The probability of someone with a PhD in meteorology (or something similar) knowing what they are doing with a storm is quite a bit higher than some random guy who thinks storms are neat.
Are there amateurs who know a lot about what they are doing and their hobby is contributing in some way to society / our knowledge base? I'm sure there are, but very few compared to the "random yokel who wants to video tape the storm because he watched Twister last weekend"
Yup. Clearly if money is the prime goal one wants to spend 4 years in a tough undergrad program becfore moving on to a 6 year (on average) graduate program and probably a post-doc or 2, vs. getting a degree in marketing and having your company pay for your MBA and rolling in 6 figures.
While the probability of getting an infinite number on 1's is 0, it's still in the sample space, therefore can still happen (in fact, with an infinte number of coin tosses, any particular sequence has a probability of zero of occurring)
Set up an OpenVPN system at home and remotely connect to it, giving you high quality (AES) over-the-air encryption, even on an open and unencrypted system.
I second this. I used Texmacs in undergrad and grad school - it's pretty good for taking notes, although if I'm going to sit down and type something up, i'll go with plain old LaTeX
"A Turing machine can simulate these quantum computers, so such a quantum computer could never solve an undecidable problem like the halting problem. "
"For Official Use Only" is a type of non-public but unclassified government information. Which means that either that website shouldn't be there or the banner shouldn't be there...
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The probability of someone with a PhD in meteorology (or something similar) knowing what they are doing with a storm is quite a bit higher than some random guy who thinks storms are neat.
Are there amateurs who know a lot about what they are doing and their hobby is contributing in some way to society / our knowledge base? I'm sure there are, but very few compared to the "random yokel who wants to video tape the storm because he watched Twister last weekend"
Yup. Clearly if money is the prime goal one wants to spend 4 years in a tough undergrad program becfore moving on to a 6 year (on average) graduate program and probably a post-doc or 2, vs. getting a degree in marketing and having your company pay for your MBA and rolling in 6 figures.
So your friend is a complete douchebag?
At least 3 mod points will be wasted on this post.
Dumbasses.
For the same reason that if you build me a house, I can't pull out halfway through construction and leave you out $50,000?
This is called "almost surely" or "almost never" in probability theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely
While the probability of getting an infinite number on 1's is 0, it's still in the sample space, therefore can still happen (in fact, with an infinte number of coin tosses, any particular sequence has a probability of zero of occurring)
Set up an OpenVPN system at home and remotely connect to it, giving you high quality (AES) over-the-air encryption, even on an open and unencrypted system.
I second this. I used Texmacs in undergrad and grad school - it's pretty good for taking notes, although if I'm going to sit down and type something up, i'll go with plain old LaTeX
ah, i was commenting more about equating SSL with PKC than the overall meaning of your comment.
SSL = secure sockets layer
the ability to asymmetrically encrypt data = public key cryptography (See RSA, El Gamal, NTRU, etc)
Moses story takes place after the Noah story. It's really not a 'stunning bit of logic'.
Exactly.
Turing completeness. You can emulate those if you wish, although it won't necessarily be pretty.
I worked for them in college.
GeekSquad charges $200 for that particular service.
Pick one.
I haven't really played much in the 'good free' category, personally...
You're both wrong. They're equivalent.
From wikipedia:
"A Turing machine can simulate these quantum computers, so such a quantum computer could never solve an undecidable problem like the halting problem. "
"For Official Use Only" is a type of non-public but unclassified government information. Which means that either that website shouldn't be there or the banner shouldn't be there...
Wiki page on FOUO
Then modify the BSD license (the license itself is public domain) and remove all the restrictions from it.
Public domain
That's called the BSD License.
Of all the ways to moderate this, for once "offtopic" isn't the right one ;)
Spend $20 on a new ethernet card? I used a cheap off-the-shelf realtek on openbsd for years. On a Sun SPARC, no less.
IIRC, the reason PowerPC was dropped was power consumption/heat on notebooks, so it probably wouldn't go in a laptop.
you are guaranteed to get an A!!
*your