It's statistical variability. Just because you experience an outlier doesn't mean the world is falling apart.
Yeah, that's also what that thimblerigger told me after I complained that losing every time for twenty games means the game must have been manipulated.
Secondly, observers apart from the customer were only allowed to view the test for a few minutes at a time and during the entire test the E-Cat remained connected to a power supply by a cable. The external power was supposedly turned off; as a demonstration it would have been more impressive for the reactor in its shipping container to be visibly disconnected while operating.
This is such a clear sign for a scam that you actually don't need to look further.
If you think I am playing semantic games, then consider this: if only 1 in 3 people with HIV developed AIDS, HIV most likely would NOT be considered the cause of AIDS.
Oh yes, it would.
If I shoot my gun three times, but only one bullet kills you, can I then claim that it was not my shooting that killed you because, after all, two of the three bullets missed?
You mean selective memory about things like this [slashdot.org]? So global warming causes there to be more water vapor in the air, which causes more rainfall and snow. But at the same time it causes more droughts?
A refrigerator causes the food to be colder, and the kitchen to be warmer. Contradiction?
That way, we are not surprised when we open our bag of chips to see that it is half air.
What do you complain? Not only did they deliver chips to you, they even included free air. And everyone knows the importance of air. People have died from lack of it!
Actually for most algorithms you don't need statistics, because you can easily check if your solution is the correct one (e.g. prime factorization: Just multiply the numbers you got, and see if the original number results). If it is, you're ready, if not, you run the program again. The trick is to get into a state where the correct answer is very likely to occur. Or at least significantly more likely than by pure guessing.
So anonymous takes out kiddie porn rings, exposes crooked politicians and cops and drug dealers... someone want to remind me of how they're supposed to be the bad guys here when they're doing the jobs that the cops and politicians won't touch?
Exactly the fact that they do the jobs the cops and politicians won't touch makes them especially bad guys. Because it draws public attention to the fact that cops and politicians won't touch them.
This I strongly doubt. Google started with an innovative search engine. It didn't depend at all at any advanced HTML features; indeed their interface was cheered for its simplicity. All that Web 2.0/XmlHttpRequest stuff came later.
I think he wanted to imply that the #1 vector is Windows itself, making Java #2 and Acrobat #3. Which may or may not be true, I honestly have no idea whether it is (I don't use Windows, so I have little incentive to keep track of related exploits).
Actually, with adobe reader (and many other programs) these days it is really only one instance running, even if started with separate commands. Which can royally suck if the command to show a PDF file doesn't terminate when you close that file, just because a completely unrelated file was opened from the web.
I think the normal procedure is that the web browser downloads the file, and then starts the PDF viewer to show that file. Whether the PDF viewer would have been able to download that file by itself and display it is then irrelevant because it is not even started before the download is complete, and it doesn't even get to see the original URL.
Who cares about why a format was opened? Remember that Mozilla code was only opened because Netscape tried to avoid failing (it did then fail anyway, though).
Did they say they take away the choice? If they do so, I agree, that would be bad (but then, there probably would soon come a plugin which adds that functionality).
But in 99% of all cases when I start a program, I want it on the top. After all, I've started it in order to use it. Actually in most cases, this is even true for the PDF reader started from the browser. And unless there's support from the PDF reader (which ultimately has the control over its window, and therefore is the only program which could give hints to the window manager), and the browser knows how to tell the PDF reader about the desired launch mode (because you determine by the way you open it in your browser, e.g. left click vs. middle click, if you want to have it on the top or bottom), the only options are for the window manager to either start the PDF reader always on top, or always on bottom. Both suck, but the second option IMHO sucks more.
Of course, the ideal solution (not only for the browser/PDF reader problem) would be to have a standardized way to tell an application to start raised/lowered (ideally without the need of the application itself to cooperate).
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When is John McCarthy day?
One of the studios has bought the movie rights.
Working title? "Dude, where's my cdr?"
I thought it were "Lisping a parenthetical remark."
So when will be the John McCarthy day?
It's statistical variability. Just because you experience an outlier doesn't mean the world is falling apart.
Yeah, that's also what that thimblerigger told me after I complained that losing every time for twenty games means the game must have been manipulated.
From that article:
This is such a clear sign for a scam that you actually don't need to look further.
Oh yes, it would.
If I shoot my gun three times, but only one bullet kills you, can I then claim that it was not my shooting that killed you because, after all, two of the three bullets missed?
A refrigerator causes the food to be colder, and the kitchen to be warmer. Contradiction?
What do you complain? Not only did they deliver chips to you, they even included free air. And everyone knows the importance of air. People have died from lack of it!
Next: Google Theft. You just cut&paste the money directly from Business View. :-)
Maybe they've seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMFBuHsKXb0 (in German, French subtitles available, but unfortunately no English ones).
Actually for most algorithms you don't need statistics, because you can easily check if your solution is the correct one (e.g. prime factorization: Just multiply the numbers you got, and see if the original number results). If it is, you're ready, if not, you run the program again. The trick is to get into a state where the correct answer is very likely to occur. Or at least significantly more likely than by pure guessing.
The anonymous one, of course. :-)
Exactly the fact that they do the jobs the cops and politicians won't touch makes them especially bad guys. Because it draws public attention to the fact that cops and politicians won't touch them.
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This I strongly doubt. Google started with an innovative search engine. It didn't depend at all at any advanced HTML features; indeed their interface was cheered for its simplicity. All that Web 2.0/XmlHttpRequest stuff came later.
Morse code seems to be ideally suited for such a device. :-)
Well, I could think of a watch with GPS being useful: It could automatically detect the time zone you are in and set the time display accordingly.
RMS should be thankful to Google: Now he has a real-world example of a system which is Linux but not GNU.
I advice against that. It's like throwing your money into a big black hole.
But the browser doesn't click on a shortcut.
I think he wanted to imply that the #1 vector is Windows itself, making Java #2 and Acrobat #3. Which may or may not be true, I honestly have no idea whether it is (I don't use Windows, so I have little incentive to keep track of related exploits).
Actually, with adobe reader (and many other programs) these days it is really only one instance running, even if started with separate commands. Which can royally suck if the command to show a PDF file doesn't terminate when you close that file, just because a completely unrelated file was opened from the web.
I think the normal procedure is that the web browser downloads the file, and then starts the PDF viewer to show that file. Whether the PDF viewer would have been able to download that file by itself and display it is then irrelevant because it is not even started before the download is complete, and it doesn't even get to see the original URL.
Who cares about why a format was opened? Remember that Mozilla code was only opened because Netscape tried to avoid failing (it did then fail anyway, though).
Did they say they take away the choice? If they do so, I agree, that would be bad (but then, there probably would soon come a plugin which adds that functionality).
But in 99% of all cases when I start a program, I want it on the top. After all, I've started it in order to use it. Actually in most cases, this is even true for the PDF reader started from the browser. And unless there's support from the PDF reader (which ultimately has the control over its window, and therefore is the only program which could give hints to the window manager), and the browser knows how to tell the PDF reader about the desired launch mode (because you determine by the way you open it in your browser, e.g. left click vs. middle click, if you want to have it on the top or bottom), the only options are for the window manager to either start the PDF reader always on top, or always on bottom. Both suck, but the second option IMHO sucks more.
Of course, the ideal solution (not only for the browser/PDF reader problem) would be to have a standardized way to tell an application to start raised/lowered (ideally without the need of the application itself to cooperate).