I suppose the problem of not knowing what to program occurs to people that don't have generally problems.

Pretty much non Linux users with not much interest in science or maths. Because if one's interested in the last two, boy there are many problems to program.

Also, another class of people I can think of that are having this problem are those that think knowing the basic syntax of a language is what programming is all about. Shit, I was on that level once, but got used to the idea that I'll have to get acquainted with a dozen of libraries, APIs and frameworks if I want to solve real life problems by creating modern cool web (or not) applications.

My hypothesis is that more or less most of the people have had this issue, but soon solved it, when they discovered how to create problems to solve bigger problems. In the end, there are always problems. But one will have to know stuff to be able to see them.

Why should I pay €90 to read the latest ISO from IEEE on interval arithmetic computations? (http://www.techstreet.com/ieee/products/vendor_id/4431)
Why should anyone pay to do his research?

In my book paywalls are anti-knowledge and the Russians/former USSR citizens show us the way.

High school algebra and calculus aren't abstract mathematics. Try real analysis, topology or abstract algebra, dear professor...

Even if I don't consider myself proficient in topology, I have the sense that you have different definitions of the words "open" and "closed" in mind.

I guess it was a joke that went wrong.

What kind of maths do you have in mind? You don't need to know topology or ordinary differential equations to be a successful salesman or a cashier at some store, or to run a business. But you need to be able to understand a bar chart, able to do some simple statistics yourself, and be smart enough to avoid being fooled by your competitors.

Certain jobs need considerable amount of mathematical knowledge, but I guess you didn't have in mind jobs as engineers in Google/DWave or Mathematics/Physics researchers in Academia.

Alas, they didn't get the Nobel prize for discovering gravity waves. But "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1993/index.html)

So, I guess you're not exactly right.

We have ouzo, tsipouro, sun, sea and broadband

Tomorrow who lives who dies ("Aurio poios zei, poios pethainei").

We also believe in afterlife, so who gives a fuck if this one ends bad

Even when they change, they most likely become encapsulated
by the new Law.

But I have to agree that the mathematical theorems exist for ever.
In the given axiomatic system of course.

Then you should just tattoo the Laws that are most likely not going to change in your lifetime !

Like the second law of thermodynamics.

Also you could just use the laws that are most likely correct, and even if their truth holds approximately,
(for example, F=ma, for small velocities and classical masses). In that way when become an old goose
you will bare on your skin the marks of the evolution of some of the greatest mathematical equations
of Physics.

Now, ain't THAT something ?!

I'd probably choose:

*Newton's Laws of Motion.
*The equations of Euler for the solid body
*Maxwell's Laws of Electromagnetism, in vacuo
*The four Laws of Thermodynamics
*Boltzmann's equation for Entropy
*The Lorentz Transformation Matrix
*Einstein's equation for the Gravitational Field
*Schrodinger's equation
*Heisenberg's inequality
*Pauli's exclusion principle
*The principle of least action
*Euler-Lagrange equation
*Hamilton-Jacobi equation
*Klein-Gordon equation
*Dirac equation for the electron

That's all about Physics, If I haven't forgot anything.

Who cares if -indeed- Shotwell hasn't reached a mature point to make it public into the common Ubuntu user?

Make it quick, tempus fugit, don't test it thoroughly and then when Shotwell exhibits strange
behavior with the current loose-all-around patched-up Ubuntu-edition, find some other program to do the job.

And the story goes on.

I might be harsh and wrong by saying all the above.
But that's how I imagine things go with Ubuntu development administration.

Anyway, I'm just a common user. What would I know ?

I'd use an eye patch. Just in case !

"Sorry fellas web-cam not available atm"

That's what happens when one doesn't learn a language well enough
from an early age.

The person was most likely not a native american speaker ("Isn't as not as good") ...

Natural languages work like pandemics.

Start spreading the correct way of writing,
and others will eventually imitate you or stop chatting with you.

Even if they exist somewhere, a very probable hypothesis if one considers the billions of galaxies with billions of stars,
how are we sure that the timing will be proper, so that we'll make a contact?

I'm afraid that even if they are somewhere, we might never learn for each others existence, if the distance which seperates us is
bigger than the time we can afford to wait without destroying our race. A similar case stands for "them".

So maybe this answers the "Fermi question", namely the simple question posed by E.Fermi :

"If they exist, where are they?" (why haven't they showed themselves?)

Maybe we'll receive a broadcast of their life,long after their extinction, but I find it improbable to get a direct contact..

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