glockenspiel player and champion of the monocle.
I don't see how this is anti-British in any way? (And I'm a Brit). Local government have been using their access improperly, so national level government have done the right thing and withdrawn their access. If it's anti-anything it's anti-local-government-being-muppets.
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And a nice long gmail address helps too. Gmail doesn't count any periods in the user name, so if you use an address like "abcdefg@gmail.com" then you also have "abcdef.g@gmail.com", "abcde.fg@gmail.com" etc. It gives you a large number of "different" email addresses you can use for a service allowing multiple accounts without having to set up new email accounts or use a catch-all. (I leave tracking used/unused addresses as an exercise for the reader...)
You're making the classic mistake of applying reason to the insurance industry. It's all about the stats - if the stats show that teetotalers with advanced driving qualifications have more accidents then they will pay more, regardless of what "reason" would suggest.
You wouldn't be pirating it if you downloaded it from the Pirate Bay, it was put there by the copyright holder, just like you're not pirating Ubuntu if you torrent it. Of course, in the UK the Pirate Bay is blocked by ISPs, but in this particular case you'd be breaking no laws, civil or criminal. That's kind of in the headline. And summary. And article.
Yeah, and what's with the processor? It's rubbish, and as for the graphics card and expandable port system. Of course, that'll take more power, and the supply is woefully inadequate, so better add that. And a heat sink. And fan. And casing...
I'll quite happy to support that proposition under my account name. Genius. Yes, it'll free us from the tyranny of pseudonymity.
And I for one welcome our ninja spacetank driving robotic eight year old overlords. Seriously, they would probably do a better job than most current politicians (the Speaker of the UK house of commons recently told MPs that the youth parliament were generally more sensible and thoughtful than the real version).
I suspect it's more an age/culture thing. If you grew up with Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley then you probably get the "terror" version of the word, but if you're West Philadelphia born and raised, in the playground is where you spend most of your days, you probably think of the other sense first. I presumed it was a UK/US English split because I'm familiar with the "relaxing" variant as an Americanism, although it's been adopted here too.
The UK use of the word means to chill with terror - to be scared into feeling cold. "Anthony Hopkins' chilling portrayal of Hannibal Lecter", that sort of thing.
The company I'm doing a lot of work for are in the bar/restaurant trade and part of my job for the last year has been getting them to use social networks to promote their businesses - it's been a fair old fight for one simple reason, people are absolutely terrified of saying the wrong thing and getting fired. The tweets etc have been mundane to the extreme, "Try the fish, mmm" as a random example, there's no personality, real interaction or playfulness behind them.
And to be honest, I can see exactly where they're coming from, most companies, this one included, have always used "make no public statements of any sort, refer it upwards" in the majority of their contracts, and switching from that to actively promoting the idea takes a lot of getting used to.
Wow - don't know where you live, but in the UK it works like this:
"Obey the law or leave the country, entirely up to you."
"OK."
If you were not allowed to leave your country, or, for that matter, had no choice in your government then yes, you have a point.
Yup, of course we do. "Gun offenses" also include mere possession, which isn't an offence in the US. And it doesn't mean we don't have guns outright, the armed forces and police can carry them under some circumstances, farmers and other country types are allowed shotguns, we shoot various game birds for sport and cull deer with high powered rifles and tweed hats. And there's plenty of illegal ones in circulation, mainly in the cities, and especially in Northern Ireland.
It's just not common to see anybody with one, and we have a correspondingly low death rate through gunshot wounds. I can't prove a correlation there, but my gut reaction is that it's a real link - the odds of seeing a gun are very small, therefore the odds of it killing you are also small.
As did I (in the UK around 20 years ago) - the guns were kept in a safe in the gun club, in a safe bolted to the inside of a car while being transported to a safe at another gun club, or were in use on the range. No other place. Worked fine. If you want to have a gun in a public place then it's for killing people, whether in defence or offence, can't think of any other reason (apart from threatening to kill people, which is much the same thing).
You don't give them the keys to your kingdom. You register an app on fb which gives you a private key. Your site sends a request to fb which includes the key, the user logs in through fb's system and this then returns a json string to your site to be used as you see fit. At no time does fb have any access to your site above and beyond what is publically available anyway. It does log a significant amount of info against the user's account and their use of your site, but you don't need to hand over any sensitive information other than your app key (which, if you're doing it properly, isn't stored anywhere that is publically visible).
Twitter's API works in much the same way.
To be honest, I see this as good news. There's no real security threat for the user (assuming any login process is done server side) and means that the software in question is, at least in theory, configurable by the user. The Linux equivalent of this article is "Linux allows your to customise your software with editable config files" - OK, he's having to do it the hard way, but it's a first step, and at least it shows a certain resilience to loss of network connection in principle. This is probably the most positive article on Win8 I've read so far.
I see a lot of people who complain there's nobody to vote for other than D/R. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm a Brit with little knowledge of US political law) but surely anyone can stand within a few simple rules? Isn't that the point? Or is it all too difficult because the big boys have the only two balls in the game? Come on, you're either the Land Of The Free or you're a bunch of people who think you get to vote heads or tails like it makes any difference at all.
Democracy? Don't give me that, the US is an embarrassment to the word, your average Afghan village is more democratic than the US.
Are you angry now? Good and angry? Feels good doesn't it, like you're still alive? So why don't you all stick your names on some application forms or vote for the smart bloke who lives down the road and doesn't seem particularly bribable and you can go out there and get these parties!
Sorry, it all went a bit Point Break at the end there, but seriously America, come on. You're brilliant, you do a bunch of amazing stuff, and you're in the final stages of handing your entire country over to multinational corporations via two groups who's only real arguments are birth control and tax. There's more to it than that, and you deserve more than that, and to an outsider it's just desperately tragic and scary at the same time.
Love,
The Rest Of The World
Touche ;)
Frankly, either would do. You don't necessarily have to be smart to see there's a third option - in fact it's often the "dumb janitor" who provides the solution when the two professors are busy arguing over who has the less wrong answer.
There will always be ways around it - imagine a QR which links to a shortened URL (say http://du.rr/7en3if8), which is a link to http://www.myhackedblog.com/1/2/3/4/5/a/b/c/redirect.htm which links to http://www.cnn.com.news.hackeddomain.com/reallyfunnypicture.com
You think anybody is going to be able to check there isn't a malicious script at the end of that? The vast, vast majority of people won't even be able to check the trail beforehand, they either have to click or not click, and it's A FUNNY PICTURE!
Which is why we need a very clear THIS IS THE END POINT protocol, no shortened URLs, no redirect services. Back in the day a redirect or script call to an external URL was seen as being dodgy, now it's de rigeur because of the advertising industry. Now we're going back full circle.
You don't have to vote Democrat OR Republican. The mechanism is there, are the American public angry enough to use it yet?
Not in the UK, our PM is only paid around £70k (about US$110k) per annum, it's a fair old wage but dwarfed by any similar job in the private sector. What they're really worried about is the "party donations" and the future "consultancy work" which is where politicians make the real money once they've left office. It's all a scam of course, and we already have a way to stop it - simply refuse to vote for any party which receives significant amounts of money from any lobbying group, and ideally vote for people who don't particularly care about money above and beyond a very handsome £70k a year job. One term as PM would see me earn enough money to live for about 20 years without too much worry (I've earned around £10k most my life), but apparently that's not enough for our current leaders.
Nope, they're referring to Cerenkov radiation, it's a known effect and produces a very pretty blue light in nuclear reactors. It occurs when the phase velocity travels faster than the speed of light in that medium which is all fine and dandy and breaks no rules at all.
For those not getting the reference, parent is talking about Heather Couper, one of the other great popularisers of astronomy in the UK. She wrote to Moore as a child asking if being a girl was an obstacle to being an astronomer - his reply to her was basically "No, not at all. But you'll have to work hard at the maths, and that's something girls aren't usually 'meant to do' in the current education system." - this was about 40 years ago, and he was spot on for the time.
According to a eulogy by Dr Brian May he did accept that there may be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, I stand corrected.
He was born the year that Hubble made the observations which showed there were galaxies other than our Milky Way, during his lifetime the scale of the (understood) universe expanded by a factor of 100,000. As an amateur astronomer (he never gained any formal qualifications in the subject) he discovered a new crater on the Moon. He lived to see the discovery of a black hole at the center of our galaxy, every "first" in manned and robotic space flight and holds the record for the longest running TV presenter on a show.
For those who prefer computer games, he played "The GamesMaster" on the British TV show of the same name, and his disembodied borg-like head would give out tips and cheats for various games.
He was at the forefront of the fight against UFO nonsense (some would say too far, he refused to believe in any life outside the Earth) and was accused of ghost-writing a possibly satirical book called "Flying Saucers Are Real" as "Cedric Allingham", although he always strenuously denied this to the point of threatening legal action.
Also an accomplished glockenspiel player and champion of the monocle.
I don't see how this is anti-British in any way? (And I'm a Brit). Local government have been using their access improperly, so national level government have done the right thing and withdrawn their access. If it's anti-anything it's anti-local-government-being-muppets.