Ah yes, upon further inspection you're right. MyWay makes the sponsored links look just like regular inline links instead of putting them off to the right side like Google does, and then in *tiny* print that I overlooked mentions that the first few links on a search page are sponsored links.
I'm still looking for a decent "natural" style keyboard with good tactile feel that doesn't have a numeric keypad sticking out where I'd like to put my mouse. I'd pay $1000 for a keyboard like my old Logitech "Cordless Desktop Pro" keyboard if it had: 1. No numeric keypad, 2. A detachable numeric keypad, or 3. A numeric keypad out of the way on the left side of the keyboard.
Yes, there are in fact precisely 640 variables (a320,...,a0 and b320,...,b0 where a0=b0=1, and a*b=n). There are of course 36,869 carry terms and a huge number of intermediate terms, but each of these can be expressed as a function of the bits that comprise the two 321 bit factors.
Thank you, the website you mention looks very interesting - I'll definitely check it out (particularly the pseudo-boolean solvers). Actually, I already have the system of equations that would yield a factorization (it turns out they're quite easy to generate using Maple). All I need is a way to solve them. Although the equations only involve the "^" and "&" (bitwise XOR and AND) operators, they are quite lengthy and occupy about 135 MB of hard drive space!!! Since the ratio of clauses to variables is HUGE, I won't get my hopes up too high however.;-)
For Win2K the registry files are in the %Systemroot%\system32\config directory, and I suppose it's probably the same for Windows 5.1 (aka; Windows XP). I have a second bare-bones installation of Win2K on a separate partition just so I can easily save and restore the registry on my primary installation and do other maintenance tasks that involve manipulating system files.
Unless someone comes up with a better factorization algorithm. In fact, if anyone knows of a software package that can solve a system of 640 boolean equations in 640 boolean unknowns, I can give you the factorization of the RSA-640 challenge number.:-)
... not to mention the fact that "Nature" would continue along very nicely even if the entire human race ceased to exist. Moreover, since mankind is a part of nature, then be definition anything we create is also natural (including the H-bomb, genetic-engineering, etc).
When eco-nuts use the word "nature", what they really mean is the way they (the eco-nuts) think the world should be.
"Nothing, not even formal education is more voluble than a high level certification in your chosen area"
That's not true at JPL in Pasadena, CA where I worked for 25 years before retiring. If you had a BS degree (or greater) you hired on as an Engineer, otherwise you hired on as a technician. Engineers generally made about three times as much money as technicians, and were salaried rather than hourly.
Of course even the lowliest management positions paid more than the highest paid engineering jobs and got more perks like "on lab" parking.
Welcome to what it must have been like in Fascist Germany prior to WWII. The news story doesn't say whether or not this was merely a "fishing" expedition by the FBI conducted on the basis of some "anonymous" tip, because apparently the FBI can raid, search, and arrest people without providing a reason, but unless the gestapo were looking for specific persons possessing specific alleged stolen or illegal property, what they were doing is against the supreme law of the land (ie; the same type of thing most other government agencies have also been doing for many years).
U.S. Constitution, Amendment IV.... and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The keyword here is "Articles." An article that's imported is the very same article that was exported, and the Constitution prohibits taxing the article. The Constitution doesn't say that no tax or duty shall be laid by the exporting state, it says that no tax or duty shall be laid period (ie; by anyone regardless of whether they are the exporter or the importer).
Unfortunately, as someone else already pointed out, the US Supreme Court long ago stopped upholding the Constitution and instead now bases their rulings on what they think is "fair", regardless of what the Constitution says. Consequently state laws that violate Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution have been ruled as legal by the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, I would be hard pressed to find a single paragraph in the U.S. Constitution that hasn't been ignored by our government.
One of the nurses in my rheumatologist's office is named Inna (pronounced "Eena"), which I am told is the Armenian pronunciation for the number 9. (She was the ninth child born to her parents:-)
By jove you're right! Mozilla Firebird resizes text on CSS styled pages just fine - I stand corrected. Thanks for the tip (I normally use Internet Explorer 6.0 BTW, which is the one that exhibits this bug). Yet another reason to switch browsers I guess.
CSS sucks because it makes it difficult to change the font size in my browser screen. In order to change the font size on a CSS formatted page, I have to change by browser preferences to override the web page settings - which is not something I necessarily want to do for all web sites. If you want to handle layout then use Postscript or PDF.
"Errr, just what good would a hidden camera do you at a chess tournament?"
Lots, if it were equipped with a two way video or radio link that allowed you to feed the moves to an offsite chess computer program and relay the results to one of the players. That's why computers (including PDAs) and (I think) cell phones are forbidden at high level chess tournaments.
Her Geiger counter was reading out micro-roentgens per hour (we all get about 10 to 12 micro-roentgens/hour of exposure 24/7 as normal background radiation). When I had the two radioactive-synovectomies on my right knee (it was done twice on the same knee), my knee initially radiated about 30 milli-roentgens per hour (30,000 micro-roentgens/hour, or about 60 times the average 500 micro-roentgens/hour Elena was exposed to during her trip. Note that this is what I was able to measure externally - the radiation levels inside my synovial cavity were probably much higher). The material injected into my knee was the P-32 isotope of phosphorus (as chromium phosphate in liquid solution). The radioactive solution was confined to the synovial cavity of my knee pretty well, but a tiny bit did leak out into my general blood circulation, and I was exposed to around 1,000 micro-roentgens for several days until the P-32 dissipated away (it's half-life is about two weeks), and thus far I have shown no ill effects from the treatment - in fact I would highly recommend this rather than surgical synovectomy because it non-intrusive (except for the injection into the knee) and very much less traumatic and less expensive than surgery, as well as being more effective because although a surgeon might miss a piece of diseased tissue, the radiation won't.
"In 2006, the analog transmitter licenses will expire."
I disagree. Unless a large percentage of the population have already voluntarily switched over to HDTV by 2006, the government will do what it always does in this type of situation when it realizes that it's laws are unrealistic, and will extend the analog transmitter license expiration date. The government might pass a "law" that says all automobiles must get at least 1000 mpg by 2006, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen because of the impossibility of manufacturing such automobiles.
"One huge factor, however, is that when the analog signals are dropped, many millions of television sets become scrap, and all will need HD or SD ready sets. That's still an economic spur the politicians salivate over."
Just because the government passes a law doesn't mean it will necessarily change anything. Surely you don't think almost three hundred million people are going to buy new television sets just because the government says so? Either the law will be changed to reflect market conditions, or it will be ignored.
"It explains how to make it work without EEPROM burners and such"
EPROM/EEPROM/FLASH, etc., burners are cheap (as little as $219) so I don't see why needing one would be such a big deal. I have an EPROM programmer at home I purchased several years ago for around $99 from DigiKey. Doesn't everyone own their own EPROM burner?;-) My only concern would be whether or not the FLASH memory chip containing the BIOS is socketed. If it isn't socketed and it accidentally gets trashed, an EPROM/FLASH programmer wouldn't be much help unless you are very good with a desoldering tool.
Do remember the various companies that have "accidentally" reset that check to the default value, sold all the info, and then required you to reset the option. (I'm really thinking HotMail here, so it's not quite analogous, but...)
Yahoo did that a year or so ago. That's why I now live at "1 Santa Claus Lane" in Antarctica.;-)
An expanding universe in which the expansion is accelerating has always bothered me because it is based solely on the observed red shifts of distant galaxies. Might it not be possible that something other than accelerating cosmological expansion accounts for the red shift?
For example, perhaps the red shift is caused by scattering due to intergalactic dust (ie; the same principle that makes sunsets appear reddish here on Earth). The further light travels through the intergalactic dust, the more the scattering would shift the light towards the red end of the spectrum.
Another possibility might be that light loses energy as it travels, and since light energy equates to frequency (red=low energy, violet=high energy), the further light travels the more red shifted it would appear. Perhaps the energy loss (and consequent frequency shift) is too small for us to measure in laboratories here on Earth?
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Ah yes, upon further inspection you're right. MyWay makes the sponsored links look just like regular inline links instead of putting them off to the right side like Google does, and then in *tiny* print that I overlooked mentions that the first few links on a search page are sponsored links.
Wow, and I was feeling bad about only having 2 out of 5 submissions accepted.
Yes, there are in fact precisely 640 variables (a320,...,a0 and b320,...,b0 where a0=b0=1, and a*b=n). There are of course 36,869 carry terms and a huge number of intermediate terms, but each of these can be expressed as a function of the bits that comprise the two 321 bit factors.
For Win2K the registry files are in the %Systemroot%\system32\config directory, and I suppose it's probably the same for Windows 5.1 (aka; Windows XP). I have a second bare-bones installation of Win2K on a separate partition just so I can easily save and restore the registry on my primary installation and do other maintenance tasks that involve manipulating system files.
When eco-nuts use the word "nature", what they really mean is the way they (the eco-nuts) think the world should be.
That's not true at JPL in Pasadena, CA where I worked for 25 years before retiring. If you had a BS degree (or greater) you hired on as an Engineer, otherwise you hired on as a technician. Engineers generally made about three times as much money as technicians, and were salaried rather than hourly.
Of course even the lowliest management positions paid more than the highest paid engineering jobs and got more perks like "on lab" parking.
Unfortunately, as someone else already pointed out, the US Supreme Court long ago stopped upholding the Constitution and instead now bases their rulings on what they think is "fair", regardless of what the Constitution says. Consequently state laws that violate Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution have been ruled as legal by the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, I would be hard pressed to find a single paragraph in the U.S. Constitution that hasn't been ignored by our government.
Article. I, Section. 9. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
One of the nurses in my rheumatologist's office is named Inna (pronounced "Eena"), which I am told is the Armenian pronunciation for the number 9. (She was the ninth child born to her parents :-)
By jove you're right! Mozilla Firebird resizes text on CSS styled pages just fine - I stand corrected. Thanks for the tip (I normally use Internet Explorer 6.0 BTW, which is the one that exhibits this bug). Yet another reason to switch browsers I guess.
Lots, if it were equipped with a two way video or radio link that allowed you to feed the moves to an offsite chess computer program and relay the results to one of the players. That's why computers (including PDAs) and (I think) cell phones are forbidden at high level chess tournaments.
Her Geiger counter was reading out micro-roentgens per hour (we all get about 10 to 12 micro-roentgens/hour of exposure 24/7 as normal background radiation). When I had the two radioactive-synovectomies on my right knee (it was done twice on the same knee), my knee initially radiated about 30 milli-roentgens per hour (30,000 micro-roentgens/hour, or about 60 times the average 500 micro-roentgens/hour Elena was exposed to during her trip. Note that this is what I was able to measure externally - the radiation levels inside my synovial cavity were probably much higher). The material injected into my knee was the P-32 isotope of phosphorus (as chromium phosphate in liquid solution). The radioactive solution was confined to the synovial cavity of my knee pretty well, but a tiny bit did leak out into my general blood circulation, and I was exposed to around 1,000 micro-roentgens for several days until the P-32 dissipated away (it's half-life is about two weeks), and thus far I have shown no ill effects from the treatment - in fact I would highly recommend this rather than surgical synovectomy because it non-intrusive (except for the injection into the knee) and very much less traumatic and less expensive than surgery, as well as being more effective because although a surgeon might miss a piece of diseased tissue, the radiation won't.
I disagree. Unless a large percentage of the population have already voluntarily switched over to HDTV by 2006, the government will do what it always does in this type of situation when it realizes that it's laws are unrealistic, and will extend the analog transmitter license expiration date. The government might pass a "law" that says all automobiles must get at least 1000 mpg by 2006, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen because of the impossibility of manufacturing such automobiles.
Just because the government passes a law doesn't mean it will necessarily change anything. Surely you don't think almost three hundred million people are going to buy new television sets just because the government says so? Either the law will be changed to reflect market conditions, or it will be ignored.
EPROM/EEPROM/FLASH, etc., burners are cheap (as little as $219) so I don't see why needing one would be such a big deal. I have an EPROM programmer at home I purchased several years ago for around $99 from DigiKey. Doesn't everyone own their own EPROM burner? ;-) My only concern would be whether or not the FLASH memory chip containing the BIOS is socketed. If it isn't socketed and it accidentally gets trashed, an EPROM/FLASH programmer wouldn't be much help unless you are very good with a desoldering tool.
Yahoo did that a year or so ago. That's why I now live at "1 Santa Claus Lane" in Antarctica. ;-)
Am I the only one on earth who has never used an ATM machine?
Didn't you mean "... the land of the fee, and the home of the [tax] slave"?
For example, perhaps the red shift is caused by scattering due to intergalactic dust (ie; the same principle that makes sunsets appear reddish here on Earth). The further light travels through the intergalactic dust, the more the scattering would shift the light towards the red end of the spectrum.
Another possibility might be that light loses energy as it travels, and since light energy equates to frequency (red=low energy, violet=high energy), the further light travels the more red shifted it would appear. Perhaps the energy loss (and consequent frequency shift) is too small for us to measure in laboratories here on Earth?
Ok, my asbestos suit is in place - fire away! ;-)