Linguistic bat-sign detected! *whooshes in*. Yes your right in the sense that computer languages are languages in the proper sense of the term. What they are not however is human languages that follow a chomsky style deep grammar. Nor does it have any of the floating signification characteristics and multiple other features common to human languages. "Love" can mean a million different things to a human, but "function()" has only one meaning to a computer.
The main reason however to teach foreign human languages to children is because we know from childhood development research that a child that learns a second language at a young age is vastly more capable of learning new languages as an adult. If you make it to adulthood with only english theres a greatly enhanced chance you'll never be truly conversational in another language , even after years of living amongst that language. For instance immigrants who arive with only their home language often have a lifetime of struggling with the new language despite constant deep exposure. Not always, but often.
However children who grow up with more than one language are often adept at picking up new languages rapidly.
There seems to be a mechanism behind switching languages that if it isn't learned early never really works well later on in life. Theres no evidence programming languages however function this way. And THAT is why you teach *human* second languages in childhood.
The App store TOS prohibits releasing software that is GPL. You can find your favorite source if you google "app store gpl".
Not quite but kind of. As far as I can tell theres nothing to stop you distributing GPL stuff on the mac app store, but theres a major hurdle for the IOS one. The IOS tos requires all apps to be statically linked against libraries,which makes LGPL code somewhat useless for the purpose as the LGPL requires libraries be dynamically linked so they can be swapped out for updated or user tweaked versions. I'm not entirely sure why they dont allow it (I'm fairly sure the OS can do it, and that they are used extensively in jailbroken apps) but I assume its something to do with the complexities of code signing?
If you follow this argument to its conclusion, it doesn't lead to where you want it to lead.
Denialists (And lets use the proper term here. "AGW isnt happening" is so far out of the scientific ball park its bordering on creationist level silly by now) have been arguing that "Its the sun not CO2(somehow, Im yet to see a good explaination of this supposed mechanism thats stopping CO2 from doing what the physics say it'll do) causing this" but sunspot evidence seems to suggest that we ought be cooling.
And we're not.
And thats a big problem, to which I'd suggest means the mythical mechanism that stops CO2 from absorbing infra red *just like we've seen in the lab since the 1800s when scientists tarted warning about the greenhouse effect* , probably doesn't exist and in fact physics is right and we do have a greenhouse effect (aka 'climate change') problem.
Not entirely sure how thats an existential threat to humanity, unless AI research has gotten a lot darker since I last looked at it?
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Plenty of high end automation stuff uses two wire protocols. Both the crestron and AMX lines use variants of RS485 for their non ethernet control distribution (Ethernets fine but its bulky and not well suited to in-wall wiring). It doesnt need to be RS485, but having the wiring in place makes it easier to drop in control panels around the place to let the user interact with the control units driving the lighting dimmers and what not.
I ended up deleting my google+ account over the stupid youtube integration. I'm sick of being bait and switched by that company. I don't WANT people on Google+ to go finding my gmail page, its for work. The invasions of privacy are getting too much to bear. I can't use my own name on Facebook anymore due to the horrible graph search and abuse of it by recruiters, and now google is trying to burn down whatever privacy I have left.
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If your building from scratch, then design your homes wiring in a structured manner. Consider having twisted pair runs around the house for touchpanels or switchpanels (RS485 is still the greatest automation protocol since sliced cheese IMHO) with that and power connections coming back to small hideable racks around the joint. Have Cat5 and Fibre ports around the house, and perhaps instead of messing around with home handyman junk like X10, consider using high end gear like the AMX's and Crestrons of the world. Not actually expensive if you snarf all that stuff off ebay!
People with addictive personalities more prone to mental problems. Who'd have thunk?
Or , ya know, you could actually read the article. Its not about how prone someone is, its when the symptoms start. Schizophrenia shows early symptoms in childhood, and if you've got it, you will succumb to psychosis eventually. Whats happening here is the pot smokers are succumbing earlier. This wont affect most people, but those who are succeptible, perhaps pots a bad idea. The trick scientifically is identifying those in danger.
Its entirely possible Dark matter is about the only thing capable of explaining what I hurked up last time I attempted to eat mcdonalds. Theres definately exotic matter in those "burgers".
Perhaps this is where my recently acquired extra weight is coming from
By "look for" read "worry about". The first guy that comes up with evidence that global warming isn't happening is going to get a Nobel Prize. And since Fourier first demonstrated CO2's greenhouse effects in the 1800s (And promptly started the scientific community flipping out about the greenhouse effect and the industrial revolution), nothing has arisen to demonstrate that the physics is wrong. Unfortunately to get that Nobel prize it would require some pretty massive evidence that some unseen mechanism is stopping CO2 warming the atmosphere PLUS a mechanism to explain how all the thermometers and various other measurement tools are wrong. Honestly reason and occams razor would suggest that no such breakthrough is going to occur.
Which would be fine if people where "massaging the data". Fortunately theres no evidence of that.
As my sister (A post-doc climate researcher) pointed out to me once , her profession is filled with tens of thousands of researchers desparately looking for that one piece of evidence that would show that the whole fields got it wrong and theres nothing to look for. Unfortunately in the century since scientists started worring about CO2 and infra-red, that evidence has failed to materialize.
There is no conspiracy dude. Nobody is massaging anything. Its just science.
So is quantum physics, but that hasn't stopped a century of physicists from using statistical methods to work around the giant clusterfuck that lurks below the planck length.
I had this exact same thing told to me by an undergrad physicist, so I pointed him at my sister who's a post-doc climate researcher and promptly schooled the guy on how its done (And pointed out to him why his knowledge of fluid dynamics was sorely lacking). He's not a skeptic anymore.
For a less confrontational approach, go into your library (I'm going to take a guess and say your undergrad at best) and actually read some of the research, then come back with an informed opinion. Thanks!
The app my company develops is dropping iOS support in the next version. iOS is different enough to make UI improvements a pain to keep compatible.
If your doing this but keeping android, your doing it for ideology not practicality. For all the IOS faults,keeping up with device compatibility re UI is not one of them. I've got 3 ios devices, an iphone 4 an iphone 5 and an ipad. It covers *all* scenarios. I've lost count of the number of Android devices I've needed to buy until I gave up and stopped developing for Android because tracking cross device compatibility just got too damn expensive.
The drug sellers might not, but the people who deposited coins at Silkroad might. Unless they already bought something, they did not do anything illegal yet, and there was also legal stuff available for sell at Silkroad, so there is no proof that they intended to do illegal things. So the FBI simply stole their money without justification and thus they are very likely entitled to get it back and would have reason to sue.
I'm sure the FBI will be quite accomodating to people wanting their buttcoins back. All they will need to do is just let the FBI know their name, details and the outline of the transactions involved and it'll be fine, just you see.
If you know someone's bitcoin address, you for all purposes know their entire transaction history. If I receive bit pins I have to transmit that address. It's really not that hard to figure it out. Heck half the time you can type in a bitcoin address into google and it'll pull up their reddit account or whatever.
Well this applies to anything else. If I aquire a load of highly prized poppies and don't report my acquisitions, how will they know?
In the end thats what tax investigators are for. Fortunately the lack of anonymity in bitcoin (Just look up the blockchain) , makes it easy enough to work out.
Picard only drank earl grey. If I remember right one epiosode someone gave him some hippy herbal tea and he hated it. So the computer would not have trouble working out what sort of tea he meant.
I suspect thats how the habit of putting every single employee in the lab, down to the bloody janitor, on the author list of a paper came about. You get 10 staff in a lab and a whole swag of postgrads , it means that even if someones only doing the equivilent of a paper every 5 years, his name is on one or two a year (Perhaps he simply verified a dataset , or even nodded along at a meeting, or something trivial to justify it).
Its even more problematic in areas like climate change where a large portion of the population appears unable to distinguish laymans commentary from actual research by climate scientists. If people spend a lot of time looking at conspiracy theory , creationist, or other similarly themed stuff on the net, google throws lots of denial sites at them, whereas people who have more analyical interests are more likely to get articles from science sites. The problem here is that folks with the conspiracy bent end up having no way to find information that might clear up their confusion if all they are getting is wattsup or alex jones or whatever. This just feeds the confirmation biases, and thats proving really harmful to science education right now.
If you can sell them for $1 million, then by definition they are worth $1 million.
Except its *really* hard to turn bitcoin to actual coin, compared to the other way around. Most of the sites have huge waits, or pathetic maximum transferal amounts,
I live in Australia which has a hybrid UHC/Private system. Basically everyone pays for "medicare" (Which I guess would be called "medicaid" in the US) as a small addition to tax. Totally transparent, its just part of income tax and the contribution is income dependent. On top of that we have a private health system where you can get private health cover AS WELL which gives access to private hospitals (although in my experience the private hospitals are inferior to the excellent government ones, especially in emergency care). You have a choice here, but the govt system is largely excellent, however there might be waiting times to see specialists , sometimes in the months range for non essential stuff, and thats where private health cover is advisable. Fortunately private health insurance is well regulated and the doctor, not the health insurance companies , have final say in approving treatments.
Anyway, as you can imagine, when we have progressive governments, funding for the public system increases, and when you get conservative governments, that funding decreases.
But it backfires horribly to defund it, and ironically the actual costs increase.
I can giive an example. Under state labor, my local hospital had the 4 hour rule. In emergency, you would be seen within 15 minutes of ariving (or less if its urgent) , and within 4 hours either be seen by a doctor and sent home (maybe with medication or bandages or whatever) or admitted to hospital. In the case of borderline cases like Influensa, a patient would be sent to an Accute observation ward for overnight assessment. Its a great system that works brilliantly.
However in the last few years our state has had a conservative government that has systematically tried to defund the hospital. The end result is that waiting times have blown out to be multiple hours for non trauma cases in the emergency ward, and doctors are increasingly overworked and stressed out.
Last time I was admitted to emergency ward I was in with internal bleeding. Because I didn't *look* unhealthy it took 3 hours to see and diagnose me. This happened when I finally vomited blood and collapsed in the waiting room unconscious. I required surgery and a few weeks recovery. The doctor told me that if I had been diagnosed within half an hour of being admitted, it would have been a simple procedure and I would have been home within a day. As a result of underfunding, I cost the government *vastly more* in treatment costs then had I not. This is not a case of malpractice, the reality was the hospital was overworked and it took 3 hours to see me because thats how long it took to free up a doctor from all the other emergency cases.
It might seem paradoxical that properly funding universal healthcare is cheaper than not properly funding it, but it actually makes sense when you remember that prompt adequate treatment is almost always cheaper than trying to patch up some poor sod who's condition has been made worse by not treating it.
I recently put in an SSD on my 2011 MBP after I managed to fry my old hard drive and honestly no upgrade I've ever done to this machine has given me such a noticable and amazing performance boost.
I strongly recomend this upgrade. Macs just sing with an SSD.
When Kerry signed the Small Arms treaty, it was innocuous in itself. However, it did have a clause which allows UN troops to operate on US soil independent of the Army and police forces.
No it doesn't. UN troops can't deploy *anywhere* without the Security councils approval, and *any* decision of the security council can be vetoed by the united states. It literally has no power to deploy anywhere without the unanimous approval of the United States, China, Russia, France and England. If any one of those countries say "No", it can not happen.
The UN is just a group of representitives from each country. It has no powers beyond what those countries wish it to have. its not a government, and it has very limited powers beyond what its members give it. If it ever deployed forces into the united states to abduct or kill someone, chances are those forces would be arrested, imprisoned and perhaps even executed as a hostile foreign power. And it would not be the UN, either. That power has never existed for the UN and the US is sufficiently stand-offish with the body that it would never agree to it. And without the agreement of the US, it will never happen.
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"perhaps look into the concept of semiotics?"
Linguistic bat-sign detected! *whooshes in*. Yes your right in the sense that computer languages are languages in the proper sense of the term. What they are not however is human languages that follow a chomsky style deep grammar. Nor does it have any of the floating signification characteristics and multiple other features common to human languages. "Love" can mean a million different things to a human, but "function()" has only one meaning to a computer.
The main reason however to teach foreign human languages to children is because we know from childhood development research that a child that learns a second language at a young age is vastly more capable of learning new languages as an adult. If you make it to adulthood with only english theres a greatly enhanced chance you'll never be truly conversational in another language , even after years of living amongst that language. For instance immigrants who arive with only their home language often have a lifetime of struggling with the new language despite constant deep exposure. Not always, but often.
However children who grow up with more than one language are often adept at picking up new languages rapidly.
There seems to be a mechanism behind switching languages that if it isn't learned early never really works well later on in life. Theres no evidence programming languages however function this way. And THAT is why you teach *human* second languages in childhood.
Not quite but kind of. As far as I can tell theres nothing to stop you distributing GPL stuff on the mac app store, but theres a major hurdle for the IOS one. The IOS tos requires all apps to be statically linked against libraries ,which makes LGPL code somewhat useless for the purpose as the LGPL requires libraries be dynamically linked so they can be swapped out for updated or user tweaked versions. I'm not entirely sure why they dont allow it (I'm fairly sure the OS can do it, and that they are used extensively in jailbroken apps) but I assume its something to do with the complexities of code signing?
If you follow this argument to its conclusion, it doesn't lead to where you want it to lead.
Denialists (And lets use the proper term here. "AGW isnt happening" is so far out of the scientific ball park its bordering on creationist level silly by now) have been arguing that "Its the sun not CO2(somehow, Im yet to see a good explaination of this supposed mechanism thats stopping CO2 from doing what the physics say it'll do) causing this" but sunspot evidence seems to suggest that we ought be cooling.
And we're not.
And thats a big problem, to which I'd suggest means the mythical mechanism that stops CO2 from absorbing infra red *just like we've seen in the lab since the 1800s when scientists tarted warning about the greenhouse effect* , probably doesn't exist and in fact physics is right and we do have a greenhouse effect (aka 'climate change') problem.
I think thats a reference to Drones?
Not entirely sure how thats an existential threat to humanity, unless AI research has gotten a lot darker since I last looked at it?
Plenty of high end automation stuff uses two wire protocols. Both the crestron and AMX lines use variants of RS485 for their non ethernet control distribution (Ethernets fine but its bulky and not well suited to in-wall wiring). It doesnt need to be RS485, but having the wiring in place makes it easier to drop in control panels around the place to let the user interact with the control units driving the lighting dimmers and what not.
I ended up deleting my google+ account over the stupid youtube integration. I'm sick of being bait and switched by that company. I don't WANT people on Google+ to go finding my gmail page, its for work. The invasions of privacy are getting too much to bear. I can't use my own name on Facebook anymore due to the horrible graph search and abuse of it by recruiters, and now google is trying to burn down whatever privacy I have left.
If your building from scratch, then design your homes wiring in a structured manner. Consider having twisted pair runs around the house for touchpanels or switchpanels (RS485 is still the greatest automation protocol since sliced cheese IMHO) with that and power connections coming back to small hideable racks around the joint. Have Cat5 and Fibre ports around the house, and perhaps instead of messing around with home handyman junk like X10, consider using high end gear like the AMX's and Crestrons of the world. Not actually expensive if you snarf all that stuff off ebay!
People with addictive personalities more prone to mental problems. Who'd have thunk?
Or , ya know, you could actually read the article. Its not about how prone someone is, its when the symptoms start. Schizophrenia shows early symptoms in childhood, and if you've got it, you will succumb to psychosis eventually. Whats happening here is the pot smokers are succumbing earlier. This wont affect most people, but those who are succeptible, perhaps pots a bad idea. The trick scientifically is identifying those in danger.
Its entirely possible Dark matter is about the only thing capable of explaining what I hurked up last time I attempted to eat mcdonalds. Theres definately exotic matter in those "burgers".
Perhaps this is where my recently acquired extra weight is coming from
I could have sworn there was another company called four square at some point that was , like, some sort of big user directory, back in the stone-age.
By "look for" read "worry about". The first guy that comes up with evidence that global warming isn't happening is going to get a Nobel Prize. And since Fourier first demonstrated CO2's greenhouse effects in the 1800s (And promptly started the scientific community flipping out about the greenhouse effect and the industrial revolution), nothing has arisen to demonstrate that the physics is wrong. Unfortunately to get that Nobel prize it would require some pretty massive evidence that some unseen mechanism is stopping CO2 warming the atmosphere PLUS a mechanism to explain how all the thermometers and various other measurement tools are wrong. Honestly reason and occams razor would suggest that no such breakthrough is going to occur.
Which would be fine if people where "massaging the data". Fortunately theres no evidence of that.
As my sister (A post-doc climate researcher) pointed out to me once , her profession is filled with tens of thousands of researchers desparately looking for that one piece of evidence that would show that the whole fields got it wrong and theres nothing to look for. Unfortunately in the century since scientists started worring about CO2 and infra-red, that evidence has failed to materialize.
There is no conspiracy dude. Nobody is massaging anything. Its just science.
So is quantum physics, but that hasn't stopped a century of physicists from using statistical methods to work around the giant clusterfuck that lurks below the planck length.
I had this exact same thing told to me by an undergrad physicist, so I pointed him at my sister who's a post-doc climate researcher and promptly schooled the guy on how its done (And pointed out to him why his knowledge of fluid dynamics was sorely lacking). He's not a skeptic anymore.
For a less confrontational approach, go into your library (I'm going to take a guess and say your undergrad at best) and actually read some of the research, then come back with an informed opinion. Thanks!
If your doing this but keeping android, your doing it for ideology not practicality. For all the IOS faults,keeping up with device compatibility re UI is not one of them. I've got 3 ios devices, an iphone 4 an iphone 5 and an ipad. It covers *all* scenarios. I've lost count of the number of Android devices I've needed to buy until I gave up and stopped developing for Android because tracking cross device compatibility just got too damn expensive.
I'm sure the FBI will be quite accomodating to people wanting their buttcoins back. All they will need to do is just let the FBI know their name, details and the outline of the transactions involved and it'll be fine, just you see.
If you know someone's bitcoin address, you for all purposes know their entire transaction history. If I receive bit pins I have to transmit that address. It's really not that hard to figure it out. Heck half the time you can type in a bitcoin address into google and it'll pull up their reddit account or whatever.
Well this applies to anything else. If I aquire a load of highly prized poppies and don't report my acquisitions, how will they know?
In the end thats what tax investigators are for. Fortunately the lack of anonymity in bitcoin (Just look up the blockchain) , makes it easy enough to work out.
Picard only drank earl grey. If I remember right one epiosode someone gave him some hippy herbal tea and he hated it. So the computer would not have trouble working out what sort of tea he meant.
I suspect thats how the habit of putting every single employee in the lab, down to the bloody janitor, on the author list of a paper came about. You get 10 staff in a lab and a whole swag of postgrads , it means that even if someones only doing the equivilent of a paper every 5 years, his name is on one or two a year (Perhaps he simply verified a dataset , or even nodded along at a meeting, or something trivial to justify it).
Its even more problematic in areas like climate change where a large portion of the population appears unable to distinguish laymans commentary from actual research by climate scientists. If people spend a lot of time looking at conspiracy theory , creationist, or other similarly themed stuff on the net, google throws lots of denial sites at them, whereas people who have more analyical interests are more likely to get articles from science sites. The problem here is that folks with the conspiracy bent end up having no way to find information that might clear up their confusion if all they are getting is wattsup or alex jones or whatever. This just feeds the confirmation biases, and thats proving really harmful to science education right now.
Except its *really* hard to turn bitcoin to actual coin, compared to the other way around. Most of the sites have huge waits, or pathetic maximum transferal amounts,
I live in Australia which has a hybrid UHC/Private system. Basically everyone pays for "medicare" (Which I guess would be called "medicaid" in the US) as a small addition to tax. Totally transparent, its just part of income tax and the contribution is income dependent. On top of that we have a private health system where you can get private health cover AS WELL which gives access to private hospitals (although in my experience the private hospitals are inferior to the excellent government ones, especially in emergency care). You have a choice here, but the govt system is largely excellent, however there might be waiting times to see specialists , sometimes in the months range for non essential stuff, and thats where private health cover is advisable. Fortunately private health insurance is well regulated and the doctor, not the health insurance companies , have final say in approving treatments.
Anyway, as you can imagine, when we have progressive governments, funding for the public system increases, and when you get conservative governments, that funding decreases.
But it backfires horribly to defund it, and ironically the actual costs increase.
I can giive an example. Under state labor, my local hospital had the 4 hour rule. In emergency, you would be seen within 15 minutes of ariving (or less if its urgent) , and within 4 hours either be seen by a doctor and sent home (maybe with medication or bandages or whatever) or admitted to hospital. In the case of borderline cases like Influensa, a patient would be sent to an Accute observation ward for overnight assessment. Its a great system that works brilliantly.
However in the last few years our state has had a conservative government that has systematically tried to defund the hospital. The end result is that waiting times have blown out to be multiple hours for non trauma cases in the emergency ward, and doctors are increasingly overworked and stressed out.
Last time I was admitted to emergency ward I was in with internal bleeding. Because I didn't *look* unhealthy it took 3 hours to see and diagnose me. This happened when I finally vomited blood and collapsed in the waiting room unconscious. I required surgery and a few weeks recovery. The doctor told me that if I had been diagnosed within half an hour of being admitted, it would have been a simple procedure and I would have been home within a day. As a result of underfunding, I cost the government *vastly more* in treatment costs then had I not. This is not a case of malpractice, the reality was the hospital was overworked and it took 3 hours to see me because thats how long it took to free up a doctor from all the other emergency cases.
It might seem paradoxical that properly funding universal healthcare is cheaper than not properly funding it, but it actually makes sense when you remember that prompt adequate treatment is almost always cheaper than trying to patch up some poor sod who's condition has been made worse by not treating it.
Indeed, and personally I'd rather take my chances with the CIA than russia's CIS. Those polonium umbrellas ought give anyone pause.
I recently put in an SSD on my 2011 MBP after I managed to fry my old hard drive and honestly no upgrade I've ever done to this machine has given me such a noticable and amazing performance boost.
I strongly recomend this upgrade. Macs just sing with an SSD.
When Kerry signed the Small Arms treaty, it was innocuous in itself. However, it did have a clause which allows UN troops to operate on US soil independent of the Army and police forces.
No it doesn't. UN troops can't deploy *anywhere* without the Security councils approval, and *any* decision of the security council can be vetoed by the united states. It literally has no power to deploy anywhere without the unanimous approval of the United States, China, Russia, France and England. If any one of those countries say "No", it can not happen.
The UN is just a group of representitives from each country. It has no powers beyond what those countries wish it to have. its not a government, and it has very limited powers beyond what its members give it. If it ever deployed forces into the united states to abduct or kill someone, chances are those forces would be arrested, imprisoned and perhaps even executed as a hostile foreign power. And it would not be the UN, either. That power has never existed for the UN and the US is sufficiently stand-offish with the body that it would never agree to it. And without the agreement of the US, it will never happen.