"In the red area they put people who are badly injured but still alive. But they don't receive any treatment, because either they're untreatable, or the effort that they put into treating them could save several times as many people in the yellow area. People they put into the red area are abandoned to die."
Great, if I'm ever in a hospital and get put in the red area, I'll remember reading this and feel dread. Well, assuming I'm conscious enough to.
"If that's the case, then how come Apache with over 60% of the market and millions of installations is not fraught with as many defects as Microsoft products?"
Go compare the number of vulnerabilities in IIS6 and Apache 2, you'll be very surprised.
number of known vulnerabilities = number of vulnerabilities * amount of testing
more testing = more known vulnerabilities (unless the software has few defects)
Any bets on how long it'll be until someone finds either a hole in the Microsoft PNG decoder or libJPEG? We've had holes in libPNG and Microsoft's JPEG decoder.
So you think security is best served by a homogeneous environment, where everyone uses the same implementation?
If you want to get paid for your work on software, put up a donation box. Implement planned improvements once sufficient funds accumulate. Make the result available freely. Don't waste any resources fighting the ease of information sharing.
If nobody makes a donation, it means there isn't enough demand for your programming skills. Find something else to work on. If you still end up making the improvements without the funds, it means you already found compensation (the enjoyment of programming, perhaps).
You might also add a way to vote on features when making a donation, or perhaps even make those funds available only for that feature.
It's a waste to spend resources on countering the near zero cost of information duplication. Let it work for you.
[...]I don't [know] of many common flies that can withstand high temperatures or toxic gas concentrations and be in a local environment in a large enough population to sustain the energy needs of a robot.
That's exactly how it works! When they lose the signal from the robot, due to a lack of nearby flies, they know the temperature and/or toxic gas concentration is high.
It's just like audio "enhancement". Either the amplifier/TV shows the picture as it was recorded, or it distorts it. Some people like distortion, just as some people like all their foods to have sugar added.
During the American Airlines test, "we told everyone that the softer you speak, the better the conversation," Mr. Ford said. "Yet the moment we gave out the cellphones, they all started yelling."
And by speaking more loudly, you can create the feeling that your private conversation is interesting and worthy of public attention.
Ok, blame it on the people who ran the plant, their practices, the old graphite reactor, etc, but don't play the tune that nuclear power is safe. These are among the most toxic substances on earth and half-lives are in decades if not centuries. All it takes is an accident.
So, behind door A we have a possible toxic release. Behind door B we have definite toxic release, continuously through the operation of the plant. Apparently fear wins out, so we go with door B. Sure, we're constantly being affected by it, but there are no sudden surprises. And hey, since it's continuous, it appears as "the way things are" when the overall health of the population is studied.
i started to use google when it first started to come out [...] not only was google faster and cleaner, but the results from my searches matched what i was looking for.
yes, they had the right recipie. the others didn't have that.
What if a main factor was that advertisers hadn't yet targeted Google's search algorithm?
Anymore, whenever I buy a DVD or CD, I make a point to buy it used, from places like Amazon. So far I'be bought several used movies that way and the quality has been all but indistinguishable from new. Just remember, every penny you put into their pockets is another penny that's available to pay their lawyers on this jihad. [...] Well I for one have decided, no more. NOT ONE RED CENT.
How about the pennies put into their pockets by people who will buy new if they can't find it used? Buying used still (indirectly) results in more money in their pockets.
...to have a poor little hamster run on a wheel just to save a few cents of elecricity? What? They already run on wheels for fun? Uh, well... never mind.
Just install Windows without any service packs and between crashes and virus infestations, I'm pretty much locked out of my computer. Even if it's working I don't want to mess with it.
If the goal is a good grade, the issues mentioned are relevant. If the goal is to learn something, there's no substitute for spending time learning it. Keeping this in mind, the usual idea of cheating can be understood as a confusion of these two issues. There's no way to cheat the learning process, and the grading process is just an algorithm which gives useful feedback to the student when the input is constrained to a certain domain.
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"In the red area they put people who are badly injured but still alive. But they don't receive any treatment, because either they're untreatable, or the effort that they put into treating them could save several times as many people in the yellow area. People they put into the red area are abandoned to die."
Great, if I'm ever in a hospital and get put in the red area, I'll remember reading this and feel dread. Well, assuming I'm conscious enough to.
I would agree, but since I'm typing this on my stolen copy of Windows. I'd better not.
Whose copy did you steal? Did they find a replacement without suffering too much down time?
"If that's the case, then how come Apache with over 60% of the market and millions of installations is not fraught with as many defects as Microsoft products?"
Go compare the number of vulnerabilities in IIS6 and Apache 2, you'll be very surprised.
number of known vulnerabilities = number of vulnerabilities * amount of testing
more testing = more known vulnerabilities (unless the software has few defects)
...Everyone else uses libJPEG.
Any bets on how long it'll be until someone finds either a hole in the Microsoft PNG decoder or libJPEG? We've had holes in libPNG and Microsoft's JPEG decoder.
So you think security is best served by a homogeneous environment, where everyone uses the same implementation?
If you want to get paid for your work on software, put up a donation box. Implement planned improvements once sufficient funds accumulate. Make the result available freely. Don't waste any resources fighting the ease of information sharing.
If nobody makes a donation, it means there isn't enough demand for your programming skills. Find something else to work on. If you still end up making the improvements without the funds, it means you already found compensation (the enjoyment of programming, perhaps).
You might also add a way to vote on features when making a donation, or perhaps even make those funds available only for that feature.
It's a waste to spend resources on countering the near zero cost of information duplication. Let it work for you.
[...]I don't [know] of many common flies that can withstand high temperatures or toxic gas concentrations and be in a local environment in a large enough population to sustain the energy needs of a robot.
That's exactly how it works! When they lose the signal from the robot, due to a lack of nearby flies, they know the temperature and/or toxic gas concentration is high.
It's not zoom, it's digital enhancement.
It's just like audio "enhancement". Either the amplifier/TV shows the picture as it was recorded, or it distorts it. Some people like distortion, just as some people like all their foods to have sugar added.
I can only think of one genre of movies that this would be used for...
Come on, It'll allow me to use my PXL2000 and get quality that rivals DVD! And they said cassettes were dead.
Also, they reported all-time profits being high despite the oceans being filled with salty water. In addition, this was despite 1+1 totaling two.
During the American Airlines test, "we told everyone that the softer you speak, the better the conversation," Mr. Ford said. "Yet the moment we gave out the cellphones, they all started yelling."
And by speaking more loudly, you can create the feeling that your private conversation is interesting and worthy of public attention.
Ok, blame it on the people who ran the plant, their practices, the old graphite reactor, etc, but don't play the tune that nuclear power is safe. These are among the most toxic substances on earth and half-lives are in decades if not centuries. All it takes is an accident.
So, behind door A we have a possible toxic release. Behind door B we have definite toxic release, continuously through the operation of the plant. Apparently fear wins out, so we go with door B. Sure, we're constantly being affected by it, but there are no sudden surprises. And hey, since it's continuous, it appears as "the way things are" when the overall health of the population is studied.
Door B, of course, is coal.
Too bad the article forces a wide column, rather than an easier-to-read narrow column.
I think I might rather hang onto this information until we're sure our new-found neighbors are friendly.
It's a good thing we're friendly.
i started to use google when it first started to come out [...] not only was google faster and cleaner, but the results from my searches matched what i was looking for.
yes, they had the right recipie. the others didn't have that.
What if a main factor was that advertisers hadn't yet targeted Google's search algorithm?
I guess when someone shoots the monitor and says they destroyed the computer I can't laugh at the movie anymore.
Only if they shoot at the upper-left corner (upper-right if the critical data is in an optical disc).
Enough with the technical mumbo-jumbo. I just want to know how many Libraries of Congress that is per minute.
Anymore, whenever I buy a DVD or CD, I make a point to buy it used, from places like Amazon. So far I'be bought several used movies that way and the quality has been all but indistinguishable from new. Just remember, every penny you put into their pockets is another penny that's available to pay their lawyers on this jihad. [...] Well I for one have decided, no more. NOT ONE RED CENT.
How about the pennies put into their pockets by people who will buy new if they can't find it used? Buying used still (indirectly) results in more money in their pockets.
...The ALA encourages the people of the United States to fight against the book bans and read a banned book today!
Yeah, I'm pumped up! I'm going to read Where's Waldo and make a statement!
...to have a poor little hamster run on a wheel just to save a few cents of elecricity? What? They already run on wheels for fun? Uh, well... never mind.
...will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations...
Oh, so that's what a processor does! Can you remind me again what "RAM" is?
Boss, I still can't figure out why this isn't working. We followed the steps exactly:
1) Sue customers
2) ???
3) Profit
What you say? That's supposed to be "Don't sue customers"?
How many miles per gallon will a flying car get?
Don't you mean, how many gallons per mile?
Just install Windows without any service packs and between crashes and virus infestations, I'm pretty much locked out of my computer. Even if it's working I don't want to mess with it.
Now I can watch as the food in the fridge turns green
More importantly, I can wear my improved tinfoil hat in public without getting weird looks.
If the goal is a good grade, the issues mentioned are relevant. If the goal is to learn something, there's no substitute for spending time learning it. Keeping this in mind, the usual idea of cheating can be understood as a confusion of these two issues. There's no way to cheat the learning process, and the grading process is just an algorithm which gives useful feedback to the student when the input is constrained to a certain domain.