There was an episode on Nova that posited exactly this. Ultimately, pitot tubes iced over and the plane was unable to determine airspeed so kicked out of autopilot, and the human pilots were too slow to respond with the suggested throttle and pitch settings in such a case.
What amazes me is the incredibly thin window they (speedwise) they have to fly in to be safe. +/- 10kts or something like that.
Why can't MS do stuff like this in all their departments? Are there not enough smart people to go around? You get truly cool things like this, juxtaposed with lame "us too!" attempts like WP7 and Bing.
> I know what you mean, but what else can you do other than levy a fine?
The gov't and/or judicial arm has a very big carrot in future contracts they could easily withdraw for some period of time; say 5 years? Or, the corresponding stick of prison as someone else mentioned.
I don't necessarily think either of these is practical, but there are other means available.
> Also, did they test the battery life? which phone would die first?
No. Nor did they test weight, color, specific gravity, reflectivity, touchscreen sensitivity, resistance to solar flares, ability to pass through a bovine's intestinal tract unscathed, nor bullet-proof-ness.
It doesn't matter how good the idea is if the execution is sloppy. I do suspect browsers are more secure, and at least partially due to the sandboxing idea, than in the past, no?
I was with you till the Windows 7 comment. Mind you, I'm no MS lover (and perhaps irrationally biased against them), but Windows 7, as far as an MS OS goes, is quite good. Maybe I had worse luck with Vista than most; maybe that was MS' plan all along, but I'm forced to live with it for my employment, and Win 7 was an absolute godsend compared to Vista.
> e.g., I search for intel drivers, and I get three pages worth of intelligence tests from stupid quiz sites)
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on at least one point; I just did a search for "intel drivers" (no quotes), and the entire first page was... Intel Drivers related.
If you could make fees on selling something that you could then have a guaranteed buyer to who to resell, at cost or better, and them carry 100% of any future risk... who wouldn't take that deal? I'm not sure why you're being modded Troll, since that's largely what happened.
I use a usb connected terabyte drive for media (pics, songs, etc.). I have purchased a subscription to Mozy and back it all up offsite. Every year, I purchase a new drive, copy the stuff over to the new one, wipe and sell the old one. Drives that size are cheap (and as my media collection grows, drive size has grown at least as fast for about the same cost), so I don't mind the annual cost of the backup nor the the annual cost of the new drive with zero hours on it.
> And anybody who actually wants the job is probably unfit
Amen to that. The people that want jobs in politics are the ones we least want doing those jobs. It's a pity that "serving the people" has turned into "politics" to begin with I guess, but there it is.
Of course it matters. Sometimes. Your 'rate of creation' is simply the min(rate_of_typing, rate_of_thought). If you can type faster than you are currently thinking/creating/"solutionizing" then no, it doesn't matter, and there are a lot of times during code creation where this is the case; you need time to noodle, try things out, think about a solution, need some time. But, there are times where you know EXACTLY what you want the code to do/be/look like, and those times your typing speed can be the bottleneck, and there are a lot of times during code creation where THIS is the case too.
I believe the "reduce" mantra refers to not using said item in the first place. Your "percent reduction" anecdote is well constructed, but in your 33% less scenario you've used one "bad" bag. In the similarly anecdotal "reduce" scenario, you use a paper or other biodegradable bag in its place, and you've used zero "bad" bags.
I've often wondered if there were any studies along these lines, but with the x-axis as intensity of religious convictions. Do atheists fear death more or less than the devout?
Who do I talk to to get a gov't grant for this sort of thing?
Slashdot Mirror
... hasn't existed in that name for over 20 years.
Wow. I hope you're not representative of all non-Americans, because you do it as poorly as the Americans you're trying to deride.
There was an episode on Nova that posited exactly this. Ultimately, pitot tubes iced over and the plane was unable to determine airspeed so kicked out of autopilot, and the human pilots were too slow to respond with the suggested throttle and pitch settings in such a case.
What amazes me is the incredibly thin window they (speedwise) they have to fly in to be safe. +/- 10kts or something like that.
Why can't MS do stuff like this in all their departments? Are there not enough smart people to go around? You get truly cool things like this, juxtaposed with
lame "us too!" attempts like WP7 and Bing.
> Make cities denser ...
has led to ....
> ... cheaper, more accessible to families with better schools & playgrounds
Where, exactly?
I've heard that called "auto attack". I remember it first in Everquest. Having come from FPS' at the time, it was very foreign to me.
> I know what you mean, but what else can you do other than levy a fine?
The gov't and/or judicial arm has a very big carrot in future contracts they could easily withdraw for some period of time; say 5 years? Or, the corresponding stick of prison as someone else mentioned.
I don't necessarily think either of these is practical, but there are other means available.
> > Considering it takes me an average of 7865.349 msec to plug in my charger, still a fair trade..
> Really? You timed this to millisecond precision?
He listed it as an average, so he could have done it 1000 times and only tested to the second.
> Also, did they test the battery life? which phone would die first?
No. Nor did they test weight, color, specific gravity, reflectivity, touchscreen sensitivity, resistance to solar flares, ability to pass through a bovine's intestinal tract unscathed, nor bullet-proof-ness.
It doesn't matter how good the idea is if the execution is sloppy. I do suspect browsers are more secure, and at least partially due to the sandboxing idea, than in the past, no?
Even worse, I used an "algorithm" to play (which is to say, a pattern), and I had a 11:2:7 (win:lose:draw) record. This was also on 'veteran'.
Ahhh, I see; I totally misunderstood you there. My apologies. Yes, Win 7 by all accounts was what Vista should have been in terms of reliability.
I was with you till the Windows 7 comment. Mind you, I'm no MS lover (and perhaps irrationally biased against them), but Windows 7, as far as an MS OS goes, is quite good. Maybe I had worse luck with Vista than most; maybe that was MS' plan all along, but I'm forced to live with it for my employment, and Win 7 was an absolute godsend compared to Vista.
> e.g., I search for intel drivers, and I get three pages worth of intelligence tests from stupid quiz sites)
I'm going to have to call shenanigans on at least one point; I just did a search for "intel drivers" (no quotes), and the entire first page was ... Intel Drivers related.
Here's a screenshot: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/1377/20110130184253.png
If you could make fees on selling something that you could then have a guaranteed buyer to who to resell, at cost or better, and them carry 100% of any future risk... who wouldn't take that deal? I'm not sure why you're being modded Troll, since that's largely what happened.
I use a usb connected terabyte drive for media (pics, songs, etc.). I have purchased a subscription to Mozy and back it all up offsite. Every year, I purchase a new drive, copy the stuff over to the new one, wipe and sell the old one. Drives that size are cheap (and as my media collection grows, drive size has grown at least as fast for about the same cost), so I don't mind the annual cost of the backup nor the the annual cost of the new drive with zero hours on it.
> And anybody who actually wants the job is probably unfit
Amen to that. The people that want jobs in politics are the ones we least want doing those jobs. It's a pity that "serving the people" has turned into "politics" to begin with I guess, but there it is.
"Colombia", unless you meant the capital of South Carolina, in which case I'd support a war.
Of course it matters. Sometimes. Your 'rate of creation' is simply the min(rate_of_typing, rate_of_thought). If you can type faster than you are currently thinking/creating/"solutionizing" then no, it doesn't matter, and there are a lot of times during code creation where this is the case; you need time to noodle, try things out, think about a solution, need some time. But, there are times where you know EXACTLY what you want the code to do/be/look like, and those times your typing speed can be the bottleneck, and there are a lot of times during code creation where THIS is the case too.
I believe the "reduce" mantra refers to not using said item in the first place. Your "percent reduction" anecdote is well constructed, but in your 33% less scenario you've used one "bad" bag. In the similarly anecdotal "reduce" scenario, you use a paper or other biodegradable bag in its place, and you've used zero "bad" bags.
Cite?
... I remembered reading about a study like this years ago. Turns out, I did. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/21465
I've often wondered if there were any studies along these lines, but with the x-axis as intensity of religious convictions. Do atheists fear death more or less than the devout?
Who do I talk to to get a gov't grant for this sort of thing?
Who has asserted there's nothing to hide?
I'm at a loss to see what an antivirus software needs with social networking integration. Can you explain; perhaps I'm missing something.