You aren't alone in that prediction. Biotech, I think, will be bigger and more broad-reaching than our little dot-com boom of yore.
But in the beginning it will look a lot like the dot-com era did. Nerds in startups trying to change the world who are paired with venture capitalists trying to get rich.
The one thing that will make the two different is the internet was never regulated. Biotech falls under pharmaceuticals/health care and thus has the FDA to contend with. The internet had no regulations at all.
It is kind of like the rated speed of a network card. Sure I've got a gigibit ethernet card. But unlike I assume most non-nerds, I *know* it doesn't move a giga*byte* per second--it moves a giga*bit* per second. So how many seconds does it take to move a giga*byte*? Well, I amost always convert GB to Gb by just multiplying by ten. Yeah there are 8 bits in a byte and I should be using 8, but there is all kinds of error correction and stuff that get shoved down the pipe too that I should be accounting for. Thus I figure 10 is good enough and plus the math is easy. With WiFi, I'd probably use 11 or 12 bits per byte. Basically, I dont care about the *exact* number, I just want an estimate.
Same with how big a file is. Unless I'm writing code and need to verify I'm writing out the *exact* number of bytes, I figure the numbers I see either are rounded to the hard drives block size, or they account for other stuff. Heck, even Explorer gives you like two file sizes on its property panel. Unless you add that cute little -h to df, most implementations will show you a number based on block size and *that* number depends on an environment variable.
In short, there are multiple standards and more most use cases we are looking for estimates to filesize or transfer speed. There are always hidden assumptions in most cases.
That all said, if I've got a file that contains the hex dump below, I better get back 6 bytes from my OS. ls -l shows the right number. coryking@localhost ~ $ hexdump -C testing 74 65 73 74 2e 0a |test..|
PS: Those weren't "junk" characters slashcode! When are you going to get a better editor--steal the one used by stackoverflow. You use a `` around something and it interprets it as code.
PPS: Just learned learned there was a hexdump utility. Cool!
That just feels like bad english at first. I knew it threw me for a loop.
I guess if you were teaching high school electronics (and you know, lived in a country that cared about such things) you'd try to sink it in by saying something like "The electrons want to get a positive attitude, so they move away from the negative". It isn't accurate, but it does help sink the flow direction home.
Yeah you gotta know what you are doing, but if you are in an environment dense enough that an open wireless connection will be mooched off of, even a competent person will not bother you. There is always somebody running an unsecured access point. Why waste time trying to mess with your laptops MAC address when you just connect to "linksys" two apartments over?
In the past, I would whitelist MAC addresses but I stopped for a far better reason than yours--they are a pain in the ass when you've got friends over. Much better to just have an easy to remember password.
Anybody that wants to get into *your* wireless network *specifically* will find a way--MAC whitelist or not. Anybody looking for an open access point to just get on the net will move on if you block based on MAC address even if they are a hard-core nerd.
In other words, security through obscurity does have merit. It weeds out all the casual passer bys. It does not weed out somebody who is targeting you specifically. Course, I'm not sure whitelists are security through obscurity:-)
I haven't fooled around much with Git, but from what I understand, unlike subversion it doesn't pollute the working copy with a bunch of trash. It is trivial to corrupt a subversion working copy and I find it one of the least stable aspects of an otherwise extremely stable system.
I understand the subversion dudes are working on moving their trash out of the working copy. Hopefully they can get that done soon! The several times some brain-dead script accidentally ran over my working directory and messed it up left me just short of dumping subversion right then and there.
I think it is a two developer shop, actually. I also tried MythTV for a year but the WAF factor was so low that it damn near tanked my HTPC project. Compared to the price of cable, the $100 or so for a SageTV license is a bargain.
Every damn cellphone manufacture in the world other than Apple, Palm, and Blackberry are coming out with Android based phones.
The iPhone and the Blackberry are the two phones that every single other manufacture seeks to emulate. They set the gold standard for cell phone interfaces.
It's an astonishing success to have taken over so quickly.
I don't know of a *single* person in my circle of friends who owns one. I dont know a single person who has ever mentioned wanting them, thinking about them, or seen them. In fact, outside of slashdot, I've never really heard about the Android. Pretty popular indeed.
The old system sucked too. It forced you into parking within lines, forced you to pay with change, let you pay for parking on sundays and holidays, and mis-counted time. The new one doens't let you pay on holidays, doesn't mis-count time, and takes a credit card. Oh, and it makes you walk three cars to get a ticket. Horror of horrors.
As a resident of Capitol Hill as well, the annoying things are actually when a block decided to go zoned and a block or two of "perma-parking" turns into "two hour after 1am except Zone 11". We lost a couple of blocks over here on Summit & Mercer to that. Since I'm a block away from said intersection, I can't get a zoned permit, but yet that was part of the radius I'd circle (unless I get really desperate and go all the way to like john street or even pike/pine).
Funny to watch people whine about this though. But they haven't lived until it takes them 30 minutes to find the most ghetto spot in a mile radius. Then they'd have to walk a whole mile (gasp!)
The only complaint I have about the meters themselves is they don't take dollars! You'd think they could, but they dont!
But seriously, nothing gets under my skin more then when people complain about walking. I equate it directly to a laziness and a lack of self-respect. It is respectable to walk. It is an insult to your body to complain about walking a fucking half-block.
Seattle has these meters and you can walk about three or four cars in any direction and find a meter. *Three or four cars* Gasp! I'm getting winded just typing about the horror!!!
It has everything to do with wasting time that you shouldn't have to spend to begin with.
Really? Your life is so busy that you can't waste the minute or so it takes to walk *half a block out of your way*?
And It has nothing to with fitness.
Actually, it does. No wonder people in this country are such fat-asses. They complain about walking half a damn block and try to rationalize it as "wasting time". Buddy... enjoy your life. If you live your life by such a hectic schedule, it won't be the obesity that does you in, it will be your little ticker deciding it doesn't like all this stress you are putting on it and subsequently deciding to malfunction--aka a heart attack.
And painted lines are either too small to parallel park your stupid Hummer, or a massive waste of space to park a smart car. Without lines, you can squeeze more cars into a block because people get right on each others ass--which is the way it should be. Everybody should get on each others ass, that way there is no wasted space.
Put in lines, and you waste an assload of space so some idiot can parallel park his boat-car.
No thanks. I'll keep my city streets free of painted lines and if they become painted, I (and most of my neighbors) will take the suggestion, but if there is enough space, we'll happily park our cars between the lines. After all, when it takes 15 or 25 minutes to find a space, if my car can fit, I'm parking it--fuck your lines.
PS: nothing makes me smile more than grown men who need their wife/girlfriend/friend to get out and guide them into *giant* spot. Buddy, I can park your car so there is only two inches between the guy in front and the guy behind and do it without tapping either bumper. It takes a while, but as I said, when you look for 25 minutes to find a spot--if I even think I can fit, fuck it, I'm going in!
After all that we just went through, what with the whole tanking of the international economy, what with the whole mess created by unregulated banks and traders creating a huge housing and credit bubble, you people still exist?
Pro-tip: anarcho-capitalism was on shaky ground before the whole melt-down thing. Now it is just silly to hold onto such ideas. Business needs to be overseen to some degree because often what is good for one individual or company turns out to be harmful to the system at large.
requiring hospitals to treat people who won't pay
And this my friends is the entire ideology distilled into one little phrase. I mean, fuck them, you got yours, right? Can't pay for their cancer? Fuck 'em. You got yours.
Asshole. No seriously, you might be a nice person, but harboring that value system makes you an asshole. Thankfully (hopefully?) your values are becoming the minority. Hell, five years ago, I would have been 100% with you buddy. But I've seen the light. Your line of thinking (and formerly mine) is not only inhumane, but honestly it is just logically unsound.
It may be bunk, but I dont think obama said it in an anti-gun way. I think he (actually Hillary) said it to intentionally kick up debate here in the US about our insane drug laws. Proof of my theory is in that none of the media spun his (and her) statements as "anti-gun" but as "it is time to revisit the war on drugs".
Thanks to nutcases like fox news and friends, it has just become more socially acceptable for a rapidly shinking party composed of racist fools to make a huge stink and get attention. We need more of the majority to call these idiots what they are--idiots, and dismiss their arguments entirely. It isn't worth arguing with racist idiots and we do a massive dis-service even thinking about their arguments. In short, we need more Barney Frank's who tell them to shove it.
Why shouldn't the tolerances be the same? Given a profit motive, somebody would find a way to make commercial spacecraft with an acceptable level of tolerance. It might have a few zeros less than NASA, but who cares?
Russia doesn't send up the expensive bricks we do. They send up slightly dinged mini-vans instead. We could learn a lot from them.
Being in space is all about perfection and control
No it isn't. It is because we make it all about perfection and control. The only reason for that is that it is too politically risky to screw up. The result?
We send over-engineered bricks into space that were built using over-priced, purpose-built hardware manufactured inside over-priced purpose-built factories. Nobody does manufacturing that way.
Give me a private company who wants to make space travel as cheap as possible. It might be a little more risky, but hell, so is driving a car. Could you imagine if NASA manufactured cars?
But the video itself is 1080p. That means the hardware has to deal with the 1080p video and then resize it to whatever the display resolution is. And guess what? Hardware is better at doing that kind of transform than software.
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You aren't alone in that prediction. Biotech, I think, will be bigger and more broad-reaching than our little dot-com boom of yore.
But in the beginning it will look a lot like the dot-com era did. Nerds in startups trying to change the world who are paired with venture capitalists trying to get rich.
The one thing that will make the two different is the internet was never regulated. Biotech falls under pharmaceuticals/health care and thus has the FDA to contend with. The internet had no regulations at all.
It is kind of like the rated speed of a network card. Sure I've got a gigibit ethernet card. But unlike I assume most non-nerds, I *know* it doesn't move a giga*byte* per second--it moves a giga*bit* per second. So how many seconds does it take to move a giga*byte*? Well, I amost always convert GB to Gb by just multiplying by ten. Yeah there are 8 bits in a byte and I should be using 8, but there is all kinds of error correction and stuff that get shoved down the pipe too that I should be accounting for. Thus I figure 10 is good enough and plus the math is easy. With WiFi, I'd probably use 11 or 12 bits per byte. Basically, I dont care about the *exact* number, I just want an estimate.
Same with how big a file is. Unless I'm writing code and need to verify I'm writing out the *exact* number of bytes, I figure the numbers I see either are rounded to the hard drives block size, or they account for other stuff. Heck, even Explorer gives you like two file sizes on its property panel. Unless you add that cute little -h to df, most implementations will show you a number based on block size and *that* number depends on an environment variable.
In short, there are multiple standards and more most use cases we are looking for estimates to filesize or transfer speed. There are always hidden assumptions in most cases.
That all said, if I've got a file that contains the hex dump below, I better get back 6 bytes from my OS. ls -l shows the right number.
coryking@localhost ~ $ hexdump -C testing
74 65 73 74 2e 0a |test..|
PS: Those weren't "junk" characters slashcode! When are you going to get a better editor--steal the one used by stackoverflow. You use a `` around something and it interprets it as code.
PPS: Just learned learned there was a hexdump utility. Cool!
That just feels like bad english at first. I knew it threw me for a loop.
I guess if you were teaching high school electronics (and you know, lived in a country that cared about such things) you'd try to sink it in by saying something like "The electrons want to get a positive attitude, so they move away from the negative". It isn't accurate, but it does help sink the flow direction home.
Yeah you gotta know what you are doing, but if you are in an environment dense enough that an open wireless connection will be mooched off of, even a competent person will not bother you. There is always somebody running an unsecured access point. Why waste time trying to mess with your laptops MAC address when you just connect to "linksys" two apartments over?
In the past, I would whitelist MAC addresses but I stopped for a far better reason than yours--they are a pain in the ass when you've got friends over. Much better to just have an easy to remember password.
Anybody that wants to get into *your* wireless network *specifically* will find a way--MAC whitelist or not. Anybody looking for an open access point to just get on the net will move on if you block based on MAC address even if they are a hard-core nerd.
In other words, security through obscurity does have merit. It weeds out all the casual passer bys. It does not weed out somebody who is targeting you specifically. Course, I'm not sure whitelists are security through obscurity :-)
The price is right only if your time is free. The price of the entire adobe suite is less than a few days of billable work.
The rest of us aren't going to change our entire windowing system because of one ill behaved program.
I haven't fooled around much with Git, but from what I understand, unlike subversion it doesn't pollute the working copy with a bunch of trash. It is trivial to corrupt a subversion working copy and I find it one of the least stable aspects of an otherwise extremely stable system.
I understand the subversion dudes are working on moving their trash out of the working copy. Hopefully they can get that done soon! The several times some brain-dead script accidentally ran over my working directory and messed it up left me just short of dumping subversion right then and there.
I think it is a two developer shop, actually. I also tried MythTV for a year but the WAF factor was so low that it damn near tanked my HTPC project. Compared to the price of cable, the $100 or so for a SageTV license is a bargain.
The iPhone and the Blackberry are the two phones that every single other manufacture seeks to emulate. They set the gold standard for cell phone interfaces.
I don't know of a *single* person in my circle of friends who owns one. I dont know a single person who has ever mentioned wanting them, thinking about them, or seen them. In fact, outside of slashdot, I've never really heard about the Android. Pretty popular indeed.
The old system sucked too. It forced you into parking within lines, forced you to pay with change, let you pay for parking on sundays and holidays, and mis-counted time. The new one doens't let you pay on holidays, doesn't mis-count time, and takes a credit card. Oh, and it makes you walk three cars to get a ticket. Horror of horrors.
That is just part of life. If you've lived in an urban area long enough, your front and rear license plates aren't exactly "straight" anymore.
As a resident of Capitol Hill as well, the annoying things are actually when a block decided to go zoned and a block or two of "perma-parking" turns into "two hour after 1am except Zone 11". We lost a couple of blocks over here on Summit & Mercer to that. Since I'm a block away from said intersection, I can't get a zoned permit, but yet that was part of the radius I'd circle (unless I get really desperate and go all the way to like john street or even pike/pine).
Funny to watch people whine about this though. But they haven't lived until it takes them 30 minutes to find the most ghetto spot in a mile radius. Then they'd have to walk a whole mile (gasp!)
The only complaint I have about the meters themselves is they don't take dollars! You'd think they could, but they dont!
But seriously, nothing gets under my skin more then when people complain about walking. I equate it directly to a laziness and a lack of self-respect. It is respectable to walk. It is an insult to your body to complain about walking a fucking half-block.
Seattle has these meters and you can walk about three or four cars in any direction and find a meter. *Three or four cars* Gasp! I'm getting winded just typing about the horror!!!
Wow.
It has everything to do with wasting time that you shouldn't have to spend to begin with.
Really? Your life is so busy that you can't waste the minute or so it takes to walk *half a block out of your way*?
Actually, it does. No wonder people in this country are such fat-asses. They complain about walking half a damn block and try to rationalize it as "wasting time". Buddy... enjoy your life. If you live your life by such a hectic schedule, it won't be the obesity that does you in, it will be your little ticker deciding it doesn't like all this stress you are putting on it and subsequently deciding to malfunction--aka a heart attack.
Sheesh. One half block.
And painted lines are either too small to parallel park your stupid Hummer, or a massive waste of space to park a smart car. Without lines, you can squeeze more cars into a block because people get right on each others ass--which is the way it should be. Everybody should get on each others ass, that way there is no wasted space.
Put in lines, and you waste an assload of space so some idiot can parallel park his boat-car.
No thanks. I'll keep my city streets free of painted lines and if they become painted, I (and most of my neighbors) will take the suggestion, but if there is enough space, we'll happily park our cars between the lines. After all, when it takes 15 or 25 minutes to find a space, if my car can fit, I'm parking it--fuck your lines.
PS: nothing makes me smile more than grown men who need their wife/girlfriend/friend to get out and guide them into *giant* spot. Buddy, I can park your car so there is only two inches between the guy in front and the guy behind and do it without tapping either bumper. It takes a while, but as I said, when you look for 25 minutes to find a spot--if I even think I can fit, fuck it, I'm going in!
But they don't take dollar bills--only change. Personally, I think a meter needs to take the whole gamut of payment options (except checks, duh).
Indeed. Bike, walk or use public transit. Driving to work is for chumps.
After all that we just went through, what with the whole tanking of the international economy, what with the whole mess created by unregulated banks and traders creating a huge housing and credit bubble, you people still exist?
Pro-tip: anarcho-capitalism was on shaky ground before the whole melt-down thing. Now it is just silly to hold onto such ideas. Business needs to be overseen to some degree because often what is good for one individual or company turns out to be harmful to the system at large.
And this my friends is the entire ideology distilled into one little phrase. I mean, fuck them, you got yours, right? Can't pay for their cancer? Fuck 'em. You got yours.
Asshole. No seriously, you might be a nice person, but harboring that value system makes you an asshole. Thankfully (hopefully?) your values are becoming the minority. Hell, five years ago, I would have been 100% with you buddy. But I've seen the light. Your line of thinking (and formerly mine) is not only inhumane, but honestly it is just logically unsound.
Yeah, but of those brands, which one are you driving? (hint: you most likely aren't) :-)
It may be bunk, but I dont think obama said it in an anti-gun way. I think he (actually Hillary) said it to intentionally kick up debate here in the US about our insane drug laws. Proof of my theory is in that none of the media spun his (and her) statements as "anti-gun" but as "it is time to revisit the war on drugs".
Thanks to nutcases like fox news and friends, it has just become more socially acceptable for a rapidly shinking party composed of racist fools to make a huge stink and get attention. We need more of the majority to call these idiots what they are--idiots, and dismiss their arguments entirely. It isn't worth arguing with racist idiots and we do a massive dis-service even thinking about their arguments. In short, we need more Barney Frank's who tell them to shove it.
Why shouldn't the tolerances be the same? Given a profit motive, somebody would find a way to make commercial spacecraft with an acceptable level of tolerance. It might have a few zeros less than NASA, but who cares?
Russia doesn't send up the expensive bricks we do. They send up slightly dinged mini-vans instead. We could learn a lot from them.
No it isn't. It is because we make it all about perfection and control. The only reason for that is that it is too politically risky to screw up. The result?
We send over-engineered bricks into space that were built using over-priced, purpose-built hardware manufactured inside over-priced purpose-built factories. Nobody does manufacturing that way.
Give me a private company who wants to make space travel as cheap as possible. It might be a little more risky, but hell, so is driving a car. Could you imagine if NASA manufactured cars?
But the video itself is 1080p. That means the hardware has to deal with the 1080p video and then resize it to whatever the display resolution is. And guess what? Hardware is better at doing that kind of transform than software.
Sorry for posting on something this old, but you have inspired me to make a ghetto irc client just to learn a bit more about socket programming :-)
awesome!