This is consistent with the Administration's policy of having crooks act as policemen.
Ted Olsen. Harvey Pitt. John Ashcroft.
No need to remind you that this regime lost the popular vote in 2000, and recounts determined that without the Supreme Court's intervention they would have lost Florida and the electoral vote as well.
2. I've been out of the ivory tower for 12 years, and kick ass in the real world, too.
A Million lines? Peanuts.
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Did they get MC Escher to create that thing, or what?
They have two independent variables: collision probability and damage level, but they twist them into one scale, which gets all stupid in the 5-7 range.
If they based it on some concept like damage expectation, they should just put the damage expectation on there, instead.
And don't forget to estimate the economic damage expectation due to the hype and panic they cause.
Employees are more expensive than consultants. They get benefits (5% of their pay in vacation alone) and severance, and options, if you still give them. You have to keep paying them even when they run out of productive work to do. They only pay off in the intangible realm of "community" and "culture" that can help you across difficult times more easily, and they become less expensive when the economy peaks and consultants start costing an arm and a leg again.
Closing units that are below your arbitrary profit margin is how business is meant to work. If those units served markets that someone else can serve profitably, they'd be stupid not to poach the laid off workforce. If the market isn't there, then nobody should be forced to create a product for it.
Computation time multiplied by the cost of the computer?
His department comptroller must love him. "No, you can't have a new plastic spoon, because it costs 11 cents and you will be using it for 0.8 years and that's...2.8 million dollar-seconds...we'll buy you a new $40 silver spoon every day and let you use it to stir your coffee for three seconds per...that's only 35K dollar-seconds..." It's pathological.
Okay, if you fully depreciate the computer to the moment you start the computation, or better yet, market-price it, then watch the price as the computation continues along (could drop 10-20% in a few weeks for a given top-end PC type machine), then you're calculating the average replacement cost of the machine over the life of the computation.
It still seems a little verschimmelt. The quasi-rent on such a machine is really the depreciation over the term of the computation.
Need to think more on what cost means to someone who's trying to steal all your base. They probably stole the computer, anyway.
It's not unknown. It's random. And the space of available errors is finite. So there's a good chance it will either be a uniform distribution or a gaussian one. And there's a cute statistical trick where if you sum a random selection of random distributions, the sum's PDF averages to the normal distribution anyway. Which is all the proposal proposes to add themselves. So they're really not changing the statistics at all.
I bet if they applied their decommutation algorithm to the existing data, they'd wet their pants.
Small CD errors are currently corrected in software. Since the new software would only add the ability to convert a square grid of pixels to a circular spiral of bit-positions, you would use the same decoding and correcting algorithms.
It'll have a tough acceptance curve when it's discovered that you have to call M$ to get a new access code every fifth time you change drinks in your cupholder.
Egg Foams Slaughter, Aging, and Storage The Four Basic Food Molecules The Nature of Digestion Browning Reactions and Flavor Nutritional Fads in the United States
He's got the botanical defintion of the difference between fruit and vegetable; why fish meat is totally different from land-animal meat; electron micrographs of various kinds of candy, yeast, gluten, and the development of cheddar cheese, among others; tables of changes in the many tissues of meat at different temperatures, etc. There are few recipes but lots of chemistry diagrams, and an appendix on Atoms, Molecules, and Energy for those who need an easy leg up. It's less a how-to-cook book than a how-cooking-works book.
It's more scientific and contains enough material for about ten seasons of Good Eats. Which is okay, because my TiVo isn't even close to being retired.
No certified safety-critical version of any Microsoft operating system exists. The $40 Billion in Microsoft's bank account is not enough money to get the documentation, testing, and reviews done for Windows 98. The WinCE core, with no GUI or Apps, might be certifiable in our lifetimes, but they can expect to be required to change about half of the lines of code, goven that no safety or testability measures were considered in its original production.
A false sense of safety is counter to safety.
I wouldn't ride in this thing. I wouldn't even stand on the side of any road I knew it to be driving on.
There is no way that anyone with the computing skills of your mom (i.e., none) can hope to get Linux into a state where they can do anything they consider useful with it.
Not without copious outside assistance and an assurance that if they type the wrong thing they'll only destroy their own computer.
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It doesn't say "open WAP node." It says "Wi-Fi devices." So your secure WAP node for your own internal home use is also a violation of that AUP.
This is consistent with the Administration's policy of having crooks act as policemen.
Ted Olsen.
Harvey Pitt.
John Ashcroft.
No need to remind you that this regime lost the popular vote in 2000, and recounts determined that without the Supreme Court's intervention they would have lost Florida and the electoral vote as well.
--Blair
Her hands are free.
And then they aren't.
And then they are.
And then they aren't...
eBay, Yahoo, et al should charge the ISPs for the privilege of presenting their content.
--Blair
From the article:
Since I spend 3+ hours a day on the computer working and playing, I figured that it should be comfortable.
If that's the formula, I should be sitting on Shakira's lap when I'm computing.
--Blair
1. Don't be a literalist.
2. I've been out of the ivory tower for 12 years, and kick ass in the real world, too.
A Million lines? Peanuts.
Did they get MC Escher to create that thing, or what?
They have two independent variables: collision probability and damage level, but they twist them into one scale, which gets all stupid in the 5-7 range.
If they based it on some concept like damage expectation, they should just put the damage expectation on there, instead.
And don't forget to estimate the economic damage expectation due to the hype and panic they cause.
--Blair
But that sounds exactly like the competition.
shopper.com is what Computer Shopper used to be, because that's who it is.
Employees are more expensive than consultants. They get benefits (5% of their pay in vacation alone) and severance, and options, if you still give them. You have to keep paying them even when they run out of productive work to do. They only pay off in the intangible realm of "community" and "culture" that can help you across difficult times more easily, and they become less expensive when the economy peaks and consultants start costing an arm and a leg again.
Closing units that are below your arbitrary profit margin is how business is meant to work. If those units served markets that someone else can serve profitably, they'd be stupid not to poach the laid off workforce. If the market isn't there, then nobody should be forced to create a product for it.
That doesn't make sense.
Did you mean "0 = y mod p"?
Not a problem.
At my university, the only time I entered an ACM programming competition I sat down and realized that everyone else in the room was in 4-man teams.
I tied for first.
--Blair
Computation time multiplied by the cost of the computer?
His department comptroller must love him. "No, you can't have a new plastic spoon, because it costs 11 cents and you will be using it for 0.8 years and that's...2.8 million dollar-seconds...we'll buy you a new $40 silver spoon every day and let you use it to stir your coffee for three seconds per...that's only 35K dollar-seconds..." It's pathological.
Okay, if you fully depreciate the computer to the moment you start the computation, or better yet, market-price it, then watch the price as the computation continues along (could drop 10-20% in a few weeks for a given top-end PC type machine), then you're calculating the average replacement cost of the machine over the life of the computation.
It still seems a little verschimmelt. The quasi-rent on such a machine is really the depreciation over the term of the computation.
Need to think more on what cost means to someone who's trying to steal all your base. They probably stole the computer, anyway.
--Blair
You wet your pants.
It's not unknown. It's random. And the space of available errors is finite. So there's a good chance it will either be a uniform distribution or a gaussian one. And there's a cute statistical trick where if you sum a random selection of random distributions, the sum's PDF averages to the normal distribution anyway. Which is all the proposal proposes to add themselves. So they're really not changing the statistics at all.
I bet if they applied their decommutation algorithm to the existing data, they'd wet their pants.
--Blair
Small CD errors are currently corrected in software. Since the new software would only add the ability to convert a square grid of pixels to a circular spiral of bit-positions, you would use the same decoding and correcting algorithms.
If the respondents are already randomizing the data, the statistical analysis should be able to produce the same result.
Or hadn't they thought of that?
Prosecuting Robert Morris sent a strong message that has controlled this sort of antisocial behavior.
--Blair
"I need a Zantac."
It'll have a tough acceptance curve when it's discovered that you have to call M$ to get a new access code every fifth time you change drinks in your cupholder.
I watched his show on making biscuits, realized it's easier than coding, and now that it's hard to find work coding, I cook and watch cooking shows.
But seriously, fans of Alton Brown will want to read the sourcebook that Alton must consult twelve times for every show:
McGee, Harold On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Simon & Schuster Fireside, 1984
A random selection of chapters and subsections:
Egg Foams
Slaughter, Aging, and Storage
The Four Basic Food Molecules
The Nature of Digestion
Browning Reactions and Flavor
Nutritional Fads in the United States
He's got the botanical defintion of the difference between fruit and vegetable; why fish meat is totally different from land-animal meat; electron micrographs of various kinds of candy, yeast, gluten, and the development of cheddar cheese, among others; tables of changes in the many tissues of meat at different temperatures, etc. There are few recipes but lots of chemistry diagrams, and an appendix on Atoms, Molecules, and Energy for those who need an easy leg up. It's less a how-to-cook book than a how-cooking-works book.
It's more scientific and contains enough material for about ten seasons of Good Eats. Which is okay, because my TiVo isn't even close to being retired.
--Blair
No certified safety-critical version of any Microsoft operating system exists. The $40 Billion in Microsoft's bank account is not enough money to get the documentation, testing, and reviews done for Windows 98. The WinCE core, with no GUI or Apps, might be certifiable in our lifetimes, but they can expect to be required to change about half of the lines of code, goven that no safety or testability measures were considered in its original production.
A false sense of safety is counter to safety.
I wouldn't ride in this thing. I wouldn't even stand on the side of any road I knew it to be driving on.
--Blair
There is no way that anyone with the computing skills of your mom (i.e., none) can hope to get Linux into a state where they can do anything they consider useful with it.
Not without copious outside assistance and an assurance that if they type the wrong thing they'll only destroy their own computer.
--Blair
Why would two of them appear?
All you need to do after the first one is make your own, saying "Stop spamming our time period!" They're bound to see it and realize their mistake.
That'll stop them.
--Blair
Imminent death of Usenet predicted.
--Blair
"Dont' worry. It'll outlive the Dow."
The waste that will go to Yucca Mountain is right now sitting in open ponds next to reactors all around the country.
You're glad you don't live in Nevada? You probably live a very short distance from one of those ponds.
Nevada is naturally radioactive. Yucca Mountain's radioactivity will be lower than background. Less than sunshine.
Transporting the waste will be a non-issue as well. The containers are massively overdesigned.
Mod the original article -1, Troll.
--Blair