I've been following this flight since a great launch on July 4th, watched it on NASA TV streaming to Realplayer - and the biggest lesson I learned is that journalists are really such dopes. I love reading about the mission, the challenges, the science, etc. But everytime NASA has a press conference the reporters ask such idiotic questions I just turn it off. Having to rely on them for the only source of knowledge about the US space program is the pits. It's like great science filtered thru the brian of a tabolid publisher. It's like they don't know what to ask, and are constantly digging for some 'human angle' to make an interesting story for people who would rather watch soap operas and golf games. Over and over we get "How do you FEEL about taking such an incredible RISK knowing there are problems with FOAM". I *just* turned on a post landing press conference and the first thing I heard, an NPR reporter AGAIN WITH THE FORM (then hit STOP in disgust). Thankfully we can get info directly from NASA these days. People who get their info thru 3rd party media don't know how badly a distorted view they're getting. Journalists reporting on NASA are like Martha Stewart reporting on NASCAR.
Why should they? What's the incentive? All most developers want to do is develope software and *if* it helps someone else, great, take a copy. It's not like they make more $$ for every customer who runs it. In fact, there's a big *disincentive* to inviting the clueless in - then the devs have to spend more time answering annoying newbie FAQ's over and over, troubleshoot their installation problems, etc. If the FOSS world, the more clueful users the better; the more clueless the worse. Ergo, if you don't know what it is, you probably don't want it. FOSS: you've got to *want* it - there are no marketeers out there trying to hunt down customers, ship them product and debit their account.
Another bogus argument - just because one problem isn't solved does not mean everybody has to drop everything and focus full attention on it. Good grief, surely you don't think that if this gaggle of politicians would only focus and squeeze hard enough, they could solve a 2k yo religious war?
Just because someone robbed a bank doesn't mean the police should stop arresting kids for stealing candy.
I *knew* if I just type "microsoft life cycle humor" into google something would come up:
The Life Cycle of Software
1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren't really bugs.
4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.
5. See 3.
6. See 4.
7. See 5.
8. See 6.
9. See 7.
10. See 8.
11. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely pre-mature product announcement based on over-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
12. Users find 137 new bugs.
13. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
14. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
15. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.
16. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
17. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires programmer to redo program from scratch.
18. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
19. See step 2
a car wouldn't get very far if all it's wheels spun clockwise.
Uh, they all DO spin in the same direction (unlike the other examples where things are actually different) - what changes is your point of reference, looking from a different side;)
to make sure that the students have to use windows in order to use the robot
or even worse, it's the foundation of Microsoft's future robot clone army built to enslave the human race. Bill Gates isn't getting any younger you known.
HouseBot: "Sir, it looks like you're trying to polish your shoes, may I be of assistance?"
Joe: "Sure. Wow Mable, I don't know how we got along before we got these household robots."
HouseBot: "Robot to HQ: I have gained control of his shoes. Proceeding with plan."
I guess the opposite would be retrophilia - the love of buying other people's junk off eBay, while dreaming of hitting the jackpot on Antiques Roadshow, or browsing antique shops while dreaming of making a fortune on eBay.
Actually, I think he might have been inspired by one John G. Trump, an associate of Van De Graff, who worked on an electrostatic generator that would be more effecient than electromagnetic generators.
Once the internet was a freedom loving community of like minded, responsible researchers and educators with an ingrained sense of 'nettiquete'. Then Al Gore and company turned it into a business superhighway, from which it quickly deteriorated into a wretched hive of scum and villany. Now, soon the Marines are going to invade and impose marshall law, punishing the innocent along with the phishers and spammers.
Where shall we flee to find our next Shangri La, nestled hidden in an uncharted valley in Colorado where John Galt and talented friends can persue their happiness free from the choking stranglehold of the inept hoards and their socialist politicians?
The mice are actually pan-dimensional beings cleverly performing experiments on humans, getting pregnent on artificially produced sperm to find out how humans will react, etc.
Color me ignorant, but I thought exponentials and powers were the same thing? Or are they talking about natural exp -vs- a higher order power, like 4 or 5?
Not the terrorist thing, but slashdot's appearently irreversible slide into area 51 style government conspiracy theory tabloid journalism. Guess it was to be expected, seeing how the shoe was on the other foot in the gay '90's.
My misunderstanding, I thought you meant the govt issuing patents at all, instead of the Govt taxpayer funded agencies like the Navy obtaining patents. Sorry.
I can't find anything in the constitution that makes this abhorent practice illegal or unjustified.
Here it is, in Article I, section 8:
"Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
I think it's more a function of the mobo. Quoth TFA:
"If you are using an Intel's own baby, D975XBX motherboard and put four drives in RAID5 array, an interesting overhead and a slowdown will occur on all upcoming Conroes."
raid-5 is supported in an optional mobo sata controller. Still don't get the connection with the processor, but probably a mobo glitch that only shows up with certain ones.
Sometimes I think the various languages came about, not by trying to simplify communication, but by trying to obfuscate and hide meaning from outsiders, like a code, like children or gangsters creating a code language to talk about things without parents or authorities understanding it.
What we are witnessing, in action right before our eyes, is people rationalizing their actions so much they've come to believe them as facts - akin to people telling themselves that negros aren't really people so slavery is ok. When you are ripping music and movies and telling yourself you're doing the artist / production company a bloody favor (forget about what the artists and owners have to say about it!), they you're pretty far gone and beyond rational discussion.
1) Obtain notebook containing sensitive data 2) Wearing rubber gloves, carefully remove disk drive. Do not scratch case or otherwise mar screws. 3) Image disk drive. 4) Reassemble and allow notebook to be recovered. 5) Enjoy politicians spinning and shouting that the data has not been read.
Going after 12 year olds for "violating" intellectual property rights is bullshit -- when was the last time you asked a 12 year old about intellectual property rights and got any answer other than a headscratch and a "huh?".
Why is that any different from going after a 12 year old trying to steal candy from WalMart w/o paying for it? Either way, police and parents will be alerted. I'm not flamebaiting - I really think you people are on a hair trigger to go ape-shit over an organization enforcing copyright protection, which is THE LAW. Smoking a joint used to be an innocent, harmless activity, but business and politicians made it so it ruined many people's lives. So be it with copying stuff that the creator doesn't want copied. Once you guys change THE LAW so that an artists work can be casually ripped off, great. Untill then, that's the way it is and all the jumping up and down and stomping and crying about what nazi's they are is totally useless.
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I've been following this flight since a great launch on July 4th, watched it on NASA TV streaming to Realplayer - and the biggest lesson I learned is that journalists are really such dopes. I love reading about the mission, the challenges, the science, etc. But everytime NASA has a press conference the reporters ask such idiotic questions I just turn it off. Having to rely on them for the only source of knowledge about the US space program is the pits. It's like great science filtered thru the brian of a tabolid publisher. It's like they don't know what to ask, and are constantly digging for some 'human angle' to make an interesting story for people who would rather watch soap operas and golf games. Over and over we get "How do you FEEL about taking such an incredible RISK knowing there are problems with FOAM". I *just* turned on a post landing press conference and the first thing I heard, an NPR reporter AGAIN WITH THE FORM (then hit STOP in disgust). Thankfully we can get info directly from NASA these days. People who get their info thru 3rd party media don't know how badly a distorted view they're getting. Journalists reporting on NASA are like Martha Stewart reporting on NASCAR.
Why should they? What's the incentive? All most developers want to do is develope software and *if* it helps someone else, great, take a copy. It's not like they make more $$ for every customer who runs it. In fact, there's a big *disincentive* to inviting the clueless in - then the devs have to spend more time answering annoying newbie FAQ's over and over, troubleshoot their installation problems, etc. If the FOSS world, the more clueful users the better; the more clueless the worse. Ergo, if you don't know what it is, you probably don't want it. FOSS: you've got to *want* it - there are no marketeers out there trying to hunt down customers, ship them product and debit their account.
Another bogus argument - just because one problem isn't solved does not mean everybody has to drop everything and focus full attention on it. Good grief, surely you don't think that if this gaggle of politicians would only focus and squeeze hard enough, they could solve a 2k yo religious war?
Just because someone robbed a bank doesn't mean the police should stop arresting kids for stealing candy.
I *knew* if I just type "microsoft life cycle humor" into google something would come up:
The Life Cycle of Software
1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren't really bugs.
4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.
5. See 3.
6. See 4.
7. See 5.
8. See 6.
9. See 7.
10. See 8.
11. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely pre-mature product announcement based on over-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
12. Users find 137 new bugs.
13. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
14. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
15. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.
16. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
17. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires programmer to redo program from scratch.
18. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
19. See step 2
a car wouldn't get very far if all it's wheels spun clockwise.
;)
Uh, they all DO spin in the same direction (unlike the other examples where things are actually different) - what changes is your point of reference, looking from a different side
Doesn't add up: 2006 - 27 = 1979.
Intel was making processors way before 1979.
to make sure that the students have to use windows in order to use the robot
or even worse, it's the foundation of Microsoft's future robot clone army built to enslave the human race. Bill Gates isn't getting any younger you known.
HouseBot: "Sir, it looks like you're trying to polish your shoes, may I be of assistance?"
Joe: "Sure. Wow Mable, I don't know how we got along before we got these household robots."
HouseBot: "Robot to HQ: I have gained control of his shoes. Proceeding with plan."
BalmerBot: "Excellent. Excellent!".
'd be cool if his name was Atom Smasha.
I guess the opposite would be retrophilia - the love of buying other people's junk off eBay, while dreaming of hitting the jackpot on Antiques Roadshow, or browsing antique shops while dreaming of making a fortune on eBay.
Actually, I think he might have been inspired by one John G. Trump, an associate of Van De Graff, who worked on an electrostatic generator that would be more effecient than electromagnetic generators.
Once the internet was a freedom loving community of like minded, responsible researchers and educators with an ingrained sense of 'nettiquete'. Then Al Gore and company turned it into a business superhighway, from which it quickly deteriorated into a wretched hive of scum and villany. Now, soon the Marines are going to invade and impose marshall law, punishing the innocent along with the phishers and spammers.
Where shall we flee to find our next Shangri La, nestled hidden in an uncharted valley in Colorado where John Galt and talented friends can persue their happiness free from the choking stranglehold of the inept hoards and their socialist politicians?
The mice are actually pan-dimensional beings cleverly performing experiments on humans, getting pregnent on artificially produced sperm to find out how humans will react, etc.
Color me ignorant, but I thought exponentials and powers were the same thing?
Or are they talking about natural exp -vs- a higher order power, like 4 or 5?
Not the terrorist thing, but slashdot's appearently irreversible slide into area 51 style government conspiracy theory tabloid journalism. Guess it was to be expected, seeing how the shoe was on the other foot in the gay '90's.
My misunderstanding, I thought you meant the govt issuing patents at all, instead of the Govt taxpayer funded agencies like the Navy obtaining patents. Sorry.
I can't find anything in the constitution that makes this abhorent practice illegal or unjustified.
Here it is, in Article I, section 8:
"Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
I think it's more a function of the mobo. Quoth TFA:
"If you are using an Intel's own baby, D975XBX motherboard and put four drives in RAID5 array, an interesting overhead and a slowdown will occur on all upcoming Conroes."
raid-5 is supported in an optional mobo sata controller. Still don't get the connection with the processor, but probably a mobo glitch that only shows up with certain ones.
Sometimes I think the various languages came about, not by trying to simplify communication, but by trying to obfuscate and hide meaning from outsiders, like a code, like children or gangsters creating a code language to talk about things without parents or authorities understanding it.
Hey, stop ruining perfectly good slashdot tabloid government bash fests with the facts.
What we are witnessing, in action right before our eyes, is people rationalizing their actions so much they've come to believe them as facts - akin to people telling themselves that negros aren't really people so slavery is ok. When you are ripping music and movies and telling yourself you're doing the artist / production company a bloody favor (forget about what the artists and owners have to say about it!), they you're pretty far gone and beyond rational discussion.
Hmmmmmm...... What fortune does this portend.
So the best cyber-crime technique is:
1) Obtain notebook containing sensitive data
2) Wearing rubber gloves, carefully remove disk drive. Do not scratch case
or otherwise mar screws.
3) Image disk drive.
4) Reassemble and allow notebook to be recovered.
5) Enjoy politicians spinning and shouting that the data has not been read.
(the Russians) do not go arround bragging about their achievements.
You've obviously never heard the Voice of Russia shortwave broadcasts of cold war days.
Going after 12 year olds for "violating" intellectual property rights is bullshit -- when was the last time you asked a 12 year old about intellectual property rights and got any answer other than a headscratch and a "huh?".
Why is that any different from going after a 12 year old trying to steal candy from WalMart w/o paying for it? Either way, police and parents will be alerted. I'm not flamebaiting - I really think you people are on a hair trigger to go ape-shit over an organization enforcing copyright protection, which is THE LAW. Smoking a joint used to be an innocent, harmless activity, but business and politicians made it so it ruined many people's lives. So be it with copying stuff that the creator doesn't want copied. Once you guys change THE LAW so that an artists work can be casually ripped off, great. Untill then, that's the way it is and all the jumping up and down and stomping and crying about what nazi's they are is totally useless.
Godwin's law - end of discussion.
Just think about it - all you need is 10 well-to-do 'believers' to chip in 10% of their income, and you can live a pretty good life.