The premise is that if it could be proved that there is only one mathematiclly consistent (and hopefully elegant) way the universe COULD be constructed, then that is the way the universe IS constructed.
"Huh? Credit card companies make the most money on interest charges from people who don't pay their bill in full."
Not quite correct. The banks who issue the cards make money on the interest. The credit card companies (MC/Visa/AMEX/Discover) make a percentage of each transaction.
Can anyone tell me why memory prices have increased so much in the past few months? AFAIK memory is a multiple source commodity so the huge price jump seems to me to be not a consequence of supply and demand.
Common Law. No legal infant can contract for any but essentials (such as food, lodging, etc.) In the United States, one is a legal infant until he/she reaches eighteen years of age or is emancipated by a competent court. There is a more complex legal question, dating back to British Common Law, of whether a person becomes a legal adult on the day before their birthday.
Sayith the article, "That means we have to find a way to emulate this data, in other words to turn into a form that can be used no matter what is the computer format of the future. That is the real goal of this project."
That's not quite what I meant, since P is a (possibly improper) subset of NP. Factoring has never been shown to be not P (i.e. not solvable by a polynomial-time algorithm.)
The big problem with shareware is that so much of it is way overpriced. I'd pay five dollars for a occassionally used utility that an improvement over something that's included in Windows, but most of these guys want something like FORTY-five dollars for their little programs.
"...the USPS was selling Looney Tunes stamps a couple of years ago, and you can bet that AOL Time-Warner was pulling in some cash from that."
Actually, AOL/TW didn't receive any money for the Looney Toon stamps. In fact, they had to forgo their copyright rights for those specific images. The Post Office wanted to do Disney characters as well, but the Disney intellectual property people blocked that idea.
I'm not sure if the USPS owns the copyright for the LT images on the stamps or if they are now in the public domain.
TiVo can't use the grid unless they license the patent from Starsight. I understand that ReplayTV and UltimateTV did that but TiVo did not. Maybe TiVo will for the next version. One could hope.
4 days to Kronos, 4 days back. 30 million kilometers per second. That's 100c, so Kronos is a little more than one light year away. I know the Klingons can cloak a ship, but a star as well?
The obvious question is how much of the Bush Administration's request for increased police power and restrictions on freedoms is to fight terrorism and how much is to create a police state (or enhance an already existing one for that matter.)
Putting restrictions on cryptography and steganography is akin to closing the barn door after the cow's run off.
Apologies for stating the obvious, but someone has to.
Someone please up-moderate the preceeding post.
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It might be off topic, in bad taste, and even offensive, but it is very funny and much more interesting than fp!!
I once computed that one could compress the all the text contained in the Library of Congress into a box of CD-Roms that could fit in the trunk of a Miata. With current technology, it could fit into a medium-sized sample case.
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I'm not defending m$ but I think by "potentally viral software" they mean that the open-source's software license might potentally "infect" m$'s own code.
All this is about is that Microsoft wants to (or already does) use GPL'ed code but does not want to release what they did with it. Their lawyers are afraid that they might have to release all their code.
It seems to me that Open Source means that anyone can use it for free providing they abide by the rules of the appropriate license. If IBM, HP, etc., can make money off Linux (and provide credibility for it as well) they are under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to "pay" for it.
This is not to say that it would be a bad idea for IBM, etc., to be good corporate citizens and make some of their proprietary software open source, but to demand them to do so is arrogant.
Actually, the American system is based on the French system, where one billion was a thousand million. However, fairly recently the French have changed over to the British system, where one billion is a million million.
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The premise is that if it could be proved that there is only one mathematiclly consistent (and hopefully elegant) way the universe COULD be constructed, then that is the way the universe IS constructed.
Not quite correct. The banks who issue the cards make money on the interest. The credit card companies (MC/Visa/AMEX/Discover) make a percentage of each transaction.
Can anyone tell me why memory prices have increased so much in the past few months? AFAIK memory is a multiple source commodity so the huge price jump seems to me to be not a consequence of supply and demand.
Remember when, back in the days of the Pentium floating point bug, "Intel Inside" was a warning label?
Common Law. No legal infant can contract for any but essentials (such as food, lodging, etc.) In the United States, one is a legal infant until he/she reaches eighteen years of age or is emancipated by a competent court. There is a more complex legal question, dating back to British Common Law, of whether a person becomes a legal adult on the day before their birthday.
Xenu.net still comes up when I do a Google search. Official $cientology websites just appear first.
Sayith the article, "That means we have to find a way to emulate this data, in other words to turn into a form that can be used no matter what is the computer format of the future. That is the real goal of this project."
How about paper and ink?
That's not quite what I meant, since P is a (possibly improper) subset of NP. Factoring has never been shown to be not P (i.e. not solvable by a polynomial-time algorithm.)
Factoring has never been shown to be NP.
The big problem with shareware is that so much of it is way overpriced. I'd pay five dollars for a occassionally used utility that an improvement over something that's included in Windows, but most of these guys want something like FORTY-five dollars for their little programs.
"...the USPS was selling Looney Tunes stamps a couple of years ago, and you can bet that AOL Time-Warner was pulling in some cash from that."
Actually, AOL/TW didn't receive any money for the Looney Toon stamps. In fact, they had to forgo their copyright rights for those specific images. The Post Office wanted to do Disney characters as well, but the Disney intellectual property people blocked that idea.
I'm not sure if the USPS owns the copyright for the LT images on the stamps or if they are now in the public domain.
"This is a great opportunity for everyone to send in their intelligent and informed opinions on the matter"
What about those of us with stupid and uninformed opinions? Huh, huh? Why are we being left out?
This is democracy?
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TiVo can't use the grid unless they license the patent from Starsight. I understand that ReplayTV and UltimateTV did that but TiVo did not. Maybe TiVo will for the next version. One could hope.
4 days to Kronos, 4 days back. 30 million kilometers per second. That's 100c, so Kronos is a little more than one light year away. I know the Klingons can cloak a ship, but a star as well?
Putting restrictions on cryptography and steganography is akin to closing the barn door after the cow's run off.
Apologies for stating the obvious, but someone has to.
It might be off topic, in bad taste, and even offensive, but it is very funny and much more interesting than fp!!
I once computed that one could compress the all the text contained in the Library of Congress into a box of CD-Roms that could fit in the trunk of a Miata. With current technology, it could fit into a medium-sized sample case.
This is supposed to be a bad thing? Bug juice? Ghhhhrrrgggg!
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I'm not defending m$ but I think by "potentally viral software" they mean that the open-source's software license might potentally "infect" m$'s own code.
They need better lawyers.
But how do I know that anonymous remailers and web proxies are not actually sting operations run by government agencies?
This is not to say that it would be a bad idea for IBM, etc., to be good corporate citizens and make some of their proprietary software open source, but to demand them to do so is arrogant.
Whenever I've been forced to use some version of IBM's OS/3X0 I understood that OS stood for Obstacle System.
Actually, the American system is based on the French system, where one billion was a thousand million. However, fairly recently the French have changed over to the British system, where one billion is a million million.