The top three previously known primes were Mersenne. Here's a list. At the time they were discovered, almost all largest Mersenne primes have held the record for biggest prime until being edged out by another Mersenne prime. I am not sure when a non-Mersenne last had that status, but it is a rare occurrence.
Looking for Mersennes is "picking the low fruit" when it comes to prime hunting so I question the phrasing "Not only is it the biggest Mersenne.."
What would have been remarkable would have been if the new largest prime were *not* a Mersenne.
I guess you could still call it "digital" although not electronic. Lexmark uses a metal tab to prevent you from putting Samsung cartridges in their E210 printer, even though the printer is manufactured by Samsung.
Can you cite a reference to this policy? All the statistical data I've seen gives only the first three characters of the postal code.
I was under the impression that Stats Can runs a test on any data they release to make sure that it doesn't identify anybody, even by solving a set of equations.
In addition to this, I believe researchers have to receive ethics clearance for the use of the data, which obliges them to keep it confidential.
Don't be so quick to say that "not one of them predicted the tsunami." Depending on how broadly you define "predicted the tsunami" you can estimate the number of psychics that will have in fact predicted the tsunami.
Of course, the fact that these random predictions happened to be true is not evidence of clairvoyance.
I just bought a gray-box computer for my Dad. After all the negotiations, the vendor reduced the price by $65 when I deleted Windows XP Home from the package. A significant chunk of a $515 (CAN) box.
The guy I brought it from was pretty impressed when I slapped in a MEPIS CD and checked out everything - RAM, CPU, Ethernet, Multimedia - in a few minutes in the storefront. I left a copy with him.
While the internet was thriving, Microsoft was still selling us client/server networks in which the clients were inferior participants. As I recall, the term peer-to-peer was first coined to describe non-crippled local networks in which the clients could communicate with one another, not just the file/print server.
There was nothing special about peer-to-peer unless you came from a Windows LAN environment. But in that environment it was magic, and I daresay the same magical connotation applies to current usage of the term.
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In my opinion, Americans spend way too much effort getting into the 'best' schools. In the end, your personal achievments speak much louder than where you graduate from. Mediocre Harvard graduates are still mediocre; exceptional XX-State graduates are still exceptional.
By all means go to the school that will best enhance your personal talents. But don't stand on your head to be admitted to 'the' school, especially if this effort is contrary to developing your individual talents. Admission to university is a beginning, not an end.
Oh! I thought you meant "leaky" in terms of electrical current. I'm not sure that I've ever seen such a thing - a capacitor that physically self-destructs, though the responses here seem to indicate they're commonplace. Surely, such destruction is preceded by electrical failure.
Nothing scientific. The p4 (2 years old) is down to about 10 minutes. It has thousands of energy-saving options and using them it was able to get more than 2 hours when new.
The compaq (also 2 yrs old) is and always has been able to do 2 hrs+ and I've never seen or played with any cpu throttling. It's also much cooler on the lap and has a smaller battery.
Don't really know about the Celeron.
The Averatec is pretty new but it goes about 3
hours running Linux with no throttling. This is a compact unit (AV3250HX-01) with fairly small battery.
As the article points out, increased processor power has been eaten by increased software bloat. Windows machines (and X11 machines) are as slow now as they've ever been.
I'm not speaking of bleeding-edge applications, I speaking of how long it takes a menu to appear after you hit START, or how long it takes to open an editor for a simple text file.
About a dozen years ago, a PC hacker laughed at my
Unix box because there was a noticeable lag between touching a key and getting a response.
He can laugh no longer. Unix systems aren't any
better, but PCs have become dogs.
But there is hope. If we put nearly as much
intellectual energy into making software more
efficient, perhaps we could actually harness the
couple of orders-of-magnitude improvement in
processor power that has occurred in the last
dozen years.
The processor designers have spent their energy
making a well defined set of operations (with minor enhancements) run faster. The software
designers have instead spent their energies making the core operations slower in support of more and more (dis?)functionality.
So we're doing our bit to keep AMD's numbers up. In general I like the athlons better than either the P4 or the Celeron. The P4 is *hot* and only slightly faster than the athlon 1500. The Celeron is by far the slowest and the athlon 2200 is the fastest.
I don't have accurate statistics of the fraction of AMD laptops on the store shelves, but they are plentiful enough to offer a decent selection.
The sterotype of gifted individuals as socially incompetent has no factual basis. In general, gifted individuals are more likely to be socially adjusted, to have diverse interests, and to be sensitive to others.
Of course, the social skills of gifted and non-gifted individuals conform to overlapping probability distributions, so you can't draw any conclusions about individuals from the mean, anyway. But it is a myth that there is a positive correlation between intelligence and awkwardness. There is a negative correlation.
I fiddled with Windoze NFS clients and servers some time ago. No doubt they've improved but at the time I decided that Samba was a better solution because you can establish ad-hoc sharing much more easily.
Sauber has hired Jacques Villeneuve, the only driver racing who has beaten Schumacher to the World Championship.
Although Sauber and Villeneuve have had less-than-spectacular results recently, there's always a chance that they could collectively get their acts together and be very competitive.
oversight ('&schwa.Uv&schwa.rsaIt), sb. [OVER- 7, 5.] The action of overseeing or overlooking.
1 a Supervision, superintendence, inspection; charge, care, management, control.
I tried a bunch of live CDs on my Toshiba 5200 and none worked properly until I found Mepis and downloaded it. It worked perfectly - even the wireless. And installing to the hard drive was easy, too.
Mepis is Debian based; much lower barrier to admission than other Debian distros.
The only true... followed by some words with nebulous semantics. Successful trial of a key layer... [as opposed to an actual demonstration]. 1 misclassification in 25,000 [a.k.a 99.996% accuracy].
All these phrasings automatically trigger my B.S. filter. Or should I say firewall.
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The top three previously known primes were Mersenne. Here's a list. At the time they were discovered, almost all largest Mersenne primes have held the record for biggest prime until being edged out by another Mersenne prime. I am not sure when a non-Mersenne last had that status, but it is a rare occurrence.
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Looking for Mersennes is "picking the low fruit" when it comes to prime hunting so I question the phrasing "Not only is it the biggest Mersenne
What would have been remarkable would have been if the new largest prime were *not* a Mersenne.
That's what I would have done, had I known what I now know about Lexmark.
That's why I'm sharing the info.
I guess you could still call it "digital" although not electronic. Lexmark uses a metal tab to prevent you from putting Samsung cartridges in their E210 printer, even though the printer is manufactured by Samsung.
Of course, the Lexmark cartridges cost 50% more.
If anybody still has an E210 and is still shelling out for Lexmark cartridges, please visit How to use a Samsung cartridge in a Lexmark.
And never buy another Lexmark.
Can you cite a reference to this policy? All the statistical data I've seen gives only the first three characters of the postal code.
I was under the impression that Stats Can runs
a test on any data they release to make sure
that it doesn't identify anybody, even by
solving a set of equations.
In addition to this, I believe researchers have
to receive ethics clearance for the use of the
data, which obliges them to keep it confidential.
Don't be so quick to say that "not one of them predicted the tsunami." Depending on how broadly you define "predicted the tsunami" you can estimate the number of psychics that will have in fact predicted the tsunami.
Of course, the fact that these random predictions happened to be true is not evidence of clairvoyance.
Real scientific results are reported in scientific venues like professional conferences and peer-reviewed journals. Not press releases.
Using Linux? Mplayer plugin supports quicktime and much more:
video/quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
video/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
image/x-quicktime Quicktime mov Yes
video/quicktime Quicktime mp4 Yes
video/quicktime Quicktime - Session Description Protocol sdp Yes
application/x-quicktimeplayer Quicktime mov Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Windows Media asf,asx Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI avi Yes
video/msvideo AVI avi Yes
application/x-mplayer2 WMV wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wm MSNBCPlayer asf Yes
video/x-ms-asf Windows Media asf,asx Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Windows Media wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wmp Windows Media wmp Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media wvx Yes
audio/x-ms-wax Windows Media wax Yes
audio/x-ms-wma Windows Media wma Yes
application/x-drm-v2 Windows Media asx Yes
audio/wav Microsoft wave file wav Yes
audio/x-wav Microsoft wave file wav Yes
video/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
video/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
video/x-mpeg2 MPEG2 mpv2,mp2ve Yes
audio/mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/x-mpeg MPEG mpg,mpeg Yes
audio/mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes
audio/x-mpeg2 MPEG audio mp2 Yes
audio/mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
audio/x-mpeg3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
audio/mp3 MPEG audio mp3 Yes
video/mp4 MPEG 4 Video mp4 Yes
video/fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes
video/x-fli FLI animation fli,flc Yes
video/vnd.vivo VivoActive viv,vivo Yes
Tri-Star Computer Systems Inc. Ask for David Zhang.
I just bought a gray-box computer for my Dad. After all the negotiations, the vendor reduced the price by $65 when I deleted Windows XP Home from the package. A significant chunk of a $515 (CAN) box.
The guy I brought it from was pretty impressed when I slapped in a MEPIS CD and checked out everything - RAM, CPU, Ethernet, Multimedia - in a few minutes in the storefront. I left a copy with him.
While the internet was thriving, Microsoft was still selling us client/server networks in which the clients were inferior participants. As I recall, the term peer-to-peer was first coined to describe non-crippled local networks in which the clients could communicate with one another, not just the file/print server.
There was nothing special about peer-to-peer unless you came from a Windows LAN environment. But in that environment it was magic, and I daresay the same magical connotation applies to current usage of the term.
I'll take the 3.95 from Cal.
In my opinion, Americans spend way too much effort getting into the 'best' schools. In the end, your personal achievments speak much louder than where you graduate from. Mediocre Harvard graduates are still mediocre; exceptional XX-State graduates are still exceptional.
By all means go to the school that will best enhance your personal talents. But don't stand on your head to be admitted to 'the' school, especially if this effort is contrary to developing your individual talents. Admission to university is a beginning, not an end.
Mature students have pretty good track records. What they may lack or have forgotten in skills, they make up for in attitude and general savvy.
So don't be intimidated. Sure, you'll have some catching up to do, but it won't be that onerous.
Oh! I thought you meant "leaky" in terms of electrical current. I'm not sure that I've ever seen such a thing - a capacitor that physically self-destructs, though the responses here seem to indicate they're commonplace. Surely, such destruction is preceded by electrical failure.
How exactly did you diagnose that leaking caps were the problem?
Sure. I sent it to you. In case anybody else is interested:
here is a description of my installation
The compaq (also 2 yrs old) is and always has been able to do 2 hrs+ and I've never seen or played with any cpu throttling. It's also much cooler on the lap and has a smaller battery.
Don't really know about the Celeron.
The Averatec is pretty new but it goes about 3 hours running Linux with no throttling. This is a compact unit (AV3250HX-01) with fairly small battery.
I'm not speaking of bleeding-edge applications, I speaking of how long it takes a menu to appear after you hit START, or how long it takes to open an editor for a simple text file.
About a dozen years ago, a PC hacker laughed at my Unix box because there was a noticeable lag between touching a key and getting a response. He can laugh no longer. Unix systems aren't any better, but PCs have become dogs.
But there is hope. If we put nearly as much intellectual energy into making software more efficient, perhaps we could actually harness the couple of orders-of-magnitude improvement in processor power that has occurred in the last dozen years.
The processor designers have spent their energy making a well defined set of operations (with minor enhancements) run faster. The software designers have instead spent their energies making the core operations slower in support of more and more (dis?)functionality.
In my household our laptops are:
p4 2G (toshiba)
athlon 1500+ (compaq)
athlon 2200 (averatec)
celeron 2.2G (toshiba)
So we're doing our bit to keep AMD's numbers up. In general I like the athlons better than either the P4 or the Celeron. The P4 is *hot* and only slightly faster than the athlon 1500. The Celeron is by far the slowest and the athlon 2200 is the fastest.
I don't have accurate statistics of the fraction of AMD laptops on the store shelves, but they are plentiful enough to offer a decent selection.
The sterotype of gifted individuals as socially incompetent has no factual basis. In general, gifted individuals are more likely to be socially adjusted, to have diverse interests, and to be sensitive to others.
Of course, the social skills of gifted and non-gifted individuals conform to overlapping probability distributions, so you can't draw any conclusions about individuals from the mean, anyway. But it is a myth that there is a positive correlation between intelligence and awkwardness. There is a negative correlation.
I fiddled with Windoze NFS clients and servers some time ago. No doubt they've improved but at the time I decided that Samba was a better solution because you can establish ad-hoc sharing much more easily.
Sauber has hired Jacques Villeneuve, the only driver racing who has beaten Schumacher to the World Championship.
Although Sauber and Villeneuve have had less-than-spectacular results recently, there's always a chance that they could collectively get their acts together and be very competitive.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
oversight ('&schwa.Uv&schwa.rsaIt), sb. [OVER- 7, 5.] The action of overseeing
or overlooking.
1 a Supervision, superintendence, inspection; charge, care, management,
control.
Mepis is Debian based; much lower barrier to admission than other Debian distros.
All these phrasings automatically trigger my B.S. filter. Or should I say firewall.