I can almost see the a cheap add late at night on tv:
"Have you been injured by your electric powered EV-1? The law office of Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum can help you sue the crap out of GM. Call us at 1-800-NO-TO-EV1. Call now and get a butt-load of money!"
Now it makes sense that GM would rather crush the cars...
There won't be enough corn to drive all the America around. It is just not very efficient. Besides it seem it is easier to mass-process petrolium than to mass-harvest and process corn. Here is a little calculation, that sort of explains.
I personally whish they would build more nuclear reactors, they are very safe and they can by used for hydrolysis to get hydrogen. I couldn't find a cost analysis of that, anyone have any idea?
That is what I was thinking. Why couldn't they just add a filter in the mouse that would cut a certain frequency, say above 5 Hz, in the motion of the mouse. Then maybe have a small switch that would disable it when the grandchildren come and want to play HalfLife2. It seems making a new mouse with a small chip inside would be cheaper than having an external adapter.
If the clock is not completely broken but is just way behind and stays that way, it will never show the correct time but the illusion that it is working. Draw the parallel between that and her on your own.
That is what I was thinking too. How in the world do this companies have account numbers and social security numbers in the first place?. I think the people should be worried about that more than they are worried about the thieves. Theives might be caught and dealt with, but these companies will continue to exist and people don't seem to mind it. They just don't understand the value of the information. If the company goes ahead and asks for a check of $100 for no reason nobody will give it to them, but they are more than happy to part with their social security number, or fill in the forms saying how much they make, where they live, what is their hobby etc. It is ridiculous. I realized this by making the mistake of writting a stupid article on usenet when I was 15 and used my real name, I didn't bother to write in a different name for submission to news servers. Now it is in the cyberworld forever. I could try and get job years down the road and that crap might show up during the background search. That was a lesson to learn, now I don't give out my name in the email or on the websites or in the forums, I even had a fight with the people at state office where they issue driver's licences, trying to make them understand that I am not required by law to have my social on the licence. They couldn't quite understand I wouldn't I want that and immediatly though I was suspicious - "He doesn't want to give out his information, he must be hidding something, he _must_ be a terrorist, RUN!"
Oricum, imi pare rau de 'paypal'. Ai dreptate, eu nu ma ocup cu asa ceva, chiar mi-au fost si mie furati bani din cont. Dar 'posting'-ul meu a fost doar o gluma, chill out. Salut.
as a true r00m4n14n d00d I take that as a complement:)
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I worked for a company that designed a major CAD product and the code was millions and millions of lines. Anyway, there was a scripting language built into it and a mode to run the application in batch mode. So all the user input could be scripted. Then we had a hefty team of QA/QC people who were in charge of mentaining a ton of testcases that consisted of input, the some script that operated on it and an ouput to compare the result with. All the testcases took days or even weeks to run, initially it worked fairly well. When new features were added to the program it was a pain in the arse to go and change all those testcases that now were supposed to look different. The problem was even worse because they had co-ops(interns) doing it, who had no experience and had no idea what was going on. After years, many testcases became un-usable after so many changes and features added and it the QA became a mess. The release cycles got longer and it was harder and harder to keep track of bugs. I don't know what happened then because I left just about then...
How exactly is that a 'pretty distinct pattern'? Distinct from what? For any 3 digit number, there is about 0.1% chance that that number will be 386. Why can't a company who's product reached version 1.0.386 sell or market it as 386. What about 001, that is just as distict as 386, can any one claim it as a trademark. How about number 10? Can I trademark that and sue everyone? The point is, that the claim doesn't make any sense, and that is why Intel came up with the name 'Pentium'. In this case, for 26 letters of the alphabet, you have 26^7 = 7 or 8 billion possible trademark names of that lenght. That is a lot better even if 75% of those is unpronounceable, meaningless garbage.
The drug companies, that have hundreds and thousands of product on the market are running into this problem, they are sometimes using Latin names now to generate all those funky wierd names (Levitra, Alegra, Vioxx, Paxil etc, etc.), they have to be short, unique and easy to pronounce and memorize, there is a whole field of study in that area of brand marketing.
Is there a way to use the quantum computer for TSP? The only quantum algorithms I know of is Shor's factoring and Grover's algorithm. That sort of put me off going too much into the QC area, aside from taking 2 or 3 classes on the subject (I have a comp sci degree). I know that searching and factoring are very important algorithms but what about others like: sorting, graph algorithms, SAT or fast matrix multiplication .
Well, obviously the correctness proof checker would have to be checked by hand. Well, the problem though is that it is 'ok' to make a mistake on someone's test or even when submitting a publication to a journal, compared to when a 747 blows up in flames over Kansas killing hundreds of people.
But you are right, even FAA has limits on how many crashes due to software it allows for so many flight hours. I think it is in the tens or hundreds of millions of flight hours. So if in that periods a plane crashes and burns killing everyone on board, that would be acceptable. For practical purpuses you might as well say it is 'never' allowed to happen. That is why the program and the team that does the testing probably consume just as much or even more resources than the actual team that writes the code. It cannot be the same team, technically, as someone mentioned in a post above.
If it's the program that flies the Shuttles or flies people every day from coast to coast it can and should be proved to work for every possible code path and not lead to failure or be in some unpredictable (unexpected state).
This is not done by hand obviously, 10 independent if statements is already 1024 cases to check. There are ways to automate it to a certain degree (obviously first there is a proof by hand that the automated checker is always correct). Also there are ways to take shortcuts, because for example not all branches are independent from each other, part of the programs are modular, and there are way to reduce the boolean logic to simpler forms.
The point was that you can't have regular Linux or Doom III code and submit it for such kind of testing, the programmer has to write it in a very different way just to facilitate make it pass the qa/qc. So instead of having 4 nested 'if's each with 3 disjunctions and conjunctions in the condition, maybe be it is possible to write them in a sequential way, that kind of stuff.
Same goes for code that runs on the airplanes (like Boeing passenger aircraft). In fact the developers have to prove that each possible! branch that code could ever take won't lead to unpredictable behavior or crash. If you have 100 independent 'if' statements that is at least 2^100 possibilites. The code they write is very linear, they avoid branching at all cost.
There is a whole are of study involved in correctness checking, which is related to the SAT (Satisfiability) problem.
The operating system choice is also interesting. Linux doesn't even come close to what they need. Having device drivers in the kernel is just not a good idea. It needs to have a separation kernel, at least that is the goal. I presently think they use the INTEGRITY operating system by Green Hills, but I could be wrong.
I agree. I noticed when I try to optmize my code by making it shorter and more concise, I end up shooting myself in the foot, because later I have to spend more time figuring out is that I was doing in that part of the code.
Besides, in general it is far better to optimize the algorithm, if possible, and then optimize the individual code snippets. In other words try to optimize on a grand scale (a compiler won't help you here, but a Comp Sci degree might) then on a smaller scale down to individual lines, provided there is enough time.
Why was the poster moderated as a troll?. It was a valid (and funny) use of hyperbole. Do moderators even read the context or even know what a hyperbole is? They only hope is that meta-moderation system works.
Well that was my point, they don't have the resourses but they complain and complain. They tried legal action against Google before for not blocking certain websites in France. And now more complaining. They say that Google will index more English text and thus end up greatly influencing the public with their bias. Well that is what the news agencies, government and big companies have been doing forever because they are bigger and have more resources.
I am sure Google will not stop any French company or thier goverment from creating their own search engine and index all the books they want. If they end up making a better product even I'll start using thier engine instead of Google. And the money can come from the department they have for preserving the purity of French culture and language by banning the use of words like 'e-mail'. The bottom line is if they really care about it, they'll do something, but it seems that they just want to complain some more.
I don't understand why everyone is upset. France can just index its own books and materials and provide some competition for Google? IF it has the resourses and knowledge to do it that is...
The matter of the fact is who controls the information can influence the public, as they themselves correctly observed. And if they are adamant about it, then they should compete instead of complain.
In other news, Slashdot leads in posting of duplicate stories on it front page. Apparently after a huge cosmic explosion the British downloaders have mutated, and now using just their mind power they can beam duplicate news postings onto the Slashdot webservers.
The "two Florida researchers" phrase is where I stopped reading the article. The only things they should be researching is beach parties, mixed drinks and slutty Spring break chicks.
I can see them submitting a paper to a journal with the conclusion "Well, like, you see, Laynex is this new windowz thang, but not as cool cuz Microsoft gave us money to party and do like research and stuff"
Of course we all know only the pro graphic designers would ever do 4-color separations. In fact they have to pass the 4-color separation test before they get the pro status. And I always thought K in CMYK stood "Kool Blue."
...And I get fed up with people telling what I can and cannot afford.
Slashdot Mirror
"Have you been injured by your electric powered EV-1? The law office of Rosenbaum & Rosenbaum can help you sue the crap out of GM. Call us at 1-800-NO-TO-EV1. Call now and get a butt-load of money!"
Now it makes sense that GM would rather crush the cars...
warning:off topic. congrats on your engagement! gm could have given you an ev-1 as a wedding gift ;)
warning:not off topic anymore.
There won't be enough corn to drive all the America around. It is just not very efficient. Besides it seem it is easier to mass-process petrolium than to mass-harvest and process corn. Here is a little calculation, that sort of explains.
I personally whish they would build more nuclear reactors, they are very safe and they can by used for hydrolysis to get hydrogen. I couldn't find a cost analysis of that, anyone have any idea?
That is what I was thinking. Why couldn't they just add a filter in the mouse that would cut a certain frequency, say above 5 Hz, in the motion of the mouse. Then maybe have a small switch that would disable it when the grandchildren come and want to play HalfLife2. It seems making a new mouse with a small chip inside would be cheaper than having an external adapter.
If the clock is not completely broken but is just way behind and stays that way, it will never show the correct time but the illusion that it is working. Draw the parallel between that and her on your own.
That is what I was thinking too. How in the world do this companies have account numbers and social security numbers in the first place?. I think the people should be worried about that more than they are worried about the thieves. Theives might be caught and dealt with, but these companies will continue to exist and people don't seem to mind it. They just don't understand the value of the information. If the company goes ahead and asks for a check of $100 for no reason nobody will give it to them, but they are more than happy to part with their social security number, or fill in the forms saying how much they make, where they live, what is their hobby etc. It is ridiculous. I realized this by making the mistake of writting a stupid article on usenet when I was 15 and used my real name, I didn't bother to write in a different name for submission to news servers. Now it is in the cyberworld forever. I could try and get job years down the road and that crap might show up during the background search. That was a lesson to learn, now I don't give out my name in the email or on the websites or in the forums, I even had a fight with the people at state office where they issue driver's licences, trying to make them understand that I am not required by law to have my social on the licence. They couldn't quite understand I wouldn't I want that and immediatly though I was suspicious - "He doesn't want to give out his information, he must be hidding something, he _must_ be a terrorist, RUN!"
as a true r00m4n14n d00d I take that as a complement :)
I worked for a company that designed a major CAD product and the code was millions and millions of lines. Anyway, there was a scripting language built into it and a mode to run the application in batch mode. So all the user input could be scripted. Then we had a hefty team of QA/QC people who were in charge of mentaining a ton of testcases that consisted of input, the some script that operated on it and an ouput to compare the result with. All the testcases took days or even weeks to run, initially it worked fairly well. When new features were added to the program it was a pain in the arse to go and change all those testcases that now were supposed to look different. The problem was even worse because they had co-ops(interns) doing it, who had no experience and had no idea what was going on. After years, many testcases became un-usable after so many changes and features added and it the QA became a mess. The release cycles got longer and it was harder and harder to keep track of bugs. I don't know what happened then because I left just about then...
The drug companies, that have hundreds and thousands of product on the market are running into this problem, they are sometimes using Latin names now to generate all those funky wierd names (Levitra, Alegra, Vioxx, Paxil etc, etc.), they have to be short, unique and easy to pronounce and memorize, there is a whole field of study in that area of brand marketing.
Is there a way to use the quantum computer for TSP? The only quantum algorithms I know of is Shor's factoring and Grover's algorithm. That sort of put me off going too much into the QC area, aside from taking 2 or 3 classes on the subject (I have a comp sci degree). I know that searching and factoring are very important algorithms but what about others like: sorting, graph algorithms, SAT or fast matrix multiplication .
Well, obviously the correctness proof checker would have to be checked by hand. Well, the problem though is that it is 'ok' to make a mistake on someone's test or even when submitting a publication to a journal, compared to when a 747 blows up in flames over Kansas killing hundreds of people.
But you are right, even FAA has limits on how many crashes due to software it allows for so many flight hours. I think it is in the tens or hundreds of millions of flight hours. So if in that periods a plane crashes and burns killing everyone on board, that would be acceptable. For practical purpuses you might as well say it is 'never' allowed to happen. That is why the program and the team that does the testing probably consume just as much or even more resources than the actual team that writes the code. It cannot be the same team, technically, as someone mentioned in a post above.
This is not done by hand obviously, 10 independent if statements is already 1024 cases to check. There are ways to automate it to a certain degree (obviously first there is a proof by hand that the automated checker is always correct). Also there are ways to take shortcuts, because for example not all branches are independent from each other, part of the programs are modular, and there are way to reduce the boolean logic to simpler forms.
The point was that you can't have regular Linux or Doom III code and submit it for such kind of testing, the programmer has to write it in a very different way just to facilitate make it pass the qa/qc. So instead of having 4 nested 'if's each with 3 disjunctions and conjunctions in the condition, maybe be it is possible to write them in a sequential way, that kind of stuff.
I should have gone into physics! Do computer geeks have their own exclusive girl band? I don't think so.
And I can only imagine the number of comments with the words 'hadron' and 'the Cernettes' together...
Same goes for code that runs on the airplanes (like Boeing passenger aircraft). In fact the developers have to prove that each possible! branch that code could ever take won't lead to unpredictable behavior or crash. If you have 100 independent 'if' statements that is at least 2^100 possibilites. The code they write is very linear, they avoid branching at all cost.
There is a whole are of study involved in correctness checking, which is related to the SAT (Satisfiability) problem.
The operating system choice is also interesting. Linux doesn't even come close to what they need. Having device drivers in the kernel is just not a good idea. It needs to have a separation kernel, at least that is the goal. I presently think they use the INTEGRITY operating system by Green Hills, but I could be wrong.
Besides, in general it is far better to optimize the algorithm, if possible, and then optimize the individual code snippets. In other words try to optimize on a grand scale (a compiler won't help you here, but a Comp Sci degree might) then on a smaller scale down to individual lines, provided there is enough time.
Exactly! I'd buy you a beer for that comment.
"We can't stop here. This is bat country." -HST
Why was the poster moderated as a troll?. It was a valid (and funny) use of hyperbole. Do moderators even read the context or even know what a hyperbole is? They only hope is that meta-moderation system works.
Well that was my point, they don't have the resourses but they complain and complain. They tried legal action against Google before for not blocking certain websites in France. And now more complaining. They say that Google will index more English text and thus end up greatly influencing the public with their bias. Well that is what the news agencies, government and big companies have been doing forever because they are bigger and have more resources.
I am sure Google will not stop any French company or thier goverment from creating their own search engine and index all the books they want. If they end up making a better product even I'll start using thier engine instead of Google. And the money can come from the department they have for preserving the purity of French culture and language by banning the use of words like 'e-mail'. The bottom line is if they really care about it, they'll do something, but it seems that they just want to complain some more.
I don't understand why everyone is upset. France can just index its own books and materials and provide some competition for Google? IF it has the resourses and knowledge to do it that is...
The matter of the fact is who controls the information can influence the public, as they themselves correctly observed. And if they are adamant about it, then they should compete instead of complain.
In other news, Slashdot leads in posting of duplicate stories on it front page. Apparently after a huge cosmic explosion the British downloaders have mutated, and now using just their mind power they can beam duplicate news postings onto the Slashdot webservers.
Oh, is that the "bowling balls" that also have uranium around the plutonium core, then aluminium and high explosives. Yeah...we know those...
The "two Florida researchers" phrase is where I stopped reading the article. The only things they should be researching is beach parties, mixed drinks and slutty Spring break chicks.
I can see them submitting a paper to a journal with the conclusion "Well, like, you see, Laynex is this new windowz thang, but not as cool cuz Microsoft gave us money to party and do like research and stuff"
[Request for slack] - English is a third language for me ;)