If people in your group already love RoR, it's best to go with their expertise. Technically, there isn't enough difference to make it matter. Backends are virtually always in a different language than frontends (not that that's a good thing, but it shouldn't worry you too much).
To be clear, the problem is this. The sequencing (cheap now) produces a lot of strips of a few DNA elements. They are overlapping, and its unknown from which position they are from.
So the difficulty is to arrange those strips to reproduce the original DNA sequence. It is a NP-hard problem, no wonder Moore's law doesn't outrun that!
Its just not true that Firefox is losing "market share" (browser users). Just look at the data, Firefox isn't gaining or losing. I can imagine that the inflow of Firefox users from IE is similar to what it ever was, and that Firefox users are going to Chrome. Surely, there are also IE to Chrome converts, but may be a smaller fraction. It'd be interesting to see a flow analysis like they do after elections.
I think Mozilla is very happy with the stats, because the real news is that the IE usage went down to almost ~50%, and we have today a diversity of browser (engines). Diversity ensures that we don't drive into a dead end, and Mozilla paved the way for alternative browsers, pushing websites away from IE-only design, and making the new technologies we have today possible (CSS, everything beyond HTML4, fast JS) -- although we have to give Microsoft credit for inventing Ajax.
We all know technology works that way, but we doubt the law works that way. Bring some information to the table that you don't have to be physically in a country to break that countries laws. International law excluded, as it doesn't cover hacking (as far as I am aware of it).
The "two goldfish in a tank"-joke doesn't have a loser. I'd be really interested in a list of animals where humor has been observed, and how that manifests (or can be detected). To be genuine, it mustn't be something trained on (like most of dogs "humanoid" behaviour).
You also don't know anyone with a Facebook account, and no one you know knows anyone with a Facebook account, and so on?
The metric covers only Facebook, just as the Erdo"s metric covers only coauthorship of articles in scholarly journals and the Bacon metric covers only publicly exhibited feature films.
There should be a considerable bias in the estimate of an average degree of separation of 4.74. The people not on facebook are more loosely connected than those on facebook, so the average would increase. Also, the average used to be higher (in previous estimates on facebook), suggesting that the networking of existing people on facebook gets denser over time (you add/get to know friends of friends), while the overall number of people on facebook doesn't grow as fast anymore as it used to.
The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place.
I'd say it is an "explodey" place. Hell, there's a hydrogen bomb only eight light seconds away, and it's been exploding for over four billion years. Almost every twinkle in the night sky is a incredibly huge fusion explosion.
The street is an "explodey" [what is that word!?] place. There is a car 1 meter away, and it has been exploding oil for an hour now. Almost every noise you hear in a street is a powerful explosion.
There is no reason to make it sound so scary. It is an ensemble of continuous, small, explosions that amass to a continuous energy output (not "explodey").
In between ceizing all the power from the individual member states, and destroying all our economies by pumping the money into the bottomless pits of high interest, sometimes they do something right. Thanks EU:-)
Shall we also allow everyone to bring a bottle of water onto the airplane? There's a lot of money to be saved by reducing the silly safety measures.
Your statement doesn't make sense. The EU is nothing but the member states, and its bodies are just representatives from countries. So it is the member states doing the things you say: "The member states ceizing all the power from the individual member states, and the member states destroying all our economies by pumping the money into the bottomless pits of high interest".
If not all the participating countries would agree and sign a agreement for each action taken, nothing would happen!
It is not the White House saying it is addictive, they are saying "According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction, respiratory disease, and cognitive impairment." On the page of the NIH, http://www.nida.nih.gov/tib/marijuana.html you will find
Marijuana and Addiction
Long-term marijuana use can lead to addiction; that is, people use the drug compulsively even though it interferes with family, school, work, and recreational activities. According to NSDUH, in 2010 of the estimated 7.1 million Americans classified with dependence on or abuse of illicit drugs, nearly 4.5 million were dependent on or abused marijuana. Research has shown that approximately 9% of people who use marijuana may become dependent. The risk of addiction goes up to about 1 in 6 among those who start using as adolescents, and 25-50% of daily users. In 2009, 18% of people entering drug abuse treatment programs reported marijuana as their primary drug of abuse (70% of those aged 12-14; and 72% of those 15-17), representing more than 350,000 admissions (TEDS, 2009). Along with craving, withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, sleeping problems, and anxiety can make it difficult for long-term marijuana smokers to quit.
If 90% of all web apps are the same, a language (or in case of Opa, it should probably be called a web application build system) can be the magic bullet for 80%.
Would it be possible to use a balloon to get to 30+km, then turn it around and use it as a rocket platform, launching a rocket to, say, the moon? It wouldn't have to be a very powerful rocket (and thus steerable like in the game Asteroids). I'm probably being naive here...
Slashdot groupthink at its best in this thread. The tone are personal attacks. "Patents are evil! Burn pro-patent people! UN is stupid!". How sad. Nobody saw the video, or tried to understand the argument he was trying to make.
He made the point that IP are useful because patents document an invention, information otherwise lost. He brings the example of Violin vs. Saxophone. I think his intention is correct, but should be solved by open standards as documentation, not patents.
He mentions there are many options in IP (I guess beyond patents [/. groupthink: bad] and copyright [/. groupthink: good]), but he doesn't explore what they are, or how they would have beneficial (to whom?) in case of the WWW.
I think he made the mistake of taking an example from the software/standards world. If he had taken an example of hardware, it would have been a good argument: It is beneficial if what happens behind the doors of e.g. car factories is patented -- i.e. brought to the open for improvements -- that way it is documented, can be improved upon, yet protected from IP theft.
The tone of the video (jump to 0:49:50) is also different from what it is portrayed as. His "talk" was a tiny side-note on a discussion/presentation. Does his comment mean the whole "The Global Innovation Index 2011" is useless? I think there are better arguments to be made, for instance: Does history show that "innovation programmes" from top-level effectively stimulate innovation, or is it just random successes by individuals? What are really the important factors (not for economic success, but for beneficial contributions)?
Would it be less depressing to you if all ended in a Big Crunch? Why do we find a static universe pleasing? No birth without death.
Galaxies don't expand, so two planets wouldn't work as a way to harness dark energy. But the idea is that every cube of space, when you take out all the mass, still has some energy. Perhaps in form of tension or a pressure. So you wouldn't need to go far. But it is incredibly little. Although I should emphasize we don't know what it is yet, so we wouldn't even know how to start harnessing it.
...allowed in the European Union? It really compromises the image of the whole entity that they have no problem with this absurd level of corruption. This is obviously another censorship/media control ploy by Berlusconi, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was specifically designed to hurt Wikipedia.
Because the EU is almost entirely a economic union, and hasn't been given authority in the general political, judicial or social areas.
... but the risk is that soon we will be forced to actually delete it.
Why does a language section of Wikipedia have to close down because of a country? Aren't there enough Italian speaking people outside Italy to matter? Why not just block visitors from Italy (meaning: show them the message that it's the fault of that law that Wikipedia can't work in Italy)? Maybe some Italian article would be useful to me even though I'm not Italian nor speak Italian (there are translators). Why does everyone else have to suffer?
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If people in your group already love RoR, it's best to go with their expertise. Technically, there isn't enough difference to make it matter.
Backends are virtually always in a different language than frontends (not that that's a good thing, but it shouldn't worry you too much).
To be clear, the problem is this. The sequencing (cheap now) produces a lot of strips of a few DNA elements. They are overlapping, and its unknown from which position they are from.
So the difficulty is to arrange those strips to reproduce the original DNA sequence. It is a NP-hard problem, no wonder Moore's law doesn't outrun that!
Its just not true that Firefox is losing "market share" (browser users). Just look at the data, Firefox isn't gaining or losing.
I can imagine that the inflow of Firefox users from IE is similar to what it ever was, and that Firefox users are going to Chrome. Surely, there are also IE to Chrome converts, but may be a smaller fraction. It'd be interesting to see a flow analysis like they do after elections.
I think Mozilla is very happy with the stats, because the real news is that the IE usage went down to almost ~50%, and we have today a diversity of browser (engines). Diversity ensures that we don't drive into a dead end, and Mozilla paved the way for alternative browsers, pushing websites away from IE-only design, and making the new technologies we have today possible (CSS, everything beyond HTML4, fast JS) -- although we have to give Microsoft credit for inventing Ajax.
We all know technology works that way, but we doubt the law works that way. Bring some information to the table that you don't have to be physically in a country to break that countries laws. International law excluded, as it doesn't cover hacking (as far as I am aware of it).
The "two goldfish in a tank"-joke doesn't have a loser. I'd be really interested in a list of animals where humor has been observed, and how that manifests (or can be detected). To be genuine, it mustn't be something trained on (like most of dogs "humanoid" behaviour).
You also don't know anyone with a Facebook account, and no one you know knows anyone with a Facebook account, and so on?
The metric covers only Facebook, just as the Erdo"s metric covers only coauthorship of articles in scholarly journals and the Bacon metric covers only publicly exhibited feature films.
There should be a considerable bias in the estimate of an average degree of separation of 4.74. The people not on facebook are more loosely connected than those on facebook, so the average would increase. Also, the average used to be higher (in previous estimates on facebook), suggesting that the networking of existing people on facebook gets denser over time (you add/get to know friends of friends), while the overall number of people on facebook doesn't grow as fast anymore as it used to.
The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place.
I'd say it is an "explodey" place. Hell, there's a hydrogen bomb only eight light seconds away, and it's been exploding for over four billion years. Almost every twinkle in the night sky is a incredibly huge fusion explosion.
The street is an "explodey" [what is that word!?] place. There is a car 1 meter away, and it has been exploding oil for an hour now. Almost every noise you hear in a street is a powerful explosion.
There is no reason to make it sound so scary. It is an ensemble of continuous, small, explosions that amass to a continuous energy output (not "explodey").
The answer is in the second paragraph of the article.
In between ceizing all the power from the individual member states, and destroying all our economies by pumping the money into the bottomless pits of high interest, sometimes they do something right. Thanks EU :-)
Shall we also allow everyone to bring a bottle of water onto the airplane? There's a lot of money to be saved by reducing the silly safety measures.
Your statement doesn't make sense. The EU is nothing but the member states, and its bodies are just representatives from countries. So it is the member states doing the things you say: "The member states ceizing all the power from the individual member states, and the member states destroying all our economies by pumping the money into the bottomless pits of high interest".
If not all the participating countries would agree and sign a agreement for each action taken, nothing would happen!
Europa is female.
You won't get far with telnet unless you can do SSL in your head. I recommend socat.
$ socat ssl:mail.foo.com:456 stdio
It is not the White House saying it is addictive, they are saying "According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction, respiratory disease, and cognitive impairment."
On the page of the NIH, http://www.nida.nih.gov/tib/marijuana.html you will find
If 90% of all web apps are the same, a language (or in case of Opa, it should probably be called a web application build system) can be the magic bullet for 80%.
And how do you accelerate at 1g continuously for 1 year? I would guess that the mass needed would be enormous.
Would it be possible to use a balloon to get to 30+km, then turn it around and use it as a rocket platform, launching a rocket to, say, the moon? It wouldn't have to be a very powerful rocket (and thus steerable like in the game Asteroids).
I'm probably being naive here...
Slashdot groupthink at its best in this thread. The tone are personal attacks. "Patents are evil! Burn pro-patent people! UN is stupid!". How sad. Nobody saw the video, or tried to understand the argument he was trying to make.
He made the point that IP are useful because patents document an invention, information otherwise lost. He brings the example of Violin vs. Saxophone.
I think his intention is correct, but should be solved by open standards as documentation, not patents.
He mentions there are many options in IP (I guess beyond patents [/. groupthink: bad] and copyright [/. groupthink: good]), but he doesn't explore what they are, or how they would have beneficial (to whom?) in case of the WWW.
I think he made the mistake of taking an example from the software/standards world. If he had taken an example of hardware, it would have been a good argument: It is beneficial if what happens behind the doors of e.g. car factories is patented -- i.e. brought to the open for improvements -- that way it is documented, can be improved upon, yet protected from IP theft.
The tone of the video (jump to 0:49:50) is also different from what it is portrayed as. His "talk" was a tiny side-note on a discussion/presentation. Does his comment mean the whole "The Global Innovation Index 2011" is useless? I think there are better arguments to be made, for instance: Does history show that "innovation programmes" from top-level effectively stimulate innovation, or is it just random successes by individuals? What are really the important factors (not for economic success, but for beneficial contributions)?
You can do all of these things in Jython, or your favorite JVM language.
Bashing the conservative Java syntax is ok, but it does in no way mean you have to leave the JVM.
This is about hardware and design patents -- not software patents that are just ideas dreamed up. They actually built the thing.
Use PSI https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
There are also several software-updaters based on repositories, but none are really good. The software landscape is just different in Windows.
Dark energy is the name of a problem, not a solution. It's embarrassing that 75% of the universe is made up of we-have-no-idea-what.
No, it is exciting, and it's astonishing that we know this fact.
Using (from Wikipedia)
in LibreOffice I get
2574.67 exp(0.017222 x)
with R2 at 0.9945
What am i missing (except that changes in social behavious will/may influence those numbers)?
That a polynomial of 2nd degree gives R^2=0.999, so a better fit. I mean look at the fitted curves, the exponential is way off.
Would it be less depressing to you if all ended in a Big Crunch? Why do we find a static universe pleasing? No birth without death.
Galaxies don't expand, so two planets wouldn't work as a way to harness dark energy. But the idea is that every cube of space, when you take out all the mass, still has some energy. Perhaps in form of tension or a pressure. So you wouldn't need to go far. But it is incredibly little. Although I should emphasize we don't know what it is yet, so we wouldn't even know how to start harnessing it.
...allowed in the European Union? It really compromises the image of the whole entity that they have no problem with this absurd level of corruption. This is obviously another censorship/media control ploy by Berlusconi, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was specifically designed to hurt Wikipedia.
Because the EU is almost entirely a economic union, and hasn't been given authority in the general political, judicial or social areas.
Why does a language section of Wikipedia have to close down because of a country? Aren't there enough Italian speaking people outside Italy to matter? Why not just block visitors from Italy (meaning: show them the message that it's the fault of that law that Wikipedia can't work in Italy)?
Maybe some Italian article would be useful to me even though I'm not Italian nor speak Italian (there are translators). Why does everyone else have to suffer?