,i>People actually believe the earth flooded by the hand of god and was saved by noah and his fucking ark?
There are a number of areas that could have been plausibly flooded, including the area between montana and washington (this during the last ice age). This area was repeatedly flooded - there was a large bowl that would fill up with ice blocking the western gap. Eventually, there'd be enough water to float/expel the blockage, and it'd flow out to sea - about 200 miles.
What is your philosophical argument that precludes an omnipotent God and science co-existing?
God can tweak your experiments just to fuck with you. Since this means that every experiment can have different results, you can't depend on them. No experiments = no science.
You don't get science, do you? Scientists don't prove anything - they only disprove it. The observed facts match evolution pretty well, better than any other theory.
Part of the problem there was that the missile's clock values were such that they would not convert to base 2 (and hence to float) accurately and so the tracking was off and lots of expensive misses happened.
That wasn't the problem. The Patriot missle thing was rated for 48 hours between reboots, but they ran it for week at a time. If they had run it within specs, it'd be fine (or at least less bad).
Otherwise where do you get off equating Free software with communisism?
Where'd he do that? All I saw was him ranting about the 'everything should be free' crowd which, frankly, needs to die in a fire. Slagging on someone for trying to sell or charge for a service definitely smells of communism.
You don't want to do that because your servers TCP/IP stack only has about 60K useable ports(64K ports - WKS and a few others), and each connection uses a port, then most real web pages connect to a database which means your down to 30K connections
How precious! you think that slashdot runs on one server, and that every connection imples a connection to the database. Not so - there is most likely a connection pool, so only 20-100 connections are open from the webserver to the DB, and there are lots of boxes. In addition, there's probably a cache layer in front of the DB and in front of the webservers.
In England, don't they also pay you your expected salary if it turns out you were falsely imprisoned. Room and board sounds at least somewhat reasonable.
The fact that they were willing to spend so much money on a parking garage indicates to me that they have serious parking problems which must be addressed.
And they could have bought their robogarage from someone else or built a normal one.
Letting city infastructure deterioate is not an acceptable course of action.
C'mon, this is Hoboken. They seem to wallow in that stuff.
The idea of licensing software, especially software required to run a physical item, is a shaky idea.
Based on what? It may be a bad idea, but that's what Hoboken negotiated.
I'd argue that if you buy a robot that needs software to run, you have an implicit ownership of said software, because as pointed out, without the software, the robot is not as useful.
Not much of an argument. Do you have any sort of precedent to back this up, or are you arguing from some sense of fair play?
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,i>People actually believe the earth flooded by the hand of god and was saved by noah and his fucking ark?
There are a number of areas that could have been plausibly flooded, including the area between montana and washington (this during the last ice age). This area was repeatedly flooded - there was a large bowl that would fill up with ice blocking the western gap. Eventually, there'd be enough water to float/expel the blockage, and it'd flow out to sea - about 200 miles.
Yep, that's how you do it. Misdirection and looking innocuous beat the hell out of sneaking around every time.
What is your philosophical argument that precludes an omnipotent God and science co-existing?
God can tweak your experiments just to fuck with you. Since this means that every experiment can have different results, you can't depend on them. No experiments = no science.
You don't get science, do you? Scientists don't prove anything - they only disprove it. The observed facts match evolution pretty well, better than any other theory.
When fights break out among our kids, we punish both parties equally.
Great, so you can get someone in trouble by jumping them? Nice.
Games can teach you how to sneak up to someone,
Heh, try it sometime. It's not like you think.
if ~ 1/3 of UK girls are losing their virginity at 15 then thats an awful lot of statutory rape.
How so? If it's a horny 17 year old, then no problem.
True, but Bignums are portable and easy to work with. It'll be a while before we have 64 bit everywhere.
1. If this topic was so easy, there wouldn't be so many varying, and failed approaches to the problem discussed here.
You could say that about the many things that show up on the daily wtf. The presence of poorly coded apps doesn't mean that it's hard to do right.
3. This topic is only "easy" if you dealt with it at length on an appropriate course.
Numerical methods is a required course - if you get a CS degree, you probably saw something like this.
If only computer science graduates were allowed to code, the internet as we know it would simply not exist.
Got that right. Letting a flood of noobs code all your software is a recipe for disaster. Or did you mean this in a different way?
It would be nice if everyone got the right degree before starting, but the real world just doesn't work like that.
Yeah, it's just coding - you can pick that up anytime. Why let Joe in accounting who 'knows a little VB' write your accounting app?
Frankly, if you can't find out on your own, you have no business writing code. This is not rocket science.
Part of the problem there was that the missile's clock values were such that they would not convert to base 2 (and hence to float) accurately and so the tracking was off and lots of expensive misses happened.
That wasn't the problem. The Patriot missle thing was rated for 48 hours between reboots, but they ran it for week at a time. If they had run it within specs, it'd be fine (or at least less bad).
For example, in a lot of financial applications, float would be good enough since 2 decimal places is enough.
No, if anything has to add up, then it's BigNums only. Financial apps grow, and choosing doubles to store your money is just asking for trouble.
LGLAMP? C'mon, it's Linux, not GNU Linux. That just sounds like ass.
Does it matter?
Their major draw is centered on pirated content and comeons for porn sites, and they don't have a cash positive business model. What do you think?
Otherwise where do you get off equating Free software with communisism?
Where'd he do that? All I saw was him ranting about the 'everything should be free' crowd which, frankly, needs to die in a fire. Slagging on someone for trying to sell or charge for a service definitely smells of communism.
How precious! you think that slashdot runs on one server, and that every connection imples a connection to the database. Not so - there is most likely a connection pool, so only 20-100 connections are open from the webserver to the DB, and there are lots of boxes. In addition, there's probably a cache layer in front of the DB and in front of the webservers.
In England, don't they also pay you your expected salary if it turns out you were falsely imprisoned. Room and board sounds at least somewhat reasonable.
The end total of the IT that I'd like to give to my cops would be a virtual police state.
Why would you even consider this? Have you seen how they behave now?
The fact that they were willing to spend so much money on a parking garage indicates to me that they have serious parking problems which must be addressed.
And they could have bought their robogarage from someone else or built a normal one.
Letting city infastructure deterioate is not an acceptable course of action.
C'mon, this is Hoboken. They seem to wallow in that stuff.
I'd call that tactic bad faith negotiating.
I disagree. Hoboken knew about this from the start.
Isn't that what justice and law is about; being fair? I think it is.
Nope. Justice is about fair play, and law is about keeping order. I see no reason to protect Hoboken from its own stupidity.
The idea of licensing software, especially software required to run a physical item, is a shaky idea.
Based on what? It may be a bad idea, but that's what Hoboken negotiated.
I'd argue that if you buy a robot that needs software to run, you have an implicit ownership of said software, because as pointed out, without the software, the robot is not as useful.
Not much of an argument. Do you have any sort of precedent to back this up, or are you arguing from some sense of fair play?
Which makes the argument that they OWN a right to use the software more valid, in my opinion.
No it doesn't. They negotiated no right of ownership, thus it doesn't exist. From all accounts, Hoboken screwed up big.
Hopefully while the new contract is playing out the city will reverse engineer the software, and kick these assholes to the curb.
They'd probably try - robopark has accused them of attempting to steal their software.
he SCOTUS already upheld that I do indeed have to provide ID to a police officer even if I am not suspected of any wrong doing, at their whim.
No they didn't. All you have to do is tell them your name and where you live. Don't have to show ID.
What, you mean the robopark employees? They were escorted out by the cops.
Discounting Wednesday, the day that people received the letter, that still left five entire days for people to remove their cars
It would've helped vastly if their people had been allowed back in the garage.