Why does everyone say that there is a singularity at the center of a black hole? Isn't that just an indication the that mathematical model has no answer as to what is there?
You fixed a bug sure, but you didn't fix the bad (or in this case non-existent) error handling. A fault occurred which was not detected and brought to the attention of the system administrator. The cost: one month of your time. The prognosis: a repeat performance somewhere down the line.
"The killer app soon followed, Lotus 1-2-3. One showing of this app to anyone in business made DOS so valuable that pc's became as ubiquitous as water."
Sure businesses were buying PC's by the truckload for the spreadsheet apps. But where was the productivity? I remember hearing this refrain for almost a decade in the late 80's and early 90's on CNBC: "where is the productivity increase from all these PC's?"
That refrain stopped with the advent of the World Wide Web. The web was where the productivity turned out to be.
Back then, Sun and Netscape had a vision for the web that is still relevant today. Their vision got stomped on by MS. Hard. MS couldn't stop the tide from coming in however, but they sure made a mess down by the shoreline.
I have long advocated community provision of local internet service as a public utility, like city streets and county roads. This posting leads me to believe that other people are starting to see the benefits of going in this direction too.
This is without a doubt the coolest result I have seen in a long time. I think the implications are more profound for physics than for mathematics. Unlike the quantum world, mathematics is something that is totally understood. This finding gives a totally new perspective from which to understand quantum 'weirdness'. I can't wait to see where this might lead.
The anarchist shoots first and asks questions later. Libertarians accept that there are legitimate functions for government, including police and courts.
I'll shoot anyone who doesn't draw this distinction.
The authors of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights intended the phrase "free speech" to mean political speech, in order to ensure the proper functioning of a democratic government. They never intended it to provide a right for pedophiles to speak about their harmful sexual proclivities.
The Google Web Toolkit has it right: treat JavaScript as a fancy virtual machine, and compile full featured languages down to it. I don't worry about JavaScript any more.
Aren't robots supposed to be autonomous? From what I understand, Dextre is a cybernetic manipulator. Why do people refuse to distinguish between robots and cyborgs?
It's not so much transit time, as parallelization where the big advantage is. Many frequencies of light can share the same medium without interfering with each other. Imagine many processors and memory chips streaming data to each other simultaneously, over the same backplane.
I once read of Beethovens music something similar to this:
"The music of Beethoven is like a vast lake into which a myriad musical influences flowed, and out of which, countless new rivers and streams of musical expression have emerged."
To me the Beatles are the Beethoven of 20th century popular music. You are already influenced by them, whether you know it or not.
The breakup of MS was the right solution. The gutless Bush administration simply refused to enforce it.
Requiring unbundling is the next best thing. And no, I don't think that having users install their own OS is the only alternative. In short order, 3rd party services would become available to do it, for a competitive price. Also some computers would be sold without disks, and consumers would but a disk with the OS they wanted on it.
It sure is refreshing to finally have a think tank come right out and state that the MS monopoly has stifled technical innovation!
The original solution still seems to me, from this vantage point, to have been the best one: break up MS. Some may recall that this judgement was vacated on appeal, on the flimsiest possible pretext: the judge was interviewed by the press after the case was closed.
"I was one of the people in charge of it, and when the dust cleared, I thought, I don't really know that much about software development."
Gee, what a surprise. A lot of people in charge of software development projects don't know much about software development. Do you think... naw, couldn't be.
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Why does everyone say that there is a singularity at the center of a black hole? Isn't that just an indication the that mathematical model has no answer as to what is there?
You fixed a bug sure, but you didn't fix the bad (or in this case non-existent) error handling. A fault occurred which was not detected and brought to the attention of the system administrator. The cost: one month of your time. The prognosis: a repeat performance somewhere down the line.
"...where a wait is never notified caused by bad error handling, which was fixed by simply renaming a file ...'
Bad error handling is fixed by renaming a file? Really?
I'd say not enough eyeballs there.
The Drake equation is the silliest equation ever. It is little more than a statement of how much we don't know.
"The killer app soon followed, Lotus 1-2-3. One showing of this app to anyone in business made DOS so valuable that pc's became as ubiquitous as water."
Sure businesses were buying PC's by the truckload for the spreadsheet apps. But where was the productivity? I remember hearing this refrain for almost a decade in the late 80's and early 90's on CNBC: "where is the productivity increase from all these PC's?"
That refrain stopped with the advent of the World Wide Web. The web was where the productivity turned out to be.
Back then, Sun and Netscape had a vision for the web that is still relevant today. Their vision got stomped on by MS. Hard.
MS couldn't stop the tide from coming in however, but they sure made a mess down by the shoreline.
I have long advocated community provision of local internet service as a public utility, like city streets and county roads. This posting leads me to believe that other people are starting to see the benefits of going in this direction too.
"If anything they could use it to spin some lingerie for the female astronauts to help with those lonely space nights."
Or to offer to the green women.
Except for the ones who believe in free education, free health care, etc.
This is without a doubt the coolest result I have seen in a long time. I think the implications are more profound for physics than for mathematics.
Unlike the quantum world, mathematics is something that is totally understood. This finding gives a totally new perspective from which to understand quantum 'weirdness'. I can't wait to see where this might lead.
For that matter, how many jailed cannabis smokers and other political prisoners will be set free?
The anarchist shoots first and asks questions later. Libertarians accept that there are legitimate functions for government, including police and courts.
I'll shoot anyone who doesn't draw this distinction.
The authors of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights intended the phrase "free speech" to mean political speech, in order to ensure the proper functioning of a democratic government. They never intended it to provide a right for pedophiles to speak about their harmful sexual proclivities.
The Google Web Toolkit has it right: treat JavaScript as a fancy virtual machine, and compile full featured languages down to it. I don't worry about JavaScript any more.
They should just publish the school test results, and let parents decide which school to send their kids to. (Imagine that, free choice!)
Also establish a time limit: say 5 years for high school: 5 years and out, either pass (graduate), or fail (just out). No more "forcing" success.
If the "13 reasons" site is written in one of Ruby, Python or the gang, I'm not too impressed.
Looks like Rob Malda is not the only one who has no life.
Aren't robots supposed to be autonomous? From what I understand, Dextre is a cybernetic manipulator. Why do people refuse to distinguish between robots and cyborgs?
It's not so much transit time, as parallelization where the big advantage is. Many frequencies of light can share the same medium without interfering with each other. Imagine many processors and memory chips streaming data to each other simultaneously, over the same backplane.
I once read of Beethovens music something similar to this:
"The music of Beethoven is like a vast lake into which a myriad musical influences flowed, and out of which, countless new rivers and streams of musical expression have emerged."
To me the Beatles are the Beethoven of 20th century popular music. You are already influenced by them, whether you know it or not.
I wonder if there is a block of IP addresses reserved for extraterrestrial use.
Requiring unbundling is the next best thing. And no, I don't think that having users install their own OS is the only alternative. In short order, 3rd party services would become available to do it, for a competitive price. Also some computers would be sold without disks, and consumers would but a disk with the OS they wanted on it.
It sure is refreshing to finally have a think tank come right out and state that the MS monopoly has stifled technical innovation!
The original solution still seems to me, from this vantage point, to have been the best one: break up MS. Some may recall that this judgement was vacated on appeal, on the flimsiest possible pretext: the judge was interviewed by the press after the case was closed.
"The only analogy I can give is if you had absolute proof that God wasn't real."
How would that be a good thing?
"extensible bookmarks back-end platform"
Can somebody translate this to English?
"I was one of the people in charge of it, and when the dust cleared, I thought, I don't really know that much about software development."
... naw, couldn't be.
Gee, what a surprise. A lot of people in charge of software development projects don't know much about software development. Do you think