It's obviously not less than a prius idling as the prius generally doesn't idle (if it's sitting still the engine is off). So what is the prius doing that it creates more CO2? Running the tiny gas engine at top rpm as hard as it can?
I'm not looking forward to the texting ban, either. If there's one place where "paying more attention to the road" is not necessarily a good thing, it's Mass - they're just going to use the extra awareness to execute some retardedly dangerous maneuvers.
I usually recommend Phil Plait's 'Bad Astronomy' to moon landing hoax believers. It's entertaining and accessible.
I read your post then noticed that the link to your profile has already been visited. You, sir, are well read and reasonable - what are you doing here?
Other great 'Canadian-feel' bands; Great Big Sea and Stan Rogers (tons of maritime lyrics and themes), Tragically Hip (ex. Wheat Kings), Spirit of the West... Seems to be mostly punk and folk that carry the 'Canadian Feel'. Possibly Captain Tractor (Note; while "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" was written by the Arrogant Worms, Captain Tractor does a better version of it IMHO. The difference between the recordings are often misattributed as well)
There's a great shortcut if you're just adding 1 + 1 over and over. 1 + (previous sum), even...:P. Although I do understand what you are saying.
As another poster said, more efficient software / methods / (development process) is probably more important. The problem is that it's hard to balance development with slow, unreliable humans with good design.
... consider the human brain -- a massively parallel 3D processing structure. The brain has an estimated processing power of 38*10^15 operations per second (according to this reference), while consuming about 20 W of power (reference)...
Good point. I believe I have solved Moore's Law in computing for some years. I need shovels, accomplices, and every Roger Corman movie.
Never know, I didn't realize MS did lots of graphics work. I would believe they use Hyper-V instead of VMware, and Visual Studio instead of whathaveyou (Dev-cpp or whatever), Team Foundation Server instead of TortoiseSVN or CVS etc. etc.
I don't know. They are supposed to use their own products, which means they have to use Hyper-V and Virtual PC instead of VMware. I doubt anyone's ability to get those working:P
I wonder if enough virii and separate malware are compiled together if it can form some kind of evolving ecosystem (and yes, it was in xkcd, but the idea is far older than that). The next version of Windows will be watching you... you know... more than normal.
Not necessarily. Microsoft uses to reports to fix Windows problems or problems with their own products (or third party drivers, etc). They have that source and symbols. All they need from the user is the memory space and exceptions of the faulting process and which version of symbols were used.
I don't think Microsoft really cares about fixing application crashes other than for their public perception. They would be concerned that a Windows crash was possible in some particular way, and didn't recover/fail gracefully - and this boils down to the code that is sitting below the application code so they wouldn't need your source.
The only data that could be sent would be data currently in the memory space. So if the process had *str1= "Need to buy groceries: meat, eggs, cheese" , *str2 = "Assassinate the president at 17:30 on Tuesday", they would be able to see that by debugging through the stack variables and looking at where it's stored (i.e. heap). I'm not precisely sure how minidumps are configured - they may not include heap information.
While I agree, I have had a case where it linked a driver update that fixed an application incompatibility/crashing issue. It also provides metrics on the scope of an issue to MS which they may presumably pass on to other companies... oh wait, you said 'almost always'.
It would be utterly impractical. Compare it to just buying the source code or product from their competitor and disassembling it themselves? If they are committed to corporate espionage, why rely on a random variable? VS and Windows don't send source of your project into MS, it sends a crash dump (i.e. core dump) of the process for analysis. Even if you configure a full crash dump it doesn't send source (it would then be full process memory, register state, exception records, maybe pdb's / symbols used of faulting process - not sure).
As others have pointed out though, having symbols and instruction memory can be enough to look for buffer overflow attacks, but I don't think you would want to reconstruct a competitor's product from a crash dump (and most large application products involve more than one process anyway).
Given your reference I must point out that cones originate outward from a corner in your space, making it impossible to surround oneself with a cone. (But silence is a radius effect... at least 2nd edition and afterwards, earlier editions, idk).
My Prius beeps annoyingly when I back up - but it's the 2010 model, it doesn't for previous models. It also beeps when you start it, and when people don't buckle up, etc. Googling seems like there are ways to disable it...
Considering when I last refreshed the comments, I'm sure someone else has already mentioned this.
Does anyone remember "Sorting Out Sorting" (1980)? Best sorting video ever made. This is the same thing, it's good, but it was done thirty years ago. Also, "Pointy Does Pointers" (not an adult film, I swear).
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Hilariously enough, my company just upgraded to SAP. We were stuck on IE6 before for an even older timesheet/accounting application.
No no no..., you don't say 'looks like a fish, moves like a fish', you'd say:
"You drive like a dairy farmer"
Then I'd say
"How appropriate, you steer like a cow"
It's obviously not less than a prius idling as the prius generally doesn't idle (if it's sitting still the engine is off). So what is the prius doing that it creates more CO2? Running the tiny gas engine at top rpm as hard as it can?
Obviously, didn't you know Prius' get worse fuel efficiency than a Hummer? :P http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/DUST%20PDF%20VERSION.pdf
I'm not looking forward to the texting ban, either. If there's one place where "paying more attention to the road" is not necessarily a good thing, it's Mass - they're just going to use the extra awareness to execute some retardedly dangerous maneuvers.
Best thing I've read on /. today.
I usually recommend Phil Plait's 'Bad Astronomy' to moon landing hoax believers. It's entertaining and accessible.
I read your post then noticed that the link to your profile has already been visited. You, sir, are well read and reasonable - what are you doing here?
Wheat Kings. Go Brandon! (Although I support the Hitmen, I know someone who played for the Brandon)
MR. TAMBOURINE MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
... Hmm... I have to make this post longer to pass the filter because I have too many caps as is.
Greatest...al-bum... ever.
Other great 'Canadian-feel' bands; Great Big Sea and Stan Rogers (tons of maritime lyrics and themes), Tragically Hip (ex. Wheat Kings), Spirit of the West... Seems to be mostly punk and folk that carry the 'Canadian Feel'. Possibly Captain Tractor (Note; while "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" was written by the Arrogant Worms, Captain Tractor does a better version of it IMHO. The difference between the recordings are often misattributed as well)
Mod parent up !
There's a great shortcut if you're just adding 1 + 1 over and over. 1 + (previous sum), even... :P. Although I do understand what you are saying.
As another poster said, more efficient software / methods / (development process) is probably more important. The problem is that it's hard to balance development with slow, unreliable humans with good design.
... consider the human brain -- a massively parallel 3D processing structure. The brain has an estimated processing power of 38*10^15 operations per second (according to this reference), while consuming about 20 W of power (reference)...
Good point. I believe I have solved Moore's Law in computing for some years. I need shovels, accomplices, and every Roger Corman movie.
Never know, I didn't realize MS did lots of graphics work. I would believe they use Hyper-V instead of VMware, and Visual Studio instead of whathaveyou (Dev-cpp or whatever), Team Foundation Server instead of TortoiseSVN or CVS etc. etc.
I don't know. They are supposed to use their own products, which means they have to use Hyper-V and Virtual PC instead of VMware. I doubt anyone's ability to get those working :P
Best comment ever!
I wonder if enough virii and separate malware are compiled together if it can form some kind of evolving ecosystem (and yes, it was in xkcd, but the idea is far older than that). The next version of Windows will be watching you... you know... more than normal.
Not necessarily. Microsoft uses to reports to fix Windows problems or problems with their own products (or third party drivers, etc). They have that source and symbols. All they need from the user is the memory space and exceptions of the faulting process and which version of symbols were used.
I don't think Microsoft really cares about fixing application crashes other than for their public perception. They would be concerned that a Windows crash was possible in some particular way, and didn't recover/fail gracefully - and this boils down to the code that is sitting below the application code so they wouldn't need your source.
The only data that could be sent would be data currently in the memory space. So if the process had *str1= "Need to buy groceries: meat, eggs, cheese" , *str2 = "Assassinate the president at 17:30 on Tuesday", they would be able to see that by debugging through the stack variables and looking at where it's stored (i.e. heap). I'm not precisely sure how minidumps are configured - they may not include heap information.
While I agree, I have had a case where it linked a driver update that fixed an application incompatibility/crashing issue. It also provides metrics on the scope of an issue to MS which they may presumably pass on to other companies... oh wait, you said 'almost always'.
It would be utterly impractical. Compare it to just buying the source code or product from their competitor and disassembling it themselves? If they are committed to corporate espionage, why rely on a random variable? VS and Windows don't send source of your project into MS, it sends a crash dump (i.e. core dump) of the process for analysis. Even if you configure a full crash dump it doesn't send source (it would then be full process memory, register state, exception records, maybe pdb's / symbols used of faulting process - not sure).
As others have pointed out though, having symbols and instruction memory can be enough to look for buffer overflow attacks, but I don't think you would want to reconstruct a competitor's product from a crash dump (and most large application products involve more than one process anyway).
Your comment reminded me of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL9tyzE83nc
Seems appropriate given who is often characterized as a Prius driver.
Given your reference I must point out that cones originate outward from a corner in your space, making it impossible to surround oneself with a cone. (But silence is a radius effect... at least 2nd edition and afterwards, earlier editions, idk).
My Prius beeps annoyingly when I back up - but it's the 2010 model, it doesn't for previous models. It also beeps when you start it, and when people don't buckle up, etc. Googling seems like there are ways to disable it...
Considering when I last refreshed the comments, I'm sure someone else has already mentioned this.
Shouldn't REAL pinball wizards be able to navigate the streets by smell alone?
I did watch it again after I posted my comment, I was wrong. I misremembered the video. The annoying sounds are unrelated to the algorithm.
This guy did have not-annoying sounds related to the algorithm. Also the quality is much higher.
Does anyone remember "Sorting Out Sorting" (1980)? Best sorting video ever made. This is the same thing, it's good, but it was done thirty years ago. Also, "Pointy Does Pointers" (not an adult film, I swear).
Oh, I thought you meant we used to have the mentality of circus animals or something. No worries, cave is also appropriate.
Ah yes, the cages. I miss my cage.