Believe it or not, there is an earthquake scale based on these types of observations. It is called Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. An earthquake that tosses books from a bookshelf is said to be intensity VI (Moderate). See http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/doc/mmi.html for the full scale.
My pick goes for RSA
on
Deep Algorithms?
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
THe algorighm is simple, powerful and beautiful. Its properties allows to use for encryption or for authentication. It is simple enough that can be described in a piece of paper, and understood with basic mathematical background, and it affected the e-world in many different, some of them still to be seen.
Don't go to Calgary. It is truly in the middle of nowhere. I am one hour of Toronto and I just accepted a job offer in high tech there. Toronto rocks. It is a world class city, cosmopolitan as London (London wins though if I had to choose between both cities). Toronto is safe, clean, large without being monstrous, and it is the center of Canada. It has a hub airport, making air travel cheap, besides the fact that it is close to Europe and the main cities in the East coast of the US.
Calgary is a small city, with nothing around except another small city: Edmonton. The biggest event is the stampede. If you want to feel isolated, go to Calgary.
Forget about the implementation. Let them shut down CSS. What really matters is the algorithm. Get the algorithm described in a way that is easily implementable. They can stop one implementation, but they cannot stop everybody from implementing the algorithm. Create a skeleton around with a clean interface, so anybody can plug-in an implementation of the CSS breaking code. We can then publish and pass around the algorithm. They can stop an implementation, but they cannot stop the distribution of algorithms!
I recently decided that that old crappy chair was too bad for me. I started to have some back pain and decided that my body is more important than my money.
So I went on a mission: to find the most confortable chair I could buy. I tried many chair, including the Herman Miller's.
I settled for the knee tilter high back Obus Forme. The chair is a dream. You can even sleep on it and don't feel tired. It can be used as a rocking chair too:). And its ergonomic design bends around your back.
I liked so much that I got one more for my university office.
The main features of the chairs are:
Ergonomic back design.
Knee tilting. The chair does not bend on the center of the chair set, but on the front. This means your knees don't go up and down as you rock the chair. Instead, your butt moves up and down.:)
Adjustable seat height
Adjustable seat angle. Can be left free and the tension be adjusted.
Adjustable back angle. Can be left free and the tension be adjusted. If freed, it follows your back.
Adjustable arms: height, angle and separation between each other (to adjust for bigger people).
We (my SO and I) paid US$200 each for 2 of these(we landed a good deal). The suggest price is around US$400 and US$500. If you shop for one, make sure you get the knee tilter because the chair is built with central tilting too.
I am thinking about bying one of those chair keyboards and then I'll truly feel like captain of the Enterprise.
I have similar feelings to what this message mentioned. Somehow, Slashdot seems to start getting stale.
I think that one of the problems Slashdot is starting to face is that it is turning away news submitters. How many times have any of you submitted a story, just to find that it is never posted. Fine, it does not have to be posted. But after you have submitted item several times, none of them worked, then you think, "why bother?". The less people are willing to submit stories, the more difficult for Slashdot to be as comprehensive as fast in reporting news.
And then we are starting to read news that lean more towards gossiping than real jornalism (the Corel fiasco with regard to teenagers and the EULA). Yesterday we had to read a "press release" about Y2Brand that looked more like a commercial than a news item.
Slashdot is starting to offer t-shirts to book reviewers, why not offer something to the first whose news item is published? At least that will attract back some of those who have decided that everytime they fill the form is a waste of their time.
I suspect that like many, I am starting to mine for my own news. I don't find many pieces worth reading. In the past, I could spend all my free time reading Slashdot. Now, I just skip many of the headlines.
Don't get me wrong. I like Slashdot. I want to see it shinning. But I think that it has to continue to grow up. It has the money and the resources to do it, and that has increased our expectations. It cannot and should not continue as a "garage" project. After its takeover by Andover our expectations on Slashdot changed accordingly.
And like many, I think Roblimo is doing an excellent job and I love the interviews he is doing. We need more people like him, that bring a fresh air and a professinal face to Slashdot. We also need to have more relevant articles. Finally, make sure that you understand the ramifications of your postings and the responsibilities that the community has put on it. Somehow, Slashdot readers are starting to note this and they start to believe that they have to keep a cool head despite the "news" sometimes they are presented with. The item on Napster shows that sometimes, in an attempt to be the "first", Slashdot is willing to put a headline that might dramatically change the outcome of it. I just hope that we don't lose a battle because Slashdot worked against us. On the contrary, we have to make sure Slashdot works along our Free Software ideals.
Now I just have to wait for somebody else to pump the rating on this message. Otherwise, like many comments, it might be lost in a sea of many others.
> We learned it such that the travelling salesman > _was_ concerned about the distance travelled, > which makes the problem MUCH more complex.
Actually not. There are two variations of the TSP problem: one is to "decide" whether there is a path of less than x units between the cities, and the other is the "optimization": what is the optimal path between the cities. Both are NP-Complete, and in that respect, equivalent. If you can answer the optimization problem in linear time, you can solve the other in linear time also and vice-versa.
> DNA computers can now > solve the Traveling Salesman problem in > linear time.
The Traveling Salesman Problem is NP-Complete. If the DNA computers are able to solve it in linear time, P = NP, and the most important problem in Computer Science would be solved. I believe you meant: "DNA computers can now solve _some_ instances of the TSP in linear time, which is far different from your previous claim. There are, of course, some algorithms that give you a good approximation to the solution, but they don't "solve" the problem either.
Slashdot Mirror
Believe it or not, there is an earthquake scale based on these types of observations. It is called Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. An earthquake that tosses books from a bookshelf is said to be intensity VI (Moderate). See http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/doc/mmi.html for the full scale.
THe algorighm is simple, powerful and beautiful. Its properties allows to use for encryption or for authentication. It is simple enough that can be described in a piece of paper, and understood with basic mathematical background, and it affected the e-world in many different, some of them still to be seen.
Don't go to Calgary. It is truly in the middle of nowhere. I am one hour of Toronto and I just accepted a job offer in high tech there. Toronto rocks. It is a world class city, cosmopolitan as London (London wins though if I had to choose between both cities). Toronto is safe, clean, large without being monstrous, and it is the center of Canada. It has a hub airport, making air travel cheap, besides the fact that it is close to Europe and the main cities in the East coast of the US.
Calgary is a small city, with nothing around except another small city: Edmonton. The biggest event is the stampede. If you want to feel isolated, go to Calgary.
Forget about the implementation. Let them shut down CSS. What really matters is the algorithm.
Get the algorithm described in a way that is easily implementable. They can stop one implementation, but they cannot stop everybody
from implementing the algorithm. Create a skeleton around with a clean interface, so anybody can plug-in an implementation of the CSS breaking code. We can then publish and pass around the algorithm. They can stop an implementation, but they cannot stop the distribution of algorithms!
So I went on a mission: to find the most confortable chair I could buy. I tried many chair, including the Herman Miller's.
I settled for the knee tilter high back Obus Forme.
The chair is a dream. You can even sleep on it and don't feel tired. It can be used as a rocking chair too
I liked so much that I got one more for my university office.
The main features of the chairs are:
We (my SO and I) paid US$200 each for 2 of these(we landed a good deal). The suggest price is around US$400 and US$500. If you shop for one, make sure you get the knee tilter because the chair is built with central tilting too.
I am thinking about bying one of those chair keyboards and then I'll truly feel like captain of the Enterprise.
I have similar feelings to what this message mentioned. Somehow, Slashdot seems to start getting stale.
I think that one of the problems Slashdot is starting to face is that it is turning away news submitters. How many times have any of you submitted a story, just to find that it is never posted. Fine, it does not have to be posted. But after you have submitted item several times, none of them worked, then you think, "why bother?". The less people are willing to submit stories, the more difficult for Slashdot to be as comprehensive as fast in reporting news.
And then we are starting to read news that lean more towards gossiping than real jornalism (the Corel fiasco with regard to teenagers and the EULA). Yesterday we had to read a "press release" about Y2Brand that looked more like a commercial than a news item.
Slashdot is starting to offer t-shirts to book reviewers, why not offer something to the first whose news item is published? At least that will attract back some of those who have decided that everytime they fill the form is a waste of their time.
I suspect that like many, I am starting to mine for my own news. I don't find many pieces worth reading. In the past, I could spend all my free time reading Slashdot. Now, I just skip many of the headlines.
Don't get me wrong. I like Slashdot. I want to see it shinning. But I think that it has to continue to grow up. It has the money and the resources to do it, and that has increased our expectations. It cannot and should not continue as a "garage" project. After its takeover by Andover our expectations on Slashdot changed accordingly.
And like many, I think Roblimo is doing an excellent job and I love the interviews he is doing. We need more people like him, that bring a fresh air and a professinal face to Slashdot. We also need to have more relevant articles. Finally, make sure that you understand the ramifications of your postings and the responsibilities that the community has put on it. Somehow, Slashdot readers are starting to note this and they start to believe that they have to keep a cool head despite the "news" sometimes they are presented with. The item on Napster shows that sometimes, in an attempt to be the "first", Slashdot is willing to put a headline that might dramatically change the outcome of it. I just hope that we don't lose a battle because Slashdot worked against us. On the contrary, we have to make sure Slashdot works along our Free Software ideals.
Now I just have to wait for somebody else to pump the rating on this message. Otherwise, like many comments, it might be lost in a sea of many others.
> We learned it such that the travelling salesman > _was_ concerned about the distance travelled,
> which makes the problem MUCH more complex.
Actually not. There are two variations of the TSP problem: one is to "decide" whether there is a path of less than x units between the cities, and the other is the "optimization": what is the optimal path between the cities. Both are NP-Complete, and in that respect, equivalent. If you can answer the optimization problem in linear time, you can solve the other in linear time also and vice-versa.
> DNA computers can now
> solve the Traveling Salesman problem in
> linear time.
The Traveling Salesman Problem is NP-Complete. If the DNA computers are able to solve it in linear time, P = NP, and the most important problem in Computer Science would be solved. I believe you meant: "DNA computers can now solve _some_ instances of the TSP in linear time, which is far different from your previous claim. There are, of course, some algorithms that give you a good approximation to the solution, but they don't "solve" the problem either.