Principia is bullshit. Math cannot be reduced to first-order logic. You have to use intensional logic, and math operators, like epsilon - but whats the point? Today mathematical logic seems like mental masturbation disguised as research on perfect certainity.
I never seen anyone who used ad-supported version of Opera. People which are computer-literate enough to know Opera and use it, know also www.cracks.ru.
I am sorry, but methodology of deductive sciences isn't anything which can be given as apriori, absolute-truth-speaking knowledge. There is still much debate over nature of mathematical proof, and not everyone took Frege and Hilbert definitions.
Even in computer science most mathematical proofs, especially from set theory will be looked upon with disdain, especially when most algorythmic theories are based on the ideas of Heyting/Markov intuitionistic approach.
so, to say something about absolute certainity of mathematical proof - it's only valid if you BELIEVE that your taken from this Tarski guy methodology is valid. and this a BELIEF-based choice.
I fear my humble pII/400 laptop still runs with win98se/cygwin hybrid. should I immediately upgrade to windoze 5000?
Look interesting how many people still use this system. Its still the only quite modern OS from windows family which runs on old hardware. And quite a few people in my part of the world still use old hardware due to lack of $$$ for upgrading. After fast demise of WinME, were there an other option?
Leaving such large userbase without support isn't the Most Nice Thing To Do. But well, welcome in the capitalistic world.
Most professional office workers which I saw in Europe (Poland, Germany, Czech) never had any problems with cutting and pasting; they're quite skilled in using M$ Office. X middle mouse button isnt enough, isnt consistent and dont work between most applications.
If this system is targeted into corporate use, it need consistent clipboard support. Ctrl-c ctrl-v must work between all apps. Your typical Joe or Jenny Officeworker dont have patience or skill to play with X clipboard, he need easy way to copy pictures from his browser into spreadsheet, and spreadsheet into word processor.
Without this, most people will stick with their windoze boxes.
No firewall can help you, if your capital city could be turned into pile of concrete and flesh. Thousands of NK heavy guns, inertial missiles, one of the most powerful armies in the world which, without faint will die for its leader - and no force which can defend your border.
Obviously, most enemies of the US could use even civilian versions of GLONASS, Russian satellite navigation system. Its much more accurate than current american GPS and probably up to standards of Galileo.
And shooting russian satellites would be an act of war. answered with easy destruction of american satellites through ASAT C1 Kosmos missiles.
In this summer my friend has bought a nice receiver of GLONASS - a Russian Navy GPS system. Quite amazing little toy from Javad Navigations. Civilian version is precise enough to guide a tactical missile:) we got our coordinates with ten meter precision.
Probably military version is much better. And outside of US interferences: there are always Topol-M s targeted into Washington DC. Who wants nuclear war on such scale? Mutual Assured Destruction still works.
So whats the point in Galileo? if UE has no power to defend their systems, use Russian alternative. This is a wonder of competition.
Seems quite interessing, why such registry will be restricted only to the *sex* crimes? Something went terribly wrong during clash of the left-wing political correctness and right-wing neoconservative bashing. America seems quite mad on this field; like it could be The Most Important Thing in Life?
or maybe it is...?
And, where is nice old rule of equality before legal system?
no matter how many cpu's it will get. Maybe its better to invest time and resources in the David Deutsch research of quantum machines?
http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html
I vaguely remember alien beings from Polar Star with one naturally evolved gyrostabilised wheel, described in Piers Anthony "Cluster" series.
When Flint, book hero, incarnated through aura projection in the alien body, he cant even stand up. why, for the god sake, we have to abandon useful, nice pair of legs? we're not Polarians.
If you're ready to cope with different reality, you can. There's some americans in poland - and they live a quite good life. You dont need visa to come here. We need one to come to you.:) But you'll be no hailed. most people dislike americans here.
Its not stealing. Its infringing copyrights, and these are something which dont have universal value. In medieval world an idea of copyrighted work would be perceived as the sign of mad hubris - and we just dont know how the far future will be in this aspect.
For most people here, pirated versions of software are only chance to get job; when M$ Office stands for 500 euro, and you have to know it to get even simple secretary work - you must get a pirated copy and do your Excel training at home. And no. Open Source dont work. While its fun to play with Open Office sometimes:), you have to know M$ Office. Its not Germany, our goverment is totally corrupted, Micro$oft Poland has close friends with them. For business people, which speak "menagerish" language - dont even try to talk something other than M$.
And I must dissapoint you. we don't have communistic judges. probably never had. our judges comes from social elites, definitely pro-capitalistic and pro-american.
pirated games (and other software) are widely spread here. even with punishments from fines to 5years of jail, pirates continue to support us in cheap copies. typical prices in poland:
1 cd (game, productivity, OS - no difference): 2-3 euro. 1 cd (movies, mp3) - 1 euro.
licensed copy of windows XP - 100 euro. licensed, localised, new PC game from upper shelf - 30 euro. licensed game from bottom shelf - 12-15 euro.
ticket to the new hollywood movie - 3 euro. new SF book - 8 euro cost of hiring a room for student - 60 euro.
most people earn here about 250 euro monthly. (like math teacher, policemen, nurse...); best untergraduates can get 80-100 euro.
I suppose reality in China is much closer to ours, than yours:). dont judge people who live in much poorer parts of the world, ok? maybe at the end of century China will be richest part of the world, and we'll be pirating from them:).
I think US Army has no other choice; when most soldiers lack in fire discipline and fire drilling with their personal weapons, only way to gain upper hand lies in using high tech.
a kind of shame - gun more bright than his wielder? with development of XM8 as basic rifle for army, we'll finally see, what is better: simple weapon combined with good fire skill (like these new AK74) or sophisticaded weapon combined with little experience.
training has its price too...
[sorry for my english]
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Principia is bullshit. Math cannot be reduced to first-order logic. You have to use intensional logic, and math operators, like epsilon - but whats the point? Today mathematical logic seems like mental masturbation disguised as research on perfect certainity.
I never seen anyone who used ad-supported version of Opera. People which are computer-literate enough to know Opera and use it, know also www.cracks.ru.
Its not hard to get ridden of ads in Opera.
I am sorry, but methodology of deductive sciences isn't anything which can be given as apriori, absolute-truth-speaking knowledge. There is still much debate over nature of mathematical proof, and not everyone took Frege and Hilbert definitions.
Even in computer science most mathematical proofs, especially from set theory will be looked upon with disdain, especially when most algorythmic theories are based on the ideas of Heyting/Markov intuitionistic approach.
so, to say something about absolute certainity of mathematical proof - it's only valid if you BELIEVE that your taken from this Tarski guy methodology is valid. and this a BELIEF-based choice.
I fear my humble pII/400 laptop still runs with win98se/cygwin hybrid. should I immediately upgrade to windoze 5000?
Look interesting how many people still use this system. Its still the only quite modern OS from windows family which runs on old hardware. And quite a few people in my part of the world still use old hardware due to lack of $$$ for upgrading.
After fast demise of WinME, were there an other option?
Leaving such large userbase without support isn't the Most Nice Thing To Do. But well, welcome in the capitalistic world.
Most professional office workers which I saw in Europe (Poland, Germany, Czech) never had any problems with cutting and pasting; they're quite skilled in using M$ Office. X middle mouse button isnt enough, isnt consistent and dont work between most applications.
If this system is targeted into corporate use, it need consistent clipboard support. Ctrl-c ctrl-v must work between all apps. Your typical Joe or Jenny Officeworker dont have patience or skill to play with X clipboard, he need easy way to copy pictures from his browser into spreadsheet, and spreadsheet into word processor.
Without this, most people will stick with their windoze boxes.
Secure?
No firewall can help you, if your capital city could be turned into pile of concrete and flesh. Thousands of NK heavy guns, inertial missiles, one of the most powerful armies in the world which, without faint will die for its leader - and no force which can defend your border.
even Israel is more secure than South Korea.
Obviously, most enemies of the US could use even civilian versions of GLONASS, Russian satellite navigation system. Its much more accurate than current american GPS and probably up to standards of Galileo.
And shooting russian satellites would be an act of war. answered with easy destruction of american satellites through ASAT C1 Kosmos missiles.
In this summer my friend has bought a nice receiver of GLONASS - a Russian Navy GPS system. Quite amazing little toy from Javad Navigations. Civilian version is precise enough to guide a tactical missile :) we got our coordinates with ten meter precision.
Probably military version is much better. And outside of US interferences: there are always Topol-M s targeted into Washington DC. Who wants nuclear war on such scale? Mutual Assured Destruction still works.
So whats the point in Galileo? if UE has no power to defend their systems, use Russian alternative.
This is a wonder of competition.
for your pleasure: http://www.glonass-center.ru/
Seems quite interessing, why such registry will be restricted only to the *sex* crimes? Something went terribly wrong during clash of the left-wing political correctness and right-wing neoconservative bashing. America seems quite mad on this field; like it could be The Most Important Thing in Life?
or maybe it is...?
And, where is nice old rule of equality before legal system?
no matter how many cpu's it will get. Maybe its better to invest time and resources in the David Deutsch research of quantum machines? http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html
I vaguely remember alien beings from Polar Star with one naturally evolved gyrostabilised wheel, described in Piers Anthony "Cluster" series.
When Flint, book hero, incarnated through aura projection in the alien body, he cant even stand up. why, for the god sake, we have to abandon useful, nice pair of legs? we're not Polarians.
Simulation is just not enough. simulated fire dont burn my flesh. simulated poetry dont burn my mind.
Let Kurzweil simulate Hoelderlin. or ee cunnings. how far he can go with them?
(anyone has read: poietic software?)
If you're ready to cope with different reality, you can. There's some americans in poland - and they live a quite good life. You dont need visa to come here. We need one to come to you. :)
But you'll be no hailed. most people dislike americans here.
Its not stealing. Its infringing copyrights, and these are something which dont have universal value. In medieval world an idea of copyrighted work would be perceived as the sign of mad hubris - and we just dont know how the far future will be in this aspect.
:), you have to know M$ Office. Its not Germany, our goverment is totally corrupted, Micro$oft Poland has close friends with them. For business people, which speak "menagerish" language - dont even try to talk something other than M$.
:)
For most people here, pirated versions of software are only chance to get job; when M$ Office stands for 500 euro, and you have to know it to get even simple secretary work - you must get a pirated copy and do your Excel training at home. And no. Open Source dont work. While its fun to play with Open Office sometimes
And I must dissapoint you. we don't have communistic judges. probably never had. our judges comes from social elites, definitely pro-capitalistic and pro-american.
best regards from poor country
pirated games (and other software) are widely spread here. even with punishments from fines to 5years of jail, pirates continue to support us in cheap copies. typical prices in poland:
:). dont judge people who live in much poorer parts of the world, ok? maybe at the end of century China will be richest part of the world, and we'll be pirating from them :).
1 cd (game, productivity, OS - no difference): 2-3 euro.
1 cd (movies, mp3) - 1 euro.
licensed copy of windows XP - 100 euro.
licensed, localised, new PC game from upper shelf - 30 euro.
licensed game from bottom shelf - 12-15 euro.
ticket to the new hollywood movie - 3 euro.
new SF book - 8 euro
cost of hiring a room for student - 60 euro.
most people earn here about 250 euro monthly. (like math teacher, policemen, nurse...); best untergraduates can get 80-100 euro.
I suppose reality in China is much closer to ours, than yours
[sorry for my bad english]
I think US Army has no other choice; when most soldiers lack in fire discipline and fire drilling with their personal weapons, only way to gain upper hand lies in using high tech. a kind of shame - gun more bright than his wielder? with development of XM8 as basic rifle for army, we'll finally see, what is better: simple weapon combined with good fire skill (like these new AK74) or sophisticaded weapon combined with little experience. training has its price too... [sorry for my english]
combat robots will get combat promotions on the battlefield, and finally become generals themselves ;)
No, the humans will be serving as spare battery packs to the robots :)