Sorry, don't have flash. If that is talking about the eggshell protein, the logic is idiotic, and demonstrates either a reporter too eager to say something, or a scientist too desperate for funding and speaking out his ass.
Maybe he doesn't watch Mythbusters, just knows of it's fame? Epic fail.
Alternatively, if you read the entry in wikipedia, you see someone did the test in the 1600s and it succeeded, and the mythbusters test, as described, seemed lacking. They are a bit quick to 'debunk' a myth. Just because their way of doing something doesn't work, doesn't mean there isn't a feasible way. The two flaws I'd see are (1) if the mirrors aren't required to be stationary, 10 minutes s plenty of time. (2) there could easily have been more reflective surface area than listed. They may have estimated and reduced the amount of surface area for lower quality in the myth-event.
A decent/good test: try 200 1.5 foot by 2 foot copper mirrors. Make them all be generally focused in the right direction with a bit of wobble to allow for the fact that they'd be held by humans.
Even so, I'd debunk it simply by the logic listed on Wikipedia - there were much more effective methods given the time.
Seriously, they are the exception, not the rule. What makes an OS useable for them does NOT make is usable for the rest of the potential userbase. Actually, while not mutually exclusive, what makes the OS usable for that crowd, tends to drive it away from what a normal user wants. Given the number of geeks and normals that use MacOS, there is proof that the two can coexist, to an extent.
Who says I'm hoping for it or waiting for it? I honestly don't care.
Actually, given my past experiences with Linux on my desktop, I want it there like I want angry fire ants on my scrotum. It's the whole once bitten, twice shy, or at this time, 8-10 times bitten, 16-20 times shy.
That doesn't mean that I can't recognize the growth and improvement of the OS in that field.
While everything mentioned is a big detractor, that doesn't mean that Linux on the Desktop is dead. At some point, someone could come up with a way to make it work. Ubuntu was certainly more of a leap than a step in the right direction. It's moving closer every year. Of course, the desktop seems to be moving away every year too, it's a catch-up race with MS and Apple in the lead. Overall, it does seem Linux is gaining ground, just slowly.
I know you're being sarcastic but maybe they're really not supposed to. Maybe a mark of a great society is one where record executives, lawyers and politicians die cold, hungry, alone and unloved.
Not particularly fond of this particular meme, but... FTFY
Where do you get that they most likely won't? I probably won't be double, but an extra 50% increse is predictable.
Normally I'm a moderately liberal individual, and am for the government helping the people, but this is asinine. This is a luxury, not a necessity. This is promoting a specific business model that should survive or fail on it's own merits, not on some kind of corporate welfare.
Actually, it can be done without the preprocessor, and some languages manage to do some things that are harder to do/with/ the preprocessor. D has a lot of interesting things that it does, for example.
Then again, I'd just like to see counter in the preprocessor... When accessed it's treated like the 'current' integer...
#COUNTER( C_ , 1 ) #define A C_ #define B C_ #COUNTER_NEXT( C_ ) #define C C_
Addendum: My use of '...' in one of the posts this is descendant from, should, one would hope, tell you than the explanation of the ellipse within a decimal representation, is unnecessary.
Exactly. I did the math once and at 15', the difference between DVD and HD is meaningless on a 46" screen. Pretty meaningless on a 55" screen.
I have an aunt and uncle that would violently disagree with you. Never underestimate the psychological effects of something like that. Funny that they are always having financial problems, buying the biggest, brightest, flashiest, newest thing.
What I'm saying, is I don't think anyone would accept such a proof, because while recognized, floor and ceiling are rarely considered useful due to inclusion of error, and most people don't even think of ceiling (only floor).
So, sorry, 2+2=6 is a stretch compared to 2+2=5. You might as well say 2+2=1000000, ceiling-rounded to the nearest million
Oh... They aren't empty. The aliens live in them now. They think the high radiation is good for their complexion.
No, Ziaxia, I wasn't telling them anything on slashdot, GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! AHHHHHH!!!! Don't make me explode! ^h^h^h^h^h^hcarrier lost
(pipe used to separate the decimal from an elipse representing an arbitrary number of 0s)
2.5...9+2.5...9 -> 5.|...18
no matter what rounding scheme you use, except ceiling or floor, which is not used often enough to consider. 5.|...18 5.5 and thus will round to 5.0 in either standard round (0.5 goes up) and bankers rounding (0.5 to even).
Yes there is the price and the ribbon, and if anything office 2007 (not sure of 2010) seems to make it harder to do interesting things with my docs. I'd pay $100 for Word/Excel 2003 over OO.org (free), but I'm not sure I'd pay even $0.02 for 2007 or 2010 over OO.org.
Still... In my experience, it beats OO.org. MSO crashes less (I really haven't had it crash on several computers in my normal use, OO crases maybe once every few months - a lot better than it was early in the 2000s, in terms of times of use, I use MSO more). I can't seem to get OO.org to keep margins formatted properly, and I prefer the text rendering on MSO, although fairly recently, OO.org has improved that a lot.
Comparing 2003 to OO.org, since on any machine I can, I don't upgrade to 2007+, I would have to say, I think handling tables in formatted text documents, is quite a bit easier/more intuitive.
My overall view? Word 2003 > Current OO.org ~= Word 2007
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Sorry, don't have flash. If that is talking about the eggshell protein, the logic is idiotic, and demonstrates either a reporter too eager to say something, or a scientist too desperate for funding and speaking out his ass.
Maybe he doesn't watch Mythbusters, just knows of it's fame? Epic fail.
Alternatively, if you read the entry in wikipedia, you see someone did the test in the 1600s and it succeeded, and the mythbusters test, as described, seemed lacking. They are a bit quick to 'debunk' a myth. Just because their way of doing something doesn't work, doesn't mean there isn't a feasible way. The two flaws I'd see are (1) if the mirrors aren't required to be stationary, 10 minutes s plenty of time. (2) there could easily have been more reflective surface area than listed. They may have estimated and reduced the amount of surface area for lower quality in the myth-event.
A decent/good test: try 200 1.5 foot by 2 foot copper mirrors. Make them all be generally focused in the right direction with a bit of wobble to allow for the fact that they'd be held by humans.
Even so, I'd debunk it simply by the logic listed on Wikipedia - there were much more effective methods given the time.
Do you define the species of an egg by what produced it, or what came out of it?
If the former, the chicken. If the latter, the egg.
The big question is... Which will be released first?
The new version, or the exploits for the new version.
They are too dissociated from reality to understand 'fear'.
And, I think Android would be 10x more likely to make them afraid than Ubuntu.
Oh, they don't think linux is gaining ground? :-P
Seriously, they are the exception, not the rule. What makes an OS useable for them does NOT make is usable for the rest of the potential userbase. Actually, while not mutually exclusive, what makes the OS usable for that crowd, tends to drive it away from what a normal user wants. Given the number of geeks and normals that use MacOS, there is proof that the two can coexist, to an extent.
Who says I'm hoping for it or waiting for it? I honestly don't care.
Actually, given my past experiences with Linux on my desktop, I want it there like I want angry fire ants on my scrotum. It's the whole once bitten, twice shy, or at this time, 8-10 times bitten, 16-20 times shy.
That doesn't mean that I can't recognize the growth and improvement of the OS in that field.
Every here of a little database called Oracle? No. Trust me, it runs on Linux.
*looks at the Oracle database on one of his servers, puts a gun to his head, thinks a moment and puts it back down*
While everything mentioned is a big detractor, that doesn't mean that Linux on the Desktop is dead. At some point, someone could come up with a way to make it work. Ubuntu was certainly more of a leap than a step in the right direction. It's moving closer every year. Of course, the desktop seems to be moving away every year too, it's a catch-up race with MS and Apple in the lead. Overall, it does seem Linux is gaining ground, just slowly.
Nahh. I'll beat him to it.
Not particularly fond of this particular meme, but... FTFY
Where do you get that they most likely won't? I probably won't be double, but an extra 50% increse is predictable.
Normally I'm a moderately liberal individual, and am for the government helping the people, but this is asinine. This is a luxury, not a necessity. This is promoting a specific business model that should survive or fail on it's own merits, not on some kind of corporate welfare.
W.T.A.F.?
d'oh, epic fail.
Both are the same number of characters
I lose.
His uses one more character, so his files look bigger and more impressive?
Actually, it can be done without the preprocessor, and some languages manage to do some things that are harder to do /with/ the preprocessor. D has a lot of interesting things that it does, for example.
Then again, I'd just like to see counter in the preprocessor... When accessed it's treated like the 'current' integer...
A->1
B->1
C->2
But I digress...
Addendum: My use of '...' in one of the posts this is descendant from, should, one would hope, tell you than the explanation of the ellipse within a decimal representation, is unnecessary.
Did you even bother reading what lead up to this?
Refresher: someone was claiming that 2+2=6 for sufficiently large values of two.
I believe I already covered that. Thank you.
I have an aunt and uncle that would violently disagree with you. Never underestimate the psychological effects of something like that. Funny that they are always having financial problems, buying the biggest, brightest, flashiest, newest thing.
What I'm saying, is I don't think anyone would accept such a proof, because while recognized, floor and ceiling are rarely considered useful due to inclusion of error, and most people don't even think of ceiling (only floor).
So, sorry, 2+2=6 is a stretch compared to 2+2=5. You might as well say 2+2=1000000, ceiling-rounded to the nearest million
Was not aware, thanks for the info.
Oh... They aren't empty. The aliens live in them now. They think the high radiation is good for their complexion.
No, Ziaxia, I wasn't telling them anything on slashdot, GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! AHHHHHH!!!! Don't make me explode! ^h^h^h^h^h^hcarrier lost
Nope.
(pipe used to separate the decimal from an elipse representing an arbitrary number of 0s)
2.5...9+2.5...9 -> 5.|...18
no matter what rounding scheme you use, except ceiling or floor, which is not used often enough to consider. 5.|...18 5.5 and thus will round to 5.0 in either standard round (0.5 goes up) and bankers rounding (0.5 to even).
so, the largest 2+2 can equal to 1s.f. is 5.
Yes there is the price and the ribbon, and if anything office 2007 (not sure of 2010) seems to make it harder to do interesting things with my docs. I'd pay $100 for Word/Excel 2003 over OO.org (free), but I'm not sure I'd pay even $0.02 for 2007 or 2010 over OO.org.
Still... In my experience, it beats OO.org. MSO crashes less (I really haven't had it crash on several computers in my normal use, OO crases maybe once every few months - a lot better than it was early in the 2000s, in terms of times of use, I use MSO more). I can't seem to get OO.org to keep margins formatted properly, and I prefer the text rendering on MSO, although fairly recently, OO.org has improved that a lot.
Comparing 2003 to OO.org, since on any machine I can, I don't upgrade to 2007+, I would have to say, I think handling tables in formatted text documents, is quite a bit easier/more intuitive.
My overall view?
Word 2003 > Current OO.org ~= Word 2007
Actually, I didn't specify apple.
If MS announced a meeting / press release and wouldn't say what it was, it would not be FP worthy.
If any *BSD team did so, it would not be FP worthy.
If any Linux distro did so, it would not be FP worthy.
I cannot think of a single group that could do that, where it would be FP worthy.
Wait. Aliens, from outer space. Yes, if they did that, it would be FP worthy.
I must be a hater of everything that isn't a space alien!