If you think about it - with those crazy toilet systems and the fact that you're always trapped in those confining suits - really I think it's to be expected that space junk would be pretty awful.
When you abandon satellite, fuel tanks or anything else in the space, why not just push it floating further away in space? Let some aliens take care of them.
It takes energy to send a satellite up into a higher orbit, and even more to push it out of Earth orbit entirely...
For that matter it also takes energy to shift a satellite to a lower orbit, too. About the only thing you get for free is atmospheric drag, and then only once your satellite is already low enough to run into the upper atmosphere.
To give a satellite the ability to do any of these things, it must carry its own rocket motors and fuel - this increases the satellite's launch-weight, which in turn increases the fuel requirements of the booster.
Ever gotten stung by a bee or an ant? How did your body respond to the pain, itching and swelling induced by the venom? What's that? Your body fought those symptoms off, and you recovered?
Bad example. Bee stings can increase your sensitivity to future bee stings, much like successive exposures to poison ivy can worsen your response to poison ivy. In individuals susceptible to this sensitization, the symptoms to future exposures can escalate to full-blown, life-threatening allergic reactions.
Apple removed them after getting complaints that they were degrading to women.
How exactly is this degrading to women?
Well, generally speaking, Apple is extremely degrading to women. A lot of people have been talking about how the iPad sounds like a feminine product, but few people seem to remember this quote from Steve Jobs' iPad keynote:
"And remember to keep the iPad away from your bitch when she's on the rag. You don't want her to bleed on it."
The Cupertino campus also briefly instituted "shirts-off Fridays" and, when I visited in 2000, at the end of their tour they handed out nude photos of their female workers.
So I can certainly see how someone would say Apple was degrading to women.
Yeah, OK, whoosh. Fine. Whatever. I didn't see anything to the post I replied to apart from face value. If there's anything more to that post, I still don't see it. So as far as I'm concerned, you "whoosh"ed me for no goddamn reason.
Actually, it is possible to define the value of products and services in other ways than just "what people are willing to pay for them". An example of this would be a hypothetical economy where the value of products and services is determined by the resources (labor, energy and and raw materials) required for providing said products and services.
/Mikael
What are the resources required in 2010 to provide a comic book produced in 1938?
Wow, the guy who paid 1 million must feel like a jackass now.
You don't buy a vintage comic book to read it. You buy it to have it. The story has, no doubt, been republished in collections and so on - even without the download there were surely ways to read the story, if that's all you wanted.
Randall can tell people off for overquoting Python, but you don't get to quote Randall telling people off for overquoting Python without looking like the exact kind of person Randall is making fun of.
Hm, no, not buying it. Mindlessly prattling off Python quotes at any moderately viable opportunity does not equate to linking to a comic that explains why that is a bad thing. Randall made a good point and I think it's worth bearing in mind.
You'll never throw the dice that often, and even if you do, it will never, ever be all 1's.
Hey, every time I throw an infinite number of consecutive dice rolls, it has just as much a chance of rolling all ones as it does of rolling any other sequence...
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
How many different ways do you suppose there are to say "infidel"?
Today on Slashdot a gaggle of humorless retards were given mod points which they then used to demonstrate their complete ignorance of the Hungarian language.
> it can be a small problem, I think, when "non-random" sequences are removed from possible random number generations. [...] it may take a fair slice out of the available keyspace
This is true, and could be a problem if everyone's PIN were randomly generated. Since most PINs are selected by users and conform to a known, decidedly non-uniform distribution, this actually makes sense. If it's known that e.g. 1234 is over-represented in the pool of PINs
Personally I like what I call "dice random" where there IS the possibility that you can roll the same number an infinite amount of times in a row.
Okay, I want all 1's, an infinite number of times in a row.
Probability of one 1: 1/6. Okay Probability of n 1's: (1/6)^n. Okay lim((1/6)^n) as n->infinity: 0. Wait, I thought you said there was a chance this could work!
Well, it isn't zero, it just approaches zero. Never actually gets there...
Probability of rolling a 1 on a single roll: 1/6 Probability of (n+1) 1's in a row: (probability of (n) 1's) * 1/6
No matter how many times you apply the inductive step, the result is greater than zero...
P.S. Who supplies your dice that can survive an infinite number of rolls? You could make a killing selling those to casinos. Once, anyhow.
Surviving an infinite number of rolls is not the problem... The real problem is that if you've got, say, a D20, and you get it to roll a 1 a large number of times, the ones will have all been rolled out. After that it'll have a hard time producing more 1's.
Really, the cyber attacks on Enterprises are well known. First there was Dr. Daystrom, who "upgraded" an Enterprise with his M-5 computer... Later, another Enterprise was subject ot cyber attack on numerous occasions: the attack by the Iconians was one of the earlier examples. This Enterprise was ultimately destroyed as a result of a cyber attack by Klingons. The next Enterprise was invaded from within by the Borg. So it's actually a pretty common occurrence, it seems.
I am dealing. I think using "fail" the way you did is stupid. So instead of biting my tongue or being a jerk about it, I decided to address the issue. Seems to me like the best possible way to deal with it.
So you parse English incorrectly?
For the sake of a joke, Shirley, I would. Misunderstanding is the basis of a lot of humor. Plus being intentionally obtuse is just plain fun sometimes.
Perhaps you just weren't funny?
It's a risk one always takes when making a joke. Someone who can't face the possibility of failure has no hope of accomplishing anything at all. So, yeah, perhaps I wasn't funny. I can live with that.
> apt-get remove me & I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
Uh, fail.
Why do people talk like this? It's so tacky.
The command is:
apt-get remove me && I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
I don't know if you made an HTML fail or a shell fail, but either way, you botched it. Having two ampersands prevents the race condition and preserves the meaning of the statement; in this context, and means iff.
No, I said what I meant. (If I had meant to put two ampersands in there, why would I be talking about asynchronous jobs and race conditions?)
See, if I use the version of the command that accurately reproduces the meaning of the sentence instead of getting it wrong, then that's not much of a joke. Maybe you thought my joke wasn't funny anyway - that's OK, they're not always funny. But that line of dialogue could actually have either meaning. "and" could mean "if you do this, then this will occur", or it could just mean that two unrelated things are to take place. ("Do the dishes and I'll go take a nap") In the original line from Star Wars I think there was an "if" in that sentence - but the line as stated in this thread could take either meaning, depending on context.
The ampersand shell syntax originally was infix: "cmd1 & cmd2" meant "run cmd1 and cmd2 concurrently". This predates job control, I believe, and I think the shell waited until both processes exited before returning. Nowadays you can still say "cmd1 & cmd2" but in Bash, at least, the meaning is a bit different. "cmd1&" is run as a background job, and "cmd2" is run as a foreground job. The ampersand now acts as a command separator, in other words. With the current meaning, the syntax really is a suffix to a command, even if another command follows it - so reading it as "and" is now a bit unnatural, I guess... But originally there was a very good reason why they used the ampersand for that syntax, and that's why I still read "cmd1 & cmd2" as "cmd1 and cmd2".
Slashdot Mirror
If you think about it - with those crazy toilet systems and the fact that you're always trapped in those confining suits - really I think it's to be expected that space junk would be pretty awful.
When you abandon satellite, fuel tanks or anything else in the space, why not just push it floating further away in space? Let some aliens take care of them.
It takes energy to send a satellite up into a higher orbit, and even more to push it out of Earth orbit entirely...
For that matter it also takes energy to shift a satellite to a lower orbit, too. About the only thing you get for free is atmospheric drag, and then only once your satellite is already low enough to run into the upper atmosphere.
To give a satellite the ability to do any of these things, it must carry its own rocket motors and fuel - this increases the satellite's launch-weight, which in turn increases the fuel requirements of the booster.
Remember, on the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
Or, depending on the particular chatroom, no one knows that you're not a dog.
If you're captured by the enemy, there are just three pieces of information you are compelled to divulge: Age, Sex, and Location.
That is kind of how sarcasm works.
No, the way sarcasm works is that one can see something beyond the face value of the message. That's central to the whole idea of sarcasm.
Ever gotten stung by a bee or an ant? How did your body respond to the pain, itching and swelling induced by the venom? What's that? Your body fought those symptoms off, and you recovered?
Bad example. Bee stings can increase your sensitivity to future bee stings, much like successive exposures to poison ivy can worsen your response to poison ivy. In individuals susceptible to this sensitization, the symptoms to future exposures can escalate to full-blown, life-threatening allergic reactions.
Apple removed them after getting complaints that they were degrading to women.
How exactly is this degrading to women?
Well, generally speaking, Apple is extremely degrading to women. A lot of people have been talking about how the iPad sounds like a feminine product, but few people seem to remember this quote from Steve Jobs' iPad keynote:
"And remember to keep the iPad away from your bitch when she's on the rag. You don't want her to bleed on it."
The Cupertino campus also briefly instituted "shirts-off Fridays" and, when I visited in 2000, at the end of their tour they handed out nude photos of their female workers.
So I can certainly see how someone would say Apple was degrading to women.
To all the iPhone developers of the world, Apple would like to spread the following message:
You are our bitch now.
Thank you, and enjoy!
woooosh.
Yeah, OK, whoosh. Fine. Whatever. I didn't see anything to the post I replied to apart from face value. If there's anything more to that post, I still don't see it. So as far as I'm concerned, you "whoosh"ed me for no goddamn reason.
Why would I want to see a movie about some guy buying a comic book?
It's been done, sort of.
"Take On Me" - A-Ha.
Pipe wrench fight!
Actually, it is possible to define the value of products and services in other ways than just "what people are willing to pay for them". An example of this would be a hypothetical economy where the value of products and services is determined by the resources (labor, energy and and raw materials) required for providing said products and services.
/Mikael
What are the resources required in 2010 to provide a comic book produced in 1938?
Wow, the guy who paid 1 million must feel like a jackass now.
You don't buy a vintage comic book to read it. You buy it to have it. The story has, no doubt, been republished in collections and so on - even without the download there were surely ways to read the story, if that's all you wanted.
Randall can tell people off for overquoting Python, but you don't get to quote Randall telling people off for overquoting Python without looking like the exact kind of person Randall is making fun of.
Hm, no, not buying it. Mindlessly prattling off Python quotes at any moderately viable opportunity does not equate to linking to a comic that explains why that is a bad thing. Randall made a good point and I think it's worth bearing in mind.
You'll never throw the dice that often, and even if you do, it will never, ever be all 1's.
Hey, every time I throw an infinite number of consecutive dice rolls, it has just as much a chance of rolling all ones as it does of rolling any other sequence...
How many different ways do you suppose there are to say "infidel"?
Derka derka, Mohammed Jihad!
And now for something completely different...
Today on Slashdot a gaggle of humorless retards were given mod points which they then used to demonstrate their complete ignorance of the Hungarian language.
Oh wait... that's not different at all is it?
Obligatory XKCD
Would you prefer tits or GTFO?
I'd prefer tits.
> it can be a small problem, I think, when "non-random" sequences are removed from possible random number generations. [...] it may take a fair slice out of the available keyspace
This is true, and could be a problem if everyone's PIN were randomly generated. Since most PINs are selected by users and conform to a known, decidedly non-uniform distribution, this actually makes sense. If it's known that e.g. 1234 is over-represented in the pool of PINs
1-2-3-4? That's the combination to my luggage!
Personally I like what I call "dice random" where there IS the possibility that you can roll the same number an infinite amount of times in a row.
Okay, I want all 1's, an infinite number of times in a row.
Probability of one 1: 1/6. Okay
Probability of n 1's: (1/6)^n. Okay
lim((1/6)^n) as n->infinity: 0. Wait, I thought you said there was a chance this could work!
Well, it isn't zero, it just approaches zero. Never actually gets there...
Probability of rolling a 1 on a single roll: 1/6
Probability of (n+1) 1's in a row: (probability of (n) 1's) * 1/6
No matter how many times you apply the inductive step, the result is greater than zero...
P.S. Who supplies your dice that can survive an infinite number of rolls? You could make a killing selling those to casinos. Once, anyhow.
Surviving an infinite number of rolls is not the problem... The real problem is that if you've got, say, a D20, and you get it to roll a 1 a large number of times, the ones will have all been rolled out. After that it'll have a hard time producing more 1's.
Really, the cyber attacks on Enterprises are well known. First there was Dr. Daystrom, who "upgraded" an Enterprise with his M-5 computer... Later, another Enterprise was subject ot cyber attack on numerous occasions: the attack by the Iconians was one of the earlier examples. This Enterprise was ultimately destroyed as a result of a cyber attack by Klingons. The next Enterprise was invaded from within by the Borg. So it's actually a pretty common occurrence, it seems.
1 + 2 = 4?
For certain values of "4".
....its called money. And you don't get any for brushing your teeth or high fiving a friend.
Not directly - but making a good impression, having the right friends, etc. can certainly help.
Why do people talk like this? It's so tacky.
Language evolves. Deal.
I am dealing. I think using "fail" the way you did is stupid. So instead of biting my tongue or being a jerk about it, I decided to address the issue. Seems to me like the best possible way to deal with it.
So you parse English incorrectly?
For the sake of a joke, Shirley, I would. Misunderstanding is the basis of a lot of humor. Plus being intentionally obtuse is just plain fun sometimes.
Perhaps you just weren't funny?
It's a risk one always takes when making a joke. Someone who can't face the possibility of failure has no hope of accomplishing anything at all. So, yeah, perhaps I wasn't funny. I can live with that.
> apt-get remove me & I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
Uh, fail.
Why do people talk like this? It's so tacky.
The command is:
apt-get remove me && I shall become stronger than you can possibly imagine...
I don't know if you made an HTML fail or a shell fail, but either way, you botched it. Having two ampersands prevents the race condition and preserves the meaning of the statement; in this context, and means iff.
No, I said what I meant. (If I had meant to put two ampersands in there, why would I be talking about asynchronous jobs and race conditions?)
See, if I use the version of the command that accurately reproduces the meaning of the sentence instead of getting it wrong, then that's not much of a joke. Maybe you thought my joke wasn't funny anyway - that's OK, they're not always funny. But that line of dialogue could actually have either meaning. "and" could mean "if you do this, then this will occur", or it could just mean that two unrelated things are to take place. ("Do the dishes and I'll go take a nap") In the original line from Star Wars I think there was an "if" in that sentence - but the line as stated in this thread could take either meaning, depending on context.
The ampersand shell syntax originally was infix: "cmd1 & cmd2" meant "run cmd1 and cmd2 concurrently". This predates job control, I believe, and I think the shell waited until both processes exited before returning. Nowadays you can still say "cmd1 & cmd2" but in Bash, at least, the meaning is a bit different. "cmd1&" is run as a background job, and "cmd2" is run as a foreground job. The ampersand now acts as a command separator, in other words. With the current meaning, the syntax really is a suffix to a command, even if another command follows it - so reading it as "and" is now a bit unnatural, I guess... But originally there was a very good reason why they used the ampersand for that syntax, and that's why I still read "cmd1 & cmd2" as "cmd1 and cmd2".
Apple’s latest round of sticking an “i” in front of a word
Wow, that's some pretty edgy writing.
Not many people are willing to tackle these issues. Everyone knows about it but hardly anyone acknowledges it. They're just telling it like it is!