I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but there are a lot of warning flags in what you wrote.
It's pretty common for us to have ideas that seem great and innovative, but because of our lack of expertise in a given field, we don't realize that the idea is either flawed, or has already been refined and applied. I expect this is especially true with difficult math problems, such as large-number factorization.
All I'm saying is that before you start hiring employees, you should probably invest a lot more effort in vetting your idea.
And regarding big numbers, you might want to look at the Gnu Multiple Precision library. It's meant for efficiently handling numbers bigger than 64 bits.
Even if it's flawed, it can still be a fun learning experience.
For me, at least, this would be enough of a reason to do something like this.
And even if the math of it is well known, it's still possible to create a new and useful implementation.
Maybe a place where Monsoons are spelled with accent marks?
Sweden?
A monsøøn once bit my sister....
Trivia: here in Sweden, 30% income tax is pretty much the norm for anyone with a full time job, though it varies slightly depending on were you live.
You pay more on everything above a certain amount, but most pay around 30%.
Actually Windows 7 wont work with MOST OpenGL games either. I tried running a couple of OSS games that used OpenGL on a really outdated Geforce 9800GT and a quad core i5 and it failed to run outside of software render mode.
Granted BZFlag is a super high end game that makes Crysys look like Wolfenstine 3d (That everyone is sarcasim)
If you are into gaming, dont use Windows 7 64 bit. It's incompatible as hell.
Really? BZFlag works fine for me... Granted, I've got a i7 920@3.48 GHz and a GTX 470...
And yes, I run win7 64 bit as my windows OS.
You won't really be able to put any of the money in the bank. You would get what you'd need to survive. You wouldn't get welfare if you have any savings anyway.
So you'd sit and watch TV or internet? You think you could afford cable? Tip: try the library, it's free and it's probably got internet.
You wouldn't have much choice when it comes to housing either.
It's actually not that big a problem, simply because such an existence isn't much of a life.
You'll survive, potentially in reasonable health, but not much more.
I doubt it. A simple nuke can't alter the stars. He won't wake up even if we nuke R'lyeh directly. Mayby stir a bit, perhaps alter his dreams, but that's about it.
Well, actually, he said he was out of town, and I doubt he hand it with him, if he even had one, laptops don't often come with a real install disk in my experience.
And you'd have to know it was the mbr that was messed up in the first place.
I'm not an expert in video or audio production, I just dabble in it as a hobby. but one thing I often wonder is, what is the point of these container formats?
I've got a miniDV camera, and a canon point and shoot that thanks to chdk can record good-enough video. Both give me ".AVI" files, even though one is miniDV, while the other is Mjpeg. Mjpeg files don't work in my editor, while miniDV does. but I didn't know this at first, all I knew was that I have a bunch of.AVI files sitting in my hard drive, some work, some don't. I dont care about file extensions, I care about having files that work. I care about codecs. If they were named "filename.minidv" and "filename.mjpg" that information would be useful to me. What good is a container format when only half of the files within that container will play on my system?
I'm not trying to knock the idea of container formats, if they exist, their must be some beneficial reason for them. Could someone please enlighten me on what that reason is?
Faster seeking (index), multiple audio and subtitle streams, chapters. Just of the top of my head. There are probably others, like having video and audio in the same file to begin with;)
The great thing about Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
The main drawback of Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
Matroska is a great container format, but unless you have a program like mplayer or vlc you can't guarantee that a Matroska file is going to be playable on your system. You can't reasonably expect browser maker to standardise on Matroska if it will mean having to include 30+ different codecs in their software, which from a practical standpoint it will. The unfortunate reality is that most of the world's population still doesn't have access to a comprehensive library of software like apt, and while our current software IP regime reigns, they never will.
Which would be why you would specify the codecs in the standard as well, which is what the html5 video debate is mostly about.
My observation as a female is that men prefer "hot dumb blond chicks" (in bars etc) over more regular gals per se, without intellegence being factored in at all. Dumb, smart, pfft, she's hot.
As a warmish rather than hot chick, I think, in general, that the smarter the man the more he values intelligence. Or that's what I keep telling myself, anyway.
The rationale makes sense to me, at least (I'm male)...
If all you're looking for is a one-night stand, then it's perfectly sufficient if she's hot and willing to sleep with you.
For something more more lasting, however, the mental attributes are considerably more important, and hottnes more of a bonus...
I suspect you're last sentence is fairly accurate, if it's any comfort;)
That's not sustainable, as they're just more efficient, not a closed infinite loop. Entropy always increases. In this house...
In this case however, the energy comes originally from the sun.
Sun warms up oceans etc-> vapor-> rains back and ends upp in rivers, among other things.
It may not be sustainable for eternity, but I think it will last for quite a while:)
I've just watched the video, and to be honest, still very few people have seen it. The count is currently 1947. It would have been a lot better if the article had linked directly to the YouTube video. Then thousands of slashdot readers possible would have opened it.
I also just watched it. The count is still at 1947...
That there is antimatter in the wild isn't news per se; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission. It's the amount, imo, that's interresting here. And the way it's being produced.
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Oi! No feeding the troll!
"trollertron3000" is a bit of a giveaway, even if it wasn't obvious from the post.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but there are a lot of warning flags in what you wrote.
It's pretty common for us to have ideas that seem great and innovative, but because of our lack of expertise in a given field, we don't realize that the idea is either flawed, or has already been refined and applied. I expect this is especially true with difficult math problems, such as large-number factorization.
All I'm saying is that before you start hiring employees, you should probably invest a lot more effort in vetting your idea.
And regarding big numbers, you might want to look at the Gnu Multiple Precision library. It's meant for efficiently handling numbers bigger than 64 bits.
Even if it's flawed, it can still be a fun learning experience.
For me, at least, this would be enough of a reason to do something like this.
And even if the math of it is well known, it's still possible to create a new and useful implementation.
Maybe a place where Monsoons are spelled with accent marks?
Sweden?
A monsøøn once bit my sister....
Trivia: here in Sweden, 30% income tax is pretty much the norm for anyone with a full time job, though it varies slightly depending on were you live.
You pay more on everything above a certain amount, but most pay around 30%.
Actually Windows 7 wont work with MOST OpenGL games either. I tried running a couple of OSS games that used OpenGL on a really outdated Geforce 9800GT and a quad core i5 and it failed to run outside of software render mode.
Granted BZFlag is a super high end game that makes Crysys look like Wolfenstine 3d (That everyone is sarcasim)
If you are into gaming, dont use Windows 7 64 bit. It's incompatible as hell.
Really? BZFlag works fine for me... Granted, I've got a i7 920@3.48 GHz and a GTX 470...
And yes, I run win7 64 bit as my windows OS.
You won't really be able to put any of the money in the bank. You would get what you'd need to survive. You wouldn't get welfare if you have any savings anyway. So you'd sit and watch TV or internet? You think you could afford cable? Tip: try the library, it's free and it's probably got internet. You wouldn't have much choice when it comes to housing either. It's actually not that big a problem, simply because such an existence isn't much of a life. You'll survive, potentially in reasonable health, but not much more.
I doubt it. A simple nuke can't alter the stars. He won't wake up even if we nuke R'lyeh directly. Mayby stir a bit, perhaps alter his dreams, but that's about it.
Well, actually, he said he was out of town, and I doubt he hand it with him, if he even had one, laptops don't often come with a real install disk in my experience. And you'd have to know it was the mbr that was messed up in the first place.
I'm not an expert in video or audio production, I just dabble in it as a hobby. but one thing I often wonder is, what is the point of these container formats?
I've got a miniDV camera, and a canon point and shoot that thanks to chdk can record good-enough video. Both give me ".AVI" files, even though one is miniDV, while the other is Mjpeg. Mjpeg files don't work in my editor, while miniDV does. but I didn't know this at first, all I knew was that I have a bunch of .AVI files sitting in my hard drive, some work, some don't. I dont care about file extensions, I care about having files that work. I care about codecs. If they were named "filename.minidv" and "filename.mjpg" that information would be useful to me. What good is a container format when only half of the files within that container will play on my system?
I'm not trying to knock the idea of container formats, if they exist, their must be some beneficial reason for them. Could someone please enlighten me on what that reason is?
Faster seeking (index), multiple audio and subtitle streams, chapters. Just of the top of my head. There are probably others, like having video and audio in the same file to begin with;)
The great thing about Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything. The main drawback of Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
Matroska is a great container format, but unless you have a program like mplayer or vlc you can't guarantee that a Matroska file is going to be playable on your system. You can't reasonably expect browser maker to standardise on Matroska if it will mean having to include 30+ different codecs in their software, which from a practical standpoint it will. The unfortunate reality is that most of the world's population still doesn't have access to a comprehensive library of software like apt, and while our current software IP regime reigns, they never will.
Which would be why you would specify the codecs in the standard as well, which is what the html5 video debate is mostly about.
My observation as a female is that men prefer "hot dumb blond chicks" (in bars etc) over more regular gals per se, without intellegence being factored in at all. Dumb, smart, pfft, she's hot.
As a warmish rather than hot chick, I think, in general, that the smarter the man the more he values intelligence. Or that's what I keep telling myself, anyway.
The rationale makes sense to me, at least (I'm male)...
If all you're looking for is a one-night stand, then it's perfectly sufficient if she's hot and willing to sleep with you.
For something more more lasting, however, the mental attributes are considerably more important, and hottnes more of a bonus...
I suspect you're last sentence is fairly accurate, if it's any comfort;)
That's not sustainable, as they're just more efficient, not a closed infinite loop. Entropy always increases. In this house...
In this case however, the energy comes originally from the sun. Sun warms up oceans etc-> vapor-> rains back and ends upp in rivers, among other things. It may not be sustainable for eternity, but I think it will last for quite a while:)
Still, not to surprising, since it's a lot easier to sit down in front of the pc or the console of you're choice and just play a game.
I've just watched the video, and to be honest, still very few people have seen it. The count is currently 1947. It would have been a lot better if the article had linked directly to the YouTube video. Then thousands of slashdot readers possible would have opened it.
I also just watched it. The count is still at 1947...
That there is antimatter in the wild isn't news per se; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission. It's the amount, imo, that's interresting here. And the way it's being produced.
So, you who live in Canada, how probable do you think it is that this will fly?