If events like that can create black holes, then they are being created all the time in our atmosphere when particles with orders of magnitude more energy than we will every produce in a collider, enter it.
I hate to engage in a debate on metaphysics (this is slashdot after all), but if you believe Theistic Evolution, then you have to define exactly what you mean by "God". Evolution does not require a director, unless that director is the environment and its interaction with genes. If you think it does, then you have profoundly misunderstood what the process of evolution is all about.
I took a look at it after using SQL Server but I wasn't impressed by the tools available. I think that with good (I mean comparable) integration with Visual Studio it would be a joy to use - because you know, it's free.
This national database scheme has had a lot of bad press, but I'm not so sure it deserves it. Let's think about which databases I'm currently on in the UK. The NHS (I recently saw a consultant and have a GP), local government (I'm on the electoral roll and pay my local taxes), HM revenue and customs (I pay income taxes), Equifax/etc - I have a mortgage and credit cards. Really all this scheme is doing is centralising all of this data under one key. The only problem I have with it is authorisation for access to all the various bits of information of interest. I have no problem with it all being stored in one place, which is really all this scheme is about. I already need a national insurance number to be employed, so what's the big deal?
Having said that, I don't want to have to pay for it (and costings put the card at over £100!).
Interestingly, the doctrine of the virginity of mary, upon which much of catholic theology is based, comes in fact from a mistranslation of the hebrew word for "young woman".
The Old Testament talks about almah 'young woman,' not bethulah 'virgin.' However, scholars in the 3rd century BC translated the Hebrew almah as parthenos in Greek. Thus the 'young woman' in Hebrew metamorphosed into a 'virgin' in Greek--and she has remained a virgin ever since in translations across the world. The notion of 'virgin birth' was born, thanks to a mistranslation.
I think Catholic Priests running around HIV infested Africa and South America preaching the evil of birth control and contraception is an affront to human dignity.
Only the boiler plate stuff in C++ is pain for CGI. I maintain and write some Perl scripts at work; I sometimes think they'd do well in an obfuscation competition.
Quite right toolslive. When I was at University, we seemed to have a different language for each class. The languages I remember using were Modula-2 (data structures, Concurrent Programming classes), Eiffel (Object Oriented Programming class), Visual Basic (Human Computer Interaction class), ADA (Can't Remember What That Was All About Class), C (Systems Programming Class), Prolog ("Intelligent Systems" class). At no stage was I required to learn C++ or Java, although I did submit a C++ project in a Neural Networks class (a back propagation neural network), where language was not specified.
HOWEVER, I was self taught C++ and as such (without internet access during my self teaching sessions) had no clue about things like Boost or std:: - I picked those up when I started work. It turns out when I look back at some old code, that even though my class structures were good, I was leaking memory and doing lots of otherwise unsavory things I just never had to think about when using any of those other languages. Perhaps a C++ class or two would have been very useful.
There have been many signatories of "open letters" to the IPCC (et al.) who are at the top of their fields in geology, geo-physics, climatology, etc. who do not agree with the "consensus". It's just that the media love a doomsday story and people like you seem to as well. If you want to find out exactly what the whole climate debate is really about, read http://www.climateaudit.org/. It's a real eye opener.
At every chapter in this book I thought, "Well this book's been worthless so far, but I think it gets better in the next chapter." I thought that until the last (26th) chapter, which was actually half-decent. I've never been so disappointed in a book. Any designer with the slightest bit of experience will learn nothing from this book. Nearly every piece of advice is trite ("Design principle: Use noneditable controls for output-only text"). There's very little depth or thinking beyond the completely obvious. You will learn more from any other book (on any topic) than from this book. If you've already bought it, you should skip to the chapters with non-zero value. I recommend chapter 5 (personas), chapter 16 (undo), chapter 17 (save), and chapter 26 (misc). The section on perpetual intermediates is good too.
I finished the book 10 minutes ago after a very tedious three months. I can finally put it on the shelf and never look at it again. Having some experience of reading UI design books, this is fairly typical in my experience. There is no "catch all" guide to designing UI experiences, because the principles you apply will depend on the application, the ergonomics and the libraries you are using, alongside the motivation of the user to get to know your particular method of interaction.
My only suggestion would be to prototype, see what works and what doesn't and to never assume because "it's good for you, it's good".
I have a brain thank you (first class according to the BSc certificate!). I'm not a denialist, I'm a big fan of the scientific method; something that isn't practised with very much enthusiasm in the field of climatology. As I'm from the UK, there is no "left" or "right" to my opinions here. I also don't drive, don't shave in the shower, use public transport, cycle to work, wear an extra layer before I turn the heating on and wash my clothes on cold. You cannot pin "denialist" on me in any respect sir. I look at the science and the culture of politics surrounding it and am not in any respect convinced by it (I come to this judgement independently of any political leaning), as do many other independently minded individuals.
With respect to energy production, pick and choose from any one of a number of high profile environmental groups promoting their "clean energy" campaign and see on the other side of the debate those people who don't care whether it's clean or not, they don't want it near them. That is why in the UK getting planning permission for anything larger than a coal shed takes about 10 years (I exaggerate for dramatic effect). I personally like wind turbines (I think they have a certain appealing aesthetic) but I'm not convinced that their total cost, including maintenance is really worth the trouble. Moreover, stupidly we aren't allowed to put them on our houses without.... planning permission....... and your neighbour is sure to object!
There are many advantages to nuclear power (of more modern designs) that are completely lost in the noise left over from previous environmental debacles (Windscale here in the UK, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl). Unfortunately some high profile environmental groups will be first in the queue to object at the planning stage when we eventually decide to build some more.
Yes we need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels but not because CO2 is a poison (it isn't). I just resent seeing my country bend over and take it from any number of vile regimes throughout the world who just happen to be sitting on a billion barrels of oil. That alone would be worth a big switch-over to Nuclear.
This is blatant trolling and yet is moderated 4, interesting.
If you believe the crap around about greenhouse emissions (apparently they are bad), you might also remember the eco-warrior campaigns against Nuclear Power (apparently that is also bad). Only now of course nuclear power is considered good, coal bad. Even then they aren't satisfied. If you say you are going to put up 1,000 windmills then the bird tweeters and BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) brigade will be up in arms. What about the environmental effects of hydro projects? The eco-loonies will be there too. So it goes.
Agree. I don't own a printer. I print out things like flight confirmations and stuff like that on the laser at work and for photos I take my SD card down the J Sainsbury, use their photo station and get my pictures back at very reasonable rates.
You are quite right. I don't think there is an article on Wikipedia that isn't edited with some kind of bias. Each subject is seen through the eyes of the writer, whether they hold views as an individual or are representing the views of some organisation they are associated with. To truly edit an article with no bias whatsoever requires a familiarity with absolute truth. Perhaps only in the fields of mathematics is this possible and even then there is some scope for interpretation.
Why is it that when they tell you how much "X" loses from copyright infringement, they always make the assumption that the 1,000,000 people who bought the pirated copy would have gone to purchase a legitimate copy if the pirate copy hadn't been available? Of the 18 billion the industry supposedly "lost" through piracy, I would hazard a guess not even 1% is actually the loss of sales (real money in the till). Does such a paltry sum (relative to the size of the industry) really justify Digital Rights Management, hordes of new law enforcement officers and somewhat draconian changes in the concept of fair use? I doubt it.
During testing (that is, player testing "beta"), this bug was posted on the beta forum.
This just goes to show how much attention the person responsible was actually paying to player testing bug reports.
You couldn't make it up. I stopped playing Eve about a year ago because unless it got a bit tedious, the developers were shown to be corrupt (in game). Recently I was thinking about reactivating and trying Trinity out. Good job I haven't.
I could probably work out how to fix my boot.ini with my XP disk. I have absolutely NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the majority of Eve players won't know what, how, where, when to fix this problem. Note that the ones who know how to fix it are the ones posting about it on the forums. The innumerable players who don't know how to fix it, no longer have internet access.
I'm getting one of those "lawsuit pending" feelings.
It seems to me that both defence related and/or national security related projects would require this kind of action. However what a lot of posters are missing are the opportunities for industrial espionage possible when working for NASA, particularly in the highly lucrative aerospace sector. One might argue that economic interests are also the national interest and hence subject to national security considerations. However, not knowing much about NASA in general, I wouldn't know where you should draw the line.
I'm becomming increasingly disenchanted with slashdot for allowing the posting of obvious adverts as threads. We had the c# memory leak detector "advert" the other day and now this. Do the moderators not have delete keys any more, or are they in it for the money themselves?
I'm sure they wouldn't have the time or inclination to respond to a pleb like me!
I guess when the promotion period is over they will publish the results in any case. I'm not sure how many hard copies OK Computer or The Bends sold, but knowing this you could I suppose make an educated guess at a similar volume. I would expect (and this is just an intuition) that the sales curve for this kind of promotion will fall steeply (all those who want to pay will have already done so), whereas hard-copy sales would spike again around xmas (for example). So the comparison might not be so straight forward.
I would be interested to know what kind of gross they could expect from a label promotion and distribution in the "old way". The figure given here is a bit useless without that piece of information;).
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If events like that can create black holes, then they are being created all the time in our atmosphere when particles with orders of magnitude more energy than we will every produce in a collider, enter it.
I hate to engage in a debate on metaphysics (this is slashdot after all), but if you believe Theistic Evolution, then you have to define exactly what you mean by "God". Evolution does not require a director, unless that director is the environment and its interaction with genes. If you think it does, then you have profoundly misunderstood what the process of evolution is all about.
I took a look at it after using SQL Server but I wasn't impressed by the tools available. I think that with good (I mean comparable) integration with Visual Studio it would be a joy to use - because you know, it's free.
This national database scheme has had a lot of bad press, but I'm not so sure it deserves it. Let's think about which databases I'm currently on in the UK. The NHS (I recently saw a consultant and have a GP), local government (I'm on the electoral roll and pay my local taxes), HM revenue and customs (I pay income taxes), Equifax/etc - I have a mortgage and credit cards. Really all this scheme is doing is centralising all of this data under one key. The only problem I have with it is authorisation for access to all the various bits of information of interest. I have no problem with it all being stored in one place, which is really all this scheme is about. I already need a national insurance number to be employed, so what's the big deal? Having said that, I don't want to have to pay for it (and costings put the card at over £100!).
I think Catholic Priests running around HIV infested Africa and South America preaching the evil of birth control and contraception is an affront to human dignity.
Only the boiler plate stuff in C++ is pain for CGI. I maintain and write some Perl scripts at work; I sometimes think they'd do well in an obfuscation competition.
Quite right toolslive. When I was at University, we seemed to have a different language for each class. The languages I remember using were Modula-2 (data structures, Concurrent Programming classes), Eiffel (Object Oriented Programming class), Visual Basic (Human Computer Interaction class), ADA (Can't Remember What That Was All About Class), C (Systems Programming Class), Prolog ("Intelligent Systems" class). At no stage was I required to learn C++ or Java, although I did submit a C++ project in a Neural Networks class (a back propagation neural network), where language was not specified.
HOWEVER, I was self taught C++ and as such (without internet access during my self teaching sessions) had no clue about things like Boost or std:: - I picked those up when I started work. It turns out when I look back at some old code, that even though my class structures were good, I was leaking memory and doing lots of otherwise unsavory things I just never had to think about when using any of those other languages. Perhaps a C++ class or two would have been very useful.
There have been many signatories of "open letters" to the IPCC (et al.) who are at the top of their fields in geology, geo-physics, climatology, etc. who do not agree with the "consensus". It's just that the media love a doomsday story and people like you seem to as well. If you want to find out exactly what the whole climate debate is really about, read http://www.climateaudit.org/. It's a real eye opener.
At every chapter in this book I thought, "Well this book's been worthless so far, but I think it gets better in the next chapter." I thought that until the last (26th) chapter, which was actually half-decent. I've never been so disappointed in a book. Any designer with the slightest bit of experience will learn nothing from this book. Nearly every piece of advice is trite ("Design principle: Use noneditable controls for output-only text"). There's very little depth or thinking beyond the completely obvious. You will learn more from any other book (on any topic) than from this book. If you've already bought it, you should skip to the chapters with non-zero value. I recommend chapter 5 (personas), chapter 16 (undo), chapter 17 (save), and chapter 26 (misc). The section on perpetual intermediates is good too. I finished the book 10 minutes ago after a very tedious three months. I can finally put it on the shelf and never look at it again. Having some experience of reading UI design books, this is fairly typical in my experience. There is no "catch all" guide to designing UI experiences, because the principles you apply will depend on the application, the ergonomics and the libraries you are using, alongside the motivation of the user to get to know your particular method of interaction. My only suggestion would be to prototype, see what works and what doesn't and to never assume because "it's good for you, it's good".
I have a brain thank you (first class according to the BSc certificate!). I'm not a denialist, I'm a big fan of the scientific method; something that isn't practised with very much enthusiasm in the field of climatology. As I'm from the UK, there is no "left" or "right" to my opinions here. I also don't drive, don't shave in the shower, use public transport, cycle to work, wear an extra layer before I turn the heating on and wash my clothes on cold. You cannot pin "denialist" on me in any respect sir. I look at the science and the culture of politics surrounding it and am not in any respect convinced by it (I come to this judgement independently of any political leaning), as do many other independently minded individuals. With respect to energy production, pick and choose from any one of a number of high profile environmental groups promoting their "clean energy" campaign and see on the other side of the debate those people who don't care whether it's clean or not, they don't want it near them. That is why in the UK getting planning permission for anything larger than a coal shed takes about 10 years (I exaggerate for dramatic effect). I personally like wind turbines (I think they have a certain appealing aesthetic) but I'm not convinced that their total cost, including maintenance is really worth the trouble. Moreover, stupidly we aren't allowed to put them on our houses without.... planning permission....... and your neighbour is sure to object! There are many advantages to nuclear power (of more modern designs) that are completely lost in the noise left over from previous environmental debacles (Windscale here in the UK, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl). Unfortunately some high profile environmental groups will be first in the queue to object at the planning stage when we eventually decide to build some more. Yes we need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels but not because CO2 is a poison (it isn't). I just resent seeing my country bend over and take it from any number of vile regimes throughout the world who just happen to be sitting on a billion barrels of oil. That alone would be worth a big switch-over to Nuclear.
This is blatant trolling and yet is moderated 4, interesting. If you believe the crap around about greenhouse emissions (apparently they are bad), you might also remember the eco-warrior campaigns against Nuclear Power (apparently that is also bad). Only now of course nuclear power is considered good, coal bad. Even then they aren't satisfied. If you say you are going to put up 1,000 windmills then the bird tweeters and BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) brigade will be up in arms. What about the environmental effects of hydro projects? The eco-loonies will be there too. So it goes.
Agree. I don't own a printer. I print out things like flight confirmations and stuff like that on the laser at work and for photos I take my SD card down the J Sainsbury, use their photo station and get my pictures back at very reasonable rates.
Isn't anyone going to explain why 3.5 was using so much memory in the first instance? Bad programming?
You are quite right. I don't think there is an article on Wikipedia that isn't edited with some kind of bias. Each subject is seen through the eyes of the writer, whether they hold views as an individual or are representing the views of some organisation they are associated with. To truly edit an article with no bias whatsoever requires a familiarity with absolute truth. Perhaps only in the fields of mathematics is this possible and even then there is some scope for interpretation.
Why is it that when they tell you how much "X" loses from copyright infringement, they always make the assumption that the 1,000,000 people who bought the pirated copy would have gone to purchase a legitimate copy if the pirate copy hadn't been available? Of the 18 billion the industry supposedly "lost" through piracy, I would hazard a guess not even 1% is actually the loss of sales (real money in the till). Does such a paltry sum (relative to the size of the industry) really justify Digital Rights Management, hordes of new law enforcement officers and somewhat draconian changes in the concept of fair use? I doubt it.
During testing (that is, player testing "beta"), this bug was posted on the beta forum. This just goes to show how much attention the person responsible was actually paying to player testing bug reports.
You couldn't make it up. I stopped playing Eve about a year ago because unless it got a bit tedious, the developers were shown to be corrupt (in game). Recently I was thinking about reactivating and trying Trinity out. Good job I haven't. I could probably work out how to fix my boot.ini with my XP disk. I have absolutely NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the majority of Eve players won't know what, how, where, when to fix this problem. Note that the ones who know how to fix it are the ones posting about it on the forums. The innumerable players who don't know how to fix it, no longer have internet access. I'm getting one of those "lawsuit pending" feelings.
That is actually a very insightful comment, so I don't know why it was moderated Interesting ;).
It seems to me that both defence related and/or national security related projects would require this kind of action. However what a lot of posters are missing are the opportunities for industrial espionage possible when working for NASA, particularly in the highly lucrative aerospace sector. One might argue that economic interests are also the national interest and hence subject to national security considerations. However, not knowing much about NASA in general, I wouldn't know where you should draw the line.
Classic! Mod parent funny ;)
I'm becomming increasingly disenchanted with slashdot for allowing the posting of obvious adverts as threads. We had the c# memory leak detector "advert" the other day and now this. Do the moderators not have delete keys any more, or are they in it for the money themselves?
I'm sure they wouldn't have the time or inclination to respond to a pleb like me! I guess when the promotion period is over they will publish the results in any case. I'm not sure how many hard copies OK Computer or The Bends sold, but knowing this you could I suppose make an educated guess at a similar volume. I would expect (and this is just an intuition) that the sales curve for this kind of promotion will fall steeply (all those who want to pay will have already done so), whereas hard-copy sales would spike again around xmas (for example). So the comparison might not be so straight forward.
I would be interested to know what kind of gross they could expect from a label promotion and distribution in the "old way". The figure given here is a bit useless without that piece of information ;).
Legacy support with virtualisation will only be slower if you are running the new environment on the same old hardware (in theory).