Well, I think we can at least say that the model is falsifiable to a certain point. We know we exist. If the model cannot predict a single solitary planet similar to ours (obviously I wouldn't expect it to come up with an exact match), then we know that it is obviously a bad model.
Beyond that, yeah, you're right. We have no way of knowing how correct it is, because we have nothing to verify against.
True, but that would still require me to have easy access to a Windows machine, which I don't when I'm not at work. I avoid Windows where at all possible.
Interesting! I just took a look at the Embarcadero page, and Delphi does look pretty awesome.
Unfortunately, I then went to their online store, looked at their prices, and damn near shit myself. I'll definitely give FreePascal a look though! Thanks for the tip!
People... still use Fark? What year do you live in.
Get off my lawn! *waggles cane* I liked Fark then, and I like Fark now. You young whippersnappers have no idea what's good anymore. Al you kids do nowadays is snapchat instagrams of your breakfasts.
And don't forget that lawyer (can't find the link ATM), that publicly declared that he's just waiting for the precedent to be set, so he can demand another 180+ iphones can be unlocked.
And that's just one lawyer. Who knows how many others would also jump at this like a starving piranha.
So basically, if I take the gamble and turn out wrong, I can end up with some OSS SJW making my life miserable. You can see why anyone would be nervous to produce closed source code with QT if they arn't a megacorp.
Oh, and I forgot to respond to you first point. No, I *don't* have a business model. Not everyone wants to turn everything into a business venture. If I have an idea to make something, I shouldn't have to quit my day job and put my entire life on the line just to satisfy some ridiculous notion that it's pointless to do something unless you go balls-in.
Not everybody can get a "small loan" of a million dollars from their silver spoon wielding parents.
I have noticed. I've also noticed that expensive software is virtually unused and unknown in non-corporate circles, because the cost alone means the average developer isn't even going to waste time downloading the free trial. How many people do you know are, for example, running officially licensed copies of Websphere to run their website? Or Oracle 12c?
That's why what Unity and Unreal have done is such massive news. In one single stroke, game development is now feasible for massive swaths of people for whom it was impossible before.
FYI, I just came across this blog article and thought people would find it interesting.
Apparently efforts have been made to make it easier to use Unity for application development. Resource utilization may still be a deal-breaker for some though.
Normally, I would say that this is a bad thing, but Xamarian's pricing is brutal anyone who just wants to play around, explore, and possibly try to sell an app or two if they're halfway decent. When I was looking at cross-platform development tools, I was really interested in using Xamarian, but I wasn't about to fork over $1000/year just to play with developing cross platform software (ie: mobile AND desktop). And their starter edition only runs with Visual Studio, which is Windows only.
QT is even worse. Their documentation actually states "Please consult a lawyer before using QT for commercial development". Their pricing is so brutal they don't even advertise it on their website. I had to google for leaked price lists just to get a ballpark figure, and the prices almost made me fall out of my chair. So heaven forbid you write an app and think, "Hey, this ain't bad. I'll put this on the app stores and see if anyone likes it." QT will be suddenly expecting several thousand dollars right up front before you legally able to sell.
I really like the "It's ok, you can pay us once you're making money" system that Unreal and Unity have switched to. THAT's how you encourage indie adoption. Unfortunately they're geared primarily for making games, not regular applications, so if you wanted to create some kind of database-type system or whatever, then those toolkits are not a good fit.
I don't understand how a company that claims to be in the security business, can screw up so much, and so often, and still be in the security business.
They severely botched their browser, their support tools, their certificates.... You couldn't trust these people to warm up a pre-cooked hot dog without giving you salmonella.
It's amazing how instead of taking companies like these to task over their continual screw ups, they are either ignored at best, or rewarded at worst.
.....*facepalm* I honestly don't remember finding anything involving prebuilt binaries, last time I looked. Granted, this was also many years ago, so... *shrug*.
I would never buy a TPLink device (well, to be fair, *any* consumer router) that I couldn't replace the firmware on. It's been very well established that router firmwares are crap.
My router choices are based on the DDWRT HCL. (I'd try OpenWRT, but having to set up a complete toolchain and compile the thing is a bit of a turnoff for me.)
Thank you for the correction regarding the sodomy laws. But the PP thing is absolutely NOT false. There has been so much publicity about the whole ridiculous affair that I can't believe you're even trying to deny it.
As far as woman's heath, I'm talking about services that PP provided to women (and men) who needed them, like STD checking or other basic health assistance. PP were the only ones that provided this kind of assistance to the public at large.
Abortions in particular are a huge issue, because they occur whether Republicans like it or not. The difference is that without places like PP, women resort to more brutal methods like the cliche coathanger. The abortions *still* occur, but now with the additional risk of possibly killing the mother as well.
I can understand why one would need to use that date as test data for an application, but why would anyone set their system date to that in the first place? (Not that I'm apologizing for Apple, that's a pretty stupid bug...)
I'm always curious about how such things come about. Did some kid go "Oh! I know, lets see how far back the iPhone can go! LOL YOLO"
The problem is that religious nutjobs will take your inch and try to steal a mile. They will do their damndest to shove their nose in your business, and will use any means to do so, at every possible opportunity, even if it's illegal. I mean, look at what's happening in the US right this moment.
Michigan just banned sodomy despite the fact that have a whackton of real and devastating problems that are costing people their lives.
Republicans are actively waging a war against women, cause vaginas are skeery. They went so far as to produce fraudulent footage of planned parenthood just so they could open an investigation. It has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, repeatedly, that they they lied and cheated in order to accomplish what they wanted, and yet somehow people are letting them.
So what is the result? Women are now dying because of various medical issues that would have been trivially prevented by Planned Parenthood, because they either didn't have, or didn't know they had, options.
So yeah, your idea of freedom is great in an ideal world. So is Communism. We don't live in an ideal world.
At least fanatic Muslims are honest about wanting to murder you. Christian fanatics prefer to murder you by indirect means so that they can pretend that they are the good guys.
Slashdot Mirror
That is true (I've worked with both), but it was just an example to illustrate my point.
Well, I think we can at least say that the model is falsifiable to a certain point. We know we exist. If the model cannot predict a single solitary planet similar to ours (obviously I wouldn't expect it to come up with an exact match), then we know that it is obviously a bad model.
Beyond that, yeah, you're right. We have no way of knowing how correct it is, because we have nothing to verify against.
True, but that would still require me to have easy access to a Windows machine, which I don't when I'm not at work. I avoid Windows where at all possible.
Interesting! I just took a look at the Embarcadero page, and Delphi does look pretty awesome.
Unfortunately, I then went to their online store, looked at their prices, and damn near shit myself. I'll definitely give FreePascal a look though! Thanks for the tip!
If according to this computer model, Earth shouldn't even exist, then the computer model is fundamentally and critically flawed.
Is it just cause it's "astrophysics" and therefore automatically worth of attention, even when it's useless?
People... still use Fark? What year do you live in.
Get off my lawn! *waggles cane* I liked Fark then, and I like Fark now. You young whippersnappers have no idea what's good anymore. Al you kids do nowadays is snapchat instagrams of your breakfasts.
And don't forget that lawyer (can't find the link ATM), that publicly declared that he's just waiting for the precedent to be set, so he can demand another 180+ iphones can be unlocked.
And that's just one lawyer. Who knows how many others would also jump at this like a starving piranha.
https://wiki.qt.io/Licensing-t...
So basically, if I take the gamble and turn out wrong, I can end up with some OSS SJW making my life miserable. You can see why anyone would be nervous to produce closed source code with QT if they arn't a megacorp.
I think he's referring to Xamarin, not VS.
Oh, and I forgot to respond to you first point. No, I *don't* have a business model. Not everyone wants to turn everything into a business venture. If I have an idea to make something, I shouldn't have to quit my day job and put my entire life on the line just to satisfy some ridiculous notion that it's pointless to do something unless you go balls-in.
Not everybody can get a "small loan" of a million dollars from their silver spoon wielding parents.
I have noticed. I've also noticed that expensive software is virtually unused and unknown in non-corporate circles, because the cost alone means the average developer isn't even going to waste time downloading the free trial. How many people do you know are, for example, running officially licensed copies of Websphere to run their website? Or Oracle 12c?
That's why what Unity and Unreal have done is such massive news. In one single stroke, game development is now feasible for massive swaths of people for whom it was impossible before.
ONLY if it's not statically linked. Last I checked, this is not an option for Apple. Dunno about Android or others.
What amazes me, is that Arizona doesn't have it's own Fark tag. It's certainly batshit crazy enough.
FYI, I just came across this blog article and thought people would find it interesting.
Apparently efforts have been made to make it easier to use Unity for application development. Resource utilization may still be a deal-breaker for some though.
https://medium.com/@raquezha/u...
I haven't checked Unreal yet, maybe there's stuff for that too.
Sure! I'd be perfectly fine with that.
Too bad it's windows only. :\
Normally, I would say that this is a bad thing, but Xamarian's pricing is brutal anyone who just wants to play around, explore, and possibly try to sell an app or two if they're halfway decent. When I was looking at cross-platform development tools, I was really interested in using Xamarian, but I wasn't about to fork over $1000/year just to play with developing cross platform software (ie: mobile AND desktop). And their starter edition only runs with Visual Studio, which is Windows only.
QT is even worse. Their documentation actually states "Please consult a lawyer before using QT for commercial development". Their pricing is so brutal they don't even advertise it on their website. I had to google for leaked price lists just to get a ballpark figure, and the prices almost made me fall out of my chair. So heaven forbid you write an app and think, "Hey, this ain't bad. I'll put this on the app stores and see if anyone likes it." QT will be suddenly expecting several thousand dollars right up front before you legally able to sell.
I really like the "It's ok, you can pay us once you're making money" system that Unreal and Unity have switched to. THAT's how you encourage indie adoption. Unfortunately they're geared primarily for making games, not regular applications, so if you wanted to create some kind of database-type system or whatever, then those toolkits are not a good fit.
I hadn't heard about this particular adblocker. I'll go check it out.
Thanks for the tip, Google and Yahoo!
I don't understand how a company that claims to be in the security business, can screw up so much, and so often, and still be in the security business.
They severely botched their browser, their support tools, their certificates.... You couldn't trust these people to warm up a pre-cooked hot dog without giving you salmonella.
It's amazing how instead of taking companies like these to task over their continual screw ups, they are either ignored at best, or rewarded at worst.
.....*facepalm* I honestly don't remember finding anything involving prebuilt binaries, last time I looked. Granted, this was also many years ago, so... *shrug*.
Thanks for pointing that out for me!
I would never buy a TPLink device (well, to be fair, *any* consumer router) that I couldn't replace the firmware on. It's been very well established that router firmwares are crap.
My router choices are based on the DDWRT HCL. (I'd try OpenWRT, but having to set up a complete toolchain and compile the thing is a bit of a turnoff for me.)
Argh, it's times like this that I'm annoyed Slashdot won't let me assign points to an post when I've posted. This totally deserves a +1 funny.
Thank you for the correction regarding the sodomy laws. But the PP thing is absolutely NOT false. There has been so much publicity about the whole ridiculous affair that I can't believe you're even trying to deny it.
As far as woman's heath, I'm talking about services that PP provided to women (and men) who needed them, like STD checking or other basic health assistance. PP were the only ones that provided this kind of assistance to the public at large.
Abortions in particular are a huge issue, because they occur whether Republicans like it or not. The difference is that without places like PP, women resort to more brutal methods like the cliche coathanger. The abortions *still* occur, but now with the additional risk of possibly killing the mother as well.
Well, to be fair... it IS Friday....
I can understand why one would need to use that date as test data for an application, but why would anyone set their system date to that in the first place? (Not that I'm apologizing for Apple, that's a pretty stupid bug...)
I'm always curious about how such things come about. Did some kid go "Oh! I know, lets see how far back the iPhone can go! LOL YOLO"
The problem is that religious nutjobs will take your inch and try to steal a mile. They will do their damndest to shove their nose in your business, and will use any means to do so, at every possible opportunity, even if it's illegal. I mean, look at what's happening in the US right this moment.
Michigan just banned sodomy despite the fact that have a whackton of real and devastating problems that are costing people their lives.
Republicans are actively waging a war against women, cause vaginas are skeery. They went so far as to produce fraudulent footage of planned parenthood just so they could open an investigation. It has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, repeatedly, that they they lied and cheated in order to accomplish what they wanted, and yet somehow people are letting them.
So what is the result? Women are now dying because of various medical issues that would have been trivially prevented by Planned Parenthood, because they either didn't have, or didn't know they had, options.
So yeah, your idea of freedom is great in an ideal world. So is Communism. We don't live in an ideal world.
At least fanatic Muslims are honest about wanting to murder you. Christian fanatics prefer to murder you by indirect means so that they can pretend that they are the good guys.