So go ahead and buy your vending-machine gold (instantly losing 30%) and keep talking about hyperinflation as the recession eventually ends and gold crashes back to pre-recession prices.
If this were true, I could buy "hundreds of ounces" then divide them up and sell them at 20% markup. That sounds like easy money. Why am I sitting here in this cubicle?
I have an app running on an Ubuntu server which requires the Mono-HTTPAPI service. This service crashes about twice per month, bringing the app down until someone restarts it.
It is my experience that Mono is absolutely not ready for production use.
Science tries to understand the world using evidence and logic. Religion presumes to already understand everything, despite a complete lack of evidence. This is the difference.
Your little illustration is really poor. Someone could play that stupid game another way: Science tells you how to cure a disease. Religion tells you whether or not you should kill infidels.
Why presume they have a function? Evolution weeds out costly features. If fingerprints have little cost, it is wrong to assume they necessarily exist to serve some specific purpose.
Only children are hit because only children are outside. Adults spend their days in fabric-covered boxes staring at computer monitors, with roofing protecting them from strikes.
If she gets it bad, there are some drugs to control the symptoms in most people. If she has a minor case, it's really just an occasional annoyance. And either way, she won't have to wonder what she caught whenever she gets a fever; she will know the real cause.
There may be better languages for specialized sets of problems. But for CS and Software Engineering students, schools would serve students best by teaching:
Python for "basics of programming"
Ruby for OOP classes
Assembly and C for Operating Systems and other more hardware-focused stuff.
Yes software development is error-prone. But your assumption that they no QA process is highly questionable.
A bug which causes "completely unreliable results" would actually be quite easy to find, when it tells a white man he's disposed to sickle-cell, for example. I would imagine the process also has some "sanity checks" to see if the gender and eye color detected genetically matches the customer.
So, yes, there will be bugs. So what? Hopefully they will be caught in QA. If not, they will likely be caught afterward. It's not like "there might be bugs" is a good reason to stop using software. You're on a computer with buggy software right now, by Odin!
He still won't be able to get a job, though. Once he graduates in 2011, he will see all the job listings requiring 12 years of experience with Microsoft Office 2010, and he will just give up to do drugs.
Being smart isn't all there is to success. You also have to be in control of your emotions. And before age 25 or so, the part of the brain that handles emotions is still in flux. This kid genius could very well become too stressed or depressed to continue his out-performance once puberty kicks in.
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I could not find parking at the mall last weekend. You call that a depression?
You just said only minority groups live in poor neighborhoods. That's racism if I've ever heard it.
We're all impressed, grandpa. I bet you can fix the axle on an ox-cart faster than anybody, too.
Meanwhile, back in reality, paper money is gaining in value as prices fall.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aE9AA32hx8ek
So go ahead and buy your vending-machine gold (instantly losing 30%) and keep talking about hyperinflation as the recession eventually ends and gold crashes back to pre-recession prices.
If this were true, I could buy "hundreds of ounces" then divide them up and sell them at 20% markup. That sounds like easy money. Why am I sitting here in this cubicle?
I have an app running on an Ubuntu server which requires the Mono-HTTPAPI service. This service crashes about twice per month, bringing the app down until someone restarts it.
It is my experience that Mono is absolutely not ready for production use.
Science tries to understand the world using evidence and logic. Religion presumes to already understand everything, despite a complete lack of evidence. This is the difference.
Your little illustration is really poor. Someone could play that stupid game another way: Science tells you how to cure a disease. Religion tells you whether or not you should kill infidels.
Why presume they have a function? Evolution weeds out costly features. If fingerprints have little cost, it is wrong to assume they necessarily exist to serve some specific purpose.
Only children are hit because only children are outside. Adults spend their days in fabric-covered boxes staring at computer monitors, with roofing protecting them from strikes.
Did you just claim that no meteors travel faster than bullets? What, is there some astrological traffic cop out in space regulating their speeds?
You have to take into account the occasional earth-killer meteor. It skews the stats quite a bit.
Seriously, just add one attribute to every table, and now you have a new "dimension." Big freaking woop.
If she gets it bad, there are some drugs to control the symptoms in most people. If she has a minor case, it's really just an occasional annoyance. And either way, she won't have to wonder what she caught whenever she gets a fever; she will know the real cause.
There may be better languages for specialized sets of problems. But for CS and Software Engineering students, schools would serve students best by teaching:
LOL, who did Monsanto rape? What sort of money do they pay rapists? I thought they did biotech.
What are we going to do with all those zebra fish?
Make sure you try drugs, travel, a cult or two, and organized crime before you decide to step once more into the suicide booth.
Yes software development is error-prone. But your assumption that they no QA process is highly questionable.
A bug which causes "completely unreliable results" would actually be quite easy to find, when it tells a white man he's disposed to sickle-cell, for example. I would imagine the process also has some "sanity checks" to see if the gender and eye color detected genetically matches the customer.
So, yes, there will be bugs. So what? Hopefully they will be caught in QA. If not, they will likely be caught afterward. It's not like "there might be bugs" is a good reason to stop using software. You're on a computer with buggy software right now, by Odin!
Wrong. It's possible, but it's expensive.
Holy hypocrisy, batman! Reductionist much?
These phones don't cost $99. The $99 is a down-payment on a two-year payment plan.
He still won't be able to get a job, though. Once he graduates in 2011, he will see all the job listings requiring 12 years of experience with Microsoft Office 2010, and he will just give up to do drugs.
Being smart isn't all there is to success. You also have to be in control of your emotions. And before age 25 or so, the part of the brain that handles emotions is still in flux. This kid genius could very well become too stressed or depressed to continue his out-performance once puberty kicks in.
You think your chances of getting killed in an auto accident are particularly low because you are a safe driver?
I've got news for you. The vast majority of drivers consider themselves to be safer-than-average drivers. You're just fooling yourself.
It could be good, it could be bad. I would pay a monthly fee for access to all of the Steam games.