Open Voting is the place to actually do something about this rather than just whine. They need money to stay alive, and they have a simple Paypal button. Put your ten bucks where your mouths are, people.
CNN are being idiotically conservative after last time. 130000 votes is not "too close to call". I, while voting Kerry, called this thing for Bush about 10 last night, because I was clicking through on the CNN website to the detail, rather than just listen to the soundbites on TV. I do wonder about the (almost mathematically impossible in this case) scenario where a state is won after concession.
Flying cars have been made several times in the past. The deal is that flying is hard. Moller's Skycar, which purports to solve this problem, will be available "real soon now."
So where we spend most of our time with our cell phones to our ears, they're busy typing.
I can just see all the US Soccer Moms typing as they go down the road in their giant SUV's, running over motorcycles with wild abandon. Oh the humanity!
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Really, what a gem. I was about to post the same thing when I saw your post. It seems like that article was written by a first-year computer science student. So many facts misstated. And it's all just speculation anyway, because the "scientists" in question just broke MD5, not P=NP?. And prime factorization hasn't been proven NP-complete (because it probably isn't). Yes, it's in NP, like all of P, but that doesn't make it "hard". Also, NP-Hard is not exactly the same as NP-complete anyway. Of course, the biggest error that they make is saying that P=NP can be proven either true or false. Some theoreticians believe the question may actually be independent of the axioms of mathematics. This kind of crap coming out of MIT is just wrong.
He got a 1206 on the sat, though that doesn't make him intelligent, it is a bit of evidence. Meanwhile he got crappy grades, but it was Yale.
look here
It's even sillier to bid on 5 shares and only get 4. I sold them right away, knowing that I would soon be unable to recoup the comission charges even, when the price drops back around 90 or whatever.
Go to the Now Showing... screen and press enter. This gives you lots of extra information about the shows you have recorded. I'm not sure how to get this for shows that have yet to be recorded, but I'm sure the information is there.
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I once got a 50-point bonus for using all my tiles, plus triple-word score and at least one double letter for "cousinly". You know, like motherly. Of course I was challenged, but I was fortunate that the dictionary we used had it explicitly listed under cousin. So I got about 90 points on just that one play. Of course I won that game.
Note that one factor affecting existing PV is that it is not as efficient when it gets hot(!). So as another application of this technology, one could lay it over the photovoltaic cells and keep them cooler, perhaps.
While this release IS more secure, the automatic firewall will break virtually any networking feature that they might use, such as P2P, chat tools, file sharing, etc. Be prepared for a lot of "hey, son, how come I can't find my other computer anymore?" type questions.
Instead of hibernating, let them program open source code for the entire trip. All they will need is a sufficient supply of pizza and beer, and there's no need to worry about troublesome human interactions.
Finally, someone who read the article. Yes, they tax it at retail time. It's a one-time fee.
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So at least its got that going for it. What a surprise that radios broadcast pop music to a wide audience.
Oh, pardon me, but I'm so hip I hate everything. Popular music is good at being popular. If you think it's so formulaic, then:
1. Write a javascript to create popular music
2. Produce an album
3. ???
4. Profit!
It's not so easy to write a hit song; there is a certain art to it. Naturally anything foreign to you "all sounds the same".
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Right, the Diebold machines didn't get caught. Please support http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/.
Open Voting is the place to actually do something about this rather than just whine. They need money to stay alive, and they have a simple Paypal button. Put your ten bucks where your mouths are, people.
Oh, so that is they same guy then. Ian Bogost is featured prominantly in the original article. Thanks for the info.
CNN are being idiotically conservative after last time. 130000 votes is not "too close to call". I, while voting Kerry, called this thing for Bush about 10 last night, because I was clicking through on the CNN website to the detail, rather than just listen to the soundbites on TV. I do wonder about the (almost mathematically impossible in this case) scenario where a state is won after concession.
Flying cars have been made several times in the past. The deal is that flying is hard. Moller's Skycar, which purports to solve this problem, will be available "real soon now."
Not to mention grüv, which has almost the exact same ingredients and concept.
I think it's time to start the open source spaceship project.
Yeah, we could forget OUR differences and start thinking about all the differences we have with those damned ET'S. And how to kill THEM best.
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1028302004 /
So there.
Really, what a gem. I was about to post the same thing when I saw your post. It seems like that article was written by a first-year computer science student. So many facts misstated. And it's all just speculation anyway, because the "scientists" in question just broke MD5, not P=NP?. And prime factorization hasn't been proven NP-complete (because it probably isn't). Yes, it's in NP, like all of P, but that doesn't make it "hard". Also, NP-Hard is not exactly the same as NP-complete anyway. Of course, the biggest error that they make is saying that P=NP can be proven either true or false. Some theoreticians believe the question may actually be independent of the axioms of mathematics. This kind of crap coming out of MIT is just wrong.
He got a 1206 on the sat, though that doesn't make him intelligent, it is a bit of evidence. Meanwhile he got crappy grades, but it was Yale. look here
It's even sillier to bid on 5 shares and only get 4. I sold them right away, knowing that I would soon be unable to recoup the comission charges even, when the price drops back around 90 or whatever.
Go to the Now Showing... screen and press enter. This gives you lots of extra information about the shows you have recorded. I'm not sure how to get this for shows that have yet to be recorded, but I'm sure the information is there.
I once got a 50-point bonus for using all my tiles, plus triple-word score and at least one double letter for "cousinly". You know, like motherly. Of course I was challenged, but I was fortunate that the dictionary we used had it explicitly listed under cousin. So I got about 90 points on just that one play. Of course I won that game.
Note that one factor affecting existing PV is that it is not as efficient when it gets hot(!). So as another application of this technology, one could lay it over the photovoltaic cells and keep them cooler, perhaps.
Sorry, code management. elhaf spelled backwards is...
Hey, that patent was issued on the same day as mine (which happens to be hanging on the wall in front of me. It's off by 6.
While this release IS more secure, the automatic firewall will break virtually any networking feature that they might use, such as P2P, chat tools, file sharing, etc. Be prepared for a lot of "hey, son, how come I can't find my other computer anymore?" type questions.
I, for one, will be sharing shows with my neighbors, and vice versa, once I get my super-wifi-antenna that is backordered.
I don't guess you've heard the saga of 867-5309 then.
Instead of hibernating, let them program open source code for the entire trip. All they will need is a sufficient supply of pizza and beer, and there's no need to worry about troublesome human interactions.
>Is it true, that there's an exception to every rule? Yes, except that one.
Finally, someone who read the article. Yes, they tax it at retail time. It's a one-time fee.
So at least its got that going for it. What a surprise that radios broadcast pop music to a wide audience. Oh, pardon me, but I'm so hip I hate everything. Popular music is good at being popular. If you think it's so formulaic, then: 1. Write a javascript to create popular music 2. Produce an album 3. ??? 4. Profit! It's not so easy to write a hit song; there is a certain art to it. Naturally anything foreign to you "all sounds the same".