Uh, underflow/rollover wrecks the adjacent memory? What sort of silly language allow that? Rollover usually results in a -1 turning into some gigantic positive value, not that it starting trying to use additional memory in an attempt to store an even smaller value. Similar with a floating point underflow, except that the ALU detects it (and usually puts out zero, although I don't know what an iPhone processor does).
As far as I can tell, the lander worked exactly as intended for as long as intended. It's the extended mission that had issues, and that was always an "if possible"/"best effort" prospect.People are continuing to think that this mission was "troubled" and had a lot of problems but was just good, and they got a second shot - which was a very long shot.
I am no apologist for the ESA (far from it) but this was a very nice, well-executed program and they shouldn't and the world shouldn't getting a negative impression about it.
This is exactly right and the "open source community" needs to understand this or they will get nowhere. Even if the MS support is poor (and I assure you, it's generally terrible, even enterprise "platinum"), *nothing at all* or "go ask someone one a message board" is a complete non-starter.
Stake through the heart, silver bullet, and then hachet decapitation! I think the latter is probably the way to go, it's been a zombie lurching along for the last 10 years.
Trane is certainly "focused on technology". Just not computer geek technology. Do you know how to design and manufacture a long-lived air conditioning or heat pump compressor? And successfully and profitable for decades?
Oh My GOD! A possibly exploitable-if-you-know-or-bother-to-look-for-it bug in a device that will change the room temperature! On something that doesn't really need to be connected to the internet in the first place, and would slightly inconvenience you if it were pwn'ed! Bring back the guillotine because this is worse than 9/11!
If you are super-paranoid, just pull the ethernet cable, then you can live your life without the existential dread of coming home to a 78 degree house.
It's cute when you can't win the argument and start calling names.
BTW, I have probably looked at more simulation data than all climate scientists put together and had plenty of opportunity to check simulation results against real life. If the predictions fall out 6-sigma low - which the best-case (lest warming) model did a few years ago - the simulation is wrong, period, back to the drawing board.
With no "climate scientists", when every single prediction from the models come out wrong again, who will go back, adjust the models, and then retro-predict real life?
I think you are probably wrong. A small meteorite will likely wind up at terminal velocity long before it gets to the ground, so it won't be whizzing in at miles/seconds, maybe a few hundred miles an hour. Still a bad day if it hits you, but it won't likely vaporize you or turn you to plasma entirely.
If North America got rid of nuclear weapons tomorrow, you would be living in a totalitarian regime in a less than 5 years. You, and the rest of human civilization, still exist because the US nuclear deterrent.
I am sure you will sputter and argue otherwise, but the reason it bothers you so much is that you *know* that to be true but can't accept it.
It's US-centric *because we are the good guys* in this case. If you don't grasp the concept that Western civilization is the greatest boon to mankind in history and the US is the greatest expression of that boon, you are a fool and don't know history.
The Jupiter and Redstone/Juno were essentially Army programs and launched numerous early satellites and space probes and a modified Redstone launched Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on Mercury flights.
It's moot anyway, the premise of the GP is invalid.
A tiny pressure group can stop virtually any big project, by filing court action after court action, delaying it until everyone gets tired of it and gives up. If they hadn't succeeded this time, they would have found some endangered flea, argued indefinitely until they won or lost, and lose, try again with a newly-invented religious icon.
It happens time and again. For example, the NFL (with regard to the Washington Redskins) is on record for saying "if one person objects, we will take action". Whether you think the word is offensive is beside the point. This sort of thinking allows the loudest complainers to exert veto power over virtually anything. So we get absolutely nowhere.
I am sorry, but I don't understand that statement. Are you asserting the denizens of slashdot are not an accurate reflection of society at large? Because I find that hard to believe.
I have surfed the internet extensively, so I know what is really going on in the world. Don't try to pull the wool over *my* eyes!
BTW, does anyone have a good website about curing Rickets at home? I would prefer a solution that does not involve exposure to sunlight.
You don't understand. If someone or a company does one single thing you don't agree with, they are morons and should be called every name in the book. How else will they learn?
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A phone cannot be carried into a secure area. A (one-way) pager can.
Uh, underflow/rollover wrecks the adjacent memory? What sort of silly language allow that? Rollover usually results in a -1 turning into some gigantic positive value, not that it starting trying to use additional memory in an attempt to store an even smaller value. Similar with a floating point underflow, except that the ALU detects it (and usually puts out zero, although I don't know what an iPhone processor does).
As far as I can tell, the lander worked exactly as intended for as long as intended. It's the extended mission that had issues, and that was always an "if possible"/"best effort" prospect .People are continuing to think that this mission was "troubled" and had a lot of problems but was just good, and they got a second shot - which was a very long shot.
I am no apologist for the ESA (far from it) but this was a very nice, well-executed program and they shouldn't and the world shouldn't getting a negative impression about it.
This is exactly right and the "open source community" needs to understand this or they will get nowhere. Even if the MS support is poor (and I assure you, it's generally terrible, even enterprise "platinum"), *nothing at all* or "go ask someone one a message board" is a complete non-starter.
Because of course VMS crushes all competition from inferior OSs like UNIX, EDT is the real winner!
Stake through the heart, silver bullet, and then hachet decapitation! I think the latter is probably the way to go, it's been a zombie lurching along for the last 10 years.
Trane is certainly "focused on technology". Just not computer geek technology. Do you know how to design and manufacture a long-lived air conditioning or heat pump compressor? And successfully and profitable for decades?
Technology existed before the internet, you know.
Oh My GOD! A possibly exploitable-if-you-know-or-bother-to-look-for-it bug in a device that will change the room temperature! On something that doesn't really need to be connected to the internet in the first place, and would slightly inconvenience you if it were pwn'ed! Bring back the guillotine because this is worse than 9/11!
If you are super-paranoid, just pull the ethernet cable, then you can live your life without the existential dread of coming home to a 78 degree house.
It's cute when you can't win the argument and start calling names.
BTW, I have probably looked at more simulation data than all climate scientists put together and had plenty of opportunity to check simulation results against real life. If the predictions fall out 6-sigma low - which the best-case (lest warming) model did a few years ago - the simulation is wrong, period, back to the drawing board.
With no "climate scientists", when every single prediction from the models come out wrong again, who will go back, adjust the models, and then retro-predict real life?
That's a slashdot record!
I think you are probably wrong. A small meteorite will likely wind up at terminal velocity long before it gets to the ground, so it won't be whizzing in at miles/seconds, maybe a few hundred miles an hour. Still a bad day if it hits you, but it won't likely vaporize you or turn you to plasma entirely.
If North America got rid of nuclear weapons tomorrow, you would be living in a totalitarian regime in a less than 5 years. You, and the rest of human civilization, still exist because the US nuclear deterrent.
I am sure you will sputter and argue otherwise, but the reason it bothers you so much is that you *know* that to be true but can't accept it.
It's US-centric *because we are the good guys* in this case. If you don't grasp the concept that Western civilization is the greatest boon to mankind in history and the US is the greatest expression of that boon, you are a fool and don't know history.
The Jupiter and Redstone/Juno were essentially Army programs and launched numerous early satellites and space probes and a modified Redstone launched Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom on Mercury flights.
It's moot anyway, the premise of the GP is invalid.
Which is of course irrelevant. The US (nor USSR) were not under international sanctions with agreements not to do it at the time, unlike North Korea.
As far as I can tell, he's mostly a money man. You don't see any pictures of him welding, or running a milling machine, or soldering up a circuit.
You're new here, right? Two clear tip-offs
1) you RTFA
2) are surprised that the summary misrepresents the article in order to make a different point
Please note this for future reference
A tiny pressure group can stop virtually any big project, by filing court action after court action, delaying it until everyone gets tired of it and gives up. If they hadn't succeeded this time, they would have found some endangered flea, argued indefinitely until they won or lost, and lose, try again with a newly-invented religious icon.
It happens time and again. For example, the NFL (with regard to the Washington Redskins) is on record for saying "if one person objects, we will take action". Whether you think the word is offensive is beside the point. This sort of thinking allows the loudest complainers to exert veto power over virtually anything. So we get absolutely nowhere.
Thank you! Don't forget to tip your waitress.
You're the tool of "big dairy"!
I am sorry, but I don't understand that statement. Are you asserting the denizens of slashdot are not an accurate reflection of society at large? Because I find that hard to believe.
I have surfed the internet extensively, so I know what is really going on in the world. Don't try to pull the wool over *my* eyes!
BTW, does anyone have a good website about curing Rickets at home? I would prefer a solution that does not involve exposure to sunlight.
You don't understand. If someone or a company does one single thing you don't agree with, they are morons and should be called every name in the book. How else will they learn?
I agree, traitors and enemy spies used to be shot summarily.
They also burned someone to death in a 100% oxygen atmosphere in a ground test a few years earlier. Another first for the Soviet space program!