lolipop1's comments

In conclusion, from the manufacturer point of view, there is more profit to be made by selling a product at multiple profit margin levels using the same manufacturing process.

But at the same time, doing only low profit margin manufacturing might be: or not profitable; or not enough to drive and push development of new technology.

So this is basically solve the same problems as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID, but using a paper sheet instead of a hardware/software generated key?

At the end of the day, how do you implement scalable multi-threaded continuations? Yes the code has a better allure, but it's not exactly hard to add parameters to http requests.

Having used a few frameworks, I can tell you it's also easier to debug code that's closer to http requests. Being able to simply look at what's being passed in a simple way and understand everything instantaneously is a big advantage. Actually, this argument is more about the tools at hand, but there are definitively more and better tools to analyze http requests than anything else.

I didn't know physics problems are assumed to be idealized... When you build a bridge for example, will the physics try to be simplified to the max? (Honest question here).

Velocity would matter -- it seems to me -- if there is friction and probably a few other factors included like elasticity. No?

Personally, I always considered physicists to be applied mathematicians (not the other way around although I've seen physics problems thrown in university level math classes). That's why I put that there, so assuming a high level of math skills, you'd probably change your way of thinking quite a bit.

Is the person currently pulling, are the weights on the ground, are the weigths currently moving to get into a stable position? Friction, weight of cord, acceleration, etc. etc. Any combination of the previous?

Depending on your level with maths/physics you'll probably give different answers and make different assumptions.

Not community, but there is http://cert.startcom.org/ .

You can also do your own (OpenSSL has everything you need).

And for a community one, you'd still need a verification mechanism and a protection mechanism for the roots; both of which could be hard to do in a volatile environment. http://www.cacert.org/ Seems to be that, don't think they are included in any browsers by default though (it's not in mine at least).

I though the expression was "less is more that more". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_(Unix)

In some schools, you actually start with lambda calculus, just a bit more theoritical.

I think you're simply talking about different complementary things.

One speaks about the fact that you can learn the basic keywords and flow (as in how the language is parsed) using simple mathematic problems.

While the other speaks about solving real-world problems require more diversity.

I think there are two types of awesome coders.

The first type is extrovert and thinks of himself as an awesome coder. These people are known in the circle and are very few.

The second type is introvert and will not admit their awesomeness. As such, you generally don't know about this type until you've worked with them for a while.

Yeah, that's the perspective of the client.

The perspective of the service provider is that it's a marketing feature to sell. The trade off being that the service starts to be "risk managed" more and more.

I personally haven't seen better services due to SLAs, but I do know I'm not the center of the universe.

So first, the equations seems to be mostly used to approximate and model a lot of stuff. Very precise, I know.

Second, here's wikipedia take on the Millenium problem: Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have not yet proven that in three dimensions solutions always exist (existence), or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any singularity (smoothness). These are called the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the seven most important open problems in mathematics and has offered a US$1,000,000 prize for a solution or a counter-example.

Does the article directly relate to the Millenium Prize problems? I can't conclude anything but it seems like just a small part of the whole. It think people are excited because there was a lot of talk about the possible solution to the P equals or not NP problem.

Maths at those levels are esoteric to most people and as such, presenting papers like that is pretty useless in mainstream media. If one could find a good analysis of the conclusions and possibilities, it might be a lot more useful.

Not exactly the same thing.

At the end you tend to re-invent the wheel if you learn that way. Learning about the existing wheels will save much time and correct a lot of errors that you might never even see when working that way.

And kids knowledge is generally supplemented by adults to complete the picture and sometimes we have to lie to introduce them to some concepts.

It's something in the line of every change is a transaction. A redo is a replay of a transaction. An undo is not exactly a rollback but a reverse of the change and also a new transaction. You can undo a transaction in the past by reaplying later transactions. Makes me think a bit about Operational Transforms but I couldn't synthesizes my precise thoughts on that.

Nobody should store information that could get them jailed/hurt/killed 5 or 10 years from now.

The author seems to generalize the "market" here. The effects described on the markets are/willbe much more subtle than the article claims. IT has always been multi-faceted. It's not like MS, Intel, Oracle, IBM or Cisco could have stopped doing marketing and still be where they are.

So I guess that we can say for sure (2009-2010 numbers) that online stuff is now loosing money, windows is now doing better that office, and gaming is quite behind but stable and profitable (albeit a lot less that office or windows). Let's be frank too, were talking about billions here, so those segments are quite big.

As I remember correctly, Office saves everything else at MS right now (by a large margin, followed by OSes). The gaming has recently been making more money than they are loosing (and will probably become their next important money maker). But the rest of the revenue makers are so low compared to those three that it's not even funny.

I suspect that they will probably announce service based offering (consulting) type in the long run (5-10 years maybe?) because they might not be able to sustain high margins of profit on Office and Windows sales due to competition and alternatives.

Right now they don't seem to have a great vision either, so we'll see were they are heading...

No, simply because they are from different domains and by extension from and for different systems. And as such, a natural ID (or arguably a GUID) can also be said to be more fitting to establish that kind of relation.