Do tell... is there some complaint you have with the AC's sentence? Do you not like the use of the forward slash? Do you think "lowlife" isn't a word? Are you secretly angry about your inadvertant (hehehehe sp!??) mispelling of "dependent"? I guess you probably take issue with his incorrect usage of "the general lowlife spelling/grammar issues". Somewhere in there, he probably needs a comma or hyphen. Now, if he/she'd (ooohhhh, forward slash, I have shit grammar) just written "the spelling/grammar issues" that would be okay. Also, "the general spelling/grammar issues" would have been okay. So, I guess it's the addition of "lowlife" to the mix without a comma or hyphen that causes the porblem (hahahaha). But, you could mean "general lowlife" instead of "general and lowlife".. ? What's the porblem again? Whatever error you perceive doesn't rise to the level of "cought" for "caught" or the following gem:
"I dont know who you talked to but they aure didnt loom my name up over there thats for sure.Everyone is not going to beleave you soon when i show the lies yor telling about me."
All the phone numbers in the 'contact section' (see mirror of page here look like cellphone numbers. Well, two do.. 215-468-2920 and 2929. Mobile phone places seem to get the numbers in blocks.. so someone picks a couple at once.. they then get numbers that are "close together" There's a good chance that these numbers could be prepaid phones with fake info.. if Sal, Salvatore, Salvadore is not too dull minded. Then again, it seems he may just be a hallf-ass scammer who's about to get the hammer laid on him.
Man, I watched your Movie, and there was absolutely no narrative thread or character development.. just a family walking around. AND IT LOOKED LIKE YOU JUST STUCK THE CAMERA ON A TRIPOD FOR THE WHOLE THING! Your movie studio isn't going to last long if this is the best you've got.
My man, you do not know what has been going down. Check this out. You run Hello and inside Hello a thing called BloggerBot runs.. like it's one of your friends on the Internet. You set it up so that when you share a picture with bloggerbot, it is posted to your Blogspot Blog. Google hosts the pictures at blogger.com for free. This shit is serious, my man. Picasa just ads extra to the part where you organize your photos before sending them out.
Why is it a pain to make GPS work? (that's serious, not sarcastic) It seems like syncronizing clocks would be just the same whether one was 3 miles away or 500,000 miles away. You send a signal, with knowledge of where each satellite will be when it receives said signal, then they correct for the time difference.
Also, with gps on mars, you could have good mapping of the surface which would make it easier for the robot machines to move from here to over there.
in keeping with my last grumpy post, what the fuck is this all about? "hey, I'm stupid. Here read about how stupid I am and how some people approximate a metre by 38 or 40 inches!!" A meter is a little more than three feet (easily approximated by 40 inches).. how hard is that to remember? I'm from Texas, and I can remember that. Also, a meter stick is a little longer than a yard stick.. guess how many feet in a yard.
P.S. I seriously doubt Dan Birchall submitted this story.
I'm not sure what this is supposed to be about, but I guess I'll be nice in my response. I just had someone on hotmail accept an invite from me last week. Ah well, nevermind, THIS IS THE MOST STUPID FUCKING SHIT. "I think maybe hotmail might be blocking gmail invites and gmail email!!" You are so full of shit it is idiotic. Maybe his girlfriend is dense and doesn't check her junk folder. "It just disappeared! I think hotmail is blocking invites!" not.. "My dorky girlfriend didn't check her junk folder." or "maybe I made a simple spelling error." And, if all that was checked.. why isn't it mentioned?
Anyhoo, he says it's a non-story at the end.. but maybe hotmail only blocks some invites.. (whoooo mysterious..) how does this get posted? Just for the trolling?
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PS Don't get all whiney at me for being overly sarcastic.. this story is a joke, and it deserves to be turned into a human and then strangled in its sleep.
So, you think designing Databases and Networks have nothing to do with higher level math? No wonder you "won't even get into" it. You'd get shamed off the stage. Check out Networking Theory sometime..
Saying,"Even in a course like Abstract Algebra, you're going to need a grip on programming to get a deep understanding of it." counts as 'fighting words' as far as I'm concerned. When it comes to thinking about homomorphisms between different vector spaces, it's very easy just to lean on Matrix representations.. which naturally is what programming would require. BUT the higher structure of homomorphisms is much more meaningful if you eschew matrices and focus on diagramming what's mapping to where and how.. it'll give you a better understanding of Kernels and Quotient Groups etc..
Also, who says that the answer is what is important when it comes to finding roots (or reducing polynomials)? For you to be able to program an algorith to find roots, you have to do it by hand or think through the process to get an insight into ways to speed up the process. Maybe you're assuming one must need to write a program, in order for them to be prodded into really thinking about the processes. I'd say a "real" math major doesn't need any prodding to think about the deeper structures of what they're learning.
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PS I like how you use all your fancy math terms. It sounds smart to people who don't study math.
nah, you're confusing the structure with an instance of it. Defining a way to combine elements from the Real numbers gives birth to a specific structure. High level math, in a lot of cases, involves taking sets of elements, defining (or discovering) a structure, and seeing what happens. Anyhow, I guess in a twisted way, it's "just creative ways of using addition and subtraction."
Then again.. graph theory stuff doesn't seem to be "addition and subtraction".. but I've not look at that much.
Or.. well, it should not. A lot of the responses here mirror the main conception I came across while in University. "Everyone" wants to go to University, but they really just want to learn skills easily acquired at a trade school (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Engineering or CS (notice, it isn't called Computer Programming) majors should be embarrassed to be heard complaining about learning theory. How do you think people figure out new applications? There are entire countries full of hungry people who technically, know how to program. How are you better if that's all you know, too? My assumption is that the people complaining about theory simply find it too hard to understand. Though, the complainers are right, in a way, we don't need that many folks graduating from University. They should just be in some tech school. Oh, and the more mathematics you know, the better. How come most people don't get the fact that since math is just a big glob of abstract structures, you can take different parts and apply them to any application you want?
The reason people will pay $50 to get an invite is because there is no other way to get at gmail, at the moment. (Unless they get lucky and happen to be on Orkut or Blogger when Google gives out another beta block.) Their money will be made by the adwords on the sides of the emails.. why don't you have to pay to watch that shitty television show Friends? Because the advertisers will pay millions of dollars on the off chance you'll go buy some shaving cream or a new car. With Gmail, the advertisers will know exactly what their return on investment is.. and from the looks of it, that return will be good. Hence, Google wants to get as many users as possible.. which means give it out for free and give lots of storage space. Adwords will take care of the rest.
well, MFer... if a pipe has bandwidth of M*X megabits a second and home users can upload at (X - N) megabits a second and can download at X megabits a second. What happens when I download things from two users at once? All of a sudden, I'm downloading at a rate that exceeds the allotted upload rate for individuals. Anyway, I don't even know what you mean by "there is pretty much exactly as much upload bandwidth oveall as there is download bandwidth."
My post was about DDOS and how it wouldn't be different just because bandwidth changed.. since it would probably scale the same eg (upload is 10 times faster and download is 10 times faster.)
You could argue for 'speed' being accurate enough. One bit is the unit of distance and one second is the unit of time. Think of it as traveling along bits.
though, bandwidth just makes much more sense.. you win.
Figure this, your latency should decrease since there will be less bottlenecking. (Unless some new application comes along that can hog all the bandwidth) As soon as a router gets your little bitty baby packet, it'll just pop it right along to the next router. Your latency will be determined by the speed of light, I guess, and the path the packet takes to its destination.
As some have pointed out.. what does it matter if all the computers on the net us N megabits per second or M megabits per second? Now, if one of those computers from the future (with all that bandwidth) could travel back in time (or just blast its packets into the past), then it could DOS the all-fuck out of people. Now, if something about this new bandwidth technology (no I did not RTFAMFer) gives massive upload increases with relatively little download increase, then you'd have a problem. As it stands, upload bandwidth is generally less than download bandwidth.
How come it seems that no one is mentioning that they are mapping the surfaces of these records? That's the interesting part. That's why they are able to extract the audio from these records. They are essentially "taking photographs" of records and using a software program to simulate a needle traveling through the grooves. Removing pops and hisses is just run of the mill filtering (be it old high-pass, low-pass or newer wavelet techniques). This could be a neat new thing for record junkies to keep from futzing up their old records. Make a 3d model of the record then simulate it playing in a virtual record player.
But when you are making your triangle on the surface of the earth, you know where to place the vertices. Just put them on the ground. "Where" do we "place" the "vertices" of the "triangle" in our Universe? Or, what other technique would we use? As it stands now, don't they just look for repeating patches of background radiation and things like unexpected shapes of galaxies?
Also, how does a being in a 2-D world measure the angles? The best I can figure is by using time, but we just do it by stepping back and looking down from the next dimension up where we can compare ratios and thingies.
According to what current theory? Unless you are just being facetious and using "the universe" to mean "everything"...(whatever that is.) A lot of theoretical physics suggest multiple universes and larger space that our Universe exists in. Some even yag about how it might be theoretically testable or be used to explain some of the confusion as to why gravity seems so weak compared to the other forces (mainly, maybe it's "bleeding out" into "somewhere else" [cue creepy music])
We live in 4 dimensions that we know of. (3 space 1 time) I can't "see" the past or the future but I believe it is there. It's just a coordinate system. A simple theory would just say that the shape of the Universe is R^4.. ie.. if you want to talk about "where" something is, you need 4 coordinates. Three for the "physical location" and one for the "when". This is a simple theory (IMO) because it assumes that our universe goes on forever, will always be "flat" and isn't changing shape in any exceptional way (which is the same as saying it will always be "flat".)
The surface of the Earth is a good example. It contains everything which exists on Earth. You can walk around it and come back to where you started. For all we are concerned, the only other thing that needs to exist is the Sun and whatever else will keep our orbit in the appropriate spot. What's outside the Earth isn't really important when talking about the Earth's shape.
Now, there will always be the question of "what came before?" or "what is 'outside' of the Universe?" but that has no bearing on the question of "what 'shape' is the Universe?" I see no important reason why the Universe must not be finite. Metaphysics might be best for the 'Wherein dwells the finger of God' sort of question.
The well-lit street argument should probably stipulate that the person is blind. In that case, you'd bring in the notion that the individual can't understand the source and/or doesn't look at the source. Also, you could say that closed source is a dark street where you've payed a few body guards to look out for you.. but you're blind and you can't really tell if they're slacking off. Open source part is good as long as you add in being blind. You just trust that those around you are competent and willing to assist you.
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All the phone numbers in the 'contact section' (see mirror of page here look like cellphone numbers. Well, two do.. 215-468-2920 and 2929. Mobile phone places seem to get the numbers in blocks.. so someone picks a couple at once.. they then get numbers that are "close together" There's a good chance that these numbers could be prepaid phones with fake info.. if Sal, Salvatore, Salvadore is not too dull minded. Then again, it seems he may just be a hallf-ass scammer who's about to get the hammer laid on him.
Man, I watched your Movie, and there was absolutely no narrative thread or character development.. just a family walking around. AND IT LOOKED LIKE YOU JUST STUCK THE CAMERA ON A TRIPOD FOR THE WHOLE THING! Your movie studio isn't going to last long if this is the best you've got.
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check it.. since May, you can use Picasa's Hello to upload pictures to be hosted by blogger.com for free
check me blog for it in action.
I think this article is just crap, though.
My man, you do not know what has been going down. Check this out. You run Hello and inside Hello a thing called BloggerBot runs.. like it's one of your friends on the Internet. You set it up so that when you share a picture with bloggerbot, it is posted to your Blogspot Blog. Google hosts the pictures at blogger.com for free. This shit is serious, my man. Picasa just ads extra to the part where you organize your photos before sending them out.
check me blog to see it in action.
Why is it a pain to make GPS work? (that's serious, not sarcastic) It seems like syncronizing clocks would be just the same whether one was 3 miles away or 500,000 miles away. You send a signal, with knowledge of where each satellite will be when it receives said signal, then they correct for the time difference.
Also, with gps on mars, you could have good mapping of the surface which would make it easier for the robot machines to move from here to over there.
p
in keeping with my last grumpy post, what the fuck is this all about? "hey, I'm stupid. Here read about how stupid I am and how some people approximate a metre by 38 or 40 inches!!" A meter is a little more than three feet (easily approximated by 40 inches).. how hard is that to remember? I'm from Texas, and I can remember that. Also, a meter stick is a little longer than a yard stick.. guess how many feet in a yard.
P.S. I seriously doubt Dan Birchall submitted this story.
I'm not sure what this is supposed to be about, but I guess I'll be nice in my response. I just had someone on hotmail accept an invite from me last week. Ah well, nevermind, THIS IS THE MOST STUPID FUCKING SHIT. "I think maybe hotmail might be blocking gmail invites and gmail email!!" You are so full of shit it is idiotic. Maybe his girlfriend is dense and doesn't check her junk folder. "It just disappeared! I think hotmail is blocking invites!" not.. "My dorky girlfriend didn't check her junk folder." or "maybe I made a simple spelling error." And, if all that was checked.. why isn't it mentioned?
Anyhoo, he says it's a non-story at the end.. but maybe hotmail only blocks some invites.. (whoooo mysterious..) how does this get posted? Just for the trolling?
p
PS Don't get all whiney at me for being overly sarcastic.. this story is a joke, and it deserves to be turned into a human and then strangled in its sleep.
I don't see it either. I think that was thrown in there to make some people (ie me) go bonkers looking for the reference.
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What's the mathematical equivalent of a for-loop?
try the Euclidean Algorithm.
and that's just an example of one.
So, you think designing Databases and Networks have nothing to do with higher level math? No wonder you "won't even get into" it. You'd get shamed off the stage. Check out Networking Theory sometime..
you're a funny troll.
Saying,"Even in a course like Abstract Algebra, you're going to need a grip on programming to get a deep understanding of it." counts as 'fighting words' as far as I'm concerned. When it comes to thinking about homomorphisms between different vector spaces, it's very easy just to lean on Matrix representations.. which naturally is what programming would require. BUT the higher structure of homomorphisms is much more meaningful if you eschew matrices and focus on diagramming what's mapping to where and how.. it'll give you a better understanding of Kernels and Quotient Groups etc..
Also, who says that the answer is what is important when it comes to finding roots (or reducing polynomials)? For you to be able to program an algorith to find roots, you have to do it by hand or think through the process to get an insight into ways to speed up the process. Maybe you're assuming one must need to write a program, in order for them to be prodded into really thinking about the processes. I'd say a "real" math major doesn't need any prodding to think about the deeper structures of what they're learning.
p
PS I like how you use all your fancy math terms. It sounds smart to people who don't study math.
nah, you're confusing the structure with an instance of it. Defining a way to combine elements from the Real numbers gives birth to a specific structure. High level math, in a lot of cases, involves taking sets of elements, defining (or discovering) a structure, and seeing what happens. Anyhow, I guess in a twisted way, it's "just creative ways of using addition and subtraction." Then again.. graph theory stuff doesn't seem to be "addition and subtraction".. but I've not look at that much.
Or.. well, it should not. A lot of the responses here mirror the main conception I came across while in University. "Everyone" wants to go to University, but they really just want to learn skills easily acquired at a trade school (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Engineering or CS (notice, it isn't called Computer Programming) majors should be embarrassed to be heard complaining about learning theory. How do you think people figure out new applications? There are entire countries full of hungry people who technically, know how to program. How are you better if that's all you know, too? My assumption is that the people complaining about theory simply find it too hard to understand. Though, the complainers are right, in a way, we don't need that many folks graduating from University. They should just be in some tech school. Oh, and the more mathematics you know, the better. How come most people don't get the fact that since math is just a big glob of abstract structures, you can take different parts and apply them to any application you want?
p
The reason people will pay $50 to get an invite is because there is no other way to get at gmail, at the moment. (Unless they get lucky and happen to be on Orkut or Blogger when Google gives out another beta block.) Their money will be made by the adwords on the sides of the emails.. why don't you have to pay to watch that shitty television show Friends? Because the advertisers will pay millions of dollars on the off chance you'll go buy some shaving cream or a new car. With Gmail, the advertisers will know exactly what their return on investment is.. and from the looks of it, that return will be good. Hence, Google wants to get as many users as possible.. which means give it out for free and give lots of storage space. Adwords will take care of the rest.
p
well, MFer... if a pipe has bandwidth of M*X megabits a second and home users can upload at (X - N) megabits a second and can download at X megabits a second. What happens when I download things from two users at once? All of a sudden, I'm downloading at a rate that exceeds the allotted upload rate for individuals. Anyway, I don't even know what you mean by "there is pretty much exactly as much upload bandwidth oveall as there is download bandwidth."
My post was about DDOS and how it wouldn't be different just because bandwidth changed.. since it would probably scale the same eg (upload is 10 times faster and download is 10 times faster.)
On April 13th pair Networks donated almost 2/3 of the money he received. ($20,000 of ~$33,000)
So, I'd say that's a good start.
You could argue for 'speed' being accurate enough. One bit is the unit of distance and one second is the unit of time. Think of it as traveling along bits.
though, bandwidth just makes much more sense.. you win.
Figure this, your latency should decrease since there will be less bottlenecking. (Unless some new application comes along that can hog all the bandwidth) As soon as a router gets your little bitty baby packet, it'll just pop it right along to the next router. Your latency will be determined by the speed of light, I guess, and the path the packet takes to its destination.
p
As some have pointed out.. what does it matter if all the computers on the net us N megabits per second or M megabits per second? Now, if one of those computers from the future (with all that bandwidth) could travel back in time (or just blast its packets into the past), then it could DOS the all-fuck out of people. Now, if something about this new bandwidth technology (no I did not RTFAMFer) gives massive upload increases with relatively little download increase, then you'd have a problem. As it stands, upload bandwidth is generally less than download bandwidth.
p
How come it seems that no one is mentioning that they are mapping the surfaces of these records? That's the interesting part. That's why they are able to extract the audio from these records. They are essentially "taking photographs" of records and using a software program to simulate a needle traveling through the grooves. Removing pops and hisses is just run of the mill filtering (be it old high-pass, low-pass or newer wavelet techniques). This could be a neat new thing for record junkies to keep from futzing up their old records. Make a 3d model of the record then simulate it playing in a virtual record player.
Isn't that the amazingly cool part??
But when you are making your triangle on the surface of the earth, you know where to place the vertices. Just put them on the ground. "Where" do we "place" the "vertices" of the "triangle" in our Universe? Or, what other technique would we use? As it stands now, don't they just look for repeating patches of background radiation and things like unexpected shapes of galaxies?
Also, how does a being in a 2-D world measure the angles? The best I can figure is by using time, but we just do it by stepping back and looking down from the next dimension up where we can compare ratios and thingies.
p
According to what current theory? Unless you are just being facetious and using "the universe" to mean "everything"...(whatever that is.) A lot of theoretical physics suggest multiple universes and larger space that our Universe exists in. Some even yag about how it might be theoretically testable or be used to explain some of the confusion as to why gravity seems so weak compared to the other forces (mainly, maybe it's "bleeding out" into "somewhere else" [cue creepy music])
We live in 4 dimensions that we know of. (3 space 1 time) I can't "see" the past or the future but I believe it is there. It's just a coordinate system. A simple theory would just say that the shape of the Universe is R^4.. ie.. if you want to talk about "where" something is, you need 4 coordinates. Three for the "physical location" and one for the "when". This is a simple theory (IMO) because it assumes that our universe goes on forever, will always be "flat" and isn't changing shape in any exceptional way (which is the same as saying it will always be "flat".)
The surface of the Earth is a good example. It contains everything which exists on Earth. You can walk around it and come back to where you started. For all we are concerned, the only other thing that needs to exist is the Sun and whatever else will keep our orbit in the appropriate spot. What's outside the Earth isn't really important when talking about the Earth's shape.
Now, there will always be the question of "what came before?" or "what is 'outside' of the Universe?" but that has no bearing on the question of "what 'shape' is the Universe?" I see no important reason why the Universe must not be finite. Metaphysics might be best for the 'Wherein dwells the finger of God' sort of question.
p
The well-lit street argument should probably stipulate that the person is blind. In that case, you'd bring in the notion that the individual can't understand the source and/or doesn't look at the source. Also, you could say that closed source is a dark street where you've payed a few body guards to look out for you.. but you're blind and you can't really tell if they're slacking off. Open source part is good as long as you add in being blind. You just trust that those around you are competent and willing to assist you.
That is all.
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