Been a long time since I looked into it. He may have a novel implementation of the Vicenty formulae. A computational geometry paper may publish it, but probably it is easier (and less burocratic) to do so on a smaller conference.
The Vincenty formula is just a truncated series expansion. it's fast and pretty stable except near antipodal points. It has plenty of accuracy for real-world applications. Any improvement would need to be in speed or in stability for antipodal points.
Since real scientists don't use pejoratives like "denialist" in referring to those with whom they disagree, one is forced to conclude that you have not actually educated yourself at all, and that you are not interested in the science at all.
You might want to educate yourself a little more about science before posting nonsense like this.
Calling R a programming language is like calling Mathematica or Matlab a language. R is a system for statistical tasks that has a language and snytax, and but it is not capable of producing stand-alone executables that do not require the entire R environment.
Wouldn't it be nice to send the friendly folks from the BSA to do a complete software audit of the MPAA?
Maybe an auditing circle-jerk could be set up: the BSA investigates the MPAA, who investigates the RIAA, who invesigates the BSA, etc. ad nauseum, and they could just leave the rest of us alone.
Actually, no it doesn't make the assumption that every pirated copy of a movie would be a sale. If you RTFA, you would see:
Critics have faulted some piracy estimates for equating each pirated DVD with a lost sale, when many consumers would have skipped the movie altogether if they hadn't gotten a cheap or free unauthorized version. This time, the survey specifically asked consumers how many of their pirated movies they would have purchased in stores or seen in theaters if they didn't have an unauthorized copy, giving studios a different picture of their true losses.
The results are likely still completely bogus, but at least they pretended to be correcting for that factor.
The paper was funded by the Canadian NSERC (the equivalent of the NSF in the US). Aren't you Canadians proud that your tax dollars are going to research in how to make spam more noxious?
In fact, here is the most relevent passage from the article:
The computational core of 65,536 compute nodes is partitioned into 1,024 logical processing sets, called psets. Each pset consists of one I/O node running Linux and 64 compute nodes running a custom compute node kernel(CNK).
Where, exactly, did you get the information that these systems "run linux?"
In the Blue/Gene system, for example, the user front-end nodes use linux, but the OS for the system itself is very definitely NOT linux. So acting as if the system runs off a linux kernel is misleading, to say the very least!
The UN is the only actual democratic body representing people on a global scale. It would make sense to have them in charge of a global resource. Are they perfect? No. But for this I believe they are at least as good as the US.
If you had RTFA, you would have noticed that they explictly point out that:
The problem can only be marginally (i.e. ineffectually) addressed by increases in alternative energy and energy efficiency, any likely savings being offset by population and economic growth. And, given the huge energy and material demands in the construction of, say, wind farms, the ultimate value of these is debatable.
Kyoto would have essentially no effect on CO2 production, at the cost of essentially destroying the global economy. While I am sure you find that an attractive idea, most people don't.
At least Mac OS enforced the proper order of operations, i.e., finish what you're doing with the disk first, then eject.
As soon as you read something like this, you know that the writer knows nothing about UI design. Hey, folks: the user owns the computer, not vice-versa. The user is supposed to be in charge, not the developer.
But when I read "Principle: The user is in charge and should be free to carry out any activity at any time without fear of reprisals" I just about lost my lunch.
Just because, as a developer, you are too lazy to make your product give the user control doesn't mean that it's the user's fault! The fact that such a completely obvious principle caused a developer nausea is a sad commentary on the state of development.
Why not just use CD-RW media, which don't use dyes, and therefore don't fade? I always recommend that people use CD-RW for archival storage, since it is so much more robust.
Actually, the complete NIF will have an energy on target of about 2 megajoules. They achieved 10 kJ in one beamline about a year ago. The pulse time is about 10 ns.
By the way, 500 TW != 500 GW, so your calculations are off by a factor of 1000. Pretty funny given the post title.
How about this idea for fighting back: copyright the file names in your directory, specifically preventing transmission of those names to a third party without permission. Grant permission to everyone except agents of the MPAA, RIAA, and ESA. Then, when the bot sends the names of the offending file, the company has violated your copyright!
I think that the idea of nailing these people for copyright violations is poetic justice.
100 megs of hard disk space may cost ten cents, but when it has to be backed up and shared across the network (and you have a large number of users all wanting 100 megs) the costs increase.
Thank you so much for perfectly illustrating the attitude I was complaining about. Those pesky stupid users, always wanting more storage and more memory. Why can't they just make do with what you give them and quit whining?
FWIW, my experience with VMS was trying to do science with Vaxen at a national lab. The wonderful thing about Vaxes running VMS was that even if you could get privileges or memory enough from the sysop to run your code, it still ran like a sick dog.
When I was doing my thesis in 1985, I compared my code running on a 6 MHz 8086 to the same code running on a (supposedly) hot Vax. Wall clock time for the exact same calculation: PC: 30 seconds, Vax: 90 seconds. CPU time was probably less for the Vax than the PC, but then, I didn't get the whole thing, now, did I?
Granted, things got a lot better when the alpha came out, and I love the architecture, but the Vax experience has always left a bad taste in my mouth for all things DEC.
Thanks, but I'll keep my PC (not necessarily Wintel, but personal computer), where if I need more memory I can just go buy it, and some jerk sysop won't get his jollies by preventing me from doing my job.
VMS is a superb OS, but it is now viewed as déclassé in most circles
VMS is the worst operating system I have ever encountered, period.
It might have decent preemptive multitasking, but the entire premise of the OS was to deny users as many privileges as possible, thus ensuring systems people full-time employment.
I can still remember having to go and beg to have my disk allocation increased to 2 MB. VMS is one of the reasons PCs took off so quickly; at least with a PC, you don't have to go on your knees and beg for indulgence from a prick every couple of weeks to be able to be able to get anything done on your computer.
According to FAS [fas.org], it is massive. LD50 (ie 50% killing rate) for 55kGy is
about 80% [fas.org]. The big ass electron gun is really equipped for the atomic age. Maybe, eBay and Amazon will office us a choice of "radiation hardening" as gift wrap for our electronic gadget.
I don't know where you got those numbers from, but they weren't the ones on the website you quoted. 55 kGy whole-body dose for a human is 100% lethal. Radiation treatment for cancer tends to have localized doses that are measured in cGy (0.01 Gy); this is much, much more.
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Been a long time since I looked into it. He may have a novel implementation of the Vicenty formulae. A computational geometry paper may publish it, but probably it is easier (and less burocratic) to do so on a smaller conference.
The Vincenty formula is just a truncated series expansion. it's fast and pretty stable except near antipodal points. It has plenty of accuracy for real-world applications. Any improvement would need to be in speed or in stability for antipodal points.
Since real scientists don't use pejoratives like "denialist" in referring to those with whom they disagree, one is forced to conclude that you have not actually educated yourself at all, and that you are not interested in the science at all.
You might want to educate yourself a little more about science before posting nonsense like this.
Since real,
Wow, what a surprise! Just like electronic voting machines, I'm absolutely certain they are invulnerable to hacking.
And we all know what a neutral, unbiased source The Nation is!
That's the problem with magnetically confined fusion. NIF will be inertially confined.
Which it shouldn't, as C, C# and C++ seem pretty distinct.
And what about Objective-C?
Calling R a programming language is like calling Mathematica or Matlab a language. R is a system for statistical tasks that has a language and snytax, and but it is not capable of producing stand-alone executables that do not require the entire R environment.
Wouldn't it be nice to send the friendly folks from the BSA to do a complete software audit of the MPAA?
Maybe an auditing circle-jerk could be set up: the BSA investigates the MPAA, who investigates the RIAA, who invesigates the BSA, etc. ad nauseum, and they could just leave the rest of us alone.
To my mind, the biggest problem is that, like all fluorescent lights, they switch on and off at 60 Hz (or whatever the line frequency is).
Actually, no it doesn't make the assumption that every pirated copy of a movie would be a sale. If you RTFA, you would see:
The results are likely still completely bogus, but at least they pretended to be correcting for that factor.
The paper was funded by the Canadian NSERC (the equivalent of the NSF in the US). Aren't you Canadians proud that your tax dollars are going to research in how to make spam more noxious?
There's a foolproof way to keep this kind of identity theft from happening to you: just make sure your FICO score is really, really low!
That way, nobody will be able to get credit in your name. And, as a bonus, it's really easy to do!
In fact, here is the most relevent passage from the article:
Where, exactly, did you get the information that these systems "run linux?"
In the Blue/Gene system, for example, the user front-end nodes use linux, but the OS for the system itself is very definitely NOT linux. So acting as if the system runs off a linux kernel is misleading, to say the very least!
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Feel free to mod the parent up as Funny.
If you had RTFA, you would have noticed that they explictly point out that:
Kyoto would have essentially no effect on CO2 production, at the cost of essentially destroying the global economy. While I am sure you find that an attractive idea, most people don't.
As soon as you read something like this, you know that the writer knows nothing about UI design. Hey, folks: the user owns the computer, not vice-versa. The user is supposed to be in charge, not the developer.
Just because, as a developer, you are too lazy to make your product give the user control doesn't mean that it's the user's fault! The fact that such a completely obvious principle caused a developer nausea is a sad commentary on the state of development.
Why not just use CD-RW media, which don't use dyes, and therefore don't fade? I always recommend that people use CD-RW for archival storage, since it is so much more robust.
Actually, the complete NIF will have an energy on target of about 2 megajoules. They achieved 10 kJ in one beamline about a year ago. The pulse time is about 10 ns.
By the way, 500 TW != 500 GW, so your calculations are off by a factor of 1000. Pretty funny given the post title.
How about this idea for fighting back: copyright the file names in your directory, specifically preventing transmission of those names to a third party without permission. Grant permission to everyone except agents of the MPAA, RIAA, and ESA. Then, when the bot sends the names of the offending file, the company has violated your copyright!
I think that the idea of nailing these people for copyright violations is poetic justice.
Thank you so much for perfectly illustrating the attitude I was complaining about. Those pesky stupid users, always wanting more storage and more memory. Why can't they just make do with what you give them and quit whining?
FWIW, my experience with VMS was trying to do science with Vaxen at a national lab. The wonderful thing about Vaxes running VMS was that even if you could get privileges or memory enough from the sysop to run your code, it still ran like a sick dog.
When I was doing my thesis in 1985, I compared my code running on a 6 MHz 8086 to the same code running on a (supposedly) hot Vax. Wall clock time for the exact same calculation: PC: 30 seconds, Vax: 90 seconds. CPU time was probably less for the Vax than the PC, but then, I didn't get the whole thing, now, did I?
Granted, things got a lot better when the alpha came out, and I love the architecture, but the Vax experience has always left a bad taste in my mouth for all things DEC.
Thanks, but I'll keep my PC (not necessarily Wintel, but personal computer), where if I need more memory I can just go buy it, and some jerk sysop won't get his jollies by preventing me from doing my job.
VMS is the worst operating system I have ever encountered, period.
It might have decent preemptive multitasking, but the entire premise of the OS was to deny users as many privileges as possible, thus ensuring systems people full-time employment.
I can still remember having to go and beg to have my disk allocation increased to 2 MB. VMS is one of the reasons PCs took off so quickly; at least with a PC, you don't have to go on your knees and beg for indulgence from a prick every couple of weeks to be able to be able to get anything done on your computer.
Wrong.
Bayesian classification, by definition, cannot have a zero false-positive rate without a 100% false-negative rate except in the most trivial cases.
You have, so far, experienced a low false-positive rate, but I am quite certain that it wouldn't last very long if spammers were trying to avoid it.
I don't know where you got those numbers from, but they weren't the ones on the website you quoted. 55 kGy whole-body dose for a human is 100% lethal. Radiation treatment for cancer tends to have localized doses that are measured in cGy (0.01 Gy); this is much, much more.