The bug won't be fixed until it is confirmed. It isn't confirmed until it is reproducible on more than one machine. It works fine on the two machines sitting in front of me. Don't get me wrong, it pegged my 3Ghz processor at 100% for about 30 seconds, which would normally be unacceptable, but the page isn't exactly a common format (5400 lines of different font'ed links). So I can't see why they would consider it top priority.
But that does not mean you can ever find an absolute truth. By definition, the scientific method is based on the premise of falsifiability: your theories are only ever as sound as your latest experiment
Of course, that is why scientists don't just stop experimenting. But rarely do years of experimentation result in a complete reversal of theory. It usually is a slight expansion.
Deities, stealthy aliens or undetected cosmic rays may be manipulating your experiment every time and one day not be there any more, for all you know, or can ever know.
The problem with that thinking is that it renders everything meaningless. If gods/aliens are changing my experiments with out me knowing it, then they could be changing anything (even what I'm typing, or is this all just a dream). But strangely enough, when results of experiments are reproducible by different people, then we expand on it by forming a theory of why this is true. Then different scientists form a different theory and design experiments that fit theiry theory but would disprove the other. These theories battle it out and we have a survival of the fittest.
Every once-in-a-while, religion or politics backs one theory over another and it takes a couple extra years for the true victor to rise.
Science isn't like history, you can't just make it up and expect noone to ever notice. This is the basis for the scientific method. The thing that let you reply on/. in the first place.
Yes, Of course it's progress, if only to help me get this technology as a GNU-IMP plugin.
I'm not sure whether you meant computer assisted vision (computers helping us) or vision for computers, but as far as automated cars:
That work seems to be all incremental improvements and people are already pretty good at it (http://www.darpa.mil/GRANDCHALLENGE/). The current problems are getting it fast enough to react in "real-time," and getting it accurate enough at the same time. If Stanford's algorithm fails with its current application then someone's home video needs some retouching. If it is used in autonomous vehicles, then a pedestrian who was thought to be part of the background, gets hit by a car...Ooops!
It is nice to see top universities working on better advertising. You know, I was thinking to myself just yesterday, "There is just not enough product placement in society. I hope someone makes it easier to put advertising in digital media."
I found out that all of my speakers (computer speakers / external tv speakers) drain 5 watts when they are off (but pluged in). I through them on a power strip. It is not much, but everything adds up. With 2 sets of speakers:.14$/kWh *.010kW * 24h/d * 365d/year = 12$ a year
"...so he puts the drugs in baggies and then covers those baggies in garlic oil, or another strong scent. Feeling confident, he figures the dogs can't smell through that! But it doesn't work like that. The dog smells the garlic AND the cocaine. The same way you or I would hear the lyrics AND the guitar AND the piano AND the drums in a song.
"
I don't know much about smell amplitudes, but you can definitely mask sounds by making one louder. Two things happen. 1) As the sound gets too loud, your frequency resolution reduces. That is, you lose the ability to tell neighboring frequencies apart. (which means the overtones are harder to hear which means it is harder to identify the various instruments) 2) You also can only distinguish the top XdB of loudness. Just as of someone shines a bright light in your eyes, you cannot see anything else until you block out that light (try looking at what is behind a street light) you cannot identify a soft sound amongst sounds that are much louder.
IF the same is true for how dogs smell, then it could be masked. But I don't know if it is.
Games that have replay value have just that. They have reason for me to keep the game after I've played through it once. Taking action to prevent me from giving away or selling a game after I've played it is wrong.
Make a game that I don't want to give away. (games I've dusted off in the last 2 years:
Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Mario Kart 64, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, FF7, and doom 3)
I wonder if you could give windows an autoimmune disease by crafting specialized virus payloads that look sufficiently like important system files to a virus checker. If you really understood how virus checkers try to match a virus signature to a class of computer viri, then one might be able to do it. Just a thought.
The fact that they [the ati drivers] can be made to work, says nothing about how nice the interface and implementation is to the coders who have to work with it.
If you mean hazard lights, then just say 'hazard lights' and we will know what you are talking about, no need for the esoteric corporate buzz words.
At first I thought you were being sarcastic. Now I don't so...
Everywhere I have lived (up and down the east coast of the U.S.), we called those lights blinkers OR turn-signals. We only call them hazard lights when both the left and right are on (indicating a hazard). I haven't, until now, considered the term esoteric.
Then again I've stood in a line, but never in a queue...
If the/. stereotype holds true, then someone on here knows more about porn than I do. so could you please explain why: Porn is legal, but prostitution (in most places) is not. In porn, people are paid to have sex on film. In prostitution someone, maybe both, are paid to have sex, maybe on film.
So is it ok to pay for sex as long as the money goes through a 3rd party (my 'manager' if you will)?
Note that while fsync() will flush all data from the host to the drive (i.e. the "permanent storage
device"), the drive itself may not physically write the data to the platters for quite some time and it
may be written in an out-of-order sequence.
Specifically, if the drive loses power or the OS crashes, the application may find that only some or
none of their data was written. The disk drive may also re-order the data so that later writes may be
present, while earlier writes are not.
This is not a theoretical edge case. This scenario is easily reproduced with real world workloads and
drive power failures.
For applications that require tighter guarantees about the integrity of their data, Mac OS X provides
the F_FULLFSYNC fcntl.
Don't you have a VAT built into everything you buy making it more expensive than anything I buy in the US (Except perhaps things imported from france)? Don't foreigners have to go through paperwork to get this money back?
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The bug won't be fixed until it is confirmed. It isn't confirmed until it is reproducible on more than one machine. It works fine on the two machines sitting in front of me. Don't get me wrong, it pegged my 3Ghz processor at 100% for about 30 seconds, which would normally be unacceptable, but the page isn't exactly a common format (5400 lines of different font'ed links). So I can't see why they would consider it top priority.
But that does not mean you can ever find an absolute truth. By definition, the scientific method is based on the premise of falsifiability: your theories are only ever as sound as your latest experiment
Of course, that is why scientists don't just stop experimenting. But rarely do years of experimentation result in a complete reversal of theory. It usually is a slight expansion.
Deities, stealthy aliens or undetected cosmic rays may be manipulating your experiment every time and one day not be there any more, for all you know, or can ever know.
The problem with that thinking is that it renders everything meaningless. If gods/aliens are changing my experiments with out me knowing it, then they could be changing anything (even what I'm typing, or is this all just a dream). But strangely enough, when results of experiments are reproducible by different people, then we expand on it by forming a theory of why this is true. Then different scientists form a different theory and design experiments that fit theiry theory but would disprove the other. These theories battle it out and we have a survival of the fittest. /. in the first place.
Every once-in-a-while, religion or politics backs one theory over another and it takes a couple extra years for the true victor to rise.
Science isn't like history, you can't just make it up and expect noone to ever notice. This is the basis for the scientific method. The thing that let you reply on
Yes, Of course it's progress, if only to help me get this technology as a GNU-IMP plugin.
I'm not sure whether you meant computer assisted vision (computers helping us) or vision for computers, but as far as automated cars:
That work seems to be all incremental improvements and people are already pretty good at it (http://www.darpa.mil/GRANDCHALLENGE/). The current problems are getting it fast enough to react in "real-time," and getting it accurate enough at the same time. If Stanford's algorithm fails with its current application then someone's home video needs some retouching. If it is used in autonomous vehicles, then a pedestrian who was thought to be part of the background, gets hit by a car...Ooops!
With 7 billion people in the world, I guess it was bound to happen eventually.
It is nice to see top universities working on better advertising. You know, I was thinking to myself just yesterday, "There is just not enough product placement in society. I hope someone makes it easier to put advertising in digital media."
Not of they also all have handguns, then you have just upped the ante.
Ever read the Butter Battle Book (Seuss)?
There are always going to be regional trends. As any social site will have to spread by word of mouth and the internet.
I read an analysis relating areas where college is expected vs. areas where HS reunions are all-the-rage that you might be interested in.
I *think* this is it:
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
At the time my gf was 4.5h away from me. So X2 for each way, is 9h of audio per trip. :-)
Anyways, I've got to brush up for the final book
The article doesn't mention it, but I wonder how this interacts with retrovirus guided evolution.
(a random google link: http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2008/02/retroviruses-evolution.php)
... the capacitors were made using an incomplete formula of some sort...
Too bad I used all the flux for my time machine.
I too love all the audio books. I couldn't bare to read all 12K pages again, but listening to them on car trips makes the driving time fly by.
no, and I quote:
"...The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time."
Buy a killawatt or any other watt meter.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?&index=electronics&keywords=kill%20a%20watt&_encoding=UTF8
I found out that all of my speakers (computer speakers / external tv speakers) drain 5 watts when they are off (but pluged in). I through them on a power strip. It is not much, but everything adds up. .14$/kWh * .010kW * 24h/d * 365d/year = 12$ a year
With 2 sets of speakers:
"...so he puts the drugs in baggies and then covers those baggies in garlic oil, or another strong scent. Feeling confident, he figures the dogs can't smell through that! But it doesn't work like that. The dog smells the garlic AND the cocaine. The same way you or I would hear the lyrics AND the guitar AND the piano AND the drums in a song.
"
I don't know much about smell amplitudes, but you can definitely mask sounds by making one louder.
Two things happen. 1) As the sound gets too loud, your frequency resolution reduces. That is, you lose the ability to tell neighboring frequencies apart. (which means the overtones are harder to hear which means it is harder to identify the various instruments) 2) You also can only distinguish the top XdB of loudness. Just as of someone shines a bright light in your eyes, you cannot see anything else until you block out that light (try looking at what is behind a street light) you cannot identify a soft sound amongst sounds that are much louder.
IF the same is true for how dogs smell, then it could be masked. But I don't know if it is.
Games that have replay value have just that. They have reason for me to keep the game after I've played through it once. Taking action to prevent me from giving away or selling a game after I've played it is wrong.
Make a game that I don't want to give away.
(games I've dusted off in the last 2 years:
Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Mario Kart 64, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, FF7, and doom 3)
I wonder if you could give windows an autoimmune disease by crafting specialized virus payloads that look sufficiently like important system files to a virus checker. If you really understood how virus checkers try to match a virus signature to a class of computer viri, then one might be able to do it. Just a thought.
The fact that they [the ati drivers] can be made to work, says nothing about how nice the interface and implementation is to the coders who have to work with it.
If you mean hazard lights, then just say 'hazard lights' and we will know what you are talking about, no need for the esoteric corporate buzz words.
At first I thought you were being sarcastic. Now I don't so...
Everywhere I have lived (up and down the east coast of the U.S.), we called those lights blinkers OR turn-signals. We only call them hazard lights when both the left and right are on (indicating a hazard). I haven't, until now, considered the term esoteric.
Then again I've stood in a line, but never in a queue...
There is plenty of money involved e-voting machines. What real money has that e-voting didn't is a paper trail.
If the /. stereotype holds true, then someone on here knows more about porn than I do. so could you please explain why: Porn is legal, but prostitution (in most places) is not.
In porn, people are paid to have sex on film.
In prostitution someone, maybe both, are paid to have sex, maybe on film.
So is it ok to pay for sex as long as the money goes through a 3rd party (my 'manager' if you will)?
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/fsync.2.html
You are right, and that is not what I expected.
Note that while fsync() will flush all data from the host to the drive (i.e. the "permanent storage
device"), the drive itself may not physically write the data to the platters for quite some time and it
may be written in an out-of-order sequence.
Specifically, if the drive loses power or the OS crashes, the application may find that only some or
none of their data was written. The disk drive may also re-order the data so that later writes may be
present, while earlier writes are not.
This is not a theoretical edge case. This scenario is easily reproduced with real world workloads and
drive power failures.
For applications that require tighter guarantees about the integrity of their data, Mac OS X provides
the F_FULLFSYNC fcntl.
But vat in france is like 20%, sales tax is by the state, and is 5% locally and free in some places.
Don't you have a VAT built into everything you buy making it more expensive than anything I buy in the US (Except perhaps things imported from france)? Don't foreigners have to go through paperwork to get this money back?
No, it is not very useful because of noise of the electronics is too high to make it cost effective.
Or my spark-gap generator