Ok then, try this extension to your theory... There are an infinite number of primes, thus an infinite number of pairs such that p is prime, but p+2 is not. Thus there are an infinite number of twins that are not 'twin primes'.
The number of 'twins that are not twin primes' clearly outnumber the 'twin primes' so that infinity outnumbers the infinite number of 'twin primes.'
Can I deduct my costs from the payment I make to the phone companies?
Let's see. If I write more than 5 checks a month, it costs me $5 per. I can pass that on to them. Oh, and don't forget the cost of the stamp. How about all the taxes I pay as a result of me making a living? Gas tax, income tax, sales tax, Social security... I'll just deduct all that from my payment...
What? Didn't anyone at the company notice the EULA they accepted by accepting my payment? I included it in the envelope and they accepted it by cashing the check.
Not the Saturn if the button to open the glove box is where I expect the stereo volume control is. Oh, and power steering is only available if you rebuild the car from scratch. And the windshield wipers take one full minute for each sweep or the turns signals that only work during the day. Not to mention that the fancy new navigation system doesn't work for you because your sneakers and driving gloves need an upgrade first.
And if you have a problem, you can't just get a tow from the nearest garage, you have to get a volunteer to do it. On his own time in whatever haphazard way he knows how.
Oh, and I almost forgot, if you complain publicly that you didn't like the Saturn, you'd get hundreds of anonymous replies from people who don't know a spark plug from a brake light, never mind not having drivers licenses telling you that it's all your fault.
So what happens when I log into iTunes and listen to a song preview? How does the software distinguish me listening to a perfectly legal snippit versus an illegal download?
What happens when I buy the song from iTunes and download it to my computer. Will they reimburse me if they block my legally purchased song?
What about streaming audio? Will I only get to listen to the stupid DJ's talking between the songs?
Does this software violate the DMCA by illegally decrypting encrypted channels between me on the road and my secure, legal music server at home? how about breaking into my VPN? Or listening into plain old HTTPS/SFTP/SCP/rsync-over-ssh...
Or is this just some marketing-speak BS about some crappy pattern recognition software that doesn't really work (ie image 'watermarking' that survives recompression)...
Re:Scientists think Einstein was wrong?
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Bzzzzt.
Thank you for playing.
Scientists, _know_ that Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are inconsistent with each other. It is believed that both are basically special, simplified cases of a more encompasing theory - and that neither can be 'built' on to agree with the other the way you suggest.
Note that that this doesn't mean that either theory is completely wrong within the boundaries of their frameworks. Just as it's perfectly acceptable to design an everyday building or car or airplane using Newton's law of gravity, NASA put those satellites into orbits using General Relativity and design the lasers on them using ordinary Quantum Mechanics.
From the subscriber side of things it can be just as frustrating. My ISP (a national one) is swallowing up posts from gentoo.org mailing lists. Some of them aren't that busy, and I'm on digest mode, so it took me several weeks to notice they weren't coming in.
I've tried to get my ISP to unblock the posts, but as a subscriber I have no standing to make a formal request. The list master says they get no bounce messages, which the ISP requires postmasters to send them in order to get off the block list.
But, a volume of self consistent language (even a made up one) of over a hundred pages of text with accompanying pictures should fall to statistical and linguistic analysis.
Champolion cracked the Rosetta stone with much much less.
The 'true' examples of lost written languages/cyphers (do a google search) are mysteries because there exist few examples of brief length usually bereft of context (of grammar, history, linguistic evolution etc.).
The sheer volume of the Voynich manuscript, plus its origin in relatively modern Europe is what makes it so interesting to amateur cryptographers.
The Nature Paper is too brief to know how good Rugg's analysis is (and the Cryptologia site has been slashdotted), but if it holds up it is an interesting result, even if it is a conclusion that many "very smart cryptographers"(TM) have suspected for a long time
As is plainly stated, Mac OS X isn't fully a 64 bit OS
Moreover, neither the OS, nor the applications used are recompiled to take full advantages of the G5.
In any case, one can walk into any Apple Store (or surf to any Apple reseller's web site) and buy a dual G5 as a fully supported "mainstream" computer. The Xicomputer dual Opteron can hardly be considered a mainstream PC.
PS. The _real_ scandal in this story is how utterly incompetent Motorola is/was with regard to improving the desktop PowerPC lines for Apple.
In my former life as a grad student in the sciences the lack of a free f90 compiler definately prevented adoption of GNU/Linux as an alternate/cheap platform. We had code that simply could not be compiled because g77 lacked features that are older than some people reading this post!
The vendor compilers however had all the f90 options, which 'forced' us to pay for the expensive developer packages instead.
At the time, the two extensions we needed (IIRC) were STRUCT and POINTER, which were on g77's to-do list. Now, the better part of a decade later, they _still_ are AFAIK.
I wonder why none of the many high-budget science projects that use open-source extensively have never properly funded g77 development?
Do _you_ understand what science is and how it works?
The cold fusion-ists can't even agree amongst themselves what that "something" is! Heat? Neutrons? Helium? Alchemy? In the quantities they claim, all three are DIFFERENT and MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE of each other. Only the low-level, low-rate neutron claim is even consistent with nuclear fusion!!!!
What seems to go over the article writer's head completely is that the claims _were_ looked at, scrutinized, dissected, analyzed and critiqued already FOURTEEN years ago!
Any failure of communication between the cold fusion camp and outside scientists falls at the feet of the cold fusionists themselves for failing to show that their results are real.
Put another way : The writer of the article might as well criticize physicists for failing to scrutinize the astrological predictions printed in their local newspaper.
Mod the parent down. 'Insightful?' Hardly. It's pretty clear that what Herkum01 knows about scientists is learned from watching too many bad B sci-fi/horror movies.
It is true that physicists can be a prideful lot, but that tends be truer than not for smart people in general. But to reject what would be remarkable new science because they 'got burned' would be beyond pride and well into hubris.
Lots of physicists tried the experiments back in 1989 because the claims were so remarkable, the recipe so simple and the researchers apparently credible enough that they had to at least give it a try. No new science was found. The cold fusion community failed to demonstrate unambiguously that their experimental results were real, trustworthy and replicable.
FOURTEEN years later, and the cold fusion community STILL can't seem to agree on what their results are (neutrons? heat?) nevermind finding unambiguous signs of fusion and it's somehow the critic's fault for being prideful?
Cold fusion researchers are never going to get any attention even negative) at all until they can demonstrate absolutely that there is something there!
The conspiracy theorists talk about how damned inefficient, bloated, clumsy and self-defeating government agencies projects are.
Somehow "they" have had UFO technology which would make petroleum obsolete since the '50s, conspired to kill JFK to keep it a secret, brainwashed Chapman to murder Lennon, created a secret government database tracking everyone's cash transactions, control us by putting chemicals in our water and thought patterns in satellite broadcasts. Oh yeah and "they" also were behind the 9/11 attacks as well.
Yet "they" can't even figure out how to keep track of whether or not foreign students went to class or not.
But is it too late, now that ...
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Suppose I design a commercial DVR that allows companies to pay me to "popup" ads over the commercials that the owner would otherwise see?
1) Get Coca-Cola to pay my company mucho bucks to "popup" a Diet Coke ad everytime the TV viewer was supposed to see a Diet Pepsi ad?
3) Profit!
What about users customizing their DVRs to play content they _prefer_ instead of the ads they were going to see? (ie, show me those beer babes fighting in the fountain ad everytime that lame shampoo commercial comes on).
Or how about allowing the user to automatically skip commercials altogether?... Err... Whoops
Isn't this pretty much the same gee-whiz-bang story about future tech that we hear everytime a "new" technology needs some press? Anyone remember how "fuzzy logic" was going to change everything?
How about tablet PC's that were going to create a paperless office, while agents and intelligent appliances would free us from the drudgery of chores... leaving us plenty of time to spend with our children... who would have plenty of free time themselves... since computers would obsolete schools... and CD-ROMs would obsolete libraries. But that's ok, since GPS would allow us to keep track of where they went, how fast they were driving... and smart cards would tell us where they spent their virtual money... because secure computing was going to free us from paper money... but not before RFID would prevent counterfeit paper from funding terrorists... who wouldn't be an issue because of biometric id's... would allow law enforcment to track potential terrorists by their "terrorist" genes... that would have been identified in human DNA... by neural net self-teaching software.
Don't even get me started on how whole cities would be built around "It."
So now someone conned the editors of the Economist into publishing an article about "sentient" environments with Bluetooth-like technology driving it all. Give me a break, we've heard it all before. I don't know exactly how the future will arrive, but I do know it ain't gonna show up via a press conference.
[That being said, as a left handed mouse user and touch typist, why _shouldn't_ all the computers I'm paid to troubleshoot automagically recognize me and give me my damn mouse config, typing macros and shortcuts?]
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Kenneth Brown ... is reportedly "not the sharpest knife in the drawer,"
Feel free to provide your own punchline ...
>Maybe I'm being an ignorant
... There are an infinite number of primes, thus an infinite number of pairs such that p is prime, but p+2 is not. Thus there are an infinite number of twins that are not 'twin primes'.
Ok then, try this extension to your theory
The number of 'twins that are not twin primes' clearly outnumber the 'twin primes' so that infinity outnumbers the infinite number of 'twin primes.'
Therefore there are zero 'twin primes.'
Chew on that, "genius"
Let's see. If I write more than 5 checks a month, it costs me $5 per. I can pass that on to them. Oh, and don't forget the cost of the stamp. How about all the taxes I pay as a result of me making a living? Gas tax, income tax, sales tax, Social security ... I'll just deduct all that from my payment ...
What? Didn't anyone at the company notice the EULA they accepted by accepting my payment? I included it in the envelope and they accepted it by cashing the check.
And if you have a problem, you can't just get a tow from the nearest garage, you have to get a volunteer to do it. On his own time in whatever haphazard way he knows how.
Oh, and I almost forgot, if you complain publicly that you didn't like the Saturn, you'd get hundreds of anonymous replies from people who don't know a spark plug from a brake light, never mind not having drivers licenses telling you that it's all your fault.
4. Buy Photoshop and earn your paycheck.
What happens when I buy the song from iTunes and download it to my computer. Will they reimburse me if they block my legally purchased song?
What about streaming audio? Will I only get to listen to the stupid DJ's talking between the songs?
Does this software violate the DMCA by illegally decrypting encrypted channels between me on the road and my secure, legal music server at home? how about breaking into my VPN? Or listening into plain old HTTPS/SFTP/SCP/rsync-over-ssh ...
Or is this just some marketing-speak BS about some crappy pattern recognition software that doesn't really work (ie image 'watermarking' that survives recompression) ...
Thank you for playing.
Scientists, _know_ that Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are inconsistent with each other. It is believed that both are basically special, simplified cases of a more encompasing theory - and that neither can be 'built' on to agree with the other the way you suggest.
Note that that this doesn't mean that either theory is completely wrong within the boundaries of their frameworks. Just as it's perfectly acceptable to design an everyday building or car or airplane using Newton's law of gravity, NASA put those satellites into orbits using General Relativity and design the lasers on them using ordinary Quantum Mechanics.
I've tried to get my ISP to unblock the posts, but as a subscriber I have no standing to make a formal request. The list master says they get no bounce messages, which the ISP requires postmasters to send them in order to get off the block list.
What to do ...
If you're going to flame for semantics, run a spell checker before you hit "Submit."
I guess we finally got one past the Martian Interstellar Defense Force ...
Champolion cracked the Rosetta stone with much much less.
The 'true' examples of lost written languages/cyphers (do a google search) are mysteries because there exist few examples of brief length usually bereft of context (of grammar, history, linguistic evolution etc.).
The sheer volume of the Voynich manuscript, plus its origin in relatively modern Europe is what makes it so interesting to amateur cryptographers.
The Nature Paper is too brief to know how good Rugg's analysis is (and the Cryptologia site has been slashdotted), but if it holds up it is an interesting result, even if it is a conclusion that many "very smart cryptographers"(TM) have suspected for a long time
" ... and I have had all sorts of people try to rip me off," he said.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for him or something?
Moreover, neither the OS, nor the applications used are recompiled to take full advantages of the G5.
In any case, one can walk into any Apple Store (or surf to any Apple reseller's web site) and buy a dual G5 as a fully supported "mainstream" computer. The Xicomputer dual Opteron can hardly be considered a mainstream PC.
PS. The _real_ scandal in this story is how utterly incompetent Motorola is/was with regard to improving the desktop PowerPC lines for Apple.
Last time I checked, Novell was in the business of making a profit by selling and supporting products they own to customers.
Therefore SCO and Novell are not anywhere near the same business space and the non-compete clause doesn't apply.
Ought to be good for some laughs. Reporters who get pissed off by disinformation tend not to be kind
And two of them are from an Uno deck.
The vendor compilers however had all the f90 options, which 'forced' us to pay for the expensive developer packages instead.
At the time, the two extensions we needed (IIRC) were STRUCT and POINTER, which were on g77's to-do list. Now, the better part of a decade later, they _still_ are AFAIK.
I wonder why none of the many high-budget science projects that use open-source extensively have never properly funded g77 development?
The cold fusion-ists can't even agree amongst themselves what that "something" is! Heat? Neutrons? Helium? Alchemy? In the quantities they claim, all three are DIFFERENT and MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE of each other. Only the low-level, low-rate neutron claim is even consistent with nuclear fusion!!!!
What seems to go over the article writer's head completely is that the claims _were_ looked at, scrutinized, dissected, analyzed and critiqued already FOURTEEN years ago!
Any failure of communication between the cold fusion camp and outside scientists falls at the feet of the cold fusionists themselves for failing to show that their results are real.
Put another way : The writer of the article might as well criticize physicists for failing to scrutinize the astrological predictions printed in their local newspaper.
It is true that physicists can be a prideful lot, but that tends be truer than not for smart people in general. But to reject what would be remarkable new science because they 'got burned' would be beyond pride and well into hubris.
Lots of physicists tried the experiments back in 1989 because the claims were so remarkable, the recipe so simple and the researchers apparently credible enough that they had to at least give it a try. No new science was found. The cold fusion community failed to demonstrate unambiguously that their experimental results were real, trustworthy and replicable.
FOURTEEN years later, and the cold fusion community STILL can't seem to agree on what their results are (neutrons? heat?) nevermind finding unambiguous signs of fusion and it's somehow the critic's fault for being prideful?
Cold fusion researchers are never going to get any attention even negative) at all until they can demonstrate absolutely that there is something there!
Internet file swapping teens take a break for 4th of July. (15% = 1/7 of the week)
Huh.
Somehow "they" have had UFO technology which would make petroleum obsolete since the '50s, conspired to kill JFK to keep it a secret, brainwashed Chapman to murder Lennon, created a secret government database tracking everyone's cash transactions, control us by putting chemicals in our water and thought patterns in satellite broadcasts. Oh yeah and "they" also were behind the 9/11 attacks as well.
Yet "they" can't even figure out how to keep track of whether or not foreign students went to class or not.
The civet's out of the bag?
1) Get Coca-Cola to pay my company mucho bucks to "popup" a Diet Coke ad everytime the TV viewer was supposed to see a Diet Pepsi ad?
3) Profit!
What about users customizing their DVRs to play content they _prefer_ instead of the ads they were going to see? (ie, show me those beer babes fighting in the fountain ad everytime that lame shampoo commercial comes on).
Or how about allowing the user to automatically skip commercials altogether? ... Err ... Whoops
How about tablet PC's that were going to create a paperless office, while agents and intelligent appliances would free us from the drudgery of chores ... leaving us plenty of time to spend with our children ... who would have plenty of free time themselves ... since computers would obsolete schools ... and CD-ROMs would obsolete libraries. But that's ok, since GPS would allow us to keep track of where they went, how fast they were driving ... and smart cards would tell us where they spent their virtual money ... because secure computing was going to free us from paper money ... but not before RFID would prevent counterfeit paper from funding terrorists ... who wouldn't be an issue because of biometric id's ... would allow law enforcment to track potential terrorists by their "terrorist" genes ... that would have been identified in human DNA ... by neural net self-teaching software.
Don't even get me started on how whole cities would be built around "It."
So now someone conned the editors of the Economist into publishing an article about "sentient" environments with Bluetooth-like technology driving it all. Give me a break, we've heard it all before. I don't know exactly how the future will arrive, but I do know it ain't gonna show up via a press conference.
[That being said, as a left handed mouse user and touch typist, why _shouldn't_ all the computers I'm paid to troubleshoot automagically recognize me and give me my damn mouse config, typing macros and shortcuts?]