You seem to be unfamiliar with mathematical proofs. Grinding through many cases does not a valid proof make. In order to prove a theorem, you have to verify its validity for ALL cases, and in order to disprove a theorem, you only have to find one case where it is not valid. Just because you ran your theorem on a supercomputer for three months does not mean you have proved its validity for all cases. Example: You are trying to prove some theorem, and you use only positive integers. The supercomputer runs for a year and finds no holes in your theorem. Then your girlfriend comes over and enters -1, and your supercomputer barfs at you.
As I understand it, that proof sets up a finite set of examples to which all configurations could be reduced, then it proves that all of the set work. It isn't just trying a million examples and assuming true.
Well, short of being open source, how are they supposed to magically predict the little changes in the kernel that might cause the incompatibity in the first place?
Or, alternatively, no decently large project can be expected to be bug free.
(erm, wait... I'm responding to what is essentially a troll from someone with troll in their username? oops.)
(and, don't get me wrong, it would be nice if they'd be open source, its just that they're actually doing a better job, for the most part, of their closed drivers than most all of the open video ones.) --- (insert something here about T(HG)SBO. if you don't know what that is, turn on those dang.sig's)
...has anyone else noticed that the most sure-fire way to get an article on Slashdot is to wreck complex electronics?
Or even significantly reduce its usefulness. That way your theory would also explain all the attention given to copy protected CDs and microsoft products. (*smile*)
Sure, a pp is worth more than a yen, especially on newer servers. However, that doesn't make the economy of everquest more powerful than that of japan.
I've seen this general statement before, and its pretty meaningless. If some item has value, it is probably larger than the base currency of some country. It only really becomes interesting if there are like a trillion platinum in existence, in which case the total value of platinums would be on the order of magnitude of that of a country.
As it stands, the current market for everquest stuff is probably at most on the order of hundreds of thousands each year. That is puny when compared to a country.
K-Mart might be able to print gift certificates worth $50, but that doesn't make them fifty times more powerful economically than the US.
(/rant)
A while back, my family purchased a Dell desktop... quite a ways back, actually; it was a p200. Anywho, we shelled out quite a bit of cash (to the tune of $600) for a 17" monitor, which, eventually, started having yellowing problems. The yellowing problems where the pure blue color stops showing up on the screen, so the screen appears yellow. The ones well known on older Macs.
Of course, this was after the warranty expired... But, when I looked in Dell's support forums, I saw quite a few people with the same problem we had. Quite clearly, there was some defect with this line of monitor.
We still used the monitor for a few years, since we couldn't really afford to replace it. We found that a good *WHACK!* to the monitor often cleared up the problem. Eventually, we got a cheap replacement monitor at around $100, one with about the same specs. (But to the tune of four years later)
Recently, I took out this monitor and started using it again. Lo and behold, it works fine now! Odd... I in fact use it on my other machine.
The logic behind the seti program isn't that an alien civilization is found, its that the effects of the basic research involved in the search have positive effects to science as a whole.
.org nither implys a company (of any sort) nore an education facility...
I think only a non-proffit organisation (a dot org) should be alowed to challange the dot org domain name...
This is a common misconception..org does NOT mean a non profit organization. Basically,.org is a catch all TLD, essentially designed for general use.
So, any company/school/etc could use a.org if they wanted to, but usually they use.com, because it is more specific. (and also your average joe sixpack knows about 'doht kahm', so it is advantageous for a company to use a.com)
In fact,.edu domains are not that easy to get... I know my local public school district has a.org address, even though they'd prefer a.edu, because they can't get an.edu.
people laugh... but that's seriously how it works. The nice thing about the dots are that they cleanly separate the parts, so you can actually say 0.9.10.
Mozilla is getting quite close to being stable enough to call 1.0, though...
I expect a few months after these come out we'll start seeing/. stories by seventh graders about how to hack them to connect to non school computers, etc... that could be interesting ^_^
Slashdot Mirror
[grin] I hope you're not an accountant.
Oh, the enrony of it all...
How about, say, his surname? maybe some permutation of his surname? ^_^ Perhaps, say, his surname spelled backwards?
You seem to be unfamiliar with mathematical proofs. Grinding through many cases does not a valid proof make. In order to prove a theorem, you have to verify its validity for ALL cases, and in order to disprove a theorem, you only have to find one case where it is not valid. Just because you ran your theorem on a supercomputer for three months does not mean you have proved its validity for all cases. Example: You are trying to prove some theorem, and you use only positive integers. The supercomputer runs for a year and finds no holes in your theorem. Then your girlfriend comes over and enters -1, and your supercomputer barfs at you.
As I understand it, that proof sets up a finite set of examples to which all configurations could be reduced, then it proves that all of the set work. It isn't just trying a million examples and assuming true.
Yes. That's his point. They're the exception.
Not an option for me. Only place I applied to that actually accepted me ;)
is This!
Well, short of being open source, how are they supposed to magically predict the little changes in the kernel that might cause the incompatibity in the first place?
.sig's)
Or, alternatively, no decently large project can be expected to be bug free.
(erm, wait... I'm responding to what is essentially a troll from someone with troll in their username? oops.)
(and, don't get me wrong, it would be nice if they'd be open source, its just that they're actually doing a better job, for the most part, of their closed drivers than most all of the open video ones.)
---
(insert something here about T(HG)SBO. if you don't know what that is, turn on those dang
you need to hit enter when it asks for password (so it feeds in a blank one)
Or did you try that?
IAOAPS (I am only a physics student) but light waves do interfere with each other.
:).
That's how diffraction works.
But then, this gets into the realm of quantum physics, where the intuitive is usually wrong
In any case, you can be forgiven the misinformation, since you at least disclaimed it.
umm... he knew that. (obvious stick)
*whack whack*
it just might as well stand for christian era.
...has anyone else noticed that the most sure-fire way to get an article on Slashdot is to wreck complex electronics?
Or even significantly reduce its usefulness. That way your theory would also explain all the attention given to copy protected CDs and microsoft products. (*smile*)
Or perhaps even 2.5.x kernels.
That's sorta why I picked them to demonstrate my point.
Sure, a pp is worth more than a yen, especially on newer servers. However, that doesn't make the economy of everquest more powerful than that of japan.
I've seen this general statement before, and its pretty meaningless. If some item has value, it is probably larger than the base currency of some country. It only really becomes interesting if there are like a trillion platinum in existence, in which case the total value of platinums would be on the order of magnitude of that of a country.
As it stands, the current market for everquest stuff is probably at most on the order of hundreds of thousands each year. That is puny when compared to a country.
K-Mart might be able to print gift certificates worth $50, but that doesn't make them fifty times more powerful economically than the US.
(/rant)
Black holes suck.
Just wait until it crashes in a couple of weeks and the problem will be solved.
Hey, in the hands of the government... if they're using linux, they'd probably crash it within a couple of days.
"Les'se here... I wonder what happens if we unmount the swap partition..."
IIUC, it isn't the amount of current running over the short, its the fact that the short is simply harder to close (farther apart, I think)
I'm no math whiz, but it does clearly say 'for n>2' and yet you've used n=2 in your example.
chances are the guy fixed his sig.
Actually, it's about as useful as a page of text that only exists when you have your eyes closed.
That sounds more like a quantum computer, I think.
A while back, my family purchased a Dell desktop... quite a ways back, actually; it was a p200. Anywho, we shelled out quite a bit of cash (to the tune of $600) for a 17" monitor, which, eventually, started having yellowing problems. The yellowing problems where the pure blue color stops showing up on the screen, so the screen appears yellow. The ones well known on older Macs.
Of course, this was after the warranty expired... But, when I looked in Dell's support forums, I saw quite a few people with the same problem we had. Quite clearly, there was some defect with this line of monitor.
We still used the monitor for a few years, since we couldn't really afford to replace it. We found that a good *WHACK!* to the monitor often cleared up the problem. Eventually, we got a cheap replacement monitor at around $100, one with about the same specs. (But to the tune of four years later)
Recently, I took out this monitor and started using it again. Lo and behold, it works fine now! Odd... I in fact use it on my other machine.
Oh well, enough ranting on my part. ^_^
The QNX demo disk is on the site, actually... ^_^
The logic behind the seti program isn't that an alien civilization is found, its that the effects of the basic research involved in the search have positive effects to science as a whole.
This is a common misconception.
So, any company/school/etc could use a
In fact,
although enermax power supplies are slightly expensive, they are very very good... you won't find better for cheaper.
I use a 431W enermax PSU in my 1.4ghz@1.55, it keeps the 5V line much closer to 5V than a cheapo PSU... quite worth it.
people laugh... but that's seriously how it works. The nice thing about the dots are that they cleanly separate the parts, so you can actually say 0.9.10.
Mozilla is getting quite close to being stable enough to call 1.0, though...
I expect a few months after these come out we'll start seeing /. stories by seventh graders about how to hack them to connect to non school computers, etc... that could be interesting ^_^