The four color theorem was not proved using pure number crunching. I believe mathematics was used to reduce the number of cases to a manageable level (around 70,000 if memory serves), and a computer was used to finish the job.
But you can find proofs of a sort using number crunching, they tend to be limited, along the lines of "all numbers less than X have this property". I believe this has been done for the Riemann Hypothesis.
They wont't pay you to do searches, they would just hire engineers away from Google to make their product as good as Google's, if not better.
Or slash advertising rates to draw merchents away from Google until Google "exits the market"
Or any of several other tricks I'm sure exist, both clean and dirty
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But it's not a huge mental leap to go from "background color" to "no background color", especially under pressure from advertisers, with in an increasingly smaller number of search engines to advertise with.
I thought that in this case the search engines are the sellers (selling, in this case, search result placement) and the merchents were the buyers. Having fewer sellers would give more leverage to the remaining sellers.
Taking the situation to the logical extreme, if there was only one search engine, that engine, call it Google, can tell merchants "we will use background colors to prominently denote ads, take it or leave it"
I saw this mentioned about 3-4 years back in Scientific American. I mentioned it to a friend who is in the Army and he got very excited about it. He explained that during combat conditions there are long periods of time when it is not possible to stop and eat, drink, or go to the bathroom-- war does not take meal breaks.
I also imagine that these things would be easier to carry with you than MREs
And because Car Insurance companies have us bent-over as well, Joe Average drives that SUV to work every day, because even if he could afford to then buy a little fuel-efficient commuter car for going to work, leaving the SUV sitting in the driveway, he's gotta pay insurace for BOTH vehicles. Even if the SUV is just sitting in the driveway 90% of the time, ONLY used for vacations. (If you ask me, any given person has only ONE ass, so he can't sit in two cars at the same time, and should pay for insurance as he drive).
Your Mileage May Vary. I know somebody who owned a Mustang and delibrately bought a POS car he never drove. He claimed that this decreased his insurance payments since the insurance company assumed, as you so eloquently put it, he only had one ass and can only sit in one car at a time, so they took the average of the two cars.
He was single. It may be that the insurance industry assumes that a family with two cars can use both of them at the same time (one for Him to go to work, one for Her to go to work)
you might as well suggest boycotting the wintel monopoly. people have suggested it, I'm sure people have suggested it multiple times in the past ten years. look at how far its gotten us.
The tech community is too small a minority for a boycott of mainstream media to be meaningful
To dimly predict, it might occur that the CA legislature votes for an "assurance bond" for people moving into CA. To live there, you must present $10000 in cash or a bond good for same to local authorities.
Article I, section 7, "[Congress shall have the power] To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." If memory serves me, inconveniences in commerce was one of the reasons the United States was formed.
Balkanization may happen, but that law {w,sh}ould be struck down very quickly.
My view of the slideshow is "what's the point?" The great thing about Google is that I usually only need to visit the first result for what I'm looking for. With search result qualities like this, who needs to browse results?
I do not understand what Google Quotes is useful for. Does it try to categorize the search results?
Assuming it happens, what would it mean from Microsoft's standpoint?
Well, I claim that what would happen would be:
a) OS revenues to offices go down (Linux)
b) OS revenues to home users stay the same (they are not talking about making DRM capable MediaPlayer for Linux here)
c) Office revenue's increase (new market)
I claim that if (c) > (a) then this would be a good move for Microsoft. For (c) to be greater than (a) Linux would have to be a viable choice on the business desktop and {K|Star|Open|GNOME}Office would have to be sub-optimal alternatives to Windows, because of both of those things are true, then there would be many consumers who won't upgrade Windows but would potentially buy Office on Linux.
Are those two claims true than? I think the first is, I do not know enough to comment on the second. But it seems to me that after years of squeezing blood out of the Office rock Microsoft is switching their focus to the home and mobile users with the MediaPC, TabletPC, and XBox
The article does not mention how they plan to replace the purchased iBooks, nor how much they plan to charge for them.
I know that the speed of Moore's law has slowed in recent years, but for sake of argument lets use the "doubles every year" figure. Changes in the constant would only be a quantitative and not a qualitative difference.
If an iBook goes for $1000 US, after the student graduates its value would be $62 US, and by then Apple probably would not be making the same model. I suspect in 5-7 years the University's students would have a mix of "fast macs" and "slow macs"
According to this AT&T was using its monopolies in local to gain an unfair advantage in long distance, or vice versa.
Mean while, you deal with legal monopolies every day. Your local phone company, gas company, and electric company are all monopolies. Those of you in the US, EDS (who administer the GRE, SAT, etc) is a monopoly
Microsoft had a monopoly, Sony does not have a monopoly on PCs. If memory serves, it is not illegal to have a monopoly, nor is it illegal to bundle applications, but it is illegal to use bundling to tie one market to the market you have a monopoly in.
Besides, I say that if the almighty dollar causes more marketing and development work to be done in the name of Open Source and Free Software, than so be it!
A key point in the scenario you described is that the mainframe had already been paid for and proven. The (presumably) lower upfront costs of the unix box/beowulf cluster do not come into play. You also have the legacy apps which would need to be ported. Throw in all the Things That Can Go Wrong, and its a cakewalk
Clearly, there are still new opportunities for mainframes otherwise IBM would not be making the Z series. I assume these opportunities are in banking and other areas where uptime is critical.
On a side note, I read an article a few months ago about Linux on IBM mainframes. The article mentioned how one can run 40,000+ linux images on a single mainframe, and have nests of linux running in an OS390 emulator in linux in an OS390 emulator in linux in...well you get the point. Couldn't find the article, otherwise I'll post it. It had a fair bit of geek sex-appeal
Not only that, but five years ago Linux was still crawling onto print/web servers hoping nobody notices it. I imagine (and thats a code word for "confirm or deny this claim") that the ease of administration and availability of admins for Linux has changed for the better since then.
But dividing a non-zero number by zero is different from dividing zero by zero. They are undefined for two different conceptual reasons.
To elaborate, and if memory serves me, which it does not do very well these days...
The definition for division is not defined independently-- division is defined as the inverse of multiplication. When you compute c=a/b, you are saying "find me a number c, so that c*b=a".
So when you compute 1/0, you are saying "find me a number x so that 0*x=1". Since any number multiplied by 0 is 0, no such number exists. So if memory serves 1/0 is said to be "undefined"
However, when you computer 0/9, you are saying "find me a number x so that 0*x=0". Now any number x can fulfill this condition, so 0/0 is said to be indeterminate
I believe that if you have a high school algebra problem where the answer comes out to n!=0/0 you can stop and answer "undefined" but if the answer comes out to 0/0 you still need to do some work to arrive at the final answer.
My god, I still remember this. I'm amazed and shall buy myself a beer.
As one of my friends who groks economics puts it, the first benefit of being a monopoly is that you can charge monopolistic prices, q.v. the 700% profit margins on Windows and Office. The links for those articles have already been posted, and I will not repost them. I think that the fact that Microsoft has to lower prices in response to Linux is one more piece of evidence of Linux's legitimacy as a competitor to Microsoft.
I am preaching to the choir, but so what.
Maybe by the time Longhorn comes out it'll be sitting on the shelves at Fry's for $74.99. Of course, Linux will still be cheaper, and come with more software (the hypothetical Longhorn is not expected to come with Office, IIS, etc)
With regards to kernel config, there should be an option to compile EVERYTHING possibly compiled as a module, as a module
There is.
I am not in front of my linux box right now, but in 2.5 you can do "make allmoduleconfig" or something like that, which will do what you want. I do not remember the exact make target, but you can do a "make help"
I do not believe this is in 2.4.
One caveat for newbies is that the code for the filesystem where your modules is located should not be compiled as a module. The kernel has to mount the filesystem before loading the module, and if it can't load the module for the filesystem, well, you get the picture.
technically correct, but not very relevant in this case, as these workers are not slave labor at the behest of the government. In fact, they are worried that the government is trying to shut them down.
While the conditions described in the articles are disturbing, keep in mind the paragraph where our heroine says there are no jobs where she comes from, and there is no other way for her. Its a lousy situation, but what can you do about it.
I am not an economist or a historian, but I suspect deplorable working conditions are commonly associated with industrial revolutions like what China is going through right now.
First of all, regarding the hoax comments, I consider Paul Thurott an authority on Microsoft news-- his site comes up first when you google for "Microsoft News", and I read it periodically to see what They are up to.
That much out of the way, there are a few UI tweaks which I think are interesting. The enhanced explorer nodes for "My Pictures" and "My Music" look like something I might use-- not something I would pay $200 for, but if my computer shipped with it or if similiar functionality was in GNOME/KDE.
On an even more trivial note, it looks like their Virtual Desktop manager shows the different wallpapers to the different backgrounds. I think this Makes Sense as a quick and easy way to identify different desktops.
Of course, I must throw in the "har har, been there, done that"s to virtual desktops in general and the dock. I haven't say it yet, so even though it may be obvious, le tme say "WinFS concerns me"
That was probably more lectrons than an alpha with two years to go deserves
Regarding all the posts along the lines of "how would the students get jobs when they graduate if they don't have training in Office/Exchange/whatever".
My solution:
0) Learn how to think, read, and learn 1) Go to Borders/Barns&Nobles/Library, get copy of "Become a Power User of MS Office in 21 days" 2) Read book. If you know Open Office you probably have a head start. 3) Put "MS Office" on resume
There are also schools you can pay to teach you Office, or you can buy a copy of Office to play with (splitting the cost with your friends if you like and if its permitted by the EULA)
This also brings up political and philosophical discussions such as "what is the point of education" and "should education be privatized". Those, I have no desire to get involved in.
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The four color theorem was not proved using pure number crunching. I believe mathematics was used to reduce the number of cases to a manageable level (around 70,000 if memory serves), and a computer was used to finish the job.
But you can find proofs of a sort using number crunching, they tend to be limited, along the lines of "all numbers less than X have this property". I believe this has been done for the Riemann Hypothesis.
They wont't pay you to do searches, they would just hire engineers away from Google to make their product as good as Google's, if not better.
Or slash advertising rates to draw merchents away from Google until Google "exits the market"
Or any of several other tricks I'm sure exist, both clean and dirty
I thought that in this case the search engines are the sellers (selling, in this case, search result placement) and the merchents were the buyers. Having fewer sellers would give more leverage to the remaining sellers.
Taking the situation to the logical extreme, if there was only one search engine, that engine, call it Google, can tell merchants "we will use background colors to prominently denote ads, take it or leave it"
"Two turing machines walk into a bar"
I tried to make a joke starting with the above opening, then I realized the opening itself constitutes a parody on geek culture and joke cliches.
But a finisher to the joke would be appreciated.
Also, as an Officer Of The Company, there are very strict limits placed by the SEC on when he can sell stock, so he does it when he can
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/2822956.html
I saw this mentioned about 3-4 years back in Scientific American. I mentioned it to a friend who is in the Army and he got very excited about it. He explained that during combat conditions there are long periods of time when it is not possible to stop and eat, drink, or go to the bathroom-- war does not take meal breaks.
I also imagine that these things would be easier to carry with you than MREs
Your Mileage May Vary. I know somebody who owned a Mustang and delibrately bought a POS car he never drove. He claimed that this decreased his insurance payments since the insurance company assumed, as you so eloquently put it, he only had one ass and can only sit in one car at a time, so they took the average of the two cars.
He was single. It may be that the insurance industry assumes that a family with two cars can use both of them at the same time (one for Him to go to work, one for Her to go to work)
you might as well suggest boycotting the wintel monopoly. people have suggested it, I'm sure people have suggested it multiple times in the past ten years. look at how far its gotten us.
The tech community is too small a minority for a boycott of mainstream media to be meaningful
To dimly predict, it might occur that the CA legislature votes for an "assurance bond" for people moving into CA. To live there, you must present $10000 in cash or a bond good for same to local authorities.
Article I, section 7, "[Congress shall have the power] To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." If memory serves me, inconveniences in commerce was one of the reasons the United States was formed.
Balkanization may happen, but that law {w,sh}ould be struck down very quickly.
My view of the slideshow is "what's the point?" The great thing about Google is that I usually only need to visit the first result for what I'm looking for. With search result qualities like this, who needs to browse results?
I do not understand what Google Quotes is useful for. Does it try to categorize the search results?
I think this is more plausible than it appears.
Assuming it happens, what would it mean from Microsoft's standpoint?
Well, I claim that what would happen would be:
a) OS revenues to offices go down (Linux)
b) OS revenues to home users stay the same (they are not talking about making DRM capable MediaPlayer for Linux here)
c) Office revenue's increase (new market)
I claim that if (c) > (a) then this would be a good move for Microsoft. For (c) to be greater than (a) Linux would have to be a viable choice on the business desktop and {K|Star|Open|GNOME}Office would have to be sub-optimal alternatives to Windows, because of both of those things are true, then there would be many consumers who won't upgrade Windows but would potentially buy Office on Linux.
Are those two claims true than? I think the first is, I do not know enough to comment on the second. But it seems to me that after years of squeezing blood out of the Office rock Microsoft is switching their focus to the home and mobile users with the MediaPC, TabletPC, and XBox
The article does not mention how they plan to replace the purchased iBooks, nor how much they plan to charge for them.
I know that the speed of Moore's law has slowed in recent years, but for sake of argument lets use the "doubles every year" figure. Changes in the constant would only be a quantitative and not a qualitative difference.
If an iBook goes for $1000 US, after the student graduates its value would be $62 US, and by then Apple probably would not be making the same model. I suspect in 5-7 years the University's students would have a mix of "fast macs" and "slow macs"
According to this AT&T was using its monopolies in local to gain an unfair advantage in long distance, or vice versa.
Mean while, you deal with legal monopolies every day. Your local phone company, gas company, and electric company are all monopolies. Those of you in the US, EDS (who administer the GRE, SAT, etc) is a monopoly
Microsoft had a monopoly, Sony does not have a monopoly on PCs. If memory serves, it is not illegal to have a monopoly, nor is it illegal to bundle applications, but it is illegal to use bundling to tie one market to the market you have a monopoly in.
Besides, I say that if the almighty dollar causes more marketing and development work to be done in the name of Open Source and Free Software, than so be it!
Before anyone takes this seriously:
unboiled lobsters are black-green
the Han dynasty ended in 220 AD timeline
lobsters are very popular food in China, especially the south.
the rest of it, I have never heard before. Maybe they were true in the sixth century, but I doubt it.
A key point in the scenario you described is that the mainframe had already been paid for and proven. The (presumably) lower upfront costs of the unix box/beowulf cluster do not come into play. You also have the legacy apps which would need to be ported. Throw in all the Things That Can Go Wrong, and its a cakewalk
Clearly, there are still new opportunities for mainframes otherwise IBM would not be making the Z series. I assume these opportunities are in banking and other areas where uptime is critical.
On a side note, I read an article a few months ago about Linux on IBM mainframes. The article mentioned how one can run 40,000+ linux images on a single mainframe, and have nests of linux running in an OS390 emulator in linux in an OS390 emulator in linux in...well you get the point. Couldn't find the article, otherwise I'll post it. It had a fair bit of geek sex-appeal
Not only that, but five years ago Linux was still crawling onto print/web servers hoping nobody notices it. I imagine (and thats a code word for "confirm or deny this claim") that the ease of administration and availability of admins for Linux has changed for the better since then.
Lets see the same survey done in 2006.
To elaborate, and if memory serves me, which it does not do very well these days...
The definition for division is not defined independently-- division is defined as the inverse of multiplication. When you compute c=a/b, you are saying "find me a number c, so that c*b=a".
So when you compute 1/0, you are saying "find me a number x so that 0*x=1". Since any number multiplied by 0 is 0, no such number exists. So if memory serves 1/0 is said to be "undefined"
However, when you computer 0/9, you are saying "find me a number x so that 0*x=0". Now any number x can fulfill this condition, so 0/0 is said to be indeterminate
I believe that if you have a high school algebra problem where the answer comes out to n!=0/0 you can stop and answer "undefined" but if the answer comes out to 0/0 you still need to do some work to arrive at the final answer.
My god, I still remember this. I'm amazed and shall buy myself a beer.
As one of my friends who groks economics puts it, the first benefit of being a monopoly is that you can charge monopolistic prices, q.v. the 700% profit margins on Windows and Office. The links for those articles have already been posted, and I will not repost them. I think that the fact that Microsoft has to lower prices in response to Linux is one more piece of evidence of Linux's legitimacy as a competitor to Microsoft.
I am preaching to the choir, but so what.
Maybe by the time Longhorn comes out it'll be sitting on the shelves at Fry's for $74.99. Of course, Linux will still be cheaper, and come with more software (the hypothetical Longhorn is not expected to come with Office, IIS, etc)
There is.
I am not in front of my linux box right now, but in 2.5 you can do "make allmoduleconfig" or something like that, which will do what you want. I do not remember the exact make target, but you can do a "make help"
I do not believe this is in 2.4.
One caveat for newbies is that the code for the filesystem where your modules is located should not be compiled as a module. The kernel has to mount the filesystem before loading the module, and if it can't load the module for the filesystem, well, you get the picture.
Hope this helps.
technically correct, but not very relevant in this case, as these workers are not slave labor at the behest of the government. In fact, they are worried that the government is trying to shut them down.
While the conditions described in the articles are disturbing, keep in mind the paragraph where our heroine says there are no jobs where she comes from, and there is no other way for her. Its a lousy situation, but what can you do about it.
I am not an economist or a historian, but I suspect deplorable working conditions are commonly associated with industrial revolutions like what China is going through right now.
First of all, regarding the hoax comments, I consider Paul Thurott an authority on Microsoft news-- his site comes up first when you google for "Microsoft News", and I read it periodically to see what They are up to.
That much out of the way, there are a few UI tweaks which I think are interesting. The enhanced explorer nodes for "My Pictures" and "My Music" look like something I might use-- not something I would pay $200 for, but if my computer shipped with it or if similiar functionality was in GNOME/KDE.
On an even more trivial note, it looks like their Virtual Desktop manager shows the different wallpapers to the different backgrounds. I think this Makes Sense as a quick and easy way to identify different desktops.
Of course, I must throw in the "har har, been there, done that"s to virtual desktops in general and the dock. I haven't say it yet, so even though it may be obvious, le tme say "WinFS concerns me"
That was probably more lectrons than an alpha with two years to go deserves
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It'll help us understand how our bodies function.
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Regarding all the posts along the lines of "how would the students get jobs when they graduate if they don't have training in Office/Exchange/whatever".
My solution:
0) Learn how to think, read, and learn
1) Go to Borders/Barns&Nobles/Library, get copy of "Become a Power User of MS Office in 21 days"
2) Read book. If you know Open Office you probably have a head start.
3) Put "MS Office" on resume
There are also schools you can pay to teach you Office, or you can buy a copy of Office to play with (splitting the cost with your friends if you like and if its permitted by the EULA)
This also brings up political and philosophical discussions such as "what is the point of education" and "should education be privatized". Those, I have no desire to get involved in.