Perhaps the internet will be killed by the fact that, with constant breeding of duplicated news stories, one will eventually reach critical mass and overwhelm all other information.
Popular media today reports that someone has done what is well established to be impossible. Now, which one is more likely: i) Abel's proof contains a flaw that generations of extremely talented mathematicians have failed to spot in their years and years of teaching it. ii) Student mistaken; popular media talking out of arse.
British shows play on US stations. Don't other countries allow US made TV shows on their TV systems?
yeah, but no one shows gameshows from other countries, due to the fact that quiz questions are so culture specific. Do you really think that Brits are sitting round their TV trying to remember whether it was Carl Yaztremski or Carlton Fisk who hit that famous home run in the 1975 World Series?
Or that USians are watching Australian Jeopardy, and racking their brains for the name of the guy who dismissed Don Bradman for 0 in his final Test?
The rules prohibit... landlords, state and local governments, or any other third parties from placing restrictions that impair a customer antenna user's ability to install, maintain, or use such customer antennas transmitting and/or receiving commercial nonbroadcast communications signals when the antenna is located on property within the exclusive use or control of the user or where the user has a direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property
Well, check your room contract. You'll almost certainly find that most university regulations don't give you anything close to that stake in your dorm room.
When they say everybody has a right to a portion of it, no one else is allowed to keep others from using it
Err, wrong. In fact, thats a completely misunderstanding of the law.
Anyone who signs up for college agrees to follow their rules practices. That's a contract, and its binding. They can't stop you from using the unlicensed spectrum, but they can kick you off their campus, as its theirs.
Similarly, I've a right to use my cellphone, but if I try it on an airplane, they'll kick me off.
I've a right to privacy, but if I try and board an airplane without ID, they'll tell me to fuck off.
It's their property, and they decide what you can and cannot do while you're on it.
Oftel pipes up and says "that's abusing your position, and unfair to the smaller telcos who can't compete"
No, what they said was "You can do that as soon as there's a free market, and not while you're a de facto monopoly for certain services: i.e. after you've unbundled the local loop."
BT then said, "Oh no, thats still a massive cash cow, and we thoroughly intend to continue to drag our feet over it."
What is this DirectX? On most games today it says "runs on either Nvidia card xxx or ATI card yyy". Portability doesn't exist. I bought a new PC and new games won't run on it.
Well, the long and short of it is, if PCs are meant to compete with the PlayStation 2, then they're going to have a narrow band of hardware. The sort of performance needed for a PC game to be equivalent to a PS2/Xbox means having a top end graphics card, and using most of those top end features. Sad, but if you want cutting edge, thats just simply the case. Deal with it.
Me, I just play Nethack and Minesweeper, and use my processor for running calculations in the background.
the camera's deterrent nature falls completely off once the first person has undertaken an illegal action under the camera and *not* faced any kind of punitive action.
Why? That's just bollocks, mate. Suppose I smoke a reefer under a camera, and get off scot free. The fact that the scumbags in the article go to prison still means its a deterrent.
But the times have changed The less I say the more my work gets done `Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom -- Bernie Taupin and Elton John
Carmack has release the engines for Doom, Quake, and Quake II...most of the creative doom and quake mods are simply counterstrike clones
Right. Giving the developers an engine and an idea ("clone counterstrike") reduces the needs from four to two, which is why we have got these games. And creativity in the FPS genre is pretty thin on the ground. "Thief" is the only one that added much in the way of gameplay since Half Life.
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Perhaps the internet will be killed by the fact that, with constant breeding of duplicated news stories, one will eventually reach critical mass and overwhelm all other information.
And now we get blog spam and forum trolls, whereas a well filtered Usenet feed (such as Uni Berlin) is now extremely useful.
Well, the Greek's only thought it couldn't be done. The proof is actually a corollary to Galois's work on the roots of high order polynomials.
Here's some sample Mathematica code
Roots[polynomial[x] == 0,x]
Hey, whaddya know? Mathematica can already find numerical solutions of polynomials.
The fact we can find numerical solutions of polynomials is not what we might call news.
A method was known to Newton. This method (Power Series) is probably equivalent to something over 100 years old.
Anyway, in what sense are series solutions of transcendental equations "news"?
Wow. That's news. At least to anyone completely unaware of Newton's method. Mathematica can do that in about one nanosecond.
Popular media today reports that someone has done what is well established to be impossible. Now, which one is more likely:
i) Abel's proof contains a flaw that generations of extremely talented mathematicians have failed to spot in their years and years of teaching it.
ii) Student mistaken; popular media talking out of arse.
(Can't read PDF; slashdotted)
Well, normally I'd call you an annoying pedant at this point, but my mother taught me to show respect to people with UID 500.
Then, under no circumstances, flog copies on ebay under an everchanging pseudonym
OK. The first paragraph is good advice.
Or that USians are watching Australian Jeopardy, and racking their brains for the name of the guy who dismissed Don Bradman for 0 in his final Test?
Anyone who signs up for college agrees to follow their rules practices. That's a contract, and its binding. They can't stop you from using the unlicensed spectrum, but they can kick you off their campus, as its theirs.
Similarly, I've a right to use my cellphone, but if I try it on an airplane, they'll kick me off.
I've a right to privacy, but if I try and board an airplane without ID, they'll tell me to fuck off.
It's their property, and they decide what you can and cannot do while you're on it.
i) Sign up at school
ii) Fail to follow school rules
iii) Bannination occurs.
iv) Obtain job at favourite fast food outlet
Where's the problem here?
Their rooms, their rules.
Duh.
BT then said, "Oh no, thats still a massive cash cow, and we thoroughly intend to continue to drag our feet over it."
Me, I just play Nethack and Minesweeper, and use my processor for running calculations in the background.
But the times have changed
The less I say the more my work gets done
`Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom -- Bernie Taupin and Elton John