They have not yet released version 1.0. They didn't let reviewers at their media event actually use it. They're already announcing version 2.0. Me thinks v1.0 was the alpha to test the waters and they found serious problems.
Identifying people like this, and it does identify people, should be very helpful for kidnappers and terrorists. Now they'll be able to setup automated booby traps.
Then I would suggest having a Wi-Fi connection to another RAID redundancy drive set in a building separate from your house. This could be done with Ethernet cable or such instead but I like the Wi-Fi because it leaves no wires to pickup lightning blasts. We get a lot of lightning. Wi-Fi is essentially immune to the lightning in the real world test lab here on our mountain. Ethernet cabling not so even with tons of surge suppression. Of course, implement necessary encryption and security.
Then setup a remote backup program that copies changed files from the primary RAID drive set to the remote RAID drive set every night.
Then if you really care enough to do the very best, setup a third drive that gets backed up to weekly. And if you're paranoid, enough, then another for monthly backups. Then yearly. Then century...
All, of course, surrounded by high tensile electrified fencing and 300 Ninja guard pigs.
You say "Record Temperatures" but what you FAIL to mention is that the record is only by 0.2ÂF and the previous date is during the 1936 dust bowl. That's a mere two tenths of a degree which is well within the margin of error.
"For every success story from NASA like Curiosity, there is a failure story"
Yes, and if you never try you'll never fail. Bravo for you.
Those of us who explore and push the boundaries do have failures, learn (if we live) and try again. Failure is the norm. Success is the wonderful exception.
I've been telling my bank, and other web sites, for years that the security questions are fundamentally insecure because they have obvious researchable answers. My solution is I answer them with random possibly (probably) incorrect information. Just treat them like another password.
Q: "Who was your your boyfriend?" A: "Sticky iron bars in 4 feet of concrete"
Q: "What was your first car?" A: "Kurk rocks wood in a dirty green dust cloud of 51 chefs."
Q: "Which branch do you bank at?" A: "At a stupid place filled with morons."
Oh, but that last one was obvious and correct. Well, throw one in now and again to keep the hackers guessing.
Just because they gave an answer doesn't mean they got the math right or, more importantly, even asked the right question. I'm incline to go with Bruce on this one.:)
"An anonymous reader writes with a question that makes a good follow-on to the claim that mathematics requirements in U.S. schools unnecessarily limit students' educational choices"
That is a bit of a miss-representation of the previous discussion. The question before was about Algebra. Specifically many non-technical people rarely or never use Algebra in the real world. Forcing them to learn multiple years of Algebra is a waste for them.
A simple intro would be enough and then those who are interested and going into fields where it is needed, such as programming, engineering, biology, chemistry, statistics, etc, can then go deeper into the math.
However, there is a lot of math below Algebra. For my wife Algebra was a waste. But she uses addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and percentages on a daily basis. Basic math is key for almost everyone. Algebra for a much more limited group. Calculus for us very few who need or enjoy it.
Learn what you enjoy. Enjoy what you learn. Pick a field of endeavor you'll enjoy. It all flows together and that makes life more pleasant. Don't be a Dilbert.
"getting traction for a new programming language was next to impossible. First, one needed a textbook publishing deal. Then, one needed a critical mass of CS profs across the country to convince their departments that your language was worth teaching at the university level. And after that, one still needed a critical mass of students to agree it was worth spending their time and tuition to learn your language."
That is not the way it was. I've been programming professionally since the 1970's. We didn't go to school to learn a programming language. If you took classes it was to learn techniques and concepts. Picking up a new language is a trivial thing. Taking a course on a language does not make you a programmer. Language is merely a way to communicate with the computer. New languages and development environments come and go. Good programmers persist and pickup new languages easily to do the tasks needed.
It isn't the 1ÂC change that is the problem. It is the bad habitat practices (cities, suburbs, huge parking lots), bad transportation practices (too much driving, too much shipping) and the bad agricultural practices (mono-cropping, feedlots, grain feeding, over production, poor choices of plant species), etc.
Most of this is caused by government subsidization of bad decisions. Stop these subsidies and there will be a lot of self-correction. Yes, people will complain about higher gasoline prices, loss of home mortgage deductible, higher food prices, etc but paying the real cost will help them make better decisions.
All of this is reverse-able, correctable, if you have the will to do better. How much more are you willing to pay at the pump, pay for locally pastured meats, pay for locally grown foods, pay for locally produced products, pay for longer lasting goods, skip the cheap plastics, do more yourself, stop traveling so much? You can make a difference. Act now.
Lab meat is the worst of all possibilities. It's worst than factory farming, CAFOs, etc. Pour on the chemicals!
The beauty of meat is that pastured livestock can turn foods we can't eat into high quality protein and lipids, e.g., meat and fat. This has a far greater nutritional density than vegetables, grains or fruit.
The whole greenhouse gasses argument is fictious and specious. The FAO/UN retracted their claims and study due to all the flaws in the paper. Buy locally raised pasture meat and enjoy it.
"Admit it. You are in a love-hate relationship with Firefox"
Uh... no. What a strange idea. It's an inanimate non-object. I don't waste hate on it and I don't love it either. It's a tool that works for what it does. I don't tend to use it unless my usual browser, Safari, has trouble with a web site. But there is no love or hate lost.
No, please, please go learn about this before you talk more. It's really interesting stuff. You can do micro-hydro with high-head/low-volume, low-head/high-volume, in-stream, low-output, etc. Lots of options. It has nothing to do with what you're thinking. Micro-hydro can be small enough for a single home off of a spring. No fish were harmed in the making of this. Go learn more about micro-hydro rather than spurting miss-information. Micro-hydro is very environmental friendly.
The real point you're missing is that each technology has its place. That was my point.
Micro-hydro does not require impounding rivers, destroy spawning habitat or existing fish populations, flood wildlife habitat, diminish water quality, etc. Please educate yourself.
Additionally, solar is not without its cost. Solar covers vast amounts of land and is simply not feasible in many climates due to too much cloud cover and snow cover. Please be sure to come shovel off the 14' of snow on the collectors if you think otherwise.
"A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory finds that solar holds more potential to generate more power (PDF) than any other clean energy source."
and this:
"The NREL broke things down into four groups: urban and rural utility-scale photovoltaics (giant solar plants, basically) as well as rooftop solar and concentrated mirror arrays."
don't jive. They're leaving out a lot of other technologies such as wind, hydroelectric (micro through major), wood (which is very clean), etc. Solar's great but it's not enough to do everything everywhere. Quite frankly, I don't want to be dependent on far away supplies. Remember OPEC? I like harvesting my own energy as much as possible right here in my backyard.
No, not at all. She simply doesn't have things she needs to use algebra for. I know of plenty of people who don't need or use algebra, some who can do algebra quite well. This exact topic has come up for discussion among friends and many of them said they don't really use algebra in the real world, e.g., not school situations.
Those of us doing engineering and science tend to use algebra a lot making us have a math-centric view of the world. But a whole lot of people don't use math very much. Fortunately there is room for both.
I do think it is important to expose students to things such as algebra, history, writing, etc so they can learn the basic concepts and find out what they are good at and enjoy. What isn't necessary is to push everyone beyond the basics if they don't want it.
What some people seem to forget is just because you don't study something now doesn't mean you can't go back and learn it later. Life is learning, for most of us.
No, algebra isn't necessary. Many people get along just fine without it. My wife never uses it and says it was a waste of time to force feed to her in school. I on the other hand find algebra very easy as do all of our kids. My kids and I all use algebra on a daily for non-school work. My wife doesn't need it and it doesn't come natural to her. It comes natural to our sons, daughter and I and we use it all the time. Probably my wife would use it if it was easy for her but she also doesn't "need" it.
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"Used intelligently by a skilled programmer, Java can deliver great results"
Used intelligently by a skilled programmer, Fortran, Cobal and Z-80 can deliver great results.
Problem is missing ingredients. The first two.
They have not yet released version 1.0.
They didn't let reviewers at their media event actually use it.
They're already announcing version 2.0.
Me thinks v1.0 was the alpha to test the waters and they found serious problems.
Yes, thank you, Judge! Finally some good sense in this patent troll nonsense. Now to start forcing patent trolls to pay damages for their harassment.
Identifying people like this, and it does identify people, should be very helpful for kidnappers and terrorists. Now they'll be able to setup automated booby traps.
I would suggest storing the data on a RAID drive set for redundancy first of all. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
Then I would suggest having a Wi-Fi connection to another RAID redundancy drive set in a building separate from your house. This could be done with Ethernet cable or such instead but I like the Wi-Fi because it leaves no wires to pickup lightning blasts. We get a lot of lightning. Wi-Fi is essentially immune to the lightning in the real world test lab here on our mountain. Ethernet cabling not so even with tons of surge suppression. Of course, implement necessary encryption and security.
Then setup a remote backup program that copies changed files from the primary RAID drive set to the remote RAID drive set every night.
Then if you really care enough to do the very best, setup a third drive that gets backed up to weekly. And if you're paranoid, enough, then another for monthly backups. Then yearly. Then century...
All, of course, surrounded by high tensile electrified fencing and 300 Ninja guard pigs.
Suggestion: Actually find out about someone before you start name calling. It will teach you a lot.
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
You say "Record Temperatures" but what you FAIL to mention is that the record is only by 0.2ÂF and the previous date is during the 1936 dust bowl. That's a mere two tenths of a degree which is well within the margin of error.
Stop being an alarmist. Shame on you.
"For every success story from NASA like Curiosity, there is a failure story"
Yes, and if you never try you'll never fail. Bravo for you.
Those of us who explore and push the boundaries do have failures, learn (if we live) and try again. Failure is the norm. Success is the wonderful exception.
Global Warming to the rescue!
Melt those icebergs! Melt, melt, melt! You can do it!
And the rising flood will bring the water to the people! How handy!
What a perfect case study... Finally we have a controlled situation where we can answer that age old NRA vs Liberal question...
Did he turn into a raving lunatic and gun down people?
I've been telling my bank, and other web sites, for years that the security questions are fundamentally insecure because they have obvious researchable answers. My solution is I answer them with random possibly (probably) incorrect information. Just treat them like another password.
Q: "Who was your your boyfriend?"
A: "Sticky iron bars in 4 feet of concrete"
Q: "What was your first car?"
A: "Kurk rocks wood in a dirty green dust cloud of 51 chefs."
Q: "Which branch do you bank at?"
A: "At a stupid place filled with morons."
Oh, but that last one was obvious and correct. Well, throw one in now and again to keep the hackers guessing.
Just because they gave an answer doesn't mean they got the math right or, more importantly, even asked the right question. I'm incline to go with Bruce on this one. :)
In the big city.
"An anonymous reader writes with a question that makes a good follow-on to the claim that mathematics requirements in U.S. schools unnecessarily limit students' educational choices"
That is a bit of a miss-representation of the previous discussion. The question before was about Algebra. Specifically many non-technical people rarely or never use Algebra in the real world. Forcing them to learn multiple years of Algebra is a waste for them.
A simple intro would be enough and then those who are interested and going into fields where it is needed, such as programming, engineering, biology, chemistry, statistics, etc, can then go deeper into the math.
However, there is a lot of math below Algebra. For my wife Algebra was a waste. But she uses addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and percentages on a daily basis. Basic math is key for almost everyone. Algebra for a much more limited group. Calculus for us very few who need or enjoy it.
Learn what you enjoy. Enjoy what you learn. Pick a field of endeavor you'll enjoy. It all flows together and that makes life more pleasant. Don't be a Dilbert.
"getting traction for a new programming language was next to impossible. First, one needed a textbook publishing deal. Then, one needed a critical mass of CS profs across the country to convince their departments that your language was worth teaching at the university level. And after that, one still needed a critical mass of students to agree it was worth spending their time and tuition to learn your language."
That is not the way it was. I've been programming professionally since the 1970's. We didn't go to school to learn a programming language. If you took classes it was to learn techniques and concepts. Picking up a new language is a trivial thing. Taking a course on a language does not make you a programmer. Language is merely a way to communicate with the computer. New languages and development environments come and go. Good programmers persist and pickup new languages easily to do the tasks needed.
"Usually sci-fi provides adventure with happy endings for everyone"
Huh. Most of the books I read, "In the end everybody dies." Not many happy endings.
It isn't the 1ÂC change that is the problem. It is the bad habitat practices (cities, suburbs, huge parking lots), bad transportation practices (too much driving, too much shipping) and the bad agricultural practices (mono-cropping, feedlots, grain feeding, over production, poor choices of plant species), etc.
Most of this is caused by government subsidization of bad decisions. Stop these subsidies and there will be a lot of self-correction. Yes, people will complain about higher gasoline prices, loss of home mortgage deductible, higher food prices, etc but paying the real cost will help them make better decisions.
All of this is reverse-able, correctable, if you have the will to do better. How much more are you willing to pay at the pump, pay for locally pastured meats, pay for locally grown foods, pay for locally produced products, pay for longer lasting goods, skip the cheap plastics, do more yourself, stop traveling so much? You can make a difference. Act now.
Lab meat is the worst of all possibilities. It's worst than factory farming, CAFOs, etc. Pour on the chemicals!
The beauty of meat is that pastured livestock can turn foods we can't eat into high quality protein and lipids, e.g., meat and fat. This has a far greater nutritional density than vegetables, grains or fruit.
The whole greenhouse gasses argument is fictious and specious. The FAO/UN retracted their claims and study due to all the flaws in the paper. Buy locally raised pasture meat and enjoy it.
It's a joke... right?
"Admit it. You are in a love-hate relationship with Firefox"
Uh... no. What a strange idea. It's an inanimate non-object. I don't waste hate on it and I don't love it either. It's a tool that works for what it does. I don't tend to use it unless my usual browser, Safari, has trouble with a web site. But there is no love or hate lost.
No, please, please go learn about this before you talk more. It's really interesting stuff. You can do micro-hydro with high-head/low-volume, low-head/high-volume, in-stream, low-output, etc. Lots of options. It has nothing to do with what you're thinking. Micro-hydro can be small enough for a single home off of a spring. No fish were harmed in the making of this. Go learn more about micro-hydro rather than spurting miss-information. Micro-hydro is very environmental friendly.
The real point you're missing is that each technology has its place. That was my point.
Micro-hydro does not require impounding rivers, destroy spawning habitat or existing fish populations, flood wildlife habitat, diminish water quality, etc. Please educate yourself.
Additionally, solar is not without its cost. Solar covers vast amounts of land and is simply not feasible in many climates due to too much cloud cover and snow cover. Please be sure to come shovel off the 14' of snow on the collectors if you think otherwise.
This:
"A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory finds that solar holds more potential to generate more power (PDF) than any other clean energy source."
and this:
"The NREL broke things down into four groups: urban and rural utility-scale photovoltaics (giant solar plants, basically) as well as rooftop solar and concentrated mirror arrays."
don't jive. They're leaving out a lot of other technologies such as wind, hydroelectric (micro through major), wood (which is very clean), etc. Solar's great but it's not enough to do everything everywhere. Quite frankly, I don't want to be dependent on far away supplies. Remember OPEC? I like harvesting my own energy as much as possible right here in my backyard.
No, not at all. She simply doesn't have things she needs to use algebra for. I know of plenty of people who don't need or use algebra, some who can do algebra quite well. This exact topic has come up for discussion among friends and many of them said they don't really use algebra in the real world, e.g., not school situations.
Those of us doing engineering and science tend to use algebra a lot making us have a math-centric view of the world. But a whole lot of people don't use math very much. Fortunately there is room for both.
I do think it is important to expose students to things such as algebra, history, writing, etc so they can learn the basic concepts and find out what they are good at and enjoy. What isn't necessary is to push everyone beyond the basics if they don't want it.
What some people seem to forget is just because you don't study something now doesn't mean you can't go back and learn it later. Life is learning, for most of us.
No, algebra isn't necessary. Many people get along just fine without it. My wife never uses it and says it was a waste of time to force feed to her in school. I on the other hand find algebra very easy as do all of our kids. My kids and I all use algebra on a daily for non-school work. My wife doesn't need it and it doesn't come natural to her. It comes natural to our sons, daughter and I and we use it all the time. Probably my wife would use it if it was easy for her but she also doesn't "need" it.