The Atiyah-Singer index theorem provides a link between algebraic topology, the study of 'large-scale', structural properties of manifolds, and advanced calculus on manifolds
And them boys got the Navel Price for studying manifolds? There ain't nothing special 'bout them, just bolt them to the block, stick the exhaust pipe right on the other end, and tighten the collar real good, and that's it. Awh been doin' that fer twenty years now ya know, and I ain't never got no price...
instrumental in repairing a rift between the worlds of pure mathematics and theoretical particle physics, initiating a cross-fertilization which has been one of the most exciting developments
This is by far the dumbest pickup line since "do you want to see my japanese paintings at home". Math theories definitely won't help you drop hints to girls in a night club you know...
wonderfully solid cross-platform MS-Windows / Macintosh / Unix support, many are now wondering how long it'll now last for any platform
Isn't Unix what powers OS-X? I'm no specialist of the Mac word, but it seems to me that if something works on Unix, it has a fair chance of working under OS-X/Mac too, no?
As a Linux newbie (currently don't have Linux installed, but have used it and plan to install it soon), it would be nice to know which are the most popular packages
I think kernel-image*.deb and libc6*.dev rate quite high.
because each rod exposes anyone standing nearby (within a meter) to a lethal dose within seconds
Dirty bombers don't need a real power plant rod, they just need something that registers on a geiger counter as dangerous, i.e. several time the "safe" exposure limits that are usually quite low. The idea for terrorists is to spread terror amongst the people, and get press time.
If Fox News starts spreading the word that something with the word "radioactive" in it just exploded in NYC or Washington, you may not see deaths by exposure, but I think you'll see a general panic and stampede big enough to kill, or at least severely disrupt the economy.
I think the US is more preparing for radioactive fallouts from "dirty" bombs, i.e. sacks full of radioactive crap with a conventional explosive in then to spread the crap.
I don't think any terrorist group has the expertise, materials or facilities to build a nuclear device, much less deliver it, unless Pakistan helps.
though '...customers must buy a $99.95 set-top device to decode the channels.
So those channels are going to come through the antenna, uh?
How long do you think it'll take to adapt certain programs to decode more than Nagravision?
In Europe, there's a channel called Canal+ that's been software-decoded for years, and they can't really do much about it. I would think people would get cracking on the code even faster when 35 channels could be available.
I really don't give a shit. I don't use software based on what the developers political beliefs, temperament or some other trivial personality trait
that's very fine until those political beliefs or personality become overwhelming, and just generally too much to ignore. I guarantee you, if Linus became a neo-nazi tomorrow, I'd switch to *BSD in a jiffy, and so would many other devout Linux users.
And I know more than a few people who flatly refuse to try dotGNU because you-know-who, and his special personality, and his political motivations for doing it, is behind the project.
Turbo codes do a simple but incredible thing: they let engineers design systems that come extremely close to the so-called channel capacity--the absolute maximum capacity, in bits per second, of a communications channel for a given power level at the transmitter.
Okay, here's better: if you have enough money, you can make a system that downloads anything millions of times faster than the channel capacity.
The trick is to buy Google, that's reknown for having a mirror of all files in the world, and assign a unique number (say, on 1024 bits to be safe) to each of these files. Then, whenever you want to download a file, you just send the unique index number. How about that? you can transfer terabytes in just the time it takes to send 1024 bits across!
The only drawback of course is that it only works with known files. That is, if you want to transfer a new file that doesn't exist yet, it doesn't quite work as well yet, but I'm working on it...
So? Who deserves a Nobel price now, hmm? I'm waiting for my call from Sweden...
Sony studies gaming habits finds that most games are played from 5pm to 11pm
This just in: studies show that all games are played between 00:00 and 23:59, TV networks are worried!
I mean come on, 5pm to 11pm is 6 hours, that's a quarter of a day. Even if it's a "span that encompasses TV prime time", that doesn't mean people play games for 6 hours. What if people play games most of the time during dumb shows, and during ads, and stop to watch their favorite shows?
What I'm saying is that the study seems way too coarse to deduce anything useful from it. Ideally, it should show console vs. TV usage by the minute.
Also, you'll notice that Sony, a manufacturer of consoles, did the study, not an independant, impartial organization.
In short, this article doesn't bring much useful information.
No operating system required! Good for a home entertainment PC I guess." The review says that it will come bundled with a TV tuner card, too
Hmm, let's see: a computer with a small piece of dedicated software in ROM, a TV tuner card and a monitor? Last I checked, I could get that sort of device, minus the messy VGA and keyboard cables, and with about zero boot time, at K-Mart for about $100, and with a bigger screen too.
Because even though Google or Wikipedia and, well, the entire internet, are nice and/or useful, the information they carry is hardly worthyoftrust.
But to be honest, my encyclopedia (Britannica, paper edition) is circa 1975 and I don't really take what it says at face value anymore when it comes to high-technologies and the latest and greatest in science. But for 99.9% of its content, it's just fine, which it just as well because it cost me over $1000 when I bought it!
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Two Serbian men, aged 38 and 33, and a Hungarian woman aged 32 have been released on bail until 30 March.
Well, if she hadn't been arrested for cheating at the casino, she probably would have been arrested at the tobacconist anyway...
The Atiyah-Singer index theorem provides a link between algebraic topology, the study of 'large-scale', structural properties of manifolds, and advanced calculus on manifolds
And them boys got the Navel Price for studying manifolds? There ain't nothing special 'bout them, just bolt them to the block, stick the exhaust pipe right on the other end, and tighten the collar real good, and that's it. Awh been doin' that fer twenty years now ya know, and I ain't never got no price...
personally I can't think of anything more mindblowing than such things as topology, geometry and algebra
You're right there, I definitely found it mind-blowing in university. My nose still bleeds from time to time, ten years after, as a result...
instrumental in repairing a rift between the worlds of pure mathematics and theoretical particle physics, initiating a cross-fertilization which has been one of the most exciting developments
This is by far the dumbest pickup line since "do you want to see my japanese paintings at home". Math theories definitely won't help you drop hints to girls in a night club you know...
Relativity has already been put to the test. I mean, if time wasn't flexible, how else would Arthur Dent be able to witness the end of the universe every evening at Milliways?
Very intelligent comment. If I had mod points, they would be for you mister.
"Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice" document, published by Microsoft in ... PDF format.
Amusing...
wonderfully solid cross-platform MS-Windows / Macintosh / Unix support, many are now wondering how long it'll now last for any platform
Isn't Unix what powers OS-X? I'm no specialist of the Mac word, but it seems to me that if something works on Unix, it has a fair chance of working under OS-X/Mac too, no?
- Quick quick, register hot.mail ASAP!!
- Wait for Microsoft to contact me, tell them I take cash and checks
No no, I'm not reading PRNewsWire and there isn't a BUY button on the page. This really is
Wow, that's like $5T!
(Yes, the joke seems to have shifted from CAN$ vs . US$ to US$ vs. EUR these days)
As a Linux newbie (currently don't have Linux installed, but have used it and plan to install it soon), it would be nice to know which are the most popular packages
I think kernel-image*.deb and libc6*.dev rate quite high.
because each rod exposes anyone standing nearby (within a meter) to a lethal dose within seconds
Dirty bombers don't need a real power plant rod, they just need something that registers on a geiger counter as dangerous, i.e. several time the "safe" exposure limits that are usually quite low. The idea for terrorists is to spread terror amongst the people, and get press time.
If Fox News starts spreading the word that something with the word "radioactive" in it just exploded in NYC or Washington, you may not see deaths by exposure, but I think you'll see a general panic and stampede big enough to kill, or at least severely disrupt the economy.
I think the US is more preparing for radioactive fallouts from "dirty" bombs, i.e. sacks full of radioactive crap with a conventional explosive in then to spread the crap.
I don't think any terrorist group has the expertise, materials or facilities to build a nuclear device, much less deliver it, unless Pakistan helps.
If you want to end terrorism then end linux.
/sbin/shutdown -h now
#
Thanks for the tip, I'm sure glad I could do my part to fight terr
then tries to determine who that person may be connected with.
Does this software detect siamese twins?
though '...customers must buy a $99.95 set-top device to decode the channels.
So those channels are going to come through the antenna, uh?
How long do you think it'll take to adapt certain programs to decode more than Nagravision?
In Europe, there's a channel called Canal+ that's been software-decoded for years, and they can't really do much about it. I would think people would get cracking on the code even faster when 35 channels could be available.
I really don't give a shit. I don't use software based on what the developers political beliefs, temperament or some other trivial personality trait
that's very fine until those political beliefs or personality become overwhelming, and just generally too much to ignore. I guarantee you, if Linus became a neo-nazi tomorrow, I'd switch to *BSD in a jiffy, and so would many other devout Linux users.
And I know more than a few people who flatly refuse to try dotGNU because you-know-who, and his special personality, and his political motivations for doing it, is behind the project.
Turbo codes do a simple but incredible thing: they let engineers design systems that come extremely close to the so-called channel capacity--the absolute maximum capacity, in bits per second, of a communications channel for a given power level at the transmitter.
Okay, here's better: if you have enough money, you can make a system that downloads anything millions of times faster than the channel capacity.
The trick is to buy Google, that's reknown for having a mirror of all files in the world, and assign a unique number (say, on 1024 bits to be safe) to each of these files. Then, whenever you want to download a file, you just send the unique index number. How about that? you can transfer terabytes in just the time it takes to send 1024 bits across!
The only drawback of course is that it only works with known files. That is, if you want to transfer a new file that doesn't exist yet, it doesn't quite work as well yet, but I'm working on it...
So? Who deserves a Nobel price now, hmm? I'm waiting for my call from Sweden...
Sony studies gaming habits finds that most games are played from 5pm to 11pm
This just in: studies show that all games are played between 00:00 and 23:59, TV networks are worried!
I mean come on, 5pm to 11pm is 6 hours, that's a quarter of a day. Even if it's a "span that encompasses TV prime time", that doesn't mean people play games for 6 hours. What if people play games most of the time during dumb shows, and during ads, and stop to watch their favorite shows?
What I'm saying is that the study seems way too coarse to deduce anything useful from it. Ideally, it should show console vs. TV usage by the minute.
Also, you'll notice that Sony, a manufacturer of consoles, did the study, not an independant, impartial organization.
In short, this article doesn't bring much useful information.
Only downside it seems is that you cannot use normal CDs
Perhaps glueing 2 regular CDs back to back would work?
No operating system required! Good for a home entertainment PC I guess." The review says that it will come bundled with a TV tuner card, too
Hmm, let's see: a computer with a small piece of dedicated software in ROM, a TV tuner card and a monitor? Last I checked, I could get that sort of device, minus the messy VGA and keyboard cables, and with about zero boot time, at K-Mart for about $100, and with a bigger screen too.
David gets extra points in my books for including sugar, Shakespeare, open source, MP3s, and the British Empire in one article.
..."
"To MP3 or not to MP3, that is the question:
Whether 'tis GNUer in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous coffee with no sugar
Okay, do I get points now?
Because even though Google or Wikipedia and, well, the entire internet, are nice and/or useful, the information they carry is hardly worthy of trust.
But to be honest, my encyclopedia (Britannica, paper edition) is circa 1975 and I don't really take what it says at face value anymore when it comes to high-technologies and the latest and greatest in science. But for 99.9% of its content, it's just fine, which it just as well because it cost me over $1000 when I bought it!
Free food? Shit
Pretty accurate summary of the meeting's proceedings for certain people...