First, let's drop the euphamism and call these incidents wrecks or crashes, not accidents.
Second, surely the insurance companies are the best source of information about the risk of cellphone use, since they have a financial incentive to measure the risk posed by them. Perhaps they will start offering reductions if you don't use your phone while driving (and check your phone records when you make a claim).
"Maybe instead of "thinking" about the issue you should have checked out the company site where they have a video of ice being removed from an airfoil in a wind tunnel. That seemed like a fairly conclusive demonstration of the practicality of this process for that purpose."
Well, I'm admittedly "thinking" here, but how does a demonstration in a wind tunnel, where there is practically unlimited power available, demonstrate that such a system wouldn't overburden the plane's limited available power, the issue the original poster spent most of his post discussing?
"While laptops have mostly fueled the market these last few years, Desktops actually had a little bit of a comeback"
OK, "laptops" is not capitalized, but "desktops" is. Why? Is this a brand name I haven't heard of? I am really tired of the random capitalization degeneration I'm noticing more and more of. Anytime you're capitalizing a word, verify that it's either at the beginning of a sentence or the name of something, not just any old noun.
"All stores were given evaluation version to test out ERD Commander and when the trial expired Best Buy decided not to license this software and they developed their own disc based on Bart's PE which is completely different from ERD Commander. [...] Basically, Winternals is pissed because they lost an 850 store contract with Best Buy, not including all field agents and stand-alone locations. [...] i'd be pretty pissed off too."
They didn't lose a contract; it sounds like they didn't get the contract in the first place. Why should they be pissed? Best Buy tried the program and said "no".
So why did the people in the small towns shop at Wal-Mart in the first place? Apparently the existence of the local businesses was just a fluke, because if they were desired by most of the residents of the small towns, the Wal-Marts wouldn't get business there. The people spoke with their actions: "We prefer lower prices to locally-ran small businesses." They don't like the tradeoff? Should have thought of that before choosing with their pocket books.
I don't like Wal-Mart or the stories I hear of their practices, but this won't make me gloss over what seems to me faulty arguments against their existence.
Or get the previous generation comfortable with thinking they're tracking the next generation, all the while the next generation is laughing at how idiotic the previous generation is, both for attempting to track them and making it so easy to avoid.
Now that sounds more reasonable. Instead of putting the incremental backup smarts on the client side, put it on the server side. This way the client can use whatever old scheme is handy, perhaps a plain file copy, and let the server sort out the redundancy with data already copied previously. Only the server has to contain the complex algorithms, so there's less of an opportunity for screw-ups.
That blog entry smells artificial, though. Very calculated. Right about here, I become wary:
"The way Diligent achieves it exceptional compression ratio is by comparing all incoming data to the data already arrived. When it finds an incoming stream of bytes similar to an existing series of bytes it compares the two and stores the differences. The magic comes in a couple of areas, as near as I can make out given Neville's natural reticence on the "how" of the technology.
First, one has to be smart about how big the series of bytes before worrying about trying to compess it, since if it's too short there won't be much or any compression. Secondly, the system needs a very fast and efficient method of knowing what is has already received so it can know when it is receiving something similar. And it all has to be optimized to run in-line at data rate speeds on a standard server box -- which runs the cool and reliable Linux OS."
"The irony is, it's not the military that's waging a ware of dis-information, it's our own government waging a war of dis-information on us!"
Almost everyone wages information "warfare" on their target audience. Go to almost any website with a cause and you'll find it's full of bullshit whose only purpose is to make you think like the writer wants you to. And let's not even get started on advertising. The government's activity, whatever its extent, is nothing compared to that of the average person.
to give to people when they are talking to me. If course I could just use a vibrator since most people bore the shit out of me with their inane truth-avoiding talk all the time.
"But under the new code, ISPs will have to offer spam filtering options to subscribers and provide a system of handling complaints. They will also have to impose reasonable limits on the rate at which subscribers can send email."
Can't the market work out the first part? If people want SPAM blocking, then ISPs will provide it, possibly for a fee if it's expensive to provide or only some customers want it. The only need for government-imposed features is when ISPs aren't working to prevent outgoing SPAM (and even then, other peers could just cut them out of the network).
"... software developers will feel less pressure to develop Mac software, since Mac users can "just" boot Windows."
If a software developer is making a Mac version simply due to pressure, it's probably not going to be that great. How about all the developers who use, enjoy, and write software exclusively for the Mac?
I haven't looked at the site (no Windows for me!) but I'd think brain speed is more a matter of the number of connections (i.e. parallelism) rather than the speed of the links. I get the idea that this tries to measure the latency of processing rather than the throughput. It would be like running a process on only one core of a multi-core system and claiming to measure the performance of all the cores combined.
I'm going to speak up for everyone who doesn't think rape is funny. This kind of humor is really low and suggests that you (and others) think that rape (and sexually-transmitted diseases) is just punishment for something. There are thousands of people in prison who have committed no violence against anyone, stolen nothing, and they are raped. I really expect a higher standard, even if this is Slashdot.
"Or did you make enough calls to 911 to make it statiscly relevant?"
Wait a minute, you're not supposed to call that number nine-hundred eleven times? Oh well, at least I got the "on-hold" percentage down to 1/10 of one percent accuracy! (53.7%)
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"If, however, you roll over your favorite video game CD with your office chair (not I know anybody who has ever done that...), why should you have more right to a replacement than the guy who had his paperback fall out of his jacket pocket into the toilet on a bus (not that... well, you know)?"
- It costs me less than a dollar to make a backup of a CD, but much more than that for a book, and the copy is much less-desirable to use than the original.
- I make copies of CDs I often carry with me and thus tend to scratch more. I don't have to worry about losing it (say it gets stolen or I drop it somewhere). It's easier to make the backup than take really careful care of discs on the go.
- A water-damaged book or one with a gash in the edges of the pages is still entirely readable, while a CD with even a minor scratch can become completely unusable.
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First, let's drop the euphamism and call these incidents wrecks or crashes, not accidents.
Second, surely the insurance companies are the best source of information about the risk of cellphone use, since they have a financial incentive to measure the risk posed by them. Perhaps they will start offering reductions if you don't use your phone while driving (and check your phone records when you make a claim).
"Maybe instead of "thinking" about the issue you should have checked out the company site where they have a video of ice being removed from an airfoil in a wind tunnel. That seemed like a fairly conclusive demonstration of the practicality of this process for that purpose."
Well, I'm admittedly "thinking" here, but how does a demonstration in a wind tunnel, where there is practically unlimited power available, demonstrate that such a system wouldn't overburden the plane's limited available power, the issue the original poster spent most of his post discussing?
"While laptops have mostly fueled the market these last few years, Desktops actually had a little bit of a comeback"
OK, "laptops" is not capitalized, but "desktops" is. Why? Is this a brand name I haven't heard of? I am really tired of the random capitalization degeneration I'm noticing more and more of. Anytime you're capitalizing a word, verify that it's either at the beginning of a sentence or the name of something, not just any old noun.
"All stores were given evaluation version to test out ERD Commander and when the trial expired Best Buy decided not to license this software and they developed their own disc based on Bart's PE which is completely different from ERD Commander. [...] Basically, Winternals is pissed because they lost an 850 store contract with Best Buy, not including all field agents and stand-alone locations. [...] i'd be pretty pissed off too."
They didn't lose a contract; it sounds like they didn't get the contract in the first place. Why should they be pissed? Best Buy tried the program and said "no".
"With only two differences"
You left one out:
3) No airborne chairs
So why did the people in the small towns shop at Wal-Mart in the first place? Apparently the existence of the local businesses was just a fluke, because if they were desired by most of the residents of the small towns, the Wal-Marts wouldn't get business there. The people spoke with their actions: "We prefer lower prices to locally-ran small businesses." They don't like the tradeoff? Should have thought of that before choosing with their pocket books.
I don't like Wal-Mart or the stories I hear of their practices, but this won't make me gloss over what seems to me faulty arguments against their existence.
Damn, I wish I could read your post, but you seemed to have double ROT13'd it.
"Em, a cavity is a hole, so can someone tell me how you remove a hole with a drill?"
Like duhh, just run the drill backwards!
Or get the previous generation comfortable with thinking they're tracking the next generation, all the while the next generation is laughing at how idiotic the previous generation is, both for attempting to track them and making it so easy to avoid.
Now that sounds more reasonable. Instead of putting the incremental backup smarts on the client side, put it on the server side. This way the client can use whatever old scheme is handy, perhaps a plain file copy, and let the server sort out the redundancy with data already copied previously. Only the server has to contain the complex algorithms, so there's less of an opportunity for screw-ups.
That blog entry smells artificial, though. Very calculated. Right about here, I become wary:
"The way Diligent achieves it exceptional compression ratio is by comparing all incoming data to the data already arrived. When it finds an incoming stream of bytes similar to an existing series of bytes it compares the two and stores the differences. The magic comes in a couple of areas, as near as I can make out given Neville's natural reticence on the "how" of the technology.
First, one has to be smart about how big the series of bytes before worrying about trying to compess it, since if it's too short there won't be much or any compression. Secondly, the system needs a very fast and efficient method of knowing what is has already received so it can know when it is receiving something similar. And it all has to be optimized to run in-line at data rate speeds on a standard server box -- which runs the cool and reliable Linux OS."
"OK, so now let's do this experiment again, this time with 51 roaches. Will there be 17 in each of the three shelters?"
Or will they go POP in a fit of indecision, like a nuked game of Lemmings when you get stuck? Must try this soon...
...I'm afraid I can't let you climb that mountain.
"The irony is, it's not the military that's waging a ware of dis-information, it's our own government waging a war of dis-information on us!"
Almost everyone wages information "warfare" on their target audience. Go to almost any website with a cause and you'll find it's full of bullshit whose only purpose is to make you think like the writer wants you to. And let's not even get started on advertising. The government's activity, whatever its extent, is nothing compared to that of the average person.
That's odd, you'd think the RIAA would have noticed that it was missing the play button before approving it...
to give to people when they are talking to me. If course I could just use a vibrator since most people bore the shit out of me with their inane truth-avoiding talk all the time.
"But under the new code, ISPs will have to offer spam filtering options to subscribers and provide a system of handling complaints. They will also have to impose reasonable limits on the rate at which subscribers can send email."
Can't the market work out the first part? If people want SPAM blocking, then ISPs will provide it, possibly for a fee if it's expensive to provide or only some customers want it. The only need for government-imposed features is when ISPs aren't working to prevent outgoing SPAM (and even then, other peers could just cut them out of the network).
"... software developers will feel less pressure to develop Mac software, since Mac users can "just" boot Windows."
If a software developer is making a Mac version simply due to pressure, it's probably not going to be that great. How about all the developers who use, enjoy, and write software exclusively for the Mac?
I was hoping they found the missing symlink to a file I lost ages ago.
I haven't looked at the site (no Windows for me!) but I'd think brain speed is more a matter of the number of connections (i.e. parallelism) rather than the speed of the links. I get the idea that this tries to measure the latency of processing rather than the throughput. It would be like running a process on only one core of a multi-core system and claiming to measure the performance of all the cores combined.
"FTA: giving a digital mapping of a face that would form part of a fool-proof security system."
I have yet to hear of a "fool-proof" security system of any sort.
Note the all-important conditional in the quote. For example, "this piece of wire will be part of my fool-proof security system!"
"Wow, converting to MPAA units that's 300 years of jail time per second! Smokin!"
Hmmm, I sense the possibility of time travel hidden in there somewhere.
I'm going to speak up for everyone who doesn't think rape is funny. This kind of humor is really low and suggests that you (and others) think that rape (and sexually-transmitted diseases) is just punishment for something. There are thousands of people in prison who have committed no violence against anyone, stolen nothing, and they are raped. I really expect a higher standard, even if this is Slashdot.
"Or did you make enough calls to 911 to make it statiscly relevant?"
Wait a minute, you're not supposed to call that number nine-hundred eleven times? Oh well, at least I got the "on-hold" percentage down to 1/10 of one percent accuracy! (53.7%)
"If, however, you roll over your favorite video game CD with your office chair (not I know anybody who has ever done that...), why should you have more right to a replacement than the guy who had his paperback fall out of his jacket pocket into the toilet on a bus (not that... well, you know)?"
- It costs me less than a dollar to make a backup of a CD, but much more than that for a book, and the copy is much less-desirable to use than the original.
- I make copies of CDs I often carry with me and thus tend to scratch more. I don't have to worry about losing it (say it gets stolen or I drop it somewhere). It's easier to make the backup than take really careful care of discs on the go.
- A water-damaged book or one with a gash in the edges of the pages is still entirely readable, while a CD with even a minor scratch can become completely unusable.
Just think, in a year or so local businesses might start supporting this, allowing you to pull out your phone and pay for goods, just like that!