Personally, I think that living beings and the universe form a symbiotic relationship. We can't exist without a universe, equally, a universe without an observer might as well not exist. By this logic, it makes sense that a universe that wants to exist needs to creates observers in addition to itself.
Well, we are surrounded by matter, and matter is energy. If we could capture the energy in the matter our body excretes and sheds, you could probably power all your homes, vehicles and appliances from that, easily.
How do you fuck up that which is already fucked up?
Time travel in Star Trek is ridiculous. As is the holodeck, in which -everything- can be simulated. These two things make Star Trek unbearable to me.
Actually three things, I forgot about the "aliens" that all look like humans with a different makeup artist. Yes, I know the explanation and it sucks just as bad as time travel and the holodeck.
I wish he had chosen Jython. But then again, if he implemented it "the right way" using the Java scripting engine, Jython should be pluggable in no time.
I've had a good time playing through some click and point adventures, such as Machinarium, with my girlfriend. The important thing is for the game to have more puzzle elements that both can discuss and think about, and less "actiony" elements where only one can play while the other is looking. The old Lucas Arts adventures that you can play with ScummVM or Dosbox should work very well for this.
Or it might have to do with the fact that today's malware doesn't wreck your computer or popups a window "U w3R h4ck3d by h4xxOr!!!", but instead sits there silently, doing its job.
Exactly. Java isn't inherently unsafer than any other software or platform. The reason why so many exploits are being discovered is that Java is currently at the focus of the criminal malware underground. Being so widely deployed makes it a natural target, just as most viruses and trojans target Windows because it's the most widely distributed operating system. Nevertheless all these security issues are causing a lot of bad press to the Java brand. What Oracle needs to do is to reward findings of security holes with good, quick cash to attract and reward hackers and keep them away from the dark side.
Come on Oracle! You've got the cash and you're guided by marketing folks. It shouldn't be too hard for you to analyze the cost/benefit of a few 100K $ for a safe Java platform.
Yes, and yet, if you try to tell them american's that their health care system (or lack thereof) sucks and that Obama is trying to take a step into the right direction, they'll yell at you:
Our health care system is the BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
I've given up on trying to discuss with Americans about the problems in their society. It's aggravating just how clueless most of them are.
The last I heard on this report was that both children were delivered to an Iraqi hospital, the girl with a severe belly wound, the boy with a severe wound to the head and torso. Their chances of survival sounded slim at best. Maybe you are right and they might actually have survived, I don't have the time to follow up on this at the moment. Even if they did survive, with wounds like that and the father gone, their chances in Iraqi society look dim. Their lives have been destroyed.
The most critical moment in the linked video is not the reporter (?) being killed, but the passerby in a van with his children inside that is attempting to rescue wounded people lying on the ground. He and his children are killed for his efforts. This is a war crime.
There's a difference, but remember that many people back then were still convinced the world was flat, especially among the common, uneducated folk where I assume most sailors came from.
I was wondering about the same thing. But maybe some people are just incredibly ambitious (in the sense of acquiring honor & fame) to be genuinely OK with sacrificing their lives without otherwise being bonkers.
In 1492, some people would have called Columbus' voyage a suicide mission, yet obviously enough people could be found to man three ships.
The sun is expanding and will eventually boil our oceans away before engulfing the planet entirely. You mustn't always see things from your paranoid conservative point of view where every comment involving science is out to get you.
Maybe bunny.hop() simply increments an internal hop counter that is written to a file when the program terminates... I know I could have been more specific and mentioned that the compiler can build a dependency and visibility tree on shared data to plan an optimal parallel execution schedule for blocks of unrelated processes at varying granularity... but the simplicity was intentional.
Imagine you have a for-loop that calls the method 'hop' on every object 'bunny' in the list:
for every bunny in list {
bunny.hop() }
This is a simple, sequential process - bunny.hop() is called in order, for every bunny in the list, one after the other. Now suppose you have defined the data in your program in such a way that the compiler knows that method 'bunny.hop()' only ever accesses read-only data, or modifies local data that is unaccessible from anywhere else. The compiler now knows that the order of execution of the bunny hops doesn't really matter, as every call of bunny.hop() is independent from anything else. This frees the compiler to spawn threads or processes to call as many bunny.hop()'s as he likes at the same time, thereby processing through the list alot faster.
Another method, bunny.eat() actually performs write access on a shared object 'carrot' when called. If two bunnies eat the same carrot, the compiler can not perform automatic parallelization, as running two bunny.eat() methods could lead to invalid state (only one piece of carrot remaining, two bunnies eating 1 piece of carrot at the same time, results in -1 pieces of carrot). In this case, the compiler will take care to run two bunnies eating away at the same carrot sequentially. However if there are 2 bunnies eating the green carrot and another 2 bunnies eating the yellow carrot, these are again independent from each other and can again be paralleled.
The requirement to make this possible is to provide the compiler with information on what kind of data something is - is it an isolated hopping? Or a shared carrot? or a global Bunnygod that affects all bunnies?
Actually wikipedia lists both therman expansion and ice contribiution as the two main factors. On average, there's 1.6 km of ice packed on Antarctica. That's alot of ice.
Well, we didn't follow you into the collective clusterfuck that was Iraq... and we've been enjoying universal health care and other communist evils for some time now, so would you like to elaborate how exactly we are doing the US's bidding?
One of the most regretful moments of my life was when a few people from an organization I don't remember were visiting my school, claiming that rising sea levels are nothing more than myths and scare stories. I clearly remember the guy in front of the class being all smug, saying "I'm sure you've all seen the movie Water World. Well, that's just Hollywood because the sea is never going to rise. Ice floats on water and has actually a lower density than water, therefore, if it melts, the sea level is going to stay the same or actually -lower-....".
I was in agony, on the one hand I wanted to shove Antarctica, an entire continent packed with ice, full in his face, but my shyness, fear of being at the center of attention and making a scene by completely discrediting these highborn scientific authorities that had come to talk to us, made me stay quiet.
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It isn't all that special if we are meant to be.
Personally, I think that living beings and the universe form a symbiotic relationship. We can't exist without a universe, equally, a universe without an observer might as well not exist. By this logic, it makes sense that a universe that wants to exist needs to creates observers in addition to itself.
Well, we are surrounded by matter, and matter is energy. If we could capture the energy in the matter our body excretes and sheds, you could probably power all your homes, vehicles and appliances from that, easily.
In that case, Breaking Bad might be the best show you've yet to see.
Maybe you can't think of how the plot behind Portal might make a compelling movie. Doesn't mean everyone else shares your lack of imagination.
How do you fuck up that which is already fucked up?
Time travel in Star Trek is ridiculous. As is the holodeck, in which -everything- can be simulated. These two things make Star Trek unbearable to me.
Actually three things, I forgot about the "aliens" that all look like humans with a different makeup artist.
Yes, I know the explanation and it sucks just as bad as time travel and the holodeck.
I wish he had chosen Jython. But then again, if he implemented it "the right way" using the Java scripting engine, Jython should be pluggable in no time.
I've had a good time playing through some click and point adventures, such as Machinarium, with my girlfriend. The important thing is for the game to have more puzzle elements that both can discuss and think about, and less "actiony" elements where only one can play while the other is looking. The old Lucas Arts adventures that you can play with ScummVM or Dosbox should work very well for this.
Or it might have to do with the fact that today's malware doesn't wreck your computer or popups a window "U w3R h4ck3d by h4xxOr!!!", but instead sits there silently, doing its job.
Exactly.
Java isn't inherently unsafer than any other software or platform. The reason why so many exploits are being discovered is that Java is currently at the focus of the criminal malware underground. Being so widely deployed makes it a natural target, just as most viruses and trojans target Windows because it's the most widely distributed operating system. Nevertheless all these security issues are causing a lot of bad press to the Java brand. What Oracle needs to do is to reward findings of security holes with good, quick cash to attract and reward hackers and keep them away from the dark side.
Come on Oracle! You've got the cash and you're guided by marketing folks. It shouldn't be too hard for you to analyze the cost/benefit of a few 100K $ for a safe Java platform.
Yes, and yet, if you try to tell them american's that their health care system (or lack thereof) sucks and that Obama is trying to take a step into the right direction, they'll yell at you:
Our health care system is the BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!
I've given up on trying to discuss with Americans about the problems in their society. It's aggravating just how clueless most of them are.
The last I heard on this report was that both children were delivered to an Iraqi hospital, the girl with a severe belly wound, the boy with a severe wound to the head and torso. Their chances of survival sounded slim at best. Maybe you are right and they might actually have survived, I don't have the time to follow up on this at the moment. Even if they did survive, with wounds like that and the father gone, their chances in Iraqi society look dim. Their lives have been destroyed.
The most critical moment in the linked video is not the reporter (?) being killed, but the passerby in a van with his children inside that is attempting to rescue wounded people lying on the ground. He and his children are killed for his efforts. This is a war crime.
After some fact checking on the Internets, you appear to be correct. My bad.
There's a difference, but remember that many people back then were still convinced the world was flat, especially among the common, uneducated folk where I assume most sailors came from.
I was wondering about the same thing. But maybe some people are just incredibly ambitious (in the sense of acquiring honor & fame) to be genuinely OK with sacrificing their lives without otherwise being bonkers.
In 1492, some people would have called Columbus' voyage a suicide mission, yet obviously enough people could be found to man three ships.
The sun is expanding and will eventually boil our oceans away before engulfing the planet entirely. You mustn't always see things from your paranoid conservative point of view where every comment involving science is out to get you.
Who knows what we might find under Venuvian rock and dirt. We haven't really dug around there yet.
Runaway greenhouse effect. Basically the fate Earth will end up in.
Maybe bunny.hop() simply increments an internal hop counter that is written to a file when the program terminates... I know I could have been more specific and mentioned that the compiler can build a dependency and visibility tree on shared data to plan an optimal parallel execution schedule for blocks of unrelated processes at varying granularity... but the simplicity was intentional.
Imagine you have a for-loop that calls the method 'hop' on every object 'bunny' in the list:
for every bunny in list {
bunny.hop()
}
This is a simple, sequential process - bunny.hop() is called in order, for every bunny in the list, one after the other.
Now suppose you have defined the data in your program in such a way that the compiler knows that method 'bunny.hop()' only ever accesses read-only data, or modifies local data that is unaccessible from anywhere else. The compiler now knows that the order of execution of the bunny hops doesn't really matter, as every call of bunny.hop() is independent from anything else. This frees the compiler to spawn threads or processes to call as many bunny.hop()'s as he likes at the same time, thereby processing through the list alot faster.
Another method, bunny.eat() actually performs write access on a shared object 'carrot' when called. If two bunnies eat the same carrot, the compiler can not perform automatic parallelization, as running two bunny.eat() methods could lead to invalid state (only one piece of carrot remaining, two bunnies eating 1 piece of carrot at the same time, results in -1 pieces of carrot). In this case, the compiler will take care to run two bunnies eating away at the same carrot sequentially. However if there are 2 bunnies eating the green carrot and another 2 bunnies eating the yellow carrot, these are again independent from each other and can again be paralleled.
The requirement to make this possible is to provide the compiler with information on what kind of data something is - is it an isolated hopping? Or a shared carrot? or a global Bunnygod that affects all bunnies?
Actually wikipedia lists both therman expansion and ice contribiution as the two main factors. On average, there's 1.6 km of ice packed on Antarctica. That's alot of ice.
I'd also be very interested to know, but this was in 1995 or 1996 in South Africa, and now I live in Europe, so I don't think I'll ever find out.
Well, we didn't follow you into the collective clusterfuck that was Iraq... and we've been enjoying universal health care and other communist evils for some time now, so would you like to elaborate how exactly we are doing the US's bidding?
One of the most regretful moments of my life was when a few people from an organization I don't remember were visiting my school, claiming that rising sea levels are nothing more than myths and scare stories. I clearly remember the guy in front of the class being all smug, saying "I'm sure you've all seen the movie Water World. Well, that's just Hollywood because the sea is never going to rise. Ice floats on water and has actually a lower density than water, therefore, if it melts, the sea level is going to stay the same or actually -lower-....".
I was in agony, on the one hand I wanted to shove Antarctica, an entire continent packed with ice, full in his face, but my shyness, fear of being at the center of attention and making a scene by completely discrediting these highborn scientific authorities that had come to talk to us, made me stay quiet.
Man, how much I regret having stayed quiet.
+1 Trollslayer