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I used to have a pentium 133 that had a huntsman spider living inside. It didn't bother me so I didn't bother it, they're not dangerous.
This computer was so bad that when I booted it I had to manually kickstart the fan to start spinning by tapping it a bit, kind of like how they used to spin those propellors on airplanes to start them up.
Anyway, I thought "MIR" was tha appropriate name to give to this poor sod. It was decommisioned around a year ago.
Earth looks smaller in the picture, but is closer? Jupiter looks larger but is further away? Looking at the map with the orbits Earth is in between Jupiter and Mars.
How is a software fault "mysterious"? Is it like some moondust bounced off the side of the rocket and cause the hardware circuits to have some sort of spasm, causing the rocket to land several hundred miles off course?
Anyone who says a software fault is "mysterious" is probably like one of those people who say "well my program worked yesterday but it doesn't work now and I didn't change anything. In fact, that is _the most common excuse for someone's program not working.
Let's look at this scientifically, something is not scientifically and logically correct - let's leave the mysteries to the X-Files (when it was on).
Do you guys really think that countries in the world don't have a clue on how to build cruise misslies?
Comrad - slashdot has posted someone elses article on how to build cruise missiles.
El Presidente - eh? well you got on that browser and dl that material and have it sent to our defense division immediately. This is just the breakthrough we've been looking for,
Isn't anyone else surprised that someone with too much time hasn't released a SARS virus to infect IIS and SQL Server? What have those Bulgarians been doing?
My maths lecturer for data communucations told us. He also said "George Boole would be rolling over in his grave if he found out what we were using boolean alegebra for". I can't find any immediate links on this (got an exam in 8 hours).
Are you on a computer right now? Ever heard of a guy called George Boole? Does a "boolean" sound familiar? Well you see, this guy called George Boole he hated mathematicians so much he decided to invent this thing called Boolean Logic. You know the, 1 & 1 == 1, 1 || 0 == 0 stuff? As it turns out it was totally useless and that's what he intended, to invent something mathematically correct that is totally useless. So thanks to George Boole for accidentally inventing the foundation of computer architecture, logic gates and boolean logic - and he has something to do with you being on the computer right now. Indeed he is pissed off as he intended it to be useless.
Give maths time and it will applicable to your everyday life. What has been going on for the past 3,000 years?
Yeah, my friend's a bigtime statistician too and loves the number crunching. The thing I can never work out with him is the complete lack of street-smarts he has.
Indeed the economy would have something to do with it. This works in two ways, investor says music sales are taking a hit due to the sluggish/hawkish economy. RIAA says music sales are taking a hit because of P2P etc. The RIAA might as well use sluggish sales as a weapon to go after P2P regardless of it being true.
Haven't you heard? Line up 100 economists behind each other and you still won't reach a conclusion.
My best friend is an economist actually, he plays everything safe and tries to read everything before coming to any sort of conclusion. Economists don't work independently, they throw a hypothesis within the group then do research to see the likelihood of the hypothesis happening. They have all sorts of models going on at the same time and select the one the fits best.
When quantum computers come into the picture a new type of programming language and way we think about computers will emerge. Bit shifting will especially be different, it will be called... QBit shifting.
inconsistency (e.g., Prudently plan for the worst of which a potential military adversary is capable, but thriftily ignore scientific projections on environmental dangers because they're not "proved". Or: Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism. Or: Consider it reasonable for the Universe to continue to exist forever into the future, but judge absurd the possibility that it has infinite duration into the past);
weasel words (e.g., The separation of powers of the U.S. Constitution specifies that the United States may not conduct a war without a declaration of Congress. On the other hand, Presidents are given control of foreign policy and the conduct of wars, which are potentially powerful tools for getting themselves re-elected. Presidents of either political party may therefore be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else -- "police actions," "armed incursions," "protective reaction strikes," "pacification," "safeguarding American interests," and a wide variety of "operations," such as "Operation Just Cause." Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public").
"When one makes a hopeless investment, one sometimes reasons: I can't stop now, otherwise what I've invested so far will be lost. This is true, of course, but irrelevant to whether one should continue to invest in the project. Everything one has invested is lost regardless.....
This fallacy is also sometimes referred to as the Concorde fallacy, after the method of funding the supersonic transport jet jointly created by the governments of France and Britain. Despite the fact that the Concorde is beautiful and as safe as any other jet transport, it was very costly to produce and suffered some major marketing problems. There weren't many orders for the plane. Even though it was apparent there was no way this machine would make anybody any money, France and England kept investing deeper and deeper, much to the dismay of taxpayers in both countries."
If a consultant is asked to take steps that he/she believes are going to impact negatively then the consultant should give clear _written advice suggesting why the steps should not be taken. If the company still persists then it's up to the consultant to consider if they should continue working there. Being desperate for work shouldn't immediately bring a professional to do desperate things.
The first rule of enforcing laws where making money is attached, "Make examples out of people, real bad examples to scare the rest of them". This is purely a "make an example out of someone" excercise for the DMCA, business as usual.
So whenever someone or a company gets _successful, Microsoft automatically puts them under their label as a competitor? Microsoft is successful, but in this case they're claiming to be successful in something they're not. In this case Microsoft is blowing it's own trumpet.
Isn't a jump between whole version numbers supposed to have a significant change somewhere? I'm not seeing _significant changes anywhere. It all but proves that the 9.0 is a marketing stunt.
So what? Unless they have some sort of legal grounds against it condemning will be old news in hours. It is as if they are admitting being dealt a blow.
Slashdot Mirror
I used to have a pentium 133 that had a huntsman spider living inside. It didn't bother me so I didn't bother it, they're not dangerous.
This computer was so bad that when I booted it I had to manually kickstart the fan to start spinning by tapping it a bit, kind of like how they used to spin those propellors on airplanes to start them up.
Anyway, I thought "MIR" was tha appropriate name to give to this poor sod. It was decommisioned around a year ago.
Earth looks smaller in the picture, but is closer? Jupiter looks larger but is further away? Looking at the map with the orbits Earth is in between Jupiter and Mars.
How is a software fault "mysterious"? Is it like some moondust bounced off the side of the rocket and cause the hardware circuits to have some sort of spasm, causing the rocket to land several hundred miles off course?
Anyone who says a software fault is "mysterious" is probably like one of those people who say "well my program worked yesterday but it doesn't work now and I didn't change anything. In fact, that is _the most common excuse for someone's program not working.
Let's look at this scientifically, something is not scientifically and logically correct - let's leave the mysteries to the X-Files (when it was on).
Do you guys really think that countries in the world don't have a clue on how to build cruise misslies?
Comrad - slashdot has posted someone elses article on how to build cruise missiles.
El Presidente - eh? well you got on that browser and dl that material and have it sent to our defense division immediately. This is just the breakthrough we've been looking for,
Comrad - Si Si!
Isn't anyone else surprised that someone with too much time hasn't released a SARS virus to infect IIS and SQL Server? What have those Bulgarians been doing?
didn't you know? I wonder if M$ has some driving force behind in all of this?
they're going to sneak in file sharing support with a kazaa plugin.
How do you fit 4 gay guys on a bar stool?
Turn it upside down.
doh
My maths lecturer for data communucations told us. He also said "George Boole would be rolling over in his grave if he found out what we were using boolean alegebra for". I can't find any immediate links on this (got an exam in 8 hours).
Are you on a computer right now? Ever heard of a guy called George Boole? Does a "boolean" sound familiar? Well you see, this guy called George Boole he hated mathematicians so much he decided to invent this thing called Boolean Logic. You know the, 1 & 1 == 1, 1 || 0 == 0 stuff? As it turns out it was totally useless and that's what he intended, to invent something mathematically correct that is totally useless. So thanks to George Boole for accidentally inventing the foundation of computer architecture, logic gates and boolean logic - and he has something to do with you being on the computer right now. Indeed he is pissed off as he intended it to be useless.
Give maths time and it will applicable to your everyday life. What has been going on for the past 3,000 years?
CAFC?
Yeah, my friend's a bigtime statistician too and loves the number crunching. The thing I can never work out with him is the complete lack of street-smarts he has.
s/sent/cent
Indeed the economy would have something to do with it. This works in two ways, investor says music sales are taking a hit due to the sluggish/hawkish economy. RIAA says music sales are taking a hit because of P2P etc. The RIAA might as well use sluggish sales as a weapon to go after P2P regardless of it being true.
Haven't you heard? Line up 100 economists behind each other and you still won't reach a conclusion.
My best friend is an economist actually, he plays everything safe and tries to read everything before coming to any sort of conclusion. Economists don't work independently, they throw a hypothesis within the group then do research to see the likelihood of the hypothesis happening. They have all sorts of models going on at the same time and select the one the fits best.
When quantum computers come into the picture a new type of programming language and way we think about computers will emerge. Bit shifting will especially be different, it will be called... QBit shifting.
In that case I turn to Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit -
baloney detection
inconsistency
(e.g., Prudently plan for the worst of which a potential military adversary is capable, but thriftily ignore scientific projections on environmental dangers because they're not "proved". Or: Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism. Or: Consider it reasonable for the Universe to continue to exist forever into the future, but judge absurd the possibility that it has infinite duration into the past);
weasel words
(e.g., The separation of powers of the U.S. Constitution specifies that the United States may not conduct a war without a declaration of Congress. On the other hand, Presidents are given control of foreign policy and the conduct of wars, which are potentially powerful tools for getting themselves re-elected. Presidents of either political party may therefore be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else -- "police actions," "armed incursions," "protective reaction strikes," "pacification," "safeguarding American interests," and a wide variety of "operations," such as "Operation Just Cause." Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public").
I posted a link to this in my previous post, but here it is again -
....
Concorde(sunk-cost) fallacy
"When one makes a hopeless investment, one sometimes reasons: I can't stop now, otherwise what I've invested so far will be lost. This is true, of course, but irrelevant to whether one should continue to invest in the project. Everything one has invested is lost regardless.
This fallacy is also sometimes referred to as the Concorde fallacy, after the method of funding the supersonic transport jet jointly created by the governments of France and Britain. Despite the fact that the Concorde is beautiful and as safe as any other jet transport, it was very costly to produce and suffered some major marketing problems. There weren't many orders for the plane. Even though it was apparent there was no way this machine would make anybody any money, France and England kept investing deeper and deeper, much to the dismay of taxpayers in both countries."
This mumbo jumbo was never going to fly from the beginning.(pardon the pun)
... err like some people.
Concorde (sunk-cost) fallacy
Now, it's unfortunte that the Hollywood stars are going to have to go down a level and fly first-class like the rest of
If a consultant is asked to take steps that he/she believes are going to impact negatively then the consultant should give clear _written advice suggesting why the steps should not be taken. If the company still persists then it's up to the consultant to consider if they should continue working there. Being desperate for work shouldn't immediately bring a professional to do desperate things.
The first rule of enforcing laws where making money is attached, "Make examples out of people, real bad examples to scare the rest of them". This is purely a "make an example out of someone" excercise for the DMCA, business as usual.
Get the 2600 build of XP. And that is not the group alt2600, that's the number of the XP build.
So whenever someone or a company gets _successful, Microsoft automatically puts them under their label as a competitor? Microsoft is successful, but in this case they're claiming to be successful in something they're not. In this case Microsoft is blowing it's own trumpet.
Isn't a jump between whole version numbers supposed to have a significant change somewhere? I'm not seeing _significant changes anywhere. It all but proves that the 9.0 is a marketing stunt.
P2P networks must also be resilient to legal attacks. In response P2P must exploit legal loopholes.
So what? Unless they have some sort of legal grounds against it condemning will be old news in hours. It is as if they are admitting being dealt a blow.