I wonder if we'll see riots if they suddenly shut down, and everybody flies off to Rio. Better back up your shit. It can all go up in a puff of smoke. Been known to happen.. or no?
Also known: some institutions were deemed "too big to fail" in the past (I certainly hope it won't be the case when FB's bust happens).
It's the musicians who sign up to these labels. They're the ones doing work for them. They're the ones who could cause the labels to shrivel and die simply by choosing or building alternative distribution methods.
Worst of all are the half a dozen successes who pretend that these scrounging middlemen act on musicians' behalf, with superstar whores acting no better than the celebrity representatives of Scientology from Bee Gees to Metallica to Lily Allen (only joking, Lily - you're no superstar, you're shit).
Wouldn't typing with these things on induce wrist and elbow problems?
All depends how much you use them while typing... another think to remember "code is not an asset, is a liability" (cost to write, maintenance costs, etc) - thus you have a strong incentive to... be as little liable as possible.
Have you done some research on that?
I used 2 lb wrist weights for a while - while not coding (but doing anything else, including drawing on white-board and such) it was quite fine and kept going fine until the stage of the project in which my clueless managers insisted in the creation of a good amount of liability in the allotted time, so I had to drop them.
Anyhow, I found it an interesting experience, one should try it at least once.
Use some 20 lb wrist weights - for a while you'll feel awkward trying to type, but then... you will start spending more time thinking than writing spaghetti code (re-usability of your code/design will suddenly get a very physical meaning).
(yeah, I know, I know... reusable code and design pertain rather to software engineering than to computer science, but anyway)
Replace you chair with a gym ball - advantage: no moment your muscles will totally relax (even back and core muscles), no blood stagnating because of standing for long times.
Just not the king we use. Uranium and plutonium are terrible ways to achieve nuclear power. There is relatively little power output and a large amount of waste product, which we know will kill us if we even come close to it. The only benefit is being able to create nuclear weapons.
2. Solar constant - 1361 W/sq m Surface of Earth intercepting Sun's energy = PI*(6384 km) ^ 2 = 1.28 10^14 sq m
Sun's radiation total power on Earth = 1.74 x 10^17 W
Average power produced by the world / Sun's radiation power = 0.01%. Yet, until recently, Earth (or Gaya - to encompass the ecosystem as well) managed to deal with the Sun's radiation without warming.
Conclusion: the major cause of the warming is very unlikely caused directly by the world's energy production (ultimately transformed in heat) - as it contributes with only 0.01%. Look elsewhere.
Next article up, some manager whining about how there's a shortage of scientists because he wants to pay almost nothing and the domestic eggheads think they're worth more than $7.25/hr so we'll have to crank open the H1B floodgates until Physicists can only dare to daydream of having the career opportunities of a mcdonalds fry cook.
And why do you think scientists would come on H1B visas... in a country where the research budget is unexistent?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
The other two categories are tricky, and in my opinion, in extreme cases, shouldn't be attempted.
Trying to write too much stuff to a differing audience results in something that is mostly useless for both. We see this all the time in software. People try to write up a design spec / user manual / whatever aimed at everyone from the customers to the project manager to the team lead to the coders who will implement it.
Methinks you are being too specific to "PM/customer/coder in software industry". Let's try a generalization/particularization exercise:
PM = policy makers - e.g. elected politicians
customer = beneficiary party - e.g. citizens
coder = executive/providing party - e.g. govt, juridical system, etc
Now: which ones should be "spared of jargon" and the society (in its entirety or in parts) can still be "blissfully ignorant but still safe"?
Companies shouldn't be looking at private communications -- period, end of discussion. That's the job of the police. And if it's inconvenient, well too fucking bad. The alternative is so toxic and dangerous to democracy that anyone who would suggest it should be put on some kind of internet 'no fly' list and barred from connecting to the network.
True... and only the police should be able to hunt and bring the offender in from of justice for the expression of such an opinion (not any companies, nor the public). In fact, Google should implement some filters to restrict searches about companies looking at private communications.
It's a diploma mill. Amazon sends their employees to a diploma mill, gets a kick back from the mill, some of their workers pay for training they should've got on the job, and gets a nice tax break to boot, so the whole thing's paid for by the taxpayer.
You know... it's sounds line a good business proposition (successful corporations are always experts in externalizing the costs - otherwise how are they going to meet their legal obligations and make money for the stakeholders?)
The functional MRI now gives a much more accurate indication of when peaceful triggers light up the brain's pleasure regions, opening up alternative game designs, without crude weaponry.
So, fix your < $100 car (i.e game) with... someone remind me, please... how much for a "functional MRI" speedometer? ('cause, I s'ppose, each driver is be different, thus the speedometer would read something else)
"malicious and criminal behavior" = "malicious and criminal behavior of the unapproved kind"
How about simply not showing up? Let that guy talk in front the plants he brought:P
Also:
the fact that information increases value by sharing
I'm not quite sure RIAA/MPAA agree... (unless the shared info comes from Faecebook)
the respect and protection of privacy and civil liberties
"respect and protection of privacy and civil liberties" - that's indeed the most refined level of newspeak NSA would be capable of delivering for the present time. Expect increased sophistication as the society "evolves".
You do understand that the Ferengi are fiction right?
Are you sure? I'm seeing quite a high resemblance between their code and whatever remained after years of deregulation in the financial market... (you know, the very thing that made possible the world economic crisis)... probable the best applicable would be rule 261
I am actually asking a serious question, one that one that *directly* relates to you and your liberties.
My opinion: we are past the time liberties worth discussing - see rule 109.
You/we should have asked this question about 10-12 years earlier... as closer as one could after 9/11.
How's this "news for nerds?" Or someone explain me why it even matters?
(right... I started to feel I overstayed on/.)
It's news for nerds because it involves academic plagiarism. It matters because it affects a whole country.
I think (no... scratch that... I know for a fact) the lastproblem for Romania is whether or not the incumbent PM did or did not plagiarize his PhD thesis (there were 3 governments in the last 4 months...).
Also... I didn't see posts on/. about Greece problems... believe me, what happens in Greece has more impact on the whole world than what happens in Romania.
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I wonder if we'll see riots if they suddenly shut down, and everybody flies off to Rio. Better back up your shit. It can all go up in a puff of smoke. Been known to happen.. or no?
Also known: some institutions were deemed "too big to fail" in the past (I certainly hope it won't be the case when FB's bust happens).
Our descendants for TENS OF THOUSANDS of generations may curse their selfish, short-sighted ancestors of the 21st century.
And Americans in particular.
This imply the assumption the human race survives GW.
Require extraordinary proof.
There are plenty of iBooks already that mention Amazon.
We have one person making a blind accusation here.
What's so "blind" in sharing what has happened to her?
Sounds like the same logic used to prove global warming is caused by the falling population of pirates.
Such a compelling chart ... and you still don't believe it?
It's the musicians who sign up to these labels. They're the ones doing work for them. They're the ones who could cause the labels to shrivel and die simply by choosing or building alternative distribution methods.
Worst of all are the half a dozen successes who pretend that these scrounging middlemen act on musicians' behalf, with superstar whores acting no better than the celebrity representatives of Scientology from Bee Gees to Metallica to Lily Allen (only joking, Lily - you're no superstar, you're shit).
"we call it Riding the Gravy Train."
Wouldn't typing with these things on induce wrist and elbow problems?
All depends how much you use them while typing... another think to remember "code is not an asset, is a liability" (cost to write, maintenance costs, etc) - thus you have a strong incentive to... be as little liable as possible.
Have you done some research on that?
I used 2 lb wrist weights for a while - while not coding (but doing anything else, including drawing on white-board and such) it was quite fine and kept going fine until the stage of the project in which my clueless managers insisted in the creation of a good amount of liability in the allotted time, so I had to drop them.
Anyhow, I found it an interesting experience, one should try it at least once.
(yeah, I know, I know... reusable code and design pertain rather to software engineering than to computer science, but anyway)
Replace you chair with a gym ball - advantage: no moment your muscles will totally relax (even back and core muscles), no blood stagnating because of standing for long times.
I keep my computer running 24 hours a day.
Hmmm... be more careful, please... I thought I've just seen a mote of dust vanishing from my vision in a little flash!
(if you think hitting a small link takes a long time, you are free to Google)
Where to dump the radioactive waste so we can be *sure* it won't be able harm anyone anymore?
In another type of reactor?
TWRs are also capable, in principle, of reusing their own fuel.
Just not the king we use. Uranium and plutonium are terrible ways to achieve nuclear power. There is relatively little power output and a large amount of waste product, which we know will kill us if we even come close to it. The only benefit is being able to create nuclear weapons.
We could even get rid of the "waste product"
1. total world energy production - 2012 = 12 x 10^6 kT oil - thus about 5 x 10^20 J.
averaging over 356 days => average power produced=1.6 x 10^13 W
2. Solar constant - 1361 W/sq m
Surface of Earth intercepting Sun's energy = PI*(6384 km) ^ 2 = 1.28 10^14 sq m
Sun's radiation total power on Earth = 1.74 x 10^17 W
Average power produced by the world / Sun's radiation power = 0.01%. Yet, until recently, Earth (or Gaya - to encompass the ecosystem as well) managed to deal with the Sun's radiation without warming.
Conclusion: the major cause of the warming is very unlikely caused directly by the world's energy production (ultimately transformed in heat) - as it contributes with only 0.01%. Look elsewhere.
Next article up, some manager whining about how there's a shortage of scientists because he wants to pay almost nothing and the domestic eggheads think they're worth more than $7.25/hr so we'll have to crank open the H1B floodgates until Physicists can only dare to daydream of having the career opportunities of a mcdonalds fry cook.
And why do you think scientists would come on H1B visas... in a country where the research budget is unexistent?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Doh, I don't get it; you see, it's too much jargon already.
From the article:
Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space to an altitude of 37.000 meters to break several records including the sound of speed in freefall
Somebody should tell them that breaking this record may lend them into troubles with RIAA (label: Rhino/Warner Bros)
The other two categories are tricky, and in my opinion, in extreme cases, shouldn't be attempted.
Trying to write too much stuff to a differing audience results in something that is mostly useless for both. We see this all the time in software. People try to write up a design spec / user manual / whatever aimed at everyone from the customers to the project manager to the team lead to the coders who will implement it.
Methinks you are being too specific to "PM/customer/coder in software industry". Let's try a generalization/particularization exercise:
PM = policy makers - e.g. elected politicians
customer = beneficiary party - e.g. citizens
coder = executive/providing party - e.g. govt, juridical system, etc
Now: which ones should be "spared of jargon" and the society (in its entirety or in parts) can still be "blissfully ignorant but still safe"?
Companies shouldn't be looking at private communications -- period, end of discussion. That's the job of the police. And if it's inconvenient, well too fucking bad. The alternative is so toxic and dangerous to democracy that anyone who would suggest it should be put on some kind of internet 'no fly' list and barred from connecting to the network.
True... and only the police should be able to hunt and bring the offender in from of justice for the expression of such an opinion (not any companies, nor the public). In fact, Google should implement some filters to restrict searches about companies looking at private communications.
(grin)
It's a diploma mill. Amazon sends their employees to a diploma mill, gets a kick back from the mill, some of their workers pay for training they should've got on the job, and gets a nice tax break to boot, so the whole thing's paid for by the taxpayer.
You know... it's sounds line a good business proposition (successful corporations are always experts in externalizing the costs - otherwise how are they going to meet their legal obligations and make money for the stakeholders?)
I think what most people would "expect Amazon to do" would be to act a bit more humane,
Huh? It would break a too high number of rules (try 144, 211, 261, 284, 285 and numerous unlisted others).
[SARCASM]Where can I sign up[/SARCASM]
Try this first, you may earn your extra $2000/year easier and earlier.
The functional MRI now gives a much more accurate indication of when peaceful triggers light up the brain's pleasure regions, opening up alternative game designs, without crude weaponry. So, fix your < $100 car (i.e game) with... someone remind me, please... how much for a "functional MRI" speedometer? ('cause, I s'ppose, each driver is be different, thus the speedometer would read something else)
"malicious and criminal behavior" = "malicious and criminal behavior of the unapproved kind"
How about simply not showing up? Let that guy talk in front the plants he brought :P
Also:
the fact that information increases value by sharing
I'm not quite sure RIAA/MPAA agree... (unless the shared info comes from Faecebook)
the respect and protection of privacy and civil liberties
"respect and protection of privacy and civil liberties" - that's indeed the most refined level of newspeak NSA would be capable of delivering for the present time. Expect increased sophistication as the society "evolves".
It's news for nerds because it involves academic plagiarism. It matters because it affects a whole country.
You may wish to note that his answer involved two parts.
Noted. Returning the favor - sets a perspective how popular the "plagiarism" topic is on /.
You do understand that the Ferengi are fiction right?
Are you sure? I'm seeing quite a high resemblance between their code and whatever remained after years of deregulation in the financial market... (you know, the very thing that made possible the world economic crisis)... probable the best applicable would be rule 261
I am actually asking a serious question, one that one that *directly* relates to you and your liberties.
My opinion: we are past the time liberties worth discussing - see rule 109.
You/we should have asked this question about 10-12 years earlier... as closer as one could after 9/11.
Try and keep up.
Try to understand a metaphor when you see one...
How's this "news for nerds?" Or someone explain me why it even matters?
(right... I started to feel I overstayed on /.)
It's news for nerds because it involves academic plagiarism. It matters because it affects a whole country.
I think (no... scratch that... I know for a fact) the last problem for Romania is whether or not the incumbent PM did or did not plagiarize his PhD thesis (there were 3 governments in the last 4 months...).
Also... I didn't see posts on /. about Greece problems... believe me, what happens in Greece has more impact on the whole world than what happens in Romania.