I think I like Google's way. How much better would the world be if there was GoogleMobile/GoogleCell: instead of just calling up your friends to say "OMG, ponies!", you have to think for a while to decide if it's really worth it. Perhaps not much, but it would be bliss for the rest of us...
That will get you a copy of the SP2 update package, but what about the two years of updates that have occurred since then? That's still a hell of a large download for a dial-up user.
It's about time Microsoft released a fresh update package i.e. Windows XP SP3 (or is that Vista?)
He's more or less right. Perelman's solution was, by modern standards, woefully patchy and incomplete.
Perelman got by on geometric intuition and terse writing, probably because he was either unable or more likely unwilling to go into the level of pedantic and often overbearing detail demanded of modern mathematics journals. In other words, he proved the theorem like the great masters of old.
Exactly - like Fermat's Last Theorem: "... I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain." Fermat was obviously right, but it took a bunch of pedants more than a lifetime to get it to modern standards (and probably still isn't what Fermat had in mind, since the recognised solution isn't exactly "marvelous".)
Yau's problem with Perelman seems to be:
1. he dared tread on "Yau's" turf - the Poincare conjecture - without so much as a "by your leave",
2. he didn't go through the usual bureaucratic channels (which presumably would include peer review by Yau),
3. he was right,
4. he was humble. By not accepting the Fields medal for his work, Perelman presumably has prevented Yau from getting it either (or at least it should.)
What's the point in voting when all the candidates act the same way anyway?
You've got it backwards. Because people in the US don't bother to vote, politicians know that can act anyway they like without repercussion as long as they keep the few that do (big business and speciail interest groups) happy. Make voting compulsory (as it is in Australia), and they have to deal with the uneducated mob who don't know nuffin' 'bout economic rationalism, but do know they lost their job last week, or an asshat politician when they see one. Those kind of forces make politicians nervous - and a nervous politician is a good thing.
I like Mythbusters a lot - it's one of the few programs I bother to watch regularly on TV (the other is Top Gear.) While the format has changed a little to cater for a broader audience, the core values of science and entertainment are still there.
For a really "MTV'd" version, try Brainiac. Even if it's "supposed" to be a comic send-up of programs like Mythbusters - and that's being generous - it fails miserably. Best avoided.
Choosing such an unstylish colour can mean only one thing: Microsoft have finally discovered the brown note.
"I tried the Zune, but it gave me the sh*ts - so I bought an iPod instead."
Why, there are plenty of valid reasons for getting/using them. It's not just an "I have too much money on my hands" kind of thing.
I particularly like the military version with the rocket launcher, second from the right in the recall notice.:-)
(No, they just look like golf clubs: a golfer on a Segway would form a critical mass of dorkiness, and I'm not sure the universe could survive that.)
English cryptic crosswords are notoriously difficult, at least in part because of their assumed local knowledge (e.g. "Mayfair" stands for the two letters "WI".) I've seen one where virtually all of the clues referenced the answer of others - until you solve the key clues, you can't even start! Another had no numbers - you have to solve all of the clues first, then fit them together jigsaw style...
Australian cryptics are much easier.
Essentially: unless you change human nature (biologically, I'm talking - behavior and perception as heavily influenced by our DNA), making the world like one big nursery/playground for adults is going to produce ever more sociopathic human BSODs.
I see it the other way. They'll combine a dual-layer DVD with single-layer HD-DVD because 98% of the population will never watch the HD-DVD layer, but they will complain about image artifacts, lack of extras etc. with a single-layer DVD.
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I think I like Google's way. How much better would the world be if there was GoogleMobile/GoogleCell: instead of just calling up your friends to say "OMG, ponies!", you have to think for a while to decide if it's really worth it. Perhaps not much, but it would be bliss for the rest of us...
Or: Gentlemen, start your magic markers!
That might be difficult with a dual-layer disk; the higher recording density of DVD media would make marking it a bit tricky, too.
That will get you a copy of the SP2 update package, but what about the two years of updates that have occurred since then? That's still a hell of a large download for a dial-up user.
It's about time Microsoft released a fresh update package i.e. Windows XP SP3 (or is that Vista?)
That's not news; "Slashdot editor discovers own site's search function" would be news.
Every time I have to show my drivers license at the airport I have a chuckle at the inane pointlessness of it.
Forget terrorism - how about credit card fraud? With E-tickets and Internet bookings, getting a "free" flight has never been easier for crooks.
In Soviet China, lasers put friggin' sharks on their heads.
I think folks underestimate how striking completely transparent PC cases can look ...
The FCC called; they want their radio frequency spectrum back.
And Intel are coming up with these 80-Core chips.
The 80x86?
A capacitor can discharge at an equally alarming rate as this charge time suggests.
:-D
Yes, but think of the acceleration!
500 miles in five minutes works out at an average speed of Mach 8 - scramjet speeds.
They didn't innovate, they copied.
That doesn't seem to have hurt Microsoft at all... Starting first doesn't mean you'll win the race; think of it as intellectual slipstreaming.
He's more or less right. Perelman's solution was, by modern standards, woefully patchy and incomplete. Perelman got by on geometric intuition and terse writing, probably because he was either unable or more likely unwilling to go into the level of pedantic and often overbearing detail demanded of modern mathematics journals. In other words, he proved the theorem like the great masters of old.
Exactly - like Fermat's Last Theorem: "... I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain." Fermat was obviously right, but it took a bunch of pedants more than a lifetime to get it to modern standards (and probably still isn't what Fermat had in mind, since the recognised solution isn't exactly "marvelous".)
Yau's problem with Perelman seems to be:
1. he dared tread on "Yau's" turf - the Poincare conjecture - without so much as a "by your leave",
2. he didn't go through the usual bureaucratic channels (which presumably would include peer review by Yau),
3. he was right,
4. he was humble. By not accepting the Fields medal for his work, Perelman presumably has prevented Yau from getting it either (or at least it should.)
Better a Perelman than a primadonna in my books.
It's also the default installation method as of 2006.0 (or thereabouts.)
Personally I prefer STAGE1, but you can use STAGE3 to get up and running quickly and then replace the binary packages with built-from-source later.
Mirosoft?
Vignetting, of course.
Stand STILL Woggy!
It's "laddy", not "Woggy":
"You! Yes, you behind the bike sheds: stand still laddy!" (Pink Floyd, The Happiest Days of our Lives from The Wall.)
I'm waiting for Centipedia; it'll be a hundred times better than Wikipedia.
I think you mean thin batteries: a flat battery is what you get by discharging its power.
What's the point in voting when all the candidates act the same way anyway?
You've got it backwards. Because people in the US don't bother to vote, politicians know that can act anyway they like without repercussion as long as they keep the few that do (big business and speciail interest groups) happy. Make voting compulsory (as it is in Australia), and they have to deal with the uneducated mob who don't know nuffin' 'bout economic rationalism, but do know they lost their job last week, or an asshat politician when they see one. Those kind of forces make politicians nervous - and a nervous politician is a good thing.
I like Mythbusters a lot - it's one of the few programs I bother to watch regularly on TV (the other is Top Gear.) While the format has changed a little to cater for a broader audience, the core values of science and entertainment are still there.
For a really "MTV'd" version, try Brainiac. Even if it's "supposed" to be a comic send-up of programs like Mythbusters - and that's being generous - it fails miserably. Best avoided.
Choosing such an unstylish colour can mean only one thing: Microsoft have finally discovered the brown note.
"I tried the Zune, but it gave me the sh*ts - so I bought an iPod instead."
Why, there are plenty of valid reasons for getting/using them. It's not just an "I have too much money on my hands" kind of thing.
:-)
I particularly like the military version with the rocket launcher, second from the right in the recall notice.
(No, they just look like golf clubs: a golfer on a Segway would form a critical mass of dorkiness, and I'm not sure the universe could survive that.)
Solving a crossword in under 12 minutes was the entrance exam.
I assume it was solving a cryptic crossword in under 12 minutes.
English cryptic crosswords are notoriously difficult, at least in part because of their assumed local knowledge (e.g. "Mayfair" stands for the two letters "WI".) I've seen one where virtually all of the clues referenced the answer of others - until you solve the key clues, you can't even start! Another had no numbers - you have to solve all of the clues first, then fit them together jigsaw style... Australian cryptics are much easier.
Essentially: unless you change human nature (biologically, I'm talking - behavior and perception as heavily influenced by our DNA), making the world like one big nursery/playground for adults is going to produce ever more sociopathic human BSODs.
BSODs, or BOFHs?
I see it the other way. They'll combine a dual-layer DVD with single-layer HD-DVD because 98% of the population will never watch the HD-DVD layer, but they will complain about image artifacts, lack of extras etc. with a single-layer DVD.
I always understood the underlying meaning, but I never caught the origin until now: ^H Explained.
I call BS...