Well, on the upside, now we have a reason to own a 10 gauge shotgun...
Sounds like once in a lifetime opportunity to shoot a real life horror thriller scene. Please keep me posted when you are going to try this line of defence, I will keep the camera rolling.
You cannot seriously claim that IE died because government and commercial websites demanded it. It simply failed as a product. DRM is going to be a web standard, and one does not simply do away with it by switching to another browser. You are free to switch to something obscure like IceCat or Lynx, but then you are on your own.
1. Your chart shows US Math at 25th place out of 34 countries participating in the program. Sounds like bottom 30% to me.
2. Things like "World education ranking" are notoriously difficult to measure:
- There is a deep culture rift, that changes how Math is taught and scored. I was not trained to solve 60 super-stupid math problems in 60 minutes "the SAT way". How did PISA test it?
- Russia is the largest country in the world, covering region from Europe to almost Middle East to aboriginals in Siberia who still hunt polar bears for living. My school city is not even covered by "Russia" anymore, more like post-Soviet block.
- A "median" Russian is probably as good at science as a median American, the difference starts with people who actually listened at class -- future engineers and scientists.
- Somewhere in the last 10 years Russian Federation tried to adapt American education system (WTF?), I am not aware of changes and outcomes.
3. I based my conclusions on a simple fact that topics mandated for HS graduation in USSR are typically covered as part of Bachelor degree in US, including Calculus, Mechanics, Chemistry etc. This is a lot more concrete than some strangely measured "ranking".
And math education in the US and around the world is abysmal.
Have you taken school math "around the world"? As someone who graduated from HS in post-Soviet Russia I can testify that US high school graduates are at the level of 6-graders in Russia. And Physics is not even a requirement in US! I would easily place US at the bottom 30% of the world at school science preparation.
Please don't forget that unlike mass, weight is a result of gravity. You need to make adjustment for Martian surface free fall acceleration, which happens to be 12.1 feet per second squared.
You are free to switch to any desktop ennvironment. When Unity came out I tried Canonical Gnome2, MATE, Cinnamon and Cinnamon was the least buggy. A year later I run into some hardware compartibility issues and my Cinnamon desktop went into "safe mode", which happens to be Gnome 2. Switched back to Gnome2 and it just works. I guess Canonical patched all the issues since the last time I tried.
PS: top result in my Google search when making this post:
That would fall under normal wear and tear, not fuel costs. And before you argue that battery is a costly component that gasoline cars lack: it is more than offset by much simplier car design with fewer moving parts. In fact, what I heard was that the dealers do not want Tesla's business because they would lose out on those fat maintenance cash flows.
P.S.: replying to myself:
In the link above Wikipedia yaps something about "medical treatment", which is utter BS, since Null Hypothesis is used in all areas of science/statistics, not just pharmaceutical research.
Rejecting or disproving the null hypothesis – and thus concluding that there are grounds for believing that there is a relationship between two phenomena or that a potential treatment has a measurable effect – is a central task in the modern practice of science...
Sounds like pass/fail to me. FYI it is customary to count a theory as pass when there is a 95% confidence that we can reject the Null hypothesis (fail), which happens to be exactly 2 sigma.
Sigma measures standard deviation of any process that has any randomness with close to normal distribution, which is pretty much everything around you, not just manufacturing. Sigma has _everything_ to do with "nines", as 95% confidence falls within two sigma confidence interval, while 3 sigma is 99.7% confidence interval.
Netflix works fine on Linux-based Roku and Boxee, but they do not support Linux. I do not see the need to jump through hoops for Netflix if they explicitly do not want my business, and Amazon Instant Video works just fine.
claiming NextSTEP is just a copy of free bsd is retarded
I did not call it "just a copy" but merely pointed out that it is based on open source, while you claimed to be an example of closed source success. Can we settle on "a copy with some bells and whistles attached"?
People who are strictly users don't really know the difference.
That's what you should have said. Even the least caring users are directly affected by what's "under the hood" even if they never bother to open it. Your examples are not exactly convincing either:
Microsoft... able to dominate
Mostly before Free Software gained momentum. Look what is happening to them now.
Apple... able to dominate
They kind of stagnated until Jobs came back with a copy of Free BSD...
As an owner of patents you are biased in favour of them, just like all the mega corps that own a fuckton of them. After Google paid a few billion for patents recently they might be reluctant to see the downside of the system, and neither will they permit any change to the patent system because that might decrease market value of their "warchest".
Aside from a few cases where consensus is in favour of patents, like pharmaceuticals, the patent system today mostly serves to attack and often elliminate competition. Why does every Android device made pay $5 tax to Microsoft? Did Microsoft invent something that Android could not possibly be produced without? Hint: when contacting manufacturers MS does not even specify which patents they infringe. How is this different from legalized blackmail?
And reading TFA, I can't say that I think he's entirely in the wrong - because the defense screwed the pooch in the first place. (By not getting a properly qualified expert in the first place, and then by potentially violating the rules of evidence.)
Great, you made me read TFA. Here's what it says: the judge wrongly disqualified an expert witness, and then banned testimony from "properly accredited" ones. Not sure what "rules of evidence" got jeopardised, but sounds like the judge was in on it with the prosecution, which happens rather frequently because they work for the same institution, sort of.
"It happened on a computer" isn't enough to make it newsworthy anymore
It is while majority of judges (and jurors) see a computer as a magical black box with supernatural powers. The ship will sail when the first 4chan generatioin "graduates" to become judges with adequate understanding of technology. Until then we will have lawyers claiming that copied 10 lines of java code cost his clients bullions in losses.
Please read a little before spouting nonsence. Note that the article is written in 1990, but phenomena it described are known almost to everyone today and have gotten only worse.
People with sensitive correspondence should worry about this, such as: political activists, lawyers, company execs, gangsters, politicians. They already utlize "face to face" to the maximum extent, but by deploying a blanket wiretap the government is giving them a dilemma: become a luddite or risk your communication compromised.
Less likely, but even if you do not belong to one of the above groups then the government might be out to get you for any personal or political reason,they just need to mine your messages for anything that looks compromising to make an arrest. Or sometimes they need a poster child to show that their ter ror watch was fruitful, like the guy in Canada arrested for using word "blow" in his text message.
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Here is roughly how it is done
Well, on the upside, now we have a reason to own a 10 gauge shotgun...
Sounds like once in a lifetime opportunity to shoot a real life horror thriller scene. Please keep me posted when you are going to try this line of defence, I will keep the camera rolling.
You cannot seriously claim that IE died because government and commercial websites demanded it. It simply failed as a product. DRM is going to be a web standard, and one does not simply do away with it by switching to another browser. You are free to switch to something obscure like IceCat or Lynx, but then you are on your own.
s/IE/DRM BLOB installed/
As any commercial entity in US he will need to hand over the keys to NSA at the first request. What's the purpose of this?
New book in hardcover is $0.01 from Amazon. Seems like they are running presses around the clock to meet demand!
1. Your chart shows US Math at 25th place out of 34 countries participating in the program. Sounds like bottom 30% to me.
2. Things like "World education ranking" are notoriously difficult to measure:
- There is a deep culture rift, that changes how Math is taught and scored. I was not trained to solve 60 super-stupid math problems in 60 minutes "the SAT way". How did PISA test it?
- Russia is the largest country in the world, covering region from Europe to almost Middle East to aboriginals in Siberia who still hunt polar bears for living. My school city is not even covered by "Russia" anymore, more like post-Soviet block.
- A "median" Russian is probably as good at science as a median American, the difference starts with people who actually listened at class -- future engineers and scientists.
- Somewhere in the last 10 years Russian Federation tried to adapt American education system (WTF?), I am not aware of changes and outcomes.
3. I based my conclusions on a simple fact that topics mandated for HS graduation in USSR are typically covered as part of Bachelor degree in US, including Calculus, Mechanics, Chemistry etc. This is a lot more concrete than some strangely measured "ranking".
And math education in the US and around the world is abysmal.
Have you taken school math "around the world"? As someone who graduated from HS in post-Soviet Russia I can testify that US high school graduates are at the level of 6-graders in Russia. And Physics is not even a requirement in US! I would easily place US at the bottom 30% of the world at school science preparation.
Please don't forget that unlike mass, weight is a result of gravity. You need to make adjustment for Martian surface free fall acceleration, which happens to be 12.1 feet per second squared.
PS: top result in my Google search when making this post:
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That's not what Wikipedia thinks
the fuel costs must include the battery wear cost
That would fall under normal wear and tear, not fuel costs. And before you argue that battery is a costly component that gasoline cars lack: it is more than offset by much simplier car design with fewer moving parts. In fact, what I heard was that the dealers do not want Tesla's business because they would lose out on those fat maintenance cash flows.
P.S.: replying to myself: In the link above Wikipedia yaps something about "medical treatment", which is utter BS, since Null Hypothesis is used in all areas of science/statistics, not just pharmaceutical research.
only used when you're tracking something that is measured only as pass/fail
It seems like you are talking about the Null hypothesis:
Rejecting or disproving the null hypothesis – and thus concluding that there are grounds for believing that there is a relationship between two phenomena or that a potential treatment has a measurable effect – is a central task in the modern practice of science...
Sounds like pass/fail to me. FYI it is customary to count a theory as pass when there is a 95% confidence that we can reject the Null hypothesis (fail), which happens to be exactly 2 sigma.
god just wrote the laws of physics
I am sure Quantum Mechanics was an outcome of a drunken bet with Devil.
Sigma measures standard deviation of any process that has any randomness with close to normal distribution, which is pretty much everything around you, not just manufacturing. Sigma has _everything_ to do with "nines", as 95% confidence falls within two sigma confidence interval, while 3 sigma is 99.7% confidence interval.
Netflix works fine on Linux-based Roku and Boxee, but they do not support Linux. I do not see the need to jump through hoops for Netflix if they explicitly do not want my business, and Amazon Instant Video works just fine.
"Your computer might be at risk"
"You need to get latest Java"
"You need to get latest flash"
"You computer is still might be at risk?"
"You Must Construct Additional Pylons!"
may have been some BSD code in there
There have beem "some", it is a fact. How much was it is arguable, but definitely much more than "may have been some".
FreeBSD didnt even exist yet!
FreeBSD did not exist, but free BSD did. You knew it, right? Here is an amusing article for you:
How Free Software Contributed to the Success of Steve Jobs and Apple
claiming NextSTEP is just a copy of free bsd is retarded
I did not call it "just a copy" but merely pointed out that it is based on open source, while you claimed to be an example of closed source success. Can we settle on "a copy with some bells and whistles attached"?
People who are strictly users don't really know the difference.
That's what you should have said. Even the least caring users are directly affected by what's "under the hood" even if they never bother to open it. Your examples are not exactly convincing either:
Microsoft ... able to dominate
Mostly before Free Software gained momentum. Look what is happening to them now.
Apple ... able to dominate
They kind of stagnated until Jobs came back with a copy of Free BSD...
And what about all these companies?
As an owner of patents you are biased in favour of them, just like all the mega corps that own a fuckton of them. After Google paid a few billion for patents recently they might be reluctant to see the downside of the system, and neither will they permit any change to the patent system because that might decrease market value of their "warchest".
Aside from a few cases where consensus is in favour of patents, like pharmaceuticals, the patent system today mostly serves to attack and often elliminate competition. Why does every Android device made pay $5 tax to Microsoft? Did Microsoft invent something that Android could not possibly be produced without? Hint: when contacting manufacturers MS does not even specify which patents they infringe. How is this different from legalized blackmail?
And reading TFA, I can't say that I think he's entirely in the wrong - because the defense screwed the pooch in the first place. (By not getting a properly qualified expert in the first place, and then by potentially violating the rules of evidence.)
Great, you made me read TFA. Here's what it says: the judge wrongly disqualified an expert witness, and then banned testimony from "properly accredited" ones. Not sure what "rules of evidence" got jeopardised, but sounds like the judge was in on it with the prosecution, which happens rather frequently because they work for the same institution, sort of.
"It happened on a computer" isn't enough to make it newsworthy anymore
It is while majority of judges (and jurors) see a computer as a magical black box with supernatural powers. The ship will sail when the first 4chan generatioin "graduates" to become judges with adequate understanding of technology. Until then we will have lawyers claiming that copied 10 lines of java code cost his clients bullions in losses.
Please read a little before spouting nonsence. Note that the article is written in 1990, but phenomena it described are known almost to everyone today and have gotten only worse.
People with sensitive correspondence should worry about this, such as: political activists, lawyers, company execs, gangsters, politicians. They already utlize "face to face" to the maximum extent, but by deploying a blanket wiretap the government is giving them a dilemma: become a luddite or risk your communication compromised.
Less likely, but even if you do not belong to one of the above groups then the government might be out to get you for any personal or political reason,they just need to mine your messages for anything that looks compromising to make an arrest. Or sometimes they need a poster child to show that their ter ror watch was fruitful, like the guy in Canada arrested for using word "blow" in his text message.