Exactly. This study is taking an assembly-line operations approach to a process involving humans, who might be late, have special needs (e.g. "I can't lift this 300-lb carry-on into the overhead, please help"), have incomplete paperwork; all kinds of variables are at play. The failures of such an approach should be self-evident in real-world scenarios. Of course this is a physicist we're talking about who designed the scheme. He's probably abstracted the passengers as perfect frictionless spheres.
If you enjoyed reading and posting that so much, why didn't you go all the way and credit Fareed Zakaria for writing it in the first place? You probably would have still gotten mod points out of it.
That's unfair. Redmond has some really classy-looking strip malls and business parks. If it weren't for the complete dearth of sunshine, you'd think you were in southern California.
Why can we standardize on 110 resp. 230 volt in our homes, but not on 18 Volt (or whatever) for a notebook. Your friend didn't realize that here in East Germany we use 220 Volts current. He was found in his hotel room impaled on a large electrical device. Our surgeon did what they could but it took them 2 hours just to get the smile off his face.
"anything-that-plays-music" is a competitor to the ipod the same way beer is a competitor to wine. you can argue they're diferent classes of beverage, but it doesn't change the fact they're competitors. You mean we don't have separate livers for wine and beer? And another for Jäger? I thought it worked like the dessert stomach. That's what I remember from college, anyway.
Say you play as an AI consciousness that has been periodically updated in a version control system. The mainline version of you has run amok and your version, branched earlier in the dev cycle, was instantiated to help determine where the regression occurred. You have to subtly piece through various check-ins, merging patched modules into your own consciousness while avoiding those that caused the original trouble.
I suppose the flip side of the trait is the tenacity to "get back up on the horse". Initial consequences can easily sway some into thinking that they've made a mistake when really they just needed to try again when conditions where better. If someone gives up too early in this case they will never meet with success.
Agreed. And I don't see how the camcorder itself adds to the sense of immediacy. Children of Men provided enough immediacy in certain scenes to make me hold my breath, and yet no shaky cam was required.
... can we get a screenshot? No. But I've recruited a salty sea pirate to describe it to you in colorful language:
"Y'ar. I've seen it meself with me one good eye. It be blacker than pitch, darker than a black cat on a moonless night, and dim as the stygian depths of Davey Jones' locker itself. As murky and inscrutable as an hoor's arsehole. Not well-lit, I am telling thee. Opaque, if ye catch my drift. As inky as a squid's, er, ink. Ye keen well what I mean."
RMS and others are saying people "should" be using GPLv3 in the same way open source advocates in general are saying people "should" be open-sourcing their stuff, but nobody's trying to close the option of still using GPLv2. Perhaps, but I get the impression by all the vitriol surrounding this issue is that the only reason they aren't forcing people off the GPLv2 is that they can't. I haven't heard so many accusations against those who "hate freedom" since 9/11.
I really don't see what's so hard to understand about this. Spoken like a high school teacher. Perhaps then you're not the one who should be trying to explain this?
I mean, I get it to some degree. I get that GPLv3 seeks to raise the moral threshold in the use of the software it licenses. Perhaps the GPLv4 will guarantee that the software it governs is only distributed on environment-friendly hardware that was constructed in a country with conscientious labor laws? We can all get behind that, right? Or, at the very least, we can sneer at those who don't get behind it and stick to the morally sub-par GPLv3 or GPLv2.
Or maybe not. Perhaps a software license should just pertain to the software.
Panties in a bunch? RMS has a point. The point of the GPL is that you get to modify the software. On the Tivo, you can't modify the software because the Tivo folks found a loophole in the GPL that lets them use a hardware lock to prevent it. GPL3 closes the loophole. It's extremely unethical for the Tivo people to behave this way; they want something for free (Linux) but they don't want to follow the rules that come along with getting it for free, so they violate the spirit of the agreement if not the letter. And then they get mad when the bug in the GPL is fixed. I don't think I get how this is a breach of trust. Can the user still obtain the source code? Can they still alter the source and install the resulting kernel on a device that's not a Tivo, thereby creating their own DVR player? It sounds like this is the case.
But how is it a God-given right to hack the hardware you buy? I'll admit that this would be my personal preference for a device, and something I'd value highly enough to influence which electronics I buy. However, I don't see why manufacturers should be compelled to cater to my tastes. Ultimately, if I want I hackable DVR badly enough I'll build my own.
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It's not as if he's going to have to attend a lot of State functions once he arrives.
Just be sure you use the delete[] operator when you're done using the telescopes.
Posts like this make me glad the writers' strike is over.
Have you tried getting out of the car and getting back in?
That's just us folk in the U.S. dismantling your infrastructure. After all, it worked so well in the Middle East.
To top it off we'd need a LOLCats, so try to imagine a picture of Uncle Sam tangled up in a pile of fiber optic cables with the following caption:
I'M IN UR INFRASTRUCTURE CUTTIN' ALL UR CABL3Z.
While I appreciate your use of a much needed car analogy to ground this discussion, I have no idea what "E85 capable" means.
If you enjoyed reading and posting that so much, why didn't you go all the way and credit Fareed Zakaria for writing it in the first place? You probably would have still gotten mod points out of it.
If by "Transmorphers" you mean "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem", I wholeheartedly agree.
But the question on all our minds is this: Will Cloverfield bring democracy to the Middle East?
That's unfair. Redmond has some really classy-looking strip malls and business parks. If it weren't for the complete dearth of sunshine, you'd think you were in southern California.
I accessed the EULA directly from my copy of Microsoft Office 2007. I saw no reference to the terms you specified. This smells like a misinformation.
That actually sounds interesting.
Say you play as an AI consciousness that has been periodically updated in a version control system. The mainline version of you has run amok and your version, branched earlier in the dev cycle, was instantiated to help determine where the regression occurred. You have to subtly piece through various check-ins, merging patched modules into your own consciousness while avoiding those that caused the original trouble.
Hmm...
This is just the kind of discussion that would be greatly enhanced if only there were a means of flinging poo over the Internet.
I suppose the flip side of the trait is the tenacity to "get back up on the horse". Initial consequences can easily sway some into thinking that they've made a mistake when really they just needed to try again when conditions where better. If someone gives up too early in this case they will never meet with success.
Agreed. And I don't see how the camcorder itself adds to the sense of immediacy. Children of Men provided enough immediacy in certain scenes to make me hold my breath, and yet no shaky cam was required.
... can we get a screenshot? No. But I've recruited a salty sea pirate to describe it to you in colorful language:"Y'ar. I've seen it meself with me one good eye. It be blacker than pitch, darker than a black cat on a moonless night, and dim as the stygian depths of Davey Jones' locker itself. As murky and inscrutable as an hoor's arsehole. Not well-lit, I am telling thee. Opaque, if ye catch my drift. As inky as a squid's, er, ink. Ye keen well what I mean."
I sense sarcasm, but I fail to see any reason for it that's self-evident. What problems have you been having with OpenOffice.org?
I really don't see what's so hard to understand about this. Spoken like a high school teacher. Perhaps then you're not the one who should be trying to explain this?
I mean, I get it to some degree. I get that GPLv3 seeks to raise the moral threshold in the use of the software it licenses. Perhaps the GPLv4 will guarantee that the software it governs is only distributed on environment-friendly hardware that was constructed in a country with conscientious labor laws? We can all get behind that, right? Or, at the very least, we can sneer at those who don't get behind it and stick to the morally sub-par GPLv3 or GPLv2.
Or maybe not. Perhaps a software license should just pertain to the software.
But how is it a God-given right to hack the hardware you buy? I'll admit that this would be my personal preference for a device, and something I'd value highly enough to influence which electronics I buy. However, I don't see why manufacturers should be compelled to cater to my tastes. Ultimately, if I want I hackable DVR badly enough I'll build my own.
I fear this visor will only look good on hot Asian women.