but, 9 is not prime. due to this, and the fact that 2 is, the next "prime" timestamp we will see is 2:22:22, 2-2-2222. the last one was 23:57:57 7-29-777, over 1200 years ago!
it's not like it sounds. i have a nokia 5120, and they sell a little earpiece you can plug into the bottom of the phone, so that you can place or recieve calls without the phone right next to your head.
i am purchasing one of these things as soon as i can find them somewhere. i think the recent 20/20 piece on cellphone radiation caused a buying spree in this area, because no one seems to have them for sale.
as stated in previously, without an editorial process, preprint servers are largely useless because of the amount of garbage one must wade through to get something useful.
well, there are free, online journals that exist. they use the same peer-review process that print journals use, but eliminate the cost by eliminating the printer! for examples, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics has been around since 1994. if you look at the list of editors, you're sure to recognize a few names.
i believe that this is the answer. the free availability of this information is what is sought after.
first of all, although it may seem so, it's not secure. anyone with polarized glasses can look in on this. and if you're in an office that uses these things, and everyone has polarized glasses, well then forget it!
also, do you have to keep your head perfectly vertical at all times? that sucks. (i don't know how lcd's operate.)
login. set your thresholds to -1, and hit "do not display scores." uncheck "willing to moderate."
this is the only way to read slashdot. i am totally unwilling to let people i don't know judge posts i haven't read to determine whether they're appropriate for my own consumption.
i can make that decision on my own, thankyouverymuch.
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it's not quite like a fiendish automobile cult stealing cars to make you buy car alarms. any analogy is flawed, but, come on, cdc isn't stealing anything.
if you want to make an automobile analogy, i prefer to think it's like someone pointing out that gm hasn't provided your car with a lock!
that's the point, right? i see every reason to blame microsoft for all the security problems their products have. of course, you can blame the guy that breaks into your system, but how productive is that?
at least putting pressure on microsoft might get them to fix their problems. an even better solution: don't use (or pay for) their products.
whatever happened to the poor guy that got arrested for allegedly releasing melissa a few months ago? i feel bad for him. compare his fate to that of the office development team, and ask yourself who's more to blame.
this is an excellent movie. i highly recommend it to any slashdotter, especially if you enjoy the series (you will enjoy bill gates' role).
i cannot wait until this gets released to the home video market, because i'm looking forward to seeing the bits that the mpaa made them cut out to get the r. (it's becoming very frustrating to me that the mpaa exists at all.)
i suspect most of the chopping was done at the very beginning (T&P) or at the very end..
besides thomas, there is a resource available from the ACLU for some votes. it may be wise to form your own opinions, though it is nice to see what the ACLU has to say.
i didn't read the original story, so i don't know to what extent this is insightful, but:
engineers typically do not produce press releases. and when marketing people do, they sometimes try to translate statements of a technical nature into something they believe will be easier to understand. in doing so, they screw things up. i have seen this first hand.
so i don't believe it's fair to judge any company harshly based on initial press releases. if anything, judge the morons that write the final copy.
i beg to differ. we do not know the "physics of" air, or any other fluid, in real world scenarios. fluid dynamics, especially those aspects of it that deal with turbulent situations, is amazingly young and undiscovered.
i think this is a Good Thing. regardless of what anyone thinks of microsoft. it looks like the courts have decided (in a preliminary ruling) that ms can rewrite java on their own, provided they don't actually use sun's source.
and that's exactly what we, as a community, need! am i right? we want to be able to rewrite existing non-free software. the question i have is: how does this play to the patent system? i don't know what patent laws are like, but does sun hold any patents at apply to its java technology? if so, how do they apply now, if ms is given a go-ahead to write their own java development platform?..
it would be nice to think that now they _don't_ apply, if such things exist.
i have a voodoo rush card, and much to my surprise, a couple of weeks ago, freshmeat posted a link to their pages for drivers for linux. turns out they have an x server that supports rush! unfortunately, i'm not able to test it because my $@#&! motherboard hasn't been able to boot the kernel. but i'll fix that soon enough.
anyone else have a rush? (i think i might be the only one). any luck with the x server? is it worth my time to replace the mb to get linux to work here?
i don't understand the issue. what's the big deal? we've been using money to purchase things that aren't tangible for a long time. what about movie rights? or retainers? or even bonds, securities, etc? just because i spend money on something, it doesn't mean i can hold the purchase in my hand. this isn't any different.
(well, ok, the difference is that a bunch of whack-jobs willing to spend thousands on a mud character probably don't deserve media attention, but that's beside the point).
i think katz writes these because he is interested in discovering a phenomenon -- in order that he can say "told you so" a number of years down the road. well, after enough of these vague, prophetic (and apparently unresearched) articles, something is bound to hold true.
concisely, godel's first incompleteness theorem says that in arithmetic (or any system that contains arithmetic), there are statements that cannot be proven nor disproven. (arithmetic is 0, 1,... with addition and multiplication).
godel's second incompleteness thereom states that the consistency of a system cannot be proven within that system (a consistent system is one in which it is not possible to prove both a statement and its negation).
it looks like you are sort of combining the two..
of course, i have to say, IANAL (i am not a logician).
many people are claiming to be enamored by this book. what do these people think of mathematics? my experience has been that not very many will admit to liking the subject with any degree of enthusiasm -- especially computer scientists. (and forget the question "how much do you know of it?").
well, anyway, i claim that this book is essentially a math book. it is padded, but it's a math book. and i have a bone to pick with the secondary education system for convincing people that because they can't factor polynomials quickly, they won't enjoy what math _really_ is. (the cause? high school math teachers don't know math).
oh, and anyone that says this is not a popular book ought to read "uber formal unentscheidbare shatze der principia mathematica und verwandter systeme" and tell me what they think of that.
then i'll tell you what -- don't maintain an email address. or, if you do, don't distribute it to anyone who potententially may one day send you text which you think you might possibly not want to read.
the contention that spam is "cramming" speech "down your throat" is just amazingly stupid. when was the last time you actually read the full text of an unsolicited email? if ever, would you say that you were forced to read it?
one might as well criminalize unsolicited phone calls, unsolicited postal mail, unsolicited pages, as well as the communication of any other content that someone might not want to receive.
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but, 9 is not prime. due to this, and the fact that 2 is, the next "prime" timestamp we will see is 2:22:22, 2-2-2222. the last one was 23:57:57 7-29-777, over 1200 years ago!
well, this is just a quick thought off the top of my head, but -- you could recharge the batteries and use the device more than once!
it's not like it sounds. i have a nokia 5120, and they sell a little earpiece you can plug into the bottom of the phone, so that you can place or recieve calls without the phone right next to your head.
i am purchasing one of these things as soon as i can find them somewhere. i think the recent 20/20 piece on cellphone radiation caused a buying spree in this area, because no one seems to have them for sale.
-pal
he could have, except that historians say germany didn't have nukes while hitler was alive.
as stated in previously, without an editorial process, preprint servers are largely useless because of the amount of garbage one must wade through to get something useful.
well, there are free, online journals that exist. they use the same peer-review process that print journals use, but eliminate the cost by eliminating the printer! for examples, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics has been around since 1994. if you look at the list of editors, you're sure to recognize a few names.
i believe that this is the answer. the free availability of this information is what is sought after.
- palcan you provide us with links to information on the libraries that do things automagically? thanks!
first of all, although it may seem so, it's not secure. anyone with polarized glasses can look in on this. and if you're in an office that uses these things, and everyone has polarized glasses, well then forget it!
also, do you have to keep your head perfectly vertical at all times? that sucks. (i don't know how lcd's operate.)
- pal
login. set your thresholds to -1, and hit "do not
display scores." uncheck "willing to moderate."
this is the only way to read slashdot. i am
totally unwilling to let people i don't know judge
posts i haven't read to determine whether they're
appropriate for my own consumption.
i can make that decision on my own, thankyouverymuch.
/robots.txt contains instructions that spiders ought to heed about what to index and what not to. it's polite of them to check it before they index you. if you don't want anyone spidering your site, try
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
i oby-ject.
it's not quite like a fiendish automobile cult stealing cars to make you buy car alarms. any analogy is flawed, but, come on, cdc isn't stealing anything.
if you want to make an automobile analogy, i prefer to think it's like someone pointing out that gm hasn't provided your car with a lock!
that's the point, right? i see every reason to blame microsoft for all the security problems their products have. of course, you can blame the guy that breaks into your system, but how productive is that?
at least putting pressure on microsoft might get them to fix their problems. an even better solution: don't use (or pay for) their products.
whatever happened to the poor guy that got arrested for allegedly releasing melissa a few months ago? i feel bad for him. compare his fate to that of the office development team, and ask yourself who's more to blame.
- pal
this is an excellent movie. i highly recommend it to any slashdotter, especially if you enjoy the series (you will enjoy bill gates' role).
i cannot wait until this gets released to the home video market, because i'm looking forward to seeing the bits that the mpaa made them cut out to get the r. (it's becoming very frustrating to me that the mpaa exists at all.)
i suspect most of the chopping was done at the very beginning (T&P) or at the very end..
- pal
besides thomas, there is a resource available from the ACLU for some votes. it may be wise to form your own opinions, though it is nice to see what the ACLU has to say.
http://scorecard.aclu.org
they haven't updated it for the 106th congress last time i checked. but it's there.
- pal (a card carrying member)i didn't read the original story, so i don't know to what extent this is insightful, but:
engineers typically do not produce press releases. and when marketing people do, they sometimes try to translate statements of a technical nature into something they believe will be easier to understand. in doing so, they screw things up. i have seen this first hand.
so i don't believe it's fair to judge any company harshly based on initial press releases. if anything, judge the morons that write the final copy.
- pal
i beg to differ. we do not know the "physics of" air, or any other fluid, in real world scenarios. fluid dynamics, especially those aspects of it that deal with turbulent situations, is amazingly young and undiscovered.
- pal
i think this is a Good Thing. regardless of what anyone thinks of microsoft. it looks like the courts have decided (in a preliminary ruling) that ms can rewrite java on their own, provided they don't actually use sun's source.
..
and that's exactly what we, as a community, need! am i right? we want to be able to rewrite existing non-free software. the question i have is: how does this play to the patent system? i don't know what patent laws are like, but does sun hold any patents at apply to its java technology? if so, how do they apply now, if ms is given a go-ahead to write their own java development platform?
it would be nice to think that now they _don't_ apply, if such things exist.
- pal
it may be the case that you need to be on the council to disappear. do we know for sure that obi-wan does _not_ make the council to refute this?
because qui-gon, vader, and maul certainly were not.
sounds reasonable to me.
this is definitely a good thing. at least for me!
i have a voodoo rush card, and much to my surprise, a couple of weeks ago, freshmeat posted a link to their pages for drivers for linux. turns out they have an x server that supports rush! unfortunately, i'm not able to test it because my $@#&! motherboard hasn't been able to boot the kernel. but i'll fix that soon enough.
anyone else have a rush? (i think i might be the only one). any luck with the x server? is it worth my time to replace the mb to get linux to work here?
- chris
i don't understand the issue. what's the big deal? we've been using money to purchase things that aren't tangible for a long time. what about movie rights? or retainers? or even bonds, securities, etc? just because i spend money on something, it doesn't mean i can hold the purchase in my hand. this isn't any different.
(well, ok, the difference is that a bunch of whack-jobs willing to spend thousands on a mud character probably don't deserve media attention, but that's beside the point).
i think katz writes these because he is interested in discovering a phenomenon -- in order that he can say "told you so" a number of years down the road. well, after enough of these vague, prophetic (and apparently unresearched) articles, something is bound to hold true.
but probably not sexbots.
concisely, godel's first incompleteness theorem says that in arithmetic (or any system that contains arithmetic), there are statements that cannot be proven nor disproven. (arithmetic is 0, 1, ... with addition and multiplication).
godel's second incompleteness thereom states that the consistency of a system cannot be proven within that system (a consistent system is one in which it is not possible to prove both a statement and its negation).
it looks like you are sort of combining the two..
of course, i have to say, IANAL (i am not a logician).
- pal
i have to wonder,
many people are claiming to be enamored by this book. what do these people think of mathematics? my experience has been that not very many will admit to liking the subject with any degree of enthusiasm -- especially computer scientists. (and forget the question "how much do you know of it?").
well, anyway, i claim that this book is essentially a math book. it is padded, but it's a math book. and i have a bone to pick with the secondary education system for convincing people that because they can't factor polynomials quickly, they won't enjoy what math _really_ is. (the cause? high school math teachers don't know math).
oh, and anyone that says this is not a popular book ought to read "uber formal unentscheidbare shatze der principia mathematica und verwandter systeme" and tell me what they think of that.
-pal
yub yub! the celebratory dance at the conclusion of return of the jedi! the lyrics consisted mostly of the phrase "yub yub!"
it's a wonderful song. i was very disappointed with the special edition for having removed it.
i have to say, you read saracasm like alanis morissette reads irony..
then i'll tell you what -- don't maintain an email address. or, if you do, don't distribute it to anyone who potententially may one day send you text which you think you might possibly not want to read.
the contention that spam is "cramming" speech "down your throat" is just amazingly stupid. when was the last time you actually read the full text of an unsolicited email? if ever, would you say that you were forced to read it?
one might as well criminalize unsolicited phone calls, unsolicited postal mail, unsolicited pages, as well as the communication of any other content that someone might not want to receive.
wow, project heresy is cooler than project hearsay..