"In a world where one politician with a call girl is forced to resign and another is handily reelected" This in fact has nothing to do with "mob-sourcing". It is the inevitable result when one political party prizes the advancement of their agenda over the morality of their members, and the other does not.
No, it's the inevitable result when one politician prizes the advancement of his evil secularist socialist agenda over a morally principled capitalist country, and the other is on the ticket with a call girl.
It's a fucking compiler. The object code looks like it could have come out of javac [ideally]. You can work with the same classes and run compiled scala/java/groovy/closure/etc. code through the same EE bullshit.
What's a "web scale synergy" anyway? How many do you need? I would think Perl had at least one puny web scale synergy to show for itself.
I used to think this was a big deal, but I decided not to bother with arbitrary precision recently just because it sacrifices performance too much at ordinary zoom levels (unless you aren't lazy). FRACTINT implemented it adaptively, but it was still like hitting a wall.
The thing is, there's fundamentally nothing you can see at a high zoom level that doesn't look very similar to features visible somewhere at lower magnification. After you zoom in a dozen times, the floating point arithmetic bugs are suddenly the most interesting things you see.
When I was ten my first computer was a ZX81 and in SLOW mode (w/ no screen flicker on each keystroke) it ran at 800 kHz. It executed BASIC code about as fast as you could read it. Seriously- I remember figuring this out and realizing I was FORCED to learn ASM on the Z-80. Then I learned it and was AMAZED that I could make an ASM loop run 65536 times in less than a second, but I couldn't think of anything cool to do in the loop body.
My given name is very common, so searching for information on me the signal to noise ratio is very high.
Come again? Why is this a problem that's extraordinarily hard to solve, rather than just good fortune?
I would think "John Doe" searches would be noisy. But usually you don't want to see signal when you Google yourself; most people hope for noise. My own name is rare enough for my mother to confront me with WTF emails about 20 year old "signals" on alt.drugs. Even in 1990 it wasn't safe to shoot your mouth off on the Internet under your real name, but IIRC everyone still did.
"Shrug?" You obviously haven't been burned. I was foolish enough to send emails to a mailing list for a chronic medical condition under my real name, and now if you search for it you get all those stupid sites with misspelled URLs that show the searchable full text. The list admin went bonkers hiring lawyers and everyone unsubscribed in a hurry.
I guess people do visit those sites if they're looking at it from the perspective of a signal to noise ratio.
I was passing the time on the bus the other day with a smartphone watching people's networks fade in and out of range. Most are called "2WIRE_565" or something dull like that, but the bus passes by some dickhead who calls his network "MineAndNotYours" and other people broadcasting "CowboysFan" etc. Someone on my street is broadcasting an SSID of "hornygirl", so I have to bring my smartphone trick-or-treating this Halloween.
There is no universal privileged frame of reference.
There is no privileged inertial frame. Everyone on this site reliably talks about special relativity when this subject comes up, but special relativity isn't responsible for these particular time-dilation effects.
Considering just special relativity, a train's proper time is faster than the station's and the station's proper time is faster than the train's. The way out of that is to recognize that the entire concept of simultaneity is lost. If starter pistols are fired on the train at the first and last cars simultaneously (according to train passengers), in the reference frame of someone at the station, the two shots were separated by a finite time, varying linearly with train length. Although they agree on their relative velocity with respect to each other, they don't agree on the length of time the train spent in front of the station or even the length of the train itself. But both are inertial frames.
Until the train turns around. A reference frame which is not accelerating (i.e. an inertial frame) does have a privilege. The earth is in a free-fall inertial frame. A spaceship has to accelerate. If we're only going to consider the common time-dilation and length-contraction effects from special relativity, then relative aging makes no sense just from symmetry. If two spaceships left one point and returned to it after making mirror-image round trips in opposite directions, you wouldn't expect people in one to have specially and relativistically aged faster than people in the other.
But if you left the Earth, and then you returned to show off your youth or bring back rocks, there would have to be an acceleration involved when you turned around. That introduces the time-dilation effects from general relativity: clocks tick faster in free fall than they do on the ground, or any other non-inertial frame that experiences g-force. When the train actually turns around, all the stuff happens that amazes everybody on the return trip. When the train passes the station going the other way, it's pretty clear that everyone at the station has aged more.
In theory you could travel across the universe in your lifetime- but then your life would be ruined by extremely intense acceleration (a first). You'd have to bring a mixed-sex crew to create successive generations or else the mission fails.
This is totally conjecture, but I doubt Verizon would have been so willing to issue refunds without pressure.
Hmmmm.... while I'm not sure a proof of this conjecture can be produced via rigorous mathematical analysis, any mathematician with Verizon service probably disagrees.
Another conservative; geez. Are you out of your mind? Statistically, black people in the U.S. are poorer than white people. It may be "racist" to point that out, but that statistic is due to racism that they encounter in the culture, since this isn't the perfect country you seem to imagine. It's not like saying their average IQ is lower, like conservatives previously got in trouble for claiming.
Beck advocates people to stand up for themselves, be responsible and self-sufficient -- to stop the government "entitlements" that chain people to wellfare and excessive government spending.
BTW "wellfare" is not an example of "excessive government spending", just because you disapprove of it. It's a minor public expenditure. You are more concerned about moral hazard, and to put it bluntly, it's quite obvious that your racism is what fuels your concern.
That doesn't mean throwing people under the bus - it just means finding another way for them to earn a living, such as education and skills training programs, small business loans, etc.
I'll go tell my grandmother. She'll get incentivized to support herself with her quilting.
This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies.
-Sarah Palin
The French didn’t give it to us because it was – oh, look at us, we want to say hello to our friends and give them this enormous statue. What is that? The French did it – and see if you can get your arms around this concept – the French did it to mock, but not us. EuropeThe Statue of Liberty was mocking the old system. The Statue of Liberty was used to ignite inside the French, liberty. Look at America. Look what they’re doing.
- Glenn Beck
I thought it was put there to scare illegals away.
Tell me you don't give a rat's ass how your Slashdot comments are moderated.
Sure, I give a rat's ass. Tell me you don't. If my blatherings sink to -1, I've been wasting precious minutes of my life doing nothing other than develop carpal tunnel syndrome.
What upsets me is people blowing scarce community resources such as modpoints on undeserving comments. The wise treatises get so buried, under Insightful posts with silly nitpicking or wide grumpy condemnation, that not one can be found.
As you should have noticed with the Olympics, China is putting in more work to reduce pollution than anywhere else and luckily they didn't stop after the Olympics.
Oh come on. By now McCain would have had Julian Assange strapped to a board, wrapped in plastic, and suffocating under a bag of urine being emptied over him- with the vice president standing by as witness, cackling and filming the whole thing for her Facebook friends.
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"In a world where one politician with a call girl is forced to resign and another is handily reelected"
This in fact has nothing to do with "mob-sourcing". It is the inevitable result when one political party prizes the advancement of their agenda over the morality of their members, and the other does not.
No, it's the inevitable result when one politician prizes the advancement of his evil secularist socialist agenda over a morally principled capitalist country, and the other is on the ticket with a call girl.
It's a fucking compiler. The object code looks like it could have come out of javac [ideally]. You can work with the same classes and run compiled scala/java/groovy/closure/etc. code through the same EE bullshit.
What's a "web scale synergy" anyway? How many do you need? I would think Perl had at least one puny web scale synergy to show for itself.
I don't know what's more pathetic- that three of ten commenters immediately remembered some random Slashdot story from 2006, or that I did.
He's just an old man. Old men shouldn't offer their opinions on computers or "the advent of the Internet".
I used to think this was a big deal, but I decided not to bother with arbitrary precision recently just because it sacrifices performance too much at ordinary zoom levels (unless you aren't lazy). FRACTINT implemented it adaptively, but it was still like hitting a wall.
The thing is, there's fundamentally nothing you can see at a high zoom level that doesn't look very similar to features visible somewhere at lower magnification. After you zoom in a dozen times, the floating point arithmetic bugs are suddenly the most interesting things you see.
When I was ten my first computer was a ZX81 and in SLOW mode (w/ no screen flicker on each keystroke) it ran at 800 kHz. It executed BASIC code about as fast as you could read it. Seriously- I remember figuring this out and realizing I was FORCED to learn ASM on the Z-80. Then I learned it and was AMAZED that I could make an ASM loop run 65536 times in less than a second, but I couldn't think of anything cool to do in the loop body.
My given name is very common, so searching for information on me the signal to noise ratio is very high.
Come again? Why is this a problem that's extraordinarily hard to solve, rather than just good fortune?
I would think "John Doe" searches would be noisy. But usually you don't want to see signal when you Google yourself; most people hope for noise. My own name is rare enough for my mother to confront me with WTF emails about 20 year old "signals" on alt.drugs. Even in 1990 it wasn't safe to shoot your mouth off on the Internet under your real name, but IIRC everyone still did.
"Shrug?" You obviously haven't been burned. I was foolish enough to send emails to a mailing list for a chronic medical condition under my real name, and now if you search for it you get all those stupid sites with misspelled URLs that show the searchable full text. The list admin went bonkers hiring lawyers and everyone unsubscribed in a hurry. I guess people do visit those sites if they're looking at it from the perspective of a signal to noise ratio.
I was passing the time on the bus the other day with a smartphone watching people's networks fade in and out of range. Most are called "2WIRE_565" or something dull like that, but the bus passes by some dickhead who calls his network "MineAndNotYours" and other people broadcasting "CowboysFan" etc. Someone on my street is broadcasting an SSID of "hornygirl", so I have to bring my smartphone trick-or-treating this Halloween.
There is no universal privileged frame of reference.
There is no privileged inertial frame. Everyone on this site reliably talks about special relativity when this subject comes up, but special relativity isn't responsible for these particular time-dilation effects.
Considering just special relativity, a train's proper time is faster than the station's and the station's proper time is faster than the train's. The way out of that is to recognize that the entire concept of simultaneity is lost. If starter pistols are fired on the train at the first and last cars simultaneously (according to train passengers), in the reference frame of someone at the station, the two shots were separated by a finite time, varying linearly with train length. Although they agree on their relative velocity with respect to each other, they don't agree on the length of time the train spent in front of the station or even the length of the train itself. But both are inertial frames.
Until the train turns around. A reference frame which is not accelerating (i.e. an inertial frame) does have a privilege. The earth is in a free-fall inertial frame. A spaceship has to accelerate. If we're only going to consider the common time-dilation and length-contraction effects from special relativity, then relative aging makes no sense just from symmetry. If two spaceships left one point and returned to it after making mirror-image round trips in opposite directions, you wouldn't expect people in one to have specially and relativistically aged faster than people in the other.
But if you left the Earth, and then you returned to show off your youth or bring back rocks, there would have to be an acceleration involved when you turned around. That introduces the time-dilation effects from general relativity: clocks tick faster in free fall than they do on the ground, or any other non-inertial frame that experiences g-force. When the train actually turns around, all the stuff happens that amazes everybody on the return trip. When the train passes the station going the other way, it's pretty clear that everyone at the station has aged more.
In theory you could travel across the universe in your lifetime- but then your life would be ruined by extremely intense acceleration (a first). You'd have to bring a mixed-sex crew to create successive generations or else the mission fails.
This is totally conjecture, but I doubt Verizon would have been so willing to issue refunds without pressure.
Hmmmm.... while I'm not sure a proof of this conjecture can be produced via rigorous mathematical analysis, any mathematician with Verizon service probably disagrees.
They had better stuff to smoke in recent centuries, when a lot of the southern constellations were named.
Does this look like a telescope to you? Orion smokes constellations like that.
Another conservative; geez. Are you out of your mind? Statistically, black people in the U.S. are poorer than white people. It may be "racist" to point that out, but that statistic is due to racism that they encounter in the culture, since this isn't the perfect country you seem to imagine. It's not like saying their average IQ is lower, like conservatives previously got in trouble for claiming.
Beck advocates people to stand up for themselves, be responsible and self-sufficient -- to stop the government "entitlements" that chain people to wellfare and excessive government spending.
BTW "wellfare" is not an example of "excessive government spending", just because you disapprove of it. It's a minor public expenditure. You are more concerned about moral hazard, and to put it bluntly, it's quite obvious that your racism is what fuels your concern.
That doesn't mean throwing people under the bus - it just means finding another way for them to earn a living, such as education and skills training programs, small business loans, etc.
I'll go tell my grandmother. She'll get incentivized to support herself with her quilting.
That isn't racism. It's common sense.
Typical white conservative comment.
Pedantic? The entire controversy was initiated and fueled by dishonest claims that the mosque was to be built on top of where the WTC stood.
This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies.
-Sarah Palin
The French didn’t give it to us because it was – oh, look at us, we want to say hello to our friends and give them this enormous statue. What is that? The French did it – and see if you can get your arms around this concept – the French did it to mock, but not us. EuropeThe Statue of Liberty was mocking the old system. The Statue of Liberty was used to ignite inside the French, liberty. Look at America. Look what they’re doing.
- Glenn Beck
I thought it was put there to scare illegals away.
Depends on the kind of logic.
Alternate realities require their own logic so that people keep believing what is ultimately nonsense.
Is Linus secretly from Kenya? I find his source code to be socialist and anti-colonialist.
Tell me you don't give a rat's ass how your Slashdot comments are moderated.
Sure, I give a rat's ass. Tell me you don't. If my blatherings sink to -1, I've been wasting precious minutes of my life doing nothing other than develop carpal tunnel syndrome.
What upsets me is people blowing scarce community resources such as modpoints on undeserving comments. The wise treatises get so buried, under Insightful posts with silly nitpicking or wide grumpy condemnation, that not one can be found.
Correction- the dude is from Berkeley.
As you should have noticed with the Olympics, China is putting in more work to reduce pollution than anywhere else and luckily they didn't stop after the Olympics.
You were just impressed by the landscaping.
Could this be enhanced by applying a small electro-static charge?
Not according to this guy from Stanford who starts talking about geckos at 12:40 and claims electrostatic forces have no effect at 17:30.
You'd think science would have nature completely imitated by now.
The Facebook part you mean?
Oh come on. By now McCain would have had Julian Assange strapped to a board, wrapped in plastic, and suffocating under a bag of urine being emptied over him- with the vice president standing by as witness, cackling and filming the whole thing for her Facebook friends.