Deduplication is NOT just compression. With dedupe you're taking identical blocks and just keeping one of them where the other one simply points to the data, with compression you're removing redundancy within a file to represent it with fewer bits.
The end result of both is space savings, but the mechanisms are substantially different.
I would agree with you, except that based on his previous douchebaggery, I can't believe he meant it as you explain. Normal people, yes, this is a good thing to manage the calls coming in. King douche of the universe over there? No benefit of the doubt from me.
Sociopaths cannot be given second chances. They only get better at getting away with it and are practically impossible to reform. They must be utterly ground into dust as early as possible in their sociopathic little lives (preferably at first offense) to purge society as a whole of their pestilence.
I'm all for psychopathy when it's properly channeled into productive means. Somebody has to be the ruthless asshole, and that's why psychopaths grow and thrive. Psychopathy would be an ideal trait for an executioner, for example.
In business, that kind of winner-take-all attitude can potentially make companies more profitable, if the psychopath in question has learned how to be a successful asshole and turn on the charm when he needs to. When they get out of line like this guy did, they must be smacked down ruthlessly and hard so that the other psychopaths know to keep in line.
Really the only way to make a psychopath behave themselves is to make it more in their interest to do so than not, and make them understand that it's in their best interests to do so. But no, psychopaths aren't going anywhere, they do fill an important niche. The damaging ones can be hard to find and deal with, but we're never getting rid of them entirely.
So, I agree with you that "manipulators, bullies, killers with zero hope of rehabilitation" do, in fact, need to be stopped, but just because someone is a psychopath does not *strictly* mean that they can't be a functioning member of society. Though it is important to note that psychopaths cannot be given second chances. All they've learned is that they can get away with it if you give them one.
I always figured you could just take the Planck length and then determine the last meaningful digit of Pi for a given circle. The answer would vary depending on the size of the circle, but you would make an argument for it being the last meaningful digit of Pi as it relates to reality.
Heck, if you wanted to bound it by taking the size of the observable universe and dividing it by the Planck length you get ~5.34 E61 Planck lengths in diameter. So any value of Pi with at least about 63 significant figures should be enough to measure any object which can fit in the known universe so...
The burden is on you to prove that it's not a law. Find a way to invalidate it and we'll go ahead and rewrite the textbooks. Spouting off about how "everything is possible" is rather disingenuous. Here, I'll rephrase:
To the best of our knowledge and ability, it is our considered understanding that the Heisenburg uncertainty principle is a fundamental law of the universe until and unless convincing proof to the contrary may be discovered, explained, and reproduced by peers in the scientific community.
We usually just leave out all of the qualifiers, but if you want to be a pedantic dick about it, there you go.
not even Cat like reflex's will help you since most handgun murders are within 5 meters. So with a 9mm traveling at 335mps you have about 2msec to get the clipboard into the bullet path and here is a hint, no ones limbs can move that fast.
You're ignoring the perp's reflexes. You don't go from 0 to trigger pulled in an instant. In the time it takes the bad guy to get his gun aimed in your direction and pull the trigger you could very well have interposed the clipboard between you and the business end of the barrel. His reflexes are no better (or worse) than yours.
Plan A is still "get the hell out of the way" but some protection is better than near certain death.
It's still innovative to make it functional. Sure, the concept of a bullet-proof clipboard may be obvious, but actually figuring out how to layer the materials so that it's a) flat, b) rigid enough to write on c) flexible enough not to shatter from a bullet, and d) light enough to carry easily could still easily be a patentable process.
The way you're doing it, a company that invents a warp-drive wouldn't be able to patent it because Star Trek thought of it!
And it can control the licensing for its operating systems to inconvenience VMware customers (you have to buy a separate license for each ESX VM, but if you run on Hyper-V you get 10 VM licenses for free)
I'm not sure if you're speaking hypothetically, but the current Microsoft model is that Server 2008 Enterprise licenses let you run it on up to 4 virtual machines (whether this is on top of Hyper-V or VMWare is irrelevant) and if you step up to Datacenter Edition, you can install unlimited copies of Windows Server as VM's on the same physical machine. Again, irrespective of whether it's VMWare or Hyper-V (or Xen, or whatever).
No, but as with many things in computer science the distilled academic version of things has critical implications in real world coding environments.
You learn to do linked lists in your sleep so that you forever understand how pointers work and the equivalence of certain fundamental data structures (array=queue=stack=linked list, in terms of capability) You learn how to compute the Fibonacci sequence recursively so that you understand when and how to properly use recursion and how to translate it into an iterative solution when that makes sense. You learn how to parallelize the Sieve of Eratosthenes so that you know how to approach work sharing among multiple processors and what can and cannot be split.
A lot of these things are trivial/simple/academic but if you were never exposed to them I would question your ability to properly implement real-world applications. They should be so ingrained in you that knocking one out from memory should be obvious. Not because you've memorized how to do a linked-list, but because you know the fundamentals behind it like the back of your hand, so the trivial academic implementation of those ideas is second nature.
it's not only the 99$ (which is hard for someone that isn't a company)
Wait, wait. $99 per year is hard? That's like $8.25 a month. What are you paying for your internet connection? Cable TV? Mortgage/rent? Car? It's the price of a freaking Netflix subscription. I mean, come on.
And that's exactly why Nintendo keeps coming out on top. They make it fun to play, with "good enough" graphics. The majority of people don't care about the graphics as long as they're above a certain threshold (so as not to jar you out of the immersion of the game) but if it's fun to play they'll keep coming back.
Yup. You would have to make it have a bad signal to noise ratio. Tell the truth about the things that are obviously verifiable, tell lies about everything in between in such a way that it's still plausible, and keep in straight in your head so they don't catch you in the lie when they question you about it later. And even then, your algorithm for generating the lies better be practically flawless or they'll find something like "you can't get across town in an hour" or something and the whole system comes crashing down.
And then 90 million bank accounts are immediately hijacked. Concurrently, 200 million credit cards are scammed. The country goes into bankruptcy from identity theft losses. Russia becomes the new world superpower on the backs of countless mafia scams. The apocalypse dawns.
BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) installation were certainly effected. The local BES is really just a relay to pass on mail/calendar/whatever between RIM and the internal mailserver. If RIM's main servers go down, you cannot get mail on your phone. This in contrast to other services where you lose access to your e-mail only when either a) your carrier network is down or b) your mail server is down. RIM adds a third requirement c) RIM's servers have to be up.
It's incredibly frustrating for IT personnel because all our crap is working, but the Blackberry's aren't, and the users are upset over something completely beyond our control.
It's still an accounting nightmare having to (on a monthly basis) potentially cut 10,000+ different checks to various municipalities, counties, and states. And someone has to keep up with the minutia of every jurisdiction's tax laws. Also, it's not like every municipality will automatically notify someone when their laws change. Someone has to keep after them on a semi-regular basis (probably at least quarterly) to find out what, if anything, has changed. For states, easy enough, most have their laws online or similar. For counties, tough but still doable if you get to know the county clerk reasonably well. For municipalities, good luck finding the person who knows what you're talking about in the first place, and they're probably retiring next month anyway.
Keeping such a monstrosity up to date would be extraordinarily cumbersome. That translates to being expensive to buy the services of a company that provides it. And all of that so that you have the privilege of making your customers pay taxes, on top of shipping, on top of whatever overhead is inherent in your rental of such a tax-law database in the first place! It's no wonder they oppose it so heavily, it would be suicide for online retailers.
In America when kids do well on something they're rewarded with a token that, while of little monetary worth, is intended to bolster their self esteem. Said child will often show this token off with pride to their parents. One such method is affix a gold-colored star on the front of a homework assignment for a job well done.
Here Riess is attributing similar affirmation of his work by the broader scientific community, which is of much more worth to him as a scientist than the monetary reward. Also, he is explaining it in a way a 7 year old will understand.
Originally 1 gram was the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of pure water at precisely 0 degrees Celsius. Originally the meter was defined at 1/10,000,000 * the distance from the equator to the North Pole at sea level.
We've since redefined meter to be a fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum (good change) and a kilogram to be based on the mass of an object kept in a standards bureau (bad change).
Slashdot Mirror
I nominate the following:
Republican't and Demonrat
Much closer to reality.
Deduplication is NOT just compression. With dedupe you're taking identical blocks and just keeping one of them where the other one simply points to the data, with compression you're removing redundancy within a file to represent it with fewer bits.
The end result of both is space savings, but the mechanisms are substantially different.
I would agree with you, except that based on his previous douchebaggery, I can't believe he meant it as you explain. Normal people, yes, this is a good thing to manage the calls coming in. King douche of the universe over there? No benefit of the doubt from me.
Sociopaths cannot be given second chances. They only get better at getting away with it and are practically impossible to reform. They must be utterly ground into dust as early as possible in their sociopathic little lives (preferably at first offense) to purge society as a whole of their pestilence.
I'm all for psychopathy when it's properly channeled into productive means. Somebody has to be the ruthless asshole, and that's why psychopaths grow and thrive. Psychopathy would be an ideal trait for an executioner, for example.
In business, that kind of winner-take-all attitude can potentially make companies more profitable, if the psychopath in question has learned how to be a successful asshole and turn on the charm when he needs to. When they get out of line like this guy did, they must be smacked down ruthlessly and hard so that the other psychopaths know to keep in line.
Really the only way to make a psychopath behave themselves is to make it more in their interest to do so than not, and make them understand that it's in their best interests to do so. But no, psychopaths aren't going anywhere, they do fill an important niche. The damaging ones can be hard to find and deal with, but we're never getting rid of them entirely.
So, I agree with you that "manipulators, bullies, killers with zero hope of rehabilitation" do, in fact, need to be stopped, but just because someone is a psychopath does not *strictly* mean that they can't be a functioning member of society. Though it is important to note that psychopaths cannot be given second chances. All they've learned is that they can get away with it if you give them one.
I always figured you could just take the Planck length and then determine the last meaningful digit of Pi for a given circle. The answer would vary depending on the size of the circle, but you would make an argument for it being the last meaningful digit of Pi as it relates to reality.
Heck, if you wanted to bound it by taking the size of the observable universe and dividing it by the Planck length you get ~5.34 E61 Planck lengths in diameter. So any value of Pi with at least about 63 significant figures should be enough to measure any object which can fit in the known universe so...
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 59
The last digit of Pi is 9. There you go.
The burden is on you to prove that it's not a law. Find a way to invalidate it and we'll go ahead and rewrite the textbooks. Spouting off about how "everything is possible" is rather disingenuous. Here, I'll rephrase:
To the best of our knowledge and ability, it is our considered understanding that the Heisenburg uncertainty principle is a fundamental law of the universe until and unless convincing proof to the contrary may be discovered, explained, and reproduced by peers in the scientific community.
We usually just leave out all of the qualifiers, but if you want to be a pedantic dick about it, there you go.
Yes it does. Laws are written around public opinion. Also, there's whistleblower protection.
Not military law, which he is under. Military law lets you execute traitors and other fun stuff and it often very, very different than civilian law.
We don't serve faster than light particles here. A neutrino walks into a bar.
It's cool, I'll come back yesterday.
not even Cat like reflex's will help you since most handgun murders are within 5 meters. So with a 9mm traveling at 335mps you have about 2msec to get the clipboard into the bullet path and here is a hint, no ones limbs can move that fast.
You're ignoring the perp's reflexes. You don't go from 0 to trigger pulled in an instant. In the time it takes the bad guy to get his gun aimed in your direction and pull the trigger you could very well have interposed the clipboard between you and the business end of the barrel. His reflexes are no better (or worse) than yours.
Plan A is still "get the hell out of the way" but some protection is better than near certain death.
It's still innovative to make it functional. Sure, the concept of a bullet-proof clipboard may be obvious, but actually figuring out how to layer the materials so that it's a) flat, b) rigid enough to write on c) flexible enough not to shatter from a bullet, and d) light enough to carry easily could still easily be a patentable process.
The way you're doing it, a company that invents a warp-drive wouldn't be able to patent it because Star Trek thought of it!
And it can control the licensing for its operating systems to inconvenience VMware customers (you have to buy a separate license for each ESX VM, but if you run on Hyper-V you get 10 VM licenses for free)
I'm not sure if you're speaking hypothetically, but the current Microsoft model is that Server 2008 Enterprise licenses let you run it on up to 4 virtual machines (whether this is on top of Hyper-V or VMWare is irrelevant) and if you step up to Datacenter Edition, you can install unlimited copies of Windows Server as VM's on the same physical machine. Again, irrespective of whether it's VMWare or Hyper-V (or Xen, or whatever).
No, but as with many things in computer science the distilled academic version of things has critical implications in real world coding environments.
You learn to do linked lists in your sleep so that you forever understand how pointers work and the equivalence of certain fundamental data structures (array=queue=stack=linked list, in terms of capability)
You learn how to compute the Fibonacci sequence recursively so that you understand when and how to properly use recursion and how to translate it into an iterative solution when that makes sense.
You learn how to parallelize the Sieve of Eratosthenes so that you know how to approach work sharing among multiple processors and what can and cannot be split.
A lot of these things are trivial/simple/academic but if you were never exposed to them I would question your ability to properly implement real-world applications. They should be so ingrained in you that knocking one out from memory should be obvious. Not because you've memorized how to do a linked-list, but because you know the fundamentals behind it like the back of your hand, so the trivial academic implementation of those ideas is second nature.
it's not only the 99$ (which is hard for someone that isn't a company)
Wait, wait. $99 per year is hard? That's like $8.25 a month. What are you paying for your internet connection? Cable TV? Mortgage/rent? Car? It's the price of a freaking Netflix subscription. I mean, come on.
And that's exactly why Nintendo keeps coming out on top. They make it fun to play, with "good enough" graphics. The majority of people don't care about the graphics as long as they're above a certain threshold (so as not to jar you out of the immersion of the game) but if it's fun to play they'll keep coming back.
I would expect that would be more or less like the stock market. You don't get hit with capital gains until and unless you cash out.
Come to think of it, stocks were an early form of "virtual property". Money, of course, is the original form.
Yup. You would have to make it have a bad signal to noise ratio. Tell the truth about the things that are obviously verifiable, tell lies about everything in between in such a way that it's still plausible, and keep in straight in your head so they don't catch you in the lie when they question you about it later. And even then, your algorithm for generating the lies better be practically flawless or they'll find something like "you can't get across town in an hour" or something and the whole system comes crashing down.
And then 90 million bank accounts are immediately hijacked. Concurrently, 200 million credit cards are scammed. The country goes into bankruptcy from identity theft losses. Russia becomes the new world superpower on the backs of countless mafia scams. The apocalypse dawns.
Thanks PARASITE, you really did us a solid there.
BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) installation were certainly effected. The local BES is really just a relay to pass on mail/calendar/whatever between RIM and the internal mailserver. If RIM's main servers go down, you cannot get mail on your phone. This in contrast to other services where you lose access to your e-mail only when either a) your carrier network is down or b) your mail server is down. RIM adds a third requirement c) RIM's servers have to be up.
It's incredibly frustrating for IT personnel because all our crap is working, but the Blackberry's aren't, and the users are upset over something completely beyond our control.
"The fair use of a copyrighted work, for purposes such as [...] research, is not an infringement of copyright." -- 17 USC 107
I didn't know the USC applied in England.
Give it a few years.
It's still an accounting nightmare having to (on a monthly basis) potentially cut 10,000+ different checks to various municipalities, counties, and states. And someone has to keep up with the minutia of every jurisdiction's tax laws. Also, it's not like every municipality will automatically notify someone when their laws change. Someone has to keep after them on a semi-regular basis (probably at least quarterly) to find out what, if anything, has changed. For states, easy enough, most have their laws online or similar. For counties, tough but still doable if you get to know the county clerk reasonably well. For municipalities, good luck finding the person who knows what you're talking about in the first place, and they're probably retiring next month anyway.
Keeping such a monstrosity up to date would be extraordinarily cumbersome. That translates to being expensive to buy the services of a company that provides it. And all of that so that you have the privilege of making your customers pay taxes, on top of shipping, on top of whatever overhead is inherent in your rental of such a tax-law database in the first place! It's no wonder they oppose it so heavily, it would be suicide for online retailers.
I suspect the problem isn't as much that he's using docx as it is that everyone that wants to send him files is.
In America when kids do well on something they're rewarded with a token that, while of little monetary worth, is intended to bolster their self esteem. Said child will often show this token off with pride to their parents. One such method is affix a gold-colored star on the front of a homework assignment for a job well done.
Here Riess is attributing similar affirmation of his work by the broader scientific community, which is of much more worth to him as a scientist than the monetary reward. Also, he is explaining it in a way a 7 year old will understand.
Err, fraction of how far light in a vacuum will travel in a second. Should've proofread a little closer.
Originally 1 gram was the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of pure water at precisely 0 degrees Celsius. Originally the meter was defined at 1/10,000,000 * the distance from the equator to the North Pole at sea level.
We've since redefined meter to be a fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum (good change) and a kilogram to be based on the mass of an object kept in a standards bureau (bad change).