Yeah, I know, this is/. and I'm not new here so I should know better....
But TFA is about how to USE automated systems and how to EDUCATE the public about the capabilities and limitations of such systems. In particular, they mention the need to have people understand that Hawkeye is not perfect. This is not a new problem -- how many of us old folks can remember any number of times that a retail clerk will say "but the cash register/computer says the price is X," or "the computer says your bank account is..." when it's bleedingly obvious to anyone with half a brain that the database is fouled up? The point is that people need to know how to interpret the accuracy and precision of automated systems, and how to interpret error bars as well. How many times have you seen a newscast say "Bob is leading Joe in the polls by 5% with a margin of accuracy of 6%," and then go on to claim that this makes the race a "statistical dead heat"? Which of course it does nothing of the sort.
Personally, I'm happy with any system (back to sports) which is fast, reasonably accurate, and is deemed by the Rules Of The Game to be the final arbiter. Either the head umpire or Hawkeye gets a decision in tennis in about 10 seconds. Compare this to the bullshit that goes on every time an NFL ref goes to the sidelines to look at "instant replay" video.
For the same reason, try to name a famous flautist (one who plays the flute). If you managed to do that, now try to name a famous female flautist. Doriot Anthony Dwyer. But then, I've been a BSO fan for many years now. Seriously, the number of women in pro orchestras, and touring soloists, is far more than it was 30 years ago. Not that this means equality has been achieved.
Yeah, but even after he reveals the trick to the class, a significant percentage of them continue to believe the horoscope is 'real' and is aimed at them personally. "... the Gods themselves..."
As child, I could see that the continents of North and South America could plausibly fit up to Africa, yet my science teacher dismissed the idea that they were once joined. As we all now know, they were, in fact, once joined. Wow, that must have been ages ago. How old are you?
Now, be nice. He's not the only over-50/.-er here. I observed the same thing independently in 2nd or 3rd grade, before continental drift had made its way into grammar school curricula. But at least as best I recall, my teacher didn't dump on me for having an original thought.
I hear we've got some all-encompassing system about to go online. Codenamed "Colossus," it will implement a new level of Internet control known as "Skynet."
Prince owns the performance he gave" No. You and everyone else saying things that amount to this are wrong. Copyright applies to things that may be copied, which performances are not. You cannot hold a copyright on a performance. You can hold a copyright on a recording.
Ok, then how do MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. get away with the "any recording, rebroadcast, written or other accounts of this game..."? They claim that because *they* made a recording (or authorized a TV net todo so) nobody else can record and distribute? Where exactly is the copyright limit? (not to mention that every now and then someone claims any photo of, say Michael Jordan in uniform, is violating Mr. Jordan's personal trademark of his own likeness. Ditto for the Flatiron Building).
BTW, I read somewhere (and naturally forgot all about it until now) that one of the features being implemented in surgical waldoes is a low-pass filter, which removes any tremor or shaking in the surgeon's hand from the final instrument's movement. Sounds like a win to me.
Well, if you really wanted too you could et your legs chopped off and attach a pair of cheetas instead. I've seen a lot people making that suggestion in the various discussions of this issue. It's very disingenuous, because even for the most fanatical competitor there is a lot more to life than sport. Nobody would make such an extreme sacrifice (voluntarily, at least) just to win a gold medal or set a world record. I believe the historical record disagrees with you. I recall some NFL player w/ a badly broken finger who went right back on the line the following week. He knew going in that continuing to play meant the finger would never heal, and given he was a decent sax player, this meant giving up part of his life. Or Brett Hull who finished the Stanley Cups one year w/ a screwed up knee (or ankle, I forget). He could have ended his career by doing so, but chose to go for the moment. There are lots more such incidents out there.
Obviously we cannot read each new title to determine whether there are any sexual explicit portions and if so whether such portions "serve some purpose other than titillation" (even if I knew what that meant). Sounds to me like the 21st-century version of "...has redeeming social value." That was the phrase, IIRC, used to allow screening of Deep Throat.
Pinball is a game of luck only the way poker is. Or maybe Ultimate. The more you anticipate the next few collisions between ball and playfield (or flippers), the less likely you'll get in a situation where the ball is headed for the outlane. Watch a master player catch 3 of 4 balls in a multiball situation while shooting the 4th for the jackpot lane, and you'll see skill, not luck.
despite their objection"? who are these people who "object" to using free software and why? I can't believe you actually think that. I know people, software developers, who have said to my face,"I won't use open source software because I believe people should be paid for their work." Granted that's incredibly stupid, since one is always free to pay (donate) to any project. Nearly every large business I know has all sorts of strict (idiotic, but strict) rules about not putting any open source or freeware or shareware on their machines and networks, because, you know, commercial software is soooo much safer and free from vulnerabilities. We are a very long way from getting the PHBs of the world to understand what software is, let alone how to evaluate the usefulness vs risk of any given item, be it commercial or open source.
Amazon doesn't have all the titles that iTunes has.
That's unlikely, they have way more titles:
Not relevant. Having *more* titles is not a guarantee that Amazon's library is a superset of iTunes. Simple example: iTunes has the song "FU" by the group "BAR" while Amazon does not have that particular song.
This bugs me a little every time I see it. Really long half-life = Pretty safe Really short half-life = Really fuggin dangerous This is incorrect. While it may be the case that nuclear bombs function with short half-life isotopes, the dangerousness of a given isotope depends both on its half-life AND on the toxicity of the particles emitted upon each fission event (i.e per atom). Certain elements have 3 or 4-digit year half-lives, but remember Avrogadro's Number: a very small emission rate from a very small rock is still a lot of fission events every hour.
Geez, bobkoure, lighten up. It was just a cheerful slam in the style of grammarnazis.
Not to say that people are better off not using words or phrases they don't know. So, do you know what "ad hominem" means, both idiomatically and literally?
Re "Superstitious" and "course in logic", hmmm... ever heard of "ad homonym"? Well, in your case, let me make an ad hominem attack that somehow makes use of the wrong word which is pronounced the same was as the right word. Hmmm... What's a homonym for illiterate? Oh, even better: you must have meant "add homonym," thus instruction the GP to attach a homonym to his post.
Maybe it's easy to move your domains, maybe it isn't. But why not just work, politely (so to speak), with your domain manager to convince them to drop eNom as their source? For example, I'm quite happy with the service I get from domaindirect. They answer their phones, they have a "network status" page that's pretty accurate and up to date when something happens, and all the intarwebby things JustWork. I'd rather join a mailing list to urge DomainDirect to switch than just apply a blanket boycott.
2) Open debates. Not really. Go to a left wing meeting and say you think blacks are genetically less intelligent. This brings up an interesting point. I can't take credit for it; Stephen Jay Gould was the first person I heard it from. Suppose in fact the Negro race is, say one percent less intelligent than the Caucasian race? (ignoring the difficulty of defining intelligent). Is that in any way a justification for abuse, discrimination, or slavery? I'd say both left- and right-wingers all too often jump into a strawman argument, failing to see what the real debate should be about.
At the risk of sounding like a greentreepeacehugger, I submit the premise that wild animals should not be caged. They evolved in wide open spaces and basically go insane when penned up in sub-square-mile pens. Witness the incessant pacing we've all seen when any large animal is stuck in a 30x50 cage. Heck, even mice and rats go nuts when stuck in a standard research crate. Some zoos are working hard to create relatively large spaces for animals, and create the illusion of greater space through lighting and various disguises on the walls. This makes it less likely the animals will be close up for people to view, but much more likely that the (the animals) can feel acclimated and calm down a bit.
As any programmer will tell you, a statement that is not true is false. As any DailyWTF reader will tell you, a statement that is not true is either false or FileNotFound
For that matter, in South Africa it's still common to hear "Negro" used in everyday speech. By contrast, the correct usage of "Begging the Question" is debated by very few. Be serious, will you? The only reason "Negro" isn't used in the USA is that people are afraid to use a perfectly appropriate word. How many Westerners object to being called Caucasian? For that matter, I still can't understand why US citizens of partial Negroid ancestry get to be called "African-American" but no other descendent of any other race gets to be "Korean-American," or "Aleut-American," or (shudder) "Bohunk-American"
Oh, and I don't debate the "proper" use of "beg the question" any more than I debate "exception that proves the rule." A very few of us take the time to learn and become educated; the rest think it's fine to say "the consensus of opinion was that this very unique item should be given to Jane and I."
Yeh, except that a nice TV now costs about 5% (in inflation-adjusted dollars) of what one (of similar screen size) cost in 1958. Plus it's got a remote and a far better color reproduction scheme.
The reason we have 2 cars now is that we have two income-earners. The relative maintenance cost (including heat/AC) does not scale anything like linearly with the square footage. And a 1958 house had little or no insulation to begin with.
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Yeah, I know, this is /. and I'm not new here so I should know better....
But TFA is about how to USE automated systems and how to EDUCATE the public about the capabilities and limitations of such systems. In particular, they mention the need to have people understand that Hawkeye is not perfect. This is not a new problem -- how many of us old folks can remember any number of times that a retail clerk will say "but the cash register/computer says the price is X," or "the computer says your bank account is..." when it's bleedingly obvious to anyone with half a brain that the database is fouled up?
The point is that people need to know how to interpret the accuracy and precision of automated systems, and how to interpret error bars as well. How many times have you seen a newscast say "Bob is leading Joe in the polls by 5% with a margin of accuracy of 6%," and then go on to claim that this makes the race a "statistical dead heat"? Which of course it does nothing of the sort.
Personally, I'm happy with any system (back to sports) which is fast, reasonably accurate, and is deemed by the Rules Of The Game to be the final arbiter. Either the head umpire or Hawkeye gets a decision in tennis in about 10 seconds. Compare this to the bullshit that goes on every time an NFL ref goes to the sidelines to look at "instant replay" video.
For the same reason, try to name a famous flautist (one who plays the flute). If you managed to do that, now try to name a famous female flautist.
Doriot Anthony Dwyer.
But then, I've been a BSO fan for many years now.
Seriously, the number of women in pro orchestras, and touring soloists, is far more than it was 30 years ago. Not that this means equality has been achieved.
Yeah, but even after he reveals the trick to the class, a significant percentage of them continue to believe the horoscope is 'real' and is aimed at them personally.
"... the Gods themselves..."
As child, I could see that the continents of North and South America could plausibly fit up to Africa, yet my science teacher dismissed the idea that they were once joined. As we all now know, they were, in fact, once joined.
/.-er here. I observed the same thing independently in 2nd or 3rd grade, before continental drift had made its way into grammar school curricula. But at least as best I recall, my teacher didn't dump on me for having an original thought.
Wow, that must have been ages ago. How old are you?
Now, be nice. He's not the only over-50
I hear we've got some all-encompassing system about to go online. Codenamed "Colossus," it will implement a new level of Internet control known as "Skynet."
Prince owns the performance he gave"
No. You and everyone else saying things that amount to this are wrong. Copyright applies to things that may be copied, which performances are not. You cannot hold a copyright on a performance. You can hold a copyright on a recording.
Ok, then how do MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. get away with the "any recording, rebroadcast, written or other accounts of this game..."? They claim that because *they* made a recording (or authorized a TV net todo so) nobody else can record and distribute? Where exactly is the copyright limit?
(not to mention that every now and then someone claims any photo of, say Michael Jordan in uniform, is violating Mr. Jordan's personal trademark of his own likeness. Ditto for the Flatiron Building).
What, you guys don't read Heinlein?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story)
BTW, I read somewhere (and naturally forgot all about it until now) that one of the features being implemented in surgical waldoes is a low-pass filter, which removes any tremor or shaking in the surgeon's hand from the final instrument's movement. Sounds like a win to me.
Well, if you really wanted too you could et your legs chopped off and attach a pair of cheetas instead.
I've seen a lot people making that suggestion in the various discussions of this issue. It's very disingenuous, because even for the most fanatical competitor there is a lot more to life than sport. Nobody would make such an extreme sacrifice (voluntarily, at least) just to win a gold medal or set a world record.
I believe the historical record disagrees with you. I recall some NFL player w/ a badly broken finger who went right back on the line the following week. He knew going in that continuing to play meant the finger would never heal, and given he was a decent sax player, this meant giving up part of his life.
Or Brett Hull who finished the Stanley Cups one year w/ a screwed up knee (or ankle, I forget). He could have ended his career by doing so, but chose to go for the moment.
There are lots more such incidents out there.
Obviously we cannot read each new title to determine whether there are any sexual explicit portions and if so whether such portions "serve some purpose other than titillation" (even if I knew what that meant).
Sounds to me like the 21st-century version of "...has redeeming social value." That was the phrase, IIRC, used to allow screening of Deep Throat.
Pinball is a game of luck only the way poker is. Or maybe Ultimate. The more you anticipate the next few collisions between ball and playfield (or flippers), the less likely you'll get in a situation where the ball is headed for the outlane.
Watch a master player catch 3 of 4 balls in a multiball situation while shooting the 4th for the jackpot lane, and you'll see skill, not luck.
How could nobody have applied the popular "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag to this one?
He's suing his propmaker? There is much anger in this one.
despite their objection"? who are these people who "object" to using free software and why?
I can't believe you actually think that. I know people, software developers, who have said to my face,"I won't use open source software because I believe people should be paid for their work." Granted that's incredibly stupid, since one is always free to pay (donate) to any project.
Nearly every large business I know has all sorts of strict (idiotic, but strict) rules about not putting any open source or freeware or shareware on their machines and networks, because, you know, commercial software is soooo much safer and free from vulnerabilities.
We are a very long way from getting the PHBs of the world to understand what software is, let alone how to evaluate the usefulness vs risk of any given item, be it commercial or open source.
Amazon doesn't have all the titles that iTunes has.
That's unlikely, they have way more titles:
Not relevant. Having *more* titles is not a guarantee that Amazon's library is a superset of iTunes. Simple example: iTunes has the song "FU" by the group "BAR" while Amazon does not have that particular song.
This bugs me a little every time I see it.
Really long half-life = Pretty safe
Really short half-life = Really fuggin dangerous
This is incorrect. While it may be the case that nuclear bombs function with short half-life isotopes, the dangerousness of a given isotope depends both on its half-life AND on the toxicity of the particles emitted upon each fission event (i.e per atom).
Certain elements have 3 or 4-digit year half-lives, but remember Avrogadro's Number: a very small emission rate from a very small rock is still a lot of fission events every hour.
Geez, bobkoure, lighten up. It was just a cheerful slam in the style of grammarnazis.
Not to say that people are better off not using words or phrases they don't know. So, do you know what "ad hominem" means, both idiomatically and literally?
Re "Superstitious" and "course in logic", hmmm... ever heard of "ad homonym"?
Well, in your case, let me make an ad hominem attack that somehow makes use of the wrong word which is pronounced the same was as the right word. Hmmm...
What's a homonym for illiterate?
Oh, even better: you must have meant "add homonym," thus instruction the GP to attach a homonym to his post.
Maybe it's easy to move your domains, maybe it isn't. But why not just work, politely (so to speak), with your domain manager to convince them to drop eNom as their source? For example, I'm quite happy with the service I get from domaindirect. They answer their phones, they have a "network status" page that's pretty accurate and up to date when something happens, and all the intarwebby things JustWork.
I'd rather join a mailing list to urge DomainDirect to switch than just apply a blanket boycott.
2) Open debates.
Not really. Go to a left wing meeting and say you think blacks are genetically less intelligent.
This brings up an interesting point. I can't take credit for it; Stephen Jay Gould was the first person I heard it from.
Suppose in fact the Negro race is, say one percent less intelligent than the Caucasian race? (ignoring the difficulty of defining intelligent). Is that in any way a justification for abuse, discrimination, or slavery?
I'd say both left- and right-wingers all too often jump into a strawman argument, failing to see what the real debate should be about.
Hmm, you seem very sensible for someone called Facetious
Well, at least he's got his vowels in order.
sure they can. they can do it if they finance it, IE take loans, IE get into debt. :-)
So you expect Microsoft's web browser to take out the loan?
Ask the grammar police: it's "i.e.," not "IE."
At the risk of sounding like a greentreepeacehugger, I submit the premise that wild animals should not be caged. They evolved in wide open spaces and basically go insane when penned up in sub-square-mile pens. Witness the incessant pacing we've all seen when any large animal is stuck in a 30x50 cage. Heck, even mice and rats go nuts when stuck in a standard research crate.
Some zoos are working hard to create relatively large spaces for animals, and create the illusion of greater space through lighting and various disguises on the walls. This makes it less likely the animals will be close up for people to view, but much more likely that the (the animals) can feel acclimated and calm down a bit.
As any programmer will tell you, a statement that is not true is false.
As any DailyWTF reader will tell you, a statement that is not true is either false or FileNotFound
For that matter, in South Africa it's still common to hear "Negro" used in everyday speech. By contrast, the correct usage of "Begging the Question" is debated by very few.
Be serious, will you? The only reason "Negro" isn't used in the USA is that people are afraid to use a perfectly appropriate word. How many Westerners object to being called Caucasian? For that matter, I still can't understand why US citizens of partial Negroid ancestry get to be called "African-American" but no other descendent of any other race gets to be "Korean-American," or "Aleut-American," or (shudder) "Bohunk-American"
Oh, and I don't debate the "proper" use of "beg the question" any more than I debate "exception that proves the rule." A very few of us take the time to learn and become educated; the rest think it's fine to say "the consensus of opinion was that this very unique item should be given to Jane and I."
50 years ago the middle class household had:
:-)
~900 square foot home
1 car
1 small TV
a refrigerator and a couple small appliances
Yeh, except that a nice TV now costs about 5% (in inflation-adjusted dollars) of what one (of similar screen size) cost in 1958. Plus it's got a remote and a far better color reproduction scheme.
The reason we have 2 cars now is that we have two income-earners.
The relative maintenance cost (including heat/AC) does not scale anything like linearly with the square footage. And a 1958 house had little or no insulation to begin with.
So there