The nice thing about MIT is that most of their computing system is unix based. There are some windows machines and some macs in the administrative offices etc. but practically as a rule (except for the microsoft funded teal-laboratories) everything runs on athena (which is a customized solaris/linux). This means that running a unix-variant can actually be an advantage.
From experience I can say that at least for the first two years it really doesn't matter what kind of a computer you have (as long as it does web browsing and word processing) and even after that you're likely to not have to worry about it. Matlab and maple might be nice to have but everything is available in the public clusters that are practically everywhere.
Also, mit definitely does not emphasize microsoft tools. Your programming classes are either on scheme or java and those run on just about everything. I have neighbours who are running everything from linux to mac to solaris to windows to no computers and are doing just fine. What's more, as much as possible is done with open tools. You're likely to be using gnu tools a lot of time. As a matter of fact openoffice is the standard office environment, netscape the web-browser and the use of emacs/latex is much liked, and you're likely to be running all this on a linux box(or solaris).
In general, people pretty much get to use the tools they are comfortable with and there are as little restrictions imposed by the school as possible.
And majors vary too.. There is a lot more than just technology. I came to mit thinking about majoring in cs now doing mathematics (with some cs) and thinking of concentrating in economics and finance... So far it hasn't really matter what kind of a computer I have had (well, business school tends to have ms-bias, which is understandable).
Those pipe organs have pretty darn long pipes (at least the ones I've seen) and have plenty of length to produce fundamental vibrations at low frequencies.
I was recently talking about fusion (a dinner conversation, in passing, nothing too detailed) with a professor from mit who is specifically working on fusion. My background on the subject is about zero so I asked "stupid" questions.
So I asked him if they have it working yet and the answer was yes. Then I asked him if they can get more energy out in a controlled fashion than is put in and again the answer was yes. Finally I asked him to give a concrete example and he said that everything actually at this point works on paper!
The point being that the theoretical work is pretty much all good and at this point they need to build a big test reactor to get some practical work done. Some practical problems still being considered were things such as location and financing.. but it, nevertheless, works.
A lot of the MIT buildings are named after someone. Nobody cares, since people generally refer to them by numbers. This building will just be known as 32. Since all the classes go by numbers too, people can confuse outsiders, for instance, by saying that they have a TR11 18.100B at 4-163.
Okay, Stata center looks so ugly that people might remember its name. It seems to be Mr. Vests legacy to build ugly buildings on campus..
A cash transaction of more than $10,000 is going to involve federal forms, it is the law I believe. The most I've ever had was $3000 in twenties. About the same number of bills as yours. No sense in trying to put that in your wallet. At least europe's got the 500 euro bill (which is slowly approaching $1000 in value).
That totally depends on your card and where the atm is located at. If the atm is located at a bank, expect to get as much money out as you need (as long as your card provider doesn't limit it). Case in point, last fall I went to get $100 from an atm in a hurry and as the machine took forever to count the money and finally gave it out I noticed that I put in one extra zero.. I would've actually appreciated a limit there. Then again, often times I've wanted to get more than $2-300 that the little atm's at supermarkets give out. Go figure..
Personally, I think that there is no substitute for Adobe Encore. Sonic Foundry Dvd Architect (i think it's owned by sony now) comes as a somewhat distant second. It is $599, but easily worth the money.
There are still many tasks for which there isn't enough computing power for. Factoring large prime numbers, encoding/editing video, rendering 3D graphics, applying audio filters, etc...
That is probably something you do not need any computing power for as it can be done in constant time.
Nope. They don't do that in Massachusetts. People often mistake this for driving way too fast through the actual toll booth, in which case the electronic sensor might not recognize your pass. It is also rather unsafe. Sometimes there is an officer with a radar and they will fine you.
Absolutely, but if you want to save money that means government shouldn't hire developers to work on Linux and artificially support a market.
So instead, they should first spend money on the software (MS) and then hire support personnel and developers for that. Perhaps the Ms market is better at maintaining itself but cheaper it is necessarily not.
Another of saying it is, if the weatherman was smart enough, there is never really a 60% chance of rain tomorrow....its either 0% or 100%
Reminds me of an old joke about blondes and statistics. When asked from a blonde what are the changes of seeing a dinosaurus walking on the street tomorrow? Close to zero? zero? nope, 50/50. Either I see it or I don't.
Yeah and only three of them can be used simultaneously without any interference. Basically any given channel will overlap with the four neighbouring channels(two in both directions).
I think that you're somewhat underestimating the cost of translating microsoft software to all the european languages. Considering that this would involve france, german, italian, british(yes, it is different!), swedish, finnish, norwegian, danish, dutch, etc.. versions, they do have more costs than just those of making copies involved. Hence, profit margins are not quite that high.
Yes, isn't it wonderful that microsoft is supporting easy access to copyrighted works with a linux based server!
On a separate note, just about all of mit's athena network is based on a customized linux/solaris systems. There are practically no publicly available windows computers on campus. Want to use microsoft office? Great, put it on your own computer because staroffice it is everywhere else. Only microsoft influence I've seen anywhere is a couple of measly tablet pc's sometime last year that I have not seen since(they gave them out for a certain course, i believe, as an experiment).
Yes, there is the general number field sieve, but still for all practical purposes you're brute forcing. Complexity is reduced to something like O(exp((c*(logn)^(1/3)*(loglogn)^(2/3))) where n is the length of number in bits.
And yes, they both pretty much involve brute forcing the bits to try to crack the message. It just happens that ecc problem is lot harder than large number factorization (computationally and conceptually too). If you know how to factor huge ass numbers without brute forcing let the nobel committee know as you may be eligible for next year.
Maybe because discrete logarithm problems in ordinary number groups are much easier to solve than in elliptic number groups.
As a matter of fact, discrete log problem for ordinary numbers has been improving steadily whereas Elliptic curve group discrete log techniques have not seen significant improvement in the past 20 years. This difference accounts for today's reduced key-size requirements for elliptic curves.
Yes. As any good patent lawyer will tell you it is enough if you infringe on a part of one claim in a patent to start legal action!
Like I mentioned in an another comment this is rather bullshit as a patent is supposed to be applicable only to the specific implementation described in the patent. Infringing on a part of a claim should not really be considered a specific implementation of that particular patent since it has other relevant things in it too. If someone has a different implementation of the same idea it should not infringe. In particular I would say that using something else than html would from practical point of view (ie. looking at sniffed network data) be rather different. Of course the previous is just wishful thinking but the US legal system is equally crazy.
Alas, network communication protocols lend themselves to rather straightforward implementations and generally speaking it is hard to do things differently. Maybe the clause in patent law, that states that implementations that are obvious to any practicioner of trade should not be patentable, should be enforced more strictly.
In a sense that is bullcrap that should not be enforced! Patents are supposed to be highly specific and relevant to a certain implementation only. But then there's US courts and patent lawyers..
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The nice thing about MIT is that most of their computing system is unix based. There are some windows machines and some macs in the administrative offices etc. but practically as a rule (except for the microsoft funded teal-laboratories) everything runs on athena (which is a customized solaris/linux). This means that running a unix-variant can actually be an advantage.
From experience I can say that at least for the first two years it really doesn't matter what kind of a computer you have (as long as it does web browsing and word processing) and even after that you're likely to not have to worry about it. Matlab and maple might be nice to have but everything is available in the public clusters that are practically everywhere.
Also, mit definitely does not emphasize microsoft tools. Your programming classes are either on scheme or java and those run on just about everything. I have neighbours who are running everything from linux to mac to solaris to windows to no computers and are doing just fine. What's more, as much as possible is done with open tools. You're likely to be using gnu tools a lot of time. As a matter of fact openoffice is the standard office environment, netscape the web-browser and the use of emacs/latex is much liked, and you're likely to be running all this on a linux box(or solaris).
In general, people pretty much get to use the tools they are comfortable with and there are as little restrictions imposed by the school as possible.
And majors vary too.. There is a lot more than just technology. I came to mit thinking about majoring in cs now doing mathematics (with some cs) and thinking of concentrating in economics and finance... So far it hasn't really matter what kind of a computer I have had (well, business school tends to have ms-bias, which is understandable).
Those pipe organs have pretty darn long pipes (at least the ones I've seen) and have plenty of length to produce fundamental vibrations at low frequencies.
I was recently talking about fusion (a dinner conversation, in passing, nothing too detailed) with a professor from mit who is specifically working on fusion. My background on the subject is about zero so I asked "stupid" questions.
So I asked him if they have it working yet and the answer was yes. Then I asked him if they can get more energy out in a controlled fashion than is put in and again the answer was yes. Finally I asked him to give a concrete example and he said that everything actually at this point works on paper!
The point being that the theoretical work is pretty much all good and at this point they need to build a big test reactor to get some practical work done. Some practical problems still being considered were things such as location and financing.. but it, nevertheless, works.
A lot of the MIT buildings are named after someone. Nobody cares, since people generally refer to them by numbers. This building will just be known as 32. Since all the classes go by numbers too, people can confuse outsiders, for instance, by saying that they have a TR11 18.100B at 4-163.
Okay, Stata center looks so ugly that people might remember its name. It seems to be Mr. Vests legacy to build ugly buildings on campus..
A cash transaction of more than $10,000 is going to involve federal forms, it is the law I believe. The most I've ever had was $3000 in twenties. About the same number of bills as yours. No sense in trying to put that in your wallet. At least europe's got the 500 euro bill (which is slowly approaching $1000 in value).
That totally depends on your card and where the atm is located at. If the atm is located at a bank, expect to get as much money out as you need (as long as your card provider doesn't limit it). Case in point, last fall I went to get $100 from an atm in a hurry and as the machine took forever to count the money and finally gave it out I noticed that I put in one extra zero.. I would've actually appreciated a limit there. Then again, often times I've wanted to get more than $2-300 that the little atm's at supermarkets give out. Go figure..
Personally, I think that there is no substitute for Adobe Encore. Sonic Foundry Dvd Architect (i think it's owned by sony now) comes as a somewhat distant second. It is $599, but easily worth the money.
Uh.. Scotch.. Shot.. those words just don't go together. A shot of american whiskey, yup, probably the only way.. scotch, nope.
There are still many tasks for which there isn't enough computing power for. Factoring large prime numbers, encoding/editing video, rendering 3D graphics, applying audio filters, etc...
That is probably something you do not need any computing power for as it can be done in constant time.
Or, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a flock of pigeons with blue-laser dvds strapped on to their feet flying on the sky."
Nope. They don't do that in Massachusetts. People often mistake this for driving way too fast through the actual toll booth, in which case the electronic sensor might not recognize your pass. It is also rather unsafe. Sometimes there is an officer with a radar and they will fine you.
Absolutely, but if you want to save money that means government shouldn't hire developers to work on Linux and artificially support a market.
So instead, they should first spend money on the software (MS) and then hire support personnel and developers for that. Perhaps the Ms market is better at maintaining itself but cheaper it is necessarily not.
Another of saying it is, if the weatherman was smart enough, there is never really a 60% chance of rain tomorrow ....its either 0% or 100%
Reminds me of an old joke about blondes and statistics.
When asked from a blonde what are the changes of seeing a dinosaurus walking on the street tomorrow? Close to zero? zero? nope, 50/50. Either I see it or I don't.
Yeah and only three of them can be used simultaneously without any interference. Basically any given channel will overlap with the four neighbouring channels(two in both directions).
I think that you're somewhat underestimating the cost of translating microsoft software to all the european languages. Considering that this would involve france, german, italian, british(yes, it is different!), swedish, finnish, norwegian, danish, dutch, etc.. versions, they do have more costs than just those of making copies involved. Hence, profit margins are not quite that high.
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Yes, but as we all know, chemistry is just applied physics...and physics is just applied math..
Yes, isn't it wonderful that microsoft is supporting easy access to copyrighted works with a linux based server!
On a separate note, just about all of mit's athena network is based on a customized linux/solaris systems. There are practically no publicly available windows computers on campus. Want to use microsoft office? Great, put it on your own computer because staroffice it is everywhere else. Only microsoft influence I've seen anywhere is a couple of measly tablet pc's sometime last year that I have not seen since(they gave them out for a certain course, i believe, as an experiment).
Yes, there is the general number field sieve, but still for all practical purposes you're brute forcing. Complexity is reduced to something like O(exp((c*(logn)^(1/3)*(loglogn)^(2/3))) where n is the length of number in bits.
But they are both public key cryptosystems!
And yes, they both pretty much involve brute forcing the bits to try to crack the message. It just happens that ecc problem is lot harder than large number factorization (computationally and conceptually too). If you know how to factor huge ass numbers without brute forcing let the nobel committee know as you may be eligible for next year.
Maybe because discrete logarithm problems in ordinary number groups are much easier to solve than in elliptic number groups.
As a matter of fact, discrete log problem for ordinary numbers has been improving steadily whereas Elliptic curve group discrete log techniques have not seen significant improvement in the past 20 years. This difference accounts for today's reduced key-size requirements for elliptic curves.
Oh yeah. What about "bookmarking" your frequently used numbers kind of like you bookmark your websites.
Or you could just right click on my computer and select manage and then services and then disable messenger from the same list.
Yes. As any good patent lawyer will tell you it is enough if you infringe on a part of one claim in a patent to start legal action!
Like I mentioned in an another comment this is rather bullshit as a patent is supposed to be applicable only to the specific implementation described in the patent. Infringing on a part of a claim should not really be considered a specific implementation of that particular patent since it has other relevant things in it too. If someone has a different implementation of the same idea it should not infringe. In particular I would say that using something else than html would from practical point of view (ie. looking at sniffed network data) be rather different. Of course the previous is just wishful thinking but the US legal system is equally crazy.
Alas, network communication protocols lend themselves to rather straightforward implementations and generally speaking it is hard to do things differently. Maybe the clause in patent law, that states that implementations that are obvious to any practicioner of trade should not be patentable, should be enforced more strictly.
In a sense that is bullcrap that should not be enforced! Patents are supposed to be highly specific and relevant to a certain implementation only. But then there's US courts and patent lawyers..