Yes, good luck with that! Because the current implementation slows it down by 7/8ths on my 8-core server.
Well, that's not true. The interpreter has a global lock, but usually most of the time spent will be in things like I/O calls, that are written in C and thus have no problem with the GIL. You're trying to make it seem like there is no advantage to threading in Python, but that's just wrong.
Between now and a month from now, I'll hopefully be a parent too. We've also had this discussion. Eventually we decided not to do this, because it's just very unlikely to ever help.
The technology is unproven. The amount of blood taken is quite small so it's likely to only be useful in the first few years of the child's life, any later there would be more needed. In the few cases where these cells could be used, donors can often be found. And in a few more years, we should be able to get stem cells from other tissue.
In total, we decided it wasn't worth it.
One useful page for us was this, but it's in Dutch.
And as the man said, getting 85 million barrels of oil per day from the ground and turning them into CO2 is geoengineering. And a consensus to stop doing it seems unlikely.
Really? Why would 49 be a problem? Include statistical tests in your answer.
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It's even less surprising. If this minimum's activity is lower than the last one, it's automatically "the lowest in the last x!". And if were higher, vice versa.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the first few sentences are what decides. If Elbot has some lucky good guesses at first, and the conversation with the human happens to begin a bit awkwardly... The judge is probably going to be biased from there on and only focus on the "mistakes" of the human, and gloss over all the weirdness of the computer.
However, this process could (perhaps, I haven't read TFA) use solar energy. And for processes that work on CO2, streams from large power plants are simply convenient. Greenhouses in Holland also use CO2 from power plants to grow their plants faster.
Obviously using energy from CO2-producing power plants to break down CO2 is never going to work, but depending on what their actual process is, perhaps it can work well on renewable energy.
No, it doesn't. The reason they "not viable" is because it takes more energy to extract the oil than you get from the oil; no matter where the price of oil goes, it'll stay not viable.
As far as I can see, there are two types of programmers working on OSS:
1. Programmers who implement stuff as part of their paid job. Either the software is a product of the company, or the company simply needs new features and the boss is willing to have a paid programmer work on them. These do get paid like any other professional programmer.
2.Programmers who do open source stuff as a hobby. These aren't in it for the money, so it's fine if they don't get paid.
And as for programming as a profession, it's nice that we don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time. There's basically an infinity of things that would be nice to have made anyway, it's not as if the programming work is going to run out.
I work for a research lab in the Netherlands; we've also finished quite a few projects using Semantic Web technology. Our use case is large heterogenous data sets in agrotech, like representing all knowledge on growing tomatoes and tomato quality in the Dutch agro sector.
Finally a comment that compares Semantic Web technology to RDBMS technology. It's very unfortunate that it has "Web" in the name. Makes the clueless think it's supposed to be a try for WWW 3.0, or something...
All this sounds so very weird from overseas. Surely their wages are in the contract in the first place? How on Earth can IBM lower them? Is that legal? I'd think the worst they could do is not raise wages for a few years.
Same for overtime. My contract has a number of hours that I work for my boss. If there's nothing else in it about overtime, then good luck trying to force me to work more than that.
But I guess it has to do with at-will employment; if your boss can just decide to fire you, what's a contract worth?
Correction (sigh): Apparently it hasn't actually conclusively detected waves yet for certain. Doesn't change the point though; it would have if the burst was one of the known types.
In this case, lack of data is a great conclusion to the experiment.
Normally, it does detect gravity waves, but it was already known that this particular GRB was special. There are competing theories for the cause of these particular bursts, and in some of them you would expect gravity waves to be detected, and in some of them you wouldn't. So this measurement is very helpful.
There's no restriction in the GPL against that at all. Yes, you can SELL the binaries. As long as, obviously, you give the customer all the GPL rights, like an offer to give them the source. But it appears you're saying that selling it isn't legal, while it is.
I think that the idea is that many book publishers publish niche products at a loss, financing that with profits on more popular items. Governments think that the niche products are important culturally. If they allowed the book price to become entirely market driven, it is likely that profits margins on mass market items would go down.
So they give the publishers a lot of price setting power, in order to protect the niche products that wouldn't get made otherwise.
That's a different company. The SCO that this is about used to be a Linux business named Caldera; then they bought software and trademark rights from SCO, and later on changed their own name to SCO and starting suing.
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Yes, good luck with that! Because the current implementation slows it down by 7/8ths on my 8-core server.
Well, that's not true. The interpreter has a global lock, but usually most of the time spent will be in things like I/O calls, that are written in C and thus have no problem with the GIL. You're trying to make it seem like there is no advantage to threading in Python, but that's just wrong.
It wouldn't have saved her. The blood only keeps for ten years and the amount of blood in one umbilical cord isn't enough to treat an adult with.
Wow, 23 weeks! What a great thing that he made it, congratulations :-)
Between now and a month from now, I'll hopefully be a parent too. We've also had this discussion. Eventually we decided not to do this, because it's just very unlikely to ever help.
The technology is unproven. The amount of blood taken is quite small so it's likely to only be useful in the first few years of the child's life, any later there would be more needed. In the few cases where these cells could be used, donors can often be found. And in a few more years, we should be able to get stem cells from other tissue.
In total, we decided it wasn't worth it.
One useful page for us was this, but it's in Dutch.
And as the man said, getting 85 million barrels of oil per day from the ground and turning them into CO2 is geoengineering. And a consensus to stop doing it seems unlikely.
Really? Why would 49 be a problem? Include statistical tests in your answer.
It's even less surprising. If this minimum's activity is lower than the last one, it's automatically "the lowest in the last x!". And if were higher, vice versa.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the first few sentences are what decides. If Elbot has some lucky good guesses at first, and the conversation with the human happens to begin a bit awkwardly... The judge is probably going to be biased from there on and only focus on the "mistakes" of the human, and gloss over all the weirdness of the computer.
Meh, we're _way_ overpopulated already. Enough hobbyists wanting to try out this kids thing are bound to be still around.
Having to read all the -1 stuff, isn't that cruelty to nearly-conscious entities?
However, this process could (perhaps, I haven't read TFA) use solar energy. And for processes that work on CO2, streams from large power plants are simply convenient. Greenhouses in Holland also use CO2 from power plants to grow their plants faster.
Obviously using energy from CO2-producing power plants to break down CO2 is never going to work, but depending on what their actual process is, perhaps it can work well on renewable energy.
On the other side we have Apple. They produce gadgets and computers, that do have quality, but also a lot of brand hype. And are very expensive.
If there is a recession coming up, people will soon find that they can make do with their old gadgets a bit longer, or go with the cheaper option.
That is eye opening. The Higgs boson is a rumour being spread around.
Forget this LHC, have they checked Snopes?
No, it doesn't. The reason they "not viable" is because it takes more energy to extract the oil than you get from the oil; no matter where the price of oil goes, it'll stay not viable.
Linus would sell it for billions, then immediately fork it. GPL'ed is GPL'ed.
As far as I can see, there are two types of programmers working on OSS:
1. Programmers who implement stuff as part of their paid job. Either the software is a product of the company, or the company simply needs new features and the boss is willing to have a paid programmer work on them. These do get paid like any other professional programmer.
2.Programmers who do open source stuff as a hobby. These aren't in it for the money, so it's fine if they don't get paid.
And as for programming as a profession, it's nice that we don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time. There's basically an infinity of things that would be nice to have made anyway, it's not as if the programming work is going to run out.
At the time of the revolution, a lot of American-owned property was nationalized.
Linux = programming.
Very significant, but small market.
I work for a research lab in the Netherlands; we've also finished quite a few projects using Semantic Web technology. Our use case is large heterogenous data sets in agrotech, like representing all knowledge on growing tomatoes and tomato quality in the Dutch agro sector.
Finally a comment that compares Semantic Web technology to RDBMS technology. It's very unfortunate that it has "Web" in the name. Makes the clueless think it's supposed to be a try for WWW 3.0, or something...
All this sounds so very weird from overseas. Surely their wages are in the contract in the first place? How on Earth can IBM lower them? Is that legal? I'd think the worst they could do is not raise wages for a few years.
Same for overtime. My contract has a number of hours that I work for my boss. If there's nothing else in it about overtime, then good luck trying to force me to work more than that.
But I guess it has to do with at-will employment; if your boss can just decide to fire you, what's a contract worth?
Correction (sigh): Apparently it hasn't actually conclusively detected waves yet for certain. Doesn't change the point though; it would have if the burst was one of the known types.
In this case, lack of data is a great conclusion to the experiment.
Normally, it does detect gravity waves, but it was already known that this particular GRB was special. There are competing theories for the cause of these particular bursts, and in some of them you would expect gravity waves to be detected, and in some of them you wouldn't. So this measurement is very helpful.
There's no restriction in the GPL against that at all. Yes, you can SELL the binaries. As long as, obviously, you give the customer all the GPL rights, like an offer to give them the source. But it appears you're saying that selling it isn't legal, while it is.
There are laws like this in several EU countries.
I think that the idea is that many book publishers publish niche products at a loss, financing that with profits on more popular items. Governments think that the niche products are important culturally. If they allowed the book price to become entirely market driven, it is likely that profits margins on mass market items would go down.
So they give the publishers a lot of price setting power, in order to protect the niche products that wouldn't get made otherwise.
That's a different company. The SCO that this is about used to be a Linux business named Caldera; then they bought software and trademark rights from SCO, and later on changed their own name to SCO and starting suing.
That said, it is the same Unix...