Exactly, which is why RPN was such a Jedi masterpiece of hand-waving.
Problem: You're writing an expression evaluator on an early calculator engine with a really small stack, and/or you're too lazy to code an expression evaluator that understands order-of-operation conventions.
Solution: make the user do the recursive-descent grunt work.
Field goal: pitch this bit of engineering laziness as a feature, and watch people start a cult around it.
My hat's off to HP for this one. That marketing guy/gal must've gone far in life. Probably ended up as vice president of the printer-ink division, or something.
(I wonder why the CPU is acting strangely, Oh well, I just have to look at the source code)
And by "source code" you mean "data sheet" or "manual," right?
It's funny... just as nobody is better at finding compiler 'bugs' than a beginning C programmer, it sounds like nobody is better at finding CPU bugs than Slashdotters.
Now about giving nuclear time to mature, I'm afraid nuclear won't give the world time to mature! The fact that nuclear might be better than coal (in that coal might not be viable at all) brings little consolation if nuclear ends up transforming Earth into a big desert...
You're pretty much the next best thing to a dumbass, aren't you?
But 2-3 years from now, when there are 50 different Android Tablets on the Market, it is hard to see how the iPad will compete.
Here's how: once somebody puts a so-called 'retina' display in a good-quality tablet with a fast GPU, it's all over for everybody else. I don't think people understand just what a big deal that is going to be. It's going to be Armageddon, Ragnarok, and the Fourth of fucking July all rolled up into one.
The only hope anyone else had of beating Apple to the punch would have been to buy up the LCD industry's entire capacity, and to do it before the processes are market-ready or the yields are known. Given the way they've been running their business, do you think Apple hasn't already done that?
Assuming that Apple will be the first to ship an ultra-high res tablet in mass-market volume, there really won't be any competition in the first round of the fight. Not for a couple of years, anyway, when more 'retina'-grade LCD capacity comes on line.
Even if someone does build a clearly superior tablet, they won't be able to manufacture it in volume until Apple's had a solid year's head start.
That's why Apple is getting destroyed by Android in cell-phone sales.
First, Apple is not getting 'destroyed' by Android or anyone else. It takes two dozen Android SKUs to outsell one iPhone model, and most of them are subsidized so heavily compared to the iPhone that they might as well be given away in exchange for signing the contract.
Second, Android users don't buy apps, so nobody much cares about them.
Not advocating for one side or the other (I own a couple of both platforms), just laying out the facts.
There is no such thing as a calm interaction with the police today. Around 50 police officers are shot every year just at traffic stops, and most of those are where they did not take immediate control of the situation - basically, they ignored their training. How would you expect them to deal with a public that wants to kill them?
Idiots weren't happy with the Linux playground they were given to them, no, they wanted more, they wanted to break through the hypervisor. Well, they managed to get more privileges.
I understand a talking snake and a naked chick was involved somewhere, and something about Apple. A lot has been lost in translation, apparently.
As for the widgets, well, never is a long time and anything can happen, but it seems highly unlikely.
Consider all of the major features in the iPhone/iPad that were actively denied or disparaged by Apple, only to pop up out of nowhere at the next press conference.
- 3G - SDK for native applications - Enterprise integration - GPS - Multitasking - Cut and paste - Probably several I'm forgetting (and never mind all of their about-faces on individual apps like Google Voice)
Not hard to imagine widgets being next on the list, is it? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to see Jobs or his successor waving a Flash-enabled iPhone on stage this summer, extolling it as an unprecedented advance in magical different-thinkery.
That's how they've always operated -- everything sucks and is useless/unwanted/irrelevant/uncool, up until it's actually ready to ship, at which point it's suddenly indispensible.
Give me a break. They released a tablet that works only when tethered to one of their embarrassingly obsolete smartphones. Who would expect a scheme like that to succeed against Apple?
Blackberry brought a flashlight to a gunfight. What sort of drugs they're smoking in the executive suite is anybody's guess.
(Shrug) With regard to security theater, most of what has happened since 9/11 could have been imagined by anyone watching the news that day. Bush may not have planned that little Reichstag fire but no administration in history would've let it go to waste.
The slippery slope fallacy is only fallacious in a logical context. People aren't all that logical, in case you haven't been paying attention.
Well, any amount of voltage will "pass" through any amount of skin. The question is, how much current will flow.
Grab a couple of ohmmeter probes and squeeze as hard as you can, and you can probably get the reading down to about 20K ohms from one hand to the other. With saltwater-moistened electrodes a few inches apart, I could imagine 5K-10K would be achievable. At 9K ohms, 9 volts will cause a 1 mA current to flow, which is the same amount being discussed here.
So no, you don't need (or want) 100 volts. The real problem is polarity: what if I reverse the battery and instantly become too stupid to pull the plug...?
Not only that, but anyone with the leisure to sit around posting leftist drivel on their very own 3000 MHz computer is very "rich," from the perspective of several billion people.
Someone who incites a class struggle in the US would have to be delusional to think that they'd actually come out ahead if such a thing came to pass. The GP may picture himself among the oppressed masses at the bottom of the pyramid of capitalism, but he's standing on the shoulders of a lot of little people, himself.
I know the sheriff was trying to give an example of a dilemma that's likely to come up in police work, but the example he chose seems like a no-brainer, with a very clear right and wrong answer. You call in a description of your neighbor's car so other officers can look for it, then help the clerk. He'll probably be able to ID the robber or at least provide some solid clues in the event the suspect escapes the dragnet, but he can't do that if he's dead.
If you let the clerk die and fail to catch the suspect, you're no better off than you were before, and you have one more stiff in the morgue. Even if you do catch the robber, the dead clerk will still haunt your whole department, in the form of bad press and lawsuits.
One option will be second-guessed endlessly regardless of the final outcome, and the other will make you look like a hero, or at least someone who tried to help.
What's important is that you quickly choose a response and follow it through to the end.
Reminds me of a recent case in Seattle, where a roid-raging berserker with a badge emptied his Glock into a bum who was whittling with a pocket knife, after giving him four seconds to "comply." Somebody forgot to tell him that Robocop was not a training film.
Juries today are well on their way to becoming very little more than rubber stamps for the judge's decision.
Is that a bad thing in cases like this, though? How is justice served by turning over complex patent cases to 12 epsilon-minuses who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty?
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Exactly, which is why RPN was such a Jedi masterpiece of hand-waving.
Problem: You're writing an expression evaluator on an early calculator engine with a really small stack, and/or you're too lazy to code an expression evaluator that understands order-of-operation conventions.
Solution: make the user do the recursive-descent grunt work.
Field goal: pitch this bit of engineering laziness as a feature, and watch people start a cult around it.
My hat's off to HP for this one. That marketing guy/gal must've gone far in life. Probably ended up as vice president of the printer-ink division, or something.
I'm an atheist but I still like that ethos.
It works just as well when phrased as "There might or might not be some entity somewhere that someone might refer to as a 'god', but I'm not It."
Well, maybe not just as well, but still...
(I wonder why the CPU is acting strangely, Oh well, I just have to look at the source code)
And by "source code" you mean "data sheet" or "manual," right?
It's funny... just as nobody is better at finding compiler 'bugs' than a beginning C programmer, it sounds like nobody is better at finding CPU bugs than Slashdotters.
Now about giving nuclear time to mature, I'm afraid nuclear won't give the world time to mature! The fact that nuclear might be better than coal (in that coal might not be viable at all) brings little consolation if nuclear ends up transforming Earth into a big desert...
You're pretty much the next best thing to a dumbass, aren't you?
We're not getting rid of flash over night.
Yeah, we pretty much are.
Flash will be a complete nonissue by this time next year -- absolutely no new content is being authored for it, not by anyone with half a brain.
But 2-3 years from now, when there are 50 different Android Tablets on the Market, it is hard to see how the iPad will compete.
Here's how: once somebody puts a so-called 'retina' display in a good-quality tablet with a fast GPU, it's all over for everybody else. I don't think people understand just what a big deal that is going to be. It's going to be Armageddon, Ragnarok, and the Fourth of fucking July all rolled up into one.
The only hope anyone else had of beating Apple to the punch would have been to buy up the LCD industry's entire capacity, and to do it before the processes are market-ready or the yields are known. Given the way they've been running their business, do you think Apple hasn't already done that?
Assuming that Apple will be the first to ship an ultra-high res tablet in mass-market volume, there really won't be any competition in the first round of the fight. Not for a couple of years, anyway, when more 'retina'-grade LCD capacity comes on line.
Even if someone does build a clearly superior tablet, they won't be able to manufacture it in volume until Apple's had a solid year's head start.
That's why Apple is getting destroyed by Android in cell-phone sales.
First, Apple is not getting 'destroyed' by Android or anyone else. It takes two dozen Android SKUs to outsell one iPhone model, and most of them are subsidized so heavily compared to the iPhone that they might as well be given away in exchange for signing the contract.
Second, Android users don't buy apps, so nobody much cares about them.
Not advocating for one side or the other (I own a couple of both platforms), just laying out the facts.
... the confusion of ideas that would lead someone to treat their live web server as their primary/master data repository.
I guess I'm still stuck in Commodore 64 World, or something..
Ah, that old schtick. The truth is that in the US, police work doesn't even make the top 10 most dangerous professions.
It may not be an easy job, but it is also not a particularly hazardous one.
It was a tossup between that and "moronicity". Against such stupidity, even the lexicographers labor in vain.
Most profits because they do not do R&D
If there's a better mark of moronhood on the Internet than accusing Apple of "not doing R&D", I can't imagine what it is.
Idiots weren't happy with the Linux playground they were given to them, no, they wanted more, they wanted to break through the hypervisor. Well, they managed to get more privileges.
I understand a talking snake and a naked chick was involved somewhere, and something about Apple. A lot has been lost in translation, apparently.
As for the widgets, well, never is a long time and anything can happen, but it seems highly unlikely.
Consider all of the major features in the iPhone/iPad that were actively denied or disparaged by Apple, only to pop up out of nowhere at the next press conference.
- 3G
- SDK for native applications
- Enterprise integration
- GPS
- Multitasking
- Cut and paste
- Probably several I'm forgetting (and never mind all of their about-faces on individual apps like Google Voice)
Not hard to imagine widgets being next on the list, is it? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to see Jobs or his successor waving a Flash-enabled iPhone on stage this summer, extolling it as an unprecedented advance in magical different-thinkery.
That's how they've always operated -- everything sucks and is useless/unwanted/irrelevant/uncool, up until it's actually ready to ship, at which point it's suddenly indispensible.
Give me a break. They released a tablet that works only when tethered to one of their embarrassingly obsolete smartphones. Who would expect a scheme like that to succeed against Apple?
Blackberry brought a flashlight to a gunfight. What sort of drugs they're smoking in the executive suite is anybody's guess.
Face it, you just remember their failures for whatever reason (and DAT is not one).
No, when it comes to Sony, mostly I remember their attempts to fuck their own customers long, hard, and deeply at every opportunity.
If the answer involves giving money to Sony, you asked the wrong question.
(Shrug) With regard to security theater, most of what has happened since 9/11 could have been imagined by anyone watching the news that day. Bush may not have planned that little Reichstag fire but no administration in history would've let it go to waste.
The slippery slope fallacy is only fallacious in a logical context. People aren't all that logical, in case you haven't been paying attention.
9V is not enough to pass through skin,
Well, any amount of voltage will "pass" through any amount of skin. The question is, how much current will flow.
Grab a couple of ohmmeter probes and squeeze as hard as you can, and you can probably get the reading down to about 20K ohms from one hand to the other. With saltwater-moistened electrodes a few inches apart, I could imagine 5K-10K would be achievable. At 9K ohms, 9 volts will cause a 1 mA current to flow, which is the same amount being discussed here.
So no, you don't need (or want) 100 volts. The real problem is polarity: what if I reverse the battery and instantly become too stupid to pull the plug...?
Awesome.
Meh, whatever. You can run a pretty good business selling $500 items with $250 markup to 15,000,000 people through your own retail storefronts.
You might want to check your own math, there, Rotsky. I hear there's an app for that.
Not only that, but anyone with the leisure to sit around posting leftist drivel on their very own 3000 MHz computer is very "rich," from the perspective of several billion people.
Someone who incites a class struggle in the US would have to be delusional to think that they'd actually come out ahead if such a thing came to pass. The GP may picture himself among the oppressed masses at the bottom of the pyramid of capitalism, but he's standing on the shoulders of a lot of little people, himself.
Regular folks cannot even afford an iPad.
Who gives a shit? 15,000,000 people managed to scrape together enough dough to buy them in 2010 alone.
Trying to start a class war in America is almost as dumb as buying into Jackson's rhetoric.
In a patent case, yep.
Snowing hayseed jurors, specifically in Eastern Texas, is a time-honored practice of patent plaintiffs.
I know the sheriff was trying to give an example of a dilemma that's likely to come up in police work, but the example he chose seems like a no-brainer, with a very clear right and wrong answer. You call in a description of your neighbor's car so other officers can look for it, then help the clerk. He'll probably be able to ID the robber or at least provide some solid clues in the event the suspect escapes the dragnet, but he can't do that if he's dead.
If you let the clerk die and fail to catch the suspect, you're no better off than you were before, and you have one more stiff in the morgue. Even if you do catch the robber, the dead clerk will still haunt your whole department, in the form of bad press and lawsuits.
One option will be second-guessed endlessly regardless of the final outcome, and the other will make you look like a hero, or at least someone who tried to help.
Reminds me of a recent case in Seattle, where a roid-raging berserker with a badge emptied his Glock into a bum who was whittling with a pocket knife, after giving him four seconds to "comply." Somebody forgot to tell him that Robocop was not a training film.
Is that a bad thing in cases like this, though? How is justice served by turning over complex patent cases to 12 epsilon-minuses who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty?
Hey, I'm not the one who demands the right to oversee and approve all App Store releases for "parent safety."
All profit is theft.
A strange kind of theft, that leaves the world with more net economic value than it contained before the crime.