Your signature "Only God may judge Osama Bin Laden, It's our job to arrange the meeting." is really sad. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and any religion has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Death is death. Outside of the human mind, the universe is not ruled my mysticism. All people die, whether your or the "enemy's" religion makes you righteous in your own mind or not. The actions of men are what is real. The actions of men kill people. The actions of men are the reasons for war.
Well, if the US is teh first country to reach Mars, creating huge amounts of CO2 won't be a problem at all. After a few years, there will be enough pickup trucks and SUV's to give us the same lovely greenhouse effect we have here on Earth right now:-)
Why was I marked as a Troll and as Flamebait? Doesn't anyone have a clue what happened in the past? Do the research yourself if you don't believe me. Watson and Crick did not discover the helical structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin did. Is Slashdot full of people who either have a HS education only and/or have never learned about past scientific achievements and who actually makes the discoveries as opposed to who actually gets the credit? The facts about the history of who discovered DNA stand, whether I am marked as a troll or flamebait or not. Go to http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Rosalind_Fra nklin.html and read about what happened yourself (as 1 source among many). Quote "After Randall presented Franklin's data and her unpublished conclusions at a routine seminar, her work was provided - without Randall's knowledge - to her competitors at Cambridge University, Watson and Crick. The scientists used her data and that of other scientists to build their ultimately correct and detailed description of DNA's structure in 1953...it is a tremendous shame that Franklin did not receive due credit for her essential role in this discovery, either during her lifetime or after her untimely death at age 37 due to cancer."
Years ago I did a research paper on this subject, with the intent to discover who really did discover the helical structure of DNA. Watson and Crick did NOT discover the helical structure of DNA. The person who did discover the structure was Rosalind Franklin. All scientists knew of her discovery (using X-ray chromotography I believe), although he mentor disallowed her to publish the work under her own name (great reason for equal rights). Rosalind Franklin decided to give a lecture on her discovery to a group of scientists of the time before trying to publish her discoveries under her own name. Watson and Crick attended the lecture and quite simply, stole Rosalind's data. Rosalind Franklin fought to have her work published, but Watson and Crick, being male scientists, got their work published first, under their name, and under the pretenses that it was their own work. The title should read "50 years since the blatant stealing by Watson and Crick of the work from Rosalind Franklin, who discovered the helical structure of DNA." Knowing this kind of information makes me f*cking sick to my stomach. The rest of the world goes on believes the lies of the past, when noone works to change the lies to truths for the future. Watson and Crick should have their Nobel Prize stripped from them.
Writing code is a very personal affair. It is like writing a book, personal to to your exact style. I could see my code getting ripped apart and me getting personally offended by it, but it depends on how it is critized and by who it is critized.
Actually, if you were weary about RedHat Linux, then I would certainly tell you that Solaris is NOT easier to work with than RedHat Linux. I administer and use a RedHat server and desktop system and have administered and used both Solaris 7 & 8 for Intel and I will tell you that Solaris is exactly the same, if not more difficult, than RedHat Linux to use. If you are used to using Windows or a Macintosh, then you are in for one hell of a ride with Solaris. To someone with 10+ years experience in operating systems, servers, and desktops, I even spent a little time working with Solaris to get it to the point that it was usable as a desktop OS. Try configuring a modem for PPP access. Good luck without a TON of experience working with configuration script files, unless that has changed in Solaris 9, you might not be internet enabled for weeks or months, depending on your level of Unix and Solaris knowledge. Always make sure you can access the internet during the install and after the install in case you need to ask a question or look something up. Otherwise, you are going to wish you had. Don't be afraid of Solaris, just respect it. Solaris is pure Unix. Be prepared and you will love it. Be unprepared, and you will hate it. Good Luck and I hope you love it!!!
That's not true at all. My parents never sheltered me from anything. I was raised to know that the world was like from the beginning. I remember sitting in my elementary school library with my "Young Astronauts" clothes on and watching the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up live on TV (being an astronaut has been my dream since my very first memories). I was not scarred one bit. I still live all of my daydreams thinking about space travel and the future. My passion for space and space flight has never left me. I am a theoretical mathematician (I am truly passionate about mathematics too) and I am currently working as an engineer to pay my bills before I go back to graduate school to earn my Ph.D. (this and being an astronaut have always been my dreams). I will never, ever shelter my children. If you wish to destroy your children's ability to think for themselves, destroy their ability to successfully survive on their own in their own world, then I am sad for your children. What happens when a child is young is what gives the child the ability to be a successful adult.
The SMP in 2.11 wasn't necessarily the best, but I was just talking about when it really first occurred, so I may have misworded it. They actually had to write the SMP for some pretty interesting hardware (486 SMP) and needed to do some amazing wizardry to make it all work right. After OS/2 Warp came out, the SMP was amazing and NT couldn't touch it. I remember reading an article about the SMP software engineer (name escapes me right now) who he was a programming savaunt and IBM by all means had hired the best of the best. A lot of his work was put on hold for OS/2 Warp as IBM was making OS/2 into a microkernel OS for the then new PowerPC architecture (which was a ultra amazing OS, but never truly released to the public). This is what basically killed OS/2 in the end and held up the SMP implementation that today is currently one the best in the world (on Intel hardware).
Incorrect, OS/2 was SMP since 2.1. The OS/2 SMP model is still known to be one of the best SMP models to have ever been written. Click on this link http://www.byte.com/art/9406/sec11/art2.htm and learn something about OS/2 SMP (oh geez, it's 1994) and SMP in general.
I'm sorry, but OS/2 has never been and will never be a "world-class server entry". It's not multiuser, doesn't scale onto multiprocessor boxes, requires reboots after software installs/upgrades, relies too heavily on the desktop for administration, and just generally isn't stable enough for the corporate server.
TROLL What a bunch of total crap. OS/2 was SMP enabled from 2.11 (or 2.1 I believe) and scaled almost flawlessly linear as the number of processors grew. As a matter of fact, the OS/2 SMP model was one of the best models ever created and to this day is an example of how proper SMP should be done. OS/2 also ran services the same as Unix did, although with a slightly different model. Didn't know how to use REXX, eh? I used to work for a company (Lands End in USA) that used OS/2 for three 800 person 24-hour call centers and almost never was there a problem with OS/2. And when there was, it never stopped business. It chugged along like a tank. For even larger settings, you would combine OS/2 and an AS/400 or S/390 and have an unbeatable combination. The GUI was single threaded in the end (although extremely powerful), but command line OS/2 was as much Unix like as you could want and with all of the power you could handle. I could talk about OS/2 for hours, but the fact is is that you a an idiot troll, and if you knew anything about OS/2 Server and OS/2 Advanced Server you would realize how much of an idiot you look like.
Um, dude? You do know that Soviet archives do show that McCarthy was correct in his assertions about Communists trying to control content in Hollywood? (You do also know that Richard Nixon proved Alger Hiss to be a Communist working for the Soviet Union? Soviet archives showed him to be correct also.) That was not my point. Just thought I would point these things out to your biggoted white liberal ass. Oh, sorry, did I make a wrong assumption there? Yes, you did. Perhaps you are just one of the decadant Americans which must be converted to Islam or killed. Whoops, that would just be another biggoted statement on my part. Yes, it was. You can also be pretty damn sure the FBI did investigate Einstein before bringing him into any research. Just as they did for all the people on the Manhatten Project. That was not my point. You do know that to get a security clearance, you need to get a background check, right? Yes, I used to have one. Or are you just professionally ignorant? I am professional, yes, ignorant, no. I am simply not blinded by our current nationalism and so-called patriotism because of 09/11/2001. What needs to happen is to judge each person's actions individually, not just because they are from outside the US. The solution lies in fixing the cause of terrorism, nothing else. I could full well support the fall of Israel myself, and I am a full (born in the US) citizen and an educated, self-thinking man (read: educated atheist). What makes me any less dangerous than someone who is here on an education grant studying at MIT and follows Islam? Nothing. I can kill you just as much as them. Therefore the logic being followed by our government is wrong. You solve problems by solving the source of the problem. Why do people hate the US? And then solve that problem. That problem does not have a race, a face, or a nationality. People both inside and outside the US hate the US. Why? That is what is important. Not racial, national, or religious discrimination in a futile attempt to solve a much larger problem.
"I'll take the money"..." There is no saying it was racist."...what a couple of ignorant, blind, apathetic as*holes. This is McCarthyism all over again, folks. The Bush adminstration needs to be taken out of office NOW. Land of the free??? Land of the federated, pre-fascist states. The government told MIT that the only way that MIT could get a $404k research grant was to let the NSA do a complete background investigation on all "non-Americans and foreign nationals" only, in the name of "Homeland Security". MIT said to piss off and forfeited the grant. YEAH MIT!!! Could you imagine how f*cked we would have been in WWII if the Department of Homeland Security wouldn't let Einstein work on research in our country because he was German (and a supporter of Communism)? "Homeland Security" = xenophobia and racism. Period. Mistakes of our past are meant to be lessons in which we learn from to not make again, they are not meant to be repeated. One of my favorite quotes in the world..."They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin." That is exactly that the Bush administration is.
Dumbass, typical male. Here is the truth to all of you lonely geeks out there. A woman has to love you for who you are. Period. I am engaged to get married to a very, very beautiful girl. She loves me for a million reasons, but one of the most important reasons is because of my intelligence. Not all women want a stupid, dipshit male who only knows how to party, act stupid, pretend he is great, and have the intelligent conversations of an 8 year old who has managed to stumble into his 20's (or 30's unfortunately for some). I never thought I would stand a chance with the girl I am love with. Every guy I knew (and a lot I didn't know) at college wanted her. I worked up the nerve to ask her out one night. I thought to myself "I should be cool and fun like all of the other guys...DON'T TOUCH THE COMPUTER...TALK ABOUT FUN, PARTYING, STUPID SHIT. BE FUN AND STUPID." But, then I said "You know what...f*ck it...if she doesn't love me for who I am then I won't be able to spend the rest of my life with her anyways." The first night we were together we spent all evening talking about Mesopotamian history and the roots of Eastern philosophy. Then I fixed her laptop so she could save her homework for lecture in the morning (we were still in college when we met). Stupid woman are fun for about 1 date (where the conversation is about as intelligent as..."what's you favorite color? What's your favorite music?"). Then it's like "...duhhh...*twists hair on finger*...what are you, some kind of computer geek? This isn't any fun...What's so fun about playing on the computer? I'm going to go hang out, you wanna come with?..." To which I think to myself, "fuc*ing a, this chick sucks..." Do you know what is more of a turn-on than getting Linux to boot on your computer, running a cluster in your lab, and/or kickin hardcore code? An intelligent woman who loves your brains, appreciates your passion for programming (and passions for everything else), and who really gets into you for who you are and for what you love. Wire up your house like the article talks about. Love your life. Be true to yourself always. Your soulmate will be there. PS-Since I have met my soulmate (who happens to be one of the smartest people I know...date the smart girls (and/or the artistic females if that type of person also completes you, but they can still be very smart people so they are awesome people too), they are a ton more fun and a ton more beautiful than anyone who is attractive on looks alone), my friends have all taken my advice and one of them is also engaged to get married (and his fiance' is damn smart just like him, she is really cool). And trust me...NOT all smart girls are fat or ugly. My soulmate certainly isn't fat or ugly...and neither is my bestfriends fiance' (and soulmate as I have been told by both of them:-). Not in the slightest.
I have found Athlons to be just as stable as any Pentium III or IV. I sell only Athlons to all new customers, and will install P4's if specifically requested. But, I spend, and I do mean spend, tons of painstaking amounts of time research the AMD motherboards. Almost all of the cheap ones are crap (along with almost anything VIA used to make more than 1 1/2 years old). Please consider this before you let anyone tell you otherwise about Intel chips or Athlons. My bestfriend works at Cray Inc. and they are building a super cluster computer using all Athlons. Think about it. Those are not VIA chipsets in those beasts.
Even for the sake of "prettyness", as you put it in your other reply, why would you waste a Sun workstation on remote X clients? You can view remote X clients on any sort of machine, as long as it is running X (a cheap Pentium can do this for you). Even if your 2000+ client network is all remote X clients (like some moron I used to work for who used Windows Terminal Server for everything the entire company did, until it kept crashing sessions and randomly killing sessions while Windows 2000 Advanced Server kept having fits because Windows Terminal Server was never meant to be a full-time remote serving environment), why are you using expensive, powerful Sun stations as simply dumb terminals to run i386 Linux applications? You should just compile/install Gnome on your Sun Machine and run your programs locally. Of course, this is all for nothing if you are just some random employee and simply want to run Linux apps on your Sun machine remotely.
Actually, you are completely wrong. During WWII and in the years following WWII there was a movement among the Jewish people called the "Zionist" movement. For the unknowing, Mt. Zion is a mountainous region that exists in the current country of Isreal, the area of the world where the Hebrew people orginally descended when they started massacring the native people of the area. This was before the creation of Judaism from the orignal Hebrew warriors and original religious writings (from which Christianity was later created). Well, the area around Mt. Zion through history became permanently settled, the native people of the area later converted to Islam (~600 CE), and was known as Palestine. After WWII everyone felt sorry for not helping the Jews more during the war after Hitler's "Final Solution" (although during the course of the war just as many Russians, handicapped, Gypsies, and others died as the Jews, but that is for another day). Before WWII Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, and Lebanon did not exist. These were all one large territory under the colonial rule of Britian. Egypt and Libya were under French colonial rule. After WWII both Britian and France lost their colonial powers. Britian split the Shiite muslims and the Sunni muslims into the respective countries of Iraq and Iran. The Jews complained so much about Hitler's treatment of them during WWII, the Jews overall treatment over the past ~2000 years, the fact that they didn't have a "homeland", and nobody wanted them in northern Africa, that Britian made the brilliant move to ship all of the Jews to Palestine, kick out the Palestinians, and simply declare Israel a state. Technically, Israel has no business being a country whatsoever. Israel is Palestinian homeland. The reasons that we, as in the United States, do not just pull out of giving Israel military assistance is very, very political. We have sold Israel all of their military equipment. We gave them nuclear weapons. Sharon promises to nuke anyone that touches Israel. The US needs a middle eastern ally. The list goes on and on. Imagine yourself a Palestinian. It is like taking someone you love with all of your heart (in the Palestinian's case their homeland, but for this example I will use your wife), ripping her away from you, marrying her to another man, being told you cannot do anything about it because all of the people you ask threaten to kill you if you act out against the new husband (and your friends are all too weak to help you, plus the new husband has a gun when all you and your friends have are small sticks), and then being told that you and the new husband have to be bestfriends, no matter what. Take that example and multiple it by 10,000 and you will understand my point. The United States, Britian, and Israel are in the wrong. But, the point is is that pro-Zionist prejudice is about being blind to the fact that Israel is in the wrong. You are being blind (or ignorant) to what Israel is as a country, why it is there, and why it was created. You are being blind to the attrocities that occur there on an everyday basis to the Palestinians. You blind yourself by saying that Israel is in the right, no matter what, because it is politically correct to think so. Being anti-Israel is not being anti-semetic. The Palestinians are a people just like the Israelites are a people. Each with their own backgrounds and religions. Killing one or the other or hating one or the other are both anti-semetic. What people need to do is stop being so blind on both sides of the problem. Simple answer: remove Israel, restore each respective group to their respective native countries (Israelites have none), and tell the Jewish people to live like everyone else in the world, practice their faith privately like everyone else, and spread out across the Earth liek everyone and try your best to live in peace with everyone else in the world (Why people hate the Jews is a very long story for another day also). Impossible answer: Continue along the path we are now, and try and make everyone believe that Britain and the United States know what is best for the world, continue to support Israel, force everyone to stop hating each other for the pains of the past, force the Palestinians to actually "want" to give up their homelands forever, and force everyone to love each other and get along.
Are you a member of this supposed majority of Americans who are entirely ignorant? No. My point about the Corvette is that it is a V8 and RWD and long known for its incredibly poor handling. Hence, a joke on any track or race that is not an oval or some kind of long sloping oval track. It cannot compete with its AWD counterparts unless it is running in a perfectly straight line, or it would be on the World Rally circuits (among others) right now. You can go to http://www.c5registry.com/Production/pre2001.htm and read more about the C5 Corvette. The specs on this vehicle are not that impressive at all. I personally own a 2001 Subaru RS-Type (US) Coupe 5 Speed with an aftermarket turbo kit which I installed (including new RX-7 fuel pump, racing camshafts, new cat-back exhaust and manifold, aftermarket fuel management system, and 8 psi turbo) and I easily push 280bhp at the crank at 5600RPM, 295ft/lbs torque at 2000RPM, lack ~20bhp less at the wheels. My cars curb weight is ~2700lbs. Plus, having an absolutely fantastic Subaru AWD system on top of that (with viscous limited-slip differentials in both the front and the rear), I would certainly not consider a C5 Corvette all that impressive. I have world class performance and world class handling for minimum $20,000 less than the Corvette, and I have racing features that the Corvette doesn't have now and will never have. When I speak of World Rally Sport, I certainly do not consider a RWD V8 Corvette (regardless of your basically useless and incorrect inference that the Corvette's weight distribution has anything to do with its ability to seriously grip the road, since the new Shelby Cobra is a perfect 50/50 weight split and Shelby does not brag about its cornering at all) a serious automobile or world contender by any means. The World Rally Circuit runs cars in the 460-560bhp range for starters. I guess if you like plastic looking Corvette's (as opposed to the neat looking older 70's Stingray's) then the C5 is for you. Just don't drive it too hard in the rain. I saw that happen just a month ago and laughed my ass off when the guy fishtailed all over the road. Unless the engine in a RWD is located directly above the rear wheels, and you somehow manage to keep the front wheels from lifting off of the ground during high speeds while maintaining drivability and front wheel grip, such as the Porsche 911 does (although it is an AWD vehicle too) then performance will always suffer. PS-Just for your knowledge, since we were talking weight distribution, the torque distribution in the WRX is 60/40 front/rear. And just in case you are wondering, the Subaru AWD uses two non-locking differentials, therefore each tire can be given power individually. The Subaru transfer case will shift to as much as 20/80 front/rear on a hard take-off. It can also shift variably between 60/40 and 20/80 depending a how the driver operates the vehicle and the conditions of the road. The onboard computer senses the needed power during driving and intelligently transfers power where it is needed, making for simply incredible handling for all driving types and in all conditions. You want to see an example of real racing, check out http://www.swrt.com and while you are at it, take a hop on Google and take a look at the Mitsubishi Evo VI & VII. They are finally bringing these Japanese powerhouses to the United States. It's about time.
Being an American, born and true, the part of your post that bothers me the most is the slam that (paraphrase) "Only a TRUE American would buy a piece of shit, gas guzzling, below sub-par performance on the world stage, cheaply made, heavy, highly inefficient engine, fall apart after 100,000 miles, American made car." For example, my fiancee (who is also American pure and true) just purchased a German engineered, German manufactured, and German produced Audi A6 2.8 Quattro. Every American made car is a piece of shit when you own a car as beautifully made and engineered as that vehicle. It makes you laugh or grin every time you see any car engineered in America. The truth of the matter is not the Americanism of buying a POS American engineered vehicle. It is the American business model...Make the car as cheaply as possible and sell it for as much as possible. And if you can't sell the car on merits, start calling the properly and better engineered vehicles names...Rice burners, Nazi mobiles, etc. etc. I am an engineer with a deep passion for World Rally Sport. Unlike what MOST Americans think, it doesn't take any talent to make a car go fast in a straight line. Sure, your Corvette goes somewhat fast (that is a matter of opinion), but try to corner with it or bring it onto any kind of race or track which isn't an oval, and your Corvette shows just how much of a front heavy, over-rated piece of shit it is. The only thing that is American about you and your post is the shear ignorance of the American people is shining though. If you understood world class performance, anything short of an AWD (All Wheel Drive), turbocharged (single or twin), 4 cylinder (inline or horizontally opposed), or even 6 cylinder, is simply a complete POS. Your attitude is what leads people to believe that NASCAR is actually a race, much less a sport. NASCAR is simply American white trash soap opera. You put one of those oval running, RWD, POS American vehicles on a real race course and you will see just how fast they get laughed off the face of the Earth. You have an American V8 or V6 or I4 car that can out accelerate, out corner, and out perform a Subaru WRX, WRX STi or a Mitsubishi Evo IV, V, VI, VII or the rally edition Audi Quattro (for a small example) and I will call you a liar straight to your face. And then laugh as I leave you in the dust. I have personally seen a Subaru WRX race a modified Chevy Camero SS and the Chevy lost. I would have died laughing if that little race involved any real cornering or tracks. Oh, and you can buy the Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi EVO 7 (available in 2003) in the United States. Cadillac tried to race in the French Le Mans 24 Hour and got laughed off the track by the Audi direct injection race car. Cadillac never showed up again. Ford of Europe is the only car company with an American tie that has ever been able to perform on a world circuit rally race course. And the best part is is that the Ford car isn't even American engineered. In order for Ford to compete, they had to buy another countries more competent automotive engineers and put the Ford label on their car. That is hilarious. Then Ford goes and claims it to be a Ford and American, when the only thing American about the car is the Ford label on the hood. And as far as big trucks go, considering that the world does not revolve around the United States, how in the world does the other 6.1 billion people on the Earth survive without big American trucks? Sure, they are useful...for roughly 1% of the American population. The rest are simply used because it has been determined that large trucks imply roughness, ruggedness, outdoorsness, individuality, superiority, safety, and masculinity. None of the above are true. I have seen plenty of trucks and SUV's tipped on their tops or sides because the driver (where I live in the US) was trying to avoid a deer at about 55/65 MPH (and these were not all Ford Explorers). Not even one car though. So, safety is a total joke. 4WD...right. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, only 1% of the population has ever used their 4WD if they had it. It didn't take a survey to tell me that. I go to work every single day and in our parking lot at work alone I see almost 25 big, American trucks...most of them driven by fat, short, women who smoke who have never really used their trucks in their entire lives. The other ones are used by desk jockey, middle aged men, none of whom live outside of the city (my engineering assistant just purchased a new Chevy Blazer the other week...and she lives 3 blocks from here). All that your post showed is that apparently the only TRUE Americans are the dumb, uneducated, V8 driving, RWD morons (or FWD morons who try to race me from the stoplights in their Saturns..ha ha ha) that everyone else in the world still laughs at. I am American. I am educated. I look for quality in engineering and I have yet to find any quality, ingenuity, or competent engineering in any American engineered automobiles. But, one thing that makes me sick is that American's pride themselves on being stupid and ignorant and that the world revolves around the US in all aspects. I consider myself more American than you because I can admit my countries faults, admit that other countries and other engineers do things completely better, and still love my country for the things that are good about it, and educate the uneducated in my country (enlightening the V8 driving morons among others). You should be American and educate yourself and stopping thinking the entire world revolves around you and your US-centric attitude (especially about American automotive engineering). It's all about better automotive engineering, which the rest of the world knows that US has the worst. Oh, that new revolutionary GM diesel engine. That's right. It's made my Isuzu. Ooops.
It is decrypting/find the breakability of elliptic curve cryptography (finding elliptic curve discrete log computatability). Go to http://www.nd.edu/~cmonico/eccp109/ and read all about it.
The Poincaré Conjecture is widely considered the most important unsolved problem in topology. It was first formulated by Henri Poincaré in 1904. In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute selected the Poincaré conjecture as one of seven Millennium Prize Problems and offered a $1,000,000 prize for its solution.
The conjecture is that every simply connected compact 3-manifold without boundary is homeomorphic to a 3-sphere. (Loosely speaking, that every 3-dimensional object that has a set of sphere-like properties can be stretched or squeezed until it is a 3-sphere without breaking it).
Analogues of the Poincaré Conjecture in dimensions other than 3 can also be formulated. The difficulty of low-dimensional topology is highlighted by the fact these analogues have now all been proven, while the original 3-dimensional version of Poincaré's conjecture remains unsolved. Its solution is central to the problem of classifying 3-manifolds.
On April 7, 2002 there were reports that the Poincaré conjecture might have been solved by Martin Dunwoody; on April 12 Dunwoody acknowledged a gap in the proof and was attempting to fix it. In October of that year, Sergei Nikitin of Arizona State University announced that he had proved the result.
Pure science is pure science. All great discoveries that have ever existed have been because of small, previously unrelated pure mathematical works (or other pure true sciences), which when done on their own seem to have no superficial meaning to someone such as an engineer or common layman, but pure mathematics is akin to pieces of a grand puzzle. Each piece is intrinsically linked to the whole picture. Looking at each piece will not reveal the puzzle, although solving each piece on its own will. This proof need not prove anything to an engineer, a computer scientist, a ballerina, or the mailman, but to a mathematician and others who understand its significance (among others) this proof advances the pure science of mathematics...and by that the world will eventually be forever changed.
Physics is not almost entirely approximations. Physics is exact. It is the unknowns of the equations which tend towards "real-world" (things you can touch, see, smell, feel, observe, etc.) events appearing to be approximate or entropic. Mathematics is an exact science. Mathematics and Mathematical logic and truth is never wrong. It is simply the exclusion of one or many variables in a true equation which leads to approximation and/or entropy. As a Mathematician, you only approximate when you need to (for lack of more information or an irrational variable for two examples) in order to simplify a problem, when the variable being approximated or simplified does not change the outcome of a given equation (i.e. the mathematics of limits for example). Mathematics is exact. Thereby Physics is exact. It is only the unknowns and that cause entropy and approximation in a system determined by Physics.
Honestly, Linux is not all *that* great. XWindows will crash on me at least once or twice a week. Play an OpenGL full-screen game and it locks up? No more Linux. Time for a hard reboot. Even the so-called magic alt-sysrq does not always work. Once the display is gone, it is gone. And not all of us are running telnet or ssh over a small lan to log into our machines and kill our XWindows server to clear the screen. You can even leave Windows 2000 on for months without a single reboot. I do it at work all of the time. It is programs that crash the interface. Windows XP and 2000 blue screen on me once in a while. Linux does not crash unless I am running XWindows. And I do not own a Mac (yet) but I have never seen or heard of MacOSX ever crashing under normal circumstances (although I have heard here and there shit like DVD-ROM drives and such have caused problems and crashes/lockups, but Linux is no better at this really...ever have a frozen HTTPD or worse on non-interactive boot on a remote terminal?, and it is often very hard to stop misbehaving hardware in software...often difficult, but not impossible). Apple is a hardware company, same as IBM. They make the OS to sell the hardware. Same as IBM. Except for Apple, the OS is the same as the hardware, but the hardware is what supports the software development. Without the hardware, Apple would not survive. And the argument you have about hardware support is unfounded at best. Anyone, anywhere can write hardware drivers for Apple. Sure, Linux might support, as you say, %90 of the hardware out there, but only %10 of the hardware's real features and at a quality just above barely reverse engineered. My old modem just recently died last week. It was a nice external 56K modem. Well, I have to use my serial port for something else that I am developing software for now. So, I went out and purchased a new USR 56K internal. Just released. Windows 2000 worked with it flawlessly. Redhat 7.3? Nope. Nice hardware support. RedHat 7.3 recognizes it, but refuses to do anything else with it. Nice. That is why Apple sells hardware and software. They can keep the level of quality exactly where it needs to be. You want a piece of hardware to work on OSX...write it yourself. Cheers
I used to use Eiffel on NeXtStep computers. Nice, eh? Sweet ass OS. Well, anyways, Eiffel was fantastic and it is completely OOP from the start. It had wonderful templates and the debugging was top notch. The problem that I had was that the debugging was verbose, but unless I spent a ton of time trying to decrypt what it was trying to tell me, I would just end up trying to look through the code myself. This was back in 1996, so I am sure that things have changed and improved. Sorry, I can't give you any further advice, my memories of Eiffel are not too specific, except for the fact that I fell in love with it and was very sad to see it go. Objective C is very, very cool from what I have heard, but I can't help you at all on that. Do you have a Mac? You could easily give both of these languages a try without any troubles at all and see what you like. I have heard that the Apple IDE is absolutely fantastic and you will fall in love with it right away. Peace. Eiffel was very nice.
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Your signature "Only God may judge Osama Bin Laden, It's our job to arrange the meeting." is really sad. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and any religion has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Death is death. Outside of the human mind, the universe is not ruled my mysticism. All people die, whether your or the "enemy's" religion makes you righteous in your own mind or not. The actions of men are what is real. The actions of men kill people. The actions of men are the reasons for war.
Well, if the US is teh first country to reach Mars, creating huge amounts of CO2 won't be a problem at all. After a few years, there will be enough pickup trucks and SUV's to give us the same lovely greenhouse effect we have here on Earth right now
Why was I marked as a Troll and as Flamebait? Doesn't anyone have a clue what happened in the past? Do the research yourself if you don't believe me. Watson and Crick did not discover the helical structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin did. Is Slashdot full of people who either have a HS education only and/or have never learned about past scientific achievements and who actually makes the discoveries as opposed to who actually gets the credit? The facts about the history of who discovered DNA stand, whether I am marked as a troll or flamebait or not.
Go to http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Rosalind_Fr
Quote "After Randall presented Franklin's data and her unpublished conclusions at a routine seminar, her work was provided - without Randall's knowledge - to her competitors at Cambridge University, Watson and Crick. The scientists used her data and that of other scientists to build their ultimately correct and detailed description of DNA's structure in 1953...it is a tremendous shame that Franklin did not receive due credit for her essential role in this discovery, either during her lifetime or after her untimely death at age 37 due to cancer."
Years ago I did a research paper on this subject, with the intent to discover who really did discover the helical structure of DNA. Watson and Crick did NOT discover the helical structure of DNA. The person who did discover the structure was Rosalind Franklin. All scientists knew of her discovery (using X-ray chromotography I believe), although he mentor disallowed her to publish the work under her own name (great reason for equal rights). Rosalind Franklin decided to give a lecture on her discovery to a group of scientists of the time before trying to publish her discoveries under her own name. Watson and Crick attended the lecture and quite simply, stole Rosalind's data. Rosalind Franklin fought to have her work published, but Watson and Crick, being male scientists, got their work published first, under their name, and under the pretenses that it was their own work.
The title should read "50 years since the blatant stealing by Watson and Crick of the work from Rosalind Franklin, who discovered the helical structure of DNA." Knowing this kind of information makes me f*cking sick to my stomach. The rest of the world goes on believes the lies of the past, when noone works to change the lies to truths for the future. Watson and Crick should have their Nobel Prize stripped from them.
Writing code is a very personal affair. It is like writing a book, personal to to your exact style. I could see my code getting ripped apart and me getting personally offended by it, but it depends on how it is critized and by who it is critized.
Actually, if you were weary about RedHat Linux, then I would certainly tell you that Solaris is NOT easier to work with than RedHat Linux. I administer and use a RedHat server and desktop system and have administered and used both Solaris 7 & 8 for Intel and I will tell you that Solaris is exactly the same, if not more difficult, than RedHat Linux to use. If you are used to using Windows or a Macintosh, then you are in for one hell of a ride with Solaris. To someone with 10+ years experience in operating systems, servers, and desktops, I even spent a little time working with Solaris to get it to the point that it was usable as a desktop OS. Try configuring a modem for PPP access. Good luck without a TON of experience working with configuration script files, unless that has changed in Solaris 9, you might not be internet enabled for weeks or months, depending on your level of Unix and Solaris knowledge. Always make sure you can access the internet during the install and after the install in case you need to ask a question or look something up. Otherwise, you are going to wish you had. Don't be afraid of Solaris, just respect it. Solaris is pure Unix. Be prepared and you will love it. Be unprepared, and you will hate it. Good Luck and I hope you love it!!!
That's not true at all. My parents never sheltered me from anything. I was raised to know that the world was like from the beginning. I remember sitting in my elementary school library with my "Young Astronauts" clothes on and watching the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up live on TV (being an astronaut has been my dream since my very first memories). I was not scarred one bit. I still live all of my daydreams thinking about space travel and the future. My passion for space and space flight has never left me. I am a theoretical mathematician (I am truly passionate about mathematics too) and I am currently working as an engineer to pay my bills before I go back to graduate school to earn my Ph.D. (this and being an astronaut have always been my dreams). I will never, ever shelter my children.
If you wish to destroy your children's ability to think for themselves, destroy their ability to successfully survive on their own in their own world, then I am sad for your children. What happens when a child is young is what gives the child the ability to be a successful adult.
The SMP in 2.11 wasn't necessarily the best, but I was just talking about when it really first occurred, so I may have misworded it. They actually had to write the SMP for some pretty interesting hardware (486 SMP) and needed to do some amazing wizardry to make it all work right. After OS/2 Warp came out, the SMP was amazing and NT couldn't touch it. I remember reading an article about the SMP software engineer (name escapes me right now) who he was a programming savaunt and IBM by all means had hired the best of the best. A lot of his work was put on hold for OS/2 Warp as IBM was making OS/2 into a microkernel OS for the then new PowerPC architecture (which was a ultra amazing OS, but never truly released to the public). This is what basically killed OS/2 in the end and held up the SMP implementation that today is currently one the best in the world (on Intel hardware).
Incorrect, OS/2 was SMP since 2.1. The OS/2 SMP model is still known to be one of the best SMP models to have ever been written. Click on this link http://www.byte.com/art/9406/sec11/art2.htm and learn something about OS/2 SMP (oh geez, it's 1994) and SMP in general.
I'm sorry, but OS/2 has never been and will never be a "world-class server entry". It's not multiuser, doesn't scale onto multiprocessor boxes, requires reboots after software installs/upgrades, relies too heavily on the desktop for administration, and just generally isn't stable enough for the corporate server.
TROLL What a bunch of total crap. OS/2 was SMP enabled from 2.11 (or 2.1 I believe) and scaled almost flawlessly linear as the number of processors grew. As a matter of fact, the OS/2 SMP model was one of the best models ever created and to this day is an example of how proper SMP should be done. OS/2 also ran services the same as Unix did, although with a slightly different model. Didn't know how to use REXX, eh? I used to work for a company (Lands End in USA) that used OS/2 for three 800 person 24-hour call centers and almost never was there a problem with OS/2. And when there was, it never stopped business. It chugged along like a tank. For even larger settings, you would combine OS/2 and an AS/400 or S/390 and have an unbeatable combination. The GUI was single threaded in the end (although extremely powerful), but command line OS/2 was as much Unix like as you could want and with all of the power you could handle. I could talk about OS/2 for hours, but the fact is is that you a an idiot troll, and if you knew anything about OS/2 Server and OS/2 Advanced Server you would realize how much of an idiot you look like.
Um, dude? You do know that Soviet archives do show that McCarthy was correct in his assertions about Communists trying to control content in Hollywood? (You do also know that Richard Nixon proved Alger Hiss to be a Communist working for the Soviet Union? Soviet archives showed him to be correct also.)
That was not my point.
Just thought I would point these things out to your biggoted white liberal ass. Oh, sorry, did I make a wrong assumption there?
Yes, you did.
Perhaps you are just one of the decadant Americans which must be converted to Islam or killed. Whoops, that would just be another biggoted statement on my part.
Yes, it was.
You can also be pretty damn sure the FBI did investigate Einstein before bringing him into any research. Just as they did for all the people on the Manhatten Project.
That was not my point.
You do know that to get a security clearance, you need to get a background check, right?
Yes, I used to have one.
Or are you just professionally ignorant?
I am professional, yes, ignorant, no. I am simply not blinded by our current nationalism and so-called patriotism because of 09/11/2001. What needs to happen is to judge each person's actions individually, not just because they are from outside the US. The solution lies in fixing the cause of terrorism, nothing else. I could full well support the fall of Israel myself, and I am a full (born in the US) citizen and an educated, self-thinking man (read: educated atheist). What makes me any less dangerous than someone who is here on an education grant studying at MIT and follows Islam? Nothing. I can kill you just as much as them. Therefore the logic being followed by our government is wrong. You solve problems by solving the source of the problem. Why do people hate the US? And then solve that problem. That problem does not have a race, a face, or a nationality. People both inside and outside the US hate the US. Why? That is what is important. Not racial, national, or religious discrimination in a futile attempt to solve a much larger problem.
"I'll take the money"..." There is no saying it was racist."...what a couple of ignorant, blind, apathetic as*holes.
This is McCarthyism all over again, folks. The Bush adminstration needs to be taken out of office NOW. Land of the free??? Land of the federated, pre-fascist states. The government told MIT that the only way that MIT could get a $404k research grant was to let the NSA do a complete background investigation on all "non-Americans and foreign nationals" only, in the name of "Homeland Security". MIT said to piss off and forfeited the grant.
YEAH MIT!!!
Could you imagine how f*cked we would have been in WWII if the Department of Homeland Security wouldn't let Einstein work on research in our country because he was German (and a supporter of Communism)?
"Homeland Security" = xenophobia and racism. Period.
Mistakes of our past are meant to be lessons in which we learn from to not make again, they are not meant to be repeated. One of my favorite quotes in the world..."They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -- Benjamin Franklin." That is exactly that the Bush administration is.
Dumbass, typical male.
Here is the truth to all of you lonely geeks out there. A woman has to love you for who you are. Period. I am engaged to get married to a very, very beautiful girl. She loves me for a million reasons, but one of the most important reasons is because of my intelligence. Not all women want a stupid, dipshit male who only knows how to party, act stupid, pretend he is great, and have the intelligent conversations of an 8 year old who has managed to stumble into his 20's (or 30's unfortunately for some). I never thought I would stand a chance with the girl I am love with. Every guy I knew (and a lot I didn't know) at college wanted her. I worked up the nerve to ask her out one night. I thought to myself "I should be cool and fun like all of the other guys...DON'T TOUCH THE COMPUTER...TALK ABOUT FUN, PARTYING, STUPID SHIT. BE FUN AND STUPID." But, then I said "You know what...f*ck it...if she doesn't love me for who I am then I won't be able to spend the rest of my life with her anyways." The first night we were together we spent all evening talking about Mesopotamian history and the roots of Eastern philosophy. Then I fixed her laptop so she could save her homework for lecture in the morning (we were still in college when we met). Stupid woman are fun for about 1 date (where the conversation is about as intelligent as..."what's you favorite color? What's your favorite music?"). Then it's like "...duhhh...*twists hair on finger*...what are you, some kind of computer geek? This isn't any fun...What's so fun about playing on the computer? I'm going to go hang out, you wanna come with?..." To which I think to myself, "fuc*ing a, this chick sucks..." Do you know what is more of a turn-on than getting Linux to boot on your computer, running a cluster in your lab, and/or kickin hardcore code? An intelligent woman who loves your brains, appreciates your passion for programming (and passions for everything else), and who really gets into you for who you are and for what you love. Wire up your house like the article talks about. Love your life. Be true to yourself always. Your soulmate will be there.
PS-Since I have met my soulmate (who happens to be one of the smartest people I know...date the smart girls (and/or the artistic females if that type of person also completes you, but they can still be very smart people so they are awesome people too), they are a ton more fun and a ton more beautiful than anyone who is attractive on looks alone), my friends have all taken my advice and one of them is also engaged to get married (and his fiance' is damn smart just like him, she is really cool). And trust me...NOT all smart girls are fat or ugly. My soulmate certainly isn't fat or ugly...and neither is my bestfriends fiance' (and soulmate as I have been told by both of them
I have found Athlons to be just as stable as any Pentium III or IV. I sell only Athlons to all new customers, and will install P4's if specifically requested. But, I spend, and I do mean spend, tons of painstaking amounts of time research the AMD motherboards. Almost all of the cheap ones are crap (along with almost anything VIA used to make more than 1 1/2 years old). Please consider this before you let anyone tell you otherwise about Intel chips or Athlons. My bestfriend works at Cray Inc. and they are building a super cluster computer using all Athlons. Think about it. Those are not VIA chipsets in those beasts.
Even for the sake of "prettyness", as you put it in your other reply, why would you waste a Sun workstation on remote X clients? You can view remote X clients on any sort of machine, as long as it is running X (a cheap Pentium can do this for you). Even if your 2000+ client network is all remote X clients (like some moron I used to work for who used Windows Terminal Server for everything the entire company did, until it kept crashing sessions and randomly killing sessions while Windows 2000 Advanced Server kept having fits because Windows Terminal Server was never meant to be a full-time remote serving environment), why are you using expensive, powerful Sun stations as simply dumb terminals to run i386 Linux applications? You should just compile/install Gnome on your Sun Machine and run your programs locally. Of course, this is all for nothing if you are just some random employee and simply want to run Linux apps on your Sun machine remotely.
Actually, you are completely wrong. During WWII and in the years following WWII there was a movement among the Jewish people called the "Zionist" movement. For the unknowing, Mt. Zion is a mountainous region that exists in the current country of Isreal, the area of the world where the Hebrew people orginally descended when they started massacring the native people of the area. This was before the creation of Judaism from the orignal Hebrew warriors and original religious writings (from which Christianity was later created). Well, the area around Mt. Zion through history became permanently settled, the native people of the area later converted to Islam (~600 CE), and was known as Palestine.
After WWII everyone felt sorry for not helping the Jews more during the war after Hitler's "Final Solution" (although during the course of the war just as many Russians, handicapped, Gypsies, and others died as the Jews, but that is for another day). Before WWII Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, and Lebanon did not exist. These were all one large territory under the colonial rule of Britian. Egypt and Libya were under French colonial rule. After WWII both Britian and France lost their colonial powers. Britian split the Shiite muslims and the Sunni muslims into the respective countries of Iraq and Iran. The Jews complained so much about Hitler's treatment of them during WWII, the Jews overall treatment over the past ~2000 years, the fact that they didn't have a "homeland", and nobody wanted them in northern Africa, that Britian made the brilliant move to ship all of the Jews to Palestine, kick out the Palestinians, and simply declare Israel a state. Technically, Israel has no business being a country whatsoever. Israel is Palestinian homeland.
The reasons that we, as in the United States, do not just pull out of giving Israel military assistance is very, very political. We have sold Israel all of their military equipment. We gave them nuclear weapons. Sharon promises to nuke anyone that touches Israel. The US needs a middle eastern ally. The list goes on and on. Imagine yourself a Palestinian. It is like taking someone you love with all of your heart (in the Palestinian's case their homeland, but for this example I will use your wife), ripping her away from you, marrying her to another man, being told you cannot do anything about it because all of the people you ask threaten to kill you if you act out against the new husband (and your friends are all too weak to help you, plus the new husband has a gun when all you and your friends have are small sticks), and then being told that you and the new husband have to be bestfriends, no matter what. Take that example and multiple it by 10,000 and you will understand my point.
The United States, Britian, and Israel are in the wrong. But, the point is is that pro-Zionist prejudice is about being blind to the fact that Israel is in the wrong. You are being blind (or ignorant) to what Israel is as a country, why it is there, and why it was created. You are being blind to the attrocities that occur there on an everyday basis to the Palestinians. You blind yourself by saying that Israel is in the right, no matter what, because it is politically correct to think so. Being anti-Israel is not being anti-semetic. The Palestinians are a people just like the Israelites are a people. Each with their own backgrounds and religions. Killing one or the other or hating one or the other are both anti-semetic. What people need to do is stop being so blind on both sides of the problem. Simple answer: remove Israel, restore each respective group to their respective native countries (Israelites have none), and tell the Jewish people to live like everyone else in the world, practice their faith privately like everyone else, and spread out across the Earth liek everyone and try your best to live in peace with everyone else in the world (Why people hate the Jews is a very long story for another day also). Impossible answer: Continue along the path we are now, and try and make everyone believe that Britain and the United States know what is best for the world, continue to support Israel, force everyone to stop hating each other for the pains of the past, force the Palestinians to actually "want" to give up their homelands forever, and force everyone to love each other and get along.
Are you a member of this supposed majority of Americans who are entirely ignorant?
No.
My point about the Corvette is that it is a V8 and RWD and long known for its incredibly poor handling. Hence, a joke on any track or race that is not an oval or some kind of long sloping oval track. It cannot compete with its AWD counterparts unless it is running in a perfectly straight line, or it would be on the World Rally circuits (among others) right now. You can go to http://www.c5registry.com/Production/pre2001.htm and read more about the C5 Corvette. The specs on this vehicle are not that impressive at all. I personally own a 2001 Subaru RS-Type (US) Coupe 5 Speed with an aftermarket turbo kit which I installed (including new RX-7 fuel pump, racing camshafts, new cat-back exhaust and manifold, aftermarket fuel management system, and 8 psi turbo) and I easily push 280bhp at the crank at 5600RPM, 295ft/lbs torque at 2000RPM, lack ~20bhp less at the wheels. My cars curb weight is ~2700lbs. Plus, having an absolutely fantastic Subaru AWD system on top of that (with viscous limited-slip differentials in both the front and the rear), I would certainly not consider a C5 Corvette all that impressive. I have world class performance and world class handling for minimum $20,000 less than the Corvette, and I have racing features that the Corvette doesn't have now and will never have. When I speak of World Rally Sport, I certainly do not consider a RWD V8 Corvette (regardless of your basically useless and incorrect inference that the Corvette's weight distribution has anything to do with its ability to seriously grip the road, since the new Shelby Cobra is a perfect 50/50 weight split and Shelby does not brag about its cornering at all) a serious automobile or world contender by any means. The World Rally Circuit runs cars in the 460-560bhp range for starters. I guess if you like plastic looking Corvette's (as opposed to the neat looking older 70's Stingray's) then the C5 is for you. Just don't drive it too hard in the rain. I saw that happen just a month ago and laughed my ass off when the guy fishtailed all over the road. Unless the engine in a RWD is located directly above the rear wheels, and you somehow manage to keep the front wheels from lifting off of the ground during high speeds while maintaining drivability and front wheel grip, such as the Porsche 911 does (although it is an AWD vehicle too) then performance will always suffer.
PS-Just for your knowledge, since we were talking weight distribution, the torque distribution in the WRX is 60/40 front/rear. And just in case you are wondering, the Subaru AWD uses two non-locking differentials, therefore each tire can be given power individually. The Subaru transfer case will shift to as much as 20/80 front/rear on a hard take-off. It can also shift variably between 60/40 and 20/80 depending a how the driver operates the vehicle and the conditions of the road. The onboard computer senses the needed power during driving and intelligently transfers power where it is needed, making for simply incredible handling for all driving types and in all conditions. You want to see an example of real racing, check out http://www.swrt.com and while you are at it, take a hop on Google and take a look at the Mitsubishi Evo VI & VII. They are finally bringing these Japanese powerhouses to the United States. It's about time.
Being an American, born and true, the part of your post that bothers me the most is the slam that (paraphrase) "Only a TRUE American would buy a piece of shit, gas guzzling, below sub-par performance on the world stage, cheaply made, heavy, highly inefficient engine, fall apart after 100,000 miles, American made car." For example, my fiancee (who is also American pure and true) just purchased a German engineered, German manufactured, and German produced Audi A6 2.8 Quattro. Every American made car is a piece of shit when you own a car as beautifully made and engineered as that vehicle. It makes you laugh or grin every time you see any car engineered in America.
The truth of the matter is not the Americanism of buying a POS American engineered vehicle. It is the American business model...Make the car as cheaply as possible and sell it for as much as possible. And if you can't sell the car on merits, start calling the properly and better engineered vehicles names...Rice burners, Nazi mobiles, etc. etc. I am an engineer with a deep passion for World Rally Sport. Unlike what MOST Americans think, it doesn't take any talent to make a car go fast in a straight line. Sure, your Corvette goes somewhat fast (that is a matter of opinion), but try to corner with it or bring it onto any kind of race or track which isn't an oval, and your Corvette shows just how much of a front heavy, over-rated piece of shit it is.
The only thing that is American about you and your post is the shear ignorance of the American people is shining though. If you understood world class performance, anything short of an AWD (All Wheel Drive), turbocharged (single or twin), 4 cylinder (inline or horizontally opposed), or even 6 cylinder, is simply a complete POS. Your attitude is what leads people to believe that NASCAR is actually a race, much less a sport. NASCAR is simply American white trash soap opera. You put one of those oval running, RWD, POS American vehicles on a real race course and you will see just how fast they get laughed off the face of the Earth.
You have an American V8 or V6 or I4 car that can out accelerate, out corner, and out perform a Subaru WRX, WRX STi or a Mitsubishi Evo IV, V, VI, VII or the rally edition Audi Quattro (for a small example) and I will call you a liar straight to your face. And then laugh as I leave you in the dust. I have personally seen a Subaru WRX race a modified Chevy Camero SS and the Chevy lost. I would have died laughing if that little race involved any real cornering or tracks. Oh, and you can buy the Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi EVO 7 (available in 2003) in the United States. Cadillac tried to race in the French Le Mans 24 Hour and got laughed off the track by the Audi direct injection race car. Cadillac never showed up again. Ford of Europe is the only car company with an American tie that has ever been able to perform on a world circuit rally race course. And the best part is is that the Ford car isn't even American engineered. In order for Ford to compete, they had to buy another countries more competent automotive engineers and put the Ford label on their car. That is hilarious. Then Ford goes and claims it to be a Ford and American, when the only thing American about the car is the Ford label on the hood.
And as far as big trucks go, considering that the world does not revolve around the United States, how in the world does the other 6.1 billion people on the Earth survive without big American trucks? Sure, they are useful...for roughly 1% of the American population. The rest are simply used because it has been determined that large trucks imply roughness, ruggedness, outdoorsness, individuality, superiority, safety, and masculinity. None of the above are true. I have seen plenty of trucks and SUV's tipped on their tops or sides because the driver (where I live in the US) was trying to avoid a deer at about 55/65 MPH (and these were not all Ford Explorers). Not even one car though. So, safety is a total joke. 4WD...right. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, only 1% of the population has ever used their 4WD if they had it. It didn't take a survey to tell me that. I go to work every single day and in our parking lot at work alone I see almost 25 big, American trucks...most of them driven by fat, short, women who smoke who have never really used their trucks in their entire lives. The other ones are used by desk jockey, middle aged men, none of whom live outside of the city (my engineering assistant just purchased a new Chevy Blazer the other week...and she lives 3 blocks from here).
All that your post showed is that apparently the only TRUE Americans are the dumb, uneducated, V8 driving, RWD morons (or FWD morons who try to race me from the stoplights in their Saturns..ha ha ha) that everyone else in the world still laughs at. I am American. I am educated. I look for quality in engineering and I have yet to find any quality, ingenuity, or competent engineering in any American engineered automobiles. But, one thing that makes me sick is that American's pride themselves on being stupid and ignorant and that the world revolves around the US in all aspects. I consider myself more American than you because I can admit my countries faults, admit that other countries and other engineers do things completely better, and still love my country for the things that are good about it, and educate the uneducated in my country (enlightening the V8 driving morons among others). You should be American and educate yourself and stopping thinking the entire world revolves around you and your US-centric attitude (especially about American automotive engineering). It's all about better automotive engineering, which the rest of the world knows that US has the worst. Oh, that new revolutionary GM diesel engine. That's right. It's made my Isuzu. Ooops.
It is decrypting/find the breakability of elliptic curve cryptography (finding elliptic curve discrete log computatability). Go to http://www.nd.edu/~cmonico/eccp109/ and read all about it.
Would you care to explain what exactly you are trying to say? I would love to answer your questions if I could. Thanks.
The Poincaré Conjecture is widely considered the most important unsolved problem in topology. It was first formulated by Henri Poincaré in 1904. In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute selected the Poincaré conjecture as one of seven Millennium Prize Problems and offered a $1,000,000 prize for its solution.
The conjecture is that every simply connected compact 3-manifold without boundary is homeomorphic to a 3-sphere. (Loosely speaking, that every 3-dimensional object that has a set of sphere-like properties can be stretched or squeezed until it is a 3-sphere without breaking it).
Analogues of the Poincaré Conjecture in dimensions other than 3 can also be formulated. The difficulty of low-dimensional topology is highlighted by the fact these analogues have now all been proven, while the original 3-dimensional version of Poincaré's conjecture remains unsolved. Its solution is central to the problem of classifying 3-manifolds.
On April 7, 2002 there were reports that the Poincaré conjecture might have been solved by Martin Dunwoody; on April 12 Dunwoody acknowledged a gap in the proof and was attempting to fix it. In October of that year, Sergei Nikitin of Arizona State University announced that he had proved the result.
Pure science is pure science. All great discoveries that have ever existed have been because of small, previously unrelated pure mathematical works (or other pure true sciences), which when done on their own seem to have no superficial meaning to someone such as an engineer or common layman, but pure mathematics is akin to pieces of a grand puzzle. Each piece is intrinsically linked to the whole picture. Looking at each piece will not reveal the puzzle, although solving each piece on its own will. This proof need not prove anything to an engineer, a computer scientist, a ballerina, or the mailman, but to a mathematician and others who understand its significance (among others) this proof advances the pure science of mathematics...and by that the world will eventually be forever changed.
Physics is not almost entirely approximations. Physics is exact. It is the unknowns of the equations which tend towards "real-world" (things you can touch, see, smell, feel, observe, etc.) events appearing to be approximate or entropic. Mathematics is an exact science. Mathematics and Mathematical logic and truth is never wrong. It is simply the exclusion of one or many variables in a true equation which leads to approximation and/or entropy. As a Mathematician, you only approximate when you need to (for lack of more information or an irrational variable for two examples) in order to simplify a problem, when the variable being approximated or simplified does not change the outcome of a given equation (i.e. the mathematics of limits for example). Mathematics is exact. Thereby Physics is exact. It is only the unknowns and that cause entropy and approximation in a system determined by Physics.
Honestly, Linux is not all *that* great. XWindows will crash on me at least once or twice a week. Play an OpenGL full-screen game and it locks up? No more Linux. Time for a hard reboot. Even the so-called magic alt-sysrq does not always work. Once the display is gone, it is gone. And not all of us are running telnet or ssh over a small lan to log into our machines and kill our XWindows server to clear the screen. You can even leave Windows 2000 on for months without a single reboot. I do it at work all of the time. It is programs that crash the interface. Windows XP and 2000 blue screen on me once in a while. Linux does not crash unless I am running XWindows. And I do not own a Mac (yet) but I have never seen or heard of MacOSX ever crashing under normal circumstances (although I have heard here and there shit like DVD-ROM drives and such have caused problems and crashes/lockups, but Linux is no better at this really...ever have a frozen HTTPD or worse on non-interactive boot on a remote terminal?, and it is often very hard to stop misbehaving hardware in software...often difficult, but not impossible). Apple is a hardware company, same as IBM. They make the OS to sell the hardware. Same as IBM. Except for Apple, the OS is the same as the hardware, but the hardware is what supports the software development. Without the hardware, Apple would not survive. And the argument you have about hardware support is unfounded at best. Anyone, anywhere can write hardware drivers for Apple. Sure, Linux might support, as you say, %90 of the hardware out there, but only %10 of the hardware's real features and at a quality just above barely reverse engineered. My old modem just recently died last week. It was a nice external 56K modem. Well, I have to use my serial port for something else that I am developing software for now. So, I went out and purchased a new USR 56K internal. Just released. Windows 2000 worked with it flawlessly. Redhat 7.3? Nope. Nice hardware support. RedHat 7.3 recognizes it, but refuses to do anything else with it. Nice. That is why Apple sells hardware and software. They can keep the level of quality exactly where it needs to be. You want a piece of hardware to work on OSX...write it yourself.
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I used to use Eiffel on NeXtStep computers. Nice, eh? Sweet ass OS. Well, anyways, Eiffel was fantastic and it is completely OOP from the start. It had wonderful templates and the debugging was top notch. The problem that I had was that the debugging was verbose, but unless I spent a ton of time trying to decrypt what it was trying to tell me, I would just end up trying to look through the code myself. This was back in 1996, so I am sure that things have changed and improved. Sorry, I can't give you any further advice, my memories of Eiffel are not too specific, except for the fact that I fell in love with it and was very sad to see it go. Objective C is very, very cool from what I have heard, but I can't help you at all on that. Do you have a Mac? You could easily give both of these languages a try without any troubles at all and see what you like. I have heard that the Apple IDE is absolutely fantastic and you will fall in love with it right away. Peace. Eiffel was very nice.