He did mention the societal definition of morality as separate from the religious one, and really the vast majority do subscribe to one or the other. I guess it could have been more inclusive of individually defined morality though.
Some do, such as Greg Egan, though I would recommend his books to an older audience.
I'd say my three biggest childhood influences towards science weren't books, but Doctor Who (constantly solving puzzles with science), arcade games (how do they work?) and Usborne computer books (that's how they work!), though sci-fi literature played a large and very important role.
How did we ever get conned into setting up this enormous waste of resources? Surely the only ones benefiting are power companies. I personally don't buy the safety angle, but even so they are at a ridiculously high density and luminosity, far more than reason would dictate. I live in the Adelaide hills, Australia where driving at night on unlit roads is commonplace, and there is little noticeable difference. Our city is surrounded by acres of mostly unlit parklands, and I can often see further while walking through them than down the lit streets. Being able to see a beautiful night sky is still achievable, but the glow is spreading.
Ban them all I say, or at least dim them 90% which would probably increase visibility and reduce glare.
I'm with you here - while the latest incarnation of the series has been uninspiring as a whole, there have been some superlative episodes that deserve all the recognition and awards they will get.
CEO Rick Puckette is enthusiastic about the change. "When we were using Microsoft, we had a lot more than 15 servers," he sirays. "We had upwards of 50 or 60 that were becoming difficult to manage
Well, it's not no numbers but they're definitely lower than before.
It truly is the kind of marketing money can't buy. You need talent, foresight and vision to pull off a stunt like this. I've always admired Apples marketing efforts - if only Commodore had that attitude my beloved Amiga might have survived. *sulks away*
Well, the good Doctor was around for a while before, but luckily Star Trek avoided the pitfalls from that series. Just imagine if they'd have used the same tacky cardboard cutout sets with a couple of blinking lights, or dodgy special effects using crude scale models. Or if all their 'aliens' were just some guy with a glob of latex on his face wearing a crudely painted and torn garbage bag. Or if all the female assistants had large cleavage and short skirts. Or every time they made planetfall and found a primitive tribe there was an extinct advanced civilization buried in the rubble which still had working artifacts worshiped as a god by the locals that terrorized them and kept them in their primitive state, but could be destroyed by confusing it with logical paradoxes.
Well, all that he found was that it is easy to overflow a 32 bit signed int value, which is nothing new. The concept of an array of 2^30+ bytes is what broke this code - recompile the code on a 64 bit platform and it just works, bug free (up until 2^63 arrays, but still..). The fact that 'nobody will ever need more than 2^30 (over 1 billion) array entries' isn't a bug in the software per se, just a bug in the specification.
I expect my artists to have spelling mistakes. I expect my coders to know the semantics of a language that they are using. If they don't I question their ability on the semantics of the language the project is coded in.
"Why do so many nerds seem to lean toward the Libertarian end of the spectrum?
This statement is fair enough, and with only a slight bias.
As a leftist, I know there are many people who share my ideological views, but have very little in common with me in terms of profession and non-work interests. Is the community's political bent directly tied to our higher than average economic success?"
So now he considers we're all libertarians who share left wing ideological views, with only the conclusion that it's a result of our wealth. It's a heavily weighted question, with such extreme bias as to make it easy to flame. Hence, flamebait.
So I shouldn't pick a fight with the Japanese? Sun Tzu wasn't Chinese you know.. but yes, I agree with your analysis that China only wishes sovereignty over China, and with ample opportunity to expand its borders has only moved on Tibet, which it considers (and pretty much is) historically Chinese. I wasn't implying China had military ambitions outside its own territory, just that the GGPs argument worked both ways.
What part of users do you not understand? Developers, system and database administrators, hell anyone with a passion for computing usually prefers a CLI, and can use a CLI more powerfully than a GUI. That's 1% of the market that is happy without a GUI. When I say 99% of the market, I don't mean the admins. I mean the people who access that database via their GUI frontend. Is it really so hard to conceive that only a tiny minority of computer users are willing to approach the level of technical savvy CLIs require?
You know, America has tested Chinas resolve for years by sending hackers into its systems, yet China isn't willing or capable to do anything. With hundreds of American military bases around the world and a mass of troops in Japan, Taiwan and the rest of the Pacific, they do not have the capability to move an inch outside their borders, let alone threaten the military might of America.
Then there was the the Amiga, the Atari, the Mac, GEM & Windows. Try amnesia from 1985. About a hundredth of todays computer user market grew up and are comfortable with a CLI, ie. 1% of users. For the other 99%, they are as user friendly as a BSOD.
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He did mention the societal definition of morality as separate from the religious one, and really the vast majority do subscribe to one or the other. I guess it could have been more inclusive of individually defined morality though.
I'd say my three biggest childhood influences towards science weren't books, but Doctor Who (constantly solving puzzles with science), arcade games (how do they work?) and Usborne computer books (that's how they work!), though sci-fi literature played a large and very important role.
Ban them all I say, or at least dim them 90% which would probably increase visibility and reduce glare.
I'm with you here - while the latest incarnation of the series has been uninspiring as a whole, there have been some superlative episodes that deserve all the recognition and awards they will get.
Well, it's not no numbers but they're definitely lower than before.
It truly is the kind of marketing money can't buy. You need talent, foresight and vision to pull off a stunt like this. I've always admired Apples marketing efforts - if only Commodore had that attitude my beloved Amiga might have survived. *sulks away*
It's an Australian production, it comes pre-stolen or what you foreigners call free. Click here to steal the episodes from their homepage.
'nuff said.
They're not destroyed, just wrapped up tightly in multiple layers of DRM.
Yeah, the hassle is that you need to install the 32 bit version. Good thing though, it runs as native code on the x86_64 architecture.
There was also a borg female child (or two?) in Voyager IIRC.
Yep, they sure dodged that bullet.
Buddhist fight! First one to contemplate the true meaning of victory wins!
Well, all that he found was that it is easy to overflow a 32 bit signed int value, which is nothing new. The concept of an array of 2^30+ bytes is what broke this code - recompile the code on a 64 bit platform and it just works, bug free (up until 2^63 arrays, but still..). The fact that 'nobody will ever need more than 2^30 (over 1 billion) array entries' isn't a bug in the software per se, just a bug in the specification.
I expect my artists to have spelling mistakes. I expect my coders to know the semantics of a language that they are using. If they don't I question their ability on the semantics of the language the project is coded in.
That might be pedantic, obsessive or megalomanic but in no way is it impractical.
This statement is fair enough, and with only a slight bias.
As a leftist, I know there are many people who share my ideological views, but have very little in common with me in terms of profession and non-work interests. Is the community's political bent directly tied to our higher than average economic success?"So now he considers we're all libertarians who share left wing ideological views, with only the conclusion that it's a result of our wealth. It's a heavily weighted question, with such extreme bias as to make it easy to flame. Hence, flamebait.
So I shouldn't pick a fight with the Japanese? Sun Tzu wasn't Chinese you know.. but yes, I agree with your analysis that China only wishes sovereignty over China, and with ample opportunity to expand its borders has only moved on Tibet, which it considers (and pretty much is) historically Chinese. I wasn't implying China had military ambitions outside its own territory, just that the GGPs argument worked both ways.
Its distinction is that it is spyware being hidden within a rootkit. It is both a rootkit and spyware, this isn't an either-or situation.
What part of users do you not understand? Developers, system and database administrators, hell anyone with a passion for computing usually prefers a CLI, and can use a CLI more powerfully than a GUI. That's 1% of the market that is happy without a GUI. When I say 99% of the market, I don't mean the admins. I mean the people who access that database via their GUI frontend. Is it really so hard to conceive that only a tiny minority of computer users are willing to approach the level of technical savvy CLIs require?
This is by far the best suggestion. There is no safer, more hassle free way to browse at that price point.
You know, America has tested Chinas resolve for years by sending hackers into its systems, yet China isn't willing or capable to do anything. With hundreds of American military bases around the world and a mass of troops in Japan, Taiwan and the rest of the Pacific, they do not have the capability to move an inch outside their borders, let alone threaten the military might of America.
Then there was the the Amiga, the Atari, the Mac, GEM & Windows. Try amnesia from 1985. About a hundredth of todays computer user market grew up and are comfortable with a CLI, ie. 1% of users. For the other 99%, they are as user friendly as a BSOD.
It paints all nerds as rich left wing libertarians. The flamebait tag is more than justified.
Bloody programmers, forever reinventing the wheel...