You can call me jingoistic and naive, but at least I checked the numbers. Free trade hasn't worked. If it did work, over the last 40 years, American standard of living would have risen, but it has fallen. If it did work, we might have had a positive trade balance more than once during the course of the 40 years. If it did work, we would not be twenty trillion dollars in debt.
I mean, sure, you can go ahead and drive your jap car past all the blown own cities, pretend the sapping of our national resolve has nothing to do with the fact that we do not make anything anymore, mutter on some jumbo crap about having an IP based economy, but, the fact is, free trade doesn't work, hasn't worked, and won't work, and quite frankly, by the numbers, is just as big as a failure as socialism is.
It's not even that you are screwing your own country over by buying foreign products. It's that, you think you are smart to do so. What's next, 2+2 = 5?
that's YOU. that's not why we as a country don't have it this way
No, there's a lot of people that agree, frankly. I mean, the FCC is supposed to be there for just allocating spectrum, but even in the 1960s JFK was threatening to pull licenses if he did not get his way.
Eh? In scandinavia countries new laws will state that "the speed of the line must be atleast 75% of the said one during 24 hour measurement period". And you get throttled with comcast if you're actually using more 70% of what you should have? Why do you put up with this shit
Because, we don't trust the government to measure that 75% without making a political issue of it. We think such an institution would ultimately wind up as another lever for government to get its hands into the people's business.
Hey lets file a couple of lawsuits against some companies and maybe I can be governor... strike the heroic looking photo of the AG "going after" evil Intel.
This lawsuit, like anything else our political classes do (regardless of party), is total b.s.
Maybe it's the people in Detroit that led to the failures of the Big 3. If they only had close minded people such as yourself to chose from, it's no wonder they never adapted to any market changes.
Am I so close minded to see that perhaps a person's need for the absolutely most perfect car at the expense of a community as a whole might not be the best thing?
I mean, if you aren't supporting an economy in peacetime, why would you expect someone to support the country in a war? If you aren't supporting my people, what makes you worth fighting for? I'm drawing a blank.
Whatever. The fact is, if you aren't supporting your countrymen, why should they support you. If this dodge owner sees you in a wreck, I'm driving by. If you hold other people to task for their decisions, that's fine, but don't be angry if they should do the same.
You can't ever actually go to the milky way's core.. so, really, what you are doing is almost like standing on the beach with a blindfold on, guessing at what is in the bottom of the ocean, based on what you hear. Is that really, the only thing you can really do is assume that physics on mother earth is the same as elsewhere in the galaxy, and then extrapolate that to what you see in space. Frankly, what happens in the core of the milky way or even not too far outside of the solar system is essentially useless trivia anyway. It makes for a good story but there's not a damn thing we can do about it. If someone wanted to believe God made the entire universe in seven days, or the FSM did it in 27 minutes, there's absolute nothing about that believe that could measurably alter the human standard of living.
That's all I'm saying... Why I am supposed to care about some malady that befalls you in your foreign car, when my city is destroyed by Big 3 downsizing. If our unemployment is our fault for building shitty cars, then, certainly your accident is your fault for buying one too. Don't come crying to me about your Toyota problems...If you get killed in that thing, its not my problem. You abandoned my country decades ago.
80,000 men was a rounding error compared to the casualties of just the Battle of Stalingrad.
Ok, so obviously, the German high command were not nearly as skilled a general as Julius Caesar was. MY take, obviously, is to look at the damage done to other side and its obvious that the Roman treatment of Gaul, soldier for soldier, was far more brutal than the German treatment of Russia.
Having taken several courses on AI, I never found a contributor to the field that promised it to be the silver bullet -- or even remotely comparable to the human mind. I don't ever recall reading anything other than fiction claiming that humans would soon be replaced completely by thinking machines.
I've read about the Eastern Front quite a bit, actually, and I still say Caesar would have called Hitler's Germany Army a bunch of pussies. I'm just saying this because, well, Julius Caesar was well, a pretty tough guy.
Compare the two in France:
Hitler raised an army of three million men with which he first conquered France, before the war. Caesar did it with not more than 80,000, and he openly bragged that he killed a million gauls to do it, and all he had was swords.
And, Julius Caesar didn't lose his wars to go down in the bunker in flames. When Julius Caesar lost, he booked, he laid low, but then he came back strong. There was a great tale of Caesar being captured by pirates, and he joked to them, "when I get out, I'm going to crucify you all."
My son's autistic. Playing video games with him made him much, much more verbal, taught him how to solve problems, express directions, give orders, and more.
Only a dope should turn over their data to CMU. CMU has a ridiculous endownment, every federal incentive and bonus imaginable, ridiculous property rights and almost institutionalized military support. So, they can come up with a few pennies to pay people for their data that they stand to make even more millions of dollars on.
The most gruesome war ever, the IIWW, left 65 million dead
Was World War II really the -worst- war ever? Sure, in terms of numbers, it may seem that way, but if we turn to the Islamic expansion, or, any of the conquests of ancient times, we find entire civilizations and cultures were simply evaporated. After World War II, Germans were still predominantly German speaking and Christian (except for what was once called East Prussia), but, after the Islamic conquest of Egypt, the native tongue was completely eradicated and a 3000 year old religion was destroyed. Or, look at the essential extermination of Celtic cultures due to Roman incursions from the South and Asian cultures from the East... People were going house to house, killing the men, the children, taking the women, basically raping them, and then producing new children to a new culture. Compared to that, firebombing might almost seem civilized. I would even bet that the likes of Julius Caesar or Genghis Khan would see Hitler's invasion of Russia as probably even a bunch of pussies.
The problem with the idea of controlling population is who exactly is going to have less babies. I mean, if you keep hammering home in people's heads that the planet is crowded and there's too many humans, it sorta makes the idea that life is sacred seem rather foolish now, doesn't it.
I mean, when your overpopulation is 3 billion, it makes even a nuclear war a workable proposition.
I'm going to just throw it out there, but seriously, why should an American web site care about the rest of the world. Honestly, I could put a big filter on any domain that has any non-8 bit ASCII character out there and I would be utterly happy. While it might be nice to talk to the rest of the world, its not worth the extra byte for unicode, and its certainly not worth f---ing up polymorphism between strings and vectors just so we can have dumbass umlauts and other crap in our text.
Call me a flamebait, but seriously, for consumers, if you carved up the whole internet into 8 bit character fiefdoms, and had just the asians deal with utf-16 or even utf-32, then, wouldn't that just actually be smarter for end users? Sure, monolithic corporations might balk at the cost of this, but why should I need to give the likes of Exxon a goddamn doubling of all of my strings just to make it easier for them to do world wide operations.
Marat grew quite famous for his anti-royalty papers written that inflamed the French Revolution, but then he got stabbed to death in his bathtub by a fan of the royals. She ultimately got killed for it.
Thus, we had the famous writer, and harsh critic, in one example. But, hey, at least a famous painter made his most famous painting about the whole thing.
I don't disagree with what you wrote. One thing is, though, that requirements are very fluid and you have to ask if perhaps the problem is that 10 hours and reboot is a ridiculous requirement from the get go. Soldiers aren't going to sit in a middle of a war zone and turn off the shields.
Arguably, when specing out systems like this, the solution is probably not to build them because they are really too complex to test for battlefield conditions. But that's crazy. So.. what was the outcome? You put a system out there, make it is as good as you can, and the outcome, in this case, was that the system did intercept some missiles, did save some lives and did pioneer missile interception in a war.
28 people died because the system isn't perfect, to be true, but how many people lived because the system worked at all?
The answer is to build a faster spaceship. We need to have nuclear powered craft of some sort. The distances are simply too vast for chemical rockets. You could spend billions trying to study all the ways to keep people up in space safely for two years and probably still screw it up. The enemy is time, so solve that problem, and everything else will fall into place. That at least can get us around the solar system, and there should be enough materials in that to build some sort of an interstellar craft for extremely long range missions.
I remember this from a numerical methods class in the 1980s. To deal with situations like this, you can do one of three things :
a) Have a function that you sample as a function of t, so you don't get accumulated error. b) Have enough bits so that error won't be an issue. This is actually hard to do because floating point errors do stack up pretty quick if you are not careful. c) Or, you can have an error term which you can use to make adjustments along the way to account for a lack of precision. Bresenham's line does that more or less exactly when he does his lines. That's why you had "stair stepping" as the algorithm corrected itself along the way.
If the OP was correct, then PATRIOT failed because it did none of them. My bet is in reality, they simply underestimated the actual error term, but did everything else correct. This could be because of discrepancies in flight control instrumentation or some sensor, or, they were simply trying to save money on bits and didn't really do the calculation as to how far the missile could be off in an error term length seconds of flight at a particular phase in its flight profile.
Bottom line is, the engineering discipline exists to solve this problem and is really no different than error handling in any guidance system. Putting a man on the moon, launching an ICBM at target, shooting down a missile, are all essentially the same computer science problem from an error management perspective. The Phd's already nailed this decades ago. There's not a fundamental limitation to computing, in this case, merely, a failure or inability of engineers on this project to apply the correct known answer to this problem.
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Your jingoism is naive and pathetic
You can call me jingoistic and naive, but at least I checked the numbers. Free trade hasn't worked. If it did work, over the last 40 years, American standard of living would have risen, but it has fallen. If it did work, we might have had a positive trade balance more than once during the course of the 40 years. If it did work, we would not be twenty trillion dollars in debt.
I mean, sure, you can go ahead and drive your jap car past all the blown own cities, pretend the sapping of our national resolve has nothing to do with the fact that we do not make anything anymore, mutter on some jumbo crap about having an IP based economy, but, the fact is, free trade doesn't work, hasn't worked, and won't work, and quite frankly, by the numbers, is just as big as a failure as socialism is.
It's not even that you are screwing your own country over by buying foreign products. It's that, you think you are smart to do so. What's next, 2+2 = 5?
that's YOU. that's not why we as a country don't have it this way
No, there's a lot of people that agree, frankly. I mean, the FCC is supposed to be there for just allocating spectrum, but even in the 1960s JFK was threatening to pull licenses if he did not get his way.
Eh? In scandinavia countries new laws will state that "the speed of the line must be atleast 75% of the said one during 24 hour measurement period". And you get throttled with comcast if you're actually using more 70% of what you should have? Why do you put up with this shit
Because, we don't trust the government to measure that 75% without making a political issue of it. We think such an institution would ultimately wind up as another lever for government to get its hands into the people's business.
Hey lets file a couple of lawsuits against some companies and maybe I can be governor... strike the heroic looking photo of the AG "going after" evil Intel.
This lawsuit, like anything else our political classes do (regardless of party), is total b.s.
Maybe it's the people in Detroit that led to the failures of the Big 3. If they only had close minded people such as yourself to chose from, it's no wonder they never adapted to any market changes.
Am I so close minded to see that perhaps a person's need for the absolutely most perfect car at the expense of a community as a whole might not be the best thing?
I mean, if you aren't supporting an economy in peacetime, why would you expect someone to support the country in a war? If you aren't supporting my people, what makes you worth fighting for? I'm drawing a blank.
American automakers abandoned America decades ago
Whatever. The fact is, if you aren't supporting your countrymen, why should they support you. If this dodge owner sees you in a wreck, I'm driving by. If you hold other people to task for their decisions, that's fine, but don't be angry if they should do the same.
You can't ever actually go to the milky way's core.. so, really, what you are doing is almost like standing on the beach with a blindfold on, guessing at what is in the bottom of the ocean, based on what you hear. Is that really, the only thing you can really do is assume that physics on mother earth is the same as elsewhere in the galaxy, and then extrapolate that to what you see in space. Frankly, what happens in the core of the milky way or even not too far outside of the solar system is essentially useless trivia anyway. It makes for a good story but there's not a damn thing we can do about it. If someone wanted to believe God made the entire universe in seven days, or the FSM did it in 27 minutes, there's absolute nothing about that believe that could measurably alter the human standard of living.
That's all I'm saying... Why I am supposed to care about some malady that befalls you in your foreign car, when my city is destroyed by Big 3 downsizing. If our unemployment is our fault for building shitty cars, then, certainly your accident is your fault for buying one too. Don't come crying to me about your Toyota problems...If you get killed in that thing, its not my problem. You abandoned my country decades ago.
All users of every version of FireFox taken together use more than one old version of IE.
All this air stuff is awesome, but the guys on the ground could still use a device that can detect a buried pipe bomb from a safe distance.
Man, that's all we need, to succumb to a plague of genetically engineered rats.
80,000 men was a rounding error compared to the casualties of just the Battle of Stalingrad.
Ok, so obviously, the German high command were not nearly as skilled a general as Julius Caesar was. MY take, obviously, is to look at the damage done to other side and its obvious that the Roman treatment of Gaul, soldier for soldier, was far more brutal than the German treatment of Russia.
Having taken several courses on AI, I never found a contributor to the field that promised it to be the silver bullet -- or even remotely comparable to the human mind. I don't ever recall reading anything other than fiction claiming that humans would soon be replaced completely by thinking machines.
One word : Kurzweil
Then come and tell me about a 'bunch of pussies'.
I've read about the Eastern Front quite a bit, actually, and I still say Caesar would have called Hitler's Germany Army a bunch of pussies. I'm just saying this because, well, Julius Caesar was well, a pretty tough guy.
Compare the two in France:
Hitler raised an army of three million men with which he first conquered France, before the war. Caesar did it with not more than 80,000, and he openly bragged that he killed a million gauls to do it, and all he had was swords.
And, Julius Caesar didn't lose his wars to go down in the bunker in flames. When Julius Caesar lost, he booked, he laid low, but then he came back strong. There was a great tale of Caesar being captured by pirates, and he joked to them, "when I get out, I'm going to crucify you all."
He did.
My son's autistic. Playing video games with him made him much, much more verbal, taught him how to solve problems, express directions, give orders, and more.
Ah, truth, justice and the american way. How refreshing
Damn straight. If you are so hot to trot for people to work for free, then you should work for free for me.
Only a dope should turn over their data to CMU. CMU has a ridiculous endownment, every federal incentive and bonus imaginable, ridiculous property rights and almost institutionalized military support. So, they can come up with a few pennies to pay people for their data that they stand to make even more millions of dollars on.
Pystar isn't wrong, just illegal.
The most gruesome war ever, the IIWW, left 65 million dead
Was World War II really the -worst- war ever? Sure, in terms of numbers, it may seem that way, but if we turn to the Islamic expansion, or, any of the conquests of ancient times, we find entire civilizations and cultures were simply evaporated. After World War II, Germans were still predominantly German speaking and Christian (except for what was once called East Prussia), but, after the Islamic conquest of Egypt, the native tongue was completely eradicated and a 3000 year old religion was destroyed. Or, look at the essential extermination of Celtic cultures due to Roman incursions from the South and Asian cultures from the East... People were going house to house, killing the men, the children, taking the women, basically raping them, and then producing new children to a new culture. Compared to that, firebombing might almost seem civilized. I would even bet that the likes of Julius Caesar or Genghis Khan would see Hitler's invasion of Russia as probably even a bunch of pussies.
The problem with the idea of controlling population is who exactly is going to have less babies. I mean, if you keep hammering home in people's heads that the planet is crowded and there's too many humans, it sorta makes the idea that life is sacred seem rather foolish now, doesn't it.
I mean, when your overpopulation is 3 billion, it makes even a nuclear war a workable proposition.
I'm going to just throw it out there, but seriously, why should an American web site care about the rest of the world. Honestly, I could put a big filter on any domain that has any non-8 bit ASCII character out there and I would be utterly happy. While it might be nice to talk to the rest of the world, its not worth the extra byte for unicode, and its certainly not worth f---ing up polymorphism between strings and vectors just so we can have dumbass umlauts and other crap in our text.
Call me a flamebait, but seriously, for consumers, if you carved up the whole internet into 8 bit character fiefdoms, and had just the asians deal with utf-16 or even utf-32, then, wouldn't that just actually be smarter for end users? Sure, monolithic corporations might balk at the cost of this, but why should I need to give the likes of Exxon a goddamn doubling of all of my strings just to make it easier for them to do world wide operations.
I'm in favor of ASCII, that's what I'm saying.
Marat grew quite famous for his anti-royalty papers written that inflamed the French Revolution, but then he got stabbed to death in his bathtub by a fan of the royals. She ultimately got killed for it.
Thus, we had the famous writer, and harsh critic, in one example. But, hey, at least a famous painter made his most famous painting about the whole thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat
I don't disagree with what you wrote. One thing is, though, that requirements are very fluid and you have to ask if perhaps the problem is that 10 hours and reboot is a ridiculous requirement from the get go. Soldiers aren't going to sit in a middle of a war zone and turn off the shields.
Arguably, when specing out systems like this, the solution is probably not to build them because they are really too complex to test for battlefield conditions. But that's crazy. So.. what was the outcome? You put a system out there, make it is as good as you can, and the outcome, in this case, was that the system did intercept some missiles, did save some lives and did pioneer missile interception in a war.
28 people died because the system isn't perfect, to be true, but how many people lived because the system worked at all?
The answer is to build a faster spaceship. We need to have nuclear powered craft of some sort. The distances are simply too vast for chemical rockets. You could spend billions trying to study all the ways to keep people up in space safely for two years and probably still screw it up. The enemy is time, so solve that problem, and everything else will fall into place. That at least can get us around the solar system, and there should be enough materials in that to build some sort of an interstellar craft for extremely long range missions.
I remember this from a numerical methods class in the 1980s. To deal with situations like this, you can do one of three things :
a) Have a function that you sample as a function of t, so you don't get accumulated error.
b) Have enough bits so that error won't be an issue. This is actually hard to do because floating point errors do stack up pretty quick if you are not careful.
c) Or, you can have an error term which you can use to make adjustments along the way to account for a lack of precision. Bresenham's line does that more or less exactly when he does his lines. That's why you had "stair stepping" as the algorithm corrected itself along the way.
If the OP was correct, then PATRIOT failed because it did none of them. My bet is in reality, they simply underestimated the actual error term, but did everything else correct. This could be because of discrepancies in flight control instrumentation or some sensor, or, they were simply trying to save money on bits and didn't really do the calculation as to how far the missile could be off in an error term length seconds of flight at a particular phase in its flight profile.
Bottom line is, the engineering discipline exists to solve this problem and is really no different than error handling in any guidance system. Putting a man on the moon, launching an ICBM at target, shooting down a missile, are all essentially the same computer science problem from an error management perspective. The Phd's already nailed this decades ago. There's not a fundamental limitation to computing, in this case, merely, a failure or inability of engineers on this project to apply the correct known answer to this problem.