Yeah, me too. I thought it might be because I'm in the UK
Nope, I'm in Brazil and I could read something. But it's not worthy, at least the UFO part, huge PDF files with pictures of microfilm enlargements (reverse video, of course) from almost unreadable material. No plain text.
I don't think Keynes is that right-wing for today's standards. And Hayek can only be considered a great socio-economic thinker by those who think the same way as he did. People are dieing because of his ideas, which have been put to practice from Tatcher/Reagan era on, and proved not to solve economic problems, only making things worse, except for the U.S. (so far). And I would risk to say that, frankly speaking, 50% of what Drucker says is obvious (at least to me), the other 50% never became true.
Nonetheless, both right and left have always produced great intellectuals over history.
Brazil's current economic system began in 1500, while Russia's began in the 90's! USSR is not a country any longer. And a wealthy Brazilian won't have to go abroad for very good health care in 99% of the cases. And if one did, he/she almost certainly wouldn't fly to Cuba, unless we talk about some hard-core communist.
Considering taking good care of citizens, I must agree that public basic education and public health care in Cuba are probably (I've never been there) better than ours, but that's because the former USSR (a very large country) poured lots of money into Cuba (very small one) so as to have their showcase country in the western hemisphere. You can't compare Fidel's island to a country the size of Brazil, which is roughly the size of the U.S.
Maybe you misunderstood some information you may have received about Brazilian doctors going to Cuba to learn about experimental drugs and treatments, which is true and somewhat frequent, but they go to many other places as well.
And, no, I don't like wild capitalism and an economy run by corporations.
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Those laws are for you americans, You can keep them, in fact, shove them right up your ass.
from the sound of your post i assume you're canadian. if that's the case, shouldn't it be arse?
I'm familiar with the idea of a collective mind, but a "collective ass" is beyond my understanding... Otherwise, it should be "asses" or "arses", for the supposedly Canadian gentleman is addressing said anatomic feature of "you americans", so it's plural.
No, this site (www.eruditorum.org) has nothing to do with Neal Stephenson. It was registered by someone who doesn't know what to do with the domain name. I can't find the link now, but a couple of months ago I read that he registered the domain right after reading the book, which seemed to him to be a good idea, but then the fellow decided to sell it. I don't know if he still owns it, or if the current owner bought it from him.
By the way, that crypto challenge you mention has already been broken, as one can read in the very same page your link leads to.
You're right. The concept of prime numbers if defined for integers equal or greater than 2. So, no month can be expressed with prime digits in the MM format. Thanks.
Frankly, the karma itself is not the problem, I discarded a lot of it when I decided to change my username. What I think is that with moderation points comes responsibility. CmdrTaco is right when he says it is not wise to give power to someone to interfere in a system he/she does not understand. You can tell by my tone that I was not pissed off with Mr. Moderator, neither am I pissed off with you, I take your comment as a joke. But I really hope that Mr. Moderator takes a bit more care next time.
The idea was that the last even-digit days were: 12/14/1774 (0xC/0xE/0x6EE) 06/22/1462 (06/026/02666) both expressed in C convention. I tried binary too, but binary would give 00/00/0000, which is too particular a case to be woth mentioning. I didn't think of any other base.:(
Year 1642 was a transcription error I made.
It seems you figured out some kind of algorithm to obtain all those bases, but you do not mention 8 or 16! Either I made primary mistake or your algorithm needs a little debugging. Do you agree on bases 8 and 16?
At least in base 1775 one can see it works without any calculation, so congratulations!
Dear Mr. Moderator Please notice that that was msg #23, posted at 16:19 UTC and the only one comment under that thread that said something similar was posted at 16:18 UTC, so we couldn't see each other. Take a bit more care next time.
I'm dissapointed, so I am giving a slashdot mug to the first person to post a reply to this post, explaining in which circumstances the dates 12/14/1774 and 6/22/1462 are all-even-digit numbers. The year in the original post (1642) is wrong. I'm serious!
Conditions: 1 - The timestamp will be the criterium. 2 - The answer is posted today. 3 - AC's will not be accepted 4 - I will talk to the winner through his e-mail, as shown in the discussion page, spam-proofing is ok. 5 - Think Geek must be able to ship the mug to the location. 6 - Most important: This message is not moderated down. (And, no, I do not have another account with moderation points)
I worked for a swedish company with many subsidiaries around the world and all technical exchange was done in English (I'm in Brazil). But because of a couple of misunderstandings someone in Sweden came up with this idea of using some sort of "company_name English", with only one word to address similar but different things and grammar that was shaped all wrong. It's terrible, believe me! I am puzzled, because the UNU guys must be smart guys, but I've seen this before, and it doesn't work.
OTOH, once I had to mess around with the setup of a Laptop and it had something called "doze" mode (maybe some MS-Windows-specific mode). I still don't know what it means (I didn't look it up). Emacs documentation said something about a "yank" command, and that I *had* to look up. So, although I'm against limiting one's vocabulary to a small set of words in some pre-defined structures, people who expect their intellectual output to be understood by someone who speaks English as a second language should avoid using expressions that they suspect to be too colorful.
Last month, the DVD Copyright Control Association sued 72 hackers and Web site authors for posting - or even linking to software (DeCSS) that unlocks the system for preventing illegal copying of video discs.
I've seen a lot of criticism directed to John Katz here in Slashdot. Not that I like his style, but I've always felt that people went a bit overboard with that. Now, is it true that the DVD encryption prevents copying? Or should I finally understand the reason for all that criticism?
One thing that has always disturbed me is the chaotic way in which information technology evolves. It is natural that it is so, considering evolution comes through individual steps taken here and there. But I believe that if we opted for a 1-year freeze in new developments and set up new standards, everyone should benefit in the long run.
It sounds absurd, ok, but I would like to see a standard defining a general information storage format, which would encapsulate whatever format would be chosen to really organize data (FAT, NFS, journaling, orthogonal, etc.), much in the way that IP encapsulates other specific protocols. If well designed, such a standard could allow for really substantial growth in storage capacity and still provide backwards compatibility, like reading a 720kB floppy disk in a 1,44MB drive. It could be designed to work in disks, tapes, chips and so on.
I cannot add much about natural media decay over time, but if you're concerned about surviving something like a nuclear disaster o a big meteor hit, I suggest KEO. Just filter your stuff to the very essential and expect your data to last for about 50,000 years.
In Brazil we don't have the profession that is called optometrist. Such work is done by oftalmologists only, that's the law. So, I went to the doctor's office this morning just to learn that my glasses are still exactly what I need, after 2 years since my last visit. She did a comprehensive examination, ok, but I wasn't feeling anything wrong when I got in there. I expressed my feelings about the need to go to a doctor to have e prescription for glasses and her answer was much in the lines of "would you trust your eyes to someone else other than a medical doctor?", so I saw there was no point mentioning that *that* is precisely what is done in societies where doctors don't have such a strong lobby. I have a friend who is an optical technician, perfectly capable of doing these things, but she's not allowed, so she helps clients choose frames!
OTOH, I have a degree in Business Administration, and I earn a living as a tax auditor. Guess who wrote the system for the company in charge of controlling parking tickets in the town I live...
Very personal and punctual examples indeed, but that analogy of "trusting one's life to an incompetent person" as having to do with writing good software = being a member of some computer bar is just too exagerated. Sure, it has been expressed in this discussion more than once.
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If you look at the windows on an old Cathedral (i.e ~500 years old) you see the glass is thicker at the bottom - it moves very very slowly.
OK, glass may move very very slowly on windows (just as everything else does), but it may run pretty fast on Linux. :)
Yeah, me too. I thought it might be because I'm in the UK
Nope, I'm in Brazil and I could read something. But it's not worthy, at least the UFO part, huge PDF files with pictures of microfilm enlargements (reverse video, of course) from almost unreadable material. No plain text.
I think the thing is /.ted indeed.
How about JFK? They have his wife, his brother, even his dad...
and so on...
I don't think Keynes is that right-wing for today's standards. And Hayek can only be considered a great socio-economic thinker by those who think the same way as he did. People are dieing because of his ideas, which have been put to practice from Tatcher/Reagan era on, and proved not to solve economic problems, only making things worse, except for the U.S. (so far). And I would risk to say that, frankly speaking, 50% of what Drucker says is obvious (at least to me), the other 50% never became true.
Nonetheless, both right and left have always produced great intellectuals over history.
Nonsense!
Brazil's current economic system began in 1500, while Russia's began in the 90's! USSR is not a country any longer. And a wealthy Brazilian won't have to go abroad for very good health care in 99% of the cases. And if one did, he/she almost certainly wouldn't fly to Cuba, unless we talk about some hard-core communist.
Considering taking good care of citizens, I must agree that public basic education and public health care in Cuba are probably (I've never been there) better than ours, but that's because the former USSR (a very large country) poured lots of money into Cuba (very small one) so as to have their showcase country in the western hemisphere. You can't compare Fidel's island to a country the size of Brazil, which is roughly the size of the U.S.
Maybe you misunderstood some information you may have received about Brazilian doctors going to Cuba to learn about experimental drugs and treatments, which is true and somewhat frequent, but they go to many other places as well.
And, no, I don't like wild capitalism and an economy run by corporations.
Those laws are for you americans, You can keep them, in fact, shove them right up your ass.
from the sound of your post i assume you're canadian. if that's the case, shouldn't it be arse?
I'm familiar with the idea of a collective mind, but a "collective ass" is beyond my understanding... Otherwise, it should be "asses" or "arses", for the supposedly Canadian gentleman is addressing said anatomic feature of "you americans", so it's plural.
No, this site (www.eruditorum.org) has nothing to do with Neal Stephenson. It was registered by someone who doesn't know what to do with the domain name. I can't find the link now, but a couple of months ago I read that he registered the domain right after reading the book, which seemed to him to be a good idea, but then the fellow decided to sell it. I don't know if he still owns it, or if the current owner bought it from him.
By the way, that crypto challenge you mention has already been broken, as one can read in the very same page your link leads to.
The molecular structure of a cryptogram is polar, meaning that it is insoluable in water.
Humm... Doesn't it work the other way?
You're right. The concept of prime numbers if defined for integers equal or greater than 2.
So, no month can be expressed with prime digits in the MM format.
Thanks.
Frankly, the karma itself is not the problem, I discarded a lot of it when I decided to change my username. What I think is that with moderation points comes responsibility. CmdrTaco is right when he says it is not wise to give power to someone to interfere in a system he/she does not understand. You can tell by my tone that I was not pissed off with Mr. Moderator, neither am I pissed off with you, I take your comment as a joke. But I really hope that Mr. Moderator takes a bit more care next time.
Now, what is that STFU thing?
You showed me how narrow minded I am...
The idea was that the last even-digit days were: :(
12/14/1774 (0xC/0xE/0x6EE)
06/22/1462 (06/026/02666)
both expressed in C convention. I tried binary too, but binary would give 00/00/0000, which is too particular a case to be woth mentioning. I didn't think of any other base.
Year 1642 was a transcription error I made.
It seems you figured out some kind of algorithm to obtain all those bases, but you do not mention 8 or 16! Either I made primary mistake or your algorithm needs a little debugging. Do you agree on bases 8 and 16?
At least in base 1775 one can see it works without any calculation, so congratulations!
Check your e-mail...
Dear Mr. Moderator
Please notice that that was msg #23, posted at 16:19 UTC and the only one comment under that thread that said something similar was posted at 16:18 UTC, so we couldn't see each other.
Take a bit more care next time.
if (post.first()) { printf "FIRST POST!" }
I don't think this will compile in C++ either.
I'm dissapointed, so I am giving a slashdot mug to the first person to post a reply to this post, explaining in which circumstances the dates 12/14/1774 and 6/22/1462 are all-even-digit numbers. The year in the original post (1642) is wrong.
I'm serious!
Conditions:
1 - The timestamp will be the criterium.
2 - The answer is posted today.
3 - AC's will not be accepted
4 - I will talk to the winner through his e-mail, as shown in the discussion page, spam-proofing is ok.
5 - Think Geek must be able to ship the mug to the location.
6 - Most important: This message is not moderated down. (And, no, I do not have another account with moderation points)
Think again ;)
Last prime day: 11/29/1999
Next prime day: 01/01/2003
On second thought, that depends. Could also be: 12/14/1774 or 6/22/1642, right?
< sarcasm >
I believe the posting of this story was caused by the total lack of more interesting submissions by part of us readers.
</sarcasm>
Today is the first day since December 28, 888 (12-28-888) to have only even digits in its numerical format
Nice try...
I worked for a swedish company with many subsidiaries around the world and all technical exchange was done in English (I'm in Brazil). But because of a couple of misunderstandings someone in Sweden came up with this idea of using some sort of "company_name English", with only one word to address similar but different things and grammar that was shaped all wrong. It's terrible, believe me! I am puzzled, because the UNU guys must be smart guys, but I've seen this before, and it doesn't work.
OTOH, once I had to mess around with the setup of a Laptop and it had something called "doze" mode (maybe some MS-Windows-specific mode). I still don't know what it means (I didn't look it up). Emacs documentation said something about a "yank" command, and that I *had* to look up. So, although I'm against limiting one's vocabulary to a small set of words in some pre-defined structures, people who expect their intellectual output to be understood by someone who speaks English as a second language should avoid using expressions that they suspect to be too colorful.
"...trying to figure out how to protect subsequent pages after a user enters their password."
Would you please e-mail mail as you figure it out?
Thanks.
Last month, the DVD Copyright Control Association sued 72 hackers and Web site authors for posting - or even linking to software (DeCSS) that unlocks the system for preventing illegal copying of video discs.
I've seen a lot of criticism directed to John Katz here in Slashdot. Not that I like his style, but I've always felt that people went a bit overboard with that. Now, is it true that the DVD encryption prevents copying? Or should I finally understand the reason for all that criticism?
One thing that has always disturbed me is the chaotic way in which information technology evolves. It is natural that it is so, considering evolution comes through individual steps taken here and there. But I believe that if we opted for a 1-year freeze in new developments and set up new standards, everyone should benefit in the long run.
It sounds absurd, ok, but I would like to see a standard defining a general information storage format, which would encapsulate whatever format would be chosen to really organize data (FAT, NFS, journaling, orthogonal, etc.), much in the way that IP encapsulates other specific protocols. If well designed, such a standard could allow for really substantial growth in storage capacity and still provide backwards compatibility, like reading a 720kB floppy disk in a 1,44MB drive. It could be designed to work in disks, tapes, chips and so on.
But that, of course, is just wishful thinking...
I cannot add much about natural media decay over time, but if you're concerned about surviving something like a nuclear disaster o a big meteor hit, I suggest KEO. Just filter your stuff to the very essential and expect your data to last for about 50,000 years.
How about this:
In Brazil we don't have the profession that is called optometrist. Such work is done by oftalmologists only, that's the law. So, I went to the doctor's office this morning just to learn that my glasses are still exactly what I need, after 2 years since my last visit. She did a comprehensive examination, ok, but I wasn't feeling anything wrong when I got in there. I expressed my feelings about the need to go to a doctor to have e prescription for glasses and her answer was much in the lines of "would you trust your eyes to someone else other than a medical doctor?", so I saw there was no point mentioning that *that* is precisely what is done in societies where doctors don't have such a strong lobby. I have a friend who is an optical technician, perfectly capable of doing these things, but she's not allowed, so she helps clients choose frames!
OTOH, I have a degree in Business Administration, and I earn a living as a tax auditor. Guess who wrote the system for the company in charge of controlling parking tickets in the town I live...
Very personal and punctual examples indeed, but that analogy of "trusting one's life to an incompetent person" as having to do with writing good software = being a member of some computer bar is just too exagerated. Sure, it has been expressed in this discussion more than once.