We're all thinking it, so I'll say it: "Hey, let's let our government handle healthcare to increase effeciency"
Let's mark that one up there with the "It's snowing, so global warming can't exist". We don't have to guess how it would work out, anyway. The fact is that Medicare and Medicaid are some of the most efficiently-run medical insurance programs in the country, with a higher percent spent on actual care than any private insurance company. It's too bad that even if the bill passes we wouldn't be able to get a public option.
Thankfully I'm back to ground beef--because red meat tastes better.
For what it's worth, you're a lot better off buying chunks of beef and grinding it in a food processor than buying packaged ground beef at the stores unless you're REALLY short on cash. A lot less likely to have illness-causing bacteria or even intentionally mixed with ammonia-infused green slime as a filler to cut the price. Plus it tastes better.
If you ask a human to write a series of 100 numbers, picking them "at random" between 1 and 10, you're going to get a list of numbers that has measurably different characteristics than purely random data. In particular, you'll tend to get much too few repeating sequences. It's still not predictable.
That's only relevant if the further restrictions are part of the Copyright of the code. I haven't extensively investigated this case, but that doesn't sound like what's going on here. The code is still GPL'ed and you're still allowed to use it according to the GPL's guaranteed rights. HOWEVER, anyone connecting to Lindon servers (GPL'ed code or some custom proprietary code) is subject to the terms of service placed on the users of their servers. So this is an EULA agreement issue, not a Copyright one.
That's an interesting point. The same point could be made about other "mathematically" obscure things such as an IPv6 address. If all information was available online but some of it was password protected, what's the difference between guessing URLs and guessing passwords?
To answer my own question: the expectation of privacy. A password implies the expectation of privacy, while posting something that anyone can access with the right URL does not have the same implication to me.
For $15 a year you're not going to get a world-class hosting service. If you look at the hosting providers that mon.itor.us show above 99% uptime, you tend to see similar names every year. Pair.com is my favorite-- they always have great performance and near-perfect uptime. I've been using them for 12 years or so and I've never seen my site down for one minute. They're not the cheapest, but the poster didn't sound like he was looking for the cheapest-- he wants the ones that's reliable and that he won't have to worry about, ever.
So..... given that any changes in the weather prove global warming, what would disprove global warming?
It would disprove global warming if the planet were not getting warmer. It may seem obvious, but global warming is proven by the fact that the globe is getting warmer. 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record. The real question now is the cause of global warming. Despite the fact that carbon dioxide levels are significantly higher than they've ever been since humans first evolved, and most of that CO2 is man-made, there are people who claim that mankind is not having an effect on climate. Still, much of the cause and effect evidence is circumstantial and therefore assailable. And rightly so if you've got alternate hypotheses. But to simply say "nuh-uh!" isn't very scientific.
As for how a warmer atmosphere affects local weather, it WILL both raise and lower precipitation. In cold months you'll get a lot more precipitation coming out of the atmosphere since there's a lot more moisture up there. It snows more near freezing than it does at -20F, so warming air, pumping it with water, then cooling it to just below freezing is a great recipe for snowstorms. But the cool air has to come from somewhere-- thus Alaska's record high temperatures this year and Canada's difficulty getting enough snow for the Winter Olympics. In the summer, though, the already warm air will now be that much warmer, which means it can hold more moisture without raining, meaning that you'll get droughts in tropical areas where there used to be rain. Add to that the devastation that will occur when the glaciers have melted and all that freshwater stops flowing, and we're in for interesting times.
Yes, "equal opportunity" is what you say. "Affirmative action", however, is exactly what you say "equal opportunity" is not.
I'm not sure what country you're from or which one you're talking about, but here in the United States that's not true. In the US Affirmative Action cannot place quotas, and several court cases including the Supreme Court have upheld that strict racial quotas of any sort are unconstitutional (Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger). Colleges, for example, are allowed to consider race as a means to an end such as "diversity", but they are not allowed to set any quotas or use race-based admission as a redress for historical racism. Although the "right wing" in our country likes to raise affirmative action as a boogie-man, things don't actually operate that way in this country.
I know that in photography it's becoming common knowledge that Kingston cards don't work and SanDisk ones do at the higher speeds. Some of the new Canon cameras that can record HD video and take 3+ RAW photos a second need fast memory, and many Canon sites will warn you away from Kingston. Thus, I think the A+ vs A- is more like A+ versus D-... it's not QUITE a failing grade but not worth the reduction in price.
I'm not sure why you say this split in particular is the end-- Motorola has done this sort of thing a couple times already. In fact I work for a division of General Dynamics that was once Motorola. There's also Freescale, which used to be Motorola's microprocessor unit. They seem to like being a certain size and when they grow beyond it they divide.
I assume you're referring to the 2nd amendment, which reads:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Open to interpretation has been "Arms" (does the Constitution guarantee a fundamental right for all US citizens to wield personal nuclear weapons? Where is the limit?), "well regulated Militia" (are the rights specified in relation to a militia or an individual?), "bear Arms" (this phrase historically means to be part of an army; does this amendment protect your right to join a militia, or apply to individuals acting alone?), and even "infringed" (does requiring assault weapon owners to register count as "infringement"?)
Many feel that the original intent of this amendment was to maintain a national defense by way of individual gun ownership, and that the right to bear arms implies the right to take your personal gun and join the militia when the nation is threatened. Having a personal right to go buy a fully automatic assault rifle and fire it off in your backyard isn't part of this amendment. There have been several instances of "judicial activism" which has expanded the meaning of this amendment over the centuries.
The pathetically modifier-overloaded Macintosh primary mouse button is a classic example of how Too Much Simplicity can become a very bad thing.
I use a two-button mouse on my Mac, so I don't have that problem. But I do like not having to explain two buttons to my 92-year-old grandmother on her iMac.
Simplicity is good, yes, but so are buttons and control surfaces for complex multi-modal devices that can change state instantly and enable the user to proceed simultaneously along very different goal paths with divergent inputs.
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe you're the type that likes the 200+ button remote control that can change any setting on any AV device in your house. I happen to really like the iPhone's simplicity and the way they kept all the UI inside the screen, leaving only volume, mute, on/off, and home buttons.
Yes, apple has geeks working in company, but would it have enough geeks to put every knob and button on their applications to make them enterprise-ready?
This statement is interesting because it gets to the crux of the matter in terms of design philosophy. Microsoft designers probably get paid a lot of money to add the right knobs and buttons. Apple designers probably get paid a lot of money to remove the right knobs and buttons. It's like the old quote, "I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters XVI). Apple invests a lot of time and money in removing control elements to what an individual needs to make the device a fluid part of their lifestyle. That's not necessarily what most business needs, having to contend with all sorts of contractual, systemic, and other specifics that require tweaks not deemed essential by the Apple designer.
I'll stick with a doctor who isn't an agent of the government, thanks.
You mean like Canada?
There are a lot of systems by which you can accomplish universal health care. The UK version in which doctors are federal employees is one, but the Canadian system where the federal government is essentially the insurer is another. Another option is the system that the current US reform bill proposes which is very similar to the Republican one from the early 90's. The only really bad option is doing nothing.
That only works if you have historical data to back it up.
My favorite estimating story... A friend of mine asked how you estimate software, since writing software is a potentially unbounded task. He said, "It's like trying to estimate how long it will take to find my keys. I have no idea until I find them!" I actually found that to be a great analogy. The first time you lose your keys, you could imagine estimating based on how big the search area is, how cluttered the search area is, etc. But you're going to miss something, and the estimate will likely not be very accurate. But if you keep careful track then the TWENTIETH time you lose your keys, you will have a very good idea of how long it's likely to take and what the probability will be that you'll find them faster or slower than your estimate.
Your estimates are only as good as your statement of work AND your historical data.
Yeah right, the Big Money Hippies will be exposed for influencing the studies done by the poor little oil and energy conglomerates.
The fact that you think global warming is a fraud is a good case study in how money can buy science, and can especially buy people's perceptions of science.
So other platforms will have native, hardware-accelerated, high-quality h.264, and the open-source community will be stuck with emulated, software-only, lower-quality Theora. That doesn't sound like a good outcome, despite the solution to compatibility concerns.
Xbox is FAR more profitable then Wii overall. Wii owners attach rate is horrible, not to mention the Live Marketplacestore does alot more volume. Wii is popular and made a slight profit on every unit sold, but they arent generating the long tail cash like the LIVE is.
So you're saying that Microsoft has been lying in its quarterly and annual reports to the SEC that show that unit losing millions of dollars since inception?
Especially not if you're putting additional constraints on your operation such as requiring every tool to be open source. It's hard enough when you're using the best tools.
So that would make you about 35, right? Well, take a look around you. How many technical coworkers do you see that are ten years older than you? How about twenty? And thirty years?
There's age discrimination in every field, but being a 60-year-old programmer is only marginally more likely than being a 60-year-old stripper.
While you may be correct, I don't think the current status quo is necessarily evidence of it. I'm 36, and am of one of the first generations where it was reasonable to have a microcomputer around the house as a small child. People 10, 20, 30 years older than me probably got their first computer at a much older age than me and probably don't have that much more experience than me. When I'm 60, I'll likely have decades more software experience than they do now.
Of course, the younger kids might crush me in networking experience, since the WWW didn't exist until just about when I went to University.
This article appears to lump "Programmer", "Computer Scientist", and "Software Engineer" together as if they were interchangeable. I wonder if they're also lumping in Development Manager, Systems Engineer, Software Architect, etc.?
Becoming a "Programmer" can be as little as a 2-year associates degree or someone out of high school who's been hacking around on a side project, and is certainly not going to get you a high starting salary. The rigor one can apply after an education in Computer Science, though, is valuable and will increase the starting salary substantially.
Linux is for all intents and purposes a Unix and always has been.
My point was more that the poster seemed to be implying that MacOS X isn't "a Unix variant". It is. It doesn't get more UNIX-y than getting certified as such. Yes, I would agree with you that Linux is in the UNIX family as well even if it doesn't quite meet the full UNIX definition like MacOS X does.
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Let's mark that one up there with the "It's snowing, so global warming can't exist". We don't have to guess how it would work out, anyway. The fact is that Medicare and Medicaid are some of the most efficiently-run medical insurance programs in the country, with a higher percent spent on actual care than any private insurance company. It's too bad that even if the bill passes we wouldn't be able to get a public option.
For what it's worth, you're a lot better off buying chunks of beef and grinding it in a food processor than buying packaged ground beef at the stores unless you're REALLY short on cash. A lot less likely to have illness-causing bacteria or even intentionally mixed with ammonia-infused green slime as a filler to cut the price. Plus it tastes better.
If you ask a human to write a series of 100 numbers, picking them "at random" between 1 and 10, you're going to get a list of numbers that has measurably different characteristics than purely random data. In particular, you'll tend to get much too few repeating sequences. It's still not predictable.
That's only relevant if the further restrictions are part of the Copyright of the code. I haven't extensively investigated this case, but that doesn't sound like what's going on here. The code is still GPL'ed and you're still allowed to use it according to the GPL's guaranteed rights. HOWEVER, anyone connecting to Lindon servers (GPL'ed code or some custom proprietary code) is subject to the terms of service placed on the users of their servers. So this is an EULA agreement issue, not a Copyright one.
That's an interesting point. The same point could be made about other "mathematically" obscure things such as an IPv6 address. If all information was available online but some of it was password protected, what's the difference between guessing URLs and guessing passwords?
To answer my own question: the expectation of privacy. A password implies the expectation of privacy, while posting something that anyone can access with the right URL does not have the same implication to me.
For $15 a year you're not going to get a world-class hosting service. If you look at the hosting providers that mon.itor.us show above 99% uptime, you tend to see similar names every year. Pair.com is my favorite-- they always have great performance and near-perfect uptime. I've been using them for 12 years or so and I've never seen my site down for one minute. They're not the cheapest, but the poster didn't sound like he was looking for the cheapest-- he wants the ones that's reliable and that he won't have to worry about, ever.
(I don't work for them, just a happy customer.)
It would disprove global warming if the planet were not getting warmer. It may seem obvious, but global warming is proven by the fact that the globe is getting warmer. 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record. The real question now is the cause of global warming. Despite the fact that carbon dioxide levels are significantly higher than they've ever been since humans first evolved, and most of that CO2 is man-made, there are people who claim that mankind is not having an effect on climate. Still, much of the cause and effect evidence is circumstantial and therefore assailable. And rightly so if you've got alternate hypotheses. But to simply say "nuh-uh!" isn't very scientific.
As for how a warmer atmosphere affects local weather, it WILL both raise and lower precipitation. In cold months you'll get a lot more precipitation coming out of the atmosphere since there's a lot more moisture up there. It snows more near freezing than it does at -20F, so warming air, pumping it with water, then cooling it to just below freezing is a great recipe for snowstorms. But the cool air has to come from somewhere-- thus Alaska's record high temperatures this year and Canada's difficulty getting enough snow for the Winter Olympics. In the summer, though, the already warm air will now be that much warmer, which means it can hold more moisture without raining, meaning that you'll get droughts in tropical areas where there used to be rain. Add to that the devastation that will occur when the glaciers have melted and all that freshwater stops flowing, and we're in for interesting times.
I'm not sure what country you're from or which one you're talking about, but here in the United States that's not true. In the US Affirmative Action cannot place quotas, and several court cases including the Supreme Court have upheld that strict racial quotas of any sort are unconstitutional (Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger). Colleges, for example, are allowed to consider race as a means to an end such as "diversity", but they are not allowed to set any quotas or use race-based admission as a redress for historical racism. Although the "right wing" in our country likes to raise affirmative action as a boogie-man, things don't actually operate that way in this country.
I know that in photography it's becoming common knowledge that Kingston cards don't work and SanDisk ones do at the higher speeds. Some of the new Canon cameras that can record HD video and take 3+ RAW photos a second need fast memory, and many Canon sites will warn you away from Kingston. Thus, I think the A+ vs A- is more like A+ versus D- ... it's not QUITE a failing grade but not worth the reduction in price.
I'm not sure why you say this split in particular is the end-- Motorola has done this sort of thing a couple times already. In fact I work for a division of General Dynamics that was once Motorola. There's also Freescale, which used to be Motorola's microprocessor unit. They seem to like being a certain size and when they grow beyond it they divide.
I assume you're referring to the 2nd amendment, which reads:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Open to interpretation has been "Arms" (does the Constitution guarantee a fundamental right for all US citizens to wield personal nuclear weapons? Where is the limit?), "well regulated Militia" (are the rights specified in relation to a militia or an individual?), "bear Arms" (this phrase historically means to be part of an army; does this amendment protect your right to join a militia, or apply to individuals acting alone?), and even "infringed" (does requiring assault weapon owners to register count as "infringement"?)
Many feel that the original intent of this amendment was to maintain a national defense by way of individual gun ownership, and that the right to bear arms implies the right to take your personal gun and join the militia when the nation is threatened. Having a personal right to go buy a fully automatic assault rifle and fire it off in your backyard isn't part of this amendment. There have been several instances of "judicial activism" which has expanded the meaning of this amendment over the centuries.
I use a two-button mouse on my Mac, so I don't have that problem. But I do like not having to explain two buttons to my 92-year-old grandmother on her iMac.
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe you're the type that likes the 200+ button remote control that can change any setting on any AV device in your house. I happen to really like the iPhone's simplicity and the way they kept all the UI inside the screen, leaving only volume, mute, on/off, and home buttons.
This statement is interesting because it gets to the crux of the matter in terms of design philosophy. Microsoft designers probably get paid a lot of money to add the right knobs and buttons. Apple designers probably get paid a lot of money to remove the right knobs and buttons. It's like the old quote, "I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make
it shorter." (Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters XVI). Apple invests a lot of time and money in removing control elements to what an individual needs to make the device a fluid part of their lifestyle. That's not necessarily what most business needs, having to contend with all sorts of contractual, systemic, and other specifics that require tweaks not deemed essential by the Apple designer.
You mean like Canada?
There are a lot of systems by which you can accomplish universal health care. The UK version in which doctors are federal employees is one, but the Canadian system where the federal government is essentially the insurer is another. Another option is the system that the current US reform bill proposes which is very similar to the Republican one from the early 90's. The only really bad option is doing nothing.
That only works if you have historical data to back it up.
My favorite estimating story... A friend of mine asked how you estimate software, since writing software is a potentially unbounded task. He said, "It's like trying to estimate how long it will take to find my keys. I have no idea until I find them!" I actually found that to be a great analogy. The first time you lose your keys, you could imagine estimating based on how big the search area is, how cluttered the search area is, etc. But you're going to miss something, and the estimate will likely not be very accurate. But if you keep careful track then the TWENTIETH time you lose your keys, you will have a very good idea of how long it's likely to take and what the probability will be that you'll find them faster or slower than your estimate.
Your estimates are only as good as your statement of work AND your historical data.
Yeah right, the Big Money Hippies will be exposed for influencing the studies done by the poor little oil and energy conglomerates.
The fact that you think global warming is a fraud is a good case study in how money can buy science, and can especially buy people's perceptions of science.
The problem is that "rent" often implies ongoing payments. "License" doesn't, and people are used to it from driver's licenses, hunting, fishing, etc.
"Buy License" would be most descriptive.
So other platforms will have native, hardware-accelerated, high-quality h.264, and the open-source community will be stuck with emulated, software-only, lower-quality Theora. That doesn't sound like a good outcome, despite the solution to compatibility concerns.
Puzzle Pirates was (is?) 100% Java and was an interesting take on MMOs, IMHO.
So you're saying that Microsoft has been lying in its quarterly and annual reports to the SEC that show that unit losing millions of dollars since inception?
Especially not if you're putting additional constraints on your operation such as requiring every tool to be open source. It's hard enough when you're using the best tools.
While you may be correct, I don't think the current status quo is necessarily evidence of it. I'm 36, and am of one of the first generations where it was reasonable to have a microcomputer around the house as a small child. People 10, 20, 30 years older than me probably got their first computer at a much older age than me and probably don't have that much more experience than me. When I'm 60, I'll likely have decades more software experience than they do now.
Of course, the younger kids might crush me in networking experience, since the WWW didn't exist until just about when I went to University.
Not only does it support 3G, but it's an unlocked 3G device that requires no contract to activate.
This article appears to lump "Programmer", "Computer Scientist", and "Software Engineer" together as if they were interchangeable. I wonder if they're also lumping in Development Manager, Systems Engineer, Software Architect, etc.?
Becoming a "Programmer" can be as little as a 2-year associates degree or someone out of high school who's been hacking around on a side project, and is certainly not going to get you a high starting salary. The rigor one can apply after an education in Computer Science, though, is valuable and will increase the starting salary substantially.
My point was more that the poster seemed to be implying that MacOS X isn't "a Unix variant". It is. It doesn't get more UNIX-y than getting certified as such. Yes, I would agree with you that Linux is in the UNIX family as well even if it doesn't quite meet the full UNIX definition like MacOS X does.