I believe there was a recent quote to the effect that George Bush was against any treaty that would cost the U.S. one single job. Not being able to militarize space could easily fit this description.
Once there was a golfer whose drive landed on an anthill. Rather than move the ball, he decided to hit it where it lay. He gave a mighty swing. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants exploded from the spot. Everything but the golfball. It sat in the same spot.
So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle.
Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are we going to do?"
Said the other ant: "I don't know about you, but I'm going to get on the ball."
First off, the technology is years off from now. Who will fund the advanced research?
Exactly, stop all research. Who on earth will fund it?!?! Looks like they already have *some* funding, and if this article gets enough interest it may create *more* funding.
Libraries should be worried about actually getting our fine young brains to start reading. Most kids these days watch movies, play videogames involving stealing cars, killing cops, and fucking prostitutes, and eat fast food.
Is this the Libraries' fault or the parents? Perhaps parents should take their kids to the Library more instead of letting their kids play so many violent video games (assuming such a problem exists).
Finally, we need a better browsing mechanism. I use the Web for most of my research because browsing is easy (after all, we have Web BROWSERS). But in libraries, it's just not feasible anymore these days.
Heaven forbid you actually have to do real research instead of just a google search. Google is a great tool, but there's a lot of value in being able to look through a series of reference materials and decide which one has the best information. Unfortunately, this is becoming some what of a dieing art. How will we teach programmers how binary search works if they never open a dicitionary/encyclopedia/phone book anymore but instead just always google it? All the best examples are running by the way side.
as that's what you do in your substitution step. But those two infinite sums are totally different. Rearranging numbers in an infinite sum is not allowed without very careful consideration. It be like saying:
was the same as 1 + 1/2 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/3 + 1/4 - 1/4....
The idea is the same - your are promoting the subtractions well before they would ever happen. Before you ever reached the -1/4, you would have already added up between 1/1 to 1/28 and only subtracted out 1/1 to 1/4, leaving a pretty significant sum. In fact, the sum should become roughly sum 1 + sum(1/(k+1) to 1/n) s.t. k = n/7 using integer division (rough meaning it's 10PM here and I'd rather go to bed than be precise). In fact, I think this sum goes to infinity, while the other goes to 1!
In short, alcohol and calc do not mix: do not drink and derive.
If you pay attention to the angle of the car, it wasn't aimed at him - it was going to fly over his head. The car was going to hit Mary Jane, which makes Peter lunge at her to save her and causing Peter to be put into harms way.
Yes, I just saw the movie one hour ago, and I enjoyed it regardless of the mistakes.
By keeping a hotmail account past 2000, you are officially a third class geek. You are slightly more geeky than someone using an aol email account, but not by much.
Yeah, I think water is liquidy. Just like an apple is foodish and such. I'm not really sure what "thing" you're criticizing though. Do you not think that water is a liquid, or that it is inapproriate to use a general term (liquid) to refer to a more specific thing (water)? But no illegal casting is need - no compiler errors, ClassCastExceptions, etc - it's all good.
It seems that the flash animation isn't consistent - sometimes there are 12 badgers, sometimes there are 11. It seems to depend on whether the guy "singing" starts saying badger on the beat or off the beat. (I don't mean to imply running the animation twice can generate different results, although it might; instead, I'm saying that the flash animation is set up so that the first chorus of "badger" is shorter or longer than the second chorus, etc).
"Irony is when what we say or write conveys the opposite of its literal meaning"
http://www.jimloy.com/language/irony.htm
This situation is clearly comical, depressing, relieving, or what not, but it is not ironic.
It would be ironic for me to say I was totally in love with a woman after she makes a fool out of me in public... although that might just be inevitable instead.
We have DRM'd music, what about Public-Private Key Encrypt'd music? Won't it ultimately come down to that, where the key's are owned by a company and you have to be connected online to listen to your music? It must be depressing to sell any type of software online... wait till nanotech does the same thing to the "real world" that dd and cp have done to the electronic world. My guess is either capitalism will fall, or liberty... at that point where you can replicate matter with ease, I doubt they can coexist.
"Instead, the plan is to apply the knowledge we have gained in that category to future products and services."
Seems like the don't think their current product offerings aren what they see as being the big picture in the developing market. In the future, Microsoft will be back with new products (or rehashed old ones... which in marketing speak is new) that they think gives them better leverage, market penetration, monopoly power...er...er
Multiple downloads could present a somewhat large financial issue for apple... like when a person with 10,000 songs downloaded wipes their harddrive and then suddenly wants to just redownload them again. Or if a person authenticates 5 computers and wants to populate 40,000 songs on the other 4 computers via Apple instead of over a lan or firewire drive. Perhaps there should be some middle ground... like you can only redownload a limited amount of songs in any given period, but there is pretty good reasons for apple to have their current policy.
It seems from the description like the book is more about describing malicious code and how it works, not actually battling such code and fending it off. Don't get me wrong - one must know his enemy before he can successfully beat it, but still the title seems a little misleading.
Slashdot Mirror
You were comparing references (memory addresses) instead of actual values. I think you should have used:
Java.equals(JavaSandbox)
instead. It's a common mistake, don't sweat it.
I believe there was a recent quote to the effect that George Bush was against any treaty that would cost the U.S. one single job. Not being able to militarize space could easily fit this description.
because it paints a major decline in the Intel empire, or because it actually has insightful commentary and information?
And yes, I didn't RTFA.
Matt Fahrenbacher
What, no reference to uses with the iPod?
Matt Fahrenbacher
So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle.
Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are we going to do?"
Said the other ant: "I don't know about you, but I'm going to get on the ball."
Matt Fahrenbacher
This is probably the checksum for Longhorn... we'll never figure it out now.
1. Get insulted on slashdot
2. Sue Slashdot and those who insulted
3. Profit!
Man, that applies to me in so many other online forums... I could make billions... or even millions! Bwahahaha!
Yes.
Next slashdot article please.
First off, the technology is years off from now. Who will fund the advanced research?
Exactly, stop all research. Who on earth will fund it?!?! Looks like they already have *some* funding, and if this article gets enough interest it may create *more* funding.
Libraries should be worried about actually getting our fine young brains to start reading. Most kids these days watch movies, play videogames involving stealing cars, killing cops, and fucking prostitutes, and eat fast food.
Is this the Libraries' fault or the parents? Perhaps parents should take their kids to the Library more instead of letting their kids play so many violent video games (assuming such a problem exists).
Finally, we need a better browsing mechanism. I use the Web for most of my research because browsing is easy (after all, we have Web BROWSERS). But in libraries, it's just not feasible anymore these days.
Heaven forbid you actually have to do real research instead of just a google search. Google is a great tool, but there's a lot of value in being able to look through a series of reference materials and decide which one has the best information. Unfortunately, this is becoming some what of a dieing art. How will we teach programmers how binary search works if they never open a dicitionary/encyclopedia/phone book anymore but instead just always google it? All the best examples are running by the way side.
Enjoy your Saturday morning.
Your deduction assumes that if
...
x = 1 - 1/2 - 1/4 + 1/3 - 1/6 - 1/8 + 1/5 - 1/10
then
x = 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 -
as that's what you do in your substitution step. But those two infinite sums are totally different. Rearranging numbers in an infinite sum is not allowed without very careful consideration. It be like saying:
1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + 1/7 - 1/2 + 1/8 + 1/9 + 1/10 + 1/11 + 1/12 + 1/13 + 1/14 - 1/3 + 1/15...
was the same as 1 + 1/2 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/3 + 1/4 - 1/4....
The idea is the same - your are promoting the subtractions well before they would ever happen. Before you ever reached the -1/4, you would have already added up between 1/1 to 1/28 and only subtracted out 1/1 to 1/4, leaving a pretty significant sum. In fact, the sum should become roughly sum 1 + sum(1/(k+1) to 1/n) s.t. k = n/7 using integer division (rough meaning it's 10PM here and I'd rather go to bed than be precise). In fact, I think this sum goes to infinity, while the other goes to 1!
In short, alcohol and calc do not mix: do not drink and derive.
Matt Fahrenbacher
If you pay attention to the angle of the car, it wasn't aimed at him - it was going to fly over his head. The car was going to hit Mary Jane, which makes Peter lunge at her to save her and causing Peter to be put into harms way.
Yes, I just saw the movie one hour ago, and I enjoyed it regardless of the mistakes.
Matt Fahrenbacher
I wish I could (insert), but slashdot doesn't allow you to edit other people's posts, let alone your own!
And by the way, that was the lamest attempt at a soviet russia joke yet. You realize you're going to kill a long running joke by doing that?
Matt Fahrenbacher
Man, Victoria's going to be pissed.
Oh well, I guess her secret has been out of a while now anyway:
Victoria's Secret Revealed (big pic)
Matt Fahrenbacher
By keeping a hotmail account past 2000, you are officially a third class geek. You are slightly more geeky than someone using an aol email account, but not by much.
Matt Fahrenbacher
Yeah, I think water is liquidy. Just like an apple is foodish and such. I'm not really sure what "thing" you're criticizing though. Do you not think that water is a liquid, or that it is inapproriate to use a general term (liquid) to refer to a more specific thing (water)? But no illegal casting is need - no compiler errors, ClassCastExceptions, etc - it's all good.
Matt Fahrenbacher
It seems that the flash animation isn't consistent - sometimes there are 12 badgers, sometimes there are 11. It seems to depend on whether the guy "singing" starts saying badger on the beat or off the beat. (I don't mean to imply running the animation twice can generate different results, although it might; instead, I'm saying that the flash animation is set up so that the first chorus of "badger" is shorter or longer than the second chorus, etc).
Wow...
Matt Fahrenbacher
There are clearly 11 badgers before the two mushrooms.
So to clarify:
badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom! MUSHROOM!
Matt Fahrenbacher
"Irony is when what we say or write conveys the opposite of its literal meaning"
http://www.jimloy.com/language/irony.htm
This situation is clearly comical, depressing, relieving, or what not, but it is not ironic.
It would be ironic for me to say I was totally in love with a woman after she makes a fool out of me in public... although that might just be inevitable instead.
Matt Fahrenbacher
We have DRM'd music, what about Public-Private Key Encrypt'd music? Won't it ultimately come down to that, where the key's are owned by a company and you have to be connected online to listen to your music? It must be depressing to sell any type of software online... wait till nanotech does the same thing to the "real world" that dd and cp have done to the electronic world. My guess is either capitalism will fall, or liberty... at that point where you can replicate matter with ease, I doubt they can coexist.
Matt Fahrenbacher
What, when less than signs where implicity understood by the compiler?
:ducks:
Matt Fahrenbacher
I hate when something is called a refresher course when it's something I never learned to begin with...
Matt Fahrenbacher
"Instead, the plan is to apply the knowledge we have gained in that category to future products and services."
Seems like the don't think their current product offerings aren what they see as being the big picture in the developing market. In the future, Microsoft will be back with new products (or rehashed old ones... which in marketing speak is new) that they think gives them better leverage, market penetration, monopoly power...er...er
Regardless, they'll be back.
Matt Fahrenbacher
Multiple downloads could present a somewhat large financial issue for apple... like when a person with 10,000 songs downloaded wipes their harddrive and then suddenly wants to just redownload them again. Or if a person authenticates 5 computers and wants to populate 40,000 songs on the other 4 computers via Apple instead of over a lan or firewire drive. Perhaps there should be some middle ground... like you can only redownload a limited amount of songs in any given period, but there is pretty good reasons for apple to have their current policy.
Matt Fahrenbacher
you insensitive clod! The book does talk about unix/linux kernels, so most of that will still appy to darwin... but it depends.
Matt Fahrenbacher
It seems from the description like the book is more about describing malicious code and how it works, not actually battling such code and fending it off. Don't get me wrong - one must know his enemy before he can successfully beat it, but still the title seems a little misleading.
Matt Fahrenbacher