The demonstrated failure rate is ABSOLUTELY meaningless with such a low rate of loss. The actual failure rate could be 1 in 10 or 1 in 10,000, but with only 129 samples and 1 failure, you've got no idea which one it really is. Maybe we're already at 1 in 1000.
I hate this probabilistic view anyway. If you know that the failure rate should be 1 in 1000, then you must know what will fail.1% of the time. Fix those flaws and now you should have a perfect vehicle. Of course, you don't have a perfect vehicle, because there are problems you don't know about. So when you think that you have a 1 in 1000 rate, you actually will have a lower one. So, if the goal is to get to a rate that is 1 in 1000, once we're there the unknowns might lower it to 1 in 129, which is where we are (demonstratively) at.
Put another way, think about how safe the space shuttle is now. In its service lifetime, we've seen two fatal flaws demonstrated: foam and O-rings. The O-rings have been fixed and the foam has been mitigated. Over 129 launches, every dangerous problem has been fixed, minimized, or mitigated. Now we're going to dump a vehicle that has had 30 years of improvements built in and hope to do better with a new design.
It would be like if we did a "rm -rdf." on the kernel archives, stuck Linus and the kernel developers in a room, and let them start over. How long would it take to redevelop an OS that is as secure as Linux? Linux has 20 years of development and security fixes. Even with a better design plan and all of the combined experience, would it take them a year to duplicate the safety? Two years? Five? Ten?
Yeah and depending on the stepping of the processor and the other hardware, you could be talking about 100W+ for a machine that's basically doing nothing.
If you want a dedicated machine, get one of the Atom/Via mini-itx boards out there. You can find them with power ceilings under 30W.
Yeah, even a few billion atoms (which isn't very much at all) and you're already talking about hundreds of Joules.
I forget the exact energy specifications of the LHC, but if you're interested in getting a feeling for the power it packs, do a search for "LHC beam dump". This is a huge block of solid material (some sort of a lead-composite, IIRC) that's only job is to be vaporized if they need to shut down the beam quickly.
I'm friends with a Chicago meatpacker. You would never guess what goes into hamburger that's not labeled "100% beef" and I'm not going to tell you either. I will tell you that some of it is cow, some is pig, some is not mammalian, and some isn't even animal.
Oh, and raw hamburger is gray. They use food coloring to make it pink.
The problem isn't that the license isn't available pre-purchase, but that it isn't mentioned pre-purchase. A lot of this could be avoided if the laptops at Best Buy had little stickers on them that stated "The software on this computer is subject to an EULA that limits your rights. Ask a sales associate for a copy of the EULA prior to purchase."
"two big percentage points"? No, all points are the same. Please don't try and editorialize or sensationalize.
And also, these stats put another way say that Google et al have 90% marketshare. Windows also has a 90% marketshare and we refer to that as a monopoly.
Plutonium is man-made. It's more of a method for energy storage than an energy source.
Which is what makes Uranium nice since we can just dig it out of the ground. And I think that the claim that we don't know where to dig next is a little overblown. Uranium decays naturally into Radon gas which seeps up from the ground. That is, you can detect a Uranium deposit by gas chromatography and without digging.
The brown dwarf effect is why I like to use them. In the morning, before my coffee, they are noticeably easier on my eyes than the quick-start incandescents are.
I think like many new products, SSDs and CFLs are getting unfairly compared to the products they are replacing. SSDs are not HDDs and CFLs are not incandescent lightbulbs.
I don't know... why don't you have these problems? What is your secret?
In my experience, if you have a real, live system and you upgrade Windows, you can expect everything non-MS to break. Critical registry entries get deleted, DLLs go missing, directories get moved and everything goes to hell in a hand-basket.
Slashdot Mirror
You've just identified yourself as being in EST. Now, I'm one timezone closer to robbing your house.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/30/0359216
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/25/0113247
Oh well, its still better than attacking Iraq when bin Laden is in Pakistan.
I'll one-up you and say we need a good Fortran education for our youth. Same reasons, but its even easier to produce dangerous code.
dd-wrt allows VPN connections. When a $30 router is too much, why bother?
And it doesn't even have to be at his house. A friend's house, or at work.
The demonstrated failure rate is ABSOLUTELY meaningless with such a low rate of loss. The actual failure rate could be 1 in 10 or 1 in 10,000, but with only 129 samples and 1 failure, you've got no idea which one it really is. Maybe we're already at 1 in 1000.
I hate this probabilistic view anyway. If you know that the failure rate should be 1 in 1000, then you must know what will fail .1% of the time. Fix those flaws and now you should have a perfect vehicle. Of course, you don't have a perfect vehicle, because there are problems you don't know about. So when you think that you have a 1 in 1000 rate, you actually will have a lower one. So, if the goal is to get to a rate that is 1 in 1000, once we're there the unknowns might lower it to 1 in 129, which is where we are (demonstratively) at.
Put another way, think about how safe the space shuttle is now. In its service lifetime, we've seen two fatal flaws demonstrated: foam and O-rings. The O-rings have been fixed and the foam has been mitigated. Over 129 launches, every dangerous problem has been fixed, minimized, or mitigated. Now we're going to dump a vehicle that has had 30 years of improvements built in and hope to do better with a new design.
It would be like if we did a "rm -rdf ." on the kernel archives, stuck Linus and the kernel developers in a room, and let them start over. How long would it take to redevelop an OS that is as secure as Linux? Linux has 20 years of development and security fixes. Even with a better design plan and all of the combined experience, would it take them a year to duplicate the safety? Two years? Five? Ten?
lol.... if you're willing to use a $6k camera as a hammer, I'd love to see any code you'd write:
equals(a,b,c,plus);
public void equals(int a, int b, int c, void * func){
c=func(a,b);
}
public int plus(int a, int b){
return a+b;
}
If anyone is interested, the camera they used for that shot was a Nikon D2Xs, a two-year old, 12.4MP, $5900 MSRP camera when new.
For some reason, I'm surprised NASA is using regular off-the-shelf cameras. I almost expected it to be a custom "space-camera".
Ah, but does it give you autism?
Just kidding. I find those people irresponsible and ignorant.
Yeah and depending on the stepping of the processor and the other hardware, you could be talking about 100W+ for a machine that's basically doing nothing.
If you want a dedicated machine, get one of the Atom/Via mini-itx boards out there. You can find them with power ceilings under 30W.
Yeah, even a few billion atoms (which isn't very much at all) and you're already talking about hundreds of Joules.
I forget the exact energy specifications of the LHC, but if you're interested in getting a feeling for the power it packs, do a search for "LHC beam dump". This is a huge block of solid material (some sort of a lead-composite, IIRC) that's only job is to be vaporized if they need to shut down the beam quickly.
I'm friends with a Chicago meatpacker. You would never guess what goes into hamburger that's not labeled "100% beef" and I'm not going to tell you either. I will tell you that some of it is cow, some is pig, some is not mammalian, and some isn't even animal.
Oh, and raw hamburger is gray. They use food coloring to make it pink.
The problem isn't that the license isn't available pre-purchase, but that it isn't mentioned pre-purchase. A lot of this could be avoided if the laptops at Best Buy had little stickers on them that stated "The software on this computer is subject to an EULA that limits your rights. Ask a sales associate for a copy of the EULA prior to purchase."
It's not fair that they tracked him down, but if he resigned then he gave up without a fight.
"two big percentage points"? No, all points are the same. Please don't try and editorialize or sensationalize.
And also, these stats put another way say that Google et al have 90% marketshare. Windows also has a 90% marketshare and we refer to that as a monopoly.
Plutonium is man-made. It's more of a method for energy storage than an energy source.
Which is what makes Uranium nice since we can just dig it out of the ground. And I think that the claim that we don't know where to dig next is a little overblown. Uranium decays naturally into Radon gas which seeps up from the ground. That is, you can detect a Uranium deposit by gas chromatography and without digging.
It says "XP or better". Surely, any recent distribution of Linux meets that, right?
I can't run Windows on my ARM computers. I can't run Windows (w/o Bootcamp) on my Mac. Windows doesn't run on the Xbox, PS3, or Wii.
I can use Linux on any of these devices.
Fertilizer is nitrogen and phosphorus. Exhaust is carbon and oxygen. Can one pair really be replaced by the other?
What keeps the injected CO2 from leaking back out?
Why doesn't the CO2 in the air already do the same thing?
I really, really, really don't want any of my money going toward Fox "News". Thank you.
What if you host your own email server?
The brown dwarf effect is why I like to use them. In the morning, before my coffee, they are noticeably easier on my eyes than the quick-start incandescents are.
I think like many new products, SSDs and CFLs are getting unfairly compared to the products they are replacing. SSDs are not HDDs and CFLs are not incandescent lightbulbs.
Maybe no pirate bought the game because the game sucked?
I don't know ... why don't you have these problems? What is your secret?
In my experience, if you have a real, live system and you upgrade Windows, you can expect everything non-MS to break. Critical registry entries get deleted, DLLs go missing, directories get moved and everything goes to hell in a hand-basket.
Here's how I read the summary:
"Retail software is so full of bugs that you should run out and buy it immediately!"