Measurement errors are involved once at boundary conditions. Precision errors propagates in the computations.
If measurement errors are less than precision errors and precision errors are sufficient to bring out chaos, changing the initial state by epsilon would also bring chaos.
Getting different results using different architectures is a good thing, it allows to see how chaotic the initial conditions are and evaluate the reliability of the result.
Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated.
This.
Even good programmers sometimes add unnecessary complications. How often can a direct mess be rewritten as the difference of 2 simple calculations. When distributing width across panes after a resize, modulo distribution is much harder than calculating both states.
We realized Bill had the solution we were looking for and we promptly signed an exclusive license for his patents"
So Bill saved you a lot of struggle. That's what patents are for.
You seem to think that a patent should compensate you for the amount of work you did put in your idea (original or bought). Now did your idea help podcasting in any way, did it save them from struggling to find a solution?
If the answer is "no, not really", then it is a classic patent troll.
There's a nice mile-long 3-lanes tunnel where lane-changing is forbidden and trucks are only allowed in a single lane. After rush hour, guess which lane regains fluidity first? And guess what the truckers do before and through the tunnel?
Yeah, you would call them jerks.
Between your kind and truckers, I know which ones cooperate to keep the roads clear.
The problem with this is two-fold: 1) Insects can digest and carry more disease than plants. The fact that insects are animal and not plant allows them to be carriers...like Malaria for mosquitos. 2) The insects are actually crawling around in the crap. Plants aren't.
Speak with him, ask him if it's okay to fix the little inconsequential things he left behind. Say it's to make things easier for you, so you understand what he did and can fix minor issues without bothering him. Make it so he's the one helping you.
Then come up with a code review, tell him you fixed that link that was backward and to confirm what you did wasn't wrong. Ask him why he didn't write this code that way, if there are any reason. Don't butt heads.
Never frame it as him evolving, but as him making an extra effort to simplify your life, if only by allowing you to adjust his work.
And that is if the system is aligned so that the orbital plane is correctly positioned for Sol-visible occultations.
You can extrapolate from that since 1 in a 100 or 1000 is aligned and multiply the discovery by 1000 to find how many there really are. If this covers a good fraction of the (lets say K) population within a 100 ly, it might not leave much for other types of solar systems.
I don't think we have enough statistical certainty to reach a conclusion yet because the back of my envelope is full.
Being somewhat of the anal retentive disposition, it annoys the hell out of me when someone says "200% increase" when they mean "doubled", which is merely a 100% increase.
Maybe I'm punting the brain fuck, but this makes time a weakly-ordered sequence. For instance, a 100ms ping means that "now" lasts 100ms. If I get an answer after 50ms, we say that it has travelled back in time.
Or maybe it's the theory of relativity that says that, in the same way that a binomial equation might have a negative impossible solution. Now is that theory valid outside its scope? Was Newton's?
If we manage to get 10c FTL, then our definition of "now" will become 10x shorter and nothing more will come off it. If we manage to get -1c FTL, our definition of "now" becomes a recursive "always" and we'll get some Steins;Gate snafu.
tl;dr
Instantaneous communication can means different things because "now" has a duration. For your martian pal, "now" means 10 minutes ago, but "now" also means 10 minutes in the future. You can play games with those extremes.
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So, a 600 dpi laser printer is analog? Maybe the Raster Image Processor for those big printing presses?
Are you saying that misregistration and ink spread make paper a better medium, or is it only because of the superior resolution of the presses?
You'll always need anti-aliasing. Even if we had 1000 dpi monitors.
That's why printed books use anti-aliased fonts.
Measurement errors are involved once at boundary conditions. Precision errors propagates in the computations.
If measurement errors are less than precision errors and precision errors are sufficient to bring out chaos, changing the initial state by epsilon would also bring chaos.
Getting different results using different architectures is a good thing, it allows to see how chaotic the initial conditions are and evaluate the reliability of the result.
PDFs can contain all sorts of crapware, and Slashdot isn't exactly known for vetting its submissions.
PDF from People's Republic of China? no way!
Oh, Postal Regulatory Commission...
I read anoxia as anorexia.
ditto!
OTOH, I can how falling for traps would lead to extinction.
Yes, yes! And every time we use the Moon to slingshot spacecrafts, we cause an orbit decay that will ultimately result in a collision with the Earth!
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
This.
Even good programmers sometimes add unnecessary complications. How often can a direct mess be rewritten as the difference of 2 simple calculations. When distributing width across panes after a resize, modulo distribution is much harder than calculating both states.
We realized Bill had the solution we were looking for and we promptly signed an exclusive license for his patents"
So Bill saved you a lot of struggle. That's what patents are for.
You seem to think that a patent should compensate you for the amount of work you did put in your idea (original or bought). Now did your idea help podcasting in any way, did it save them from struggling to find a solution?
If the answer is "no, not really", then it is a classic patent troll.
Here's to the other kind of free, and another 20 years for both!
This allows management to hijack capitol...
Best typo ever!
Yes, we already established you are a jerk.
Oh, stop trolling.
There's a nice mile-long 3-lanes tunnel where lane-changing is forbidden and trucks are only allowed in a single lane. After rush hour, guess which lane regains fluidity first? And guess what the truckers do before and through the tunnel?
Yeah, you would call them jerks.
Between your kind and truckers, I know which ones cooperate to keep the roads clear.
I suppose the method that would work best in this case is to install a root kit.
I thought a root kit was *for* planting, not against...
The problem with this is two-fold: 1) Insects can digest and carry more disease than plants. The fact that insects are animal and not plant allows them to be carriers...like Malaria for mosquitos. 2) The insects are actually crawling around in the crap. Plants aren't.
Pork.
You don't do code reviews?
Speak with him, ask him if it's okay to fix the little inconsequential things he left behind. Say it's to make things easier for you, so you understand what he did and can fix minor issues without bothering him. Make it so he's the one helping you.
Then come up with a code review, tell him you fixed that link that was backward and to confirm what you did wasn't wrong. Ask him why he didn't write this code that way, if there are any reason. Don't butt heads.
Never frame it as him evolving, but as him making an extra effort to simplify your life, if only by allowing you to adjust his work.
And that is if the system is aligned so that the orbital plane is correctly positioned for Sol-visible occultations.
You can extrapolate from that since 1 in a 100 or 1000 is aligned and multiply the discovery by 1000 to find how many there really are. If this covers a good fraction of the (lets say K) population within a 100 ly, it might not leave much for other types of solar systems.
I don't think we have enough statistical certainty to reach a conclusion yet because the back of my envelope is full.
Being somewhat of the anal retentive disposition, it annoys the hell out of me when someone says "200% increase" when they mean "doubled", which is merely a 100% increase.
That's nothing, in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_display_resolution#WUXGA table, there used to have 150% decrease in pixels. And it wasn't even an imaginary square screen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
A real journal has a pear reviewed articles and other academics looking at them.
That makes it the AppStore of the academic world, then.
It's perfectly obvious that this is true. However, it actually isn't true at all.
Relativity is a mind fuck.
Maybe I'm punting the brain fuck, but this makes time a weakly-ordered sequence. For instance, a 100ms ping means that "now" lasts 100ms. If I get an answer after 50ms, we say that it has travelled back in time.
Or maybe it's the theory of relativity that says that, in the same way that a binomial equation might have a negative impossible solution. Now is that theory valid outside its scope? Was Newton's?
If we manage to get 10c FTL, then our definition of "now" will become 10x shorter and nothing more will come off it. If we manage to get -1c FTL, our definition of "now" becomes a recursive "always" and we'll get some Steins;Gate snafu.
tl;dr
Instantaneous communication can means different things because "now" has a duration. For your martian pal, "now" means 10 minutes ago, but "now" also means 10 minutes in the future. You can play games with those extremes.
Quite frankly I'm surprised Slashdot is able to get April Fools articles out at all.
They're a year late. Easier than you'd think.
If they're stealth bombers, how will the North Koreans notice to get scared?
Well, it's better than invisible pink unicorns. At least you can take photos of B-2 as they fly around.
I mean, putting the second largest value first is just "absurd", right?
Well then, a full date/time should look like "AM 12-12-31-59-59-99".
Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/1179/
Go to bed at 3:08:30 AM, not 3:14:16 as heretics would do.
You can make laws that sodomy is illegal. Yet we still have sodomy going on.
For a moment I thought you meant making sodomy mandatory. That'd be... interesting.