How is a three year span quick? How many years have most operating systems and Linux distributions been around? For that matter, how many years does it usually take Microsoft to release a single new version of Windows?
No! You don't understand: Web 2.0 will synergise key technologies into a mashup Wiki that will enable customers to drive their own solutions and manage SOA n-tier applications without any requirement at all for infastructure, oversight, management or maintainance! Using AJAX will save you 110% each quarter on IT spending. It will make you coffee, fetch you donuts and give you a blowjob! Web 2.0 is here to save the universe! Everyone get connected!
If you think that's neat just you wait for the symantic web on handheld supercomputers. I hear that will be ready only 15 years from now! Bingo!
About 10,000 Americans die each day due to natural causes, so an extra 1 per week in Iraq matters how much in the global view of things? Taking into account the number of non-Americans that have died would make us Americans not look like complete douchebags to the rest of the world.
Sure, you've got an inalienable right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. I've never supported the right to vote among those, though.... or has no understanding of the founding principles of the country, and what made it significantly different from the government we broke away from, should have an equal voice in running the nation. Wasn't the ability of the people to have a voice in the administration of their nation one of the founding principles of the country that made it significantly different from the government we broke away from?
New York Times article (Original government document) about a proposal to increase the limitation on exports from 195 MTOPS to 1.5 GTOPS. I can't be certain, but since the fastest supercomputer in 1979 (when the original restriction was enacted) was 250 MFLOPS, I would guess that 1 TOP is approximately equivalent to 1 FLOP. While you may be correct that the current definition according to United States export restrictions is 1 TFLOPS, it is pretty clear that the definition has changed over time.
No, they aren't. A supercomputer can perform a teraflop. That's the definition of supercomputer, and it has been since the word was coined by the government in the 1970s in order to define export restrictions. Wikipedia doesn't mention that definition. Your claim that the word was coined by the government also disagrees with Wikipedia:
The term "Super Computing" was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 And Wikipedia actually has a source for that. According to Wikipedia's list, 1 TFLOPS wasn't even reached until 1997, so I can't imagine the United States restricting the export of something that wouldn't exist for another 20 years. I know Wikipedia isn't the final, definitive source for all human knowledge, but until you can provide a source for your information, Wikipedia is more credible than you.
I think he is also referred to as Yahweh (in Hebrew, I believe) or something like that. No, Yahweh is a poor attempt at transliterating the Hebrew (Y-H-V-H), which is the name of God that is pretty much never pronounced in Judaism (the name Adonai, which literally translates as "my lord" is used instead). The name Jehovah is a somewhat better transliteration. Personally, I would guess that the name Jesus is a Latinized version of the Hebrew name Jesse, though I've heard that most actual experts say that it comes from the Hebrew name Joshua.
I hope you are joking. Wikipedia is hardly an authoritative resource for controversial subjects. You need to get into the habit of making a distinction. If there is a heated debate about something, you will only get the mainstream view of it from wiki. Hopefully, there is no debate about this...
Wikipedia used to cite a paper that attempted to disprove Arp's observation of quantized inherent redshift. The thing is, the authors were not even aware that Arp's quantized redshifts were components of the total redshift. The authors disproved that the *raw* values were quantized. Apparently, so long as it is popular and disproves a heretic, accuracy is not all that important on wiki.
As for the citation, it will not matter one bit. People will believe what they *want* to believe, and people *want* to believe that the statistics are flawed. And we should believe you instead of Wikipedia because...?
It seems to me that it's common knowledge that Comcast are bastards. I pity anyone who is unfortunate enough to live in a place where they have to get their internet service from Comcast. Replace "Comcast" with the name of just about any cable or DSL provider, and the statement is still true. Hence all of the problems.
They also block port 80 if anyone is getting ideas. The last time I had Verzion DSL (several years ago), their tech support either wouldn't admit that they block port 80, or were too stupid to know that they do. I'd say either one is equally likely.
If it makes you feel better, I was a bit surprised when I read that, too. I had never heard the term "antimatter electron", only positron or anti-electron.
You normally won't get in trouble for buying stolen property unless anyone with an IQ higher than a small rock would figure out that it's stolen. If you buy a $2000 television for $1500, a normal person would probably think it was a sale. If you buy a $2000 television from the back of a truck for $50, you probably should have known something wasn't quite right.
What about health insurance benefits? In the case of divorce, who gets custody of the children? How are marital assets divided? In the case of a marriage involving an existing child, how are adoption rights handled? In legal proceedings, spouses are shielded from being compelled to provide testimony against each other. There are legal ramifications and protections granted by marriage that are difficult to simply walk away from. I think that government should handle marriage the same way schools handle emergency contacts. You get a piece of paper from the government, fill in the name of the person you want to have all those legal rights/powers that a spouse has, and mail it back. For most married people, that would be their spouse. Single people would still be able to assign that legal status to a parent or sibling.
shouldn't the above confuse most lay-people Why would it? As far as the typical non-scientist is concerned, you can't see X-rays, so they aren't light.
So, for instance, a 1 second-lived black hole has a mass of 2.28 × 10^5 kg Which means that in order to create such a black hole, we'd have to be able to cram 10^5 kg of mass into a singularity. That's a pretty small mass in the realm of astronomy, but it's a pretty damned big mass in the realm of particle physics.
Today a star might be 3 solar masses, tomorrow it might be 2.999999999999999999999999999999999976 solar masses. Do astronomers know the mass of any other stars or black holes out to that many significant digits? If not, it doesn't really matter, does it?
That sort of wild, erratic variation is no good in the exact world of astronomy. Astronomy is only as exact as the instruments used to take measurements.
I dunno, coming up with a solution to the Traveling Salesman problem that's O(n) would probably be difficult. Since we're already in the Computer Science Academia realm, I'd say it's more like a patent on a method for finding the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence; ask a large group of CS students how to solve that problem, and most of them will probably come up with the same solution.
After two laptops were lost containing the personal data... we mandated that contractors need to encrypt any and all data Is there anything to say besides "Duh"?
In theory, a sales tax on Internet service would go to your state (or city, if it has a local sales tax), so it wouldn't be part of that wasted $400 billion. Whether or not your state does anything useful with the money depends on your state, but the budgetary disaster of the federal government isn't really a valid argument against local taxes.
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If you think that's neat just you wait for the symantic web on handheld supercomputers. I hear that will be ready only 15 years from now! Bingo!
New York Times article (Original government document) about a proposal to increase the limitation on exports from 195 MTOPS to 1.5 GTOPS. I can't be certain, but since the fastest supercomputer in 1979 (when the original restriction was enacted) was 250 MFLOPS, I would guess that 1 TOP is approximately equivalent to 1 FLOP. While you may be correct that the current definition according to United States export restrictions is 1 TFLOPS, it is pretty clear that the definition has changed over time.
Wikipedia used to cite a paper that attempted to disprove Arp's observation of quantized inherent redshift. The thing is, the authors were not even aware that Arp's quantized redshifts were components of the total redshift. The authors disproved that the *raw* values were quantized. Apparently, so long as it is popular and disproves a heretic, accuracy is not all that important on wiki.
As for the citation, it will not matter one bit. People will believe what they *want* to believe, and people *want* to believe that the statistics are flawed.
And we should believe you instead of Wikipedia because...?
If it makes you feel better, I was a bit surprised when I read that, too. I had never heard the term "antimatter electron", only positron or anti-electron.
You normally won't get in trouble for buying stolen property unless anyone with an IQ higher than a small rock would figure out that it's stolen. If you buy a $2000 television for $1500, a normal person would probably think it was a sale. If you buy a $2000 television from the back of a truck for $50, you probably should have known something wasn't quite right.
O_O. You forgot phpBB... At least it would fit in perfectly with Microsoft's security practices.
I dunno, coming up with a solution to the Traveling Salesman problem that's O(n) would probably be difficult. Since we're already in the Computer Science Academia realm, I'd say it's more like a patent on a method for finding the Nth number in the Fibonacci sequence; ask a large group of CS students how to solve that problem, and most of them will probably come up with the same solution.
In theory, a sales tax on Internet service would go to your state (or city, if it has a local sales tax), so it wouldn't be part of that wasted $400 billion. Whether or not your state does anything useful with the money depends on your state, but the budgetary disaster of the federal government isn't really a valid argument against local taxes.