To sum up: Proof is fun to watch chickies who do math and physicist who drink heavily.
Sigh. For someone who lauds the nuances in Copenhagen, I wonder how you could have so blatantly missed them in Proof.
Proof isn't about math. Not even remotely. Unlike Copenhagen's physics, none of the math in Proof is described at any level. The math, the proof, is merely a catalyst for the real story -- what Hitchcock would refer to as the McGuffin.
Proof's central story line is a girl who has let her relationship with her father subsume herself, so totally that she can barely relate to her family or anyone else. Her father's bout with mental illness has made her doubt her own sanity. She's only sure of one thing in the world, and it's the one thing that no one around her is willing to believe. To cast it as a "girls can't do math" play is unbelievably simplistic.
That said, it would be a better play if the director would snip a little bit of the physics out, especially the parts that are repeated several times.
Although I agree with your contention that the play would hit British audiences harder than American, I think this is off-base. A huge part of this show is about the differing perceptions of the same events, and that includes the differing perceptions of the same physical phenomenons. The physics has to be there, and it has to be presented several times to make that last point clear. For Blakemore to have "snipped" parts of that would have been to damage the text severely.
Believe it or not, I want TiVo to report my viewing habits. Hell, I want them to tell UPN that I follow Buffy faithfully, whether in repeats or first-run. I want them to tell NBC that even though I'll record Will & Grace, I'm more likely to delete it than watch it, whereas I'll watch an episode of West Wing twice before it goes to the bit bucket. I even want them to look at my season pass order and tell the WB that I'd watch Gilmore Girls religiously if they were bright enough to schedule it sometime other than when Buffy is on.
Anything to let these networks know what I'm interested in seeing, and what they can do with all the crap they stuff down my pipeline.
Last I heard, they had turned over the employee's entire HR file, his entire mail spool, and his desktop computer. [...] should Congress make it illegal for companies to give up your personal information to law enforcement without your consent (or a court order)?
But what pieces of the above belonged to the employee? Presumably, the file and the computer are company property, and the contents of the mail spool probably are depending on their HR guidelines. This is the company's information, not the employees, and they are within their rights to turn it over to the authorities as they see fit.
And if you do make it illegal, there's a gray area here -- what if they talk to your boss or a co-worker and they reveal details of either the mail correspondence or the HR record? Should it be illegal for the police to get information on you from talking to coworkers? That's a seriously slippery slope, and I think it would make lawyers the only winners.:-)
Lewin was my TA for a distributed algorithms class at MIT a couple of years ago (taught by Tom Leighton, the other Akamai founder). Nice, caring, helpful individual. He will be missed.
I find it very, very hard to believe that 1 pentium class server could replace what a 3+3 server NT cluster could do
That's not what the article said. It said that it took over the duties for a segment of the company during a period of heavy use, not that it replaced all six servers at once.
I don't get that impression at all. This isn't a tale of Linux winning over Microsoft. This is a tale of Linux helping an organization make choices. Windows isn't gone from the organization at all, but the company now feels that they're not forced into upgrades anymore, no matter how the licensing fees change in the future.
Granted, the text reads like the typical rah-rah Linux boosting, but the actual story feels fairly factual -- it's nowhere near the fanboy "we dumped Microsoft in a heartbeat and now everyone uses Linux!".
... a nice selection of sites from a variety of perspectives, including this, from the "Union of Concerned Scientists".
Just because an organization labels themselves a collection of "scientists", doesn't make them credible in my eyes. Especially when their home page brags about how they just admitted an actor to their ranks for PR purposes, and includes links on "Catholic bishops speak out on climate".
I don't know about this one. If I name my animated lion character "Lion", would an earlier lion character named "Zion" mean I'm plagarizing or that I'm just not very imaginative?
Most of the names in Lion King are fairly pedestrian wordsfrom Swahili (Rafiki=friend, Nala=pretty,...). Simba is just "lion" in another language.
The idea of recording a signal for later playback is novel. The encoding method and media are not relavent.
They're not granting the patent to an idea, they're granting the patent to the process. Therefore, the encoding method, media, and similar details are all that is relevant.
This is not an overly broad patent. As written, I don't think ReplayTV even violates it.
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Cease and decist all Paul Hogan exports or face the consequences. You have been warned.
I'm actually rather impressed with that. We should congratulate the blokes Down Under for ingeniously getting him the hell out of their country and the hell into ours.
The really amusing bit is that that file only has two lines of actual code, and the comments say that it contains source code from both AT&T and Microsoft. I'm wondering which is which.
That's because they don't make anything. They used to be Anderson Consulting, but a month ago lost their name in a legal battle with Arthur Anderson after the firm's consulting arm decided to strike off on its own.
Actually, I think their commercials were exactly what they wanted -- they need to boost their name recognition, so they flooded the SB with incomprehensible commercials where the only thing you remember is the name `accenture'.
Whites are more likely to use crack than blacks, but blacks are more likely to go to jail for crack.
I think you heard that wrong. If I recall correctly, whites are more likely to use powdered cocaine than blacks, and blacks are more likely to use crack than whites. The blacks are therefore more likely to go to jail, because of the difference in mandatory sentencing for the two forms of cocaine.
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Proof isn't about math. Not even remotely. Unlike Copenhagen's physics, none of the math in Proof is described at any level. The math, the proof, is merely a catalyst for the real story -- what Hitchcock would refer to as the McGuffin.
Proof's central story line is a girl who has let her relationship with her father subsume herself, so totally that she can barely relate to her family or anyone else. Her father's bout with mental illness has made her doubt her own sanity. She's only sure of one thing in the world, and it's the one thing that no one around her is willing to believe. To cast it as a "girls can't do math" play is unbelievably simplistic.
Anything to let these networks know what I'm interested in seeing, and what they can do with all the crap they stuff down my pipeline.
That's because Buffy's relationship with Spike isn't about love, or lust, or even sex. It's just need, which isn't really a sexy thing.
To be honest, the fact that SMG can convey these emotions so subtly is just amazing.
And if you do make it illegal, there's a gray area here -- what if they talk to your boss or a co-worker and they reveal details of either the mail correspondence or the HR record? Should it be illegal for the police to get information on you from talking to coworkers? That's a seriously slippery slope, and I think it would make lawyers the only winners. :-)
I've just started using spamassassin on my home box. It does a really good job of identifying and classifying the spam -- I recommend it.
Well, I'm from the AI Lab. I suppose I'd be concerned if that were actually a password file from any box, either at SIPB or at MIT proper.
Just because a file is called master.password, doesn't necessarily mean that it's a way in, people.
Sadly, for all intents and purposes, we do.
So, Linux is free as in love?
Lewin was my TA for a distributed algorithms class at MIT a couple of years ago (taught by Tom Leighton, the other Akamai founder). Nice, caring, helpful individual. He will be missed.
That's not what the article said. It said that it took over the duties for a segment of the company during a period of heavy use, not that it replaced all six servers at once.
Granted, the text reads like the typical rah-rah Linux boosting, but the actual story feels fairly factual -- it's nowhere near the fanboy "we dumped Microsoft in a heartbeat and now everyone uses Linux!".
Most of the names in Lion King are fairly pedestrian wordsfrom Swahili (Rafiki=friend, Nala=pretty, ...). Simba is just "lion" in another language.
This is not an overly broad patent. As written, I don't think ReplayTV even violates it.
I'm actually rather impressed with that. We should congratulate the blokes Down Under for ingeniously getting him the hell out of their country and the hell into ours.
The really amusing bit is that that file only has two lines of actual code, and the comments say that it contains source code from both AT&T and Microsoft. I'm wondering which is which.
"SuSHi: It's time to fish or cut bait..."
Actually, I think their commercials were exactly what they wanted -- they need to boost their name recognition, so they flooded the SB with incomprehensible commercials where the only thing you remember is the name `accenture'.
Here's another one: PDFTeX
I use [La]TeXPDF all the time to create slide presentations without having to use PowerPoint. Plus, it comes with the teTeX distribution.
No. It means that a failure to comply with the BSA's audit request can convince a judge to grant a search warrant.
(i.e., the non-compliance is regarding the audit, not the licensing.)
The problem with ROT47, apparently, is that if you don't watch opening left brackets, it won't decrypt correctly. :-)