What if a bunch of people refuse to pedal; say 9/10 refuse to pedal, would the system still work?
Yep, but not immediately. The people who don't pedal won't be getting enough cardio and will die sooner. It's the darwin solution to transportation problems.
So one ISP sent back the identification printed on paper since the format the id should be sent is not specifically defined.
Others have contributed ideas along those lines like using printed captchas.
I suggest going paperless and even adopting one of the formats of the entertainment industry - deliver the information as a video of scrolling text on a bluray (with full DRM protections enabled, of course).
It's good to hear about 9/11. Now, how many Muslims denounce death penalty for apostasy?
Pretty much all of them. - I mean have you ever asked a muslim what he thought about it? Really, the only ones who do care are the fundos and the politicians who pander to them. The koran has just two passages that deal with the issue and in each case the death penalty is only applicable to apostates who then commit treason. Just in case you've forgotten, we still have the death penalty for treason in the US. Hell, the only reason we still have the death penalty for anything in the US is because the politicians who pander to american fundos. No other western country has the death penalty. Even Russia abolished it.
But if you have to have big names say it - lets start with Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi - Grand Mufti of the leading islamic university, Al-Azhar. If islam were anywhere near as monolithic as the catholic church then the grand mufti of Al-Azhar would be the closest thing islam has to a pope. And it wasn't something new that he brought with him when the took office in 1996 - the previous Grand Mufti al-Shaltut held to similar doctrine.
Sounds like you might have a job for a GPU. GPUs absolutely rock at FFTs and if your single-process jobs are simple enough you may be able to run hundreds of them simultaneously on each GPU. Current generation GPUs support double-precision floating point if you need it and also ECC memory to guard against random bit errors corrupting your calculations. ECC is definitely the way to go if you need reliable results, whether it be GPU or CPU.
when I went to Gog.com to redownload Gabriel Knight I got that stupid "zomg we're closing down" message. It feels like something straight out the 1990s,
It kinda seems appropriate since they are selling games from 1990s like Gabriel Knight
Yes. They have an adult filter on certain keywords. Enter one of those keywords, and you have to actually hit the enter key. This is pretty clear while you're typing, though, as all entries disappear and "press enter to search" comes up. So it isn't any slower than the traditional way where you have to hit enter for each search.
For me, the "press enter to search" fades in after a few seconds. If you start backspacing before then you might miss it. Plus, its not obvious what's going on - if it (immediately) said "press enter to search without adult filter" or "completion stopped by SafetySearch" or even provided a way to turn off the filter like they do in other parts of google with the &safe=off URL parameter or a cookie for those who "log in" then I'd be less critical.
Start typing. If you don't see what you're looking for, keep typing. Add terms and refinements.
Sounds like a good idea, but you can't trust it.
I forget where I saw it, probably here on slashdot. Trying searching for the book the "wisdom of whores" - the instant search stuff won't complete at all - it is as if there are no hits. Do a "real" search for wisdom of whores and you get a bunch of hits - the first is the author's blog and the second is the amazon page for the book.
Fed Ex will always use at least 2 trucks to service a building in the US. One for Fed Ex ground and one for Fed Ex special, or whatever it is that they call their air unit.
Sounds like an artifact of them failing to fully integrated their 1998 acquisition of RPS which became "FedEx Ground." Prior to that they had little, if any, ground shipping. I remember how back around 2005 they were still operating off completely different computer systems and in many cases had different "hubs" for ground and air - sometimes just a few miles from each other.
"HDMI Noise Filter and Signal Booster." You know, for all those people who need gold-plated, name-brand cables for perfectly crisp, clear transmission of digital data. I think "noise filter" would be a perfectly apt description of the secondary function, too!
I'll do you one better - a device that is actually useful to real people - an HDMI "logo remover" - put it between your cable box and your TV and it will detect and remove those annoying-ass logos that most television stations put on their shows. As far as I know such a box does not exist but I know a guy who is working on bringing one to market, maybe I can convince him to leave in an up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A engineering mode that lets you flash your own keys - including a complete wipe on the output side.
Given the response to Stewart's Crossfire interview - he embarrassed them enough that they cancelled the program soon thereafter - this could actually help restore a little rationality to the conversation. If nothing else, it should be entertaining for the tourists.
This.
If anyone doubts that Stewart was about "being reasonable" while Bush was in power his criticism of the 'left' and 'right' hosts of Crossfire as "partisan hacks" in 2004 should prove otherwise.
I wonder if this or similar genes could be responsible for "above average" intelligence in some people. It would seem to explain why the majority of people seem to maintain their seemingly low average.
Not quite sure what you mean by that - but the intelligence of the majority, as measured by IQ, has been consistently increasing for generations now, it is called the Flynn Effect.
All I said is that you used a word different from what I said
A declarative statement like "your word, not mine" generally indicates that the writer believes the word to be deliberately misleading.
So far, nope all evidence points to "rare" being pretty accurate. You say that this bug has been reported a handful of times over the course of 8 years - I see that as pretty freaking rare. You see "8 years" - I see hundreds of thousands if not millions of users of which only a handful have been bothered enough to report it - maybe representing 20x as many who haven't bothered to report it. 200 out of say a very conservative 200,000 - that's still extremely rare.
You say "checks the contents of the tag" does that mean something other than checking the tags? It's not a critical failure if the spell checker hits on things like "href" and URLs. Is there something else that is being checked that I'm missing here? Furthermore, according to my reading of that bug it is JUST one client - outlook or exchange configured to do rtf formatted messages that causes the spell-checker to do that.
Take a look at his later posts about bug reports.
huh? What does that matter? You were "right there with" something he had not even written yet?
I cheerfully grant that in a programmers view of priority, UI often comes last. That's part of the problem.
No, you don't cheerfully grant - you declare and base your entire argument on that declaration. I don't agree - see the part where I called it a canard. Doing UI work well is hard, but that's true of all the other areas of programming too, they are all hard to do well - its the doing well part that is difficult. You just don't see all the sloppiness in the non-UI parts of the code because if it works fast enough with few enough errors you have no idea what cruft is under the hood. You may not realize it, but you are cherry picking your anecdotes.
Still missing the point. I've not once mentioned drivers, or blue screens or any such.
But the guy whom you were "right there with" did when he complained about stuff not "just working" out of the box. All those things are examples of stuff just not working in such a way as to be perceived as very "unpolished" to the user.
I'm not quite sure why you're getting upset over this (and don't think it's worth it)
If that's how you feel, why did you come out swinging about word choice in the first place?
Furthermore when I looked at the bug it sure seemed rare to me - only happens when replying to and quoting certain types of messages with one specific formating method from one mail client and all it does is spell-check the htmls tags in addition to the real text. Rare and non-critical - it belongs at the back of the line.
The problem is FOSS allocation of resources.
Best I can make out is that you want allocation of resources to tasks that are less than critical. Maybe you don't realize it, but that's the only end point available. The whole bit about "programmers like to invent new and faster algorithms" is a canard - there have been a ton of rote-work fixes in the UI and elsewhere in tbird and all of the major FOSS apps. You only see the empty half of the glass.
Look at the other Bug I referenced about renaming files, and look at the discussion. It's PAINFUL.
Nothing I haven't seen on case trackers for proprietary software. The occasional outliers don't indicate anything.
And to take the issue back to assersterne's post which you were "right there with" he was complaining about stuff not "just working" out of the box. Hardly something you can blame on FOSS when the only reasons stuff "just works" on other systems is because the manufacturer has paid someone to make it so and hasn't bothered with anything else. That mis-directed complaint is older than linux.
Anyone who has been around a while can go anecdote to anecdote about proprietary stuff that is "unpolished" too - drivers that fail in corner case scenarios, anti-virus software causing all kinds of applications to behave mysteriously. Hell my current winxp box has had screen/window redraw problems for years and its regularly updated with patches from MS and nvidia - the damn sound card driver blue-screens the system if I feed it 5 channel sound instead of 5.1 channels and its been that way for nearly four years now, despite being current on patches. That vendor doesn't even have a bug-tracking system I can look at.
In summary, my criticism of your point of view is that you have unrealistic expectations that are founded on cherry-picked anecdotes.
I think neither the MPAA nor Aiplex really care about about their websites getting knocked down; if anything, it gives them more publicity and lets them generate additional FUD about the dreaded "pirates". If anonymous members can't target more essential parts of their business with their attacks, they shouldn't bother.
I doubt that is the kind of publicity the MAFIAA seeks. 4CHAN isn't just attacking their websites - they are mimicing the MAFIAA. If DOS'ing a website is wrong then why is Aiplex Software, a proxy of the MAFIAA, doing it too?
Are you seriously giving me shit over a synonym for "probably doesn't hit too many people?"
The response their--and your attitude here as well--is perfectly indicative of some of the problems that users have with OSS software. "It's good enough!" or "fix it yourself."
Actually it is indicative of what happens when you have limited resources. That applies to every software project known to man and has nothing to with FOSS. Maybe you've just never seen the inside of a case tracking system for non-free software but having worked for a few of the biggest software developers in the market I can assure you that they are packed full of minor bugs that are unlikely to ever get fixed unless a customer with lots of clout decides to make a stink.
The fact that you can cite examples of similar bugs in free projects doesn't mean FOSS projects are less polished it means FOSS projects, by definition, let their dirty laundry air in public.
Since it sounds like it is able to scan a room with a laser and detect the reflections I'd like to see a version that can detect cameras and blind them automatically.
Something like a combination of their system and the spyfinder.
False positives would be no big deal if you've got enough laser sources - its not going to hurt to "blind" a false positive reflection.
Let me see if I understand your complaint - a rare bug with workarounds is given extremely low priority and that's indicative of a general problem with FOSS software? What do you propose as a change to the FOSS model of development to improve the engineering?
FF 3 and 4 are really dragging my system down, and often fail to load sites I depend on (gmail passwords are now randomly rejected in FF, but work in any other browser).
You've fucked up your installation somehow. That ain't the default behavior, if it were even close to the default behavior it would be all over the news.
This allows the production line manager to visually see the operations of the machines in a nicer format than looking at the raw logic bits. The visualization software can display shapes, colors, diagrams, animations, etc of the production line with real-time data about what's happening.
Sounds like a job for Data Diode. (they aren't the only guys who make such things)
Your math is wrong. The video is only 12-bits per pixel, not 24. It's an 8-bit grayscale channel at full resolution, and two 8-bit color channels at quarter resolution.
Only if the data format is 4:2:2 YCbCr - 4:4:4 RGB is just as valid a format on HDMI, the earliest DVI standards didn't even include YCbCr.
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Why is this modded Insightful? It's complete hogwash. The courts have ruled that seeding using P2P is not classified as distribution.
A monkey slamming his face onto the keyboard could do a better job modding than most of the people who get mod points around here.
Cite it or shut it. You are so adamant that it shouldn't be hard at all.
Remember this is Canada. But even a US citation wouldn't be so out of line.
PS - I'm not shooting from the hip, I couldn't find anything to back you up.
But go ahead, cut me down with your superior google-fu.
What if a bunch of people refuse to pedal; say 9/10 refuse to pedal, would the system still work?
Yep, but not immediately. The people who don't pedal won't be getting enough cardio and will die sooner.
It's the darwin solution to transportation problems.
So one ISP sent back the identification printed on paper since the format the id should be sent is not specifically defined.
Others have contributed ideas along those lines like using printed captchas.
I suggest going paperless and even adopting one of the formats of the entertainment industry -
deliver the information as a video of scrolling text on a bluray (with full DRM protections enabled, of course).
It's good to hear about 9/11. Now, how many Muslims denounce death penalty for apostasy?
Pretty much all of them. - I mean have you ever asked a muslim what he thought about it?
Really, the only ones who do care are the fundos and the politicians who pander to them.
The koran has just two passages that deal with the issue and in each case the death penalty is only applicable to apostates who then commit treason.
Just in case you've forgotten, we still have the death penalty for treason in the US.
Hell, the only reason we still have the death penalty for anything in the US is because the politicians who pander to american fundos.
No other western country has the death penalty. Even Russia abolished it.
But if you have to have big names say it - lets start with Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi - Grand Mufti of the leading islamic university, Al-Azhar. If islam were anywhere near as monolithic as the catholic church then the grand mufti of Al-Azhar would be the closest thing islam has to a pope. And it wasn't something new that he brought with him when the took office in 1996 - the previous Grand Mufti al-Shaltut held to similar doctrine.
But I'm sure you've never even heard of them. So how about Daisy Khan and her husband Imam Feisal Rauf - the people building the Park51 mosque.
Or if you aren't satisfied with people who are famous among muslims or people who are famous among non-muslims, how about over a hundred regular muslims from all over the planet?
So THAT'S why moderate muslims don't denounce the crazies. I get it now thanks.
Are you serious?
Thousands of muslims leaders and millions of regular muslims have denounced the terrorists.
Hell, even the leader of the axis of evil, Ayatollah Khamenei, publicly condemned the 9-11 attacks.
Sounds like you might have a job for a GPU. GPUs absolutely rock at FFTs and if your single-process jobs are simple enough you may be able to run hundreds of them simultaneously on each GPU. Current generation GPUs support double-precision floating point if you need it and also ECC memory to guard against random bit errors corrupting your calculations. ECC is definitely the way to go if you need reliable results, whether it be GPU or CPU.
when I went to Gog.com to redownload Gabriel Knight I got that stupid "zomg we're closing down" message. It feels like something straight out the 1990s,
It kinda seems appropriate since they are selling games from 1990s like Gabriel Knight
Anyone can send what they want out the PR newswire for $500
Yep - like this one: "Obama Orders Full Investigation of General Mills Supply Chain Following Food Recalls"
Yes. They have an adult filter on certain keywords. Enter one of those keywords, and you have to actually hit the enter key. This is pretty clear while you're typing, though, as all entries disappear and "press enter to search" comes up. So it isn't any slower than the traditional way where you have to hit enter for each search.
For me, the "press enter to search" fades in after a few seconds. If you start backspacing before then you might miss it. Plus, its not obvious what's going on - if it (immediately) said "press enter to search without adult filter" or "completion stopped by SafetySearch" or even provided a way to turn off the filter like they do in other parts of google with the &safe=off URL parameter or a cookie for those who "log in" then I'd be less critical.
Start typing. If you don't see what you're looking for, keep typing. Add terms and refinements.
Sounds like a good idea, but you can't trust it.
I forget where I saw it, probably here on slashdot. Trying searching for the book the "wisdom of whores" - the instant search stuff won't complete at all - it is as if there are no hits. Do a "real" search for wisdom of whores and you get a bunch of hits - the first is the author's blog and the second is the amazon page for the book.
Fed Ex will always use at least 2 trucks to service a building in the US. One for Fed Ex ground and one for Fed Ex special, or whatever it is that they call their air unit.
Sounds like an artifact of them failing to fully integrated their 1998 acquisition of RPS which became "FedEx Ground." Prior to that they had little, if any, ground shipping. I remember how back around 2005 they were still operating off completely different computer systems and in many cases had different "hubs" for ground and air - sometimes just a few miles from each other.
"HDMI Noise Filter and Signal Booster."
You know, for all those people who need gold-plated, name-brand cables for perfectly crisp, clear transmission of digital data. I think "noise filter" would be a perfectly apt description of the secondary function, too!
I'll do you one better - a device that is actually useful to real people - an HDMI "logo remover" - put it between your cable box and your TV and it will detect and remove those annoying-ass logos that most television stations put on their shows. As far as I know such a box does not exist but I know a guy who is working on bringing one to market, maybe I can convince him to leave in an up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A engineering mode that lets you flash your own keys - including a complete wipe on the output side.
I'm surprised they didn't go with mongooses - it worked so well in Hawaii:
http://www.susanscott.net/Oceanwatch2002/apr19-02.html
Given the response to Stewart's Crossfire interview - he embarrassed them enough that they cancelled the program soon thereafter - this could actually help restore a little rationality to the conversation. If nothing else, it should be entertaining for the tourists.
This.
If anyone doubts that Stewart was about "being reasonable" while Bush was in power his criticism of the 'left' and 'right' hosts of Crossfire as "partisan hacks" in 2004 should prove otherwise.
I wonder if this or similar genes could be responsible for "above average" intelligence in some people. It would seem to explain why the majority of people seem to maintain their seemingly low average.
Not quite sure what you mean by that - but the intelligence of the majority, as measured by IQ, has been consistently increasing for generations now, it is called the Flynn Effect.
All I said is that you used a word different from what I said
A declarative statement like "your word, not mine" generally indicates that the writer believes the word to be deliberately misleading.
So far, nope all evidence points to "rare" being pretty accurate. You say that this bug has been reported a handful of times over the course of 8 years - I see that as pretty freaking rare. You see "8 years" - I see hundreds of thousands if not millions of users of which only a handful have been bothered enough to report it - maybe representing 20x as many who haven't bothered to report it. 200 out of say a very conservative 200,000 - that's still extremely rare.
You say "checks the contents of the tag" does that mean something other than checking the tags? It's not a critical failure if the spell checker hits on things like "href" and URLs. Is there something else that is being checked that I'm missing here? Furthermore, according to my reading of that bug it is JUST one client - outlook or exchange configured to do rtf formatted messages that causes the spell-checker to do that.
Take a look at his later posts about bug reports.
huh? What does that matter? You were "right there with" something he had not even written yet?
I cheerfully grant that in a programmers view of priority, UI often comes last. That's part of the problem.
No, you don't cheerfully grant - you declare and base your entire argument on that declaration. I don't agree - see the part where I called it a canard. Doing UI work well is hard, but that's true of all the other areas of programming too, they are all hard to do well - its the doing well part that is difficult. You just don't see all the sloppiness in the non-UI parts of the code because if it works fast enough with few enough errors you have no idea what cruft is under the hood. You may not realize it, but you are cherry picking your anecdotes.
Still missing the point. I've not once mentioned drivers, or blue screens or any such.
But the guy whom you were "right there with" did when he complained about stuff not "just working" out of the box. All those things are examples of stuff just not working in such a way as to be perceived as very "unpolished" to the user.
came away quite convinced, and a lot drunk
I think you'll find that's not quite so good an argument in favor of the technology once you've sobered up.
I'm not quite sure why you're getting upset over this (and don't think it's worth it)
If that's how you feel, why did you come out swinging about word choice in the first place?
Furthermore when I looked at the bug it sure seemed rare to me - only happens when replying to and quoting certain types of messages with one specific formating method from one mail client and all it does is spell-check the htmls tags in addition to the real text. Rare and non-critical - it belongs at the back of the line.
The problem is FOSS allocation of resources.
Best I can make out is that you want allocation of resources to tasks that are less than critical. Maybe you don't realize it, but that's the only end point available. The whole bit about "programmers like to invent new and faster algorithms" is a canard - there have been a ton of rote-work fixes in the UI and elsewhere in tbird and all of the major FOSS apps. You only see the empty half of the glass.
Look at the other Bug I referenced about renaming files, and look at the discussion. It's PAINFUL.
Nothing I haven't seen on case trackers for proprietary software. The occasional outliers don't indicate anything.
And to take the issue back to assersterne's post which you were "right there with" he was complaining about stuff not "just working" out of the box. Hardly something you can blame on FOSS when the only reasons stuff "just works" on other systems is because the manufacturer has paid someone to make it so and hasn't bothered with anything else. That mis-directed complaint is older than linux.
Anyone who has been around a while can go anecdote to anecdote about proprietary stuff that is "unpolished" too - drivers that fail in corner case scenarios, anti-virus software causing all kinds of applications to behave mysteriously. Hell my current winxp box has had screen/window redraw problems for years and its regularly updated with patches from MS and nvidia - the damn sound card driver blue-screens the system if I feed it 5 channel sound instead of 5.1 channels and its been that way for nearly four years now, despite being current on patches. That vendor doesn't even have a bug-tracking system I can look at.
In summary, my criticism of your point of view is that you have unrealistic expectations that are founded on cherry-picked anecdotes.
I think neither the MPAA nor Aiplex really care about about their websites getting knocked down; if anything, it gives them more publicity and lets them generate additional FUD about the dreaded "pirates". If anonymous members can't target more essential parts of their business with their attacks, they shouldn't bother.
I doubt that is the kind of publicity the MAFIAA seeks.
4CHAN isn't just attacking their websites - they are mimicing the MAFIAA.
If DOS'ing a website is wrong then why is Aiplex Software, a proxy of the MAFIAA, doing it too?
"Rare" was your word, not mine.
Are you seriously giving me shit over a synonym for "probably doesn't hit too many people?"
The response their--and your attitude here as well--is perfectly indicative of some of the problems that users have with OSS software. "It's good enough!" or "fix it yourself."
Actually it is indicative of what happens when you have limited resources. That applies to every software project known to man and has nothing to with FOSS. Maybe you've just never seen the inside of a case tracking system for non-free software but having worked for a few of the biggest software developers in the market I can assure you that they are packed full of minor bugs that are unlikely to ever get fixed unless a customer with lots of clout decides to make a stink.
The fact that you can cite examples of similar bugs in free projects doesn't mean FOSS projects are less polished it means FOSS projects, by definition, let their dirty laundry air in public.
Since it sounds like it is able to scan a room with a laser and detect the reflections I'd like to see a version that can detect cameras and blind them automatically.
Something like a combination of their system and the spyfinder.
False positives would be no big deal if you've got enough laser sources - its not going to hurt to "blind" a false positive reflection.
Let me see if I understand your complaint - a rare bug with workarounds is given extremely low priority and that's indicative of a general problem with FOSS software? What do you propose as a change to the FOSS model of development to improve the engineering?
FF 3 and 4 are really dragging my system down, and often fail to load sites I depend on (gmail passwords are now randomly rejected in FF, but work in any other browser).
You've fucked up your installation somehow. That ain't the default behavior, if it were even close to the default behavior it would be all over the news.
This allows the production line manager to visually see the operations of the machines in a nicer format than looking at the raw logic bits. The visualization software can display shapes, colors, diagrams, animations, etc of the production line with real-time data about what's happening.
Sounds like a job for Data Diode. (they aren't the only guys who make such things)
Your math is wrong. The video is only 12-bits per pixel, not 24. It's an 8-bit grayscale channel at full resolution, and two 8-bit color channels at quarter resolution.
Only if the data format is 4:2:2 YCbCr - 4:4:4 RGB is just as valid a format on HDMI, the earliest DVI standards didn't even include YCbCr.