That's so stupid. If your code is going to generate a 24 byte GUID then it should do so under any valid set of inputs to the GUID generator. In fact, if there it's even possible to generate a larger number it should be truncated to 24 just to be sure. If date and time are going into it, you have to consider a reasonable range of dates. But thanks for the example, it shows how little effort some companies put in.
When you buy a ski ticket, you waive your right to sue the ski operator if certain rules are properly followed. When you buy a ticket to go to space, you willingly assume all of the risk.
They're not talking about protection for people on the ground. They're saying the people onboard are taking all the risk and directly comparing it to skiing. We're at the point where ski equipment is probably quite reliable and in addition a skier can and should inspect their own equipment and be blamed for any liability. None of that is true for the space industry - the passengers are not in control, could not make a reasonable inspection of anything, and the field is so new there may certainly be negligence on the part of the manufacturer. Watch the videos from Space Ship One, see where Burt Rutan tells his guys to go down to the junkyard and see what kind of parts they can find - 'cause the automotive guys have some good stuff. While I'm certain they're doing a higher quality job on the commercial vehicles, I think it would be unfair to shield them from liability to the extent of the ski-equipment industry.
You explanation is informative. Not only is your definition of temperature new to me, I find the consequences unfortunate. They should have a different term for this state rather than "negative temperature". Sure it's interesting physics, but the headline seems a bit sensational due to the definition of temperature needed to make it possible.
Got tips for catching time/date bugs "from the mysterious future"?
Why does software functionality depend on the date? Calculation issues maybe... but failure to lauch? WTF? I'm most curious to learn how this even happens.
The failure to convert falls squarely on the government. See building codes for examples. So long as your construction industry is using imperial units, society is not going to change.
How about having actual butter for the popcorn? I can no longer get the overpriced popcorn at theatres, not just due to the shitty taste of the stuff but because the "popcorn topping" is full of MSG and consistently gives me a migraine headache right around the time we're heading home. It used to be "butter" then "butter flavor" and now they don't even pretend it's that. And guess what? It's not just me that doesn't buy it any more.
Popcorn popped in real vegetable oil, with real butter and salt will give off a smell that will draw tons of people out to get some even at movie theatre prices.
Reading this on my Eee makes me sad. I was hoping for an upgrade soon - like the Eee 1225b perhaps for graphics improvement. But I'd like an 11.5" screen in the same package as the 10.1. Or increasing the size a little may allow a 12" with a tad wider keyboard and that's getting into laptop size range. Those laptops cost quite a bit more but IMHO should not.
The only future I see for TV is when they gain wireless DLNA or some such (Like Apple TV but standardized). Then there's this big screen in the room that anyone can stream stuff too from their phone/whatever. Portable devices then need to be able to encode video for streaming to the big screen so you can use it as a large monitor (with codec dependent latency of course). That's it. All TVs and computer monitors should get this capability in the future. Wired connections should remain available for higher quality and low latency, but TV as display server is the only thing that makes sense IMHO. They'll need to keep tuners for quite a while too.
I would bet the entire "article" was created for LEGO. They're on an advertising blitz because they have competition now.
Sure they have franchises. But the Barbie sets are not made by LEGO. Since the patents expired and the lawsuits have been lost, there's lots of competition. Perhaps this will lead to the availability of large boxes of bricks rather that just trademarked sets...
That's what the black box is for. It records all the interesting sensor data - enough to reconstruct any view you want via CG. The only thing it can't tell you is if anything is already missing prior to the crash like at Reno last year. But I agree, an automated system to record every departure and landing from a couple angles shouldn't be very expensive.
Sure they'll find one. But being the correct distance from a given star doesn't really make it earth-like. Seriously, Mars qualifies as earth-like but it doesn't seem to have life even though the planet next to it does.
Crappy communications.
Poor transportation.
Shortage of water.
And this dude is doing astronomy. WTF?
Dig some tunnels. Set up some infrastructure. Distil some water. Check on the microbes being bred for terraforming. Do something to improve life on mars. We have well equipped astronomers and space telescopes here at home.
said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.
I'm always amazed that someone whose job includes keeping their mouth shut is always willing to spill the beans. Or do the people who know how to keep a secret work for the higher paying TLAs?
I swear we were all much better off with software rasterizers.
Yay! With many core processors and LLVM-pipe this could be a viable option soon;-) At least for composite desktops and older 3D apps.
To be honest, I've seen some commercial CAD packages rendering high complexity models at frame rates lower than what ray tracing can do today. So yes, keep software rendering in mind.
Illegal or not, it is certainly immoral and unethical to disrupt funeral services to taunt the survivors. And, BTW - the GOVERNMENT is mandated to respect free speech. Those whose services are being disrupted aren't exactly bound by the same laws as the government is. The obligations are entirely different.
Sure, but they did establish "free speech zones" during some presidential events and rounded up all the opposition and let them "speak" in a particular area. We need one of these zones a few blocks away to keep these idiots away from the funerals. This will either 1) abuse an abusive practice for the public good, or 2) they will sue and WIN thus giving a black eye to free speech zones (unfortunately this would involve them doing something good for once).
They're being sued over the automatic generation of easily removable scaffolding which has weak points created by reducing the exposure time of the resin at those points. If they turn that feature off, they may no longer be infringing. However, I don't know if that will help prevent their demise, since they've already infringed, and the company suing seems to want them gone.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
Certain cryptography software is legally blocked from export, and as a result any software that includes those crypto features is also restricted. PuTTY is a great example.
And you think the local police patrolling the mall are up on all that?
If the end game is a world where the robots do everything and people can just relax and do their hobbies, there will be a painful transition. Imagine 80 percent unemployment - not because the people aren't educated enough but because they're unnecessary. Adjusting the population level doesn't seem like an answer because you've still got to have extreme skills to be useful during the transition. Then there's the greed factor - how can things function when nobody has to actually do anything? What's the mechanism for allocating resources? What determines how many personal robot servants each person gets? I'm all for this world of 0% involuntary employment, but there are issue with such a world and there are even bigger issues in the transition to such a world.
Paying less taxes by knowingly using loopholes, shell companies and tax havens is immoral.
Doing so in secret may be, but doing it and then standing up and talking about it shines a light on the problem. Can't you just feel all the other CEOs who use these practices just raging about this and wanting Google to STFU? Consider it a government sponsored (through tax loopholes) advertisement for changing the system. Then does it look immoral?
I disagree. I think they are focusing on exactly that; abuse of the tax system.
They're not abusing it. You said yourself that individuals are expected to take deductions and such. Companies are expected to follow the rules as well and try to reduce their tax bill. I think he's being deliberate in the delivery of his message. Yes it's arrogant, yes it's unfair, but he doesn't come off as smug (IMHO). He's illustrating a point, and so long as the "fix" for the "problem" doesn't penalize Google specifically I think he'll be fine with it.
They're playing by the rules and illustrating the problem. But unlike the Warren Buffet approach, he's not advocating for change - 'cause you know when Buffet does that people say "well feel free to pay more taxes" which to simple minds makes him seem stupid. I applaud Google for being very upfront and honest about the problem.
despite the email sent out to the users asking them to review the changes and cast their vote, less than one percent of all users have done so.
If they sent that to the me @facebook.com, I'm not aware of how to read that - I don't consider it a valid email address. I don't recall ever seeing this alleged email. I suppose if it came to my correct address it would have been deleted like all the other crap they send me.
So for the database they measure the line frequency by looking for zero crossings in the voltage waveform. They average this over many cycles, which sounds like a good idea but.... If you take 500 cycles over a minute in Europe, this averaging is still equivalent to taking the time between the first and last zero crossing. Or actually that would be the same as taking the average of the periods. Since the frequency is inversely proportional to the period, using the first and last zero crossings would be more accurate. Noise on the signal (or in the sampling) could shift a zero crossing, which would lengthen one period and shorten the next. That would have no effect on the average period (except the first or last in the batch) but would cause the average for the frequencies to be higher than the actual. This effect may be apparent in the data - the database has a consistent shift upward in frequency compared to the recording which we analyzed using FFT.
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That's so stupid. If your code is going to generate a 24 byte GUID then it should do so under any valid set of inputs to the GUID generator. In fact, if there it's even possible to generate a larger number it should be truncated to 24 just to be sure. If date and time are going into it, you have to consider a reasonable range of dates. But thanks for the example, it shows how little effort some companies put in.
They're not talking about protection for people on the ground. They're saying the people onboard are taking all the risk and directly comparing it to skiing. We're at the point where ski equipment is probably quite reliable and in addition a skier can and should inspect their own equipment and be blamed for any liability. None of that is true for the space industry - the passengers are not in control, could not make a reasonable inspection of anything, and the field is so new there may certainly be negligence on the part of the manufacturer. Watch the videos from Space Ship One, see where Burt Rutan tells his guys to go down to the junkyard and see what kind of parts they can find - 'cause the automotive guys have some good stuff. While I'm certain they're doing a higher quality job on the commercial vehicles, I think it would be unfair to shield them from liability to the extent of the ski-equipment industry.
You explanation is informative. Not only is your definition of temperature new to me, I find the consequences unfortunate. They should have a different term for this state rather than "negative temperature". Sure it's interesting physics, but the headline seems a bit sensational due to the definition of temperature needed to make it possible.
Why does software functionality depend on the date? Calculation issues maybe... but failure to lauch? WTF? I'm most curious to learn how this even happens.
Hollywood will love it when they have to pay a licensing fee for every car in every shot in a movie - retroactively of course.
And then there's this from TFS:
Trademarks have to registered with the PTO or they do not exist - looks to me like he's making this up.
The failure to convert falls squarely on the government. See building codes for examples. So long as your construction industry is using imperial units, society is not going to change.
How about having actual butter for the popcorn? I can no longer get the overpriced popcorn at theatres, not just due to the shitty taste of the stuff but because the "popcorn topping" is full of MSG and consistently gives me a migraine headache right around the time we're heading home. It used to be "butter" then "butter flavor" and now they don't even pretend it's that. And guess what? It's not just me that doesn't buy it any more.
Popcorn popped in real vegetable oil, with real butter and salt will give off a smell that will draw tons of people out to get some even at movie theatre prices.
And a TV tuner.
Reading this on my Eee makes me sad. I was hoping for an upgrade soon - like the Eee 1225b perhaps for graphics improvement. But I'd like an 11.5" screen in the same package as the 10.1. Or increasing the size a little may allow a 12" with a tad wider keyboard and that's getting into laptop size range. Those laptops cost quite a bit more but IMHO should not.
The only future I see for TV is when they gain wireless DLNA or some such (Like Apple TV but standardized). Then there's this big screen in the room that anyone can stream stuff too from their phone/whatever. Portable devices then need to be able to encode video for streaming to the big screen so you can use it as a large monitor (with codec dependent latency of course). That's it. All TVs and computer monitors should get this capability in the future. Wired connections should remain available for higher quality and low latency, but TV as display server is the only thing that makes sense IMHO. They'll need to keep tuners for quite a while too.
I would bet the entire "article" was created for LEGO. They're on an advertising blitz because they have competition now.
Sure they have franchises. But the Barbie sets are not made by LEGO. Since the patents expired and the lawsuits have been lost, there's lots of competition. Perhaps this will lead to the availability of large boxes of bricks rather that just trademarked sets...
That's what the black box is for. It records all the interesting sensor data - enough to reconstruct any view you want via CG. The only thing it can't tell you is if anything is already missing prior to the crash like at Reno last year. But I agree, an automated system to record every departure and landing from a couple angles shouldn't be very expensive.
Sure they'll find one. But being the correct distance from a given star doesn't really make it earth-like. Seriously, Mars qualifies as earth-like but it doesn't seem to have life even though the planet next to it does.
Crappy communications.
Poor transportation.
Shortage of water.
And this dude is doing astronomy. WTF?
Dig some tunnels. Set up some infrastructure. Distil some water. Check on the microbes being bred for terraforming. Do something to improve life on mars. We have well equipped astronomers and space telescopes here at home.
I'm always amazed that someone whose job includes keeping their mouth shut is always willing to spill the beans. Or do the people who know how to keep a secret work for the higher paying TLAs?
Yay! With many core processors and LLVM-pipe this could be a viable option soon ;-) At least for composite desktops and older 3D apps.
To be honest, I've seen some commercial CAD packages rendering high complexity models at frame rates lower than what ray tracing can do today. So yes, keep software rendering in mind.
Sure, but they did establish "free speech zones" during some presidential events and rounded up all the opposition and let them "speak" in a particular area. We need one of these zones a few blocks away to keep these idiots away from the funerals. This will either 1) abuse an abusive practice for the public good, or 2) they will sue and WIN thus giving a black eye to free speech zones (unfortunately this would involve them doing something good for once).
They're being sued over the automatic generation of easily removable scaffolding which has weak points created by reducing the exposure time of the resin at those points. If they turn that feature off, they may no longer be infringing. However, I don't know if that will help prevent their demise, since they've already infringed, and the company suing seems to want them gone.
And you think the local police patrolling the mall are up on all that?
If the end game is a world where the robots do everything and people can just relax and do their hobbies, there will be a painful transition. Imagine 80 percent unemployment - not because the people aren't educated enough but because they're unnecessary. Adjusting the population level doesn't seem like an answer because you've still got to have extreme skills to be useful during the transition. Then there's the greed factor - how can things function when nobody has to actually do anything? What's the mechanism for allocating resources? What determines how many personal robot servants each person gets? I'm all for this world of 0% involuntary employment, but there are issue with such a world and there are even bigger issues in the transition to such a world.
Doing so in secret may be, but doing it and then standing up and talking about it shines a light on the problem. Can't you just feel all the other CEOs who use these practices just raging about this and wanting Google to STFU? Consider it a government sponsored (through tax loopholes) advertisement for changing the system. Then does it look immoral?
They're not abusing it. You said yourself that individuals are expected to take deductions and such. Companies are expected to follow the rules as well and try to reduce their tax bill. I think he's being deliberate in the delivery of his message. Yes it's arrogant, yes it's unfair, but he doesn't come off as smug (IMHO). He's illustrating a point, and so long as the "fix" for the "problem" doesn't penalize Google specifically I think he'll be fine with it.
They're playing by the rules and illustrating the problem. But unlike the Warren Buffet approach, he's not advocating for change - 'cause you know when Buffet does that people say "well feel free to pay more taxes" which to simple minds makes him seem stupid. I applaud Google for being very upfront and honest about the problem.
If they sent that to the me @facebook.com, I'm not aware of how to read that - I don't consider it a valid email address. I don't recall ever seeing this alleged email. I suppose if it came to my correct address it would have been deleted like all the other crap they send me.
You know you can quote things right? There are other ways to help google find what you want.
So for the database they measure the line frequency by looking for zero crossings in the voltage waveform. They average this over many cycles, which sounds like a good idea but.... If you take 500 cycles over a minute in Europe, this averaging is still equivalent to taking the time between the first and last zero crossing. Or actually that would be the same as taking the average of the periods. Since the frequency is inversely proportional to the period, using the first and last zero crossings would be more accurate. Noise on the signal (or in the sampling) could shift a zero crossing, which would lengthen one period and shorten the next. That would have no effect on the average period (except the first or last in the batch) but would cause the average for the frequencies to be higher than the actual. This effect may be apparent in the data - the database has a consistent shift upward in frequency compared to the recording which we analyzed using FFT.