"I find myself getting annoyed with Yau that he seems to feel the need for more kudos," Dan Stroock, of M.I.T., said. "This is a guy who did magnificent things, for which he was magnificently rewarded. He won every prize to be won. I find it a little mean of him to seem to be trying to get a share of this as well."
Seems to be pretty even handed journalism to me. Theft of ideas is not a light matter for such an important problem.
Looks like they took one of Asimo's legs and stuck it on one of their outboard motors. I suppose you could use this thing to free your boat if it runs a ground.
Please, learn some history. Your ignorance is on full display.
Ronald Reagan's administration trained and equiped some Afghani Mujahadeen fighting the Soviets in the 1980's. With American short range missles they were able to reek havoc Soviet aircraft and armored vehicles, eventually driving them out. Although loosely organised these forces mostly became the northern alliance that help oust the Taliban in 2002. They form Harmid Karsai's power base today, such as it is. The Taliban were a different group centered in Kandahar with Pakistani origins. They are not the same as the Mujahadeen, although Bin Laden would like to identify himself with them.
Elect those individuals that will best represent the people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at home and abroad. Make these people responsible for what they say and do by linking their jobs to their implemented law and take back your country.
By all means lets bring back the mindless liberals who incubated and nurtured Al Qaida. Death and carnage will be everywhere. But at least we'll be "free".
This is a very positive development for national security. Islamic fascist terrorists should not feel at liberty to scheme within the borders of the US. It is hoped that a mistimed cell phone call from Waziristan will lead to a 500 lb GPS bomb hit on the point within 30 seconds.
Yes, Palistinian. If you want to talk anchient history, Jews aren't native to Israel anymore than WASPs are to the US.
In the end holy land belongs to whomever can hold it. Like Joshua and the Israelites gained the promised land, so do the Israelis keep it today. No one can forsee Israel (backed by the United States) being conquered by outside forces. Indeed, Israel has not likely reached its full extent. The Arab interlopers should be deported to Arab lands of their own.
How will we explain to our children that back in the day we had this sweet airplane shaped orbiter to take us into space, and now all they have is this cone-shaped hunk of a "spaceship".
Perhaps the spectacular carnage of Challenger and Columbia will help them understand the danger of bad design.
Okay, the economy sucked under Carter, but is a temporary economic downturn really worse than many of the things Bush has done,
Temporary downturn? LOL! Fool! Do the Malaise Speech, double digit unemployment, the misery index, or killer rabbits mean anything to you? That simpering wimp was a dasaster! All President Bush has done was to take an exhausted bubble economy ridden hard and put wet by Bill Clinton and resurrect the American Dream after the worst attack on the US since Pearl Harbor.
some of which will have more or less permanent consequences in regard to our personal freedoms as well as the basic principles this country operates under? We recovered from Carter's economy. Will we be able to recover from Bush's restrictions of our basic Constitutional rights, or from his dramatically increasing the power of the Executive? I think at the very least it will be much more difficult.
Parsing constitutional language about legal rights is narcissistic in the extreme when the canker of islamic terror festers in the US and around the world ready to exploit any weakness.
Living in this country during the Carter years was crappy in some ways, sure, but it got better.
It didn't get better by chance. Thank Dutch Reagan (bless his soul) and Paul Voelker for the dramitic rebound. Though I am sure at the time you did not appreciate their strong economic medicine.
thanks to the current administration, and I don't see it getting any better.
So by that logic, I assume that you're ready to hand the land you're squatting on back over to to the Native Americans and catch the next plane back to Europe?
Certainly not. It made no sense to leave America in the hands of a few brutal stone age hunter gatherers and deny the great political experiment that is the United States, and in which native Americans are full partners.
Similarly, Israel is a great experiment in democracy in the otherwise blighted middle east. It must necessarily displace people who are hostile to it. There are plenty of places for them to go.
And if people really wanted to reduce Islamic terrorism, then they'd have to first do something about Isreali terrorism and their occupation of Palistinian lands.
Ya think? Jews lived in Israel 2000 years before there was an Islam. There has never been a "Palestine". It is a Roman name that should have disappeared with the empire. There are the Jewish kingdoms of Judea and Samarra however. Jordanian and Egyptian squatters currently occupy most of that land, which is intolerable. It is hoped that they will eventually be driven out and the holy places can revert to the Jews and the Christians.
Isreal slaughtered far more innocents in their bombing of Lebanon than Islmaic terrorists have in Europe.
Exactly Hezbollah's plan. Being cowards they hide among the civilian population. Since they get tacit support from them, the civilians are also guilty. I am very disappointed that Israel backed off. The lands up to the Litani River are traditionally theirs.
If you are an American, please don't support your current administrations drive to cause yet another war by believing their propaganda about Iran. Really, you should trust your politicians as soon as they find the WMD that they told you existed in Iraq.
If you are a European please start taking Islamic terror seriously. Your countries contain growing percentages of unassimilated muslims. Their imams preach hate against you. Will you allow you civilization to go under because your are afraid of a spike in oil? Do you relish a terror nuke in London, Paris, or Madrid?
Unless there's a major shift in attitude and pressure, I think it's really only a matter of time before Iran goes nuclear; already a pariah state, they have little to lose and much to gain. And once they have it, it seems to be only a further interlude before it's used on the obvious target, Israel, whether directly or by proxy. The real question is, what happens then?
China and Russia cynical backing of Iran leaves the UN powerless to stop Iran. Indeed, I think the end is near for the UN security council as we've know it since the 50's. That Russia continues with nuclear projects in Iran, with Iran in flagrant violation of the NPT, is a disgrace. Unless the US and Europe fancy a terrorist nuke in one of their capitals or want to see Israel "wiped off the map", strategic bombing of all nuclear sites is a near certainty. The only question is when. The west will be reluctant to do the obvious because there will be a blockage of the straights of Hormuz by Iran. That will greatly disrupt the world economy. But you gotta do what you gotta do. Should have smacked these fools back in 1979.
y^2 = x (x - a^p) (x + b^p) where p represents a solution of Fermat is fairly easy to grasp. df/df = grad f where f is a measure of surface curvature. Again not that hard to grasp compared to the horrors that follow.
I find the parallels between Perelman's proof of Thurston's Conjecture and Wiles proof of Fermat to be compelling:
Both men benefited from ingenious strategic breakthough made by other men: The Frey Curve proposed by Gerhard Frey linked Fermat with Tanyama-Shimura, and the Ricci Flow idea Hamilton provided the basis for Perelman's deep refinements. Both ideas can be readily understood by laymen.
Both men dragged the enabling idea over the line virtually alone fighting though unimaginable difficulty. (These are not easily understood by laymen!)
Obviously the standing of Wiles and Perelman in the mathematical community couldn't be more different. Lets hope Perelman accepts an academic position somewhere so he can carry on his work with the honor he deserves.
The attempts by the Chinese to claim proof of Poincare is disgusting.
Yeah, it sure was great when Linux adoption reached the tipping point and it switched from a marginal OS for nerds to a major competitor to Windows. Or was that back in 2005? Or 2004? 2003? 2002? 2001?
I'll leave it to you and Jesse Berst to predict that, dingleberry.
Politically, technically, pragmatically, ESR is singing perfect pitch. There are warning signs indicating Linux, and OSS-related efforts could be relegated to backroom geekdom for a long time if some "commercial" hurdles aren't first overcome.
This is the smarmiest post I have ever read. GNU/Linux users on this forum have been forcefed this ZDNet-style pablum for over 10 years. "Beware everybody, Linux could [insert some dreadful consequence here] unless you learn to compromise." Nothing bad has happened yet. Quite the opposite. ESR has proven himself to be a pretty unstable figure over the years. It takes some significant hyperbole for him to even get in the news anymore. Why does his latest 180 degree utterance even merit notice?
Agreed. The proposed mission seems to be a replay of the ill-fated Phobos mission. It is puzzling that the Russiams would want to conduct a sample return mission when an asteroid sample return mission would require less energy. Phobos and demos are likely captured S-type main belt asteroids. Why go to the trouble of going to Mars to sample them. Sampling a C or M type body would be a lot more interesting. As for China, they don't offer much except money I'd guess.
As for others on this forum denegrating the US effort I would remind them that there is a flotilla of missions both operating and planned that are producing outstanding results. Spirit, Opportunity, Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Phoenix Lander, Mars Science Laboratory. This is a golden age of US Mars exploration.
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Seems to be pretty even handed journalism to me. Theft of ideas is not a light matter for such an important problem.
Looks like they took one of Asimo's legs and stuck it on one of their outboard motors. I suppose you could use this thing to free your boat if it runs a ground.
Please, learn some history. Your ignorance is on full display.
Ronald Reagan's administration trained and equiped some Afghani Mujahadeen fighting the Soviets in the 1980's. With American short range missles they were able to reek havoc Soviet aircraft and armored vehicles, eventually driving them out. Although loosely organised these forces mostly became the northern alliance that help oust the Taliban in 2002. They form Harmid Karsai's power base today, such as it is. The Taliban were a different group centered in Kandahar with Pakistani origins. They are not the same as the Mujahadeen, although Bin Laden would like to identify himself with them.
Facts: Clinton, Warren, Albright, Cohen presided over:
I don't see how this is propaganda.
By all means lets bring back the mindless liberals who incubated and nurtured Al Qaida. Death and carnage will be everywhere. But at least we'll be "free".
This is a very positive development for national security. Islamic fascist terrorists should not feel at liberty to scheme within the borders of the US. It is hoped that a mistimed cell phone call from Waziristan will lead to a 500 lb GPS bomb hit on the point within 30 seconds.
Well at least they aren't paid links to Amazon.com.
Totalitarian regimes have always benefitted from America and Europe's useful idiots. This site is positively brimming with them.
Weren't they supposed to be thown in the grave with him?
This guy had excellent and accurate analysis of the 2004 election. I hope he starts up again.
In the end holy land belongs to whomever can hold it. Like Joshua and the Israelites gained the promised land, so do the Israelis keep it today. No one can forsee Israel (backed by the United States) being conquered by outside forces. Indeed, Israel has not likely reached its full extent. The Arab interlopers should be deported to Arab lands of their own.
Perhaps the spectacular carnage of Challenger and Columbia will help them understand the danger of bad design.
The moon undergoes the occasional earth eclipse, which we see as a lunar eclipse. Can't get rid of those batteries completely.
Temporary downturn? LOL! Fool! Do the Malaise Speech, double digit unemployment, the misery index, or killer rabbits mean anything to you? That simpering wimp was a dasaster! All President Bush has done was to take an exhausted bubble economy ridden hard and put wet by Bill Clinton and resurrect the American Dream after the worst attack on the US since Pearl Harbor.
Parsing constitutional language about legal rights is narcissistic in the extreme when the canker of islamic terror festers in the US and around the world ready to exploit any weakness.
It didn't get better by chance. Thank Dutch Reagan (bless his soul) and Paul Voelker for the dramitic rebound. Though I am sure at the time you did not appreciate their strong economic medicine.
Its morning in America
Stated without argument ofcourse. pwnd!
Certainly not. It made no sense to leave America in the hands of a few brutal stone age hunter gatherers and deny the great political experiment that is the United States, and in which native Americans are full partners.
Similarly, Israel is a great experiment in democracy in the otherwise blighted middle east. It must necessarily displace people who are hostile to it. There are plenty of places for them to go.
Ya think? Jews lived in Israel 2000 years before there was an Islam. There has never been a "Palestine". It is a Roman name that should have disappeared with the empire. There are the Jewish kingdoms of Judea and Samarra however. Jordanian and Egyptian squatters currently occupy most of that land, which is intolerable. It is hoped that they will eventually be driven out and the holy places can revert to the Jews and the Christians.
Exactly Hezbollah's plan. Being cowards they hide among the civilian population. Since they get tacit support from them, the civilians are also guilty. I am very disappointed that Israel backed off. The lands up to the Litani River are traditionally theirs.
If you are a European please start taking Islamic terror seriously. Your countries contain growing percentages of unassimilated muslims. Their imams preach hate against you. Will you allow you civilization to go under because your are afraid of a spike in oil? Do you relish a terror nuke in London, Paris, or Madrid?
China and Russia cynical backing of Iran leaves the UN powerless to stop Iran. Indeed, I think the end is near for the UN security council as we've know it since the 50's. That Russia continues with nuclear projects in Iran, with Iran in flagrant violation of the NPT, is a disgrace. Unless the US and Europe fancy a terrorist nuke in one of their capitals or want to see Israel "wiped off the map", strategic bombing of all nuclear sites is a near certainty. The only question is when. The west will be reluctant to do the obvious because there will be a blockage of the straights of Hormuz by Iran. That will greatly disrupt the world economy. But you gotta do what you gotta do. Should have smacked these fools back in 1979.
y^2 = x (x - a^p) (x + b^p) where p represents a solution of Fermat is fairly easy to grasp. df/df = grad f where f is a measure of surface curvature. Again not that hard to grasp compared to the horrors that follow.
I certainly don't. But Ribets Theorem is a whole lot harder to grasp than the idea of a Frey Curve.
I find the parallels between Perelman's proof of Thurston's Conjecture and Wiles proof of Fermat to be compelling:
Obviously the standing of Wiles and Perelman in the mathematical community couldn't be more different. Lets hope Perelman accepts an academic position somewhere so he can carry on his work with the honor he deserves.
The attempts by the Chinese to claim proof of Poincare is disgusting.
I'll leave it to you and Jesse Berst to predict that, dingleberry.
This is the smarmiest post I have ever read. GNU/Linux users on this forum have been forcefed this ZDNet-style pablum for over 10 years. "Beware everybody, Linux could [insert some dreadful consequence here] unless you learn to compromise." Nothing bad has happened yet. Quite the opposite. ESR has proven himself to be a pretty unstable figure over the years. It takes some significant hyperbole for him to even get in the news anymore. Why does his latest 180 degree utterance even merit notice?
Agreed. The proposed mission seems to be a replay of the ill-fated Phobos mission. It is puzzling that the Russiams would want to conduct a sample return mission when an asteroid sample return mission would require less energy. Phobos and demos are likely captured S-type main belt asteroids. Why go to the trouble of going to Mars to sample them. Sampling a C or M type body would be a lot more interesting. As for China, they don't offer much except money I'd guess.
As for others on this forum denegrating the US effort I would remind them that there is a flotilla of missions both operating and planned that are producing outstanding results. Spirit, Opportunity, Mars Odyssey, Mars Global Surveyor, Phoenix Lander, Mars Science Laboratory. This is a golden age of US Mars exploration.