Well, he managed to sell over ten billion of it when he started his foundation, as the foundation was not legally allowed to have that much of its holdings in the stock of one company. The stock was gradually liquidated and had little to no impact on Microsoft's stock price. I would imagine he could sell another ten billion with about the same effect.
So after the MCSE sets up your beowulf, what do you do next? Run PovPVM on it? Seriously, nothing wrong with Beowulf, but at this stage, you really only need one of these if you have an application you want to run and are willing to write it yourself.
Isn't DNA a perfectly good data-storage medium? If it can be published on a computer disk, what's wrong with a nice, compact mollecular form. We've dug up enough 50,000 year old men to predate just about anyone's patents.
It's true that digital phones use less power, however, while some companies run them on the regular cell frequencies (800mhz), all of the new PCS providers use 1900mhz. This could potentially make a big difference in health.
Perhaps signal-to-noise is a precious commodity. Free speech is a way more precious one and to throw it away for something like this is outrageous from the biggest free-speech advocates of them all. I don't like spam either. I take measures to stop it, and when that doesn't work I hit the delete button.
Let's put this in perspective. You're willing to shut off someone's connection for distributing spamming software, but if someone posts instructions for making a bomb, that's free speech? Free speech isn't always pretty. Sometimes people yell in the street, sometimes the Nazis march around the neighborhood. But what about when you have something to say? Who's going to stand up for you when you agree to be a vigilante for mere association with spammers?
While Chomsky sometimes has good points, Iridium has burned through somewhere near ten billion dollars of investor cash and has nothing to show for it. The DoD is offering to buy the satellites for $72 million, which is less than 1% of the cost to build the network. I would hardly call this a bailout. The DoD's money is a drop in the bucket compared to the drenching which the bond and stockholders are receiving.
If you read Chomsky's stuff you know that a 1:250 chance that someone will die from iridium debris is nothing compared to the huge atrocities that go on all around the world.
While you were posting that a couple hundred people died of hunger, probably a few thousand died of curable diseases. Meanwhile you fret about a 250:1 chance of someone dying.
I would highly recommend Oxfam which can be reached at www.oxfam.org or www.oxfamamerica.org for donations to the U.S. branch if that's where you live. Forget "geek" charities. If you want to give money and have it make a difference, how about spending it on people who REALLY need it. People are starving and in poverty all around the world, and small amounts of help can make a big difference in someone's life.
This is from a standard disclamer where it's customary to list all possible things that could go wrong with your company. If you don't list something and it happens, your company can be the target of a shareholder lawsuit. Therefore if there is any reasonable chance of something bad happening to the company it will be listed.
That web page about the supposed VNS conspiracy as far as I can tell is a load of crap emperically from this election. VNS mis-called the election twice based on bad exit polls and incomplete information. The ultimate arbiter of the vote is the canvassing board which is an elected body and is open to public scrutiny.
Well, if you measure N in terms of the magnitude of the number, it's polynomial. However when people say factoring is NP, they mean that it is NP in the number of digits.
Actually part of proving a problem is NP complete is reducing it to another NP complete problem by showing how to encode the problem as another type of problem, and subsequently decode the answer. Hence, if you find the polynomial solution to minesweeper, just use the chain of encodings used to prove the NP completeness and you have a polynomial solution.
IANAL, But if you get the source code from someone else (as opposed to stealing it yourself), I don't think that trade secret protection applies. Now you have probably violated Microsoft's copyrights, but that doesn't prevent you from writing open-source software. I believe that law is that if a trade secret is stolen or misappropriated, the person who steals it or discloses it improperly is liable for damages, but anyone he gives it to is in the clear as it is no longer a secret. Legally I don't think that copying a win98 CD is any different than copying win98 source code.
In theory it's not bad technology, but the memory latency is huge and this is a major problem for most code. The bandwidth doesn't do you any good unless you use liberal prefetching and huge cache lines. Perhaps for console systems this will become the norm. As it stands in the PC market, programs aren't designed for this type of memory situation and thus they run slowly.
This is coming just as a user of the site for quite some time. Shortly after he published the book (a couple of years back), he started only letting you access three letters per day (for instance, you might be able to see the entries starting with B, F, Z one day, and A, G, M the next. After about a year or so of this, he opened the whole thing up, and then Wolfram hired him and moved the thing to their site. This is really a shame as it was a fantastic resource for someone who reads a lot of technical papers and needs to look up unfamiliar terms. Luckily, my officemate has the book so I suspect I will be borrowing it quite a bit from now on.
Your analysis is flawed because the market breaks down when faced with a decision between a long-term good and a short-term good. If we keep the park, it sticks around for the next generation, but the owner of the park isn't very concerned about this. Furthermore, if it is a public corporation, they want to see some short-term earnings. The bottom line is that it is an emperical fact that corporations almost always make decisions based on the short-term. The government doesn't have to answer to shareholders, so it can make more long-term decisions. Hence the government should own the national parks. Furthermore, there is the major problem of pricing. The cost of upkeep is relatively constant, so you want to have many people being able to use the park. However, a corporation would set prices higher than the government does in order to maximize profits, thus keeping away people who could contribute a smaller ammount, yet still more than their marginal cost. The government solves this problem in many domains by marginal tax rates. Read some basic economics and you will see that your vaunted lazeiz-faire capitalism isn't perfect (or even very good) in all domains.
Fine, but you can say the same thing about UNIX if the user is convinced to install a trojan. Furthermore, I don't see how a cable modem makes this any worse. The point is that if you leave your stock Linux machine on the open net (such as on a cable modem), it will probably be rooted as soon as a new exploit is found. Because Windows 98 does not by default have lots of services running and doesn't have a good command prompt, it's harder and a less desirable target for crackers.
How can a default install of Win98 be remotely "rooted"? I'm sure there are DOS attacks, but without installing a trojan or using an insecure email client such as Outlook, I'm not aware of any common exploits. Care to enlighten me?
When the P6 was released, it was the fastest processor available in industry standard benchmarks (SPEC, including Alpha). Its design was highly original, and manages to keep the CISC nastiness contained to the first few stages of the pipe. Claiming that the P6 was not a world-class design when released is only a testament to your own ignorance.
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Well, he managed to sell over ten billion of it when he started his foundation, as the foundation was not legally allowed to have that much of its holdings in the stock of one company. The stock was gradually liquidated and had little to no impact on Microsoft's stock price. I would imagine he could sell another ten billion with about the same effect.
So after the MCSE sets up your beowulf, what do you do next? Run PovPVM on it? Seriously, nothing wrong with Beowulf, but at this stage, you really only need one of these if you have an application you want to run and are willing to write it yourself.
Isn't DNA a perfectly good data-storage medium? If it can be published on a computer disk, what's wrong with a nice, compact mollecular form. We've dug up enough 50,000 year old men to predate just about anyone's patents.
It's true that digital phones use less power, however, while some companies run them on the regular cell frequencies (800mhz), all of the new PCS providers use 1900mhz. This could potentially make a big difference in health.
Perhaps signal-to-noise is a precious commodity. Free speech is a way more precious one and to throw it away for something like this is outrageous from the biggest free-speech advocates of them all. I don't like spam either. I take measures to stop it, and when that doesn't work I hit the delete button.
Let's put this in perspective. You're willing to shut off someone's connection for distributing spamming software, but if someone posts instructions for making a bomb, that's free speech? Free speech isn't always pretty. Sometimes people yell in the street, sometimes the Nazis march around the neighborhood. But what about when you have something to say? Who's going to stand up for you when you agree to be a vigilante for mere association with spammers?
Think about it.
While Chomsky sometimes has good points, Iridium has burned through somewhere near ten billion dollars of investor cash and has nothing to show for it. The DoD is offering to buy the satellites for $72 million, which is less than 1% of the cost to build the network. I would hardly call this a bailout. The DoD's money is a drop in the bucket compared to the drenching which the bond and stockholders are receiving.
If you read Chomsky's stuff you know that a 1:250 chance that someone will die from iridium debris is nothing compared to the huge atrocities that go on all around the world.
While you were posting that a couple hundred people died of hunger, probably a few thousand died of curable diseases. Meanwhile you fret about a 250:1 chance of someone dying.
I would highly recommend Oxfam which can be reached at www.oxfam.org or www.oxfamamerica.org for donations to the U.S. branch if that's where you live. Forget "geek" charities. If you want to give money and have it make a difference, how about spending it on people who REALLY need it. People are starving and in poverty all around the world, and small amounts of help can make a big difference in someone's life.
This is from a standard disclamer where it's customary to list all possible things that could go wrong with your company. If you don't list something and it happens, your company can be the target of a shareholder lawsuit. Therefore if there is any reasonable chance of something bad happening to the company it will be listed.
That web page about the supposed VNS conspiracy as far as I can tell is a load of crap emperically from this election. VNS mis-called the election twice based on bad exit polls and incomplete information. The ultimate arbiter of the vote is the canvassing board which is an elected body and is open to public scrutiny.
Please no more articles about this self-obsessed jackass.
Well, if you measure N in terms of the magnitude of the number, it's polynomial. However when people say factoring is NP, they mean that it is NP in the number of digits.
You've missed the point. The proofs provide a specific encoding. I'll try to dig it up if I have time.
Actually part of proving a problem is NP complete is reducing it to another NP complete problem by showing how to encode the problem as another type of problem, and subsequently decode the answer. Hence, if you find the polynomial solution to minesweeper, just use the chain of encodings used to prove the NP completeness and you have a polynomial solution.
This is a far cry from understanding the basic principles of EPR.
IANAL, But if you get the source code from someone else (as opposed to stealing it yourself), I don't think that trade secret protection applies. Now you have probably violated Microsoft's copyrights, but that doesn't prevent you from writing open-source software. I believe that law is that if a trade secret is stolen or misappropriated, the person who steals it or discloses it improperly is liable for damages, but anyone he gives it to is in the clear as it is no longer a secret. Legally I don't think that copying a win98 CD is any different than copying win98 source code.
In theory it's not bad technology, but the memory latency is huge and this is a major problem for most code. The bandwidth doesn't do you any good unless you use liberal prefetching and huge cache lines. Perhaps for console systems this will become the norm. As it stands in the PC market, programs aren't designed for this type of memory situation and thus they run slowly.
There is a CD-ROM version, so if one were so inclined, I believe it is HTML and could be posted.
This is coming just as a user of the site for quite some time. Shortly after he published the book (a couple of years back), he started only letting you access three letters per day (for instance, you might be able to see the entries starting with B, F, Z one day, and A, G, M the next. After about a year or so of this, he opened the whole thing up, and then Wolfram hired him and moved the thing to their site. This is really a shame as it was a fantastic resource for someone who reads a lot of technical papers and needs to look up unfamiliar terms. Luckily, my officemate has the book so I suspect I will be borrowing it quite a bit from now on.
Your analysis is flawed because the market breaks down when faced with a decision between a long-term good and a short-term good. If we keep the park, it sticks around for the next generation, but the owner of the park isn't very concerned about this. Furthermore, if it is a public corporation, they want to see some short-term earnings. The bottom line is that it is an emperical fact that corporations almost always make decisions based on the short-term. The government doesn't have to answer to shareholders, so it can make more long-term decisions. Hence the government should own the national parks. Furthermore, there is the major problem of pricing. The cost of upkeep is relatively constant, so you want to have many people being able to use the park. However, a corporation would set prices higher than the government does in order to maximize profits, thus keeping away people who could contribute a smaller ammount, yet still more than their marginal cost. The government solves this problem in many domains by marginal tax rates. Read some basic economics and you will see that your vaunted lazeiz-faire capitalism isn't perfect (or even very good) in all domains.
Fine, but you can say the same thing about UNIX if the user is convinced to install a trojan. Furthermore, I don't see how a cable modem makes this any worse. The point is that if you leave your stock Linux machine on the open net (such as on a cable modem), it will probably be rooted as soon as a new exploit is found. Because Windows 98 does not by default have lots of services running and doesn't have a good command prompt, it's harder and a less desirable target for crackers.
Turing says it wouldn't be.
How can a default install of Win98 be remotely "rooted"? I'm sure there are DOS attacks, but without installing a trojan or using an insecure email client such as Outlook, I'm not aware of any common exploits. Care to enlighten me?
When the P6 was released, it was the fastest processor available in industry standard benchmarks (SPEC, including Alpha). Its design was highly original, and manages to keep the CISC nastiness contained to the first few stages of the pipe. Claiming that the P6 was not a world-class design when released is only a testament to your own ignorance.
Actually current federal defense spending is about 1/7 of revenues. Check http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2001/pdf/guide .pdf