And the mathematicians might have some fun with it. How would you express the concept of isomorphic, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert spaces with a car analogy?
Oh that one is too easy - all you have to do is imagine driving on the Cross-Bronx Expressway during rush hour and you have the concept down pact!
The infinite-dimensional corresponds to the amount of time it takes to get to your destination, separable Hilbert spaces are where you are and the space just ahead of the car in the other lane moving faster than you which you can never seem to reach unless you go under the separable space under the truck, and isomorphism is what you think of the other testosterone poisoned drivers who don't know how to drive.
Ignorant of this affective technology is one thing -
knowing how to effectively use the technology is another.
All because you don't know how to use the technology doesn't mean you don't know how computers affect society (or whatever you're deciding on) - although you'd probably have to be a bit smarter than most.
I know a number of people who can make brilliant decisions on things which they have little specific knowledge of - it only when they have to micromanage they would completely fall on their faces (and so they don't micromanage)
Since we need some kind of reference to cars here, it would like saying that the-powers-that-be can't require that automakers produce cars that are more fuel efficient because the-powers-that-be are not automotive engineers and can't conceptualize that obtaining better mpg is a non-linear process etc.
Don't worry - first they'll have to develop workable fusion power (which is another 40 years in the future) before they start hooking bodies up to the source.
By that time, It'll be year of the Linux desktop and Microsoft will be no more.
That's right. None. Running an AV program on a Mac makes about as much sense as using a rope to tie down your car every time you park it in your garage.
I don't think that is what you mean. If you tie your car down with a rope, a car thief can still get in do his stuff and drive away breaking the rope.
Now if you protest that the rope is very strong and you tie very good knots, well the thief has a knife (watch it - metal rope? - thats a cable - anyhow thief also has a hacksaw)
What you want to say is that its like parking your car in the garage always next to the unlocked BMW (who has its hood open and a nasty sounding alarm system) and your car has all doors locked with a steering wheel lock, ignition auto cutoff, hood keyed lock, tire boot.....
and running an AV program is like adding a nasty sounding alarm system to your car
But then to get out of the car, if you get an email from an infected PC person, you don;t want to accidently forward it to some other poor PC person.
That's great, unless I'm 65 and expected to live on the money I get from selling my house, moving to an apartment, and liquidating my investments. The stock market, had I got in 10 years ago and invested in a safe S&P 500 index fund, has done absolutely nothing. Zero return in ten years. Ten years is pretty close to "long term" in my book.
Which is why all the retirement lit I've seen strongly recommends redistributing assets as you get closer to retirement - the closer you are, the more your should be in "cash". Generally you should have 5 year "buffer". There are even funds that do that automatically in 401K's. So actually if you're 55, you don't have 10 more years in the market, its more like 5. Except now with the market tipsy turvy, not a good idea to sell low, which is why you have this 5 year "buffer". Of course if our problems continue after 5 years...and will things even recover to what was before after that time... Well I agree, it sucks.
Should'a sold a couple years ago so I wouldn't have to keep going up hill both ways.
A human and a Neanderthal is standing side by side.
A saber tooth tiger starts charging at both.
Both let out blood curdling screams and each show off their best Kung-Fu kicking position.
Which will the tiger go for, the easy one with the knobby bent knees or the one with a beautiful straight kick and looks like Bruce Lee?
I know, bad example - actually in this case the Neanderthal will ensure survival for both because once the tiger sees his wobbly stance the tiger will roll over dying of laughter.:-)
I'd love to read more about that. Got any links or something?
Yeah, me too - what the heck does locking knees have to do with survival ?
Sounds like the energy is taken from eddy and vortex currents which, for the most part, is lost energy anyway (destructive interference) and don't add to river currents anyway.
If it works (both technologically and financially) , it's brilliant - harnessing energy that would be lost anyway.
Why are these PCs on the internet? I bet if they were firewalled off and actually used in class they would be a boon to education, not a liability
Indeed, especially in the upper classes where most of the students will be spending their time reading and posting on Slashdot - how will they learn to be productive in the workforce if they....
Sorry old chap, I don't know what to say except maybe bring a big red marker to paint one of those pretty maple leafs on the pin.
(Obligitory: But i'll forgive don't worry about it eh we can be friends still. It'd be nice if you please stopped though thank you.
Ha - I'll take you up on that:-).
Was there recently in Montreal, nice place you've got there (even though people were saying funny things like "Bonjour" but they had a big smile so I said "Bonjour to you too" back, figure couldn't mean anything too bad
Maybe one reason its nice in Canada is all that hydro power that keeps the buildings warm and skies clear, eh?
Ah - OK, sounds good. I like my oatmeal lumpy, why not antimatter?
Should be interesting to try (but when you try it, I'll still stay behind this little plastic shield at a reasonable distance, think maybe 3,000 miles would be enough just in case?:-):-) Even if there isn't a big boom, my doctor advised me to limit my exposure to gamma rays since my skin started turning orange and chunky
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And the mathematicians might have some fun with it. How would you express the concept of isomorphic, infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert spaces with a car analogy?
Oh that one is too easy - all you have to do is imagine driving on the Cross-Bronx Expressway during rush hour and you have the concept down pact!
The infinite-dimensional corresponds to the amount of time it takes to get to your destination, separable Hilbert spaces are where you are and the space just ahead of the car in the other lane moving faster than you which you can never seem to reach unless you go under the separable space under the truck, and isomorphism is what you think of the other testosterone poisoned drivers who don't know how to drive.
On Slashdot, if you feed the trolls, it only encourages them and it encourages them to reproduce (you get copycats).
Wow, my first analogy on Slashdot without a car involved...
"Where am I?" "You have no right to know that."
"you are here!"
knock knock.. uh oh
Same is true for many other forms. Cure and/or survival rates have been going up, even for the previous "incurable" forms.
If you eat Potassium Chloride, you get nutrition. If you inject it, you die.
If you eat Lead Acetate, you hurt your nervous system. If you apply it to your hair, you "comb away the gray"
If you eat Tallium Acetate, you get poisoned, if you wipe on your skin, you get rid of the stubble.
Oh yeah, and it depends on form: You eat Sodium your mouth catches fire, you eat sodium chloride and you get hypertension.
[MS has ] done lots of innovative things. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish was born in Redmond.
Never heard of those -
Is that like "Stop, Drop and Roll" ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop,_drop_and_roll
(Or "Rescue Alarm Confine Extinguish/Exit" ?)
Now you know the difference.
Oh no, he'll answer anything. It just won't be an answer to the question that was asked ;)
Yes, and it'll cost $10 to get answers to the asked question
and $20 for correct answers to the asked questions.
I used to have a price structure for those things in my office...
This is one of the most insightful posts I've ever seen!
knowing how to effectively use the technology is another.
All because you don't know how to use the technology doesn't mean you don't know how computers affect society (or whatever you're deciding on) - although you'd probably have to be a bit smarter than most.
I know a number of people who can make brilliant decisions on things which they have little specific knowledge of - it only when they have to micromanage they would completely fall on their faces (and so they don't micromanage)
Since we need some kind of reference to cars here, it would like saying that the-powers-that-be can't require that automakers produce cars that are more fuel efficient because the-powers-that-be are not automotive engineers and can't conceptualize that obtaining better mpg is a non-linear process etc.
By that time, It'll be year of the Linux desktop and Microsoft will be no more.
:-)
Maybe you should get a part time writing up the blurbs for overpriced cable...
The only "bad" lawyers (a) work for corporations or (b) are suing you.
You forgot:
c) lose your perfectly valid case
When you need a lawyer, one will save you far more than (s)he costs in fees.
Very true.
In addition, if there weren't lawyers, we wouldn't be able to tell morbid jokes that people laugh at.
LOL! wrong arm!
Mac has a small share relative to Windows
Yes, but consider that 9% is a lot less small than it used to be... (a few years back = http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
(assuming the method they used to determine this metric is valid, of course)
Amazing that there are no real exploits.
90% for windows. 8.9% for Mac Meaning 1.1% for Linux and other Operating Systems.
ominous voice : There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of... oh forget that.
Oh man, just RTFA's links:
Percent for Jan Aug Nov
Windows 91.50 90.66 89.62
Mac 7.57 7.86 8.87
Linux 0.64 0.93 0.83
iPhone 0.13 0.30 0.37
Playstation 0.03 0.04 0.04
FreeBSD 0.00 0.00 0.01
Other 0.13 0.21 0.26
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
That's right. None. Running an AV program on a Mac makes about as much sense as using a rope to tie down your car every time you park it in your garage.
I don't think that is what you mean. If you tie your car down with a rope, a car thief can still get in do his stuff and drive away breaking the rope.
Now if you protest that the rope is very strong and you tie very good knots, well the thief has a knife (watch it - metal rope? - thats a cable - anyhow thief also has a hacksaw)
What you want to say is that its like parking your car in the garage always next to the unlocked BMW (who has its hood open and a nasty sounding alarm system) and your car has all doors locked with a steering wheel lock, ignition auto cutoff, hood keyed lock, tire boot.....
and running an AV program is like adding a nasty sounding alarm system to your car
But then to get out of the car, if you get an email from an infected PC person, you don;t want to accidently forward it to some other poor PC person.
That's great, unless I'm 65 and expected to live on the money I get from selling my house, moving to an apartment, and liquidating my investments. The stock market, had I got in 10 years ago and invested in a safe S&P 500 index fund, has done absolutely nothing. Zero return in ten years. Ten years is pretty close to "long term" in my book.
Which is why all the retirement lit I've seen strongly recommends redistributing assets as you get closer to retirement - the closer you are, the more your should be in "cash". Generally you should have 5 year "buffer". There are even funds that do that automatically in 401K's. So actually if you're 55, you don't have 10 more years in the market, its more like 5. Except now with the market tipsy turvy, not a good idea to sell low, which is why you have this 5 year "buffer". Of course if our problems continue after 5 years...and will things even recover to what was before after that time... Well I agree, it sucks.
Should'a sold a couple years ago so I wouldn't have to keep going up hill both ways.
Now get off my lawn!!!!
Actually if we are going by great depressions comparisons, if this truly IS another one, then we have MUCH worse coming down the bend.
The great depressions didn't just become "great" overnight. It took YEARS and YEARS and 2 presidents before it turned around.
What if we're in a "lousy" depression?
(couldn't resist :-))
A human and a Neanderthal is standing side by side.
A saber tooth tiger starts charging at both.
Both let out blood curdling screams and each show off their best Kung-Fu kicking position.
Which will the tiger go for, the easy one with the knobby bent knees or the one with a beautiful straight kick and looks like Bruce Lee?
I know, bad example - actually in this case the Neanderthal will ensure survival for both because once the tiger sees his wobbly stance the tiger will roll over dying of laughter. :-)
I'd love to read more about that. Got any links or something?
Yeah, me too - what the heck does locking knees have to do with survival ?
The popliteus muscle makes the flesh less tasty?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popliteus_muscle
One of the more bizarre statements on Slashdot?
If it works (both technologically and financially) , it's brilliant - harnessing energy that would be lost anyway.
Why are these PCs on the internet? I bet if they were firewalled off and actually used in class they would be a boon to education, not a liability
Indeed, especially in the upper classes where most of the students will be spending their time reading and posting on Slashdot - how will they learn to be productive in the workforce if they....
oh wait a minute....
I'm not sure about Samarium
If you ingest Samarium, your TV gets all staticy and then your phone rings and someone on the other end says "7 days!"
Need a car analogy to go with that? :-)
(Obligitory: But i'll forgive don't worry about it eh we can be friends still. It'd be nice if you please stopped though thank you.
Ha - I'll take you up on that :-).
Was there recently in Montreal, nice place you've got there (even though people were saying funny things like "Bonjour" but they had a big smile so I said "Bonjour to you too" back, figure couldn't mean anything too bad
Maybe one reason its nice in Canada is all that hydro power that keeps the buildings warm and skies clear, eh?
Should be interesting to try (but when you try it, I'll still stay behind this little plastic shield at a reasonable distance, think maybe 3,000 miles would be enough just in case? :-) :-) Even if there isn't a big boom, my doctor advised me to limit my exposure to gamma rays since my skin started turning orange and chunky