I've noticed that when you do a google search and mouseover the links, it shows the direct link in the status bar, but that is a lie. If you look at the actual URL in the link properties, you'll see that it redirects through google. Sneaky.
That's got to be one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen on Slashdot. His saying that the US shouldn't leave Saudi Arabia because Osama bin Laden threatens them is pretty much the opposite of cowardice. I can't understand the mental defect you must have to think that fighting back against those who threaten you is cowardice.
Did you ever consider looking for a 2002 Sportage? According to Wikipedia, they're the same basic vehicle as a 1996. I even found one for $1995, albeit in Ontario. There really don't seem to be a lot of these vehicles around. Thanks for mentioning them, though. Now it's on my radar as something I want and can afford, if I can find one.
Man, that sounds like an excellent vehicle. I wish I could find one of those in the Vancouver area, but there's not a single one available on craigslist from that era. Do you think they all broke down, or do people just realize what they have and don't want to sell them?
Minor nitpick, but the thought that locked wheels are never good is a popular, but dangerous misconception. They are sometimes the fastest way to stop, ie, on gravel roads or in deep snow. See this link for more. Car makers should be allowed to include a switch that disables ABS so that drivers can stop safely when they're on those surfaces.
You CANNOT fix those problems such that there will be NO terrorist groups in the next hundred years except by ending all civilization on earth. There are six billion people on earth now: do you really expect that you'll be able to take away the motivation to kill other groups of people from every one of them, let alone when the population gets even more bloated? I mean, look at the shooting in Fort Hood, for one thing. That guy wasn't marginalized or poor or anything. He just hated, and wanted to kill infidels. How could you get rid of that impulse all over the globe when you can't get rid of it in the US Army? It is ludicrous to think that it is possible.
I agree that it is a near-certainty that a well-funded terrorist group will eventually get access to a nuclear weapon, but to me that means that one is going to go off in a city in the future (probably a fairly distant future) and the most that anyone can do is delay the inevitable.
Hmm, I must have read the wrong gossip then. Thanks for setting me straight.
I've heard of an idea, though, where someone who wants to protect their trademark but doesn't care about stopping people from using it has the option of simply granting a free license to that party to use it. That way they're still asserting that they have a trademark, but they don't have to be dicks about it. I ANAL, of course, so I don't know how well it'd work in practice. It seems to me that the real problem here is that the legal system in the US is completely retarded.
Laser printers are still cheaper, though. $50 for 5000 pages (and I've gotten similar results myself) is 1 cent per page, and this from a printer that cost $100.
What about that mess with Centos and refusing to let them acknowledge that they're based off of Red Hat's distro? Statements of fact such as those shouldn't fall under trademark law, but they bullied them anyway. They sure don't sound like angels to me.
That experiment where people are asked to split $100 and the other person sometimes wants none of it is shown as example of irrational behavior, but I don't think it is. If someone chooses to split it $80/$20 and the other person says no, knowing they will then get nothing, that isn't necessarily irrational: they might just value punishing the other person more than getting $20 themselves. So it's perfectly rational. Perhaps you considered this and that's why you put irrational in quote marks.
Except that if 35k is the Shannon limit, then you can't exceed that. Simply sending a signal at 7 bits per sample, sampled 8000 times per second, doesn't mean that it's going to get to its destination. In fact, if the Shannon limit is 35k, then that signal is guaranteed to get corrupted, and you'd need to put error correcting codes in it, thus bringing down the data rate of useful information to something less than that limit. And if you are able to send such a signal down the wire and it isn't corrupted, due to lower than usual noise in the channel or whatever, then the Shannon limit for that medium must be at least 56k, or else you wouldn't have been able to successfully transmit it.
I may be wrong, but I thought that Shannon's Theorem dictated the absolute limits for the capacity of a channel. How is it that they were able to exceed that? Can you explain in more detail?
I'm amazed no one has mentioned this already, but Python is very much strongly typed - types are not automatically converted, which is a good thing. You are thinking of it being dynamically typed, which is orthogonal to it being strongly or weakly typed.
If the motherboard doesn't have the traces for that extra chip, though, then it won't support it. Or if it does, but the BIOS doesn't have the option to enable it, same deal. Don't assume a motherboard supports ECC memory unless the manufacturer says so (and the manufacturer isn't Abit). Asus boards for the Athlon 64 and up all support ECC, for instance.
The picture they're showing is of an Su-30MKI, which is the fighter India currently operates. The stealth fighter that Sukhoi is working on, though, is the PAK-FA (google it), and it seems that it is the only possible fighter they could be referring to. The article is absolutely awful is this is the case and they didn't even mention it by name.
Me, I've been hearing about the PAK-FA for years, and I had almost given up hope of ever seeing it fly.
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You let the engine destroy itself rather than turning off the ignition? Interesting choice.
I've noticed that when you do a google search and mouseover the links, it shows the direct link in the status bar, but that is a lie. If you look at the actual URL in the link properties, you'll see that it redirects through google. Sneaky.
That's got to be one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen on Slashdot. His saying that the US shouldn't leave Saudi Arabia because Osama bin Laden threatens them is pretty much the opposite of cowardice. I can't understand the mental defect you must have to think that fighting back against those who threaten you is cowardice.
Damn, that sucks. I'll probably never find a '96 Sportage in decent shape, but I'll keep looking. Thanks again for telling me about all this.
Did you ever consider looking for a 2002 Sportage? According to Wikipedia, they're the same basic vehicle as a 1996. I even found one for $1995, albeit in Ontario. There really don't seem to be a lot of these vehicles around. Thanks for mentioning them, though. Now it's on my radar as something I want and can afford, if I can find one.
Man, that sounds like an excellent vehicle. I wish I could find one of those in the Vancouver area, but there's not a single one available on craigslist from that era. Do you think they all broke down, or do people just realize what they have and don't want to sell them?
Minor nitpick, but the thought that locked wheels are never good is a popular, but dangerous misconception. They are sometimes the fastest way to stop, ie, on gravel roads or in deep snow. See this link for more. Car makers should be allowed to include a switch that disables ABS so that drivers can stop safely when they're on those surfaces.
Thank you for showing that you are one of the twats.
You CANNOT fix those problems such that there will be NO terrorist groups in the next hundred years except by ending all civilization on earth. There are six billion people on earth now: do you really expect that you'll be able to take away the motivation to kill other groups of people from every one of them, let alone when the population gets even more bloated? I mean, look at the shooting in Fort Hood, for one thing. That guy wasn't marginalized or poor or anything. He just hated, and wanted to kill infidels. How could you get rid of that impulse all over the globe when you can't get rid of it in the US Army? It is ludicrous to think that it is possible.
I agree that it is a near-certainty that a well-funded terrorist group will eventually get access to a nuclear weapon, but to me that means that one is going to go off in a city in the future (probably a fairly distant future) and the most that anyone can do is delay the inevitable.
Hmm, I must have read the wrong gossip then. Thanks for setting me straight.
I've heard of an idea, though, where someone who wants to protect their trademark but doesn't care about stopping people from using it has the option of simply granting a free license to that party to use it. That way they're still asserting that they have a trademark, but they don't have to be dicks about it. I ANAL, of course, so I don't know how well it'd work in practice. It seems to me that the real problem here is that the legal system in the US is completely retarded.
Laser printers are still cheaper, though. $50 for 5000 pages (and I've gotten similar results myself) is 1 cent per page, and this from a printer that cost $100.
What about that mess with Centos and refusing to let them acknowledge that they're based off of Red Hat's distro? Statements of fact such as those shouldn't fall under trademark law, but they bullied them anyway. They sure don't sound like angels to me.
Hence the 1 / Memento.
You get mod points more than five at a time? Interesting.
Don't you mean, "Ninja's or Pirate's?"
That experiment where people are asked to split $100 and the other person sometimes wants none of it is shown as example of irrational behavior, but I don't think it is. If someone chooses to split it $80/$20 and the other person says no, knowing they will then get nothing, that isn't necessarily irrational: they might just value punishing the other person more than getting $20 themselves. So it's perfectly rational. Perhaps you considered this and that's why you put irrational in quote marks.
I agree with you otherwise.
That's funny, because the sale hasn't gone through yet, so Oracle does not actually own MySQL.
Thank you. That's the answer I was looking for! I've not heard of that technique, so you've given me something to look into.
Except that if 35k is the Shannon limit, then you can't exceed that. Simply sending a signal at 7 bits per sample, sampled 8000 times per second, doesn't mean that it's going to get to its destination. In fact, if the Shannon limit is 35k, then that signal is guaranteed to get corrupted, and you'd need to put error correcting codes in it, thus bringing down the data rate of useful information to something less than that limit. And if you are able to send such a signal down the wire and it isn't corrupted, due to lower than usual noise in the channel or whatever, then the Shannon limit for that medium must be at least 56k, or else you wouldn't have been able to successfully transmit it.
See what I mean?
I may be wrong, but I thought that Shannon's Theorem dictated the absolute limits for the capacity of a channel. How is it that they were able to exceed that? Can you explain in more detail?
I'm amazed no one has mentioned this already, but Python is very much strongly typed - types are not automatically converted, which is a good thing. You are thinking of it being dynamically typed, which is orthogonal to it being strongly or weakly typed.
Agree with you on Java being awful.
If the motherboard doesn't have the traces for that extra chip, though, then it won't support it. Or if it does, but the BIOS doesn't have the option to enable it, same deal. Don't assume a motherboard supports ECC memory unless the manufacturer says so (and the manufacturer isn't Abit). Asus boards for the Athlon 64 and up all support ECC, for instance.
Why hasn't this been modded up?
The picture they're showing is of an Su-30MKI, which is the fighter India currently operates. The stealth fighter that Sukhoi is working on, though, is the PAK-FA (google it), and it seems that it is the only possible fighter they could be referring to. The article is absolutely awful is this is the case and they didn't even mention it by name.
Me, I've been hearing about the PAK-FA for years, and I had almost given up hope of ever seeing it fly.
That's kind of neat. What phone is that?