Oh, sorry, they sponsored some commission to redefine pi^Hkilobyte, so when they get sued, they can claim they don't falsely advertise.
As annoying as it may be to admit it, the drive manufacturers have a point.
The definitions of "kilo", "mega", "giga", etc, were defined quite explicitly back in the 18th century, to refer to powers of 10. Computer manufacturers later misused them to refer to powers of two, which was (and is) simply incorrect, no matter how comfortable computer people have become with it in the meantime. It's better to fix the problem now and have consistent, well-defined terms in the future than to live with ambiguity and confusion forever.
Hmm, 100% of the States agree to this to make the change...
Probably not. Fortunately, they don't need 100% of the states to agree to make the change. The compact goes into effect as soon as states representing 270 electoral votes have agreed to it; at that point it doesn't really matter whether the remaining states ever agree to it or not, since the signers of the compact will always determine the result.
Yah, it's sooooo much easier to get the States to bypass the amendment process....
It would be a pain in the ass, sure. As for it being a nightmare, I don't know -- is it worse than having to spend 4 years with Candidate X as President when more people actually voted for President Y?
I think I'd rather spend a few extra days or weeks recounting, then end up with a demonstrably undemocratic result. We have a couple of months before anyone is sworn in, we might as well use them when necessary.
If you can't hit a car radiator from ten meters, you should never, ever carry a gun.
To be fair, doing that while hanging out of the window of a police car that is driving at 125mph is a little harder than it would be in a standing-still scenario. Especially if you're driving the police car at the same time...;)
I'm not saying they were in this case, but just saying "logs don't lie" seems a bit naive when the only log data we have to go on are those provided by Tesla, hardly a disinterested party.
This is potentially a really serious problem, that people so far are ignoring
Well, it's a potentially serious problem that you assume people are ignoring.
I think any company smart enough to be capable of building a viable self-driving car is probably also smart enough to foresee the possibility of hackers and design their systems as securely as possible.
It's not like there are engineers running around Google right now slapping their foreheads, saying "OMG did you see this Slashdot post? There are hackers on the Internet! And they might try to crash our cars!"
I'll try it when I upgrade to Windows 8... in the meantime, a shell that isn't part of the default OS is of limited usefulness, as I can't rely on its availability. It does look promising, though.
I know that if my speedometer indicates 60 miles/hour, that in one minute I will have travelled one mile. That's predicting the future son!
... and then when you come across a traffic jam in half a mile, your prediction turns out to be wrong, and your user is pissed off that you "lied to him". That's the problem under discussion, son!
I don't need power sunflower seed crackers. I need a basic runabout.
Well, for a basic runabout there's always the Leaf... of course if you ever adopt a parrot you'll be sorry about not having sprung for the powered seed crackers.
The difference is, with a gas car, once a week. With an all electric, every day.
People seem to do okay with recharging their cell phones, they just get into the habit of plugging them in before going to bed.
For electric cars, it's similar; you just get into the habit of plugging it in when you get home.
Even if you do that every day, it still takes less up less of your time than driving to the nearest gas station, possibly waiting in line for a pump, paying with your credit card, and pumping the gas. It's much cheaper too.
just because you aren't burning the coal in your back yard doesn't mean it's not being burned.
Doesn't mean it is being burned, either. Some of us have access to clean electricity (solar/wind/nuclear/hydro/etc). As time goes on, that access will grow (if only because the ancillary costs of coal power will make it uncompetitive).
a two mile detour is hardly the make or break thing that Musk is making it out to be.
An extra hour of running the heater, on the other hand, might make a significant difference. The heater eats up electricity at the same rate regardless of how slow the car is going.
The solution to this problem, isn't making sarky comments and getting angry at the organization, but to help insure there are new policies in place to help protect children
Also perhaps the Church needs to allow its priests some kind of legitimate sexual outlet (e.g. marriage). Otherwise the position attracts people who try to bury their sexual urges, only to have them build up and then re-appear in inappropriate ways.
Considering Apple's lack of success with handling alarms, new years, and DST switches, would anyone really want a watch from Apple?
The alternate point of view would be: now that Apple has been bitten by those bugs and (one hopes) fixed them, that means Apple can re-use the now-correct code in its new products rather than having to write (and then debug) new code.
It's sort of like getting measles; if you came down with it once, you won't get it again because you're inoculated. Assuming Apple is smart enough to make its date/time algorithms reusable, of course.
I think Sony made the right decision there. If Microsoft approached me about "co-operating" I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Look how well it worked out for IBM (with MS-DOS and OS/2) or Sun (with Java).
Even if we grant (for the sake of the argument) that Obama is a stand-up guy who would never abuse the power to summarily execute anyone he wants to... it's not just Obama you currently have to trust, it's every future President as well (plus all the other "high level officials" who currently do or will have the power to do it).
If simply "trusting the people in charge" was sufficient, then we wouldn't need a Constitution at all, since we could simply trust in government not to do anything bad. But history shows that unchecked power corrupts.
Which means you would need to be unretarded enough to unscrew the case, then retarded enough to purposely touch the spinning blades, presumably while the machine is plugged in and powered up.
Speaking as someone who is retarded enough to have done that, I can report that touching the spinning fan blades did not cause any injury. It did make kind of a neat noise, though.
If this is an assert as it appears to be, my question is, why is it in shipping code. Normally asserts are controlled by the NDEBUG symbol (or equivalent) which is undefined in optimized builds. In my opinion asserts should not be in shipping code. You should have something more solid in place.
There is a school of thought that says that asserts should be left enabled in the shipping code, since otherwise the software you ship is going to be different than the software you tested against, with possible unfortunate results.
The original reason for disabling asserts for the release build was to maximize runtime performance, but that reason is less important for many programs these days, as there are more CPU cycles to spare.
A rider has no angular momentum when the unicycle shoots forward, and does not "rotate backwards onto your ass" in this scenario.
Well, I can assure you that is what happened to me. I lost a significant amount of skin in the process, too.:) Note that I didn't say "rotate backwards", but rather "fall backwards", because that is what happens when you let the unicycle (and therefore your feet and legs) get out in front of you. (The "high speed" part refers not to rotation but rather to the speed of the unicycle+rider with respect to the ground, since the unicycle has been accelerating downhill)
Sure, the iPhone 5 may have more processing power... But I bet if you put that thing in space, the first cosmic ray that comes along will happily crash the OS. Game over.
Yes, probably... but you could send up a dozen iPhone 5s in a box, all running the same software, set to auto-reboot-on-crash, and have the rover use whatever results the majority of the phones agree on. The iPhone RAIP array would be smaller, faster, and more reliable than what they are using now.
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Oh, sorry, they sponsored some commission to redefine pi^Hkilobyte, so when they get sued, they can claim they don't falsely advertise.
As annoying as it may be to admit it, the drive manufacturers have a point.
The definitions of "kilo", "mega", "giga", etc, were defined quite explicitly back in the 18th century, to refer to powers of 10. Computer manufacturers later misused them to refer to powers of two, which was (and is) simply incorrect, no matter how comfortable computer people have become with it in the meantime. It's better to fix the problem now and have consistent, well-defined terms in the future than to live with ambiguity and confusion forever.
If you carried a coil of wire with the correct circuitry attached you'd be able to charge your cell phone at the bus/train stop as well.
In fact, slipping a coil of appropriately-wound wire into your buddy's back pocket will become a popular practical joke.
Hmm, 100% of the States agree to this to make the change...
Probably not. Fortunately, they don't need 100% of the states to agree to make the change. The compact goes into effect as soon as states representing 270 electoral votes have agreed to it; at that point it doesn't really matter whether the remaining states ever agree to it or not, since the signers of the compact will always determine the result.
Yah, it's sooooo much easier to get the States to bypass the amendment process....
In fact it is.
a national recount would be a nightmare
It would be a pain in the ass, sure. As for it being a nightmare, I don't know -- is it worse than having to spend 4 years with Candidate X as President when more people actually voted for President Y?
I think I'd rather spend a few extra days or weeks recounting, then end up with a demonstrably undemocratic result. We have a couple of months before anyone is sworn in, we might as well use them when necessary.
I'm running my ssh server on port 23¾ now; that ought to keep the muggles out for a while.
A bit of an oversight - it won't run if security is set to reject unknown developers.
Workaround is to right-click on the icon and choose "Open Application" from the popup menu.
If you can't hit a car radiator from ten meters, you should never, ever carry a gun.
To be fair, doing that while hanging out of the window of a police car that is driving at 125mph is a little harder than it would be in a standing-still scenario. Especially if you're driving the police car at the same time... ;)
Pack it in, because logs don't lie.
Perhaps not, but logs can be altered.
I'm not saying they were in this case, but just saying "logs don't lie" seems a bit naive when the only log data we have to go on are those provided by Tesla, hardly a disinterested party.
This is potentially a really serious problem, that people so far are ignoring
Well, it's a potentially serious problem that you assume people are ignoring.
I think any company smart enough to be capable of building a viable self-driving car is probably also smart enough to foresee the possibility of hackers and design their systems as securely as possible.
It's not like there are engineers running around Google right now slapping their foreheads, saying "OMG did you see this Slashdot post? There are hackers on the Internet! And they might try to crash our cars!"
I'll try it when I upgrade to Windows 8... in the meantime, a shell that isn't part of the default OS is of limited usefulness, as I can't rely on its availability. It does look promising, though.
If [Microsoft hasn't done it] in 25 years then it should be self evident that the problem is hard to solve.
I'd like to agree, but then I think about the state of the MS-DOS shell. In 2013, it still sucks almost as bad as it did in 1985.
I know that if my speedometer indicates 60 miles/hour, that in one minute I will have travelled one mile. That's predicting the future son!
... and then when you come across a traffic jam in half a mile, your prediction turns out to be wrong, and your user is pissed off that you "lied to him". That's the problem under discussion, son!
I don't need power sunflower seed crackers. I need a basic runabout.
Well, for a basic runabout there's always the Leaf... of course if you ever adopt a parrot you'll be sorry about not having sprung for the powered seed crackers.
The difference is, with a gas car, once a week. With an all electric, every day.
People seem to do okay with recharging their cell phones, they just get into the habit of plugging them in before going to bed.
For electric cars, it's similar; you just get into the habit of plugging it in when you get home.
Even if you do that every day, it still takes less up less of your time than driving to the nearest gas station, possibly waiting in line for a pump, paying with your credit card, and pumping the gas. It's much cheaper too.
just because you aren't burning the coal in your back yard doesn't mean it's not being burned.
Doesn't mean it is being burned, either. Some of us have access to clean electricity (solar/wind/nuclear/hydro/etc). As time goes on, that access will grow (if only because the ancillary costs of coal power will make it uncompetitive).
a two mile detour is hardly the make or break thing that Musk is making it out to be.
An extra hour of running the heater, on the other hand, might make a significant difference. The heater eats up electricity at the same rate regardless of how slow the car is going.
The solution to this problem, isn't making sarky comments and getting angry at the organization, but to help insure there are new policies in place to help protect children
Also perhaps the Church needs to allow its priests some kind of legitimate sexual outlet (e.g. marriage). Otherwise the position attracts people who try to bury their sexual urges, only to have them build up and then re-appear in inappropriate ways.
Considering Apple's lack of success with handling alarms, new years, and DST switches, would anyone really want a watch from Apple?
The alternate point of view would be: now that Apple has been bitten by those bugs and (one hopes) fixed them, that means Apple can re-use the now-correct code in its new products rather than having to write (and then debug) new code.
It's sort of like getting measles; if you came down with it once, you won't get it again because you're inoculated. Assuming Apple is smart enough to make its date/time algorithms reusable, of course.
I think Sony made the right decision there. If Microsoft approached me about "co-operating" I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Look how well it worked out for IBM (with MS-DOS and OS/2) or Sun (with Java).
I trust Obama with that power.
Even if we grant (for the sake of the argument) that Obama is a stand-up guy who would never abuse the power to summarily execute anyone he wants to... it's not just Obama you currently have to trust, it's every future President as well (plus all the other "high level officials" who currently do or will have the power to do it).
If simply "trusting the people in charge" was sufficient, then we wouldn't need a Constitution at all, since we could simply trust in government not to do anything bad. But history shows that unchecked power corrupts.
Which means you would need to be unretarded enough to unscrew the case, then retarded enough to purposely touch the spinning blades, presumably while the machine is plugged in and powered up.
Speaking as someone who is retarded enough to have done that, I can report that touching the spinning fan blades did not cause any injury. It did make kind of a neat noise, though.
The mac pro laptop I have would reach alarmingly hot temperatures.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Wait a minute, I think I may see the problem... ;)
If this is an assert as it appears to be, my question is, why is it in shipping code. Normally asserts are controlled by the NDEBUG symbol (or equivalent) which is undefined in optimized builds. In my opinion asserts should not be in shipping code. You should have something more solid in place.
There is a school of thought that says that asserts should be left enabled in the shipping code, since otherwise the software you ship is going to be different than the software you tested against, with possible unfortunate results.
The original reason for disabling asserts for the release build was to maximize runtime performance, but that reason is less important for many programs these days, as there are more CPU cycles to spare.
A rider has no angular momentum when the unicycle shoots forward, and does not "rotate backwards onto your ass" in this scenario.
Well, I can assure you that is what happened to me. I lost a significant amount of skin in the process, too. :) Note that I didn't say "rotate backwards", but rather "fall backwards", because that is what happens when you let the unicycle (and therefore your feet and legs) get out in front of you. (The "high speed" part refers not to rotation but rather to the speed of the unicycle+rider with respect to the ground, since the unicycle has been accelerating downhill)
Sure, the iPhone 5 may have more processing power... But I bet if you put that thing in space, the first cosmic ray that comes along will happily crash the OS. Game over.
Yes, probably... but you could send up a dozen iPhone 5s in a box, all running the same software, set to auto-reboot-on-crash, and have the rover use whatever results the majority of the phones agree on. The iPhone RAIP array would be smaller, faster, and more reliable than what they are using now.