That's a UI design issue. If there was an on-screen indication that "things are happening" or even a "magic keystroke" that overrides the normal gui and pop in and out of some kind of general system activity display in all cases where the kernel isn't frozen, then you wouldn't need to rely on design flaws of other systems to give you the necessary feedback.
But since that doesn't really exist, at least not conveniently, I've also used the HDD noise as a valuable diagnostic tool. Now, if only I'd bought better PSU and CPU fans, I'd be able to actually hear it without straining...
You mean like in 2000 when the rest of the media declared gore the winner in FL an hour before the polls closed due to time zone problems? (i.e. an apparently institutional inability to.. subtract...)
So, despite Apple's marketing, despite the excellent improvements in OSS
It has nothing to do with Apple's marketing, unless you include their abysmal hardware/pricing update cycle as "marketing."
At the moment, The same level of hardware as an entry-level iMac costs half as much when you buy it in PC form with Vista.** Is Leopard really worth > $600? ( For comparison, A Windows license is $150--$250 for home users, and Ubuntu is free* *but a donation would be nice)
**Ok, you don't get it as an "all-in-one" but is that really a feature? What happens when you damage your screen?
And worse, for the same price, you can get a machine that is nearly 100% better in every performance metric except screen size and FSB speed (only 60% faster there)
Vista doesn't need to be faster than Leopard. It only needs to be better than four times slower.
This is why, even though Linux applications tend to run faster, when they hold up the windowing system to do so (due to running in user space, from what I understand), users feel it is not as good as Windows which typically attempts to go out of its way to return control to its users.
Agreed. Though I'd tout it as a material advantage for Windows rather than just a morale advantage. Good UI design is hard and the illusion of control is more important than a few percent of speed gain. Not to mention that "doesn't return control to users quickly" could also be the result of failure modes which will require a time-consuming reboot or xkill, so making users second-guess themselves ( "Should I reboot or wait a little more?" ) is a pretty poor decision.
Well, that's pretty stupid if that's the case. Your signature authorizes, but it does very little to confirm that it's actually YOUR signature, especially if the bank only has your name and account balance on file at a given branch and/or the tellers aren't trained forensic handwriting analysts.
A good system would require for every transaction at the very least,
claim of identity
confirmation of identity
amount
symbol of agreement
A signature only provides the last one, and depending on how legible it is, the first. Banks are really dropping the ball here.
What I want to know is.. Where is the "GeekBank" where all of this stuff is done according to well-researched protocols? Surely that would do pretty well?
For small amounts (under $500 iirc), you can get Western Union MOs from the 7-11 (and presumably other convenience-type stores and banks) for something like 50 cents.
Worse, you don't even need the paper. The routing number and account number are all you need to set up EFT on an account without EFTs disabled. Technically, you need a check number, too, but those are a courtesy for YOUR records, not a fraud prevention tool for the banks: any check number will be accepted.
Poll tests, when administered corruptly (as during Jim Crow), are unquestioningly immoral. But I've yet to see a cogent argument as to why they're immoral if the idea is to weed out the disinterested or incompetent.
The idea that certain minorities would naturally be excluded by a fair test always seemed extremely racist to me.
But I'll go on the record as saying that yes, if you change your name on your ID, and it doesn't ever occur to you to correct the voting record (not including the edge case where you change your name after deadlines for correcting the record have passed) that yes, you don't actually care enough about the election. If you'd cared, you'd have made time for it.
And that's fine. You can be a good citizen without seeking to affect public policy. But please, ask yourself, do you care about the outcome of the election, or do you just care about pulling a lever.
Not quite. Depending on the key, of course, all you need to do is get the code and figure out the style. Then you could get replacements sent to you from the manufacturer.
In fact, some keys (I'm talking to you, cheap schlage locks) print the key code ON THE KEY, so you wouldn't even need to do any kind of fitting if the photo happened to be of the right side.
But, of course, why bother having a particularly secure lock, when your all-metal steel-bolted door is right next to a 6 foot plate-glass bay window?
The problem with overly numerous laws, as you mention, is actually separate from the problem of overly permissive policing policy, even though they are both exacerbated by the other.
That's actually a terrible argument. I mean, the last part is ok, but the paragraph preceeding it really does *not* make your case.
If you've actually got something to hide, you don't have much standing to complain. The protections aren't intended to give criminals the right to get away with stuff, so people getting caught for crimes they did commit, but otherwise wouldn't have been discovered is not a particularly compelling argument against an investigative tool.
Further, surely the imaging (or the initial hash, which presumably was to provide evidence that the drive or image wasn't subsequently tampered with in police custody) of the drive is the search, and the part that actually requires a warrant. Or it ought to be. Calculating hashes, reading files, or whatever are just interpreting the data you've already collected.
Side note: The article makes it seem like they read all of the data to make a hash, then read all of the data again into an image file. Shouldn't it be designed to calculate the hash on the fly? It's like fifteen extra characters in a bash pipeline.
It's the template they're likely to use that needs rewriting, because the template specifically ignores additional public burden and/or legislative burden.
The problems are inherited, and since there's no talk of inheriting from a more robust parent structure, are going to be continually present. The canonical example of all these mixed metaphors being the aforementioned alternative minimum tax.
It couldn't possibly be that the media have been using the "polls" as a tool to influence voter opinion, and as the election nears, have to move towards the accurate polls so they're not so far off on the day of the election that nobody believes them any more.
Since they can't show McCain winning (unless he's going to win by a landslide, which I definitely don't see happening), the closest they'll come is "within the margin of error": they can always show an Obama win, but leave just enough doubt that after the election they won't appear to have blatantly tried to manipulate an election.
Billing. I paid, retail, $50 for my last 40 ft^3 fill. This was technically medical-grade O2, though I don't use it medically. I'm sure that "emergency O2 administered" when billed to an insurance company is quite a bit more profitable than "plastic mask administered" alone would be.
And, come to think of it, if the O2's not running, a mask or nasal cannula will just make normal breathing slightly more difficult.
Today, the line is $250k. Tomorrow, $200k. Next year, $150k. You know as well as I do...govt's always want more.
And even more insidiously, they don't even have to lower the threshold. They cleverly didn't peg it to the value of some commodity, portfolio of commodities, or index, so inflation will take care of making $150k worth of value today cross the threshold tomorrow. See AMT.
Seriously, why do they always do this? Not just taxation levels, but things like minimum wage. Put aside arguments about whether or not to have one, if you're going to have one, why set it up so you have to have hearing every two years to raise it fifty cents here, sixty-three cents there? Just peg it to some index and you probably don't have to tweak anything for over a hundred years.
with all those variables, IMO, rand() should be used more for determining foe behavior than for "calculating hit odds" Combat moves ought to be strictly deterministic, if possible, the chance comes in where your foe happens to do the right counter-move.
Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc. don't use the rng to calculate damage, why should games that take in billions in revenue require it?
Why wouldn't they open the bottle? O2 fills are cheap, especially compared to pretty much everything else they could do, and a few minutes of oxygen therapy isn't going to hurt anyone.
Indeed. There are two natural, common units when talking about distances of that scale. Kilometers (~10,000 of them takes you from pole to equator) and Nautical Miles (1 minute of arc each)
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In a silent PC you wouldn't have a mechanical HDD, either.
That's a UI design issue. If there was an on-screen indication that "things are happening" or even a "magic keystroke" that overrides the normal gui and pop in and out of some kind of general system activity display in all cases where the kernel isn't frozen, then you wouldn't need to rely on design flaws of other systems to give you the necessary feedback.
But since that doesn't really exist, at least not conveniently, I've also used the HDD noise as a valuable diagnostic tool. Now, if only I'd bought better PSU and CPU fans, I'd be able to actually hear it without straining...
You mean like in 2000 when the rest of the media declared gore the winner in FL an hour before the polls closed due to time zone problems? (i.e. an apparently institutional inability to .. subtract...)
It has nothing to do with Apple's marketing, unless you include their abysmal hardware/pricing update cycle as "marketing."
At the moment, The same level of hardware as an entry-level iMac costs half as much when you buy it in PC form with Vista.** Is Leopard really worth > $600? ( For comparison, A Windows license is $150--$250 for home users, and Ubuntu is free* *but a donation would be nice)
**Ok, you don't get it as an "all-in-one" but is that really a feature? What happens when you damage your screen?
And worse, for the same price, you can get a machine that is nearly 100% better in every performance metric except screen size and FSB speed (only 60% faster there)
Vista doesn't need to be faster than Leopard. It only needs to be better than four times slower.
Agreed. Though I'd tout it as a material advantage for Windows rather than just a morale advantage. Good UI design is hard and the illusion of control is more important than a few percent of speed gain. Not to mention that "doesn't return control to users quickly" could also be the result of failure modes which will require a time-consuming reboot or xkill, so making users second-guess themselves ( "Should I reboot or wait a little more?" ) is a pretty poor decision.
Well, that's pretty stupid if that's the case. Your signature authorizes, but it does very little to confirm that it's actually YOUR signature, especially if the bank only has your name and account balance on file at a given branch and/or the tellers aren't trained forensic handwriting analysts.
A good system would require for every transaction at the very least,
A signature only provides the last one, and depending on how legible it is, the first. Banks are really dropping the ball here.
What I want to know is.. Where is the "GeekBank" where all of this stuff is done according to well-researched protocols? Surely that would do pretty well?
For small amounts (under $500 iirc), you can get Western Union MOs from the 7-11 (and presumably other convenience-type stores and banks) for something like 50 cents.
Worse, you don't even need the paper. The routing number and account number are all you need to set up EFT on an account without EFTs disabled. Technically, you need a check number, too, but those are a courtesy for YOUR records, not a fraud prevention tool for the banks: any check number will be accepted.
Poll tests, when administered corruptly (as during Jim Crow), are unquestioningly immoral. But I've yet to see a cogent argument as to why they're immoral if the idea is to weed out the disinterested or incompetent.
The idea that certain minorities would naturally be excluded by a fair test always seemed extremely racist to me.
But I'll go on the record as saying that yes, if you change your name on your ID, and it doesn't ever occur to you to correct the voting record (not including the edge case where you change your name after deadlines for correcting the record have passed) that yes, you don't actually care enough about the election. If you'd cared, you'd have made time for it.
And that's fine. You can be a good citizen without seeking to affect public policy. But please, ask yourself, do you care about the outcome of the election, or do you just care about pulling a lever.
Not quite. Depending on the key, of course, all you need to do is get the code and figure out the style. Then you could get replacements sent to you from the manufacturer.
In fact, some keys (I'm talking to you, cheap schlage locks) print the key code ON THE KEY, so you wouldn't even need to do any kind of fitting if the photo happened to be of the right side.
But, of course, why bother having a particularly secure lock, when your all-metal steel-bolted door is right next to a 6 foot plate-glass bay window?
Of course they haven't. Unless they run into another lander, they can only encounter natives.
Not as good as this guy though.
The problem with overly numerous laws, as you mention, is actually separate from the problem of overly permissive policing policy, even though they are both exacerbated by the other.
That's actually a terrible argument. I mean, the last part is ok, but the paragraph preceeding it really does *not* make your case.
If you've actually got something to hide, you don't have much standing to complain. The protections aren't intended to give criminals the right to get away with stuff, so people getting caught for crimes they did commit, but otherwise wouldn't have been discovered is not a particularly compelling argument against an investigative tool.
Further, surely the imaging (or the initial hash, which presumably was to provide evidence that the drive or image wasn't subsequently tampered with in police custody) of the drive is the search, and the part that actually requires a warrant. Or it ought to be. Calculating hashes, reading files, or whatever are just interpreting the data you've already collected.
Side note: The article makes it seem like they read all of the data to make a hash, then read all of the data again into an image file. Shouldn't it be designed to calculate the hash on the fly? It's like fifteen extra characters in a bash pipeline.
If you've never heard of special relativity, then yeah, I can see that.
It's the template they're likely to use that needs rewriting, because the template specifically ignores additional public burden and/or legislative burden.
The problems are inherited, and since there's no talk of inheriting from a more robust parent structure, are going to be continually present. The canonical example of all these mixed metaphors being the aforementioned alternative minimum tax.
It couldn't possibly be that the media have been using the "polls" as a tool to influence voter opinion, and as the election nears, have to move towards the accurate polls so they're not so far off on the day of the election that nobody believes them any more.
Since they can't show McCain winning (unless he's going to win by a landslide, which I definitely don't see happening), the closest they'll come is "within the margin of error": they can always show an Obama win, but leave just enough doubt that after the election they won't appear to have blatantly tried to manipulate an election.
Billing. I paid, retail, $50 for my last 40 ft^3 fill. This was technically medical-grade O2, though I don't use it medically. I'm sure that "emergency O2 administered" when billed to an insurance company is quite a bit more profitable than "plastic mask administered" alone would be.
And, come to think of it, if the O2's not running, a mask or nasal cannula will just make normal breathing slightly more difficult.
And even more insidiously, they don't even have to lower the threshold. They cleverly didn't peg it to the value of some commodity, portfolio of commodities, or index, so inflation will take care of making $150k worth of value today cross the threshold tomorrow. See AMT.
Seriously, why do they always do this? Not just taxation levels, but things like minimum wage. Put aside arguments about whether or not to have one, if you're going to have one, why set it up so you have to have hearing every two years to raise it fifty cents here, sixty-three cents there? Just peg it to some index and you probably don't have to tweak anything for over a hundred years.
with all those variables, IMO, rand() should be used more for determining foe behavior than for "calculating hit odds" Combat moves ought to be strictly deterministic, if possible, the chance comes in where your foe happens to do the right counter-move.
Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc. don't use the rng to calculate damage, why should games that take in billions in revenue require it?
The most popular MMORPG at the moment, by pretty much any metric you care to use, has a crafting engine that consists of the following:
That's not "well done." That's not even a fun little minigame. Progress Quest has as much functionality.
Yet.. it's still the most popular mmopg ever.
Why wouldn't they open the bottle? O2 fills are cheap, especially compared to pretty much everything else they could do, and a few minutes of oxygen therapy isn't going to hurt anyone.
One word: Homeopathy.
There's a whole wealth of potent-sounding mostly harmless compounds that can be prepared in pill form.. and already are.
Agreed on the antibiotics. A good placebo shouldn't actually do anything at all.
Indeed. There are two natural, common units when talking about distances of that scale. Kilometers (~10,000 of them takes you from pole to equator) and Nautical Miles (1 minute of arc each)
*whooooosh* (btw Hojima, that was also a monty python reference you responded to)
I like that a golf pencil is considered valuable enough to chain to something.