Well, that's what industrialization does. You can't expect a civilization to both become efficient enough to mass-produce digital computers and keep food production so local that many people have seen agriculture outside of a picture book. It is interesting and useful to know how food is produced, but so is a detailed knowledge of physics, a multitude of foreign languages and circuit design - yet none of that is considered a required part of common knowledge. Sure, you can make a case that survival skills are the only essential ones if civilization collapses, but the other ones are just as essential to keep it from collapsing or to rebuild it if it does.
Because programming and computer science are two barely related endeavors. You could learn complexity theory without ever learning to code in anything but BASIC.
You will have all the lukewarm apologies you like after the police have ransacked your house and tasered you to death while calling you a pervert. Did you realize that the suspicion of possessing child pornography is punishable by extra-judicial execution?
The company will rush into this without any care to what is actually involved, will get frustrated when switching to a different OS will actually take some investment, and will eventually switch back when the short-term cost of training outweighs the recurrent cost of Windows licenses.
Sony gets a cut from the games sold. Sony would therefore like it if people buy lots of games, and particularly would not like it if they buy a console to get a powerful graphics processor for their own purposes, and particularly not 1760 of them in order to build a high-performance cluster. (For the military to do something as unorthodox as using gaming consoles for serious computing probably means that it must be significantly cheaper this way.)
The claims about hacking and piracy and so on are shaky, and the real reason is more than likely to protect their own business model.
Aluminium takes about 15kWh per kilogram to produce. Even if a larger car consumes only half as much mass relative to its own mass, a 1kg RC car using 10g of aluminium would scale up to a 1 ton car using 5kg, or 75kWh, for 20*2/3 miles, or approximately 20 kilomaters traveled, or 325kWh/100km. For comparison. a Tesla Roadster uses 17kWh per 100km.
Look at the bright side: Future generations will envy our use of high-power combustion engines that they will see only in museums. It turns out that fuel is expensive.
Without RTFA, I'm inferring that "host authentication" will identify not just the hardware but also the system, such that a live system will fail to authenticate.
But without actual hardware-based booby-traps (like Dan Brown-style acid vials inside the HDD casing, or a dead-man's-switch that destroys all data on shut-down), the drive should still be vulnerable to being taken apart and each platter imaged optically.
The arithmetic and algebra are indeed manageable. The geometry section, however, contains some doozies that probably aren't taught in high school math now. Two years into a CS major/math minor, I would still have difficulty proving the bit about the perpendicular bisecting the chord, and the subtended angle, at least in exam conditions.
I may even surprise the creator of this exam with my knowledge of history -- just because the field has moved on somewhat since 1869
That could work against you. Even if you know the correct answers to the history questions, you'd have to know the (possibly inaccurate and outdated) answers the examiner is looking for.
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Well, that's what industrialization does. You can't expect a civilization to both become efficient enough to mass-produce digital computers and keep food production so local that many people have seen agriculture outside of a picture book. It is interesting and useful to know how food is produced, but so is a detailed knowledge of physics, a multitude of foreign languages and circuit design - yet none of that is considered a required part of common knowledge.
Sure, you can make a case that survival skills are the only essential ones if civilization collapses, but the other ones are just as essential to keep it from collapsing or to rebuild it if it does.
Because programming and computer science are two barely related endeavors. You could learn complexity theory without ever learning to code in anything but BASIC.
Maybe the stylus should be mounted elsewhere for that.
Because bin Laden killed thousands of Americans, whereas Hitler only killed a few million Jews?
(Ignoring that Hitler lost the Evilest Guy Alive position eight years before Osama bin Laden was born.)
Never.
Palin/Trump ticket; calling it now.
Brilliant idea!
That goes well with declarative evidence, I guess.
What IS the sixty trillionth digit of Pi? That's what I'd like to know.
That's nice, but we have no shortage of stuff that lasts "up to" millions of years.
Almost makes me want to give Slackware a go.
You will have all the lukewarm apologies you like after the police have ransacked your house and tasered you to death while calling you a pervert. Did you realize that the suspicion of possessing child pornography is punishable by extra-judicial execution?
Plus a butterfly for the latter.
Train combustion engines to think of stuff that tastes like chicken as fuel. What could possibly go wrong?
An Easter higg, in other words?
The company will rush into this without any care to what is actually involved, will get frustrated when switching to a different OS will actually take some investment, and will eventually switch back when the short-term cost of training outweighs the recurrent cost of Windows licenses.
Sony gets a cut from the games sold. Sony would therefore like it if people buy lots of games, and particularly would not like it if they buy a console to get a powerful graphics processor for their own purposes, and particularly not 1760 of them in order to build a high-performance cluster. (For the military to do something as unorthodox as using gaming consoles for serious computing probably means that it must be significantly cheaper this way.)
The claims about hacking and piracy and so on are shaky, and the real reason is more than likely to protect their own business model.
Is it worth the occasional billion-dollar space project going down the toilet?
It works on RSA too.
Aluminium takes about 15kWh per kilogram to produce. Even if a larger car consumes only half as much mass relative to its own mass, a 1kg RC car using 10g of aluminium would scale up to a 1 ton car using 5kg, or 75kWh, for 20*2/3 miles, or approximately 20 kilomaters traveled, or 325kWh/100km.
For comparison. a Tesla Roadster uses 17kWh per 100km.
Wouldn't Skynet have to be built first?
Eventually they will all switch to a YYYYMMDD release number. Until someone first gets the idea to use a Unix timestamp instead.
Look at the bright side: Future generations will envy our use of high-power combustion engines that they will see only in museums. It turns out that fuel is expensive.
Without RTFA, I'm inferring that "host authentication" will identify not just the hardware but also the system, such that a live system will fail to authenticate.
But without actual hardware-based booby-traps (like Dan Brown-style acid vials inside the HDD casing, or a dead-man's-switch that destroys all data on shut-down), the drive should still be vulnerable to being taken apart and each platter imaged optically.
The arithmetic and algebra are indeed manageable. The geometry section, however, contains some doozies that probably aren't taught in high school math now. Two years into a CS major/math minor, I would still have difficulty proving the bit about the perpendicular bisecting the chord, and the subtended angle, at least in exam conditions.
That could work against you. Even if you know the correct answers to the history questions, you'd have to know the (possibly inaccurate and outdated) answers the examiner is looking for.