The government can't afford that. So they naturally tell us not to bother them with that sort of thing. Hopefully I'm just being paranoid
Yep. Did you have to call HAZMAT when you broke a full-length fluorescent tube? No, so you probably won't have to call them when you break one a tenth the size.
Be afraid of complexity junkies where security is involved.
I don't think that the OpenBSD folks are complexity junkies. OK, I'm not really up on all this stuff, but I think I get the gist of their thinking. Here's what I believe the pro-capabilities people would tell you:
You're advocating a false economy. Sure, capabilities are potentially complex and the implementation is hard to get right. Still, you only have to do it right one time and everything else benefits. In today's situation, we have things like "ping" running setuid root so that it can create raw sockets and Apache launching as root so that it can bind port 80 before dropping privileges.
Instead of counting on one central well-audited capabilities system, you're now counting on two applications to Do The Right Thing under all circumstances. That seems simpler from the perspective of someone who believes that central library to be an unobtainable goal, but a whole lot more complex for someone who thinks that can make capabilities work correctly.
Again, I don't really understand all the implications and haven't wittingly used such a system, but I believe that's the reasoning people give for doing this stuff.
This was fine everywhere except the bathroom, because the bulbs would take 45 seconds to reach full brightness.
This is the one room in the house where I like that "feature". At 2AM, your eyes have a little while to acclimate. If they're so dim initially that you just can't see at all, though, there may be a problem with the bulbs.
Not bashing CFL's, but there are places in my house where I won't use them, the bathroom vanity for example.
Yeah, because there's nothing like getting ready until lights that no one else in the world will be using a couple years from now. Think fluorescents make your makeup look bad? Might as well start accommodating now before the inevitable happens.
So note only do the bulbs cost more initially, but I had to purchase them about every 3 months (as opposed to every 3-5 years).
Your wiring must be hosed (as in a screwed up ground circuit so that there's no such thing as "completely off" in your house). I've had one or two defective CFLs die after a month but got them replaced for free.
I simply do not get the criticisms that CFLs are getting here. They're cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and measurably better in just about every way, but people are acting like the movement to switch to them is a big liberal conspiracy. Listen, folks: I'm about as conservative/capitalist as you can get and I love the things. This is the improvement we've all been waiting for. Unless you have very specific needs that can't be well met by CFL bulbs (such as decorative fixtures or a dimmer), there's not any reason to use the old, crappy yellow incandescent bulbs anymore.
Saving money, electricity, and the environment all at once? Everyone should be on this bandwagon. I just don't get where this resistance is coming from. Oh, and don't think of it as "the government legislated that I have to buy certain light bulbs". Think of it as "the government just legislated that my electrical bill will shrink". Nice, huh?
need to use light bulbs outside, since fluorescents don't tolerate cold well.
It was 5F this morning and the lights in my garage sure came on quickly and brightly enough. Hint: don't buy the cheapest bulbs you can find and put them outside.
need a light that turns on and off frequently (like traffic lights), cause that uses a lot MORE energy in a fluorescent
Breakeven for a fluorescent lamp is about 23 seconds. After that, it's all profit.
I agree with the comments on light color. We've used some of the CF's around our house and removed them for the most part as the light is cold and makes everyone look ill.
Oh, BS. I bought a sunlamp for my wife and was immediately struck by the cold, ugly light coming out of it. And then one day I was walking into the room where we'd put it and was noticing how awful it looked - until I realized that the light was turned off and it was sunlight streaming in. Yeah, that "ugly, artificial" light was identical to natural sunlight. It just looked odd because it was a fluorescent lamp and I expected it to look odd. That "warm, yellow" color? In blackbody terms, that's really a "cold, yellow color" when compared to sunlight. You think it looks warm because we associate "red" with "hot", but that's just not relevant here.
My buddy in the local Fire Dept. hazmat squad told me that my house should have been evacuated and a hazmat clean-up crew sent in after I dropped a CF bulb and broke it inside the house...
Here's another question for ya-- why didn't you use FileVault?
Because it's incompatible with Time Machine. OK, technically that's not 100% true, but the deficiencies are big enough (won't backup your home directory until you log out; can only restore whole files at a file and not individual records) that I won't be using it.
"Nnnnnnooooo.... th..these aren't for sale. I mean they are, but we sell them online. No one wants to pay the $450 we are asking in the store." Frickin' jerkwads.
Your moral obligation is to make sure everyone local to you knows about this and to cost them way more than the extra $1200 they were planning to make.
It was all fun and games until he started flat-out lying about Apple and the EFF (just like he'd already flat-out lied about SCO and Linux). I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find either of them really suing them now, say for libel and defamation of character. Way to go, dumbass.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. A store selling 18+ games to twelve-year-olds should be punished.
Screw you and your anti-liberty nanny state. Seriously. Either we believe games are harmful (in which case they should be behind the counter like cigarettes and hardcore pr0n) or they aren't (in which case this should be no more illegal than letting a kid see an R-rated movie). People who want to add more laws in the name of The War On Something make me feel far more violent than does any video game I've ever played.
Writing decorators isn't always the most straightforward task, but using them is dead simple. If you have a decorator named trace, for instance, you can use it like:
@trace def foo(): print 'This function call is being traced.'
Maybe trace is hideously complex, but you, the user, don't have to see it - you just get the straightforward usage pattern.
or nested list comprehensions?
Those correlate exactly to nested function calls ("composition" for compsci/math types):
Also, what's with slamming Microsoft over the "slow" transition to 64-bit? 64-bit XP has been out for, like, three years now.
Yes, but they also released 32-bit Vista which was just stupid. Given that 95% of computers capable of running Vista in the first place are also capable of running it in 64-bit mode, they should have just made the leap and been done with it. The reason that there are still problems with 64-bit drivers is that writing 32-bit-only drivers is still a viable option.
Since it's now impossible to run a Slashdot story without someone linking to an xkcd cartoon, I propose that we start using tags to save a step. For example, I've tagged this story "xkcd277". Maybe the Slashdotter extension can support that syntax, both by making it easy to tag stories this way and by turning those tags into "Related links" entries or something like that.
My tires are 60R15, so the tire has a diameter of 15in/0.6=63cm, and a perimeter of ~200cm.
Ummm, no. You left out the width of your tire (Google guesses you meant 205/60R15). So the sidewall is 60% as tall as the width, or 123mm. The 15" rims are 381mm, plus 123mm*2 = 62.7cm outside tire diameter. Almost the same number but your formula was completely wrong.
For my car, a '99 A3, the first gear ratio is 1.833:1. [...] The minimum clutch-less speed is 0.2*463*60=5.6km/h.
Huh? You're just making that up now, aren't you. Let's try that again.
Another Google guess gives it a transmission ratio of 2.714 in first gear, times a final drive ratio of 4.875, for a net ratio of 13.231:1. At base revs, your car is going (850rev/min) / 13.231 * (62.7 * 3.142 cm/rev) * (60min/h) * (1km/100000cm) = 7.6km/h.
The same formula using top revs in 4th gear (0.742 ratio) gives approximately the correct top speed of your car, so I'm pretty sure my formula is right. Since the article is about cars and math, we might as well use correct math when discussing them.
5 karma points says your subpixel antialiasing is using the wrong layout. For example, my old Viewsonic VA721 monitor used a vertical subpixel layout:
R|R|R|R|R|R G|G|G|G|G|G B|B|B|B|B|B
But my newer AOC monitor uses a horizontal layout:
RGB|RGB RGB|RGB RGB|RGB
Every antialiasing program I've seen defaults to horizontal RGB layout. If that's not correct for your monitor, you get horrid color artifacts. I can just barely make out the color-fringed edges on my correctly-configured monitor if I lean in to just a few inches from the screen. From my normal viewing distance of a couple feet away, I can't see the effect at all.
I have 20/15 vision (corrected), but maybe your eye transplants have a higher resolution than mine. Otherwise my money is on misconfigured antialiasing.
if I drove the Typ-1 e 100,000 miles I would have paid $32,500.
Actually, that gets kind of complicated. If you get the battery-only version, you'd never use any gas at all. The real question would be how much you'd have to pay for its electricity. Anyone have an idea what it would cost per unit distance to charge one of these things?
Saying "Well the guy was my client so I had to protect his privacy." won't go over well with investigating police, the judge, the jury, or the guy you end up spending time with.
Sounds like a great job opportunity for ethically-challenged competent techs: fixing PCs for criminals. "Here's your computer back, Capo. I tried to make sure that the hard drive worked, but, well, you know how hard it is to get into these things. *wink* *wink*.
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Yep. Did you have to call HAZMAT when you broke a full-length fluorescent tube? No, so you probably won't have to call them when you break one a tenth the size.
I don't think that the OpenBSD folks are complexity junkies. OK, I'm not really up on all this stuff, but I think I get the gist of their thinking. Here's what I believe the pro-capabilities people would tell you:
You're advocating a false economy. Sure, capabilities are potentially complex and the implementation is hard to get right. Still, you only have to do it right one time and everything else benefits. In today's situation, we have things like "ping" running setuid root so that it can create raw sockets and Apache launching as root so that it can bind port 80 before dropping privileges.
Instead of counting on one central well-audited capabilities system, you're now counting on two applications to Do The Right Thing under all circumstances. That seems simpler from the perspective of someone who believes that central library to be an unobtainable goal, but a whole lot more complex for someone who thinks that can make capabilities work correctly.
Again, I don't really understand all the implications and haven't wittingly used such a system, but I believe that's the reasoning people give for doing this stuff.
You think I got this UID climbing mountains?
This is the one room in the house where I like that "feature". At 2AM, your eyes have a little while to acclimate. If they're so dim initially that you just can't see at all, though, there may be a problem with the bulbs.
Yeah, because there's nothing like getting ready until lights that no one else in the world will be using a couple years from now. Think fluorescents make your makeup look bad? Might as well start accommodating now before the inevitable happens.
Your wiring must be hosed (as in a screwed up ground circuit so that there's no such thing as "completely off" in your house). I've had one or two defective CFLs die after a month but got them replaced for free.
I simply do not get the criticisms that CFLs are getting here. They're cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and measurably better in just about every way, but people are acting like the movement to switch to them is a big liberal conspiracy. Listen, folks: I'm about as conservative/capitalist as you can get and I love the things. This is the improvement we've all been waiting for. Unless you have very specific needs that can't be well met by CFL bulbs (such as decorative fixtures or a dimmer), there's not any reason to use the old, crappy yellow incandescent bulbs anymore.
Saving money, electricity, and the environment all at once? Everyone should be on this bandwagon. I just don't get where this resistance is coming from. Oh, and don't think of it as "the government legislated that I have to buy certain light bulbs". Think of it as "the government just legislated that my electrical bill will shrink". Nice, huh?
It was 5F this morning and the lights in my garage sure came on quickly and brightly enough. Hint: don't buy the cheapest bulbs you can find and put them outside.
need a light that turns on and off frequently (like traffic lights), cause that uses a lot MORE energy in a fluorescentBreakeven for a fluorescent lamp is about 23 seconds. After that, it's all profit.
Oh, BS. I bought a sunlamp for my wife and was immediately struck by the cold, ugly light coming out of it. And then one day I was walking into the room where we'd put it and was noticing how awful it looked - until I realized that the light was turned off and it was sunlight streaming in. Yeah, that "ugly, artificial" light was identical to natural sunlight. It just looked odd because it was a fluorescent lamp and I expected it to look odd. That "warm, yellow" color? In blackbody terms, that's really a "cold, yellow color" when compared to sunlight. You think it looks warm because we associate "red" with "hot", but that's just not relevant here.
My buddy in the local Fire Dept. hazmat squad told me that my house should have been evacuated and a hazmat clean-up crew sent in after I dropped a CF bulb and broke it inside the house...Pick smarter friends. The current crop seem to be idiots.
Because it's incompatible with Time Machine. OK, technically that's not 100% true, but the deficiencies are big enough (won't backup your home directory until you log out; can only restore whole files at a file and not individual records) that I won't be using it.
Your moral obligation is to make sure everyone local to you knows about this and to cost them way more than the extra $1200 they were planning to make.
It was all fun and games until he started flat-out lying about Apple and the EFF (just like he'd already flat-out lied about SCO and Linux). I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find either of them really suing them now, say for libel and defamation of character. Way to go, dumbass.
Screw you and your anti-liberty nanny state. Seriously. Either we believe games are harmful (in which case they should be behind the counter like cigarettes and hardcore pr0n) or they aren't (in which case this should be no more illegal than letting a kid see an R-rated movie). People who want to add more laws in the name of The War On Something make me feel far more violent than does any video game I've ever played.
Writing decorators isn't always the most straightforward task, but using them is dead simple. If you have a decorator named trace, for instance, you can use it like:
Maybe trace is hideously complex, but you, the user, don't have to see it - you just get the straightforward usage pattern.
or nested list comprehensions?Those correlate exactly to nested function calls ("composition" for compsci/math types):
isn't any more complicated than:
Yes, but they also released 32-bit Vista which was just stupid. Given that 95% of computers capable of running Vista in the first place are also capable of running it in 64-bit mode, they should have just made the leap and been done with it. The reason that there are still problems with 64-bit drivers is that writing 32-bit-only drivers is still a viable option.
Yes, but you don't get more PINE commands unless a C programmer can figure out how to add them.
We're moving out of the Slow Zone.
If there was ever a SF plot device I wished was true, that's was it.
Since it's now impossible to run a Slashdot story without someone linking to an xkcd cartoon, I propose that we start using tags to save a step. For example, I've tagged this story "xkcd277". Maybe the Slashdotter extension can support that syntax, both by making it easy to tag stories this way and by turning those tags into "Related links" entries or something like that.
Ummm, no. You left out the width of your tire (Google guesses you meant 205/60R15). So the sidewall is 60% as tall as the width, or 123mm. The 15" rims are 381mm, plus 123mm*2 = 62.7cm outside tire diameter. Almost the same number but your formula was completely wrong.
For my car, a '99 A3, the first gear ratio is 1.833:1. [...] The minimum clutch-less speed is 0.2*463*60=5.6km/h.Huh? You're just making that up now, aren't you. Let's try that again.
Another Google guess gives it a transmission ratio of 2.714 in first gear, times a final drive ratio of 4.875, for a net ratio of 13.231:1. At base revs, your car is going (850rev/min) / 13.231 * (62.7 * 3.142 cm/rev) * (60min/h) * (1km/100000cm) = 7.6km/h.
The same formula using top revs in 4th gear (0.742 ratio) gives approximately the correct top speed of your car, so I'm pretty sure my formula is right. Since the article is about cars and math, we might as well use correct math when discussing them.
I will never to my dying days understand how someone can stand to eat raw tomatoes. They do not taste good and the texture is gross.
5 karma points says your subpixel antialiasing is using the wrong layout. For example, my old Viewsonic VA721 monitor used a vertical subpixel layout:
But my newer AOC monitor uses a horizontal layout:
Every antialiasing program I've seen defaults to horizontal RGB layout. If that's not correct for your monitor, you get horrid color artifacts. I can just barely make out the color-fringed edges on my correctly-configured monitor if I lean in to just a few inches from the screen. From my normal viewing distance of a couple feet away, I can't see the effect at all.
I have 20/15 vision (corrected), but maybe your eye transplants have a higher resolution than mine. Otherwise my money is on misconfigured antialiasing.
Actually, that gets kind of complicated. If you get the battery-only version, you'd never use any gas at all. The real question would be how much you'd have to pay for its electricity. Anyone have an idea what it would cost per unit distance to charge one of these things?
Watch the video. It has airbags, crumple zone, seat belts, and a whole slew of safety features.
It also gives you more credibility when dealing with other CEOs:
Potential customer: I don't know. This all seems so complicated.
Linux-using CEO: But it's not! I even use it at home!
Sounds like a great job opportunity for ethically-challenged competent techs: fixing PCs for criminals. "Here's your computer back, Capo. I tried to make sure that the hard drive worked, but, well, you know how hard it is to get into these things. *wink* *wink*.