Not to be an apologist for apple, but I think it is more interesting to notice that every advertisement makes subliminal claims to make their product seem more appealing. Good-looking, happy people. CG touch-ups to make-up ads, CG changes to cars (even ones that are photographed stationary) to show their wheels blurred to give the impression that it's moving quickly - all ways to manipulate you into wanting to buy things.
All (good) advertisements nowadays are trying to associate their product with something positive that isn't necessarily associated with their product by default. For better or worse, that's pretty much what we're stuck with.
1. No kidding. Don't drive while impaired period. So you have a dumb friend.
2. Second hand pot smoke doesn't get you high unless you're trying. The majority of the THC (the active ingredient) is absorbed by the lungs in the first 3 seconds, not to mention the fact that it is available and possible to consume in many other forms (baked goods, pills, topical lotions etc). And the "kids will try it more because it's legal" argument is a logical fallacy, plain and simple. Salvia is legal in many states (and Canada as well) and is there a salvia epidemic?
I can stand the view of a nanny state as a good thing. Let people make their own informed decisions, and feel their own consequences.
Presumably? Maybe. But wouldn't the ideal situation be RAM usage scaling to available system resources? Since the guy was doing benchmarking, he presumably wasn't running 8 other programs - AND he had 3GB available - so why not use more if it's there? Maybe this is a poorly implemented OS level thing, I'm no expert. It just seems an odd thing to boast about.
This is war time people! This judge is clearly a terrorist collaborator, and is in league with people like the guy who thought it would be funny to sell his vote. Anyone that is against the government having the power to do what needs to be done, including warrentless wire-tapping, is a potential terrorist and should be treated as such.
We have lists of people who write letters to congress and their positions. We know who has been naughty and nice. Do you know if your son is a terrorist collaborator Mrs. McIntyre? How about your sister Bob? There is a RED^H^H^H terrorist collaborator under every bed.
Only a terrorist needs privacy. You're not a terrorist, are you?
disclaimer: for those who did not pick up on it, the above comment was not serious, nor sarcastic.
satire: n. the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices -Oxford English Dictionary
It sounds to me like given the context of the application you describe, that failure mode is a graceful fail. Since breaking does not endanger anyone, the damage caused is reduced by preventing the press from functioning poorly.
I was not saying that these materials are useless (if they were why would there be research in the field?), but simply that for something like landing gear or other things humans rely on to keep them safe, a certain degree of ductility is often preferable.
Can someone please tell me why leveling off at 120MB of RAM usage on a 3+ GB RAM machine that (presumably) isn't running anything else is a good thing?? That means lots of cached data is being lost for no real reason. If I had 3 gigs in my machine, I'd expect it to have my last 50 or so visited pages cached for when I inevitably go back to them, it's instantaneous. What's the point of having all that RAM if it just sits idle? You paid for it, so get the most out of it!
If he was running on a 512MB machine, that would make far more sense to keep memory usage at 120, but resources are there to be used man! You can't "save up" RAM.
While you may be comfortable with using such materials for landing gear, the problems definitely lie in the failure modes as you pointed out. We have lots of materials that are stronger than titanium, but their stress/strain graphs tend to look like a vertical cliff at the break end. That's why we reinforce concrete with steel re-bar - not only does it make the resulting structure stronger, but when the concrete fails the whole structure doesn't come crashing to the ground.
In most engineering disciplines (if not all), things are not designed simply to not break - that would be unrealistic. Instead, they are designed to fail gracefully; things are designed so that it is easy to tell through maintenance checks when parts need to be replaced and so that when something does break, the damage and danger is minimized.
Water, in fact, can not sublimate by the very definition of the word. H2O can sublimate, ice can sublimate, but water (a liquid) cannot skip the liquid phase and turn into a gas because it already is a liquid. I like how the article says "Water Ice", as opposed to "Steam Ice"? It's just plain old ICE.
As for your question, many materials can sublimate under the right conditions, but it seems that in combination with what we know about the atmospheric conditions on Mars, it is most likely water.
Be careful about shocking headlines. If it seems ridiculous, it probably is. The maximum combined sentence for his crimes may be 38 years, but I'd be more than willing to bet that he gets no jail time at all. It sounds like his family is well off, and will be able to afford a lawyer who will be able to successfully play the "he's just a poor kid who crumbled under the overwhelming pressures in society to get into a good school".
I completely agree. My parents had a 29" Sony TV that saw 8+ hours of use daily for almost 20 years before it finally kicked the bucket a year ago, and had great standard def quality. I wish I could say the same about some other electronics I've used...
Why are you scared of the public domain? That knowledge will do a hell of a lot more good in the public domain than it will while it is under patent or copyright.
As for your sig, child porn is far from mere thought-crime: consider the fact that by consuming it you are supporting the creation of it, and thus supporting the exploitation of children.
I'm gonna have to agree with you about the screens issue. My friend recently had an empty plastic pop bottle thrown at him, and it hit his Powerbook G4 in the aluminum behind the screen... somehow, to everyone's shock, it left a good sized dent in the shell and caused a massive spider-web crack through his screen.
That said, there was one time where I fell asleep with my iBook G4 on my lap 5 feet above the ground, and when I woke up with a start it fell to the ground (still running and plugged in) landing on the part where the power cord plugs in. To my amazement it was unscathed if you ignore the bent power cord/connector, and worked like nothing had happened after rebooting.
And anyone who believes (or disingenuously argues) that the 'property' in Intellectual Property is the information is dumber still
Then what, pray tell, is the property? A slip of paper that says "The copyright of this material belongs to ___"? Intellectual Property is an incredibly insidious misnomer created by copyright lock-down enthusiasts and their lobbyists. Cultural enrichment doesn't happen and isn't as genuine when the motivation is purely to profit from the indentured servitude that is current copyright law. To be perfectly honest, as a content creator myself I would be all for a system that involves no copyright "protections" whatsoever and absolutely encourages the dissemination of culture. Call me a "slack-jawed ijgit" all you want, but copyright has probably contributed more to diminishing the quality of our cultural assets than any other single factor.
Protections in place protect a creator's ability to choose to reap the rewards of his invention in whatever manner he sees fit, not the manner a greedy bystander with entitlement issues and an Internet-connected computer chooses.
Right, because I'm clearly going to download an invention (which actually falls under the category of patents, which is an entirely different ball-game flawed though it also is). You can say I have entitlement issues all you want, but the problem lies with those who have bigger issues with materialism - so much so that they have assigned a material idea to something that in fact is immaterial. The spirit of copyright is to encourage culture to flourish, and the biggest boost culture can get is to make it accessible to all.
People need to grow up and face the simple reality that IP is the only thing that secures an information-based economy. It's a mechanism that needs to be tweaked and maintained, but it's absolutely essential to the first world staying the first world.
IP does not secure an information-based economy. In fact, "information-based economy" is more of a flashy PHB buzzword than anything. The fact that companies get royalties from patents is most often secondary to their primary goals of selling goods to consumers. And need I even mention the negative impact patent/copyright-troll shills have? The fact that someone else thought of something and wrote it down first does not make it "theirs". If I go and read what they've written down or independently come up with the same idea, and then am prevented from using the knowledge that I've gained to my advantage under threat of everyone else getting angry at me, I call that a pretty stupid system. There are a multitude of ways that an information based economy can function better without notion of IP. You have subscription models, commission/pay-to-produce models, the hobbyist/donation model, and on and on.
And it is absolutely not essential to the "first world staying the first world" unless you are saying that to stay part of the first world, the countries in the second and third worlds have to remain in poor conditions. The First World isn't suddenly going to plunge into the dark ages because the artificial and replaceable idea of Intellectual Property disappears, but it will definitely give a leg up to developing countries on catching up with us (especially if we're talking about drug patents). And don't give me crap about how medications wouldn't be created if they couldn't be patented. That's utter BS. A medication is as useful as the cross-section of society that can afford it.
If you create something and go through the effort of making something that has commercial value, it's yours to control, exclusively, for the duration of the patent or your life as a copyright. Nothing that is copyrighted is needed by anyone else to advance human society.
Again, you're deliberately blurring the line between copyrights and patents. When a process or a device is patented, it's very easy to fall into the l
Actually, it does allow for dimensionless constants, and in fact often is entirely based on the idea of having only dimensionless constants (see wikipedia's entry on the Buckingham Pi theorem). Dimensional analysis is extremely useful, especially when first coming up with new relationships!
No, the table doesn't have repeated entries. The table's entries aren't equally likely - as is often the case in probability that goes beyond the very basics. An intro college course in probability would assuage your doubts.
Your truth table is actually the fallacy, because all of your 24 possibilities are NOT equally likely.
Your table suggests your odds of picking the car in the first place are 1/2, when in fact your odds of picking the car are 1/3. Each one of the cases you take where the player chooses the car is half as likely as the cases where he picks the goat first. This is a common error in misapplying the "equally likely" theorem.
It doesn't matter if you have the best algorithm in the world that can calculate how many times you're going to go pee a year and a day from now, you can't forget the first rule of equations:
Garbage in = Garbage out
Period. Therefore, to a point, better data will yield more better results than a better algorithm and this is a very obvious result.
I really want to shoot the guy that decided to make the ps/2 ports ROUND. Wonder how that management meeting went?
PHB: "So guys, we've built this thing for connecting mice and keyboards, now we just need to decide what shape to make the connectors... brainstorm?"
Mike from engineering: "Maybe we should make them trapezoidal so that they can easily be plugged without looking"
Bob from marketing: "You know what would make a great value-add? If it were shaped like a circle, because circles are the future. "
PHB: "Go on Bob, I like where this is going..."
Bob: "And if we make sure that it plugs in at the back of the computer so that you have to pull it out every time you want to plug/unplug it that would force people to see the cool-factor that we've incorporated into it!"
PHB: "I think we have a winner with that one Bob. Mike, you need to stop living in the past. Usability is for chumps."
It's not the people you work with that are the problem 99% of the time. It's the people who come in off the street posing as someone who is supposed to be there (e.g. clients, supervisors, repair workers etc). They come in undetected and are long gone with valuables before anyone is the wiser.
Funny thing: it installed MS Messenger (already had IE installed for web-testing purposes so don't know about that one). These kinds of things are just par for the course.
For goodness' sakes people, Apple does this even with their Mac's software updater. Ever uninstalled quicktime/itunes/safari from a Mac and then run the "software update"? Up pops pre-checked updates for the item that's missing from your system. It makes sense that they wouldn't do it any differently when making software for windows.
Maybe your problem is your profs then. The vast majority of mine hold wikipedia in quite high regards. Obviously they won't accept it as an academic source, but they usually say it's usually a damn good source of well-structured information for the user that knows how to use it.
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Not to be an apologist for apple, but I think it is more interesting to notice that every advertisement makes subliminal claims to make their product seem more appealing. Good-looking, happy people. CG touch-ups to make-up ads, CG changes to cars (even ones that are photographed stationary) to show their wheels blurred to give the impression that it's moving quickly - all ways to manipulate you into wanting to buy things.
All (good) advertisements nowadays are trying to associate their product with something positive that isn't necessarily associated with their product by default. For better or worse, that's pretty much what we're stuck with.
AH. Correction: I can't stand the view of a nanny state as a good thing.
Noticed that right after I posted.
1. No kidding. Don't drive while impaired period. So you have a dumb friend.
2. Second hand pot smoke doesn't get you high unless you're trying. The majority of the THC (the active ingredient) is absorbed by the lungs in the first 3 seconds, not to mention the fact that it is available and possible to consume in many other forms (baked goods, pills, topical lotions etc). And the "kids will try it more because it's legal" argument is a logical fallacy, plain and simple. Salvia is legal in many states (and Canada as well) and is there a salvia epidemic?
I can stand the view of a nanny state as a good thing. Let people make their own informed decisions, and feel their own consequences.
"Error establishing a database connection" Does that mean my DNS is poisoned, or their server is slashdotted? =P
Presumably? Maybe. But wouldn't the ideal situation be RAM usage scaling to available system resources? Since the guy was doing benchmarking, he presumably wasn't running 8 other programs - AND he had 3GB available - so why not use more if it's there? Maybe this is a poorly implemented OS level thing, I'm no expert. It just seems an odd thing to boast about.
This is war time people! This judge is clearly a terrorist collaborator, and is in league with people like the guy who thought it would be funny to sell his vote. Anyone that is against the government having the power to do what needs to be done, including warrentless wire-tapping, is a potential terrorist and should be treated as such.
We have lists of people who write letters to congress and their positions. We know who has been naughty and nice. Do you know if your son is a terrorist collaborator Mrs. McIntyre? How about your sister Bob? There is a RED^H^H^H terrorist collaborator under every bed.
Only a terrorist needs privacy. You're not a terrorist, are you?
disclaimer: for those who did not pick up on it, the above comment was not serious, nor sarcastic.
satire: n. the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
-Oxford English Dictionary
It sounds to me like given the context of the application you describe, that failure mode is a graceful fail. Since breaking does not endanger anyone, the damage caused is reduced by preventing the press from functioning poorly.
I was not saying that these materials are useless (if they were why would there be research in the field?), but simply that for something like landing gear or other things humans rely on to keep them safe, a certain degree of ductility is often preferable.
Can someone please tell me why leveling off at 120MB of RAM usage on a 3+ GB RAM machine that (presumably) isn't running anything else is a good thing?? That means lots of cached data is being lost for no real reason. If I had 3 gigs in my machine, I'd expect it to have my last 50 or so visited pages cached for when I inevitably go back to them, it's instantaneous. What's the point of having all that RAM if it just sits idle? You paid for it, so get the most out of it!
If he was running on a 512MB machine, that would make far more sense to keep memory usage at 120, but resources are there to be used man! You can't "save up" RAM.
Go MMAT! (or has the abbreviation changed again?)
While you may be comfortable with using such materials for landing gear, the problems definitely lie in the failure modes as you pointed out. We have lots of materials that are stronger than titanium, but their stress/strain graphs tend to look like a vertical cliff at the break end. That's why we reinforce concrete with steel re-bar - not only does it make the resulting structure stronger, but when the concrete fails the whole structure doesn't come crashing to the ground.
In most engineering disciplines (if not all), things are not designed simply to not break - that would be unrealistic. Instead, they are designed to fail gracefully; things are designed so that it is easy to tell through maintenance checks when parts need to be replaced and so that when something does break, the damage and danger is minimized.
Water, in fact, can not sublimate by the very definition of the word. H2O can sublimate, ice can sublimate, but water (a liquid) cannot skip the liquid phase and turn into a gas because it already is a liquid. I like how the article says "Water Ice", as opposed to "Steam Ice"? It's just plain old ICE.
As for your question, many materials can sublimate under the right conditions, but it seems that in combination with what we know about the atmospheric conditions on Mars, it is most likely water.
Be careful about shocking headlines. If it seems ridiculous, it probably is. The maximum combined sentence for his crimes may be 38 years, but I'd be more than willing to bet that he gets no jail time at all. It sounds like his family is well off, and will be able to afford a lawyer who will be able to successfully play the "he's just a poor kid who crumbled under the overwhelming pressures in society to get into a good school".
I completely agree. My parents had a 29" Sony TV that saw 8+ hours of use daily for almost 20 years before it finally kicked the bucket a year ago, and had great standard def quality. I wish I could say the same about some other electronics I've used...
Why are you scared of the public domain? That knowledge will do a hell of a lot more good in the public domain than it will while it is under patent or copyright.
As for your sig, child porn is far from mere thought-crime: consider the fact that by consuming it you are supporting the creation of it, and thus supporting the exploitation of children.
I'm gonna have to agree with you about the screens issue. My friend recently had an empty plastic pop bottle thrown at him, and it hit his Powerbook G4 in the aluminum behind the screen... somehow, to everyone's shock, it left a good sized dent in the shell and caused a massive spider-web crack through his screen.
That said, there was one time where I fell asleep with my iBook G4 on my lap 5 feet above the ground, and when I woke up with a start it fell to the ground (still running and plugged in) landing on the part where the power cord plugs in. To my amazement it was unscathed if you ignore the bent power cord/connector, and worked like nothing had happened after rebooting.
So maybe it's just a crap-shoot after all.
Then what, pray tell, is the property? A slip of paper that says "The copyright of this material belongs to ___"? Intellectual Property is an incredibly insidious misnomer created by copyright lock-down enthusiasts and their lobbyists. Cultural enrichment doesn't happen and isn't as genuine when the motivation is purely to profit from the indentured servitude that is current copyright law. To be perfectly honest, as a content creator myself I would be all for a system that involves no copyright "protections" whatsoever and absolutely encourages the dissemination of culture. Call me a "slack-jawed ijgit" all you want, but copyright has probably contributed more to diminishing the quality of our cultural assets than any other single factor.
Right, because I'm clearly going to download an invention (which actually falls under the category of patents, which is an entirely different ball-game flawed though it also is). You can say I have entitlement issues all you want, but the problem lies with those who have bigger issues with materialism - so much so that they have assigned a material idea to something that in fact is immaterial. The spirit of copyright is to encourage culture to flourish, and the biggest boost culture can get is to make it accessible to all.
IP does not secure an information-based economy. In fact, "information-based economy" is more of a flashy PHB buzzword than anything. The fact that companies get royalties from patents is most often secondary to their primary goals of selling goods to consumers. And need I even mention the negative impact patent/copyright-troll shills have? The fact that someone else thought of something and wrote it down first does not make it "theirs". If I go and read what they've written down or independently come up with the same idea, and then am prevented from using the knowledge that I've gained to my advantage under threat of everyone else getting angry at me, I call that a pretty stupid system. There are a multitude of ways that an information based economy can function better without notion of IP. You have subscription models, commission/pay-to-produce models, the hobbyist/donation model, and on and on.
And it is absolutely not essential to the "first world staying the first world" unless you are saying that to stay part of the first world, the countries in the second and third worlds have to remain in poor conditions. The First World isn't suddenly going to plunge into the dark ages because the artificial and replaceable idea of Intellectual Property disappears, but it will definitely give a leg up to developing countries on catching up with us (especially if we're talking about drug patents). And don't give me crap about how medications wouldn't be created if they couldn't be patented. That's utter BS. A medication is as useful as the cross-section of society that can afford it.
Again, you're deliberately blurring the line between copyrights and patents. When a process or a device is patented, it's very easy to fall into the l
Actually, it does allow for dimensionless constants, and in fact often is entirely based on the idea of having only dimensionless constants (see wikipedia's entry on the Buckingham Pi theorem). Dimensional analysis is extremely useful, especially when first coming up with new relationships!
No, the table doesn't have repeated entries. The table's entries aren't equally likely - as is often the case in probability that goes beyond the very basics. An intro college course in probability would assuage your doubts.
Your truth table is actually the fallacy, because all of your 24 possibilities are NOT equally likely.
Your table suggests your odds of picking the car in the first place are 1/2, when in fact your odds of picking the car are 1/3. Each one of the cases you take where the player chooses the car is half as likely as the cases where he picks the goat first. This is a common error in misapplying the "equally likely" theorem.
It doesn't matter if you have the best algorithm in the world that can calculate how many times you're going to go pee a year and a day from now, you can't forget the first rule of equations:
Garbage in = Garbage out
Period. Therefore, to a point, better data will yield more better results than a better algorithm and this is a very obvious result.
I really want to shoot the guy that decided to make the ps/2 ports ROUND. Wonder how that management meeting went?
PHB: "So guys, we've built this thing for connecting mice and keyboards, now we just need to decide what shape to make the connectors... brainstorm?"
Mike from engineering: "Maybe we should make them trapezoidal so that they can easily be plugged without looking"
Bob from marketing: "You know what would make a great value-add? If it were shaped like a circle, because circles are the future. "
PHB: "Go on Bob, I like where this is going..."
Bob: "And if we make sure that it plugs in at the back of the computer so that you have to pull it out every time you want to plug/unplug it that would force people to see the cool-factor that we've incorporated into it!"
PHB: "I think we have a winner with that one Bob. Mike, you need to stop living in the past. Usability is for chumps."
It's not the people you work with that are the problem 99% of the time. It's the people who come in off the street posing as someone who is supposed to be there (e.g. clients, supervisors, repair workers etc). They come in undetected and are long gone with valuables before anyone is the wiser.
Funny thing: it installed MS Messenger (already had IE installed for web-testing purposes so don't know about that one). These kinds of things are just par for the course.
For goodness' sakes people, Apple does this even with their Mac's software updater. Ever uninstalled quicktime/itunes/safari from a Mac and then run the "software update"? Up pops pre-checked updates for the item that's missing from your system. It makes sense that they wouldn't do it any differently when making software for windows.
Maybe your problem is your profs then. The vast majority of mine hold wikipedia in quite high regards. Obviously they won't accept it as an academic source, but they usually say it's usually a damn good source of well-structured information for the user that knows how to use it.