I figured since 3 through 7 didn't match up, and I'm currently at a 100% failure rate that I didn't need to prove much more. [...] I should point out that proper font rendering is required for EVERY test. You can't pass any without proper font rendering.
I should point out that, while this is valid for judging a (supposedly) "finished" product, it's kind of negatively biased for assessing the state of a work-in-progress: if a single issue of buggy/incomplete font rendering causes all the test-cases to fail, regardless of the state of the other features involved in each test-case, and they're all graded on a binary pass/fail scale, then you end up counting the same bug many times, and whatever other features may be working correctly don't get counted. Yes, font rendering is a super-important feature and we don't want to make excuses for not doing it right, but looking at it this way fails to give an accurate view of how far the project may have progressed.
I'm still enjoying the phrase "largest gigapixel photograph". I'm not sure how it compares in size to all the regular gigapixel photographs. But no doubt it's much bigger than the smallest gigapixel photograph.
In other news, a ton of bricks actually does weigh more than a ton of feathers.
Actually it's been about 25 years away for 50 years now.
Yeah, but seriously, folks, even to the extent that that's literally true, it doesn't mean there's been no progress. The way I like to word it is: "We've had 50 years of increasingly accurate predictions of practical fusion power being 25 years away." See, assuming it ever happens (which of course it will, unless civilization collapses in such a way that whoever's left has bigger problems to worry about), then regardless of how long it ends up actually taking, each of those 25-year predictions will prove to have been slightly more accurate than the one before. Progress!
Also, "25 years away for 50 years now" is something I remember my freshman physics professor saying... but that was 15 years ago... and now we have people saying "10 years". *scribbles some rough calculations* Hmmm... Could it be, somewhere along the line they actually did get on track, but we'd already become so cynical about it that we didn't notice?
Add in Buzz being was understandably upset over being lured there under false pretenses and the punch is fully justified in my book.
Indeed. Plus, the way it looked in the video, the punch came immediately after the word "coward". Which, I figure, is something that's likely to happen with just about any ex-military man. (Or I could even say, "just about anybody".)
Yeah, I know, but one tries not to let facts get in the way of a good joke. (Funny, a near-identical exchange followed the last place I saw that joke posted.)
Maybe it would work better with brain surgery. Or, if the mechanic was allowed to stop the engine but had to do major work on the car's electrical system without losing my radio presets.
What makes you think this wouldn't be an example of evolution?
Maybe the use of the word 'reprogramming' -- that could be taken to to mean they were claiming it was something individual fish were doing, to change within their own lifetimes. Hence, Lamarck. But I could just as well read it as a (maybe slightly weird) way of describing the change in the species' genetic distribution as it responds to selective pressure in what (as you said) sounds like a perfectly classic case of evolution. 'Course, that's just based on the summary; to say for sure, I'd have to RTFA.
The general's report should have been something more like:
Our original intel was somewhat misleading: indeed there are many warriors gathering, but they are not one mighty army. Rather, there are many small armies, some with alliances amongst themselves, but generally independent of each other. I have met several of them in battle, and defeated them, and I've gathered significant intel on many of the others. Defeating all of them will require a longer campaign, and there can be no single decisive victory over all of them at once, because there is no single leader who commands all of them.
The Emperor might still be less than pleased, but he should be able to understand this.
GP said 100 miles square, not 100 square miles. "X miles square" means "a square X miles on a side". 100 miles square = 10,000 square miles. Houston being 579 square miles comes to ~24 miles square. That's a BIG difference. But true, a "megalopolis" region, or what back then would have been a city-state, can be much bigger than a single city.
60,000? Haven't worked much with real/modern data-warehousing systems, have we? If it were that many people taking off or landing every second, the data volume would be getting into the same order of magnitude as the ad traffic that goes through Yahoo! or Google, the number of shares traded on the stock exchanges, etc. Granted, it depends how you define "sift... effectively", as at those levels, it starts getting hard to do really deep mining, but you'd probably be surprised at how much analysis is not only possible but routine. Especially since checking names against a list is the only part that needs to happen in real-time; the rest can be done offline.
Yup, Irix was my first thought. Dunno how far back it went, but I know it was there in '98. As I recall, it worked pretty much the same as how the "major" OSes do it now. Now if only I could get my hands on some Irix ~6.5 install CDs for that Octane (working but OS-less) I've got lying around.
(NASA and RKA having decided that only those who can tack 'career' on the front of it deserve to be called 'astronauts').
See, this is what happens when we start having the government declare what "The Definition" of a word is. I say, if some people want to go to all the effort and expense of going into space, they should be able to call themselves "Astronauts".
I know the advocates of "Traditional Astronaut-age" are claiming that this would somehow undermine the institution as they know it, but frankly, I just don't get their argument. I mean, nobody's stopping them from going into space their way, and if they privately consider themselves to be the only true Astronauts, well, I guess we can all agree to disagree. Why do we need the goverment to endorse one group's definition over another's?
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Are we still doing this?
And don't forget: http://xkcd.com/933/
The Crossbow Project
There's no Defense like a good Offense
...but sadly no one is forcing them to learn about computers if they constantly confuse G**gle with the Web.
Or, for that matter, "the Web" with "the Internet".
When did sharing everything with the entire world become the overriding priority for the Internet?
When Web 2.0 was released?
I figured since 3 through 7 didn't match up, and I'm currently at a 100% failure rate that I didn't need to prove much more.
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I should point out that proper font rendering is required for EVERY test. You can't pass any without proper font rendering.
I should point out that, while this is valid for judging a (supposedly) "finished" product, it's kind of negatively biased for assessing the state of a work-in-progress: if a single issue of buggy/incomplete font rendering causes all the test-cases to fail, regardless of the state of the other features involved in each test-case, and they're all graded on a binary pass/fail scale, then you end up counting the same bug many times, and whatever other features may be working correctly don't get counted. Yes, font rendering is a super-important feature and we don't want to make excuses for not doing it right, but looking at it this way fails to give an accurate view of how far the project may have progressed.
I'm still enjoying the phrase "largest gigapixel photograph". I'm not sure how it compares in size to all the regular gigapixel photographs. But no doubt it's much bigger than the smallest gigapixel photograph.
In other news, a ton of bricks actually does weigh more than a ton of feathers.
hehe, second that.
Actually it's been about 25 years away for 50 years now.
Yeah, but seriously, folks, even to the extent that that's literally true, it doesn't mean there's been no progress. The way I like to word it is: "We've had 50 years of increasingly accurate predictions of practical fusion power being 25 years away." See, assuming it ever happens (which of course it will, unless civilization collapses in such a way that whoever's left has bigger problems to worry about), then regardless of how long it ends up actually taking, each of those 25-year predictions will prove to have been slightly more accurate than the one before. Progress!
Also, "25 years away for 50 years now" is something I remember my freshman physics professor saying... but that was 15 years ago... and now we have people saying "10 years". *scribbles some rough calculations* Hmmm... Could it be, somewhere along the line they actually did get on track, but we'd already become so cynical about it that we didn't notice?
Hmmm, odd... better repeat the experiment just to be sure.
Has the LHC destroyed the Earth yet?
NO
Good. Carry on.
And of course, science articles, especially those relating to evolution, have never been the subject of any of that sort of nonsense.
Add in Buzz being was understandably upset over being lured there under false pretenses and the punch is fully justified in my book.
Indeed. Plus, the way it looked in the video, the punch came immediately after the word "coward". Which, I figure, is something that's likely to happen with just about any ex-military man. (Or I could even say, "just about anybody".)
Yeah, I know, but one tries not to let facts get in the way of a good joke. (Funny, a near-identical exchange followed the last place I saw that joke posted.)
Maybe it would work better with brain surgery. Or, if the mechanic was allowed to stop the engine but had to do major work on the car's electrical system without losing my radio presets.
If you think replacing a battery on an iPhone is hard, try replacing your own pacemaker battery.
And, just to drive in the point, make sure you can do it with the engine running
Where expensive is an arbitrary number between the inability to use an internet chat program and proprietary price gouging?
That, or "expensive international calls" is a euphemism for "phone sex".
Imagine His surprise upon learning that one of His angels had the evil bit set...
And thus was the first daemon spawned.
What makes you think this wouldn't be an example of evolution?
Maybe the use of the word 'reprogramming' -- that could be taken to to mean they were claiming it was something individual fish were doing, to change within their own lifetimes. Hence, Lamarck. But I could just as well read it as a (maybe slightly weird) way of describing the change in the species' genetic distribution as it responds to selective pressure in what (as you said) sounds like a perfectly classic case of evolution. 'Course, that's just based on the summary; to say for sure, I'd have to RTFA.
The general's report should have been something more like:
Our original intel was somewhat misleading: indeed there are many warriors gathering, but they are not one mighty army. Rather, there are many small armies, some with alliances amongst themselves, but generally independent of each other. I have met several of them in battle, and defeated them, and I've gathered significant intel on many of the others. Defeating all of them will require a longer campaign, and there can be no single decisive victory over all of them at once, because there is no single leader who commands all of them.
The Emperor might still be less than pleased, but he should be able to understand this.
GP said 100 miles square, not 100 square miles. "X miles square" means "a square X miles on a side". 100 miles square = 10,000 square miles. Houston being 579 square miles comes to ~24 miles square. That's a BIG difference. But true, a "megalopolis" region, or what back then would have been a city-state, can be much bigger than a single city.
Cory Doctorow's story Liberation Spectrum seems relevant.
"Terrafugia claims it will be able to fly up to 500 miles on a single tank of unleaded petrol at a cruising speed of 115mph."
I don't think I'm familiar with this unit of fuel-efficiency -- how many "miles per tank" do you get in a Prius vs. a Hummer?
60,000? Haven't worked much with real/modern data-warehousing systems, have we? If it were that many people taking off or landing every second, the data volume would be getting into the same order of magnitude as the ad traffic that goes through Yahoo! or Google, the number of shares traded on the stock exchanges, etc. Granted, it depends how you define "sift ... effectively", as at those levels, it starts getting hard to do really deep mining, but you'd probably be surprised at how much analysis is not only possible but routine. Especially since checking names against a list is the only part that needs to happen in real-time; the rest can be done offline.
Yup, Irix was my first thought. Dunno how far back it went, but I know it was there in '98. As I recall, it worked pretty much the same as how the "major" OSes do it now. Now if only I could get my hands on some Irix ~6.5 install CDs for that Octane (working but OS-less) I've got lying around.
(NASA and RKA having decided that only those who can tack 'career' on the front of it deserve to be called 'astronauts').
See, this is what happens when we start having the government declare what "The Definition" of a word is. I say, if some people want to go to all the effort and expense of going into space, they should be able to call themselves "Astronauts".
I know the advocates of "Traditional Astronaut-age" are claiming that this would somehow undermine the institution as they know it, but frankly, I just don't get their argument. I mean, nobody's stopping them from going into space their way, and if they privately consider themselves to be the only true Astronauts, well, I guess we can all agree to disagree. Why do we need the goverment to endorse one group's definition over another's?