Must agree. I think I read once a study on the World Bank which claimed that if all food currently produced in the world would get properly distributed, then world hunger would end.
The problem here is the distribution, not the production. Probably NASA's research should be more focused toward cheaper ways of transporting, rather than cheaper ways of producing.
Je je... Seriously though, you might be amazed at how reliable your liver can be. I heard on the radio this morning that it is the only human organ that can actually regenerate itself entirely.
It has been years since I studied this, and even then I didn't fully understood it. So if there are any mathematicians reading this out there, please feel free to correct any misconceptions I might have.
Reimans hypothesis basically states that there is a correleation between the distribution of prime numbers (how many numbers are in between each of them) and a complex function (complex in the sense that it deals with imaginary numbers). In theory, you could use this complex function to predict the space there is between one prime number and the next one. Therefore you could use this function to predict which would be the next prime number given any other.
One possible field of appliction is encryption, which strongly relies on the mapping of this numbers.
I certainly hope your post was trying to be sarcastic, but in case it was not:
here we have an example of a CEO who lacks the imagination to offer a genuine innovative challenge to Microsoft. (Something I am sure MS would relish.)
First of all, it was Microsoft who came after them, not the other way around. Second, why would you claim that this person has not found a genuine innovation? He has taken Linux and offered a viable alternative to the masses. Have you even seen or at least read about Lindows? This case is not just about a copycat registering a brand with no real product to market. Lindows is far from being vaporware.
challenge Microsoft in the market place, then creating new paradigms is the way Not to state the obvious, but microsoft windows was far from offering a new "paradigm" when they released windows.
This is not just a crooked cop, this is an entire federal agency harrasing an legit CDR distributor. Bribes are no longer of concern here, given this has hit the public opinion.
At least read the article before jumping into conclusions.
I recently read in Discover magazine, that some astrophysicists are openly questioning whether we have the mental prowess to actually understand many of the mysteries in the universe. Very interesting, and even probable, but I think that our current grasp of the universe is still more governed by our very limited ability to extract data from it, and the minuscule amount of it that we have.
What exactly is the physical difference between living and dead snip
This is an excelent question, and center to many heated debates. When I was in highschool, I was taught that if it could breath (as in burn glucose to obtain energy), then it was alive. It seems that the scientific comunity conscents on at least seven traits of living orgainsims. The following articles go further into this subject:
thinkquest site. Unfortunately the site is down for maintenance, nevertheless u can access it in the following google cache
These traits seem to leave viruses out of the living, or at least put it somewhere in the middle between living and dead. As nasty as they can get to be, they are quite fascinating little things, which excibit many properties of live beings.
It would be a very interesting if we were to find some outer space entity which fulfilled only some of the listed requisits. I guess that would put a real test on to define what is alive, and what is dead.
Most of the models (follow the links in some sections) seem to have given incorrect output - so the real question is what they do then... it's a bit easy, really, to take your model and add a couple of new variables in there until they get it right. This doesn't really prove anything though, does it?
Well, if it works in a consistent manner (consitente with the established laws of physics) and explains past and helps predict future phenomena, then it does proove something. This is how most of our current knowledge is formed. As your point out its not fool-proof, and it takes a lot of time and experimenation to come up with viable theory. When you have something relatively solid, your can release your theory to the general scientific comunity for further probing. Though it may not be the most convinient method (there is no way to ask an omnisapient god/being/entity on the true mechanics of a phenomena), it has been the most trusted method used by the scientific comunity in the last couple centuries.
This is all very well, but then they go on to insist their model is somehow close to reality. I think it's way too complex for a computer to simulate; every atom has a/dev/random (OK it's more like a predictable Windows TCP/IP stack, but there's some entropy in there), and that's the real problem. How do you simulate all of those? You don't (unless you have a heck of a machine and even then you don't). As a researcher, you will just have to choose which are the most important variables and overlook the finer ones.
But your post, along with the article has left me something to think about. Most of us take whatever they taught us at school for granted. When I was in high school, there was a widely accepted theory that the universe would colapse again under its own gravitational pull.
Mystery 1 seems to nullify this theory. I guess the moral of the story is to take every new theory with a grain of salt and take a hard long look at established laws when observed phenomena do not seem to follow these laws. Always keep up with current research and be open to new ideas.
I run NT4 as our main NOS. No plan to upgrade; not now, not in the next years. It is just too much pain to go through. Our current IT infrastructure serves our business needs. If it ain't broke dont fix it. The only valid upgrade reason I could see is if our enterperise outgrows our current setup.
MS tried to FUD me into getting 2k, but must of there arguments where easily rebuttled. In the end the only valid reason they gave me was the quota system of 2K.
Must agree with the parent, regarding the robustness of ".doc". Once a ".doc" is corrupted there is absolutley no way to recover data out of it. You might as well start retyping it.
Here in New York restaurants have gotten away with having almost all the street vendors shut down or regulated out of existence because it was "unfair" for some poverty income immigrant pooling the money of twenty relatives to sell tasty kebobs on a street corner and undercut the prices of snotty wealthy restaurants charging airport-style prices for food that customers (like me) didn't want anyway.
I live in a city (Mexico City) where street vendors get away with ANYTHING that they want. It has become and nightmare for neighbors and formal commerce. These guys not only take street corners, they literally block entire streets on given dates. Cynical politicians ignore and sometimes even encourage this kind of behaivior, knowing that it will bring them votes next elections (of street vendors who have grouped in mob style unions).
Want free electricity? Sure. How about neverminding basic health sanitation? Thats a joke! Taxes? Those are only paid by the snobs and rich. And that little house you bought, well, it has basically lost 50% of its value due to the market that comes and goes on your street, blocking your entrance, and making it imposible to use your car on certain days of the week.
I'll take NYC regulations against anarchic non regulated commerce. It's not that I advocate monopolistic activietes, but without smart and enforced commerce regulations and city ordinances, things can become anarchic quite easily.
First of all (as pointed out by others), Outlook 2K has had as many security issues as other Microsoft products.
So does most complex software. Security will be an issue with any unpatched and unproperly configured software. Outlook and in general Office are no more of an exception as Sendmail or Apache would be.
Second, as an Outlook user you have to run Outlook Express if you want to read USENET
Mmhh... I suggest you take a look at third party newsreaders or configuring an exchange server as as a newsfeed. Running O2K does not in anyway force you to run OE to browse usenet.
Your third and fouth point basically say that Microsoft didn't invent the PIM or the Syncing. Nobody is giving MS credit for this, they are just very handy utilities that most people find useful.
All things taken into account O2K is a very well balanced PIM, which must be one of the reasons of why many people use it. It might have not introduced any new concepts, but it has integrated them in a decent manner and made them wide available to the corporate and individual market. You add to it Exchange with a decent antivirus, and you have quite a scalable, centrally managed solution.
Don't mean to be offensive, but I'm surprised there wasn't a stronger reaction to this.
More than offensive, you sound a bit sore.
If you are refering to this article, I suggest you read it and then troll about it. The article states that that Microsoft has a group chartered with developing additional security products. Currently, he said, there is no plan in place to charge customers a fee for additional security services. But Microsoft is most likely to introduce new security software, similar to its existing firewall software. . There is no mention of charging for security upgrades to existant products.
Here, you have government espionage going on from within the US, against someone in Russia. If they break any laws, tough shit, they're espionage.
Funny, the pilots that where flying that little spy plane near China where labeled as prisoners by all the politician and media lackeys. Maybe you should have a word with them regarding the proper lexic.
But it's hard to draw a parallel between Sklyarov did and what the FBI did, because they are very different circumstances.
Maybe so, but that does not mean what the FBI is both legally and morally WRONG, even with the pimp judge okaying his actions. What he should have done is get a subpoena from the proper authorities to do such a thing.
I always tell them that common sense is the best weapon against viruses and that the AV people don't have any common sense and are just snake oil vendors.
I used to think that, until my home network got hit by Nimbda. Ever since I run a proper AV on all my machines. I just don't have the time or energy to patch all my client systems every time a new vulnerability appears. Sad to say, but common sense is no longer the only needed defense.
Depends on what you mean by AI. According to AIMA there are at least four schools of thought within the AI research fields (act rational, think rational, act humanwise, think humanwise).
The system described within the cited article attempts to act humanly, the underlying mechanics are of no concern, it is the actual result that matters. To some researchers this is AI, to others it is simply a clever mechanism. Most AI research is trying to focus on making computers "act rationally" nowadays.
Without guns you have NO way of overthrowing an oppressive regime.
India's independance, Yugoslavia's revolution, Soviet Perestroika, fall of the berlin wall. Must I go on?
Wielding a gun will only give them an excuse to masacre you. Do you think you can overpower any modern day army with a bunch of mercenaries and guns? Can you give me an example of a succesful armed revolution in the last 50 years?
It seems to me that modern day revolutions are fought without guns. Armed conflict tends to end up in a stalemate of massive bloodshed (Ruanda). How much firepower would it require for you to take down the US government?
sarcasm:... 2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
What else is there this old that still looks as good......?
Saturn VII is still the most powerful machine ever built by man, and it draws hundreds of tourist in admiration to Cape Kenedy. I think it is also the only machine currently available if you would like to take a ride to the moon.
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Must agree. I think I read once a study on the World Bank which claimed that if all food currently produced in the world would get properly distributed, then world hunger would end.
The problem here is the distribution, not the production. Probably NASA's research should be more focused toward cheaper ways of transporting, rather than cheaper ways of producing.
Je je... Seriously though, you might be amazed at how reliable your liver can be. I heard on the radio this morning that it is the only human organ that can actually regenerate itself entirely.
It has been years since I studied this, and even then I didn't fully understood it. So if there are any mathematicians reading this out there, please feel free to correct any misconceptions I might have.
Reimans hypothesis basically states that there is a correleation between the distribution of prime numbers (how many numbers are in between each of them) and a complex function (complex in the sense that it deals with imaginary numbers). In theory, you could use this complex function to predict the space there is between one prime number and the next one. Therefore you could use this function to predict which would be the next prime number given any other.
One possible field of appliction is encryption, which strongly relies on the mapping of this numbers.
Wow! what a coalition.
Say again, how many of this pimp nations will be actually spending a penny or sending a marine on the war vs Iraq?
I certainly hope your post was trying to be sarcastic, but in case it was not:
here we have an example of a CEO who lacks the imagination to offer a genuine innovative challenge to Microsoft. (Something I am sure MS would relish.)
First of all, it was Microsoft who came after them, not the other way around. Second, why would you claim that this person has not found a genuine innovation? He has taken Linux and offered a viable alternative to the masses. Have you even seen or at least read about Lindows? This case is not just about a copycat registering a brand with no real product to market. Lindows is far from being vaporware.
challenge Microsoft in the market place, then creating new paradigms is the way
Not to state the obvious, but microsoft windows was far from offering a new "paradigm" when they released windows.
This is not just a crooked cop, this is an entire federal agency harrasing an legit CDR distributor. Bribes are no longer of concern here, given this has hit the public opinion.
At least read the article before jumping into conclusions.
I recently read in Discover magazine, that some astrophysicists are openly questioning whether we have the mental prowess to actually understand many of the mysteries in the universe.
Very interesting, and even probable, but I think that our current grasp of the universe is still more governed by our very limited ability to extract data from it, and the minuscule amount of it that we have.
What exactly is the physical difference between living and dead snip
This is an excelent question, and center to many heated debates. When I was in highschool, I was taught that if it could breath (as in burn glucose to obtain energy), then it was alive. It seems that the scientific comunity conscents on at least seven traits of living orgainsims. The following articles go further into this subject:
- thinkquest site. Unfortunately the site is down for maintenance, nevertheless u can access it in the following google cache
- Characterisitcs of living matter
These traits seem to leave viruses out of the living, or at least put it somewhere in the middle between living and dead. As nasty as they can get to be, they are quite fascinating little things, which excibit many properties of live beings.It would be a very interesting if we were to find some outer space entity which fulfilled only some of the listed requisits. I guess that would put a real test on to define what is alive, and what is dead.
Most of the models (follow the links in some sections) seem to have given incorrect output - so the real question is what they do then... it's a bit easy, really, to take your model and add a couple of new variables in there until they get it right. This doesn't really prove anything though, does it?
Well, if it works in a consistent manner (consitente with the established laws of physics) and explains past and helps predict future phenomena, then it does proove something. This is how most of our current knowledge is formed. As your point out its not fool-proof, and it takes a lot of time and experimenation to come up with viable theory. When you have something relatively solid, your can release your theory to the general scientific comunity for further probing. Though it may not be the most convinient method (there is no way to ask an omnisapient god/being/entity on the true mechanics of a phenomena), it has been the most trusted method used by the scientific comunity in the last couple centuries.
This is all very well, but then they go on to insist their model is somehow close to reality. I think it's way too complex for a computer to simulate; every atom has a /dev/random (OK it's more like a predictable Windows TCP/IP stack, but there's some entropy in there), and that's the real problem. How do you simulate all of those?
You don't (unless you have a heck of a machine and even then you don't). As a researcher, you will just have to choose which are the most important variables and overlook the finer ones.
But your post, along with the article has left me something to think about. Most of us take whatever they taught us at school for granted. When I was in high school, there was a widely accepted theory that the universe would colapse again under its own gravitational pull. Mystery 1 seems to nullify this theory. I guess the moral of the story is to take every new theory with a grain of salt and take a hard long look at established laws when observed phenomena do not seem to follow these laws. Always keep up with current research and be open to new ideas.
In Soviet Russia, the Internet watches you.... ummm... oh wait!
NT
I run NT4 as our main NOS. No plan to upgrade; not now, not in the next years. It is just too much pain to go through. Our current IT infrastructure serves our business needs. If it ain't broke dont fix it. The only valid upgrade reason I could see is if our enterperise outgrows our current setup.
MS tried to FUD me into getting 2k, but must of there arguments where easily rebuttled. In the end the only valid reason they gave me was the quota system of 2K.
Must agree with the parent, regarding the robustness of ".doc". Once a ".doc" is corrupted there is absolutley no way to recover data out of it. You might as well start retyping it.
Here in New York restaurants have gotten away with having almost all the street vendors shut down or regulated out of existence because it was "unfair" for some poverty income immigrant pooling the money of twenty relatives to sell tasty kebobs on a street corner and undercut the prices of snotty wealthy restaurants charging airport-style prices for food that customers (like me) didn't want anyway.
I live in a city (Mexico City) where street vendors get away with ANYTHING that they want. It has become and nightmare for neighbors and formal commerce. These guys not only take street corners, they literally block entire streets on given dates. Cynical politicians ignore and sometimes even encourage this kind of behaivior, knowing that it will bring them votes next elections (of street vendors who have grouped in mob style unions).
Want free electricity? Sure. How about neverminding basic health sanitation? Thats a joke! Taxes? Those are only paid by the snobs and rich. And that little house you bought, well, it has basically lost 50% of its value due to the market that comes and goes on your street, blocking your entrance, and making it imposible to use your car on certain days of the week.
I'll take NYC regulations against anarchic non regulated commerce. It's not that I advocate monopolistic activietes, but without smart and enforced commerce regulations and city ordinances, things can become anarchic quite easily.
First of all (as pointed out by others), Outlook 2K has had as many security issues as other Microsoft products.
So does most complex software. Security will be an issue with any unpatched and unproperly configured software. Outlook and in general Office are no more of an exception as Sendmail or Apache would be.
Second, as an Outlook user you have to run Outlook Express if you want to read USENET
Mmhh... I suggest you take a look at third party newsreaders or configuring an exchange server as as a newsfeed. Running O2K does not in anyway force you to run OE to browse usenet.
Your third and fouth point basically say that Microsoft didn't invent the PIM or the Syncing. Nobody is giving MS credit for this, they are just very handy utilities that most people find useful.
All things taken into account O2K is a very well balanced PIM, which must be one of the reasons of why many people use it. It might have not introduced any new concepts, but it has integrated them in a decent manner and made them wide available to the corporate and individual market. You add to it Exchange with a decent antivirus, and you have quite a scalable, centrally managed solution.
Don't mean to be offensive, but I'm surprised there wasn't a stronger reaction to this.
More than offensive, you sound a bit sore.
If you are refering to this article, I suggest you read it and then troll about it. The article states that that Microsoft has a group chartered with developing additional security products. Currently, he said, there is no plan in place to charge customers a fee for additional security services. But Microsoft is most likely to introduce new security software, similar to its existing firewall software. . There is no mention of charging for security upgrades to existant products.
Here, you have government espionage going on from within the US, against someone in Russia. If they break any laws, tough shit, they're espionage.
Funny, the pilots that where flying that little spy plane near China where labeled as prisoners by all the politician and media lackeys. Maybe you should have a word with them regarding the proper lexic.
But it's hard to draw a parallel between Sklyarov did and what the FBI did, because they are very different circumstances.
Maybe so, but that does not mean what the FBI is both legally and morally WRONG, even with the pimp judge okaying his actions. What he should have done is get a subpoena from the proper authorities to do such a thing.
I always tell them that common sense is the best weapon against viruses and that the AV people don't have any common sense and are just snake oil vendors.
I used to think that, until my home network got hit by Nimbda. Ever since I run a proper AV on all my machines. I just don't have the time or energy to patch all my client systems every time a new vulnerability appears. Sad to say, but common sense is no longer the only needed defense.
Depends on what you mean by AI. According to AIMA there are at least four schools of thought within the AI research fields (act rational, think rational, act humanwise, think humanwise).
The system described within the cited article attempts to act humanly, the underlying mechanics are of no concern, it is the actual result that matters. To some researchers this is AI, to others it is simply a clever mechanism. Most AI research is trying to focus on making computers "act rationally" nowadays.
Without guns you have NO way of overthrowing an oppressive regime.
India's independance, Yugoslavia's revolution, Soviet Perestroika, fall of the berlin wall. Must I go on?
Wielding a gun will only give them an excuse to masacre you. Do you think you can overpower any modern day army with a bunch of mercenaries and guns? Can you give me an example of a succesful armed revolution in the last 50 years?
It seems to me that modern day revolutions are fought without guns. Armed conflict tends to end up in a stalemate of massive bloodshed (Ruanda). How much firepower would it require for you to take down the US government?
RTF article, and you will find that the engines powering the thing are a design of a russian enterprise.
From meridiam webster online:
sarcasm:...
2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
Saturn VII is still the most powerful machine ever built by man, and it draws hundreds of tourist in admiration to Cape Kenedy. I think it is also the only machine currently available if you would like to take a ride to the moon.
I think this is a grave problem among many modern day CS graduates. In my school they barely mentioned his work, and left it as suplemental reading.
isn't that what the de-fragmentation program is for:)
I must be running it wrong, 10th time I ran it on the my network PCs and they still 95,98, NT4 and 2000 =)