I'd be happy to; does it run on GNU/Linus or FreeBSD?
So now RMS wants Linus to put the GNU prefix even in front of his own name? But no, I don't think IE runs on Linus. They didn't port it to genetics yet.
Yes and no. The market is useful to someone, namely the millisecond traders, but it's not useful to you.
That's not what I meant with "useful". Of course it's "useful" for the millisecond traders because they can make money doing it. But individuals making money isn't the ultimate goal of society. So how does millisecond trading affect society?
After all, robbing banks makes money for the bank robbers, thus in this sense it is "useful" as well. But most people agree that it's not really something we should allow, because for society as a whole it has a rather negative effect.
The thing is, that statement is true. They are creating markets and providing liquidity in those markets.
But do they create useful markets? A market is not an end, it's a means. For example, the oil market is there for getting oil from those who have it to those who need it. It is useful because oil is useful, and those who need it are in general not those who have it. Now what is the use of the markets day traders create? If the market is useless, any liquidity in it is just liquidity removed from useful markets.
Of course the smart criminal would have had two passwords; one revealing the secret data, and another revealing some legal stuff. But then, the smart criminal would probably have used steganography anyway, so the police wouldn't have accidentally found anything.
"According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month
And exactly how did 11% of them get cleaned up over the last month???
Format and reinstall?
But seriously, those were probably not the same computers anyway.
It's very simple. What part of "We set a lower bound on the complexity of options pricing formulae in the lattice metric by proving that no general explicit or closed form (hypergeometric) expression for pricing vanilla European call and put options exists when employing the binomial lattice approach" you didn't understand?
The vanilla part, of course. After all, why should it matter if the options come in vanilla or chocolate flavour?:-)
The best way (for males) to make decisions is when you blow your load either during sex or while masturbating. Right after orgasm suddenly everything becomes so clear because of sharp increase in dopamine. You let go of your inhibitions, fear, ego and able to formulate completely rational thoughts. But you need to make decisions really fast because the optimism fades away really quickly. I'd say it's 40 seconds to 2 minutes max.
I'm just imagining a meeting where an important decision has to be made. The chairman says: "So, and now please masturbate...":-)
You mean, something bizarre like accidentally restoring a boot sector to the wrong partition? Normally this wouldn't do any harm as long as you fix the problem before you mount the partition again. However, if the drive interprets the data by itself, even immediately fixing this may be too late.
No, they have a stream of areas magnetized in different directions on them. I think the idea (of which I don't know if it actually works) is that due to hysteresis, the magnetization is not completely reversed when the drive reverses it. That is, where you reversed magnetization, it is actually weaker than where you didn't. That would allow to reconstruct what the magnetization was before the latest rewrite. A bit simplified: Strong N: Is now N, was previously. Weak N: Is now N, was previously S. Weak S: Is now S, was previously N. Strong S: Is and was S. Of course reconstructing past magnetization means reconstructing past data.
This source estimates the number of atoms as 4*10^79, which is between 2^264 and 2^265, which is negligible compared to 2^16384. Even if the estimate should be a few dozen orders of magnitudes wrong, it still wouldn't come anywhere near.
A drive making assumptions about the data on it IMHO is a bad idea. Either it has a high-level interface and manages all the low level structures by itself. Or it lets the OS manage the low level structures and doesn't try to interpret it by itself. But please, nothing in between.
What if tomorrow Microsoft makes an extension to NTFS which causes previously unused blocks to be used for a new feature, but in a way that the algorithm on the drive won't detect it? If it's not a very popular drive, it might not get noticed until the new version is out, and then users start get mysterious failures...
Well, I didn't mean the links you posted here. I meant the links on your web page. I guess the Mathematica file you link there is written by yourself, so you should not have any problems remembering its name, right?
But what happens if you use a different file system the drive makers didn't think of? Do you risk losing data because the SSD misinterprets your file system structures?
BTW, I noted that your page contains links to bit.ly -- I can understand that on a forum (although I'd prefer preview.tinyurl.com), but for a web page? Are you trying to hide something?
If the HIggs Boson exists and create matter, understanding how is function could lead us to be able to create matter in the laboratory.
The Higgs boson doesn't create matter. It (or rather the corresponding Higgs field) creates mass. That is, assuming the Higgs model is correct, without Higgs there would be exactly the same particles, but they would be massless.
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According to StatCounter, in Germany IE6 is at 0.88%. :-)
However, despite of this I don't think Microsoft likes it: Here total IE usage is below 25%
I'd be happy to; does it run on GNU/Linus or FreeBSD?
So now RMS wants Linus to put the GNU prefix even in front of his own name?
But no, I don't think IE runs on Linus. They didn't port it to genetics yet.
SCNR :-)
But do they create useful markets?
Yes and no. The market is useful to someone, namely the millisecond traders, but it's not useful to you.
That's not what I meant with "useful". Of course it's "useful" for the millisecond traders because they can make money doing it. But individuals making money isn't the ultimate goal of society. So how does millisecond trading affect society?
After all, robbing banks makes money for the bank robbers, thus in this sense it is "useful" as well. But most people agree that it's not really something we should allow, because for society as a whole it has a rather negative effect.
But usually the client doesn't care from whom he buys the shares. He can just get the shares from that other person directly.
I don't think anyone will be effected by it. People are usually effected by their parents having sex. :-)
But do they create useful markets?
A market is not an end, it's a means. For example, the oil market is there for getting oil from those who have it to those who need it. It is useful because oil is useful, and those who need it are in general not those who have it. Now what is the use of the markets day traders create? If the market is useless, any liquidity in it is just liquidity removed from useful markets.
Of course the smart criminal would have had two passwords; one revealing the secret data, and another revealing some legal stuff.
But then, the smart criminal would probably have used steganography anyway, so the police wouldn't have accidentally found anything.
I guess a web site where you reveal your identity wouldn't exactly attract criminals. Except as target, of course.
Another wild guess: Insufficient statistics.
And sometimes they blow up.
You don't know what quota is, right?
It doesn't help me if there are terabytes of memory on the disk if I'm not allowed to use them.
The following does make me worry:
I hope they also check the quota. Not everyone is sitting at a single-user system, after all.
"According to data gathered by Panda Security, only 39 percent of computers scanned in February were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month
And exactly how did 11% of them get cleaned up over the last month???
Format and reinstall?
But seriously, those were probably not the same computers anyway.
It's very simple. What part of "We set a lower bound on the complexity of options pricing formulae in the lattice metric by proving that no general explicit or closed form (hypergeometric) expression for pricing vanilla European call and put options exists when employing the binomial lattice approach" you didn't understand?
The vanilla part, of course. After all, why should it matter if the options come in vanilla or chocolate flavour? :-)
Not just read. Write!
The best way (for males) to make decisions is when you blow your load either during sex or while masturbating. Right after orgasm suddenly everything becomes so clear because of sharp increase in dopamine. You let go of your inhibitions, fear, ego and able to formulate completely rational thoughts. But you need to make decisions really fast because the optimism fades away really quickly. I'd say it's 40 seconds to 2 minutes max.
I'm just imagining a meeting where an important decision has to be made. ..." :-)
The chairman says: "So, and now please masturbate
You mean, something bizarre like accidentally restoring a boot sector to the wrong partition?
Normally this wouldn't do any harm as long as you fix the problem before you mount the partition again. However, if the drive interprets the data by itself, even immediately fixing this may be too late.
No, they have a stream of areas magnetized in different directions on them. I think the idea (of which I don't know if it actually works) is that due to hysteresis, the magnetization is not completely reversed when the drive reverses it. That is, where you reversed magnetization, it is actually weaker than where you didn't. That would allow to reconstruct what the magnetization was before the latest rewrite. A bit simplified: Strong N: Is now N, was previously. Weak N: Is now N, was previously S. Weak S: Is now S, was previously N. Strong S: Is and was S. Of course reconstructing past magnetization means reconstructing past data.
This source estimates the number of atoms as 4*10^79, which is between 2^264 and 2^265, which is negligible compared to 2^16384. Even if the estimate should be a few dozen orders of magnitudes wrong, it still wouldn't come anywhere near.
And then someone puts another file system on it.
A drive making assumptions about the data on it IMHO is a bad idea. Either it has a high-level interface and manages all the low level structures by itself. Or it lets the OS manage the low level structures and doesn't try to interpret it by itself. But please, nothing in between.
What if tomorrow Microsoft makes an extension to NTFS which causes previously unused blocks to be used for a new feature, but in a way that the algorithm on the drive won't detect it? If it's not a very popular drive, it might not get noticed until the new version is out, and then users start get mysterious failures ...
Well, I didn't mean the links you posted here. I meant the links on your web page. I guess the Mathematica file you link there is written by yourself, so you should not have any problems remembering its name, right?
But what happens if you use a different file system the drive makers didn't think of? Do you risk losing data because the SSD misinterprets your file system structures?
BTW, I noted that your page contains links to bit.ly -- I can understand that on a forum (although I'd prefer preview.tinyurl.com), but for a web page? Are you trying to hide something?
I just noted the t-shirt contains the word "Tolkien" ... maybe you better hide it from Tolkien Estate.
The Higgs boson doesn't create matter. It (or rather the corresponding Higgs field) creates mass. That is, assuming the Higgs model is correct, without Higgs there would be exactly the same particles, but they would be massless.