I can give you the link to the heise story. Doesn't mention the specific cases in the NYT article though, just 'eine neue Klagewelle'. Babelfish for whoever's interested.
thank you for your recent communication re: our company policies. After careful consideration, we understand that you may no longer wish to be a stockholder in our company. Thus, we are delighted to inform you that we have already taken all appropriate steps and have reacquired your stocks in exchange for the enclosed vouchers. These vouchers can be spent on any Microsoft product on or before March the 30th 2006 (excludes software and non-Pc products, see terms and conditions).
a) "(...) the places where the zeta function outputs zero (which correspond to the troughs, or places where the landscape dips to sea-level) hold crucial information about the nature of the primes."
b) "There is an important sequence of numbers called "the moments of the Riemann zeta function.""
So, not only does it not, as far as I understand, claim that the zeroes of the zeta function are actually primes, it also doesn't say that the moments are on the hypothesised line of zeros.
Additionally, the first number in the moments of the Riemann zeta function is 1, also not a prime.
So the answer to your question seems to be that you have misunderstood the concepts - there does not seem to be any reason to expect any number in the moments of the Rieman zeta function to be prime.
For critical applications I imagine you'd use a RAID of flash disks just like a RAID of magnetic drives.
Yeah, I wonder... stick them all in a Mirror RAID and you'll be writing to each of them at the same rate, using up their rewrite cycles simultaneously. And when the Grim Writer comes, it will come for the entire array, not just one card. Granted, they won't fail at exactly the same write, but it's gonna be a close call - too close?
Re:Messed up sudoers
on
Sudo vs. Root
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Yes, you could indeed do this.
And in other news, opticians around the globe are surprised to find that hindsight is always 20/20.
Just to keep the pedantry going, the U.S:, like virtually all democratic countries is a representative democracy. At least I think that's what the parent was trying to say when he started nitpicking definitions. Not sure where he got the Republic bit from, the ancient Greeks had a direct democracy but IIRC they were actually a Republic too.
I used to like this defintion: A direct democracy is 3 guys and one girl in a room and one of the guys holds a vote making rape legal.
Hackers like me and you like Linux for many reasons -- but none of those reasons are particularly interesting to Joe Office Manager or Mom and Pop User.
Oh I don't know, I think the lack of spyware, advare and viruses would be quite interesting to all of them. Of course, MacOs has this too, but that requires Mac hardware.
I'm far from being a Mac Fanboy, but I think that in order for Linux to really be successful, what you need is a review saying 'This is just like OSX, but for free and works on your existing machine'. Windows only enters the equation as a reason to switch and being able to keep your machine will make switching easier for a lot of people.
You are of course completely right (except on how close I am to the story - it does say that God told him to invade the countries in the first lines - invasion is pretty close to war, I'd say) and no, I don't really consider a 2 year old paraphrase a very reliable source of information. This was just meant as a slightly sarcastic snapback at the parent, which I would have thought was obvious given the context of the parent. I find the fact that I got +4 Insightful (as opposed to the aimed for +2 Funny or the expected -1 Troll) quite insightful (and ironic) in itself - to paraphrase one of your siblings, it does tell a lot about slashdot if an Anti-Bush comment (in a thread about inventions!) gets modded that way;)
also the number of times the Gimp will be mentioned here.
Oh come on, this is slashdot. Do you really think we'd stop at 42 when we can mention something that puts M$ to shame? Unless of course you are counting in Base 256 or something...;)
I like my "scientific findings" to come in the form of published articles, not a note in a random newspaper I've never heard of. So I googled around a little bit and it turns out that this is the PhD Thesis of this Bill Strauss guy. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the thesis online, nor any papers published by that fellow during the writing of said thesis. So I'll be taking this with a grain of salt, as I don't know what the requirements on quality for getting a PhD at Cargenie Mellon University is either.
Couldn't Dan Brown then sue them in turn for entrapment?:) Presenting fiction as a fact so that other people use that idea, then sue them when they do?:)
And every bookshop could sue for the costs it takes to move the book from the non-fiction section to the fiction section, the publishers could sue for being intentionally misled (or whatever you call that). And for icing on the cake, the church could probably excommunicate the lot of them. Not to mention the fact that the Big Boss probably doesn't like people who spread lies about his only son too much, so I imagine they'll be in for a lot of fire and brimstone eventually.
You know, I think it really is in their best interest to keep pretending that it's all fact:)
With all due respect, that's bull. It's been said before, HBHG presents this as a historical fact and as such can't be copyrighted. They did their research, this is what they found, they presented it. They did not invent it. This is rather like whoever first wrote a biography of Stalin sueing every filmmaker and every author who has used Stalin in his/her work.
It's a PR gag, that's all it is. Sales of HBHG will shoot upwards, they get back in everyone's minds, never mind the lost case.
As for the middle-finger interpretation... that's not even worthy of a comment. Especially since the book itself is actually also acknowledged in the DaVinci Code.
How can it be a nightmare to drag'n'drop Mp3 Files onto your player using Windows Explorer and nothing else? As opposed to having to install software, figuring out how it all works, and then maybe be able to copy stuff over?
Well, I don't know about video, but according to Cnet:
The sucker punch here may be the transfer software -- there is none. Samsung has wisely avoided the self-destructive policy of companies like Sony, which uses a proprietary transfer software hot from the depths of hell. Samsung's new player is drag-and-drop, which means it works just like an external hard disk -- making the YP-Z5 completely platform independent.
Now I don't know about you, but to me this sounds like a Very Good Thing (tm), esp. for those of us who don't use Windows.
Well, perhaps the Democrats are trying to frame Bush, making it look like he rigged the election in order to get him impeached...
And no, I don't believe that. But if people need a conspiracy theory (and there's already plenty of posts on how it's oh-so-obvious that Bush rigged the election), it's worth remembering that you can always spin it either way.
Why does anyone want to take a step back from a polished, finished OS? What does this gain the user?
Consider this :
1. Take one clueless Mac fanboy
2. Take one Intel Mac with Gentoo, a pretty Bootsplash picture and booting directly into something like ratpoison.
3. Point out to the Mac fanboy that he is looking at MacOS 10.5 of which you have secured a sneak preview copy.
4. Point out to the Mac fanboy that there is no mouse attached to your Mac.
5. Point out to the Mac fanboy that this is because Apple is taking simplicity to a new level with the "0 Button Mouse approach (tm)".
6. Tell the Mac fanboy to have some fun while you put the kettle on.
7. Leave the room.
8. Watch in secret as the Mac Fanboy suffers a complete breakdown. It really is quite funny. The panic in their eyes. The droplets of sweat forming on their foreheads. The spasms in their right arm as they keep reaching for the mouse. The tears. And the scream, the scream is really beautiful. No two ever scream alike.
Slashdot Mirror
I can give you the link to the heise story. Doesn't mention the specific cases in the NYT article though, just 'eine neue Klagewelle'. Babelfish for whoever's interested.
Dear MikeRT,
thank you for your recent communication re: our company policies. After careful consideration, we understand that you may no longer wish to be a stockholder in our company. Thus, we are delighted to inform you that we have already taken all appropriate steps and have reacquired your stocks in exchange for the enclosed vouchers. These vouchers can be spent on any Microsoft product on or before March the 30th 2006 (excludes software and non-Pc products, see terms and conditions).
Yours sincerely,
Steve
I'm not a mathematician, but just from TFA:
a) "(...) the places where the zeta function outputs zero (which correspond to the troughs, or places where the landscape dips to sea-level) hold crucial information about the nature of the primes."
b) "There is an important sequence of numbers called "the moments of the Riemann zeta function.""
So, not only does it not, as far as I understand, claim that the zeroes of the zeta function are actually primes, it also doesn't say that the moments are on the hypothesised line of zeros.
Additionally, the first number in the moments of the Riemann zeta function is 1, also not a prime.
So the answer to your question seems to be that you have misunderstood the concepts - there does not seem to be any reason to expect any number in the moments of the Rieman zeta function to be prime.
Naw, it's just an indication of an R&D department working 28 hours a day trying to catch up with the promises of the Marketing department.
Don't you think the card will be obsolete by the time Duke Nukem Forever comes out?
Yes, you could indeed do this.
:)
And in other news, opticians around the globe are surprised to find that hindsight is always 20/20.
Well, you never know, they might just scp stuff to each other....
no email account != unable to communicate efficiently
Just to keep the pedantry going, the U.S:, like virtually all democratic countries is a representative democracy. At least I think that's what the parent was trying to say when he started nitpicking definitions. Not sure where he got the Republic bit from, the ancient Greeks had a direct democracy but IIRC they were actually a Republic too.
I used to like this defintion:
A direct democracy is 3 guys and one girl in a room and one of the guys holds a vote making rape legal.
I'm far from being a Mac Fanboy, but I think that in order for Linux to really be successful, what you need is a review saying 'This is just like OSX, but for free and works on your existing machine'. Windows only enters the equation as a reason to switch and being able to keep your machine will make switching easier for a lot of people.
You are of course completely right (except on how close I am to the story - it does say that God told him to invade the countries in the first lines - invasion is pretty close to war, I'd say) and no, I don't really consider a 2 year old paraphrase a very reliable source of information. This was just meant as a slightly sarcastic snapback at the parent, which I would have thought was obvious given the context of the parent. ;)
I find the fact that I got +4 Insightful (as opposed to the aimed for +2 Funny or the expected -1 Troll) quite insightful (and ironic) in itself - to paraphrase one of your siblings, it does tell a lot about slashdot if an Anti-Bush comment (in a thread about inventions!) gets modded that way
Oh come on, this is slashdot. Do you really think we'd stop at 42 when we can mention something that puts M$ to shame? Unless of course you are counting in Base 256 or something...
I like my "scientific findings" to come in the form of published articles, not a note in a random newspaper I've never heard of. So I googled around a little bit and it turns out that this is the PhD Thesis of this Bill Strauss guy. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the thesis online, nor any papers published by that fellow during the writing of said thesis. So I'll be taking this with a grain of salt, as I don't know what the requirements on quality for getting a PhD at Cargenie Mellon University is either.
Couldn't Dan Brown then sue them in turn for entrapment? :) Presenting fiction as a fact so that other people use that idea, then sue them when they do? :)
:)
And every bookshop could sue for the costs it takes to move the book from the non-fiction section to the fiction section, the publishers could sue for being intentionally misled (or whatever you call that). And for icing on the cake, the church could probably excommunicate the lot of them. Not to mention the fact that the Big Boss probably doesn't like people who spread lies about his only son too much, so I imagine they'll be in for a lot of fire and brimstone eventually.
You know, I think it really is in their best interest to keep pretending that it's all fact
With all due respect, that's bull. It's been said before, HBHG presents this as a historical fact and as such can't be copyrighted. They did their research, this is what they found, they presented it. They did not invent it. This is rather like whoever first wrote a biography of Stalin sueing every filmmaker and every author who has used Stalin in his/her work.
It's a PR gag, that's all it is. Sales of HBHG will shoot upwards, they get back in everyone's minds, never mind the lost case.
As for the middle-finger interpretation... that's not even worthy of a comment. Especially since the book itself is actually also acknowledged in the DaVinci Code.
How can it be a nightmare to drag'n'drop Mp3 Files onto your player using Windows Explorer and nothing else? As opposed to having to install software, figuring out how it all works, and then maybe be able to copy stuff over?
Now I don't know about you, but to me this sounds like a Very Good Thing (tm), esp. for those of us who don't use Windows.
Well, perhaps the Democrats are trying to frame Bush, making it look like he rigged the election in order to get him impeached...
And no, I don't believe that. But if people need a conspiracy theory (and there's already plenty of posts on how it's oh-so-obvious that Bush rigged the election), it's worth remembering that you can always spin it either way.
Consider this
:
1. Take one clueless Mac fanboy
2. Take one Intel Mac with Gentoo, a pretty Bootsplash picture and booting directly into something like ratpoison.
3. Point out to the Mac fanboy that he is looking at MacOS 10.5 of which you have secured a sneak preview copy.
4. Point out to the Mac fanboy that there is no mouse attached to your Mac.
5. Point out to the Mac fanboy that this is because Apple is taking simplicity to a new level with the "0 Button Mouse approach (tm)".
6. Tell the Mac fanboy to have some fun while you put the kettle on.
7. Leave the room.
8. Watch in secret as the Mac Fanboy suffers a complete breakdown. It really is quite funny. The panic in their eyes. The droplets of sweat forming on their foreheads. The spasms in their right arm as they keep reaching for the mouse. The tears. And the scream, the scream is really beautiful. No two ever scream alike.
There was, but do not fret. According to leading prophets, this is just a temporary setback.
At first I was going to crack a joke on how hard it would be to circle-strafe-jump on a mobile phone.
Then I realised that kids who can text at 40 characters per second probably won't even blink at the difficulty.
You know you're getting old when you still need a mouse and a keyboard for FPS games...
Serious. Now let me just create another account and say "Sarcastic"... thanks for the money!