In my mind to buy a whole city or village you need to buy all the lands in it. Which is quite hard and expensive to do.
You can try to buy a city name, which makes a different sense.
Or, as it seems from the (possibly hoax) announcement, they convinced people with money to change their village name.
In either case, who cares?
a) you can calculate those with a different algorithm
How can you be sure it is correct?
b) we know an algorithm to directly calculate the nth binary digit of pi
We need to check all the billions digits there. Decimal digits.
c) it provides a good testbed for research on number crunching : the advance in calculations are due to algorithmic improvments that can be reused for other problems
I would use all that computing power for something more straightforwardly usefult, like protein folding into cancer research, for example.
Anyway, what part of the "research" concept don't you understand ?
How can we be sure all those digits are correct?
And, more important question, what are they for?
In all cases I faced so far, 355/113 provides a simple and nice approximation.
The consideration about costs is right, if you defer security decisions so much that you're still running IE6 in 2010.
The consideration about firewalls and scanners is also right, if your policy is to go on patching a broken roof instead or making proper repairs.
God save the Great Britain (as well as the Little one)!
Emoticons are not enough. Well, it can happen.
Introducing a new symbol for "something new" can also happen.
But copyrighting it is something I'm not prepared to.
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If I need and OS, I run Linux.
If I need a browser I run Chrome.
If I need to see the sky, I open my eyes!
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When you have enough money, you rule. That's it.
Want to kill an open ource project? Buy the "supporting" company (if any, like MySQL AB) or buy^H^H^Hhire the top 5 or 10 developers.
Is the control of the project already in your hands? Simply forget about it.
Then sue all forks.
It's (sadly) normal.
I would rather measure the available bandwidth with, say, google services, network latency and a few round trip timings with known hosts.
This sounds more serious to me than anything else.
Because there's more money!
In the handsets first (look how much the iPhone 4 will cost!), then voice services and texting and finally with data plans.
Are you really able to check the bills they send to you?
Are you really willing to do it?
Or you simply PAY?
This is why!
(Which is not Harry Potter, though!)
More (useless) printouts, more money for HP with printers and consumables!
Why sending a printout when you can send a link to a photo or even the photo itself?
Why sending a paper document when you can send the document itself?
Simple, because otherwise you will peruse it without printing it in a large number of cases!
Slashdot Mirror
More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4
I'm not really sure whether this is a good thing or not.
At least for code quality.
In my mind to buy a whole city or village you need to buy all the lands in it.
Which is quite hard and expensive to do.
You can try to buy a city name, which makes a different sense.
Or, as it seems from the (possibly hoax) announcement, they convinced people with money to change their village name.
In either case, who cares?
You could be right.
I bet that a large part of the cost was due to Oracle fees.
...
That would take forever to calculate, I presume.
a) you can calculate those with a different algorithm
How can you be sure it is correct?
b) we know an algorithm to directly calculate the nth binary digit of pi
We need to check all the billions digits there. Decimal digits.
c) it provides a good testbed for research on number crunching : the advance in calculations are due to algorithmic improvments that can be reused for other problems
I would use all that computing power for something more straightforwardly usefult, like protein folding into cancer research, for example.
Anyway, what part of the "research" concept don't you understand ?
The achieved goal.
How can we be sure all those digits are correct?
And, more important question, what are they for?
In all cases I faced so far, 355/113 provides a simple and nice approximation.
Won't help those people to reach the goal, though.
The consideration about costs is right, if you defer security decisions so much that you're still running IE6 in 2010.
The consideration about firewalls and scanners is also right, if your policy is to go on patching a broken roof instead or making proper repairs.
God save the Great Britain (as well as the Little one)!
... when it will be really working!
On which timespan?
Tor is not the solution to this problem, but to other ones.
It'd be nice to have incognito mode as default.
That the galaxy is also reach in Berlusconi? I hope the astronomers are definitely wrong.
For the sake of mankind.
Emoticons are not enough. Well, it can happen.
Introducing a new symbol for "something new" can also happen.
But copyrighting it is something I'm not prepared to.
If I need and OS, I run Linux.
If I need a browser I run Chrome.
If I need to see the sky, I open my eyes!
Very clear!
So if you can send multiple beams down the FttO, then I can have multiple high speed, fiber stable providers in a single fiber link.
They are going to be quite interesting colours, indeed. Fashionable, I presume.
When you have enough money, you rule. That's it.
Want to kill an open ource project? Buy the "supporting" company (if any, like MySQL AB) or buy^H^H^Hhire the top 5 or 10 developers.
Is the control of the project already in your hands? Simply forget about it.
Then sue all forks.
It's (sadly) normal.
./ != /.
Maybe you are just reading the wrong website ...
I would rather measure the available bandwidth with, say, google services, network latency and a few round trip timings with known hosts.
This sounds more serious to me than anything else.
Because there's more money! In the handsets first (look how much the iPhone 4 will cost!), then voice services and texting and finally with data plans.
Are you really able to check the bills they send to you?
Are you really willing to do it?
Or you simply PAY?
This is why!
(Which is not Harry Potter, though!)
More (useless) printouts, more money for HP with printers and consumables!
Why sending a printout when you can send a link to a photo or even the photo itself?
Why sending a paper document when you can send the document itself?
Simple, because otherwise you will peruse it without printing it in a large number of cases!
That's all about stupidity, nothing else.