the statement Descartes made actually translates a bit better to "I think, I am"
Not really. It was pretty unambiguous both in the original French (Je pense donc je suis, from Discourse on Method) and when later translated into Latin by Descartes himself (Cogito ergo sum, e.g. in Principles of Philosophy). The former has both a literal translation and, when considered in context, a meaningful translation to the well known phrase "I think, therefore I am." The latter is as close as Latin allows.
Je = I pense = think (present tense) donc = so, therefore je = I suis = am (present tense)
Cogito = to think ergo = therefore sum = to be, exist, am
And ergo is still used verbatim in English as the word which signifies the conclusion of a preceding argument.
None of which invalidates the remainder of your analysis, with which I concur, but it seemed necessary to clarify, especially in light of the nonsense post above yours.
I hate to sound like a broken record here, but I'm seriously disappointed in the critical thinking skills of Slashdot today.
"Presumably from this exact bug?" People are involved in fatal single-car accidents every day where the floormats are securely in place. I believe the technical term is "falling asleep at the wheel." It's only in light of the recent hysteria that the default presumption has become "because the car took control from the driver and caused him to hurtle headlong into a tree." Unanticipated acceleration, even in light of recent events, is still a zebra.
When the two pedals work at the same time, it can result in pretty horrible accidents.
The two pedals have worked at the same time for pretty much the majority of automotive history. It's the basis for one-footed driving and, more esoterically, doing burnouts and/or power launches in an A/T vehicle.
Obviously you need both feet if you're using a clutch, but that seems to be beyond the scope of this discussion.
To be clear, they're not fixing a bug; they're adding more backend functionality to an existing control. Personally I consider the fact that the gas and brake work independently to be a *feature*, and I'd prefer not to have it removed just because a handful of people can't operate their vehicles properly.
Especially since I'm skeptical that these "unanticipated acceleration" is anything more than operator error to begin with. And yes, sliding your floor mat over the accelerator and filling your car with saltwater to the point that the pedal hinge rusts are both operator errors. Toyota *speculated* that EMI could be a third cause, but that's the same way the FAA speculates that cell phones crash planes. Without evidence, it's just a hypothesis. In the case of planes, it's better safe than sorry, but in the case of cars, it's likely Toyota's polite way of saying "we're sorry your feet are so fat that they hit two pedals at once."
I believe the whole point is to think about these things before we need to use them, rather than *after* we fuck up a first contact.
That said, I can totally picture humanity going through all the trouble of coming up with a "foolproof" plan to open a dialogue, only to discover that our^wthe alien version of a handshake is grabbing an ambassador in its mouth and thrashing him violently about.
Well I haven't programmed for the Android specifically; but my point was that these problems have been solved in a more general sense, which is abstraction and loose coupling. People tend to think of that as the role of the OS, and it is, but if they did a poor job of it, then you need to start treating the drivers as such, and add another layer of abstraction. It may take a bit longer on the front end, but you'll benefit on the back end through both reusability and ease of maintenance.
Well hopefully you'd create a factory method and return compass objects with a common interface instead of using a bastardized case switch, although even more hopefully, the Android SDK provides that functionality already.
I haven't bought anything by Adobe ever since I bought one of their cars. Oh, sure, you fix the dents yourself.. until it cures!!! Then good luck reshaping your new brick.
MichaelSmith, age 5: "But what was the underlying cause? Was he in search of food? Was he being pursued by a predator? Was there a potential mate on the other side of the road?!?"
MichaelSmith, age 10: "Technically they never found any parts of the astronauts washed up on the beach, which makes that a single entendre!!"
MichaelSmith, age 15: "All mammal meat is RED!! Plus the anatomies are completely different. OJ wouldn't necessarily be any better at cutting a turkey than anyone else just because he allegedly murdered someone."
MichaelSmith, present day: "That doesn't even make sense! There were eight years between the Challenger disaster and the OJ Simpson trial, and supposedly I only aged FIVE years?!?!"
...or projecting the face of some Hollywood hottie onto that girl or guy you brought home from the bar after last call.
"Wow, my phone-flashlight really accentuates your eyes. Just try to hold still or it looks like you have two heads. What??? I mean, uh... Look, something shiny!"
Today we are happy to release the specification for the Scope protocol. This is the protocol used for communication between the Opera browser and Opera Dragonfly.
I'm guessing you meant "vicious." Unless you're claiming that the Olympics have a high internal friction which resists deformation through shear or extensional stresses.
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If you read the article carefully, the new size is only 4K, not 4096K. The 4K size actually matches very well with most common files ystems.
Looks like they're not the only ones who miscalculated their block boundary.
the statement Descartes made actually translates a bit better to "I think, I am"
Not really. It was pretty unambiguous both in the original French (Je pense donc je suis, from Discourse on Method) and when later translated into Latin by Descartes himself (Cogito ergo sum, e.g. in Principles of Philosophy). The former has both a literal translation and, when considered in context, a meaningful translation to the well known phrase "I think, therefore I am." The latter is as close as Latin allows.
Je = I
pense = think (present tense)
donc = so, therefore
je = I
suis = am (present tense)
Cogito = to think
ergo = therefore
sum = to be, exist, am
And ergo is still used verbatim in English as the word which signifies the conclusion of a preceding argument.
None of which invalidates the remainder of your analysis, with which I concur, but it seemed necessary to clarify, especially in light of the nonsense post above yours.
I hate to sound like a broken record here, but I'm seriously disappointed in the critical thinking skills of Slashdot today.
"Presumably from this exact bug?" People are involved in fatal single-car accidents every day where the floormats are securely in place. I believe the technical term is "falling asleep at the wheel." It's only in light of the recent hysteria that the default presumption has become "because the car took control from the driver and caused him to hurtle headlong into a tree." Unanticipated acceleration, even in light of recent events, is still a zebra.
When the two pedals work at the same time, it can result in pretty horrible accidents.
The two pedals have worked at the same time for pretty much the majority of automotive history. It's the basis for one-footed driving and, more esoterically, doing burnouts and/or power launches in an A/T vehicle.
Obviously you need both feet if you're using a clutch, but that seems to be beyond the scope of this discussion.
To be clear, they're not fixing a bug; they're adding more backend functionality to an existing control. Personally I consider the fact that the gas and brake work independently to be a *feature*, and I'd prefer not to have it removed just because a handful of people can't operate their vehicles properly.
Especially since I'm skeptical that these "unanticipated acceleration" is anything more than operator error to begin with. And yes, sliding your floor mat over the accelerator and filling your car with saltwater to the point that the pedal hinge rusts are both operator errors. Toyota *speculated* that EMI could be a third cause, but that's the same way the FAA speculates that cell phones crash planes. Without evidence, it's just a hypothesis. In the case of planes, it's better safe than sorry, but in the case of cars, it's likely Toyota's polite way of saying "we're sorry your feet are so fat that they hit two pedals at once."
What's next, are we going to legislate against games being installed on workplace computers?
God, I hope so. I'll change my title to Computer, and file a lawsuit the next time my superiors start playing their little reindeer games.
We still have that?
I believe the whole point is to think about these things before we need to use them, rather than *after* we fuck up a first contact.
That said, I can totally picture humanity going through all the trouble of coming up with a "foolproof" plan to open a dialogue, only to discover that our^wthe alien version of a handshake is grabbing an ambassador in its mouth and thrashing him violently about.
-Shamu The Conq^w^w^wDoug
Or vaporize it with a very powerful laser. Something like this, maybe.
On the internet, you're never more than one click away from something horrible.
Three links in the summary, but none in that sentence. What a missed opportunity to make it really hit home...
Well I haven't programmed for the Android specifically; but my point was that these problems have been solved in a more general sense, which is abstraction and loose coupling. People tend to think of that as the role of the OS, and it is, but if they did a poor job of it, then you need to start treating the drivers as such, and add another layer of abstraction. It may take a bit longer on the front end, but you'll benefit on the back end through both reusability and ease of maintenance.
Well hopefully you'd create a factory method and return compass objects with a common interface instead of using a bastardized case switch, although even more hopefully, the Android SDK provides that functionality already.
I haven't bought anything by Adobe ever since I bought one of their cars. Oh, sure, you fix the dents yourself.. until it cures!!! Then good luck reshaping your new brick.
One of them better be LYNX.
MichaelSmith, age 5: "But what was the underlying cause? Was he in search of food? Was he being pursued by a predator? Was there a potential mate on the other side of the road?!?"
MichaelSmith, age 10: "Technically they never found any parts of the astronauts washed up on the beach, which makes that a single entendre!!"
MichaelSmith, age 15: "All mammal meat is RED!! Plus the anatomies are completely different. OJ wouldn't necessarily be any better at cutting a turkey than anyone else just because he allegedly murdered someone."
MichaelSmith, present day: "That doesn't even make sense! There were eight years between the Challenger disaster and the OJ Simpson trial, and supposedly I only aged FIVE years?!?!"
Yeah, nothing like a bunch of people sitting around enjoying a great.. sorry, I've got to take this call.
I'll finish this post later.
...or projecting the face of some Hollywood hottie onto that girl or guy you brought home from the bar after last call.
"Wow, my phone-flashlight really accentuates your eyes. Just try to hold still or it looks like you have two heads. What??? I mean, uh... Look, something shiny!"
Arrested?
Is it too much to ask that people type some words into a box at the top of the browser, and then actually contribute to the discussion? FFS, it's the first result:
Perhaps Google is just planning to buy up all the iPhone developers, one at a time, until Android is the only game in town,
Woohoo, finally!!! "I'M SPARTACUS!!"
I'm guessing you meant "vicious." Unless you're claiming that the Olympics have a high internal friction which resists deformation through shear or extensional stresses.
Biennial: Every two years
Biannual: Twice yearly
Although either word would still be incorrect, since each sporting event is still quadrennial.
some freak could very well go to the trouble of spending a day digging through government websites to try to find his real identity and post it here.
Or maybe your co-worker was just shoulder surfing and thought it would be funny to freak you out.
I see where you're going with this. If we all just unplug our lamps, our code will be bug free. Very clever.
Cat5 can do better if you coax it.