That's what you get when you just translate the return value of GetLastError() into a string using the appropriate Winapi function, given that the last command actually was successful.
Maybe, but if so, it's just one of the coding errors behind this example. By clicking cancel, the save-as dialog box should close, returning to the parent dialog box, but instead Dr.Watson terminated. The only operations which completed succesfully were (i) the crash of the original application for its own reasons and (ii) the crash of Dr.Watson in response to legal input to a dialog box.
"Error: The operation completed successfully"
I kid you not. This one was repeatable on any windows box whenever Dr.Watson was invoked after a program crashed. It appeared in win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, 2000 (don't know about win me, xp or vista). Just click the "save as" button for the error log, then click cancel. Then the magic error appeared in its own box:
"Error: The operation completed successfully"
Dr.Watson terminated as well, of course.
What kind of MD course is possible without a good dose of chemistry (organic, physical, inorganic, and bio)? Just doing o-chem in pre-med seems inadequate - I'd expect it to continue at least another year, and to have numerous biochem courses as follow-up, with a lot of lab work (quantitative & qualitative analysis).
If someone wants to work in the medical field without college level o-chem, then they should switch to nursing school. If that's too tough, then they can check for openings as hospital janitor or receptionist.
Even though I'm a Republican, I have to concede that Obama is one of the most gifted speakers to come along for quite some time. He's an absolutely magnetic speaker and a great advocate for that which he believes, and when I watch him, I almost have to smack myself to snap out of it. I can't stand the guy's politics, but I am proud that he's an American.
I'm a libertarian conservative atheist. Obama disgusts me and Palin nauseates me. If there was a superficial-dysfunctional ticket, they could run together on it.
Yay! Another eccentric language from the past that I'd like to hear from. FOCAL was a bit like Fortran or Basic in its statements. However, line numbering was significant and implied program structure, so that every routine could also be treated as a collection of nested subroutines by cunning line numbering. http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/focal/ brings back memories of bootstrapping a PDP-8 (many toggle switches and muttered incantations).
APL! Now sing along with me: rho rho rho of X
always equals one
rho is dimension
rho rho rank
APL is fun!
Learn the exciting APL character set, curiously reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphics or paleolithic cave scratchings. Implement an algorithm in one sexy line of APL instead of hundreds of frigid lines of C or pascal or python or other languages for geldings. http://catpad.net/michael/apl/
No comments are ever needed or provided in APL, since if you don't understand the code just by looking at it, no amount of commenting will help. Philistines incapable of conceptualizing an operator which operates on operators unfairly term it a write-only language. Perhaps for them, it is.
10GB of original data is easy, and it doesn't take a year, just a week or two. Today and yesterday, I measured physical properties of a lot of output from a particular industrial process (just one plant in a factory, and I only recorded measurements of a few instruments). This only gave me a few hundred MB of raw data, but it will result in several GB of data after analysis. This is all original data, and this is a normal amount of output. I regularly fill several DVDs with this sort of archive data.
Of course, this kind of data (spectroscopic, radiometric, structural anisotropy, etc.) is probably not what the lawyers would be interested in. It would take far longer to explain it to them than to collect and analyze it.
FWIW, the data in question does not involve recording videos or images. We don't have the bandwidth or storage space for that, as it could result in TB per day of raw data in industrial contexts. Camera-based instruments analyze the images in real time. The images are discarded; only the analysis results are recorded.
But it is a time for the U.S government to... ban the cult.
No, it isn't, and it never will be. Arrest people for unlawful acts where the evidence merits it, sure, but you do not fuck with freedom of religion and freedom of assembly.
More importantly, you should not restrict the right to criticise or debunk or ridicule any or all religions, cults, beliefs, etc. If you consider some set of ideas to be utter bunk, you should be free to say so, and to explain how you reached your view. The targets of your criticism may not agree, and are free to respond to or ignore your criticism. However, they should not be able to gag or molest you.
Not even for Scientologists. Congratulations, you just sunk to their level.
Not quite, although banning a belief would itself be both ludicrous and doomed to failure. Sinking to their level would involve terrorizing individuals who hold absurd beliefs, rather than merely laughing at their risible tenets, and explaining the joke to others.
You sir, have obviously never created anything of value. Why else would you think one individuals hard work belongs to you after 14 years or failure to register with a centralized body for a non-trivial fee?
And you, sir, have evidently never invented anything useful.
I have 12 granted US Patents [all involve apparatus, none are for software or business methods], and a couple of pending applications. Some of these patents are actively exploited in products on the market, and I receive modest remuneration as a result. Of course, you are free to exploit any patented invention for your own use, provided it is not used commercially - royalties are only needed for commercial use.
Not only do you have to pay "non-trivial" filing, inspection, and [perhaps] grant fees to the US PTO, you must pay increasing renewal fees every four years to maintain a granted patent. You must also submit a locally adapted translated application and pay (usually even higher) fees in every other jurisdiction where you want your invention to be protected.
At most after 20 years from the first filing, the patent expires. None of mine have expired yet, but it won't be too long before the first one does. In fact, all of my existing patents will have expired before I retire. They are not "money for your life and your descendents' lives", even if they are used commercially for decades.
Revert the DMCA. Limit copyright to the lifetime of the individual creator, or to a reasonable period for companies. Restrict copyright to actual works (Mickey Mouse is trademarked and protected, but Walt Disney is dead, and "Steamboat Willy" should be open domain). I'm sorry that you, and I, and most of us will work 9-5 till we die, that doesn't mean a (arguably) creative genious like JK Rowling should have to start worrying about Sorceror's Stone knockoffs anytime soon.
Now, which benefits society more in the long term - a useful invention (on which further inventions may be built) or a recording of Prince or Madonna squawking?
If it's not exploited, a patent is often allowed to lapse after only 8 or 12 years (non-payment of maintenance fees). It expires after at most 20 years, no matter what.
I see no reason why copyrights should automatically be worldwide (patents are national), or last much longer than a patent. Even the lifetime of the author is the wrong term for copyright (author might be creative at 90 years old, or die in an accident, etc.), and would be inapplicable to corporations. A fixed maximum term of 20 years would be reasonable.
If a longer copyright term (such as 50 years) were adopted, then there should be an early expiry mechanism for copyright. For example, if a work has been in copyright for more than 12 years, then if 4 years pass without the work or a direct derivative being distributed, then it would lapse into the public domain. Note that works under GPL would not be weakened by this requirement, since they are being frequently distributed.
[...] In their eastern neighbour Finland I pay about... 0-10€ per month 1Mbps (HomePNA) line. (I'm yet to receive a bill for that connection after 9 months, no idea if they have just forgot me or if it's included in the rent.)
[...]
Where I live a 10/10 Mbps (fiber) connection with no restraints costs about 1000€/month plus 1500€ installation.
Ouch! Where do you live?
I live about 20km from Kuopio. I have 20/2Mbps fiber with IP TV for euro55 per month, and 100/10Mbps is available for euro75 per month. No throttling or caps have been observed - there's a shared 10Gbps switch. Installation was a couple of hundred euro or thereabouts (I don't recall the price exactly).
Interestingly, this fiber net+TV service was introduced by KPY, but since they were acquired by DNA, information on it has been progressively removed from the web, and I suspect plans for extending it have been scaled back.
I already have a cap [...]. It's a relatively large one compared to others, domestically at 150GB.
Is that 150GB per day or per week? My bandwidth cap is 20Mbit per second (unthrottled), which would be about 170GB per day.
There's also a 100Mbit/s level available, which would be about 36GB per hour, but I don't think it's worth the extra eur20 per month. There are too many bottlenecks in the net. Accessing sites inside Finland, the 20Mbit/s can be easily kept at full utilization; accessing sites outside Finland, the data rate is not always as high.
In practice, I don't recall ever using more than about 30GB in a single day (several DVD images), and I suspect our usage most months is only 100-200GB. However, this does not include our IP TV service which arrives over the same fiber. With the IP TV streams, our total data usage must be well over a TB per month.
In the present age even the credit card is not needed any more, virtually anywhere in the world I can use my bank's debit card to get cash as they are associated with Maestro.
There are a few things that credit cards are still needed for, such as renting a car while abroad. A few years ago I overheard an irate would-be Budget customer being rejected because he had a Visa debit card instead of a Visa credit card. Car rental companies in the US don't accept debit cards for a rental. It's considered the same as trying to rent for cash - you must leave them a very large security deposit (what they think the car is worth) which will be returned when the car is returned.
If I understood correctly, the variance in decay rate between Earth's aphelion and perihelion is.1%. Earth's distance from the sun doesn't change by that much in astronomical terms...
But Earth's distance from the sun does change by more than 0.1% during its orbit:
Aphelion distance = 152.1 million km
Perihelion distance = 147.3 million km
So aphelion distance from the center of the sun is 3.2% greater than perihelion distance. Alternatively, both aphelion and perihelion differ from their mean by 1.6%.
Does anyone have comparable statistics for Europe and the relevant parts of Asia?
I live in Finland, in the countryside (20km from a town, the nearest city of more than 100,000 people is about 300km away).
We get a fiber "triple-play" with 20Mbps down, 2Mbps up, IP TV, and IP Telephone for euro55 per month. For an extra euro20, the data access can be upgraded to 100Mbps down, 10Mbps up.
Not even a first. Anybody remember Windows ME? Redmond is forgetting their history apparently....
Erasure is one option. Overwriting is even better. Some of us recall Microsoft Access - the communication package from the 1980s which utterly flopped (could not compete with Procomm etc.). The name was re-used in the 1990s for their database product, making it difficult even to refer clearly to the failed product. Their replacement communication program was given an entirely different name - HyperTerminal.
> Where did you get the base-12 idea from?
Count silently and you will easily find the answer.
ten eleven twelve : thirteen
zehn elf zwölf : dreizehn
ti elleve tolv : tretten
and besides English, German and Danish you can find the habit of using individual numerals for the first 12 numbers in many (?all) west and north Germanic languages. It gives the strong impression of an original base-12 number system driven out of use by base-10 mathematics but still preserved in the numerals ( and things like a dozend, a gross etc)
Definitely not all European languages. In French the transition is at sixteen to seventeen: onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize, dix-sept, dix-huit... Also, in Irish, the transition is at ten to eleven, just like in Finnish: deich (10), aondeag (11), dodeag (12), trideag (13), etc. Interestingly, Irish uses somewhat different numerals for counting persons as opposed to other entities - at least for small numbers of persons.
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That's what you get when you just translate the return value of GetLastError() into a string using the appropriate Winapi function, given that the last command actually was successful.
Maybe, but if so, it's just one of the coding errors behind this example. By clicking cancel, the save-as dialog box should close, returning to the parent dialog box, but instead Dr.Watson terminated. The only operations which completed succesfully were (i) the crash of the original application for its own reasons and (ii) the crash of Dr.Watson in response to legal input to a dialog box.
"Error: The operation completed successfully"
I kid you not. This one was repeatable on any windows box whenever Dr.Watson was invoked after a program crashed. It appeared in win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, NT, 2000 (don't know about win me, xp or vista). Just click the "save as" button for the error log, then click cancel. Then the magic error appeared in its own box:
"Error: The operation completed successfully"
Dr.Watson terminated as well, of course.
It's 11 km om Mars, so we should use astronomical units: almost 360 femtoparsecs.
Mr. Uzi Nissan started a company called Nissan Computers, way back when Nissan cars were sold under the Datsun marque. It didn't stop Nissan Motors sueing him over his nissan.com domain (which he had properly registered and used for his company). Nissan Motors mostly won in a series of bizarre precedent-setting decisions, and Mr. Nissan is about a million bucks out of pocket in legal expenses.
http://www.lctjournal.washington.edu/Vol2/a002Rozsnyai.html
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=i100302
What kind of MD course is possible without a good dose of chemistry (organic, physical, inorganic, and bio)? Just doing o-chem in pre-med seems inadequate - I'd expect it to continue at least another year, and to have numerous biochem courses as follow-up, with a lot of lab work (quantitative & qualitative analysis).
If someone wants to work in the medical field without college level o-chem, then they should switch to nursing school. If that's too tough, then they can check for openings as hospital janitor or receptionist.
Even though I'm a Republican, I have to concede that Obama is one of the most gifted speakers to come along for quite some time. He's an absolutely magnetic speaker and a great advocate for that which he believes, and when I watch him, I almost have to smack myself to snap out of it. I can't stand the guy's politics, but I am proud that he's an American.
I'm a libertarian conservative atheist. Obama disgusts me and Palin nauseates me. If there was a superficial-dysfunctional ticket, they could run together on it.
Yay! Another eccentric language from the past that I'd like to hear from. FOCAL was a bit like Fortran or Basic in its statements. However, line numbering was significant and implied program structure, so that every routine could also be treated as a collection of nested subroutines by cunning line numbering. http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/focal/ brings back memories of bootstrapping a PDP-8 (many toggle switches and muttered incantations).
rho rho rho of X
always equals one
rho is dimension
rho rho rank
APL is fun!
Learn the exciting APL character set, curiously reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphics or paleolithic cave scratchings. Implement an algorithm in one sexy line of APL instead of hundreds of frigid lines of C or pascal or python or other languages for geldings. http://catpad.net/michael/apl/
No comments are ever needed or provided in APL, since if you don't understand the code just by looking at it, no amount of commenting will help. Philistines incapable of conceptualizing an operator which operates on operators unfairly term it a write-only language. Perhaps for them, it is.
10GB of original data is easy, and it doesn't take a year, just a week or two. Today and yesterday, I measured physical properties of a lot of output from a particular industrial process (just one plant in a factory, and I only recorded measurements of a few instruments). This only gave me a few hundred MB of raw data, but it will result in several GB of data after analysis. This is all original data, and this is a normal amount of output. I regularly fill several DVDs with this sort of archive data.
Of course, this kind of data (spectroscopic, radiometric, structural anisotropy, etc.) is probably not what the lawyers would be interested in. It would take far longer to explain it to them than to collect and analyze it.
FWIW, the data in question does not involve recording videos or images. We don't have the bandwidth or storage space for that, as it could result in TB per day of raw data in industrial contexts. Camera-based instruments analyze the images in real time. The images are discarded; only the analysis results are recorded.
...they only sued to save Monticello from itself...
Presumably after the court case, they'll spew out an old Vietnam-war post-mission press release idiom: "It had to be destroyed to be saved".
First Virginia, then Kansas.
So it won't be long before an approved "physics" textbook tells us how many angels can dance on the head of a pin...
No, it isn't, and it never will be. Arrest people for unlawful acts where the evidence merits it, sure, but you do not fuck with freedom of religion and freedom of assembly.
More importantly, you should not restrict the right to criticise or debunk or ridicule any or all religions, cults, beliefs, etc. If you consider some set of ideas to be utter bunk, you should be free to say so, and to explain how you reached your view. The targets of your criticism may not agree, and are free to respond to or ignore your criticism. However, they should not be able to gag or molest you.
Not even for Scientologists. Congratulations, you just sunk to their level.
Not quite, although banning a belief would itself be both ludicrous and doomed to failure. Sinking to their level would involve terrorizing individuals who hold absurd beliefs, rather than merely laughing at their risible tenets, and explaining the joke to others.
You sir, have obviously never created anything of value. Why else would you think one individuals hard work belongs to you after 14 years or failure to register with a centralized body for a non-trivial fee?
And you, sir, have evidently never invented anything useful.
I have 12 granted US Patents [all involve apparatus, none are for software or business methods], and a couple of pending applications. Some of these patents are actively exploited in products on the market, and I receive modest remuneration as a result. Of course, you are free to exploit any patented invention for your own use, provided it is not used commercially - royalties are only needed for commercial use.
Not only do you have to pay "non-trivial" filing, inspection, and [perhaps] grant fees to the US PTO, you must pay increasing renewal fees every four years to maintain a granted patent. You must also submit a locally adapted translated application and pay (usually even higher) fees in every other jurisdiction where you want your invention to be protected.
At most after 20 years from the first filing, the patent expires. None of mine have expired yet, but it won't be too long before the first one does. In fact, all of my existing patents will have expired before I retire. They are not "money for your life and your descendents' lives", even if they are used commercially for decades.
Revert the DMCA. Limit copyright to the lifetime of the individual creator, or to a reasonable period for companies. Restrict copyright to actual works (Mickey Mouse is trademarked and protected, but Walt Disney is dead, and "Steamboat Willy" should be open domain). I'm sorry that you, and I, and most of us will work 9-5 till we die, that doesn't mean a (arguably) creative genious like JK Rowling should have to start worrying about Sorceror's Stone knockoffs anytime soon.
Now, which benefits society more in the long term - a useful invention (on which further inventions may be built) or a recording of Prince or Madonna squawking?
If it's not exploited, a patent is often allowed to lapse after only 8 or 12 years (non-payment of maintenance fees). It expires after at most 20 years, no matter what.
I see no reason why copyrights should automatically be worldwide (patents are national), or last much longer than a patent. Even the lifetime of the author is the wrong term for copyright (author might be creative at 90 years old, or die in an accident, etc.), and would be inapplicable to corporations. A fixed maximum term of 20 years would be reasonable.
If a longer copyright term (such as 50 years) were adopted, then there should be an early expiry mechanism for copyright. For example, if a work has been in copyright for more than 12 years, then if 4 years pass without the work or a direct derivative being distributed, then it would lapse into the public domain. Note that works under GPL would not be weakened by this requirement, since they are being frequently distributed.
What would you be if you are atheist and not an evolutionist?
Given the body of scientific data to backup evolution theory, I believe the correct term would be "idiot".
And in the spirit of Lenin, the ID-loons would term you a "useful idiot".
Blu-Ray to be superseded in five year; Samsung is backing OLED!
I fucking dare you to make those two thoughts form a coherent sentence.
The abovementioned alternatives need not necessarily be neither non-exclusive nor non-inclusive.
[...] In their eastern neighbour Finland I pay about ... 0-10€ per month 1Mbps (HomePNA) line. (I'm yet to receive a bill for that connection after 9 months, no idea if they have just forgot me or if it's included in the rent.)
[...] Where I live a 10/10 Mbps (fiber) connection with no restraints costs about 1000€/month plus 1500€ installation.
Ouch! Where do you live?
I live about 20km from Kuopio. I have 20/2Mbps fiber with IP TV for euro55 per month, and 100/10Mbps is available for euro75 per month. No throttling or caps have been observed - there's a shared 10Gbps switch. Installation was a couple of hundred euro or thereabouts (I don't recall the price exactly).
Interestingly, this fiber net+TV service was introduced by KPY, but since they were acquired by DNA, information on it has been progressively removed from the web, and I suspect plans for extending it have been scaled back.
http://www.digitoday.fi/pdf/newsPdf.php?news_id=20078701
I already have a cap [...]. It's a relatively large one compared to others, domestically at 150GB.
Is that 150GB per day or per week? My bandwidth cap is 20Mbit per second (unthrottled), which would be about 170GB per day.
There's also a 100Mbit/s level available, which would be about 36GB per hour, but I don't think it's worth the extra eur20 per month. There are too many bottlenecks in the net. Accessing sites inside Finland, the 20Mbit/s can be easily kept at full utilization; accessing sites outside Finland, the data rate is not always as high.
In practice, I don't recall ever using more than about 30GB in a single day (several DVD images), and I suspect our usage most months is only 100-200GB. However, this does not include our IP TV service which arrives over the same fiber. With the IP TV streams, our total data usage must be well over a TB per month.
In the present age even the credit card is not needed any more, virtually anywhere in the world I can use my bank's debit card to get cash as they are associated with Maestro.
There are a few things that credit cards are still needed for, such as renting a car while abroad. A few years ago I overheard an irate would-be Budget customer being rejected because he had a Visa debit card instead of a Visa credit card. Car rental companies in the US don't accept debit cards for a rental. It's considered the same as trying to rent for cash - you must leave them a very large security deposit (what they think the car is worth) which will be returned when the car is returned.
This is just a female Dan Quayle that instead of golfing hunts, fishes and wrestles bears. Unfortunately she does none of these things naked.
Just wait until she's elected...
If I understood correctly, the variance in decay rate between Earth's aphelion and perihelion is .1%. Earth's distance from the sun doesn't change by that much in astronomical terms...
But Earth's distance from the sun does change by more than 0.1% during its orbit:
Aphelion distance = 152.1 million km
Perihelion distance = 147.3 million km
So aphelion distance from the center of the sun is 3.2% greater than perihelion distance. Alternatively, both aphelion and perihelion differ from their mean by 1.6%.
...
There is, however, the minor issue that I don't think anyone's ever been successfully prosecuted for not having inadequate security systems in place
Well, I should hope not! They all seem to manage that part.
It's not like there won't be parks, squares, expedition, lanes, views.. dense cities are essentially one mega building already.
And how many of those people will have cats or dogs? The poop-scooping police will need to be rather vigilent in the parks...
Does anyone have comparable statistics for Europe and the relevant parts of Asia?
I live in Finland, in the countryside (20km from a town, the nearest city of more than 100,000 people is about 300km away). We get a fiber "triple-play" with 20Mbps down, 2Mbps up, IP TV, and IP Telephone for euro55 per month. For an extra euro20, the data access can be upgraded to 100Mbps down, 10Mbps up.
Not even a first. Anybody remember Windows ME? Redmond is forgetting their history apparently....
Erasure is one option. Overwriting is even better. Some of us recall Microsoft Access - the communication package from the 1980s which utterly flopped (could not compete with Procomm etc.). The name was re-used in the 1990s for their database product, making it difficult even to refer clearly to the failed product. Their replacement communication program was given an entirely different name - HyperTerminal.
> Where did you get the base-12 idea from? Count silently and you will easily find the answer.
ten eleven twelve : thirteen zehn elf zwölf : dreizehn ti elleve tolv : tretten
and besides English, German and Danish you can find the habit of using individual numerals for the first 12 numbers in many (?all) west and north Germanic languages. It gives the strong impression of an original base-12 number system driven out of use by base-10 mathematics but still preserved in the numerals ( and things like a dozend, a gross etc)
Definitely not all European languages. In French the transition is at sixteen to seventeen: onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize, dix-sept, dix-huit... Also, in Irish, the transition is at ten to eleven, just like in Finnish: deich (10), aondeag (11), dodeag (12), trideag (13), etc. Interestingly, Irish uses somewhat different numerals for counting persons as opposed to other entities - at least for small numbers of persons.