Well, if you were to recite 1 digit per second, it would take around a million years to read the entire number out. I think the audience and speaker would be long gone before that happened.
I believe there is an algorithm for generating just the nth digit of pi. So to check the results they could take a few digits at random and check them. The checking would likely take a long time, but not as long as generating the whole set.
Indeed you are correct - you could have an approximately equal distribution of all digits, but it doesn't tell you anything about the substrings. As a trivial example, a number which contained "13" but never "31" could never contain the string "431". So, to know for sure that you eventually find any given substring within the digits of pi, you need to prove that there is a roughly equal distibution of all digits, plus that all those digits are arranged in every possible ordering.
Well, as long as browsers start to provide html 5 support there isn't a problem. Sites can be upgraded to serve html 5 video, with fallback to flash if the browser doesn't support it.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned it, but what about a server running AFS (Andrew File System).
It has some great features:
Scalable - you can add as many servers as you want Secure - it uses kerberos by default Fast - local caches are kept until another client needs them. Cross platform - openAFS supports pretty much every platform in existence.
I have the same problem with the LiVES project. Over 3 years ago, I managed to compile the sourcecode for OSX/Darwin, it took a lot of fiddling around, but it worked. I excitedly posted the news on the website and mailing lists, but no OSX users seemed interested. Since then, the code has changed a lot, fixes were made for it to compile on IRIX and Solaris.
Recently somebody posted a forum message noting how easy it now is to compile under OSX. I again posted this news, and asked if somebody could kindly compile it and send me a link to the resulting binary. Since then...nothing. Hence I have come to a conclusion about OSX users...well, I will let you guess what it is.
The thing is, to keep it clean you have to run virus checkers, spyware removers, adware removers, etc, etc. Windows is just too hard for the average consumer.
Is there some reason why you cant just copy the video file from your browser cache (like you can do with other streaming video files) ? Otherwise this seems trivial to work around.
Sure, it might be more expensive. But the point is, people who buy this are not just buying the hardware (yet). They are supporting the R&D these guys are doing, and enabling them to move closer to the production stage. It's an investment in future technology.
Frankly, I think this is great. Once they reach the stage of being able to compete with a low-end Nvidia/ATI on features and price, I would consider buying one. The cards could be optimised to work with whatever operating system you would be running on the machine, and would be guaranteed to have no driver compatibility issues.
I hope they are successful with this and can move into other areas. An open soundcard would also be very nice to have.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I thought it was the beans I had eaten the night before.
20 GB seems a bit large for a linux root. I generally partition an 8 GB root, and rarely do I actually use over 4GB of this. This would allow you an extra 12GB for windows data.
512MB for swap is quite low. Someday you might want to add more memory, so 4GB here (2 X max memory) would be better.
Since there is a great deal of movement in the EU to accept only standardised file formats, where would this leave me and my umpteen licences? When I bought the software it followed the standard, but does not later. Can I expect the manufacturer to provide me a free upgrade/patch, or is my software to be considered still standards-compliant, or will I simply have to fork out more money for the latest, currently compliant, version?
That is irrelevant to Microsoft. They will stick an "ISO compliant" label on Office, and they will be able to sell it to governments. That is all that matters to them.
I guess you could have a probe which launched a retroreflector first at the asteriod. Then once this had impacted, the rest of the vehicle could lock on to this to do a more controlled approach.
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Well, fortunately we won't have to worry about that until 2140. By which time I am sure transaction fees will be more than enough to compensate.
Lol, I logged in by accident with my gmail account, then with my slashdot account :D
LiVES supports it, so you could always use that instead.
Well, if you were to recite 1 digit per second, it would take around a million years to read the entire number out. I think the audience and speaker would be long gone before that happened.
I believe there is an algorithm for generating just the nth digit of pi. So to check the results they could take a few digits at random and check them. The checking would likely take a long time, but not as long as generating the whole set.
Indeed you are correct - you could have an approximately equal distribution of all digits, but it doesn't tell you anything about the substrings. As a trivial example, a number which contained "13" but never "31" could never contain the string "431". So, to know for sure that you eventually find any given substring within the digits of pi, you need to prove that there is a roughly equal distibution of all digits, plus that all those digits are arranged in every possible ordering.
Well, as long as browsers start to provide html 5 support there isn't a problem. Sites can be upgraded to serve html 5 video, with fallback to flash if the browser doesn't support it.
How can they be so sure that anti-matter was anihilated ? Maybe it just ended up on the other side of the universe.
It's turtles all the way up too then.
Cloud computing is all vapour anyway.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned it, but what about a server running AFS (Andrew File System).
It has some great features:
Scalable - you can add as many servers as you want
Secure - it uses kerberos by default
Fast - local caches are kept until another client needs them.
Cross platform - openAFS supports pretty much every platform in existence.
I have the same problem with the LiVES project. Over 3 years ago, I managed to compile the sourcecode for OSX/Darwin, it took a lot of fiddling around, but it worked. I excitedly posted the news on the website and mailing lists, but no OSX users seemed interested. Since then, the code has changed a lot, fixes were made for it to compile on IRIX and Solaris.
Recently somebody posted a forum message noting how easy it now is to compile under OSX. I again posted this news, and asked if somebody could kindly compile it and send me a link to the resulting binary. Since then...nothing. Hence I have come to a conclusion about OSX users...well, I will let you guess what it is.
The thing is, to keep it clean you have to run virus checkers, spyware removers, adware removers, etc, etc. Windows is just too hard for the average consumer.
In my experience, Linux outperforms Windows and Mac on the low end, the high end, and the middle end.
Free software is never a bad choice.
Boy, you sound stressed. Must be using Windows that causes it.
Have patents really devolved to "take what we can already do, put it in a box that also plays video games" and have that somehow be an innovation??
Yes.
Is there some reason why you cant just copy the video file from your browser cache (like you can do with other streaming video files) ? Otherwise this seems trivial to work around.
Do a search for it on google.
Sure, it might be more expensive. But the point is, people who buy this are not just buying the hardware (yet). They are supporting the R&D these guys are doing, and enabling them to move closer to the production stage. It's an investment in future technology.
Frankly, I think this is great. Once they reach the stage of being able to compete with a low-end Nvidia/ATI on features and price, I would consider buying one. The cards could be optimised to work with whatever operating system you would be running on the machine, and would be guaranteed to have no driver compatibility issues.
I hope they are successful with this and can move into other areas. An open soundcard would also be very nice to have.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I thought it was the beans I had eaten the night before.
20 GB seems a bit large for a linux root. I generally partition an 8 GB root, and rarely do I actually use over 4GB of this. This would allow you an extra 12GB for windows data.
512MB for swap is quite low. Someday you might want to add more memory, so 4GB here (2 X max memory) would be better.
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That is irrelevant to Microsoft. They will stick an "ISO compliant" label on Office, and they will be able to sell it to governments. That is all that matters to them.
Perhaps they will buy the decomissioned ISS, fix it up a bit, and just use that as a starting point.
I guess you could have a probe which launched a retroreflector first at the asteriod. Then once this had impacted, the rest of the vehicle could lock on to this to do a more controlled approach.
Steven Hawking: Your idea of a peanut shaped star intrigues me, Homer. I may have to steal it.