You should know by now that Apple doesn't really care how they hurt the developers because their marketing team says the demographic of Apple software developers consists entirely of people who either need to do it merely to survive and/or pay off college debt (subsistence programming, look into it sometime) or masochists. And the users are all zealots.
As a result, no transition is too small for them to undertake.
So you put 16 engines on it and you can accept three failures and two partial failures, or whatever. The point still stands even if you choose to create strawmen with the numbers I gave. So you add an extra tenth rocket and you can succeed with two failures. Or an eleventh and you can succeed with two failures and two partials, or whatever.
The whole point is that they don't have a single point of failure that wrecks the whole thing.
They're talking about single point of failure. The space shuttle, for example, has a single point of failure: if either of the two engines fails, the whole thing fails. The result is that the overall reliability is the square of the reliability of the two engines. 99% reliable becomes 98.1% reliable. If it were the other way around, it would be the square root: 99.99% means it fails one in every thousand launches, as opposed to one in every fifty.
So what he's saying is, they can afford to have engines become nonfunctional (obviously not explosively so.) So even if each engine is only 80% reliable, if it only takes four to get to orbit, they can use nine, and get 99.9% reliability. If each engine is 99% reliable, you're talking way better than six sigma.
Why mirrors. Why not something that's retroreflective? I mean, if you can put 1% of your energy back on laser, and it looks like the laser and the sensor are part of the same piece, you could saturate the detector.
Your first missile, whatever, might end up destroyed, but you might succeed in blowing the CCD chips in the sensors.
That's a trick question because you can't maximize applications.
But in my experience there are those hot corner thingers that make every window fly out of whatever nook or cranny you hid it in and then you just click the one you want. Combining youur visual processing ability and Fitt's law mean you're much more likely to end up with the window you wanted sooner than say a linear search via alt-tab.
Now I don't own any Macs, but frankly, that's a killer feature.
If he knew anything about Unix nomenclature, that'd be a dot(1) release.
(I don't, I'm still confused when people refer to man(6) or what-not. Can anyone help me out, I couldn't find a wikipedia page or FAQ on the numbers in parenthesis anywhere.)
The average joe blow's experience with HP is, "Those guys that make cheap computers and laptops?" or, "Those %!@#ing ink cartridges cost an arm and a leg."
Not, "Wow, what fantastic load testing and server software suites they have!"
Keep in mind the FCC has something to say about out of spec wireless devices. They're covering their own asses by keeping people from using certain parts of the spectrum in unorthodox ways.
(Sorry, but it's a tragedy of the commons matter which means if it's not regulated, whoever has the biggest megaphone/transmitter wins.)
Read "the system's state cleared" as "we turned everything off" and they proceeded to turn every server on one by one until around 3PM when the EU location was complete and not showing any symptoms.
Even that could be rigged. They could rebroadcast content or permit 'on demand' downloading and say, hey look, you have HD content available 24 hours a day 7 days a week on 20 channels!
Except it's a half hour or hour long show on each channel that was shown once in the week and is available on demand thereafter.
Yeah but they're a pain to manufacture still (still stuck to small form factors,) expensive for the number of square inches you get, hard to get really awesome brightness out of and then there's still problems with one of the colors (blue, I believe) fading much faster than the others.
For that matter, aren't quantum dot based displays a lot more efficient? Well, yes. But.
*head-desk* Whoa, uhm. What was I going to post? *looks at winamp* Why was I playing Freebird?
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Because then the Joker says, kill 10 people or I'll blow up a hospital.
Or kill 100 people or I'll blow up a hospital.
Or kill 1000 people or I'll blow up a hospital.
The moment you accept killing one innocent person is OK to save many more innocent people, then how do you propose we weigh their lives? Does society even work when we permit such madness to reign?
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Don't worry, that rating goes down after a while. A lot of new movies will hit the top 10, or easily the top 250 on opening weekend, and then disappear.
That said, it does probably deserve placement in the top 100.
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Every damn movie that comes out is a 9/11 feel good film. Cloverfield? OBVIOUSLY the burning building was to remind us all of 9/11. Spiderman 3? Oh lordy, a building is nearly destroyed in the film, let's pull the 9/11 card out.
Let's stop this right now. 9/11 happened nearly 7 years ago and you're not doing any of the victims any justice by continuing to pull this crap. Cut it out, grow up, grieve if you must still, and move on.
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You're right, he's not crazy, he's batshit. He's completely insane. You don't have any idea what his plan is for the next five minutes of the movie but you know it won't end well for anyone other than him.
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Or more concisely, with respect to the iPhone developer program:
FUCKING NDA.
You should know by now that Apple doesn't really care how they hurt the developers because their marketing team says the demographic of Apple software developers consists entirely of people who either need to do it merely to survive and/or pay off college debt (subsistence programming, look into it sometime) or masochists. And the users are all zealots.
As a result, no transition is too small for them to undertake.
*grain of salt*
So you put 16 engines on it and you can accept three failures and two partial failures, or whatever. The point still stands even if you choose to create strawmen with the numbers I gave. So you add an extra tenth rocket and you can succeed with two failures. Or an eleventh and you can succeed with two failures and two partials, or whatever.
The whole point is that they don't have a single point of failure that wrecks the whole thing.
They're talking about single point of failure. The space shuttle, for example, has a single point of failure: if either of the two engines fails, the whole thing fails. The result is that the overall reliability is the square of the reliability of the two engines. 99% reliable becomes 98.1% reliable. If it were the other way around, it would be the square root: 99.99% means it fails one in every thousand launches, as opposed to one in every fifty.
So what he's saying is, they can afford to have engines become nonfunctional (obviously not explosively so.) So even if each engine is only 80% reliable, if it only takes four to get to orbit, they can use nine, and get 99.9% reliability. If each engine is 99% reliable, you're talking way better than six sigma.
Which obviously means whoever was leasing that address at the time did it. I mean, that's the argument the RIAA uses and it's totally legit right?
Why mirrors. Why not something that's retroreflective? I mean, if you can put 1% of your energy back on laser, and it looks like the laser and the sensor are part of the same piece, you could saturate the detector.
Your first missile, whatever, might end up destroyed, but you might succeed in blowing the CCD chips in the sensors.
Thanks for giving me a great way of explaining how trigonometry could be useful to people in high school.
In case you ever want to find out where that stray mortar fire is coming from, trust your friend trigonometry!
That's a trick question because you can't maximize applications.
But in my experience there are those hot corner thingers that make every window fly out of whatever nook or cranny you hid it in and then you just click the one you want. Combining youur visual processing ability and Fitt's law mean you're much more likely to end up with the window you wanted sooner than say a linear search via alt-tab.
Now I don't own any Macs, but frankly, that's a killer feature.
If he knew anything about Unix nomenclature, that'd be a dot(1) release.
(I don't, I'm still confused when people refer to man(6) or what-not. Can anyone help me out, I couldn't find a wikipedia page or FAQ on the numbers in parenthesis anywhere.)
Or if he pisses off the DA.
No it's not, proper casing is proper casing. That's right, I'm the Semantics Nazi.
The average joe blow's experience with HP is, "Those guys that make cheap computers and laptops?" or, "Those %!@#ing ink cartridges cost an arm and a leg."
Not, "Wow, what fantastic load testing and server software suites they have!"
Keep in mind the FCC has something to say about out of spec wireless devices. They're covering their own asses by keeping people from using certain parts of the spectrum in unorthodox ways.
(Sorry, but it's a tragedy of the commons matter which means if it's not regulated, whoever has the biggest megaphone/transmitter wins.)
Read "the system's state cleared" as "we turned everything off" and they proceeded to turn every server on one by one until around 3PM when the EU location was complete and not showing any symptoms.
Even that could be rigged. They could rebroadcast content or permit 'on demand' downloading and say, hey look, you have HD content available 24 hours a day 7 days a week on 20 channels!
Except it's a half hour or hour long show on each channel that was shown once in the week and is available on demand thereafter.
You have to go print it out. Do you know how hard it is to get a 24" paper size printer?
Don't worry, I've had 30+ character passwords before. But they're either passphrases or pronounceable strings.
Yeah but they're a pain to manufacture still (still stuck to small form factors,) expensive for the number of square inches you get, hard to get really awesome brightness out of and then there's still problems with one of the colors (blue, I believe) fading much faster than the others.
For that matter, aren't quantum dot based displays a lot more efficient? Well, yes. But.
Hey-oh! .ORG is switching to DNSSEC.
Also, several country level TLDs use it.
Don't worry, I just disabled his intern
[CARRIER LOST]
Wow that is...
*head-desk* Whoa, uhm. What was I going to post? *looks at winamp* Why was I playing Freebird?
Because then the Joker says, kill 10 people or I'll blow up a hospital.
Or kill 100 people or I'll blow up a hospital.
Or kill 1000 people or I'll blow up a hospital.
The moment you accept killing one innocent person is OK to save many more innocent people, then how do you propose we weigh their lives? Does society even work when we permit such madness to reign?
Don't worry, that rating goes down after a while. A lot of new movies will hit the top 10, or easily the top 250 on opening weekend, and then disappear.
That said, it does probably deserve placement in the top 100.
Every damn movie that comes out is a 9/11 feel good film. Cloverfield? OBVIOUSLY the burning building was to remind us all of 9/11. Spiderman 3? Oh lordy, a building is nearly destroyed in the film, let's pull the 9/11 card out.
Let's stop this right now. 9/11 happened nearly 7 years ago and you're not doing any of the victims any justice by continuing to pull this crap. Cut it out, grow up, grieve if you must still, and move on.
You're right, he's not crazy, he's batshit. He's completely insane. You don't have any idea what his plan is for the next five minutes of the movie but you know it won't end well for anyone other than him.
It's -fantastic-.