It seems I forgot to make my point in the last post.:-)
My point was that there are lots of other fire hazards in your average home, most of them more dangerous than the computer. I've never seen a computer catch fire, but I've seen pics of appliances as diverse as refrigerators and washing mashines (!) be the cause of domestic fires.
So, my point was along "I'd take precautions for the general case and don't worry so much".
I wasn't saying there was danger, that would be interpreting the numbers you asked for. If you want to go hunting for fire hazards, my first three steps would be installing a smoke detector, a fire extinguisher, and reviewing the home insurance policy.
Actually, the fire safety training I mentioned was quite amusing in that regard. The fire officer leading the training asked for a show of hands how many had smoke detectors in their house; almost everybody had. His follow-up question was how many had fire extinguishers. Almost nobody.
"Oh, excellent!" he said. "So, you wake up in the middle of the night from the smoke alarm you've installed. You know there's a fire in your house. However, you have no extinguisher! So now you do... what?":-)
Yes, specced clock and voltage, and then heat sink shot (removed) to see what happened. The overheating ones were AMD procs; Pentiums did not (I say again, DID NOT) overheat anywhere near these temperatures.
I don't remember the ignition temp for your average plastic, but I do remember (from office fire safety training) that paper tended to have the lowest ignition temp of everyday materials, closely followed by wood. My associations to burning plastic are more along the lines of "toxic as hell so get out", I don't remember a specific temperature.
Tom's Hardware Guide showed how the CPUs had reached 300 and 370 degrees C in the infamous thermal tests once the cooling was shot. The ignition temperature for paper is typically in the 175-200 degree range.
Your own quote says "To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation."
Where in delivering a unilateral, broadcast, and undirected message do you find pressure, threats, or intimidation?
To claim that this is terrorism is just more WTC "terrorism everywhere" inflation hysteria. We need the word to mean what it means, and you ain't helping.
(The "please" part is an integral part of Swedish language that needs to be affixed to most sentences and constructs, unless used on its own, which is almost always ok too. In fact, most everyday business transactions end with the parties thanking each other a couple of times. In the US, I would expect a sign with the same message, adapted for culture, to read "Junkmailers will be shot."):-)
When the movie "Outbreak" and its CG F/X with choppers hit the screens, I remember thinking "Wow, you can't tell what's real and what's not anymore. You really cannot tell the difference between a CG scene and a real one. I wonder how long it will take before news studios start using this to fabricate stories."
Upon which a friend of mine replied, "What makes you think they don't already?"
Observation 5: Several people are paid to peer review closed-source code full time, and these people are paid and trained to specifically look for security bugs. The Open Source movement lacks this feature, where large chunks of code can go unreviewed forever if it's not sexy enough. Additionally, if you don't know how to look for security bugs, you don't see them even if they're right in front of you. It's just not a matter of looking for static buffers.
Observation 6: Closed source software generally isn't as closed as you imagine. For example, the Windows source code is available - under rather strict terms, of course - to a number of large customers, government bodies, and universities. These bodies in general, and universities in particular, generally review the code quite meticuously. So (at least in the case of MS, which is usually the favorite target), I don't see your observation holding all the water it intends to.
If the buildings had been standing, they'd have been in the process of teardown to make way for replacements. Agreed, the people would have survived, but I can't see the buildings themselves surviving as usable buildings after a blowout of the middle of them.
The world's finest whiskies come from this little tiny island! Who does NOT know where it is? (At least, somebody with a small interest in whisky?)
Bowmore, Laphroiagh, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Port Ellen, Bruichladdich, Caol Ila and Bunnahabhain -- eight distilleries on this island, each one of them producing a fantastic malt. (Though my favorite right now is a 17yo Ardbeg.)
Sadly though, some of these stills have been dozed...
Seriously, what do they need hydrogen for? They have plenty of fuel, just tap from the stills:-)
Sad I missed that on the Star Wars thread, as I have a DLP projector for my home theater system and therefore some hands-on experience from them. Anyway, what can be said about them is;
- less color saturation than LCD projection (colors are not as vivid)
- no burn-in (as opposed to LCD)
- better longevity of colors (no fade over time)
- MUCH better brightness, in fact, black becomes dark-grayish (this is a problem)
- bulbs cost you an arm and a leg
- less need for cooling => less noise
- crispness is so good you have to deliberately DE-focus to get a good movie viewing experience
Everything of course from my own personal experience with them. I could recommend a DLP projector to anyone who wants to set up a home system.
The URL in the story points to some poor guy who is absolutely not an MS exec and who finds it hilarious that he's linked from Slashdot, and writes on his page that "Well, now we KNOW that/. can't possibly check its links".
The correct page for this Microsoft executive is here.
Hmmm. After reading your elaboration, perhaps I _did_ misjudge Computer Science. Anyway, I still didn't like the attitude displayed to me in university (as witnessed by the Quicksort example, which the professors defended heavily at the time).
Granted, I don't do a lot of concurrency. I often battle race conditions though, but in database and threading scenarios.
Also, I must say your attitude, on elaboration, is different from what I have mostly encountered. When I encounter academia types presented with a problem, they usually insist on having it solved 100% correctly. In the real world, 99.5% might do just fine, it may be ok if (say) one text out of 200 gets poorly translated. And so, my usual experience has been that when these people resign and say "it can't be done", I have already crafted a solution which works.
So anyway, I guess I was a bit doing a knee-jerk reaction. Thanks for your elaboration.
UNITED STATES LAWS ONLY APPLY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.
The second half of this bill would have NO impact on what the rest of the world could do on the Internet, and therefore be completely without edge. Everybody else would be free to use www.fuckfest.com, www.dick.net and www.teensluts.org. Of course, Americans would be able to access these sites, but not set them up. So what's the point? Nothing gained in terms of protection, something lost in terms of freedom.
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In writing "Ideal", you suggest that this is exactly what you want. I'd consider it a start.
There are several things I'd like to see additionally. For example;
The right to sell a used copy of a film, like you can do a book.
The right to sell a used copy of any software, like you can do a book.
The banning of software licenses. Software copies should be SOLD, not licensed. If I buy something from you, you should have no right to regulate how I choose to use that item.
The banning of use-limiting technology that harms the consumers, sorry, citizens (such as DVD regionalization). See above. Or perhaps, rather, the outlawing of enforcing such technology. What I do with my DVD is for me alone to decide.
This is just a start. For example, if you consider the law to be a sum of the generally acceptable morals, then peer-to-peer file sharing should be allowed and legal. Judging by the volume of Napster, Grokster, DirectConnect etc, this is considered acceptable activity by citizens. So fucking what if some corps think it damages their bottom line? Get a new business model. To quote somebody else; the law is not indended to protect obsolete business models. If nobody wants to buy your stuff, you had damn better get into a different business, and that's it.
Phew, got into an intense rant there. Anyway, I think you get my idea. I think the law has to shift more than these basic points, but they are a good start of making the public (and lawmakers!) aware that there is another tray on this scale.
Every year thousands of people graduate with CS degrees that can not: explain the sleeping barber problem; do OMT diagrams; define a Turing machine; give an example of a non-computable function; demonstrate even the remotest knowledge of what the "NP" means in 'NP-complete', use structured programming concepts, comment code, apply even the most basic software engineering techniques, etc.
Hate to break your illusions here, but I cannot do most of this. This is the academia equivalent to "Buzzword Bingo" in the IT workplace.
I have been a professional programmer all my life (since I was 16; I am now 31) and attended University at one time. I aced the CS courses - came out at #1 of my class (of 152) after having bought the book three days before the exam and taking the exam wearing a morning gown and drinking tea (as a protest against scheduling the exam at 8am).
After acing a couple of classes, I got to assist in teaching. A lot of the theory I had to throw right out the window. My students loved when I did this, and explained why the theory being taught was worthless in practice.
(One example to illustrate here; the QuickSort examples in these books picked the first element in the list as the pivot element. Any person with a bare experience in writing LIVE code understands how this will behave in real life: on a near-sorted list, which most are, this particular stupid design detail degrades QuickSort to BubbleSort efficiency.)
So I took a break from my own firm when I was 20 thinking I'd get a grade and be better at what I did for a living. Oh, what a disappointment. The skills being taught had little or no applicability to the real world.
So I left the university after a year and a half and expanded my firm instead. I chose to leave the entrepreneur path at 26, taking an employment instead, but I am still a professional coder writing top quality code by my peer's standards.
My point? I have no idea what these named theorems of yours are, and I am considered a top quality software engineer. I think you display an overly arrogant attitude in defining the standards by which CS skills should be judged. I also think this is typical for most people who have been in the academic world for an extensive period of time, judging from my own experience.
I find myself humming the M.U.L.E music from time to time, as well as the Archon music. Remember Archon? First time ever you saw the Electronic Arts logo? Anyway, it had a really cool theme music for the time.:-)
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It seems I forgot to make my point in the last post. :-)
My point was that there are lots of other fire hazards in your average home, most of them more dangerous than the computer. I've never seen a computer catch fire, but I've seen pics of appliances as diverse as refrigerators and washing mashines (!) be the cause of domestic fires.
So, my point was along "I'd take precautions for the general case and don't worry so much".
I wasn't saying there was danger, that would be interpreting the numbers you asked for. If you want to go hunting for fire hazards, my first three steps would be installing a smoke detector, a fire extinguisher, and reviewing the home insurance policy.
:-)
Actually, the fire safety training I mentioned was quite amusing in that regard. The fire officer leading the training asked for a show of hands how many had smoke detectors in their house; almost everybody had. His follow-up question was how many had fire extinguishers. Almost nobody.
"Oh, excellent!" he said. "So, you wake up in the middle of the night from the smoke alarm you've installed. You know there's a fire in your house. However, you have no extinguisher! So now you do... what?"
Link.
Yes, specced clock and voltage, and then heat sink shot (removed) to see what happened. The overheating ones were AMD procs; Pentiums did not (I say again, DID NOT) overheat anywhere near these temperatures.
I don't remember the ignition temp for your average plastic, but I do remember (from office fire safety training) that paper tended to have the lowest ignition temp of everyday materials, closely followed by wood. My associations to burning plastic are more along the lines of "toxic as hell so get out", I don't remember a specific temperature.
Tom's Hardware Guide showed how the CPUs had reached 300 and 370 degrees C in the infamous thermal tests once the cooling was shot. The ignition temperature for paper is typically in the 175-200 degree range.
This is the state that the world (as in "outside of America") applauds for its crackdown on car emissions and its harsh CO2 regulations?
:-/
And the same state is now using DIESEL TRAINS to produce ELECTRICITY?
Jeez. You'd think the place was run by politicians or something.
How many peaceful demonstrators have been murdered by the United States military in the last 20 years?
What makes you think American news media would even report it, if it didn't happen on American soil?
(How about bombing a couple of weddings?)
Your own quote says "To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation."
Where in delivering a unilateral, broadcast, and undirected message do you find pressure, threats, or intimidation?
To claim that this is terrorism is just more WTC "terrorism everywhere" inflation hysteria. We need the word to mean what it means, and you ain't helping.
It simply means "No advertisements, please."
:-)
(The "please" part is an integral part of Swedish language that needs to be affixed to most sentences and constructs, unless used on its own, which is almost always ok too. In fact, most everyday business transactions end with the parties thanking each other a couple of times. In the US, I would expect a sign with the same message, adapted for culture, to read "Junkmailers will be shot.")
When the movie "Outbreak" and its CG F/X with choppers hit the screens, I remember thinking "Wow, you can't tell what's real and what's not anymore. You really cannot tell the difference between a CG scene and a real one. I wonder how long it will take before news studios start using this to fabricate stories."
Upon which a friend of mine replied, "What makes you think they don't already?"
Actually, the typical ratio is 2 testers to 1 developer. Not true in all units, but it's the norm.
Observation 5:
Several people are paid to peer review closed-source code full time, and these people are paid and trained to specifically look for security bugs. The Open Source movement lacks this feature, where large chunks of code can go unreviewed forever if it's not sexy enough. Additionally, if you don't know how to look for security bugs, you don't see them even if they're right in front of you. It's just not a matter of looking for static buffers.
Observation 6:
Closed source software generally isn't as closed as you imagine. For example, the Windows source code is available - under rather strict terms, of course - to a number of large customers, government bodies, and universities. These bodies in general, and universities in particular, generally review the code quite meticuously. So (at least in the case of MS, which is usually the favorite target), I don't see your observation holding all the water it intends to.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
...oh, wait...
I hope everybody realizes that this number says absolutely nothing about the health of the company, just where its current customers are.
Generally it has me a bit worried - being so dependent on Japanese customers is not a perfect state of the union for a Californian company...
The MPAA and the RIAA, of course!
Now now. The question was who would be CREW, not who would be fuel. Try again.
If the buildings had been standing, they'd have been in the process of teardown to make way for replacements. Agreed, the people would have survived, but I can't see the buildings themselves surviving as usable buildings after a blowout of the middle of them.
The world's finest whiskies come from this little tiny island! Who does NOT know where it is? (At least, somebody with a small interest in whisky?)
:-)
Bowmore, Laphroiagh, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Port Ellen, Bruichladdich, Caol Ila and Bunnahabhain -- eight distilleries on this island, each one of them producing a fantastic malt. (Though my favorite right now is a 17yo Ardbeg.)
Sadly though, some of these stills have been dozed...
Seriously, what do they need hydrogen for? They have plenty of fuel, just tap from the stills
Digital Light Processing. A lame abbreviation if there ever was one. :-) A Texas Instruments technology, anyway.
Sad I missed that on the Star Wars thread, as I have a DLP projector for my home theater system and therefore some hands-on experience from them. Anyway, what can be said about them is;
- less color saturation than LCD projection (colors are not as vivid)
- no burn-in (as opposed to LCD)
- better longevity of colors (no fade over time)
- MUCH better brightness, in fact, black becomes dark-grayish (this is a problem)
- bulbs cost you an arm and a leg
- less need for cooling => less noise
- crispness is so good you have to deliberately DE-focus to get a good movie viewing experience
Everything of course from my own personal experience with them. I could recommend a DLP projector to anyone who wants to set up a home system.
The URL in the story points to some poor guy who is absolutely not an MS exec and who finds it hilarious that he's linked from Slashdot, and writes on his page that "Well, now we KNOW that /. can't possibly check its links".
The correct page for this Microsoft executive is here.
Hmmm. After reading your elaboration, perhaps I _did_ misjudge Computer Science. Anyway, I still didn't like the attitude displayed to me in university (as witnessed by the Quicksort example, which the professors defended heavily at the time).
Granted, I don't do a lot of concurrency. I often battle race conditions though, but in database and threading scenarios.
Also, I must say your attitude, on elaboration, is different from what I have mostly encountered. When I encounter academia types presented with a problem, they usually insist on having it solved 100% correctly. In the real world, 99.5% might do just fine, it may be ok if (say) one text out of 200 gets poorly translated. And so, my usual experience has been that when these people resign and say "it can't be done", I have already crafted a solution which works.
So anyway, I guess I was a bit doing a knee-jerk reaction. Thanks for your elaboration.
UNITED STATES LAWS ONLY APPLY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.
The second half of this bill would have NO impact on what the rest of the world could do on the Internet, and therefore be completely without edge. Everybody else would be free to use www.fuckfest.com, www.dick.net and www.teensluts.org. Of course, Americans would be able to access these sites, but not set them up. So what's the point? Nothing gained in terms of protection, something lost in terms of freedom.
There are several things I'd like to see additionally. For example;
- The right to sell a used copy of a film, like you can do a book.
- The right to sell a used copy of any software, like you can do a book.
- The banning of software licenses. Software copies should be SOLD, not licensed. If I buy something from you, you should have no right to regulate how I choose to use that item.
- The banning of use-limiting technology that harms the consumers, sorry, citizens (such as DVD regionalization). See above. Or perhaps, rather, the outlawing of enforcing such technology. What I do with my DVD is for me alone to decide.
This is just a start. For example, if you consider the law to be a sum of the generally acceptable morals, then peer-to-peer file sharing should be allowed and legal. Judging by the volume of Napster, Grokster, DirectConnect etc, this is considered acceptable activity by citizens. So fucking what if some corps think it damages their bottom line? Get a new business model. To quote somebody else; the law is not indended to protect obsolete business models. If nobody wants to buy your stuff, you had damn better get into a different business, and that's it.Phew, got into an intense rant there. Anyway, I think you get my idea. I think the law has to shift more than these basic points, but they are a good start of making the public (and lawmakers!) aware that there is another tray on this scale.
Every year thousands of people graduate with CS degrees that can not: explain the sleeping barber problem; do OMT diagrams; define a Turing machine; give an example of a non-computable function; demonstrate even the remotest knowledge of what the "NP" means in 'NP-complete', use structured programming concepts, comment code, apply even the most basic software engineering techniques, etc.
Hate to break your illusions here, but I cannot do most of this. This is the academia equivalent to "Buzzword Bingo" in the IT workplace.
I have been a professional programmer all my life (since I was 16; I am now 31) and attended University at one time. I aced the CS courses - came out at #1 of my class (of 152) after having bought the book three days before the exam and taking the exam wearing a morning gown and drinking tea (as a protest against scheduling the exam at 8am).
After acing a couple of classes, I got to assist in teaching. A lot of the theory I had to throw right out the window. My students loved when I did this, and explained why the theory being taught was worthless in practice.
(One example to illustrate here; the QuickSort examples in these books picked the first element in the list as the pivot element. Any person with a bare experience in writing LIVE code understands how this will behave in real life: on a near-sorted list, which most are, this particular stupid design detail degrades QuickSort to BubbleSort efficiency.)
So I took a break from my own firm when I was 20 thinking I'd get a grade and be better at what I did for a living. Oh, what a disappointment. The skills being taught had little or no applicability to the real world.
So I left the university after a year and a half and expanded my firm instead. I chose to leave the entrepreneur path at 26, taking an employment instead, but I am still a professional coder writing top quality code by my peer's standards.
My point? I have no idea what these named theorems of yours are, and I am considered a top quality software engineer. I think you display an overly arrogant attitude in defining the standards by which CS skills should be judged. I also think this is typical for most people who have been in the academic world for an extensive period of time, judging from my own experience.
I find myself humming the M.U.L.E music from time to time, as well as the Archon music. Remember Archon? First time ever you saw the Electronic Arts logo? Anyway, it had a really cool theme music for the time. :-)
Christ. That was one of the more horrible versions I've heard :-)
Cool of sorts, but... NOT what I had expected. I had expected the original audio...