Even if you rip out the whole extraterrestrial and panspermia mumbo jumbo you end up with something pretty interesting. Let go for a moment of the prejudice that terrestrial life requires DNA and/or RNA. Perhaps at some time in the early days of the earth alternative wholly terrestrial "life" existed and competed unsuccessfully with the DNA/RNA life systems. If you allow for that you could be looking at an ancient living fossil, life as we don't know it as opposed to life as we know it. Pretty cool and well worth looking into by people with less kookiness-cred than Godfrey Louis.
Computer architecture has changed quite a bit since the 1980s. Remember the RISC versus CISC wars? Remember floating point coprocessors? Remember the segment + offset memory model of early Intel chips? Remember instruction sets that didn't support division? How about Kansas City modulation to tape? This is what they would be learning if the course had any depth at all. (Which I doubt!) Thankfully computer architecture transcended all this stuff, and it's largely irrelevant today. Teach them how a modern computer works instead. Kernels, device drivers, cache strategies and such. Things they could actually use. This whole program sounds like a hipster ploy. Yawn.
Since his proof is that P!=NP - no implications whatsoever. (If on the other hand he had proved that P=NP there would be theoretical implications but probably no practical impact.)
OK, great but this initiative lays the groundwork to outsource certain medical specialities like radiology and pathology to lower cost countries. Why is this a good way to spend tax money?
So the decision tree becomes: Imagine what you can do with one (1) anemic hippyish "car" - or - five, yes fellas you heard that right, that's five (5!!!!!) plasma TVs!!!!! Decisions, decisions.
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Oral exam? That would really suck. I mean blow. Never mind.
Even if you rip out the whole extraterrestrial and panspermia mumbo jumbo you end up with something pretty interesting. Let go for a moment of the prejudice that terrestrial life requires DNA and/or RNA. Perhaps at some time in the early days of the earth alternative wholly terrestrial "life" existed and competed unsuccessfully with the DNA/RNA life systems. If you allow for that you could be looking at an ancient living fossil, life as we don't know it as opposed to life as we know it. Pretty cool and well worth looking into by people with less kookiness-cred than Godfrey Louis.
fritz:~$ ping apple.com
PING apple.com (17.112.152.57) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from eg-apple.apple.com (17.112.152.57): icmp_seq=1 ttl=236 time=95.2 ms
64 bytes from eg-apple.apple.com (17.112.152.57): icmp_seq=2 ttl=236 time=95.8 ms
Not quite like facebook, but almost as exciting!
Simply buying the company and turning it back into an ordinary software business should make many people very happy.
More like some troll will buy it and continue the "worthy" battle. Maybe with Darl as consultant? You see, this kind of scum never loses.
which of fuck?
Because you might stumble on "cheese and beer" and discover a new favorite snack? Live a little, thanks to Google!
Mea culpa: I have a face. I once owned a book. And now suddenly I'm very very scared....
Zuckerberg should throw the book at every one of them!
So sites like Twitface.com and MyTwitface.com should be very worried then? Or could they pull off the "satire defense"?
Surely delivery of the TV is not included for $0.99? Wadayamean RTFA???
Antisense? Makes no sense at all...
Is that really such a good idea for the military? What if the enemy comes up with a vaccine?
Computer architecture has changed quite a bit since the 1980s. Remember the RISC versus CISC wars? Remember floating point coprocessors? Remember the segment + offset memory model of early Intel chips? Remember instruction sets that didn't support division? How about Kansas City modulation to tape? This is what they would be learning if the course had any depth at all. (Which I doubt!) Thankfully computer architecture transcended all this stuff, and it's largely irrelevant today. Teach them how a modern computer works instead. Kernels, device drivers, cache strategies and such. Things they could actually use. This whole program sounds like a hipster ploy. Yawn.
Since his proof is that P!=NP - no implications whatsoever. (If on the other hand he had proved that P=NP there would be theoretical implications but probably no practical impact.)
Yes, it's all fun and games until the enemy brings out... gasp! ... Mirrors!
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/02/13/kidnapping-capital-of-the-usa-phoenix-arizona/
Modded funny - but is it really a joke?
Or maybe just increased margins for health insurance companies! ;-)
OK, great but this initiative lays the groundwork to outsource certain medical specialities like radiology and pathology to lower cost countries. Why is this a good way to spend tax money?
It is common knowledge that the chicken came first. It is also common knowledge that as a result the egg invented foreplay.
Thanks a lot dude, you just killed the sex-bot industry.
So the decision tree becomes: Imagine what you can do with one (1) anemic hippyish "car" - or - five, yes fellas you heard that right, that's five (5!!!!!) plasma TVs!!!!! Decisions, decisions.
place a '!' somewhere and reverse the effect?
Wonder how long will it be before somebody does precisely that to FaceBook's new panic button?
Actually, Hanuman built the bridge to Lanka.
Taliban has PhotoShop. Maybe time to tighten those software export restrictions?