The academic paper is available in Science, though seeing more than the abstract requires a subscription
I thought this was "news for nerds, stuff that matters", not "Science magazine touting for subscriptions".
If we can't even RTFA without paying first, then it has no place on this site IMHO, as we have all come to realize that TFS is at best "a summary", and at worst, complete BS.
1. Those who will make a solution that will work for perhaps 30 or 35 years, because it is "good enough" for the foreseeable future, ala Y2K, 2032 for linux etc...
2. Those who will want to do unit tests to see if the date function still works in the year 9500, and won't pass it through QA until it does.
Now, consider the PHB, when you tell him that solution 1 will be up and running in 5 minutes, whereas solution 2 will be up and running in about 5 years, once the specification has been formalized and ratified by the UN security council.
Which solution will the PHB choose I wonder ? Programming has always been a compromise, no one *really* expects that something they code today will still be around in 35 or 40 years, it's only occasionally that something *does* survive that long (COBOL legacy systems etc), and come and bite us in the ass when the new millenia arrives.
Having said that, I wonder how many of the "buzzword" languages we see today will still be around in the next 40 years ? The concept of longevity might have been relevant in the 60's, these days it's more a case of a complete rewrite every year or so.
So you are saying that a human being exhales exactly the same molecular amount of carbon dioxide as the oxygen he inhaled ? And that the plant life subsequently converts an identical amount of carbon dioxide back into oxygen at the other end of the process ?
Because unless you are, the system is unbalanced, and there needs to be an external source of one or the other raw materials. Hence my comment about perpertual motion.
So the only problem is finding a way to power scientists by solar cells, so that they require no food, water, oxygen, shelter and those other trivial little things that can really fuck up a Mars Mission ?
Considering they've been waiting at least 2010 years and since they weren't convinced that the last one was real, they promptly hug him on a cross, would *you* announce that you were the Jewish Messiah ?
Anyway, 1300 years of arguing with the Muslims over a strip of desert is much more satisfying, no ? Passes the time nicely between messianic events / hangings.
Now I'm assuming this is the same "blognoggle" who brought us such gems as:-
"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Evil Racebaiter" "Vampires and Bloodsucking Liberals" "Time to Impeach Barack Obama" "Is Your Boss a Vampire? Or, Maybe, a Shapeshifter?"
Really timothy, perhaps it's time to stop the copypasta from reddit bloggers, before our heads explode ?
Including "startups" is perhaps counterproductive, as they don't have any real business model to start with, they float "ideas" to dumb VC's, and never generate a real dime in income before they fail.
The only money lost was the venture capital.
To understand the "cost of losses due to IT", you have to have a functioning business in the first place (with no IT infrastructure), and then see what happens once IT is deployed, and then subsequently fails, weighed against gains such as better productivity, cost savings made etc.
The fuel costs and taxes are insufficient to cover the cost of the damage done by shipping
Erm, WTF ? How is shipping from a central warehouse ANY different from distributing goods to individual stores scattered all over the damn country (i.e. in the traditional retail model) ?
So trucks do more damage on the roads than cars, but don't pay the proportionate amount of road taxes ? That's an issue to take up with the Department of Transport or whatever the local government equivalent is in your state.
It's nothing to do with online businesses having "an advantage" over retail outlets.
Having working in the hotel reservation business for the past 8 years, I can tell you there's nothing simple about EU taxes either, especially in France.
Apart from the TVA (basic VAT) at 5.5% based on the whole cost of the stay, there's also a City Tax, that applies only in Paris, and can be a monetary amount anywhere between 1.00 and 7.00 EUR (seemingly based on how many rooms the hotel has and which "friends" work in local government and can give you a better rate).
Of course this tax applies when someone stays, on a per night basis, also applies to early cancellations, but not to no shows.
And that's just one city in one country. Making a blanket comment like "it's easy" does NOT do the issue justice.
I'm imagining with 50 odd states, and each state having local variations in each major city, even describing a tax structure for the US would be a nightmare.
Why is is acceptable for scientists to produce synthetic alcohol, whne in the same week the FDA have just banned another set of synthetic / natural marijuana substitutes ?
Alcohol is well known to cause aggression and does untold damage to the liver. Whereas most soft drugs make you passive and give you the munchies, yet there is little proven research on the long term effects to the body.
Could it be that if we actually applied some common sense (i.e. ignored the Americans), there'd be one less "war on [topic]" for them to fuck up ? Prohibition didn't work in the 20's, you'd think they'd have learnt SOMETHING from that ?
Anyone with a teenage son who is having an "identity crisis", let him watch a few hours of Quentin Crisp interviews and stage shows. It'll put him off homosexuality for life.
I bet your the same kind of person that finds the word blackboard "racist".
Grow up and get a life please. The words black and white are colours, it's only if you choose to attach a racial connotation to it does it become something else.
Please stop trying to see racism everywhere, sometimes a spade is just a spade.
Afghanistan and many other places don't need their children to become chemical engineers just yet. They need people growing up with practical skills like farming, irrigation, building etc, so they can create some kind of infrastructure and foundation for the next generation.
Being able to even read the instructions on the seed packet will help them far more right now than being able to make a chemical weapon.
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For *nix users, however, the reverse is usually true.
Making the half-assed GUI so lousy that people will actually prefer a command line interface is not the right way to go about doing things
Perhaps we can get a group rate, so you can find some explanation for your egotistical obsessive complusive desire to mark everything with your initials in multiple places (somewhat like a dog marks it's territory by pissing on things) ?
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Let's see what Google does with that !
The academic paper is available in Science, though seeing more than the abstract requires a subscription
I thought this was "news for nerds, stuff that matters", not "Science magazine touting for subscriptions".
If we can't even RTFA without paying first, then it has no place on this site IMHO, as we have all come to realize that TFS is at best "a summary", and at worst, complete BS.
Yes, but that's just the point isn't it ?
There are 10 types of people ...
1. Those who will make a solution that will work for perhaps 30 or 35 years, because it is "good enough" for the foreseeable future, ala Y2K, 2032 for linux etc ...
2. Those who will want to do unit tests to see if the date function still works in the year 9500, and won't pass it through QA until it does.
Now, consider the PHB, when you tell him that solution 1 will be up and running in 5 minutes, whereas solution 2 will be up and running in about 5 years, once the specification has been formalized and ratified by the UN security council.
Which solution will the PHB choose I wonder ? Programming has always been a compromise, no one *really* expects that something they code today will still be around in 35 or 40 years, it's only occasionally that something *does* survive that long (COBOL legacy systems etc), and come and bite us in the ass when the new millenia arrives.
Having said that, I wonder how many of the "buzzword" languages we see today will still be around in the next 40 years ? The concept of longevity might have been relevant in the 60's, these days it's more a case of a complete rewrite every year or so.
So you are saying that a human being exhales exactly the same molecular amount of carbon dioxide as the oxygen he inhaled ? And that the plant life subsequently converts an identical amount of carbon dioxide back into oxygen at the other end of the process ?
Because unless you are, the system is unbalanced, and there needs to be an external source of one or the other raw materials. Hence my comment about perpertual motion.
I am interested in your carbon-free plantlife / perpetual motion device and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Seriously, though, you seem to be missing carbon dioxide from your equation.
And how would you know that ? Before or after he kills the first innocent victim ?
Hindsight is always 20/20, but in the heat of the moment, surely the innocent should get priority over the crazy ?
So the only problem is finding a way to power scientists by solar cells, so that they require no food, water, oxygen, shelter and those other trivial little things that can really fuck up a Mars Mission ?
Can you explain why someone who threatens 3 people with *any* weapon is better off ALIVE ?
Considering they've been waiting at least 2010 years and since they weren't convinced that the last one was real, they promptly hug him on a cross, would *you* announce that you were the Jewish Messiah ?
Anyway, 1300 years of arguing with the Muslims over a strip of desert is much more satisfying, no ? Passes the time nicely between messianic events / hangings.
Or better still, accuse him of filesharing, then we can fine him for 300 million or just shoot him for being a potential pedo terrorist insurgent.
If anything, American quality blows Europe out of the water.
Swiss ... watches ... cuisine ... Idol ?
French
American
I'll take your xkcd and your Simpsons, and raise you a Southpark.
"Simpsons did it, Simpsons did it !"
blognoggle writes
Now I'm assuming this is the same "blognoggle" who brought us such gems as :-
"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Evil Racebaiter"
"Vampires and Bloodsucking Liberals"
"Time to Impeach Barack Obama"
"Is Your Boss a Vampire? Or, Maybe, a Shapeshifter?"
Really timothy, perhaps it's time to stop the copypasta from reddit bloggers, before our heads explode ?
50% of 0 dollars income is still 0 dollars.
Including "startups" is perhaps counterproductive, as they don't have any real business model to start with, they float "ideas" to dumb VC's, and never generate a real dime in income before they fail.
The only money lost was the venture capital.
To understand the "cost of losses due to IT", you have to have a functioning business in the first place (with no IT infrastructure), and then see what happens once IT is deployed, and then subsequently fails, weighed against gains such as better productivity, cost savings made etc.
The fuel costs and taxes are insufficient to cover the cost of the damage done by shipping
Erm, WTF ? How is shipping from a central warehouse ANY different from distributing goods to individual stores scattered all over the damn country (i.e. in the traditional retail model) ?
So trucks do more damage on the roads than cars, but don't pay the proportionate amount of road taxes ? That's an issue to take up with the Department of Transport or whatever the local government equivalent is in your state.
It's nothing to do with online businesses having "an advantage" over retail outlets.
Having working in the hotel reservation business for the past 8 years, I can tell you there's nothing simple about EU taxes either, especially in France.
Apart from the TVA (basic VAT) at 5.5% based on the whole cost of the stay, there's also a City Tax, that applies only in Paris, and can be a monetary amount anywhere between 1.00 and 7.00 EUR (seemingly based on how many rooms the hotel has and which "friends" work in local government and can give you a better rate).
Of course this tax applies when someone stays, on a per night basis, also applies to early cancellations, but not to no shows.
And that's just one city in one country. Making a blanket comment like "it's easy" does NOT do the issue justice.
I'm imagining with 50 odd states, and each state having local variations in each major city, even describing a tax structure for the US would be a nightmare.
Patrolling it effectively would probably take more guards than we want to pay for.
Couldn't we use some illegal Mexican immigrants ?
Dey tuk ur jerbs !!!
Partially deflated hovercrafts, seems to work for the North Koreans at the DMZ.
Why is is acceptable for scientists to produce synthetic alcohol, whne in the same week the FDA have just banned another set of synthetic / natural marijuana substitutes ?
Alcohol is well known to cause aggression and does untold damage to the liver. Whereas most soft drugs make you passive and give you the munchies, yet there is little proven research on the long term effects to the body.
Could it be that if we actually applied some common sense (i.e. ignored the Americans), there'd be one less "war on [topic]" for them to fuck up ? Prohibition didn't work in the 20's, you'd think they'd have learnt SOMETHING from that ?
... or scary old-aged purple haired ass bandits.
Anyone with a teenage son who is having an "identity crisis", let him watch a few hours of Quentin Crisp interviews and stage shows. It'll put him off homosexuality for life.
Apple does not own a patent on rounded edges yet.
FTFY
I bet your the same kind of person that finds the word blackboard "racist".
Grow up and get a life please. The words black and white are colours, it's only if you choose to attach a racial connotation to it does it become something else.
Please stop trying to see racism everywhere, sometimes a spade is just a spade.
Baby steps man.
Afghanistan and many other places don't need their children to become chemical engineers just yet. They need people growing up with practical skills like farming, irrigation, building etc, so they can create some kind of infrastructure and foundation for the next generation.
Being able to even read the instructions on the seed packet will help them far more right now than being able to make a chemical weapon.
For *nix users, however, the reverse is usually true.
Making the half-assed GUI so lousy that people will actually prefer a command line interface is not the right way to go about doing things
Perhaps we can get a group rate, so you can find some explanation for your egotistical obsessive complusive desire to mark everything with your initials in multiple places (somewhat like a dog marks it's territory by pissing on things) ?
Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas ;-)