Make them declare a dividend worth 50% of their cash reserves. There is no other way I know of to start breaking up their monopoly without burning shareholders.
The other interesting thing is that at Iowa State the computer science building, the chemE building, the electricalE building, and the computerE building are all adjacent.
This study is also misleading. Actuarial Science is still the best four year degree in terms of pay. They just work part-time for the first few years taking exams, thus their starting pay is lower.
10 Take a programming night course from your local university. These are usualy filled with continuing ed students, so the instructors are more patient.
20 If you like it take the second semester version. Else GOTO 50
30 If you survived take the course "Algorithm Analysis" Else GOTO 50
40 If you survied start doing programming projects in your spare time. Programming for fun is the best way to learn. You are on your way. DONE Else GOTO 50
Since about Christmas of 2002 I decided that I wanted to start running half marathons, so I started following the Paleo Diet. As part of it I had to about triple my meat intake to get sufficent calories in my diet. Also, I started taking a creatine supplement in low doses when I lift.
I am a machine compared to where I was a year ago. My mood paterns have became much less eratic, I need less sleep, and my grades are much better. Last summer I might have read two books, and so far this summer I have tought myself Computational Fluid Dynamics, Number Theory, Knot Theory, Graph Theory, and a lot of Combinatorics.
So does this study prove that vegetarians are stupid compared to us carnivores?
by Martin Aigner, Gunter Ziegler, Gunter M. Ziegler, and Paul Erdos(In spirit)
The book goes through artistic proofs in many areas of mathematics. Proofs from the Book shows that math is beautiful if we take the time to find simple explainations with ingenius arguments.
It was the first math book I read in high school and I loved it. It is available for $19.95 at www.bn.com It covers a broad area of mathematics with 26 chapters from Arithmatic to Z(The complex plane). Along the way it talks about Riemann, Newton, Euler, Gauss, and many others. Also, it talks about some of the famous problems. Great book.
I have the exact same problem. I can't concentrate on homework unless I am under pressure or I am to tired to be distracted. The solution I found was to get up and hour early and do homework in the morning. Sounds evil, but it works. Get in the habit of it and you find yourself with too much free time;)
My motivation was not nationality based at all. My point was that in one tournament in this sort of game the winner is chosen by who they are seeded against.
My personal bias is that one of the genetic algorithm evolved codes should have won, but the way the tournement was set up it was kind of hard to tell who the real "winner" was.
Speaking of Johnson and Baily, I wonder 20 years from now what kind of blood doping and stimulants we will find they used. One doesn't just cut their 200m times from 19.8 seconds down to 19.3 in the course of two months. Something fishy went on at the 1996 Olympics. I will never forget seeing Ato Boldwin running a world record 200m time and gaping as he was 15m behind at the finish line.
And on the Johnson vs Baily question I think Baily would have won even if Michal hadn't pulled up lame. The 200m is a power race, and the 100m is a technique race. You can be the fastest runner in the world, but unless you are at top speed around the 20m mark you are going to lose. Also, you can force yourself with a controled adrainaline burst for a few seconds, which is something you can be more lax about in the 200m. It would be interesting to do some brain scans and see the amount of control top 100m runners have over their bodies. I bet in some ways they rival the medatative powers of Tiebetan monks and such.
Games like this never have a *best* strategy. They are like rock-paper-scisors, or the prisoners' dilemma. I bet one of the next strategys to win will involve a an evovled behavior that has cetain probabilities on what to do next based on previous states and input.
The reason the russian guy wan was *luck*. Tournements like this should be seeded randomly and played thousands of times. Only then could one player prove to be superior, and even then he would only be superior in his ability to beat up on the majority of "lesser" and "common" players.
Couple that with 20 other helos, GPS, and some swarming software. Then the military might buy it. (As long as the enemy doesn't have "BIG FAN" technology). Kind of scary that we are getting close to the technology of Terminator, where robots are on a better footing than man on the battlefield. All we need is that singularity...
I try to follow thePaleo Diet. The premise is that humans have not changed much genetically from our pre-agrarian ancestors. Diets constisting of grain, refined sugars, dariy products, and salty foods were not evolutionary pressures until recent history.
I have been on the Paleo Diet for 5 months now, and I am very happy with it. It took about a week for my digestive tract to get used to more fiber in my diet, but other than that I have had a very positive expirence. Being an athlete, it has definitely helped my recovery time, and I have been much less injury prone this winter
For the most part I eat only fruits, vegetables, and meat. Some would see this as restrictive, but I find it quite liberating. So much of the American diet is centered around bread, rice, and potatoes we for get the bounty of other foods out there.
I meant in terms of administrative assistance. Court clerks are busy enough as it is. On technical cases judges need someone to ask for advise. It would be nice if each state would put together an impartial scientific board that judges could call upon when needed.
The question is how could you come up with an impartial, but qualified board?
If a government is going to spend enough money to see that Windows is secure for them, why not just secure a free OS? You get the double hit of developing the software and then paying licence fees. If governments would spend just half of their security money on free software they would save millions in licencing fees, plus cut down the number of wirefraud prosecutions for unsecure businesses.
After articles like this I would think more people would get rid of their hard drive and run off a RAM drive. 2GB RAM is enough for most of my computing needs, and all my personal files could be burnt to CD and stored in a secure location. No forensic evidence other than network traffic... Talk about sticking it to the RIAA.
The head hardware engineer for BlueGene/L gave a talk at Iowa State last week. BlueGene/L is going to change the face of supercomputing. The cluster scales nicely. BlueGene/L is at heart a bewoulf cluster connected with standard gigabit ethernet. Off the top of my head and probably a little off...
2 POWER-PC Processors +256meg RAM per board
x8 boards per rack
x16 racks per shelf
x64 shelves
The key is that it uses no hard drives, and mostly off-the-shelf parts. It's fully upgradable because all you have to do is swap out the network cards, RAM, or CPU. I hope IBM will start selling them by the rack. I could use a 1024th of a super computer in my lab.
Re:so XFree86 = usage stattistics?
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The End Of Minix?
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MINIX is a great educational tool. We used it in my undergrad Operating Systems course. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation is a very good book, and even includes the source code to MINIX as an appendix. Being able to make operating system hacks in a few minutes is really great.
I haven't heard the latest, but the last I heard one of the Math professors here at Iowa State was not allowed back into the country thanks to Mr. Ashcroft.
Dr. Maria Axenovich went to Germany this summer to visit her husband's parents. She and her husband took seperate flights back. He (a German physisist) was let back into the country. She (a Russian graph theorist) was refused entry. Apparently she had been flagged as a security threat because she had done some consulting for a few biologists on campus on how to organize their data. Thus, foriegn Math professors who colaberate with Biologists are now bio-terrorists. If they visit the in-laws they are not allowed back into the country.
Her lawyer asked to see the law stating that she had done anything wrong. Apparently it is secret, and they don't publish it. Sounds like the same b.s. that happened to Erdos during the cold war. Hopefully they get everything straightened out, and Congress starts prosecuting Ashcroft for abuse of power.
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It is nice to see that Bush changed the tax policy in their favor so they can clean house even more.
Only one way to make Microsoft pay:
Make them declare a dividend worth 50% of their cash reserves. There is no other way I know of to start breaking up their monopoly without burning shareholders.
The other interesting thing is that at Iowa State the computer science building, the chemE building, the electricalE building, and the computerE building are all adjacent.
This study is also misleading. Actuarial Science is still the best four year degree in terms of pay. They just work part-time for the first few years taking exams, thus their starting pay is lower.
10 Take a programming night course from your local university. These are usualy filled with continuing ed students, so the instructors are more patient.
20 If you like it take the second semester version.
Else GOTO 50
30 If you survived take the course "Algorithm Analysis"
Else GOTO 50
40 If you survied start doing programming projects in your spare time. Programming for fun is the best way to learn. You are on your way. DONE
Else GOTO 50
50 Computer science is not for you.
From the patent:
Primary Examiner: Nguyen-Ba; Hoang-Vu Anthony
Ok. I know where to make a quick $30-100k whack at the federal budget...
What are the best wearable computers you can cobble together for $2000, $1500, and $750? (USD)
Minimal Requirements:
-single eye head mounted display (like this)
-single hand input (like the twiddler)
-8 hours battery life
-linux
-802.11
Slashdot needs spellcheck. I am way to lazy in the morning to proof read my posts.
Since about Christmas of 2002 I decided that I wanted to start running half marathons, so I started following the Paleo Diet. As part of it I had to about triple my meat intake to get sufficent calories in my diet. Also, I started taking a creatine supplement in low doses when I lift.
I am a machine compared to where I was a year ago. My mood paterns have became much less eratic, I need less sleep, and my grades are much better. Last summer I might have read two books, and so far this summer I have tought myself Computational Fluid Dynamics, Number Theory, Knot Theory, Graph Theory, and a lot of Combinatorics.
So does this study prove that vegetarians are stupid compared to us carnivores?
More specificaly it talks about e^i(PI) +1 =0, and the derivitive of z^2 +4z -2i.
I just remembered another.
Proofs from the Book
by Martin Aigner, Gunter Ziegler, Gunter M. Ziegler, and Paul Erdos(In spirit)
The book goes through artistic proofs in many areas of mathematics. Proofs from the Book shows that math is beautiful if we take the time to find simple explainations with ingenius arguments.
The Mathematical Universe:
by William Dunham
It was the first math book I read in high school and I loved it. It is available for $19.95 at www.bn.com It covers a broad area of mathematics with 26 chapters from Arithmatic to Z(The complex plane). Along the way it talks about Riemann, Newton, Euler, Gauss, and many others. Also, it talks about some of the famous problems. Great book.
I have the exact same problem. I can't concentrate on homework unless I am under pressure or I am to tired to be distracted. The solution I found was to get up and hour early and do homework in the morning. Sounds evil, but it works. Get in the habit of it and you find yourself with too much free time ;)
My motivation was not nationality based at all. My point was that in one tournament in this sort of game the winner is chosen by who they are seeded against.
My personal bias is that one of the genetic algorithm evolved codes should have won, but the way the tournement was set up it was kind of hard to tell who the real "winner" was.
Speaking of Johnson and Baily, I wonder 20 years from now what kind of blood doping and stimulants we will find they used. One doesn't just cut their 200m times from 19.8 seconds down to 19.3 in the course of two months. Something fishy went on at the 1996 Olympics. I will never forget seeing Ato Boldwin running a world record 200m time and gaping as he was 15m behind at the finish line.
And on the Johnson vs Baily question I think Baily would have won even if Michal hadn't pulled up lame. The 200m is a power race, and the 100m is a technique race. You can be the fastest runner in the world, but unless you are at top speed around the 20m mark you are going to lose. Also, you can force yourself with a controled adrainaline burst for a few seconds, which is something you can be more lax about in the 200m. It would be interesting to do some brain scans and see the amount of control top 100m runners have over their bodies. I bet in some ways they rival the medatative powers of Tiebetan monks and such.
Games like this never have a *best* strategy. They are like rock-paper-scisors, or the prisoners' dilemma. I bet one of the next strategys to win will involve a an evovled behavior that has cetain probabilities on what to do next based on previous states and input.
The reason the russian guy wan was *luck*. Tournements like this should be seeded randomly and played thousands of times. Only then could one player prove to be superior, and even then he would only be superior in his ability to beat up on the majority of "lesser" and "common" players.
Couple that with 20 other helos, GPS, and some swarming software. Then the military might buy it. (As long as the enemy doesn't have "BIG FAN" technology). Kind of scary that we are getting close to the technology of Terminator, where robots are on a better footing than man on the battlefield. All we need is that singularity...
I try to follow thePaleo Diet. The premise is that humans have not changed much genetically from our pre-agrarian ancestors. Diets constisting of grain, refined sugars, dariy products, and salty foods were not evolutionary pressures until recent history.
I have been on the Paleo Diet for 5 months now, and I am very happy with it. It took about a week for my digestive tract to get used to more fiber in my diet, but other than that I have had a very positive expirence. Being an athlete, it has definitely helped my recovery time, and I have been much less injury prone this winter
For the most part I eat only fruits, vegetables, and meat. Some would see this as restrictive, but I find it quite liberating. So much of the American diet is centered around bread, rice, and potatoes we for get the bounty of other foods out there.
Said it once and I will say it again.
RAM DRIVE
.
Financialy limits you to around 2GB, but leaves you squeeky clean minus those ISP logs.
I meant in terms of administrative assistance. Court clerks are busy enough as it is. On technical cases judges need someone to ask for advise. It would be nice if each state would put together an impartial scientific board that judges could call upon when needed.
The question is how could you come up with an impartial, but qualified board?
BEDEVERE: Why do you think she is a witch?
SECOND VILLAGER: She turned me into a newt.
BEDEVERE: A newt?
SECOND VILLAGER (After looking at himself for some time): I got better.
ALL: Burn her anyway.
**QUESTION:**
How would you change our legal system to prevent procsecutors and uninformed judges from passing down judgements of witchcraft?
If a government is going to spend enough money to see that Windows is secure for them, why not just secure a free OS? You get the double hit of developing the software and then paying licence fees. If governments would spend just half of their security money on free software they would save millions in licencing fees, plus cut down the number of wirefraud prosecutions for unsecure businesses.
Doing a little meta google grocking... Ms. Farcy perhaps???
After articles like this I would think more people would get rid of their hard drive and run off a RAM drive. 2GB RAM is enough for most of my computing needs, and all my personal files could be burnt to CD and stored in a secure location. No forensic evidence other than network traffic... Talk about sticking it to the RIAA.
The head hardware engineer for BlueGene/L gave a talk at Iowa State last week. BlueGene/L is going to change the face of supercomputing. The cluster scales nicely. BlueGene/L is at heart a bewoulf cluster connected with standard gigabit ethernet. Off the top of my head and probably a little off...
2 POWER-PC Processors +256meg RAM per board
x8 boards per rack
x16 racks per shelf
x64 shelves
The key is that it uses no hard drives, and mostly off-the-shelf parts. It's fully upgradable because all you have to do is swap out the network cards, RAM, or CPU. I hope IBM will start selling them by the rack. I could use a 1024th of a super computer in my lab.
MINIX is a great educational tool. We used it in my undergrad Operating Systems course. Operating Systems: Design and Implementation is a very good book, and even includes the source code to MINIX as an appendix. Being able to make operating system hacks in a few minutes is really great.
I haven't heard the latest, but the last I heard one of the Math professors here at Iowa State was not allowed back into the country thanks to Mr. Ashcroft.
Dr. Maria Axenovich went to Germany this summer to visit her husband's parents. She and her husband took seperate flights back. He (a German physisist) was let back into the country. She (a Russian graph theorist) was refused entry. Apparently she had been flagged as a security threat because she had done some consulting for a few biologists on campus on how to organize their data. Thus, foriegn Math professors who colaberate with Biologists are now bio-terrorists. If they visit the in-laws they are not allowed back into the country.
Her lawyer asked to see the law stating that she had done anything wrong. Apparently it is secret, and they don't publish it. Sounds like the same b.s. that happened to Erdos during the cold war. Hopefully they get everything straightened out, and Congress starts prosecuting Ashcroft for abuse of power.