Real math is the stuff you can find a use for - engineering, space shuttles, differential equations, calculus, etc.
Pure math is the stuff which doesn't seem to have applicability - non-Euclidean geometry, Galois, and Group theory, etc.
You'll find more people than not take "real" math and the pure math people feel like the real is a matter of plugging parameters into an equation and getting something back. You'd be surprised how many "real" folks believe they are pure until it comes to doing something imaginative.
I'll take that one step further....not any other partitions. So you can have a total of one installation regardless of the conditions of how things are structured on your pc
According to Episodes Guide (an address worth memorizing - you won't need need a bookmark for it), there were seventy-nine articles not including the pilot. The pilot is labelled "UNAIRED".
Take some time and go to your library. Many years ago, one of my favorite articles in Scientific America (and was almost tragic) (1st on the list was an article labelled "Absinthe"). There was a family portrait of the group being studied and all of the inter-connected family members. Now, if I were to hand the picture to you sans caption or association in anyway, then would ask you what that picture meant to you, it was as easy to determine as dropping a ball and hitting the floor.
Remember the X-Files episode "Home"?
Ever see "Deliverance"? The locals you see along the river and before they start their journey are not actors - they are locals.
What follows is a pretty good list for buying books. The top ones are pretty much 'bots such that by the time you get to Amazon, BN, and Half, you'll have already seen the prices as part of the 'bot output. Also, it builds in any discounts, coupons, and shipping. It's also handy for providing retorts in the discussions when people say, "Amazon's cheaper!" or "BN is cheaper!" because they only check those two sites.
I'm old enough to have coined the phrase "the world's biggest secret club" many years ago. There are exceptions, but [for the most part] about the only way you knew about the Internet was if you were on it (and if you weren't on it, you likely didn't know about it).
What really helped get the ball rolling was Kroll's book in the fall of '92 (Sep/Oct) Around Jan/Feb '93, it hit the computer best-selling lists (yes, there are separate lists for those things) and the major publishing houses scrambled to catch up, despite being forewarned (before Kroll's book was published[1]) about the topic.
You're also old if you've seen an X-Files episode with the Lone Gunmen and they show the timeline to be 1990 and have a browser/GUI on a PC (and you spot this yourself). Consider that was the WWW in its infancy...
p.s. ([1]those parties also turned down "DOS for Dummies").
Here are a couple of resources which might be interesting. The first, a software crew They Write the Right Stuff. It's just over seven years old but it's a fascinating read about extraordinary expectations, even if it were to have appeared in a current inssue. It would be very interesting to see an updated version.
Secondly, here's a site which some might be interested in (NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory).
2. A continuity issue I spotted when watching the movie (I've seen it once): watch the back of Neo's neck. By the time we know he doesn't need to jack into the Maxtrix any more, we see zero, one, and two jacks on the back of his neck. These issues take place in a series of what seems to be the same scene but different camera angles. Before #2 came out I read some portions of #2 and #3 were filmed together - could this be why I saw the error(s)?
the states which have their own "Do Not Call" list which is more restrictive? We've been told by our AG *ON TV* (just for everyone to understand this is not UL/FOAF) to ignore the Federal list because our state list has fewer loopholes and penalizes the pricks who call us (regardless of their location) much more than the Federal legislation. If you factor even a small state in (which has several million), that 41 million moves up quite a bit.
The people who are going to suffer are those who find out they can put their name on the list(s) AFTER the quarterly deadline and they get pestered at least one time by each company (as they'll have to take the call, then opt-out for that company) Until the next quarterly update. At least the politicians had the brains to use the funds for selling the lists be used for supporting the services needed to support the DNC (at least in our state).
The people I have no respect for are the chickenboners who claim they have free speech to call us so they can make money. They don't have free speech to drive down the street at three a.m. and use a bull horn, do they? They have free speech but do not have a right to be heard. This seems to be lost on people who simply claim, "My Constitutional Rights are being violated" when they're carried away on camera after shooting a pregnant teller during a bank robbery gone wrong.
Finally, let's examine the bull caca of, "This will cause million people to lose their jobs." Head for the hills this is getting deep. They're calling fewer people but it's as if those people said "no" when they were called in previous years. If people said "no" before and are on the list now, why didn't those people lose their jobs last year?
We see a situation whereby engineers feel (maybe can't substantiate it at the moment) or know something "isn't right". They pull the rip cord and are made to feel like an idiot, usually instigated by a herd of PHBs. There were stories of this happening in this story. Engineers thought something wasn't right but were afraid to stand forward. Unfortunately, this likely helped cause the loss of the mission. Sure, the engineer(s) should have stood their ground, even to the point of their job(s)/reputation(s), but...suppose they'd hit the red button and nothing bad happened?
Secondly, Look at the missing tiles, et alia? They're applied manually, one-by-one. Do we need sensors (e.g., a filament) on every one of them so we know which ones are still there (or not)? The same goes for all of the other sections of the shuttle. Sensor mesh ingrained to various parts of the body, inside & out, learning to know "what's normal" and "what's not"? We take a lot of chances simply because we've gotten away with it. (It's good if it works - not unlike the software industry) If we had to make another landing on the moon, could we do it (and return safely) without a lot of flights to start over, just as we did in the 60s (for those reading this who were alive in the 60s) to get us "ready" for such a trip? How long will it be before we have a real-life "Capricorn One" (including OJ Simpson in the cast) and this is the twenty-fifth anniversary of that movie: Capricorn One There really wasn't any science in this movie - it's the suspense from finding out what happens with a doomed flight to Mars and the fact the public can't be told it fails. (Let's hope no schlockmeister gets the opportunity to remake it just as they did with other classic such as RollerBall.) Seriously, Capricorn One is worth the rental or late-night viewing.
Instead of comparing just B&N vs. Amazon all of the time, why not use the book shopping bots? (Amazon and B&N are not the cheapest books every time you buy a book (they may be in this case (I checked), but in many cases, the others are much cheaper)! The bots search a lot of the book stores and rank the prices (including handling/shipping), present opportunities for discounts, and even point out the ability for finding books which may be out of print but can be purchased used. Think of this as a book equivalent to PriceWatch
(these links were tested in 'preview' mode before posting.
One tidbit of Microsoft trivia which seems to be left out everytime there's a discussion about Microsoft Bob. Who was the product manager? Melinda French. Where is she now and what's she doing? She's Mrs. Gates.
In rereading this, I realized not everyone would necessarily understand the context of a micromonopoly and I probably should have clarified it a bit in my original post. In a story on Slashdot about a month ago Lexmark wins injunction in DMCA case, this basically said no one but Lexmark can create refills for their printers. The claim is they break even on the printers, then make their profit on the toner & ink cartridges. Microsoft is in the same boat with their xBox because they take a hit of $125 for ever y one they sell, hoping to gain marketshare with that loss & sales of games in compensation. To me, this smacks of a "micromonopoly" because it's a vertical market per se. I guess technically speaking, it is bundling. And that's what Microsoft did for years - charging OEMs the price of Windows, even if people installed some other operating system on it without ever booting Windows. IBM got in trouble for bundling their OS software such that it would only run on their iron. Competing OS software would not run on their hardware. What happens if Microsoft decides to do the same thing with Lindows or with VMWare (such that their software doesn't run on either)? Microsoft has already purchased a competitor to VMWare. Perhaps I should be asking, "Should companies be permitted to choose their profit/business structure and if they choose it in a fashion such as has been explained, have an automatic vertical/micro/mini monopoly (but locking everyone else out) ?
background: For a long time, it was thought a monopoly pretty much was conceived & sustained through assistance through the government (at some level), but not necessarily via patents or copyrights; i.e., look at things such as utility companies.
After the two marathon lawsuits into the latter decades of the 20th centuries (IBM, Ma Bell), things seemed to quiet down a bit, except for cable companies & similar ilk. Now, we've got competition for cable companies via satellites (although 95+% of people who have have access to cable only have a choice of a single company), potentially multiple broadband vendors, and with the fuel cell development, a choice of not using an electrical utility.
All of that said (whew, sorry)...
Now that the DMCA has been passed and pretty much defended in the courts, isn't it starting to form "minimonopolies" (or "micromonopolies")? If so (or not), why? And do you see this changing over time? If it hurts the consumer, what do you think it'll take for the consumer to vote with their pocketbook and modify this?
Google has already shown they can "do the right thing." Better to sit tight in today's market. IPOs aren't going to fare well in today's economy. Google isn't going to tank any time soon. And before anyone says, "techies would buy it." techies are never the ones who purchase a large portion of [other companies'] stock. The people who have to be convinced are the high-level suits (see: Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, IBD, WSJ, et alia) Google is already a winner in their book (esp. heavy coverage in many recent issues and on the covers of said publications). IPOs are like telling jokes: although the content is *very* important, so is timing. You only get to swing the bat one time, so pick your pitch.
Microsoft spends resources traveling to schools preparing to select computers and threaten a "bend over, spread your cheeks" license check if they aren't selected.
Now, someone else is playing the same game, but with slightly different rules. Does it matter? Microsoft doesn't dare counter the offer or every school will find ways to get Microsoft to share some of the wealth.
Perhaps if Microsoft weren't so good at the role they play of the "800-lb. gorilla" (to the point of being the only nominated candidate come Oscar time) there wouldn't be so many people visualizing a bullseye on them, hoping the karma comes sooner rather than later.
They'll be another big company, but no longer setting the trends - just like what happened to IBM.
It used to be said about IBM: "Beware the dancing elephant." Before long, that will be Microsoft's motto.
Something as simple as Gates & Ballmer riding in the same car and someone running a red light. *poof*
Granted, Microsoft is more than just those two, but in the business world, they are the figureheads. If the suits (outside of Microsoft) don't take Microsoft seriously, Microsoft will be a shadow of its former self.
Slashdot Mirror
$2k per month just to connect, even if you are a White hat.
"Real" Math and "Pure" Math
Real math is the stuff you can find a use for - engineering, space shuttles, differential equations, calculus, etc.
Pure math is the stuff which doesn't seem to have applicability - non-Euclidean geometry, Galois, and Group theory, etc.
You'll find more people than not take "real" math and the pure math people feel like the real is a matter of plugging parameters into an equation and getting something back. You'd be surprised how many "real" folks believe they are pure until it comes to doing something imaginative.
I'll take that one step further....not any other partitions. So you can have a total of one installation regardless of the conditions of how things are structured on your pc
Bend
Oover
Here
It
Comes
Aagain.
The big question? Where will that longhorn go? In the posterior or in your wallet?
...or he'll be spinning in his grave.
According to Episodes Guide (an address worth memorizing - you won't need need a bookmark for it), there were seventy-nine articles not including the pilot. The pilot is labelled "UNAIRED".
88 happens to be the number of keys on a piano (there was a criminal in Dick Tracy known as 88 Keyes) and the number of constellations.
Back to the subject
Here's the url for a DejaGoogle discussion about what's really going on (you might have to scroll to the top of the messages to see the entire thread.
How about the oft-used phrase "Uncle Daddy"?
Take some time and go to your library. Many years ago, one of my favorite articles in Scientific America (and was almost tragic) (1st on the list was an article labelled "Absinthe"). There was a family portrait of the group being studied and all of the inter-connected family members. Now, if I were to hand the picture to you sans caption or association in anyway, then would ask you what that picture meant to you, it was as easy to determine as dropping a ball and hitting the floor.
Remember the X-Files episode "Home"?
Ever see "Deliverance"? The locals you see along the river and before they start their journey are not actors - they are locals.
What follows is a pretty good list for buying books. The top ones are pretty much 'bots such that by the time you get to Amazon, BN, and Half, you'll have already seen the prices as part of the 'bot output. Also, it builds in any discounts, coupons, and shipping. It's also handy for providing retorts in the discussions when people say, "Amazon's cheaper!" or "BN is cheaper!" because they only check those two sites.
BookPool
AddAll - Compare & Shop
Best Book Buys - Compare many sites & Shop
Barnes & Noble
Amazon
Half - mostly used books
tosser
I'm old enough to have coined the phrase "the world's biggest secret club" many years ago. There are exceptions, but [for the most part] about the only way you knew about the Internet was if you were on it (and if you weren't on it, you likely didn't know about it).
What really helped get the ball rolling was Kroll's book in the fall of '92 (Sep/Oct) Around Jan/Feb '93, it hit the computer best-selling lists (yes, there are separate lists for those things) and the major publishing houses scrambled to catch up, despite being forewarned (before Kroll's book was published[1]) about the topic.
You're also old if you've seen an X-Files episode with the Lone Gunmen and they show the timeline to be 1990 and have a browser/GUI on a PC (and you spot this yourself). Consider that was the WWW in its infancy...
p.s. ([1]those parties also turned down "DOS for Dummies").
Here are a couple of resources which might be interesting. The first, a software crew They Write the Right Stuff. It's just over seven years old but it's a fascinating read about extraordinary expectations, even if it were to have appeared in a current inssue. It would be very interesting to see an updated version. Secondly, here's a site which some might be interested in (NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory).
1. When is the Matrix?
2. A continuity issue I spotted when watching the movie (I've seen it once): watch the back of Neo's neck. By the time we know he doesn't need to jack into the Maxtrix any more, we see zero, one, and two jacks on the back of his neck. These issues take place in a series of what seems to be the same scene but different camera angles. Before #2 came out I read some portions of #2 and #3 were filmed together - could this be why I saw the error(s)?
the states which have their own "Do Not Call" list which is more restrictive? We've been told by our AG *ON TV* (just for everyone to understand this is not UL/FOAF) to ignore the Federal list because our state list has fewer loopholes and penalizes the pricks who call us (regardless of their location) much more than the Federal legislation. If you factor even a small state in (which has several million), that 41 million moves up quite a bit.
The people who are going to suffer are those who find out they can put their name on the list(s) AFTER the quarterly deadline and they get pestered at least one time by each company (as they'll have to take the call, then opt-out for that company) Until the next quarterly update. At least the politicians had the brains to use the funds for selling the lists be used for supporting the services needed to support the DNC (at least in our state).
The people I have no respect for are the chickenboners who claim they have free speech to call us so they can make money. They don't have free speech to drive down the street at three a.m. and use a bull horn, do they? They have free speech but do not have a right to be heard. This seems to be lost on people who simply claim, "My Constitutional Rights are being violated" when they're carried away on camera after shooting a pregnant teller during a bank robbery gone wrong.
Finally, let's examine the bull caca of, "This will cause million people to lose their jobs." Head for the hills this is getting deep. They're calling fewer people but it's as if those people said "no" when they were called in previous years. If people said "no" before and are on the list now, why didn't those people lose their jobs last year?
Figures can lie and liars can figure.
We see a situation whereby engineers feel (maybe can't substantiate it at the moment) or know something "isn't right". They pull the rip cord and are made to feel like an idiot, usually instigated by a herd of PHBs. There were stories of this happening in this story. Engineers thought something wasn't right but were afraid to stand forward. Unfortunately, this likely helped cause the loss of the mission. Sure, the engineer(s) should have stood their ground, even to the point of their job(s)/reputation(s), but...suppose they'd hit the red button and nothing bad happened?
Secondly, Look at the missing tiles, et alia? They're applied manually, one-by-one. Do we need sensors (e.g., a filament) on every one of them so we know which ones are still there (or not)? The same goes for all of the other sections of the shuttle. Sensor mesh ingrained to various parts of the body, inside & out, learning to know "what's normal" and "what's not"? We take a lot of chances simply because we've gotten away with it. (It's good if it works - not unlike the software industry) If we had to make another landing on the moon, could we do it (and return safely) without a lot of flights to start over, just as we did in the 60s (for those reading this who were alive in the 60s) to get us "ready" for such a trip? How long will it be before we have a real-life "Capricorn One" (including OJ Simpson in the cast) and this is the twenty-fifth anniversary of that movie: Capricorn One There really wasn't any science in this movie - it's the suspense from finding out what happens with a doomed flight to Mars and the fact the public can't be told it fails. (Let's hope no schlockmeister gets the opportunity to remake it just as they did with other classic such as RollerBall.) Seriously, Capricorn One is worth the rental or late-night viewing.
Instead of comparing just B&N vs. Amazon all of the time, why not use the book shopping bots? (Amazon and B&N are not the cheapest books every time you buy a book (they may be in this case (I checked), but in many cases, the others are much cheaper)! The bots search a lot of the book stores and rank the prices (including handling/shipping), present opportunities for discounts, and even point out the ability for finding books which may be out of print but can be purchased used.
Think of this as a book equivalent to PriceWatch
(these links were tested in 'preview' mode before posting.
BookPool
AddAll
BestBookBuys
Clippy is Microsoft Bob's inbred descendent.
I still have a copy of Microsoft Bob from doing work for a publishing firm. It wasn't/isn't shrink-wrapped, but it's still intact in its jewel case.
One tidbit of Microsoft trivia which seems to be left out everytime there's a discussion about Microsoft Bob. Who was the product manager? Melinda French. Where is she now and what's she doing? She's Mrs. Gates.
In rereading this, I realized not everyone would necessarily understand the context of a micromonopoly and I probably should have clarified it a bit in my original post. In a story on Slashdot about a month ago Lexmark wins injunction in DMCA case, this basically said no one but Lexmark can create refills for their printers. The claim is they break even on the printers, then make their profit on the toner & ink cartridges. Microsoft is in the same boat with their xBox because they take a hit of $125 for ever y one they sell, hoping to gain marketshare with that loss & sales of games in compensation. To me, this smacks of a "micromonopoly" because it's a vertical market per se. I guess technically speaking, it is bundling. And that's what Microsoft did for years - charging OEMs the price of Windows, even if people installed some other operating system on it without ever booting Windows. IBM got in trouble for bundling their OS software such that it would only run on their iron. Competing OS software would not run on their hardware. What happens if Microsoft decides to do the same thing with Lindows or with VMWare (such that their software doesn't run on either)? Microsoft has already purchased a competitor to VMWare. Perhaps I should be asking, "Should companies be permitted to choose their profit/business structure and if they choose it in a fashion such as has been explained, have an automatic vertical/micro/mini monopoly (but locking everyone else out) ?
background: For a long time, it was thought a monopoly pretty much was conceived & sustained through assistance through the government (at some level), but not necessarily via patents or copyrights; i.e., look at things such as utility companies. After the two marathon lawsuits into the latter decades of the 20th centuries (IBM, Ma Bell), things seemed to quiet down a bit, except for cable companies & similar ilk. Now, we've got competition for cable companies via satellites (although 95+% of people who have have access to cable only have a choice of a single company), potentially multiple broadband vendors, and with the fuel cell development, a choice of not using an electrical utility.
All of that said (whew, sorry)...
Now that the DMCA has been passed and pretty much defended in the courts, isn't it starting to form "minimonopolies" (or "micromonopolies")? If so (or not), why? And do you see this changing over time? If it hurts the consumer, what do you think it'll take for the consumer to vote with their pocketbook and modify this?
Thank!
Google has already shown they can "do the right thing." Better to sit tight in today's market. IPOs aren't going to fare well in today's economy. Google isn't going to tank any time soon. And before anyone says, "techies would buy it." techies are never the ones who purchase a large portion of [other companies'] stock. The people who have to be convinced are the high-level suits (see: Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, IBD, WSJ, et alia) Google is already a winner in their book (esp. heavy coverage in many recent issues and on the covers of said publications). IPOs are like telling jokes: although the content is *very* important, so is timing. You only get to swing the bat one time, so pick your pitch.
Microsoft spends resources traveling to schools preparing to select computers and threaten a "bend over, spread your cheeks" license check if they aren't selected. Now, someone else is playing the same game, but with slightly different rules. Does it matter? Microsoft doesn't dare counter the offer or every school will find ways to get Microsoft to share some of the wealth. Perhaps if Microsoft weren't so good at the role they play of the "800-lb. gorilla" (to the point of being the only nominated candidate come Oscar time) there wouldn't be so many people visualizing a bullseye on them, hoping the karma comes sooner rather than later.
They'll be another big company, but no longer setting the trends - just like what happened to IBM. It used to be said about IBM: "Beware the dancing elephant." Before long, that will be Microsoft's motto. Something as simple as Gates & Ballmer riding in the same car and someone running a red light. *poof* Granted, Microsoft is more than just those two, but in the business world, they are the figureheads. If the suits (outside of Microsoft) don't take Microsoft seriously, Microsoft will be a shadow of its former self.