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"However, there is one ace card in Microsoft's back pocket which you left out : Microsoft's Theory Group. MS supports a very high-powered discrete math and computer science group, comparable to that of a top-notch university. It's not just deep pockets here : it's a long-term commitment to building up a substantial research group pursuing fundamental research on problems closely allied to various technical issues. Noteably, this includes web searches, which is really just a problem in graph theory."
The only problem with your theory is that Microsoft's Developers do not respect the Research side.
>Studies have shown that difference in resolution slows >reading by about 30% and causes eyestrain and >headache
That has totally NOT been my experience. I read MORE books now that I read them on the Pocket PC than when I read paperback or hardback. The text is very legible and it is very easy to flip the virtual pages.
The one thing I don't like about ebooks is the DRM. I think it's stupid to force people to use crappy readers just to read a specific format.
...planes but what's up with his believing that aliens built the pyramids in Egypt? I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that in Wired magazine. The writer must've misquoted him.
"I stand by my statement that I may actually "know" more mathematics than most of them, however. "
Hmm...I think what the other guy was saying is that you may have knowledge of more fields of mathematics than Euler but you certainly don't have more knowledge of any mathematics than Euler. Euler had a vast knowledge of mathematics in many fields. I think that the University in St. Petersburg or some such academic place was still publishing works of his seventy years after his death. That's a lot of mathematics. No, I think it would take you many many years just to get to the same knowledge that Euler did never mind other mathematicians. I myself have a minor in mathematics and have taken enough graduate courses in advanced mathematics and I still would never claim that I know more mathematics than Euler, Gauss or whomever. Gauss probably knew more number theory than I even though I have a love for the subject and know of some advanced techniques.
It has always seemed to me that Ken Ribet has been bright green with envy ever since Andrew proved Fermat's Last Theorem. I can't count the number of times he said that it was 'audacious' that Andrew did this in secret. I think Ken thinks he should have solved Fermat but he thought it was impossible to solve at the time.
I saw him give a talk about his career and in passing he mentioned that he was using one of these and that he was very irritated that they were taking his electric car back merely to destroy it.
It wasn't called IBM when it first started out as a startup by a census employee. You see the Census Bureau had a problem....it took them almost ten years to tabulate the previous census and they had no clue how they were going to complete the next census so they asked people to come up with ideas on how to solve their problem. One of their employees thought of developing a machine to automate the manual process and so came about the start of the company.
The name IBM didn't come into use until the 40's or 50's when Thomas Watson Sr. decided that he wanted the company to have a name that matched his view of its glorious future.
See Raymond Kurzweil's excellent treatise on computers The Age of Intelligent Machines for more on the history of IBM and computers.
You often see bike cops on the sidewalk and yet according to the law bikes are not allowed on the sidewalk and cops are not supposed to break traffic law unless they are in pursuit of a lawbreaker so how do they justify driving on sidewalks themselves?
"What does he use to keep his hair so tidy? He can be shot at roughly 40 times, jump on a bike, and jump onto a train without messing up his hair the slightest bit."
The media and liberal arts people who would make a fuss don't understand or care about science, so they would give a lot more attention to the scribblings of a second rate artist than to a scientific work.
I agree. In Florence, Italy they have a copy of Copernicus' or Brahe's (I can't remember which) work on celestial mechanics and yet it is placed in a very unobtrusive place whereas paintings by unknown (to me) artists are placed more prominently.
>Independent artists tend to be extremely lo-fi, >very unpolished, and more often than not, just >plain unoriginal. You definitely can't dance to >it.
Not always. Where I live I have discovered four local bands that are really good, very polished and rather original. Only one of them however has sort of made it - Pink Martini.
But then your definition of 'independent' may be different.
Your definition of 'good' may also be different especially if you like 'Eminem' and 'Tori Amos.'
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He was also pretty good in a couple of Twilight Zone episodes. This was of course pre Star Trek The Original Series.
At least someone else seems to think so too in this rant.
is right here in PDF www.nasa.gov/pdf/55407main_24%20Exploration.pdf format.
The only problem with your theory is that Microsoft's Developers do not respect the Research side.
Anybody have any idea what happened to this wizard of the Macintosh?
>it didn't follow proper procedure.
If NASA managers truly cancelled the attempt to get data on the damage then I think that is criminal and they should be punished in some way.
Really? How about search site:tbray.org?
I'd like to know how the Cylons snuck all of those tactical nukes that they used to destroy the colonies through the Colonial fleet.
He was more than dazzled. All he saw for days (or was it hours?) was a purple blob.
Craftsmanship
>reading by about 30% and causes eyestrain and
>headache
That has totally NOT been my experience. I read MORE books now that I read them on the Pocket PC than when I read paperback or hardback. The text is very legible and it is very easy to flip the virtual pages.
The one thing I don't like about ebooks is the DRM. I think it's stupid to force people to use crappy readers just to read a specific format.
...planes but what's up with his believing that aliens built the pyramids in Egypt? I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that in Wired magazine. The writer must've misquoted him.
But wasn't that the point? He didn't get a "Field's Medal" because he was one year over the age limit so they made a special prize for him.
So Andrew Wiles can never go around and claim that he's a Field's Medalist now can he?
Btw, I am annoyed that he didn't get a "Field's Medal."
Hmm...I think what the other guy was saying is that you may have knowledge of more fields of mathematics than Euler but you certainly don't have more knowledge of any mathematics than Euler. Euler had a vast knowledge of mathematics in many fields. I think that the University in St. Petersburg or some such academic place was still publishing works of his seventy years after his death. That's a lot of mathematics. No, I think it would take you many many years just to get to the same knowledge that Euler did never mind other mathematicians. I myself have a minor in mathematics and have taken enough graduate courses in advanced mathematics and I still would never claim that I know more mathematics than Euler, Gauss or whomever. Gauss probably knew more number theory than I even though I have a love for the subject and know of some advanced techniques.
It has always seemed to me that Ken Ribet has been bright green with envy ever since Andrew proved Fermat's Last Theorem. I can't count the number of times he said that it was 'audacious' that Andrew did this in secret. I think Ken thinks he should have solved Fermat but he thought it was impossible to solve at the time.
Can this result be used in cutting edge grand unified theories like brane theory?
I saw him give a talk about his career and in passing he mentioned that he was using one of these and that he was very irritated that they were taking his electric car back merely to destroy it.
The name IBM didn't come into use until the 40's or 50's when Thomas Watson Sr. decided that he wanted the company to have a name that matched his view of its glorious future.
See Raymond Kurzweil's excellent treatise on computers The Age of Intelligent Machines for more on the history of IBM and computers.
You often see bike cops on the sidewalk and yet according to the law bikes are not allowed on the sidewalk and cops are not supposed to break traffic law unless they are in pursuit of a lawbreaker so how do they justify driving on sidewalks themselves?
>While they allegedly exist, I have yet to >actually see one on the street. I saw one on the street. Must've been a beta model. Thing goes faaasst!
Seems like it should belong in the military assault weapons category and not the toys category. Rated: Totally Unacceptable!
Probably not. How often do you see scientists wearing halter tops and tight jeans in photo-ops?
Aquanet!!!
I agree. In Florence, Italy they have a copy of Copernicus' or Brahe's (I can't remember which) work on celestial mechanics and yet it is placed in a very unobtrusive place whereas paintings by unknown (to me) artists are placed more prominently.
>very unpolished, and more often than not, just
>plain unoriginal. You definitely can't dance to
>it.
Not always. Where I live I have discovered four local bands that are really good, very polished and rather original. Only one of them however has sort of made it - Pink Martini.
But then your definition of 'independent' may be different.
Your definition of 'good' may also be different especially if you like 'Eminem' and 'Tori Amos.'