All ze Germans I know does speak the good English and they do better than me a writing the words of the text most properly.;p
As an aside, the worst butchers of the English language are Indians (like, from India). I can only assume that this is somehow in retaliation for the hundred plus years of British rule. I once started grammar checking one of their documents and very quickly had more red ink than text.
C# has the added benefit (for a Windows Admin) of being able to easily import and manipulate COM+ objects. Basically if it can be automated in Windows there's a COM+ API for it somewhere. Excel sheets, databases, you name it. Plus if you need.NET or actual Win32 API (*shudder*) you can hack that in too. Double plus added bonus: C# is syntactically similar to Java so if you need to go all platform independent on something a lot of the concepts will transfer nicely.
That small.223 is great for varmints such as groundhog - generally the same person will own one or more larger deer rifles, like a 30-30 or a 30-06.
Umm...that "small".223 with all that powder behind it will absolutely redmist a groundhog, squirrel or similar small game. They're more reasonably used for small deer, coyotes, wolves, and maybe down as small as foxes. Now a standard.22LR (or hell, even a short.22, if you're using a lever action instead of a semi-auto) is your basic small game gun. Close in size, *vast* differences in muzzle velocity.
1) This kid had mental issues since birth. He had Aspergers and difficulty dealing with others and was a problem kid his whole life.
2) The mother bought these guns to teach her kid how to shoot so he could learn about responsibility. Talk about the stupidest fucking thing you can think of to teach a mentally ill kid responsibility...
3) It's the mother's responsibility to make sure her mentally ill child does not have access to deadly weapons. You can't blame a nut for their actions when everyone knows he's got major problems. If she felt the need to have guns, she should have properly secured them such that he could not get access to them. (Maybe that should be a law?)
In short, his mom was completely irresponsible. If she weren't dead, I'd say she should be prosecuted (at least for being a complete fucking moron).
A couple of things about your points:
1) Fuck you. Asperger's is not the root cause here. Most Aspies and Autisics are completely non-violent
2) Agreed, that was dumb.
3) I do still blame the nut for pulling the trigger, but the mom definitely had a responsibility to secure her weapons and failed to do so. Still the bulk of the blame is on the psycho for his own actions.
How come that these kinds of accidents never happen in Switzerland where guns are really abundant, but 99% of the gun related deaths are suicide (1% is made up from unintentional, homicide or remains undetermined).
We're not so far off the mark though. 65%-70% of gun deaths in this country are by suicide, and your are 5x as likely to die in a car accident than be killed by someone else with a gun.
Who actually starts their PDF reader in any other way than through clicking on a.pdf, or selecting "open" as the action in their web browser?
In all fairness, he did say Adobe Acrobat (the expensive PDF maker), not Adobe Acrobat Reader (which is free and only reads them). If you're actually generating content then you may very well start with a blank file and run Acrobat from the icon.
I think the most complaint about Win 8 is the Metro/desktop context switch. In other words, people are more comfortable with having everything jammed under the familiar "Start" button, since that is where everything has been for almost 20 years. After using Win 8 for a few minutes on proper hardware, I became very used to the context switch. In a way, it serves as a way of convenient way categorizing apps. Multi-function, multi-window work = desktop. Singular task, single window touch centric apps = metro.
Which would be all well and good if I could stay on the fucking desktop and pick which program to run next. The start menu was seamless in this respect. Bringing up the metro menu is a non-option (far too jarring). So my options are a). 3rd party software to hack back in the same functionality I used to have for free b). clutter the hell out of my desktop/quick launch/taskbar or c). shut up and eat the shit Microsoft is shoveling at us.
Also, it's a complete non-starter in enterprise environments for the very simple fact that new apps only appear on the Metro screen of the person who installed them. So if a tech installs, say, Microsoft Office, then only the tech gets the Office app tiles in Metro. Everybody else has to know that Office was installed, go to all apps, pin it *one by one* onto their Metro screen and fix up their UI before they can use the app. That's not as big a deal for dedicated computers, I guess (though training 1000+ users on how to do that would be a clusterfuck of epic proportions), but on shared computers especially it would be hell. Unless a service pack or update fixes this colossal screwup by Microsoft, I won't be able to recommend Win8 to our company...ever.
Tradition, and threats from the president/congress are basically all that keep them acting the way they do now.
Well that's the thing. They're appointed for life so there's very little congress or the president could do to impact them. Theoretically they could be impeached, though that's only actually been done once (in 1805, and he was acquitted by the senate). To actually remove the justice in question from office forcibly would require 2/3's of the senate to agree on it. Unless the justice in question has gone completely off the reservation, good luck with that. No, of all political offices in the land, that of Supreme Court Justice is among the most secure. It's by design so that they can render unpopular, but impartial, decisions without fear of retribution.
More likely the fun of autocorrect got you, I don't know how many times I got texts from customers where I go "WTH does this mean?" for them to go "That wasn't what I was trying to type!". You should check out the website devoted to it some time there are some hilarious bloopers on there.
My favorite was on my Android when I was sending a message to a co-worker named "Veronica" and it auto-corrected to "Erotica".
Okay, there's two things going on here. You're assuming confidentiality only when encryption is perfectly capable of providing both confidentiality and integrity. Basically with encryption (if you do it right) you can assure both that the enemy cannot use your signal *and* that the signal you got as legitimately sent from your outer space transmitter.
Of course you could potentially jam the military signal, though Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum tends to make this...challenging. So you have an encrypted channel being transmitted at hundreds of different frequency bands that even if you had the encryption keys (good luck) you would still have to have a broad spectrum transmitter in perfect sync with the receivers (even harder) in order to spoof military equipment. This is not your standard civilian swill that you're dealing with.
Protip: the military built the system with the idea in mind that the people they are shooting at would try to fuck it up.
Eventually the moon will replace Florida as *the ultimate* retirement community. It's really only a matter of getting cheap propulsion systems, and then everything else falls into place. If a trip to the moon can be reduced to the cost of, say, 5x a roundtrip cross-country flight, then infrastructure will start to be built, communities set up, regular freight traffic (space truckers!) and then people by their thousands migrating there. Close enough to home but with 1/6 the gravity (and fewer falling injuries, bonus). It's the perfect place to retire to, once the infrastructure gets there.
I'm hoping this happens in the next 40ish years so I can spend my final days there.
Well, that and it's also generally damaging to the self-esteem of the women involved in the trade. They tend to have much higher depression rates and negative self-image vs. women who are not prostitutes.
It's not the IRS that they have to worry about. It's the SEC. When it's doing it's job, that organization is the most draconian and fascist component of the US government by far.
They have to be because they're dealing with the highest percentage population of sociopaths in our society - successful business leaders.
The key point with Amdahl's law is that you can reasonably determine how much paralellism will help you. You fast approach a point of diminishing returns for most problems. So if, say, your maximum theoretical speedup is about 10x, then you start seeing drastically reduced returns at > 10 processors running it.
There are absolutely parts of a program that cannot be paralellized. Data dependencies charted using the Polyhedral Model (or similar) can be mathematically proven to be unable to be done in parallel without potentially changing the result. Many automatic parallelizing compilers use this or similar to generate parallel code.
But by all means, dismiss the work of generations as "complete bullshit" we await your genius suggestions about how to do this better.
There's at least two reasonably decent free projects out there for auto-parallelism: Par4All and PLUTO. They both can take C code as input and chuck out a paralellized OpenMP implementation. I did a research project last semester comparing them with hand optimization on wavelet filters (think JPEG-2000 image processing). So far, hand optimization blew them out of the water in every case. And that was after reworking the code to be more amenable to their particular "quirks". Both of these have reasonably recent ongoing work being poured into them. At least as of Spring 2012, the state of the art for auto-paralellizers wasn't anywhere near "holy-grail" territory.
More to the point, what is being claimed in this paper is that they can prove thread-safety and auto-split functions as long as the variables are properly typed into read-only and writable . While this is very cool and useful, it's not some game changing breakthrough that's suddenly going to let you multi-thread all your programs. The program must still be built with multi-threading in mind, but as long as you set up all of the type correctly, it can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Very cool, but hardly the "holy-grail" that the/. summary claims.
Asperger's is an advantage to me sometimes. I can disregard my emotional components to see the facts of the matters I observe.
There are times that I feel like having Asperger's is like having selective sociopathy. I can choose to feel for something for someone or not. It makes me wonder about the times when I do feel bad. Is it legitimate empathy? Or do I just feel bad because I know I'm "supposed to" and want to appear normal? I find that most of my emotional responses are learned rather than "natural".
It takes enterprises years to move from one release to another. Heck, I still see businesses still on XP because "it works", even though to bring a new XP install up to speed, it takes hundreds of patches.
It took 143 patches today with a slipstreamed SP3 CD and after installing.NET 3.5SP1. That's with optional updates like Media Player 11 included. It would've been about 130 critical and security updates.
It seems like it would be more, but many times the updates supersede other updates. So you would probably have applied 300-400 updates from SP3 to now, but only 130 of them still apply.
Depends on what you're using it for. Accident investigation is hardly the kind of job that requires a rugged phone. I mean, I wouldn't give an iPhone to a construction worker or to someone doing any real physically strenuous job, but accident investigation is much more about forensically analyzing a wreck, not the dangerous and rough parts during or immediately following one, such as the crash itself, first responders, search and rescue. It's incredibly important work, but it's hardly inappropriate for a "fragile" phone like the iPhone.
There are many solutions for it. SAP/Sybase Afaria, Fiberlink MaaS 360, Centrify, Symantec Mobile Device Management, Good Technology, and many, many others will do all of the app management/device management/whatever you need. Most of them have at least feature parity with BES and some that I've looked at go above and beyond. It all depends on what exactly your needs are. Rest assured there's a solution out there somewhere that feels custom tailored to your unique situation.
That, and you can programatically set up the native iOS e-mail application vs. Android that makes you either purchase a third party app (Touchdown is especially popular, and $20) or manually configure the native e-mail app. Samsung is attempting to fix this with the enterprise initiative codenamed S.A.F.E. but unfortunately that will only fix the issue for late-model Samsung devices.
But by that reasoning, a judge could be a blank check for anyone to violate any contract.
Pretty much. Bankruptcy judges do this *all the time*. Ultimately the judge is the arbiter of the law and if they make enough bad rulings there exist avenues for recourse and possibly removal of the judge from his position entirely. But on the bench judges have extraordinary latitude to rule as they see fit. And while there are appeals and other legal options to override a judge's decision (the bulk of which require you to get another judge or judges to agree to overturn it), there are precious few options in the moment in the courtroom.
Okay, the adolescent needs to be checked out, I agree. But honestly the fastest and most humane way of killing a small game bird is ripping its head off. It looks horrible and bleeds like crazy for a few seconds, but it is the simplest and fastest way to put a wounded bird out of its misery. Instant lights out.
As an aside, the accepted method for killing larger game birds (ducks, geese) is wringing their necks by holding them by the head and spinning the body around until the neck snaps. Again, it sounds horrible but again it's about the fastest and most humane way to do it.
You can't just shoot them again at close range (as you might with a wounded deer) because typically at that point the wad (and the majority of the shot) will center-punch the bird and leave you with a few feathers and some fine red mist.
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All ze Germans I know does speak the good English and they do better than me a writing the words of the text most properly. ;p
As an aside, the worst butchers of the English language are Indians (like, from India). I can only assume that this is somehow in retaliation for the hundred plus years of British rule. I once started grammar checking one of their documents and very quickly had more red ink than text.
C# has the added benefit (for a Windows Admin) of being able to easily import and manipulate COM+ objects. Basically if it can be automated in Windows there's a COM+ API for it somewhere. Excel sheets, databases, you name it. Plus if you need .NET or actual Win32 API (*shudder*) you can hack that in too. Double plus added bonus: C# is syntactically similar to Java so if you need to go all platform independent on something a lot of the concepts will transfer nicely.
That small .223 is great for varmints such as groundhog - generally the same person will own one or more larger deer rifles, like a 30-30 or a 30-06.
Umm...that "small" .223 with all that powder behind it will absolutely redmist a groundhog, squirrel or similar small game. They're more reasonably used for small deer, coyotes, wolves, and maybe down as small as foxes. Now a standard .22LR (or hell, even a short .22, if you're using a lever action instead of a semi-auto) is your basic small game gun. Close in size, *vast* differences in muzzle velocity.
You are wrong on several counts:
1) This kid had mental issues since birth. He had Aspergers and difficulty dealing with others and was a problem kid his whole life.
2) The mother bought these guns to teach her kid how to shoot so he could learn about responsibility. Talk about the stupidest fucking thing you can think of to teach a mentally ill kid responsibility...
3) It's the mother's responsibility to make sure her mentally ill child does not have access to deadly weapons. You can't blame a nut for their actions when everyone knows he's got major problems. If she felt the need to have guns, she should have properly secured them such that he could not get access to them. (Maybe that should be a law?)
In short, his mom was completely irresponsible. If she weren't dead, I'd say she should be prosecuted (at least for being a complete fucking moron).
A couple of things about your points:
1) Fuck you. Asperger's is not the root cause here. Most Aspies and Autisics are completely non-violent
2) Agreed, that was dumb.
3) I do still blame the nut for pulling the trigger, but the mom definitely had a responsibility to secure her weapons and failed to do so. Still the bulk of the blame is on the psycho for his own actions.
How come that these kinds of accidents never happen in Switzerland where guns are really abundant, but 99% of the gun related deaths are suicide (1% is made up from unintentional, homicide or remains undetermined).
We're not so far off the mark though. 65%-70% of gun deaths in this country are by suicide, and your are 5x as likely to die in a car accident than be killed by someone else with a gun.
Who actually starts their PDF reader in any other way than through clicking on a .pdf, or selecting "open" as the action in their web browser?
In all fairness, he did say Adobe Acrobat (the expensive PDF maker), not Adobe Acrobat Reader (which is free and only reads them). If you're actually generating content then you may very well start with a blank file and run Acrobat from the icon.
I think the most complaint about Win 8 is the Metro/desktop context switch. In other words, people are more comfortable with having everything jammed under the familiar "Start" button, since that is where everything has been for almost 20 years. After using Win 8 for a few minutes on proper hardware, I became very used to the context switch. In a way, it serves as a way of convenient way categorizing apps. Multi-function, multi-window work = desktop. Singular task, single window touch centric apps = metro.
Which would be all well and good if I could stay on the fucking desktop and pick which program to run next. The start menu was seamless in this respect. Bringing up the metro menu is a non-option (far too jarring). So my options are a). 3rd party software to hack back in the same functionality I used to have for free b). clutter the hell out of my desktop/quick launch/taskbar or c). shut up and eat the shit Microsoft is shoveling at us.
Also, it's a complete non-starter in enterprise environments for the very simple fact that new apps only appear on the Metro screen of the person who installed them. So if a tech installs, say, Microsoft Office, then only the tech gets the Office app tiles in Metro. Everybody else has to know that Office was installed, go to all apps, pin it *one by one* onto their Metro screen and fix up their UI before they can use the app. That's not as big a deal for dedicated computers, I guess (though training 1000+ users on how to do that would be a clusterfuck of epic proportions), but on shared computers especially it would be hell. Unless a service pack or update fixes this colossal screwup by Microsoft, I won't be able to recommend Win8 to our company...ever.
Shamelessly stealing from another post in another thread:
It's like when Hitler went to war against Stalin. You want Stalin to win, but not by too much.
Tradition, and threats from the president/congress are basically all that keep them acting the way they do now.
Well that's the thing. They're appointed for life so there's very little congress or the president could do to impact them. Theoretically they could be impeached, though that's only actually been done once (in 1805, and he was acquitted by the senate). To actually remove the justice in question from office forcibly would require 2/3's of the senate to agree on it. Unless the justice in question has gone completely off the reservation, good luck with that. No, of all political offices in the land, that of Supreme Court Justice is among the most secure. It's by design so that they can render unpopular, but impartial, decisions without fear of retribution.
More likely the fun of autocorrect got you, I don't know how many times I got texts from customers where I go "WTH does this mean?" for them to go "That wasn't what I was trying to type!". You should check out the website devoted to it some time there are some hilarious bloopers on there.
My favorite was on my Android when I was sending a message to a co-worker named "Veronica" and it auto-corrected to "Erotica".
Luckily this is on the decline, though since 2000 it's bubbled up a bit. Still, going from 1 in 100 (!!!!!!!!!) to 1-2 in 10,000 is pretty decent.
Okay, there's two things going on here. You're assuming confidentiality only when encryption is perfectly capable of providing both confidentiality and integrity. Basically with encryption (if you do it right) you can assure both that the enemy cannot use your signal *and* that the signal you got as legitimately sent from your outer space transmitter.
Of course you could potentially jam the military signal, though Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum tends to make this...challenging. So you have an encrypted channel being transmitted at hundreds of different frequency bands that even if you had the encryption keys (good luck) you would still have to have a broad spectrum transmitter in perfect sync with the receivers (even harder) in order to spoof military equipment. This is not your standard civilian swill that you're dealing with.
Protip: the military built the system with the idea in mind that the people they are shooting at would try to fuck it up.
Eventually the moon will replace Florida as *the ultimate* retirement community. It's really only a matter of getting cheap propulsion systems, and then everything else falls into place. If a trip to the moon can be reduced to the cost of, say, 5x a roundtrip cross-country flight, then infrastructure will start to be built, communities set up, regular freight traffic (space truckers!) and then people by their thousands migrating there. Close enough to home but with 1/6 the gravity (and fewer falling injuries, bonus). It's the perfect place to retire to, once the infrastructure gets there.
I'm hoping this happens in the next 40ish years so I can spend my final days there.
Well, that and it's also generally damaging to the self-esteem of the women involved in the trade. They tend to have much higher depression rates and negative self-image vs. women who are not prostitutes.
It's not the IRS that they have to worry about. It's the SEC. When it's doing it's job, that organization is the most draconian and fascist component of the US government by far.
They have to be because they're dealing with the highest percentage population of sociopaths in our society - successful business leaders.
The key point with Amdahl's law is that you can reasonably determine how much paralellism will help you. You fast approach a point of diminishing returns for most problems. So if, say, your maximum theoretical speedup is about 10x, then you start seeing drastically reduced returns at > 10 processors running it.
There are absolutely parts of a program that cannot be paralellized. Data dependencies charted using the Polyhedral Model (or similar) can be mathematically proven to be unable to be done in parallel without potentially changing the result. Many automatic parallelizing compilers use this or similar to generate parallel code.
But by all means, dismiss the work of generations as "complete bullshit" we await your genius suggestions about how to do this better.
There's at least two reasonably decent free projects out there for auto-parallelism: Par4All and PLUTO. They both can take C code as input and chuck out a paralellized OpenMP implementation. I did a research project last semester comparing them with hand optimization on wavelet filters (think JPEG-2000 image processing). So far, hand optimization blew them out of the water in every case. And that was after reworking the code to be more amenable to their particular "quirks". Both of these have reasonably recent ongoing work being poured into them. At least as of Spring 2012, the state of the art for auto-paralellizers wasn't anywhere near "holy-grail" territory.
/. summary claims.
More to the point, what is being claimed in this paper is that they can prove thread-safety and auto-split functions as long as the variables are properly typed into read-only and writable . While this is very cool and useful, it's not some game changing breakthrough that's suddenly going to let you multi-thread all your programs. The program must still be built with multi-threading in mind, but as long as you set up all of the type correctly, it can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Very cool, but hardly the "holy-grail" that the
Asperger's is an advantage to me sometimes. I can disregard my emotional components to see the facts of the matters I observe.
There are times that I feel like having Asperger's is like having selective sociopathy. I can choose to feel for something for someone or not. It makes me wonder about the times when I do feel bad. Is it legitimate empathy? Or do I just feel bad because I know I'm "supposed to" and want to appear normal? I find that most of my emotional responses are learned rather than "natural".
It takes enterprises years to move from one release to another. Heck, I still see businesses still on XP because "it works", even though to bring a new XP install up to speed, it takes hundreds of patches.
It took 143 patches today with a slipstreamed SP3 CD and after installing .NET 3.5SP1. That's with optional updates like Media Player 11 included. It would've been about 130 critical and security updates.
It seems like it would be more, but many times the updates supersede other updates. So you would probably have applied 300-400 updates from SP3 to now, but only 130 of them still apply.
Depends on what you're using it for. Accident investigation is hardly the kind of job that requires a rugged phone. I mean, I wouldn't give an iPhone to a construction worker or to someone doing any real physically strenuous job, but accident investigation is much more about forensically analyzing a wreck, not the dangerous and rough parts during or immediately following one, such as the crash itself, first responders, search and rescue. It's incredibly important work, but it's hardly inappropriate for a "fragile" phone like the iPhone.
There are many solutions for it. SAP/Sybase Afaria, Fiberlink MaaS 360, Centrify, Symantec Mobile Device Management, Good Technology, and many, many others will do all of the app management/device management/whatever you need. Most of them have at least feature parity with BES and some that I've looked at go above and beyond. It all depends on what exactly your needs are. Rest assured there's a solution out there somewhere that feels custom tailored to your unique situation.
That, and you can programatically set up the native iOS e-mail application vs. Android that makes you either purchase a third party app (Touchdown is especially popular, and $20) or manually configure the native e-mail app. Samsung is attempting to fix this with the enterprise initiative codenamed S.A.F.E. but unfortunately that will only fix the issue for late-model Samsung devices.
Pretty much. Bankruptcy judges do this *all the time*. Ultimately the judge is the arbiter of the law and if they make enough bad rulings there exist avenues for recourse and possibly removal of the judge from his position entirely. But on the bench judges have extraordinary latitude to rule as they see fit. And while there are appeals and other legal options to override a judge's decision (the bulk of which require you to get another judge or judges to agree to overturn it), there are precious few options in the moment in the courtroom.
Okay, the adolescent needs to be checked out, I agree. But honestly the fastest and most humane way of killing a small game bird is ripping its head off. It looks horrible and bleeds like crazy for a few seconds, but it is the simplest and fastest way to put a wounded bird out of its misery. Instant lights out.
As an aside, the accepted method for killing larger game birds (ducks, geese) is wringing their necks by holding them by the head and spinning the body around until the neck snaps. Again, it sounds horrible but again it's about the fastest and most humane way to do it.
You can't just shoot them again at close range (as you might with a wounded deer) because typically at that point the wad (and the majority of the shot) will center-punch the bird and leave you with a few feathers and some fine red mist.