"This isn't going to be enforced the way you think."
Sorry, but that's just funny. Since when does enforcement actually happen in predetermined, expected, healthy or reasonable ways? Especially after some time, when the lack of serious enforcement already created mass adoption. In my humble opinion, any measure should consider the worst possible enforcement scenario before choosing to adopt it the measure at all... and even then reality proves many times to be even more creative...
I think your situation is easily explained. Strongly-typed languages provide a lot of insights to compilers and IDE about what you are trying to do, at the cost of having to write more explicit code. For both things, In this case, IDEs can shine and help you a lot with hints, error detection, automation and other tools.
For scripting languages with no types, were everything works or fails in runtime, were you have really no idea what atributes or methods are even there in your objects (due to duck-typing), there is really not much that an IDE CAN do. In this case, you might as well use a text editor and not loose much. Maybe someday an IDE will come able to predict what such a program will be doing and help a little, but it's a much harder problem to solve.
C/C++ is probably mixed because of historical reasons, but prefer to code in these with an IDE any day.
You can of course you can always use a text editor for any language, but I can't thing of a single reason why you would want to do so. I mean, why do you want to refuse available help to make your life easier? It's writing a novel and refusing to run a spell-checker on it on the premise that errors will be found eventually.
If redundancy is what you want you will sacrifice even more latency. In general, the latency (speed, but other considerations also apply) benefit of SSD has to do with fetching the required data directly, instead of waiting for the head of the disk to move along the radius (seek-time), and for the disk to rotate to the correct location, or both. These issues dominate performance in a HDD, unless the files are big and contiguous, in which case transfer time gets more important and thus the benefit of SSD over HDD diminishes.
Now, a RAID can have multiple disks working concurrently, so you will see a benefit only if your workflow involves reading a lot of files in parallel. Note that extra redundancy has additional penalties on writes, since consistency needs to be considered (and copies or parity blocks updated).
So, in a sense, it all depends on the actual workload. Redundancy can actually make things slower.
IMHO, the most interesting idea is a hybrid, that (with decent logic that may not be there) can choose which type of media is more useful given the concrete situation (read/write, big/small, etc). At least till SSD reaches a price point were no longer matters.
If you also drop your cigarette buts in the garbage can, I have absolutely no quarrel with you. But something nobody seems to mention is that smokers are the cause for around 90% of the garbage I seen on the streets every day. Careful and considerate smokers like yourself might be a minority, at least in my own experience.
Nevertheless, I'm against banning it where it doesn't affect others.
In the west at least, these kinds of laws are only applied moderately, just enough to avoid massive subversion. They still get to easily destroy anyone they would like, even against rights or other laws. I mean, it's easier to blame and condemn someone of blasphemy than pedophilia or terrorism, but not that much...
Do all those and, with real sacrifice, lower your total energy consumption by say, 30% (and I believe I'm being generous). Then have a policy of 4 kids per couple instead of two (replacement rate) and by the time you die your progeny of 28 (4+8+16) instead of 6 (2+2+2) will be spending enough that your lifetime sacrifices will mean nothing. It will keep growing exponentially worse from there.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong, because you are not. Just saying that the parent is also right, and even more so.
What happened with the tone in slashdot? Can we share our clearly non-universal knowledge by answering questions politely instead of demeaning people for no apparent reason? I'm guessing most people here are adults, and an adult tone of conversation should be expected. I do like the core of your answer though.
Depends, when you don't have to pay Stanford's tuition of tens of thousands the MMO model begins to be rather attractive. I don't thing we are doing a fair comparison here, we can't expect equal quality (or interaction) when we have:
1.- A new, unpolished methodology v/s tried and true solutions.
2.- A free format v/s expensive traditional education
3.- A class of thousands v/s a much smaller live class
4.- A course anyone can take v/s a class full of highly intelligent and prepared Stanford students.
Also, I don't believe we have a full online curriculum to account for the fact that no course is isolated, and nothing was done about the important requirements usually asked for those courses at Stanford.
No offence, but IMHO an airport is a pretty public space. A t-shirt could be equivalent, in a world full of text and adds, at most to a small whisper.
I agree with the part about your house, but if we eliminate any form of dissension from public spaces, even minor and quite respectful (although sarcastic for sure) as in this case I fear the consequences would be dire.
Why do you compare public and private spaces as equal? Also, how is a t-shirt analog to shouting? Were other passengers disturbed in any way? How is a slightly funny text an obscenity? I sincerely see no logical relation whatsoever, nor do I see how can your comment be insightful.
Just one counter example that come to mind is the "earth" app in Snow Crash, which in my opinion perfectly anticipated everything google earth (and maps) are trying to accomplish.
Except for the fact that I've seen no proof of any of your statements either. I'm not sure what you wanted to convey by quoting the "non-creative garbage" from somewhere, but the fact that you have a different opinion doesn't make me ignorant. In fact, many opinions are in my side, including artists, economists, lawyers, etc:
Zynga might be too close, but the vast majority of games actually copy each other so much that they create a GENDRE for god's sake. And that has been alwways a good thing for gaming in particular. The truth is that yes, there are indeed assholes, there will always be, but they seem to be on both sides and the question remains to where do they cause the less damage.
As far as being non-creative, I'm not sure who you mean. Personally, I develop new software for a living and I was curiously enough working on my novel when I got your reply.
I'm really fed up with all this copying paranoia. Did they do their code from scratch? Did they draw their own graphics from scratch? Then yeah, welcome, that's what competition is supposed to be all about. If EA's game is the better one and they did benefit from being first to market, good for them! If Zinga did at least one improvement and people like it better and switch, good for them too. I don't like Zinga, but I'm in favor of anyone suing about something like this to fail, and fail miserably.
Imagine if all this crap would go to other areas of living. Like if I were to open a bakery and come up with totally different shapes of bread than every other bakery out there.
Khan Academy is doing much more than publishing videos. They are creating a bunch of software to establish topic networks, tests, student tracking, etc. They are even testing an inverted scheme of education where students watch videos on their of (as homework) and go to class to exercise and being able to question the teachers and discuss the topics. This heavily impacts the ability of the teachers to provide more individual help while at the same time avoids lectures that go at the rate of the slower students. It's in his infancy no doubt, but it's a whole new learning approach/platform and that IMHO could result in an actual learning revolution.
Well, I'm not THAT involved, but thanks. I mainly put the wrong marital status, birthdate, location, etc. I don't spend time creating an alter ego:-)
But it's an example of how worrying about your online profile has become sort of mandatory.
Sure, but this is clearly not the case here. The main point is that many people UNDERSTAND "American" to mean "U.S. Citizen", almost exclusively. This is the root of this predominant confusion. When you say "Eurasia" you include both Europe and Asia, not Europe alone.
In fact, the word in Spanish is "Estadounidense" which is pretty much the "Unitedstatian" you seem to be mocking.
My brother had an interesting story. He refused to have Facebook only to find out that some friends created him one themselves! The would post photos, etc. At some point he had to take control of his internet identity and privacy. I have an account for that reason, plus I lie on my personal information since noise and inconsistency is the only kind of privacy left.
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"This isn't going to be enforced the way you think."
Sorry, but that's just funny. Since when does enforcement actually happen in predetermined, expected, healthy or reasonable ways? Especially after some time, when the lack of serious enforcement already created mass adoption. In my humble opinion, any measure should consider the worst possible enforcement scenario before choosing to adopt it the measure at all... and even then reality proves many times to be even more creative...
I think your situation is easily explained. Strongly-typed languages provide a lot of insights to compilers and IDE about what you are trying to do, at the cost of having to write more explicit code. For both things, In this case, IDEs can shine and help you a lot with hints, error detection, automation and other tools.
For scripting languages with no types, were everything works or fails in runtime, were you have really no idea what atributes or methods are even there in your objects (due to duck-typing), there is really not much that an IDE CAN do. In this case, you might as well use a text editor and not loose much. Maybe someday an IDE will come able to predict what such a program will be doing and help a little, but it's a much harder problem to solve.
C/C++ is probably mixed because of historical reasons, but prefer to code in these with an IDE any day.
You can of course you can always use a text editor for any language, but I can't thing of a single reason why you would want to do so. I mean, why do you want to refuse available help to make your life easier? It's writing a novel and refusing to run a spell-checker on it on the premise that errors will be found eventually.
If redundancy is what you want you will sacrifice even more latency. In general, the latency (speed, but other considerations also apply) benefit of SSD has to do with fetching the required data directly, instead of waiting for the head of the disk to move along the radius (seek-time), and for the disk to rotate to the correct location, or both. These issues dominate performance in a HDD, unless the files are big and contiguous, in which case transfer time gets more important and thus the benefit of SSD over HDD diminishes.
Now, a RAID can have multiple disks working concurrently, so you will see a benefit only if your workflow involves reading a lot of files in parallel. Note that extra redundancy has additional penalties on writes, since consistency needs to be considered (and copies or parity blocks updated).
So, in a sense, it all depends on the actual workload. Redundancy can actually make things slower.
IMHO, the most interesting idea is a hybrid, that (with decent logic that may not be there) can choose which type of media is more useful given the concrete situation (read/write, big/small, etc). At least till SSD reaches a price point were no longer matters.
If you also drop your cigarette buts in the garbage can, I have absolutely no quarrel with you. But something nobody seems to mention is that smokers are the cause for around 90% of the garbage I seen on the streets every day. Careful and considerate smokers like yourself might be a minority, at least in my own experience.
Nevertheless, I'm against banning it where it doesn't affect others.
Really? I've only seen people do trial and error repetitions and say 'Oh' when they see the effect.
The other 26% already had that opinion...
were actually applied rigorously...
In the west at least, these kinds of laws are only applied moderately, just enough to avoid massive subversion. They still get to easily destroy anyone they would like, even against rights or other laws. I mean, it's easier to blame and condemn someone of blasphemy than pedophilia or terrorism, but not that much...
Do all those and, with real sacrifice, lower your total energy consumption by say, 30% (and I believe I'm being generous). Then have a policy of 4 kids per couple instead of two (replacement rate) and by the time you die your progeny of 28 (4+8+16) instead of 6 (2+2+2) will be spending enough that your lifetime sacrifices will mean nothing. It will keep growing exponentially worse from there.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong, because you are not. Just saying that the parent is also right, and even more so.
What happened with the tone in slashdot? Can we share our clearly non-universal knowledge by answering questions politely instead of demeaning people for no apparent reason? I'm guessing most people here are adults, and an adult tone of conversation should be expected. I do like the core of your answer though.
Depends, when you don't have to pay Stanford's tuition of tens of thousands the MMO model begins to be rather attractive. I don't thing we are doing a fair comparison here, we can't expect equal quality (or interaction) when we have:
1.- A new, unpolished methodology v/s tried and true solutions.
2.- A free format v/s expensive traditional education
3.- A class of thousands v/s a much smaller live class
4.- A course anyone can take v/s a class full of highly intelligent and prepared Stanford students.
Also, I don't believe we have a full online curriculum to account for the fact that no course is isolated, and nothing was done about the important requirements usually asked for those courses at Stanford.
Not so. You can just copy/paste your old steam folder with a new install without downloading or reinstalling every game. I've done it.
A thousand striking at the branches of evil...
No offence, but IMHO an airport is a pretty public space. A t-shirt could be equivalent, in a world full of text and adds, at most to a small whisper. I agree with the part about your house, but if we eliminate any form of dissension from public spaces, even minor and quite respectful (although sarcastic for sure) as in this case I fear the consequences would be dire.
Why do you compare public and private spaces as equal? Also, how is a t-shirt analog to shouting? Were other passengers disturbed in any way? How is a slightly funny text an obscenity? I sincerely see no logical relation whatsoever, nor do I see how can your comment be insightful.
Just one counter example that come to mind is the "earth" app in Snow Crash, which in my opinion perfectly anticipated everything google earth (and maps) are trying to accomplish.
Mod parent up. If that's not informative I don't know what is.
There is other countries in Asia apart from China...
Eliminating any kind of political campaign contribution not made by a natural individual, with a limit (say $100). This might iluminate the issue a little
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm
Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity | The Economist
Why abolish software patents - software patents wiki (en.swpat.org)
When Patents Attack! | This American Life
Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture | Video on TED.com
Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? Times Labs Blog
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation - Boing Boing
US patent trolling costs $29b: study - Strategy - Business - News - iTnews.com.au
Patents | Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/
Zynga might be too close, but the vast majority of games actually copy each other so much that they create a GENDRE for god's sake. And that has been alwways a good thing for gaming in particular. The truth is that yes, there are indeed assholes, there will always be, but they seem to be on both sides and the question remains to where do they cause the less damage.
As far as being non-creative, I'm not sure who you mean. Personally, I develop new software for a living and I was curiously enough working on my novel when I got your reply.
I'm really fed up with all this copying paranoia. Did they do their code from scratch? Did they draw their own graphics from scratch? Then yeah, welcome, that's what competition is supposed to be all about. If EA's game is the better one and they did benefit from being first to market, good for them! If Zinga did at least one improvement and people like it better and switch, good for them too. I don't like Zinga, but I'm in favor of anyone suing about something like this to fail, and fail miserably.
Imagine if all this crap would go to other areas of living. Like if I were to open a bakery and come up with totally different shapes of bread than every other bakery out there.
Alternatives are getting here I would say.
Khan Academy is doing much more than publishing videos. They are creating a bunch of software to establish topic networks, tests, student tracking, etc. They are even testing an inverted scheme of education where students watch videos on their of (as homework) and go to class to exercise and being able to question the teachers and discuss the topics. This heavily impacts the ability of the teachers to provide more individual help while at the same time avoids lectures that go at the rate of the slower students. It's in his infancy no doubt, but it's a whole new learning approach/platform and that IMHO could result in an actual learning revolution.
Well, I'm not THAT involved, but thanks. I mainly put the wrong marital status, birthdate, location, etc. I don't spend time creating an alter ego :-)
But it's an example of how worrying about your online profile has become sort of mandatory.
Sure, but this is clearly not the case here. The main point is that many people UNDERSTAND "American" to mean "U.S. Citizen", almost exclusively. This is the root of this predominant confusion. When you say "Eurasia" you include both Europe and Asia, not Europe alone.
In fact, the word in Spanish is "Estadounidense" which is pretty much the "Unitedstatian" you seem to be mocking.
My brother had an interesting story. He refused to have Facebook only to find out that some friends created him one themselves! The would post photos, etc. At some point he had to take control of his internet identity and privacy. I have an account for that reason, plus I lie on my personal information since noise and inconsistency is the only kind of privacy left.