There were 5,688 flight hours in the past 4 years, and only 3 accidents. Claiming that the CBP is 52.7 accidents per 100,000 years is preposterous. They might as well just say 52.742616. I'm not a statistician, but like the GP said, it is absurd to use three significant figures here. It is very unlikely that the accident rate will scale up with standard use. It is much more likely that these accidents happen more often as the system is first used and the kinks are worked out.
Which is why they are all programmed with positronic brains.
On a more serious note though, these are pretty much just remote controlled. And even if we do make robots capable of deciding to kill on their own, do you really think that the engineers would completely forget to include a failsafe?
The "input type" mechanism for forms is lame. There are a number of standard types like "tel", but it's just text with no line breaks. They should have provided for either regular expressions or syntax like the COBOL Picture clause ("CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER PIC 9999-9999-9999-9999").
If you had RTFA you would have seen that one of the new validation types IS regex in the HTML 5 draft.
Taxi's can even solve the problem easier, by just having a fleet of vehicles, and having drivers come and swap out the entire car as the battery is drained.
And then you wake up from that dream and remember that you don't have a girlfriend. You spend most of your free time in your apartment building a fusor.
Well for one, they plan on transferring 2D video data probably at around 24 FPS. They are trying to get as low latencies as possible by having several servers around the country and are only selling to people near those servers.
Their target is not hardcore PC gamers. Also this system will never work with twitch gaming, like unreal tournament. However for less latency critical games, and for more casual gamers who aren't looking for a large hardware commitment, this fills a niche. I'm personally not interested in their service, but I'm interested to see how it turns out.
Schultz also said that Starbucks is partnering with Yahoo! to debut the Starbucks Digital Network this fall. Starbucks customers will have free unrestricted access to various paid sites and services, such as wsj.com, as well as other free downloads Starbucks didn't detail.
It sounds to me like they will get free WiFi access to the internet, as well as a free pass around a couple pay-walled websites, although neither the article or the summary explicitly says it.
Well, actual testing is ideal, but I'm sure their estimations aren't far off. If they claim that they have at least 20GB / day for 5 years, and can run them at 10000 GB / day for 3-4 days then I think that's a fair estimate. Of course there are other factors involved, but it is far from wild guesswork from the marketing department.
Sorry about that. I just used that as an example and did a quick search for a code. I agree that I am frustrated when a program doesn't validate, but the entry is to specification. The poster after you posted a link to a proper email regex string.
Do you really think that a thousand if-else statements is more readable than a regex statement. If it takes you one hundred lines of code to test for one condition, then the code becomes less readable, even if each piece makes more sense. RegEx is optimized to test for formatting of a string. This is what it was meant for.
Pseudo-code: 'If Email Address If (String.RegExMatch("^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$")) Then 'Do Stuff Else 'Do Other Stuff End If
As proof of the point I'm not going to try and program the same functionality with If-Else statements. If you are using regular expressions correctly you leave a human-readable comment explaining what the regular expression matches.
But I think the important point to take away here, is that we can all agree that VB sucks. =)
IANARS, but I've always thought that in space, there was plenty of energy to be harvested from the Sun, via solar panels, or directly applying the radiation as another poster commented. From what I understand, the reason we require so much fuel is because we need more than just energy, we need something to push behind us, which is why ion propulsion is popular for long distance space travel. You use what little mass as effectively as you can. We're not trying to run a power plant here. Of course we're not going to generate energy by splitting and then recombining water. We're trying to collect something that we can usefully use to propel ourselves that we don't need to bring out of a gravity well in the first place.
I have yet to buy a SSD, but everyone I hear who has bought one says that they will never go back to a system without one. SSDs aren't there to replace your mass storage, they are there to replace your boot drives.
My system right now has 3 HDDs, I have 2 performance 640GB HDDs in Raid 1 for the OS and programs, and a 1.5TB slow spinning HDD for my movies and any other very large storage that I don't feel needs to be duplicated. SSDs aren't trying to replace my media HDD, for the foreseeable future this task will be covered by spinning discs. SSDs are going to replace my boot drives. I wouldn't be surprised to see slightly higher level consumer PCs start shipping with two drives in the near future.
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So you're saying we should avoid energy loss from wire resistance by pumping liquid fuel in pipes instead? You're joking right?
we mathematicians DO NOT wee calculators. We don't do arithmetic. Don't tag this math.
There were 5,688 flight hours in the past 4 years, and only 3 accidents. Claiming that the CBP is 52.7 accidents per 100,000 years is preposterous. They might as well just say 52.742616. I'm not a statistician, but like the GP said, it is absurd to use three significant figures here. It is very unlikely that the accident rate will scale up with standard use. It is much more likely that these accidents happen more often as the system is first used and the kinks are worked out.
Which is why they are all programmed with positronic brains.
On a more serious note though, these are pretty much just remote controlled. And even if we do make robots capable of deciding to kill on their own, do you really think that the engineers would completely forget to include a failsafe?
The "input type" mechanism for forms is lame. There are a number of standard types like "tel", but it's just text with no line breaks. They should have provided for either regular expressions or syntax like the COBOL Picture clause ("CREDIT_CARD_NUMBER PIC 9999-9999-9999-9999").
If you had RTFA you would have seen that one of the new validation types IS regex in the HTML 5 draft.
<input type="text" pattern="REGEX HERE">
Taxi's can even solve the problem easier, by just having a fleet of vehicles, and having drivers come and swap out the entire car as the battery is drained.
Even if there's some piece of hardware in a museum, it won't be able to interface with existing technology.
SD card reader plugged into a USB adapter plugged into an Ethernet adapter plugged into an optical encoder plugged into whatever they need in the future.
And then you wake up from that dream and remember that you don't have a girlfriend. You spend most of your free time in your apartment building a fusor.
Such objects could easily range from a planet to a small black hole.
Problem solved.
How about, oh say, Mercury?
Well for one, they plan on transferring 2D video data probably at around 24 FPS. They are trying to get as low latencies as possible by having several servers around the country and are only selling to people near those servers.
Their target is not hardcore PC gamers. Also this system will never work with twitch gaming, like unreal tournament. However for less latency critical games, and for more casual gamers who aren't looking for a large hardware commitment, this fills a niche. I'm personally not interested in their service, but I'm interested to see how it turns out.
Inconceivable!
Schultz also said that Starbucks is partnering with Yahoo! to debut the Starbucks Digital Network this fall. Starbucks customers will have free unrestricted access to various paid sites and services, such as wsj.com, as well as other free downloads Starbucks didn't detail.
It sounds to me like they will get free WiFi access to the internet, as well as a free pass around a couple pay-walled websites, although neither the article or the summary explicitly says it.
Maybe something like this would be cheaper?
I would hardly say this is the world's first.
idk my bff jill works for the CIA and shes smrt
I get it, like on the space station!
Tired of the cramped ISS? Just suit up and go for a space walk!
Well, actual testing is ideal, but I'm sure their estimations aren't far off. If they claim that they have at least 20GB / day for 5 years, and can run them at 10000 GB / day for 3-4 days then I think that's a fair estimate. Of course there are other factors involved, but it is far from wild guesswork from the marketing department.
their fingerprint is always at hand
Bah dum ... CHA!
Or you could just store it in a silicon crystal. That aught to do the trick...
Sorry about that. I just used that as an example and did a quick search for a code. I agree that I am frustrated when a program doesn't validate, but the entry is to specification. The poster after you posted a link to a proper email regex string.
Do you really think that a thousand if-else statements is more readable than a regex statement. If it takes you one hundred lines of code to test for one condition, then the code becomes less readable, even if each piece makes more sense. RegEx is optimized to test for formatting of a string. This is what it was meant for.
Pseudo-code:
'If Email Address
If (String.RegExMatch("^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$")) Then
'Do Stuff
Else
'Do Other Stuff
End If
As proof of the point I'm not going to try and program the same functionality with If-Else statements. If you are using regular expressions correctly you leave a human-readable comment explaining what the regular expression matches.
But I think the important point to take away here, is that we can all agree that VB sucks. =)
RegEx copied from regexlib.com
it was his FTP password. There. I spoiled the movie.
The episode will conclude with Adam blowing up one of the black holes.
IANARS, but I've always thought that in space, there was plenty of energy to be harvested from the Sun, via solar panels, or directly applying the radiation as another poster commented. From what I understand, the reason we require so much fuel is because we need more than just energy, we need something to push behind us, which is why ion propulsion is popular for long distance space travel. You use what little mass as effectively as you can. We're not trying to run a power plant here. Of course we're not going to generate energy by splitting and then recombining water. We're trying to collect something that we can usefully use to propel ourselves that we don't need to bring out of a gravity well in the first place.
I have yet to buy a SSD, but everyone I hear who has bought one says that they will never go back to a system without one. SSDs aren't there to replace your mass storage, they are there to replace your boot drives.
My system right now has 3 HDDs, I have 2 performance 640GB HDDs in Raid 1 for the OS and programs, and a 1.5TB slow spinning HDD for my movies and any other very large storage that I don't feel needs to be duplicated. SSDs aren't trying to replace my media HDD, for the foreseeable future this task will be covered by spinning discs. SSDs are going to replace my boot drives. I wouldn't be surprised to see slightly higher level consumer PCs start shipping with two drives in the near future.
Your internet is full.