The surface area of the earth is 510,065,600,000,000 square meters.
There are 6,000,000 people on the earth. Even if we assume each person has a square meter target area...
510,065,600,000,000 / 6,000,000 = about 85,000,000.
So there is a one in 85 MILLION chance that this particular debris hits *ANY* person. There's about a 1 in 510 trillion chance that the debris hits you.
To put this in perspective, you are about 100,000 times more likely to be Britney Spears than you are to be hit by this space junk.
- Users share/upload the same number of songs they download - Only one song exists.
If there, were, for example, 1,000 different songs, each user could share/upload one song 1,000 times, and each user could download each of the 1,000 songs once.
Not to mention that most users download more songs than they upload/share. So you could have one user upload/share a song 1,000 times, and have 1,000 users who downloaded the song once but didn't upload/share crap.
To obliterate over a decade of cruft accumulation?
Most Yahoo profiles were created by spammers. I bet a year from now, anything that hasn't been updated gets deleted entirely, freeing up a lot of the username space.
"We're investigating passenger electronics as a possible cause" is just marketing speak for "While we have no idea what happened, we want you to think it was passenger electronics."
The question is, what is the most efficient way to produce bug-free code?
Sure, you can take your top-quality programmer, and have him do everything. But that's the least efficient way to do things. Your top-quality programmer can churn out 80% perfect code with 20% of his time. The other 20% is the hard part.
It is FAR more efficient to pay one programmer and two to three QA folks to debug that code than it is to pay one programmer to make his code perfect and one QA guy to debug it.
And that's setting aside entirely that on any significant project, you have 5, 10, 20, 100 programmers, and you need the QA guys just to make sure that it all works together right. Programmer A writing perfect code and Programmer B writing perfect code doesn't mean their code combined works at all.
It's not a phone, it's a platform for the latest killer app......GunmanTracker.
When any iPhone detects gunfire, it reports its position to a central server, which then creates a Google Maps mashup that shows the location of the gunman on all other students' iPhones.
If the iPhone is being carried BY the gunman, the phone is supposed to shock them like a taser would. Unfortunately in testing all the power that could be mustered from the battery would just tickle at best, and there apparently wasn't any way to replace the battery with something more powerful.
Even if they could replace the battery, it turned out that GunTracker was trivially defeated by the DontTaseMeBro app, although that was quickly pulled from the app store.
...a college degree should mean something, and some colleges invest considerably in the branding of their name by having a rigorous admissions standard and rigorous grading standard.
If 10 of the past 10 people hired from college X have turned out to be great employees, and 5 out of 10 from college Y have turned out to be great employees, then there's nothing irrational about having a less-rigorous interview process for people hired from the college where your experience has been 10 out of 10.
Note that PERSONALLY, I wouldn't assume that someone who went to Yale or Harvard was qualified (too many legacies), but *IF* I wanted to pay them the additional salary they command, I wouldn't have any trouble hiring someone from MIT and assuming they're qualified. The risk that they turn out to be unqualified is so small that it's not worth the expense of additional filtering.
When braking, you are always using dynamic friction to stop - the question is whether the dynamic friction is between your brake pads and brake disks or between your tires and the road. You'll stop in the same distance either way, but only one of those lets you stop *AND* steer.
ABS works by preventing the force of your break pads on your break discs from exceeding the force of friction between your tires and the road. That keeps your tires spinning so you can steer, but doesn't change your stopping distance either way.
The thing is, there is a HUGE oversupply of "artists". There are way, way, way more people who want to be stars than there is a need for stars.
By comparison, there is much, much, much less money sitting around to turn one of the many people who want to be a star into an actual star.
The "artists" don't get much from the record company because if the "artist" isn't willing to take what the record company will give them, there is a long line of other people who will take it just to be famous.
The actual music is only one small part of the final product, and it's the most readily available.
You don't need the record company to get your CDs made or your music distributed. You need the record company to get your song on the radio, to get your band on Leno or SNL, to get critics to listen to your stuff....
Being able to distribute your own music cheaply doesn't replace the record label - you still have to get anyone to want to listen to your music at all.
People who hate us have oil, and there's nothing we can do to change that. Even if we stopped using oil entirely tomorrow, the only thing that would change is the people who hate us would get less money from China, and China (who hates us) would spend less money on oil.
So it's a wash.
The only way to reduce the amount of money sent to people who hate us is to get less people to hate us.
No really, I'm dead serious. Office 2007 is a triumph in user interface design.
The "problem" isn't 2007. The problem is that previous versions of Office had a really BAD interface, but it's a really bad interface that many users have none-the-less gotten used to.
If you just banish everything you know about Office 2003 from your brain, finding anything in 2007 is a piece of cake - it's exactly where you'd intuitively expect it to be, it's a lot less clicking to get there, and there are a lot less unnecessary pop-up windows.
If you live your life the way you post on Slashdot, it's no wonder you don't have anything. How about instead of expecting the government to hand everything to you you get off your ass, study, get good grades, earn a free ride through college (or take some loans), work hard, get a good job, and then buy the shit you want?
Yeah, it does suck that certain special interests are able to use the government to make themselves richer. And we should definitely be spending our tax dollars helping out those on the bottom end of the economic scale who do work for a living with their health care costs.
But if you want more gas, or to go to college, get off your ass and work for it.
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The surface area of the earth is 510,065,600,000,000 square meters.
There are 6,000,000 people on the earth. Even if we assume each person has a square meter target area...
510,065,600,000,000 / 6,000,000 = about 85,000,000.
So there is a one in 85 MILLION chance that this particular debris hits *ANY* person. There's about a 1 in 510 trillion chance that the debris hits you.
To put this in perspective, you are about 100,000 times more likely to be Britney Spears than you are to be hit by this space junk.
You conclusion is only valid if:
- Users share/upload the same number of songs they download
- Only one song exists.
If there, were, for example, 1,000 different songs, each user could share/upload one song 1,000 times, and each user could download each of the 1,000 songs once.
Not to mention that most users download more songs than they upload/share. So you could have one user upload/share a song 1,000 times, and have 1,000 users who downloaded the song once but didn't upload/share crap.
You cannot waive your constitutional rights (or ammendments therein)
There is no constitutional right to protection from search and, in some cases, seizure of items checked on airlines.
I just redid my profile, and it did automatically fill my interests field for the new profile with my interests from my old profile.
I didn't really have much else there. Photos had already been moved elsewhere.
People don't like the wasted space of tabs on the left when the old profiles were designed for 600x800 resolution screens at best?
To obliterate over a decade of cruft accumulation?
Most Yahoo profiles were created by spammers. I bet a year from now, anything that hasn't been updated gets deleted entirely, freeing up a lot of the username space.
'Beta' now means "it's cool because it's new." It's 0-day for the masses.
...he chose Charmin. They even have to ship it over there because the stuff produced in Asia isn't as good.
Still gets kinda stale on the way over though.
Hire the smarted guy you can find.
Trying to keep smart people out of the country is stupid.
The senile idiot and outright liar (pick one).
How do you know he's not talking about Obama?
"We're investigating passenger electronics as a possible cause" is just marketing speak for "While we have no idea what happened, we want you to think it was passenger electronics."
I pulled it out of my ass. The actual number is going to depend heavily on the particular task at hand.
The question is, what is the most efficient way to produce bug-free code?
Sure, you can take your top-quality programmer, and have him do everything. But that's the least efficient way to do things. Your top-quality programmer can churn out 80% perfect code with 20% of his time. The other 20% is the hard part.
It is FAR more efficient to pay one programmer and two to three QA folks to debug that code than it is to pay one programmer to make his code perfect and one QA guy to debug it.
And that's setting aside entirely that on any significant project, you have 5, 10, 20, 100 programmers, and you need the QA guys just to make sure that it all works together right. Programmer A writing perfect code and Programmer B writing perfect code doesn't mean their code combined works at all.
It's not a phone, it's a platform for the latest killer app... ...GunmanTracker.
When any iPhone detects gunfire, it reports its position to a central server, which then creates a Google Maps mashup that shows the location of the gunman on all other students' iPhones.
If the iPhone is being carried BY the gunman, the phone is supposed to shock them like a taser would. Unfortunately in testing all the power that could be mustered from the battery would just tickle at best, and there apparently wasn't any way to replace the battery with something more powerful.
Even if they could replace the battery, it turned out that GunTracker was trivially defeated by the DontTaseMeBro app, although that was quickly pulled from the app store.
Do people here feel comfortable buying books by crooks?
It does seem less risky than electing them.
As a practical matter, outside construction zones, I-294 has no speed limit.
...a college degree should mean something, and some colleges invest considerably in the branding of their name by having a rigorous admissions standard and rigorous grading standard.
If 10 of the past 10 people hired from college X have turned out to be great employees, and 5 out of 10 from college Y have turned out to be great employees, then there's nothing irrational about having a less-rigorous interview process for people hired from the college where your experience has been 10 out of 10.
Note that PERSONALLY, I wouldn't assume that someone who went to Yale or Harvard was qualified (too many legacies), but *IF* I wanted to pay them the additional salary they command, I wouldn't have any trouble hiring someone from MIT and assuming they're qualified. The risk that they turn out to be unqualified is so small that it's not worth the expense of additional filtering.
They died in a car accident at 85 MPH, you insensitive clod!
When braking, you are always using dynamic friction to stop - the question is whether the dynamic friction is between your brake pads and brake disks or between your tires and the road. You'll stop in the same distance either way, but only one of those lets you stop *AND* steer.
ABS works by preventing the force of your break pads on your break discs from exceeding the force of friction between your tires and the road. That keeps your tires spinning so you can steer, but doesn't change your stopping distance either way.
The thing is, there is a HUGE oversupply of "artists". There are way, way, way more people who want to be stars than there is a need for stars.
By comparison, there is much, much, much less money sitting around to turn one of the many people who want to be a star into an actual star.
The "artists" don't get much from the record company because if the "artist" isn't willing to take what the record company will give them, there is a long line of other people who will take it just to be famous.
The actual music is only one small part of the final product, and it's the most readily available.
They're promoters.
You don't need the record company to get your CDs made or your music distributed. You need the record company to get your song on the radio, to get your band on Leno or SNL, to get critics to listen to your stuff....
Being able to distribute your own music cheaply doesn't replace the record label - you still have to get anyone to want to listen to your music at all.
People who hate us have oil, and there's nothing we can do to change that. Even if we stopped using oil entirely tomorrow, the only thing that would change is the people who hate us would get less money from China, and China (who hates us) would spend less money on oil.
So it's a wash.
The only way to reduce the amount of money sent to people who hate us is to get less people to hate us.
No really, I'm dead serious. Office 2007 is a triumph in user interface design.
The "problem" isn't 2007. The problem is that previous versions of Office had a really BAD interface, but it's a really bad interface that many users have none-the-less gotten used to.
If you just banish everything you know about Office 2003 from your brain, finding anything in 2007 is a piece of cake - it's exactly where you'd intuitively expect it to be, it's a lot less clicking to get there, and there are a lot less unnecessary pop-up windows.
...what two majors did you take?
If you live your life the way you post on Slashdot, it's no wonder you don't have anything. How about instead of expecting the government to hand everything to you you get off your ass, study, get good grades, earn a free ride through college (or take some loans), work hard, get a good job, and then buy the shit you want?
Yeah, it does suck that certain special interests are able to use the government to make themselves richer. And we should definitely be spending our tax dollars helping out those on the bottom end of the economic scale who do work for a living with their health care costs.
But if you want more gas, or to go to college, get off your ass and work for it.