parent sounds like a pure speculation but anyways with a wrong reference frame. Should Perelman be the one to make the breakthrough it is an obligation of math society to aknowledge that. Not any obligation on the Perelmans' side.
Recently, I got one for my own employer, in that our CEO wanted to simply open his cell phone and search all contacts in the group...
...err, the whole multinational group, across four continents.
How dare him! Unbelievable, search all contacts! OUTRAGEOUS!
And yet
Most of it is working, and it has had some nice side benefits
So there you are, now make a nice chart, how many users are using your directory daily or how many bugs you are fixing (depending on what is higher) and you are all set for a management review.
A CFO with BS in Physics will probably appreciate the joke if you'd chart some quasitron troughput vs average electron speed in your system, but god save you from omitting the axis labels.
At least in the sense that iTunes would run on Wine. Actually this is the reason I am still hesitating about buying iPhone. On the other hand, Android usability still suck as of yesterday. I went to a shop the very salesguy there spent 5 minutes to figure out how to get a widget back on the screen of an Android phone. Can it be worse? (I know it can:-)
I have actually run NSLU2 for a half a year or so. It was relatively easy to install some software, that's correct. It is still on a shelf in my room but turned off however. I had issues with samba there and with the back-up to the second drive, connected over USB. I would not go that far to say, this was not entirely my fault along the line of RTFM. But it is just much easier when you have vanilla Ubuntu with all the support and documentation Ubuntu has.
I have an Athlon 64 with 7 drives installed and it all consumes only 90 Wt according to the UPS meter. With one drive this would probably go down to 60 Wt or lower. I am not sure it is worth it cutting this down to 30 Wt and loosing all the flexibility that there is with a standard Ubuntu install. An experiment with Linksys NSL demonstrated that it is too much overhead configuring it and making sure everything works. I have lost just too much time, to make out for that energy save.
Better approach is to tell management to buy at least two lines of machines before starting the project: development and production. I found it relatively easy to explain that if some hardware dies, we should at least have a spare around (to be dev environment otherwise).
It could explain why microsoft was so successful winning government attention in Russia recently, and the inability of MS to put step in China would explain the TFA as well. All the loose ends come together here in this small article!,-)
beats me how my parent post get modded offtopic in a thread about historical books on science. Whereas I refer to a scientific history theory (book) that is supposed to explain why there are same discoveries seemingly getting forgotten between civilizations.
What you cite is Fomenko's criticism of the current mainstream chronology. Not the content of the Fomenko's own theory itself. I think the way Wikipedia text is structured is a bit misleading. So your comment actually second Fomenko's disappointment with the current chronology.
The book is published at a very famous Springer Verlag, if that is of any familiarity to you.
I am a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics myself and did not find Fomenko's argument crminaly insane or inscientific:-) They may be wrong, however, like any theory.
QUOTE: These two volumes which concern mathematical statistical chronology represent a major, unique work and are the first of its kind published in the English language. A comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical techniques is presented for the analysis of chronological data. These include, as main tool, the means to compare texts and other sequential data and the ability to judge them in terms of similarity and, hence, closeness. These techniques constitute a new important trend in applied statistics. Volume I concentrates mainly on the development of the mathematical statistical tools and their application to astronomical data, including the Almagest and simulated data (to test the validity of the methods). Substantial material dealing with historical data and chronology is also included. Volume II concentrates on the application of these tools to narrative texts and ancient and medieval records (such as Egyptian, Byzantine, Roman, Greek, Babylonian, etc.). An astonishing wealth of historical data is considered. The conclusions which are drawn concerning the accepted chronological dating of events in ancient history will certainly provoke controversy and serious debate. These two volumes provide the necessary background and material for intelligent participation in such debates. For statisticians, historians, astronomers, archaeologists, and others with an interest in the integrity of historical dating and the means to analyze this.
More details Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications to Historical Dating: The development of the statistical tools By A. T. Fomenko Edition: illustrated Published by Springer, 1994 ISBN 0792326040, 9780792326045 204 pages
there is an interesting scientific theory, that states that these civilisations were indeed the same one. They got dissected for the sake of gaining authority by separatists dictators dynasties.
It sounds crasy but is supported by real mathematical statistic and astronomy.
For me it explains the otherwise inexplainable gaps in the development of mankind between Egyptian, ancient, and current civilisations.
In all seriousness though, if you need this medium to make databases interesting for the reader, you're probably pandering to the wrong crowd. Anyone who needs to learn SQL will probably get a less childish book.
I would respectfully disagree. There is a word in japanese - smth. like "riai". It means so much as the basic, profound idea of the thing. If one can formulate these basic ideas in a way accessible to a rookie, this could be a real good start into a field. This depends from the learning style of the person, of course. Also the format of "graphics, less text" forces the authors to think what information they really need to put forward and drop the explanation of explanation.
When learning about SQL myself, I have missed this high level "so what" in the books. Now I am a professional in database research business, so I know a bit or two about SQL:-). When I explain SQL to the newbies, I do not talk volumes, but rather manga. It seems to work out well.
Bluetooth (BT V470) mouse seems to be heavier and less responsive. It obviously draws more power, so uses two AA batteries. The proprietary (RF Laser MX or smth.) mouse - two AAA. The wheel of the BT mouse can not be set to free rotation, but there are handy FF and REW events generated by tilting the wheel. Also BT seems to have higher latency to wake up after put to rest for a while.
I would say RF mouse should be superior to BT in almost all regards. Except that I still ended up using the BT. May be because I find it somehow cool to use BT with Linux:-)
I just have logged in to see if I can download and back up all my files at once. Have not found any word about the closing action. Is it me, or is it the lack of consideration at Yahoo?
It will support innovations. Faster boot, energy efficiency, more functionality like a built in browser. Look at what Linux BIOS can do already, for instance in the "100$" Laptop.
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parent sounds like a pure speculation but anyways with a wrong reference frame. Should Perelman be the one to make the breakthrough it is an obligation of math society to aknowledge that. Not any obligation on the Perelmans' side.
Germany as one example.
I guess the whoever modded gp as troll have had a bad day. Mod Tyberius up as insightful.
Recently, I got one for my own employer, in that our CEO wanted to simply open his cell phone and search all contacts in the group...
How dare him! Unbelievable, search all contacts! OUTRAGEOUS!
And yet
Most of it is working, and it has had some nice side benefits
So there you are, now make a nice chart, how many users are using your directory daily or how many bugs you are fixing (depending on what is higher) and you are all set for a management review.
A CFO with BS in Physics will probably appreciate the joke if you'd chart some quasitron troughput vs average electron speed in your system, but god save you from omitting the axis labels.
At least in the sense that iTunes would run on Wine. Actually this is the reason I am still hesitating about buying iPhone. :-)
On the other hand, Android usability still suck as of yesterday. I went to a shop the very salesguy there spent 5 minutes to figure out how to get a widget back on the screen of an Android phone. Can it be worse? (I know it can
I have actually run NSLU2 for a half a year or so. It was relatively easy to install some software, that's correct. It is still on a shelf in my room but turned off however.
I had issues with samba there and with the back-up to the second drive, connected over USB. I would not go that far to say, this was not entirely my fault along the line of RTFM. But it is just much easier when you have vanilla Ubuntu with all the support and documentation Ubuntu has.
in a hot climate probably more energy can be saved if poster puts his server outside of the air conditioned space.
from my experience, too much complication compared to a normal system (ubuntu) for that energy save potential.
I have an Athlon 64 with 7 drives installed and it all consumes only 90 Wt according to the UPS meter. With one drive this would probably go down to 60 Wt or lower. I am not sure it is worth it cutting this down to 30 Wt and loosing all the flexibility that there is with a standard Ubuntu install. An experiment with Linksys NSL demonstrated that it is too much overhead configuring it and making sure everything works. I have lost just too much time, to make out for that energy save.
Better approach is to tell management to buy at least two lines of machines before starting the project: development and production. I found it relatively easy to explain that if some hardware dies, we should at least have a spare around (to be dev environment otherwise).
It could explain why microsoft was so successful winning government attention in Russia recently, and the inability of MS to put step in China would explain the TFA as well. All the loose ends come together here in this small article! ,-)
Samba or FAT are not platforms. Applications accessing the files would still work and compile if these technologies were not available in GNU/Linux.
Remember the story with that admin which kidnapped a city network in US, was it San Francisco? May be this would help you to put this in a context.
lost in translation, it seems.
I've read recently about some. Do not remember which one that was.
beats me how my parent post get modded offtopic in a thread about historical books on science. Whereas I refer to a scientific history theory (book) that is supposed to explain why there are same discoveries seemingly getting forgotten between civilizations.
What you cite is Fomenko's criticism of the current mainstream chronology. Not the content of the Fomenko's own theory itself. I think the way Wikipedia text is structured is a bit misleading.
So your comment actually second Fomenko's disappointment with the current chronology.
You can check the source of the citation here:
http://books.google.de/books?id=ORx_6NlgsngC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=a+t+fomenko+Scaliger&source=bl&ots=5lEsgEnONz&sig=sN-EHAur2j7YY3z-NE9UAWkmQbY&hl=en&ei=gJEASpqLH4u8_AbB4Oz_Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA91,M1
The book is published at a very famous Springer Verlag, if that is of any familiarity to you.
I am a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics myself and did not find Fomenko's argument crminaly insane or inscientific :-) They may be wrong, however, like any theory.
QUOTE:
These two volumes which concern mathematical statistical chronology represent a major, unique work and are the first of its kind published in the English language. A comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical techniques is presented for the analysis of chronological data. These include, as main tool, the means to compare texts and other sequential data and the ability to judge them in terms of similarity and, hence, closeness. These techniques constitute a new important trend in applied statistics. Volume I concentrates mainly on the development of the mathematical statistical tools and their application to astronomical data, including the Almagest and simulated data (to test the validity of the methods). Substantial material dealing with historical data and chronology is also included. Volume II concentrates on the application of these tools to narrative texts and ancient and medieval records (such as Egyptian, Byzantine, Roman, Greek, Babylonian, etc.). An astonishing wealth of historical data is considered. The conclusions which are drawn concerning the accepted chronological dating of events in ancient history will certainly provoke controversy and serious debate. These two volumes provide the necessary background and material for intelligent participation in such debates. For statisticians, historians, astronomers, archaeologists, and others with an interest in the integrity of historical dating and the means to analyze this.
More details
Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications to Historical Dating: The development of the statistical tools
By A. T. Fomenko
Edition: illustrated
Published by Springer, 1994
ISBN 0792326040, 9780792326045
204 pages
there is an interesting scientific theory, that states that these civilisations were indeed the same one. They got dissected for the sake of gaining authority by separatists dictators dynasties.
It sounds crasy but is supported by real mathematical statistic and astronomy.
For me it explains the otherwise inexplainable gaps in the development of mankind between Egyptian, ancient, and current civilisations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
In all seriousness though, if you need this medium to make databases interesting for the reader, you're probably pandering to the wrong crowd. Anyone who needs to learn SQL will probably get a less childish book.
I would respectfully disagree. There is a word in japanese - smth. like "riai". It means so much as the basic, profound idea of the thing. If one can formulate these basic ideas in a way accessible to a rookie, this could be a real good start into a field. This depends from the learning style of the person, of course.
Also the format of "graphics, less text" forces the authors to think what information they really need to put forward and drop the explanation of explanation.
When learning about SQL myself, I have missed this high level "so what" in the books. Now I am a professional in database research business, so I know a bit or two about SQL :-). When I explain SQL to the newbies, I do not talk volumes, but rather manga. It seems to work out well.
Bluetooth (BT V470) mouse seems to be heavier and less responsive. It obviously draws more power, so uses two AA batteries. The proprietary (RF Laser MX or smth.) mouse - two AAA. The wheel of the BT mouse can not be set to free rotation, but there are handy FF and REW events generated by tilting the wheel. Also BT seems to have higher latency to wake up after put to rest for a while.
I would say RF mouse should be superior to BT in almost all regards. Except that I still ended up using the BT. May be because I find it somehow cool to use BT with Linux :-)
how does launching site location limit landing landing location?
I just have logged in to see if I can download and back up all my files at once. Have not found any word about the closing action. Is it me, or is it the lack of consideration at Yahoo?
And waiting 15 to 20 minutes until you can really start working can be so demotivating really.
It will support innovations. Faster boot, energy efficiency, more functionality like a built in browser. Look at what Linux BIOS can do already, for instance in the "100$" Laptop.