Yeah he is putting his readers at risk because they'll be breaking the law by distributing the book. I think he's just mad at Apress and wants to stick it to the man, or he still wants the promotion that a free ebook would provide. Also there's all the free publicity from slashdot..
He's not giving people a license to it (which would conflict with the publisher's exclusive license); he's just promising not to sue.
Also, why would he use a publisher that gave him only $2 per sale? You'd think that royalties would be driven up as competing publishers offer more per sale.. Why doesn't a publisher just offer 40% royalties or something and annihilate the competition?
Verifying whether a 12 million digit number is prime is staggeringly difficult
At this point these "sets new record!" stories are significant because researchers aren't just brute-forcing it, they're using all sorts of clever tricks to push so far ahead of current processing capability. It's a serious area of mathematical research.
I'm thinking of a sentient computer system in the basement watching humans move around on a huge floor plan that it has of the building, with sonar coverage shaded.. every computer in the building acting as an active sonar sensor.. every movement into and out of thru hallways counted to track how many people are in each area..
It's still a mersenne number, which is his point. The parent AC up there first-replying to first-post also picked a bad non-prime number: eldavojohn's point.
Nope. Gauss's law (electricity) has some nice formula while the corresponding Gauss's law for magnetism has a big fat zero.
If magnetic monopoles were taken into account, the magnetism one will have a nontrivial div like the electricity one.
Thank you wikipedia. Now I know to ask for for christmas: A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations! The amazon reviews are good. Let's learn together, slashdot. div grad curl too, in case old Maxwell's a little heavy with the vector calc
The only thing new here is the current, not the "magnetic charge" from the monopole. And it's theoretical physics ridiculously far from being used in magnetic storage or computing.
If you want to get technical, broadband/baseband/passband/whatever have nothing to do with speed. And even the common-usage definition says nothing about latency.
And anyway you can easily compile a C program to run on anyone's TI-89 without paying TI for signing. All this drama is only about custom operating systems - OS images must be signed - but unlike the iphone they're already programmable.
in order to observe the spin on the particle, you have to actually observe it, and by observing, you might alter its spin. You have no way of knowing whether the spin you just observed is a legit signal, or a bunk one induced by your measurement.
That's the observer effect which has nothing to do with anything in QM.
I can guarantee you they're not actually running MediaWiki on PHP. It would make no sense to run a web browser and a web server and a database server just for one embedded device. It's probably just some basic firmware reading data off a flash chip.
If information theory wants to stop us from observing a higgs boson then we won't be able to observe it in the experiment. What won't happen is that every time we try to test it some mechanical component breaks down. That's ridiculous.
Information (except its mass, charge, and spin) can't escape a black hole, period. You don't even need to suspect that some difficult concept could plausibly be an exception, because you know there are no exceptions.
I definitely would not unfriend them. If "Sharon poked you!" is a violation then I'm not confident that "Sharon unfriended you!" is different.
Then again, if you don't unfriend her, everything you do shows up on her feed (right? I don't use facebook), which is even worse. I guess I'd stay away from the facebook account.
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Yeah he is putting his readers at risk because they'll be breaking the law by distributing the book. I think he's just mad at Apress and wants to stick it to the man, or he still wants the promotion that a free ebook would provide. Also there's all the free publicity from slashdot..
He's not giving people a license to it (which would conflict with the publisher's exclusive license); he's just promising not to sue.
Also, why would he use a publisher that gave him only $2 per sale? You'd think that royalties would be driven up as competing publishers offer more per sale.. Why doesn't a publisher just offer 40% royalties or something and annihilate the competition?
It's actually page 4 with the relevant posts
Verifying whether a 12 million digit number is prime is staggeringly difficult
At this point these "sets new record!" stories are significant because researchers aren't just brute-forcing it, they're using all sorts of clever tricks to push so far ahead of current processing capability. It's a serious area of mathematical research.
Read and type into your computer. The computer exploring its environment is new.
It's a technology that can just as easily be implemented in closed source..
I'm thinking of a sentient computer system in the basement watching humans move around on a huge floor plan that it has of the building, with sonar coverage shaded.. every computer in the building acting as an active sonar sensor.. every movement into and out of thru hallways counted to track how many people are in each area..
It's still a mersenne number, which is his point. The parent AC up there first-replying to first-post also picked a bad non-prime number: eldavojohn's point.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
What? No, it's just left on the surface where it fell in..
Probably not much.. Id released an engine to build on while those are just products. Old products that have better free alternatives, at that.
Nope. Gauss's law (electricity) has some nice formula while the corresponding Gauss's law for magnetism has a big fat zero.
If magnetic monopoles were taken into account, the magnetism one will have a nontrivial div like the electricity one.
Thank you wikipedia. Now I know to ask for for christmas: A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations! The amazon reviews are good. Let's learn together, slashdot. div grad curl too, in case old Maxwell's a little heavy with the vector calc
The only thing new here is the current, not the "magnetic charge" from the monopole. And it's theoretical physics ridiculously far from being used in magnetic storage or computing.
If you want to get technical, broadband/baseband/passband/whatever have nothing to do with speed. And even the common-usage definition says nothing about latency.
Again, answered by my GP post.. if you never see the Higgs boson then you don't know if it's "the curse" or just its nonexistence
And citizens redefined to those who voluntarily pay full price for internet service.
How is that bad legal strategy? You don't sue Microsoft over their entire business model, you defend hobbyists from vexatious litigation.
And anyway you can easily compile a C program to run on anyone's TI-89 without paying TI for signing. All this drama is only about custom operating systems - OS images must be signed - but unlike the iphone they're already programmable.
Communist cyber-terrorists. Who besides elite Chinese cyber-commandos would want to destroy American jobs by giving things away for free?
That's the observer effect which has nothing to do with anything in QM.
The information is available on the surface of the event horizon by the holographic principle.
I can guarantee you they're not actually running MediaWiki on PHP. It would make no sense to run a web browser and a web server and a database server just for one embedded device. It's probably just some basic firmware reading data off a flash chip.
If information theory wants to stop us from observing a higgs boson then we won't be able to observe it in the experiment. What won't happen is that every time we try to test it some mechanical component breaks down. That's ridiculous.
Information (except its mass, charge, and spin) can't escape a black hole, period. You don't even need to suspect that some difficult concept could plausibly be an exception, because you know there are no exceptions.
Are you saying that ceramics can't be used because they're not conductive? ... They're super conductive..
I definitely would not unfriend them. If "Sharon poked you!" is a violation then I'm not confident that "Sharon unfriended you!" is different.
Then again, if you don't unfriend her, everything you do shows up on her feed (right? I don't use facebook), which is even worse. I guess I'd stay away from the facebook account.