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Comment Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. (Score 0) 320

by amirishere (#41398785) Attached to: Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04

Yes yes, no hand holding. Now the system ain't gonna boot itself. You'll have to write that part of the kernel yourself.

What I am trying to point out is that hand holding is relative. Of course there is less hand holding in Linux but that doesn't mean that there is none. Each of the tools that we use and don't have to write is a sort of hand holding. The Firefox browser, the nautilus browser, the gedit text editer and so on are all great helpers.

Granted Linux can be more helpful, with more wizards for example for setting up networks for example, but it's not, mostly because we haven't paid for it, either with our time or with money. The good thing about paying with money is that it can be aggregated into a large effort. For example if we somehow put a bounty on the mentioned bug the fix scripts would be rolling in.
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Submission + - Proof claimed for deep connection between primes (nature.com)

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ananyo
ananyo writes: "One of the most important problems in mathematics may have been solved.
The abc conjecture states that for integers a+b=c, the ratio of sqp(abc)^r/c always has some minimum value greater than zero for any value of r greater than 1 (A good basic explanation of the conjecture in the Nature news article and also here.).
Proposed independently by David Masser and Joseph Oesterle in 1985, the conjecture might not be as familiar to the wider world as Fermat’s Last Theorem, but in some ways it is more significant. It would reduce the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem, for example, to a page.
Now mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan has released a 500-page proof.
According to mathematicians, if the proof is correct it will be "will be one of the most astounding achievements of mathematics of the twenty-first century.” But checking Mochizuki's proof is going to take some time-it is spread across four long papers (Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory I-IV number theory fans!) , each of which rests on earlier long papers."

Comment Re:don't you know? (Score 0) 302

by amirishere (#41264919) Attached to: Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea
No actually the eastern godful nations, with their higher reproductive rate, also create a large number of pretty clever people who figure out that the whole religious thing is bullshit and move to the west. To provide proof: I am the very last person from my MSc class still here, more than 80 percent of my BSc classmates have left the country and this trend is observable is all uni's in here.

The good thing is that in effect intelligent people are being filtered into the west diversifying the genetic pool in a very positive way. The bad thing is that I predict that people in countries like Iran will eventually devolve back into monkey. This is pretty much noticeable in our beloved ...

It really isn't safe for me while I am still here, I wouldn't want to trigger any word monitoring system. :)

Finally I am pretty sure that as soon as our current bunch of nerd-lings die out we will be left with evolved nerds with boosted sexual drive to make up for their interest in their respective hobbies. And we will soon take over the world (cue evil laugh).

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