No, I think the theory is that a universe in which we create a Higgs boson is impossible, because such a universe would not only cease to be, but cease to have ever been as soon as the boson appears.
It's also useless to say 'hey I'm analyzing this graph' if you're analyzing it wrong. I think you're missing the big picture. It's incredibly naive to think that the fundamental laws are simple enough to be grasped without massive datasets. It is possible, but all the data gathered thus far suggests that the fundamental laws of nature will not be found by someone staring at an equation on a whiteboard until it clicks. That is why Cern's data capacity is measured in terabytes, and they want to grow it as much as possible. That's why we have so much genetic data.
Scientific method and principles count, but they are not enough.
The thing is, flaming Apple is an absolute waste of time. The sort of people who buy Apple are convinced (with decent evidence) that Apple is the Greatest Thing Ever, and nothing short of personally experiencing a catastrophic failure like this will convince them otherwise.
Windows, on the other hand, is generally recognized (with decent evidence) as a total clusterfuck, so reminding that they could get Linux for free instead of putting up with that shit is actually likely to net some converts.
I don't think Bruce said anything to imply that overt sexism was a bigger deal than institutional sexism. Anonymity doesn't help you deal with an ostensibly important slideshow filled with porn. (Though obviously this is an extreme examples, there are much smaller ones scattered along the way.)
If men needed a culture of approval and acceptance and someone to remind them whenever possible that they are wanted and welcome, and then and only then could they program if they wanted to, then they'd be just like women.
Is this a troll (along with all the mods) or is the Slashdot community really that blind? What the fuck do you call Slashdot if not a massive male circle-jerk bonding party? In fact, the whole moderation system seems like this overindulgent 'female' system the AC is railing against.
Well, I think where I differ is that I don't think duplicating providers offers an increased level of security. It's really just giving you twice as many cheap providers who aren't watching out for the sort of problem that can propagate everywhere.
With the money you spend on those extra providers, you should be shoring up your investment in your primary provider (including some more redundancy) and hiring more people to make sure that you've covered every contingency.
If someone tells you that they can cheaply prevent catastrophic failure, expect a catastrophic failure. Nothing can correct something like this, which involved an error propagating to the backups.
Even on my parents' Windows machine, easily 60% of the software (not counting the OS, which really should qualify as 50% on its own) is FOSS. The real problem is that so many of these people are trying to build a business around solving problems that were solved 10 years ago, and dozens of times since.
Precisely. I just got a job fresh out of college coding in something more horrific than COBOL, (proprietary dialect of BASIC with a proprietary non-SQL database) and coding in my spare time is what keeps me sane.
Well that's just it, isn't it. Cooking is probably the good analogy. I'm a database programmer, and I code anything but in my spare time. Which is just like you the spaghetti cook -certainly you cooked in your spare time, but not spaghetti.
Depending on how many cores you have access to, distributing trivial computations may not matter. If we ever start seeing 32 core desktop machines, for example, you start to get to the point where forking could create a realtime speedup even though in absolute terms you've wasted 5 times as many cycles.
Agreed. At first I put C/C++ on my resume, but after the first couple interviews (which were all, naturally, for Java) I realized that I can't talk knowledgeably about C, nobody really wants an entry-level C programmer anyway.
I got my information from The Blood of Brothers by Steven Kinzer (Kinzer was the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua during the 80's.)
Basically, given the political climate in Middle America at the time, a peace accord signed in August had about as much significance when the award was awarded as a peace deal brokered in Israel today. Lots of people have brokered deals, they never last more than a year. The prize was given to give the deal legitimacy, and it it paid off, also enabling the Sapoa accord between the Sandinistas and the contras in Nicaragua in 1988 (which is what I was referring to.)
You're quite right, I don't know where that came from. However, he's done plenty of stuff on that front - including introducing a resolution in 2007 to de-escalate the conflict, among other steps.
While he hasn't accomplished a lot, he definitely made some unequivocal and strong moves as a senator to stop the war. Also, at the moment it is more a question of what he's not doing as what he is doing in the Middle East (given what his generals want him to do, he is doing a good bit to keep them at bay.)
The difference between you and Obama is that you neither have the will nor the capacity to do anything. Obama isn't lacking in will, but this gives him political capital which could push his capacity over a hurdle or two he needs to clear.
You, on the other hand, would probably just use the money to ensure you don't have to do anything worthwhile ever again.
"This is the first time the award is given for wishful thinking," -Danny Danon, Israeli politician.
This is, I think, a general reaction from a lot of people, but it doesn't really line up with the history of the prize. In 1987, for example the prize was awarded to Óscar Arias, a Costa Rican president, for making some strong gestures that he would stop the Nicaraguan war that had been raging for a decade, fueled by the United States. This raised Arias' profile, and gave him the political capital to broker a peace deal in 1988.
In a lot of ways, I think that this is a better use of the prize; not to recognize achievements after the fact, but to encourage and foster new achievements that might not have happened without the award. Whether this will affect Obama's actions, who can say, but he'll certainly feel a little awkward now if he doesn't get anything done soon.
It's also worth noting that the FBI director didn't fall for it. He came into contact with a phishing scam, saw it for what is was, and his *wife* decided that it was too close a call.
And yes, in theory it's easy to avoid. In practice people get lazy and don't pay attention. Especially people who think they're too smart to fall for it, no matter how well the scammers set it up.
There have been a variety of studies that people who think they know better fall for phishing scams, reasonably well crafted, just as much as everyone else.
This includes people like everyone who tagged this story 'idiots' derisively imagining that they would never be so stupid.
All it takes is one day, you're in a hurry, you don't notice that the URL bar is still white, and you're toast.
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No, I think the theory is that a universe in which we create a Higgs boson is impossible, because such a universe would not only cease to be, but cease to have ever been as soon as the boson appears.
It's also useless to say 'hey I'm analyzing this graph' if you're analyzing it wrong. I think you're missing the big picture. It's incredibly naive to think that the fundamental laws are simple enough to be grasped without massive datasets. It is possible, but all the data gathered thus far suggests that the fundamental laws of nature will not be found by someone staring at an equation on a whiteboard until it clicks. That is why Cern's data capacity is measured in terabytes, and they want to grow it as much as possible. That's why we have so much genetic data.
Scientific method and principles count, but they are not enough.
The thing is, flaming Apple is an absolute waste of time. The sort of people who buy Apple are convinced (with decent evidence) that Apple is the Greatest Thing Ever, and nothing short of personally experiencing a catastrophic failure like this will convince them otherwise.
Windows, on the other hand, is generally recognized (with decent evidence) as a total clusterfuck, so reminding that they could get Linux for free instead of putting up with that shit is actually likely to net some converts.
I don't think Bruce said anything to imply that overt sexism was a bigger deal than institutional sexism. Anonymity doesn't help you deal with an ostensibly important slideshow filled with porn. (Though obviously this is an extreme examples, there are much smaller ones scattered along the way.)
Is this a troll (along with all the mods) or is the Slashdot community really that blind? What the fuck do you call Slashdot if not a massive male circle-jerk bonding party? In fact, the whole moderation system seems like this overindulgent 'female' system the AC is railing against.
Well, I think where I differ is that I don't think duplicating providers offers an increased level of security. It's really just giving you twice as many cheap providers who aren't watching out for the sort of problem that can propagate everywhere.
With the money you spend on those extra providers, you should be shoring up your investment in your primary provider (including some more redundancy) and hiring more people to make sure that you've covered every contingency.
If someone tells you that they can cheaply prevent catastrophic failure, expect a catastrophic failure. Nothing can correct something like this, which involved an error propagating to the backups.
Honestly, who modded the twit that posted that interesting? The AGPL was introduced two years ago.
Even on my parents' Windows machine, easily 60% of the software (not counting the OS, which really should qualify as 50% on its own) is FOSS. The real problem is that so many of these people are trying to build a business around solving problems that were solved 10 years ago, and dozens of times since.
Precisely. I just got a job fresh out of college coding in something more horrific than COBOL, (proprietary dialect of BASIC with a proprietary non-SQL database) and coding in my spare time is what keeps me sane.
Well that's just it, isn't it. Cooking is probably the good analogy. I'm a database programmer, and I code anything but in my spare time. Which is just like you the spaghetti cook -certainly you cooked in your spare time, but not spaghetti.
Depending on how many cores you have access to, distributing trivial computations may not matter. If we ever start seeing 32 core desktop machines, for example, you start to get to the point where forking could create a realtime speedup even though in absolute terms you've wasted 5 times as many cycles.
Agreed. At first I put C/C++ on my resume, but after the first couple interviews (which were all, naturally, for Java) I realized that I can't talk knowledgeably about C, nobody really wants an entry-level C programmer anyway.
I got my information from The Blood of Brothers by Steven Kinzer (Kinzer was the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua during the 80's.)
Basically, given the political climate in Middle America at the time, a peace accord signed in August had about as much significance when the award was awarded as a peace deal brokered in Israel today. Lots of people have brokered deals, they never last more than a year. The prize was given to give the deal legitimacy, and it it paid off, also enabling the Sapoa accord between the Sandinistas and the contras in Nicaragua in 1988 (which is what I was referring to.)
Anyone using the redundant mod on the first post should lose modding privileges for a week or two.
You're quite right, I don't know where that came from. However, he's done plenty of stuff on that front - including introducing a resolution in 2007 to de-escalate the conflict, among other steps.
While he hasn't accomplished a lot, he definitely made some unequivocal and strong moves as a senator to stop the war. Also, at the moment it is more a question of what he's not doing as what he is doing in the Middle East (given what his generals want him to do, he is doing a good bit to keep them at bay.)
The difference between you and Obama is that you neither have the will nor the capacity to do anything. Obama isn't lacking in will, but this gives him political capital which could push his capacity over a hurdle or two he needs to clear.
You, on the other hand, would probably just use the money to ensure you don't have to do anything worthwhile ever again.
You'll recall he was a senator for three terms before becoming president, and was the only senator to vote against the Iraq war.
"This is the first time the award is given for wishful thinking," -Danny Danon, Israeli politician.
This is, I think, a general reaction from a lot of people, but it doesn't really line up with the history of the prize. In 1987, for example the prize was awarded to Óscar Arias, a Costa Rican president, for making some strong gestures that he would stop the Nicaraguan war that had been raging for a decade, fueled by the United States. This raised Arias' profile, and gave him the political capital to broker a peace deal in 1988.
In a lot of ways, I think that this is a better use of the prize; not to recognize achievements after the fact, but to encourage and foster new achievements that might not have happened without the award. Whether this will affect Obama's actions, who can say, but he'll certainly feel a little awkward now if he doesn't get anything done soon.
We're doing five blades.
I believe this is what's generally referred to as "sublight," which is generally understood to mean a significant fraction of the speed of light.
It's also worth noting that the FBI director didn't fall for it. He came into contact with a phishing scam, saw it for what is was, and his *wife* decided that it was too close a call.
And yes, in theory it's easy to avoid. In practice people get lazy and don't pay attention. Especially people who think they're too smart to fall for it, no matter how well the scammers set it up.
Penny Arcade's shit runs Linux. PA not noteworthy enough for you?
Dwarf Fortress runs Linux.
There have been a variety of studies that people who think they know better fall for phishing scams, reasonably well crafted, just as much as everyone else.
This includes people like everyone who tagged this story 'idiots' derisively imagining that they would never be so stupid.
All it takes is one day, you're in a hurry, you don't notice that the URL bar is still white, and you're toast.
Was NASA hoping for a naquadah-filled explosive asteroid?