hmm... I agree with most everything you just said, but I have to say I feel strongly that certain people in charge right now are not honest people, nor do they have anything like a track record of honesty, and what is often labelled an ad hominim politically-motivated attack is commonly just someone pointing out the truth (e.g. there are no WMD's blah blah blah)... but, whatever, I'm sick of politics right now. Peace.
The issue isn't over what, technically, defines a blog, but the level of journalistic competence of the average blogger. Besides, if you're going to come onto/. and insult ERIC RAYMOND over a little joke he made without anything to back it up, then you're an idiot. I can't stand that Lisp-essayist guy, but I've learned to keep my mouth shut.
Why do you have to go to the extra trouble of creating an account to get any respect around here? Maybe he just found/. through google news or something and wanted to respond. And by the way, I'm interested in hearing an answer to the AC's question from you, since you're not one of those McJesus conservatives: what *would* it take for a conservative to vote non-republican? I don't think I can imagine a single scenario.
Hmm.. maybe we're thinking of different versions, but I distinctly remember there being treasure you could move into and monsters you could bump into to fight and gain experience...
I remember this one well. I'm not sure how popular it was on a national level. It was a d&d style ASCII game where you walked through levels of dungeons collecting weapons and challenging other players to vie for the #1 spot. You could only take about 3 hits on the other player a day, so if you waited till 11:55pm to challenge the player then took your three hits, log out, log in around 12:05 am, and take your next three hits, you might kill him before he got a chance to fight back. It went something like that, but I don't remember very clearly.
The Spitfire BBSs seemed to be the best in our area code...
I'm not so sure that's correct. On Amazon, they claim that once you submit a review the content belongs to them. I assume Newegg has the same sort of disclaimer. Does this mean they can change the content of the message as they'd like? I doubt it, but I don't know how far you can legally carry a disclaimer like that.
I'm sure they can legally get away with deciding which reviews to show, but I'd think they'd recognize that once customers found out it would kill their integrity and cause customers to worry about the company's ethics in other areas as well. How far will they go to make a buck?
Amazon, rather than deleting reviews (as far as I know) has a nice helpful/unhelpful voting mechanism that keeps reviewers in check. Maybe that would make a nice alternative to deleting reviews. Or they could just take consumers' opinions seriously and only sell highly regarded merchandise.
I'd just finished reading Italo Calvino's "If on a winter night a traveler..." a novel written partly in the second person, when I wrote the review. Gao Xingxian wrote some of Soul Mountain in second person. Bright Lights, Big City, a popular novel in the 80's, was entirely in second person. I'd completely forgotten about Zork, to be honest, but the comparisons are funny..
This link makes it appear that gates wants the move to be quick. It makes sense, of course, from a business perspective to discontinue support as long as possible and get everyone in the world to upgrade processors. Chances are that it won't happen as quick as he'd like.
No mainstream Christians would applaud the death of an abortion doctor. To offer a better and real life example, however, many evangelicals support the Iraqi war on religious grounds; they interpret 'spreading democracy' as 'spreading evangelicalism.' They may not necessarily applaud the deaths of 20,000+ innocent Iraqi civilians, but they applaud the war resulting in the deaths.
Furthermore, when a homosexual is violently killed, they quietly disapprove (if asked), and yet they actively support and applaud the attitude and policy that causes this violence.
Thanks for the clarification and I'm happy that you like Mathforge! My self-study is about half-way through advanced algebra, but I can just about understand the terms you're using as well as "Sere's Conjecture," and I will be thrilled when I finally can:)
IANAM (mathematician) nor an expert, but it looks like Andrew Wile's 1994 proof was somewhat roundabout in its methods of proving FLT. The solution to Serre's Conjecture, which Kharan is proving, will imply the truth of FLT, so its a much more direct way of proving FLT. More importantly, the proof is a part of the 'Langlands Program,' which is a lengthy program which has the goal of correlating the theory of 'Lie Groups' with symmetry in number theory. Lie Groups, I believe, are structures of matrices and studied in the very active field of representation theory.
Sorry for all of the technical terms in this description, but I barely know what they mean either. The point is that Dr. Kharan's proof is showing correlations between two large areas of mathematics (Lie Groups and a certain type of number theory), and so results between one group can be used to prove results in another. A proof like this generally leads to big advancements in mathematics. Here's a brief description from mathforge.net.
This is a very nicely layed-out magazine with some good in-depth articles. Well done! There's even a 6-page 'blog' written by Richard Stallman at the end. It seems like most tech magazines focus on software/hardware reviews, where FSM's coverage includes many of the political and ideological topics in software engineering.
Certainly this component of Linux needs rewritten. Firstly, it is far too difficult to maneuver your ship with the gravity the way it is, and secondly, the bullets go too slowly. Thirdly, it isn't intuitive what the different colored blobs are; its easy to forget what is energy and what is a mine, or something like that.
I would suggest to the KSpaceDuel team that they meet with the KAsteroids team to discuss usability issues. There should also be a cap on how fast you can go, since it is possible to speed up so fast that your spacecraft appears to be moving very slowly (sort of like a tire in motion).
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I expected a cheat shot from Derbyshire, but that I was impressed by the "nice" shot. Which is not to say I don't agree that Derbyshire hasn't given "cheap shots" in the past to those who don't deserve it. I was somewhat alarmed by some of what JD has said in his editorials esp. concerning homosexuality and may have considered them "cheap shots" myself at the time. I think that if I were to be in full support of Derbyshire's past writing, I would wish him to "take back" some of what he has said.
I agree with your post in one sense..
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That was one thing which I noticed about the book after learning of Derbyshire's career with the National Review... he was actually very gentle in his description of Alan Turing and said (which I paraphrase) that the people of England were not very accepting of the homosexual lifestyle (Turing killed himself not long after he was arrested for homosexuality.. I don't know the details), the statement which I viewed as a touch of sensitivity on JD's part.
Anyway, Derbyshire's opinions can be annoying if you're a democrat (and I am, BTW), but he's generally an entertaining writer, on whichever topic he chooses to write about, and he has a math puzzle at the end of each of his Diary entries (see his website)!
I say, if you're worried about supporting Derbyshire's opinions by way of buying his book, keep in mind who he writes for in his editorials (generally conservatives who already agree with him) and remember he's getting a paycheck as well. The Derbyshire I know from Prime Obsession may be the 'real' Derbyshire:) This theory reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut book called 'Mother Night,' where the main character becomes a fierce Nazi propagandist (not that I in any way would compare Republicans with Nazis; the ideas which I'm relating are the only similarity) purely for professional reasons. I'm assuming he's really conservative, but I'll bet he could write better opinion peices if he wrote for other than the National Review...
I should think it would be easy to get a few thousand links without going to Google. But I doubt this is what they're doing; the guy who wrote the essay said unreferenced pages from his relatively-unpopular site were getting hit and that they were most probably only referenced from Google. If it were a popular site then your theory might work, but it appears they're doing it from unpopular search hits as well, which means they'd be seeding their engine with WAY more than mere thousands of pages from Google. It'd have to be on the magnitude of at least millions.
Or maybe the execs at MS asked some innocent interns to "seed" from Google with a wink;)
Your friends with multiple college degrees are in the small, small minority as Tuesday's election has shown. Bush's supporters are primarily from poor, rural states (white trash, if you will) or states dominated by evangelical religious communities. But where Bush really came through was from the rural or suburban areas where people are apparently shaking in their shoes from fear of getting killed by terrorists. These are the same people that drive monster trucks and watch the most sports, and ironically they are the most afraid. Personally I think bin Laden got lucky once. Empirical evidence (i.e. undisputable proof, see the 9/11 commission report) shows that Bush could have done more about terrorism when he first took office (and in fact was asked to do more). But somehow Bush turned it into a win. Its the frightened bunnies in the rural and suburban areas that let him go on this oversight.
And its no accident that the most liberal areas are cities, where these people see first hand the poverty and crime, where people are most likely to come in contact with a homosexual or an Arab-American citizen or a non-protestant, vote in favor of the democrats.. This is where everything falls apart. In the racially and religiously exclusive towns and suburbs, people don't see the problems that exist and so they think everything's alright.
In you and your multi-degree-bearing friends' cases, perhaps you're planning to be rich some day, and keeping some of that money (which doesn't amount to much if you're poor) is of larger concern. These are your interests and its ok with me, but when your interests support things like poverty, universality of a single religion, and policies which impose on the freedom of others to choose between their own definitions of good and evil and in turn are tied to the support of big businesses and 'keeping honest workers down' then it starts to get a little irritating.
As far as the ex-loggers, I think we need to think about the future and predict how many trees we can afford to cut down yada yada yada. This would be based on science, which I know Republicans tend to reject. And I think the gov't would do well to find other professions or forests for these ex-loggers (would you count on Bush to do this?).
Aren't they putting C onto.NET? The memory management issues are pretty much built into the language, AFAIK, and I doubt its possible to implement C/C++ without also implementing its unchecked pointer facilities, so the buffer overflows won't go away, not unless they switch the entire codebase to some other language.
I would start using alphanumeric characters in the serial number field (last 6 digits), giving them 36^6=2,176,782,336 possibilities instead of 10^6=1 million. Actually maybe they already do? If so, then start using the !@#$#$%^%^&*)(*& symbols!
Java's major strength comes from server-side application programming (web pages), an area where Java has proven extremely effective (not as a language, necessarily, but as a platform). There's been some improvements on Java GUI applications over the years but their GUI system is still a little clunky and bug-prone. The only good reason to install a JRE is to run Applets, which are clunky webpage embedded GUI apps from before the Flash days. Applets are common on educational websites for demonstrating ideas or offering dynamic calculation/visualization tools. Other than that, they're not being used much either.
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hmm... I agree with most everything you just said, but I have to say I feel strongly that certain people in charge right now are not honest people, nor do they have anything like a track record of honesty, and what is often labelled an ad hominim politically-motivated attack is commonly just someone pointing out the truth (e.g. there are no WMD's blah blah blah)... but, whatever, I'm sick of politics right now. Peace.
The issue isn't over what, technically, defines a blog, but the level of journalistic competence of the average blogger. Besides, if you're going to come onto /. and insult ERIC RAYMOND over a little joke he made without anything to back it up, then you're an idiot. I can't stand that Lisp-essayist guy, but I've learned to keep my mouth shut.
Why do you have to go to the extra trouble of creating an account to get any respect around here? Maybe he just found /. through google news or something and wanted to respond. And by the way, I'm interested in hearing an answer to the AC's question from you, since you're not one of those McJesus conservatives: what *would* it take for a conservative to vote non-republican? I don't think I can imagine a single scenario.
Hmm.. maybe we're thinking of different versions, but I distinctly remember there being treasure you could move into and monsters you could bump into to fight and gain experience...
Search: "Dirk Bradford"
Google: 11
Yahoo: 15
Search: "Ronald Hendrickson"
Google: 170
Yahoo: 418
Search: "centerville baptist church" iowa
Google: 43
Yahoo: 37
Well that's less certain. It's hard finding words that return over zero but less than a thousand results...
Search: Valerie Plame
Google: 908,000
Yahoo: 2,580,000
Search: "Boulder, Colorado"
Google: 1,600,000
Yahoo: 5,880,000
Search: "Linus Torvalds"
Google: 2,560,000
Yahoo: 5,870,000
I assume it goes on like this. Of course these exceed the 1000 maximum hit limit given in the study.
The Spitfire BBSs seemed to be the best in our area code...
I'm sure they can legally get away with deciding which reviews to show, but I'd think they'd recognize that once customers found out it would kill their integrity and cause customers to worry about the company's ethics in other areas as well. How far will they go to make a buck?
Amazon, rather than deleting reviews (as far as I know) has a nice helpful/unhelpful voting mechanism that keeps reviewers in check. Maybe that would make a nice alternative to deleting reviews. Or they could just take consumers' opinions seriously and only sell highly regarded merchandise.
I'd just finished reading Italo Calvino's "If on a winter night a traveler..." a novel written partly in the second person, when I wrote the review. Gao Xingxian wrote some of Soul Mountain in second person. Bright Lights, Big City, a popular novel in the 80's, was entirely in second person. I'd completely forgotten about Zork, to be honest, but the comparisons are funny..
This link makes it appear that gates wants the move to be quick. It makes sense, of course, from a business perspective to discontinue support as long as possible and get everyone in the world to upgrade processors. Chances are that it won't happen as quick as he'd like.
Furthermore, when a homosexual is violently killed, they quietly disapprove (if asked), and yet they actively support and applaud the attitude and policy that causes this violence.
Thanks for the clarification and I'm happy that you like Mathforge! My self-study is about half-way through advanced algebra, but I can just about understand the terms you're using as well as "Sere's Conjecture," and I will be thrilled when I finally can :)
Sorry for all of the technical terms in this description, but I barely know what they mean either. The point is that Dr. Kharan's proof is showing correlations between two large areas of mathematics (Lie Groups and a certain type of number theory), and so results between one group can be used to prove results in another. A proof like this generally leads to big advancements in mathematics. Here's a brief description from mathforge.net.
This is a very nicely layed-out magazine with some good in-depth articles. Well done! There's even a 6-page 'blog' written by Richard Stallman at the end. It seems like most tech magazines focus on software/hardware reviews, where FSM's coverage includes many of the political and ideological topics in software engineering.
I would suggest to the KSpaceDuel team that they meet with the KAsteroids team to discuss usability issues. There should also be a cap on how fast you can go, since it is possible to speed up so fast that your spacecraft appears to be moving very slowly (sort of like a tire in motion).
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I expected a cheat shot from Derbyshire, but that I was impressed by the "nice" shot. Which is not to say I don't agree that Derbyshire hasn't given "cheap shots" in the past to those who don't deserve it. I was somewhat alarmed by some of what JD has said in his editorials esp. concerning homosexuality and may have considered them "cheap shots" myself at the time. I think that if I were to be in full support of Derbyshire's past writing, I would wish him to "take back" some of what he has said.
Anyway, Derbyshire's opinions can be annoying if you're a democrat (and I am, BTW), but he's generally an entertaining writer, on whichever topic he chooses to write about, and he has a math puzzle at the end of each of his Diary entries (see his website)!
I say, if you're worried about supporting Derbyshire's opinions by way of buying his book, keep in mind who he writes for in his editorials (generally conservatives who already agree with him) and remember he's getting a paycheck as well. The Derbyshire I know from Prime Obsession may be the 'real' Derbyshire :) This theory reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut book called 'Mother Night,' where the main character becomes a fierce Nazi propagandist (not that I in any way would compare Republicans with Nazis; the ideas which I'm relating are the only similarity) purely for professional reasons. I'm assuming he's really conservative, but I'll bet he could write better opinion peices if he wrote for other than the National Review...
Or maybe the execs at MS asked some innocent interns to "seed" from Google with a wink ;)
And its no accident that the most liberal areas are cities, where these people see first hand the poverty and crime, where people are most likely to come in contact with a homosexual or an Arab-American citizen or a non-protestant, vote in favor of the democrats.. This is where everything falls apart. In the racially and religiously exclusive towns and suburbs, people don't see the problems that exist and so they think everything's alright.
In you and your multi-degree-bearing friends' cases, perhaps you're planning to be rich some day, and keeping some of that money (which doesn't amount to much if you're poor) is of larger concern. These are your interests and its ok with me, but when your interests support things like poverty, universality of a single religion, and policies which impose on the freedom of others to choose between their own definitions of good and evil and in turn are tied to the support of big businesses and 'keeping honest workers down' then it starts to get a little irritating.
As far as the ex-loggers, I think we need to think about the future and predict how many trees we can afford to cut down yada yada yada. This would be based on science, which I know Republicans tend to reject. And I think the gov't would do well to find other professions or forests for these ex-loggers (would you count on Bush to do this?).
Not to mention the Jade Docbook processor and Jade text editor...
Aren't they putting C onto .NET? The memory management issues are pretty much built into the language, AFAIK, and I doubt its possible to implement C/C++ without also implementing its unchecked pointer facilities, so the buffer overflows won't go away, not unless they switch the entire codebase to some other language.
Then they're just screwed
I would start using alphanumeric characters in the serial number field (last 6 digits), giving them 36^6=2,176,782,336 possibilities instead of 10^6=1 million. Actually maybe they already do? If so, then start using the !@#$#$%^%^&*)(*& symbols!
Java's major strength comes from server-side application programming (web pages), an area where Java has proven extremely effective (not as a language, necessarily, but as a platform). There's been some improvements on Java GUI applications over the years but their GUI system is still a little clunky and bug-prone. The only good reason to install a JRE is to run Applets, which are clunky webpage embedded GUI apps from before the Flash days. Applets are common on educational websites for demonstrating ideas or offering dynamic calculation/visualization tools. Other than that, they're not being used much either.