Then buy a Mac Pro to replace it in 6 years or whatever. Yeah, so it doesn't go in a rack... but why did you need it in a rack anyways? You probably had one or two.
I think that is probably right, but add in pixar as another customer Jobs had in mind. But they probably switched to rendering on linux servers a long time ago.
Oh, I see. Yeah, I think just one federal law, or if there is no federal law, one state law would allow that. But it probably wouldn't matter much for states with 1 house member, right?
So, you want to rewrite the whole constitution so that members of congress are elected nationally. yeah, good luck with that. Why not start with allowing everyone to have a first choice.
Second, you wrote, "Observing random cosmic rays high-energy collisions is currently done using the atmosphere and large arrays of ground-based detectors, not satellites." This is not true. Observations are made in space, on the ground, and deep underground.
But the Hubble and Webb telescopes can see things like black holes, star formation, very old objects... the list goes on. These are high energy experiments just sitting there, waiting to be cracked.
Um... yeah, but cheers and TNG sucked for two seasons and then took off when the writers figured out who was good and the actors found the characters. These days, you don't get two years to do that. You get canceled right away. I think cheers was a commercial success...
There are important benefits. One that I would think the slashdot would like is the possibility of instant runoff balloting.
In this scheme
every person ranks all of the candidates;
everyone's vote is counted as a vote for their top ranked candidate (their favorite person for the spot);
the lowest vote candidate is removed;
for people for whom this was their top ranked candidate, their top ranked candidate is changed no their next highest ranked candidate
This possibility has huge upside for third party candidates who can now get a vote that is not, "thrown away".
But in the end, this is at odds with how I think DRE should work, in an object oriented fashion. one machine marks the ballot for you, another counts the ballot. So long as the marked ballot can be verified by eye, this is just another way (other than a pencil) of marking a paper ballot, so it has no more downside but can help blind people vote in private. It also reduces the possibility of hacking the voting machine since it can be constantly validated on election day.
No. The large hadron collider isn't worth it. As they point out when they claim that they will not destroy the Earth, we are already hit daily with billions of with particles that vastly exceed its production. The new high energy physics is astronomy. Making more satellites (such as Hubble and the Webb telescope) would have made much more sense.
Just because windows 7 has many enhancements over Vista doesn't mean that they are innovating (does it?). They could just be catching up with market leaders. Innovation is making new "must have" features or products, not adding others original must have features to your portfolio.
That said, predictions of MS's demise are about a hundred times more stupid than predictions of Apple's demise at just before the return of Jobs point. They have so much cash and intellectual property to play out that they could coast for ten (twenty?) years to before reinventing themselves and still turn back into the biggest corporation in the world.
Pretend you have a path that you think is optimal and then you are considering a path where the travel time to the first 50 cities cost already exceeds your answer, you can then rule out the 50-factorial cases for all possible ways of dealing with the remaining cities 50 cities.
But, this isn't brute force. Generally, brute force means that you write a really stupid but guaranteed method of solving something. Speedups and short cuts are generally not used. This is VERY useful for test cases to know if your speedups are working or incorrectly excluding correct answers but of limited use for large problems.
Yes, obviously you can't use brute force. Where do you get O(n^2) for brute force? First you pick city 1 (100 possibilities) then city 2 (99 possibilities)... = 100!.
But your logic that "someone wrote a paper once that was A speed and then later someone wrote a paper that was B speed so I can ratio them to get the order of the algorithm" is horse hoey. Using logic like that during the time of research into sorting we might conclude sorting is O(log(n)) by switching algorithms between papers.
BTW, just because someone claims to have solved such and such many nodes doesn't mean that they did. A reasonable fraction of papers are overturned upon further scrutiny.
100 flowers=100! possibilities. Using brute force on a 1 GHz processor and computing one solution per cycle (quite optimistic), it would take you 3 times 10 to the 141 years to complete. Even if your cellphone had a helaflop processor, it would still take longer than the age of the universe to compute this way.
"That's the best way I can see to prevent completely locked-down platforms like this." Like what? The Mac isn't locked down. Apple has said they have no plans to lock it down.
Any conjecture that they are going to lock it down is just that... conjecture. It has no more basis in reality that saying that Windows is going to be locked down soon.
You wrote, "a bunch of users don't know anything outside the app store."
Did you know that there is no app store on OS X now? Are you suggesting that people just buy a mac and then use Mail/Safari/Text Edit for all their needs now? Well, there are probably some who do that, but they sure as hey won't buy an app from any store, app or otherwise.
Dear Anil Dash, let me intorduce you to macports. I can do the exact same things people do on Ubuntu's apt, but I have to type, "port" instead of "apt."
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Then buy a Mac Pro to replace it in 6 years or whatever. Yeah, so it doesn't go in a rack... but why did you need it in a rack anyways? You probably had one or two.
I think that is probably right, but add in pixar as another customer Jobs had in mind. But they probably switched to rendering on linux servers a long time ago.
Oh, I see. Yeah, I think just one federal law, or if there is no federal law, one state law would allow that. But it probably wouldn't matter much for states with 1 house member, right?
So, you want to rewrite the whole constitution so that members of congress are elected nationally. yeah, good luck with that. Why not start with allowing everyone to have a first choice.
Higgs? The Tevetron has the energy to find it.
Second, you wrote, "Observing random cosmic rays high-energy collisions is currently done using the atmosphere and large arrays of ground-based detectors, not satellites." This is not true. Observations are made in space, on the ground, and deep underground.
But the Hubble and Webb telescopes can see things like black holes, star formation, very old objects... the list goes on. These are high energy experiments just sitting there, waiting to be cracked.
Um... yeah, but cheers and TNG sucked for two seasons and then took off when the writers figured out who was good and the actors found the characters. These days, you don't get two years to do that. You get canceled right away. I think cheers was a commercial success...
There are important benefits. One that I would think the slashdot would like is the possibility of instant runoff balloting.
In this scheme
This possibility has huge upside for third party candidates who can now get a vote that is not, "thrown away".
But in the end, this is at odds with how I think DRE should work, in an object oriented fashion. one machine marks the ballot for you, another counts the ballot. So long as the marked ballot can be verified by eye, this is just another way (other than a pencil) of marking a paper ballot, so it has no more downside but can help blind people vote in private. It also reduces the possibility of hacking the voting machine since it can be constantly validated on election day.
No. The large hadron collider isn't worth it. As they point out when they claim that they will not destroy the Earth, we are already hit daily with billions of with particles that vastly exceed its production. The new high energy physics is astronomy. Making more satellites (such as Hubble and the Webb telescope) would have made much more sense.
Even if you did that with every child in America, you are still talking about over $1,000 per child. That's a lot of money.
Yeah, and bumpters is not something this has. It is not designed to pass inspection, it is designed to look like the original and otherwise look cool.
Just because windows 7 has many enhancements over Vista doesn't mean that they are innovating (does it?). They could just be catching up with market leaders. Innovation is making new "must have" features or products, not adding others original must have features to your portfolio.
That said, predictions of MS's demise are about a hundred times more stupid than predictions of Apple's demise at just before the return of Jobs point. They have so much cash and intellectual property to play out that they could coast for ten (twenty?) years to before reinventing themselves and still turn back into the biggest corporation in the world.
Pretend you have a path that you think is optimal and then you are considering a path where the travel time to the first 50 cities cost already exceeds your answer, you can then rule out the 50-factorial cases for all possible ways of dealing with the remaining cities 50 cities.
But, this isn't brute force. Generally, brute force means that you write a really stupid but guaranteed method of solving something. Speedups and short cuts are generally not used. This is VERY useful for test cases to know if your speedups are working or incorrectly excluding correct answers but of limited use for large problems.
Yes, obviously you can't use brute force. Where do you get O(n^2) for brute force? First you pick city 1 (100 possibilities) then city 2 (99 possibilities)... = 100!.
But your logic that "someone wrote a paper once that was A speed and then later someone wrote a paper that was B speed so I can ratio them to get the order of the algorithm" is horse hoey. Using logic like that during the time of research into sorting we might conclude sorting is O(log(n)) by switching algorithms between papers.
BTW, just because someone claims to have solved such and such many nodes doesn't mean that they did. A reasonable fraction of papers are overturned upon further scrutiny.
equals/not equals or equality/inequality. What is the difference, right?
Just a suggestion: you could try coding that up and see if you can solve the problem in seconds.
100 flowers=100! possibilities. Using brute force on a 1 GHz processor and computing one solution per cycle (quite optimistic), it would take you 3 times 10 to the 141 years to complete. Even if your cellphone had a helaflop processor, it would still take longer than the age of the universe to compute this way.
I beg to differ. If it takes a supercomputer 4 days to solve it for 5 flowers... we have huge problems.
Just a guess: already installed in the computer.
Do you actually know this, or are you just guessing. I was hoping the GGP would respond because he appeared to actually have experience.
If so, this type of store is a huge boon to small developers.
Hi, I own a mac and it is my machine my rules. and if MS released a applications manager... I don't think I'd even notice or care if I did notice.
"That's the best way I can see to prevent completely locked-down platforms like this." Like what? The Mac isn't locked down. Apple has said they have no plans to lock it down.
Any conjecture that they are going to lock it down is just that... conjecture. It has no more basis in reality that saying that Windows is going to be locked down soon.
I'm sorry, can I get a reality check here. When you negotiate with a box store for, say a $30 app, you take home $4.50 per sale?
You wrote, "a bunch of users don't know anything outside the app store."
Did you know that there is no app store on OS X now? Are you suggesting that people just buy a mac and then use Mail/Safari/Text Edit for all their needs now? Well, there are probably some who do that, but they sure as hey won't buy an app from any store, app or otherwise.
Dear Anil Dash, let me intorduce you to macports. I can do the exact same things people do on Ubuntu's apt, but I have to type, "port" instead of "apt."
Okay, I'll call your bluff. Name something (an ends, not a means) that can be done on Windows or Linux that I can't do on my mac.