I don't know exactly what caused the crash. The report I read at the time, from the Navy, said that an operator entered a zero into a field on a database form, causing a divide by zero. I don't know who's bright idea it was to run all the ship's control systems through a single piece of hardware. That certainly can't be blamed on Windows, and is certainly the more embarassing mistake.
If you think about for a minute, he's right. you didn't vote for president, you voted for the electoral college. At first I thought he was making a Florida/chad/etc. jibe, but I think it's more a statement on the lack of a directly elected head of state.
It wasn't necessary here, though, and I agree that it detracts from the main point of the article. For someone normally so focussed, this is an unfortunate lapse.
I forget what the event was, but numerous luminaries in the US film business (most memorably Sylvester Stallone, since it was the Rambo era) refused to go to Cannes.
I certainly can blame this on Windows. Why should a divide by zero in an application cause the whole machine (and hence the ship) to seize up? Of course the application was badly written. If setting a value to zero will crash the app, don't let the user enter zero in that field. But the app shouldn't take the whole OS down with it.
Not nearly as pathetic as someone who does so, but can't keep track so people find out that they're doing it. Or who loses track of their tags. Anyway, it's not the karma - I run multiple accounts so I can mod myself up. New Slashcode stops you from modding up posts from your IP address, though, so I guess I'll have to stop.
Speaking of karma, can you imagine how much karma you'd lose in a normal/. thread if you claimed that there was such a thing as talk that was morally wrong? Next you'll be claiming free beer is immoral, too.
Your new argument is that arguments don't have to be logical. This is unfortunately true, and the kind of thinking that will get Kabul flattened. You cite a case in which talking did not prevent war, and deduce that talking is of no use. You may be right, but you don't know that for certain, and neither does anyone else.
Personally, I would talk to Satan himself if it would prevent further bloodshed.
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Just don't click on any of the links there. The goatse.cx guy is still there, just not on the front page.
Yes, I checked. I figured lunch was long enough ago it wasn't coming back.
I forget the name of the logical fallacy you just committed, but I asserted:
!J implies W
and you replied:
J does not imply !W
thus refuting my argument. Except your reply is not a logical derivitive of my statement. To explain further:
If you do not talk you will get war. If you do talk you may get war, or you may not. Of course, it's possible that I'm full of shit, and you can not talk, and still not have war, but that wasn't your point. Your point is that:
If you talk, you may get war. Which is true, but does not contradict my statement.
NEC also have a subnotebook in the Versa line with a built-in DVD player that still weighs less than 4 pounds. After lugging my Dell Latitude around for the last couple of years, that sounds really attractive.
I remember when portable computers weighed 35 pounds.
I once spent a very frustrating day in Brussels trying to fix a customer's problem. I could have done it in a couple of hours had it not been for the stupid azerty keyboard.
There is a business card for the sculptor in the case. It says he is immediately available. So next time I need a butter sculpture in a hurry, I'll know who to call. Or rather, I won't, because he wasn't beaming his card out of the butter PDA.
ObOffTopic: it was right next to the Unisys booth. They were demoing an electronic voting system. plover and I both voted twice (if you remove the smart card from the reader after it authenticates you at the beginning of the transaction but before you complete it lets you vote again). I hear it's already installed in Florida.
Very true. I almost brought up this point myself, but didn't want it to detract from the main point of my post. If there's any justice [*] you will be moderated up.
[*] or at the very least an interruption in the moderators' crack supply.
This is no different from one country deciding it needs the resources of another - minerals, say - and simply sending their army to annex it. A classic example of this is Iraq invading Kuwait.
Except no-one is being killed. In fact, quite the opposite. This US-imposed tax on knowledge is more like a famous UK-imposed tax on tea, and Brazilians are merely exercising the Boston option.
If the drug companies were charging a fair price, this action wouldn't have been necessary.
The Brazilians are making the drugs themseleves. They are covering all the equipment, raw materials and labor. What they aren't doing is paying the exorbitant patent licencing fees, that are decided, rather like college tuition, based on how much you can afford and then some.
Yes, the drug companies need to recover their costs (and make a profit). An AIDS treatment will sell like hot cakes right up until a cure is discovered. Moderate, non-prejudicial licence fees will give them that. What it won't do is please the stockholders of the drug companies who bought in at a price that makes the dotcom bubble look sane, and now expect returns.
Linux can have as many GUIs as it wants. I think it's the role of the distros to pick one as their default, and push it. To some extent that's already happening with RedHat/Gnome, Mandrake/KDE and others. Since RedHat is the dominant distro, I would have to assume that Gnome will become the "standard" Linux GUI.
We need good scientists who refuse to accept the commonly accepted explanations. The scientific method is good at testing theories, but we need people who can create alternative theories so they can be tested.
Of course, when you're talking about universe formation, the repeatability part is kind of awkward.
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I don't know exactly what caused the crash. The report I read at the time, from the Navy, said that an operator entered a zero into a field on a database form, causing a divide by zero. I don't know who's bright idea it was to run all the ship's control systems through a single piece of hardware. That certainly can't be blamed on Windows, and is certainly the more embarassing mistake.
If you think about for a minute, he's right. you didn't vote for president, you voted for the electoral college. At first I thought he was making a Florida/chad/etc. jibe, but I think it's more a statement on the lack of a directly elected head of state.
It wasn't necessary here, though, and I agree that it detracts from the main point of the article. For someone normally so focussed, this is an unfortunate lapse.
I forget what the event was, but numerous luminaries in the US film business (most memorably Sylvester Stallone, since it was the Rambo era) refused to go to Cannes.
Are there supposed to be stories there? All I get is the fluff around the edges and links to the previous and next stories (which are also empty).
I certainly can blame this on Windows. Why should a divide by zero in an application cause the whole machine (and hence the ship) to seize up? Of course the application was badly written. If setting a value to zero will crash the app, don't let the user enter zero in that field. But the app shouldn't take the whole OS down with it.
Not nearly as pathetic as someone who does so, but can't keep track so people find out that they're doing it. Or who loses track of their tags. Anyway, it's not the karma - I run multiple accounts so I can mod myself up. New Slashcode stops you from modding up posts from your IP address, though, so I guess I'll have to stop.
/. thread if you claimed that there was such a thing as talk that was morally wrong? Next you'll be claiming free beer is immoral, too.
Speaking of karma, can you imagine how much karma you'd lose in a normal
Your new argument is that arguments don't have to be logical. This is unfortunately true, and the kind of thinking that will get Kabul flattened. You cite a case in which talking did not prevent war, and deduce that talking is of no use. You may be right, but you don't know that for certain, and neither does anyone else.
Personally, I would talk to Satan himself if it would prevent further bloodshed.
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Just don't click on any of the links there. The goatse.cx guy is still there, just not on the front page.
Yes, I checked. I figured lunch was long enough ago it wasn't coming back.
Huh?
I forget the name of the logical fallacy you just committed, but I asserted:
!J implies W
and you replied:
J does not imply !W
thus refuting my argument. Except your reply is not a logical derivitive of my statement. To explain further:
If you do not talk you will get war. If you do talk you may get war, or you may not. Of course, it's possible that I'm full of shit, and you can not talk, and still not have war, but that wasn't your point. Your point is that:
If you talk, you may get war. Which is true, but does not contradict my statement.
I thought the moment I heard that phrase that it was stupid. That kind of thinking would lead you to conclude that Dr. Mudd shot Abraham Lincoln.
Funny, but it was actually 1987.
NEC also have a subnotebook in the Versa line with a built-in DVD player that still weighs less than 4 pounds. After lugging my Dell Latitude around for the last couple of years, that sounds really attractive.
I remember when portable computers weighed 35 pounds.
Where you are allowed to live in Israel depends on whether you are palestinian or not. Sounds like institutional racism to me.
Personally I think the US should stop mailing checks to Israel until they sort the whole thing out. Give them a bit of incentive.
Thanks. I was quoting from memory of my H1B application, many years ago.
There's a scale. "Genius" is at the top, then "outstanding performers" in the fields of business, science and the arts, and so on down.
"Genius in the field of arts" includes Kylie Minogue. So now you know where to place Miguel.
Trust me, nobody wants one.
I once spent a very frustrating day in Brussels trying to fix a customer's problem. I could have done it in a couple of hours had it not been for the stupid azerty keyboard.
Princess Kay of the Milky Way is not a beauty pageant.
Of course, the winner is never particularly ugly, but the cow-handling requirements keep most of the Miss America types out of the running.
There is a business card for the sculptor in the case. It says he is immediately available. So next time I need a butter sculpture in a hurry, I'll know who to call. Or rather, I won't, because he wasn't beaming his card out of the butter PDA.
ObOffTopic: it was right next to the Unisys booth. They were demoing an electronic voting system. plover and I both voted twice (if you remove the smart card from the reader after it authenticates you at the beginning of the transaction but before you complete it lets you vote again). I hear it's already installed in Florida.
... because their competitors would have them arrested.
It's the American Way.
Very true. I almost brought up this point myself, but didn't want it to detract from the main point of my post. If there's any justice [*] you will be moderated up.
[*] or at the very least an interruption in the moderators' crack supply.
This is no different from one country deciding it needs the resources of another - minerals, say - and simply sending their army to annex it. A classic example of this is Iraq invading Kuwait.
Except no-one is being killed. In fact, quite the opposite. This US-imposed tax on knowledge is more like a famous UK-imposed tax on tea, and Brazilians are merely exercising the Boston option.
Likewise, you have no right to have your brother or your government point a gun at me and force me to risk my life to save you.
Burned your draft card, did you?
If the drug companies were charging a fair price, this action wouldn't have been necessary.
The Brazilians are making the drugs themseleves. They are covering all the equipment, raw materials and labor. What they aren't doing is paying the exorbitant patent licencing fees, that are decided, rather like college tuition, based on how much you can afford and then some.
Yes, the drug companies need to recover their costs (and make a profit). An AIDS treatment will sell like hot cakes right up until a cure is discovered. Moderate, non-prejudicial licence fees will give them that. What it won't do is please the stockholders of the drug companies who bought in at a price that makes the dotcom bubble look sane, and now expect returns.
Linux can have as many GUIs as it wants. I think it's the role of the distros to pick one as their default, and push it. To some extent that's already happening with RedHat/Gnome, Mandrake/KDE and others. Since RedHat is the dominant distro, I would have to assume that Gnome will become the "standard" Linux GUI.
We need good scientists who refuse to accept the commonly accepted explanations. The scientific method is good at testing theories, but we need people who can create alternative theories so they can be tested.
Of course, when you're talking about universe formation, the repeatability part is kind of awkward.