Another huge problem with all this data gathering is that the amount of data is impossible to process by humans, so the agencies will have to rely on algorithms to find the "bad guys". Who can defend themself against accusations or persecution that falls out of such algorithms? It quickly becomes a case of everybody have to prove their own innocense (which of course is impossible). Add injection of false data and corruption of databases, and we are all doomed.
Did you try to click on some of the words?! It seems to me that every name and headline in the map links to an article or documentation about the subject!
I think it is a vey useful and good overview of the kernel.
I just discovered New Earth Time (which is UTC times 15 to get to a 360 degrees clock).
http://www.newearthtime.net/
By far the best suggestion I have ever seen.
Hm, that depends on which language you are using - I have seen a couple of examples of scripts that interpret numbers starting with zero as an octal number, and these scripting laguages have a hard time with 08 and 09 - saying that these numbers are not integers! Languages include Tcl, Perl and Ruby.
It is actually quite amazing that modern physics seem to have real difficulties with mass and gravity.
You should think that this was really well understood, but as I understand it none of the current sub-atomic elementary particles have any mass...and mass should come from a postulated Higgs particle (but this has so far not been possible to be verified or observed...CERN is preparing a big experiment next year to hopefully rectify this)....Amazing
Another approach can be found on Amit Singhs site, where he has more than 100 implementations of Towers of Hanoi (in all kinds of languages etc): http://www.kernelthread.com/hanoi/
...and Poincaré's question was published in 1904, so this is also old news:-)
Who could have known that the proofs of both Origin of Species and Poincare Conjecture would take so long to come up with...?
I think it would be much more interesting to define a math that did not allow any infinites. Such a math would probably be a much better fit to our real world than the currently used math systems that mostly allow infinites and continous stuff.
We live in a world of limits. Physics also show (to my understanding) that you cannot go on dividing matter indefintely - sooner or later you end at particles that cannot be diveded any further and then you have a lower limit.
If you look out to the universe there is also a limit to how far out we can get (see): around 15E9 lightyears.
You are going to use very big numbers and very small numbers, but countably amounts.
Hey this looks like an idea for a profitable businessplan:
1) make anti-virus software for both Win and Linux
2) let Microsoft know what you are doing
3) get bought out, so Microsoft can stop Linux support
4) $$$:-)
The impact is that if your document comes under GPL because of the imbedded font, then someone else can freely distribute your document and make changes to it and there is nothing you can do about it. I think most authors would like to keep ownership of the documents they make...
Ha! Typical male chauvinistic obsession with faster, faster - when everybody knows that when it comes to sex you actually strive for SLOWNESS and PROLONGING. We don't need no fucking porn accelerator:-)
Imagine if your web browser had this stuff (or something similar) built in, so it would not necessarily download a web page from the server, but just as easily might download from somebody else that had just looked at the same page - no more/. effect!
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There is also the recent case where "butt dialing" using Siri actually saved a guys life: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Another huge problem with all this data gathering is that the amount of data is impossible to process by humans, so the agencies will have to rely on algorithms to find the "bad guys". Who can defend themself against accusations or persecution that falls out of such algorithms? It quickly becomes a case of everybody have to prove their own innocense (which of course is impossible). Add injection of false data and corruption of databases, and we are all doomed.
Found the original Gilbert testimony - a very interesting 5 page read: http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20100223/Gilbert.Testimony.pdf
Did you try to click on some of the words?! It seems to me that every name and headline in the map links to an article or documentation about the subject! I think it is a vey useful and good overview of the kernel.
I just discovered New Earth Time (which is UTC times 15 to get to a 360 degrees clock). http://www.newearthtime.net/ By far the best suggestion I have ever seen.
Hm, that depends on which language you are using - I have seen a couple of examples of scripts that interpret numbers starting with zero as an octal number, and these scripting laguages have a hard time with 08 and 09 - saying that these numbers are not integers! Languages include Tcl, Perl and Ruby.
It is actually quite amazing that modern physics seem to have real difficulties with mass and gravity. You should think that this was really well understood, but as I understand it none of the current sub-atomic elementary particles have any mass...and mass should come from a postulated Higgs particle (but this has so far not been possible to be verified or observed...CERN is preparing a big experiment next year to hopefully rectify this)....Amazing
I have just finished reading "Second Genesis" by Donald Moffitt from 1986, that has a very similar explanation for mass extinctions!
Another approach can be found on Amit Singhs site, where he has more than 100 implementations of Towers of Hanoi (in all kinds of languages etc): http://www.kernelthread.com/hanoi/
I think it would be much more interesting to define a math that did not allow any infinites. Such a math would probably be a much better fit to our real world than the currently used math systems that mostly allow infinites and continous stuff. We live in a world of limits. Physics also show (to my understanding) that you cannot go on dividing matter indefintely - sooner or later you end at particles that cannot be diveded any further and then you have a lower limit. If you look out to the universe there is also a limit to how far out we can get (see): around 15E9 lightyears. You are going to use very big numbers and very small numbers, but countably amounts.
You are both wrong. Kb means "kilo bits", not bytes. For "kilo bytes" you write KB.
Hey this looks like an idea for a profitable businessplan: 1) make anti-virus software for both Win and Linux 2) let Microsoft know what you are doing 3) get bought out, so Microsoft can stop Linux support 4) $$$ :-)
The impact is that if your document comes under GPL because of the imbedded font, then someone else can freely distribute your document and make changes to it and there is nothing you can do about it. I think most authors would like to keep ownership of the documents they make...
Ha! Typical male chauvinistic obsession with faster, faster - when everybody knows that when it comes to sex you actually strive for SLOWNESS and PROLONGING. We don't need no fucking porn accelerator :-)
You mean like this: Google API Proximity Search ?!
At the bottom of the FAQ there is the following gem: *No library books were harmed during the making of these digital copies. :-)
Elevators that look into the future - straight out of Hichhiker's Guide to The Galaxy :-)
Imagine if your web browser had this stuff (or something similar) built in, so it would not necessarily download a web page from the server, but just as easily might download from somebody else that had just looked at the same page - no more /. effect!