No. Please re-take your probability class. The Birthday Problem has nothing to do with it.
If the risk is 1 in 1000, then after one day you have a chance of 0.999 of not having contracted it.
After N days, this is 0.999^N, so the chance you have contracted it after N days is 1-0.999^N, or 9.5% after 100 days, and 39.4% after 500 days.
It takes 693 days to get to a 50% chance.
This is all a fine calculation except that your assumption that the probability of contracting AIDS from one act of sex is only 1/1000 was way off. That is an urban legend. It's actually much higher than that but hard to track because people don't usually show any symptoms and don't test positive for anything for the first 6 months to 2 years of infection because the HIV concentration is so low at first.
A ludicrous speed general purpose CPU will still suck at massively parallel computations compared to special-purpose ICs like GPUs.
The vast majority of CPU-intensive work in games like Half-Life 2 and Battlefield 2 involves massively parallelisable operations to check geometric and physical constraints, compute bezier curves, and so forth. This is why Ageia is developing a masively parallel Physics Processor that might be more beneficial to gaming performance than tripling the core speed of your CPU.
The idea is to optimize for the common case. If your CPU spends 80% of its time doing physics calculations when you play games like HL2, then making the physics calculations 10 times faster is better than making everything 3 times faster.
Moore's law must either slow down or stop sometime in the next 44 years, and here's the proof.
The radius of a hydrogen atom, ao = 0.053nm. There is no way anyone will ever make a transistor smaller than a single atom.
The current length of a transistor, L = 65nm
L/ao = 1226 2^11
So the length of a transistor can only be cut in half 11 more times. Previously density has doubled every 2 years, so the transistor length has been cut in half every 4 years. That gives us at most 11*4 = 44 years until the death or severe dismemberment of moore's law by the most conservative estimate possible.
Although she is wrong in trying to force students to not use laptops, I doubt that laprops provide any significant benefit for most people in the classroom.
Personally, I never take notes. Taking notes is a distraction that just detracts from actually thinking about and remembering what was said.
I've seen many students bring their laptops to lecture just to play Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat: Source, or WoW.
The only good use I see for a laptop in a lecture hall is to look up background information to clarify any lecture based on a premise that you are unfamiliar with, or to provide a fun distraction while the professor is beating a dead horse. These two issues are the root of nearly all bad lectures i've had in college and can be avoided by simply doing away with the synchronous learning model and studying individually instead.
Any community law that criminalizes such pictures is backwards and should be overruled by the federal government. The 10th amendment does not override the 1st amendment.
All censorship is on a slippery slope towards despotism unless clear lines are drawn delineating the absolute limits of censorship. Subjective obscenity laws are extremely dangerous.
"Just make the game fun to play, and people won't want to bot. When's the last time you saw someone bot an adventure game like Monkey Island? It would defeat the purpose."
that's the most sensible post i've seen in this whole article.
This is just a special case of the more general theorem:
Most people are ineducable morons.
The evidence for evolution is so overwhelming only a fool would doubt that it occurs.
Scientists did similar epidemiology research on the game World of Warcraft when the plague swept through it owning all the lowbies shortly after the release of Zul Gurub.
A ban on any book, movie, or video game is an unequivocal violation of the first amendment. They can restrict it to non-minors, but any further restriction will be struck down by the supreme court easily.
No, I think that's a nice way to cheat your kids out of actually learning something. It's more fun when you play it right. Otherwise you might as well just be playing with blocks. Teaching a 6 year old all the rules is pretty trivial. You both just need some patience.
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No. Please re-take your probability class. The Birthday Problem has nothing to do with it. If the risk is 1 in 1000, then after one day you have a chance of 0.999 of not having contracted it. After N days, this is 0.999^N, so the chance you have contracted it after N days is 1-0.999^N, or 9.5% after 100 days, and 39.4% after 500 days. It takes 693 days to get to a 50% chance. This is all a fine calculation except that your assumption that the probability of contracting AIDS from one act of sex is only 1/1000 was way off. That is an urban legend. It's actually much higher than that but hard to track because people don't usually show any symptoms and don't test positive for anything for the first 6 months to 2 years of infection because the HIV concentration is so low at first.
Leia is still not hot enough to melt steel blast doors, sadly. Her mother, on the other hand...
Screw $0.02/minute, Ventrilo is free and much less likely to be wiretapped!
A ludicrous speed general purpose CPU will still suck at massively parallel computations compared to special-purpose ICs like GPUs.
The vast majority of CPU-intensive work in games like Half-Life 2 and Battlefield 2 involves massively parallelisable operations to check geometric and physical constraints, compute bezier curves, and so forth. This is why Ageia is developing a masively parallel Physics Processor that might be more beneficial to gaming performance than tripling the core speed of your CPU.
The idea is to optimize for the common case. If your CPU spends 80% of its time doing physics calculations when you play games like HL2, then making the physics calculations 10 times faster is better than making everything 3 times faster.
Moore's law must either slow down or stop sometime in the next 44 years, and here's the proof. The radius of a hydrogen atom, ao = 0.053nm. There is no way anyone will ever make a transistor smaller than a single atom. The current length of a transistor, L = 65nm L/ao = 1226 2^11 So the length of a transistor can only be cut in half 11 more times. Previously density has doubled every 2 years, so the transistor length has been cut in half every 4 years. That gives us at most 11*4 = 44 years until the death or severe dismemberment of moore's law by the most conservative estimate possible.
Although she is wrong in trying to force students to not use laptops, I doubt that laprops provide any significant benefit for most people in the classroom. Personally, I never take notes. Taking notes is a distraction that just detracts from actually thinking about and remembering what was said. I've seen many students bring their laptops to lecture just to play Counter-Strike or Day of Defeat: Source, or WoW. The only good use I see for a laptop in a lecture hall is to look up background information to clarify any lecture based on a premise that you are unfamiliar with, or to provide a fun distraction while the professor is beating a dead horse. These two issues are the root of nearly all bad lectures i've had in college and can be avoided by simply doing away with the synchronous learning model and studying individually instead.
Any community law that criminalizes such pictures is backwards and should be overruled by the federal government. The 10th amendment does not override the 1st amendment.
All censorship is on a slippery slope towards despotism unless clear lines are drawn delineating the absolute limits of censorship. Subjective obscenity laws are extremely dangerous.
"Just make the game fun to play, and people won't want to bot. When's the last time you saw someone bot an adventure game like Monkey Island? It would defeat the purpose."
that's the most sensible post i've seen in this whole article.
Mod parent up. That's incredible and disturbing.
This is why I want to start my own company and be my own boss. Fucking corporate fascists.
...welcome our new linen-wrapped overlords.
The better solution is to just buy food that only takes 5 minutes to cook. Seriously.
Companies like make ad-hoc tools to remove particularly nasty spyware. When in doubt, googling the name of the spyware can almost always find you a remover utility from a reputable company.
This is just a special case of the more general theorem: Most people are ineducable morons. The evidence for evolution is so overwhelming only a fool would doubt that it occurs.
Scientists did similar epidemiology research on the game World of Warcraft when the plague swept through it owning all the lowbies shortly after the release of Zul Gurub.
A ban on any book, movie, or video game is an unequivocal violation of the first amendment. They can restrict it to non-minors, but any further restriction will be struck down by the supreme court easily.
The solution to this is to vote with your feet. Boycott news agencies that fabricate this kind of bullshit. Trust must be earned.
No, I think that's a nice way to cheat your kids out of actually learning something. It's more fun when you play it right. Otherwise you might as well just be playing with blocks. Teaching a 6 year old all the rules is pretty trivial. You both just need some patience.
The chessmaster series has good tutorials at any level.