Are you really telling someone it's unethical to haggle over some of the terms of their employment arrangements? You have strange ethics.
The haggling was already done when the company offered them a job and they accepted. Sure, they can try and ask for more later, but the company is under no obligation to do anything that wasn't specified at hiring time.
How's it different from a contractor, working for the same company, and using the same resources ?
It's not. As a contractor, if you are hired to write software for a company, that company owns the software they paid you to write unless there is contractual language saying otherwise.
You are asking the key question. That is the question that gets ignored, on purpose, the 800 pound gorilla. Why not just reduce pollution? Anytime I get into a debate with anyone about "climate change" or how much carbon is getting pumped into the atmosphere, I ALWAYS use the argument of reducing pollution. We know for a fact that air pollution contributes to increased rates of heart disease, of asthma in children, to increasing rates of dementia, the list goes on and on, yet the douchebags continue with this "The Planet is Warming Naturally, Its a Cycle"
F#$k you and your cycle.
The general argument against "why not just reduce pollution?" is that some people don't consider carbon dioxide a pollutant. They argue that money shouldn't be "wasted" trying to reduce something that isn't a pollutant when there are actual dangerous pollutants that could be reduced if everyone weren't so focused on carbon dioxide. I'm not saying that I agree with this point of view, I'm just trying to explain it.
it was a novel idea and i'm sure it solves some problems but having scripting in a document format is simply has too high a price to pay. scripting does not belong in documents!
I'll let all the guys doing web pages know. I guess we'll have to figure something else out.
While you do have a good point, I think that any disaster that requires ham radio for communication would also likely have taken out the local power grid leaving consumer power line networking inoperable.
This app, giving people real time updates on their smart phones, is probably not the best thing we could have for public safety. More than a few knuckleheads would likely think they were doing the right thing by putting it on their phone, until they try to read it while driving and end up causing an accident by way of their distracted driving.
Good thing smart phones have speakers. Waze already make use of audio for turn alerts, they can do they same for Amber alerts.
That article just says that old forests capture more carbon than was initially thought. They initially thought they captured none; that really isn't a high bar to get over. Young forest still capture more than old forests.
"...solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide."
Trees. Quit cutting them down. Plant more. Problem solved.
Actually, cutting down trees is a great way to optimize carbon storage, as long as new trees are planted to replace the ones cut down. It clears space for new trees, which grow faster and eat more carbon when they are young. The cut wood keeps the carbon locked up and is a useful building material. As long as the cut wood keeps the carbon in solid form it isn't going to affect the atmosphere.
I've actually seen plans where cut wood is dumped to the bottom of the ocean where it won't decay, then replanted in a constant cycle. That carbon would basically be locked up forever (at least until we start mining it at some point in the far future).
That was actually one of my favorite parts of the book, but friends I have recommenced it to have come back and specifically mentioned that part as being hard to get past.
This is always been the solution, even after such massive failures as the Valve Anti-Cheat System on PCs. Have the game analyze the size, name, and even hash of all its files when it opens. If they're different than a preapproved list that's loaded into memory for milliseconds after being unencrypted with an enormous hard-wired password, refuse to open the game. That's moderately secure, assuming they can't get to the hard wired password.
How do you trust that the user hasn't modified "the game" to make it think the hashes always pass?
...That was not in the ore taken out of the ground in the first place?
At an elemental level? Probably not. But you better believe it at the molecular level. Aggressive acids and solvents that do not form naturally are common. You can read about some of it here. http://www.anzaplan.com/strate...
It's slower in languages with automatic memory management, or with a VM, which is no surprise. It would be much faster than disk if you wrote the time critical parts in a language designed for, you know, speed...
In this case it's slower because they are not comparing apples to apples. For memory they repeatedly concatenate strings together, which reallocates the memory and copies the string every time. For the disk they allocate the whole file at once and then just stream the data. It would have been a much better test if they had allocated a memory buffer for the string and streamed the data in to it the same way as a the disk.
Please, world population has nothing to do with the people currently starving. That's all down to local politics. Warlords and 3rd world governments seize or otherwise don't allow food to get where it needs to go. We could easily support a population at least 3 times higher than we have now if people would stop being dicks.
They're locking out the PS4 client on their network. Surely this is precisely why net neutrality should be set in law, to stop corporations from blocking what you use to access third party services!
Not that Sony are in the clear either, those shitbags tied Netflix into their PSN accounts, when the PSN wasn't available, tough fucking titties, you were blocked from using Netflix on a Sony console.
That has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. They are not blocking anything on the packet level. In order to use HGO Go you have to first prove to HBO that you own a compatible cable tv package. To do this HBO contacts the cable company. In this case comcast is just refusing to authorize their customers to HBO. It's a dick move, but it's unrelated to Net Neutrality or even the internet.
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Are you really telling someone it's unethical to haggle over some of the terms of their employment arrangements? You have strange ethics.
The haggling was already done when the company offered them a job and they accepted. Sure, they can try and ask for more later, but the company is under no obligation to do anything that wasn't specified at hiring time.
How's it different from a contractor, working for the same company, and using the same resources ?
It's not. As a contractor, if you are hired to write software for a company, that company owns the software they paid you to write unless there is contractual language saying otherwise.
You are asking the key question.
That is the question that gets ignored, on purpose, the 800 pound gorilla.
Why not just reduce pollution?
Anytime I get into a debate with anyone about "climate change" or how much carbon is getting pumped into the atmosphere, I ALWAYS use the argument of reducing pollution. We know for a fact that air pollution contributes to increased rates of heart disease, of asthma in children, to increasing rates of dementia, the list goes on and on, yet the douchebags continue with this "The Planet is Warming Naturally, Its a Cycle"
F#$k you and your cycle.
The general argument against "why not just reduce pollution?" is that some people don't consider carbon dioxide a pollutant. They argue that money shouldn't be "wasted" trying to reduce something that isn't a pollutant when there are actual dangerous pollutants that could be reduced if everyone weren't so focused on carbon dioxide. I'm not saying that I agree with this point of view, I'm just trying to explain it.
...there is only one Orca developer, two AT-SPI developers, and a single GTK developer.
Really? Only one person develops GTK? Who'd'a thunk?
You left out the part immediately before that.
"The number of developers who specifically work on accessibility tools is quite small. For example..."
And yet here you are.
it was a novel idea and i'm sure it solves some problems but having scripting in a document format is simply has too high a price to pay. scripting does not belong in documents!
I'll let all the guys doing web pages know. I guess we'll have to figure something else out.
While you do have a good point, I think that any disaster that requires ham radio for communication would also likely have taken out the local power grid leaving consumer power line networking inoperable.
And maybe mitigate or eliminate a possible extinction event down the road.
Like putting a pin in a balloon! Ahh, probably not the best example.
This app, giving people real time updates on their smart phones, is probably not the best thing we could have for public safety. More than a few knuckleheads would likely think they were doing the right thing by putting it on their phone, until they try to read it while driving and end up causing an accident by way of their distracted driving.
Good thing smart phones have speakers. Waze already make use of audio for turn alerts, they can do they same for Amber alerts.
"Apple Watch Sport with 42mm Silver Aluminum Case and Blue Sport Band"
AKA "the one no body wants".
"which are apps that are signed by specific software vendors, the Windows Store, or even your own organization"
That article just says that old forests capture more carbon than was initially thought. They initially thought they captured none; that really isn't a high bar to get over. Young forest still capture more than old forests.
"...solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide."
Trees. Quit cutting them down. Plant more. Problem solved.
Actually, cutting down trees is a great way to optimize carbon storage, as long as new trees are planted to replace the ones cut down. It clears space for new trees, which grow faster and eat more carbon when they are young. The cut wood keeps the carbon locked up and is a useful building material. As long as the cut wood keeps the carbon in solid form it isn't going to affect the atmosphere.
I've actually seen plans where cut wood is dumped to the bottom of the ocean where it won't decay, then replanted in a constant cycle. That carbon would basically be locked up forever (at least until we start mining it at some point in the far future).
That was actually one of my favorite parts of the book, but friends I have recommenced it to have come back and specifically mentioned that part as being hard to get past.
This is always been the solution, even after such massive failures as the Valve Anti-Cheat System on PCs. Have the game analyze the size, name, and even hash of all its files when it opens. If they're different than a preapproved list that's loaded into memory for milliseconds after being unencrypted with an enormous hard-wired password, refuse to open the game. That's moderately secure, assuming they can't get to the hard wired password.
How do you trust that the user hasn't modified "the game" to make it think the hashes always pass?
I love how the summary had more words describing features of Minecraft than it had describing features of the OS.
...That was not in the ore taken out of the ground in the first place?
At an elemental level? Probably not. But you better believe it at the molecular level. Aggressive acids and solvents that do not form naturally are common. You can read about some of it here. http://www.anzaplan.com/strate...
It's slower in languages with automatic memory management, or with a VM, which is no surprise.
It would be much faster than disk if you wrote the time critical parts in a language designed for, you know, speed...
In this case it's slower because they are not comparing apples to apples. For memory they repeatedly concatenate strings together, which reallocates the memory and copies the string every time. For the disk they allocate the whole file at once and then just stream the data. It would have been a much better test if they had allocated a memory buffer for the string and streamed the data in to it the same way as a the disk.
Who modded this down? I already posted so I can't mod it "underrated", but there's nothing wrong with that post to give it a -1 rating.
Someone who read the summary (and probably even the actual story).
Which step is it that installs the customized thermal sensors?
Step 2: Drop some customized thermal sensors.
And the site they downloaded that Live CD from will have instructions for turning off Secure Boot, or adding their key to the BIOS.
Please, world population has nothing to do with the people currently starving. That's all down to local politics. Warlords and 3rd world governments seize or otherwise don't allow food to get where it needs to go. We could easily support a population at least 3 times higher than we have now if people would stop being dicks.
How many standard users are going to turn that off?
How many "standard" users are going to install Linux, or even know what Linux is?
Once a user learns enough about Linux to want to install it they will undoubtedly know how to turn this feature off or install the correct keys.
They're locking out the PS4 client on their network. Surely this is precisely why net neutrality should be set in law, to stop corporations from blocking what you use to access third party services!
Not that Sony are in the clear either, those shitbags tied Netflix into their PSN accounts, when the PSN wasn't available, tough fucking titties, you were blocked from using Netflix on a Sony console.
That has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. They are not blocking anything on the packet level. In order to use HGO Go you have to first prove to HBO that you own a compatible cable tv package. To do this HBO contacts the cable company. In this case comcast is just refusing to authorize their customers to HBO. It's a dick move, but it's unrelated to Net Neutrality or even the internet.
So unless proof that something is specifically harmful is supplied, everything is assumed perfectly safe?
In the face of decades of evidence of perfect safety, yes.