The golden ratio, also known as Pi
Theorems are constantly being proven and disproven You're not a mathematician, are you? Theorems proved cannot not be disproved. A theorem differs from a scientific theory, a model to explain observations and make predictions testable by experiment. Mathematicians don't collect evidence for and against a theorem, argue their cases and each week reconsider its merits. If you read a mathematical proof, it takes you from the assumptions to the conclusion by a series of logical steps, each of which is epistemologically sound, leaving no room for argument. You can contest the assumptions, but you can't deny their implications.
Premises: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. (You could contest these) Conclusion: Socrates is mortal. (You can't deny that this follows from the above) A theorem is either true or false, it cannot be true today and false tomorrow, true in Greece and false in America. There are no integer solutions to a^n + b^n = c^n for n>2 , a,b,c all different from 0. UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL TRUTH.
A hypothesis is a mathematical assertion (for example, there exists a prime between n^2 and (n+1)^2 for all n) that has yet to be shown true (by a proof) or false (by counterexample).
Archimedes proved that pi is greater than 3 + 1/7 but less than 3 + 10/71. (Start by drawing a 96 sided polygon)
Does it make paperclips and Linux illegal in Germany now that they can be used for hacking? Shit, are you an insider? How else would know that the "common office implement" in question are papercl*ps?
PDF was never intended to be edited, once published. Really? It's a wonder we're not still reading in Latin. or perl Aren't we? - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl
Google wouldn't be able to do such evil if it only stored the IP addresses of its users for immediate necessary use, and discarded them. Keeping data indefinitely, such that they can be reinterpreted and abused in ways unimaginable at the time , makes such problems as these likely.
I think 36,600 and 97,600 still seems too small. I think the real figure might be about 400-600 thousand. The 400-600 quote comes from one article, and I reckon its just a slip of the tongue / misquote, and that the guy meant 400-600 [thousand].
If you read the article, he said '5% of 17 million users use Macs, and 400-600 use Linux.' Now substitute 5% of 17 million with 850 thousand, and it reads '850 thousand users use Macs, and 400-600 use Linux'. The site has millions of users, so you'd expect him to be supplied statistics no more precise than in thousands. So if he wasn't aware of that, or if he was reading from a page, in which 850 thousand had been replaced with 5% of 17 million, then you can understand how 400-600 happened.
Assuming 400-600 thousand, we have half as many Linux users as Mac users. That seems reasonable, doesn't it? 36k to 97k would be an order of magnitude fewer, which I'd find surprising.
The figure given for linux users is less accurate (hence the error range) than that for Macs, because of the greater variability in user agent strings. I think the people who calculated the 400-600 [thousand] figure were doing a good study, and that this accidental quote 400-600 has kind of ruined the thing. I've submitted a freedom of information request to the BBC about linux figures. I wouldn't be surprised to get different data again. The whole 400-600, and now 30k to 90k fiasco wouldn't be happening if people at the BBC talked to each other!
>When you apply for a patent, that's the day the prior art becomes effective. So if wikipedia did it after they filed, then that prior art would not count. The patent was filed August 23, 2004. This is ridiculous! How old is mod_rewrite ?
Possible? In some cases. Easy? Never. Dell refunded this man, marking the cheque as 'good will', and they have since confirmed that the refund is not standard policy (read that carefully). Other Dell users may have received refunds - * please quote examples below*.
I bought a computer from Acer (I recommend none of you ever do). I contacted them outlining their legal obligation to me and received this email.
Regarding your enquiry, We can do this however you need to pay the carrier and assessment fees which is £41.13. Once we have received the laptop and made sure the operating system is no longer on it we will return your machine to your with a refund cheque of £50 Yes, that's right. They wanted me to post them my whole computer (at my expense) to their service centre, which would charge me a £41.13 for assessment. Hah!
Twelve emails later, we've not progressed far. They're now offered me £61.12, no assessment fees. But they still expect me to post my whole computer (which costs ~£15 each way, uninsured delivery). I've told them I've erased Windows (in fact I've even filmed and photographed the affair), but oh yes, and they still want the whole computer posted, and they say they must remove the hard-drive and erase ALL DATA. No thank you, I'm using it! Of course, the whole assessment centre thing is pointless, because anyone could have made a copy of windows operating system to CD (in fact, the computer was set up to do this on first boot), sent their computer to have the hard-drive wiped, and then restored Windows on its return. This whole thing is a ludicrous policy concocted to escape their legal right to the consumer.
I am now at university and no longer have the time to continue pursuing the refund. (£61.12 of a £350 computer = 17.5%). Acer customer support are the worst I have ever experienced, I would never buy from them again. Other Acer users have had similar experiences. (If you receive your computer faulty on purchase, they will try and charge you £41.12). Had I the time, I would like to continue this with consumer groups, and then on legal grounds, and encourage a large boycott of Acer's product.
Do not expect a refund. Even if you are prepared to work hard, you can get nowhere if your manufacturer are as underhanded as Acer.
There are two paths to making the game more acceptable in society, that is, to the media, which define it. BBFC won't approve something if they expect letters written to The Sun and the Daily Mail.
1. Change the title from Manhunt to something less headline catchy, and change the first level so that reporters won't see anything but bunnies and flowers. 2. Alter the gameplay so that the player is murdering paedophiles.
Web 4.0 will be GoogleOS, an operating system run inside your web browser. Like gmail, where pressing the back button logs you out, pressing back in GoogleOS will shut down.
I think America's developers need to work on Constitution 2.0, including Free Speech 2.0, open-source it. 1.0 was kinda rushed, that's why they had to release all those amendments.
Apple do seriously overcharge here in the UK. A quick check of their websites shows that iMacs in the US start at $1200, and at £800 the UK. This would be expected if 3$ = £2, but that hasn't been true since 2002. Now $2 = £1, and as a result components (esp memory) are cheap here, and desktop computers can be found very cheap from some sources (you can't compete building your own, even saving on not buying Windows). While Mac have dropped iPod prices to undercut other mp3 players, their computers have been stationary. This means that an iMac now costs double the price of the equivalent PC machine here, which seems ludicrous to me.
Here, the iPod pervades all, and Apple are wisely using it as a tool to sell their other products. The consumer culture is not 'should I buy an iPod?' but 'which iPod should I buy?'. Now three of my friends own expensive Macs, and I bought a dual core 64 bit mini PC for £350 and feel rather pleased.
Does Slashdot agree with this? I don't know if this site has adds. Or the others I frequent. I can't imagine many Slashdot readers at home view adverts.
Anyway, keep up your hardest Slashdot, linking to add-ridden self-publicising articles of twenty paragraphs across 10 pages
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Sell Wii's at twice the price.
All men are mortal.
Socrates is a man. (You could contest these)
Conclusion:
Socrates is mortal. (You can't deny that this follows from the above) A theorem is either true or false, it cannot be true today and false tomorrow, true in Greece and false in America.
There are no integer solutions to a^n + b^n = c^n for n>2 , a,b,c all different from 0. UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL TRUTH.
A hypothesis is a mathematical assertion (for example, there exists a prime between n^2 and (n+1)^2 for all n) that has yet to be shown true (by a proof) or false (by counterexample).
Archimedes proved that pi is greater than 3 + 1/7 but less than 3 + 10/71. (Start by drawing a 96 sided polygon)
The universe doesn't care what you think.
Mathematical knowledge is one knowledge that is certain, universal and timeless. All other content on Wikipedia is subjective and biased.
> Because PDF works and can be implemented?
Are there any free software that can edit a PDF document?
Google wouldn't be able to do such evil if it only stored the IP addresses of its users for immediate necessary use, and discarded them. Keeping data indefinitely, such that they can be reinterpreted and abused in ways unimaginable at the time , makes such problems as these likely.
Unlike slashdot, your employer won't take your site linked in your sig.
Isn't most illegal file transfer done by BitTorrent? How would this help, except to make searching harder?
>The Pirate Bay folks should be able to insist that the cops leave behind all the protons and neutrons that are their rightful property.
D00d, someone should write a play about that shit.
I think 36,600 and 97,600 still seems too small. I think the real figure might be about 400-600 thousand. The 400-600 quote comes from one article, and I reckon its just a slip of the tongue / misquote, and that the guy meant 400-600 [thousand].
If you read the article, he said '5% of 17 million users use Macs, and 400-600 use Linux.' Now substitute 5% of 17 million with 850 thousand, and it reads '850 thousand users use Macs, and 400-600 use Linux'. The site has millions of users, so you'd expect him to be supplied statistics no more precise than in thousands. So if he wasn't aware of that, or if he was reading from a page, in which 850 thousand had been replaced with 5% of 17 million, then you can understand how 400-600 happened.
Assuming 400-600 thousand, we have half as many Linux users as Mac users. That seems reasonable, doesn't it? 36k to 97k would be an order of magnitude fewer, which I'd find surprising.
The figure given for linux users is less accurate (hence the error range) than that for Macs, because of the greater variability in user agent strings. I think the people who calculated the 400-600 [thousand] figure were doing a good study, and that this accidental quote 400-600 has kind of ruined the thing. I've submitted a freedom of information request to the BBC about linux figures. I wouldn't be surprised to get different data again. The whole 400-600, and now 30k to 90k fiasco wouldn't be happening if people at the BBC talked to each other!
$proof =~ /perl/
>When you apply for a patent, that's the day the prior art becomes effective. So if wikipedia did it after they filed, then that prior art would not count.
The patent was filed August 23, 2004. This is ridiculous! How old is mod_rewrite ?
Spam and viruses have created a massive industry.
Take a look out Sophos' new HQ in my town. They know how to exploit an exploit.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4552/136/1600/sophos.jpg
I bought a computer from Acer (I recommend none of you ever do). I contacted them outlining their legal obligation to me and received this email.
Regarding your enquiry, We can do this however you need to pay the carrier and assessment fees which is £41.13. Once we have received the laptop and made sure the operating system is no longer on it we will return your machine to your with a refund cheque of £50 Yes, that's right. They wanted me to post them my whole computer (at my expense) to their service centre, which would charge me a £41.13 for assessment. Hah!Twelve emails later, we've not progressed far. They're now offered me £61.12, no assessment fees. But they still expect me to post my whole computer (which costs ~£15 each way, uninsured delivery). I've told them I've erased Windows (in fact I've even filmed and photographed the affair), but oh yes, and they still want the whole computer posted, and they say they must remove the hard-drive and erase ALL DATA. No thank you, I'm using it! Of course, the whole assessment centre thing is pointless, because anyone could have made a copy of windows operating system to CD (in fact, the computer was set up to do this on first boot), sent their computer to have the hard-drive wiped, and then restored Windows on its return. This whole thing is a ludicrous policy concocted to escape their legal right to the consumer.
I am now at university and no longer have the time to continue pursuing the refund. (£61.12 of a £350 computer = 17.5%). Acer customer support are the worst I have ever experienced, I would never buy from them again. Other Acer users have had similar experiences. (If you receive your computer faulty on purchase, they will try and charge you £41.12). Had I the time, I would like to continue this with consumer groups, and then on legal grounds, and encourage a large boycott of Acer's product.
Do not expect a refund. Even if you are prepared to work hard, you can get nowhere if your manufacturer are as underhanded as Acer.
There are two paths to making the game more acceptable in society, that is, to the media, which define it. BBFC won't approve something if they expect letters written to The Sun and the Daily Mail.
1. Change the title from Manhunt to something less headline catchy, and change the first level so that reporters won't see anything but bunnies and flowers.
2. Alter the gameplay so that the player is murdering paedophiles.
Web 4.0 will be GoogleOS, an operating system run inside your web browser. Like gmail, where pressing the back button logs you out, pressing back in GoogleOS will shut down.
I think America's developers need to work on Constitution 2.0, including Free Speech 2.0, open-source it. 1.0 was kinda rushed, that's why they had to release all those amendments.
1.0 is clearly buggy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgrFSHZfD1o
Don't tase me, bro!
'In the next six months' is a subset of 'in the next year', which is a subset of 'in the next 18 months', a subset of 'in the next two years'.
So what? In two years will 20% of business be running Vista, or 50%?
Apple do seriously overcharge here in the UK. A quick check of their websites shows that iMacs in the US start at $1200, and at £800 the UK. This would be expected if 3$ = £2, but that hasn't been true since 2002. Now $2 = £1, and as a result components (esp memory) are cheap here, and desktop computers can be found very cheap from some sources (you can't compete building your own, even saving on not buying Windows). While Mac have dropped iPod prices to undercut other mp3 players, their computers have been stationary. This means that an iMac now costs double the price of the equivalent PC machine here, which seems ludicrous to me.
Here, the iPod pervades all, and Apple are wisely using it as a tool to sell their other products. The consumer culture is not 'should I buy an iPod?' but 'which iPod should I buy?'. Now three of my friends own expensive Macs, and I bought a dual core 64 bit mini PC for £350 and feel rather pleased.
Source http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist-graph3.htm
Monkey Island, yeah! How is the wiimote going to handle those insult duels?
Of course, ringtones aren't art, are they? The nokia bastardisation of tarregas grand vals.
Does Slashdot agree with this? I don't know if this site has adds. Or the others I frequent. I can't imagine many Slashdot readers at home view adverts.
Anyway, keep up your hardest Slashdot, linking to add-ridden self-publicising articles of twenty paragraphs across 10 pages