Comment I just had this conversation with a coworker: (Score 2) 547
"Microsoft has--"
"Yeah, I saw."
"Well...they didn't have a choice. They're halfway there."
"Microsoft has--"
"Yeah, I saw."
"Well...they didn't have a choice. They're halfway there."
even worse than for those that represented themselves.
I read it as "repretended themselves".
Military still seems "proprietary" to me. If they meant "commercial", I could see a difference.
You're right on the denotations...but I think by connotation and common use, there's a difference. For example, there is no way the US government is reporting bugs in its fighter jet code to Coverity, even anonymously. Maybe we can call military "ultraproprietary" or "hyperproprietary" or "guys-in-black-suits-etary." I think maybe the "standard" is the old average - in past years, with no way to accurately get data, error rates were estimated at 1 defect per 1000 lines. Now they're lower - either code is getting better, or the old estimate was too high.
There is a huge third group: the military and aerospace industries. Unfortunately, their standards are even higher, like one bug per 420000 lines of code, so they're obviously not the group we need to make this math work.
Maybe the "industry standard" is whatever buggy math it is that makes that statement make sense to the original author?
Now a detector of statements contrary to fact would be much more useful than a detector of statements thought to be false. Alas, it's far less likely, and would perhaps violate some things thought to be true.
This gives me a wonderful mental image of a big room full of people - one group is paid to state propositions, and the other (with lie detectors) is paid to state if they told the truth or not. You send your propositions to this group and they get back to you with true/false...they can even spend their spare cycles just like the computing@HOME projects, narrowing in on the answers to interesting scientific questions, like so:
Is there a room-temperature superconductor?
Does it contain element X, Y, Z,...;
then in combination does it include both elements X and Y, X and Z...;
and so on until we have the formula!
I sincerely believe that most of my classmates cheated, too. Is it really cheating when everyone does it?
YES.
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