sure, i might know exactly what the person means, but it's incredibly inconsiderate of non-native english speakers who can't successfully look up the mangled words in their dictionary or decipher the mangled grammatical structures. if people only ever talked to native speakers, bad grammar and spelling would present little practical difficulty. but we are living in an increasingly international setting, and carrying over these bad habits is increasingly a fundamental communication problem.
i'm one of a team of web guys, and some of us when talking to each other do say "triple double-u". i think it should be shortened to "trip-dub". then it would actually be shorter to say than "world wide web".
i feel for all those voice actors having to spell out web sites. web sites should just go ahead and strip the "www" from their announced name.
wow, i've never seen a would-be linguist making so many mistakes. discounting the english vs. american differences and accidental typos, there's still:
Context being both gramatical (similar positions in a sentence),
that would be grammatical.
Your accent is likely very different to mine.
your use of adjectives is very different from mine!
What you're describing is impossible for Red Hat for one reason: Red Hat is, relatively speaking, a tiny shop. They barely have enough people to keep on top of integrating the incoming updates produced by the open source community. They don't have the resources to maintain significant features apart from open source software. Every way in which a distribution deviates from open source means that the distributor has to spend resources maintaining that difference. This is why Fedora is in fact absolutely essential to Red Hat's strategy. Red Hat can influence the direction of development, but still reap the benefits of all the people working on the software for free.
capitalism and communism do not apply to information, as they are systems for distributing scarce resources, and information, once created, is not naturally scarce.
open source is a methodology for creating information, which is an entirely different class of capital than that treated in classical economics.
tell that to Red Hat investors. for several quarters they hit profit but missed revenue, the headlines screamed "Red Hat Misses Top Line!" and the stock tanked immediately after.
i can attest to the incredible crapitude of their customer service and products. i bought two identical laptops from them a year ago. just getting them at all was an ordeal, which was partly my fault because my credit card company rejected the order suspecting fraud, but their customer service wasn't very helpful. it seemed that the people wanted to help me, but their systems weren't set up to actually give them the information to do so. i complained to a manager about this, for informational purposes only -- not seeking any further action -- and he blew me off with excuses.
anyway, when the laptops finally showed up, they weren't right. one only had half the RAM they were supposed to, and the other was missing something else i forget. both had a CPU clock speed slower than advertised. in order to get this rectified i had to contact some third party company, who to their credit did get me squared away (except for the CPU speed, which i didn't really care about). but in addition, tigerdirect sent me a product i had never even ordered, and charged me for it. i got an RMA to return this and another item that i realized i didn't need, and they only ever credited me for one RMA. i was just tired of dealing with them so i didn't pursue it.
now, a year later, i have one laptop battery that's completely dead, and one hard drive that sporadically seizes up when it's hot. i still have a little time left on the one-year warrantee i got. i wonder if it's really worth my time to try to get service, in light of this thread.
you're behind the times -- red hat has offered these things since the introduction of the Desktop offering last year. you won't find them on Fedora since they're proprietary, but they're on all of the RHEL products.
While the Lucas-Lehmer algorithm requires p iterations, there is no O(p) implementation of it, because the time required for each step of the calculation is based on the size of p (simply because larger numbers take longer to operate on). In this case I believe each operation is O(p) which would mean that the entire process is O(p^2). If the process were simply linear many more Mersenne primes would have been found by now.
i have no link for this, but i do seem to recall that increasing the difficulty of the operation, for example using larger numbers in multiplication, does take the savant proportionally more time. this suggests that, whatever mechanism is used to do the operation, mathematics is still being done somehow. if it were truly an "intuitive leap" all operations would take approximately the same time, if they could be performed at all.
What about ordinary conversations with people in the car? There's even an extra distraction factor because you probably look at the person occasionally. What does this have to do with cell phones?
I'd like to compare the danger reported here with that of the recent earthquake in Australia.
Asteroid: It is 420 m across and if it strikes the Earth it will release an energy of 1,900 Megatons of TNT (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, Tsar Bomba had a yield of only 50 Megatons).
Earthquake: Geoscience Australia said an earthquake measuring 8.6 on the Richter scale releases energy equivalent to about 10,000 atom bombs like the one that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War II.
I dunno, this asteroid threat doesn't sound like anything particularly worrisome, unless you happen to live right where the thing falls.
very well, i'll bite. i'd like to see scientific evidence that global warming is significantly caused by Man, and I admit i haven't particularly looked for it. I've heard a lot of the reasoning above. to that i'll add these objections:
the geological climate evidence indicates that CO2 levels are correlated with climate change, but that they TRAIL climate change rather than causing it -- CO2 is an indicator rather than an agent of change.
Also, I have a hard time believing that anything we are doing on the small portion we've populated of the earth's land, which is in turn only 15% of the earth's area, could seriously impact temperatures when 85% of the area is water, with an incredible temperature moderating ability due to its specific heat. I don't deny that global warming is happening but I suspect our contribution to it is puny -- the earth is perfectly capable of warming and cooling itself regardless of what we do and i argue there is nothing we should or even could do to change it.
no one really wanted the debates cancelled. badnarik would much rather have joined the debate, i'm sure, but failing that, shutting the debate down would have broken the media blackout he's thus far been subjected to.
do you really think bush and kerry would be so petty as to refuse to debate when a third party is introduced? i think that would be a powerfully negative statement on their character.
also, it's funny, but i was just reading a comment in the previous story that claimed that allowing badnarik to debate would deny kerry his best chance to seriously show up bush in an area of kerry's strength, the economy. i'm not sure i buy that, but i think you can argue for an effect in either direction. now we'll never know.
Because somewhere around (i.e. pulled from my ass) 97% of Americans have never heard of the Libertarian Party and 99.9% of Americans have never heard of Michael Badnarik.
Quite pulled from your ass. Actually Badnarik has a similar level of voter support as Nader -- check the figures, and consider that there were enough signatures to get Badnarik on 49 ballots, which is more than Nader (38 I think?).
He now gets prominent headlines and a nice association with freedom of speech.
However the 1-3% or so that plan to vote for him may be approximately how many have actually heard of him -- coverage in the mainstream has been pretty much nonexistant, and that's highlighted by this event; just try to find mention of it anywhere. I'd love to see the prominent headlines, but my only hope at this point is that bloggers pick it up and force the mainstream to notice, as happened with CBS. If Nader were arrested, do you think we'd hear about it? Is our press maybe a little biased?
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sure, i might know exactly what the person means, but it's incredibly inconsiderate of non-native english speakers who can't successfully look up the mangled words in their dictionary or decipher the mangled grammatical structures. if people only ever talked to native speakers, bad grammar and spelling would present little practical difficulty. but we are living in an increasingly international setting, and carrying over these bad habits is increasingly a fundamental communication problem.
i'm one of a team of web guys, and some of us when talking to each other do say "triple double-u". i think it should be shortened to "trip-dub". then it would actually be shorter to say than "world wide web".
i feel for all those voice actors having to spell out web sites. web sites should just go ahead and strip the "www" from their announced name.
wow, i've never seen a would-be linguist making so many mistakes. discounting the english vs. american differences and accidental typos, there's still:
Context being both gramatical (similar positions in a sentence),
that would be grammatical.
Your accent is likely very different to mine.
your use of adjectives is very different from mine!
unlikely. the big companies have so many patents they can always shaft you back, resulting in patent "cross-licensing."
Sounds like a troll, but I'll take the bait.
What you're describing is impossible for Red Hat for one reason: Red Hat is, relatively speaking, a tiny shop. They barely have enough people to keep on top of integrating the incoming updates produced by the open source community. They don't have the resources to maintain significant features apart from open source software. Every way in which a distribution deviates from open source means that the distributor has to spend resources maintaining that difference. This is why Fedora is in fact absolutely essential to Red Hat's strategy. Red Hat can influence the direction of development, but still reap the benefits of all the people working on the software for free.
capitalism and communism do not apply to information, as they are systems for distributing scarce resources, and information, once created, is not naturally scarce.
open source is a methodology for creating information, which is an entirely different class of capital than that treated in classical economics.
the time it takes to *receive* the message?
unless, of course, the phone is translating morse code to text for you, it'll take as long to receive as to send.
LHGLAGLHLAGLL
there should be a slashdot hall of fame for posts like this.
apparently you've never heard of "stalking the wild asparagus"
tell that to Red Hat investors. for several quarters they hit profit but missed revenue, the headlines screamed "Red Hat Misses Top Line!" and the stock tanked immediately after.
i can attest to the incredible crapitude of their customer service and products. i bought two identical laptops from them a year ago. just getting them at all was an ordeal, which was partly my fault because my credit card company rejected the order suspecting fraud, but their customer service wasn't very helpful. it seemed that the people wanted to help me, but their systems weren't set up to actually give them the information to do so. i complained to a manager about this, for informational purposes only -- not seeking any further action -- and he blew me off with excuses.
anyway, when the laptops finally showed up, they weren't right. one only had half the RAM they were supposed to, and the other was missing something else i forget. both had a CPU clock speed slower than advertised. in order to get this rectified i had to contact some third party company, who to their credit did get me squared away (except for the CPU speed, which i didn't really care about). but in addition, tigerdirect sent me a product i had never even ordered, and charged me for it. i got an RMA to return this and another item that i realized i didn't need, and they only ever credited me for one RMA. i was just tired of dealing with them so i didn't pursue it.
now, a year later, i have one laptop battery that's completely dead, and one hard drive that sporadically seizes up when it's hot. i still have a little time left on the one-year warrantee i got. i wonder if it's really worth my time to try to get service, in light of this thread.
lots of spammers are out there guessing addresses. it doesn't seem unlikely to me that "google@yourdomain" would be a common guess.
you're behind the times -- red hat has offered these things since the introduction of the Desktop offering last year. you won't find them on Fedora since they're proprietary, but they're on all of the RHEL products.
While the Lucas-Lehmer algorithm requires p iterations, there is no O(p) implementation of it, because the time required for each step of the calculation is based on the size of p (simply because larger numbers take longer to operate on). In this case I believe each operation is O(p) which would mean that the entire process is O(p^2). If the process were simply linear many more Mersenne primes would have been found by now.
well, you wouldn't have heard of the ones that didn't have those words associated, would you now? duh... news is skewed.
i have no link for this, but i do seem to recall that increasing the difficulty of the operation, for example using larger numbers in multiplication, does take the savant proportionally more time. this suggests that, whatever mechanism is used to do the operation, mathematics is still being done somehow. if it were truly an "intuitive leap" all operations would take approximately the same time, if they could be performed at all.
"What about in vehicle systems like OnStar?"
What about ordinary conversations with people in the car? There's even an extra distraction factor because you probably look at the person occasionally. What does this have to do with cell phones?
nope.
i'm not saying we can just ignore it, but it doesn't sound at all like "the worst disaster in recorded history."
i'm not saying i'd wish it on anyone, but it doesn't sound like a civilization-killer if we've already had one in the last century.
I'd like to compare the danger reported here with that of the recent earthquake in Australia.
Asteroid: It is 420 m across and if it strikes the Earth it will release an energy of 1,900 Megatons of TNT (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, Tsar Bomba had a yield of only 50 Megatons).
Earthquake: Geoscience Australia said an earthquake measuring 8.6 on the Richter scale releases energy equivalent to about 10,000 atom bombs like the one that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War II.
I dunno, this asteroid threat doesn't sound like anything particularly worrisome, unless you happen to live right where the thing falls.
very well, i'll bite. i'd like to see scientific evidence that global warming is significantly caused by Man, and I admit i haven't particularly looked for it. I've heard a lot of the reasoning above. to that i'll add these objections:
the geological climate evidence indicates that CO2 levels are correlated with climate change, but that they TRAIL climate change rather than causing it -- CO2 is an indicator rather than an agent of change.
Also, I have a hard time believing that anything we are doing on the small portion we've populated of the earth's land, which is in turn only 15% of the earth's area, could seriously impact temperatures when 85% of the area is water, with an incredible temperature moderating ability due to its specific heat. I don't deny that global warming is happening but I suspect our contribution to it is puny -- the earth is perfectly capable of warming and cooling itself regardless of what we do and i argue there is nothing we should or even could do to change it.
i did. i don't think it will take long for that nickname to catch on :-)
no one really wanted the debates cancelled. badnarik would much rather have joined the debate, i'm sure, but failing that, shutting the debate down would have broken the media blackout he's thus far been subjected to.
do you really think bush and kerry would be so petty as to refuse to debate when a third party is introduced? i think that would be a powerfully negative statement on their character.
also, it's funny, but i was just reading a comment in the previous story that claimed that allowing badnarik to debate would deny kerry his best chance to seriously show up bush in an area of kerry's strength, the economy. i'm not sure i buy that, but i think you can argue for an effect in either direction. now we'll never know.
Because somewhere around (i.e. pulled from my ass) 97% of Americans have never heard of the Libertarian Party and 99.9% of Americans have never heard of Michael Badnarik.
Quite pulled from your ass. Actually Badnarik has a similar level of voter support as Nader -- check the figures, and consider that there were enough signatures to get Badnarik on 49 ballots, which is more than Nader (38 I think?).
He now gets prominent headlines and a nice association with freedom of speech.
However the 1-3% or so that plan to vote for him may be approximately how many have actually heard of him -- coverage in the mainstream has been pretty much nonexistant, and that's highlighted by this event; just try to find mention of it anywhere. I'd love to see the prominent headlines, but my only hope at this point is that bloggers pick it up and force the mainstream to notice, as happened with CBS. If Nader were arrested, do you think we'd hear about it? Is our press maybe a little biased?
hence the free state project.