This is an irregular problem. Obivously: there is no ratio between a square and a circle because this is the definition of the circle anyway.
Umm... irregular problem: probably.
But no ratio between a square and a circle? I dear say your example was poorly chosen. I don't know what they teach in school where you come from, but last time I checked you could use something called "pi" to calculate lots of square-circle related stuff.
I have data from my thesis stored from about 10 years ago and have recently (last week as it turns out) extracted data from it. I've had CD-R's that have failed after only a couple of years.
A very good point. I would however dear to claim that there are probably cheap DV-tapes which could easily suffer the same fate as cheap CD-Rs.
Actually there is a professional multichannel audio format which uses VHS tapes, ADAT. ADAT was created by Alesis and became a de facto standard in the music industry.
Nowadays most ADAT recorders are HD-based though, but the format's popularity was largely due to the cheap media, when compared to other digital multichannel systems at the time.
I'm not saying it's probable, but what would happen if funding for the current Shuttle program and possible future manned options was just cut? Unmanned craft? Robots? Speculations anyone?
Many resistant forms of bacteria have evolved due to overuse of antibiotica. If the process itself is closely regulated we can at least hope that the drug itself will be closely regulated as well. That way it will hopefully be used when it is really needed, and only when it is really needed, thus reducing the risks of resistant bacteria evolving.
I don't think we should force open source on anyone. The problem then becomes what to do with game engines and other proprietary technology used in an old piece of software.
Releasing a non-supported game as binaries is one thing, releasing a whole suite of proprietary technology to the public domain is a lot more.
One huge problem with old software is that no one supports or sells it anymore, but many users still want to use it. Redistribution is still illegal, since it's copyrighted.
I think a law should be made to make it possible to declare something abandonware and enable non-profit redistribution, if the original firm holding the copyrights aren't selling/supporting it anymore.
There is probably lot's of problems with this approach, but I suspect there are more problems with going after people wanting to relive their memories, or wanting to let other people do so...
It's going to be really interesting, I think, to see what this does for the holiday selling season. Since it's out there now that Grantsdale is going to have such a dramatic effect on PC architecture, what is this going to do for sales of graphics cards? Of sound cards?
I doubt this holiday season will be any big break for PCI Express. Remember when PCI was introduced? Roughly around the time of the first Pentiums. You can still buy motherboards with ISA slots...
It looks like PCI will be supported in some way, but it's almost up to a motherboard manufacturer to come forward and say, "OK, we're only going to support one PCI slot, so figure out what you want to keep, now."
The same applies here, the transition won't happen over night. There is lots of stuff which runs just fine on the bandwidth that PCI has to offer. You will have to decide what to keep, but I'd say that years from now.
Wonder if in 12 years (when the probe is supposed to reach Pluto) the public will be as fascinated with the pictures coming back as much as with the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft."
Then again, the public might already be bored with the pics from the probe sent to Pluto in 10 years, with a vastly superior propulsion system which gets it there in one year;)
This could be great for children, road workers or other similar people who have a tendency to get too close to cars in the dark or need to be seen for other reasons.
My question is: Why is it that on a message board that so THOROUGLY hates MS (even more than MS the degenerative muscular disease) ANY mod to the XBOX is such a huge deal!
Microsoft doesn't like Xbox mods.
A vast majority on Slashdot doesn't like Microsoft.
(bad for Microsoft = good for Slashdot)
That's the binary logic translation anyway, let's not take any fuzzy logic into account, shall we?;)
Some of these patents are no doubt software patents. And each patent application costs money to process. Even though there is apparently a fee for submitting an application I doubt the patent office is making profit. And as it is a US government funded organization the US taxpayers are paying for the process.
Investigations related to prior art surely cost a lot additinal money. If an application has already been accepted nullifying it can't be an easy process. Ultimately the whole mess must cost a grand sum... guesses anyone?
I'm rambling, but I can't help feeling that the money could be better spent somewhere else.
These students don't get spam themselves. Or they have hearts made of stone. My guess is still that these people don't even use email, apart from the spam-sending bit.
I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
If you ask me, yes. First of all it's a nice feeling to buy something and give it a personal touch. On top of that a comparable sized PC hardware would probably be hard and or expensive to find (can't look at the pics,/.ed).
And it's always nice to do something which is supposed to be impossible and or has been made hard to do.
I know amount of addressable memory is quite high, but isn't all the memory currently accessed via a bus thus sharing memory bandwidth?
That is true, but the memory bus can be made wider, and that won't affect the adressing scheme. Take nVidia's nForce, it uses 2 DIMM slots in paralell to double the memory bandwidth (although the processor bus must be fast enough to use the bandwidth).
The bandwidth issue scales much more easily than the fact that 32 bits is 4 GB of addressable memory, no matter what. (OK, you can do a extended-memory-kludge, but that's beside the point;)
Right now 4 GB of memory might be enough. But switching to 64 bit when we are already hitting the wall is not an option. The point with going to 64 bits now is that we can add memory past 4 GB without the headaches of moving to a new platform, since the transition is already done.
If Intel keeps on braking a lot of people will get really disappointed when they realize they need more memory than their platform supports.
Most of the weblogs i ever come to belongs to some narcistic teenage girls writting bullshits.
Partly true. But last time I checked freedom of speech ment that anyone could express their thoughts. I would say that weblogs are great for that purpose, no matter what those thoughts may be.
This is a great idea and I'd love to use it... But i doubt I could live with the fees that my operator would charge for making even just one entry a day. Even though I live in Finland most operators bill like crazy for data traffic.
A PDA-based solution with which you could update your blog offline and sync it when you have access would be nice.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Make a webserver-fly-implant
2. Sell it over the web
3. Profit!
3.14 is an approximation but not pi
3.14159267 is yet another approximation but not pi.
In short, pi is not an existant number.
This is really straying off topic, but that's like saying that the earth has a nonexistant mass just because we can't measure it properly.
Pi exists, but no matter how far we go we will always approximate pi. That does not make pi nonexistant.
This is an irregular problem. Obivously: there is no ratio between a square and a circle because this is the definition of the circle anyway.
Umm... irregular problem: probably.
But no ratio between a square and a circle? I dear say your example was poorly chosen. I don't know what they teach in school where you come from, but last time I checked you could use something called "pi" to calculate lots of square-circle related stuff.
This much I can make out:
:)
The URL to the hypothesis is: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/rh.html
The URL contains the word "primes".
Primes are essential to much of todays cryptography, like public key encryption.
But what does the hypothesis say, in laymans terms?
What are the practical implications?
Anyone?
I have data from my thesis stored from about 10 years ago and have recently (last week as it turns out) extracted data from it. I've had CD-R's that have failed after only a couple of years.
:)
A very good point. I would however dear to claim that there are probably cheap DV-tapes which could easily suffer the same fate as cheap CD-Rs.
Then again, I might be wrong
Actually there is a professional multichannel audio format which uses VHS tapes, ADAT. ADAT was created by Alesis and became a de facto standard in the music industry.
Nowadays most ADAT recorders are HD-based though, but the format's popularity was largely due to the cheap media, when compared to other digital multichannel systems at the time.
I've used tape backups... Sure they work, but when you want a certain file from the middle of a tape it sure is no picnic.
Harddisks are really cheap these days, CD-Rs are also cheap and writable DVDs are becoming an option... Does it pay off?
I'm not saying it's probable, but what would happen if funding for the current Shuttle program and possible future manned options was just cut? Unmanned craft? Robots? Speculations anyone?
Many resistant forms of bacteria have evolved due to overuse of antibiotica. If the process itself is closely regulated we can at least hope that the drug itself will be closely regulated as well. That way it will hopefully be used when it is really needed, and only when it is really needed, thus reducing the risks of resistant bacteria evolving.
Better yet, make it open source.
I don't think we should force open source on anyone. The problem then becomes what to do with game engines and other proprietary technology used in an old piece of software.
Releasing a non-supported game as binaries is one thing, releasing a whole suite of proprietary technology to the public domain is a lot more.
One huge problem with old software is that no one supports or sells it anymore, but many users still want to use it. Redistribution is still illegal, since it's copyrighted.
I think a law should be made to make it possible to declare something abandonware and enable non-profit redistribution, if the original firm holding the copyrights aren't selling/supporting it anymore.
There is probably lot's of problems with this approach, but I suspect there are more problems with going after people wanting to relive their memories, or wanting to let other people do so...
It's going to be really interesting, I think, to see what this does for the holiday selling season. Since it's out there now that Grantsdale is going to have such a dramatic effect on PC architecture, what is this going to do for sales of graphics cards? Of sound cards?
I doubt this holiday season will be any big break for PCI Express. Remember when PCI was introduced? Roughly around the time of the first Pentiums. You can still buy motherboards with ISA slots...
It looks like PCI will be supported in some way, but it's almost up to a motherboard manufacturer to come forward and say, "OK, we're only going to support one PCI slot, so figure out what you want to keep, now."
The same applies here, the transition won't happen over night. There is lots of stuff which runs just fine on the bandwidth that PCI has to offer. You will have to decide what to keep, but I'd say that years from now.
Hmmm, and which propulsion system would this be?
I have no idea. I was purely speculating without any facts at hand... it never hurts to be optimistic, right?
Wonder if in 12 years (when the probe is supposed to reach Pluto) the public will be as fascinated with the pictures coming back as much as with the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft."
;)
Then again, the public might already be bored with the pics from the probe sent to Pluto in 10 years, with a vastly superior propulsion system which gets it there in one year
I might be wrong on this, but as far as I know the name Nethack comes from the fact that it is a version of Hack which was hacked upon over the net.
;)
This was way before "hackers" (crakers) ever became an issue on the Internet. I guess the name just stuck.
It is also quite possible I'm horribly misinformed
I figured I won't donwload Nethack. Why? Because I know how damn good it is and I know I'll be lost forever if I start playing it for real.
For the ones who don't know what Nethack is: The GameSpy Hall of Fame has a really good piece on Nethack.
This could be great for children, road workers or other similar people who have a tendency to get too close to cars in the dark or need to be seen for other reasons.
My question is: Why is it that on a message board that so THOROUGLY hates MS (even more than MS the degenerative muscular disease) ANY mod to the XBOX is such a huge deal!
;)
Microsoft doesn't like Xbox mods.
A vast majority on Slashdot doesn't like Microsoft.
(bad for Microsoft = good for Slashdot)
That's the binary logic translation anyway, let's not take any fuzzy logic into account, shall we?
According to the US patent office: "Each year the USPTO receives approximately 300,000 patent applications." (from http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/utility/utili ty.htm)
Some of these patents are no doubt software patents. And each patent application costs money to process. Even though there is apparently a fee for submitting an application I doubt the patent office is making profit. And as it is a US government funded organization the US taxpayers are paying for the process.
Investigations related to prior art surely cost a lot additinal money. If an application has already been accepted nullifying it can't be an easy process. Ultimately the whole mess must cost a grand sum... guesses anyone?
I'm rambling, but I can't help feeling that the money could be better spent somewhere else.
These students don't get spam themselves. Or they have hearts made of stone. My guess is still that these people don't even use email, apart from the spam-sending bit.
I gott ask tho, at what point would it have made more sense just to buy a regular computer?
/.ed).
:)
If you ask me, yes. First of all it's a nice feeling to buy something and give it a personal touch. On top of that a comparable sized PC hardware would probably be hard and or expensive to find (can't look at the pics,
And it's always nice to do something which is supposed to be impossible and or has been made hard to do.
It's all about the sense of accomplishment
I know amount of addressable memory is quite high, but isn't all the memory currently accessed via a bus thus sharing memory bandwidth?
;)
That is true, but the memory bus can be made wider, and that won't affect the adressing scheme. Take nVidia's nForce, it uses 2 DIMM slots in paralell to double the memory bandwidth (although the processor bus must be fast enough to use the bandwidth).
The bandwidth issue scales much more easily than the fact that 32 bits is 4 GB of addressable memory, no matter what. (OK, you can do a extended-memory-kludge, but that's beside the point
Right now 4 GB of memory might be enough. But switching to 64 bit when we are already hitting the wall is not an option. The point with going to 64 bits now is that we can add memory past 4 GB without the headaches of moving to a new platform, since the transition is already done.
If Intel keeps on braking a lot of people will get really disappointed when they realize they need more memory than their platform supports.
Most of the weblogs i ever come to belongs to some narcistic teenage girls writting bullshits.
Partly true. But last time I checked freedom of speech ment that anyone could express their thoughts. I would say that weblogs are great for that purpose, no matter what those thoughts may be.
This is a great idea and I'd love to use it... But i doubt I could live with the fees that my operator would charge for making even just one entry a day. Even though I live in Finland most operators bill like crazy for data traffic.
A PDA-based solution with which you could update your blog offline and sync it when you have access would be nice.