Is Mr. Mani Te'o innocent in all of this. That he lied about meeting Ms. Kekua so his dad and others wouldn't think less of him for being head-over-heels for a virtual girlfriend?
Does the set of geek dudes who are too shy to have a real girl friend intersect the set of star college football players?
If Mani's musician-dude friend is behind the thing, does the musician have a serious man-crush on Mr. Te'o?
Forget the parallax of Polaris, these are the questions that demand answers.
Isn't the original strict type checking language Algol 60? And didn't that effort lead to Algol 68, which somewhere along the lines of the Orange Catholic Bible in the Dune novels ended up "recanted" by its creators or some such thing as working against error reduction in programming, either by becoming to complicated semantically or to difficult to implement a compiler?
And didn't the failure of Algol 68 lead to Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, as a simpler, better Algol 60? And for whatever Pascal's limitations (Hello! Is there a String type? Is anyone even home?), Pascal developed a reputation of being really simple to parse, which resulted in its adoption by Anders Hejlsberg, er, I mean Phillipe Kahn in Turbo Pascal? And hadn't Wirth by some point admitted that Turbo Pascal had become the "reference dialect" of Pascal?
And when the U.S. Department of Defense held its competition for One Compiler to Rule Them All, they gave the prize to a French dude named Jean Ichbah, who gave us Ada, which was essentially Pascal with (separately compiled) modules, although Pascal compiled so fast, its fanboys claimed you didn't need separate module compilation and linking? And didn't Wirth come out with Modula, Pascal "done right" with modules, but no one would use it because it was all Bondage and Discipline to an extreme? And didn't Kahn (er, I mean Hejlsberg) come out with Turbo Pascal 4, a much friendlier Pascal with Modules?
And wasn't Ada immediately disrespected by the Sons of Algol (Djkstra, Wirth) as being a committee-designed Abomination? And wasn't it for the longest time that no one had a compiler for it, which called into question the ambigious semantics and whether programs in Ada would ever be "theorem proof" reliable?
And hasn't C-style syntax pretty much won out over Algol 60-derived syntax (Pascal, Modula, Ada)? And that everybody who is into "Bondage and Discipline" programming in this day and age (strict types, good compile time and run time error checking) pretty much embraced Java?
So I guess Ada has its "community" of "dudes with crew cuts, clean shaven, and with pocket protectors working for Defense contractors", does Ada have any "street cred" with the academic "software theorem proof" or "software reliability" communities?
The stellar types -- O, B, A, F, G, K, M -- are broad categories of mass and resulting Main Sequence surface temperature and luminosity.
If a star is even a little bit smaller, it will be a lot dimmer, and the brightening with age may not bring it quite up to the Sun's luminosity. Also, if the star is smaller and ages less rapidly, 6 billion years old is the new 4 billion, as they say, and the star may not be as far along the brightening with age curve.
Not that I want to defer to "experts", but one would think that astronomers have put a lot of effort by now into figuring out the properties of Main Sequence stars, what with the Hipparcos spacecraft giving accurate distances to nearby stars and with interferometers even able to measure their apparent size.
No disrespect to our Mormon friends, colleagues, Senate Majority Leaders, presidential candidates and others, but to James Kirk from the 23rd century, LSD, LDS, it was all the same thing . . .
Dunno. If I were on a jury, I don't think I would try to call attention to myself.
Forget about any legal exposure. Does South Korea have a "Mafia"? I don't think I would want to find out.
Everyone around here seems to play up the Samsumg complaining about sour grapes angle. I want to play up the "just keep one's (fine, fine) mouth shut" angle, especially as a juror post jury trial.
Cook County, Illinois, has long had a reputation for uncontested elections "down ballot", "machine" politics, and all the rest. Oh yes, and elected judges. If political officials appoint the judges, at least you know what you are getting -- vote for Party Mayor A, get judges appointed along with Mayor A's platform, and so on.
Attending Northwestern University in Evanston, I came across a "voters guide" to the judges stuck to a lamp post. I wish I had copied it down or photographed it, it was a complete classic exercise in an unabridged and uncensored rundown of who these people are. One remark sticks in my mind nearly 40 years later, that a Cook County judge had the nickname "Fathead McGillicuddy." The colorful nature of the remarks only got better from there.
Would that we could get the rumors and the slanders and the inuendo and the things known to the poor defense attorneys (and defendants). One can always run such "through a filter" to sort out genuine dirt from campaign hyberbole, much as we process the negative ads the major office seekers run against each other. But at least it would be something to go on.
The idea that you "can never get" the EPA gas mileage on an actual real-life car is this Gospel According to Leaden Footed Car Reviewers in hip car review magazines and Web sites.
You can, in all likelihood, get close to the EPA gas mileage -- if you drive an EPA drive cycle.
First off, the EPA numbers on the window sticker are way de-rated from the mileage numbers in the official EPA tests. The De-rating is in response to all of the whining and howling "The EPA numbers are a fiction! I never get the EPA numbers!"
The EPA City cycle originally meant to represent a trip on Los Angeles "surface streets" -- in other words, main arterial roads, not a congested downtown like Manhattan. The average speed was 20 MPH. The EPA highway was meant to represent a trip on "the 405" under mildly congested conditions, essentially urban freeway driving in the days before the 405 became a 24-hour parking facility. The average speed is 50 MPH on the cycle, well below the 65 (or much more) that people do bombing down rural Interstates. The choice of test conditions was not meant to confound people trying to match published gas mileage, rather, it was meant to be a sample of the kind of driving taking place day-to-day in L.A., for purposes of evaluating auto smog controls, not for energy efficiency.
So if "no one drives like the EPA", why do they still use the same test? Because it is written into the CAFE-standard fuel economy laws. The automakers are held to the legal EPA standard so "the government isn't making up the rules of the game as they go along" whereas consumers get a de-rated number so their pride in being good drivers is not hurt.
My experience with a Scan Gauge (bought at Think Geek) that I have calibrated by putting a gas-fill adjustment for the particular car, is that you can too get the EPA City mileage, not the one on the sticker but better than the sticker, the "back room" number (Google "EPA Test Car List" inquiring geeks are going to want to see this data when car shopping). What you do is drive an EPA cycle. Pick a no-wind 70-deg F day, start up the car, and drive it across town (about 10 miles, I believe) without the A/C going, and drive a non-rush hour non-freeway route where you average 20 MPH. If you have a Scan Gauge, you probably can identify a route where you can safely and legally average 20 MPH.
For the highway test, pick a highway where you can drive a constant 55 MPH without people "flipping you off" for holding up traffic. Seriously, if you go out do road testing, you don't want to be a self-righteous person holding people back from going about their daily work, even if they are going a couple miles and hour too fast -- leave that for the cops to enforce. I betcha you can at least get with 5 percent (1 MPG at 20 MPG, 2 MPG at 40 MPG) of the "raw" EPA numbers and you can do a lot better than window sticker.
There are a couple YMMV caveats. I believe the EPA standardizes on a particular fuel that may have higher BTU's gallon than the ethanol-watered-down stuff you get at the pump these days. Also, summer gas has more BTU's than the more volatile winter gas mandated so people can start cars in cold weather (actually, the summer blend is mandated for higher vapor pressure, both to prevent vapor lock stall-outs in hot conditions and to reduce smog from gas left standing).
The other caveat is that the EPA tests rely on the automakers supplying "resistance data" based on "coast-down" road trials -- these result in resistance coefficients that get dialed into the chassis rollers in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There is some opportunity of mischief there. Us true geeks could in our infinite spare time look over the EPA Test Car List Database to see if there are any inconsistencies on either the coast-down times or the dynamometer coefficients reported for the different cars -- this is maybe where Hyundai and Kia got their wrists slapped.
The Metric System is one of may reforms from the French Revolution. Can't have people in the U.S. adopt anything from France, now, can we?
There was also a Revolutionary (decimal) calendar. It had 12 months but with new names, but weeks were 10-days long, days had 10 hours, hours had 100 minutes -- didn't catch on. I think the one holdover is "Lobster Thermidor" -- Thermidor, was one of the Revolutionary months.
I understand that the United States Secretary of State has certain "issues" regarding the "behavior of men towards women", especially towards one woman. Herself.
The Secretary of State impresses me as someone who "takes no 'stuff' from no-body." Think of her stern response when someone in Nigeria, was it, confusing who was the current U.S. President (Mr. Obama, not Mr. Clinton), asked here regarding "President Clinton's opinion about the presence of people representing commercial and governmental interests from China in West Africa."
The manner in which Mr. Assange disrespected the Secretary is at a whole other level.
Yeah, torture and death pretty much sums up his fate.
Slashdot Mirror
Who is implicated in the Lanney Kekua scam?
Is Mr. Mani Te'o innocent in all of this. That he lied about meeting Ms. Kekua so his dad and others wouldn't think less of him for being head-over-heels for a virtual girlfriend?
Does the set of geek dudes who are too shy to have a real girl friend intersect the set of star college football players?
If Mani's musician-dude friend is behind the thing, does the musician have a serious man-crush on Mr. Te'o?
Forget the parallax of Polaris, these are the questions that demand answers.
Obligatory Sum of All Fears quote.
Lame-joke telling AC . . . moderates you!
Bet you thought that was the meaning of the aircraft rating "ETOPS"?
Would believe, "Engines Turn or Passenger's Swim"?
With the baggage rules, how about "Expect The Passengers to Smell" (on the return trip in the absence of fresh clothes)?
And didn't the failure of Algol 68 lead to Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, as a simpler, better Algol 60? And for whatever Pascal's limitations (Hello! Is there a String type? Is anyone even home?), Pascal developed a reputation of being really simple to parse, which resulted in its adoption by Anders Hejlsberg, er, I mean Phillipe Kahn in Turbo Pascal? And hadn't Wirth by some point admitted that Turbo Pascal had become the "reference dialect" of Pascal?
And when the U.S. Department of Defense held its competition for One Compiler to Rule Them All, they gave the prize to a French dude named Jean Ichbah, who gave us Ada, which was essentially Pascal with (separately compiled) modules, although Pascal compiled so fast, its fanboys claimed you didn't need separate module compilation and linking? And didn't Wirth come out with Modula, Pascal "done right" with modules, but no one would use it because it was all Bondage and Discipline to an extreme? And didn't Kahn (er, I mean Hejlsberg) come out with Turbo Pascal 4, a much friendlier Pascal with Modules?
And wasn't Ada immediately disrespected by the Sons of Algol (Djkstra, Wirth) as being a committee-designed Abomination? And wasn't it for the longest time that no one had a compiler for it, which called into question the ambigious semantics and whether programs in Ada would ever be "theorem proof" reliable?
And hasn't C-style syntax pretty much won out over Algol 60-derived syntax (Pascal, Modula, Ada)? And that everybody who is into "Bondage and Discipline" programming in this day and age (strict types, good compile time and run time error checking) pretty much embraced Java?
So I guess Ada has its "community" of "dudes with crew cuts, clean shaven, and with pocket protectors working for Defense contractors", does Ada have any "street cred" with the academic "software theorem proof" or "software reliability" communities?
To the average "dude or dudette on the street", it is just plain "Linux", and this "GNU/Linux" label just oozes righteous political correctness.
If a star is even a little bit smaller, it will be a lot dimmer, and the brightening with age may not bring it quite up to the Sun's luminosity. Also, if the star is smaller and ages less rapidly, 6 billion years old is the new 4 billion, as they say, and the star may not be as far along the brightening with age curve.
Not that I want to defer to "experts", but one would think that astronomers have put a lot of effort by now into figuring out the properties of Main Sequence stars, what with the Hipparcos spacecraft giving accurate distances to nearby stars and with interferometers even able to measure their apparent size.
No disrespect to our Mormon friends, colleagues, Senate Majority Leaders, presidential candidates and others, but to James Kirk from the 23rd century, LSD, LDS, it was all the same thing . . .
Jerry Pournelle
Burt Rutan
Freeman Dyson
MOND!
Your analogy regarding the "bare metal" is the most sensible observation offered on this thread.
Forget about any legal exposure. Does South Korea have a "Mafia"? I don't think I would want to find out.
Everyone around here seems to play up the Samsumg complaining about sour grapes angle. I want to play up the "just keep one's (fine, fine) mouth shut" angle, especially as a juror post jury trial.
Once people figure out how to do a certain something, other people can do it too.
Attending Northwestern University in Evanston, I came across a "voters guide" to the judges stuck to a lamp post. I wish I had copied it down or photographed it, it was a complete classic exercise in an unabridged and uncensored rundown of who these people are. One remark sticks in my mind nearly 40 years later, that a Cook County judge had the nickname "Fathead McGillicuddy." The colorful nature of the remarks only got better from there.
Would that we could get the rumors and the slanders and the inuendo and the things known to the poor defense attorneys (and defendants). One can always run such "through a filter" to sort out genuine dirt from campaign hyberbole, much as we process the negative ads the major office seekers run against each other. But at least it would be something to go on.
So the parent post person is doing something wrong . . . like holding on to a job in this sluggish economy?
The idea that you "can never get" the EPA gas mileage on an actual real-life car is this Gospel According to Leaden Footed Car Reviewers in hip car review magazines and Web sites.
You can, in all likelihood, get close to the EPA gas mileage -- if you drive an EPA drive cycle.
First off, the EPA numbers on the window sticker are way de-rated from the mileage numbers in the official EPA tests. The De-rating is in response to all of the whining and howling "The EPA numbers are a fiction! I never get the EPA numbers!"
The EPA City cycle originally meant to represent a trip on Los Angeles "surface streets" -- in other words, main arterial roads, not a congested downtown like Manhattan. The average speed was 20 MPH. The EPA highway was meant to represent a trip on "the 405" under mildly congested conditions, essentially urban freeway driving in the days before the 405 became a 24-hour parking facility. The average speed is 50 MPH on the cycle, well below the 65 (or much more) that people do bombing down rural Interstates. The choice of test conditions was not meant to confound people trying to match published gas mileage, rather, it was meant to be a sample of the kind of driving taking place day-to-day in L.A., for purposes of evaluating auto smog controls, not for energy efficiency.
So if "no one drives like the EPA", why do they still use the same test? Because it is written into the CAFE-standard fuel economy laws. The automakers are held to the legal EPA standard so "the government isn't making up the rules of the game as they go along" whereas consumers get a de-rated number so their pride in being good drivers is not hurt.
My experience with a Scan Gauge (bought at Think Geek) that I have calibrated by putting a gas-fill adjustment for the particular car, is that you can too get the EPA City mileage, not the one on the sticker but better than the sticker, the "back room" number (Google "EPA Test Car List" inquiring geeks are going to want to see this data when car shopping). What you do is drive an EPA cycle. Pick a no-wind 70-deg F day, start up the car, and drive it across town (about 10 miles, I believe) without the A/C going, and drive a non-rush hour non-freeway route where you average 20 MPH. If you have a Scan Gauge, you probably can identify a route where you can safely and legally average 20 MPH.
For the highway test, pick a highway where you can drive a constant 55 MPH without people "flipping you off" for holding up traffic. Seriously, if you go out do road testing, you don't want to be a self-righteous person holding people back from going about their daily work, even if they are going a couple miles and hour too fast -- leave that for the cops to enforce. I betcha you can at least get with 5 percent (1 MPG at 20 MPG, 2 MPG at 40 MPG) of the "raw" EPA numbers and you can do a lot better than window sticker.
There are a couple YMMV caveats. I believe the EPA standardizes on a particular fuel that may have higher BTU's gallon than the ethanol-watered-down stuff you get at the pump these days. Also, summer gas has more BTU's than the more volatile winter gas mandated so people can start cars in cold weather (actually, the summer blend is mandated for higher vapor pressure, both to prevent vapor lock stall-outs in hot conditions and to reduce smog from gas left standing).
The other caveat is that the EPA tests rely on the automakers supplying "resistance data" based on "coast-down" road trials -- these result in resistance coefficients that get dialed into the chassis rollers in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There is some opportunity of mischief there. Us true geeks could in our infinite spare time look over the EPA Test Car List Database to see if there are any inconsistencies on either the coast-down times or the dynamometer coefficients reported for the different cars -- this is maybe where Hyundai and Kia got their wrists slapped.
I always that for that purpose one had to rely on one's imagination . . .
So, after looking at another thread on Slashdot, is Nokia just a simulation or some kind of hologram?
Isn't that what we will be doing starting this Fall?
There was also a Revolutionary (decimal) calendar. It had 12 months but with new names, but weeks were 10-days long, days had 10 hours, hours had 100 minutes -- didn't catch on. I think the one holdover is "Lobster Thermidor" -- Thermidor, was one of the Revolutionary months.
Thanks for the correction.
The Secretary of State impresses me as someone who "takes no 'stuff' from no-body." Think of her stern response when someone in Nigeria, was it, confusing who was the current U.S. President (Mr. Obama, not Mr. Clinton), asked here regarding "President Clinton's opinion about the presence of people representing commercial and governmental interests from China in West Africa."
The manner in which Mr. Assange disrespected the Secretary is at a whole other level.
Yeah, torture and death pretty much sums up his fate.
So you are telling me, that some couple has been without sex longer than Maria and Arnold . . . (ba-doom boom!)
No.
Or, I am the EM-1 Emergency Medical Holograph. Please state your emergency.