You are correct if the person said nothing. However if she knew of the problem she might feel very guilty about not saying anything if someone did get hurt. I think that sometimes there is a moral responsibility to spread the news even if it is supposedly illeagal to do so.
in the case of computer glitches, the issue is more complicated because an exploit can't be used unless it is known. And so in that case spreading the news might actually make the expliot more likely. I know ways that would hang a DEC Vax machine. I never told people how to do this. And the DEC people didn't care what I had to say about it. The problem probably still exists out there on those Vaxes that are still running.
The Virtual Memory system will slow things down if you have very large objects in your applications. If you have memory structure that are constantly being swapped out, this can result in some severe harddrive trashing.
I saw this problem where I last worked.
And so, even if you have an efficient scheduler, you still have to deal with the VM.
If you put your memory objects into kernel space, then they don't get swapped out. I am not an expert about VM, just that I wish that I could tag a user space memory object as non-swappable, but you can not (has this changed in newer kernels?).
You might consider a timeslicing algorithm and weave your processes together. If you rely on the kernel to do this for you, you probably will want to explore the real-time extensions to the kernel. Again, I don't have an inside line of this either. I hear you can get all the pieces if you do it yourself, or you can license them from a real-time Linux vendor. If you have critical processes I would consider a timeslicing algorithm and a single process that runs at a higher priority.
Also explore creating a SHEM object and compileing it into your kernel.
The keyboard that I mean is the one where your hands are at angles to each other.
When the microsoft key first showed up I used to pry it out so I wouldn't hit it by accident.
My post was trying to be funny in the sense that I don't use their software but I do use their keyboard design. I don't use their software because I keep getting viruses and don't want to have to keep dealing with all of that and the cost of it all. I run Linux on three machines with one that still boots to an old version of MS so I can play Civilization.
Oh, and by the way the word corporate comes from the word cooperation. And so, sense there must be more than one to have cooperation, it is appropriate to use they when talking about a corporation.
Also, IBM is made up a living, breathing employees and board members. They are not an it.
I, for one, would love to see all of the grammer nazi's cease from their pendanty unless there is a real chance of misunderstanding what the words mean. And if there is a misunderstanding then please ask for clarity and not just act like a now-it-all.
There is a place for pedantic attention to grammer, like in formal contracts or when writing laws. Otherwise anyone who demands perfect grammer from others seems like an elitist.
Just my point of view.
Please read Ludwig Wittgenstein about the use of language.
Maybe the quality of writing that you see from 100 years ago is so good because a lot of the poor writing from that time was just thrown in the trash or used to heat people's houses.
I am sure that you can find a lot of poor writing form 100 or 150 years ago if you go to an old archieve.
Probably what you are complaigning about is information overload. You might want to subscribe to a literary journal where someone else reviews the works. That way you can see what might be good. How about the New York Review of Books?
If you read the random comments that folks type furiously and almost automatically at two AM into their computer because they are bored and unemployed, then you probably have a good reason to be frustrated.
I think that there are those who do not think for themselves. And there are those who do. In the 19th century anything that didn't pass the editor didn't get printed. No all I have to do is hit Submit and, poof, I am published.
If you want quality subscribe to a magazine. That way, once a week or once a month, you can get journals in a paper format where the writings have been reviewed by a professional editor.
I am sure that an analog system can be used to piggy back a digital signal with a point to point protocol in the Physical layer so that a HAM connection can act just like a modem and a phone line.
The HAM radio protocols do not exclude the use of HAM as the transport mechanism for an IP connection.
And thus you could get a UDP or a TCP/IP connection through a HAM radio setup (perhaps on special frequencies). Thus HAM and Internet are not mutually exclusive./. posters: Doesn't this system already exisit?
Suppose he discovered a defect in a car or some other piece of physical hardware. If that defect were severe enough to kill someone and he did not publish his knowledge of the defect, then could he then be held criminally liable and be accused of negligent homocide? Surely the right thing would be to publish the defect and warn the users of the product.
How did software companies get all of these special rules for them if stuff that doesn't work.? If it were a tire or a car or a bridge or a robot, they could never get away with it. But if software doesn't work we are all supposed to just buy the upgrade.
Ever acre of land covered with a solar cell array is an acre of land that can't be used for farming or for wildlife in the same way that it would if the solar cells weren't there.
The efficiency of the cell is dependant upon the angle of incident light so that it only gets that peak performance at one time during the day. Tracking the cell towards the Sun is a non-trivial operation.
Another point to mention about light from the Sun and from other stars:
The spectrum is different for different stars as another poster so dutifully pointed out. Thus space probes that go to other stars will need to have different types of solar cells that are tuned for the spectra of the star to which they travel.
Start your own energy company. Invest in a technological breakthrough. In a Free Enterprise system you are free to do that.
You don't have to wait around for anyone else, do it yourself.
There is nothing wrong with big profit as long as you don't enslave people in the process. Also, if you make a lot, then you can share a lot.
Wealthy and powerful people are not categorically and necessarily greedy and selfish as you seem to imply with your post. But being wealthy and powerful makes one (I believe) more susceptible to personality traits that are loathsome to many others. With great wealth comes great responsibility. Wealth in this sense is a curse. But the curse can be overcome.
I can understand the iconoclast who doesn't want to obey a King. However, can you not understand why some one (not everyone) would want to obey a King?
Do you not understand this concept? It might be wrong for you to obey a king. However, do you fail to understand that others do, others have, others will. It is just an historical fact.
When Cromwall brought English society to a crash the English invited the monarchy back.
Wasn't it their right to do so?
I don't see Wiki as useful friend.
To me it seems more like the Wikipedia is a place where people have a desparate need to try and sound like they have some valid point to make, when they only really just want to seem like an expert.
It is an annoying trait to want to be heard above everyone else even when you don't have a clue about what you are talking about.
Why can't the Wikipedia allow multiple articles on the same topic? Why does it have to be so conspriacy of the one?
Didn't the Enlightenment and modern Philosophy bring us to a point where we understand that there are multiple points of view? Wikipedia trys to sound like an authority on everything and hence looses all credibility as a source of any relevant information.
I am glad that you see the bias in the thing. I just can't get past all of the smarmy know-it-all-ism of the thing and the complete and total hubris of the psuedo-intellectual pronouncements that I always see when ever I see a quoted article.
It sounded like a good idea. It isn't a good idea. Why is there such an emotional attachment to a concept that isn't working?
It is like the people in the late 70's who were still spouting off all kinds of hippie nonsense when everyone could see that the culture of the hippie had to die (hence the funeral for the hippie).
Only at that time did the movement live.
The Wikipedia seems like a good idea until you actually try to use it for real information.
Oh, and PS: you use the word we when you should perhaps use the term I.
If you don't understand why someone would want to obey a king, that doesn't mean that all of us don't understand.
Year and years ago I was working on antenna design algorithms. These result in spiral designs that are the pattern of the antenna output. In those days the calculations took a lot of time becuase it was a 8 MegHz computer (a tandy 1000).
The equations were all f of theta.
And the thing would plot out very slowly.
I had to keep running the thing to try and come up with some reasonable designs.
What I realized was that if I picked random thetas that I could see the shape much quicker. And then if I saw something I liked, then I could plot it from 0 to 2 pi and get the graph for the antenna output.
As these were sine based trigonometric equations they were repetative so 0 to 2pi would produce the same output as 2pi to 4pi, or 4pi to 6pi, etc.
For any sine based equation that is periodic with 2pi you can do the same thing.
I was not thinking about just desktop computers. In general any software has initialization routines. My work has been in robotics, automation, and telecom switching equipment written in C and C++. We spent a lot of time worrying about efficiency, but not for startup routines unless the start lag became annoying. But for the most part people expect things to take a little time to start up. There are a lot of things to do, especially if you have no way of knowing how the thing shut down. I am digressing.
I think that a genetic algorithm to tune sounds like a great idea. I would just want a way to say check this code and not this other code.
If you deal with people who assume that everyone is a liar then you are correct. That seems to be a lot of lawyers and also police.
For example if you tell what you really did in an altercation then you do have a problem if the other person lied about what happened and they cops think the truth is in the middle.
I like what the Book of Proverbs suggests: avoid the courts as much as possible.
However, when asked to speak the truth and you refuse then the assumption is that you have something to hide and the consequences could be far worse.
So, refusing to talk could be worse. In the case of this kid if he is what he says he is then I think that Apple may decide to let it go and settle. If they don't then they will get bad PR.
Probably he is a little bit naive, however don't you expect a 21 year old to be just a little?
He made a mistake, and there have already been consequences to what he did. This shouldn't ruin the rest of his life.
Oh, if if you remain silent and something bad happens because you didn't provide a warning to the police as they arrest you then what kind of a person does that make you? Silence is one way, but not the only way. The kid in the interview sounded terrified and upset. Did you think he was making it up?
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Doesn't the NSA already do this?
You are correct if the person said nothing. However if she knew of the problem she might feel very guilty about not saying anything if someone did get hurt. I think that sometimes there is a moral responsibility to spread the news even if it is supposedly illeagal to do so.
in the case of computer glitches, the issue is more complicated because an exploit can't be used unless it is known. And so in that case spreading the news might actually make the expliot more likely. I know ways that would hang a DEC Vax machine. I never told people how to do this. And the DEC people didn't care what I had to say about it. The problem probably still exists out there on those Vaxes that are still running.
The Virtual Memory system will slow things down if you have very large objects in your applications. If you have memory structure that are constantly being swapped out, this can result in some severe harddrive trashing.
I saw this problem where I last worked.
And so, even if you have an efficient scheduler, you still have to deal with the VM.
If you put your memory objects into kernel space, then they don't get swapped out.
I am not an expert about VM, just that I wish that I could tag a user space memory object as non-swappable, but you can not (has this changed in newer kernels?).
You might consider a timeslicing algorithm and weave your processes together. If you rely on the kernel to do this for you, you probably will want to explore the real-time extensions to the kernel. Again, I don't have an inside line of this either. I hear you can get all the pieces if you do it yourself, or you can license them from a real-time Linux vendor. If you have critical processes I would consider a timeslicing algorithm and a single process that runs at a higher priority.
Also explore creating a SHEM object and compileing it into your kernel.
I am so sorry, I meant to say
Intel agent.
Spys who work for intel.
The keyboard that I mean is the one where your hands are at angles to each other.
When the microsoft key first showed up I used to pry it out so I wouldn't hit it by accident.
My post was trying to be funny in the sense that I don't use their software but I do use their keyboard design.
I don't use their software because I keep getting viruses and don't want to have to keep dealing with all of that and the cost of it all. I run Linux on three machines with one that still boots to an old version of MS so I can play Civilization.
There are large streaches of dessert in which folks have planned to build solar cell arrays.
If they do they will effect the local ecology in a large way.
I would like to see arrays in space and the energy used to do manufacturing in space.
Wht is your point? That I think to fast, that I type too fast?
I am not getting paid to do this.
This is a blog, and a typo is just to be expected.
Sorry I am not perfect.
If you really don't know what I was saying in my post then I think you need to go back to school.
There are many smart people who can't type or write. i have seen software that was brillient in what it did, but the idiom was old-school.
Would you throw it all out because you don't like the idiom?
It is like people who put down folks who speak in the dialect of Ebonics. They don't care what the person is saying, they just hate black people.
Modern English grammer is a perscription that was created by the English elites so that they could keep their subjects down.
You ain't got a clue dude.
did you not know what the phrase meant?
Oh, and by the way the word corporate comes from the word cooperation. And so, sense there must be more than one to have cooperation, it is appropriate to use they when talking about a corporation.
Also, IBM is made up a living, breathing employees and board members. They are not an it.
I, for one, would love to see all of the grammer nazi's cease from their pendanty unless there is a real chance of misunderstanding what the words mean. And if there is a misunderstanding then please ask for clarity and not just act like a now-it-all.
There is a place for pedantic attention to grammer, like in formal contracts or when writing laws. Otherwise anyone who demands perfect grammer from others seems like an elitist.
Just my point of view.
Please read Ludwig Wittgenstein about the use of language.
Did Ben Franklin give away a competitive edge when he gave away the idea for the lightening rod and saved millions of lives?
Maybe the quality of writing that you see from 100 years ago is so good because a lot of the poor writing from that time was just thrown in the trash or used to heat people's houses.
I am sure that you can find a lot of poor writing form 100 or 150 years ago if you go to an old archieve.
Probably what you are complaigning about is information overload. You might want to subscribe to a literary journal where someone else reviews the works. That way you can see what might be good. How about the New York Review of Books?
If you read the random comments that folks type furiously and almost automatically at two AM into their computer because they are bored and unemployed, then you probably have a good reason to be frustrated.
I think that there are those who do not think for themselves. And there are those who do. In the 19th century anything that didn't pass the editor didn't get printed. No all I have to do is hit Submit and, poof, I am published.
If you want quality subscribe to a magazine. That way, once a week or once a month, you can get journals in a paper format where the writings have been reviewed by a professional editor.
Privacy is important in any case.
I have known for years that criminal fish the obituaries and then rob houses of people while they are at a funeral.
I am sure that an analog system can be used to piggy back a digital signal with a point to point protocol in the Physical layer so that a HAM connection can act just like a modem and a phone line.
/. posters: Doesn't this system already exisit?
The HAM radio protocols do not exclude the use of HAM as the transport mechanism for an IP connection.
And thus you could get a UDP or a TCP/IP connection through a HAM radio setup (perhaps on special frequencies). Thus HAM and Internet are not mutually exclusive.
How do you put the brake fluid in if you don't open the hood?
Suppose he discovered a defect in a car or some other piece of physical hardware. If that defect were severe enough to kill someone and he did not publish his knowledge of the defect, then could he then be held criminally liable and be accused of negligent homocide? Surely the right thing would be to publish the defect and warn the users of the product.
How did software companies get all of these special rules for them if stuff that doesn't work.? If it were a tire or a car or a bridge or a robot, they could never get away with it. But if software doesn't work we are all supposed to just buy the upgrade.
Ever acre of land covered with a solar cell array is an acre of land that can't be used for farming or for wildlife in the same way that it would if the solar cells weren't there.
The efficiency of the cell is dependant upon the angle of incident light so that it only gets that peak performance at one time during the day. Tracking the cell towards the Sun is a non-trivial operation.
It took little or no labour at all.
Another point to mention about light from the Sun and from other stars:
The spectrum is different for different stars as another poster so dutifully pointed out. Thus space probes that go to other stars will need to have different types of solar cells that are tuned for the spectra of the star to which they travel.
This is a real point, and not trivial.
No, I meant the incident light energy.
Light doesn't just come from the Sun.
Start your own energy company.
Invest in a technological breakthrough.
In a Free Enterprise system you are free to do that.
You don't have to wait around for anyone else, do it yourself.
There is nothing wrong with big profit as long as you don't enslave people in the process. Also, if you make a lot, then you can share a lot.
Wealthy and powerful people are not categorically and necessarily greedy and selfish as you seem to imply with your post. But being wealthy and powerful makes one (I believe) more susceptible to personality traits that are loathsome to many others.
With great wealth comes great responsibility. Wealth in this sense is a curse. But the curse can be overcome.
OK, I am being silly, what the thing should read of instead of
Converts 30% of the Sun's Energy to Electricity
Perhaps what they mean is
Converts 30% of the incident light energy to electricity
After all, the Sun is realeasing a lot of energy, most of which will never hit the Earth.
They have a nice keyboard design.
I use one on my Linux box. It works great.
I don't have carpel tunnel now.
I just want to give credit where credit is due.
Someone will probably post that they didn't design it.
It is still a good keyboard.
I can understand the iconoclast who doesn't want to obey a King. However, can you not understand why some one (not everyone) would want to obey a King?
;)
Do you not understand this concept?
It might be wrong for you to obey a king. However, do you fail to understand that others do, others have, others will. It is just an historical fact.
When Cromwall brought English society to a crash the English invited the monarchy back.
Wasn't it their right to do so?
I don't see Wiki as useful friend.
To me it seems more like the Wikipedia is a place where people have a desparate need to try and sound like they have some valid point to make, when they only really just want to seem like an expert.
It is an annoying trait to want to be heard above everyone else even when you don't have a clue about what you are talking about.
Why can't the Wikipedia allow multiple articles on the same topic? Why does it have to be so conspriacy of the one?
Didn't the Enlightenment and modern Philosophy bring us to a point where we understand that there are multiple points of view? Wikipedia trys to sound like an authority on everything and hence looses all credibility as a source of any relevant information.
I am glad that you see the bias in the thing. I just can't get past all of the smarmy know-it-all-ism of the thing and the complete and total hubris of the psuedo-intellectual pronouncements that I always see when ever I see a quoted article.
It sounded like a good idea. It isn't a good idea. Why is there such an emotional attachment to a concept that isn't working?
It is like the people in the late 70's who were still spouting off all kinds of hippie nonsense when everyone could see that the culture of the hippie had to die (hence the funeral for the hippie).
Only at that time did the movement live.
The Wikipedia seems like a good idea until you actually try to use it for real information.
Oh, and PS: you use the word we when you should perhaps use the term I.
If you don't understand why someone would want to obey a king, that doesn't mean that all of us don't understand.
Were you using the royal we?
Year and years ago I was working on antenna design algorithms.
These result in spiral designs that are the pattern of the antenna output.
In those days the calculations took a lot of time becuase it was a 8 MegHz computer (a tandy 1000).
The equations were all f of theta.
And the thing would plot out very slowly.
I had to keep running the thing to try and come up with some reasonable designs.
What I realized was that if I picked random thetas that I could see the shape much quicker. And then if I saw something I liked, then I could plot it from 0 to 2 pi and get the graph for the antenna output.
As these were sine based trigonometric equations they were repetative so 0 to 2pi would produce the same output as 2pi to 4pi, or 4pi to 6pi, etc.
For any sine based equation that is periodic with 2pi you can do the same thing.
I was not thinking about just desktop computers.
In general any software has initialization routines. My work has been in robotics, automation, and telecom switching equipment written in C and C++. We spent a lot of time worrying about efficiency, but not for startup routines unless the start lag became annoying. But for the most part people expect things to take a little time to start up. There are a lot of things to do, especially if you have no way of knowing how the thing shut down. I am digressing.
I think that a genetic algorithm to tune sounds like a great idea. I would just want a way to say check this code and not this other code.
I hope that there is much success with this GA.
If you deal with people who assume that everyone is a liar then you are correct. That seems to be a lot of lawyers and also police.
For example if you tell what you really did in an altercation then you do have a problem if the other person lied about what happened and they cops think the truth is in the middle.
I like what the Book of Proverbs suggests: avoid the courts as much as possible.
However, when asked to speak the truth and you refuse then the assumption is that you have something to hide and the consequences could be far worse.
So, refusing to talk could be worse. In the case of this kid if he is what he says he is then I think that Apple may decide to let it go and settle. If they don't then they will get bad PR.
Probably he is a little bit naive, however don't you expect a 21 year old to be just a little?
He made a mistake, and there have already been consequences to what he did. This shouldn't ruin the rest of his life.
Oh, if if you remain silent and something bad happens because you didn't provide a warning to the police as they arrest you then what kind of a person does that make you? Silence is one way, but not the only way. The kid in the interview sounded terrified and upset. Did you think he was making it up?
Ya, he has an ego.
So do you, so do I, so do all of us.
there are those who think that ego death is a desirable thing. I think that is what is meant by some when they say that they are born again.
If he is a kid and made a mistake should his punishment be severe and hard-nosed?
Forgiveness is an important trait. My ego made me say that.
Try to live without an ego. You will have a hard time living in this world without one. When your ego dies a new one is born.