Mate,
If I had a kid who had a nasty and currently incurable disease, I'd most certainly risk jail, or even death myself to give them a shot.
You want to give them a shot - sure. So give them a real shot, instead of being gullible and quite possibly REDUCING their chances of being cured through a totally bogus and dangerous treatment method.
With stem cells, we're talking the hastening of the death of your child, not of you going to jail or dying (though depending on how criminal the treatment organization is, this may happen too). Using hyperbole, saying "stem cells might cure your kid" is akin to "being bitten by 210 venomous snakes might cure your kid". It's just not a sensible option, even IF you (or your kid) are terminal, because it is almost certain that there will be NO cure because of the treatment, and also a high risk of things getting worse, shortening the time in which a real treatment may become available.
In this case, at least it brings some semblence of regulation to an industry that has arisen from an environment born from holier than thou moral beliefs infiltrating politics, rather than hard science.
The industry does not need a semblance of regulation lending a semblance of credibility when it does not deserve it. It needs to follow the existing regulation, just like everyone else has to, with all other treatments in the medical field. Out of all "medical miracle cures" that are announced, how many actually turn out to be true? Yes, it sucks for those who really need a treatment now, but often they can get in on trials if proper regulations are followed.
Being terminal might be an excuse for taking additional risks, but most (if not all) of the current "stem cell treatments" are just unfounded snake-oil designed to prey on desperate people, with not a single good reason to believe there is any chance it will make you better rather than worse. They might as well go for homeopathy or faith healing, except that those do NOT carry a risk of actually making things worse.
Buh? I'm not sure how many more than 140 million consoles Sony could have sold if they'd "had [their] shit together on the PS2". Microsoft's entry into the market with the Xbox was through the sacrificing of roughly $1.5 billion, and the Gamecube was more or less a non-event until the same hardware was repackaged as the Wii.
The reason it's a 3 horse race at the moment is because Sony cocked up with a late delivered and needlessly complex PS3 coming up against a "good enough" Wii and the Xbox 360 taking the early sales lead by a long shot in the US. It's certainly not because of a lack of PS2 success.
That's "good enough" by anyone's standard, after being launched late 2006. If the lengths of previous generation holds, we're coming up on the end of this generation...
That is unfortunately way oversimplified.
I know many "serious" developers, working for various companies outside the Ukraine, that are all employed under the "freelance" statute. This is going to hurt outsourcing around here quite a bit.
Most of EU still has not realized that high taxes kill entrepreneurship, and thus kill the economy. lowering taxes grows the economy and thus increases the tax base -- but having a sizeable tax base is not nearly as important as having a sizeable economy, so better to err on the side of caution and cut taxes and entitlements where possible.
A sizeable tax base that pays no taxes at all is still no taxes...
I don't know what the indirect taxes are like in the Ukraine though, perhaps it *is* better for them to have no direct taxes and only indirect (VAT/Sales tax) type stuff.
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I was (and am) one of the "punk" group. Long hair, beard, listening to metal, playing guitar in various bands. I was (and am) also a geek/nerd, but I was protected from being picked on by being more obviously in the first group than in the latter group. I tried to step in whenever I saw the "popular kids" picking on what they thought was an easy target, just because it was (according to them) the cool thing to do.
I'm still friends with a lot of those other nerds/geeks, and some of the punks. I don't even REMEMBER the "popular kids".
Considering the ESA claims the whole industry was worth $11.7 billion in 2008, and that was 22.9% growth form the year before, this does not seem to be a very plausible number, since it nearly amounts to the sum of the value of the whole industry over the five years of this "study".
That's the same argument as the peak oil thing though. As content becomes scarcer, it becomes more valuable again too, and new opportunities (with probably entirely different business models) will open up.
In testing, performance can be 4x SLOWER with the stl than by using c99. Variable-length arrays combined with bsearch make for one of the fastest look-up "containers" going - way faster than any stl algorithm.
Care to elaborate on this? I'm a c++-guy, and these VLAs tickle my curiosity. Any idea on what makes the performance difference between the STL algorithms/containers and VLAs? If it's heap allocation, that can be worked around in several ways, but if it's something else well then things just got interesting.
You'll see exceptions, then memory leaks, an attempt to solve it with some kind of braindead "smart" pointer, somebody needs multiple inheritance, some ass overloads the comma operator or () operator, overloading gets sort of ambiguous with differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit builds, Boost gets pulled in with compile times and start-up times going to Hell, people cry for Java-style garbage collection...
If the first thing you get from C++, coming from C, is exceptions, then you're going to be in a world of pain. Most people who started with C++ have trouble with it.
For a quick indication why, see Code Complexity @ GOTW.ca.
As a 10-year veteran of C++, I say to start with RAII, and since you're going OO, require everyone involved to learn the SOLID principles.
If you opened your eyes and looked around the world you would realize that muslims have to put up with more crap from us non-religious capitalists, than we have to from muslims.
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Mate, If I had a kid who had a nasty and currently incurable disease, I'd most certainly risk jail, or even death myself to give them a shot.
You want to give them a shot - sure. So give them a real shot, instead of being gullible and quite possibly REDUCING their chances of being cured through a totally bogus and dangerous treatment method.
With stem cells, we're talking the hastening of the death of your child, not of you going to jail or dying (though depending on how criminal the treatment organization is, this may happen too). Using hyperbole, saying "stem cells might cure your kid" is akin to "being bitten by 210 venomous snakes might cure your kid". It's just not a sensible option, even IF you (or your kid) are terminal, because it is almost certain that there will be NO cure because of the treatment, and also a high risk of things getting worse, shortening the time in which a real treatment may become available.
In this case, at least it brings some semblence of regulation to an industry that has arisen from an environment born from holier than thou moral beliefs infiltrating politics, rather than hard science.
The industry does not need a semblance of regulation lending a semblance of credibility when it does not deserve it. It needs to follow the existing regulation, just like everyone else has to, with all other treatments in the medical field. Out of all "medical miracle cures" that are announced, how many actually turn out to be true? Yes, it sucks for those who really need a treatment now, but often they can get in on trials if proper regulations are followed.
Being terminal might be an excuse for taking additional risks, but most (if not all) of the current "stem cell treatments" are just unfounded snake-oil designed to prey on desperate people, with not a single good reason to believe there is any chance it will make you better rather than worse. They might as well go for homeopathy or faith healing, except that those do NOT carry a risk of actually making things worse.
Of course. This is the first major victory in the war on Tourism.
Man are you guys going to be pissed when you get to program the cow level in the next Diablo....
The 100 companies with staff dumb enough to fall for it.
I have to disagree with the summery because I don't see it as
I disagree with the summery too. It's wintry, or maybe autumny. Sometimes springy.
How much extra power would the metering system use?
What could possibly go wrong?
Don't be silly. None of them would survive the 9.9 quake.
Buh? I'm not sure how many more than 140 million consoles Sony could have sold if they'd "had [their] shit together on the PS2". Microsoft's entry into the market with the Xbox was through the sacrificing of roughly $1.5 billion, and the Gamecube was more or less a non-event until the same hardware was repackaged as the Wii.
The reason it's a 3 horse race at the moment is because Sony cocked up with a late delivered and needlessly complex PS3 coming up against a "good enough" Wii and the Xbox 360 taking the early sales lead by a long shot in the US. It's certainly not because of a lack of PS2 success.
Without any major advances on the hardware side the Wii seems to have outsold the PS3 and XBox360 by 2:1, while making a profit for each unit sold.
That's "good enough" by anyone's standard, after being launched late 2006. If the lengths of previous generation holds, we're coming up on the end of this generation...
I wonder if this 3DS is the herald of Gen8.
That is unfortunately way oversimplified.
I know many "serious" developers, working for various companies outside the Ukraine, that are all employed under the "freelance" statute. This is going to hurt outsourcing around here quite a bit.
Most of EU still has not realized that high taxes kill entrepreneurship, and thus kill the economy. lowering taxes grows the economy and thus increases the tax base -- but having a sizeable tax base is not nearly as important as having a sizeable economy, so better to err on the side of caution and cut taxes and entitlements where possible.
A sizeable tax base that pays no taxes at all is still no taxes... I don't know what the indirect taxes are like in the Ukraine though, perhaps it *is* better for them to have no direct taxes and only indirect (VAT/Sales tax) type stuff.
"You can do it your own way, if it's done just how I say."
Bunch of asshats.
I was (and am) one of the "punk" group. Long hair, beard, listening to metal, playing guitar in various bands. I was (and am) also a geek/nerd, but I was protected from being picked on by being more obviously in the first group than in the latter group. I tried to step in whenever I saw the "popular kids" picking on what they thought was an easy target, just because it was (according to them) the cool thing to do. I'm still friends with a lot of those other nerds/geeks, and some of the punks. I don't even REMEMBER the "popular kids".
Perhaps the server served a severe swerve with verve.
Considering the ESA claims the whole industry was worth $11.7 billion in 2008, and that was 22.9% growth form the year before, this does not seem to be a very plausible number, since it nearly amounts to the sum of the value of the whole industry over the five years of this "study".
That's the same argument as the peak oil thing though. As content becomes scarcer, it becomes more valuable again too, and new opportunities (with probably entirely different business models) will open up.
The creator could attempt to ensure / acquire compensation before creating the content.
In other words "donate $500 and I'll write a new song".
They do. They play 2 games at once.
He apologises for the inconvenience, though.
Sometimes an Apple is a lemon.
In testing, performance can be 4x SLOWER with the stl than by using c99. Variable-length arrays combined with bsearch make for one of the fastest look-up "containers" going - way faster than any stl algorithm.
Care to elaborate on this? I'm a c++-guy, and these VLAs tickle my curiosity. Any idea on what makes the performance difference between the STL algorithms/containers and VLAs? If it's heap allocation, that can be worked around in several ways, but if it's something else well then things just got interesting.
You'll see exceptions, then memory leaks, an attempt to solve it with some kind of braindead "smart" pointer, somebody needs multiple inheritance, some ass overloads the comma operator or () operator, overloading gets sort of ambiguous with differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit builds, Boost gets pulled in with compile times and start-up times going to Hell, people cry for Java-style garbage collection...
If the first thing you get from C++, coming from C, is exceptions, then you're going to be in a world of pain. Most people who started with C++ have trouble with it. For a quick indication why, see Code Complexity @ GOTW.ca .
As a 10-year veteran of C++, I say to start with RAII, and since you're going OO, require everyone involved to learn the SOLID principles.
If you opened your eyes and looked around the world you would realize that muslims have to put up with more crap from us non-religious capitalists, than we have to from muslims.
Citation needed.