The latest data from here shows 690 intentional homicides in Germany, 14,748 in the United States. That breaks down to 4.8 per 100,000 for the US vs. 0.8 in Germany. Russia had 10.2, and Finland had 2.2. So only being twice as murderous as peaceful Finland is not bad.
It demonstrates that car industry has failed. We should be designing systems that don't need seatbelts and don't care if user decides to slam into a tree at 100km/h.
Considering the close to 2 million deaths per year due to automobiles, you could say the car industry has failed by relying too much on individual training and responsibility. Not that available technology gave them much of a choice. The solution, of course, is to completely take humans out of the equation, which Google is working on.
For decades, the American economy has suffered while China's has boomed, and the American people are entitled to know who is responsible for the tremendous economic victory in Asia and the dismal American defeat-the greatest defeat any nation has suffered in war or peace.
I'm fairly sure "the greatest defeat any nation has suffered in war or peace" would not leave said nation with the largest economy in the world or leave it with the largest, most powerful military. Pretty prose though.
If there is life in the ocean under the ice and if there are interactions with the surface then it could be possible to find evidence of life from the chemical composition of the surface ice in selected areas. We should send an orbiting probe to determine the most likely spots and then send a lander.
While I would love for NASA to send a submarine, just trying to imagine the engineering effort makes my head spin. It's possible but would cost tens of billions and the chances for failure for something that complex is very high. Not very likely to get the green light with current budgets.
While software and houses are not similar, you could use building a house as a simile for building software, so in that way they are "similer". (I think you just made up a new word.)
That said, I think the point they are making is that you should have a plan before building a house and you should also have a plan before building software, and not just jump right in.
My wife and I used to play Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft together. Everquest 2 was her favorite because she got an apartment that she could decorate and she got to wear whatever clothes she wanted over her armor. She also mastered the market and for awhile was one of the richest people on the server. We started playing EVE online last week. She spent about 2 hours designing her avatar, but afterwards lost interest when she saw that it revolved around designing, building, and flying spacecraft. I'm finding that computer games are starting to split by gender. I'm gravitating toward Minecraft, first person shooters, and EVE, while my wife is gravitating toward apps she can play on her iPad like Farmville and Tapped Out. Are computer games revealing deep psychological differences between the sexes?
Technology has fits and starts. The universe is not infinitely malleable. There are constraints to what can be done. Things are going to get messy in ways we can't predict. We are not going to have a "singularity".
Point taken, but I still don't know why so much of the brain's architecture is invested in pleasure and pain if actions are predetermined. Pleasure and pain seem to be there to influence some part of the brain to take action in one direction or another. If it is just smoke and mirrors then evolution would have selected against its existence since the brain is a large drain of resources, and also takes a lot of energy to cool. (Just so you know I'm a strict materialist, but think there's something about the material of the universe we don't understand since we can't yet explain self-awareness).
The unconscious part that makes the decision before you're aware of it is you. And why does it need to be coerced into doing things with such sophisticated constructs as pleasure and pain?
Don't say it's impossible to replace one of your developers. It's so very easy to replace one or all.
You're a manager, aren't you?
Of the two outsourced to India projects I'm closely familiar with, one had to be completely scrapped because the code was unusable and the other had to be fixed requiring delays that doubled the original schedule. Good code is hard, even for China and India.
I would say six months is the average period to get up to speed with a significantly large software project. In a month you might allow someone to make a trivial change to the GUI.
I used to work for a company that produced avionics software. Obviously, we had to write solid code. This is how we did it: (1) Mandatory line by line code review by a different department. (2) Have a test cycle about as long as the development cycle. (3) Be willing to sacrifice the schedule to make it work.
This is why planes are late and over-budget, but I wouldn't fly otherwise. And no, I had nothing to do with the 787.
They don't have to conclusively determine the author based only on text analysis. It is just one tool to narrow the search sufficiently to use other means to conclusively identify someone.
We do it with the Iranians all the time. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is really just a popular comedian in Iran. Calling the United States the Great Satan and all this talk about nuclear bombs is just wry humor. Just listen to what he says about Israel and about homosexuality. The Iranians are really confused about the lack of laughter when he comes to America for his comedy tours.
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The latest data from here shows 690 intentional homicides in Germany, 14,748 in the United States. That breaks down to 4.8 per 100,000 for the US vs. 0.8 in Germany. Russia had 10.2, and Finland had 2.2. So only being twice as murderous as peaceful Finland is not bad.
A real software engineer would have made the smallest unit 1/4,294,967,296. Screw this decimal crap.
Obligatory xkcd.
It demonstrates that car industry has failed. We should be designing systems that don't need seatbelts and don't care if user decides to slam into a tree at 100km/h.
Considering the close to 2 million deaths per year due to automobiles, you could say the car industry has failed by relying too much on individual training and responsibility. Not that available technology gave them much of a choice. The solution, of course, is to completely take humans out of the equation, which Google is working on.
The title of the article should have been America Exports Black Energy Death Throughout the Globe, Condemning Humanity to Extinction
For decades, the American economy has suffered while China's has boomed, and the American people are entitled to know who is responsible for the tremendous economic victory in Asia and the dismal American defeat-the greatest defeat any nation has suffered in war or peace.
I'm fairly sure "the greatest defeat any nation has suffered in war or peace" would not leave said nation with the largest economy in the world or leave it with the largest, most powerful military. Pretty prose though.
And the bartender says...
The internet, just by being the internet, is far more damaging to China than Chinese hackers are to the Unites States.
Lets face it, very soon everyone is going to know where everyone else is all the time. Unless you wear some sort of Scanner Darkly blur suit.
If there is life in the ocean under the ice and if there are interactions with the surface then it could be possible to find evidence of life from the chemical composition of the surface ice in selected areas. We should send an orbiting probe to determine the most likely spots and then send a lander.
While I would love for NASA to send a submarine, just trying to imagine the engineering effort makes my head spin. It's possible but would cost tens of billions and the chances for failure for something that complex is very high. Not very likely to get the green light with current budgets.
That's why it's a good idea to limit democracy with a constitution.
Did anyone else think this was a group for advancing the use of the Ada programming language?
Software and houses are not similer.
While software and houses are not similar, you could use building a house as a simile for building software, so in that way they are "similer". (I think you just made up a new word.)
That said, I think the point they are making is that you should have a plan before building a house and you should also have a plan before building software, and not just jump right in.
Things are already messy in ways we can't predict.
I read the official stats was 5% female.
My wife and I used to play Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft together. Everquest 2 was her favorite because she got an apartment that she could decorate and she got to wear whatever clothes she wanted over her armor. She also mastered the market and for awhile was one of the richest people on the server. We started playing EVE online last week. She spent about 2 hours designing her avatar, but afterwards lost interest when she saw that it revolved around designing, building, and flying spacecraft. I'm finding that computer games are starting to split by gender. I'm gravitating toward Minecraft, first person shooters, and EVE, while my wife is gravitating toward apps she can play on her iPad like Farmville and Tapped Out. Are computer games revealing deep psychological differences between the sexes?
Technology has fits and starts. The universe is not infinitely malleable. There are constraints to what can be done. Things are going to get messy in ways we can't predict. We are not going to have a "singularity".
Point taken, but I still don't know why so much of the brain's architecture is invested in pleasure and pain if actions are predetermined. Pleasure and pain seem to be there to influence some part of the brain to take action in one direction or another. If it is just smoke and mirrors then evolution would have selected against its existence since the brain is a large drain of resources, and also takes a lot of energy to cool. (Just so you know I'm a strict materialist, but think there's something about the material of the universe we don't understand since we can't yet explain self-awareness).
The unconscious part that makes the decision before you're aware of it is you. And why does it need to be coerced into doing things with such sophisticated constructs as pleasure and pain?
Don't say it's impossible to replace one of your developers. It's so very easy to replace one or all.
You're a manager, aren't you?
Of the two outsourced to India projects I'm closely familiar with, one had to be completely scrapped because the code was unusable and the other had to be fixed requiring delays that doubled the original schedule. Good code is hard, even for China and India.
I would say six months is the average period to get up to speed with a significantly large software project. In a month you might allow someone to make a trivial change to the GUI.
I used to work for a company that produced avionics software. Obviously, we had to write solid code. This is how we did it: (1) Mandatory line by line code review by a different department. (2) Have a test cycle about as long as the development cycle. (3) Be willing to sacrifice the schedule to make it work. This is why planes are late and over-budget, but I wouldn't fly otherwise. And no, I had nothing to do with the 787.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoSNHe413rY&feature=share&list=UUvB3solmhqtgDeLpD-yTtfg
They don't have to conclusively determine the author based only on text analysis. It is just one tool to narrow the search sufficiently to use other means to conclusively identify someone.
We do it with the Iranians all the time. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is really just a popular comedian in Iran. Calling the United States the Great Satan and all this talk about nuclear bombs is just wry humor. Just listen to what he says about Israel and about homosexuality. The Iranians are really confused about the lack of laughter when he comes to America for his comedy tours.