Given that this alleges to be a beta version and according to its own EULA:
THIS IS PRE-RELEASE, TIME-LIMITED SOFTWARE MEANT FOR EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY. THIS SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE USED IN A COMMERCIAL OPERATING ENVIRONMENT OR WITH IMPORTANT DATA.
why do Apple insist on removing any existing Safari 3 install when installing?
If we are supposed to evaluate and develop, then surely it would be prudent to allow a stable version to also be installed alongside for mission-critical usage.
Surely it's a TERRIBLE idea for non-stable, evaluation software to disallow the use of an alternative stable version?
Not strictly a maths book, but it's probably the first book I read that got me to REALLY think about things. Onvolves a lot of interesting ideas from other fields (Physics, Computing, Psychology, Physiology and many more) as well.
I opened this post expecting every second person to be recommending Simon Singh's 'Fermat's Last Theorem'. I never met an UG mathmetician at my college (at a moderately well-known collegiate university) that hadn't read it at some point before admissions interviews.
Maybe it's just me who RTFA, but I'm not sure that the "scientists" at Loch Lomond Sea Life Centre are necessairly qualified to conduct human research. This isn't a university that's conducting this "research", it's an aquarium, and not one that receieves any tax *pounds* at that.
Another point worth making is that if you are purely interested in learning JS, as opposed to simply getting a job done, there's a lot to be said for taking the functionality you use most often from 3rd party libraries (and in some cases, the missing functionality you wish was in your favourite library) and attempting to write your own.
I was forced into doing this a year or so ago by a client who refused to use any code that we couldn't fully support, and didn't own the IP of (they're a major financial institution, so there was some logic behind this stance, but they never grasped why it didn't need to apply to JS).
As a result I've now got a stable library which is 1/4-1/3 the size of jQuery or Prototype and will allow me to accomplish 99% of what I do on a day-to-day basis quickly, easily, and is stable x-browser.
I appreciate this isn't for everyone, and it's taken a year of near continual work to get to this stage, and there's still a lot of ongoing work.
Before anyone asks, the original version of my home-rolled library is not mine to distirbute, but I am taking some of the things I've learned and working on my own version as and when I find time/motivation which I may well release into the wild if it ever gets mature enough - http://in.tellig.net/2008/11/21/elmojs-and-etherpad/.
jQuery is probably good starting point if you want to be able to do simple things very quickly and easily. If you are interested in actually learning the language itself as opposed to just how to do things in one particular library then I'd also recommend looking at Prototype. Prototype reveals a little more of the native DOM than perhaps jQuery allows so IM(NS)HO is a better primer for someone looking to grasp the fundamentals of the language, whereas jQuery is probably the best for actually "getting stuff done".
I also cant recommend John Resig's book Pro Javascript Techniques enough, although it may be pitched slightly high for a beginner. Reading it seriously changed the way I thought about JS (and subsequently my entire career/life/destiny) so if you're an enthusiastic amateur looking to progress then I think it's perfect.
For instance, where is the button to go to the parent directory in windows explorer?
Yes! I use a combination of XP Pro, Vista Home Prem, Ubuntu, and Xandros on my various computers and have found Vista to be no worse (for my use, YMMV) than any of these with the single exception of this one "feature". Seriously, who genuinely thought that removing the 'up' button was a good idea?
Will there be some preferences where I can decide if I assume the axiom of choice or not? The content must surely vary accordingly?
Seriously though, this does seem like an interesting project but a wiki is hardly the correct format if the proofs are all going to be "machine readable" and more importantly "machine verifiable". I can't help but foresee several years of work going into converting the very simplest of theorems into "machine readable" format long before anything interesting gets included.
Must confess I can't help thinking that AI just isn't up to it, and there isn't enough Human Intelligence willing or able to commit the millions of hours required to actually make something like this work.
Because there might be some reason to achieve a little bit more than "getting by"? At school certainly there is a big incentive to put in a little bit of effort to get top marks rather than just passing, because if you're one of the people who can do that you're probably going to carry on to university. It reminds me a lot of the stories you see every year around exam results time about some 12yr old getting a C in A-level maths or whatever. I am not impressed, either a) get top marks, or b) don't take the exam early, you're not clever enough.
As an aside, when I was taking my A-level maths course my teacher asked me to keep coming to lessons - despite there being no reason to - because I could effectively act as a second teacher and it was beneficial to the other students, he also told me I should consider myself to have failed if I didn't get 100% (scored 98% in the end, lost a mark for messing up 4x8, I got 36). I then went to study maths at university (Oxford specifically) and did just about the very minimum amount of work to get a 2.1. Could I have got a 1st? I am quite sure I could, but I had no intention of going on to further academia so I opted to do other things instead (in my case, I did *a lot* of sport). There was another guy at my college who did even less work and got out with a high 1st - in his case he drank a lot and smoked drugs. I guess this makes me one of the people that annoy me above, but I'm going with the excuse that the extra work to get me a 1st would have been a massive detriment to my extra-curricular life, and would probably have sent me mental.
you can't do it in the winter, and it's really difficult to carry the boat to the water on your own
That depends where you live, I scull happily at any time of year here in the UK (or at least I used, saving up for my own boat now), and the carrying the boat gets a whole lot easier with practice. I'd definitely recommend it as an awesome way of getting exercise, although I found that if I wanted to get/stay in any kind of shape then crew rowing was much better as I tended just to find myself paddling up and down square blades at about 14 when I net sculling so it was more a chill-out thing.
I bought my 900 back in May for £329 so I guess that makes me one of the early adopters who are being stiffed, but to be honest that's just what happens whenever you buy electronics. I'll get over it.
I'm also not entirely convinced that there'd be that much difference in performance for my usage (casual web browsing) between my 900 and the 901, and a few extra gig of HD is fairly inconsequential when I have 320gb of USB drive for transfer/backup between my various computers anyway.
If I'd known about the new models back when I bought my 900 I *might* have waited for the 1000 series (the reason I didn't get a 70x was because I was holding out for the bigger/vaguely usable screen) but if I'm honest I'd still probably have bought then safe in the knowledge that whatever I bought, whenever I bought it, would be superceded within months anyway. Anyone who complains about their computer hardware being superceded needs to get a grip on reality.
Not really, the kind of person who would solve a problem of this nature is probably going to be the Andrew Wiles reclusive genius type - a lot like the Russian gent whose name escapes me who solved the Poincare Conjecture. Thus he's not necessarily going to be too keen to teach/lecture/supervise and so would possibly not be too attractive to prospective employers.
I doubt too many Maths faculties in the world have people working full-time on the Riemann Hypotheses.
Of course I echo your sentiments that his proof is almost certainly flawed though.
This is seriously disappointing news though. I've always appreciated the romance of such "theories", and now there's one less in the world. That and my planned deal with the devil to save my soul has now hit the rocks.
To be honest, I don't think "serious work" is where this particular sector of the market is placing itself. I bought an eee901 to complement my 15.4 notebook for occasions when I didn't want to have to carry round a full featured (read large/heavy) laptop with me, and for that it is perfect. If you're thinking of using a for "serious work" then of course you will want something with a little more HD space, a larger screen and a "proper" keyboard.
A quick survey of the most recent images on my profile tells me a full size image comes in at 50-60k and a standard thumbnail at ~5k so given the other sizes of thumbnail as well I'd say 18k per image is about right.
Slashdot Mirror
That'll teach me to F5 before posting.
That depends who you're racing.
Given that this alleges to be a beta version and according to its own EULA:
why do Apple insist on removing any existing Safari 3 install when installing?
If we are supposed to evaluate and develop, then surely it would be prudent to allow a stable version to also be installed alongside for mission-critical usage.
Surely it's a TERRIBLE idea for non-stable, evaluation software to disallow the use of an alternative stable version?
Not strictly a maths book, but it's probably the first book I read that got me to REALLY think about things. Onvolves a lot of interesting ideas from other fields (Physics, Computing, Psychology, Physiology and many more) as well.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234137007&sr=1-1
I opened this post expecting every second person to be recommending Simon Singh's 'Fermat's Last Theorem'. I never met an UG mathmetician at my college (at a moderately well-known collegiate university) that hadn't read it at some point before admissions interviews.
I am shocked to see it not mentioned even once.
Maybe it's just me who RTFA, but I'm not sure that the "scientists" at Loch Lomond Sea Life Centre are necessairly qualified to conduct human research. This isn't a university that's conducting this "research", it's an aquarium, and not one that receieves any tax *pounds* at that.
Another point worth making is that if you are purely interested in learning JS, as opposed to simply getting a job done, there's a lot to be said for taking the functionality you use most often from 3rd party libraries (and in some cases, the missing functionality you wish was in your favourite library) and attempting to write your own.
I was forced into doing this a year or so ago by a client who refused to use any code that we couldn't fully support, and didn't own the IP of (they're a major financial institution, so there was some logic behind this stance, but they never grasped why it didn't need to apply to JS).
As a result I've now got a stable library which is 1/4-1/3 the size of jQuery or Prototype and will allow me to accomplish 99% of what I do on a day-to-day basis quickly, easily, and is stable x-browser.
I appreciate this isn't for everyone, and it's taken a year of near continual work to get to this stage, and there's still a lot of ongoing work.
Before anyone asks, the original version of my home-rolled library is not mine to distirbute, but I am taking some of the things I've learned and working on my own version as and when I find time/motivation which I may well release into the wild if it ever gets mature enough - http://in.tellig.net/2008/11/21/elmojs-and-etherpad/.
jQuery is probably good starting point if you want to be able to do simple things very quickly and easily. If you are interested in actually learning the language itself as opposed to just how to do things in one particular library then I'd also recommend looking at Prototype. Prototype reveals a little more of the native DOM than perhaps jQuery allows so IM(NS)HO is a better primer for someone looking to grasp the fundamentals of the language, whereas jQuery is probably the best for actually "getting stuff done". I also cant recommend John Resig's book Pro Javascript Techniques enough, although it may be pitched slightly high for a beginner. Reading it seriously changed the way I thought about JS (and subsequently my entire career/life/destiny) so if you're an enthusiastic amateur looking to progress then I think it's perfect.
Have you tried disabling cache using the web developer toolbar?
Let's:
var archive = TheArchive;
while(archive) {
archive = archive.archive();
}
Yes! I use a combination of XP Pro, Vista Home Prem, Ubuntu, and Xandros on my various computers and have found Vista to be no worse (for my use, YMMV) than any of these with the single exception of this one "feature". Seriously, who genuinely thought that removing the 'up' button was a good idea?
Will there be some preferences where I can decide if I assume the axiom of choice or not? The content must surely vary accordingly? Seriously though, this does seem like an interesting project but a wiki is hardly the correct format if the proofs are all going to be "machine readable" and more importantly "machine verifiable". I can't help but foresee several years of work going into converting the very simplest of theorems into "machine readable" format long before anything interesting gets included. Must confess I can't help thinking that AI just isn't up to it, and there isn't enough Human Intelligence willing or able to commit the millions of hours required to actually make something like this work.
There, fixed it for you.
Because there might be some reason to achieve a little bit more than "getting by"? At school certainly there is a big incentive to put in a little bit of effort to get top marks rather than just passing, because if you're one of the people who can do that you're probably going to carry on to university. It reminds me a lot of the stories you see every year around exam results time about some 12yr old getting a C in A-level maths or whatever. I am not impressed, either a) get top marks, or b) don't take the exam early, you're not clever enough.
As an aside, when I was taking my A-level maths course my teacher asked me to keep coming to lessons - despite there being no reason to - because I could effectively act as a second teacher and it was beneficial to the other students, he also told me I should consider myself to have failed if I didn't get 100% (scored 98% in the end, lost a mark for messing up 4x8, I got 36). I then went to study maths at university (Oxford specifically) and did just about the very minimum amount of work to get a 2.1. Could I have got a 1st? I am quite sure I could, but I had no intention of going on to further academia so I opted to do other things instead (in my case, I did *a lot* of sport). There was another guy at my college who did even less work and got out with a high 1st - in his case he drank a lot and smoked drugs. I guess this makes me one of the people that annoy me above, but I'm going with the excuse that the extra work to get me a 1st would have been a massive detriment to my extra-curricular life, and would probably have sent me mental.
That depends where you live, I scull happily at any time of year here in the UK (or at least I used, saving up for my own boat now), and the carrying the boat gets a whole lot easier with practice. I'd definitely recommend it as an awesome way of getting exercise, although I found that if I wanted to get/stay in any kind of shape then crew rowing was much better as I tended just to find myself paddling up and down square blades at about 14 when I net sculling so it was more a chill-out thing.
People who want small form-factor yet fully able computers. Or 'me' as I like to refer to myself.
I bought my 900 back in May for £329 so I guess that makes me one of the early adopters who are being stiffed, but to be honest that's just what happens whenever you buy electronics. I'll get over it.
I'm also not entirely convinced that there'd be that much difference in performance for my usage (casual web browsing) between my 900 and the 901, and a few extra gig of HD is fairly inconsequential when I have 320gb of USB drive for transfer/backup between my various computers anyway.
If I'd known about the new models back when I bought my 900 I *might* have waited for the 1000 series (the reason I didn't get a 70x was because I was holding out for the bigger/vaguely usable screen) but if I'm honest I'd still probably have bought then safe in the knowledge that whatever I bought, whenever I bought it, would be superceded within months anyway. Anyone who complains about their computer hardware being superceded needs to get a grip on reality.
Why? My parents' basement has no windows.
Or a 'variable' as it is also known.
Not really, the kind of person who would solve a problem of this nature is probably going to be the Andrew Wiles reclusive genius type - a lot like the Russian gent whose name escapes me who solved the Poincare Conjecture. Thus he's not necessarily going to be too keen to teach/lecture/supervise and so would possibly not be too attractive to prospective employers.
I doubt too many Maths faculties in the world have people working full-time on the Riemann Hypotheses.
Of course I echo your sentiments that his proof is almost certainly flawed though.
http://xkcd.com/113/
First Fermat, now this. Is nothing sacred?!
This is seriously disappointing news though. I've always appreciated the romance of such "theories", and now there's one less in the world. That and my planned deal with the devil to save my soul has now hit the rocks.
To be honest, I don't think "serious work" is where this particular sector of the market is placing itself. I bought an eee901 to complement my 15.4 notebook for occasions when I didn't want to have to carry round a full featured (read large/heavy) laptop with me, and for that it is perfect. If you're thinking of using a for "serious work" then of course you will want something with a little more HD space, a larger screen and a "proper" keyboard.
A quick survey of the most recent images on my profile tells me a full size image comes in at 50-60k and a standard thumbnail at ~5k so given the other sizes of thumbnail as well I'd say 18k per image is about right.
Sure, it's on an extension cable running from here to Canada.