Net newbies often have trouble coming up with good search terms
This is exactly why the question "is there any truth to the five-second rule" is not a fair measure of performance, in my opinion. Whenever you're dealing with spoken language, you are sure to encounter ambiguities. I agree, it is the program's creator's job to weed out the ambiguities, but it is virtually impossible to do so (let alone in many different languages), as there are many, many different ways to interpret a sentence -- just ask the requirements writers, integrators, and customer. Often they all have a different interpretation of the document.
As a side note, I think it is a good idea to write your (serious) software as if your end-user does not speak English natively, to eliminate little phrases and such that are a part of everyday life but not in any dictionary. This is obviously impossible to do with a search engine, I'm just saying...
If everyone drove with the traffic flow, it would go much more smoothly.
But not everyone does. The mentality, especially here in the greater Los Angeles area, is "I don't care what happens to you, I don't care if you're stuck in a traffic jam because of my actions, I want to be at home/work/gym sooner."
Yes, if we all worked together, we could drastically reduce traffic jams. But I just don't see it happening. When has humankind ever worked together (when they weren't forced to) to improve the quality of their collective lives??
A side note: people bitch about speeding tickets all the time. Guess what? If we all banded together and nobody sped, the tickets and the need to put hundreds of officers on the streets to 'catch' the speeders would disappear completely. But no. Everyone is too selfish, too important to obey the rules. Excuse me, Mr. BMW-760i, you put your pants on just like the rest of us - one leg at a time (except that once his pants are on, he probably makes gold records, but still).
Here's an idea: not giving up your civil liberties for the sake of convenience and national security (to be distinguished from ACTUAL security). What's really funny about your statement is that 5 years ago, people like you were in front of news cameras at the airline check-in saying "we don't mind waiting in line if it makes us more secure." Now, 5 years later, even after we have all established that airport security is a joke, instead of coming up with a more efficient screening method, we spent our resources developing YET another new technology full of holes.
My point is, your anger at the poster and the method of destroying the chips is a bit misdirected -- if you really want to spend less time at security checkpoints and Immigration and Customs, you should lobby for improving the methods currently in place. Besides, like someone who replied to your post already said, there really is no speed improvement in putting your passport through a barcode reader or waving it in front of an RFID reader. However, there is a relative security difference, and given the choice, I would take the former.
Similarly, how many people before high school get laptops? Unless you're in a very rich family you're probably stuck using the family computer for World of WarCraft, EverQuest, EvE or whichever poison you pick.
A coworker of mine has a 2 year old kid, and he just bought him a laptop. When I was a kid, all I got was a BOX to play with. That's what my kids are getting for Christmas. A box. It encourages imaginative thinking.
Yeah, no kidding. That whole post just made the hair on the back of my neck stand. Ugh. The stench of 30-year-old classrooms packed with computer science students while the prof explained all that stuff. The feel of
*sobbing*
For anyone who is an expert: What has six sigma added to this paradigm?
Six Sigma quantifies the process -- it tells you when you have achieved your goal, that is, when you reach only 3.4 defects parts per million (ppm) products. There are different Sigmas, such as Three Sigma, which designate 2700 defective PPM, but Six Sigma is widely adopted as a measure of production success.
In other words, 3.4 ppm is good enough whereas, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems "kaizen" is never good enough (continual improvement). Other than that, the DMAIC process under Six Sigma seems very similar to kaizen, I'll agree there.
By the way, I'm not an expert on the subject, I just work for a company that trains its employees to use the Six Sigma methodology.
My CS degree required a bunch of math courses, starting with calculus (3 courses), through linear (2) and non-linear algebra (1), discreet math and logic (4 courses - it gets heavy when they talk about different kinds of infinities). The logic and discreet math really served me well, especially with those pesky "if ( !(a && b) )" conditionals. Matrix math was dispersed throughout discreet math and non-linear algebra which came in useful in video game programming.
However, I think physics should be part of the standard curriculum for a CS degree, but sadly (at least at my somewhat-reputable school) it was (is) not. The reason I say so is because modeling the real world would probably be impossible without using (and understanding) physics, and I found myself lacking the appropriate knowledge when it comes time to, say, program a realistic-looking bounce of a ball.
First off, one inch is 2.54 centimeters. Haven't we learned that precision (as well as decimal places) are important when it comes to dealing with space stuff?!
Seriously, I doubt that this will cause the cessation of the space program. More likely, safeguards will be put into place at an enormous cost to the taxpayers that protect against 0.001% chance of something catastrophic happening. On second thought, maybe the ballooning cost *will* cause the cessation of the space program, or, in the very least, it will be relocated to another place where liability is not so high
Consider the most common password length, 7, according to the author.
Mixed case combinations: 52 ^ 7 = 1,028,071,702,528 Lower case combinations: 26 ^ 7 = 8,031,810,176
You would need 8.45 characters (rounded up to 9) to get the similar or better security with just lowercase than with upper and lower case. Of course, this is a logarithmic ratio, so it would grow the more characters you throw in the mix.
This, coupled with the fact that MySpace only allows up to 10 characters, I would say that while your criticism is valid in theory, his statement is correct in practice.
The quantities of wasted computer paper are minute when compared to the amount of toilet paper used. The world really needs toilet paper with this technology.
Either that, or underwear made of the same.
Goddamnit you had me going until the mom got scared part. That and the funny tag. I was getting all worked up again...
Geez, I gotta do something to relax a little. What's that you say? Fark.com? Roger that.
Seriously, why doesn't the poster of the diy article take a picture of his and apple's (shoddy) work and post them as a side-by-side comparison?? This would eliminate Apple's legal complaint while having an equal or greater effect on his reader base.
Does this mean they would ban for using Adblock? or flashblock or if i block their ads via my router? Very ambiguous.
Yes, ambiguity is the point of law. It is ambiguous to allow for technological and societal changes (advances?) to fit within the mold. This is why the constitution is still relevant today (plus/minus some amendments:)
Employing and/or providing software programs, browser scripts, or other technologies that serve to block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages.
Notice that the terms "software programs" and "browser scripts" are not defined. Are these server/client programs? What about the scripts -- are these embedded javascripts or would a ff extension constitute a script? Probably both.
Now a question: it has probably been previously decided what "providing" means in terms of cyberspace. Does anyone know if it means "serving" the scripts (i.e. putting, say, a ff extension on a server, and a link to download) OR can it also mean providing an external link to adblock hosted by mozilla or whoever else? Anyone know?
(obligatory IANAL stands of course)
-ik
You know, I was kind of bummed he ragged on Gmail so hard.
First, I use the service as my primary personal account. Why shouldn't I, since I travel so much? What, use yahoo or hotmail instead?? BAH! (I do have a yahoo junk acct though).
Second, are there any 'fox extensions for yahoo or hotmail? I didn't find one (but I didn't look too hard). Fear not, 'fox has a gmail extension. That of itself speaks of gmail's popularity, I think.
Maybe it's just me, but I find Gmail sleek, elegant, and most of all, much more usable than yahoo or hotmail. And for a free service that survives on ad placement, I think google has done a terrific job of not letting the ads interfere with your mail retreival...
Microsoft would be better off forming an alliance with Opera to bundle it with Vista. In turn, Opera could add some functionality to make it more integrateable into the OS.
There is a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment in the browser world. I wouldn't trust anything that says Microsoft and Browser in the same sentence. If MS partnered with Opera, I might actually consider using it...
Well okay, maybe not (I still love the 'Fox), but installing 'fox wouldn't become a priority for every single system.
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Net newbies often have trouble coming up with good search terms
This is exactly why the question "is there any truth to the five-second rule" is not a fair measure of performance, in my opinion. Whenever you're dealing with spoken language, you are sure to encounter ambiguities. I agree, it is the program's creator's job to weed out the ambiguities, but it is virtually impossible to do so (let alone in many different languages), as there are many, many different ways to interpret a sentence -- just ask the requirements writers, integrators, and customer. Often they all have a different interpretation of the document.
As a side note, I think it is a good idea to write your (serious) software as if your end-user does not speak English natively, to eliminate little phrases and such that are a part of everyday life but not in any dictionary. This is obviously impossible to do with a search engine, I'm just saying...
If everyone drove with the traffic flow, it would go much more smoothly.
But not everyone does. The mentality, especially here in the greater Los Angeles area, is "I don't care what happens to you, I don't care if you're stuck in a traffic jam because of my actions, I want to be at home/work/gym sooner."
Yes, if we all worked together, we could drastically reduce traffic jams. But I just don't see it happening. When has humankind ever worked together (when they weren't forced to) to improve the quality of their collective lives??
A side note: people bitch about speeding tickets all the time. Guess what? If we all banded together and nobody sped, the tickets and the need to put hundreds of officers on the streets to 'catch' the speeders would disappear completely. But no. Everyone is too selfish, too important to obey the rules. Excuse me, Mr. BMW-760i, you put your pants on just like the rest of us - one leg at a time (except that once his pants are on, he probably makes gold records, but still).
Here's an idea: not giving up your civil liberties for the sake of convenience and national security (to be distinguished from ACTUAL security). What's really funny about your statement is that 5 years ago, people like you were in front of news cameras at the airline check-in saying "we don't mind waiting in line if it makes us more secure." Now, 5 years later, even after we have all established that airport security is a joke, instead of coming up with a more efficient screening method, we spent our resources developing YET another new technology full of holes.
My point is, your anger at the poster and the method of destroying the chips is a bit misdirected -- if you really want to spend less time at security checkpoints and Immigration and Customs, you should lobby for improving the methods currently in place. Besides, like someone who replied to your post already said, there really is no speed improvement in putting your passport through a barcode reader or waving it in front of an RFID reader. However, there is a relative security difference, and given the choice, I would take the former.
Similarly, how many people before high school get laptops? Unless you're in a very rich family you're probably stuck using the family computer for World of WarCraft, EverQuest, EvE or whichever poison you pick.
A coworker of mine has a 2 year old kid, and he just bought him a laptop. When I was a kid, all I got was a BOX to play with. That's what my kids are getting for Christmas. A box. It encourages imaginative thinking.
Yeah, no kidding. That whole post just made the hair on the back of my neck stand. Ugh. The stench of 30-year-old classrooms packed with computer science students while the prof explained all that stuff. The feel of *sobbing*
For anyone who is an expert: What has six sigma added to this paradigm?
Six Sigma quantifies the process -- it tells you when you have achieved your goal, that is, when you reach only 3.4 defects parts per million (ppm) products. There are different Sigmas, such as Three Sigma, which designate 2700 defective PPM, but Six Sigma is widely adopted as a measure of production success.
In other words, 3.4 ppm is good enough whereas, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems "kaizen" is never good enough (continual improvement). Other than that, the DMAIC process under Six Sigma seems very similar to kaizen, I'll agree there.
By the way, I'm not an expert on the subject, I just work for a company that trains its employees to use the Six Sigma methodology.
However, I think physics should be part of the standard curriculum for a CS degree, but sadly (at least at my somewhat-reputable school) it was (is) not. The reason I say so is because modeling the real world would probably be impossible without using (and understanding) physics, and I found myself lacking the appropriate knowledge when it comes time to, say, program a realistic-looking bounce of a ball.
Have you seen the cost of a Flux Capacitor? machine once.I worked on a time
"Apple customers buy Apple because they do not want to buy Dell."
Or because they can't run OS X on Dell's hardware.
The point is, the minute apple starts making it possible to run OS X on a beige box, I will be an Apple customer.
First off, one inch is 2.54 centimeters. Haven't we learned that precision (as well as decimal places) are important when it comes to dealing with space stuff?! Seriously, I doubt that this will cause the cessation of the space program. More likely, safeguards will be put into place at an enormous cost to the taxpayers that protect against 0.001% chance of something catastrophic happening. On second thought, maybe the ballooning cost *will* cause the cessation of the space program, or, in the very least, it will be relocated to another place where liability is not so high
Still a newlywed - 7 months and counting....
Hey, that's not fair. I'm posting on Slashdot, and married... to a real girl!
I always knew the Uranians were up to no good
Consider the most common password length, 7, according to the author.
Mixed case combinations: 52 ^ 7 = 1,028,071,702,528
Lower case combinations: 26 ^ 7 = 8,031,810,176
You would need 8.45 characters (rounded up to 9) to get the similar or better security with just lowercase than with upper and lower case. Of course, this is a logarithmic ratio, so it would grow the more characters you throw in the mix.
This, coupled with the fact that MySpace only allows up to 10 characters, I would say that while your criticism is valid in theory, his statement is correct in practice.
The quantities of wasted computer paper are minute when compared to the amount of toilet paper used. The world really needs toilet paper with this technology. Either that, or underwear made of the same.
...or up for sale? Accessing the site gives a banner "click here to buy this domain" in a nice little frame, followed by no page found.
Excuse me, sand contains Silicon Dioxide, or SiO2. Breathable Oxygen is O2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand
Goddamnit you had me going until the mom got scared part. That and the funny tag. I was getting all worked up again... Geez, I gotta do something to relax a little. What's that you say? Fark.com? Roger that.
Seriously, why doesn't the poster of the diy article take a picture of his and apple's (shoddy) work and post them as a side-by-side comparison?? This would eliminate Apple's legal complaint while having an equal or greater effect on his reader base.
Does this mean they would ban for using Adblock? or flashblock or if i block their ads via my router? Very ambiguous.
Yes, ambiguity is the point of law. It is ambiguous to allow for technological and societal changes (advances?) to fit within the mold. This is why the constitution is still relevant today (plus/minus some amendments :)
Employing and/or providing software programs, browser scripts, or other technologies that serve to block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages.
Notice that the terms "software programs" and "browser scripts" are not defined. Are these server/client programs? What about the scripts -- are these embedded javascripts or would a ff extension constitute a script? Probably both.
Now a question: it has probably been previously decided what "providing" means in terms of cyberspace. Does anyone know if it means "serving" the scripts (i.e. putting, say, a ff extension on a server, and a link to download) OR can it also mean providing an external link to adblock hosted by mozilla or whoever else? Anyone know? (obligatory IANAL stands of course) -ikAnyone see that the company is named Cyberdine? Next we'll get Skynet...
Try the following (it's where I am learning a great deal):
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/parsing.php (Very useful examples)
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php (Found the above link the comments on this page)
You know, I was kind of bummed he ragged on Gmail so hard.
First, I use the service as my primary personal account. Why shouldn't I, since I travel so much? What, use yahoo or hotmail instead?? BAH! (I do have a yahoo junk acct though).
Second, are there any 'fox extensions for yahoo or hotmail? I didn't find one (but I didn't look too hard). Fear not, 'fox has a gmail extension. That of itself speaks of gmail's popularity, I think.
Maybe it's just me, but I find Gmail sleek, elegant, and most of all, much more usable than yahoo or hotmail. And for a free service that survives on ad placement, I think google has done a terrific job of not letting the ads interfere with your mail retreival...
Just my $0.02
Microsoft would be better off forming an alliance with Opera to bundle it with Vista. In turn, Opera could add some functionality to make it more integrateable into the OS.
There is a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment in the browser world. I wouldn't trust anything that says Microsoft and Browser in the same sentence. If MS partnered with Opera, I might actually consider using it...
Well okay, maybe not (I still love the 'Fox), but installing 'fox wouldn't become a priority for every single system.
Printer-friendly mode sometimes has ads. The Scotsman has them, as does Mapquest.
You could always search for a hosts file that will block a good portion of ads, and use it in conjunction with Firefox's image block.