No joke! WTF are these settings that Windows is saving for two minutes every time it shuts down! When I change a setting it should be saved right away and so there's no need to save it again when I shut down, right?
Thanks for the sarcastic reply, but it really doesn't answer anything since the states don't have consistent voting procedures for themselves either. At least that would be a step in the right direction.
Obviously an argument can be made for states rights, but that never stopped Congress from dictating how states run their affairs through the threat of withholding federal funds. I wouldn't object to them doing that in this case if they did it to make a reliable voting system the standard. The capability of having fair elections is, after all, far more important than something like highway speed limits.
and guess what, when was the last time in Canada you heard mass issues of rigged elections and such.
We're Americans. When do you suppose was the last time we heard anything about Canada.
Seriously though, that is a much better system you have. Isn't America the only country that doesn't have a national system for voting? I heard that somewhere. It's a bad thing, but the alternative could be worse considering the boneheads we have in Congress currently. You know the decision would be made based solely on partisan self interest and corporate campaign donations.
Let me get this straight. Because it's bullshit, you don't think that's what it really means? I personally would be more likely to call bullshit if a TSA policy did make sense.
I cannot believe you people. So, how many of you believe that Bush caused 9/11 by "missing obvious signs" that an attack was imminent? Now, when they go looking for those signs, everyone complains about losing freedom. You cannot have it both ways.
They are looking in the wrong places. They didn't need to change anything to catch these sings, they just needed to pay attention to the security briefings that were provided to them. Competence stops terrorists, not privacy intrusions.
Well ending foreign policies that act to dehumanize people in Muslim countries would also help.
Don't be silly, just look at Linux. If only someone had been paying Linus from the start, that OS really could have taken off and become something big.
Remember, RAID with mirroring or parity is just for fault tolerance.
Well, sure but when the fault you are tolerating is the loss of all data on the disk, that's a pretty nice thing.
I know I should be doing regular backups, but I'm lazy. No systems perfect, but drive mirroring has already payed off for me so I think it's worth the extra $100.
The best that can be said for it is that it is an optimistic peak oil aligned estimate.
Right you are I think. Regardless of whether the reality is the undulating plateau they say, or the sharp decrease that Peak Oil advocates the supply still won't be able to meet the demand at our current rates. They give us a little more time, but we are still just as screwed if we don't do something about our oil usage.
This is actually a somewhat different problem from DRM. All you have to do to succeed is make it not worth the effort for email harvesters to collect your information. This is probably not really hard to do considering the number of unobfuscated email addresses available out there.
I can't dispute your claim that you get computational errors in massive compute jobs regularly, although I'm skeptical that there aren't other causes of the differing results.
Either way, it's irrelevant to the discussion. The number of computations required to get an accurate national vote is smaller than the compute jobs you are running by several orders of magnitude. If the machines can't be coming up with perfect counts, that's unacceptable.
Nope. It is impossible to create any physical system that exists outside the boundaries of probability. Which means that there is always a margin of error. Always. Thermodynamics and all that.
I'm sorry, but since when are computers not deterministic machines? I'm pretty sure that a machine that introduced randomness into it's results would not sell very well.
Yeah, yeah in theory instructions can behave indeterminately due to random quantum events, but the odds of it happening are remote enough to be irrelevant for all intends and purposes. Write a program that repeatedly performs some simple math and let it run a few billion times. Then go ahead and tell me how many errors you get. Or I can tell you right now, you'll get 0. Run it a little longer, say until the heat death of the universe. You'll still probably get 0.
Seems simple enough to me. If there is a traffic jam, the cars and the pedestrians will both be going slowly. In regular traffic you will see some phones moving slowly and others moving rapidly. The fastest moving phones are the ones of interest to you for traffic monitoring.
That's a bit of a nonsense example. I think when he said "after [having babies], you don't really matter to evolution", most people would assume that covers having the baby and raising it to the point where it can live on its own. Obviously dying upon childbirth and killing your own offspring do not constitute successful procreation.
The ultimate point is a good one. Someone up thread asked why we would evolve so that women would reach a point where they could no longer give birth. In reality it's likely that is not something that was actually selected for. For the vast majority of our species history we didn't live nearly long enough to reach menopause and so in that case the trait is irrelevant to our evolutionary fitness.
I know 5 years isn't impressive, but I have only been a serious music fan for less than a decade. My favorite albums from 20 years ago I'll admit don't ago too well, but cut me some slack. My parents never played me Tom Waits at that age, so my options were pretty limited.
Of course some of my favorite albums are from well before I was born too. No surprise there, it would be absurdly improbable for all the best music to have been written in your lifetime.
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Well sure, if by "money fairy" you mean tax payers in the blue states...
No joke! WTF are these settings that Windows is saving for two minutes every time it shuts down! When I change a setting it should be saved right away and so there's no need to save it again when I shut down, right?
Thanks for the sarcastic reply, but it really doesn't answer anything since the states don't have consistent voting procedures for themselves either. At least that would be a step in the right direction.
Obviously an argument can be made for states rights, but that never stopped Congress from dictating how states run their affairs through the threat of withholding federal funds. I wouldn't object to them doing that in this case if they did it to make a reliable voting system the standard. The capability of having fair elections is, after all, far more important than something like highway speed limits.
and guess what, when was the last time in Canada you heard mass issues of rigged elections and such.
We're Americans. When do you suppose was the last time we heard anything about Canada.
Seriously though, that is a much better system you have. Isn't America the only country that doesn't have a national system for voting? I heard that somewhere. It's a bad thing, but the alternative could be worse considering the boneheads we have in Congress currently. You know the decision would be made based solely on partisan self interest and corporate campaign donations.
Let me get this straight. Because it's bullshit, you don't think that's what it really means? I personally would be more likely to call bullshit if a TSA policy did make sense.
Lesson learned: Print your boarding passes from ONLINE - they NEVER have the extra security flag on them!
Interesting. The more you know the more you see what a farce all this extra security really is.
Of course not, since American's just love atheists!
I cannot believe you people. So, how many of you believe that Bush caused 9/11 by "missing obvious signs" that an attack was imminent? Now, when they go looking for those signs, everyone complains about losing freedom. You cannot have it both ways.
They are looking in the wrong places. They didn't need to change anything to catch these sings, they just needed to pay attention to the security briefings that were provided to them. Competence stops terrorists, not privacy intrusions.
Well ending foreign policies that act to dehumanize people in Muslim countries would also help.
Don't be silly, just look at Linux. If only someone had been paying Linus from the start, that OS really could have taken off and become something big.
... What am I missing here?
My guess would be passion for what you are doing. For people who really love what they are doing, compensation for it is just the icing on the cake.
Remember, RAID with mirroring or parity is just for fault tolerance.
Well, sure but when the fault you are tolerating is the loss of all data on the disk, that's a pretty nice thing.
I know I should be doing regular backups, but I'm lazy. No systems perfect, but drive mirroring has already payed off for me so I think it's worth the extra $100.
Obviously he knows that, hence his point is made about mischaracterization of the theory.
What do you mean by care? If by care you mean "felt the need for", then every invention came about because someone cared.
The best that can be said for it is that it is an optimistic peak oil aligned estimate.
Right you are I think. Regardless of whether the reality is the undulating plateau they say, or the sharp decrease that Peak Oil advocates the supply still won't be able to meet the demand at our current rates. They give us a little more time, but we are still just as screwed if we don't do something about our oil usage.
Not as gullible, maybe. Or could their be other reasons why no one on slashdot was buying pills to enhance their sexual performance...
This is actually a somewhat different problem from DRM. All you have to do to succeed is make it not worth the effort for email harvesters to collect your information. This is probably not really hard to do considering the number of unobfuscated email addresses available out there.
I can't dispute your claim that you get computational errors in massive compute jobs regularly, although I'm skeptical that there aren't other causes of the differing results.
Either way, it's irrelevant to the discussion. The number of computations required to get an accurate national vote is smaller than the compute jobs you are running by several orders of magnitude. If the machines can't be coming up with perfect counts, that's unacceptable.
Yeah, yeah in theory instructions can behave indeterminately due to random quantum events, but the odds of it happening are remote enough to be irrelevant for all intends and purposes. Write a program that repeatedly performs some simple math and let it run a few billion times. Then go ahead and tell me how many errors you get. Or I can tell you right now, you'll get 0. Run it a little longer, say until the heat death of the universe. You'll still probably get 0.
Not quite. If we were really USSR #2 we would at least get universal health care and guaranteed employment out of the deal.
Seems simple enough to me. If there is a traffic jam, the cars and the pedestrians will both be going slowly. In regular traffic you will see some phones moving slowly and others moving rapidly. The fastest moving phones are the ones of interest to you for traffic monitoring.
Interesting! That could explain the clicking noise from my grandfather's head immediately before he passed away.
That's a bit of a nonsense example. I think when he said "after [having babies], you don't really matter to evolution", most people would assume that covers having the baby and raising it to the point where it can live on its own. Obviously dying upon childbirth and killing your own offspring do not constitute successful procreation.
The ultimate point is a good one. Someone up thread asked why we would evolve so that women would reach a point where they could no longer give birth. In reality it's likely that is not something that was actually selected for. For the vast majority of our species history we didn't live nearly long enough to reach menopause and so in that case the trait is irrelevant to our evolutionary fitness.
The same happened to me when I put all my music on my computer. Occasionally I'll put it on random and hear albums I forgot I even owned.
I know 5 years isn't impressive, but I have only been a serious music fan for less than a decade. My favorite albums from 20 years ago I'll admit don't ago too well, but cut me some slack. My parents never played me Tom Waits at that age, so my options were pretty limited.
Of course some of my favorite albums are from well before I was born too. No surprise there, it would be absurdly improbable for all the best music to have been written in your lifetime.
Your first sentence alone is worth +5 awesome!