Pandora's box has been opened. I'm excited to see what pours out over the next decades. We all know we need radical new technology to fix the energy crisis and reduce climate gas emissions. Hopefully, we can engineer more efficient organisms, providing clean(er) energy and food for the world's ever-growing population.
30 years ago, most of these issues were pretty much solved. Evolution wasn't questioned, everyone was vaccinated.
Well - there was always a fringe. However, the internets has enabled the fringe to get organized, communicating effectively many-to-many. And guess what - their interesting stories are more popular than the drab, boring, responsible stories of the establishment. Their stories are grander, more scary and explain what the establishment stories could not explain. Yes - that's what it's come down to. Telling a good story, not being right. We're screwed.
Jayzuz. PR firms feed the journalists with pre-researched, pre-angled cases. The journalist checks a few of the facts, rewrites the prose a bit/writes the prose. And the desk approves. Everybody does this: Government, big tobacco, Toyota, UNICEF. Everybody. There's no need to control the media when the productivity expectations of the journalists ensures they are toothless and more than happy to regurgitate your propaganda.
Sure, this is the way things are going, but until prices come down we won't be seeing SSDs replacing HDDs; work fine for the desktop, tho'
We won't be seeing SSDs replacing HDDs until people start calculating differently: (Total power consumption costs + total cooling costs + price) / years until failure or replacement. And let's face it - 128GB of storage is enough for a lot of servers.
For about 10-20% of the programming positions - sure.
But there are other skills that are much more important in the majority of the positions:
Usability - it does not matter if your program is correct if "nobody" can figure out how to use it, or if the layout encourages incorrect usage.
Communication skills - effectively communicating with both middle management and end users is key much more often than being able to grok linear algebra.
Judgement - knowing "how much is enough", and "how much is too much".
Design skills - writing code that is maintainable and testable is always a requirement for creating a good, durable product.
Mind you, they keep improving the libraries. And they keep adding stuff like Grand Central Dispatch. Is an OS just the kernel, or do you consider the default shipping libraries as part of the OS? Do you use Linux, or GNU/Linux?
I'm all for making a time-limited attempt at working with the devil. That way, you give the devil a chance to mend his ways. And if that fails, you get to publicly snub the devil.
They became our enemies a few years after parenting went down the drain. (Note - I'm not talking about punishment, but about giving positive attention to your kids, spending time with them. And maybe even cooperating with the other parents when trouble arises in the flock).
I suspect we might be connecting our smart-phones to a monitor (or some other display technology), and using a wireless keyboard. When programming, or doing other really serious stuff.
No wonder, as this is not a DRM failure but rather a software defect that has a DRM-related side-effect. It's a disgrace to see that post modded to +5 informative.
Until there is legal accountability with regards to obvious security defects, there will be no real improvement. When there is, software development costs will rise noticeably and consequently economic growth will be ever so slightly slower.
Once you know how, making the solution fairly scalable is usually not a whole lot of extra work. Furthermore, if you don't bother learning how to do stuff right, you'll continue to make subpar products until you get your shot and then you waste that shot because your solution wasn't up to the task. Ahh.
Get an iPhone. Seriously. Requiring signed and approved applications along with a mechanism to withdraw applications is the only feasible way I can see to somewhat secure a computer. Plus, http and smtp must die, instead requiring https and some better mail protocol with encryption and signatures.
Certificates should be issued by government, by the way. Preferably at a cost that will cover a reasonable identification procedure for the certificate holder. And I realize this raises a lot of issues with regards to authoritarian regimes. Sorry, but that's the only way we'll get this beast under control. We'll have to accept these limitations, and do our best to put checks and balances to increase transparency in the processes. This is our infrastructure. And anarchy has failed, like it always has: The bad guys get the edge when there are not enough restrictions/not enough enforcement of the restrictions.
The large majority of the Nokia smartphones are being used as dumbphones: The owners never install an application, and only scratch the surface in terms of the phone's capabilities. Compare that to the iPhone...
In fact, the vast majority of UFOs have been proven to originate from earth. That is, all that have been identified and thus are no longer unidentified. We cannot from the observations rule out extraterrestrial visitors, but it appears to be pretty unlikely.
The uses are probably not yet understood. This is cool technology and some of the tens of millions of developers will find good use for it. The interesting bit is that you gain access to a huge render farm without buying a lot of servers. If your load is uneven, this service will save you a lot of money (and power too).
Anyhow, from the top of my head: Cars, architecture, city planning, visualizing climate change, next-generation GPS navigation devices.
You're being too categorical, methinks. 1kg of fat is roughly equivalent to 7000 calories. I swim three days a week for one hour (which allegedly burnsabout about 700 calories) plus two 36-minute runs, and lose about 0.5 kg to 1 kg a week. I take care to eat relatively healthy (salads, fruits, stay away from soda and sweets), but a few burgers and some beers here and there do not get in the way of weight loss/maintenance.
Also, the poster of the story forgot to read the abstract from the study:
Background: Exercise is widely promoted as a method of weight management, whilst the other health benefits are often ignored. The purpose of this study was to examine whether exercise-induced improvements in health are influenced by changes in body weight.
Methods: Fifty-eight sedentary overweight/obese men and women (BMI 31.8 ±4.5kg/m2) participated in a 12 week supervised aerobic exercise intervention (70% heart rate max, 5 times a week, 500kcal per session). Body composition, anthropometric parameters, aerobic capacity, blood pressure and acute psychological response to exercise were measured at weeks 0 and 12.
Results: Mean reduction in body weight was -3.3 ±3.63kg (PConclusions: These data demonstrate that significant and meaningful health benefits can be achieved even in the presence of lower than expected exercise-induced weight loss. Less successful reduction in body weight does not undermine the beneficial effects of aerobic exercise. From a public health perspective, exercise should be encouraged and the emphasis on weight loss reduced.
That is - even if you don't lose as much weight as you hope to, you'll still be a lot healthier if you exercise regularly. I'm a bit skeptical of the exercising too, if you're going for weight loss then long exercising sessions is key. The first 20 minutes or so, you're just burning your blood sugar. It's only after that that the body starts to metabolise fat. You'll notice you're feeling a bit weaker. Just slow down a bit, but keep going. This is how you kill that fat.
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I enjoy being ambiguous. It makes people think harder.
Pandora's box has been opened. I'm excited to see what pours out over the next decades. We all know we need radical new technology to fix the energy crisis and reduce climate gas emissions. Hopefully, we can engineer more efficient organisms, providing clean(er) energy and food for the world's ever-growing population.
Well - there was always a fringe. However, the internets has enabled the fringe to get organized, communicating effectively many-to-many. And guess what - their interesting stories are more popular than the drab, boring, responsible stories of the establishment. Their stories are grander, more scary and explain what the establishment stories could not explain. Yes - that's what it's come down to. Telling a good story, not being right. We're screwed.
Jayzuz. PR firms feed the journalists with pre-researched, pre-angled cases. The journalist checks a few of the facts, rewrites the prose a bit/writes the prose. And the desk approves. Everybody does this: Government, big tobacco, Toyota, UNICEF. Everybody. There's no need to control the media when the productivity expectations of the journalists ensures they are toothless and more than happy to regurgitate your propaganda.
Nope. And no-one would if drugs were legal and cheap.
We won't be seeing SSDs replacing HDDs until people start calculating differently: (Total power consumption costs + total cooling costs + price) / years until failure or replacement. And let's face it - 128GB of storage is enough for a lot of servers.
For about 10-20% of the programming positions - sure.
But there are other skills that are much more important in the majority of the positions:
Mind you, they keep improving the libraries. And they keep adding stuff like Grand Central Dispatch. Is an OS just the kernel, or do you consider the default shipping libraries as part of the OS? Do you use Linux, or GNU/Linux?
I'm all for making a time-limited attempt at working with the devil. That way, you give the devil a chance to mend his ways. And if that fails, you get to publicly snub the devil.
They became our enemies a few years after parenting went down the drain. (Note - I'm not talking about punishment, but about giving positive attention to your kids, spending time with them. And maybe even cooperating with the other parents when trouble arises in the flock).
I suspect we might be connecting our smart-phones to a monitor (or some other display technology), and using a wireless keyboard. When programming, or doing other really serious stuff.
No wonder, as this is not a DRM failure but rather a software defect that has a DRM-related side-effect. It's a disgrace to see that post modded to +5 informative.
Agreed.
Until there is legal accountability with regards to obvious security defects, there will be no real improvement. When there is, software development costs will rise noticeably and consequently economic growth will be ever so slightly slower.
The fans on servers have variable speed. Case closed.
If you are willing to turn down the graphics settings, then you'll be able to get a smaller laptop that will also last you longer on battery.
Once you know how, making the solution fairly scalable is usually not a whole lot of extra work. Furthermore, if you don't bother learning how to do stuff right, you'll continue to make subpar products until you get your shot and then you waste that shot because your solution wasn't up to the task. Ahh.
Write good, clean, well-designed and efficient code. The compiler will not make your mergesort into a quicksort.
Get an iPhone. Seriously. Requiring signed and approved applications along with a mechanism to withdraw applications is the only feasible way I can see to somewhat secure a computer. Plus, http and smtp must die, instead requiring https and some better mail protocol with encryption and signatures.
Certificates should be issued by government, by the way. Preferably at a cost that will cover a reasonable identification procedure for the certificate holder. And I realize this raises a lot of issues with regards to authoritarian regimes. Sorry, but that's the only way we'll get this beast under control. We'll have to accept these limitations, and do our best to put checks and balances to increase transparency in the processes. This is our infrastructure. And anarchy has failed, like it always has: The bad guys get the edge when there are not enough restrictions/not enough enforcement of the restrictions.
Not quite. The 419'ers are proof of how technology and persistence can move people from the lower middle class to the upper middle class.
The large majority of the Nokia smartphones are being used as dumbphones: The owners never install an application, and only scratch the surface in terms of the phone's capabilities. Compare that to the iPhone...
Celebrity astronomer. Nerdy, enthusiastic and endearing. Dunno if you can say he's popular, but pretty much everybody who watches TV knows who he is.
In fact, the vast majority of UFOs have been proven to originate from earth. That is, all that have been identified and thus are no longer unidentified. We cannot from the observations rule out extraterrestrial visitors, but it appears to be pretty unlikely.
There was. Huge boom. Allegedly hears across hundreds of miles. I bet the operator hit the "self destruct" button.
The uses are probably not yet understood. This is cool technology and some of the tens of millions of developers will find good use for it. The interesting bit is that you gain access to a huge render farm without buying a lot of servers. If your load is uneven, this service will save you a lot of money (and power too).
Anyhow, from the top of my head: Cars, architecture, city planning, visualizing climate change, next-generation GPS navigation devices.
You're being too categorical, methinks. 1kg of fat is roughly equivalent to 7000 calories. I swim three days a week for one hour (which allegedly burnsabout about 700 calories) plus two 36-minute runs, and lose about 0.5 kg to 1 kg a week. I take care to eat relatively healthy (salads, fruits, stay away from soda and sweets), but a few burgers and some beers here and there do not get in the way of weight loss/maintenance.
Also, the poster of the story forgot to read the abstract from the study:
That is - even if you don't lose as much weight as you hope to, you'll still be a lot healthier if you exercise regularly. I'm a bit skeptical of the exercising too, if you're going for weight loss then long exercising sessions is key. The first 20 minutes or so, you're just burning your blood sugar. It's only after that that the body starts to metabolise fat. You'll notice you're feeling a bit weaker. Just slow down a bit, but keep going. This is how you kill that fat.