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ROOT can't be said to be OO because it breaks the encapsulation in the guts. There is a massive usage of "g" global pointers : gROOT, gDirectory, gTree, gEnv, gSystem, gPad, etc... Around one hundred in v5-18-00, a disaster.
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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper on the Future of Particle Phy
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One of the chief arguments for ARM and other MIPS-like ecosystems: they are much more diverse, therefore evolve better on the long run than a tied-down monopoly (Amd used to push Intel on many fronts, ie 64 bits, SIMD, RISC core etc) btw: I
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As for "going pee next to Andy many times", Szilard was trying to switch from physics to biology and was housing for ideas at Karolinska. He visited Klein, who happened to follow him to the bathroom and saw blood in the pot after
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Strange -- about the same timeframe, already with Parkinsons, a flagship neuroscience lab in Oxford also tried to approach him for research money. Without success.
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plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/PC110 http://www.tankraider.com/DOSPALMTOP/ibmpc110.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
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Transparent monitoring for your protection In keeping with this spirit, here is a reminder of how we monitor (your) CERN activities. We monitor all network Traffic coming into and going out of CERN. Our new analysis infrastructure will be a
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Once upon a time, there was a man here who built stuff, in Berlin for Albert Speer his name was. Philip Johnson and he was a wonderful artist and a moral monster. And he said he went to work building buildings for the nazis because they had
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1020_ageofempire/... We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consiste
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For the last thousands years, we, our mothers, and our fathers have been struggling for freedom of thought we have sustained many horrible losses and some immense victories and we are now at a very serious time. From the adoption of printin
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[Moglen] said "You mean The United States government is, from now on, going to keep a list of everybody every American knows. Do you think by any chance that should require a law?" And he just laugh because they did it in a press
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Berner was looking at RPC as his dayjob to give control commands to machines. What Berner did, was to use the Interface Builder's precursor on the NeXT he got as a toy to put a gopher-like link into the text properties field, where the
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finally a good use for logs!
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"We've proposed the business case to Intel and they are evaluating it. I don't think it's likely it's going to happen anytime soon" Doctorow's Law: "Anytime someone puts a lock on something you own,
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probably w intel
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The issue is misattributions and misappropriations. And those should be (and are) wrong, esp. in science. Taking the spirit of the times, ie. migrating software from minis to micros/pc^1-s in both cases and expropriating and monopolizi
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Mathematica is significant Mathematica is a proprietary software influenced by the earlier computer algebra systems Macsyma (of which Wolfram was a user) and Schoonschip (whose code Wolfram studied). Maxima is a computer algebra system ba
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It's only from Napoleon, that there are names you are familiar with: and only in territories he occupied (much like SI, house numbering etc.). The places he didn't invade would keep names like "Bush House, London", or na
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"SSL Added and Removed Here" Kazakhstan?!
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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper Potential missing staff in so
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Dear Downvoter: can you tell when The Cat makes it through the crack?
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be floored ^1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle ^1 and don't fall for phy PR
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"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper Potential missing staff in so
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We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has
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this is just astroturfing from their HR dept, fishing for cheap temp labour
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The Dangers of Self-Reference Public relations pioneer Edward Bernays refined the creation and use of press releases. Propaganda was used by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and others to rally for domestic support and demoniz
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people at cern have forgotten long ago: “Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.” – Theodore von Kármán Gell Mann and Zweig among others proposed the imaginary concept of quarks (or partons, Feyn
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it does. its called GOOG AMAZN amongst others and gathering data for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan short story long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6EBpLfLHCA&index=1&list=PLC...
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We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has

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