Is anybody else here a little disturbed by the implication here that math is doing the directing, given that according to Godel, mathematics is by its very nature incomplete?
I'm by far no math guru, but the way I've understood it, Godel's proof showed that within an axiomatic system there are true statements that you cannot prove. That doesn't change the fact that they may be true.
Perhaps it's time you expand your musical horizon then. I usually don't buy an album unless I like almost all of the songs, and my primary constraint is that I don't make enough money (so only 3-5 cd's a month).
Now, I don't buy music from a store that doesn't have listening stations (where they have a real cd player where you can skip and seek and they play the cd YOU asked for). But just for the heck of it, I went by wal-mart and best buy when I visited the states a month ago. No surprise that I didn't find much music in those stores.
It's a minimization technique, ie finding the minimum of a function (say a cost function). I'm by no means an expert in the field, but I guess in this case they're using it to dynamically find the optimal menu configuration based on use or something like that.
An interesting point, being able to write programs in compiled form.
To quote my "dragon" book: "A compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in a different language - the target language." (emphasis mine)
Your distinction between a programs source code and it's compiled form is artificial. They're equal, in the same sense that you can express a 2 dimentional number by either two positions (x, y) or angle and radius. Both ways can express the same point, in two different ways.
There's no stopping you from writing it in the target language in the first place, which was what they did back in the old days anyway. However, usually it's much more efficient to write it in a different language than the target language.
Math is hard if you have to memorize all the things. Math is easy once you understand them, so you don't have to memorize them.
I remember my classmates kept memorizing all the various varieties of the percent "formula" (part * 100 / whole = percent, percent * whole / 100 = part etc), for instance. Once you "get it", you don't have to memorize any of them, just the general concept, and you can just think your way to the formula on demand. Sticks much easier in the brain, cause the brain is better at remembering general concepts than exact things.
You are incorrect. If it cannot be shown that the contents of the files on your computer are in fact in violation of copyright, then they cannot (or should not) bring suit against you.
But what happens if you don't supply them with this special decoder key? Couldn't they get you for withholding evidence? Or if you smash it with a big rock, destroying evidence?
I'm just a sparetime programmer, who's grown up with GUI so commandlines ain't my thing, but why should that stop me from taking a stab at it? *g*
The easy one, counting lines in files: 'for/R %a in (*.txt) do @find/v/c "" %a'
Multiple file search-replace is a bit tougher straight up, I guess. However, it seems munge from the reskit could be usefull. I don't have it, as I'm no sysadmin, so I'm not sure if the large file bug is fixed in the later packs.
Process killing: Interesting one. I couldn't start to find a solution since I don't have the reskit at hand, but I'd love to check out ptree.
Of course, with a specific util or two, all of these tasks are rather trivial. Is there anything specific keeping you from using 3rd party utils?
CDs give the least bang for the buck of any media out there, as far as mediums of entertainment go. How many people want to spend $15-$20 for a cd with about 2-3 good songs on it
For me, cd's has the most bang for the buck. Many of my cd's I've listened to hundreds of hours. I can listen to music when doing other things, say coding. I listen to music all the time when I'm in front of the computer. Compared to dvd's and games, they're almost mutually exclusive with other activities like say coding.
And I prefer to listen to the music I buy, so I know that I buy an album where I like the majority of the tunes.
However, what drives me to p2p on rare occations, is that it's so hard to order cd's. I went into my local bookstore a few months back, with the title, ISBN number and publisher of a book I found on some inet page (NOT a very popular book mind you). The owner of the bookshop had never heard of the publisher, but one and a half week later (including shipping from USA to Norway), I had the book. Now, I've tried ordering some music from my fav recordshop. They say that "well, we can try, but it's a gamble" and indeed, less than half of the stuff I've ordered, I've gotten, and some of it wasn't the cd I wanted (but one with almost the same title, gah).
I'd buy twice what I do now if I could easily get the music I want. (btw, yes I know there are online stores, but import taxes here in norway makes any that a silly option)
When I got home I jumped on Gnutella and found a song from his new CD and downloaded it. I liked it. Then I downloaded another and liked it too.
The next day I went out and bought the CD.
I'm fairly confident RIAA knows very well that exposure to music drives sales. And I'm fairly sure the reason they're after mp3 "piracy" isn't because people won't buy CD's, but because they can't influence which CD's you'll buy. I know a number of people who download mp3's (a few here and there) and don't buy CD's. But they also listen to the radio a lot, and don't buy CD's either.
Point I was trying to make was that they could use things like this to track people around the globe. Obtain a sample without the person detecting it, and the bells would ring as you went through airport security, for instance.
One application I saw on Discovery channel, was a machine which looked pretty much like a metal detector ala airport style. You stood sideways in it, a small puf of air was blown on you, and the sensors "snorted" in the air. They where very sensitive to all different sorts of explosives and similar chemicals. Can't recall the exact figures, but it was in the region of if you touched anything the last couple of days, it'll go off.
How about choosing a different network hardware supplier for that redundant net? If the redundant net is identical, there's no stopping the same from happening right afterwards if the error is something more than physically broken hardware.
From the article: Only one in a million spores exposed to space or merely shaded survived... But spores spared exposure to UV and other light-that is, stored in the dark-fared well, with between 50% and 97% survival
The frozen bacteria where shielded from UV radiation by hundreds of meters of ice. Which I guess strenghtens the point here, UV kills, and if shielded from it, bacteria can stick around for a long time. And that means there's a chance bacteria have been spread between planets by coasting along on a comet or similar.
AFAIK 'Gravity Waves' are not bound by the speed of light, they are instantaneous.
Quote from this page: "Gravitational waves are a prediction of Einstein's general relativity theory which describes gravity as distortions, caused by mass, of the very fabric of the Universe - spacetime. They are ripples in the spacetime fabric that travel outwards at the speed of light."
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Is anybody else here a little disturbed by the implication here that math is doing the directing, given that according to Godel, mathematics is by its very nature incomplete?
I'm by far no math guru, but the way I've understood it, Godel's proof showed that within an axiomatic system there are true statements that you cannot prove. That doesn't change the fact that they may be true.
http://www.sm.luth.se/~torkel/eget/godel.html looks like a nice place to review some Godel.
So let's call RSS for ReaderFeeder instead then :)
I thought I made it pretty clear that that's exactly not what I do.
Perhaps it's time you expand your musical horizon then. I usually don't buy an album unless I like almost all of the songs, and my primary constraint is that I don't make enough money (so only 3-5 cd's a month).
Now, I don't buy music from a store that doesn't have listening stations (where they have a real cd player where you can skip and seek and they play the cd YOU asked for). But just for the heck of it, I went by wal-mart and best buy when I visited the states a month ago. No surprise that I didn't find much music in those stores.
All coffee machines ive seen here in norway that has a temperature display shows 96 C, give or take a few degs.
The coffee you make yourself is pretty hot too, nothing i would put in my lap, but then i dont drink coffee.
The ONLY way to reach escape velocity is with an external power source like a rocket
Or you jumping? Ok, perhaps a rather slim chance, but still...
I guess you havent seen brainfuck yet then :)
/ HELLOBF.BF
Here's (supposedly) the hello world version:
http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/bf-source/prog
(I'd post it inline, but it complained about junk characters. Whatever that means...)
it lists all the jpg files under c:\ in the following format: full_path filename drive (eg c:\foo\chick.jpg chick.jpg c:)
How about saying what it does, so I wouldn't have to reinstall wmp? (for those who haven't clicked yet, it nukes wmplayer.exe)
Yeah yeah, don't click on a slashdot link etc, but still...
Indeed, it would be very nice to get some more info on exactly how this was implemented.
It's a minimization technique, ie finding the minimum of a function (say a cost function). I'm by no means an expert in the field, but I guess in this case they're using it to dynamically find the optimal menu configuration based on use or something like that.
Here's a page that explains some of it.
Most likely 64bit as in Amd64 or Itanium. SSE is the parallel to AltiVec
An interesting point, being able to write programs in compiled form.
To quote my "dragon" book: "A compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in a different language - the target language." (emphasis mine)
Your distinction between a programs source code and it's compiled form is artificial. They're equal, in the same sense that you can express a 2 dimentional number by either two positions (x, y) or angle and radius. Both ways can express the same point, in two different ways.
There's no stopping you from writing it in the target language in the first place, which was what they did back in the old days anyway. However, usually it's much more efficient to write it in a different language than the target language.
"I used to be conceited, but now I'm perfect."
:)
I like that one
Math is hard if you have to memorize all the things. Math is easy once you understand them, so you don't have to memorize them.
I remember my classmates kept memorizing all the various varieties of the percent "formula" (part * 100 / whole = percent, percent * whole / 100 = part etc), for instance. Once you "get it", you don't have to memorize any of them, just the general concept, and you can just think your way to the formula on demand.
Sticks much easier in the brain, cause the brain is better at remembering general concepts than exact things.
You are incorrect. If it cannot be shown that the contents of the files on your computer are in fact in violation of copyright, then they cannot (or should not) bring suit against you.
But what happens if you don't supply them with this special decoder key? Couldn't they get you for withholding evidence? Or if you smash it with a big rock, destroying evidence?
I'm just a sparetime programmer, who's grown up with GUI so commandlines ain't my thing, but why should that stop me from taking a stab at it? *g*
/R %a in (*.txt) do @find /v /c "" %a'
The easy one, counting lines in files:
'for
Multiple file search-replace is a bit tougher straight up, I guess. However, it seems munge from the reskit could be usefull. I don't have it, as I'm no sysadmin, so I'm not sure if the large file bug is fixed in the later packs.
Process killing: Interesting one. I couldn't start to find a solution since I don't have the reskit at hand, but I'd love to check out ptree.
Of course, with a specific util or two, all of these tasks are rather trivial. Is there anything specific keeping you from using 3rd party utils?
For me, cd's has the most bang for the buck. Many of my cd's I've listened to hundreds of hours. I can listen to music when doing other things, say coding. I listen to music all the time when I'm in front of the computer. Compared to dvd's and games, they're almost mutually exclusive with other activities like say coding.
And I prefer to listen to the music I buy, so I know that I buy an album where I like the majority of the tunes.
However, what drives me to p2p on rare occations, is that it's so hard to order cd's. I went into my local bookstore a few months back, with the title, ISBN number and publisher of a book I found on some inet page (NOT a very popular book mind you). The owner of the bookshop had never heard of the publisher, but one and a half week later (including shipping from USA to Norway), I had the book. Now, I've tried ordering some music from my fav recordshop. They say that "well, we can try, but it's a gamble" and indeed, less than half of the stuff I've ordered, I've gotten, and some of it wasn't the cd I wanted (but one with almost the same title, gah).
I'd buy twice what I do now if I could easily get the music I want. (btw, yes I know there are online stores, but import taxes here in norway makes any that a silly option)
When I got home I jumped on Gnutella and found a song from his new CD and downloaded it. I liked it. Then I downloaded another and liked it too.
The next day I went out and bought the CD.
I'm fairly confident RIAA knows very well that exposure to music drives sales. And I'm fairly sure the reason they're after mp3 "piracy" isn't because people won't buy CD's, but because they can't influence which CD's you'll buy. I know a number of people who download mp3's (a few here and there) and don't buy CD's. But they also listen to the radio a lot, and don't buy CD's either.
"Oh dear, no way would I use Microsoft products. Everything should be free! Free software, free tech support, free ISPs, etc."
That's why we need free software, free tech support, free ISPs ect, cause we need money for StarTrek accessories!
Point I was trying to make was that they could use things like this to track people around the globe. Obtain a sample without the person detecting it, and the bells would ring as you went through airport security, for instance.
One application I saw on Discovery channel, was a machine which looked pretty much like a metal detector ala airport style. You stood sideways in it, a small puf of air was blown on you, and the sensors "snorted" in the air. They where very sensitive to all different sorts of explosives and similar chemicals. Can't recall the exact figures, but it was in the region of if you touched anything the last couple of days, it'll go off.
How about choosing a different network hardware supplier for that redundant net? If the redundant net is identical, there's no stopping the same from happening right afterwards if the error is something more than physically broken hardware.
From the article: Only one in a million spores exposed to space or merely shaded survived ... But spores spared exposure to UV and other light-that is, stored in the dark-fared well, with between 50% and 97% survival
The frozen bacteria where shielded from UV radiation by hundreds of meters of ice. Which I guess strenghtens the point here, UV kills, and if shielded from it, bacteria can stick around for a long time.
And that means there's a chance bacteria have been spread between planets by coasting along on a comet or similar.
AFAIK 'Gravity Waves' are not bound by the speed of light, they are instantaneous.
Quote from this page: "Gravitational waves are a prediction of Einstein's general relativity theory which describes gravity as distortions, caused by mass, of the very fabric of the Universe - spacetime. They are ripples in the spacetime fabric that travel outwards at the speed of light."
However measurements are on the way to test this.