By that logic congress could mandate that all telephone calls must be transmitted at twice the light speed. It is up to the experts to make that law a reality.
In other words, congress must take technical realities in account when making laws. They should ask technical experts if the proposed law is feasible.
I just installed Firefox nightly (8.0a1, 2011-08-14). Adblock Plus, NoScript and HTTPS everywhere are working, Ubuntu Extension is not. Ubuntu extension is also disable as an auto-installed extension.
The memory consumption seems to be under control also, but too early to say. Currently the memory usage is 110-120Mb with one hour of use time and about 10 tabs open. I hope it is not 500Mb after a weeks use.
Your queries do not produce the same result. SELECT from x left join y on x.c is an outer join whereas SELECT from x, y where x.c = y.c is an inner join. Ok, it is a cross join, but most databases will transform it to inner join. I would like to know what are those SQL engines which do a cross join when using the select from x, y where x.c = y.c syntax. Even SQLite converts comma joins to inner joins if it is more efficient to do so.
Also, using left joins when inner join is the thing you want is not good for performance. You can look the above link for explanation why.
The short answer is that there is just too many primes to list. There is about x/log(x) prime numbers smaller than x. If you have a 512 bit number then you have about sqrt(2^512) / log(sqrt(2^512)) numbers to check. So, there is 1.5 * 10^75 numbers you need to list. This is simply impossible. Moore's law will not help here, as adding one bit to the number to check about doubles the search space. That is, after a year of you can check a number that is just one bit larger!
Well, all that a chess program does is that it essentially plays all the possible moves out to some cutoff point.
I wouldn't claim it a big success if you don't use probabilistic methods.
To me the Chinese test seems to be about vectors. The first one is just plain BD.A1C = 0. BTW this question is well defined.
I would do the second one by taking two vectors from both planes, then crossproduct those to get the normal vectors. Then use scalar product to obtain the Sin of the angle between the planes.
In the third one I don't know what they are asking for, so my answer to this one is: not defined / lost in translation.
The English test seems to be a joke. If this is for students who aren't studying maths, then I can understand.
Of course there is the possibility that the English exam's question is the easiest in the exam and the Chinese one isn't.
It is not about choosing apple or orange juice. The question is if anybody is able to do any choices at all. If our mind is only really complex computing, then there is no free choice. It might seem that Deep Blue chose a certain strategy, but in reality computers can't choose freely. Maybe our actions also only look like we are free to do what we want. If I understand anything about modern physics (not likely) this idea wouldn't mean same choices even in exactly same conditions. Quantum physics and all.
I didn't RTFA, I know only very little about the working of brains or physics. And yes, my english is horrible. But if I believe what I wrote, can you blame me for submitting this?
The answer is: Expanding monopoly to other markets is illegal. That is what is so bad about bundling. That is why windows can't do the same. Can you name one application that you suspect linux distros are trying to monopolize by bundling? I can name several from Microsoft. When Vista comes out, I can name a few more.
Microsoft failed at the big level. There isn't propably easily identifiable low to middle level managers who failed their job. In these cases the blame goes to the upper level, should I say the greatest common denominator. The same goes in war and in politics. It is not rare that high level leaders (generals and ministers) are forced to resign because somebody elses failure. Usually the failure is not directly their fault. In some cases it is hard to say that they had anything to do with the failure. Still they have the responsibility. There are ofcourse a lot of situations where things go exactly the opposite way. For example the current US president comes to mind. And the Abu Ghrabi scandal. Does somebody really think that there were just a handfull of low rank soldiers who did something wrong? So, if there is some middle level managers fired, it is because they need scape goats, not because they are directly responsible anymore than the rest of the middle level managers.
I can confirm that you don't need to install stardock. I think that you need a stardock _account_ to get patches but you don't have to actually install the application. You can download the patches manually. The copyprotection is based on the fact that there is a constant flow of updates. If you want to update your game easily then you have to have a bought copy.
Even if we take your assumption that open and closed ways of programming are equally good, I think there are two important things that make open source software better.
1. Open source products do not have release schedules dictaded by sales department nor do they need to have features needed for marketing purposes. I think these make program quality better. If some feature is buggy when there is going to be a release you either postpone the release or leave the feature out. In microsoft products you are going to have that "feature"...
2. There are many open source projects and only one Microsoft project. Ok, this one isn't generally true about open vs. closed source, but specific to this case. If you have many open source projects (this is usually true) and it happens that some of them are better than the others, then the end user can pick out the best one. If it happens that Microsoft is having problems with their product, then you are screwed. And this is even more true because of locking-in. This problem is actually a problem rising from the monopoly Microsoft has.
Even if gas prices would have no effect to the amount of driving it will have an effect to the amount of gas used. That is, there is no reason why everybody should drive to work with SUVs even if there is no alternative to going with car.
The problem with making patenting too easy is not that the inventor has to search for patents (or that is not the biggest problem). The problem is the granting of monopoly. If patents are given away for almoust everything, then almoust every market will be a monopoly. And that is something that is very bad for the economy.
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By that logic congress could mandate that all telephone calls must be transmitted at twice the light speed. It is up to the experts to make that law a reality.
In other words, congress must take technical realities in account when making laws. They should ask technical experts if the proposed law is feasible.
I just installed Firefox nightly (8.0a1, 2011-08-14). Adblock Plus, NoScript and HTTPS everywhere are working, Ubuntu Extension is not. Ubuntu extension is also disable as an auto-installed extension.
The memory consumption seems to be under control also, but too early to say. Currently the memory usage is 110-120Mb with one hour of use time and about 10 tabs open. I hope it is not 500Mb after a weeks use.
Your queries do not produce the same result. SELECT from x left join y on x.c is an outer join whereas SELECT from x, y where x.c = y.c is an inner join. Ok, it is a cross join, but most databases will transform it to inner join. I would like to know what are those SQL engines which do a cross join when using the select from x, y where x.c = y.c syntax. Even SQLite converts comma joins to inner joins if it is more efficient to do so. Also, using left joins when inner join is the thing you want is not good for performance. You can look the above link for explanation why.
Maybe they need patents from other companies. Making a 3G phone without infringing any other company's patents is near impossible.
The short answer is that there is just too many primes to list. There is about x/log(x) prime numbers smaller than x. If you have a 512 bit number then you have about sqrt(2^512) / log(sqrt(2^512)) numbers to check. So, there is 1.5 * 10^75 numbers you need to list. This is simply impossible. Moore's law will not help here, as adding one bit to the number to check about doubles the search space. That is, after a year of you can check a number that is just one bit larger!
Well, all that a chess program does is that it essentially plays all the possible moves out to some cutoff point. I wouldn't claim it a big success if you don't use probabilistic methods.
To me the Chinese test seems to be about vectors. The first one is just plain BD.A1C = 0. BTW this question is well defined.
I would do the second one by taking two vectors from both planes, then crossproduct those to get the normal vectors. Then use scalar product to obtain the Sin of the angle between the planes.
In the third one I don't know what they are asking for, so my answer to this one is: not defined / lost in translation.
The English test seems to be a joke. If this is for students who aren't studying maths, then I can understand.
Of course there is the possibility that the English exam's question is the easiest in the exam and the Chinese one isn't.
Putting your swap partition on a removable disk is a really, really stupid idea...
Duh. Nokia sercretly hates. If there would be a link, it wouldn't be a secret.
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I didn't RTFA, I know only very little about the working of brains or physics. And yes, my english is horrible. But if I believe what I wrote, can you blame me for submitting this?
The answer is: Expanding monopoly to other markets is illegal. That is what is so bad about bundling. That is why windows can't do the same. Can you name one application that you suspect linux distros are trying to monopolize by bundling? I can name several from Microsoft. When Vista comes out, I can name a few more.
Microsoft failed at the big level. There isn't propably easily identifiable low to middle level managers who failed their job. In these cases the blame goes to the upper level, should I say the greatest common denominator. The same goes in war and in politics. It is not rare that high level leaders (generals and ministers) are forced to resign because somebody elses failure. Usually the failure is not directly their fault. In some cases it is hard to say that they had anything to do with the failure. Still they have the responsibility. There are ofcourse a lot of situations where things go exactly the opposite way. For example the current US president comes to mind. And the Abu Ghrabi scandal. Does somebody really think that there were just a handfull of low rank soldiers who did something wrong? So, if there is some middle level managers fired, it is because they need scape goats, not because they are directly responsible anymore than the rest of the middle level managers.
I can confirm that you don't need to install stardock. I think that you need a stardock _account_ to get patches but you don't have to actually install the application. You can download the patches manually. The copyprotection is based on the fact that there is a constant flow of updates. If you want to update your game easily then you have to have a bought copy.
Even if we take your assumption that open and closed ways of programming are equally good, I think there are two important things that make open source software better.
1. Open source products do not have release schedules dictaded by sales department nor do they need to have features needed for marketing purposes. I think these make program quality better. If some feature is buggy when there is going to be a release you either postpone the release or leave the feature out. In microsoft products you are going to have that "feature"...
2. There are many open source projects and only one Microsoft project. Ok, this one isn't generally true about open vs. closed source, but specific to this case. If you have many open source projects (this is usually true) and it happens that some of them are better than the others, then the end user can pick out the best one. If it happens that Microsoft is having problems with their product, then you are screwed. And this is even more true because of locking-in. This problem is actually a problem rising from the monopoly Microsoft has.
Even if gas prices would have no effect to the amount of driving it will have an effect to the amount of gas used. That is, there is no reason why everybody should drive to work with SUVs even if there is no alternative to going with car.
The problem with making patenting too easy is not that the inventor has to search for patents (or that is not the biggest problem). The problem is the granting of monopoly. If patents are given away for almoust everything, then almoust every market will be a monopoly. And that is something that is very bad for the economy.