Carolina has been doing this for 6 years now. Unfortunately, they're in bed with IBM. But speaking as a teacher, I find it really convenient to have all my students able to access online resources, use Blackboard, etc. in the classroom.
Then check out Gilles Delezue's The Fold -- here. Deleuze is a total nutjob, like so many other French "theorists" or "literary theorists" (whatever that means), but he writes almost cogently about Leibniz.
I assure you that Haskell is not the "one other context" for the concept of a "monad."
The point is that effective and efficient security can be achieved, and it doesn't require this sort of extreme federal legislation. I think that if US carriers and airports look to the example set by El Al, air travel would be much safer.
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?ch as I'd like to brag to my friends about how I am personally helping combat cancer, I just don't think that letting someone else use my spare CPU cycles for a noble cause while I sit on my fat ass in the other room watching Star Trek reruns constitutes any sort of humanitarian act.
Assume that "letting someone else use" your spare CPU cycles will, in fact, make a positive contribution to an effort to find a cure for cancer.
Notwithstanding the fact that you're paying for electricity, as noted in the previous comment, you paid for the computer in the first place; you're letting others benefit from that investment by doing this. If we go by the dictionary definition of "humanitarian," i.e. someone who puts forth effort for the "promotion of human welfare," I'd say this is a humanitarian act--and a very easy one at that.
Again, I assume here that this distributed number-crunching is going to be beneficial in the search for a cure for cancer, but I think it makes sense. Maybe I'm biased, since my mom was recently diagnosed with cancer, but I would have a hard time making a comment like the above--even offhandedly.
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Link: The Carolina Computing Initiative.
-Will
Here's where else you might've heard "monad" before.
See Gottfried Leibniz's "Monadology" - here, and with
background info here.
Then check out Gilles Delezue's The Fold -- here. Deleuze is a total nutjob, like so many other French "theorists" or "literary theorists" (whatever that means), but he writes almost cogently about Leibniz.
I assure you that Haskell is not the "one other context" for the concept of a "monad."
El Al, the Israeli airline, is world-reknowned for its security measures.
Here's an informative article from Business Week about a year ago.
The point is that effective and efficient security can be achieved, and it doesn't require this sort of extreme federal legislation. I think that if US carriers and airports look to the example set by El Al, air travel would be much safer.
,
?ch as I'd like to brag to my friends about how I am personally helping combat cancer, I just don't think that letting someone else use my spare CPU cycles for a noble cause while I sit on my fat ass in the other room watching Star Trek reruns constitutes any sort of humanitarian act.
Assume that "letting someone else use" your spare CPU cycles will, in fact, make a positive contribution to an effort to find a cure for cancer.
Notwithstanding the fact that you're paying for electricity, as noted in the previous comment, you paid for the computer in the first place; you're letting others benefit from that investment by doing this. If we go by the dictionary definition of "humanitarian," i.e. someone who puts forth effort for the "promotion of human welfare," I'd say this is a humanitarian act--and a very easy one at that.
Again, I assume here that this distributed number-crunching is going to be beneficial in the search for a cure for cancer, but I think it makes sense. Maybe I'm biased, since my mom was recently diagnosed with cancer, but I would have a hard time making a comment like the above--even offhandedly.