As per Brief History of Pi Calculations by Computers, the current figure is 1.24 trillion by the same Japanese team. In fact, Yasumasa KANADA has broken the record 18 times since 1981. Boy does he have a lot of spare time or what?
He will be able to bid, but his bids probably wont get accepted. The auction page says that either you have to be a pre-verified bidder or your bid will be verified within 30 minutes or the bid will be cancelled.
I think what gosling meant by autoboxing is a way for the VM to convert between primitives and objects transparently. So an int can be used as an Integer and an Integer as an int without the programmer having to do new Integer(intValue) or Integer.intValue() or whatever.
Such a feature does not exist in Java and I feel it would be useful if implemented correctly and carefully.
Chess uses the ELO system for rating players. As per this system, a players new ratings is dependant on their old rating and the rating of their opponent and the result of the match between them.
If a player does not play any matches at all, the rating does not change. So that list can be considered to be an all-time chess player ranking.
FIDE also has a list of current world top players as well as a 32 best players. Not exactly sure what the criteria for the best 32 players is though.
an innovation patent is a relatively fast, inexpensive protection option available from IP Australia, and is the most recent in a range of other intellectual property rights . Protection lasts for a maximum of 8 years.
From the Jargon Files:
Mel's full name is Mel Kaye. He is refered to in the LGP-30 manual as "Mel Kaye of Royal McBee who did the bulk of the programming [...] of the ACT 1 system".
And, on the remotest of possibilities that they've never seen water - under any name - they'll figure out how to make it. If they have the ability to make a radio telescope, they understand enough chemistry to know that hydrogen and oxygen react together. So, even if oxygen is a rarer-than-palladium element to them, at least their scientists will have seen it, documented its properties, and will be able to make water
and on making water, they find out that it is highly toxic. In fact it wipes out almost all life on their planet. In addition to wiping out most life on Earth including himself, Man has also managed to destroy ET.
Isn't that what the.NET platform is all about. They've got this VM that a bunch of languages (17?) can compile to.
From a.NET presentation, we found out that new specs were created for the 17 languages that are supposedly interoperable with.NET. These specs are subsets of the actual languages. For eg, Managed C++ in the subset of C++ that works in.NET.
The problem with this is that you might lose the features you wanted to use of a particular language in the first place. As an example, why would I want to use Eiffel instead of C#. Lets say because Eiffel allows multiple inheritance and C# doesn't. But the Eiffel compiler for.NET (lets call it Eiffel#) will not accept that code because the Eiffel# specs do not support multiple inheritance.
The feeling we got from the presentation was that we'd be better of using C# only as you would not gain much, if anything at all, by using other languages in.NET. One guy remarked, "You can use any language in.NET as long as it is C#".
Vivek Mittal
Research Technologist
Telstra Research Labs
That is why it is very important to check the fingerprints of the key. But for people living continents apart, how do you check the fingerprint other than over the phone. If the FBI really wanted, they could tap the phones and have a guy impersonating both bad guy's and telling them the Carnivore fingerprint.
Is there a safe way of exchanging fingerprints other than a face to face meeting?
Vivek Mittal Research Technologist Telstra Research Labs
Looking up the alteon cards, http://www.alteonwebsystems.com/products/adapters.shtml, the differences between the two cards is that the 1000SX uses multi-mode fibre and the PCI card uses Category 5 UTP pair. The other difference is that PCI has auto-negotiation, whereas the 1000SX does not.
The media used should not be able to cause that much difference. So can someone tell me what auto-negotiation is and can it result in the huge difference in performance. If it does not, then in that particular benchmark, Linux performed better on its own merit and not because of some advantage offered by the hardware. Vivek Mittal Vivek Mittal Research Technologist Telstra Research Labs
I think thats it... if only I can find that link to where I read this Pizza Hut thing. My guess is that I saw it on telstra.com, but it could really be any one of the sites a visit daily. Vivek Mittal Research Technologist Telstra Research Labs
Pizza Hut was forced to withdraw an ad that said it had more cheese than Pizza Haven pizzas. The FTC equivalent down here (the name escapes me) did some measurements on the two pizzas and told Pizza Hut that were false advertising as the amount of cheese was not significantly different to that on Pizza Haven's pizzas. Vivek Mittal Research Technologist Telstra Research Labs
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As per Brief History of Pi Calculations by Computers, the current figure is 1.24 trillion by the same Japanese team. In fact, Yasumasa KANADA has broken the record 18 times since 1981. Boy does he have a lot of spare time or what?
Yeah, its like taking seven and half million years to find out that the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.
He will be able to bid, but his bids probably wont get accepted. The auction page says that either you have to be a pre-verified bidder or your bid will be verified within 30 minutes or the bid will be cancelled.
I agree completely. In fact, I've already told my boss to expect me to leave early each day in June 'cause I'm going home to watch the World Cup.
I think what gosling meant by autoboxing is a way for the VM to convert between primitives and objects transparently. So an int can be used as an Integer and an Integer as an int without the programmer having to do new Integer(intValue) or Integer.intValue() or whatever.
Such a feature does not exist in Java and I feel it would be useful if implemented correctly and carefully.
Chess uses the ELO system for rating players. As per this system, a players new ratings is dependant on their old rating and the rating of their opponent and the result of the match between them.
If a player does not play any matches at all, the rating does not change. So that list can be considered to be an all-time chess player ranking.
FIDE also has a list of current world top players as well as a 32 best players. Not exactly sure what the criteria for the best 32 players is though.
Cheers,
Vivek
I always thought Melbourne IT controlled .com.au anyway. Elz controlled the other domains in .au like .net.au, .org.au.
Vivek
an innovation patent is a relatively fast, inexpensive protection option available from IP Australia, and is the most recent in a range of other intellectual property rights . Protection lasts for a maximum of 8 years.
It seems that the patent does offer protection.
Vivek
From the Jargon Files: Mel's full name is Mel Kaye. He is refered to in the LGP-30 manual as "Mel Kaye of Royal McBee who did the bulk of the programming [...] of the ACT 1 system".
and on making water, they find out that it is highly toxic. In fact it wipes out almost all life on their planet. In addition to wiping out most life on Earth including himself, Man has also managed to destroy ET.
Isn't that what the .NET platform is all about. They've got this VM that a bunch of languages (17?) can compile to.
.NET presentation, we found out that new specs were created for the 17 languages that are supposedly interoperable with .NET. These specs are subsets of the actual languages. For eg, Managed C++ in the subset of C++ that works in .NET.
.NET (lets call it Eiffel#) will not accept that code because the Eiffel# specs do not support multiple inheritance.
.NET. One guy remarked, "You can use any language in .NET as long as it is C#".
From a
The problem with this is that you might lose the features you wanted to use of a particular language in the first place. As an example, why would I want to use Eiffel instead of C#. Lets say because Eiffel allows multiple inheritance and C# doesn't. But the Eiffel compiler for
The feeling we got from the presentation was that we'd be better of using C# only as you would not gain much, if anything at all, by using other languages in
Vivek Mittal
Research Technologist
Telstra Research Labs
Is there a safe way of exchanging fingerprints other than a face to face meeting?
Vivek Mittal
Research Technologist
Telstra Research Labs
The media used should not be able to cause that much difference. So can someone tell me what auto-negotiation is and can it result in the huge difference in performance. If it does not, then in that particular benchmark, Linux performed better on its own merit and not because of some advantage offered by the hardware. Vivek Mittal
Vivek Mittal
Research Technologist
Telstra Research Labs
I think thats it... if only I can find that link to where I read this Pizza Hut thing. My guess is that I saw it on telstra.com, but it could really be any one of the sites a visit daily.
Vivek Mittal
Research Technologist
Telstra Research Labs
Pizza Hut was forced to withdraw an ad that said it had more cheese than Pizza Haven pizzas. The FTC equivalent down here (the name escapes me) did some measurements on the two pizzas and told Pizza Hut that were false advertising as the amount of cheese was not significantly different to that on Pizza Haven's pizzas.
Vivek Mittal
Research Technologist
Telstra Research Labs