Technology always goes in circles. Just look at how "cloud computing" is being touted as a big deal now, but it was the norm up until the personal computing came along.
Funny you should mention Excite, since the domain is now owned by Ask.com.
I think that's a case where a once-valuable domain and brand will sit around for a long time because some accountant still thinks it's worth something, even though everyone who once used Excite has forgotten about it and moved on to Google.
And you know this from the experience of all the scientific discoveries you made? Come on. Read any biography or autobiography about scientists or mathematicians, and you'll see they're not robots devoid of emotions.
Science may lead to facts, but it's not an automated process. Believe it or not, human emotions and intuition are involved with every scientific discovery!
Many of the fundamental proofs in this area aren't so difficult to understand. Certainly in computing theory classes, proofs were generally a page or two and didn't involve (much) advanced math.
Maybe it's just me, but it "feels" like there should be a simpler way to go about showing that P != NP.
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Technology always goes in circles. Just look at how "cloud computing" is being touted as a big deal now, but it was the norm up until the personal computing came along.
Perhaps geeks simply enjoy reinventing the wheel.
Same here, with one exception -- restaurant websites tend to use Flash.
Of course if I can't find the info I'm looking for then I'm not going to waste my time on the place, so it's not my loss.
Does it also clean your floor?
Maybe we could all get together and chip in a buck or two to buy the assets, then open-source the whole thing.
How does that sound?
Funny you should mention Excite, since the domain is now owned by Ask.com.
I think that's a case where a once-valuable domain and brand will sit around for a long time because some accountant still thinks it's worth something, even though everyone who once used Excite has forgotten about it and moved on to Google.
It sounds like you have a lot of interesting predictions, but not much to back them up. Maybe you're the next Nostradamus!
And you know this from the experience of all the scientific discoveries you made? Come on. Read any biography or autobiography about scientists or mathematicians, and you'll see they're not robots devoid of emotions.
Science may lead to facts, but it's not an automated process. Believe it or not, human emotions and intuition are involved with every scientific discovery!
But we don't know that the current proof is the *only* proof. There may very well be a simpler one out there.
As for the problem simplicity vs. the proof simplicity, that's not what I said. I stated that related problems (in the same field) have simple proofs.
Many of the fundamental proofs in this area aren't so difficult to understand. Certainly in computing theory classes, proofs were generally a page or two and didn't involve (much) advanced math.
Maybe it's just me, but it "feels" like there should be a simpler way to go about showing that P != NP.
...it's best to avoid PayPal. Shady business practices, horrible support, and it's regulated even less than an American bank.
Does Megan Fox count as a special effect?
No, but my vacuum cleaner was stolen from one. In my defense, I'm sure they had no use for it anyway.
And cheers to the release!
Were they able to recover any files from Suprnova?
Makes sense, Sagan was all about the "organics," man.
Would that be legal?
Clearly I shouldn't be posting so early in the afternoon.
But still, that seems like a small sum of cash for giving away people's private information.
That's it?
Sometimes a levy breaks.
But if we're ALL using more bandwidth, shouldn't that bandwidth get cheaper? The laws of supply and demand apply here, do they not?
Mommy, Google stole my lunch money!
...Bugs Bunny already find life on Mars?
But for buying Dell? You'd might as well start cleaning out your desk before you hit the order button.
No worries, Duke can shrink the lawyers down to the size of bugs, then crush them to death with his feet.