Fedex has an enormous airfleet. I'm sure they are able to buy planes at prices other people can only dream of. Similarly UPS has a fleet of over 100K vehicles, which can be bought at a great discount (present supplier seems to be Daimler-Benz).
I doubt Amazon can get anywhere close to those savings by going on their own.
Hydroponics in Antarctica is as unique as the continent itself. The extreme environmental conditions found here make the process of growing food a formidable challenge. Four months of solid daylight, four months of total darkness, and unpredictable winds and temperature changes present a unique growing situation. One cannot simply build a glasshouse, set up a system, and expect tasty produce to grow!
The McMurdo The McMurdo "Bucket" Hydroponics However, at McMurdo Station on Ross Island (and to a much lesser degree at the South Pole Station), successful harvests are achieved on a daily basis. The 649 square foot greenhouse at McMurdo can generate a monthly average 250 lbs of produce during peak cycles. Varieties include lettuce greens, spinach, arugula, chard, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and herbs. The harvest is ample enough to provide a winter community of up to 230 people a salad once every 4 days, plus lots of fresh herbs, veggies, and fruit for the galley chefs to incorporate into their menus. During summer, however, community population can reach numbers of over 1000 people. During this time, the greenhouse simply acts as a supplement to the fresh food flown into the base from New Zealand. One of the greatest year-round benefits, however, is the fact that the greenhouse is the only source of lush, live plants, colorful flowers, and warm, humid air. Many community members frequent this environment for this reason alone!
I think he's being a bit optimistic. Living conditions in Mars are closest to Antarctica on earth, and if you read about life in McMurdo Station it isn't pleasant. Additionally you can read about the large amount of supplies that are required every year to keep the base going.
We will get to Mars eventually, maybe even sooner than some people think, but a permanent colony is more than 30 years away.
I know that was the excuse, and it is bogus, since you can simply ignore the extensible field in the first hardware implementation. It's not until the extension is used, many years into the future, that you have to have the processing power to handle it.
Remember boys and girls, always make bit fields extensible. He could have reserved the last part of the upper range (e.g. the ones presently wasted in multicast) for an extended range to be defined in the future. I.e. an address in the upper 224.0.0.0 range is followed by another 32 bits whose meaning would be IPV6 like.
Of course it does. The original heading was "A profound observation". That word seems to disable our BS detectors and let garbage past our rational circuits like alcohol goes past the physiological brain barrier that keeps most other substances away.
Every time you read the word "profound" in a text stop and ask yourself if its use is (1) warranted and (2) even has a proper meaning beyond trying to make the text look more profound than it is.
I do this all the time, and something like 19 out of 20 uses of the word profound are plain bullshit.
Python's stance is that the humans and the tools should use the same block identifiers. Sure there are other ways to solve the problem (like make the tools look for likely errors and warn the user), but Python chose the route of just getting people and tools on the same page - it's not a bad solution.
Sorry but it is a bad solution. I used to be a fan of indentation until I started writing large programs. Such big projects often require refactoring of the initial design and thus massive cut-and-pasting, with all the standard ensuing pitfalls.
This is a problem that clearly didn't occur to the Python designer and to this date is both unsolved and a major source of bugs.
I've been a supporter of McLaren since I was a kid. I could never support an Apple F1 team. (or Google, or Microsoft, or Blackberry, or Facebook)
You are aware that Mercedes AMG has a deal with Blackberry with the logo prominently shown on the sides; Williams, BMW Sauber and Caterham used to have a deal with Intel; Lotus and Renault have a deal with Microsoft; Lotus, BMW Sauber and Caterham have a deal with Dell, and McLaren had a deal with SUN Microsystems?
It hides bad flavor from cheap beans. If you serve coffee at a reasonable temperature, taste dominates your senses, if you serve it boiling hot you get a nice warm feeling and no idea what it tasted like.
The reason for this is that 180 to 190 degrees fahrenheit is the proper serving temperature for coffee.
No, 180 to 190 is the common temperature for serving coffee in America by cheap coffee purveyours, because of monetary reasons. Go to Europe and you will be hard pressed to find any coffee shop serving coffee at temperatures greater than 155 degrees, which is the temperature human subjects prefer their coffee at. Here's the relevant quote:
The preferred drinking temperature of coffee is specified in the literature as 140+/-15 degrees F (60+/-8.3 degrees C) for a population of 300 subjects.
In "Calculating the optimum temperature for serving hot beverages". Fredericka Brown, Kenneth R. Diller. University of Texas Austin. Published in the Journal Burns, August 2008Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 648â"654.
Actually, the quote is deeper than most people think. Go to any astronomy department and you will find faculty members whose specialty is telescope design.
Dijkstra wasn't saying that computers are not CS, he was simply pointing out that they are not the ultimate end of what CS does, they are only a part of what CS is.
CS is about processing information, presently we use computers and code to do that, hence look at any CS department and you'll find professors doing research on those subjects, among others. But a hundred years hence you might find that most of those computer specialists are now programming on quantum computers or atomic computers or DNA computers and writing "code" means a completely different thing but it still CS, just like astronomy is still astronomy whether you are using an optical lens looking at the moons of Jupiter in the 1500s or using LIGO to discover gravitational waves from a supernova collision in the 2000s.
Is this any different than the current members of cabinet who are appointed by the PM?
Why such distaste with the appointed officers of the EU and yet deafening silence about the appointed members of the House of Lords?
I think you've been manipulated into focusing on a minor flaw of the EU, similar to ones you have at home, and believing it is somehow unacceptable and worth the unraveling of the union.
Would you agree with Scotland separating merely on the basis that the cabinet is not elected?
It's an old rule of marketing. An adjective either very accurately describes the product or is the complete opposite, nothing in between.
Say for example, if you have a cereal called Nature's Best. It either is an organic tree-hugging, all vegan, hemp-tshirt inspired cereal or is the worst junk full of sugar and additives.
The explanation is straightforward, either you are an honest person and describe your product accurately or you are a crook, in which case you maximize your lie since it makes business sense.
Usenet was great around 1988-1992, trolls were rare and could be dealt with the KILL file and most people participating were veritable experts compared to the ignoramuses that dominate discussion forums today.
I met political leaders, writers, and award winning scientists on usenet back then.
Yeah, there have always been some idiots around, but there used to be a lot less. Also with the increased number of know-nothings moderation has degraded. Over the years I've gone from reading at 0, to 1, to 2, to 3, and now at 4 or higher.
This is why slashdot sucks so much. I started reading/. back when the UIDs where in the 10k range, and only people who really knew about the subject would comment. It took me many months before I saw a topic I could contribute to with enough insight, hence my 100K UID.
Now, we have captain obvious noob giving a trivial "shut down" solution, which only works when the botnet is concentrated in an arrogant tone to the security experts in Verisign and Bruce Schneier. To top it off it gets ranked +4 Insightful.
p.s. Can we add a moderation score of -1 Rolls eyes?
Instead, we should pay people to achieve the goals of civilization: maintaining land and buildings, participating in cultural events, having families, curating farms, maybe even maintaining old documents and cumulative knowledge.
Last I checked, science and creating of new knowledge are key components of civilization, which are surprisingly missing from your list.
The improvement of AI technology over the last two-three years made AI better than humans in many fields.
Driving wasn't solved by the improvements over the last two-three years. The big breakthrough was one of the DARPA competitions about a decade ago. Since then there have been many refinements, but the core of the developments happened there.
What you say is true in the abstract, though to be accurate 4 is a special case of 3 if you think about it.
After each experiment, one must consider all five alternatives before reaching a conclusion. However in this specific case the only reasonable conclusions are 1 and 5, which is why bringing up the "correlation does not imply causation" is just a meme.
A valid comment would have been "wait, how big is the earthquake sample? how large is the increase in intensity?, could it be just random variation?". There is no way to answer those questions, so those will remain a mystery (unless we read the TFA that is, but who does that?).
This has become a/. meme. What is your suggestion here, that there is a third agent responsible both for earthquakes and full/new moons?
In real life, science correlation is often converted into causation using Occam's razor or logical physical principles. E.g. while there is nothing in theoretical physics forbidding the interpretation that the light about to start shining made you turn the switch, we choose for a variety of other reasons, the interpretation that the causation is the other way around, we turn on the switch, then the light goes on.
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This used to be the case, but lately (i.e. last 7 years) they have been buying brand new airplanes, since they are so much more fuel efficient.
Fedex has an enormous airfleet. I'm sure they are able to buy planes at prices other people can only dream of. Similarly UPS has a fleet of over 100K vehicles, which can be bought at a great discount (present supplier seems to be Daimler-Benz).
I doubt Amazon can get anywhere close to those savings by going on their own.
Actually they do:
Hydroponics in Antarctica is as unique as the continent itself. The extreme environmental conditions found here make the process of growing food a formidable challenge. Four months of solid daylight, four months of total darkness, and unpredictable winds and temperature changes present a unique growing situation. One cannot simply build a glasshouse, set up a system, and expect tasty produce to grow!
The McMurdo
The McMurdo "Bucket" Hydroponics
However, at McMurdo Station on Ross Island (and to a much lesser degree at the South Pole Station), successful harvests are achieved on a daily basis. The 649 square foot greenhouse at McMurdo can generate a monthly average 250 lbs of produce during peak cycles. Varieties include lettuce greens, spinach, arugula, chard, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and herbs. The harvest is ample enough to provide a winter community of up to 230 people a salad once every 4 days, plus lots of fresh herbs, veggies, and fruit for the galley chefs to incorporate into their menus. During summer, however, community population can reach numbers of over 1000 people. During this time, the greenhouse simply acts as a supplement to the fresh food flown into the base from New Zealand. One of the greatest year-round benefits, however, is the fact that the greenhouse is the only source of lush, live plants, colorful flowers, and warm, humid air. Many community members frequent this environment for this reason alone!
I think he's being a bit optimistic. Living conditions in Mars are closest to Antarctica on earth, and if you read about life in McMurdo Station it isn't pleasant. Additionally you can read about the large amount of supplies that are required every year to keep the base going.
We will get to Mars eventually, maybe even sooner than some people think, but a permanent colony is more than 30 years away.
Sorry but this is bogus. Compare the performance of America's economy, wages, policies, foreign relations between Bill Clinton and Bush Jr.
It does make a difference. Imagine what we could have done with the trillion dollars we spent fighting the war in Iraq?
. Java has gone from a bloated mess to a bloated mess that is often within spitting distance of C on performance shootouts.
[Citation needed]
I'll grant you that Java used to be 4-10x slower and now its 1.2-15x slower, but that is not what I would call spitting distance.
Not any more of a nightmare than the IPv4 to IPv6 conversion which has been in the making for twenty years now.
I know that was the excuse, and it is bogus, since you can simply ignore the extensible field in the first hardware implementation. It's not until the extension is used, many years into the future, that you have to have the processing power to handle it.
Remember boys and girls, always make bit fields extensible. He could have reserved the last part of the upper range (e.g. the ones presently wasted in multicast) for an extended range to be defined in the future. I.e. an address in the upper 224.0.0.0 range is followed by another 32 bits whose meaning would be IPV6 like.
Of course it does. The original heading was "A profound observation". That word seems to disable our BS detectors and let garbage past our rational circuits like alcohol goes past the physiological brain barrier that keeps most other substances away.
Every time you read the word "profound" in a text stop and ask yourself if its use is (1) warranted and (2) even has a proper meaning beyond trying to make the text look more profound than it is.
I do this all the time, and something like 19 out of 20 uses of the word profound are plain bullshit.
Python's stance is that the humans and the tools should use the same block identifiers. Sure there are other ways to solve the problem (like make the tools look for likely errors and warn the user), but Python chose the route of just getting people and tools on the same page - it's not a bad solution.
Sorry but it is a bad solution. I used to be a fan of indentation until I started writing large programs. Such big projects often require refactoring of the initial design and thus massive cut-and-pasting, with all the standard ensuing pitfalls.
This is a problem that clearly didn't occur to the Python designer and to this date is both unsolved and a major source of bugs.
I've been a supporter of McLaren since I was a kid. I could never support an Apple F1 team. (or Google, or Microsoft, or Blackberry, or Facebook)
You are aware that Mercedes AMG has a deal with Blackberry with the logo prominently shown on the sides; Williams, BMW Sauber and Caterham used to have a deal with Intel; Lotus and Renault have a deal with Microsoft; Lotus, BMW Sauber and Caterham have a deal with Dell, and McLaren had a deal with SUN Microsystems?
It hides bad flavor from cheap beans. If you serve coffee at a reasonable temperature, taste dominates your senses, if you serve it boiling hot you get a nice warm feeling and no idea what it tasted like.
The reason for this is that 180 to 190 degrees fahrenheit is the proper serving temperature for coffee.
No, 180 to 190 is the common temperature for serving coffee in America by cheap coffee purveyours, because of monetary reasons. Go to Europe and you will be hard pressed to find any coffee shop serving coffee at temperatures greater than 155 degrees, which is the temperature human subjects prefer their coffee at. Here's the relevant quote:
The preferred drinking temperature of coffee is specified in the literature as 140+/-15 degrees F (60+/-8.3 degrees C) for a population of 300 subjects.
In "Calculating the optimum temperature for serving hot beverages". Fredericka Brown, Kenneth R. Diller. University of Texas Austin. Published in the Journal Burns, August 2008Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 648â"654.
Actually, the quote is deeper than most people think. Go to any astronomy department and you will find faculty members whose specialty is telescope design.
Dijkstra wasn't saying that computers are not CS, he was simply pointing out that they are not the ultimate end of what CS does, they are only a part of what CS is.
CS is about processing information, presently we use computers and code to do that, hence look at any CS department and you'll find professors doing research on those subjects, among others. But a hundred years hence you might find that most of those computer specialists are now programming on quantum computers or atomic computers or DNA computers and writing "code" means a completely different thing but it still CS, just like astronomy is still astronomy whether you are using an optical lens looking at the moons of Jupiter in the 1500s or using LIGO to discover gravitational waves from a supernova collision in the 2000s.
officials that are appointed rather than elected
Is this any different than the current members of cabinet who are appointed by the PM?
Why such distaste with the appointed officers of the EU and yet deafening silence about the appointed members of the House of Lords?
I think you've been manipulated into focusing on a minor flaw of the EU, similar to ones you have at home, and believing it is somehow unacceptable and worth the unraveling of the union.
Would you agree with Scotland separating merely on the basis that the cabinet is not elected?
It's an old rule of marketing. An adjective either very accurately describes the product or is the complete opposite, nothing in between.
Say for example, if you have a cereal called Nature's Best. It either is an organic tree-hugging, all vegan, hemp-tshirt inspired cereal or is the worst junk full of sugar and additives.
The explanation is straightforward, either you are an honest person and describe your product accurately or you are a crook, in which case you maximize your lie since it makes business sense.
Usenet was great around 1988-1992, trolls were rare and could be dealt with the KILL file and most people participating were veritable experts compared to the ignoramuses that dominate discussion forums today.
I met political leaders, writers, and award winning scientists on usenet back then.
Yeah, there have always been some idiots around, but there used to be a lot less. Also with the increased number of know-nothings moderation has degraded. Over the years I've gone from reading at 0, to 1, to 2, to 3, and now at 4 or higher.
This is why slashdot sucks so much. I started reading /. back when the UIDs where in the 10k range, and only people who really knew about the subject would comment. It took me many months before I saw a topic I could contribute to with enough insight, hence my 100K UID.
Now, we have captain obvious noob giving a trivial "shut down" solution, which only works when the botnet is concentrated in an arrogant tone to the security experts in Verisign and Bruce Schneier. To top it off it gets ranked +4 Insightful.
p.s. Can we add a moderation score of -1 Rolls eyes?
Instead, we should pay people to achieve the goals of civilization: maintaining land and buildings, participating in cultural events, having families, curating farms, maybe even maintaining old documents and cumulative knowledge.
Last I checked, science and creating of new knowledge are key components of civilization, which are surprisingly missing from your list.
The improvement of AI technology over the last two-three years made AI better than humans in many fields.
Driving wasn't solved by the improvements over the last two-three years. The big breakthrough was one of the DARPA competitions about a decade ago. Since then there have been many refinements, but the core of the developments happened there.
What you say is true in the abstract, though to be accurate 4 is a special case of 3 if you think about it.
After each experiment, one must consider all five alternatives before reaching a conclusion. However in this specific case the only reasonable conclusions are 1 and 5, which is why bringing up the "correlation does not imply causation" is just a meme.
A valid comment would have been "wait, how big is the earthquake sample? how large is the increase in intensity?, could it be just random variation?". There is no way to answer those questions, so those will remain a mystery (unless we read the TFA that is, but who does that?).
Correlation does not imply causation.
This has become a /. meme. What is your suggestion here, that there is a third agent responsible both for earthquakes and full/new moons?
In real life, science correlation is often converted into causation using Occam's razor or logical physical principles. E.g. while there is nothing in theoretical physics forbidding the interpretation that the light about to start shining made you turn the switch, we choose for a variety of other reasons, the interpretation that the causation is the other way around, we turn on the switch, then the light goes on.