Actually white people have 100 IQ average, Asians have 106, and Jews have 113 according to The Bell Curve. Maybe Japanese have higher than regular asians though.
Cool. I have Practical Cryptography and I'd say that it is worth checking out of the library to read the first few chapters but not worth buying. He gives some good practical advice, but then he tries to give overviews of the algorithms by giving the math equations without explaining how they work. I guess this might be ok if you are a math major, but for the rest of us I'd say Applied Cryptography would be a better bet because supposedly (meaning I haven't read it) he actually explains the maths. Now I hate math as much as the next guy, but I gave up with Practical Cryptography because it just didn't make enough sense without the math.
If you haven't already read his book Beyond Fear I would highly recommend it. For those of us who don't read books, he covers a good chunk of the material in 34 minutes in this interview. Also very fascinating, I even played it for my grandparents and they both enjoyed it, and have since told me that they have seen him talking on CSPAN or something like that.
somehow I doubt the idea and skill only stayed there
That is what they said when I was there. I guess I agree that svadt isn't tiny, but all I really remember from it was the micro calligraphy and some random guy who made crazy things out of paper mache.
There is a tiny town in Israel, iirc called svadt, that has an artform called microcalligraphy which is not practiced anywhere else in the world. They are able to fit the entire Torah onto a single page, they they make the torah into a design.
This is the first example that was found by Googling for microcalligraphy. I wonder if this technique could also be used on those works of art, which are extremely rare and expensive but also quite beautiful.
They really should have waited for the next version of Nethack to be ready before releasing. That way Debian users would have something to keep them occupied so they don't complain when it is another three years until the next release.
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The mood here is extremely pessimistic. Many joke of committing suicide, and the one thing everyone agrees on is that no one will be buying a mac in the next two years.
Except for that Firefox took out an ad in the New York Times and we have the traffic patterns before and after that, so we do know approximately the effect it had. If I remember correctly it was just a relatively modest spike, but still several thousand new users.
The website says the money was meant to fund any software under an open source license. Perhaps the money could be spent to promote Firefox, since it is currently the most visible of all open source projects and is something of a gateway drug. 100,000 dollars being donated to linux would do very little, but if spent on advertisements for something like Firefox or Wikipedia it could covert 10,000 new users in a single day, all of whom would be better suited to switch to a Free platform later.
Ideally the deposit would be representative of the damage it would do if dumped irresponsibly rather than its value, but that would be very hard to administer.
Actually this whole system would be phenomenally easy to administer. For example each can has a 5 cent deposit. When you return the can, you get 4 cents and the person at the plant who sorts the can from the other crap gets 1 cent. That way you can trade off between the homeless people collecting the garbage and the ones sorting it. Obviously you need to pay someone to sort it out or else you could have someone deliver a garbage bag full of rocks and claim their million dollars based on the weight of the contents:)
Every consumer electronics item should be sold with a deposit that is a percentage of its value. That way, consumers have to recycle the product at the end of its lifetime to get their money back, just like with aluminum cans.
Currently there are armies of homeless people who roam around the cities and countryside picking up cans to claim the deposits. However the problem is they only pick up the empty cans and leave the other trash on the ground until it washes into the lakes, rivers, and oceans after the next rain storm or gets eaten by animals or little kids. Imagine if every recyclable had a bounty of a few cents. Then armies of homeless people would scour the countryside cleaning it until it sparkled instead of sitting around and telling hobo stories while giving eachother sponge baths.
To call Joi Ito just a Japanese entrepreneur is to slight his credibility. Joi is not just an entrepreneur, but also a venture capitalist. He is also on the board of directors of ICANN and Creative Commons, among other organizations. His blog is ranked in the top 100 on technorati, although personally I have always been a bit suspicious since he funded that company also.
Asa and Ben: Good morning. In less than an hour, Firefox and Mozilla will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest browser war in this history of mankind.
Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July; and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from Microsoft.
We're fighting for our right to browse, to surf free.
And should we win the day, the open source community will no longer be known as an niche group, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
Actually Cornell University is cooled by Lake Source Cooling, and Lake Cayuga, while the biggest finger lake and fairly deep, is nothing all that special. Cornell was able to successfully cut its emissions and energy usage by about 90% with this thing, with no ill effects to the lake. I say that because some locals thought that it would kick up sedament which would cause eutrophication, but this never occurred. Also, people were worried that the warm water being dumped near the surface would impact the lake, but measurements showed that you can't even tell the difference in temperature more than 10 feel away. All in all, it was a really good move by the university. My only regret is that my freshman dorm wasn't hooked up to it so I didn't have any AC in the summer!
Right, but according to the diagram there is wind in deep space also. Thus given long enough the probe should either come to a stop and start going backwards, or continue going forward while changing direction more and more.
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write down all your passwords on a small piece of paper and tape it to a 100 dollar bill. That will ensure that you no one else will ever find them.
As a person who is both Jewish and Irish...I am confuzzled.
Actually white people have 100 IQ average, Asians have 106, and Jews have 113 according to The Bell Curve. Maybe Japanese have higher than regular asians though.
I use forecast fox on Firefox, are you saying that makes me a newb?
Cool. I have Practical Cryptography and I'd say that it is worth checking out of the library to read the first few chapters but not worth buying. He gives some good practical advice, but then he tries to give overviews of the algorithms by giving the math equations without explaining how they work. I guess this might be ok if you are a math major, but for the rest of us I'd say Applied Cryptography would be a better bet because supposedly (meaning I haven't read it) he actually explains the maths. Now I hate math as much as the next guy, but I gave up with Practical Cryptography because it just didn't make enough sense without the math.
If you haven't already read his book Beyond Fear I would highly recommend it. For those of us who don't read books, he covers a good chunk of the material in 34 minutes in this interview. Also very fascinating, I even played it for my grandparents and they both enjoyed it, and have since told me that they have seen him talking on CSPAN or something like that.
That is what they said when I was there. I guess I agree that svadt isn't tiny, but all I really remember from it was the micro calligraphy and some random guy who made crazy things out of paper mache.
This is the first example that was found by Googling for microcalligraphy. I wonder if this technique could also be used on those works of art, which are extremely rare and expensive but also quite beautiful.
They really should have waited for the next version of Nethack to be ready before releasing. That way Debian users would have something to keep them occupied so they don't complain when it is another three years until the next release.
This is being covered live in irc.macrumorslive.com #macrumors and irc.apple-x.net #apple-x
The mood here is extremely pessimistic. Many joke of committing suicide, and the one thing everyone agrees on is that no one will be buying a mac in the next two years.
what else is there to say really.
Except for that Firefox took out an ad in the New York Times and we have the traffic patterns before and after that, so we do know approximately the effect it had. If I remember correctly it was just a relatively modest spike, but still several thousand new users.
The website says the money was meant to fund any software under an open source license. Perhaps the money could be spent to promote Firefox, since it is currently the most visible of all open source projects and is something of a gateway drug. 100,000 dollars being donated to linux would do very little, but if spent on advertisements for something like Firefox or Wikipedia it could covert 10,000 new users in a single day, all of whom would be better suited to switch to a Free platform later.
Ideally the deposit would be representative of the damage it would do if dumped irresponsibly rather than its value, but that would be very hard to administer.
:)
Actually this whole system would be phenomenally easy to administer. For example each can has a 5 cent deposit. When you return the can, you get 4 cents and the person at the plant who sorts the can from the other crap gets 1 cent. That way you can trade off between the homeless people collecting the garbage and the ones sorting it. Obviously you need to pay someone to sort it out or else you could have someone deliver a garbage bag full of rocks and claim their million dollars based on the weight of the contents
Every consumer electronics item should be sold with a deposit that is a percentage of its value. That way, consumers have to recycle the product at the end of its lifetime to get their money back, just like with aluminum cans.
Currently there are armies of homeless people who roam around the cities and countryside picking up cans to claim the deposits. However the problem is they only pick up the empty cans and leave the other trash on the ground until it washes into the lakes, rivers, and oceans after the next rain storm or gets eaten by animals or little kids. Imagine if every recyclable had a bounty of a few cents. Then armies of homeless people would scour the countryside cleaning it until it sparkled instead of sitting around and telling hobo stories while giving eachother sponge baths.
To call Joi Ito just a Japanese entrepreneur is to slight his credibility. Joi is not just an entrepreneur, but also a venture capitalist. He is also on the board of directors of ICANN and Creative Commons, among other organizations. His blog is ranked in the top 100 on technorati, although personally I have always been a bit suspicious since he funded that company also.
Asa and Ben: Good morning. In less than an hour, Firefox and Mozilla will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest browser war in this history of mankind.
Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.
We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.
We will be united in our common interests.
Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July; and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from Microsoft.
We're fighting for our right to browse, to surf free.
And should we win the day, the open source community will no longer be known as an niche group, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night.
We will not vanish without a fight.
We're going to live on.
We're going to survive."
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!
Did anyone else read the headline as "Cowboy Neal Drivers Flawed, Pose Risk?"
Now we'll have to put up with people's web servers ringing in movie theaters.
Death.
Ambassador d'Ellen then added: "It went like beep beep beep."
I agree, Deep Throat is said to be the highest grossing movie of all time when adjusted to today's dollars.
Also, here is the . The coolest thing about this system is that the loop that goes from the bottom of the lake to the surface and back into the lake is separate from the loop that goes from the LSC plant to the campus and back. Once the water is pumped up from the bottom of the lake, there is a huge series of heat exchangers where the warm water from campus is chilled enough to run the AC. The significance of this is that you only need enough energy to pump the water from the bottom to the surface, not from the bottom to campus. The reason for this is that the campus loop is a closed loop full of water, so by the laws of fluiddynamics when water goes downhill it pushes the watter on the otherside uphill. You only need to expend the minimal amount of energy to overcome friction to keep it running. Truly amazing stuff, I'd highly recommend checking it out if you are ever in Ithaca.
Actually Cornell University is cooled by Lake Source Cooling, and Lake Cayuga, while the biggest finger lake and fairly deep, is nothing all that special. Cornell was able to successfully cut its emissions and energy usage by about 90% with this thing, with no ill effects to the lake. I say that because some locals thought that it would kick up sedament which would cause eutrophication, but this never occurred. Also, people were worried that the warm water being dumped near the surface would impact the lake, but measurements showed that you can't even tell the difference in temperature more than 10 feel away. All in all, it was a really good move by the university. My only regret is that my freshman dorm wasn't hooked up to it so I didn't have any AC in the summer!
Right, but according to the diagram there is wind in deep space also. Thus given long enough the probe should either come to a stop and start going backwards, or continue going forward while changing direction more and more.