Yes! Do you want books about him or his contribution to CS? If you read Sipser's Introduction to computation you can get a lot of info about Turing Machines which are perhaps the backbone of all computing. Thats if you follow graph theory well. Books about his life I'm a little less knowledgeable about, I'd try the local library, bound to have something. I do know he was influential in the WW2 post WW2 period and I believe he committed suicide because he was unaccepted in society for being homosexual.
HP is known for screwing people on cartidges. They make two types of toner, regular and X. X is more expensive so people by the regular. The only difference is that the X is a full cartridge and the regular is half full so the X works out cheaper... everyone wastes their money. Toner is a much greater source of revenue than the actual printer.
He mentions that the government will let up on DMCA eventually citing the RSA paper which was almost never published due to stress from the NSA. To my knowledge the government (NSA) never lightened their stance on this, so happens Shamir was an Israeli citizen and the three could publish thier paper outside the U.S. If you look at what happened after that the U.S. government then placed restrictions on the # of bits in encryption software that could be exported from the states (I think the original was supposed to be 128 and was reduced significantly). The U.S. still has restrictions on exporting encryption software. They never let up on that point; don't expect them to relax their views on DMCA.
I'm not sure how this system is metric. The metric system is base ten, this system isn't, it just uses units that are base ten.
Ex:
1 meter is 10 decameters is 100 centimeters is 1000 millimeters etc.
thats really 10^1, 10^2, 10^3 and so on. That's the entire benefit of the metric system.
1 metric week is 10 metric days is 100 metric hours is 10000 metric minutes is 1000000 metric seconds makes no sense, there's no progression between units.
You can't call it metric and say it offers the same improvements standard measurement as the rest of the metric system just because all the units are divisible by ten. Is our current system binary because 24, 60 and 60 are divisible by 2?
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Alan Turing The award is named for Alan Turing. Go to the ACM website (they issue the award) if you don't believe me.
Yes! Do you want books about him or his contribution to CS? If you read Sipser's Introduction to computation you can get a lot of info about Turing Machines which are perhaps the backbone of all computing. Thats if you follow graph theory well. Books about his life I'm a little less knowledgeable about, I'd try the local library, bound to have something. I do know he was influential in the WW2 post WW2 period and I believe he committed suicide because he was unaccepted in society for being homosexual.
HP is known for screwing people on cartidges. They make two types of toner, regular and X. X is more expensive so people by the regular. The only difference is that the X is a full cartridge and the regular is half full so the X works out cheaper... everyone wastes their money.
Toner is a much greater source of revenue than the actual printer.
Seems to me he'd be better off with chicks without the T-Shirts.
Next time a bug gets in your eye you can hit it with the magnifying sunlight technique.
ouch....
He mentions that the government will let up on DMCA eventually citing the RSA paper which was almost never published due to stress from the NSA. To my knowledge the government (NSA) never lightened their stance on this, so happens Shamir was an Israeli citizen and the three could publish thier paper outside the U.S. If you look at what happened after that the U.S. government then placed restrictions on the # of bits in encryption software that could be exported from the states (I think the original was supposed to be 128 and was reduced significantly). The U.S. still has restrictions on exporting encryption software. They never let up on that point; don't expect them to relax their views on DMCA.
Will they send me an iPod? woo-hoo!
I'm not sure how this system is metric. The metric system is base ten, this system isn't, it just uses units that are base ten. Ex: 1 meter is 10 decameters is 100 centimeters is 1000 millimeters etc. thats really 10^1, 10^2, 10^3 and so on. That's the entire benefit of the metric system. 1 metric week is 10 metric days is 100 metric hours is 10000 metric minutes is 1000000 metric seconds makes no sense, there's no progression between units. You can't call it metric and say it offers the same improvements standard measurement as the rest of the metric system just because all the units are divisible by ten. Is our current system binary because 24, 60 and 60 are divisible by 2?
They deserve one, enough of their NT / 2000 source is stolen from the unix distros...