Also those alarm clocks just take up space, travelling? Yet another thing to pack, you could figure out the hotel alarm clock or ask for a wakeup call but it is still convenient to have your own alarm.
I wasn't thinking about traveling. I sure don't pack a clock. And I don't trust those crazy "sleep system" alarms in hotels. I both set my phone alarm and ask for a wake up call.
It's *better* than your average AC alarm clock, as a power failure throughout the night won't interfere with your alarm.
There are several comments like this. What sort of alarm clocks are you guys using? My $20 alarm will work just fine with the electricity out. The only difference is that without power the time is not projected onto the ceiling. The alarm and the clock don't get affected at all.
remember learning the correct date formulas in the first semester. What's so hard about them?
That's probably the sort of thinking that resulted in the bug in the first place. Dealing with time zones and daylight savings issues and the goofy calendar is a big pain in the ass. It's easy to get it subtly wrong. I doubt there's a programmer alive who hasn't made at least one mistake in dealing with time and dates.
I suggest we adopt a 12 month 30 day calendar, with a five day holiday at the end of the year (six days for leap year.) And no friggin' daylight savings.
Who's writing these headlines?
His own post says "about one hundred." How does that turn into "Hundreds of browser bugs"?
And he does not say "some" of these bugs may be known to third parties. He says "at least one."
What he found is bad enough. Why the need to exaggerate?
The strangest thing I ever saw in the sky were three red lights in a large triangle at night in Berlin. Given the distance apart, speed, lack of sound and perfect synchronisation the most likely explanation I could come up with was 3 stealth helecopters flying in formation.
With all due respect, you really have no good way to judge the distance and speed. Human are terrible at judging these things without any useful surroundings or background. It's easy to make a reasonable guess at the speed and distance of, say, a passing car, because you know the normal size of a car and you can compare it to nearby trees and buildings and landscape. Looking up at the sky the normal references are absent and humans make astoundingly poor estimates of what they are seeing.
This is stil true even when one is aware of the difficulty and attempts to take it into account.
A worldwide planet search? Seems like everyone would find it at about the same time.
"Hey! Here it is right here! It's almost like we were standing on it!"
Is he charged with designing graphics? With sympathizing with an unsavory group? How the heck would that arrest warrant look? How is the creation of that document even something in the vicinity of a crime?
He's not talking, so we don't know, But his name on the document might to be enough to get a search warrant, and perhaps that search turned up further evidence.
It seems to be the authors heirs that have the problem with this, not the authors. I think you are right, I'm sure these authors would enjoy having their 50 some odd year old orphaned works read again.
I see four works on which my mother holds the copyright. I've been trying for some time to convince her to make electronic versions of my father's work (there's quite a bit more) and give it away while asking for donations. Perhaps when I point this out to her she'll reconsider.
it would be nice if our culture was less afraid of death and started to accept it - it's natural and part of everything.
Earthquakes, typhoons, disease, tornados, etc. are natural. And yet, like death, we generally prefer to avoid them. Like it or not we seem to be approaching "Actuarial Escape Velocity," in which life expectancy is extended more rapidly than we age. You and I might not make it, but there's a reasonably good chance that we will be one of the last generations to die of natural causes.
meaning it will hit million dollar stock trades (at $6k) just as much as the guy buying a $100 piece of furniture ($0.60).
I think a flat tax is a good idea, but that's just plain retarded. "Million dollar" stock trades involve only small amounts of profit or loss. It would completely eliminate the financial markets and destroy the economy. It is the most brain-damaged tax idea I have ever seen.
Copyright infringement (theoretically) takes money out of the pockets of the holders, so it makes sense to levy a huge fine to pay that back while imposing limited jail time - the wrong has been righted.
Where does the money go? To the government? If so then it sounds like they are ones profiting from the infringement.
Talk to any long-time cigarette addict and find out just how happy they are to be addicted, and what effect their addiction has had on their life. You'll find out that they wish they had never started.
Because you have to sit still and not shift your weight for long periods of time. Sooner or later you'll some "non-game" move that causes some big blunder in the game.
Ask a few people who you consider to be typical "average Joes." When I first read about in (in one of Carl Sagan's books, and he was talking about Cornell students) I was also skeptical, but I decided to ask a few people. Fewer than half got it right, and only one person gave the best answer (the same one you did, one year).
Some answers I got:
"Oh, a long time!"
"Five years?"
Many people quickly said 24 hours, but I discarded it and explained the question again. The absolute worst answer I got was an astounding "two minutes." But that was from the same person who called me over to show that his calculator was broken. He was taking 10% of a number and the digits weren't changing.
One thing I've always liked about the Imperial measurement system, in fact, is that although the math is a little harder the units and their ratios really seem to be more relevant.
As an American who has lived outside the US for the last ten years, I've found the metric system to be *much* better than the imperial system. The problem of the "missing" units really isn't one, because the smaller unit is automatically a percentage of the larger one. If a beer is 350ml it's obviously a little bit more than 1/3 of a liter. In the US, a 12 ounce drink is, well, a 12 ounce drink. I'd have to stop and think of what percentage of a quart it is, and most people would be incapable of even doing that.
(And the overloading of the word "ounce" for weight and volume is not such a good idea either.)
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Not according to the article. It says 120 days + a 90 day grace period.
I wasn't thinking about traveling. I sure don't pack a clock. And I don't trust those crazy "sleep system" alarms in hotels. I both set my phone alarm and ask for a wake up call.
There are several comments like this. What sort of alarm clocks are you guys using? My $20 alarm will work just fine with the electricity out. The only difference is that without power the time is not projected onto the ceiling. The alarm and the clock don't get affected at all.
That's probably the sort of thinking that resulted in the bug in the first place. Dealing with time zones and daylight savings issues and the goofy calendar is a big pain in the ass. It's easy to get it subtly wrong. I doubt there's a programmer alive who hasn't made at least one mistake in dealing with time and dates.
I suggest we adopt a 12 month 30 day calendar, with a five day holiday at the end of the year (six days for leap year.) And no friggin' daylight savings.
Who's writing these headlines?
His own post says "about one hundred." How does that turn into "Hundreds of browser bugs"?
And he does not say "some" of these bugs may be known to third parties. He says "at least one."
What he found is bad enough. Why the need to exaggerate?
Yeah! Before that hardly anybody had even heard of Google, let alone China. Now they're both all over the news.
That's the same thought I had. Heck, I've got slashdot posts older than that.
For what it's worth, there was a lot of stuff open (mail, photoshop, skype, etc.)
With all due respect, you really have no good way to judge the distance and speed. Human are terrible at judging these things without any useful surroundings or background. It's easy to make a reasonable guess at the speed and distance of, say, a passing car, because you know the normal size of a car and you can compare it to nearby trees and buildings and landscape. Looking up at the sky the normal references are absent and humans make astoundingly poor estimates of what they are seeing.
This is stil true even when one is aware of the difficulty and attempts to take it into account.
A worldwide planet search? Seems like everyone would find it at about the same time.
"Hey! Here it is right here! It's almost like we were standing on it!"
He's not talking, so we don't know, But his name on the document might to be enough to get a search warrant, and perhaps that search turned up further evidence.
I see four works on which my mother holds the copyright. I've been trying for some time to convince her to make electronic versions of my father's work (there's quite a bit more) and give it away while asking for donations. Perhaps when I point this out to her she'll reconsider.
Earthquakes, typhoons, disease, tornados, etc. are natural. And yet, like death, we generally prefer to avoid them. Like it or not we seem to be approaching "Actuarial Escape Velocity," in which life expectancy is extended more rapidly than we age. You and I might not make it, but there's a reasonably good chance that we will be one of the last generations to die of natural causes.
I think a flat tax is a good idea, but that's just plain retarded. "Million dollar" stock trades involve only small amounts of profit or loss. It would completely eliminate the financial markets and destroy the economy. It is the most brain-damaged tax idea I have ever seen.
Where does the money go? To the government? If so then it sounds like they are ones profiting from the infringement.
Talk to any long-time cigarette addict and find out just how happy they are to be addicted, and what effect their addiction has had on their life. You'll find out that they wish they had never started.
An umbilical serial bus cord, obviously.
Iterate as necessary, of course. "It's scanning areas all the way down!"
Because you have to sit still and not shift your weight for long periods of time. Sooner or later you'll some "non-game" move that causes some big blunder in the game.
Some answers I got:
"Oh, a long time!"
"Five years?"
Many people quickly said 24 hours, but I discarded it and explained the question again. The absolute worst answer I got was an astounding "two minutes." But that was from the same person who called me over to show that his calculator was broken. He was taking 10% of a number and the digits weren't changing.
This guy saved the world and ought to get a medal or two.
Take a casual survey. As a follow-up, ask them how long it takes the earth to go once around the sun. You'll be saddened by the result. Seriously.
Jens has always been worth 15 ordinary men, so this is not surprising.
As an American who has lived outside the US for the last ten years, I've found the metric system to be *much* better than the imperial system. The problem of the "missing" units really isn't one, because the smaller unit is automatically a percentage of the larger one. If a beer is 350ml it's obviously a little bit more than 1/3 of a liter. In the US, a 12 ounce drink is, well, a 12 ounce drink. I'd have to stop and think of what percentage of a quart it is, and most people would be incapable of even doing that.
(And the overloading of the word "ounce" for weight and volume is not such a good idea either.)
How do we even know she can sing?