Typical Developer 1.0. In this age of outsourcing, developers need to assume more managerial roles, like project management and talking out of their ass.
There was actually almost a minute of him fumbling with his keys, trying to get it unlocked and started, just for the punchline of realizing he had remote keyless entry
Erm, no, not quite. The entire clip was dramatic to the point of being completely ridiculous. He is being "chased" by a feeble old woman who poses him no danger, yet he is completely afraid of her and doing everything possible to avoid her questioning. He's running. She's slowly walking. The background music spells danger, but all she's holding is a tablet and pen. He fumbles for his keys for a long period of time to further exaggerate the drama. When he finally gets into the car and pulls out, he screams in terror until his automatic windows nearly form a seal, after which he slowly drives away.
Might you get the punchline now? If you think it was the fact that he had keyless entry, I'm afraid you're missing it completely. This is about the ridiculous adversarial relationship between the media and the Executive, the fact that the most scary member of the WH press corp is a feeble old woman who dares to ask a few non-softballs, and the fact that those non-softballs actually get the idiots at large to think about everything (remember when Colbert talks into the emergency call box?).
And there are about 4 other levels of humor in that clip.
There's a pretty good rule of thumb with Colbert: if you don't think it's funny, it's because he's smarter than you.
I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available.
Allow me to point out for the implication-impaired that the excerpt is suggesting that Google should have said something to Mozilla about the absence of MSN Search in the search bar drop down of Firefox.
Now, I'm not saying that "tessaiga" should be committed, necessarily. But it couldn't hurt.
Why in Zeus's name would Google care if MSN Search weren't listed as an option? Why would it be Google's responsibility to speak up? Ridiculous. Google wouldn't even have standing to bring it up, should legal action be required.
I really, really don't understand what the hell it is that people do on facebook. I had an account for a year and a half and all it has ever gotten me is people in real life bitching about how I didn't accept their stupid friend request yet. What the hell is wrong with you people?
He is conducting ANOVA after ANOVA looking for something with a p < 0.05. This is because his threshold for statistical significance is 0.05 (i.e., 5% probability that his findings are the result of chance, not an effect).
But he is not thinking. When one does multiple ANOVAs, the p value of the conclusions is not the p value of any one of the tests, but rather the p value of the entirety of the tests on the same data.
His conclusions are suggesting that he is confident to p < 0.05 that certain things are true based on his numerous two-variable contrasts. In fact, he is only INDEPENDENTLY confident to p < 0.05 of EACH of his conclusions, whereas he is suggesting that he is simultaneously confident to p < 0.05 of all of his conclusions. This is not at all the case, and it is more like n*.05, which is well above the p < 0.05 threshold.
The above is the general idea. I didn't go through and calculate his cumulative probability for error. But, basically, when one takes data and just runs a shitload of ANOVAs until something finds significance, that's not statistical analysis -- that's fishing.
Nobody buys Mac because of the hardware no matter what they say.
You, good sir, are an idiot. That's exactly why I (blindly!) switched from a Wintel box to a Powerbook G4 a few years ago. I didn't know enough about computers back then to build my own, and I was sick and tired of not being able to find decent PC hardware pre-assembled. So I went with a Mac without ever having used Mac OS X.
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Typical Developer 1.0. In this age of outsourcing, developers need to assume more managerial roles, like project management and talking out of their ass.
Now, why would MS try to outspend Yahoo when MS and Yahoo are merging and MS is already dead?!
None of this tools is a mach for a manual audit performed by a professional.
At $1/line, not everyone can do this.
Yes. There was not an unmatched parenthesis. There was a missing set of parentheses.
I guess we have to excuse your lack of RTFA-ness, too. there was not an unmatched parenthesis. there was a missing set of parentheses.
maybe because there was no unmatched parenthesis
You're misinterpreting what the problem was. It was a change from this:
if (getuid() == 0 || geteuid != 0)
to this:
if (getuid() == 0 || geteuid() != 0)
Actually, it was not a missing parenthesis, but a missing parenthetical.
double r;r = ( (double)rand() / ((double)(RAND_MAX)+(double)(1)) );
if ( r < 0.5 ) gotroot(true);
And the patched code:
double r;r = ( (double)rand() / ((double)(RAND_MAX)+(double)(1)) );
if ( r < 0.5 ) gotroot(true); (just kidding!)
I mean who's really going to need a 16,000,000 Gigabyte file
Actually, I keep an archive of all Slashdot dupes...
There was actually almost a minute of him fumbling with his keys, trying to get it unlocked and started, just for the punchline of realizing he had remote keyless entry
Erm, no, not quite. The entire clip was dramatic to the point of being completely ridiculous. He is being "chased" by a feeble old woman who poses him no danger, yet he is completely afraid of her and doing everything possible to avoid her questioning. He's running. She's slowly walking. The background music spells danger, but all she's holding is a tablet and pen. He fumbles for his keys for a long period of time to further exaggerate the drama. When he finally gets into the car and pulls out, he screams in terror until his automatic windows nearly form a seal, after which he slowly drives away.
Might you get the punchline now? If you think it was the fact that he had keyless entry, I'm afraid you're missing it completely. This is about the ridiculous adversarial relationship between the media and the Executive, the fact that the most scary member of the WH press corp is a feeble old woman who dares to ask a few non-softballs, and the fact that those non-softballs actually get the idiots at large to think about everything (remember when Colbert talks into the emergency call box?).
And there are about 4 other levels of humor in that clip.
There's a pretty good rule of thumb with Colbert: if you don't think it's funny, it's because he's smarter than you.
I installed IE7, and it crashes consistently every time
That's a feature, included for your own protection. Trust me.
I notice that in my version of Firefox the search box defaults to Google, and that the pulldown menu of pre-entered options doesn't even include MSN Search, but Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available.
Allow me to point out for the implication-impaired that the excerpt is suggesting that Google should have said something to Mozilla about the absence of MSN Search in the search bar drop down of Firefox.
Now, I'm not saying that "tessaiga" should be committed, necessarily. But it couldn't hurt.
Why in Zeus's name would Google care if MSN Search weren't listed as an option? Why would it be Google's responsibility to speak up? Ridiculous. Google wouldn't even have standing to bring it up, should legal action be required.
Captain Obvious, I've heard so much about you.
prostitute STD test kits
I think I speak for all of /. when I say: finally!
Then again, what do I know?
Apparently at least one oxymoron.
When you access Windows Live Mail Beta on Firefox you are getting absolutely NO ajax-style features.
No Ajax? What do they think this is, Web 1.0 circa 2005?
Fucking cavemen.
I really, really don't understand what the hell it is that people do on facebook. I had an account for a year and a half and all it has ever gotten me is people in real life bitching about how I didn't accept their stupid friend request yet. What the hell is wrong with you people?
He is conducting ANOVA after ANOVA looking for something with a p < 0.05. This is because his threshold for statistical significance is 0.05 (i.e., 5% probability that his findings are the result of chance, not an effect).
But he is not thinking. When one does multiple ANOVAs, the p value of the conclusions is not the p value of any one of the tests, but rather the p value of the entirety of the tests on the same data.
His conclusions are suggesting that he is confident to p < 0.05 that certain things are true based on his numerous two-variable contrasts. In fact, he is only INDEPENDENTLY confident to p < 0.05 of EACH of his conclusions, whereas he is suggesting that he is simultaneously confident to p < 0.05 of all of his conclusions. This is not at all the case, and it is more like n*.05, which is well above the p < 0.05 threshold.
The above is the general idea. I didn't go through and calculate his cumulative probability for error. But, basically, when one takes data and just runs a shitload of ANOVAs until something finds significance, that's not statistical analysis -- that's fishing.
Someone needs to refresh this guy's understanding of statistical analysis.
This is such a half baked study and conclusion that I wonder why the hell it's on /.
You must be new here.
If you wish to make a parody of someones post,
Dear Russ1337,
Your use of egregious grammatical errors is in violation of a patent held by Slashdot, by way of its parent company OSTG, Inc.
Sincerely,
CmdrTaco
Cringley also suggests that Apple will purchase Microsoft and get rid of OS X in favor of Windows.
Nobody buys Mac because of the hardware no matter what they say.
You, good sir, are an idiot. That's exactly why I (blindly!) switched from a Wintel box to a Powerbook G4 a few years ago. I didn't know enough about computers back then to build my own, and I was sick and tired of not being able to find decent PC hardware pre-assembled. So I went with a Mac without ever having used Mac OS X.
Welcome to reality. Enjoy your stay.
Yeah, that's what I would have modded it. But, if I had a nickel for every time a comment's moderation made me say 'wtf', I'd be a rich man.
Best Buy's Geek Squad, is alleged to be using pirated versions of the software since talks on a commercial licensing agreement broke off.
In a related story, Zonk is alleged to miss even the most egregious punctuation, errors.