Long gone are the days of a nuclear threat in regards to geo-politics. What America (and rest of Europe) needs to realise is that we could be vaporized all in the name of a "GOD"! That's right, most of the wars waged by men throughout history are based on religion. Pretty fucking scary...
WWI and WW2, the biggest wars were not based on religion in any way.
I think history shows too many times that those without a strategic deterrence are the conquerred ones, and at times, they are are ones that get massacred.
On our undergraduate history of science class, one of our texts was Kuhn's book. His arguement was that science doesn't work by continually adding more stuff on top of what is already there but works in paradigms.
So, for example quantum physics was a paradigm change. The photoelectric effect is explained by 7th graders but now higher level quantum mechanics cannot be. Every once is a while someone comes up with a total paradigm change on how problems are supposed to be approached and it makes a lot of previous hard problems easy.
Actually, Wiles proof of FLT is a simplification of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture which he proved I believe. The actual proof could be just 1 line if we assumed the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture to be true. Most of Wiles effort was spent on proving the TSC I believe.
There is good old VB which was used for RAD for windows.
There is VBScript which is a general purpose scripting language. It can be used for browers to Office to any app scripting. Basically gives access to all the sytem's objects.
And, there is VB.NET which is basically as full of features as C#, C++ and other code that fits into the Microsoft.NET platform.
If only Microsoft had the imagination to name products like Open Source Software does, then all the confusion would be avoided. VB,.NET, ActiveX mean so so many things it's ridiculous.
I think on the contary, there is very little though given to this by designers.
Even the iPod, the volume control is pretty bad. The loudness moves in steps and at night with particular headphones, volume level 1 is too loud. The only other value lower is 0, no sound.
Mplayer can have a Ghz machine, with GB of RAM and 100s of watts of power. Plus CPUs with floating point operations, vector processing etc.
How do you expect something that runs off batteries, has maybe a few hundred MHz CPU without any floating point, vector processing and very limited RAM to do the same?
1. Why not use direct deposit? Plus, there is such a thing has going to the same bank, knowing a few tellers who recognize you since you go there on a regular basis and the ID not being such a hassle. Plus, you can deposit checks into the ATM.
2. Why not use checks or money orders? Why would you want to make withdrawls of $5,000 in cash for?
3. Seems like the system in Singapore, if someone high up wants to screw you, you're totally and completely screwed. Or if there is some error in the system somewhere, you can't even go out and buy food anymore. Maybe I'm wrong but a system like that would make me want to deal with everyone in cash only!
So then what exactly is the difference between coding in VBScript and Javascript?
They have access to the same set of objects. Javascript does not have any language features that VBScript does not have.
Javascript has curly braces and type sensitivity but for most part any Javascript code can be translated line by line to exactly the same VBScript code.
Because vbscript works with excel, word, access - learning vb gets you to work with almost every microsoft product from asp server scripting to making vb6 windows applications to client side vbscript coding to office to scripting for other apps.
It gets the job done a lot of times coz you have 1 week to process this data or 1 week to make a quick system for the local auction.
I watch DVDs on my computer. I "upgraded" my DVD-player software and it wouldn't let me skip sections that the DVD says can't skip.
I was watching Voyager DVDs and every episode starts with a non-skippable 10s clip of Voyager powering up and moving across the sreen. Even though it was only for 10s, after 3-4 episodes I was really really hating that clip.
Anyway, I feel that now a pirate DVD is more valueable than a real DVD since pirate DVDs remove all skip codes and DRM and makes for more pleasant viewing.
A large percent is also spent on listening to music and watching video (esp. the upcoming generation).
Plus everyone has a special program they use depeneding on what they job is. Some people use their video production or audio DAW softwre a lot, others photoshop or other visual studio (or such IDE) or statistical cruncher or MATLAB. THere is always that one program that they use for their livelihood that will demand upgrades.
Hopefully, the US will also open the immigration flood gates, bringing intellignet people over here who will even create more jobs and oppertunity - getting more bang for the buck.
This was how the US leapfrogged over everyone after WW2. We had pretty much a huge section of the European intellects come here (Einstein, Godel big names and numerous others). As a rough guide if you look at the Nobel laureates from the US in the past 50 years, many of them were born in Europe. Lately you'll see ones born in China, Egypt (Asia).
Look at Germany and Japan. Everything they had and the infrastructure was razed to the ground during WW2 and now they're back being economic superpowers within 20-30 years. Infrastructure can be build if people know how.
So, it's all about the people and there's a few billion.
Students who expected to do badly, the researchers found, actually felt worse when they messed up than those who predicted they would do well but similarly botched their test.
That is what the experimenters are reporting for that experiment. Not what you wrote up there as conclusion.
Could you be a little more specific about these 80's attacks on DOS? Did they take place using analog modems or what? When a Windows vulnerability is found, it is certain that there are countless PC machines connected to the Internet that can be exploited THE SAME WAY. So why wouldn't this exploit be used against them?
Wow, I feel only saying this but...
The old viruses would put itself in executable files, data files and so when you ran that file it would also run the virus. It would be transmitted when people swapped floppy disks of data or programs.
And the viruses just formatted/destroyed hard drives or corrupted data. It didn't spy on you or anything like that.
All of mathematics is based on set theory with the assumption that we can simply understand what a set is and what it means for things to belong to a set.
First of all Language (Computational Linguistics) to Biology (Computational Biology) are not branches of mathematics. Maybe you could say algebra and analysis are. I seriously doubt you'll see an number theorist suddenly turn into functional analyst.
Mathematics is ridiculously vast and you have to specialize in a limited function types in some special space to do any research.
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Actually, look at India and Pakistan. Nukes have worked really well as a deterrent.
Ever since both have gotten nukes, they've gotten close to war and just had to back off until the tempers cooled off because of MAD.
Now, they're working towards being friends instead of enemies.
WWI and WW2, the biggest wars were not based on religion in any way.
For example, Iraq.
I don't really think that's true.
On our undergraduate history of science class, one of our texts was Kuhn's book. His arguement was that science doesn't work by continually adding more stuff on top of what is already there but works in paradigms.
So, for example quantum physics was a paradigm change. The photoelectric effect is explained by 7th graders but now higher level quantum mechanics cannot be. Every once is a while someone comes up with a total paradigm change on how problems are supposed to be approached and it makes a lot of previous hard problems easy.
Actually, Wiles proof of FLT is a simplification of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture which he proved I believe. The actual proof could be just 1 line if we assumed the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture to be true. Most of Wiles effort was spent on proving the TSC I believe.
Did you just get scared of the word VB?
If only Microsoft had the imagination to name products like Open Source Software does, then all the confusion would be avoided. VB, .NET, ActiveX mean so so many things it's ridiculous.
Though you may think that's bad, had that movie not been made, it would have been, "the guy who wrote the story for Bincentennial man".
Robots that want to feel and screw girls. Human emotions = special is the worst kind of science fiction.
But my headphone has gold plated connectors and extra thick and insulated wires for best sounds.
Putting a $6 volume controller in the signal path would make the headphone only good as a $6 headphone!
I think on the contary, there is very little though given to this by designers.
Even the iPod, the volume control is pretty bad. The loudness moves in steps and at night with particular headphones, volume level 1 is too loud. The only other value lower is 0, no sound.
Mplayer can have a Ghz machine, with GB of RAM and 100s of watts of power. Plus CPUs with floating point operations, vector processing etc.
How do you expect something that runs off batteries, has maybe a few hundred MHz CPU without any floating point, vector processing and very limited RAM to do the same?
Plus, not all freedom is really freedom. e.g. "freedom" of Iraq
Very good post!
1. Why not use direct deposit? Plus, there is such a thing has going to the same bank, knowing a few tellers who recognize you since you go there on a regular basis and the ID not being such a hassle. Plus, you can deposit checks into the ATM.
2. Why not use checks or money orders? Why would you want to make withdrawls of $5,000 in cash for?
3. Seems like the system in Singapore, if someone high up wants to screw you, you're totally and completely screwed. Or if there is some error in the system somewhere, you can't even go out and buy food anymore. Maybe I'm wrong but a system like that would make me want to deal with everyone in cash only!
So then what exactly is the difference between coding in VBScript and Javascript?
They have access to the same set of objects. Javascript does not have any language features that VBScript does not have.
Javascript has curly braces and type sensitivity but for most part any Javascript code can be translated line by line to exactly the same VBScript code.
Because vbscript works with excel, word, access - learning vb gets you to work with almost every microsoft product from asp server scripting to making vb6 windows applications to client side vbscript coding to office to scripting for other apps.
It gets the job done a lot of times coz you have 1 week to process this data or 1 week to make a quick system for the local auction.
I watch DVDs on my computer. I "upgraded" my DVD-player software and it wouldn't let me skip sections that the DVD says can't skip.
I was watching Voyager DVDs and every episode starts with a non-skippable 10s clip of Voyager powering up and moving across the sreen. Even though it was only for 10s, after 3-4 episodes I was really really hating that clip.
Anyway, I feel that now a pirate DVD is more valueable than a real DVD since pirate DVDs remove all skip codes and DRM and makes for more pleasant viewing.
I disagree.
A large percent is also spent on listening to music and watching video (esp. the upcoming generation).
Plus everyone has a special program they use depeneding on what they job is. Some people use their video production or audio DAW softwre a lot, others photoshop or other visual studio (or such IDE) or statistical cruncher or MATLAB. THere is always that one program that they use for their livelihood that will demand upgrades.
Hopefully, the US will also open the immigration flood gates, bringing intellignet people over here who will even create more jobs and oppertunity - getting more bang for the buck.
This was how the US leapfrogged over everyone after WW2. We had pretty much a huge section of the European intellects come here (Einstein, Godel big names and numerous others). As a rough guide if you look at the Nobel laureates from the US in the past 50 years, many of them were born in Europe. Lately you'll see ones born in China, Egypt (Asia).
Look at Germany and Japan. Everything they had and the infrastructure was razed to the ground during WW2 and now they're back being economic superpowers within 20-30 years. Infrastructure can be build if people know how.
So, it's all about the people and there's a few billion.
You're missing the point of the experiment.
It says,
That is what the experimenters are reporting for that experiment. Not what you wrote up there as conclusion.
Really? That's outrageous.
On an unrelated note, I needed to purcahse a few DVDs. **click click** ebay.com
Probably loss in, "the computer isn't working or the internet died so let's take a break" by the whole company.
I meant I felt old ...
Fuck stupid slashdot for not letting me edit posts or add something to my old posts and making me wait to post!
Wow, I feel only saying this but ...
The old viruses would put itself in executable files, data files and so when you ran that file it would also run the virus. It would be transmitted when people swapped floppy disks of data or programs.
And the viruses just formatted/destroyed hard drives or corrupted data. It didn't spy on you or anything like that.
Wait, that doesn't make sense to me.
In the 80s, the Mac systems weren't unix based. Why would DOS be easier to attack then?
All of mathematics is based on set theory with the assumption that we can simply understand what a set is and what it means for things to belong to a set.
How more human can you get?
Absolute bullshit.
First of all Language (Computational Linguistics) to Biology (Computational Biology) are not branches of mathematics. Maybe you could say algebra and analysis are. I seriously doubt you'll see an number theorist suddenly turn into functional analyst.
Mathematics is ridiculously vast and you have to specialize in a limited function types in some special space to do any research.