Clinton/Reno began the war on drugs? Wow, here I am thinking that it started back with the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. I believe the first President to use the actual phrase "war on drugs" was Nixon.
I can't believe this trash is modded up as "insightful." Well actually I can believe it, this is slashdot after all.
Everyone posting here seems to know exactly what Wolfram is claiming in his book, oh but by the way, they can't be bothered to actually read it, and don't you hate all that hype surrounding it?
Wolfram never really states what he is claiming? Did you actually read the first page? What about the last chapter, which is all about the major single 'result' from his research? Why don't we let Wolfram speak for himself? After all, he put his damn book online for free for philistines like you to read and not understand.
(ch 1)
Perhaps immediately most dramatic is that it yields a resolution to what has long been considered the single greatest mystery of the natural world: what secret it is that allows nature seemingly so effortlessly to produce so much that appears to us so complex.
(ch 12)
There are various ways to state the Principle of Computational Equivalence, but probably the most general is just to say that almost all processes that are not obviously simple can be viewed as computations of equivalent sophistication.
Wow, I really value your opinion on a work where you skimmed few pages and decided it wasn't to your taste. Thanks for sharing your well considered insights!
You obviously have not read the book, or you would know that he doesn't claim any of those things.
He does say that he "suspects" that the Rule 30 CA is universal, but he explicitly says he does not have a proof for that.
The book is not intended to have a rigorous proof of every conjecture containted therein. He is simply pointing the way to the door, not opening it for you.
Or perhaps the book itself was too expensive for any sane person to plop down the money to purchase it.
Are you normally this stupid? The book can be had for around $40. Less if its used. That is an insanely low price for a 1200 page hardback technical book.
Keep it in the freezer and it will last a long, long time. I also get my coffee at Costco, as well as those nifty 16oz hot-liquid cups with lids. (Though I can't find the paper sleeves at Costco, I have to get those at a local grocery store.)
Hello! Reality check! Of course his comment is stored on a filesystem! Almost all RDBMS systems require an underlying filesystem, and the few that don't essentially implement their own specialized internal version.
Although that work barely mentions nanotechnology, it shows that the key to making such 'fantasy' assemblers will be encoding the entire behavior in a relatively simple set of rules and a particular initial condition. Once a basic molecular assembly structure is in place, the rest is just a 'simple matter of programming.'
Actually I believe "2nd World" referred to the actual Soviet-aligned nations, while 3rd world was everyone else, including India and China. I don't have a citation at the moment though.
Ummm, no. There may technically be other political parties in China, but in reality the CCP has an effective monopoly on power. If any of these so-called independent parties came out with position at variance with the official CCP line there would be a hasty 'retraction' and quick restoration of 'correct thinking.'
China is a republic. Regions elect local People's Congresses, which elect from their number delegates in the National People's Congress. The National People's Congress elects one of its members as president.
Ummm... yeah. You do realize that Stalin's Russia was also a republic with a written constitution and an elected legislature (soviets)? Calling Soviet Russia or modern PRC a 'republic' (as opposed to a dictatorship) is meaningless if there is a single legal party and a repressive state security apparatus ready to enforce the 'correct' way of thinking at all times.
Hah. Kent State was a tragedy, but only 4 students lost there lives and there was no subsequent 'witch hunt' of any and all people who may have participated in the demonstrations. Although deadly force should not have been used at Kent State, the fact is that the 'peaceful protest' there was quickly degenerating into a stone-throwing rabble, threatening to burn down the ROTC building on campus.
But what do I know, this happened 6 years before I was born.
I can, however, clearly see that what happened in China in 1988 was a case where the one-party ruling clique used 'all means neccesary' to preserve their rule at a time when there seemed to be a very real chance of these students causing the downfall of the entire government.
At our company the standard Python indentation is 1 tab character per lexical level. Several of the developers including myself use (X)Emacs with no problem as long as you put the appropriate lines in ~/.emacs.
BTW an indentation consistency checker is part of our build process. It doesn't care if you use all spaces or all tabs, as long as they're not mixed within a file. Then again, this was only required after a time as one or two of the developers were rather sloppy in this respect.
Hell, I'd love to put in a kind of spelling checker as well as those same individuals are also rather atrocious spellers.
The ironic thing is that DVD-RAM is actually the best format overall (in terms of technical qualities.) The only real problem is the lack of widespread player support. That's not an issue for some people (like me.)
Actually, I believe Texas and Florida are perhaps the only two states that don't limit the value of the house protected by homestead. Which may partially explain why these states are popular places for executive-types to live in giant mansions.
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Clinton/Reno began the war on drugs? Wow, here I am thinking that it started back with the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. I believe the first President to use the actual phrase "war on drugs" was Nixon.
The usual spelling is KKKalifornia.
No, he married the adopted daughter of his former wife.
Hahaha, animals sharing. You are teh funny. Where did you learn about the behavior of animals? The "Care Bears?"
The fact is, life is nasty, brutish and short for all species.
Everyone posting here seems to know exactly what Wolfram is claiming in his book, oh but by the way, they can't be bothered to actually read it, and don't you hate all that hype surrounding it?
Wolfram never really states what he is claiming? Did you actually read the first page? What about the last chapter, which is all about the major single 'result' from his research? Why don't we let Wolfram speak for himself? After all, he put his damn book online for free for philistines like you to read and not understand.
(ch 1) Perhaps immediately most dramatic is that it yields a resolution to what has long been considered the single greatest mystery of the natural world: what secret it is that allows nature seemingly so effortlessly to produce so much that appears to us so complex.
(ch 12) There are various ways to state the Principle of Computational Equivalence, but probably the most general is just to say that almost all processes that are not obviously simple can be viewed as computations of equivalent sophistication.
Wow, I really value your opinion on a work where you skimmed few pages and decided it wasn't to your taste. Thanks for sharing your well considered insights!
I really doubt that you read very much of it. I'm even more skeptical that you actually understand anything that you might have read.
Are you talking about the Harmonic Timecube guy?
He does say that he "suspects" that the Rule 30 CA is universal, but he explicitly says he does not have a proof for that.
The book is not intended to have a rigorous proof of every conjecture containted therein. He is simply pointing the way to the door, not opening it for you.
Are you normally this stupid? The book can be had for around $40. Less if its used. That is an insanely low price for a 1200 page hardback technical book.
You're just plain ignorant.
Of course it is a publicity stunt. It would have been cheaper for them to just provide 3 actual copies of the CD.
Ethics is defined as the study of how you should treat me. Economics is the study of how I should treat you.
Keep it in the freezer and it will last a long, long time. I also get my coffee at Costco, as well as those nifty 16oz hot-liquid cups with lids. (Though I can't find the paper sleeves at Costco, I have to get those at a local grocery store.)
Hello! Reality check! Of course his comment is stored on a filesystem! Almost all RDBMS systems require an underlying filesystem, and the few that don't essentially implement their own specialized internal version.
Read A New Kind of Science.
Although that work barely mentions nanotechnology, it shows that the key to making such 'fantasy' assemblers will be encoding the entire behavior in a relatively simple set of rules and a particular initial condition. Once a basic molecular assembly structure is in place, the rest is just a 'simple matter of programming.'
Actually I believe "2nd World" referred to the actual Soviet-aligned nations, while 3rd world was everyone else, including India and China. I don't have a citation at the moment though.
Ummm, no. There may technically be other political parties in China, but in reality the CCP has an effective monopoly on power. If any of these so-called independent parties came out with position at variance with the official CCP line there would be a hasty 'retraction' and quick restoration of 'correct thinking.'
Ummm ... yeah. You do realize that Stalin's Russia was also a republic with a written constitution and an elected legislature (soviets)? Calling Soviet Russia or modern PRC a 'republic' (as opposed to a dictatorship) is meaningless if there is a single legal party and a repressive state security apparatus ready to enforce the 'correct' way of thinking at all times.
But what do I know, this happened 6 years before I was born.
I can, however, clearly see that what happened in China in 1988 was a case where the one-party ruling clique used 'all means neccesary' to preserve their rule at a time when there seemed to be a very real chance of these students causing the downfall of the entire government.
BTW an indentation consistency checker is part of our build process. It doesn't care if you use all spaces or all tabs, as long as they're not mixed within a file. Then again, this was only required after a time as one or two of the developers were rather sloppy in this respect.
Hell, I'd love to put in a kind of spelling checker as well as those same individuals are also rather atrocious spellers.
You are looking to slashdot for academic rigor?
The ironic thing is that DVD-RAM is actually the best format overall (in terms of technical qualities.) The only real problem is the lack of widespread player support. That's not an issue for some people (like me.)
There's a very fine line between trolling and being intentionally funny.
Actually, I believe Texas and Florida are perhaps the only two states that don't limit the value of the house protected by homestead. Which may partially explain why these states are popular places for executive-types to live in giant mansions.