I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned the amazing soundtrack to the series. Yoko Kanno did an amazing job. Her music helped make Tenkuu no Escaflowne one of my all-time favorite anime series. Maybe I should start a "shadow of doubt" fanclub;-)
The number of people who say something along the lines of what you've just said is astonishing. People currently DONT use MD5 because they feel they DONT have to. If you've got a trusted source, then no worries. People WOULD use MD5 if they got patches from newsgroups or P2P. There is currently no need for rampant MD5 use, so of course few use it. But just as by now most hapless n00bs know to never click on a questionable email attachment, people will learn quickly to use checksums.
Try going to a major city and living the commuter life. Taking 1 (or more) hr train rides to work every day. eg. Tokyo. Thats why the wireless market in Tokyo is so huge. Everyone's got "down" time while they're riding on or waiting for their train.
Now that I've returned back into the fold of Americanism and the NOW NOW NOW mentality, flying down the freeway, I don't get to use my cell phone or PDA as much... but I can still imagine where this would be quite useful.
hmm dont you ever "hold" the steering wheel with your left knee while you drive? its actually quite easy to do... I even take easy turns on the freeway like that.
that is quite the generalization... i would actually lean more toward marketing and tech/sales support being two totally unrelated areas within a large company, especially one as large as samsung.
ok which is it? first you say "What company would let their satelite office make a judgement to hold back review monitors from Tom" as if Tom's was the godsend of review sites (and it may well be for you)... yet quickly it changes to "If they dare chew out the little guy, then what is my business to them?" make up your mind, are they pro's or are they just a bunch of guys who swung this kewl deal where they get all the new toys (well almost all) first? Judging by Tom's reaction... I'd say its at least somewhere in between.
and as for you and the other one... i'm quite surprised at all of this. that techs would base their buy not on technical superiority of a product, but purely on whether or not that company has pissed off THG? hehe and since you brought up horrible HQ management... is this little tidbit going to be in your purchase recommendation? "they snubbed THG, so lets not buy from them" next I suppose you'll buy new comps for your staff cause the cases have that nice blue metallic color, right? get real.
you would actually decide to not purchase a possibly superior product just because that company's office in FRANCE failed to hand a few grand worth of hardware to a site you go to? well, how does this sound? I am going to boycott you for your stupidity. regardless of how intelligent you sound in the future, I will only assume that you are an idiot. doesn't that just sound silly?
not to mention that you make the asinine comment that you are taking it personally... oh yeah cause samsung is just out to get you! as a fellow system administrator, I'm ashamed of you.
And, FYI, I really hope I'm in no way related to you. =)
yeah sorry about that. I think it was the whole borg mind thing... and you just seemed a bit too sure of a theory that didn't seem valid to me, and I got out of hand. you made some wild claims using ideas extrapolated from a VERY simple example to describe THE most complex system we know of...
also, even given your example, we just don't know WHAT significantly higher means. we can only guess at the size of the sample space. There is nothing well defined in the system. I believe that at this point, its all just mental masturbation.
as for my final parting shot... it seems quite logical to me... whats wrong with it?
Oh do shut up would you? By silencing them we reduce the number of people (angry and annoyed people) who get spam in this world... thus making it a much happier place for us all. Freedom of speech was not intended to let those f00kers call me once a week (or more) at dinner time to sell me crap I'd never want to buy, nor to fill up my mailboxes with junk. Freedom of speech was mainly created to protect the airing of grievances against the powers that be, not so someone can turn a buck. Shame on you for supporting such an attitude
I think you're forgetting some very important factors that renders your "proof" invalid.
First off you make the absurd claim that With large probability, no civilization exists (nor will ever exist) which is significantly more technically advanced than we are right now.
you then go on w/ a "proof" of said claim. you give a statistical analysis of a well defined system with well defined rules. oh look at the cute computer program everyone!
welcome to your existance. you naive little fool.
We've barely placed any thought to the inner workings of the universe, of life, how it all works. We've yet to figure out whether or not we are unique... A mere statistical oddity... Or whether we're just one more race striving to reach a level of mental capacity and technological advancement to reach the stars.
I submit that your list of supporters of your theory are impressive, but I would hesitate to bow down to a theory like this.
heres a little twist on your example. given that we exist now, is there not a good possibility that someone else exists somewhere? in the future or past? or even the present? with the billions upon billions of stars in our known universe, what are the odds that we are THAT much of a fluke?
as for your possible escape routes.. a borg mind is the best you could come up with?!?!
from the primer you linked
There are also a number of possible "loopholes" or alternative interpretations of what the Doomsday argument shows. For instance, it turns out that if there are many extraterrestrial civilizations and you interpret the self-sampling assumption as applying equally to all intelligent beings and not exclusively to humans, then another probability shift occurs that exactly counterbalances and cancels the probability shift that the Doomsday argument implies.
now couldn't we take that and notice that we are still here =) and that every day we are still here, the probability goes up that this loophole in the doomsday scenario is valid... that humanity does not comprise the set of all possibilities in the scenario, and that ETs do in fact exist? Just a thought.
so if 42 == sqrt(-1) && 42 == sqrt(1764) then 1764 == -1 or sqrt isn't the function we all thought it was. Who knows, maybe we live in a base 1765 universe.
and you thought the Russians were the clever ones?
they are you fool. they've got more space experience than anyone else. they've done alot more than we have with alot less.
time and again NASA has proven their desire to dominate space. personally I'd just like us up there. who cares who does it as long as it gets done! NASA is like the greedy apple computers of the 80s, not realizing that by trying to control everything, eventually they'll just become a 2nd or 3rd string player.
Slashdot Mirror
Embedded programming isn't that hard
;-)
yes... in the same way that sending a man to the moon wasn't hard. well... maybe not THAT easy
Lets just see how funny this can get
now THAT is funny (Score:0, Redundant)
why bother? just mirror it =)
thank you for informing those "who lack intelligance."
possibly more than one spacecraft, for the sake of redundancy
and just in case ppl didn't get why they need to make more than one ship... you redundantly let them know its for redundancies' sake. =)
imagine the Treo with 3G
why when I can have this
I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned the amazing soundtrack to the series. Yoko Kanno did an amazing job. Her music helped make Tenkuu no Escaflowne one of my all-time favorite anime series. Maybe I should start a "shadow of doubt" fanclub ;-)
Indiana Jones and Avacado Women in the Jungle of Death
you who have not seen Cannibal Women In the Avacado Jungle of Death run to your nearest b-movie rental location tonite.
i thought they ran out of steam at the end (how do you gracefully end something like that) but otherwise A++++
oh yeah cause the name "redhat" doesn't have incredible market penetration, esp with new users.
The number of people who say something along the lines of what you've just said is astonishing. People currently DONT use MD5 because they feel they DONT have to. If you've got a trusted source, then no worries. People WOULD use MD5 if they got patches from newsgroups or P2P. There is currently no need for rampant MD5 use, so of course few use it. But just as by now most hapless n00bs know to never click on a questionable email attachment, people will learn quickly to use checksums.
Try going to a major city and living the commuter life. Taking 1 (or more) hr train rides to work every day. eg. Tokyo. Thats why the wireless market in Tokyo is so huge. Everyone's got "down" time while they're riding on or waiting for their train.
Now that I've returned back into the fold of Americanism and the NOW NOW NOW mentality, flying down the freeway, I don't get to use my cell phone or PDA as much... but I can still imagine where this would be quite useful.
you could always macro that ;-) who the hell would take the time to type that out ingame anyway?
hmm dont you ever "hold" the steering wheel with your left knee while you drive? its actually quite easy to do... I even take easy turns on the freeway like that.
that is quite the generalization... i would actually lean more toward marketing and tech/sales support being two totally unrelated areas within a large company, especially one as large as samsung.
ok which is it? first you say "What company would let their satelite office make a judgement to hold back review monitors from Tom" as if Tom's was the godsend of review sites (and it may well be for you)... yet quickly it changes to "If they dare chew out the little guy, then what is my business to them?" make up your mind, are they pro's or are they just a bunch of guys who swung this kewl deal where they get all the new toys (well almost all) first? Judging by Tom's reaction... I'd say its at least somewhere in between.
and as for you and the other one... i'm quite surprised at all of this. that techs would base their buy not on technical superiority of a product, but purely on whether or not that company has pissed off THG? hehe and since you brought up horrible HQ management... is this little tidbit going to be in your purchase recommendation? "they snubbed THG, so lets not buy from them" next I suppose you'll buy new comps for your staff cause the cases have that nice blue metallic color, right? get real.
do canadians usually do like 5000$ instead of $5000?
who couldn't be more stupid?
you would actually decide to not purchase a possibly superior product just because that company's office in FRANCE failed to hand a few grand worth of hardware to a site you go to? well, how does this sound? I am going to boycott you for your stupidity. regardless of how intelligent you sound in the future, I will only assume that you are an idiot. doesn't that just sound silly?
not to mention that you make the asinine comment that you are taking it personally... oh yeah cause samsung is just out to get you! as a fellow system administrator, I'm ashamed of you.
And, FYI, I really hope I'm in no way related to you. =)
yes doxygen is your friend =) if you've seen javadoc, its quite similar.
yeah sorry about that. I think it was the whole borg mind thing... and you just seemed a bit too sure of a theory that didn't seem valid to me, and I got out of hand. you made some wild claims using ideas extrapolated from a VERY simple example to describe THE most complex system we know of...
also, even given your example, we just don't know WHAT significantly higher means. we can only guess at the size of the sample space. There is nothing well defined in the system. I believe that at this point, its all just mental masturbation.
as for my final parting shot... it seems quite logical to me... whats wrong with it?
Oh do shut up would you? By silencing them we reduce the number of people (angry and annoyed people) who get spam in this world... thus making it a much happier place for us all. Freedom of speech was not intended to let those f00kers call me once a week (or more) at dinner time to sell me crap I'd never want to buy, nor to fill up my mailboxes with junk. Freedom of speech was mainly created to protect the airing of grievances against the powers that be, not so someone can turn a buck. Shame on you for supporting such an attitude
First off you make the absurd claim that With large probability, no civilization exists (nor will ever exist) which is significantly more technically advanced than we are right now.
you then go on w/ a "proof" of said claim. you give a statistical analysis of a well defined system with well defined rules. oh look at the cute computer program everyone!
welcome to your existance. you naive little fool.
We've barely placed any thought to the inner workings of the universe, of life, how it all works. We've yet to figure out whether or not we are unique... A mere statistical oddity... Or whether we're just one more race striving to reach a level of mental capacity and technological advancement to reach the stars.
I submit that your list of supporters of your theory are impressive, but I would hesitate to bow down to a theory like this.
heres a little twist on your example. given that we exist now, is there not a good possibility that someone else exists somewhere? in the future or past? or even the present? with the billions upon billions of stars in our known universe, what are the odds that we are THAT much of a fluke?
as for your possible escape routes.. a borg mind is the best you could come up with?!?!
from the primer you linked
There are also a number of possible "loopholes" or alternative interpretations of what the Doomsday argument shows. For instance, it turns out that if there are many extraterrestrial civilizations and you interpret the self-sampling assumption as applying equally to all intelligent beings and not exclusively to humans, then another probability shift occurs that exactly counterbalances and cancels the probability shift that the Doomsday argument implies.
now couldn't we take that and notice that we are still here =) and that every day we are still here, the probability goes up that this loophole in the doomsday scenario is valid... that humanity does not comprise the set of all possibilities in the scenario, and that ETs do in fact exist? Just a thought.
Its amazing when something like the drudgereport beats /. to the punch on a story like this one.
so if 42 == sqrt(-1) && 42 == sqrt(1764) then 1764 == -1 or sqrt isn't the function we all thought it was. Who knows, maybe we live in a base 1765 universe.
and you thought the Russians were the clever ones?
they are you fool. they've got more space experience than anyone else. they've done alot more than we have with alot less.
time and again NASA has proven their desire to dominate space. personally I'd just like us up there. who cares who does it as long as it gets done! NASA is like the greedy apple computers of the 80s, not realizing that by trying to control everything, eventually they'll just become a 2nd or 3rd string player.