I fail to see why this is so funny. The possibility of such a mathematic development is, well, quite possible. Prime factorization is NOT a provably hard problem. Mathematicians have yet to show that it is NP-complete. For all we know, it could be quite easy and we just haven't found the easy way to do it.
However, if a efficient prime factorization routine was developed, I'm sure the discovery would be suppressed until encryption was changed to something not based on prime numbers.
If Microsoft changes Windows over a Unix based OS, it will be built on a BSD, such as FreeBSD or OpenBSD or even Darwin.
Most of the code in the NT kernel is already built from BSD code. It seems it would be a lot easier to change things over to BSD since NT seems to do a lot of things the "BSD way". Plus, since Mac OS X is BSD based, a lot of hardware developers have ported their drivers to a BSD-based system. It would be trivial to then port those drivers to MS BSD. Besides, BSD is better than Linux anyways. It just makes sense to do it with BSD.
...would want their brain fondled with by Linux? Linux is far from crash proof.
You know, come to think of it, I think I know why Windows crashes so much. People install so much crap in Windows. New drivers, new games, new freeware that could be complete crap, etc. On Linux, there is a lot less crap you can actually install. Perhaps that is why Linux crashes less than Windows.
I believe Voyager transmitted data wirelessly from several million kilometers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I checked several million kilometers is larger than 310 kilometers.
Granted, a rocket launch probably belches out a LOT of these chemicals, but there is a launch how often? Not very often, last I recall. The polution they produce is negligable compared to the total polution cars produce.
NASA should be spending this money on more important endeavors, such as the ISS or perhaps even another moon trip. Blowing money to produce environmentally safe rocket fuel is stupid and inefficient.
The Athenians voted him guilty. It was only after his speech did they decide his punishment. And yes, some scholars do think he threw away a chance at exile. But no one really knows.
The point is that in a democracy, people run the government or software development or whatever. That sounds like a great thing, but I sometimes question the intelligence of people. Personally, I think there are a lot of morons out there. If they had any kind of power to affect the government or software development, I wouldn't want that to happen.
Next time, try reading. I didn't duplicate. You said that the elecromagnetic force is the strongest, then the strong and weak nuclear forces, then gravity. I was simply correcting your mistake by pointing out that the Nuclear Strong is the strongest force, then EM, then the weak, then gravity.
As far as distance, gravity as the greatest distance, followed by EM, then followed by the weak nuclear force, then the strong nuclear force.
Your post is utter bullshit and I was correcting your mistake. Next time, instead of calling on the mods, try reading a bit.
Well, actually that's not actually true, depending on how you define weak (the adjective). Gravity exerts the smallest force, but it does so over the greatest distances. OTOH, Electromagnetic forces are very powerful, but only over short distances. The nuclear strong and weak forces fall in the middle accordingly.
That these schools produce no-talent programmers who know how to slap down a template for a 3D engine, but don't know much else. Most students I've met that have come out of these schools know little of basic algorithms and data structures, such as binary trees, let alone more complex computing topics such as encryption, compression, etc. I mourn the loss of the gaming industry if these things start becoming popular.
Quite wrong. These guys are making a binary compatability layer, not emulation. You will not be able to run OS X applications on an x86 box running NetBSD, only a PPC box running NetBSD.
I don't ever recall them speaking about dolphins in any respect. Dolphins are believed to be very intelligent (perhaps as intelligent as us). Their intelligence seems to make them a likely candidate for the next civilization, yet there is no mention of them.
I was sort of expecting them to examine several possibilities for future evolution. Sort of like "This could happen, but this could also happen." Unfortunately, there was none of that. They only had one 'possible' evolution and I was actually somewhat disappointed in the one they presented. It seemed to involve too many squid derivatives, including two land squids. Their explanation how they can be land animals without a skeleton was kind of sketchy, in my opinion.
It also seemed to think that the same Classes (Amphibian, Fish, etc) would exist 200 million years from now, which seems a bit off.
Also, the show was filled with horrible names (like the Flish and the Terrabyte).
Nuclear weapons development? I don't get it. Nuclear weapons are 50+ year old technology. This is stuff that Boy Scouts can build in their mom's shed. This is stuff that college students can build for a Scavanger Hunt. I can't believe that nuclear weapons are that hard to build and develop that they need a super computer. The college students probably didn't use a super computer. The Boy Scout almost certainly didn't.
I have mixed feelings regarding Tenchi. I'd call it classic, but not necessarily quality.
As far as DBZ, I watch as much DBZ as the next person. It is a good brainless show to sit down and watch. That doesn't mean it is quality. I watch a lot of Star Trek and Star Wars too, doesn't mean they are quality.
Oh shit. I just insulted Star Trek and Star Wars. *waits for the vengeful geeks to mod him down to oblivion*
While Toonami is a good and cheap way of watching anime, I would have never called their line-up quality. At best, they have the mediocre shows that are cheap to get. Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Gundam, etc. These are all alright, but not great. Definately not what I'd call quality.
Inuyasha is the only really good anime at the moment. Trigun will add another, but it is still a lackluster line-up.
Every Cable provider in CO has a absolutely horrible cap on uploads. Downloads may be very fast, but if I try to send something to anyone, I might as well be on a modem. DSL doesn't have this.
Furthermore, the cable providers around here have a clause in the contract that you can't run a server. And they do actively look around for servers. With DSL, I can run a server because the upload is sufficient enough and my ISP won't shut me down because I'm running a server.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
--Rex Stout
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
--Betrand de Jouvenel, The Art of Conjectur
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
--Aaron Levenstein
So, these probabilities that this guy is giving are complete bullshit. He is using statistics that he made up.
The key to a good RPG is that it is a good escape. I play RPGs to escape the boring monotony of real life and get a glimpse into some other world. This is one reason why MMORPGs are so addictive. From a story point of view, they suck. You sit around and kill things all day. What is so attractive about them is that you have real people to talk with. It makes it a sort of world outside of this world. And that is what a lot of people are ultimately looking for. They are looking for a world to escape to when the real world seems too burdensome.
This is not a troll or flamebait. We have tens of magnitudes more gun deaths than any other first world nation (100k vs 350). Is it because we have more guns? I suppose one could make that claim. The US has more guns than any other first world nation. Except, proportionately, Canada has more guns per person than US and they have a little over 300 gun deaths a year.
It seems that the rediculous number of gun deaths that occur in the US is unique to the US and is independent of numbers of guns, violence in movies, etc. It seems it is part of the US culture to kill each other. I don't know why. I wish I did.
A good movie on this subject is Bowling for Columbine. It is really good. Watch it. What are you still doing here? I said watch it!
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I fail to see why this is so funny. The possibility of such a mathematic development is, well, quite possible. Prime factorization is NOT a provably hard problem. Mathematicians have yet to show that it is NP-complete. For all we know, it could be quite easy and we just haven't found the easy way to do it.
However, if a efficient prime factorization routine was developed, I'm sure the discovery would be suppressed until encryption was changed to something not based on prime numbers.
If Microsoft changes Windows over a Unix based OS, it will be built on a BSD, such as FreeBSD or OpenBSD or even Darwin.
Most of the code in the NT kernel is already built from BSD code. It seems it would be a lot easier to change things over to BSD since NT seems to do a lot of things the "BSD way". Plus, since Mac OS X is BSD based, a lot of hardware developers have ported their drivers to a BSD-based system. It would be trivial to then port those drivers to MS BSD. Besides, BSD is better than Linux anyways. It just makes sense to do it with BSD.
...would want their brain fondled with by Linux? Linux is far from crash proof.
You know, come to think of it, I think I know why Windows crashes so much. People install so much crap in Windows. New drivers, new games, new freeware that could be complete crap, etc. On Linux, there is a lot less crap you can actually install. Perhaps that is why Linux crashes less than Windows.
I believe Voyager transmitted data wirelessly from several million kilometers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I checked several million kilometers is larger than 310 kilometers.
Granted, a rocket launch probably belches out a LOT of these chemicals, but there is a launch how often? Not very often, last I recall. The polution they produce is negligable compared to the total polution cars produce.
NASA should be spending this money on more important endeavors, such as the ISS or perhaps even another moon trip. Blowing money to produce environmentally safe rocket fuel is stupid and inefficient.
The Athenians voted him guilty. It was only after his speech did they decide his punishment. And yes, some scholars do think he threw away a chance at exile. But no one really knows.
The point is that in a democracy, people run the government or software development or whatever. That sounds like a great thing, but I sometimes question the intelligence of people. Personally, I think there are a lot of morons out there. If they had any kind of power to affect the government or software development, I wouldn't want that to happen.
How long until they 'vote' that one of the developers drink a cup full of Hemlock because he did something they didn't like?
Next time, try reading. I didn't duplicate. You said that the elecromagnetic force is the strongest, then the strong and weak nuclear forces, then gravity. I was simply correcting your mistake by pointing out that the Nuclear Strong is the strongest force, then EM, then the weak, then gravity.
As far as distance, gravity as the greatest distance, followed by EM, then followed by the weak nuclear force, then the strong nuclear force.
Your post is utter bullshit and I was correcting your mistake. Next time, instead of calling on the mods, try reading a bit.
Well, actually that's not actually true, depending on how you define weak (the adjective). Gravity exerts the smallest force, but it does so over the greatest distances. OTOH, Electromagnetic forces are very powerful, but only over short distances. The nuclear strong and weak forces fall in the middle accordingly.
Didn't Microsoft get in trouble for this?
That these schools produce no-talent programmers who know how to slap down a template for a 3D engine, but don't know much else. Most students I've met that have come out of these schools know little of basic algorithms and data structures, such as binary trees, let alone more complex computing topics such as encryption, compression, etc. I mourn the loss of the gaming industry if these things start becoming popular.
Quite wrong. These guys are making a binary compatability layer, not emulation. You will not be able to run OS X applications on an x86 box running NetBSD, only a PPC box running NetBSD.
I don't ever recall them speaking about dolphins in any respect. Dolphins are believed to be very intelligent (perhaps as intelligent as us). Their intelligence seems to make them a likely candidate for the next civilization, yet there is no mention of them.
I was sort of expecting them to examine several possibilities for future evolution. Sort of like "This could happen, but this could also happen." Unfortunately, there was none of that. They only had one 'possible' evolution and I was actually somewhat disappointed in the one they presented. It seemed to involve too many squid derivatives, including two land squids. Their explanation how they can be land animals without a skeleton was kind of sketchy, in my opinion.
It also seemed to think that the same Classes (Amphibian, Fish, etc) would exist 200 million years from now, which seems a bit off.
Also, the show was filled with horrible names (like the Flish and the Terrabyte).
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Nuclear weapons development? I don't get it. Nuclear weapons are 50+ year old technology. This is stuff that Boy Scouts can build in their mom's shed. This is stuff that college students can build for a Scavanger Hunt. I can't believe that nuclear weapons are that hard to build and develop that they need a super computer. The college students probably didn't use a super computer. The Boy Scout almost certainly didn't.
Patents are evil. How can Apple do this? How can the patent system let them do this? ...
OH, wait. We're talking about Apple, not Microsoft.
This is great. This will be great for Apple. Hooray for Apple!
If I virtually volunteer, do I only have to do virtual work? If so, sign me up!
I have mixed feelings regarding Tenchi. I'd call it classic, but not necessarily quality.
As far as DBZ, I watch as much DBZ as the next person. It is a good brainless show to sit down and watch. That doesn't mean it is quality. I watch a lot of Star Trek and Star Wars too, doesn't mean they are quality.
Oh shit. I just insulted Star Trek and Star Wars. *waits for the vengeful geeks to mod him down to oblivion*
While Toonami is a good and cheap way of watching anime, I would have never called their line-up quality. At best, they have the mediocre shows that are cheap to get. Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Gundam, etc. These are all alright, but not great. Definately not what I'd call quality.
Inuyasha is the only really good anime at the moment. Trigun will add another, but it is still a lackluster line-up.
Every Cable provider in CO has a absolutely horrible cap on uploads. Downloads may be very fast, but if I try to send something to anyone, I might as well be on a modem. DSL doesn't have this.
Furthermore, the cable providers around here have a clause in the contract that you can't run a server. And they do actively look around for servers. With DSL, I can run a server because the upload is sufficient enough and my ISP won't shut me down because I'm running a server.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. --Rex Stout It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. --Betrand de Jouvenel, The Art of Conjectur Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. --Aaron Levenstein So, these probabilities that this guy is giving are complete bullshit. He is using statistics that he made up.
The key to a good RPG is that it is a good escape. I play RPGs to escape the boring monotony of real life and get a glimpse into some other world. This is one reason why MMORPGs are so addictive. From a story point of view, they suck. You sit around and kill things all day. What is so attractive about them is that you have real people to talk with. It makes it a sort of world outside of this world. And that is what a lot of people are ultimately looking for. They are looking for a world to escape to when the real world seems too burdensome.
This is not a troll or flamebait. We have tens of magnitudes more gun deaths than any other first world nation (100k vs 350). Is it because we have more guns? I suppose one could make that claim. The US has more guns than any other first world nation. Except, proportionately, Canada has more guns per person than US and they have a little over 300 gun deaths a year.
It seems that the rediculous number of gun deaths that occur in the US is unique to the US and is independent of numbers of guns, violence in movies, etc. It seems it is part of the US culture to kill each other. I don't know why. I wish I did.
A good movie on this subject is Bowling for Columbine. It is really good. Watch it. What are you still doing here? I said watch it!
Of course it is! It's French. It surrenders at the first sign of trouble and bails out!