Not exactly. We know that 2^n-1 can only be prime if n is also prime (if I remember correctly). So while numbers in the form 2^n-1 generally may not have a signigifantly higher chance of being prime (I don't know), we can choose values of n that are easily 20x as likely to give us a prime number than if we used randomly chosen odd numbers.
I wasn't all that excited, only because I wrote my own several years back. He did go a couple steps further and work around the memory problem with paging though, which I had never tried. I was limited by my ram.
If I don't print or store the primes, I can find all the primes under 2 billion in 2 minutes on my 2.4ghz celeron, since after about 46k all it's doing is reading a bit array of what is and isn't prime. But adding a printf slows it down considerably.
Without a patent, drug companies face competition from those who put no money into research, trials, and FDA approval. Whoever pays for the drug research would incur severe losses. We'd depend almost entirely on government funding, academic research, chance, and philanthropy to develop new drugs.
When it becomes uneconomical to develop a promising drug, usually because it treats too rare of a disease, but sometimes due to other reasons, we call those orphan drugs. Sometimes the government intervenes and finishes the research. Maybe it'll happen this time.
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I don't know. That sounds like an awful lot of bullshitting.
I once took a class taught by a lawyer, because it was one of the few classes that wasn't full when I went to register. One assignment worth half of our final grade was due only two days after it was assigned. It had to be about 10 pages and required heavy amounts of book reading and analysis. I just couldn't bullshit fast enough to pass, and the previous term I took a philosophy class where I bullshitted two 5 page essays a week with no trouble.
If enough people relocate at once, to mostly the same places, they may find themselves with fewer job opportunities than they had where they came from.
Already switched to Ubuntu. Just uncommented a couple apt repositories and added a couple more and now I can find and install any of nearly 15000 packages with point and click ease and speed.
Now I just need to figure out how to work around the sillyness of gnome's mime sniffing security paranoia that has pushed away so many members of their once loyal user base. If I ever get it fixed I'll send them some nice patches to reject.
A google web search for "Abu Ghraib" still has as the #3 match being "The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos". Those are the most graphic of the photos that you wouldn't have seen in the news.
Certain things I think they have to censor in their thumbnail search, because the the thumbnails are coming from their servers. Laws don't always provide for mitigating circumstances. Their defense if they decided to index them would probably require convincing a judge that their image search falls under the protection of freedom of the press.
As a fellow Bush hating Democrat, I must say I'm tired of seeing that chart used against Republicans. It just isn't correct.
That chart has been debunked by several people using different methods to estimate the average IQ's of the states. If you check it again, you'll notice the author has updated his page to link to some of them.
One of them points out that the chart is what you'd get if you used average incomes in place of test scores, measuring intelligence in terms of economic success. It has little correlation with the average IQ of the population. So all that the chart tells you is that the low income states voted for Bush.
It is pretty much impossible to regulate pollution, or almost anything else on a large scale, without costing jobs in the short run. Unemployment is not permanent though. It'll all balance out to a slight reduction in the quality of living, maybe or maybe not to the benefit of future generations.
With this sort of treaty, if not everyone agrees to it, then it allows whoever doesn't agree to unfairly compete with the others. So if we don't agree to it, the other countries will likely want to withdraw, and we'll be back where we started.
While I can't prove it made a difference in his decision I think it's important to point out that the Kyoto treaty is bad for the coal and oil businesses.
Just read my sig. They are the agricultural, energy, and low-tech industrial backbone of this country. Our overconsumption seems to drive their growth, faster than technology can drive them back out. So, eat less, and feel better.
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Not exactly. We know that 2^n-1 can only be prime if n is also prime (if I remember correctly). So while numbers in the form 2^n-1 generally may not have a signigifantly higher chance of being prime (I don't know), we can choose values of n that are easily 20x as likely to give us a prime number than if we used randomly chosen odd numbers.
7*191=1337
I wasn't all that excited, only because I wrote my own several years back. He did go a couple steps further and work around the memory problem with paging though, which I had never tried. I was limited by my ram.
If I don't print or store the primes, I can find all the primes under 2 billion in 2 minutes on my 2.4ghz celeron, since after about 46k all it's doing is reading a bit array of what is and isn't prime. But adding a printf slows it down considerably.
Eureka! I've found it!
/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser
Open gconf and enable
Next up, the eternal battle between mime sniffing and file extensions, and what to do when they disagree.
Whoever said gnome isn't friendly to new users obviously never spent more than 2 years using it.
We've almost hit the 5000 mark on this one.
Without a patent, drug companies face competition from those who put no money into research, trials, and FDA approval. Whoever pays for the drug research would incur severe losses. We'd depend almost entirely on government funding, academic research, chance, and philanthropy to develop new drugs.
When it becomes uneconomical to develop a promising drug, usually because it treats too rare of a disease, but sometimes due to other reasons, we call those orphan drugs. Sometimes the government intervenes and finishes the research. Maybe it'll happen this time.
I'm sure it was intentional.
I don't know. That sounds like an awful lot of bullshitting.
I once took a class taught by a lawyer, because it was one of the few classes that wasn't full when I went to register. One assignment worth half of our final grade was due only two days after it was assigned. It had to be about 10 pages and required heavy amounts of book reading and analysis. I just couldn't bullshit fast enough to pass, and the previous term I took a philosophy class where I bullshitted two 5 page essays a week with no trouble.
If enough people relocate at once, to mostly the same places, they may find themselves with fewer job opportunities than they had where they came from.
For example, how long it takes you to enable the side pane in nautilus.
Already switched to Ubuntu. Just uncommented a couple apt repositories and added a couple more and now I can find and install any of nearly 15000 packages with point and click ease and speed.
Now I just need to figure out how to work around the sillyness of gnome's mime sniffing security paranoia that has pushed away so many members of their once loyal user base. If I ever get it fixed I'll send them some nice patches to reject.
We're not sore losers. This election was stolen.
A google web search for "Abu Ghraib" still has as the #3 match being "The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos". Those are the most graphic of the photos that you wouldn't have seen in the news.
Certain things I think they have to censor in their thumbnail search, because the the thumbnails are coming from their servers. Laws don't always provide for mitigating circumstances. Their defense if they decided to index them would probably require convincing a judge that their image search falls under the protection of freedom of the press.
See this.
As a fellow Bush hating Democrat, I must say I'm tired of seeing that chart used against Republicans. It just isn't correct.
That chart has been debunked by several people using different methods to estimate the average IQ's of the states. If you check it again, you'll notice the author has updated his page to link to some of them.
One of them points out that the chart is what you'd get if you used average incomes in place of test scores, measuring intelligence in terms of economic success. It has little correlation with the average IQ of the population. So all that the chart tells you is that the low income states voted for Bush.
It is pretty much impossible to regulate pollution, or almost anything else on a large scale, without costing jobs in the short run. Unemployment is not permanent though. It'll all balance out to a slight reduction in the quality of living, maybe or maybe not to the benefit of future generations.
With this sort of treaty, if not everyone agrees to it, then it allows whoever doesn't agree to unfairly compete with the others. So if we don't agree to it, the other countries will likely want to withdraw, and we'll be back where we started.
While I can't prove it made a difference in his decision I think it's important to point out that the Kyoto treaty is bad for the coal and oil businesses.
Followed by the childrens' short film about a dancing sheep that lost its wool.
According to the comment id's and times it appears I was.
Typed a little too fast there
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Underwater robots for some, miniature American flags for everyone else.
Anything good they come up with will just be copied and made better in all the other operating systems.
I figured most farmers vote Republican, giving me yet another reason to go on a diet. I just might stick to it this time.
If you find any such stories of equal magnitude, be sure to let us know.
Would it be a better idea not to publicize these sorts of inconsistencies?
Just read my sig. They are the agricultural, energy, and low-tech industrial backbone of this country. Our overconsumption seems to drive their growth, faster than technology can drive them back out. So, eat less, and feel better.