But in several areas of nature (and technology), there are "layers of abstraction" that abstract physics away.
Processor instruction sets have nothing to do with physics (apart from processor limitations, granted)
Human language has barely nothing to do with physics, hence the variety of them
Yeah, you can say that those have to do with physics but then, math has to do with physics, math notation has everything to do with how we can write, hold a pencil, and think symbols.
2 - (this happened to me) program works on one compiler, in the other it gives strange results (this is a simulation of signal transmission over noise conditions). Turns out on compiler 'a' random() doesn't return a value from 0 to the maximum value of a long, but returns up to a value less than the maximum value
Funny how it's the skeptics who 'claim' they knew the results of this beforehand.
Oh, and by the way, when you do an experiment like that, make sure you use a proper random number generator. (one that has a *tested* uniform distribution - if you're expecting a uniform distribution of course, otherwise, test for the distribution you're expecting)
50 years ago you needed a spy plane to take pictures. Today you don't need one 50 years ago you didn't have spacecraft orbiting or landing on Mars and other planets (and sending high quality pictures). Today you have 50 years ago we were still learning how to send objects into orbit. Today it's common 50 years ago sending data across the planet was a PitA. Today it's trivial
Besides, there will always be idiots who will crash their car after using mouthwash, and then more idiots that will go "OMG DRUNK DRIVER"
What I think would work:
- Mandatory (lower) speed limit depending on the BAC. Wanna drive after 1 scotch? No problem, but you're not going over 35MPH - Actively training drivers to driving while impaired.
And of course, proper public transportation or affordable taxis so that getting home at night is not an issue.
I'm not sure how is this implementable, but I can think of two ways
1 - Manually (or maybe automatically) create for each john.smith@company.com a john.smith.fb@company.com
2 - Make a couple of subdomains work for email (something like john.smith@company.com for 'real email' and john.smith@social.company.com or something similar)
Would be funny to get them together with moon landing denialists
I have a feeling that the idea of "the moon conspiracy" is actually a conspiracy in itself. (That is, the real conspiracy is the creation of the idea that men never went to the moon)
Slashdot Mirror
How about no.
This is what physicists think.
But in several areas of nature (and technology), there are "layers of abstraction" that abstract physics away.
Processor instruction sets have nothing to do with physics (apart from processor limitations, granted)
Human language has barely nothing to do with physics, hence the variety of them
Yeah, you can say that those have to do with physics but then, math has to do with physics, math notation has everything to do with how we can write, hold a pencil, and think symbols.
Most failures in 'randomizing' data are not difficult to detect (once you look at it)
Two examples.
1 - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/12/the-danger-of-naivete.html
2 - (this happened to me) program works on one compiler, in the other it gives strange results (this is a simulation of signal transmission over noise conditions). Turns out on compiler 'a' random() doesn't return a value from 0 to the maximum value of a long, but returns up to a value less than the maximum value
Funny how it's the skeptics who 'claim' they knew the results of this beforehand.
Oh, and by the way, when you do an experiment like that, make sure you use a proper random number generator. (one that has a *tested* uniform distribution - if you're expecting a uniform distribution of course, otherwise, test for the distribution you're expecting)
I mean what swift is doing is easy
DELETE from country_codes; where country='IRAN';
enter
OH WAIT OH WAIT
Well, while there are still idiots who buy a stripped down company for double the price, these kind of 'service' will still continue.
Unfortunately most MBAs don't know what makes the wheels turn, they would be happy to buy a car without an engine for double the price as well.
For "hyper-precision" you would probably have to account for transportation velocities/times
It's the twin paradox but with microseconds of difference.
Or re-sync them in place which is very complicated to do as well.
Hence the old joke
Don't run after a bus, run after a taxi, you will save a lot more money
Well, call me when Brent Spinner helps debug MySQL
Yes, but
50 years ago you needed a spy plane to take pictures. Today you don't need one
50 years ago you didn't have spacecraft orbiting or landing on Mars and other planets (and sending high quality pictures). Today you have
50 years ago we were still learning how to send objects into orbit. Today it's common
50 years ago sending data across the planet was a PitA. Today it's trivial
Besides, the one thing gas engines are really good at is at generating heat
Generating motion power comes at a distant second
True
Apparently MS only hires people with no concept of future.
See Zune event, see this. Absolute disregard of date concepts (and testing)
Now, Linux development worries about this THOROUGHLY (I mean, kernel and main libs, of course a sw developer can get this wrong on Linux as well)
No counter wrap-around fsck-ups, date exceptions, etc (people are watching this)
Remember the Windows bug where it would crash after 15 days or so?
Well, you would usually leave your car at home and come/go by other means.
I really don't advocate leaving your car in a parking lot overnight.
Ethanol has been removed from mouthwash for years
Yes, sure
http://www.listerine.com/products/product-cool-mint
Click 'directions'. 21.6% alcohol
THIS
Besides, there will always be idiots who will crash their car after using mouthwash, and then more idiots that will go "OMG DRUNK DRIVER"
What I think would work:
- Mandatory (lower) speed limit depending on the BAC. Wanna drive after 1 scotch? No problem, but you're not going over 35MPH
- Actively training drivers to driving while impaired.
And of course, proper public transportation or affordable taxis so that getting home at night is not an issue.
Actually
If you do any serious 3D work on Linux you would be using nVidia already
And yes, there are lots of users of that.
Gaming is important, but there's people paying top notch linux support to run 3D software on Linux
(But if you do professional work on Windows or Mac you would probably be using a nVidia card as well)
No, it is an invalid content for a machine readable field
Legalese is not a valid P3P header content
Well, they solved that years ago too
Photocopy the manual
So you're telling me it's impractical to send nothing or to NOT SEND BS in the field?
Congratulations for being as evil as MS
Sure
I'm not sure how is this implementable, but I can think of two ways
1 - Manually (or maybe automatically) create for each john.smith@company.com a john.smith.fb@company.com
2 - Make a couple of subdomains work for email (something like john.smith@company.com for 'real email' and john.smith@social.company.com or something similar)
Obviously
You choose the amount of information you put there.
Unless you are as paranoid as RMS, just sign up using your company email (or a throwaway one) and put the absolutely minimum amount of info.
I'd much prefer a paycheck to a bit of already-compromised privacy.
This
I really wonder what's all the crap people download for mobile phones that's infected
People don't need an Anti-Virus they need a Brain (and a secure OS)
So in this case it's blackemail?
And any sufficiently complicated Prolog program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of Minesweeper.
Nooo, noo!!!
Of course men never went to the moon!!111
Would be funny to get them together with moon landing denialists
I have a feeling that the idea of "the moon conspiracy" is actually a conspiracy in itself. (That is, the real conspiracy is the creation of the idea that men never went to the moon)
It's probably a gas balloon
Or maybe the Google Street View car