Theme names are good. Choose a theme that doesn't have any overloaded context (like cities, for example) or common names and you'll be fine. If you are worried about your machines not being easily identified for their purpose, just make a DNS alias for it, e.g. alias athena.yourdomain.com to mail.yourdomain.com or what have you.
Complicated naming schemes are bullshit and the bane of civilisation. If I have to deal with one more machine named W832COHRWTFBBQKEKEKEKE.somedomain.com, I will shoot myself. Those names are hard to relay to people, not easily remembered, and only really relay information to the people who came up with the god damned naming scheme. It's infinitely easier to tell a employee to login to 'zeus' than it is to tell him to login to 'w832COHRWTFBBQKEKEKEKEKE'.
Or I could do it in three words: Religion for Physicists.
But if they really want a little more, I guess I could say the following:
A idea which cannot be tested in any known scientific manner at the moment and has yet to demonstrate anything new and relevant. It is an interpolation of existing data into an exceedingly and overly complicated mess of mathematics. The only good that has come out of string theory thus far is that it has generated some interesting maths. Peter Woit's description (quoting Wolfgang Pauli) is perhaps the most apt: not even wrong.
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Get a clue. The weakness in WEP has everything to do with a vulnerability in RC4 (specifically this one). The vulnerability is due to the fact that there is a weakness in RC4's key scheduling algorithm that allows an attacker to obtain the whole key from only a very few bits that just happen to be in the first 24-bits of the key. Since the IV does repeat, it is easy to obtain packets with the weak key bits. However, if WEP did not use RC4, that vulnerability wouldn't be there and you couldn't break WEP using that attack.
The phrase "cleared the neighborhood" refers to how the planet formed more than how it exists now. It means taht it was formed by causing nearby material to accrete with it in the planetary accretion disk, in a sense "clearing the neighborhood" of trash. It has nothing to do with the fact that it is alone or nearly alone in its orbit, though that usually goes hand in hand with "clearing the neighborhood".
Well, think about how often they use defibrillators on patients who are flatlining. Fibrillation is NOT flatlining and a defibrillator will do nothing to bring a stopped heart back to life.
Knowledge is far more important than security, clean water, or medicine. Knowledge is, ultimately, more important than life itself. "Who knows only their own generation remains forever a child." We can keep sending food, medicine, etc. to the developing countries of the world, but until they have a glimpse of what possibilities lie outside of their world and what wonders they can strive for, they will never truly be alive. It is knowledge that helps a people grow and ultimately better themselves. Yes, both are important and both types of aid should be provided, but the potential for this $100 is far more important than any crate of food Bill Gates can drop.
Okay, repeat after me: "Quantum computers are likely only fast for a small subset of hard problems."
There are only/three/ problems that are believed to be outside P but in BQP: 1) Factorisation 2) Discrete logarithms 3) Quantum simulation
And we're not sure if those problems are actually outside P. So, Quantum Computers are not the computational power houses that everyone who watches Discovery Channel things they are. In most cases, they are no better than a classical computer, except a whole hell of a lot harder to build.
All of our gas giants have rings. Rings are very unstable, so probably wouldn't last much longer than a hundred million years. Yet, five billion years after our solar system was created, all the gas giants still have them. There is likely some means of recycling and/or regenerating ring material that is going on. If the rings lasted five billion years around all the planets, they'll likely last another five billion years.
So, Greek shields were convex, which means the inside of the shields were concave. The myth is that the Greek soldiers polished the inside of their shields to use for the "Death Ray". Concave mirrors have the lovely property that they focus light. This seems like it is crucial to the whole myth, yet neither the Mythbusters nor MIT used concave mirrors.
If a person surfs to Google from Taiwan, call it Taiwan, ROC. If a person surfs to Google from China, call it Taiwan, Province of PRC. If a person surfs from anywhere else, label it "Here be dragons."
There are exactly two types of planets. Terrestrial, or rocky, planets and gas giants. Terrestrial planets consist of heavy metals, rocks, etc. Gas giants are mostly gas. A planet must fall within one of these categories. In addition, it must be large enough to be a sphereoid and it must not be part of a debris field. This gives us eight planets. Four inner terrestrial planets and four outer gas giants. The rest is destritus. Pluto is not a terrestrial planet because it is severely lacking in heavy metals and rocks, so it is not a planet. Same with the new "planet" and Sedna and any other large KBO we find.
Er, that's pretty common for every computer retailer. I worked at CompUSA and computer systems (made by HP, Sony, Toshiba, et al) all had a margin of between $10-50. It was miniscule. There is a reason they try to push those extended warranties on you so hard. That is where they make their money.
This is why string theory is a joke. Whenever they run into a problem, they throw in more dimensions or some other kludge, like gravitons leaking out of the universe.
If I can recite them in Hexadecimal, I could easily do more than that, though it might take me a while to calculate each one in my head using Bailey's algorithm.
This may surprise you, but we don't live in the Star Gate universe. ZPE is utterly useless for powering anything. The best demonstrations of ZPE is the Casimir effect and the force between the two plates is so insignificant that you couldn't light a light bulb with it.
He's more intelligent than most people on/., and that is saying quite a bit. He is a brilliant strategist and businessman. You don't get to be the richest man in the world with the world's largest and most powerful software manufacturer by being average.
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Theme names are good. Choose a theme that doesn't have any overloaded context (like cities, for example) or common names and you'll be fine. If you are worried about your machines not being easily identified for their purpose, just make a DNS alias for it, e.g. alias athena.yourdomain.com to mail.yourdomain.com or what have you.
Complicated naming schemes are bullshit and the bane of civilisation. If I have to deal with one more machine named W832COHRWTFBBQKEKEKEKE.somedomain.com, I will shoot myself. Those names are hard to relay to people, not easily remembered, and only really relay information to the people who came up with the god damned naming scheme. It's infinitely easier to tell a employee to login to 'zeus' than it is to tell him to login to 'w832COHRWTFBBQKEKEKEKEKE'.
Bullshit.
Or I could do it in three words: Religion for Physicists.
But if they really want a little more, I guess I could say the following:
A idea which cannot be tested in any known scientific manner at the moment and has yet to demonstrate anything new and relevant. It is an interpolation of existing data into an exceedingly and overly complicated mess of mathematics. The only good that has come out of string theory thus far is that it has generated some interesting maths. Peter Woit's description (quoting Wolfgang Pauli) is perhaps the most apt: not even wrong.
Get a clue. The weakness in WEP has everything to do with a vulnerability in RC4 (specifically this one). The vulnerability is due to the fact that there is a weakness in RC4's key scheduling algorithm that allows an attacker to obtain the whole key from only a very few bits that just happen to be in the first 24-bits of the key. Since the IV does repeat, it is easy to obtain packets with the weak key bits. However, if WEP did not use RC4, that vulnerability wouldn't be there and you couldn't break WEP using that attack.
The phrase "cleared the neighborhood" refers to how the planet formed more than how it exists now. It means taht it was formed by causing nearby material to accrete with it in the planetary accretion disk, in a sense "clearing the neighborhood" of trash. It has nothing to do with the fact that it is alone or nearly alone in its orbit, though that usually goes hand in hand with "clearing the neighborhood".
Because Linus wrote the GPL, as we all know.
Well, think about how often they use defibrillators on patients who are flatlining. Fibrillation is NOT flatlining and a defibrillator will do nothing to bring a stopped heart back to life.
Knowledge is far more important than security, clean water, or medicine. Knowledge is, ultimately, more important than life itself. "Who knows only their own generation remains forever a child." We can keep sending food, medicine, etc. to the developing countries of the world, but until they have a glimpse of what possibilities lie outside of their world and what wonders they can strive for, they will never truly be alive. It is knowledge that helps a people grow and ultimately better themselves. Yes, both are important and both types of aid should be provided, but the potential for this $100 is far more important than any crate of food Bill Gates can drop.
Awww, once again, attack of the layman.
/three/ problems that are believed to be outside P but in BQP:
Okay, repeat after me: "Quantum computers are likely only fast for a small subset of hard problems."
There are only
1) Factorisation
2) Discrete logarithms
3) Quantum simulation
And we're not sure if those problems are actually outside P. So, Quantum Computers are not the computational power houses that everyone who watches Discovery Channel things they are. In most cases, they are no better than a classical computer, except a whole hell of a lot harder to build.
All of our gas giants have rings. Rings are very unstable, so probably wouldn't last much longer than a hundred million years. Yet, five billion years after our solar system was created, all the gas giants still have them. There is likely some means of recycling and/or regenerating ring material that is going on. If the rings lasted five billion years around all the planets, they'll likely last another five billion years.
Everyone knows that Batman's super power is that he's richer than God. I believe that puts Bruce Wayne firmly in the #1 position.
I was just about to post the same thing when I saw your post. I just had one last night at Southern Sun.
Or if you're so fortune to go up against Dalek zombies, you don't even have to demolish the stairs.
So, Greek shields were convex, which means the inside of the shields were concave. The myth is that the Greek soldiers polished the inside of their shields to use for the "Death Ray". Concave mirrors have the lovely property that they focus light. This seems like it is crucial to the whole myth, yet neither the Mythbusters nor MIT used concave mirrors.
Considering that he quoted CU's fight song, I would say it's probably fairly likely that he went to CU.
Still a virgin then?
If a person surfs to Google from Taiwan, call it Taiwan, ROC. If a person surfs to Google from China, call it Taiwan, Province of PRC. If a person surfs from anywhere else, label it "Here be dragons."
There are exactly two types of planets. Terrestrial, or rocky, planets and gas giants. Terrestrial planets consist of heavy metals, rocks, etc. Gas giants are mostly gas. A planet must fall within one of these categories. In addition, it must be large enough to be a sphereoid and it must not be part of a debris field. This gives us eight planets. Four inner terrestrial planets and four outer gas giants. The rest is destritus. Pluto is not a terrestrial planet because it is severely lacking in heavy metals and rocks, so it is not a planet. Same with the new "planet" and Sedna and any other large KBO we find.
Er, that's pretty common for every computer retailer. I worked at CompUSA and computer systems (made by HP, Sony, Toshiba, et al) all had a margin of between $10-50. It was miniscule. There is a reason they try to push those extended warranties on you so hard. That is where they make their money.
The back of a Volkswagen?
The difference is that Relativity and Newtonian physics has evidence to backup the "kludges" it has. String Theory has ZERO evidence backing it up.
This is why string theory is a joke. Whenever they run into a problem, they throw in more dimensions or some other kludge, like gravitons leaking out of the universe.
If I can recite them in Hexadecimal, I could easily do more than that, though it might take me a while to calculate each one in my head using Bailey's algorithm.
The ending felt kind of flat.
This may surprise you, but we don't live in the Star Gate universe. ZPE is utterly useless for powering anything. The best demonstrations of ZPE is the Casimir effect and the force between the two plates is so insignificant that you couldn't light a light bulb with it.
He's more intelligent than most people on /., and that is saying quite a bit. He is a brilliant strategist and businessman. You don't get to be the richest man in the world with the world's largest and most powerful software manufacturer by being average.