Is religion so meaningless to you that would extend its definition to include any arbitrary group of people that may or may not have read books by a particular author? If you support education and read Green Eggs and Ham as a kid are you in the Church of Dr. Seuss? Should these "religions" get the same tax breaks we extend to more established religions?
I advocate that people read the Bibles they so proudly wave around. That doesn't mean I'm part of any sort of religion myself.
Does every car have to be general purpose? People don't complain that the Mini Cooper can't hold a family of 6 or haul their 5th wheel. They know it has a purpose and a niche and get over it. Anyone who can afford a Tesla probably has multiple vehicles as does the average middle class family. Now, brace yourself. It's possible to own an electric car and a gas car. wow. Don't give me this soviet russia 'one car for everyone and every purpose' bs. I want choices. A lot of families own at least one car that they never drive more than 300 miles in a single day. Some people will choose a car that never needs to go to the gas station, never needs oil changes, and works great for all their local commuting.
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology
Next time try reading up on it instead. Some people assumed with all the talk of new technology that by the year 2000 we'd all be driving flying cars and we'd have colonies on the moon...
The summary makes this sound like a recent discovery but this has been known for some time. Also, it has more to do with cell aging than human aging. It's very important in cancer research since abnormal telomere activity is one of the factors in making cancer cells immortal (so to speak). They mention this in TFA. BTW, senescence is (naturally) programmed cell death:
Most normal cells do not divide frequently, therefore their chromosomes are not at risk of shortening and they do not require high telomerase activity. In contrast, cancer cells have the ability to divide infinitely and yet preserve their telomeres. How do they escape cellular senescence? One explanation became apparent with the finding that cancer cells often have increased telomerase activity. It was therefore proposed that cancer might be treated by eradicating telomerase. Several studies are underway in this area, including clinical trials evaluating vaccines directed against cells with elevated telomerase activity.
Every electric car, every bus rider, every bicycle, every carpooler means more oil where we really need it - in lorries and trains and ships and in suv's with kids. There's no rule saying we all have to use the same kind of fuel for our vehicles. The more diverse our transit system the less vulnerable we are to problems with any given fuel source.
Subsidies? The oil economy is heavily subsidized. Here in the US everything from our foreign policy to our infrastructure is using public money to support the status quo. Tax breaks? What did you think the tax credit for vehicles weighing over 6000lbs was? It's a tax break encouraging people to drive gas guzzlers. That's quite a rose colored glass house you've built for yourself.
It seems to me that there would have been people in the courtroom (*lawyers*cough*cough*) whose job it was to make sure the jury members had a grasp of the issues by the end of the trial... even if they would be promoting a biased point of view.
I'm genuinely curious to know if the people protesting activist judges would cite this an example of such. Any takers?
I've heard of this magic smoke. It's the stuff in the wires that makes electronics work. We know this is true because a device will stop working if the smoke leaks out.
He went like so many of the electronic devices we cherish. At the end of the device's life, when the smoke clears, all that's left is a non-functioning box to collect the dust and some damn good memories.
Well done. My sentiments to those left in the away team. Live long and prosper:)
I would rather say you go for the most cost effective improvements first. I assume you mean to go after the low hanging fruit first. There's no point wasting time on optimizations that don't give decent returns for your dollar. Even if they're cheap they're still a waste of money. It may well be possible to spend less on one expensive but effective optimization rather than implementing a bunch of cheap but ineffective optimizations - even if they both yield the same net improvement.
That's not a very good option and I don't know of anyone proposing that.
That wasn't the case when they acquired their nuclear weapons, was it?
They were both on our side at the end of WW2, but we missed an opportunity to keep it that way.
India and Pakistan are examples of countries where we could not stop it
There was a recent promise from the US to share nuclear technology with India even though they haven't signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Selectively rewarding countries that flaunt the "rules" is setting a bad example. We didn't even ask in return for India to crack down on the heroine trade with Afghanistan that helps fund the Taliban.
Nations need to know that there are more benefits to being a productive member of the world community instead of wasting resources acquiring nukes. If we could ever regain the moral high ground we might actually convince certain countries that we really do want a peaceful productive world. Every time we abuse our position to manipulate a country or use our nukes as a bargaining chip, we show other countries that there are a lot of benefits to playing dirty.
Mathematics programs also tends to be in the college of science. Neither CS nor math are natural sciences. So what?
There's a lot of bad names out there. ACM stands for the Association of Computing Machinery. Get over it.
You don't need to study *nix to learn about RAM or chip architecture or bandwidth or SI prefixes or the difference between MB and MiB. Actually, *nix systems are not the best choice for teaching the importance of antivirus software;)
Chemistry actually suits your point much better. If you only study Monsanto products in a chemistry program you probably won't be suited to be anything other than a Monsanto salesman.
Look, I use *nix systems for my personal systems and servers. I went to a school where the vast majority of the faculty were *nix guys. But I still think that if you got a good education you'll be able to teach yourself *nix or VMS or Windows or any other system that comes your way.
Put down the pitchfork. Just yelling that everyone has to do things the *nix way isn't convincing anyone and it's perpetuating the stereotype that all *nix people are zealots.
Dude you seem very confused. China and Russia are friends of ours. China in particular happens to be one of our biggest trading partners and they have substantial investments in the US. We'd like to improve relations with Russia but we can't seem to shake the cold war era rhetoric that keeps coming from certain cretins.
You say that it's ok for allies to have nukes but not ok for anyone to threaten our allies. But you gave India and Pakistan as examples? They acquired nukes to threaten each other so they're both allies and threatening our allies.
Do we allow
Since when does what we "allow" have much influence on whether or not a nation has nukes? Are you proposing another war with N. Korea to take away their nukes or do you just want to invade all the ornery countries capable of producing them?
When people at the office leave their systems unlocked we see a teachable moment. Choose from any number of good techniques and have some fun. Some good ones include changing the keyboard layout, installing keyloggers, switching their homepage to something horribly inappropriate, impersonating them on IM. Interestingly enough, most people learn fast after that.
whoa whoa whoa, simmer down hun-dude. nyugi. There's a broad spectrum of "quality" in software education and you can't just point to the technologies used to evaluate a school's program or its students. No four year program could possibly cover everything, so you could always say "Ha, you didn't learn xyz so you didn't get a good education!" It's better to see if they take the time to learn on their own because good programmers will keep learning even after they graduate. As for course material, I'm more interested in whether or not they understand the concepts that transcend technology. Even so, you can't just teach pseudo code for four years and expect to get a good programmer. It's better to learn how to code for one platform well than to just learn abstract concepts that you don't know how to apply anywhere. At the end of the day degrees don't matter much (except to people who don't know how else to evaluate a programmer). I've met Devry grads who were quite good and graduates of ivy league schools who didn't even understand algorithm complexity.
In your career you will meet many people who claim to be software experts but don't know $hi7. The only way to convince them that they don't know something is to teach it to them yourself. Unless you're planning to personally go educate the masses you'd better get used to it. It's better to worry about yourself and let them come around when they're ready.
It would be absolutely fine to ask the government to butt out if these companies hadn't been taking fat government subsidies to develop the infrastructure they need for those services. I think the government deserves to have a return (in the form of a competitive free market) on its investment. Giving select companies exclusive control over publicly funded projects means the government picked the winners instead of the free market.
Let me put it another way. If a government pays a company to build a bridge, does it mean that company should be able to charge whatever toll it wants for people to use it?
Public investment should be for the public good - not selective corporate welfare.
the.dot reference is also about reimplementing native code in a slower language/environment, not about comparing.net to java per se... especially since java predates.net by a good number of years...
i was hoping ppl would take this as a comment on general trends of late and not a technology specific attack... a glass house kinda thing...
Dude, car "interfaces" haven't changed very much in the last 100 years. It's still a wheel that you turn left and right, gas on the right, brake on the left, etc. If that modern car happened to be a stick shift he wouldn't have any trouble changing gears because they're essentially the same. It seems to me that the changes have been to make the cars work better or to add new features - not just because one year someone thought it would look more modern to put the shifter on the left and turn the steering wheel into a joystick. In fact they've proposed cars that you steer with a joystick and I think even you would have to admit that they haven't caught on.
Yes, please, for the love of FSM, update and modernize software and make any necessary changes. However, if the only reason you can give for moving everything around is because it looks cool, then I feel justified in saying that I prefer the old version. So pardon my bitching.
Incidentally, the new MS interface looks like something from a Mac got stuck in a blender and it works about as well. I still say it sucks even when not comparing it to the "old" interfaces.
Aw crepe, if these become commonplace M$ might rewrite Windows using dot net, and of course Sun would write a knockoff in Java. By then Linux will have 8 different windowing toolkits necessary for the basic apps and 29 sound systems. Oh well, I guess it's back to 0x7C00...
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Is religion so meaningless to you that would extend its definition to include any arbitrary group of people that may or may not have read books by a particular author? If you support education and read Green Eggs and Ham as a kid are you in the Church of Dr. Seuss? Should these "religions" get the same tax breaks we extend to more established religions? I advocate that people read the Bibles they so proudly wave around. That doesn't mean I'm part of any sort of religion myself.
the operating system allows you to write software badly unlike Mac or Linux
Linux has a lot of good features but I don't know that that it would prevent you from writing bad code...
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology
Next time try reading up on it instead. Some people assumed with all the talk of new technology that by the year 2000 we'd all be driving flying cars and we'd have colonies on the moon...
sorry, I gave the definition of apoptosis for senescence
Most normal cells do not divide frequently, therefore their chromosomes are not at risk of shortening and they do not require high telomerase activity. In contrast, cancer cells have the ability to divide infinitely and yet preserve their telomeres. How do they escape cellular senescence? One explanation became apparent with the finding that cancer cells often have increased telomerase activity. It was therefore proposed that cancer might be treated by eradicating telomerase. Several studies are underway in this area, including clinical trials evaluating vaccines directed against cells with elevated telomerase activity.
pretty sure you meant 'veil'
not to be pedantic or anything
Every electric car, every bus rider, every bicycle, every carpooler means more oil where we really need it - in lorries and trains and ships and in suv's with kids. There's no rule saying we all have to use the same kind of fuel for our vehicles. The more diverse our transit system the less vulnerable we are to problems with any given fuel source.
Subsidies? The oil economy is heavily subsidized. Here in the US everything from our foreign policy to our infrastructure is using public money to support the status quo. Tax breaks? What did you think the tax credit for vehicles weighing over 6000lbs was? It's a tax break encouraging people to drive gas guzzlers. That's quite a rose colored glass house you've built for yourself.
It seems to me that there would have been people in the courtroom (*lawyers*cough*cough*) whose job it was to make sure the jury members had a grasp of the issues by the end of the trial... even if they would be promoting a biased point of view.
I'm genuinely curious to know if the people protesting activist judges would cite this an example of such. Any takers?
Wow, I hope she wasn't planning to go back to school. Her options would be limited with all those colleges that only require a pulse...
I've heard of this magic smoke. It's the stuff in the wires that makes electronics work. We know this is true because a device will stop working if the smoke leaks out.
He went like so many of the electronic devices we cherish. At the end of the device's life, when the smoke clears, all that's left is a non-functioning box to collect the dust and some damn good memories.
:)
Well done. My sentiments to those left in the away team. Live long and prosper
you go for the cheapest source first
I would rather say you go for the most cost effective improvements first. I assume you mean to go after the low hanging fruit first. There's no point wasting time on optimizations that don't give decent returns for your dollar. Even if they're cheap they're still a waste of money. It may well be possible to spend less on one expensive but effective optimization rather than implementing a bunch of cheap but ineffective optimizations - even if they both yield the same net improvement.
ah, the only hard part is trying not to laugh too soon and give it away :)
shouldn't try
That's not a very good option and I don't know of anyone proposing that.
That wasn't the case when they acquired their nuclear weapons, was it?
They were both on our side at the end of WW2, but we missed an opportunity to keep it that way.
India and Pakistan are examples of countries where we could not stop it
There was a recent promise from the US to share nuclear technology with India even though they haven't signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Selectively rewarding countries that flaunt the "rules" is setting a bad example. We didn't even ask in return for India to crack down on the heroine trade with Afghanistan that helps fund the Taliban.
Nations need to know that there are more benefits to being a productive member of the world community instead of wasting resources acquiring nukes. If we could ever regain the moral high ground we might actually convince certain countries that we really do want a peaceful productive world. Every time we abuse our position to manipulate a country or use our nukes as a bargaining chip, we show other countries that there are a lot of benefits to playing dirty.
Mathematics programs also tends to be in the college of science. Neither CS nor math are natural sciences. So what?
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There's a lot of bad names out there. ACM stands for the Association of Computing Machinery. Get over it.
You don't need to study *nix to learn about RAM or chip architecture or bandwidth or SI prefixes or the difference between MB and MiB. Actually, *nix systems are not the best choice for teaching the importance of antivirus software
Chemistry actually suits your point much better. If you only study Monsanto products in a chemistry program you probably won't be suited to be anything other than a Monsanto salesman.
Look, I use *nix systems for my personal systems and servers. I went to a school where the vast majority of the faculty were *nix guys. But I still think that if you got a good education you'll be able to teach yourself *nix or VMS or Windows or any other system that comes your way.
Put down the pitchfork. Just yelling that everyone has to do things the *nix way isn't convincing anyone and it's perpetuating the stereotype that all *nix people are zealots.
You say that it's ok for allies to have nukes but not ok for anyone to threaten our allies. But you gave India and Pakistan as examples? They acquired nukes to threaten each other so they're both allies and threatening our allies.
Do we allow
Since when does what we "allow" have much influence on whether or not a nation has nukes? Are you proposing another war with N. Korea to take away their nukes or do you just want to invade all the ornery countries capable of producing them?
When people at the office leave their systems unlocked we see a teachable moment. Choose from any number of good techniques and have some fun. Some good ones include changing the keyboard layout, installing keyloggers, switching their homepage to something horribly inappropriate, impersonating them on IM. Interestingly enough, most people learn fast after that.
whoa whoa whoa, simmer down hun-dude. nyugi. There's a broad spectrum of "quality" in software education and you can't just point to the technologies used to evaluate a school's program or its students. No four year program could possibly cover everything, so you could always say "Ha, you didn't learn xyz so you didn't get a good education!" It's better to see if they take the time to learn on their own because good programmers will keep learning even after they graduate. As for course material, I'm more interested in whether or not they understand the concepts that transcend technology. Even so, you can't just teach pseudo code for four years and expect to get a good programmer. It's better to learn how to code for one platform well than to just learn abstract concepts that you don't know how to apply anywhere. At the end of the day degrees don't matter much (except to people who don't know how else to evaluate a programmer). I've met Devry grads who were quite good and graduates of ivy league schools who didn't even understand algorithm complexity.
In your career you will meet many people who claim to be software experts but don't know $hi7. The only way to convince them that they don't know something is to teach it to them yourself. Unless you're planning to personally go educate the masses you'd better get used to it. It's better to worry about yourself and let them come around when they're ready.
now they're even more rare. smile
It would be absolutely fine to ask the government to butt out if these companies hadn't been taking fat government subsidies to develop the infrastructure they need for those services. I think the government deserves to have a return (in the form of a competitive free market) on its investment. Giving select companies exclusive control over publicly funded projects means the government picked the winners instead of the free market.
Let me put it another way. If a government pays a company to build a bridge, does it mean that company should be able to charge whatever toll it wants for people to use it?
Public investment should be for the public good - not selective corporate welfare.
open office...
.dot reference is also about reimplementing native code in a slower language/environment, not about comparing .net to java per se... especially since java predates .net by a good number of years...
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i was hoping ppl would take this as a comment on general trends of late and not a technology specific attack... a glass house kinda thing...
Dude, car "interfaces" haven't changed very much in the last 100 years. It's still a wheel that you turn left and right, gas on the right, brake on the left, etc. If that modern car happened to be a stick shift he wouldn't have any trouble changing gears because they're essentially the same. It seems to me that the changes have been to make the cars work better or to add new features - not just because one year someone thought it would look more modern to put the shifter on the left and turn the steering wheel into a joystick. In fact they've proposed cars that you steer with a joystick and I think even you would have to admit that they haven't caught on.
Yes, please, for the love of FSM, update and modernize software and make any necessary changes. However, if the only reason you can give for moving everything around is because it looks cool, then I feel justified in saying that I prefer the old version. So pardon my bitching.
Incidentally, the new MS interface looks like something from a Mac got stuck in a blender and it works about as well. I still say it sucks even when not comparing it to the "old" interfaces.
Which weed, as they put it, are the Alabamans waging war on? The cogongrass or the environmentalists?
Aw crepe, if these become commonplace M$ might rewrite Windows using dot net, and of course Sun would write a knockoff in Java. By then Linux will have 8 different windowing toolkits necessary for the basic apps and 29 sound systems. Oh well, I guess it's back to 0x7C00...
true. reminds me of the old barbie line... i'd like that good too if i were made of plastic