Look at the pictures side by side. The "after" pictures are not manipulated versions of the "before" pictures -- they're different pictures.
You must be blind. They're obviously doctored. Do a google search for "Fisherman's Quandry" (sic) and "Fisherman's Quandary." There's no game theoretic problem in the literature with that name for "Diamond" Jack to solve. There are a ton of other glaring factual errors and inconsistencies.
They sell thongs in their online store, for shit's sake.
Sometimes it costs more to buy spiffy new servers than to recycle hardware. Particularly to a non-profit organization with shockingly fast growth. (Hint -- this isn't a for profit company. They don't make money doing it. There is no "loss" except to the community)
This is obviously a dumb idea unless they do some statistical analyses of usage patterns. Imagine if a single blacklist were all that is required to keep thousands of people from google.com, slashdot.org, cumonherface.com...
Can someone describe the physics that describe the creation of magnetic fields powerful enough to cause particle acceleration to some interesting end? Something just isn't adding up here. My guesstimates put the magnetic fields created by rotating charged particles at several orders of magnitute below any thing that can smash a baryon.
I have used stereo enough that I don't need the painful little glasses anymore. The secret is knowing how to look at then while focusing at "infinity".
Yes, of course. But unless the image size is rather small (or rather far away), you have to cross your eyes a *lot* to get the images to converge. Ouch.
You already have the equipment. Just cross your eyes while looking at it until your eyes focus and click. You'll know what I mean when you get it right.
There is nothing mystical about it, really. A catestrophic event had already occured (The earthquake that triggered it) and all nature tends to freak out about that sort of thing. If nature acts the same way for generations and then one day starts acting differently, your intuition is going to tell you there's something wrong, and if you're the kind of person who enjoys... living... you will listen to that intuition and act like the other animals are and run up hill.
That's a very, ahem, tidy explanation. However, it misses the point. An earthquake could be indicative of many different phenomena -- tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc. If the seismic activity was indicative of an impending volcanic eruption, going to higher ground would be idiotic, no matter how many animals were doing it. Logically, we must conclude one of:
1. The aborigines saw the animals going uphill and got lucky.
2. The aboriginies saw the animals going uphill and somehow knew that it wasn't a volcanic eruption.
3. The aborigines didn't see the animals going uphill and got lucky.
4. The aboriginies didn't see the animals going uphill, sensed danger, and knew that it wasn't an impending volcanic eruption.
Fair enough -- you're a gamer, so a Mac would be a poor choice in your case. And Macs are more expensive than commodity PCs. I'll certainly grant both of these points.
However, I must take issue with your claim that a *nix with X-windows on a PC has more software or could offer more. Mac OS X is pretty much a pretty UI built on top of a *nix. Apple ships OS X with a port of XFree86, and if you install the developer tools (also included with OS X), you can compile a whole lot of linux software with no modification. Moreover, you can install Fink and install ported versions of all sorts of open source software using a port of Debian's apt system. There's enough documentation out there so that you could write your own kernel extensions if you'd like. Moreover, the UI is very easily costumizable if you start poking around the system directory. As I type, I'm running several file transfer protocols (SMB/CIFS via Samba, ftp via vsFTPd) and a complex website with a mySQL backend being feed through LaTeX by Perl before being served up on my 500 Mhz G3 iMac.
OS X is great for the novice user, but it also offers anyone interested in doing things of greater sophistication more than ample chance. And it has a pretty UI.:-)
The way I see it, there are two kinds of "important" software: lowest common denominator programs (web browsers, e-mail clients, word processors, etc -- the sorts of things everybody uses) and highly specialized, easily ported software. OS X can easily deal with both kinds.
Oh my! A mathematician and a psychiatrist too! Here's some unsolicited advice: don't give strangers unsolicited advice.
Doing mathematics does not make one a mathematician. One needs to make significant contributions to the field for that. The title is reserved for people who have. Until you've done that, you're either too stupid to realize how big a faux pas you've committed, or just a little shit with a big ego.
A mathematician--to wit, a pure mathematician! At 18, at most! Without having gone through college! Please, oh wise sage, help me pay my dues and finish my dissertation so that I might call myself a mathematician too!
A space bound TM is an FSM. By the definition of a TM, each cell can be in one of finitely many states. If you bind the number of cells, you force the machine to have only finitely many possible states.
(There's a slight technical difficulty, since I'm implicitly using the word "state" in two different senses. An FSM state corresponds to something like "the configuration the whole machine is in at a particular time," whereas a TM state corresponds to something like "the symbol in a given cell at a given time.")
You can pretend that these thoughts don't exist all you want. But they do exist. And you, like everyone else, have them.
Speak for yourself. I've noticed that many racists try to justify their hatred by claiming that everyone feels the same way. I suppose people just want to feel "normal" and not the exception. Well, let me tell you something: You are the exception. Racism is a learned behavior and you are a part of an increasingly small minority of indoctrinated people.
Your "science" is also horribly flawed. Here are a choice quote from the AAA:
Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions.
Sure. But most of the time, the user sees it coming. Applications rarely ask for admin access, and most that do are unix app. installers (like MySQL, TeX, and the like) and software updates. The vast majority are (normal) user installable. Requesting admin access is a serious issue, and most Mac users I've met are aware of that. (Not to say that there aren't morons running Macs)
Cape Canaveral isn't even one of the 25 most populous cities in Florida.
The official state of Florida portal site lists international trade (with central and south America), tourism, agriculture, construction, "services," software, health technology, and "university research" as "Economy Strengths."
Note that the University of Miami, Florida State U, and U. of Florida eat up most research funding, and each is at least 100 miles away from the Cape.
Does NASA seem particularly relevant anymore?
I suspect that law suits are soon coming. Not over any particularly obvious issue, but I bet the telcos are going to go through all of SBC's paperwork with a fine-toothed comb, looking for any reason to slow them down.
If not that, I suspect the telcos will lobby for government subsidies.
Hate to break it to you, but Florida's economy is not driven by NASA. Cape Canaveral and its suburbs house only a tiny fraction of the population there. Saying that NASA is their "key reason for existence" is simply retarded.
This whole OSX is FreeBSD rumor is based on aanother rumor regarding Tiger. Apparently, Tiger's new kernel will mash the Mach microkernel with FreeBSD 5.0's kernel.
Slashdot Mirror
Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum
Note that Nazarenus and Iudaeorum are in the genitive case. So it reads "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews"
Yes, if the AI being tested only knows english, and the tester only knows German, or French, or some other language.
Look at the pictures side by side. The "after" pictures are not manipulated versions of the "before" pictures -- they're different pictures.
You must be blind. They're obviously doctored. Do a google search for "Fisherman's Quandry" (sic) and "Fisherman's Quandary." There's no game theoretic problem in the literature with that name for "Diamond" Jack to solve. There are a ton of other glaring factual errors and inconsistencies.
They sell thongs in their online store, for shit's sake.
Sometimes it costs more to buy spiffy new servers than to recycle hardware. Particularly to a non-profit organization with shockingly fast growth. (Hint -- this isn't a for profit company. They don't make money doing it. There is no "loss" except to the community)
This is obviously a dumb idea unless they do some statistical analyses of usage patterns. Imagine if a single blacklist were all that is required to keep thousands of people from google.com, slashdot.org, cumonherface.com...
Can someone describe the physics that describe the creation of magnetic fields powerful enough to cause particle acceleration to some interesting end? Something just isn't adding up here. My guesstimates put the magnetic fields created by rotating charged particles at several orders of magnitute below any thing that can smash a baryon.
I have used stereo enough that I don't need the painful little glasses anymore. The secret is knowing how to look at then while focusing at "infinity". Yes, of course. But unless the image size is rather small (or rather far away), you have to cross your eyes a *lot* to get the images to converge. Ouch.
PS -- They make glasses now? Cool!
You already have the equipment. Just cross your eyes while looking at it until your eyes focus and click. You'll know what I mean when you get it right.
Yes, there is. Try a pint Black Butte (from the Deschutes Brewery) with about a half cup of cold espresso.
Really, there wasn't enough relief in those pictures to be worth inducing several thousand splitting headaches across the globe.
There is nothing mystical about it, really. A catestrophic event had already occured (The earthquake that triggered it) and all nature tends to freak out about that sort of thing. If nature acts the same way for generations and then one day starts acting differently, your intuition is going to tell you there's something wrong, and if you're the kind of person who enjoys... living... you will listen to that intuition and act like the other animals are and run up hill.
That's a very, ahem, tidy explanation. However, it misses the point. An earthquake could be indicative of many different phenomena -- tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc. If the seismic activity was indicative of an impending volcanic eruption, going to higher ground would be idiotic, no matter how many animals were doing it. Logically, we must conclude one of:
1. The aborigines saw the animals going uphill and got lucky.
2. The aboriginies saw the animals going uphill and somehow knew that it wasn't a volcanic eruption.
3. The aborigines didn't see the animals going uphill and got lucky.
4. The aboriginies didn't see the animals going uphill, sensed danger, and knew that it wasn't an impending volcanic eruption.
Fair enough -- you're a gamer, so a Mac would be a poor choice in your case. And Macs are more expensive than commodity PCs. I'll certainly grant both of these points.
:-)
However, I must take issue with your claim that a *nix with X-windows on a PC has more software or could offer more. Mac OS X is pretty much a pretty UI built on top of a *nix. Apple ships OS X with a port of XFree86, and if you install the developer tools (also included with OS X), you can compile a whole lot of linux software with no modification. Moreover, you can install Fink and install ported versions of all sorts of open source software using a port of Debian's apt system. There's enough documentation out there so that you could write your own kernel extensions if you'd like. Moreover, the UI is very easily costumizable if you start poking around the system directory. As I type, I'm running several file transfer protocols (SMB/CIFS via Samba, ftp via vsFTPd) and a complex website with a mySQL backend being feed through LaTeX by Perl before being served up on my 500 Mhz G3 iMac.
OS X is great for the novice user, but it also offers anyone interested in doing things of greater sophistication more than ample chance. And it has a pretty UI.
The way I see it, there are two kinds of "important" software: lowest common denominator programs (web browsers, e-mail clients, word processors, etc -- the sorts of things everybody uses) and highly specialized, easily ported software. OS X can easily deal with both kinds.
Wikipedia is obviously wrong (again) since P is contained in NP. So BQP cannot be disjoint from NP.
FOSDEM run linux?
Oh my! A mathematician and a psychiatrist too! Here's some unsolicited advice: don't give strangers unsolicited advice.
Doing mathematics does not make one a mathematician. One needs to make significant contributions to the field for that. The title is reserved for people who have. Until you've done that, you're either too stupid to realize how big a faux pas you've committed, or just a little shit with a big ego.
Oh my, aren't we pretentious?
A mathematician--to wit, a pure mathematician! At 18, at most! Without having gone through college! Please, oh wise sage, help me pay my dues and finish my dissertation so that I might call myself a mathematician too!
A space bound TM is an FSM. By the definition of a TM, each cell can be in one of finitely many states. If you bind the number of cells, you force the machine to have only finitely many possible states.
(There's a slight technical difficulty, since I'm implicitly using the word "state" in two different senses. An FSM state corresponds to something like "the configuration the whole machine is in at a particular time," whereas a TM state corresponds to something like "the symbol in a given cell at a given time.")
You can pretend that these thoughts don't exist all you want. But they do exist. And you, like everyone else, have them.
Speak for yourself. I've noticed that many racists try to justify their hatred by claiming that everyone feels the same way. I suppose people just want to feel "normal" and not the exception. Well, let me tell you something: You are the exception. Racism is a learned behavior and you are a part of an increasingly small minority of indoctrinated people.
Your "science" is also horribly flawed. Here are a choice quote from the AAA:
Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g., DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions.
What if it's a farm of monolithic servers? Or a monolithic farm of servers?
Sure. But most of the time, the user sees it coming. Applications rarely ask for admin access, and most that do are unix app. installers (like MySQL, TeX, and the like) and software updates. The vast majority are (normal) user installable. Requesting admin access is a serious issue, and most Mac users I've met are aware of that. (Not to say that there aren't morons running Macs)
Wikiepedia is obviously wrong.
Cape Canaveral isn't even one of the 25 most populous cities in Florida.
The official state of Florida portal site lists international trade (with central and south America), tourism, agriculture, construction, "services," software, health technology, and "university research" as "Economy Strengths."
Note that the University of Miami, Florida State U, and U. of Florida eat up most research funding, and each is at least 100 miles away from the Cape.
Does NASA seem particularly relevant anymore?
I suspect that law suits are soon coming. Not over any particularly obvious issue, but I bet the telcos are going to go through all of SBC's paperwork with a fine-toothed comb, looking for any reason to slow them down.
If not that, I suspect the telcos will lobby for government subsidies.
Really.
Neither this, nor MyJeeves is going to make AskJeeves anything but the ass of the internet.
Hate to break it to you, but Florida's economy is not driven by NASA. Cape Canaveral and its suburbs house only a tiny fraction of the population there. Saying that NASA is their "key reason for existence" is simply retarded.
This whole OSX is FreeBSD rumor is based on aanother rumor regarding Tiger. Apparently, Tiger's new kernel will mash the Mach microkernel with FreeBSD 5.0's kernel.