With such a small number of tests, she'd have to hit 100% of them to gain any credibility that it wasn't random luck. The approximation to a Normal distribution for that 'n' puts the z-score at +2/3, so it's got no chance of being above the 2 standard deviations from mean that significance requires. That's just a rough back-of-slashdot guess.
If you had over 100 tests of her ability to perceive the EM radiation with more than 2/3 right, I'd be more likely to believe that she's not convincing herself of the presence of EM radiation. You could even be kind and test five a day over a number of days so that she isn't over tired.
It seems the obvious place to go for consumer sales. But the sensible analysis at ars technica on Barcelona architecture is that AMD are gunning for the server ecosystem, with massively-parallel processing of data loads and high-bandwidth system connections. If they can tease a highly-efficient notebook system out of that, I'll be impressed.
Things are the way they are, because that's the way they are
Things are the way they are because that's how we label them. They'd be different if we used different words, just as the differences between API's to the same hardware forces programs to follow alternate means to achieve identical tasks. There's a million ways to do it, and you had to go and use FORTRAN.
Hi, I'm a social constructivist and I say I have free will. I won't lie that I don't have much evidence beyond an internal conviction that I'm the force directing my life, but I speak for that force and so am that force to the society around me.
I thought this was supposed to be stuff that mattered, not stuff that's irrelevant to any and all realistic views of the world?
Just so you know, there are people who aren't realists in their view of the world. That's to say that they deny the necessity of exact and objective reality which brings about correlation between your experiences and mine: 'green' need not an be exact range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, recorded when it interacts with your eye, it could just be our shared language token for similar experiences of 'green'.
Perhaps it also means ceding control and initiative that the management believe they have -- as providers of the majority of home and office computing they might wish to hold on to that leading role and control the change so as to continue their presently profitable enterprise.
Ballmer has on many occasions tied himself to the importance of MS succeeding on the Internet as a replacement for the Windows and Office as the main sources of income for MS
I wasn't aware of that, but for Microsoft to believe they can do that is proper foolish thinking. The sheer proportion of their revenue that comes from Windows and Office could not easily be replaced by "Internet income" -- by which I mean advertising revenue -- without Microsoft's shareholders revolting. Perhaps there's room for talking up the share price to branch out into this direction, but it would require that MS make Windows no more than Marc Andreessen's "(buggy) driver layer" for internet-based computing. If I were the Google and saw MS doing that with a post-Vista minimal core + Silverlight, all paid for by advertising, I'd release a Google Internet Linux. I think we can sleep easy: that won't happen unless Silverlight makes the Internet a proprietary walled-garden again so Microsoft can offer a better experience than any other OS.
(Someone send this to Dvorak or Cringely... I'm sure they could ham a conspiracy theory out of this.)
I would advise going to your local multiplex for all-cutscene gaming, on a huge projection screen totally free from interaction. But the stories they tell are often lousy and formulaic, sort of like the difference between Madden 06 and Madden 05.
I sincerely hope that this legislation is used to fight against the people who are genuinely getting rich from copyright infringement (the international organised crime rings) rather than individual consumers. That's to say, it's a good thing when used by government against drug and people traffickers for good ends rather than by the media cartels against their potential customers to make up for the cartel's failure to sell music, movies and television at market value.
1) Start religion 2) Use Barnum effect to profile and create social control over n00b 3) Humiliate n00b in return for n00b's increased social standing and n00b's money 4) ??? -- revealed for $$$$ 5) Profit!
I think I'll be writing something nonsensical in response to you and then claim its content has been protected. Just to be safe. If it appears offtopic, you've clearly tried to understand the content and that may well be grounds for suing under the DMCA's circumvention clause. Moderation of this post, well, that's grounds for me to take over the world.
I don't think your post ended up where it should have. That or you should have explained yourself better. Thanks for the kind favour of replying to my (admittedly cheap) joke!
Thanks for this enlightening post. You could have not done it, and I'd not have replied and wasted more of my day. But it was a favour to the entire Slashdot community. Cheers!
If I paid for the DVD on which the data is encrypted I should unquestionably have access to the tools necessary to decrypt it (for fair use backups, for example) regardless of whether I own the data or not Ownership of data? I guess you mean either authorship or copyright license. You'd be clumsy to have authorship of some data but not the tools to decrypt that data (but you might well be able to create it again). But as for copyright license, most of my discs have the license "All Rights Reserved", for which you need to convince a court of law that your use of the disc is consistent with the intent of the fair-use provisions. The Cliff Notes commentary of the DMCA text (which is all I've read 'cause I'm no lawyer) consists of the footnote, repeated, "Here, fair-use provisions are eroded." It concludes: "Here, fair-use provisions disappear entirely."
When you're surveying the users, be careful: remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease -- in these surveys the people who have nothing to complain about rarely say anything. Do it with the intent of making it easy to propose fixes for issues raised and also to present the data in terms that flatter you and enable you to do a better job. The game should be: work with management, and work with your internal clients.
It can't hurt to have your report include a count of preventative maintenance issues and a provisional costs saved, including parts, downtime (possibly scored as a proportion of quartely working hours / quaterly revenue) and the cost of data loss. This last one will require that you know what's going on within the company (go and chat about what each project lead is doing: flatter them by listening), who's tendering contracts or running an important project, so you can weight the value of their data in your backup system on top of the standard value of e-mail and filestore.
My suggested solution would be to write a daemon that monitors atime or file writes and snapshots each time. Or configure a mount option or kernel tunable that enables or disables automatic snapshots -- you don't want to fill your/var/log with multiple copies of files that only get appended...
I can't see anything linked from the ext3cow.com site, save for the near-silent mailing lists. I'm tagging this 'slashdotted'. There's not even a huge amount on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ext3cow.com
I guess that this is a fork of the ext3 code with Copy On Write functionality and userland tools to make snapshots and time-travel the snapshots. Wikipedia's article on Ext3cow names Zachary Peterson, the submitter of the article, and links to an ACM Transactions on Storage paper at http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/papers/peterson-tos05.pdf.
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And for me, the N64, playing Goldeneye.
With such a small number of tests, she'd have to hit 100% of them to gain any credibility that it wasn't random luck. The approximation to a Normal distribution for that 'n' puts the z-score at +2/3, so it's got no chance of being above the 2 standard deviations from mean that significance requires. That's just a rough back-of-slashdot guess.
If you had over 100 tests of her ability to perceive the EM radiation with more than 2/3 right, I'd be more likely to believe that she's not convincing herself of the presence of EM radiation. You could even be kind and test five a day over a number of days so that she isn't over tired.
It seems the obvious place to go for consumer sales. But the sensible analysis at ars technica on Barcelona architecture is that AMD are gunning for the server ecosystem, with massively-parallel processing of data loads and high-bandwidth system connections. If they can tease a highly-efficient notebook system out of that, I'll be impressed.
Things are the way they are, because that's the way they are
Things are the way they are because that's how we label them. They'd be different if we used different words, just as the differences between API's to the same hardware forces programs to follow alternate means to achieve identical tasks. There's a million ways to do it, and you had to go and use FORTRAN.
Hi, I'm a social constructivist and I say I have free will. I won't lie that I don't have much evidence beyond an internal conviction that I'm the force directing my life, but I speak for that force and so am that force to the society around me.
I thought this was supposed to be stuff that mattered, not stuff that's irrelevant to any and all realistic views of the world?
Just so you know, there are people who aren't realists in their view of the world. That's to say that they deny the necessity of exact and objective reality which brings about correlation between your experiences and mine: 'green' need not an be exact range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, recorded when it interacts with your eye, it could just be our shared language token for similar experiences of 'green'.
Perhaps it also means ceding control and initiative that the management believe they have -- as providers of the majority of home and office computing they might wish to hold on to that leading role and control the change so as to continue their presently profitable enterprise.
Just don't ask about the new two-hands-on debugger with Mathematica 6. It might look like an e-meter, but it also does Cellular Automata!
Ballmer has on many occasions tied himself to the importance of MS succeeding on the Internet as a replacement for the Windows and Office as the main sources of income for MS
I wasn't aware of that, but for Microsoft to believe they can do that is proper foolish thinking. The sheer proportion of their revenue that comes from Windows and Office could not easily be replaced by "Internet income" -- by which I mean advertising revenue -- without Microsoft's shareholders revolting. Perhaps there's room for talking up the share price to branch out into this direction, but it would require that MS make Windows no more than Marc Andreessen's "(buggy) driver layer" for internet-based computing. If I were the Google and saw MS doing that with a post-Vista minimal core + Silverlight, all paid for by advertising, I'd release a Google Internet Linux. I think we can sleep easy: that won't happen unless Silverlight makes the Internet a proprietary walled-garden again so Microsoft can offer a better experience than any other OS.
(Someone send this to Dvorak or Cringely... I'm sure they could ham a conspiracy theory out of this.)
I would advise going to your local multiplex for all-cutscene gaming, on a huge projection screen totally free from interaction. But the stories they tell are often lousy and formulaic, sort of like the difference between Madden 06 and Madden 05.
You may have missed the dry humour in this post.
I sincerely hope that this legislation is used to fight against the people who are genuinely getting rich from copyright infringement (the international organised crime rings) rather than individual consumers. That's to say, it's a good thing when used by government against drug and people traffickers for good ends rather than by the media cartels against their potential customers to make up for the cartel's failure to sell music, movies and television at market value.
I'd answer "not yet" -- I'm sure that there's a memory management unit on the chip, so don't be surprised if someone does a port...
1) Start religion
2) Use Barnum effect to profile and create social control over n00b
3) Humiliate n00b in return for n00b's increased social standing and n00b's money
4) ??? -- revealed for $$$$
5) Profit!
Sir, thank you muchly for a beautiful joke. May the Moderators be led by His Noodly Appendage to click "I like this!"
I think I'll be writing something nonsensical in response to you and then claim its content has been protected. Just to be safe. If it appears offtopic, you've clearly tried to understand the content and that may well be grounds for suing under the DMCA's circumvention clause. Moderation of this post, well, that's grounds for me to take over the world.
I don't think your post ended up where it should have. That or you should have explained yourself better. Thanks for the kind favour of replying to my (admittedly cheap) joke!
Thanks for this enlightening post. You could have not done it, and I'd not have replied and wasted more of my day. But it was a favour to the entire Slashdot community. Cheers!
If I paid for the DVD on which the data is encrypted I should unquestionably have access to the tools necessary to decrypt it (for fair use backups, for example) regardless of whether I own the data or not
Ownership of data? I guess you mean either authorship or copyright license. You'd be clumsy to have authorship of some data but not the tools to decrypt that data (but you might well be able to create it again). But as for copyright license, most of my discs have the license "All Rights Reserved", for which you need to convince a court of law that your use of the disc is consistent with the intent of the fair-use provisions. The Cliff Notes commentary of the DMCA text (which is all I've read 'cause I'm no lawyer) consists of the footnote, repeated, "Here, fair-use provisions are eroded." It concludes: "Here, fair-use provisions disappear entirely."
At Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-200616544 5819945837
At YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamaH7HfgCw
At the cost of significant functionality: newsgroups, forums, mailing lists, IRC.
When you're surveying the users, be careful: remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease -- in these surveys the people who have nothing to complain about rarely say anything. Do it with the intent of making it easy to propose fixes for issues raised and also to present the data in terms that flatter you and enable you to do a better job. The game should be: work with management, and work with your internal clients.
It can't hurt to have your report include a count of preventative maintenance issues and a provisional costs saved, including parts, downtime (possibly scored as a proportion of quartely working hours / quaterly revenue) and the cost of data loss. This last one will require that you know what's going on within the company (go and chat about what each project lead is doing: flatter them by listening), who's tendering contracts or running an important project, so you can weight the value of their data in your backup system on top of the standard value of e-mail and filestore.
My suggested solution would be to write a daemon that monitors atime or file writes and snapshots each time. Or configure a mount option or kernel tunable that enables or disables automatic snapshots -- you don't want to fill your /var/log with multiple copies of files that only get appended...
I can't see anything linked from the ext3cow.com site, save for the near-silent mailing lists. I'm tagging this 'slashdotted'. There's not even a huge amount on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ext3cow.com
I guess that this is a fork of the ext3 code with Copy On Write functionality and userland tools to make snapshots and time-travel the snapshots. Wikipedia's article on Ext3cow names Zachary Peterson, the submitter of the article, and links to an ACM Transactions on Storage paper at http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/papers/peterson-tos05.pdf.
I'd like the idea that I'm deterministic -- find the right inputs and I'd rule the world. Back to the Lab, Pinky.