If by adapt you mean lose much of your land base (e.g. Bangladesh, Maldives), sure they can adapt. I wonder though, which country will take up the inevitable influx of immigrants? Certainly not the US with its anti-immigration hysteria. Europe doesn't want them either, we're all closet-xenophobes, unfortunately. You don't expect them to roll over and die, do you? That would be quite the adaptation. Oh, I forgot, these are Muslim countries. Problem solved.
Much of the arctic ice is on land (Greenland). When this melts, it will most certainly have an effect on the sea level. Secondly, the ice sheet reflects light away from earth. If it is gone the oceans below it will heat up more than they do now which leads to further warming.
I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's more applicable to commercial closed-source software which usually justifies a major version upgrade (for which you have to pay) with new and exciting (?) features. IOW, the new features are a hook to get you spend money again for software you've already paid for. The changes have to be drastic otherwise you wouldn't pay, would you?
But free software is different. The changes are more incremental. In a way, it's like evolution. You don't go from ape to human in one step and, tada, it's a whole new species. Instead, small incremental changes add up to something different. The question then is, where do you draw the line?
One of the the following statements is an incitement of violence while the other is just expressing a dickish attitude:
The ruling generals are scumbags and it is the duty of every Egyptian to shoot them on sight.
And:
If justice is not achieved and the justice system fails us, no-one should feel upset or surprised if armed gangs emerge to carry out assassinations. As long as there is no law and there is no justice, anything can happen, and nobody should be upset.
Guess which is which. Now guess which one the story is about.
Many people would argue that internet access is a right, not a privilege. Indeed, at least one Scandinavian country (I forget which one) has enshrined this principle into law. Also, given that the German Constitutional Court deemed access to television a right a few decades ago, I would suspect that they would rule in an analogous way regarding internet access today.
It "betrays" the fact that we tend to focus on the history of our ancestors, rather than the history of other cultures.
The problem with this view is that it tends to see history as a collection of locally, chronologically and culturally isolated events (and gives a false importance to them), when in truth cultures from different parts of the globe have influenced each other since pre-historic times.
But yes, Islamic scholars did contribute quite a bit during the 500 years when they were relatively free to do good science. I never claimed otherwise.
IHMO you did when you compared them to (present-day) Afghanistan and Somalia.
No, the Islamic world had nothing comparable to the Enlightenment, and never completely separated the Church from the State. And I never claimed that they did. But they were definitely on a path towards that accomplishment. And let's not pretend that this principle is not being assaulted by reactionary forces in the West. You should never rest on the laurels of your ancestors.
As for science -- the whole scientific process was invented in the Islamic world, even if it wasn't formulated as such. By that I mean that a theory has to fit all the available data and is refined through constant experimentation. The world "Algebra" has its root in an Arabic text. That alone shows their influence in the field, even if they didn't invent all the methods. In astronomy, they compiled a huge amount of data (and tried to explain it with some success) that was used by European astronomers centuries later. And in medicine they led the field for 7 centuries and many of their insights have not been disproven to this day (only refined) in contrast to the earlier Greek assumptions about how the body works. They invented the hospital, clinical trials and animal testing, first described how infectious diseases spread, and first described many structures and processes of the body, including the pulmonary, coronary and metabolic systems.
The simple fact that the period between the Fall of Rome and the Renaissance is called the Dark Ages betrays an incredible anti-Islamic bias in Western thought. Because outside of Europe, and even in Moorish Spain, civilization was flourishing. And if you don't believe me, you should travel to those places and look at all the archeological evidence that can still be seen today. They are just as amazing as the stuff the Romans build.
Wow, you bring up the (so-called) Dark Ages, yet assert at the same time that the Middle East has been on fire for thousands of years?!
Here's a clue-stick: Who do you think saved those works from antiquity so that renaissance scholars could rediscover them and jump-start the enlightenment era in Europe? It was Islamic scholars, and they were only able to do so because the Islamic empire was a beacon of civilisation for almost a thousand years.
And you just lost the argument by saying these extreme scenarios are statistically insignificant. Because that concedes that they actually take place. And they are never "insignificant" to the person that has to deal with them.
Congratulations to your compassion to your fellow human beings. Or, rather, your lack of it. You'll do nicely in this world.
Honest question. I know little about the source code of both projects, but Chrome does have extensions (I know b/c I use a lot of them) and is based on an open-source product, making it very hackable. So in what way is Firefox extensible that Chrome isn't?
Anybody who believes that these rating agencies are independent is fooling themselves. The question everybody should be asking, is, who is benefiting from this downgrade (directly or indirectly) and what is their connection with S&P?
You can't outlaw these fuckers, after all they provide a potentially valid service. But the public should be educated about their ties to other financial institutions and politicians should not let themselves be chased by them.
That's a 65% prediction rate based on a single tweet. The authors report a 92% success rate for the best classifier on the entire set. If they restrict the data set just to tweet texts (but more than one), they achieved a 76% success rate. That still might not satisfy you, but the authors also report that only 5 in 130 people correctly classified 100 tweets with a higher accuracy.
From what I've read in your rebuttal posted up-thread, it's not really the same. It's more like "git stash" and "git stash apply" which seems somewhat brittle to implement partial commits. But I'll concede that one might get used to both workflows.
You strongly disagree with partial commits conceptionally, but as I've commented on your blog, not every repository contains code and not every code is tested.
IHMO, the staging area is git's killer feature which sets it apart from other distributed VCS.
Slashdot Mirror
Access to /. via https, a little selfsigned cert with a goatse icon..
If you want to reduce your time spent on Slashdot, I'm sure there are less painful options.
You can read a threat into it, but it's not explicitly formulated.
Another way to read it is concern, i.e. he's scared someone might get shot if things continue as they are.
It all depends on context and (the reader's) interpretation.
Every death is a tragedy. 'Nuff said.
As for your eating analogy, you should read up on how addiction works.
He's also saying that people should not be upset if somebody gets shot. Which makes him a dick in my book.
If by adapt you mean lose much of your land base (e.g. Bangladesh, Maldives), sure they can adapt. I wonder though, which country will take up the inevitable influx of immigrants? Certainly not the US with its anti-immigration hysteria. Europe doesn't want them either, we're all closet-xenophobes, unfortunately. You don't expect them to roll over and die, do you? That would be quite the adaptation. Oh, I forgot, these are Muslim countries. Problem solved.
Much of the arctic ice is on land (Greenland). When this melts, it will most certainly have an effect on the sea level. Secondly, the ice sheet reflects light away from earth. If it is gone the oceans below it will heat up more than they do now which leads to further warming.
That raging nuclear furnace in the sky is 150 MILLION KM AWAY.
If you build your nuclear power plants that far away from earth I have no problems with them.
Also, there is a cheap and proven solution to harness the energy expended by the sun. It's called a wind farm.
I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's more applicable to commercial closed-source software which usually justifies a major version upgrade (for which you have to pay) with new and exciting (?) features. IOW, the new features are a hook to get you spend money again for software you've already paid for. The changes have to be drastic otherwise you wouldn't pay, would you?
But free software is different. The changes are more incremental. In a way, it's like evolution. You don't go from ape to human in one step and, tada, it's a whole new species. Instead, small incremental changes add up to something different. The question then is, where do you draw the line?
One of the the following statements is an incitement of violence while the other is just expressing a dickish attitude:
The ruling generals are scumbags and it is the duty of every Egyptian to shoot them on sight.
And:
If justice is not achieved and the justice system fails us, no-one should feel upset or surprised if armed gangs emerge to carry out assassinations. As long as there is no law and there is no justice, anything can happen, and nobody should be upset.
Guess which is which. Now guess which one the story is about.
Many people would argue that internet access is a right, not a privilege. Indeed, at least one Scandinavian country (I forget which one) has enshrined this principle into law. Also, given that the German Constitutional Court deemed access to television a right a few decades ago, I would suspect that they would rule in an analogous way regarding internet access today.
I used to never reboot my system, but now I reboot (or rather login and logout) every day.
Why? Because stupid Apple Time Machine will not backup Filevault home directories, unless the user logs out. It's a pain in the ass.
I think I finally figured out, why the atomic tech is so appealing to many people on Slashdot: too many Spiderman comics in their childhood.
For the rest of us: get off my lawn!
It "betrays" the fact that we tend to focus on the history of our ancestors, rather than the history of other cultures.
The problem with this view is that it tends to see history as a collection of locally, chronologically and culturally isolated events (and gives a false importance to them), when in truth cultures from different parts of the globe have influenced each other since pre-historic times.
But yes, Islamic scholars did contribute quite a bit during the 500 years when they were relatively free to do good science. I never claimed otherwise.
IHMO you did when you compared them to (present-day) Afghanistan and Somalia.
No, the Islamic world had nothing comparable to the Enlightenment, and never completely separated the Church from the State. And I never claimed that they did. But they were definitely on a path towards that accomplishment. And let's not pretend that this principle is not being assaulted by reactionary forces in the West. You should never rest on the laurels of your ancestors.
As for science -- the whole scientific process was invented in the Islamic world, even if it wasn't formulated as such. By that I mean that a theory has to fit all the available data and is refined through constant experimentation. The world "Algebra" has its root in an Arabic text. That alone shows their influence in the field, even if they didn't invent all the methods. In astronomy, they compiled a huge amount of data (and tried to explain it with some success) that was used by European astronomers centuries later. And in medicine they led the field for 7 centuries and many of their insights have not been disproven to this day (only refined) in contrast to the earlier Greek assumptions about how the body works. They invented the hospital, clinical trials and animal testing, first described how infectious diseases spread, and first described many structures and processes of the body, including the pulmonary, coronary and metabolic systems.
The simple fact that the period between the Fall of Rome and the Renaissance is called the Dark Ages betrays an incredible anti-Islamic bias in Western thought. Because outside of Europe, and even in Moorish Spain, civilization was flourishing. And if you don't believe me, you should travel to those places and look at all the archeological evidence that can still be seen today. They are just as amazing as the stuff the Romans build.
Wow, you bring up the (so-called) Dark Ages, yet assert at the same time that the Middle East has been on fire for thousands of years?!
Here's a clue-stick: Who do you think saved those works from antiquity so that renaissance scholars could rediscover them and jump-start the enlightenment era in Europe? It was Islamic scholars, and they were only able to do so because the Islamic empire was a beacon of civilisation for almost a thousand years.
And you just lost the argument by saying these extreme scenarios are statistically insignificant. Because that concedes that they actually take place. And they are never "insignificant" to the person that has to deal with them.
Congratulations to your compassion to your fellow human beings. Or, rather, your lack of it. You'll do nicely in this world.
This page seems to suggest otherwise: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html
What do you expect from an editor who calls himself Unknown (read: unaccountable) Lamer?
Honest question. I know little about the source code of both projects, but Chrome does have extensions (I know b/c I use a lot of them) and is based on an open-source product, making it very hackable. So in what way is Firefox extensible that Chrome isn't?
Anybody who believes that these rating agencies are independent is fooling themselves. The question everybody should be asking, is, who is benefiting from this downgrade (directly or indirectly) and what is their connection with S&P?
You can't outlaw these fuckers, after all they provide a potentially valid service. But the public should be educated about their ties to other financial institutions and politicians should not let themselves be chased by them.
That's a 65% prediction rate based on a single tweet. The authors report a 92% success rate for the best classifier on the entire set. If they restrict the data set just to tweet texts (but more than one), they achieved a 76% success rate. That still might not satisfy you, but the authors also report that only 5 in 130 people correctly classified 100 tweets with a higher accuracy.
Yes, human traffickers are known to care about their "product."
There is no guarantee at all that the children ended up in a loving family. It is much more likely that they are being exploited (or even dead).
From what I've read in your rebuttal posted up-thread, it's not really the same. It's more like "git stash" and "git stash apply" which seems somewhat brittle to implement partial commits. But I'll concede that one might get used to both workflows.
You strongly disagree with partial commits conceptionally, but as I've commented on your blog, not every repository contains code and not every code is tested.
IHMO, the staging area is git's killer feature which sets it apart from other distributed VCS.
Does Bazaar have a staging area?
Google+ requires real names and will suspend your account if they catch you violating that policy. Twitter has no such restrictions.
I'm pretty sure though that Google will allow anonymous accounts in the future.