Regardless of what you think, you can not solve a NP or NP-Complete problem in P time. The only true way to do this is to prove that an NP problem can be reduced to a P problem.
Solving something faster doesn't mean that it's not in polynomial time...you just did it faster. Hell, the P problems will be even faster too...doesn't meant that they're now done instantly...they're just done faster.
Now, if someone can reduce a NP-Complete problem to P...that would be pretty friggin cool...that and it would destroy all modern mathematics theory as we know it.
MySQL has a MyODBC that you can download from their download section. It allowed a ODBC connection to MySQL, and Access will be able to open MySQL DBs. IMO, you have SQL server, then use it, but if you must use MySQL, this is the way to go. It's usually meant for a linux server with a whole bunch of Win comptuers in the office.
it can be such a pain in the ass to go through other people's code sometimes. While this code (i'm sure) is better than the code that I've graded when I was a TA for a Java class, but as long as the person doesn't write in the same style as you...it's going to be a pain. Oh...and who needs comments?
Well...so I might have spelled that wrong, but I remember when Populous came out with it's 3D version...I couldn't wait to play it. It was good, but I think I spent about 20 minutes on it because I got bored out of my mind. Yeah, it was networked, yeah it had sound and a real motive...besides destroy the other side.
To end this comment...I feel as if all the companies, or free-folk alike, have created these games (I have not tried Scorched 3D yet, but I did love the original) have created the games with graphics in mind. Did you ever have to "LOOK" at the 3D surroundings in the original Zelda to figure out what the hell you were doing. Because now (and yes...about 12 hours ago) I was sitting there searching high, low, left, and right for a stupid thing that I missed. While Zelda being a piss-poor example, but it gives out the general idea that 3D has taken the place of game-play. Yes it enhances it, but it also takes away from it...sometimes. The enhancement is great in Zelda (so far the first N64 one is better), and things like Diablo (if you want to call that 3D), or Quake (while Kung Fu for the NES was a great game, the 3D realm is better...).
So, with all that said, I hope that games like this will not lose its original intent like Populous did.
Well...we're all used to having the width larger than the height on a window...i'm tired of that...It's time to accomodate the Side scroll or better known as "Side Bar." This browser will pop up rotated 90 CCW. Therefore giving a larger height to the page than width. Of course this requires that all users rotate their silly little monitors when they use it...or tilt theer heads, but that can hurt (we are not responsible for any damages taken by you, and don't reccomend that you do this by youself, we use professional monitor turners, and never tilt our necks!).
I think this would bring more ability and design capability to the net, and will definately cauze people to do odd things with their monitors.
Now we need not only a back and forth swiverl on the monitor, but a full side swivel as well!!!
Sure, why not..skip out....Who needs to enjoy life? No, not you! WORK! Everyday till midnight, make lots of money, because that's all that life is about.
Perhaps those considering it should try college and then decide. I am in college right now, and get paid damn well for a non-graduate/student. I love it. I wouldn't leave right now if someone offered me $100,000 a year. It's not worth it. Learn to enjoy college life because it only comes once. Then you're too old to do anything else!
College is about enjoying getting having as much fun as possible...and studying sometimes (till 5AM).
Yeah...I have yet to apply most of what I learned in the real world, but you know...there is plenty to learn in college...Plus...if this market does cool down, where are you going to get a job without that college degree.
Think about this!
and I leave with this quote
"Only when the last tree is dead, the last field paved, the last river dammed will we realize that we can't eat money!"
ok...so I let it download, and finally I have all 182Mb of it. Now to install...WooHoo...it didn't install!!!
I use Slack...has anyone else been able to install using Slack? I can't get anything going here. It "tells" me that it installed, but it obviously didn't. I'm being forced to use the RPM manager, and all it does is BITCH to me about things like...need/bin/sh to install. HELLO!!! What am I doing wrong? This thing has already PISSED me off!
OK...how many people in college know what telnet really is? FTP? To them, FTP is the program on the computers in the Computer Labs all around campus that lets them put and take files from their.edu account. Sometimes they can use this to e-mail their Prof. their late assignment. Tell them it's File Transfer Protocal, and they'll look at you like they actuall care (sarcasm....)
Telnet...what's that? Just about one of two ways for most.edu's to get their e-mail. Either use a mail client, or just telnet in. And what if you wanted to check your mail remotely. What are you going to tell them? NO, you can't! Sure you will.
I am at NYU, and they will shortly be migrating to this HUGE Sun computer that is going to handle the web-site, mail, etc, etc. They will be removing Telnet access, but they are enabling web-mail, so there is still a way to get mail remotely.
Anyway, in short, I think this story is the same as "patenting the <a href=*> idea."
Also, all.edu's are Internet2, so they are faster than most mirrors, which is great for me when I want to install something new. So lets get rid of all that. We don't like fast FTP access, because they are hacker prone. Hey...EVERYTHING is hacker prone, so people should stop crying!
Frédéric posted: <snip> take the number 12345679 (there's no 8) multiply by a number that the sum is 9 and see: 12345679 x 09 = 111111111 12345679 x 18 = 222222222 12345679 x 27 = 333333333 12345679 x 36 = 444444444 12345679 x 45 = 555555555 12345679 x 54 = 666666666 12345679 x 63 = 777777777 12345679 x 72 = 888888888 12345679 x 81 = 999999999 <snip> Here is the answer: this has nothing to do with 12345679...use any number. The number 9 is a special number...
If you multiply any number by a numbers who's digits add to make 9 (i.e. 9, 18, 27, 63, 36, 1233, 0.003211000101) and you will get a number who's digits also add to make 9...Try it 1233 * 5 = 6165...6+1+6+5 = 18... 1+8=9 You can use any number who's digits add to make 9 and do this...it's a nifty trick...works great to change any number to any number you want...as long as somewhere in the line you multiply by something like 9, or any of the other numbers. -akshay
What I state as what we have to worry about is in a different context than what you said.
Sure, our hunter gatherer forbears did not have to worry about getting prostate cancer. They would have had to contend with disease, the weather, malnutrition or being eaten by animals. Plenty of other things to worry about.
Cancer...a grave disease that all of us worry about.
Getting eaten by another...yes, that is bad too, but that is natures way of narrowing down the gene pool. You, if eaten, were not fit enough to survuve, thus do not get to pass your genes on.
Also, a reply to all those who thing I am yelling from way out in left field...Yes, I know. But if I could right now, wish that all of this technology, all of this medicine, etc was gone...hey, guess what, I WOULD. What would you like me to do now? give it up and live on the streets, while the rest of society ponders my will? No, We all conform to societies ways to survive, that is only natural. I might have different views than most, and not adhere to all of societies way, but to leave it, I would be writing my own doom. If all of society were to leave with me...the world would be a much happier place.
Once upon a time (long, long time ago) the Earth was a happy place. There were trees abundant, Bengal Tigers free to roam, and a few people running around having fun. There was no Carbon Monoxide in the air, we didn't have to worry about PPC (particle count in the air) because there was no pollution. The sun set was beautiful everyday, and there was no sh*t brown color in the sky ruing the sunset today. People could see a mile (or kilometer if you prefer) down the way and see clearly, now the lovely pollution doesn't let you.
We have created a place where everything we do kills us. Kills the environment. Kills everything that is living.
Only when the last tree is dead, the last field paved, the last river dammed, will we realize we can't eat money.
Once upon a time we didn't have to worry about cancer. We didn't have to worry about light. We didn't have to worry about intoxicating chemicals. We didn't have to worry.
Today we have to. Today we have to suffer what we've been doing to Earth. Nuclear Power. Super fast airplanes that can fly above the O-Zone.
What was wrong with a world witout all this technology? It simply wasn't enough. We needed more. We had to have more. Well, now we have it! NOW WHAT?
I program in Perl for the web. Apache with mod_perl and HTML::Embperl. Check out perl.apache.org.Combining these produces some pleasured effects.
Getting to my real point...Program in an object orientated fashion. It makes your life much easier. Every program should be built of layers of other smaller files (modules, classes, call it what you will). By doing this you give yourself the ability to work with small files with very specific purposes and because of this you have the ability to create more and more modules (perl) based on the earlier core versions. The Core module all your programs can use (have one that takes care of all your DBI calls). Then to customize your program just write another module (perhaps based on an existing one, or a brandnew one). I don't do much other programming for the web outside of Perl and JavaScript, but I do know that everything can be programmed in an object orientated fashion which makes everyone's lives easier.
yes Perl does have that overhead, but all you need to do it throw in mod_perl and bam...perl caching can be enabled. Dont use CGI, put everything in modules. This way you don't have to execute a CGI everytime, but rather called the cached modules. And while you're at it, take a look at Gereld Richters Embperl over on perl.apache.org Using HTML::Embperl is great. It makes so many things so much easier. Tables are done for you dynamically, and since it all gets cached, the site can perform optimally
That comment just sickens me. I am liberal, and I eat pig, and I do love meat. Nothing wrong with that, but do you don't find killing one THOUSAND pigs before coming out with one living pig wrong? I do think that there is something wrong with that. Also, we must realize...this isn't "True" life. We are "growing" life from a laboratory. It happens to pigs, it can happen to humans. You eat humans? Maybe it's a different perspective, but according to you, killing a pig is the same as eating a pig...so when we attempt to clone humans and watch the first fifty, or a hundred die...does that mean that we might as well have eaten fifty or a hundred humans?
I remember when Dolly was first created. 2 weeks later I participated in a debate about cloning and why I think it is one of our worst
"inventions/discoveries." We are talking about the possibility of Boys From Brazil happening again. If you haven't read that book, it deals with the attempt to clone Hitler in South America after WWII, and the things that occured (blue eyes in people who are supposed to have black, etc, etc).
Anyway, due to the possibilities that can occur because of cloning, it is a horrible mistake. I have done some research on this, sorry I don't have the data available on me anymore, but the scientific devices that were used to make Dolly are readily available to anyone who wants it. Do you really think that they are going to be able to keep the secret of cloning from people.
And the psychological damage that can occur. This human was genetically created because your "True Self" knew that he had a bad heart and would need a new one in the years to come, so now we are going to take your heart (which is really his) and put it in his, and let you die.
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? Again, this is some of the gravest news possible. I hate the idea of this. Fine, we'll come up with cures for all the diseases, but how many people know how many sheep dies before Dolly was "created." There were roughly a thousand dead sheep prior to Dolly. A THOUSAND. Animal cruelty.
I don't believe that Life (advanced life form..eg animals) was supposed to occur in a Petri Dish, and it still isn't!
Like many things that occur naturally, diseases is one of them. They are there and we have to deal with them. It is not our place to play Mother Nature. These diseases are there as a way of population control and Darwinism effect. Anyone remember Darwin? Yeah, evolution as we know it is being put into question here. We are attempting to control evolution. Because of what we are trying to do, control the uncontrolable, the gravest of things will happen. From the great mathematical theory, Chaos Theory, this can result in a complete disaster, and I am looking forward to this event. This little start to cloning will result in a mass attempt for ego-centric people to clone themselves, pay highly for it too, also leaders of countries will attempt this. Countries which are looked upon by the US as dangerous countried (Middle East, Pakistan, India, China...anyone but the US). Something this small can result in something ver large and out of proportion
So in the end of this long and rambling passage (I wish I could have made it cleaner, but I don't have my research anywhere near me), I would just like to state the Cloning is one of the worst things that can ever happen.
I am currently taking an OS programming class and we're using a very simple broke down OS created JUST for this purpose by UC Berkely.
Nachos prior to your modifications is a very very simple OS. Originally you start with the threads section and modify their code in order to show problems with Concurrent Programming. Then you show the proper way to do programming and create Semaphore, Locks, and Condtion variables, and your own special Synchronization Primitive. After which we program a Building with N Elevators with N people. This is half the semester, and I don't remember what we're doing after this, but we went as far as creating our own memory/process manager/allocator.
This is quite a fast paced and intense class. Difficult...yes...worth it, I'm sure.
Can you believe this. This is truly incredible. This notion has been around for a while. Using light to move us at incredible speeds, but the only thing we've really been able to do is create the solar powered car.
Now we can use light at high concentration to push us along in space at 10% the speed of light. That's 30,000,000 KM/s or 18,600,000 miles/s. That's just incredible!!! Moving at those speeds we could quite easily travel everywhere to search for whatever we are tring to search for.
I can't wait to see the JPL in 2 weeks, finding out more about this is gonna be great.
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Regardless of what you think, you can not solve a NP or NP-Complete problem in P time. The only true way to do this is to prove that an NP problem can be reduced to a P problem.
Solving something faster doesn't mean that it's not in polynomial time...you just did it faster. Hell, the P problems will be even faster too...doesn't meant that they're now done instantly...they're just done faster.
Now, if someone can reduce a NP-Complete problem to P...that would be pretty friggin cool...that and it would destroy all modern mathematics theory as we know it.
MySQL has a MyODBC that you can download from their download section. It allowed a ODBC connection to MySQL, and Access will be able to open MySQL DBs. IMO, you have SQL server, then use it, but if you must use MySQL, this is the way to go. It's usually meant for a linux server with a whole bunch of Win comptuers in the office.
it can be such a pain in the ass to go through other people's code sometimes. While this code (i'm sure) is better than the code that I've graded when I was a TA for a Java class, but as long as the person doesn't write in the same style as you...it's going to be a pain. Oh...and who needs comments?
Well...so I might have spelled that wrong, but I remember when Populous came out with it's 3D version...I couldn't wait to play it. It was good, but I think I spent about 20 minutes on it because I got bored out of my mind. Yeah, it was networked, yeah it had sound and a real motive...besides destroy the other side.
To end this comment...I feel as if all the companies, or free-folk alike, have created these games (I have not tried Scorched 3D yet, but I did love the original) have created the games with graphics in mind. Did you ever have to "LOOK" at the 3D surroundings in the original Zelda to figure out what the hell you were doing. Because now (and yes...about 12 hours ago) I was sitting there searching high, low, left, and right for a stupid thing that I missed. While Zelda being a piss-poor example, but it gives out the general idea that 3D has taken the place of game-play. Yes it enhances it, but it also takes away from it...sometimes. The enhancement is great in Zelda (so far the first N64 one is better), and things like Diablo (if you want to call that 3D), or Quake (while Kung Fu for the NES was a great game, the 3D realm is better...).
So, with all that said, I hope that games like this will not lose its original intent like Populous did.
Well...we're all used to having the width larger than the height on a window...i'm tired of that...It's time to accomodate the Side scroll or better known as "Side Bar." This browser will pop up rotated 90 CCW. Therefore giving a larger height to the page than width. Of course this requires that all users rotate their silly little monitors when they use it...or tilt theer heads, but that can hurt (we are not responsible for any damages taken by you, and don't reccomend that you do this by youself, we use professional monitor turners, and never tilt our necks!).
I think this would bring more ability and design capability to the net, and will definately cauze people to do odd things with their monitors.
Now we need not only a back and forth swiverl on the monitor, but a full side swivel as well!!!
Perhaps those considering it should try college and then decide. I am in college right now, and get paid damn well for a non-graduate/student. I love it. I wouldn't leave right now if someone offered me $100,000 a year. It's not worth it. Learn to enjoy college life because it only comes once. Then you're too old to do anything else!
College is about enjoying getting having as much fun as possible...and studying sometimes (till 5AM).
Yeah...I have yet to apply most of what I learned in the real world, but you know...there is plenty to learn in college...Plus...if this market does cool down, where are you going to get a job without that college degree.
Think about this!
and I leave with this quote
"Only when the last tree is dead, the last field paved, the last river dammed will we realize that we can't eat money!"
ok...so I let it download, and finally I have all 182Mb of it. Now to install...WooHoo...it didn't install!!!
/bin/sh to install. HELLO!!! What am I doing wrong? This thing has already PISSED me off!
I use Slack...has anyone else been able to install using Slack? I can't get anything going here. It "tells" me that it installed, but it obviously didn't. I'm being forced to use the RPM manager, and all it does is BITCH to me about things like...need
Telnet...what's that? Just about one of two ways for most .edu's to get their e-mail. Either use a mail client, or just telnet in. And what if you wanted to check your mail remotely. What are you going to tell them? NO, you can't! Sure you will.
I am at NYU, and they will shortly be migrating to this HUGE Sun computer that is going to handle the web-site, mail, etc, etc. They will be removing Telnet access, but they are enabling web-mail, so there is still a way to get mail remotely.
Anyway, in short, I think this story is the same as "patenting the <a href=*> idea."
Also, all .edu's are Internet2, so they are faster than most mirrors, which is great for me when I want to install something new. So lets get rid of all that. We don't like fast FTP access, because they are hacker prone. Hey...EVERYTHING is hacker prone, so people should stop crying!
<snip>
take the number 12345679 (there's no 8)
multiply by a number that the sum is 9 and see:
12345679 x 09 = 111111111
12345679 x 18 = 222222222
12345679 x 27 = 333333333
12345679 x 36 = 444444444
12345679 x 45 = 555555555
12345679 x 54 = 666666666
12345679 x 63 = 777777777
12345679 x 72 = 888888888
12345679 x 81 = 999999999
<snip>
Here is the answer:
this has nothing to do with 12345679...use any number. The number 9 is a special number...
If you multiply any number by a numbers who's digits add to make 9 (i.e. 9, 18, 27, 63, 36, 1233, 0.003211000101) and you will get a number who's digits also add to make 9...Try it ... 1+8=9
1233 * 5 = 6165...6+1+6+5 = 18
You can use any number who's digits add to make 9 and do this...it's a nifty trick...works great to change any number to any number you want...as long as somewhere in the line you multiply by something like 9, or any of the other numbers.
-akshay
Sure, our hunter gatherer forbears did not have to worry about getting prostate cancer. They would have had to contend with disease, the weather, malnutrition or being eaten by animals. Plenty of other things to worry about.
Cancer...a grave disease that all of us worry about.
Getting eaten by another...yes, that is bad too, but that is natures way of narrowing down the gene pool. You, if eaten, were not fit enough to survuve, thus do not get to pass your genes on.
Also, a reply to all those who thing I am yelling from way out in left field...Yes, I know. But if I could right now, wish that all of this technology, all of this medicine, etc was gone...hey, guess what, I WOULD. What would you like me to do now? give it up and live on the streets, while the rest of society ponders my will? No, We all conform to societies ways to survive, that is only natural. I might have different views than most, and not adhere to all of societies way, but to leave it, I would be writing my own doom. If all of society were to leave with me...the world would be a much happier place.
We have created a place where everything we do kills us. Kills the environment. Kills everything that is living. Once upon a time we didn't have to worry about cancer. We didn't have to worry about light. We didn't have to worry about intoxicating chemicals. We didn't have to worry.
Today we have to. Today we have to suffer what we've been doing to Earth. Nuclear Power. Super fast airplanes that can fly above the O-Zone.
What was wrong with a world witout all this technology? It simply wasn't enough. We needed more. We had to have more. Well, now we have it! NOW WHAT?
Getting to my real point...Program in an object orientated fashion. It makes your life much easier. Every program should be built of layers of other smaller files (modules, classes, call it what you will). By doing this you give yourself the ability to work with small files with very specific purposes and because of this you have the ability to create more and more modules (perl) based on the earlier core versions. The Core module all your programs can use (have one that takes care of all your DBI calls). Then to customize your program just write another module (perhaps based on an existing one, or a brandnew one). I don't do much other programming for the web outside of Perl and JavaScript, but I do know that everything can be programmed in an object orientated fashion which makes everyone's lives easier.
yes Perl does have that overhead, but all you need to do it throw in mod_perl and bam...perl caching can be enabled. Dont use CGI, put everything in modules. This way you don't have to execute a CGI everytime, but rather called the cached modules.
And while you're at it, take a look at Gereld Richters Embperl over on perl.apache.org Using HTML::Embperl is great. It makes so many things so much easier. Tables are done for you dynamically, and since it all gets cached, the site can perform optimally
And if you are to place such ridiculous remarks about anyone you should let yourself be known cowardly bastard.
Stupid people are a nuisance to society and should be exterminated. Perhaps we can use the iridium satellites to help us do that :)
That comment just sickens me. I am liberal, and I eat pig, and I do love meat. Nothing wrong with that, but do you don't find killing one THOUSAND pigs before coming out with one living pig wrong? I do think that there is something wrong with that. Also, we must realize...this isn't "True" life. We are "growing" life from a laboratory. It happens to pigs, it can happen to humans. You eat humans? Maybe it's a different perspective, but according to you, killing a pig is the same as eating a pig...so when we attempt to clone humans and watch the first fifty, or a hundred die...does that mean that we might as well have eaten fifty or a hundred humans?
"inventions/discoveries." We are talking about the possibility of Boys From Brazil happening again. If you haven't read that book, it deals with the attempt to clone Hitler in South America after WWII, and the things that occured (blue eyes in people who are supposed to have black, etc, etc).
Anyway, due to the possibilities that can occur because of cloning, it is a horrible mistake. I have done some research on this, sorry I don't have the data available on me anymore, but the scientific devices that were used to make Dolly are readily available to anyone who wants it. Do you really think that they are going to be able to keep the secret of cloning from people.
And the psychological damage that can occur. This human was genetically created because your "True Self" knew that he had a bad heart and would need a new one in the years to come, so now we are going to take your heart (which is really his) and put it in his, and let you die.
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? Again, this is some of the gravest news possible. I hate the idea of this. Fine, we'll come up with cures for all the diseases, but how many people know how many sheep dies before Dolly was "created." There were roughly a thousand dead sheep prior to Dolly. A THOUSAND. Animal cruelty.
I don't believe that Life (advanced life form..eg animals) was supposed to occur in a Petri Dish, and it still isn't!
Like many things that occur naturally, diseases is one of them. They are there and we have to deal with them. It is not our place to play Mother Nature. These diseases are there as a way of population control and Darwinism effect. Anyone remember Darwin? Yeah, evolution as we know it is being put into question here. We are attempting to control evolution. Because of what we are trying to do, control the uncontrolable, the gravest of things will happen. From the great mathematical theory, Chaos Theory, this can result in a complete disaster, and I am looking forward to this event. This little start to cloning will result in a mass attempt for ego-centric people to clone themselves, pay highly for it too, also leaders of countries will attempt this. Countries which are looked upon by the US as dangerous countried (Middle East, Pakistan, India, China...anyone but the US). Something this small can result in something ver large and out of proportion
So in the end of this long and rambling passage (I wish I could have made it cleaner, but I don't have my research anywhere near me), I would just like to state the Cloning is one of the worst things that can ever happen.
Nachos prior to your modifications is a very very simple OS. Originally you start with the threads section and modify their code in order to show problems with Concurrent Programming. Then you show the proper way to do programming and create Semaphore, Locks, and Condtion variables, and your own special Synchronization Primitive. After which we program a Building with N Elevators with N people. This is half the semester, and I don't remember what we're doing after this, but we went as far as creating our own memory/process manager/allocator.
This is quite a fast paced and intense class. Difficult...yes...worth it, I'm sure.
Now we can use light at high concentration to push us along in space at 10% the speed of light. That's 30,000,000 KM/s or 18,600,000 miles/s. That's just incredible!!! Moving at those speeds we could quite easily travel everywhere to search for whatever we are tring to search for.
I can't wait to see the JPL in 2 weeks, finding out more about this is gonna be great.