Could it be because they haven't received a sufficient level of pollution, or the ice and snow are too cold to dissolve and allow the pollutants to dissolve in water? Adding solute to solvent depresses the freezing point. Just shortly (a year or two) after we started getting news about noticeable and unavoidable amounts of pollutants showing up in the cubic meters of air tested atop the Swiss Alps, we started getting news about the imminent collapse of the Alps' mostly glacial makeup. But that's because the alps, just warm enough for the glacier ice to melt just enough on the surface to admit pollutants, ended up with a depressed freezing point. On the other hand, I don't know about the quality of air on the Himalayas, but it could be possible that the ice never comes below freezing and so even if there were pollutants settling on the snow, they wouldn't make it into solution.
Yeah, but, their articles follow a very narrow subject matter (the "Singularity") and it often has too much of a geeky, sci-fi tone. I read that and/. daily but I wouldn't go without one or the other.
What if a president's non-public (hidden) agenda involved successfully destroying a space station, ruining a nation's space agency, and belittling a nation's populace into lowering their brows and focusing on supporting his regime in stupider matters like killing populations and stealing their resources, or controlling the world's economies with extortion?
The author starts by insisting that the "real" future is in software, but then goes on to say "so, we'll need this or that pie-in-the-sky plan to drastically change literally everything about the software market as it currently exists". Get real; which is it? Sheesh! What a silly argument to try and make.
I think hardware simply intimidates people. For starters, it's a bachelor's degree. Second, you'll be expected to learn calculus and understand how electricity works. That's simply too much for Americans, these days. But look around you: every body, down the last autistic, is "good with code".
Anybody can code and it doesn't require learning anything more than the language itself. You can teach yourself languages in your spare time. You can become a language-obsessed language convention debater and not even earn a degree. But so can anybody in the world.
My point is that it doesn't matter who codes, because it's so easy to do and anybody can do it, and because error checking and bug fixing is a rote thing. It's either done or it isn't, and that's the final measure of the quality of the code.
With outsourcing hardware, though, comes shitty problems like Chinese work where they just often totally forgo solder and stick everything together with hot glue, who knowingly ship flawed and unsafe products, and where the important components like ICs and boards resemble the state of technology from ten to twenty years ago.
But I don't have to drag on and on about it. There's just one way to say it: being more concerned with writing software than producing hardware, is putting the cart before the horse. *Prioritizing* software over hardware is flat-out, head-up-the-ass stupid.
The gig is up, though. Don't the last twenty years of closed door "summits" and other shady shit tell you anything? America silently became just as despotic and uncaring a government as the Chinese or North Koreans, and it was only recentlyrevealed how truly sick things have gotten when the Occupy movement pulled back the curtain and got pistol whipped by the wizard. It is not in the best interests of America to do what you're suggesting because we no longer even HAVE enemies. Our government LOVES China because they represent the possibility of total domination and control, the dream of every last cabinet member, congressman, and executive. All government leaders, globally, are currently concerned only with how to take away rights and how to put people to work building their dream projects, which are usually grandiose schemes involving either adventures in space, immortalized wealth for their progeny, murdering lots of people, and having a stronger selection of higher quality sexual partners. Government, everywhere, has become materialistic and evil, and I'll be lucky if work conditions in America aren't exactly as in China by the time I'm out of college.
I long for the days when such brash statements would constitute business suicide. But Americans don't give a shit about annything any more. Any company that takes advantage of despotism and calls it "breathtaking" has some real, deep-seated, sociopathic issues. I would say "everybody" knows these "dormitories" are actually like imprisonment, that many workers aren't allowed to leave, that toothpaste can cost a month's wages and that the cost of living there ensures the employees become deeply indebted to the crime-syndicate family Tongs that run the businesses amd local governments, but, not only do I realize most Americans seriously don't give a shit, I also realize that Apple is probably rightly betting that most people have no idea about any of that. I can see Apple, as a large and influential corporation, having a vested interest in cutting costs even more by instituting similar practices here in America (less shipping). People don't need rights to be Apple customers any more than they do to be Apple workers. Apple doesn't even need Americans to have te ability to pay for their devices. Since the damn things are basically tracking devices and electronic snitches and spies anyways, the government would be happy to pay Apple to provide them free of charge to uplift our productivity in some destitute and Orwellian future. Besides, the real money is in weaponization and Apple only needs governments and nations as clients to maintain their wealth and power brokering.
Something that strikes me as sort of odd is how much bitching is going on about how painful this recession is, compared to reality.
Starting with the moniker being thrown around. I mean, come on, "The Great Recession"? Is it really necessary to make it out to be more than it is, are the current living generations such coddled masses that they need to be stroked and told how gee tough it must be living through The Great Recession?
And where is this fucking Great Recession?
Because last I noticed, the entertainment industries were just as rolling in it this year as any other. The gaming, movie, television, sports conglomerates have raked in huuuuuge amounts of dough. That's supposedly dough we don't have because ohhhhh fuuuuck there's this whoooole Greeeaatt Recession going onnnnn, maaannn!
Well, wtfe. But anyways, this leads to my subject-heading question:
Who's going to pony up against Hollywood? I mean, pony up the non-cash, the negative expenditures. Who's going to throw their wallet down, stomp on it, and say "damnit, that's right, no more money for those fucking kooks and poisoners for me!"
Imagine what you'd be downgrading from. Well, it's not a huge leap of imagination, for me. I haven't been a regular TV watcher in years. I haven't sat in a movie theatre and watched a movie in years. I haven't gone out and rented a new movie to watch in years. So, for me, *I* have to imagine what you'd be downgrading from, if you, say, depended entirely on YouTube for your viewing entertainment from now-on.
You'd be going from Transformers to MikeDiva. From Saturday Night Live back to Second City, and from Mad TV to the Bath Boys. From Martin Scorcese to Sam Macaroni. From underwear advertisements to cleavage whores.
I already live this lifestyle. It's easy for me to not give Hollywood or network congloms my money because, well, I don't have any money to give them really, but also because I've already been getting nearly 100% of my entertainment from YouTube for several years. Before that, I really wasn't exactly a regular customer to begin with, so it wasn't a huge transition.
But Americans who are hitting the theatres twice a month, renting the latest flicks once a week, and subscribing to cable or satellite TV, are going to have some trouble getting behind any movement to squash "Hollywood", which is really, really, way bigger than just a little suburb in California or a bunch of warehouses, agencies and execs.
Well, from the grandest possible perspective, *everything* is space *everything* because it's all surrounded by oUtEr SpAcE, right? So *my* wine is SPACEWINE just because I *made* it! I even piss in it, because my urine used to be part of a Staaarrrr
I've been programming since I was eight years old and I'm homeless while I attend college. If I get sick I'm likely to get told to leave the hospital before I'm even treated, because I don't have insurance. So I didn't apply for certs, there wasn't any such fuckery until I was about 14. So this girl did -- the youngest to do so, ever. Of course the major person behind the certifications is going to play her up beyond all human recognition. There are probably numerous young girls and boys just like her who don't ever receive any recognition or even, as I was, are told they're wasting their time and that they need to focus on "more important things" (in my case, my parents wanted me to become an automobile factory worker. It seems like everybody I meet actually throws that one my way, funny.)
I agree with parent, but I'm especially glad to see such a divide, because it lets me bring something up: opportunity. This particular girl was born at a particular time and took particular advantage of a niche.
Think of it like this: no other young person is going to have a chance to be of the same distinction unless they lower the bar even further and apply for (and receive) their certification at an even earlier age. Eventually you'll find the lower age limit for the cognitive abilities required, and that'll be that. Is that what you're really celebrating?
Or are you celebrating that a man like Bill Gates has the money to make a celebrity-like figure out of anyone he chooses? After all, it lent glamour and glitter to *his* company whenever he publicized this girl's abilities. It put *his* certification, which some people argue is probably worthless, in a novel (new) light that magically set aside anyone's misgivings on the subject over the awww-factor of the cause celebre. Is that worth celebrating? Is that anything that hasn't been done (to death) already?
I'm not trying to be crass. There's a place for people to mourn every death. But I'm reminded here, quite distinctly, of how many people, upon the death of Steve Jobs -- people, many of them who never, ever, thought, or spoke (or probably even registered hearing or reading) a single little word about Steve Jobs -- mourned the loss of such Immense Genius. When it comes down to it the man stole ideas and sued like hell whenever he could. In some ways he was a bitter old prick whose lasting legacy in my eyes is that I STILL don't have Macromedia Flash on my i-device.
I think anybody who fawns over this young talent or bewails the loss of such Immense Genius is not seeing the bigger picture of life. Maybe they feel like "this is what I could've lived up to", maybe the backlash against those who really don't care so much about this person's death is angst being vented because an opportunity for vicarious thrills has suddenly been lost to them.
People who don't understand should read this new book "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. He wrote "The Tipping Point". Just the first few chapters will open your mind up to what "genius" is, and what sort of damage can be done to not just one human life but to life and society in general when you push children through the whole "talent" pageant or fail to recognize opportunity (versus the mythological, "inherent" genius) for what it is.
I studied up on her, and, one of the things I noticed is that when asked if she's a net applications developer, she resopnds that she programs in C#. And when I studied the requirements for MCP, I couldn't find an instance of the word "Java". So... at least we can say that the poor young soul never had to know the pain of Java.
I barely even touch my touch screen while I use it. This is the most laughable and desperate thing I've seen in almost forever.
If some kind of person is cramming their fingers hard against their touch screen, they are fucked up already, and they are the kind of person who hits their head with a hammer or dives into a hydroelectric dam spillway, or forms a hematoma in their chest with the side of their hand through continuous repeated impact.
My theory, seriously, is that the fall colors make a strong mental impression and preoccupy the mind with what would mathmatically be described as chaos. The vivid colors are to blame for the strengtj of the impression, but the pervasiveness of the collage of branching forms and "warning" colors is what drives it into sublimation, where it can have a strong effect on analytical productivity.
So, if that theory is correct, the October November effect shouldn't be seen in code from regions where leaves don't turn or aren't so pervasive.
Well, not only that, but it's be plenty unethical to inject someone with HIV and then give them saline right? If you even have HIV in the first place (independent research on hiv/aids is prohibited by federal law).
What is it, a shot of vitamins? Oh, genetically modified whole killed virus, really? Have they published an actual report with evidence proving the existence of whatever virus that is, first? Because without that I think I'd hold them and their snake-oil, premature claims to success, under considerable incredulity!
And what's this? A final phase to be tested on 6,000 clean individuals? Over three years? Perfect, enough time for a super retro-whammy-insane-O version of HIV to quietly spread into the population. What with the low numbers they've been seeing thanks to more easily available information, numbers of HIV cases have decreased and with scientists making huge strdes tiwards new, legitimate cures in the last couple of years, we might actually be looking at the end of AIDS. That's no good, how will Gallo and his cohorts continue to make billions pushing poisons? This whole injecting people with super HIV is a GREAT idea!
âZ"We're pretty sure it has nothing to do with our decision to smash a huge plutonium powered space probe into it or with the resulting huge purple 'second spot' caused by the resulting plume, which was so large it was visible to backyard telescopes and in general was a sort of shocking embarrassment to NASA when it occured."
"No, this disintegration now suddenly occuring just a few years after that incident has nothing to do with us. Jupiter was in the middle of killing itself, anyways. It was only a matter of time before this happen."
The parent is saying that the deceased can be re-used several times if you cut them into small pieces and send them off a piece a year, translating into multiple instances of tax relief for the family.
That's like saying it's okay to junk-up our orbit with space debris. "It's just for a little while", yes, then, people will pay more and expect justice from their government when they demand to be put into a stable orbit. "You condoned it for them, so me, too!" Burial in space should necessitate being put on a tracjectory that would actual take you into OUTER space, not in orbit around the Earth.
Okay, I would accept one stipulation: your container has to be highly magnetized. Whilst in orbit with the rest of the junk, you will have to do some sweeping up and junk collection on behalf of a grateful Earth. Then, when you re-enter, you can bring the junk in with you and you can all incinerate together.
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Err: "too cold to dissolve melt and allow the pollutants"
Could it be because they haven't received a sufficient level of pollution, or the ice and snow are too cold to dissolve and allow the pollutants to dissolve in water? Adding solute to solvent depresses the freezing point. Just shortly (a year or two) after we started getting news about noticeable and unavoidable amounts of pollutants showing up in the cubic meters of air tested atop the Swiss Alps, we started getting news about the imminent collapse of the Alps' mostly glacial makeup. But that's because the alps, just warm enough for the glacier ice to melt just enough on the surface to admit pollutants, ended up with a depressed freezing point. On the other hand, I don't know about the quality of air on the Himalayas, but it could be possible that the ice never comes below freezing and so even if there were pollutants settling on the snow, they wouldn't make it into solution.
Yeah, but, their articles follow a very narrow subject matter (the "Singularity") and it often has too much of a geeky, sci-fi tone. I read that and /. daily but I wouldn't go without one or the other.
I thought it was going to be functional for some reason. Guess because it was posted on /.
What if a president's non-public (hidden) agenda involved successfully destroying a space station, ruining a nation's space agency, and belittling a nation's populace into lowering their brows and focusing on supporting his regime in stupider matters like killing populations and stealing their resources, or controlling the world's economies with extortion?
The author starts by insisting that the "real" future is in software, but then goes on to say "so, we'll need this or that pie-in-the-sky plan to drastically change literally everything about the software market as it currently exists". Get real; which is it? Sheesh! What a silly argument to try and make.
I think hardware simply intimidates people. For starters, it's a bachelor's degree. Second, you'll be expected to learn calculus and understand how electricity works. That's simply too much for Americans, these days. But look around you: every body, down the last autistic, is "good with code".
Anybody can code and it doesn't require learning anything more than the language itself. You can teach yourself languages in your spare time. You can become a language-obsessed language convention debater and not even earn a degree. But so can anybody in the world.
My point is that it doesn't matter who codes, because it's so easy to do and anybody can do it, and because error checking and bug fixing is a rote thing. It's either done or it isn't, and that's the final measure of the quality of the code.
With outsourcing hardware, though, comes shitty problems like Chinese work where they just often totally forgo solder and stick everything together with hot glue, who knowingly ship flawed and unsafe products, and where the important components like ICs and boards resemble the state of technology from ten to twenty years ago.
But I don't have to drag on and on about it. There's just one way to say it: being more concerned with writing software than producing hardware, is putting the cart before the horse. *Prioritizing* software over hardware is flat-out, head-up-the-ass stupid.
The gig is up, though. Don't the last twenty years of closed door "summits" and other shady shit tell you anything? America silently became just as despotic and uncaring a government as the Chinese or North Koreans, and it was only recentlyrevealed how truly sick things have gotten when the Occupy movement pulled back the curtain and got pistol whipped by the wizard. It is not in the best interests of America to do what you're suggesting because we no longer even HAVE enemies. Our government LOVES China because they represent the possibility of total domination and control, the dream of every last cabinet member, congressman, and executive. All government leaders, globally, are currently concerned only with how to take away rights and how to put people to work building their dream projects, which are usually grandiose schemes involving either adventures in space, immortalized wealth for their progeny, murdering lots of people, and having a stronger selection of higher quality sexual partners. Government, everywhere, has become materialistic and evil, and I'll be lucky if work conditions in America aren't exactly as in China by the time I'm out of college.
I long for the days when such brash statements would constitute business suicide. But Americans don't give a shit about annything any more. Any company that takes advantage of despotism and calls it "breathtaking" has some real, deep-seated, sociopathic issues. I would say "everybody" knows these "dormitories" are actually like imprisonment, that many workers aren't allowed to leave, that toothpaste can cost a month's wages and that the cost of living there ensures the employees become deeply indebted to the crime-syndicate family Tongs that run the businesses amd local governments, but, not only do I realize most Americans seriously don't give a shit, I also realize that Apple is probably rightly betting that most people have no idea about any of that. I can see Apple, as a large and influential corporation, having a vested interest in cutting costs even more by instituting similar practices here in America (less shipping). People don't need rights to be Apple customers any more than they do to be Apple workers. Apple doesn't even need Americans to have te ability to pay for their devices. Since the damn things are basically tracking devices and electronic snitches and spies anyways, the government would be happy to pay Apple to provide them free of charge to uplift our productivity in some destitute and Orwellian future. Besides, the real money is in weaponization and Apple only needs governments and nations as clients to maintain their wealth and power brokering.
Something that strikes me as sort of odd is how much bitching is going on about how painful this recession is, compared to reality.
Starting with the moniker being thrown around. I mean, come on, "The Great Recession"? Is it really necessary to make it out to be more than it is, are the current living generations such coddled masses that they need to be stroked and told how gee tough it must be living through The Great Recession?
And where is this fucking Great Recession?
Because last I noticed, the entertainment industries were just as rolling in it this year as any other. The gaming, movie, television, sports conglomerates have raked in huuuuuge amounts of dough. That's supposedly dough we don't have because ohhhhh fuuuuck there's this whoooole Greeeaatt Recession going onnnnn, maaannn!
Well, wtfe. But anyways, this leads to my subject-heading question:
Who's going to pony up against Hollywood? I mean, pony up the non-cash, the negative expenditures. Who's going to throw their wallet down, stomp on it, and say "damnit, that's right, no more money for those fucking kooks and poisoners for me!"
Imagine what you'd be downgrading from. Well, it's not a huge leap of imagination, for me. I haven't been a regular TV watcher in years. I haven't sat in a movie theatre and watched a movie in years. I haven't gone out and rented a new movie to watch in years. So, for me, *I* have to imagine what you'd be downgrading from, if you, say, depended entirely on YouTube for your viewing entertainment from now-on.
You'd be going from Transformers to MikeDiva. From Saturday Night Live back to Second City, and from Mad TV to the Bath Boys. From Martin Scorcese to Sam Macaroni. From underwear advertisements to cleavage whores.
I already live this lifestyle. It's easy for me to not give Hollywood or network congloms my money because, well, I don't have any money to give them really, but also because I've already been getting nearly 100% of my entertainment from YouTube for several years. Before that, I really wasn't exactly a regular customer to begin with, so it wasn't a huge transition.
But Americans who are hitting the theatres twice a month, renting the latest flicks once a week, and subscribing to cable or satellite TV, are going to have some trouble getting behind any movement to squash "Hollywood", which is really, really, way bigger than just a little suburb in California or a bunch of warehouses, agencies and execs.
It's practically our entire culture, sadly enough.
You're actually talking about making American culture do a 180.
so they did a freeze frame, zoom in, and enhance on the rock and found the little sign that says "made in mars".
That does it! We HAVE to invade Mars if we're going to defeat these phantoms! Blow it all up!
Well, from the grandest possible perspective, *everything* is space *everything* because it's all surrounded by oUtEr SpAcE, right? So *my* wine is SPACEWINE just because I *made* it! I even piss in it, because my urine used to be part of a Staaarrrr
I've been programming since I was eight years old and I'm homeless while I attend college. If I get sick I'm likely to get told to leave the hospital before I'm even treated, because I don't have insurance. So I didn't apply for certs, there wasn't any such fuckery until I was about 14. So this girl did -- the youngest to do so, ever. Of course the major person behind the certifications is going to play her up beyond all human recognition. There are probably numerous young girls and boys just like her who don't ever receive any recognition or even, as I was, are told they're wasting their time and that they need to focus on "more important things" (in my case, my parents wanted me to become an automobile factory worker. It seems like everybody I meet actually throws that one my way, funny.)
I agree with parent, but I'm especially glad to see such a divide, because it lets me bring something up: opportunity. This particular girl was born at a particular time and took particular advantage of a niche.
Think of it like this: no other young person is going to have a chance to be of the same distinction unless they lower the bar even further and apply for (and receive) their certification at an even earlier age. Eventually you'll find the lower age limit for the cognitive abilities required, and that'll be that. Is that what you're really celebrating?
Or are you celebrating that a man like Bill Gates has the money to make a celebrity-like figure out of anyone he chooses? After all, it lent glamour and glitter to *his* company whenever he publicized this girl's abilities. It put *his* certification, which some people argue is probably worthless, in a novel (new) light that magically set aside anyone's misgivings on the subject over the awww-factor of the cause celebre. Is that worth celebrating? Is that anything that hasn't been done (to death) already?
I'm not trying to be crass. There's a place for people to mourn every death. But I'm reminded here, quite distinctly, of how many people, upon the death of Steve Jobs -- people, many of them who never, ever, thought, or spoke (or probably even registered hearing or reading) a single little word about Steve Jobs -- mourned the loss of such Immense Genius. When it comes down to it the man stole ideas and sued like hell whenever he could. In some ways he was a bitter old prick whose lasting legacy in my eyes is that I STILL don't have Macromedia Flash on my i-device.
I think anybody who fawns over this young talent or bewails the loss of such Immense Genius is not seeing the bigger picture of life. Maybe they feel like "this is what I could've lived up to", maybe the backlash against those who really don't care so much about this person's death is angst being vented because an opportunity for vicarious thrills has suddenly been lost to them.
People who don't understand should read this new book "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. He wrote "The Tipping Point". Just the first few chapters will open your mind up to what "genius" is, and what sort of damage can be done to not just one human life but to life and society in general when you push children through the whole "talent" pageant or fail to recognize opportunity (versus the mythological, "inherent" genius) for what it is.
I studied up on her, and, one of the things I noticed is that when asked if she's a net applications developer, she resopnds that she programs in C#. And when I studied the requirements for MCP, I couldn't find an instance of the word "Java". So... at least we can say that the poor young soul never had to know the pain of Java.
I barely even touch my touch screen while I use it. This is the most laughable and desperate thing I've seen in almost forever.
If some kind of person is cramming their fingers hard against their touch screen, they are fucked up already, and they are the kind of person who hits their head with a hammer or dives into a hydroelectric dam spillway, or forms a hematoma in their chest with the side of their hand through continuous repeated impact.
I went right to the facebook page dedicated to perpetuating the story and posted a comment for that lil bwa R. I. P. son!
My theory, seriously, is that the fall colors make a strong mental impression and preoccupy the mind with what would mathmatically be described as chaos. The vivid colors are to blame for the strengtj of the impression, but the pervasiveness of the collage of branching forms and "warning" colors is what drives it into sublimation, where it can have a strong effect on analytical productivity.
So, if that theory is correct, the October November effect shouldn't be seen in code from regions where leaves don't turn or aren't so pervasive.
They did wha-- omg my breakfast huuurrrfddfffff
And dragons, too, faery grantmother?
Well, not only that, but it's be plenty unethical to inject someone with HIV and then give them saline right? If you even have HIV in the first place (independent research on hiv/aids is prohibited by federal law).
What is it, a shot of vitamins? Oh, genetically modified whole killed virus, really? Have they published an actual report with evidence proving the existence of whatever virus that is, first? Because without that I think I'd hold them and their snake-oil, premature claims to success, under considerable incredulity!
And what's this? A final phase to be tested on 6,000 clean individuals? Over three years? Perfect, enough time for a super retro-whammy-insane-O version of HIV to quietly spread into the population. What with the low numbers they've been seeing thanks to more easily available information, numbers of HIV cases have decreased and with scientists making huge strdes tiwards new, legitimate cures in the last couple of years, we might actually be looking at the end of AIDS. That's no good, how will Gallo and his cohorts continue to make billions pushing poisons? This whole injecting people with super HIV is a GREAT idea!
Wax. I have the Wax of Excel +2 in my ears. Roll for sultry fixability.
âZ"We're pretty sure it has nothing to do with our decision to smash a huge plutonium powered space probe into it or with the resulting huge purple 'second spot' caused by the resulting plume, which was so large it was visible to backyard telescopes and in general was a sort of shocking embarrassment to NASA when it occured."
"No, this disintegration now suddenly occuring just a few years after that incident has nothing to do with us. Jupiter was in the middle of killing itself, anyways. It was only a matter of time before this happen."
"JUPITER WAS ASKING FOR IT, I SWEARS T'YA!"
The parent is saying that the deceased can be re-used several times if you cut them into small pieces and send them off a piece a year, translating into multiple instances of tax relief for the family.
That's like saying it's okay to junk-up our orbit with space debris. "It's just for a little while", yes, then, people will pay more and expect justice from their government when they demand to be put into a stable orbit. "You condoned it for them, so me, too!" Burial in space should necessitate being put on a tracjectory that would actual take you into OUTER space, not in orbit around the Earth.
Okay, I would accept one stipulation: your container has to be highly magnetized. Whilst in orbit with the rest of the junk, you will have to do some sweeping up and junk collection on behalf of a grateful Earth. Then, when you re-enter, you can bring the junk in with you and you can all incinerate together.