A lot of posters are talking about packaging, as in paper, bubblewrap, cardboard. But this article is about a classic mathematics and computer science problem called the 2-D rectangle packing problem.
"The Clay Mathematics Institute million-dollars prize and a huge amount of dedicated research with no substantial results suggest that the problem is difficult."
Here's a link with some more information: P=NP
If Obama turns out to have the intelligence of a chimp, then it will be fair game to call him a chimp. You are a racist because you want to call Obama a chimp because of the color of his skin.
Please don't say, "I didn't say I wanted to call him blah blah.." and try to argue semantics with me. That's what you were implying.
ElectricTurtle, you seem smart, but also racist. I'm sorry you didn't get to marry your Korean girlfriend, but that has nothing to do with American slavery. Nor does ethnocentrism. And for that matter, neither does racism, as you said.
Really, I can't figure out exactly what your point is, or why you were modded +5 insightful. What insight are you making? It's just a bunch of random bigoted nonsense.
e.g:
Funny how all the honkies the Romans enslaved didn't whine about being victims for centuries. Instead [...] they kicked the shit out of it and moved on...
So, you are saying blacks are unjustified whiners playing victim while simultaneously advocating a slave uprising. Well then, I wholeheartedly agree. All US blacks should revolt, taking over the country in our current time of weakness, and then you can be happy picking cotton without complaint.
How do you know whether or not a bunch of illiterate slave descendants whined 1882 years ago? And who is whining now? And what does Rome have to do with your premise that Americans are "naive and anachronistic"? Are you saying that since some of the founders may not have been racist then no one can complain about racism and slavery? Are you saying "white guilt" has made Americans less ethnocentric, so they would never, for example, hate brown people and their religion?
Ok, I grant that you made some points: 1. The Romans had slavery without racism. 2. Every culture is ethnocentric. (mild racism?)
But what the hell does that have to do with videogame violence?
Ok, maybe you aren't a bigot, and are trying to suggest that some of the founding fathers were non-racist slavemasters. Ok, but so what? What does that have to do with anything? Really.
Trust me, slavery is not good, or justifiable. Slavery was abolished only 144 years ago, not "centuries." Racism was law as recently as 41 years ago. So, some of these "whiners" you insult, who have actually experienced being treated as sub-human are still alive. Why don't you go call them a whiner to their face, in front of their families, so you can learn a lesson about how much of a bigot you are and why it is bad to be that way.
Now, I am sorry to have to insult you, but I take back what I said about your intelligence. Actually, you are ignorant if not also a complete pompous dumbass who thinks America's culture is white culture. Especially considering this absolute untruth you present as fact: "Racism itself is a completely modern abstraction." Do your own research.
You are not insightful or interesting. You are flamebait, offtopic, and you contradict your own pointless arguments. Please mod down, and fire his moderators.
djp928, I think you are missing the point made by LateArthurDent. Furthermore, your argument refutes itself. Why is one not enough evidence, but two is? Two is statistically not much better than one, considering how many stars there are out there. Two is just evidence that there are two, and doesn't prove much more than one does.
LateArthurDent's point is that since there is life on Earth, the probability of life per star system is greater than 0.
Then (the # of stars) * (prob. of life per star) = (# of star systems with life). And as (the # of stars) approaches inf. so does the (# of star systems with life). And remember, everything can be assigned a probability.
You are asking, "How do we know life can originate elsewhere?" When you should be asking, "How do we know life can originate?"
NetBEUI. pffttt.. we would have killed for NetBEUI back in my day. All we had to play 2-player Doom was a serial cable or a 2400bps modem. You kids these days... always enabling NetBEUI unnecessarily.
In communist Germany, first they came for the naggers,
And I didn't speak up because I did not nag.
Then they came for the nudgers,
And I didn't speak up because I did not nudge.
Then they came for the teen-agers, and gerbils.
Then they came for me, but by that time there were NO GERmans left to speak up.
Any time you see a limitation like that, and you think it is unfair, ask yourself how you'd feel if you were on the receiving end. If your life was being threatened, would you be ok with that, or would you then want the person threatening you arrested?
If someone wanted to kill me, I would rather know about it, than not know.
How would I feel about about being threatened? I would say, bring it on, bitch. I'll fucking kill you.
But so what. I have a business, and we allow people to post messages in a mostly anonymous way. Kinda like a big corkboard outside a grocery store where anyone can post a flier. If someone posts something illegal, the government shouldn't be allowed to take the wall because we already pressure washed the fingerprints off.
The grocery store should not have to keep a record of every person that may potentially post an illegal message. And a website should not be subject to search and seizure because of an anonymous post. We the people do not want to be tracked all the time. We want anonymity. Anonymity cannot be stopped.
This article makes me imagine a scenario like this:
Cops: Give us your surveillance tapes.
Business: We have no security cameras, or tapes.
Cops: We will decide who has cameras or not by seizing everything in your business indefinitely.
"SHAC/ALF [..] are a bunch of anti science luddites hell bent on hurting scientists"
So, is Indymedia a terrorist organization or supporting one somehow? Because if they are just a news organization, they should be able to report, analyze, comment, or write editorial opinion on any topic, especially when critical of the government.
When the government starts arresting/censuring/disappearing journalists for expressing dissent, then just remember: loose lips sink ships, Comrade. Vive la resistance!
I refer you to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, who while recognizing the two spellings Aluminium and Aluminum, lists the former first; thus proving that Aluminium is more correct.
>(In actuality, they often type "www.houstondating.com" as well, regardless if that's correct or not).
Yes, but they type this into google. So, if you can get your site to be ranked number 2, then you will get a lot of clicks. Because no one like to pick the one right off the top. You know, the store lights have been shining on it making it stale. Other people have touched it and crinkled the packaging.
"if you add another alphanumeric to the password, you multiply the complexity by 56, which adds another 10 years to the time before computers will be fast enough to crack it"
Wouldn't it add another order of magnitude? Not just 10 years?
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A lot of posters are talking about packaging, as in paper, bubblewrap, cardboard. But this article is about a classic mathematics and computer science problem called the 2-D rectangle packing problem.
"The Clay Mathematics Institute million-dollars prize and a huge amount of dedicated research with no substantial results suggest that the problem is difficult."
Here's a link with some more information: P=NP
Not everyone has 1TB because a 1TB external hard drive costs a whopping one hundred dollars. No one has that kind of money these days.
If Obama turns out to have the intelligence of a chimp, then it will be fair game to call him a chimp. You are a racist because you want to call Obama a chimp because of the color of his skin.
Please don't say, "I didn't say I wanted to call him blah blah.." and try to argue semantics with me. That's what you were implying.
"The person that does the asking out to dinner pays."
"You are right, that is fair."
IOW, fair = the man pays.
"P2P file sharing is designed to prevent network congestion,"
Really, I can't figure out exactly what your point is, or why you were modded +5 insightful. What insight are you making? It's just a bunch of random bigoted nonsense.
e.g:
Funny how all the honkies the Romans enslaved didn't whine about being victims for centuries. Instead [...] they kicked the shit out of it and moved on...
So, you are saying blacks are unjustified whiners playing victim while simultaneously advocating a slave uprising. Well then, I wholeheartedly agree. All US blacks should revolt, taking over the country in our current time of weakness, and then you can be happy picking cotton without complaint.
How do you know whether or not a bunch of illiterate slave descendants whined 1882 years ago? And who is whining now? And what does Rome have to do with your premise that Americans are "naive and anachronistic"? Are you saying that since some of the founders may not have been racist then no one can complain about racism and slavery? Are you saying "white guilt" has made Americans less ethnocentric, so they would never, for example, hate brown people and their religion?
Ok, I grant that you made some points: 1. The Romans had slavery without racism. 2. Every culture is ethnocentric. (mild racism?)
But what the hell does that have to do with videogame violence?
Ok, maybe you aren't a bigot, and are trying to suggest that some of the founding fathers were non-racist slavemasters. Ok, but so what? What does that have to do with anything? Really.
Trust me, slavery is not good, or justifiable. Slavery was abolished only 144 years ago, not "centuries." Racism was law as recently as 41 years ago. So, some of these "whiners" you insult, who have actually experienced being treated as sub-human are still alive. Why don't you go call them a whiner to their face, in front of their families, so you can learn a lesson about how much of a bigot you are and why it is bad to be that way.
Now, I am sorry to have to insult you, but I take back what I said about your intelligence. Actually, you are ignorant if not also a complete pompous dumbass who thinks America's culture is white culture. Especially considering this absolute untruth you present as fact: "Racism itself is a completely modern abstraction." Do your own research.
You are not insightful or interesting. You are flamebait, offtopic, and you contradict your own pointless arguments. Please mod down, and fire his moderators.
LateArthurDent's point is that since there is life on Earth, the probability of life per star system is greater than 0.
Then (the # of stars) * (prob. of life per star) = (# of star systems with life). And as (the # of stars) approaches inf. so does the (# of star systems with life). And remember, everything can be assigned a probability.
You are asking, "How do we know life can originate elsewhere?" When you should be asking, "How do we know life can originate?"
Do you mean, *BOINK*? What are you, Canadian?
20%? They have 80% of the college student market from what I see at my local uni.
NetBEUI. pffttt.. we would have killed for NetBEUI back in my day. All we had to play 2-player Doom was a serial cable or a 2400bps modem.
You kids these days... always enabling NetBEUI unnecessarily.
In communist Germany, first they came for the naggers,
And I didn't speak up because I did not nag.
Then they came for the nudgers,
And I didn't speak up because I did not nudge.
Then they came for the teen-agers, and gerbils.
Then they came for me, but by that time there were
NO GERmans left to speak up.
Any time you see a limitation like that, and you think it is unfair, ask yourself how you'd feel if you were on the receiving end. If your life was being threatened, would you be ok with that, or would you then want the person threatening you arrested?
If someone wanted to kill me, I would rather know about it, than not know.
How would I feel about about being threatened? I would say, bring it on, bitch. I'll fucking kill you.
Hozza, thanks for explaining that.
But so what. I have a business, and we allow people to post messages in a mostly anonymous way. Kinda like a big corkboard outside a grocery store where anyone can post a flier. If someone posts something illegal, the government shouldn't be allowed to take the wall because we already pressure washed the fingerprints off.
The grocery store should not have to keep a record of every person that may potentially post an illegal message. And a website should not be subject to search and seizure because of an anonymous post. We the people do not want to be tracked all the time. We want anonymity. Anonymity cannot be stopped.
This article makes me imagine a scenario like this:
Cops: Give us your surveillance tapes.
Business: We have no security cameras, or tapes.
Cops: We will decide who has cameras or not by seizing everything in your business indefinitely.
"SHAC/ALF [..] are a bunch of anti science luddites hell bent on hurting scientists"
So, is Indymedia a terrorist organization or supporting one somehow? Because if they are just a news organization, they should be able to report, analyze, comment, or write editorial opinion on any topic, especially when critical of the government.
When the government starts arresting/censuring/disappearing journalists for expressing dissent, then just remember: loose lips sink ships, Comrade. Vive la resistance!
I always knew aluminium sprinkles did more than just taste good.
Something that always evolves
Now, how the hell do you punctuate that?
It would say:
.00001% Natural Flavoring
85% Sucrose
14.99999% Lactose
Ahh, you Americans and your funny accents.
I refer you to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, who while recognizing the two spellings Aluminium and Aluminum, lists the former first; thus proving that Aluminium is more correct.
Besides, Aluminium is more fun to say. Aluminium.
>(In actuality, they often type "www.houstondating.com" as well, regardless if that's correct or not).
Yes, but they type this into google. So, if you can get your site to be ranked number 2, then you will get a lot of clicks. Because no one like to pick the one right off the top. You know, the store lights have been shining on it making it stale. Other people have touched it and crinkled the packaging.
"Does your employer have the right to read your private email accounts?"
Sometimes. If you send an email using their electrons, they have a right to read/log the data on their network for administrative purposes.
Yeah, but it's a small infinity.
I loled
That's your argument? Huge spy program is ok because it promises not to sneak a peak?
"if you add another alphanumeric to the password, you multiply the complexity by 56, which adds another 10 years to the time before computers will be fast enough to crack it" Wouldn't it add another order of magnitude? Not just 10 years?