There has been good evidence of water on Mars for years; and no I'm not just talking about the old "canals" on Mars (which were just optical illusions).
I disagree, having Maggie talk won't be able to keep this grand old Methuselah alive. Remember the episodes with Gill? Nice attampt at a new charachter, but it wasn't enough. Before I go any further, let me say that living in Australia I'm a few seasons behind, so excuse my ignorance on any particulars... I agree with the idea of killing them all off in a movie, if there was going to be one. Maybe Homer could cause a spectacular meltdown or something.
The thing is, as long as your average computer retailer selling computers to average Joe Schmoes bundles in the latest version of Windows as standard, Microsoft will continue to get away with these levels of "buggines". Nothing will change until the perception (or reality - you decide) of Linux as having limited user-friendliness is overcome.
What is an approximation classed as if it's not mathematical? An approximation has to be at least vaguely accurate to be useful, and that requires at least some maths. Sure, a machine to produce the approximation could be patentable, but from what I understand, this is not about a specific implementation, it's about the theory - that is, the maths, behind it. There is in fact a huge amount of maths out there dealing with approximations. Many things simply cannot be done exactly. For example, the number pi (3.1415...) has an infinite decimal expansion and so all anyone can ever is an approximation to it. If you could devise a faster way to get an accurate approximation for pi, you should certainly be able to get a paper published. You shouldn't be able to get it patented, though.
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There has been good evidence of water on Mars for years; and no I'm not just talking about the old "canals" on Mars (which were just optical illusions).
They're obviously a bunch of air-heads down there...not exactly on a higher plane...
I disagree, having Maggie talk won't be able to keep this grand old Methuselah alive. Remember the episodes with Gill? Nice attampt at a new charachter, but it wasn't enough. Before I go any further, let me say that living in Australia I'm a few seasons behind, so excuse my ignorance on any particulars... I agree with the idea of killing them all off in a movie, if there was going to be one. Maybe Homer could cause a spectacular meltdown or something.
The thing is, as long as your average computer retailer selling computers to average Joe Schmoes bundles in the latest version of Windows as standard, Microsoft will continue to get away with these levels of "buggines". Nothing will change until the perception (or reality - you decide) of Linux as having limited user-friendliness is overcome.
What is an approximation classed as if it's not mathematical? An approximation has to be at least vaguely accurate to be useful, and that requires at least some maths. Sure, a machine to produce the approximation could be patentable, but from what I understand, this is not about a specific implementation, it's about the theory - that is, the maths, behind it. There is in fact a huge amount of maths out there dealing with approximations. Many things simply cannot be done exactly. For example, the number pi (3.1415...) has an infinite decimal expansion and so all anyone can ever is an approximation to it. If you could devise a faster way to get an accurate approximation for pi, you should certainly be able to get a paper published. You shouldn't be able to get it patented, though.