Good god the introductory video is annoying. 95% of it consists of an actual video recording a screen and looks horrible: why on earth didn't they use a screen-capturing program? The other 5% is made up of a woman frowning at said screen to tell the viewer what's bad about all other search engines.
The page design is strange; no overt MS branding anywhere. It's almost as if they don't want you to know...
Another thing that's cool about this particular project is that the artist said it allowed him to just quietly work in the corner. He didn't have to set up with an easel and influence the behaviour of the people around him. To everyone else, he must have just looked like he was texting.
Sure, with an IR spec read-out, you'll be able to tell that something new has got into the water supply. But what you won't be able to tell is what that contaminant actually is. For that, you'll need some sort of structure determination, as IR will only tell you if it has C=O or N-H bonds for example.
The reason this is important is that without the structure, you won't be able to tell whether a farmer has just switched to a different type of fertiliser, or the city has being trying out a new way to grit the roads, or whether you're actually dealing with a case of attempted terrorism. The only way this would be helpful would be if you could somehow be sure that only malicious activity would alter the chemical composition of your water, which I think would be extremely difficult in practice.
You just submit the hash of your answer as the real answer? This would outwit a sizeable proportion of attacks by people who know you, as they might be unlikely to guess that you'd do this, and even if they do, they'd still have to guess the hash type.
Then again, if they truly know you, then maybe they'd guess you'd be this paranoid:P
First, as has already been pointed out, a lot of his criticism is subjective or unfounded. Secondly, and more importantly; despite these tens of problems that are listed, Linux is still gaining market share against windows. More subjectively; Linux runs "better" on all the PCs I have tried it on. Sure, niche cases like setting up X-Fi cards are annoying, but then they aren't a walk in the park in Windows either. Finally, this made me laugh the most:
3.3 Many distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software.
(Emphasis mine). So? It would be impossible to contain all open source software ever in a repo. But at least a sizeable quantity is available there, compared to microscopic amounts of "packages" in Microsofts repo (i.e., Windows Update) which is mostly composed of patches anyway.
this really is a case of correlation not implying causation. Otherwise firefox's market share would have decreased from v2 to 3, and will decrease again when 3.5 is released. Sure, it's a "fact", but I'll bet that in 5 years time this won't be the case. This "tidbit" does not allow us to make sensible predictions about the future of browsers.
It's a shame you will be modded troll for this due to perceived racism against african-americans, despite raising a very valuable point. Guess that's why you went AC, I don't blame ya.
No, this is just genuine racism. There's nothing integral about being african-american that makes one reject learning.
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1: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
2: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
Only the extremely ill, old, young, and those with compromised immune systems will have a problem in more developed countries where antiviral medicine is available.
Your main point is still valid, but I should point out that swine flu currently kills by turning the immune system against the host, by way of a cytokine storm. Therefore, the people with the strongest immune system are more likely to die than the ill, old or young. This was also the case with the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
The first and last ones immediately raise my suspicions; they seem highly unlikely at best.
However, it would be odd if photosynthesis could be better described by something other than QM. Anything involving exciting electrons molecules and catalysing reactions using photons is going to be very well described by quantum mechanics.
That's not to say something better won't come along in the future, it's just that currently it's the best theory for that scale of matter.
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The most annoying thing the linux port does at the moment is depend on msttcorefonts. I refuse to install them due to them being non-free and looking terrible at the same time. If they could fix this and depend on ttf-liberation or similar, I'd be halfway to sold. The other half depends on chromium receiving plugin support, or at the very least adblock and bookmark syncing.
How about explaining why protons have a +1 charge and neutrons have no charge? I'd say that's pretty useful. Ditto with explaining the charge of the anti-nucleons.
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Good god the introductory video is annoying. 95% of it consists of an actual video recording a screen and looks horrible: why on earth didn't they use a screen-capturing program? The other 5% is made up of a woman frowning at said screen to tell the viewer what's bad about all other search engines.
The page design is strange; no overt MS branding anywhere. It's almost as if they don't want you to know...
Another thing that's cool about this particular project is that the artist said it allowed him to just quietly work in the corner. He didn't have to set up with an easel and influence the behaviour of the people around him. To everyone else, he must have just looked like he was texting.
So does this also mean they can search my home if I'm connected to the AC grid, have a microwave or have somehow acquired a quasar?
Sure, with an IR spec read-out, you'll be able to tell that something new has got into the water supply. But what you won't be able to tell is what that contaminant actually is. For that, you'll need some sort of structure determination, as IR will only tell you if it has C=O or N-H bonds for example.
The reason this is important is that without the structure, you won't be able to tell whether a farmer has just switched to a different type of fertiliser, or the city has being trying out a new way to grit the roads, or whether you're actually dealing with a case of attempted terrorism. The only way this would be helpful would be if you could somehow be sure that only malicious activity would alter the chemical composition of your water, which I think would be extremely difficult in practice.
You just submit the hash of your answer as the real answer? This would outwit a sizeable proportion of attacks by people who know you, as they might be unlikely to guess that you'd do this, and even if they do, they'd still have to guess the hash type.
:P
Then again, if they truly know you, then maybe they'd guess you'd be this paranoid
According to my back-of-an-envelope calculations, I get their true weight to be 1729N.
F=GMmr^-2
=G * Mass of earth * mass of box * (Earth's radius + Hubble orbit height)^-2
=(6.67x10^-11 * 5.9742x10^24 * 208.7) * ((6378 + 559)x10^3)^-2
=1729.20 N
Secondly, and more importantly; despite these tens of problems that are listed, Linux is still gaining market share against windows. More subjectively; Linux runs "better" on all the PCs I have tried it on. Sure, niche cases like setting up X-Fi cards are annoying, but then they aren't a walk in the park in Windows either.
Finally, this made me laugh the most:
3.3 Many distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software.
(Emphasis mine). So? It would be impossible to contain all open source software ever in a repo. But at least a sizeable quantity is available there, compared to microscopic amounts of "packages" in Microsofts repo (i.e., Windows Update) which is mostly composed of patches anyway.
this really is a case of correlation not implying causation. Otherwise firefox's market share would have decreased from v2 to 3, and will decrease again when 3.5 is released.
Sure, it's a "fact", but I'll bet that in 5 years time this won't be the case. This "tidbit" does not allow us to make sensible predictions about the future of browsers.
Four more years! Four more years!
And just ask my girlfriend what she thinks of its penis enlargement capabilities. Truly, the iPhone is the pinnacle of technological development!
She says that next time she'd prefer it if you operated the touchscreen with your fingers.
What about the Feynman Lectures on Physics?
Although it's obviously much newer than all the books you listed, and is still under copyright.
He also said that support for all versions of Vista will end in April 2012
End of the world prophecies in 2012 - coincidence? I think not.
Obviously Microsoft will only stop pushing Vista at the behest of the four horsemen.
It's a shame you will be modded troll for this due to perceived racism against african-americans, despite raising a very valuable point. Guess that's why you went AC, I don't blame ya.
No, this is just genuine racism. There's nothing integral about being african-american that makes one reject learning.
racism, n
1: the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
2: discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
How about you take a few more flights and then set up a beowulf cluster?
Only the extremely ill, old, young, and those with compromised immune systems will have a problem in more developed countries where antiviral medicine is available.
Your main point is still valid, but I should point out that swine flu currently kills by turning the immune system against the host, by way of a cytokine storm. Therefore, the people with the strongest immune system are more likely to die than the ill, old or young. This was also the case with the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
The first and last ones immediately raise my suspicions; they seem highly unlikely at best.
However, it would be odd if photosynthesis could be better described by something other than QM. Anything involving exciting electrons molecules and catalysing reactions using photons is going to be very well described by quantum mechanics.
That's not to say something better won't come along in the future, it's just that currently it's the best theory for that scale of matter.
Heat can be used to do work.
News at 11.
If you're really determined though, you can always use ksplice to patch, and avoid rebooting.
One more thing Linux has on Windows.
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I'm trapped in an alternate universe where this is real.
Oh wait, I picked up The Sun.
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The most annoying thing the linux port does at the moment is depend on msttcorefonts. I refuse to install them due to them being non-free and looking terrible at the same time. If they could fix this and depend on ttf-liberation or similar, I'd be halfway to sold.
The other half depends on chromium receiving plugin support, or at the very least adblock and bookmark syncing.
a link to a one-page (printer-friendly) version of the article! Thank you.
How about explaining why protons have a +1 charge and neutrons have no charge? I'd say that's pretty useful. Ditto with explaining the charge of the anti-nucleons.