The article is just his personal explanation of his experiment. Not why they rewarded him or whether the results are actually useful in practice. The 'about the award' page gives the impression that it's about the scientific process and encouraging inquiring minds. Neither could I find anything about cell count in the tree versus the array in the text, or about the average elevation of both models.
What seems to count for this award is a scientific investigation driven by a well-posed question. He did just that -- he tested a hypothesis by making a setup, doing repeated measurements, and drawing conclusions. Awards such as these want to encourage exactly what this boy has done. That he made a basic mistake in his setup is probably simply not all that relevant.
No you don't. They just need to know the function of the word and what it looks like. No meaningful knowledge of English is necessary. Children and teens can well learn how to program before knowing any English. Heck, even in an English OS once they know on which icons and words to click.
Disney movies (etc) are dubbed for children too young to read subtitles at full speed. Once they're deemed old enough, they are shown the subbed versions which are available to the rest of us.
This in the Netherlands, but I'm sure Belgium will be no different:)
Being Dutch (close to English), I concur. As a child me and my friends saw and heard quite a bit of English on TV or through music. We could never understand (nor really care) except a handful of words we were taught. When "singing" some popular song, we just mimicked the sounds and used Dutch words or syllables to replace them. Words which often made zero sense. But that did not matter.
Ah the good old 'but at least we're less evil than Saddam' defense.
Ubuntu's track record is a lot better than Microsoft's, but that does not mean a 14 month delay is acceptable. Especially since comments from 2006 already mention the -B parameter to hdparm as a possible fix.
Yes, but the reason why Microsoft has a monopoly is not relevant to the school. They see that their kids will use Windows. So they teach Windows.
A case to deploy Linux can only be made once learning Linux makes you also capable of using Windows. I think that's not a big problem since most basic concepts are the same, but it is required. It's no use teaching exotic tools which most of the students are never going to use.
That the kids need books and schools is a bit naive for many African countries. Corruption starts at the very bottom of society. For instance, the teacher demands money or items from the kids every day, otherwise they won't get taught. The teacher has to demand money in order to obtain food himself. In order to obtain a license to teach, as well. Being corrupt is required to survive, and most have invested too much to really want to change the system. Those who want to, don't get a license, or even get put in jail or shot.
A pretty school building or books don't make any difference in such cases. And if the books are dangerous to the status quo, they're likely to get banned altogether.
Actually, to prove P=NP it suffices to prove that a P algorithm exists for some NP-complete problem. You don't have to supply the actual algorithm or the actual NP-Complete problem it solves. Just a proof that it has to exist suffices.
A CEO earns 5300 times as much as a FMW, because he works 5300 times as hard, doh:) And ofcourse, any FMW could become a CEO if he just worked harder and really wanted to.
Fact is, becoming rich in many cases depends on the right skills and/or social connections. Those are hard and for many impossible to obtain. Working hard can make you richer to some degree, but it isnt the key to a 5300-fold increase to your paycheck. Nevertheless, the American Illusion does make everyone work harder and thus boost the economy far more than something like Communism, which effectively kills all incentive to work harder.
No it wouldn't, at least not in the original BitTorrent specification. Seeds upload to the fastest downloaders, so all you have to do is track down seeds and download from them as fast as possible. Also, you can have a lot of connections open and other peers will throw you a bone once in a while.
In all, a client which does not upload and is optimised for this purpose has a download speed comparable to other clients. See also http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/HotNets-V/locher06 free.pdf. Of course, if everyone starts doing that the system collapses.
While they're at it, they can block the sun when its night in the US. That way, the US is not affected. Not to mention the potentials for measures against non-US-friendly countries: they can simply be cut-off from sunlight. That'll teach 'm. Also, it allows everyone to keep fucking up our atmosphere 'because we have the disc, and that costed enough already'.
Clearly, this sounds like the way to go. </rant>
Maybe we should (*gasp*) get rid of our 'consume all you can culture' instead, acknowledging we need extra planets once the rest of the world caught up with the West's level of 'advancement'. But that would mean sacrificing anything on a personal or economical level. Can't have that. Rather have everyone else starve or a fucked up atmosphere.
Nevertheless, there is some irony because he could be paraphrasing a post-9/11 Bush:
Saddam: "Kurds harbor terrorists. Anyone who harbors terrorists IS a terrorist."
Even though some 3000 Kurds died, toppling Saddam would probably have brought many more deaths (as we witness now). One can imagine Saddam was in a better position to judge that than the rest of us.
Of course, the outcome of Saddam's orders was easy to predict, which is in striking contrast to US military policy. This makes his acts inexcusable. Still, there is not enough self-reflection in this world. How much collateral damage will we shrug about to catch or kill terrorists?
30B is nothing compared to America's GDP. The US government donates less than the public, but let's say the total is 60B. The UN target for government donations is 0.7% of the GDP, which is 90B for the US. Several countries meet this target and many are near it on government donations alone. The US doesn't make it to the topten of generous countries, even if the private donations would be added to the government ones.
However, because there are 300M americans, they do give the largest absolute sum. That does not mean Americans give exceptionally freely, just that there are a lot of them.
That's not ZoneAlarm's fault, part of its basic functionality is to prompt the user to see if it's ok to allow the traffic. The fact that the user is an ignorant moron is no reason to remove a layer of protection. MS's enterprise customers have requested this because upper management is tired of the prompts to allow traffic, and doesn't understand (or care) about why they're there.
The user cares and understands why ZoneAlarm is there: he does not want his system infected. The problem is that the user does not know the internal workings of their applications or OS, and thus are not in the position to really judge which connections are good and which are bad.
This is where ZoneAlarm errs: the user should not HAVE to know which IP addresses and port numbers are bad. Heck, as a techie, even I dont even want to have to know -- I have more interesting things to do. There are obviously patterns which allows us to judge roughly which connections to block. But ZoneAlarm should detect those patterns (heck, maybe even by quering a zonealarm.com server or your-techie-nephew.com for info), and tell the user what he DOES want to know: the probability the connection is dangerous.
If ZoneAlarm is meant for the general audience, it fails miserably in terms of GUI. It also wouldn't hurt if applications could inform the user and ask for a retry if the firewall blocks the connection. The firewall should then of course also support that in a user-friendly way, instead of browsing through a zillion settings. As previous posters pointed out, users now generally quickly learn to accept everything to not having to bother their nephew every single damn time, otherwise stuff will probably break.
Capitalism may "work" because of greed, but that does not mean society does. Cooperation can lead to a better situation than everyone persuing the maximum gain for him/herself,/even though it may yield lower gains for some individuals/. A famous example of this is the prisoner's dilemma, which pops up about everywhere in real life.
In other words, unlike some seem to presume, a society simply cannot run as efficiently on selfish, greedy people. You'd create a society that sucks to live in, nobody can even afford to care for anything or anybody else, and overall performs sub-optimal. Since when is our goal to create or promote such a greedy society?
Greed should be recognised as a motivation (hence, communism does not work) but not as a goal in itself. It may look nice on the short term, but it promotes devastating ideas on the long term if not kept in check. Our companies erecting factories in africa and asia, employing child labour and encouraging the foreign govs to keep the status quo as it suits both parties, is but a small example of this. Greed promotes such moves, regardless of morale (morale costs money). We should *really* ask ourselves if *that* is the kind of world we want to live in.
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You could, using Rosetta. It translated ppc -> x86 instructions on the fly. Support for that was dropped in Lion though.
The article is just his personal explanation of his experiment. Not why they rewarded him or whether the results are actually useful in practice. The 'about the award' page gives the impression that it's about the scientific process and encouraging inquiring minds. Neither could I find anything about cell count in the tree versus the array in the text, or about the average elevation of both models.
So what am I missing here?
What seems to count for this award is a scientific investigation driven by a well-posed question. He did just that -- he tested a hypothesis by making a setup, doing repeated measurements, and drawing conclusions. Awards such as these want to encourage exactly what this boy has done. That he made a basic mistake in his setup is probably simply not all that relevant.
Or the data will quite simply be called fake.
No you don't. They just need to know the function of the word and what it looks like. No meaningful knowledge of English is necessary. Children and teens can well learn how to program before knowing any English. Heck, even in an English OS once they know on which icons and words to click.
Disney movies (etc) are dubbed for children too young to read subtitles at full speed. Once they're deemed old enough, they are shown the subbed versions which are available to the rest of us.
This in the Netherlands, but I'm sure Belgium will be no different :)
Being Dutch (close to English), I concur. As a child me and my friends saw and heard quite a bit of English on TV or through music. We could never understand (nor really care) except a handful of words we were taught. When "singing" some popular song, we just mimicked the sounds and used Dutch words or syllables to replace them. Words which often made zero sense. But that did not matter.
Not complying is not an option. The fines will just go up until MS has to comply or leave the EU.
That is because the ones that died young are no longer around. All Apple IIs surviving now appear to be 'made to last'.
It may well be a wise move to bury older hardware that already survived a few years. Just to weed out the batches that fail early.
Ah the good old 'but at least we're less evil than Saddam' defense.
Ubuntu's track record is a lot better than Microsoft's, but that does not mean a 14 month delay is acceptable. Especially since comments from 2006 already mention the -B parameter to hdparm as a possible fix.
Yes, but the reason why Microsoft has a monopoly is not relevant to the school. They see that their kids will use Windows. So they teach Windows.
A case to deploy Linux can only be made once learning Linux makes you also capable of using Windows. I think that's not a big problem since most basic concepts are the same, but it is required. It's no use teaching exotic tools which most of the students are never going to use.
That the kids need books and schools is a bit naive for many African countries. Corruption starts at the very bottom of society. For instance, the teacher demands money or items from the kids every day, otherwise they won't get taught. The teacher has to demand money in order to obtain food himself. In order to obtain a license to teach, as well. Being corrupt is required to survive, and most have invested too much to really want to change the system. Those who want to, don't get a license, or even get put in jail or shot.
A pretty school building or books don't make any difference in such cases. And if the books are dangerous to the status quo, they're likely to get banned altogether.
Let me tell you about the digits of pi...
Actually, to prove P=NP it suffices to prove that a P algorithm exists for some NP-complete problem. You don't have to supply the actual algorithm or the actual NP-Complete problem it solves. Just a proof that it has to exist suffices.
A CEO earns 5300 times as much as a FMW, because he works 5300 times as hard, doh :) And ofcourse, any FMW could become a CEO if he just worked harder and really wanted to.
Fact is, becoming rich in many cases depends on the right skills and/or social connections. Those are hard and for many impossible to obtain. Working hard can make you richer to some degree, but it isnt the key to a 5300-fold increase to your paycheck. Nevertheless, the American Illusion does make everyone work harder and thus boost the economy far more than something like Communism, which effectively kills all incentive to work harder.
No it wouldn't, at least not in the original BitTorrent specification. Seeds upload to the fastest downloaders, so all you have to do is track down seeds and download from them as fast as possible. Also, you can have a lot of connections open and other peers will throw you a bone once in a while.
6 free.pdf. Of course, if everyone starts doing that the system collapses.
In all, a client which does not upload and is optimised for this purpose has a download speed comparable to other clients. See also http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/HotNets-V/locher0
While they're at it, they can block the sun when its night in the US. That way, the US is not affected. Not to mention the potentials for measures against non-US-friendly countries: they can simply be cut-off from sunlight. That'll teach 'm. Also, it allows everyone to keep fucking up our atmosphere 'because we have the disc, and that costed enough already'.
Clearly, this sounds like the way to go.
</rant>
Maybe we should (*gasp*) get rid of our 'consume all you can culture' instead, acknowledging we need extra planets once the rest of the world caught up with the West's level of 'advancement'. But that would mean sacrificing anything on a personal or economical level. Can't have that. Rather have everyone else starve or a fucked up atmosphere.
Nevertheless, there is some irony because he could be paraphrasing a post-9/11 Bush:
Saddam: "Kurds harbor terrorists. Anyone who harbors terrorists IS a terrorist."
Even though some 3000 Kurds died, toppling Saddam would probably have brought many more deaths (as we witness now). One can imagine Saddam was in a better position to judge that than the rest of us.
Of course, the outcome of Saddam's orders was easy to predict, which is in striking contrast to US military policy. This makes his acts inexcusable. Still, there is not enough self-reflection in this world. How much collateral damage will we shrug about to catch or kill terrorists?
30B is nothing compared to America's GDP. The US government donates less than the public, but let's say the total is 60B. The UN target for government donations is 0.7% of the GDP, which is 90B for the US. Several countries meet this target and many are near it on government donations alone. The US doesn't make it to the topten of generous countries, even if the private donations would be added to the government ones.
However, because there are 300M americans, they do give the largest absolute sum. That does not mean Americans give exceptionally freely, just that there are a lot of them.
That's not ZoneAlarm's fault, part of its basic functionality is to prompt the user to see if it's ok to allow the traffic. The fact that the user is an ignorant moron is no reason to remove a layer of protection. MS's enterprise customers have requested this because upper management is tired of the prompts to allow traffic, and doesn't understand (or care) about why they're there.
The user cares and understands why ZoneAlarm is there: he does not want his system infected. The problem is that the user does not know the internal workings of their applications or OS, and thus are not in the position to really judge which connections are good and which are bad.
This is where ZoneAlarm errs: the user should not HAVE to know which IP addresses and port numbers are bad. Heck, as a techie, even I dont even want to have to know -- I have more interesting things to do. There are obviously patterns which allows us to judge roughly which connections to block. But ZoneAlarm should detect those patterns (heck, maybe even by quering a zonealarm.com server or your-techie-nephew.com for info), and tell the user what he DOES want to know: the probability the connection is dangerous.
If ZoneAlarm is meant for the general audience, it fails miserably in terms of GUI. It also wouldn't hurt if applications could inform the user and ask for a retry if the firewall blocks the connection. The firewall should then of course also support that in a user-friendly way, instead of browsing through a zillion settings. As previous posters pointed out, users now generally quickly learn to accept everything to not having to bother their nephew every single damn time, otherwise stuff will probably break.
You mean, the Microsoft folks don't know how its possible to write a modern browser without having full access to the underlying OS? :)
This parody basically sums it up. Eventually, the experts just stop bothering to check the proofs.
Capitalism may "work" because of greed, but that does not mean society does. Cooperation can lead to a better situation than everyone persuing the maximum gain for him/herself, /even though it may yield lower gains for some individuals/. A famous example of this is the prisoner's dilemma, which pops up about everywhere in real life.
In other words, unlike some seem to presume, a society simply cannot run as efficiently on selfish, greedy people. You'd create a society that sucks to live in, nobody can even afford to care for anything or anybody else, and overall performs sub-optimal. Since when is our goal to create or promote such a greedy society?
Greed should be recognised as a motivation (hence, communism does not work) but not as a goal in itself. It may look nice on the short term, but it promotes devastating ideas on the long term if not kept in check. Our companies erecting factories in africa and asia, employing child labour and encouraging the foreign govs to keep the status quo as it suits both parties, is but a small example of this. Greed promotes such moves, regardless of morale (morale costs money). We should *really* ask ourselves if *that* is the kind of world we want to live in.
VirtualPC doesn't even run at all on intel macs, according to an MS press statement: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060110 120028762
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