my biggest beef is that sanderson doesn't seem to know (or care) how to write genre-appropriate dialog and narration. there's a huge pile of epic fantasy language conventions which he completely ignores, both in his own stuff and in his two WoT books. in ToM, a firework or something was said to have "zipped" into the sky--abysmal. that word has no business in an epic fantasy novel. half his aes sedai talk like sitcom characters, with snark being their main mode. i keep expecting rand to say "hey you" or "what's up".
i foresee a new career path for sanderson. help may be needed for janny wurts if she doesn't hurry up, and didn't eddings leave something half done at the end? feist's stuff can probably be kept going forever.
has sanderson done any sci-fi? he should talk to david gerrold, or gordy dickson's heirs....
That includes rules like HIPAA that affect the privacy of the patient and rules like minimum amount of rest you need to get, which affects the safety of the patient.
Many doctors are not fans of minimum rest rules because it increases the number of handoffs of patients between teams that must be done. Every time there is a handoff, information is lost, and the next team is more likely to make a mistake. This is a bigger issue than lack of sleep, but it's not intuitive to the lay public, so people don't get as angry about it.
they say the romans made aquaduct engineers stand under the arches they'd built when the sluices were first opened. would that more life-critical work could be made fully salient to the people doing it....
WWII is estimated at over 73 million dead, all told (both sides, military and civilian, presumably including the Holocaust in the Allied civilian numbers).
Are there any known public-key cryptosystems that are P to encrypt and decrypt and a class provably worse than NP (EXPTIME, EXPSPACE, etc.) to brute force?
(I'm (marginally) more familiar with the question in the "oh noes quantum!!1!1" context, where it's known (IRRC) that there are NP problems outside BQP.)
really? apart from the egregious mistake of not including a backtick on anything but one obscure email keyboard, i find the iphone screen keyboard much easier to use than my old blackberry was for ssh. are there phone hard keyboards out there that provide key punctuation (pipe, backtick, tilde, square/curly/angle brackets) in no more than two keypresses?
actually (something like) graffiti is ideal imao, i played around with OnboardC on my palm back in the day and was able to add the full roster of C punctuation to my muscle memory quite quickly.
aren't all the app-store apps cryptographically signed? hash the UDID and the app signature together, that should generate a new unique id specific to the (app,device) combination. alternatively, hash with the one of the developer's keys if you want a (developer,device) id.
and worse than that, you're doing it with your eyes! when's the last time you had your vision checked? seen any good optical illusions recently? eyes are terribly unreliable things....
"facebook" as a name is due to the origin of the site as a social network for colleges. back before everyone had net access, some colleges used to distribute a physical "face book" to each incoming class, containing the names and pictures of everyone in the class, to help them get to know each other.
i'd say either neutrino-based (no reception problems in the subway!), quantum-entanglement-based (zero lag, guaranteed!), or tachyon-based (get the message before it's sent!). just moving the phone to the inside of my head isn't worth a major version number bump.
"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." -- Douglas Adams
There is a third theory which states that Haruhi Suzumiya has already done this.
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my biggest beef is that sanderson doesn't seem to know (or care) how to write genre-appropriate dialog and narration. there's a huge pile of epic fantasy language conventions which he completely ignores, both in his own stuff and in his two WoT books. in ToM, a firework or something was said to have "zipped" into the sky--abysmal. that word has no business in an epic fantasy novel. half his aes sedai talk like sitcom characters, with snark being their main mode. i keep expecting rand to say "hey you" or "what's up".
i foresee a new career path for sanderson. help may be needed for janny wurts if she doesn't hurry up, and didn't eddings leave something half done at the end? feist's stuff can probably be kept going forever.
has sanderson done any sci-fi? he should talk to david gerrold, or gordy dickson's heirs....
may i introduce you to the chtorr?
Little ghost, little ghost
One I'm scared of the most
Can you scare me up a little bit of love?
That includes rules like HIPAA that affect the privacy of the patient and rules like minimum amount of rest you need to get, which affects the safety of the patient.
Many doctors are not fans of minimum rest rules because it increases the number of handoffs of patients between teams that must be done. Every time there is a handoff, information is lost, and the next team is more likely to make a mistake. This is a bigger issue than lack of sleep, but it's not intuitive to the lay public, so people don't get as angry about it.
so learn to keep records properly....
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
they say the romans made aquaduct engineers stand under the arches they'd built when the sluices were first opened. would that more life-critical work could be made fully salient to the people doing it....
WWII is estimated at over 73 million dead, all told (both sides, military and civilian, presumably including the Holocaust in the Allied civilian numbers).
time to issue another fields plaque ?
Are there any known public-key cryptosystems that are P to encrypt and decrypt and a class provably worse than NP (EXPTIME, EXPSPACE, etc.) to brute force?
(I'm (marginally) more familiar with the question in the "oh noes quantum!!1!1" context, where it's known (IRRC) that there are NP problems outside BQP.)
really? apart from the egregious mistake of not including a backtick on anything but one obscure email keyboard, i find the iphone screen keyboard much easier to use than my old blackberry was for ssh. are there phone hard keyboards out there that provide key punctuation (pipe, backtick, tilde, square/curly/angle brackets) in no more than two keypresses?
actually (something like) graffiti is ideal imao, i played around with OnboardC on my palm back in the day and was able to add the full roster of C punctuation to my muscle memory quite quickly.
aren't all the app-store apps cryptographically signed? hash the UDID and the app signature together, that should generate a new unique id specific to the (app,device) combination. alternatively, hash with the one of the developer's keys if you want a (developer,device) id.
Is she made out of polythene?
running something like /usr/bin/history
yeah, except "history" is a builtin....
the uname line said both sun4m and i368, which i thought was a neat trick....
and worse than that, you're doing it with your eyes! when's the last time you had your vision checked? seen any good optical illusions recently? eyes are terribly unreliable things....
and heinlein invented the waterbed
"facebook" as a name is due to the origin of the site as a social network for colleges. back before everyone had net access, some colleges used to distribute a physical "face book" to each incoming class, containing the names and pictures of everyone in the class, to help them get to know each other.
G4: ??? (Cybernetically-implanted wireless voice communications, maybe?)
i'd say either neutrino-based (no reception problems in the subway!), quantum-entanglement-based (zero lag, guaranteed!), or tachyon-based (get the message before it's sent!). just moving the phone to the inside of my head isn't worth a major version number bump.
the collective noun for school administrators is "lack"
can it communicate with alternate universes?
you forgot peace
"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." -- Douglas Adams
There is a third theory which states that Haruhi Suzumiya has already done this.
The system was broken long before software patents. This reminds me of RCA and Farnsworth.
I get that when I turn off the air conditioner. Does that make cold air addictive?