So you found a crosslinked definition in a poor dictonary. That doesn't change how science defines the terms precision and accuracy.
Precision is the degree of measurement resolution. A precise one pound scale is one graduated in 1/10 ounce. A less precise scale is one graduated in ounces.
Accuracy is the percentage of error from a specified standard measure. A pound weight is accurate to the degree that it's the same as a standard weight at ANSI. I.e. a standard pound weight might be.01% accurate.
They are as different as volume and weight.
Not everything you find on the Internet is right. This is eight grade science stuff here. Stop digging yourself deeper into a pit of ignorance.
Do you have any idea how expensive it would be for HP to put an RFID inside each page of a ream of paper?
They'd have to design some sort of a 'paper cartridge' system, and people would take one look at it and buy another brand.
Stupid people buy crappy printers, pay more, and that's how it works. I am tired of that sort of whining.
Personally, I bought an HP LaserJet 5P seven years ago because I knew better than to buy a smear-prone and expensive spray-and-pay printer.
I loved my DeskJet 500 before it, but grew tired of the ink bottle expense. It was a nice transition between 9 pin dot matrix and a real printer, but it's in my past.
I buy a new toner for the LJ 5P every several years for $80, and I regularly (as needed) print 80-200 page software manuals for Free Software, etc. It's been one hell of a deal and I've not regretted having it.
Part of the problem with what we call the "free market" today is that consumers are not following the "free market" model
The class of consumers who aren't following the 'free market' model are the ones suing and looking for 'remedies' that establish government control or sanction of companies.
The other consumers you describe, the ones who cluelessly buy the cheapest item without regard to the overall deal, are an essential part of the free market.
They're the stupid people who subsidize everything we smart people buy, by paying more.
There's nothing wrong with that, unless someone's going to now claim stupid people have more rights than the rest of us.
You're talking about a software bug. Latency problems caused by dropped clock 'ticks'. Get a better operating system.
The hardware is precise to 1/18 of a second. It's as accurate as the actual frequency the crystal oscillates at, which depends on the tolerances allowed by the crystal manufacturer, temperature stability, etc., as crystals on a motherboard are not ovenized.
If you don't know the difference between precision and accuracy, we can't have a discussion.
Clip their wings. The Underwriter's Laboratory is a private agency, it does a fine job of industry self-regulation for safety.
Umm, why should anybody have your best interests above theirs? Let's just leave the evile 'p-word' out of the equation since it's a loaded emotional term for so many.
This chip (Intel 8253) has a very low clock tick-resolution ~18.2 times a second, which was fine for polling a joystick, etc on the older boxes, but is terrible for accurate time-keeping.
A low resolution clock is terrible for precise timekeeping. For accuracy, it's fine to use a 1 hertz timebase as long as thats all the precision that you need and the one hertz signal is accurate. The 8253 is just a counter chip, it has no bearing whatsoever on the accuracy of the frequency that it's fed. The crystal in the circuit is what determines accuracy, and that has often a problem where cheap crystals were used.
I did contract work this past year at an appliance control manufacturer where they test the timing motors. There are commonly available power converters for test purposes. Program in a frequency over HPIB and run your tests. It's not hard to believe that years ago something like this would have happened, but not today.
In many localities by law the power companies are required to average exactly 60 Hz. The frequency can dip and peak once in awhile, but the utilities are expected to compensate for it.
I'm sorry, but who the fuck cares about money when people's lives are on the line?
Point out a real life political economy in which people don't die.
You're certainly welcome to dream one up. It's quite an interesting hobby until you initiate 'armed struggle' to 'liberate' us. Please don't impose your nightmares on the rest of us with force.
Actually, antibiotics themselves rely on artificial scarcity to be effective. So are you going to change the way the bugs that make us ill evolve? Widespread use of antibiotics renders them worthless in short order.
People everywhere always focus on 'the evil profitmaking drug companies' when bemoaning how expensive drugs are in the US, and never seem to understand that the paternalistic, bureaucratic FDA is also a big part of the problem. I've worked in the medical device field. One of the products with my firmware in it has less electronics than a cheap transistor radio, but it costs over a thousand dollars. This is NUTS, and it's because the f*cking FDA comes up with those old 19th century horror stories about patent medicine anytime people question their existence.
Deregulate the medicine and medical device industry. Get rid of huge amounts of the 'drug approval' bullshit, which really amounts to industry/bureaucrat collusion (the big drug companies LOVE the FDA, the huge barrier of entry into the market assures their monopoly). It's all within our power to accomplish them. Tell your elected officials it's time to cut some fricking red tape.
One of the problems with antibiotics, and the reason why there are antibiotic resistant staph infections in the first place is people think antibiotics should be in hand creme, and that they should be daubed all over the place whenever little Johnnie gets a cut. The abuse of the 'power' of antibiotics is the reason this discovery is so expensive in the first place.
This antibiotic will hopefully be kept expensive, even if artificially so, to keep it from becoming another thing patients DEMAND from their doctors. If we spread it widely and freely over the whole planet and used it to treat any trivial discomfort, it would cease to have ANY value in short order, and be useless for saving lives.
MapQuest is an internet service. It requires an internet connection to be of any use. Further, it's slow compared to the CDROM based mapping software like Streets and Trips. I like taking 'virtual drives' around the country using Streets and Trips because you can scroll the map sideways in any direction. You have a virtual map of the whole United States, and it scrolls fast.
The online mapping options are pathetic in comparison.
There's a lot more to Winzip than you're making out.
Winzip has 'drag and drop' functionality that allows you to drop file icons into it. It has Windows Explorer integration so one can right click on a directory and turn it into a zipfile.
Granted, I've not paid for my copy. I once insisted on an employer registering my copy at work, but for home use I used a keygen years ago to generate a Serial Number and have it memorized.
They get the OS bundled with their computer for free. Or quasi-free, for the pedants.
I can't deal with it anymore that people piss and moan and grumble about how OEMs bundle Windows with their systems, at a cost that everybody seems to agree is about $30-50, yet consistenly bandy around the top-shelf retail box price of Windows as if people pay that much for it.
I bet less than 10% of the people who read this site have bought a retail box new copy of a Windows OS. Further, less than that of the general computer-using public have.
Computers in educational institutions are Information Appliances, outside the CS department.
It should make no difference wether one single platform is adopted or another, or a mix. It's like bemoaning the fact that a University campus only has Sharp photocopiers. "But... but... the students won't get exposure to other brands of photocopiers, which will stunt their intellectual development."
Windows NT/2000 is UNIX, too, if you install the POSIX subsystem formerly sold by third party vendor Softway Systems called Interix that is now a Microsoft product. Microsoft is trying to kill it, though. It is formally POSIX compliant and thus a true UNIX, and not in the weak sense that the anemic 'POSIX' in vanilla Windows NT is claimed. It has shells, procss control, IPC, is bundled with the GNU toolchain including GCC, etc. I logged into my NT box at a former employer from a Sun Workstation and popped up an XTerm once, just cuz.
If you, as an organization, are careful who you distribute it to:
1. You can make sure it's not distributed out of the organization. No need to give ANYBODY the source.
2. You can make sure anybody you give it to out of the organization is in ideological agreement with you. It's possible they will give it out, but there's no coercion involved in your confidence they won't.
Once the binaries/source have streamed out to that organization, that organization can encapsulate the code, make their own little internal change (or not) and follow rule (1) internally themselves. As long as the transfer of the source/binaries from organization to organization goes between an elite trusted layer (trust is not the same thing as coercion), it can ripple through all kinds of social structures without the source needing to be distributed to hostile third partys.
Intelligence gathering organizations, i.e. the CIA, are composed of high-degree trust relationships, not coercion relationships. At least they are at a certain level where intra-organization transfers of resources like software is concerned.
Chip away at my arguement if you like. I view everything I write here as a hypothesis, not an absolute.
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Geez, the ignorance around here sometimes.
.01% accurate.
So you found a crosslinked definition in a poor dictonary. That doesn't change how science defines the terms precision and accuracy.
Precision is the degree of measurement resolution. A precise one pound scale is one graduated in 1/10 ounce. A less precise scale is one graduated in ounces.
Accuracy is the percentage of error from a specified standard measure. A pound weight is accurate to the degree that it's the same as a standard weight at ANSI. I.e. a standard pound weight might be
They are as different as volume and weight.
Not everything you find on the Internet is right. This is eight grade science stuff here. Stop digging yourself deeper into a pit of ignorance.
Do you have any idea how expensive it would be for HP to put an RFID inside each page of a ream of paper?
They'd have to design some sort of a 'paper cartridge' system, and people would take one look at it and buy another brand.
Stupid people buy crappy printers, pay more, and that's how it works. I am tired of that sort of whining.
Personally, I bought an HP LaserJet 5P seven years ago because I knew better than to buy a smear-prone and expensive spray-and-pay printer.
I loved my DeskJet 500 before it, but grew tired of the ink bottle expense. It was a nice transition between 9 pin dot matrix and a real printer, but it's in my past.
I buy a new toner for the LJ 5P every several years for $80, and I regularly (as needed) print 80-200 page software manuals for Free Software, etc. It's been one hell of a deal and I've not regretted having it.
Part of the problem with what we call the "free market" today is that consumers are not following the "free market" model
The class of consumers who aren't following the 'free market' model are the ones suing and looking for 'remedies' that establish government control or sanction of companies.
The other consumers you describe, the ones who cluelessly buy the cheapest item without regard to the overall deal, are an essential part of the free market.
They're the stupid people who subsidize everything we smart people buy, by paying more.
There's nothing wrong with that, unless someone's going to now claim stupid people have more rights than the rest of us.
It's sort of cool how that link to his Resume now appears to be 'broken.'
Heh.
You're talking about a software bug. Latency problems caused by dropped clock 'ticks'. Get a better operating system.
The hardware is precise to 1/18 of a second. It's as accurate as the actual frequency the crystal oscillates at, which depends on the tolerances allowed by the crystal manufacturer, temperature stability, etc., as crystals on a motherboard are not ovenized.
If you don't know the difference between precision and accuracy, we can't have a discussion.
Microsoft Knowledge Base?
Yikes.
Give the FDA MORE power, and a BIGGER budget?
Clip their wings. The Underwriter's Laboratory is a private agency, it does a fine job of industry self-regulation for safety.
Umm, why should anybody have your best interests above theirs? Let's just leave the evile 'p-word' out of the equation since it's a loaded emotional term for so many.
This chip (Intel 8253) has a very low clock tick-resolution ~18.2 times a second, which was fine for polling a joystick, etc on the older boxes, but is terrible for accurate time-keeping.
A low resolution clock is terrible for precise timekeeping. For accuracy, it's fine to use a 1 hertz timebase as long as thats all the precision that you need and the one hertz signal is accurate. The 8253 is just a counter chip, it has no bearing whatsoever on the accuracy of the frequency that it's fed. The crystal in the circuit is what determines accuracy, and that has often a problem where cheap crystals were used.
I did contract work this past year at an appliance control manufacturer where they test the timing motors. There are commonly available power converters for test purposes. Program in a frequency over HPIB and run your tests. It's not hard to believe that years ago something like this would have happened, but not today.
In many localities by law the power companies are required to average exactly 60 Hz. The frequency can dip and peak once in awhile, but the utilities are expected to compensate for it.
I'm sorry, but who the fuck cares about money when people's lives are on the line?
Point out a real life political economy in which people don't die.
You're certainly welcome to dream one up. It's quite an interesting hobby until you initiate 'armed struggle' to 'liberate' us. Please don't impose your nightmares on the rest of us with force.
Actually, antibiotics themselves rely on artificial scarcity to be effective. So are you going to change the way the bugs that make us ill evolve? Widespread use of antibiotics renders them worthless in short order.
BTW: life is not fair.
People everywhere always focus on 'the evil profitmaking drug companies' when bemoaning how expensive drugs are in the US, and never seem to understand that the paternalistic, bureaucratic FDA is also a big part of the problem. I've worked in the medical device field. One of the products with my firmware in it has less electronics than a cheap transistor radio, but it costs over a thousand dollars. This is NUTS, and it's because the f*cking FDA comes up with those old 19th century horror stories about patent medicine anytime people question their existence.
Deregulate the medicine and medical device industry. Get rid of huge amounts of the 'drug approval' bullshit, which really amounts to industry/bureaucrat collusion (the big drug companies LOVE the FDA, the huge barrier of entry into the market assures their monopoly). It's all within our power to accomplish them. Tell your elected officials it's time to cut some fricking red tape.
One of the problems with antibiotics, and the reason why there are antibiotic resistant staph infections in the first place is people think antibiotics should be in hand creme, and that they should be daubed all over the place whenever little Johnnie gets a cut. The abuse of the 'power' of antibiotics is the reason this discovery is so expensive in the first place.
This antibiotic will hopefully be kept expensive, even if artificially so, to keep it from becoming another thing patients DEMAND from their doctors. If we spread it widely and freely over the whole planet and used it to treat any trivial discomfort, it would cease to have ANY value in short order, and be useless for saving lives.
did you ever heard of Mapquest?
MapQuest is an internet service. It requires an internet connection to be of any use. Further, it's slow compared to the CDROM based mapping software like Streets and Trips. I like taking 'virtual drives' around the country using Streets and Trips because you can scroll the map sideways in any direction. You have a virtual map of the whole United States, and it scrolls fast.
The online mapping options are pathetic in comparison.
There are a shocking number of jobs available for which even running water and electricity are not needed.
And they're forced to do business with said company? I didn't know the slavery problem was still that bad...
How many electronic component makers are going to start considering Linux drivers over this? Chances are, they already have the drivers ready.
Yes, but do they have Linux drivers for my RS/6000 box? It's PowerPC, and it has PCI and ISA slots. Where the HELL are the WinModem drivers for it??
heh.
There's a lot more to Winzip than you're making out.
Winzip has 'drag and drop' functionality that allows you to drop file icons into it. It has Windows Explorer integration so one can right click on a directory and turn it into a zipfile.
Granted, I've not paid for my copy. I once insisted on an employer registering my copy at work, but for home use I used a keygen years ago to generate a Serial Number and have it memorized.
They get the OS bundled with their computer for free. Or quasi-free, for the pedants.
I can't deal with it anymore that people piss and moan and grumble about how OEMs bundle Windows with their systems, at a cost that everybody seems to agree is about $30-50, yet consistenly bandy around the top-shelf retail box price of Windows as if people pay that much for it.
I bet less than 10% of the people who read this site have bought a retail box new copy of a Windows OS. Further, less than that of the general computer-using public have.
That's like saying homosexuality should be abolished because it's the root cause of homophobia.
Heh.
Computers in educational institutions are Information Appliances, outside the CS department.
It should make no difference wether one single platform is adopted or another, or a mix. It's like bemoaning the fact that a University campus only has Sharp photocopiers. "But... but... the students won't get exposure to other brands of photocopiers, which will stunt their intellectual development."
I mean, come on....
That's an employer who is 0wned by the HR department. You didn't want a job there, trust me.
Windows NT/2000 is UNIX, too, if you install the POSIX subsystem formerly sold by third party vendor Softway Systems called Interix that is now a Microsoft product. Microsoft is trying to kill it, though. It is formally POSIX compliant and thus a true UNIX, and not in the weak sense that the anemic 'POSIX' in vanilla Windows NT is claimed. It has shells, procss control, IPC, is bundled with the GNU toolchain including GCC, etc. I logged into my NT box at a former employer from a Sun Workstation and popped up an XTerm once, just cuz.
And there isn't some easy password for 'wheel' that it's general practice for people paste to the monitor on a post-it note, eh?
If you, as an organization, are careful who you distribute it to:
1. You can make sure it's not distributed out of the organization. No need to give ANYBODY the source.
2. You can make sure anybody you give it to out of the organization is in ideological agreement with you. It's possible they will give it out, but there's no coercion involved in your confidence they won't.
Once the binaries/source have streamed out to that organization, that organization can encapsulate the code, make their own little internal change (or not) and follow rule (1) internally themselves. As long as the transfer of the source/binaries from organization to organization goes between an elite trusted layer (trust is not the same thing as coercion), it can ripple through all kinds of social structures without the source needing to be distributed to hostile third partys.
Intelligence gathering organizations, i.e. the CIA, are composed of high-degree trust relationships, not coercion relationships. At least they are at a certain level where intra-organization transfers of resources like software is concerned.
Chip away at my arguement if you like. I view everything I write here as a hypothesis, not an absolute.