What? These two hardly 'cover the same ground'. AC doesn't delve into 'math background' until something like Chapter 11, and then you only get one chapter. HAC assumes you are very comfortable with math texts from the get-go. HAC is more like a textbook than AP, which is more of just a general survey. I'd say on the whole, HAC is a much more 'serious' book, although even HAC only scratches the surface of the 'real' math you need to know to be considered a real cryptographer. No one who simply reads this web page or AP could remotely be considered an 'expert' in crypto matters.
Wow, if 100 years from now history books mention Slashdot, and they include one single comment indicitive of everything it represented, this one will be it. We have 'supprised', 'M$', uninformed (and assinine) opinions, and the belief that the poster himself has more knowledge about how to run one of the biggest companies around than the people who are doing it. The only thing that could really be improved in the post is if squoozer had written 'Winbloze' or something like it instead of 'Windows'.
The link just takes me to the gmail home page so I can't read what it actually says.
However, I seem to recall that Google said in the past that by "Pop3 access", they meant you'd be able to use gmail to download mail from another pop3 account, such as your regular isp or university email for instance. They did not mean you'd be able to use pop3 to download gmail to your home machine.
Now I could be wrong about this, but I think "pop3 access" could mean either of these things in this context, and the former makes more sense to me in light of Google's goals with gmail (centrally hosted, searchable, advertisements).
Does anyone know which one of these Google means? Could anyone actually get to the article describing these features, or is this all just conjecture and not fact?
The Linux desktop could fail if companies continue to pilot programs and conclude that it's less trouble to buy Microsoft. Everyone loses in that scenario.
Microsoft certainly doesn't lose. And how do the companies lose? They just did a pilot study on cost effectiveness and determined Microsoft was the answer. If Linux was cheaper and better for them as a company, they certainly would have switched.
Someone mod this guy down, apparently people are taking to only reading the headlines on Slashdot now and not even the write-up itself. This isn't about replacing real travel with computers, it's about using simulation and statistics to better the experience for real tourists. Come on.
This page contains more information than the news piece in the Slashdot writeup, you can actually see the Math/Stats they used to construct the model. Last year, this group predicted the US's medal count and gold medal count exactly on.
Apparently a large portion of the Slashdot commenters aren't aware of what '0wn' means in the hacker/cracker sense of the word. If you root a machine, you 'own' it. "I got 0wned" means "I got hacked/broken into". Now look at the title of this report, total cost of '0wnership', not 'Ownership'. Now do you understand the joke/point of the paper?
My attendance rate is near zero percent (literally), and i still manage As? Seems rather ridiculous and a waste of my money, considering everything i've learned about programming is at my current and previous development positions.
That says more about the quality of school you chose to attend than it does about the debate at hand.
Anyone who wants to know more can read the actual papers here: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~farid/publications/...papers 1,2,4, and 5 seem to be what this research is about, but others probably cover it too.
Do you know what 'critically acclaimed' means? I think you meant the opposite of that, as no movie that I can recall ever had such a backlash as did Gigli.
Also, why do you download and watch movies you think suck? Shouldn't your point be to not give money to things you don't like, rather than give the studios more fodder? If it sucks, don't watch it.
This reminds me of a group I heard about who set up a booth and handed out stickers encouring and "end to women's suffrage". Apparently plenty of females were in support of this, not knowing what the word meant.
I'm too lazy to look up which mathematician/physicist said this:
"There are only two kinds of math books: those you can't read past the first page, and those you can't read past the first sentence."
Anyway, Chaitin's other books are really interesting too. There is one called "The Limits of Mathematics" which discusses Godel's proof and even "shows" it interactively with some LISP code at the end. The whole book is free online here, which is a great deal for a very interesting Springer text. Some people think Chaitin too arrogant, but there's not denying he's a great mind.
Other then the two obvious solutions (quit playing or dump the significant other)
How about limiting your playing time each day to something you both agree on, and then spend your non-playing time together. You definitely need your free time away from your SI, everyone does, so just use it to play the game. It sounds like you may have a problem when you say "want to play all the time". Just do it in moderation.
When you do a survey, you sample from a population. It doesn't really matter how large this population is since you drawing inference on a proportion. That being said, it doesn't matter how many people switched over the past year, since that is not what this survey is trying to estimate at all. It doesn't want to answer that question, it doesn't even ask it. So the survey is designed to estimate from the population of current dial-up users, what proportion are satisfied. I fail to see how your analysis has anything to do with this question. I also like how you write 'lies, damned lies, and statistics' in a post in which you, apparently totally arbitrarily, estimate half of 40% will switch to broadband.
Anyone care to comment on why there are several links to girls dressed up like the BSD devil in this thread, but only Photoshopped linix girls?
Also, if anyone has a link to the NYlug picture of those 5 or 6 guys, please post the link. That picture never gets old! What is up with the wizard guy sitting crosslegged on the table, you know what I'm talking about!
I can certainly see most people's point of view that math is some universal, even metaphysical, system. In some ways it certainly is. However, one only needs to study a bit of math history to see how much this viewpoint has changed from the time of Newton through Godel to the present. A very convincing book by Morris Klein called "Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty" is a really great read on these subjects. Klein is a great mathematical historian, and this book tracks the progress of both the theoretical and philosophical viewpoints of math throughout history. I think when people say that 'math is not universal', it means mostly what Klein's conclusion is. There is no 'right' system of mathematics.
Take geometry for instance, it 'seems' right and it works in lots of situations. But change one or two of your axioms, and you've got a completely different geometry, which is equally valid in theory and application. Math like anything, is about choosing the right tool for the job. Now geometry is one thing because we have a physical conception of it mostly, but as for other things, take number theory, I don't know. Are there different number theorys based on choosing different sets of axioms? Probably. So which one is the right one? Whichever one works for what you need it for. The fact that math is somehow 'out there' is a very Platonic concept. That's not to say it's wrong, before I read Klein's book, I was definitely a supporter of that viewpoint. But after that book, it seems a little shortsighted, and to tell you the truth, it takes a little of the mystery behind math away, which is too bad really.
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What school were you awarded a scholarship to? You can't just specify that you went to a university without the school being named.
What? These two hardly 'cover the same ground'. AC doesn't delve into 'math background' until something like Chapter 11, and then you only get one chapter. HAC assumes you are very comfortable with math texts from the get-go. HAC is more like a textbook than AP, which is more of just a general survey. I'd say on the whole, HAC is a much more 'serious' book, although even HAC only scratches the surface of the 'real' math you need to know to be considered a real cryptographer. No one who simply reads this web page or AP could remotely be considered an 'expert' in crypto matters.
Wow, if 100 years from now history books mention Slashdot, and they include one single comment indicitive of everything it represented, this one will be it. We have 'supprised', 'M$', uninformed (and assinine) opinions, and the belief that the poster himself has more knowledge about how to run one of the biggest companies around than the people who are doing it. The only thing that could really be improved in the post is if squoozer had written 'Winbloze' or something like it instead of 'Windows'.
The link just takes me to the gmail home page so I can't read what it actually says.
However, I seem to recall that Google said in the past that by "Pop3 access", they meant you'd be able to use gmail to download mail from another pop3 account, such as your regular isp or university email for instance. They did not mean you'd be able to use pop3 to download gmail to your home machine.
Now I could be wrong about this, but I think "pop3 access" could mean either of these things in this context, and the former makes more sense to me in light of Google's goals with gmail (centrally hosted, searchable, advertisements).
Does anyone know which one of these Google means? Could anyone actually get to the article describing these features, or is this all just conjecture and not fact?
The Linux desktop could fail if companies continue to pilot programs and conclude that it's less trouble to buy Microsoft. Everyone loses in that scenario.
Microsoft certainly doesn't lose. And how do the companies lose? They just did a pilot study on cost effectiveness and determined Microsoft was the answer. If Linux was cheaper and better for them as a company, they certainly would have switched.
Get ready for Slashdot's election campaign to start airing commercials next week, it's titled "Choose or Loose".
Someone mod this guy down, apparently people are taking to only reading the headlines on Slashdot now and not even the write-up itself. This isn't about replacing real travel with computers, it's about using simulation and statistics to better the experience for real tourists. Come on.
Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
I don't believe this is the same group, here is another model for prediction of medal counts.
r ew .bernard/olympicmedals.htm
http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/and
This page contains more information than the news piece in the Slashdot writeup, you can actually see the Math/Stats they used to construct the model. Last year, this group predicted the US's medal count and gold medal count exactly on.
Apparently a large portion of the Slashdot commenters aren't aware of what '0wn' means in the hacker/cracker sense of the word. If you root a machine, you 'own' it. "I got 0wned" means "I got hacked/broken into". Now look at the title of this report, total cost of '0wnership', not 'Ownership'. Now do you understand the joke/point of the paper?
My attendance rate is near zero percent (literally), and i still manage As? Seems rather ridiculous and a waste of my money, considering everything i've learned about programming is at my current and previous development positions.
That says more about the quality of school you chose to attend than it does about the debate at hand.
Anyone who wants to know more can read the actual papers here: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~farid/publications/ ...papers 1,2,4, and 5 seem to be what this research is about, but others probably cover it too.
Do you know what 'critically acclaimed' means? I think you meant the opposite of that, as no movie that I can recall ever had such a backlash as did Gigli.
Also, why do you download and watch movies you think suck? Shouldn't your point be to not give money to things you don't like, rather than give the studios more fodder? If it sucks, don't watch it.
No, there's no stats error there. Mac users keep their machines _longer_ than Windows users.
In God I trust; all others must bring data.
This reminds me of a group I heard about who set up a booth and handed out stickers encouring and "end to women's suffrage". Apparently plenty of females were in support of this, not knowing what the word meant.
I'm too lazy to look up which mathematician/physicist said this:
"There are only two kinds of math books: those you can't read past the first page, and those you can't read past the first sentence."
Anyway, Chaitin's other books are really interesting too. There is one called "The Limits of Mathematics" which discusses Godel's proof and even "shows" it interactively with some LISP code at the end. The whole book is free online here, which is a great deal for a very interesting Springer text. Some people think Chaitin too arrogant, but there's not denying he's a great mind.
Other then the two obvious solutions (quit playing or dump the significant other)
How about limiting your playing time each day to something you both agree on, and then spend your non-playing time together. You definitely need your free time away from your SI, everyone does, so just use it to play the game. It sounds like you may have a problem when you say "want to play all the time". Just do it in moderation.
Martin Roesch has told the AusCERT conference IDS has failed to impress the market,
He's not saying Snort has failed to impress the market, but rather that in general, all IDS systems have, which is true.
Who's your daddy???
When you do a survey, you sample from a population. It doesn't really matter how large this population is since you drawing inference on a proportion. That being said, it doesn't matter how many people switched over the past year, since that is not what this survey is trying to estimate at all. It doesn't want to answer that question, it doesn't even ask it. So the survey is designed to estimate from the population of current dial-up users, what proportion are satisfied. I fail to see how your analysis has anything to do with this question. I also like how you write 'lies, damned lies, and statistics' in a post in which you, apparently totally arbitrarily, estimate half of 40% will switch to broadband.
Anyone care to comment on why there are several links to girls dressed up like the BSD devil in this thread, but only Photoshopped linix girls?
Also, if anyone has a link to the NYlug picture of those 5 or 6 guys, please post the link. That picture never gets old! What is up with the wizard guy sitting crosslegged on the table, you know what I'm talking about!
IANAL, but that *CAN'T* be legal!
The proof is obvious. QED.
I can certainly see most people's point of view that math is some universal, even metaphysical, system. In some ways it certainly is. However, one only needs to study a bit of math history to see how much this viewpoint has changed from the time of Newton through Godel to the present. A very convincing book by Morris Klein called "Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty" is a really great read on these subjects. Klein is a great mathematical historian, and this book tracks the progress of both the theoretical and philosophical viewpoints of math throughout history. I think when people say that 'math is not universal', it means mostly what Klein's conclusion is. There is no 'right' system of mathematics.
Take geometry for instance, it 'seems' right and it works in lots of situations. But change one or two of your axioms, and you've got a completely different geometry, which is equally valid in theory and application. Math like anything, is about choosing the right tool for the job. Now geometry is one thing because we have a physical conception of it mostly, but as for other things, take number theory, I don't know. Are there different number theorys based on choosing different sets of axioms? Probably. So which one is the right one? Whichever one works for what you need it for. The fact that math is somehow 'out there' is a very Platonic concept. That's not to say it's wrong, before I read Klein's book, I was definitely a supporter of that viewpoint. But after that book, it seems a little shortsighted, and to tell you the truth, it takes a little of the mystery behind math away, which is too bad really.
Anyone else think we're nearing the end of the analog phone system?
If I remember Taco, you're still on dial-up, so we better not be nearing the end, for your sake.