That 2003 study was flawed by one major thing: the list of "facts" on which "Fox viewers" were "uninformed" were latgely either simply false, or defined "informed" as "agreement with the Conventional Wisdom." Such as for example climate change issues: disagreement with carbon-forced anthropogenic global warming was identified as "uninformed".
3× development costs is pretty well comparable to movies. Sounds pretty reasonable for any mass-market item; those PC vs Mac ads, for example, don't come cheap.
Yup. Recognizably human species have been around for, oh, say a million years, real like home sapiens sapiens for 0.1 million years. We should definitely worry about what will happen in 500 or 1000 million years.
As to the other point, I kind of hate to point it out, but the number of places with life that aren't really ideal for life is going to far exceed the number that are ideal. In fact, I think you can say that places actually ideal for life occur with probability 0.
Their highest capacity versions and licenses are all for Solaris 10 and SPARC. And, as someone else noted, it would be hard to kill OpenSolaris, because it's already Open. Like MySQL, if they tried to close it, it would just branch (as MySQL already is.)
See, as someone has already pointed out, there's at least one such tool that's in wide use already: TeX and LaTeX. If you don't like that one, it turns out that HTML, with CSS and a little bit of Javascript, is perfectly capable of doing all the things you want, too. You just have to learn how. Have a look at Lie's Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (written and typeset in HTML/CSS) and at Prince XML for detailed examples.
Seriously. A good therapist can help you by pointing you to the right sources, help you figure out anything that may be behind it. Also, a therapist of the appropriately opposite sex can let you develop some skills in dealing with them in a controlled, safe, way.
... it depends on what you're trying to do. Just today, Sun published a Sun BluePrint Solid State Drives in HPC: Reducing the I/O Bottleneck showing that by using SSD as part of an HPC configuration, you can improve performance pretty dramatically. If buying 64GB of SSD can double performance on an I/O bound HPC program (these were finite element analysis programs) it might be a pretty good investment.
Honestly, code reviews, historically, have proven to be about ten times as cost effective as other techniques. If you're not seeing good effects from them, the odds are that you aren't doing them right.
Not that this is a big surprise, as few people do them well.
Get hold of some of the literature on Fagin reviews, and make sure you're following the guidelines:
(1) not too many people in the review: 3 minimum, 7 maximum. (2) the programmer isn't allowed to speak, except potentially to explain something (3) no one can suggest solutions: identify a potential problem and move on (4) close the loop: make sure all solutions get documented and passed to review participants. (5) a single review can last no longer than 1 hour.
See, the real issue here is that the guy doesn't actually remember, say, 1960. We may not have flying cars, but we have cross country plane trips for $14 (in 1960 dollars). We don't have videophones, but we've got Skype with video on computers -- and it's free. We're very rarely arrested for being queer, we're rarely getting arrested for voting while incorrectly complected, no one anywhere in the world has smallpox, and hardly anyone has polio. Famines are the result of political disruptions and the thuggery of Mugabe and his ilk, not lack of food.
(1) The NSA doesn't wiretap the US. For all the hysteria, the NSA is only looking at calls crossing the border. Inside the US its FBI, and the Feebies are very jealous of that.
And it certainly doesn't wiretap the whole US, because there's so much ohone traffic and 0.999999 of it is uninteresting.
(2) Could the NSA hack -- could DoJ simply subpoena -- the contents of a hotmail account? You bet... but which hotmail account? alQaedaDeathtoAmerica@hotmail.com? Or fluffibuni387? Or what?
(3) Now, with prepaid phone cards etc. If I'm getting this, you're saying NSA is bad because they can't get intel from something like a prepaid phone. Now think it through: Achmed al Boomaboom goes into WalMart, and buys condoms, a bag of Fritos, and a prepaid phone. He makes six "busines" calls, talking in code words, calls a hooker, and throws the phone away. How is the NSA supposed to figure out which phone it is, and capture the phone calls, before he pitches the phone.
More to the point, how can they intercept those phone calls without intercepting all calls, or at least all prepaid cell calls?
Okay, first of all, you can forget about the CO2 in the pressurization: that was collected from the atmosphere, and goes back, net carbon is zero. Similarly, since beer is made from plants, pretty well all the CO2 produced by making beer is absorbed again making next year's beer.
Just for fun, though, let's do a back-of-envelope calculation of how much there is. According to Wikipedia, humans brew about 133 gigaliters of beer a year, and we can assume it's about 5 percent alcohol, so that's (133×0.05)=6.7 gigaliters of alcohol. The specific gravity of ethanol is about 0.8 so that's 5.3 billion kilograms of ethanol per year. One mol Ethanol (CH3CH22OH) masses 45 grammmes. So that's 5600 billion grams of alcohol, 120 billion mols, and it turns out that there's 1 mol of CO2 per mol ethanol.
Thus we get 120 billion mol of CO2, a mol is 44 grammes, about 5.3 million tonnes. According to WikiAnswers, a car produces about 5.2 tonnes of CO2 per year, so all the world's beer production is about equivalent to a million cars.
So if it worries you, buy a couple CFL bulbs or soemthing. It's pretty small.
(PS. This would look better if/. allowed the sub tag.)
I wish journalists would do a little research. NSA has had the lead role in cybersecurity since before he term was invented, back to the National Computer Security Center when Bob Morris the Elder was Chief Scientist. Mid-80's, in other words. Communications security since Truman.
What this guy is complaining about is that he wasn't able to wrest control of cybersecurity away from NSA.
They will indeed find certain classes of bugs, and code that is lint-free (especially with more modern versions of lint has fewer defects. Other metrics, like McCabe cyclomatic complexity, can also point out areas in which bugs have a high probability.
On the other hand, no tool can find 100 percent of bugs. This is a theorem (via Turning's halting and equivalence theorems), and also because some bugs are places where the code is doing what it was supposed to do, but that isn't what the user actually wanted.
... positively dumbest story ever on/. and that's no small trick.
You mean to tell me that the Pentagon has been talking to friendly generals with continuing ties to the current command in order to get out their side of the story?
Merciful heavens, what next?
Will Nancy Pelosi start holding press conferences? Will "unnamed sources close to the CIA" start leaking information? Will Hillary and Bill say nasty things about Obama?
Let's see. First, I can't actually find anything in the article that says these new features/changes won't be open-source, just that they won't be in the Community Edition. The Enterprise Edition business is a service offering that already has proprietary tools, and has before Sun bought MySQL. So, either there's no change from MySQL's current policy, or there will be a different version open-sourced. Since Sun is open-sourcing more or less everything, I bet it's the second, but even if it's the first what's the point here? That nothing has changed?
Second, let's just follow the links rom this statement: "Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything."
In the first one, the author says "yes, it really is open source, but being 'open soure' means having a community. And yes, Sun is building a community with all the trimmings, but it's not really a community because people have to get together, except Sun is running Solaris SIG meetings."
In the second one, Sun is objecting to Google changing Java without running its changes back into the main source. That never happens in the open source would of course: there's never any controversy about companies making changes to a product and not releasing them back to the core.
Can we have a Slashdot category for "prevarication"? Of it that word is too big, how about "lying"?
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That 2003 study was flawed by one major thing: the list of "facts" on which "Fox viewers" were "uninformed" were latgely either simply false, or defined "informed" as "agreement with the Conventional Wisdom." Such as for example climate change issues: disagreement with carbon-forced anthropogenic global warming was identified as "uninformed".
It isn't, really.
... and demonstrated the anonymous Economist author was a little short of the facts.
3× development costs is pretty well comparable to movies. Sounds pretty reasonable for any mass-market item; those PC vs Mac ads, for example, don't come cheap.
Well, no. Assemblers are translated, but not compiled.
Yup. Recognizably human species have been around for, oh, say a million years, real like home sapiens sapiens for 0.1 million years. We should definitely worry about what will happen in 500 or 1000 million years.
As to the other point, I kind of hate to point it out, but the number of places with life that aren't really ideal for life is going to far exceed the number that are ideal. In fact, I think you can say that places actually ideal for life occur with probability 0.
Their highest capacity versions and licenses are all for Solaris 10 and SPARC. And, as someone else noted, it would be hard to kill OpenSolaris, because it's already Open. Like MySQL, if they tried to close it, it would just branch (as MySQL already is.)
See, as someone has already pointed out, there's at least one such tool that's in wide use already: TeX and LaTeX. If you don't like that one, it turns out that HTML, with CSS and a little bit of Javascript, is perfectly capable of doing all the things you want, too. You just have to learn how. Have a look at Lie's Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (written and typeset in HTML/CSS) and at Prince XML for detailed examples.
Hmmm. Resonant coupling, magnetic fields, wireless power transmission, where have I heard this before?
Seriously. A good therapist can help you by pointing you to the right sources, help you figure out anything that may be behind it. Also, a therapist of the appropriately opposite sex can let you develop some skills in dealing with them in a controlled, safe, way.
NO one can suggest them during the meeting. Someone has to fix them after the meeting.
... it depends on what you're trying to do. Just today, Sun published a Sun BluePrint Solid State Drives in HPC: Reducing the I/O Bottleneck showing that by using SSD as part of an HPC configuration, you can improve performance pretty dramatically. If buying 64GB of SSD can double performance on an I/O bound HPC program (these were finite element analysis programs) it might be a pretty good investment.
Honestly, code reviews, historically, have proven to be about ten times as cost effective as other techniques. If you're not seeing good effects from them, the odds are that you aren't doing them right.
Not that this is a big surprise, as few people do them well.
Get hold of some of the literature on Fagin reviews, and make sure you're following the guidelines:
(1) not too many people in the review: 3 minimum, 7 maximum.
(2) the programmer isn't allowed to speak, except potentially to explain something
(3) no one can suggest solutions: identify a potential problem and move on
(4) close the loop: make sure all solutions get documented and passed to review participants.
(5) a single review can last no longer than 1 hour.
If you can distinguish that from "political thuggery" you're a better distinguisher than I am.
See, the real issue here is that the guy doesn't actually remember, say, 1960. We may not have flying cars, but we have cross country plane trips for $14 (in 1960 dollars). We don't have videophones, but we've got Skype with video on computers -- and it's free. We're very rarely arrested for being queer, we're rarely getting arrested for voting while incorrectly complected, no one anywhere in the world has smallpox, and hardly anyone has polio. Famines are the result of political disruptions and the thuggery of Mugabe and his ilk, not lack of food.
how completely clueless it is. Let's see ...
(1) The NSA doesn't wiretap the US. For all the hysteria, the NSA is only looking at calls crossing the border. Inside the US its FBI, and the Feebies are very jealous of that.
And it certainly doesn't wiretap the whole US, because there's so much ohone traffic and 0.999999 of it is uninteresting.
(2) Could the NSA hack -- could DoJ simply subpoena -- the contents of a hotmail account? You bet ... but which hotmail account? alQaedaDeathtoAmerica@hotmail.com? Or fluffibuni387? Or what?
(3) Now, with prepaid phone cards etc. If I'm getting this, you're saying NSA is bad because they can't get intel from something like a prepaid phone. Now think it through: Achmed al Boomaboom goes into WalMart, and buys condoms, a bag of Fritos, and a prepaid phone. He makes six "busines" calls, talking in code words, calls a hooker, and throws the phone away. How is the NSA supposed to figure out which phone it is, and capture the phone calls, before he pitches the phone.
More to the point, how can they intercept those phone calls without intercepting all calls, or at least all prepaid cell calls?
Okay, first of all, you can forget about the CO2 in the pressurization: that was collected from the atmosphere, and goes back, net carbon is zero. Similarly, since beer is made from plants, pretty well all the CO2 produced by making beer is absorbed again making next year's beer.
Just for fun, though, let's do a back-of-envelope calculation of how much there is. According to Wikipedia, humans brew about 133 gigaliters of beer a year, and we can assume it's about 5 percent alcohol, so that's (133×0.05)=6.7 gigaliters of alcohol. The specific gravity of ethanol is about 0.8 so that's 5.3 billion kilograms of ethanol per year. One mol Ethanol (CH3CH22OH) masses 45 grammmes. So that's 5600 billion grams of alcohol, 120 billion mols, and it turns out that there's 1 mol of CO2 per mol ethanol.
Thus we get 120 billion mol of CO2, a mol is 44 grammes, about 5.3 million tonnes. According to WikiAnswers, a car produces about 5.2 tonnes of CO2 per year, so all the world's beer production is about equivalent to a million cars.
So if it worries you, buy a couple CFL bulbs or soemthing. It's pretty small.
(PS. This would look better if /. allowed the sub tag.)
I wish journalists would do a little research. NSA has had the lead role in cybersecurity since before he term was invented, back to the National Computer Security Center when Bob Morris the Elder was Chief Scientist. Mid-80's, in other words. Communications security since Truman.
What this guy is complaining about is that he wasn't able to wrest control of cybersecurity away from NSA.
Actually, that could be better phrased as "idiots imagine those fees won't be passed on to the customers."
Yes, it's actually just you, because the number of dopes who think the White House doesn't have an IT staff is very small.
Now, for a little puzzle, ask yourself how long it would normally take to create hundreds of email accounts in a secured system?
And if you choose your metric carefully, you can get any answer out that you like.
A whip and a chair.
Yeah yeah. Google "Paul Ehrlich" and "Julian Simon" and think back to when the world ran out of copper.
They will indeed find certain classes of bugs, and code that is lint-free (especially with more modern versions of lint has fewer defects. Other metrics, like McCabe cyclomatic complexity, can also point out areas in which bugs have a high probability.
On the other hand, no tool can find 100 percent of bugs. This is a theorem (via Turning's halting and equivalence theorems), and also because some bugs are places where the code is doing what it was supposed to do, but that isn't what the user actually wanted.
... positively dumbest story ever on /. and that's no small trick.
You mean to tell me that the Pentagon has been talking to friendly generals with continuing ties to the current command in order to get out their side of the story?
Merciful heavens, what next?
Will Nancy Pelosi start holding press conferences? Will "unnamed sources close to the CIA" start leaking information? Will Hillary and Bill say nasty things about Obama?
Honest to God guys, get a fucking clue.
Let's see. First, I can't actually find anything in the article that says these new features/changes won't be open-source, just that they won't be in the Community Edition. The Enterprise Edition business is a service offering that already has proprietary tools, and has before Sun bought MySQL. So, either there's no change from MySQL's current policy, or there will be a different version open-sourced. Since Sun is open-sourcing more or less everything, I bet it's the second, but even if it's the first what's the point here? That nothing has changed?
Second, let's just follow the links rom this statement: "Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything."
In the first one, the author says "yes, it really is open source, but being 'open soure' means having a community. And yes, Sun is building a community with all the trimmings, but it's not really a community because people have to get together, except Sun is running Solaris SIG meetings."
In the second one, Sun is objecting to Google changing Java without running its changes back into the main source. That never happens in the open source would of course: there's never any controversy about companies making changes to a product and not releasing them back to the core.
Can we have a Slashdot category for "prevarication"? Of it that word is too big, how about "lying"?