They're not chasing it with a beam of light. They're taking ridiculously accurate time and space measurements and determining that it's getting there 60ns faster than it should be possible for it to arrive. I am dead certain that dedicated scientists like these have already checked everything from generation, to time synchronization, to sub millimeter accuracy on distance. An error of 18 meters for labs like this would be like being at a shooting range and missing so badly that you hit your neighbor's target instead.
I second that. One of the most brilliant professors I ever had never bothered to learn any specific programming language at all ("why bother when they're always changing") but he was one of the best theoreticians I've ever known and had a real gift for algorithm analysis and design. And that is what is truly unchanging in CS. Once the algorithm is written up any code-monkey can key it in using your language of the day, but finding somebody who actually understands why you want an O(nlgn) algorithm versus an O(n^2) algorithm (and how to properly design and prove the validity and bounds thereof) is going to make your programs vastly more responsive and useful. Code monkeys come and go, true CS folks are invaluable.
Agreed. And fundamentally the bulk of your time in either development or systems administration is spent figuring out why something didn't work. Whether that's debugging code or troubleshooting an application error, it's a disturbingly similar skillset.
I made the transition from developer to sysadmin six years ago and barely noticed.
I bet $100 on Windows 9 being Metro only. Any takers?:)
It won't be metro only. You'd never get businesses to adopt something like that. Heck, at my company we are still running 15+ year old SCADA software on some PC's. If you go Metro only you nix *all* compatibility with the current software. No one would use Windows past Windows 8 because it just wouldn't be feasible. No, Microsoft may be evil but they aren't that stupid.
Not "military-looking" like the AR-15 which is just another semiautomatic rifle that just "looks scary,"
The AR-15 fires the exact same ammunition as the M-16 assault rifle. There are kits that can be bought on the internet to make it a full automatic weapon. And while the accuracy *may* be slightly less than the M-16, the bullets fired from an AR-15 are just as deadly as those from an M-16. And it will absolutely fire as fast as you can squeeze that trigger.
Jeez. Your 30th trade would set you back about 10 million, at the 50th trade you would owe the national debt of the United States, and if you got to your 60th trade you would owe more in tax than the entire wealth of the world. That's a pretty sick plan right there.
I feel obliged to point out that 'abc.com' is an actual domain name. They've actually reserved example.com for just such uses as this. This way, if there actually is a |john|.|smith|at|abc|.|com| he won't get scraped up by a spambot from your illustration.
If he's high up enough, then what his subordinates do *is* his problem. More likely though he's just a sociopath (like many higher ups in major companies) so he's just lying through his teeth to save credibility for future victims.
This will continue until he becomes convinced of his own invincibility and cocks it up royally enough to get the attention of the police and thrown in jail.
Enterprise grade drives can be had with an MTBF of 2 million hours (during their useful life, realistically you need to replace them every 7 years or so regardless). That would put unexpected failures at one every 10 hours or 2-3 per day for an array this size, with a small army needed for "drive swap month" every 6-7 years.
In my reliability class in college they called it a "bathtub curve" with burn-in, useful life, and end of life phases. Most MTBF docs are built around describing the useful life phase. All bets are off for the first couple weeks and anything post-warranty.
Umm...pure water is very much drinkable, it just doesn't taste like one would expect.
I mean, I know laboratory grade ethanol is often denatured with benzene (which will kill the hell out of you) but I can't imagine what they would use that would be toxic but still result in purer water...?
MTBF has a very explicit meaning. It is (total time)/(number of failures). To calculate MTBF when it is high, you need to run a sample of, say, 100,000 drives for, say, 2000 hours (right around three months). Count the failures. You now have 200,000,000 drive-hours / (number of failed drives). For 1.2 million hour MTBF that translates to about 167 drives failed in three months out of 100,000 tested.
You can still be statistically valid with a smaller sample set, say 1,000 drives over three months, with about 16-17 failures in the batch. But please don't say the jury is out on MTBF, it has a well documented, well understood precise mathematical meaning. I hope this little example helps people understand it a bit better.
But the officers would is the point. It's still ridiculous, stupid, and overbroad, and I think the prosecuter should be summarily dismissed for filing such a blatant attack on civil liberties, but as far as I can tell they're filing on behalf of individual officers, not on behalf of the department.
Ice will keep liquid water at 0 degrees centigrade at standard pressure for temperatures from 0.1C to 5,000,000C - it's just a question of "How long?". I imagine it's the same with this material. What is the phase change enthalpy and how much material is there = how long it maintains that temperature and how long a "reset" takes.
.NET was never meant to replace VB. That would be C#.
The only way to program in VB now is in VB.NET.
C# was more Microsoft's answer to Java. A lot of conventions are similar between the two, and going from C++ --> Java --> C# was an easy transition for me to make. Heck, C++ --> Java was harder than Java --> C# once I had Java down pat.
Nah, they'll just hack your Facebook account too (you really think *Facebook* is harder to get into than bank records?), swap out your picture and away they go.
Computers are not magic machines, they run on code made by people, people who make mistakes and/or leave loopholes (unintentional or otherwise).
In all honesty, I would expect a ship that advanced to just freaking know that he wanted tea and have it ready. The ship's AI became self-aware in one episode and gave birth to a.... whatever it was new lifeform thing. I think it could figure out how when the Captain wants his tea.
Typically state lotteries are in the ~40,000,000 to 1 range. Multi-state lotto tickets (Mega Millions) are closer to 175,000,000 to 1. This is just regarding the jackpots.
Except it's not an independent probability vector. Let's apply your example to a simple "Slashdot Lottery"
Cost is $10 per ticket. You pick two numbers from the list 1,2,3,4,5 Get one number right and you get $8 back on your ticket. Get both numbers right and you get $20. If no one wins this week, the pot goes up by $20 until someone does win. (In the Massachusetts version of the Slashdot Lottery, the payout for getting two numbers right goes up by $1 each week as well, if no one wins).
Now, say no one wins for five weeks. The jackpot on week six is up to $120. There are only 10 combinations of numbers, so buying every combination guarantees you to net $20 profit.
But wait! In the Massachusetts Slashdot Lottery, each of those one number tickets (there are 6 ways to have just one number, 1 way to have both, and 3 completely losing tickets) win you an extra $4 for each one number winner. So, even if you bought 8 tickets and none of them hit the jackpot, you are mathematically assured of profiting $4.
...after we began an unprecedented worldwide project of mass fossil energy extraction.
Here's the thing that I feel is often overlooked - these models say that we are righteously screwed if we keep this up for another 100 years or so. Other models say that we will run out of fossil fuels (well, oil at least) to burn up in another 50 years or so. Problem solved.
... is it even possible to orbit the Moon, which has a very low gravity?
*facepalm* of course you can orbit the moon. What did you think the Apollo 11's Michael Collins was doing while Buzz and Neil were walking about on the moon?
It's simply a function of how fast and how close you are. Heck, you can orbit around asteroids if you really want to.
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They're not chasing it with a beam of light. They're taking ridiculously accurate time and space measurements and determining that it's getting there 60ns faster than it should be possible for it to arrive. I am dead certain that dedicated scientists like these have already checked everything from generation, to time synchronization, to sub millimeter accuracy on distance. An error of 18 meters for labs like this would be like being at a shooting range and missing so badly that you hit your neighbor's target instead.
I second that. One of the most brilliant professors I ever had never bothered to learn any specific programming language at all ("why bother when they're always changing") but he was one of the best theoreticians I've ever known and had a real gift for algorithm analysis and design. And that is what is truly unchanging in CS. Once the algorithm is written up any code-monkey can key it in using your language of the day, but finding somebody who actually understands why you want an O(nlgn) algorithm versus an O(n^2) algorithm (and how to properly design and prove the validity and bounds thereof) is going to make your programs vastly more responsive and useful. Code monkeys come and go, true CS folks are invaluable.
Agreed. And fundamentally the bulk of your time in either development or systems administration is spent figuring out why something didn't work. Whether that's debugging code or troubleshooting an application error, it's a disturbingly similar skillset.
I made the transition from developer to sysadmin six years ago and barely noticed.
I bet $100 on Windows 9 being Metro only. Any takers? :)
It won't be metro only. You'd never get businesses to adopt something like that. Heck, at my company we are still running 15+ year old SCADA software on some PC's. If you go Metro only you nix *all* compatibility with the current software. No one would use Windows past Windows 8 because it just wouldn't be feasible. No, Microsoft may be evil but they aren't that stupid.
Not "military-looking" like the AR-15 which is just another semiautomatic rifle that just "looks scary,"
The AR-15 fires the exact same ammunition as the M-16 assault rifle. There are kits that can be bought on the internet to make it a full automatic weapon. And while the accuracy *may* be slightly less than the M-16, the bullets fired from an AR-15 are just as deadly as those from an M-16. And it will absolutely fire as fast as you can squeeze that trigger.
Jeez. Your 30th trade would set you back about 10 million, at the 50th trade you would owe the national debt of the United States, and if you got to your 60th trade you would owe more in tax than the entire wealth of the world. That's a pretty sick plan right there.
I feel obliged to point out that 'abc.com' is an actual domain name. They've actually reserved example.com for just such uses as this. This way, if there actually is a |john|.|smith|at|abc|.|com| he won't get scraped up by a spambot from your illustration.
But where do all the calculators go?
No one is sure. Currently they're all present and ... accounted for
YEEEAHHHHHHHHHHH
If he's high up enough, then what his subordinates do *is* his problem. More likely though he's just a sociopath (like many higher ups in major companies) so he's just lying through his teeth to save credibility for future victims.
This will continue until he becomes convinced of his own invincibility and cocks it up royally enough to get the attention of the police and thrown in jail.
Enterprise grade drives can be had with an MTBF of 2 million hours (during their useful life, realistically you need to replace them every 7 years or so regardless). That would put unexpected failures at one every 10 hours or 2-3 per day for an array this size, with a small army needed for "drive swap month" every 6-7 years.
In my reliability class in college they called it a "bathtub curve" with burn-in, useful life, and end of life phases. Most MTBF docs are built around describing the useful life phase. All bets are off for the first couple weeks and anything post-warranty.
Umm...pure water is very much drinkable, it just doesn't taste like one would expect.
I mean, I know laboratory grade ethanol is often denatured with benzene (which will kill the hell out of you) but I can't imagine what they would use that would be toxic but still result in purer water...?
MTBF has a very explicit meaning. It is (total time)/(number of failures). To calculate MTBF when it is high, you need to run a sample of, say, 100,000 drives for, say, 2000 hours (right around three months). Count the failures. You now have 200,000,000 drive-hours / (number of failed drives). For 1.2 million hour MTBF that translates to about 167 drives failed in three months out of 100,000 tested.
You can still be statistically valid with a smaller sample set, say 1,000 drives over three months, with about 16-17 failures in the batch. But please don't say the jury is out on MTBF, it has a well documented, well understood precise mathematical meaning. I hope this little example helps people understand it a bit better.
But the officers would is the point. It's still ridiculous, stupid, and overbroad, and I think the prosecuter should be summarily dismissed for filing such a blatant attack on civil liberties, but as far as I can tell they're filing on behalf of individual officers, not on behalf of the department.
Ice will keep liquid water at 0 degrees centigrade at standard pressure for temperatures from 0.1C to 5,000,000C - it's just a question of "How long?". I imagine it's the same with this material. What is the phase change enthalpy and how much material is there = how long it maintains that temperature and how long a "reset" takes.
.NET was never meant to replace VB. That would be C#.
The only way to program in VB now is in VB.NET.
C# was more Microsoft's answer to Java. A lot of conventions are similar between the two, and going from C++ --> Java --> C# was an easy transition for me to make. Heck, C++ --> Java was harder than Java --> C# once I had Java down pat.
OMG! Dude, that is waaaaaay TMI. I know this is slashdot, but c'mon.
Nah, they'll just hack your Facebook account too (you really think *Facebook* is harder to get into than bank records?), swap out your picture and away they go.
Computers are not magic machines, they run on code made by people, people who make mistakes and/or leave loopholes (unintentional or otherwise).
but now we throw away as the default settin, especially when we don't have a part.
End it don't mend it!
Here, have some Soma you'll feel better.
In all honesty, I would expect a ship that advanced to just freaking know that he wanted tea and have it ready. The ship's AI became self-aware in one episode and gave birth to a .... whatever it was new lifeform thing. I think it could figure out how when the Captain wants his tea.
Typically state lotteries are in the ~40,000,000 to 1 range. Multi-state lotto tickets (Mega Millions) are closer to 175,000,000 to 1. This is just regarding the jackpots.
Except it's not an independent probability vector. Let's apply your example to a simple "Slashdot Lottery"
Cost is $10 per ticket.
You pick two numbers from the list 1,2,3,4,5
Get one number right and you get $8 back on your ticket. Get both numbers right and you get $20. If no one wins this week, the pot goes up by $20 until someone does win. (In the Massachusetts version of the Slashdot Lottery, the payout for getting two numbers right goes up by $1 each week as well, if no one wins).
Now, say no one wins for five weeks.
The jackpot on week six is up to $120. There are only 10 combinations of numbers, so buying every combination guarantees you to net $20 profit.
But wait! In the Massachusetts Slashdot Lottery, each of those one number tickets (there are 6 ways to have just one number, 1 way to have both, and 3 completely losing tickets) win you an extra $4 for each one number winner. So, even if you bought 8 tickets and none of them hit the jackpot, you are mathematically assured of profiting $4.
Exactly. Though I wouldn't say they don't know art as much as they don't know how to have fun at the movies!
...after we began an unprecedented worldwide project of mass fossil energy extraction.
Here's the thing that I feel is often overlooked - these models say that we are righteously screwed if we keep this up for another 100 years or so. Other models say that we will run out of fossil fuels (well, oil at least) to burn up in another 50 years or so. Problem solved.
... is it even possible to orbit the Moon, which has a very low gravity?
*facepalm* of course you can orbit the moon. What did you think the Apollo 11's Michael Collins was doing while Buzz and Neil were walking about on the moon?
It's simply a function of how fast and how close you are. Heck, you can orbit around asteroids if you really want to.