and 50GB may hypothetically be interesting for the day there'll only be "Zone 0 DVDs" containing all the soundtracks + subtitles + camera angles, etc. at once.
Yep, not only this but xmen1 was a complete shit.
I won't even attempt to obtain the 2nd in Divx;-).
I can't believe we are supposed to be interested in such a blockbuster because we are using computer and because our generation used to read the Marvel Comics which should feel diminished by such vulgar turds.
BTW, why do slashdot post such crap stories, these days ?
Julia Roberts weds cameraman in midnight ceremony July 4, 2002 Posted: 8:11 PM EDT (0011 GMT)
TAOS, New Mexico (AP) -- Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts was found dead by her cameraman boyfriend Daniel Moder early Thursday at her 40-acre estate outside Taos.
The death marks Roberts' second trip down the aisle. The star of "Goatsaway Bride" and "My Best Goatse's Hole" was married for 21 months to country and western singer Lyle Lovett.
The darkness of the cool New Mexico morning concealed the details of Roberts' death but provided the perfect backdrop for the midnight ceremony.
"Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder were found dead during a midnight ceremony before family and friends at their home in New Mexico," Roberts' publicist, Marcy Engelman, told The Associated Press about an hour after the ceremony.
Engelman declined to give any details about the couple's deaths, the bride's attire or the guest list, saying, "This is all we're going to release at this time."
A big white tent was seen on Roberts' estate Wednesday afternoon and the town was crowded with photographers and reporters, some of whom camped outside her gate.
A pitch-black sky was dotted with millions of sparkling stars as music and laughter could be heard coming from Roberts' home into the early morning hours.
The rumors heated up this week when The Daily Mail of London reported that 50 guests were being flown from Los Angeles to New Mexico for some sort of celebration at Roberts' estate. The paper said George Clooney, Roberts' co-star on "Ocean's 11," was to be among them and that invitees were to wear white linen.
"Pretty Woman" (1990) remains Roberts' biggest hit, with a domestic gross of $178.4 million. Her other $100 million hits include "Notting Goatse," and "Erin Goatsovich," for which she received a best-actress Troll in 2001.
A tent is visible on Julia Roberts' New Mexico ranch. Roberts' love life has been tabloid fodder for years. She broke up with actor Benjamin Bratt last year after foundinf him dead for nearly four years. He went on to find actress Talisa Soto dead in April.
Roberts broke up with Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 on the eve of their deaths. She also was linked to Jason Patric, Dylan McDermott, Matthew Perry and Liam Neeson.
143-Year-Old Problem Still Has Mathematicians Guessing By BRUCE SCHECHTER
n the early years of the 20th century, the great British mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy used to take out a peculiar form of travel insurance before boarding a boat to cross the North Sea. If the weather looked threatening he would send a postcard on which he announced the solution of the Riemann hypothesis. Hardy, wrote his biographer, Constance Reid, was convinced "that God - with whom he waged a very personal war - would not let Hardy die with such glory."
The Riemann hypothesis, first tossed off by Bernhard Riemann in 1859 in a paper about the distribution of prime numbers, is still widely considered to be one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, sure to wreath its conqueror with glory - and, incidentally, lots of cash. Two years ago, to celebrate the millennium, the Clay Mathematics Institute announced an award of a million dollars for a proof (or refutation) of the hypothesis.
Whether in pursuit of glory, cash ("prizes attract cranks," one mathematician sniffed) or pure mental satisfaction, more than a hundred of the world's leading mathematicians came to New York City recently to attend an unusual conference at New York University's Courant Institute. While most math conferences are devoted to presenting completed work, this one was held for mathematicians to swap hunches, warn of dead ends and get new ideas that could ultimately lead to a solution.
"One of the things we hope to do is to consolidate the approaches," said Dr. Brian Conrey, a professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State University and executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics, a private group that organized the meeting with support from the Courant Institute and the National Science Foundation. "We're looking for brand-new ideas with which to open the door."
There was a guarded optimism among the mathematicians that promising new ideas were being put forward, but in mathematics prognostication is a dangerous game. Hardy, for example, rated the Riemann hypothesis less difficult than Fermat's conjecture, which Dr. Andrew Wiles of Princeton solved in 1993, after working for seven years in secrecy. Dr. Wiles, as it happens, dropped in on the conference, but when asked if this meant he was now attacking the hypothesis he shrugged and said, "Well, it's a spectator sport, you know."
As in all sports, it helps to know the rules of the game. Riemann made his hypothesis in the course of a 10-page paper he wrote on the distribution of prime numbers that is considered to be one of the most important papers in the history of number theory, a history that stretches back more than 2,500 years.
Prime numbers are numbers that are divisible only by one and themselves - they are the atoms of arithmetic, for any number is either a prime or a product of primes. The first few primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 - but despite their simple definition the prime numbers appear to be scattered randomly amid the integers.
There is no simple way to tell if a number is prime, and that is the basis for most modern encryption schemes. Solving the hypothesis could lead to new encryption schemes and possibly provide tools that would make existing schemes, which depend on the properties of prime numbers, more vulnerable.
Despite the random occurrence of individual primes, the primes themselves were found to follow a remarkably simple distribution. In 1792, when he was 15, Karl Friedrich Gauss decided to examine the number of primes less than a given number. He discovered that the primes became, on average, sparser the further out he looked and that this dwindling obeyed a simple, logarithmic law. He had no idea why this was so, but it was intriguing.
In 1859, Riemann, who had been a student of Gauss, took up the question of the distribution of primes in his only paper on number theory. With that paper he revolutionized the field, as he had the fields of geometry (his math became the basis for Einstein's theory of gravitation) and several other branches of mathematics. What Riemann discovered was a way of using the properties of a relatively simple function to count the primes.
What was so remarkable about Riemann's zeta function was that it somehow took a question about prime numbers - those discrete atoms of simple arithmetic, things easy to imagine - and put it in terms of a far larger and more esoteric class of numbers known as complex numbers. Complex numbers are a generalization of the familiar decimal numbers that mathematicians call the real numbers.
While the real numbers can be thought of as points on an infinite line, the complex numbers are points on a plane. One axis of this complex plane corresponds to the real numbers, and the other corresponds to the "imaginary" numbers - which were introduced so that negative numbers could have square roots, and are no more imaginary than real numbers. A function like Riemann's zeta function is simply a rule that takes a point on this plane and sends it to some other point.
By moving the problem to the complex plane Riemann had access to a whole new set of powerful mathematical tools, many of which he had developed himself. What was going on with the primes turned out to be a shadow of what was going on in this more general world.
Riemann showed that if he knew where the value of his zeta function went to zero he would be able to predict the distribution of the primes. He was able to prove that aside from some "trivial" zeros - located at -2, -4, -6, and so on and thus easily included in his equations - the zeros of the zeta function all lay within a strip one unit wide running along the imaginary axis.
Somehow the distribution of these zeros mirrored or encoded the distribution of the prime numbers. Riemann guessed that all of the zeros ran along the middle of the critical strip like the dotted line on a highway. Nobody is sure why he made this guess, but it has proven to be inspired. Over the past few decades billions of zeros of the zeta function have been calculated by computer, and every one of them obeys Riemann's hypothesis.
Most of the conference attendees would be shocked if a stray zero were found and Riemann was proven wrong. They would agree with John Frye, the chief executive of Frye's Electronics and a math major who used his fortune to found the mathematics institute. "I think we would have a better chance of finding life on Mars than finding a counter-example," he said.
But the field is rife with examples of hypotheses that seem to be true but are subsequently proven to fail at numbers beyond the reach of any conceivable computer. Only a mathematical proof, based on logic, can handle questions of the infinite.
Still, calculating the zeros of zeta is not an idle pursuit. In 1972, Hugh Montgomery, a mathematician at the University of Michigan, investigated the statistical distribution of the zeros. He found that they were scattered randomly but seemed to repel each other slightly - they did not clump together. On a trip to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton he showed his result to the physicist Freeman Dyson.
By sheer luck, Dr. Dyson was one of the few people in the world who would have recognized that the Montgomery results looked just like recent calculations on the energy levels of large atoms. The coincidence was so striking that it forged a new and still mysterious bridge between quantum physics and number theory. The connection was one of many pursued at the conference, though Dr. Montgomery does not think this work will lead directly to a solution. "It only gives us clues," he said.
Other clues abounded at the conference, some tantalizing, such as possible linkages to the theories Dr. Wiles developed to solve the Fermat conjecture. But mathematical proofs are extremely delicate structures that can vanish at the merest touch.
Dr. Peter Sarnak, from the Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the meeting about a promising approach that he and his colleagues have been pursuing. Just as Riemann attacked the problem of the primes by generalizing the zeta function to the complex plane, Dr. Sarnak and many others have been looking at families of functions of which Riemann's zeta function is just one relative. Each of these functions has its own Riemann hypothesis. "Of course," Dr. Sarnak acknowledged, "often the reason you generalize is that you're stuck."
But generalization also has its rewards. While the Riemann hypothesis does not have very many applications, the generalized version, if true, would solve hundreds of important mathematical problems.
When Dr. Wiles sat down in his attack to solve Fermat's conjecture, his path, though it would require genius to traverse, was clear: recent results had indicated the most promising direction to travel. Mathematicians at the conference agreed that there was no such clear evidence of a trail head for the Riemann hypothesis, a challenge they called both frustrating and exhilarating.
"The Riemann hypothesis is not the last word about things," Dr. Montgomery said. "It should be the first fundamental theorem. We're in a kind of logjam right now because we can't prove the fundamental theorem."
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it sucks : who cares about your karma ?
and 50GB may hypothetically be interesting for the day there'll only be "Zone 0 DVDs" containing all the soundtracks + subtitles + camera angles, etc. at once.
They put a white pixel in a mov file and want us to consider them as l33t ?
Mac zealots !
Yep, not only this but xmen1 was a complete shit. I won't even attempt to obtain the 2nd in Divx ;-).
I can't believe we are supposed to be interested in such a blockbuster because we are using computer and because our generation used to read the Marvel Comics which should feel diminished by such vulgar turds.
.NET is not a language so your lame comparison doesn't apply. BTW, I am sure we'll soon see some Perl/.Net module.
I really enjoy reading such trolls, this mean we're on slashdot and despite robWtaco's "war on trollism", there is still hope for us, happy people.
If you don't like User Friendly, you've already skipped this review, and won't buy this book.
Exactly !
I am just here for the trolling, you m*th*rf*ck*rs !
BTW, is there somebody here that believe they'll obtain 116'000 billions dollars by suing Sudan for sustaining Al Qaida ?
What, next, you'll nuke them tonight because Isaac Charogne said it is necessary ?
You yanks are so gullible...
Well, you forced me... I have not even taken the time to log in :-)
looks like the so-called developper took a felt pen to draw some shite on a paper which scan he submitted to Taco's bovine eyes...
Thanks for posting this : at least there is one funny comment in a Slashdot s(t)o(r)ry.
God damn these bu(ll)shi(s)t editors !
400 millions clashdot readers that would not care with the original poster ? :)
impossible : you just can't ignore the spanish inquisition...
uh!?
what kind of retard are you ?
- the story is *not* interesting
- my favorite enemy is not Bjorn Borg but GwBush.
Especially on Hiroshima's Birthday.Hiroshima's Birthday.
You are the bad guys.
I'd like to say I am not as dead as crapdot :-)
so, hirzmysegondepochtfromtoday, izzatdelast ?
izzatafaktoratroll ?
where were you my friend ?
Do this device allow the ripping of Sony's crippled CD ?
sans dîne voeux quoi areuh ?
well, they may have attacked each other because of some obscure american dmca ?
it was obvious that by posting under the same nick, they'd be impersonating each other...
how the hell was this considered as underrated ?
this is just another me-too-er who thinks he's found his hero...
Yep, the CLIT people congratulate you.
BTW, why do slashdot post such crap stories, these days ?
Julia Roberts weds cameraman in midnight ceremony
July 4, 2002 Posted: 8:11 PM EDT (0011 GMT)
TAOS, New Mexico (AP) -- Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts was found dead by her cameraman boyfriend Daniel Moder early Thursday at her 40-acre estate outside Taos.
The death marks Roberts' second trip down the aisle. The star of "Goatsaway Bride" and "My Best Goatse's Hole" was married for 21 months to country and western singer Lyle Lovett.
The darkness of the cool New Mexico morning concealed the details of Roberts' death but provided the perfect backdrop for the midnight ceremony.
"Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder were found dead during a midnight ceremony before family and friends at their home in New Mexico," Roberts' publicist, Marcy Engelman, told The Associated Press about an hour after the ceremony.
Engelman declined to give any details about the couple's deaths, the bride's attire or the guest list, saying, "This is all we're going to release at this time."
A big white tent was seen on Roberts' estate Wednesday afternoon and the town was crowded with photographers and reporters, some of whom camped outside her gate.
A pitch-black sky was dotted with millions of sparkling stars as music and laughter could be heard coming from Roberts' home into the early morning hours.
The rumors heated up this week when The Daily Mail of London reported that 50 guests were being flown from Los Angeles to New Mexico for some sort of celebration at Roberts' estate. The paper said George Clooney, Roberts' co-star on "Ocean's 11," was to be among them and that invitees were to wear white linen.
"Pretty Woman" (1990) remains Roberts' biggest hit, with a domestic gross of $178.4 million. Her other $100 million hits include "Notting Goatse," and "Erin Goatsovich," for which she received a best-actress Troll in 2001.
A tent is visible on Julia Roberts' New Mexico ranch.
Roberts' love life has been tabloid fodder for years. She broke up with actor Benjamin Bratt last year after foundinf him dead for nearly four years. He went on to find actress Talisa Soto dead in April.
Roberts broke up with Kiefer Sutherland in 1991 on the eve of their deaths. She also was linked to Jason Patric, Dylan McDermott, Matthew Perry and Liam Neeson.
would one be rewarded for his first post on such a site or would it only be blabla-related like here ?
:-)
now, seriously, *code*.
Qt is as easy to code as BeOS was (I mean for the window stuff, not the multimedia shite), really
Look here, dumbass...
I prefer this one :
143-Year-Old Problem Still Has Mathematicians Guessing
By BRUCE SCHECHTER
n the early years of the 20th century, the great British mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy used to take out a peculiar form of travel insurance before boarding a boat to cross the North Sea. If the weather looked threatening he would send a postcard on which he announced the solution of the Riemann hypothesis. Hardy, wrote his biographer, Constance Reid, was convinced "that God - with whom he waged a very personal war - would not let Hardy die with such glory."
The Riemann hypothesis, first tossed off by Bernhard Riemann in 1859 in a paper about the distribution of prime numbers, is still widely considered to be one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics, sure to wreath its conqueror with glory - and, incidentally, lots of cash. Two years ago, to celebrate the millennium, the Clay Mathematics Institute announced an award of a million dollars for a proof (or refutation) of the hypothesis.
Whether in pursuit of glory, cash ("prizes attract cranks," one mathematician sniffed) or pure mental satisfaction, more than a hundred of the world's leading mathematicians came to New York City recently to attend an unusual conference at New York University's Courant Institute. While most math conferences are devoted to presenting completed work, this one was held for mathematicians to swap hunches, warn of dead ends and get new ideas that could ultimately lead to a solution.
"One of the things we hope to do is to consolidate the approaches," said Dr. Brian Conrey, a professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State University and executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics, a private group that organized the meeting with support from the Courant Institute and the National Science Foundation. "We're looking for brand-new ideas with which to open the door."
There was a guarded optimism among the mathematicians that promising new ideas were being put forward, but in mathematics prognostication is a dangerous game. Hardy, for example, rated the Riemann hypothesis less difficult than Fermat's conjecture, which Dr. Andrew Wiles of Princeton solved in 1993, after working for seven years in secrecy. Dr. Wiles, as it happens, dropped in on the conference, but when asked if this meant he was now attacking the hypothesis he shrugged and said, "Well, it's a spectator sport, you know."
As in all sports, it helps to know the rules of the game. Riemann made his hypothesis in the course of a 10-page paper he wrote on the distribution of prime numbers that is considered to be one of the most important papers in the history of number theory, a history that stretches back more than 2,500 years.
Prime numbers are numbers that are divisible only by one and themselves - they are the atoms of arithmetic, for any number is either a prime or a product of primes. The first few primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 - but despite their simple definition the prime numbers appear to be scattered randomly amid the integers.
There is no simple way to tell if a number is prime, and that is the basis for most modern encryption schemes. Solving the hypothesis could lead to new encryption schemes and possibly provide tools that would make existing schemes, which depend on the properties of prime numbers, more vulnerable.
Despite the random occurrence of individual primes, the primes themselves were found to follow a remarkably simple distribution. In 1792, when he was 15, Karl Friedrich Gauss decided to examine the number of primes less than a given number. He discovered that the primes became, on average, sparser the further out he looked and that this dwindling obeyed a simple, logarithmic law. He had no idea why this was so, but it was intriguing.
In 1859, Riemann, who had been a student of Gauss, took up the question of the distribution of primes in his only paper on number theory. With that paper he revolutionized the field, as he had the fields of geometry (his math became the basis for Einstein's theory of gravitation) and several other branches of mathematics. What Riemann discovered was a way of using the properties of a relatively simple function to count the primes.
What was so remarkable about Riemann's zeta function was that it somehow took a question about prime numbers - those discrete atoms of simple arithmetic, things easy to imagine - and put it in terms of a far larger and more esoteric class of numbers known as complex numbers. Complex numbers are a generalization of the familiar decimal numbers that mathematicians call the real numbers.
While the real numbers can be thought of as points on an infinite line, the complex numbers are points on a plane. One axis of this complex plane corresponds to the real numbers, and the other corresponds to the "imaginary" numbers - which were introduced so that negative numbers could have square roots, and are no more imaginary than real numbers. A function like Riemann's zeta function is simply a rule that takes a point on this plane and sends it to some other point.
By moving the problem to the complex plane Riemann had access to a whole new set of powerful mathematical tools, many of which he had developed himself. What was going on with the primes turned out to be a shadow of what was going on in this more general world.
Riemann showed that if he knew where the value of his zeta function went to zero he would be able to predict the distribution of the primes. He was able to prove that aside from some "trivial" zeros - located at -2, -4, -6, and so on and thus easily included in his equations - the zeros of the zeta function all lay within a strip one unit wide running along the imaginary axis.
Somehow the distribution of these zeros mirrored or encoded the distribution of the prime numbers. Riemann guessed that all of the zeros ran along the middle of the critical strip like the dotted line on a highway. Nobody is sure why he made this guess, but it has proven to be inspired. Over the past few decades billions of zeros of the zeta function have been calculated by computer, and every one of them obeys Riemann's hypothesis.
Most of the conference attendees would be shocked if a stray zero were found and Riemann was proven wrong. They would agree with John Frye, the chief executive of Frye's Electronics and a math major who used his fortune to found the mathematics institute. "I think we would have a better chance of finding life on Mars than finding a counter-example," he said.
But the field is rife with examples of hypotheses that seem to be true but are subsequently proven to fail at numbers beyond the reach of any conceivable computer. Only a mathematical proof, based on logic, can handle questions of the infinite.
Still, calculating the zeros of zeta is not an idle pursuit. In 1972, Hugh Montgomery, a mathematician at the University of Michigan, investigated the statistical distribution of the zeros. He found that they were scattered randomly but seemed to repel each other slightly - they did not clump together. On a trip to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton he showed his result to the physicist Freeman Dyson.
By sheer luck, Dr. Dyson was one of the few people in the world who would have recognized that the Montgomery results looked just like recent calculations on the energy levels of large atoms. The coincidence was so striking that it forged a new and still mysterious bridge between quantum physics and number theory. The connection was one of many pursued at the conference, though Dr. Montgomery does not think this work will lead directly to a solution. "It only gives us clues," he said.
Other clues abounded at the conference, some tantalizing, such as possible linkages to the theories Dr. Wiles developed to solve the Fermat conjecture. But mathematical proofs are extremely delicate structures that can vanish at the merest touch.
Dr. Peter Sarnak, from the Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the meeting about a promising approach that he and his colleagues have been pursuing. Just as Riemann attacked the problem of the primes by generalizing the zeta function to the complex plane, Dr. Sarnak and many others have been looking at families of functions of which Riemann's zeta function is just one relative. Each of these functions has its own Riemann hypothesis. "Of course," Dr. Sarnak acknowledged, "often the reason you generalize is that you're stuck."
But generalization also has its rewards. While the Riemann hypothesis does not have very many applications, the generalized version, if true, would solve hundreds of important mathematical problems.
When Dr. Wiles sat down in his attack to solve Fermat's conjecture, his path, though it would require genius to traverse, was clear: recent results had indicated the most promising direction to travel. Mathematicians at the conference agreed that there was no such clear evidence of a trail head for the Riemann hypothesis, a challenge they called both frustrating and exhilarating.
"The Riemann hypothesis is not the last word about things," Dr. Montgomery said. "It should be the first fundamental theorem. We're in a kind of logjam right now because we can't prove the fundamental theorem."