Do be aware that that has impacts on the economy. Strangely enough, we build a lot of our military hardware in the US. Just stop buying it, and an awful lot of US jobs go out the window. And then those unemployed people stop buying VCRs and houses and fast food...
I'm not saying its a reason to not cut the military budget - it isn't. For one, if we're going to keep people employed by dumping tax dollars into an industry, I can think of a few I'd rather pick than Killing People. But if we're going to stop spending all those dollars in the first place, which is the only way to pare down the deficit, we might need to spend _some_ of the dollars we save trying to create jobs to replace the ones we remove.
I'll believe that when I see some empirical evidence. Seems like they've just said "well it spins; of course it won't get dust." My current fan spins, and the fanblade is covered with the stuff. Static attraction overcomes the motion easily.
I was annoyed by that statement too. Intelligence is something you're born with - Knowledge is something you work for. Which is why dumb people don't bother me nearly as much as ignorant people; the former got stuck with it, the latter chose it.
I can't see a bunch of disgruntled ex-employees creating this entire security breach in two weeks.
I _can_ see a bunch of losers getting fired for not doing their jobs.
But I can also _totally_ see a bunch of disgruntled ex-employees, after being forced to work for ages with a broken security system which they did not themselves build, "accidentally" letting slip some inside info about that system's existing vulverabilities in the weeks after being fired. "Yeah? You don't reckon you need security staff? Lets just see if thats right..."
Truth. And I was interested in whether this was the case here (and we were therefore extremely lucky to be able to observe the event) so I went back to the linked article. It too isn't terribly clear, but it uses the term "burst" fairly consistently, which would imply a non-directional release of energy, at least to me. Of course, that's also trusting someone to have gotten the semantics right, and I don't have much faith in modern science press, but I was too lazy to follow a second set of links to the original paper and see what the truth of the matter actually was... The abstract on the Science site - written by the original authors, but without the full paper attached, uses the word "outburst" but doesn't make any clear claims as to whether its directional or no. Make of that what you will.
Perhaps I'm being pedantic about word choice here - surely a first for/. - but a "beam" of energy implies to me that the energy is narrow and focused, and that description made me think that something came out aimed at Earth (though not, of course, by any deliberate agency.) The original article uses the word "burst" which seems far more appropriate for the kind of energy release its talking about.
The developer is hurt more by used game sales than by pirates OVERALL. != The INDIVIDUAL used game buyer hurts the developer more than the INDIVIDUAL pirate.
...and you'd have spent 100x as much money as the second monitor - at least - and you still wouldn't get the same amount of productivity, because BOTH of them will leave and go somewhere where they feel valued enough to be given the tools to do their job.
I can't believe that anyone who has ever written even the tiniest amount of code considered this a serious question for more than half a second. Next Week on Slashdot: Do Developers Really Need a Keyboard?
See, thats what I love about/. - I read the article and am outraged at the obvious causation / correlation fail, but when I come to rant about it I find that the very first comment has done it already.
This is what really happens to non-conformist geeks from high school; we just eventually find the places where we do fit in...
"Perhaps they should teach it accurately in schools."
I agree wholeheartedly. And to that end:
"People with no arms can adapt to use their feet like hands. The blind develop an acute sense of hearing."
Neither of these is an example of _species_ adaptation, which is what Darwin wrote about. This, however, is:
"the birds had developed in such a way as to cope with the harsher environment Galapagos presented them. They were still Finches just "hard core biker" Finches."
I pointed out how the change in bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant _as a species, rather than an individual organism_ IS an example of evolution, not mutation. So you're correct: he claimed evolution, not mutation - he was right to do so. YOU claimed mutation, not evolution, and there you were wrong.
Nope. The existence of a _single_ antibiotic resistant bacteria is evidence for mutation. The fact that that single mutant bacteria's offspring are rather rapidly taking over the niche previously held by its non-resistant brethren is evidence for natural selection changing a species.
But you're right; the evolution debate would be greatly helped by more people - on both sides - actually understanding what evolution is. Perhaps they should teach it in schools or something?
...though that could lead to a very interesting - if short - discussion in science classes in Tennessee about the evidence for the efficacy of prayer...
Am I the only one who finds the passion for celebrating the birthdays of dead guys to be somewhat inexplicable? I mean sure, he was born; so what? Most of us manage that. And he's not getting another year older anymore, nor can you congratulate him on that fact, so the idea of celebrating a birthday seems fairly pointless. If you want to commemorate a famous dead person, celebrate on a day they did something for which you particularly respect them; such as the date Bunsen first published his designs, in this case.
"But choosing.NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can't help but ask "why?"
Of course its a choice, but whose? Not all companies think to ask every developer which language they'd like to build a project in... sometimes you have to work with an established codebase. And if you do manage to make a silk purse out of that sows ear, don't you deserve extra credit for that?
I don't blame the guy for asking why, but you kinda hope that he's listening to the answer, instead of just writing the candidate off.
Said it before; I'll say it again: discussions about film rights is not an indication that anyone is even seriously considering making an actual film. Neither is the existence of a screenplay. Without pausing for breath I could rattle off the names of at least a dozen books which have been optioned and even had screenplays written for them for the last decade but have never seen the light of day. Hollywood producers and studios buy film options speculatively, so that they can pull one out if the market suddenly seems appropriate, or even to stop anyone else from producing it at a time that it might compete with one of their other projects. And everything with a pulse within 100 miles of LA has at least one screenplay they've written and are trying to flog to no avail. Writers are so underpaid and (the good ones) so undervalued that the studios will think nothing of commissioning an initial draft for something they have no current intentions of making.
Talk to me when they've hired camera crews and signed contracts with actors. Even then we may never see it, but at least its starting to get probable at that point.
Seriously. Cisco wrote a whitepaper saying, essentially, "bandwidth usage goes up"? Early adopters use more bandwidth early, and then everyone else catches up. Let me check; yep, translation: "usage goes up."
There are bacteria growing in my fridge that worked that out in seconds. What was that Cisco author doing with the rest of his time? (Oh right; downloading porn in HD 3D...)
"By contrast, Starbucks offers free, one-click, unlimited wireless service to their patrons, making it in Heffernan's eyes 'a flawed franchise that is squarely in the public good."
"techno-macho phone brand names like "Droid"" Seriously? Hands up who didn't hear "droid" and immediately flash an image of R2D2 and C3P0 - a cuddly teddy-robot and an effete ponce. "Macho" is not word that leaps to mind.
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Actually, I'll bite. What else do you use a nuclear submarine for?
Do be aware that that has impacts on the economy. Strangely enough, we build a lot of our military hardware in the US. Just stop buying it, and an awful lot of US jobs go out the window. And then those unemployed people stop buying VCRs and houses and fast food...
I'm not saying its a reason to not cut the military budget - it isn't. For one, if we're going to keep people employed by dumping tax dollars into an industry, I can think of a few I'd rather pick than Killing People. But if we're going to stop spending all those dollars in the first place, which is the only way to pare down the deficit, we might need to spend _some_ of the dollars we save trying to create jobs to replace the ones we remove.
I'll believe that when I see some empirical evidence. Seems like they've just said "well it spins; of course it won't get dust." My current fan spins, and the fanblade is covered with the stuff. Static attraction overcomes the motion easily.
I was annoyed by that statement too. Intelligence is something you're born with - Knowledge is something you work for. Which is why dumb people don't bother me nearly as much as ignorant people; the former got stuck with it, the latter chose it.
I can't see a bunch of disgruntled ex-employees creating this entire security breach in two weeks.
I _can_ see a bunch of losers getting fired for not doing their jobs.
But I can also _totally_ see a bunch of disgruntled ex-employees, after being forced to work for ages with a broken security system which they did not themselves build, "accidentally" letting slip some inside info about that system's existing vulverabilities in the weeks after being fired. "Yeah? You don't reckon you need security staff? Lets just see if thats right..."
Truth. And I was interested in whether this was the case here (and we were therefore extremely lucky to be able to observe the event) so I went back to the linked article. It too isn't terribly clear, but it uses the term "burst" fairly consistently, which would imply a non-directional release of energy, at least to me. Of course, that's also trusting someone to have gotten the semantics right, and I don't have much faith in modern science press, but I was too lazy to follow a second set of links to the original paper and see what the truth of the matter actually was... The abstract on the Science site - written by the original authors, but without the full paper attached, uses the word "outburst" but doesn't make any clear claims as to whether its directional or no. Make of that what you will.
"sending a powerful beam of energy toward Earth."
Perhaps I'm being pedantic about word choice here - surely a first for /. - but a "beam" of energy implies to me that the energy is narrow and focused, and that description made me think that something came out aimed at Earth (though not, of course, by any deliberate agency.) The original article uses the word "burst" which seems far more appropriate for the kind of energy release its talking about.
"Their verdict? Skip this one."
And what? Wait for the sequel?
Yep: article interesting, summary faulty.
The developer is hurt more by used game sales than by pirates OVERALL.
!=
The INDIVIDUAL used game buyer hurts the developer more than the INDIVIDUAL pirate.
...and you'd have spent 100x as much money as the second monitor - at least - and you still wouldn't get the same amount of productivity, because BOTH of them will leave and go somewhere where they feel valued enough to be given the tools to do their job.
I can't believe that anyone who has ever written even the tiniest amount of code considered this a serious question for more than half a second. Next Week on Slashdot: Do Developers Really Need a Keyboard?
See, thats what I love about /. - I read the article and am outraged at the obvious causation / correlation fail, but when I come to rant about it I find that the very first comment has done it already.
This is what really happens to non-conformist geeks from high school; we just eventually find the places where we do fit in...
"Perhaps they should teach it accurately in schools."
I agree wholeheartedly. And to that end:
"People with no arms can adapt to use their feet like hands. The blind develop an acute sense of hearing."
Neither of these is an example of _species_ adaptation, which is what Darwin wrote about. This, however, is:
"the birds had developed in such a way as to cope with the harsher environment Galapagos presented them. They were still Finches just "hard core biker" Finches."
He said:
" antibiotic resistant bacteria"
You said:
"This is mutation, not evolution."
I pointed out how the change in bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant _as a species, rather than an individual organism_ IS an example of evolution, not mutation. So you're correct: he claimed evolution, not mutation - he was right to do so. YOU claimed mutation, not evolution, and there you were wrong.
Nope. The existence of a _single_ antibiotic resistant bacteria is evidence for mutation. The fact that that single mutant bacteria's offspring are rather rapidly taking over the niche previously held by its non-resistant brethren is evidence for natural selection changing a species.
But you're right; the evolution debate would be greatly helped by more people - on both sides - actually understanding what evolution is. Perhaps they should teach it in schools or something?
...though that could lead to a very interesting - if short - discussion in science classes in Tennessee about the evidence for the efficacy of prayer...
Anyone who thinks that a command line prompt starts with a 'C:\' has no idea what they're talking about.
Am I the only one who finds the passion for celebrating the birthdays of dead guys to be somewhat inexplicable? I mean sure, he was born; so what? Most of us manage that. And he's not getting another year older anymore, nor can you congratulate him on that fact, so the idea of celebrating a birthday seems fairly pointless. If you want to commemorate a famous dead person, celebrate on a day they did something for which you particularly respect them; such as the date Bunsen first published his designs, in this case.
"But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can't help but ask "why?"
Of course its a choice, but whose? Not all companies think to ask every developer which language they'd like to build a project in... sometimes you have to work with an established codebase. And if you do manage to make a silk purse out of that sows ear, don't you deserve extra credit for that?
I don't blame the guy for asking why, but you kinda hope that he's listening to the answer, instead of just writing the candidate off.
Said it before; I'll say it again: discussions about film rights is not an indication that anyone is even seriously considering making an actual film. Neither is the existence of a screenplay. Without pausing for breath I could rattle off the names of at least a dozen books which have been optioned and even had screenplays written for them for the last decade but have never seen the light of day. Hollywood producers and studios buy film options speculatively, so that they can pull one out if the market suddenly seems appropriate, or even to stop anyone else from producing it at a time that it might compete with one of their other projects. And everything with a pulse within 100 miles of LA has at least one screenplay they've written and are trying to flog to no avail. Writers are so underpaid and (the good ones) so undervalued that the studios will think nothing of commissioning an initial draft for something they have no current intentions of making.
Talk to me when they've hired camera crews and signed contracts with actors. Even then we may never see it, but at least its starting to get probable at that point.
Seriously. Cisco wrote a whitepaper saying, essentially, "bandwidth usage goes up"? Early adopters use more bandwidth early, and then everyone else catches up. Let me check; yep, translation: "usage goes up."
There are bacteria growing in my fridge that worked that out in seconds. What was that Cisco author doing with the rest of his time? (Oh right; downloading porn in HD 3D...)
"By contrast, Starbucks offers free, one-click, unlimited wireless service to their patrons, making it in Heffernan's eyes 'a flawed franchise that is squarely in the public good."
Yeah. Pity about the coffee though.
Ohmygod! Information you send to your friends by scribbling in 6-foot-high letters on the worlds largest billboard is public? Who knew?
Next you'll tell me that my smoke signals aren't secure either...
"It shows the importance, the authors say, of training teachers well before they step into the class."
Yeah. Cuz we couldn't work _that_ out by ourselves.
"techno-macho phone brand names like "Droid""
Seriously? Hands up who didn't hear "droid" and immediately flash an image of R2D2 and C3P0 - a cuddly teddy-robot and an effete ponce. "Macho" is not word that leaps to mind.
Are you kidding me? Give up a system apparently named after a Lovecraftian Elder Race in exchange for one named after a badly designed robot? No way!