Their experimental result is a trivial consequence of the fact that prime number density around n is about 1/log(n). One could work out the exact theoretical distribution in one paragraph and that'd be all. I guess the authors are either ignorant or they prefer to market their result as "mysterious". Probably both.
It's kind of convenient. In a random town a kid concentrates sunlight with a magnifying glass and you can claim the headline "Solar Power Coming To America".
Well until we have Google World Sound, a sort of Google Maps where you can enter latitude/longitude/date and get an audio recording, Slashdot can't link directly to what a guy said.
Strangely the boundary between 2 faces is actually shared by 3 faces. Here's a figure of it. See for example how the edge "g" is a boundary between faces IV and V, faces V and VI, and faces VI and IV.
Since the shuttle is going to dock with the ISS, make sure you check on Heavens-Above for ISS and STS-121 sightings from your city in the next few days. The best time is just before they dock (or right after they separate) because then you see two small dots in the sky racing in close formation.
Hubble's highest resolution should be common geek knowledge, like Mount Everest's height or the distance to the moon. Anyway, here's a quote:
"Images from the HRC are smaller in pixel size, 1,000 pixels square, but have a finer resolution, 0.025 arcseconds per pixel. The HRC is preferred for images of planets, or objects appearing smaller on the sky, where higher resolution outweighs larger field of view."
This is because showing a number to identify yourself is a stupid idea to begin with. Public cryptography gives methods to prove to someone that you own a secret without having to disclose that secret. THAT'S the kind of ID we should be using.
Ironically you're the one with a narrow view of things.
You can't get the whole world to switch at the same time. AGREED. But you can try to achieve it over a longer timespan: You show the example by switching in your own country. Other countries will look at you, and if they think that it's a good idea they will follow.
Pretty much the same happened with Copyright Law. Some countries started it. Year after year more followed because they thought it made sense for them too. Eventually so many countries had a copyright law that they felt the need to standardize (Berne convention). Nowadays almost everyone has it and it is considered "uncivilized" to not have a copyright law, which puts pressure on the few who don't have it.
The patent system is not an on/off switch, it can be improved.
Personally my main problem with patents is that they all last 17 years. The patent reviewer should instead estimate the time until he would expect an independent rediscovery if the invention was hypothetically kept secret. Just a rough estimate is ok: "would this be reinvented in 1 month, 1 year, 10 years, or only in 50 years?". This would be a fair duration for protection.
Another new rule is that inventions that can be kept as trade secrets can't be patented. You make money off of them as trade secrets instead. Your protection is then *exactly* the duration until rediscovery. No need to estimate that duration if you can have it happen.
I think that you and others are confused because TiVo is making software, making hardware, and selling the two combined. You need to view TiVo software and TiVo hardware as separate, and evaluate each on its own merit.
Back in the days, IBM was making software (OS/2), hardware (PC) and selling the two combined (a PC running OS/2). People could run OS/2 on other hardware if it worked for them, or run something else on IBM PC if it worked for them.
Same with TiVo. What bites people with TiVo is that the software is good but the hardware is crappy (won't run what you want).
The solution is to run TiVo software on hardware that isn't crap. That's why the parent AC is insightful. That's why Torvalds said that he "votes with his personal choices (and his dollars)". ONLY BUY HARDWARE IF IT CAN RUN WHAT YOU WANT. If there's enough demand for hardware that does what you want, a company will step in and produce it. Let capitalism sort it out.
Christians worry about the end times because they want to take the day off and *be sure* that they won't have to face their boss about it the next day.
You make no sense at all. If BitTorrent is mainly targeted to users with legitimate goals, then Bram Cohen should attack the warez tracker-websites that have "bittorrent" in their name.
He decided to place a fence, with "bad" use of the trademark on one side, and "good" use of the trademark on the other. Sounds good, except that now the exact boundary of that fence will betray exactly what he thinks of every use of the word "bittorrent".
The fact he (currently) puts warez tracker-websites on the "good" side of the fence sends a message to the world (and possibly judges at some point...) that is opposite to what you're saying.
The fact that you figured out how to make gold out of lead shows that the skill is *already* embedded into your DNA -- or at least some predisposition to discover the process is embedded into your DNA.
Even if you don't teach your kids how to do it, they share some of your DNA so they are slightly more likely to rediscover the same process on their own than other kids. After many many generations of "slightly more likely", we get to a point where every individual of the species reliably uses the process.
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By your reasoning, the fission of uranium would be fusion because the reaction n + U temporarily creates a heavier nucleus.
The real reason the AC is wrong is because in the H + B -> 3 He reaction, most of the energy comes from combining H with something, not splitting B.
it was cheaper to launch the Earth in the other direction.
Their experimental result is a trivial consequence of the fact that prime number density around n is about 1/log(n). One could work out the exact theoretical distribution in one paragraph and that'd be all. I guess the authors are either ignorant or they prefer to market their result as "mysterious". Probably both.
11.23 seconds later UNIX time will reach 10^11/3^4. You can celebrate that instead.
It's kind of convenient. In a random town a kid concentrates sunlight with a magnifying glass and you can claim the headline "Solar Power Coming To America".
Well until we have Google World Sound, a sort of Google Maps where you can enter latitude/longitude/date and get an audio recording, Slashdot can't link directly to what a guy said.
Amazingly it would take 1,600,000 years for /dev/urandom to produce 161 exabytes (assuming 3.2 MB/s, YMMV)
to protect myself against 0-day attacks.
Obligatory Google Calculator link
Strangely the boundary between 2 faces is actually shared by 3 faces. Here's a figure of it. See for example how the edge "g" is a boundary between faces IV and V, faces V and VI, and faces VI and IV.
Does it include a copy of the GPL? Aliens need to know that they are entitled to the source code if they find the probe.
Since the shuttle is going to dock with the ISS, make sure you check on Heavens-Above for ISS and STS-121 sightings from your city in the next few days. The best time is just before they dock (or right after they separate) because then you see two small dots in the sky racing in close formation.
Dell Googlled
Fast-moving plates?
2256 meters after 200,000,000 years gives a sinking speed of *11 microns per year*.
Hubble's highest resolution should be common geek knowledge, like Mount Everest's height or the distance to the moon. Anyway, here's a quote:
/ releases/2005/34/image/m
"Images from the HRC are smaller in pixel size, 1,000 pixels square, but have a finer resolution, 0.025 arcseconds per pixel. The HRC is preferred for images of planets, or objects appearing smaller on the sky, where higher resolution outweighs larger field of view."
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive
This is because showing a number to identify yourself is a stupid idea to begin with. Public cryptography gives methods to prove to someone that you own a secret without having to disclose that secret. THAT'S the kind of ID we should be using.
Ironically you're the one with a narrow view of things.
.XXX idea.
You can't get the whole world to switch at the same time. AGREED. But
you can try to achieve it over a longer timespan: You show the example by switching in your own country. Other countries will look at you, and if they think that it's a good idea they will follow.
Pretty much the same happened with Copyright Law. Some countries started it. Year after year more followed because they thought it made sense for them too. Eventually so many countries had a copyright law that they felt the need to standardize (Berne convention). Nowadays almost everyone has it and it is considered "uncivilized" to not have a copyright law, which puts pressure on the few who don't have it.
The same thing could work for this
Venus's mass is 0.815 Earths.
The patent system is not an on/off switch, it can be improved.
Personally my main problem with patents is that they all last 17 years. The patent reviewer should instead estimate the time until he would expect an independent rediscovery if the invention was hypothetically kept secret. Just a rough estimate is ok: "would this be reinvented in 1 month, 1 year, 10 years, or only in 50 years?". This would be a fair duration for protection.
Another new rule is that inventions that can be kept as trade secrets can't be patented. You make money off of them as trade secrets instead. Your protection is then *exactly* the duration until rediscovery. No need to estimate that duration if you can have it happen.
I think that you and others are confused because TiVo is making software, making hardware, and selling the two combined. You need to view TiVo software and TiVo hardware as separate, and evaluate each on its own merit.
Back in the days, IBM was making software (OS/2), hardware (PC) and selling the two combined (a PC running OS/2). People could run OS/2 on other hardware if it worked for them, or run something else on IBM PC if it worked for them.
Same with TiVo. What bites people with TiVo is that the software is good but the hardware is crappy (won't run what you want).
The solution is to run TiVo software on hardware that isn't crap. That's why the parent AC is insightful. That's why Torvalds said that he "votes with his personal choices (and his dollars)". ONLY BUY HARDWARE IF IT CAN RUN WHAT YOU WANT. If there's enough demand for hardware that does what you want, a company will step in and produce it. Let capitalism sort it out.
Christians worry about the end times because they want to take the day off and *be sure* that they won't have to face their boss about it the next day.
You make no sense at all. If BitTorrent is mainly targeted to users with legitimate goals, then Bram Cohen should attack the warez tracker-websites that have "bittorrent" in their name.
He decided to place a fence, with "bad" use of the trademark on one side, and "good" use of the trademark on the other. Sounds good, except that now the exact boundary of that fence will betray exactly what he thinks of every use of the word "bittorrent".
The fact he (currently) puts warez tracker-websites on the "good" side of the fence sends a message to the world (and possibly judges at some point...) that is opposite to what you're saying.
The fact that you figured out how to make gold out of lead shows that the skill is *already* embedded into your DNA -- or at least some predisposition to discover the process is embedded into your DNA.
Even if you don't teach your kids how to do it, they share some of your DNA so they are slightly more likely to rediscover the same process on their own than other kids. After many many generations of "slightly more likely", we get to a point where every individual of the species reliably uses the process.
Too bad the 20 Kelvin*Hertz waves kill skin.