Comment Re:What I would do... (Score 1) 701
You've got it all wrong. on step 2. Solving for N gives:
P!=NP -> N=P!/P -> N = (P-1)!
See? Simple. Now if I only know how to profit from this....
You've got it all wrong. on step 2. Solving for N gives:
P!=NP -> N=P!/P -> N = (P-1)!
See? Simple. Now if I only know how to profit from this....
I think I read somewhere that Apple decided that they won't fire him, instead as a punishment he would be relocated to Apple's office in Vietnam.
I was right - see http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/fourth-generation-iphone-teardown-reveals-a4-microprocessor/
It is the A4 processor.
heh... sorry, i guess it's a case of "seeing what I was expecting to see". On second thought, I'm not so sure... while it looks similar with this "prototype" version of A4, it's also similar enough to the current iPhone processors, that one can't really be sure.
Fair enough.
On the other hand.... do you think that Scroogle really gets more than 1000 searches per day?
By your own argument - would you characterize Flash as "open"? AFAIK the Flash compiler + the FLEX SDK is open-source.
Com'on, Flash is already "standard" / fully documented & all. And ActionScript was supposed to become "JavaScript 2", Adobe worked with the standard bodies to standardize it as ECMAScript.... but nobody else seemed interested, so they eventually gave up. But a draft standard ECMAScript4 exists (much like a draft HTML5 exists
This decision is nothing about technical reasons, Apple didn't ban CS5's Flash2iPhone exporter because it doesn't work..... but because it DOES.
Ya, they have me on HTML5 now, I am feeling better, no longer have the iphone fits I used to have and my jobs got better.
There - fixed that for you.
Check http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5, it has a blue box to the right, with the title "Reading just got better", where you can switch to HTML5 mode
(I'd really say "HTML mode" since it works in IE too.... the whole HTML5 vs Flash argument for Scribd is just flamebait/publicity stunt).
Furthermore, I find their "major reason" that HTML5 supports all the major points of the site's previous functionality to be a blatant lie. To give one example - ok, HTML5 supports webfonts... but how exactly are you going to license the fonts from Adobe (or any other font foundry that doesn't give away the font for free)?
Don't get me wrong: the ability to select, search (*) and so on is great, and could be a very good reason per se to switch. But I don't think that the solution is to flame things up.... just go the Google way, they added HTML5 video on youtube (where possible(!) ) and didn't make so much fuss about scrapping a plugin that enabled them to have a business in the first place.
I'm pretty sure that this is going to backfire for scribd in the future, as they have set some not-so-realistic expectations with their messaging, in the hopes of getting lots of publicity. This whole HTML5 craze reminds me of the similar period when XML was fashionable and thought (by some) that it will replace SQL databases, and would become the universal-good-for-all-storage-format. Guess what, Oracle is still around
(*) Search doesn't really work in my experience... check http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5. If you select text in a box you can then search (& find stuff in that box), but not in all boxes; for instance, try searching "me three".
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