It's quite simple (the hypothesis) with basic college-level mathematics. You just need to understand complex numbers and sums of series. That's why it's a nice puzzle. Compare with Fermat's last theorem, even simpler, yet the proof is only 10 year old and very complicated. The only one that's relatively simpler and yet unproven is 3x+1, AKA Collatz' conjecture, read it up, it's fascinating.
Had upgraded my MacBook to 2G for 40â instead of the 200â it would have cost on the Apple store, and put in a 160G HDD... and had it serviced for/free/ due to a warranty extension on the battery. Unfortunately they did something wrong, the system doesn't recognize whether the power adapter is plugged in or not. Weird.
You think VNC is difficult to set up? Well NX is just absurdly complicated. That one time I managed to get it working, it was indeed vastly superior to VNC, but I just can't fucking understand why they have to install their own damn SSH server and keys. Why? WHY??? How come it's not been picked up by any major distribution? Probably because installing it by following the megabyte-long HOWTOs feels like an exercise in computer masochism.
Your government is spending/trillions/ on killing children in Iraq, and you complain about a couple bucks of your tax dollars going towards a Prius or two? What kind of retard are you, the Republican kind?
Web 2.0 is not just about flashy Ajax or what not, it's about user generated dynamic content. WP's "everything is a wiki" architecture might/look/ a bit archaic compared to fancy schmancy dynamic rotating animated gradient-filled forums, but it's much more powerful. Moreover, WP is not a collection of static pages, if you're logged in at least, every pages is dynamically generated, and every page's history is updated within a few seconds.
It's indeed your right to eat poison, but you have to admit that most people would rather not. And trans fats are pushed on those innocent people, by incorrectly labelling products containing it as "food" instead of "POISON." I don't advocate preventing you and your libertard friends from eating poison. In fact, the sooner your do it, the better. I just want consumers to protected from money grubbing, cigar chumping republican contributors.
Aren't you supposed to know what free software means? Seriously? I use RHEL Advanced Platform at work, and at over $1200+ per server per year, it's nowhere near gratis, it's however free as in freedom. And Blender is a 3D modelling app, not a bitmap image manipulation app like Photoshop.
Free provides 28Mb/s ADSL2+ with free international VoIP, free basic TV over IP for 29 euro a month. No capping whatsoever, awesome network quality, they also are the first to provide IPv6 to all their customers, and they make record profits. That's because they invested heavily in infrastructure and logistics, developed their own hardware (both set top box and DSLAMs), and managed to take advantage of significant economies of scale.
What you quote is what the government claims in its press briefings, not what's in the damn law. They lie through their teeth, on top of being completely incompetent.
As a member of April, the French free software association, I have been following this nonsense since it started. We have raised those issues already. W have been in touch with government officials, and this much is clear: they don't get it, because they don't care. The Sarkozy government is about as corrupt and authoritarian as the Bush administration, and similarly incompetent. (Even Chirac, who didn't have the most spotless of records to say the least, had at least surrounded himself with competent and well meaning people.) To illustrate this point, there's no better story than that of former member of parliament Cazenave. He was a member of Sarkozy's (and Chirac's) party, UMP, and one of free software's best advocate in the legislative branch. But before the last election, Sarkozy decided to give the party's nomination for that district instead to convicted felon Carignon. I shit you not. Carignon lost to the socialist candidate, in a district that had never voted left in decades. Anyway, we have been in touch with members of several parliaments (assembly, senate, european), and have found strong allies. Former Prime Minister and current MEP Rocard for example was instrumental in defeating software patents in the European Parliament, and he voiced strong opposition to this current nonsense. But we know how Sarkozy operates, he's learned from the worst, and, like Tom DeLay, he's going to strongarm his party's members in the legislative to toe the party line, even if they have reservations.
Because coding a bad, poorly parallelizable algorithm in ASM vs C will give you at best a 2x speedup. And coding a good, hyper parallelizable algorithm in Java vs C will give you at worst a 1/2x speed down, and at the same time an nx speed up, where n=768. And I'm not even talking about the mess ASM would be.
The feds didn't demand anything, this is complete BS. This crisis is just the result of the financial system lobbying for and obtaining the relaxing of regulations. Said regulations were enacted initially as a result of the 1929 crisis; when they got turned off, well, no surprise, what was supposed to happen, happened.
SQLite might be a "huge" 800k (but then someone advised using OOo...), but it's used by so many apps (including Firefox), and its API are so clearly defined (C API+SQL) that you can easily consider a quasi perfect black box and drop it in. Simply put, if you roll your own flat file DB managing with file locking and such, you ARE going to have bugs, more of them than SQLite has.
I read somewhere that in France, Apple honored MacOSX refund requests, as long as they are filed within a few days of the purchase. What we (April, Aful and other French associations) are trying to do here is have vendors honor their own damn EULAs. If it says you get a refund when you don't agree, you get a real refund, not a bogus offer. I don't see why it's so hard to understand for so many people around here.
The GPL is not an EULA. You only need agree to it if you ever redistribute GPL software; personal use & copying is granted explictly, unconditionally, and free of charge. Windows wants you to agree to an EULA. Said EULA says that if you refuse you can get a refund. We want the damn refund. That is all.
Windows has an EULA that gives you the option of either accepting or refusing, with a refund mentioned. Hard drives don't ask for your soul or first born, last time I checked.
Car makers make and sell their own motors. There is no market for putting another car maker's motor in another's car. OTOH while car makers have their own insurance sales company and credit company, there is a competing market for those services, and they can't force you to buy those when you buy one of their car. They may have a discount when you do, but in any case car+service can't be less expensive than car alone, that would be anticompetitive and would be a tie-in.
US Marine > I suspect you must be an authoritarians, hence your tendency to side with authority (in this case, Microsoft), no matter how wrong, against the little guy, no matter how right.
That's the same mindset that make some people blame the victim in case of rape (look at what she was wearing!), prisoner abuse (if he was in prison he probably deserved it!), war crimes, and so on.
It's not your fault, just follow the link in my sig and educate yourself.
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Unless I missed something, this conjecture does not have the sweeping consequences you allude to; unlike P=NP.
1. It's not been accepted as true.
2. "Maths for the sake of maths" is called mathematics. Otherwise it's, I don't know, creationism or something.
It's quite simple (the hypothesis) with basic college-level mathematics. You just need to understand complex numbers and sums of series.
That's why it's a nice puzzle.
Compare with Fermat's last theorem, even simpler, yet the proof is only 10 year old and very complicated.
The only one that's relatively simpler and yet unproven is 3x+1, AKA Collatz' conjecture, read it up, it's fascinating.
does that, and also allows me to run Flash 32 bits in a 64 bits Firefox.
Had upgraded my MacBook to 2G for 40â instead of the 200â it would have cost on the Apple store, and put in a 160G HDD ... and had it serviced for /free/ due to a warranty extension on the battery.
Unfortunately they did something wrong, the system doesn't recognize whether the power adapter is plugged in or not. Weird.
You think VNC is difficult to set up? Well NX is just absurdly complicated. That one time I managed to get it working, it was indeed vastly superior to VNC, but I just can't fucking understand why they have to install their own damn SSH server and keys. Why? WHY???
How come it's not been picked up by any major distribution? Probably because installing it by following the megabyte-long HOWTOs feels like an exercise in computer masochism.
All code except system calls runs natively, and therefore just as fast as native code.
Wikipedia is all user-generated content.
Web 1.0 contains only marginal amounts of user-generated content.
Your government is spending /trillions/ on killing children in Iraq, and you complain about a couple bucks of your tax dollars going towards a Prius or two? What kind of retard are you, the Republican kind?
The top500 has some visibility, Linux dominates it, no Windows *at all*, they probably spent some of their own money to get at least one spot.
Web 2.0 is not just about flashy Ajax or what not, it's about user generated dynamic content. WP's "everything is a wiki" architecture might /look/ a bit archaic compared to fancy schmancy dynamic rotating animated gradient-filled forums, but it's much more powerful.
Moreover, WP is not a collection of static pages, if you're logged in at least, every pages is dynamically generated, and every page's history is updated within a few seconds.
It's indeed your right to eat poison, but you have to admit that most people would rather not. And trans fats are pushed on those innocent people, by incorrectly labelling products containing it as "food" instead of "POISON."
I don't advocate preventing you and your libertard friends from eating poison. In fact, the sooner your do it, the better.
I just want consumers to protected from money grubbing, cigar chumping republican contributors.
Aren't you supposed to know what free software means? Seriously? I use RHEL Advanced Platform at work, and at over $1200+ per server per year, it's nowhere near gratis, it's however free as in freedom.
And Blender is a 3D modelling app, not a bitmap image manipulation app like Photoshop.
Free provides 28Mb/s ADSL2+ with free international VoIP, free basic TV over IP for 29 euro a month. No capping whatsoever, awesome network quality, they also are the first to provide IPv6 to all their customers, and they make record profits. That's because they invested heavily in infrastructure and logistics, developed their own hardware (both set top box and DSLAMs), and managed to take advantage of significant economies of scale.
What you quote is what the government claims in its press briefings, not what's in the damn law. They lie through their teeth, on top of being completely incompetent.
As a member of April, the French free software association, I have been following this nonsense since it started. We have raised those issues already. W have been in touch with government officials, and this much is clear: they don't get it, because they don't care. The Sarkozy government is about as corrupt and authoritarian as the Bush administration, and similarly incompetent.
(Even Chirac, who didn't have the most spotless of records to say the least, had at least surrounded himself with competent and well meaning people.)
To illustrate this point, there's no better story than that of former member of parliament Cazenave. He was a member of Sarkozy's (and Chirac's) party, UMP, and one of free software's best advocate in the legislative branch. But before the last election, Sarkozy decided to give the party's nomination for that district instead to convicted felon Carignon. I shit you not. Carignon lost to the socialist candidate, in a district that had never voted left in decades.
Anyway, we have been in touch with members of several parliaments (assembly, senate, european), and have found strong allies. Former Prime Minister and current MEP Rocard for example was instrumental in defeating software patents in the European Parliament, and he voiced strong opposition to this current nonsense.
But we know how Sarkozy operates, he's learned from the worst, and, like Tom DeLay, he's going to strongarm his party's members in the legislative to toe the party line, even if they have reservations.
Because coding a bad, poorly parallelizable algorithm in ASM vs C will give you at best a 2x speedup.
And coding a good, hyper parallelizable algorithm in Java vs C will give you at worst a 1/2x speed down, and at the same time an nx speed up, where n=768.
And I'm not even talking about the mess ASM would be.
The feds didn't demand anything, this is complete BS. This crisis is just the result of the financial system lobbying for and obtaining the relaxing of regulations.
Said regulations were enacted initially as a result of the 1929 crisis; when they got turned off, well, no surprise, what was supposed to happen, happened.
SQLite might be a "huge" 800k (but then someone advised using OOo ...), but it's used by so many apps (including Firefox), and its API are so clearly defined (C API+SQL) that you can easily consider a quasi perfect black box and drop it in. Simply put, if you roll your own flat file DB managing with file locking and such, you ARE going to have bugs, more of them than SQLite has.
I read somewhere that in France, Apple honored MacOSX refund requests, as long as they are filed within a few days of the purchase.
What we (April, Aful and other French associations) are trying to do here is have vendors honor their own damn EULAs. If it says you get a refund when you don't agree, you get a real refund, not a bogus offer.
I don't see why it's so hard to understand for so many people around here.
The GPL is not an EULA. You only need agree to it if you ever redistribute GPL software; personal use & copying is granted explictly, unconditionally, and free of charge.
Windows wants you to agree to an EULA. Said EULA says that if you refuse you can get a refund.
We want the damn refund.
That is all.
Windows has an EULA that gives you the option of either accepting or refusing, with a refund mentioned.
Hard drives don't ask for your soul or first born, last time I checked.
Car makers make and sell their own motors. There is no market for putting another car maker's motor in another's car.
OTOH while car makers have their own insurance sales company and credit company, there is a competing market for those services, and they can't force you to buy those when you buy one of their car. They may have a discount when you do, but in any case car+service can't be less expensive than car alone, that would be anticompetitive and would be a tie-in.
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US Marine > I suspect you must be an authoritarians, hence your tendency to side with authority (in this case, Microsoft), no matter how wrong, against the little guy, no matter how right.
That's the same mindset that make some people blame the victim in case of rape (look at what she was wearing!), prisoner abuse (if he was in prison he probably deserved it!), war crimes, and so on.
It's not your fault, just follow the link in my sig and educate yourself.
You knew what the EULA was
No you don't. The EULA is INSIDE the package, genius.