How do you know it was stopped in Nigeria? Because the Nigerian government, who have a strong incentive to protect their billions of dollars in trade with the rest of the world say they stopped it?
Furthermore Ebola never did reach Nigerian cities.
Um, ebola certainly reached Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, populated by 17.5 million people. The index case, doctor Patrick Sawyer, even performed surgery while ill and symptomatic.
"... they suggest Polo was aware of the New World two centuries before Columbus."
I'm not sure Columbus was ever "aware of the New World"; he probably always thought he had reached the East Indies. On the other hand, it's a well-known fact that the Vikings or the Norse "discovered" the Americas no later than the 11th century.
Like GP, I stopped buying HTC due to horrible support for upgrades. The Desire HD was far from cheap - more than 600 euro at the time I bought it, the HTC flagship device back then. Officially, it is stuck at 2.3.5. They once promised to upgrade it to 4.x at some point, but they later retracted and they had the nerve to claim they couldn't upgrade it because "storage partitioning", "user data", or some such baloney. Yes, it can be upgraded with CyanogenMod or whatever, but it was lame how they refused to upgrade a recent and powerful device with such pathetic excuses - the real reason was, obviously, they wanted you to buy the Sensation or the One.
Having said that, it still works like new after 6 years (terrible GPS and WiFi not that great; fine otherwise).
Disclaimer: this is by no means a slam on Android or a defense of iOS; my current phone is a Nexus 4 and it's great.
Not a new idea. Only they didn't use Kinect or electrical stimulators, so they just relied on the partners' willingness to mirror each other's movements.
The "haircut" in Cyprus was a horrible deal. Having said that, people didn't "starve" like you suggest. The issue with the ATMs was that they ran out of notes. There was a bank lockdown, but it lasted 12 days. Everybody knew it wouldn't last enough for people to starve - the ECB and Germany couldn't tolerate continued damage to the currency.
Trevor a wolf went out there and started buying cashless peoples' Jewellery for about 5 cents on the Euro
Citation needed, really, for that.
And the way you put it, it seems like you have to either be completely cashless or keep cash out of the bank. Misleading. There's no reason you can't keep certain amount of money in the bank, for convenience, and another amount in notes.
Quirkology by Richard Wiseman, an interesting read, is a compilation of rigorous experiments in social psychology, many of which were conducted, *gasp*, without the subjects' consent.
Retail stores do research on consumers' behaviour in order to try to sell them more sugary, salty and fatty snacks. Addiction to those nasty foods is a very real issue with health consequences. Where's the outrage?
I really doubt Facebook conducted this experiment in order to "develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge" out of the kindness of their hearts. Far more likely, they seek to profit from it by generating more posts, more traffic, etc.
This is no different from retail stores conducting studies linking customer spending habits to item locations; they do such studies all the time.
As others have pointed out, what the OP is asking for is, basically, a language that does it all across many platforms, a tool that does all jobs, and I'm afraid that doesn't exist. The closest thing, IMHO, would be the oh-so-obvious answer "Java", except it's not interpreted.
Anyway, a question to those who are answering Python and Javascript: since the OP is asking for something that has, among other things, "mobile relevance, GUI desktop applications relevance", are there any decent IDEs/APIs/whatever that facilitate Rapid development of desktop programs and what these days is referred to as "mobile" (meaning, mainly, iStuff and Android Apps)?
An "haute-cuisine" cook can make business by keeping their recipes secret. That falls under trade secret.
The same principle holds for source code.
And for other industries, too. Cars, aircraft, hardware... The blueprints, or the sets of steps necessary to build those things, can be trade secrets.
Nobody suggests they can't sell the resulting products while keeping those processes secret. The only reason it doesn't make sense to copyright a dish (I mean the edible dish, not the recipe) is because those things aren't information, you can't take one of them and make a copy just like you can with software.
Software is peculiar in the sense that both the "recipe" and the resulting product are information - but they are not the same information, and there's no reason both sets of information should receive the same treatment.
Now, what doesn't make sense is to patent one thing and try to keep the same thing a trade secret.
For full disclosure, I am firmly against software patents as they are conceived in many jurisdictions. Patents should be detailed and should include the best method known by the author to carry out the patented process - for software patents, this means they should include the source code.
More seriously, though, in a low-speed collision at certain angle, a seatbelt can make the difference between the driver hitting their head, which may cause them to fall unconscious and lose control of the vehicle, and retaining control of the vehicle and the ability to avoid running over pedestrians, for example.
Any driver safety feature provides safety not only for the driver but also for all other drivers and people around the road. Whether each and every of those features should be made mandatory is another, more complex, question - tinfoil-hatters are speculating rear cameras will in fact serve nefarious surveillance purposes - and sometimes tinfoil-hatters are right. The safety of airbags is questioned, too. An airbag may hurt a passenger when it's too close to them.
Of course. I know atheists who enjoy some Christian rituals for the singing. You can be an atheist and attend a Buddhist gathering and chant a mantra. And a long etcetera.
That was my first thought as well. But we should know exactly how the question was phrased. TFA mentions "astrology, the study of celestial bodies' purported influence on human behavior and worldly events", but the linked PDF merely states "surveys have asked Americans whether they view astrology as being scientific".
The PDF provides other interesting figures, such as the percentage of people correctly answering the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?... which I found shockingly low for the surveyed regions - 74 in the US, even a bit lower in the EU... only higher for South Korea.
Fair enough, it was just one piece of a massive collection of knowledge lost.
I was just questioning the claim that paper has "been fine for thousands of years".
While paper (if carefully stored and looked after) is more durable than any digital media invented so far, you can't ignore the many advantages of digital media: extremely easy and quick to copy with no loss of quality, possibility to do that remotely, far less bulky...
the dead tree that's been fine for thousands of years
Not so fine.... The Alexandria library fire was perhaps the most catastrophic loss of human knowledge ever. For example, it destroyed the details of a heliocentric theory, which was postulated by Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, millennia before Copernicus brought it to mainstream.
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More recent version of the WHO report (which confirms no new cases in Nigeria since 8 September).
How do you know it was stopped in Nigeria? Because the Nigerian government, who have a strong incentive to protect their billions of dollars in trade with the rest of the world say they stopped it?
No. We know it because US health authorities and the WHO reported it.
Furthermore Ebola never did reach Nigerian cities.
Um, ebola certainly reached Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, populated by 17.5 million people. The index case, doctor Patrick Sawyer, even performed surgery while ill and symptomatic.
"... they suggest Polo was aware of the New World two centuries before Columbus."
I'm not sure Columbus was ever "aware of the New World"; he probably always thought he had reached the East Indies. On the other hand, it's a well-known fact that the Vikings or the Norse "discovered" the Americas no later than the 11th century.
it still works like new after 4 years
FTFM. The point stands.
Like GP, I stopped buying HTC due to horrible support for upgrades. The Desire HD was far from cheap - more than 600 euro at the time I bought it, the HTC flagship device back then. Officially, it is stuck at 2.3.5. They once promised to upgrade it to 4.x at some point, but they later retracted and they had the nerve to claim they couldn't upgrade it because "storage partitioning", "user data", or some such baloney. Yes, it can be upgraded with CyanogenMod or whatever, but it was lame how they refused to upgrade a recent and powerful device with such pathetic excuses - the real reason was, obviously, they wanted you to buy the Sensation or the One.
Having said that, it still works like new after 6 years (terrible GPS and WiFi not that great; fine otherwise).
Disclaimer: this is by no means a slam on Android or a defense of iOS; my current phone is a Nexus 4 and it's great.
Not a new idea. Only they didn't use Kinect or electrical stimulators, so they just relied on the partners' willingness to mirror each other's movements.
They are still useful. For example, they might shed some light on whether this is true or not.
Very good news. Extremely low calorie diets also look promising, worth a try.
The "haircut" in Cyprus was a horrible deal. Having said that, people didn't "starve" like you suggest. The issue with the ATMs was that they ran out of notes. There was a bank lockdown, but it lasted 12 days. Everybody knew it wouldn't last enough for people to starve - the ECB and Germany couldn't tolerate continued damage to the currency.
Trevor a wolf went out there and started buying cashless peoples' Jewellery for about 5 cents on the Euro
Citation needed, really, for that.
And the way you put it, it seems like you have to either be completely cashless or keep cash out of the bank. Misleading. There's no reason you can't keep certain amount of money in the bank, for convenience, and another amount in notes.
Such hacks, still using tables for layout in 2014.
I don't understand the "-1, Troll" moderation.
Quirkology by Richard Wiseman, an interesting read, is a compilation of rigorous experiments in social psychology, many of which were conducted, *gasp*, without the subjects' consent.
Retail stores do research on consumers' behaviour in order to try to sell them more sugary, salty and fatty snacks. Addiction to those nasty foods is a very real issue with health consequences. Where's the outrage?
I really doubt Facebook conducted this experiment in order to "develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge" out of the kindness of their hearts. Far more likely, they seek to profit from it by generating more posts, more traffic, etc.
This is no different from retail stores conducting studies linking customer spending habits to item locations; they do such studies all the time.
As others have pointed out, what the OP is asking for is, basically, a language that does it all across many platforms, a tool that does all jobs, and I'm afraid that doesn't exist. The closest thing, IMHO, would be the oh-so-obvious answer "Java", except it's not interpreted.
Anyway, a question to those who are answering Python and Javascript: since the OP is asking for something that has, among other things, "mobile relevance, GUI desktop applications relevance", are there any decent IDEs/APIs/whatever that facilitate Rapid development of desktop programs and what these days is referred to as "mobile" (meaning, mainly, iStuff and Android Apps)?
An "haute-cuisine" cook can make business by keeping their recipes secret. That falls under trade secret.
The same principle holds for source code.
And for other industries, too. Cars, aircraft, hardware... The blueprints, or the sets of steps necessary to build those things, can be trade secrets.
Nobody suggests they can't sell the resulting products while keeping those processes secret. The only reason it doesn't make sense to copyright a dish (I mean the edible dish, not the recipe) is because those things aren't information, you can't take one of them and make a copy just like you can with software.
Software is peculiar in the sense that both the "recipe" and the resulting product are information - but they are not the same information, and there's no reason both sets of information should receive the same treatment.
Now, what doesn't make sense is to patent one thing and try to keep the same thing a trade secret.
For full disclosure, I am firmly against software patents as they are conceived in many jurisdictions. Patents should be detailed and should include the best method known by the author to carry out the patented process - for software patents, this means they should include the source code.
More seriously, though, in a low-speed collision at certain angle, a seatbelt can make the difference between the driver hitting their head, which may cause them to fall unconscious and lose control of the vehicle, and retaining control of the vehicle and the ability to avoid running over pedestrians, for example.
Any driver safety feature provides safety not only for the driver but also for all other drivers and people around the road. Whether each and every of those features should be made mandatory is another, more complex, question - tinfoil-hatters are speculating rear cameras will in fact serve nefarious surveillance purposes - and sometimes tinfoil-hatters are right. The safety of airbags is questioned, too. An airbag may hurt a passenger when it's too close to them.
Mantras are important for some branches of Buddhism, e.g. for many Tibetan Buddhists.
Of course. I know atheists who enjoy some Christian rituals for the singing. You can be an atheist and attend a Buddhist gathering and chant a mantra. And a long etcetera.
That was my first thought as well. But we should know exactly how the question was phrased. TFA mentions "astrology, the study of celestial bodies' purported influence on human behavior and worldly events", but the linked PDF merely states "surveys have asked Americans whether they view astrology as being scientific".
The PDF provides other interesting figures, such as the percentage of people correctly answering the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?... which I found shockingly low for the surveyed regions - 74 in the US, even a bit lower in the EU... only higher for South Korea.
Tried apropos...
$ apropos fucking
fucking: nothing appropriate
How prudish.
paper (if carefully stored and looked after) is more durable than any digital media invented so far
Except for punched cards and maybe other extremely bulky storage devices, now that I think about it.
Fair enough, it was just one piece of a massive collection of knowledge lost.
I was just questioning the claim that paper has "been fine for thousands of years".
While paper (if carefully stored and looked after) is more durable than any digital media invented so far, you can't ignore the many advantages of digital media: extremely easy and quick to copy with no loss of quality, possibility to do that remotely, far less bulky...
the dead tree that's been fine for thousands of years
Not so fine.... The Alexandria library fire was perhaps the most catastrophic loss of human knowledge ever. For example, it destroyed the details of a heliocentric theory, which was postulated by Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, millennia before Copernicus brought it to mainstream.
And given that chemical weapons have not been used in a major war by industrialized nations since WW1, much of the technology may have changed.
Vietnam was not a major war, then? Or the US not an industrialized nation?
Interesting, I didn't know about the pattern day trader restrictions or maintenance margins. Then again I rarely trade US equities.