Now obviously, being cleared 15 years after your first conviction doesn't count. Nor does having the chief witness recanting their testimony.
I don't know the first thing about the case, and, given that your source of "information" seems to be the American Communist Liberties Union, I wouldn't trust a single aspect of your recounting of the facts of the case, but, if we assume for the sake of argument that "the chief witness" recanted her [or his] testimony, then the fault here lies not with The People of the State of Florida [i.e. the prosecution], BUT RATHER WITH "THE CHIEF WITNESS" WHO PERJURED HER- [OR HIM-] SELF!!!
Human courts are only as good as the human witnesses who choose to honor [or dishonor] their oaths to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
If we are a nation of liars, who dishonor our sacred [well, really secular] oaths, then we will get the court systems we deserve.
I realize it's a really big [as in REALLY BIG] subject, but do you know of any books that treat this sort of thing very well?
Also, because the Cell can perform so many single-precision floating point operations in parallel, do you know of any good texts which concentrate on the theory of the parallelization of common floating point algorithms [or, better yet, on the provability of the NON-existence of parallelization of floating point algorithms]?
As game developers we spend a huge amount of our time 1) organizing data 2) feeding that data to someplace to operate on it 3) sending that data back to step one to repeat the process
I assume that most of this "operating on it" involves floating point operations on triangles.
And I suppose that most of the results are essentially triplets of eight bit RGB [red, green, blue] values [i.e. your results are expressed in 24-bit color], and I assume that you rarely venture much beyond screen sizes of about 1600 X 1200 pixels, or refresh rates much greater than about 60 frames per second.
Now current instantiations of the Cell processor can only perform 32-bit [single precision] floating point operations in hardware; as I understand it, 64-bit [double precision] floating point operations suffer an enormous performance penalty by contrast.
But 32-bit [single precision] floating point numbers are notoriously inaccurate; for instance, they begin to lose integer granularity as early as 16 million [2^24].
So here's my question: Have you seen any instances where 32-bit [single precision] floating point number rounding error caused unacceptable inaccuracies?
Any of your triangles come out blurry, or mis-colored, or mis-placed, or mis-aligned, simply because 32-bit floating point calculations were insufficiently exact for, say, 24 bits of color, 1600 x 1200 pixels, and 60 frames per second?
it's not-so-strongly-typed variables, funny rounding rules and so on
I know they're like [pagan] Gods to an awful lotta people in the CS community, but The Founders of The Art, guys like Kernighan, and Ritchie, who had the chance to insist that a declaration actually mean something, but hesitated, and hemmed and hawed, and got all wishy-washy, and finally decided [really deferred a decision until it was too late to make a decision] that a declaration could mean any-damned*-thing that the implementor wanted to interpret it to mean, well those guys, those pagan Gods of the Founding Arts, seriously - someone should take them out behind the toolshed and whip their asses** [if not shoot them outright].
So now, fast forward 30 or 40 years, and we've got:
"floats" in the ATI GPU world that are only 24 bits in length
"floats" in the nVidia/Microsoft/IBM/Sony/Cell world that are 32 bits in length
"floats" in the classical Unix world [e.g. SunOS/Solaris] that are 64 bits in length
etc etc etc
And then you go to do something in VB, or in Javascript, and you get shit** like
2 + 2 = 4.0000000000012459
or, what's even worse,
2 + 2 = 22
and you end up having to write shit**** like
var i = parseInt(2); var j = parseInt(2); var k = parseInt(parseInt(i) + parseInt(j));
window.alert(i + " + " + j + " = " + k);
and you scream at your computer, "YES, THESE ARE NUMBERS, NOT CHARACTER STRINGS, YOU GOD-DAMNED***** COMPILER/INTERPRETER/SYNTAX/PARADIGM/NIGHTMARE OF A SACK OF SHIT******!!!!!"
PS: There is a special circle in Hell******* for the sonuva bitch******** who dreamed up the idea of interpreting variable types on the fly...
*Pardon my French.
**Pardon my French a second time.
***Pardon my French a third time.
****Pardon my French a fourth time.
*****Pardon my French a fifth time.
******Pardon my French a sixth time.
*******Pardon my French a seventh time.
********Pardon my French a final time.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish reading all the new posts on 66.35.250.150.
Base-Ten CHAUVINIST!!!
What about societies that use Base 2 [binary], or Base 8 [octal], or Base 16 [hexadecimal]?
Or entire societies, like the British empire, which use no base at all?
12 inches in a foot.
3 feet in a yard.
1760 yards in a mile...
60 seconds in a minute.
60 minutes in a hour.
24 hours in a day.
7 days in a week.
52 weeks in a year [give or take]...
Or how about base 12?
12 keys in a chromatic scale:
A 440, then, logarithmically [give or take a little well-tempering]: A#, B, B# == C [kinda sorta], C#, D, D#, E, E# == F [kinda sorta], F#, G, G#, and finally A 880.
Except that on the continent, things are often just a little sharper - say A 443/444/445 & A 886/888/890...
And let's not even get into water freeezing & boiling at 32 & 212 versus 0 & 100...
As a professor I see much of this has been solved as far as curriculum for Computer Science is concerned...
A student needs at least math theory through discrete mathematics, and better yet through calculus...
You're a "professor" of "computer science" and you think all a "computer scientist" needs is "discrete mathematics" [whatever the hell that is]?
Maybe, just maybe, a "computer scientist" might want to know just a little linear algebra & hilbert space theory, so that when they are asked to run a least squares regression, they'll have just the vaguest idea what all that AA* stuff is about?
Or maybe they might need to know just a little bit about fourier analysis & the discrete fourier transform, so that they might understand the manifest importance of the improvement from O(n^2) to O(nlog(n))?
Or maybe they might need to know some group theory, so that they could understand something like the Polya-Burnside method?
Good grief, and people wonder why the Chinese & Indians are cleaning our clocks...
A) To the parent - expect to be modded down as "-1 Nazi". Get used to it - it comes with the territory.
B) I think that the original poster's idea for a PhD thesis is utterly gay, but
C) I've always thought that the Hindi [and others hailing from the Jewel in the Crown - I dunno, maybe Zoroastrians as well] have a tendency to engage in a fuzzier mode of thinking than do we in The West.
Westerners, coming out of what you might call the Euclidean School, tend to start with a set of axioms, and try work from there to further conclusions.
The Hindi, on the other hand, often seem to come at things from a more - I dunno what you'd call it - "aggregative" point of view: If there's a big fuzzy cloud of evidence that points towards the acceptability of a thing, then they'll tend to accept it, even if they can't prove it to themselves in a more strictly Euclidean fashion.
Well, whatever...
PS: Getting back to the question of genetics, the Hindi don't seem to grok diatonic music [Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, etc], whereas the Han & the Japanese & the Koreans can't seem to get enough of it.
Did Novell ever get around to porting Novell Storage Services [NSS] to Linux?
NSS was the B-Tree successor to the old allocation table NetWare file system, and it had all the permissions and attributes that were unique to the Novell World:
Read
Write
Create
Erase
Modify
File Scan
Access Control
Supervisor
So did Novell ever get around to porting an R/W/C/E/M/FS/AC/S file system to Linux, to be used in place of the standard Unix RWX/RWX/RWX file system?
Sorry but I think the kernel should be off limits. Leave that to Microsoft and hold them wholly accountable to preventing issues with it.
On one hand people bitch about MS's lack of security yet when they do essentially what is asked it is claimed they only did it to be uncompetitive.
Make up your mind. Or is just permanent open season on MS?
Exactly.
That is why we got such awful security in Internet Explorer [although for the opposite reason]: Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the Clinton administration was suing Microsoft over their "monopolistic" marketshare, and because of that [vis-a-vis Netscape and their browser], Microsoft was forced to integrate Internet Explorer into the operating system so that they could say to the Justice Department that they couldn't ship a version of Windows without it.
Fast forward eight or ten years, and now we've got the reverse: Microsoft is forced to open up the operating system to appease EU regulators who want all of their security vendors to be able to get a cut of the action.
In either direction [governments forcing Microsoft browsers into the operating system, governments forcing third party vendors into the operating system], what you get is government-induced mayhem.
But of course that's not the politically correct point of view here at Slashdot, so expect me to get modded down to "-1 Troll".
Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about a service which can give the probability of the accuracy of statements made by politicians, among other things.
GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"
Elton John helps raise money for Gore
September 20, 2000
Web posted at: 9:40 AM EDT (1340 GMT)
ATHERTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Flamboyant rock star Elton John, making his first foray into American politics after three decades of performing in the United States, endorsed Vice President Al Gore at a ritzy Silicon Valley fund-raiser.
John, the entertainer at a $10,000-a-plate dinner Tuesday, began his set with "Your Song." But before his next number, he showed his political stripes to the business leaders of America's technological mecca...
The fund-raiser, at the home of Novell Corp. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, raised $3.25 million for the Democratic National Committee...
Well the only way I can think of making health care less labor-intensive is to use robots. Lots of 'em. Or some kind of super robot that can do everything like cleaning bedpans, checking blood pressure, bathing patients, flirting with the X-ray machines etc. We could call it Super Robot, or maybe Frank. I think I prefer Frank.
Or, on the women's wards, Consuela.
[Why do you think that The Powers That Be import them by the millions every year?]
And you're gonna learn real quickly the Fundamental Maxim of Bidness 101: You can't sell nuttin' to people what ain't got no money.
People whine and bitch and moan about "the rich getting richer", but without the rich, all checks would bounce.
So find some people with some money who are willing to part with it in order to get their computers repaired.
Otherwise you'll be wasting not only your time, but whatever money you invest in servicing these creeps.
PS: Far, far and away the biggest problem you will see is people who have installed TOO MUCH software on their computers [to include not only malware and viruses, but also plain old cruft that they never use, like Adobe, Real Player, and Quicktime update services that run in the background & hog CPU time]. Removing this crap is easy if you wipe the harddrive clean and perform a new install from scratch, but doing that will also wipe clean the programs that they DO use [and their bookmarks, address books, etc], and then they will be REALLY furious. On the other hand, removing this stuff by hand can take days on end, which means that an honest billing for your services will come out in the multi-1000 $$$'s, which gets you back to finding rich people who actually care enough about the data on their computers to want to pay you for your services.
PPS: Far and away your most common hardware problem will be dead power supplies.
The article basically states that when they turned off the flow of ink-4, embyyonic stem cells were free to divide without check. The mice without the ability to produce ink-4 developed cancer within a year and died.
There's a famous principle in Mathematics & Quantum Mechanics, first discovered by the British mathematician GH Hardy, and then refined by Heisenberg, which states that both a function & its Fourier transform cannot decay too rapidly [otherwise the function is identically zero].
So it sounds like The Designer of the Universe [a pretty intelligent Fellow, from what I hear] may have placed the very same restrictions on the stuff He created on Day 5 as He did on the stuff He created way back on Day 1.
Personally what EVERYONE missed is that Apple pulled off the fastest platform switch EVER. Less then ONE YEAR after the announcement, other then repaired machines or refurbs, all new equipment coming from Apple are now running on the Intel platform.
1 Talented & Gifted Dallas Texas
2 Jefferson County IBS** Irondale Ala.
3 BASIS Charter Tucson Ariz.
4 City Honors** Buffalo N.Y.
5 Stanton College Prep** Jacksonville Fla.
6 Eastside** Gainesville Fla.
7 Suncoast Community** Riviera Beach Fla.
8 Science/Engineering Magnet Dallas Texas
9 International Academy* Bloomfield Hills
10 Academic Magnet North Charleston S.C.
11 Science Academy of South Texas Mercedes Texas
12 North Hills School** Irving Texas
13 H-B Woodlawn Arlington Va.
14 Eastern Sierra Academy Bridgeport Calif.
15 Richard Montgomery** Rockville Md.
16 Myers Park** Charlotte N.C.
17 Classen School of Advanced Studies** Oklahoma City Okla.
18 Highland Park Dallas Texas
19 Clarke County** Berryville Va.
20 Little Rock Central Little Rock Ark.
21 Hillsborough** Tampa Fla.
22 San Diego High School of International Studies* San Diego Calif.
23 John Miller-Great Neck North Great Neck N.Y.
24 Wilson Magnet** Rochester N.Y.
25 Atlantic Community** Delray Beach Fla.
ETC.
Flyover country seems to be mighty well represented on some of these lists...
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Now obviously, being cleared 15 years after your first conviction doesn't count. Nor does having the chief witness recanting their testimony.
I don't know the first thing about the case, and, given that your source of "information" seems to be the American Communist Liberties Union, I wouldn't trust a single aspect of your recounting of the facts of the case, but, if we assume for the sake of argument that "the chief witness" recanted her [or his] testimony, then the fault here lies not with The People of the State of Florida [i.e. the prosecution], BUT RATHER WITH "THE CHIEF WITNESS" WHO PERJURED HER- [OR HIM-] SELF!!!
Human courts are only as good as the human witnesses who choose to honor [or dishonor] their oaths to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
If we are a nation of liars, who dishonor our sacred [well, really secular] oaths, then we will get the court systems we deserve.
I realize it's a really big [as in REALLY BIG] subject, but do you know of any books that treat this sort of thing very well?
Also, because the Cell can perform so many single-precision floating point operations in parallel, do you know of any good texts which concentrate on the theory of the parallelization of common floating point algorithms [or, better yet, on the provability of the NON-existence of parallelization of floating point algorithms]?
As game developers we spend a huge amount of our time 1) organizing data 2) feeding that data to someplace to operate on it 3) sending that data back to step one to repeat the process
I assume that most of this "operating on it" involves floating point operations on triangles.
And I suppose that most of the results are essentially triplets of eight bit RGB [red, green, blue] values [i.e. your results are expressed in 24-bit color], and I assume that you rarely venture much beyond screen sizes of about 1600 X 1200 pixels, or refresh rates much greater than about 60 frames per second.
Now current instantiations of the Cell processor can only perform 32-bit [single precision] floating point operations in hardware; as I understand it, 64-bit [double precision] floating point operations suffer an enormous performance penalty by contrast.
But 32-bit [single precision] floating point numbers are notoriously inaccurate; for instance, they begin to lose integer granularity as early as 16 million [2^24].
So here's my question: Have you seen any instances where 32-bit [single precision] floating point number rounding error caused unacceptable inaccuracies?
Any of your triangles come out blurry, or mis-colored, or mis-placed, or mis-aligned, simply because 32-bit floating point calculations were insufficiently exact for, say, 24 bits of color, 1600 x 1200 pixels, and 60 frames per second?
it's not-so-strongly-typed variables, funny rounding rules and so on
I know they're like [pagan] Gods to an awful lotta people in the CS community, but The Founders of The Art, guys like Kernighan, and Ritchie, who had the chance to insist that a declaration actually mean something, but hesitated, and hemmed and hawed, and got all wishy-washy, and finally decided [really deferred a decision until it was too late to make a decision] that a declaration could mean any-damned*-thing that the implementor wanted to interpret it to mean, well those guys, those pagan Gods of the Founding Arts, seriously - someone should take them out behind the toolshed and whip their asses** [if not shoot them outright].
So now, fast forward 30 or 40 years, and we've got:
And then you go to do something in VB, or in Javascript, and you get shit** like
or, what's even worse,
and you end up having to write shit**** like
and you scream at your computer, "YES, THESE ARE NUMBERS, NOT CHARACTER STRINGS, YOU GOD-DAMNED***** COMPILER/INTERPRETER/SYNTAX/PARADIGM/NIGHTMARE OF A SACK OF SHIT******!!!!!"
PS: There is a special circle in Hell******* for the sonuva bitch******** who dreamed up the idea of interpreting variable types on the fly...
*Pardon my French.
**Pardon my French a second time.
***Pardon my French a third time.
****Pardon my French a fourth time.
*****Pardon my French a fifth time.
******Pardon my French a sixth time.
*******Pardon my French a seventh time.
********Pardon my French a final time.
Marie Curie but no Emmy Noether?
Pshaw.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish reading all the new posts on 66.35.250.150.
Base-Ten CHAUVINIST!!!
What about societies that use Base 2 [binary], or Base 8 [octal], or Base 16 [hexadecimal]?
Or entire societies, like the British empire, which use no base at all?
12 inches in a foot. 3 feet in a yard. 1760 yards in a mile...
60 seconds in a minute. 60 minutes in a hour. 24 hours in a day. 7 days in a week. 52 weeks in a year [give or take]...
Or how about base 12?
12 keys in a chromatic scale: A 440, then, logarithmically [give or take a little well-tempering]: A#, B, B# == C [kinda sorta], C#, D, D#, E, E# == F [kinda sorta], F#, G, G#, and finally A 880.
Except that on the continent, things are often just a little sharper - say A 443/444/445 & A 886/888/890...
And let's not even get into water freeezing & boiling at 32 & 212 versus 0 & 100...
As a professor I see much of this has been solved as far as curriculum for Computer Science is concerned...
A student needs at least math theory through discrete mathematics, and better yet through calculus...
You're a "professor" of "computer science" and you think all a "computer scientist" needs is "discrete mathematics" [whatever the hell that is]?
Maybe, just maybe, a "computer scientist" might want to know just a little linear algebra & hilbert space theory, so that when they are asked to run a least squares regression, they'll have just the vaguest idea what all that AA* stuff is about?
Or maybe they might need to know just a little bit about fourier analysis & the discrete fourier transform, so that they might understand the manifest importance of the improvement from O(n^2) to O(nlog(n))?
Or maybe they might need to know some group theory, so that they could understand something like the Polya-Burnside method?
Good grief, and people wonder why the Chinese & Indians are cleaning our clocks...
Even coming up with a system that saved 1.2 million a year in expenses warranted only an 'attaboy'.
Okay, either:
1) Your manager [or your chain of management] was/were completely incompetent bozos, or else
2) Unbeknownst to you, THEY took the credit [with the higher-ups] for the 1.2 million in savings, and THEY pocketed the year-end performance bonuses.
Or maybe some combination of 1) & 2) above.
Three points:
A) To the parent - expect to be modded down as "-1 Nazi". Get used to it - it comes with the territory.
B) I think that the original poster's idea for a PhD thesis is utterly gay, but
C) I've always thought that the Hindi [and others hailing from the Jewel in the Crown - I dunno, maybe Zoroastrians as well] have a tendency to engage in a fuzzier mode of thinking than do we in The West.
Westerners, coming out of what you might call the Euclidean School, tend to start with a set of axioms, and try work from there to further conclusions.
The Hindi, on the other hand, often seem to come at things from a more - I dunno what you'd call it - "aggregative" point of view: If there's a big fuzzy cloud of evidence that points towards the acceptability of a thing, then they'll tend to accept it, even if they can't prove it to themselves in a more strictly Euclidean fashion.
Well, whatever...
PS: Getting back to the question of genetics, the Hindi don't seem to grok diatonic music [Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, etc], whereas the Han & the Japanese & the Koreans can't seem to get enough of it.
Go figure.
this whole thing is just ridiculous... but the basic tools to provide systemic distributed security have been published for quite some time
What's ridiculous is that these systems are getting so damned complex that now we've got pwning via buffer overflows in video card drivers.
When you can't even trust your own hardware not to betray you, then who you gonna call? Ghost busters?
Did Novell ever get around to porting Novell Storage Services [NSS] to Linux?
NSS was the B-Tree successor to the old allocation table NetWare file system, and it had all the permissions and attributes that were unique to the Novell World:
So did Novell ever get around to porting an R/W/C/E/M/FS/AC/S file system to Linux, to be used in place of the standard Unix RWX/RWX/RWX file system?
And if so, is anyone out there using it?
Sorry but I think the kernel should be off limits. Leave that to Microsoft and hold them wholly accountable to preventing issues with it. On one hand people bitch about MS's lack of security yet when they do essentially what is asked it is claimed they only did it to be uncompetitive. Make up your mind. Or is just permanent open season on MS?
Exactly.
That is why we got such awful security in Internet Explorer [although for the opposite reason]: Back in the mid-to-late 1990s, the Clinton administration was suing Microsoft over their "monopolistic" marketshare, and because of that [vis-a-vis Netscape and their browser], Microsoft was forced to integrate Internet Explorer into the operating system so that they could say to the Justice Department that they couldn't ship a version of Windows without it.
Fast forward eight or ten years, and now we've got the reverse: Microsoft is forced to open up the operating system to appease EU regulators who want all of their security vendors to be able to get a cut of the action.
In either direction [governments forcing Microsoft browsers into the operating system, governments forcing third party vendors into the operating system], what you get is government-induced mayhem.
But of course that's not the politically correct point of view here at Slashdot, so expect me to get modded down to "-1 Troll".
Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about a service which can give the probability of the accuracy of statements made by politicians, among other things.
GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/28/1944
Elton John helps raise money for Gore
September 20, 2000
Web posted at: 9:40 AM EDT (1340 GMT)
ATHERTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Flamboyant rock star Elton John, making his first foray into American politics after three decades of performing in the United States, endorsed Vice President Al Gore at a ritzy Silicon Valley fund-raiser.
John, the entertainer at a $10,000-a-plate dinner Tuesday, began his set with "Your Song." But before his next number, he showed his political stripes to the business leaders of America's technological mecca...
The fund-raiser, at the home of Novell Corp. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, raised $3.25 million for the Democratic National Committee...
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/0
We have more than 800 ide disks in the systems I maintain. We have a very low failure rate - and if something fails its likely a ibm/hitachi disk.
If not IBM/Hitachi, then whose drives have worked well for you?
Thanks!
ZDNet is reporting that OpenSSL versions up to 0.9.7j and 0.9.8b are vulnerable to a signature forgery technique.
Did OpenBSD ship with any of this code?
If so, then wouldn't this be Theo's second pwning?
Poor and stupid are two distinct groups.
No, the truth of the matter is that there is an almost perfect correlation between stupidity [respectively genius] and poverty [respectively wealth].
Sorry, but that's the ugly truth of the matter, and no amount of whining, bitching, or moaning will change things.
I heartily recommend the work of the pseudonymous author, Spengler, at The Asia Times:
As a good introduction, allow me to suggest the following essay:
And if you're interested, he has a forum:
Whether you like it or not, one of the really important parts of college are the experiences and bonding.
Dude, college is about bonding WITH CHICKS.
Let's face it - bonding with all of you fags is, uh, well, for fags.
Well the only way I can think of making health care less labor-intensive is to use robots. Lots of 'em. Or some kind of super robot that can do everything like cleaning bedpans, checking blood pressure, bathing patients, flirting with the X-ray machines etc. We could call it Super Robot, or maybe Frank. I think I prefer Frank.
Or, on the women's wards, Consuela.
[Why do you think that The Powers That Be import them by the millions every year?]
Be prepared for bounced checks.
Yep.
And you're gonna learn real quickly the Fundamental Maxim of Bidness 101: You can't sell nuttin' to people what ain't got no money.
People whine and bitch and moan about "the rich getting richer", but without the rich, all checks would bounce.
So find some people with some money who are willing to part with it in order to get their computers repaired.
Otherwise you'll be wasting not only your time, but whatever money you invest in servicing these creeps.
PS: Far, far and away the biggest problem you will see is people who have installed TOO MUCH software on their computers [to include not only malware and viruses, but also plain old cruft that they never use, like Adobe, Real Player, and Quicktime update services that run in the background & hog CPU time]. Removing this crap is easy if you wipe the harddrive clean and perform a new install from scratch, but doing that will also wipe clean the programs that they DO use [and their bookmarks, address books, etc], and then they will be REALLY furious. On the other hand, removing this stuff by hand can take days on end, which means that an honest billing for your services will come out in the multi-1000 $$$'s, which gets you back to finding rich people who actually care enough about the data on their computers to want to pay you for your services.
PPS: Far and away your most common hardware problem will be dead power supplies.
The article basically states that when they turned off the flow of ink-4, embyyonic stem cells were free to divide without check. The mice without the ability to produce ink-4 developed cancer within a year and died.
There's a famous principle in Mathematics & Quantum Mechanics, first discovered by the British mathematician GH Hardy, and then refined by Heisenberg, which states that both a function & its Fourier transform cannot decay too rapidly [otherwise the function is identically zero].
Or, as Mic Jagger put it: You can't always get what you want.
So it sounds like The Designer of the Universe [a pretty intelligent Fellow, from what I hear] may have placed the very same restrictions on the stuff He created on Day 5 as He did on the stuff He created way back on Day 1.
I'm just here for the Bud Light.
Personally what EVERYONE missed is that Apple pulled off the fastest platform switch EVER. Less then ONE YEAR after the announcement, other then repaired machines or refurbs, all new equipment coming from Apple are now running on the Intel platform.
Can you say "microkernel"?
Avie Tevanian: He who laughs last laughs best.
Matt Damon has been cast to play a young James T. Kirk...
William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931. He was 35 years old when Star Trek debuted on September 8, 1966.
Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970. He will be 36 years old before they even begin filming.
Something is seriously whacked in our culture when our "best" leading men can easily pass as characters 10 or 15 years younger than their actual ages.
Can you say "girly men"?
Or do we just prefer a little effeteness with our metrosexuality?
Apropros a previous poster who wanted to dis 'Bama & Idaho, how many correspond with the best public schools in America?
Flyover country seems to be mighty well represented on some of these lists...