[...] the space agency is hoping to make new suits both high-tech and low-maintenance. Nothing like setting out with two mutually exclusive goals. Correct, it is indeed nothing like that.
Yup. He better not try to pass it off as a real degree on a job applicaton [sic] or he'll be in trouble. I know you're trying to be funny, but I don't think Bill Gates will ever need to apply for a job again, much less work for a living.
You appear to be suggesting that the MAPS RBL used "questionable methods" in this case, and that Spamhaus should be looked to as a model of how it should be done.
In that case, you might find this post interesting. It's from Steve Linford, founder of Spamhaus, in defense of MAPS to Bennett Haselton of Peacefire.org:
Peacefire.org is posting "MAPS are blocking us" press releases deliberately distorting facts to suit your own agenda. The prime fact you ignore is that Media3 could have placed your www.peacefire.org site in any of their many netblocks, but in August they chose to put you in the middle of a class C containing notorious spam gangs whose many IPs were _already_ on the MAPS RBL, and Joe Hayes at Media3 had been told, by MAPS, in June, _two months_ before they put you in that block that the whole class C would be blackholed. Do you not even think Media3 had a duty to tell you that the block they were going to put you in was about to be placed on the RBL? If they had told you, would you have agreed or even volunteered to be placed in there knowing you'd be blackholed by 45% of the Internet? The real issue here, from their perspective, is an ISP trying to use one of their vocal, high-reputation customers as a lever to dislodge blackhole listings against some of their low-reputation customers.
2) Any usage that does not fit under #1 will be billed at $1.00 per bit. Payable immediately. If you're concerned about "inappropriate use of state funded resources", charge them what it actually costs for their traffic, not some exorbitant, punitive rate.
But the most important reason is that it would be much cooler to have a web where you could say "give me a list of all the goals scored by Romario" and have it list them for me. That's a curious thing to ask for, since the first google result is a story about how there is a good bit of controversy surrounding Romario's "1,000" goals. The problem is your request is to vague and doesn't define all the words within itself (i.e. does a goal scored as teenager in a different league count?). That's a matter for the questioner to deal with. Humans can sometimes figure out what you/really/ mean when you ask an ambiguous question like that, but the questioner getting the proper result really relies on him/her having the clarity of thought to ask the right questions.
A lot of these people are focused on "how do I meet this product spec?" and not necessarily a solution fit for purpose. I routinely encounter situations where enumeration comparisons are done using strings and searches are implemented using a linear search (I kid you not, I once reduced a program run from 90 mins to 4 mins by replacing a single linear search with a binary search). Just because every 6 months there is a more powerful CPU on the market doesn't justify ever increasingly sloppy coding. Tell me about it. I've been digging through code produced by supposedly competent developers that is slapped together with little understanding of how things actually work.
For instance, a loop that's meant to scan through a set of XML elements in DOM that uses getElementsByTagName, but which calls that once to get the count of matching elements and once for each match. You read that right, it does a depth-first search of a DOM sub-tree N+1 times, re-searching for the matching NodeList for each of the matching nodes. This wasn't a single instance of this, either, it was peppered through a large "enterprise" web application as one of its common element iteration metaphors.
We don't let auto manufacturers build cars with Duck tape and chicken wire, why is that acceptable in corporate software?
This is what comes to mind anymore whenever some large company blames a computer "glitch" for something. They make it sound like an anomaly, some kind of freak cosmic ray event, rather than a pervasive disrespect for quality software.
The reason they don't read the bills is that the majority does not provide the text of the bill until a few hours (or in some cases minutes!) before the vote. Huh? A bill's text is entered into the Congressional Record as soon as it is introduced, and should be available for Members to read. Action on public bills is in the public record; if we can read it, so can they.
We also need to produce more and more hardware to store these archived data, the most obiquitous [sic] of which is the common hard drive. In the end, we'll need more metal and magnetic matter than the Earth can provide. Right, and we ran out of wood because we used it all up heating our stone houses and all our land is taken up by pasture to feed the horses we use for transportation.
Extrapolating our future needs based on the most common/current/ technology is a bit shortsighted.
As someone who has never seen this particular exchange before, yes, you come off like a jerk.
You may not have meant it that way, but that's certainly the way it appears to someone reading it. In every response, you made a snide remark about Ubuntu or the other posters, rather than being polite with the people from whom you're seeking help. Implicit in all your responses is that it's all Ubuntu's fault, that there could not have been any user error.
That's not how to ask people for help. Remember, you're asking volunteers for help, not demanding support from a company to whom you've paid money. I think the respondents were more than patient with you; I didn't see a single flame returned at you.
Many keep saying "completely different", but they're remarkably similar in that (1) they're not the Earth and (2) their environments are going to be fatal to humans living there without 24x7 support.
Since we haven't demonstrated the ability to give that kind of 24x7 support aside from something in low-Earth orbit, surely doing trial runs on a body that's only a couple light-seconds away will be good preparation for doing it on a body 3-15 light-minutes away, rather than trying to tackle the far-away one first.
Hint: In summaries, you should generally state what an acronym stands for, unless it is well understood by the vast majority of the intended audience. When in doubt, spell it out. Or provide a link. This is hypertext, for pity's sake.
No, Pythagoras didn't have a seismometer capable of detecting 10 millihertz.. Depends on the magnitude of the vibration, doesn't it? If the ground was shaking at 10 mHz with amplitude of 1m, he wouldn't have needed a seismometer. And if it's shaking at 10 mHz with amplitude of 1nm, he wouldn't have been able to spot it, even with a modern seismometer.
But, I still want to play GTA and rampage my own neiborhood. All we need then is a way to project features of the game into reality. Sounds like a horrible SeaQuest time-travel episode.
The full DVD of the first four episodes was ALL OVER Usenet on the 7th. Meaning that someone uploaded a zillion RAR pieces to one of the alt.binaries groups, and there were a flurry of fills as some pieces didn't get delivered to various ends of the net.
It's about 100 times better than the standard PC server setup. ...assuming you don't want to do something old-fashioned like kick and ban some annoyance or have a free-standing place you and your friends always come to.
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In that case, you might find this post interesting. It's from Steve Linford, founder of Spamhaus, in defense of MAPS to Bennett Haselton of Peacefire.org: Peacefire.org is posting "MAPS are blocking us" press releases
deliberately distorting facts to suit your own agenda. The prime fact
you ignore is that Media3 could have placed your www.peacefire.org
site in any of their many netblocks, but in August they chose to put
you in the middle of a class C containing notorious spam gangs whose
many IPs were _already_ on the MAPS RBL, and Joe Hayes at Media3 had
been told, by MAPS, in June, _two months_ before they put you in that
block that the whole class C would be blackholed. Do you not even
think Media3 had a duty to tell you that the block they were going to
put you in was about to be placed on the RBL? If they had told you,
would you have agreed or even volunteered to be placed in there
knowing you'd be blackholed by 45% of the Internet? The real issue here, from their perspective, is an ISP trying to use one of their vocal, high-reputation customers as a lever to dislodge blackhole listings against some of their low-reputation customers.
We need to step on these bastards necks NOW. Careful, that kind of talk will get you thrown in Guantanamo, or one of its local subsidiaries.
Oh yeah, that's funny. it's almost a real riot. Not "ha ha" funny, "peculiar" funny.
Sorry, I didn't get past your subject line, where you couldn't spell "conniving".
For instance, a loop that's meant to scan through a set of XML elements in DOM that uses getElementsByTagName, but which calls that once to get the count of matching elements and once for each match. You read that right, it does a depth-first search of a DOM sub-tree N+1 times, re-searching for the matching NodeList for each of the matching nodes. This wasn't a single instance of this, either, it was peppered through a large "enterprise" web application as one of its common element iteration metaphors.
We don't let auto manufacturers build cars with Duck tape and chicken wire, why is that acceptable in corporate software?
This is what comes to mind anymore whenever some large company blames a computer "glitch" for something. They make it sound like an anomaly, some kind of freak cosmic ray event, rather than a pervasive disrespect for quality software.
You owe me a new monitor. Diet Dew does not mix well with electronics.
Extrapolating our future needs based on the most common
As someone who has never seen this particular exchange before, yes, you come off like a jerk.
You may not have meant it that way, but that's certainly the way it appears to someone reading it. In every response, you made a snide remark about Ubuntu or the other posters, rather than being polite with the people from whom you're seeking help. Implicit in all your responses is that it's all Ubuntu's fault, that there could not have been any user error.
That's not how to ask people for help. Remember, you're asking volunteers for help, not demanding support from a company to whom you've paid money. I think the respondents were more than patient with you; I didn't see a single flame returned at you.
Many keep saying "completely different", but they're remarkably similar in that (1) they're not the Earth and (2) their environments are going to be fatal to humans living there without 24x7 support.
Since we haven't demonstrated the ability to give that kind of 24x7 support aside from something in low-Earth orbit, surely doing trial runs on a body that's only a couple light-seconds away will be good preparation for doing it on a body 3-15 light-minutes away, rather than trying to tackle the far-away one first.
How about pseudocode? That way, the specification would be invariant to--among other things--bug fixes and ports to different languages.
"Qubit" is typically pronounced the same as "cubit", which is (IMHO) a lot catchier than "quit" or "qit".
Did they have to call it Tor? I don't want Ed Wood flicks jumping into my head when I hear about it.
Now Canter & Siegel, THEY were all over Usenet.
s/Obstinately/Ostensibly/ ?
Also fun are the players that call anyone who kills them a "noob". The irony of that comment is always lost on them.