If you read the transcripts from Heisenberg's conversations with his fellow German physicists in Allied custody at the end of the war, it's impossible to believe that H was trying to build the bomb
Bollocks, frankly. When told of the first strike, Heisenberg is staggered, and disbelieving. He gives the impression of believing the incorrect over-heigh estimates of the critical mass required to build the Bomb.
Not I'm not saying that his reaction wasn't faked (and we'll never know) but the idea that "Clearly H knew a lot more about how to build a bomb than he let on to his Nazi masters" doesn't stand a lot of scrutiny. (Hell, Frayn even refers to these transcripts in the play).
That's a bit like every single head civil servant and the entire cabinet of a country resigning simultaneously. Isn't that scary? Doesn't it terrify you that we (Britain) are handing more and more power to these people?
I thought you said they resigned? How can anyone hand power to people who have resigned...
they also covered contemporary music, preventing the original artist from getting the airplay.
Thats kind of true. However, a lot of stations that would cheerfully play The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" would never have dreamed of playing the Isley Bros. original...
Re:Get ready for panto season
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Now, you got modded down and the parent didn't. Conclusive proof that begging to be modded down is the best defense against it happening...
(Hey moderators, mod this down too. It is way off topic)
Don't forget, America invented Rock and Roll, Soul, Funk, Garage, House, Hip Hop and R&B.
American blacks invented most of those, which, with the racism and segregation of the 50s and 60s US music scene (especially radio), goes a fair way to explain why they never really went mainstream in the US until repackaged by (white) Britons (or white USians: Elvis, the Four Freshmen, the Righteous Brothers, all those terrible doo-wop covers bands of the early 60s...)
The question is: which is more pure, the red or blue container?
They're the same. How could they possibly be anything but the same?
Re:WARNING: THIS IS ADVICE TO TERRORISTS
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Nice. I missed that one. Now, I believe that in the spirit of/. we have to squabble like children over whose solution is best. (Incidentally, your solution totally SuX A55 d00d)
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Then it was time to target the the government, postal service and law enforcement with a few packets of a not particularly lethal virus
Has it been ascertained that this was the work of Al-Qaeda (or any Islamist terrorists). To my knowledge, that was never satisfactorily shown.
Re:WARNING: THIS IS ADVICE TO TERRORISTS
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I think you'll find that starting with a 5 gallon container might be considered cheating.
ObSoln:
Fill 7
(Fill 3 from 7:Discard 3) twice
Decant remaining 1 from 7 to 3.
Fill 7. Top up 3 from 7, leaving 5 in 7.
I don't know how anyone can review the Heaney Beowulf without mentioning his Irishness (whose vernacular is used to capture the flavour of the original). For a less superficial review, try this one or this one
you still have a [25%] chance of not getting all the data
True, and if you send 'X=3', 'Y=1', 'X=3', 'Y=1' as four packets with 50% loss, you have a 7/16 (~44%) chance of not getting all the data (I think). So thats an improvement (modulo all the implementation/protocol overhead, I guess).
You can reduce this to an arbitrarily small percentage by sending more linearly independent equations, but that takes more bandwith.
Thats true of any algorithm you choose for encoding your data.
if the k coefficients are the actual data, and that's what we are sending, then we are just sending the data.
What you say is true, but you've missed the point. If you send the k polynomial coeffs and one gets lost, I have to ask you explicitly for the dropped one. If you send k+1 sampled data points and any one gets dropped, I can still reconstruct the data.
isn't sending just "X=3, Y=1" simpler? It seems to take 1/4 of the bandwith. You can even send it twice
Well, yes. But (as I understand, and my maths is better than my networking) you then need ACKs to state each data block has been received (i.e. not a stateless UDP connection).
Not fundamentally different, but you try solving a 27th degree polynomial equation, even with a computer...
Nobodies suggestion the data is hidden in the roots (zeroes) but the coefficients. Whilst finding the roots of an order 27 polynomial is hard (and Galois theory says "forget it", at least if you want exact solutions), interpolating one through 28 data-points is easy...
your calculation is very optomistic. Imagine if I send you the following data:
X+Y=4
X+2Y=5
2X+4Y=10
2X+2Y=8
You made an astonishingly bad choice of equations. If I send you
X+Y=4
X+2Y=5
X+3Y=6
X+4Y=7
then you may find X=3, Y=1 from *any* pair of equations you recieve.
hey've managed to completely separate the functions of quitting an application and closing it.
s/closing it/closing all the windows/g
Which isn't what was said. With most window managers Emacs and Gnuserv will do what you describe.
(Oh and MacOS has had that featured since at least version 8. I hated it then, too, since apps I thought I'd quit were sitting in the background eating memory...)
The majority of users have a hard time... understanding the difference between closing an application and quitting it
And they're not alone. What, pray tell, would that difference be?
Re:Funny snippet for those with AIX 4.3.3
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That should be credited to the Harvard Lampoon's Bored Of The Rings, a sporadically funny parody from the late 1960s.
Thats not the usual Guardian critic, either, just one of their media weenies. They'll certainly have a much less superficial review (probably by resident film critic Peter Bradshaw) in Friday's edition. I'd check back later.
What does that mean? It's not even using up, in almost all cases, any more than a 1Gbps line would be using. Take a look at all that blue on the map. It seems to signify that this was a waste of time and money.
Well the old European backbone was creaking slightly, so you can either upgrade incrementally to keep slightly ahead of demand, or oversupply now in the knowledge that in the next 5-10 years demand is going to keep going up and up.
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Bollocks, frankly. When told of the first strike, Heisenberg is staggered, and disbelieving. He gives the impression of believing the incorrect over-heigh estimates of the critical mass required to build the Bomb.
Not I'm not saying that his reaction wasn't faked (and we'll never know) but the idea that "Clearly H knew a lot more about how to build a bomb than he let on to his Nazi masters" doesn't stand a lot of scrutiny. (Hell, Frayn even refers to these transcripts in the play).
Now, you got modded down and the parent didn't. Conclusive proof that begging to be modded down is the best defense against it happening...
(Hey moderators, mod this down too. It is way off topic)
Oh No It Isn't...[1]
(I mean, who misses one more
[1] Its a British joke. USians, feel free to mod me down, I've got karma to burn.
But its not up to the standard of the Psychic Friends Network
Nice. I missed that one. Now, I believe that in the spirit of /. we have to squabble like children over whose solution is best. (Incidentally, your solution totally SuX A55 d00d)
I think you'll find that starting with a 5 gallon container might be considered cheating.
ObSoln:
Fill 7
(Fill 3 from 7:Discard 3) twice
Decant remaining 1 from 7 to 3.
Fill 7. Top up 3 from 7, leaving 5 in 7.
I don't know how anyone can review the Heaney Beowulf without mentioning his Irishness (whose vernacular is used to capture the flavour of the original). For a less superficial review, try this one or this one
And lo, Bradshaw did review it, and he didn't like it. (mind you I don't recall a single film he has liked that wasn't from Iran)
Thats true of any algorithm you choose for encoding your data.
X+Y=4
X+2Y=5
X+3Y=6
X+4Y=7
then you may find X=3, Y=1 from *any* pair of equations you recieve.
Which isn't what was said. With most window managers Emacs and Gnuserv will do what you describe.
(Oh and MacOS has had that featured since at least version 8. I hated it then, too, since apps I thought I'd quit were sitting in the background eating memory...)
the Credit-where-credits-due department writes:
That should be credited to the Harvard Lampoon's Bored Of The Rings, a sporadically funny parody from the late 1960s.
Thats not the usual Guardian critic, either, just one of their media weenies. They'll certainly have a much less superficial review (probably by resident film critic Peter Bradshaw) in Friday's edition. I'd check back later.
Well the old European backbone was creaking slightly, so you can either upgrade incrementally to keep slightly ahead of demand, or oversupply now in the knowledge that in the next 5-10 years demand is going to keep going up and up.
Sounds like they made the right choice to me.