I think they're well aware of that. Mind you, consider this passage.
Materials. We created a 30-item questionnaire made up of jokes we felt were of varying comedic value. Jokes were taken from Woody Allen (1975), Al Frankin (1992), and a book of "really silly" pet jokes by Jeff Rovin (1996). To assess joke quality, we contacted several professional comedians via electronic mail and asked them to rate each joke on a scale ranging from 1 (not at all funny) to 11 (very funny). Eight comedians responded to our request (Bob Crawford, Costaki Economopoulos, Paul Frisbie, Kathleen Madigan, Ann Rose, Allan Sitterson, David Spark, and Dan St. Paul). Although the ratings provided by the eight comedians were moderately reliable (a =.72), an analysis of interrater correlations found that one (and only one) comedian's ratings failed to correlate positively with the others (mean r = -.09). We thus excluded this comedian's ratings in our calculation of the humor value of each joke, yielding a final a of.76.
Expert ratings revealed that jokes ranged from the not so funny (e.g., "Question: What is big as a man, but weighs nothing? Answer: His shadow." Mean expert rating = 1.3) to the very funny (e.g., "If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'probably because of something you did.'" Mean expert rating = 9.6).
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.
It's truly +1 Funny/Insightful. And yet highly disturbing (-1 Troll) too, because clearly everyone must have areas where they lack ability and also lack 'metacognitive ability' to know they lack ability. It's absolutely an awesome read the first time you do so.
If Rover chews your stuff again or craps on the carpet he will be left in the car on a hot day. And he knows how to operate the electric windows but he's not able to hotwire the car.
I know what you mean. To me it seems like the convenience of electric windows is marginal. And more complexity tends me mean a lower MTBF. OK I don't object to electric windows per se, but they are a symptom of adding more features without much concern for the fact that each new feature decreases reliabilty.
If some company like Tata ends up taking over it will mostly be because they have a more ruthless approach to keeping things simple. Euro, American and Japanese car manufacturers have definitely lost this skill in the quest to compete on feature sets.
It's not just cars too. There's a Microsoft produced spoof of if Microsoft made the iPod. They start off with a plain white box and then add "minimum system version", and a load of increasingly useless detail about what features the device has. The implication is that 99% of users don't care about this stuff - the only people that care are the marketting department of the company that made it. Apple is one of the few companies that get this and that's why they ended up owning the market for MP3 players.
Actually the best way to make a breakout product is to avoid a design cluttered by feature that most people don't care about. Keep it simple and user friendly and you're good to go. I'd say cheap too, but Apple shows you can charge a premium for this sort of design.
NoScript's AdBlock-blocking trick was kinda dirty, but I don't see them as being hypocritical for allowing their own ads given the tremendous service(which increases safety while speeding up browsing) they provide for free.
You just need to use the Adblock-block-block addon together with NoScript, and also the NoScript-block-block add on
The NT kernel is very portable. It's run on i860, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, IA64, SPARC, x86, and x86-64 over the years. Most of the platform-specific stuff is in the HAL. Microsoft could probably port the XP userland to ARM in a couple of weeks, and Office would likely not need much more than a recompile. This wouldn't help third-party developers, but they did buy a company that made a nice x86 emulator (ran over 50% of native speed for most tasks on PowerPC).
The problem is that ARM is an embedded CPU. A high end ARM - say a 1Ghz Cortex A9 probably has less horse power than a low end x86 - say a 1.33Ghz Atom. It's not just clockspeed, ARM is aimed at low power embedded applications. That forces compromises to keep the chip small and low power. And it affects things like the design of the memory subsystem too.
Now Intel always aimed at the desktop/server market, really at environments where CPU horsepower was everything and power consumption was not an issue. Of course with Core and even more with Atom they are moving down into the space ARM has traditionally occupied. Still, they aren't there yet. x86 uses more power, and not all of that is due to being an inelgant architecture.
Emulating x86 on ARM will, even with an absolutely brilliant emulation layer give a very poor use experience because ARM is aimed at a very different market where there is less demand for raw CPU speed. I'd bet a Cortex A9 will run x86 code slower than an Atom. And that's an issue - an Atom is already too slow IMO.
I agree about NT kernel portability, but I don't think Office is very portable at all. It was never ported to Risc platforms for example. Office 2010 will be both 32 and 64 bit, but at the moment it is 32 bit only. And Windows users don't just want Office, they want to run third party applications too. Realistically there is zero chance of those getting ported to ARM.
Look what happened with Itanium - it was aimed at servers and had an in order x86 core to run x86 code. That was still apparently too slow for the market. I don't really see it the situation changing either. There will be far more low power x86 CPUs in the future - the AMD Neo and Intel CULV will both have much more performance than Atom, albeit at a higher TDP. Of course x86 will never beat ARM on power consumption, but I don't think there be much overlap between high end ARM and low end x86 on performance either. That makes emulating x86 on ARM a risky proposition.
We've had some reports you're being a bit negative about Project Warpdrive. I'd just like to remind you we've signed a contract with Suckercorp where they have signed a business agreement to buy a million warpdrives at one million dollars each.
We're going to make a note on your permanent record about this, and we've booked you in for a chat with your manager at 6am next Monday. Please try to avoid saying anything that could damage our relationships with our clients in future.
So it must have already happened, and it undid itself by resolving the paradox in four dimensions.
Not necessarily, by my calculations of we altered the polarization of the shield harmonics and then converted the front deflector dish to a chronitron emitter we could build a multiphasic deity emitter which would resolve any outstanding plot parodoxes in time for the last reel of the show.
Slashdot Mirror
(Did we win in Fallujah? For how long? When we leave will it erupt into civil war? If so, can we still say we won?)
It'll probably be like Vietnam. US soldiers will win all the battles and then US politicians will decide the US has lost the war.
I think they're well aware of that. Mind you, consider this passage.
Materials. We created a 30-item questionnaire made up of jokes we .72), an analysis of interrater correlations found .76.
felt were of varying comedic value. Jokes were taken from Woody Allen
(1975), Al Frankin (1992), and a book of "really silly" pet jokes by Jeff
Rovin (1996). To assess joke quality, we contacted several professional
comedians via electronic mail and asked them to rate each joke on a scale
ranging from 1 (not at all funny) to 11 (very funny). Eight comedians
responded to our request (Bob Crawford, Costaki Economopoulos, Paul
Frisbie, Kathleen Madigan, Ann Rose, Allan Sitterson, David Spark, and
Dan St. Paul). Although the ratings provided by the eight comedians were
moderately reliable (a =
that one (and only one) comedian's ratings failed to correlate positively
with the others (mean r = -.09). We thus excluded this comedian's ratings
in our calculation of the humor value of each joke, yielding a final a of
Expert ratings revealed that jokes ranged from the not so funny (e.g.,
"Question: What is big as a man, but weighs nothing? Answer: His
shadow." Mean expert rating = 1.3) to the very funny (e.g., "If a kid asks
where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.'
And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is
'probably because of something you did.'" Mean expert rating = 9.6).
That's objectively hilarious right there.
That would have been ok if they had introduced more of the American Colonial's natural predator, the English Redcoat.
Then you introduce the Prussian (or French) Cavalryman to keep the numbers of Recoats manageable.
Have you read this
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.
It's truly +1 Funny/Insightful. And yet highly disturbing (-1 Troll) too, because clearly everyone must have areas where they lack ability and also lack 'metacognitive ability' to know they lack ability. It's absolutely an awesome read the first time you do so.
Is that what that Queen song Radio Gaga is about?
I read that as "Shelfish astromers" and thought I'd missed some big news about Europa. A *lot* of big news in fact.
Detecting inconsistency is fiction is a very useful skill, just like detecting sarcasm is.
Car use case 67890 - Dog punishment.
If Rover chews your stuff again or craps on the carpet he will be left in the car on a hot day. And he knows how to operate the electric windows but he's not able to hotwire the car.
I know what you mean. To me it seems like the convenience of electric windows is marginal. And more complexity tends me mean a lower MTBF. OK I don't object to electric windows per se, but they are a symptom of adding more features without much concern for the fact that each new feature decreases reliabilty.
If some company like Tata ends up taking over it will mostly be because they have a more ruthless approach to keeping things simple. Euro, American and Japanese car manufacturers have definitely lost this skill in the quest to compete on feature sets.
It's not just cars too. There's a Microsoft produced spoof of if Microsoft made the iPod. They start off with a plain white box and then add "minimum system version", and a load of increasingly useless detail about what features the device has. The implication is that 99% of users don't care about this stuff - the only people that care are the marketting department of the company that made it. Apple is one of the few companies that get this and that's why they ended up owning the market for MP3 players.
Actually the best way to make a breakout product is to avoid a design cluttered by feature that most people don't care about. Keep it simple and user friendly and you're good to go. I'd say cheap too, but Apple shows you can charge a premium for this sort of design.
I've got friends in Germany who send me obnoxious tinyurl as pranks and really, you don't.
NoScript's AdBlock-blocking trick was kinda dirty, but I don't see them as being hypocritical for allowing their own ads given the tremendous service(which increases safety while speeding up browsing) they provide for free.
You just need to use the Adblock-block-block addon together with NoScript, and also the NoScript-block-block add on
Urban "baby monitors" are going to kill whitie? That's it
CODE HELTER SKELTER! CODE HELTER SKELTER!
I would have got first post if it wasn't for those goddamn BREEDERS and their filthy RUGRATS JAMMING my wifi.
Actually OS X supports some 3G cards OK.
E.g. here's a guide to install OS X on a Dell Mini 9
http://i.gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook
Follow this tutorial to get your mobile broadband working if your Mini 9 has it. Network preferences should recognize it out of the box.
Now what's interesting about this is that the Dell 5530 wireless card is supported the bundled OS X drivers.
Try to imagine the internet as you know it stopping instantaneously and meme in the thread exploding at the speed of light.
The NT kernel is very portable. It's run on i860, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, IA64, SPARC, x86, and x86-64 over the years. Most of the platform-specific stuff is in the HAL. Microsoft could probably port the XP userland to ARM in a couple of weeks, and Office would likely not need much more than a recompile. This wouldn't help third-party developers, but they did buy a company that made a nice x86 emulator (ran over 50% of native speed for most tasks on PowerPC).
The problem is that ARM is an embedded CPU. A high end ARM - say a 1Ghz Cortex A9 probably has less horse power than a low end x86 - say a 1.33Ghz Atom. It's not just clockspeed, ARM is aimed at low power embedded applications. That forces compromises to keep the chip small and low power. And it affects things like the design of the memory subsystem too.
Now Intel always aimed at the desktop/server market, really at environments where CPU horsepower was everything and power consumption was not an issue. Of course with Core and even more with Atom they are moving down into the space ARM has traditionally occupied. Still, they aren't there yet. x86 uses more power, and not all of that is due to being an inelgant architecture.
Emulating x86 on ARM will, even with an absolutely brilliant emulation layer give a very poor use experience because ARM is aimed at a very different market where there is less demand for raw CPU speed. I'd bet a Cortex A9 will run x86 code slower than an Atom. And that's an issue - an Atom is already too slow IMO.
I agree about NT kernel portability, but I don't think Office is very portable at all. It was never ported to Risc platforms for example. Office 2010 will be both 32 and 64 bit, but at the moment it is 32 bit only. And Windows users don't just want Office, they want to run third party applications too. Realistically there is zero chance of those getting ported to ARM.
Look what happened with Itanium - it was aimed at servers and had an in order x86 core to run x86 code. That was still apparently too slow for the market. I don't really see it the situation changing either. There will be far more low power x86 CPUs in the future - the AMD Neo and Intel CULV will both have much more performance than Atom, albeit at a higher TDP. Of course x86 will never beat ARM on power consumption, but I don't think there be much overlap between high end ARM and low end x86 on performance either. That makes emulating x86 on ARM a risky proposition.
That's quite a read, you have to go out of your way to get multiple people writing comments like this one:
"Wow, you are a bastard. I hope you die alone. :D"
Not on the internet you don't.
Oops, I mean
Wow, you are a bastard. I hope you die alone.
He said "embedded carp"
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5070#c1
Don't cross the series. It would be ... bad.
Hi! HR here!
We've had some reports you're being a bit negative about Project Warpdrive. I'd just like to remind you we've signed a contract with Suckercorp where they have signed a business agreement to buy a million warpdrives at one million dollars each.
We're going to make a note on your permanent record about this, and we've booked you in for a chat with your manager at 6am next Monday. Please try to avoid saying anything that could damage our relationships with our clients in future.
Limitation breeds creativity, perhaps?
Is it me or is it ironic that you wrote a long and eloquent post to say that.
It's a shame 4chan wasn't around when bin Laden's phone number was published in court documents
Policework is hard, let's try waterboarding.
Finally the Empire will crush the rebel scum and bring order to the galaxy.
So it must have already happened, and it undid itself by resolving the paradox in four dimensions.
Not necessarily, by my calculations of we altered the polarization of the shield harmonics and then converted the front deflector dish to a chronitron emitter we could build a multiphasic deity emitter which would resolve any outstanding plot parodoxes in time for the last reel of the show.