The rationale is just like you see in every fork of every software product or library: someone thinks they're making it slightly better. While pros know what these terms mean, some guy out there thinks that the terminology is a little ambiguous. Or, some new usage makes an old term a little incorrect. If you're pedantic and especially if you're coming from the higher ends of academia, that's grounds for a renaming.
It's a fine line and I can see both sides. There are plenty of terms I've come across that have been slightly wrong or obsoletely named. At the same time, it's annoying to transition between languages and libraries and encounter different syntax for the same features. I've had to make the same decisions and usually it's a subtle judgment call which way to go.
Infrastructure also includes court systems, law enforcement, research scientists, airports, air traffic control, regulators, etc. *Everything* that has to be paid for to make sure you can send an electronic payment to a vendor and be safe and secure in the knowledge that you will get your product and if you don't you have the power of the State behind you to make sure you get recompense.
The reality is, internet commerce still puts the burden of infrastructure on states' and federal's governments to get my motorcycle grips to me in 2 days. It's realistic to expect there to be some sort of tax on internet commerce eventually. But, the traditional model doesn't work because you can't expect merchants to keep up with 50 different tax rates. There should be a kind of federal excise tax that is distributed among the states; it should probably be an equal amount for all buyers in all states and distributed based on states with the greatest export demands; mod a federal juice deduction for federal infrastructure costs.
From the X-Men comics. Haven't collected since high school, so I hope I get the history right.
* Died in a plane wreck * Was resurrected by the Phoenix for a surrogate body * Was dumped by the Phoenix and cloned as Madeleine Pryor * Madeleine Pryor was dumped by Scott Summers after dead Jean Grey resurrected as the original Jean Grey.
All had the pleasure of getting nailed by Cyclops. Much of this happened outside the narrow window of my collecting career. But, I was under the impression that the entire 3-time resurrection was a post-rationalized all-encompassing explanation for why we keep seeing redheads with a taste for the One-Eye. Who knows if she's been killed and brought back since the late 80s.
One interesting side effect of this is that if enrollment in good CS programs gets high enough, employers will no longer be able to sell the "we can't find qualified Americans to do our jobs.
I don't follow the logic here. There are already plenty of unemployed people in IT. The complaint has always been about getting more visas for foreign IT workers and getting favorable laws passed to outsource. Now, if graduation rates reach the point that wages approach those in outsourcing target nations...
That would never happen, because as soon as the first case of a nun being raped by a street gang showed up on the docket, there would be massive PR push to get that silly little restriction removed.
I thought BEEP was a great concept that seemed to die on the vine. When I saw "multiplexing," I figured Google had resurrected the protocol but it looks like BEEP just doesn't go far enough.
As for that 6 socket connections per client connection...wow! Never knew those kinds of resources were being devoured for every network connection.
I'd be curious to know what sorts of differences there are between the old and the new. I can only assume that there's been a shift in focus and not a net omission of base knowledge.
I'll take it a step further. It's about teaching you to think abstractly. It's more about learning to comprehend more than poetry, but the subtleties of human language and interactions. It's about understanding how an advertisement has been worded to carefully imply benefits without legal obligation. It's about learning how a political campaign might use the same clever phraseology to imply an argument favorable to you when the underlying facts might be far from the truth.
I think one of the greatest problems in this country is that we've created at least 2 generations with no ability to do this.
Both the doctor and student got the disease from insects in Senegal. The doctor returned home and infected his wife. But, being a grad student, even if he did screw his wife the doctor would still get the credit.
I watched a documentary that suggested that artificial "floating reefs" be set out on the open ocean where biological deserts have formed to establish this type of habitat. The idea came from all the sea life attracted to the shelter of flotsom.
I'm not a biologist, but I am curious if these open ocean deserts are man made or just nature. Hard to imagine the latter from what I've read in historical accounts of the oceans.
Libraries are nothing but money sinks that private industry has proven they can run at a profit. Look at Borders and Barnes and Noble! We should sell our public libraries to private industry and let the Free Market determine what patrons read.
I have a feeling that game violence desensitizes people to real violence, but it doesn't appear that stats back that up. However, I do know for a fact that entertainment violence produces a Hollywood impression of how violence goes down in real life; like bullet effects, injury stamina, etc.
With widely available downloads, people do pirate A LOT of content. Yes, the industry should take an "embrace and control" approach before things get out of hand, but when you see your movies and music freely available online that makes it hard for some to see the big picture. I know lots of people who brag about having not bought a CD or DVD in YEARS because they can download what they want for free. And, it's so easy now even the technology-challenged can do it.
But, this is Slashdot so anyone trying to protect intellectual property is a fascist.
Debates are only useless to people who follow politics. For that person with only a casual interest, they're very revealing snapshots. I learned this after talking to a friend after the last election. For those of us who are interested in politics beyond the headlines, we have a bad habit of forgetting how uninformed most of the public is. And, I wouldn't use anything from Arizona as a model for the rest of the nation!
The problems start when we stop having real debates and the "safe" crap like the Bush-Kerry debates.
The Californian startup claims that it had no other recourse, issuing a statement that it reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the makers of Top Gear and the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored.
From the sounds of it, they tried resolving things the gentlemanly way.
I'm not saying he's right, I just don't want to poo poo on a fresh idea that isn't polluted with "common knowledge." Let him work out his little theory and lets test the results. I agree that the odds are well against him, but as relativity was an leap of insight, maybe he'll come up with the next step. IANAAP, but I've always felt that black holes are proof that there's a big hole in relativity.
This power has been abused severely by the executive over the last 10 years or so. There are plenty of cases were "national security" roadblocks are thrown up just to hamper the other side of a court case. About 5 years or so ago, Bush retroactively *reclassified* lots of documents that had been declassified by Clinton. But, some of them were already in the public record. It turned out that much of the effort was about saving people from embarrassment for horribly wrong decisions or predictions ("oh, the Soviets won't back the Vietnamese if we go to war...").
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The rationale is just like you see in every fork of every software product or library: someone thinks they're making it slightly better. While pros know what these terms mean, some guy out there thinks that the terminology is a little ambiguous. Or, some new usage makes an old term a little incorrect. If you're pedantic and especially if you're coming from the higher ends of academia, that's grounds for a renaming.
It's a fine line and I can see both sides. There are plenty of terms I've come across that have been slightly wrong or obsoletely named. At the same time, it's annoying to transition between languages and libraries and encounter different syntax for the same features. I've had to make the same decisions and usually it's a subtle judgment call which way to go.
Infrastructure also includes court systems, law enforcement, research scientists, airports, air traffic control, regulators, etc. *Everything* that has to be paid for to make sure you can send an electronic payment to a vendor and be safe and secure in the knowledge that you will get your product and if you don't you have the power of the State behind you to make sure you get recompense.
The reality is, internet commerce still puts the burden of infrastructure on states' and federal's governments to get my motorcycle grips to me in 2 days. It's realistic to expect there to be some sort of tax on internet commerce eventually. But, the traditional model doesn't work because you can't expect merchants to keep up with 50 different tax rates. There should be a kind of federal excise tax that is distributed among the states; it should probably be an equal amount for all buyers in all states and distributed based on states with the greatest export demands; mod a federal juice deduction for federal infrastructure costs.
His name wasn't Jesus was it?
From the X-Men comics. Haven't collected since high school, so I hope I get the history right.
* Died in a plane wreck
* Was resurrected by the Phoenix for a surrogate body
* Was dumped by the Phoenix and cloned as Madeleine Pryor
* Madeleine Pryor was dumped by Scott Summers after dead Jean Grey resurrected as the original Jean Grey.
All had the pleasure of getting nailed by Cyclops. Much of this happened outside the narrow window of my collecting career. But, I was under the impression that the entire 3-time resurrection was a post-rationalized all-encompassing explanation for why we keep seeing redheads with a taste for the One-Eye. Who knows if she's been killed and brought back since the late 80s.
One interesting side effect of this is that if enrollment in good CS programs gets high enough, employers will no longer be able to sell the "we can't find qualified Americans to do our jobs.
I don't follow the logic here. There are already plenty of unemployed people in IT. The complaint has always been about getting more visas for foreign IT workers and getting favorable laws passed to outsource. Now, if graduation rates reach the point that wages approach those in outsourcing target nations...
That would never happen, because as soon as the first case of a nun being raped by a street gang showed up on the docket, there would be massive PR push to get that silly little restriction removed.
I thought BEEP was a great concept that seemed to die on the vine. When I saw "multiplexing," I figured Google had resurrected the protocol but it looks like BEEP just doesn't go far enough.
As for that 6 socket connections per client connection...wow! Never knew those kinds of resources were being devoured for every network connection.
That was a human settlement in the RPG 2300AD. It was half occupied with the bad-guy aliens.
I'd be curious to know what sorts of differences there are between the old and the new. I can only assume that there's been a shift in focus and not a net omission of base knowledge.
I'll take it a step further. It's about teaching you to think abstractly. It's more about learning to comprehend more than poetry, but the subtleties of human language and interactions. It's about understanding how an advertisement has been worded to carefully imply benefits without legal obligation. It's about learning how a political campaign might use the same clever phraseology to imply an argument favorable to you when the underlying facts might be far from the truth.
I think one of the greatest problems in this country is that we've created at least 2 generations with no ability to do this.
Both the doctor and student got the disease from insects in Senegal. The doctor returned home and infected his wife. But, being a grad student, even if he did screw his wife the doctor would still get the credit.
Coming from the opposite side, one day a friend and his kid came across a plain old typewriter. His kid asked where the monitor was!
If by porn bullet points, you mean boob jobs that jut out like Madonna's bra, then I agree. Otherwise, I don't follow you.
I watched a documentary that suggested that artificial "floating reefs" be set out on the open ocean where biological deserts have formed to establish this type of habitat. The idea came from all the sea life attracted to the shelter of flotsom.
I'm not a biologist, but I am curious if these open ocean deserts are man made or just nature. Hard to imagine the latter from what I've read in historical accounts of the oceans.
I spit on your keyboard, noov ctrl-x ctrl-x ctrl-i b ctrl-dd...awe, damnit...
Libraries are nothing but money sinks that private industry has proven they can run at a profit. Look at Borders and Barnes and Noble! We should sell our public libraries to private industry and let the Free Market determine what patrons read.
I have a feeling that game violence desensitizes people to real violence, but it doesn't appear that stats back that up. However, I do know for a fact that entertainment violence produces a Hollywood impression of how violence goes down in real life; like bullet effects, injury stamina, etc.
With widely available downloads, people do pirate A LOT of content. Yes, the industry should take an "embrace and control" approach before things get out of hand, but when you see your movies and music freely available online that makes it hard for some to see the big picture. I know lots of people who brag about having not bought a CD or DVD in YEARS because they can download what they want for free. And, it's so easy now even the technology-challenged can do it.
But, this is Slashdot so anyone trying to protect intellectual property is a fascist.
Do you know if Joe sells, too? Not that far a drive for me.
Debates are only useless to people who follow politics. For that person with only a casual interest, they're very revealing snapshots. I learned this after talking to a friend after the last election. For those of us who are interested in politics beyond the headlines, we have a bad habit of forgetting how uninformed most of the public is. And, I wouldn't use anything from Arizona as a model for the rest of the nation!
The problems start when we stop having real debates and the "safe" crap like the Bush-Kerry debates.
Don't expect to get that info from Facebook. Their profit model is based on the layman's assumption that 1 account=1 consumer.
The Californian startup claims that it had no other recourse, issuing a statement that it reluctantly took legal action after its repeated attempts to contact the makers of Top Gear and the BBC, over the course of months, were ignored.
From the sounds of it, they tried resolving things the gentlemanly way.
I'm not saying he's right, I just don't want to poo poo on a fresh idea that isn't polluted with "common knowledge." Let him work out his little theory and lets test the results. I agree that the odds are well against him, but as relativity was an leap of insight, maybe he'll come up with the next step. IANAAP, but I've always felt that black holes are proof that there's a big hole in relativity.
This power has been abused severely by the executive over the last 10 years or so. There are plenty of cases were "national security" roadblocks are thrown up just to hamper the other side of a court case. About 5 years or so ago, Bush retroactively *reclassified* lots of documents that had been declassified by Clinton. But, some of them were already in the public record. It turned out that much of the effort was about saving people from embarrassment for horribly wrong decisions or predictions ("oh, the Soviets won't back the Vietnamese if we go to war...").