I fully agree with parent. I'm not a perfect speller, especially not in English which is not my native language, but when I read a text I take in two types of information: The actual content of the text as well as a view on the person who wrote that text.
If a text is full of spelling mistakes and is structured in a bad way I judge whoever wrote the text as either sloppy or perhaps not competent enough to write a text about the subject (if structured in a very incoherent way).
I don't go around correcting everyone, and I do know that it's human to make mistakes, but it astounds me that so many people don't care how they present themselves in the written language.
In most countries (for example Sweden) the government cannot actually commit a crime in order to prove someone else was part of it. For example they can't buy drugs and nail someone for selling it. Also, I guess that this might have implications for example BitTorrent websites which aid in offering a pirated piece of information but not actually distributing it?
Seems like a perfect problem to solve via Constraint programming (which I happen to be taking a course in atm)... Amazing stuff with the help of some magic, for example with OZ:
Spray is in turn owned by Lycos, which explains both the development of the screensaver (in Sweden as per your info) and it's propagation through Lycos via Spray...
That is also the reason no such viruses infect computers on a large scale - just like parasites in the nature. A parasite that kills it's host and prevents it from spreading will in effect limit it's own spreading of genes/offspring... Now, a virus that spreads epidemically like the recent ones has, and at a given point destroys boot sectors or partition tables, now that would be funny..
One step closer the maximum clock-speed of a single-cpu core, which probably should be pretty soon, if I'm correct?
6GHz means each clock cycle has 1/6*10^9th of a second to stabilize and reach every part of the chip that is affected.. with the speed of light, at roughly 3*10^8 m/s this means with this clockspeed, each cycle have time to travel roughly 5mm on the chip. I'm not a chip-engineer, but isn't this almost near the limit?
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I fully agree with parent. I'm not a perfect speller, especially not in English which is not my native language, but when I read a text I take in two types of information: The actual content of the text as well as a view on the person who wrote that text. If a text is full of spelling mistakes and is structured in a bad way I judge whoever wrote the text as either sloppy or perhaps not competent enough to write a text about the subject (if structured in a very incoherent way). I don't go around correcting everyone, and I do know that it's human to make mistakes, but it astounds me that so many people don't care how they present themselves in the written language.
In most countries (for example Sweden) the government cannot actually commit a crime in order to prove someone else was part of it. For example they can't buy drugs and nail someone for selling it. Also, I guess that this might have implications for example BitTorrent websites which aid in offering a pirated piece of information but not actually distributing it?
Seems like a perfect problem to solve via Constraint programming (which I happen to be taking a course in atm) ... Amazing stuff with the help of some magic, for example with OZ:
http://www.mozart-oz.org/documentation/fdt/
This whole idea was published on the Swedish website Spray.se (A swedish ISP/Free email/Portal) about a month or so ago here:
http://makelovenotspam.spray.se/
Spray is in turn owned by Lycos, which explains both the development of the screensaver (in Sweden as per your info) and it's propagation through Lycos via Spray...
That is also the reason no such viruses infect computers on a large scale - just like parasites in the nature. A parasite that kills it's host and prevents it from spreading will in effect limit it's own spreading of genes/offspring... Now, a virus that spreads epidemically like the recent ones has, and at a given point destroys boot sectors or partition tables, now that would be funny..
Nevermind, calculation error ;) if I'm correct now it ends up at 5cm, not 5mm... but at 60Ghz ;)
One step closer the maximum clock-speed of a single-cpu core, which probably should be pretty soon, if I'm correct? 6GHz means each clock cycle has 1/6*10^9th of a second to stabilize and reach every part of the chip that is affected.. with the speed of light, at roughly 3*10^8 m/s this means with this clockspeed, each cycle have time to travel roughly 5mm on the chip. I'm not a chip-engineer, but isn't this almost near the limit?