But how much juice does this topic really have? If somebody doesn't get us off on an interesting tangent, this thread will become nothing but a series of "Windoze" and tounge-in-cheek "Go USA" jokes.
I think you're talking more about sociopaths than geniuses. Most career criminals would match your second paragraph. I think it goes the other way. You really don't have the time to realize the full potential of your genius unless you withdraw from some social customs. Rather than your model of a genius who finds a way to find time to be a genius, I'm talking about a scenario where a well-adjusted potential genius simply spends his time watching football and getting drunk instead of accomplishing anything at all. On the other hand, the social-outcast potential genius has plenty of time to fulfill his destiny.
It persists even beyond the development of the modern scientific method. Sure Newton participated in what we now refer to as mumbo-jumbo, but Einstein called the statistical aspects of quantum mechanics mumbo-jumbo. Even people who are mental leaps beyond their peers still have their feet planted in their own time.
Yep, "total infections" is as poor a number as "most stolen car". Sure, a Honda Civic is the most stolen car, but that's because it is the most popular car and does nothing to describe either the effectiveness of the loss-prevention the habits of Honda Civic drivers or how likely your Honda Civic is to be stolen. It doesn't even help you choose a new car, it's likely that the most theft-proof car is somewhere in the middle of the list because it is a high value target (otherwise why would the manufacturer invest so much in anti-theft technology) but theives tend to shy away from it (except the more sophisticated ones). BTW, the Cadillac Escalade is the "most likely to be stolen" car, and it isn't in the top ten most stolen cars. "Most stolen car" is probably most highly correlated to "most likely car to be owned by someone living in a high-crime neighborhood". "total infections" is probably highly correlated to "most hours spent on-line".
If the iPhone 4 is slipperier, then we would expect that 42% of the increase in glass breakage would be caused by those extra drop-due-to-being-slippery events. That would make the entire conclusion that the iPhone 4 has glass that is significantly more likely to break no longer valid.
Something is off here. Either the 4 is simply slipperier and not more fragile, or the group who purchased the 4 is more clumsy than the group that purchased the 3GS, or iPhone veterans who learned that they can be careful didn't buy insurance this time around. Any of these are other valid conclusion are all possible, and are all supported by the data. The one thing that isn't supported by the data is that this is a valid one-variable analysis of the strength of the glass on an iPhone 4. My original point was to show that the conclusions in the article are a stretch given the data.
The data from the study shows a 42% increase in water damage for the iPhone 4 over the 3GS. From this data we can conclude, with some certainty, that the two bodies of data are fundamentally different and any conclusions drawn on simple differences are only partially caused by differences in the devices themselves.
I've worked for a lot of government customers and they all say the same thing. They all get under market rate pay, but better benefits and better job security. These customers weren't only in IT, the lawyers and accountants say the same thing. However, I once knew a public sector employee that got paid for 12 months after they stopped working because they had 250 sick days accrued.
Bad luck for you. Where I work, last year we had no raises, but we did get performance bonuses. This year, even the worst reviews got raises and we all got bonuses. A raise and a bonus for every man, women, and child in a 50 thousand person company. I've had five figure raises twice in my career, both times without changing job titles.
If you don't have good communications infrastructure, they aren't putting the data center there in the first place.
We don't, but they are. I live three miles from the new Yahoo data center (I'm closer to the city, not further) and Verizon laughs at me when I ask when we are getting FIOS. There are very few places in the area that you can get communications or electrical service from two different last mile providers. When you upgrade to four hour on-site service from a major vendor, half the time they say it's unavailable here. I hope all of these things change. A few big tax-funded data centers will get things off on the right foot.
I also work eight hundred yards from the power generation facilites at Niagara Falls, and we lose power much more often than we should. Although it can be easily explained by the fact that very little of the power from Niagara Falls is consumed locally. The upside is that we won't have to suffer in the event of a nuclear strike.
It still might help. It should give us a better communication infrastructure and cause the big hardware vendors to locate more distribution centers and technicians in the area. The only reason the Apple was built in California was the locals had access to chips that weren't available to hobbiests elsewhere. Internet access and cheap servers are the foundations of the next generation of inventions.
I think they're even more confused than that. It's pretty basic common sense that these critical services shouldn't be on the Internet. But, they are. Somebody must have weighed the security risks and benefits of connecting to the Internet and made a conscious desicion to connect to it. There is no way that this new "partition" could offer what they sought when they connected to the Internet. So, all this would do is reset the environment back to the time when they weren't connected. The same results could be acheived by simply disconnecting.
This will leave them with the issue of connecting to specific points, but there are already solutions do get this done. Heck, common solutions like MPLS fill the gap just fine.
Neither this bug nor the one you linked to would affect a properly written web application on ASP.Net. This one requires the developer to store the user name in a cookie (and then trust it), and the linked one was SQL injection, which is easily preventable.
The steganographic payload has to be protected from damage. If it's randomly scattered on a partition, it has to be marked as used blocks, or it will get overwritten by the OS. If it's not part of a partition at all, then it's immediately suspect. So, it has to be embedded in a file. Same issue here -- the data has to make sense in terms of the file format. Some image formats like TIFF have internal pointers that allow you to make unused areas, but it's painfully easy to read the header and find that you did this.
The only time it really works is when you have a single, unchanging payload. Stick it in a carefully crafted payload and go on you way. But data that regularly gets used can't easily be hidden.
Therefore, I believe your statement that "most people [are] pirates" is false...
Have you ever forwarded an email? If the email contains a poem, then it is unarguably a copyright violation. Forwarding a general email message is most likely a copyright violation, but it hasn't yet been tested in court.
Read the press release. All they plan on bringing back is the Commodore logo and form factor. It's pretty obvious that they are going to put commodity parts in the box and run either Windows or Linux.
BTW, Bill Gates wrote software for everything. Back when Microsoft had nothing but BASIC in their product portfolio, they'd port it to anything with a blinking light.
As for cars - engines run best at peak torque not max HP or RPM. We may be saying the same thing but having tuned the EFI in more than a few cars I know BSFC is best at peak torque.:-)
It's not important what RPM BSFC comes at, it's important that it comes only at large throttle openings. Think about how small an engine a typical car would need so that it would be cruising on the highway at 2500rpm and full throttle.
That was an apples to oranges comparison -- he didn't size it for efficiency, he simply recommended a more efficient model that happened to be larger. As you said, let's hope you can run it in it's sweet spot and that you don't have problems bumping into the minimum duty cycle. One of the biggest problems with an oversized HVAC unit is that sometimes the minimum on time takes you way past your target temperature and you get a lot of hot and cold variation instead of a constant temperature.
If you change you car insurance to a cheaper policy, do you deserve punishment? If you fire the guy who cuts your grass and start doing it yourself, should that be a crime?
If the cheaper employees are really worse than the former employees, then the punishment will happen naturally. If the cheaper employees are just as good, then the more expensive ones were simply overpriced.
BTW, I'm the highest paid employee where I work. I'm positive that if I got replaced by two cheaper people, less work would get done. I don't deserve my pay because I already have it, I deserve my pay because I earn it. At a previous job, we downsized from 120 consultants to 7, then the business closed (Internet bubble). I jumped ship two months before the end. I was the highest paid there, but 112 cheaper people were downsized around me before I fled.
General rule is that they run more efficient closer to their maximum capacity. Lots of stuff works this way -- computer battery backups work best at 80% utilization, cars get better gas mileage if the engine is sized so that it runs near max capacity (this is the basis of a Prius, it is either full on motivating the car and charging the battery or full off).
The smaller size may have been too small, but it's highly unlikely that it would have been less efficient.
It all depends on how long the fuel rods are in the reactor. If it's a high-pressure design, then the reactor has to be shut down to remove the rods -- it would be easy to tell via satellite if they were pulling rods early to make bombs. If it's a low pressure design, then they could sneak fuel out. Any one know if this reactor allows rods to be swapped without shutting it down?
Read the study. The teachers tagged as bad didn't simply have students in their class that got bad grades, their students got worse grades after being in their class than before. This methodology automatically cancels out student behavior. For example, if you take the worst student in the entire grade and make him the third worst, then it counts as a positive for you, even if he fails.
They didn't set up false expectations, the reader inferred them. The beauty is that as long as people keep inferring meaning, marketers never actually have to say anything they can be held to. We decide to be lazy and infer meaning, so we get no actual commitments.
The solution is to become a hardcore skeptic. Assume everything not written in bulletproof legalese to be a blatant lie. Ask for everything in writing. Never trust a source with an incentive to be untruthful (this includes every sales person on the planet). You'll be right more than you are wrong.
Weight loss ad told me I could lose UP TO 50 lbs. I still need to request a seat-belt extender on airplanes
My employer said I could make UP TO a million dollars a year if the company does well. I am still driving a beat up Kia
And, worse of all, that nice email ad said I could increase my length UP TO 9 inches. My wife still has trouble finding it
BTW, the weight loss product had one person out of a million lose 50 pounds, and they lost it by getting into a car accident and having a leg amputated. Your employer is flat out lying to you, but it is mathematically possible. The email is lying so blatantly that if the FTC could trace the money, someone would go to jail. Only a gullible moron thinks otherwise.
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But how much juice does this topic really have? If somebody doesn't get us off on an interesting tangent, this thread will become nothing but a series of "Windoze" and tounge-in-cheek "Go USA" jokes.
I think you're talking more about sociopaths than geniuses. Most career criminals would match your second paragraph. I think it goes the other way. You really don't have the time to realize the full potential of your genius unless you withdraw from some social customs. Rather than your model of a genius who finds a way to find time to be a genius, I'm talking about a scenario where a well-adjusted potential genius simply spends his time watching football and getting drunk instead of accomplishing anything at all. On the other hand, the social-outcast potential genius has plenty of time to fulfill his destiny.
It persists even beyond the development of the modern scientific method. Sure Newton participated in what we now refer to as mumbo-jumbo, but Einstein called the statistical aspects of quantum mechanics mumbo-jumbo. Even people who are mental leaps beyond their peers still have their feet planted in their own time.
Yep, "total infections" is as poor a number as "most stolen car". Sure, a Honda Civic is the most stolen car, but that's because it is the most popular car and does nothing to describe either the effectiveness of the loss-prevention the habits of Honda Civic drivers or how likely your Honda Civic is to be stolen. It doesn't even help you choose a new car, it's likely that the most theft-proof car is somewhere in the middle of the list because it is a high value target (otherwise why would the manufacturer invest so much in anti-theft technology) but theives tend to shy away from it (except the more sophisticated ones). BTW, the Cadillac Escalade is the "most likely to be stolen" car, and it isn't in the top ten most stolen cars. "Most stolen car" is probably most highly correlated to "most likely car to be owned by someone living in a high-crime neighborhood". "total infections" is probably highly correlated to "most hours spent on-line".
If the iPhone 4 is slipperier, then we would expect that 42% of the increase in glass breakage would be caused by those extra drop-due-to-being-slippery events. That would make the entire conclusion that the iPhone 4 has glass that is significantly more likely to break no longer valid.
Something is off here. Either the 4 is simply slipperier and not more fragile, or the group who purchased the 4 is more clumsy than the group that purchased the 3GS, or iPhone veterans who learned that they can be careful didn't buy insurance this time around. Any of these are other valid conclusion are all possible, and are all supported by the data. The one thing that isn't supported by the data is that this is a valid one-variable analysis of the strength of the glass on an iPhone 4. My original point was to show that the conclusions in the article are a stretch given the data.
The data from the study shows a 42% increase in water damage for the iPhone 4 over the 3GS. From this data we can conclude, with some certainty, that the two bodies of data are fundamentally different and any conclusions drawn on simple differences are only partially caused by differences in the devices themselves.
I've worked for a lot of government customers and they all say the same thing. They all get under market rate pay, but better benefits and better job security. These customers weren't only in IT, the lawyers and accountants say the same thing. However, I once knew a public sector employee that got paid for 12 months after they stopped working because they had 250 sick days accrued.
Bad luck for you. Where I work, last year we had no raises, but we did get performance bonuses. This year, even the worst reviews got raises and we all got bonuses. A raise and a bonus for every man, women, and child in a 50 thousand person company. I've had five figure raises twice in my career, both times without changing job titles.
If you don't have good communications infrastructure, they aren't putting the data center there in the first place.
We don't, but they are. I live three miles from the new Yahoo data center (I'm closer to the city, not further) and Verizon laughs at me when I ask when we are getting FIOS. There are very few places in the area that you can get communications or electrical service from two different last mile providers. When you upgrade to four hour on-site service from a major vendor, half the time they say it's unavailable here. I hope all of these things change. A few big tax-funded data centers will get things off on the right foot.
I also work eight hundred yards from the power generation facilites at Niagara Falls, and we lose power much more often than we should. Although it can be easily explained by the fact that very little of the power from Niagara Falls is consumed locally. The upside is that we won't have to suffer in the event of a nuclear strike.
It still might help. It should give us a better communication infrastructure and cause the big hardware vendors to locate more distribution centers and technicians in the area. The only reason the Apple was built in California was the locals had access to chips that weren't available to hobbiests elsewhere. Internet access and cheap servers are the foundations of the next generation of inventions.
Buffalo is near cheap power. The current data center proposals are all to the north of Buffalo, where Niagara Falls is.
I think they're even more confused than that. It's pretty basic common sense that these critical services shouldn't be on the Internet. But, they are. Somebody must have weighed the security risks and benefits of connecting to the Internet and made a conscious desicion to connect to it. There is no way that this new "partition" could offer what they sought when they connected to the Internet. So, all this would do is reset the environment back to the time when they weren't connected. The same results could be acheived by simply disconnecting.
This will leave them with the issue of connecting to specific points, but there are already solutions do get this done. Heck, common solutions like MPLS fill the gap just fine.
I can watch Flash video on my iPhone. I can't play Flash games, but a jailbroken iPhone can watch most Flash media content.
Neither this bug nor the one you linked to would affect a properly written web application on ASP.Net. This one requires the developer to store the user name in a cookie (and then trust it), and the linked one was SQL injection, which is easily preventable.
The steganographic payload has to be protected from damage. If it's randomly scattered on a partition, it has to be marked as used blocks, or it will get overwritten by the OS. If it's not part of a partition at all, then it's immediately suspect. So, it has to be embedded in a file. Same issue here -- the data has to make sense in terms of the file format. Some image formats like TIFF have internal pointers that allow you to make unused areas, but it's painfully easy to read the header and find that you did this.
The only time it really works is when you have a single, unchanging payload. Stick it in a carefully crafted payload and go on you way. But data that regularly gets used can't easily be hidden.
Therefore, I believe your statement that "most people [are] pirates" is false...
Have you ever forwarded an email? If the email contains a poem, then it is unarguably a copyright violation. Forwarding a general email message is most likely a copyright violation, but it hasn't yet been tested in court.
Read the press release. All they plan on bringing back is the Commodore logo and form factor. It's pretty obvious that they are going to put commodity parts in the box and run either Windows or Linux.
BTW, Bill Gates wrote software for everything. Back when Microsoft had nothing but BASIC in their product portfolio, they'd port it to anything with a blinking light.
As for cars - engines run best at peak torque not max HP or RPM. We may be saying the same thing but having tuned the EFI in more than a few cars I know BSFC is best at peak torque. :-)
It's not important what RPM BSFC comes at, it's important that it comes only at large throttle openings. Think about how small an engine a typical car would need so that it would be cruising on the highway at 2500rpm and full throttle.
That was an apples to oranges comparison -- he didn't size it for efficiency, he simply recommended a more efficient model that happened to be larger. As you said, let's hope you can run it in it's sweet spot and that you don't have problems bumping into the minimum duty cycle. One of the biggest problems with an oversized HVAC unit is that sometimes the minimum on time takes you way past your target temperature and you get a lot of hot and cold variation instead of a constant temperature.
If you change you car insurance to a cheaper policy, do you deserve punishment? If you fire the guy who cuts your grass and start doing it yourself, should that be a crime?
If the cheaper employees are really worse than the former employees, then the punishment will happen naturally. If the cheaper employees are just as good, then the more expensive ones were simply overpriced.
BTW, I'm the highest paid employee where I work. I'm positive that if I got replaced by two cheaper people, less work would get done. I don't deserve my pay because I already have it, I deserve my pay because I earn it. At a previous job, we downsized from 120 consultants to 7, then the business closed (Internet bubble). I jumped ship two months before the end. I was the highest paid there, but 112 cheaper people were downsized around me before I fled.
General rule is that they run more efficient closer to their maximum capacity. Lots of stuff works this way -- computer battery backups work best at 80% utilization, cars get better gas mileage if the engine is sized so that it runs near max capacity (this is the basis of a Prius, it is either full on motivating the car and charging the battery or full off).
The smaller size may have been too small, but it's highly unlikely that it would have been less efficient.
Calling Scott Adams a PHB is the most ironic thing I've heard in a while.
It all depends on how long the fuel rods are in the reactor. If it's a high-pressure design, then the reactor has to be shut down to remove the rods -- it would be easy to tell via satellite if they were pulling rods early to make bombs. If it's a low pressure design, then they could sneak fuel out. Any one know if this reactor allows rods to be swapped without shutting it down?
Read the study. The teachers tagged as bad didn't simply have students in their class that got bad grades, their students got worse grades after being in their class than before. This methodology automatically cancels out student behavior. For example, if you take the worst student in the entire grade and make him the third worst, then it counts as a positive for you, even if he fails.
The solution is to become a hardcore skeptic. Assume everything not written in bulletproof legalese to be a blatant lie. Ask for everything in writing. Never trust a source with an incentive to be untruthful (this includes every sales person on the planet). You'll be right more than you are wrong.
Weight loss ad told me I could lose UP TO 50 lbs. I still need to request a seat-belt extender on airplanes
My employer said I could make UP TO a million dollars a year if the company does well. I am still driving a beat up Kia
And, worse of all, that nice email ad said I could increase my length UP TO 9 inches. My wife still has trouble finding it
BTW, the weight loss product had one person out of a million lose 50 pounds, and they lost it by getting into a car accident and having a leg amputated. Your employer is flat out lying to you, but it is mathematically possible. The email is lying so blatantly that if the FTC could trace the money, someone would go to jail. Only a gullible moron thinks otherwise.