/. is not simply a linux site, if you read Taco's opinions on the type of news that gets posted he's fairly clear on this and if you look at the front page atm it confirms this (2/10 linux related afair).
Having said that, its a real shame there is no linux port after releasing one for ut2k3, espcially as its a single player game, so they won't need to bother patching it much after release.
Really I don't know why people say they keep a Windows machine around "for games"
Possibly because there are some genres which play pretty badly (or at least significantly diferently) on consoles? I need a PC (or mac) for the games I play; quake3, unreal tournament 2003, warcraft3 and such. I'm pretty picky about being able to customise things and atm there aren't even decent options for using mice on consoles so I can't see myself jumping ship any time soon.
I have a PSone my brother has a gamecube and I play on other consoles with friends, but they aren't an replacement for a pc yet, only an alternative.
technically yes, in mathematical terms a sphere is simply the shell. for example on the earths crust you can go east-west and north-south so 2 directions, you cannnot go up-down and remain on the surface. Similarly a circle is one dimentional, its just a line that loops back on itself (the spaces enclosed by spheres and circles are normally called balls (3d) and discs (2d)). This means while the problem is about a 3 dimentional sphere, it would actually occupy 4 dimentional space.
as it's been said already, primes have a huge part to play in cryptography (RSA encryption and such), but this particular bit (moving towards proving that there are infinitely pairs of primes differing by 2) probably won't have a huge influence on encryption. Mainly its important though because its something that seems pretty plausible, so would be all the more satisifying to see it proved, applications are the boring bits really:)
That is only if their family members are out in the US aswell though? My dad works in San Jose atm (rest of family still in the UK) and he gets hit harder from the tax because he's treated as someone that's single. Also from what I can gather about forigen workers out there, most of them seem to leave their families behind, the approach for emigrating in the IT industry seems somewhat different to a general 'move away and start a new life' sort of thing. I guess to an extent because in the IT industry you don't have as much choice on where you're moving to (and hence housing prices) and also because the people moving out to the US to work in IT are generally younger and may not have wife & kids.
I have to say I really agree with this, I'm not a linux user and have never been. I think win2k is a pretty good OS (I'm on it atm) and XP sounds pretty good from the reports I've heard (I'm not saying either are flawless, but overall stable enough to get by and easy to use).
However I don't like being roped into using other products or having people trying to monitor me. Once I've picked an OS I want to be able to pick all the individual programs seperately, MS seems to want to sell you the complete PC package and then charge you for each individual piece.
With regards to monitoring, I can understand it on something like xbox live (their hardware, their software, their network) but with my pc that I built, using programs that I hand picked I don't want to have to worry about using an MS program just incase they've put some extra "features" in.
At the moment the main thing keeping me on windows is games (I'm a pretty serious player and while linux is improving it doesn't have quite the support I want there yet) but I'm tempted to switch to linux for everything else.
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didn't newton accuse Leibniz of plagurism? and many of the articles supporting this view at the time were written by him and published under the names of his friends:)
Mandelbrot didn't exactly have the best reputation from what I remember, but it doesn't reduce the quality of his work.
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/. is not simply a linux site, if you read Taco's opinions on the type of news that gets posted he's fairly clear on this and if you look at the front page atm it confirms this (2/10 linux related afair).
Having said that, its a real shame there is no linux port after releasing one for ut2k3, espcially as its a single player game, so they won't need to bother patching it much after release.
Really I don't know why people say they keep a Windows machine around "for games" Possibly because there are some genres which play pretty badly (or at least significantly diferently) on consoles? I need a PC (or mac) for the games I play; quake3, unreal tournament 2003, warcraft3 and such. I'm pretty picky about being able to customise things and atm there aren't even decent options for using mice on consoles so I can't see myself jumping ship any time soon.
I have a PSone my brother has a gamecube and I play on other consoles with friends, but they aren't an replacement for a pc yet, only an alternative.
technically yes, in mathematical terms a sphere is simply the shell. for example on the earths crust you can go east-west and north-south so 2 directions, you cannnot go up-down and remain on the surface. Similarly a circle is one dimentional, its just a line that loops back on itself (the spaces enclosed by spheres and circles are normally called balls (3d) and discs (2d)). This means while the problem is about a 3 dimentional sphere, it would actually occupy 4 dimentional space.
as it's been said already, primes have a huge part to play in cryptography (RSA encryption and such), but this particular bit (moving towards proving that there are infinitely pairs of primes differing by 2) probably won't have a huge influence on encryption. Mainly its important though because its something that seems pretty plausible, so would be all the more satisifying to see it proved, applications are the boring bits really :)
That is only if their family members are out in the US aswell though? My dad works in San Jose atm (rest of family still in the UK) and he gets hit harder from the tax because he's treated as someone that's single. Also from what I can gather about forigen workers out there, most of them seem to leave their families behind, the approach for emigrating in the IT industry seems somewhat different to a general 'move away and start a new life' sort of thing. I guess to an extent because in the IT industry you don't have as much choice on where you're moving to (and hence housing prices) and also because the people moving out to the US to work in IT are generally younger and may not have wife & kids.
I have to say I really agree with this, I'm not a linux user and have never been. I think win2k is a pretty good OS (I'm on it atm) and XP sounds pretty good from the reports I've heard (I'm not saying either are flawless, but overall stable enough to get by and easy to use).
However I don't like being roped into using other products or having people trying to monitor me. Once I've picked an OS I want to be able to pick all the individual programs seperately, MS seems to want to sell you the complete PC package and then charge you for each individual piece.
With regards to monitoring, I can understand it on something like xbox live (their hardware, their software, their network) but with my pc that I built, using programs that I hand picked I don't want to have to worry about using an MS program just incase they've put some extra "features" in.
At the moment the main thing keeping me on windows is games (I'm a pretty serious player and while linux is improving it doesn't have quite the support I want there yet) but I'm tempted to switch to linux for everything else.
didn't newton accuse Leibniz of plagurism? and many of the articles supporting this view at the time were written by him and published under the names of his friends :)
Mandelbrot didn't exactly have the best reputation from what I remember, but it doesn't reduce the quality of his work.