Exactly - Divide both sides by 'P' and it reduces to 'N=1'. So, P=NP iff N=1. People who spend so long on this debate must not be very good at math... =)
Because of this it makes perfect sense for the universities to scale. Engineering costs them more, so they charge more. Heck, if you want to bring in a Liberal Arts grad as a professor, go to McDonald's and offer him twice what he's making.
However this approach has obvious detriments to our country as a whole. So, let the universities scale but offer subsidies or scholarships specifically catered to the grads we actually need to keep the country running.
The FBI doesn't carry much sway in a lot of the countries hosting this stuff. About their only alternative would be some nationally mandated firewall protecting against black-listed foreign sites providing illegal porn/warez/pirated music & movies/etc. (Please no!) So, they enforce domestically however they can. They're taking down the Johns because they can't touch the hookers.
And, even domestically, I'd imagine the content hosts are generally much more cautious (i.e. difficult to locate) than the people downloading.
Actually we have multiple large VERY well secured networks. The drawback is that they're only used by government agencies for transmission of classified data and not by our general infrastructure/industry. To my knowledge those have never been victim to attack except by insiders. It would be nice if we had kind of a "yellow" network in between the "green wild west level and "red" classified networks for use on power grids and the like.
If fusion plants became the energy source of choice, a tritium mine may be financially solid. Of course, not many countries are currently powering their cities with large fusion plants as of yet. Still have some kinks to work out.
Well, deepest spot on the planet's surface. Once we have a submersible that can navigate down starting at the mouth of an active volcano, we should be able to go further.
Just because it's in New Zealand doesn't mean that the people who paid weren't American. After all, we're known world round for honesty and contributing to the less fortunate. That's why our prison rate is so amazingly low. Umm, right?
Hopefully, we'll be able to get our act together and stop blowing each other up (and also unite against a common enemy - government/power elites).
Just because two people share some distant, obscure ancestor doesn't mean they won't try to kill each other. Heck, even if they share the same parents it doesn't always stop them. If we want people to stop blowing each other up, unfortunately we need something better than family ties.
Just to nitpick, the cable is one of two parts of the elevator problem. We'll eventually get this nanotube thing figured out, but we still need something light, strong, and (probably) remotely powered to climb it. We've got to figure out both the robot and his ladder - Neither is a small feat, but neither is impossible.
What's with the hate? Just because you've seen a helicopter in the air doesn't mean they can fly! - Do the math yourself and it'll prove it. I do partially yield however to "proof by reality".
But yeah, I think that we can sum this up by saying, "There are things we can't do yet."
There's been a lot of talk about a garbage collection system.
Basically the talk revolves around why it's damned near impossible (or at least infeasible) because a destroyed sat sends a heckuva lot of tiny pieces flying in unpredictable directions hella fast.
Can you name *one* video game featuring young Anakin or Jar Jar that was a success? I can't, but I can think of several original games that were both commercial successes *and* generally regarded as good games.
Here. Now it wasn't the best game in the world, but it sold like mad - A nice parallel to the movie. The original (Ep 4) movie, I don't believe factored marketing in much, although that certainly changed by Jedi. The difference between those movies and Ep 1 are that they lost sight of ANY obligation to put out a decent product and focused solely on marketing. Thus, we get a crappy movie, long-time fans are pissed, and Target moves a gazillion Jar-Jars. By Ep 2, I think that they realized that their approach was flawed.
I howled when Colbert told Lucas that he owned every Star Wars movie and asked him if he did too. Lucas replied, "All except episode 1".
Just to nit-pick a bit, 0.5% per year over 30 years is actually a little over 16%. But that was only in men - 0.2% per year in women. So that's an increase of ~11% in the overall population.
Personally, I'm leaning toward the "We're getting better at identifying brain tumors" camp, but 11% does seem like a lot and the large discrepancy between men and women is a little distressing.
For one of the facilities where I work, I had to take site-specific safety training before they would issue me a key. Included in the training was a note that there "may be nitrogen present in the air". This was included due to LN2 tanks being present in the basement, but it's a sorry state of affairs when you have to warn people that they MAY inhale some nitrogen.
By that logic, the whole experiment is pretty evil. After all, even though antrax isn't "cute", it's still alive. Sure, it's not furry like rats or monkeys, but does that imply that it has any less right to life?
Hey - Any time you visit a site and block their ads, you're stealing the Internet! Personally, I click on all banners and buy at least one item from each advertising vendor to support wherever I visit. Otherwise, I'm afraid that this whole "Internet" thing just won't stick.
Seriously, though, some places have it right. Google's ads are fairly unobtrusive and typically (although not always) relevant. Amazon's "People who viewed this item also viewed" or "...untimately bought" links are terrifically useful. And Slashdot's ads (IIRC) are certainly nerd-oriented and can be disabled if you give them money or contribute regularly - Seems like an OK system.
All that said, most places have it absolutely wrong which is why AdblockPlus and NoScript are my first two stops when installing FireFox.
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Exactly - Divide both sides by 'P' and it reduces to 'N=1'. So, P=NP iff N=1. People who spend so long on this debate must not be very good at math... =)
Whew - I've always hated having to wear a ski mask when I "work". Now I can just claim image tampering.
Because of this it makes perfect sense for the universities to scale. Engineering costs them more, so they charge more. Heck, if you want to bring in a Liberal Arts grad as a professor, go to McDonald's and offer him twice what he's making.
However this approach has obvious detriments to our country as a whole. So, let the universities scale but offer subsidies or scholarships specifically catered to the grads we actually need to keep the country running.
The FBI doesn't carry much sway in a lot of the countries hosting this stuff. About their only alternative would be some nationally mandated firewall protecting against black-listed foreign sites providing illegal porn/warez/pirated music & movies/etc. (Please no!) So, they enforce domestically however they can. They're taking down the Johns because they can't touch the hookers.
And, even domestically, I'd imagine the content hosts are generally much more cautious (i.e. difficult to locate) than the people downloading.
I said "not many". Actually I can count the number on one hand. Without even using any fingers. It was just a soft attempt at light humor.
There are no large, well-secured networks.
Actually we have multiple large VERY well secured networks. The drawback is that they're only used by government agencies for transmission of classified data and not by our general infrastructure/industry. To my knowledge those have never been victim to attack except by insiders. It would be nice if we had kind of a "yellow" network in between the "green wild west level and "red" classified networks for use on power grids and the like.
If fusion plants became the energy source of choice, a tritium mine may be financially solid. Of course, not many countries are currently powering their cities with large fusion plants as of yet. Still have some kinks to work out.
Well, deepest spot on the planet's surface. Once we have a submersible that can navigate down starting at the mouth of an active volcano, we should be able to go further.
Just because it's in New Zealand doesn't mean that the people who paid weren't American. After all, we're known world round for honesty and contributing to the less fortunate. That's why our prison rate is so amazingly low. Umm, right?
I didn't RTFA since, after all, I am on Slashdot.... but I didn't realize that Fortran & C were both part of the Algol language family.
Nope, Algol is a descendent from FORTRAN loins. Here's a nifty graphic describing the family tree:
http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang_letter.pdf
Hopefully, we'll be able to get our act together and stop blowing each other up (and also unite against a common enemy - government/power elites).
Just because two people share some distant, obscure ancestor doesn't mean they won't try to kill each other. Heck, even if they share the same parents it doesn't always stop them. If we want people to stop blowing each other up, unfortunately we need something better than family ties.
A very wise man once pronounced:
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened that unleashed the power of the imagination. We learned to talk."
Must have been Ghandi or Jesus or someone.
I think that's a normal life-cycle.
Have a good idea, promote it, get popular, get ingrained with your users, cash in, cash out, die. Seems to work.
Just to nitpick, the cable is one of two parts of the elevator problem. We'll eventually get this nanotube thing figured out, but we still need something light, strong, and (probably) remotely powered to climb it. We've got to figure out both the robot and his ladder - Neither is a small feat, but neither is impossible.
What's with the hate? Just because you've seen a helicopter in the air doesn't mean they can fly! - Do the math yourself and it'll prove it. I do partially yield however to "proof by reality".
But yeah, I think that we can sum this up by saying, "There are things we can't do yet."
Think keystone species like Krill, wolves, Killer Whales or Tuna.
Krill are especially important - We all know what happens once they go extinct. We gotta get protein for our soylent green from somewhere.
So... Are you saying "You can't stop the signal"?
There's been a lot of talk about a garbage collection system.
Basically the talk revolves around why it's damned near impossible (or at least infeasible) because a destroyed sat sends a heckuva lot of tiny pieces flying in unpredictable directions hella fast.
Yeah - The late 1970's Star Wars video game market was HUGE!!!
My favorite one was where there was a blaster-charge bouncing back and forth between two light sabers that you could move up and down using paddles.
Can you name *one* video game featuring young Anakin or Jar Jar that was a success? I can't, but I can think of several original games that were both commercial successes *and* generally regarded as good games.
Here. Now it wasn't the best game in the world, but it sold like mad - A nice parallel to the movie. The original (Ep 4) movie, I don't believe factored marketing in much, although that certainly changed by Jedi. The difference between those movies and Ep 1 are that they lost sight of ANY obligation to put out a decent product and focused solely on marketing. Thus, we get a crappy movie, long-time fans are pissed, and Target moves a gazillion Jar-Jars. By Ep 2, I think that they realized that their approach was flawed.
I howled when Colbert told Lucas that he owned every Star Wars movie and asked him if he did too. Lucas replied, "All except episode 1".
Those three points violate rule #1 of sci-fi action for kids - Marketability outweighs quality.
Older Skywalker (Lets get him in his late teens)
Younger kids identify more and are responsible (indirectly) for many more toy sales.
No JarJar and/or no C3PO and R2D2 (way to many comedy characters)
Action figures.
No Pod-Racing... 20 minutes about 1/3 of the movie about nothing.
Video games.
Just to nit-pick a bit, 0.5% per year over 30 years is actually a little over 16%. But that was only in men - 0.2% per year in women. So that's an increase of ~11% in the overall population.
Personally, I'm leaning toward the "We're getting better at identifying brain tumors" camp, but 11% does seem like a lot and the large discrepancy between men and women is a little distressing.
For one of the facilities where I work, I had to take site-specific safety training before they would issue me a key. Included in the training was a note that there "may be nitrogen present in the air". This was included due to LN2 tanks being present in the basement, but it's a sorry state of affairs when you have to warn people that they MAY inhale some nitrogen.
By that logic, the whole experiment is pretty evil. After all, even though antrax isn't "cute", it's still alive. Sure, it's not furry like rats or monkeys, but does that imply that it has any less right to life?
Save the bacterium!
Hey - Any time you visit a site and block their ads, you're stealing the Internet! Personally, I click on all banners and buy at least one item from each advertising vendor to support wherever I visit. Otherwise, I'm afraid that this whole "Internet" thing just won't stick.
Seriously, though, some places have it right. Google's ads are fairly unobtrusive and typically (although not always) relevant. Amazon's "People who viewed this item also viewed" or "...untimately bought" links are terrifically useful. And Slashdot's ads (IIRC) are certainly nerd-oriented and can be disabled if you give them money or contribute regularly - Seems like an OK system.
All that said, most places have it absolutely wrong which is why AdblockPlus and NoScript are my first two stops when installing FireFox.