Viking 1 was originally scheduled to land on July 4, 1976. When the scientists saw the survey images, a week or so earlier, they saw a rock garden and said "No way we can land there!" and it took them a couple of weeks to find a good landing site. The Viking orbiters (yes, orbiters, each Viking had an orbiter and a lander)were, IIRC, the first to take sub-kilometer images of the Martian surface.
One probe failed because the engineers thought in newton meters and the designers thought in feet per second per second. (Or the other way around.) This caused the probe to go off course.
One failed because it crashed, it was landing in an area that hadn't been surveyed. Significantly, Viking DID survey the area before they landed, which is why they missed the July 4 target landing date.
One (climate observer?) failed due to a lack, apparently, of redundancy in the control systems.
'placed related functions close to one another' to benefit users
How will the users know where the code is? The in-house developers, maybe, if they are the ones developing the code, but not the users. Developers like myself don't particularly care where the code is either, as long as we know which library to link against. Of course, the judges don't know that.
I cruise slashdot at +2 and sort for highest ratings first (unless I'm moderating, sometimes a real gem is at -1). Ditto at k5. I only post to, and read, moderated sites. When I write an e-mail I save it, wait 10 minutes, re-read it, edit it, then send it. If I'm writing to (for example) Adobe, because I'm pissed at something they did , I wait an hour before I re-read it.
In Utah each polling place has voting judges from each (major) party. This does tend to reduce fraud. It should be noted that Iron County Utah uses punch card ballots, and they had no trouble with them in the last election.
Posting information is legal. Posting it with the stated intent to damage a companies stock price can be considered illegal manipulation. It can certainly get the SEC to take a look at your portfolio. And God help you if you've been selling short. I doubt he is, but what if a friend or relative of his is?
Made that point in his book 2010. "If you can prove you are not pretending to be angry I will accept that HAL is only pretending to be sapient". Or words to that effect.
I can't remember the name (Minsky?), but a few weeks ago one of the people who's been doing AI for awhile pointed out that whenever someone creates a system that can meet some of the definitions of AI, the definitions are changed. A system was created a few years ago that could imitate a paranoid schitzophrenic (sp?) well enough to fool practicing psychiatrists. Is that AI?
It should be noted that english is descended from both German and French. English is the result of a norman man-at-arms trying to get in bed with a saxon barmaid. There's also some church latin in there. Recently, American english has imported Hawaiian, Japanese, Spanish, and others.
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How about: "what I do think is interesting that, given AOL's size and mass, the partnership is going to be a pivotal one"
-1, dump it, bad grammar, edit and re-submit.
Sorry, I was just over at K5
I can't seem to get to them today.
Viking 1 was originally scheduled to land on July 4, 1976. When the scientists saw the survey images, a week or so earlier, they saw a rock garden and said "No way we can land there!" and it took them a couple of weeks to find a good landing site. The Viking orbiters (yes, orbiters, each Viking had an orbiter and a lander)were, IIRC, the first to take sub-kilometer images of the Martian surface.
You are in a twisty maze of little passages, all alike...
One failed because it crashed, it was landing in an area that hadn't been surveyed. Significantly, Viking DID survey the area before they landed, which is why they missed the July 4 target landing date.
One (climate observer?) failed due to a lack, apparently, of redundancy in the control systems.
How will the users know where the code is? The in-house developers, maybe, if they are the ones developing the code, but not the users. Developers like myself don't particularly care where the code is either, as long as we know which library to link against. Of course, the judges don't know that.
You know, that could explain some of the stuff that's shown up in the queue at k5 lately.
post a summary of the article for those of us who are affected by the train derailment?
You sound like those hippies saying "You promised us a drug free America and I want my free drugs now."
I cruise slashdot at +2 and sort for highest ratings first (unless I'm moderating, sometimes a real gem is at -1). Ditto at k5. I only post to, and read, moderated sites. When I write an e-mail I save it, wait 10 minutes, re-read it, edit it, then send it. If I'm writing to (for example) Adobe, because I'm pissed at something they did , I wait an hour before I re-read it.
If so, we're doomed.
In Utah each polling place has voting judges from each (major) party. This does tend to reduce fraud. It should be noted that Iron County Utah uses punch card ballots, and they had no trouble with them in the last election.
I think his worry is that it would exacerbate those problems.
Move to Herndon? I hear he has difficulty operating candles...
Posting information is legal. Posting it with the stated intent to damage a companies stock price can be considered illegal manipulation. It can certainly get the SEC to take a look at your portfolio. And God help you if you've been selling short. I doubt he is, but what if a friend or relative of his is?
David Kaczynski, Teds' brother, was profiled in the Washington Post Magazine on Sunday.
That the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn't read slashdot. I think you just committed a felony.
They are suing a German, in Germany over an alleged infringement of a German trademark.
Made that point in his book 2010. "If you can prove you are not pretending to be angry I will accept that HAL is only pretending to be sapient". Or words to that effect.
I can't remember the name (Minsky?), but a few weeks ago one of the people who's been doing AI for awhile pointed out that whenever someone creates a system that can meet some of the definitions of AI, the definitions are changed. A system was created a few years ago that could imitate a paranoid schitzophrenic (sp?) well enough to fool practicing psychiatrists. Is that AI?
Like any regular slashdotter doesn't know the NY Times requires a logon. I've known it for years. If it bothers you, don't go there.
Wafers. Sheesh.
Uphill, both ways, in the snow.
And we liked it, too.
And, while the Web Edition has some good stuff, especially Udells' columns, it's not as good as the old dead tree version.
It should be noted that english is descended from both German and French. English is the result of a norman man-at-arms trying to get in bed with a saxon barmaid. There's also some church latin in there. Recently, American english has imported Hawaiian, Japanese, Spanish, and others.