Sorry to burst your bubble - but the probabilities *are* cumulative.
What is the probability that the next coin-flip comes up heads? 50%...
After I flip heads, what is the next probability for getting heads? It is still 50%.
The next coin flip getting heads? 50% again.
Now, the probability of three consequtive coin flips getting all heads is 12.5%
correct so far - but what you describe is the probability of getting into an accident on *every* commute. The probability of getting into at least one accident is cumulative. You coin toss also works the other way - the probablility of getting all numbers is also 12.5%, so the probability of getting at least one heads is 87.5%.
(I think the car accident problem is still different, but I don't remember the formula - I think (for a 1 in 10000 chance) the probability of *not* getting into a car accident is something along the lines of
You don't purchase your own hardware, you rent it from them for an unlimited amount of time.
Great! At least in Germany, a rented property has to be kept in good order by the owner, not the person renting it! So, if you manage to damage the player by just using it (think worn our bearings, etc.), they'd be liable to give you a new one, for free...;-)
My biggest concern now isn't that benign software will be punished; rather, I suspect this bill will be useless because spyware companies will just embed "You give us permission to blah blah blah" clauses deep into those EULAs that no one really reads.
What happens if the user changes his mind? (In true/. tradition I didn't read the article)
IMHO, when the user consents through some legalese buried deep within some EULA, the software can install, but I think EULA clauses that go against a law are illegal and not binding. When the user consents, the software can install, but when the user changes his mind, the software should uninstall without putting up a fight, no matter what some EULA says. (I wonder if the lawmakers had something like that in mind?;-)
The uninstaller *might* uninstall the goodie that caused us to install the software along with the spyware (there might be a reason...), but not just the goodie, leaving the spyware in place.
Sitting down in a tin can, with several gallons of highliy flammable liquid, hurtling down a concrete strip, in close proximity with other, similarly configured tin cans is supposed to be dangerous, too.
Yet, we do it every day - it's called commute on a motorway...
And if your system crashes hard or loses power, you will lose the data that wasn't synced. Nifty.
Yeah. So?
It always depends on priorities - if he wants crash resistance, he should mount the disk with -o sync, if not, it's his problem, not the application's.
I'm not sure - does KDE really call sync, not just save the data? Possibly KDE should be modified to autosave after a certain amount of changes or after a certain amount of time, not after every change...
The Spitzer data told the astronomers that both planets are at least a steaming 1,000 Kelvin (727 degrees Celsius, 1340 Fahrenheit). These measurements confirm that hot Jupiters are indeed hot.
I wonder, what would be the reading someone would get from outside our atmosphere by looking at overcast sitting in the sunlight?
Clouds are pretty good reflectors of visible as well as infrared light, afaik, so they should appear to be pretty hot...
Greenpeace instincts usually arise from incorrect and incomplete data.
Errm - No. *All* instincts arise from incomplete data - but the data causing greenpeace instincts is not necessarily incorrect.
BTW - if you count the creation of the network, you might as well count the production of the phones, and that's where it gets ugly. Landline phones are usually fairly simple devices that last almost a lifetime. Cell phones are highly complex electronics devices that last just a couple of years. Cell phones tend to get replaced (at least in.eu) when your cell phone contract is up for renewal, because the cell company wants you to stay with them, so they offer you to subsidise a new phone if you sign another 24 month contract.
In my case: Got a new Sony Ericsson T610 almost when it came out - price difference: No contract: 449.- Euros, with contract renewal: 1.- Euro (that was about 1 1/2 years ago)... unfortunately, not all phones get subsidised equally, some more, some less - the 450.- phone in the next slot would have cost me 250.- to pay...
On my cellphone, I've had a success rate of 1 in 4 for getting through to 911, even without a natural disaster going on.
I don't call 112 (international standard number for emergency services) that often, but when I do, the cell network does some really funky things:
The phone quadruples its output
The cell you're currently in puts you through *IMMEDIATELY* (that means, if the cell is full, or has no free outgoing lines, every non-emergency call or cell association gets dropped and you get put through!)
The network finds out where you're located and puts you in contact with the nearest emergency center
In my experience, a emergency call takes about 2-3 seconds from pressing 112 or the SOS button to having someone answer the call - that includes call setup and reaction time from the operator!
I don't know, but IMHO you can't get much closer to perfection WRT emergency service. OK, I didn't try to call during a major disaster (I never was in such a situation), but still...:-)
Number one, that's ridiculous. No law and order? They have a stable, democratically elected executive and legislative elections will be held soon. And I think that there are no more terrorist attacks there at the moment than Israel suffers on a regular basis.
You might want to ask someone from Afganistan. The representative might be stable, but there are still daily incidents. Outside of Kandahar, the country is not peaceful at all. The German Foreign Service keeps issuing travel warnings for Afganistan because the security is still very poor. Israel is not a good comparison, because they're basically committing a Holocaust there. I'm really worried about the refugee camps there - they remind me of the concentration camps of the German Nazi Party in Germany in the 3rd Reich.
Number two is a misrepresentation of the facts. Please explain to me how Bush will stop Islamic fascists from killing and destroying. It's what they do. The only way to make them stop trying is to kill them all. The left won't allow that. We do need help getting the Iraqi government's security forces, which is why Bush just had a conference with European leaders. Been watching the news lately?
Yes, I've been watching the news lately. People from countries without military presence in Iraq run the risk of getting killed in a bomb blast there, but so do the Iraqi people themselves, while people from countries with a military presence risk getting abducted. Israel keeps getting hit by suicide bombers because they keep "mistreating" the Palestinean people. The difference between the suicide bombers and Israeli settlers just grabbing whatever they want is the latter not making the news. (Did you hear about the protests of Israeli settlers/farmers not wanting to leave their farms to comply with the treaty Israel signed?)
See here and here
Number three -- who cares? No one ever looked up to the USA except those who agreed with what we do. And Germany has NOT been a close ally. West Germany was, but now we have a large contingent of the reunified communists still dragging Germany back into the mire of socialism.
That's mostly crap. Germany supported *justified* action all the way, up to and including a change in our constitution to allow out military to operate internationally in more than just self defense to enable the campaign in Afganistan. AFAIK, Germany is today one of the most involved countries in the reconstruction of Afganistan.
The "reunified communists" did themselves shake off the yoke of communism, at risk to their lives - do you really think they want it back? Germany didn't support the invasion in Iraq because it was not sanctioned by the UN and there still is controversy if there really ever were WMDs there.
Yes, I am from Germany, but I think your post is slightly ridiculous...
What if the (person|company|organization) receiving the/.ing took it as a targeted DOS attack and tried to sue? Or claim it's a cyberattack from cyberterrorists?
The suit would probably fail, because it should not be too difficult for/. to show that all those hits come from real, genuine human users. If they come from human users, it might be distributed, but it's not denial of service, rather than simple overload.
You might as well call the traffic jams caused by some rock concert a DDOS on the road system...;-)
The magnetic pickups weren't bothered at all by the adhesive tape, and as long as you made the cuts diagonally across the (audio) tape, the new splice would be strong enough to play.
The heads aren't bothered because you apply the adhesive tape on the backside of the tape. (AFAIK)
The diagonal cut is done that way not because of the later durability of the connection but (again, AFAIK) to cut diagonally across the tracks, thereby achieving a sort of "mini-fadeout/fadein". OTOH, the angle you cut at might have something to do with the placement of the different heads in a large machine. (I don't think there was only one monolithic head for all the channels...)
Why dont hospitals have UPS type devices in every room for every major appliance? Then when power goes out, it will be better handled by the 5000 UPS boxes to take the load of the generator.
Because one big UPS in the basement is way more efficient and cost-effective than 5000 individual UPSs, which only last a couple of minutes, anyway.
The big UPS in the basement is supposed to last until the main generator kicks in and takes over, which then lasts a couple of days until its fuel runs out. By the time the fuel for the generator runs out it should have been refueled by contractors with tank trucks full of gasoline and/or diesel fuel...
BTW, I don't know about the US, but in Germany, UPSs have been a requirement for hospitals since at least the 1960s...
I think the big ad resulted in some higher-ups at the newspaper noticing that big ad and the cash-flow, which in turn resulted in them
asking their editors why nobody had looked at that product yet.
So some reporter took a look at Firefox and was delighted...
It's not like it's going to blind you or anything... not any more than someone's brake lights do.
In Germany, the 3rd brake light is not required, though new cars all have them. Now imagine driving at night, behind someone with his fog light on - how can you tell, at a glance, if he's braking, with one broken brake light, or if he just forgot to turn his fog light off?
The problem is not so much the brightness, it's the constant triggering of the "brake now!" reflex. Brake lights are designed to grab your attention even in bright sunlight - they definitely grad it at night. The same goes for the fog light, except it doesn't have to be that attention grabbing (it's designed to cut through fog, but the results are the same)... basically it keeps screaming at you "forget everything else, pay attention to ME, I'm about to do something dangerous!!!"
That's what annoys me about these light in clear conditions - they distract my attention from the rest of the traffic, which might actually be *doing* something dangerous...
Anybody who has ever driven behind a car that does have these in the rain knows how much we need to update the FMVSS code to explicitly allow them here.
Anybody who has ever driven behind a car that does have these in dry weather knows how much they can annoy when used improperly, like when the driver forgets to shut them up (or is too lazy, or thinks it's cool...). While you're at it, adjust the FMVSS code to have a car set it's top speed limiter to something like 30 mph when the fog lights are on - if it's foggy, you shouldn't drive faster than that, if it isn't you should shut off these lights to keep from annoying other drivers...
Hm - can we make Firefox detect "IE-only" pages and pop up a window to tell te user: "Broken HTML detected - do you want to enable IE-quirks-mode?" and render the page according to MS's interpretation of the HTML Standard...
That way, when the user sees a broken page, he can (correctly) blame his troubles on MS...;-)
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What is the probability that the next coin-flip comes up heads? 50%... After I flip heads, what is the next probability for getting heads? It is still 50%. The next coin flip getting heads? 50% again.
Now, the probability of three consequtive coin flips getting all heads is 12.5%
correct so far - but what you describe is the probability of getting into an accident on *every* commute. The probability of getting into at least one accident is cumulative. You coin toss also works the other way - the probablility of getting all numbers is also 12.5%, so the probability of getting at least one heads is 87.5%.
(I think the car accident problem is still different, but I don't remember the formula - I think (for a 1 in 10000 chance) the probability of *not* getting into a car accident is something along the lines of
(1-<probability>)^<number_of_tries>
= ((9999/10000)^<number_of_commutes>
It approaches zero, but never reaches it... it's been some years since my probability theory class... ;-)
Best regards, Ulli
Great! At least in Germany, a rented property has to be kept in good order by the owner, not the person renting it! So, if you manage to damage the player by just using it (think worn our bearings, etc.), they'd be liable to give you a new one, for free... ;-)
Ulli
What happens if the user changes his mind? (In true /. tradition I didn't read the article)
IMHO, when the user consents through some legalese buried deep within some EULA, the software can install, but I think EULA clauses that go against a law are illegal and not binding. When the user consents, the software can install, but when the user changes his mind, the software should uninstall without putting up a fight, no matter what some EULA says. (I wonder if the lawmakers had something like that in mind? ;-)
The uninstaller *might* uninstall the goodie that caused us to install the software along with the spyware (there might be a reason...), but not just the goodie, leaving the spyware in place.
Yet, we do it every day - it's called commute on a motorway...
Regards, Ulli
Yeah. So?
It always depends on priorities - if he wants crash resistance, he should mount the disk with -o sync, if not, it's his problem, not the application's.
I'm not sure - does KDE really call sync, not just save the data? Possibly KDE should be modified to autosave after a certain amount of changes or after a certain amount of time, not after every change...
Regards, Ulli
I wonder, what would be the reading someone would get from outside our atmosphere by looking at overcast sitting in the sunlight?
Clouds are pretty good reflectors of visible as well as infrared light, afaik, so they should appear to be pretty hot...
Regards, Ulli
No, it's so high he could be young enough to be serious! :-)
SCNR, Ulli
Is it hackable to produce the noise of the motorbikes Starbuck and Apollo rode on when Battlestar Galactica found Earth? :-)
Cheers, Ulli
Errm - No. *All* instincts arise from incomplete data - but the data causing greenpeace instincts is not necessarily incorrect.
BTW - if you count the creation of the network, you might as well count the production of the phones, and that's where it gets ugly. Landline phones are usually fairly simple devices that last almost a lifetime. Cell phones are highly complex electronics devices that last just a couple of years. Cell phones tend to get replaced (at least in .eu) when your cell phone contract is up for renewal, because the cell company wants you to stay with them, so they offer you to subsidise a new phone if you sign another 24 month contract.
In my case: Got a new Sony Ericsson T610 almost when it came out - price difference: No contract: 449.- Euros, with contract renewal: 1.- Euro (that was about 1 1/2 years ago)... unfortunately, not all phones get subsidised equally, some more, some less - the 450.- phone in the next slot would have cost me 250.- to pay...
Regards, Ulli
I don't call 112 (international standard number for emergency services) that often, but when I do, the cell network does some really funky things:
- The phone quadruples its output
- The cell you're currently in puts you through *IMMEDIATELY* (that means, if the cell is full, or has no free outgoing lines, every non-emergency call or cell association gets dropped and you get put through!)
- The network finds out where you're located and puts you in contact with the nearest emergency center
- In my experience, a emergency call takes about 2-3 seconds from pressing 112 or the SOS button to having someone answer the call - that includes call setup and reaction time from the operator!
I don't know, but IMHO you can't get much closer to perfection WRT emergency service. OK, I didn't try to call during a major disaster (I never was in such a situation), but still...Regards, Ulli
You forgot that his company is actually growing - definitely yes!
Cheers, Ulli
Right.
SCNR, Ulli
You might want to ask someone from Afganistan. The representative might be stable, but there are still daily incidents. Outside of Kandahar, the country is not peaceful at all. The German Foreign Service keeps issuing travel warnings for Afganistan because the security is still very poor. Israel is not a good comparison, because they're basically committing a Holocaust there. I'm really worried about the refugee camps there - they remind me of the concentration camps of the German Nazi Party in Germany in the 3rd Reich.
Number two is a misrepresentation of the facts. Please explain to me how Bush will stop Islamic fascists from killing and destroying. It's what they do. The only way to make them stop trying is to kill them all. The left won't allow that. We do need help getting the Iraqi government's security forces, which is why Bush just had a conference with European leaders. Been watching the news lately?
Yes, I've been watching the news lately. People from countries without military presence in Iraq run the risk of getting killed in a bomb blast there, but so do the Iraqi people themselves, while people from countries with a military presence risk getting abducted. Israel keeps getting hit by suicide bombers because they keep "mistreating" the Palestinean people. The difference between the suicide bombers and Israeli settlers just grabbing whatever they want is the latter not making the news. (Did you hear about the protests of Israeli settlers/farmers not wanting to leave their farms to comply with the treaty Israel signed?)
See here and here
Number three -- who cares? No one ever looked up to the USA except those who agreed with what we do. And Germany has NOT been a close ally. West Germany was, but now we have a large contingent of the reunified communists still dragging Germany back into the mire of socialism.
That's mostly crap. Germany supported *justified* action all the way, up to and including a change in our constitution to allow out military to operate internationally in more than just self defense to enable the campaign in Afganistan. AFAIK, Germany is today one of the most involved countries in the reconstruction of Afganistan.
The "reunified communists" did themselves shake off the yoke of communism, at risk to their lives - do you really think they want it back? Germany didn't support the invasion in Iraq because it was not sanctioned by the UN and there still is controversy if there really ever were WMDs there.
Yes, I am from Germany, but I think your post is slightly ridiculous...
Regards, Ulli
No, At least not a democratic one.
Does that mean the USA will "free" Europe when we don't introduce software patents? ;-)
There's a slight paradox there:
- If software patents are introduced, it's by non-democratic means
- If they aren't, it's by democratic means...
Weird - my definition for democracy must be skewed...Cheer, Ulli
The suit would probably fail, because it should not be too difficult for /. to show that all those hits come from real, genuine human users. If they come from human users, it might be distributed, but it's not denial of service, rather than simple overload.
You might as well call the traffic jams caused by some rock concert a DDOS on the road system... ;-)
Cheers, Ulli
The heads aren't bothered because you apply the adhesive tape on the backside of the tape. (AFAIK)
The diagonal cut is done that way not because of the later durability of the connection but (again, AFAIK) to cut diagonally across the tracks, thereby achieving a sort of "mini-fadeout/fadein". OTOH, the angle you cut at might have something to do with the placement of the different heads in a large machine. (I don't think there was only one monolithic head for all the channels...)
Regads, Ulli
Because one big UPS in the basement is way more efficient and cost-effective than 5000 individual UPSs, which only last a couple of minutes, anyway.
The big UPS in the basement is supposed to last until the main generator kicks in and takes over, which then lasts a couple of days until its fuel runs out. By the time the fuel for the generator runs out it should have been refueled by contractors with tank trucks full of gasoline and/or diesel fuel...
BTW, I don't know about the US, but in Germany, UPSs have been a requirement for hospitals since at least the 1960s...
Regards, Ulli
I think the big ad resulted in some higher-ups at the newspaper noticing that big ad and the cash-flow, which in turn resulted in them asking their editors why nobody had looked at that product yet.
So some reporter took a look at Firefox and was delighted...
The rest is his[ s]tory... ;-)
Regards, Ulli
Cheers, Ulli
Cheers, Ulli
RTFA:
So, you will be able to rotate counter so at least some of the rings.Regards, Ulli
I assure you if Max ever managed to claw above their misserable market share then they'd see their fair share of viruses, same goes for Linux.
You mean, like this? Funny, apache seems to get less exploits than IIS, despite its much larger market share. How do you explain that?
Regards, Ulli
In Germany, the 3rd brake light is not required, though new cars all have them. Now imagine driving at night, behind someone with his fog light on - how can you tell, at a glance, if he's braking, with one broken brake light, or if he just forgot to turn his fog light off?
The problem is not so much the brightness, it's the constant triggering of the "brake now!" reflex. Brake lights are designed to grab your attention even in bright sunlight - they definitely grad it at night. The same goes for the fog light, except it doesn't have to be that attention grabbing (it's designed to cut through fog, but the results are the same)... basically it keeps screaming at you "forget everything else, pay attention to ME, I'm about to do something dangerous!!!"
That's what annoys me about these light in clear conditions - they distract my attention from the rest of the traffic, which might actually be *doing* something dangerous...
Regards, Ulli
Anybody who has ever driven behind a car that does have these in dry weather knows how much they can annoy when used improperly, like when the driver forgets to shut them up (or is too lazy, or thinks it's cool...). While you're at it, adjust the FMVSS code to have a car set it's top speed limiter to something like 30 mph when the fog lights are on - if it's foggy, you shouldn't drive faster than that, if it isn't you should shut off these lights to keep from annoying other drivers...
Regards, Ulli
That way, when the user sees a broken page, he can (correctly) blame his troubles on MS... ;-)
Cheers, Ulli