why the PSU has to be inside the computer case? It only adds to the total heat inside the case, it adds to noise etc. wouldn't it be simpler and easier, quieter to cool the PSU if it were outside the computer case and several meters away from it?
Actually, writing a program to check it would not be necessary since validity of original program that generated the proof is enough. Which leads us to another interesting point, a program that generates the proof is just another (perhaps better since it is faster) model of mathematical reality, and since it is made by humans it shows that humans will stay superior proof writers (unless a proof generating program can also make improved copies of itself which means it's practically AI).
This brings a very interesting point. It raises the question of what is the truth. And the truth is only something humans can verify, at least right now it is. Scientists and mathematicians particularly are called to be sceptics and never accept anything as true without first understanding it and re-validating it to themselves, which involves going through the motions and validating the rigidity of each implication in a mathematical proof. If that can't possibly be done by a human, the truth of the proof can't be accepted by the human either, which means that it isn't necessarily true to a human.
Windows XP is Windows 5.1, Windows 2000 is Windows 5.0. How much was Windows XP Pro upgrade when it was just released again?
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Actually, with MKS Korn shell, you can do that easily. It has all the standard Unix tools that work exactly as on Unix plus a hefty collection of win specific tools for system administration (registry, services etc). It also includes VI editor (command line and GUI versions), and connectivity tools (remote secure shell, telnet, rexec to execute a single command on remote computer etc). Decent perl and awk implementations etc. Pretty poweful stuff.
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Perhaps it's time to install Korn shell port to all the machines. MKS Inc. makes an excellent Unix toolkit with good Korn/BASH/C/Tcl Shells and a bunch of tools for administrators.
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And there's your problem. If computing is personal why the heck do you care what someone else's PC has been doing last week? None of your business, lol.
Complaining about too much power? I for one crave for more power and not only for my PC, but I want more inteligent home devices (from TV to microwave) with universal (common) interfaces all networked together.
There is a difference between "their" and "they're". They, their, they're and there are all different words, would you believe. Just because they sound very similar, does not mean they are spelled the same.
When will people realize that MS software and windows in particular are buggy with the purpose. And the purpose is to dominate the world. MS needs to have its entire insalled base riddled with spyware, viruses, adware and all kinds of evil resource hogs to rally popular support for its next generation "solution" to the problem they created. The solution will gradually make them control the world. You know what I'm talking about, right? Palladium, DRM, La Grande (666).
I've read the FA and if this is deemed acceptable by the consumers, it's only a matter of time before they offer the "high end" version that takes half a gigabyte of your system RAM.
The whole point of video card is to be seamles, to speed things up, and to make system perform better. I don't want a video card that's going to "eat" half a gigabyte of my system RAM. It's a huge resource hit. I pray to God this is not the direction the "future" is headed. Use the damn dedicated RAM for your video card and don't eat system resources.
Actually it's not like that. I don't mind getting an e-mail from anybody, but I absolutely DO want to be certain that they are who they claim they are (well, their mail server has to be who they say it is), so that I can get back to them, or report the abuse of e-mail should I need to.
This problem can be solved easily if each ISP in the world is required to have a unique ID, and that no one can use SMTP without a unique ID issued by a trusted org.
ISP would then make sure that their customers have unique digital IDs (the customers themselves should not need to do anything).
And in the above scenario, I don't mind getting one or two unsolicited messages from stranges. But if it escalates to a problem and you start bugging me, at least I know who you are and where you are with certainty and can report yoour abuse.
But doesn't the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle say that you will never be able to simulate every particle of the human brain (since you can not know its state completely). So you will not be able to run the simulation of the brain on the Turning machine...
Most of you got it wrong. It's not that US controls internet, those undemocratic countries are complaining exactly about the opposite: the lack of control. Lack of control is what they see as a problem. If they don't have absolute control over something, well, they feel endangered...
When you have a formal mathematical system of axioms or statements, in order to prove it is not contadictory you have to show that you can never prove statement A and not A from those axioms. That can take a while...
In physics, you have to practically verify that the predictions and consequences of your statements and their derivatives actually coincide with observations and what really goes on.
According to Newton' "Law" if you travel on a fast moving train and you take a torch and direct the light it produces in the direction of the train moves (ahead), the light ought to go the speed of light plus the speed of the train, which is not true. Even simpler, applying constant force to an object of constant mass will give it infinite speed, again wrong. Newton's "laws" are just another theory that gives good predictions in certain ranges, but completely break at the limits..
KFG got it right, in science we don't have laws any more. We have theories, that are as good (as true and as useful) as the predictions they give us. If some theory has good predictions no matter how wacky it is, its useful and accepted at face vaule as a useful tool. That is all there is to it.
As far as modern physics is concerned you can believe in little creatures that are always behind you, but as soon as you look at them they disapear. It's perfectly fine, because they're not observable, modern physics doesn't prohibit their existance. Now if you could use your little disappearing creatures and apply them to explain some physical phenomenon and consistently give the right predictions, we would all accept them and use them in our "calculations"...
Fermat's Last Theorem was just a descriptive name for a problem. Everyone in the math community understood that no one had viable proof for it until Wile's) and hence it wasn't really a theorem before then. It never caused confusion because general population doesn't concern itself with something as useless as math. More's "Law" on the other hand is all over the place and non-technical, non-scientific people keep reading about it, hence all the confusion...
According to the Newton's "laws" if you apply constatnt force to an object of constant mass, you could accelerate it and make its speed be infinity, and that as we all know is bullshit. Hence, Newton's laws are only a "theory" that works well with certain restrictions and completely breaks down and gives wrong predictions at limits.
A theory is good only as the predictions it gives. The universe is made out of stories, actually....
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why the PSU has to be inside the computer case? It only adds to the total heat inside the case, it adds to noise etc. wouldn't it be simpler and easier, quieter to cool the PSU if it were outside the computer case and several meters away from it?
Does that mean MSN Search bars and all the crap that's currently being installed bundled with MSN Messenger will make it into next version of OS.
It just might make all clueless windows people start using MSN search, because it's there on their task bar all the time.
document tracking system packaged with it, like the windows 7.0 version as well? Or did they remove it for Linux?
Actually, writing a program to check it would not be necessary since validity of original program that generated the proof is enough. Which leads us to another interesting point, a program that generates the proof is just another (perhaps better since it is faster) model of mathematical reality, and since it is made by humans it shows that humans will stay superior proof writers (unless a proof generating program can also make improved copies of itself which means it's practically AI).
This brings a very interesting point. It raises the question of what is the truth. And the truth is only something humans can verify, at least right now it is. Scientists and mathematicians particularly are called to be sceptics and never accept anything as true without first understanding it and re-validating it to themselves, which involves going through the motions and validating the rigidity of each implication in a mathematical proof. If that can't possibly be done by a human, the truth of the proof can't be accepted by the human either, which means that it isn't necessarily true to a human.
Windows XP is Windows 5.1, Windows 2000 is Windows 5.0. How much was Windows XP Pro upgrade when it was just released again?
Actually, with MKS Korn shell, you can do that easily. It has all the standard Unix tools that work exactly as on Unix plus a hefty collection of win specific tools for system administration (registry, services etc). It also includes VI editor (command line and GUI versions), and connectivity tools (remote secure shell, telnet, rexec to execute a single command on remote computer etc). Decent perl and awk implementations etc. Pretty poweful stuff.
Perhaps it's time to install Korn shell port to all the machines. MKS Inc. makes an excellent Unix toolkit with good Korn/BASH/C/Tcl Shells and a bunch of tools for administrators.
And there's your problem. If computing is personal why the heck do you care what someone else's PC has been doing last week? None of your business, lol.
Complaining about too much power? I for one crave for more power and not only for my PC, but I want more inteligent home devices (from TV to microwave) with universal (common) interfaces all networked together.
There is a difference between "their" and "they're". They, their, they're and there are all different words, would you believe. Just because they sound very similar, does not mean they are spelled the same.
What if your editor of choice is VI, then you will be forced to view the XML yourself.
Remember, even though it is 2005, there are still good programmers out there using VI.
When will people realize that MS software and windows in particular are buggy with the purpose. And the purpose is to dominate the world.
MS needs to have its entire insalled base riddled with spyware, viruses, adware and all kinds of evil resource hogs to rally popular support for its next generation "solution" to the problem they created. The solution will gradually make them control the world. You know what I'm talking about, right? Palladium, DRM, La Grande (666).
I tried their test on my Windows 2003 server and IE, and Windows XP SP2 and it didn't work. Paypal website was rendered instead of secunia's page.
I've read the FA and if this is deemed acceptable by the consumers, it's only a matter of time before they offer the "high end" version that takes half a gigabyte of your system RAM.
The whole point of video card is to be seamles, to speed things up, and to make system perform better. I don't want a video card that's going to "eat" half a gigabyte of my system RAM. It's a huge resource hit. I pray to God this is not the direction the "future" is headed.
Use the damn dedicated RAM for your video card and don't eat system resources.
Actually it's not like that. I don't mind getting an e-mail from anybody, but I absolutely DO want to be certain that they are who they claim they are (well, their mail server has to be who they say it is), so that I can get back to them, or report the abuse of e-mail should I need to.
This problem can be solved easily if each ISP in the world is required to have a unique ID, and that no one can use SMTP without a unique ID issued by a trusted org.
ISP would then make sure that their customers have unique digital IDs (the customers themselves should not need to do anything).
And in the above scenario, I don't mind getting one or two unsolicited messages from stranges. But if it escalates to a problem and you start bugging me, at least I know who you are and where you are with certainty and can report yoour abuse.
But doesn't the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle say that you will never be able to simulate every particle of the human brain (since you can not know its state completely). So you will not be able to run the simulation of the brain on the Turning machine...
Most of you got it wrong. It's not that US controls internet, those undemocratic countries are complaining exactly about the opposite: the lack of control. Lack of control is what they see as a problem. If they don't have absolute control over something, well, they feel endangered...
Actually, you can also make IE use google to search from the address bar as well.
e t Explorer\SearchUrl]
Go to the key
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Intern
and set the provider key to "gogl"
"provider"="gogl"
(if provider key doesn't exist create it. It's type is REG_SZ).
Actually, that is my point. Newtons theory doesn't predict mass increase...
I think you're a bit confused here...
When you have a formal mathematical system of axioms or statements, in order to prove it is not contadictory you have to show that you can never prove statement A and not A from those axioms. That can take a while...
In physics, you have to practically verify that the predictions and consequences of your statements and their derivatives actually coincide with observations and what really goes on.
According to Newton' "Law" if you travel on a fast moving train and you take a torch and direct the light it produces in the direction of the train moves (ahead), the light ought to go the speed of light plus the speed of the train, which is not true.
Even simpler, applying constant force to an object of constant mass will give it infinite speed, again wrong.
Newton's "laws" are just another theory that gives good predictions in certain ranges, but completely break at the limits..
KFG got it right, in science we don't have laws any more. We have theories, that are as good (as true and as useful) as the predictions they give us. If some theory has good predictions no matter how wacky it is, its useful and accepted at face vaule as a useful tool. That is all there is to it.
As far as modern physics is concerned you can believe in little creatures that are always behind you, but as soon as you look at them they disapear. It's perfectly fine, because they're not observable, modern physics doesn't prohibit their existance. Now if you could use your little disappearing creatures and apply them to explain some physical phenomenon and consistently give the right predictions, we would all accept them and use them in our "calculations"...
Fermat's Last Theorem was just a descriptive name for a problem. Everyone in the math community understood that no one had viable proof for it until Wile's) and hence it wasn't really a theorem before then.
It never caused confusion because general population doesn't concern itself with something as useless as math.
More's "Law" on the other hand is all over the place and non-technical, non-scientific people keep reading about it, hence all the confusion...
According to the Newton's "laws" if you apply constatnt force to an object of constant mass, you could accelerate it and make its speed be infinity, and that as we all know is bullshit. Hence, Newton's laws are only a "theory" that works well with certain restrictions and completely breaks down and gives wrong predictions at limits.
A theory is good only as the predictions it gives. The universe is made out of stories, actually....