It was a Monday morning, September 19, and I was trying, convincing myself that it didn't work, just seeing exactly what the problem was, when suddenly, totally unexpectedly, I had this incredible revelation. I realized what was holding me up was exactly what would resolve the problem I had had in my Iwasawa theory attempt three years earlier, was -- It was the most -- the most important moment of my working life. It was so indescribably beautiful; it was so simple and so elegant, and I just stared in disbelief for twenty minutes. Then, during the day, I walked around the department. I'd keep coming back to my desk and looking to see if it was still there. It was still there.
I'm sorry, I should have said indescribably beautiful.
I think the balence we have today seems not too far off the mark, but in the long run who knows?
I believe that after 2 decades of abuse US patent and copyright laws will be libralized significantly.
Here is a fun experiment even you slashdot simpletons can do. Uranium isotopes decay at different rates. Today U235/U238 = 1/127. Assuming all of the U on earth was formed at the same time, in the same supernova U235/U238 = 1. If you carry through the calculation for time elapsed you get 6 billion years. Pretty neat. That doesn't make the carbon results seem that extraordinary.
Mathematicians have always required patronage.
It is difficult to predict where and from whom the next important result will come from. Business people would call such a proposition a bad bet. Yet without patronage (funding) people like Turing, Von Neuman, and Donald Knuth might not have given us their great works, and you wouldn't have a computer. Beggers they are not.
I tried to show the absurdity of the restriction of the free flow of ideas to all progress in arts, science, and engineering. It is a viewpoint diametrically opposed viewpoint to the author's
who encourages us to hide ideas, as expressed in code, out of fear for our livelyhood. He presents a false choice. I do regret the analogy however. To compare today's meatball programming techniques to the beauty and elegance of Wiles work is a great insult to Wiles.
It's unfair that you want all your products marketed globally," Kulkarni said, "but you don't want any jobs to go."
What a joke. The US trade deficit with the rest of the world is at absurd levels. For the size of the Indian domestic market US imports are paltry in comparison to what they sell here.
That great sucking sound you hear is real net wealth being rapidly and permanently transfered from the US to Asia for short term gain. What exacerbates the problem is that China and India indirectly support the US domestic spending spree by plowing their profits into buying our cruddy treasuries and keeping interest rates artificially low.
"Software is the immediate result and the manifestation of what your learned and what you know. How much is that worth? Nothing? Think again."
Young Mr. Wiles. The mathematical theorem you proved is the immediate result and the manifestation of what you learned and what you know. How much is the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem worth? Nothing? Think again.
Instead of publishing the result, I think you should keep it to yourself, charge all of the mathematicians who want to see it lots of money, and make them sign a non-disclosure agreement to promise not to use the result in their own work. Posterity will not be served, but you will be.
The ESA "discovery" announcement last month was accompanied by a cartoonish image of the Valles Marineris area. I have yet the see the source data for this grandiose conclusion. Visual evidence for an abundance of water on Mars dates from the Mariner 9 mission in the early seventies. No one has yet trumped the awesome observations of recently active
gullies in Mars southern hemisphere.
From the little I remember from geology, wind blown (aeolian) sand grains are more likely to be angular, while grains move by water are rounded. This is one indicator used to distinguish the provenance of a sedimentary rock at outcrop.
That is true if the globules spherical shape is the result of mechanical weathering. The spheres may also be concretions, formed in place through precipitation in an aqueous environment, or the may be melt glass from a volcanic eruption or meteor impact. The microlayered structure of the outcrop is also fascinating. I don't think it is known definitively yet whether it volcanic ash or a lake sediment. Observation of either one is a first for Mars exploration.
..XML has the DOM and SAX, among others. This means a whole world of functionality, in the form of libraries and technologies that understand XML via DOM or SAX, is available to the program author. You can transform the message into another format using XSLT, access and modify the message content and headers with XPointer, find references to and merge in external resources with XInclude, extend the message format using namespaces (thereby allowing anyone who doesn't care about your extension to safely ignore it), transform the message (with XSLT) into XHTML and provide rich formatting with CSS (both of which can be found in reusable libraries), and so on and so forth.
Thanks for enlightening me about XML. A whole new world, huh? I don't know if the scheme you propose will work but it rates very high on the buzzword scale. You used just about every XML acronym there is. Yawn. Ofcourse we have all been listening to this dreck for almost 10 years. The new world is still the old world.
XML has found some limited uses and that trend will probably continue. Too bad the W3C has ballooned the standard to the point where it is barely usable. XML is a great message format when the sender and receiver can agree about what constitutes a message (a schema). In the case of a wholesale replacement of the SMTP that will never happen because of the number of parties involved. My suggestion is that you and your colleagues create a sample implementation of an XML email system and see if it flies. People used to make fun of Larry Wall's computer language ideas before he released Perl. Come to think of it, they still do.
But I know how much you reet haxorz hate usability and interoperability... maybe we can hook you all up with some nice teletypes.
I didn't realise today's email wasn't interoperable. Can you think of any device that is even vaguely a computer that it doesn't run on?
Colossal drawbacks to text? LOL! It is a feature. You could say the same for most internet services. There are no standard client API's for FTP or Telnet or most other services either. Has that stopped their widespread adoption? Has it made them any less useful? No.
I am not concerned at all of people like you who make the internet groan under the weight of 20MB excel files wrapped in proprietary XML formats. MIME has done enough damage. Maybe the Standard should be a Microsoft (C, TM) paperclip icon that does a dance while he speaks your message in one of a hundred supported languages.
While I agree that there are no absolutes, why not go with the path of least resistance when it doesn't really matter? XML has become the path of least resistance *at a macro level*. it's universally accepted these days, so unless there's a compelling reason *not* to use it... use it.
I wish you would learn something about existing mail standards before you say something so stupid. Email is primarily a simple text format, my HTML/word document/virus packed mailbox not withstanding. I am not surprised M$ would want to further polute the standards but why would you?
I am not embarrased to admit that I used uwm, circa 1989, with the default gray weave background (theme!). It is still the cleanest desktop ever designed and arguably the best. When I started using twm I was amazed at how ornate it was.
Reading this Micro$oft patent application makes me see red.
JSFs will eventually take on the Air Force's close air support mission, although in the interim some A-10s will be enhanced to continue the role. Other A-10s will be retired to free up funds to upgrade the remaining aircraft. Hornburg says creating the A-10 "on steroids" would involve upgrades: new avionics, new engines, precision strike capabilities (only some of the ground-attack aircraft currently carry a targeting pod) and data link additions. The exact components to be added may not be known for some time, but Hornburg says that over the summer the plan should exist at a macro level.
THE A-10S' ENGINES will likely be General Electric TF34-100Bs, using parts from the existing powerplants but adding 33-35% more thrust, according to industry officials. The aircraft also would be slated for a self-protection boost, with the common missile warning system and Raytheon's Comet pyrophoric flare pod considered the likely devices to be installed.
It seems to me that given all of the helo losses to small arms fire in Iraq, the military
is looking toward fixed wing attack aircraft for ground support in the future.
35000' is high. On earth it is about 80 deg colder than the planetary mean at that altitude. On Venus the effect might be more pronounced. It might be a more benign environment for a lander. I was hoping someone could calculate the temperature using Venus' adiabatic lapse rate. Oxidize in a CO2 atmosphere?
Do you just dislike any company who wants to market a product and make money? Geez.
The issue is not that the free software community dislikes Trolltech. Trolltech has shown itself to be well meaning thus far. I think we all welcome their contribution. But what will happen to Qt when Trolltech is acquired, or liquidated. The GPL insures that vital source code, like Qt, is not tethered to the fortunes of its creator.
It would be more precise to say that the Muslim world hates the secular/Judeo-Christian democracies. The Muslim world reached its zenith in the 13th century and has been in a long decline since. Islamic law has proven to be just as weak a basis for good government in modern times as Christianity was in the middle ages. Most of the muslim world has not fully come to grips with this.
I know there are some high standing areas on Venus. Maxwell Montes rises about 35000' above the planetary mean. The lower pressure means lower temperature. Does anyone know what the average temperature of such regions might be? They might be better places for spacecraft to land.
Im much more worried if the US have those kinds of weapons than if some broke desert shithole gets their hands on some mustard gas. What exactly is the US doing this arms race against? Aliens?
The US has learned not to underestimate the destructive power of our overmatched enemies.
A bunch of desert peasants caused untold $billions in economic damage with a minimal attack. Space-based weapons would be used to prevent the Kim Jong Il's of the world from lobbing a homebrew missle our way as his regime collapses.
The US no doubt has the power to keep space off limits for anyone for military arms race. Why in gods name then do they push the envelope so that other countries has to follow?
Because our "allies" continue to proliferate weapons of mass destruction, and despite international treaties the UN is too feckless to do anything about it.
Lets hope the administration gets changed to something less warhappy and perhaps a it more interested in all US citizens than of enriching a few select people.
I'm sure he'll be overjoyed when he graduates, finds himself unemployed and realizes just how much money he could have made and helped the world by patenting his invention and licensing it out.
People like Saul employ. They do not need to be employed.
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No. The amount they are talking about causing this is much much smaller than the amount it would require to saturate it to the point of an observable change in appearance after exposure.
Then it is not likely to be enough moisture to bind the soil either. I still think it is lame speculation. You would think the thermal emission spectrometer could detect small amounts of water easily if it were there.
It may even be the result of no water in it now but the result of residual salts left behind by existance of water at some point. Theoretically this could display these properties as well.
Residual salts would be expected to bind the soil (duracrust), but not bind the soil to the rover wheels.
The Opportunity rover found hints of salty water in the trench that it dug, and scientists note that the Spirit rover is currently digging a trench of its own to investigate the soil that clings to its treads, suggesting the possibility of moisture.
The very small particle size of Martian dust makes it likely that it sticks due to static charge. If the soil were moisture laden you would expect it to rapidly dry out and crust over (change appearance) on the wheels of the rover.
The article says nothing about the ubiquity of membership of the group, or its political offiliations. More Democrat junk. I want to hear more about Sen. Kerry's alleged affairs.
Your breath comes out at apporximately body temperature, for example, and making the air in a balloon body temperature plus or minus a few degrees would be tough.
I've got it! Try filling the balloon by blowing into it, then immediately placing on the device. The air will be within a few degrees of body temperature. What a dumb comment!
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I predicted today's result a few days ago and only got moderated to a 2.
Previous postingI'd post a longer comment but I'm heading to Vegas
Nova transcript
It was a Monday morning, September 19, and I was trying, convincing myself that it didn't work, just seeing exactly what the problem was, when suddenly, totally unexpectedly, I had this incredible revelation. I realized what was holding me up was exactly what would resolve the problem I had had in my Iwasawa theory attempt three years earlier, was -- It was the most -- the most important moment of my working life. It was so indescribably beautiful; it was so simple and so elegant, and I just stared in disbelief for twenty minutes. Then, during the day, I walked around the department. I'd keep coming back to my desk and looking to see if it was still there. It was still there.
I'm sorry, I should have said indescribably beautiful.
I think the balence we have today seems not too far off the mark, but in the long run who knows?
I believe that after 2 decades of abuse US patent and copyright laws will be libralized significantly.
Here is a fun experiment even you slashdot simpletons can do. Uranium isotopes decay at different rates. Today U235/U238 = 1/127. Assuming all of the U on earth was formed at the same time, in the same supernova U235/U238 = 1. If you carry through the calculation for time elapsed you get 6 billion years. Pretty neat. That doesn't make the carbon results seem that extraordinary.
Mathematicians have always required patronage. It is difficult to predict where and from whom the next important result will come from. Business people would call such a proposition a bad bet. Yet without patronage (funding) people like Turing, Von Neuman, and Donald Knuth might not have given us their great works, and you wouldn't have a computer. Beggers they are not.
I tried to show the absurdity of the restriction of the free flow of ideas to all progress in arts, science, and engineering. It is a viewpoint diametrically opposed viewpoint to the author's who encourages us to hide ideas, as expressed in code, out of fear for our livelyhood. He presents a false choice. I do regret the analogy however. To compare today's meatball programming techniques to the beauty and elegance of Wiles work is a great insult to Wiles.
What a joke. The US trade deficit with the rest of the world is at absurd levels. For the size of the Indian domestic market US imports are paltry in comparison to what they sell here. That great sucking sound you hear is real net wealth being rapidly and permanently transfered from the US to Asia for short term gain. What exacerbates the problem is that China and India indirectly support the US domestic spending spree by plowing their profits into buying our cruddy treasuries and keeping interest rates artificially low.
Young Mr. Wiles. The mathematical theorem you proved is the immediate result and the manifestation of what you learned and what you know. How much is the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem worth? Nothing? Think again.
Instead of publishing the result, I think you should keep it to yourself, charge all of the mathematicians who want to see it lots of money, and make them sign a non-disclosure agreement to promise not to use the result in their own work. Posterity will not be served, but you will be.
The ESA "discovery" announcement last month was accompanied by a cartoonish image of the Valles Marineris area. I have yet the see the source data for this grandiose conclusion. Visual evidence for an abundance of water on Mars dates from the Mariner 9 mission in the early seventies. No one has yet trumped the awesome observations of recently active gullies in Mars southern hemisphere.
That is true if the globules spherical shape is the result of mechanical weathering. The spheres may also be concretions, formed in place through precipitation in an aqueous environment, or the may be melt glass from a volcanic eruption or meteor impact. The microlayered structure of the outcrop is also fascinating. I don't think it is known definitively yet whether it volcanic ash or a lake sediment. Observation of either one is a first for Mars exploration.
You entered a whorehouse and expected to find virtue?
Thanks for enlightening me about XML. A whole new world, huh? I don't know if the scheme you propose will work but it rates very high on the buzzword scale. You used just about every XML acronym there is. Yawn. Ofcourse we have all been listening to this dreck for almost 10 years. The new world is still the old world.
XML has found some limited uses and that trend will probably continue. Too bad the W3C has ballooned the standard to the point where it is barely usable. XML is a great message format when the sender and receiver can agree about what constitutes a message (a schema). In the case of a wholesale replacement of the SMTP that will never happen because of the number of parties involved. My suggestion is that you and your colleagues create a sample implementation of an XML email system and see if it flies. People used to make fun of Larry Wall's computer language ideas before he released Perl. Come to think of it, they still do.
But I know how much you reet haxorz hate usability and interoperability... maybe we can hook you all up with some nice teletypes.I didn't realise today's email wasn't interoperable. Can you think of any device that is even vaguely a computer that it doesn't run on?
Colossal drawbacks to text? LOL! It is a feature. You could say the same for most internet services. There are no standard client API's for FTP or Telnet or most other services either. Has that stopped their widespread adoption? Has it made them any less useful? No.
I am not concerned at all of people like you who make the internet groan under the weight of 20MB excel files wrapped in proprietary XML formats. MIME has done enough damage. Maybe the Standard should be a Microsoft (C, TM) paperclip icon that does a dance while he speaks your message in one of a hundred supported languages.
I wish you would learn something about existing mail standards before you say something so stupid. Email is primarily a simple text format, my HTML/word document/virus packed mailbox not withstanding. I am not surprised M$ would want to further polute the standards but why would you?
I am not embarrased to admit that I used uwm, circa 1989, with the default gray weave background (theme!). It is still the cleanest desktop ever designed and arguably the best. When I started using twm I was amazed at how ornate it was.
Reading this Micro$oft patent application makes me see red.
I found this at Aviation Now
JSFs will eventually take on the Air Force's close air support mission, although in the interim some A-10s will be enhanced to continue the role. Other A-10s will be retired to free up funds to upgrade the remaining aircraft. Hornburg says creating the A-10 "on steroids" would involve upgrades: new avionics, new engines, precision strike capabilities (only some of the ground-attack aircraft currently carry a targeting pod) and data link additions. The exact components to be added may not be known for some time, but Hornburg says that over the summer the plan should exist at a macro level.
THE A-10S' ENGINES will likely be General Electric TF34-100Bs, using parts from the existing powerplants but adding 33-35% more thrust, according to industry officials. The aircraft also would be slated for a self-protection boost, with the common missile warning system and Raytheon's Comet pyrophoric flare pod considered the likely devices to be installed.
It seems to me that given all of the helo losses to small arms fire in Iraq, the military is looking toward fixed wing attack aircraft for ground support in the future.
35000' is high. On earth it is about 80 deg colder than the planetary mean at that altitude. On Venus the effect might be more pronounced. It might be a more benign environment for a lander. I was hoping someone could calculate the temperature using Venus' adiabatic lapse rate. Oxidize in a CO2 atmosphere?
The issue is not that the free software community dislikes Trolltech. Trolltech has shown itself to be well meaning thus far. I think we all welcome their contribution. But what will happen to Qt when Trolltech is acquired, or liquidated. The GPL insures that vital source code, like Qt, is not tethered to the fortunes of its creator.
It would be more precise to say that the Muslim world hates the secular/Judeo-Christian democracies. The Muslim world reached its zenith in the 13th century and has been in a long decline since. Islamic law has proven to be just as weak a basis for good government in modern times as Christianity was in the middle ages. Most of the muslim world has not fully come to grips with this.
I know there are some high standing areas on Venus. Maxwell Montes rises about 35000' above the planetary mean. The lower pressure means lower temperature. Does anyone know what the average temperature of such regions might be? They might be better places for spacecraft to land.
The US has learned not to underestimate the destructive power of our overmatched enemies. A bunch of desert peasants caused untold $billions in economic damage with a minimal attack. Space-based weapons would be used to prevent the Kim Jong Il's of the world from lobbing a homebrew missle our way as his regime collapses.
The US no doubt has the power to keep space off limits for anyone for military arms race. Why in gods name then do they push the envelope so that other countries has to follow?Because our "allies" continue to proliferate weapons of mass destruction, and despite international treaties the UN is too feckless to do anything about it.
Lets hope the administration gets changed to something less warhappy and perhaps a it more interested in all US citizens than of enriching a few select people.Its morning in America, Bush/Chaney 2004!
People like Saul employ. They do not need to be employed.
Then it is not likely to be enough moisture to bind the soil either. I still think it is lame speculation. You would think the thermal emission spectrometer could detect small amounts of water easily if it were there.
It may even be the result of no water in it now but the result of residual salts left behind by existance of water at some point. Theoretically this could display these properties as well.Residual salts would be expected to bind the soil (duracrust), but not bind the soil to the rover wheels.
The very small particle size of Martian dust makes it likely that it sticks due to static charge. If the soil were moisture laden you would expect it to rapidly dry out and crust over (change appearance) on the wheels of the rover.
The story name...
Scientists: Bush Distorts Science
should read...
Liberal Scientists: Bush Distorts Science
The article says nothing about the ubiquity of membership of the group, or its political offiliations. More Democrat junk. I want to hear more about Sen. Kerry's alleged affairs.
I've got it! Try filling the balloon by blowing into it, then immediately placing on the device. The air will be within a few degrees of body temperature. What a dumb comment!