Wow, I don't even know how the computing world existed before ZFS!
I'm sure they are doing all kinds of things at the application layer (who knows - checksums, error correction, duplication, etc) to ensure the integrity of their data; likely they have more or less implemented a whole distributed filesystem on top of these arrays. Why should they bother with the overhead of a filesystem in their "black box" (ok, red box) that duplicates what they already have at a higher level?
Your post was WAAAY too intelligent and informative of a reply to the OP's idiotic comment... so I'll dumb down the thread with the same quote I always use when Sony comes up with something non-standardized/useless/absurd:
"Sony - some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill..."
Excellent post. From my experience as well, snake oil is a great description.
Here's one easy test for snake oil business/engineering practices: can the concept be described just as easily with normal, everyday vocabulary as the ridiculous technobabble, buzzwords, and metaphors commonly used? If yes, then there is a good chance it is a methodology created for its own sake (and as you said, the sake of the consultants).
Example: "the x-rays show a wedge compression fracture of the C7 vertebrae" is a bit more helpful to a doctor than "looks like he broke his back!" Not snake oil. "Moving the team leader to scrum master is harmful to our velocity" - translation: "making our most experienced programmer a project manager is slowing us down" - yep, snake oil detector going off!
Well, they do use two lasers. No, it doesn't REQUIRE two for technique of "dark microscopy" itself, and the article's description of their use doesn't make much sense at all... it's just to provide more than one angle to bounce off any imperfections.
Still, I don't see anything wrong with a mouse that tracks so well it will work on glass. It's not like it is designed for glass ONLY, it just means it will work even better on any surface you have. It's just the stupid blogs and reviews that have to go rub it on everry glass surface they can find - Logitech's marketing just says "Experience extreme accuracy and flawless tracking on virtually all surfaces."
Damn, having seen this same joke on 2 other sites that posted this story days ago... it just proves that no one can come up with an original thought anymore.
I did think it was funny the first time. Annoyed the second time. And now having an epiphany (yet still annoyed) the third. And I thought after 3 times jokes got even funnier. Oh well, maybe try another 0.14159265 times?
Though it's pretty clear it was a defensive patent to HELP promote the CSS standard (and prevent bullshit like this patent on embedding XML data in a document):
any W3C member or other party will be able to obtain a license under Microsoft's US Patent No. 5,860,073 to implement and use the technology described in W3C Recommendations for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the EXtensible Style Language (XSL) for the purpose of supporting such standards, on a royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's agreement to not assert patent rights against Microsoft and other companies for their implementation of those standards
Unfortunately, after reading this study there seem to be several missing elements:
1. zombie speed and effectiveness. Are these 28 Days Later psycho zombies or Shaun of the Dead shambling loser zombies? And sure, they modeled an "encounter" but it's a simple one-on-one winner takes all. Any good zombistician knows most zombie encounters are between a small band of survivors and a horde. It needs to be modeled!
2. It appears that any individual can transition between the "Zombie" and "Removed" state. There needs to be a 4th (end) state: "Brains Splattered By Shotgun".
That is utterly moronic. You just stated (or copied, more like - I doubt you are even capable of thinking for yourself...) a bunch of made up assumptions (just because they are in bold doesn't make them true) and then used those made up assumptions to justify themselves. Wow, a pillar of logic you are.
You claim religion allows all of these things? That religion allows logic, dignity, and morality? Well I claim humans created religion. So from my single assumption, I can logically state that the very act of being human thus allows all of the things you claim don't exist if humans created religion. Atheists don't believe that religion doesn't exist - they just don't believe god has to exist for humans to create a religion.
So by quoting a definition of philisophy you are trying to claim his statement is wrong? You are confused, read it again.
Evolution is no more philosophy than an animal, or a computer. The STUDY and pursuit of knowledge about evolution, an animal, or a computer is philosophy. Fairly significant distinction...
You clearly weren't a daily Google user 10 years ago.
The moment I realized Google was completely superior to the others was when I was able to paste an obscure compile error for an equally obscure CPU architecture into Google and immediately get the answer back... the kind of utterly random error that a few years previous would have potentially taken hours to debug...
If Google hadn't come along when it did, someone else would have stepped up. Maybe Altavista, or Yahoo
And you were modded Insightful - sigh... So you are saying they decided "oh, well Google is pretty good at this - let's NOT STEP UP." Yeah, that's what companies do in that situation. Or maybe they do try, and fail (nothing wrong with trying and failing... but that's the REALITY of the situation).
It's irrelevant whether the utility companies had any power or not (no pun intended). In fact if they have so little control over the situation it seems even less of a reason to trust any statement made about the readiness of the power grid for future usage changes.
Besides, my point was that the OP was so vague as to be near useless - "utility officials"? What does that mean anyway? Could be anything from the chairman of the DOE to a local meter reader. I interpreted it as government utility regulators, who clearly share some blame. You apparently interpreted it as PG&E employees. Hence my point.
Utility officials have already stated that even during peak hours they have the capacity to cope with even several years worth of increases in the number of electric cars. During off-peak hours, the issue isn't even there.
"Utility officials have already stated"? Oh yeah, that's comforting. Are these the same "utility officials" who mismanaged the power grid in CA so badly a few years back that we had rolling blackouts all summer?
How do you define "out run" a human? Average speed? Total distance?
Um. You do realize these are effectively the same over a period of time (like 24 hours?)
In case not... how about an elementary school example...
4mph (ave) * 24 hours = 96 miles 96 miles / 24 hours = 4mph
Amazing stuff, eh?;)
Just to be fair on the rest of your comment... looked it up and the human record for 100 miles is 11:30, while for a horse (with rider!) is about 7 hours. Then again, a human has also run 188 miles in 24 hours. Not saying a horse has never done that, but I didn't find an example. Humans really are well built for extreme endurance running. It's one of the few physical feats we can actually beat most animals in, give us SOMETHING!
1) The correspondant writes for the WASHINGTON post, and SHE lives in SOUTH AFRICA. Where does it say anything about New York? 2) I think you seriously overestimate what a print journalist makes. 3) I think you seriously underestimate the conditions the Nigerian scammers (and the middle/upper class in their country) live in
Did you evern RTFA at all before you spouted your drivel!?
"young men with fancy cars, designer clothing and beautiful girlfriends -- scammers all"
"In good months, he said, he has made $30,000, which he blew on clothes, hotel rooms and Dom Perignon at "VVIP" clubs. These days, he lamented, proceeds are down 40 percent."
Yeah. Cry me a river. Poor starving Nigerian scammer, who I'm sure makes more in 3 months than the journalist made in a year. I bet it was LUKEWARM Dom Perignon, though! The agony!
Hey, I agree that by putting a general web browser like Safari on the iPhone (and having no parental controls for it besides disabling entirely) the whole thing is rather pointless.
But what I find even more pointless is reading your comments, since you clearly did not RTFA, and your arguments have almost nothing to do with the truth of the situation.
1. Apple is NOT censoring any sort of dictionary you could find in your local library, unabridged or not. Your examples are totally misleading, just like the original misunderstanding that started the whole debate.
Contrary to what you reported, the Ninjawords application was not rejected in the App Store review process for including common "swear" words. In fact anyone can easily see that Apple has previously approved other dictionary applications in the App Store that include all of the "swear" words that you gave as examples in your story.
2. Your statement that an unabridged dictionary in your library contains the same terms as a site like Urban Dictionary, or that Apple rejected it for a word like "screw" is completely incorrect.
The issue that the App Store reviewers did find with the Ninjawords application is that it provided access to other more vulgar terms than those found in traditional and common dictionaries, words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable. A quick search on Wiktionary.org easily turns up a number of offensive "urban slang" terms that you won't find in popular dictionaries such as one that you referenced
You may have had an argument if you had actually read the original article, and stopped to think for a second before posting. I might have even agreed with you, because, like the article author, I'm not convinced that Wiktionary needs to be rated 17+. But instead you just decided to repeat the same FUD that was started by the first Daring Fireball post (for which the author stood corrected...)
Just shows, sometimes misinformation can be worse than no information.
Yeah, but it's a bit different when the "dictionary" is, for example, Webster's vs. Urban Dictionary. I don't remember seeing the definition of a "Cleveland Steamer" in the former...
I think you are anthropomorphizing a very broad theory/process waaay too much...
Evolution is basically a series of random changes that results in a higher overall rate of survival. There is really nothing logical or simplifying about it - for example, the vast majority of a human brain, or even the human DNA sequence, is unused. Could be "obsolete" structures, or just random changes/development that never served a purpose but also never had any negative consequences.
If someone were able to design a human brain from scratch, I'm sure it could be 10x as efficient as the one we have.
In fact, I have seen a couple of apps that are basically just recompilations of Apple's developer sample apps (Bubble Level, for example) with a new name and icon...
You do have the RIGHT to distribute the binary - that's a legal term. The GPL gives you that right. You just don't have the ABILITY to install or run it (which is just a technical issue on a specific Apple hardware platform - one that can in fact be solved with jailbreak (or going through Apple's ridiculous approval process...)
Not saying it's an ideal situation, or that Apple doesn't suck for their actions. But it's not up to a hardware manufacturer to make it easy for a customer to install or run a program, just because it's GPL.
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Wow, I don't even know how the computing world existed before ZFS!
I'm sure they are doing all kinds of things at the application layer (who knows - checksums, error correction, duplication, etc) to ensure the integrity of their data; likely they have more or less implemented a whole distributed filesystem on top of these arrays. Why should they bother with the overhead of a filesystem in their "black box" (ok, red box) that duplicates what they already have at a higher level?
Your post was WAAAY too intelligent and informative of a reply to the OP's idiotic comment... so I'll dumb down the thread with the same quote I always use when Sony comes up with something non-standardized/useless/absurd:
"Sony - some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill..."
Excellent post. From my experience as well, snake oil is a great description.
Here's one easy test for snake oil business/engineering practices: can the concept be described just as easily with normal, everyday vocabulary as the ridiculous technobabble, buzzwords, and metaphors commonly used? If yes, then there is a good chance it is a methodology created for its own sake (and as you said, the sake of the consultants).
Example: "the x-rays show a wedge compression fracture of the C7 vertebrae" is a bit more helpful to a doctor than "looks like he broke his back!" Not snake oil. "Moving the team leader to scrum master is harmful to our velocity" - translation: "making our most experienced programmer a project manager is slowing us down" - yep, snake oil detector going off!
Well, they do use two lasers. No, it doesn't REQUIRE two for technique of "dark microscopy" itself, and the article's description of their use doesn't make much sense at all... it's just to provide more than one angle to bounce off any imperfections.
Still, I don't see anything wrong with a mouse that tracks so well it will work on glass. It's not like it is designed for glass ONLY, it just means it will work even better on any surface you have. It's just the stupid blogs and reviews that have to go rub it on everry glass surface they can find - Logitech's marketing just says "Experience extreme accuracy and flawless tracking on virtually all surfaces."
Not true, either.
PI = 1... base PI.
Ok, if you are having hard time accepting a symbolic representation of PI, please don't even ask about i. I'm imagining your head would explode...
Damn, having seen this same joke on 2 other sites that posted this story days ago... it just proves that no one can come up with an original thought anymore.
I did think it was funny the first time. Annoyed the second time. And now having an epiphany (yet still annoyed) the third. And I thought after 3 times jokes got even funnier. Oh well, maybe try another 0.14159265 times?
The grandparent post already answered that...
PI = C/D
Or even simpler: "PI is the circumference of a circle of diameter 1".
Or how about "PI radians = 180 degrees"
Just because it's not easily representable in a base-10 number system, doesn't mean you can't exactly define it.
Though it's pretty clear it was a defensive patent to HELP promote the CSS standard (and prevent bullshit like this patent on embedding XML data in a document):
any W3C member or other party will be able to obtain a license under Microsoft's US Patent No. 5,860,073 to implement and use the technology described in W3C Recommendations for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the EXtensible Style Language (XSL) for the purpose of supporting such standards, on a royalty-free basis. One condition of this license shall be the party's agreement to not assert patent rights against Microsoft and other companies for their implementation of those standards
What prevents the target from cloaking itself in LOX fog, by venting ?
Probably the fact that it would be travelling at a couple thousand miles per hour at the time. Would leave a nice contrail, though!
She claimed it was taken down
he later found out it was sold to another community, OpenLife, without his knowledge or permission
From the actual article sounds like it's a he... why the crappy editing?
Unfortunately, after reading this study there seem to be several missing elements:
1. zombie speed and effectiveness. Are these 28 Days Later psycho zombies or Shaun of the Dead shambling loser zombies? And sure, they modeled an "encounter" but it's a simple one-on-one winner takes all. Any good zombistician knows most zombie encounters are between a small band of survivors and a horde. It needs to be modeled!
2. It appears that any individual can transition between the "Zombie" and "Removed" state. There needs to be a 4th (end) state: "Brains Splattered By Shotgun".
3. Bruce Campbell.
That is utterly moronic. You just stated (or copied, more like - I doubt you are even capable of thinking for yourself...) a bunch of made up assumptions (just because they are in bold doesn't make them true) and then used those made up assumptions to justify themselves. Wow, a pillar of logic you are.
You claim religion allows all of these things? That religion allows logic, dignity, and morality? Well I claim humans created religion. So from my single assumption, I can logically state that the very act of being human thus allows all of the things you claim don't exist if humans created religion. Atheists don't believe that religion doesn't exist - they just don't believe god has to exist for humans to create a religion.
So by quoting a definition of philisophy you are trying to claim his statement is wrong? You are confused, read it again.
Evolution is no more philosophy than an animal, or a computer. The STUDY and pursuit of knowledge about evolution, an animal, or a computer is philosophy. Fairly significant distinction...
You clearly weren't a daily Google user 10 years ago.
The moment I realized Google was completely superior to the others was when I was able to paste an obscure compile error for an equally obscure CPU architecture into Google and immediately get the answer back... the kind of utterly random error that a few years previous would have potentially taken hours to debug...
If Google hadn't come along when it did, someone else would have stepped up. Maybe Altavista, or Yahoo
And you were modded Insightful - sigh... So you are saying they decided "oh, well Google is pretty good at this - let's NOT STEP UP." Yeah, that's what companies do in that situation. Or maybe they do try, and fail (nothing wrong with trying and failing... but that's the REALITY of the situation).
Because it's funny.
It's irrelevant whether the utility companies had any power or not (no pun intended). In fact if they have so little control over the situation it seems even less of a reason to trust any statement made about the readiness of the power grid for future usage changes.
Besides, my point was that the OP was so vague as to be near useless - "utility officials"? What does that mean anyway? Could be anything from the chairman of the DOE to a local meter reader. I interpreted it as government utility regulators, who clearly share some blame. You apparently interpreted it as PG&E employees. Hence my point.
That is blatantly false.
Utility officials have already stated that even during peak hours they have the capacity to cope with even several years worth of increases in the number of electric cars. During off-peak hours, the issue isn't even there.
"Utility officials have already stated"? Oh yeah, that's comforting. Are these the same "utility officials" who mismanaged the power grid in CA so badly a few years back that we had rolling blackouts all summer?
How do you define "out run" a human? Average speed? Total distance?
Um. You do realize these are effectively the same over a period of time (like 24 hours?)
In case not... how about an elementary school example...
4mph (ave) * 24 hours = 96 miles
96 miles / 24 hours = 4mph
Amazing stuff, eh? ;)
Just to be fair on the rest of your comment... looked it up and the human record for 100 miles is 11:30, while for a horse (with rider!) is about 7 hours. Then again, a human has also run 188 miles in 24 hours. Not saying a horse has never done that, but I didn't find an example. Humans really are well built for extreme endurance running. It's one of the few physical feats we can actually beat most animals in, give us SOMETHING!
1) The correspondant writes for the WASHINGTON post, and SHE lives in SOUTH AFRICA. Where does it say anything about New York?
2) I think you seriously overestimate what a print journalist makes.
3) I think you seriously underestimate the conditions the Nigerian scammers (and the middle/upper class in their country) live in
Did you evern RTFA at all before you spouted your drivel!?
"young men with fancy cars, designer clothing and beautiful girlfriends -- scammers all"
"In good months, he said, he has made $30,000, which he blew on clothes, hotel rooms and Dom Perignon at "VVIP" clubs. These days, he lamented, proceeds are down 40 percent."
Yeah. Cry me a river. Poor starving Nigerian scammer, who I'm sure makes more in 3 months than the journalist made in a year. I bet it was LUKEWARM Dom Perignon, though! The agony!
Hey, I agree that by putting a general web browser like Safari on the iPhone (and having no parental controls for it besides disabling entirely) the whole thing is rather pointless.
But what I find even more pointless is reading your comments, since you clearly did not RTFA, and your arguments have almost nothing to do with the truth of the situation.
1. Apple is NOT censoring any sort of dictionary you could find in your local library, unabridged or not. Your examples are totally misleading, just like the original misunderstanding that started the whole debate.
Contrary to what you reported, the Ninjawords application was not rejected in the App Store review process for including common "swear" words. In fact anyone can easily see that Apple has previously approved other dictionary applications in the App Store that include all of the "swear" words that you gave as examples in your story.
2. Your statement that an unabridged dictionary in your library contains the same terms as a site like Urban Dictionary, or that Apple rejected it for a word like "screw" is completely incorrect.
The issue that the App Store reviewers did find with the Ninjawords application is that it provided access to other more vulgar terms than those found in traditional and common dictionaries, words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable. A quick search on Wiktionary.org easily turns up a number of offensive "urban slang" terms that you won't find in popular dictionaries such as one that you referenced
You may have had an argument if you had actually read the original article, and stopped to think for a second before posting. I might have even agreed with you, because, like the article author, I'm not convinced that Wiktionary needs to be rated 17+. But instead you just decided to repeat the same FUD that was started by the first Daring Fireball post (for which the author stood corrected...)
Just shows, sometimes misinformation can be worse than no information.
Yeah, but it's a bit different when the "dictionary" is, for example, Webster's vs. Urban Dictionary. I don't remember seeing the definition of a "Cleveland Steamer" in the former...
I think you are anthropomorphizing a very broad theory/process waaay too much...
Evolution is basically a series of random changes that results in a higher overall rate of survival. There is really nothing logical or simplifying about it - for example, the vast majority of a human brain, or even the human DNA sequence, is unused. Could be "obsolete" structures, or just random changes/development that never served a purpose but also never had any negative consequences.
If someone were able to design a human brain from scratch, I'm sure it could be 10x as efficient as the one we have.
In fact, I have seen a couple of apps that are basically just recompilations of Apple's developer sample apps (Bubble Level, for example) with a new name and icon...
You do have the RIGHT to distribute the binary - that's a legal term. The GPL gives you that right. You just don't have the ABILITY to install or run it (which is just a technical issue on a specific Apple hardware platform - one that can in fact be solved with jailbreak (or going through Apple's ridiculous approval process...)
Not saying it's an ideal situation, or that Apple doesn't suck for their actions. But it's not up to a hardware manufacturer to make it easy for a customer to install or run a program, just because it's GPL.