OK, I get the Galapagos and Cosmic Voyage films being rejected as controversial, but why would a film about animals living in a harsh environment be controversial? Don't Creationists have enough room in their ontology for animals now?
You don't need to be insane to hear voices, normal humans have a running commentary in thier head. The commantary is in the thinkers native spoken language.
Speak for yourself. And read the Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein before you start talking non-sense.
If I had mod points, I would have probably saved them for something better. But picturing Chris Rock saying...
Metric spaces, metric spaces. Met-ric spaces.
These things are all over the place now. You know the Poles have their own sorts of metric spaces. Polish spaces. Have you heard about these? They're completely metrizable separable topological spaces. What kind of an idiot do you have to be to name a separable space after your own country?
Uh, no it's not. HBO invests in quality shows so that people have to subscribe to it in order to watch them. Believe me, it's much cheaper to run a television network than it is to run a television network and print dvds.
From TFA: I think that the thing that lots of open source projects have learned, and that those that haven't should learn, is the simple fact that millions of people use Windows, and millions of people use only Windows. If you don't have a port to that platform, you have denied them access to your project.
I think this is interesting. Now, I'm no PostgreSQL cheerleader, but they're certainly one of the top open source projects going around. It seems to me that if the PostgreSQL team had leveraged their position and spent more time developing for open operating systems, businesses would be given the incentive to switch. Instead, they've chosen to accomodate the enterprise windows crowd. Of course, this will be great for their marketshare. But it just seems like a missed opportunity given the bigger picture.
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For example, Moore's law means almost nothing now. Processor clock speed is only one aspect of the speed of a computer. It's still useful to gauge this as over all computer process speed, but soon that won't matter as much either. Even still, can you measure to the exact mhz that processing speed has exactly doubled in the past 18 months?
You're right to say that "Moore's law means almost nothing now." Especially since Moore's law is about transistor density in semi-conductors, not clock speed. The semi-conductor fabs have maintained Moore's law, even though they haven't really been able to get more cycles out of a processor in the last few years. This "clock-speed" version of Moore's law is a bastard meme.
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This is great! I do work with an animation company, and a couple of these bad boys would seriously speed up our render times. The last video our lead artist did had to be rendered below 720x480 because we didn't have six months or a cluster of G5's. We've also been looking at buying time on IBM's supercomputers, but this might end up being cheaper in the long run.
Good work finding a single exception to the rule. For each MST3k on television, there are 100 shows with multi-hundred thousand dollar production values per episode.
While I agree with the sentiment, people demand entertainment with relatively high production values, which really limits the ability for the average Joe to start up his own television show. Moreover, with a ton of crap floating around, finding the good shows is going to be a pain the the ass--even more than television. Of course, if this starts catching on, we'll see websites and the like devoted to sorting the wheat from the chaff.
The NSA is a political organization, not a scientific institution. They have vested interests in promoting standards 5-10 years behind their current technologies.
Of course, if you had actually opened AC's link, you would have seen a paper describing a weakness in ECMQV. Elliptic curves aren't the best objects on which to base an encryption scheme, as they have far too much structure.
This is interesting. Putting a bunch of wireless routers on a train is simple enough, but this will only get you a closed, local area network. I wonder how Deutsche Bahn plans to get packets to and from trains moving at high speed, especially considering the promised bandwidth. I can imagine several ways, but none seem cost effective.
I have no idea why you were modded insightful. Several problems:
(1) A Turing machine must be designed to solve a particular problem. OK, so there are Universal Turing machines too. Fine. You still need to design an algorithm and find the encoding of a TM which implements it. This is a non-trivial task. (Just think about the complexity of the operations GCC attempts, and consider that C is strictly weaker than Turing machines).
(2) The Myrmidons, robotic or otherwise, are capable of only finitely many states. So in fact, the whole collection is only a finite state machine. These are in principle weaker than universal Turing machines.
(3) The Myrmidons' behavior is not programmed in. So there is no analogue to problem solving in computer science here.
If you had enough intelligence to use quotation marks around "can't," maybe your opinion would have merit. Don't forget that comma either. And just for your information, ellipses require four periods in that context, not seven.
While true, an MS operating system license doesn't cover support. So you would be paying up the nose for software, and paying up the nose for support as well.
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OK, I get the Galapagos and Cosmic Voyage films being rejected as controversial, but why would a film about animals living in a harsh environment be controversial? Don't Creationists have enough room in their ontology for animals now?
As much as I dislike her, without some context, a simple factual mistake is no indictment.
You don't need to be insane to hear voices, normal humans have a running commentary in thier head. The commantary is in the thinkers native spoken language.
Speak for yourself. And read the Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein before you start talking non-sense.
If I had mod points, I would have probably saved them for something better. But picturing Chris Rock saying...
Metric spaces, metric spaces. Met-ric spaces.
These things are all over the place now. You know the Poles have their own sorts of metric spaces. Polish spaces. Have you heard about these? They're completely metrizable separable topological spaces. What kind of an idiot do you have to be to name a separable space after your own country?
made me laugh. Oh well, to each his own.
Little known fact: kubuntu means to defecate.
Yes... towards humanity.
That was easy.
I'm with GP. I know funny, and that wasn't funny.
Uh, no it's not. HBO invests in quality shows so that people have to subscribe to it in order to watch them. Believe me, it's much cheaper to run a television network than it is to run a television network and print dvds.
She worries far more about high blood pressure than Alzheimers.
I know what you meant, but you should tighten up your semantics before some insensitive clod mentions that this isn't necessarily a good thing.
From TFA: I think that the thing that lots of open source projects have learned, and that those that haven't should learn, is the simple fact that millions of people use Windows, and millions of people use only Windows. If you don't have a port to that platform, you have denied them access to your project.
I think this is interesting. Now, I'm no PostgreSQL cheerleader, but they're certainly one of the top open source projects going around. It seems to me that if the PostgreSQL team had leveraged their position and spent more time developing for open operating systems, businesses would be given the incentive to switch. Instead, they've chosen to accomodate the enterprise windows crowd. Of course, this will be great for their marketshare. But it just seems like a missed opportunity given the bigger picture.
For example, Moore's law means almost nothing now. Processor clock speed is only one aspect of the speed of a computer. It's still useful to gauge this as over all computer process speed, but soon that won't matter as much either. Even still, can you measure to the exact mhz that processing speed has exactly doubled in the past 18 months?
You're right to say that "Moore's law means almost nothing now." Especially since Moore's law is about transistor density in semi-conductors, not clock speed. The semi-conductor fabs have maintained Moore's law, even though they haven't really been able to get more cycles out of a processor in the last few years. This "clock-speed" version of Moore's law is a bastard meme.
Laws are for facists, you fucking nazi. ;-)
This is great! I do work with an animation company, and a couple of these bad boys would seriously speed up our render times. The last video our lead artist did had to be rendered below 720x480 because we didn't have six months or a cluster of G5's. We've also been looking at buying time on IBM's supercomputers, but this might end up being cheaper in the long run.
..."copyright infringement" written all over it.
You are an idiot.
If you really want a Mac without Mac OS, I've got an old iMac running Gentoo. It's yours for $500.
Good work finding a single exception to the rule. For each MST3k on television, there are 100 shows with multi-hundred thousand dollar production values per episode.
While I agree with the sentiment, people demand entertainment with relatively high production values, which really limits the ability for the average Joe to start up his own television show. Moreover, with a ton of crap floating around, finding the good shows is going to be a pain the the ass--even more than television. Of course, if this starts catching on, we'll see websites and the like devoted to sorting the wheat from the chaff.
South American weather... Chile and Argentina look really nice.
The NSA is a political organization, not a scientific institution. They have vested interests in promoting standards 5-10 years behind their current technologies.
Of course, if you had actually opened AC's link, you would have seen a paper describing a weakness in ECMQV. Elliptic curves aren't the best objects on which to base an encryption scheme, as they have far too much structure.
Duh. I even read that sentence. Only, it didn't parse, so all I got out of it was 32 MBit/s.
This is interesting. Putting a bunch of wireless routers on a train is simple enough, but this will only get you a closed, local area network. I wonder how Deutsche Bahn plans to get packets to and from trains moving at high speed, especially considering the promised bandwidth. I can imagine several ways, but none seem cost effective.
I have no idea why you were modded insightful. Several problems:
(1) A Turing machine must be designed to solve a particular problem. OK, so there are Universal Turing machines too. Fine. You still need to design an algorithm and find the encoding of a TM which implements it. This is a non-trivial task. (Just think about the complexity of the operations GCC attempts, and consider that C is strictly weaker than Turing machines).
(2) The Myrmidons, robotic or otherwise, are capable of only finitely many states. So in fact, the whole collection is only a finite state machine. These are in principle weaker than universal Turing machines.
(3) The Myrmidons' behavior is not programmed in. So there is no analogue to problem solving in computer science here.
If you had enough intelligence to use quotation marks around "can't," maybe your opinion would have merit. Don't forget that comma either. And just for your information, ellipses require four periods in that context, not seven.
While true, an MS operating system license doesn't cover support. So you would be paying up the nose for software, and paying up the nose for support as well.