An entire generation of CS students, (and lots of non-CS students) are learning Java.
MS is going to need to do some serious marketing towards universites to get.NET out there, and personally, I doubt it'll ever reach the level of adoption that Java as achived.
(Yeah, before you start flaming me, I KNOW Java and.NET are different animals.. but they ARE competing technologies in some senses.)
Exactly..
[from the study abstract]
CONCLUSIONS: Patients can be reassured that short sleep and insomnia seem associated with little risk distinct from comorbidities. Slight risks associated with 8 or more hours of sleep and sleeping pill use need further study.
-Slight risks- and the wording "need further study" indicates that this is not quite a hard scientific fact. It doesn't mean sleeping less means you live longer.
It means that it may be a factor, and more studies need to be done.
True, you should consider every packet of -encrypted- data as intercepted,
however: this isn't a problem, this has been a standard scenario for cryptology ever
since radio transmissions were first broadcast a hundred years ago..
The problems are inherent to the encryption algorithm, not the mode of communication.
SSH sure seems strong enough, we should be able to expect the same level of security in wireless networks.
Than this.. there is more evidence than just the standard: "Bohr's word against Heisenbergs"
For instance, Gitta Serenys excellent
book "Albert Speer: His battle with truth".
(Albert Speer was the Nazi minister of armaments during the latter part of the war).
In the book Sereny notes that Speer, in a letter to a friend from Spandau prison after the war,
wrote of Heisenbergs engagement in developing an A-bomb, and how he had they had been short of funds.
According to the book, Speer remarked in the letter something to the extent of: "Now, I suppose he'll claim he didn't want the bomb built, and didn't ask for funding".
This is, in fact, what Heisenberg claimed after the war. However, Speer could not have known this, since the prisoners in Spandau were not allowed to read newspapers or have any correspondence with the outside world.
(With the exception of the contraband letters)
To me at least, this seems pretty incriminating,
especially together with the testimony of Bohr.
On the other hand, I would be careful to damn Heisenberg:
Just look at how the USA made a 'hero' out of Werner von Braun, a man who not only built missiles, he administrated the cruel and inhumane concentration camps where the missiles were manufactured.
A number of years ago, a friend of mine had his Atari STe mounted
in a PC case, complete with a PC keyboard and everything. Now that takes some dremel work!
Just the keyboard was a lot of work, since the Atari was built into the machine,
and the PC one needed a custom interface..
Nobody ever said quantum mechanics made sense, either.. Quite true. But what is usually meant then is the fact that QM is very counterintuitive i.e. contrary to mosts' experience.
A singularity is more than just counterintuitive, it is simply unreasonable.
And the evidence for this standpoint is quite compelling,
because every previous instance of infinities in physics has led to a change of theory.
(Even in QM, with the self-induction of the electron, which
eventually was fixed by re-normalization, even if
Dirac didn't agree)
I see. And by the same reasoning:
Since Planck showed that light was not of wave-nature this must cast a shadow of doubt over the theory of sound, vibrations and just about everything else that features waves.
Well, not quite: but the fact is that with the current model of physics, a black
hole has a singularity in it.
That doesn't make sense. All mass compressed to an infinitesimallay small point, yet with a finite mass?
That means infinite density. When infinities show up, it's a sign that something is wrong with our physics - the opposite would be too unreasonable.
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Not to mention all the other really cool
properties of analytic functions..
For example, if the derivative exists, then all
higher order derivatives also exist!
Also, all the derivatives have the same space of definition
as the function, which is not at all the case for reals..
(For instance sqrt(x) is defined at the origin, sqrt(0)=0.
but the derivative 1/(2*sqrt(x)) is not defined at the origin, (can't divide by 0))
An entire generation of CS students,
.NET out there,
.NET are different animals..
(and lots of non-CS students) are learning Java.
MS is going to need to do some serious marketing
towards universites to get
and personally, I doubt it'll ever reach the level of adoption that Java as achived.
(Yeah, before you start flaming me, I KNOW Java and
but they ARE competing technologies in some senses.)
They should boycott DDR ram memory in protest
against the terrible human rights situation in
communist East Germany.
Buying DDR RAM is supporting the communists!
.. a beowulf cluster of those.
:-)
Hook 'em all together and china might get the supercomputing power to match a 1 GHz PIII..
Exactly..
[from the study abstract]
CONCLUSIONS: Patients can be reassured that short sleep and insomnia seem associated with little risk distinct from comorbidities. Slight risks associated with 8 or more hours of sleep and sleeping pill use need further study.
-Slight risks- and the wording "need further study" indicates that this is not quite a hard scientific fact. It doesn't mean sleeping less means you live longer.
It means that it may be a factor, and more studies need to be done.
True, you should consider every packet of -encrypted- data as intercepted,
however: this isn't a problem, this has been a standard scenario for cryptology ever
since radio transmissions were first broadcast a hundred years ago..
The problems are inherent to the encryption algorithm, not the mode of communication.
SSH sure seems strong enough, we should be able to expect the same level of security in wireless networks.
This is all typical. Sure, video games may be a factor, but how about legislating against the big, obvious factors first (like say: guns?).
If video games were the problem, Japan would be in trouble.
(for the uninformed: Japans violent crime rates are far below the US)
Than this.. there is more evidence than just the standard: "Bohr's word against Heisenbergs"
For instance, Gitta Serenys excellent
book "Albert Speer: His battle with truth".
(Albert Speer was the Nazi minister of armaments during the latter part of the war).
In the book Sereny notes that Speer, in a letter to a friend from Spandau prison after the war,
wrote of Heisenbergs engagement in developing an A-bomb, and how he had they had been short of funds.
According to the book, Speer remarked in the letter something to the extent of: "Now, I suppose he'll claim he didn't want the bomb built, and didn't ask for funding".
This is, in fact, what Heisenberg claimed after the war. However, Speer could not have known this, since the prisoners in Spandau were not allowed to read newspapers or have any correspondence with the outside world.
(With the exception of the contraband letters)
To me at least, this seems pretty incriminating,
especially together with the testimony of Bohr.
On the other hand, I would be careful to damn Heisenberg:
Just look at how the USA made a 'hero' out of Werner von Braun, a man who not only built missiles, he administrated the cruel and inhumane concentration camps where the missiles were manufactured.
A number of years ago, a friend of mine had his Atari STe mounted
in a PC case, complete with a PC keyboard and everything. Now that takes some dremel work!
Just the keyboard was a lot of work, since the Atari was built into the machine,
and the PC one needed a custom interface..
Oh, memories..
.. that the SAME programmers who are developing new programs are responsible for bug/security fixes in OLD code?!?!
No -wonder- they've got problems..
This is a process that has been going on for quite
some time. Since you can't publish before patenting, this is the way things are.
The notable exception to the rule has been math.
Math departments have been known for their openness, since math discoverys can't be patented.
Or can they? Since many mathematical topics can
be applied as software algorithms, software patents now threaten Math as well.
Software patents need to be stopped, and I think many people agree that the entire patent/copyright/IP thing needs reinventing.
When are we going to get some high-res images of
the Pee-Wee Herman face on Mars?
Well if that ain't Emacs I don't know what is:
Every concievable feature is already there..
How low can you sink? Stealing hubcaps from greek gods
will definetly get you a lightning bolt in the head and a personal parking spot in Hades.
(Hades has a Kerberos authentication system, BTW)
So the government thinks you're responsible enough to drink,
-but only at certain bars?
Whoho... BTW: On the disussion of minors and the law,
the U.N. declaration of human rights states that minors may not be sentenced as adults.
that these big companies with their huge revenues can't give their lowest-payed staff a decent wage.
There should be some kind of income cap, like the top-paied executive can't earn more than 10x what the lowest paid worker in the company can.
.. what those little shoebox-sized black robots in
Star Wars were doing.. Now I know: checking up on Stormtrooper B.O.!
Can anyone spare a few kilowatts?
That's pretty much the gist of what I was saying.
Nobody ever said quantum mechanics made sense, either..
Quite true. But what is usually meant then is the fact that QM is very counterintuitive
i.e. contrary to mosts' experience.
A singularity is more than just counterintuitive, it is simply unreasonable.
And the evidence for this standpoint is quite compelling,
because every previous instance of infinities in physics has led to a change of theory.
(Even in QM, with the self-induction of the electron, which
eventually was fixed by re-normalization, even if
Dirac didn't agree)
I see. And by the same reasoning:
Since Planck showed that light was not of wave-nature this must cast a shadow of doubt over the theory of sound, vibrations and just about everything else that features waves.
Apples and oranges.
Well, not quite: but the fact is that with the current model of physics, a black
hole has a singularity in it.
That doesn't make sense. All mass compressed to an infinitesimallay small point, yet with a finite mass?
That means infinite density. When infinities show up, it's a sign that something is wrong with our physics - the opposite would be too unreasonable.
.. It's not like it makes a lot of sense in Swedish either!!
Although hat-man could be translated as
'man with a hat'.
(German (dutch?) and the scandinavian languages
allow joining words together very liberally)
Whups, someone beat me to it on that one.. ./ -we're taking over!
Too many Swedish-speakers on
'rolig liten hattgubbe' means:
'funny little hat-man' in Swedish