I agree with ESR, but he could have chosen some of his words more carefully:
Like the Chinese empire, we have defeated or assimilated every wave of barbarians to come at our borders.
Communist China's attempts to block us out seem to be proving almost equally weak and futile; no more than the Soviets can they resist our subversive efficiencies.
We may be temporarily hindered at times, but we will not be stopped.
On Internet time, you and all the pundits of the world are in far more danger of irrelevance than we.
He almost sounds like a Borg. Certainly not a picture the publice should get of us.
Some people seem to forget that Albert Einstein was a patent officer while he developed special relativity theory.
If Einstein had paid his full attention to boring patents we wouldn't have a great new physics theory.
Therefore we should celebrate stupid patents as a sign of our talented patent officers spending increasingly more time on some really significant research. This might hurt us short-term a little bit, but long-term it will be more beneficial for humankind.
I once read this (and I fully agree):
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The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.
Correct me if I'm wrong: 1 base pair has 4 possible value: G, A, T, or C --> 2 bits/base pair 1 base has how many base pairs? I assume 1 3 billion bases per human. (Or 24 times 3 billion?)
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See Bruce Schneier's comments on this.
He almost sounds like a Borg. Certainly not a picture the publice should get of us.
Some people seem to forget that Albert Einstein was a patent officer while he developed special relativity theory.
If Einstein had paid his full attention to boring patents we wouldn't have a great new physics theory.
Therefore we should celebrate stupid patents as a sign of our talented patent officers spending increasingly more time on some really significant research. This might hurt us short-term a little bit, but long-term it will be more beneficial for humankind.
The faster you move,
the slower time passes,
the longer you live.
Correct me if I'm wrong:
1 base pair has 4 possible value: G, A, T, or C --> 2 bits/base pair
1 base has how many base pairs? I assume 1
3 billion bases per human. (Or 24 times 3 billion?)
Total data=3*2 billion bits = 6*10^9 bits = 75*10^7 bytes = 715.25 MByte
Looks like my sequence will not fit on a CD-ROM for backup. This might be a good reason to get a DVD RAM drive!
Here is a better one. Who said there's no free beer?
My Beowulf DVD (see also here).
A good link explaining the possibility of time travel using a wormhole is here.
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ln(x)!=log(x) for x!=1
Sorry, but on my calculator I get:
3*log(640320)/sqrt(163) = 1.3643763538418412510868468801839
3*ln(640320)/sqrt(163) = 3.1415926535897930164958886531967
pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795
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