... the ultra-secret American defense shield will power up it's systems and strike back at the sight of the ICBM launch that was monitored. If only they'd publish a launch-schedule, so I know when to hit the bombshelters.
I wonder this, because I read in a different thread that the 2004MN4 would be in the same range of Mt destruction-power.
Who can explain to me why the evidence that is available does not without any doubt leave open the option of this being a meteorite impact ? Wouldn't it present with the exact same things:
Having thought this thing through, I guess it's all about different levels of (inter-)dependability. One program relying on the other, etc..
I guess if you work this out upto a low enough level, this includes the hardware, you can actually make the system heal itself.
You could probably start at the root of the whole system: power, and build your way up from there in a sort of tree-version. However, other environmental issues for you system could exist that make a power failure seem like christmas.
It could be fire, it could be the airconditioning that stands next to (one of your) machines which leaks water. In short, self-healing systems are great - but total self-healing will not be achieved unless you can, somehow, get all environment concerns charted and handled. Even then you probably have to be honest and admit that the system can and will fail in certain (very) far-out conditions. In that case, the system will closely approach a truly intelligent system. As this does not yet exist, why should total self-healing systems ?
...doesn't make it 'our' problem. Ofcourse, this is based purely on the assumption (yes, as well) that climate change isn't going to occur anytime soon. It's quite human actually ; same as using poor countries for chemical waste dumping : it is not our problem.
Now please take out the stamp marked "environmentalist hippy", put it in that bright red ink and use it - I know you want to : makes reading/remembering/understanding the above not so important...
BREIN (Dutch for BRAIN) is the little sister of the MPAA. They kinda follow their actions and immitate them as closely as possible, I guess. They even have a commercial in the Dutch cinema's, bothering people that pay for good movies with blah blah about piracy.
Next time I bring my camera with me, I will film the commercial:)
It matters to you (and me) that the bug in a certain application has a more severe impact. The number of bugs / loc is however a pure statistical number that tells nothing about the impact-rating of a bug...
... by 'De automatiseringsgids', a Dutch weekly newsletter for IT professionals, put the people in favor and opposing this deal to a 51-49 percentile stand off. What is clear from this questionairre, however, is that people opposing it know much much better why they opposed it ; funding their opinions appropriately. People in favor of the deal played mostly stupid when they were asked the same thing.
I understand politicians are in the latter category, but it worries me that so many "IT professionals" are sticking their heads in the sand as well !
What you yourself are insinuating is that we do not create any 'unnatural' elements in the proces. I object: Pu for example is not a natural element - and quite wasteful.
...ofcourse, this also opens up a way for terrorists to form a covert spacebase on the moon and launch attacks from there. Will we see a short-term invasion of the US on Mare Crisium ?
If I read this properly - what Palmsource actually plans is a symbiosis between Linux and Palm-OS - while keeping Palm-OS proprietary and closed-source software. It shows a few similarities with Mac-OS X imho - you can run Linux-software AND Palm software on the same platform.
... I think new phones will actually benefit from using less power: With " everyone " owning a cellphone, the cells actually start to overlap each other. This opens up the possibility of grid phoning, requiring basestations in only a few central or deserted points - whilst providing coverage through the cellphones that are near to you (and so forth until the signal finds its way to the basestation).
Apart from the health-benefit, the phones would require a lot less power than now. The grid's latency would be the only thing that needs to be solved for this to work (assuming that each cellphone in the signal's path, call it a hop, will add a little bit to the overall network latency).
... that actually using the new 1 Gigabit phone will cook your eyes and brain. Owners already are using the new phones as a portable replacement for their microwaves.
Seriously: putting that much transmitting power into a phone cannot be healthy now can it ?
...the advertiser complaints that people refuse to believe the advertisement, disapprove of its contents and/or actually not buy the product they are advertising!
The advertiser believes that this behaviour is shocking and unjust and it should stop immediately.
It lobbies actively to lawmakers to introduce a new law that will force customers to actually buy every 3rd product they see an advertisement for - or they have to pay a commission of 5% productvalue to the advertiser directly for the hard work they put in the advertisement.
In other news... Bill Gates admits he runs Linux everyday.
I got firefox on my dad's pc, my mum's pc and am in the process of convincing my uncles and aunts to do the same. The recent spark of huge amounts of porn on one of my relatives' pc' was the direct cause of this action - and made them happily agree on protection. And hey, we're not talking about repair fee's ('protection money') here, as opposed to some anti-spyware vendors(...).
In short: if you can't beat them with words, embarrass them !
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..How you made a screenshot of my desktop daggit !
...where prisons are commercial institutions, a lowering of crimerate is not economical.
Think about that for a while...
...already got that paint.
... the ultra-secret American defense shield will power up it's systems and strike back at the sight of the ICBM launch that was monitored. If only they'd publish a launch-schedule, so I know when to hit the bombshelters.
...of getting hit considerably I guess.
I wonder whether I can book a ticket for a 24 hour airplane trip for April 13th of 2029 ahead now....
If so, I could probably pay by putting a dollar into a bank account now, and wait till interest helps it along...
Is: those people get sentences which are the equivalent of the sentence for murder one.
This you can protest: why not fine them instead ?
Or, to go along your analogy, why not sentence you to 15 years for speeding, knowing that there is a chance you will hurt someone else ?
It is the absurdity of the punishment that strikes me odd here.
Who can explain to me why the evidence that is available does not without any doubt leave open the option of this being a meteorite impact ? Wouldn't it present with the exact same things:
Tsunami
Earthquake like effects
Sudden onset ???
Foul quote:
HELMET: I don't see Planet Druidia. Where is it?
SANDURZ: We don't have visual contact yet, sir, but we have it on the radar screen. Shall I punch it up for you?
HELMET: Na, nevermind. I'll do it myself.
SANDURZ: Very good, sir.
HELMET: What's the matter with this thing? What's all that churning and bubbling? You call that a radar screen.
SANDURZ: No, sir. We call it, "Mr. Coffee." Care for some?
HELMET: Yes! I always have coffee when I watch radar. You know that.
Having thought this thing through, I guess it's all about different levels of (inter-)dependability. One program relying on the other, etc..
I guess if you work this out upto a low enough level, this includes the hardware, you can actually make the system heal itself.
You could probably start at the root of the whole system: power, and build your way up from there in a sort of tree-version. However, other environmental issues for you system could exist that make a power failure seem like christmas.
It could be fire, it could be the airconditioning that stands next to (one of your) machines which leaks water. In short, self-healing systems are great - but total self-healing will not be achieved unless you can, somehow, get all environment concerns charted and handled. Even then you probably have to be honest and admit that the system can and will fail in certain (very) far-out conditions. In that case, the system will closely approach a truly intelligent system. As this does not yet exist, why should total self-healing systems ?
but your children will turn out as freaks with 6 fingers, three legs, a brain the size of Tokyo and psychic powers...
...doesn't make it 'our' problem.
Ofcourse, this is based purely on the assumption (yes, as well) that climate change isn't going to occur anytime soon. It's quite human actually ; same as using poor countries for chemical waste dumping : it is not our problem.
Now please take out the stamp marked "environmentalist hippy", put it in that bright red ink and use it - I know you want to : makes reading/remembering/understanding the above not so important...
From the article: The tool will be configurable to block known spyware and other unwanted software from being installed on the computer.
I guess this 'unwanted software' includes Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird et al ?
BREIN (Dutch for BRAIN) is the little sister of the MPAA. They kinda follow their actions and immitate them as closely as possible, I guess. They even have a commercial in the Dutch cinema's, bothering people that pay for good movies with blah blah about piracy.
:)
Next time I bring my camera with me, I will film the commercial
It matters to you (and me) that the bug in a certain application has a more severe impact. The number of bugs / loc is however a pure statistical number that tells nothing about the impact-rating of a bug...
We're talking about # bugs per # lines of code - it doesn't matter what the code does - it matters that the # bugs per LOC are relatively low.
Proves it:
:)
better love (coding) your software, than making war selling it
... by 'De automatiseringsgids', a Dutch weekly newsletter for IT professionals, put the people in favor and opposing this deal to a 51-49 percentile stand off. What is clear from this questionairre, however, is that people opposing it know much much better why they opposed it ; funding their opinions appropriately. People in favor of the deal played mostly stupid when they were asked the same thing.
I understand politicians are in the latter category, but it worries me that so many "IT professionals" are sticking their heads in the sand as well !
What you yourself are insinuating is that we do not create any 'unnatural' elements in the proces.
I object: Pu for example is not a natural element - and quite wasteful.
...ofcourse, this also opens up a way for terrorists to form a covert spacebase on the moon and launch attacks from there.
Will we see a short-term invasion of the US on Mare Crisium ?
If I read this properly - what Palmsource actually plans is a symbiosis between Linux and Palm-OS - while keeping Palm-OS proprietary and closed-source software.
It shows a few similarities with Mac-OS X imho - you can run Linux-software AND Palm software on the same platform.
... I think new phones will actually benefit from using less power:
With " everyone " owning a cellphone, the cells actually start to overlap each other.
This opens up the possibility of grid phoning, requiring basestations in only a few central or deserted points - whilst providing coverage through the cellphones that are near to you (and so forth until the signal finds its way to the basestation).
Apart from the health-benefit, the phones would require a lot less power than now. The grid's latency would be the only thing that needs to be solved for this to work (assuming that each cellphone in the signal's path, call it a hop, will add a little bit to the overall network latency).
... that actually using the new 1 Gigabit phone will cook your eyes and brain. Owners already are using the new phones as a portable replacement for their microwaves.
Seriously: putting that much transmitting power into a phone cannot be healthy now can it ?
..burn that Sun, burn it !
... it already does.
Oh wait,
...the advertiser complaints that people refuse to believe the advertisement, disapprove of its contents
and/or actually not buy the product they are advertising!
The advertiser believes that this behaviour is shocking and unjust and it should stop immediately.
It lobbies actively to lawmakers to introduce a new law that will force customers to actually buy every 3rd product they see an advertisement for - or they have to pay a commission of 5% productvalue to the advertiser directly for the hard work they put in the advertisement.
In other news... Bill Gates admits he runs Linux everyday.
I got firefox on my dad's pc, my mum's pc and am in the process of convincing my uncles and aunts to do the same. The recent spark of huge amounts of porn on one of my relatives' pc' was the direct cause of this action - and made them happily agree on protection. And hey, we're not talking about repair fee's ('protection money') here, as opposed to some anti-spyware vendors(...).
In short: if you can't beat them with words, embarrass them !