They're not so much artificial islands as augmented. In my opinion the territorial claim by USA's ally, the Philippines, on these islands is quite weak. The claim: An island was claimed by a Filipino fisherman and subsequently confiscated by the government. Meanwhile the Philippines has a very strong claim on the (now Malaysian) territory of Sabbah, but they'll never get that back. There was a very ugly and bloody attempt that led to years of political unrest.
It was Peter the Great, who started the custom of naming cities 'burgs'
Peter's visits to the West impressed upon him the notion that European customs were in several respects superior to Russian traditions. He commanded all of his courtiers and officials to cut off their long beards—causing his Boyars, who were very fond of their beards, great upset—and also to wear European tight pants, as was the fashion of the day.
Boyars who sought to retain their beards were required to pay an annual beard tax of one hundred rubles. He also sought to end arranged marriages, which were the norm among the Russian nobility, because he thought such a practice was barbaric and led to domestic violence, since the partners usually resented each other.
Presumably the popular pastime of bear-wresting came to an end at this time as well.
GTK grew a crazy C object system and, eventually, Vala, which is pretty cool. Vala is like Apple Swift's distant, evil cousin. I would love to get the chance to program in Qt, given that everyone says it is superior and Qt apps generally look pretty. One thing though: Since about 2003, I've preferred the look/feel of Gnome over KDE.
Ames was a brazen double agent who enjoyed an overt increase in standard of living. He had a large house paid for in cash, a fine car and dressed in expensive tailor made clothes. And, his monthly credit card minimum payment was more than his monthly salary. Funnily enough, when he was finally caught years later, there was a "huge uproar" in Congress when the very same James Woolsey decided that no one in the CIA would be dismissed or demoted at the agency. He said:
"Some have clamored for heads to roll in order that we could say that heads have rolled. Sorry, that's not my way."
And during the years of Spanish influence nearly all of the tribes adopted adopted Catholicism, except for the Igorotte highlanders and the Aeta who held to their ancient animism, while the Moro proceeded with their adopted Islam. . . of courses over the years there have been Hindu influences - eg the Tagalog tribe had ties ties with the Kingdom of Medang in Java, and northern Philippines, with its proximity to China. . . . these are generalizations of course, individuals, obviously made many and varied personal choices . . . it is truly a melting pot here.
Even rebel separatist groups. Here in the Philippines the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) sadly have trouble with the Google ranking due to competition in the namespace for that acronym. However, that didn't stop plans for the purchase of a Swede-made MSM Type A midget submarine, which was to be used to disrupt the development of an oil and gas project in the now hotly disputed South-china Sea.
The MILFs are one of several separatist groups in the Philippines, which come in Islamic and Communist, and just-plain-thug varieties. The formation of the of the MILF is actually, unsurprisingly, a tragic story. In the 60s with the incumbent government of the Philippines, proceed with plans to invade and reunite neighboring Sabah, which was granted under a lease, but somehow after World War 2 ended up as Malaysian territory.
Troops from the western region of Mindanao were selected and trained to form an elite squadron. When the troops learned that their mission would involve lethal combat with their neighboring kin-folks they refused to participate, so they were massacred by the Philippines Armed Forces on March 18, 1968. This led to years of uprising and political unrest, and it was only recently that the Philippines Government formally acknowledged that the incident occurred.
Reading about this and other affairs helped me to learn about governments, terrorism, political intrigue and rebel groups. We live in a violent world where democracy and other formal government processes seem to be a thin, fragile structure over game-of-thrones style chaos.
Pretty damn hot, but the Persian Gulf is still much warmer. The hottest part of the year in Florida is about as hot as where I live in the South-east Asian tropics. Average of about 33 degrees Cecilius with high humidity and some days in the high 30s (~ 100F) and still humid! Being European and growing up in a cool climate it feels unpleasant for me without conditioning, but survivable. Meanwhile Dubai, Riyadh, Baghdad, Manama, etc have average summer temperatures of 40 and pushing towards 50 degrees (122F)! And _still_ with high humidify. Desert heat with ocean humidity, and yet little rain - it rarely cools below the dew point.
..of the potential for flooding in Mexico City. Also, what kind of damage does a 50mph wind do to a shanty-town?
Here's the classification system that we use in the Philippines, where there on average 20 Typhoon's (your Hurricane's eastern twisted sister) per year. It describes the predicted effect at different intensity grades on builds ranging from very light to heavy construction materials. Note that metric units are used.
Hey don't knock those places! I live in Manila and my colleague lives in East Siberia. We joke that I work for rice in a sweat-shop while he shivers for porridge in a gulag . . . .
. . . in truth we live in nice fully paid off houses, and have decent lifestyles. Work life is good too. Because we don't have the overhead of maintaining traditional offices we can do a company meet-up once per year, either in the mountains of Siberia or the beaches, close to Manila
Also since we recruit based on skill, not location, and our operating costs are low, we are in demand. We can work on the kinds of projects that closely match our personal interests. And we spend a good portion of our time doing open source and other community work. Fuck working for the man in San Francisco!:P
Hey don't knock these places. I live in Manila and my colleague lives in Siberia (never know where you'll find a good coder these days). We joke that I work in a sweat-shop for rice while my colleague shivers for porridge in Siberia . . .
. . . In truth we live in nice fully-paid-off houses. Because we don't pay for a traditional office, we can meet once per year in the mountains nearby to my Omsk, Siberia or at the beaches nearby to Manila.
We're our own bosses, and work on the kinds of projects that match our interests. And we spend a good portion of our time working on open source projects and doing other community service work. Fuck working for the man!:P
When I was a kid my Dad would bring home an Apple IIe in the school holidays. My sister and I loved playing on that thing together. Then around about the age of 12, transitioning from a child-hood self image into the teenage years, my sister didn't want to play on it any more. I have no idea if that was because of the influence of other girls & women or men & boys are just inherent nature.
Yes, sorry for the late reply - I was having a couple of cigars.
I was referring to this guy who was, until recently, the treasurer of Australia, and also Australia in general.
The current government of Australia is backed by these guys, and, while wind power is not quite cheaper yet, they could see the writing on the wall. A successful carbon trading scheme was scrapped, and in place a thinly veiled SUBSIDY to the fossil fuel industry was put in place!
This clearly shows why we so badly need Direct Action to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and help it to become competitive again. If we don't act now, we may lose the fossil fuel industry forever. I don't know about you, but I find wind-mills to be a horrible blight on the landscape.
Once again, this can be distilled down to an application of Amdahl's law, which states:
If we have a process where 50% must occur in sequence, because of dependencies and prerequisites, while the remaining 50% can be farmed out across an infinite number of workers, then the speed-up given an infinite pool of workers is the reciprocal of 50% or two times. Not very impressive.
Therefore to scaling up a team depends on management structures, lines of reporting and other I/O bottlenecks, and at any point we'll be either IO bound (communication is the limiting factor) or CPU bound (resourcing is the limiting factor.
I didn't realize that Gene Amdahl is in fact alive and well, and also coined the term FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), which is popular, and well understood on Slashdot
I disagree. Today, nearly all kids are given the opportunity to participate in school sport. Not all will go on to be famous athletes, but most will benefit from the experience. Personally, I was an introvert and lousy at sports, but the school sports program instilled in me the importance of physical fitness and a love for nature and the outdoors. The program also taught me about personal limitations, strengths and weaknesses: I was smart, but certainly not good at some things! Didn't feel like it at the time, but that was a healthy too, I think.
I believe he DID go bankrupt. He died a pauper living on an small allowance, and accommodated from the kindness of the owner at a hotel.
He went from fame, status and wealth to poverty, public failure and mental health issues. Well, the mental health issues weren't new - even at the height of his career he was crazy - crazy, brilliant, wealthy and admired.
Yeah, the middle class in countries like the USA is not disappearing, its migrating to newly industrialized nations. Between the wealthy "aristocratic" elite and the working poor, software developers site firmly in the middle class in these places. Sure, the working conditions may not be plush, but compare that to say a builder or other tradesman:
In my home country, Australia, a "tradie" is entitled respect and financial remuneration that competes well with a software developer's. Here in SE Asia builders and other tradesman tend to live hand-to-mouth (it must suck to build nice houses, while living oneself in a slum) while software developers can enjoy a "middle class" lifestyle, with a house, car, consumer goods, education, health-cover and so forth.
What is interesting is that Vietnam seems to be doing particularly well in Software Development over other SE Asian nations like Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. Is it something to do with the education system?
I read the article for you. Executive summary: thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose agar is harmless to just about everything but the Crown of Thorns sea star, which, despite it's bold, poisonous, thorny costume has evolved itself to be easy to break down in the stomachs of large predators / autonomous bile-salt inject yellow robots.
I saw a few of these fuckers while snorkeling in Bohol last November. They crawl of nice, pretty blue coral and instantly it is white, dead and petrified.
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They're not so much artificial islands as augmented. In my opinion the territorial claim by USA's ally, the Philippines, on these islands is quite weak. The claim: An island was claimed by a Filipino fisherman and subsequently confiscated by the government. Meanwhile the Philippines has a very strong claim on the (now Malaysian) territory of Sabbah, but they'll never get that back. There was a very ugly and bloody attempt that led to years of political unrest.
It was Peter the Great, who started the custom of naming cities 'burgs'
Peter's visits to the West impressed upon him the notion that European customs were in several respects superior to Russian traditions. He commanded all of his courtiers and officials to cut off their long beards—causing his Boyars, who were very fond of their beards, great upset—and also to wear European tight pants, as was the fashion of the day.
Boyars who sought to retain their beards were required to pay an annual beard tax of one hundred rubles. He also sought to end arranged marriages, which were the norm among the Russian nobility, because he thought such a practice was barbaric and led to domestic violence, since the partners usually resented each other.
Presumably the popular pastime of bear-wresting came to an end at this time as well.
Oops, and I just changed it too :P . . I only dabble in C++ when I have the time, though I'd love to do more.
Ah, why thank you sir :) I was wondering why my signature had been leaking all over the place. Fixed.
GTK grew a crazy C object system and, eventually, Vala, which is pretty cool. Vala is like Apple Swift's distant, evil cousin. I would love to get the chance to program in Qt, given that everyone says it is superior and Qt apps generally look pretty. One thing though: Since about 2003, I've preferred the look/feel of Gnome over KDE.
Ames was a brazen double agent who enjoyed an overt increase in standard of living. He had a large house paid for in cash, a fine car and dressed in expensive tailor made clothes. And, his monthly credit card minimum payment was more than his monthly salary. Funnily enough, when he was finally caught years later, there was a "huge uproar" in Congress when the very same James Woolsey decided that no one in the CIA would be dismissed or demoted at the agency. He said:
"Some have clamored for heads to roll in order that we could say that heads have rolled. Sorry, that's not my way."
And during the years of Spanish influence nearly all of the tribes adopted adopted Catholicism, except for the Igorotte highlanders and the Aeta who held to their ancient animism, while the Moro proceeded with their adopted Islam. . . of courses over the years there have been Hindu influences - eg the Tagalog tribe had ties ties with the Kingdom of Medang in Java, and northern Philippines, with its proximity to China. . . . these are generalizations of course, individuals, obviously made many and varied personal choices . . . it is truly a melting pot here.
Meh - everyone has a submarine these days. . .
Even rebel separatist groups. Here in the Philippines the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) sadly have trouble with the Google ranking due to competition in the namespace for that acronym. However, that didn't stop plans for the purchase of a Swede-made MSM Type A midget submarine, which was to be used to disrupt the development of an oil and gas project in the now hotly disputed South-china Sea.
The MILFs are one of several separatist groups in the Philippines, which come in Islamic and Communist, and just-plain-thug varieties. The formation of the of the MILF is actually, unsurprisingly, a tragic story. In the 60s with the incumbent government of the Philippines, proceed with plans to invade and reunite neighboring Sabah, which was granted under a lease, but somehow after World War 2 ended up as Malaysian territory.
Troops from the western region of Mindanao were selected and trained to form an elite squadron. When the troops learned that their mission would involve lethal combat with their neighboring kin-folks they refused to participate, so they were massacred by the Philippines Armed Forces on March 18, 1968. This led to years of uprising and political unrest, and it was only recently that the Philippines Government formally acknowledged that the incident occurred.
Reading about this and other affairs helped me to learn about governments, terrorism, political intrigue and rebel groups. We live in a violent world where democracy and other formal government processes seem to be a thin, fragile structure over game-of-thrones style chaos.
Pretty damn hot, but the Persian Gulf is still much warmer. The hottest part of the year in Florida is about as hot as where I live in the South-east Asian tropics. Average of about 33 degrees Cecilius with high humidity and some days in the high 30s (~ 100F) and still humid! Being European and growing up in a cool climate it feels unpleasant for me without conditioning, but survivable. Meanwhile Dubai, Riyadh, Baghdad, Manama, etc have average summer temperatures of 40 and pushing towards 50 degrees (122F)! And _still_ with high humidify. Desert heat with ocean humidity, and yet little rain - it rarely cools below the dew point.
..of the potential for flooding in Mexico City. Also, what kind of damage does a 50mph wind do to a shanty-town?
Here's the classification system that we use in the Philippines, where there on average 20 Typhoon's (your Hurricane's eastern twisted sister) per year. It describes the predicted effect at different intensity grades on builds ranging from very light to heavy construction materials. Note that metric units are used.
Hey don't knock those places! I live in Manila and my colleague lives in East Siberia. We joke that I work for rice in a sweat-shop while he shivers for porridge in a gulag . . . .
. . . in truth we live in nice fully paid off houses, and have decent lifestyles. Work life is good too. Because we don't have the overhead of maintaining traditional offices we can do a company meet-up once per year, either in the mountains of Siberia or the beaches, close to Manila
Also since we recruit based on skill, not location, and our operating costs are low, we are in demand. We can work on the kinds of projects that closely match our personal interests. And we spend a good portion of our time doing open source and other community work. Fuck working for the man in San Francisco! :P
Hey don't knock these places. I live in Manila and my colleague lives in Siberia (never know where you'll find a good coder these days). We joke that I work in a sweat-shop for rice while my colleague shivers for porridge in Siberia . . .
. . . In truth we live in nice fully-paid-off houses. Because we don't pay for a traditional office, we can meet once per year in the mountains nearby to my Omsk, Siberia or at the beaches nearby to Manila.
We're our own bosses, and work on the kinds of projects that match our interests. And we spend a good portion of our time working on open source projects and doing other community service work. Fuck working for the man! :P
When I was a kid my Dad would bring home an Apple IIe in the school holidays. My sister and I loved playing on that thing together. Then around about the age of 12, transitioning from a child-hood self image into the teenage years, my sister didn't want to play on it any more. I have no idea if that was because of the influence of other girls & women or men & boys are just inherent nature.
They are a little better at video games than dogs.
Yes, sorry for the late reply - I was having a couple of cigars.
I was referring to this guy who was, until recently, the treasurer of Australia, and also Australia in general.
The current government of Australia is backed by these guys, and, while wind power is not quite cheaper yet, they could see the writing on the wall. A successful carbon trading scheme was scrapped, and in place a thinly veiled SUBSIDY to the fossil fuel industry was put in place!
This clearly shows why we so badly need Direct Action to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and help it to become competitive again. If we don't act now, we may lose the fossil fuel industry forever. I don't know about you, but I find wind-mills to be a horrible blight on the landscape.
Once again, this can be distilled down to an application of Amdahl's law, which states:
If we have a process where 50% must occur in sequence, because of dependencies and prerequisites, while the remaining 50% can be farmed out across an infinite number of workers, then the speed-up given an infinite pool of workers is the reciprocal of 50% or two times. Not very impressive.
Therefore to scaling up a team depends on management structures, lines of reporting and other I/O bottlenecks, and at any point we'll be either IO bound (communication is the limiting factor) or CPU bound (resourcing is the limiting factor.
I didn't realize that Gene Amdahl is in fact alive and well, and also coined the term FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), which is popular, and well understood on Slashdot
Well spotted! Here's what really happened.
I disagree. Today, nearly all kids are given the opportunity to participate in school sport. Not all will go on to be famous athletes, but most will benefit from the experience. Personally, I was an introvert and lousy at sports, but the school sports program instilled in me the importance of physical fitness and a love for nature and the outdoors. The program also taught me about personal limitations, strengths and weaknesses: I was smart, but certainly not good at some things! Didn't feel like it at the time, but that was a healthy too, I think.
I believe he DID go bankrupt. He died a pauper living on an small allowance, and accommodated from the kindness of the owner at a hotel.
He went from fame, status and wealth to poverty, public failure and mental health issues. Well, the mental health issues weren't new - even at the height of his career he was crazy - crazy, brilliant, wealthy and admired.
Yeah, the middle class in countries like the USA is not disappearing, its migrating to newly industrialized nations. Between the wealthy "aristocratic" elite and the working poor, software developers site firmly in the middle class in these places. Sure, the working conditions may not be plush, but compare that to say a builder or other tradesman:
In my home country, Australia, a "tradie" is entitled respect and financial remuneration that competes well with a software developer's. Here in SE Asia builders and other tradesman tend to live hand-to-mouth (it must suck to build nice houses, while living oneself in a slum) while software developers can enjoy a "middle class" lifestyle, with a house, car, consumer goods, education, health-cover and so forth.
What is interesting is that Vietnam seems to be doing particularly well in Software Development over other SE Asian nations like Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. Is it something to do with the education system?
I sense a story about off-shoring. As if a million 1st world defense mechanism cried out at once, and then . . . . . comments.
If money could buy a sense of humor, every armchair social commentator and his dog would have one.
I read the article for you. Executive summary: thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose agar is harmless to just about everything but the Crown of Thorns sea star, which, despite it's bold, poisonous, thorny costume has evolved itself to be easy to break down in the stomachs of large predators / autonomous bile-salt inject yellow robots.
I saw a few of these fuckers while snorkeling in Bohol last November. They crawl of nice, pretty blue coral and instantly it is white, dead and petrified.
If you want to kill birds wind power is a much better option.