Elon Musk just announced he has accelerated the Mars rocket program. We should be able to migrate to Mars well in time.
"Since we are starting ab-initio in a new planet", he said, "the entire planetary infrastructure will be built on sustainable resources from the ground up from the start from get go". Complete with Boring Machines taking all the roads underground, with some tunnels reserved for hyperloop, cars will drive themselves to charging stations, a Dyson Sphere of 2 Astronomical units in diameter will refocus sunlight on the Mars surface to maintain Earth like lighting and temperature.
He said "If Secretary General of UN would sign the contract, all this will be completed in 100 days or it would be free. "
Wow! With just the head lines and a couple of photos, you deduced this! Amazing Sherlock. Usually Sherlock explains his reasoning and deductions 38 minutes into the episode, Wrap up, a mood lightening sardonic humor piece and dangler for the next episode at minute 42. So it is high time you explain it all to the dimwitted scientists with mere PhDs who worked all their life studying this.
Microsoft made abysmally bad product. The ever increasing computational power masked the low quality of its software. It became a behemoth in corporate space not because of any thing it did spectacular. Its success was due to all companies agreeing to use MS as the defacto standard. It leveraged its lucky position in the corporate space into consumer space. And as soon as consumers can ditch it, they ditched it.
If it survives as an ibm it should consider itself lucky.
Gee, they took stuffed birds that were collecting dust in dark closets for 100 years. And they reflected less light. Is it a surprise? How do they correlate it to soot?
Play for Sure, Zune, and countless other "features"...
Does anyone remember there was a Windows Multi Media Edition? One had to buy a Soundblaster card to get sound out of the box previously and HP keyboards had play/pause/volume controls on the keyboard...
We came first. We wrote scripts based on the agreement that "whitespace in path names are to be avoided for portability and interoperability". We had set up some convention. Follow it, respect it. They overthrew it with malicious intent just to break interoperability. So I hate them.
In the game of chicken the most rational winning strategy is to be highly irrational. The rules of the game are irrational, rationality will lose.
You can put on the airs of smug superiority and laugh at us for being parochial and fanboism and irrational response etc.
Read game theory, iterated prisoners dilemma problem, universal defector, universal cooperator, tit-for-tat strategy and understand the evolution of altruism, the conditions needed for altruism to emerge, and the conditions under which the society will remain peaceful and cooperative. You will understand the universal cooperators like you are the freeloaders. It is us who relentlessly and consistently punish bad behavior without fail are the ones who built this peaceful society. We are the ones manning the ramparts and keeping the Hun away. So that you can attend your high society party and decry the barbarism and violence of the people who man the ramparts.
I have no respect for those who thrive due to my actions and have the ungodly amount of ignorance and look down on me. You are not entitled to truth. You can't handle the truth.
The right way to do it would be to propose "human readable file name" as an attribute to all files and have it accepted by some sort of ACM standard of POSIX standard and allow for clean migration of file names. But the decided to deliberately roll it in, and made sure most of the default locations "Documents and Settings" "Program Files" included the space just to break scripts, to break interoperability of scripts between unix and windows. It was no innocent thing they did.
Unix can support any character in the file names, we could support whitespace from day one, we had clean escape characters to let us use anything other than / in the file name. But we did not use white space in file name to simplify the scripts. The whole aim of microsoft is to break the scripts. They did it with deliberate cruelty.
Even if it was mere incompetence and ignorance, Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
But still I am angry at all the other indignities heaped on me all these years. So I will perpetuate the meme that Windows is an unstable piece of crap as long as possible.
That jerks who decided to violate the then accepted norms of not using white spaces in path names just so that he can laugh and giggle at the unix descendants who have to fix all the scripts, this is for them.
The jerks who decided to withdraw support for command line builds in visual studio and broke all our Imakefile\s and Makefile\s in windows, it is for them. It happened in visual studio 2 I think. They restored it in version 4. I have a long memory. And I will not forgive. Our entire company had to reorganize the entire build process due that dick move. We could not get a clean simple build working in MS and linux for ages.
No, they deserve no sympathy. They deserve no fair treatment.
We had a clean abstract layer that ran above X windows and MFC. Link with motiflib.a in hp-ux, iris, dec-alpha, and solaris. Link with mfclib.lib in windows. They broke it up, made us use that infernal thing called Mainwin, and they ditched Mainwin.
Microsoft does not deserve any sympathy, any fair treatment. They deserve to be pilloried at every available opportunity.
Yes, there's a fundamental uncertainty but when your date estimate is always off in one direction, you should clear adjust how you are estimating.
You can do an ok job if you stick to predicting in one field. That guy has his finger in so many diverse fields. Anyway he is way better than the talking heads all excitement all day every day in CNBC.
No. We did not decide vengeance is a bad thing. We agreed private vengeance is a bad thing. We created a formal process to take vengeance, we agreed to give up our right to seek personal vengeance, with the understanding the State with all its power and glory will take vengeance on our behalf.
Don't confuse it with US Constitution and 1776. Not even the Magna Carta. State taking our the monopoly to mete out vengeance is at least 5000 years old, possibly older.
Fore people, Kalahari bushmen and some tribes of South America are the few remnants that survived into recorded history where they practiced individual pursuit of vengeance and justice. That system would not scale, and would not work beyond extended kinship and tribal bonds.
Early religious texts give us clues about how the transformation took place from private vengeance to the formal practice of filing grievances and taking revenge through the collective action of peer groups.
You have lived in such a peaceful and placid place all your life you probably truly believe in the power of love and all vengeance is bad. But not punishing the rule breakers will have very serious consequences to the stability of the society. Game theory would mar you as a "universal cooperator, a free rider in the society made peaceful by other actors who punished defection".
Whats wrong with vengeance? As long as the target of vengeance deserved it, As long as the amount of vengeance is comparable to the amount of affront, I see nothing wrong in vengeance.
You, of course, retain the right to refrain from vengeance. You have the right not to file charges when you are the victim.
You also have the right to tell other victims to give up vengeance, not to file charges and practice universal love.
And they have the right to ask you to go fly a kite.
Unfortunately, severely punishing somebody for a crime has a negligible effect on discouraging anybody else from committing the same crime. I guarantee that at no point did this person ever think, "I wonder what happened to others who have stalked and harassed people? What's my risk vs. reward ratio here?"
Then, pray tell, what would have non-negligible deterrent effect?
Are you claiming people don't fear punishment or getting caught at all?
Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division. “This kind of behavior is not a prank, and it isn't harmless. He allegedly scared innocent people, and disrupted their daily lives, because he was blinded by his obsession. No one should feel unsafe in their own home, school, or workplace, and the FBI and our law enforcement partners hope today's arrest will deter others from engaging in similar criminal conduct.”
This jerk has degraded the trustworthiness of ALL bomb threat calls, ALL emergency distress calls. As incidents like this increase, as people figure out better ways to hide their tracks, more people will do such things. In the end the police and emergency services will take time to check veracity and trustworthiness of the caller before responding. False alarms will increase cost for all tax payers. Some stalking victims could actually be raped or violated due to such postings.
This guy is evil, he should be punished so severely others don't even fantasize doing such things.
It was his room mate. With physical access to the machine, if he can not get a key logger in or video tape log ins to capture credentials that idiot deserves everything that's coming to him. Jeez, people like him bring bad name to all evil people.
Conversion rates in the checkout flow are a key measure for ecommerce sites. 46% of e-commerce shoppers abandon the checkout process during the payment phase, signaling frustration with the complexity and redundancy of re-entering form data or tracking down payment information.
No, that is not the reason and the conclusion is wrong.
Most web sites do not show the actual price till actually reach the checkout process. "Log in to see the price", "Check out to see the actual price including shipping handling and the random charge we tack on". Well, I will click it, see the price and decide it is not worth it.
If the actual price is shown up front, most of that 46% would not have bothered to go to check out process.
And there are price comparison bots who use the check out process to scrape the true price.
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One would think they prefer to be known collectively as octopi.
Come on, already people are growing potatoes in shit in mars. I saw the documentary.
He just announced a way to tackle the super vulcano problem too.
"Since we are starting ab-initio in a new planet", he said, "the entire planetary infrastructure will be built on sustainable resources from the ground up from the start from get go". Complete with Boring Machines taking all the roads underground, with some tunnels reserved for hyperloop, cars will drive themselves to charging stations, a Dyson Sphere of 2 Astronomical units in diameter will refocus sunlight on the Mars surface to maintain Earth like lighting and temperature.
He said "If Secretary General of UN would sign the contract, all this will be completed in 100 days or it would be free. "
It's like trying to do fluid dynamics on a TRS-80.
I wrote a potential flow solver for NACA 0012 airfoil with 50x20 C Grid in an IBM PC-XT you insensitive clod!
Wondering why they call it a marriage license... I mean... if it is not going to expire ...
Wow! With just the head lines and a couple of photos, you deduced this! Amazing Sherlock. Usually Sherlock explains his reasoning and deductions 38 minutes into the episode, Wrap up, a mood lightening sardonic humor piece and dangler for the next episode at minute 42. So it is high time you explain it all to the dimwitted scientists with mere PhDs who worked all their life studying this.
It is the second year in a row it happened in the last 40 years. So it has been opening and closing off and on for at least 40 years.
If it survives as an ibm it should consider itself lucky.
Gee, they took stuffed birds that were collecting dust in dark closets for 100 years. And they reflected less light. Is it a surprise? How do they correlate it to soot?
I was just about to report it lost and file insurance claims...
Does anyone remember there was a Windows Multi Media Edition? One had to buy a Soundblaster card to get sound out of the box previously and HP keyboards had play/pause/volume controls on the keyboard ...
We came first. We wrote scripts based on the agreement that "whitespace in path names are to be avoided for portability and interoperability". We had set up some convention. Follow it, respect it. They overthrew it with malicious intent just to break interoperability. So I hate them.
You can put on the airs of smug superiority and laugh at us for being parochial and fanboism and irrational response etc.
Read game theory, iterated prisoners dilemma problem, universal defector, universal cooperator, tit-for-tat strategy and understand the evolution of altruism, the conditions needed for altruism to emerge, and the conditions under which the society will remain peaceful and cooperative. You will understand the universal cooperators like you are the freeloaders. It is us who relentlessly and consistently punish bad behavior without fail are the ones who built this peaceful society. We are the ones manning the ramparts and keeping the Hun away. So that you can attend your high society party and decry the barbarism and violence of the people who man the ramparts.
I have no respect for those who thrive due to my actions and have the ungodly amount of ignorance and look down on me. You are not entitled to truth. You can't handle the truth.
Unix can support any character in the file names, we could support whitespace from day one, we had clean escape characters to let us use anything other than / in the file name. But we did not use white space in file name to simplify the scripts. The whole aim of microsoft is to break the scripts. They did it with deliberate cruelty.
Even if it was mere incompetence and ignorance, Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
But still I am angry at all the other indignities heaped on me all these years. So I will perpetuate the meme that Windows is an unstable piece of crap as long as possible.
That jerks who decided to violate the then accepted norms of not using white spaces in path names just so that he can laugh and giggle at the unix descendants who have to fix all the scripts, this is for them.
The jerks who decided to withdraw support for command line builds in visual studio and broke all our Imakefile\s and Makefile\s in windows, it is for them. It happened in visual studio 2 I think. They restored it in version 4. I have a long memory. And I will not forgive. Our entire company had to reorganize the entire build process due that dick move. We could not get a clean simple build working in MS and linux for ages.
No, they deserve no sympathy. They deserve no fair treatment.
We had a clean abstract layer that ran above X windows and MFC. Link with motiflib.a in hp-ux, iris, dec-alpha, and solaris. Link with mfclib.lib in windows. They broke it up, made us use that infernal thing called Mainwin, and they ditched Mainwin.
Microsoft does not deserve any sympathy, any fair treatment. They deserve to be pilloried at every available opportunity.
Yes, there's a fundamental uncertainty but when your date estimate is always off in one direction, you should clear adjust how you are estimating.
You can do an ok job if you stick to predicting in one field. That guy has his finger in so many diverse fields. Anyway he is way better than the talking heads all excitement all day every day in CNBC.
Don't confuse it with US Constitution and 1776. Not even the Magna Carta. State taking our the monopoly to mete out vengeance is at least 5000 years old, possibly older.
Fore people, Kalahari bushmen and some tribes of South America are the few remnants that survived into recorded history where they practiced individual pursuit of vengeance and justice. That system would not scale, and would not work beyond extended kinship and tribal bonds.
Early religious texts give us clues about how the transformation took place from private vengeance to the formal practice of filing grievances and taking revenge through the collective action of peer groups.
You have lived in such a peaceful and placid place all your life you probably truly believe in the power of love and all vengeance is bad. But not punishing the rule breakers will have very serious consequences to the stability of the society. Game theory would mar you as a "universal cooperator, a free rider in the society made peaceful by other actors who punished defection".
You, of course, retain the right to refrain from vengeance. You have the right not to file charges when you are the victim.
You also have the right to tell other victims to give up vengeance, not to file charges and practice universal love.
And they have the right to ask you to go fly a kite.
Unfortunately, severely punishing somebody for a crime has a negligible effect on discouraging anybody else from committing the same crime. I guarantee that at no point did this person ever think, "I wonder what happened to others who have stalked and harassed people? What's my risk vs. reward ratio here?"
Then, pray tell, what would have non-negligible deterrent effect?
Are you claiming people don't fear punishment or getting caught at all?
Down vote this post to oblivion, please.
Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Field Division. “This kind of behavior is not a prank, and it isn't harmless. He allegedly scared innocent people, and disrupted their daily lives, because he was blinded by his obsession. No one should feel unsafe in their own home, school, or workplace, and the FBI and our law enforcement partners hope today's arrest will deter others from engaging in similar criminal conduct.”
This jerk has degraded the trustworthiness of ALL bomb threat calls, ALL emergency distress calls. As incidents like this increase, as people figure out better ways to hide their tracks, more people will do such things. In the end the police and emergency services will take time to check veracity and trustworthiness of the caller before responding. False alarms will increase cost for all tax payers. Some stalking victims could actually be raped or violated due to such postings.
This guy is evil, he should be punished so severely others don't even fantasize doing such things.
It was his room mate. With physical access to the machine, if he can not get a key logger in or video tape log ins to capture credentials that idiot deserves everything that's coming to him. Jeez, people like him bring bad name to all evil people.
.. to that project? One lap top per child? Their goal was a 100$ laptop right?
Conversion rates in the checkout flow are a key measure for ecommerce sites. 46% of e-commerce shoppers abandon the checkout process during the payment phase, signaling frustration with the complexity and redundancy of re-entering form data or tracking down payment information.
No, that is not the reason and the conclusion is wrong.
Most web sites do not show the actual price till actually reach the checkout process. "Log in to see the price", "Check out to see the actual price including shipping handling and the random charge we tack on". Well, I will click it, see the price and decide it is not worth it.
If the actual price is shown up front, most of that 46% would not have bothered to go to check out process.
And there are price comparison bots who use the check out process to scrape the true price.
So the conversion rate is unlikely to improve.